Posted by Editor | Filed under Me in online tourneys
I just completed my heads-up match with rockyruu. Here is something I can tell you about heads-up play: when you get great cards, you can beat people in a hurry. So when I swagger around telling everyone what a heads-up terminator I am, add your imaginary parenthetical “(when you get hit in the head by the deck)”.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Las Vegas, Roxanna Kaveh, Ted Forrest
[I will shortly give you the last installment of Prisoner of the Bellagio but I want to keep you updated on new business.]
I am back at the Bellagio, shopping for cars with Ted Forrest, playing in Jennifer Harman’s charity poker tournament, and following the first day of the WPT Championship. Also, please note, that I am one of the pros playing in the Iron Man Heads-Up on Saturday afternoon. I’m leading off against Iron Man winner rockyruu. Perry Friedman will play him after me, and Andy Bloch will finish up. I will watch the first hour of the WPT Championship, run upstairs, and do battle. I hope you’ll watch to see how it turns out, and I’ll write about the experience if you miss it.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Uncategorized
Sorry for not completing my Prisoner of the Bellagio series and, for those of persevered, for finding the blog amid some troubles that Full Tilt is trying to work out. I’ve gotten derailed by a couple other writing commitments, taxes, and online poker. But I’m about to kick it into gear.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Bloch, Michael Craig's stupidity in business, Roxanna Kaveh, Ted Forrest
[This was written based on notes I took before falling asleep at 4 AM on Saturday, April 7.]
I got over to Roxana’s at a little after 11 PM, just before Ted. Roxana was cooking dinner. She is an excellent cook and, in the old world tradition, instinctively sensitive about you not eating her cooking. She made a chicken dish, a rice dish, a soup, a salad, and brewed tea.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Bellagio, Me in live tourneys
[This was written from notes of my experience in the $1,000 Bellagio tournament on Friday, April 6.]
The night before the start of the Bellagio Five Star, I decided to see if my luck and good play continued by entering the Friday night $1,000 tournament at the Bellagio. Standing in line only a few minutes before the 7:15 PM start, I believed I was jinxed by a discussion that took place in front of me.
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Amarillo Slim, Bellagio, Doug Dalton, Poker Room
[Written Friday afternoon, April 6, picking up where #104 left off, literally bumping into Amarillo Slim at the entrance of Doug Dalton’s office at the back of the poker room at the Bellagio.]
I’ve never met Amarillo Slim, though I’ve seen him a couple times around the World Series (and once playing $20-$40 at Casino Arizona). He’s got to be around 80, if not older, but he was looking pretty good. He was wearing a cowboy hat with “the” band – a rattlesnake that supposedly bit him years ago. He also had on cowboy boots of some exotic animal, and a snazzy blazer with a logo that said “Slim’s Joint.”
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 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 Andy Beal, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played
This is the last installment, the end of the greatest poker game I ever saw, maybe the greatest poker game ever played. I’ll try to post the portion of the BLUFF aritcle I wrote about it, so you can compare. Then I’ll get back to Prisoner of the Bellagio, the upcoming FTOPS, and another Adventure in the Law.
Stay tuned!
6:58 PM
HAND 41 – Ted – raise, Andy x3
Td-9d-5h
Andy bet, call
Kd
Andy bet, Ted call
8s
Check, check
Andt Ah-Th
Ted mucks
Andy $600k
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(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Andy Beal, Ted Forrest, The Greatest Poker Game Ever Played
[Just 2 parts to go in the Valentine's Day 2006 struggle between Ted Forrest and Andy Beal, including this one. I'll probably post the portion of the BLUFF article that covered this game, so you can compare, if you want, my notes of the day with the finished product. I have returned from Las Vegas where I have several more installments of Prisoner of the Bellagio, including another Ted Forrest car story and a story about Dan Harrington's socks. Unless my tax issues create some huge, immediate problem - they definitely create a huge problem, though likely not an "immediate" one - I should get those written and posted over the next several days.]
“SOMETHING TO PROVE – TO MYSELF”
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Back at 6:06 PM
Andy -$3.4M, maybe $3.3M
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(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5, rated) Posted by Editor | Filed under Badugi, Bellagio, Doug Dalton, Eskimo Clark, Me in live tourneys, Mike Matusow, Mirage, Wynn
[Written Friday morning and afternoon, April 6]
Coming into the Wynn Poker room, I ran into Mike Matusow. He was getting picking up his money for making the final table of the main event of the Wynn Classic last month.
“We’re going to lunch. You want to come along.”
I told him I was going to play the Wynn’s noon tournament.
“Then play the tournament. When you’re done, give me a call. I’ll probably be over at the Bellagio, playing cash.”
Who is WE?
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