Robots playing at Poker Stars

Last week there was a big commotion at PokerStars, when they had to freeze at least 10 player accounts. They found evidence that the screen names were bots. These machines operated at the NL50 and NL200 6-max game and usually played around 8 million hands, making a huge amount of rake and more than $57,000 in game profit.

The ten nicknames that were given are: 7emenov, mvra, demidou, fiedmanis, bakabar, nakseon, koldan, crazier, kozzin, and daergy. With a very similar game and win rates. All the stats displayed by these screen names were the same and they had the same betting patterns.

Below we got the screen cap courtesy of Pokertableraitings where you can see the stats.

It’s good to See Pokerstars acting quickly and efficiently to remove these accounts from the site.

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Gus Hansen Poker Pro Profile!

Gus Hansen is one of the best and more popular players on the Online Poker, with thousands of followers and a great name in the industry he enjoys playing poker and teaching.

He was born in 1974 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. Hansen was always fascinated by numbers and math (this is why he is so good at playing poker). He was a starting backgammon and gin rummy player, and he used to hang out with Huckleberry Seed and Phil Laak. While he was playing backgammon and gin rummy, he was introducing to many poker games, including his favorite game – Stud -.

He played his first WSOP in 1996 when he had no experience on playing No-Limit Hold’em. He was out during the first day, but he didn’t give up and he decided he was going to keep on playing and experimenting with styles.

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In 2002 he went to another WSOP, but this time he had another playing style, he developed a loose, aggressive play that helped him win some money. He had other winnings like, the WPT’s inaugural event, the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

In 2006 he made his first television appearance in the second season of High Stakes Poker after taking down the biggest pot in that show ever ($575,700). In that opportunity he defeated Daniel Negreanu and won the tournament. That same year he took the first place at the Full TiltPoker.com London All Star Challenge.

Next year he won the Aussie Millions Main Event and got over $1.2 million.

Hansen is not only a great poker player but he enjoys being part of many aspects of the poker industry. In 2008 Lyle Stuart published Hansen’s book – Every Hand revealed. He also launched GusHansenTV which is branded as a free poker channel in the internet.

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PATRIK ANTONIUS Poker Pro Profile!

His looks and his poker skills have given him a good name between the poker pro players. Patrik was born in December 13^th of 1980 in Helsinki, Finland. Hansen was a former model and tennis player. He currently resides in Monte Carlo.

His first poker experiences were in the European Poker Tour and World Poker tour, where he finished near the final table. In 2005 he made it through the European Poker tour Main Event final table, finishing 3^rd in Barcelona. That same year by December he finished in 2^nd place at the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Vegas where he won $1,046, 470.

In July 2006 he placed 9^th in the World Series of Poker H.O.R.S.E event, making the biggest cash of that year. He was part of the NBC’s Poker After Dark. The first time he participated he finished as runner up losing to Jennifer Harman. His second appearance he defeat Brad Booth and saw the victory.

He couldn’t get into the 2009 WSOP Main Event, because he turned away when attempting to register along with hundreds of other due to a capacity field. His total live tournament winnings in 2010 exceed $2,800.000.

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Another great thing to mention about Antonius is that he is a heads-up specialist. He usually plays regular high stakes and he is successful having won millions of dollars. When he started on FullTilt Poker he used many nicknames like, Luigi66369, CryMeRiver9 and Finddagrind, but he became a member of the Full Tilt Team under his real name.

Antonius is the first player to go up against Tom Dwan in his “Million Dollar Challenge” on Full Tilt Poker. Dwan challenged players to high-stakes no-limit hold’em or pot-limit Omaha at Full Tilt, playing four tables at a time with a total of 50,000 hands.

Let’s not forget that in 2009, Patrik won the biggest pot in online poker history taking $1,356,946 away from Isildur1.

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WSOP Main Event News

Only 205 players remain at the WSOP Main Event. 5 players have the best chance to win it with over 3 millions, but Canadian Evan Lamprea is leading the event with 3,564k chips.

Some of the top ten names are Theo Jorgensen, Bryn Kenney, Alexander “postflopaction” Kostritsyn and Johnny Chan. Some others are still hanging and we hope they keep on bringing the good game. Players like Michael Mizrachi and Phil Galfond have fewer chips but are still hanging.

