Congratulations to Journey85 for Winning Q4.7 and to Nahanni74 for Finishing Top of the Q4 TLB

Our final game of the quarter (and the year) resulted in the largest turnout yet...8 players!  and a new player Steve W. with PS screen name of wonder914 (he is a friend of Roger's).

It was a pretty epic battle especially once we got down 3-handed (between Journey85, EFEN Captain and myself)...we were 3-handed for nearly 1 hour (100 hands were played 3-handed and the entire tournament consisted of only 196 hands). 

The results of the tourney are posted in table below and the TLB points for this quarter are posted on the side of the blog.  I may have to check my spreadsheet or have an independent audit conducted, but congratulations to nahanni (me) for finishing top of the quarterly TLB.  This concludes Q4 of our inaugural online league.  We will be starting back up on January 6, 2011.  Like I said before, over the break I plan to post the point system and propose some special game formats...I'll need your feedback on the blog, so don't be shy, and leave some comments.

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	journey85	28.28
2	nahanni74	20.00
3	EFEN Captain	16.33
4	99RAW99	14.14
5	EDWT
6	wonder914
7	crabbyjoe154
8	badbilly429

GPN - Q4.7

Thursday's game has been created...

Name: GPN - Q4.7
Date: 12/9/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as previous weeks

Congratulations to Nahanni74 for winning Q4.6

5 people showed up for tonight's game...and it was over fairly quickly (45 min) as yours truly was “hit in the face with the deck”…I don’t think I have ever had such a good run of cards before…like ever!  Broadway suited connectors, AKs, Pocket pairs upon pocket pairs, flopping sets and straights, turning boats, rivering a straight flush, etc.  Pretty sick.  One only dreams of having hands like that in a big tournament like the Sunday Million with over a million dollar prizepool.  Anyhow…I guess our $25 prizepool will have to do.  Results are below with the quarterly TLB updated on the side of the blog.

Next week will be the last game this quarter…come out to play even if it is your first game.  Then our next game won’t be until January 6^th.  I will send out a reminder email…I think I will start sending the reminders out on Wednesdays.

Also, after seeing how the first quarter went, I am thinking of revamping the point system a bit so that all players get points each game (not just the top 50%) and all games will count for the quarterly TLB and yearly TLB (originally I was setting it up for top 5 games per quarter and top 20 games per year)…but I think it would be better if all games were counted.  I plan to post the details of the point system in a separate blog later.

…also…brief reminder that GPN Live will be starting back up in 7 short weeks…more details to follow…

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	nahanni74	22.36
2	journey85	15.81
3	EDWT	12.91
4	crabbyjoe154
5	AllPuddin

GPN - Q4.6

Thursday's game has been created...

Name: GPN - Q4.6
Date: 12/2/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as previous weeks

Congratulations to Crabbyjoe, Matrix Event Winner

We had marginal success in this first 'matrix event'...5 players to the first game, nobody else except myself wanted to play the 8:15 and 8:30 game…but then 99RAW99 showed up around 8:30 and joined me for the 8:45 game and that convinced Crabbyjoe154 and Journey85 to register for the 8:45 game as well.  The last table shows the overall points/ranking for the matrix and the quarterly standings are updated on the side of the blog.

OH...BTW...I am assuming that you guys don't want to play next thursday right?  Besides living by myself, it isn't thanksgiving for me, so if you are interested in playing, let me know and I can set up a game (or 2)...and we can also set up private heads-up games too...just FYI...

Rank	Player	Points Earned Game 1
1	journey85	22.36
2	crabbyjoe154	15.81
3	AllPuddin	12.91
4	Schlitz722
5	nahanni74

Rank	Player	Points Earned Game 2
1	99RAW99	20.00
2	crabbyjoe154	14.14
3	journey85
4	nahanni74

Final TLB points/ranking for the matrix event:

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	crabbyjoe154	24.49
2	journey85	17.32
3	99RAW99	14.14
4	AllPuddin
5	Schlitz722
6	nahanni74

GPN Q4.5 - 1st Matrix Event

It's THURSDAY!!!!  And that can mean only 1 thing...P-O-K-E-R!!!!!  Despite receiving no feedback on the proposed 'Matrix Event', I decided to create 4 tournaments spaced 15 minutes apart.  I’m not going to list the tourney IDs (it’s a bit of a pain)…just look under Tourney\Private and for the following titled games per the following starting times:

20:00  GPN – Q4.5.1

20:15  GPN – Q4.5.2

20:30  GPN – Q4.5.3

20:45  GPN – Q4.5.4

All games are $5+$0.50 and the password is the same as before.  Points will be awarded the same per game, but the final reported points will be based on the ranking that results from the summation of all points earned across all 4 games (i.e. first place points will be awarded to the person who earns the most points across all 4 games).  Play all 4 games for the potential to earn the most points.  This matrix event format is a trial…if people like it maybe we can work it into rotation once per month or once per quarter.

