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| PokerDIY | | | | Last seasons results, the new season scoring method and the Jackpot | | Congrats to Olly for winning the first poker season of 2009 (Jan -> June)! Jason came 2nd and Jeff managed to hold Davy off for 3rd place. The new poker season started yesterday (July -> December) with a strong start from Jeff, Rod and Olly. Lee seems to have lost his mojo, maybe it goes with the territory. You can see the current league scoreboard here. |
| | Double Up? | | Does anybody have experience in double or nothing sit n go:s! I five doubled my bankrole by plaing small double up's but for some reason I cannot do any great anymore, from winning like 8 of 10 in the beginning i now loose 6-7 of 10 and don't understand why..Is there any strategy online or good to know's ?best regards |
| | Michael Phelps, An All-American Hero Who Loves Poker, Pot, & P***y…a.k.a. my kind of Hero | | Get this. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps should “get another gold medal for- “LOVE MAKING!” straight from the lips of stripper Theresa White (FYI she’s smoking hot! Google her!). Supposedly our boy of Beijing hit that for 3 hours straight!!
And they said all that bong toking would leave him out of shape.
On top of all that, Phelps been known to be schooled by the master pros @ poker too! Dammmmnn… son!
Now we all seen his secret for success — he be hittin’ that bong like any good ol’ American SOB. Which is dope for the doped. But forrealz tho, I don’t know why they be hatin’ on his multi-tasking skills. Is poker addiction even a bad thing when you get to stackin’ chips real high (while you’re gettin’ high at that) and rubbin’ elbows amongst the high stakes tables? I heard he be switchin’ his game over to online poker rooms too so that means my odds of running into my new idol is THAT much better now!
Thanks Mike, without you, I never thought I had a big brother to look up to. But I got one. And he’s American. And all them haters should leave him the MUCK alone!!!!
-Mel
I wrote this for: http://whatthemuck.tv/blog |
| | Redemption | | I always find it frustrating to miss the Championship Tournament due to games missed. If it were up to me I'd make it to every one. This season I missed 4 weeks out of (I think) 19. That's more than 20%. That's a big handicap to overcome.Well after making my return after a couple of missed games, I found on the stat sheet that I was about 40 points out of the final spot on the Championship roster with 4 games to go. Extremely difficult, but doable.I had three players between me and that 10th place spot that I would have to leapfrog as well in order to make it. Keeler, Dog Boy and Jonathan, if my memory serves correct. Or maybe it was 4 others with Rocky thrown in the mix. Whatever it was, we were all chasing Darlene.So began my monumental task. I put in a solid effort that week, finishing just in the money (actually, it had been the bubble until we all agreed to take $20 out of the first place spot and give it to 4th). Keeler, one of the players I had been chasing had been just surviving with a micro-stack. He made a late comeback and knocked me out on a hand where I had a decent made hand and he had a good draw.So a good showing at first was soured by one of the players I was chasing going on to win that tournament, distancing himself further. I put in a couple more good weeks, picking up points and making my late-season charge. At the end of the second to last week, I waited around for the updated stats.Keeler was in 10th, 11 points ahead. Rocky was in 11th, only 2 points in front, and Jonathan and I were tied for 12th. One game to go, I knew I had to have a good night the final game. 11 points was a fair amount, but Tommy Keeler was the type of player who could crush the competition from start to finish, or go out first. I figured if I put in a good enough performance to pick up 11 points on Tommy, then passing Rocky and Jonathan would likely take care of itself. And if the cards fell so that I couldn't catch Tommy, or Jonathan or Rocky did better than I, Darlene was sitting there in 9th place only 15 points ahead. But Darlene tends to hang around for a while week to week, picking up points, so that was a real long shot.I was feeling good. I was confident, playing well, and proud of the fact I had moved up as much as I had in the three weeks prior. I showed up at Harry's itching to make one final push. Then I saw the updated stats. Apparently Patty, in cleaning house, had waylaid or gotten rid of Harry's poker stuff. After redoing the standings I wasn't 11 points behind Keeler, I was 21 points out. There was almost no chance. And having KK against AA to be knocked out of that final tournament only sealed the deal. It was disheartening.But alas, here came one of my ideas from the off-season: the end-of-year satellite tournaments for those who finished outside the top 10. What I thought would be 3 satellites I later learned would be 5. The first two I could make it to, but the third was out of bounds. We had company coming from out of town (Another missed game, argh!). I was informed the final satellite would also be a rebuy/add-on tourney with the rebuy period being 