The beautiful astrophysicist/heavy-metal guitarist/charity activist and last but not least, poker pro and EPT6 champion @Liv Boeree is a great favorite of poker fans all over the world. She hopes to use her poker fame to try and make a difference in the world and help sensitize more people to the irreversible harm we are causing to the environment!
Liv Boeree talks to PokerTube's Rikard Aberg about her poker mindset, about her involvement in Raising For Effective Giving, and how she hopes to use her voice to help protect the environment!
The EPT Main Event will play down to 16 today. Liv starts 34th in chips and will need all of our good luck wishes!
The Cover Girls of Poker - Liv Boeree
Philipp Gruissem: 'Giving makes you happy and everybody should try it'
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November Nine Moments - Billy Pappas on Day 5, WSOP 2014 Main Event
Great four-way action on Day 5, as foosball champion @William Pappaconstantinou shoves all-in with pocket 4's and gets called by three players!
Pappas shoves and gets called by @Darlene Lee (113th for $52,141), @Nicholas Nardello (88th for $72,369), and @Justin Swilling (112th for $52,141). Here is how the hand unfolded:
Find out more about Billy Pappas on RankingHero:
http://www.rankinghero.com/william.pappaconstantinou
RankingHero Poker Hand Collection - 5 Pocket Pairs in One Round
When did you last see this at a live poker table - FIVE players find themselves with pocket pairs and sure enough, it doesn't end well for some...
Watch this #PokerHand from Day 5, #WSOP2014 Main Event:
How they did in the Main Event:
@Brian Roberts finished 26th for $286,900
@Robert Park finished 33rd for $230,487
@Adam Lamphere finished 41st for $186,388
@Greg Himmelbrand finished 99th for $61,313
@Jack Schanbacher finished 130th for $52,141
Wikipedia, Poker probability (Texas hold 'em)
The following table shows the probability that before the flop another player has a larger pocket pair when there are one to nine other players in the hand.
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Probability of facing a
larger pair when holdingAgainst 1 Against 2 Against 3 Against 4 Against 5 Against 6 Against 7 Against 8 Against 9 KK 0.0049 0.0098 0.0147 0.0196 0.0244 0.0293 0.0342 0.0391 0.0439 QQ 0.0098 0.0195 0.0292 0.0388 0.0484 0.0579 0.0673 0.0766 0.0859 JJ 0.0147 0.0292 0.0436 0.0577 0.0717 0.0856 0.0992 0.1127 0.1259 TT 0.0196 0.0389 0.0578 0.0764 0.0946 0.1124 0.1299 0.1470 0.1637 99 0.0245 0.0484 0.0718 0.0946 0.1168 0.1384 0.1593 0.1795 0.1990 88 0.0294 0.0580 0.0857 0.1125 0.1384 0.1634 0.1873 0.2101 0.2318 77 0.0343 0.0674 0.0994 0.1301 0.1595 0.1874 0.2138 0.2387 0.2619 66 0.0392 0.0769 0.1130 0.1473 0.1799 0.2104 0.2389 0.2651 0.2890 55 0.0441 0.0862 0.1263 0.1642 0.1996 0.2324 0.2623 0.2892 0.3129 44 0.0490 0.0956 0.1395 0.1806 0.2186 0.2532 0.2841 0.3109 0.3334 33 0.0539 0.1048 0.1526 0.1967 0.2370 0.2729 0.3040 0.3300 0.3503 22 0.0588 0.1141 0.1654 0.2124 0.2546 0.2914 0.3222 0.3464 0.3633
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Probability of facing multiple
larger pairs when holdingAgainst 2 Against 3 Against 4 Against 5 Against 6 Against 7 Against 8 Against 9 KK < 0.00001 0.00001 0.00003 0.00004 0.00007 0.00009 0.00012 0.00016 QQ 0.00006 0.00018 0.00037 0.00061 0.00091 0.00128 0.00171 0.00220 JJ 0.00017 0.00051 0.00102 0.00171 0.00257 0.00360 0.00482 0.00621 TT 0.00033 0.00099 0.00200 0.00335 0.00504 0.00709 0.00950 0.01226 99 0.00054 0.00164 0.00330 0.00553 0.00836 0.01177 0.01580 0.02045 88 0.00081 0.00244 0.00493 0.00828 0.01253 0.01769 0.02378 0.03084 77 0.00112 0.00341 0.00689 0.01160 0.01758 0.02487 0.03351 0.04353 66 0.00149 0.00454 0.00918 0.01550 0.02353 0.03335 0.04503 0.05861 55 0.00191 0.00583 0.01182 0.01998 0.03040 0.04318 0.05840 0.07619 44 0.00239 0.00728 0.01480 0.02506 0.03821 0.05438 0.07371 0.09635 33 0.00291 0.00890 0.01812 0.03075 0.04698 0.06699 0.09099 0.11919 22 0.00349 0.01068 0.02180 0.03706 0.05673 0.08107 0.11034 0.14484
Ina Rkh 14 Oct 2014
Wow!!! This is really big
Win Your Way into Malta Poker Championship, Season 1, with Mission #MPCinterview!
