Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Poker Strategy
The championship match of the Fourth NBC Heads-Up Championship is knotted at one apiece. Cards were in the air at 9:12 PM. As with the first two matches, the players started with 640,000 chips and blinds were set at 3k-6k, scheduled to increase every 15 minutes.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Chris Ferguson, NBC Heads-Up Championship
Details to follow immediately, 9 44 PM.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, NBC Heads-Up Championship
Cards were in the air for Match #2 in the best-of-three format at about 7:45 PM.
Andy Bloch was responsible for me meeting Penn Jillette and Jimmy Carter on the same day.
Chris used to be an avid basketball and volleyball player. He also danced competitively. He still dances but not so much competitively.
This match is very close through the first level as the last match was all the way through. Neither of these players is going to outplay the other, and they both understand either other and know it.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, NBC Heads-Up Championship
To me, this is almost an anticlimax. Andy Bloch? Chris Ferguson? How could I choose between them. They both enriched the FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE tremendously, and well as my own skills and my life. Two of the best things I’ve ever written were magazine profiles of Andy and Chris. I picked my regular spot in the cheap seats because I couldn’t figure out where I wanted to sit.
I’m going to just start running facts about these two at you as the match starts. (By the way, I’m just dying over not being able to defend my win in the Sunday HORSE last week. “Fortunately” the internet connection in the tournament room is so bad that it’s not too much of an issue to withhold pulling the trigger in the minute before the start.)
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
The match drawing the most attention is Chris Ferguson v. Phil Ivey and deservedly so. They each have five bracelets. Phil is the biggest cash-game winner, Chris the most theoretically cool tournament winner. But Phil could argue that he’s the best tournament player in the world. And Chris could point out that holding on to and accumulating everything you’ve ever won has a value superior to being the best at risking it in other games. Then there’s Ivey’s heads-up rep, winning $17 million in the biggest heads-up cash game in history, against Chris’s unmatched record in heads-up tournament play.
But the Andy Bloch-Huck Seed match is pretty cool for its own reasons.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Chris Ferguson, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
Chris Ferguson eliminates Phil Ivey to win his way into the finals. On a board of 9-4-3-5, Chris bets 100,000. Ivey moves all-in. Chris thinks about it for 4 minutes. He’s shaking his head almost imperceptibly. He doesn’t look happy. Finally, he calls.
Phil shows 6-6.
Chris shows 8-8.
Phil can win with a 2, 6, or 7 but the river is a queen. Chris makes the final for the third time in four years.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey, Red Full Tilt pros
The two semifinalists from the morning round, Andy Bloch and Huckleberry Seed, are both red pros. Three of the four in the afternoon quarterfinals are Team Tilters, Ivey/Hansen and Chris Ferguson. Jonathan Little is also wearing the colors. So when they announced it was time to take the team picture, the picture of all the competitors at the start of the match, it really WAS a team picture.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, NBC Heads-Up Championship
GAME FACE
In the first pair of matches in the quarterfinals, everybody has their game face on. Seed v. Benyamine, Bloch v. Hershiser.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
This was a wild day of poker at the Heads-Up Championship. We’re down to eight players and what a concentration of world-class talents we have.
Here’s the line-up for the Sunday quarterfinals:
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under I = Idiot, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
I had to delay writing this because after the last round ended I was standing talking with Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow and Phil started asking about food. What’s around here? I was thinking of getting a slice of pizza myself so I suggested that. Long story short, I raced through the casino to fetch a slice of pizza for Phil Ivey.
Ya know, we’re close.
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