Community Round-up: Poker Spirit Will Overcome
As Ace Ventura once said - the spirit will overcome. Following his teachings, our community members discussed this week how to overcome many issues and annoyances they encounter in online poker.
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
Banter between Tony G and Phil Hellmuth on poker shows can be fun to watch, but what if you find yourself up against such a "talkative" person at the online poker tables? Instead of just having to deal with the usual donkaments, you now find yourself swarmed by random comments from your opponents, their whines, critics of others and as the list goes on, you may start to feel like you're in a poker nightmare.
How to deal with these kind of situations? Should you ignore the chat box completely or go in a battle of wits against such players? Some people mute them, some play too many tables to notice such activities and others are grateful for having such players at their tables, because they regard them as free money bags running around and waiting to be picked up by someone.
Join the discussion on this topic in the thread opened by dumbledork and share your thoughts with other community members:
How do you deal with obnoxious idiots?
Poker Blog of the Week
Another light summer blog has risen on our forum this week. If you've got some free time at hand, stop by in stevegold87's blog and read through his latest poker adventures. Besides giving you an update of his past experiences in poker, he has also put a hefty amount of goals ahead of him - and not just any kind of goals, as most of them are quite unique, to say the least.
After the initial post which will probably make you wanna read it twice (it's that long, that colourful and that fun to read), you'll find yourself regularly updated on some of the hands he played, graphs of his sessions and all the stuff you'd expect to find in a cash gamer's blog.
New Community Members this Week
A new wave of newcomers joining our ranks has been seen this week. While some of them are just starting to play poker, others already have some experience and are now looking to improve their game. Here are some of our latest members:
- ixflushxi is a new member looking forward to starting on the micro levels
- benjohnrhodes joins us from the U.K.
- thebestija is our latest newcomer from Croatia
- jokerstar77mucker is our new Irish member who gave us a lengthy introduction
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.
All the best at the tables!
New members introduce yourselves here
Performances of the Week
It has been an insane week for the PokerStrategists. Numerous final table finishes with respectable payouts have been reported this week. However, casting a friendly shadow on all of these cashes is who just came out of the closet, adding his $57,102 winning in the WSOP Main Event to our One Million in a Year challenge.
Besides cashing in the Main Event, Yoghi also had success in online poker tournaments and you can find more info on that as well as other notable results by PokerStrategists this week below:
- cashed in a live tournament for $132.25
- randomdonk won the $100+$9 Turbo Hundo for $6,942
- finished 14th in the Super Tuesday for $4,800
One Million in a Year - Total Winnings (Week 49): $679,548.75
A whopping $76,727.14 has been added this week to our One Million in a Year challenge. While largely being a courtesy of Yoghi, such an impressive scenario for this week was also directed by other PokerStrategists who have shown great success in both live and online tournaments. With 49 weeks behind us, we can now certainly look forward to surpassing the $700k mark at the very least.
One Million in a year! (2009/2010)
