Whales Gonna Whale

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em
9 players

BTN: $57.58
Hero (SB): $50.00
BB: $35.05
UTG: $100.82
UTG+1: $118.55
UTG+2: $50.00
MP1: $50.00
MP2: $34.07
CO: $216.80

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with J J
7 folds, Hero raises to $1.50, BB raises to $6.50, Hero raises to $50 all in, BB calls $28.55 all in

Flop: ($70.10) 6 5 T (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: ($70.10) 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($70.10) 9 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $70.10
Hero shows J J (a pair of Jacks)
BB shows 7 4 (a straight, Six to Ten)
BB wins $67.60
(Rake: $2.50)

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

BTN: $99.95
SB: $101.29
BB: $17.74
UTG: $28.40
Hero (UTG+1): $52.00
UTG+2: $50.00
MP1: $45.75
MP2: $124.38
CO: $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG+1 with A A
UTG raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold, MP1 raises to $6, 6 folds, Hero raises to $13.75, MP1 calls $7.75

Flop: ($29.75) 2 7 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $32 all in, Hero calls $32

Turn: ($93.75) Q (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($93.75) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $93.75
Hero shows A A (a pair of Aces)
MP1 mucks 9 J
Hero wins $91.25
(Rake: $2.50)

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And The Winners Of The 2 FREE T-Shirts Are.....

So the two winners of the FREE t-shirt give-away are:

1. Logan
2. Zsolt

Please could you send me your address details as soon as you can and I will get the t-shirts shipped out to you.

Thanks to all that entered.



Some Last Minute Graphs too:

I have around 6k hands left to grind out today and tomorrow but July so far (Note: HEM is slightly out):

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Pokerstars VIP Club Hall Of Fame

I've made it onto the Stars Hall of Fame page. Time to shoot for 5m VPPs....

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Can't Understand Villain

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2 FREE T-Shirts Give-Away - 2 Days Left

If you missed my recent post regarding the FREE t-shirt give-away with Hard Rock Casino then here is reminder that there are still 2 days left 2 enter.

You just have to go to the post and enter your name and size, simplez.... GL








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'U Lucky Piece Of ****'

 Lucky.......

Sorry

No

King Queen Of Clubs

Just

The 

Pot

Thanks

Mate

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Wowza

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Sick Flop

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Variance Calculator

I thought it would be interesting to do an updated variance calculation on my win rate. It's been about 2yrs or so since I last did one.

This one the I used is from a site called pokerolymp. It is for cash game poker specifically and calculates the expected value, standard deviation and risk of ruin over a given time frame.

Here are my results:

I used a win rate of 2.5 which is about right for me. The Standard Deviation defaults to 65 for Full Ring.
You can see that I am expected to win 125 stacks over the course of 500,000 hands with a SD of 45 stacks.

The Graph looks like this:

There can be quite a big difference between the upper and lower standard deviation.

Will I go busto?:

To be safe I should keep around 50 BIs at which ever stake I'm playing.



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Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open + 2 FREE T-Shirts To Give-Away In This Post

Next month, an exciting event from Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is coming to Hollywood, Florida in the United States. 

Its upcoming Poker Open will be carrying a $10 Million Guarantee Championship Event, the largest guaranteed payout ever. 

The Seminole Hard Poker Open runs from August 8^th-29^th with the $10,000,000 guarantee Championship Event starting on August 22^nd. The first place winner alone will receive over $1.5 million in prize money. 

Plus, the 33-event series will have additional payouts beyond the $10 million. Some of the highlights for the series are Event #1 ($350bi with a $500K guarantee), Event #7 ($560bi with a $1 million guarantee) and Event #11 ($2,200bi with a $150K guarantee).The tournament schedule may be previewed here at Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.

Additionally, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has just added the World Poker Tour®  WPT Alpha8™ Florida Super High-Roller Tournament to its Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) series schedule. 

The new $100,000 buy-in Event #23 will start on August 26 at noon at Hard Rock Live. You can watch the WPT Alpha8 Florida final table before it airs on TV streamed live on www.WPT.com on August 27.

The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock Facebook

The Poker Room at Seminole Hard Rock Twitter

Hashtag: #SHRPO

2 FREE T-Shirts To Be Won

I have 2 Hard Rock T-Shirts to give away and 2 lucky winners will receive 1 each through a prize draw. To enter simply comment in this post and your name will go into a draw. Don't forget to mention your t-shirt size in your comment.

