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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Barry Greenstein Talks “High Stakes Poker”
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by Phil
In his recent radio blog entry on Pokerroad.com Barry Greenstein talks about his play during the fifth season of “High Stakes Poker”. The show will be aired starting in March on GSN network. Greenstein sounds disappointed by his play or maybe just by the outcome and tries to rectify his image.
It all sounds like a little damage control after not very successful performance. He actually admits that he discussed some hands from his session with Phil Ivey and Tuan Le. Greenstein claims that he almost never talks with people about specific hands just generally being sure he is capable of making right decisions most of the time. He makes an interesting remark about both Ivey and Le being very talented ‘feel” players which sort of defeat the purpose. In order to play based on a “feeling” one needs to be in the actual game and follow it closely. No amount of accurate description will recreate an actual environment.
On light side of the discussion, Greenstein mentions his mistakes in betting size on numerous occasions. He claims to be confused by Las Vegas’ chip denominations of 5 and 25 as oppose to California chips of 5 and 20. As a result, more then once he raised to 100 thousand dollars with intention to raise to 80 thousand. He readily admits that money of this scale means next to nothing to him and he does not pay close attention to random 20 thousands. Nice to be Barry Greenstein! It sounds like the third day of the “High Stakes Poker” filming was action packed and we might be in for a treat in a new TV season.
