PKR Ups its Guarantees
Posted on September 10, 2007 by nameless1;
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PKR’s guarantee touneys have always been popular, but now PKR has boosted the money on two of its most popular by 50% - that’s now $7.5K every day and $15K weekly!
In other news for PKR players - this is your last week to get a seat in the London EPT, the final of which is on the 14th. Good luck!
How to Play your Chip Lead in a tournament
Posted on September 8, 2007 by Talisker;
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There are lots of approaches to this but I would generally say it is a question of timing. Playing in tournaments is not about how many chips you have during the tournament, but about which place you eventually come. I would therefore urge a very defensive play on the chip lead - these chips enable you to wait for a good opportunity to win chips rather than try and bluff your opponents or make risky calls. Bullying as a chip leader is much more effective late on in the tournament because that really is the time when a chip lead matters whereas early on in a tournament a chip lead arguably has little impact.
Generally, my line of argument is that a chip lead isn’t as important as you think and maintaining it should not be sought after too much, if at all. It is much easier to double up playing 3 handed or 2 handed so going into a final table with a short stack really isn’t such a bad thing, but if you do find yourself with the chip lead then this certainly is the time to bully your opponents. Prize money at this point makes big steps so most of the players aren’t going to want to make a move on you as chip leader. So in answer to the question, it is all about timing, if you have chip lead or a big stack early on, just sit on it, but if you have it near the end (on the last two tables or so) start to be more authoritative with it. This is, however, a question with many answers so any comments on this topic are welcome.
Poker Strategy: Finding the Right Cash Table
Posted on September 8, 2007 by Talisker;
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If you want to increase your chances of making a profit, it is worth concentrating on little details such as the type of cash table you play on. First of all, and this goes hand in hand with my earlier post about protecting your bankroll, find a table in which the max buyin is at most 1/8th of your bank roll. There will be lots of these tables on offer, so find one in which most if not all the players are short stacked. Your looking for a table which you can, in effect, enter as chip leader. If you find one with lots of short stacks but one big stack try your best to sit to the left of the big stack or as close to his left as you can - this way you often have position against him and you won’t find yourself with your pants down in a hand against him very often. The reason you are looking for short stacks at the table is because it is probably the case they are playing with their whole bank rolls. These players will very often be suckers, and I would consider it a big tell that a player buying in for max amount is probably quite a good profitable player, and a player buying in for less than max is probably trying to gamble his way from rags to riches by getting lucky.
PKR Double Points Weekend!
Posted on September 7, 2007 by nameless1;
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PKR are offering double PKR points this weekend on all real money ring games! This is a great opportunity, as PKR are pretty generous with their points anyway, and will be a great boost to anyone who has their eye on some tasty gear, either inside or outside of the game. The offer runs from 15:00:00 GMT on Friday, 7 September 2007 to 23:59:59 GMT on Sunday, 9 September 2007.
However, a note of warning - any points awarded as part of this promotion will not count towards other bonuses. For example, if any new players are trying to get their 6000 points in three months to claim their $50, they’re still gonna have to get them all the hard way.
That said, get playing, and see you online!
First Ever WSOPE Starts - Event 1: £2,500 HORSE
Posted on September 7, 2007 by nameless1;
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The first ever World Series of Poker Europe started in London on thursday - the first ever WSOP tournament to be held outside the US. This is quite a historic occasion, and lots of Pros are there to try and grab the first ever non-US WSOP bracelet to be awarded.
At the end of the first day of the £2500 HORSE event, 105 competitors were whittled down to 51 - in fact, there were so many players, that at the start, no spectators were allowed due to space constraints. At the end of the first day, the chip leaders are as follows:
Kirk Morrison – 55,900
Jan Sorensen – 50,100
Gary Jones – 41,900
Jennifer Harman – 38,100
Pascal Perrault – 35,200
Alex Kravchenko – 33,600
Scott Fischman – 33,200
Marc Goodwin – 32,000
Yuval Bronshtein – 31,100
John Juanda – 30,900
Good luck to everyone who has entered!
Jerry Yang 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion
Posted on September 5, 2007 by nameless1;
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Everyone here at Flopped Out would like to congratulate Jerry Yang on his astounding WSOP Main Event win. After qualifying from a $225 live satellite at the Pechanga Casino, Yang went on to enter the final table with a chip count of 8.45 million, almost last as final play began:
Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 16.32 million
Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 6.57 million
Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 13.24 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 8.45 million
Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 9.925 million
Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 21.315 million
Seat 7 - Philip Hilm - 22.07 million
Seat 8 - Jon Kalmar - 20.32 million
Seat 9 - Hevad ‘Rain’ Khan - 9.205 million
After an agressive start, where he became the chip leader within the first dozen hands, he slowly but surely eliminated every player but one - the elimination of Kalmar being handled by Rahme. The ending Heads Up play between Yang and Lam lasted an incredible 35 hands (the previous three WSOP Main’s combined totalling only 16 hands), but the last hand of the match was a nail-biting finish.
