Celebrity Poker Disappoints

Well, last week I spoke enthusiastically about the new season of Celebrity Poker. This week they went back to their previous format of medicore poker playing. Tonight’s players were Timothy Busfield, Mo Gaffney, Dule Hill, Danny Masterson, and James Woods. Timothy played last season during the West Wing episode (yawn) and I have no idea …

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Lookout For The UniFish

I’m a little surprised more poker bloggers haven’t written about last night’s WPT Invitational. It was one of the most bizzare games I’ve seen that wasn’t online. That Unibomber kid, Phil Laak, is insane. He starts the final table the short stack with $110,000 and ends up winning the tournament. This guy was going all-in …

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Some Tourney Advice . . . Anyone?

Hey, I’m throwing this out there to see if anybody has any general comments or advice. I’ve been playing a lot of SnG and Multi-Table tournaments lately and I do pretty well with the SnG’s. I had a little bad run lately but even with that bad run I’ve been placing in the money in …

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Trying Something Out

It’s been kind of funny that lately I’ve been having a good run with the SnG games but my cash game run has been pretty poor. I went back and looked at what I was doing and I think I’ve pinned it on the fact that in tourney action it pays to play a little …

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Speaking of Table Chatter

Earlier I posted about Wanda Sykes’ table banter on the Celebrity Poker show. It started me thinking about interesting table chatter I’ve heard watching the WPT. The one that seemed to spring to my mind was an exchange between Phil Helmuth and Antonio “Magician” Esfandiari. The two of them had been going at it on …

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