Insane Hero call from Patrick Antonius

Here we leave you an insane hero call from patrick antonius with Queen high, just impressive the reading skills from antonius

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Patrik Antonius

Patrik Antonius
This great payer was took birth on December 13, 1980 in Helsinki, Finland, Patrik Antonius is a poker player at international level. Apart from poker, he is also a tennis player and a model. He presently stays in Monte Carlo.Patrik Antonius took poker as a profession in the year 2002 after he developed his playing skills with friends and online. Until now, he has nearly won a total of $3 million.

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Patrik Antonius is now among the top professionals of poker with a number of tournaments under his name but this is not the only field of excellence for him since he is also a tennis player and this keeps him busy with the court. His dream was to become professionally involved in tennis, but the plans did not capitalize due to a back injury at the age of fifteen. Antonius has also keen interest towards golf. He started playing poker at Casino Helsinki at the age of eighteen and continued to do so for two years but then he began to play the game more seriously. It was from here he started winning continuously. He started to play online in the year 2003 where he turned his deposit of $200 into $20,000. When he moved to United States for studies, he took a break and began devoting most of his time in poker. He played 12 hours a day and seven days a week and this made him to turn $20,000 into $80,000. Now, he is a consistent online player and it has made him earn millions. Under nicknames like Finddagrind and CryMERiver9, he used to play at Full Tilt Poker. Presently he has adopted his real name and has started playing as “Team Full Tilt” member.
Antonius started flourishing in the game of poker after he finished to the final table of World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour events. It was in September 2005 when he made to the final table in European Poker Tour and there he finished third. This tournament was held in Barcelona. Next he won €288,180 in the EPT, standing first in the event. He also won in Las Vegas, the same year, a cash price of $1,046,470 standing second this time.The year 2006 proved to be the most profitable time for him as he won the largest cash price, which was $205,920. He also took down the Ladbrokes Scandinavian Poker Championship for $66,000.He was placed third in the Pot Limit Omaha event with a cash price of $311,394. With this, his total earning from World Series of Poker was now $569,964. The total WSOP cash for Antonius, until the time he has entered 13 such series, is $774,046.
Patrik Antonius is a sensational player of live cash games. He is an active part of the Big Game, a cash game at Bellagio. The GSN’s High Stakes Poker witnessed its highest pot ever when Patrik along with Sammy Farha totaled it to $998,800. He won three of four runs and the total cash collected by him was $749,100. On another occasion, Patrik played against Jamie Gold. Patrik had an ace of spade and jack of diamond against Jamie’s king of spade and king of diamonds in hand. Antonius rose to pre flop of $4,000 with Gold re raisingthe amount to $14,000. Patrik was given an inside draw with a flop comprising of three of spade, queen of diamond, and ten of hearts. Patrik called the pot of $30,800 for which Jamie had bet $15,000.Patrik was given a straight with the king of hearts opening on the turn. Jamie re raised all in the $45,000 which Patrik had bet into the pot. While Jamie was raising Patrik was commented to be looking “like a lion” by Gabe Kaplan. After this Antonius called and the pot was worth $743,800. Both players agreed for three times to run the river. In spite of being a 77-23 favorite, Antonius won last out of the three times. Jamie has won the first two. Although it was a beat but this was not reflected on Patrik’s face. Antonius has won the biggest pot in online poker history against Isildur that was $1,356,946. The total amount Patrik has earned from live games exceeds $2,800,000.

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Who is Phil Ivey

The Famous Poker Player – Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey is a renowned name in the current realm of poker tournaments. He is known worldwide as he has won 8 world poker championships. Not only this, he has also won the most prestigious world poker tour. He has also secured his position at the final round in about 9 poker world championships. As per the world poker-player rankings, he is currently the top seed and has won the maximum amount of cash in the tournaments. He also came 2nd in the Australian 2010 poker championship. This marvelous finish earned him many cash as the event had the prize money of 100,000 million dollars. Most of the other poker players are agree with the fact that Phil Ivey to be the greatest poker player.

Phil Ivey was born in America in the state of California in the year 1976. Few months later, his family moved to New Jersey. He lived in New Jersey till he shot to fame through poker tournaments and later on he shifted to Las Vegas, the Mecca of poker. People who live around his house say that he a great basketball lover and id often spotted sporting the jerseys of his favorite teams. Other than that, Phil Ivey has a keen interest in golf and computer games. It is also said that once he played in a small golf tournament and he came 3rd.

