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winter 2008 | contents

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11Casting a Wide Net

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12The PKR Masters

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14Grudge Match

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16PKR Live

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2130 Poker Things to Do

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26The November Nine

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40Playing Cards

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42Player Focus

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44Climbing the Cash Ladder

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welcome | eds letter

The Christmas and New Year break is not just a window or you to

stu your ace and sling drink down your neck. The holiday period is

a time or refection, a bit o breathing space in which you can look back at

the achievements o 2008 and plan your ambitions or 2009.

When the top brass at PKR sit back to chu on their Chrimbo cigars

there is one thing that I hope that they dont choose to alter much next

year and thats PKR Live. Id like to point out that this is not a partisan

isnt-PKR-great call to arms Im editor oSTACKED and not a

direct employee o PKR but I was really impressed by the event. As a

proessional poker journalist (no jokes, please) Ive been to tournaments

in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, the Bahamas and Barcelona, but Ive

never experienced such a sense o goodwill and enjoyment as

I did at PKR Live. Dont get me wrong, there are good times tobe had at all tourneys, but theres normally an air o menace that

circulates around the cardroom. That side o things barely

reared its head, which considering the coming together

o rivals that regularly smash up the online tables is quite

incredible in itsel.

Ive attributed two reasons or its success. Firstly, theres

the dedication with which the guys and girls at PKR work

behind the scenes supplying blogs, new PKRcasts, regular

PKR.tv updates and interacting with the orums.

And secondly, there is you. Camaraderie has

replaced schadenreude and it was great to see

players railing opponents theyd only met beore

online. Actually, a little more hazy refection

is needed; the ree bar may also have played its

small part in cementing the good times!

lookingback,movingahead

Dont miss the chance to think on your 2008 highs and lows

Rick Daceyeditr

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community | forum chat

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Vondur Playing six-max $5/$10 table

I raise to $45 with Q Q and have

one caller. I bet $80 on 5 3 T op

and get min-raised to $160. Fiend

has been playing very tight and

conservative, so had I. Neither o us

had any reason to believe that the

other was making a move. What do

you do here? I you just call, whats

your plan on the turn depending on

what card hits?

Nexus1000 Due to you being out o

position I would old. You could

already be ar behind (set, ush,

higher pp). Maybe he has an open-

ended straight and ush draw.

Calling doesnt change the situation,

the pot is getting bigger and you stillhave no idea what he has. Raising

isnt good either, i he just calls,

you have no additional ino about

his hand and youre still frst to act.

Calling is bad, raising is bad, my

decision would be olding.

karbyn What a terrible spot to be in,

but it happens a lot. Your options are

as ollows:

1) Fold. Pretty tough old seeing as

youre getting 4:1.

2) Call. Tough one as you are OOP.But you can c/r any diamond.

3) Call. Lead out any turn (except

Asch Ksch) or 1/2 - 2/3 pot.

4) Raise. You are likely calling any

turn bet but the 6 cards above, so

reraise to $375, which commits

him i he calls.

It eels a lot like A X to me.

Vondur The biggest question or me

isnt whether to get it in or not. Its

how you get it in vs the biggest

possible range and not only his best

hands. [Because o that] I elected

to do a small 3-bet to get him to do

something spewy with his worst

hands that I completely shut out i

I shove it in. He had 7 9.

streettalk

Vondur nexus1000 karbyn

Use the oums at www.pkr.com to aise you game,

fame you oonents o catch u with oe events

NL1000 - Red queenson diamond fop

ChivalrousGent THANK YOU PKR!

PKR Live was undeniably antastic ully up to expectations i.e.

absolutely wicked as I believe the

kids in the street say nowadays

Azurecoil PKR Live was a massive

success as Gent said, above and

beyond what those who put so

much hard work and eort into it

could have expected all those

who were there, players, sta, and

guests would agree Im sure.

I said at some point in the night

that Ive never seen a room ull o

people who get on so well, despite

the act that their main hobby is to

do each other out o large sums o

money on a daily basis.

dappadan777 Whole weekend was

sick, well organised, proessional

and riendly. It was as i PKR

have been putting on live events

or years. Every player I met was

great company, I know a lot o us

cash players dont get mentioned

too oten around here, but it was

awesome meeting some o the

guys Ive locked horns with over the

last two years, and to fnd out that

they all are good blokes.

PKR Live Your thoughts

Chivalrousgent Azurecoil Dappadan777

Woodsy90 Quite a lot o

players keep buying-

in or the minimum,

lose their stack,

reload, lose, reloadand so on. Why are

they buying-in or $5

when they obviously have enough

in their account to buy-in or more?

LeuceDeuce In the vast majority o

cases its because they dont have

a post-op game and they want

to shove their little stack into the

middle with any two playable cards.

They might also be playing above

their bankroll. Ive seen very ew

good players that dont sit down

with a ull buy in. When they go all

in, they want maximum payo.

themangus In Barry Greensteins

bookAce on the Riverhe says he

likes to buy in or the minimum to

limit losses. Obviously, theres a

dierence buying in the minimum,

where the min is $50k, compared

with a .25/.50 cent table. Everybody

to their own BRM (bankroll

management). I have done both,

and will continue to buy in low and

or the max at varying times.

Robbieweeza The way I see it, a max

buy-in maximizes losses or a bad

player and winnings or a good

player. Youd have to be good with

short stacks to really make a proft

with a small buy-in, i you go coin

ipping youre bound to lose.

themangusWoodsy90 RobbieweezaLeuceDeuce

Cash Table Buy-in Question


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community |apt philippines

APT ambassador beats star studded cast to claim

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JC Tran won the trophy and a cool $390,000

Theres one thing better than winning a seat to a $2,500 tournament, andthats to qualiy or one thats in a country which is 31C (88F) all year

round. Well, youre in luck because were running our last ew satellites

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Were running $250 direct qualifers every Monday at 20:45 GMT which will

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PKR TV exclusive

JC Tran talks to Jabba

and Danski about the APT

photography:trevor

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while he was London and caught it all

on camera. Watch it at www.PKR.com.

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Jabba getting into

the spirit of things at

the pre-event party

Queen of client services,

Victoria Dornan, ensured

that the glasses were full

Seasoned pro

james666 looks

pretty happy

with himself


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is the PKR Community

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Q&A

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Doctors Jabba and Danski are on hand to dish out bitter medicine to the ill and sick

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Paranoid VarianceDelusions


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community | pkr cast

Do you needsick treatment?

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If you got yourself into a tricky

situation and want the doctors to

diagnose your poker problem send

us the full details of the hand to us

at [email protected]. Include a hand

history if it took place on PKR

photography:trevor

hunt,lauracadenazzi,alessandrachila,christinebalderas,sebastian

meckelmannY

ou may have heard of third

level thinking but Andrew

Teng, who plays cash games

under the name of golfpro699 at

PKR, goes one step further when

talking to Danski and Jabba on the

PKRcast. If youve ever wanted to

crack open a young online pros head

to look at the whirring cogs inside

this is a chance that you cant afford

to miss. Teng discusses winning the

GUKPT Thanet (see p8), life on theinternational tour and the skills that

have seen him crushing juicy online

action. Go to www.PKR.com/poker-

community/pkr-cast.cfm to listen in.

