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POKER PLAYER
Vol. 14 Number 3 August 2, 2010 A Gambling Times Publication www.pokerplayernewspaper.com Copyright ©2010 Bi-Weekly $3.95
And Now There Are Nine
Chip leader
Jonathan Duhamel
By Lou Krieger
It took two weeks, but
the WSOP’s main event has
finally been whittled down
to nine remaining players:
the November Nine, the
Novembrists, the final nine,
the final table—call them
what you will—but just nine
remain from a field of 7,319
starters, and one of them
will be world champ this
November.
David Baker had his seventh cash of the 2010 Series
when he was knocked out in
17th place with a flush draw
that never materialized.
Michael Mizrachi, winner of WSOP
$50,000 poker players championship
Benjamin Statz then departed sixteenth, just before the
dinner break.
After dinner they returned
to a knockout that might
have been the main event’s
most memorable hand,
a massive confrontation
between Matt Affleck and
Jonathan Duhamel, who
began things with a raise to
550,000. Affleck three-bet
to 1.55 million. Duhamel
re-raised to 3.925 million.
Affleck called, and 8 million
chips were in pot before the
flop.
Duhamel checked the
Td-9c-7h flop. Affleck fired
out 5 million chips and
Duhamel called. When the
Qd fell on the turn, Affleck
shoved his last 11.6 million
into the pot and Duhamel
was put to a decision for
most of his stack. He finally
called, and a 42 million pot
was in play.
Affleck showed down
As-Ac but Duhamel tabled
Jh-Jc, giving him a pair plus
an open-ended straight draw.
The 8d on the river completed Duhamel’s straight and
catapulted him into the chip
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The Russians Are Coming…
The Russians Are Coming
Dmitry Gromev wins
Venetian’s 2010 Deep
Stack Extravaganza
winnings, and now another
Russian player, Dmitry
Gromev, captured the main
event at the Venetian’s 2010
Deep Stack Extravaganza
Series, winning $316,759,
which is an amount just
north of 9.65 million rubles.
The Venetian’s Deep
Stack Extravaganza has
been popular since it was
launched a few years ago,
offering lots of play for the
buy-in. The main event,
Event No. 51 in a series that
ran from May 28 through
July 15, was a $4,850
+ $150 buy-in no-limit
hold’em tournament that
attracted 282 runners and
generated a prize pool of
$1,319,831.
Surprisingly enough, none
of the first ten finishers were
from Nevada or California.
The Bicycle Casino’s
annual Stars and Stripes
poker series commemorates Independence Day
and kicks off every year
on or around the Fourth
of July. This year’s Stars
and Stripes event began
July 1 and ran through
July 14. Now there’s only
a short, two-week break
in the action until the start
of the Legends of Poker,
the Bike’s signature event,
which runs from July 28 August 30.
The Bike incorporated
multiple day events into
Stars and Stripes, bringing
the series right in line with
what appears to be a growing trend in the poker community. But there were still
numerous one-day events
at Stars and Stripes too that
featured buy-ins of $120 to
$340.
At the main event, when
Elvis left the building, he
did so with $54,000 in
winnings. But it was Elvis
Huynh, not the guy from
Graceland with the sideburns and jumpsuit, who
took the main event by
outlasting a field of 614
entrants that generated a
prize pool of $178,674.
In heads-up action, Elvis
Huynh defeated Richard
Castro, who won $26,950
for second place. Finishing
third was Jim Pittman, who
walked away with $14,304.
Results from the Stars
and Stripes follow, and
we’ll segue into the
Legends of Poker later this
month.
Mike Caro
“ADJUST”
The MAD GENIUS of Poker
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Actually, the Russians have
come and gone, and taken
a lot of our poker money
too. Vladimir Schmelev,
from St. Petersburg, Russia
ran roughshod over the
World Series of Poker with
four final table finishes and
more than a $1 million in
Elvis Has Left the Building:
Elvis Huynh
Stars and
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championship
Stripes
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$225
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$5,000
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8
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$225
T
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$120
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$275
24b T
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$1,080
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$120
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2 SEATS + CASH PER EVERY 10 PLAYERS
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T
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$545
$545
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$120
F
8/27 2pm FINAL TABLE FOR MONTE CARLO
$12 MILLION ESTIMATED PRIZE POOL
8/27 1pm MEGA SATELLITE for Event #26
$120
8/27 6pm NO LIMIT HOLD’EM Re-entry Day 1a
$545
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14 W
8/11 1pm 2-7 TRIPLE DRAW / BADUGI
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Seed Wins TOC, WSOP Main
Event Draws Huge Field
Caro’s Word: “Adjust”
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By Haley Hintze
HUCK SEED CAPTURES WSOP
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
The 2010 WSOP’s made-for-TV event, the Tournament of Champions, featured
27 of poker’s biggest names in a three-table freeroll with plenty of incentives for the stars to play: first place received $500,000 and all players at
the final table cashed. Huck Seed walked away with top honors and the half
million in cash after drawing out against Howard Lederer during heads-up
play, doubling up to become the leader. Seed finished off Lederer soon after,
who departed with $250,000 as the runner-up. Johnny Chan ($100,000)
finished third, with Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer
Harman, Annie Duke and TJ Cloutier each receiving $25,000 for spots four
through nine.
WSOP MAIN EVENT FIELD SECONDLARGEST IN HISTORY
Despite pessimistic outlooks and a still-struggling global economy, the 2010
WSOP main event will go down as the second largest in event history, with
7,319 entries. That easily topped 2009’s 6,494 and trails only 2006’s 8,773
entrants. This year’s champion, to be determined in November, will walk
away with $8,944,138. The 2010 WSOP also established new highs for total
entrants across all events (72,966) and combined prize pool ($187,109,850).
NO-LIMIT POKER ARRIVES IN FLORIDA
Poker-playing Floridians awoke on July 1 to a new era of opportunity in that
state’s casinos, as uncapped no-limit games legalized by that state’s legislature went into effect. Florida players previously faced a $100 buy-in cap in cash
games and $1,000 for tournaments, both limits being abolished under the new
law. The new era also opens opportunities for high-profile tournaments.
GAVIN SMITH COLLECTS FIRST GOLD
BRACELET
Gavin Smith was among the short list of best pro players never to have won
a WSOP bracelet, but Smith carries that dubious claim to fame no longer.
Smith broke through in the 2010 WSOP by taking down Event 44, $2,500
mixed hold’em. Smith bounced Danny Hannawa, the last of 506 other challengers, to claim the title and $268,238.
KELLY CAPTURES WSOP $25,000
SHORT-HANDED TOURNEY
21-year-old online star Dan “dfk123” Kelly became the latest electronic name
to break through in real life when he triumphed in Event 52, the $25,000 sixhanded no-limit hold’em championship. Kelly’s first-bracelet win was worth
$1,315,518 and it came at the expense of a formidable final table of challengers, including Frank Kassela, who was seeking his third bracelet of the series
in this event.
GORDON REIGNS IN ANTE UP FOR
AFRICA FUNDRAISER
At the WSOP’s annual Ante Up For Africa charity event—which drew 83 poker
stars and other celebrities to the Rio in support of political and diplomatic
efforts to end the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region—Phil Gordon
topped actress/poker-player Shannon Elizabeth to win the tourney’s $130,641
first prize, which he then donated in full to the charity. Other top finishers included Erik Seidel (fifth) and former Pittsburgh Steeler running back
Jerome Bettis (sixth).
EASTGATE SHELVES HIS CARD CAPPER
2008 WSOP main event world champion Peter Eastgate retired from poker, just
20 months after supplanting Phil Hellmuth as the youngest-ever main event
winner. “In the 20 months following my WSOP win,” Eastgate said, “I feel that
I have lost my motivation for playing high level poker along the way and I have
decided that now is the time to find out what I want to do with the rest of my
life. What this will be, I do not yet know. I have decided to take a break from
live tournament poker, and try to focus on Peter Eastgate, the person.”
SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN
GERMAN POKER HEIST
Four of the robbers who were captured after participating in the armed robbery of the PokerStars European Poker Tour’s Berlin Open were sentenced
after a brief trial. Three of them, each under age 21, received three-and-ahalf-year sentences, while the fourth, over age 21, received a sentence three
years longer. A fifth suspect remains at large in the affair. Only a tiny portion
of the €242,000 stolen in the March, 2010 theft has been recovered to date.
Haley Hintze is a freelance journalist who closely follows
all the doings in the world of poker.
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et me ask you something. What if you
were so disciplined in
poker that you stuck
to your primary strategy, no
matter what? What if you
just played your same sensible game hour after hour,
day after day, never losing
your resolve? You don’t
have to answer. I’ll tell you
what would happen: You’d
leave a lot of profit on the
table.
In poker, having discipline is great, but being
stubborn is bad. You should
adjust your tactics at poker
often, and today’s self-interview is about those times.
Question 1: Is there a
perfect poker strategy
that is so powerful that it
will win no matter what
your opponents do?
Well, sort of. There’s a
theoretically perfect strategy. Nobody knows what it
is, because poker is far too
complex to precisely define
the right decisions for every
situation. In order to calculate the right decisions,
we’d need to deal with
“game theory,” and devise
a set of standards to dictate
how often to bet, raise, call,
check, and fold, for every
conceivable situation.
Notice that I didn’t say
that we’d need to find a
single answer about what
decision to make in every
situation; I said “how
often.” That’s important.
For most situations, the
answer isn’t to do a single
thing every time. You
should do the main thing
a certain percentage of the
time, completely at random, and something else a
smaller percentage of the
time. There might even be
a third thing you’ll do an
even smaller percentage of
the time.
You’re probably asking,
“If there’s a best tactic, why
wouldn’t you always use
it?” It’s because a perfect
strategy must guard against
predictability. If you always
did the same thing, opponents would have less doubt
about your present hand
and act in ways that cut into
your profit.
Anyway, the question
was whether a perfect strategy can guarantee profit.
I said, “sort of,” because
that perfect strategy used
against itself, when opponents are also employing it,
would only break even if
played forever. Worse, you
would lose money in realworld games that charge
seat rental or rake pots.
Everyone would.
In practice, we don’t
worry about opponents
using a perfect strategy,
because nobody knows one.
But the key concept here is
that the further opponents
stray from perfect strategy—whatever it is—the
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Speculative Hands:
Play ‘Em on the Cheap
LOU KRIEGER ON POKER
By Lou Krieger©
A reader wrote, “When playing low limit hold’em like $2-$4
or $3-$6 I usually play tight, aggressive poker, but that
approach seems to backfire sometimes when I’m at a table
where four and five players see the flop each hand. It
seems that big pocket pairs or top pair is often not enough
to take it down. So I’ve loosened up a bit on starting hands
that can turn into straights or flushes. I’m playing high connectors and suited cards that I would usually throw away ...
and I play them from pretty much any position.”
I responded, explaining that unless you’re at a fairly passive table you shouldn’t play connectors from early position
because you have no idea how many opponents you have,
nor do you know how much it will cost you to see the flop.
Connectors need help from the flop, and even flopping a
pair is usually not enough to take the pot, unless your connectors are big ones, such as A-K, K-Q, and Q-J. Even then, if
an ace flops when you have K-Q, or an ace or king appears
when you have Q-J, you may be looking up at a bigger pair.
Fixed-limit poker is a game of big cards, and those are
the kinds of hands most reasonable opponents play. But
connectors also have value, although it’s determined externally rather than from any inherent value associated with
the cards you’re holding. The flop has to help those connectors in order for them to gain sufficient value to contend for
a pot, particularly when four or five opponents are active.
It’s best to see the flop at the lowest possible cost. It
also helps to know just how many opponents will take the
flop with you. While a hand like Q-J can win by making top
pair, lower connectors gain their value by making straights
or flushes, and because those are long-shot hands, it pays
to play them against a large field so you have throngs of
players willing to pay you off when you get lucky.
Acting late in the betting order also allows you to toss
these hands away if the pot is raised. Because a raise
is likely to restrict the number of opponents you’ll play
against even if you do get lucky this time, you probably
won’t win enough in the long run to offset your cost of playing the hand. Play connectors from late position, play them
on the cheap, and make sure you have enough customers
already committed to taking the flop so you can get paid off
handsomely whenever you make your hand.
The reader also wrote, “I’m trying to get in cheaply and
see the flop. If I hit it, great. If I don’t, then I’m done with
the hand. The only problem is this: If I catch a piece of the
flop, say middle or bottom pair. I don’t know what to do. I
seem to be losing a lot of money when that happens.”
This is a common conundrum faced by many players, and
I suggested that if he plays smallish pairs against a large
field, he really has to hit his set to have a playable hand.
The odds against flopping a set are 7.5-to-1. Failing to make
a set generally means tossing that hand away, particularly
when the board contains two overcards and there’s a bet
into a field of three-or-more players.
Many players can’t seem to release hands, especially
hands like small or medium sized pairs that may have been
in the lead before the flop but are now staring up at an
overcard or two along with a bet and a call from some opponents. As long as this reader can get away from smallish
pairs that are not helped by the flop, and can see the flop
with connectors on the cheap against at least three or more
opponents, his strategy should work.
But he, like all of us, needs to avoid the all-too-common
affliction of self deceit and be prepared to toss away his
small pairs and connectors in the face of an unhelpful flop
much of the time.
Dear Ace,
I just won my first
poker tournament and
I’m pretty stoked, but my
family doesn’t approve of
gambling. They say that
it makes people worship
money instead of God.
What can I tell them to get
them on my side?
—Joker is Wild
(and Sinful)
instead of interacting with
human beings. But these
are all big what-ifs in a
land where many dwell in
a calm and healthy place
where they play together
and return home to their
families in a timely manner.
But not all families are
grateful
for this.
