Ivan Briskin, CEO of PokerOK (official skin of GGNetwork) declared a war against poker stables.

Here are two main posts (combined into one) he left on a russian speaking poker forum gipsyteam. I will link the original thread, overall 101 message has been posted by Ivan before he asked for his account to be blocked.
Original thread - https://forum.gipsyteam.ru/index.php?vie...

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David Sklansky and I are writing a new book: Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em: Help Them Give You Their Money; Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold ’em Games. We expect to have it out in about two months, and it's very different from most other books on these games.

I'm also working on a rewrite and expansion of my book Gambling Theory and Other Topics. It should be available in about three months.

Mason

This week, several poker coaches on GGPoker, who have always been committed to fair and ethical gameplay and never supported rule violations or fraudulent activities, had their accounts blocked with accusations of "USE OF REMOTE DESKTOP & SCREEN SHARING PROGRAMS and/or USE OF VIRTUAL MACHINES & EMULATORS". We firmly believe that these accusations are unfounded and do not reflect the reality of our gameplay.

Currently, we are aware of two pub

Considering the current prevalence of ICM I thought it was interesting to hear Noam say that computing GTO solutions within tournaments is possible. He doesn't go into much details but it involves modelling the tournaments through self play within the same kind of system that Libratus used only you add the extra layers involved within tournaments. I know back in 2017 when he was developing his bot the compute to do this sort of thing probab

PokerStars has once again changed its rewards program but this one actually promises of bringing back tiers called 'Select' closely resembling Supernova and Supernova Elite programs, with up to 60% rakeback offer that “doesn’t penalize winners​.”

* Dedicated manager for each Select account
* 50% rakeback for Select
* 60% rakeback for Select Plus (only at Spins & Zoom; 50% at other games)
* Yearly offer
* Other tiers range from 15 % to 40%

Recently CoinFlex halted cashouts and Doug Polk had been a brand ambassador promoting their site heavily in his videos. It's been overtaking his "The Lodge" thread so creating a separate discussion to help those more interested in this topic

I agree with this. Similar to chess where blitz = speed chess is the most fun to play and the most entertaining to watch.

Sure, we all appreciate those moments when players have all the time in the world to tank and come up with great plays but it would be cool to see which players could excel in this more intuitive and raw form of poker.

How to do it? In cash games it could be for example that the ones who are tanking longer, pay bigger shar

There’s this new guy who goes by TESLA who has been playing absolutely crazy on the Lodge Stream.
Anybody know his background or who he is?

He made a bunch of crazy plays today and yesterday going all in and bluffing 3 streets.
It’s been a while since there has been someone so entertaining on these poker streams.

For those who haven’t seen it, definitely go look at the Lodge Stream from today and yesterday.
He makes Doug Polk fold in a huge pot

The “24K Magic” singer announced a multi-year residency with MGM Resorts International in 2016, performing at the hospitality giant’s Park MGM resort in Las Vegas.

However, the relationship between the 38-year-old and the hospitality giant may have gone sour as the singer’s gambling has allegedly racked up large debts at the poker tables in Las Vegas, according to NewsNation.

“He owed millions to the MGM,” a Vegas insider told the outlet.

Ano

Previous High Stakes thread: *** February 2023 High Stakes Thread ***

We generally post ~200bb+ pots, but if there's an interesting hand/showdown, or if there's not much action feel free to post smaller ones.

Posting hands

How to post CoinPoker hands:

Click on hand #number in replayer.

Copy text and remove ante part of first row in hh:

[code]Poker Hand #72306164: Omaha Pot Limit (200/400 ante 80) 2023/04/12 15:51:58 GMT[/code]

Add - after parenthesis. Line should read:

[code]Poker Hand #72306164: Omaha Pot Limit

https://youtu.be/vCPaI8Pqyg8

YouTube

Investigation: High Stakes Poker Cheating Allegations In Texas

Interesting that former Prime Social TD Justin Hammer and GM Brent Pollack have both distanced themselves from Prime.

A huge error in judgement, I made the mistake of using Mamacita (Vanessa Alvarez) as an agent on the Pokerbros app. This arrangement began in the Spring of 2021. I have used many agents and this is the only issue I've run into of being completely worried that my funds are gone.

In November of 2021 I met Vanessa in person at the Wynn/Encore poker room to collect $5000 in cash.

By March 2022 her communication was becoming less reliable, and

https://highrollpoker.com/tracker/player...

This guy crushed live streams for a million, stole an additional $15m from players then disappeared into the sunset.

He was at the table during the Garrett/Robbi blow up.

I don't remember there being any threads made about this at the time, but it's potentially one of the biggest scams in poker over the last few years?

https://twitter.com/George_ymb/status/17...

Saulo and YouMadBro had this discussion/argument on twitter.

Personally as only a 500nl reg who could be wrong, I think YMB is right the best players would have a big winrate although he didn’t need to make the case in such a rude way

My argument is theoretically if you add up all the different leaks a 500nl reg has like being unbalanced in many lines, making GTO EV mistakes, giving off

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JWNRL/ref...

Over 1 million per year
Over 500k per year
Over 100k per year
Over 50k per year
Over 10k per year

You can lump two years together if you want.

David Sklansky did a thorough interview about our new book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold 'em: Help Them Give You Their Money: Exploiting Weaknesses in Small Stakes No-Limit Hold 'em Games on The Poker Zoo Podcast. You can find the interview here:

https://persuadeo.nl/pz-90-sklansky-goes-bumhunting/

Out of Position

PZ 90: Sklansky Goes Bumhunting - Out of Position

Mason

So apparently Hellmuth believes that Ike Haxton's mask has given him a "big edge" at the poker table these past 2 years.

https://twitter.com/phil_hellmuth/status...

I barely play live poker so someone help me out here, is this a believable claim?

Is Hellmuth correct that the field would gain EV against a mask-less Ike Haxton by making deviations in play based on live tells involving his mouth/facial expressions?