Archive for October, 2008

Vote Obama: Bite the Hand That Feeds You

My roommate and employer, Michael (the “M” in WM Media), came home today from an uncharacteristically long walk. He must have had an epiphany or something, because he immediately launched into a rant about America’s corporate income tax rate and how the future of said rate is highly dependent on the result of next week’s [...]

Non-Poker

Online Poker Tournaments

Online poker tournaments have become increasingly popular over the past few years in large part because of high-profile, high stakes poker games broadcast on television. Poker tournaments are competitions played by up to 1500+ players all playing the same game at the same time. Poker tournaments provide inexpensive and fun ways for beginning poker players [...]

Online Poker

If You Missed It

I had a couple of brief appearances on ESPN’s World Series of Poker last Tuesday. The most significant of these is at the beginning of this YouTube video. Overall, I’m really happy with how the episode turned out. Prior to its airing, I figured there was as much as a 35% chance that I wouldn’t [...]

Poker Community, WSOP

Disregard Title of Previous Entry

Complete small blind with A4dd. Flop 532, two diamonds. I check, kid bets 1,600, guy raises to 4,000, I shove 9,000 total, kid folds, guy calls and turns over 88. Turn 3. River 3.
Can’t win every 97%/3%, I suppose. At least I got those buy one get one free Pepsi’s… that the housekeeping threw out [...]

Poker Travels, WSOP