Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Good causes, Howard Lederer, Taylor Barton, Uncle Tilty
It’s difficult for me to write about the nice things that many of my friends at Full Tilt do with their time and money. Because I work for Full Tilt and this Blog appears on is site I worry that readers presume that I have to write these stories, or a purpose of the Blog is to make the site and its representatives look like upstanding citizens.
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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Weight Loss
Andy Bloch is hanging on going into Day 4 of the Players Championship, 18th of 21 in chips. He is a member of Team Full Tilt and a friend, so of course I’m rooting for him. In addition, Tuesday – Final Table Day – is his birthday, and he has twice had one hand on the bracelet, only to have it elude his grasp (most recently, on his birthday two years ago). Finally, he was responsible for affecting this transformation in me, from December 20, 2009, to May 28, 2010 (details to come):
Hint: it involved a prop bet.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Heads-Up, Joe Reitman, Shannon Elizabeth
While sitting next to Joe Reitman as Annie Duke and Andy Bloch battled in the first round of the NBC Heads-Up Championship, I thought I saw Joe’s ex-wife, Shannon Elizabeth, on the far side of the room and pointed her out.
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(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Heads-Up, Joe Reitman
[The issue of the Blog spacing have been fixed, and you'll be pleased to know I have a healthy backlog of high-quality posts. Therefore, I continue with my coverage of the NBC Heads-Up Championship.]
There is an old expression that goes, “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” I never knew what this meant but always assumed it was true, if only because it could mean almost anything. During the first round of the NBC National Heads-Up Championship on March 5, however, I discovered it was not only true but full of wisdom.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, Erik Seidel, Greg Raymer, Gus Hansen, Heads-Up, Huckleberry Seed, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Paul Wasicka, Sam Farha
By consensus vote, Friday’s second first-round bracket, Diamonds, had the most talent and the most difficult match-ups. Barry Greenstein, 5-0 in the first round, faced Vanessa Rousso, last year’s runner-up. Annie Duke, though never a threat in the HUC, drew Andy Bloch, in a match that promised to pit not only friends but similar styles. Others in the bracket included the occasionally cursed Sam Farha, Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, 2007 champion Paul Wasicka, Gus Hansen, and Greg Raymer. (Hansen and Raymer were matched against each other.)
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Weight Loss
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Because of Andy Bloch’s offer last October, I found myself in the worst position a fat gambler could imagine: losing weight but NOT having a weight-loss bet. After posting Part II of this blog, I sent Andy Bloch a consolation note. I wanted to thank him for getting me motivated to lose weight and let him know I was on a path to doing so even though he hadn’t proposed an actual weight-loss bet.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, London 2008, Million Dollar Cash Game '08, Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth is in a pissy mood. It’s 7:10 PM and more than ten minutes after the re-start, he says, “Where’s Andy Bloch? The guy ships ninety dimes with two sevens and now he’s gone?”
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Me in live tourneys, WSOP 2008
[written June 17 early a.m.]
Okay, so I’m running good. There’s no doubt about that because I just played two more $525 single-table satellites, my third straight night in the satellite room, and I won them both. I should be doing well, but not this well.
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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, 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 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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