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Weekly RankingHero Highlights

A hot summer contest on RankingHero this week - our community voted for Top 3 hottest players and unsurprisingly, @Liv Boeree was the absolute favorite :) Poker's own cover girl is as smart and generous as she is beautiful, and we hope many will be inspired by the charitable cause she is promoting together with @Philipp Gruissem and @Igor Kurganov - Raising for Effective Giving.

Check out the entries under the #M2top3 hashtag (make sure you switch your language settings to Francais in order to see the submissions by our French-speaking members).

This week we honored three young stars of #GermanPoker :

George Danzer Only Exception in Total US Domination in WSOP 2014 Stats

Will the Next Triple Crown Go to Youngest Triple Bracelet Winner Dominik Nitsche?

Ole Schemion Took Home a Million+ Cash on his First Trip to Vegas

Our birthday boy - KidPoker @Daniel Negreanu turned 40 on Saturday and threw a huge party in Las Vegas (check out his dance moves ;)

We've had #MTGpoker news as well - Magic:The Gathering World Champion @Andre Coimbra's engagement to Katerina Malasidou, as well as @Manuel Bevand's nomination for 2014 Most Inspiring Player!

We'd love to hear from you on the 'For or Against Headphones in Tournament Poker' debate and if you are in the pro-headphones camp, please share your favorite poker playlist with us :)

Welcome to @Nicholas Galtos and @Nicolas Feyssat to mention just a couple of players who joined the RankingHero community this week and congratulations to all of our members who cashed in WPTN Brussels - @Georgi Kostalevski and @David Bruet to mention just a few! GG and GL in your next live events!

Special thanks to our lovely moderator @Elena RKH and all the contestants in the weekly mission - hope to see you soon in the photo gallery dedicated to the RankingHero patch in action! Thanks to @SuitedAce @Socius and all the other members sharing interesting and fun poker links and info :)

Counting on you all to spread the RankingHero news on Facebook and wishing you loads of good poker times in the coming week!

Yours truly,

@Annie RKH 

#RKHweekly 

 

you're most cetainly welcome @Annie RKH and RankingHero. we enjoy sharing fun and interesting poker articles here

Weekly RankingHero Highlights

This week RankingHero brought you several exclusive interviews: @Nicolas Levi spoke to @Sean Yu, who took our patch to the final table and all the way to 1st place in the inaugural #WPT500 $1 Million GTD; @Pedro Canali interviewed the amazing @Jon Finkel - recognized as one of the greatest players of Magic:The Gathering, but also a successful poker player, sports bettor, finance genius, and - we are so proud to say! - RankingHero member. Make sure you follow the #MTGpoker hashtag and MTG Poker page on RKH for future interviews and posts! In addition, @Bruno Fitoussi - one of the 'founding fathers' of poker in France is Dans le carré and talks about the past, present, and future of poker. Last but not least, you will find a link to an interesting 2013 interview with Mark Newhouse - the back-to-back November Niner.

Meanwhile, the Main Event played down to the #NovemberNine and #WSOP2014 players were leaving Las Vegas - find out how some of them said goodbye in the social media.

@Daniel Colman has been the talk of the poker community ever since he won $15 million in the Big One for One Drop and - after declining to talk to the media - shared his ambivalent feelings about the game in a forum post. However, this hasn't stopped him from scoring another 6-figure cash in a 100K #SuperHighRoller at the @ARIA Resort & Casino, which took him one place up - to fourth position - in the all-time US ranking.

Check out the #PokerCrimeFiles hashtag on RKH for news about Macau Millionaire Paul Phua's arrest in Vegas on illegal sports betting charges and about his famous lawyer - 'the Phil Ivey of attorneys', David Chesnoff.

We are very happy that @Flaminio Malaguti (find out more about his extraordinary live tournament record here) has officially joined RankingHero! Please also welcome and give distinctions to @Nancy Birnbaum @Marius Pospiech @James Akenhead @Jeffrey Ray @Christophe Thirion and all of the new members of our community.

Thanks to the  #M1debut participants who shared stories about their poker beginnings and to our own @Elena RKH for organizing and moderating this fun contest! We hope the winners will take the RankingHero patch to the felt and help us expand the photo gallery RankingHeroes in Action.

