Archive for September, 2009
New Ivey Interview
Here’s a pretty good 9 minute interview PokerTube just did with Phil Ivey at the World Series of Poker Europe. This is one of the better Ivey interviews I’ve seen. Usually he’s not as candid as seems more preoccupied than he does in this one. I love the subtle disapproval he gives towards the notion [...]
WCOOP Recap
The final event of this year’s World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) was yesterday (hasn’t actually finished yet, 178 players restart on day two of the Main Event in a few minutes). I made a pretty big effort to participate in this year’s series and played 15 of the 45 events. Last year, when I [...]
Mike Sexton for the Poker Hall of Fame
The finalists for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame were announced a week ago. The nine finalists are:
Barry Greenstein
Dan Harrington
Phil Ivey
Tom McEvoy
Men Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen
Daniel Negreanu
Erik Seidel
Mike Sexton
I know the number of people in the poker world hoping Mike Sexton is voted into the Hall of Fame is not small. I’m hoping he gets in too. [...]
WPT Can’t Catch a Break
Imagine you’re a WPT producer. The Merit Cyprus Classic is down to these ten players:
Rep Porter
Steven Fung
Jonathan Little
Uri Keidar
Rony Jazzar
Janar Kiivramees
Huck Seed
Thomas Bichon
Nenad Medic
Layne Flack
Okay, not bad. Gotta figure the TV final table of six will feature at least a couple of familiar faces, right?
Think again.
Flack, Medic, Little and Seed bust out 10th, 9th, [...]
