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11/14/07posted by Poker Star @ 9:53 AM I just got back from the WSOP Academy in Las Vegas. It was a H.O.R.S.E. Academy, so it covered many games that I know but haven't played that much. First, let me say that I had a great time and met a lot of interesting people.We started on Friday, November 2. We all met in a meeting room at Caeser's Palace. Day #1 was a short day with a quick 4 hour presentation on Advanced No Limit Hold-em strategy. Howard Lederer taught the first 2 hours on good starting hand requirements and pre-flop play. After a short break, Annie Duke went over post flop play for 2 hours. They went over things like playing too many hands, ignoring position, and limping into pots too much, among others. We had an hour dinner break and then headed to the poker room for a tournament. The tourney was in Caesar's poker room (my favorite poker room in Vegas). All the Academy attendees got to play, and each table had a pro to help and discuss hands. They also had to show their hand if asked (after the action was over for that hand). It was a fairly fast paced tourney (because they didn't want it to last all night!) and we had to be back at 9a.m. Unfortunately, I had terrible cards and only played five hands. For three of those, I was in the blind. Once I raised with pocket eights and got a big re-raise and so I folded. I never saw an ace. The few times I had a Q or K, I had a 2, 3, or 4 to go with it! I got real low in chips when I hit two pair in the small blind holding 3,6. The big blind hit a straight though. So a few hands later, Howard (he was our table pro) raised from early position and I went all in with K,Q. (it was the first time I?d had two paint cards and I only had four times the big blind). Howard had pocket aces and knocked me out. I can't remember the name of the guy who won, but he got a seat into the 2008 $10,000 WSOP main event. Wow, nice prize!! Day #2 ,we all met again and Howard went over limit hold-em. The nature of this game forces players to play many hands all the way to the river. With practice, this aspect alone will help even no limit players with their post flop play. Howard is one of the best limit players alive. Next, Andy Bloch taught us the nuances of 7 stud. I've played this game in some small home games, but never realized or thought of some of the things he taught. After lunch, Joe Navarro (the ex- FBI guy) came out to talk about poker tells. Some of these were too good to share with you. I'm hoping they make me a little extra money. Then, we had live hand demonstrations with us in groups and a pro at each table. We would play a hand out with everyone keeping their cards in front of them, even if they folded. We talked about what the players still in the hand, at the end, might hold. Did they bet it right? Did the folders make good plays? Etc. Then it was back to the poker room for another tourney. We switched between stud and limit hold-em. I had real crappy cards again and didn't make it very far. But, I did have Shannon Elizabeth at my table so it wasn't all depressing and boring. She went on to take second place. The top 2 won a seat to the 2008 WSOP $2,500 HORSE event. Day #3 was another info-packed day. We started out with Mark Seif teaching Razz followed by Annie Duke teaching Omaha Eight or better. Then, she talked about Stud eight or better with more live hand demonstrations. That part was the most fun for me. You could really the strategies they explained to use. Finally, we would talk about the hands when they were over to see who had played them well. Then it was off for our final tourney. This time, we played all the games. It was a lot to remember, but really exciting. This time I did pretty good. We were down to 2 tables (out of 7 or 8), and I lost a big pot in Omaha hi-low. I held on a little longer but got railed in 12th place. The whole experience is one that I won't forget. The world class instructors were awesome. Annie can get so analytical when talking poker, but it really makes you think. I learned one very important thing: I have a lot more to learn about poker, if I want to get better and better. I wish it would have been four days instead of three. But, they gave us books and some of Annie's DVDs. We also have charts and our worksheets and plenty of additional tools for me to work with to keep improving my game. I'm sure I'll attend another in the future. Hopefully, a full two or three days on just no-limit. But like the pros said: these other games can be extremely profitable because most of the other players are just that bad and don't play them correctly. If you get a chance try one out, it certainly won't hurt your game. Scott (thebombbaby) Labels: Online Poker, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