Players finishing in the top 747 have been getting paid out, and the participants now guarant3eed at least $48,847. Scotty Nguyen is one of the players that is out and going home with the 209^th place. Unfortunately he was eliminated right near the end of the day’s action.

WSOP tournament continues on Thursday noon.

Here are the top 10 players of day 5:

1. Evan Lamprea 3564k
2. Michael Skender 3527k
3. Joseph Cheong 3357k
4. Duy Le 3186k
5. Theo Jörgensen 3088k
6. Bryn Kenney 2902k
7. Matt Affleck 2896
8. Alexander Kostritsyn 2564k
9. Johnny Chan 2559k
10. Sebastian Panny 2442k

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Psychology of a Poker Pro

Professional Poker Players, a breed of its kind, very hard to describe and comprehend unless you are in their shoes. While some look at them as poker machines with no emotions, very much like a poker Terminator; others look at them as hi life, club partying animals, enjoying their time 24/7 put on the spot light and do nothing but enjoy life. Many of these interpretations might be true, but they are complex creatures, that need to be understood from a different perspective. So we went ahead and looked for some of them and ask them to explain us many of the day to day situations they live and here are some of those stories. For their own protection we have decided to keep their identities undisclosed, what is important is to show the poker pro as they really are:

Morning Live:

Been a poker player is definitely not easy. An office person can spend hours in front of a desk but still have some times to spare where then can relax and enjoy, even if it’s a coffee for a while. A poker player’s job if preparing for a big live tournament consists believe it or not on training! But not poker: physically. We normally undergo a heavy training for our backs and knees, for us the non so young ones any more, been seated in a position for 16 hours a day is not easy and consequences show if you don’t prepare properly. Diet is an important factor, as a serious player you have to watch what you eat and how often, you don’t want to turn into a non seater every 5 minutes to excuse yourself to the bathroom because you couldn’t resist one of those nice all you can eat buffets at a nearby hotel. And of course there is the alcohol factor, if you have been in this business as long as many of us have been you will see this frequently and it will be part of your life. For some players it is this particular area where the fail, but that is another story.

Our morning routine on a way to a big event is waking up early, and having a good healthy meal, that is light but nutritious. Some still do the typical Rocky scene with the eggs and all, I even know a guy who does that and runs up the hill and does some little air punching after he gets to the top. For a 50 year old, with fat on the front and years passed by, it is not a good image.

Exercises come into place once that is done, from weights to cardio, yoga or Pilates, you need whatever you can do for 2 or 3 hours during the morning. Once you are tired and soared back home for lunch and relaxation, we have to try to rest as much as possible as well, once in a tournament life is gone.

During night time, we train our minds, look at odds, old games, hands, as much information as we can.

Tournament Live:

Being in a tournament, especially in Las Vegas is not easy, Sin City, this is a place where you will find something to do at any moment of the day, no matter what time it is. When you are in the poker city capital and you are professional player, you are considered a celebrity; so you can be sure there will be someone with a camera taking pictures, asking for an interview for their online or TV show and of course the autographs. Some fans will even invite you to a have a drink with them or go party. These can be very harmless, real problem is other Pros, specially the younger ones, they have much more stamina and their training consists in partying every night with gorgeous women. If you are married things get complicated here. At the end of the day, not counting poker you spend hours awake in social events with other pros, fans and if you are committed sponsorships, you can really get tired.

Every day playing start at noon the earliest, spend most of the day playing and then doing social events, your back hurts, your head hurts, and you have to do this for a month at the WSOP. Add that up to the tournaments you most play as well like EPT, WPT and other events around the world. And there is always the money factor: everything comes down to money.

Being a professional poker player is not easy life and it is not meant for everyone. All I can suggest to players out there is, enjoy poker as your escape not as your career.

This is just a small fragments of many situations explained to us by the pro’s themselves. Keep on reading us for more inside thoughts of the ones we admire and follow in this amazing world we all love.

