Yes, that’s right: we are going to have our own Pokerheist Series of Poker very soon! We were having a homegame at Mr. Blue’s place yesterday and right there we launched the idea of organising 5 sixhanded tournaments, events, with the four of us and two other people who were in the game and agreed to the plan. Let’s call them Mr. Orange and Ms. Blonde from now on .

The PSOP will consist of the following events:

- Event 1: NLHE Freeze-out, 20€ buy-in; 1st place 90€   2nd place 30€

- Event 2: NLHE Rebuy + 1 Add-on, 20€ buy-in; 1st place 70%  2nd place 30% 

-Event 3: PLO Freeze-out, 20€ buy-in; 1st place 90€  2nd place 30€

-Event 4: NLHE Freeze-out Winner Takes all, 20€ buy-in; 1st place 120€

-Event 5: NLHE Freeze-out ‘Main Event’, 50€ buy-in, 1st place 210€ 2nd place 90€

Each event will have  a 2000 starting stack, except for the Main Event, which will be ‘deep stack’: 4000 chips. And besides those events, everybody pays 5€ ‘rake’ per event, so that’s 30€ per event, 150€ total. This prize goes entirely to the player who has the best all-round results over all five events. The cumulated amount of money doesn’t count here, but the cumulation of places. When two players have the same score, the number of events won counts. When the score is still the same after this, the classification of the Main Event counts. We’ll shuffle up and deal as soon as possible and keep you posted about the results of our first event!

Submitted by Mr. White

The battle is off for a few days now because Mr. White ia abroad at the moment so he can’t play. The battle will resume the 7th of March. However, this doesn’t mean we can’t talk about poker meanwhile. About Gus Hansen for example.

Yes we better call this hero Guts Hansen after the 2008 WSOP. I was watching some episodes yesterday after Mr. White said it was a very good edition (of course he had to reveal already that Phil Hellmuth does ‘very well’ in this Main Event). But I saw he was not the only one, because the Crazy Dane also had a good run.

Now look at the following hand (starts after 4′40″):

Now we all remember Hansen’s insane call against the Magician with Ten high in the WPT. Here he makes a call for 500k more chips with an OESD . Of course he makes a brilliant read: Jeremy Joseph is just on an A high bluff, so his 7 and Q are also still alive. This separates Hansen from nits like Hellmuth and Lederer, who would never have made this call.

Submitted by Mr. Brown