February 19th, 2008
Via Daniel’s blog;
“Ideally you want to be the aggressor heads up, but if your opponent pushes the envelope to the point where they are uber-aggressive, you can actually beat them by sitting back a little bit and playing a more solid game- hoping they’ll make a big mistake.
My approach is pretty simple. I min raise […]
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February 19th, 2008
Oh god, they’ve let the two most annoying players in poker have their own show.
Yeah, they’re calling it the Best Damn Poker Show and it’s on Monday nights on FSN. I caught the second episode tonight. This is hardly a poker show. This is a venting booth for two of the biggest promotional sluts in […]
By Blake -- 16 comments
February 18th, 2008
I’m not sure how many people watched the USPC in 2004, but it contains one of the worst tournament snafus in history, that I’ve seen on TV anyway. The video takes it a little out of context but at this point in the tournament D’Agostino is chip leader of the tournament and Corkins had a […]
By Blake -- 1 comment
February 17th, 2008
In the few books I’ve read on late tournament play (and coming off a conversation with my buddy Durden in regards to the subject), the subject of how to play a short stack late in a tournament to stay alive and/or steal blinds has come up several times in the past few days for me. […]
By Blake -- 1 comment
February 15th, 2008
From the World Series of Poker tournament website, here are some of the rules for the event, some of which are ridiculous and/or not know and/or put into play at home games when they should not be, and some of which people still run over even at a home game when they shouldn’t:
4. Everyone must […]
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February 14th, 2008
I think poker has finally reached its peak. I remember three years ago how it seemed like everybody and their mother played. You could get 50 kids to come to a home game with $50 and lose it. Now it seems like only specialists play. Specialists meaning people who will never fully ‘get over’ the […]
By Blake -- 4 comments
February 13th, 2008
If you haven’t heard by now, the next season of the World Poker Tour is going to be showing up on GSN rather than the Travel Channel. Which kind of sucks for me because I only have access to GSN when I visit my parents, so I may have to invest in a TiVo for […]
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February 13th, 2008
Andrew “Creation Killer” Durden continues on his trek of turning $65 into as much as possible playing online $5 and $10 MTTs and sit-n-go’s. Yesterday he won another bringing his total bankroll up to $2228, and bringing his profit up to more than $2000.
You can follow his continued tracking via his myspace.Good job, Durden.
Tags: creation-killer, […]
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February 12th, 2008
CardPlayer is hosting a promo video of a new series of ‘Learn to Play Poker’ videos hosted by online pros. Right now for free you can watch a short video (about 5 minutes) of young online pro Isaac Haxton while he plays 4 $1/$2 no limit tables at once on PokerStars and discusses each action […]
By Blake -- 1 comment
February 11th, 2008
I hadn’t seen this ad on TV yet, but it’s another example of silly poker marketing:
Are the only ways to sell poker really boobs, farts or inflated ‘poetry’?
I do like Juanda’s poker face in this ad though. Much more powerful than whoever that guy at the WSOP final table this year was, who had the […]
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