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Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Joe Hachem to Continue Playing in Major Poker Tournaments
Joe Hachem has announced that he will continue participating in major poker tournaments. This dispels the belief many held that he will limit his tournament activity and focus on developing the Asian Poker Tour and AsianLogic Group, now that he is on board as their new ambassador.
Hachem, who briefly held the record for the all-time biggest tournament prize when he won $7.5 million at the 2005 World Series of Poker, has said that most of the tournaments he’ll participate … Read the rest
Victory Is Mine
It’s always nice to win a tournament with a few hundred entrants. I always think about quitting tournament poker for good and I usually only play in tournaments for fun these days. One of the reasons I hate tournaments is because your day almost always gets ruined by someone. No matter what place you get knocked out in, it’s always going to hurt.
I was just messing around at the low stakes yesterday, which sort of sucks in retrospect, but I’m just in these tournaments to throw some chips around and try to suck-out on people.
I usually expect it to hurt when I am knocked out, so I don’t get too involved with these tournaments. I just wrote an entry a few days ago about my little steaming problem that I called “Steaming Bat Out of Hell”, so that pretty much says it all.
There was 352 players in this Stud8 tournament yesterday and I had the chip lead by the time it got down to about 75 players. By the time it was down to around 40 players I had stretched this to a 2 to 1 chip lead over second place, and I was just basically crushing the rest of the field.
It’s actually sort of hard to get a lot of final table experience in Stud8 events. The way this final table played out, it was extremely easy to run over people which surprised me a little bit. They really didn’t seem to grasp the concepts that you need to understand to do well in Stud8, although the limits were pretty high at this point in the tournament which didn’t help them. I basically took at least half of every pot that was played at the final table.
The guy that was heads up against me admitted he had never played a stud8 tournament before, and it really showed because he made a few really bad decisions. He caught 2 huge 7th street cards on consecutive hands to get him back in the match, so he gave me a little bit of a tough time after that. He actually had me down to about a 4 to 1 chip disadvantage after some nasty suckouts.
At that point I still liked my chances over my opponent just because I had seen how he got those chips from me and he had played pretty poorly. A few hands later it was all over and I was…uhhhh…. a few dollars richer. I prefer to brag about winning a 350 person tournament rather than the cash, we’re talking about some of the lower stakes here, so a few of my readers probably made more money at their real job in the time it took me to win this tournament. But whatever, a win is a win, so chalk it up.
If I can get some more time I’ll try and break down some of these final hands a little bit.
