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5 Cool Resources for Poker Fans

Posted by Dave McCarthy | Filed under Bloggers Corner

Listed in no particular order of coolness, I’ve compiled some links to a nifty twitter feed, a fun way to improve your poker game, a must-have for durrrr Challenge fans, stats from the nosebleed games, and video of possibly the greatest poker hand of all time.

Twitter

http://twitter.com/ftpprosonline tweets whenever a Team Full Tilt Pro is playing.  It’s a great resource for people who enjoy:

a)      Playing with the Pros

b)      Railing the nosebleeds

c)      Listening to the ridiculous questions some people ask the Pros.  For example, “Phil [Gordon].  Would you rather live and have ten other people die, or die and have those ten people live?”

High Stakes Stats

Anyone who reads my posts on a regular basis (all three of you) knows I’m a big Isildur1 fan.  How can you not be?  She frequently continuation-bets $18,000!  1/6th of the world’s population lives on less than $1/day, meaning she could support one such person for 49 years just checking her whiffed AK behind on a junk flop where Villain would otherwise check-raise her out of the hand.

Anyway, www.highstakesdb.com is a good place to go to see how Izzy, Durrrr, and the rest of the nosebleeders are doing.  I have Izzy’s stats automatically downloaded to a spreadsheet which I print out daily and pin to my refrigerator.  That’s not weird, right?

Greatest Hand Ever?

Not really a “resource” but still pretty cool.

The Full Tilt Poker Academy

Granted, this blog is hosted by Full Tilt (so you won’t catch me plugging that other site…I forget the name…) but believe me when I say the Full Tilt Poker Academy is a great resource even for experienced players.  Right now the featured video has Gus Hansen using hands from the 2007 Aussie Millions to teach how to control the table.

Videos labeled “Sessions” – where a Pro plays a session and talks about his or her thought process – are my favorite.  It’s great to hear a world-class player think a hand through and you say to yourself, “Yeah, that’s exactly how I’d play it!”  (That never actually happens to me; Blogger Dave = Donk / Suckout Artist.)

I also like the video where Phil Gordon interviews Patrik Antonius about Isildur1 (even though they both refer to her by the wrong pronoun).

Official durrrr Challenge Page

If you’re a durrrr Challenge fan, you should have the official durrrr Challenge stats page bookmarked.  It tells you if durrrr’s currently sitting at a challenge table, and has summaries (including replays of the biggest hands) of the most recent session and the overall challenge to date.  Of the 10 biggest pots of the challenge, Antonius took the biggest ($478k) but durrrr has won 8 of those top 10.

To date: after 33k hands, durrrr is up almost $1.8m.

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  4. New at the Academy: An Interview with Tom “durrrr” Dwan
  5. durrrr Challenge update and Patrik Antonius interview

Permalink | March 11th, 2010 Play Online Poker at Full Tilt Poker

One Response to “5 Cool Resources for Poker Fans”

  1. Rave Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    Good stuff Dave!

    That hand between Phil Ivey and Paul Jackson is pretty sick. Only Ivey feels comfortable with shoving with Queen high is such a high pressured situation!

    Also, I myself am a big fan of Full Tilt Academy (whoa, another plug!), but I never seen that video with Patrik before. Very interesting to hear what he has to say about the nosebleeds. Probably a level most of us will never get to play! And did he really say Isildur1 could take $2k and turn it into a million in a year?

    Keep up the good work Dave!

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