RTRC- HullJimi- Report/ Poker News

This will be a split post with the latest poker news and HullJimi's account of his RTRC.

WE HAVE A NEW RTRC "HALL OF FAME" LEADER!!!!!!

Well done to HullJimi, who now heads up the table with an excellent profit of $8.98 and the full time of 3hrs thirty achieved!

Here is Jimi's account in his own words:

Hour 1:

I decided I was going to play nice and tight with the full $10 on Bodog - the site has loosest NL10 games I've ever found! I found myself a table with a few nutters on (full ring) and got comfy. Surely I'd have doubled up within the first hour? Well, no.

First hand? The Hammer! A sign surely....?! The very next hand a donkey loses his full buy in by going all in with Q9o - and I was sat thinking to myself "Happy Days", yet it never really happened for me in the first hour. I saw 4 flops in the first 40 hands as I was being dealt utter garbage so guess what? I raised with the next installment of "The Hammer" (it was suited after all!). I get two callers. Eek. I follow it up with another pot sized bet on a flop of J86 rainbow and it gets through! Hooray for the hammer!

So I was a whole $1 up after the first hour.

Hour 2:

Still sat in the cash game, I posted my progress in the RTR online forum only to be slagged by BM for not gambling enough. A fair cop guvnor! I'm sure this had nothing to do with my time in the challenge rapidly approaching BM's, or did it BM?

So I juggled my money around, and fired up a $1.75 18 man turbo on Stars and waited for my luck to change. And it did. Massively.

Whilst being railed by MattH and Cogs, and getting mocked by BM, I started to turn the challenge around.

The SNG was mental - with an "all in" on the first hand (Some nob with a 10 high flush draw!). I picked up AA and took a pot but other than that kept out of the way with my eyes firmly on the massive $10 win. Anyway, the other eye can't have been working properly as I played too tight and had to start to chuck my chips in with gay abandon (not in a Brighton way though Cogs!).

End result? I got knocked out. Balls.

The cash game was going swimmingly however, with a nice pot taken down with quad 5's!

Hour 3:

I entered a $1.20 single table SNG (same as the one's Matt played) and and finished 3rd for a small return. As Matty will tell you (he was watching), I sucked out twice. Nice

Getting short, I ran AQ into AK and saw a cheeky queen (again, not Cogs) and then I pushed my A8o into AK again to see a cheeky little 8 appear!

So with a bit of time left, I piled into a 6 man turbo, $3.40 SNG and I managed to finish 2nd! Nothing spectacular happened, I just played "Quality hands baby" for a nice little win of $6.30.

So, knackered, I called it a day after 3hrs 17mins rather than trying to spin the money up any further in a cash game for 10 minutes. And quite smug I was too! First one to show a profit, and a decent return too with it being very nearly double.

Starting: $10
Cash Profit $7.23 ($17.23)
Tourney Profit - $8.10
($
25.33)
Less entrance fees - $6.35
Total: $18.98

End result +$8.98 !

I'm pretty certain someone will whizz past my effort by a long way (I'm looking at Kenn and assuming he'll whack the lot in a $10 SNG!), but it's tough and I was lucky when I needed to be.

Good luck to the next contestant!

HullJimi

Next contestant: TBC

Congratulations to HJ, can anyone beat this excellent feat?

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Online High-Stakes News

HORSE

It was all Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius in the $1000/$2000 H.O.R.S.E. game on Full Tilt Poker table Hatteras as he raked in over $165K in just 410 hands at the table. Also picking up decent wins were “Da Munsta” ($54K+) and Gus Hansen ($48K+). The biggest loser in the game was Niki Jedlicka (-$31K).

Stud Hi/Lo

In some $1000/$2000 Limit Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo on Full Tilt Poker table Sethfield, the player under the handle “2little2late2″ managed a solid $46K+ win in the game. Also picking up wins were “woeisme” ($35K+) and ”gamble up77″ ($21K+). Sharing the losses were David Singer (-$35K) and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius (-$56K).


Heads up

"p_c4Libr4ted” was the next lucky poker soul to be privileged to some heads-up action against the infamous “tie53″. Playing $300/$600 NL Hold’em on several different tables throughout the afternoon, “p_c4Libr4ted” managed to rake in over $68K in winnings against the generous gambler.

PLO

As if collecting over $700K during a 13-hour period in the $200/$400 PL Omaha games on Full Tilt Poker wasn’t enough, the Great Dane managed to nearly duplicate the feat the very next day. Resting for just eight hours before going at it again, Gus Hansen raked in a $619K+ win after 21 hours.

