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Sunday, July 21, 2013

WSOP Main Event 2013 Payout Structure

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
100th-162nd
$50,752
163rd-225th
$42,990
226th-288th
$37,019
289th-360th
$32,242
361st-432nd
$28,063
433rd-504th
$24,480
505th-576th
$21,495
577th-648th
$19,106

Monday, January 16, 2012

A Poker Players Backpack(Sneak Peek Twitter Exclusive)

Whats In My Poker Backpack?
Going to the casino is all about being prepared. Some people are fine with playing a five to eight hour live poker session and holding everything in their pockets. This is why I bring a small back pack. I usually have a number of things on me that I don't want in my pocket or coat. My local casino, Hollywood Casino Indiana, can have reasonably long waits on any given day of the week, even if I reserve a seat ahead of time. So let me go ahead and share a few things I tend to bring.

My Local Casino: Hollywood Casino WPT Poker Room

This is the daily tournament schedule for Hollywood Casino Indiana Poker!

While I am promoting Hollywood Casino Indiana Poker room, lets go ahead and list why you should play live poker here.

Official WPT Poker Room
Offers great poker action with a superb poker environment
Lots of Fish and Passive players(watch out for the sharks)
Well organized with a great staff
Easy to cash tournaments with decent structure
Comfortable room with a great bar and servers. Check out the dollar per minute massages by a great masseuse staff
Non-smoking
Cash players receive $1 per hour on their players card, which is a great way to buy some drinks

Hollywood Casino Indiana Poker is the best you will find in the Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky tristate area. Friday and Saturday nights are the best time to take advantage of the drunks playing. If your on your way give them a call at 812.539.MYPK (6975) in order to get on the list for a cash table. This alone will save you at least twenty minutes because Hollywood Casino Indiana Poker is hot and will get packet during the evening hours.

Poker In 2012; Touching Base With All Of My Followers

December of 2011 was a busy time for me, so I would like to apologize to my fan base for being very inactive. The truth is I stopped playing online poker completely and moved over to the live play part time. In fact, I made over 3,000 dollars in the month of December playing twice a week. I played a mixture of tournaments and 1/2 cash tables. So far in the new year, I have netted 1,000 dollars. So as you can see I feel like live play is a more profitable experience over the possible U.S online field. On top of that, College studies have also been consuming much of time that is normally used to work on my fledgling little blog.

To Any Players Signed Up To Carbon Poker Through My Site

I just want all of my players to know that I have signed us up for a an extra freeroll on Carbon Poker. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity in order to help you learn more about MTT and to start a bankroll! I hope you enjoy this offer!

Every month on the second Saturday and Sunday of the month CarbonPoker is offering a $500 freeroll and a $500 Added Value- $2.20 Buyin for our players - Join Now!

Here are the details to this months exclusive tournament series.

Name: Exclusive $500 Freeroll
Where: CarbonPoker Lobby
When: November 12th @ 15:00 CarbonPoker Server time.
Location: CarbonPoker>> Tournaments>> Private>> Scheduled.

Name: Exclusive $500 Added Value – $2.20 Buyin
Where: CarbonPoker Lobby
When: November 13th @ 15:00 CarbonPoker Server time
Location: CarbonPoker>> Tournaments>> Private>> Scheduled.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Optimisim From a US Professional Poker Player!

I decided to let my buddy Marc write about his poker success and experiences! I thought it would be a great way to promote himself and keep other American poker players motivated to keep playing hard!! Enjoy his letter!

Hello Guys,

My name is Marc I live in Pompano Beach Fl right now. I have been playing poker professionally for 6 years. I started playing in 2004 after watching the main event on T.V. I was so clueless at the time I didn’t even know that they put up there on money. I thought ESPN just gave out those prizes. I have obviously come along way. I played play chips on party poker for 6 months or so. I actually started with 5,000 chips and built it up to 1 billion chips. Yes I had no life. I deposited $100 and lost it and another $50 and lost that. I decided to take one more shot and I did and never looked back. I started on 0.10/0.25 and made around $1,000 after that binked a $1 tourney for $500. After that I skipped 0.25/50 and played 0.5/1 and made around $2,000 or so. My semi break came when I jumped up to $2-4 one night and won $1,500. I ended up pounding out $17,000 more on 2/4. After that the government shut it down (2006 ) shut down. I took a most of the year off and didn’t play much probably made $10,000 on FT and Bodog. In 2008 I was making around $3,000 a month playing .5/1 and was somewhat content. Something really motivated me and I decided to start 8 table and did pretty well and ended up winning $40,000 which ranked me first on Absolute Poker 0.5/1. In 2009 I clocked in around 1,000 hours mostly 9 tabling and made around $80,000 which was second for my limit. 2010 started great and made around 30,000 the first 5 months. I had a rough break up which caused my to play less. During the government shutdown I luckily only had $1,500 on AP. I decided to play full time live and did that the last 6 months or so. I am waiting for government to legalize before I play again. I have never worked a day in my life and I thank the game of poker for that.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Hand Review: I made a terrible play but it worked out! Deep discussion required!

Alright this is my first hand review! I decided to put a terrible hand on here that way I could get a lot of in-depth discussion and criticism. A lot of Reddit readers also wanted to get some deep poker discussion going. Hopefully this satisfies and opens a lot up of talk!

So let me explain my play in this hand. I was BB and called the pot odds despite being out of position to call as well. I hit my five and bet putting this guy on over cards. I was re-raised on the flop, however this villain likes to re-raise a lot more then they should. So I went over the top! I bad beat the bastard and probably paid for it the next hand because I got KK and lost to QTo.

Questions
What is the estimated loss of equity making this play long term?
What are other potential options when PLAYING this hand?
Anything else is up for discussion as well!

Merge - $.50+$0.10|<> NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3: http://www.pokertracker.com

MP+1: 1,387.00
LP: 1,030.00
CO: 1,420.00
BTN: 1,675.00
SB: 3,765.00
Hero (BB): 1,015.00
UTG: 1,510.00
UTG+1: 1,686.00
MP: 1,512.00

SB posts SB 25.00, Hero posts BB 50.00

Pre Flop: (75.00) Hero has Kd 5d

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 100.00, fold, Hero calls 50.00

Flop: (225.00, 2 players) 5s Td 7h
Hero bets 112.00, BTN raises to 224.00, Hero raises to 915.00 and is all-in, BTN calls 691.00

Turn: (2055.00, 2 players) Kh

River: (2055.00, 2 players) 4s

BTN shows Ts Jh (One Pair, Tens) (PreFlop 43%, Flop 75%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows Kd 5d (Two Pair, Kings and Fives) (PreFlop 57%, Flop 25%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 2,055.00