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11/8/19)
Wild
Bill's reflections on poker, sports, and issues facing the Gulf Coast:
First
off... Thank you to the players reading this and
traveling to our events and making suggestions
to improve our product or tweak an event--we
thank each and every one of you. Not to mention
all of you liking, sharing, tweeting and
retweeting.
We are lucky to have
so many great and supportive believers across
our footprint. Most important part of getting
people to tournament is word of mouth. And we
appreciate all the nice things you've said about
us and our partners.."
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[UPDATED
11/08/19] Jonathan Little is one of the all time
top tournament poker earners. 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 poker site, which includes his
blogs and videos you can find it
here.
"Here is a fun
video I made with NYC Charity Poker Legend, Andy
Frankenberger! We talked about table selection,
Charity Events, the WSOP Main Event, and more!
Funny enough, Andy bubbled the charity event
while I snuck into the money with 1 big blind.
Skill game! ""
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 MR.
APPLE:
New Orleans greatest candy
apples, speciality treats and signature desserts.
A hop, skip and a jump away from Harrahs NOLA.
Order yours online right now!
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DOUBT'N NOLAN DALLA
[UPDATED
11/08/19] Nolan Dalla.com is where you find the
wit and wisdom of one of the most well known
poker writers in the industry. His WSOP
coverage speaks for itself. His home blog
covers a wide range of topics written
with that singular Dalla conviction.
"— Road teams are 71-45-2 ATS so far this
season.
— Division games have leaned strongly
to the UNDER, going 23-12 to the low side of the
total.
— In 121 games played, so far, UNDERs
have prevailed overall, going 65-55-1.
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UNDERs have also produced a small profit across
the board in both the first and second half.
First-halves total have landed 64-56-1 to the
UNDER. Second halves have landed 63-54-4 to the
UNDER. “I won’t be going to my grave wishing
that I had done more,” he told me." [+]
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[UPDATED:
2/5/19] We pick NFL games against the lines posted
Tuesday. Sometimes they move by kickoff and we look silly.
Sometimes they don't move and we look silly. Either way. You
know how football helmets have a sticker that goes "this helmet
won't protect your head if your head is inside of it when you
smack into another person"? Risking real money on these picks is
like that. For entertainment purposes only.r.
"The referees cost the Saints a spot in the Super Bowl with one
of the worst non-calls in NFL history. Yes, this obviously was a
missed call and the NFL has actually fined the Rams player for a
helmet-to-helmet hit even though it wasn’t called. However, what
the hell are the Saints doing passing here. The Saints had a
first down at the Rams 13 with 1:58 to go. First down pass -
incomplete. Second down run - no gain. Third down pass -
incomplete (and the aforementioned missed PI call). Fourth down
field goal - 1:41 to go, Saints 23-20. If they run the ball 3
times here, they still get the field goal and they give the ball
back to the Rams with 15 or so seconds left. Instead, they left
1:41 and allowed the Rams to march right down the field for the
game tying field goal. The call didn’t help, but it was the play
calling that lost the game for the Saints."
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[UPDATED 09/25/16] Shannon Shorr has graduated. That's bad
news for the poker world because he's terrorized the circuit
while also being a full time college student. Now without
distractions, like class every day, the only question is how
quickly will he add to his over 3.2 million dollars in
tournament winnings. You can also read Shannon's blog at
his homepage:
http://shannonshorr.com/
"As it pertains to my personal journey, it
has been a bit volatile since I last posted.
I’ve had some dark times that almost all stem
from the rough stretch I’ve endured in my career
as a tournament poker professional. I won’t
bother complaining here as you most certainly
don’t wanna hear it. There has been an
often-present anxiety due to things not going
well financially. It has also been a hit to my
ego.
I think I’ve finally worked through it
and at peace with it. I’ve been playing poker
tournaments for near 11 years now and have
experienced the swings of the business first
hand. It’s really important to take a step back
and gain perspective and “zoom out” as a friend
told me this summer. I experienced some
depression as a result of things not going well
at poker table. An interesting thing happened. I
would get upset about tournaments not going
well. I would then get really wrapped up in my
head and hard on myself FOR getting upset about
tournaments not going well."
