First PokerStrategy Community Round-Up
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Our 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. This is the first of many community-related projects we will begin and eaglestar88 is in charge of this one.
For
this, the first in our series of “Poker Blog of the week”, we have
chosen one of the most popular blogs in recent history: “Gerv’s
Galaxy during Valentines: SSS NL100”.
Resident
coach gerv first set off into his Galaxy back in July last year and
has since notched up over 19,000 views and an excess of 500 posts.
Gerv
is a short stack specialist and is currently grinding Advanced Short
Stack Strategy at NL100 level. The majority of new players start off
with the Basic Short Stack Strategy (SSS) and whilst Gerv is playing
the advanced variant (AdvSSS) and at a much higher level, beginners
will be still be able to closely associate with the many swings, wins
& bad beats that are encountered along this blog’s journey.
The
blog makes good use of a variety of statistics, charts, pictures,
sample hands and in depth commentary, not to mention a good old sense
of humour and is a fascinating read.
Singled
out this week in particular is Gerv’s explanation of what he
includes in his HUD (Heads Up Display), a topic that is all too often
confusing to the poker beginner.
Click
the link below to view this weeks blog of the week:
Want
the chance to appear as blog of the week? Go to the forum and start
or update your blog today!
The
following hand caught our eye this week, not just because of the
final outcome, but because of Waiboy’s observations which as he
readily admits, in the heat of the moment whilst multi-tasking, are
easily missed.
1/2
Fixed-Limit Hold'em (3
handed)
Hand
recorder used for this poker
hand: PokerStrategy
Elephant 0.67
by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop:
Hero is BB with 
BU
folds,
SB
raises,
Hero calls.
Flop:
(4.00 SB) 
(2
players)
SB
bets,
Hero calls.
Turn:
(3.00 BB) 
(2
players)
SB
checks, Hero
bets,
SB calls.
River:
(5.00 BB) 
(2
players)
SB
bets,
Hero calls.
Final
Pot:
7.00 BB
Results
follow:
Hero
shows a straight flush, jacks high ()
SB shows a full-house,
eights full of jacks (
)
Hero wins with a straight flush,
jacks high ()
As waiboy said:
“I
was opening a new table and showing down another hand... I had
mentally assigned the hand to a call down, because who expects to hit
runner, runner gutshot straight flush?!”
When
you play thousands upon thousands of hands, it’s inevitable that 1
or 2 may slip underneath the radar, and it’s easy to be affected
mentally by a missed opportunity, but big respect to Waiboy for
calmly noting the event & then moving straight on to deal with
the next hand. Nice hand sir, here’s hoping your current hot streak
continues to run & run.
Fellow community member toedder made the following post identifying upcoming changes to
PokerStars VIP programme.
Members
looking out for & helping other members, that’s what the
PokerStrategy community is all about. Nice one toedder & thanks
for posting.
Our
community amassed winnings of $9,928.50 this week.
Congratulations
to all of our winners, which included:
-
Two
separate cashes, including a win, for grummeler totaling $5,111. -
A 5th
place finish in PartyPoker’s $50k Grindroll for ttt241 netting him
a $3,400 payout, sweeeet! -
A
2nd place to aurs on Full Tilt cashing $216. -
Cashes
too for rick21, dippy19, slikec, tllome, saywhat, zheelvern&
gamer135
Our
thanks also to adzi, for keeping the running totals up to date,
loving your work Adzi!
Make
sure your winnings get counted in our ongoing totaliser which
currently stands at $309,106 post your winnings in our One Million In a Year community project! Also, remember to keep checking the forum thread called Our Successes and post yours as well!
Unless
you’ve been on Mars this week, or been grinding your bankroll 24/7
maybe, you couldn’t have missed the news that the 3rd
Series of the Battle Of The Donkeys (BOTD) has just started. This
hugely poplular series has an added twist this season in the form of
an English Community versus the Spanish Community battle. Whilst
teams are quickly being filled, there is always room for more so go
on get involved, join a team or create a new one and keep an eye out
for some free staking from those nice people Mr & Mr .
Full
details including tournament dates, buy-in costs etc check out the
following threads:
Want
a break from poker for 5 minutes, well our resident captions contest
guru thebrood has just posted a new picture in the Fun & Off-topic section.
Err
beer, sand, sun, deck chairs... Nope, got us stumped.
This
contest has been dominated by the Moderators & Administrators
recently, you’re not going to let them get away with winning this
one too, are you? All
entries however obscure are welcomed, thinking caps on people! Post your caption in this thread!
As always, feedback is appreciated. Let us know what you think of this week's round-up and provide us with any kind of suggestions that you may have.
