Tournament

Yeah, after the test with PKR we are certain that system works so here's the rematch:

To register for this tournament (6max!) you will need a Full Tilt Poker account. Creating an account at Full Tilt Poker is a good idea anyway, since they have a first deposit bonus of 100% (easy to finish!). Also the site has very good reload bonuses of up to $ 300 (50%).
And in case you didn't know yet, this is also the site of many famous poker players! Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer etc..etc..all play here and who knows...one day you might be able to face them and bluf them from the table

Also very cool is that they have the Full Tilt Matrix SNG's in their SnG offer! In this type of game you play 4 tables at once with the same players. In this game you earn points called Matrix points for the survival of your opponents at the table and of course you get points if you kick your opponents out of the game The last 3 players with most matrix points get in the money.

The tournament is called duckyroll and starts at 8pm GMT. To find our tournament you may want to search on tournament id code. Our tournament has the following id code: Tournament #119812573 (12.12.09 15:00 ET / 21:00 CET) - $200 added


To join our tournament you will need a password. Players who register on our forum, get a password half an hour before the tournament starts in their message box on our forum.

You must therefore register for our forum to be able to join this great buy in tournament!


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To register for this tournament  you will need a Full Tilt Poker account. Creating an account through our site at Full Tilt Poker is a good idea anyway, since they have a first deposit bonus of 100% (easy to finish!). Also the site has very good reload bonuses of up to $ 300 (50%).
And in case you didn't know yet, this is also the site of many famous poker players! Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer etc..etc..all play here and who knows...one day you might be able to face them and bluf them from the table

Also very cool is that they have the Full Tilt Matrix SNG's in their SnG offer! In this type of game you play 4 tables at once with the same players. In this game you earn points called Matrix points for the survival of your opponents at the table and of course you get points if you kick your opponents out of the game The last 3 players with most matrix points get in the money.

The tournament is called duckyroll and starts at 6pm GMT. You can search this tournament with the following tournament id:

138611569


In order to join this tournament you will need a password. To receive the password for our password protected tournaments you will need to register at our forum.




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Coming Saturday the 17th of April we have organised a very interesting $5 buy in with $250 guaranteed tournament at Titan Poker (Ocean Poker members can also participate in this buy in tournament!). Buy in tournaments at Pokerinfo means way less players that will join and way more pricemoney for the winners if you compare it to other buy in tournaments at pokersites with WAY more players!

All you have to do is download the software through our site, make a small deposit at Titan Poker and register for our buy in tournament with the password we sent about half an hour before the start of the tournament. If you are a first time depositor willing to join this tournament please be aware of our interesting bonusdeals! Read all about that in our review)

To join our tournament you will need a password. Players who register themselves at our forum will receive the password in their messagebox in your account here.

You can find our tournament on the 17th of April at 19:00 GMT (20:00 server time)in the private section of the Titan Poker lobby.

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Good luck!

Pokerinfo team

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 26th of April at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x10,000 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

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Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 10th of May at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x10,000 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

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Pokerinfo.com offers first depositing players a renewed bonus at Everest Poker When using bonuscode PokerTips300 you will receive a 100% bonus with a maximum of $300! Also first depositors will play a $1000 first depositors freeroll! So a nice chance to boost your bankroll right away!
For our freeroll you have to create an EverestPoker account. You don’t have to deposit money.

When you have an account, go in the lobby to "Scheduled Tournaments", click on the "View Tournament List" tab, and then in "private tournaments" you will see on May the 16th at 8pm GMT time a private freeroll with the name "Freeroll Duckyroll", this is our tourney.

In order to join this freeroll tournament, you will need a password. This password will be sent as a private message to your user account. So in other to get some free money, you'll need to register to PokerInfo.com and check your inbox half an hour before the tournament starts.
Good luck!

PokerInfo Team.

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 17th of May at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x10,000 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Thursday the 27th of May at 7pm GMT time a freeroll called Duckyroll, which is ours.

In order to join this tournament you need a password. Players who are registered in our forum will receive the password about 20 minutes before the start of the tournament!

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 24rd of May at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x10,000 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 7nd of June at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x10,000 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 2nd of August at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5x9.500 Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Once you’ve signed up just go to the lobby go to "Scheduled Tournaments" and then to "Freerolls". You will then see on Monday the 9nd of August at 19:05 GMT time a freeroll called Ducky 5X$10000Token FR, which is ours

The top 5 in this tournament will receive a token.
In order to join this tournament you won’t need a password. Only players who registered their Titan account through Pokerinfo.com can join. Please notice that in case you don’t have an account yet you’ll have to sign-up with Titan before Monday afternoon otherwise Titan does not have enough time to add you to the tournament. But then again... if you would miss that you'll have your rechange the week after... and the week after etc.

