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DINE ON THE WHALES
(UPDATED:
01/27/10)
Wild
Bill's reflections on poker, sports, and issues facing the Gulf Coast:
"The
hand that I had just raised played out quite interesting. Under the gun
led out, then I got
repopped
by the player to my left, the entire table called. Action got back to me
and I threw out a ton of chips. I read a lot of weakness and thought the
reraiser
was a little passive in general. If he had a monster he’d probably ship
it and I could fold. If he
didn’t I
could probably scoop it right there.
To my surprise I got called by the player that popped me, and everybody
else rightfully headed for cover. I had
AQ and
checked it down when the board missed me. I
didn’t
know if he’d call a bet in that spot with AK which I thought he had, but
I wasn’t
going to contribute anything more to the pot. The other possible
holdings he might have all crushed me. At the end to my surprise my
opponent had KQ
and I scooped the pot. So, showing down
AQ meant
everybody knew I was willing to get a little out of line."
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LITTLE THOUGHTS
[UPDATED
01/27/10] Jonathan Little has over 4 million dollars in lifetime
winnings . He was the WPT Season VI player of the year.
Born in Pensacola Florida, a mere 24 years ago the sky is the
limit for this young pro whose online handle is jcardshark.
He also is a poker coach at
sngicons.com.
"Last night I
was playing a few random tournaments and trying to take care of
some stuff online. I somehow found myself in a $77 6 max turbo
tournament with 311 people. I can remember 3 times in the
tournament where I had 30% equity or less but sucked out. Most
of the spots were pretty standard though, like KK vs AA. I ended
up shipping the title and $4200 or something like that, which is
nice because live poker has been going terrible. I havent made
it past the 2nd break in any event so far this year, as far as I
can remember.
Actually, that may not be true. My memory is terrible about
these kidns of things. All the tournaments get muddled together
in my head. Still though, I do know I have cashed for $0 and
have invested something like 30k which is never fun. Thats ok
because the Biloxi WPT main event is tomorrow. This tournament
is always a great one. Sadly, there are lots of regulars here. I
remember the first year they had this event there were maybe 20
people I knew in the field. there will probably be 60 this time.
I suppose ill be updating again rather shortly after Biloxi is
over. Good luck to everyone. ."
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FADE EVERYTHING
[UPDATED:
01/17/10] Bobby Toye is a former LSU student and a
rising online/live tournament player. Toye has six live
cashes to his name half of which are three first place finishes.
The aspiring screenwriter offers a well-written window into the
life of a young poker player.
"Biloxi
has been cold in every sense of the word. I’ve fallen into a
routine of playing every noon-event tournament for eight or so
hours, busting sometime between dinner break and the bubble,
then stumbling back to the condo where dire cold and piercing
winds wait for me on what seems like a mile long trek from the
last parking spot to my door. This was not how I envisioned
moving into a condo on the beach. That being said, I’m very
pleased with the condo itself. It came with all the furniture
and appliances I could ever want, a huge interior space, and a
wrap-around balcony overlooking the coast.
Fortunately, things seem to be warming up. The cold has been
less bitter the last couple days. I scored my first cash last
night in the 1k. I hardly made any profit but after nine bricks
in a row, I’ll take it. One of my horses survived to day two, so
I’ll be leaving soon to go sweat him and finally play some cash
games."
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[UPDATED:
02/01/10] BRIAN HEPTINSTALL has been called the Nolan
Dalla of the Gulf Coast. His informative blog provides the
latest news from an insiders point of view of the poker
industry. His tournament coverage is second to none.
"Here
we are! Day 2 of the main event trying to get down to the final
27. Then getting ready for day 3 and the intense play down to 6.
Followed by a final table of 6 that hopefully will be a good
match-up. Yep! The WPT is nearing the climactic end.
It's been a month full of some great (and horrible) poker. I can
tell you that one person that comes to mind when talking about
these events is Dwyte Pilgrim. This guy has won two of the
events and came in second in the third. Now, he's trying to make
it three wins in the main event. He was the chip leader going
into day 2, but is now getting very short on chips. The fact
remains, however that he has made his way through these fields
down here and took away two trophies and quite a bit of cash.
Another thing that has happened actually comes in two parts.
FIRST!
Phil Ivey
took second in the Aussie Millions main event, which puts him
about $400k over
Daniel Negreanu
for all-time tournament earnings. SECOND! Daniel Negreanu was
down here playing. It was his first trip to Mississippi in quite
some time. He stopped coming based on several factors, but most
of those factors have been resolved and now he's here. He
managed to make it through day one, but busted halfway through
day two. If he'd won this event, it would have put him right
back on top of the all-time money earner's list. Now he has to
wait a little while longer."
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POKERBAT
[UPDATED:
01/20/10] THE POKER BAT is an online player from Northern
Louisiana who is trying out blogging to help him with his game.
Bat will delve into hand scenarios and discuss issues facing
today's online player.