DEAR ACE
Dear Sinful,
Let him among us who
is without sin throw the
first poker chip. Your
family is not the first
one to question the sinful
nature of gambling. Funny
enough, we’re a society
plagued with many financial vices: We neglect our
families to work overtime
hours for extra cash. We
backstab one another at
work to get the promotion
we’re certain we deserve.
But, God forbid someone
play a card game that originated several generations
ago, inside of a leisurely
“adult arcade” and maybe
walk away with a little
hope for their financial
future.
One reason gambling
scares people is because
it brings out fears of what
might happen. It’s true
that gambling can be a
dangerous pastime for
people who don’t have the
self-control to keep from
spending their rent money,
or who sit in front of a
slot machine for 13 hours
?
I’m sure
your family
members have no vices of
their own. They may not
like it now, but 10-to-1
they’ll forgive you if you
continue to bring home the
bacon.
This resistance is
not their fault really ...
Religious groups occasionally become a little
bit demanding about their
expectations. Don’t get
me wrong; I’m all about
giving glory to God. You
should’ve seen me when I
won my last poker game.
Hallelujah, I cried to the
heavens. And God said,
let there be neon lights,
and there were. And it was
good.
Until the word Casino
makes an official
appearance on the Ten
Commandments, I say
everything in moderation!
But don’t go all-in on
my advice…
WHAT WOULD
JOKER DO?
Your family is right. The
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more profit we’ll make. The
object, therefore, is to play
closer to a perfect strategy
than our opponents. That’s
where the profit lies.
Question 2: Okay, so
there’s a solution, and if
you know it, you should
always use that strategy,
right?
No. We’ve already
acknowledged that our
opponents won’t be playing
perfectly. Suppose we knew
the ultimate game-theory
strategy and always used it.
In that case, we’d be able
to hold our ground against
anyone. You simply can’t
beat a perfect strategy; you
can only tie it.
But our “perfect strategy” has been devised to
compete against others
who are likewise playing
perfectly. If that isn’t the
case—and it never will
be—then we can do even
better by adjusting to take
advantage of opponents’
mistakes. Put simply, we
need to update our perfect
strategy, devising a new
one, for every poker environment encountered.
Question 3: I see that
adjusting to the game will
be more profitable. Are
there any risks in adjusting?
Yes. I encountered this
risk in the early 1980s
when I developed Orac
(Caro spelled backwards)—
the first major artificially
intelligent poker player. In
programming Orac, I tried
to get as close to a perfect
strategy for no-limit headsup hold’em as possible. If
I never adjusted it, I would
have an advantage against
opponents who sometimes,
and hopefully often, made
mistakes.
But if I knew what their
mistakes were, I could
fine-tune Orac’s strategy to
take advantage. So, I programmed the ability to let
Orac monitor opponents’
traits and make adjustments
during the game.
So what was the risk?
The risk was that maybe
the tendencies of opponents measured weren’t
real. What if it looked as if
an opponent bluffed more
often than he should, based
on several successful calls,
but the measurement was
just a fluke? What if that
opponent actually seldom
bluffed and Orac had called
an unusual flurry of weak
bets. Now, Orac would start
calling more often, when
actually it should be calling
less often.
That’s the risk you take
when you adjust your
strategy. It’s usually worthwhile, but your observations might be invalid, and
then you’ll be doing the
wrong thing.
Question 4: What are
the main adjustments you
should make relative to
the size of your bankroll?
Whenever you’re playing in a game large enough
that your bankroll can suffer significant damage,
you should abandon many
of your daring value bets.
You should call less with
medium-strong hands that
have tiny edges. This is one
reason why you shouldn’t
usually play in games larger
than your bankroll can
comfortably accommodate.
If you do, you need to sacrifice some of your best
plays in order to reduce
risk.
the personalities of opponents?
To maximize profit
at poker, you need to be
friendly and manipulate
opponents in non-threatening ways. Sarcasm, anger,
and ridicule are never
appropriate, because they
motivate opponents to play
better against you.
Try to identify players
who are serious about the
game, especially if they
have quiet personalities.
These are often good targets for bluffing. Enter into
lively and even frivolous
conversations with the loosest players. Bet many medium-strong hands against
them, because they’ll call
more often, rewarding you
with extra money.
Whenever you’re thinking about making bets,
raises, calls, checks, or
folds, consider the style of
play that your opponents’
personalities suggest. Just
doing this simple thing
before acting can enhance
your bankroll monumentally.
whether the game is loose
or tight?
Simple. In a tight game,
play fewer medium-strong
hands, but bluff more. In
a loose game, bet more
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Pairs Among Us, PART 3
STRAIGHT SKINNY
By RICHARD G. BURKE
We continue figuring the probability of pocket aces and
pocket kings among ten players at a hold’em table. The
first table shows the known cells and the remaining five cells for which we
obtain these probabilities.
For the unknown cells, (2,4), (3,3), (3,4), (4,2), and (4,3), the integers
denote the number of kings and aces which lie among the top twenty
cards of a standard deck.
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0.00007
(all zeros)
0.00037
0.00041
0.00041
0.00003 0.00007
0.00002
We already calculated the probability that exactly six aces and kings
lie among the top twenty cards dealt to the players; it equals 0.02555.
Those six key cards could lie among the ten players as: 1-1-1-1-1-1, 2-1-1-1-1,
2-2-1-1, or 2-2-2. The third pattern could produce two pairs with six of the
key cards dealt, a pattern probability of C(6,4) x 3!! x 14 x 13!! / 19!!, or
0.13003. The fourth pattern could produce two or three pairs, a pattern
probability of 5!! x 13!! / 19!!, or 0.00310.
We consider now the three six-card cells: KKKKAA, KKKAAA, and KKAAA.
The probability that we have KKKKAA equals C(4,4) x C(4,2) / C(8,6), or
0.21429, as does KKAAAA. The probability that we have KKKAAA equals
C(4,3) x C(4,3) / C(8,6), or 0.57143.
When we have the pattern, 2-2-1-1, then of the fifteen ways to deal out
those six cards to the two hands each with two key cards, we looked at
each of those ways that aces and kings could fill that pattern and found
the probability of having two pairs equals 0.2 for each of the three cases.
When we have the pattern 2-2-2 we looked at each of the fifteen ways
to deal out the six cards, and found that the probability of having two
pairs equals 0.2 for both KKKKAA and KKAAAA, and equals 0.6 for KKKAAA.
We now have all the numbers we need to fill in three cells of the probability table by multiplying and summing the probabilities for each case.
The table below shows these probabilities, rounded to five decimal places.
KKKKAA or KKAAAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.0001458
KKKAAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.0004068
We know the probability of seven aces and kings dealt out among the
ten players; it equals 0.00330.
We again figure the probabilities for the patterns, 0.26006 for 2-2-1-1-1
and 0.02167 for 2-2-2-1.
The probability of having four kings and three aces, KKKKAAA, equals
that of KKKAAAA, 0.5.
We looked at each possible distribution of aces and kings for both pattern. For example, KK-KK-A-A-A produces two pairs, as does KK-AA-K-A-K.
We found that the probability of two pairs for the pattern, 2-2-1-1-1, equals
0.2. We also looked at each possible distribution of aces and kings for the
pattern 2-2-2-1: we found the probability of two or more pairs equals 0.6 if
the odd card produces three aces and three kings among the three hands,
0.2 when it doesn’t.
Summing all the cases and multiplying produces the probability for the
cells (3,4) and (4,3), as shown.
A C
#
K
0
I
1
N
2
G
S
0
1
E S
2
3
4
0.00003
0.00007
(all zeros)
0.00037
0.00041
0.00015
3
0.00041
0.00041
0.00010
4
0.00003 0.00007 0.00015
0.00010 0.00002
We sum all the cells to find the probability of two or more pocket aces
and kings among ten hold’em players, which equals 0.00230, about 434to-1 against. Note that they could hold not only pairs of aces & kings, but
also aces & aces, kings & kings, aces & aces & kings, aces & kings & kings,
and finally, aces & aces & kings & kings.
Mr. Burke is the author of Flop: The Art of Winning at
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If there was one, single
word of advice I could offer
regarding bluffing the short
stack, it would be… don’t!
That was easy, see you next
“TIME.” Anyone who has
or caring about that last
half a stack. It’s no longer
meaningful to him. Mike
Caro coined the phrase
“Threshold of Misery” to
describe this behavior and
part 161, Bluffing the Short Stack
IMPROVING PERFORMANCE
By Tom “TIME” Leonard
read my first 160 columns
knows that I can’t drop one
word and exit stage right.
Let’s examine some of the
dynamics surrounding the
bluffing of a short stack.
The first thing we need do
is define the environment
as to whether it’s a tournament situation or a cash
game.
Let’s examine cash
games first. When players
get low on chips they usually do one of two things…
reload in order to have
adequate ammunition to
play the game or resign
themselves to attempt
rebuilding their meager
chip count, resolute not to
throw good money after
bad. As always, in addition
to paying attention to your
opponent’s tendencies you
should also be monitoring the depth of his stacks
along with his frame of
mind.
If a player is approaching
the end of his second rack
of chips and you can see he
has no intention of buying a
third rack, he may well not
even care about the value of
his last half stack. He may
have crossed the line and
be past the point of pain
it’s as true
today as
when the
Mad Genius
first gave it a name. This
is not a player whom you
should attempt to bluff. On
the flip side of the equation… if you have a hand
worth value betting, you
will be paid off.
If you find yourself facing an opponent in a tournament and you are close
to the bubble or a next step
up the payout ladder, then
a different dynamic takes
place. We’ve all seen how
tight the game becomes
when players with short
stacks are desperate to earn
a payday or to move up the
ladder of payouts. These
fearful players can be
bluffed all day long. Unless
they really have the goods,
they hope to just slide into
a payday and do not have
the heart to take any unnecessary risks. This becomes
a license to steal for bolder,
more deeply-stacked players. Survival of the fittest
is what tournaments are all
about.
The term short stack
itself also needs to be
examined just as beauty is
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in the eye of the beholder.
More sophisticated tournament players use a formula directed at the cost
per lap of the blinds and
antes and set a number
when all-in pushes become
their default move. Other,
less knowledgeable players just fearfully sit there
and allow themselves to
be blinded off. You need
to determine what type of
guidelines your opponent
may be using. It’s true in
cash games too, and there
just aren’t any pat answers
to the issues of when to
reload, when to get up and
leave, and when to tenaciously call all-in in the
hope of picking up some
chips.
So should you bluff
the short stack or not?
Remember the old poker
adage about poker being
a game of people and not
cards? Our goal for today’s
time together is to remember we should consider
bluffing the player not the
stack! When deciding
whether to bluff the short
stack always be aware of
your opponent’s playing
tendencies as well as his
current frame of mind…
and for the second time in
the same column… See
you next “TIME.”
Tom “Time” Leonard has
played poker in Atlantic City,
Las Vegas, and California
for more than 30 years and
written about the game
since 1994. Contact Tom at
[email protected].
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Darren Elias . . . . . $195,335
Joel Patchell . . . . . $131,983
Michael Schneider . $93,708
Joseph Curcio . . . . . $72,591
Dan Weinman . . . . . $59,392
Jeffrey Coutroulis . $49,494
Joe Kuether. . . . . . . $41,575
James Calderaro . . $34,316
Gary Hill . . . . . . . . . $13,787
Basel Assi . . . . . . . . . $10,081
Dominic Ricciardi . . $7,721
Sigured Capolupo . . . $6,464
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Anthony Gagliardo $10,302
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Harlen Miller . . . . . . $6,060
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Jose Latorraca . . . . . $4,242
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Level Best
CONNORS’ CORNER
By BARBARA CONNORS
There’s a hierarchy of thought in poker...
ascending Levels of thinking about the game.
Not surprisingly, typical suckers are only able to think on
the first level. An intelligent game of poker doesn’t even
begin to exist until you reach Level 2, but truly skilled
players should be able to think at least up through Level
4. Beyond that, it’s a matter of debate how many Levels
of thinking really exist, or how productive it is to even try
going beyond Level 5.
Level 1 is: What kind of hand do I have? A Level 1 player
holding J-10 suited and watching the flop come down J-8-3
rainbow is thinking, Yesssss! I have top pair! And aside from
maybe wondering about the game on TV, he’s really not
thinking much else. At Level 2 the player begins to contemplate: What kind of hand does my opponent have? Now our
player with J-10 begins to wonder if anybody has a jack with
a better kicker. Long-term winning play is impossible without
at least this level of thinking.
But we’re just getting warmed up. At Level 3 the player
also considers, What does he think I have? Going back to our
player with J-10, let’s say it’s checked to him on the button
and he bets his top pair, only to get check-raised by a middle-position player. Now the answer to that question, What
does he think I have? becomes critical. If Mr. J-10 believes
that the check-raiser read him as making a pure position
bet, it tells him the check-raiser may have a weak hand and
his jacks might still be in the lead. But if the button player
believes that the middle-position player read him as having the goods when he pushed out his initial bet, then the
middle-position player’s check-raise is a huge red flag.
Level 4 is where the real fun begins. At Level 4 you ponder: What does he think I think he has? Returning to our
example, J-10 decided that the middle-position player read
him for a position bet and check-raised as a bluff. So he
reraised. The middle-position player answerd by popping
it again. The question becomes: Does the middle-position
player know that the button was reading him for a bluff? If
so, that means the middle-position player might still believe
the button player doesn’t really have anything. Which in turn
means the middle-position’s latest reraise could be a re-bluff
because he’s convinced the button thought his first checkraise was just a bluff.
Obviously there are other important factors to consider
here—other possible opponents in the hand, the stakes, etc—
but all things being equal, this level of play is as much about
what you think he thinks you have, and what he thinks you
think he has, as it is about the actual cards.