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Poker Gras Coming in a few weeks
at Harrah's New Orleans
http://www.pokergras.com/schedule
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Donkey
[06/17/19]
Jennifer Gay is a poker player, poker room supervisor and
Ante Up Magazine Poker Columnist
and lives with her husband Stephen and 2 sons in
Las Vegas. Her blog covers the sometimes personal and
always comical reality of a life fully centered around poker in
the South. She is also considered one of most "logical"
left leaning political theorist that can debate
with the best of them
"Steven has applied himself to his study
and poker coaching to a level I couldn't have
believed possible. Mostly utilizing "Float the
Turn" and watching hours and hours of reviewed
hand histories, he spends his lunch break at
work every day studying in addition to any down
time he has at home. He cut carbs from his diet,
losing 20+ pounds and dropping below 200 for the
first time in a decade, hoping that better
health overall will lead to better stamina and
mental clarity.
I am super excited about
his opportunity to play in the main event and
believe he's going to run deep. Hopefully,
really deep. I did the math on it and
approximately $43,000 would pay off every dime
of debt we have and finish the fund for a down
payment on a home. We are on track to hit this
goal by December 2017, but it would be really
nice if he could just knock it out in one big
tournament cash. Plus, if we're bringing home
$43,000 then that means the investors are all
getting a huge return on investment. " [+]
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 WHO
IS DAVID CLARK?
[UPDATED: 03/28/16]
David Clark bagged more points than any other at large qualifier on the WSOP this year. The Texan has been blogging and
winning for some time now.
"I took a different approach towards kick starting my fitness
goals in January. I didn’t join a gym or start a new exercise
routine, instead I picked up a part time job working
construction. Coming from a late night poker schedule this took
some significant lifestyle adjustments, but that’s exactly what
I was looking for. I ended up walking down this path while
following a thought about changing the way I value time. A
thought that came along while I was lending my friends and
family an extra set of hands."
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4445 Veterans Blvd in Metairie, La
and you can call @504-889-7350 |
 Poker
Fiction
[UPDATED:
08/24/18] PLAYER N scribes a tale
of grifters, sleaze balls, and beautiful card sharks all
hustling on the Coast.
""Look at him," he
groused. "Fucking Fish."
I followed Tony's finger and there he
was striding out the other the exit, Morty the accountant. His
wallet fatter at least for the moment. He lit up a thick cigar
self-satisfied in the crisp autum air then leaned on the
railing.
"At
least, he's not leaving..." I said. Happy to that fact.
Tony mumbled, "Fucking fish, fucking
fish! That fucking guy." He pushed out a thick cloud of
cigarette smoke into a crowd of mostly women walking into the
casino. He got what he wanted: angry glares and a collective
admonishment.
He half lurched at them then defiantly mouthed "What? What?
What?"
The
ladies drew in closer as they neared the door.
"Asshole," one said to another. " [+]
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TOURNAMENT ALERT!
ONE MORE IN 2019:
We are are proud
to announce one more event this year. We've partnered
with the Horseshoe in Bossier City for the Holiday $400.
Our thanks to Chad Disante for letting us get our foot in
the door we are excited about getting to ArkLaTex!
Hope to do some spots with our friend Ben Mintz up there.
Four flights in this Holiday 400 this promises to be a large
Main Event. We are working on the particulars but
likely will involve some sort of
BagWow!
format, too.
Also, get there Wednesday and you
early birds get a shot at some schwag in our Get the Gift
$150. We have modified our Bag the Schwag format to
allow you to pick from presents under the tree.
Hearing there is going to be some sweet stuff in there.
Also Megas to get into the Main on the cheap.
SPEAKING OF SCHWAG:
Long overdue but a huge thanks to
Maker's Mark,
Tee to the Green Magazine,
and Mr. Apple
for their generous donations to the Bag the Schwag Flight A
of our Poker Gras Main Event. Joe Meteye, John Price
and Tim Martin local poker thank you. Free golf,
whiskey and treats hard to beat. Players go out and
support the brands that support you! It's the holiday
season and all these brands make great gifts.
