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 Gus Hansen, London 2008, Million Dollar Cash Game '08, Phil Ivey
We just had the second big hand of the Million Dollar Cash Game. Phil Ivey got Gus Hansen to move all-in with pocket jacks against his pocket aces.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey, Red Full Tilt pros
The two semifinalists from the morning round, Andy Bloch and Huckleberry Seed, are both red pros. Three of the four in the afternoon quarterfinals are Team Tilters, Ivey/Hansen and Chris Ferguson. Jonathan Little is also wearing the colors. So when they announced it was time to take the team picture, the picture of all the competitors at the start of the match, it really WAS a team picture.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
This was a wild day of poker at the Heads-Up Championship. We’re down to eight players and what a concentration of world-class talents we have.
Here’s the line-up for the Sunday quarterfinals:
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Don Cheadle, Gus Hansen, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Phil Ivey
We’re less than an hour from starting the second round (a/k/a “round of 32”) and I still want to post a preview of the coming matches, so let me summarize very briefly how the Spades bracket sorted itself out last night.
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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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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Eli Elezra, Gus Hansen, Heads-Up, Roxanna Kaveh, Sam Farha, Shawn Sheikhan, Ted Forrest
During the second bracket of the first round, the spades bracket, I decided to sit behind Ted Forrest and watch, close-up, his match with Sam Farha. The Forrest-Farha matchup was one of the most intriguing of the first round. They played an epic match last year that lasted longer than any in the short history of the Championship. They maxed out the blinds and both men were almost down to the felt. Ted, of course, prevailed and went on to win, but either man could have won.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Gus Hansen
I tried to do a little research on Full Tilt the other night, checking out the rebuy tournaments. I learned a lot – including about some things having nothing to do with rebuy tournaments – and made some new friends. I also made an enemy or two, but like we say back in Chicago, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a couple legs.”
At 8:30 PM local time, I signed up for two rebuy tournaments, the $10 + $1 and the $1 (no rake).
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