The Poker Thread

Congratulations to Matt Jarvis, Event No. 40 Champion ($808,538)

Following the footsteps of all of the other "November Niners" since 2008, Matt Jarvis became a well-known entity in the poker world after making the final table of last year's WSOP Main Event. While he'd depart from that table in eighth place -- in one of the more memorable hands in WSOP history versus Michael Mizrachi -- Jarvis nonetheless earned lasting fame from his performance, not to mention a million-plus dollar payday. But with today's win in Event No. 40, the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event, Jarvis has ensured himself instant respect as well for having bested one of the toughest large-sized fields the WSOP will likely see this summer.

Today's runner-up, Justin Filtz, should also gain some acclaim for his performance as well. Filtz enjoyed the chip lead for much of Day 3 and for part of the three-plus hours he and Jarvis battled heads-up last night and today. While he's surely disappointed in coming up one spot shy, the almost half a million dollars should help him get over it somewhat. Jarvis is still beaming as he stands on the stage giving final interviews, clearly satisfied with having closed the deal here after being unable to do so last November. Jarvis collects $808,538 for his victory, his win marking the fifth by a Canadian at this year's Series, the most by any country other than the U.S.

HU has been going much better these last couple of days. I made about $120 profit at the $7 turbos to bring me back to a profit at HU for the month.



I thought I was playing ok at the start of the graph and just running terrible, but after studying the game a bit I can see I was making lots of mistakes. The main flaw was probably my bet sizing, as I was betting too much especially considering these are turbos. So now that I've fixed that and a few other leaks hopefully I can consistently make a profit at these now.

I've been watching a few $5000 HUP turbos on stars and I know it's a completely different ball game but min raises and 2.2-2.5x 3 bets are pretty much the standard.

Being able to inflate the pot when you want to and keep it small when you don't seems to be an essential skill since you'll be finding so many more thin value spots than you would in a normal ring game.

Phone line is scheduled to be installed next week so should be only a matter of time before I have a solid connection.

What's happend in the wake of 'Black Friday' to stars is it softer not the yanks have all been banned from playing?

Have they changed any structures or tournaments to move with the impact?

I came so close to hitting a poker player last night, closest I have come to punching anyone.



Was knocked out first hand by a maniac who just happened to flop the nuts with 4-2o. Just me and him in the hand - I have 9-8s - flop 6s 5d 3s. He checks, and I bet out big. I know whats coming as he is a maniac who always tries to win the first hand. He raises, and I insta shove all in. He calls, but I still have 47% equity to win, and it blanks out. I'm obviously frustrated - and he starts smarmily looks at me and says 'I just TOOTTALLLY outplayed you' - having knocked me out four out of the last five times,. this is the one time he got it in ahead, albeit by the smallest of margins. I lose my rag a bit, fling his cards in his face and throw a chair to the floor before storming out in front of my mates who were also playing and a little bit shocked because they have never seen me like that ever. I was so embarrassed by what I did, but he is SUCH a wanker and basically comes deliberatly to ruin my regular game with his donkey plays which he does on purpose. I wanted him to actually hit me so I could get him banned. The worst bit is he actuallt honestly believes he is the leagues best player and we should be grateful to have him grace us with his prescence.

Doesn't consdone my actions - but I actually think I bit my tongue fairly well, and JESUS he is such a unbelievable arsehole.

Sounds rough, DML, can't imagine you outraged

Anyway, just started playing some donkaments on Ijoker, my goodness the standard seems to be poor. I was running very strongly in a $5 tourney, where some guy had paid me off every street with bad draws against my AA. Just got in with KK vs JT on a T45 rainbow board, and he rivered the T (blates), but it bodes well for the future. Still have 320 chips, so you never know.

Got to the final table of a $2 turbo 6-max, and it was pretty short lived. Lots of people had between 8 and 15 BB. One of them opens for 3BB in late position, I shove back TT in SB with 9 blinds, he calls with KT and spikes a K on the flop.

Meh. $120 isn't too bad.

FT has lost their license, and all games have been paused on the site.

R.I.P

I wasn't expecting that.

Thankfully I've only got $22 on there, but it makes me much more cautious keeping money on Stars too if they can suddenly have their licence taken away like that.

After playing some poker at Uni and having some mild success- I'm wondering if you guys could give some hints and tips on where's best to play online?

PokerStars. Greatest traffic and selection of game type.

DarkRitual wrote:After playing some poker at Uni and having some mild success- I'm wondering if you guys could give some hints and tips on where's best to play online?

I like Stars as it's the biggest, but you'd probably be better off going to a site which offers you rakeback which Stars doesn't. Rakeback basically means you receive a percentage (usually about 30%) back of all rake and tournament fees you pay.

ipoker is quite popular here, but i'm not sure how much rakeback you can get or if there are better options. I'm sure someone else here will be able to offer better advice.

I have 30% rakeback on iPoker but I've no idea whether you can still get it.

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Took down the $2 rebuy on the WSOP client for $257.

Got undersetted and lost a few on the right side of 60/40 but still managed to pull through after playing slightly passive with kings vs a button raiser got in on a flop of 2 diamonds he had an up and down straight and diamond draw with A8dd. Was a bit dodgey but he missed any binkage.

After that I had a crushing chip lead. Got into HUP play with 1.2 mill to his 120k lol. Wasn't ever folding a hand got in my Q8 against his QT and bink an 8 ball.

It was funny because I lost with queens and kings vs raggy aces at the beginning and had to rebuy twice. Perseverance!

Note: Check out the awesome stage lights and briefcase full of benjis they put on the table when you get HUP.

gg, OP'd.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-96 ... eview.html

Yet another reason to hate Tony G.

Sorry Drumstick I didn't realise you were trying to talk to me on MSN earlier I'm not sure if I was even at my computer.

Drumstick wrote:gg, OP'd.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-96 ... eview.html

Yet another reason to hate Tony G.

Not been asked back for BG2 as they have changed the coverage. FML. My heart dropped when you posted that, knew something was seriously wrong.

Crazy AI Hold'em hand:




I was so, so surprised to be behind (guy was 37/6) that I hardly noticed that I had spiked a one outer

Cash games certainly seem a bit softer on PS atm.

Ground the roll from $330 to $425 in about 3 hours. It was a very good session for $10NL, and I guess I'll do some more grinding of that to clear my $40 PS bonus. I need 800 FPPs, but I was 6-8 tabling tonight and that made it pretty easy; I'm almost at the first 200 now.

Is anyone else playing at the moment?

I'm continuing to try out 6 tabling 6-max Omaha, and after being up to $525 today, I've plummeted back to $440 after experiencing the sick variance that is PLO. I'll share the worst four with you, although I doubt it's a sensible thing to post, I just thought a couple of them were sick

1)AA46 vs AA78 (AI Pre), board rolls out K7368
2)AAKT vs KK84 (AI Pre), board rolls out 73K2J (for so much moneh )
3)Q2xx vs Q7xx (AI on Flop of QQ2), board finishes with 79
4)ATccJK vs 78cc4T (AI on Turn of J42cc7), river 7

It's good fun though, although you really do have to take a deep breath when the swings come in