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After watching thousands of hours of TV poker over the last decade I finally made my debut in a high-stakes (for me!) cash game that will be broadcast on Sky Sports in November. I was lucky enough to face pros like Sam Grafton, Matt Ashton and Rupert Elder. Football legend Matt Le Tissier also showed up, and is a great guy, but even he will admit his genius on the pitch doesn’t extend to the poker table… Without giving away the results, I held my own under the bright lights and it was exhilarating, tiring and stressful all in one. Even so, I can’t imagine what it is like to go deep in an EPT like Barcelona winner Tom Middleton. The 26-year-old Brit spoke to us in a revealing interview on p26 about the experience. I also had a chat with Dusk Till Dawn owner Rob Yong who, since opening the club in 2006, has continually challenged the status quo in poker. His latest endeavour is an attempt to change the way online poker is run. Read an exclusive interview with Yong on p22 and see if you support his revolutionary plans. Finally, the biggest event of the year is approaching. No, I’m not talking about the WSOP Main Event final table silly – it’s the PokerPlayer UK Tour Grand Final! There’s still time to qualify (see p60) and you’d have to be a fool to miss out. See you in London!
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This month, I made the massive schoolboy error of capitulating to my other half’s Timberlake/Affleck affliction by agreeing to watch Runner Runner. As you might expect I wasted two hours of my life but on the upside the Hollywood magic has cast a spell on my missus: for the first time ever she is interested in poker! Let’s see how long that lasts…
I got the official confirmation that I run bad at poker when I drew short stack David Benefield in PokerPlayer’s November Nine preview tourney. While I didn’t inherit Benefield’s good looks or poker skills, I did get his barren 15BB stack. But could I turn it around and complete an epic comeback? Turn to p30 to find out.
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contents 8 poker news All the news and action from UKIPT London
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Liv Boeree describes how she grinds
10 best of the web The top videos, blogs and forum posts this month
36 Multi-table like Nanonoko! Simon Hemsworth on the best ways to increase your tables and your profits 40 Play like a pro Sin Melin shares her strategy for beating low-stakes live MTTs
12 snap chat Joe Stapleton answers our quick-fire questions
42 cardrunners: five star omaha Matthew Janda explores one of the most exciting new games to emerge online: five-card Omaha
14 Great Britain Karl Mahrenholz reflects on another great month for British poker 16 The 2013 wcoop review We round up all the action from the 2013 WCOOP and Liv Boeree opens up her WCOOP diary
46 poker plan Patrick Leonard on why it’s not always wise to copy what you see on TV 48 in the tank Roberto Romanello is here to fix your problems
22 Rob Yong The head honcho of Dusk Till Dawn on his plans to revolutionise online poker and why he might walk away from the industry
50 The Daily Grind Sam Grafton explores the world of poker staking
26 How I won: Tom Middleton The UK rising star reflects on winning EPT Barcelona
52 Any Given Sunday Jamie Burland ponders if your avatar and screen name can reveal clues about your poker game
30 Nov nine preview We play out the WSOP Main Event final table and show the pros how it’s done 32 Winamax open The French invade Dublin
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Rob Yong on the future of Dusk Till Dawn
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56 Hilly the fish’s UK tour part II HillyTheFish’s legendary UK Tour returns with a night out in Purley with a November Niner in tow
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JC Tran/ Keir Mackay: 38m
Amir Lehavot/ Mark Stuart: 29.7m
Mark McLaughlin/ Dave Woods: 26.525m
Jay Farber/ Scott Skinner: 25.975m
Ryan Riess/ Rick Dacey: 25.875m
Sylvain Loosli/ Tim Farthing: 19.6m
Michiel Brummelhuis/ Steve Hill: 11.275m
Mark Newhouse/ Ross Jarvis: 7.35m David Benefield/ Marc Southey: 6.75m
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oll up, roll up, it’s the 44th Annual World Series of Poker November Nine, live all the way from East London! Even the most casual poker observer will be able to spot the mistakes in the above sentence. It is, of course, nothing of the sort; rather it’s a pre-enactment of the actual event based on an idea from a few years ago we stole from ourselves. Tellingly, most of the major players from that first office-based game are present and correct, a sad indictment of how little we have moved on in our pokerobsessed lives. It’s not so much the November Nine as the October Oafs... The location is far grander this time round, at the shiny new Aspers Casino, situated deep in the heart of the Westfield Stratford shopping centre, a mere javelin throw from the Olympic Park. A veritable oasis of calm amid the rampant happy shoppers outside, simply fighting your way to the top floor without resorting to automatic weaponry is a test. Indeed, one particularly fishy player is last to arrive, having been cajoled into having his nails buffed by an attractive Doris. The change of venue is due to negotiations from PokerPlayer moneyman Tim Farthing, who has been known to sell snow to Eskimos. Aspers have thrown themselves behind the event, providing us with a roped-off private table, replete with a viewing gallery
comprising rows of meticulously arranged chairs. And, with the screens displaying details of the 44th Annual WSOP, it is not clear whether they’re in on the joke. While the actual players have ponied up $10k, we’re not quite in that ballpark, and following weeks of haggling a £30 buy-in is agreed. The figure is immediately disputed once the all-important – and allegedly entirely random – draw has been made. As well as dictating chip numbers, the draw also presents a challenge in the fancy dress department, with each of us given a budget of £10 to attempt to look like their designated man. As for prizes, Rick ‘The Rage’ Dacey comes up with an apparently accurate payout, albeit one that sees all but the top three lose money.
