Posted in Poker After Dark, TV on Mar 25th, 2007
This is a hand from last week’s Poker After Dark that I just watched. In it Jennifer Tilly wins the absolute minimum in a hand when she has the second nuts…Phil Ivey and the other pros faces are priceless when she turns up her hand.
“I thought you had pocket kings”
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Online Poker, PLO on Mar 25th, 2007
Just yesterday on Full Tilt, Brian “sbrugby” Townsend won the biggest online Pot-Limit Omaha pot worth $429,240!
3 players were all-in on the flop:
sbrugby with top set of Queens, David Benyamine with top pair and an open-ended straight flush draw, and Durrrr with the Ace high flush draw.
Durrrr hit his draw on the turn but [...]
Posted in Cash Games, Online Poker on Mar 12th, 2007
After my last post about a tough beat that I received in a PLO tournament, a reader submitted to me a high stakes cash game beat that he was watching online on Full Tilt. The hand is re-enacted in the link below and was in a $200-$400NL real cash game between Durrrr and Son-In-Law.
Durrrr v. [...]
Posted in Online Poker, PLO, Tournaments on Mar 10th, 2007
So after a rough day of playing online yesterday I decided to try my luck in the $10+Rebuys Pot-Limit Omaha tournament this morning on Pokerstars. Spending only thirty dollars, I found myself near the top of the leaderboard after about two and a half hours of play and was well in contention for the $1600 [...]
Posted in Cash, Live Poker on Mar 6th, 2007
The following video is from a cash game with Clonie Gowen and Vanessa Rousso. Take a look at Clonie’s face at the end of the hand…
Posted in Heads Up, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments on Mar 6th, 2007
This past weekend one of the most highly anticipated events of the year for the pros took place at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas- The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. 64 of the best poker pros and celebrities including Phil Ivey, Jamie Gold, Joe Hachem, Jennifer Tilly, Mike Matusow and last year’s champion Ted Forrest [...]
Posted in Online Poker, Tournaments on Mar 4th, 2007
So last night, since the local home game I play in every Thursday was canceled, I decided to play in a $20/180 Person Sit and Go on Pokerstars. I’m a big fan of these as they are basically tournaments that don’t take as long as typical Pokerstars ones with an unlimited amount of entrants. After [...]