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DOUBLE NEWS:
DOUBLE WINNER:
There is still a Gulf Coast Poker Awards/Poker Gras
article to come but just in case anybody missed the big
results on any of our platforms... Congrats to Joe Saleh who
paired his Gulf Coast Poker Player of the Year Award with
the title of King of Poker Gras for winning our Main Event.
What an accomplishment!
Jaron Bailey closed out the
tournament by winning the Sunday turbo. Shout out to Mobile
as two members of All-In Entertainment Thao Le and Duane
Nelson made the final table and the money too.
JACKSON'S SECOND HOME AND SECOND TITLE:
David Jackson, another GCP Award nominee out
ofJacksonville, might want to think about moving to Atlantic
City and just grind Borgata events. Yesterday at the Borgata
Fall Open he won 211k, got credit for the W and the trophy
in the $2700 Championship. Guess Joe has company in
the next player of the year category.
Does this story
seem a little familiar? That's probably because you remember
Jackson in April winning the Borgata Spring Poker Open
Championship (304K). Oh and a couple of weeks ago he won a
prelim event for 32k. He's staring a collection of Borgata
trophies.
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POKER
GRAS
Ok Folks....we are there. We
busted the 100k guarantee midway through Flight C. We are
almost right at 200 players running hot. Come on out as
Flight D kicks off at 4pm sharp.Poker Gras Main Event
Updates on the GCP Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/Gulf-Coast-PokerNET-491654645370/
Gulf Coast Poker Awards also bought to kickoff...and dont
forget to visit the Makers Mark Bust-out lounge
Flight D Chip Counts
Joe Mince 203000
Mike Drezanick 137000
Jon Wisbay 203000
Nakota Foster 135000
Tim Sanderson 90000
Aldi Zughayer 242000
Flight C Chip Counts
Mike Monaghan 426000
Charles Bartlett 205000
BJ McBrayer 82000
Todd Skinner 265000 (pic with Charlie)
Ben Saxton 284000 (pic)
Pat McNamara 317000
Jason
Bailey 107000
Mark Holmes 75000
Gui Zheng 155000
Mike Vernace
254000
Umut Utku 78000
Ryan Taylor 57000
Faith Giordano 247000
Flight A Chip Counts
Curtis Picard 18600
Lance Williams 213500
Adam Swales 232000
Ali
Monteferrante 229000
Dustin Stewart 147500
Victor
Holcomb 218000
Flight B Chip Counts
Richard
Kaplan 183000
Stanley Seelig 90500
Steve Bierman
152000
John Cressend 401500
Walter Miskelly 323000
Shane Lewis 153000
Randy Gordon 130500 (pic)
Tim Repp
138000
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POKER
GRAS
POKER GRAS ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTEST WINNERS:
Today in the Bag the Schwag Flight Hugo Deinken, Tyler
Berry, Janice Randall, and Victor Holcombe will play their
hard earned seats. Thanks to everybody who liked, shared,
tweeted and retweeted. We had to pull a couple of names for
one because some of ya'll didn't quite follow ALL the
instructions or couldn't play today. In the future if the
tweet says follow, like and share... Don't forget to FOLLOW!
:)
BAG THE SCHWAG FLIGHT COMMENCES:
11am the Bag the Schwag Flight, including the lucky
winners of free seats, will give you a chance to bag chips
for Day Two on Sunday AND maybe win some Schwag. If you are
chosen as a bounty and take GCP patch to the the Bag and
you'll get the schwag. If you bust a bounty and hold on to
the patch until the next break. You get the schwag.
Prizes include gifts donated by Maker's Mark, Tee to the
Green Magazine, Mr. Apple and Gulf Coast Poker.