These levels of thinking can go on ad infinitum. Level 5:
What does he think I think he thinks I have? Level 6: What
does he think I think he thinks I think he has? And so on. As
the levels of thinking get higher and more complex, it can
be like playing poker inside an M.C. Escher drawing. When
thought processes get that convoluted you may end up outthinking yourself. As a practical matter, most poker players
never go beyond Level 4 ... well, maybe Level 5.
It’s worth noting that the benefit of thinking on these
exalted levels is very dependent on the quality of your opponents. It’s pointless to think beyond Level 2 if you’re playing
against brain-dead fish who don’t even realize that the game
of poker can be played beyond Level 1. Higher Levels of thinking are much more effective against skilled opponents who
are themselves capable of sophisticated poker cogitation.
And those lofty levels of poker thought work best against
opponents you know very well—who also know you well.
That’s when the poker mind games can really get elaborate.
Barbara Connors is a sucker for classic old movies, science fiction, and the St. Louis Cardinals. Her life’s ambition is to figure out the unusual behavior patterns of that
unique breed of humans who call themselves poker
players. Contact her at [email protected].
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with a $120 buy-in. The
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events with this exception:
$2,500 will be added to the
prize pool and the 7 p.m.
events will be no-limit.
On August 20th at 4 p.m.
it’s Omaha/8 with a $200
buy-in. The championship
no-limit event is scheduled
for August 21st at noon
with a $540 buy-in and
$5,000 added to the prize
pool, followed by a Ladies
International Poker Series
(LIPS) no-limit event at 4
p.m. that features a $200
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no-limit event at 7 p.m.
“Beat the Boss” August
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with two chances to collect a bounty by knocking
out either Gregg Carano or
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and pot sweeteners will
be included too. Your last
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The $225 noon events
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and 2,000 bonus chips are
available for an optional
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entrants will begin with
12,500 in chips and an additional 2,500 chips are available for $10.
The 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7
p.m. events will begin with
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for $5. See the Eldorado’s
The owner
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of his graduates trained at
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and Brazil—were hired to
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Book reviews
DUCY?
by David Sklansky and
Alan Schoonmaker
Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
(2007), 312 pp.
ISBN: 1-880685-48-5, $24.95
David Sklansky is best
known as an author of gambling articles and books.
However, I suspect he considers himself to be a general thinker for whom gambling problems represent
just some of his many interests. He has written articles
on diverse subjects including crime and punishment,
race relations, and general
expertise, and some of these
were collected in a previous book called, Fighting
Fuzzy Thinking in Poker,
Gaming & Life. Written
with psychologist and noted
poker author in his own
right, Alan Schoonmaker,
DUCY? uses diverse subjects to illustrate many
techniques that may be used
to approach problems in an
unorthodox way.
After Schoonmaker’s
introduction, the book
begins with a comparatively
brief section containing stories that cover many of the
ideas Sklansky had while
working with the late casino
mogul Bob Stupak. The
majority of the book contains similarly brief stories
about a diverse set of topics,
including politics, public
health, education, and even
parallel parking. I’d say
about half of the stories in
DUCY? contain some direct
gambling aspect, although
others also contain some
tangential connection to
games of chance. The book
is not expressly oriented to
gambling, and those reading it won’t learn things that
directly make them more
successful gamblers. Instead
the book’s aim is to investigate the thinking process
Sklansky uses to arrive at
his conclusions.
The book title is an
abbreviation Sklansky uses
for the question, “Do you
see why?” As far as this
book goes, Sklansky is less
interested in the relative
merits of various arguments than the process.
Despite considering such
controversial subjects as the
death penalty, economics,
collateral damage in war,
and abortion, the authors
express very few opinions
on the subjects themselves.
Their arguments are often
of the form, “If you believe
in X, then you must also
concede Y,” even if X and Y
are often considered by conventional wisdom to be in
opposition to each other.
In many cases, I found
myself reading Sklansky’s
arguments and thinking,
“This is a good point,
but there’s a lot more to
this issue than is considered here.” In one essay
Sklansky asks us to not confuse an understanding of the
vocabulary of a subject with
intelligence. I think this is
an excellent point, but at
the same time, those with
an understanding of these
sorts of details can be useful
in pointing out some of the
problems that come with the
“outside the box” thinking
used in other essays.
That’s okay, though,
because the focus of the
book is not on the answers
but the process by which
one comes up with those
answers. It’s about encouraging the reader to think
through familiar problems
in new ways. In these
cases, the fact that the
new approach may lead to
some additional insight is
worthwhile, even if such an
approach isn’t always effective or even appropriate.
Briefly, in DUCY? Sklansky
encourages us to add additional tools to our mental
toolbox.
I liked this book and
recommend
it to those
who appreciate David
Sklansky’s thinking on subjects outside the realm of
gambling, and especially to
those who enjoyed Fighting
Fuzzy Thinking in Poker,
Gaming, & Life. The large
amount of gambling material in the book makes it
more likely to be of interest to those with a foot in
the world of casinos, but I
expect there will be many
people who don’t have a
strong interest in gambling
who would benefit from it
as well.
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Is Poker Gambling? Consider
the Three Key Gambling Issues
SENIORS SCENE
By George “The engineer” EPSTEIN
Ask your friends, family, neighbors. Like it or not,
most will tell you that poker is a gambling game.
On that basis, some well-meaning people frown
on the game—even though it offers many benefits
aside from the potential of winning money.
After years of pondering this question, I agree: Poker is gambling!
Let me explain. The most widely accepted definition for “gambling”
is:
Gambling is risking something of value on an uncertain outcome
in the hope of a reward.
Think about it. When we play poker, we risk our money in an activity with an uncertain result, hoping to go home richer. But the same
is true in many of life’s other endeavors and activities.
Examples in Life. A new business opens. The owner, an entrepreneur, hopes to make a profit from his venture, but the end result
is far from certain. In fact, most small businesses fail during their
first year. The risk is substantial; he could lose his entire investment,
including a mortgage on his home—and any wages he might have
earned while trying to build his business. He is gambling.
Recently a 59 year-old man was killed by an automobile while
crossing the street in downtown Los Angeles. Since the advent of
automobiles, pedestrians and automobile occupants have been
injured and killed by similar accidents. That man gambled with his
life—and lost. But who would consider legislation to stop people
from crossing the street or driving their cars? So why would anyone
enact a law that discourages playing poker as a form of gambling?
Every time you walk across a street, every time you climb into
your automobile and drive somewhere, you are gambling. You are
gambling with your life! Can you be absolutely certain you will reach
your destination? Your only reward is to reach your destination.
Indeed, gambling is inherent in our lives—even if we never play
poker.
Think about it. Can we ever be absolutely certain of the outcome
of any activity in which we engage, even such routine tasks as heating our food on the stove? Cleaning out the garage? Driving to the
casino to play poker?
The Three Key Gambling Issues. Based on the most common
definition of gambling, there are three key issues that are most
pertinent:
(1) The degree (or amount) of risk;
(2) The likelihood—or probability—of failure; and
(3) The consequences of failure.
Suggestion: Rather than focus on whether an activity is gambling,
our society should consider these three key gambling issues.
It all boils down to risk vs. reward. It’s what a prudent company
does when it conducts a risk/benefits analysis. A life-insurance company could not stay in business if it failed to consider its operating
costs plus the money it will eventually pay out to the heirs of the
deceased insured person, based on actuarial information. Still, the
life-insurance company is gambling ... but in a way which ensures
that the fees it collects and the gains from investing these fees will
more than offset its losses. That’s what we do when we play poker
with a positive expectation!
The Bottom Line. Let’s admit it: Poker is gambling. Rather than
badmouthing poker as a gambling game, those who would advocate
against the game should face up to reality: Gambling is inherent in
our lives—in almost everything we do. So, if a politician wants to find
fault with any form of gambling, he should judge on the basis of our
three key gambling issues. Otherwise, stop being biased against the
game of poker; treat it as you would any other type of gambling.
Comments? P.S. I would also refer you to Oklahoma Sarah Hale’s
column, “Is Poker Gambling?” in the March 29 issue of Poker Player
Newspaper, which provides further insight into this issue.
George “The Engineer” Epstein is the author of The
Greatest Book of Poker for Winners! and Hold’em or
Fold’em?—An Algorithm for Making the Key Decision and
teaches poker at the Claude Pepper Sr. Citizen Center in
Los Angeles. Contact George at [email protected].
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Eureka-Mesquite
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6P
Fiesta, Henderson
5P
12P
Fitzgeralds
9P
Gold
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10A
Golden Nugget
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11A&
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Green
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7P
10A
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8P&
Harrah’s Las Vegas
g
11A&
Imperial
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Palace
1P
Jokers Wild
6P
M Resort-Las Vegas
g
10A&
Mandalayy Bayy
10A&
MGM Grand
11A&
Mirage
g
11A
Monte Carlo
9A&
11A
Pa ce Stati
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tatioon (16
6)
6P
Planet Hollywood
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10A&
Plaza Casino
1P
Poker Palace
6P
Rampart
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12P
10A
Red Rock
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6)
6P
Rio Suite Casino
12P&
River Palms
10A&
Riviera Poker Room
10A&
Sahara
11A&
Sam’s Town
7P&
12P
Santa Fe Station
Sa
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6)
7P
Silverton
11A&
10A
So th Pooint Caasino
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Stratosphere
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10A
Sun Coas
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Sunsset
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11A
Texa
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Treasure Island
11A&
Tropicana
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Tuscanyy
10A&
Venetian
12P&
6P
Virgin River Casino
Wynn
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g
12P
Atlantis Casino
11A
Boomtown
Cactus Petes-Jackpot
p
7P
Carson Valleyy Inn
12P
Casino Fandango-Carson
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Circus Circus
11A
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Grand Sierra
11A&
Harrah’s Reno
6P&
Harvey’s
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Peppermill
1P&
Rainbow Cas. W Wendover 8P
Sands Regency,
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10A&
Winners Hotel/Casino-Winnemucca 6P
12P
Bicycl
Bi
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7P&
Club Caribe
8P
Comm
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Crystal
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7P
Diamond Jim’s
6P
1P&
Hawaii
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H/L .High/Low Split
Pi...........Pineapple
Po...........Pot Limit
Pn.........Panginque
Mx ..Mexican Poker
DC .Dealer’s Choice
7P
|
HH ...... Headhunter
B ............ Bounties
Sp .............. Spread
Al .........Alternates
Z........... Freezeout
Cz ................ Crazy
E..........Elimination
TUESDAY
GAMES BUY-IN| TIME
NH
$30 12P
NH
$50 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A&
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$65 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
NH
NH
Lad N H
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Po O H/L
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Pi
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O Pi H
NH
NH
