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Lets funk for Alex to buy a new jumper!

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2011 World Series of Poker
Event #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

    Players Left
        39

    Entries
        3175


Top Chip Counts
1    Tim West    550,000
2    Alexander Martin    500,000
3    Yashar Darian    480,000
4    Thomas Conway    410,000
5    Dejuante Alexander    400,000
6    James Schaaf    380,000
7    Maximilian Lehmanski    380,000
8    Sybe Smit    370,000
9    Brett Shaffer    350,000
10    Jason Hallee    310,000

1          493,091
2          305,009
3          215,855
4          156,248
5          114,414
6          84,753
7          63,493
8          48,091
9          36,833

Best of luck Alex!!! 

Alex texted me at 4am UK time

Someone decipher, please


Hand 3. This guy was a total tool, he kinda showed his colours early calling me down in a 3b pot w 88 on 910XQX board 3 streets (i had str8fldraw and obv bricked). So here i obv call for a middle pin nut draw in the blind hope that the good player has AA/1010 and i can stack someone hard. I hate having to CR the turn but unless i do im not gonna be able to shove the river v this guy, obv v an actual thinker i probs just c/c as he never puts me on nuts and will probs vbet if i check river as my hand looks a lot like AJ which cant continue. But then they would also have a hand............and brain cells. Nice river call sir!

Ahh that takes me back to editing Mr Martin's strategy articles for InsidePoker. Legend. Get it won please Alex.

Some useful links for if Alex binks half a mill

http://www.lvmpd.com/

http://www.springvalleyhospital.com/Home

http://charlestonautoglasslv.com/

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-center/centerDetails.asp?f=2304

Done.


Good luck Alex, beat them all with your 23745475th level thinking.

He sent me these, too.....

closer than i first thought (folding being correct), but if he folds only a small % (at first glance looks like the b/e point is around 20%) we make money, yer i think its ok, prefer it to shove pre with live tarps being set all the time.

And.....

yer, basically balancing ur range in a weak game with regs you wont play enough hands with for them to adjust properly (if they adjust at all, if there is a correct adjustment/if they make the correct adjustment) is sub-optimal. anyone thinking balance is important here is way off the mark i think.

and.....

Dont think building the pot in ssnl live is gonna be a problem. In deeper, nitfish-infested games then boom yes (because we can win it a lot of the time post anyway (when it goes 2/3way) and we get some camouflage on our range). fk im gonna patent that.

and....

i quite like ur hem stats tbh, everyone subscribing to the same "one-size-fits-all" is boring and i like to see individual styles. There are 15/12 winners and losers and 40/30 winners and losers. Dont change ur style too much, always retain a bit of you. 

And...

As played preflop is a slamdunk 3bet. As played id be check calling and not folding v this guy, his shit range and his absurd aggression

And....

id like it more if it wasnt sb/bb, problem is he should have a lot of Ax floats in his range if hes decent. dont think sizing is optimal, i mean i like overbetting when you are betting a super-polarised range ofc, but i just think here you get too many correct hero's. that said, its rush and people arent thinking too much, so it might be the perfect way to exploit, who knows.

The man has invented a whole new lingo of his own. Gotta love Alex. And if he wins this, he'll be out of the hole for at least a week. God bless Alex.

Good luck Alex

Run Good pleeeese

slamdunk 3bet your way to victoryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

He so pretty! Gogogogogogo Alexander! Give all the credit to the Luton Blondeite League please. Get it won.

Latest chip count has him at 295k :/

I'm gonna use my one time for this. Come on Alex!! Surely the credit should be split between the blondeite Luton league and the heads up sessions in Bar 12 after work on a friday, those were good times. gl buddy.  

Alexander Meerkat

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/alex_martin3_0.jpg)


Alexander Martin

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/Alexander_the_Meerkat.jpg)


Come on fella, get the job done and get a deal to write your own poker thesaurus

Soo glad someone said this! He is absolutely beautiful!

Goooo Martinz.

GL Alex, TID.

(I believe I'm speaking your lingo if I keep use of actual words to a bare minimum ;) )

GL Alex- Get it won; great runs so far from blondites

Goooooooooooooooooo pretty-boy
TID wiv de MoF !!!!!!!

rofl, thans for the good luck wishes guys, gonna go sleep now but ill do my abso best not to spew :P

GL to our very own, Furniture of Poker.

Gl m8 TID

gl mate

JFDI

Gl sir.......I thought u were an older gentleman.....

GL.

Gl alexis. I'll draw a nice picture for you when i'm home tonight :)

Gl Alex, vbol.

I so wish I was there to stand in the background at any radio interviews.

Gl TFOP

Very best of luck Alex. Kind of want this guy to win a bracelet pretty hard, he'll be a well deserved winner!