"TThe Bat
wonders if you’ve ever seen those guys that sit down at the
table and immediately start caressing the felt. They move those
dirty hands around in slow semi-circles like they are petting a
dog’s belly, and stroke it like there is some sort of secret
spot that will unlock a trove of chip stacks.
The Bat can tell
them where the G spot is, it’s right in front of them with the
thousands they got sitting there in stacks of hundos, that Bat
will be happy to unload for them. The Bat knows you don’t have
to deal with that crap playing online poker but is terrified
about the rumors that poker sites will start using webcams to
show the poker players in the hand.
The Bat doesn’t
want to see what the guy is doing in the privacy of his own home
whilst playing poker. Forgetaboutit.
So the Bat watches a few lunchboxes, at the casino that Daniel
Negreanu called out in his blog, stroking felt. Apparently Kid
Poker, The Poker Monkey, and Pokerbat can all agree the
structures in those tournaments turn into shove fests at the
end.
The Bat doesn’t
know from personal experience as the Bat has never made it to
the end of anything really except for a special Family Ties
episode that dealt with Skippy’s cross eyeds (hey, that pulled
at the heartstrings and Mallory really had a change of
perspective). Still, the Bat considers both those players wise
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YOU'RE TOO CAREFUL
[UPDATED 01/29/10] ReidG ...who was raised in New Orleans and lives in
Mobile brings his perspective on the Gulf Coast scene to GCP.NET.
"So 2009 is officially in the books,
poker-wise. It was a weird year for me and I feel like, despite
what I perceived as tremendous growth, I left a lot of goals
unrealized. And I didn't win anything meaningful. And that's
what it's all about: winning. It's the only thing that matters.
It's not about silver linings or moral victories or whatever.
It's only about winning.
For the first time since I started playing poker in 2001, I
played virtually no cash games. That's hard for me to
believe--especially considering I was only a cash player until
2008--but when reviewing my records for the year, I did not have
one cash session recorded. Which means, if I played cash at all,
it was done so sparingly that I didn't even bother to record it.
I guess I played a few sessions, but I don't really remember. As
for MTTs, I finished on the +side but just barely. Is it "the
black"? I always get that red/black accounting terminology
confused (apparently so too does the gov't, wall street, hedge
funds, the automobile industry, and our healthcare
infrastructure. way to go america!). Anyway, I managed to win a
little but a marginal winning/breakeven year certainly feels
like a losing year to me.
In live tourneys, I finished down $465. My best stretch of the
year was a one week stretch in March where I chopped the $15k
gtd Beau; then won/chopped the first nightly at the Beau Spring
Break Poker Classic; then disappointingly finished 13th in event
#2 of the same series (I blogged about it here). My worst
stretch was basically the rest of the year! Excellent.
This year, I made the transition to primarily focusing on online
poker; it's a transition I'm still making and learning about in
a number of ways..."
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POKER DIARY
[UPDATED
02/10/09] Jena Delk, isn't an up and coming poker player on the
Gulf Coast because she's arrived. A Florida native, Jena
is a fixture on the circuit. Her blog chronicles her
travels around the country pursuing her poker jones:
"As I play poker I am affected by many
internal and external distractions. Being fully aware of those
distractions, can help a player to minimize mistakes. Some of
the internal distractions include such things as being tired,
hungry, or in pain.
External distractions are not generally under
your control; therefore you should have a plan to deal with them
as best you can before they occur.
I woke up this morning several times. I woke the first time
around 6 am because I was cold. I got up and adjusted the
thermostat and added a blanket to my bed. I woke up again at
9:30 am when the doctor’s office called to confirm an upcoming
appointment.
Wow, the room was still cold. What’s going
on with the heat? I add a sweater and crawl back under the
covers for my last half hour of sleep. At 10 am, I get up and
head to the Jacuzzi for morning therapy. The hot tub is NOT hot.
How strange!
No therapy for me this morning, I guess. I return
to my room to shower, thinking this should tie me over for a
bit, and find there is no hot water. Not a drop! Irritation
begins to rise."
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BRANDON'S
BLOG
(UPDATED:
12/1/09) Is there a guy on the coast playing as well as Brandon
Jarrett has dominated events in Biloxi, with a first at
the IP and one at the Beau. With 140k in tournament
winnings in six months, he's one to watch, and one to learn
from.
"Brandon has a
training video up here...Check it out folks...just click on the
link"
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THE
"HONEST PLAYER"
(UPDATED:
11/19/09) Is there such thing as an Honest (Poker) Player?
Parfait treads the line between deception and head games.
An up and comer, this Honest Player excels at hand analysis and
table reads.
"A couple weeks ago I was able to put in a pretty long
session at Harrah's with Davey and for the most part it was
pretty fun. Didn't get out there till pretty late and it took
forever to park but I finally sat down around 10:00 in a really
bad game but luckily it broke fairly early and I was moved to a
game that much better. I didn't really do anything great but I
was able to book a win which is always nice. Never really had
any interesting hands except when I straddled and and had 4,6
and flopped open ended with 6 ppl in the hand. I bet it and hit
it on the turn and broke the guy next to me who was pretty
unlucky and flopped a set. Of course the guy at the other end of
the table "knew" what I had, well he said it was either a
straight or a flush.....no shit huh, not to much else beats a
set.
