Community Round-up: First for forum news
There have been firsts everywhere this week and where else would you first look for forum news. Community Round-up - Your first choice.
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.
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Poker Blog of the Week
Something a little different this week. A blog from a Swedish community member and moderator who is also a big friend of and regular visitor to the English community. vonki started her blog back in August and very popular it has been too.
Big on content, style and humour, it's unsurprisingly got quite a following already, but just in case you haven't seen it yet, why not take time out and catch up today.
New Community Members this Week
A big warm welcome to all new community members this week.
Included amongst them (sorry we cannot name everyone) are:
- wadefortune from Wales;
- relevancey & transcendence from Canada;
- timtom8 from Lithuania;
- jameslancaster from Australia.
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.
Hot Thread of the Week
Hottest thread this week, the one you've all been talking about was set up by community member lichoman1 with a simple question:
It's been a Week of Firsts
What a week it's been. Firsts all round including the following:
First Royal Flush
- Congratulations to ladman for gaining his first Royal Flush with his hand of J
K;
First Poker Purchase
- nafar84 cashed in some poker profit to make sweet music by puchasing himself a Fender guitar;
First Cashout Tournament
- excelgeo cashed in his first Full Tilt "Cashout" tournament turning $5.94 worth of player points into $500 through skillful use of this new tournament format (MiniFTOPS Event#18);
First Depositors Freeroll Success
- fagin reached the final table of the first depositors freeroll on 888/Pacific poker. His 4th added $45 to his bankroll;
Congratulations everyone, first of many we hope, well done.
Performances of the Week
Some superb performances again this week, congratulations to all our winners/other performances, which included:
- harooon Won a $10k Guaranteed Rebuy tournament;
- jackalof Won a Pot Limit Omaha tournament
- sliverika cashed in a Pot Limit Omaha tournament on Everest;
- wildbeans final tabled a $19.5k Guarantee for a $2.5k cash;
- Multiple cashes for geedo1986, neverwinter & natrphem.
Highlights for the year so far
| Largest single cash: | $35,560.00 | |
| Largest overall winnings: | $62,095.20 | |
| Freeroll King/Queen: | gape0000 | $893.00 |
| Most Wins: | adeiush | x18 |
| Most Final Tables: | adeiush | x93 |
| Largest Entry Wins:
|
remyrobr |
1st from 7,399 players =1st (of 9) from 13,666 players |
| Pro-Bounty Hunter: | x1 | |
| Total Winnings |
English Community |
$248,290.32 |
Don't forget to add your tournament (and multiple table sng) winnings however large or small in the following thread:
And finally...
The funny picture contest is still going with some superb entries already, but be quick you have until Tuesday 22nd December to get your entry in.
Just remember to read the Opening Post and keep it clean and avoid illegal/offensive content.
