Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Professor/Banker/Suicide King, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played, Wynn
This is the second time I have endeavored to present my unedited notes of what I consider the greatest session of poker ever played. It took place at Wynn Las Vegas on February 14, 2006, a heads-up match between Ted Forrest and Andy Beal. The first time, under the heading “The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played,” I presented four entries, A-D, numbered 034, 036, 046, and 051 in this Blog. At the time, I had not completed typing my notes from that day and expected that I would keep an entry ahead and over a week or ten days, post all the entries.
It didn’t work out that way. I got busy on a number of subjects in this Blog and a number of things in my personal and professional life.
So I’m starting over. I have now typed up the entire day of notes and will reproduce them in their original form (except that they are typed instead of handwritten, are occasionally formatted slightly differently, and include some explanations in brackets).
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Beal, Andy Bloch, Caesars Palace, Eric Drache, Erik Seidel, Humberto Brenes, Jennifer Harman, Marco Traniello, Ted Forrest, Todd Brunson
”Pure boys!”
For some reason, I remember that line from a high school play. I think it was MUSIC MAN, when the townspeople were expressing their concern about a new pool hall in town.
The pairings party for the heads-up championship was at PURE, the ultra cool nightclub at Caesars Palace, and it was a very nice event.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest
This week marks the first anniversary of what I consider the greatest poker game ever played. It was a heads-up match between Andy Beal and Ted Forrest on February 14, 2006 at Wynn Las Vegas. I wrote about it in the April 2006 issue of BLUFF, as part of 19,000 words of coverage of the three weeks of heads-up matches between Beal and a team of two dozen high-stakes pros. I called the February 14 game “The War Between Two Furies” and “The Valentine’s Day Massacre.” I subsequently wrote a few things about that day in my prior blog on Pokerworks.com and in the February 2007 issue of BLUFF.
I thought it would be fun and interesting to reproduce my notes of that day, verbatim. They started playing just after 9 AM and sat at that table, leaving only to race to the restrooms during the hourly deck changes, until after 7:30 PM. Beal and Forrest were playing $50,000-$100,000 hold ‘em.
There were TWO $8 million swings on this day.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, FTOPS, Jennifer Harman
I hadn’t suffered enough tonight, between busting out of the $35,000 Guarantee, the FTOPS event, and the $30,000 Guarantee. I couldn’t resist entered the $7,000 Guarantee, which starts at Midnight for me. I told myself I did it because it’s a double-stack tournament and so I’d have something to do while watching the end of the PLO event, but that’s like saying ”I can give up drinking anytime I want to.”
But I’m glad I entered.
I drew a table with DontBluffMePLZZ, winner of FTOPS #3, and got to chat at the table with him for a few minutes. (I tried to let him know I was simpatico, having pulled down a cool 5% of his $151,000 payday while watching his victory.) Of course, he could have been handing me a line about everything we discussed, but I like to assume people are telling the truth. Here’s what he told me:
1. He’s 21 years old. ”It hasn’t sunk in, a life changing amount of money for a 21 year old.”
2. Even though this tournament started at 1:59 AM EST, more than 21 hours after FTOPS #3 ended, he hasn’t gone to sleep yet.
3. He is a student at Cornell and says he’s not dropping out.
That’s probably what Michael Jordan said back at North Carolina.
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I just read that Marco Traniello (Full Tilt Poker’s newest red pro) won the Caesars Palace qualifying tournament for the NBC Heads-Up Championship. That’s a terrific achievement and he’s proven himself repeatedly to be a solid tournament player.
But, as I wrote in The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, that wasn’t always the case. Marco and Jennifer Harman met in 2000 while Marco was visiting the U.S. on a vacation from his native Italy. He had no background in poker and had never played it.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Andy Bloch, Clonie Gowen, Mike Matusow, Ted Forrest
I am, to the concept of Full Tilt Poker, what Hugh Hefner was to Playboy in its early years. By that, I mean that I think my real life mirrors how the site is marketed to players.
Learn, chat, and play with the pros? That’s me, me, and me.
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