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Keeping track of your points is just easy also, the point formula and a full break down of the cash winning along with a daily updated leader board for the current MTT Race is located directly on SunPoker’s website; http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_50kMTTLB.asp
This MTT Tournament Race truly is a race dedicated to multi table tournament players, providing a verity of games and admirable prize pool! |
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| Place | Payout |
| 1st | $325.00 |
| 2nd | $200.00 |
| 3rd | $125.00 |
| 4th | $80.00 |
| 5th | $70.00 |
| 6th | $60.00 |
| 7th | $50.00 |
| 8th | $40.00 |
| 9th | $30.00 |
| 10th | $20.00 |
This comes in addition to the new $5000 Free Roll that all depositors get to participate in for just 1 Shine Point on April 30th at 18:30!! Just another way SunPoker welcomes you to our family!
This tournament is available only to new players that have deposited and played for the first time between April 1st and April 30th
Registration is now open and can be found in the SunPoker lobby under Tournaments! Best of luck and welcome once again to SunPoker.com
Defendant in Online Poker Indictments Ira Rubin Arrested
Ira Rubin, one of the 11 people indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on illegal gambling, fraud, and money laundering charges was arrested on Monday, April 25, 2011, in Guatemala. According to Bloomberg.com, Rubin is “charged with nine counts, including conspiracy to violate the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act; three counts of violation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act in connection with Pokerstars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker; three counts of operation of an illegal gambling business in connection with Pokerstars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker; conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering conspiracy.”
On Wednesday, Rubin made his initial court appearance in Miami where the question of his legal defense was raised. “I signed an agreement with a lawyer in New York Friday. I have no idea whether he’s been paid as of yet. I haven’t been able to make a phone call since Monday,” Rubin told U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea M. Simonton in Miami.
As it turned out, the attorney in question, Stuart Meissner, confirmed for the judge via a telephone call that he had in fact not been paid. As a result, Simonton set a hearing for April 29 to determine whether Rubin can find new representation. Rubin also has an additional hearing set for May 2. In the meantime, Rubin was taken back to the Miami Federal Detention Center, shackles and all.
Source: Chad Holloway of www.pokernews.com
Be sure to continue and take advantage of the April Promotions before they end this weekend!
Still running are the $1000 Daily Free Rolls, the $5000 Weekly Free Roll this Friday and Saturday and the added value to selected tournaments!
http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions
/promo_2011Easter.asp
Tournament Tips
When entering a tournament keep in mind the gap concept; the most obvious change you will have to consider when revising your strategy for a tournament like this. You will need to pay more attention to actually winning every pot you get into as the pot odds will be somewhat disregarded here. This doesn't mean you will do obvious bad moves and get yourself into hands you cannot handle!
The blind are large when you get further into the tournament and this is the reason for which you will try and get as little competitors as you can, while stealing as many blinds as you can to help you rise within the tournaments statistics.
The thing to do is to go through with the hands you see capable of winning the pot. Here hands change values, for example the straight and the flush draws lose their value and high pocket pairs are not so good. On the other hand, hands like AK or AQ have a much bigger value because they beat all similar hands like AT, KQ etc. But as you approach the finish you should not get involved with heavy conflicts like when having an A J and you are up against A K. With A J you might get the pot if the flop shows A J, but the A K stands the same chance and it all comes down to luck.
In tournaments you don't go after getting the whole amount of chips your opponents have, you don't necessarily want them to pay your hands greatly, you just want to make them afraid. If they know your hand is a dominating one, they will fold and you can this way slowly increase your stack. And you should do the same whenever you feel threatened by a better hand. As the gap concept says, if you raise with a hand like A 9, then a player that has a hand like A 10 will fold, because he must consider the situation in which you could have a better hand like A J.
If you’re dealt high pocket pairs like KK or AA you should call any raises that were done in front of your. Raising again will help you eliminate players from the round and that is your purpose, being this aggressive with top hands you’ll have the ability to show others that you’re indeed determined to take all their chips if they were to continue playing against you.
But NEVER forget to judge the hands of others! While playing your hand make time to reflect what other’s maybe holding, understanding the gap concept makes you a good player, but keep in mind that there are bad players out there and they will call your bets and raises just because they have a good hand, regardless of what others may have.