The Pokerinfo team.

Click here to see our review or go directly to Titan Poker

Titan has arranged something very nice for us again. They have set up a buy in tournament for every Wednesday until the end of the year (!) starting on Wednesday the 1st of September.
For this Titan has added a total of $3150 guaranteed into the pot!!! On top of that, it will only be accessible to players who signed up with Titan through our site. So no password and therefore no password stealers so you can expect way way fewer players! (Sorry for those who do not have a Titan account through us, but sometimes we need to give some extra attention to our most dedicated visitors. Hope you understand. There will always be other tournaments you can attend...)
So if you don't a have Titan account yet then this is the moment to get one! This is a very good and pretty special way to boost up your stack given that you can expect the odds to get out of the tournament with money in your pocket to be way higher then normal. On top of that you will be able to work on it on every Wednesday with a small group so you can get revenge if it didn't work out the week before... with 18 chances! How nice is that

Signing up with Titan is a good idea anywhay because we offer very good bonusses there:

Bonuscode: ducky25

If you make a deposit of at least $30, you'll get $25 extra cash immediately. And if you play free 3000 Titan points you'll get an additional $30. On top of that you'll get 100% deposit bonus. So that's $55 extra on top of the 100% deposit bonus! For this you'll have to use the bonus code ducky25

Bonuscode: ducky50

If you make a deposit of at least 100$, you'll get $50 extra cash immediately. And if you play free 5000 Titan points you'll get an additional $50. On top of that you'll get 100% deposit bonus. So that's $100 extra on top of the 100% deposit bonus! For this, you'll have to use the bonus code ducky50. For the maximum deposit bonus of $500 (100% of the first deposit) you need to collect points.

Bonuses are paid out every day. $10 for every 1200 points. You have 90 days to collect enough points for this.
With every raked hand you play, you collect points, depending on the rake and the VIP level of the player (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum or Titanium).

Below you can find the tournament schedule:





All tournaments will start at 6pm GMT.

Have fun!

Pokerinfo team

Harrington on Holdem, part II

The Endgame by Dan Harrington & Bill Robertie

This is the second volume of the Harrington on Holdem trilogy.

Harrington's books are widely viewed as THE definitive work on No Limit Tournament Poker.
The book is also very informative and interesting to people who don't play tournaments. The series is very well written and laced with plenty of examples, making it very understandable to beginning players.

In this second volume of the series, Harrington takes a closer look on the later stages of the tournament, when blinds are high and people are under more pressure in anticipation of a possible victory. The game that should be played then, differs from the earlier stages of the tournament.

Harrington starts with a big part of the book on bluffing and its counter play, slow playing.
Every style of play is individually discussed, because the effect can differ greatly.
Obviously the squeeze play is discussed in detail too.

The most important part of the book comes next and can be a true revelation to those players unfamiliar with the concept. Harrington explains M (the connection between the height of the blinds and the game). The different zones and how to adjust your game play to them, will make whether you will go home with nothing or win the tournament.

After this, Harrington examines playing shorthand tables and "heads up".
Playing qualification-tournaments is also looked at.

Without any doubt this is the most important poker tournament book ever written.


Overall, we give the book a 9 out of 10.

Harrington on Holdem, part I

Strategic Play — By Dan Harrington & Bill Robertie

This is the first volume of the Harrington on Holdem trilogy. Harrington's books are widely regarded as THE definitive work on No Limit tournament poker.
The books are also a good read and very informative to those people who don't play tournaments. They are very well written with lots of examples to make them accessible to beginning players.

This first part of the series takes a closer look at the beginning of a tournament, when the blinds are low and everyone still has a large stack.

It starts off explaining the different styles of play that can be profitable in tournaments:
Conservative, Aggressive, and Super-Aggressive and tells you about the different kinds of tournaments. Next it tackles the so-called "reading" of the table and the very important patterns of betting.

The largest part of the book deals with betting pre-flop, on the flop, the turn and the river.
Harrington explains in great detail the different starting hands and when to play them, (or more importantly, when not to). He tells you how to read the structure of the flop and what it means for your hand (and again more importantly, for the possible hands of your opponents).