NH
NH
Q ............... Qualify
Sh ...........Shootout
SpL ... Spread Limit
+ ..Rebuys, Add-Ons OK
F ............... Freeroll
Lad ..... Ladies Only
Men ........Men Only
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 12P
NHB
$65 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A&
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$65 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
$40 7P
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
6P
6P
$35+ 12P
$35+ 9P
$40+ 10A
$55+ 11A&
$55 10A
$65 7P
$45 10A
$115 8P&
$60+ 11A&
$50+ 1P
$25 6P
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$65 11A&
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
$40 12P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$65 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$50 11A&
$50 10A
$70 7P
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
$45 7P
$50 11A&
O H/L
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
HORSE
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O
NH
$25 10A&
$145 12P&
$35+
$125 12P
$35 11A
7P
$15+
$20 6P
NH
NH
$25 10A&
$145 12P&
NH
NH
$17 11A
6P
$60 11A&
$40 6P&
6P
$25 1P
$25+ 8P
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
$10+
$65+ 6P
$30+ 7P
$25+ 6P
$30 1P
$65 6P
$70 11A
7P
$125+ 7P
$25+
$25
$35+ 12P
$35+ 9P
$40+ 10A
$55+ 11A&
$55 10A
$40 6P
$45 10A
$115 8P&
$60+ 11A&
$50+ 7P
$25 6P
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$65 11A&
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
$40 12P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$65 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$50 11A&
$50 10A
$70 7P
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$40 11A
6P
$50 11A&
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GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 12P
NH
$50 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A&
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$65 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
NH
NH
7P
$25 10A&
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$40 7P
$25 10A&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
F+
NH
$125 12P
$35 11A
$22+
7P
$25+
$25+ 6P
$25+ 7P
$35+ 12P
$35+ 9P
$40+ 10A
$55+ 11A&
$55 10A
$40 6P
$45 10A
$115 8P&
$60+ 11A&
$50+ 7P
$25 6P
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$65 11A&
$60 11A
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
$40 12P
$105 10A
$65 6P
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$65 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$50 11A&
$50 10A
$70 7P
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$40 11A
$37 6P
$50 11A&
6P
$25 10A&
$145 12P&
6P
$125 12P
$35 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
NH
NH
NHB
Varies
NH
NH
$17 11A
$25+ 6P
$60 11A&
$60 6P&
$25+
$25 1P&
$25+
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
$17 11A
$25+
$60 11A&
$30 6P&
NH
NH
$25 7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
$65+ 6P
NH
$30+ 7P
LH
$20+ 6P
O H/L
$75 1P
NH
$75 6P
NH
$30+ 11A
N H Deepstack
$75 7P
NH
$125+ 7P
6P
|
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 12P
NH
$50 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$65 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
FRIDAY
$40
$25 10A&
NH
O
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$25+
$25+
$35+ 12P
$35+ 9P
$40+ 10A
$55+ 11A&
$55 10A
$65 6P
$45 10A
$115 8P&
$60+ 11A&
$50+ 1P
$25 6P
$55 10A&
$40 10A&
$65 11A
$60 7P&
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
$40 12P
$105 10A
$65
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$65 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 6P
$50 6P&
$50 10A
$70 7P
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
$45
$50 11A&
Var
$25 10A&
$145 12P&
$35+
$125 12P
$35 11A
7P
NH
$25+ 12P
| SATURDAY |
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 12P
NHB
$65 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$125 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 12P
NHB
$65 7P
Z
$17 8A
NH
$120 1P&
NH
$65 11A
NH
$50 2P&
NH
$65 9A&
NH
$25 10A&
12P
NH
$40 4P
NH
$25 10A&
12P
NH
F 1P
NH
$25+ 11A
NH
$35+ 12P
NH
$35+ 9P
NH
$40+ 10A
NH
$55+ 11A&
NH
$55 10A
NH
$65
NH
$45 10A
NH
$115 8P&
N H B $60+ 11A&
N H Z $50+ 1P
NH
$25+ 6P
NH
$55 10A&
NH
4P
$25 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NHZ
NH
NH
N HZ
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
1P
10A
$35+ 12P
$35+ 9P
$40+ 10A
$55+ 11A&
$55 10A
$65 6P
$45 10A
Varies 8P&
$60+ 11A&
1P
$25 6P
$55 10A&
$40
$65 11A
$150 11A&
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
$40
$105 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$115 7P&
$40+ 12P
$40+ 6P
$60 6P&
$50 10A
$70 7P
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$40 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50 11A&
2P
$25 10A&
$145 12P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$125 12P
$35 11A
$22+
NH
NHB
N H Sh
$20 12P
N H Sh
$17 11A
NH
$17 10A
NH
$65
$60 11A&
$50 9A&
$30 11A
$30 6P
$70 10A&
$35+ 1P
$17+ 6P
12P
$105 10A
6P
$40+ 12P&
$30+ 10A&
$44+ 10A&
$40+ 11A&
$115 10A
$40+ 12P
$40+ 7P
$60 6P&
$50 10A
$70
$60 1P&
$40+ 10A
$40+ 7P
$50+ 11A
2P
$50 11A&
Var
$25 10A&
$540 12P&
2P
$125 12P
$65+ 11A
7P
12P
$20 6P&
11A
$17 10A
NH
NH
$60 11A&
$60 6P&
NH
NH
$60 11A&
$60 6P&
NH
NH
$60 11A&
$60 6P&
NH
$115+ 6P
8P
$25 10A&
$30+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
NH
NH
NHB
Turbo
NH
NH
$110
$50 2P
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
$65+ 1P
$50+ 7P
NH
NH
NH
$30 6P
NHB
$75
NH
$30+ 11A
N H Deepstack
$75 7P
NH
$125+
NH
$120+ 1P
$30+ 7P
1P
$150 10A&
6P&
$30+ 11A
$35+ 5P
NHB
Mixed Game
NH
NH
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Lad L H
NHB
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
NH
$65+ 6P
$30+ 7P
$25
$65 1P
$55 6P
$70 11A
$75 7P
$230 7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
3P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
2P
$50+ 3P
$25 10A&
$20+ 6P
$40 12P
$60 7P&
2P
NH
$120+ 1P
NH
$30+ 7P
LH
$25+ 1P&
NH
$75 2A&
Mx
$20 1P&
NH
$70 11A
NH
$35+ 4P
3P
Pai Gow F
$5 1P
NH
NHB
Turbo
NH
NH
SUNDAY
GAMES BUY-IN
NH
$30
NH
$50
Z
$17
NH
$120
NH
$65
NH
$50
NH
$65
NH
$25
NH
F
1-hr Deepstack
$28
NH
$25
NH
$65
NH
$65
NH
$25+
NH
$35+
NH
$35+
NH
$40+
NH
$55+
NH
$55
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
$45
$115
$60+
$50+
$25+
$55
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60
$50
$30
$30
$70
$35+
$17+
$40
$105
$65
$40+
$30+
$44+
$40+
$23
$40+
$40+
$60
$50
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60
$40+
$40+
$50+
$45
$50
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
H
N H Lad
NH
NH
$25
$145
$35+
$125
$65+
$22+
F+
$30
$45+
$17
NH
NH
$60
$40
NH
$35+
NHB
$130
NHB
$130
Varies Varies
NH
$40
NH
$60
Mx
$33
NH
$65+
NH
$50+
NH
$50
NHB
$75
NH
$30
NH
$35+
N H Deepstack
$95
Pai Gow F
$5
NHF
$5
DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S CO N T I N U E O N PAG E 1 9
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17
The Obscene
and Heard
FISHING AROUND
By Jan Fisher
It’s that time of year when all my free time is spent
playing poker. There are tournaments everywhere in
Las Vegas—at all limits, on the Strip and Downtown
featuring all games at all hours of the day and night.
Factor into that the huge number of players filling
hundreds of tables and you have side action to die
for. When so many people from so many cultures fill
a poker room for hours on end, there are bound to
be some interesting, amazing, and funny things happening. I’ve been privy to some of the weirdest stuff
these past few weeks, so please allow me to share
some of them with you.
A huge ruckus occurred at a table a few aisles
away from me and the screaming and hollering
seemed to go on forever. The floorman was there,
trying to quiet the unruly player, but the shouting continued. After what took much longer than I
thought necessary, the floor supervisor finally gave
the guy—sorry, I can’t use the word gentleman here—
a penalty. The guy’s response? “What did I do?”
He was serious ... he didn’t even know how out of
line he was. Later that same day, I was playing in a
live game, since again I’d failed to make the money
in my event. The gloves were off and tempers were
flaring. The players in the two and seven seats were
screaming at each other and pointing fingers. I’m not
even sure what the argument was about but it actually was pretty funny. There was no floorperson in
sight and no one was making an effort to quiet things
down. Finally, after much x-rated language was
exchanged by both players, the two seat said to the
seven seat “You’d better watch your f’ing language,
you piece of #@*&” (I trust you can fill in the blanks
to hear what the observers heard). I totally lost it
and started laughing out loud, repeating to myself
what had been said and the absurdity of it all. I
couldn’t let go of that one for a while; it ranks among
the funniest things I’ve ever heard at the table.
Another rather amusing thing happened and the
guy who said it had no clue how his comment came
out. I went to sign up for a Saturday tournament on
a Thursday night. Most of the players in line were
signing up for Friday’s event, which was the senior’s
tournament. I waited in line (having just busted deep
out of yet another big tourney) and finally got called
to the vacant window. I gave the clerk my rewards
card and said I’d like to enter an event. He looked
at me and asked “seniors?” Hmm ... I know I am old
enough, but that sounded a little cavalier to me.
Being in a bit of a sour mood due to my recent
ejection from the days event, I said to him “No, I’m
not old enough” to which he replied “Oh, really?”
OK, so that just made me giggle. And lastly, I played
poker last night with a gentleman who was wearing
a T-shirt with a poker-like logo and the initials IPT on
it. Upon further viewing, it read “Idiot Poker Tour.” I
think that says it all!
It’s been a lot of poker and there’s more to come.
Next up for me? A week in Mesquite, NV, at the
Eureka Casino for the Eureka Mesquite Open. Small
buy-ins and guaranteed no name calling. Come on up
and join me. Moving along...
Jan Fisher has 30 years experience as a poker player,
tournament director, strategist/columnist, co-founder of
the Tournament Directors Association, Partner in Card
Player Cruises, WPT Boot Camp instructor and statistician,
and live studio announcer for the Professional Poker Tour.
E-mail Jan at [email protected].
18
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DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S (CO N T I N U E D F R O M PAG E 1 7 )
CALIFORNIANORTH
CALIF.—SAN DIEGO &
INLAND EMPIRE
Casino Morongo
g
Casino Pauma
Fantasyy Springs,
p g , Indio
Harrah’s Rincon
Lake Elsinore
Luckyy Ladyy
Morron
Mo
ngo (11)
Oceans Eleven
Pala Casino
Pechanga
g
Santa Ysabel Casino
Soboba
Spotlight
p g 29,, Coachella
Sycuan
y
Viejas
j
Village
g Club
Angie’s
g
Poker Club,, Chico
Artichoke Joe’s
Bayy 101
Black Oak Casino,, Tuolumne
Black Sheepp Inn,, Cameron Park
Cache Creek
California Grand
Cameo Club,, Stockton
Casino Club-Reddingg
Casino Marysville
y
Casino Real Cardroom
Casino Royale
y
Central Coast Casino,, Grover Beach
Central Coast Casino,, Paso Robles
Chukchansi Gold Casino
Club One Casino,, Fresno
Colusa Casino
Comstock Card Room,, Tracyy
Del Rio Casino,, Isleton
Eagle
g Mountain Cas.-Porterville
Elk Valleyy Cas.-Crescent Cityy
Feather Falls Cas.,, Oroville
The 500 Club,, Clovis
Folsom Lake Bowl
Garden Cityy
Garlic Club-Gilroyy
Gold Countryy Cas.-Oroville
Gold Rush
Golden West-Bakersfield
Jackson Rancheria
Limelight
g Cardroom-Sac’to
Livermore Casino
Luckyy Buck Cardroom,, Livermore
MONDAY
TIME
10A
6P
7P&
7P&
10A
10A
10A
7P
7P
11A&
10A&
10A
11A&
10A&
10A
10A
11A
11A
9A
11A
|
TUESDAY
GAMES BUY-IN| TIME
5O
$30+ 7P&
NH
$10+ 6P
NH
$60+ 1P
NH
$40 7P&
N H B $20+ 10A&
NH
$25+ 10A
O
$30 10A
NH
$45 7P
NH
$50+ 7P
NH
$15 11A&
NH
$20 10A&
$25 10A&
$30 11A&
$16+ 10A&
$12+ 10A&
$25 10A
$32 11A
$28+ 11A
$120 9A
$25 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
LH
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O H/L
NH
NHB
LH
LH
NH
12P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$75 7P&
NH
NH
NH
10A
11A
NH
NH
10A
7P&
2P
6P
H
$40+
$17 11A
7P
$20 10A
$15+ 11A
10A
$5
6P
11A
NH
NH
10A&
10A
7P
NH
Spp L
NH
10A&
10A&
11A
9A
NH
NH
NH
NH
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$50+ 10A
NH
$10+ 7P
NH
$30+ 7P&
NH
$40 7P&
N H B $20+ 10A&
NH
$25+ 10A
NH
$30 10A
NH
$35 7P
NH
$50+ 7P
NH
$33 11A&
NH
$25 10A&
6P
$25 6P
$35 6P
LH
NH
NHB
7P
$40 10A&
$150 10A
$35+ 7P
12P
NH
NH
Spp L
NH
NH
6P
$30+ 10A&
$25 10A&
$35+ 11A
$25+ 9A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$30 10A&
$30 11A&
$16+ 10A&
$12+ 10A&
$25 10A
$57 11A
$25 6P
$120 9A
$25 11A
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 7P&
NH
$15+ 7P
NH
$60+ 7P&
NHB
$40 7P&
N H B $20+ 10A
NH
$25+ 10A
NH
$30 10A
NH
$5 7P
NH
$50+ 10A
NH
$33 11A&
NH
$25 10A&
7P
NH
$25 10A
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$16+ 10A&
NH
$12+ 10A&
NH
$25 10A
NH
$32 11A
L&O H/L $50+ 11A
LH
$60+ 9A
NH
$25 11A
$25+ 12P
O H/L
$55 6P
6P
$17 11A
$30
$20 10A
$15+ 11A
F
10A
6P
$35+ 7P&
NH
NH
$40+
$17 11A
7P
$20 10A
$15+ 11A
10A
$25
$40 6P
$55 7P&
6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$15
$35 2P
$30 6P
6P
$66
$40 10A&
$120 10A
$35+ 7P
$30 12P
7P
$20+ 6P
$30+ 10A&
$25 10A&
$35+ 11A
$25+ 9A
|
FRIDAY
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
H
$60 10A
NH
$15+ 4P
NH
$60+ 7P&
NH
$40 12P
N H B $20+ 10A
NH
$25+ 10A
LH
$30 10A
NH
$45 7P
NH
$40 10A
NH
$33 11A&
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$20 7P
NHB
$30 10A&
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$16+ 10A&
O
$12+ 10A&
NH
$25 10A
NH
$32 11A
LH
$48
LH
$80+ 9A
NH
$25 11A
H
SUNDAY
$10
NH
NH
NH
$17
$30
$20 10A
