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+ LasVegasVegas.com

+ Tuesday Night is WSOP Poker on ESPN 9PM ET Norm Chad surveys late night fans surrounding the tournament area Tuesday Night means poker. Invite your poker buddies over for a group lesson in high stakes tournament poker, the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Tonight's installment of the march to the November Nine features the Prince of Poker, Scotty Nguyen, 1998 Main Event Champion and holder of five WSOP gold bracelets. Past WSOP Main Event Champions Johnny Chan, Dan Harrington and reigning champion, Joe Cada, continue to stack chips. read more more...	9/7/2010 5:47:15 AM
+ ESPN 2010 WSOP Day 2 Tuesday 9 PM ET Tom Schneider, 2007 WSOP Player of the Year The latest installment from ESPN of the 2010 WSOP Main Event tracks the march of eliminations on Day 2 that will finally become the November Nine for one of the nine seats at the most exclusive poker table ion the world, the final table of the Main Event of the World Series of poker. Flipchip photos from the 2010 WSOP available with this link. more...	9/1/2010 12:13:03 AM
+ Lost Vegas Book Review Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker by Paul ‘Dr. Pauly’ McGuire [Buy Lost Vegas][Visit the Lost Vegas Home Page] If you like Dr. Pauly's writing you'll love this book, if you like Vegas you'll love this book, in short, if you're reading this blog the odds are you'll love Lost Vegas. read more more...	8/30/2010 3:45:31 AM
+ 2010 WSOP on ESPN at 9 PM ET Tuesday Joe Cada, 2009 WSOP Main Event Champion, $8.5 Million Winner Tuesday night means another installment of the 2010 WSOP Main Event Championship. Tuesday night at 9 PM ET on ESPN TV. Two hours of top level poker featuring the greats, along with hoards of the not-so-greats, battling for some of the multi-millions in cash that will be passed out to the top 747 finishers. For more of Flipchip's photos of the Main Event click here. read more more...	8/23/2010 7:21:24 AM
+ Two Hours of 2010 WSOP Main Event Tuesday on ESPN Phil Hellmuth always draws a crowd First day action from the 2010 WSOP Main Event continues tomorrow on ESPN at 8 PM ET. See former main event champions fall aside on the long trek to the November Nine. Tuesday's poker adventure delivers another installment featuring the 7319 players with a $10,000 ticket in their pocket for a day 1 seat. A giant poker arena of mostly young, male gladiators. read more more...	8/16/2010 3:49:02 AM
+ 2010 WSOP Main Event begins Tuesday at 8 PM on ESPN Welcome to the 2010 WSOP Main Event 2010 WSOP Main Event begins Tuesday evening at 8 PM ET on ESPN. Day 1A, the first of four Day 1s, features the antics of Mike Matusow as he makes his opening bid to go deep in the $10,000 buy-in poker championship. Watch as the ESPN cameras check in on the progress of former Main Event champions. read more more...	8/9/2010 6:06:15 AM
+ Win a WSOP seat (okay, a trip to see the November Nine) Harrah's wants to take you and a guest to this year's World Series of Poker final table. You just have to win a random drawing. The VIP experience includes airfare for two to Las Vegas, accommodations in a suite, and exclusive seats to watch the final table play out. Registering requires your name, address, birthdate, phone, and email at this link. more...	7/29/2010 12:03:14 AM
+ Hard Rock poker room to shrink Less than 2 years ago, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino opened their new, swanky $10 million poker lounge with 18 tables, investing heavily into poker when many other casinos were downsizing after poker's popularity had peaked. Turns out it may have been a bad investment. Hard Rock will soon be closing its poker lounge, though they'll still keep a poker room by moving 6-8 tables elsewhere in the casino. No word yet on what the space will be used for. We'd immediately guess slot machines, but it lends itself to a bar/restaurant. more...	7/28/2010 11:51:50 PM
+ 2010 WSOP on ESPN Tonight 8 PM ET 2010 WSOP on ESPN Tonight 8 PM ET read more more...	7/27/2010 8:38:05 AM
+ 2010 WSOP Main Event November Nine read more more...	7/26/2010 8:46:51 AM

