As the film version of Mamma Mia! continues to take even more money at the box office, thus proving that Abba’s music can sell anything, spare a thought for another musical which appears unlikely to be heading for the West End.
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In one of her many post-tournament interviews, former poker reporter Tiffany ‘Hot Chips’ Michelle (such a fantastic name), who won 4k for finishing 17th in the WSOP* main event, said it would be “neat to be viewed in a different way”, by which we think she meant as a poker player too. Tiffany is not exactly from the Germaine Greer school of right-on feminism, but her progress has inspired many more women to believe that they too can compete at poker.
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Given events in Vegas this week, it seemed appropriate to review a book which put the WSOP* at its heart. Ever since Tony Holden wrote Big Deal, the tale of an established writer setting off to Vegas with the intention of becoming world champion, he has spawned a plethora of copycat titles to the point where it has become an established literary genre, almost akin to a Michael Palin travelogue.
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Hi guys,
Do you know, I’ve had a guts-full of poker instruction manuals, online tutorials and the rest. No matter how much of this stuff I take in, whenever I’m playing I continually find myself thinking “this guy is bluffing” and then folding or else I think “my opponent is weak” but then fail to raise.
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Loading ...Not long after the MC announced that players could take a 117-day break in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the question as to what would happen should one of the “November Nine” not make it back to Vegas arose. According to WSOP* commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, the answer is straight forward: their chips will be in play. “It’s the rule for every WSOP* event,” he said. “If you are late or you don’t show, your chips will be blinded off. That’s the rule.”
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When Dean Hamrick was eliminated on Tuesday morning, the WSOP* main event was finally whittled down from almost 7,000 starters to just nine players. Hamrick collected 1,869 for going out in tenth place which, incredibly, is more than all but one of the final table contestants have won in their poker careers.
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John Bonetti the thick set, foul-mouthed poker professional whose death was announced recently, was the personification of an old-fashioned American poker player. His frequent use of phrases such as “fuggedaboutit” (and worse) made him sound more like wiseguy Joe Pesci in Goodfellas than someone capable of winning more than million at the poker table.
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As poker’s popularity grows, so demand for variations on the game increases. For instance, there has been a notable surge in the number of players trying their hand at Omaha this year, but until now, if a group of workmates or friends wanted to hold their own tournament, their options were limited.
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It’s that time again folks as Peter Sharkey and Aussie Col bring you the latest goings on in the world of online poker with the latest instalment of the Pokercast from Littlewoods Poker.
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Barack Obama is “winning support for his presidential bid from America’s poker players” according to last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph. This pillar of the newspaper establishment reports that “Las Vegas pros” are “putting their chips on Mr Obama, who is himself a skilled player of Texas Hold ‘Em and seven-card stud.”
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