Archive for April, 2008
A Nemeth Rebuttal
The good Dr. Pauly recently had a guest post from poker reporter BJ Nemeth in regards to the WSOP 90-day delay. If you haven’t read it do so now and then come back.
I admit I agree with some of the things Mr. Nemeth has to say so I’ll limit myself to only the items that I don’t agree with.
HORSE Sense
Let’s face it. When it comes to HORSE their really isn’t much sense to your opponents. For those of you that don’t know HORSE is a mixed game comprised of rotations involving different games. H is for Hold’em, O is for Omaha Hi/Lo, R is for Razz, S is for Stud Hi, and E is for Stud Hi/Lo. On Full Tilt the games are rotated every 10 hands.
Playing in the Cake 150k - Mistake that cost me…
I played last Sunday in the Cake 150k tourney. I recorded the session so that I could watch it again and figure out what I did right and where I could play more optimally. It turns out that I bubbled this thing. I finish 134/1050 and they paid 130. Final hand I get KK and pushed on the EP raiser who both had me covered and held AdKd. He flopped an A. But whatever that is not what I am posting about. I played this hand with AJ in EP and I really screwed myself. Take a look and tell me what you think. BTW, I give my reads audibly.
Video is after the break…
The Update:
Skill + Luck = A Successful Tournament
Today I headed out to the Bike for their monthly Ladies Tournament. My plan was to raise preflop whenever I wanted to be in the pot when in a good position. I wanted to pick up a lot of small pots early on in order to build my stack. I didn’t want to find myself stressing over the antes and blinds as they began to increase. My starting table (which did not break until we were down to 2.. which was great) included a lot of tight play. Myself and 2 other women picked up on this fast and took down many small pots… and in my case with marginal hands…
The Biggest Slowroll Ever
Have been contemplating that crazy ideer to delay the WSOP ME final table three friggin’ months Stewman told us about on Friday. Don’t know about you, but it sorta feels to me like that long wait for a resolution amounts to one big ol’ slowroll. And who likes being subject to that?
Possible Changes to 2008 WSOP ME
Read the following today on Wicked Chops Poker:
“Rumors are circulating on the so-called “Internet” and from various well-placed sources that Harrahs is mulling the idea of making final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event a live television event on ESPN, airing possibly in October. Play would be halted this July once the field was whittled down to its final nine players, and then delayed until three months later. The idea is to make the final table a big television event with plenty of lead time to hype the finalists and so no one knows who the winner is until the show airs.
What we’re actually hearing from our particular sources is that the final table would not actually broadcast live but would be filmed on a closed set at a later date, then edited and broadcast about two days later.
A decision hasn’t been made yet, according to our sources, but officials are leaning towards making this happen.”
Michael Craig
So for those who read Poker Author Michael Craig’s blog on Full Tilt Poker you may have read the below posts:
It Could Always be Worse, Much Worse.
The Sun Setting on an Old Pro
I was playing at the Wynn’s 1/3 No Limit game last Thursday night when an interesting player came into our game.
“Is this seat taken?” A gentleman asked in a Forrest Gump-esque Southern drawl. Curly grey hair, a boyish grin, and a slightly receding hairline, the man peeled off a couple of hundreds from a stack in his pocket. The face looked familiar, but where had I seen it?
“Tournament poker isn’t real poker…”
It looks a lot like it but its not the same thing.” I wish I could remember which pro said this. I think it was either Barry or Doyle, but it has been a few years. At the time I really didn’t understand. Everyone I knew had caught the poker bug from watching the WPT or WSOP and all they wanted to do was play tournaments. The first time I ever played Texas Hold’em was a tournament in my brother-in-law’s garage (which I managed to bubble after playing for seven hours.) When I started playing online I spent about 90% of my time playing tournaments and SnG’s and when I did play cash games it was PLO8 because the play was so weak it was like printing money. How could anybody say that a tournament isn’t real poker? Of course it is real poker, right?