Value bets, continuation bets and probe bets are all explained, as well as playing a draw and going all-in.

Fun part of the book is that after each subject discussed you are presented with a few problems so you can practice what you have just learned.
Overall, we give the book an 8 out of 10!

A common concept in sng-poker is the ICM (Independent Chip Model). With the ICM you are able to calculate how much your stack is worth in dollars.

Imagine that we are playing a sng with 10 players ($10+$1). You’ll get a 1000 stack for that.
The amount of money in the prize pool is $100. If everyone was as skilled as everyone the value of your stack would be $10(your sng equity). In reality that never happens because there will always be players who are better than others. Every move that occurs at the table will influence your sng-equity.

Example:

It’s your first hand and you have a $1000 begin stack (the blinds are 10/20). Everyone folds but the button(hero) opens to 3 times the BB with pocket fours. The SB folds and the BB moves all in. Assume that we know for 100% certain that he has AQo.
Pokerstove:

equity
Hand 0: 46.320% AQo
Hand 1: 53.680% 44

You would think with the percentages given above: snapcall!!! However nothing is what it seems. The amount of chips you’ll make when you double up doesn’t equal to the doubling of your sng-equity(from $10 to $20). You could say that the chips you’ll lose will influence your sng-equity more than if you would win them. The reason is simple. In a cashgame it doesn’t matter if you lose your stack at first or as second or as number 38. In sng’s it does. Whenever players get busted your sng-equity will rise, and it doesn’t matter if you bust him or someone else does.

Example: bubble fase

We are in a $10 sng (10 players). The prize pool is as followed: 50%, 30%, 20% and there are only 4 players left. The blinds are 200/400 with an ante of 50

Player A: 900 stack ( SB )
Player B: 1700 stack ( BB )
Player C: 4500
Player D 2900( button , hero)

We assume in this example that all the players are decent ones.

Example bubblefase:

10$ 10 man sng. price devision 50%,30%,20%. 4 man left. 200/400 ante: 50

Player A is in a hard spot. He is the shortstack and has only 2BB after the SB and he will be called with any two cards when he shoves. He will have to double up in the next orbit. If players C and D fold their hands he must shove with any two here.

Player B is also a shortstack with 4,25BB. He will have to call shoves from players C and D tightly because player A has only 2BB behind. However… if players C and D decide to fold then he will have to call the shove from player A with any two.

Player C is in a nice spot. He will get a lot of “any two spots” one of the reasons is because the blinds are pretty high. Players D and B will call tight even though they have less than 7BB. That is because player A is playing with a small stack. It’s the best for him when the bubble takes as long as possible and the blinds get higher. Lucky player D, he has position on player C. If player C doesn’t use his chiplead in a good way then player D can easily take control of this. If player C uses the bubble in a good way then player D will have a tight calling range against player C. Imagine that the positions of player C and D were the opposite… then player D would be in a hard spot.

Example 2

We are in a $10 sng (10 players). The prize pool is as followed: 50%, 30%, 20% and there are only 4 players left. The blinds are 200/400 with an ante of 50

Player A: 3800( button )
Player B: 3300( SB )( hero )
Player C: 2600( BB )
Player D: 2300

Notes: the shortstack is weaktight and wants to end up ITM badly. The others are playing solid.

What is your gameplan?
In a situation where 4 stacks are pretty close to each other one part of the ICM drops. In this situation almost everyone will stack you of lightly. Let’s try to use that in our advantage. You could even make some –ev pushings here. This has got to do with future EV. Once you have the chiplead it’ll get easier for you to walk over the table. This will make up for those couple of –ev pushings.

What kind of a rol plays ICM on what kind of SNG

For this you will have to look at the ITM/entrants ratio (ITMER). By a 6max sng for instance the ITMER is 2/6 or 1/3 ( 2 players will end up in the money). If we look at a 180 players sng the ITMER is equal to 18/80 or 1/10. If the ITMER is high then you will have to evade a lot of marginal spots(like calling an AI with AQ pre flop or 3betting against a nit). If the ITMER is low(by a 180 players sng) then you will have to take a lot more of marginal spots. So therefore you can conclude that at a 6-9 players sng: tight = right.

You can calculate the ICM precisely. We will talk about that in the next article. However it is way too much work to calculate that for every situation. Therefore you can work with online programs such as SNG-Wizard. One disadvantage of this application is that it doesn’t calculate the playing style of the players along.