I will then draw 2 names out of a hat and each lucky winner will have a t-shirt sent to their home or chosen address.

Closing date for entry is: 28/07/13 11:59 British Summer Time (BST). I will post a comment when entry has closed.


Although it is not necessary for entry I would really appreciate if entrants clicked to follow this blog if you haven't already done so (on the right side pane): 

It literally takes seconds and you can follow if you have one of these accounts: Blogger, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, AIM, Netlog or OpenID. The more followers I get the more potential freebies I can give-away in the future.

Many Thanks and Good Luck

Disclaimer:

Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood has provided 2 T-Shirts to give-away. Any opinions I have expressed are my own and are not associated with Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.

Lifetime SNE

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Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam

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Sucky Month, Mini Upswing

I'm winning a little last 18k hands:

WTF Month:

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One Helluva Fightback

Not sure if I have ever been more determined to pull back a bad session... but I did it..!!

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The Perfect Note

A pretty interesting hand came up here. A reg limps and a whale isolates and I pick up the rockets. Normally I would just pump this up as the whale has 0% fold to 3b. However, just before I slam down the raise I notice a note on the reg:

This changes everything as with my blockers to AA or AK he pretty much has KK. Im not sure if his limp re-raise range has JJ/QQ or AQ or anything else but as its not in my notes so I can heavily weight this towards KK.

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No Need For Words

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Roulette Bonus

I went to the Victoria Casino in London yesterday to play some liver poker but ended up playing Roulette all night  :)

+$220 Ftw

They are refurbishing the place and increasing the poker room capacity to 350 seats. I should be back in a few weeks to check out all the improvements..!!

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Runner Runner

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$6K Hit, NL200 Activated

I just hit the next level up on my 30 BI BRM system. I can now add NL200 tables. I will try out some of these during the next few days.

I have been playing all levels up to and including NL100 last few days which has got me over the $6k mark.

I also attempted a random crazy grind day where I tried to play 20k hands and beat my previous record of 18k.

It was a sad fail as I burnt out and gave up:

Nice to be moving generally in the right direction..!!

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Chris Moneymaker Effect on WSOP Main Event Entrant Numbers

2003 was a year in poker history that many will never forget. It was the beginning of the blow up boom that happened after Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP Main Event after qualifying through a satellite.

If you look at the number of entrants in the year that followed his win you can see that it tripled:

The numbers then steadily rose and peaked in 2006 when Jamie Gold won $12m for 1st. 

Since then they have fluctuated but in the last 4 years they have declined year on year. It is possible that in 2010 there was just a random peak as from 2007 to 2013 generally there is not much difference. Next year will be an interesting stat and will show us if the WSOP ME is really in decline, especially if numbers dip below 6k. 

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2013 WSOP Main Event Entrants, Prizepool and Payouts

The Main Event has kicked off. Here are the numbers:

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $59,708,800
Entries: 6,352
Paid Places: 648

Place              Earnings 
1st                 $8,359,531
2nd                $5,173,170
3rd                 $3,727,023
4th                 $2,791,983
5th                 $2,106,526
6th                 $1,600,792
7th                 $1,225,224
8th                 $944,593
9th                 $733,224
10th-12th       $573,204
13th-15th       $451,398
16th-18th       $357,655
19th-27th       $285,408
28th-36th       $229,281
37th-45th       $185,694
46th-54th       $151,063
55th-63rd       $123,597
64th-72nd      $102,102
73rd-81st       $84,786
82nd-90th      $71,053
91st-99th       $59,708


See how the amounts compare to last year's values.



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It Only Took 77 Years But He Did It

Andy Murray has just won his first Wimbledon title and his second Grand Slam title.

It's been 77 years since we have had a male British Champion at Wimbledon and it feels good. The last winner was Fred Perry.

I have been to the Wimbledon final before but that was a few year back and I only got to see Nadal and Berdych :). I would have loved to have seen this one live but its all good.

Murray won incredibly in straight sets beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 but it was an exciting match with numerous breaks of serve but both players.

The last game was really nail biting as Andy had 3 match points only to lose them all as Novak came back to deuce. However he got another match point and converted for the win.

Murray said afterwards "I understand how much everyone wanted to see British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it."

Well Done Andy..!!

GG



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