December 2007 Archives

Presents handed out, turkey cooked and served, wrapping paper everywhere. Or was that turkey everywhere? Christmas passed in the traditional way serving to some a one day break from the poker tables. Then on Boxing Day (as we call December 26th in the UK) it was time to pick up where you left off, armed with the last of the wine and a turkey sandwich. For me this meant five card draw, the next stop on the tour around the games on PokerStars.net.

This wasn’t one of my finest hours. Nothing about my play lifted the flag of excitement. I played ‘standard-dreary’, a well used weapon in my poker armoury, and played it to the bone. But it left the roller-coaster ride missing – ups and downs I’d grown used to in the volatile worlds of Omaha. In the end five card draw cost me a few chips in a ten minute stretch at the end intended to punish myself for being so boring.

So where were we? An hour of five card draw, carrying over two grand of my existing stack of 2,435.


The WSOP gets bigger every year but it has been 25 years since the last five card draw bracelet was contested, and won by David Sklansky


The view of The Rio - modern home to the WSOP. It was back in Binions Horseshoe when five card draw made it’s last appearance

Draw feels like one of the original variations of poker, learned first or held onto by generations before. Without the popularity in tournaments it gets left to home games. But not at PokerStars where tables are always open.

Herbert O. Yardley perhaps leads the way on draw, having written extensively about his experience in his famous book “The Education of a Poker Player.” In it, his journey from youth (player poker)to a career in cryptology and international espionage (playing poker) is explained in detail. It would be a good place to start I figured, but against the general spirit of diving in at the deep end. So, book aside, I got into a limit game of five card draw on PokerStars.net.

Draw is a simple game, pretty fast too. Each player is dealt five cards face down with the aim of getting the highest five card hand they can. The ‘draw’ is as you’d expect and after a round of betting players can exchange as many of their cards as they wish for replacements. Then follows another round of betting before any remaining players show their cards.

And whilst some games limit the number of cards you can discard PokerStars lets you swap them all! A new start on a bad hand leaving the door open for an entirely new hand giving you the nuts.

As usual the theory sounds harmless enough. This is the old west game, one of waistcoats, cigars, riverboat steam paddlers, bad pianos and banisters that shatter from the weight of a man being thrown over it. It’s developed over these many years with rugged looking people duelling in tumbleweed streets over lost pots. What chance did I have?

It started well enough. I won the first pot with a pair of aces. I was still in Omaha mode, expecting to need the nuts to win a pot, so this was a surprise. But the next pot gave me a quick lesson in hand selection.

Dealt A-K-K-J-T I threw caution to the wind by throwing one of the kings to the wind. I was in pursuit of a doomed yet heroic straight. Instead I turned my hand into nothing, folding and seeing the pot taken by a meagre looking pair of tens. It was a hard lesson that I’d rather not mention ever again.

I turned to a reliable old friend. If I’ve learned anything these last few weeks it’s that when my mind is ready I can become an accomplished folder. It’s good for getting some kind of grip on things. The last draw game I played was triple draw and that seemed like a blissful game of exchanging card until you found one you liked the look off. Five card draw is altogether different. One chance to change a hand around and that’s it.

For a start it seems a quicker game. Once the drawing is done the showdown follows fairly quickly. Less time for internet browsing then and making cups of tea. The speed belies the sense that five card draw is a deeply subtle game. Opponents can gain information from so many things, like how many cards you discard - if you discard any at all. Does discarding three cards and keeping two automatically suggest a pair? And what should you starting hands consist of, particularly as ever five card hand often looks just a couple of cards away from a straight, flush, full house or better.

I toyed with the idea of looking at my copy of Yardley but was aware that the great man tended to concentrate on its many variations. Instead I worked on my own amateur variations. Concentration was key, trying to get a grasp of what opponents were thinking takes experience and time. I gave up and tried to work on my own game.

What hands to play? Well, hands with the most options seemed best. Straight draws, flush draws, remote full house opportunities seemed to stand the best chance. But then again so did a simple good pair. For whilst you might miss making a full house with your two pair it may still be ahead of an opponent chancing a big bet on a straight draw. And missing.

