English Community Round-up
Welcome to the news round-up for the English Community. Each week, we 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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Here in the Community Round-up, I like to include blogs from both new members and our more established members in equal measure. This week, I've gone for one of the latter of these and they don't come much more established than community member opal99.
You will no doubt be aware that opal99 has been grinding hard recently and has taken the PokerStrategy Top250 promotion by storm over the last couple of months, not only finishing top of the English community, but also cashing well in the overall (global) standings. All this poker has set opal99 well on course to achieve his dream of becoming a PokerStrategy Black Member sometime soon in the future. We all wish him continued success and best regards in his quest.
This week, our sample hand is taken from the Fixed Limit board and involves a tricky decision I'm sure we've all encountered at one time or other.
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0.25/0.5 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.67 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is UTG1 with 9
, 9
. MP1 posts a blind of $0.25.
Hero raises, 3 folds, MP3 calls, 4 folds.
Flop: (6.40 SB) T
, 3
, J
(2 players)
Hero bets, MP3 calls.
Turn: (4.20 BB) Q
(2 players)
Hero bets, MP3 raises, Hero folds.
Final Pot: 7.20 BB
Community member delete461 asks for a second opinion on whether it's worth calling on the turn with an OESD (Open Ended Straight Draw) as some of the cards that would help him would most likely also help the opponent.
Judge 
Primzi recommends the following:
"You have 3 outs for your 8's here (discount one because of the flush
draw), up to 1 out for the 9 and up to 3 outs for the Q. So you're
getting max. 7 outs here, but I'd discount at least 1 more because you
might not have the nut straight even if you hit, so you need 1:6.8 to
call with 6 outs, which you're getting. So it's a thin call on the turn
and re-evaluate on the river."
Are you unsure of the correct action on a hand and want a second opinion from one of our judges together with other experienced members views, post a hand in the Sample Hands Boards today.
A big warm welcome to all new community members this week.
Included amongst them is randomly chosen new community member of the
week raylondon who joined us on the 3rd of June. Welcome, it's good to see you.
We wish all our new community members every success and enjoyment with
your poker and look forward to seeing you active in the forums soon.
Don't hesitate to ask any questions you may have and/or share your
poker experiences, our members are really keen to help fellow
poker players whenever and wherever they can.
Our community amassed winnings of $ 2,029.30 this week.
Congratulations to all our winners/other performances, which included:
- wildbeans cashed in both Full Tilt Early Doubles;
- verre secured their first ever tournament win;
- mace90 won a NL 2-7 Single Draw event;
- ttt241 was runner up in a PLO tournament;
- Final tables for timukasr, themagpiespg & niveaformen.
Sorry I cannot name everyone each week, but I'll try to pick up a
selection of different people each time. Keep posting those wins in this thread, we're still short of our $1,000,000 target, but have broken the $400k mark with a current total of $412,087.47.
The following events were celebrated in the community this week:
- Many happy returns to both cardbender & dadude77 who celebrated birthdays last week;
- Forum spam monkey titles go to primzi & myself eaglestar88, after both surpassing their 1,000th forum posts this week (I've been called worse lol);
- Big congratulations to popular community members dragar and daphunk whose bankrolls has reached the $1,000 & $5,000 marks respectively. Nice going chaps;
- Congratulations to all those community members who qualified for and are attending the exclusive PokerStrategy Black Member Party in Hamburg this weekend, enjoy.
Have you recently achieved a landmark even that you would like to share with the community, use the feedback thread at the bottom of the page.
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The Spotlight is taking a week off and will return soon.
Special "Meet the Mods (Moderators)" interviews will also be taking place shortly and who knows, maybe even the Community Managers too. If you have a question you'd like put to the Mods or Rockers.... er I mean Head Admins, drop a reply on the feedback thread or send me a Community mailbox message.
Would you like to be interviewed yourself one week or maybe you'd like to
nominate a fellow member who you would like to know more about? Drop me
a reply in the feedback thread and maybe your wish will come true.
The thread that caught my eye this week is again from the Fun & Off-Topic board and was created by community member mishuq.
Smokers' lounge includes some of those awkward and/or embarrassing moments that members have had whilst smoking. Remember folks, smoking is bad for you and will seriously affect your health. Reading this thread however will just cause your sides to split, which probably isn't as bad.
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
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