The Shark Tank

I have mostly been playing the Two Hundred Grand sats because they run pretty much continuously.  My record in the 70 FFP sats that pay one person $11 has been fairly dismal.  I think I’ve won two of them in 16 attempts.  I’ve run a bit bad, since I got heads-up in six and only [...]

I tried four of these last night, cashing in two.  They seat 20 players and award 6 seats.  Each seat is worth 11 T$.  This particular sat is worth about $3.39 at the concierge rate, so you need to cash in about a third of them to make the concierge rate.  I cashed in half, [...]

I have officially cashed out of online poker.  My last Stars withdrawal is on the way to the bank and my last Cake check is headed to me.  I actually have some money still at Bodog and WPEX, but I’m not 100% certain I’ll ever see that!  I’m working on them, though.  I have realized [...]

I managed to earn enough points to get back on track for SuperNova in October, but essentially completely droppped out again in November.  I think I played about 400 hands in November and I guess I’ve officially given up on the quest.  Although SuperNova would significantly increase my rakeback, I just can’t seem to get [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been a Phillies fan since I was seven, which is an embrassingly long time ago. I was never much of an athlete. In fact, the highlight of my athletic career was when I was ten years old and knocked in the winning RBI in our little league championship game for (you can guess this, [...]