In my opinion small pocket pairs are strong when playing heads up. Getting value out of your pocket pair is always difficult, since you need to protect it. What is your opinion about how to play pocket pairs?

How to get complete value of your the nuts? Give the player cheap / free card to see the turn when you have a monster. Hoping that, if you have the nuts, the turn/river will complete a hand for your opponent will be the perfect moment to go all-in. The other player might consider this play as a bluff. Ah well, there are many ways every hand can be played, and it’s very hard to determine which way is best…

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You might consider to get a loan / dept to start playing on the high stakes, where players think more about their moves, and don’t call with shitty hands…

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Channing was able to beat well known professionals like Doyle Brunson, Andy Black and Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott in this 3 million guaranteed tournament.

By winning this tournament Channing earned €801.400!

Since the pros playing at Full Tilt get paid per hour, it is very profitable to be online as much as possible. But also the pros need to read and follow the Terms and Conditions! Account sharing is just not allowed! Due to this violation by Jonathan Little Full Tilt Poker saw no other options then disabling Jonathan’s account and ‘fire’ him.

I think this is really well done by Full Tilt, showing no regret, neither to their own affiliated professionals. What do you think?

Between an impressing field of contesters of the best poker professionals of the world, Chris Ferguson managed to win the NBC Nationals Heads-Up Championship of 2008!

After finishing in the second place the last 2 years, he finally succeeded to win this great tournament.

The complete final results:

Chris Ferguson

1 Chris Ferguson $500,000
2 Andy Bloch $250,000
3 Huck Seed $125,000
. Phil Ivey $125,000
5 Gus Hansen $75,000
. Jonathan Little $75,000
. Orel Hershiser $75,000
. David Benyamine $75,000
9 Mike Matusow $25,000
. Phil Laak $25,000
. Greg Raymer $25,000
. J.C. Tran $25,000
. Doyle Brunson $25,000
. Scott Fischman $25,000
. Freddy Deeb $25,000
. Michael Mizrachi $25,000

In the best of three final Chris Ferguson was able to defeat Andy Bloch. After Andy winning the first match, Chris was able to win the second and third match with showing the best of his HU game. The second match won by Chris by calling going all-in with QcQd against a short Andy Bloch showing Kc3d.

Eventually the third match was not as exiting as the first two, finally finished by a coinflip (yes a real coinflip) made by Andy. Calling with a pair of Tens, with Ferguson showing JJ. With no help on the turn and river, it was Chris Ferguson winning the NBC National Heads-Up Championship of 2008.

Andy Bloch

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This attack is used by computer hackers to bring websites down and are placed by computers all around the world, sending billions of so called ping packages to one server. If this server does not have a good protection against these attacks, it can cause downtime. As happened to Full Tilt Poker, Party Casino, Titan Poker, Virgin Games, CD Poker and Europa Casino. Also some big Russian Poker sites were attacked like PokerListing.

This finnaly shows the reason of the embarrassing outage of Full Tilt Poker during the FTOPS Main Event, when almost every player lost his connection.

These connection losses are not very good for Full Tilt’s reputation, since a lot of players are wondering if their losses will be refunded. What do you expect from Full Tilt?

The US Government can! A study of accountantsfirm Price Waterhouse Coopers, in name of the UC-Group, gives an insight of the income losses for the US Government for the upcomming 10 years! If they regulate online poker and casino , they will earn a little of 16 billion (16,000,000,000!!!!).

In this calculation sportsbetting is not even included, it’s all about casino games and poker!

Individual taxes would generate 56% of the total amount. The amount could rise up to 42 billion if other sport betting was included and all states where gambling is prohibited..

Am i the only one wondering how long Online Poker will be forbidden in the USA?

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