This week Big Dog and Merfinis wrap up their latest series, we get an article on beginner mistakes, and a lot of progress is being made on TPE University.
Videos
Arydas “Merfinis” Merfeldas Premiere Series Live Sweat
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/arvydas-merfinis-merfeldas-premiere-series-live-sweat-part-2/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/arvydas-merfinis-merfeldas-premiere-series-live-sweat-part-3
Merfinis wraps up his first series this week. In the third and final segment, he plays down to the final table of one of his tournaments and ends the video once he busts. This was a very good series to start his TPE tenure.
Bigdogpckt5′s Sunday Million Back to Back Win Hand History Review
Spoiler Alert: Big Dog’s Sunday Million run ends with a chop! But of course, we all knew that. This is one of the series I had been looking forward to for a while now and it did not disappoint. I can wait for the next time he final table’s the milly.
Articles
Five Common Poker Tournament Mistakes by Beginners
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/five-common-poker-tournament-mistakes-by-beginners/
This week’s article warns of 5 tendencies that will keep you from having success in poker tournaments. The first two seem to be universal. The last three are especially important for those of you who are transitioning from cash games to tournaments.
Forum
TPE University
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/tpe-university/
Ttwist has been really cranking out the classes over at TPE University. He has put together the 7 steps that take you from getting started at TPE to crushing high stakes MTTs with advanced play. This thing is getting closer and closer to being complete and available for the inaugural freshman class.
Sweat Threads
The TPE Nation had a good time this week sweating one of our newest pros Jarod Ludemann as he worked his way through the final 100 in the 10 Million Guarantee down at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL. We had everything from a live stream to live tweets from the man himself. It’s always cool when one of our own goes deep in a videotaped event.
Site Announcements
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/site-announcements/tpe-avatar-barter-program/#p49361
Once again KillingBird aka the “King of Good Ideas”, has come up with an awesome way to get the word out on TPE. He wants you to make him an offer as to what you would like from TPE in exchange for changing you poker avatar to the TPE logo. Come on guys. Let’s flood the poker sites with a sea of black and green.
Member Scores
Jarod Ludemann took 35th in the 10 Million Gtd. Main Event for $47,000.
florianm1 took 8th in a 30r on Ipoker for $500.
cleanYouOut satellited into a 50K Gtd on Pokerstars and took 9th for $1100.
cousteer took 2nd in a 10K Gtd on Pokerstars for $2600.
KeK442 chopped his first live tourney for $500.
theginger45 shipped the challenge on 888 for $6200.
rivermen123 shipped the $215 High Roller on Merge for $7000.
Sprangled took 2nd in the $109 10K on Merge for $2400.
If you would like your name to be included next week, please make sure you post your score, IN DETAIL, in either the sweat or BBV threads, or use the hashtag #TPEdge on Twitter! You can also tweet them to me directly.
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/sweat-threads/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/forum/brags-beats-and-variance/
Take one down for the good guys!
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