The boys also caught up with Asian

Poker Tour rat packers JC Tran, Nam

Le and Quinn Do while they were

in town for the Premier League of

poker. The on-camera interviews will

be available online so keep your eye

open for them at www.PKR.com.

Each week Jabba and Danski give

away a ticket into a $100 televised

tournament to the person that

contributes the best email to the

PKRcast. Be original, be entertaining,

just dont be boring or try to bringup strategy unless you want them

to click the insta-fold button on

your email! Email the team today at

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12stacked

community | tournament report

Australian keepsmiling's $27,360 win was historicas he became the frst player rom the SouthernHemisphere to claim a coveted PKR Masters title

WizadofOz

mayotacker and shady33 battled for 4th and 5th places but 0607pk's

pocket Kings decided the matter by knocking mayotacker out

The tournament could have easily swung the other way if keepsmiling

hadn't managed to river AnOldGuy to claim victory with his 7 10

$100,000p k r M A S T E r S


12/62

The fnal table

1st keepsmiling $27,360

2nd AnOldGuy $15,960

3rd 0607pk $10,260

4th shady33 $7,410

5th mayotacker $5,700

6th haggybear1 $4,560

7th royalpembrok $3,420

8th sumoace7 $2,280

9th protection $1,767

10th davidmiller9178 $1,425

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can buy-in direct or $250, qualiy through

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You can watch the action at www.PKR.tv.

AnOldGuy sure doesn't play like some old guy. With the chips down 7-1

in the heads-up he was unlucky to lose out with his KQ

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We considered studyingtheir form, but realised thatthrowing them in against

each other heads-up would

be much more fun!

14stacked

an earl vitr? The answer was a

resnding n. brtsnr1 managed t

dk and dive lng engh t grind bak

t a near even $4,500 b hand 45 the

heads-p bere almst thrwing it all

awa again. The Swede then gt aghtp in a pt with King-high. He had raised

r big blinds t 240 with K 10 at the

$30/$60 level. kristbella alled pre-p

with 7 8 and hit tp pair n the 7 4

2 bard and bet t with it. brtsnr1

alled the pt-sized 480 bet hping

t take it awa with a min-raise n the

5 trn bt it wasnt engh t shake

kristbella wh made a slid

blking bet n the Q river

and preeded t leave

brtsnr1 with jst $2,120

let in his stak.

Things were starting

t lk reall desperate

r the Swede wh was

lking r a wa t fght

bak. He pted t pla big

The PKR trnament leader bard

is alwas htl ntested and

tw plaers that have reentl

been tssling r the tp spt have been

Swede brtsnr1 and emale plaer

and Kiwi kristbella (Kiwi means rerm New Zealand, b the wa). As

stackedwent t press kristbella

was tp the trnament tree with

brtsnr1 jst a ew plaes behind in

rth. We nsidered stding rm,

reqen ashes and nmber

tables t see wh reall shld rle the

rst. Then we realised that thrwing

them in against eah ther heads-p

wld be mh mre n!

Bth plaers started with $5,000,

sme 250 big blinds eah, with the

blinds starting at a ver pst-p riendl

$10/$20 bt it didnt take lng r an

earl barrage hip shts. First bld

went t kristbellas pket eights

whih held p against a hnk river

bet bl rm brtsnr1s Ae-high.

Do you

wanna fght?Then send us an email [email protected] with your

screenname and the player

you want to challenge, plus

your reason for challenging

them to hand-to-hand

combat.

grudgematch

Vbrutusnr1Its a battle of the sexes special

as two of PKRs tournament titans get down and dirty in the Grudge Match

kristobella

Mmentm arried n swinging in the

New Zealanders avr with anther

majr pt jst eight hands int

the trnament (see Plaing

Weird Lines ppsite)

giving her a ver health

3-1 hip lead.

It was a ver gd

start bt ld serial

fnal table fnisher

kristbella press the

advantage t laim

coMMuNITy | grudge match

This emale plaer rm

Akland, New Zealand

lists her interests aspker, pker, pker and

a sneak vin r six.

Wine r nt she is nt

t be nderestimated.

o her 50 trnament

ashes in otber 43

were fnal table fnishes.


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pt pker i a attempt t get bak it

the game. It l tk a ple hads

r him t get it A J i agaist K Q.

His side the i tss w t ad he

d himsel bak lse t eve agai.

kristbellas rstrati started t shwas she alled dw with a pe-eded

straight draw bt l seeded t

bleed a lt hips as she ailed t hit r

make a deisive mve the tr.

The al ail i the r kristbella

ame at the $50/$100 level where she

eted with A 2 a A 4 9

fp. brtsr1s aggressi paid

whe he shved the 10 tr with

K 9 r third pair. He didt make

kristbella ld bt he did ath e

ve ts t river tw-pair ad preed

t wi the heads-p. Pker a be a

partilarl rgh game at times, bt

plaig as ma tramets as she

des kristbella wld alread be well

aware that. This isses Grdge Math

ges t brtsr1.n

stacked15

Blins $10/$20

(op) kristobella makes a raise

to 60 rom the button with suited

connectors and brutusnr1 calls

with an Ace. So ar, so standard.

kristobella fops a gutshot

straight fush draw and bets hal

the pot. brutusnr1 min-raises with

bottom pair. kristobella calls.

The river brings the 3which

completes the fush or kristobella.brutusnr1 opts to bet $300, which

is around two-thirds o the pot.

kristobella raises close to the

pot by sliding out a mean 1,200.

brutusnr1 reuses to believe that

hes behind despite kristobellas

45 big blind raise and pays the Kiwi

o. Not his proudest moment!

but he slides out just $60 into

the $360 pot. Its a very weak bet

and doesnt ollow on rom his

raise on the fop. Thankul o theree card, kristobella calls the 60.

brutusnr1 hits pay dirt with two

pair (Aces and Sevens) and knows

playing weird linesWeak betting on the turn gives brutusnr1 an early headache

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19 tramets tright,

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Series $12k Termiatr

tramet i Je.

that kristobella has hit . Its a great

situation to put in a solid bet

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$9,000 welcome tournament

1st ChivalrousGent $2,070

2nd BUCKFASTr $1,285

3rd theash $911

4th rvio $745

5th adrockuk $580

6th catwasil $455

7th Redshape $356

8th RobrtTkay $265

9th TheMightySwe $207

10th PiratNation $166

$10,000 bounty freeroll

1st magicmoves $2,000

2nd brutusnr1 $1,500

3rd mafo $1,100

4th Mack05 $900

5th Caprisa $750

6th Mogwa1 $600

7th hicko715 $475

8th ThWlshJob $375

9th BUCKFASTer $300

10th northrn15 $250

tournament payouts

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FeATURe | pkr live

here are some historical events that mark a changing

point in culture, a shit rom the past into the uture.

