Ever seen Jay Mohr’s classic Saturday Night Live skit It’s Christopher Walken for Skittles? Well, this is just as weird. Doyle Brunson told Clonie Gowen that every night before he goes to sleep he eats two packages of Skittles. Nothing like a ton of pure sugar to help you fall asleep at night. By 2008, …
I just talked to Phil “The Unabomber” Laak who has made friends with my new media room buddy from Amsterdam, who was nice enough to fix Laak’s playstation. Anyway, I asked Phil about how he felt about players like Phil Gordon, who say they would like to see less antics displayed on televised …
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It didn’t take long. Upon being dealt his first hand, Mike Matusow looked at his cards and screamed “This is Bullshit. I’m not even kidding, I’m serious.” No, the mouth wasn’t dealt rags, he was enraged at the cards being used at this year’s World Series of Poker. The cards are identified in the corners …
Early in day one of this year’s World Series of Poker, I found myself discussing Phil Hellmuth, with the equally tall, but infinitely less abrasive Phil Gordon. I mentioned an episode of NBC’s Poker after Dark, which featured an epic smack-down session of trash talking poker between Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, and Tony G. Gordon was …
This has nothing to do with the WSOP. I’m playing 2-5 NL at the Rio. The guy to my left is a solid player. The guy to his left is a drunk with a ton of chips. The Drunk raises to 30 or so and the solid player calls with Q8 suited, ok maybe he …
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Picture this. Justin Verlander, who no hit the Brewers today, comes out in his next start and pitches six perfect innings. Major League Baseball then empties the stadium and makes anyone who wants to watch the last three innings watch on Pay Per View. That’s pretty close to what happened when Phil Hellmuth won his record …
Daniel Negreanu: Would showing a bluff be good for the game? If you’re like most of the world, that’s how you were introduced to Kaseem “Freddy” Deeb. It was at the 2004 $10,000 No Limit Championship Poker at the Palace event. Deeb was heads up with the popular and garrulous Negreanu. He had control of …
I’m not a particularly big fan of the corporatization of poker, and just one look at the way Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack dresses and carries himself and you know instantly that he’s a corporation man through and through, but I have to applaud the World Series for outlawing the type of deal made by Bill Chen …
WSOP Event 39 $5000 No Limit Hold’em Shorthanded Today we’ll be discussing a hand with internet legend Rob “ChaynesawMSSehKER” Downs. Rob is one of the emerging names in the online poker world, but this year having just turned 21, he is trying his hand at live play. Rob has $1,500,000 in chips. TH.com: What are …
Things certainly have changed. Poker is no longer the province of gunfighters and rogues. What fun is it thinking about Doc Holliday and Wild Bill Hickock, when their favorite pastime has been taken over by the MIT Blackjack Team? Sigh. Today’s $5000 No Limit Hold’em winner, 21 year old James Mackey is about to …