Although he lives a lavish lifestyle owing to the huge cash deposits in his account, he is also respected by many as he regularly donates money for various charity purposes. He has donated thousands of dollars to help the education of students who cannot afford it otherwise. He also owns a charitable trust named “Ivey Foundation” which takes care of malnourished students and provides them with food and education.

Owing to his vast fan following, his charitable trust was donated with 260,000 US Dollars in the first year of its existence. He also organizes poker tournaments where the prize money won by the players is donated to the charitable cause for which he constantly endeavors.

Phil Ivey’s career started in New Jersey itself when he started playing for a local firm in early 90’s. He worked in a marketing company and in the free time, he played poker against his work mates. During that period, he was given several names like “Tiger Woods” and “Homeless Jerome”.

As of now, he is the richest poker player of the world. He has won more than 13 million US dollars through poker tournaments with more than 2 million dollars won in the current year. More than half of his money was won in world title championships also known as WSOP, he has won a total of 19M online in full tilt poker as of today.

A long list of tournaments he has won includes the one in 2002 when he won WSOP. In the same year, he finished at par with other poker giants like Phil and Puggy. He also won the Omaha poker tournaments in 2000 and again in 2005. Amarillo was the only undefeated poker player until 2000 and Phil Ivey was the first poker player to defeat him in WSOP.

Apart from that, he has also won World Series 8 times and has been a successful player throughout the main events of the world poker tournaments. He has been a constant performer as he finished 23rd in the year 2002, 10th in 2003, 20th in the year 2005 and 7th in the year 2009. In the year 2009, he also won his 6th bracelet (prize given in poker championships) in the world series of poker. He was awarded prize money of 250,000 UD dollars. In that championship, there were 140 professional poker players and Phil Ivey defeated all of them to claim the title. In the same year, he rose to world fame by defeating some of the prominent names in the poker industry like Ming Lee. He won 500,000 US dollars by defeating Ming Lee in Omaha poker tournament.

In the year 2010, Phil Ivey was voted the most successful champion of the world poker series. In this year, he secured his 8th bracelet in the world series of poker tournament by defeating some of the great players like Bill Chen and Chad Brown. He won 300,000 US dollars for this event.

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Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, a nightmare to play with

Tom Dwan – The greatest Talent of Poker

Tom Dwan is an American poker player who is known for his exquisite style and power packed gameplay in almost all the world poker championships. He is one of the youngest international poker players and is merely 24 years old. He was born in the month of July of the year 1986 in New Jersey, USA.  As of now, the total money earned by him is more than 5 million dollars just in full tilt poker.

Tom Dwan shot to fame through his win in the high stakes poker tournaments. He is popularly known by the nickname of “Durrrr” amongst the poker fraternity. He is one of the greates players online and offline when it involves Texas Hold’em and Omaha Poker.

Tom Dawn realized his talent of poker when he was just 17 years old. He went to pursue engineering in a reputed institute of America and realized in his 1st year that he is quite good at poker. Although he played with a very small amount in the beginning, and that too he lost, he never lost hope in himself. In his college days, he played poker with Sit & Gos. Impressive thing to remark is he started with a 50 USD deposit which was given to him by his dad and he never ever deposit again money into his poker account (Just withdraws hehe) . In a few months, he discovered that he needs a bigger platform to showcase his talent. He then moved to real poker tables in Boston. Initially he lost a bit but not before long he realized his style of playing and started to recover his losses. Then he moved to international online poker tournaments and played with some of the best poker players of the world. And the best part is this that all this while he was still pursuing his engineering degree. But soon he realized that his career lies in poker and not in engineering. That year only, he decided to drop out of the engineering college and devoted all his time in online poker tournaments.

Some Impressive stats from his fulltilt gamming:

Sessions: 11470

Hands: 935,834

Almost 1M hands!!!!

During this period, he won several tournaments and also lost many. This could be termed as his real struggling period. But this was the same period when he learnt a lot about his game and other player’s game. Then he shot to fame by winning the biggest pot ever in the history of world poker. His biggest won pot in televised poker was shown in a past post, just impressive his for of play.

