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The long awaited North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is here, and qualifying for the next stop on the tour at NAPT Mohegan Sun is now open! Located on the east cost in the New England states between Boston and New York, Mohegan Sun is one of the world`s best casino and entertainment destinations.

The tournament will be a five day event, hosted at Mohegan Sun from April 7-11, 2010. The Main Event will require a $4,700 + $300 entry fee. There will also be a big selection of side events covering all levels of buy ins and as always, the unmissable PokerStars Welcome Party.

Satellites giving you the chance to win a package worth $7,000 are running now from as little as $1.10 under the Events > NAPT tab in Pokerstars lobby. Prize packages include Main Event entry, hotel and $1,006 spending cash. If you haven’t already opened a free PokerStars account, go to the Getting Started page and follow the simple instructions.

Author: Eric Froehlich

 
Full Tilt Poker’s Cashout Tournaments provide players the option to leave the tournament at any time before the final table and get the cash value of what their stack is worth. With the options of cashing out part of your chip stack or your entire stack and exiting a tournament, we players are presented with a whole new variety of options to consider.

In Cashout Tournaments, half of the buy-in goes into the Cashout prize pool, and the other half into the tournament prize pool. The ability to cash out in 10% increments of the starting stack (for example, if you start with 3,000 chips, you can cash out as little as 300 chips and keep cashing out in increments of 300) can drastically alter the way you approach these tournaments. With most pros, the goal in a tournament is first place. Cashing in a tournament or lowering variance is not a major concern the vast majority of the time. If that’s your only goal, removing chips from your stack is not going to be an option you employ very often. For most players, however, while first place is certainly always going to be the number one goal, there are other factors involved.

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If you win, you can use that money to build a bankroll and play in higher stakes games, just as Chris Ferguson did when he turned $0 into a $10,000 bankroll.

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Author: Kristy Gazes

It’s not a sexy subject, but we all know how vital bankroll management is to your poker career. A great way to help out with managing your roll is to keep records of your play. Accurate records not only help you keep track of how you’re doing, they also allow you to analyze your game and keep you honest with yourself. We all like to believe that we’re winning players, but that’s not always the case.

Here are a few key categories/stats to keep track of every time you play:

• Overall bankroll (so you never play over your head in games that are too big)
• How long you played
• What game/limit you played
• How much you made (how many big blinds or big bets won per hour)

Keeping records of these basic elements really helps put your game in perspective. Personally, I like to dive in even deeper, so I keep track of my emotions as I play. How you feel when you play and what frame of mind you’re in are vital to the outcome of your session – don’t ignore these factors.

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Author: Lee Markholt

In tournaments, you should always be looking for ways to pick up chips. You can’t just sit around waiting for Aces or Kings and hope to double up when you do. One of the best and most popular ways for adding chips to your stack is by implementing what’s known as the squeeze play. A typical squeeze play works like this: an active and aggressive player raises in late position, and he’s called by another player on the button. You’re in the blinds and you have to decide what to do.

There’s no real indication yet that anyone has a particularly strong hand. The aggressive player could be raising with a wide range of hands, and the call from the button could mean a lot of things. He may have a medium strength hand, or he may be pretty weak and just looking to play post-flop with favorable position.

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The world’s largest poker site has yet again entered the records books, this time by smashing its own Guinness World Record for the largest online poker tournament. The new world record for largest online tournament ever is now 149,196 players. PokerStars guaranteed a prize pool of $300,000 where the top 30,000 players would get a piece of the cake. It was obvious that an attractive prize pool plus such an appealing goal would result in great success. The tournament itself was structured as a turbo as the levels lasted only 5 minutes so the whole tournament was over in six hours. The full final table placings and payouts were as follows:

1. oskar69 $50,000.00
2. Bommel222 $30,000.00
3. TLWPB $20,000.00
4. willis59 $10,000.00
5. kruglay $8,000.00
6. madmick62 $6,500.00
7. DS1982 $5,250.00
8. denmil53 $4,000.00
9. bigsnapper7 $3,000.00

Congratulations to oskar69 and all of the 30,000 players who cashed this evening.

You can be part of history by helping PokerStars break their own World Record for the largest ever online poker tournament. The current Guinness World Record for the largest online poker tournament was set this July when PokerStars drew 65,000 players.

On December 27 at 14:45 ET, PokerStars will host a tourney with a $300,000 guarantee and a $50,000 first prize! And with a buy-in of just $1, it’s easy for everyone to take part.

How to Register:

1. If you haven’t done so already, download free software and install it on your computer.
2. Create an account.
3. To find the tournament, go to the PokerStars Lobby and select ‘Tourney’ and ‘All’ or ‘Special’

PokerStars has a special online page with more information on this event, located at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/world-record/

Author: Steve Zolotow

People always ask, “How much do I need to play in a certain stake game?” The usual answer to all poker questions is, “It depends.” But in this case, it is the wrong question. The question really should be, “Given my temperament and current financial situation, how much can I risk in a game?”

Let’s examine these components. First is your temperament. Years ago, Mike Caro distinguished between two types of players – plodders and adventurers. I like to put poker players into three categories. First are the plodders. They are extremely risk adverse and would rather play for pennies than take a chance of going broke. Next are the normal players. The normal players are willing to take moderate risk if they think they have a reasonable advantage. Lastly there are the plungers. They love to take extreme risk. They are the poker equivalents of mountaineers who want to reach the top of Mount Everest. The risk in question is, of course, losing a large percentage of your bankroll or, in the worst case, going broke.

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