+ PokerSift

+ Shipped my first MTT Just a quick update… I only play MTTs sporadically and I’m sure I am down lifetime at them… but I shipped a deep stack $22 freezeout on Pokerstars this past Sunday. A great feeling, although because of the deep-stack slow level format it took 10+ hours to win a 400 person $8k prize pool tournament. [...] more...	2/3/2010 10:41:14 PM
+ The Coaching Debate This past weekend I had a brief session where I was coached by a local high stakes player. Actually, “coached” is probably overstating it, as a) no money was exchanged and b) he was playing, not me. I watched him on Teamviewer – a very nice collaboration tool that I recommend for poker coaching and [...] more...	1/13/2010 7:10:42 PM
+ Review of The Workbook from DailyVariance Publishing As I mentioned in my past post, Try Nguyen (Slowhabit) of DailyVariance publishing was kind enough to provide me with a review copy of “The NL Workbook: Exploiting Regulars.” This is exactly the sort of book I’ve needed, for a number of reasons. First, the majority of my play is at small-stakes (mostly 100NL, sometimes [...] more...	12/22/2009 3:37:58 PM
+ Reviewing “The Workbook – Exploiting Regulars” from DailyVariance Recently I was in touch with Tri Nguyen of Daily Variance publishing, and he was gracious enough to offer me a review copy of their new e-book, “The No Limit Hold Em Workbook: Exploiting Regulars.” Tri is the author of two other well-regarded ebooks on poker strategy, “Let there be range!” and “The Pot Limit [...] more...	12/4/2009 4:38:05 PM
+ Live by the Sword ********* # 155 ************ PokerStars Game #33900674639: Tournament #200030247, $1.00+$0.10 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (800/1600) - 2009/10/11 10:42:02 ET Table '200030247 57' 9-max Seat #3 is the button Seat 1: Absyrtha (51665 in chips) Seat 2: orangeflame (49762 in chips) is sitting out Seat 3: jannet86 (168989 in chips) Seat 4: bigbamboom [...] more...	10/12/2009 11:11:19 AM
+ The evolution of Bigbamboom There is hope for all of us trust me. Here is a cool story for you….first my history recently. It’s been a while – been following the posts of all of you and keeping track of the pokersift site. I’ve played quite a bit and continue my evolution as a poker player. For a while, [...] more...	10/10/2009 10:09:19 PM
+ Review of Poker Co-Pilot for Mac A while back I received a review copy of the very promising software Poker Co-Pilot. If you’ve ever owned a Mac computer, you’re familiar with the problem: virtually all poker software is developed for Windows exclusively. Some of the larger rooms like Pokerstars, Ongame and Full Tilt have Mac clients or browser-based poker, but the [...] more...	9/30/2009 1:48:46 AM
+ Update from the small-stakes Just a few quick bullet points in lieu of a full post: I’m about 90% of the way to Supernova on Pokerstars. Should have it finished by mid-october. In addition to the 40% bump in FPPs over Platinum Star, I really like the ability to make big purchases outside the VIP store with FPPs through [...] more...	9/28/2009 7:10:26 PM
+ A Good Night at The Bike Two of my San Diego poker buddies and I had a great night up at the Bicycle Casino in LA this week. My friend, Jake (who goes by chilidog on 2+2), finished 5th in the Legends of Poker plo tournament while Chris and I ran over the cash games. We were playing 1/3 NL Omaha [...] more...	8/25/2009 4:43:14 PM
+ Ramblings of a poker player Warning, rambling ensuing! I never finished the WSOP posts. You can guess how it went. I lost… and lost… and lost again. It doesn’t matter what and how. One important moment was just the 2500$ 6max LHE Event, when I realized I was outclassed. The biggest soft spot I had in the 5 hours I [...] more...	7/16/2009 6:25:24 PM