If you have never played 4 games at the same time…there are different ways you can handle it…Poker Stars has a few options for multi-tabling…click on the tiny double square icon that is on the lower right hand corner of the chip tray while seated at a table for multi-tabling options.  Personally, I find tiling the tables with a little bit of overlap between all the tables is the best to maximize my laptop’s screen ‘real-estate’.

No Show

soooo...my function got canceled and I tried to register for the 8:00 game, but nobody else showed up.  I guess we have next week (unless people just aren't into this).

I haven't received any feedback regarding the proposed "matrix" format for next week.  Are you guys interested?

Congratulations to EFEN Caption for Win Q4.4

Tonight we had 7 players and one of them was a new player...Joe's wife Cathy (AllPuddin).  The results are posted below and Quarterly TLB points posted on side of blog.

Next week's game has been created:

Tourney ID: 328268907
Name: GPN - Q4.5
Date: 11/11/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week

(I won’t be playing as I have a prior commitment…have fun).

For the week of the 18^th, I am thinking of doing a “matrix” game (somewhat similar to Full Tilt’s Matrix Sit-n-Gos) where we all play 4 games at the same time…perhaps we can space them out to start 15 minutes apart (like game 1 starts at 8:00, game 2 starts at 8:15, etc).  Points will be earned per game the same way they are now, however the final reported points will be determined by summing up each player’s point earned per game and whomever has the most points is the “winner” of the event and they earn 1^st place, the 2^nd most points earns 2^nd place and so on.  I think it would be fun to try…but it would work best if everyone playing on the 18^th also plays all 4 games.  Who is interested?  Also, if you are interested, let me know if 4 x $5 buy-in is OK…or would you prefer a smaller buy-in?  Poker Stars allows you to set up a $1, $3, $5 (and up) buy-in.  Leave your preference in the comment section of this blog.

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	EFEN Captain	26.46
2	nahanni74	18.71
3	crabbyjoe154	15.28
4	badbilly429	13.23
5	Schlitz722
6	AllPuddin
7	journey85

GPN - Q4.4

Thursday's game has been created...

Tourney ID: 325919602
Name: GPN - Q4.4
Date: 11/4/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week

Congratulations to Crabbyjoe for the Win

Tonight we had 7 players join us...good to see more players join us.  Joe brought another friend to the game...Eddie with screen name EDWT.  TLB Points earned this game posted below and quarterly TLB points posted on side of blog.

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	crabbyjoe154	26.46
2	journey85	18.71
3	Schlitz722	15.28
4	EDWT	13.23
5	nahanni74
6	EFEN Captain
7	99RAW99

GPN - Week 3

Thursday's game has been created...

Tourney ID: 324884397
Name: GPN - Q4.3
Date: 10/28/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week

Congratulations to Jim for GPN Live Finale Win!

Hello All,

Roger emailed me with the following to post on the blog...

Last night on the very first hand, with the blinds at 25/50 Bill and Jim started strong against each other with over 2000 chips in the pot with Jim taking down Bill with a full house. 

Things settled down a little after that but Bill kept raising early on trying to bully the boys.  I believe that the first all in was Tony; however no callers. 

I step out of the room for one minute for a drink and the next thing I know is Billy is out.  His AK off went against Jim’s KK.  The Kings held (No "A" on the river as Joe always says).

The next to go out was Tony, can't remember the hand though. 

The next was me, fighting a small stack all night long.  I had about 8 BB's left with 33, and pushed all in.  I got two (Brad and Jim) callers and spiked a 3 on the flop.  Thinking I was in good shape, until the betting continued between Brad and Jim.  Come to find out, Brad had 99 and spiked a 9 on the flop as well.  Good bye Roger. 

While on tilt and pouting in the other room Brent and Brad went out shortly thereafter, leaving Steve, Jim and Bill to fight it out. 