6 blind levels long! There's no way I could afford that one, being out of work, so I was down to 3 shots to make it to the dance.What I expected would be a hotly contested opportunity turned out to be scarcely attended! Harry was there to deal. Patty played in the satellite, as did the two Genes. Then there was me. Some calls were made to see if anyone else would play, and Josh Angotti said he'd be there, but late. So we played 5 handed poker (with only 4 players for the first 20 minutes).Play proceeded quickly, and being hit with two blinds every five hands, Josh was at a bigger disadvantage than you'd think showing up 20 minutes late. It was very interesting poker. Usually when you get down to 4 or 5 handed the blinds are getting quite large, meaning it's a lot of preflop and on the flop play. This was quite different.I had a good run of cards early, though the starting hands I played were not powerhouses. The passive play of the game let me play a lot of hands, especially in position. I flopped one straight, turned the nut flush and got out to an early lead.A good run of starting hands allowed me to grow my lead even further. A couple of AKs, an AQ, pocket Jacks and pocket tens. Though I did lose one of those AK hands to Gene III's all-in reraise with 77. That proved to be a crucial hand for III.Then there was Gotti, playing somewhat short-stacked and getting cold-decked. I figured once the blinds went up he'd have to shove with his small stack. So there I am, with Gene II calling on the button and Gotti completing from the small blind. I figured Josh didn't have a pair or two big cards or he'd have pushed, so I looked down at my pocket 5's and figured I was certainly better than Gotti.But Gene in the pot was somewhat problematic. He didn't raise, but he rarely did preflop, so it was still possible he had a hand that had me crushed, so I didn't want to set Josh all-in right away in case Gene came along for the ride. So I made a raise large enough to commit Josh to the pot if he was going to play. Gene folded and Josh thought for a short time before shoving. I was almost certain it would be a race. Until Gotti turned over 33! I was wrong, he had a pair and didn't shove, but it actually turned out to be a much better situation for me.The deck was brutal to him though, as the 3 he caught on the turn to pull ahead gave me an open-ended straight draw and he lost to my straight when the 7 fell on the river. He was a huge dog in the pot from the beginning, but to have your hopes dashed like that was just cruel. Gotti took it... rather well.I got lucky on a couple more hands, splitting pots where I was outkicked by 1 rank when higher cards hit the board. But the biggest game-changer for me was when Gene III reraised another of my preflop raises. I had laid down several times to his reraises, and was starting to believe he was pushing me around a fair amount of the time. I saw AJ suited and figured it was a good time to make a stand. I was dejected when he turned over AK off-suit. A miracle board of 555QQ led to a split pot where I never had much of a chance, and I was still alive.Three handed, Gene II was micro stacked in the small blind with $525 total, I think it was with $200-$400 blinds and a $25 ante. He shoved all-in blind, Gene III folded on the button and I found QQ in the hole. You figure in that situation you have an overpair, but Gene actually had KJ. He flopped a J too, but didn't improve further.Heads up against Gene III it came down to one critical hand. AQ off-suit on the small blind/button, I put in a raise (didn't do a ton of preflop raising heads up) and once again Gene III came over the top of me all-in. The two times during this satellite I had called him in the same spot he had 77 once and AK the other time. But heads up AQ was just way too good a hand, especially with the good pot odds. So in the final hand I called him down and his TJ suited fell short.I was elated to win the game and nab my spot in the final tournament, and to also have a bit of a change in fortune, as this season was defined, for me, by running cold and suffering bad beats. But I was still a little disappointed that I wouldn't be playing the other satellite tournaments. It was a lot of fun, and played very differently than our regular season matches.But at least I won't be missing any more games this season, after all. |
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| | 40 000th poker player on PokerDIY - A brief history | | PokerDIY started out in life in 2005 as a website for a small group of friends who got together every Wednesday for a home poker game. Roll on 3.5 years later and we have just had our 40 000th poker player sign up for their free account on PokerDIY! This is great news – our community of poker players is growing at a astonish rate – let’s take a look at some milestones and you can see why PokerDIY is more than just another poker social network. |
| | Texas Hold 'Em Strategies | | In recent years the popularity of Texas Hold'Em has skyrocketed, no doubt in part due to a series of popular television programs, including ESPN's coverage of the World Series of Poker. While almost anyone can learn the game, very few are consistent winners.
