Community Round-up: fakedurrr helps fellow short stackers.
This week, we highlight fakedurrr's helpful short stack thread, TwiceT's wisdom is exposed in the sample hand and members take down not one but two guarantee tournaments. It's Community Round-up time of the week.
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Poker Blog of the Week
We travel this week into the Sit & Go world of one of our recently crowned Platinum members.
Community member atoks moved from playing short-handed Cash Tables to concentrate on Sng's earlier this year and is goes into great detail explaining his hands and thoughts.
A nice blog to read for all aspiring Sng players. Good luck atoks and keep up the good work.
Sample Hand of the Week
The importance of knowing the regular players hand ranges, thats the topic this week.
All courtesy of a sample hand from PokerStrategy Coach, Diamond (but aiming for Black next year) status member and all around nice guy Mr twicet:
$0/$4 No-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)
Known players:
MP2 = ($381.90)
MP3(Hero) = ($400.00)
CO = ($418.00)
BU = ($1893.70)
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J
, A
.
MP2 folds, Hero raises to $12.00, 2 folds, BB calls $8.00.
Flop: ($24) J
, 6, 4 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $18.00, BB calls $18.00.
Turn: ($60) 2 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $40.00, BB calls $40.00.
River: ($140) K
(2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $92.00, BB raises to $927.80(All-In), Hero calls $238.00(All-In).
Final Pot: $1397.8.
twicet explains his thinking on this hand:
- He is one of the better nl400sh regs on stars;
- We play aggressively vs each other in general, also some flop c/r going on;
-
He didn't 3bet in bb, so he doesnt have AQ+, JJ+, and his airballs
like J3s etc. his range is mostly good broadways (suited) and pairs; - His c/c range on the flop is most likely 77-TT, TJ-AJ;
- I expect him to c/r sets 85% due to his aggr. image. and he knows I know he doesn't rep too much on such a dry flop;
- Turn blanks and he calls again. Seems like Jx a lot, or 99&TT;
-
River hits the K, theoretically a barrel card but I doubt I would
often 2nd barrel AK, KQ on such a blank turn ... whatever, I have to
vbet the river thinly vs Jx and 99, TT that doesn't believe me. These
thin vbets btw is where the winrate is coming from imo. -
So I go ahead and vbet and he quite fast shoves all in. I took my
timebank and rethought the hand a bit. He could have slowplayed a
flopped set - but very rarely I would say given our aggressive images
on the flop. KJ is the only hand I'm, really afraid of, however, I know he
is a good regular and he is definately capable of turning a made hand into a
bluff, recognizing that im vbetting thinly very often and that I can't
easily call a shove. So I put him on TJ, TT, 99 and sometimes KJ when
he shoves the river. Also, I'm not sure if he would shove or raise a
value hand, because a shove is a very big raise here.
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:
- rnorrie from Canada;
- imanacehole9 from Australia, chose an amusing user name;
- nicolaix70 joined his friend by signing up;
- gazbarker2k8 joined us on 13th October.
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.
Performances of the Week
Some superb performances again this week, congratulations to all our winners/other performances, which included:
- ksh198 won a $15k guaranteed tournament;
- omurachu won a $7.5k guaranteed tournament;
- 8979687 beat 989 other players to win a 1cent tournament;
- coreysteel won a student satellite and qualifies for a chance to win a car in the final, best of luck coreysteel from all your friends in the community;
- spiderwebz final tabled a $5k guaranteed tournament;
- kennyxx was runner up in a $500 guaranteed tournament;
- Another good week for snaker3 who final tabled multiple tournaments;
- More free cash for staticmoth who cashed in two more freerolls.
Highlights for the year so far
| Largest single cash: | $25,535.20 | |
| Largest overall winnings: | $26,535.20 | |
| Freeroll King/Queen: | $520.00 | |
| Most Wins: | adeiush | x18 |
| Most Final Tables: | adeiush | x93 |
| Largest Entry Win: | remyrobr | 7,399 players |
| Pro-Bounty Hunter: | x1 | |
| Total Winnings |
English Community |
$101,714.12 |
Don't forget to add your tournament (and multiple table sng) winnings however large or small in the following thread:
Hot Thread of the week
One of the hottest threads this week is the perenial question of "Is poker a sport", posted by community member aceonetheriver. Lots of members have already stated their own opinon on the matter, what do you think? Sport? Game? Hobby?
Helping Others Thread of the week
A big shout out to community member fakedurrr who has spent some time putting together a forum thread to help new players to the Short Stack Strategy.
In this thread, which is still being added to, fakedurrr gathers some of the most important and useful sss-related strategy articles, videos and forum posts.
What really makes this community great is the fact that community members are always there for and helping out fellow community members whenever and whereever possible and we all thank fakedurrr for her efforts, it's really appreciated.
Would you like to nominate someone for this section next week? Is so, then drop a reply in the feedback thread (link at the top of the page), or of course drop me a private message via community mail if you prefer.
And finally...
"No road is long with good company" - Turkish Proverb.
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