Yorky Pud

Poker is a game of massive highs and utter lows and I for one can vouch for that after the last seven days at the virtual felt. Just as I thought I had the game cracked and was on course for my best month ever Lady Variance, and some bad decisions, chewed me up and spat me out.

Although the plan for the past week was to log plenty of volume I only managed to fit in 2,341 hands, which isn't too bad considering I've only been playing two tables at once but ideally I would still be logging at least another 50-100% of time at the tables. During these hands I made €68.83 and a further €43.65 from bonuses etc for a total of €112.48, which although not to be sniffed it hardly breaks the bank does it? However, my profit for the week only tells half of a story.

To say last week was full of swings would be like saying the M25 gets busy sometimes, it was nuts. At one point I was up almost €270 then back down to showing just €33 profit, back up to €200+ to my final resting place mentioned in the above paragraph. Overall I finished €120.65 under EV yet still managed to keep a positive “red line” in my Holdem Manager database.

I may have run under expected all week but that was mainly due to getting my money in badly on more than a few occasions, though I am not the big fish you would believe! Twice last week I managed to get my money in with the nut straight only to find I had less than 40% equity because villain held the exact same straight but had a redraw to the flush too, obviously both times villain hit for full stacks but what are the chances of that happening really? The second time this happened is actually the largest pot I have ever lost!. In the hand the button opened to €1.50, villain in the small blind who is f***ing terrible BTW, calls so I opt to see a flop with Td9d. The flop comes down Qh-Ah-Js, which isn't great for my hand but not appalling either. Villain checks, I check, the button fires out €3.50 and we both call. The turn is the 8s giving me the second nut straight so I am pretty happy when villain, playing 63/22 leads out for €7.50 into the €15.00 pot. This dude plays completely nuts and has two-pair and sets in his range and is likely to call a big bet with anything he is betting with here. With that in mind I make it €37.50 to play, which folds out the button but villain shoves for $79.22 in total. I snap and he turns over Th9h for the same straight and a heart flush draw, the latter coming in with the arrival of the 7h on the river. Cheers.

Massive hands like that don't help, neither does KdQd vs KsQs all-in on a Ts-Ad-Js flop and then representing a set against a loose and tricky player only to discover one street too late that I was representing the exact hand he held. Well played Pud! I am happy with the way my game is progressing and I certainly feel comfortable at these stakes and I am slowly forgetting about the monetary value of my chips whilst I am playing, which is allowing me to make a few more moves than I usually would. Where in the past I may have thought along the lines of losing a hand would cost me €50 I have simply made the play regardless, It's hard to explain unless you have every struggled with disassociating yourself from the money involved in poker whilst you are playing but I'm getting there, even if I can't describe it properly to you guys!

So my figures for the month read something like this. I have played 6,708 hands, won €295.57, should have won €451.71 and have cleared €122.13 worth of bonuses and rakeback etc. Not bad so far, especially as it is my first month at NL50. Hopefully I'll be able to pass the 10k hand mark this week, it will be a challenge for sure but it would be a great way to end this month and good foundations for March.

As always, thanks for reading and the best of luck at the tables!

Most poker players are used to suffering from bad beats during their daily grind but Chad Brown has been dealt the ultimate bad beat as it was revealed that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

His wife and fellow professional poker player, Vanessa Rousso, was the first to break the news via her Twitter account. On Saturday she explained, “I hate to break this news, but my husband had was recently diagnosed w a rare form of cancer. A large tumour was removed yest.” Due to Twitter only allowing the user to type 140 characters she had to continue her message over two more “tweets.”

The first said, “Trying to remain upbeat n positive as we wait 4 final pathol. Report-due next week. We r currently focused on recovery from his major surgery” followed by, “The cancer looks like sarcoma. 10Lb tumor was removed from the retroperitoneal area in his abdomen. Nothing sure till we get pathology report.”

A sarcoma is a cancer that arises from transformed connective tissue cells, or the so called middle layer, which forms bone, cartilage and fat. This is completely different to the usual forms of cancer which usually originate from the epithelium cells that line the body. Sarcoma are extremely rare with only 15,000 new cases being diagnosed in the USA every year, a country that sees at least 1,500,000 new cancer cases each year.

