The NAPT: High Stakes Poker in the Time of the Recession – Huffington Post (blog)

Huffington Post (blog)

The NAPT: High Stakes Poker in the Time of the Recession Huffington Post (blog) The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is wrapping up this week at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. Such poker pro luminaries as Joe Cada, … and more »

Jason Mercier: Home for a Minute

In my last post, I talked about how I was on to round 2 of the NBC Heads-Up Championship after I defeated Daniel Negreanu.

I faced Pieter De Korver in my next match and ended up beating him as well. I had the chiplead for almost the whole match and was winning probably 70-75% of hands, but when the blinds went from 600/1200 to 1k/2 we got it in for his 11 bb stack, him holding A10 vs my A9… 9 on the river, no big deal!

If I had lost this pot, we would have been back to even in chips with 20 bbs each.

In my next match, I faced Phil Laak. This match started out completely opposite to the match with Pieter. Laak crushed me in the beginning stages of the match beating me on almost every hand.

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Cash Game Tales and Tournament Analysis from ADZ124

This week in LA has been rough in terms of poker, as it has in the past for me. First I want to make a correction to my last post. I had said that blinds were 4k/8k but they were actually 8k/16k in the Venetian 5k.

Now, I just want to say something to all of you haters out there.

First of all, when you are a figure in the media it is natural that not everyone is going to agree with things you say or opinions you may have, but when I post on this blog I want to express my feelings to you, talk about poker, and also let you know what kind of day to day activity I have been up to.

Yes, last week I bought some LV luggage, some glasses, some clothes, and got driven in a rolls, and I plan on doing more of that for the next 3 weeks, and yes, I guess it’s natural for me to enjoy that.

If you want to hear strictly about poker when I am blogging and no humor that’s fine with me, but I know for a fact that all of you who complained about not wanting to read the bullshit I wrote are going to hop back on that blog and wait for a new post because you don’t have much better to do.

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OMG, what a digital decade – Denver Post

OMG, what a digital decade Denver Post … diversion early in 2003, when the aptly named Chris Moneymaker became the first online player to win the main event at the World Series of Poker. … and more »