Bring On The Sunday Storm

I played 4 small tournies today, all with free tickets. I cashed in 2, busted in 1 and won a Sunday Storm ticket in the last one:

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My First Ever ZOOM Tournament - Deep Run

Had a little fun with a free ticket I got. Played my first ever Zoom Tourney and ran deep. Need to make a FT, its been a while..!!

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Deep Run In The VIP $100,000 Monthly Freeroll

I bested 99.75% of the field but did not make the final table. Was a fun run finishing 26th:

The hand that finished me off, busted on the river after a 3-way all in pre:

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New HeadHunterPoker Tour Heads to Aspers London (Stratford City) in January 2014

I have been planning to go to Aspers for a while now so I will try to satellite into this big event.

Article from http://uk.pokernews.com/ :

Poker players are going to be spoiled for choice in the opening months of 2014 thanks to a brand new live event taking place at Aspers Stratford City on January 15.

Sandwiched between the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Aussie Millions is the inaugural HeadHunterPoker Tour, a £5,000 buy-in event held in London. What makes this particular event stand out from the rest on the live poker calendar is that £1,000 from each buy-in goes into a Headhunter Bounty pool and when a player eliminates an opponent they receive a £1,000 bounty.

The first event of the six-stop HeadHunterPoker Tour takes place from January 15-18, 2014 at Aspers Stratford. For their £5,000 buy-in, players receive a stack of 30,000 tournament chips and play to hour-long blinds that start at 50/100. The final table is to be recorded for television and British legend Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot is said to be confirmed to play.

According to the HeadHunterPoker Tour website, satellites to the £5,000 buy-in event are running at William Hill with buy-ins starting as low as £25, meaning the chance to play for a potentially huge prize pool is open and accessible to players of all bankroll levels. Claims are also made that PokerStars is offering satellites, but no such satellites currently exist at PokerStars at time of writing.

The tour’s website gives some indication as to what the payouts could be, although there is nothing to back up their claims. The tour dates section says 35 places paid would result in a first place prize of over £270,000. Again, according to various banners and images on the tour’s site, the organisers are expecting at least 200 players to buy-in for £5,000 and create a prize pool of at least £1 million.

Whether or not 200 players will turn out for a £5,000 event during a busy time on the live poker calendar remains to be seen, but we do not have long to find out as the first event is only a month away. Stay tuned to UK & Ireland PokerNews as we bring you more information about this new poker tour.

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A Shot At A Big Score

Just before the bubble in the Supernova Freeroll I found myself in this position:

A few of the hands that took place:

Sadly I finished in 299th :(

The exit hand:

AIPF

Oh well. One day I will make a big Final Table..!!

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2 Days To Spin It Up

Gonna try to pull a few $$$ back in the last 2 days.

EV Above 0 at least now :)

Tournaments are frustrating as ever. The amount of times this has happened over the years. Probably the difference between a top 30 finish or not. 

80% Equity:

Then

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World Championship Of Online Poker 2013 Schedule (WCOOP)

Start Date  Time (ET)  Event  Name  Buy-In  Guarantee 

08 Sep   08:00  1  NL Hold'em [WCOOP Kickoff]  $109  $500,000
08 Sep   11:00  2  NL Hold'em [6-Max]  $215  $1,000,000
08 Sep   14:30  3  NL Hold'em  $215  $1,500,000

09 Sep  11:00  4  PL Omaha  $320  $300,000
09 Sep  14:00  5  NL Hold'em [6-Max, Shootout, No Late Reg]  $320  $250,000
09 Sep  17:00  6  NL Hold'em [Rebuys, Turbo]  $215  $750,000

10 Sep  11:00  7  NL Draw  $215  $50,000
10 Sep  14:00  8  PL Courchevel Hi/Lo  $215  $50,000
10 Sep  17:00  9  NL Hold'em  $1,050  $1,000,000

11 Sep  08:00  10  PL Omaha [Knockout]  $215  $150,000
11 Sep  11:00  11  NL Hold'em [Ante Up]  $320  $250,000
11 Sep  14:00  12  NL Hold'em [Heads-Up, No Late Reg]  $215  $250,000

12 Sep  06:00  13  NL Hold'em [Progressive KO]  $215  $250,000
12 Sep  11:00  14  NL Hold'em [6-Max, Knockout]  $530  $750,000
12 Sep  14:00  15  7-Card Stud H/L  $320  $125,000

13 Sep  11:00  16  PL  Omaha [6-Max]  $215  $250,000
13 Sep  14:00  17  NL  Single Draw 2-7  $215  $50,000
13 Sep  17:00  18  NL  Hold'em [Turbo, Zoom]  $320  $500,000

14 Sep  11:00  19  NL Hold'em  $109  $750,000
14 Sep  13:00  20  NL Hold'em [Super-Knockout]  $320  $600,000
14 Sep  15:00  21  PL Omaha H/L  $320  $200,000

15 Sep  11:00  22  NL Hold'em  $215  $1,250,000
15 Sep  12:30  23  NL Hold'em [8-Max, Re-Entry, High-Roller]  $10,300  $2,000,000
15 Sep  14:30  24  NL Hold'em  $700  $1,500,000

