So, a friend of mine, Russell Rosenblum, is playing in a rebuy poker tournament in the Five Diamond Poker Classic at Bellagio right now. He called me to relay a story I’ve honestly never witnessed. I’m sure it’s happened before, but it’s a bit…
For those that know me well, you’re aware of my goal to play in the main event of The World Series of Poker. I’ve had a number of excuses over the last few years of why I didn’t play (not having a spare $10,000…
I just got back from a marathon 8-day trip to Las Vegas and Chicago on business. My apologies for slacking on blog entries. I got my first chance to play poker in quite some time, and ended up with an interesting/amusing hand. I played…
So, I played the Noon tournament at Venetian on Tuesday. The tournament got 130+ entrants, which was both good and bad. Good, in that it was a decent sized field for payouts, bad in that we got just enough players for the tournament to…
After landing in Vegas midday on Wednesday, I went over to Bellagio to sweat Russell in a $5K event that he had made the final table of. He busted 7th after getting a bit unlucky. With no other work projects to handle, I decided…
Obviously, the most disappointing thing was that I wasn’t at the final table. Not far behind that would be how disappointing the coverage was. First, the geniuses running the WSOP decide to delay the final table of this event until November, to match up…
I have two friends who had significant cashes yesterday in poker tournaments. Neither did as well as they wanted, but both achievements are very notable. First, Matt Matros finished 7th at the WPT North American Championship in Niagara Falls. The tournament had 454 entries,…