The Big Game poker episodes

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Tags: Videos   game   the   big  

  PokerStars has introduced an interesting format for poker television.  Basically it is a cash game that pits 5 pros against what they call a "loose cannon".  The Loose Cannon get's staked for $100,000 and anything that player wins over $100,000 he/she gets to keep.

[ the big game ]


Michael Mizrachi wins Players Championship at WSOP

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Tags: championship   Michael   Mizrachi   Players  

  In poker as in most things people love winners until they lose, then obviously they become degenerates.  Michael Mizrachi knows this roller coaster better than most after rising in the poker world and dominating the World Poker Tour "The Grinder" basically fell off the poker

[ Michael Mizrachi Players Championship ]


The WSOP is no longer a Series

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Tags: WSOP   Series  

  When I first started playing poker, even before I knew I wanted to do it for a living (you could strongly argue that I do not now and you would not be far off) I dreamt to play in the WSOP, the main event.  I tried to get into some preliminary events back in the day through satellites

[ no longer a series ]


Jason Calacanis takes on the poker world

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tags: game   the   big   Jason   Calacanis  

  Jason Calacanis is a bombastic, opinionated and self serving player in the technology blogging community.  He is most known for starting fights with just about everyone as a way to garner attention for himself and his projects.  My wife describes me similar to the way I would

[ Jason Calacanis Poker ]


My retirement from poker announcement (5 years later)

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Tags: poker   retirement   announcement  

  (Circa March 2005) Recently I had the run of my life.  While most people know me for all of the Aruba wins (not to mention all of the pieces I had for the ones I did not win) I had 250k cash game runs multiple times in 2004.  I played most of the WPT events in 2004 and I am just

[ retiring from poker ]


Daniel Negreanu will get crushed in the PokerStars 100-200 NLHE

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Tags: pokerstars   Daniel   Negreanu   kidpoker  

Recently Daniel Negreanu started playing regularly in the 100-200 game on PokerStars.  Most people think he is a big underdog.  I made this video blog to highlight HOW big of an underdog and why fundamentally he has a long way to go before he will be a favorite in that particular

[ Fundamental Mistakes Kidpoker ]


Stox quits stoxpoker, now what?

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Tags: stoxpoker   stoxtrader   quits  

I know that 2+2 is viewed as "the man" in the poker world.  Mostly in the context of "the man" is trying to keep me down.  You can go over a million ways that the site is annoying and even repressive but nine out of ten times they get it right.  It certainly did

[ stoxtrader quits stoxpoker ]


Stoxtrader Nick Grudzien cheating scandal updates

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Tags: stoxpoker   cardrunners   nick   grudzien  

Update: We have developed a script (it is at the bottom of this post) that allows uses to analyze Holdem Manager Data with set criteria.  We should be able to modify it as needed. Update: Stoxpoker released this statement on 2+2 "In the last few days various allegations have been made

[ stoxtrader cheating accusations ]


Where's your POKER head at?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Tags: poker   Tilt   emotions  

Obviously you can not win every day but it certainly seems like you should.  After all you put in a ton of work and you study your game but ultimately you are still only going to win a small percentage over 50% no matter what.  So how do you keep your head straight?  Four things

[ emotional poker ]


Annie Duke wins the 2010 NBC Heads Up Championship

Monday, March 08, 2010

Tags: heads   up   Annie   Duke   nbc   championship  

  There are a couple of things that I think need to be said first given that the title pretty much gives away the purpose of this article.  Annie Duke is a great poker player if you define great as being much better than the average poker player.  Many people have issues with her

[ annie duke heads up ]


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