English Community Round-up
A blog from Sweden, an Australian takes over as the current "Freeroll King" and a major tournament in Spain. The global diversity of our community at its best is demonstrated once again this week.
Our
Community round-up is your weekly source for all that happens inside
the PokerStrategy forums. If you missed something last week and you
still want to be in touch with our community, here are some of the most
important posts.
Poker Blog of the Week
Wanted to highlight another well established blog from a well known and popular community member this week and an obvious choice is fongie's blog.
Like all of the PokerStrategy Coaches, fongie is always more than willing to help out fellow members with any questions and queries and equally keen to continuing developing his own game.
Sample Hand of the Week
The importance of knowing/identifying your opponents style of play is demonstrated by community member trooz's following Fixed Limit hand:
Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
$0.25/$0.5 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (10 handed)
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with J
, A
.
CO posts deadblind, 2 folds, Hero raises, 5 folds, BB 3-Bets, Hero calls.
Flop: (7.4 SB) T
, 5
, A (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls.
Turn: (4.7 BB) 6 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero calls.
River: (8.7 BB) 5 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero calls.
Final Pot: 12.7 BB.
trooz: "Not sure on this hand, I think I should have just checked behind on the river? Maybe b/f?"
Notes:
C/R turn, C/F river
C/R river pure bluff
3bet JTos Mp2
Judge ciRith: "Yes these notes are usefull. It shows that he is able to make unreasonable plays.
> C/R river pure bluff - that's what he did here so you have an easier call than without this note.
> 3bet JTos Mp2 - means that he is pretty loose preflop so you can expect him to have a weaker hand here.
So I like the hand as played. His line is either a monster or a bluff and for 12:1 it should be often enough a bluff."
New Community Member of the Week
A big warm welcome to all new community members this week.
Included amongst them is randomly chosen new community member of the
week sbguy who joined us on the 31st August. 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.
Performances of the Week
Some superb performances again this week, congratulations to all our winners/other performances, which included:
- aciddrop won one of the PokerStrategy freerolls on bet365 winning $450 and in so doing taking over as current "Freeroll King";
- anx1ety1223 outlasted the majority of a large field in Full Tilt's $50k (Sng Madness) Freeroll, cashing a nice $35;
- Multiple cashes for both diegofueng & adzi;
- Special mention to Swedish Moderator and long time friend of the English Community sidewalker who won a $10k Guaranteed tournament swiftly followed by a $17.5k Guaranteed tournament on the same day. Many many congulations sidewalker from us all.
Highlights for the year so far
| Largest single cash: | $3,320.00 | |
| Largest overall winnings: | $6,565.00 | |
| Freeroll King/Queen: | aciddrop | $450.00 (New) |
| Most Wins: | adeiush | x18 |
| Most Final Tables: | adeiush | x93 |
| Largest Entry Win: | remyrobr | 7,399 players |
| Pro-Bounty Hunter: | x1 | |
| Total Winnings |
English Community |
$20,817.17 |
Don't forget to add your tournament (and multiple table sng) winnings however large or small in the following thread:
Hot Thread of the week
Hot thread this week is of course the Live EPT Barcelona Ticker thread with the community supporting our fellow PokerStrategists competing for this major tournament.
Over 4,500 views already, a big thanks to all of the guys/girls over in Spain and to all the News team too for keeping us up to date. Really appreciated folks.
And finally...
It's all about numbers. In the week that PokerStrategy added another superb strategy article on the Probabilities in Texas Hold'em, community member steiistui posted a really interesting thread on numbers. Check it out 🙂
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