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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
Double-U es Opie
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 by Phil
As far as WSOP predictions go, this year I could not have been any more wrong. At some point I ventured the guess that this would be the year in which not a single well known player would win a bracelet. I also came out and said to a few people that Phil Ivey wouldn’t cash in a single event. Lucky for me I didn’t put my money where my mouth was because I would have lost big time.
I almost made it through the whole WSOP without making a single blog post about it. It’s not because I don’t care or I think my readers don’t care about the WSOP, but let’s face it… Most of us have a twitter account or frequent the poker forums or subscribe to the poker news RSS feeds, or have some other way of finding out what’s going on at the WSOP. This blog is not exactly the place where you are going to typically find late breaking news. If I do mention the news, it will usually just be to make fun of someone or explain how poorly they play poker.
For the most part, all you need to know about the WSOP is that Ivey is just as good as everyone has always said he was. He’s in a position where he could certainly win the main event because he has locked up a seat in the November Nine. It’s great for Phil, but I’m just being honest when I say that hearing about how Phil Ivey is a god-like figure will become very annoying over the next few months. I had already started getting sick of it a few months ago and I think this is why I wanted to bet against him cashing in any event this year. In reality, I really hope he takes it down, I just can’t promise that I will sit and listen to Norman Chad and Lon McEachern as they slaughter the coverage.
Of course, I think that if Phil Ivey won the main event it could be really good for all of the online poker sites… especially Full Tilt Poker just because that is where Phil plays all of the time. Anything that is good for the sites is good for poker players in general.