8/30/07posted by Poker Star @ 3:25 PM Hello again poker fans. I've been busy this summer. Been to Vegas a couple times. The last time was for the WSOP main event. It was a blast, but you can't really expect much when there are 6300 other players to beat. I finished around 3000.I've played in just a few of A.P.'s big weekend tourneys so far. I finished 17th out of 585 on Sunday, Aug. 26. Cashed for $930. I just played pretty straight-foward poker early on, letting all the crazies knock each other out. Towards the money bubble I started getting more aggresive and built up a good sized stack. Then I took a couple hits and got low on chips. Pushed all in for 6 times the blind with the first ace I saw(ace-5). I got called with AK and lost. I Hope to find time to play in more of those. The same day I played on a couple cash tables and won a couple hundred. I like the Jackpot tables. The allure of hundreds of thousands on a bad beat is too strong for me to pass up trying. I'm gearing up for Aruba on Oct. 2nd. That should be a good tourny. I will be in the poker room most of the time, but hope to enjoy a little bit of Aruba too. In the mean time I'm catching a ride in my buddies motor home down to Tunica, Mississippi for 4 days. WSOP circuit event. A bunch of small buy in tourneys. I've always done well down there, and I want to keep in good practice playing live before Aruba gets here. And they usually have juicy cash games going on. After that I think I'm going to Niagra Falls in December for a WPT event. Then, after the new year there are tournaments everywhere, so I'm not sure exactly where I'll be. Till next time hope you all tear them up at the tables. Scott(thebombbaby) Labels: thebombbaby, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/18/07posted by Poker Queen @ 6:10 PM The 2007 World Series of Poker has come to an end. Early this morning, 39-year old psychologist Jerry Yan was crowned WSOP Champion after a heads-up match against Tuan Lam. His win earned him the top prize of $8.25 million and the title of being the world's poker champion.Yang ranked only eighth out of nine players when play started at the final table. With only 8.45 million chips, he was way behind the top three players at the table, who all had over 20 million chips each. But he played aggressively and eliminated them all, one by one. "The only way I would win this tournament is to be aggressive from the very beginning and that's exactly what I did," Yang said. He went into the final hand with $107 million in chips, making him the first player in WSOP history to have more than $100 million in chips. Lam, on the other hand, only had $20.5 million, which gave Yang a nearly 5-to-1 advantage. At 3:48 a.m. local time this morning, after nearly 16 hours of play, Yang was crowned WSOP Champion, winning the top prize of $8.25 million and the WSOP Champion bracelet. These are the results and payouts for the final table: 1st Place - Jerry Yang - $8,250,000 2nd Place - Tuan Lam - $4,840,981 3rd Place - Raymond Rahme - $3,048,025 4th Place - Alex Kravchenko - $1,852,721 5th Place - Jon Kalmar, UK - $1,255,069 6th Place - Hevad Khan - $956,243 7th Place - Lee Childs - $705,229 8th Place - Lee Watkinson - $585,699 9th Place - Philip Hilm - $525,934 Winning the WSOP Main Event by personally eliminating the whole the final table is quite an achievement for someone who has only been playing poker for two years! And what does the winner has to say about it? "I've seen the miracles of God with my own eyes. I did a lot of bluffing, also." Sources: www.worldseriesofpoker.com www.newsday.com www.usatoday.com Labels: Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/16/07posted by Poker Queen @ 6:29 AM After more than 16 hours of play, the final table of the 2007 World Series of Poker is finally set. Chipleader of Day 6 of the tournament is Philip Hilm, followed by Tuan Lam and Jon Kalmar. The 1998 Main Event Champion Scotty Nguyen busted out in 11th place.Day 6 of the WSOP Main Event, the $10,000 buy-in World Championship No Limit Hold'em (Event #55) was a long one. Play started yesterday Sunday 15 at noon and lasted until the wee hours this morning with Steven Garfinkle being eliminated in 10th place. With his elimination the starting field of 6,358 players had been narrowed down to nine, and the Main Event final table was finally set. Crowd favorite Scotty Nguyen, the 1998 WSOP Main Event Champion, had managed many comebacks with several cash finishes this year, was eliminated and finished 11th. The nine players who made it to the final table are (by chip count): Philip Hilm (Seat 3) - 22.07 million