Another bad session at Garden City tonight ( Read more... )

I made a trip down to Canterbury last night in the hopes of playing some live Stud/8.

( Trip report )

I only saw about half of tonight's HSP episode. Does Jamie Gold always act like such a retard? I mean, I can see not understanding deep-stack poker, but he's just being a big dork. (I don't mean specifically his poker play, I mean his whole schtick ( Read more... )

junk_game_junky gives a couple graphs comparing starting hand strength in Hold'em, second-best Hold'em, and true inversion Hold'em: heads-up and 5-handedI particularly like the illustration of the way true inversion Hold'em completely distorts high hand values. It's also interesting that 2nd-best flattens out hand values (making post-flop play particularly ( Read more... )

PokerNews has him 10th in chips with 33 players remaining at the dinner break, of the $5000 Limit Hold'em event. 27 places pay.

I don't recognize anybody else in the top 10. 13 and 14 are Liz Lieu and Howard Lederer.

I am not pleased with myself. I've never been more upset coming away from a poker win ( Read more... )

My plan for tonight was to play the half-Hold'em half-Omaha tournament at Artichoke Joe's. But, I actually showed some responsibility and stayed at work until the thing I was working on was done. I managed to arrive 10-15 minutes before the scheduled start time, but they were sold out and taking names for alternates, and I was 4th on that list ( Read more... )

I had the dubious pleasure of seeing 'Annie Duke Takes on the World' on my flight into Minneapolis last night. 4 amateur poker players play NLHE for a $1000 prize and a $10K heads-up match with Annie Duke. (I can't tell if they were supposed to be D-list celebrities or just random schmoes. One was an author and another was in a band.) Duke ( Read more... )

Tonight I played in my first live poker tournament, and cashed.

I hadn't been at all sure this morning (or even this afternoon) that I would feel like playing as I had a somewhat unrestful night and was dragging around all day. But I had agreed to meet prock at Artichoke Joe's for dinner and felt OK after getting up there.

It was fun talking with prock. ( Read more... )

$5 rebuy $400 guaranteed NLHE at GamesGrid. (Too late for KCL tonight ( Read more... )