Community Round-up: Week of Races and Small Ball Poker
Three PokerStrategists have challenged themselves to a poker race - their goal being to reach a $5,000 bankroll. While the trio is busy racing, another community member has started a thread this week about small ball poker in home games.
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Hot Poker Thread of the Week
Home poker games can be a source of endless fun or nerve-wrecking frustrations. If you find yourself playing a home game and wish to make it a profitable experience, what approach would you take? escobario has started a thread this week on this subject.
In particular, he is interested in the viability of small ball poker and whether it is applicable to the "domestic vulgaris fish". He is uncertain whether following logic and strategies is even the best choice against such opponents. So what are your thoughts on this matter?
Small ball poker in home games?
Poker Blog of the Week
has left a trail of his pokerprints in a blog this week. As one would expect, it involves crazy action and lofty goals. Namely roswellx and gudalemandele have entered a race with ihufa to see who will be the first to build up his bankroll to $5,000.
While ihufa and gudalemandele have started with $100, roswellx has joined the race late. Due to his self-proclaimed lack of skill compared to the first two, his starting value in this race is $1,000. Don't miss out on the action. You can find updates on the race in their blog.
New Community Members this Week
New players from all over the world have joined our community this week. Some of them have given poker a try before and now wish to start all over again, while others are yet to make their first steps in the poker world. Here are some of the newcomers:
- darias40141 is our latest member from Indonesia
- nfroelich is "new in town", starting from the basics after trying Rush Poker
- ihatesuperman her name is Karen and she hates superman?
- beckijay1991 another female newcomer, she comes from the Republic of Ireland
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 a successful week for many of our community members. For some of them, it was business as usual, while others made their first steps into the higher limits or recorded their first big wins in tournaments.
Here are some of the latest notable results of our members:
- snodreliss won $600 for finishing 7th in a $55 MTT
- alenstrat grinded his way from NL2 to NL5 with a 13bb/100 win rate over 30k hands
- sufix645 knocked out a pro in a tournament to earn the bounty prize money and a T-shirt
- taavi1337 won $37.50 for finishing 180th in Full Tilt Iron Man Silver $15k freeroll
One Million in a Year - Total Winnings (Week 44): $575,528,94
Thanks to the joint efforts of our communities, we have now earned just over $575k, 44 weeks into the "One Million in a year" challenge. Keep up the good work and post your winnings, as the $600k mark is only a short step away.