I was dealt 7-6-5-4-6 - a card away from a straight which I make when the surplus 6 becomes a 3. I’d risked my made pair but figured pocket sixes were hardly going to win the day. I’m back up to 1,910. I win another pot worth 130 on the next hand when my A-K-K-K-J does enough. Being limit poker the pots are small and it’s a rock face game of waiting for hands before committing chips and slowly building your stack.


Team PokerStars Pro Tom McEvoy – pretty much the only PokerStars player around the last time draw was played at the WSOP back in 1982

Another thing to consider is that point I made about players on a draw, with odds against them that they will make their hand. More than once I folded a good pair expecting to be outdone, only for a King-high hand, lesser pair or dare I say it, a busted straight, to take the pot. It’s one thing to put opponents on a hand but I found myself giving players too much credit, a bad hangover from the Omaha tables. Are draws over rated? I wondered, and risked a diversion into territory I have no right being in. Perhaps you can help me out on that one?

Then came a dry patch. A look back in my notes and it reads “Four to flush. Ace high. Raise. Discard. Miss. Fold.”

It continued like this for a while until with ten minutes to go I had this feeling of having been safely away from the front lines for some time I was ducking the action, so, in the most casual of mistakes, I began playing hands I knew shouldn’t have gone anywhere near.

3-3-7-7-Q. Out with the queen, in with the... deuce. Fold.

4-5-6-7-Q. Out with the queen, in with a king this time... fold.

I was throwing away chips like they were weighing me down. With just minutes left I was had two options. Either take my foot off the gas and run down the clock, taking a loss in the process (but a modest one). OR, keep at this insane jack-knife trip towards glory. Yes, I chose this latter option.

That was that very quickly. My original stack had taken a knock slightly, but with New Year in sight I’d have 2,290 for my next stop on the Stud tables, where the complication in poker is multiplied a many times.

Until then, I hope you had a good 2007. Happy holidays everyone and see you in 2008.

By Sean Callander in Sydney

The Shane Warne Foundation is now $50,000 better off after the charity’s patron and Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem won the first PokerStars.net APPT Tournament of Champions.

Holding an 8:1 chip lead over fellow Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer, Hachem had been blessed with a run of cards after the dinner break, which continued when Raymer decided to take a stand on the fifth hand of heads-up play.

Unfortunately, his Qs Js was up against Hachem’s Ac Ks, and the board of 8h 8c 8s Kd 10h ensured the 2005 world champion would collect his first win on home soil.

The face of poker in Australia, Hachem said he was thrilled to end the year on such a high note and would take delight in delivering a cheque for $50,000 to the Shane Warne Foundation.




Joe Hachem - winner of the Tournament of Champions

“The Shane Warne Foundation distributes funds raised to established charities that provide essential help and services to seriously ill and underprivileged children. It’s a great cause and the foundation helps a lot of people. From a personal standpoint, it fills a gap that I’ve been looking for to give something back,” he said.

It’s been a great 24 hours for Australian poker, with Grant Levy winning the APPT Grand Final and Hachem triumphing over three other world champions and four APPT title winners in the Tournament of Champions.

By Sean Callander in Sydney

The journey started in the steamy Philippines capital of Manila in late-August, swept through the bustling metropolis of Seoul in South Korea, made a stop in the world’s gaming capital Macau before culminating in Australia’s biggest city, overlooking some of the world’s most recognisable landmarks.

The first season of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour has ended with the crowning of the APPT Grand Final champion at Star City Casino in Sydney.


APPT Grand Final Winner Grant Levy

Grant Levy, a teacher from Sydney’s outer-west has become the first Australian player to a $1 million prize on home soil after he outlasted Jeremiah Vinsant from the USA in a marathon heads-up battle that went 67 hands (and a final table of 226 hands).

The 28-year-old father of two had plenty of support at the final table from friends and fellow local players, while his family (and students) kept a close eye on his progress via the PokerStars blog.

A former rugby league coach, Levy has stamped himself as the hottest property on the local tournament scene. He was third at the PokerNews Cup in Melbourne, outlasting a field of 428 players to finish third (winning $131,800) and has taken down two significant online tournaments in recent months.

Vinsant, who had already planned to dedicate himself to 12 months of major tournaments in 2008, has built himself a handy start bank in claiming the second prize of $621,540.

Another local player, Lei He, captured third place while the other Australian at the final table, Jai Kemp, finished fifth.

Players from more than 30 countries converged on Sydney for the $6000 buy-in event: many of them making their first trip to Australia.

