Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Huckleberry Seed
Just past 2:30 AM, Huckleberry Seed became the latest WSOP Tournament of Champions winner. Seed, runner-up Howard Lederer, and third-place finisher Johny Chan lobbed and dodged bombs for a long time in the Amazon Room as the last players standing. The table talk and the twists of fate should make for excellent television when broadcast on ESPN.
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(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Howard Lederer, Huckleberry Seed, Lyle Berman, Mike Matusow, Richard Ashby, Ted Forrest, Weight Loss
When I arrived to watch Table 285 at 10:50pm, the seven players present had fifteen career WSOP bracelets. That does not count Phil Hellmuth’s eleven or the one that Richard Ashby, understandably absent would win one hour later. (This table didn’t produce the event winner either, but it’s the sort of thing that makes you wonder for Scotty Nguyen’s mental state when he asserts that group at his table is 4-to-1 in win the event – and just about every table had multiple bracelet winners.)
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, Huckleberry Seed, Lyle Berman, Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Ted Forrest
I had big dreams for this World Series. I‘ve played about forty events in the last three years and made three Final Tables. This year, I was counting on winning my seat to the Main Event on Full Tilt, getting $20,000 from Andy Bloch by winning my weight-loss bet, and round up whatever miscellaneous money I could and run it up in the satellite room for a bunch more buy-ins. You know what big dreams can turn into at the World Series of Poker? Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 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 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Dario Minieri, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up, Huckleberry Seed, Jaime Gold
At the Pairings Party for the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Championship, there was general laughter at the announced pairing of Huckleberry Seed and Erik Seidel. Seidel has eight World Series of Poker bracelets, a WPT championship, and is generally regarded as one of the most successful tournament poker players of all-time. Because he keeps his superb intellect and wry sense of humor out of the spotlight, you rarely hear laughter at his expense.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Erik Seidel, Heads-Up, Huckleberry Seed
Today is Friday, March 5, 2010 and it’s 12:40 PM PST as I write this. I am in the right corner of what is usually the Caesars Poker Tournament Room. It has been converted, identically to 2006-2009, to the studio set for the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. Although I had my moments last night, like every poker event I cover, when I wonder what I’m doing here and whether I have anything to contribute, I am excited to get started.
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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, Annie Duke, Barry Greenstein, Chip Reese, Heads-Up, Huckleberry Seed, Humberto Brenes, Jeff Madsen, Joe Hachem, Mike Matusow, Nam Le, Paul Wasicka, Phil Laak, Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Sheikhan, Ted Forrest, TJ Cloutier, Tuan Le, Vanessa Russo
Heat 1 of the second round featured eight matches which varied in advance appeal between ”who?” and ”wow?” What follows were my impressions, noted by time to keep them roughly in order, by match. I started the match planted about six feet from Shannon Elizabeth’s left hip, but by the time the cards were in the air, I had been removed to press row, in the back of the bus.
The cards were in the area at high noon, just 90 minutes after the stage call. They start with 40,000 apiece, and blinds of 200-400.
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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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