PokerStrategy Community Round-up
Welcome to the news round-up for the English Community (#9). Each week, EagleStar88 will keep you in touch with some of the most important threads within the forum together with some of the fun posts, so that you never need to miss them.
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I just can't get over the quality of blogs that we have in the English Community and this weeks is another cracker. Don't believe me, well read it yourself and enjoy. 🙂
We've all been called a few names whilst at the tables, the vast majority of which I couldn't possibly reproduce here of course, but community member davinci5 was surprised to see himself referred to as a bot recently. Perhaps even more surprising is that his opponent still didn't seem convinced even after davinci5 started responding to him.
Apparantly, according to the opponent, it's not humanly possible to multi-table 16 tables at once...... quick, someone better warn Boku that it's not possible before he wins another $10,000 in under 2 weeks whilst 50 tabling.
Thread here for complete story.
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$0.05/$0.1 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with A
, A
.
CO posts deadblind, Hero calls $0.10, MP1 folds, MP2 raises to $0.5, MP3 folds, CO calls $0.40, BU folds, SB raises to $2(All-In), BB folds, Hero raises to $2.59, MP2 calls $1.05(All-In), CO calls $2.09.
Flop: ($8.83) 6
, 5, 3 (4 players)
Turn: ($8.83) 9 (4 players)
River: ($8.83) J
(4 players)
Final Pot: $8.83.
Results follow:
Hero shows a pair of aces (A A)
SB shows a pair of eights (8 8)
MP2 shows a pair of queens (Q Q)
CO shows a pair of eights (8 8)
Hero wins with a pair of aces (A A).
luxurious88 is going to start by playing sss and has promised to let us all know how they get on. We wish you and all new members the very best of luck and look forward to seeing you active in the forums shortly.
Our community amassed winnings of $ 3,592.22 this week.
Congratulations to all of our winners, which included:
- ovechkin91 has had a great run on $6 SnG's;
- wimsp broke their biggest cash personal best with a $147.24 5th place finish from a field of 3,591 players, many congrats;
- Multiple cashes recently for bakoy & alejandrosh amongst others.
Also a special mention to Hungarian community member toma101 who won the PokerStars SCOOP (Low) H.O.R.S.E tournament picking up $45,432 for his efforts. Many congrats from all of your English community comrades 🙂
and thanks also to wormboy77 for sharing this great news with us.
Spotlight on erptech, interviewed by eaglestar88.
PokerStrategy: Hi erptech thanks for agreeing to an interview for the community.
erptech: Hi.
PokerStrategy: Tell us a little bit about yourself?
erptech: My name is Mislav, I'm from Croatia. 25 years old, currently unemployed, taking a break from life, work, study, and girlfriends. Playing poker is part of my rehabilitation program. I'm a quiet laid back type of person but on weekends I become a fun loving party animal. 🙂
PokerStrategy: How did your nickname come about, does it have any special meaning?
erptech: Well, erptech was the name of my business that I started 3 years ago, so as I was all excited about it I used that name pretty much everywhere. But Earp is my nickname from.. erm always?.. and it basically comes from my last name.
PokerStrategy: Ah I see. How long have you been playing poker?
erptech: Exactly 1 year and 20 days.
First I was gambling on bwin casino, spinning roulette and slots. Then I saw poker link and somehow i wanted to try it out. When I tried it out it was more or less love at first click. Then I said that to my friend and he instantly sent me his TAF link :D. Ofc I was thrilled to get the $50.
PokerStrategy: Wow, happy 1 year and 20 days anniversary, lol "love at first click" I like it 🙂
How would you describe your poker style?
erptech: Agressive, with a dash of jump-to-conclusions-but-most-of-the-time-work-out-fine-thingy, type of style.
I play NL50, heavily overrolled. Although i should be on at least NL100 by now, I just can't deal with it yet.
PokerStrategy: Do you ever play any live events?
erptech: I played few sit n' go's in casino, but nothing big yet, however i plan to, very soon, maybe to participate in Croatian national league when it starts.
PokerStrategy: Nice, that would be cool. Can you remember what happened to the PokerStrategy $50? Did you lose it early on or is it still in your current bankroll somewhere?
erptech: That was pretty much a gift from pokerstrategy to some shark on nl100, can't really remember his name. :/
PokerStrategy: What has been your biggest success/achievement in poker so far?
erptech: Biggest tournament win $1,200, and my overall amassed sum of money that I find quite impressive for doing "no work".
PokerStrategy: Favourite poker pro?
erptech: Gus Hansen, because most of other pros say he is unpredictable, hard to read and are often feeling uncomfortable, afraid of playing against him.
PokerStrategy: If you had the opportunity of playing a final table with a selection of people of your choice, who would be seated there with you?
erptech: 1seednoir1, cardbender, hlynkinn, sidewalker, Jessica Alba, Charlise Theron, Scarlet Johansson, Eva Longoria, Catherine Zeta-Jones
PokerStrategy: Wow, some good looking talented people there, and the girls aren't bad either 😉
Is there anyone in particular from the community you'd like to give a shout out to?
erptech: that would be Sidewalker, who is currently working with me, helping me with finding my leaks.
PokerStrategy: Nice. I think I already know this, but what is/are your passion(s) outside of poker?
erptech: Music... :), DJing, but I can no longer financially justify spending night playing music comparing to poker. However me and my friend o/ Yuri o/ http://www.myspace.com/soundsofyuri are starting some projects with music production involved so we'll see where will that get us.
PokerStrategy: Cool, well i know that we are all grateful for the DJ'ing you did for PokerStrategy, was great fun.
Is there anything you would like to add or say to your fellow community members before we finish?
erptech: I want to announce that we will need some great players for next season of BOTD, to join team Judgernaut. We will organise a small series of tournaments for you to qualify. We need the best of the best of the best. Full staking included for skilled winners.
PokerStrategy: You heard it here first folks, keep an eye on the forum and be sure to say hi to erptech next time you see him. Many thanks for your time erptech, we all wish you continued success with your poker.
erptech: Thank you, good luck everyone.
Keep an eye out for two more possible private tournaments this weekend.
Saturday 11th April 2009
14:00 Eastern Time (U.S.)/19:00 (U.K.)/20:00 (CET)
Full details to be confirmed shortly
PokerStars
Sunday 12th April 2009
13:30 Eastern Time (U.S.)/18:30 (U.K.)/19:30 (CET)
Buy In: $5+0.50
Tournament ID: 153751544
Password: See forum
Please note that these are private tournaments set up by community members and not officially organised by PokerStrategy, but it's still a great way of meeting and getting to know fellow community members.
Good luck to all those taking part.
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Anagram it post was started by community member "Ace Fresh Johnnies", can you guess who that is yet? You might know him better as "D-Coys".As always, this is your Community page and whilst I try to browse most forum threads looking for points of interest, it's of course not possible to cover everything. So go on, drop me some suggestions and/or your thoughts on what you would like to appear in this Round-up news item in the following feedback thread.
