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In this mid-week, action was still up a notch on the tables ‘High-Stakes’ for Full Tilt Poker . After a disastrous day on Monday for him, Gus Hansen was back on the right track by dominating outrageously tables pot-limit Omaha. At about the same time, “XWINK” added a new chapter in his saga by facing Andreas “Skjervoy” Torbergsen Pot-Limit Omaha $ 200 / $ 400. The result of the duel is to read the rest of this article.
Hansen found a second wind

Monday, March 14, Hansen played a session of 2-7 Triple Draw $ 1,500 / $ 3,000 face-to-head at Full Tilt Poker cons “O Fortuna PLS. Hansen, who was a thunderous start to the year, did not emerge unscathed from this encounter: In the space of 1,100 hands, he dropped some $ 560,000 to his opponent. Fortunately for him, the Dane has partly recovered on Tuesday PLO tables at $ 500 / $ 1000, where he won $ 260,000, 88% against the single Cole South.

Apparently rejuvenated, Hansen has continued its momentum Wednesday facing some ‘Regulars’ OLP. Within 36 hours, he added to his $ 520,000 prize pool. Other sizes of discipline have not done so well out Scott “URnotINdanger2″ Palmer has lost $ 150,000, Rami Arbianight “Boukai $ 240,000 and $ 140,000 Torbergsen.
Hansen imbluffable

When one of the biggest hands played by Hansen this week Torbergsen ($ 210,980) raised to $ 2,000 from the button and Hansen reraised to $ 6,000 in the big blind. Torbergsen pay to see the flop , Prompting Hansen check-call a bet of $ 7,000. When the falls on the turn, Hansen check-call again, to $ 15,000 this time, and appeared in the river.

Hansen checke then the third time in a row, opening the way to last from Torbergsen. Hansen decided to just pay the $ 44,500 advanced by his opponent and was forced to reveal Torbergsen Or a simple pair of twos. Hansen unveils in turn and its small color brings him a pot worth $ 145,000.
Torbergsen find the Aces

But this session has not been smooth sailing for Hansen, who also had some serious setbacks. In another hand, Danish ($ 62,496) is the button and raises to $ 3,000. His opponent ($ 237,493) then opts for a re-raises to $ 9,000. From there, the two adversaries engage in a battle of raises, Hansen sending $ 27,000 in the middle and Torbergsen him claiming his carpet with a $ 81,000 bet. Hansen called with the $ 35,496 he had kept behind.

Hansen:
Torbergsen:

The table will be drawn twice. The first gives and the second . Aces Torbergsen hold good in both cases and he pocketed the $ 124,991 collected in the middle of the carpet.
Hansen has the last word

Hansen ($ 53,877.50) will not admit defeat. Shortly thereafter, he raises to $ 3,000 from the button and then equates the $ 9,000 wagered per Torbergsen ($ 146,112). When the flop comes , Torbergsen checked, Hansen sent $ 8,000 and Norwegian check-raised to $ 16,000. Hansen does not slow so far and still recovering from a sudden pressure with a ’3-bet to $ 24,000, then decided to Torbergsen heavy artillery and a large ’4-bet to $ 106,000. Hansen equates with his remaining $ 21,377.50.

Torbergsen:
Hansen:

Both players flopped a straight but is higher than that of Hansen and has also a flush draw. Two turns and two rivers will be returned but none of them will not change anything in the power relationship between the two players. Hansen is so hands on that pot of $ 123,755.
The ‘bad run’ of continuous Torbergsen cons XWINK

Thursday XWINK made his comeback and he too was chosen as Torbergsen opponent. In one of the most interesting hands of this combat, XWINK ($ 46,395) raised to $ 800 on the button and Torbergsen ($ 104,703) wedge from the big blind. When the flop appears Torbergsen checked, XWINK put $ 1,200, Torbergsen check-raised to $ 4,000, XWINK reraised to $ 13,600, Torbergsen up a ’4-bet to $ 46,400 and $ 45,595 for XWINK pay in total.

Torbergsen:
XWINK:

There are $ 92,790 in the pot and XWINK is poised to award them with a set. Torbergsen but still has several outs with his flush draw. As usual, the turn and river have returned twice. This is primarily a and that appear. allowing trips of XWINK to keep in mind and to ensure the first half of the pot. The second half takes the same path a few seconds later, after a and have been revealed.