16 Sep  11:00  25  NL Hold'em [4-Max]  $215  $400,000
16 Sep  14:00  26  7-Card Stud  $320  $75,000
16 Sep  17:00  27  PL Omaha [Turbo, 1R1A]  $215  $300,000

17 Sep  11:00  28  Mixed Hold'em  $320  $150,000
17 Sep  14:00  29  PL Badugi  $320  $50,000
17 Sep  17:00  30  NL Hold'em  $1,050  $1,000,000

18 Sep  08:00  31  PL 5-Card Omaha H/L [6-Max, 2R1A]  $215  $150,000
18 Sep  11:00  32  NL Hold'em [Progressive KO]  $700  $250,000
18 Sep  14:00  33  8-Game  $320  $150,000

19 Sep  06:00  34  NL Hold'em [6-Max]  $320  $350,000
19 Sep  11:00  35  PL Omaha [Rebuys, 6-Max]  $320  $400,000
19 Sep  14:00  36  Triple Draw 2-7  $320  $50,000

20 Sep  11:00  37  NL Hold'em [Rebuys]  $215  $600,000
20 Sep  14:00  38  FL Omaha H/L  $530  $150,000
20 Sep  17:00  39  NL Hold'em [6-Max, 10-Minute Levels]  $215  $300,000

21 Sep  11:00  40  NL Hold'em [8-Max]  $1,050  $500,000
21 Sep  13:00  41  NL Hold'em [Super-Knockout]  $530  $500,000
21 Sep  15:00  42  HORSE  $320  $100,000

22 Sep  11:00  43  NL Hold'em  $215  $1,000,000
22 Sep  12:30  44  NL Hold'em [High-Roller Heads-Up, No Late Reg]  $10,300  $300,000
22 Sep  14:30  45  NL Hold'em  $2,100  $2,000,000

23 Sep  11:00  46  PL 5-Card Omaha [6-Max, 1R1A]  $320  $200,000
23 Sep  14:00  47  NL Hold'em [Re-Entry]  $320  $500,000
23 Sep  17:00  48  NL Hold'em [Turbo, Knockout]  $215  $500,000

24 Sep  11:00  49  Mixed NL Hold'em/PL Omaha  $320  $200,000
24 Sep  14:00  50  Razz  $530  $100,000
24 Sep  17:00  51  NL Hold'em  $1,050  $1,000,000

25 Sep  08:00  52  NL Hold'em [1R1A]  $215  $300,000
25 Sep  11:00  53  NL Hold'em [Re-Entry, Big Antes]  $215  $300,000
25 Sep  14:00  54  PL Omaha [6-Max]  $2,100  $500,000

26 Sep  06:00  55  NL Hold'em  $320  $300,000
26 Sep  11:00  56  NL Hold'em [Rebuys]  $530  $750,000
26 Sep  14:00  57  FL Hold'em  $215  $100,000

27 Sep  11:00  58  NL Hold'em [1R1A]  $530  $600,000
27 Sep  14:00  59  NL Omaha H/L  $215  $100,000
27 Sep  17:00  60  FL Hold'em [6-Max]  $1,050  $100,000

28 Sep  11:00  61  PL Omaha [Heads Up, No Late Reg]  $700  $150,000
28 Sep  13:00  62  NL Hold'em [Super-Knockout]  $700  $1,000,000
28 Sep  15:00  63  HORSE  $2,100  $250,000

29 Sep  11:00  64  NL Hold'em [8-Max]  $215  $1,500,000
29 Sep  12:30  65  8-Game [High-Roller]  $10,300  $500,000
29 Sep  14:30  66  NL Hold'em Main Event [$1.25M Gtd to 1st]  $5,200  $8,000,000

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A Chip And A Chair - Pokerstars $1m Giveaway

There's are pretty fun tournament series running at Stars right now.

It's a freeroll series for players who have earned x amount of VPPs the prior month.

Its on for 5 days and today was day 1. You receive up to 5 tickets depending on how many VPPs you earned and you can then choose which tournament(s) to enter.

I was lucky enough to get all 5 tickets so I will be playing them all.

The interesting thing about these tournaments is you only get 1 chip. The tables are 4-max and all 4 players are all in. Its basically a shootout flipament.

It lasted 8 minutes and the winner won $100,000. I won 2 tables before being knocked out for a nice score of $2.50, lol.

Here are the prize breakdown:

The Final Table:

Winner got $100k and the 3 Final Table losers got $25k each.

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High Stakes - The Sam Trickett Story

Sam Trickett is the biggest UK poker tournament winner of all time. He is also in the top 3 in the world all time winners according to the hendonmob website.

He was working his way to becoming a professional footballer when an injury put paid to that. After that he found poker.

His most notable career highlight was taking second place at the WSOP Big One for One Drop scooping a whopping $10.1m.

I just watched an interesting documentary about his life story.



Here is the 4-part film:

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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.

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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.

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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Pokerstars NEW Guinness World Record Tournament

I played in the largest ever tournament field yesterday when I entered the $1 Guinness World Record tournament on Pokerstars.