+ Carl The Dean Sampson

+ A new direction After heaven knows how many years of playing, studying and thinking about poker then you would have thought that I would have thought of the solution that I am just about to put to you before now. My $10,000 challenge is still going strong on www.888poker.com and the current session today saw my bankroll reach [...] more...	7/31/2010 10:29:13 AM
+ The $100-$10k challenge update: Time for a refresher on my challenge update but first things first! I was waiting with eagerness for the World Cup but it all fell away and left me feeling somewhat disappointed. Even the final was an anti-climax although I am glad that Holland didn’t win. But the World Cup was a very productive month [...] more...	7/15/2010 3:38:27 PM
+ The end of the road…..or the beginning! Sorry for not posting again and I know that I always promise to post regularly but you know how it is. The World Cup and World Series are proving to be two very huge obstacles to me getting any writing done. The Vulture has completed its road testing and reached 100,000 hands yesterday and showed [...] more...	6/28/2010 4:54:30 PM
+ Making money online still possible for the masses? I had someone the other day ask me about online poker and if it was still possible to make a living at it…….of course it is. Let me quote a football example for a minute. Imagine if you were the poker equivalent of a non league side that played in the tier of football just [...] more...	6/21/2010 10:59:22 AM
+ The Jackal Completes 100k!!! My Jackal six handed poker system at low-stakes has just completed (finally) its 100k hand road test and it ended up ahead by $2014. This equates to $2.01/100 hands and 4.02bb/100. The beta testing has now finished even though obviously 100k hands isn’t conclusive, I am fairly happy with that. It did take a bit [...] more...	6/12/2010 3:21:33 AM
+ More Poker Cheating But What Do You Expect I read this week of even more cheating scandals regarding online poker but to me this is getting pretty boring. It’s a bit like hearing about celebrities in the newspapers and who they are going out with and who they are having affairs with……pretty mind numbing at the start and never mind after a while. [...] more...	6/9/2010 2:22:20 PM
+ Not another poker cheating scandal! Wherever you look these days there are cheating scandals with regards to online poker. The latest one with the Chinese on Poker Stars can hardly come as any surprise to anyone. I mean, I wrote countless articles on this years ago and was condemned as a doom monger but look at it now. I’m afraid [...] more...	6/3/2010 2:02:37 PM
+ Systems Update: I know that I haven’t been keeping to my promise to place blogs every day and the last one was over a month ago and to that I plead guilty. But you will be glad to know that as of June 1st (today) then I will be placing a regular daily blog and this time [...] more...	6/1/2010 6:51:39 AM
+ The Future is……Vulture After doing loads of writing and staking during the past few months, the amount of poker that I have been playing has dropped through the floor. It seems like yesterday that I was playing $25-$50 NLHE last year and it also seems that the levels that I am playing at are dropping like a stone. [...] more...	4/26/2010 3:19:18 PM
+ The Quest Recently I have undertaken to do a $100-$10k challenge starting with $6 buy-in games. I am ahead by $23 so far after spewing millions of dollars or what seems like it. I don’t know why I do these self imposed challenges but I am just a glutton for punishment I guess. The latest results for the [...] more...	4/21/2010 12:11:48 PM

+ AnskyPoker.com

+ The History Behind 7 Popular Poker Terms You probably use these 7 poker terms all the time. The origin and history of these words is actually pretty funny… The Nuts To have the best possible hand. There are two possibilities about how this term originated. Back in Old West, players could wager almost anything they had at a poker game. That included the nuts [...] more...	8/22/2010 5:43:58 PM
+ Multi-Tasking is for Losers I have an assignment for you. I want you to run a mile, juggle 3 balls for 15 minutes and spin a hula hip around your waist 100 times. Unless you’re a well trained circus performer, you instinctively know that you won’t get ANYTHING done if you do everything at once. You have to [...] more...	7/5/2010 9:04:26 PM
+ Money Doesn’t Motivate I guarantee you’re not gonna be a great poker player if money is the only thing that keeps you going. I’ll prove it to you. A study by M.I.T. researchers had students try to beat a series of challenges. They did stuff like memorize strings of numbers, solve word problems and shoot basketballs into a [...] more...	6/8/2010 10:35:00 PM
+ 3 Crazy Conspiracy Theories About the UIGEA The UIGEA was passed in 2006 and made it harder for U.S. players to deposit money on poker sites. But how and why was it pushed through Congress so quickly (and sneakily)? Put on your tin foil hats – here are 3 crazy conspiracy theories. Conspiracy Theory #1: U.S. based casinos pushed through the UIGEA legislation. Consider these facts: In [...] more...	5/5/2010 12:35:01 AM
+ Exclusive Sneak Peak at PokerTableRatings Premium My friends over at PokerTableRatings.com gave me an exclusive sneak peak at the new PTR Premium section. To take this bad boy for a test drive, I looked up some stats for Isildur1. General Tab So the first part of the Premium section is the “General” tab. You get to see some of the data that’s available [...] more...	4/26/2010 5:04:02 PM
+ 5 Best Countries in HU NL In my previous post, I talked about the 5 countries that have the worst HU NL players. Now, as promised, here are the 5 countries with the best heads up players. (At this point, I figured I’d just share the whole list). Congrats to you Russians. You are the best HU NL players. Personally, I’m [...] more...	4/13/2010 11:11:28 PM
+ 5 Worst Countries in Heads Up NL Ever play HU NL against a guy from Switzerland? If you haven’t, you’re missing out according to some data from PokerTableRatings.com. PTR analyzed Full Tilt players that played over 1,000 hands in 2010. As expected, the majority of players are losers, but the Swiss take the number 1 spot as the worst heads up players! [...] more...	4/7/2010 8:40:16 PM
+ 20 Things Bruce Lee Can Teach You About Poker Bruce Lee is widely considered to be the best fighter of all time. He died when he was 32 from an allergic reaction to a painkiller, but his philosophy and wise words (which are shockingly relevant to poker) continue to be an inspiration. Here are 20 lessons you can learn from Bruce Lee. Mental Toughness Don’t fear failure. Optimism is [...] more...	3/11/2010 8:09:42 AM
+ No Money Heads Up, Everyone’s Solid I’m kidding of course. There’s still plenty of weak, exploitable players in HU (despite what some people think). At many points in your poker career, you’ll feel like the game is unbeatable. We’ve all been there, but dedication in the face of adversity is what makes the good players great. Props to IheardJoeblows for creating the [...] more...	2/14/2010 9:22:32 PM
+ The Poker Life Cycle People are born, grow up, grow old, and die. Businesses are born, mature, and die. Most businesses that were around 100 years ago aren’t around today — technology gets outdated, CEOs die off and the corporate bureaucracy stifles adaptation. Poker, like any other business, has a finite lifespan. Take a look at the graph below. The [...] more...	2/4/2010 10:23:45 PM

