Thursday, 5 July 2012
Poker at the Olympics? Well not quite. London’s Western Club is hosting it’s own poker-inspired version of the Olympics in a seven-day festival that runs from 16th to 22nd July.
The Poker Olympics will feature a series of tournaments including triple jump, pentathlon (HORSE), heavyweight final (bounty), triathlon (round of each PLHE, PLO and PLO Hi Lo), sprint final (turbo rebuy) with the showpiece event the £300 Olympiad Main Event. Just like the Olympics, players will be able to qualify for the major events in heats (ie satellites) in the run up to the series with an I-stakes £5/£10 marathon scheduled for cash players. The complete schedule can be found here. The guarantee was smashed at the Western Club’s American Independence Day special last night. Mark Stanton was the eventual winner, taking home £1,486 and a seat in the club’s £100k Guaranteed event later this year. Not bad for a buy in of less that 40 quid. For more information on what’s on at the Western visit the club’s Facebook page.
Bluff meets Isildur1.
Starting out last week with 520 hopefuls, this year’s EPT Grand Final Main Event certainly lived up to expectations after a final table that contained some of the toughest players in the world. At the start of yesterday’s finale Steve O’Dwyer led arguably the toughest final table the festival has ever seen.
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Full Tilt Poker will be heading to Ireland for its first live festival since relaunch. The Full Tilt Galway Poker Festival will take place in a custom built Full Tilt poker village in the centre the city from 29 July until 12 August.
Two-week series will feature seven bracelet events.
'Macca' wins almost £43,000.
Negreanu, Lindgren also at final table.
After bumhunting, PokerStars looks to combat ratholing.
Bluff explores the dubious morals of the angle-shooter
Stephen Bartley rounds up the action from the Vic.
They say the best players know all the games, which makes 29-year old Stuart Rutter one of the unsung talents of UK poker.
As the man guaranteeing a €1M first prize for the ISPT, he's asking the UK poker community to get behind this unique poker event. We interview Rob Yong, the most generous man in poker.
You can’t beat a good old poker party, and the ISPT Launch Party at the swanky The Mayfair Hotel was just that.
Off to Newcastle upon Tyne for leg 2 of this year’s Genting Poker Series.
Sometimes bizarre things happen at the poker table and only the smartest will prevail, says Jeff Kimber.
I had quite a tough opening table at the recent GPS in Birmingham, which is unusual so early in the tournament. There were a couple of decent players to my right and also Paul McTaggart (who beat me heads up in last year’s Edinburgh GPS) and another decent player to my left.
I’ve noticed an increased tendency recently among players on forums and in tournaments towards the bubble. They seem to be taking ICM too literally. They seem to be forgetting that the “M” in ICM stands for “model”. Your true equity in bubble situations is not exactly as ICM predicts. I’d like to recap the known shortcomings of the model, and consider some rules of thumb to help with decision making in the heat of battle.
I watched Rounders this week. I mean, I’ve watched it before but only about 23 times so it was due a revisit. I heartily recommend it.
Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding snoops around the world of online poker.
With Neil "Bad Beat" Channing
I’ve been rereading my columns recently and noticed a shocking lack of macroeconomic content. Several reader letters asking me for my appraisal of the economic situation have arrived at Bluff Headquarters and I’ve finally decided to yield to pressure. So strap yourselves in.