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The poker pro Leo Laslandes ‘Gastounet’ is a challenge in Sit’n gos heads-up on the French online poker room Poker Sajoo .

Stated goal of becoming the winner heads up to 50 € and mount a sufficient war chest to face the French specialists in the discipline to the highest limits available in online poker. Com.
Heads-Up Challenge ‘Gastounet_73′ face to himself

The challenge that starts Laslandes Leo is far from a foregone conclusion. The pro player of Team Sajoo gives itself a month to test themselves on the tables. Starting with a starting bankroll € 4,000, Leo will be based on bankroll management stipulating a minimum of 30 buy-ins to play a heads-up given.

Far from being a gender specialist ‘Gastounet_73 hope and meet several specific goals, the first challenge will be to play 50 SNG heads up to 50 € to determine how many tables it can play simultaneously and identify leaks (repeated errors) before moving on to higher limits.

According to the results, Leo Laslandes prepares for challenges SnG HU to 100 € with the aim of achieving the highest limits available.
The Heads-Up Sit, ruthless discipline

Particular discipline, the heads-up Sit’n GB is a variant spectacular because it offers a face to face in a tournament format, with increasing blinds and a single winner, as opposed to heads-up cash game where rebuys and being able to get up at any time do not always a clear winner.

The fact of facing a single opponent requires maximum concentration and the ability to read accurately and adapted to the profile opponent. This is one reason why the Heads-Up is actually a separate discipline, but this is not the only obstacle to mount a bankroll, far from it.

It was in that heads-up SNG variance effects are felt the hardest, especially since the samples are quite high, ARJEL obligations, claims a success rate enough to beat his opponents but also the rake.

The first challenge of ‘Gastounet_73′ pseudo Leo Laslandes on SajOO.fr, will be to mount a HU SnG bankroll before the French players to challenge the most regular of this variant.
Laslandes Leo: “I have work to do!”

PokerNews: Leo, why this challenge?
Leo Laslandes ‘Gastounet_73′: for two months, I run bad, I alternate the cash games and multi-table tournaments, I am not stable enough for a passage that asks me a lot of serenity, so I chose to leave on a single variant.

Does that mean he’s stopped multi-table tournaments (MTT) that you have been so successful?
Sunday will always be dedicated to MTT, perhaps another day in the week too.

Why the heads-up format in particular?
It is a kind of challenge I’m starting, HU has always interested me that I myself am not fully immersed, it is an opportunity to take a course in that direction. I do not think very good at it but I really want to become.

Gastounet_73 on Sajoo (NSE)

Have you been trained for this challenge?
I had to play a little less than two-hundred heads up Sajoo already, you can watch on my curve SharkScope by typing my username “Gastounet_73. My results speak for themselves, if I may say, in 170 $ -1300 Hus, one can say that I have work to do!

Is this also a way to get a fresh start?
Yes, this challenge will also allow me to manage a new bankroll, grind to a step by step to progress at my pace without making any difference risky.

Did you not afraid of big ‘regs’ come ‘afford’ Gastounet?
Shhh, do not give bad ideas! But if that can allow me to progress quickly by leaving some buy-ins, why not, it’s part of the game and risk, but it is also likely that as we progress.

Most players are HU ‘bum hunters’, I hope he will find me good enough for me not wanting to play too regularly.

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Journalist and a professional poker player, England’s Victoria Coren writes columns for The Guardian. In his last dated 16 March, the Team PokerStars Pro player raises a recurring problem in live tournaments: think time is too long for some players.
Thinking too long is not fair to your opponents

The first woman to win a stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT London in 2006) says she found herself at the UKIPT in Manchester last weekend against an opponent who took two or three minutes between decision and protested against such behavior: “If you think about it for too long, it’s not fair to your opponents. This slows the game and your table gets a lot fewer hands than the other tables. In tournaments, the blinds go up and everybody deserves to play the same number of hands. Has always thinking for hours, you can also disrupt your opponents causing them forward. ”
We must think about poker but quickly

Beware, the English 38 years totaling $ 1,340,000 in career earnings do not recommend playing hastily: “It’s good to take time to reflect. One of my main advice is to think before any call or raise. Standardize its “moments of pause” makes reading your opponent more difficult especially when you really have a marginal hand. “But Victoria Coren believes that we must find a balance between taking his time and take too much.” You should be able to think fairly quickly. Do not let the player every time everybody expected, “concluded the Columbia.

