Archive | July, 2010

The November Nine Is Set

The November Nine Is Set

After two weeks of furious poker the World Series of Poker Main Event is down to the “November 9″.  The last 9 players of the tournament have clinched their spots to fight for the most prestigious win in poker.Leading the pack in notoriety, if not in chips, is Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, who has been  Read more »

Johnny Chan Eliminated from Main Event

Johnny Chan Eliminated from Main Event

Johnny Chan has been eliminated from the WSOP Main Event.  The player immortalized in the movie “Rounders” is a familiar face to most poker players, and was one of the few pros left in the running for the tournament.In day 6 of the tournament, Chan was near the top of the leaderboard in chips, and  Read more »

Advertising For The Pay Off

Advertising For The Pay Off

Here’s a key hand in the WSOP main event on day 2b that had earned me my first double up.I started day 2b with $28k in chips & was looking to open my game a little bit. Day 1 was about playing a little snug, small ball poker & having pot control. On Day 2  Read more »

WSOP Main Event Day 1d

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The Worst Call Ever

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O.K. check this out- I was at Rio playing a $1,030 satellite to the main event. We had just started playing, and I have 5k in chips, we are about 4 hands into the satellite and I’m in the big blind. UTG +1 limps for $50 the girl on his left limps, cut off limps  Read more »

Chopped Main Event Satellite

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Well I was able to win my WSOP main event seat on my last try. I’ve been grinding the $1,030 satellites at the Rio for the past 3 days trying to win my main event entry. The first day went o.k. I chopped a couple sit n go’s & made a profit but I was  Read more »

Huck Seed Finds More Success At 2010 WSOP

Huck Seed Finds More Success At 2010 WSOP

Huck Seed, one of my favorite poker players of all time, outlasted a small field of big names on Sunday in order to win the 2010 WSOP Tournament Of Champions and collect $500,000 in tournament winnings.The tournament, which was a freeroll (no buy-in) included 27 individually selected pros to compete for a total prize pool  Read more »