Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Gavin Smith, Poker Strategy
“I am just myself at all times.”
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(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Gavin Smith, Heads-Up, Jennifer Tilly, John Juanda, movie, Phil Gordon, Phil Laak
After watching the second bracket on Friday of the NBC Heads-Up Championship with Joe Reitmnan, I realized I was going to have to head back to my perch in the corner. That was where my computer was, I had plenty of writing to do, and the situation with Andy Bloch and Annie Duke was a one-off: They were both good friends so I felt like I was excused from my usual seat. There wasn’t anything like that in the third bracket, the Spades bracket.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under FTOPS, Gavin Smith
I made sure to watch Gavin Smith’s Pro Chat on February 15. As I’ve written before, ANYTHING can come out of Gavin Smith’s mouth. I expected nothing less in the Pro Chat and was not disappointed.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Allen Cunningham, Annie Duke, Chris Ferguson, Gavin Smith, Howard Lederer, Humberto Brenes, Marco Traniello, Melissa Hayden, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Robert Goldfarb, Tom Schneider, WSOP
When I’m at the World Series, I wish I was home. When I’m home, I wish I was at the World Series. There are a lot of different types of players in a lot of different situations at the Series. My situation is unique, but it shares elements with most of the thousands and thousands playing this year. Integrating the World Series of Poker into your life is difficult.
It’s tough to play and it’s tough not to play.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Gavin Smith, WSOP
Chris Ferguson, Annie Duke, Tom Schneider & Co. were still five-handed at the Split final table so I looked in on Gavin’s PLHE final table. They, too, were five-handed. Because Gavin was the contributor to the FULL TILT book on big-stack play and he had the biggest stack, I was curious how he used it. I watched 17 hands in which two players were eliminated. Gavin was the most active player at the table, increased his stack, only one time showed his cards (gratuitously), and never saw a flop.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Annie Duke, Chris Ferguson, Gavin Smith, Marco Traniello, Me in live tourneys, Smoke & Disinfectant Inn
TRAGEDY – When something bad happens.
REAL TRAGEDY – When something bad happens and you can’t blog it.
Just before noon today, on my way to watching two final tables featuring several of my friends, I discovered that someone had broken into my car. They busted through the front driver-side window and took the navigation system and some copies of the FULL TILT book.
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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 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Bloch, Chad Brown, Clonie Gowen, Gavin Smith, Huckleberry Seed, Humberto Brenes, Jeff Madsen, Kristy Gazes, Paul Wasicka, Phil Gordon, Shannon Elizabeth
Paul Wasicka defeated Chad Brown in consecutive matches last night to win the third NBC Heads-Up Championship. It was an impressive-looking performance, even more so because I watched from the NBC production truck so I could see all the cards. Wasicka played a very tricky game and a very gutsy game. The live updates from www.pokerwire.com and, of course, the NBC broadcasts on seven Sundays in April and May will give you a better feel of the hand-for-hand stuff. I hope the thousands of words I spent on the tournament gave you some feeling for what it was like in the tournament room, some info about the combatants, and a little of what I picked up about heads-up play. These are things from my notes that I didn’t share over the weekend, before we leave the 3rd Heads-Up Championship to history and the airwaves.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Bloch, Gavin Smith, Heads-Up
The Gavin Smith/Andy Bloch quarterfinal pairing was a great matchup for me. Gavin was going to have another style to throw at Andy and it would be interesting see how he would handle Bloch’s approach – always raising and betting small, probing for a predictable style and adjusting. I know Andy a lot better than Gavin but he did a chapter of the book, more than enough (beyond his results) for me to have a lot of respect for how he thinks through poker problems.
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