He has many international and domestic titles in his pocket. He is also the youngest player to play in the European poker championship in 2005 which was held in London. He was just 19 when he participated in that event. In 2007, he came fifth in the world poker championship and won a whopping sum of three hundred thousand US dollars. This was his first big win. After that, Tom Dwan never looked back. The very next year, he won two title championships in Australia. This brought him at par with some of the best poker players of the world. In the year 2009, he came 9th in the American poker championship and won a huge amount of two hundred thousand dollars. But his best performance was unleashed when he ended at second position in the biggest poker event of the world – the world series of poker which is popularly known as WSOP. He was awarded three hundred eighty thousand US dollars as prize money. In the year 2010, he has earned more than half a million dollars and thus raising his total earnings through poker to one and a half million dollars.

Other poker players with whom he has played say that he is the greatest bluffer of all times. He has some greatest bluff wins to his record with the most recent one against Isildur. He pulled off a major bluff and swept 500,000 US dollars off the table. He has also challenged some of the other players like Daniel Cates and Patrik Antonius. His famous challenge that after fifty thousand hands, if anyone is leading the stack against him, Tom would pay him $1.5 million dollars and if Tom leads the stack, then he will take only half a million dollars. Till date, the only people taking his challenge are Patrick Antonius and Jungleman12, here are some stats of this challenge:

durrrr Vs jungleman12

Leader: jungleman12
Amount: $657,774.5
Hands: 7,660 of 50,000
Sessions: 6

Last update: October 5th, 2010

durrrr Vs Patrik Antonius

Leader: durrrr
Amount: $2,059,719.5
Hands: 39,436 of 50,000
Sessions: 64

Last update: August 3rd, 2010

There is a tracker in: http://www.durrrrchallenge.com/ which follow up the challenge

His for of play? Well he is an extremely aggressive player, he can play even 8 tables at the same time online, he makes a variety of hands that no one can do, he can play with 27 and crack down the Aces, a real hard player to beat cause you aren’t able to read him. One of the best online.

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Biggest televised poker pot ever!

Here we leave you the biggest poker pot ever televised:

The episode is of the Million dollar cash game in UK, 2 hands before finishing the episode we enter to this huge pot, only 3 players left and considered the best ones in cash games:

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan

Phil Ivey

Patrik Antonius

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Blingds: 1000/2000 USD
Ante: 500
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Dwan raises, Phil Ivey reraises, they raise with nothing but its their style, no one can know what they can possibly have, Dwan has  7h 6h and Ivey has A 2  offsuit,

Flop comes  Jc 3d 5c, pot is 49K, phil ivey raises to 35k, dwan calls, you gotta see the turn, just impressive how this guys play

What do you think about this setup?

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When to fold in facebook poker

Learn facebook poker strategies to know when to fold a hand in facebook poker

It is important to know when to fold a hand in facebook poker to taste success for a long time. Almost all beginners who are playing facebook poker play with too many hands.  It is better to begin with a pre-flop premium hand, which does not require money to play. It seems that most of the players do not have time to wait for a good hand and they try to use average hands. You will become a solid player only by playing K/K, A/A, A/K or Q/Q as the starting hands. However, in the later stages of playing facebook poker you can use the tight table image in order to play tricks with a few hands.

You should be never afraid to fold a hand thinking that folding the hand means losing. While folding a hand you are saving the chips for the next day to fight. Losing a game of facebook poker will happen only when some other person wins all money you have with you. By folding the hand thoughtfully you can minimize the chance of losing the game. Pre-flop is the most important folding decision as you are playing with two cards and you have to decide whether to fold or play.

When the player decided to choose a card, he can enter in to the pot and he is setting himself for later stages of the game. Therefore, you have to be very careful in making decision with starting hands. While deciding a hand to play or to fold a hand in facebook poker you have to consider several factors. As a thumb rule, start with the cards that are connected, paired, suited or by combining both connected and suited. By following this rule, you can make suitable decisions at a later stage on turn, river and the flop.

The player will know when to fold a hand in facebook poker when they receive hand that need phenomenal flops like 2-3, 4-6, J-5 and so on. Other hands that can be played will depend on the opponents, pot odds and position. The initial step to know whether the player must fold or hold the hand is by understanding the flop texture. After the flop, you should read the board and scrutinize which hand can be used. On boards like Kc-9 d-5, h pocket aces are great but pocket aces are not good for boards like Kc-Qc-Jc.  A pair of pocket aces can beat anyone on the flop but a player with A-10 or 9-10 can beat you easily.