The mad genius Mike Caro aka ‘Mad Genius’ for short, does not hide a certain melancholy to the modern poker yet he greatly helped to develop by spreading his knowledge on the psychological aspects of the game
Mike Caro, a spirit to share

Among the great figures of poker, players ‘bankable’ and personalities that count, that voice detonates singularly in unison with self-satisfecit posted on behalf of sacrosanct economic sense.

Living “like a hermit” at age 67, surrounded by Ozark Mountains lost in the middle of the USA, Mike Caro has written a dozen books on poker including several references such as “The Book of Tells” or “The fundamental secrets of winning poker “. Since retirement, he has plenty of time to think about the world of poker from the bustling international business or live circuit he rarely attends.
Mike Caro poker tournaments, stupid concept?

Mike Caro

“The word of the day is’ sad’…” Caro wrote in his blog published by ‘PokerPlayer Newspaper’. In this self-interview, Caro expressed on tournament poker: “stupid this whole concept makes me sad.”

“Before there was almost no poker tournaments,” says Caro, for which “before” means before the World Series of Poker created in 1970. “The first WSOP events not spent a single winner” who won all the chips and consequently all the money in.

“But you know what happened? The deals are reached,” causing the “worst, most horrifying day of poker history” when tournament organizers decided to divide the prize pools in advance to avoid the inevitable deals concluded on the sly.

Mike Caro, all this leads to a simple axiom: “‘primary objective was not to win but more to avoid the risk, which favors conservative tactics of tight players on their opponents technically better and more aggressive.

Promising “not to remain silent until someone fixes these tournaments and promotes the damned know-how”, the “Mad Genius” who despises the major live tournament in their current form also addresses the online poker.
Online poker software “inadequately protected”

For Caro, “there are not enough sophisticated monitoring to verify the integrity of the parties.” In fact, “most operators seem convinced that their software online are protected from cheating and collusion between players. They are wrong: they are not.”

Caro also criticizes the use of tracking software in view of the advantage they give to their users: “Most players do not use them and understand nothing. The result is that they being killed all day long and they do not even know why. ”

Among other things that make Mike Caro sad, the fact that the WPT has “decided to use card games to four colors during his final televised” without prior consultation or to “see his opponents to lose, (. ..) I know it’s irrational. ”
Mike “Mad Genius” Caro, this misunderstood genius

Books by Mike Caro

But do not worry, ‘Mad Genius’ has (the) solution (s) to all these worries. Not only “proposed several methods to solve the problems of live events” mentioned above, but it also works “on a surveillance system (Caro’s Poker Online Solutions) using a unique methodology to ensure that parties are safer for honest players. ”

Unfortunately, he can only lament again the 526 for his inventions, as a Professor in the Sunflower Castle Moulinsart, reinventing a world of poker that seems to live quite well without him. Misunderstood genius, or ignored, Mike ‘Mad Genius’ Caro at least has the merit of putting his foot in it without forgetting to use the soup the way, you never know.

“The world does not revolve around me, is not it?” Said Mike Caro. “I’ve heard this before, but I always find it hard to understand.” That is the proper misunderstood geniuses.

Alan Sternberg won Friday, March 18 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, California. The American wins his first WPT title and increase his bank account of $ 1,039,000. As is often the big stacks were the law at that final table, Mike Matusow, Vivek Rajkumar and Mike Sexton had to settle for places of honor.
Sexton ended on a bad beat

Smoothly, Steven Kelly and Alan Sternberg, the two biggest stacks at the start of the last day of competition were put to good use their depth of carpet to reach the heads up. The day was first started with the elimination of the WPT shows presenter Mike Sexton on a bad beat. Party in preflop with , Sexton is paid by Mike Matusow with and Table take a jack on the river that sends Sexton take his $ 148,000 check.
Kelly and eliminates McCarrel Rajkumar

