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Archive for December 2007
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Annette_15's Podcast
WSOPE Champion ---Annette Obrestad- will raise ATC (any two cards) be re-raised by players also holding a range of hands from 88 to A 10, and re-shove back over the top of them.That’s The Power Of New Americon Poker—the language of betting, a slang that rolls up its sleeves, spits in the street, screams strength possibly more than any other and gets the work done
. Tells Don’t Tell – People Do with the language of their betting. Poker is a game of partial information and the language of betting "last in" is information dominance.Making a bet that leaves no option available to the opponent other than to call is asymmetrical warfare. It disarms their can of whoop ass-- deep stack arsenal. Hands which are ok to try and re-steal from a loose aggressive player are frequently horrible hands to call that final bet with. No one likes calling big all-ins with hands like 88 or A-10 regardless of how sure they are that a player is stealing from them.
The Power of New Americon Poker is about being the last in the pot. It too can be an extremely effective way of accumulating chips in spite of your hole cards, not because of them. Lights Out Poker is about playing 'in the dark': betting that your opponents DON'T have the cards rather than that they do.
If Phil Ivey is the Tiger Woods of Poker, than Annette O is Norwegian Wood-"knowing she would" re-raise her own "first in" money with marginal holdings to be the last in the pot. You still can't call, unless you have a monster. Most opponents know nothing more than to fold out of position or out of flop weakness.
Two years after they first invaded America, The Beatles, John Lennon said "We're More Popular Than Jesus". Annette doesn't have to say it--she is already more popular than Chris"Jesus" Ferguson. Can our Lord and Savior be far behind? Like the Ed Sullivan" premiere, the WSOPE is her Ticket to let it ride. Annette is The Fifth Beatle. She's playing Rock Star Poker!
Here's a great bluff from Annette 15 at Dublin 2007 , mashing up Dan Harrington on Holdem's "First In" Vigorish with last in money betting that her opponents DON'T have the cards rather than that they do.
Poker Stars Poker Stars Sunday Million Tournamnet Poker Stars $215 Sunday Million tournament
Annette 15
Two years after they first invaded America, The Beatles, John Lennon said "We're More Popular Than Jesus". Annette doesn't have to say it--she is already more popular than Chris"Jesus" Ferguson. Can our Lord and Savior be far behind? Like the Ed Sullivan" premiere, the WSOPE is her Ticket to let it ride. Annette is The Fifth Beatle. She's playing Rock Star Poker!
Here's a great bluff from Annette 15 at Dublin 2007 , mashing up Dan Harrington on Holdem's "First In" Vigorish with last in money betting that her opponents DON'T have the cards rather than that they do.
Poker Stars Poker Stars Sunday Million Tournamnet Poker Stars $215 Sunday Million tournament
Annette 15
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He wasn't just any grinder. Many, including his best friend and business partner,Doyle Brunson, consider Chip the greatest cash-game player who ever lived.He graduated from Dartmouth, stopped in Vegas on his way to Stanford Business School and never looked back. (He won a tournament for $60K and continued to grow his bankroll to over $100K.)
Game Over--The People's Poker Pro vs. Larry Flynt-One Of The Richest Side Games in the Cou
ntry.When I played NLH in L.A's Hustler Casino during the Moneymaker era, right next to me in "The Sunday Big Game" -there were cash specialists Chip Reese , Barry Greestein,Phil Ivey, cutting chips like they were nothing against Larry Flynt, sitting in his $80,000 gold-plated wheelchair. They were not playing together, but were not playing against other either. They were there to win Flynt's money.The game was a $2000-$4000 Seven-Card Stud with a $500 ante. An average pot was around $40k.
It was so cool. Reese set the standard for professional gambling. Chip's demeanor at the table was even keeled. He never steamed or went on tilt. He took his bad beats and the monster wins the same way. I knew I had to "Level Up" to my credible mentor. I started to think of the game more as excelling than winning or losing.
Part Midwesterner "Main Street USA" and part Ivy League New Yorker Wall Street, Reese's road less traveled was admired and emulated by all of us. He was cool, not in the Sammy Farha -James Bond-Humphfrey Bogart way but in the Daniel Negreanu-Jimmy Stewart-John Wayne way. He proved that being friendly and nice---is good for the game of poker.
The Bear, Chip's close friend, has a wonderful tribute to him on his audio blog.
Chip once said,“It's not winning that makes a winner, but losing. The excitement is not from the winning, it's avoiding the disaster, because you're flirting with it every day." I couldn't agree more about that fine line we walk between success and ruin.
The three time WSOP bracelet winner, including the first ever $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006 is gone at 56. He was one of the the best all-around---- tournaments, Stud, ring games, heads-up, and mixed games poker player alive.
The top dog in cash games for over 30 years, of all the players who played in the big cash games---it's not like there are that many-- Chip was his own man. He never signed with a web site or wore a hockey shirt.
He was a well-known generous man, and he helped many people out---In the order of paying people back he was often down the list, but he knew that, and gave anyway.
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