This year’s WSOP Nitcast Meet-Up will be at the Gold Coast bowling alley from 10AM until at least Noon on Saturday, July 8 (Day 1A of the Main Event). You’re welcome to hang out for two hours or just stop … Read more…
Edit: Sold out! Thanks everyone! Cliff’s Notes: Selling action in a full slate of Las Vegas summer tournaments. Increments as small as 1% are available, with discounts for larger pieces. I run my packages a bit differently than most, so … Read more…
Nate and I played this together, what a great event. Nate said, and I agree, that this was one of the most fun tournaments he’s ever played. There was such a great mix of types of teams! Of course in … Read more…
After busting Flight A of the Crazy 8s WSOP event on Friday yesterday, I took another shot at Flight C yesterday. I ended up with a shallow cash and there were one or two moderately interesting hands, but I’ll cut … Read more…
I guess this is kind of old news now, but the World Series Of Poker is off to an exciting start for Nate and me! Two of our (somewhat) recent guests have already won gold bracelets, and even more excitingly, … Read more…
Nate, whom most of you know as the other host of the Thinking Poker Podcast, is looking to sell 60% of himself in the 2014 WSOP Main Event at 1.3 markup, meaning each 5% costs $650. Terms are below; please … Read more…
I’m really tired and busy today, but just wanted to put up a quick update here to say that I ended up 16th in the $1500 PLO8 event, cashing for a little shy of $10K. Certainly not enough to get … Read more…
Before I became a serious poker player, I loved to watch poker on TV. Now, I can hardly stand it. I did watch a few episodes of this year’s WSOP broadcast, mostly from the days I expected to be on … Read more…
I know a lot of you have seen these already, but I promised a few people big clear links in the body of a blog post, so here we go: Poker News Video Interview Poker News Hand Analysis Let me … Read more…
Thanks to piefarmer for finding and posting this. Seat 1: David Baker (951000) NOT Bakes of FTOPS final table fame, I’m told Seat 2: Andrew Brokos (1223000) table chipleader Seat 3: Eric Baldwin (292000) Basebaldy online, 2009 Cardplayer player of … Read more…
I woke up this morning convinced that I would be assigned to the table of tournament chipleader Tony Dunst- the first time we met in real life was just moments before learning we’d be seated next to each other in … Read more…
Couldn’t find much on most of these guys, which is probably a good thing: Vincent Lodato 134,700 AMAZON/322/1 Andrew Brokos 503,300 AMAZON/322/2 Andrew Jeter 124,300 AMAZON/322/3 Simon Ravnsbaek 233,200 AMAZON/322/4 (couple of shallow cases on the circuit: WSOP, WPT, EPT, … Read more…
For those that didn’t see PieFarmer’s comment, here’s his summary of my Day 3 table draw with my parenthetical additions: Danny Dam 198,000 AMAZON / 264 / 1 No info Vincent Van Patten 174,200 AMAZON / 264 / 2 Celeb/Pro … Read more…
Day 2 underway, live updates on twitter. Messages are slightly encrypted because the A key is broken, but you’ll get the idea: twitter.com/thinkingpoker
Thanks for all your comments and encouragement. They mean a lot to me. Thanks especially to Todd and Emily, who both found and posted or sent me my table draw for today. Google didn’t turn up much, but here’s what … Read more…
Gross table, gross day. Can’t recall the last time I was so miserable playing poker. Pretty much never got above my starting 30K all day. Had some crap luck especially last hour and was down around 12K. Table was crazy … Read more…
Well, today’s the day! I’ll be playing Day 1C, beginning in about 3 hours. I know I don’t tweet much outside of poker tournaments, but I will be sending updates from my phone about chip counts and big pots. You … Read more…
Huge congratulations to David Baker, 2+2’s own “Bakes”, who took down the WSOP 2-7 NL event last night. For those who don’t know, this is a 5-card draw game where the objective is to make the low hand. Aces are … Read more…
I’m embarrassed to say that I’d never heard of Praz before I played with him during this year’s PCA, but I could tell immediately that he was a great player. He has this intense table presence that you rarely see, … Read more…
Over two weeks ago, I won the FTOPS Tournament of Champions, the prize for which was a seat in the WSOP Main Event. I never received the money or any further information, so eventually I wrote them to ask about … Read more…
Wicked Chops Poker is reporting that, with 2400 players left in the main event, Phil Ivey accepted a $20K wager from Andy Bloch at 99:1 that he would win the main event. Now that he’s made the final table, Bloch’s … Read more…
Just finished up the first break of the day, Andrew is down to 26k after a couple hands didn’t get there. Table is much less intense than days 1 and 2 though, so we’ll see. Updates on twitter fairly regularly, … Read more…
Don’t recognize any names, which is a nice change of pace: Toriani, Keith 110,200 BR224 1 Lezcano, Ed 23,900 BR224 2 Hai, Le 113,100 BR224 3 Brokos, Andrew 92,200 BR224 4 Phung, Steve 26,500 BR224 5 Bykov, Andrey 27,500 BR224 … Read more…
It was a grueling day at what even PokerNews called the “Table of Death.” Except for the guy on my right, I probably had the worst seat at the table, too, with Luca Pagano on my immediate left and Isaac … Read more…
Andrew is actively twittering away, view notes at www.twitter.com/thinkingpoker. He’s in decent shape, but at a tough table. The pros beat him to the dead money early on and then the 2 fish that busted were replaced by more pros.
