Hellmuth wins number 10!

Well we prematurally celebrated about a week ago but Phil finally pulled it off last night in the Re-Buy tournament. And to think he only rebought 8 times...not 48 lol

Here's the story from Card Player

Could we see a Phil Hellmuth vs Jeff Madsen in the Main Event Final Table heads up? I think so!

Highlights of the Re-Buy tournament

Oh Daniel. He say's he loves these re-buy tournaments...compulsive gambler in him.

Check this shit out (from Cardplayer.com):

-Sun Jul 23 14:11:00 PDT 2006
The Magic Number is 48
Daniel Negreanu has rebought 48 times (that's $48,000 for any math majors out there).

-The Daniel Negreanu Show

Daniel Negreanu calls an all-in pre-flop (blind) and flips up 5spade3heart. His opponent has Q-Q. The board comes 9club9spade2diamond6heart4club, and Negreanu makes a runner-runner straight to double up to $3,700 in chips.

A few hands later, he gets all-in again with Jheart2club against AdiamondKdiamond. The board comes Jclub4diamond3club2heart8spade, and he doubles up to $6,150.

The next hand, he tells a Card Player reporter that since he finally has a noteworthy stack, he has just started to look at his hole cards before acting. On his first such hand, he looks down at A-10, flops trip 10's, and adds $500 to his stack.

On the next hand, he makes his first pre-flop fold of the tournament, nearly two hours into the event. He wants it to be known that he folded suited cards (a very tough laydown).

Later, the cocktail waitress comes by...and Negreanu doesn't have any $1 bills on him. James Bechtel buys him a water.

Man o Man...
Wish I had that kind of money to throw around...

What did you do when you were 21?

How about go down to Las Vegas and win TWO WSOP bracelets.
Yes it just happened. James Madsen just took down Erik Lindgren to win his second.
Oh and btw he has been on 3 final tables, and took 3rd in the Omaha h/l event.
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The big pot between the two were AK vs 88, all in pre-flop, Erik hit the Ace on the flop but James hit his 8 for trips. OUCH!

Very Good ESPN article on James

The Observer

This is just a quick post because I was watching the Full Tilt 100 spot WSOP event and it came down to the bubble.

There were tons of people talking at this one table because this guy was all in and if he didn't win he would finish 128th (top 127 get a WSOP main event seat). He ended up losing the hand and was the bubble boy and all the observers were laughing and going "How does it feel to be one person away from winning a seat!"

My question is and if I was anyone at the table playing "What did you say OBSERVER? Sorry I missed that OBSERVER." These guys aren't in the tournament and are railing...this guy was at least in it until the end, so who are you to talk about him?

Sorry just had to put that out there...petty people annoy me.

Well.....

Look at this pic mmmmmmm....what you thought this would be about how well I did at the Red Hot event....

Ok so...I could have gone broke on the very first hand I played (which was 40 minutes into the tournament...gah tough day)
Here it is the big hand: blinds at 50/100
First position raises to 400, I look down at A Q spades, I call, everyone else folds.

Flop comes A, 8, 3 rainbow. He bets out 600....I call.
Turn comes another Ace (all suits out now) he checks....I am thinking to myself...we both have trip aces...does he really have Ace King? I decide to check.
River comes a 7....he bets out a 1000...I can't throw this away...I could raise...I just call.
He flips over A 7 off for the full house.....ouch...a first position raise with ace 7 off..blah.

Half my stack is gone in that hand, I get kings and get back to 3500 and my last hand was pocket 4's vs....Q 5 off???? He hit a 5 and I was out.

Bad day...came home wanted to steam off a bit, played a 30 person 5 buck (didn't want to steam in a big game lol) turbo on full contact and ....won?? wtf lol Ya so that was fun, at least I made some profit today.

H.O.R.S.E event and Red Hot

Check this out:
1- Jim Bechtel $841,000

2- Doyle Brunson $1,227,000

3- Chip Reese $1,756,000

4- Dewey Tomko $438,000

5- Andy Bloch $934,000

6- T.J. Cloutier $351,000

7- David Singer $745,000

8- Patrik Antonius $13,000

9- Phil Ivey $885,000

Thats the final table for the $50,000 HORSE event at the WSOP, I mean my god that is a stacked table. Should be amazing to see who comes out of it on top. The final table goes tonight at 9 PST, because the players played from 1 pm yesterday to 9am today...now that's a lot of poker.

The Red Hot TOC is tomorrow at 1pm, my strategy is to win...my goal is top 20 so I can go to this Negreanu Boot Camp he is having in Toronto. Last TOC I was out in an hour and half...hopefully that won't happen again.

Well I made it

So I have been pretty happy with my play the last week or so, got the bubble twice and then finally pulled off a 4th, 8th and 2nd place finish to put me into the Red Hot Poker Tour Tournament of Champions next Saturday. The only thing that I am pissed about is not winning a tournament this season, I have always posted at least a win in each of the seasons I played and I had the chance last night but went heads up against a chip stack 5x more then mine and he hit an opened ended straight to beat my top pair.

But I have been thinking that since I haven't won a tournament the TOC would be a perfect time to do that wouldn't it?
If I do win this is what I would recieve:
The Red Hot Poker Tour's Season 5 Champion is going to Las Vegas where you'll go Head to Head with Daniel Negreanu!

You and a friend will be flown to Las Vegas for an unforgettable experience. You'll enjoy two nights at the legendary Caesars Palace, have dinner and hang out with Daniel and his friends, and then you showdown in a heads up battle for $5000. Even if you can't beat him you win, as Daniel will drop $2500 in your Full Contact Poker account as a consolation prize!

