Sunday, December 07, 2008

Online Poker

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code: 474598

PokerStars.com APPT Sydney Grand Final: Martin Rowe Claims Championship

John 'Falstaff' Hartness
After a solid week of high-power poker at the Star City Casino in Sydney, the final nine players in the PokerStars.com Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final took to the felt to determine the champion and new millionaire yesterday. The final table included a student, a retired engineer, several poker pros and a racehorse owner from Canada. When the last pot was pushed, it 34-year-old local player Martin Rowe, a Star City regular who bested fearsome pro Jason Gray heads up to claim the trophy and the AU$1,000,000 first prize.

Antonio Fazzolari held the chip lead going into the final table, and started the day swinging his chip stack like a club. After taking down several of the first pots of the day, he also created the first elimination when he sent Tom Rafferty to the rail in ninth place (AU$39,200). Rafferty, who started the day with one of the biggest stacks, raised preflop with . Fazzolari called, and the flop came down . Rafferty led out with his nut flush draw, and Fazzolari put out a stiff raise. Rafferty moved all in over the top without hesitation, and Fazzolari called just as quickly. Fazzolari tabled for top two, and Rafferty needed a club to stay alive. The on the turn was no help, and when the hit the river, Rafferty hit the rail. That hand left Fazzolari the massive chip leader with eight players remaining.

Hai Bo Chu came into the final table on the short stack, and the Melbourne marketing executive finished in eighth place (AU$53,200) when he ran afoul of eventual champ Martin Rowe. Rowe limped in from under the gun, and saw a three-way pot with Antonio Fazzolari and Chu from the blinds. The flop came down , and Rowe led out. Fazzolari folded, and Chu moved all in over the top with for the inside straight draw. Rowe snap-called with for the overpair, and needed to fade a nine to send Chu packing. Chu picked up additional outs when the came on the turn, but the on the river was no help and he was done.

Daniel Kowalski played tight at the final table, but still busted in seventh place (AU$72,800). In the first hand he raised all day, Kowalski found two callers in Frank Saffioti and Antonio Fazzolari. The flop came down , and Saffioti led out. Fazzolari and Kowalski both called, and the turn brought the . Action checked around to Kowalski, who fired at the pot. Saffioti check-raised all in, and Fazzolari went into the tank before folding. Kowalski quickly called with , but found himself way behind Saffioti's . Only a nine on the river would save Kowalski, and it was not to be as the landed to send him to the rail.

Fazzolari seemed destined to hold the chip lead throughout the final table until he and Martin Rowe tangled in a huge pot. Rowe and Fazzolari saw a three-way flop with Frank Saffioti of , and Fazzolari led out. Saffioti and Rowe both called, and the came on the turn. Fazzolari fired again, and this time only Rowe made the call. The river brought the , and Rowe called once again, tabling for two pair, kings and threes. Fazzolari could only muster for sevens and threes, and Rowe took over the chip lead.

Frank Saffioti lost a coin flip he didn't know he had made when he busted in sixth place (AU$100,800). Jason Gray raised preflop with pocket sevens, and Saffioti and Martin Rowe both called. Gray fired at the flop, and Saffioti moved all in over the top. Rowe called, and Gray quickly tossed his hand. Saffioti's made two pair, but Rowe had flopped a set and was firmly in the lead. The on the turn added to Saffioti's outs with a flush and full house draws, but the on the river was the end of the Day 2 chip leader. With that hand, Rowe moved into the commanding chip lead, with more than a million chips more than his nearest competitor.

Young Timothy English made a good run in his first major poker tournament, picking up AU$140,000 for his fifth-place finish. After a raise from Martin Rowe preflop, English re-raised with . Rowe called, and the flop came down 9h-. English led out again, this time for all his chips. Rowe thought briefly before making the call with for two overs and an open-ended straight draw. English was slightly ahead when the money went in, but the on the turn gave the lead to Rowe. The on the river was no help to English, and he headed to the rail as his chips added to Rowe's massive stack.

With English's elimination, the remaining four players headed off to dinner. Martin Rowe had the rest of the field covered, as the chip stacks at dinner break looked like this:

Martin Rowe - 5,580,000
Jason Gray - 1,630,000
Tony Basile - 1,095,000
Antonio Fazzolari - 1,095,000

Post-dinner play began slowly, but after more than an hour of jockeying for position, an explosion of quick eliminations thinned the field to two. Antonio Fazzolari found himself in an unfamiliar position for the final table – the short stack. He woke up to , and quickly shipped the last of his chips into the middle. Martin Rowe took one peek and his and called without hesitation. The board ran out , and Rowe's ace-king high was enough to take down the pot and send Fazzolari packing in fourth place (AU$182,000).

