Black Belt Poker -

Sen Sei posted on 29 Sep, 10:53am

For those who aren't already aware, Black Belt Poker host a League every Tuesday at 8.30pm. The League is a $5+0.50 No Limit Hold'em freezeout and is run over eight legs with the overall winner/s receiving a star prize. Other members of the top 10 earn Belt Points.

If you would like to participate, then simply locate the tournament under 'Scheduled' > 'Black Belt Tournaments' and select register. You can also purchased a token for the event in the Black Belt Poker Store using Spending Points, or, if you are Orange or Purple Belt, earn free entry via the monthly Season Ticket Giveaway Freeroll.

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Ross Jarvis posted on 22 May, 10:48am

I'm in. I think it's about time a Blue Belt won one of these :)

Gavin Hall posted on 22 May, 11:02am

think Werrrrd was blue when he one his 1st one and JB has won one too

Nick (nickhem1) Hemming posted on 22 May, 11:30am

I'm in, be good to get the league up and running again. My Tuesday's have seem empty (sad I know). Won't be about till about 8 so please use my chips wisely :)

Bruce 'Usainzeus88' Jones posted on 21 May, 8:11pm

Any way of seeing how many points I've got in the warrior? Pretty sure I need two wins for a top half finish with the way things have gone

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Craig (ChipRead77) Mckelvie posted on 21 May, 10:59pm

Out in 6th.... sigh

Craig (ChipRead77) Mckelvie posted on 22 May, 10:32am

Sorry Chris didnt know your Username.
The reason i sighed after my 6th place cos kinda disapointed about my exit hand, dont get me wrong happy with my finish but feeling gettin a top finish is gonna be vital in the long run. Clearly aiming for Top 15 and with only havin a 11th, 70th, 6th and a blow up im thinkin atleast 5 ppl have won 1 and thats 50 points staright off....really need 2 deep finishes in next 2 to stand chance with double points bein the 1.....!

Nick (NPenfold666) Mazur posted on 22 May, 10:43am

UL Craig. I saw your exit hand which was unfortunate.

Geoff Douglas posted on 22 May, 2:09am

Just binked a 3rd in the $30+3 R/A $10K GTD. Quite pleased with that but why oh why does it always come down to a river suck out. Not the Flop, Not the Turn but the River to go from Chip lead to 5BB.
LOL - Loved it!

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Paul (paul5432) Romain posted on 22 May, 9:12am

nice one, wp!

stephen (eixip50) andrews posted on 22 May, 9:13am

nice WP

Craig (ChipRead77) Mckelvie posted on 22 May, 10:26am

Nice 1 Geoff Wp

Sen Sei posted on 15 May, 1:31pm

Greetings.

Our next Academy is just around the corner, and this time around we'll be returning to the home of East End Live: Asper's Casino, Stratford.

The topic for the day is WSOP: Winning Your Seat & Surviving Vegas, so if you want tips on satellites, playing the Main Event, and what to do once you're over there, then this is the Academy for you.

It will also be a lot of fun, and anybody who fancies playing Asper's £50 freezeout at 18:00 will automatically be entered into a last-longer for a future Academy seat.

You're being treated to three mentors this time with Alex Rousso, Neil Channing and Jamie Burland all on hand to offer their extensive knowledge. If you have any questions regarding the day, then please feel free to post your query here and one of them will be happy to answer.

For further details on the event, see here:

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/training/academies/winning-your-seat/

If you would like to attend, simply purchase a token from the Store, or email us at training@blackbeltpoker.com to register your interest and discuss payment options. Tickets are a snip at £99.

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Hasmukh Khodiyara posted on 21 May, 2:55pm

After changing my mind once before I've decided to come now. Will you show us the hand history Neil?

Sen Sei posted on 22 May, 9:44am

Time is running out. Book you seat now.

Neil Channing posted on 22 May, 10:06am

I can do Hasmukh - it'll prove how much luck there is in tournaments.

Mark (VBlueBBP) Varela posted on 5 May, 11:32am

Multi-Tabling STTs on iPoker/MTT SnGs/DoNs/Jackpot STTs

I have a rare evening tonight where I might get chance to sit down and fire up a few tables. I probably don't have enough time to commit to sitting for 4/5 hours to play any MTTs so I thought I'd start to get back on the trail of STTs and try and get a couple of 2 hours sessions in.