Lam went all in with AQ Diamonds, to Yang’s pocket 8s. As Yang’s total stack beat Lam 5-1 he decided to call, all the money being collected pre-flop. The flop of Q95 put Lam in the lead, with an 8 or a runner-to-runner 67 to win. A 7 appeared on the turn, and then came the 6 on the river, finishing Yang’s domination with a smooth 8.25 million dollars, and a harsh river defeat for Lam. Yang immediately pledged 10% to charity, namely to Feed the Children, the Make a Wish Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald house.
His rags to riches tale seems a dream for many poker players around, and this just shows it can be done! It’s also worth mentioning Khan, who while a net poker star, demonstrated his incredible all round skill (and hilarious entertainment value), and blasted straight to his first live final table, eventually finishing 4th - a great example to all solely online players around.
Congratulations again, and well done everyone!
The Importance of Protecting your Bankroll
Posted on September 4, 2007 by Talisker;
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I had to learn this the hard way, but protecting your bank roll is one of the key factors towards a successful poker career. I would frequently deposit $100 and try and turn that into $1000 within a night or two by putting it all on one cash table - big mistake. No matter how successful I was at first I would always eventually run into a cooler like KK vs AA or run into a terrible bad beat. There is of course the possibility of losing your money to another player’s all in on a flush draw, despite the fact you’ve flopped the nut straight or top set. Eventually, inevitably, you will lose your money - that’s just the law of probability for you.
Now if you consider yourself a gambler then by all means gamble as much of your money as you want, but poker is often considered to be less of a gamble than other things you bet your money on, like sports events or roulette. That’s the beauty of poker, because it is a way to skilfully make money - if you play correctly - in the long run. Betting all your bank roll is a huge gamble, betting maybe 1/8th of it, however, isn’t. It might be annoying, but you can take a bad beat if you lose say $25 when you have about $200 still in your bank roll. If you lose $200 in one go it is, ofcourse, harder to take. This is the mistake you hope other players make. Those other players will be losers in the long run, but if you follow this advice, and you are generally a good player, you won’t be.
New PKR Update - PKR Pal
Posted on September 4, 2007 by nameless1;
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Usually we wouldn’t cover software updates in this blog, but the new update from PKR is definitely something people have been waiting for a long time. It includes the new ‘PKR Pal’, a small program you’ll find in your system tray, which automatically updates PKR in the background during normal PC use, saving time on log in. It can also be set to notify you of any upcoming tournies, including freerolls - overall, it’s a great addition to the game.
This is the greatest part of a pretty good update overall, which includes the option to take notes on rivals, a lot more emotes and voices, and a “/me” facility (try typing “/me is the greatest” next time you’re online).
If you haven’t already got PKR, these additions make it an excellent time to try it.
ONLINE NOOB GUIDE: Online Lingo
Posted on August 5, 2007 by nameless1;
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As you will surely know, if you have found this site, there is a huge amount of abbreviations, terms and phrases in use solely on the internet (for example, the word Noob itself, from newb(ie), meaning novice). In the past, they have stayed in forums and instant messenger conversations, but because of the speed they can be typed, they have spread all over, and now, into online poker circles. While the more general ones you may have come across before, the online poker scene has started generating its own language too - however, we’ll be dealing with both in this post, assuming that you haven’t come across any before. Some will seem obvious, and many of you will know all of them, but that’s precisely why this is a ‘noob’s guide’ - to cater to those new to the language of the internet.
GENERAL STUFF:
lol - Laugh Out Loud
lmao - Laughing my Ass Off
ty/yw - thank you/you’re welcome
gl - good luck
POKER SPECIFIC:
nh - Nice Hand
fo - Flopped Out (when a player with a decent starting hand is forced out by large betting on a bad flop)
P 2s - Stands for ‘pocket 2s’ (of course, the 2 can be replaced with any card)
Those are the mainly used ones - PKR has managed to do away with a lot of those by having emotions and actions as clickable buttons, but Full Tilt is still full of them, especially in play money circles.
If there’s any more you’d like us to add, please just add them in a comment.
Online Poker Spreads to Facebook
Posted on August 1, 2007 by nameless1;
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Online poker has been slowly but surely gaining popularity over the past few years, and while I personally feel it’ll never completely overtake the ‘real’ game, due to the extra subtleties involved in it, it is a great way of picking up a quick game, a great way to learn, and an especially good way of having a game with mates from all over the world, arguably its best feature.
While it was previously the sole domain of either less popular, almost extinct browser-based poker rooms, or the downloadable programs, such as PKR, Full Tilt or Party Poker, but now poker is seen as a fun past-time, as well as a way to make some money, as people do, it seems the ways to play online is spreading even as far as networking sites.
Facebook, a similar concept to myspace in many ways, allows the open-source creation and then subsequent publishing/usage of various ‘apps’, basically mini programs to put in your profile page, and one of the latest ones going round the site is a fully fledged, albeit play-money, online texas hold-em game, complete with tournaments and sit-and-gos.
The phenomenon is spreading.
For those of you with a Facebook account, the link to the app is here:
Enjoy!