Well it’s again time to take a look at the Everest keluar sgp Poker Leaderboards. With May winding down fast here, let’s jump right into it to see how this month is panning out for everyone.

First off, for the monthly MTT’s for May, lets look at the top 10:

 

1. Tooren 6069
2. BaSt4r 5913
3. Marcilan 5410
4. Slayer_pol 4898
5. Nuckin_Futs 4633
6. Kratzbaum 4585
7. hase66 4509
8. ExaMeter 4302
9. espagne8 4301
10. mmoomm 4299

 

Tooren again holds the top spot this week over BaSt4r, and these two players are now pretty much a lock to finish first and second this month.  Marcilan on the other hand, moved all the way up from 8th to 3rd where he has a good lead over the rest of the top 10. Slayer_pol and Nucking_Futs round out the top 5. Kratzbaum, last week in 3rd place, is down to 6th, while hase66 and ExaMeter, both newcommers, are in 7th and 8th respecively. espagne8, 4th last week, and mmoomm, 6th last week, are now rounding out the top 10.

 

Sit and Go High Leaderboard for the week ending 5-25-2008:

 

1. Ze_Carica 1573
2. gogepok 1360
3. JakobFuller 1331
4. OskarStar 1317
5. legoge 1292
6. kubalibre19 1286
7. frefroid 1236
8. klobard 1235
9. PMDOT 1216
10. Rem24 1211

 

So far this month, we have a pretty good race for the Sit and Go High Monthly leader. Here’s a look at the top 10:

 

1. Ze_Carica 3771
2. OskarStar 3572
3. JakobFuller 3472
4. kubalibre19 3431
5. Rem24 3362
6. gogepok 3351
7. ikzelfzelf 3285
8. SanderBernd 3274
9. eurodollar54 3267
10. oliv35 3218

 

Ze_Carica had a huge week last week, as he was the leader after the week and moved up from 7th place to first as the monthly Sit and Go High Leader. OskarStar, a regular on the Everest Poker Leaderboards, moved down one spot from first to 2nd. JakobFuller moved into 3rd place after a big week last week. kubalibre19 moved up from 6th to 4th and Rem24 went onto the leaderboard in the 5th spot. geogepok moved up from 9th to 6th. Places 7th through 10th are all currently being held by players that were higher last week and slid a little this week as ikzelfzelf, SanderBernd, eurodolla54, and oliv35 round out the top 10.

 

Sit and Go Low Leaderboard for the week ending 5-25-2008:

 

1. Tippking 940
2. kudi66 903
3. otbld 881
4. Swen01 867
5. babe_rose 859
6. Ricas 852
7. Wumen 852
8. brazomap 852
9. caesar78 852
10. AlexSmoke88 839

 

For the month of May, we have a pretty tight race for the Monthly Sit and Go Low Leaderboard on Everest Poker. Let’s take a look:

 

1. babe_rose 2347
2. kudi66 2318
3. jor69 2306
4. otbld 2173
5. Tippking 2161
6. dr-gonzo 2134
7. caesar78 2134
8. -szojo- 2130
9. Wumen 2130
10. brazomap 2130
11. fernando1056 2130

 

babe_rose moved up from 8th place into the top spot, with a slim lead over kudi66 and jor69. otbld is up from 7th place to 4th. TippKing, last weeks winner is up to 5th place after not being in the top 10 as of last week. dr-gonzo and caesar78 are now tied for 6th. There is also a 4 way tie for 8th place between -szojo-, Wumen, brazomap, and fernando1056. All the people are basically still in the top 10, but they are moving around like crazy here towards the end of the month.

 

With May quickly winding down, it’ll be interesting to see how everything plays out here in the Monthly MTT, and Sit and Go High and Low Tournaments. Be sure to look back next week to see how this month plays out as well as how June starts off!

 

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It has been a positively sick week, with another millionaire made in the poker world, and two other main events of series going on. The Aussie Millions have come to a close, the WPT World Poker Open is heading into Day 2, and the World Series of togel  Poker Circuit in Tunica will be having its final table tomorrow.