Tuan Lam (Seat 6) 21.315 million Jon Kalmar (Seat 1) - 20.32 million Raymond Rahme (Seat 5) - 16.32 million Lee Childs (Seat 2) - 13.24 million Lee Watkinson (Seat 8) - 9.925 million Hevad Khan (Seat 9) - 9.205 million Jerry Yang (Seat 4 ) - 8.45 million Alex Kravchenko (Seat 7) - 6.57 million They will all be guarateed at least $525,934. The prizepool is: 1st place - $8,250,000 2nd place - $4,840,981 3rd place - $3,048,025 4th place - $1,852,721 5th place - $1,255,069 6th place - $956,243 7th place - $705,229 8th place - $585,934 9th place - $525,934 Today is a day off. The final table starts on Tuesday July 17 at noon (PDT) and will play until we have a new World Champion. Sources: www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ www.pokernews.com/ Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/14/07posted by Poker Queen @ 2:55 PM 112 players remained after Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event yesterday, including WSOP bracelet winners Bill Edler and Alex Kravchenko, WSOP Main Event champions Scotty Nguyen and Huck Seed, as well as the longest-lasting female player in the 2007 Main Event, Maria Ho. After tomorrow's game, only nine players will remain to compete for the WSOP Main Event bracelet on Tuesday.Among those eliminated during Day 4 were WSOP Main Event champions Robert Varkonyi, Carlos Mortensen and Berry Johnston, internet pro Sorel 'Imper1um' Mizzi as well as actor Tobey Maguire of "Spiderman", "The Simpsons" co-creator Sam Simon and rocker Sully Erna from Godsmack. Some of the survivors of Day 4 were Gus Hansen, Lee Watkinson, 2007 WSOP bracelet winners Bill Edler, Alex Kravchenko, WSOP Main Event champions Scotty Nguyen and Huck Seed, Chad Brown, Mikkel Madsen and Humberto Brenes. Chipleader of Day 4 was Norwegian Dag Martin Mikkelsen, who also was the chipleader of Day 1b of this year's Main Event. He ended Day 4 with 3,740,000 in chips, followed by Charis Anastasiou with 2,672,000 and Richard Harris with 2,662,000. Day 5 started today Saturday 14 at noon and will play until the field is narrowed down to 27 players, with everyone who survives today being guaranteed at least $333,490. One of the players still in the game is Maria Ho, who after Kelly McGlothlin's elimination earlier today now is the longest-lasting female player in this year's Main Event. Gus Hansen, Chad Brown and Day 3 chipleader Dario Minieri are among those who have been eliminated today. Tomorrow Sunday, the field will be narrowed down to nine players, with all of them being guaranteed at least $525,934. Those nine players will compete for the World Champion title and $8.25 million at the final table on Tuesday July 17. Don't miss the big day! Sources: http://www.pokernews.com/ http://www.pokerlistings.com/ http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/9/07posted by Poker Queen @ 7:48 PM First place in this year's World Series of Poker Main Event will win $8,250,000 from a prizepool of $5,784,954. That is far from as much as the amount paid to last year's winner Jamie Gold, who cashed $12 million. On the other hand, the prize money is more evenly spread this year than in previous WSOP Main Events. 621 players will cash, all guaranteed at least $20,320. A total number of 6,358 players have entered the ongoing $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em event that started Friday July 6 and plays until Tuesday July 17. That is 2,415 fewer players than last year, when a record of 8,773 players participated, but 739 more than in the 2005 WSOP Main Event. Good news is that this year we won't have to wait too long for ESPN's broadcasting of the WSOP events. ESPN will start broadcasting the first of a series of WSOP events today June 10 at 8 pm ET. The first event to be broadcasted will be the $5,000 World Championship Mixed Hold'em event (Event #1), followed by a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event (Event #3) at 9 pm ET. Altogether, ESPN will broadcast ten WSOP events, including the $5,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (Event #13), $5,000 World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em and the $2,000 Seven Card Stud event (Event #31 and 32), the $50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. (Event #39) and of course, the ongoing $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em event. Sources: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com http://www.espn.go.com http://www.msnbc.msn.com Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/8/07posted by Dr. Poker @ 6:39 PM As the days go by at the WSOP's main event, more and more pro-players are taking their seats. Today, there was expected to be close to 1700 players. Jose Canseco