There are several schools of thought when it comes to theory. The classic work is written by Doyal Brunson and is titled Super System: A Course in Power Poker. Brunson advocates playing extremely aggressively. While Brunson is generally recognized as one of the best and most influential poker players of all time, Super System was written by the 70's and is considered by many to be dated. The other problem with Super System is that by now, most serious poker players have read it, making it a strategy that many people can instantly recognize and thwart!
On the other hand, there are several strategies that are significantly harder or impossible to detect. One is the simple use of statistics. Understanding the odds of hitting certain cards gives the player an incredible edge. From these odds a player can determine whether or not a bet is worth calling, or a hand is worth raising. Understanding these statistics offers the player an edge that is difficult to detect and even more difficult to defeat.
The other strategy worth mentioning involves bluffing. Obviously bluffing is a strategy, but without some sort of a pattern its potential is limited. One of the most effective ways to bluff is to essentially represent a hand. For example, if you are dealt a 4/3 suited, play that hand as if you were holding, say, pocket tens. This way, your betting on the hand will remain consistent. While you may lose a hand and inadvertently become exposed, it won't matter as the occurrence of your bluffs will remain completely undetectable! Part of this strategy requires a willingness to commit. One must be willing to push chips to the middle of the table with complete authority. You must play and act as if you have the best hand. There can be no doubts.
The third strategy, if one can call it that, involves watching the pros. Now that poker is televised, it has become much easier to learn. With each hand available to the watching viewer, the student can learn how the most successful players play hands, and learn to emulate. They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but it could also be the quickest way to a couple of bucks.
By following these easy strategies almost any player will see real, tangible improvements to their game. |
| | Your own Poker Player Profile URL | | Good news! From the 23rd of June, you are now no longer just a number on PokerDIY – you can have your own poker player profile URL.
Your Display Name is used at the end of the PokerDIY URL (like this; http://www.pokerdiy.com/Your Display Name) to give you your own unique URL which you can give out to people.
For example, here is my own poker profile: http://www.pokerdiy.com/rod.aspx |
| | FullTilt on tilt over OfficialPokerRankings - Bad Move | | C'mon. Really? Banning OfficialPokerRankings because it provides an "unfair advantage"? Reasons why that's asinine:
1) Anyone can request to NOT have their information revealed (if you believe you're at some sort of disadvantage - take your own info off the listings)
2) It's free and open to anyone to use - if you and I both have an "advantage" then neither of us has an "advantage" (though we dispute that there really is any advantage to be had, because...)
3) It doesn't really tell you much (if anything) that you can use against another player. No hand histories, no % of times betting, folding, re-raising, hands played, VPIP, etc. No cash game history. No idea of whether you're a tight/aggressive, loose/passive, etc. player. Only results are shown. Over the long haul, they can ONLY tell you that whatever this guy does works well or doesn't work so well.
4) FullTilt provides THEIR OWN leader board information including nicely customizable leader board filtering - where's the big difference??
Reasons to allow OPR rankings to stay up:
1) For lower stakes players it IS truly important to watch your own stats move up the "rankings". OPR isn't used to "scout" other players, but to monitor your own progress (based on OPR's definition of progress).