Then Steven Kelly was responsible for eliminating Casey McCarrel then Vivek Rajkumar. On the first shot, McCarrel sends all his chips with 331,000 to Kelly and pays with . The flop gives a pair of ten to Kelly and it will take until the end, falling on the turn and the the river. On the second part Vivek Rajkumar carpet button to 750,000 and Steven Kelly did the same in the small blind. Matusow said: “I was paid” and password . ‘Oh, it’s really bad for me, “said Kelly in revealing Rajkumar but returns and Kelly changed his mind: “Oh, it’s really good for me. “The board Kelly comes out and removes Rajkumar in 4th place ($ 295,800) with a better kicker.
Bad timing Matusow

Shortly after, the final “shooting star” still in the race, Mike Matusow, will fall against Alan Sternberg. The latter raised to 180,000 from the button and “The Mouth” from carpet to the big blind for 1,380,000. After requesting the amount of carpet, Sternberg pay with Matusow and returns . The table gives a pair of lady Sternberg and Matusow left the tournament in 3rd place for $ 369,800.
Sternberg dominates Kelly heads up

Alan Sternberg (6,205,000) and Steven Kelly (6,255,000) comes face-to-head with carpets almost similar. The duel lasted 75 hands. After winning a pot with 4.14 million cons on the table Alan Sternberg will increase their lead before slowly bringing the fateful blow. Steven Kelly raised to 240,000 and Alan Sternberg participated in rugs. Pay with Kelly and Sternberg shows . On the flop , Both players receive a pair. The out on the turn but the falls on the river ending the tournament. With this victory, Sternberg won the first major title of his career accompanied by a gain in seven digits of $ 1,039,000. After his first WSOP bracelet in 2010, Kelly will not add immediately a WPT title to his list. It will merely of $ 595,300 for second place.

In March 2011, the Gaming Regulatory Authority of California banned PokerStars to organize and sponsor the North American Poker Tour Los Angeles. For the event to take place, it was renamed Big Event and the Bicycle Casino has supported the organization. If the Main Event was won by Victor Ramdin 11 March could not be filmed as originally planned, the Bounty was the Shootout and PokerStars has managed to circumvent the ban to finally take the reins in a submarine, of the event.
Allen Kessler said the matter during the Big Event

The story is reported by the professional player Allen Kessler on American Forum 2 +2. “I was suspicious from the conduct of the shootout bounty, Kessler wrote, and I asked the manager if the Bicycle Casino No ‘ There was no objection to what I’m wearing a Full Tilt logo. He reiterated that the bike is now organizing the event and told me that as I was the only one wearing a Full Tilt logo at my table there was no problem. ”
10% of the field can wear a particular logo …

Kessler has therefore entered the tournament and just before the game starts, he was asked players to sign a settlement. Kessler reports that nobody has actually read the paper and shortly after, a representative of PokerStars has to ask, and Tom Marchese on the TV table to withdraw their logo Full Tilt Poker on the grounds that an article in Regulation ruled that only 10% of the field can wear a particular logo.
… But this rule does not apply to logos PokerStars

Kessler notes that there are many more in the field PokerStars logos than the 10% permitted but is invited to read with Article 14 of the Regulation, which states: “All conditions on the logos specified in the preceding rules do s’ pokerstars.net apply to logos. “Having carefully reviewed the paper, Kessler concludes that the document was written by the poker room online and the word” PokerStars “has been replaced by” the Bike “. In a roundabout way, PokerStars is still the unofficial sponsor of the Big Event.

Sunday, March 20 to 20 hours (France) will be held the first round of the showdown between Daniel SuperStars “KidPoker” Negreanu Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom. The principle, a duel of 2,500 hands in no limit hold’em and / or pot limit Omaha tables $ 50 / $ 100 blinds minimum. Exceptionally, Negreanu and Blom will play two rounds, the second taking place Sunday, March 27. Although the underdog at 11 / 8 with bookmakers, Negreanu is confident to the point on his blog to reveal the strategy he will use to beat Isildur1.
Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu vs. Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom

In the left corner, Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu, Canada, 36, $ 14 million in live tournament earnings during his career. Right, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, Swedish, 21, online poker player who became famous for losing $ 4 million as quickly as he has earned on virtual high stakes tables.

