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Loose-Aggressive Player

What style of poker do you play? Are you welcomed to a table with open arms by the lively set? Do highly conservative players look for other games when you sit down? Either way, you might have reputation as a bit of maniac at the table, and that means you could be a:

Loose-Aggressive Player

The Loose- Aggressive player is called a “Maniac” because that is how more conservative players perceive him. The Maniac is in every pot and pushing, pushing, pushing with raise after raise. This style of play brings lots of excitement to a game, but also lots of chaos.

Your aggression could be a result of either a poor understanding of how the game is played, betting wise, or simply a love of being “in the action.” You never limp into a pot, you charge in. Calling is almost never an option, you typically raise and re-raise as much as possible. If you cards are good, you raise. If your cards are average, you raise. If your cards are horrible, guess what? You raise.

The pros of being a Loose- Aggressive Player depended a lot on how much you can afford to loose. You will have huge swings in your winnings, taking down some of the most aggressive, juicy pots; but you will also loose big, and more often than you win. If you can afford to play this way, you will be welcome at many tables, and be able to feed your desire to be in the thick of things, mixing it up.

The cons of being a Loose- Aggressive Player are two fold. First, you are going to loose a lot of money. Being loose, in a ton of hands and seeing the through to the end regardless of your cards, is a way to pass out your cash to the other players at the table. Second, you bring chaos to a table, causing tensions to stay high, and this may cause you to be shut out if the other players are fairly conservitive.

2013 World Series of Poker Soon to Take Center Stage

 

We're only days away from the start of this summer's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with the first events kicking off Wednesday, May 29.  My intrepid colleague Matthew Pitt and I will be at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino this summer, and we're both anxious to find out along with everyone else what stories emerge from this year's WSOP.

Here's a rundown of a few items we're looking forward to in anticipation of the 44th running of poker's largest tournament series.

Tables cover the Rio, ESPN covers the WSOP

This year's WSOP features 62 bracelet events, with buy-ins ranging from $500 (for Event No. 1, the Casino Employees event) to $111,111 (for Event No. 47, the One Drop High Rollers NLHE event). A record 480 tables will be available to handle all of the action this summer, situated in the Amazon, Pavilion, and Brasilia ballrooms.

ESPN will once again provide extensive coverage of this year's WSOP, with broadcasts starting July 23 and continuing weekly through November.  After featuring the final table of the WSOP APAC Main Event and the WSOP National Championship final table (playing out today at Harrah's New Orleans), WSOP Main Event coverage will begin on August 6 and lead up to the almost-live presentation of the "November Nine" final table on November 4-5.

Additionally, live streaming of all of the final table bracelet events will be accessible via WSOP.com. Some of these streams will be presented on a five-minute delay and simply feature cameras pointed at final tables with the tournament director's announcements providing some guidance to the action.  

However many streamed final tables -- 35 of them, according to the current plan -- will feature hole cards and commentary with multiple camera angles, with the action presented on a half-hour delay. For the latter broadcasts, RFID technology will be employed in the playing cards to identify them via onscreen graphics.
  2013 WSOP POY race heats up

The WSOP Player of the Year race will continue as usual, and in fact this year has already begun with the five events of the WSOP APAC counting toward the POY standings. 2004 WSOP POY winner Daniel Negreanu has the current lead this year thanks largely to his victory in the WSOP APAC Main Event. 

A total of 59 WSOP events in Las Vegas will count as well, with the non-open Casino Employees, Ladies, and Seniors events excluded. The seven WSOP Europe events happening this October at the Casino Barrière d'Enghien-les-Bains near Paris, France will also count toward the 2013 WSOP POY race.

Last year's WSOP Main Event champion Greg Merson managed to secure the WSOP Player of the Year title as well thanks to his having additionally won the $10,000 Six-Handed NLHE event earlier.

A million-dollar first prize and more One Drops to drop

The $1,500 buy-in "Millionaire Maker" no-limit hold'em re-entry event (Event No. 6) will earn a lot of notice during the first weekend of the Series. Featuring two flights on Day 1, players will be allowed to re-enter in the evening flight should they bust during the afternoon flight.  

The payout schedule will be structured so as to guarantee the event's winner a $1 million first prize, a relatively rare occurrence during WSOP preliminary events. For example, in 2012 only Merson's win in the $10K NLHE 6-max event, Michael Mizrachi's in the $50K Players Championship, and (of course) Antonio Esfandiari's $18 million-plus score in the Big One for One Drop netted first prizes of more than $1m.

