Posted by Editor | Filed under Good causes, Poker in the Military
Somewhere in Afghanistan, a young Marine named Colin is part of a top-secret operation. His unit, location, and mission are classified information to which I’m not privy. All Colin could disclose is that it involves going after “the bad guys,” of whom I imagine there are no shortage in those parts.
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The $3,000 + $100 NLHE event at the Wynn Classic was the first opportunity I had to meet Kathy Liebert. No one introduced us and we didn’t introduce ourselves but I started talking with her. She wasn’t even talking with me when I jumped into her conversation but that “the poker way.”
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys, Poker Strategy, Wynn Classic
Seminal Futurama line. Fry and Bender are buying gum – ham-flavored gun, which “pinkens your teeth as you chew” – when a soldier comes in and receives a 5% military discount. Fry and Bender want a 5% military discount, so they join the army. They are assured they can instantly quit and still receive the discount “unless war were declared.” They sign up and a moment later, an alarm goes off. What’s the alarm?
The recruiter gravely says, “War were declared.”
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys, Wynn Classic
Noon – 1st level – blinds are 25-50. We’re playing 9-handed. I’m at Table 32, Seat 9, just to the dealer’s right. This is the $3,000 + $100 NLHE event, the last at the Wynn Classic before the Main Event. We’re starting with 8,000 in chips. Levels are one hour in length. The first thing I note, of course, is that with this kind of chip stack, it’s important not to get too committed to a pot, even with a hand like pocket aces.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Dogs (esp. Harpo), Me in live tourneys, My family, Wynn Classic
One of the virtues of the Wynn Classic was that it ran events other than No-Limit Hold ‘Em. This is true of many tournaments but with the popularity of NLHE, “giving the people what they want” has meant giving a large group what it wants most to the exclusion of one of poker’s greatest virtues: diversity. We are already seeing the big cash games online morph from NLHE to PLO. From what I hear, the big game in Bobby’s Room, when it’s really, really, REALLY big, will sometimes be NLHE and PLO, not the old-timey mix of HORSE games with some triple-draw or Chinese tossed in.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys
Someday I’ll take a deck of playing cards
And walk away from Las Vegas.
East, so not to end up at the Bicycle Club or the Commerce
Or see Ted or Huck running to the Bike on some bet.
I’ll keep walking for as long as it takes.
Until I find a town where people ask,
“What are those silly papers in your hand?
Could you teach us to play with them?”
I will smile and refuse of course.
Because if I comply
On the very first day some greasy-haired youth
Will commit all my chips with his A-5 against my A-T.
After a flop of 9-5-5 and
The rest of our chips are in the center
He will still fear my flush draw
Until he turns the case five.
Standing close, above the cards
He will lean into me
And bellow,
“I KNEW I HAD YOU!”
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I’m playing the Sunday $150 + $13 $40,000 Guarantee NLHE as I write this. I got home from Las Vegas about 9 hours ago, at 2:30 AM, to my 16 year-old daughter Ellie standing outside in our driveway, wearing an old black suit. I’ve since blown $175 at the grocery store without getting anything for breakfast and $256 in the Sunday Brawl.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Good causes, Me in online tourneys
Sunday, March 16 at 21:00 ET (half-hour before the Sunday HORSE), Jennifer Harman is hosting a $5 + $5 charity tournament to benefit the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. As a lover of animals and owner of Harpo (a/k/a the $1.1 Million Dog), naturally I signed up and I encourage you to do the same. I emphasize that there is some chance I will be playing the Main Event of the Wynn Classic and may not participate – but my money is down and I’ll probably last longer than if I was playing my stack. Even if I can’t make it, Jennifer and Marco are already signed up, and the news release I’m looking at says participating red pros include Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson, and “also slated to participate are John Juanda, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Clonie Gowen, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham, Kristy Gazes,” and others.
So sign up. It should be a fun time for a good cause.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in live tourneys, Me in online tourneys, Wynn Classic
I took a week away from the blog after the Heads-Up Championship, as you undoubtedly noticed. I was playing the Wynn Classic, playing online, blundering my way through some family issues, putting together the CardRunners post (#374), and giving Full Tilt the time to switch the blogging program and redesign The Full Tilt Poker Blog.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under CardRunners, I = Idiot, Professor/Banker/Suicide King
Full Tilt and CardRunners.com are announcing today that Team CardRunners, the players who operate that leading poker-teaching site, will now play exclusively on Full Tilt.
Joining the ranks of red Full Tilt Pros will be
Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby
Andrew “muddywater” Wiggins
Brian “sbrugby” Townsend
Brian “Stinger885” Hastings
Mike “schneids” Schneider
Cole “cts” South
Eric “p3achy_keen” Liu
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