Jim Makos Blog

It’s been a few days since I posted my disbelief that PokerStars would honor the won EPT packages, but I have been assured by a PokerStars Online Pro Challenger that EPT Grand Final in Madrid will take place as planned. Additionally, many twoplustwo.com posters have verified the same, after contacting with PokerStars stuff so I [...]

Surely EPT won’t be brought to us by PokerStars.com! According to several twoplustwo.com posters, EPT Packages for San Remo or Madrid won’t be honored by PokerStars in the end. Replies by pokerstars.eu say that they can’t verify if players who won the EPT packages are actually registered in the poker tournaments, although there was one [...]

It must have been the worst time ever to win an EPT Grand Final Madrid seat right before Black Friday of online poker. My package that includes 7-night accommodation, EUR10,600 buy-in and EUR750 for expenses is already in jeopardy, although PokerStars claim that the money and packages are safe. After last Friday’s events when the [...]

If you’ve ever played in a live no limit hold’em cash game or indeed watched any of the televised cash games, chances are you’ve heard this or a similar question. But what does it mean? If someone wants to know how deep your stack is they are basically asking how much more money you have [...]

A common mistake made by tournament players going into deep stacked cash games is that they treat it like a tournament, thinking they can just sit there waiting for massive starting hands and then get paid off. This is very rarely how it plays out. In a short stacked tournament situation you’re always going to [...]

Centaur Academy have a few spaces left on their Advanced Football Trading course and Advance Horse Racing course over the next few weeks, which you can try yourselves for £99 discounted of the normal price of £249, by mentioning my nickname (Jimmakos) when booking. Either course needs to be booked by contacting them personally by [...]