I am going to be optimistic and bet on 1111 entrants :) What is YOUR guess?
PCA Guessing Game: Question 1
RKHguess on Rankinghero The new poker year is starting with one of the richest and most popular festivals on the EPT circuit - the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Stars of live tournament poker, as well as hundreds of...Happy New Year, dear fellow Ranking Heroes!
May all of your poker goals and aspirations come true in 2016! And should they not, remember the advice of the world's winningest poker player and Heroscore Number One, Daniel Negreanu, and enjoy the journey!
Daniel Negreanu's 2016 Annual Poker Goals Blog:
Poker players tend to be very analytic thinkers and have a difficult time with the idea of setting their intention on goals that aren't within their control. Obviously, I could play perfectly during the WSOP and still not accomplish the goal of winning 3 bracelets. Some people may argue that they see no value in setting goals that are out of your control. I disagree vehemently, but the most important aspect in order to do this correctly is learning to be completely detached from the end result. Detaching yourself from the idea that coming up short of your lofty goals is a failure.
So what should you be attached to? The journey! Did you do your absolute best to achieve your goals? What worked? What didn't work? What can you do differently next year to increase the chances that you achieve your goals? Acknowledge what you did well, and be honest with yourself about areas that you could improve upon. Then get committed to making the adjustments in areas that need improvement.
Personally, I've decided to keep things simple this year and only set realistic and easy goals. As a result, there's only one item on my list - learn to make a lemon tart :) I think I may be on to someting as I've already made a first attempt and though it failed miserably, it has actually made me feel really good about my 2016 prospects and my new, determined and responsible adult self :)
What about you? Have you set any poker goals for the new year? Please share with the community and we'll be happy to act as your conscience ;)
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SuperMario1 6 Jan 2016
Aiming small things..like..be Dan Bilzerian lolll
Farcas Paul 8 Jan 2016
win a sunday million event
William Calder 8 Jan 2016
take down the sunday storm
On the eve of my Christmas holiday, I can already hear the jingle bells and had some fun creating a perfectly unscientific musical personality test! I hope you'll enjoy it but please don't take it too seriously ;)
http://goo.gl/forms/0Z6uRVFsrw
Advoghado 22 Dec 2015
Nice post! 
Hehe, I'm in the run for a RankingHero T-shirt myself :) GOGOGO Alfredooooo!
Funniest Poker Fails: The Goldfish Award Finalists
RankingHero Goldfish Awards on Rankinghero RankingHero Goldfish Awards on Rankinghero #RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFail Over the past weeks we've been looking for and sharing funny poker bluffs, folds, misreads, and calls. By giving 'likes' to the nominated hands, RankingHero members...In our latest community mission, we’re looking for the funniest poker fails and bad plays. You can still give ‘likes’ to the entries under the topics covered so far: bluffs, folds, misreads. In this final round, we invite you to nominate the bad calls that have made you howl, laugh or weep!
Take a look at our picks this week and nominate them or share other funny hands with the hashtags #RKHgoldfish and #GoldfishCall!
Playlist, Goldfish Award: Calls
It is often hard to tell the line between a goldfish and a shark, between genius and donk call.. And the best players in the world are sometimes fooled by their own ego into making bad decisions. Was that the case with Phil Hellmuth in these three hands?
Whether or not this was a legitimate call by Phua, and whether the heroes in this hand are goldfish or whales, it is a must-see and probably one of the funniest in televised high-stakes poker:
Was UK poker legend ‘Devilfish’ tricked into a ‘goldfish move’ by Sam Trickett?We’re looking forward to your entries and, as always, thank you in advance for spreading the word on social media :)
The pre-Christmas festivities on RankingHero begin tomorrow, Tuesday 1 December, with the first of four freerolls on Titan Poker! Make sure you link your accounts to get the password in your inbox (30 minutes before starting time)
RKH festival on Titan Poker - $800 to win!
Titan Poker on Rankinghero Titan Poker on Rankinghero Starting Tuesday 1st of December, RankingHero and Titan Poker offer you a series of 4 FREEROLLS ($0.50 rebuy) over 2 months, with $800 to win! Christmas and New Year’s are getting closer and...
Annie RKH 30 Nov 2015
And you have until midnight 30 November to enter this Tian Poker contest on Facebook :)
Complete this sentence and you could win $10
Bluffing in Poker Is Like __________
The most original/unusual/creative/humorous entry as selected by our poker judges will win $10. Contest ends midnight November 30, 2015. COMMENT AND SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY NOW!
I urge you all to read @Justin Bonomo's blog post on Sexism and Misogyny in Poker and only then maybe come back to my humble - and possibly sexist, retrograde and defeatist - response:
Thanks, Justin for this piece - yes, it helps reading a man's sympathetic take on women in poker. And no, it will not make much difference. I’m afraid live poker will remain a frustrating and masochistic experience for women and to make it more female-friendly we’d have to strip it out of most of its basic premises and arsenal.
The very setting of a live poker game is a woman’s worst nightmare - the sheer proximity of the male strangers at a full-ring table, the studied projection of dominance and aggression, the intentional provocative talk, threatening postures, and the ‘stare-downs’ are all meant to induce vulnerability, intimidation, self-doubt, and the ultimate surrender of the opponent (see any beginner’s guide to live poker for more!).