The retroperitoneal area where surgeons removed the 10lb tumour is at the back of the abdomen behind the intestines and is quite a difficult area to operate on but it looks as if the surgeons performed an amazing job and Brown was well enough to use a computer the following day as he wrote words of thanks on his Twitter page, “i want to thank everyone for their tremendous support. it means a lot to me. we got through the 1st hurdle about as good as can be expected.”

Whether or not Brown will need further surgery or intense treatment will depend on the results of the pathology report but the usual form of follow-up treatment includes radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Again, depending on the grade of the cancer long-term survival rates fluctuate from between 40-70%

It is not known how long Brown has been suffering with the tumour, which we hope is not malignant (cancerous), but he was playing live poker as little as a week ago when he took part in a $1,000 no limit Hold'em rebuy event at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, though he failed to make the cash. Brown had over $3,100,000 in live tournament winnings and we wish him the very best of luck in returning to full health so he can add to that amount in the near future.

Federated Sports and Gaming and the Palms Casino Resort have released the full schedule for their upcoming professional poker tour. This will be the first-ever season of the professional poker league and a true test of whether it can compete with the many other tours now on the tournament circuit.

Plans to start the league were announced in January but at that time there were no confirmed dates but now it looks like August 12 is going to be the beginning of the league. Between August 12-15 there will be a $1,500 “Pro-Am” tournament where the top nine finishers are awarded a temporary pass to the $20,000 Main Event, which will otherwise be invite only. On August 14 there will be a charity tournament, followed by the Main Event between August 16-19.

Three other events will take place between September 30 – October 7, December 1-10 and January 20-27 with the Championship, a $1,000,000 freeroll for the top 27 players in the league standings being held on January 29-30. As an extra twist, and one that I think is completely unneeded, each of the Main Events will be played in a different format. According to the press release from Federated Sports and Gaming each of the four Main Events will “feature different formats of No-Limit Texas Hold’em, including six-handed play, a heads-up tournament with an innovative seeding structure, and a special multi-format tournament to round out the season”

The league's Commissioner, Annie Duke explained the reason for this by saying, “We decided to vary the format of our events to showcase and challenge the skill of the best live tournament players in the world.” Personally I would prefer to see one format used for all four Main Event and if I am entirely honest I would love to see the league fail purely because Duke is involved with it!

Although I will always embrace anything that shows the game of poker to the masses and keeps the game alive I simply do not see how this league will benefit any of us. The sounds coming out of the Federated Sports and Gaming camp seem to suggest that the field will be full of washed up old school live pros who simply cannot cut it with the young guns of today's game and want a platform to pass money around to each other. Step forward Phil Hellmuth.

One of the major differences between a winning player and one who is break even or losing is not necessarily that the winning player wins more money but rather they lose less. One of the most common reasons for losing money is going on tilt so it is fair to assume that winning players go on tilt less then the average player but to overcome the dreaded tilt monster you first must understand the anatomy of the beast.

The term tilt is used to describe any time where a player's emotions have taken over them and as a result, they cannot play to the best of their abilities. There are various forms of tilt, which will be covered in another article, and each of them follows rather closely to what is known as the Kübler-Ross model.

The Kübler-Ross model is better known as the five stages of grief and was created by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist, back in 1969 when she wrote her book On Death and Dying. As the title of the book suggests, the Kübler-Ross model was initially used to describe the five stages humans go through to deal and cope with with grief and tragedy, with the emphasis on a person mourning the death of a loved one or becoming terminally ill themselves.

Although I am not attempting to say going on tilt compares to someone dying I have noticed direct link between the fives stages Kübler-Ross wrote about and how I personally began to overcome going on tilt. The five stages, in order or occurrence, are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance

Anyone who says they do not go on tilt in one shape or form is lying, or in the denial phase of the Kübler-Ross model. Everyone tilts, I do, other low stakes players do, even Phil Ivey will have and probably still does go on tilt now and again but the difference is Phil and I admit it (probably the only thing in common between me and Mr Ivey!) Denial is usually a temporary defence of a tilter, they simply will not admit the fact they go on tilt, or are actually on tilt right now, though they know deep inside that this is not the case. In order to prevent yourself from tilting you need to first admit you do actually tilt!