The Season 5 Champion, and newest member of Team Canada Poker, will also win a trip to Las Vegas with the Red Hot Poker Tour Vegas Invasion July 23-27, 2006.

Not bad eh?

Odd...

It seems Canada now has two WPT events??? Back to back at Fallsview...this is odd.
WPT Canadian Poker Open and the North American Poker Championship(we know this is the 10 grand buy in whats the other???)

World Poker Tour Site Info

So I just might make it now...finally a 4th place finish

Played tonight, felt good going in and just hit nothing the entire night untilllll...

I am in the small blind 600 invested and I have 2000 left. First to act goes all in (only has 1000) and one other person does also, who has the exact same chip stack as me. I figure there is already so much in this and I have 10 8 of clubs, maybe I will hit, so I go in as well.
First to act had King 4?? and the other girl had Aces lol great. Flop comes 9 7 2, turn is a Queen and the river is a 6 giving me the straight lol sometimes you just have to get lucky I guess.

Our table is then moved I sit down and instantly double up with A 3 vs the big blinds 5 2 (he called cause it wasn't that much to him, can't remember the blind levels haha)

Then a sick hand where I turned 3 of a kind and I pushed all in the guy called me with a flush draw and missed.
Then the best hand of them all, which pretty much secured my final table appearance.

I am small blind for a 1000, the on guy movies all in for 6800, and it comes around to me I have King Jack of clubs, I figure this guy for low pockets or something suited, he was getting low and desperate. I call, the big blind then moves all in for 3800 more...I am thinking what have I gotten myself into, but can't fold now (after everything I am left with 10 grand) So the original guy flips over Queen 10 and the big blind flips over Pocket 8's. So I am looking pretty good here...flop comes all blanks, the turn is a 5 and the river is a King, giving me the huge pot.

I went to the final table around 4th or 5th in stacks and ended up getting 4th, I will take it but the final hand was disgusting I tried to make a play and it failed when I ran into my own lucky hand of King Jack.

I am now in 96th place on the Red Hot Tour and top 120 get into the Tournament of Champs.

Phil decides to slow play this "Punk" and get's F'd on the river

Yes Phil lost a 4 hour heads up session with a 22 year old from Cali.

I listened via Sirius Satellite radio and it was an amazing session to say the least. Unfortunately we will only see "highlights" because ESPN execs. are dumb fucks and decided that this wasn't important enough for a full TV crew.....

Read about the match at Card Player

But I just have to say one thing...why did you slow play soooooo much Phil, I know you were trapping and it worked a couple times but of course the guy figured it out..I mean he even said after "Ya Phil was trying to trap me a lot."
Example of Phil's slow play that cost him dearly: 22 year old raises preflop, Phil calls. A 5 3 flop Phil checks and the kid bets like 60,000, Phil calls. Turn is a Jack and Phil checks, Kid checks. River comes a King. Phil checks and the kid bets out 100,000, Phil quickly calls fliping over two pair 5 and 3's (He floped two pair!) the kid flips over Pockets King's for a set and boom the slow play dies. Now of course this may have happened either way if the Kid didn't think Phil had an ace, but still...this happened like 5 times, Phil slow played and was rivered.

Can Hellmuth become the first 50/10??

Whats 50/10 you ask? Well that means 50 cashes and 10 bracelets at the World Series of Poker. And that is what could happen for Phil Hellmuth today down in Vegas. It's the "little big one" the $5000 No Limit event and it would be amazing to see him take it down.

On a side note ESPN wasn't going to film this final table, but once they heard that Hellmuth was going for history they quickly set up the cameras....I mean wtf why wouldn't you be covering the 5 K event its only second to the main event and the horse event...I don't understand that.

Here is the list...found at taoofpoker.blogspot.com check his site out
Top 10 WSOP Career Cashes:
1. Phil Hellmuth 50
2. Men Nguyen 49
3. T.J. Cloutier 48
3. Berry Johnston 48
5. Chris Ferguson 43
6. Erik Seidel 41
7. Humberto Brenes 38
7. An Tran 38
7. Ken Flaton 38
10. Mike Sexton 37

Top 10 (er... 15) WSOP Bracelet Winners:
1. Johnny Chan 10
1. Doyle Brunson 10
3. Phil Hellmuth 9
3. Johnny Moss 9
5. Erik Seidel 7
5. Billy Baxter 7
7. T.J. Cloutier 6
7. Men Nguyen 6
7. Jay Heimowitz 6
10. Phil Ivey 5
10. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 5
10. Ted Forrest 5
10. Layne Flack 5
10. Stu Ungar 5
10. Berry Johnston 5

Poker on the Radio? Wah?

And this is the girl who is giving you updates from the poker floor...damn why is she on radio....(warning this is what I believe the women's voice would translate into image wise)


Yep that's right! Poker is everywhere now...even on Sirius Satallite radio.

Poker Radio WSOP coverage

So I turn it on for the first time and they are talking to these people that don't really know how to play and then some people asking questions like "why do people call me a donkey when I beat them on the river playing a 4-2 off", I kid you not this one guy said that.
So I was like "I must call in and make this show a little interesting" I was going to plug myself but thought maybe later...So I call in and ask about the poker bubble I figure might as well hear what these guys have to say and I ask about the 50 K H.O.R.S.E event and is this a ploy by the pro's to make their own main event?

So they thought that the bubble won't burst, it will keep expanding (I don't believe that, it has to hit a peak somewhere, next year or so it will happen) and they thought that the pro's would love to see 8000 people in the horse event because they would crush them all...valid point hehe

For my troubles I recieved a subscription to Bluff Magazine...sweeeeeeeeeet. Time well spent.