The $111,111 One Drop High Rollers NLHE event (Event No. 47) will earn a lot of attention as well.  From each entry $3,333 will go to the One Drop charity while the other $107,777 will go into the prize pool. The WSOP has indicated a hope that more than 100 players will enter the event. Another charity-oriented event, the $1,111 "Little One for One Drop" NLHE event with re-entries (Event No. 58), will also produce some funds for One Drop ($111 per entry).

Other schedule highlights

Other notable events on the schedule include a $1,000 "Turbo" NLHE event (Event No. 34), the return of the $50K Poker Players Championship (Event No. 55), the Seniors NLHE Championship (Event No. 26), and the Ladies NLHE Championship (Event No. 51).

As in the past, the Seniors event features a $1,000 buy-in. Meanwhile, the buy-in for the Ladies event has technically been increased to $10,000, with a special "90% discount" given to women who play. In other words, women will continue to pay $1K to participate, while men wishing to crash the event will have to pay considerably more to do so.

Finally, as always the Main Event -- still $10,000 to play -- will again produce the stories everyone will be talking about for years to come, with the WSOP hopeful to exceed last year's turnout of 6,598 entrants. The Main Event begins Saturday, July 6 with three Day 1 flights and will play down to a final nine by Monday, July 15, with the final table (as mentioned) happening November 4-5.   

Non-bracelet tourney action

Along with the bracelet events, a concurrent series of tournaments called the Carnivale of Poker Super Stack Series will take place at the Rio as well with events playing out every Monday and Tuesday throughout the WSOP, then daily during the WSOP Main Event.

As Matthew reported earlier, events in the Carnivale of Poker series feature buy-ins ranging from $365 to a $1,675 "Main Event," with a $5K Open-Face Chinese event tossed in at the end as well. Most of the tournaments are two-day events and no-limit hold'em, although there are Omaha/8, H.O.R.S.E., and PLO events included as well.

Of the tournaments on the Carnivale of Poker schedule, 21 have been designated "medallion events" for which special medallions will be awarded to the winners and points will be tracked in a similar fashion to WSOP Circuit events and the WSOP itself. The top 10 point-getters in Carnivale of Poker medallion events will split an additional $100K prize pool.  

The popular "Deep Stack" no-limit hold'em tournaments will be ongoing throughout the WSOP, with daily tournaments at 3 p.m. ($235), 8 p.m. ($185), and 10 p.m. ($135). Multiple "Mega Satellites" into various events will also be taking place every day, with turbo-styled satellites (for just $75) on the schedule every morning and regular satellites (for $330 and $550) starting in the afternoons.

Final Table Set at 2013 WPT best bet Open Main Event

Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event started with just 25 players remaining. So, needing just 19 eliminations to reach the six-handed final table, it seemed like Monday would be a fairly short day. It wasn’t. It took about twelve hours to get the field whittled down to final table size. Leading the way with a large chip lead is Danny Schechter, who bagged up 3.825 million chips. There is a steep drop off to the next player, Michael Linster, as he is 1.7 million behind with 2.15 million chips. Closely grouped with him is David Bell, who has 1.98 million. The next two are bunched together, as well: Pete Chwala has 1.18 million chips and Pete Tinnesz has 1.035 million. After that, David Diaz is languishing as the short stack with just 375,000 chips.
That Diaz is that far behind is surprising. He went into Day 3 with one of the most dominating chips stacks we’ve seen to start a tournament day. His 1.705 million chips were more than the next two largest stacks combined and he was the only player in the field of 25 with a chip stack higher than the average. That said, he still made the final table, so that large lead certainly helped him.
Danny Schechter was a similar interesting story on Day 3, but in reverse. He went into the day as the absolute shortest stack with just 52,000 chips. Within the first two hours, however, he doubled-up three times to find a bit of a comfort zone. When the tournament got down to the final ten players, though, he was back down to the short stack (though with more chips than he had to start the day). He then got back to work, doubling-up a couple times to get his stack to over a million chips. He climbed the ladder from there, making his biggest move with only about three orbits remaining for the day.
Benjamin Zamani raised pre-flop to 65,000, Michael Linster and Pete Chwala called, David Bell re-raised to 160,000, Schechter called, as did the three other players, setting up a healthy pot before any community cards had been dealt. On the flop of 6-5-4, Shechter bet 225,000 only to see Zamani move all-in for 670,000 chips. The other three players folded and Schechter made the call, revealing pocket Sixes for top set. Zamani was in trouble, holding a really good hand – pocket Fours – but that bottom set needed a lot of help. Zamani wasn’t able pick up quads or a running straight and he was eliminated in ninth place. That hand took Schechter’s stack all the way to 3.14 million and he didn’t look back the rest of the night.
The final table of the WPT bestbet Open Main Event runs Tuesday afternoon at bestbet Jacksonville and will go until we have a winner.
2013 World Poker Tour bestbet Open – Day 3 Chip Leaders
1.    Danny Schechter – 3,825,000
2.    Michael Linster – 2,150,000
3.    David Bell – 1,980,000
4.    Pete Chwala – 1,180,000
5.    Pete Tinnesz – 1,035,000
6.    David Diaz – 375,000