I was fortunate enough to be dealt 12 pocket pair in one night
and connect for ZERO flops. I guess I wasn't trying hard enough,
at least that's what Davey told me. Never really had any big
hands either. I got the pleasure of playing with a local by the
name of Melvin. Melvin is prolly one of the funniest ppl I've
played cards with and he's not trying to be funny. He constantly
falls asleep at the table and just brutally honest with people.
He's been known to tell people they should stay b/c they play so
bad he's guaranteed to win. He'll also call complete strangers
sweetheart and just create this very weird vibe for the tourist
but we all know it's a joke. There was Russian kid at the table
and when he asked where the kid was from and he said Russia,
Melvin let us know that "Russians are fuckin crazy, you can't
trust them at all....they're more nuts than
China-men"...needless to say he's not very P.C"
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JUICEY
POKER
[UPDATED:
10/5/09] JASON LIPSCOMB gives you a chance to talk with a
tournament director--directly. Lipscomb will keep you
abreast of all the happenings at Harrahs regarding tournaments
and poker. Check here for updates.
"I know it
has been awhile since my last post, but I here and have some
good news. I recently signed on as a pro with http://www.feltstars.com/
and I must say the software is second to none. Yes better than
tilt and pokerstars try it out and see it for yourself after all
it free to try... They are offering 300% bonus up to 3k total
the largest of any online site and rake back deals too up to 30%
and the rake back is added to your acct daily. Contact me for
rake back deals @ juiceypoker@yahoo.com"
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YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
[UPDATED: 09/19/09]
The Tiltin' Texan serves up a steady diet of crazy late nights
in poker rooms from across the coast. To him a 24 hour session
is as quick as a traffic light. His commentary on the sick
side of poker is a fun read:
"Stakes : 2/5 NL Holdem live action 9 handed
Location: Beau Rivage Casino (brick and mortar)
Players: Villian #1 $1200 stack (tight image has not played many
hands)
Villian #2 $1000 stack (foreigner that i have pegged as a fish)
Tex(me) $900 stack (running bad and a little steamed)
In MP I look down at Rin Tin Tin (pocket 10s) . Villian #2 ,who
speaks Sputnik, limps in from EP for $5 ,I decide to limp and
play small ball. Two more players flatted behind me and Villian#1
in the BB checkoslovakias.
5 limpers see a flop of 9 6 7 Rainbow.. Villian#1 knuckles,
Villian#2 fires out 30 bones ,I briefly go in "tank" as i want
to repop it here with a 3bet but with donks behind me I decide
to smoooth call. The 2 LP players insta-muck while Villian#1
flatted the $30 bet.
So 3 to the turn. 4th street brings a brick 2 of spades but
puts two spades on board. Action on Villian#1 who knuckles ,
Sputnik continues to show strength with a $ 60 bet. My read on
Villian is a hand like top top or J9.
Only hand possible that has me beat is if he flopped two pair. I
choose to flat and control size of pot with positive EV if we
are heads up to river."
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LONELY ROAD
(UPDATED 12/20/09) Virge's road
is the internet highway, he's now one of the top online
(formerly) local players:
It's
fairly obvious since I haven't posted in a while, but I've taken
extended break to travel and see the world. I'm more than happy
to talk to anyone, but I won't be offering any coaching or any
other poker services while I'm away.
Say hi if you'd like to hear some great stories; I may get
around to posting them at some point.
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SAINTS SUPERBOWL SUNDAY
INTERLUDE
02.07.10
OUR APOLOGIES TO COWBOYS,
FALCONS, TITANS, TEXANS, DOLPHINS, BUCS, RAMS, AND OTHER FANS
(INCLUDING POKER PURISTS) FOR THIS LINK DUMP TO THE SAINTS
BUT.... it is Superbowl Sunday and
half of Who Dat Nation is in Miami (the other half in the
quarter) so we have to address the New Orleans Saints a little
bit back to Poker ONLY tomorrow... okay? Let's do one
better than Saints super fan Darvin Moon's (pictured) second
place finish at the main event.
HERE'S A NIBLET OR TWO
ABOUT POKER FIRST. Have to stay true to our
website... ESPN recap of Hoyt Corkins championship
here
also final tabler Dan O'Brien's Sleepless in Biloxi
blog on Pokerroad
here. Also, a
tale of Mel Gibson
at the poker table. Sounds like he'd be a better online
poker player than live.
NOW ONTO THE SAINTS...
-Can the Saints save New Orleans? Newsweek
states that the Saints deep run puts $100 in every fan's wallet
and heals mental wounds from five years ago. Believe it or
not, right
chere.
