Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Chad Brown, Gavin Smith, Heads-Up
Two of Mike Matusow‘s all-time spooks met in one of the semifinals, Gavin Smith and Chad Brown. Although Shannon Elizabeth and Paul Wasicka squared off at the same time for the other semifinal, all the action in Smith/Brown took place while Elizabeth and Wasicka were sparring.
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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, Mike Matusow, Shannon Elizabeth, Strategy
Full Tilt Poker‘s system crashed trying to get my avatar on the system, keeping me from playing the $400,000 Guarantee and keeping me from making updates for several hours. The semi-finals are going on right now. Shannon Elizabeth has a small lead over Paul Wasicka, and Chad Brown has a big lead over Gavin Smith. I’ll write a bit about what’s going on, as well as how they got here, but I wrote a feature while the site was down to provide some insight into the heads-up games of the players at this level.
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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, Gavin Smith, Heads-Up, Humberto Brenes, Kristy Gazes, Nam Le, Paul Wasicka, Shannon Elizabeth
Today is Sunday, and there are just eight players left in the NBC Heads-Up Championship. It will be a long day ahead. I am not only ignorant of how it will turn out but how I will be covering it. But that’s part of the fun, isn’t it? Anything can happen. When it’s over, we could be crowning the first female heads-up champion. I might cover it from a table in Full Tilt Poker‘s $400,000 Guarantee.
You just never know until it happens.
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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, Kristy Gazes, Mike Matusow, NBC Heads-Up Championship
The second half of the third round features some amazing match-ups, both for the poker skill involved and what they represent to me personally. All eight players are wearing the Full Tilt colors. These are my comments on the matches as I dreamed them up. For the blow-by-blow and the interviews after, check out the coverage of www.pokerwire.com.
The Matusow/Bloch match turned out to be extremely entertaining, though not for reasons I could have imagined, despite knowing both men very well.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Allen Cunningham, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Barry Greenstein, Chad Brown, Chip Reese, Don Cheadle, Gabe Kaplan, Gavin Smith, Heads-Up, Huckleberry Seed, Humberto Brenes, Isabelle Mercier, Jaime Gold, Jeff Madsen, Joe Hachem, Johnny Chan, Kristy Gazes, Michael Mizrachi, Mike Matusow, Nam Le, Paul Wasicka, Phil Gordon, Phil Laak, Scott Fischman, Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Sheikhan, Ted Forrest, TJ Cloutier, Tuan Le, Vanessa Russo
By the time many of you read this, the matches I’m previewing will be long completed. But read on! The great thing about a competition like this is that anything is possible. When they haven’t played the matches yet, you can imagine anything. While the reality sometimes matches the imagination and on rare occasions exceeds it, every matchup is full of possibility before it happens. This is how the Final 32 shape up:
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Deep Thoughts and the Art of Hammer Maintenance
You can get, on your Google home page, the streaming Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey. I was sold instantly by this bit of wisdom:
”If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don’t think it necessarily means you’re a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.”
On Wednesday night I entered, as I frequently do, the Full Tilt Poker $35,000 Guarantee tournament. I noticed that Clonie Gowen had also entered, so I was watching how she was doing. (It would be a nice fantasy to believe she kept similar tabs on my progress, but that’s delusional even for me. She has asked me on multiple occasions for my screen name. It’s Michael Craig.)
Gowen Plays Poker with – but not in – a Vacuum
I went out early but occasionally looked to see how Clonie was doing. She plays, to the extent I know about it, a pretty solid game. Her stack wasn’t moving much. In fact, by the time the average was about 10,000, Clonie had 4,000. I left my computer for a few minutes to visit with my family – see, I truly am a loving husband and father – and when I returned, Clonie had 28,000.
On AOL, I instant-messaged her.
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