Who will win? Some bookmakers Isildur1 favorite is 11 / 8. It also seems that for most players do Isildur1 the favorite, having won four of the five duels already played. “I feel that money will be wagered on me at the last moment. My friends say they never saw me so motivated. I want to win more than him!” Negreanu says.

If Negreanu has sometimes been criticized on the fact that he plays trèspeu online, he trained in recent months. Remember however that there queslques years is Daniel Negreanu who offered to play any player at any variant of a buy-in $ 500,000 on the tables at the Wynn Las Vegas. “The difference today is that I learn from people who are 20 years old when I learned that at the time of people who were 50!”

“I really like Isildur … If I ruin and he needs money, I’m ready to staker. Gladly!”. Note that since early 2011, they are both losers on PokerStars. Less than $ 373.378 in 5613 hands KidPoker least $ 324,550 against 138,311 in Isildur1 hands.
Daniel Negreanu Unveils Plan

In his blog, Daniel Negreanu explains the strategy with which it will sit facing Viktor Blom.

“My strategy is not a big secret, so it does not bother me to share:
Pre-flop: I’m going mini-raise on the button about 95% of the time and spend the worst hands. If raised from the button, I will either fold, call or reraise to 1,000.
If I raise to 200, he re-raises to 900 and I decided to 4-bet, my bet amount will depend on the depth of our carpets. At a minimum, it will 900 as he did against Isaac Haxton. My 4-bet 2100 will be if we ‘have that stack of $ 10,000. If his 3-bets are 700, I would adjust myself and of 4-bets to 1,800 with carpets of $ 10,000. More rugs become deeper, the amount of my 4-bets will be high, but probably I do Never shall reopen its 900 to over 2,400. It also depends on the frequency with which it will pay for 4-bets and / or 5-I will bet.
Flop: In position, when he has checked, I’ll wager 50% of the pot ($ 200) a large percentage of the time. If I check-raise on the flop, it will generally 3 times the size of its pre-flop implementation, whatever the amount.
In pots where I 3-bet to 1,000, I’ll bet 60% of the pot, or 1,200.
Turn: The position in the spots where he check-called the flop, I miserai $ 600 or 75% of the pot.
River: I do not say! LOL, this will largely depend on several factors that I can not share without disclosing too much information about my approach, but say that I do not set any rules of play “small ball” on the River.

I’m sure it’s an approach that does not rejoice Isildur1, but I’m not trying to get comfortable. My goal is to win, and this approach is the foundation of my plan to get there.
That does not bother me to disclose this information because after 100 hands, it will be obvious anyway. “

This Sunday, March 20, 2011 will run on network cinemas Ongame.fr the last stage of the championship of online poker Grand Series of Poker 2. The final Grand Slam will offer a guaranteed prize pool of € 50,000 to win in a beautiful deep stack structure. A satellite last chance at 20 € buy-in will allow you to win one of 5 tickets at stake in this tournament elitist whose entrance fee is € 1,000.
Grand Slam Final

The Grand Slam of GSOP 2 will take place Sunday, March 20th at the dot 20h. This elitist final buy-in of 1,000 € will have a guaranteed prize pool of € 50,000 and will bring together 15 champions GSOP 2, the player “MadiMaani, winner of the challenge leaderboard, three additional players from the leaderboard and qualified freerolls of course a bunch of online qualifiers.

The structure will be fine with starting stacks of 10,000 chips and levels of 30 minutes. Despite the fact that a significant portion of the field is found freeroll mode, the goal should be to go through the structure that should attract some sharks cash games, including “basou, and the generosity of the prize pool.
Satellite’s last chance

A satellite of the last chance to qualify at a lower cost for the final Grand Slam of GSOP 2 will take place Sunday, March 20 at 17:45. Ongame.fr involves a prize pool of € 5000 guarantee 5 seats in a qualifying tournament to 20 Turbo € buy-in opportunity for an unlimited rebuys during the first half hour of play
Mini Grand Slam final

Will also take place in parallel by each structure identical final Grand Slam Mini that will offer a guarantee for a € 30,000 buy-in of 100 €.