$15+ 11A
$5
10A
$40 6P
$85
$15+ 6P
NH
O/8
NH
NH
NH
| SATURDAY |
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
GAMES BUY-IN
NH
$45 11A
NH
$55 11A
H
$5
NH
$20+ 4P
NH
$20+ 4P
NH
$20+
NH
$110 12P
NH
$40+ 12P
NH
$40+
NH
$40 11A&
NH
$40 5P
N H $50-$3Kguar
g
N H B $20+ 10A
NH
$20+ 12P
NH
$7+
NH
$25+ 10A
NH
$25+ 10A
NH
$25+
NH
$30 11A
NH
$55 11A
NH
$45
NH
$97
NH
$40 10A
NH
$75 11A
N H $100+
NH
$33 3p Wk2-4 N H
$150 11a Wk2-4 N H
$35
NH
$25 10A
NH
$25 10A
NH
$25
NH
$50 2P
NH
$40 2P
NH
$25
NH
$25 11A
NH
$40 1P&
NH
$45
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$30
NH
$26+ 10A&
NH
$36 10A&
NH
$16+
NH
$12+ 10A
NH
$12+ 10A
NH
$12+
NH
$25 10A
NH
$25 10A
NH
$25
NH
$57 11A&
NH
$32 11A&
NHB
$47
6P
NH
$49+
LH
$120 9A
LH
$200 9A
LH
$80
NH
$25 11A
NH
$25 11A
NH
$25
2P
NH
$55
NH
NH
NH
LH
NH
3P
1P
$20 10A
$30+
10A
$5
$110 9P
10P
$30+ 4P
12P
$15 6P
$25
NH
$50 6P
NH
$40 10A&
$200 9A
$35 6P
$40 12P
12P
2P
$30+ 10A&
$25 10A&
$35+ 11A
$25+ 1P
NH
Spp L
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
6P
$25 6P
F+ 6P
$60 6P
NH
NH
NHB
NH
$30+ 6P
$25 2P
$30
$60 6P
NH
Spp L
NH
NHF
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40 10A&
$120 10A
$35+ 7P
$5 12P
$20+
$58
$30+ 10A&
$25 10A&
$35+ 11A
$25+ 9A
NH
Spp L
NH
NH
$40 10A&
$120 9A
$35+ 6P
$40+ 12P
NH
Spp L
NH
N O H/L
NH
NH
NH
NH
$30+ 10A&
$25 10A&
$35+ 11A
$25+ 9A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O
NH
NH
LH
10A
10A
$37 3P
F 1P
$20 10A
11A
$10
$35
$14+ 12P&
$30+ 2P Wk2
$40+ 12P
$15
12P
6P
$40
2P
$40 10A&
$250 10A
$35 6P
$40 12P
$20 7P
$5+ 2P
$30+ 10A&
$25 1P
$35+ 7P
$45+ 5P
LH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$55
$30+
$37
$30
$20
$60
NH
NH
NH
$50
$170
$40+
NH
NH
$35+
$35
NH
NH
Spp L
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
F
$40
$250
$35
$40
$20+
$15+
$30+
$50
$60
$60+
DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S CO N T I N U E O N PAG E 2 1
Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza 2010
VENETIAN CASINO RESORT
VENETIAN
DEEPSTACK7/4/10
2010
EVENT 44
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $300 + $40
PLAYERS 602
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
$174,279
Chakman Cheung . $39,207
Petros Uyanik . . . . . $24,225
Reginald Caymol . . $15,877
Gary Starrett . . . . . $11,032
Aditya Swaminathan $8,017
Farrukh Shanzarov . $6,222
Carlos Sanchez . . . . . $5,228
Clifford Fisher . . . . . $4,357
Walter Blattler . . . . . $3,486
EVENT 43
7/3/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $300 + $40
PLAYERS 791
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
$228,995
David Hall . . . . . . . . $50,367
Thomas Pedersen . . $31,212
Patrick Poirier . . . . $20,495
Alex Maturi . . . . . . . $14,312
Robert Hover . . . . . $10,465
Jakob Andersson . . . $8,015
Jayson Yuu . . . . . . . . $6,710
Kenneth Nay . . . . . . . $5,610
Bryan Reisner . . . . . . $4,580
EVENT 42
7/2/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $500 + $50
PLAYERS 470
PRIZE
POOL
$226,775
1. Todd Webb . . . . . . . $53,293
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Nicolas Babel . . . . . $32,882
Steve Tran . . . . . . . . $21,544
Alexander Burkart . $14,967
Raymond Bonkowski $11,112
Brett Taylor . . . . . . . . $8,617
Jose Santos . . . . . . . . $7,461
Michael Sims . . . . . . . $6,123
Thomas Boehm . . . . . $4,989
EVENT 41
7/1/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $300 + $40
PLAYERS 655
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
$190,306
Petros Aristidou . . . $42,652
Tho Nguyen . . . . . . . $26,358
Jose Rivas . . . . . . . . $17,275
Kathy Jamison . . . . $12,003
Tan Liet . . . . . . . . . . . $8,723
Robert Wan . . . . . . . . $6,770
Joe “Jose” Marcal . . $5,689
Philip Consolo . . . . . . $4,741
Bill Croft . . . . . . . . . . $3,792
EVENT 40
6/30/10
LADIES—
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $300 + $40
PLAYERS 158
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
$45,978
Carolyn Grad . . . . . $12,414
Alice Ermenio . . . . . . $7,724
Esmeralda Villafuerte $4,690
Irina Batarevich . . . . $3,448
Chris Abkarian . . . . . $2,575
Addy Litfin . . . . . . . . $2,115
Susan Millar . . . . . . . $1,862
Bonnie Rossi . . . . . . . $1,632
9. Joan Destino . . . . . . . $1,379
EVENT 39
6/30/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $2,000 + $100
PLAYERS 502
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
$968,860
Clayton Maguire . $222,838
Joel Dodds . . . . . . . $136,222
Audley Harrison . . . $90,298
Anton Bertilsson . . . $62,782
Shane Giese . . . . . . . $46,990
Taher Alesheik . . . . $36,332
Robert Giordano . . $29,550
Eric Blair . . . . . . . . . $24,222
Jesse Cohen . . . . . . . $19,377
EVENT 38
6/29/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $500 + $50
PLAYERS 673
PRIZE
POOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
$324,722
Waldemar Essig . . . $73,064
Gary Peterson . . . . . $45,136
Jed Hoffman . . . . . . $29,582
Ryan Eriquezzo . . . $20,555
Trond Anesen . . . . . $14,937
David Fleming . . . . $11,593
Alexey Golodyaev . . . $9,742
Claus Nielsen . . . . . . $8,118
Reginald Simmons . . $6,494
ADVERTISE IN
POKER
PLAYER
IT WORKS!
In both cases—whether
the game is too loose or
too tight—you’ll profit
from bets you normally
wouldn’t have made.
But, against tight players,
you’re betting in order
to steal pots, and against
loose players, you’re betting in order to make extra
money from marginally
strong hands.
Additionally, you’ll obviously call more in a loose
game and fold more in a
tight game. If you don’t
adjust at all, you’ll still
make money against flawed
opponents, but not as much
as you should.
Question 7: Should novice poker players adjust
as much as experienced
ones?
Despite everything we
just talked about, beginning poker players should
seldom adjust their games.
Their poker perspectives
aren’t honed enough to risk
making strategic changes.
They’re more likely to lose
than gain by straying from
the basics. The more your
poker skills grow, the more
likely you are to earn extra
money by adjusting your
strategy.
In short, for experienced
poker players, making strategy adjustments is essential
to winning as much money
as possible. One of the
first things you should do
when you enter a game is
look around the table and
ask yourself: “What adjustments should I make this
time?”
Mike Caro is widely
regarded as the world’s
foremost authority on
poker strategy, psychology,
and statistics. A renowned
player and founder of Mike
Caro University of Poker,
Gaming, and Life Strategy,
he is known as “the Mad
Genius of Poker,” because
of his lively delivery
of concepts and latest
research. You can visit him
at www.poker1.com or
e-mail him at mike@caro.
com.
AU G U ST 2 , 2 0 1 0
19
Poker Player Overcomes
Bad Beat, PART 2
BY Shari Geller
Like so many other poker players, Donnie Vann
wanted to go to Las Vegas for the WSOP, “It’s
always been a dream of mine to play in the
World Series of Poker,” he told me. But, for
Donnie, a quadriplegic who relies on around-the-clock nurses to
help him with even the most mundane matters, it was a dream
that takes a bit more effort and has drawn a bit more attention.
Since arriving in Las Vegas, Donnie has had the chance to
meet many of the poker players he has followed on TV for
years. “I met several of them so far. I got my picture taken
between Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth. I also met TJ
Cloutier, Joe Hachem, and Jerry Yang.” As his “Can’t Move”
blog http://dvann.blogspot.com will attest, he’s also had the
chance to meet Carlos Mortenson, Ted Forrest, Barry Greenstein
and many other well-known poker pros.
But even more exciting is actually getting to play against
them. Donnie played in one of the pot limit Omaha/8 events
and “sat right next to Phil Hellmuth for about three hours. I
had him all in, but his hand held up.” He also sat next to
Greenstein for about an hour. “It was something you definitely
never dream you’d do. There they were [these players he’d followed on TV] sitting right next to me.”
I asked Donnie about the accident that caused him to
become paralyzed from the shoulders down. “When I was
fifteen I dove into a lake, hit bottom, and broke my neck,” he
recounted. No doubt, he’s relayed the story countless times,
but it is still jarring hearing him recount it so matter-of-factly.
Donnie said it took him many years to get over the anger about
what happened to him. But today, there is not a hint of anger
or self-pity.
“It took me about seven years to get adjusted to my situation, being paralyzed. But the lord blessed me. I have a wonderful life. I have a great mom and dad and wonderful nurses
and friends. I’m very blessed. I just enjoy life. I just have to
sit down to do it, that’s all there is to it.”
It is this positive attitude as much as anything else that
makes Donnie so inspirational. But he doesn’t see his attitude
as that unusual. “They way I look at life is that you look at
your situation, it could always be worse. I try to make every
day as fun as possible because you never know, it could be your
last day. So you enjoy – to the best of your ability—each day.”
Discovering poker has given Donnie a great outlet for his
competitive spirit and craving for excitement. He plays about
three times a week in Jacksonville, Florida. Josh Zuckerman,
Director of Poker Operations at the St. John’s poker room, part
of Jacksonville Greyhound Racing and Poker, has known Donnie
since the poker room opened in 2004. He was intrigued the
first time he saw Donnie.
“When I saw Donnie come in I thought, oh, this is going to
be interesting,” Zuckerman told me. “I wondered how this will
work.” But he soon found out that Donnie needed little accommodation, just enough room for his chair and his nurse to sit
nearby and show him his cards. “I went over, introduced myself
and we’ve been friends ever since. He’s just an outstanding
person with an outstanding outlook on life, regardless of his
condition and how he got there.”
Not only is Donnie a great guy, but he’s a pretty good poker
player as well. Zuckerman said he goes deep in most of their
tournaments. Donnie’s first major tournament cash was two
years ago in Biloxi on the World Poker Tour. And he can now
add a WSOP cash to his stats, finishing 33rd out of a starting
field of 847 in the pot-limit Omaha/8 tournament.
So what’s next for Donnie Vann? The WSOP main event.
Donnie started on Day 1B and, though losing about half his chips
due to “a bad run of cards,” will be heading to Day 2A. But win
or lose, “I’m still having the time of my life!”
Shari Geller is an attorney, journalist, reporter, blogger,
poker player, and observer of the poker scene. You can
write her at [email protected], and read her blog at
www.burnthistoo.blogspot.com.
20
AU G U ST 2 , 2 0 1 0
WSOP Final Nine
lead, cracking Affleck’s aces
in the process and sending
him packing in 15th place.
Duhamel then eliminated Adam “Roothlus”
Levy in 12th place. Pascal
LeFrancois’ bid for his second bracelet of 2010 was
short-circuited by Joseph
Cheong, when his pocket
kings topped LeFrancois’
Qs-Js.
More than six hours
passed before Brandon
Steven raced his Ac-Ks
against Matthew Jarvis’
Qc-Qs. The board produced
five blanks and the poker
world was presented with
nine players (shown below
along with their chip counts)
who will compete for the
world championship in early
November.
Jason Senti. . . . . . . . . (7,625,000)
Joseph Cheong . . . . (23,525,000)
John Dolan . . . . . . . (46,250,000)
Jonathan Duhamel . (65,975,000)
Michael Mizrachi . . (14,450,000)
Matthew Jarvis . . . . (16,700,000)
John Racener . . . . . (19,050,000)
Filippo Candio . . . . (16,400,000)
Soi Nguyen. . . . . . . . . (9,650,000)
The best known of
the nine is Michael “the
Grinder” Mizrachi, who
already won $1.5 million when he captured the
$50,000 buy-in poker players championship. Mizrachi
also made the final table of
the $10,000 limit hold’em
championship and finished
sixth in the $10,000 7-card
stud world championship. It
would be an unprecedented
achievement if he were to
win the main event too.
ESPN’s WSOP coverage begins with a one-hour
season preview show that
features a look back at last
season and a look ahead to
this year’s WSOP, Tuesday,
July 20, at 8 p.m. ET.
Lon McEachern and
Norm Chad return as cohosts and past champions
Dan Harrington, Scotty
Nguyen, Chris Ferguson
and Chris Moneymaker
will weigh in on how play
has changed throughout the
years, while young guns
Tom Dwan, Scott Seiver,
and Isaac Haxton, give their
thoughts on age in poker
and live versus online play.
You can visit http://
espnmediazone.com and
click on the World Series of
Poker digital media kit for
the latest schedules, news,
photos, video and audio
clips.
Somewhat lost in the
hoopla surrounding the
WSOP’s main event is the
fact that Huck Seed took
home $500,000 when he
won this year’s Tournament
of Champions last week.
Seed, a four-time bracelet winner, beat Howard
Lederer and survived a
star-studded field to win the
event.
The Tournament of
Champions player list was
established in part by the
public voting for their favorite bracelet winners. The
top 20 qualified, along with
prior WSOP Tournament of
Champion winners and all
WSOP main event winners,
and two sponsor exemption.
It was a multi-day event
with a rather lengthy
16-hour final session. When
they were heads-up, Lederer
held a chip lead of 468,000
to 342,000 for Seed, who
at one point was just one
card from defeat and all-in
when he made a straight on
the river to double through
Lederer and move into the
lead.
Lederer moved all-in with
Q-8 on the final hand, and
Seed called with A-2. The
board was7-6-6-9-A giving
Seed the title of “Champion
of Champions” along with a
half-million dollar check.
