I sparred a bit on Twitter with @TurboPokerOnlin about his belief that record fields in WSOP 1k\’s would be a \”major\” story … and eventually conceded that it might-would probably come in at #9. (NOTE to self: Do a \”WSOP […]
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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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Oops, I might have been a bit premature when I said the Hard Rock\’s August deep-stack tourney was off to a decent start. Despite 100ish players for the first event ($340), and 50ish for the first $550 … event #3
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Everyone says the same thing about the Hard Rock Poker Lounge — beautiful room, but not much action … some like the loud music and smoke-and-leathery bar just a turn-and-a-river away, others don\’t … But it does seem like things
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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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Las Vegas, NV: The next Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza for 2009 will run Wednesday, April 1st thru Saturday, April 25th. The Venetian’s 2009 DSE II schedule of events: Wednesday, April 1 – Super Satellites $275 buy-in, No-Limit Hold’em, 4,000 starting
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I spent the bulk of my weekend on tilt — at the hands of this guy, Neil the Professional Keno Player. I was playing really well — having a great chatty time, too, with my fellow poker blog-geeks, and was
Why Not Much to Report from Yesterday’s Big Tourney The blogger one, not Bellagio
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The Venetian was on to something when they created their Deep Stack Extravaganza series of tournaments. Not so shockingly, the low-stakes masses flocked to these events where you could compete against sizable fields will skill-rewarding starting stacks for hundreds, as
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