The last time I looked to return to the Turbo $5 games I couldn't get more than about 2/3 tables running. Has ipoker low-stakes STT traffic dropped off? It would have been a weekday evening.

What do people think when it comes to Turbo STTs v DoNs (never got into these) and the Jackpots? Do the Jackpots not just end up costing you double rake and hardly anybody ever makes the jackpot to overcome this ROI destroying extra fee? Is there any joy in playing DoNs? Does the strategy vary much from a std top 3 payout STT? What about the 180-mans and such like? Are ipoker moving into these markets at all? As you can probably tell I haven't had a lot of time for online poker these last six months or so.

Finally, I have a load of reading material and videos lined-up to try and get me back into working on and thinking about the game regularly. I have the blueprint that Nick Wealthall did which Poker Player are offering to their subscribers, I have the Jared Tendler Dojo recording and his book, I have a load of stuff from Tre Nguyen's site recommended from James Carrigan, and I have a load of videos off of DC which I have only watched a single series of on MTTs by daaaaaaaaaaang16.

What are other people up to these days? Are you grinding? Are you just playing the odd league game and some of these big iPops events and such like? Cash/STTs/MTTs? What are you reading and watching?

Is there any good poker TV or online poker shows worth a watch at the moment. I subscribe to loads of stuff that I get regular emails from like pokercast.tv, but I never get round to viewing. Has the new Party Poker Premier League made the airwaves yet?

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Chris Osborne posted on 22 May, 5:51am

Your probably over qualified Andy

dawn (bagpuss rocks) cooke posted on 22 May, 6:45am

yet again it looks buggered (technical term!!) played only 6 yesterday including coming 2nd in a 30sng and im showing no points on the widget or leaderboard - no such thing as a free lunch i suppose but really is a lot of hassle

Gavin Hall posted on 22 May, 7:49am

end-time makes 0 sense at all.

if you go to cashier and click account and tournament history and display the tournerys for a week they are listed by start time, so ipoker organises tournaments by start time to have a comp that scores points via end-time would therefore be totally bonkers.

Ah I see your point now.........................................

btw always check the widget update time, it is 21/5/12 13:30 aatm ie if u played any after tat they wont show yet.

@DavidEames (deadlydaveLDN) posted on 21 May, 4:40pm

Since I'm planning on at least final-tabling something tonight might as well start a Monday MTT thread. Have a couple of decent stacks on the go in small tournaments, mostly just planning on playing the $30r and $50fo at 7pm though.

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Neil Channing posted on 22 May, 0:28am

Unlucky Dave.

14/19 with 12bbs in the WSOP sat but chip leader on the final of the HR.

Neil Channing posted on 22 May, 1:57am

They finally got me in the HR. I shoved 25bbs 4-handed. The guy with the similar stack called with 88 from the sb. I had KsQs.

$4,085 but it would have been a nice flip to win for the chip lead and $12,000 up top.

Four handed in the WSOP Experience sat. Chips are 179k,61k,43k and 30k.

I'm the 43k.

Winner gets $3700 package, 2nd gets $1200, 3rd gets pat on back, 4th gets the same.

Neil Channing posted on 22 May, 2:13am

Lost a flip with KQ in the other one where the guy also called a 30bb 3-bet shove with 66 this time. 4th there as well for nowt.

Some symmetry in those results.

Dean (blackbeltkickbox)Al posted on 21 May, 8:22pm

I am trying to late reg to an ipops sat but I am ouut of funds on BBP and on my credit card, I have just paid it, but it will take 2 days. Can anyone be super amazing and swap $50 on here for $50 on stars?

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James Carrigan posted on 21 May, 8:44pm

though am happy to just transfer the $50 over to you on bbp and you can gave it back in a couple of days - if not i will hunt you down in brighton on 23rd june lol :-)

Bruce 'Usainzeus88' Jones posted on 21 May, 8:58pm

Ive sent it to him Already James

James Carrigan posted on 21 May, 9:02pm

ok bruce, thanks for letting me know

Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 19 May, 7:02am

Anyone up for the VIC Tourney tonight ?