-Last time the Saints fans felt like they were
going to win no matter the foe or the spectacle was the Post
Katrina game. In honor of that no way we can be defeated
spirit lyrics to the Green Day and U2 collaboration "The Saints
are Coming," right
chere.
-Wall Street Journal's take on the region taking
a week off in honor of the Super Bowl right
chere.
-Bet the Superbowl lines, moneyline, prop bets,
half time, punts whatever at bwin where any all
sports betting
can be made.
-ESPN's Rick Reilly's Saints and the Mannings
article right
chere. Good thing
Rick knows who to pull for even if Cooper and Archie have to
pull for the bad guys.
-Do you care Who is playing at halftime.
Us neither. Care about halftime at all? Not this
year, huh. Well, here's a half-time article right
chere with some tips for
today.
-Unlike say overtime vs. the Vikings, it's
better to lose the opening coin toss than to win. That and
some other stats right
chere on Yahoo!
-This guy didn't know what he was talking about.
Super bowl between the Saints and the Colts highly unlikely.
Really? Read CBS's take in November right
chere.
-There would be no Saints if there was no
Superbowl. Finally, the Saints are in it, read the
Washington Times interesting NFL history lesson right
chere and the role of
Louisiana congressmen in the creation of the world's biggest
sporting event. |
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LADIES
NIGHT
02.03.10
TWITTERIN'
ABOUT POKER. A good
recap at
Pokernewsdaily including
Doyle Brunson suggesting English food isn't fit for his dog,
Rafe Furst offering a 10k donation to charity to anybody that
can help him get his hands on an iPad, and mentions two Florida
girls; Vanessa Ruosso and our own blogger Jena Delk. Oh
yeah, the Brunson tweet gets some heat from Daniel Negreanu and
a war of words ensues. Read
here for more.
LADIES OF
POKER NOW FACES OF POKER AND POKER FACE SUCCESS.
First off Lady Gaga's poker face
won a couple of Grammies and inspired Rush Limbaugh to dance (or
convulse like an addict short on pills) that has to be
seen to be believed.
CNN
reports: Lacy Jones
new face of a Poker Tour. Eric Shoenberg is called sey by
a
gambling site (newsflash huh?). UB Poker
Pro Liv Boeree has a Maxim photo shoot (pic above, google is
your friend for the rest)..
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WORLDWIDE
NEWS ROUNDUP
02.02.10
MAN ROBS
LOCAL CASINO POKER ROOM.
In Coconut Creek Seminole Casino poker
room players got a little more than they expected last Friday
when a man walked in with a gun and walked out with a couple
thousand dollars in cash. He wasn't wearing a mask and got
into a Cadillac. It's probably pretty likely they have
some cameras you think. Read
here for complete details.
This guy is probably already caught if not he will be in a
couple of days.
ALABAMA
GAMBLING ISSUES.
Blogger Brian Heptinstall covers the situation much better in
his blog, which can be read at
FLOPPIN' ACES.
For
another perspective also from the Gambling Times, like the
robbery story above, go
here.
DURRRR
CHALLENGE LIKE GROUNDHOGS DAY SEEMS TO POP UP ONCE A YEAR.
At one point it looked like
the Doyle Death prop bet would be settled before the challenge,
now it looks a Tom Dwan death bet might be realized before
Patrik Antonius and Durrrr finish things. However, after
two successive days of play Dwan has eked out a million dollar
lead. With almost 32,000 hands out of the 50,000 played
that's 64% folks, Patrik probably needs to cut into the
wunderkind's lead a bit. Cardplayer has hand specifics
here.
MICHAEL
PHELPS DIPS HIS TOE IN FOR ANOTHER RUN AT POKER.
The swimmer showed up in
Atlantic City and played in the 2k heads up championship.
Along the way he lost to Jeff Madsen and beat Paul Wasicka, more
details
here.
WSOP TO GO
HOLLYWOOD.
Carbonpoker blog is reporting that the World Series of Poker is
considering moving from the Rio to the newly purchased (by
Harrahs) Planet Hollywood Casino. Read
here for more.
EURO POKER
CONSOLIDATION IN ADVANCE OF U.S. LIFTING ONLINE POKER BAN.
The supposed merger between
Party and bwin could set off a chain effect of mergers.
European
online poker sites are
certainly gearing up for competing with the American giants and
part of that means having a massive player list.
Last year was a banner year for bwin with shares rising by over
300%. For more information go to
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TOURNAMENTS TODAY
01.29.10
CHAD BROWN
TOURNAMENT IN NORTH FLORIDA.
50k guaranteed at the Orange Park Kennel
Club. Buy in is $880. The y
expect 120 players. Deep stacks for the two day event.
Brown, his wife Vanessa Ruosso, and other pros will be there
too. For more information go
here.
