Community Round-up: Million in a year progress update
Find out just how we are doing so far with our Million in a year challenge. Also a great new blog from Mexico, new members from around the globe and "a downswing shared is a downswing halved"... possibly? It's your Community Round-up time again.
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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
We travel to Mexico this week for a relatively new but already great blog. Community member pablomeza joined us in August and has set off on a Big Stack Strategy journey with the odd MTT thrown in for good measure.
Read how they are getting on with their cash game and what happened in the FTOPS Warm-up in their blog 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:
- cpaine who used to be a croupier at a casino;
- bigbe4r joins us from Portugal;
- zubejan from Croatia;
- prstevie whose name is Stevie and I'm guessing he works in PR (just a shot in the dark of course);
- kenshin79 first found poker through a social networking site.
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 Threads of the week
Unfortunately the hottest threads this week (the ones your talking about most) are ironically ones that feature nasty coolers and downswings.
We've all had them in the past and no doubt will receive more at some time in the future, but "a downswing shared is a downswing halved". Ok, so I may have made that phrase up, but you know what I mean, second opinions and/or advice from fellow members and above all else sympathetic support is requested in the hour of pain. Our supportive community's ears are always open.
Also hot this week and a little more upbeat is the following thread from community member djadolfmixer:
Performances of the Week
Some superb performances again this week, congratulations to all our winners/other performances, which included:
- Congratulations to fun101rockets for achieving their Diamond PokerStrategy status;
- bogdandin7 won a $10 buy in tournament and picked up $2,528;
- won a local live event and geedo1986 also final tabled a live event;
- fixuplooksharrp also won a big tounament cash, but please provide more details so we can brag about it 😉
- nickparkes secured three final tables for a combined $2k;
- paibhai cashed multiple MTT SnG's;
- thebigheizung85 cashed an excellent 106th in the Sunday Million;
-
Freeroll cashes for staticmoth & neverwinter.
Highlights for the year so far
| Largest single cash: | $25,535.20 | |
| Largest overall winnings: | $26,535.20 | |
| 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 |
$134,195.61 |
Don't forget to add your tournament (and multiple table sng) winnings however large or small in the following thread:
We're roughly in line with last years progress so far, click the chart for a better view. :o)
And finally...
What songs sum your poker game up at different stages, e.g. main theme tune, downswing tune, tounament wins etc?
Community member raun offers us a place to note these down, compare and smile at the irony:
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 feedback thread (link at the top of the page).