Tequila sunrise Following the obligatory loosener at the bar, we take our seats with no little trepidation. This is, after all the WSOP Main Event, and only two of the nine have competed in the real thing: Woods with a Day Two finish, and HillyTheFish breaching Day Three (although he doesn’t like to talk about it). Despite the gravity of the occasion, Farthing disappears for the entire first level to take a call. He returns in time to see the first casualty, with Marc Southey’s A-J shove picked off by Mark Stuart’s A-Q to send the art man to the rail. He does at least have a choice of seats, with the crowd numbering zero, the same figure as his prize money. He also has the honour of being beer monkey, with a
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The unusual sight of a Da ve Woods three-bet sends the whole table into hysterics
Editor Ross ships his iPhone in the middle and comes up short
Shoe-bombs at the read y as the crowd are whipped up into a frenzy
constant supply of piss being ferried to the table. Farthing gets into his stride, with some bold plays based on the assertion that, ‘I don’t see suits.’ He’ll go a long way, despite confusingly turning up as the Unabomber. Further than the jester hatwearing Woods at any rate, who spews a swathe of chips while resembling a student at Glastonbury circa 1997. HillyTheFish’s entire budget went on a Brummelhuis haircut, only for the barber to take one look at the photo, shear him like a sheep and announce, ‘I don’t do requests.’ The two PokerPlayer icons clash, with the faux-Dutchman getting the better of a 9-9 race against the Jester’s A-K. Woods is soon gone, and is directly responsible for the fact the increasingly illegible notes read, ‘9:09pm: Shots.’ With seven players left, at one point there are six spectators, although they mysteriously disappear once a concurrent tournament resumes. They miss one of the hands of the game. With four spades and an Ace on board, Keir Mackay channels JC Tran with a big river bet to put the decision on Mark Stuart. Sporting a rubbery sheath on his head that makes him look more like a Star Trek character than the bald Amir Lehavot, Stuart is literally sweating, and folds, only for Mackay to show the bluff with K-5 of clubs. As Stuart mournfully surmises, ‘He’s got the chips to do it.’