Next up is anger, which is a common response when the individual is actually on tilt. As previously mentioned there are various forms of tilt but one of the most common variations is over the top aggression caused by anger. Anger is not only a cause of tilt but can also be a bi-product of it. How many times have you tilted off any amount of money, logged off and being angry with yourself for doing just that? In order to prevent tilt you have to lose the anger as of all the emotions it is the most dangerous at the poker table.

Bargaining usually comes in the form the player pleading with a so-called higher power for something to happen in exchange for reform. How many times have you sustained some medium to heavy losses and pleaded with our very own Poker Gods to let you double up and in future you will set yourself a stop loss. Or have bargained with yourself that if you manage to break even then you will not tilt again. The bargaining stage usually occurs straight after the act of tilting has taken place, right after the anger has subsided.

The fact you have been bargaining with yourself or a supreme being speaks volumes in itself and usually leads to depression when you realise not only that these powers either cannot or will not help you, but also because you will often feel as if you have let yourself down by tilting in the first place. Furthermore, many will feel depressed and low due to losing some or all of their bankroll. This stage is one of the most difficult to pass through because it can see the player slide back to the anger stage or even as far back as denial as they refuse to accept it was their fault for going on tilt, instead those around them must have cause it. This vicious circle has claimed the bankroll of many players.

The final stage to compare is acceptance, acceptance that you do tilt, have tilted and will tilt again in the future. By accepting the fact you do go on tilt you can now take steps to prevent it from happening in future.

Not everyone will experience all five stages and not everyone will experience them in the same order. From my personal experiences I was in denial about my own tilt problem (more on that in another article) and that lead straight to depression, or at least feeling very negative about the state of my game. This in turn lead to me being angry with myself, which put me back into the depression camp before I finally accepted that I do tilt and have since taken measures to remedy this.

There is a well-known saying that goes along the lines of “if it is not broken, then do not fix it” and basically implies that is something is working well then there is no need to alter anything about it. Try telling that to the bosses at GSN, formerly known on-air as the Game Show Network, the producers of the ever-popular “High Stakes Poker.”

For five seasons viewers were delighted with the show as it allowed them to watch some of the biggest names in poker fight it out in a series of high stakes cash games, where most poker shown on television was in a tournament format. Another reason the show was such a success was the chemistry between the host, Gabe Kaplan and his co-host, AJ Benza. Although their humour was sometimes cringe-worthy, they were a great double act that certainly added something to the show.

Notice how I wrote that in the past tense, that is because before the start of the sixth season the bosses at GSN announced that AJ Benza had been axed and a new female co-host was being sought after. That particular female co-host turned out to be Kara Scott and although pleasing on the eye and someone who certainly knows their way around in poker environment, the chemistry previously seen between Kaplan and Benza simply was not there. Many fans openly critisised the decision to replace Benza with Scott but despite this the viewing figures soared by almost 27% for the shows target demographic of adult males ages between 18-49.

Having such high ratings is worth a lot of money to the show as they could essentially charge what they liked for sponsorship, something that until recently they had refrained from having. In December of 2010, just as filming for the seventh season began, it was announced that PokerStars would be the shows primary sponsor going forward and it has had a serious knock-on effect for the line-up of pros who will be taking part in the show. There are going to be some noticeable absentees when the first episode airs on Saturday 26 February.

As Full Tilt Poker are in direct competition with PokerStars, being the two largest, American facing sites, they have refused to allow their stable of pros from taking part so viewers are going to be deprived of the talents of Mike Matusow, Eli Elezra, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey, all of whom brought something to the show. There will still be some familiar faces such as Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein and Antonio Esfandiari but I cannot help but wonder how much of an impact losing the Full Tilt players will have, especially as some of them brought some serious action to the table.

Another change, possibly forced and out of GSN's control, was Kaplan's departure from the show. No official statement from the producers or from Kaplan himself has been put into the public domain so one could only speculate on his reasons for parting company after six seasons. Kaplan's replacement is Canadian actor and stand-up comedian, Norm Macdonald who admitted in an interview with Poker News Daily that although he loves the show, he has virtually no live announcing experience! Probably not the best replacement in the world but he deserves a chance to prove the poker community wrong.

