There’s not much better than watching guys suck out on Phil Hellmuth. Not because it’s cute to see Hellmuth act like a baby, but just because it gives him a chance to continue to prove why he’s one of the more classless children in the game.
You’ve been playing that long and you still can’t handle a suck out? Come on.
Though “That guy can’t even spell poker.” is pretty funny to say to that obvious donk.
Tags: phil hellmuth suck out, wsopCardPlayer.com has a new live play poker lessons video online now featuring Mike Matusow, this time playing 2 screens of $3/$6 omaha. Again makes me want to see more though I’d never pay for such a thing.
Mike is probably one of the most erratic players in the game. You seem him playing what is pretty close to perfect poker and then right down in the middle of playing some of the worst crap game ever.
Though the media has found his market as the ‘Mike Matusow blowup’ so at this point maybe he has a PR deal where he has to act out every so often.
It’s sometimes amazing to watch these sofa cowboys play into the roles they’ve been assigned.
Check it out here.
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So, now that they’ve got Annie Duke on board at Ultimate Bet, they’ve asked her to fix up their tournament schedule (that’s the story anyway) to make it more lucrative for players. Here are some of the recent changes under my least favorite poker player’s reign:
Sure, cool, I’m sure she had a lot to do with it. Sniper tournaments are nice though. Uh, I can’t look at that head.
Tags: annie duke, ultimate bet tournamentsNow this is a poker commercial. Of course, it got banned so Full Tilt sticks with the arty poem ads. Good banned, dumb goes on. Welcome to life.
Tags: banned full tilt ad, phil iveyIf you’re still thinking about entering Full Tilt’s FTOPS VIII events, which begin tomorrow, you now have three new options, which up until this event have never been offered as a major tourney style via Full Tilt. With the announcement of this new series, the mentioned 3 mystery tournaments, which, while definitely not too outside the box, are at least a slight idea change.
I don’t know that I’d ever be willing to invest that much in an online series, but it’s worth looking into, no? Plus they are still running satellites for the thing all through today and into tomorrow I imagine.
Tags: ftops VIII, mystery tournamentsPokerStars,net, the world’s largest online poker site, today welcomed hundreds of poker players and media from around the world to the first Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The $2,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament already looks set to sell out and promises to be an unforgettable experience for the expected 300 players. The total prize pool will reach $750k not to mention a big pay-day for the first-place finisher. The three-day tournament runs May 3-5.
“I am as passionate about the LAPT as Latin Americans are about life,” said LAPT President Glenn Cadematori. “Poker is exploding in Latin America and the game is more than ready for its own major poker tour. It’s one of the fastest-growing poker regions and in every regard, the LAPT is going to put Latin America on the map as the newest hot-spot to play high-stakes championship poker.”
Among the top players at LAPT Rio are Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari from Brazil, Humberto Brenes from Costa Rica and as well as Vanessa Rousso, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Victor Ramdin, Isabelle Mercier, Chad Brown and Gavin Griffin.
The tournament is being held at the Intercontinental Hotel, one of Rio’s most luxurious venues located on Rio’s exclusive São Conrado beach.
“LAPT Rio is a truly prestigious event that, along with other LAPT stops, will bring Latin American poker into a new era - where many hidden poker talents have yet to be revealed,” said LAPT Tournament Director Mike Ward. “The LAPT Rio will be a truly memorable poker experience for everyone.”
The next two stops on the LAPT will be San Jose in Costa Rica from May 22-24. More than 140 players have already won a seat for this event online with PokerStars. Satellites for Costa Rica are running until May 11, 2008.
The third and final stop in Season 1 is Punta del Este in Uruguay from August 7-9. Click http://www.lapt.com for more information.
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Tags: lapt, latin american poker tourOut of the gamut of all the bad and corny poker commercials, my least favorite easily used to be the Jen Harmon one, “Give me something, just a little something!”
Her voice makes my thorax collapse a little bit, as if there are little babies folding baloney in my nostrils. Ugh.
But worse, now, I think, is the Phil Ivey Full Tilt commerical, where he is “mathemetically” analyzing his opponent:
All I can hear is him saying, “What is he thinking? What is he trying?” over and over and over again. Such penetrating mathematics, a computer going bonkers in his mind just analyzing the crap out of this scene. “What is he thinking? He is he trying?” I just can’t take it. It’s more subtely annoying that Harmon’s which in the long run makes it worse.
I am soon going to implode.
“It doesn’t bother me to have the final table later, but I do think it will be an advantage to the amateur players, because they will have time to get coaching and a scouting report against the better players. Also, the endurance advantage that comes into play will be taken away. The upside for the pros is the huge publicity leading up to the final table. Bottom line: if I make the final table, I could care less what they do.”
- Chad Brown, member of Team PokerStars Pro
“I think it’s a phenomenal idea. People think poker is about luck and being hot or cold, but it’s not. A good poker player should be able to play at anytime of the year. Good poker players don’t rely on hot cards or their opponents being on tilt. This is a great thing for pros and poker.”
- Victor Ramdin, Team PokerStars Pro
“I have never heard of a tournament being interrupted for that long before. I do not think it’s good for the sport to make a final table 3 months later. As a player you are in a special mood during a tourney and any break or interruption is bad for the game. It would feel like a new tourney.”
- Katja Thater, Team PokerStars Pro
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Tags: chad brown, wsop final table movefrom Clonie Gowen’s latest Full Tilt blog: “It is very difficult to calculate the exact odds of hitting a drawing hand when you’re sitting at the poker table. Unless you’re a genius with a gift for mathematics like Chris Ferguson, you will not be able to do it.”
There’s not much I hate more than the poker pro/commentator’s knack of making it sound like poker math requires any kind of skill or talent, or anything really beyond, oh, third grade math skills.
Can you multiply by 4? Can you multiply by 2?
Then you can pretty much figure out your win percentage. On the flop, count how many outs you think you have. Multiply by 4. That’s about what your odds of winning are, if you are depending on making your hand to win. On the turn it’s times 2.
Very hard, yes.
Not that calculating your ‘win percentage’ even really means anything a lot of the time. A lot of it is just hot air. Knowing your win percentage isn’t going to help you win anything. It can help you with pot odds to decide if you are getting a good price to call.
Calling poker math ‘genius’ is akin to the A BEAUTIFUL MIND depiction of mental disease. Overly poetic for something much less ‘beautiful’ than it actually is.
I know it’s hard for poker pros not to try to romanticize what they are doing into something somehow artistic or even requiring deep skill. As if zen warriors come down off of mountains to take down the WSOP final table.
No. It is big bellied college football fans.
Clonie Gowen, please stop.
Tags: clonie gowen, poker math“As I’m sure you know by now, USA Today broke the news this morning prior to a media conference call today about World Series of Poker. The Main Event Final table will now be delayed from July 16 until Nov. 9 and 10, and televised on November 11th.”
Seriously? So they’re playing out the main event at a normal date and then played 5-6 months later? God, I can hear the ads now. This is obviously just an attempt to milk as much cash and ad time as possible, and to turn each of the 9 lucky donks who make it all the way down into ‘media icons.’ All we need: more chodes.
Someone, please, help poker. This is getting gross.
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