Partypocker WSOP Update
Event 26 saw Barry Greenstein continue what has been an excellent World Series thus far by winning the $1,500 Razz Event.
Barry picked up his 3rd World Series bracelet and $157,619 in prize money after defeating Chris Klodnicki heads up at the end. If you want to play like these guys, try www.partypocker.com.
Event 27 was the $1,500 No Limit Holdem event and saw 2706 players battle it out for the bracelet and $628,417 for first place. After 3 long days of play it was Vitaly Lunkin who was victorious after a heads up battle with Brett Kimes in which his (A,J) held up against Kimes (10,8).
Event 28 was the $5,000 Omaha Event and saw a Pro pocker heavy field yielding a star studded final table with the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, John Juanda and other pros all going for the bracelet.
Despite this it was amazingly a relatively unknown partypocker.com internet player called Phil Galfond took the bracelet in a lengthy heads up duel with Adam Hourani. Galfond takes home the bracelet and $817,781 for first place.
Event 29 was the $3,000 NO Limit Holdem Event and saw 716 players battle it out for supremacy. It was John Phan who eventually outlasted the field, defeating Johnny Neckar at the last to claim his first ever World Series bracelet. Only David Singer was at the final table out of the professionals, and came in at a respectable 5th place.
Event 30 saw Full Tilt sponsored pro Rob Hollink take the victory in the $10,000 Limit Holdem Event after a lengthy duel with Jerrod Ankeman. Hollink outlasted 218 players over 3 days to triumph. He takes home $496,931 and his first ever WSOP bracelet.
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Pockerstars.com Flip Hands
Pockerstars.com is a great place to try out various online pocker theories and strategies. Like the one below on coin flip hands. Give it a shot today!
When people talk about coin flip hands, what they mean are hands such as (9,9) against (A,Q) or any hand in which your odds of winning are close to 50% Two overcards against a pair are the obvious ones which often come up, and I managed to survive two such hands in a pockerstars.net tournament I played in tonight. I felt it was quite possible that I would be involved in this type of hand even before I made the call, but on both occassions I was against a shorter stack so I would still have chips to fight back with if things didn’t go my way, also I may have been overestimating their hands, as being shortstacked they might have been prepared to gamble with a slightly weaker hand too.
Firstly I had (J,J) hold up against (Ac,Kc) and later on against a fairly small stack (2,2) against (Ad,Kd). I was lucky to win both these hands and went on to eventually finish 14th out of a field of 588 players, but I would not have been willing to take this kind of risk if there were players yet to act who might have made it a three way pot, or indeed if my pockerstars.com opponents had enough chips to end my tournament. The importance of these types of hands is partly that they usually yield quite good pots if you win them, but be careful in how you choose to make your stands, If you can expect this to possibly be the situation you are in once you turn the cards over, try to only involve yourself if you heavily outchip your opponent or if you have a large portion of your pockerstars chips in the pot already. This isn’t always possible I know, the important thing as a player though, is that if you find yourself in this position and win, try and use this luck well, and go far into a pockerstars.net tournament, because next time you might not be so lucky.
