Long time! This Thursday September 20th at 9 pm on TSN!

Yes the Degree Poker Championship is on all this week. My show will be airing on September 20th at 9pm. Make sure you tune in and check it out!

3rd at the TV Table

Yep I didn't get through the 6 person table, came in 3rd...I played really well with no cards...I was chip leader at the beginning and hadn't hit a pair.

Only hand that matters, blinds are 40,000/80,000 I am the big blind with 369,000 left. Button pushes all in for 269,000. Chip leader decides to call (he has 2 million in chips lol, can you tell that someone was dominating the table weee fun). I look down at A Q of spades and I push all in as well.
Flop comes K Q 6 no spades, turn is a K and the river is something that doesn't matter lol
Full house for the Button and I am out of the tournament.

BTW the button was Jim Rich the guy who won last year, he would lose 15 mins later to an internet kid in his first live tournament. The guy was good, but he picked up cards at the right time and got people to call with pretty trashy hands.

All and all in was a great experience again, come September it should be fun to see the hands.
Especially one involving me throwing away Pocket 9's and I still don't know if it was the right move or not....

TSN here I come

Degree Poker Championship 2007!
Craig is back! And once again he will be featured on the Television tables!
I made it through day one and now I will be playing my 6 man table, if I beat that, then I am once again in the finale for a chance to scoop up $100,000.

So far it's been an amazing time up at Casino Rama and everyone associated with this tournament is top notch.

Thanks for all your support, stay tuned!

If you don't remember what happened the last time I was on TV, check this out.

It's been a while

Yep I have been pretty busy with work lately so haven't really updated this site at all.

But let me tell you how things have been going in the poker world.

I have been running quite good actually, on the Red Hot Poker Tour I have had two wins and 2 seconds this season, which really doesn't mean anything since it takes 1 million points to get into the tournament of champions, but hopefully I will continue to do well.

I am going to try and satellite into the 100 seat guarantee on Full Tilt on the 16th, so hopefully that works out lol

I played in one of the red hot online events on partypoker, around 120 showed up and I took 8th place. It was the worst final table I have ever had. I get pocket queens run into pocket kings, I get pocket jacks the very next hand and this donk goes all in with A 5 and hit's and ace on the river.
Then a huge pot where I had A Q and the flop came 7 7 5 and the guy moved all in, so I threw that away. And the final hand came down like this first position raises like 3 times the big, I have A J and decide to just call (I have been doing this a lot because I find post flop I am a lot better) we get another caller in the sb or bb (can't remember) Flop comes A, 5, 2 rainbow and it goes check, check to me. I have hardly anything left and move all in, the sb calls and the raiser folds, he flips over A 2 for two pair and I am out.
In this case had I re-raised pre flop and gotten heads up with the raiser I would still be in the tournament, because I slow played, the A 2 got in for cheap and hit.

Degree Poker 2007 is at Rama, I will be there on Sunday the 24th and will be playing on the 25th (which is a Monday) The tournament should be a lot of fun, even though I wish they would give us a bit more starting chips, but that's just me.

100th Post

Yes it's a milestone for this blog lol

It seems like forever since I was in the Degree Poker Championship in 2005, but really it hasn't been that long. A lot has changed since them but I still continue to play poker and keep trying to get better at the game I love.

There have been a lot of people asking me "Craig have you heard anything about Degree this year, where do I go to find out more information." Of course I direct them to www.degreepoker.com and tell them to sign up, which will them inform them when all of the fun times begin.

Well now you can read this 100th post and get the answer you were looking for:
the Degree Poker Championship will be held in June (at least that's what I assume haha). That's all I got for you now but isn't that good enough lol, clear your schedule and get ready.
Last year I was a bit off, so this year I am looking to make it back to the final table.

Another Sunday another loss

Well last weekend when it really mattered I came in 3rd place and tonight when I was just out for points I ended up taking 2nd place.
30 minute heads up battle, so it was quite fun actually.
It was up and down, here are a couple key hands.

The player I was up against loves to push all in, no matter what, so I was just waiting for my opportunity. I ended up losing a couple key hands to her when I had King 9 and she had Jack 9, a Jack came on the flop and she doubled up. I then got down to about half her stack and she moved all in, I looked down at A Q and insta call of course, she had Jack 10 and I won the hand to bring it back to even.

The final hand was....well let's just say I had to slow play to try and get all her chips and it back fired.

I am dealt KK in the small blind and just call (she has moved in almost every time when I have just called the small blind, this time she didn't), flop comes 10 9 5, rainbow which is a good flop ...she bets out 15,000 (blinds are 5,000/10,000) so I figured she had hit a piece of it, since she usually checks and gives up on the flop (every hand that went to a flop heads up I won by betting it out, most of the time I had nothing, she was a pre-flop player to say the least).
I call the 15 K and an 8 comes on the turn....thing's aren't looking good here for Kings if she had the draw, but you know big pockets are hard to give up lol she moves all in...I call and she flips over 9 8 for two pair.

So that was that, good heads up match, just to bad it didn't go my way. I got lucky at the final table cracking AK with KQ, so to be honest it was great to just have a shot at the win.

2-Outers are fun

So just got back from the Red Hot Wild Card Event...first place gets a seat into the TOC.

Very well run for an event that had 90 people show up. This tournament had the most people in it other then the TOC itself...crazy.

So I came to the final table with the chip lead at 95,000, but got card dead for pretty much the whole thing. Knocked one player out with K 9 (the best hand I had at the final table) but that was about it.

Down to 3 players, I am in the BB blinds are 6000/12,000 after the BB I have 52,000 left. The other two are big stacks. I have one of my better hands at the final table J 4 off lol

Everyone calls I check, flop is K 7 4 rainbow, SB checks, I bet out the min 12,000 to see where I am (should have bet more, first mistake) the button sits there and is playing with his chips, this guy takes fucking forever he is a newb and one hell of an annoying player.

I then start to talk to him, which I have been doing most of the final table, I tell him I have 40 K left and after the next card I will be putting it all in, or you could just take it now and I will call you.
Keep in mind the SB still has to play, so the button guy ends up calling and SB folds.

A 3 comes on the turn and I move all in.
He calls, flips over pocket 3's for a turned set.

Hmmm unique, so he knew his two outer was going to come? Since that was the only card that could help him on a board like that....

Who knows but that one really hurt...I got 3rd place....woo points....