I drove from Davis to Bay 101 in San Jose early yesterday morning to play in their $1000 Last Saturday tournament. It’s a great one day tournament: players start with 40,000 chips and levels are 30 minutes long. Because of…
When I won The WSOPc Monster Stack at Thunder Valley on Wednesday October 2, 2024, it was the culmination of a long poker journey. And it was a new beginning as well: having done it once, I knew that I…
Yesterday morning I was playing Flight 1B of the $600 $150,000 Guarantee Mini-Main at the Peppermill. I can’t remember why but the conversation turned to each of our histories playing poker and dealing in Reno. I said that I had…
I’m not going to bore with you all the hands that led up to the final one in Saturday’s 1pm $550 satellite to Sunday’s $3500 WPT Rolling Thunder at Thunder Valley but the last one was something else. 20 seats…
I was cruising in Day 1C of the $1100 $1 Million Guarantee at Thunder Valley on Sunday (March 9). From 15,000 chips I was on a heater that pushed my stack above 140,000 at 500/1000/1000 – one of the top…
You’re not trying to beat the Yankees or the Red Sox or the Blue Jays. You’re trying to beat the game of baseball through execution – Major League Baseball Manager Joe Madden, quoted in Matt Fitzgerald The Comeback Quotient and…
After fending off the depression from having my right wrist put in a cast last Thursday morning due to damage to my TFCC tendon that I injured lifting weights, I have returned to my nefarious ways. After placing 14th out…
I’m a big believer in the idea that poker is a microcosm of life. That is, the situations and challenges you face in poker – as in sports – share the same features as the situations and challenges you face…
I thought I’d seen it all and played with the best: Darren Elias, Bin Weng, Chino Rheem, Loni Harwood, James Carroll, Shannon Shorr, Andrew Moreno, etc…. Until Friday….. Everything was going smoothly. I’d satellited into Flight 1A of the $1700…
Friday at Graton was going pretty well. I’d satellited into Flight A of the $1700 WSOPC Graton Main Event for $300 and I’d run up a decent stack when I picked up Jh10d UTG at 300/500/500. Normally that’s a fold…