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Oktober ChipFest is an intoxicating reward promotion in which your level of play in the first half of October could multiply your rewards by up to 300% in the latter half. So get your Lederhosen on and be ready to fill your mug with rewards.

How it works

Each player assigned a personalized frequent player point (FPP) target and a time frame to achieve this mark by. By hitting any stake or level of the real money ring and tournament tables from 8 PM ET on September 30th through 8 PM ET on October 14th you’re earning FPPs that will be tallied up against your target.
Oktober ChipFest Time Schedule
Target Achievement
8 PM ET September 30th to 8 PM ET October 14th
Reward Bonus 8 PM ET October 14tht to 8 PM ET October 31st

Earn up to 300% more Gold Chips

Hit your target and we’ll reward you with a Tournament Ticket to our exclusive $10,000 Oktober ChipFest Freeroll playing Saturday, October 17th at 3:30 PM ET. Exceed your target, and you’re setting the stage for a flurry of rewards up for grabs October 14th through 31st.

Reward Schedule
Target Gold Chip Bonus Rewards
Hit your Target
$10,000 Oktober ChipFest Freeroll Tournament Ticket
Achieve 25% over target
Earn 50% more Gold Chip rewards.
Achieve 50% over target Earn DOUBLE Gold Chip rewards.
Achieve 75% over target Earn TRIPLE Gold Chip rewards.
Double your target Earn QUADRUPLE Gold Chip rewards.

So let’s say Player X reached their target FPP number and exceeded it by double - they’d earn50 % more rewards for their game play in the latter half of October. Under that reward schedule, if they earned 10 Gold Chips during game play October 14th to 31st, they would receive an additional 20 Gold Chips! Bonus Gold Chip rewards will be added to player accounts during the first week of November in a lump sum.
Your Target

Cake Poker has set a frequent player target specifically for you, based on your previous game play at the Cake Poker tables. You’ll find your personalized target FPP number in the Rewards tab, when logged on to our Cake Poker games.

Earning Frequent Player Points
Ring Games: $1 Rake = 1 FPP
Tournaments: $1 Fee = 7 FPP

Good luck!

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On November 22nd at 2:05pm ET, Full Tilt Poker along with HoldemPokerChat.com will be running a charity tournament for the Bad Beat on Cancer Organization.

Cost for the tournament is $5 for the prize pool, plus an additional $5 for the charity. We have also added $150 to the prizepool. Full TIlt Poker pro Rafe Furst will be playing the tournament, and we hope many more of the Full Tilt pros will also be in attendance.

Details for the tournament are as follows:

November 22nd, 2:01pm ET
Full Tilt Poker
Private tournament tab: Bad Beat on Cancer
Password: charity
$5 plus $5 with $150 added to the prizepool
Tournament #64689765
(Under the Private Tournaments tab)

Even if you can’t make it, please consider registering anyway since all proceeds will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. I hope to see you all there.

About the Prevent Cancer Foundation:

The Prevent Cancer Foundation was started in 1985 when Founder and President Carolyn Aldige first understood the power of prevention to defeat cancer — and recognized that too few of the country’s resources were used to promote cancer prevention research or education. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Since its inception the Foundation has provided more than $74 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research and education programs. CRPF peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to more than 250 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies.

About Bad Beat on Cancer:

Bad Beat on Cancer was started a few years ago by Rafe Furst and Phil Gordon to help fund cancer research and prevention – by playing poker. They ask professionals and amateurs alike to donate 1% of whatever they win at the WSOP. They’ve been extraordinarily successful over the last few years, raising over $1 million for a very worthy cause. It’s a very fiscally responsible organization, nearly 86 cents from every dollar goes to the cancer research programs that they’re funding. It’s a great organization and they have most of the world’s greatest players signed up.

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Beginning at 12pm EST on June 22nd, 2008, Holdem Poker Chat will be running a 8 hour Mini Poker Marathon!

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The Top 20 in each freeroll and the Top 30 in each buyin will receive points.

The leaderboard will consist of $250 up for grabs over the top 5 places.

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The Poker Table is No Place for Hope or Faith

Situation 1: Joe Schmoe is playing in a fullhanded no-limit hold’em ring game. Action folds to Joe, and he raises with A9 from the cutoff. The button and the blinds call, and the flop is AA9. The blinds check to Joe, and he makes a pot-sized bet fueled by two hopes: 1.) One of his opponents has the case ace and will go over the top. 2.) An opponent with a pocket pair will call on the flop 3.) An opponent with a flush draw will call or semibluff All three of Joe’s opponents dash Joe’s hopes and quickly fold.