There were 225,000 entrants with a prize pool of $300,000. I managed to beat 94% of the field, finishing 12,062nd for a whopping cash of $4 :)

The winner was Mr.SlavaPro who scooped a nice $25,000 in a little over 4 hours.

In cash games I am up 34 stacks:

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Advanced Poker Strategy Video

WBCOOP 2013 Round-Up

So I think I definitely spent more time playing tournaments this month than ever before. I added lots of others alongside the WBCOOP events and didn't win anything of note. I am way behind on cash games as I was playing far less of those alongside MTTs. I think I may give WBCOOP a miss next time as the prizes are too small and divert valuable time away from my main poker activities.

It was a fun series nevertheless and at the start of the ME I had a shot at the top of the leader board if I finished 1st lol. With 1,009 runners I made 49th after a huge bad beat on the river with my chips in good on the flop (standard MTTs).

I made 5 cashes (tickets) out of 10 events and cashed in the main too. I finished somewhere like 45th on the overall leader board.

A fun series for micro bloggers really but maybe not worthwhile for higher stake players.

GG

200,000 Page Views + WBCOOP Leader Board

It doesn't seem that long ago that I was passing six figures in views. That took over 2 years to get to but the 2nd ton has only taken around 10 months which means readers have got up.

Thanks to all of you for reading and supporting supernova125..!!

In proper news now I only have 2 tickets left in WBCOOP and the current leader board looks like this:

If you look closely you will not find me on this as I am sitting on 110 Points. I am looking for a deep run in 1 or both to get me a chance at a shot at a top 3 finish which has some nice prizes. 

I am not sure if tomorrows final has leader board points too or is only for the cash prizes but that will be fun and conclude a pretty enjoyable series..!!

13th In WBCOOP Event 22: PLO

I've just had another deep run in WBCOOP which should take me up a little in the Leaderboard standings.

The last hand was sick. I had the guy all-in on the flop wit a massive hand and he sucked out big style:

3rd Place In WBCOOP Event #13 4-Max NLHE

I have just had my best ever MTT finish. So am I rich???, sadly no as it was on a freeroll with tiny prizes. It was a lot of fun though and I really enjoyed having a shot at a title.

So close....

Here's the Final Table:

Some jokes 3-handed:

Some abuse on route to the FT:

Pokerstars 7th Anniversary Sunday Million

I just played this big tournament yesterday.

It was the 7th Anniversary of the biggest Sunday online tourney on the planet and it generated 49,287 entrants, a pool of $9,857,400 with $1,000,000 guaranteed for first place.

I managed to beat 76% of the field but could not cash like I did last time.

The Prize distributions were as follows:

1st - $1,242,842
2nd - $743,839
3rd - $511,599
4th - $358,809
5th - $254,320
6th - $181,376
7th - $117,303
8th - $85,759
9th - $62,101
10th to 12th - $46,822
13th to 15th - $34,993
16th to 18th - $23,362
19th to 27th - $13,603
28th to 45th - $8,871
46th to 72nd - $7,294
73rd to 99th - $6,013

The final three chopped and all got more than $800k each.

Here are the top 25:

GG

My WBCOOP 2013 Schedule

I just got my 10 tickets for this years WBCOOP series which starts on March 1st.

I have my draft schedule below (Picks in Red):

WBCOOP 2013 Tournament Schedule (GMT)

Mar 1
#1 - 15:00 NLHE
#2 - 19:00 PLO, 6-Max

#3 - 23:00 FL Badugi

Mar 2

#4 - 15:00 NLH/PLO [Turbo]

#5 - 19:00 NLHE [Triple Shootout]

#6 - 23:00 8-Game 

Mar 3

#7 - 15:00 NLHE [6-Max]

#8 - 19:00 NLHE

#9 - 23:00 PLO Hi/Lo [6-Max]

Mar 4

#10 - 15:00 Stud

#11 - 19:00 NLH/PLO

#12 - 23:00 Stud Hi/Lo [Turbo]

Mar 5

#13 - 15:00 NLHE [4-Max]

#14 - 19:00 PL 5-Card Draw [6-Max]

#15 - 23:00 NLHE [6-Max, Turbo]

Mar 6

#16 - 15:00 Triple Stud

#17 - 19:00 NLHE [Heads-Up]

#18 - 23:00 PLO [Turbo]

Mar 7

#19 - 15:00 FLHE [6-Max]

#20 - 19:00 PLHE [Turbo]

#21 - 23:00 NLHE [Triple Shootout, 10-Max]

Mar 8

#22 - 15:00 PLO [6-Max]

#23 - 19:00 NLHE [Big Antes]

#24 - 23:00 NL Omaha Hi/Lo

Mar 9

#25 - 15:00 NLHE [Deepstacks]

#26 - 19:00 PL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max]

#27 - 23:00 NLHE [Turbo]

Mar 10

#28 - 14:00 HORSE

#29 - 18:00 NLHE [6-Max]

#30 - 22:00 NLHE

Mar 11

#31 - 14:00 NLHE Main Event