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Black Belt Poker Grading Group
Group Info
Grading starts:
1st Feb 2010
Grading ends:
14th Match 2010
On Monday, January 18, 2010, players commenced a Pre-Grading Selection Week in order to earn entry into the 2010 Black Belt Poker Grading. 20 players completed the requested hours, thus becoming the Dublin Two-O. Up for grabs are three Irish Open packages worth €6,500 and promotion to Blue Belt status. Watch this space to follow their progress as it happens!
Members
Gerard Harraghy
Jamie Burland AKA StilettoMafiosa
Javed Ghazi
Ermyas (uSayMrE) Birru
ramsey ajram
Nikhil Persaud
Andy (Redkite) Brisland
Joe Roberts
Rob Jarrett-Smith
Kevin Williams
Mike Carroll
Jennifer Mason
Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall
lee clarke
Mike (sceaga2) Shaw
Owen Robinson
Simon Mairs
Martin Rice
richard hinds
John (0LuckBeerLady0 Hayes
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding
Carey Hollick
Black Belt Poker Grading Group
12 Mar
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on  11 Mar, 6:59pm
woot thats my hours done........time to kick my feet up have a beer and go on a little spin up :P
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Simon Mairs posted on 12 Mar, 2:32am
Just finished myself. Congratulations to everyone, it's been quite a tough 6 weeks.
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 12 Mar, 8:20am
nice one Simon
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Mike (sceaga2) Shaw posted on 12 Mar, 10:51am
Yeah, well done... I've finished off my hours last night.... need a week off now !
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on  10 Mar, 8:39pm
NEW THREAD - Graders Last Longer vs Neil and Nik

£10 in the pot, last longer takes it all (and gets the drinks in lol) as long as they outlast Neil & Nik, if not then the longest lasting of N&N get to chose the Charity of their choice to receive the grader's Tenners

Me , Mike C , Ermyas ..... add names here please
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John (0LuckBeerLady0 Hayes posted on 11 Mar, 5:36pm
Count me in too.
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 12 Mar, 4:49am
GLL v N&N closes 12:00 , I am off soon to DRIVE up to London to beat the traffic and congestion charge :-) and get myself a VIC Breakfast ! Anyone else for the last longer, add your name here before Noon or see me at the VIC before day 1a starts.
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 12 Mar, 8:49am
am aiming for bout 11am arrivial for my brekkie
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Martin Rice posted at  7:58am
Good luck to any graders playing day 1a today.  Post your progress if you can for those of us in work wishing we were there.
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Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding posted at  3:17am
Hi, guys. I have a Hinds/Hall hand exchange, some Your Moves, and also articles from Simon and Gerard which I'm holding back. Are there any other articles that need uploading or am I up to date. If there are, then please could you get in touch. Cheers, and well done for getting this far.
11 Mar
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on  11 Mar, 7:01pm
Did anyone else realise there is a guy at 200-1 who chopped a 130 (ish) runner deep (ish) stack 2 day event late last year ..... 
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Gerard Harraghy posted on 11 Mar, 9:41pm
Name?
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 11 Mar, 10:00pm
Too easy ...... it was a badbeat event .......
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Joe Roberts posted on  10 Mar, 1:54pm
What's the most table hours/number of hands you've played in a day during the grading?  My pb was 3k hands in one session on Monday, and I feel like trying to break that today.  Anyone who's up for any kind of volume prop bet let me know, I could use the motivation.
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 6:59pm
awwww my record on stars was 22 tables at once :(
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Martin Rice posted on 11 Mar, 7:22pm
If u fit it on 1 screen then fine. I can only fit 9 tables on my laptop screen :(
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Gerard Harraghy posted on 11 Mar, 9:40pm
You're already a sicko marty, just get the extra screen and you'll be flying!

BTW - i could easily fit all my tables on one screen (just might lose a few!)
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on  10 Mar, 8:21pm
just a note re my presentation, it should be out in an article some time soon hence why i haven't sent out the slides (i know ya want the pic)
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 5:07pm
Here it is

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/Poker-Tracker-Guide-1
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Kevin Williams posted on  11 Mar, 2:31pm
Yo guys, coz i KNOW some of you are waiting for it like Christmas morning just thought I'd point out the 3rd and final part of my implied odds thing is now up but for some reason not under grader articles (snoops?). If you wanna see how it ends (Bruce Willis is dead) you just need to go through the main 'Articles' tab.

Once again any feedback would be great. Cheers!
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 3:14pm
that explains why i cant find it :P
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on  6 Mar, 0:50am
8-Seater Tables ! I have only just re-discovered these ! does anyone play them ? if not then why not ?

I am using the Table Search feature in pokertableratings , as long as you keep an eye on it and refresh on a regular basis, I feel it is pretty accurate in identifying the extremes of Table Profitability.
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Owen Robinson posted on 10 Mar, 5:17pm
Y'all know AndyRodikazo ? The man is certified insane!
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Mike (sceaga2) Shaw posted on 11 Mar, 9:16am
I also discovered them by accident this week as there were only 2 full ring tables running most of the time ! They seem to play more like 6-max than 10 seaters in my view....
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John (0LuckBeerLady0 Hayes posted on 11 Mar, 1:07pm
Re: AndyRod - I have only played him a few times, but he certainly stuck in my mind. I had a quick look at my HEM hands on him and of all the hands I have (only a few hundred) only 1 went to showdown....

I have things I can learn here as most of my hands go to showdown (back to beating myself up about having a downward red line again....).

I shall go now and put on my hair shirt...
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Neil Channing posted on  11 Mar, 1:41am
 Hi guys,

 Just to let you know we had a long meeting in the office about London Live today. While we were talking we got to fixing up a day to make the final decisions on who gets the Blue Belts.

 As I said to you all at the last workshop, it will be a group decision and Javed, Snoopy, Jen, Kier, Warren and Nik will all be involved, as well as myself.

 With the few days after London Live promising a lot of admin and then a couple of days off for some, and with Jen being in the States, we have scheduled Wednesday March 24th as decision day. I'm not quite sure how we'll make our announcements, but we'll give you further details when we decide. I'm hoping the extra days waiting won't be too painful, but we want to properly consider these tough decisions and we need time to analyse stats.

 For now, I'd like to say how I've enjoyed meeting you all, I'd like to wish you luck in winning Sklansky, G and real dollars in the last few days and also in completing the hours without going insane.

 I'm delighted that so many of you will be at London Live and I hope that will be like an end of term party for you.

nc
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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 1:43am
cool
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Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 11 Mar, 8:31am
Cool .... but aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh worse than waiting for Christmas :-) I am going to have to hit the MTT tables to keep my mind off the wait, some nice 8 - 10 hour Full Tilt donkaments will do the trick.
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Martin Rice posted on 11 Mar, 10:17am
Im gng to have to get in a large supply of alcohol to take my mind off it!
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Martin Rice posted on  24 Feb, 2:34pm
Which of the graders are playing BBP London Live?  Gerard and I were thinking of getting some form of side-bet on, in a 2vs2 format, ie me and ger vs 2 of u.  Scoring prob either on a last man standing basis or a cumulative points basis.

Just trying to guage interest :)
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Martin Rice posted on 10 Mar, 3:46pm
Sweet Jamie - consider it booked. 2vs2 or 3vs3?
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Ermyas (uSayMrE) Birru posted on 10 Mar, 8:00pm
hey guys i am up for graders vs neil and nik for the last longer i will keep an eye on this thread for the response
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Jamie Burland AKA StilettoMafiosa posted on 11 Mar, 1:11am
have 2 mates playing but just do 2x2 for now. the other may be tempted to join in on the day