Think o the Apollo moon landing, the advent o

the internet or Barack Obamas presidential

election. Well, weve started thinking o PKR Live

in the same light as players who had only ever met on the digital eltswapped online chip ries or real lie stare downs and back slapping.

Londons Loose Cannon club opened its doors on Friday, November

14 and it didnt take long or the PKR masses to tuck into the ree bar,

tournament action and super juicy side action.

Forum hero Gareth ChivalrousGent Rees took down the $9,000

welcome tournament or $2,070, but must have used up all his luck

as he was the frst out the main event when he ran pocket Aces into a

set o Kings on the very frst hand!

There were a lot o sore heads on Saturday

morning but everyone was raring to claim the

inaugural PKR Live title (and there were cash

games or the early allers with one 1/2table straddling up to 64!). The real action,

however, was taking place at the main

event fnal table. Turn over or

a ull breakdown o how the

tournament was taken.u

LIVePKR

Three days, 150 PKR players anda whopping $94,000 in guaranteedprize pool payouts. Bring it on!

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1.Trymean77 grimaces through Jabba's rendition o Wonderwall2. Caprisa bubbled the main event but cleaned up in

the cash games (so she told us) 3. PKR head honcho Malcolm Graham takes time out o his day to explain to the massage

girls the ins and outs o poker - it's a hard lie... 4. ChivalrousGent brandishes his trophy rom the $9,000 welcome

tournament 5. nalake has a dwell up 6. James666 and kicko take some time away rom the cash tables to indulge in

some donkaments 7. Jabba tries to convince MANonFIRE that Danski has been calling him a fsh 8. Bazultra made the

main event fnal table but was ko'd ater tangling with callmebabe 9.magicmoves lived up to his name by winning the

$10,000 bounty reeroll 10. pokey85 and dappadan777 point the direction their chips are leaking 11. ...which just so

happens to be where callmebabe is sat 12. TheSqueeze can't believe his luck as his set is cracked by a runner-runner

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he rst ever PKR Live

main event kicked

o with 150 hopeul

runners all gunningor the $20,000

rst prize payout and, o course, the

inaugural champions title. Twenty

places were paid and it was a tense

bubble which burst at 3am on Saturday

night with the bust out o the last

emale player, Caprisa. The curiously

named WillyTilt took the next bubble,

just missing out on the nal table

setting up some big names and at

stacks to battle it out or the top spots.

The blinds were at $3,000/$6,000(a$500) when the rst card was

dealt leaving both TheSqueeze and

Greenaith very short-stacked. It

was the ormer that was the rst to

all ater getting his pocket ours in

against callmebabes 6 7. A our on

the fop looked good until a runner-

runner straight sent him to the rail

in tenth. Greenaith wasnt ar

behind, shoving his Eights into

dappadan777s pocket Kings,

while Bazultra was knockedout ater check raising all-in

on an A 8 A fop with

K J unortunately or

him he didnt

have quite

Bnds $6,000/$12,000 ($1,000)

T

he action is four-handed and

callmebabe is cranking up

the aggression using his bigstack to boss the action. escalope

raises under the gun to $40,000 but

callmebabe three-bets hard from

the big blind, making it $170,000

to go. Its a brave move that asks

escalope whether he wants to play

for all his chips. escalopes decides

that his Tens are too good to pass

and moves all-in for $271,000.

callmebabe reveals has to make a

crying call with 9 3 as he's getting

around 5 to 1 on the $100,000 to call.escalope doubles into the chip lead

($552,000) with a set.

Seat 1 Bazultra 120,000

St 2 sclop 219,000

Seat 3 Eurotje 84,000

St 4 poky85 232,000

Seat 5 dappadan777 188,000

St 6 lfmyst 87,000

Seat 7 GreenFaith 50,000

St 8 cllmbb 340,000

Seat 9 OleEinar 86,000

St 10 ThSqz 45,000

escalope

$225,000

callmebabe

$665,000

uHand 1

eaTure | pkr live

It's the tournament that everyone wanted to win, the frst ever

PKR Live main event, but who would conquer the fnal table?

The $75,000main evenT

Tcallmebabe was lookingunstoppable with around

half of the chips in play

enough to push callmebabe o 7 7.

The chipped up Irishman then slow

played a fopped two-pair to knock

alemyster out in seventh.Down to six and with the big money

in sight Eurotje shoved with K 10

rom the small blind but lost out to

pokey85 who was just about priced in

to call with his 7 8. OleEinar had

hung on in well but nally ell when

he ran K Q into callmebabes

Queens, who was looking unstoppable

with around hal o the chips in play.

Two tournament changing pots

bumped him out in ourth though

(see right). It was a great result or

dappadan777 and pokey85 as it

allowed them leap up the money

ladder. dappadan777 then shovedwith 6 6, but ran into escalopes

pocket Tens leaving pokey85 to ght

alone. The Swede didn't actor in the

power o 7-2 osuit, which rivered the

main event title or escalope! n

These key moments saw title

ortunes shited rom chipleader callmebabe to escalope

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KR Live was a great

estival a hundred

times as riendly as

your average poker

tournament with a

sense o un that was contagious right

rom the second the cards were dealt.

Looking back there were three key

moments that propelled me towards

the trophy. Early on I was sat with a

crazy super-aggressive Norwegian whohad a monstrous stack o chips. Hed

been blung the hell out o everybody.

No one at the table wanted to play

back at him because they knew hed

put their tournament on the line. I was

itching to play a big pot with him. I

knew he would pay me o big-time i

I hit so I called pre-fop with 3 4,

turned two-pair and called all-in against

a gutshot to rake in a 77,000 pot when

the average stack was 10,300!

The other two monster pots wereagainst callmebabe in the dying throes

o the nal table (see let). In hand

one Id made my second consecutive

raise rom the button, which caused

callmebabe to reach or the big chips

and commit himsel to the pot. I elt he

could be making that move with any

two cards and that my tens were good.

I had him marginally covered ater that.

callmebabe wanted his chips back

and I thought that might orce him

into a mistake, which was hal thereason I fatted with my A 10, the

$75,000 main event1st escalope $20,000

2nd pokey85 $12,000

3rd dappadan77 $8,500

4th callmebabe $6,500

5th OleEinar $5,250

6th Eurotje $4,250

7th alfemyster $3,250

8th Bazultra $2,500

9th GreenFaith $1,850

10th TheSqueeze $1,400

Blinds $8,000/$16,000 ($1,000)

Callmebabe has managed to

get his stack up to around

$500,000 just behind

escalope. Dappadan and pokey85

are both hanging on behind them.

callmebabe raises to $50,000 rom

the small blind and is called by

escalope in the big blind. The pot is

now a large $104,000.