The final change brought into play for the upcoming season is that it will be broadcast in 3D for the first time ever. Those who have the necessary viewing equipment will be able to watch people playing cards in 3D. Why you would even consider it is the real question.

Can High Stakes Poker survive after all of these changes? Will losing the Full Tilt pros and Kabe Kaplan be too much for the viewers to take? Will you still be tuning in? I will be watching, in standard 2D of course, just to see how the show plays out. I am all for change but only if it adds to the experience of whatever is being altered, I just cannot see how the plethora of alterations to one of my favourite shows are going to be positive.

Back on August 16 of last year, I wrote an article that asked the question of Gus Hansen was a cash game fish. The reason for this is because at time of writing he was down a staggering $7,753,624 from online cash games. By the end of August 2010 he haemorrhaged even more money and found himself in a $9.23m hole!

Suffering from astronomical losses like this would break most players in more ways than one but not “The Great Dane” who always said that he could win at the highest stakes available and has now gone some way into proving it. Since October of last year, Hansen has logged more than 100,000 hands online and is in profit to the tune of almost $5,000,000, an amazing turn around to say the least.

What is even more impressive is that he has made close to $3,000,000 playing pot limit Omaha, both capped and uncapped, with blinds ranging from $200/$400, of which Daniel “jungleman12” Cates has donated $891,000 and David Benyamine $477,000. Pot limit Omaha is widely regarded as Hansen's weakest game, having cost him a mind-boggling $8.9m in the past few years, though he is one of the largest-ever winners of Omaha hi/low split in fact only Phil Ivey has won more in this game online.

Hansen said that he was going to go back to the drawing bard and re-invent himself as nobody ever gave him credit for having a hand ever. He told Paul Cheung of Poker Player Magazine, “‘I’ve come to realise, which I realised before, hat people give me credit for absolutely nothing, no matter what has happened. If I’ve folded the last five hours straight and then I raise, people put me on 8-T suited. So if that’s the mentality of 90% of my opponents, then obviously I should tighten up a lot and that means more folding”

His new tighter approach to the game, which is still much looser than most of use mere mortals would attempt to play, has paid dividends, with Hansen not only profiting by $5,000,000 online but also in his live tournament game. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in September in the £10,000 High Roller Heads Up event at the WSOPE and then went on to win Poker Million IX for a bankroll boosting $1,000,000, taking his lifetime tournament winnings to $9,102,527.

If the rumours are true then Mr Hansen is also running very well away from the felt as it is believed he is dating Danish tennis sensation, Caroline Wozniacki. Hansen was spotted railing her at the Aussie Open and, according to her website,the 21-year old bombshell currently resides in Monaco, Monte Carlo which is where our friend Gustav also lives. Make of that what you will!

Not only is today Valentine's Day it is also the midpoint of February and I think that today is as good as any to review my Hold'em Manager database and update on my progress at the virtual felt. As most of you will know I moved up stakes during the last week of January and I have been trying my arm at NL50 instead of the micro-stakes games that I used to frequent.

I am please to report that it I a case of so far so good with my quest to become a regular at NL50 and then progress to the dizzy heights of NL100. I have been extremely disciplined in the number of tables I have been playing, opting to never play more than two at once right now and the results have been pretty good so far. During February I have played 23.23 hours, logged 4,390 and won €202.44 (my account is in Euros, long story) and if I factor in bonuses and the like I am actually in profit to the tune of €281.23, which is pretty good in my book.

My actual profits would have been substantially higher but I played a God-awful session last weekend, which I admit was made worse by the fact I may have been more than tipsy on premium, oak-aged cider! During the session in question I play 339 hands and dropped a total of €123.85, which is only 2.5BI but still sounds like a lot of money. Something I have always struggled with is thinking of wins and losses in terms of BI or BB but I am getting better at this and it is one aspect of poker I need to work on. I went through my hand histories the following day, as I couldn't really remember playing, and found that I could have prevented around half of the losses so I was quite disappointed with myself, but instead of beating myself up about it I put it to the back of my mind as I knew I could and would beat this level in the long run.