Situation 2: Joe Schmoe is playing shorthanded no-limit hold’em. In 100 hands of play there’s only been one reraise preflop. Joe raised from the button, the small blind reraised, and Joe folded. This happened around hand #50 of Joe’s session.

During hands #101 and #102, Joe (who has been playing somewhat aggressively but far from manically) opens from the button and the cutoff with raises. Both times, the same player reraises. After not doing much for 8 hands, Joe opens for a raise with JJ. Joe is reraised again this time by a different player who has never reraised preflop. Being that this is the third time in the span of about 10 hands that he’s been reraised preflop, Joe has faith in his JJ, goes over the top, and ends up losing 100 big blinds versus his opponent’s AA.

Hope and faith adversely affect our poker playing. In situation #1, Joe needs to think about his opponents. Instead of betting pot and hoping, he should think realistically about his opponents’ distributions. In many but not all games, a half-pot bet (or even something slightly less) will be ideal. A pot-sized bet might actually force a player with the case ace out of the pot if he has a bad kicker to accompany it. And anyone who mucks an ace with a bad kicker here will do the same with a pocket pair. Instead of betting big and hoping for a monster confrontation, Joe should bet smaller and get value from his hand.

In situation #2, a lot of things happen within a short span of time, and Joe makes a common mistake. At a table where no preflop reraising is happening, the reality of the game is that players are waiting for cards. The player who reraised Joe twice in a row probably had big hands both times. It could be possible that the different player who reraises him the third time observed Joe’s reaction to the prior two reraises, but the texture of the table dictates that Joe probably ran into another big hand. If preflop reraises begins happening regularly on the order of once every two orbits or so Joe can reason that the dynamic of the game has changed. But by letting faith replace reason with a hand like JJ and a random short spurt of events, Joe got himself into a lot of trouble.

Tony Guerrera is the author of Killer Poker By The Numbers and coauthor of Killer Poker Shorthanded (with John Vorhaus).

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Boost Your Single Table Tournament Results

Online poker has popularized the single table tournament (STT). STT’s are a very unique form of poker. If you’re using multitable tournament strategies to navigate through STTs, you’re costing yourself some serious money. This article talks about handling 9-10 player STTs where 1st pays 50 per cent, 2nd pays 30 per cent, and 3rd pays 20 per cent.

I write a bit about being capable of breaking away from straightforward tight-aggressive play. But when it comes to the early stages of single table tournaments, tight is right. In early position, you should play pretty much nothing. AA-KK and AK is about on target. If your table is really loose passive, you can limp with any pocket pair. And if your postflop play is superb, you can toss AQ into the early position mix.

In late position, you can come in with a slightly wider mix in unraised pots (hands like AJ, KQ and KJ). But in raised pots, keep it simple and stay really tight. When you do enter a pot with an unpaired hand like AK, either limp or raise small for value. If you raise preflop and get only one opponent, continuation betting is a play you shouldn’t be excited about.

Play hands that play themselves post-flop,  you want to be able to play confidently for stacks if you hit postflop because the starting stacks in STTs don’t give you much room for probe bets.

Once the blinds have increased, it’s jam or fold time. And now, tight is far from right. especially when it comes to aggressing on the bubble. When you have 4-8 big blinds, you have opponents who’ll only call you with something like AA-55, AK-A9, and you’re in the cutoff or later, push all-in no matter what two cards you have when you’re first to enter the pot. Your opponents will fold a huge percentage of the time, and you’ll never be a prohibitive underdog the times that you’re called (32o wins 24% of the time against AA-55, AK-A9). When the bubble has burst, and opponents widen their calling distributions, you’ll need to tighten up a tad, but hyper-aggressive shoving will still be par for the course when you have 4-8 big blinds.

When it comes to calling all-ins, you should typically be somewhat tight because you can always fall back on your jamming edge. And with the 50/30/20 payout, survival and just getting in the money is important. But you shouldn’t take it to the extreme where you’re only calling all-ins with super-premium hands. With the size of the blinds, you should be willing to get your chips in whenever your hand is a little bit better than 50% against a jammer’s distribution.

Times may exist where you can profitably stray from the generic battle plan outlined here. But generally, "Tight and snug early; loose-aggressive late" is the successful STTer’s creed.

Tony Guerrera is the author of Killer Poker By The Numbers and coauthor of Killer Poker Shorthanded (with John Vorhaus).

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