After a little while, I decided to deal for them.  With the chips going back and forth between them, the beef jerky wild card hand came up between Bill and Steve.  The blinds are 400/800.  Steve has AA and decides to smooth call and Bill has the "wild card hand" and decides to check.  The flop comes out all "rags".  Steve ponders his bet and decides to slow play his AA as Bill has been aggressive all night and set him up for the kill.  Well, his plan worked as Bill goes all in, and Steve snap calls and flips over his pocket "A's".  Bill caught with his hands in the cookie jar, flips over T6o, and says "shit".  With Steve way ahead in the hand, the dealer "me" slowly flips over the turn, a T, which gives Bill some new life.  As we anxiously await, I turn over the river and it’s another T, to give Bill the winning hand with trips to take down Steve's pocket A's. 

This leaves Steve short stacked and on a big tilt and shortly thereafter Jim takes down Steve with a 3rd place finish and $150 in his pocket.  This leaves Jim and Bill left to fight for 1st and 2nd, ironically they both finished 1st and 2nd in the regular season as well.  Anyway, with a lot of back and forth of chips, Jim finally takes down Bill for the win and the bracelet.

1 = Jim = $780

2 = Bill = $380

3 = Steve = $150

4 = Brent/Brad = $90

5 = Brent/Brad = $40

6 = Roger = $20

7 = Tony = $20

8 = Billy = $20

Congratulations to all!  Can’t wait for new season in January…in the meantime, don’t forget to play on Thursday night, 8:pm, on PS…GPN Online baby!

Congratulations to Shlitz722 for First Win in Q4 2010

Tonight we had 5 players for our 2nd game.  The newest player (and the winner), Shlitz722 is Brian T from the GPN live game.  Speaking of the live game, the Top 8 were playing the finale game tonight...we got some updates in the PS online chat (courtesy of Roger)...but no official word yet on the winner...I'll update the blog when I find out.

Anyhow tonights TLB points earned are listed below and the Q4 TLB is post on the right of the blog.  enjoy.

Rank	Player	TLB Points Earned This Game
1	Schlitz722	22.36
2	nahanni74	15.81
3	EFEN Captain	12.91
4	crabbyjoe154
5	jamestown07

GPN Week 2

Thursday's game has been created...

Tourney ID: 322084421
Name: GPN - Q4.2
Date: 10/21/10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
password: same as last week

New to Poker Stars and/or Poker Stars' Private Tourneys?

If you are new to private tourneys on Poker Stars (PS), or just new to PS in general, here are some tips:

• To find a particular tourney, you can click on Requests\Find a Tournament and then type in the Tournament ID.  The lobby for that tournament will open up.
• You can also find private tourneys by clicking on the Tourney button, then underneath the Tourney button you’ll find the Private button to the far right of the various tourney groupings.  Scroll down to the start time and find the name of the tourney (I’ll always start the name off with “GPN”)
• If you follow the steps above and can’t find the tourney listed in the private tourney section, it could be that your game filter is blocking the tourney from being viewed (for example, if your filter was set to only show tourneys under $5, then you won’t be able to see our private tourney in the list).  The filter button is just below, to the left of the tourney listing box.
• I was asked whether or not players could collude with each other by, for example, calling each other up on the phone to tell each other their hole cards.  In general (outside our private game setting), yes this is something that you could encounter while playing online…but you really would only be exposed to something like that, if at all, in a 1 or 2 table sit-n-go.  In large multi-table tourneys, the likely hood of 2 or more people playing together at the same table is rare.  If you are ever playing and you see something that doesn’t seem right, it is best to take a note on each player and if it were to happen again, then email PS about it…they can research each player’s playing history and determine if they are colluding.  Now…as for our game…I trust that everyone will play honestly and will not call each other up to discuss hole cards/strategy while the hand is in progress, and will not speculate about other player’s hands in the chat box while the hand is in progress…basically, will follow the same sort of ethical and etiquette rules that we follow when playing live.

GPN Online - Blog Kick-Off

Hey GPNers,

I thought of creating an online blog site to post the Tournament Leader Board rankings.  I'm still learning how to use this blog site...but in the future I plan to post the weekly results, as well as, update the quarterly and yearly TLB rankings.

As for tonight we had 5 players join us for our inaugural GPN Online event.  The players were:

1. Crabbyjoe154 = Joe
2. EFEN Captain = Garry (friend of Joe's)
3. jamestown07 = Dave (a friend of mine from work)
4. journey85 = Steve
5. nahanni74 = yours truly (Jennifer...sometimes known as J-Mo)

As new players join, I'll post your PS user name and real name so others know who you are.  Hopefully more of you will be able to join us in the future.

Rank	Player	Q4 2010 TLB Points
1	EFEN Captain	22.36
2	nahanni74	15.81
3	crabbyjoe154	12.91
4	jamestown07
5	journey85