Yesterday I went through the first day of a two-day tournament. After finishing day one, my stack is 500k (average 730k). There are a lot of places in this tournament paid (480 out of 540 players and no more will come).

My question is how do you think i should start playing in my situation? Wait until I’m in itm and then aggressively or start harder right away?

Yesterday I got an update from PokerStars, and now I can no longer get the old light classic display by deleting the insides of the ImgCache folder.

Now the contents of the ImgCache folder get regenerated each time you launch the client, and even if you delete them after the client is launched, they regenerate when you try to open a table.

They patched it quickly.

I cannot emphasize how much I hate the new Aurora engine, and especially their decision do completely disable the classic display despite it will cost them little to nothing.

Just wondering why it still says 1 day for the million dollar race to end ? Yesterday at around 11 am it said 1 day remaining and today at almost 10 am it still says 1 day.. I got lucky and withdrew $260 and still had a bit of money on there as well as a $25 poker card so I used all that trying to rank up a bit.. I think I did not do it properly because my points never added.. anyways it says as of now I’m gtd $70 but just wondering how all this works and what the actual pay out is because I cant see it.. thank you !

ACR flagged my debit card for no reason and now I cant deposit any funds. I have used my debit card a number of times with no problem and now they flagged it and wont even tell me why. They said I could use Bitcoin or player to player transfer. None of my friends play so i cant really play any more. Is anyone willing to transfer me like 20$ player to player and ill give you like 30$ through PayPal.

Hello everyone, how would you play this hand? It had 90 bb of stack, so the final decisions do not influence much in terms of cash.

We have no villain readings.

The hand: https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/524Jh3kJK

Greetings and thank you all for your responses.

First off all i have to say that i have played this hand the worse possivel way,not for excuse my self but that month awy from tables have make me louse the abilitie to make good reads on vilains rangues and spetially to louse the abilitie to make good desitions at table.

Vilain seems to be a regular(fold a lot on 3bet but 4bet and 5bet alot off his premiuns). he has:

VPIP 23 PFR 20 3bet 6.5 Cbet 43 in 391 hands(thouse are the most important ones)

I saw him calling a 4bet shove with JJ so he like to stack him self louse,i could have 4bet jam this hand and this analisis wouldnt have excisted.

Pacific Poker – $0.10 NL (6 max) – Holdem – 5 players

SB: 110 BB

Hero (BB): 133.9 BB

UTG: 111 BB

Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk are still in the early phase of their heads-up poker grudge match. But we’ve learned a few things about each player, their styles of play, and what to expect from them going forward.

Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk both have unique styles of play. (Image: Poker Central)

Through four sessions — 1,372 hands, Polk holds a $180,865 profit, but lost over $80,000 on Wednesday. Thus far, the match is going exactly how many projected. Negreanu, a live tournament specialist, is a heavy underdog against his opponent, who is considered one of the top heads-up no-limit hold’em players ever.

So, few poker players are surprised to see the Upswing Poker founder out in front early on by 6.5 buy-ins. But the match is still in its infancy stages. They’ve agreed to play at least 12,500 hands of $200/$400 NLH on WSOP.com. At this point, they’re only 11% to completion, although the losing player at 12,500 hands can require they play a full 25,000-hand match.

Daniel Negreanu finally won some big pots and was on his way to scoring a huge profit on Day 4 of his challenge against Doug Polk. But a brutal bad beat on the final hand of the day put a damper on the GGPoker ambassador’s impressive session.

Daniel Negreanu put on an impressive performance against Doug Polk on Day 4. (Image: WSOP.com)

Polk entered Wednesday’s session with more than a $260,000 profit in three days — just over 1,000 hands. They’ve agreed to play at least 12,500 hands of $200/$400 stakes on WSOP.com. So, a big lead this early in the match doesn’t guarantee victory by any stretch of the imagination.

But it was crucial for Negreanu to get on the winning track before it’s too late, and before he’s down the cost of a mansion in Beverly Hills. He stopped the bleeding on Day 4 before taking a severe kick to the stones on the last hand.

Daniel Negreanu got off to a strong start against Doug Polk during the first and only live poker session they’ll play in their heads-up challenge. But the Upswing Poker founder bounced back nicely with a dominating performance in the first online session.

Doug Polk clobbered Daniel Negreanu throughout the first online session. (Image: WSOP.com)

The long-time feuding poker pros will play as many as 25,000 hands of $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em. They’re playing all but the first 200 hands on the WSOP.com poker site in Nevada.

On Friday, they began the online portion of the challenge, and played for almost exactly two hours. Playing two tables at a time, the poker pros completed 424 hands during the session for a total of 624 hands overall. Negreanu opened the match with a $116,500 victory Wednesday at the PokerGo Studio in Las Vegas.

Phil Galfond still trails by a sizeable amount in the third Galfond Challenge against the challenger, poker coach Chance Kornuth. But the competition is moving at a snail’s pace, and still isn’t even close to reaching the halfway point.