Poker is great but for a fair and equal battle (and enjoyment) women will have to rely on friendly home games and online rooms. And because I can feel the outline of a doctoral thesis coming on, I will thank you once again and continue the discussion on my own blog to leave room for all the congratulatory and hateful messages that are sure to flood the comment section!..
The problem is as much in women's minds as in men's eyes. Because this ‘mental game’ begins for us the moment we are born girls in a world which depends for its reproduction on female ‘desirable looks’ attracting male ‘looks of desire’. It is very hard to dissociate the live-poker experience from real-life one where we are looked upon and reduced to (and conditioned to perceive ourselves) as sexual objects and essentially reproductive organs.
That is why, of the tiny proportion of female live poker players, a disproportionate share are attractive women, TV personalities or seniors (and two notable gay players). These are women accustomed or immune to the male gaze. Either because they’ve been exposed to it all their lives on account of their looks and/or profession - and can actually exploit it in their turn and literally and figuratively ‘play with men’. Or because their age or sexual orientation provides a natural firewall - not just because of the different way men look at them, but because of their own self-perception. In their minds, these women are no longer objects, they no longer care about or depend on men for self-worth; they can at last act as free and independent subjects and turn ‘the gaze’ back on men (whether they happen to be poker players or street stalkers, or any other brand of abusive alpha males).
This can theoretically be achieved by political correctness policing and universal feminist education but by the time women master ‘the gaze’ ourselves, we’ll all be ordering our gift-wrapped babies online…
I have only gracious envy and genuine admiration for the brave women who wage our battle at the live poker tables.
Will continue to laud and applaud them but have long decided for myself I am not strong enough and will only play the two games (with men and with poker players) one at a time. So off to my Sunday grind now :)
Justin Bonomo Talks: Sexism and Misogyny in Pokerjustinbonomo.blogspot.ca
Startling Grope 22 Nov 2015
This is a fantastic post. Patriarchy and misogynism are two great problems for society the world over (particularly for women, obviously) but poker seems to be stuck in the 1960s. Women are massively under-represented in the game (as well as politics, engineering, business and most other areas in life) but the poker world still seems to actively encourage the outdated idea that looking pretty for the men is the primary - and usually only - role for women.
As sad as it is, I'm not surprised to hear that women receive the most horrendous treatment from a lot of men in the game. The fact is, as is pointed out in Justin's article, is that men are horrendous. Perhaps the biggest problem of all is that a lot of men think it's absolutely fine to sexually harrass and/or assault women and it's the woman's fault if she's not cool with it.
Like Justin, I'm not going to go down the mansplaining route as it's not for me to make the case on behalf of women but it's absolutely correct that men should be holding other men to account when they're out of line.
Poker would be a better and healthier environment with proper female representation and we should all be doing what we can to encourage it. A good starting point might be to stop treating women like shit.
Startling Grope 22 Nov 2015
It's just occurred to me that my own username might be a little out of place for this conversation.
Laurent Gomez 26 Nov 2015
@Startling Grope Ah ah, no, really? :D
Yes the habitat shows the "dream" of poker as represented, and... that's about as sexist as that.
Same problem in video games I heard.
Kings are not enough for Matusow
Jordan Hooper - Blog Post - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Emty - Blog Post - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Esfandiari has to explain about overpairs to Matusow
Have a tilt and a smile! - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
The guy who only plays pocket quads
What's a top best or worst list without Phil Hellmuth in it?..
Socius - Blog Post - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Fooled into a Fold by Beauty and the Bluff
Behind every great bluff there is a bad fold?.. - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Rare fail by one of the Golden Boys of German Poker
Advoghado - Blog Post - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Farcas Paul - Blog Post - Ranking Herowww.rankinghero.com
Frankenberger resists temptation of pocket queens
Szanto Anna 25 Nov 2015
Miss Finland's PokerStars Shark Cage bluff is one of the most talked-about and fun hands of the year and wouldn't have been possible without @Ronnie Bardah.
Was it the #RKHgoldfish #GoldfishFold of 2015? It's certainly one of the funniest to watch :)
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Annie RKH 20 Nov 2015
And speaking of the Shark Cage and good bluffs, here's Phil Laak toying with the PokerStars qualifier:
Eva Dimitrova 20 Nov 2015
Really nice bluff, poor guy lol :D
Advoghado 20 Nov 2015
Here on RankingHero, we have utmost admiraton and respect for @Pierre Neuville - 'The Serial PokerStars Qualifier' and most senior member of the November Nine! Though he dropped out in 7th place (one of the six finalists eliminated by the eventual champion @Joseph McKeehen) he is sure to inspire many (and certainly not just seniors!) with his performance, drive, and love for the game!
Pierre was eliminated holding AcJc in an all-in against Joe McKeehen's Jh6h. Ironically, earlier on he held the exact same AJs in a confrontaton with @Joshua Beckley and ended up folding the best hand.
It would be great to get some insights from our in-house expert pros @Pedro Canali @Nicolas Levi or @Renaud Desferet ? And maybe a comment from @Mark Duguid - Pierre was your favorite to win, Mark, what do you do you think of his performance and his play in this particular hand?