Ahlberg, Tom Vasa Sweden 5,200 B29 2 Boyette, Robert Archer FL 38,950 B29 7 Brokos, Andrew Catonsville MD 16,350 B29 5 De Bon, Cedric Suisse Switzerland 22,725 B29 9 Levy, Grant Sydney Australia 52,225 B29 8 Ludovic, Lacay Paris France … Read more…
Andrew moved to a softer table and is up to a comfortable 45k at the dinner break. They are only playing four 2-hour levels today, instead of the scheduled 5, so they’ll come back from dinner at a little after … Read more…
Andrew is at a meh starting table with a good player on his left. For those not following the twitter, here are the updates so far: 3:35pm Fish wins huge pot off of best opponent. this is a very very … Read more…
3875 coming into the break. Were playing 200 400 when we resume. Level 3 I got into some good spots vs the fish (there are 2 now). Once had three to a low flush that turned into a 7 low … Read more…
Up from 4500 at the start. Table isn’t particularly soft. There’s one very loose player on my right but otherwise everyone seems solid. I’ve had some strong hands, including rolled up 7s that only got half of a small pot … Read more…
Yesterday’s New York Times ran an article about how poker players are using Twitter. I can’t say it’s particularly thorough and insightful, in fact it seems to be based almost entirely on an interview with Joe Sebok of Poker Road, … Read more…
Congratulations to Poker Savvy’s Dani “Ansky” Stern, who finished fourth for better than half a million dollars in the special $40K NLHE WSOP anniversary event. I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t even realize he was at the final table. … Read more…
Some of the other Poker Savvy Pros and I are doing a round table discussion with Card Player magazine today. They’re accepting questions and awarding one-year Poker Savvy Plus memberships if yours is chosen. Simply e-mail a question or two … Read more…
I was having trouble getting the ESPN360 feed to work. I finally got it streaming just in time to hear, “There are eight players left, Tom Chambers has busted out.” Whoops. I don’t know the full story, but apparently he … Read more…
My buddy Tom (LearnedFromTV), who’s already been tearing up the 2008 WSOP with a second place finish for $140K in the $2500 Stud/8-O/8 Mixed event and a shallow cash in the $1000 Razz, has made his second final table of … Read more…
Man I was around Vegas for most of the WSOP last summer and nothing spectacular happened. Then I sit it out this summer and all of my best poker buddies start kicking ass. Guess I am a jinx. Payouts 1 … Read more…
Sweet run, bro, congratulations. Rouhani wins it, but Chambers down 140K for 2nd. Not too freaking shabby.
Tom Chambers, 2+2’s LearnedFromTV, has just made the final table of WSOP Event 10! It’s a $2500 tournament that alternates between Omaha 8-or-better split and Stud 8-or-better split. Tom is a former math teacher and a mixed games expert (he’s … Read more…
Yesterday was the first day of the 2008 World Series of Poker, at least for satellites and cash games. I won’t be out there until July, as I’m only playing the main event, but I was excited to read on … Read more…
I complained recently that I felt Harrah’s was improperly prioritizing ESPN and other sponsors over the players in its decision to delay the final table of the WSOP main event. At the risk of boring everyone to death on this … Read more…
I’ve been reading some good comments here, on other blogs, and in the 2+2 thread about the final table delay that I mentioned yesterday. I want to clear up a few things, clarify my own opinion a bit, and share … Read more…
Terrence Chan recently made the humorous observation that not only is the hand reporting from major poker tournaments largely inaccurate (this is well-known) but that the reporters tend to reconstruct the details in ways that make “name players” look good. … Read more…
Poker Managers Hall of Famer Matt Savage, writing for Pokernews, reports that in a recent lunch with WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel, he learned of some of the rules changes that will be in effect at the 2008 WSOP: One … Read more…
Harrah’s has released the schedule for the 2008 World Series of Poker. There’s not a lot of information about the structures of the preliminary tournaments, but since they are almost all listed as 4-day events, it’s hopefully more generous in … Read more…
Jonas Flug-Entin, 2+2’s Riverboatking, is at the final table of the $10,000 World Series of Poker Pot Limit Omaha Championship event. It’s a pretty sick line-up: Seat 1 – Doyle Brunson – 510,000Seat 2 – Patrik Antonius – 650,000Seat 3 … Read more…
Ray “ExitOnly” Coburn busted from the WSOP $2000 PLHE tournament in 8th place when his 44 lost to AK all in pre-flop. That’s worth $22,000 and change. Congratulations, Ray!
Ray Coburn, 2+2’s ExitOnly, has final tabled the $2000 PLHE event at the WSOP (yeah, the one I scrubbed out of in like 2 hours). He’s coming in as the short stack, but this kid is so good, he’s probably … Read more…
Justin ended up chopping the $2000 NLHE with three players remaining. Rumor is that he got like $370K, but that’s not confirmed. I’m sure it was a sick score regardless. Way to go, J! In other news, 2+2’er T_Mac has … Read more…
I invited Justin to a lunch with Andy Bloch and Howard Lederer (more on this later) like two weeks ago. Here was his response: “Andrew, I should be available that day. I am in Vegas on June 12th. I can … Read more…
I’ll explain why soon, but it looks like I’m going to be in Las Vegas for most of the preliminary WSOP events. After reviewing the schedule, I’ve identified these tournaments as the ones I’m most likely to play: Friday, June … Read more…