Wishing you another good week of poker playing & winning & learning & sharing. We'll be looking foward to your updates here on RankingHero and on our Facebook page!

Yours truly,

@Annie RKH 

#RKHweekly 

 

Congratulations to Eric Froehlich for finishing 59th and earning $10,794 in the Event #49: No-Limit Hold'em tournament!
GG!

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Congratulations !

GG 

Bitter sweet I guess, but GG anyways

An Interview with Gabriel Nassif by Pedro Canali

 

 

You are often considered the 3rd best MTG player of all time, after @Jon Finkel and Budde, how do you feel about this?

It always makes me smile but I guess it's accurate achievements-wise, even though I feel like Jon and Kai are on another level.

What do you think makes you better at Magic?

I just played and thought about the game so much when I was younger but I'm not sure what made me better than most. One of my qualities is that I am pretty good at knowing when and why I messed up and I have always been a good deckbuilder which is a huge edge in new formats.

You studied maths at university, is this an edge for you?

I don't think you need to be very good at math to be good at Magic but I guess kids who get good grades in school tend to be more nerdy and more likely to start playing M:tG.

@Gabriel Nassif and @Pedro Canali, Club Poker Radio, 2010

We have been many times at the same poker table, I think you are one of the rare “never-tilted-good-tight-aggressive-player” in 2014. This is proven by your results: 48 RankingHero lines, 10 Final tables, most of them in the WSOP. Is it your nerves of steel that make the difference?

I don't tilt much especially live so that helps of course but I just play a lot of events every year at the WSOP so eventually you're gonna run good in some of them and make a deep run.

Which players inspire you the most in Magic? In poker?

I think it was mostly the old school french players, guys like @Franck Canu whom I played with on a daily basis in Paris and qualified and did good in the PT's. I saw those guys and thought that could be me too.

@Brock Parker and @William 'Huey' Jensen  taught me how to play and helped me out a lot at first. We had an IRC chan with all the magic/poker players and we used to discuss hands all the time. I've always looked up to the great online players throughout the years, @Johnny Lodden @Tom Dwan @Phil Galfond @Isaac Baron etc... and also some of my friends like ZeeJustin @Justin Bonomo  or @Alexandre Luneau.

The tough question: You won 2 Pro Tours, but you also hold the record for most finals lost in Magic History. In poker you have made 10 final tables without any title. Is this pressure-related, bad luck or a too conservative style?

I'm not sure why I lost all those PT finals, I don't think it was because of the money or anything, maybe just bad luck even though I messed up pretty bad in some of them. I think I have trouble in live tournaments because I don't take enough risks and play too tight so I always get at the final table as one of the short stacks. I'm still sometimes scared to bust whereas online I'd be willing to gamble in the same spot.

@Gabriel Nassif at WSOP Event 33 - one of five in which he has finished ITM so far in 2014.

When losing in the final, do you feel like you’ve done the job or is it mostly regrets to miss the final step towards glory?

I usually don’t have too many regrets when I bust because I'm usually very short but as I said, I think the real problem occurs before that when I don't gamble enough in the late stages of the tournament, before the final table.

Why do so many great Magic players become great poker players?

I think the lifestyle is very attractive to gamers and it also helps a lot when you already have friends who play poker and are good and can help you.

If one of the 2 games had to stop tomorrow, which one would you keep?

Right now, I'd have to pick poker but if I was very rich and didn't have to worry about the money, I'd pick Magic in a heartbeat.

What would be your life if Magic didn’t exist?

I wonder sometimes but I don't really have an answer. I also wonder if I would have ended up playing poker somehow anyways.

Do you ever think about your life after poker, or do you plan to play forever like Doyle Brunson?

I started thinking about it more recently, maybe get a job designing games, maybe even work for Wizards of the Coast but I'm not really sure. Poker is still going well so I have a bit of time to figure it out.

#MTGpoker 

 

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Excellent interview from the beginning to the end !!! Interesting for both MTG and POKER fans, Thanks !!!

énooorme ! merci bcp

Élimination cruelle (Event 33) suivie du quatrième ITM (Event 37) pour Gabriel Nassif

L'élimination cruelle de @Gabriel Nassif en huitième place dans #wsop33 , $1,000 No Limit Hold'em nous a fait mal mais nous le saluons pour son troisième ITM aux WSOP 2014 et le soutenons maintenant dans #wsop37  - Pot Limit Omaha!

