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DINE ON THE WHALE

 (UPDATED: 02/02/18) Wild Bill's reflections on poker, sports, and issues facing the Gulf Coast:

"First, if you want to really protect the amateur you give him the penalty.  You press it into his head the importance of his relative hand strength and being able to read the board correctly.  This will be the best thing for him as he'll learn from it and maybe not repeat the mistake.

Second, let's just dismiss the idea completely of scaring the amateur away. It's so patently false, that a guy who makes the commitment to play even his first tournament is simply going to give up, because of the embarrassment of getting a penalty.  You chase away exactly zero people.  And if I'm wrong and you chase away even 1 person they are so fragile any way something else in that same tournament might have set them off.
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 POKER IS WAR

 (UPDATED: 05/15/17) Gene D's outlook on the local and national poker scene:

"Hello anyone still reading this blog…I am in New Orleans now waiting to play the final post-lim and final circuit event of the season. Congrats to Wild Bill for making it to day 2 along with a host of other friends (you know who you are). I whiffed the 1st couple of tournaments last weekend, and I had a funeral party to go to for my Aunt Linda last Saturday so I had to skip most of the weekend. I’m in sales and our EOM (End of Month for non salesfolks) was last Friday 5/20…so I also had my hands tied a little during the week. The plan was to play some megas and if I didn’t satty into the High Roller or the Main Event to fire bullets at the last 2 post-lims to try to win a ring. Today at 3pm will be the final chance for anyone to win a ring this season and before the actual WSOP"[+]

LITTLE THOUGHTS

[UPDATED  01/02/18] Jonathan Little has more tournament winnings than only a handul of pros.  At 24, he had already eclipsed 4 million dollars in lifetime winnings .  The WPT Season VI player of the year, Jonathan was born in Pensacola Florida and currently operates a new poker site, which includes his blogs and videos you can find it here.

"In this blog post, I am going to share with you (in no particular order) 10 pros who had a huge impact on my poker career. Some were private coaches and I battled others on the felt, but all left a positive lasting impression on me.


David Benefield
David “Raptor” Benefield was my first online poker friend. I used to lurk on an old poker forum and one day I posted that I was "jcardshark, the unknown guy who was tearing up the $215 buy-in sit n go's on PartyPoker. David, one of the most popular online players..."
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WSOP CIRCUIT TUNICA:


LEE WINS :


Our buddy David Lee of Memphis, TN earned his first WSOP-C ring in the last event at Tunica. He bested Warren Sheaves in heads up action to win 18k. Congrats David! Very happy for you. 

Sheaves made 11k for second. Hank Sitton, Bryan Devonshire, and Corey Bierrra also cashed.  The Double Stack Turbo event seems custom made for Lee's style of play.  We suspect there will be more rings to come.

THE POKER MONKEY

 [UPDATED: 08/25/17] Poker Monkey shares his insights on the tournament poker circuit, life in general, and the battle to make it happen:

"In other words? A really, really great opportunity for them to make a good first impression. I would say on the poker end...they are doing a really good job this week. They seem to have added just enough over flow tables to accommodate the number of players who showed up. Anyone that has had to go in as an alternate, hasn't had to wait very long. Unlike some casinos, they didn't tie up a bunch of tables spreading cash game to the detriment of players waiting to get in the tourney...and frankly, that might just have more to do with them not really having a solid cash game clientele, more than anything. But nonetheless, its nice to see all 8 tables plus the five outside the poker room, being used strictly for tournaments." [+}

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  WSOP CIRCUIT MAIN EVENT TUNICA:

PROS WASHED OVER BY SAM WASHBURN

Arkansas' Sam Washburn prevailed over star studded final two tables. Washburn won 188k for first place. He bested the always lethal Scott Stewart in heads up play. Stewart won 116k for second. Hung Nguyen of Jackson, TN earned 85k for third.

Kyle Cartwright couldn't win (another) Main Event ring finishing in 5th. He finished one spot above Jake Bazely. Cartwright earned just under 50k and Bazeley 36k. While this doesn't settle the debate (a private one held between a GCP reader and one of us owners) about which of these two players was a favorite in a WSOP-C Main it is a nudge in Cartwright's favor.

Some other cashers we didn't mention last time: Cody Stanford, Warren Sheaves, Andrew Brinkley, Chris Davis, and Trent Bennett.