Flop A 85

callmebabe leads out $75,000 intothe pot with second pair. escalope

thinks or a little while and raises

to $190,000, leaving himsel just

over $300,000 behind. callmebabe

decides to move in or around

$500,000. escalope has a short dwell

up beore making the call with top

pair and a middling kicker. Its a

good call and hes 81.62% avourite

to win the hand. Running tens

give escalope the ull house and

a dominating chip lead that prettymuch guarantees the victory.

escalope

$550,000

callmebabe

$500,000

uHand 2

How the tournament was won in the champ's own words

Phil escalope Conneller

other being I didnt want him coming

back over the top o me again! When

he shoved the fop it elt he was just

trying to hammer me out o the pot

again. Also i he put me on an ace, it

was unlikely to be that good as I hadnt

re-raised pre-fop. Combined with a

slight tell I spotted, I decided to call.

That pot gave me a dominating chip

lead so when I saw 7 2 I elt my

moment o destiny had arrived. Ivealways wanted to win a tournament

with the worst hand in poker and

was lucky to receive a runner-runner

The Winner:LiVePKR

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straight. Any two cards heads up, right?

What will I do with the money? Im

reminded o the time Thor Hansen

won a million dollars and was asked

this same, inevitable question. Pay o

some creditors, came the reply. Yes,

but what about the rest? pressed the

reporter. Oh, Ill just tell them theyll

have to wait, explained Thor.

So yes, Ive got plenty o debts to pay

o but Ill still be donating a lot back

into PKR. Now that Ive met everyonethe pleasure will be all mine.n

I called all-in to rake a77,000 pot when the chip

average was 10,300!

The finaL TabLe


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01Go to VegasIts bright, gaudy and really

should have a sign saying

'Welcome to the Adult

Disneyland'. Las Vegas is the

worlds capital of gambling

and the home place of poker.

Love it or have it (and we

think youll love it) you have

to visit Sin City at least once

in your life. Card rooms

cater for every level from$1/$2 up to the Big Games

$300/$600 action. Keep

your eyes peeled for Vegas

guides in future issues of

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30

poker thingsto do beforeyou die

Poker is about more than the money, it's about experiences andambitions so make sure that you tick off all 30 before you're done

eature | the to do list

03Play limit pokerSom sy is dll, ohs sy h is

pok is mos p. Yo my b

miskn o hinking h limi is no-

limi's poo liv b pos-fop ply

css pos o swll hnd hnd.

I yo cn b limi pok, yo whol

gm will impov. i p limi bl

nd mk p yo own mind. u

Okay, this is not a good play or the

act that youve actually seen a fop

with the worst hand in poker. But i

you can pull o a successul blu with

the hammer and show it theres no

move that will be beyond you. Or you

can win PKR LIve with it like escalope!

02Check raise all-in with 7-2 offsuit

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22stacked

09Paint your aceI youve ever sat in ront o your

computer trying to make your

avatar look like a mini-you then

help is at hand. For 15,000 points

PKR bofns will use state-o-the-

art 3D modelling gizmos to put

your ace into the game. Check

the PKR shop or urther details.

10Learn to rieDos ifing hlp yo to pt

somon on hnd? No. Dos

knowing chip tick mk yo

mo likly to hit yo dw? No.

Wht thy do is mk yo look

lik yo comotbl t th tbl

nd, wll, littl cool. Pctic

so yo dont spill yo chips.

07Play or 24 hoursRead an interview with any o the pro players, particularly the old

school ones, and youll come across a story about them playing or

two days straight because theyd ound a tasty game. While we dont

encourage sleep deprivation per se, playing or 24 hours straight is

a medal that should be worn with pride as long as you continue to

make good decisions. Test your skills when your eyes are tired and

your brain is whirring and youll learn a lot about your limits.

08Beat the credit crunch

Th wold conomy hs bn ockdby cssions nd thts o globl

mltdown. Th pok conomy, on

th oth hnd, is still booming. Invst

t th tbls nd bt th mkts!

eaTure | the to do list

05Organise a home gameMix som stong dinks with copl

o tsty donks o th pct homgm cip! I yo plying with

inds st stks tht vyon is

comotbl with s yo dont wnt

bd blood dvloping nncssily.

04Have a ridiculousproposition betThis isnt pok thing to do

xctly bt plys lov th

ction. Whth it's gol bt o

cing with box on yo hd,

mbc th pop chllng!

06Pretend to be a fshYouve seen the flms where

the hustler arrives at a new

town and the locals lip theirlips in anticipation but end

up being the ones with

empty pockets. Its a little

bit naughty, its defnitely

old school, but i you can

pull o a little bit o acting

your session will be not only

proftable but a lot o un!


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13Call a huge pot withAce-high and winThere are times that a hand just

doesnt make sense, your opponent

has made a huge bet on the river and

you just know that your Ace-high is

ahead, but you cant call. Or can you?Even i youre sometimes wrong you

have to ollow your read. Turn the

Ace, scoop the pot and then dance

round your room like a hillbilly drunk

on moonshine.

15Introduce your riendsGet your riends and colleagues

into poker. Were not talking

about making them into 24/7

grinders but at least they'll be

able to understand your emotional

ups and downs. Make some easymoney by signing them up via

www.PKR.com/poker-community.

14Lay down pocketKings pre-fopOkay, were not recommending

that you do this just or the sake

o it, anyone can click the old

button ater all, but have you

ever been assured that your

Kings are behind and passed

your hand (and been proved

right)? Following a read can

be hard but i you have the

conviction to drop a monster

youll go ar. Just as long as you

don't do it too oten...

17Play in the World SeriesThe World Series o Poker (WSOP) is the highlight o the poker calendar. Each

year thousands o players compete or lie-changing amounts o money andtheir place in history. The Main Event, aka the Big One, is the centrepiece o

the two-month long estival where this year's winner beat 6,843 runners to

claim $9.15m! You can pick up WSOP packages or ree on PKR (check out

www.pkr.com/poker-promotions). And there's always the APT and GUKPT...

16Play somewhere

ludicrously exoticVegas? Monaco? Pah! Atleast once in your lie you

have to play somewhere

truly stunning. Shufe up

at the Everest base camp,

the Playboy mansion, an ice

hotel or on top o an ancient

Khymer temple. Next time

some 21-year old online pro

is chewing your ear o about

crushing the $5/$10 game

ask them when they lastplayed on a nuclear sub!

11Take a shotBankroll management is one o the

most important tenets o poker but

sometimes its correct to take a

step up to boost your bankroll and

strengthen your game. I you eel that

youve been playing your A-game and

have no work/personal stress hanging

over you it could be time to step up a

level. Give yoursel a limit, maybe one

or two buy-ins, and dont change it no

matter how things go. Give yoursel

a target and sit-out when youve hit

it. You can always return later with

the locked in proft and try to spin it

up urther. Whatever you do, don't

change your withdrawal policy!

12Get your ace instacked

We admit up ront that were

blowing our own trumpet but

one o your poker ambitions

should be to get yoursel

instacked. Crushing

the tables or being a orum

loudmouth both work well.

REnMAnSI,RO

BERTOASAnchEz,EMRAhTURUdU,LAURAcAdEnA

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eature | the to do list

23Build the ultimatepoker padInvs in dcn chi, g

comp s-p nd lxing

sonding om which yo cn

lnch yo w pon h PKr

bls. Bl/mid/psonl

ssisn is opionl o blls.