Voici la main d'élimination, full house contre full house:

@Gabriel Nassif pousse all-in, Q♦ J♠   

FLOP

A♦ Q♠ J♣ 

TURN

J♦

RIVER

A♣

Q♦ J♠  Q♠ J♣  J♦ X
A♠ Q♥ A♦Q♠  X A♣
@Vineet Pahuja  suit all-in, A♠ Q♥    A♦ Q♠J♣   J♦ A♣

Nassif quitte la table en huitième place pour un gain de $26,464 et entre toute suite dans Event 37, PLO où il atteint encore une fois les places payées :

Gabriel Nassif est parmis les 72 survivants à la fin du Day 1. Ils sont maintenant garantis de repartir avec au moins $3,655, donc quatrième ITM pour Gabriel et pourquoi pas une autre table finale à mettre à l'actif de  #MTGpoker et la Team Magic:The Gathering :)

 

#dur !!! Mais il a bien joué, bonne chance pour les wsop37

Allez Gabriel c'est qu'un échauffement, le meilleur reste à venir pendant ces WSOP ! GG !

Players of Magic:The Gathering Who have Discovered the Magic of Poker

Here at RankingHero we are particularly fond of Magic:The Gathering. And not simply because we love all strategic, community-building, subculture-generating addictive games (though these would all be valid reasons in themselves). We have an additional very special reason for this affinity with MTG - our own founder and RankingHero ambassador, @Pedro Canali, is a champion of the game. Back in 2004, in his very first professional tournament, Canali won the Pro Tour-Columbus with a deck called “Affinity” :)

 

Magic:The Gathering is a collectible card game which revolutionized this sector of the gaming industry in the 1990s. It has continued to thrive to this day, with millions of fans all over the world, professional tournaments and championships, as well as amateur leagues and communities, and a huge secondary market for Magic cards. Each game represents a battle between mighty wizards who employ spells, artifacts, and creatures depicted on individual Magic cards to defeat their opponents.

In the early 2000s, at the time of the poker boom, MTG became something of a “breeding ground for world class poker players”. Rather than the rules of the game itself, it was the strategic thinking, and above all, the culture and lifestyle associated with poker that attracted many MTG players. And the money, of course. Unlike MTG, poker made it possible to make a living without compromising on the lifestyle. 

Successful poker players with a background in Magic: The Gathering include WSOP bracelet winners, WPT and EPT champions, and online poker wizards. 

 

@David Williams:
"I think the biggest correlation is that it teaches the brain how to work. It's problem-solving, logical deduction. Most people aren't sharpening their brains constantly. We've been honing our skills for years; high-level thinking is pretty much all we do. That's great training for playing poker under pressure."


@Brock Parker:
"Poker is a job, 'Magic' a game. I never want to play poker in my free time. 'Magic' you can. You can't make a living at 'M:TG,' but it's just the more enjoyable game."


@Isaac Haxton:
"Some guys have done it for eight years by the time they get to 21, and that makes us better; If you get deep in a tournament and aren't used to the high-pressure situations in person, it's a problem. 'Magic' prepared us for that."

 

Photo from a 2013 blog entry by PokerStars ambassador Katerina Malasidou, poker notables - including the 2009 MTG World Champion @Andre Coimbra - relaxing with Magic:The Gathering 

 ManuB from Team Winamax
@Manuel Bevand  from @Winamax mentions on this fascinating blog post how his skills aquired from MTG translated into poker to give him an edge 

Below you will find a non-exhaustive list of notable players who share a passion for MTG and poker; you can check their profile pages on RankingHero to see their live poker tournament achievements:

@Adam Levy  @Andre Coimbra  @Andrea Dato  

@Anton Morgenstern @Brock Parker @Christopher DeMaci   

@Dario Minieri @David Williams @Eric Froehlich 

@Gabriel Nassif @Isaac Haxton @Jose Ignacio Barbero 

@Justin Bonomo @Kevin MacPhee @Manuel Bevand  @Mickey Petersen 

@Noah Boeken @Scott Seiver 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_World_Championship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tour_(Magic:_The_Gathering)

 

 

"You can't make a living at 'M:TG,' but it's just the more enjoyable game." so true ;). Thanks for this excellent article ;). Who's in for a #MTGCube :) ?