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 Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Shannon Elizabeth, WSOP
PART II – AREN’T LUCKY CHARMS SUPPOSED TO BE MAGICALLY DELICIOUS?
I found Shannon Elizabeth one second too late.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Allen Cunningham, Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Melissa Hayden, WSOP
I have left the World Series for four days to reclaim my family. (Never mind that I spent most of today playing poker online and watching updates from the WSOP coverage.) I played the $1500 NLHE event on Saturday, played it well, but busted when my K-K ran into a set on a 9-7-3 board. Cruel irony that the Pro Tip I wrote this week is about the power of small pairs.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Jeffrey Pollack, Richard Brodie, WSOP
I did four interviews for the FULL TILT book today, including one for KENO radio at the Hooters Casino. I also picked up a new navigation system and went book shopping. And then I visited Richard Brodie for dinner and we smoked cigars after. Still, when you’re at the World Series without being AT the World Series, the day goes by so slow. I’ll play the $1500 NLHE tomorrow, then go home until Thursday. I’m returning to appear live on Lou Krieger’s and Amy Calistri’s radio show, which they broadcast from Binion’s on Thursday evenings.
But on to important news: Richard “Quiet Lion” Brodie.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Howard Lederer, Me in online tourneys
There was obviously some huge disconnect by these North Carolina judges between a pretty standard definition of “game of skill” and how they applied it to poker. That’s why the procedural posture was so important. You just don’t go opening a poker club out of the blue in that state, so when someone says they are going to, the forces of the law are going to gang up to maintain the status quo.
To me, and I think most reasonable people, the idea that “over a long game, the most skilled players would likely amass the most chips” is tantamount to saying “skill predominates.”
The problem here isn’t with defining “skill.” It’s with defining “game.”
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Gavin Smith, massage, WPT
I will write up my adventures with Ted Forrest and at Jennifer Harman’s charity poker tournament ASAP. I’m in my room at the Bellagio – thanks to the help of Doug Dalton and his assistant Karen in getting me a great rate (the poker rate) on a busy, busy weekend – after watching the beginning of the WPT Championship. I’m also waiting to play an Iron Man heads-up match against rockyruu. He gets $5,000 if he wins, and a chance for more against Perry Friedman and Andy Bloch.
$5,000? I think if Jo Anne divorced me, she’d have trouble getting that much. The pressure in on me here, really.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Clonie Gowen, David Grey, David Singer, Eric Froelich, FTOPS, Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Gavin Smith, Gus Hansen, Huckleberry Seed, Jeff Madsen, Kristy Gazes
I’m interrupting the remainder of my Bellagio Five Star adventure because I noticed yesterday that the new FTOPS are on the Full Tilt tournament schedule. I’ve also noticed that the rajahs running Full Tilt were nice enough to put me in red. Because of my sorry showing in the last FTOPS – I played every event but one and never finished in the money, an escapade that cost me a couple grand – I am bucking conventional wisdom and common sense and calling my shot:
THE NEW, RED MICHAEL CRAIG [note the conceit of referring to myself in third person] WILL MAKE A MARK IN THESE FTOPS!
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, Gus Hansen, Hedy Lamarr, Me in live tourneys, Me in online tourneys, Michael Craig's writing projects, My Life
Yesterday, I wrote up the first half of my explanation/excuse for not turning myself into a terror on the poker circuit. What I’ve been up to since my return from Maui has led to some interesting and strange experiences, a few of which I hope you’ll be interested to hear about. This is the remainder of those items.
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