Ben Hayes and Andrew Brokos both finished their premiere series, and both have been getting great feedback! Herm has another two podcast episodes out. The forums are going nuts, and members are scoring everywhere. Big Dog makes a blog post as well.
Blog
Into the Fire
Big Dog makes a blog post about his recent win in the Tuesday 1k and his love of poker. He talks about family life and how that’s affected his poker life.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/into-the-fire/
Podcast
Herm has two new podcasts episodes (I somehow managed to miss it last week, my bad)
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/the-chirp-herm-show/
A Lost Prequel (19:35)
This was originally a prequel to another episode and it is released as a bonus so its a lot shorter than typical episodes. This one talks more poker strategy and herm discusses aggression and how better players are able to avoid bad spots.
Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger (72:42)
This episode Herm brings in an ex pro gamer, and they talk about pro gaming, short handed poker and plenty of the usual banter.
Videos
Andrew Brokos Premiere Series- TPE Theory: Hand Reading
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/andrew-brokos-premiere-series-tpe-theory-hand-reading-part-3/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/andrew-brokos-premiere-series-tpe-theory-hand-reading-part-4/
Andrew returns for his final two parts of his premiere series. In part 3 we return to more hand examples, this time in using our hand reading to exploit our opponents with different parts of our range. Andrew makes some strong assumptions regarding opponents range but makes it clear that we cant entirely remove hands from our opponents range when they take a strange line and we need to weigh up what is more likely in each spot then make a decision. Part 4 is back to the slides where Andrew quantifies the adjustments we made in part 3 and outlines specifically how each part of our range should adjust and also looks at exceptions to our underlying assumptions. Andrew also talks about both the effect of thin value betting on our ability to profitably bluff catch and how it makes our range much harder to play against. Andrew also has a podcast named “thinking poker”, which got a plug in the latest TPE strategy podcast and it is definitely worth a listen! Great content all round from our latest pro!
TPE Theory: Holdem Manager for MTT Players
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-holdem-manager-for-mtt-players-part-6/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-holdem-manager-for-mtt-players-part-7/
Ben finishes off his massive 7 part series on HM2. Part 6 is focused on reports, specifically separating data by hands, by day, by hours, per hand and per situation. He also focuses on filters, showing us how to filter by hand and action. The amount of content Ben explains in such a simple manner is impressive and covers some very very useful and underutilised tools within HM2. Part 7 covers how to analyse our opponents and how to filter our database by bet size with different hands. He also shows us how to mark hands in our database and effective ways to search for hands. The series finishes up with an explanation of how to use the HH replayer most effectively. A great series from Ben!
Forum
Strategy
Heaps of activity on the forums this week, Marc Alioto has been getting amongst it which is great to see. This week we had quite a bit of variety.
Ashj22 contemplated betting river for value.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/do-i-go-for-value-on-the-river/
Turbulence posted a cool hand where he got an awful runout v a tight sicko with KK.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/kk-tough-spot-on-rvr/#p43094
CAT70K found himself with AJ bu v sb on a final table.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/final-table-ajo-in-sb-33bb/#p43095
Loxxii found himself with the nutflush draw v a flop overshove and determines whether he has the odds to call or not.
calvin4140 posted a live bubble hand, which makes for good reading.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/tough-spot-on-the-bubble/
Usedstar posted some Satty hand histories, which are quite interesting.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/mtt-poker-strategy/2-hands-from-a-tcoop-satellite/
Community
Usedstar is starting another community thread, this time it’s a song competition where members select their favourite songs and we vote for them. Go register your interest here.
Aussie Millions starts on Thursday and a few of us, including Bennymacca and myself, will be going over. Post your twitter handle in this thread to get in touch with us.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/live-poker/aussie-millions-2013/
The Los Angelos Poker Classic is starting soon aswell, always a good chance for a members meet up!
Member Scores
TPE pro DannyN13 shipped the Canadian Cup live final table at the PCA for an epic 40k! Shaddonewin shipped a 180 to kick off his TPE career! KB final tabled a 10r on lock. CAT70K came 3rd in a stars 6max for $850 and final tabled a stars $22 big antes! Pickupstixx and gutbuster200 chopped the big 16 3 handed for 3.1k each. Bennymacca made his weekly appearance on the twister final table on 888, this time he shipped it again! RFB took 4th in the lock high roller. Big dog shipped the Tuesday high roller for $78K and then followed it up by chopping the Sunday Million for $138,000!!
If you would like your name to be included, make sure you post in either the sweat or BBV threads, or use the hashtag #TPEdge on Twitter!
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/sweat-threads/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/brags-beats-and-variance/
Crush it guys!
Duggs
Twitter: @dothedugg