Amazing Hellmuth/Matusow Hand
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…
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High Stakes Poker Season 4 Begins Tomorrow
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 [...]
Rhode Island Home Game: Part I
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 [...]
Interesting Hands
Posted in Cash, Cash Games, Online Poker, Pokerstars on May 23rd, 2007
So the past couple of weeks I haven’t had a ton of time for poker so I’ve mainly been playing low limit cash games online when I have some free time. I’ve compiled a list of funny/interesting/big hands that I will be putting up in the next few posts..Below is a couple with some analysis [...]
Seabrook Trip Report: Part I
Posted in Cash Games, Live Poker, Seabrook on Apr 20th, 2007
So with classes now over, my friend Josh and I decided to try out a card room that I had seen an ad for in the newspaper. It was about 45 minutes away from Boston at the Seabrook Greyhound Park in New Hampshire. The place was a lot better than I was expecting (still obviously [...]
Largest Online PLO Pot Ever
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 [...]
Durrrr Hits Miracle
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. [...]