The inaugural Season 1 of the @Malta Poker Championship is to kick of at @Casino at Portomaso on November 17 and we’ve got lots of excitement in store for you between now and October 26, right here on RankingHero.
One member of our community will be the lucky winner of a €570 buy-in to the first Malta Poker Championship Main Event.
And let's not forget that the ultimate winner of the MPC will not only receive the trophy and be crowned champion, but will also be offered a one-year sponsorship contract worth €20,000 and the chance to play in the WSOP 2015 as member of the Team MPC!
Now that’s a prize worth fighting for and we are sure RankingHero members will be inspired by our new mission. Even if you can’t fit the tournament into your busy schedule, we count on your likes and shares to help decide who will take the RankingHero patch to Malta in November!
Mission #MPCinterview Rules
Imagine you have just been crowned 2015 Malta Poker Champion and are the proud winner of a sponsorship contract. You find yourself in the spotlight to give your very first blitz interview!
1. Submit your answers:
What will be your first message on RankingHero announcing your win to your fans?
With whom will you celebrate your victory? Are you going to stay and party at Portomaso Casino?
To whom do you dedicate your victory?
2. Share your winner’s photo - you can make a collage in the style of the photo below or let your imagination run wild and create your own unique winner’s photo!
Note to Entrants: Don’t forget to add the hashtag #MPCinterview when you post your answers and photo collage!
The RankingHero member whose post receives the most likes will be our winner! The final top five will receive the RankingHero patch! The submissions deadline is October 26th.
A tip to all entrants: Share your post and make the most of social media and poker forums to get as much support and likes from your friends as you can ;)
Good luck!
Elena RKH 17 Oct 2014
Let's do it :)
Paul Rimmer 20 Oct 2014
Cant believe i just won the #MPC @portomasocasinomalta . Huge thanks to everyone at ranking hero and all my family and friends for supporting me.
Now its off to celebrate with my family,friends and fellow players from this great event. #partyatportomasocasino Drinks on me !
I would like to dedicate this victory to all those players who are just starting out. anythings possible #livethedream
Selfie from inside the casino lol
What to spend my winnings on !!!
Paul Rimmer 20 Oct 2014
Please like and re shre my post.
Exciting New Partnership Between RankingHero and Malta Poker Championship
RankingHero is pleased to announce our partnership with @Malta Poker Championship (MPC) in what promises to be an exciting inaugural season!
Malta is one of the hottest destinations for poker lovers and party animals and will host this new stop on the live poker circuit in one of its most exclusive casinos - @Casino at Portomaso!
RankingHero will provide coverage of all four steps of the Malta Poker Championship, the first of which is to take place between November 17 and 22, 2014!
