Hello poker players! This month, we're offering you more poker freerolls and tournaments! Thanks again to everyone who participated in our events at Titan Poker and Doyle's Room last month. I'll include a few poker tips and also solicit your comments regarding setting up a poker league.

Event #1 - $50 Freeroll at Cake Poker

Join the fun in a $50 freeroll sponsored by Cake Poker! US players are accepted at Cake. If you've never played this room, now's the time to join Cake Poker and try it out for free. Cake Poker has unique "gold card" promotions where players can get dealt gold card which you can collect and use in various ways or trade them in for cash. Cake also offers innovative promotions like their 100K gold card tournament featuring a $100,000 prize pool, 100 player cap, and a guaranteed payday of $100 for each and every player. Name: MPC – Freeroll Game: No Limit Holdem Blinds: Increase every 10 mins Date and Time: Sept 16 at 9:00 PM EST Password: We'll e-mail it to you 24hrs prior the freeroll Use our bonus code "MPCBONUS"and get 100% up to $500 on your first deposit!

Event #2 - $50 added Holdem Tournament at Cake Poker

Join us in a $50 added private game, hosted by Cake Poker. This is exclusive to MyPokercorner.com players and if you play in the freeroll the night before, you just might win your buy-in! Name: MPC – funtimes Game: No Limit Holdem – Turbo Buy-in: $1+ 0.10 Rebuy: max of 2 within the first hour Add-on: one add-on within the first hour Date and Time: Sept 17 at 9:00 PM EST Password: PAYBACKTIME Use our bonus code "MPCBONUS"and get 100% up to $500 on your first deposit!

Event #3 - $50 Freeroll at Pacific Poker

Pacific Poker, also know as 888, want you to try out their poker room. There is no password to this freeroll, but you must register your Pacific Poker account via this link in order to participate. Please clear your browser's cookies prior to creating your Pacific Poker account to ensure you are properly tracked and to ensure you get your freeroll seat. Pacific Poker does not accept US players. Name: MPC Freeroll Game: No Limit Holdem Blinds: Increase every 10 mins Date and Time: Sept 23 at 8:00 PM GMT Password: none - you must create your Pacific Poker account via http://www.mypokercorner.com/poker-rooms/pacific_poker_site.php to be eligible Use our bonus code "MPCFREEROLL"and get 100% up to $400 on your first deposit!

Event #4 - $50 Freeroll at Doyle's Room

Doyle's room is offering you another $50 freeroll! See details below: Name: MPCFREEROLL Game: No Limit Holdem – Turbo Blinds: Increase every 6 mins Date and Time: Sept 29 at 9:00 PM EST Password: We'll e-mail it to you 24hrs prior the freeroll You can download Doyle’s Room right here. Our bonus code is "MPCBONUS" - Get 110% up to $500 on your first deposit

Event #5 - $50 added Bounty Tournament at Doyle's Room

Bonus Code: "MPCBONUS" 110% up to $500

This time we're doing a bounty tournament. Do you have what it takes to know me out? If you've never played a bounty before, don't miss out! I've modified the payouts slightly. This tourney has a $3 buy-in where $2 goes to the bounty, and $1 goes to the pool instead of the usual half and half. Bust out just two players and you're already making a profit! We're also adding an extra $50 in the prize pool! Name: MPCSHOWDOWN Game: No Limit Holdem – Short Handed Blinds: Increase every 6 mins Buy-in: $3 + .30 Re-buy: Up to 5 within first 45 mins add-on: One within first 45 mins Date and Time: September 30 at 9:00 PM EST Password: POINTNSHOOT

Event #6 - SUPRISE EVENT

One of our top poker rooms will sponsor a special poker event just for us... but it's a secret for now! I'll update you around mid September.

While we were playing poker last month a few people brought up the topic of a poker league and I'd like to start something like that. I want to propose a few ideas, and I would love it if you would contact me and tell me what you think.