The field of 561 for the APPT Grand Final was the second largest for a big buy-in event in Australian poker history, and generated a prize pool of $3.336 million.

Despite a field that included four world champions (Team PokerStars Pros Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem, plus PokerStars player Scotty Nguyen), fellow Team PokerStars Pros Lee Nelson and Isabelle Mercier and WSOP bracelet winner Jeff Lisandro, it was a relative newcomer who conquered the field – continuing a tradition established in earlier APPT events this year.



The winners of the respective events have underlined the diversity of people who’ve been swept up by the excitement and drama of tournament poker in recent years.

Brett Parise: a young student from the USA, won $180,000; Ziv Bachar, an aspiring 25-year-old poker pro from the Israel who took out the APPT Seoul title and took home $140,000; and Dinh Le, born in Vietnam, living in the UK and etched in poker history as the winner of the first event on Chinese soil as APPT Macau: Asian Poker Open champion.

The APPT has also brought poker to a new audience. Team PokerStars players like Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Vanessa Rousso, Lee Nelson and ‘ElkY’ Grospellier have been great ambassadors for the APPT and poker in general over the past four months

In 2008, the PokerStars.net APPT will return. More stops, more innovations, more players, bigger payouts. On behalf of the team who’ve worked tirelessly to bring you all the news from the PokerStars.net over the past four months, thanks for your support and see you in 2008!

Results: PokerStars.net APPT Grand Final, Star City Casino, Sydney, Australia

•1 Grant Levy (Australia) $1,000,000
•2 Jeremiah Vinsant (USA) $621,540
•3 Lei He (Australia) $322,280
•4 Sol Bergren (Canada) $230,200
•5 Jai Kemp (Australia) $158,830
•6 Barry Kohlhoff (USA) $115,100
•7 John Matwey (USA) $92,080
•8 Vijayan Nagarajan (Malaysia) $69,060
•9 Larry Wright (USA) $46,040

Arnaud Mattern

There are some players who are gifted with natural talent. Their success comes from skill and hard work, traits not always brought to the attention of the poker world eager to find the reincarnation of the next big thing. Frenchman Arnaud Mattern though is in the former bracket and tonight became the first winner of the EPT Prague.

Hailing from Paris but now living in London, the 28 year-old overcame chip deficits, strong competition and a final that lasted over seven and a half hours to overcome Italian Gino Alacqua, taking the first prize of €708,600 and a seat in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next spring.


Gino Alacqua

How did it all take shape? He arrived at the final table this afternoon second in chips.

Seat 1 – Juha Lauttamus – Finland – 567k
Seat 2 – Kristian Kjondal – Norway – 740k
Seat 3 – Gino Alacqua – Italy – 660k
Seat 4 – Markus Golser – Austria – 352k
Seat 5 – Mikael Norinder – Sweden -- 1,036,000
Seat 6 – Nedzib Suman – Sweden – 216k
Seat 7 – Dagomir Palovic – Slovakia -- 759k
Seat 8 – Johannes Strassmann – PokerStars player – Germany – 245k
Seat 9 – Arnaud Mattern – France – 980k

The line-up immediately threw up favorites, statistically and among the crowds. Markus Golser has been a popular player on the tour for some time and despite valiant cashes had yet to make it to a final table. Was this to be his opportunity to bag a title?

Talented young Norwegian Kristian Kjondal had the experience of EPT final table, having finished fourth in Monte Carlo last April. He was looking to better that and most people expected him too, particularly as he was armed with a good stack.

But the first obstacle for everyone seemed to be Swedish pro Mikael Norinder, an accomplished player who came fifth in the Master Classics in Amsterdam last month. He began with over a million chips, the only player with seven figures, and posed a threat that few expected him to give up easily.

But he did.

First PokerStars player Johannes Strassmann was eliminated in ninth spot for €39,200. One of the two short stacks, Johannes made his move with pocket deuces only for Norinder to call with pocket nines. It marked the high water mark for Norinder who looked unstoppable sweeping up Strassmann’s chips. But in the space of half an hour he went into terminal free fall, from over a million to an eighth place finish sparked by a hand against Kristian Kjondal.

