One thing that is very different here compared to other tournaments seen around Vegas has been the LACK of patched up players in the field. Surely it\’s gotta be a matter of politeness from Full Tilt and Stars, right — […]
Team Pokerati @ZyngaPoker Another Mincast and Zynga player profile
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As the first ever live event for the world\’s biggest online poker site (Stars wanna challenge the assertion?) gets underway … we are seeing the super-hyper-turbo nature of free poker play translated to a two-flight weekend at Zynga PokerCon. There
Blind Ambition Zynga Pokercon Vegas Weekend
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Those dastardly SAEs won\’t be allowed to play in the Pikes-only Northwestern homecoming freeroll, that\’s for sure. Pokerati is headed to Chicago for an event you may not know about, nor should you. The awesomely titled \”Pike Poker Tourney\” takes
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Check it out, the blind structure for the $230 Pokerati No-Limit Hold\’em/Pot-Limit Omaha with one $200 Rebuy tournament is here for your perusal, along with all the other blind structures for the Detox Poker Series, August 13-22. BTW, turns out
Pokerati Game (Tourney Version) Blind Structure @DetoxPoker Series
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Had an interesting convo last night with @HeartlandPokerTodd (not his real twitter name, though it prolly should be) … Todd Anderson from Fargo, North Dakota, bought into his first WSOP Main Event a few days ago, and we were talking
Day 1: What if You Didn’t Play a Hand? More poker-by-numbers in the WSOP main event
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Storied tournament director Matt Savage is stepping back into Las Vegas poker events — for the first time since 2004 — bringing the Las Vegas Poker Series to my weekly donk-stomping grounds at the Hard Rock, August 13-22. The LVPS
Matt Savage Returns to Vegas Poker Scene Hosting 10-day series at the Hard Rock
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We all know there\’s lots of chit-chat on blind structures, always, and there should be. They are important. In the early days of the poker boom, a lot of tourney directors didn\’t really know what they were doing and surely
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@AllenKessler loves a good blind structure, and may or may not love to bitch about those in successful tourneys he\’s not even playing in. Regardless, he\’s answered @SavagePoker\’s call to reassess the popular deep-stacks format by trying to start a
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We low-stakes players love the deep-stack events … but as Matt Savage pointed out this summer, and a concern that Andy Bloch has re-raised more recently, big-time pro tourneys don\’t necessarily benefit in the same way from these structures. (The
Super-Deep Stacks, Late RegistrationsWPT Festa al Lago $15k Main Event
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That\’s the question Matt Savage, one of the guys who has created quite a few of them, asks in 2+2 Magazine. Fascinating look (for blind-structure geeks) at things like \”the rubber-band effect\” in middle levels. Indeed, I agree that too
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