Royal Flush Club Newsletter July 2008      Issue 5   About Us   Poker Articles   Poker News   Coaches Corner   Poker Strategy   Tournaments   Rick's Bio Mar's Bio Amy's Bio Al's Bio Medic Friedman De Wolfe Bloch   WPT Ladies The Buzz WSOP TV Schedule Reading Opponent's Hand Your Strongest Weapon   Poker Tester Odds Hand Chart Kill Phil Way RFC WPT WSOP WPT Ladies US Poker Prem. Ad Space 150 x 150 Pixels   RFC SPOTLIGHT Playing a Short Stack in Multi-Table Tournaments The key to succeeding in tournament play is being able to handle the ups and downs, because it's not always going to go perfectly. Your chip stack is not always going to shoot upwards, which means you'll often need to make good decisions when you don't have a lot of chips. Many players get frustrated when they have a short stack. They look down and see Ace-rag, King-Queen, King-Jack or some similar hand and they just focus on their own cards instead of seeing the whole picture. That kind of short-sightedness can quickly make a short stack even smaller and put the player on the rail. Successfully playing a short stack takes a lot of determination. I believe it's like a mental war when you have the short stack because it isn't fun when you look around and everyone has all those chips. They're getting to play fun hands like 9-10 suited and Jack-10 suited and you don't have enough chips to play those hands, so you're just sitting there watching while everyone else is playing poker. I was playing in a $1,500 No-Limit tournament at the World Series of Poker* when I raised under the gun with pocket Kings. It was Day Two of the tournament and it was the first hand I'd played after about 90 minutes of folding. Another player went all-in behind me and it was one of those situations where she didn't take her time to properly evaluate what had transpired so far. After not playing a single hand, I had raised with 40% of my stack in the earliest pre-flop position, which usually signals a monster. She pushed anyway with KJ and I think if she'd taken her time, she might have made a different decision. You need to have patience when you're short stacked. You can't let poor results from previous hands affect you. Instead, I think it's really good to tighten up after losing a pot so that you can regroup. To recover from being short stacked, you really have to take your time and evaluate every situation. Who cares if you're taking longer than anyone else at the table? Before the words "all-in" escape your mouth ... Keep reading...   BREAKING NEWS!!!! BEGINNING AUGUST 1ST ONE-ON-ONE COACHING IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL MEMBERS If you are ready to take your game to the next level, consider taking advantage of the experience our coaches have to offer in their respective areas of expertise. Whether you're a standard member or in the Poker Underground, you can take full advantage of Royal Flush Club's staff of experts:   Coach Al  Low Buy-in MTTs  and SNGs              Learn more...    Coach Don  Low Limit Poker  and NLHE SNGS  Learn more...    Coach Steve  No Limit Hold'em  Cash Games     Learn more...   |  Coach Shawn  $50 - $100 SNGs  Learn more...      Coach Larry  Low to mid level  MTTs and SNGs        Learn more...   Royal Flush Club would like to congratulate Coach Larry on his appointment as our new Assistant Tournament Director.  Welcome aboard!   TOURNEY RECAPS June 17 and June 21 recap  The final table consisted of: JamminGears, never-4-get-911, Clyde2U, Toyotace, ziggysgirl, buckrubber, Roland45, BOI SEA BLUE, and Lumbee904.  The order of finish is as follows:         Keep reading... Watch Video....      June 23 and June 27 recap The final table: sgtcyber, FunkMunky, elena123, i see green, ramvb, babykangaroo1, snibbler69, togene and ziggysgirl7. The order of finish is as follows: snibbler69, FunkMunky, togene, ramvb, ziggysgirl7, i see green, babykangaroo1, sgtcyber and elena123.  The final heads- up hand was QQ versus... Keep Reading.... Watch Video....                 July 3 and July 5 The final table consisted of: BeachBob57, yatzy1, gjim44, RetMil, rxmanAA, i see green, brad58, maestral and SifulNH. The order of finish is as follows: maestral, brad59, yatzy1, i see green, rxmanAA, BeachBob57, gjim44, RetMil and SifulNH.  The final heads-up hand was 45s versus 57s to give maestral the win. Keep Reading.... Watch video...   2008 WSOP RECAP This year's Main Event No-Limit Hold'em Championship fielded 6844 players.  The prize pool was $64K. First place will pay over $9 million and ninth place will receive just over $900 hundred thousand.  The final table players include: Dennis Phillips, Craig Marquis, Yion Schwartz, Scott Montgomery, Darus Suharto, Ivan Demidov, David "Chino" Rheem, Kelly Kim, and Peter Eastgate.  Once again this year, no top professional player made the final table.  The final table will begin on November 9, 2008.  The 2008 bracelet winners are... Keep reading...                  AD SPACE AVAILABLE HERE 150 X 150 PIXELS AD SPACE AVAILABLE HERE 150 X 150 PIXELS