was in todays field, and he had a rollercoaster of a day, he doubled up early, but then was sent packing later in the day.One of the worst beats of the tournament also happened today. Player A held pocket aces, player B pocket 8's. The flop came A-7-2, all different suits. Player A hits his set of aces with a rainbow flop and figures he's good, he bets, gets raised, raises all in and gets called instantly. The turn and the river both come 8's and player one loses the hand with a full house to four of a kind. The table to avoid on the day was table 66, which had four pros playing at it. Chris Ferguson, Ishak Noyan, Melissa Hayden, and 2002 champion Robert Varkonyi were all playing at the table. Tomorrow, the last of the day ones will begin and 1D is expected to bring the largest amount of players of all the first days. Dr. Poker source: www.casinogamblingweb.com Labels: Poker Reviews, Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/6/07posted by Dr. Poker @ 2:53 PM Yesterday, the 2-7 No Limit Single Draw Lowball w/Rebuys Event came to a star-studded conclusion. Yet again, another pro would take home a bracelet. Erik Seidel captured his 8th WSOP bracelet at what has to be the most stacked final table of all year. The seven other players, who fell to Seidel were Freddy Deeb, Barry Greenstein, Todd Brunson, Chad Brown, Andrew Black and Lamar Wilkinson and Shawn Sheikhan. Seidel's 1st place finish earned him $538,835. In other News, Today at 12 noon the WSOP Main Event in Texas Hold 'em has been kicked off! Labels: Poker Reviews, Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/4/07posted by Poker Queen @ 6:37 PM For the first time in WSOP history, the WSOP will be played in Europe. The WSOP Europe tournament is scheduled to be held in London September 6-16, 2007. Three tournaments will be played, H.O.R.S.E, Pot-Limit Omaha and a No-Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event.The WSOP Europe will begin September 6 with a £2,500 (about $5000) H.O.R.S.E tournament, continue with a two-day £5,000 (about $10,000) Pot-Limit Omaha event on September 8, and end with the WSOP Europe Main Event, a six-day £10,000 (roughly $20,000) No-Limit Texas Hold'em Championship. The WSOP Europe tournament will be held in three casinos, Fifty, Leicester Square and the Sportsman, all operated by London Clubs International. Both the H.O.R.S.E event and thePot-Limit Omaha tournament will be held ad LCI's newest casino in Leicester Square. The Main Event will be played in all three casinos. In addition to the prize money, each tournament winner will get the traditional WSOP gold bracelet, which according to WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, will carry the same prestige as the Las Vegas WSOP bracelets. All performances in the WSOP Europe will count as regular WSOP performances. The plan is to run the WSOP Europe tournament every year, after the WSOP in Las Vegas. "This new tournament has been designed with European players in mind, but registrants from every country are welcome," Pollack said. He also said that WSOP Europe is just the first step and that there are plans to expand the WSOP tournament to other parts of the world. There are no definite plans yet, but expanding the WSOP to other locations would make it would make it run all year. Sources: www.worldseriesofpoker.com www.pokerpages.com Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP, WSOP Europe Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/3/07posted by Dr. Poker @ 7:59 AM 22 year old Shankar Pillai of Commack, NY, is a half million dollars richer, thanks to his big win at the 2007 World Series of Poker. The first-time competitor was one of more than 800 players who put up $3,000 to buy into the no-limit, Texas hold 'em poker event. Pillai plays online poker since the age of 15. If he continues like that, he will be a a serious competitor for Phil Hellmuth in the future. Good Luck young man! Dr. Poker ; source: www.gambling911.com Labels: Poker Reviews, Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/2/07posted by Poker Queen @ 9:08 PM A three-day World Series of Poker Main Event Primer held by the WSOP Academy starts tomorrow July 5. Some of the world's best poker players will help participants prepare for the WSOP Main Event. The Main Event Primer also includes tournaments where players can win a seat in the Main Event.The World Series of Poker Academy is an instuctional camp where the participants learn poker skills and tricks from top poker players in order to prepare for the WSOP Main Event. Instructors include som of the best poker players in the world; 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, 2004 World Champion Greg Raymer and 2005 