I not only began to beat it but I was completely killing it, having seven winning sessions out of my next 11 and scooping €324.27 profit from 2,525 hands, including my best-ever day at the tables which saw me net €203.01, all this whilst running under expectation by around a full stack. Last night I had planned to play around 500 hands but those plans were dashed when the Poker Gods (amen) decided to kick me in the nuts again! I did manage to play 207 hands, during which time I was stacked four times, though I did claw back almost half of those losses to finish €113.96 down. It still sounds like a lot of money but it is only 2BI so it is nothing really. They are chips Matthew not money!

Some of the hands last night were coolers, one saw me get it all in with aces against a total fish on a baord reading 7d-9s-7s-4d only to find he was sat there with 8c7c and then I managed to get some 'tard to four-bet shove all in preflop with jacks into my kings and the board ran out 2d-3s-7c-Ts-Jh, yeah cheers river, much appreciated. The straw that broke the camel's back and caused me to log off was when I raised first in on the button with pocket tens and the small blind, who always protected his blinds and had a three-bet percentage well into double figures re-pops me quite big. I take this as an invitation to shove and discover that the lunatic also gets dealt kings from time to time too! Despite picking up an open-ended straight draw on the turn I failed to suck out and at that point I sat out of my games as I wasn't in the right frame of mind to play.

I tangled with a regular on a couple of occasions and came off worse but as he sat out he asked me for my Skype address (yorksh1repudding if you want it) so we could talk strategy and the like. He paid me a great complement when he said “at last, a decent regular” so I must be doing something right. We chatted, or rather typed, on Skype for a good hour and he seems like a decent bloke and I look forward to bouncing some hands off him and vice versa.

Plans for the second half of the money mainly revolved around volume though I will not be sacrificing quality for it just yet, instead logging more hours rather than more tables. I'm going to try and play a total of 37 hours, which would take me to 60 hours for the month and on the right track. I'm also aiming to continue to be disciplined in when I leave tables and when I actually play as this is often half of the battle IMO.

So I will leave it there for now, until next time thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

The sixth edition of the Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) kicks on on Sunday 27 February and will run until Sunday 13 March and whilst we are aware that each site on the Ongame Network will be running this fantastic series, we are also certain that Betfair Poker is the only site you should be playing the GSOP on.

Anyone taking part in GSOP VI will be playing for guaranteed prizepools of $3,300,000 but only Betfair Poker customers will have the added-value of the Hattrick promotions, one of which could see someone walk away with a sponsorship package from Betfair Poker worth a staggering $100,000! Any player who finishes in the top three places in three GSOP events will walk away with a $100,000 sponsorship package comprising of live and online tournaments!

Betfair Poker are also putting up even more money and giving four lucky players a $15,000 package to the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event! To be in with a shout of these prizes you will need to reach three final tables in three separate events, simple as that! For the serial cashers amongst you, you will be delighted to hear that anyone who makes it to the money in three events will have the chance to get their hands on one of ten Betfair Poker LIVE! Tallin packages!

Just when you thought it would be impossible to add even more value Betfair Poker put an extra $15,000 into the ring in the form of 30 tickets to the $525 Mini-GSOP Grand Slam tournament that has a guaranteed prizepool of $150,000. Every single player who registers or satellites into three GSOP events will automatically receive a ticket to the $15,000 freeroll as a thanks for supporting these amazing online series.

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By now you should have all heard the news that the World Series of Poker Europe will no longer be held in London, instead it will move approximately 650 miles south into Cannes on the French Riviera. Opinions on the move seem to be split at the moment with the posts and comments I have seen being half for and half against the move, I am in the against it camp.

Some will say that I am not entitled to have an opinion on the matter as I do not take part in any of the events, which is true but as a poker fan and someone who works within the industry I have the right to speak my mind. The move itself will probably generate some work for me as a tournament reporter as the PokerNews team will also be covering EPT London and WPT London around the same time and they cannot be everywhere at one, but my own financial gain is not the topic here.