The Swede had raised with Norinder calling and Arnaud re-raising, forcing Kristian to lay down his hand. Then Mikael did something that had everyone asking questions, accidentally putting too many chips in the pot when intending just to call and, as he made no verbal declaration, it was declared a raise by tournament director Thomas Kremser.

It was a moment that would pay dividends for eventual winner Mattern. He went all-in for another 600k. Still ready to cause more surprise Norinder called, making it a colossal pot worth 1.9 million. Arnaud showed his pocket kings with A-Q for Norinder. He would need an ace to dig himself out of the mess but it didn’t come. Arnaud was the new chip leader by a huge margin, whilst Norinder collapsed to 180k. His tournament wouldn’t last another five minutes. Kristian Kjondal did the honorable thing, putting Mikael out of his misery.

The tournament went on, Dagomir Palovic going next. The former child star on Slovakian TV moved all-in with Kjondal calling by the narrowest of margins – A-T for the Slovakian, A-J for Kjondal. The difference was almost the same as the previous hand that had cost him dearly, A-Q against A-K. The result was the same this time and Dagomir was out, taking €93,600 with him.

The pace seemed to have picked up now, with thoughts of a quick final on people’s minds. Nedzib Suman took his €119,000 for sixth when his A-T was called by Juha Lauttmaas holding pocket sevens. It would be nearly an hour before his exit was followed by Markus Golser who finished in fifth place. It was not to be for the experienced Austrian but his options were growing short. He pushed when the flop brought him a flush draw, Juha called though with a pair of jacks. No clubs came for Markus, out with €151,800.

With four left the chip stacks looked like this:

Juha Lauttamus – Finland – 1,806,000
Kristian Kjondal – Norway – 1,070,000
Gino Alacqua – Italy – 1,073,000
Arnaud Mattern – France – 1,566,000

Golser’s vanquisher would be next in line for dethroning though, another chip leader experiencing a sudden descent into chaos. A simple battle of the blinds resulted in three million chips going to Arnaud after Juha moved all-in. Arnaud found himself to be in the joyous position of calling with aces and the two bullets held. As with Norinder earlier he would be quickly finished off; Gino Alacqua doing the calling this time when Juha pushed, Q-4 against Q-2. The Finn Juha out in fourth place for €182,200

That left three. Arnaud held the lead and was beginning to look unshakeable. But was it as straight forward as that? We’d already seen two chip leaders eliminated before their time. Could it happen a third time?

That thought came to mind when Gino took a huge pot against the Frenchman, a bet from Arnaud called by Gino for his tournament life. It proved a good decision. K-J for the Italian, pocket eights for his opponent. The race was ended fast when the king hit the flop. Was history repeating itself?

Kristian Kjondal -- Norway -- 1,651,000
Gino Alacqua -- Italy -- 2,349,000
Arnaud Mattern -- France -- 1,434,000

One of these three would have to go next - Norwegian Kjondal would shoulder that responsibility. With a flop dealt 3-4-5 Gino made it 200k. Kristian moved all-in and Gino called. As had now become familiar the crowds got to their feet, standing on chairs, hanging off railings and flouting health and safety laws to get a better look at the cards as the hit the table. K-6 for Kristian with a straight draw, K-5 for Gino with a made pair of fives. An eight hit the turn, no good for Kristian, but it gave Gino more options for a potential flush. A deuce, six or seven of the non-club kind would work. It didn’t come. To cheers of “Go on the devil!” (Alacqua’s nickname being ‘El Diablo’) Kjondal shook hands with the others and made his way off stage with €235,399 for third place.



With a case of cash and the EPT trophy now standing on the table the heads-up battle began. Gino Alacqua on one side, the young Frenchman Arnaud Mattern opposite. The duel would take over 90 minutes but would hinge on just two hands.

Just two? Well, the reality was that Arnaud chipped away without needing a particularly big hand, and never gave up. In contrast to Gino’s flamboyant style Arnaud was the picture of discipline and perseverance. No extra movements, no wasted energy. Heavily outnumbered going into the heads-up, with 1.5m to Gino’s 4m, the Frenchman simply refused to lose sight of winning and maintained the concentration needed to avoid any mistake.

The first of those key hands saw the chip lead take a violent swing away from Gino. Arnaud had moved all-in. Gino, who speaks little English only ever talked to his friends on the rail a few feet away and even then rarely. All his thoughts stayed inside his head, his composure and concentration seemed to depend on this.

