The Shark Tank

Here is a sampling of the great things they have had to say about my blog lately: “Your site is a refreshing change from the majority of sites I have visited. When I first started visiting web sites I was excited by the potential of the internet as a resource and was very disappointed initially. [...]

The quality of play is really amazingly donktastic.  Every time I go to Vegas I tell my wife that I ought to move out there and play full time.  There are a number of good players who have done so, and the game is not as soft in middle limit Hold’Em as it used to [...]

I felt very good about my play thus far in the series even though my results had not been that good.  That is the most difficult thing to get used to with poker.  You can play great and lose everything and you can play badly and win a ton.  You just have to understand that [...]

I have made day two and have exactly 44,000 chips. . Tweet This Post 

The one constant of playing in the WSOP is the buzzing of bad beat stories in the air.  As you walk from the room where the main tourneys are held, you hear everyone in a one mile radius telling the story of how they fared badly at the hands of a less-skilled player.  No one [...]

Sunday was the $1,500 pot limit event, which I was able to enter by virtue of my horrific finish in Saturday’s event.  Whereas Saturday’s event was a complete zoo with thousands of entrants and no one I knew at my table (and many apparent donkeys), Sunday only attracted 781 runners and the field was dense [...]

Richard Brodie is something of an internet friend of mine (although we’ve never actually met).  I first encountered him on flyertalk, where he was a regular contributor and we got into a number of good natured discussions there.  He has generously given me some good advice on Vegas hotels and is generally a cool guy.  [...]

My favorite story of the trip so far involves my man Paulif. It is quite late at night and we are both feeling quite good as a result of many whiskeys, good food and overall joy at being alive. As background, you need to know a bit about Paul. I have noticed that when people [...]

I think I played well and I have a great Jamie Gold story, but I don’t have time to write it up yet.  It involves him calling me an idiot and putting him on tilt! Tweet This Post 

Event #3 was a complete and total madhouse.  Everybody knows that you need to pre-register for that one because so many people show up at the last minute to get in.  So, like a good citizen, I sent them the cash in advance.  When I arrived at the Rio the night before the event, I [...]