Get the lot mate.

Good luck Alex, it would be great to see you do the business.

http://gobarbra.com/hit/new-f4de5294eb2aeba50ce236e2df06627f

Glgl

Got him!

I knew this would come in handy eventually.

Somewhat disturbing that Alex so readily plays fondles his nipples & udders though. And owns me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPITbeQfow&playnext=1&list=PL19B330B1982EB3AA

Has he got any tournament pedigree?

GOGOGO!

Yup - he's won the £5 re-buy at Luton twice!

GL Alex, would be a brilliant win for the Blonde railers to watch!

gogogogogoogg good luck mate...get me there for the rail when u make the final !!!!

gl dude

LOLZ - WTF does he look like?!
Udderly ridiculous imo!
(still want him to win this comp tho!)

gogogogo Alex. get the lot

Very best of luck Alex - tid

Wp Cos. From http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=44301.0:

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

really best of luck Alex!!

good luck

Best of Luck Alex

Win the Lot

gogogo nutsinavice, glgl

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/clairep75/alex.jpg)

Pokernews reports Alex as 25/33 ?

glgl easy game TID from here.

Jeffrey Norman   369000   Amazon / 280 / 1                                                   
Brett Shaffer   646000   Amazon / 280 / 2                                                   
Tim West   677000   Amazon / 280 / 3                                                   
Michael Blocksidge   145000   Amazon / 280 / 4                                                   
Diana Allen   312000   Amazon / 280 / 5                                                   
Maximilian Lehmanski   367000   Amazon / 280 / 7                                                   
Jason Hallee   294000   Amazon / 280 / 8                                                   
Dejuante Alexander   464000   Amazon / 280 / 9                                                   
Jason Somerville   749000   Amazon / 286 / 1                                                   
Shane Rose   547000   Amazon / 286 / 2                                                   
Joshua Smith   250000   Amazon / 286 / 3                                                   
Richard Fridvalszki   240000   Amazon / 286 / 4                                                   
James Oh   140000   Amazon / 286 / 5                                                   
Chancellor Strickland   258000   Amazon / 286 / 6                                                   
Travis Atkins   285000   Amazon / 286 / 7                                                   
Yashar Darian   604000   Amazon / 286 / 8                                                   
Stephen Kats   121000   Amazon / 286 / 9                                                   
James Schaaf   625000   Amazon / 292 / 1                                                   
Sybe Smit   305000   Amazon / 292 / 2                                                   
Valdemar Kwaysser   352000   Amazon / 292 / 3                                                   
Alexander Martin   295000   Amazon / 292 / 4                                                   
Steven Miller   417000   Amazon / 292 / 5                                                   
Zachary Urton   281000   Amazon / 292 / 6                                                   
Thomas Conway   311000   Amazon / 292 / 7                                                   
Lex Veldhuis   230000   Amazon / 292 / 8                                                   
Michael Clark   99000   Amazon / 292 / 9                                                   
                                                         

its out by a bit. think 27 left im little under average. had a lot of fun yesterday watching young americans do huge spewy plays so just let the cards do the work. gonna go for a run and a swim, some nice brekkie then rock a 20bb stack for 10 hours and make final. thanks again for luck wishes.

in order :)

Jason Somerville       749,000   0
Tim West       677,000   0
Brett Shaffer       646,000   0
James Schaaf       625,000   0
Yashar Darian       604,000   0
Shane Rose       547,000   0
Dejuante Alexander       464,000   0
Steven Miller       417,000   0
Jeffrey Norman       369,000   0
Maximilian Lehmanski       367,000   0
Valdemar Kwaysser       352,000   0
Diana Allen       312,000   0
Thomas Conway       311,000   0
Sybe Smit       305,000   0
Alexander Martin       295,000   0
Jason Hallee       294,000   0
Travis Atkins       285,000   0
Zachary Urton       281,000   0
Chancellor Strickland       258,000   0
Joshua Smith       250,000   0
Richard Fridvalszki       240,000   0
Lex Veldhuis    PokerStars Team Pro (Netherlands)    230,000   0
Michael Blocksidge       145,000   0
James Oh       140,000   0
Stephen Kats       121,000   0
Michael Clark       99,000   0
Gian Oliveri       Busted


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-20-no-limit-hold-em/day2/chips.htm

Only Alex could raiise more often than he opens.

Would love to see him win this even though he calls me old.

think its the position in the tourney as in 25th of 33 rather than VPIP/PFR.

That clip makes me think of the old Frank Sinatra classic "Love and Marriage".

You can't have one without the udder........

good luck alex!

ship the lot alex for a blonde win please!!

think of how now that bracelet would look with ur ref jumper  ;sark; ;yippee;

Don't really understand most of the stuff in this thread other than "pretty".