Pcychology can help you tell when another poker player is bluffing

“One of the many fun things about poker,” says Dr Paul Seager, “is that it gives us licence to lie – a practice generally frowned upon in polite society.”

In fact, he argues, because we are taught to tell the truth as children, we assume that everyone else does too. This makes us very bad at figuring out when people are lying to us.

Research suggests we are generally so poor spotting when someone is not telling us the truth that the likelihood of our being right is no better than chance. In other words, you might as well toss a coin.

But in poker being able to spot when another player is bluffing is a priceless talent, so can psychology help here?

Dr Seager, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Central Lancashire, says it can and gives some practical tips for players.

The first is that you should recognise you are probably not as good at spotting a lie as you think you are. This insight should make you pause and avoid making rash decisions.

It’s worse than that: what you think you know about spotting liars is probably wrong. We tend to think that cues such as a lack of eye contact and nervous shifting of the body are signs that someone is lying.

But research has shown that a good liar may hold your gaze slightly longer than normal to convince you he is telling the truth. And because we are nervous when we tell a lie, we tend to put in more effort into our thinking which, simply put, diverts energy away from our normal bodily movements. So when we lie we tend to move less than when we are telling the truth.

Dr Seager says that if you want to spot when another player is bluffing it is best not to concentrate   on one or two individual signs. It is better to notice people’s behaviour when they are not sitting around the poker table so that you have a sense of how they act when they are behaving honestly.

Then, he says: “When it comes to the point in the play when they’ve put in a bet and you’re not sure whether they’re bluffing you or not, try to compare their demeanour with their honest baseline that you’ve observed earlier. If you instinctively feel that there is a difference, then there is probably something going on.”

But, as Dr Seager points out, their different behaviour could be cause, not because they are bluffing with a weak hand, but because they have a very strong hand. Poker is a difficult game.

Another way to spot bluffing is to listen to what your opponents say. Deception experts generally agree that what people say and the way that they say it give good clues for spotting a lie. When people are being honest their speech is immediate in tone: “I am a good player and don’t need to bluff”.

If another player says “A player of my calibre doesn’t need to bluff,” then you may well suspect they are bluffing.

You may worry that other players will know all these rules too and use them to deceive you, but Dr Seager says this is unlikely.

“Unless you are up against a world-class expert, the chances are that the best player will only be able to fake one or two cues at a time. What you need to do is to base you reading of an opponent on a cluster of cues. That way, even if you opponent is able to fake a couple of cues, you are less likely to be fooled.”

These techniques all take time to master, but Dr Seager says it is worth it in the long run.

“Put away your lucky coin and engage all of your senses instead. That is the way to becoming a master bluff-spotter.”

Hellas Pokerit.eu team on Poker aces week

Only a few days after the successful conduct of the Greek Poker Master IV at Regency Casino Mont Parnes, two new tournaments are scheduled to be held in Parnitha in April.
Hellas Pokerit.eu Team will represent Constantine Sotirakos at the Categories Omaha - Texas hold'em.
Poker Aces Week will be held from 16 to 21 April 2013, at Regency Casino Mont Parnes and will include two (2) events, Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) and Texas Hold'em, with very attractive and affordable buy ins, €200,00 and €340,00 respectively!
The No Limit Hold'em tournament will be held from 19 to 21 April 2013. The Day 1 will be held in two parts on 19 and 20 April starting at 15:00 and cap 80 players each day. The buy in for the tournament will be €300,00 + €40,00, starting stack 20.000 chips and blinds increase every 30 minutes.
The Pot Limit Omaha tournament will be held from 16 to 17 April 2013, with a maximum number of participants to 80 players. The buy in is €175,00 + €25,00, starting stack 15.000 chips while the blind levels will increase every 30 minutes

Pokeri.eu presents Sotirakos Constantine, who will represent Hellas Pokerit.eu Team at the Poker Aces Week that will be held at Regency Casino Mont Parnes on 16 to 21 April.