Before Fazzolari's chair was even cold, Tony Basile joined him at the payout table in third place (AU$266,000). Rowe raised from the button, and Basile three-bet from the big blind. Rowe moved all in without a moment's thought, and Basile went into the tank for a minute before making the call with . There are only two hands that Basile really didn't want to see, and Rowe tabled one of them – pocket kings. When the board ran out , Basile headed to the rail and Rowe was headed into a long heads-up match with the dangerous Jason Gray.

Rowe took a big chip lead into heads-up play, with the counts as follows:

Martin Rowe - 7,805,000
Jason Gray - 1,595,000

Even with a huge chip advantage, it took over two hours for Rowe to dispatch Gray and claim his first major tournament victory. After two hours of small ball, Rowe began to apply the pressure. With liberal raises and three-bets, Rowe rebuilt the big stack that Gray spent two hours chipping down, then all the money went in on a final confrontation. Gray limped in preflop with , then moved all in over the top of Rowe's preflop raise. No one knew if Rowe had been raising light earlier, but this time he certainly wasn't. Rowe quickly called with , and Gray needed help to stay alive. The flop brought plenty of excitement as it came down , giving Rowe top two against Gray's bottom pair, and even more excitement followed the on the turn, which gave Gray two pair of his own and outs to a full house. After a breathless moment, the river came down the anti-climactic , and Gray was finished in second place (AU$476,000).

Martin Rowe outlasted 477 competitors and survived a tough heads-up match to earn his first APPT title, the Grand Final trophy, entry into the APPT Tournament of Champions, and the AU$1,000,000 first prize. Join PokerNews at 1:30pm Sydney time for live coverage of the Tournament of Champions.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Turkpokerpro.com & poker forum

The new site of winning poker for Turkish Poker Players has been launched - Kazanan Pokerin Yeni Adresi Açıldı. http://www.turkpokerpro.com

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Sun Poker is running a unique promotion for omaha players

Sun Poker™

$15K WSOP Omaha Challenge

In the month of March SunPoker is giving you the chance to play in the WSOP World Championships of Omaha.

The top ten SunPoker players who play the most PL Omaha High hands (0.50/1.00 PL Omaha and above) in March will play in a 10 handed free roll for some amazing WSOP prizes.

10 Handed Free Roll Prizes

1st place – A seat in the $10,000 WSOP Omaha World Championship + $1,500 cash
2nd place- A seat in the $1,500 WSOP Pot Limit Omaha event + $1,000 cash
3rd place - $500 in cash

One Sick Promo
November 23, 2006 01:07 AM Eastern Time

SunPoker.com Launches One Sick Promo

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Is it too early to start thinking about the WSOP? According to SunPoker, the answer is a resounding no. They are currently preparing to launch one of the largest and unique World Series of Poker campaigns ever seen.

The promotion, aptly named “One Sick Promo” will give away 100 WSOP packages to the top 100 MPP (My Poker Points) earners from December 1st to May 31st. What really makes this promotion so “SICK” is that these are not free roll tournaments that someone would have to qualify for, if they are among the 100 top SICKEST poker players, they get the packages.

Keeping in tune with the name and theme of the promotion, the top five finishers of SunPoker’s One Sick Promo will be flying to the 2007 WSOP on a Gulfstream IV. In layman’s terms, a Gulfstream IV is the SICKEST private jet you could imagine. And as if this wasn’t enough, SunPoker has also let its top five finishers invite a friend on the trip to Vegas where they will enjoy three weeks in the SunPoker.com luxury mansion during the WSOP.

Some might call this type of luxury overkill, but not the masterminds of One Sick Promo. Adam Smirnis, Poker Room Manager at SunPoker, had this to say, “This promotion is all about going above and beyond expectations. If a player thinks its fair to get their airfare covered, we’ll charter a private jet. If they want a hotel room, we’ll rent them a mansion.”

It certainly seems that the people at SunPoker are willing to do WHATEVER it takes to make their players happy. And that includes the players that fall outside of the fabulous five. The top 30 players in the promotion will all receive extra WSOP Chips so that they can play more than just the WSOP Main Event, as well as exquisite accommodations in three other separate huge villas.