24Splash the cash

Buy something with your pokerwinnings; it might be a car, a

computer or a large bottle o

beer, depending on your stakes.

Although your aim should be to

build up a solid bankroll youve

got to enjoy the ruits o your

labour every so oten. Believe

us, having a drink on behal o

someone you've outplayed is

more thirst quenching than a cold

bottle o Lucozade in the Sahara.

18Play Strip pokerI migh b h s o ng

boys dms b sip pok is,

qi nkly, hilios whv

g yo migh b. W no

ncoging sxl pofigly

b yo shold ply o h shi

o yo bck ls onc!

21Go on a poker getaway

ang wknd wy wih pok

pls in som fng con o h

wold. Mos conis hv bdock

o pok (nonly w cn n

PKr Liv vy wk) nd i yo go

wih inds hn yo wins nd losss

lmos bcom scondy nywy.

ag h 30%-50% o onmn

winnings g spli mong h py

o spn h b!

19Send Phil Hellmuth on

tilt and become a heroAll poker players have egos butsome take the concept o ego

to a whole new level, think Phil

Hellmuth. Knock out a big mouth

pro and earn your stripes at the

table. Any household name will do

but Phil gets you double points!

22Learn yourodds inside outA good poker player needs

many qualities but knowing

your odds is essential. How

many outs do you have or a

fush draw? And how oten

do you hit? I you dont know

its time to get reading. Its 9

outs and 35%, by the way.

20Be the tournamentplayer of the weekPKr Commniy mng

Dnski picks his cop o h bs

onmn plys vy wk.

Chck h livly pok blog vy

wk www.PKr.com.


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25Get your SharkScopeback into the blackYou dont learn how to play poker

overnight, well, most people dont

anyway. That means that the road

to becoming a winning poker player

isnt always a smooth one. Check

your www.sharkscope.com graph

and check out your progress. If you're

down focus on grinding yourself back

into the black and then kick on up.

27Play on televisionPop artist Andy Warhol once said

that everyone would be world-

amous or 15 minutes. Grab your

slice o the limelight by playing

poker on TV. All you need to do is

make the nal table o a major live

tournament or stump up $100,000

to play on a show like High StakesPoker. I you eel thats a step too

ar then why not start by making

the nal table o the nightly $100

TV Tournament on PKR. Watch all

the action at www.PKR.tv.

30Watch TV ProgrammeHigh Stakes PokerIf you like poker, and you do, then

High Stakes Poker simply cannot bemissed. Old school meets new school

over million dollar pots. Check out the

action at www.pokertube.com (and

www.PKR.tv while you're at it).

29Win a tournamentwithout lookingWSOPE winner Annette

Obrestad won a 180-man online

tournament without looking at

her cards by using position and

stack size. Stick a post-it note

over your cards and play it blind!

26Make the PKRMasters fnal tableThe $100,000 guaranteed

monthly Masters is the

fagship tournament at PKR

and you can satellite into

the $250 event or as little

as, well, nothing! Make the

nal table and you'll pick up

a our-gure score, take it

down and bag some $30,000.

28Master the three

disciplines o pokerWhich out o cash games, sit-

and-gos or tournaments is your

weak point? Spend some time

reading about that side o the

game and work on the weakest

aspects. A solid player should

be able to hold their own in all

the disciplines o the game.

PAulPIEbIngA,PAlIRAO

,SEbASTIEnCOTE,MARKEvAnS,vIORIKAPRIKHOdKO,CHRISTIAnFRIESS


24/62

The November Nine sit

down 117 days after Dean Hamrick

was knocked out in tenth place

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2008 WSOPMain EvEnt:TheFinalTable117 days ater making the biggest fnal table o their livesthe November Nine returned to the Rio to do battle

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ver since Harrah's announced thedelay to this year's Main Eventfnal table, a ferce debate hasraged and is still raging acrossthe poker world. Is it good orthe game? Will it be scrapped,

or will Harrah's stick to the same ormat in 2009?For the November Nine themselves though, the

act remains that they are now more amous (andslightly more rich) than they would have been i thetournament had played out as normal.And, back on July 14, when Dean Hamrick bust

out in 10th position to become the biggest bubbleboy in the history o poker, nine players embarkedon a 117 day break that fnally came to an endat 11.08am on November 9 inside the Penn &

Teller Theatre at The Rio in Las Vegas. With ESPNcameras rolling and a huge crowd that peaked at a

capacity o over 1,000 players, including a lot o thegame's biggest names and 300 identically dressedDennis Phillips' supporters, Harrah's had defnitelysucceeded in creating a proessional spectacle. Onethat was set to be replayed on small screens in theUS a couple o days later, and the UK a couple odays ater that.

All change

Phillips, the man with the most support had also

had to live with the weight o being the chip leaderor the past ew months, and it all went disastrously

wrong or him and his entourage (all sportingPhillipesque white Broadway Trucking shirts and St.Louis Cardinals hats) early on. On hand number 16he lost his frst ew million in a pot with Ylon u

EThe november nine

Dennis Phillips

From USA

Chips 26,295,000

Craig Marquis

From USA

Chips 10,210,000

Ylon Schwartz

From USA

Chips 12,525,000

Scott Montgomery

From Canada

Chips 19,690,000

Darus Suharto

From Canada

Chips 12,520,000

'Chino' Rheem

From USA

Chips 10,230,000

Ivan Demidov

From Russia

Chips 24,400,000

Kelly Kim

From USA

Chips 2,620,000

Peter Eastgate

From Dnmark

Chips 18,375,000

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6

7

8

9

4

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NOVEMBER NINE: Why fortune favours the brave

Ylon Schwartz crashed

out in fourth with a mistimed

bluff Eastgate had a full house

With 136,900,000 chips in

play and $32,731,625 inprize money, the equity

that each player held going into

fnal table is shown in the middle

column. Compare this to the actual

amount that each actually took

home and you've got, in a nutshell,

the story o the fnal table. The bigwinners were Ivan Demidov and

Peter Eastgate, who were playing

to win. Kelly Kim might have gone

home with more money than he was

expecting but he actually lost equity

because he reused to take a shot,

and the same could be said aboutDarus Suharto. The other losers

Scott Montgomery, David Rheem

and Craig Marquis had all played

bravely but got horribly unlucky at

the crucial moments.

Schwartz, handing the chip lead to Ivan Demidov, but

worse was just around the corner. Two hands later Phillips

limped in under the gun with A-K and the table olded

round to Demidov on the button. The Russian raised it up to

1,025,000 with A-Q and Phillips re-raised to 3.525 million.

Demidov started muttering to himsel beore re-reraising to

8.225 million. Riing and barely betraying any emotion,

Phillips made the call.

