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Little by little the Spanish Armada is appearing in Las Vegas and the good results started to arrive. Through a message-Red Poker Forum, we learned of the great action that had Leo and Laura Cantero Margets in events # 26 and # 24 respectively .

Laura Cantero finished in the twenty-fourth in the tournament for $ 1,000 dollars that brought together 3289 players . Laura started the day three very short pieces, and although he could double his stack in the first hands fell eliminated at the hands of Grantland Hillman.

Laura Cantero pinch the WSOP (photo: PokerNews )

On a flop J 9 7 , Laura put all his chips in play with Q J and found with A A from Hillman. His hand did not improve and left the tournament with $ 14,741 dollars in his pocket .

For its part, Leo Margets ended at position 116 in the event Holdem 6-Max NL $ 2500 dollars to enter the 1245 registered players . Through his Twitter account that Leo knew the day would come two very short of chips due to a clash of set over set he had in the last hands of the first day. Still, Leo managed to raise a bit of their stack and beyond the bubble, but was eliminated in the first positions for recovery, taking $ 4,782 U.S. dollars .

Leo Margets cashier revisits Rio (photo: PokerNews )

At that same event is still in action Javier Etayo

which, at the time of publishing this note, is one of the shorter stacks among the 36 players who are still in action .

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While all players are busy in Las Vegas, ‘Isildur1′ took the time to try to rebuild his bankroll at Full Tilt Poker and engaged in a long session of PL Omaha Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies . As usual when ‘Isildur1′ kicks in, the variance was enormous and unfortunately for the Swede, in the end it was on their side.

In total, Sahamies e ‘Isildur1′ played about 2,100 hands dealt in Omaha PL 100/200 and 200/400 . The session began at four tables at the 100/200 level, and after a while, almost all boats ended up stuck with all the chips in the pot. When ‘Isildur1′ had earned approximately $ 275,000 dollars, Sahamies suggested that to the next level .

Isildur1: do you have to play four tables 200/400

Ziigmund: 3

Ziigmund: ok

Isildur1: No, sorry

Ziigmund: Ok, 4

In the new level, Ilari could gain control of the game and started winning boat after boat, recovering their money and gradually reducing banking ‘Isildur1′. At one point, ‘Isildur1′ asked to return to lower level, since he only had three buy-ins to play and ‘Ziigmund’ accepted.

Once installed the new account in the tables of 100/200, the Swede began to win and history repeated itself: after a while both players agreed to be in larger tables.

As we read in High Stakes DB ‘Isildur1′ does not stand out well from this latest foray to the tables of 200/400 and ‘Ziigmund’ ended with more than $ 150,000 dollars of profits . The Swede, meanwhile, lost a total of $ 200,000 dollars that will surely recover in other rooms and then try again .

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One of the busiest tables in the event of 7-Card Stud Hi-Low was the one that shared Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and David Williams , not just by how they played poker but by

the amount of bets made parallel with each other to pass the time .

Through Poker Listings, we learned that Mike Matusow was the main feature of these bets. In the first,

Mike bet $ 10,000 that Phil Ivey would not come to any final table this year . Accepted the bet Howard Lederer and after a while Mike Sexton, who was playing at a nearby table, also decided to take the side of Ivey and put the $ 10,000 dollars needed.

“You think it’s easy, living in a fantasy world,” said Matusow. However, his bets did not end there. Later, Lederer said that none of the players selected as possible winners of an event of the WSOP, including Ivey has managed to take a title.

After hearing a few names, Daniel Negreanu said at least two would have a bracelet at the end of the summer, but was more skeptical Matusow and

bet another $ 10,000 to that of the 88 players that Lederer had chosen, there will be two win a bracelet . Negreanu, of course, accepted.

Thus, in less than an hour Matusow managed to have $ 30,000 dollars in the betting line and should now be aware of the involvement of several players in the upcoming events. For now,

Ivey is still alive in the Stud event and you’d think he would be proud to know that Lederer had bet on his behalf. However, all I managed to tell Loder when he heard of the bet was “ bet $ 100,000 dollars. Show some value “.

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In the WSOP betting there are more parallel which we can find out. Just yesterday we commented on David Sesso, a player who decided to participate in the tournament only to the WSOP ladies he could face severe sanctions by the organizers.

However, through Poker News Daily we learn that Sesso played the tournament because he lost a bet with his group of friends and the punishment was to participate in the tournament, but also was prohibited from talking about the bet until the end of the event

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He explained that, during his time at the table, received positive vibes from the players but that several spectators were not as kind to the sight of a man in the tournament for ladies. Sesso used the interview to apologize for having entered in the tournament and said that is something that will not happen again, at least on his part.

