ViperJohnB
10 points
What's the root of your emotions when you lose? Do you feel that it is because you have played bad? Or do you feel like you were unlucky? Realistically, you should be making correct decisions based on the information you have at the time of the decision. If you were wrong then make the needed adjustments. If you were correct but lost then you move on to the next decision. Your reactions that lead you to quit seem like you might be playing at levels that make you uncomfortable if you lose. If your opponents are observant then they will be able to exploit your tendencies. I know I have personally used this against specific opponents in the past so I'm sure it is common for other players to do this also.
July 7, 2014 | 9:51 a.m.
Sick bluff by Sean Drake with Q9 to make Hugo Pingray lay down his QQ on a 2366dd board. The final four players have been playing great.
July 1, 2014 | 2:59 a.m.
Mike,
It looks like you are partially correct when factoring online performances. This is definitely one of the weaker resume final tables they have had this year at least judging by their live performances. Going by their live tournament resumes I would only say 3 of 9 rose to the top. Only three of these players have ever had a 6 figure live cash. This is likely to be each players all-time best cash. Sean Drake while having a bracelet has only accumulated $189K in live tournament earnings. If he was a live tournament regular since he won his bracelet then he would be seriously underwater in make up by now. However, It also doesn't seem to me to be as bad for amateurs as it was made out to be on twitter. Perhaps they were trying to deceive Jack Eiffel to "protect" the amateurs to their own benefit.
6 players out of the top 11 chip stacks on day 4 made the final table.
1-Joseph McKeehen was the only player with $1m+ earnings, 4 WSOP cashes.
2-Bobby Byram was one of 2 players that started out of top 20. $59K live earnings, first ever WSOP cash.
3-Zachary Gruneberg $326K live earnings, 3 WSOP cashes
4-Claas Segebrecht with $33K live earnings, 0 WSOP cashes
5-Thayer Rasmussen with $820K live earnings, 22 WSOP cashes which is by far the most of the last 62 players.
6-Lynne Beaumont with $216K live earnings, 1 WSOP cashes.
7-Joshua Hillock the other player that started outside the top 20. $410K live earnings 14 WSOP cashes which was the 2nd most of the final 62 Players.
8-Sean Drake Day 4 chip leader with $189K live earnings and a bracelet in an employees event which by the way is his only WSOP cash.
9-Hugo Pingray with $45K live earnings first ever WSOP cash.
June 30, 2014 | 7:46 p.m.
The day the Monster stack tournament started there were a number of tournament regular pros tweeting that the Monster stack format favors the pros over amateurs. The general position was that the amateurs were deluding themselves into thinking the extra chips gave them a better opportunity to win. I have analyzed the final 62 players lifetime tournament performance based on Hendonmob database and the WSOP database. My observation is that if this format favors the pros then they need to learn how to play deep stacks because they did not fare very well in the particular tournament. This is especially true when compared to most WSOP tournaments this year that saw a large number of repeat bracelet winners along with very strong final table participants.
Here's some stats of the final 62 players. These are for live events. I didn't research online performance.
2-WSOP bracelets total, only one of which was in an open event. Sean Drake Day 4 chip leader won the employee event. Jason Duval number 9 in chips was a winner of an open event.
132-WSOP combined cashes. 3 players account for 47 of those cashes.
1-Player with earnings greater then $1 million-Joseph McKeehen who was barely over.
8-Players with earnings greater then $500,000 including Joseph.
37-Players with less then $100,000 career tournament winnings.
30-Players who are making their first ever WSOP cash.
10-Players who are making their first ever live tournament cash.
Granted one tournament does not make for a great sample, however this format clearly favored amateurs the first time it was run by the WSOP. I'm sure the pros will make the needed adjustments in the future. However, it definitely is a little bit early to be saying "the sky is falling" on the amateurs.
June 29, 2014 | 10:11 p.m.
I would love to see Ultimate Poker succeed but really haven't played much on their site since last fall. I'm mostly a mtt player & they won't sync their breaks with WSOP so I stopped playing there.
June 29, 2014 | 7:52 a.m.
This is awesome! Best pirating a username thread ever! GG! GL!
June 29, 2014 | 7:48 a.m.
June 19, 2014 | 8:14 a.m.
You will be able to accomplish your goals and move up, however your time frame should be adjusted to reflect the hours you are able to invest in improving your game. In essence, your time frame of your goals should be realistic when factoring in the time invested. Remember, improving your game is not a race against all players. It is a step by step incremental improvement against your "self".
June 19, 2014 | 7:54 a.m.
Planet Hollywood has some good structured one day tournaments including a 100k $300 on June 28 & 250K $560 on July 5. For a quick view of the daily tournament offerings in Las Vegas during the WSOP go to checkitdown.com
June 19, 2014 | 7:43 a.m.
compare it to what it will cost you to stay at the Gold Coast which is across the street from the Rio
June 19, 2014 | 7:38 a.m.
Interesting I just read about this situation in the book "Winning Poker tournaments One Hand at a Time". Eric "Rizen" Lynch addresses AK early in a tournament when stacks are deep on Hand 55 in case you have the book. At that time he didn't like to risk a lot of chips pre-flop in the early stages. That approach seems like a good strategy to me, especially in live tournaments.
I think your squeeze play was done too early in the tournament. One player opens for 7 bbs then another player flats. I'm guessing that these two players would have likely called any 3-bet raise pre-flop based upon my past experience of playing lower stakes tournaments online. Therefore, I would have flatted pre-flop for deception in the sb around 80% of the time or jammed aipf about 20% of the time depending upon my information on the players. I find it easier to stack off opponents with this approach at this very early stage of the tournament. You gave the first caller about 2+-1 odds to call then the second caller got a great price. You committed 25-30% of your stack pre-flop. what was your plan post flop when you hit your A, K or flush? The range of hands you are looking at is likely AJs+, 88-JJ, possibly KQs.
I hope one of the experienced pros have time to comment on this so we can both learn.
May 19, 2014 | 9:06 a.m.
I would have folded in this spot pre-flop because of the button's chip stack & wide calling range. I would only raise in this spot with your hand when stacks behind me were smaller than mine & the players are playing too tight. If you play enough of these satellites you will find those spots to be relatively common. A 20bb stack in these satellites are very strong weapons for 3-bet jams. Your only goal is to survive to the final 8. I've won several seats with less than 3bbs on the final hand. I don't feel there was any reason to risk your stack at this point.
May 19, 2014 | 7:58 a.m.
Yes to cash during tournaments
May 13, 2014 | 10:47 p.m.
Pedro,
Is it possible to have the check in process done via email before we arrive?
There will be a live stream of the final table with commentary tomorrow on a short delay starting around 2pm as long as they get to the final 6 tonight. If not then it probably will start once they get to the final 6 tomorrow afternoon
June 25, 2015 | 7:20 a.m.