Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Aug 31st, 2007
Dan Harrington join an elusive field of only five members last night joining Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, and Joe Hachem as the only 5 people to win a WPT event and a WSOP Main Event championship.
Harrington took down the championship and the $1,634,865 first prize at a strong final table which include: David [...]
Posted in Online Poker, Pokerstars, Sit and Go on Aug 30th, 2007
So my bad streak is still well alive. I played a sit and go last night and was 2nd in chips with 6 players remaining when the following hand happened. I started the hand with 2,432 chips, which was second to bruced24’s 3,937. I picked up Ks-Kh and with the blinds 50-100 I raised it [...]
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Live Poker, TV on Aug 28th, 2007
High Stakes Poker season 4 started off with a bang last night. Here is one of the first hands between Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow…
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Live Poker, TV on Aug 26th, 2007
The 4th season of the extremely popular High Stakes Poker will begin tomorrow night at 9pm EST on the Game Show Network. The minimum buy-in has been raised to $500,000 for this season, which should provide for even more action than ever before.
The season premiere is said to feature Mike Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, and Todd [...]
Posted in Online Poker, Pokerstars on Aug 22nd, 2007
I’ve been running terrible lately..I think that I’m playing pretty well and the cards just aren’t falling my way…Here’s an example:
Just played a $1o sit and go. It’s about the fourth hand of the tournament and I’m in the big blind and have Qh 7h. 3 People call and I check my option. The flop [...]
Posted in TV, Tournaments, WSOP on Aug 22nd, 2007
Here’s a pretty good video from last nights coverage of the WSOP Main Event.
Coverage from this year’s Main Event of the World Series of Poker begins tomorrow night at 8pm EST on ESPN. The main event episodes will run until October 9th (when the final table will air) and then the $50,000 HORSE event will be shown the following two weeks.
Posted in Live Poker, TV, Tournaments, WSOP on Aug 18th, 2007
I was watching the 2005 WSOP Main Event the other night and re-lived this crazy hand…
Posted in Cash, Golf, High Stakes, TV on Aug 14th, 2007
9 Poker players will begin play today in the inaugural Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Invitational. There will be two events with the first starting today being a three-person scramble with three teams of three competing for a $9 million prize pool. The teams are:
Doyle Brunson/Dewey Tomko/Vince Van Patten
Erick Lindgren/Daniel Negreanu/Josh Arieh
Russ Hamilton/Phil Hellmuth/Bill Walters
The [...]
Posted in Cash Games, Home Game, Live Poker on Aug 8th, 2007
So yesterday my friend JC called and told me that he was going to a friend of his dad’s place to play a low-limit cash game. I haven’t really been in the mood for online poker much lately but a cash game intrigued me. So I went and met JC at his dad’s place and [...]