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[The week before Thanksgiving, I went to Los Angeles to play in Annie Duke's Celebrity Poker Night, to benefit the Decision Education Foundation. It was an eventful trip and an interesting tournament, so I have written an account of the experience, which will appear in this Blog, in somewhere between five and eight installments, depending on how I write the concluding material and cut/divide the stories. It comes with some great photos, though, for reasons that should become apparent, I didn't get any pictures for Part I.]
1 AM – Outside in the Cold, Blythe, California. What could I have been thinking? I am supposed to play in a charity poker tournament with Annie Duke tomorrow night in Los Angeles. I was going to make the drive on Thursday, the day of the event, but got happy feet at about 9 PM. Annie’s tournament doesn’t start until about 8 PM tomorrow, which would give me plenty of time to make the 400-mile drive. But then I made the mistake I often make in these situations.
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CardRunners.com – which along with The Full Tilt Poker Academy, is trying its hardest to encourage all those who play on Full Tilt (and other sites) to be smart poker players – has announced a cool new promotion. Based loosely on Full Tilt’s “Piece of Ivey” promotion, CardRunners is offering you a piece of its co-founder and instructor Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby.
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Last Sunday, my Relay For Life Tournament on Full Tilt drew 158 players, raising $790 for the 2010 Scottsdale Relay. Relay For Life, as I have mentioned on several previous occasions, raises money for the American Cancer Society, which uses it for cancer screening, research, advocacy, and care. In addition, several players who were unable to sign up sent me contributions and alcanthang, who played in the tournament, also shipped me some money. Finally, my friends at badbeatpoker.net held a parallel super-turbo event that raised $80, not including the $32 first prize that the winner also donated to Relay. Thank you for the $933 the tournament raised for the fight against cancer. Thanks also, of course, to Full Tilt which has already agreed to let me run (at least) one more tournament for the 2010 Relay. I will announce the date for that tournament here in the Blog.
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I read yesterday in Daniel Negreanu’s blog that his mother passed away. Daniel is one of the world’s best-known poker players, and, other than his chatty table persona, he is best known for his love and devotion to his mother. Daniel has always been friendly to me and, though we aren’t close, I know his mother had been ill for most of the year. It’s not in the nature of poker players acknowledge things over which they have little control. The passing of a loved one, however, reminds us how little control we have over what’s most important. I join everyone in the poker community in feeling sorrow for his loss.
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I spent a lot of time in my posts about Joe Cada’s heads-up play criticizing Darvin Moon. Obviously, for the guy to finish second out of 6,400 players, he did a lot of things right. I didn’t see them because I watched Darvin only at the final table and, for the most part, he didn’t play especially well there.
But he did do some things right when he was heads-up with Joe Cada. Those are worth pointing out, as are the options open to an amateur player in a big heads-up match with a more-skilled opponent.
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[Please sign up for my Relay For Life charity tournament on Full Tilt. It starts just a few hours from when I posted this, at 18:00 ET, Sunday, November 22. It's in the Private Tournament listings, $5 + $5 NLHE, 10 red pros already signed up to play, all rake going to the American Cancer Society. The password is "relay".]
As I mentioned in my previous post, my third rule concerns not letting people use me or my Blog or my contacts for their commercial purposes. Naturally, I make exceptions in many circumstances, but I’ve found my presumptively helpful nature is just an invitation to be abused. The Blog program initially didn’t have any spam filter, so I was inundated with advertisements posing as comments. It didn’t take any great artistry or discretion to delete these, just time. A lot of time.
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[Please sign up for my Relay For Life charity tournament on Full Tilt. It starts just a few hours from when I posted this, at 18:00 ET, Sunday, November 22. It's in the Private Tournament listings, $5 + $5 NLHE, 10 red pros already signed up to play, all rake going to the American Cancer Society. The password is "relay".]
I have a couple of hard-and-fast rules governing my cyber-behavior. The first is not to lend or give out money to strangers. The second is not to respond when they ask. A third, vaguely related, rule is to be very careful about letting people use me or Full Tilt or my contacts or my good nature – okay, my “naive nature” – for commercial purposes. Even though these rules seem pretty simple, I don’t take them for granted. And now I’m thinking about the benefits of becoming a complete sucker and abandoning them altogether.
But before you plead with me to give you money to play an online tournament in ten minutes or to invest in your vitamin cult or share Andy Beal’s personal e-mail address because you have to give him vital information, read on.
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At 18:00 ET on Sunday, November 22, I’ll be holding my Relay For Life charity tournament on Full Tilt, a $5 + $5 NLHE event with the entire $5 rake from each player going to the Scottsdale, AZ Relay, for the benefit of the American Cancer Society. You can find the tournament on the Private tournament menu. The password, which appears in the tournament lobby, is “relay.”
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To win the match Joe Cada had to let Darvin Moon back in. His best way of closing out Moon was to let Darvin over-extend himself on a bluff or a marginal hand. But because Moon was betting so often, this also put Cada on the path to having to make some expensive lay downs. Maybe Joe made some mistakes on these hands but he had a plan – I think a very smart plan and he was doing his best to execute it.
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Tags: Live Reporting, WSOP - 2009 - Main Event - Final Table - Heads-Up
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