World Champion Joe Hachem, WSOP bracelet winners Mark Seif and Scott Fischman, as well as Alex Outhred and Joe Navarro, a retired FBI agent who is an expert on poker tells. During the three-day camp, there will be seminars, live hand demonstrations and workshops focusing on how to win a WSOP event, as well as two WSOP qualifiers. The qualifiers are two No-Limit Hold'em tournaments, held on Wednesday and Thursday this week, where the winners of the tournaments will win a seat in the 2007 Main Event. The WSOP Main Event Primer will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, beginning tomorrow July 3 and ending Thursday July 5. Day1A of the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em World Championship starts the day after, on Friday July 6 at noon PDT. Sources: www.cardplayer.com www.wsopacademy.com www.worldseriesofpoker.com Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
7/1/07posted by Poker Queen @ 3:56 PM The World Series of Poker tournament is getting bigger and bigger. First, another record has been broken at this year's WSOP. The $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold?em event that began yesterday Saturday 30 saw 3,151 entries ? a record for entries in a non-main event at the World Series of Poker. Second, a fourth Day 1 will be added to the schedule of the Main Event, probably to give room to more players than expected participating in the event.With a total of 3,151 entries, the first day of the three-day No Limit Hold'em tournament, Event #49, saw the largest number of poker players ever in a non-main event in the 38-year history of the World Series of Poker. The old record of 2,998 entries was also set at this year?s WSOP, in the first of a series of $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold?em events this year. There are only two poker tournaments that have attracted more players than yesterday?s event. The largest poker tournament in history is the 2006 WSOP $10,000 Championship event, with 8,773 players, followed by the 2005 WSOP Championship event, with 5,619. The Main Event of the WSOP, a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'Em World Championship, traditionally sees the highest number of entries in poker. Last year, 8,773 players participated, playing for the top prize of $12 million and a WSOP gold bracelet. This year it seems like even more players might participate in the event. There are seats for 3,000 players a day, so the adding of a fourth Day 1 of the event suggests that more than 9,000 players are expected to play. The WSOP Main Event will begin July 6 at noon, with Day1A, followed by Day1B, 1C and 1D on July 7, 8 and 9. Players who preregister can choose their start day. Sources: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ http://www.finanznachrichten.de/ http://www.cardplayer.com/ Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
6/30/07posted by Poker Queen @ 3:43 PM Winner of Event #44, the $2,000 buy-in Omaha High-Low tournament, is Frank O'Dell. With 534 entries, the event was one of the largest Omaha High-Low turnouts in the history of the World Series of Poker.This was poker pro Frank O?Dell?s second victory at the WSOP. He also won the Omaha High-Low event back in 2003, which makes him one of only a few players who have won Omaha High-Low several times. O?Dell, who has been playing tournament poker for the last ten years, has a total of over $1.4 million in winnings. The final table began with Marcel "the Flying Dutchman" Luske being chipleader, but he finished fourth in the event. Thang Luu finished second, and Martin Corpuz third. O?Dell started the final table being third in chips, but managed to beat his eight opponents in just slightly more than three hours, making it one of the fastest finals of the 2007 World Series of Poker. During the game, O?Dell acted confident and even told his opponents, "It's my bracelet, I want you all to know. It's my bracelet." First place in the $2,000 buy-in Omaha Hi Lo tournament pays O?Dell $240,057 in prize money. When asked in an interview what he plans to do with the money, O?Dell said, ?I just want to relax. To me a win is more important than money or anything else. It?s a great experience.? Event #50, the two-day $10,000 buy-in World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha will start at noon tomorrow Sunday July 1st, followed by Event #51, the two-day $1,000 buy-in S.H.O.E event starting at 5 pm PDT. Sources: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ http://www.pokernews.com/ Labels: Poker Tournaments Schedule, Poker Tourneys, WSOP Use the red button to download your free online poker game Share this post!
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