Posted by pgordon | Filed under Uncategorized
Yesterday during the first day of the $2,500 Short-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event, my entire chip stack was at risk a couple times. I was very short-stacked with about two hours to go. Everyone folded to me on the button. The blinds were big. I only had eight big blinds. I can’t raise and fold because I’ll be pot committed so I just moved in. Jim McManus found a hand that he liked and he called me. I got it all in really bad: 10-4 for me versus McManus’s A-Q. But that’s a 38% shot. It’s not as bad as it sounds. You always feel kind of silly when you turn over a hand like 10-4. I got lucky and won that hand. Obviously, I wasn’t thrilled to get my money in only 38% to win, but you’re going to have to win a few of those to win this tournament, especially because everyone is relatively short-stacked.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by jgreenspan | Filed under Uncategorized
I won’t go into the specifics of the hand, but suffice to say that it was the kind of thing that could only happen in Pot-Limit Omaha. Three of us were all in on the turn, and when we turned our cards up, we saw that we all had the nuts, and we all had redraws. It was sick and brutal and there was nothing any of us could have done about it.
“Want to run it two or three times,” one opponent said.
“Sure,” was my answer. I had $2,000 invested in this pot – a lot for me. And there were plenty of cards that would cost me any share of the pot.
“You can’t run the river multiple times,” the dealer chimed in.
“What are you talking about?” a tablemate replied. “We’ve been running multiple rivers for the last twenty hours.”
He was right. We had been.
“Well, I was told that you can’t run the river multiple times in low-limit games.”
“There’s $6,000 in that pot. I’m not sure this is a low-limit game exactly,” chimed in another player. He then noted that there was about $25,000 on the table.
“Call the floor,” I snapped.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Storms | Filed under Uncategorized
Perhaps trying to gain a monopoly on the brightest minds in the game, Full Tilt keeps adding poker stars to its already talent-laden roster. One of the latest additions to the team is Eric “E-Fro” Froelich, who leapt from the realm of online poker onto the poker world’s greatest stage at last year’s World Series by winning the $1,500 Limit Hold’em event. His Full Tilt jersey bears the number 18, which represents good luck (literally “chai” or “life”) in Hebrew. While many of his colleagues were out on the tournament floor playing for the $50,000 HORSE bracelet, E-Fro was relaxing in the Full Tilt lounge.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by kristy | Filed under Uncategorized
Today is going to be a sick marathon. I get burnt at midnight. I’m pretty much toast by then, but I’ll just Red Bull it if I have to. I’m not used to playing long sessions anymore. Tournaments are hard for me because I am five- or six-hour session player. It’s difficult but if I have some chips and I’m still in it late the adrenaline will keep me going.
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of catching up with Lee Watkinson, the newest member of the Full Tilt team and its latest bracelet winner. When I spoke to him, he was standing in front of the cashier’s cage waiting for the $655,746 check he’d earned for winning the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. Checks of such size aren’t produced quickly, allowing us plenty of time to talk.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by kristy | Filed under Uncategorized
I feel good although I started off kind of crummy. I went all the way down to $30,000 relatively quickly. Then I got on a rush in limit hold’em, which is funny because I really hate that game. And then in razz I won a couple nice hands.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Howard | Filed under Uncategorized
We all started with a lot of chips in the HORSE event. Personally, my cards have been very dead, but fortunately we started with 50,000 chips. I’m down 15,000, but I still have plenty of chips. It’s kind of nice to play in a tournament where you can have a bad six hours and still be pretty safe.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Storms | Filed under Uncategorized
Minutes before the start of the $50,000 HORSE event, the back room of the Full Tilt lounge was packed with players trying to relax before what has to be considered the biggest tournament of their lives. You could sense from the vibe in the room that this wasn’t just another tournament. Mike Matusow’s knees were actually shaking, so pumped was he with adrenaline. It must have been contagious as Huck Seed, sitting to his left on one of the couches, couldn’t stop twitching his foot.
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Five minutes before she was to sit down in the poker tournament with the biggest buy-in in history, Jen Harman still found time to share her thoughts about today’s event.
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As much as I would like to write about something else, it’s impossible to ignore the buzz being generated inside the Rio Convention Center by today’s $50,000 HORSE event. I caught up with Erik Seidel on his way into the tournament room twenty minutes before the event was scheduled to begin.
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