Daniel Negreanu’s New Book…
June 26, 2008
Daniel Negreanu, “Kid Poker”… 4 WSOP bracelets, 2 WPT Championships, 2004 Player of the Year, 40 tournament wins and over $8million in tournament earnings… Now, 2 time author of Cardoza Publishing!
Cardoza Publishing, the brand that players have turned to for reliable, unbiased and accurate information for over 25 years are pleased to announce the International launch of their next bestseller. Over the years the world’s foremost publisher in gaming and gambling has produced a number of iconic titles and we are confident that ‘Power Hold’em Strategy’ will prove to be as important.
Owner and Publisher Avery Cardoza states “It has always been our philosophy to publish books by the world’s top poker authorities and champions. Power Hold’em ticks all the appropriate boxes and I am sure will provide the perfect platform for all levels of player’s to improve their game.”
Power Hold’em Strategy is the most anticipated title since Super System 2 and will position “Kid Poker” (Negreanu) alongside our most popular authors such as Doyle Brunson, Mike Caro, Bobby Baldwin and T.J Cloutier.
Contributing to this masterpiece of poker strategy are some of the “Hottest” players in poker today, including:
Todd Brunson
David Williams
Erick Lindgren
Evelyn Ng
Paul Wasicka
These players share their professional moves and winning secrets. You’ll learn about short-handed and heads-up play, high-limit cash games, a powerful beginner’s strategy to neutralize professional players, how to mix up your play, bluff, and win big pots. The centerpiece, however, is Negreanu’s powerful and revolutionary small ball strategy. “You’ll learn how to play hold’em with cards you never would have played before — and with fantastic results.” The preflop, flop, turn and river will never look the same again.
Speaking about the book, Negreanu explains, “The tons of excellent information in this book will help your no-limit hold’em game improve immensely, whether you are an online grinder, a low-limit tournament player, or even an aspiring pro looking to play on the big-time poker circuit. We tried to fit in as many helpful hand examples as we could without creating a 1,000-page monster! When you apply the advice we’ve given you to your own game, I have no doubt that you will improve rapidly. Equally important, this book should help you understand the mindset of small-ball players so that when you face off against one, you won’t be confused by his approach. Instead, you will be able to exploit him.”
Power Hold’em Strategy by Daniel Negreanu
504 pages, 6 x 9 inches, perfect bound
£22.95 (UK) and €33.30 (Europe)
For more information on this great title and news on further new releases please go to:www.cardozabookstore.com
New forums… Same old forums
June 20, 2008
You may have noticed that the colour scheme and the design of the website hasn’t matched the blue and white of the forum over the past couple of months. Well today it does!
We (or rather Hull Jimi) has worked tirelessly on the new forum, making sure it looks fab and attracts new members to make our poker community even better than it already is.
All the usual forums are there and all the posts have migrated over to the new forum. Over the next couple of days we’ll be monitoring things to make sure it all runs smoothly. So if you have any suggests and comments, don’t hesitate to fire them in either on this news post, the forum thread, or by PMing any of the admin team.
In the meantime, enjoy the new forum and keep on posting!
Champions League Fixture 2
June 9, 2008
Well the second game of the series was played on Sudnay night with a full turnout (thanks everyone!) Group A finally managed to play this week, despite HJ having to come in from the lovely sunshine and cold beer to do so!
Very suprisingly group B and C both repeated the exact same results as the previous week, but not without a fight, i can tell you!
Group A
The MTT champion and favourite FTW, was the first to be eliminated whne he “apparantly” got busted playing rags! Knowing kenn there would have been some method to his madness! The heads Up came with dD having a significant chip lead over HJ and after a sweet suckout he put pains to HJ and took it down for the win!
| Position | RTR Name | Points |
| 1st | dD | 234 |
| 2nd | HullJimi | 169 |
| 3rd | kennl | 131 |
Group B
Well the mini battle of Scotland kicked off again and after popping over to try and catch the odd moment of their game. Each time I went over I saw Lukybugur apologising in the chat box and I still don’t know why!!! Anyway, eventually Luky was the first out and HU was left to Mair and Hammer, two players currently in fine form. After a tussle, which i didnt manage to see much of due to the pressure my opponent was putting on me, Hammerheid came out as the victor of group B again.