+ WickedChops Poker

+ Jake Cody Wins WPT London Main Event; Justin Smith Wins High Rollers Time to ease back into poker news reporting after a nice long Labor Day weekend. On a side note, we’ll be a little light on posts this week as we prep for our Girls on the Rail Hall of Fame voting (yes, voting really is going to start this week), something that requires way more [...] Related Posts Gavin Smith Wins LAPC Main Event Last Longer Prop Bet Bryan Micon Talks About Justin Smith Swindle, Needs a Shower Theo Jorgensen Wins the WPT Grand Prix de Paris; Deeb Wins High Roller more...	9/7/2010 11:45:40 AM
+ Wicked Chops Podcast Ep. 12 on Detroit 187, Bachelor Pad Been awhile since our last podcast. We place on the blame on this shortage solely on Obama. Since we covered most of the poker news that mattered (to us) this summer on This Week in Poker (view the latest ep here), we’re going with the more pop culture-ish route on this podcast. First up is [...] Related Posts Wicked Chops Podcast Now Available on iTunes Wicked Chops Podcast Ep. 5 With Jennifer Tilly Wicked Chops Poker Podcast Ep. 1 more...	9/3/2010 3:42:48 AM
+ Jason “Jaspuduf” Lee Takes Third At EPT Vilamoura The only person named “Jason Lee” who is not an Asian, Jason “Jaspuduf” Lee finished third at the EPT Vilamoura in Portugal, Europe. The US American, who you may remember from his Day In the Life of JaspudUF – Maven parody video and appearance on This Week In Poker, takes home €186,240, which is like [...] Related Posts No related posts found more...	9/3/2010 2:57:15 AM
+ 2010 Poker Hall of Fame Nominees – Who Do You Like? Nominees for the 2010 Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Not sure who we’re voting for yet–or if we’re voting for any of them. Here’s the list, along with some thoughts on each: :: Chris “Jesus” Ferguson – Has a Main Event win, five bracelets, is a Full Tilt founder, but hasn’t done much [...] Related Posts Nine Finalists for Poker Hall Of Fame Class of 2009 Announced Doyle Brunson Says Phil Ivey Too Young For Poker Hall Of Fame Daniel Negreanu on November Nine(TM) and Poker Hall of Fame more...	9/2/2010 3:44:22 AM
+ This Week in Poker with Jason Calacanis, Dan Druff and Durrrr (Ep. 11) Solid show yesterday on TWiP. Full write-up coming later, but this week’s ep featured entrepreneur and Full Tilt red pro Jason Calacanis discussing his experience on the PokerStars Big Game and some insight on how he’d have handled managing the UltimateBet super-user cheating scandal. On that note, Calacanis was followed by Todd “Dan Druff” Witteles, who [...] Related Posts Durrrr, Jason Calacanis and DanDruff on This Week In Poker Today, 4pm PST Wicked Chops Podcast Ep. 7 with Jason Calacanis and Joe Reitman Jason Calacanis and David Sacks on Their WSOP Last Longer Bet more...	9/1/2010 12:46:29 PM