That gets my vote. TID Alex, and Gl with the poker as well.

Come on Alex ship it one time  ;envious;

wiiiiiii go go go Alexanderzzzz

TID with the MOF obv  :)up

Are the dutch Trotter twins there railing ya  ;D    (Actually, did they understand you word you said at DTD?)

Win pls... GL

GL GL  :)up

What time is the re-start?

GL!

Anyone know what time it starts back please?

Just started now.

ty pelham boy.

Live updates on wsop http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?rr=1&grid=821&tid=11459&dayof=

Alex dubbles up with QQ into 33 brick it bord so no sweat

Eh? how did he lose a chunk?

How does he get his last 85k in get called and moves to 100k, O rly ?

My money is on 5 betting 62o

Updates obv miss a few hands

and were down to 24

pic of our hero (just for Caroline)

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/alexmartin.jpg)

On twitter Veldhuis has just said they're down to 19 left.

bustos thick and fast - poker news really fails at these moments as a useful reference?

do we know any tweeters on his rail?

Bit easier to do a 10 word update on your phone than it is to write down a hand, get to a laptop, write it up so it's fairly interesting, attach a photo etc etc!

Give them some credit!

in this specific moment id say my comment was fair criticism!

no reason they couldnt have a specific tweet box on the site they can tweet Mr x bust flipping vs mr Y then write it up (just a thought)

besides I was only asking if anyone knew of a tweeter? lighten up a little

down to 18

There's some quality names who have busted this comp:

Chancellor Strickland
Zach Urton
Sybe Smit
Valdemar Kwaysser
James Oh

Table 280
Seat 1: Michael Blocksidge (215,000)
Seat 2: Brett Shaffer (530,000)
Seat 3: Dejuante Alexander (430,000)
Seat 4: Travis Atkins (300,000)
Seat 5: Gian Carlos Oliveri (250,000)
Seat 6: Alex Martin (600,000)
Seat 7: Lex Veldhuis (820,000)
Seat 8: James Schaaf (1,000,000)
Seat 9: Thomas Conway (400,000)

Table 286
Seat 1: Yoshar Darian (800,000)
Seat 2: Shane Rose (400,000)
Seat 3: Tim West (800,000)
Seat 4: Diana Allen (1,000,000)
Seat 5: Maximilian Lehmanski (160,000)
Seat 6: Jason Somerville (650,000)
Seat 7: Michael Clark (140,000)
Seat 8: Steven Miller (315,000)
Seat 9: Richard Fridvalszki (510,000)


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-20-no-limit-hold-em/

How can they 'miss how it happened' with only 3 shorthanded tables to watch?

too busy tweeting ldo  :D

staking thread for me to go and live update the final, including dealer lookalikes, whilst dressed in a cow suit, if he makes the final please

I'd have to dodge the security guys, but am only small


gogogo TFOP

GOGOGOGOGO

no update for 28 minutes  - seems real

They're jotting down hands

Veldhuis up to 1.2m. 15 left.

Alex lost AQ<KK. 230k

misread it! Some other Alexander lol

No, that was Dejuante Alexander, not Mr Beautiful

Seriously- some awesome names in that 1k comp. Dejuante

Isn't there some rule that the bloggers are only allowed one update per hour?

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


Would stake you for that tighty!!!

No

They have two updaters on it, it seems, Ben Ludlow and Cory Dowd.

Think its safe to assume its a distance to the laptop from the tournament area and its tricky to get content down

the updates are shite, got worst hangover ever, but will be down to rail when the lad finals

+1 and Cory Dowd only one posting in the last hour or so.  Can we assume they move one on when it gets down to 2 tables?  If he is on his own, it must be pretty easy to miss action while typing up a hand history?

It is probably reasonable to assume some kind of break on the redraw to 2 tables which would explain the gap?

and gogogogo Alex FWIW

sigh - ive got a big meeting 2mo - bed callls

TID alex - glglglglgllgl

Are they playing down to the winner now?

Playing to winner

Alexander is chippie at break apparantly. Doubled with QQ vs 99. Flatted like a nit then jammed over 3 bet squeezer

booooom alex more than doubles, and is now chip leader     gooooooooooooooo on my son TID

OM NOM NOM NOM!!!!

Top Chip Counts
1    Alexander Martin    1,985,000
2    Diana Allen    1,600,000
3    Yashar Darian    1,050,000
4    Shane Rose    910,000
5    Jason Somerville    700,000
6    Gian Carlos Oliveri    680,000
7    Lex Veldhuis    635,000
8    Brett Shaffer    560,000
9    James Schaaf    525,000
10    Travis Atkins    500,000



where are you guys getting the Alex updates from, by the way?

twitter, facebook?