crowd. The faux-Dutch Fish has nursed a short stack into the money, where he finally loses a long run of coin flips against Tran Mackay, and rapidly makes a shorter run to the Gents. The growing rail begins to tweet s This leaves the quiet man, Scott friend their to n actio ng exciti the Skinner/Jay Farber, heads-up for the title, a fitting reward for going above and beyond the call of fancy dress whose Ryan Riess wig by having two entire sleeves tattooed on gives him an air of a his arms. As for Mackay, he’s resplendent young John McEnroe, in New York Yankees clobber (despite replete with Tran being from California), and shades temperament. Meanwhile a waitress over his actual glasses that make him look like he’s watching a 3D film. The outfit finds a ladies is slightly offset by his choice of beverage, hairbrush, and editor as we have no documentary evidence that Ross Jarvis has to JC Tran drinks John Smith’s bitter. Maybe shamefully claim he should, as it’s been a textbook big stack ownership of it having performance. By this point, people are scraped his hair forward in the actually watching, more out of confusion style of Mark Newhouse. Despite than interest, but a crowd is a crowd. The their admirable tonsorial efforts, they’re heads-up is a bloodless affair however, both soon gone, leaving the final four on with Mackay’s A-9 besting Scotty’s 6-6 to the profit bubble. give the pre-match favourite the title. The dishonour falls to Farthing/Loosli, It’s been an excellent tournament, a which is just desserts for a disgusting call superb venue, a solid structure, and it’s against Hilly with Q-J. With two Jacks on all wrapped up in time for the last train the flop, Hilly’s A-Q looks beaten, until home. Alternately, we could just piss it miracle cards provide a straight, to an up the wall in a cash game, get a sixty inaudible roar from the non-existent quid cab home and wake up with a can of Polish A triumphant Tran lager all over the carpet. Mackay: Everything Good times. PP looks better in 3D
We have no documentary evidence that JC Tran drinks John Smith’s bitter
Hair Bear Bunch Stuart/Worf soon joins Woods at the bar, leaving the primary headwear to Dacey,
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STRATEGY low-stakes mtts
Beat your local tournaments
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New Full Tilt UKIPT Ambassador Sin Melin shares her strategy for beating low-stakes live MTTs
pot control. If you can keep the pot small against recreational players, and players learning the game, it will really help. Bet sizing is a big thing. Some weaker players will typically bet very, very big so if you put in a blocker bet instead that can help. When players – especially if they are inexperienced or older – bet the full pot I think they are really strong. If I haven’t got a monster it’s a snap fold! When people bet bigger they usually have it. I three-bet in these events quite often, because if you don’t there are so many callers preflop. If I have a playable hand I’d rather three-bet it than just call so that I price out the blinds from coming along too and also find out where I am at. But if I had a medium hand like A-J I wouldn’t three-bet because I don’t want lots of callers and a hugely inflated pot when I have a hand like that.
Re-entry
It’s great to dream but the majority of poker players will never play a major tournament like the WSOP Main Event or an EPT, as the buy-ins are just too big for most players who only play down at their local card room. Live poker for most of us is about weekly £10 rebuys, £50 deepstacks and, if we’re running good, taking the occasional shot at a £300 monthly event or even a UKIPT. There’s nothing wrong with this. Tournaments, and players like you, are what make poker great around the world. But wouldn’t it be great if we could crush these tournaments to at least take a shot at the big leagues? New Full Tilt Poker UKIPT Ambassador Sin Melin worked her way up from low-stakes tournaments around London to where she now travels the world as a sponsored pro. PokerPlayer got in touch with Melin to find out how she made the transition from small to big time – and how you can follow in her footsteps…
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Humble beginnings Sin Melin: I started playing about six years ago when I was a waitress at the Big Bluff club in London. I would play on my days off and started winning more money than I earned as a waitress. My buy-ins have always been between £50-£200 until recently when I have played a bit higher. I’ve only ever played live.
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rampage [When I’m looking for a tournament] it’s Re-entry always about the tournaments [like a value. It’s good to lot of smaller events have a big guarantee are now] allow people and sharing expenses to be more spewy with friends [if you are because they know travelling] is very they are guaranteed important. I’m still learning another shot if they get Melin is one of four new bankroll management properly knocked out. In some cases I but it’s important to share petrol ambassadors for the UKIPT like it and in some I don’t. I costs and rooms if you are think it can be unfair on staying in a hotel to save on expenses. qualifiers. It also changes the game a bit. When you are up against a player who is never folding top pair because he’s ready to Calling the alarm re-enter it can be tough. Often you just have If you’re playing a small-stakes tournament to play really tight and wait for a hand. I when you raise you are far more likely to get remember a spot recently in a £300 Dusk six callers than you would if you were Till Dawn tournament where I was on a very playing something with a higher buy-in. aggressive table with players willing to Nowadays nobody wants to fold in smaller re-enter over and over again. I had A-Q one events. I enjoy that but sometimes it can be time with a raise and a few calls before me. difficult to find out where you are at in a Usually I’d squeeze but there was no point hand. The best strategy early on is to use because everyone would call 100% of the time and if I missed the flop I would just have to check/fold and lose a ton of chips.