ACADIANA
POKER SERIES TONIGHT! It's
the other way on the Gulf Coast in Lafayette, LA. Scroll
down for details in this column. You should have one of
our emails in your inbox with all the info (and for those of you
not on the list email
Wild Bill to get on
there). You can check out their site here:
Acadiana Series of
Poker. |
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POKER AND
SAINTS UPDATE
01.29.10
HOYT
CORKINS WINS ANOTHER WPT TITLE.
He might have been the most feared player
at the table, he also came in with the big stack and despite
some hiccups he was able to justify those fears and prevail as
the WPT champion in Biloxi. The Alabama cowboy took down
the title outlasting GCP Magazine cover boy Tyler Smith.
Congrats Hoyt.
The first place
finish takes him to just under 5 million in lifetime winnings.
Hoyt won 713k. Tyler Smith had a bad run of 18 hands and
despite coming to the final table number two in chips was the
first player eliminated.
Jonathan Kantor of Tulsa
Oklahoma made 366k for 2nd. Jerry Van Strydonck almost
200k for 3rd, Jared Jaffee over 135k for 4th, James Reed of
Newnan GA 106k for 5th, and Tyler Smith pulled down 86k.
LAST MINUTE
REMINDER. Folks
if you haven't had the chance to try out the Acadiana Series of
Poker make sure you do this year. The Small Town Poker
Tour does a great job organizing the event and the United Way
has run a first class charity event for four years running.
Anyway, details on their page... tournament is tomorrow.
Get down to the CajunDome
in Lafayette, LA and play a little poker for a good caus e.
Look for our email blasts with more details (and for those of
you not on the list email
Wild Bill to get on
there). Also, check out their site here:
Acadiana Series of
Poker.
CAKE POKER
ADMITS TO BEING THE OWNERS OF TJ CLOUTIER'S BRACELET.
Not sure why
Cake Poker wanted the bracelet but it does appear
they've done the decent thing and returned it to TJ.
RUSH POKER.
Sofa King We Todd Did,
Baton Rouge blogger did play some Rush Poker and despite some
early downs ended up being a fan, a big, big fan. Read his
thoughts
here.
UNFORTUNATELY NAMED ANURAG DIKSHIT SELLS REMAINDER OF HIS
PARTYGAMING SHARES.
That's PartyPoker for those not in the know. They are in
the middle of talks, allegedly, of a merger with
bwin to set up a European
Poker/Gambling juggernaut. Competition is a good thing so
let's get some of these Euro sites open for American online
poker players to try. Lawmakers are you listening?
GOTTA HAVE
SOME SUPER BOWL/SAINTS /SPORTS LINKS.
First off check out the video on
Reid G's
blog and take a gander at some of these other articles below:
*The
NFL is claiming they own the phrase "Who Dat" and essentially
any Fleur-de-Lis paired with it. As both predate the
existence of the league and as you know we have a modified
fleur-de-lis as our logo, the Acadiana Series of Poker too, and
many local business use a fleur-de-lis we basically think the No
Fun League can go No Fun itself. Houma Today has a story
here.
*Reggie Bush's lady friend
Kim Kardashian will be traveling in a pimped out Brinks truck to
the Super Bowl parties in Miami. Wonder if it's the same
truck USC backed up to his house when he signed his first pro
contract (er... commitment) to play there. Go
here to see it.
*The internet is also
abuzz about this Saints
fan
and another shot also
here.
*This isn't Saints related
but it is sportsy so we'll stick it here. We recently told
you about Angelina Jolie's anti-New Orleans comments but this
former NBA stiff and now fired ESPN writer goes a tad bit
further. After trashing Haiti and its people he uses
Katrina and New Orleans as an equally bad comparison. He
says...
"We did the same
after Hurricane Katrina, We were quick to vilify humans
who were too slow to respond to the needs of victims, forgetting
that the victims had built and maintained a major city below sea
level in a known target zone for hurricanes. Our response: Make
the same mistake again. Rebuild a doomed city, putting aside
logic as we did." Read the idiot's
full thoughts at Fox
Sports.
*Speaking of the NBA, and
some players who are not idiots, friends of GCP, reported a
private game between Hornets and Bulls players last night at
Harrahs. No word on who the big winner was, we imagine it
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NEW
BLOGGERS QUICK UPDATE
01.28.10
GULF COAST
POKER.NET WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME BOBBY TOYE AND BRIAN HEPTINSTALL
TO THE BLOGGER ROSTER.
Toye is an up and coming poker pro and
Brian Heptinstall is one of the industry's up and coming
writers. You've probably seen Bobby winning an event at a
Gulf Coast casino and probably seen Brian covering it.
They are to the left in our columns section. Give them a
try they are both excellent writers who bring new points of view
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WORLD OF
POKER
UPDATE
SOUTHERN
POKER CHAMPIONSHIP
01.27.10
GCP
MAGAZINE COVER BOY TYLER SMITH A CHIP LEADER AT THE SPC'S MAIN
EVENT. Smith after day 2 sits behind the
2nd largest chip stack. Will his run catapult him to his
2nd Gulf Coast Poker Magazine cover? Go
here for WPT video of Tyler
winning the Blue Diamond Player of the Day. He talks about
a big pot he won from GCP blogger Jonathan Little. We put
the guy on the cover on our magazine and he starts coming after
our bloggers? That's not very nice. Just for that,
reading public if you ever get the hankering for some almonds
ask Tyler he's got a year's supply of them now.