“The WSOP is not just one event and it should not be treated as such. For a lot of the Internet players, this is the only time they play live all year.” Smirnis added, “They should be given the opportunity to experience more of the WSOP. After all, it isn’t just one tournament, it’s a series.”

It seems that the philosophy at SunPoker has become either crazy or brilliant, but either way the players that decide to play at SunPoker this year will see an enormous payoff. If you think you have what it takes to compete in One Sick Promo visit www.onesickpromo.com.

About SunPoker.com

SunPoker.com is one of the largest poker rooms on the Internet, with thousands of players from around the world playing Texas Hold’em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha, and other exciting poker games, 24 hours a day. SunPoker.com is run on the Cryptologic (NASDAQ: CRYP) network, and has securely dealt over 1.2 Billion hands of poker since 2000.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Bowmans Strip Poker +18 !!!

Interactive Free Video
Clicke here / Burayı Tıkla

Stripper lady teaches you how to play draw poker and a very important lesson: Know your opponent!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Legal Poker Cheating: CalculatemPro Makes U Win.

 

In my previous posts I wrote about how useful sitngoshark is. And CalculatemPro, my favorite odds calculator is no less useful. It is not only an odds calculator but also a teacher and an advisor. The best thing is that you can get and try it free. The picture is from one of the tournaments I won with the help of CalculatemPro. Since the beginning of 2007 the Mutatum Ltd., the professional poker software company (legal and effective softwares!), agreed with Titan Poker to promote their softwares. If you sign in to Titan Poker you can use CalculatemPro and easily can get at least even (can get back the minimum deposit of 20$ I mean) after a few sit and gos or ring games by just playing tight. So instead of buying CalculatemPro for 60$ smt. you make it free and start to profit with that. By just tight play and correct odds calculation. It even warns you when to bluff and how possible that you may be bluffed etc...So not a an plain oddscalculator indeed.

The tournament that I just won is a "Maui - JackPot sitngo" (10 players, top 3 get paid). If you win 5 in a row you share the JackPot of 32.500$. 5 Top 2 finishes get 200$ consolidation (which was an awesome experience for me). But this time I will complete the row!!

NOT: Yazının Türkçesi ve bu yazilimla ilgili ayrintilar www.turkpokerpro.info ve www.turkpokerpro.com sitelerinde deçıkacaktır. Linklerden 100% legal olan bu yazilimi temin edebilirsiniz. TitanPoker ve diğer anlaşmalı sitelere kayıt olunması halinde yazılım bedava. Ancak artan ödemelerden dolayi Titan Poker'in bu yazilimin kullanımını haziran itibarı ile sitesinde yasaklayacaği aldiğimiz duyumlar arasinda. Yazıda kısaca bahsedilen CalculatemPro, herhangi bir müdaheleye gerek olmadan kartlarınızı, rakiplerin hareketini, masadaki kartları otomatik algılayıp size ne yapmanız gerektiğini söyleyen faydalı bir programdır.
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Play strip poker with a playboy girl for free



While surfing on the net I came accross with that link. May be you know but I give for those who are interested:


http://www.playboy.com/girls/funstuff/strippoker/index.html

 
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Monday, January 08, 2007

WSOP - Historical Overview


Below are the past winners of the main event of WSOP, together with brief information about each year's main event.

