Tournament Performance of the Week
Lately, Liquidpoker members have been performing extremely well in major tournaments, especially given the small size of our community. This week, one of the pioneers of the StarCraft-to-poker movement that created LP made a significant cash. Our own Bertrand Grospellier, better known as ElkY, finished second place in the European Poker Tour’s Copenhagen event.
ElkY overcame a field of 400 players to finish in second place, for a prize of over $400,000. Congratulations ElkY on your big cash, and on winning this week’s tournament performance of the week award.
As an honorable mention and easy runner-up for this week’s tourney performance, our own poker professional RaiNKhAN made two extremely nice cashes this week:
Very well done, RaiNKhAN. For his performances this week, recent rapid growth as a poker player, and recent endeavor to play professionally full-time, I will soon release an interview with this donkament luckbox, along with an article about playing live.
High-Stakes Hand of the Week
One of the most dreaded experiences in poker is making a significant bluff with total air while playing against a psychic. Some people just see your cards, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Once again, and seemingly without fail, Rhaegar demonstrated his monstrous presence at the poker table this week. Once again in a heads-up pot, Rhaegar calls down a river bluff after every draw has hit and the board has paired, to scoop a pot worth over 160 BBs with nothing but a pair of 3s:
This is why Rhaegar wins every week
Runner-up: Part of the essence of the perfect poker player is the ability to sniff out bluffs and never give up on a good read. Straate once again demonstrated his immense poker prowess this week, in a pot worth over 160 BBs. With two big overcards out against an UTG raiser, straate fearlessly called down 3 significant bets, with nothing but third pair! Check out the insanity below:
Straate calls 3 barrels with a junky pair
Low-Stakes Hand of the Week
One of the most cumbersome obstacles a young poker player must overcome is the development of absolute fearlessness in the face of significant dangers on complete long-shots. When all the chips are on the line, can you really follow through with a daring bluff or hero call? This week, FoolsPlay got into a minraising war on the turn, when two overpairs were out on the board, and had the guts to call out his opponent’s BS with a bluff that offered a whopping 9:1 odds, and still worked! Here we see how to show low-stakes donks our pokermanz:
Three pair, and mine doesn’t even play!
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