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PR and Advertising: The Other Side of Poker

It is no secret that when it comes to marketing, having your brand exposed and viewable for millions of people at once at an affordable price is what all companies seek. We see big enterprises like Coca Cola, McDonald’s and others spend hundreds of millions of dollars for their brand to show. In sports it has been the same story, shoes and clothing brands paying millions of dollars to have their goods used by renamed famous celebrities in the different sports: from Kobe Bryant to Payton Manning and Tiger Woods. But, how exactly this works in our whole poker universe?

Well, you guys know it is no secret it works very alike; hence, the significant amount of professional players that, for a few hundred thousand dollars will have their name imprinted in a website and represent them at all the mayor poker events. Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, “Jesus” Fergusson and his majesty Doyle Brunson himself, are the face and main shield of their respective brands.

One might think, how in this world can a site pay that much money for just one player? The answer is in the type of deals they do. An insider source and expert in the industry stated recently that most poker pro deals benefit the site more than the player and the player is just a vessel to get bigger and bigger. Then why would so many pro’s look for sponsorship deals? Easy: tournament entries.

Being a professional poker player is no easy life. Of course, we would all want to stay hours in a casino, partying around and have luxuries and amenities to our delight. But the cost is high, very high; not only they lack of spare time, they lack of money. So, what should you do if you don’t have the money? Ask for it, in most cases from poker sites. In return the poker site will use the pro as their own mannequin, wear them with all the gear they can get, and of course they get a big chunk of the winnings at the tournaments. So what is a couple hundred thousand up front when you can potentially win millions from a single event and get more players (meaning more revenue) at the same time?

And if this wasn’t enough, we see poker sites expanding to new and emerging markets with great acquisition power that have not been explored yet. For instance Latin America: celebrities, sportsmen and women, even public figures are been bought by poker sites for a significant lower cost than pro players with better results attracting players. Just picture the following: it is not the same to say “I played with Phil Ivey” to a poker outsider than “I played with Matt Damon” or “Shannon Elizabeth”. They fill these sponsored employees Twitter and Facebook accounts with site propaganda and drive us into their nets.

Nice move from the poker industry showing it is not only a hell of a ride and business, but that they play hard, serious and are here to stay regardless of the bumps in the road and detours they have to take. So if you watch the WSOP or assist Las Vegas whereabouts, look at the pro’s, look at the celebrities and imagine all the money that it required for a brand to be there.

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Seven Card Stud: Intermediate Strategy (Continued)

We have already covered the basics as far as seven card stud, and as you know this is not an easy game, especially if you are playing for money or at a big tournament, even more if it’s H.O.R.S.E one. When it comes to strategy, seven card stud is highly complicated, because of 2 factors:

- Most of the times you are going to be called

- Most people don’t really know how to play the game

This can be beneficial as well as harmful for your play; while it can dramatically increase your winnings, it can also give your opponents chances to get and catch a good hand.

You must watch your opponents open cards, and act depending on this. If you have a possible flush count the cards that could help you complete the hand, let’s say you have 3 spades. This means you will need 2 out of the pending 11 cards in the deck that are a spade. However, if your opponents’ show 4 of those spades in their hands on their open cards, this is not a good bet, most likely you are not going to be able to catch the flush. The same happens with high cards or cards you need for straights or better.

Another important factor for you to consider is the bankroll you will have to bring in into a table, when you play at ring games that is. Most experts suggest at least 10 to 20 times, but for these games we suggest at least 40 to 60 times the stakes, as you will be tempted to call more bets and raises as the hand goes.

When playing a tournament however, it is important you don’t over pay, if by the 5^th street you don’t have good chances of catching a good hand, fold it, don’t risk more chips. These small chips can cost you at the end of the day and can decide whether you are kept in or out.

It is important to maintain a constant in all poker games: practice. The more you play, the more you will know how to react towards the different scenarios that show up at a table. You will not only know how to play your cards, but how your opponents will play, even if it is the first time you play against them, they will match the gaming style of a player you previously faced.

All we can suggest is play very smartly; do not try to steal pots like in other games as it is very likely you will get caught. Bring enough funds into the table to pay the raises and bets from other players. And always, always look at the cards you hold and the open ones from your opponents. Good luck at the tables and just remember it’s not worth risking it all in one hand you could get than in a hand you already have!