22. William Thorson . $317,161
23. Robert Pisano . . . . $317,161
EVENT #56
BUY-IN $10,000
PLAYERS 7,319
PRIZE
POOL
$68,798,600
1. Jonathan Duhamel
. . . . . . . . . . . . 65,975,000 CHIPS
2. John Dolan . 46,250,000 CHIPS
3. Joseph Cheong
. . . . . . . . . . . 23,525,000 CHIPS
4. John Racener 19,050,000 CHIPS
5. Matt Jarvis . 16,700,000 CHIPS
6. Filippo Candio
. . . . . . . . . . . 16,400,000 CHIPS
7. Michael Mizrachi
. . . . . . . . . . . 14,450,000 CHIPS
8. Soi Nguyen . . 9,650,000 CHIPS
9. Jason Senti . . 7,625,000 CHIPS
10. Brandon Steven . . $635,011
11. Pascal Lefrancois . $635,001
12. Adam Levy . . . . . . . $635,011
13. Duy Le . . . . . . . . . . $500,165
14. Hasan Habib . . . . . $500,165
15. Matt Affleck . . . . . $500,165
16. Benjamin Statz . . . $396,967
17. David Baker . . . . . . $396,967
18. Scott Clements . . . $396,967
19. Michiel Sijpkens . . $317,161
20. Patrick Eskander . $317,161
21. Redmond Lee . . . . $317,161
7/2/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $2,500
PLAYERS 1,942
PRIZE
POOL
$4,466,600
1. Tomer Berda . . . . . $825,976
2. Vladimir
Kochelaevskiy . . . . $510,939
3. Bryan Porter . . . . . $353,260
4. Salvatore Bonavena . $254,777
5. Mike Wattel . . . . . $186,250
6. Hung Cheng Hung $137,946
7. Ali Alawadhi . . . . . $103,527
8. Joseph Curcio . . . . . $78,705
9. Alfonso Amendola . $60,580
EVENT #55
7/1/10
POT LIMIT OMAHA
CHAMPIONSHIP
BUY-IN $10,000
PLAYERS 346
PRIZE
POOL
$3,252,400
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Daniel Alaei . . . . . . $780,599
Miguel Proulx . . . . $482,265
Ville Mattila . . . . . $354,218
Ludovic Lacay . . . $262,208
Trevor Uyesugi . . . $195,631
Stephen Pierson . . $147,138
Dimitry Stelmak . . $111,524
Alexander Kravchenko $85,180
Matthew Wheat . . . $65,568
EVENT #54
7/1/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $1,000
PLAYERS 3,053
PRIZE
POOL
$3,459,600
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
RIO ALL SUITES HOTEL
WORLD SERIES OF POKER
EVENT #57
7/17/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
CHAMPIONSHIP
Marcel Vonk . . . . . $570,960
David Peters . . . . . $350,803
Paul Kerr . . . . . . . $255,076
Nathan Jessen . . . . $186,818
Henrik Tollefsen . . $138,107
Matthew Lupton . . $103,061
Mehul Chaudhari . . $77,633
Espen Moen . . . . . . $59,020
Dustin
Dorrance-Bowman . $45,286
EVENT #53
6/30/10
SHOOTOUT—
LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $1,500
PLAYERS 548
PRIZE
POOL
$739,800
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Brendan Taylor . . . $184,950
Ben Yu . . . . . . . . . . $114,484
Jonathan Little . . . . $73,218
Joseph Mcgowan . . $48,546
Brian Tate . . . . . . . . $33,276
Michael Schneider . . $23,563
Sijbrand Maal . . . . . $17,215
Terrence Chan . . . . $12,961
Feming Chan . . . . . . $4,135
EVENT #52
6/30/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM—
SIX-HANDED
BUY-IN $25,000
PLAYERS 191
PRIZE
POOL
$4,536,250
1. Dan Kelly . . . . . .$1,315,518
2. Shawn Buchanan . $812,941
3. Frank Kassela . . . . $556,053
4. Jason Somerville . . $386,125
5. Mikael Thuritz . . . $272,084
6. Eugene Katchalov $194,559
7. Sam Trickett . . . . . $141,168
8. Bryn Kenney . . . . . $141,168
9. Isaac Haxton . . . . . $104,651
10. Brian Hodhod . . . . $104,651
DAILY TOURNAMENTS (CONT’D FROM PAGE 19)
Time. Some events &. ........ Additional
Limit Hold’em
start after the hour
gametimes. Call. N ..........No Limit
A, P ....... AM, PM
..... Hold’em L ................ Limit
Wk .............Week
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CALIFORNIANORTH
SOUTHWEST
AZ
CO
KS
NM
OK
MONDAY
|
TUESDAY
GAMES BUY-IN| TIME
NH
$65+ 9A
NH
$15 9A
NH
$7 11A&
NH
0+ 10A
NH
$60 6P
NH
$120 10A
7P
NH
$80+
NH
$30+ 11A
NH
$15 11A&
TIME
Luckyy Chances
9A
9A
Luckyy Derbyy Casino
Merced Poker Room
11A&
Mike’s Card Casino. Oakdale 10A
Napa
p Valleyy Casino
6P
y
6P
Oaks Card Club-Emeryville
Pastime Cardroom, Benicia
Pete’s 881 Club
6P
Phoenix Casino
11A
Poker Flats, Merced
11A&
River Rock Casino-Geyserville
y
Sho Ka Wah, Hopland
p
5P
Tachi Palace Casino
7P
The 101 Casino
Thunder Valleyy Casino, Lincoln 1P&
Turlock Poker Room
10A&
Wine Countryy Casino
7P&
Win-River Casino, Reddingg 6P
Apache
p
Gold
Blue Water Casino
Bucky’s
y Casino
Casi
sinoo Ari
si
riz.-S
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Scottsd
sdalle
11A
Casino Del Sol
10A
Cliff Castle
10A
12P&
Fort McDowell
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$175 9A
NH
$15 9A
NH
$7 11A&
NH
0+ 10A
NH
$60 6P
NH
65+ 6P
NH
F
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$65+ 9A
NH
$15 6P
NH
$7 11A&
NH
0+ 10A
NH
$60
N H $100+
7P
|
NH
F
NH
NH
$30+ 11A
$15 11A&
$30+ 11A
$15 11A&
7P
NH
NH
NH
$30+ 11A
$15 11A&
$55
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$65+ 7P
$50
$22 1P&
$15 10A&
$50 7P&
$25+ 6P
6P
NH
$50+
NH
NH
NH
NH
$55+
$40+ 7P
7P
$22 1P&
$15 10A&
$50 7P&
$25+ 6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
7P
$22 1P&
$15 10A&
$50 7P&
$25+ 6P
$25+ 7P
7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O H/L
HB
$50
$22
$15 10A&
$50 7P&
F+
$20
$25
NH
HZ
N H Sh
NH
12P
$60 7P
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$13+ 12P&
H
NH
O H/L Z
L H Sh
NH
$25+
$130 7P
$10+ 10A
$25 10A&
$13+ 12P&
NH
Cz Pi Z
N H Sh
NH
$130 11A
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$13+ 12P&
NH
NHZ
L H Sh
NH
Men H
NAI
HB
NH
O H/L
$60 11A
$10+ 10A
$25 10A
$13+ 12P&
$20
$30+ 1P&
$25
7P
$24 12P&
$60 2P&
$60
$20 11A
$20/F
$5+
$60 6P
$20+ 2P
$25 10A
NH
$25+ 7P
NHZ
$50 7P
NH
$20+ 12P
Gila River-Vee Quiva
Harrah’s Ak Chin
Hon-Dah Casino
Paradise Casino
Double Eagle
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Gilpin
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Midnight
Skyy Ute-Ignacio
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Ute Mountain Casino-Towaoc
Golden Eagle
Buffalo Thunder
Isleta Casino & Resort
Route 66 Casino
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Sa
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Santa Ana Star
Cherokee-Roland
Cherokee-W. Siloam
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1P&
6P
7B
NH
Flopp
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$30+ 1P&
$10 6P
HB
NH
H Sh
$20 11A
$30+ 1P&
F 6P
HB
NH
H
$20 11A
$30+ 1P&
$10 6P
7P
12P&
2P&
8P
7P
7P
2P
6P
2P
10A
NH
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50
$10+ 12P&
$60 2P&
$60 7P
$30+ 11A
$20+
$44
$60 6P
$10+ 2P
$25 10A
7P
$25 11A
$35+ 10A
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P
$60+ 7P
$30+ 12P
$30 11A
$35 7P
$30 11A&
F 6P
$35 10A&
$40 11A&
$115 7P
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
7P
$24 12P&
$60 2P&
$50 7P
$20 11A
NH
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Var
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Sit and Go
NH
NHZ
NH
$60 6P
$20+ 2P
$25 10A
$35
$25 11A&
$35+ 10A
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P
$60+ 7P
$30+ 12P
$30 11A
$35 7P
$30 11A&
$25 7P
$35 10A&
$40 11A&
$60 1P
NH
NH
NH
$60
$10+ 12P&
$60 2P&
$50+ 7P
$20 11A
7P
6P
$60 6P
$5+ 2P
$25 10A
NHZ
NH
NHB
NH
O
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NHZ
NH
NHZ
NH
$25 11A&
$35+ 10A
$35+ 10A
$60+ 2P
$60+ 7P
$30+ 12P
$30 11A
$60 7P
$30 11A&
$50 6P
$35 10A&
$60 11A&
$60 1P
NH
$25 11A
NH
$35+ 10A
NH
$35+ 10A
NH
$60+ 7P
NH
$60+
NH
$30+ 12P
NH
$30 11A
NH
$35 2P
NH
$30 11A&
Po O $100-300 6P
NH
$35 10A&
NHB
$85 11A
NHB
$115 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
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GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
$15 9A
$7 11A&
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9A&
11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
5P
11A
Gila River/Wild Horse Pass 12P
11A
10A
10A
2P
Choc
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Comanche Red River Cas.
12P
11A
Downstream
7P
Firelake Grand Casino
11A
Gold River Casino-Anadarko 6P Wk1
Hard Rock-Tulsa
10A&
Riverwind
11A&
WinStar World Casino
7P
FRIDAY
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$120
NH
$70 9A
NH
$7 11A&
NH
0+ 10A
NH
NH
NH
NH
Z........ Freezeout Sh ........Shootout
Cz ............. Crazy + Re-buys and/or
E...... Elimination Add-ons allowed
Q ............Qualify F ............Freeroll
B ......... Bounties
T ............... Turbo
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NH
NH
GAMES BUY-IN
NH
$225
NH
$30
NH
$7
NH
0+
NH
$40
NH
$125+
$15 10A&
$50 7P&
11A
NH
NH
NH
12P
$60 10AWk4
$10+
$25 11A
$13+ 12P&
H
NH
$55+ 6P
11A
$40
$55
$75 5P
Varies
5P
3P
$15 10A&
$50 2P
F+ 5P
3P
2P
$25+ 1P
$150
NH
NH
$80+ 10A
$13+ 12P&
O Sh
NH
$25
$13+
11A
$60 12P&
$10
$13 1P
HB
NH
$20
$60
H
$13
NH
NH
12P
$75
$15 5P
10A
$55+ 5P
$35+ 11A
NH
NH
NH
Pi
N H Sh
NH
SUNDAY
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
9A
NH
$60 10A
NH
$7 11A&
NH
0+ 10A
NH
$40 9A&
NH
$120 1P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
O/8
NH
$45+
$50
NH
$15
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
O H/L
7F
$20+
$55
$15
$70
F+
$20+
$25
$25+
NH
H
O H/L
NH
$30+ 12P&
3P
1P
F
$10+ 12P&
$60 2P&
NH
NH
$20+ 12P&
$60 2P&
NH
$20 11A
NH
3P
$110
$20+ 2P
$25 1P
NH
NH
NH
NH
$105 11A
NH
3P
NH
$18+ 6P
O H/L
6P
NH
$5+ 2P
NH
$18 7P
O H/L
12P
Var
$40 5P
NH
$60+ 5P
NH
$35+ 2P
NH
$115 3P Wk1 N H Lad
$330 3P Wk2 N H Jack N Jill
$25+ 10A
NH
$30 3P
NH
$10+
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$15+ 2P
NH
$35 10A&
NH
$85 11A&
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$25 11A&
NH
$35+ 5P
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$35+ 10A
NH
$115 11A Wk1
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$30+ 10A
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$30 11A
NH
$25 3P
NH
$30 2P
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p
$50-200 4P
NH
$35 10A&
NH
$40+ 11A
NHB
$165
$20+
$60
$20
$10
$45
$110
$5+
$25
$35
$40
$115+
$60
$60
$120
$25+
$30
$120
$25
$35
$40
DA I LY TO U R N A M E N T L I ST I N G S CO N T I N U E O N PAG E 23
Results: Bike’s Stars & Stripes
$178,754
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Elvis Huynh . . . . . . $54,000
Richard Castro . . . . $26,950
Jim Pittman . . . . . . $14,304
Britton Purvis . . . . . . $8,940
Patrick Cullip . . . . . . $7,150
EVENT #10
7/14/10
PRIZE POOL
$15,061
1. Alexi Dimitrov . . . . . . $5,936
2. Bill Strausz . . . . . . . . $2,970
EVENT #8
7/12/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM TURBO
BUY-IN $100 + $20
PRIZE POOL
1. Jim Pittman . . . . . . $12,579
2. Shane Mitchell . . . . . $6,470
3. Sean Valentine . . . . . $3,080
BUY-IN $100 + $20
PLAYERS 308
PRIZE
POOL
$29,876
1. Johnny Noh . . . . . . . . $9,760
2. Joshua Melville . . . . . $5,006
3. Stewart Lovelace . . . $2,390
1. Andy Lambo . . . . . . . $3,221
2. Benjamin Chung . . . $1,850
7/11/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
DEEPSTACK
BUY-IN $100 + $20
$21,065
1. Daniel Duong . . . . . . $7,230
2. Damang Meas . . . . . . $3,650
3. Carlos Bosch . . . . . . . $1,665
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Michael Borovetz . . . $5,830
Sean Stewart . . . . . . . $2,780
Tim Thorpe . . . . . . . . $2,085
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21
The $500 Dollar Poker Challenge,
PART 3— Readers’ Reactions
BY John “The Scientist” Hayes
The terms: Start with $500 and build
your poker bankroll over a period of one
year into a substantial bankroll. You may
only play live games in casinos and poker
rooms; no online or home games.