It is difficult to provide a suitable advice as playing facebook poker and its decisions are always situational. Some time folding a hand is obvious when there are possible hands on the board. There are also several situations in which the player can go ahead but the flop texture saying something else. In such situations, you have to analyze your flop, money with you and your opponent before playing further. When the player does not have enough money to play a big bet, then be sure that it is time to fold the hand in facebook poker.

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What makes a bad facebook poker player

What makes a bad facebook poker player?
The facebook poker player needs specific skills and traits and these learning are achieved through teaching and practice, the bad player do not get the necessary information regarding most of the player looses games and money as well. The lack of effort is the reason, most beginner are not making their full effort to win the game. The decision-making and the strategies in various games are needed to play in facebook poker the player must be good thinker, the bad thinker do not face the opponent and they loose the game.
The facebook poker game is all about the numbers such like how many outs you have? Etc. The player must have mathematical knowledge and statistical knowledge to play the game. In facebook poker game, the discipline is very important you must convince your self in the facebook poker game, tour emotions tend to make people and opponent illogical about you. Your emotions imbalanced is the factor the most of the player looses the facebook poker game because in most of the cases the bad player donor control their heart beats and breathing and the pressure are visible on the player face which encourage the opponent to play well. The well player knows how patience plays an important role in the facebook poker game, you need to stay in game and see the instant result.
Tips for bad player, how to improve to play the facebook poker game: Hand selection is one of the important things in facebook poker because the player mind has many mathematical calculations and probabilities the right choice of the mind with the hands you can win the game. The player must fold their hand not normally they do regularly, the various tactics of folding the hand must use by the player. Do not slow play in the game, it is effective in certain circumstances such as when your opponents can just walk away from their hands. Most of the players have two meanings for facebook facebook poker one own the table and ill stake the facebook chips
The simple successful strategy should be based upon simple play style and learn some of the best tricks in these strategies. In bind stealing method you can win a lot of facebook poker chips when you are in a dealer position, it is the good way to grab the facebook poker chips to raise your betting steaks. Steal raising if the player find themselves as a blind bet the number of steaks in a pot because it provide the safety for player and escape route but this trick only done by the professionals facebook poker player do not use often in the game, this work is possible when the player have a good hand such as a nut flush draw. The player start the game with great opening, most player start the game with bluffing play style, this is the effective strategy you can cause a lot of player to fold. These are the tricks and techniques for the player if they want to make good players; these techniques are effective when the users try more and more best practices.
The bankroll management must be prepare because it provide you chances to play more with the players and different strategies games, the user must deposit the funds in the facebook facebook poker games, if you have no more funds you cannot play the games more. The player deposit the funds by different transaction such as PayPal etc .The facebook facebook poker game is very complicated and involves many risk in it player can loose the money. The bad player must start the SWOT analysis which mostly organization management do SWOT mean strength, weakness, opportunity and threads. The players use their strength in the game strategies, the player work for their weakness such as emotions, simple knowledge tricks and techniques. The bad players finds the opportunity in the facebook facebook poker game which provide you the chance of wining and earn a lot of money, the threads is the important elements the player recognizes the opponent threads his way of playing ,use of the hand, trick and techniques and emotional activities, etc.
There are many possibility when trying this makes the bad player change in to well known player.

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Top reasons why begginers loose their chips fast in facebook Poker

Top reasons beginner losses all their facebook poker chips
There are many games in poker with sort of different rules and strategies, there is no big secret here, and the beginner must know about how to play poker. The mastering part of the Facebook poker is costly; the player requires understanding, studying and practicing the game well. The beginner player thinks that the poker game is very easy to play. Most of the players losses games because they do not know how to use hand values , game tactics etc.Facebook poker involves a degree of luck like other games many good player also can loss the game because of their bad cards.
The poker is easy to play for less experienced people. Sometimes Poker is very unusual, it involves the uncompleted information and about chances of luck. You could also spend your whole life to learn the playing styles better and better because poker is very a complex game. Beginners, while playing the poker game do not think enough about decision-making. However, the good decisions play an important role in the game. Taking good decisions in time can make the game profitable for you, as well as taking a wrong decision can make you a looser. The folding of hand in facebook poker chips is an important tool; the simple hand folding is the biggest mistake which beginner mostly does.

