Monday March 14, 2005

Card Player needs an editor Frequently Card Player has some article with a basic error in it that should have been caught by any reasonable competent editor. This time the first one I noticed was in Michael Cappelletti's article about calling a small raise from early position with a weak hand (QJo) in the big blind. The action proceeds fine until the river when the early position raiser checks to Michael... ( Mar 14 2005, 03:16:16 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]

SnGs in RL and padugi I dropped by the Reno Hilton on Saturday evening to check out the side game action during the first week of the World Poker Challenge. It was somewhat weak. There were a couple 20-40 HE games and a couple of 3-5 NLHE games with some smaller action. But they also had some 110+10 10 handed SnGs (15 minute rounds). I played one of them and ended up busting on a coin flip in 5th. Oh well. The strange thing was that I felt really distracted not playing multiple of these simultaneously. Early on Sunday morning I was playing in the last (but full) 3-5 NLHE game. The 20-40 HE game was starting to break and somebody suggested they play padugi triple draw. The game started to fill. If it wouldn't have been slow I would have jumped in but most of the players were new and were taking a while to make decisions. Its good to see people excited about a new game. Much of the TV generation I run into doesn't seem interested in playing poker but rather hold'em. ( Mar 14 2005, 09:55:45 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]