Sat 19th May No Limit Hold'em Freezeout. 10% of the prize pool is deducted for casino registration 7,500 chips / 25 minute clock £50+£2 7:45pm

Not played there for ages , about time I went back , enough of all these wannabe poker rooms ;-) back to the best for an all night session :-)

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Carey (CareybearBBP) Hollick posted on 20 May, 9:58pm

i do like that tournament but had such a blast at the team event!! :)

D Zoggy posted on 21 May, 8:03pm

Carey, the hole in the pocket is for ear phones I'm told by Blapo :-s

Andy, is the Vic still not shut for refurb yet? UL at the fox

Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 21 May, 8:21pm

The Vic was very much open for Business as Usual , and judging from the printed tourney schedules will be busy for a few weeks yet. It was good to go there again, I have missed the place :-) The Fox was a bad move on my part, should have just gone to Euston and had breakfast while waiting for the first train home !!!

Dean (blackbeltkickbox)Al posted on 20 May, 9:22pm

HUD problem; I cannot get stats on the 3 players to my left, does anyone know the problem might be and have a quick solution?

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@DavidEames (deadlydaveLDN) posted on 20 May, 9:55pm

could be the layout - the stats might be there but hidden under other stats if you see what i mean

Sen Sei posted on 21 May, 10:21am

Bob. Did you receive our recent email re. your hand histories?

Richard Dally posted on 21 May, 7:44pm

There could be a couple of factors here. Which software are you using Dean? Here are a couple of ideas:

1. David's idea is definitely a possibility.
2. If you are playing full-ring games on ipoker and are using HM1 make sure you have updated to the latest version but I believe some people are still experiencing issues on FR tables.
3. Check that you are not using a HUD configured for six-max.

Warren (River Siren) Posnett posted on 25 Feb, 11:25am

Hi to all those that replied to my post of 14/2/12 regarding info on Las Vegas, thanks very much your info was invaluable.
I am now back and the place just blew me away.
I followed your recommendations on the Ballagio buffet, Maggiano's, the cheesecake factory, and Freemont Street.and Binnions. All were great.
I took in the Grand Canyon by Helicopter, early morning, brilliant.
I managed to get a bit of gambling :-) in and although I didn't break the bank did ok. The highlight was playing a knockout tourney at the Ballagio. Sat at a private table was Doyle Brunson and Scott Seiver along with a few others. They were all of 15 feet away just playing poker. It was a bit of a surreal moment to be so close to these poker gods. I lasted a few hours before getting ko'd. I kept back a Ballagio chip to remember the occasion and went back to the hotel buzzing.
I stopped at the Stratosphere, the highest hotel/casino in Las Vegas. A hotel is located at the top which slowly revolves 360 degrees taking in the views of Las Vegas. The food was to die for and the night time views were something else.
Another highlight was going to the Golden Nugget Casino where they keep the largest Gold Nugget on display, 61llb.
The Ballagio fountains, seeing Elton John at Ceasars Palace, and Wynns were other highlights and I could go on and on. The only thing to say is get yourselves out there and live the dream

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tristan (tristiano) chaplin posted on 21 May, 4:04pm

quality bragging ftw:) gl sir.......

Bob (myteamouse) Bulman posted on 21 May, 4:56pm

Definite candidate for 'BRAG OF THE YEAR'
btw IT'S VERY GOOD ;)

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 21 May, 5:57pm

"Are you really Niel Channing"
said Sentipede after Neil 4-bet jammed pre flop with his 6h 4h (suspecting a squeeze play no doubt).
Only for Sentpede to call with AKo in last nights $200K.
Neil hit the 4 on the flop and the 6 on the river to double through to $30K crippling the Sentipede. And while I wasnt laughing at Sentipede I was laughing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and laughing an awefull lot too. :)
Marvelous.

Sen Sei posted at 5:20pm

Black Belt Poker are proud to announce that our biggest online tournament, Samurai, will be making its welcome return this August 30:

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/Samurai-Poker-Tournament

For all the details, see here:

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/promotions/samurai/

The event can be found on our Tournaments Page. Keep your eyes peeled for satellite dates when confirmed.

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/tournaments/

As always, please use this thread for any questions, comments, railing, etc.