A common mistake that is often done by the beginners is they do not like to play defensive playing. The player focus on the winning they are busy in chasing the win, they never think, and there are chances for him to loose the game. You should not play face book online poker when you are drunk. Do not play the poker in bad mood when you are emotionally disturbed or depressed. While playing the poker you should pay all your attentions to your hands not to any other factors. Remember a good player can control the heartbeat and breathing while playing the facebook poker.
The players should learn about the game’s basic principles. The player can learn the techniques from websites easily or from experienced player.
The online poker game is not same as brick & mortar casino poker. The rules are always same but the ways are different. The have to be entered into the game and make your online poker account funded in many ways for different poker rooms. There may be some restrictions based upon countries and states but the website will inform you about these limitations. Player can deposit the fund through credit card, money gram, bank wire and money order etc. At the starting you should play, the online games for at least for one hour do not need to deposit the funds at the beginning.
Bankroll is the deposit funds, which you transfer for an online games online card rooms may limit you depending upon your funds. You can start your online bankroll through winning games or by making additional deposit. The limit deposit can limit your play as well. The beginner must know that you play that game in facebook poker and the deposit stand with you.
Most beginners do not know that normally poker is played with fifty-two cards deck, a joker is used to withdraw the game but in facebook poker, the joker is not used .In Texas Holdem all the player receives two down cards that remain hidden until the final shut down of the hands. In Texas Hold`em poker schooling is a belittling term used to define the week loose poker player it is the part of the reason many player complaints that they are unable to bat losses game. Schooling is profitable for winning player and give good player two main ways to win by either playing the game with best made hand or with the best draw, this makes the more money for player. The all the basics are necessary for every player it defines the ways and chances to win ,before starting you try to get information from players and any other sources.
Whatever, playing online poker may be beneficiary, if they can be played in a profitable manner. To be a good player one should know about the basic principles as well as the beneficiary usage of different tools also.

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Tilting in Facebook Poker… Not a good idea!

Facebook Poker Tilting – Can be very dangerous
There are many factors involved in a Facebook Poker game those can influence a game to win or loose. One of these factors is Facebook Poker Tilting. It can be defined as a situation in which you will take bad decisions by being influenced with your emotions when these are not necessary! May be you can play better, but if you hear to your bad side of your mind, sometimes you can see that, you are taking some wrong decisions. These kinds of situations are called as tilts in Facebook Poker. You can get influenced by any kind of emotions like anger, fear, sadness, hate, anxiety etc. These are very dangerous while plying a Facebook Poker game. A good Facebook Poker player should control his emotions while plying Facebook Poker. You should keep out these emotions from a game while playing Facebook Poker. Otherwise there is a great possibility of taking wrong decision though you are a good Facebook Poker player.
Now the question comes that how to deal with this Facebook Poker tilting? If you feel that, you are suffering from this Facebook Poker tilting situations, try to control yourself. May be your opponents try to create such a tilting situation to take avail of you. So, try to understand that, this situation is very detrimental for your money. You can loss lots of money, if you are driven by your emotion. Try to control a game with patience and intelligence. If you feel that, you are feeling disturbed by something, then you should not bet, leave the bet for a while and try to make yourself calm. Then with a fresh mind, get into the game again, with new sprit.
Whatever, you can get benefited if you realize that any of your opponent is suffering from this tilting situation. Then try to take the benefit with cool brain. Do such a betting that can make him more angry and disturbed to him. Try to make him more frustrated with your bluffing. If once you can lead him in a wrong way then be sure that can add more money and chips into your account. Your created Facebook Poker tilting situation will be very helpful to mislead your opponents in to wrong way if you are able to create such kind of situation in a cool brain.
Keep in mind that Facebook Poker tilting is very harmful for winning the game. If you are tilted than you can face a great loss without any concerning. So, try to handle this kind of situation well. If you feel that, you are facing some problems. Then have a walk. If you are a smoker try to have a smoke to refresh yourself. Loosing draws, taking too mush time to win a bet may be frustrating. Some times your opponents also tease you that you do nothing about playing Facebook Poker. So, don’t be such frustrated that, you wont be able to play beyond your capability.
Whatever, he is a good Facebook Poker player who can control a Facebook Poker tilting. The term control means, he can create it not to fall into it. So try to control your emotions and make Facebook Poker tilting. Do not suffer from it!

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