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The Poker Lounge by Full Tilt Poker

The Poker Lounge is the new TV show that Full Tilt Poker brings to all the poker lovers. The new TV show will be about the poker top players. This show will be taking place in UK, and will combine intimacy and style with high-stakes action. Only 6 poker players will fight their way for a weekly price of $120,000.

Each player will place a $20,000 buy-in, but each winner will take all the tournament earnings. This show will combine a friendly and great experience of the live games.

You can watch this show on Channel 4 from June 22^nd through August 24^th. For each ten matches they will have one online qualifier that will measure himself/herself with the top pros of Full Tilt Poker.

So, do you think you can beat poker pro players like Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen? Then this is your chance to challenge them and make your name one of the most known out there.

Make sure you register and read all the rules about how to qualify and when you have the chance to do it by Navigating through to the Full Tilt Poker website or by clicking here. Remember to visit our Full Tilt Review to get information about all the promotions and great bonuses www.the-royalflush-club.com offers you.

Make sure you catch the action every Tuesday! Here is the TV schedule:

EPISODE	AIR DATE
1	June 22nd
2	June 29th
3	July 6th
4	July 13th
5	July 20th
6	July 27th
7	August 3rd
8	August 10th
9	August 17th
10	August 24th

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Ongame Launches GSOP Live Poker Tour

Ongame Network recently launched their GSOP live poker tour. This is created with the collaboration of Betsafe, Betsson and RedKings.

This tour will be across Europe, with accessible buy-ins, side events and first class casino venues we are sure it will be a huge success.

The online finals will start in August 2010 and they guarantee 50 prize packages to each event, this will give all players the opportunity to win their place at the live tables.

The Grand Series of Poker will give recognition to players from all the partner networks and all the tournaments will be held on the Ongame Network. The number is of participants in the tour organization will be equal for each partner.

“GSOP Live is different. It is a live tour open to everyone who loves the serious fun of competitive poker. It also showcases Ongame Network’s inclusive approach as three partners have joined forces with us to launch this exciting network-wide product,” said Martin Lerby, Head of Ongame Network.

Grand Series of Poker Schedule is the following for season 1:

• GSOP Live Riga, hosted by Betsafe, 5-9 October 2010 in Riga, Latvia
• GSOP Live Malta, hosted by Betsson, 24-28 November 2010 in St. Julian’s, Malta
• GSOP Live Budapest, hosted by RedKings, 3-6 February 2011 in Budapest, Hungary
• GSOP Live Grand Final, 13-16 April 2011 in Seville, Spain.

Remember that Online finals for the Riga event start in August. The packages are worth $3,000 (or $5,000 for the Grand Final) and you can try your luck for as little as $2,20. Don’t miss the chance to get 1 one of the 50 packages.

If you want more information visit www.gsoplive.com

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WSOP and Vegas Economy

It is not a surprise that the WSOP bets are lower than how they use to be. We still remember when poker pro players used to come out with some nose-bleeding bets and fought their place to win a bracelet.

Now days we see poker players that used to win many bracelets and that had awesome performance during the WSOP events going down and not even winning a single bracelet. This is something normal to see when you are a mortal and you have to sweat your way up to make it to the final tables, but it’s not something we are used to see among the poker gods.

There are maybe many factors that we need to take in consideration in order to find why this is happening to the WSOP. Maybe the problem comes from the global crisis and it just hit Nevada.

Vegas is a state that needs tourism to survive and people to gamble to keep to money flowing. The problem comes when poker players do not want to invest more money than what they are supposed to because they also don’t want to lose their money to an amateur that’s been playing online.

In fact, many tournament winners are not professional players that have won their entrance through online poker rooms and somehow have made it to the big events. Maybe poker pro players are not sure anymore about how good they are or which techniques will work with the new opponents.

Many fear a recession in Nevada; I think we all fear also a recession in poker and especially on a great even such as the WSOP. Another thing to that reflects on is that, now days there are so many poker tournaments going on, that probably players don’t have the chance to be part of all of them or they just rather wait and gain their way to another event by playing classifiers online. The reality of the situation is disturbing, in what used to be one of the busier, if not the busiest week in Vegas as far as hotel and services, have been deemed by low clientele and cheap hotels, that we never thought they would be available in times like this.