Although I embrace change I do not agree with altering anything just for the sake of doing so, or worse still, because someone offers you bags of cash to do so, which I believe to be the case here. Why else would Harrah's Entertainment join a partnership with Lucien Barriere Hotels and Casino and the French-only poker site that is part of the same group? Why would they hand over the WSOPE to a country that goes against European Union laws of free trade and ring-fences its residents just so they can charge them an exorbitant amount of rake? Speaking of the rake, the new owners, for want of a better word, of the WSOPE have already admitted they will be taking at least 4% of the prizepool for government costs, this on top of the rake they are already charging to enter each of the seven bracelet events on offer. Add this to the fact all cash games are raked regardless of you seeing a flop or not, and a typical €5/€10 game will see each player have to pay €35 per hour table fees then it all adds up to this being a money spinner for the new owners and the French government.

One of the selling point Jack Effel, the WSOP Tournament Director, tried to put across to his Twitter followers was the fact the Casino Barriere de Cannes Croisette has 75 poker tables, more than double the amount of the Casino at the Empire and that players would no longer “be tucked away behind staircases.” Whilst this is true and I suppose if you are paying £10,000 to play in poker tournament you want to be able to have some elbow room but the cosy setting in London is what made it special because there was an atmosphere there, an atmosphere I experienced first hand at this year's Main Event Final Table.

The final table was amazing to watch, with the crowd near the action, chanting and cheering like it was a football match never mind a poker tournament but everyone enjoyed it. There was a massive buzz around the casino. I've reported on two EPT events, one in Barcelona and more recently in Prague and both were like being inside a school hall it was that dead and boring. All that was missing were the basketball hoops either side of the room and the inexplicable ropes hanging from the ceiling. The rooms were simply too vast to allow any atmosphere and excitement come through. Yes the Main Event should attract an extra hundred or so players, maybe more in time, but the small, select, pro-heavy field of the London WSOPE was what made it special.

It seems to me that Harrah's cannot stop meddling with the WSOP and they are doing it for business reasons (step forward the November Nine), which as a business with shareholders to please they are entitled to do but wasn't the WSOP all about the players in year's gone by? I hope the WSOPE presented by BarrierePoker.fr is a roaring success and it should be because we put all the hard work into it, I also hope that Harrah's have done this with the players in mind and not just because they get a golden handshake from some mega-rich consortium.

There is plenty of noise going around at the moment concerning the GSOP but what exactly is this GSOP they are talking about? The GSOP is an acronym for the Grand Series of Poker, a series of games hosted on the Ongame Network, an online poker festival if you will.

The upcoming GSOP, which will commence on February 27, will be the sixth edition of this fantastic series and it promises to be bigger and better than ever before, with $3,300,000 in prizes being guaranteed! The action kicks off at 2000 Central European Time on Sunday 27 February with the $190+$10 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Event with a whopping guarantee of $400,000!

The following day sees $150,000 guaranteed for the $100+$8 No Limit Hold'em Rebuy Event with the needs of Omaha players being first taken care of on Wednesday 2 March when the $50+$4 Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy Event takes place with a $40,000 guarantee pinned to it. Two days later and there is a $50,000 guaranteed Pot Limit Omaha Event that commands a $190+$10 entry fee.

Bringing down the curtain on the series on March 13 is the $500+$25 Main Event that carries a $500,000 Guarantee but if of this talk of $100, $200 and $500 entry fees is too much for your bankroll to take then do not fret as there is also a Mini-GSOP running concurrently with the main GSOP! The events are identical with the exception of the buyins, which are a tenth of the size so the guarantees are also lower. Although the guarantees are lower they still represent great value as there is a $20+$2 tournament with a $40,000 guarantee and the $50+$4 Main Event will see those finishing in the money share no less than $100,000!

Although the GSOP and Mini-GSOP are going to be completed in 15 days, there is one extra tournament added to the end of the schedule dubbed the Grand Slam! Taking place on the March 20, a week after the GSOP finishes, the Grand Slam will be open to anyone who can put up the $4900+$100 required, comes at the top of the leaderboard or satellites in before the tournament gets underway. The $5000 GSOP Grand Slam has a $400,000 guarantee and was won last year by “poelsetyv” who walked away with $149,934.70! Keeping in line with the rest of the GSOP, the Mini-GSOP will also be running a Grand Slam but with a $500+$25 entry fee and a guarantee of $150,000.

Stay tuned for more information on the various promotions running around GSOP VI, including the chance to win a $100,000 sponsorship from Betfair Poker!