Steve Sung Whining, Not Winning @ LAPC
[youtube]http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=oQzpOHXD7NE[/youtube]
Steve Sung goes deep at LAPC and takes a break to talk with
Poker Junkie on what he's been up to after his successful
summer at the WSOP. Â
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Tournament of Champions Returns to WSOP
Last week, officials at the WSOP tweeted that a major
announcement was going to be made on Monday. Â Monday came
and details have been released regarding the âAll-Star
Eventâ that was hinted about earlier in the month. Â
The WSOP has brought back the storied Tournament of
Champions. Â The event will be held June 27th and will be
played to the final table.
Categories:
WSOP TOC,
WSOP Tournament of Champions
An Amateur's Dream
Driving between towns in the Texas Panhandle I had a lot of
time to think. Â Over the last few years my interest in
poker has peaked and waned. Â I have always been a fan of
the game but it seems that I go in spurts where I play a
whole lot, and then play very little. Â A couple of years
ago I was playing in the now defunct Texas Poker League, a
free bar league, and made it to two State Finals.
Isildur1 Blog a Fake
*It would have been fantastic if this was actually Isildur1
sharing his extreme existence with us mere mortals. Unfortunately itâs not. *
The real Blom may not be Isildur1 after all
The proof
The affiliate banners. The true Isildur1 would never sink as
low for a few dollars.
My Picks to Win Their First Bracelet at the 2010 WSOP
The World Series of Poker 2010 is just over two months away
and it is about time for the media to start their
speculation into who will do well and who will have breakout
performances. Of course, I could come on here and make my
standard "Ivey will win a bracelet and maybe more if he
applies himself" prediction, but for this blog, I
figured I would list the five players that I feel have a
good shot at a bracelet this year. #1: Andy Bloch
Every since I first met Andy in 2006, I have been pulling
for him. Bloch has two runner-up finishes, with the most
famous being his runner-up finish to Chip Reese in the 2006
$50k HORSE event.
Categories:
Andy Bloch,
Bill Gazes,
Matt Stout,
Michael Mizrachi,
Tom Dwan
Tonight They're Playing Poker Like it's 1989
Daniel Negreanu recently made a statement that PEMM wasn't
going to help Phil Hellmuth play better but instead, Phil
needed to employ LTPB or "Learn to Play Better. "Â Well,
whether it was PEMM, LTPB, or Diet Pepsi, Phil has made the
final table of the Bay 101 Shooting Stars WPT Event. Â He
spent a good part of Thursday as the chip leader and will
enter the final table 2nd in chips behind Andy Seth. Seat 1 - Hassan Habib - 455,000
Seat 2 - Phil Hellmuth - 1,433,000
Seat 3 - Andy Seth - 2,164,000
Seat 4 - Matt Keikoan - 371,000
Seat 5 - McLean Karr - 111,200
Seat 6 - Daniel O'Brien, 1,129,000
Personally, I am rooting for Phil.
Categories:
Daniel Negreanu,
Phil Hellmuth,
World Poker Tour,
WPT
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!! UB Cancels Aruba Poker Classic : (
Ultimate Bet announced in a press release yesterday that
it will be cancelling its 2010 Aruba Poker Classic due to
budget cuts in order to pay Joe Seboks salary.  No,
not really, but they did cancel the event. After
traveling to Asia, Europe, Australia and across the
US for poker I have to say that Aruba is, errr, was
my favorite tournament stop and I'm sad to see it go. Here is a blog I wrote after the 2009 Aruba Poker
Classic:
Yummm Aruba Aribe mmmmmm.
Categories:
Aruba Poker Classic,
Joe Sebok,
UB,
Ultimate Bet
The Hottest Woman in Poker According to Maxim is....Seriously?
I used to have some respect for Maxim, but after the recent
article, I have to wonder. Â While it is true that beauty
is in the eye of the beholder, I just don't get how Maxim
can claim that Tiffany Michelle is the hottest woman in
poker. Â Charlie River, did you get a gig moonlighting at
Maxim?
TwoPlusTwo forum posters are probably the harshest in the
world, but they do prove a point. Â She isn't all that
terribly hot.
Categories:
Maxim,
Tiffany Michelle,
Vanessa Rousso
Poker Legislation under the Table – Again?
Stricter online poker legislation (UIGEA) was smuggled in
under the radar, embedded in an unrelated terrorist
legislation (Safe Port act). Now online poker could very well be smuggled out of its
prison cell and regulated, again under the radar embedded in
a tax legislation (Bipartisan Tax Fairness and
Simplification Act)!
Thereâs a kind of logic in this. A certain consistency. Poker is something that you consistently avoid mentioning.
Welcome to Bizarro World
Phil Hellmuth is a cash game genius, T. J. Clouiter wins
consistently at craps, and Kathy Liebert is the top pro on
Full Tilt Poker. Â After my last few days of playing
online, I am convinced that the prior statements are indeed
true as I think I have officially moved into bizarro world.
Categories:
Kathy Liebert,
Phil Hellmuth,
Phil Ivey,
Poker,
Shannon Elizabeth,
TJ Cloutier,
Vanessa Rousso