Tennessee Poker League

A New tournament is starting on Feb 4th. It will be played in WSOBJ tournament format with a few exceptions. It will last 8 weeks with points awarded for final tables. The high point leader after 8 weeks will win $100. And an entry into a championship tournament to determine who will win a trip to Tunica for a Black Jack tournament.

We will be starting a new table game called "Texas Hold Em Bonus. I will post it here when we are ready to start.

It is similar to Blackjack and Poker.

Come on and try your luck ? or skill!

♦Free Roll Tournaments at Numan's

Thursday - Saturday -

Play at 7pm

Sunday at 5pm

♦Free Roll Tournaments at Hog Wild Wednesday nights signup at 7pm

♦Free Roll Tournaments at

Hyperion

Friday &Saturday

signup at 6:30pm

♦Free Roll Tournaments at

Rendezvous

Saturday Nights

signup at 6pm

Membership is free, you can sign up at any of our host locations. As a member you are eligible for all league events and Free Rolls. You must abide by the rules of the league and remain an active member to be considered eligible for events.

This is a for fun league. We play in a number of locations. Each league session consists of 12 weeks, playing single table tournaments earning points for averages. You may play as many or as few times as you like. The league fee is $6 for each tournament entered.

We have a free roll trophy tournament at the end of each league session. This is a fun tournament with prizes, gag gifts and bounties on players.

Several times a year we have Free Rolls and give you the chance to win Major Prizes.

There is no gambling allowed at any of our events, no smoking while sitting at the tables, and no foul language.

If you want to learn to play this is the place for you.

Numan's Freeroll tournament is Saturday the 23rd at 7pm. If you have 6 points you can play.

Winner of the tournament was "Jane Briggs".

Jane was also the winner of the ladies Bracelet. Way to go Jane, look out everyone she's on a roll.

Session 14th Trophy Tournament

Winner of 1st place trophy is

Chris Galley

Mark Smith is 2nd, Rebecca Morelock is 3rd and Jon Bradtmueller is 4th.

It was a well played and fun tournament. Thanks to all the players and dealers for a great time.

Session 15 has started and will end the last week of May.

Rules at the Table

Lets go over some of the rules and common courtesy at the poker table.
The Tennessee Poker League tries- to the best of our abilities- to stay with the rules that the WSOP and other professional groups play by.
All poker rooms in casinos are now smoke free. We started that last year and with few exceptions it has worked well.
Phones are not allowed at the table during a tournament. They are allowed in cash games, however--you will be dealt around if you are on the phone and your hand will be declared dead if you answer it after you have cards.
Folding and betting, should always be done in turn. If you make a mistake occasionally, well, we all make mistakes, just try to keep it to the occasionally and not the every time habit.
Discussing the board is something that should not be done. If you were playing in a cash game and it had a bad beat jackpot the house could call the hands dead if someone at the table was talking about the flop. Besides that--you give the players the unfair advantage of your thoughts of what is possible. Perhaps they had not seen the same thing or the possibility of the hand.
Showing your hand to one player is OK if you intend to show it to the whole table. If not- keep it to yourself. If you are called you must show both cards. Turning up one card is not acceptable to win the pot. No hand can ever be won by one card. Do not expect the dealer to turn it for you, the only thing they can do is muck it, at that time you would then lose the hand.
Getting tells. It is perfectly alright to try to get an opponent to give something away. Stay within the time limits if you are playing in a timed tournament. Taking to much time is just annoying to the table and really won't get you much.
Bad beats, happen to everyone who plays poker. Everybody has a story, and a short one is a good one to tell--in the right time and place. Players who constantly complain are no fun to be around and will soon find themselves with no one to tell them to.

Editors Page

Information on the

Las Vegas Trip Tournament

or email

jnuman38@hotmail.com to sign up for 1st or 2nd session May 17th

see players list for invited players

♦Poker Tip of the day

Strategies &Analysis

Ed Miller at card player

The fooling around Raise

This play has been around forever. I saw it in limit hold'em games and now I see it again in no-limit. Only a few players do it, but those who do tend to do it again and again. I'll call it the "fooling around" raise.

Here's how it goes in no-limit: Some guy limps in, or maybe he calls a regular-sized raise. Then, another player behind him raises. There might be a call or two, and then our original caller decides to re-raise. But it's not a big re-raise (that might imply a big hand). Its a small raise, perhaps a minimum raise. Recently in a $1-$2 game, I saw this fool-around raiser call $2 and then when it was $12 back to him, he made it $22 to go. He had pocket threes.

Then, after a $10 raise and a call, I saw him make it $20 to go. He had J-9 that time.

Then he limped in for $2, and I made it $15 with pocket queens. A tight player called from one of the blinds (very likely a small or medium pocket pair or A-K). The fool-around guy made it $30 to go. I re-raised $60 more. The tight player whined about wanting to see the flop and folded. then, the fool-around guy grinned and folded.

I've seen these fooling-around raises for as long as I've been playing. Again, only a small percentage of players make them regularly. They usually choose drawing hands, such as connectors or small pocket pairs. Be on the lookout. They are very exploitable, so if you find one of then in your game, rejoice.