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Sun, 13 Nov 2005

PokerStars Rocks

This blog entry is a repaired blog entry with the links fixed.

I was listening to episode 50 of the Card Club podcast on Lord Admiral Radio and they had an interview with Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier. In that interview she mentioned that her mother plays in the $1 tournaments on PokerStars.

“What’s this?” I thought. “PokerStars has $1 tournaments? I had no idea”

Well it turns out that yes, they are constantly running 45 player tournaments at a buy in of $1 + .20 $1 goes to the prize pool and 20 cents goes to PokerStars. There is no rake.

These tournaments are great. It gives you a chance to play a LOT of hands for very little money. Playing a lot of hands really helps solidify the strategies that you learn from books. Want to find out how weak A 10o really is? Just try playing it a few times. Want to have it pounded into you that AK is a drawing hand and not an automatic winner? Try playing it to the river a few times.

Yes, when you can play nearly 100 hands for $1 you really start to see why the strategies you’re reading about work.

So I’ve been playing these tournaments and so far, I’m not doing too badly. I’m essentially using the strategy that Henry and Zog talked about on their Poker Diagram podcast. It’s an extremely tight strategy but it seems to work. After you’ve played a few hundred hands with this strategy you start to learn where to loosen up (just a little bit) to take a few more chips or to steal the blinds.

So far, it seems to be working

PokerStars Tournament #14663960, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $7.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #14752266, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $10.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #14870254, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 6th place.
A $3.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #14902805, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $14.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #14927031, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $5.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #14929727, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
27 players
Total Prize Pool: $135.00

Dear DruLeeParsec,

You finished the tournament in 5th place.
A $11.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Total Entry Fees paid : $11.50

Total Prize Money Earned : $50.00

Yeah, PokerStars rocks.

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Is there anybody out there?

Hey folks, Well, the links are fixed again and we seem to be back up and running (Except for the RSS feed which is now broken. It’s always something)

So I need to know. Is anybody reading this? If so send me a quick email.

Thanks

blogmail@brouelette.com

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