The young
gun's 467k is second only to Jared Jaffee (Brooklyn, NY) who is
the only player over the half million mark with 546k.
Third in chips is Jonathan Kantor (Tulsa, OK) who has 412.5k.
James Mackey of Columbia, Mo is 4th with 380.5k. Rounding
out the top 5 is Tommy Vedes, another New Yorker, with 336k.
Locals still alive include
Ken Perry of Ocean Springs, MS
at 70.5k, James Blackmon of Columbia, MS at 95.5k, Brian Hawkins
of Fort Myers, FL at 70k, Hoyt Corkins of Alabama, 276k, Sam
Rashid of Brandon, FL 319.5k, Ken Harbaugh of Atlanta, GA 244k,
James Reed of Newnan, GA 221.5k, Andy Philchack of Garland, TX
at 120k, Ayaz Mahmood of Houston, TX at 199k, and Ben Tollerene
of Mansfield, TX at 86.5k.
CHESS
AND POKER COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS UNITE. Dawn
of the age of Bots, or is it noon in the age of bots. Gary
Kasparov, grandmaster chess player and deep thinker (and Deep
Blue conqueror) thinks poker playing will be a good tool for
artificial intelligence. Your friendly conspiracy theorist
thinks artificial intelligence is a good tool for winning money
at poker. Are the bots already here? Are they
coming? Or are they the short-stacking champs kicking butt
on your favorite online site. Head over to the
New York Times for more.
RUSH
POKER LATEST RUSH, LATEST FAD ONLINE. You've
probably played FullTilt's new "Rush" poker by now and enjoyed
the graphics, movement, and feel to the game. Not
surprisingly, early results indicate early winners like the game
and people that lost to start off are not so in favor of the
game. Rush gets the beats going in quick order and gives
you a ton of hands to play especially with the quick fold
button. Poker News Daily talks about the impact of Rush
poker at PokerStars and the elimination of short stacking at FT.
AUSSIE MILLIONS PACKAGE WINNERS ENJOYING LIFE. Over
at bwin's
poker blog the online poker
qualifiers are enjoying the good life taking day 1c off. A
sumptuous meal and some wine tasting at one of Australia's
finest vineyards? Sign me up. This comes on the
heels of impressive run on day 1a and day 1b. 12
qualifiers advanced to day 2 with one of bwin's players second
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WORLD OF
POKER
UPDATE
SOUTHERN
POKER CHAMPIONSHIP
01.26.10

AT THE END
OF DAY ONE YOUR CHIP LEADER IS DWYTE PILGRIM.
Not since Big Easy Lou Esposito
came down and took the Harrahs New Orleans tournament by storm
has a player so easily had his way on the Gulf Coast.
Pilgrim continues his solid run (two firstss and a second so
far) with the chip lead in the main event at 175k. Right
behind him is GCP Blogger Jonathan Little with 155k (pictured in
his new lucky GCP hoodie) who won a big late pot vs. Charder to
get a lot of his chips. Obviously we are pulling for the
guy who likes to Float the Turn.
Other notable Gulf
Coasters include, Hoyt Corkins siting over 115k, Tyler Smith at
86k, and Jeremy Gaubert at 29k. Some of the bigger names
still alive include Kathy Liebert at 53k, Paul Wasicka at
107.5k, JJ Liu 67.8k, Gavin Smith 106k, David Singer 34k, Allen
Kesssler 17.6k and Daniel Negreanu at 81.2k.
UPDATE:
Jonathan Little out in disgusting fashion. AQ ran into AK
and QQ into JJ (ouch!).
HELL
FREEZETH OVER NEW ORLEANS NEWS.
You might have heard the Saints are
Superbowl bound. Darvin Moon wrangled tickets to the game
with in a Box with Jimmy Buffet, Avery Johnson, Ronnie Lott and
Kenny Chesney. Read
PokerNewsDaily for more.
Speaking of stars New
Orleans transplant Brad Pitt is also a Saints fan. His son
Maddox was spotted in a Jeremy Shockey jersey.
Though according to US News and World report
Angelina Jolie hates New Orleans.
What's this got to do with poker? Not much
Kai Landry has more on the
Saints winning, and a Subway experience to forget in his latest
YOU'RE
ENTERING A WORLD OF PAIN
entry.
TJ CLOUTIER
CHAMPIONSHIP BRACELET ON EBAY.
Almost wish somebody would buy it and give
it back to the old legend. Maybe someone did, the bracelet
has sold for $4,006. If you run into somebody with the
2005 5k No Limit Bracelet and they claim they won it, tell them
they only won it on ebay not at the Rio.