Sometimes there are little moments that go overlooked, forgotten in the shadow of the bigger act of winning. The pitcher nodding at the catcher calling for a fastball in the ninth inning, or the two or three bounces of the basketball before the star player takes a game wining foul shot.

Call me old fashioned but Gino’s donation to this spirit was a simple nod to the dealer, declaring his wish to call Arnaud’s all-in. No words, no chips being pushed forward, just a few short nods.

All hell broke loose. The same recklessness on the rail, with people rushing forwards to see what they could, perhaps partly responsible for adding to the drama in these moments. They wanted to see the Frenchman paid off for nearly 90 minutes of rock face work and they wouldn’t be disappointed.

Gino stood to attention, head slightly bowed, his hands clasped in front of him, patiently waiting for a big voice to shout at him. It came in the form of Arnaud’s pocket jacks. Gino could only manage A-9 and would need one of the three left in the deck. The flop came 4-K-Q. No sign of the ace. A deuce on the turn, a four on the river. Arnaud’s mission was almost complete. The French fans on the rail, and there were many, went delirious.

Fifteen minutes later it was done. The last hand of EPT Prague was heralded by the whoosh of spectators. Anyone walking past not in the know would have thought the crowds were waiting for someone to emerge from a deep whole carrying the secrets of the universe. Instead they were seeing the last all-in called. A-K for Arnaud, Q-T of diamonds for Gino. The Frenchman was ahead with the hand and ahead with chips. All he needed to do now was dodge a lot of diamonds, queens and tens.

Two of the dreaded diamonds found their way to the flop. 2-6-J, a ray of hope for Gino. King (hearts) on the turn. A deuce (clubs) on the river. It was all over. The cheers drowned out everything else as Arnaud Mattern completed one of the great EPT comebacks and win the inaugural EPT Prague and €706,800 - and of course, a seat in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo next spring.

It marks the end of the first EPT Prague which started with 555 players this week travelling here from 36 countries. The starting field went beyond anyone’s expectations, making the event a success all round.

“For a new event, the Prague EPT has been an outstanding success.” Said PokerStars Head of Communications, EMEA, Conrad Brunner. “Europe's top players have put on a real show, and great credit must go to Arnaud Mattern for winning against a top class field. His victory in Prague catapults him to the top of the French EPT leader board.”



As for the EPT another new event awaits as the tour makes its first stop beyond the geographical borders of Europe. Staring on 5 January 2008, the Bahamas will be home to the EPT with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, one of the most popular tournaments, not to mention destinations, anywhere in the world.

That’s all from Prague. See you in the Caribbean.

After one bout on the 2-7 Triple Draw table I approached the Omaha hour intending to perform my new routine of aggressive folding - something I’d found saved me a fortune at times. So yes, Omaha...

I brought my remaining 1,330 to table Perseus IV and being British, opted for that quintessentially native breed of omaha - pot-limit. Another reason was that I figured this would limit my losses.

Contrary to my usual karma I found a hand straight off the bat, making a flush on the river for a scoop worth over 1,000. A nice start, allowing for one glorious moment spent thinking I was a natural at this game. Then the wheels fell off.

But I’ll get to that. First, what are you looking for in an Omaha hand?

Well it's varied but one with the highest possibility of winning should be your aim –big pairs and double-suited connecting cards give you a shot at everything from quads to a straight. So something like Ad Ah Kh Kd wouldn’t be bad.

And the not so good? Well quads and trips are a no. Remember that you must play two cards of the four dealt to you so if you hold T-9-A-3 on board of Q-Q-Q-9-2 your nine doesn’t make the full house. You must use two of your cards (so you'd need to hold two nines to make the full house). And as far as a good starting tip, always be aware of what the nut hand is – and how that might change on the turn and river.


Joe Hachem – one of world’s best Omaha players

I was busy glorying in my play when a swine of a hand came a long that I thought too good to fold. It blossomed on each card into something even more beautiful, like a bird of prey stretching its wings and taking flight, only to be shot out of the sky at the last moment by a machine gun.

Dealt 6h-Ah-2c-7d I was getting a quick lesson in the perils of Omaha. With a 4h-Js-5s flop I had a straight draw. With a 9h on the turn I’d developed a flush draw too. Galloping towards the river I had no regard for how much I was paying to call. The Jh made my flush and I may have cheered something at the screen. But my spine went cold when I saw my opponent’s full house.