| Position | RTR Name | Points |
| 1st | Hammerheid | 468 |
| 2nd | Mair38 | 338 |
| 3rd | lukybugur | 262 |
Group C
Group C started off as it did the previous week… aggressive! 3-betting and min raising going on all over the place! BurnleyMik busted Johnnyfish with AA firstly to take the mst of his stack and then finally for johnny to shove over BM’s raise, with BM insta calling with AK to Johnny’s QK. The HU battle started with BM holding a good 2:1 CL, but Cloud wasn’t having any of that and almost immediately got it back to about level. The game two’d and fro’d with both players getting the other to fold the better hand numerous times. Eventually BM got lucky and won a decent pot to giove him the 2:1 CL again, but jsut as the blinds went up, meaning cloud had less than 10 BB’s. It all eventually went in with Cloud shoving A5 and BM making the call with JJ and the JJ holding. Here are the Group C standings:
| Position | RTR Name | Points |
| 1st | Burnleymik | 468 |
| 2nd | The Cloud | 338 |
| 3rd | johnnyfish | 262 |
WSOP Update - 6th June ‘08
June 6, 2008
Well so far we have 4 Bracelet winners in this years WSOP!
here is the current List:
Event #1 - $10k PLHE - Nenad Medic (Canada) - $794,112
Event #2 - $1.5k NLHE - Grant Hinkle -$831,462
Event #3 - $1.5 PLHE - David Singer (USA) - $214k
Event #4 - $5k Mixed HE - Eric Lingdren - $374k
So two big names and well known poker pros win 2 of the 4 events held so far! Who says that poker is not a game of skill??!!!!!!!
There have been problems for the reporters out in Vegas with the amount of events running simultaneously and from what I have read its been damn near impossible for them to keep up with the bustouts and the chip counts, especially in the fast events like the Fixed limit Hold’em. All that said, they are doing a superb job!
As of last night (5th) there were 4 other events running, including the one with lots of huge names, the $10k World Championship Event and two more due to start in a few hours.
I wonder how many we will see in the ME????
Any guesses?
Latest Tables - 5/6/08
June 5, 2008
| Position | Name | No. of times staked | Av. Buy In | Profit/Loss |
| 1st | EvertonYorkie | 3 | $4 | +$57.59 |
| 2nd | Mair38 | 1 | $26 | +$49 |
| 3rd | MikeSaban | 1 | $5.50 | +$2.37 |
| 4th | TanOrphues | 1 | $11 | -$11 |
| 5th | BurnleyMik | 1 | $4.40 | -$17.76 |
| 6th | Johnnyfish | 1 | $26 | -$26 |
| 7th | G-Unit | 1 | $3.30 | -$49.50 |
The New Staking Forums
June 5, 2008
A few weeks back a decision was made to create a new area of the RTR forums for staking, this was to include players looking to be staked (not begging!), people looking to stake players and also players to be able to sell shares of their action into bigger events.
This has taken off very nicely with numerous well known members of the forum participating. Some profit and loss has been made and so fasr everything has run well!
You can read HERE about how the staking works, whats involved and expected and all the instructions on how to place a stake and to look for a stake can also be found over at the forums.
So, like I was saying so far its been successful and a nice addition, so we have decided that a staked League Table should be created, this is an easy way for people to quickly see who the best players are to stake, what sort of levels they play and also the number of times they have been staked., here is the latest table, which will likely be updated weekly:
| Position | Name | No. of times staked | Av. Buy In | Profit/Loss |
| 1st | EvertonYorkie | 3 | $4 | +$57.59 |
| 2nd | Mair38 | 1 | $26 | +$49 |
| 3rd | MikeSaban | 1 | $5.50 | +$2.37 |
| 4th | TanOrphues | 1 | $11 | -$11 |
| 5th | BurnleyMik | 1 | $4.40 | -$17.76 |
| 6th | Johnnyfish | 1 | $26 | -$26 |
| 7th | G-Unit | 1 | $3.30 | -$49.50 |
Remember not to judge a player by one staked deal for obvious reasons!! You can also see what the people who did the staking thought of the player they backed, by checking out the feedback forum HERE
All in all though its been a great addition, we look forward to hopefully getting some great success stories on there!!
Enjoy!
**DISCLAIMER** RTR Cannot be held responsible for the actions of the players, although we wish we could, these deals are based on trust and honesty, we reccomend you make sure you read the instructions and guidlines carefully for your own and everyone else’s benefits!