Even worst, during a public appearance early this year, the President of the United States, Barak Obama, suggested US citizens to refrain from going to Vegas and bet their money and instead pay their debts. This particular incident has affected and upset the Vegas community and organizations, and has had a great impact making the state of Nevada the most hit state as far as economy.

But not everything is negative, we have seen the service and commodities from most places been engaged in order to suit the diminished amount of guests at the different hotels in Las Vegas that benefits the ones that dare to go and have a chance on winning prestige and immortality as one of the WSOP bracelet winners.

Let’s hope that everything recovers and that we keep enjoying this powerful event and the extravaganza that normally accompanies it. Best wishes to all of the Nevada state residents specially the ones working at the different casinos along the Las Vegas city.

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WSOP Top 20 Tournament of Champions

The results have been announced for the WSOP Tournament of Champions million dollar freeroll online votes. 20 players by people’s vote will have the chance to be part of this tournament.

Familiar names were the favorites of the voters with players like Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson and Jamie Gold. Some big players were left out because of the voters, players like Phil Galfond and Jason Mecier, will miss the chance this year.

This tournament will have a total of 27 players. Five players were included automatically (Joe Cada – current world champion). WSOP Europe champion Barry Shulman and the TOC winners Annie Duke, Mike Matusow and Mike Sexton. The other two places are sponsorships given to Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and the WSOP Academy winner Andrew Barton.

Only one woman is part of the top 20 vote-getters for the 2010 WSOP TOC, Jennifer Harman from Full Tilt Poker is the one chosen by the voters. She is a two-time WSOP bracelet winner.

The Tournament Of Champions is played for three days, 27^th and 28^th of June and 4^th of July. You can see the tournament on ESPN, they will be televising it. WSOP released the top 20 list on Friday.

Here are the Top 20 Players and number of Online Votes:

1. Phil Ivey 16 267
2. Daniel Negreanu 16 239
3. Doyle Brunson 13 796
4. Phil Hellmuth 12 673
5. Chris Ferguson 11 585
6. Allen Cunningham 10 486
7. Johnny Chan 10 434
8. Scotty Nguyen 9 834
9. Barry Greenstein 9 806
10. John Juanda 8 835
11. Erik Seidel 8 802
12. Jennifer Harman 8 206
13. Huck Seed 8 180
14. Dan Harrington 7 342
15. TJ Cloutier 6 281
16. Sam Farha 6 085
17. Howard Lederer 5 596
18. Greg Raymer 5 404
19. Joe Hachem 5 272
20. Antonio Esfandiari 5 129

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WSOP Ladies Championship 2010

French Vaneessa Hellebuyck won the $1,000 Ladies Championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker. After some controversy because some male players wanted to enter this tournament, everything got solved and after taking down 1,053 players, Vanessa became the final champion. Vanessa is a common woman with extraordinary poker gifts; she is the mother of two daughters and works as a web designer. She didn’t only win $192,132, but she also became the fifth French bracelet winner in the WSOP history.

The final game was against Sidsel Boesen from Denmark. Boesen was the chip leader, but lost it and tried to get it back. Hellebuyck defeated Boesen after only seven hands.

"This is my first World Series," she said. "It means the world to me. I can't describe it. Cashing in Europe was very exciting for me. But I don't know what more I can do now, except maybe win another event that is not the Ladies event. That is the next step."

Controversy created by 10 men during this event, ended without major issues after they wanted to enter the event. Nevada gaming laws prohibit discrimination by gender in poker tournaments. Shaun Deeb entered the event dressing like a woman as a result a bet; he wanted to play the event to send a message.

Here are the top 5cresults of Event 22 at the 2010 World Series of Poker:

1.Vanessa Hellebuyck $192,132
2. Sidsel Boesen $118,897
3. Timmi Derosa $74,389
4. Allison Whalen $53,994
5. Kami Chisholm $39,860

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Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo Introduction

This game is also known as Eight-Or-Better, this is one of the many variations that common poker offers. In this game there are no community cards, instead each player gets seven cards. The first three cards are dealt to you facing down and the other four are dealt facing up, you use only five of the seven cards you were dealt to make your hand.

