Archive for August 2005

I am a huge David Williams fan. I saw him playing on TV in the 2004 World Series of Poker and I loved the way he carried himself and the way he played cards. He’s brilliant, his friends say he’s the smartest person they’ve ever met, and even with the huge amount of success he’s had in poker this year ($4,000,000+) he’s still finishing up his senior year in college.

The World Championship of Online Poker is beginning at PokerStars on Sunday, September 4th. Will you be there? I know I will be. The best online poker players will be competing in a WSOP-like event that includes 15 different events. The games cover no limit hold ‘em, limit hold ‘em, pot limit hold ‘em, seven card stud, seven card stud hi/lo, limit omaha hi/lo, and pot limit omaha.

Noble poker is a relatively new site with a lot of advertising and promotions bringing in a lot of new players, many of whom have never played online before (and seem to not play much offline either). The software is managable, not the best by far, but for the soft games you’ll be getting on it, you can certainly make do. First lets talk about the tournaments:

Steve’s recent post called How did I get here? got me to thinking: how do people learn to play poker?

Noble Poker is hosting an amazing contest - the first player to win 7 sit and goes in a row wins a cool $1,000,000. You can give it a shot by playing any of their $10 SNGs. What do you have to lose?

I won the first home sit-n-go game I ever played, then I didn’t win for another few months, but I was hooked. From the first few nickle-dime games in my backyard to finally being tempted into online poker, I’ve come a long way, with lots of bumps along the way, so here’s a shortened, highlighted version of the story:

If you’ve tried accessing the site in the past 12-24 hours you probably noticed that it looked a little goofy at times, that’s because I have been in the process of updating the design.

I was playing a few sit ‘n’ gos over at Noble Poker and doing pretty well. The structure lends itself to aggressive players. The average SNG was lasting 35 minutes and I think I averages $50 an hour for 2 hours playing these SNGs. Not bad.

Last night I played in a friendly game of poker, just a $10 buy in, top 3 got paid with 7 people starting. I dominated the game.

I had never heard of Noble Poker until a friend of mine won $2,000 in a $10 tournament on their site around Christmas time.