This was some heavy in depth poker lessons today. Starting off with Alex as our star instructor, teacher of the bracelet winners showing the Scotty Boot Camp players pre flop, bet size and pot size strategy with Scotty helping the players to get their play to a top notch level.
Moving on to some analysis off [...]
It’s one of the standard conversations which always come up during the World Series of Poker. Who’s the best player to not have captured their first bracelet? Mr. McCarthy and myself were just sitting on media row yesterday bouncing names back and forth with the usual suspect always in the mix, Team Full [...]
As Day 6 gets underway we look forward to first two open event bracelet ceremonies after a marathon day of poker. Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi came from behind heads up to win his first WSOP bracelet in the ,000 Player’s Championship and Michael Chow outlasted journeyman Dan Heimiller to capture the ,500 Limit Omaha/8 [...]
While most of us play poker for fun, hoping to make a little money along the way, the big guys do it for a living. Even with hefty scores behind them, however, things can go badly wrong. And it’s not pleasant. Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi is one such player. Despite having more than million in [...]
Things are really starting to get busy around the halls of blogger central as we all prepare to descend upon Las Vegas for the 2010 WSOP . Players are making their travel plans, building a roll, crushing the satellites, and whatever else it takes to make their way to the biggest tournament series of the year. Your trusty blogging teams will be there beginning until the very end bringing you the details. All eyes will turn towards the Rio
We’re just a few short weeks away from the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker and the excitement is starting to build. Flights are booked, bankrolls are set, it’s time to sling some chips at the Rio. The vast staff here at Poker From the Rail are busy making a game plan for our coverage of the next two months and are ready to hit our stride come May 27th. While we brainstorm on how to dodge
So much has happened since the WSOP Main Event, it's a little hard to remember it all. There hasn't been as much poker as I would like. But how can I complain? Immediately after the main event, I went with my agent, Dan, to spend a few days in New York City. Letterman, CNN, CBS, front row at a Rangers game, WWE Raw, and my birthday in New York - all amazing, just not as much poker as I
At close to 1.45am Tuesday, in the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Joe Cada, from Shelby Township, MI, was crowned the youngest World Series of Poker champion in the event's 40-year history. Once the bracelet was wrapped around his wrist and the whooping of his supporters had temporarily abated, PokerStars Blog sat down with Cada for his first exclusive interview since that momentous victory in Las Vegas. PS Blog: You're the new
This hour began shortly after a 20-minute break, and Darvin Moon seemed by far the more refreshed. He was the aggressor in all of the early pots and took most of them down, regularly making reraises of about five million, which was consistently too rich for Cada. The Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein, watching from the wings, was impressed by Moon's attitude in the early stages, and told our video blog team how he saw the opening salvos, a
The opening hour of final table play was certainly tense but it was anything but tight. There was a huge pot on the very first hand, won by Moon, and the Maryland man ended up taking the chip lead after winning the first few. But Cada won two decisive big pots to haul himself back into the lead, and the hour ended with the approximate counts as follows: Joe Cada: 131,050,000 Darvin Moon: 63,750,000 Here are the major incidents
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