I wrote a lot in 2007, my last year playing poker professionally, about why I was making that my last year of playing professionally. Once I stopped playing poker for the money, I became much of a consumer rather than an active player in the regular poker world.

Over the last year and a half, I've followed the poker podcasts ( Read more... )

An old poker friend from Boston noted in my journal how he and a few others got online during the PPV main event WSoP 2006 and watched it - commenting on hands and plays - until the sun came up while I tried to “live blog” it. It seems sometimes like the whole poker world has ( Read more... )

Erick Lindgren (to Daniel Negreanu): I had twice as many outs as Gus.

John Juanda interjects: Nice needle, there.

( The context is a spoiler. )

So, I would have expected to see the usual suspects of NYC small-time players on the Boston vs. New York show, which continues to be so bad I can't stand watching it. I wouldn't really expect it on any other show.

However, right there on the first main event episode, the feature table ( Read more... )

I had avoided commenting on the WPT Lawsuit filed by a group of prominent tournament players. F-Train has done a good job analyzing the legal merits of the claim, and I know ( Read more... )

I am excited to remind everyone that, tonight, the second season of High Stakes Poker begins. I've talked about the show in my journal before, and I firmly believe it is the best poker on television. (I've also heard good things about Live at the Bike, but there is no question that High Stakes Poker is the best show on ( Read more... )

Sometimes I don't get commercials. I'm a fan of Pokerroom, but like most poker commercials, theirs makes little sense. For those who haven't seen it, two knights do battle for a while, and one is beating the other one. The loser finally picks up a chainsaw and comes after the other, who mutters I fold!, and collapses ( Read more... )

I watched Episode 3 of High Stakes Poker on GSN last night (I note that I am behind on these, so perhaps you all saw it already; it repeats enough that I can pick my night for viewing). As I wrote about before, this show continues to live up to its promise ( Read more... )

I've never mentioned in this blog too directly the excessive influx of televised poker, other than to say it is a major contributing factor to the "boom". I of course watch most televised poker shows (save Celebrity Poker, which is basically unwatchable), and ( Read more... )