Leslie Radue

Pokerstars have announced dates for the Spring Championship of Online Poker known as the PokerStars SCOOP 2010 the series begins 3 May and runs through until 16 May 2010, it consists of 33 events per buy-in range, the buy in ranges are low, medium and high stakes covering a wide range of buyin’s the SCOOP boasts a massive $36 million in guaranteed prizes with a total of 99 events with buy in’s starting at $5.50 (NL Hold’em Event 1) right up to $25,500 as each event is mirrored according to buy in level i.e. Event #1 (NLHE 6-Mediumax, Rebuys) Low buy-in = $5.50 Medium buy-in = $55 and High buy-in = $530.

PokerStars SCOOP’s two-day main event is scheduled for Sunday, May 16th, at 17:00 ET with the low buy-in at $109 guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000, the medium buy-in $1,050 guaranteed prize pool of $3,000,000, the high buy-in $10,300 with a $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.

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Playing Heads Up Poker is a true test of one’s poker skill and ability. Heads-up poker is perhaps one of the single most overlooked aspects of improving your own game especially when you consider that in tournaments the difference in payouts between a first place win and a second place finish can often vary vastly percentage wise with most first place wins rewarding the winner substantially more than all other entrants.

What sparked me into writing this information is I recently won a few T$ at PokerStars and wanted to convert them into real money, so I figured Heads-Up Poker was the way to go as it is quick and basically 50/50 chance of winning, which actually ended up me winning six out of the seven games I played, making made me think about heads up a bit, and that perhaps there is a better way to play the game or some kind of advanced Heads Up Poker Strategy, so with that idea in mind I googled “win playing heads up” and got very few decent search results, I then looked for books on the subject matter and only found one or two books matching the description, apparently Collin Moshman’s “Heads-Up No-Limit Hold ’em” is the definitive book on the subject matter, yet I read several reviews that implied it was a bit too basic for advanced players so I decided to give it a skip.

Which lead to me compiling this guide about how to win playing heads up no limit Texas Hold’em and the best strategy to use against your opponents based on the information I have gathered and read with a bit of personal experience added.

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Earlier this month, PartyPoker changed their play money chip policy and imposed chip stack caps to non-real money player accounts.

Party Poker play money chip counts can now only reach a maximum of 250,000 play chips.

PartyPoker’s decision to cap the play money accounts has caused somewhat of an upheaval amongst loyal play money chip players at PartyPoker.com, many of whom had amassed virtual fortunes only to wake up the next morning to find their hard earned free chips cut right down to a meagre P$250,000.

The official statement via their blog went along these lines: “We recently implemented a new policy that restricts play money accounts to a maximum number of chips. This decision has the vast majority of our play money players in mind, and is intended to stop the transferring of chips from account-to-account outside of regular hands of poker… Although this may have affected some play money players in the short term, the decision was made in the interest of our play money games and the fair play benefits it will bring. We will not reverse our decision.”

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The WSOP 2010 tournament schedule has been released. The 2010 World Series of Poker will be the 41st WSOP which is set to start on May 27th, 2010 scheduled through until the 9th November, 2010.

The 2010 WSOP will offer 57 WSOP bracelets and is set to begin with the Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em event on May 28th. The World Series of Poker 2010 schedule is set to end November 9th, when the main event winner is declared.

The main event is scheduled to begin on July 5th, 2010 with Day 1 A. July 17th marks the date when final table participants will be finalized at which stage the WSOP have opted for a “November Nine” finalists table in 2010 once again, where the nine finalists will compete for the coveted main event title 6th-9th November 2010.

There are a number of changes that have been made by the WSOP in 2010:

-$50k HORSE championship has been removed and substituted by a $50K “Player’s Championship” (Event #2) featuring 8 different games.
-$10K HORSE Championship scheduled for (Event #43)
-$25K 6-handed NLHE event added to the schedule (Event #52)

Other notable changes set for the 2010 running of the WSOP include more poker tables being added as well as changes in the assignment of starting days to the main event after a certain date.

Pre-registration for the 2010 WSOP is now underway, players can enter via the Main Cage at the Rio or through WSOP.com.
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Have a bit of time on your hands, enough for a poker quiz?

PokerStars have added a quiz that comprises of 12 questions about events held throughout 2009 at PokerStars.

Players who answer all 12 PokerStars quiz questions correctly will get an invite to play a $5 buy-in tournament entry with $20,000 added to the prize pool. The PokerStars quiz will run until 17 December 2009.

To find the PokerStars Player Quiz 2009 simply login to your account and look at the news banners in the lobby, even if you answer a few questions wrong you can retry until you get the correct answers.

We have helped a bit by providing the answers to the Poker Stars Quiz questions in the self help cheat sheet below.

Click the links in the PokerStars Quiz questions to find the correct answer, the answers are  highlighted in bold yellow text.

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