Another good video from the LAPC … in this one Matt talks with Eric Baldwin (aka \”Basebaldy), the 2009 CardPlayer Player of the Year. We, of course, got to know him as he was tearing through a Venetian Deep Stacks […]
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Since the last time we wrote about him he was keeling over at the table, it\’s our pleasure to show a better, more-capacitated view of Miami John Cernuto — talking to Matt Savage after being the technical winner (he chopped)
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It turned out to be an exciting finish to Event #1 at the LAPC — one of the largest live-tournament fields in history, with 5,847 players entries ponying up the $335 buy-in for a $1 million guarantee (which the Commerce
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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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Good story in some non-poker media on Matt Savage, tournament director at the Commerce Casino in California … specifically about what it takes to keep players happy (and business churning) at the largest poker room in the world (160 tables)
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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
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Semi-interesting video from Steve Hall and Michael Chung … an overhead time-lapse shot of one of the events going on at the Commerce Hold\’em Series in California. The plot of this silent short-film: You\’ll see a packed field piddling in
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They\’re in the money (and just waking up for Day 3 right now) at the APPT Main Event in Macau, and sure enough, Season 3 saw a record number of entrants and prize pool. 429 players, $2.1mm prize pool, $540k
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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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Recapping Tuesday afternoon\’s action: Lunkin Leads Six Pack of HORSE Finalists Six players remain in the 50k HORSE, when they return from their dinner break at around 9pm PT, with the players returning to limits of 80k/160k: Vitaly Lunkin 3,760,000
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