LHE

The player known as “MadManMax” was busy in a $500/$1000 Limit Hold’em match on Full Tilt Poker table Tiger punishing “Fatal Fog. It was a battle that lasted over three and a half-hours and saw “MadManMax” rake in over $95K in winnings before it was all over.

General poker news

WPT

Six players took their seats shortly after 5 p.m. ET at Foxwoods Resort and Casino for the final table of the 2007 World Poker Tour World Poker Finals. While all six of them had the $1,704,986 first-place prize on their minds there could only be one winner and that was Mike Vela of New Windsor, New York. Before this Mike had a lifetimes winnings of $163,550, so this would be a pretty big boost to his bankroll.

UIGEA

The PPA (Poker Players Alliance) had day 1 of the meeting regarding the UIGEA. Teams from both sides of the argument, to make online poker legal again in the US, fought their corners, but from what I have read it sounds as though the PPA really took the fight to the opposition. Annie Duke was a huge factor and did extremely well for her part. The opposition used arguments such as comparisons to arms smuggling and cocaine trade, all which were easily discounted by the PPA. In conclusion it is looking very positive for time being.
For those of you not totally aware Americans were a HUGE part of online poker traffic (and also some great casual playing fish), but since all the major financial institutions were prosecuted for dealing with transactions between players and poker sites the average American player has found it so difficult to get funds into their poker accounts that they have stopped playing the game altogether. Lets hope the PPA keep up the good fight.

RTR News

We have progress on the New Raise the River League, Seaon 2! We recieved an email from Littlewoods happy that the situation with DTD and Cryptologic has all been cleared up and we are ready to go! Unfortunately the satellites to the CPC have now ended so the winner of the league will recieve a seat in the online final satellite to the EPT (European Poker Tour), worth over $500!! All we need now is confirmation from the forumites that they are happy with the start date. Please check the forum for the proposal.

We have a new leader in the Hall Of Fame for the RTR Challenge. HullJimi this week managed to pull off an amazing profit of $8.98!!! We get the feeling this will take a lot of beating!!! Well done Jimi.

We are hoping to make this the best damn blog we possibly can, so please leave comments and feedback. Tell us what you would like to see and we will take ALL ideas on board!

Poker Third Eye

Joe Hachem plays this weeks TLB winner GeorgieDubya, heads up on sunday November 18, for $5,000!!



Somehow, the Green Goblin doesn't seem quite so scary these days....







It's fun to stay at the YMCA!!!!

Forum posts of the Week.

This weeks forum post of the week was written by:

acefilleddreams.

Here is the link to the thread. LINK

Basically Ace had his laptop cooked in the oven!! There are pictures and everything at his blog. I wondered if he served it up with vegetables....

Other good posts this week

Comedy Value:

This thread just about scrapes it for me, but it was created by Cogsgoigne and the link is HERE.

Very funny indeed!

Strategy:

This was a thread created by Brainchylde and is in regards to how so many people over play AK. The link can be found HERE.

Acheivements by members:

A huge congratualtions to Mair, for qualifying for the APAT again down at Manchester. She managed a 3rd position finish from 55 runners and picked up a Bronze medal in the process. The thread can be found HERE.

Also congratulations to Kenn, who has been tearing up the MTT's again this week and taken a few prop bets on his progress too. He managed to take down the $5k guaranteed and also place 3rd in the $30 rebuy as well as numerous other deep runs. Very well done. Most of kenn's live railage and live updates can be found in the "Online Live" Forum.

Lastly a huge congrats to MattyH or known on the forum as 2much2drink, who won a live poker satellite to play an online final where the top 5 get to go to Vegas to play the WSOP 2008! Very well done Matty and best of luck in the online final. keep us posted. You can see the image and the thread HERE

Bad Beat of the Week:

Was by Portdeco, who suffered a horrendous 1 outer, when his straight flush was beaten by a higher rivered straight flush!! You can check it out HERE

Are there other catagories you would like to see? Hope you enjoy the new weekly feature and hopefully your thread could feature on here next week.

