World Series of Poker

[ThunderDan]

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

[Brando19]

That's crazy. I suck at Poker. Maybe he'll be playing for a couple million one day.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

[ThunderDan]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

It's Eric Baldwin. He went to Whitewater. I think he majored in pysch and minored in math.

[ThunderDan]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

I've played in the main event 3 of the last 4 years. I had Eric Seidel on my table one year, Andy Bloch the next and Doyle Brunson sat right behind me at my first WSOP (different table).

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

It's Eric Baldwin. He went to Whitewater. I think he majored in pysch and minored in math.

Those are 2 good majors..if applied right...to poker.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

I've played in the main event 3 of the last 4 years. I had Eric Seidel on my table one year, Andy Bloch the next and Doyle Brunson sat right behind me at my first WSOP (different table).

Win at satellites or online...surely you didn't pay.

[ThunderDan]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

I've played in the main event 3 of the last 4 years. I had Eric Seidel on my table one year, Andy Bloch the next and Doyle Brunson sat right behind me at my first WSOP (different table).

Win at satellites or online...surely you didn't pay.

2 of the 3 years I qualified online for around $25. The other year I had a client stake me for a % of my winnings.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

I've played in the main event 3 of the last 4 years. I had Eric Seidel on my table one year, Andy Bloch the next and Doyle Brunson sat right behind me at my first WSOP (different table).

Win at satellites or online...surely you didn't pay.

2 of the 3 years I qualified online for around $25. The other year I had a client stake me for a % of my winnings.

Good job. You win anything.

Last time at bellagio..played with brunson's (son) wife.

[ThunderDan]

Re: World Series of Poker

A good friend of mine just won his first braclet in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event last week. This week he took 3rd in the $10,000 PL Hold'em event. He's originally from Beaver Dam.

26 years old and he pockets close to $800,000 in a week.

Why not give his name?

ty has played with several guys that have cashed in. Very impressive.

Is your buddy a math guy as well?

I've played in the main event 3 of the last 4 years. I had Eric Seidel on my table one year, Andy Bloch the next and Doyle Brunson sat right behind me at my first WSOP (different table).

Win at satellites or online...surely you didn't pay.

2 of the 3 years I qualified online for around $25. The other year I had a client stake me for a % of my winnings.

Good job. You win anything.

Last time at bellagio..played with brunson's (son) wife.

Never cashed in the WSOP. Did win about $15k in cash and side games at Caesar's one year. Had Mike Sexton and Gavin Smith at my table and knocked both out.

[Freak Out]

Not being a poker viewer (?) or serious player I was curious if the pro games are always Texas hold games and if so why? I have started to play again with a group of friends and that's all they ever want to play...is there a reason it's so popular now?

[ThunderDan]

Not being a poker viewer (?) or serious player I was curious if the pro games are always Texas hold games and if so why? I have started to play again with a group of friends and that's all they ever want to play...is there a reason it's so popular now?

Hold'em is now the most popular game because I think it has the right amount of viewable information(5 cards up) verses non-viewable information(2 cards down).

At the WSOP they play almost every type of poker. They play NL Hold'em, PL Hold'em, limit Hold'em, NL/PL and limit Omaha and O H/L 8s or better, PL and limit Seven card stud and stud 8s or better, HORSE, 2 to 7 lowball, 2 to 7 triple draw lowball, short tables, shoot outs, heads-up.

[Freak Out]

Not being a poker viewer (?) or serious player I was curious if the pro games are always Texas hold games and if so why? I have started to play again with a group of friends and that's all they ever want to play...is there a reason it's so popular now?

Hold'em is now the most popular game because I think it has the right amount of viewable information(5 cards up) verses non-viewable information(2 cards down).

At the WSOP they play almost every type of poker. They play NL Hold'em, PL Hold'em, limit Hold'em, NL/PL and limit Omaha and O H/L 8s or better, PL and limit Seven card stud and stud 8s or better, HORSE, 2 to 7 lowball, 2 to 7 triple draw lowball, short tables, shoot outs, heads-up.

Sounds like I better start researching the games because I haven't heard of most of those.

Thanks for the response Dan.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Not being a poker viewer (?) or serious player I was curious if the pro games are always Texas hold games and if so why? I have started to play again with a group of friends and that's all they ever want to play...is there a reason it's so popular now?

There is also one reason Thunder left out...it is an easy game to learn and play. Mastering is tougher, but you can become a "winning" player with very little effort.

[Deputy Nutz]

I can pretty much sit down at any 2/4, 4/8 table and make a steady chip stack. I won a a couple of daily tourneys the last time I was in Vegas. It was a good trip.

I played 1/2 no limit a while back, and I found it difficult. It is hard to play average hands from pre-flop because of all the raises.

I know I probably shouldn't be playing those hands in the first place, but again, I am happy to call with a j/10 suited, until somebody pushes in 25 bucks on my one dollar call. At the time I didn't have the chip stack maybe required to play a no limit game.