Option one: 4 week league with 2 games per night. Players buy-in and we pay top X positions for each game. I would add money to the prize pool for every game. The league would operate on a point system and at the end of the 8 games, top 5 players get something extra (to be determined).

Option two: Same as above, except we do one game a week for four weeks with a bigger buy-in.

Option three: I know many webmasters in the gambling industry. One interesting thing I could do is to collectively run private weekly tournaments. So instead of running a private game restricted to MyPokerCorner.com, we would run a private game that is restricted to 10-20 websites instead of just one. The benefit is that we could offer better prizes there's more "sponsors" who can throw in added money. We could potentially throw in thousands in cash prize, and cool gear like ipods, iphones, Nintendo Wiis, etc. This option would replace the idea of a poker league all together so there would be no points to track. It's just one game every week with a bunch of cool prizes. I'm currently discussing this idea with other webmasters who are interested and we will have a meeting this month to determine if we will go ahead with this initiative.

Obviously, some details need to be works out, but what I need from you is the following:

• Are you interested in participating in one of these events I set it up?
• Can you rank the three options from above in order of preference?
• For each option, what buy-in amount would you play at? (no, it won't be freerolls unfortunately!)
• Would you be interested in a poker forum on MyPokerCorner.com to go along with this initiative?
• If you intend to participate in these private events, do you require a US friendly room?
• I'd love to hear about your suggestions. Please send me general comments, prize suggestions, etc.

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, if you're interested. In fact, feel free to contact me anytime you have questions, comments or suggestions about anything that's poker related..

Last month, I won the private game we had at Doyle's room. I'm not saying this to brag, but I do know a fair bit about poker strategy. The tip I'm giving you this month is based on some observations I've made during the tournament and it has to do with stealing blinds and pots.

When you're playing poker at a table where the blinds go up quickly, like every 6 minutes, it doesn't take too long for the blinds to get expensive. Stealing blinds early on is really not worth the investment, but halfway in the game you want to start stealing them, particularly when you are in position to do so.

What's a good position to steal blinds? When you're on the button or in blinds positions. You can steal blinds from any position, but the earlier you act, the greater risk you because you don't get to see how others will behave before you make your play. If you have 2 callers and you're in the big blind position, you can speculate that the callers don't have a strong starting hand and do a pot size raise, regardless of what your two cards are. Other factors that will help you gauge this decision is the table image of the opponents in the hand. Is there a constant limper in the group? That player is probably just trying to catch a cheap flop and get lucky. Is there a constant trapper who just limped in but doesn't usually play a lot of hands? That's a warning sign that he may in fact have a great starting hand. Always study your opponents and figure out their poker style.

If you have a lot of chips, don't be afraid to pound on the short stacks when the blinds are expensive. Pressure them into folding when they are in blind positions and you have few players involved in the hand with no raisers. Remember, the odds that they have a godo starting hand are low. You may have nothing when you raise, but they can't call you when they have nothing either, unless they just want to gamble and leave it to luck, which is sometimes the right move.

If you're sitting on the other end of the table and you are the short stack, you have to move all in and steal blinds while you can. Do this when you're on the button or on the small blind and you only have callers. The key however is to have enough chips left to make players fold. If the blinds are 75-150 and you go all in for a $250, you're going to get called. When you're this low on chips, you just move all in on any hand and leave it to luck. If you loose, then you loose. You were going to anyway because the blinds would take care of it in no time. And if you win, guess what... you need to do this dance one more time before you can get back in the game. Last week, I dropped from 1000 to 75 thanks to a bad beat. There was no way I could make anyone fold with 75, so I just went all in on the next hand, regardless of what my cards were. I got lucky and I tripled up. Then I did this again. Within 5 or 6 hands, I was back at 1K. Now, I was very lucky and it usually doesn't work out like this, but the point is this: Going all in and relying on luck is the only viable play in this situation.

I hope you find these tips helpful. See you at the tables!

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