ANETTE15,
THE HUNTRESS OR ANETTE OBRESTAD HAS WON AN AUSSIE MILLIONS
EVENT. One of the
worlds best and youngest Texas No Limit Hold'em players is also
a great Pot Limit Omaha player. Uh oh. The world's
youngest backer who was staking people left and right at the
WSOP a couple of years ago, may soon set every record for men
and women. She's a player. For more on Anette go
here. |
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POKER
IS WAR
(UPDATED:
01/22/10)
Gene D's outlook on the local and national poker scene:
"I am sitting here
grinding online with my son in my lap getting lots of text from the
Beau...I couldn't be more happier than I am right now that my son is
getting better...but still fighting the poker blues.
My son came down with Bronchitis last Friday and we have been nursing
him back to health. I have never in my life felt more helpless than that
day with my lil man coughing up flem and unable to sleep...he was crying
and feeling bad. Me and my wife had him between us in the bed and I
would have rather been tortured...water board me...pull my fingernails
out...anything...just let my little dude feel better. It was the worst
feeling I ever had.
(sitting here grinding and typing this...I got my Ipod on shuffle...and
the song "Cats in the Cradle" just jumped off ...wow I love my son)
We have been bringing him to the doctors and giving him medicine for the
past week...including breathing treatments 4 times a day. He has now
turned the corner and he is feeling better. Hes a trooper and enjoys
watching his Dad grind online...The sounds of the MTTs will keep him
calmed and mesmerized for hours. Hes such a good baby."[+] |
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THE POKER MONKEY
[UPDATED: 01/24/10]
Poker Monkey shares his insights on the tournament poker
circuit, life in general, and the battle to make it happen:
"I have
arrived. It is 8:43am. I slept...we'll call it three hours. Air
mattress. An already sore back from 8 hours of yard work
Thursday and Friday at my rental house in Pensacola. A sore
knee, from losing my balance going up the escalator in the
Atlanta airport yesterday...where I fell over my carry-on
bag...and landed on my knee, tearing a hole in my new jeans
(purchased BEFORE the burglary) and ripping open my knee, where
I proceeded to bleed all over Chili's while we dined on our
layover.
There are exactly 5 kids running everywhere. My wife is
sleeping. Still. Somehow. I have met my brother's new wife. She
is very talkative. For those of you who don't know me, I talk
very little before 4pm. Very little. I feel a trip to the other
room to retrieve my BOSE 'noise-cancelling' (never before have I
loved that phrase more) headphones coming in my very near
future.
Later today, it has been brought to my attention that my Mother
will be recieving a guest to the house. One that she went to
school with years ago. She, apparantly, is bringing with
her...two dogs (which should be fun to watch with my Mom's two
cats) and a bird.
Yup, a bird. One of those loud, screetching,
talking birds. This person is spending the night. The bird, is
to be kept within 5 feet of where we are sleeping. I feel two
things coming...either death for a certain bird; or a trip with
my wife to a local hotel.." [+} |
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ENTERING A WORLD OF PAIN
(UPDATED 01/07/09) Kai
has won two large poker tournaments in a matter of months.
He is one of the top up and comers on the coast, having taken
down a main event in Tunica and winning a circuit ring in New
Orleans.
"Dear occasional
disloyal reader,
In lieu of an actual blog this week (as if I've ever managed to
post that regularly), I'm simply putting up a picture of a hot
blonde.
I get the feeling that the blogs have been too wordy and could
use some more pictures. Like a Denny's menu. Or Waffle House.
And who among us after a long night of drinking doesn't like a
hot, greasy Waffle House meal? Exactly. Thus the picture.
Apologies to readers outside the Southeastern United States who
are not familiar with Waffle House, however, I'm sure that
despite your lack of Southern drawl, inadequate college football
teams, and clothing made up of less than 100% Mississippi
cotton, you can still appreciate a menu with pictures on it."[+] |

The cc Line
[UPDATED: 01/29/10]
Shoats, a film school buff, tackles sports gambling, fantasy
sports and of course poker but never in the buff. He also
pledges to snap off lunchboxes at every opportunity.
"From
Malcolm Gladwell, who retells an experiment documented in a book
by Kahneman and Tversky:
"...a group of people were told to imagine that they had $300.
They were then given a choice between (a) receiving another $100
or (b) tossing a coin, where if they won they got $200 and if
they lost they got nothing." (Note: by nothing, he means nothing
additional. They don't lose any money by losing the coin flip,
they just don't get any more than their $300.)
He continues:
"Most of us, it turns out, prefer (a) to (b). But then Kahneman
and Tversky did a second experiment. They told people to imagine
that they had $500 and then asked them if the would rather (c)
give up $100 or (d) toss a coin and pay $200 if they lost and
nothing at all if they won. Most of us now prefer (d) to (c).""..[+] |

POBODY'S NERFECT
[UPDATED: 11/07/09]
Matt Bryrant is trying to conquer this poker thing. He's
well armed as he meshes a dealer's insight with his grinder's
perspective.
