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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
What a Turrable Turnament
I don’t know what to say, one of my horses made it to the top 3 as I predicted (Dennis Phillips), although he played pretty bad in my opinion.
I’m glad Chris already wrote something up for our blog about the final table, because it gets me off the hook from having to say something informative about the actual results. I’ll sum it up for you right here…it doesn’t matter who wins, because we’re all losers. Well, not really, but I certainly feel like a donk after putting aside something important to watch the final table coverage on ESPN.
It’s hard to really comment on the play at the final table because the coverage was so poor. It’s hard to say what really happened. This has always been an issue at the WSOP. They try to squeeze an entire final table with a bunch of other ridiculous segments into a 2 hour show. I think even Charles Barkley would agree, this coverage was just turrable.
This led me to thinking today, how did I ever enjoy this sort of thing? I can remember watching poker on TV as I was learning to play and it was nothing like this. Then it occurred to me, I used to watch the World Poker Tour all of the time. I don’t think that they started filming their TV final tables until they got down to 6 players.
This let them show more of the action and how everything developed at the final table. It let them show some of the drama when 2 players would start going after each other during every hand. Not to mention, their commentary was a little bit better, and anyone that reads this blog often knows I hate ESPN’s poker commentary.
The World Poker Tour had Mike Sexton, a long time poker player. He was able to fill in the role of the “Expert” commentator. ESPN has nobody to do this, and it shows.
So far the word that I’ve gotten from the poker room affiliates is that there is no real spike in new account signups this year. In the last few years, there has traditionally been a wave of signups around the time of the WSOP broadcast, but this year there is almost nothing. This worries me more than the half-assed one liners from Norman Chad. This is something that can really affect the future sponsorship opportunities that poker rooms are going to want to put up at the WSOP.
I hope the next wave of money is on it’s way, because Guy Laliberte isn’t going to play on Full Tilt forever.