I sense an all nighter brewing

Tee-fop! Tee-fop! la-la-la-la-la!

Im on the wsop website

meh need to go to bed now.  glglgl keep it up and do a win please!

Any news ?? Get it won Alex!!

Yes but it doesn't include the info on this thread!!

Jeez - thought I woz dreaming then, and me and Alexis were the chip leaders!!!
;-)

 


On a break at present,

 event 18 is currently heads up, and when that is over the live feed "should" switch over to the final of "the alex martin show" :)

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11441

Go alex

Gooooooooooooooooooooo

Get thereeeeeeeeee!

go on my san

set the auto refresh to 1 minute rich

Crikey! 15pts to Alex Martin + 780pt bonus, while Drain Alien picks up 792pts for his valiant second. Sir Donksalot now has no chance of going back to back in the league. Yep, happy to hit the hay on that note.

there no live feed for this one?

Alex is so pretty I just wanna watch him.

lol

live feed should be soon, event 18 has just finished, probably go live when the makr the ft

will be here if thats the case
http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11441

Ok thats it im pulling an all nighter hear got the wsop updates running a fresh pot of tea and a top film on the tv (the game) but running really low on nibbles not good

nooooooooooo alex just lost nearly 500k

ffs 1.2m AQ<<<67

Vince Alex Martin Calenti

getttttttttttttt. go on Alex!!!

Neeeed sleep, gl Alex, expect to see it binked when I wake up.

booooooooooom alex, just knocked out short stack....down to 11 alex close to cl again

Video feed us starting...what seat number is Alex?....

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11459

Give us a wave.........wooo.....gl..........

So pretty on the telly too.

I wish I was him.

looks like our boy is in seat 3 but i must bsay im all ready loving the woman in seat 5

I'm guessing seat number 3

Wtf...what happened..nternet went down...10 way all in?....sick

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Dean says:
 lol
 wiii i have full screen hd
 ooo his pretty

But he is sooooooooooooo pretty...QQ in the BB to a K4 push....MBN to be Alex Martin....GO GO GO

Come on Alex own that table bitch ;kneelsucker;

Lolz Adey - a bit harsh!

But true

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr alex counterfeited 77  on a 998qq brd ...sic

wow gogogogogog just got back from casino win it alex one time plssssssssssss

Just spoke to Alex and heard his pretty voice.

I was excited.

Gogogogo

fml the live stream aint workin on  my pc

yeah well i'm bout to jump on the plane if the FT is slow enough I could be there in time to rails..... gogogooooooo!!!

If he wins I'm selling my story of how me and the pretty one shared a bed in Luton

[ ] exciting story

5 left, Alex 3rd in chips!

Locked up $114k

Fffs, 5th.  AJ no good v QQ.  Some hope on a 8 9 10 flop but no joy :(

WP tho Alex.

Some rough spots there at the end, still a s sick effort and a nice 6figure score for THM vwp!

Ffs ul Alex, still a nice score.

Was gonna rail but was far too tilted after busting earlier.

UL alex wp

Fine effort Mr M.

A Tourney Report is mandatory, written in Alex-speak, please.

gg ul :(

UL Alex

Nice score Alex and a great effort.

Your exit hand was eerily similar to John Shipley's in the ME a few years ago.

I'll be interested to hear your analysis of it later.

CONGRATS and commiserations Alex
Wp son

UL Alex

i randomly asked him for 10% of this tournie a few days ago. so sick!

congrats and im sure it wont be the last ft of the series. glglglglglgl

Great effort Alex vwp

Geo

well done alex.... i would just like u to know vinny fell asleep watching the feed

A great effort mate, I know how much you wanted the bracelet, but there will 100% be other chances. This time wasn't to be- must have been a lot of chat about JCarver at the break, then for him to show up with Queens is ice cold.

Back on the horse and make another deep run plz, really enjoyed following it.

jc carver.... our mentor greg  ;)

UL Alex but VWP too.

Awesome effort TFOP, well done sir.

Well played Alex !!

Great effort, well played, unlucky.

Unlucky but very well done Alex

V well done Alex....

Wel played Alex.

Will try not to copy and paste TFOP's most recent facebook comment  :D

superb effort m8, grats

cheers guys for the support, had a horrible seat with a guy on my left that kinda pwned me. i had AK pre, opened and got flatted by dircet left and jason, flop 993r, c/c/b, jason folded i called, turn 5 check check , river was a 6 and i check folded to a 2/5 pot bet, really really should have called to get a good line on him and i could be good some of the time, instead was kinda in the dark with the guy the entire final, ah well.

well done alex great result.....soooo close to a bracelet

just to make it easier for the over 30's i've FYP

great work Alex, well played.