The poker community is fully aware of the basic backgrounds of their favorite poker players, and some of them were actually players of a different but also very exciting card game, known as Magic The Gathering.
Today's poker players who transitioned from Magic include Adam Levy, David Williams, and the player with the most live poker tournament winnings of all time, Bryn Kenney.
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interesting story which show that everybody love to play poker,no matter in what business you are,poker is just interesting game!its not big win,200 $,but its good to be first and winner on something,so congratulations to this slovenian player!maybe he will win something on bigger levels!
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,Congratulations to Klemen from Slovenia for this achievement , for winning this weekly leaderboard prize . Now this leaderboard runs daily , so now it's way far eaier to hit a first place win , less hours . More players , as th enews say , can play one whole day , the day off their job , rather than one whole week , cause on a weekly basis , the players with the most hours of free time , the more stamina , maybe the bigger bankroll or skills have definetelly an advantage . But now with the daily leaderboards , everyone has more chances to win
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One of the leaders of the poker community in Israel was a professional bridge player as a kid. I wonder if that is common, and whether good bridge players makes good poker players. We certainly used the bridge player association as a reference when we started with the poker players association.
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so as we can see he could win on this leaderboard only because he had few days off from his work,so he had enough time to rest and to play!he played arround eight hours per day and on 9 tables in same time,so this wouldnt be easy if he had to work!still he had time to sleep,to play and to do other things!
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Personally I do not know this game , the Magic The Gathering , its characteristics or the similarities it might have with poker . Also I did not know that many poker players came from this game , even Kenney , the man who has won the most money in live tournaments , surpassing even the great Bonomo , who is one of my favourite players Klemen busted a lot of $20 bills throughout the years , well I was busting them evryday when I started , lol
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Not sure playing Magic helps become a better poker player. I do see similarity between the tipes of poeple that play Magic and those which play poker. Starting with any cards game - Magic, Bridge etc. will lead you someday to try poker and if this is what you find you like the most, you could become a great player. The nerds are the new stars of poker and they are here to stay.
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Daily $200 is a big profit! and too much if he play mostly at the $0.01/$0.02 and $0.05/$0.10 level. But is very good to knows some stories about starting stars in the poker´s games. I think that we need more of this and less with super stars betting in UFC and losting $1M
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He is a modest player who hopes for a bigger win and says we have to learn and play to achieve something. I am confident that this is possible but i will have to waste time with learning. I try to do this in the winter or give up because chances are about half.
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Posted by maragatero: Daily $200 is a big profit! and too much if he play mostly at the $0.01/$0.02 and $0.05/$0.10 level. But is very good to knows some stories about starting stars in the poker�s games. I think that we need more of this and less with super stars betting in UFC and losting $1M
maragatero you are a big wrong in this!this wasnt daily leaderboard,it was week leaderboard,so he play trough whole week,not that he got this 200 in just one day!after this,they made daily leaderboards! and "super star" didnt bet 1 million us dollars,he made bet of 1 million hong kong dollars and thats 129 000 us dollars!
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Thank you dule-vu! My poor english makes my poor understanding...and the rush makes the rest of the wrong. Thanks, fo dedicate all your communication effort to make clear my supposed, I know that you have better things to do and to write, so Thanks to you dule-vu!
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He has studied the game with his friends , so as to learn more and become better through ages , also he says he watched youtube videos , read books , something I also try to do these days , have a lot to do , but it will help me a lot become better and improve my results It seems on his occassion , this study preperation had results , he improved and now he goes for better achievements . This prize might seem not huge , but on the other hand it's free opney without wagering conditions , and it's 100 buy ins for the cash games he plays at , very important for any downswing he might face in gthe future
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Yes antonis321, that´s the news! Sorry I can´t explain it, but the story of building a player is the better theme that I can read. Good for you with your trying in the learning path. I recommend you to have some guide to read and take all the information. It´s enormous and you need some guideline!
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In online poker there are many players who have very beautiful stories. Other gamblers have but are not so pleasant even if they did profit from it. Each of us can make our own summary of the beginning and the rest. The important thing is to make money with this... then we can say details.
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I can imagine how much money you will wager in this 7 days,no matter do you play lowest stake with 0,01/0,02 $ or higher,you will in this 8 hours per day wager so much money,so its question if you will lose money,what will you have from this 200 dollars!it will be good if you be even and to collect this prize on end of week!
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Maragatero , I know some basic guidelines that I need to follow , the basic things to study , I have a lot of books to read , online thread and youtube videos or streams or final tables replays , or even some tables of specific games to watch their betlines , the way some masters of online game do play .I know the path , but I am bored to walk on it .... I want to take the airplane
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Yes I understand to you very well. It happen to me too. I works by impulse, I leave totally poker by a while, and then I return t play and study. But fatally comes the time when all is bored, and I miss the will to continue. Nevertheless, I feel that I make some advances of a period to other and every time I understand it better
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There are very nice apps that really help you to examine your game and tell you whether you played a specific spot right. I found it extremely helpful and it helped me close some big holes in my game that money kept leaking from. Not sure it is legal to post them here, although my favorite is freemium, and you don't have to pay to play it. Still, I know they don't like it here if we post reg. apps in the threads, so you could just look for them in the stores. I really reccomend trying it if you hadn't already.
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The leaderboard is good when prizes are attractive. I miss many of them offered by BRM on several poker rooms in last 3-4 years because country restrictions & decision of 888, pokerstars etc... Here in this news it is about another level and it is much more important.
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Oh don´t worry for that antonis321. I bought my Poker Tracker 4 here, in this page to another mobster that was selling it. I don´t know what you said about freemium. Is a free software? and it is like the PT4, where you have a HUD too? The only soft of that kind that I know is PDVS but it didn´t works fine to me...