In addition to the Malta 2015 Poker Champion title and trophy, the big winner with most accumulated points in the championship will be offered a €20,000 sponsorship contract and the opportunity to play in WSOP 2015 as a member of the Team MPC!
At RankingHero we like to celebrate our new partnerships by offering prizes to our members and this time will be no exception.
MPC and RankingHero will be offering an opportunity to play in a major live event!
You can win a buy-in for the first step of the championship in our new Mission - #MPCinterview !
It is an opportunity to introduce yourself to the RankingHero community and to try and capture your first sponsorship contract.
The mission announcement is coming shortly and meanwhile we invite you to take a look at the championship schedule on RankingHero.
For more information about the Malta Poker Championship, please visit http://maltapokerchampionship.com
Stay tuned for the mission announcement!
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Edora 17 Oct 2014
Congrats for this partnership
Kibu8888 17 Oct 2014
Cheers ! :)
Elena RKH 17 Oct 2014
And here is the Mission: http://rkh.gg/c096e99
Weekly RankingHero Highlights
RankingHero members have been busy with the Campok Championship under way since October 7. For even more exciting fun, there was a bounty on @Isabelle Mercier in Friday's tourney. Congratulations to @Gilles Duguy who tops the leaderboard, and to the winners of the second and third tournaments - @kash66 and @twenyOone! It's not too late to register on Campok Webcam Poker on Facebook, link your accounts and start competing for the awesome prizes while having fun with fellow Ranking Heroes :) Keep up-to-date with championship news with the #campokchampionnat hashtag.
In other news from around the poker world: Unstoppable Colman With Yet Another Win and Swedish Tax Authorities Ransack Poker Forums to Identify Winning Players.
Take a look at the @Bluff Europe British Poker Awards - Nominees for Best Live Tournament Player.
Watch Maria Ho Stealing a Pot in 2014 WSOP Main Event and find out more about the Garden State November Niner - William Tonking!
GG to all of our members who cashed in live tournaments in the past week - @Maxime Arnou @Florian Ribouchon @Paul Guichard @Jean Marie Peyron @Sebastien Lapeyre and many, many others!
Thank you all for following and spreading the RankingHero news on Facebook and Twitter! If you manage a Facebook page, you can now easily add a tab and display a circuit, player, club or a casino’s page from RankingHero. Check out the Tutorial and start sharing poker info&stats!
Yours truly,
2014 November Niner Will Tonking Bio and Poker Profile
The Garden State November Niner has been playing online poker and live cash games for a long time, yet this is @William Tonking's first major breakthrough on the live tournament scene. And what an appearance he's made - out of anonymity and $93,000 in live winnings and onto the biggest final table in poker with a guaranteed minimum prize of $730,000!
Tonking: "Seeing how genuinely happy the people closest to me have been for me has been one of the most humbling parts of this entire experience."
William Tonking has been living and playing in New Jersey for most of his 27-year life. He was born in Flemington, NJ. This is where he grew up with his parents and two siblings, where he went to high school and developed a passion for pro sports and poker.
Will Tonking attended the Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington and in 2010 graduated in Economics from the University of South Carolina. As evidenced from one of his online screennames - “amazin_mets”, Will is a die-hard fan of the New York Mets. He loves pro sports and aside from game watching and the occasional sports betting, keeps in shape by playing pick-up basketball and weight lifting.
I'm a huge pro sports fan and die-hard New York Mets fan. I'm a University of South Carolina alum and I still go back for football games.
Will Tonking took up poker in 2005, at the end of high school, and played only online throughout college. His very first live tournament score is from an event at @The Venetian Las Vegas in 2008, and his biggest cash prior to 2014 WSOP Main Event was $28,000. After 2011 and Black Friday, Tonking took his action to the poker tables in Atlantic City, and occasionally Las Vegas, playing cash games and up to a dozen tournaments a year.
