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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Joining the Grind
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 by Phil
So this is my first entry here and I’m looking forward to sharing my thoughts and ideas with whoever will listen to be honest. Yes, i do play plenty of poker and I’ll have some sort of outline of where I want to go but just like poker you never know. I myself play mostly 6 handed no limit hold em sit n go’s and multi table tournaments. So for those of you who play something similar this might actually be interesting. I do play some poker with actual people but for the most part I stick to online play.
Let me get right into things then. If you want to get more familiar with online play or are looking for some more in depth analysis then this blog should help both ( i hope ). I play the short handed games online because I’ve found them to be very beatable and profitable. there are many novice players out there and if you play a solid game you can beat these games. I also play plenty of the nightly guaranteed tournaments in the lower buy in range of 10-20. the multi table tournaments are obviously much harder because of the large number fields but if you manage to make deep runs in them, they are also very rewarding. I mix both sng’s and mtt’s on a nightly basis. Since cashing in a large tourney is less frequent the sng’s I play are basically my bread and butter and allow me to play in the big tourney’s. I often multi table the sng’s, which if you’re looking to make more dollar figures per hour you’ll almost certainly have to do as well.
I stick to the 10-20 range of entry fee’s for the sng’s as well. It’s comfortably within my bankroll and like I said before, they are very winnable. These 6 handed sng’s usually pay out to the top 2 finishers, 70% going to the winner and 30 % going to second. I’d say most people are used to the traditional 10 seat games and that’s fine but for me the short handed game has worked well. Cash games are quite different from these sit n go’s because these are basically small tournaments. Everyone starts with the same amount in chips and play continues with gradually increasing blinds until there is a winner and second place finisher. I’m sure most of you are familiar with these scenarios and if you’re not don’t sweat it, you soon will be if you play enough online. It doesn’t take long, believe me.
So now you have an idea of where i’m coming from and what I’ll be looking forward to blogging. If you have any ideas throw them my way and we can chat it up.