When you are playing the Hi/Lo variation of this game two of the hands at the table will be awarded. Hi/Lo means that both the highest hand and the lowest hand will win and share the pot. These are the same rules that you follow in Texas Hold’em.

There are some differences while determining the lowest hand in Seven Card Stud, first all the cards that you chose as your hand should be lower than 8. Straights and flushes do not count as a Lo hand even when it’s the lowest from all the hands. Also when you have a couple you can’t have the lowest hand, only unique cards can be counted for the Lo hand. An ace can also be counted in a Lo hand because Aces are used as the highest card and the lowest.

When each round ends, each player uses five of the seven cards to make two hands, one Hi and the other one Lo. If a player doesn’t have a Lo hand, the player can only play for the Hi half of the pot. The only exception for this is when no player has a Lo hand, when this happens then all the money goes to the player with the Hi hand.

If you are going to play this game and this variation, you need to keep in mind that to win and make a great profit out of this game you need to have both the best Hi/Lo hands on the table. Remember that if you have both the best hands, you take all the pot, but if you don’t then you need to split the pot.

For this variation you should usually play with fixed limits, but you may find some pot limit games too. In Stud poker there are five rounds of betting, and the blinds are replaced by antes most of the time.

The keys for a major winning at Seven Card Stud are the first four cards, if your first cards develop successfully, you will have a strong hand and have a great chance to scoop the pot. If your opponent is playing a pair as a starting hand, and pairs his door card, the odds are two of three. In general if you are playing this variation, bet instead of checking the hands that you would call if someone is about to bet. Usually when players don’t have a good hand they wait for someone else to bet to fold. Try to eliminate your competition as fast as you can.

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How to Succeed in a Multiple Day Live Event (Part 2)

Once you have made it into the second day, try loosening up a bit, not much just a bit. Steal here and there and try to go after the dead pots where you have a shot. Go like this through day 2 and survive to day 3.

Day 3 is your shot to be aggressive, and since most players in here are skilled this is the chance to steal and increase your pot as much as possible. Shift your way of play during these and the fore coming days, don’t play always the same and be versatile.

During the whole event you must be aware of several things: your mental and body health. When you play in a long event, your body will feel it as you will be playing continuous hours nonstop, so hire the services of masseuse while in the event, all of them have; wear comfortable clothing; seat in different positions; eat properly; take your time to go to the bathroom when needed and last but not least try to rest your mind, listen to your favorite music that will relax you but always focused on what is going on.

This is our little strategy on how to survive a long event, you will now rely on how you plan this ahead, train yourself to be able to do it and use the best of your skills, don’t leave everything to Lady Luck, she might turn her back on you at any moment!

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How to Succeed in a Multiple Day Live Event (Part 1)

How nice would it be to win a big reputable, televised tournament in front of millions of people around the world and with several hundred thousand dollars or even millions in prizes? Well, it is the dream of most poker players both online and live, and it is only done by those players not only with incredible skills, luck and determination, but with an actual strategy to go through several days playing poker in a single event.

Poker, just like any skill game goes around organization, think of it as chess, not only involves the next play but a strategic list of steps to follow in order to succeed, of course unlike chess a poker plan can end up in a blink, but that is where your skill and how well planned is your strategy comes into the big question.

But what does it take for you to be able to succeed at a several day event? That will depend on the event. We will focus on an event that takes at least 5 days and has a big amount of players; you know which one is it, the mother of all tournaments and the one we all aspire to win someday.

These events are complicated as they are filled with every single amount of players, from free rollers to top shots and legends, but at the end of the day the players that are able to survive through the first 2 days are the ones that win the most. The first players to go out are the ones that are over aggressive, so we recommend for the first day to tighten up and play only big huge hands and don’t risk more than half your stack, don’t try to increase your chips by stealing the blinds or going after an abandoned pot, just hang in there and try to maximize your winnings when you are positive you have the nuts. All this has a simple explanation, all players that don’t really have a reason to be there, will try to double or triple their chip stacks most of the times with no action plan; although some might be lucky 80% of them will be out by the end of the day, so for now relax, enjoy and spot the big players.

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