Re-entry tournaments allow people to be spewy because they know they are guaranteed another shot
Slow it down It’s hard to bluff in low-stakes tournaments sometimes, just like it can be in bigger tourneys. When I made the final table at GUKPT London I was on 20BBs for the entire tournament. I didn’t bluff for three days – 20BBs can still be a big stack. If your image is really tight your raises will typically get respect and get through. If you are going to raise with a 20BB stack you should
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Melin final tabled both the 2011 UKIPT Brighton and 2013 GUKPT London main events
If someone instantly stops talking when they are dealt cards they probably have a massive hand
Who is Sin Melin?
The Londoner is one of the UK’s most exciting female pros TOTAL TOURNAMENT WINNINGS: $48,303 UKIPT Brighton 2011, 5th, £14,900 GUKPT London, 9th, £7,150 generally be prepared to go with it if you get three-bet. Don’t worry too much about the average stack size – just your own stack. People always ask me what the average is but I never know – I never look at it!
Winning ways I always go for the win on the final table but the structure is often so fast that there is not much postflop play. Playing tight can
be the way forward on the final table. It’s the best way to ladder up the money jumps and, as long as you have a big enough stack, the hands will eventually come. It’s definitely a mistake to play big pots against another chip leader early on without a massive hand. There are better spots to pick up chips without showdown. Some players are desperate to make the money in low-stakes tournaments, or to ladder up on the final table. Generally you’ll
recognise these players because they will be hanging on to their final five or 10BBs just to hit the money. You can take advantage of these guys to get some easy chips. Another great way to pick up reads is to talk to people. If you are talking with someone while the cards are being dealt and they instantly stop talking when they are dealt cards they probably have a massive hand. You will pick up more reads PP if you talk to people and it’s great fun. November 2013 POKERPLAYER 41
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UK Tour Pt II f o n r Retu ! l e r e k c a m the Leg 1: b, Clu B i g S l i c kl e y Pur Steve ‘HillyTheFish’ Hill joins a November Niner on a Wednesday night in Purley…
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s comebacks go, it’s an inauspicious start. Arse-to-beak on a commuter train, I am spat out onto the mean streets of Purley where I unsuccessfully attempt to find the Big Slick Club. Spotting a familiar face, I stalk him and his girlfriend up a litter-strewn alley onto a residential street where it becomes apparent that we’re all lost, but they at least seem relieved that I’m not about to mug them. Sam Holden is the face in question, former November Niner and Late Night Poker winner, and now the subject of Big Slick’s inaugural Superstar Bounty £40 Special. When we finally find the club, we’re greeted by largerthan-life manager
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Daniel Edler, whose CV includes poker player, wrestling promoter, and drinking Jägerbombs out of a shoebox. With Holden and myself receiving top billing (in that order), we’re given the full VIP treatment, or at least as VIP as you can get in a windowless bunker in Purley. I’m also joined by erstwhile PokerPlayer luminary Rick Dacey, who is secretly impressed when within minutes of his arrival I am approached by a punter who asks, ‘Are you Steve Hill? Do you five-bet light?’, thus winning himself a free subscription to the magazine. There are 65 runners, with 5% of the pot going to whoever knocks out Holden. I miss the Shuffle Up & Deal while tucking into a cheese and ham baguette, but take my seat only to be asked for a further fiver for a
We’re given the full VIP treatment, or as VIP as you can get in a bunker in Purley
Our man Hi lly as the Mexic catches forty winks an beers take their toll
bonus 5,000 chips. Going deep into the tank, I eventually rustle up the loose change from my own pocket, an unheralded act of selflessness.