Phil Galfond and Chance Kornuth may never end their competition. (Image: Twitter)

The high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha challenge began more than a month ago. At this pace, it may not finish before the Daniel Negreanu-Doug Polk match, which has just begun. Kornuth and Galfond agreed to play 35,000 hands at $100/$200 stakes on WSOP.com in Nevada.

Due to travel issues and not wanting to be outside the US for so long, the match isn’t taking place on Run it Once, the poker site owned by Galfond. And thus far, the change in scenery hasn’t been kind to the poker site founder.

GGPoker’s High Rollers Week has begun, with the popular online site offering players a chance to compete in 20 high-stakes tournaments offering $20 million in guaranteed prize money from Nov.8 – 15.

Get in on the high-stakes action at GGPoker. (Image: GGPoker.com)

The poker site, represented by Daniel Negreanu, has grown in terms of popularity in recent months. A big part of that growth is due to the WSOP Online Bracelet Series the site hosted this past summer.

From July to September, the poker site hosted more than 50 gold bracelet events, including the $5,000 Main Event, which generated the largest prize pool in online poker history (over $27 million). Now, GGPoker is taking another step toward competing with the likes of Partypoker and PokerStars.

David Laka etched his name in the history books on Sunday, becoming the first-ever European Poker Tour Online champion.

David Laka became the first EPT Online champion in history after winning Event #3 for $143,567. (Image: WPT)

With Events #1 and #2 ongoing, the Spaniard sailed to victory in Event #3, the $5,200 High Roller, on Nov. 8.

In addition to becoming the first EPT Online champion in history, Laka added to his $1.6 million career earnings by securing a $143,567 payday.

The poker industry will always look back and be thankful that Sammy Farha didn’t beat Chris Moneymaker at the 2003 WSOP Main Event final table. By losing heads-up, Farha allowed the amateur to win and novices around the world believe they too could become the next world champion.

Phil Ivey has opened up about the hand that cost him a WSOP title, but helped start the poker boom. (Image: BBC/Reuters)

For that reason, Farha will also be a part of poker folklore. However, people forget that Phil Ivey played his part in shaping the industry.

In his latest video interview with Barry Greenstein, Ivey talks us through his emotions after “that” hand against Moneymaker.

Small ball doesn’t seem to be working well for Daniel Negreanu, who is getting thoroughly thrashed by his rival Doug Polk in their heads-up match.

Daniel Negreanu is now down the cost of a nice Las Vegas home. (Image: WSOP.com)

If the current trends continue, Negreanu is about to be far less wealthy than he’s accustomed to. He’s said on Twitter that he can afford to play this match, but he hasn’t even been competitive since play shifted online.

The GGPoker ambassador got off to a strong start last week, winning the only live session — 200 hands — by $116,500. But the feuding poker pros have now played two online sessions, and to say Polk has dominated would be an understatement.

Nate Silver forecasted Joe Biden’s chances at winning the presidency at nearly 90%, but the former online poker pro’s FiveThirtyEight polling model, on the whole, was far from accurate … again.

Nate Silver might want to return to poker now that his credibility as a polling expert is in question. (Image: YouTube)

FiveThirtyEight, Silver’s website, gave Donald Trump a 30% chance at defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016. Those odds were higher than any other mainstream media outlet, but his polling model was still off in most swing states.

Silver claimed pollsters adjusted their methods this year following Trump’s stunning victory four years ago. He expressed confidence in the pre-election polls that showed Biden with a huge lead nationally and, more importantly, in swing states. As such, his forecasting model at FiveThirtyEight accounted for Biden’s polling favorability versus Trump and gave the incumbent candidate about the same odds to win as cracking pocket aces with a smaller pair.

Another EPT Online champion has been crowned following an impressive comeback in the $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

Ka Kwan Lau won the second EPT Online title of 2020 after an epic comeback in the $10,300 PLO High Roller. (Image: Twitter/WPT)

A day after David Laka won the first title, Ka Kwan Lau came through a tough final table to win Event #2.

When the final table started on Monday, Norway’s Andreas Torbergsen was at the top of the chip counts. That made the high-stakes PLO pro the favorite on paper. However, Lau clearly hadn’t read the script, as he put in the session of his life to score the upset.

Unibet Poker continues to prove that focusing on casual players and the lighter side of gaming is a winning strategy.

Unibet Poker achieved another quarterly high in 2020 with revenue far beyond what it was last year. (Image: Unibet)

Proof that you don’t always have to offer high-stakes tournaments and pro-friendly features came courtesy of the Kindred Group’s latest quarterly report.

The parent company of Unibet Poker reported year-on-year growth of 24%. Fueling another season of growth was the group’s poker vertical.

Investors have been fighting to buy shares in online poker and gaming companies for much of 2020 but, following the latest COVID-19 developments, interest has taken a dip.

Shares in various online poker and gaming companies have taken a dip following the announcement of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. (Image: TheStreet)

Those in poker have witnessed first-hand the pandemic’s impact on the industry. Activity across every major online site has been up this year and, as such, share prices have soared.

However, with Pfizer close to releasing a COVID-19 vaccine, online gaming companies have seen their value drop.