LIVE TOURNAMENTS

Anyone got plans for a live tourney appearance with their points in April yet? Would be great if a few of us coincided somewhere again - you can never have too many last longers to battle for, after all.....

good luck to gerard harraghy, a fellow second term grader, in the JP Masters, where he is currently 1st/15 with 35k in lovely euro notes for 1st. info and updates here: http://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33

I would quite like to buy a purple belt using points, like a real one. Reckon this might become a clothing item accessible in the store soon?! would be cool to wear my actual colour of belt at all these tv tables :)

Hello all,

 Just a quick reminder that it's iPoker Monthly Million day. The $535 tournament starts at 6pm and with one hour to go they still haven't reached 1000 runners.

 They may struggle to reach 1400 this month which will mean a massive $300k+ overlay.

 iPoker have decided to "rest" this tournament until September after this one. If you can possibly stretch to it you should take advantage of this insane value now.

 Good luck if you play. Hopefully a Black Belt player will win the $200k first prize.

nc

GUYS there is a 215 euro sat on stars at 8 (maybe wih late reg) wth 3 different 2k packagesfor a seat in the fit stop of the french poker tou, and only SEVEN people ha signed up HUGE verly I have no $ on stars ubut anyone who does GET ONTO IT NOW QUICK!!

If you want to play with an Irish Open champion tonight then Black Belt Poker is the place to go.

 I'm actually off out to dinner and can't make it but James Mitchell has promised to play in the $5 league game at 7.30pm and to give everyone a spin at 25c/50c in the cash game on table NeilChanning.

 So if you thought he was a total luckbox and you want to tell him, or even if you just want to congratulate him, make sure you drop in.

 Don't forget the Deepstack Mulligan at 9.30pm and the Donkament at midnight.

 Good luck all.

nc

Nash Equilibrium Headsup Push/Fold

Did anyone write an article on this during the grading ? I have been browsing tonight and printed off the charts. There are various Forum threads that say it is as useful as a chocolate teapot lol but Jennifear rates it :-)

I used it in a $2 30seater just now when I got down to 3 players, I tried to play strictly to the chart if I had the time to look it up. Am I right that on the Button 3-handed you divide the number by two in both pusher and caller charts ?

I like the idea that the lowest stack is the effective stack no matter who has it ! I got to headsup and definitely played differently to what I would have done without the chart in front of me, I ended up pushing with K4os and getting called by Ace rag which held up, but I was happy with that.

LOL just got KO'd early by someone who called my JJ pfr with 77 and got lucky, now I need a chart that tells me to fold a big pair with 3 undercards on the flop, oh well, still only low stakes at the moment so live and learn.

MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS

Has anyone done the maths on the hand requirements to maintain Green belt and keep up the live action...?

My first stab based on HEM's reported rake over the grading period (no idea if that is accurate to BBP structures or not) would suggest about 15,000 hands for 6000 points. (Full ring, mainly 1/2)

Anyone looked at it - or anyone from the BBP team able to estimate...? 

Hi guys,

 I got a nice email from the people at iPoker this morning:

 Starting April 12th at 00:00 GMT, iPoker will introduce the below changes to its NLH cash tables and freezeout tournaments. These changes come after collecting licensees and players’ feedback, and we believe they’ll contribute to improve our players’ game experience. 

The changes are:

1.       In cash tables:

A new minimum sit down amount of 30BB will be implemented on all NLH cash tables where the minimum sit down is currently 20BB. Cash tables with 50BB and full stacks will remain as they are. 

2.       In tournaments:

The starting stacks of all freezeout tournaments will be updated, according to the tournament buy-in, as detailed below:

·         Freezeout tournaments with buy-in of: $10<=(Buy-in)<$20, will have a starting stack of 2,000 chips. 

·         Freezeout tournaments with buy-in of: $20<=(Buy-in)<=$100, will have a starting stack of 3,000 chips.

·         Freezeout tournaments with buy-in of $100<(Buy-in), will have a starting stack of 5,000 chips.

 
 Don't know what you think but it sounded good to me. A definite change in emphasis to get rid of annoying short stack players in the last few months and better structures in the tournaments.

 The future is bright...
 

Alright guys, 

I'm off on my chairty hitchhike and there's a tracker service to follow my progress.

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Thanks everyone who supported or is still going to, and gl everyone for tommorrow!

Has it really been two weeks since the grading finished !   I have certainly been enjoying the sheer luxury of being able to play what games I like, when I like and stop playing when I want :-)

Since the grading I have only played 76 minutes of NL HE Cash (and am $48 UP so certainly happy so far)    Just for a change, have also been tinkering with other cash games... mainly low limit Omaha HL (266 minutes and $24 down) and 7 card stud (about $19 down)   My main activity is back to playing $10 STT (1024 minutes and $35 down) plus a few MTT such as 7th place in the BPP league :-)

Overall I am about $2 down since the grading ended but have been taking it very easy and just really enjoying my games.... April will see me ramp up my playing a bit more and get back into a more serious mode of playing to really try and get my bankroll moving in the right direction plus taking advantage of my Green belt to get into some of the big online MTT

Saddle up and here we go again....