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 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, 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, 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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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship, Andy Beal, Andy Bloch, Caesars Palace, Eric Drache, Erik Seidel, Humberto Brenes, Jennifer Harman, Marco Traniello, Ted Forrest, Todd Brunson
”Pure boys!”
For some reason, I remember that line from a high school play. I think it was MUSIC MAN, when the townspeople were expressing their concern about a new pool hall in town.
The pairings party for the heads-up championship was at PURE, the ultra cool nightclub at Caesars Palace, and it was a very nice event.
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