Archive for August, 2009

Joe Cada Interview

I did an interview with Joe Cada this week for PokerTips. Cada is my primary rooting interest at the final table (except for maybe Ivey, but everyone’s rooting for Ivey, so that’s kinda lame). He wasn’t quite as chatty in the interview as I was hoping he would be, but there’s no doubting he’s a [...]

Poker Community

WPT Payout Structures

Back in my earliest days as a poker player, the first online player that I became a big fan of was Prahlad “Spirit Rock” Friedman. He was one of the first guys to gain notoriety for crushing high stakes cash games. Back then, the high stakes games weren’t nearly as big as they are today. [...]

Online Poker, Poker Commentary, WPT

RunPee

I just saw Inglourious Basterds which was chock-full of great, hilarious dialogue. It was probably my favorite release so far this year behind The Hurt Locker. But anyway, this entry is not about that, it’s about this amazing iPhone app called Run Pee. The premise of Run Pee is pretty simple: they tell you what [...]

Movie Reviews, Non-Poker

My White Whale: The Sunday Million

I think most tournament players can probably identify one or two online tournaments they regularly participate in and yet have had virtually no success. For me, it would probably be a tie between the PokerStars Sunday Million and the Full Tilt $750k. At least those aren’t the two most important tournaments of the week or [...]

Non-Poker, Online Poker