The goal: The goal of this challenge is to reproduce the
conditions faced in brick-and-mortar casinos and poker
rooms by road gamblers long before the days of online
poker. The casinos offered—and still do—a safe environment free of worries about cheaters, thieves, and the law.
The background: The inspiration for the “$500 Poker
Challenge” is “My Story” from the beginning of Doyle
Brunson’s SuperSystem, where he tells us, “I’ve been so
broke early in my marriage that I couldn’t afford bus fare
from Las Vegas to my home in Fort Worth. And there were
times I could barely scrape up a dime to call my wife and
ask her to send me money for the ticket ... I finally got
to the point where I got my bankroll up to one-hundredthousand dollars, and I haven’t looked back since.”
Today I would like to share and comment on the
responses I have received from readers.
A few readers asked about the final dollar goal.
I am not specifying an exact dollar amount. Make
as much as you can in one year so you can play higher
stakes. While setting a specific goal for yourself can be
good discipline, each person taking the challenge will be
playing in a different environment. Not all of us can live in
Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Reno, or Atlantic City.
One reader, Patrick, makes two points: (1) accepting a
stake skews the experiment and (2) this particular challenge is designed for novices and amateurs, not pros.
(1) If the point is purely to measure a player’s prowess,
then Patrick is right in asserting that accepting a stake
skews the result. But the skewing is only very minor, since
the stake is start-up capital that must be repaid, usually
with an additional percentage of winnings. Furthermore
this is not a laboratory experiment, but about real-life
poker as it is played in casinos and poker rooms all over
the world. Staking is and has always been part of that.
(2) The challenge is designed for novices and amateurs.
Because poker is the poor man’s stock market, this challenge is for players without a large bankroll, or who have
lost their bankroll.
The $500 Poker Challenge is also designed to help and
inspire long-time poker players and railbirds who need to
reassess their skill or the lack of skill that busted them
out.
Some readers have already started the challenge with
interesting and inspiring results. To name a few, Mike,
Alex, Tom, and Serge are taking the challenge and will be
sending updates on their progress.
Chris plays primarily at Foxwoods in the $1-$2 and
$2-$5 no-limit hold’em games, with sessions lasting no
more the four hours. According to his most recent update,
he has doubled his initial stake and is up $541. Employed
full-time, Chris, like most poker players, will be playing
when he has the time and can get to the casino.
Tom, on the other hand, is grinding it out in $2-$4 and
$3-$6 limit hold’em games.
My next column, entitled “Location, Location,
Location,” will be about where to play.
You may post your challenge results and comments two
weeks after print publication by going to www.pokerplayernewspaper.com, sign up for a FREE online subscription
and add your comments at the end of each article.
I invite you to take the $500 Poker Challenge with me
and report your results!
John “The Scientist” Hayes hosts Ask the Scientist, a live call-in
poker instruction show on www.hpstv.tv at the Hollywood Poker
School in Hollywood Park Casino. Contact [email protected].
22
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Tourney Slated for August 13-16
Casino Arizona’s sixth
annual Arizona State Poker
Tournament is slated for
August 13-16. This popular
event expects to attract 900
men and women to the new
state-of-the art poker room
at Talking Stick Resort.
The action begins Friday,
August 13, at 9 a.m. with
300 players per day and
continues on through the
weekend until the finalists
are determined. The championship table starts at 11
a.m., Monday, August 16.
This year’s prize pool
will be increased from
$750,000 to a record $1
million, and Casino Arizona
will add $100,000 to the
prize pool if the tourna-
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champion will take home
$312,500, along with a
championship ring and
trophy. Second and third
places will earn $156,000
and $75,000 respectively,
along with a trophy.
Players can pay $1,000
to buy-in, along with a $50
service fee, or they can
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10A&
10P
10A
10A
11A&
10A
11A
7P&
5P
7P
7P
6P
7P
6P
6P
10A&
7P&
3P
10A&
7P
6P
11A
7P
10A
7P
12P&
7P
6P
|
TUESDAY
GAMES BUY-IN| TIME
NHB
$30 7P
H
$25+ 4P
NH
NH
$30+ 7P
$10+ 7P
MIDWEST
MO
LA
MS
FLORIDA
GULF COAST
WI
H
$110 7P
7P
$150+ 6P
$60 10A&
$40 6P
$50 7P&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$30+ 7P
$65 6P
$40 11A
$40 7P
$60 10A
$60 7P
$50 12P&
$60 7P
$55
$25 6P
$60 7P
1P
BNH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$65 7P
$230 6P
$60 10A&
$40 6P
$60 7P&
$80+ 3P
$50 10A&
$40+ 7P
$65 6P
$60 6P
$40
$60 10A
$60 7P
$50 12P&
$20+ 7P
7P
$55 6P
$25+
$160
$40 10A&
$65 10P
NH
$25 10A
NH
$20 10A
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$30 10A
NH
$20 11A
NH
$125 1P&
NH
$13+
N
F $100
O H/L
$10+ 7P
H/L Spp Z
$25 7P
7P
6P
H
$50
7P
NH
$11+
NH
$180 6P
NH
$60 11A&
NH
$40 6P
NH
$40 7P&
NH
$80+ 3P
NH
$50 10A&
LH
$30+ 4P
NH
$120 6P
N H Deepstack
p
$90 11A
$60 12P
$80 7P
11A
$70 11A
$110
$50+ 7P
$50 12P
$80 7P&
6P
6P
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40 10A&
$40 7P
$25 10A&
$20 10A&
$30 11A&
$30 10A
$20 11A
$40 7P&
$13+ 5P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$40 10A&
$115 10P
$25 10A
$20 10A
$30 11A&
$30 10A
$20 11A
$50 7P&
$13+ 5P
F+ 7P
$30+
$10+
7P
NH
$30+
NH
$44
NH
$230 6P
NH
$85 10A&
6P
Super
p Stack Turbo $50 7P&
NH
$80+ 3P
NH
$50 10A&
NH
$30+ 7P
NH
$120 6P
NHB
$55 11A
NHB
$55 7P
NH
$60 10A
NH
$60 7P
NH
$70 12P&
NH
$20+ 7P
7P
NH
$60 6P
7P
NH
7P
$30+ 7P
12P
NH
11A
NHB
12P
3P
7P&
NH
NH
NH
7P
10A
6P
2P
12P
6P
6P
1P&
12P&
7P
7P
NH
N H Sh
NH
NH
NH
N H Deepstack
p
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60 12P
12P
$125 11A
12P
$80 12P
$50 1P
$100+ 7P&
$40 7P
$62
$55+ 6P
$10 6P
$25 12P
$70
$30 6P
$25 1P&
$35 12P&
$25+
$35+
6P
6P
6P
6P
7P
4A&
1P
7P
3P
7P
7P
6P&
1P&
6P&
12P
12P&
2P
12P&
6P
7P
12P&
1P
2P&
7
S H/L
$40 10A&
$40 7P
$25 10A&
$20 10A&
$30 11A&
$30 10A
$20 11A
$40 7P&
$13+ 5P
7P
$10+ 7P
F+ 7P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
H
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
7
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
MI
MN
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$45 7P
Tahoe H/L $25+ 4P
7P
O H/L $65+ 7P
NH
$25 7P
6P
NH
$55
N O H/L $20+ 1P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$35 12P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$25 10A
Lad N H $25+ 12P
NH
$40 11A
NH
$30 8A
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$45
NHB
$40 6P
NH
$65
$10+ 6P
$20+ 1P
$20 9A
$35 12P
$20 9A
$25 10A
$30+ 12P
$40 11A
$30 8A
$25 10A&
$15+ 7P
$60
$65 7P
S
NH
7 H/L
NH
$75+
NHB
$70 6P
NH
$20+
NH
$65 5P&
NH
$60 1P
NH
$65+
N H Z $35+ 1P
NH
$20+ 7P
NH
$35+ 7P
NHB
$25 6P&
NH
$25+ 1P&
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
NH
$70 4P
NHZ
$65 12P&
NH
$55+ 6P
NH
$125 7P
NH
$150 12P&
NH
$35 1P
NH
$60+ 2P&
8P
NH
7
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
H
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Turbo N H
NH
NH
NH
NH
Sit N Go
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NHB
Var
|
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NHB
$35 7P
NH
$25+ 4P
NH
$20
NH
$120+ 7P
N H Sh
$25 7P
NH
$0+
HORSE
$80 6P
NH
$20+ 1P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$35 12P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$30+ 7P&
NH
$40 11A
NH
$30 8A
NH
$25 10A&
7P
NHB
$40 6P
NH
$65 7P
NH
N O H/L
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
LO
NH
NH
IL
IN
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30+ 7P
O H/L
$25+ 4P
7P
HORSE
$65 7P
NH
$20+ 7P
6P
NH
$25+ 6P
NH
$20+ 1P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$35 12P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$30+ 12P
NH
$40 11A
NH
$30 8A
NH
$25 10A&
L/N H
$25
6P
NH
$65 7P
$35 7PWk1
$40 7P
12P
$25+ 6P
$30
$25 12P
6P
$30 6P
$25 1P&
$35 12P&
7P
7P
$30+
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
Pi
Pi
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$60 12P
$115
$40
$100 11A
12P
$155+ 12P
$60 6P
$50 7P&
$10+ 6P
$10+ 6P
$40 7P
$40
$25+
6P
$25+ 12P
$60 7P
$30 6P
$25 1P&
$35 12P&
$40+ 6P&
$65+
6P
6P
FRIDAY
NH
Poker League
g
Poker League
g
N H Sh
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Lad
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHZ
NH
NH
NH
NH
N H Sat
NH
$95 10A
$95
$70 12P&
$60 7P
$65
$40
7P
NH
NH
$90+ 11A&
$70 1P&
7P
$15+ 7P
$20+
$40 7P
$100 6P&
$45 1P&
$60 6P&
$100 12P
$42 12P&
$45 4P
$90 12P&
$200 6P
$35+ 7P
$120 12P&
$70 1P
$55 2P&
$25+
NH
NH
NH
NHB
$75+
$60 6P
7P
$35+ 5P&
$80 1P&
$130B 7P
$20+ 2P
Turbo N H
$40 7P
NHB
$25 6P&
N H DeepStack
p $600 1P&
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
NH
$45 2P
NH
$30+ 12P&
NHZ
$120 6P
NH
$20+
NHB
$150 12P&
NH
$65 1P
NH
$100 7P
H
NH
NH
O H/L
$10+ 2P
2P
$30+ 7P
$10+ 4P
NH
$30+ 7P
$20+
$30+ 3P
$30+
$25+ 4P
2P
NH
$30+
3P
NH
$560 12P
NH
$125 9A&
NH
$60 2P
Bigg Stack
$50 4P&
N H $100+ 7P
NH
$50 10A&
NH
$65+ 12P
NH
$340 6P
NH
$120 12P
H
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Terminator
$340 12P
$75 10A&
$60 2P
$20+ 7P&
$80+ 1P
$50 10A&
$60+ 12P
$225 6P&
$60 10A
NH
$60 10A
Deepstack
p
NH
Lad N H
$70 11A&
$15+ 3P
2P
NH
NH
NHB
NH
$15+ 12P
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
Deepstack
p
NH
NH
$60 12P
11A
12P
$70 11A
$110 12P
$50+
$40 2P
$80+ 7P&
$30+ 6P
$35+ 6P
NH
NHB
NH
NH
$60 11A
$105
$40 12P
$100 11A
$210
12P
$100
$125 7P&
$40+ 1P
$35+ 1P
$10+ 7P
10A
NH
NH
$40
$40 10A
NH
$60 6P&
$25 2P
$50
$30 10A
$140 1P&
$35 12P
$30 7P
LH
NHZ
$20+ 12P
$25 12P
NH
NH
NH
$30 10A
NH
$40 2P
NH
$55 4P
N H Sat $40 + 12P
NH
NH
NH
NH
12P
12P
NH
Var
$55+
$60
F+
11A
$90 6P
| SATURDAY |
$115 12P&
20+ 7P
$120 5P&
$90 1P&
$65+ 4P
$35+ 3P
2P
Turbo N H
$40 2P
NHB
$50 6P&
N H DeepStack
p $600 2P&
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$42 12P&
NH
$70 2P
NHZ
$65 1P&
NH
$200 6P
7P
NHB
$150 12P&
NH
$30 7P
NHB
$150 7P
Po O
NHB
NHZ
NH
NH
SUNDAY
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
GAMES BUY-IN|TIME
NH
$30 3P
NHB Deepstack
p
$50 3P
H
$25+
4P
NH
$20
NH
$60+ 7P
Z
$35+ 7P
NH
$25 2P&
NHB
$25 2P&
NH
$0+ 3PWk1&3 N H
$25+
1P
NH
$25 1P
NH
$20+ 1P
N O H/L $20+ 1P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$20 9A
NH
$35 12P
NH
$100 12P
NH
$20 9A
NH
$20 9A
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$25 10A&
NH
$30+ 12P
NH
$30+ 12P
NH
$40 11A
NH
$40 11A
NH
$30 9A
NH
$30 9A
NH
$25 12P&
NH
$20 12P&
5P
NB
$35
NH
$40 1P
NH
$60 1P
7P
12P Wk2
NH
$40 10A&
NH
$75 10A&
$40 10P
$40 7P
NH
$25 10A
NH
$25 10A
NH
$20 12P
NH
$40 12P
NH
$30 11A&
NH
$30 4P
NH
$30 11A
NH
$60 11A
NH
$20 11A
NH
$20
O Po
$75 11A&
NH
$90 12P
2P
NH
$25+
NH
$60 12P
NH
$60+ 4P
NH
$120+ 11A&
NH
$100 1P&
NH
$65+ 2P
N H Z $50+ 3P
N H Sh
$35
NHZ
$35 2P
NH
$100 6P&
N H DeepStack
p $600 2P&
NH
$60 6P&
NH
$100 10A
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
NH
$35 4P
NHZ
$100 1P&
NH
$200 6P
NH
$150 7P
NH
$100 12P&
NHB
$100 2P
NH
$150 2P&
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$95
$200
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$30
$20+
$20
$35
$20
$60
$50+
$40
$30
$20
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NHB
$60
$65
$225
$50
$115
$25
$40
$30
$60
NHB
$125
H
F+
NHZ
H
$60
$40
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$88
$340
$60
$60
$50
$85+
$50
$55+
$120
$60
$120 10A
6P
$90 11A&
$20+ 3P
$35
NH
Deepstack
p
NH
NH
$50
$120
$125
$60
$25+ 12P
11A
11A
$60 11A
NH
NH
NH
NH
$25+
$90
$115
$60
$60
$70 11A
12P
$150+ 3P
NH
NH
NH
$150
$210
$81+
NH
NH
NHB
NH
NH
NH
NH
NH
$50
$25+
$25+
$30+
$120
Varies
$15+
$40
$30+
$70
$30
$25
$35
$100 11A&
$60 3P
$35+ 6P
2P
2P
$175 12P
5P
$50 2P
$50+ 12P
4P
$30 10A
$110 12P
$55 12P&
$60
NH
NH
NH
NH
$75
Var
NH
$115 2P
N H Lad
20+
NH
$35+ 1P&
NH
$110 1P&
NH
$130+ 4P
N H B $30+
NH
$60+ 2P
NHB
$100 5P&
NH
$60 1P
NH
$120 6P&
NH
$100 12P
Sit N Go
$45 12P&
NH
$65 1P
FL Million Dayy 1 Qualifier 12P&
NH
$200 6P
NH
$130
NH
$65 12P&
NH
$125 4P
NH
$200 2P&
AU G U ST 2 , 2 0 1 0
GAMES BUY-IN
N H Deepstack
p
$110
NH
$25+
NHB
$60
BNH
NH
$65+
$50
$130+
Turbo N H
$40
NHB
$50
N H DeepStack
p $600
NH
$60
N H Deepstack
p
Varies
Sit N Go
$45
NH
$65
NHZ
$100
NH
$200
NHB
NH
NH
$150
$65
$120
23
LESSON 170
Commerce Takes Big Bite Out of Summer’s Dog Days
Plodder or Adventurer?
