This week we bring a new pro onto the roster in Andrew Brokos! He brings us his debut series on hand reading. We also continue the Ben Hayes HM2 series, and articles, blogs and podcasts go up as the post holiday grind begins!
Podcast
Year End Recap and Live MTT Strategy with bigdogpckt5s and aznAllin007 (96:48)
Articles
Study Your Way to a Better Poker Game
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/study-your-way-to-a-better-poker-game/
This week we have a new article about study habits and optimal study ratios that makes for very interesting and motivating reading. It pretty much does a cost benefit analysis at different levels of our poker evolution and offers insight into why we should be studying more or less in certain spots.
Blogs
Bring on 2013: Year of the MTT Grind
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/bring-on-2013-year-of-the-mtt-grind/
KB has posted another blog, this time a yearly summary of what is happening with him and some aims for this year, so check it out.
Videos
Andrew Brokos Premiere Series- TPE Theory: Hand Reading
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/andrew-brokos-premiere-series-tpe-theory-hand-reading-part-1/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/andrew-brokos-premiere-series-tpe-theory-hand-reading-part-2/
We welcome TPE’s latest signing Andrew Brokos to the team, and he starts off with an impressive series on hand reading. The technique he uses is to categorize the opponent’s range into monsters, marginal and air/draw hands and we can use this to determine whether our or our opponent’s range gets stronger throughout the hand. The first part is entirely theoretical and covers all of the underlying assumptions we are working with and how to define the hand types. The 2nd part is an application of what we covered in part one and contains in depth hand examples across multiple streets of betting. Andrew has an incredibly clear and simple way of explaining things and this series is a must watch for anyone struggling with hand reading or post flop play.
TPE THEORY: Holdem Manager for MTT players
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-holdem-manager-for-mtt-players-part-4/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-holdem-manager-for-mtt-players-part-5/
Ben Hayes continues his HM2 series this time delving into the report functions, which I’m sure a lot of people tend to neglect. He shows us how to break down our stats by position and determine our profitability by position and also with different parts of our range. He also looks at our bb/100 win rate from different stack sizes, which is useful in determining any leaks in our mid stack, full stack or short stack game. This series is leak fixing gold!
Forum
Strategy
As is the norm lately the forums are going so hard. There are heaps of interesting threads this week and some with a lot of potential to be consistent gems!
Loxxii started a ah-ha moment thread and it has already generated some interesting posts and discussion.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/ah-ha-moments/
This is a cool thread about FT adjustments which has started some sizing debates.
New member CAT70K finds a tough spot with 88.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/50bbs-w-88-in-hj-vs-ep-open-w-28bbs/
sminnick talks bubble play with JJ.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/on-the-bubble-with-jj/
thedonator716 runs into a weird spot deep ITM with QQ.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/weird-spot-with-qq-and-big-stacks-deep/
Community
It’s that time of the year for resolutions and so KB started a goals thread, get involved!
Nqon has started a progress report and Loxxii was inspired by it to dip his toes into professional poker. Both make for good reads and both deserve some support from the nation!
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/poker-goals-and-challenges/nqon-going-pro-journalreport/
Donkrx also made his own video series for those craving some more material.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/study-group/donkrx-video-series/#p42620
Coaching
Chris Moon has space available for coaching sessions at the moment.
Member Scores
Nqon crushed a 11r action hour on stars after refusing a deal 3 handed! He also managed 5th in a $55 and 15th in the big $11 along with a few other final tables. Bennymacca made his weekly FT of the Typhoon on 888. KB starts out his 2013 grind with a $109 4k final table on lock! CAT70K made a great start chopping a $5 turbo for $1750 after joining up to TPE.
If you would like your name to be included, make sure you post in either the sweat or BBV threads, or use the hashtag #TPEdge on Twitter!
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/sweat-threads/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/brags-beats-and-variance/
Crush it guys!