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Cougars4444 Member Hand History Review for 1Uwant2bdaddy1 (Part 3)

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:02:11 +0000

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Florida Poker

Cougars4444 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:17:12 +0000

Florida poker is BOOMing!! I've basically made the decision there is really no reason for me to leave the state of Florida for live poker anymore. There are tourney series going on somewhere in the state at just about any time with a lot even overlapping. I was just down in Fort Lauderdale for some of the WPT prelims at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. I played three events and managed to go 20/221, 10/94, and 19/996. So I had two cashed and a stone cold bubble. While the cashes weren't anything life changing it always feels good to be making deep runs consistently and I'm feeling even more confidence in my live game coming off Final Tabling the WPT Main event at the Tampa Hard Rock in December. As much as I love traveling the fields are just way to good and juicy here in Florida for me to consider going elsewhere.

Take this weekend as an example, the WPT is running their Main event at the Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale that is a 750k guarantee $3,500 and the Heartland Poker Tour is running their Main Event at the Daytona Beach Kennel Club with three starting flights, a $1650 buyin and a televised Final Table. Despite my recent success down in Fort Lauderdale I'm going to go play over in Daytona as I can commute back and forth and sleep in my own bed each night. I also think it's going to be a much softer field then the $3,500 in South Florida.

On top of all these things starting on Feb 16th the WSOP Circuit is running a $555 with three starting days and a million dollar guarantee. Not a bad possible ROI on $555. There seem to be events everywhere over the next three months from Jacksonville to Fort Lauderdale.

I am traveling up to Atlantic City from March 2-5th and meeting up with a few of the TPE pros for the circuit event up there. We don't get to get together nearly often enough so I'm looking forward to a fun weekend.

I'll be doing updates on twitter for all of my live events and will try and get some good hand histories to discuss on a episode of TPE Live. Hope everyone is crushing!

An Update

marc alioto — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:58:46 +0000

Been a long time since my last post and I have had a crazy roller coaster ride the last three months. Had my biggest month profit wise (2nd in lock 100k=luckbox) followed by my worst month of hemoraging HU and in high buy in 6-mans. Lets face it, the losing month was way more painful than the highs of an even bigger month of winnings before. so std, so std.

Transitioning into 6-mans has been a long and brutal process. Im just not used to the variance of turbos and it has been a headache to deal with. January I actually moved down in stakes and was game selecting a bit more and have found success playing non-turbos. My days are longer, but mentally it has been a

burden off my shoulders. That has been the key for me. Mental exhaustion can cloud your thinking process and i have been really focusing on not tilting and playing my "A" game around 90% of the time. I think its impossible to play your best 100% of the time, so 90 seems like a good goal imo.

I have also been reading this book by Jared Tendler and I strongly recomend it to anyone who has issues with tilt management and anger issues. Fact is, when you tilt or get pissed off, your brain is not funtioning right. This results in mental errors during your sessions and basically shitting money. I get no money for plugging "Mental Game of Poker" fwiw, I am just trying to help TPE's growing poker community. THIS BOOK IS A MUST BUY!

Goals?

Why do poker players need to set goals? If you have no goals what the fuck are you playing for? It is so much easier to pressure yourself to your max potential by having something to strive for. i cant emphasize enoough, how important I think it is to set new goals every year…shit, every month. Working hard to hit those goals, is going to result in good play and max volume. I also think it is important to focus on 1-2 forms of poker max!!!

I prefer one as i feel the edge these days is so much tougher, but as a rakback pro its a must for me to play different forms. Bottom line is that you need to master something before you venture into different shit. No point in playing cash one day, mtts another etc etc. Mastering a game takes yrs and hours of work. This isnt easy but lets face it we all play poker to make money so why not take the necessary steps to maximize profit? People always ask me, "How can you play dons all day everyday". Answer was simple for me, $$$$. Money opens the gate to so many things in poker and in life. DONS are really boring, but they simply pay the bills.

If any of you want to post some goals for 2012 and bankroll ? feel free to post here. Bank roll management is the most important factor in becoming A BEAST! Ask away and I will respond.

Go crush some fish!

Merge 100k Major Win Hand History Review with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace (Part 6)

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:30:39 +0000

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What’s New at TPE – Week Ending 2/5/2012

bennymacca — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:47:59 +0000

Hey guys, a lot of content this week including four new videos, a TPE live podcast, and a new article, so we will get straight into it.

Podcast

TPE Live – 2012 World Series of Poker w/ bigdogpckt5s and aznAllin007 (32:42)

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tournament-poker-edge-live-podcast/

The boys from last week’s strategy podcast are back, but this time they give us the first offering of TPE live for the year, discussing the schedule for the 2012 WSOP. It certainly makes the whole TPE nation jealous hearing about the sick house with a pool for a whole summer in Vegas, but is interesting to follow the progress of our favourite pros!

