The Official Poker Thread

anyone knows what place you have to get to be in the money for the main event?

Over 12mil first place, top 12 get at least a mil.

Chris Moneymaker, and Johnny Chan were eliminated yesterday.

Mike Madusow, Antonio Esfanriandi, are out as well.

Buy In: $10,000
Prize Pool: $82,466,200
Entries: 8,773

Place Prize Money
1 - $12,000,000
2 - $6,102,499
3 - $4,123,310
4 - $3,628,513
5 - $3,216,182
6 - $2,803,851
7 - $2,391,520
8 - $1,979,189
9 - $1,566,858
10-12 - $1,154,527
13-15 - $907,128
16-18 - $659,730
19-27 - $494,797
28-36 - $329,865
37-45 - $247,399
46-54 - $164,932
55-63 - $123,699
64-72 - $90,713
73-81 - $65,973
82-126 - $51,129
127-189 - $47,006
190-252 - $42,882
253-315 - $38,759
316-378 - $34,636
379-441 - $30,512
442-504 - $26,389
505-567 - $22,266
568-621 - $20,617
622-666 - $19,050
667-720 - $17,730
721-774 - $16,493
775-819 - $15,504
820-873 - $14,597

OK, Iā€™m starting to learn Omaha. Just wondering if thereā€™s something on this, like starting hand stratagies? All I understand is Straights and Flushes happen more than on Texas Holdā€™em.

Sucks the only televised Omaha on TV is on ESPN, but only show like 2 episode of it per year. I also wonder why there is no No Limit Omaha in the WSOP?

Best starting hand is either AAKK Double Suited or AAJT Double Suited. Take your pick.

There is no NLO because NL Omaha is STUPID. Its the same reason why theres no NL Stud.

People lose stacks fast enough in Pot Limit, NL would be crazy.

Also hands like 89TJ Double suited are very good. In Omaha you really want to drawing to the nuts at all times, pocket pairs are really only good for set value, if your drawing to a flush draw to the nut flush, drawing to a straight draw to the nut straight. Also a concept that takes a while to get used to is sometimes if you flop the nuts you have to fold it without a second thought. Letā€™s say you got AsAd4c5d flop comes 3c6h7c, you bet then get raised big, youā€™re gonna have to fold, he could very easily have a freeroll, ie same straight with redraws, 7754c, 4567c, 9854c, etc etc. Gotta be able to lay down the nuts when you have little hope of improving.

If theres a possible straight or possible flush on the board and you have trips, I dont care if theyre aces fold your hand asap.

If the board is paired and you dont have a boat, again fold your hand.

Iā€™m basing this on the table being full. I never played any omaha tournaments (except for one time by accident and i won it) but if you are playing tournaments then use your judgement based on how many people are at the table.

GTFO out of hereā€¦ youre so full of shit.

what happened to the millions you lost a while backā€¦

First one is a no, since top set has a lot of redraws. (redraw to the full house) Unless thereā€™s heavy action you should usually take a card off with top set.

To elaborate on #2, you should also be ABLE to (Iā€™m not saying always fold), but you should be able to fold top boat, and 2nd top boat when thereā€™s heavy betting, and you know you are up against quads.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

this guy is fake

im talkin after the river, Iā€™d never fold it on the flop @_@

ok, whats the deal with pro magic players doing good at poker? one of the all time greatest magic players, jon finkel, is like #4 right now in chip countā€¦crazyā€¦

Negreanu heading into day three 5th overall in chip count.

goooo negreanu.

is sam farha doing well? how about phil ivey?

yeah iā€™ve been searching through Cardplayer and canā€™t find Phil Iveyā€™s name anywhere on the board

Farha = busted I believe

Ivey = Phil Ivey $23,400 138 1

Not good after 2 days.

Allen Cunningham the only Full Tilt Poker player leftā€¦

and Prahlad Friedman currently in 21st place.

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/chip_counts/3229?viewall=true

final table is set for tomorrow at 2pm PST

allen cunningham is second in chips, but is still 8-9 million in chips behind the leaderā€¦but still, if youā€™ve watched him play a lot, you can definitely see him taking this oneā€¦and look at his profile on cardplayer.com:

ā€œCunningham has 88 recorded cashes in major poker tournaments and has made an impressive 70 final tables, going heads up in 22 of them and winning 14.ā€

did i read that right? out of 88 cashes, heā€™s made the final table in 70 of them?!? thatā€™s a damn good percentageā€¦

anyway, when this ends up being televised here in canada, iā€™m just glad that thereā€™s one big name i know in the final tableā€¦it makes it a little more interesting imoā€¦

iw as pretty pissed when my roomate in vegas(rizen) busted out.

but palying cash games with prahlad all night was fun

especially hearing people saying they thought my online name was his was especially amusing.

great series for my first one, and i canā€™t wait to go back next year