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$50,000 buyin HORSE tournament

A few posts back I was talking about what games the top pros play and I said: The WSOP used to host a HORSE tournament, but that hasnâ€™t been in rotation for some time, and some of the pros are asking for it back. Well guess what! I was reading CardSquad and read taht Harrah’s [...]

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Posted on January 10, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Tournaments
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Big things in small packages

“I never win with aces.” – Every online player whose aces were just cracked. How about this one, from a more reputable source: The fact is, with a Pair of Aces or Kings … one of two things will usually happen. Either: (1) You’ll win a small pot or (2)You’ll lose a big pot -Doyle [...]

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Posted on January 9, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Strategy
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Sick hands, Vol I

During my online ‘career’ of poker I have seen a lot of crazy shit. I love to take screen shots when I see a particularly halarious hand or bad beat, and I’ll share them every once in awhile. I’m not just talking about bad beats, I’m talking about runner runner perfect two cards bad beats, [...]

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Posted on January 8, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories
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Breaking the holdem phase

Holdem, holdem, holdem… It’s all we hear about these days, but what are the real pros playing? Any guesses? Well, it was a trick question, the top pros play everything at sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk . The ‘big game’ in Vegas (With participants including Doyle, Ivey, Negreanu, Elezra, Harman, etc) is a $4000-$8000 limit mixed game, [...]

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Posted on January 6, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Ring games
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Equipment for your tournament

As promised, I would like to go over some basic and not-so-basic necessities for running a good tournament. The first phase was a good structure, the second is physical equipment: cards, chips and tables. Cards By far the leaders in playing cards are KEM and COPAG. Both make very durable and sexy-looking plastic cards. They [...]

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Posted on January 5, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Equipment, Off the felt, Tournaments
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Running your own tournament

My roommates and I run a weekly rebuy tournament here at Ohio State. It started last year as a set game time for the guys in our dorm that wanted to play but this year we decided to take it to a new level. Ben helped in the marketing aspect and I worked on the [...]

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Posted on January 4, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Tournaments
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Record keeping 101

Any interview I’ve ever read with a ‘professional’ poker player (ie: Interview with new world champion Joe Hachem via Cardplayer) mentions record-keeping and how important it is especially with multi-tabling online action at places like www.pokerstars.co.uk . Hachem says in the interview with Mike Sexton: MS: Any messages for those who want to become poker [...]

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Posted on January 3, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Online Poker
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