The Shark Tank

For some reason, I enjoy legal disputes in the poker world.  There hasn’t been anything exciting since the Gold-Leyser debacle a while back.  Now I have a new legal interest.  Clonie Gowan (or Cycalonia Gowan as it turns out) has sued Full Tilt and pretty much all the associated Tilters for failure to pay her [...]

The discussion of the hand where Darus busted on 2+2 is putting me on serious tilt.  Our hero was on the Button and the action folded around to Scott Montgomery who raised on the CO to 1.5 million.  The blinds and antes are worth another million and Darus has a stack of 8.5 million (or [...]

Here are a few things I deduced from the simulations we did.  We did one with exactly the current table layout, in fact.
1)  Dennis Phillips will either get lucky and accumulate a ton of chips or get in big trouble in a hurry with his combined tendencies to open limp and call down light.  I’m [...]

Virtually every outlet is reporting that the final table will be played with people in the same seats they had when the tourney suspended four months ago.  We spent a lot of prep time with the understanding that they would redraw.  We concentrated a great deal on how different seat arrangements would affect the ebb [...]

As many of you now know, my mysterious reference last week was about Darus.  Eirc “Rizen” Lynch is his coach and one of the things he did in preparation was to assemble a talented group of poker players to simulate the final table.  Somehow I slipped in by association.
I’ll say more on Sunday about what [...]