Micro Stakes Challenge
June 4, 2008
A new challenge has been set-up at the forum for the low stakes players. Here is exactly how it all works:
Rules
1. Ship your $5 entry fee to “BurnleyMik” on pokerstars.
2. Wait until pokersite sends confirmation email.
3. U will then create you a thread in the “RtR Challenges” forum. it will be titled ‘ Micro-Stake challenge’.
4. You then have one month starting 30th May and ending 30th Jun to play 15 $.10 360 player games on poker stars.
5. Each time you plan to start one of these tournaments you must make a post, under your thread, and include the tourney number, start time and date and your Pokerstars username.
(post time needs to be within 5 min of start time)
6. When you bust out of the tournament, you must return to your thread and input the postion you finished and the points you score for this according to the scoring system (see below).
7. Once you have played all 15 of your games, please total up your score and you are then done until the challenge ends.
8. Please keep threads in requested format (see example)
9. Will pay 70% for first and 30% to second
Scoring System
360th - 271st = 1 point
270th - 181st = 2 points
180th - 90th = 4 points
89th - 46th = 5 points
45th - 37th = 6 points
36th - 28th = 8 points
27th - 19th = 10 Points
18th - 10th = 12 points
9th = 15 Points
8th = 18 points
7th = 21 Points
6th = 24 points
5th = 27 points
4th = 30 points
3rd = 34 Points
2nd = 40 points
1st = 50 points
Example Of thread Title
“username” MICROSTAKES CHALLENGE
EXAMPLE OF RUNNING TOTAL POST
1. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
2. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
3. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
4. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
5. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
6. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
7. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
8. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
9. ) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
10.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
11.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
12.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
13.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
14.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
15.) Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
For a total of 0 points
Example of Indivdual Game Thread
Date - Tourney ID - Start Time - Position Placed - Points
Any questions on format please refer my micro stakes challenge thread.
Thanks-
So here is how the challenge is currently going…
Current Results:
AcefilledDreams 0 Games 0 Points
MRS P 8 Games 59 Points
Barry@BF 9 Games 73 Points
EvertonYorkie 0 Games 0 Points
Total Players: 4
Total Prize Pool: $20.00
Good Luck to all participants!
For more information or to participate follow this link to the forum, become a member and join us!
Heads Up Cup Season 3
June 4, 2008
Five players did battle in this game for the crown of Heads Up Champion of Raise The River!
You can read how all the action went down HERE.
Well done to the eventual Winner, BurnleyMik, who beats dD Heads Up in the final!
Season 3
June 4, 2008
Winner:- Kennl
Runner Up - Kronsdat
WSOP 2008 - First bracelet won.
June 4, 2008
All poker enthusiasts realise its that time of year again, the main event of the poker calendar for anyone who is closely linked to the game. All the top players from all over the world flock to Las Vegas with the dreams of winning that prestigious title -A WSOP bracelet. This is the event they all come together, the top online pros and the top live pros as well as amatuers who have satellited in from other sources.
We at raise the River have set-up a Forum dedicated to the WSOP 2008, where we are all trying to keep the latest news and updates coming so that we can all stay in touch with the action!
So far the series is upto Day 5 with only one event having finished as this goes to press. The winner of event number 1, the $10k NLHE event, and the winner of the first bracelet is Nenad Medic and takes down a first place prize of just over $794k! Medic beat the ever unlucky Andy Bloch, who has now been runner up in a WSOP event twice, but never captured a bracelet!
The Day two event has a record number of entrants for any WSOP event outside the ME, with a staggering field of 3929 players!
As day 5 starts we know that with two more events starting today there will be a combined total of 5 events running on the same day, this is due to the over-subscription on Event#2. So today these are the events running concurrently:
Event 2 - $1,500 NLHE - Last 18
Event 3 - $1,500 PLHE - Day 2
Event 4 - $5K Mixed HE - Day 2
Event 5 - 1K NL + Rebuys - Day 1
Event 6 - $1,500 Omaha 8 - Day 1
There are some very big names in the Mixed Hold’em event (number 4), Some recognisable ones with good stacks at the minute are:
Noah Boeken 10,500
David Benyamine 16,000
Phil Laak 17,800
Patrik Antonius 35,400
Antonio Esfandiari 35,600
Andy Bloch 45,200
Justin Bonomo 73,900
So thats the latest news as this goes to press. I’ll try and keep you updated as the series goes on.