No logo Unsponsored, and unadorned with promotional tat, this is a new unplugged HillyTheFish. The trademark ‘Deirdrie Barlow’ shades also remain in my pocket, a decision partly due to an incident in the poorly-lit Irish Open where I expensively missed a flush on the river. Also absent tonight is the sickening fear that has crippled my live career, mainly thanks to voluptuous waitress Agatha who insists on plying me with an endless supply of Mexican lager, replete with lime to keep the flies out. With the tables all named after Vegas hotels, I am initially seated at Palms, which
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SAM THE MAN The final table prepare to find out who will be the toast of Croydon
doesn’t quite evoke the scene of a lavish penthouse party I once attended there. Further reminders of my fall from grace adorn the ceiling in the shape of Golden Nugget, where I played a WSOP warm-up, Mandalay Bay, where I saw Raymond Van Barneveld lift the Vegas Desert Classic, Caesar’s Palace, where I bedded in for a fortnight, The Rio, where I played the World Champion on TV, The Bellagio, where I once had a portion of chips, and The Venetian, I didn’t go to the Venetian… Lost in reverie, I snap out of it when I look down at pocket Fives against the resident aggro-hoodie, and make the call. Two more Fives on the flop put me in good shape, and I manage to squeeze an acceptable number of chips out of him before breaking the ice by showing my hand. Meanwhile, behind me at Monte Carlo, Sam Holden open-shoves with A-Q and is trebled up by a pair of bounty hunters with 7-4 and 6-4. In order to give everyone a fair stab at the bounty, he is paraded between tables every level. Joining us at Palms, he is instantly accused of looking like Ed Sheeran, whoever that is. We soon lock horns. I bet my full house but Holden reads me like a book and proclaims, ‘I don’t like it,’ before wisely getting out of the way.
actually have to stop drinking in order to see the cards and stay awake. I get into trouble with the dealer when he calls a steward’s inquiry after I attempt to raise by ‘a purple one,’ with Edler correctly ruling in my favour and thus ensuring I lose even more chips. Meanwhile Dacey runs 2-2 into 7-7 to ensure an early exit, scarpering with the vague promise that I can stay at his house if I get there before midnight. This looks feasible when the aggro-hoodie open-shoves and I look down at A-Q suited for all my chips. It’s an agonising fold, and when he shows a Five I am so enraged that I ‘accidentally’ flip over his other Five to howls of derision all round. It’s a grotesque breach of poker etiquette and the dealer is incandescent with rage. I tell him I’ll accept any punishment, but all he can do is order me not to do it again. He has a revenge of sorts when an angry man to my right mucks in unorthodox fashion by throwing his cards directly onto mine. Although both parties are 100% sure whose cards are whose, the dealer voids the hand, effectively costing me the tournament, as I would definitely have won and then bankrolled my way to a life of luxury. With blinds and antes becoming brutal, I eventually have to play a few hands, and survive a couple of shoves with the odd double–up thrown in. Suddenly there are 13 left (with nine paid), which proves unlucky for me when the lady to my left limps with what I perceive to be a massive hand. Nevertheless, looking down at J-J in the big blind I make the shove and am up against A-K. An Ace in the window seals my fate. After six hours of grind for no return, I am angry, drunk and a long way from home. ‘You can stay in my garage if you want,’ offers PokerPlayer’s PP newest subscriber…
Holden joins us and is accused of looking like Ed Sheeran, whoever he is
Garageland It’s the last action of any note, as vast swathes of time drift by and a further raft of lagers, to the point where I
The Superstar Knockout champion with all the chips
Holden swaps vegas for south london as he joins the purley nine HillyTheFish: You’ve just finished sixth in the Superstar Knockout. You’ve obviously played in slightly bigger tournaments than this. What was the standard like? Was it just a bit Holden had a ball of fun for you? in Purley – just don’t mention Ed Sam Holden: Sheeran Yeah, it was good fun. I think that’s what poker should always be about anyway, and it was a really cool atmosphere. HTF: Everyone seems really friendly down here, there was no aggro over bad beats, everyone seemed to take it in their stride. SH: I know, it’s remarkable. There’s always one or two that usually kick off or don’t take it so well, but I didn’t see any bad words so it was really nice to see everyone enjoying the game. PP: Obviously having a bounty on your head gives a different dynamic, it’s a double-edged sword isn’t it? Did you use that to your benefit? SH: Yeah I was able to bet pretty big when I had big hands preflop because I knew people would have to call me pretty wide, especially in the early stages when the bounty’s so big. So I was able to take advantage of that, but I could have been out in level two for the same reason. PP: You walk away with £130. Is that going to change your life? SH: I’d like to think that it won’t go to my head.
Next issue Join the Fish in south east London for a £20 donkament! Where: Eltham Terrace Club, London When: Mon Oct 28, 8pm The first reader to show HillyTheFish a copy of PokerPlayer and say the code ‘Fish Rule’ will bag a free subscription! You must register 48 hours in advance at ElthamTerraceClub.com to play.
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