"Is
poker all about math? Is poker all about feel? Position? Your
cards? Your opponent?
I could go on and on.....
I wanted to talk a little about feel. I think I'm more of a feel
player than a math player(I'm not saying this is the better way
to be). I will review a hand from the Full Tilt 50-50 tournament
I managed to squeak my way through. I'll try to set-up this hand
just a little:
At the moment, I have never used
PokerTracker. I'm not
apposed to it. Actually, I plan to use it in the future
when I plan to give online poker a legitimate run. But I have no
stats on the "villain" in this hand. What I can tell you, is
that this hand is played early at the final table. I don't have
much prior history with him/her. I start this hand 4th
in chips.[+] |
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AUSTIN
MARTIN
(UPDATED: 12/09/09)
Austin Martin, former
owner and operator of an online poker site brings his expert
knowledge and home game expertise to GCP:
"If you
have been reading along the last few weeks, you know I have had
a terrible run. Finally, I have made a bit of a comeback. I
amended my bankroll strategy for the Sunday million double
shootout satellite tournaments. It is $11.70 to enter, and there
are two seats guaranteed. Late at night and early in the week,
these only get about 3o players. So, you are getting a good
overlay as well as only having to beat 1 or 2 players to get
into the second table. I played four of these tonight and won
two of them.
In case you dont know, you can win these and then unregister and
get the credit in tournament dollars. My bankroll is back over
$500 and I am feeling good about the direction my luck is moving
online. I will play a few more of these over the next few days
and then covert the tournament dollars to cash in the 45 man sit
n go's again"[+] |

DA ROCK OF ACES
(UPDATED:
08/27/09)
Da Rock, tells
it straight from the dealers' box and the winners' circle.
"What's
up my friends? Hope the poker world is going well. Quick question to you
all and I will get out of your hair. Why is it that every time a player
gets sucked out on, get two good starting cards and a bad flop, try to
trap another player and lets them catch up, try to bluff and gets caught
or any other bad scenario, they always, and I mean always blame the
dealer?
Would someone, anyone
please explain this to me. We as dealers take the most abuse from
players that I have ever seen. Our job is to get as many hands out as
possible, collect the bets, burn and turn, call the winning hand, and
push the pot.
We really have no
control as to what cards come off the deck. If we did, don't you think
that we would invite all our friends to come and play? Or deal jackpots
everyday? WOW, I mean come on guys take it easy on the insults and
threats. ..."[+] |
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RECOGNIZE
AND REACT
(UPDATED 09/11/09) A
new title but the same blog,
Goondingy or Big Smoove and pure aggression on the felt examines
live poker action:
"The picture
above shows my boy Brandon on the bottom left with the back of
his head to us, my seat is to his right, a few stacks there with
my water, mp3 player and the rest of the players on my table,
who were there after hour four.
Bachelor Party! We started the festivities at the Beau Rivage in
Biloxi, Ms. Four of the eight played in the $200 tournament and
myself with the other three did other things in the casino. The
later part of the day we were going to hit Bourban street in New
Orleans, just the thing that my bud Alex was looking to do for
his bachelor party, that's correct, no strippers!
Well I sit down in a 1-2 NL game, I LOVE THE BEAU, I adjust my
my chair, get the cocktails that I want, pass my card over for
my comps, place my cell phone on the table and plug in my mp3
player and start to play some poker. The reason why I went
through this is because the only thing you can do at Harrah's in
New Orleans is get a cocktail, except for RED BULL! What's up
with that, unless you want to pay for it or you're a diamond
club card holder, which means you have gambled over $50,000!
Whatever!"
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[UPDATED: 04/21/09]PLAYER N scribes a tale
of grifters, sleaze balls, and beautiful card sharks all
hustling on the Coast.
""I hate big
hands. Not AA or KK because I love those starting hands. And
sidenote, I hate those idiots that complain about big pairs and
then never draw a profit from them. No, I'm being literal.
I hate big HUMAN HANDS. You know those big giant hands with fat
frankfurter fingers crowned by thick calloused fingernails that
are as wide as postage stamps always yellow and blocking any
light from reflecting off of possible cards underneath.
In live play, you look at those Ogre hands and you never know if
it's your turn to act or if the guy has got a pair of cards
buried under there and he is contemplating monosyllabically in
his head. "DO... I... CALL? DO... I... BET?"
You can hear the thought pushing the pea-sized brain about his
matching Easter Island skull like an Astronaut using flatulence
as propulsion to navigate his way around a space-station.
Sorry to get off on a tangent, but Astronauts have been known
to eat an extra batch of freeze-dried Boston Beans just for the
fun of bouncing around the station powered by toots. Come on,
you know that sounds like fun.
Back to my anger inspired by big hands. When I see massive hands
I make a mental footnote, which is a lot like a real footnote,
noticed when first thought about but never returned to, that I
need to follow the action a little more closely.
" "
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