Thank’s for another interesting year of HECP for all of my opponents and happy new year ! This is indeed enjoyable and one of the most developing way to improve poker skills. Doubles and duplicate poker formats would be nice adds to site. Some easier minor improvements would be the possibility to sort Hand history (by clicking column head line or search) based for certain player or pot size  etc. I would like to check my past hands against hjort who whipped most of my pokerass past year. This type of poker certainly would be a breakthrough internationally. But I”ll certainly understand the lack of spare time Teppo . If someone capable would have some spare time more, it would be great to if he/she could help Teppo coding several addons when he’s basicly managing this great site singlehandedly. Any CP T-shirts yet on markets ?

I just came cross to a site where there might be possible to maintain own tournaments eg. for cpp-players. Everythig can be customized fro private use. Check it out.

http://www.hogwildpokerleagues.com

And to make it yet more complicated – more experienced PLO player might try a bluff if he/she thinks that opponent knows that usually people play connected cards and can’t bluff here without having 8 or 7 .

I think you played fine, Richie got very lucky by hitting 5 outer on turn. He could have easily had pair of 33 or 88 as well, so there wasn’t much to do when the river came else than go with showdown. Certainly scary nut peddler could have folded in the turn or river card , but that’s too tight imho for HU PLO.

EDIT: pair of 33 (AK33 etc.) pair of 88 (AK88 etc.)

Wow that was fast thanks Seperate stats for NLHE and PLO would be nice of course.

Have to give SmokinAl credit for outstanding way of disguising hands. From most of players I have a good guess what they’ll have but I’ll never know what’s smokin is holding. Haven’t been able to calibrate my strategy against Al, though I might now have some ideas

14,114-270,345   2010-01-26 11:24:12   BB   SmokinAl   $232   $168

It took 66000 hands to flop royal flush

Hole: J♥Q♥
Flop: A♥T♥K♥
Turn: 6♣
River: J♠
1 2 r6 c
k k
k b8 c
b12 f
 $14

I just watched your videos and actually I would have played most of the hands same way like you did. Very reasonable poker playing. I might do a video also, not because of my performance which has been a rollercoaster ride lately but to show some examples of probably more aggressive play/opponents. It’s very educational to know what kind of thought processes are going in various excellent poker minds on this site.