He said that from his point of view, it would just be punished by the organizers of the WSOP since, when registering to the tournament, had no such warning. “If I had been warned of a possible sanction would have found another way to fulfill my part of the bet,” he said.

Despite all the implications,

Sesso said his companions at the table had a good time while he was in the tournament : “Most of the girls were laughing with me or with me. They seemed to be quite fun and that was the idea when I joined the event “.

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Sammy Farha , the man who shot to fame year Moneymaker won the WSOP Main Event, has returned to the sweet taste of victory by winning his third career bracelet in Omaha “The Championship of $ 10,000 dollars .

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Farha emerged victorious in a marathon final table and took $ 488,241 dollars. The tournament brought together 212 participants, most of them known players accustomed to the items high in Las Vegas or the Internet. The final table had the presence of four players with at least one gold bracelet on his resume , including Britain’s James Dempsey, who was seeking his second title at the WSOP this year.

The duration of the final table was nearly thirteen hours, of which five were featuring the heads-up between Farha and Dempsey. In the final stage of the tournament, Farha managed to minimize stack your opponent , only to see it recovered in the following hands to rebalance the game.

Finally, Dempsey got on the boat his last 200,000 chips before the flop with J 8 6 5 and Farha paid with

J 9 7 4 . The community cards were 10 4 3 10 10 and full Sammy was enough to terminate the event.

“This win is very special, if one is imposed in a tournament with such good quality of players is special. However, do not compete for the bracelets. If you do, play all the tournaments and I do not, do not try to have ten or eleven bracelets. The tournaments do not like so much .. “Farha said after his victory.

Results of the final table Omaha Hi-Lo World Championship:

Sam Farha – $ 488,237

James Dempsey – $ 301,790

Zhu Yueqi – $ 225,326

Sergey Altbregin – $ 169,368

Tony Merksick – $ 128,097

Michael Chow – $ 97,508

Eugene Katchalov – $ 74,670

Abe Mosseri – $ 57,552

Steve Wong – $ 44,619

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The worst starting hand in poker – we all have a nemesis that we seem to suck out on more than on any other starting hand. If you were to ask a player which he thought the worst poker hand was, he’d probably tell you it was the 7,2o though. Mathematically speaking, the 7,2o is indeed the king of the worst poker hands. If it catches a pair, it’s more than likely beat. If it makes a straight or a flush somehow, it’s likely to end up with a smaller one than an opponent. There’s no doubt about it, the 7,2o sucks big time. That’s exactly what strikes it OFF the list of potentially worst poker hands.

You always know what you have to do with your 7,2o: you fold it. As such, you tend not to lose any money on it, unless you’re in one of the blinds and you’re forced to give your compulsory bet up on it. Every now and then, when in the blinds and when no one is willing to up the stakes, you get a free ride with your beer-hand and hit a monster like trips or a two pair. Then you can proceed to cash in on it. At the end of the day, if you run a serious statistical observation on your 7,2o, you may realize you’re in the black on the hand in the long run – it certainly wouldn’t be surprising.

The truly worst hand is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

It shapes up as a relatively decent starting hand, but it turns right around and bites you in the rear end as soon as the flop is dealt. Take the J,J for instance. Sure, it’s a nice hand, one that will probably end up winning you loads of pots, but you are guaranteed to get the cold sweats whenever a Q,K or A hits the board after you commit a nice stack of dough on it. Another excellent worst hand candidate would be the K,Q. Some people hate the J,T and ask Mike Matusow what he thinks of the K,9 (woof).
All these hands are excellent possible worst starting hands, but every player has his own poison, which means that the worst possible starting hand for you is the one that you find the most difficult to play.

Finding out what your nemesis is and staying out of its way is imperative as far as your overall strategy is concerned. How do you know which hand taxes your stack the hardest? Look for unpaired high cards, one or even two gappers like T,K, or J,K. The problem with a hand like K,10 is that it makes your post flop decisions extremely difficult. Such hands do give you something, but that something may not be up to the task ahead. If you hit a pair of Ks on your K,T, you’re in trouble. Your hand may well be the best hand at the table, but it may just as easily be beaten, even by another K. Your 10 may have you in kicker-trouble, and there are few things worse than losing on account of a smaller kicker. Your K,T will also be behind any Ace-rag if the board brings nothing but bricks.

Hands like 8,7o or 4,6s are much less sneakier. They’re a lot easier to play than the above named ones, because they tend to have you faced with simple decisions after the flop. You either hit or you miss. If you miss, you muck: simple as that.
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