RTR Challenge Report- MattyH

Stage 1:

I decided to start with two $3.40 stt turbos, hoping to get some profit on the board early. It didn't work according to plan. I busted out of both of them in the late stages. One when my pocket tens all-in (crapshoot time in true turbo style) ran into the mighty pocket 6s, which then spiked a turned 6. The other when my push with 10,J suited ran into A,Q and neither of us improved.
So, that left me short of options. So I decided to jump into a $1.20 stt with standard blind levels. This was more like my sort of game. Plenty of time to watch the game develope without the blinds eventually pushing you into committing all your chips with any old thing if you were card dead on a loose table early doors. I managed to cash in 2nd place in this game for $2.70

Stage 2:

In the meantime I had already started another of these $1.20 games. Again I finished 2nd in this one. Headsup he just had me covered when I picked up AK and reraised. Villain pushes allin and I hope I'm either miles ahead or racing. As it turns out he is holding KK. No ace and I'm out in 2nd again for another $2.70
Seeing as these games were doing well for me I decided to go for another. I fired this one up and worked out how I was going to invest the money I had left. I figured the best thing to do was fire up yet another one of the $1.20 games and, also, go back and have another go at a $3.40 stt turbo. This meant playing 3 tables at once, which I had to do as time was running short. Now this wont seem much to many of you who multi table all the time, but for me it was bloody difficult. I haven't played online seriously for over a year now due to my live play seriously kicking off, and when I did play online seriously it was on the Boss Network, and only ever one table at a time. I only ever fired up Stars to play a couple of satellites a long time ago, and have only ever used it for drunk donking poker. This Friday nights H.O.R.S.E donking session with a few of the RTR Crew being a good example. So here I was struggling like hell to seriously concentrate on 3 tables at once

Final Stage:

So, I'm multi tabling 3 stts as my finale. For much of all 3 games I held the chip lead at each table. The $1.20 standard blind level games were taking care of themselves (thanks donks) and the turbo was typically fluctuating. Two successive sick beats saw me bust out of the turbo in 5th when I was set for a cash finish. I called an allin for half my stack with JJ and find myself facing J,Q suited. Hitting one Queen wasn't good enough for him as he rivered a 2nd. That left me fairly short stacked and the very next hand I picked up A,Q in the BB. I had two callers and figured this would be as good a chance as any to either triple up or steal the blinds as both callers had fold equity. One called my allin with A,10 and a flop of 9,7,8 left him open ended and four to the flush. The river brought his flush for him and I'm out in 5th
The other two $1.20 stts are going well though. I eventually managed yet another 2nd place in one, and a third place in the other. So here is my RTR Challenge result summary:

Result:

$3.40 turbo - No cash
$3.40 turbo - No cash
$3.40 turbo - No cash
$1.20 NLHE - 2nd $2.70
$1.20 NLHE - 2nd $2.70
$1.20 NLHE - 2nd $2.70
$1.20 NLHE - 3rd $1.20

That's a loss of $4.30 from my starting $10

My total time at the tables was - 3 Hours and 37 Minutes.

Conclusion:

With hindsight I wouldn't have played any turbos. They are too crapshooty from the middle to end stages. At such low stakes the standard is typically awful and loose, and as such you need cards to make any moves with in the latter stages if you've been card dead on a loose table early doors
If I was to do this again I would probably start with a $6 stt with standard blind levels and use the remaining on the $1.20 games.

I found this challenge very difficult. The need to multi table is not one I'm familiar with or good at. Quite the opposite - I was dreadful. I am, however, relatively happy with my results, although my one gripe is not being able to turn any of my cashes into a win.

Good luck to whoever is next at the felt

Matty H

RESULT: FULL TIME ACHEIVED. LOSS OF $4.30

Next to take the challenge is HullJimi

HullJimi RTR Challenge

1) How are you going to start the challenge??

I've decided to take a different line of attack than the two previous attempts. I'm going to sit down at 5c/10c table on Bodog with the whole stack - I've just signed up for Bodog and it's bonkers at that level. So I'll be hoping for some nutter to double me up sharpish.....or I'll get outdrawn and last all of 5 minutes!

2) You're up to $25 after an hour. What do you do in that situation??

Do a little dance, make a little love - basically get down tonight!

Well, given I'm playing cash, I must have found a juicy table. So, I'll leave some money on the cash tables and chuck in a SNG or two on Stars for a change of scenary....

3) And when are you doing the challenge??

Saturday night. Unless the wife throws a spanner in the works. If she does *I'll beat her and throw her back in the kitchen* (strike this out!!), I'll be doing it Tuesday night.

I'll post on the forums so everyone knows it's game on!

4) If you stay in the money, you'll beat BurnleyMik. Will you consider just sitting out?? ;o)

Not only BM, but Matty too.....

And no, they'll be no sitting out!

Poker - the future????

