Tuesday, August 15, 2006
If you ain't chewing Big Red, then @#$& you!
Still getting back in the groove of things as for as posting goes, but twice in one month is a start in the right direction.
A few friends and I got together and got the PPV of the WSOP final table. I've seen a lot of the flak that Jamie Gold has been getting but I really didn't see much that was wrong with his play at all. He had total control of that table other than Cunningham. I thought the biggest mistake he made was by continuing to use his table talk on Allen, the one person at the table who could definitely intuit something from it. But otherwise his chipstack simply allowed him to do all the things he could want to do and I see nothing wrong with him taking advantage of that fact.
I thought most of the other players were not being aggressive enough with him as far as taking control of a hand on the flop or playing back at him preflop. After Richard Lee shipped all his chips to Gold, this thing was pretty much just on a countdown to when Gold would finish it off. He was the one player at the table at that time who had a stack that he didn't need to get overly agressive with Gold, but he did to his detriment.
I felt like ESPN did a decent job with the broadcast as it certainly isn't easy to fill 12 hours of poker with entertainment. All in all, I'd give the whole thing a B-, and suggest that everyone coming down on Gold needs to get over it just a little bit.
As for me, lots of trips coming up over the next month. Two trips to the Borgata, one to try their Super Satellite tournament and then again a couple weeks later for the start of the Fall Open. Then leave from the Fall Open and head out to Vegas for a week. It'll be my first trip to Vegas since I started playing poker seriously, so I'm really looking forward to that trip in particular. Vegas has always been one of my favorite places to go and I haven't made it out there in a few years.
Other than that, life is good and getting prepared for fantasy football drafts. Stay tuned, I may actually get a third or even fourth August post in. I know you're super excited too!
A few friends and I got together and got the PPV of the WSOP final table. I've seen a lot of the flak that Jamie Gold has been getting but I really didn't see much that was wrong with his play at all. He had total control of that table other than Cunningham. I thought the biggest mistake he made was by continuing to use his table talk on Allen, the one person at the table who could definitely intuit something from it. But otherwise his chipstack simply allowed him to do all the things he could want to do and I see nothing wrong with him taking advantage of that fact.
I thought most of the other players were not being aggressive enough with him as far as taking control of a hand on the flop or playing back at him preflop. After Richard Lee shipped all his chips to Gold, this thing was pretty much just on a countdown to when Gold would finish it off. He was the one player at the table at that time who had a stack that he didn't need to get overly agressive with Gold, but he did to his detriment.
I felt like ESPN did a decent job with the broadcast as it certainly isn't easy to fill 12 hours of poker with entertainment. All in all, I'd give the whole thing a B-, and suggest that everyone coming down on Gold needs to get over it just a little bit.
As for me, lots of trips coming up over the next month. Two trips to the Borgata, one to try their Super Satellite tournament and then again a couple weeks later for the start of the Fall Open. Then leave from the Fall Open and head out to Vegas for a week. It'll be my first trip to Vegas since I started playing poker seriously, so I'm really looking forward to that trip in particular. Vegas has always been one of my favorite places to go and I haven't made it out there in a few years.
Other than that, life is good and getting prepared for fantasy football drafts. Stay tuned, I may actually get a third or even fourth August post in. I know you're super excited too!