On a op o 8-10-J and a massive pot o 17.26 million

in the middle, Phillips bet out 4.5 million, leaving himsel

just under nine million behind. Demidov announced he was

all-in and Phillips olded. From being chip leader, with over

28stacked

26 million chips and dreams o a bracelet and a place in the

history books, Phillips had now dropped down to 8th, with

only the perennial short-stack Kelly Kim sitting underneath

him. By contrast, Demidov, the Russian who only just missed

out on the WSOPE Main Event title fnishing third, was the

runaway chip leader with 35,875,000. His nearest rival, Peter

Eastgate, had just under 20 million. Kim, despite promises o

doubling and trebling-up early on, was sitting quietly in the

hope o moving up the cash ladder. It looked very dierent

when he raised on the very frst hand, taking the blinds and

antes, but this wasn't the sign o aggression to come. He'd

actually picked up Aces and then he didn't volunteer any

Peter Eastgate $9,152,416 $4,136,940 +$5,015,476

Ivn Dmidov $5,809,595 $4,675,920 +$1,133,657

Dennis Phillips $4,517,773 $4,823,325 -$305,552

Ylon Schwz $3,774,974 $3,465,977 +$308,997

Scott Montgomery $3,096,768 $4,265,250 +$1,168,482

Ds Sho $2,418,562 $3,465,317 -$1,046,755

David Rheem $1,772,650 $3,142,752 -$1,370,102

Klly Kim $1,288,217 $1,616,400 -$328,183

Craig Marquis $900,670 $3,139,741 -$2,239,071

Amount won Starting Equity Performance

feature |wsop 2008


27/62

more money into a pot until hand 35 when he managed to

double up his short stack with Kings. At the start o that hand

his stack was 720,000 and he'd already invested 340,000 by

putting the ante and big blind in.

His tactics worked though when Craig Marquis became

the rst person out, and the only person to receive no extra

money on top o the ninth placed cash he'd already received.It happened in the cruellest ashion possible. With the

blinds at 200,000/400,000/50,000, Marquis open-shoved

or his remaining chips almost ve million o them. Scott

Montgomery called and ound himsel in a race with his

A-Q against Marquis' 7-7. The fop o 10-A-7 let

Marquis thinking the hand was over and Montgomery looking

or runner-runner cards, which turned up with the J and K.

In his bust-out interview Marquis said he was looking or

the win, and didn't care about moving up the cash payout

ladder Just as well because Kelly Kim ollowed him to the

rail the very next hand, when he committed his last 150,000

to the big blind he'd already posted. By sitting on his hands,Kim, who had obviously long given up on winning the WSOP,

pocketed an extra $387,547.

Marquis wasn't the only unlucky exit. David 'Chino' Rheem

went out next when his A-K lost to Peter Eastgate's A-Q. And,

ater Darus Suharto ell in sixth, Scott Montgomery was the

next to eel the orce o the poker god's wrath. All-in with

A-3, he made trips on the turn, leaving Peter Eastgate

drawing to the nal remaining six ater Dennis Phillips revealed

he'd olded the other. Eastgate hit and Montgomery let with

just over $3 million in bad-beat compensation.

With our let it was looking increasingly like a two-horse

race. With Montgomery out, Ivan Demidov (the young Russian

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agIng,

JoegIron/2008,

ImpdI

so who is Peter

Eastgate? Well

at 22 years old,

as well as being the

youngest Main Event

champion in history,

he's also just become

the second-biggest

WSOP money winner of

all time behind Jamie

Gold. He's from Odense

in Denmark and was

still a Danish citizenat the time of winning

ninth-place money back

in July. Since that time

he's made the prudent

decision to move to

London where he's

allowed to keep his

winnings tax-free.

We spoke to him

shortly after his victory

You could be playingfor millions at the

WSOP for free

and asked him what it

felt like to be the new

world champ. 'It feels

incredible, especially

since Ive broken Phil

Hellmuths record as the

youngest player to win

the Main Event,' said

Eastgate. 'But, truthfully,

I wasnt focusing on the

record. I was focusing

on the game and on

playing heads-up. Achampionship was on the

line.' He's also planning

on taking his parents on

a long vacation. 'I want

to treat them as I have

always treated them

with love and respect.'

With over $9 million, they

might well be expecting

all that and a little more.

Eastgate had become the youngestchampion of all time, beating Phil

Hellmuth's record by two years

who nished third in this year's WSOPE Main Event) andPeter Eastgate were almost neck-and-neck with 49,100,000

and 47,625,000 stacks respectively. Schwartz and Phillips had

hal as many chips and couldn't get any momentum going.

Schwartz ell in ourth, and Phillips in third, and play was

suspended again with Demidov and Eastgate set to return the

next day to duel or the title.

Danish bacon

Heads-up, Demidov wrested the chip lead rom Eastgate

briefy, but it seemed that Eastgate was never destined to lose.

Every time Demidov blued, Eastgate had something, and

ater moving into a 6-1 chip lead, it was nally over ater 274hands. It was tough on Demidov, who turned two-pair only

to nd that Eastgate had made the wheel. At 15 hours and 39

minutes, it was the longest WSOP Main Event nal table o all

time, and ttingly Peter Eastgate had just become the youngest

champion o all time, beating Phil Hellmuth's record by nearly

two years, and pocketing $9,152,416 or his eorts.

$9mwinnerPeter Eastgate, 22

The drinks

are on you, Pete!


28/62

30stacked

stackedBeing young and

having the cash tables at your nger

tips it must be hard to drag yoursel

out o bed in the morning?

Kyle: Yah, it i. My day uually tart

with m tryin to t up bor 2pm

and makin o bor in i

thr ar any rally ood am on

PKR. I Im not rady to jump traiht

in Ill o and rab om brakat,

wath TV or han out with my

houmat bor puttin myl ona w waitin lit. I tnd to play or a

w hour thn ithr had to th ym

or party with whovr i around bor

puttin in anothr lat niht ion.

So who are your housemates? Are

they players or grounding infuences?

I liv with my two bt rind. On

i a vry ood playr and quit wll

known on PKR, th othr ha a rular

job and probably know mor about

advand pokr thory than anyon

l who ha playd l than 100hand in thir litim. H alo ot

to b rankd top tn in th world o

popl who hat pokr jaron, dpit

bin abl to tll you th raon

bhind turnin a mad hand into a

blu on latr trt to rat a non-

polarid rivr bttin ran!

Whats the current favour o your

regular table action?

Iv bn playin almot our yar

now and Id ay that Id bn playin

mi-riouly or th lat thr o

thm. At th momnt I try to play

th bt am btwn $2/$4 and

$10/$20 no-limit, but I do fnd playin

hihr mor un o I uppo it miht

b airr to ay that I motly play at th

$5/$10 and $10/$20 tabl.

Twenty-two year old Kyle Macpherson, aka zomgchiprife, has

become one o the most eared short-handed No-Limit Holdem

cash game players on PKR, despite the act that he chooses to

dress as a emale superhero. Not araid to get involved in erce pre-fop

action, zomgchiprife loves to pile the pressure onto his opponents to

ensure that he gets paid o with his monster hands. In one $6,264 pot on

the $10/$20 tables he managed to get ellow high stakes player kicko to

put in $701 pre-fop and his remaining $2,432 on a 3 4 K fop. kicko

held pocket Tens. zomgchiprife was sitting pretty with top set.

