EMHD 2012 Scoreboard (Updated through event 5)

February 12th, 2012 by HULK No comments »

Updated as of the end of Event 5, here’s where the top 10 stand.
It’s gonna come down the wire. The Evite’s out , secure your spot.
Don’t forget 11AM start time for this one on May 5th.
If you want the full scoreboard, follow this link: EMHD 2012 Full Scoreboard

EMHD 2012 Scoreboard
Name Score Event Points Kill Points(Kills) Participation Wins Places
1. (Canadian) Shawn S. 2349 1579 200(8) 570 0 3
2. Ivan B. 2216 1446 200(8) 570 1 1
3. Hiroshi N. 2048 1488 225(9) 335 1 0
4. Mike S. 2011 1441 100(4) 470 1 0
5. Faith F. 1986 1536 150(6) 300 1 0
6. Andrew F. 1806 1271 100(4) 435 0 1
7. Andy P. 1738 1043 125(5) 570 0 1
8. (Hulk) John H. 1623 928 125(5) 570 0 1
9. Nina T. 1615 1440 75(3) 100 1 0
10. (TMG) Chris S. 1403 608 225(9) 570 0 2

* Total Points = Event Points + Kill Points + Participation Points

  • For More Information, please see the Scoring Quick Reference
  • Event Points are points awarded to top finishers
  • Kill Points shown as: Kill Points(number of kills)
  • Accumulated participation points shown based on current participation. The new participation point bonus will be added at the end for those players with full participation.

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EMHD 2012: Blind Levels (UPDATE!)

January 15th, 2012 by HULK No comments »

As promised, the blind schedules are ready well in advance of the second EMHD tournament. The best way to get to them is to click the EMHD link above and look at the page listing that shows up underneath it. For those of you that would like them in this post, here you go:

 

We received a request for the blind levels to be posted for the tournaments. I’m sorry that I won’t be able to pull that off by tomorrow’s EMHD 2012 series opener. I must have simply deleted the emails that contained them. I’ll have this rectified by our post Super Bowl tournament on February 11th. Without being able to give you specifics, I can only echo the words in our rule book:

  • Our blind levels are UN-Conventional.
  • For all tournament formats, they now include Antes!
  • We (mostly Pinata) crunched the numbers to allow for play time in the early levels
  • We (mostly Pinata) crunched the numbers to end the event in roughly 5 1/2 hours. 7 1/2 hours for rebuy.

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EMHD 2012: Schedule

January 15th, 2012 by HULK No comments »

Here’s some dates some of you might like to know. They’re always subject to change, so pay close attention to the Evites.

EMHD 2012
Event Date Location Start Time Format
One More Chance January 16, 2012 Evite Only 12:00pm Re-Buy/Add On
What’s Beef February 11, 2012 Evite Only 12:00pm Single Buy
Dead Wrong March 4, 2012 Evite Only 12:00pm Single Buy
Sky’s The Limit March 24, 2012 Evite Only 11:00am Re-Buy/Add-On
Things Done Changed April 14, 2012 Evite Only 12:00pm Single Buy
Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems May 6, 2012 Evite Only 12:00pm Deep Stack

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The 2011 Wisconsin Geoff Invitational

July 24th, 2011 by HULK 1 comment »

I’m just getting home from the tournament … not because I played particularly well and made a deep run, but because it was a great time, and we all had a chance to watch our favorite multimedia superstar play well, fight hard, and overcome a severe chip deficit to take the title home.

 

Congratulations Justi … er Shawn.

 

… All jokes aside , I stumbled across our favorite Canadian’s gmail status today and it looks like he’s going to put himself through 17 minutes of a pretty difficult challenge to help raise some money for the children and families of honest to God heroes. If you want to know more and even donate, here’s the link:

Shawn’s Fight Gone Bad 6 Page

 

 

 

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EMHD 5/6: How to almost blow an opportunity

April 21st, 2011 by EMG No comments »

First of all, I appreciate the kind wishes about my recent good fortune in EMHD events.  Clearly, I was pleased with the results and my overall level of play.  Still, I played 2 large pots where I got my money in way behind late in these tournaments. In both of these pots, I committed large chunks of my chip stack with relatively marginal hands:

EMHD 5. We were down to the final 15-16 players.  I recently had a large double-up through Klinker, and I had a pretty big stack (roughly 40k).  The blinds were 300/600, and Faith raised to 2,500 in late position.  I looked down and saw KJ.  She had about 10k left behind.  Instead of seeing a flop out of position or folding, I opted to put pressure on her and push all in.  She ended up calling with AJ and doubling up, giving her more momentum and giving her an opportunity to eventually chop 1st and 2nd with me.

EMHD 6. We were down to the final 2 tables.  I had been playing aggressively and had recently built a large stack through a fortuitous double kill.  I had roughly 28k in chips and was sitting between Boston Chris and Big Jim S.  The blinds were 200/400 with a 100 chip ante.  The action folded around to Big Jim in the SB.  He raised to 1,200.  I picked up pocket 8′s in the BB and reraised to 3,500.  Jim ended up shoving for 9,000 more.  I thought about it and called off 1/3 of my stack with the 8′s and ran into KK.  Jim doubled up and left me with a medium stack instead of a large stack.

 

Fortunately for me in both cases, I was able to recover, get lucky, and make significant cashes in both tournaments.  However, I put myself in tough situations with relatively marginal hands in both cases.  In the case of Faith, I made a bad read and assumed that just because I put her all in, she was going to fold.  In the case of Jim, I made a bold play to try to knock him out of the tournament, get only 25 points for the kill, become a monster chip stack, and improve my chances of winning the tournament.  I decided to overlook the negative impact to my stack and the difficulties with being a medium stack at that stage in the tournament.  Given these sizable missteps with speculative hands, I easily could have blown huge opportunities.

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