Satellite results will also be published here.

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 8 May, 0:09am

neil it occurred to me that if you took all the mulligan winners over course of 3 months 9like you do in league legs) and now after such a fantastic 1st try at a bigger buyin, you offer a one seat freeroll to next samurai for these mulligan winners, think people would see alot more major value in the mulli weekly!

also jo had a suggestion of $2 feeders to the mulligan on monday nights

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our kidsid posted on 14 May, 8:03pm

think it would be worth a test to see how it goes, maybe price it so mulligan seat is for 1st and money back for second?
$3.30 x 6 = $19.80 ie 1 x mulligan token ($15+$1.50)
and $3.30 prize for second place

Neil Channing posted on 21 May, 2:14pm

Feeders are a great idea...if they run. What I hate more than anything is to have something in the lobby, spend time promoting it and then see it cancelled. It's damaging to the business for me to spam something on Facebook that doesn't actually happen, as you only get one shot at a totally new player and they have to like what they see.

I think if we ran feeders they'd be attractive just to existing players. In a couple of weeks time when the lobby is bursting with Samurai and East End Live sats, there is a new league running and a couple of other things we are working on pop-up, I worry that the Mulligan feeders will look bit sad and lonely.

I do quite like the idea of the Mulligan play-off but right now it's a tournament that gets 20-30 runners and we rake about $30 a week from it. We then share that with iPoker and Boyles.

I'm not sure we get much by adding a seat for our $220.

I would love it to get 40-50 players a week but we just added the Belt Points to try and do that. If we took away the points and did this would that be better?

Peter Brown posted on 21 May, 4:21pm

I think the belt points encourage people to play this and also it is becoming a tourney that people enjoy and want to win purely because it is always a tough game played in a very good spirit, clearly Black belt cannot subsidise everything they have to be profitable. Ps I am already in for this week .

Neil Channing posted on 20 May, 11:44am

Not sure what to play today. Really need to crack on with lots of emails, but Sunday poker looks tempting.

Might try...

4pm Sunday Warm-Up $80 buy-in $15,000 guaranteed, sometimes struggles to get 200 players, late reg until 5pm.

6pm $200k guarantee. Obviously have to play this. Best regular iPoker tournament. Late reg until 8pm and $215 buy-in.

8pm iPops Live Mega. Gonna definitely play this. 30 packages of 2200 euro. Nice little pre-Vegas warm-up trip, put you in the Arts hotel - nice. Should be an overlay in this one. 215 euro.

9.30pm WSOP Main Event sat. Package is $13,000 and they put you in The Wynn which is great. Satellite costs $525 and they usually get one package and pay 15-20 people their money back. It's funny - it seems easy to get your money back and it feels like a "freeroll".

What's everyone else playing? Anything good I missed?

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Bob (myteamouse) Bulman posted on 21 May, 12:53pm

Many congrats Neil, epic performance.
Thought you'd gone with the 99 vs AK hand when he flopped two pair. The 9 on the river must have looked good.
I'll just have to try harder!

Bob (myteamouse) Bulman posted on 21 May, 12:53pm

Many congrats Neil, epic performance.
Thought you'd gone with the 99 vs AK hand when he flopped two pair. The 9 on the river must have looked good.
I'll just have to try harder!

Barry (JosseWales) Styles posted on 21 May, 4:11pm

Just catching up here, and
Very well done Nick and Neil '\o/' Nice one guys :))

Hasmukh Khodiyara posted on 14 May, 9:18am

I've made a last minute decision to go UKIPT Dublin.

Looking to sell 50% of a side event package at 1.20 mark-up.

16th Wed €110 6-Max
17th Thu €110 Turbo
18th Fri €160 Turbo Bounty
19th Sat €330 2 Day Event
20th Sun €180 Charity Bounty
20th Sun €110 Turbo Deepstack

I'm definately playing the Wed and Fri side events. Any I don't play, due to hopefully still being in main, will be refunded.