The year is 2057, and eighty-six year old Mr Cloud (still sprightly, with a twinkle in his eye, but very elongated ears) sits down to have a game of poker. He logs on to his favourite site, BurnleyMikPoker.com, the world’s number one new site. He thinks back to the days when he was happy to get 30% rakeback and laughs. No rake poker has been the norm for around thirty years now – although it still annoys him a little to see the tables having advertising all over them, and he knows his virtual avatar will be wearing a polo shirt emblazoned with the logo of the biggest fast food outlet.
He plays his first hand, a $1/$2 nl cash game, now considered micro stakes, and takes a look around at his opponents. Despite their virtual clothing, he can see their faces clearly, and then he picks up his cards (the playing cards virtual reality pack is now freely available as a sign-up bonus – and enable players to physically pick up their cards, which are wirelessly attached to the PC, and will display the relevant cards that players are dealt). He has ten jack suited in the big blind, there are a few limpers, so he taps the table and his hand is automatically checked. One of his opposition is talking, but the voice he hears is not quite in synch with the players lips – obviously he is not talking English, and it is being translated, but he turns the volume down – the chat is all a little too abusive these days. The flop doesn’t help him, so he folds and he is treated to an ad about hearing aids whilst the rest of the hand is playing out – these tailored ads annoy the hell out of him – he wants to watch the action, but he knows that part of the no rake deal is that he watches these ads, and his eye movement is being monitored.
He plays for around an hour and wins $40 – enough to buy his daily paper, delivered through his printer on the re-usable paper that is so rare these days, He turns immediately to the back pages and reads up on the latest WSOP news. The million dollar buy-in main event is down to the final table, and he is looking forward to the pay per view final table package that he has ordered through his television – which enables him to sit at any seat during the game, and see through the eyes of the superstars of the game, and see who would take the half a billion first prize.

He goes back to his PC and logs back on just in time for Bloggerment 2634 – will he finally break his duck??

Latest Poker News -8th November 2007

Welcome to the new RaiseTheRiver Poker news feature. hopefully this will be brought to you once every week to try and keep you up-to-date with all the latest goings on in the poker world. If you know of any good stories please feel free to email: mik@raisetheriver.com



High Stakes Online

NLHE

A player under the handle “tie53" was apparantly back at the high stakes tables making more donations. His first lucky recepient was Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond who booked a $38K win against “tie53″ in just 14 hands of heads-up $200/$400 NL Hold’em on Full Tilt Poker table Vasari.

HORSE

High stakes professional Andy Bloch was in impressive form as he took down a $100K+ win during the $1000/$2000 H.O.R.S.E. game going down on Full Tilt Poker table Hatteras. Following right behind him was David Benyamine with over $96K in winnings through 970+ hands of play. “thedoorisopen” (-$24K) and David Oppenheim (-$29K) were the big losers.

Limit Omaha Hi/Lo

During the $1000/$2000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo game over on Full Tilt Poker table Pearl, “thegodhimself” raked in over $87K in winnings through 240+ hands. Only other winner in the game was “2little2late2″ who took down a $32K+ win. Taking most of the losses were Gus Hansen (-$23K), David Benyamine (-$29K), and “thedoorisopen” (-$39K).

Heads Up

In under an hour of heads-up Limit Hold’em play, Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko showed why he’s one of the best at the game. He faced off against “TheElephant” at $1000/$2000 stakes on Full Tilt Poker table Harlin and easily raked in over $75K in winnings against his opponent

High Stakes Live

The latest episode of high stakes poker is now available on PokerTube. it's free and you have to watch it in 4 ten minute parts

General Poker News




The WPT (World Poker Tour) Finals have kicked of at the Foxwoods resort, Connecticut, US. This is season four of the event. For the latest updates visit http://www.pokernews.com/


The Full tilt "FTOPS" (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) kicked off yesterday with the 6-handed NLHE event. This is the 6th of this online quarterly event and all the usual big names are expected so keep your eyes peeled! if you know anyone having any success let us know and we will try and track their progress!




RTR Latest

Season two of the RTR league has been delayed due to some confusion with Littlewoods. The spokesman was worried that Littlewoods would be competing against another Cryptologic licensee, DTD. It has now been clarified that the DTD team challenge event ends next Friday and so they will not be in competition. hopefully this will clear the confusion and we can start to make final plans.

2much2drink (aka MattyH) was the latest person to take the challenge. Matty did manage to beat BurnleyMik (not much to beat there!!) when he completed the full 3hrs and 30 mins with a small loss of $4.30, which was very impressive. The full report is to follow.

The top five finishers in week 3 of the 5 week series were:

5th raffel69

4th phishfood

3rd cogsgoigne

2nd HullJimi

1st BurnleyMik

The league is hotting up like crazy and with only the top 4 finishers guaranteed seats some of you guys need a good showing this last two weeks. you can view the league here: RTR DTD LEAGUE TABLE

Lastly, but by no means least, we would like to take this opportunity to wish Amatay all the very best in his, soon-to-be new life as a full-time player.

Until next week remember to RAISE THE RIVER!!!!!!!!!