2) When it comes to those other players - the ones most of us look at are our friends and acquaintances. Why? To monitor their hoped for progress and movement up the rankings. It's community, boys. One of the reasons you have your own FullTilt Forums. And, surprise, the forums aren't the only way to build community - many of us track friends on OPR.
3) Collusion Control - While I haven't used it for this purpose myself - I can certainly see where it could be useful to look at various in-the-money results to see if players "Ima Colludin" and "WithMe" seem to be working together in various tournies.
In poker, it's never a good idea to go on tilt - looks like that's what FullTilt has done this time though.
Karaoke Phil |
| | Customizing your Poker League Logo | | We recently had a performance issue on PokerDIY due to the amount of new poker leagues being created.After tracking it down to a file system issue we had to temporarily remove the ability to change your poker league logo. The good news is that it is now fixed and easier than ever to upload your own image for your poker league! |
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| | Improved poker league scoreboard updating | | Those of you who manage your poker leagues on PokerDIY will know that in the past updating your poker league game results was a bit of a pain. If you were not using Dr Neau, STP or The Tournament Director to import your results, you'd have to enter them manually through the web or iphone.
One of our users eventually commented on how slow this process was and raised a Feature Request. Well, we listened and redesigned the process to make it much quicker and easier to record your game scores! |
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| | iPhone App - Find The Nuts: Texas Holdem Trainer | | Checkout the new iPhone app "Find The Nuts: Texas Holdem Trainer"
http://www.itunes.com/app/findthenuts
In poker, “the nuts” is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. “Find The Nuts” is a one-player Texas Hold ‘em training application that teaches users to learn to read the community cards.
Why is reading the community cards important?
In a real game of Texas Hold ‘em, many players look at their hole cards then look to the community cards to identify their hand. They then identify what cards they want when new community cards are dealt.
Instead, players should read the community cards to determine the best possible hand. Identifying the nuts allows a player to understand how his hand compares to other hands and whether or not he should continue to bet.
As an example, the following cards are dealt on the flop:
6 of clubs
Ace of diamonds
Ace of spades
Someone with the remaining two Aces for hole cards (pocket Aces) has the nuts. If the 5 of clubs is dealt on the turn, the player with pocket Aces still has the nuts. However, if another club, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, or 9, is dealt on the river, the nuts changes. It’s possible that someone has a straight flush, which beats 4 Aces.
Reading the community cards tells a player where his hand ranks and what his opponents may have.
In “Find The Nuts” 3-5 community cards are dealt to the center of the game screen. The rest of the 52-card deck is in a scrollable row at the bottom of the screen. A player must choose two cards from the remaining deck for his hole cards. He should ask himself, “Which cards would give me the best five-card hand?” Once he chooses two cards and submits his answer, the application will reveal the correct hole cards and the five-card hand that comprises the nuts.
Players can practice with 3, 4, or 5 community cards; “Random” lets the application choose the number of cards; and “Progressive” deals a flop, turn, and river, representing the deal of a real Texas Hold ‘em game and teaching a player to re-determine the nuts as new community cards are dealt.
Players can also practice identifying the second best hand and the third best hand, which are a little more difficult and require a more extensive analysis and understanding of the community cards.
No matter what the settings are, standard poker hand ranking applies, and a user should always remember to consider the kicker. |
| | Poker as a Revenue Source for Governments | | Even in the 21st century, many shortsighted governments continue anti-gaming (and thus anti-poker) policies for no discernable reason other than habit, and lump poker in with ‘house’ games like roulette. Their knee-jerk arguments hearken back to a day when going and having a flutter was thought to be a one-way ticket to hell.
Today, folks know this isn’t the case, but government policies haven’t followed suit. In the UK, USA and many capitals throughout Europe, the people’s representatives haven’t realised that poker is not only an enjoyable and largely harmless activity, but it can also fill government coffers as well. In a classic case of governments overstepping their bounds, they miss out on billions of dollars – in return for which they get to tell grown, free-thinking adults what they can and can’t do with their hard-earned money.