Not only has zomgchiprife got mean cash game

skills but hes also managed to nal table in the PKR

Masters or $4,000 as well as cashing in a number olive UK tournaments, including a 2nd place showing in

the 200 event at the European Poker Championships

(4,660) and a 17th place nish in the 1,000 Manchester

GUKPT (2,320). Oh my God, indeed.

PKR_jabba

There are a number o young players busting up PKRs high

stakes cash games and this chip rifer is among the best o them

Meetinga Cash King

Q&Azomgchiprife

zoMgChipriffle

Name Kyl MaphronLocation Dlamr, UK

Age 22

Joined PKR Otobr 2007

cA$H sTRATegY | player focus

CA$H


29/62

Your decisions on the river

can make or break you as a

player. Blocking bets with

weak holdings can save you a lot

o heartache, unless someone

has spotted your tendencies, but

checking out o position to induce

a blu can make you even more

cash, especially in short-handed

games. Zomgchiprie shows a

world class in this hand. gustoman

raises to $35 on the button with a

raggy 9 3. zomgchiprie is well

aware that the button is going to be

opening wide and reraises to $134

rom the small blind. gustoman

isnt ready to relinquish his position

and at calls to see the op.

F AQ Jzomgchiprie represents that hes

hit the op and bets $218 into the

$278 pot. gustoman calls with his

ush draw. Interestingly enough

gustoman is a slight avourite to

win the hand at this point.

Tr AQ JAThe second Ace slows the hand

right down and zomgchiprie

checks. gustoman happily takesa ree card to draw to his ush.

Rvr AQ JA7The river brings an innocuous 7.

zomgchiprie thinks that his hand,

Aces and Sevens, may be good. A

blocking bet is only getting called

by a better hand, and could be

raised by a blu, which would be

a disaster. zomgchiprie checks

and allows gustoman to blu $400

into the $714 pot. Knowing that a

lot o hands will check behind he

reasons that gustoman must be

at the top or bottom o his range.

Given the betting action he makes

a tough call to win $1,514.

zomgchiprife

$1027

gustoman

$1000

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Who do you eel is your biggest

competition at the PKR tables?

I would hv to s Shrms nd

jrod r m bist chlln,

thouh th dont sm to pl

much nmor. It ws n honour to

pl with thm. Com bck soon,

us! RCHLFRMFRNDS is th most

ntrtinin pokr plr worldwid

but CTS is th bst I hv vr pld.

Iv nvr rll wtchd pokr on TV

so I dont hv vourit bi nm

plr, but i I hd to choos on it

would probbl b Phil Iv bcus

vron lovs sicko.

What annoys you at the tables?

H, ood qustion! Short stckrs nd

nits ruinin ms ts m but not smuch s bum huntrs, popl who

sit hds up but onl, nd I do mn

onl, pl popl th prciv to b

hu fsh. Slihtl lss nnoin r

th popl who sit t m tbls to tlk

trsh t m but wont pl. I our

oin to bus m t lst click th

uto post blind button.

So what have you done

with your cash winnings?

Bought a ootball club

or fne art?Hmmm, wll I

driv Mrcds

t th momnt

nd I lik wtchs,

but nowds m

most xpnsiv hbit

is burnin mon in

th mrin mrkts.

Thnks, Brzil!

When youre not throwing

money at the BRIC (Brazil,

Russia, India and China)

markets do you get to play

much live poker?

Iv pld som No-Limit

Holdm vnts t th World

Sris or th lst two rs

nd Im workin hrd on

m pot-limit Omh m or nxt

summr. Im so du! I lso pl som

o th bir UK tournis nd whn I

do pl csh its rouhl or th sm

stks s onlin, but ms pl littl

bir bcus ou cn bu-in dpr.

Whats been the biggest highlight o

your poker career so ar?

I wouldnt s it ws strictl pokr

xprinc, but spndin th lst two

summrs prtin, hnin out nd

mblin with bunch o m bst

rinds in m vourit town in th

world (Ls Vs) is n opportunit I

would nvr hv hd without pokr,

nd I would s tht ovrshdows

n prticulr pots or hnds tht Iv

vr pld. Hrs to w mor.

keeping AFloATp32-35

Flotin is dnsiv tctictht llows ou to bsorb our

opponnts rssion nd

turn it inst thm. Lv

thm in dp wtr.

on The buTTonp36-39

Its postion tht mksou th most mon nd it

dosnt t bttr thn th

button. Hrs uid to

mximisin our tim thr.

PHOTOgRaPHy:RICHaRD

SIMPKINS,RaMIBeN

aMI

Induce the bluff or block?Allowing other players to blu the river can be proftable


30/62

32stacked

ca$h strategy | flop play

Sink your opponents aggression with the latest line in

deensive technology - introducing the foat play

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32/62

ca$h strategy | flop play

Youre playing in a tasty cash

game and holding your

own, but every

chip you win seems

to nd its way to

the player to your

let. Whenever you

check the fop, he

bets, and whenever

you bet the fop and

check the turn, he bets.

It should be simple to

spot that you might be being

foated. The rst thing to do is

to stay calm. All poker players

have egos but letting yours get

dented just because this foater

How do you combat a player that you suspect is foating?

Giving yourself a lifeline

thinks youre easy pickings is only

going to get you in trouble. Adjust,

adapt and improve your game.

Youll have to start mixing your

continuation-bet requencies

with more check-raising

on the fop and turn. The

check-raise on the turn

is more protable but

more risky as youll be

committing more chips.

Dont play back against

really good players out o

position. Theres no shame

in moving table, having a good

player sat with position on you is

not healthy or your bankroll!

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DeeJpIlot,Darren

BrooK,rIcharDsIMpKIns


33/62

Youre playing in a short-handed $2/$4 No-Limit Holdem game with

a group o players that youve crossed swords with many times

beore. Theres one player in particular that you keep clashing with,

lets call him The_Enemy. You know him to be a solid player that can muck

a hand. Your image is clean and the two o you have stacked each other a

couple o times with sets versus overpairs and A-K versus 10-10 pre-op.

Youre both around $1,000 deep when you raise to $14 rom the cut-o

with J 10. The button a weak-passive fsh calls but The_Enemy three-

bets to $45 the big blind (with pocket Jacks). Because o your position and

the deep stacks that you both have, you elect to call as does the button.

nIts not a great op or your hand, with only gutshot and backdoor ush

draws to work with. As expected The_Enemy makes a continuation-bet o

$85 around two-thirds o the pot. You could throw your hand away here,but frst take a moment to consider all the actors. First, the at-call rom

the player on the button means The_Enemy is going to squeeze lighter

as the weak call is an invitation to scoop some dead money. This in turn

means The_Enemys c-betting range is weaker than normal, making him

more susceptible to a oat. And i you hit a Queen then its all the better!

nThe range o hands that youre calling with on the op includes top pair,

sets, air and 7-8 or a straight draw, probably weighted in that order. Given

that the turn completes the primary draw (the straight with 7-8 or J-Q) and

theres an overcard to his pair. The_Enemy checks. This is what you were

aiming or by oating so dont bottle it now. You bet $210, he olds his

pocket pair and you pick up a $305 pot with by ar the worst hand.