Videos

This week the Merge 100k tourney is in the spotlight, with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace giving us parts 4 and 5 of his 6 part series where he takes it down, and Shaun “Cougars4444” Hendrickson gives us a Hand History Review of the deep run made by “1Uwant2bdaddy1” in the same tourney. We also get the conclusion to the “bigdogpckt5s” live sweat.

Merge 100k Major Win Hand History Review with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace (Parts 4,5 of 6)

Part 4

Part 5

During part 3 Daryl built a huge stack and he continues to crush during part 4, so now we are treated to some deep stacked play, including a triple barrel spot early in the video. There is also some great info about playing hands from late position and SB with some re-shove stacks behind. There is also a sick hand later in the vid where Daryl makes a huge river call with third pair. He carries his huge stack through part 5 on the way to the final table. Watch out for the 5bet with QJo!

Bigdogpckt5′s Mixed Stages Live Sweat (Part 1 of 2)

Part 2

In the second part of this live sweat, we continue to rail Bigdogpckt5s through the 33 2r1a on stars and the 30r on Lock. Unfortunately a table change means KB is no longer in the video, but we get to see a final table in the stars tourney. The fact that we don’t get a part 3 is a bad sign because it means that an early final table bustout occurred but the first two parts are still great viewing.

Cougars4444 Member Hand History Review for 1Uwant2bdaddy1 (Part 1 of 3)

Part 1

TPE’s crushing of the merge 100k tourney continues, this time with a hand history review of TPE member “1Uwant2bdaddy1.” There aren’t too many spots in the early stages but Cougars4444 picks up on some little leaks.

Article

Thin Value Bets

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/thin-value-bets/

One of the most important concepts in modern poker theory is the ability to extract thin value from our opponents when we have marginal holdings, and this article highlights that. I really like the point about value betting when your bluffs catch some sort of equity on the turn or river but the draws we are representing all miss.

Blog

KB blogs about his WSOP plans: http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/2012-wsop-plans/

Forum

This week in the forums, “MartinAltman” wonders whether he can fold bottom set on a draw heavy flop http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/can-i-fold-set-here/

Another interesting post was made by “DaNta5tic” who posts about a hand he played from UTG and about UTG strategy in general.

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/under-the-gun/

Lastly, there is a nice thread going about balancing family and poker started by “switelex,” interesting read.

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/off-topic/balancing-family-and-poker/

Member Scores

This week was huge for TPE members in live tournaments. Luis “badabing78” Toubib 8^th in GSOP Salzburg Main Event for €8550, complete with picture in TPE hoodie!

(Pic courtesy of the GSOP Live Facebook Page )

TPE members also crushed the Auckland Anniversary Poker Champs where we came close to a TPE double final table. “emufart” finished 5^th for a cool NZD11.4k while “hapetimes” just missed the final table finishing 11^th for around 3k. Awesome job guys! Last but not least, there was a great online score to mention, with “arukidinme” getting unlucky and finishing 2^nd Pokerstars Big $27 after surrendering a bit heads up chip lead.

That’s it from me guys, make sure you keep posting hands and your results in the forums, we love to hear about them!

See you at the tables!

Bennymacca

Twitter: @benny_macca

Cougars4444 Member Hand History Review for 1Uwant2bdaddy1 (Part 2)

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:45:54 +0000

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Merge 100k Major Win Hand History Review with Daryl “aaaaaaaa” Jace (Part 5)

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:52:59 +0000

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2012 WSOP Plans

Killingbird — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:08:56 +0000

The World Series of Poker has announced the schedule for this summer. You can find the schedule of events athttp://www.wsop.com/2012.

I was anxiously awaiting the release of this schedule for several reasons, primarily the fact that I have a ton of plans to make and was finding it difficult to do so without know the dates.

One of the biggest plans that needed finalizing was booking the Tournament Poker Edge house for the summer. We had already picked out a great house, but needed to finalize the dates with the owner. This year we will have a few new guys in the house, including new pros Danny "DannyN13" Noseworthy and Marc "aznAllin007" Alioto. I think it is going to be a really fun crew this year and I suspect this is the year that someone binks a big score!

As for me personally, I will be arriving in Las Vegas on May 25th. This will give me a couple of days to settle in and stock the house up before the series actually starts. After a month or so in Vegas I will head back to North Carolina for my birthday (July 4th) and to spend some time with the family. Then it will be back to Vegas through the end of the main event.

I'm waiting to see the Venetian Deepstack schedule before really figuring out what my poker plans are, but I do suspect that my schedule will be lighter this year than it was last year as I would really like to focus my time and energy on promoting TPE.

If you are planning to head to Vegas this summer, make sure and let us know so we can meet up at some point!

Finally, if you'd like to hear what Casey and Marc's thoughts are on the 2012 schedule and the upcoming summer, check out this episode of TPE live that we just recorded.

http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tournament-poker-edge-live-podcast/

Cougars4444 Member Hand History Review for 1Uwant2bdaddy1 (Part 1)

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:44:56 +0000

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2012 World Series of Poker w/ bigdogpckt5s and aznAllin007

Tournament Poker Edge Staff — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:22:46 +0000

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