While the UK and USA are acting like their money will never run out, at least one country is starting to get smart: Bulgaria. Officials from that nation recently gathered to brainstorm how Bulgaria can incorporate gaming into its tourism strategy, and how to find a ‘middle ground’ on online gaming.
“Gambling tourism is a resource Bulgaria has not exploited. A national gambling development programme needs to be drawn up as part of the tourism industry,” said Deputy Finance Minister Atanas Kunchev. It’s not rocket science – you promote what you have, whether it’s climate, beaches, culture or gaming. With a possible recession looming and many governments drowning in red ink, as they say in poker: “Don’t leave money on the table.”
Around the felt, that means don’t miss bets that you would have won. In government, it means don’t miss out on revenue that you could easily have had. And in the UK, that should mean giving people what they want. You don’t put a ridiculous 15 percent tax on poker websites, because no one will locate here. Thus, you get zip. A light tax would have brought job-creating websites here to be regulated and taxed. The UIGEA in the U.S. is the same type of mistake. Despite running a huge deficit, the Bush Administration is fighting online gaming in a big way.
Nothing these governments did stopped people from gaming on the Internet – all they did was miss out on billions in tax revenue that could have been used for the common good. And you can add the recent nixing of the ‘super casino’ to this list of mistakes.
There are fewer and fewer well-paying jobs around these days. We don’t need governments to protect us morally. We can do that ourselves, thank you. What we need governments to do is help protect us financially. And you don’t do that by leaving money on the table.
It’s all about Poker http://www.pokerproeurope.co.uk
Regards
Sandra |
| | New look for PokerDIY! | | Over the past couple of years PokerDIY has been through 2 different UI redesigns. One of the most common complaints in the last year has been that PokerDIY is hard to navigate. We wholeheartedly agreed with this statement and tried to work out what was wrong with the UI that hindered usability.
We came up with a few different areas that needed improvement:
The main menu was hard to navigate and a great deal of information and resources were not being used because of this
Certain key areas of the site were hard to find (for example, the Poker Forums)
Many visitors come into sub pages on PokerDIY and do not see the home page first. We wanted to help them identify where they were and what they could do
We wanted to increase the value of adverts for our sponsors and advertisers
The new skin design addressed on all these points and focused on usabilty. As you can see at the top of this page is a Breadcrumb which helps pinpoint your location within the site. We made the search box a lot more prominent - if you can't find something we encourage you to search for it. We also made it easier to sign up, log in and edit your profile. There is now a Bookmark button at the top right of every page. You can bookmark your favourite pages in Facebook, Digg etc. with ease.
The main menu got our main attention - it uses hover over drop-down menus to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Instead of 12 different menus we now have only 6. Things have been moved around a bit to make them easier to find. Every page is a little bigger and brighter and more spaced out for easier reading. We switched from Arial to Verdana font as this was easier on the eyes when scanning lots of text.
So... this is the new PokerDIY look. We hope you like it! PLEASE feedback to us your thoughts, opinions and especially your criticism - this helps us so much! |
| | League in Hudson Valley starting up.... | | I am looking to start a poker club around the Hudson Valley area. Some low buy in tournaments with many players .Im also looking to start a weekly league where we send one person or more to events such as the wsop or wpt or even heartland tours.we would need a bar or restaurant or a club where we could play. Ive been looking in this area and can find nothing around here. the only places around with something like this in driving distance that i know are in nyc or new jersey. it would be nice to have something like this in our area... |
| | Roswell, GA Poker Fund Raiser | | Texas Hold'Em tournament to raise funds for the 8U All-Star Baseball Team out of Sandy Plains Parks Saturday May 16th.Tutorial starts at 3pm and tournament starts at 4pm. Prizes donated by Atlanta Braves, Hawks, Thrashers and Falcons. Also, Phillips Arena.Amazing prizes and only 50 seats available!!PLEASE register by sending an email to cougarspoker@yahoo.com.Tell your friends, family and co-workers!! |
| | Still Prefer Live Play | | While online poker is more convenient of course, every time I make the trek to our local casinos for a few hours I think to myself "why don't I do this more often?"