This ugly hand left me with 155. I’d ignored the fact that the paired board made a full house possible. But never give up! All I needed was some kind of herculean comeback.

And I’d just learned a valuable lesson - that it often takes the nuts to take the pot. Anything less than a good straight (with no flush possibility on the board) would do, and if you don’t have the nuts, well, what are you doing calling on the river?

If only I’d asked myself that earlier.

So after 15 minutes I was in trouble. But then I made a full house on the turn which took me up to 625. A few hands later, without having to do anything but check my big blind, I couldn’t help calling a bet on the river with a Jack-high straight. Excellent, I was back up to 975. Fighting weight.

Fortune struck again. Holding 7-9-J-3 I checked my big blind again (that tends to be a hand to fold), made two pair on the flop and a full house on the river. A pot of 1,140 took me to 1,840 – an amount not only above where I’d started but over ten times what I’d been reduced to after my idiotic escapade with a flush earlier on.

I could try a story about perseverance but honestly I was just glad to save face. Now I just needed to sit and fold for 30 minutes and reach the hour mark with more than I started with - a thoroughly defeatist arrangement I admit, but one that seemed to suit me fine.

Down to 1,580 I had ten minutes to hold on. An expert might say that if that’s your attitude you shouldn’t be sitting at the table in the first place. Technically I was doing well and should have been pressing home this advantage. Instead I played the ‘free hands’ on my unraised big blind and nothing more.

So when I did the same holding 9-9-7-2 on a T-9-4 flop I figured ‘What the heck. Let’s spend the last of my new found wealth on a send off hand’. The seven on the turn did nothing for me but the nine on the end did. With quads I enjoyed that sunshine moment of knowing I'd win and win big. Called on the end I was suddenly up to 2,510. A “nh” and “ty” followed, I ended the hour on 2,435, a profit on the day of 1,105.

I’m up in chips, I hope you are too. The adventure goes on. What better time to try out a session of five card draw?

Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson is already the noted co-author of the book Kill Phil. Now, he has turned his sights on...well, apparently everyone. We invited Nelson to tell us about his new effort, aimed at taking out the poker population at large.

by Lee Nelson

When Blair Rodman, Kim Lee, and I wrote Kill Phil, our objective was to level the playing field in no-limit hold’em (NLHE) tournaments by providing less experienced players with the tools needed to significantly reduce the edge that pros enjoy. Our target audience was beginning to intermediate players.

Kill Everyone, on the other hand, is not suitable for newbies. It provides advanced but easily understood strategies for NLHE multi-table tournaments, both live and online, satellites, and SNGs. There are a plethora of poker books currently in print and we wanted to create a product that would be readily distinguishable from other poker books on the market providing great value to our readers.


Team PokerStars Pro Lee Nelson

Kill Everyone provides a well-balanced, easily assimilated blend of real-time experience, poker math, and computational horsepower with many advanced concepts that haven’t yet been in print. Poker has evolved rapidly and Kill Everyone is geared to today’s game players. In it we provide an understanding of the differences between new and old school play, describe how to accumulate chips, go into great detail on end game strategies in the different tournament types. We go into extensive detail on advanced concepts such as equilibrium plays (the best plays you can make if your opponent plays optimally) and exploitive plays (the best plays you can make if your opponent deviates from optimal play). We’ve laid this all out in easily understandable form using numerous charts and graphs, but without bogging our readers down with heavy math. For example, we provide an unexploitable re-steal chart for varying CSIs (Harrington’s "M") based on assumptions of opponents’ raising ranges, and an unexploitable heads-up strategy for CSIs of 8 or less. We also distinguish between hand rankings for pushing versus calling a push (they’re different).

Kill Everyone distinguishes between pot-odds and tournament odds and provides detailed analysis of changes required as you approach the bubble and beyond describing specific instruction not only for MTTs but for SNGs and satellites as well. Adaptations to recent changes in tournament play are covered in great detail.

I’ve been asked a number of times why we wrote a book that divulges so much information? My answer is always the same: “If we’re going to write something we’d better provide value or it makes no sense to say anything.” Tysen, Kim and I believe that Kill Everyone will help make you a better tournament player. We trust that you won’t be disappointed.