Community Weekly Round-Up: the basics, underpants man and my WSOPE Dream Team
Barry Carter looks forward to another big week at PokerStrategy.com and shares the reasons behind his own Fantastic Five team for the WSOPE.
When you read this, I will be on my way back from a weekend at EPT London. I wont be playing, I'll be doing a few interviews and standing around with a beer pretending to work - expect a full report on that next week.
Meanwhile last week I really started to take an interest in poker as a spectator. This is both because there is a huge focus on European Poker this month and also because of our new Fantastic Five promotion.
I've always enjoyed the act of betting on other poker players' results. There was once (briefly) a time when it actually was fun to bet on them at sportsbooks, because a lot of the bookmakers did not know the real names of online pros and gave silly odds on who they thought were unknown players. Sadly the tide turned the other way and I once remember seeing Phil Ivey, I kid you not, priced at 8/1 to win the Main Event outright.
My Fantastic Five Team consists of Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Selbst, Stephen O'Dwyer, Ole Schemion, Dominik Nitsche and in reserve Jake Cody and Manig Loeser.
I picked Negreanu because he is on fire at the moment and more importantly will want to lock up the Player of the Year title. I picked Selbst because I thought she was well priced and has good form both in France and in PLO events. O'Dwyer, Schemion and Nistche I thought were all ridiculously underpriced so I thought they were bargains that meant I could afford substitutes.
I'm not sure why I am so excited about it, I can't get a status upgrade and I presume I also won't be allowed any money if I win either, being a member of staff. I guess I do have some of this 'pride' thing after all.
Threads of the week
There is a much needed thread in our Learning to Win forum started by our very own .
We all have too much pride as poker players, and I bet all of us have managed to go several years without knowing at least one core concept, because after we established ourself we were too embarrassed to ask.
I remember I once had an EPT champion confide in me that he didn't actually know what fold equity was. I remember personally I went years without really understanding value betting before I got a coach.
So I am really glad we have started The Basics - it's a great place where our members can ask these questions without feeling silly.
For starting that thread, Blog of the week goes to . One Bet At A Time is a fun read for people who like Limit Hold'em, football and Magic the Gathering (I only like one of those three things myself).
LOL of the week
This one was pretty much a no-contest this week. Man in underpants puts entire bankroll into a hyper turbo heads-up SNG, wins, dances:
In case you missed it.......
Don't forget you only have until Friday to register for our VIP Tour event in Bavaria.
It is also your last full week to upgrade your old PokerTracker 3 to PokerTracker 4 with a 60% discount.
We had new Gold videos from both Pleno1 and Uri Peleg.
We gave a huge overview of the best promotions available at our partner rooms in October.
Plus we announced our community promotion to pick the best team for the WSOPE, Fantastic Five.
What to watch out for this week
Lots of great offerings to look forward to this week from the boys at the Poker School.
Live coachings this week from 
CollinMoshman, Pleno1, Unam and Skodjlivec.
You can also expect new videos from CollinMoshman,Skodjlivec, EmanuelC and a $400NL video from Uri Peleg.
Expect daily recaps from the WSOPE which starts this weekend, which will include updates for our Fantastic Five promotion.
We will be announcing a new software partnership for people wanting to improve their tournament game.
Plus we hopefully will be announcing a very fun community promotion to test your creative skills at the end of the week (If not this week, then early next week).
I want your feedback on what you would like to see more or less of on the news pages of PokerStrategy.com. Let me know your thoughts, good and bad, in my editor thread below:
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