Community Round-up: And I Thought Poker Players Were Gamblers
This week our community members came up with an interesting question regarding whether it's poker players or people with a "normal" job who are the real gamblers. Is it a greater risk to find yourself in an employee situation than being a self-employed full time poker professional?
The Community round up is your weekly digest of all the latest news from the PokerStrategy.com forums.
If you were not around during the past week and still want to be up to date with everything going on in our community, make sure you catch up with all the most exciting stuff here.
Find out what you may have missed.
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Hot Poker Thread of the Week
hahaownedlolz has started an intriguing discussion on whether poker players are the real gamblers, or whether normal employees risk more by being at the hands of their employers.
Do you think poker players are in a safer situation than regular employees? Head over to the forum and share your opinions with us:
And I thought poker players were gamblers...
Poker Blog of the Week
tobycs started a blog in March in order to keep himself motivated and improve his play. PokerStrategy.com moderator TobyCS currently plays on NL25 SH and boasts a four figure bankroll.
He sees himself as a bit lazy, but the community members who post in his blog keep him busy replying. Toby ran hot in his last session and is now thinking of about trying to move up to NL50. If you want to know a bit more about him, such as his taste in music, head over to his blog.
Toby's Poker Journey: NL25 SH & MTTs
New Community Members this Week
This week's new members come from all over the world. They all have different stories about how they got involved with poker, but they share an excitement for learning and becoming better players.
- drbloody has been playing online for 3 years now. His greatest achievement was 4th place at the $5k GTD. This young Bosnian states that our community is about to change his life.
- mrnui97 started playing poker only 8 months ago and has already had some success. He is looking for fellow Australians in our community.
- gamblingdan has earned his starting capital and is now eager to work his way up using the Short Stack Strategy.
We apologise for not being able to name everyone, but rest assured that even though your name did not make it on our weekly list, you are a valuable part of our community.
If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to post them in our forums. Our community members are some of the kindest and most knowledgeable poker players around and are ready to help you at any time.
New members introduce yourselves here
Performances of the Week
Even though keplers's big win came in February and not this week, he only just found out about our "One Million in a year!" competition and added $12,5k to our total sum. He therefore deserves a mention.
Other big winners are:
- alejandrosh came 25th in the MiniFTOPS Event #8 and earned himself $1,160.
- natrphem finished 41st in the SCOOP #31-L winning $811
- genetals managed to finish 2nd in a $3.30 Cap 180 6-Max Sit and Go for $298.89
One Million in a Year - Total Winnings (Week 40): $535,150.86
$17,700 has been added this week thanks to our best performers. We are now close to $540,000 earned! Although our numbers have improved from last year, we have a long way to go before reaching our goal of $1,000,000.
One Million in a year! (2009/2010)