I think I'll have a big edge in the turbo's. Ive played a decent number of 90mans on Full Tilt and 180mans on Stars in 2010/2011 at small stakes and I have a good push/fold game.

http://i50.tinypic.com/zxmj3t.png
http://i48.tinypic.com/2whmnwn.png

Total buyins = €1000/$1287/£801 * 1.20
= €1200/$1544/£961
1%= €12/$15.44/£9.61

Can accept transfers on BBP 45683ah (my currency is $ however and you can't do transfers if the accounts are in different currencies)

Stars: hazzy7

Bank xfer

5% is res so 45% up for sale

Cheers Hazzy

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Paul (paul5432) Romain posted on 18 May, 5:10pm

did you play turbo last night?

Hasmukh Khodiyara posted on 18 May, 6:46pm

Yes paul, but didn't cash

Hasmukh Khodiyara posted on 21 May, 2:46pm

Hey guys, bricked everything :( I thought the Sunday charity bounty turbo was going to be the saviour with about €2k for 1st.

Got to FT with 46k of 165k chips in play. Top 5 paid and I came 6th. 99 < AK crippled me and at 600/1200 and about to post BB soon, I shoved 6900 with funnily enough 69o and lost to K8.

I managed to knock out one of the charity bounties for €150 and didn't play the other Sunday turbo €110 so i owe everyone thier share from €260.

Gavin Hall posted on 18 May, 6:29pm

Anyone want to give me a price on the Olympic Flame going out?

Gavin Hall posted on 21 May, 12:19pm

hehe has gone out shpi the dosh :):)

maffew ( maffew1 ) Cushing posted on 20 May, 8:12pm

Been locked out of my account!! can anyone shed any light on this as it normally just logs me right in :(

Dean (blackbeltkickbox)Al posted on 20 May, 8:20pm

contact live support via the Boylesports website, they'll sort it

Sen Sei posted on 21 May, 10:22am

The quickest and easiest solution is to ring Boyles on 0800 3160441.

Ryan Williams posted on 21 May, 7:49am

http://sports.betfair.com/Index.do?mi=104573111&ex=1&origin=MRL

The mug Indian public has skewed prices in the Indian Premier League betting on Betfair and there is a great opportunity for the shrewdies.

http://in.bookmyshow.com/iplt20/?utm_source=IPLT20-2012&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_medium=strMedium

This is the playoff structure and as such assuming all matches are a coinflip (which is pretty much the case), prices should be:

Delhi Daredevils 2.6
KKR 2.6
Mumbai Indians 8.0
CSK 8.0

Fill your boots and there should be an opportunity to trade out before Qualifier 2.

Gavin Hall posted on 21 May, 8:07am

backed Delhi @5s beofre tourney started but u can def get some value from CSK as they can win any game. KKR have been solid all season and prob would be my pick at this stage.

Gavin Hall posted on 21 May, 8:19am

nvm that Back Page of the Sun "Kop Move for De Boer" - Frank De Boer tobe next Liverpool manager still @30s on Betfair

Peter Brown posted on 29 Mar, 10:27am

Looking at the wsop sats ther are so many variables i dont really know where to start, do you play the low price ones and have to win loads or go in quite a bit higher and hope for some success, then I came across the $10 jackpot sit n go starting 1st april win six in a row for a full package thats gotta be the one for me, I normally play double ups to grind my points so starting next week i will start churning these out and see how it goes.

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Neil Channing posted on 20 May, 10:28am

I saw you in the side event one last night Chris. Just 25 players paid $200 but there was one $6,000 package guaranteed.

Tonight I'm probably playing the $525 one for the main event. Jamie has won a seat in this one and there are usually a few BBP players.

I haven't seen one get two packages yet, usually the 2nd-19th or so get their $525 back. I've broken even in quite a few of these.

Neil Channing posted on 21 May, 3:00am

They seem pretty easy to me.

Two qualifiers - not bad for a small skin. Would be nice to get a couple more.

chris nicol posted on 21 May, 8:02am

Yes Neil, The $215 seemed a bit soft with a few crazy players at the final table unfortunately my jj lost to ak.
The $55r for the $1000 event package runs tonight. I have managed to come 2nd,3rd, 5th twice, 7th and 9th so far. Hope to run better tonight.
The $215 seems to be picking up and I have noticed that some weeks it needs 15 runners as a minimum and others it needs just 2. This weekend coming it is showing as only needing 2 runners and i will deffo be 1 of them.!