Poker Smackdown Tour (PST) for Oct

Here’s the wrapup from our Oct. tourney: The tourney last Thursday was, as expected, a crowd pleaser. Pardon the cliche, but the action was fast and furious. The waiters must have put something into the water because the event seemed crazier than any past tourney. A couple highlights: Rini was 86’d early in the evening …

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Back From A Break

It’s been longer than usual between posts for me. I’m not sure I can put my finger on exactly why but I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that after reading 100 posts on 2+2 it’s a bit of a challenge to come up with something interesting to say. Posting about a hand …

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Punked By Brunson

I happened to catch the Tivo of the WSOP Tournament of Champions the other night and I was almost rolling out of my seat. Basically it was a $2 million, winner take all, tournament with the following players: TJ Cloutier Greg “Fossilman” Raymer Phil Ivey Phil Hellmuth Howard Lederer Johhny Chan Annie Duke Daniel Negreanu …

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PokerChipTricks.com

I found Nick Momrik’s personal website a while back while trying to learn some of those fancy-shmancy poker chip tricks you always see people doing. I mean, the guy went to the trouble to video the tricks from different angles but to step-by-step describe them so you don’t miss a beat. Anyway, I thought it …

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Different Mentality

I’ve been getting a little frustrated with $3/$6 lately and so I decided to play a couple of $5/$10 tables last night. I ended up playing at three different Paradise $5/$10 tables (1 broke up after a couple of hours) and I made a nice chunk of change. For me the glaring difference between $3/$6 …

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