Lessons from mike caro
university of poker
BY DIANE MC HAFFIE
Mike and I were talking the other day and he quoted a phrase, verbatim,
from one of his books, Caro on Gambling. “Adventurers prance about
the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the
humility of hanging idle.” Wow, that is powerful!
The quote came from a chapter that discussed two brands of skilled
poker players, “plodders” and “adventurers.” Adventurers live for the
excitement, the suspense of the game, the thrills. They’re more willing to
take chances, to bet the farm. Money management is merely a fleeting
thought.
Plodders are cautious in their decisions, constantly concerned about
properly managing their bankrolls. To insure their feeling of security, it’s
probably wise that they implement a strong method of money administration.
Momentary setback. Many skilled players are adventurers.
Occasionally professional players may go broke, but rarely does it cause
them undue distress. It’s only a momentary setback, a brief twinge of
discomfort; they trudge on, rebuilding their bankrolls.
Suppose you have a chance to bet on a player in a heads-up poker contest and one player is a plodder and one is an adventurer, who would you
choose? Mike says his money is on the adventurer. Plodders are overly
cautious, missing potentially profitable opportunities. In fact, if given the
choice a plodder would rarely participate in a heads-up contest against a
strong opponent. They shy away from this sort of confrontation.
Ah, but that isn’t the case with the adventurer. Doyle Brunson and
Lyle Berman are great friends, but they’re pit bulls against each other.
Annie Duke and Howard Lederer are brother and sister, yet that doesn’t
stop Annie from stomping Howard when face to face across the felt.
These types of players invite the challenge of playing dangerous opponents. That’s how they made it to the top!
Disappeared. If you’re involved in a raked game, be more discriminating about the hands you choose to play. It isn’t the same if you’re in
a rented seat. If you’re renting a casino seat by the hour or half-hour,
the money has already disappeared. Poof! Gone! That portion of your
bankroll has vanished. But now you can focus on playing poker without
worrying about money being snatched from each pot and affecting your
decisions.
If the casino takes a rake, then it’s entirely different. That affects how
you play. You need to be more conventional, less adventurous. If you’re
playing a hand that has only a slight edge, and the casino takes a rake,
that hand becomes a loser.
Reckless: Players who experience repeated setbacks often become
discouraged, taking more risks in a reckless attempt to recoup their losses. They experience a tremendous urge to get back to even again. Ah,
but they are in the throes of the “threshold of misery,” having already
lost the maximum that will register on their scales of pain. They stop
listening to the little voice, the invisible, miniature Mike Caro seated on
their shoulder, desperately whispering, “Hey, you’re always even when
the hand begins! Forget the previous hand and concentrate on making
winning decisions now!” If they would merely heed his advice, their
bankroll wouldn’t be diminishing.
Players on a winning streak occasionally make costly mistakes, as
well. They may possess a massive chip tower, yet they mysteriously
cease playing the superior poker that had built the tower. Why? Well,
Mike says the chips haven’t actually registered in their minds as belonging to them yet. If they had continued playing as if each hand were their
first, their handsome chip pile wouldn’t be vanishing.
Remember that you earn an hourly wage playing poker. If you’re having a great evening, consistently winning and having fun, there’s no need
to suddenly call it a night and leave. To do so has the potential of prohibiting you from winning more. A plodder will probably call it an early night
and take his winnings and go home. An adventurer will stay and take the
chances of possibly losing some or all of his wins or increasing his bankroll further.
Are you a plodder or an adventurer?
Diane McHaffie is Director of Operations at Mike Caro University
of Poker, Gaming, and Life Strategy. She has traveled the world
coordinating events and seminars in the interest of honest
poker. You can write her online at [email protected].
24
AU G U ST 2 , 2 0 1 0
Commerce Casino’s new
million-dollar guarantee
tournament, featuring a fiveday entry, begins July 20.
This $335 buy-in no-limit
hold’em event allows players to enter—and re-enter—
this event on any of the five
days from July 20-July 24.
Approximately 10 percent
of each day’s field will take
home a piece of the milliondollar prize pool, and the
top 27 players each day will
advance to the Sunday, July
25 final. The ultimate field
competing for the guaranteed Commerce Casino
payout will number 135
players.
“With the phenomenal
record-breaking attendance
and huge popularity of
these multiple entry-day
tournaments that Commerce
Casino has had with the LA
Poker Classic and the Cal
State Championship, we
thought it would great to
offer a standalone $1 million tournament here in the
summer,” said Jeff Harris,
Casino Manager. “We want
to make sure in these lazy
dog days of summer that
players have a powerhouse
tournament that will keep
them excited.”
Play begins at 2 p.m.
each of the five entry days.
Players may register on site
or in advance at the Casino
Services desk.
Bike’s Stars & Stripes
EVENT #3
7/4/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM TURBO
BUY-IN $60 + $10
PLAYERS 156
PRIZE
POOL
$9,079
1. Akihiro Liu . . . . . . . . $3,634
2. Nicholas Banyas . . . . $1,815
EVENT #2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
David Lavin . . . . . . $20,337
Monty Willie . . . . . . $10,440
Arbi Sepani . . . . . . . . $4,970
Dong Xu . . . . . . . . . . $3,730
Khalil Musleh . . . . . . $2,795
EVENT #1
7/1/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
BUY-IN $70 + $10
7/2/10
NO LIMIT HOLD’EM
DEEPSTACK
BUY-IN $100 + $20
PLAYERS 736
PLAYERS 442
PRIZE POOL
$30,171
L.D. Gray
PRIZE POOL
$71,392
David Lavin
1. L.D. Gray . . . . . . . . . $9,811
2. Francisco Pantoja . . . $5,020
3. Kimchi Ishihara . . . . $2,400
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are nearly $13,000,
including a place
in the 2006 WSOP ladies
no-limit event. Her winning
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during the Scotty Nguyen
Poker Challenge II at the
Hard Rock Casino, formerly
known as Cherokee Casino
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since
then she has been seen traveling and playing in several
area series events looking for
that elusive first place finish. “I really enjoy playing at
Downstream and am excited
about the next Heartland
Poker Tour event here in
October!”
The Four-States Poker
Championship Series had
seven championship events
and a total of fourteen tournaments. Ultimately there
were seven champions:
Crystalynn Harris
Hard
working
poker enthusiast Tana Washington made
her way to Downstream
Casino for the Four-State
Poker Championship and
came out with first place
prize in the no-limit main
event on June 6, which
earned her $9,868. There
were 120 entrants and Tana
was the only female player
to place. “I had a great time
and played a great game!
I’ve already placed in an
event during this series
and am very happy to have
a first place finish too!”
Washington commented on
her win.
Washington’s total lifetime tournament winnings
Linda and Rick Mersman
of Wyandotte, Oklahoma
for the Fun With Dick and
Jane Championship; Randy
Murfin of Ozark, Missouri
for the Razz Championship;
Dennis Lawson of
Gainesville, Missouri for
the Limit Championship;
Russell Taylor of Pittsburg,
Kansas for the Seven-Stud
Championship; Garret Smith
of Springfield, Missouri
for the Pot-Limit Omaha
Championship; Atipee
Phahurat of Lewell, Arkansas
for the No-Limit Hold’em
Shoot-Out Championship
and Main Event winner Tana
Washington.
Since it’s opening in 2008,
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The enclosed fourteentable card room provides
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Schecter recently brought
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with Mike Matasow and
they will be making an
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October HPT event which
runs from September 30
through October 10. “HPT
has been a wonderful addition to our poker schedule
and Big Stacks University
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Paul “Dr. Pauly” McGuire
“Sometimes contact with the lucky can change a
man’s run of bad luck,” William S. Burroughs wrote.
“But generally it works the other way. Junkies are an envious lot.”
Luck is something that I think about constantly, particularly the
horrors of luck which have tormented many souls. Panhandlers can
tell you about their bad beat stories in life, and how a word like
“luck” dredges up savage connotations. Busto poker players often
regurgitate endless tales about how they constantly ended up on
the crappy end of variance.
Then, there are genuine stories about average people averting
catastrophe, like the habitual late businessmen who got caught in
traffic and missed his flight to Buffalo that ended up falling out of
the sky and killing every single passenger.
The illusion of control is one of the biggest contributing factors to problem gambling. Habitual losers justify losing sessions
by citing “bad luck” as the main culprit. They should be examining
their play and questioning their level of skill instead of complaining
about becoming yet another victim of the bad side of mathematics
and probability.
Rituals are things that make people comfortable, like flipping
the on and off switch to the lights eight times before you leave the
apartment, or why I used to knock twice on the outside of a plane
in the jetway before I boarded any flight. I firmly believed that
touching the outer shell of the plane would prevent it from crashing and improve my overall flight karma—which included avoiding
sitting next to babies, chatty people, and folks with foul body odor.
Adhering to superstitions does not give gamblers an edge. If
anything, superstition gives gamblers an inflated expectation
of winning, thereby detaching themselves from reality. These
deranged players are convinced they will not win at blackjack or
flop a set if they do not follow a delirium of a specific ritual. The
randomness of luck is more powerful than your willingness to
increase your edge with so-called lucky items like a hat, T-shirt, or
card capper.
Realists will tell you that it’s a waste of time. I tend to agree,
but also feel that it’s important to be comfortable at the poker
table. So if bringing along lucky charms or sticking to an OCD process is going to allow you to find serenity at the tables, then who
am I to tell you otherwise?
Five years ago, I used to hand out $1 bills to homeless guys I
encountered on the subway while on my way to the play poker at
an underground clubs or at a home game. I felt that my overall
karma would improve by helping out the homeless, and that my
generosity would reap a winning session at the tables.
There is an appropriate Vietnamese saying, “Winning is luck.
Losing is bad luck.”
Most egotistical poker pros I know will tell you that losing is bad
luck and that winning is all skill. But when you get down to it, how
much of running good is attributed to a bit of good fortune? Was a
run of bad cards just a run of bad luck? Or was it simply a random
event?
That depends on the belief systems and psychological temperament of the person experiencing the rush or the awful run of
cards. When you ran bad, the player at the other end of the table
was discredited as a “luckbox” and everyone wonders if that
player has a horseshoe stuck in a part of the body where the sun
doesn’t shine.
One of the hardest superstitions to shake is a theory that bad
luck is passed along from one player to another like a rapidly
spreading strain of the swine flu. My brother and I developed a theory that certain friends of ours are coolers, because whenever one
of them wandered over to the blackjack table, things went awry.
Believing in luck, whether it was good or bad, is a form of tilt.
Stat geeks will tell you that there is no such thing as a rush, and
that pushing your luck is nothing more than a fleeting feeling of
confidence in your cards. Math and science usually rule over hokey
superstitions. That is, if you believe in that.
Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire is the author of the upcoming
book ‘Lost Vegas’. You can read his poker blog, Tao of
Poker, over at www.taopoker.com.
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Aug 14-22
Pala Poker Open
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Aug 14-22
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Deep Stack Classic
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Sep 10-19
Golden Gates Casino, Black Hawk, CO
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Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, NY
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World Poker Finals
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Wild West Shootout
Cash Casino, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Fall Poker Classic
Peppermill Casino Spa & Resort, Reno, NV
Nov 2-6
WPT Amneville
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Dec 2-12
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Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, NV
Dec 8-13
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Canterbury Park, Shakopee, MN
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Dec 14-20
Mega Stack Challenge XVIII
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