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Back From Asia
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 And I'm home just in time to see some friends are kicking ass in the Reno World Poker Challenge. Best of luck to the following players in the final 27 (average stack is 219k): James Davis (3rd in chips, 348k) Fabrice Soulier (5th, 335k) Carl Olson (14th, 199k) Play well and run good boys. Hope to see all of you at the final table. As for me, the only poker I've played in the last two weeks was six hands of $100-$200 I played DURING THE FLIGHT HOME via the plane's wireless internet connection. I made 941 bucks. Woohoo! I'm going to Foxwoods on Monday, however, for the Foxwoods Poker Classic. Maybe I'll see some of my readers there. Off to Asia Friday, March 17, 2006 I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'm afraid my blogging frequency will not be getting any better since I'm about to get on a plane to Singapore. My trip will extend to the Philippines later in the week, where I'm in my friend Neal's wedding party. To tide you over, here are the two most interesting hands I played in the last week. Hand 1: PokerStars super-satellite to the Foxwoods Poker Classic main event. 350 or so players started, and they're giving away two seats. We're three handed. The chip leader is a lunatic. The other player seems to understand what's going on. He had been very short, and when he was very short he'd been doing a lot of folding. He then got it in with AK against the chip leader's 22 and won. Then, the chip leader called an enormous reraise from the other player with A6. The other player had AQ or AK (I forget which) and won, and then we were all about even. I lost a few pots to the chip leader (he still hadn't lost his status as chip leader), but I wasn't too far beyond the second place guy (the former short stack), until that second place guy won a nice three-way pot. After that, the situation was Table '20800314 27' Seat #4 is the button Seat 3: jacksup (229681 in chips) Seat 4: Mosco (716211 in chips) Seat 9: Big_Fish83 (435608 in chips) And here was the very next hand. jacksup: posts the ante 400 Mosco: posts the ante 400 Big_Fish83: posts the ante 400 Big_Fish83: posts small blind 4000 jacksup: posts big blind 8000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to jacksup [Ad Qd] Mosco: folds Big_Fish83: raises 256000 to 264000 I think I've given you all the information I had. What do you do and why? Hand 2: PartyPoker, SuperTuesday. I have a nice stack. I don't know much about my opponent, but I've been active. Seat 1 is the button Total number of players : 10 Seat 1: Da_1_4U2B_N2 ( $30509 ) Seat 2: slingshot77 ( $11160 ) Seat 3: Bob_Sakamano ( $14189 ) Seat 4: MuGxMuGxMuG ( $71381 ) Seat 5: mitlok ( $90713 ) Seat 6: cavo2 ( $21398 ) Seat 7: Shins4 ( $16576 ) Seat 8: jacksup ( $98565 ) Seat 9: zoren1 ( $75429 ) Seat 10: ribolovac ( $12439 ) Trny:21029422 Level:11 Blinds-Antes(1000/2000-75) Everyone posts ante [75]. ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to jacksup [ 5d 5s ] Four folds. jacksup raises [5200]. zoren1 calls [5200]. All others fold. ** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 4h, 8h ] jacksup checks. zoren1 bets [5000]. jacksup raises [16000]. zoren1 calls [11000]. ** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ] jacksup checks. zoren1 bets [10000]. What do you do here and why? What do you think of my play in this hand up to this point? Feel free to email me your answers, but I probably won't get around to posting a response (let alone answering your emails) until the week after next. Good luck to all of those playing poker while I'm away. Also, if you haven't yet voted for me for the WPTE Player Advisory Committee, you still have two days to do it. Go to www.worldpokertour.com/playersonly to cast your vote now. Rock the Vote, and brief ATLARGE report Friday, March 10, 2006 First, the politics. Nominees for the WPTE Player Advisory Committee have been released, and registered WPT players can vote immediately. I'd like to thank all of you who helped get me nominated for this committee. I now ask that those of you who are eligible voters go to the new WPT Players' Only website (www.worldpokertour.com/playersonly) and vote for me. As I wrote a few posts back, I think I can be a huge asset to this committee. It's time someone explained to WPT management, in repeated, excruciating detail, exactly why we shouldn't be paying juice for televised events, exactly why collusion is an enormous problem that has to be addressed, exactly why we're unhappy with the release waiver, exactly why the final table structure is deplorable, and exactly why we need to establish clear rules and penalties for softplaying. I'll be discussing these issues, and my candidacy, further on the poker radio talk show Rounders on Sunday night. More details forthcoming. Players get five votes each for the four positions (don't ask me why). I recommend the following people, who I know are interested in doing the job: Ken Adams (a D.C. lawyer, poker writer, poker player, and a friend of mine) Andy Bloch (two-time WPT finalist, also has a law degree, and is possibly the best spokesman for players' rights we have) If I have further recommendations in the coming days, I will be sure to let everyone know. The polls close on March 19. In other news, ATLARGE was a blast! I just wrote a CardPlayer column about it that contains much of the details, so I can't spill that stuff here. But know that my horse won the H.O.E. event. Good luck to everyone (including myself) playing the tournaments this weekend. Fabsoul Friday, March 03, 2006 Congratulations to Fabrice Soulier, on making his first World Poker Tour final table. Now go out there tonight and win that thing. Just let your soul glow. I'm off to ATLARGE. I'll tell you all about it on Monday. Who We're Rooting For: Bay 101 Shooting Star Thursday, March 02, 2006 After bubbling in brutal fashion at the L.A. Poker Classic (I mentioned this a few posts back), fellow Brooklynite Fabrice Soulier has shaken it off and apparently gone back to playing fantastic poker at the Bay 101 Shooting Star event. He sits in ninth place with 35 players remaining heading into the third day of play. And don't worry, they're already in the money. 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