A few days ago I made the 40 minute drive to the casino (no biggie really), signed up for a 7pm tournament and played in a cash game for about 45 minutes while I waited for the tournament to start. While I finished down a bit playing the cash game, I gained a nice advantage over some of the players once the tournament started.
In the cash game, aside from two hands, I really didn't pick up anything else to play. Playing a $2/5 spread limit hold'em game, playing too loose isn't a good strategy against skilled players. The game is small, but second to a $5/5 game, it's the biggest game offered in our state. So, lots of good players hang out in either game, depending on whichever is busier. During the daytime on a weekday, the $2/5 games build full tables while $5/5 games generally have 4-5 players with opponents playing very short sessions. So, the result is that a lot of good players are siting at $2/5...much better than you'll typically find in casinos with higher limits available.
So, I played two hands and won them both. Other than that, I saw a couple of flops, and otherwise did some internal dancing to the eclectic range of music on my iPod. Attempting to see a few flops with suited connectors and marginal hands in late position cost me a few bucks and I finished down about $20.
When the tournament started I was seated with 2 guys that were at my $2/5 table. One of them was very loose and aggressive. The other was clearly a quality player who made plays based on his reads, rather than by simply throwing chips into the pot 'hoping' opponents would fold. I also knew that he was paying attention to me at the cash table, and thought of me as a very tight player.
Early in the tournament the good player made a raise of 3 1/2 times the big blind in early position. Another player that I had read as fairly tight but with a few tricks up his sleeve called in middle position. I was seated in the #7 seat and called with KQ os. The flop came down 7,8, rag. The initial raiser opened with a solid bet of about 2/3'rds the pot. The player to his left folded and I looked at my chips for a few seconds before making a scary looking raise, a little more than twice the size of his bet. I knew he would give me credit for a big hand since he was reading me as tighter than I really am. So, that bet looked very scary to him, like I was begging for a call. He sat thinking for a solid 2 minutes before he declared that I had to have a set to make that bet. The fun part was that I knew he was 'sure' of his read, and that later I would be able to get away with a similar type of play against him.
For the next 45 minutes or so, I couldn't find a starting hand, or the right time to enter with a marginal hand either. Evey time I picked up something like 8, 10 suited in late position, someone would come out with a huge raise preflop. With the blinds going up every 20 minutes, I knew I needed to start picking up chips.
Finally I picked up pocket jacks, which at this point looked like three aces to me. In early position I raised 3 times the big blind. My cash game opponent (the one I bluffed earlier) was the only caller. The flop came A, K, rag and for some reason I knew he didn't have the ace. I think it was the fact that he flat called me preflop instead of raising like he normally did with top hands, I had him on a hand like K, J, or something in that range. Knowing he'd bet if I checked the flop, I decided to check raise him and see if I could pick up a decent pot. Well, he bet out a little more than the pot....which surprised me a bit. My first thought was that he was trying to keep me from stealing the pot from him by check raising. Again, I read this as weak, a chance to make my move, so I did by moving all-in. This was a risky play for sure, but I never had him read for the ace, so I stuck with it. He didn't wait more than 3 seconds before flipping over his K, 10 of spades.
Now, I'm not writing about this in order to say how wonderful I am. My point is that on my way home I thought about those two plays I made against the guy, and how I wouldn't have done the same thing if I'd been playing online. Reading opponents online is so much harder than it is live, so why don't I play more live poker? When I play live, every time the dealer starts to flip the cards around the table feels like an opportunity, and it's exciting to pick up the cards and see what you've got. Playing online is fun, practical, and convenient, but there is something missing when it comes to reading opponents (at least for me there is). WhileI love playing online, I'm a better live player for sure.
The next time I'm playing online I think I'm going to start paying more attention to picking up betting patterns and note taking. In fact, I have a reload bonus at Full Tilt I need to take advantage of anyway...maybe I'll go try it now;)
Good luck to everyone! |
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