Derek "Killingbird" Tenbusch started Tournament Poker Edge in 2010 with his friend and co-owner Diego "Ron Fez Buddy" Lomanto. Tournament Poker Edge, or TPE, is a tournament poker training site with hundreds (if not thousands) of training videos by dozens of professionals in the game. Derek is modest when he says that he's not a professional poker player. But if grinding over 80 hours a week, being a consistant winner in the game, being financially backed, having a poker coach, and running a poker training site doesn't make you pro, then we don't know what does.
Intro:
Saving cats from trees, fist fights at the tables, karma comes back to bink a tournament.
Welcome KB:
Podcasting, getting started in poker, binking a $2500 SNG, starting Tournament Poker Edge, MTTs on Bovada, Winning Poker Network & Merge, Having a poker backer, work ethic = 80+ hours per week, TPE videos, going into the mailbag.
Strategy:
Mike folds KK preflop twice in the last couple weeks, check call, check call, check call line.
Steve HH:
EP 3
Hero QQ 21
MP 50
EP folds
Hero all in 200 effective, MP calls w/ AK
Mike HH: MTT 600/1200 blinds
Hero UTG AKs Raise 3,100
CO shoves 31,000
Hero calls
Steve HH: 2/3NL with a $6 straddle
Straddle 6
UTG1 6
MP1 6
Hero Jc8c MP2 6
CO 6
But 6
SB 6
BB 6
Straddle checks
Flop ($48) Qc 9c 3c
SB ck, BB ck
UTG 81 all in
UTG1 folds
MP1 calls 81
Hero folds :(
Mike HH: 5/5 NL
EP 5
MP 5
(2500) Hero 88 $45
(2045) Villain BB 45
EP 45
MP folds
Flop (145) As Qs 8c
Villain ck
EP 300
Hero 300
Villain 300
Turn (1045) 5c
Villain ck
EP ck
Hero 800
Villain 800
EP folds
River (2645) Xc
Villain shoves 900
Hero calls 900
Villain shows Ac2c for the backdoor flush
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