May 12th, 2008
By popular comment, here’s Tom Dwan vs Hellmuth at the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship:
This is great for so many reasons. First off, the way Phil has to make a big deal of it when he calls with Aces, then stands up and says it again, just begging everyone in the room to see him [...]
By Blake -- 14 comments
May 12th, 2008
from FullTiltPoker.com:
“With a tournament buy-in of $25,000 per player, heads-up poker action doesn’t get any bigger or more exciting than this - the $25K Heads-Up World Championship hosted by 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Champion and Team Full Tilt member Chris Ferguson.
At $25K, this is the largest buy-in for a heads-up tournament ever held either live [...]
By Blake -- 3 comments
May 11th, 2008
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 [...]
By Blake -- 6 comments
May 11th, 2008
CardPlayer.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 [...]
By Blake -- 0 comments
May 9th, 2008
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:
Sniper tournaments with guarantees (essentially bounty tournaments)
$1.2 million in weekly [...]
By Blake -- 0 comments
May 8th, 2008
Now 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.
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By Blake -- 2 comments
May 7th, 2008
If 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 [...]
By Blake -- 1 comment
May 6th, 2008
PokerStars,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 [...]
By Blake -- 0 comments
May 4th, 2008
Out 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 [...]
By Blake -- 3 comments
May 4th, 2008
“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 [...]
By Blake -- 2 comments
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