Deep stacks and good analysis can win you some big pots

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The_eNeMY You Flop

The_eNeMY You

77.4% 21.4%

86.4% 4.6%

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CA$H strAtegy | playing position

Th buon i ou bad and

bu in No-Limi Holdm. tho

wi wod, om Dol Bunon

no l, don all com clo o

dcibin ju how impoan poiion

i in Holdm. On i mo impoan

han ou cad, bcau bin h la

pon o ac iv ou a lo o pow.

tha wh ou hould ak advana o

havin h buon a much a poibl.

In ac, i ou pla a lo o Holdm,

pciall on ix-max abl, a dcn

chunk o ou pof will com om h

buon i h don ou pobabl no

plain ou poiion onl nouh.

In hi aicl w oin o naow h

ocu and alk mol abou xploiin

h blind whn h acion i oldd o

ou. No ma how wll-known alin

om h buon bcom i will alwa

main a valid winnin pla in Holdm.

raiin om h buon mak pc

mahmaical and aic n o a

coupl o aon. Fi, h dad

36stacked

Its a simple fact that youll make most of your money

when youre in position. And it doesnt come any betterthan when youre on the button...

push thebutton

You should open-raise a lotof pots from the button. In

fact, you should play more

hands from the button than

any other seat

mon in h po in h om o h blind

(and omim an i ou alkin

ounamn), o aiin om h buon

inanl iv ou a ood chanc o

coopin h po. scond, h a

onl wo mainin pla in h po

bwn ou and h dad mon; mo

on han no wih wo andom hand

(and bin ou o poiion o h o

h hand) h blind will no b abl o

coninu in h hand.

Pu all h bi o inomaion

oh and wha i man i ha ou

hould opn-ai a lo o po om h

buon. In ac, ou hould pla mo

hand om h buon han an oh

a a h abl. Ju how man hand


35/62

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Words:NiCkWeAltHAll,pHotogrApHy:rAmibeNAmi,ClAusmikosCH

Finding yoursel in the blinds

acing a button raise, your

approach will depend on the

player on the button and, o course,

the two hole cards that you have

tucked away.

Calling is usually

a poor option

rom the blinds

as you hand the

initiative away

and must play the

rest o the hand

out o position. The

exception to this is stop-

and-go strategies, but they should

The best defence is a good offence as long as you have the courage to play out of position

When to play back from the blinds

only really be used when short-

stacked and moving in on the fop

is possible, otherwise it will

be too easy or the button

to exploit.

In a ull-stacked cash

game its oten better

to re-raise or old.

How oten and

with what range

you re-raise depends

on how oten the button

is raising; the more oten the

button raises, the more you can

resteal. As a deault you might

consider re-raising with K-Q+ and

u pla huld b dcad b h am

cndn a h m and, pcfcall,

b h pla n h blnd. t a a

mpl xampl, u w uaand

h blnd wuld nv v pla whn

u ad, hn u wuld a v

nl m. obvul, h unll b

h ca, bu u wll a m abl

wh h blnd wll nl pla whn dal

a pmum hand, n whch ca u culd

pn-a m h bun wh a v

wd an pbabl vhn xcp

cmpl ah. yu huld p dn

h unl h pla n h blnd v u

a an n , b whch m ull hav

cpd m han nuh blnd.

Calling stationsi u fnd ul acn pla ha

call a much, u abl al

cd. yu nd pla hand whch

hav m valu, huh h an can

ll b wd a u wll ll hav h upp

hand pn. yu can al a wha wd an u l u ppnn

pla pdcabl and u hn u a

b pla han hm. on wd

wann h, b alc abu u wn

abl! in h +eV uan u mh

pn h p wh anhn whch ha

m valu all Ac, ud kn,u

8-8+, but this range could be widened

against a perennial stealer, especially

i they rarely carry on ater your

re-raise. This line probably

shouldnt vary too much

between the blinds.

You should also be

prepared to blu and

sometimes re-raise with

trash i the button is

raising with 40% o his hands

then he will have to old a lot o

the time. How oten you make this play

will depend on the button; i he never

adjusts to being three-bet and keeps

olding, you can keep restealing.


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CA$H strAtegy | playing position

Against poorer playersa minimum check-raise

should raise a red fag as

theyre oten trying to get

paid with a strong hand

buon whn h a hih liklihood o

ha happnin. you can aod o kp

aiin wih a lo o hand ha oull hav

o how awa i -aid a oull lak

a lo o mon.

Whn ou ai om h buon and

-aid, o h-b a i on

calld, ou hav a numb o acion.

How ou pond will b dpndn

upon h pla doin h aiin. Manpla will onl mak hi mov wih a

pmium hand and om will onl do i

Shifting your opening range

according to the blinds is key

to winning from the button

On theopen

range

t conncin cad and o on. Fo

pcic aiin an chck ou h

opnin an ha hav bn mappd

ou abov ( On h opn an).

Tighten upth ouh po p-fop on h buon

i whn ou hav pla in h blind

who a likl o pla back a ou. tha

i o a, h -ai and poiblal, whn ouv iniiall aid. In

nal oull hav o pla ih on h

wih xm nh, pin o call

wih hand lik 10-10 and A-Q. Howv

h a alo a lo o aiv pla

aound who will -ai wih a wid

an vn ah hand a a blu

bcau h a awa ou a alin

and oull hav o muck a lo o h im.

so how hould ou pond whn

-aid b h blind? Nomall, i ou

hav a hand ha inicanl wohan h an o hand h pla in h

blind would ai wih, ou hould ju

old. Fo xampl, ou opn-ai om

h buon wih A 4 and h mall

blind, who pla a ih-aiv am,

-ai; in hi po ou hould nomall

Raising range

Folding range

AA AKs AQs AJs ATs A9s A8s A7s A6s A5s A4s A3s A2s

AKo KK KQs KJs KTs K9s K8s K7s K6s K5s K4s K3s K2s

AQo KQo QQ QJs QTs Q9s Q8s Q7s Q6s Q5s Q4s Q3s Q2s

AJo KJo QJo JJ JTs J9s J8s J7s J6s J5s J4s J3s J2s

ATo KTo QTo JTo TT T9s T8s T7s T6s T5s T4s T3s T2s

A9o K9o Q9o J9o T9o 99 98s 97s 96s 95s 94s 93s 92s

A8o K8o Q8o J8o T8o 98o 88 87s 86s 85s 84s 83s 82s

A7o K7o Q7o J7o T7o 97o 87o 77 76s 75s 74s 73s 72s

A6o K6o Q6o J6o T6o 96o 86o 76o 66 65s 64s 63s 62s

A5o K5o Q5o J5o T5o 95o 85o 75o 65o 55 54s 53s 52s

A4o K4o Q4o J4o T4o 94o 84o 74o 64o

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