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It’s killing me that I’m not playing in this one. The number of hundred-dollar rebuys I could have blown is unimaginable. At least I know I could have bought my way to the first break, something my skill was unable to achieve for me yesterday. With or without me, the FTOPS goes on, and today it’s Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys, hosted by Eric Froelich.
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FTOPS is going to be very, very big. Tonight’s $200 +$16 NLHE had a $300,000 Guarantee, meaning they expected around 1,500 to play. They got 2,573 for a prize pool of over half a million dollars. I contributed my share and grabbed myself a primo seat on the rail to watch almost all of it.
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[Note: This is a multipart series, which is largely written. I'll be sharing it periodically during the FTOPS. I'm playing tonight in FTOPS #1. I willi be missing the beginning of FTOPS #2 and #3 but will be around for Gavin Smith's $1000 buy-in NLHE in FTOPS #4. I will try to keep you updated on my own performance, the play of the pros, and any other interesting stuff as the FTOPS proceeds.]
I spent the evening of April 19 in the showroom of Fletcher Jones Imports, a Mercedes dealership on West Sahara in Las Vegas. I was advising Ted Forrest on the particulars of buying a new car, in this case a Mercedes S 550. We spent most of it in the company of Davi “DJ” Juneja, a car salesman who must meditate a lot because he had to be a Zen master to handle what we put him through.
So how did we get here? Why was Ted Forrest buying a new car? Believe me; it wasn’t his idea. And why was I here advising him and taking notes? The answers to these questions are long and, maybe, not completely satisfying ….
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in online tourneys
I am honestly not writing this to brag. At least, I am not writing it ENTIRELY to brag.
For the second time in four days, I won the $13,000 Guarantee on Full Tilt. I want people to know about this for the simple reason that I spent a year learning how to play tournament poker from a dozen of the best in the world. My education is being published in book form and on June 1, when Warner Books releases THE FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE: TOURNAMENT EDITION, everyone will have a chance to learn what I learned.
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I’m completing my first month as a “red” Full Tilt Pro. It’s been a remarkable experience and I’d like to share several aspects with you. Maybe this can also serve as a place I can send people when they see me on Full Tilt in red and ask “Who is Michael Craig?”
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Clonie Gowen, Richard Brodie, Table Chat, Ted Forrest, WPT Championship
Earth Man, Pretty Woman
On Saturday night, I got to visit with Richard Brodie and share a cigar. He called me up and told me he had a last minute opening for me to join him at some ultra-luxe VIP event at the Wynn. I was wearing shorts and sandals and playing a slot machine, so I raced upstairs to change, then to the car, then through traffic, then through the Wynn to the far-off banquet room where the event was being held. Brodie called me twice to ask what was taking so long.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Chris Ferguson, Jennifer Harman, John Hennigan, Phil Ivey, Richard Brodie, Roland de Wolfe, WPT Championship
The Tiger and the Iceman
Leaving the Bellagio on Monday, April 9, I stopped for breakfast in the hotel. I always feel awkward eating alone and usually bring something to read. But my car was packed to the gills and I walked in empty handed. Luckily, I found a copy of M Magazine, “the lifestyle magazine of MGM Mirage.” There was a Q & A with Tiger Woods about his TigerJam charity event, scheduled this year for May 26 at Mandalay Bay.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Bellagio Five Star, Dan Harrington, Mayfair Club, Professor/Banker/Suicide King
Back in April I made two trips to Las Vegas and spent a total of seven nights at the Bellagio. I participated in the beginning of the Bellagio Five Star, and was a spectator for the beginning of the end of the tournament, the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Championship. I played some very good poker and some very bad poker, and I met some interesting people.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Poker and the Law
The North Carolina Court of Appeals was unequivocal in its conclusion that golf is a game where skill predominates. “Although chance inevitably intervenes, it is not inherent in the game and does not overcome skill, and the player maintains the opportunity to defeat chance with superior skill.”
I thought EVERYBODY played golf in North Carolina. Isn’t Pinehurst in N.C.? These guys on the court of appeals obviously have never played and probably have never watched the game.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Howard Lederer, Me in online tourneys
There was obviously some huge disconnect by these North Carolina judges between a pretty standard definition of “game of skill” and how they applied it to poker. That’s why the procedural posture was so important. You just don’t go opening a poker club out of the blue in that state, so when someone says they are going to, the forces of the law are going to gang up to maintain the status quo.
To me, and I think most reasonable people, the idea that “over a long game, the most skilled players would likely amass the most chips” is tantamount to saying “skill predominates.”
The problem here isn’t with defining “skill.” It’s with defining “game.”
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