DETAILS
NAME: KONSTANTINOS
SURNAME: SOTIRAKOS
AGE: 38
ECO. STATUS: MARRIED & 2 DAUGHTERS
FIRST CONTACT WITH POKER: 2008
FAVORITE POKER GAME: OMAHA
STRATEGY: CONSERVATIVE / AGGRESSIVE
BEST POKER PLAYER: SCOTTY NGUYEN

QUESTIONNAIRE
1. When did you get involved with Poker?
I play Poker since 2008.
2. What kind of Poker game you like and why?
I prefer cash game (for a dissent extra income) both online and live and also multi-table tournaments.
3. What is Poker for you?
For me poker is 80% skill and 20% luck.
4. Omaha or Texas Hold'em?
I prefer Omaha because I think Omaha it is easier if you want to play deep.
5. Style game?
My play style is "conservative / aggressive".
6. What is your motto?
My motto is: "The financial gain from poker, is a constant struggle against the urge for fun playing poker".
7. Who do you think is better Poker player in the world and why?
My favorite player is Scotty Nguyen because he is a monster of patience.

4 Reasons to Play Aggressively

Reason #1

Initiative. If there is a one word answer that would represent a fantastic reason for you to play aggressively, it would be the word initiative. When you take the initiative in poker, what you are doing is forcing your opponent to make the decision.

Consider a no limit poker hand. If you push all of your chips in, you are forcing your opponent to make the tough decision regarding the call. If they were to push in before you however, you would then be in a position where you needed to make a tough decision for all of the chips in your stack. When these two situations are compared with each other, it becomes very easy to see that you would rather be in the first position than the second. You can do so by taking the initiative and you can’t take the initiative in poker unless you play aggressively.

Reason #2

Another reason that you play aggressively is to set up a play of some sort later on in the session. The human race is a curious one and one particularly interesting point about human beings is that when they are playing poker, they tend to more easily notice and remember players when they play aggressively than when they play conservatively. A person can play 99 hands conservatively and one hand aggressively and chances are that if they make a big enough deal of playing that one hand aggressively, most of the players at the table will peg them as an aggressive player. Playing aggressively, especially early on in the session, can be a good way of pre-emptive gear changing and can allow you to play conservatively later and get some serious action for your big hands.

Reason #3

When you consider the various reasons that are available for aggressive play in poker, another one that picks up is that the best players in the world are aggressive. When you think of players like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu, you cannot help but notice how aggressive those players are. By the same token, even players like Mike Sexton, Doyle Brunson and Barry Greenstein are all players that play aggressively. That is the only way to play if you want to be successful as a poker player over the course of the long term and that is yet one more reason why aggressive play is absolutely essential when you are seated at a poker table.

Reason #4

One final reason to play aggressively that many people actually miss when they are thinking through the reasons is that playing aggressively actually helps you focus on the task at hand. When you are playing conservatively, it is very easy to let your mind wander because you are involved in the action less often. If you play your hands aggressively however, you are going to be taking the initiative quite often and in the end that means that you will be forced to pay far more attention to the game than you otherwise might do.

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The Psychology of Poker

Imagine you are sitting at a poker table with a stranger whose play strategy — how he bets and bluffs — is unknown to you. You are dealt a two-card hand. Your opponent raises. Will you call or will you fold? How do you decide? Conventional wisdom says you look at your hand, gauge the chances of winning based on your cards, and look for clues of bluffing in your opponent’s face and body language. However, recent research published in PLoS One shows that your first impression of the opponent’s trustworthiness influences your decision and that you fold more frequently when the opponent looks trustworthy than when the opponent keeps a neutral expression or a poker face.

Researcher Erik Schlicht and collaborators study a group of 14 novice poker players in a simplified Texas Hold’em. Each poker player is dealt two cards and allowed to see the face of his opponent on the computer screen. The player has to decide if he will fold or call. If he folds, he loses 100 chips that round. If he calls, then he may win or lose 5000 chips depending on how good his hand is compared to his opponent’s. The face of the opponent changes every round. After 300 rounds, the players are awarded money based on their wins and losses during the game.