This week, Merfinis debuts a new series while Big Dog wraps up one and Andrew Brokos continues his. Also, we get a new Stop and Go hand and article from Matt Hunt. The biggest news of the week is the return of the TPE podcast. What an action packed week in the Nation! Check it out.
Videos
FTOPS Live Sweat with bigdogpct5s
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/ftops-live-sweat-with-bigdogpckt5s-part-6/
Bigdogpckt5s wraps up the live sweat of his FTOP session. In part 6, he’s down to the Big $109 and the Hot $16.50. Not much good is happening for the big dog in this series. He busts the 16.50 in a TT v JJ cooler and ends the 109 with 40bbs which obviously does not last long enough to continue the series. Rough session.
TPE Theory: Ante Up with Andrew Brokos
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-ante-up-with-andrew-brokos-part-4/
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/tpe-theory-ante-up-with-andrew-brokos-part-3/
Andrew Brokos continues his hand history review/theory series on ante up tournaments. In part 3, he continues to take advantage of the incredible pot odds by limping very wide from early position. He also gets a full double from his nut flush by enticing villain to bluff shove the river. In part 4, he starts as the short stack with an M of around 8. This explains why the video is so short. He busts a few hands later with flopped trips.
Arvydas “Merfinis” Merfeldas Big $162 Hand History Review
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/arvydas-merfinis-merfeldas-big-162-hand-history-review-part-1/
Merfinis brings us a hand history review of his deep run the Big 162 on Poker Stars. In part 1, he shows the early stages where he is being aggressive with decent hands trying to build a stack. He defends wide from the BB and bluffs an aggro button opener with a busted combo draw. After getting down to 5bbs at one point, he bounces back to 55bbs by the end of the video.
Stop and Go: Playing Draws by Matthew Hunt
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/stop-and-go/playing-draws/
Matt brings us a Stop & Go hand where he plays JTs from MP. He faces an open from the EP and calls, as does the CO behind him. He flops an open ender and has to decide how to process as the player in the middle.
Articles
The Benefits of Yoga for Poker Players by Matthew Hunt
https://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/the-benefits-of-yoga-for-poker-players/
In this article, Matt talks about the trend of good poker players practicing yoga. Some of the applicable benefits he mentions are calmness of mind, clarity of thought, release of tension, and the paradigm of experience. He highly recommends giving it a shot if you think it is something you can get into.
Podcasts
March 13th, 2015 – MTT Hand Analysis with Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek
Killingbird and RonFezBuddy are back with a new episode of the TPE Podcast. The guest is the one and only Bigdogpckts. The guys try something new and record this podcast live on Twitch. What an awesome idea. Topics for discussion include Big Dog’s experience playing on Twitch and an bit of a primer on the upcoming WSOP schedule. They also discuss some hands from the TPE forums of course.
Member Scores
2blacklabs shipped the Nightly 33 on merge for $4100
Pierre took 2nd in the Nightly 10K on WSOP.com for $1000
Killingbird shipped a Bovada 4K for $1000
Carlos Welch took 3rd in a WPN 10K for $1000
double_dwjc took 4th in a Bovada 10K for $1000
acesfull44 took 2nd in a Bovada 2K for $340
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 @HipHop101Trivia 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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