However, the ending to the Aussie Millions wasn’t all positive. A young poker player from Oklahoma got robbed early Monday morning in Australia. Jason Potter, 22, was robbed at knifepoint for $30,000. Potter made a deep run in the Aussie Millions, finishing 31st. Due to the fact that the robbery occurred close to the Crown Casino, there is a chance a surveillance video might have been able to pick up what transpired.

On the better side of things, the Aussie Millions Main Event just wrapped up this past weekend. Going into the final table of 7, there was only one notable pro: Erik Seidel. An extremely wily and experienced veteran, Seidel has won 8 bracelets, good for a tied fourth on the all time list. Down from 780 original runners, here’s what the final table and payouts looked like.

Michael Chrisanthopoulos – 6,806,000

Antonio Casale – 1,995,000

Nino Marotta – 1,649,000

Erik Seidel – 1,491,000

Alexander Kostritsyn – 1,439,000

Peter Mobbs – 1,357,000

Peter Ling – 877,000

Final Table Payouts:

1st: $1,650,000 AUD

2nd: $1,000,000 AUD

3rd: $700,000 AUD

4th: $500,000 AUD

5th: $400,000 AUD

6th: $300,000 AUD

7th: $225,000 AUD

 

Even with the massive chip lead, Michael Chrisanthopoulos had to have Erik Seidel on his mind. The kind of experience he possessed over the table was amazing. However, time would tell whether this veteran’s experience was enough to work through the final table and the massive chip leader.

 

Just thirteen hands in, the final table lost its first player. Alexander Kostritsyn knocked out Peter Mobbs when Kostritsyn’s AK held up against Mobbs’ AJ. Mobbs exited in 7th place, winning $225,000.

 

Kostritsyn was also responsible for the final table’s second bustout. In a pot that was worth roughly 1/3 of the chips in play – 5 million, Alexander knocked out Antonio Casale, when his aces held up against Casale’s jacks. Casale took home $300,000 for his efforts. Here’s what the chip counts looked like after that huge hand.

 

Michael Chrisanthopoulos – 6,535,000

Alexander Kostritsyn – 5,545,000

Erik Seidel – 1,430,000

Peter Ling – 1,295,000

Nino Marotta – 805,000

 

With his two bustouts, Kostritsyn was surging. Chrisanthopoulos was still the chip leader, though not by nearly as wide of a margin as before. Seidel was looming in 3rd, with Ling and Marotta as the short stacks.

 

Just three hands later, Kostritsyn would claim his third victim. Nino Marotta busted out in 5th place when his QT couldn’t suck out against Kostritsyn’s AJ on a JT3 flop. He claimed $400,000.

 

After the first 35 hands of the final table, here’s how the table was shaping up.

 

Michael Chrisanthopoulos – 6,435,000

Alexander Kostritsyn – 6,280,000

Peter Ling – 1,445,000

Erik Seidel – 1,385,000

 

35 hands later, Peter Ling sang his swan song. After calling a pre flop raise with A5, he check raised Michael Chrisanthopoulos’s bet on an AKT flop, and was dismayed to see Chrisanthopoulos’s AK. Drawing to runners, Ling didn’t get there, and was sent home in 4th place. He won $500,000.

 

Chrisanthopoulos and Kostritsyn had been running away with the final table, with Seidel handcuffed and cold decked. This changed at hand #80…

 

Seidel got it in with 22 vs. Michael’s AJ for a 3 million dollar pre flop. Michael flopped a Jack to take the lead, however…the river was a deuce, bringing Seidel back into the tournament. From this point on, Michael began to bleed off chips, and doubling up, continuing this trend until hand #112…

 

After Seidel had made his standard button raise, Chrisanthopoulos called from the small blind, Kostritsyn reraised, Seidel folded, and Chrisanthopoulos went all in. Unfortunately for Michael, he had made an ill-timed squeeze play with his A6 suited, as he had run into Kostritsyn’s tens. No aces or clubs came for Chrisanthopoulos and the former chipleader busted in 3rd place, earning $700,000.