Note: ♦ is diamonds



Year Winner / Winning Hand Prize (US$) Entrants Runner-Up / Losing Hand



1970 Johnny Moss * n/a 7 n/a
1971 Johnny Moss 30,000 6 Walter "Puggy" Pearson
1972 Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston K J 80,000 8 Walter "Puggy" Pearson
1973 Walter "Puggy" Pearson A♠ 7♠ 130,000 13 Johnny Moss K♥ J♠
1974 Johnny Moss 160,000 16 Crandall Addington
1975 Brian "Sailor" Roberts 9♠ 9♥ 210,000 21 Bob Hooks A♣ K♦
1976 Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♠ 220,000 22 Jesse Alto A♠ J♦
1977 Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♥ 340,000 34 Gary Berland 8♥ 5♣
1978 Bobby Baldwin Q♦ Q♣ 210,000 42 Crandall Addington 9♦ 9♣
1979 Hal Fowler 7♠ 6♦ 270,000 54 Bobby Hoff A♣ A♥
1980 Stu Ungar 5♠ 4♠ 385,000 73 Doyle Brunson A♥ 7♠
1981 Stu Ungar A♥ Q♥ 375,000 75 Perry Green 10♠ 9♦
1982 Jack Straus A♥ 10♠ 520,000 104 Dewey Tomko A♦ 4♦
1983 Tom McEvoy Q♦ Q♠ 540,000 108 Rod Peate K♦ J♦
1984 Jack Keller 10♥ 10♠ 660,000 132 Byron Wolford 6♥ 4♥
1985 Bill Smith 3♠ 3♥ 700,000 140 T. J. Cloutier A♦ 3♣
1986 Berry Johnston A♠ 10♥ 570,000 141 Mike Harthcock A♦ 8♦
1987 Johnny Chan A♠ 9♣ 625,000 152 Frank Henderson 4♦ 4♣
1988 Johnny Chan J♣ 9♣ 700,000 167 Erik Seidel Q♣ 7♥
1989 Phil Hellmuth Jr 9♠ 9♣ 755,000 178 Johnny Chan A♠ 7♠
1990 Mansour Matloubi 6♥ 6♠ 895,000 194 Hans Lund 4♦ 4♣
1991 Brad Daugherty K♠ J♠ 1,000,000 215 Don Holt 7♥ 3♥
1992 Hamid Dastmalchi 8♥ 4♣ 1,000,000 201 Tom Jacobs J♦ 7♠
1993 Jim Bechtel J♣ 6♥ 1,000,000 220 Glenn Cozen 7♠ 4♦
1994 Russ Hamilton K♠ 8♥ 1,000,000 268 Hugh Vincent 8♣ 5♥
1995 Dan Harrington 9♦ 8♦ 1,000,000 273 Howard Goldfarb A♥ 7♣
1996 Huck Seed 9♦ 8♦ 1,000,000 295 Bruce Van Horn K♣ 8♣
1997 Stu Ungar A♥ 4♣ 1,000,000 312 John Strzemp A♠ 8♣
1998 Scotty Nguyen J♦ 9♣ 1,000,000 350 Kevin McBride Q♥ 10♥
1999 Noel Furlong 5♣ 5♦ 1,000,000 393 Alan Goehring 6♥ 6♣
2000 Chris Ferguson A♠ 9♣ 1,500,000 512 T. J. Cloutier A♦ Q♣
2001 Juan Carlos Mortensen K♣ Q♣ 1,500,000 613 Dewey Tomko A♠ A♥
2002 Robert Varkonyi Q♦ 10♠ 2,000,000 631 Julian Gardner J♣ 8♣
2003 Chris Moneymaker 5♦ 4♠ 2,500,000 839 Sam Farha J♥ 10♦
2004 Greg Raymer 8♠ 8♦ 5,000,000 2,576 David Williams A♥ 4♠
2005 Joe Hachem 7♣ 3♠ 7,500,000 5,619 Steve Dannenmann A♦ 3♣
2006 Jamie Gold Q♠ 9♣ 12,000,000 8,773 Paul Wasicka 10♥ 10♠

From Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia

Poker Player of the Year Awards

Since 2004 a Player of the Year Award has been given to the player with the most points accumulated throughout the World Series. Beginning with the 2006 World Series of Poker, the Main Event had no effect on the outcome of the winner of the Player of the Year award.

Year Winner Bracelets Final Tables Money Finishes
2004 Daniel Negreanu 1 5 6
2005 Allen Cunningham 1 4 5
2006 Jeff Madsen 2 4 4

From Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Who is Jesse May?

Nickname(s): The Voice of Poker
Hometown: Denmark

"The Voice of Poker" Jesse May is an American poker commentator and player.

Jesse May was raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he first became hooked on poker playing with friends. In 1988 he started the University of Chicago, but he found that classes were clashing with his poker games, and so dropped out. For six years Jesse travelled the world playing poker.

May found fame presenting the Late Night Poker television series. He also appeared in a season 1 episode under the pseudonym Mickey Dane. This pseudonym is in fact the main character in his poker novel, Shut Up and Deal (ISBN 1-901982-56-4).

May has continued to be involved in poker commentary on other shows, including the William Hill Poker Grand Prix, PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup, 888.com Poker Nations Cup, Poker Million, Victor Chandler Poker Cup, Celebrity Poker Club, and The Poker Show.

He often commentates alongside Padraig Parkinson, who has said that it surprises him that May plays so little poker when he is such a good player.

