Archive for Tournaments

Found this clip of the final hand for this year’s 2006 WSOP poker tournament. It was down to Jamie Gold, the Hollywood agent, versus Paul Wasicka, who I’ve not heard of before. Unfortunately, the volume is really low, so you’ll have crank it up (and don’t forget to turn it back down so you don’t […]

What takes nearly 200 disrobing people from a dozen countries eight hours to complete? Um . . . perhaps, but we tend to focus on poker, here.
The idea of the largest strip poker tournament to date was initially to be an April Fool’s joke by Irish bookmaker, Paddy Power. These things tend to take […]

Online Gambling Bill Defeated - For Now
If you missed the news like I did, the US Senate bill to limit Internet gambling suffered a demise - but not for the reasons that you might think, such as politics. No, it’s apparently because of the way some online payment transactions areconducted, which leave no way for […]

Yes, the $12 million top prize of the 2006 37th WSOP Championship went to Jamie Gold, a Hollywood talent agent. He and most of the thousands of people who entered got their $10,000 entry fee from playing online poker, so they’re obviously against the pending legislation making Internet poker illegal.
Gold’s father suffers from Lou Gehrig’s […]

Canadian poker pro and writer Daniel Negreanu says that when the WSOP (World Series of Poker) started in the early 1970s, there were barely 50 players. In this year’s 37th Annual WSOP, which is currently in progress, over 8600 players were in the starting gates, each paying the $10,000 entry fee - which was present […]

This is a bit of reflecting about Poker and where it’s going, for better or for worse. Sometime earlier this year, one of the tourneys I watched on TV made some mention of a gigantic poker tournament to be held around June 2006 in Australia or some such, and for which the prize pool would […]

Just a few tidbits about hand odds and poker in general… Have you seen the new Pepsi TV commercial featuring a can of diet Pepsi, Daniel Negreanu, and a few other poker players? The can of Pepsi wins the tournament. Exactly what soda pop has to do with poker, I don’t know. Kind of a […]

The UPC Ultimate Poker Challenge with Phan vs Tahoe aired up here in the Toronto, Canada area over the weekend. Since most televised poker matches give very few cues as to when the match took place - a very frustrating fact - this match may or may not have been recent. (A few Google searches […]

Here are some poker-related short news snippets, including news and discussions of possible bans on Internet gambling:

(1) The 36th Annual WSOP  (World Series of Poker) takes place in Las Vegas near the end of June and runs into early August. [Via PokerNews]

(2) Fayetteville Online posts their view on US House Speaker Jim Black’s suggestion to […]

Up here near Toronto, Canada, we’ve been getting a lot of broadcasts of classic poker matches. My feeling at first is one of being a bit cheated. But the truth is, like watching old football or hockey games, there’s something to be learned here. You can definitely learn something from watching these pros, especially their […]