 

The Russian unknown vs. The American pro. This would likely be Kostritsyn’s last day as an unknown, and if he could pull off this huge win heads up vs. Erik Seidel, that would cement it. Starting heads up, he had nearly 4 million more than Seidel, with the stacks at 9,925,000 for Kostritsyn, and 5,585,000 for Seidel. However, after over 50 hands and hours of heads up poker, Erik Seidel finally succumbed to Alexander Kostritsyn. Down 12.3 million to 3.3 million, Seidel was in trouble. After making a raise preflop, he got pot stuck on a J87 flop with AQ vs. Kostritsyn’s J9. Unfortunately for him, no help arrived and he finished in 2nd place for a solid $1 million dollar payday. However, the glory belonged to Kostritsyn. After a long, winding week of poker, he had the bragging rights, and $1,650,000 on top of it. Not a bad week of poker for the young Russian.

 

Back to Tunica, the WSOP circuit event is coming to an end tomorrow, with the Main Event final table set. Such notables as Tom Schneider, and Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich will fight for the over $428 K first place prize. Notable bustouts leading up to the final table included, “Captain” Tom Franklin, Jeremiah “Believer82” Vinsant, and Josh Arieh. The final table starts at 12 PM CST tomorrow.

 

Both the WSOP Circuit event and the WPT World Poker Open suffered from the Aussie Millions, and being right next to one another. Only 257 have shown up for the WPT event, with 144 heading into Day 2, from Day 1A and 1B. Day 2 starts tomorrow, and notables such as Dutch Boyd, Nam Le, David Pham, Kido Pham, Humberto Brenes, Chad Brown, Erick Lindgren, T.J. Cloutier, and Brett “Gank” Jungblutt have lots of chips to work with going into Day 2. At the end of the road lies an $892 K first place prize.

 

That’s all for this week, good luck to everyone at the tables in the coming week!

 

 

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Though poker and slots seem to get most of the tournament action, casinos offer blackjack tournaments from time to time as well. Blackjack tournaments can be found at land-based and online casinos and they are a lot of fun.

Though they are fun, the game isn’t played exactly the same. Different strategies are needed to be successful at blackjack tournaments. For one thing, in tournaments you are actually competing against other players. In a traditional togel hongkong hari ini game, it is only you against the dealer. If the other players win as well then hey, good for them! Not so in the tournaments. In the tournaments, another player winning is bad for you. Though your win still counts the same, the players with the most wins earn prizes, so you want to win more often than the other players.

What that means is you should alter your betting strategy. Normally I preach flat betting, which is to bet the same amount on each hand, not altering it because you’re winning or losing. That conservative approach to betting is great for the long run, but it is not a good idea in tournaments. In blackjack tournaments, you should be more aggressive.

The tournaments are normally played in multiple rounds, with only the top players in each round advancing to the next. You don’t win anything if you don’t get to the final round. Therefore, you need to play more aggressively and bet with an all or nothing attitude. If you’re behind on the leader board, become even more aggressive. Betting larger amounts can help you catch up and get back into the game. If you have a comfortable lead, on the other hand, it might be a good idea to lower your bet so you can avoid losing ground. Then if other players start catching up, adjust your wager accordingly.

Some online casinos offer another kind of blackjack tournament that is quite different. It is a head-to-head tournament, where two players square off against each other rather than the players against the dealer. In this case, there are no set drawing rules (such as stand on 17) and both players can make their own decisions like a normal player. The player who wins the most hands head-to-head advances and plays against another player.

Whatever type of game you play, blackjack tournaments are fun and a good way of playing blackjack with a reduced risk. The risk is reduced because, in most cases, you don’t wager your own money on each hand. Instead, you pay an entry fee to join the tournament and are given an amount of chips to use on the house. At the end, you don’t get to keep any unused chips, but those players near the top of the leader board take home prizes. The prize pool is normally cash made up of the entry fees of the various players. To take part in the fun, find a blackjack tournament at your favorite online or brick and mortar casino.…