“I was never much of a tournament player. This is only the third one that I’ve played this year. I’m more of a cash game player,” Tonking explained. “I play online on the New Jersey sites . I play live some. I play in a $10/$25 game at Sam’s in Bethlehem, some at Borgata, and I play some of the Borgata Open Series and the WSOP, but other than that I’ve never been much of a tournament player. That’s why there’s not much out there on me.” (PokerNews)
Photos from Borgata Open events, where Tonking scored four cashes between 2010 and 2013, incl. two 7th places and one fifth-place finish:
As for his previous World Series of Poker record, it includes one ITM finish in the Mixed Max in WSOP 2014, and two cashes in 2010:
In the 2014 Main Event, he progressed without drawing much attention until Day 7 and this crucial hand in which he risked his tournament life on the final table bubble:
| Hand #6: Martin Jacobson limped from under the gun and it folded around to William Tonking who completed from the small blind. Sindelar checked from the big blind and the trio took a flop of Jacobson: Tonking led with a flopped straight but Jacobson was drawing live with four to a club flush and a nine for a chop. The |
. Tonking checked, Sindelar fired 500,000, and Jacobson came over the top with a raise to 1.75 million. Tonking announced a check-raise all in for 4.675 million. Sindelar folded and Jacobson called.
fell on the turn, keeping Tonking ahead with his straight. The 
drilled the river, allowing Tonking's straight to hold and scoring him the double up to 11.25 million in chips.PokerNews Live Updates, Level 34, Day 7
| The whole time during it, I was trying to think about not being in this moment and playing poker. I kept on making myself refer back to the scene in 'Hoosiers' when Gene Hackman took them into the big stadium, the small-town team, put the tape measure up to the rim and down to the floor and said, 'Still 10 feet, gentlemen,’ Tonking told ESPN’s Andrew Feldman after making the final nine. |
William Tonking will come to the final table with the seventh chip stack - 15,050,000 - and says he has a 'puncher's chance' at winning:
I think I have a puncher's chance. I'm confident in my game and I think everyone that's left has a legitimate chance to win. It's poker, anything can happen.
I was fine before this happened, and I’ll be fine after. My expectations - to play well and live with whatever the results may be.
Sources and links:
http://www.rankinghero.com/william.tonking
ESPN podcast: http://bit.ly/1rH5XfF Tonking: "Podcast I did today for ESPN that is probably the closest thing out there to an accurate depiction of what I do/ have done."
http://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/william-tonking/
Gambling911.com: November Niner William Tonking Gives Self ‘Punchers Chance’ To Win WSOP Title
Maria Ho Stealing a Pot for Women in Poker in 2014 WSOP Main Event
@Maria Ho topped this year's WSOP women's ranking by cashes with 8 ITM finishes. What is more, for the second time since 2007, Maria was the last woman standing in the Main Event. She finished 77th out of 6683 for $85,812!
Here she is carrying off the pot with J♣ 10♣ vs Q♠ Q♦ for @Jack Schanbacher on Day 5:
More on RKH:
Maria Ho Running Good in 2014 WSOP
Three Women Who Inspired Us in WSOP 2014
Elena RKH 9 Oct 2014
VGG to Maria ! :)
Unstoppable Colman With Yet Another Win
@Daniel Colman has repeatedly expressed his personal distaste for this type of 'individual glamorization' and 'idolization' but he truly deserves the #ColmanPhenomenon hashtag. He has just added one more victory from high-stakes live tournament poker to his resume. Colman took down the WPT Alpha8 £60k event, bringing his total live earnings in 2014 to $22 million so far!
Has there ever been anything like it in poker history? Just take a look at @Daniel Colman's last five cashes:
Colman was one of 17 players who entered this WPT Alpha8 event at @The Palm Beach Casino London. The elite field included Sam Trickett, Daniel Cates, Philipp Gruissem and many of the other 'usual high-roller suspects'. Daniel Colman was one of 6 players with re-entries, just like his heads-up opponent, @Max Altergott. @Talal Shakerchi and @Isaac Haxton finished third and fourth, respectively.
Colman Now Best Tournament Poker Player in the World - WHAT is he doing right?
