There is a tournament in the Heights in Houston this Sunday for 75 players at $50 a pop with only 65 signed up so far. Let me know if you want to play. Payout is
(based on 75 players).
1st $1,500
2nd $875
3rd $450
4th $300
5th $190
6th $150
7th $120
8th $90
9th $75
Anybody want to split the cost of this with me?
We have talked about “bots” before, but this is pretty amazing.
They are selling software to help you cheat. The online poker sites have the technology to stop it and then WinHoldEm has a way to dupe the online sites.
I have never been a big fan of online poker, but this should convince the rest of you. If you want to play, fine. But do so knowing that it is a losing proposition, analagous to playing blackjack. Don’t play for high stakes.
There is a bit of discussion about it on RGP today.
Also – results from the game last night – Champ Canonico ran us all over and posted a big win. Two guys just about equally split the cost of paying for his winnings and everyone else was roughly in between with modest wins or losses. Yours truly won about $5 in total for 4 hours of work.
After analyzing last night’s results I think that I need to play more loosely in NL because I’m giving a bad image (thus giving me very little action) and I think I am sacrificing implied value by playing too few hands for big draws.
Props go out to Todd B – it’s been a while since I played with him and I was impressed with his large amount of improvement.
I plan on making the NL game a monthly occurrence, probably on Wednesdays this summer because I will need to be sleeping on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays with my early morning summer workout program. Email me if you are interested in getting on the list for the next game, tentatively scheduled for May 19th and the third Wednesday of every month thereafter – at least through August before my imminent wedding in September.
I am going to New Orleans this weekend to speak at a business conference and I plan on playing a lot of poker at Harrah’s when I am not networking or otherwise attending work events.
The last couple of times I have been there the games have had good action but otherwise the room itself and the game selection and limits were not all that impressive. From what I understand now though, the big poker boom of the past year has led to some significant changes so I am looking forward to the weekend. I will post a report when I get back.
Jayson, Curtis and I are in for Friday….anybody else?
