{"id":6256,"date":"2010-08-12T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:11:43","slug":"schedule-in-london-in-september-is-one-of-the-most-exciting-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/schedule-in-london-in-september-is-one-of-the-most-exciting-of-the-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Schedule in London in September is one of the most exciting of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6271\" title=\"Tyron Krost Sydney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tyron-krost-sydney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tyron-krost-sydney.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tyron-krost-sydney-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s been a few weeks since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/tyron-krost-cashed-the-wsop-main-event-2010.html\">my last blog post<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been back in Sydney during that time and just been living my regular non-poker life. I&#8217;ve played a bit of online poker, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/play-tony-g-and-tyron-krost-in-the-apt-manila-bounty.html\">APT Manila bounty<\/a> event a couple of weeks ago where Tony G and I each had a $320 package on our heads.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Best\u00a0performing\u00a0Team PartyPoker player<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was a $6 buyin event that got about 90 runners, so there was a bunch of extra money in the tournament. I didn&#8217;t go particularly well but at least was the best performing team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/\">Partypoker<\/a> player :P. Also, I made a deep run, finishing about 30th, in the 300k guaranteed last Sunday (Monday in Australia).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ANZPT Gold Coast is starting later this week and then the Victorian Championships at Crown are in a couple weeks time, so there&#8217;s a fair bit of tournament poker still to play in Australia. In September I&#8217;m off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/news\/items\/wpt_london.html\">London for the WPT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/world-open-vi-laak-timoshenko-devilfish-and-more-to-play.html\">World Open<\/a>, WSOPE and EPT. The schedule in London in September is definitely one of the most exciting of the year, maybe even the most? So, I&#8217;m really looking forward to that.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Looking at optimal strategies for the penalty taker and goalie<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I&#8217;ve been reading Soccernomics by Stefan Kuper and Stefan Syzmanski for the last week and I thoroughly recommend it. There&#8217;s a lot of stuff in there that can be easily applied to poker. The one chapter I found particularly interesting was on penalty kicks and looking at optimal strategies for the penalty taker and goalie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Without summarising it too much, the authors explain how Franck Ribery intuitively uses nearly the optimal strategy for the direction he shoots his penalties. I think it&#8217;s fair to say that intuitively grasping probabilities and then making the right play in the heat of battle is one feature of a good poker player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That&#8217;s all for now, I&#8217;ll write up some blogs with my progress in the upcoming events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few weeks since my last blog post. I&#8217;ve been back in Sydney during that time and just been living my regular non-poker life. I&#8217;ve played a bit of online poker, with the APT Manila bounty event a couple of weeks ago where Tony G and I each had a $320 package on<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/schedule-in-london-in-september-is-one-of-the-most-exciting-of-the-year.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36701,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/36701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}