In 2006, May signed an exclusive contract for presenting televised poker with Matchroom Sport.

May is married and currently lives in Denmark.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Final Hand of The Tournament With Sitandgoshark

***** Hand History for Game 5500687020 *****
1200/2400 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) (Tournament 30746023) - Tue Dec 12 17:43:39 EST 2006
Table Speed 1312276 (Real Money) -- Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 3: TOMTOM178 (1540)
Seat 5: RiverJAQK (18460)
TOMTOM178 posts small blind (600)
RiverJAQK posts big blind (1200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RiverJAQK [ 6c, 7h ]
TOMTOM178 bets (940)
TOMTOM178 is all-In.
RiverJAQK calls (340)
Creating Main Pot with $3080 with TOMTOM178
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5c, 4h, 9h ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 8d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Jh ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 3080 Board: [ 5c 4h 9h 8d Jh ]
TOMTOM178 balance 0, lost 1540 [ Tc 3h ] [ high card Jack -- Jh,Tc,9h,8d,5c ]
RiverJAQK balance 20000, bet 1540, collected 3080, net +1540 [ 6c 7h ] [ a straight Five to Nine -- 9h,8d,7h,6c,5c ]


And a critical hand...

***** Hand History for Game 5500592898 *****
100/200 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) (Tournament 30746023) - Tue Dec 12 17:03:42 EST 2006
Table Speed 1312276 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: matoons_pp (1640)
Seat 2: BustAM2 (2640)
Seat 3: TOMTOM178 (2350)
Seat 4: Atrois (3160)
Seat 5: RiverJAQK (2470)
Seat 6: sham69333 (1720)
Seat 7: OLYMPIQUE111 (880)
Seat 8: erltorres (1620)
Seat 9: hakanper (1920)
Seat 10: SteNan (1600)
erltorres posts small blind (50)
hakanper posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RiverJAQK [ 9d, Td ]
SteNan folds.
matoons_pp calls (100)
BustAM2 folds.
TOMTOM178 folds.
Atrois folds.
RiverJAQK calls (100)
sham69333 folds.
OLYMPIQUE111 folds.
erltorres folds.
hakanper checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7s, 5h, Kd ]
hakanper checks.
matoons_pp checks.
RiverJAQK bets (100)
hakanper calls (100)
matoons_pp folds.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Ks ]
hakanper checks.
RiverJAQK bets (200)
hakanper calls (200)
** Dealing River ** : [ 2c ]
hakanper checks.
RiverJAQK bets (200)
hakanper folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1150
Board: [ 7s 5h Kd Ks 2c ]

matoons_pp balance 1540, lost 100 (folded)
BustAM2 balance 2640, didn't bet (folded)
TOMTOM178 balance 2350, didn't bet (folded)
Atrois balance 3160, didn't bet (folded)
RiverJAQK balance 3020, bet 600, collected 1150, net +550
sham69333 balance 1720, didn't bet (folded)
OLYMPIQUE111 balance 880, didn't bet (folded)
erltorres balance 1570, lost 50 (folded)
hakanper balance 1520, lost 400 (folded)
SteNan balance 1600, didn't bet (folded)

Victory at the first try!!

An hour ago I finally purchased SitandgoShark and tried it in a sit & go tournament in PartyPoker. A few minutes ago it finished and I won!. To be honest, I was not expecting so much help from sitandgoshark. I am full of swindlers on the net but this guy (He calls himself Roy) is smart enough to earn and to teach. I requested a tournament report so you will see the details in the following days. You can find sngshark at the end of the right corner of this page. LET THE ACES BE WITH YOU:)) (What was that exactly?)

P.S. Leave a comment for the sake of holy crap. Will Skinski be the only one who has written a comment before I close this blog and switch to a website? Is that what you want? May the crap oops Aces be with you! (Unless we are at the same table:))).

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Event #7 - December 16 2006

The final event of the second season of Blogger Poker Tour will be hosted by imjusthere4thebeer from the Poker Pub.
To celebrate the release of the new games in the Poker.com software this event will be Omaha Hi-Lo with regular 10 seat tables. With the fun that was had in Irongirls Omaha a Go-Go this should be a great way to wrap up the regular season before the top 20 on the leaderboard battle it out for their share in over $25,000 in prizes.
Check out his blog for the password and updates as well as some very interesting BPT coverage.
Blog your way Down Under with the Blogger Poker Tour!