348 entrants stumped up $1050 to enter this week’s Super Tuesday on PokerStars. JBT449 emerged the winner, with a notable 5th place for Danny Ryan (THE__D__RY)
1st JBT449 $76,560
2nd gator93 $52,548
3rd mrvogt $35,844
4th rk58 $27,840
5th THE__D__RY $20,880
Displine plays such a huge part in poker. But that doesnt mean an ill-displined player cannot be successful, because they can be…potentially. It just means they need to make the right choices of what sort of poker to get involved in.
You can be successful in the long term with discipline problems if you play only large field MTTs. On one day it can all come good, and a hyper aggressive borderline kamikaze approach can pay off with a big win. All those times where you grew impatient or couldnt be bothered to concentrate become irrelevant. Getting their once or twice can be enough to float your bankroll for a very long time, even after a chunky withdrawal.
However on the flip side, SNGs and Cash tables always require discipline. You are grinding a margin, and exploiting small edges on a consistant basis. You play volume, and need to be hitting the ball dead-center all the time over that volume. Regular mistakes/weakneses will kill your bankroll over time.
If you recognise yourself as having discipline problems (often impatient or reckless) then you are best to avoid the SNGs/Cash tables and concentrate solely on the MTTs. Good Luck to you.
We were back up to 20 entrants in this weeks’ $100,000 winner-takes-all freezeout on PokerStars. Buy-in for those 20 was $5,200 each, for the pleasure
takechip did just as his name says, and took all the chips, and the glory
1st takechip $100,000
2nd JERRRY
3rd APerfectGent
4th ADZ124
7176 entrants played the $215 buy-in PokerStars Sunday Million this week. Nous44 took it down, with no chop.
1st Nous44 - $202,363
2nd nurospoker - $101,899
3rd TYROMPER - $71,760
4th Mrdawwe - $57,408
5th mik-corleone - $43,056
6th hidden1s - $31,574
7th RIP(URL - $22,246
8th Big-Nemo - $12,917
9th Robaen - $8,468
Full Tilt Poker - Sunday Mulligan ($1m prizepool guaranteed)
There were 2006 entrants for the Sunday Mulligan, which at $500 buy-in each, meant the guarantee was just met, without Full Tilt having to dip into their own pocket.
1st MayhoodXXX - $184,552
2nd beaurgard - $113,339
3rd donttakeshots - $74,222
4th theusual06 - $59,177
5th Bukowski - $45,135
6th ship hamilton - $32,297
7th classic - $23,571
8th o LIMIT 45 o - $18,556
9th da_professional - $14,042
FU_15 won this week’s $1050 buy-in Super Tuesday on PokerStars. There were 296 entrants.
FU_15 has a hyper aggressive early style, designed at early chip accumulation, or crashing and burning early. On this occassion, he converted the win beautifully.
1. FU_15 $66,600
2. JERRRY $47,360
3. adotlee $32,560
4. Kenrof $23,680
5. amichaiKK $17,760
6. Pipedream17 $14,800
7. Bati99 $11,840
8. richie7777 $8,880
9. SiiliSuhonen $5,920
7254 entrants paid the $215 entry fee for the Sunday Million on PokerStars. In the end graslevy took the tournament down, with no chop. Over $200K outright. Very nice.
1. graslevy - $204,562.80
2. JTD DOG - $103,006.80
3. Mescalin8 - $72,540.00
4. grabskia - $58,032.00
5. Caetana - $43,524.00
6. Purrel - $31,917.60
7. HittinChills - $22,487.40
8. rainmakerAD - $13,057.20
9. choppermen2 - $8,559.72
Here is a useful hand along route:
PokerStars Game #16717187384: Tournament #83461380, $200+$15 Hold’em No Limit - Level XXXVI (250000/500000) - 2008/04/14 - 02:13:03 (ET)
Table ‘83461380 114′ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: graslevy (54540831 in chips)
Seat 3: Mescalin8 (5238085 in chips)
Seat 7: JTD DOG (12761084 in chips)
graslevy: posts the ante 50000
Mescalin8: posts the ante 50000
JTD DOG: posts the ante 50000
graslevy: posts small blind 250000
Mescalin8: posts big blind 500000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
JTD DOG: folds
graslevy: calls 250000
Mescalin8: checks
*** FLOP *** [5s 6d Jd]
graslevy: bets 4000000
Mescalin8: raises 688085 to 4688085 and is all-in
graslevy: calls 688085
*** TURN *** [5s 6d Jd] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [5s 6d Jd Td] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
graslevy: shows [Ks Ad] (a pair of Aces)
Mescalin8: shows [9s 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
graslevy collected 10526170 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10526170 | Rake 0
Board [5s 6d Jd Td Ac]
Seat 2: graslevy (small blind) showed [Ks Ad] and won (10526170) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: Mescalin8 (big blind) showed [9s 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 7: JTD DOG (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
There were 3707 entrants for the 750K guaranteed Sunday Mulligan on Full Tilt this week. xPEOPLES CHAMPx picked up the win and a $132K paycheck
1. xPEOPLES CHAMPx - $132,788
2. Rdgfish - $80,250
3. futbolin - $52,500
4. timmy720 - $41,400
5. RustySea - $31,050
6. NutmilkmouZ - $23,025
7. breeth - $17,250
8. Magma1000 - $13,500
9. JETNUT - $10,050
MrSmokey1, won this weeks $5,200 buy-in winner takes all event on PokerStars. Just 10 entrants played this week and MrSmokey1 picked up the $50,000 prize, trailed by Boykee, nitbuster, and DSavo in 2nd, 3rd and 4th respecetively.
mrsmokey1 has plenty of fame already. He is Steve Billirakis who won a WSOP bracelet in 2007 in the $5000 buy in Mixed Hold’em Event, winning $536,287
Gavin Griffin is one of the hugest young talents in poker right now. He has won no less than a WSOP, a WPT, and a EPT title, being the first poker player ever to pick up all three.
In May 2004 he won a WSOP Bracelet in PL Holdem, taking home $270K
In March 2007 he won the EPT Monte Carlo, taking home $2.4 million
In Jan 2008 he won the WPT Borgata, taking home $1.4 million
He is currently 40th in the all time money list.
He will be playing at PokerStars under the screenname Gavingriffin