Later
today very reasonable Single Table Satellites to the Main
Event. $130 Buy-in awards two players $600 seats
to the Main. Also $150 Bounty tournament tonight. |
POKER
GRAS
Quick note to Harrahs huge thank you for indulging us
with all our quirky formats and events. Yesterday with
a tag team, a heads up and a working man's event was
extremely labor intensive. Thank you Robbie Gertsner
and Bruce Barret for all the hustling you guys did to make
these run as smoothly as they could even with all our
experimantal hurdles. Thanks Chase Haydel, Jo Ella
McIntosh and the rest of the floors and dealers for getting
it done!
POKER GRAS EVENT #5
WORKING MAN'S
102 entries played for a
prize pool of $16,830.
1st Dr. Juan Fukuda $5049
2nd Justin Osborne $3029
3rd Prissy Giroir $2019
4th
Stephen Gutierrez $1683
5th Zack Kinsley $1346
6th
Dale Trosclair $1009
7th Charlie Bartlett $831
8th.
Stanley Seelig $660
9th Jeff Densen $504
10th Stephen
Bierman $350
11th John Gibbons $350
Cory Harrison
and Sley Sancez were the last two players to bust before the
money.
Another note about Prissy Giroir she and her husband
Jerry won the tag team event during this event. We'll
have those results up later today. They got the better
end of a heads up chop with Charlie Gelvin and Kenny Milam.
While Jerry had to play most of that event, Prissy's
domination this week still would win her Poker Gras Player
of the Year at this point (if we had that award). Consider
the fact all she's done is final table almost everything
it's hard to deny her that recognition.
POKER GRAS EVENT #4
HEADS
UP
Chris Dupuy might be THE heads up specialist on
the Gulf Coast (move over Jeremy Eyer?) winning a second
heads up crown on the Coast in a little less than a year. He
confirmed a title he won at the Beau Rivage with another win
here. He's also had another deep run or two recently.
This time he pipped Jaron Bailey to win the title of
Poker Gras Heads Up King and $2400. Jaron earned $1400 for
second. Jerry Giroir and Phil Treaudo both made $500 for
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POKER
GRAS
POKER GRAS
ANNOUCEMENTS:
Today:
2 PM Tag Team
$400 per team.
Restarts:
11 AM Heads Up
4 PM Working
Man's.
Tomorrow:
11 AM FLIGHT A Main Event Bag
the Schwag Flight. 100k Guarantee.
If you play this
flight you will be eligible to win some bonus prizes in the
tournament. Stuff like those awesome Maker's Mark bottles.
Also, thanks to Tee to the Green Magazine for their surprise
schwag donation.
At 7pm there is a $150 No Limit
Hold'em Bounty tournament. And we are working to get some
single table satties to main in the afternoon.
Go
here for the
schedule
AND scroll all the way down for the Main Event structure
button.
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RESULTS
POKER GRAS EVENT #5
WORKING MAN'S MULTI-DAY
A total of 102 entries to
blow by the $10,000 guarantee. Seven players bagged
tonight and will play on Wednesday at 4pm with the six
players from Monday Night's flight for $16,830 in prize
money.
13 return with 11 paid. First place over 5k.
Chips for A + B:
Justin Osborne 346,000 (b)
Stanley Seelig 301,000
(a)
Steve Gutierrez 136,000 (a)
Jeffery Densen 130,000
(b)
Sley Sanchez 96,000 (b)
Steve
Bierman 94,000 (a)
Corey Harrison 87,000 (b)
Zach
Kinsley 81,000 (b)
Juan Fumoa 71,000 (b)
Charlie Bartlett 63,000
(a)
Prissy Giroir 55,000 (b)
Dale
Trosclair 52,000 (a)
John Gibbons 16,000 (a)
POKER GRAS EVENT #4
HEADS
UP
Joel Doney, Jerry Giroir, Scott G, and Jaron
Bailey made it through the Flight B side of the bracket.
Joel advanced by beating Robert "Spider" Henderson and then
Gleen N. Jerry took out Bill Phillips in a marathon three
hour match and then bested Steve Meyers in a shorter
contest. Scott G beat Bruce Little and then Prissy Giroir.
Jaron Baily beat Judy Leblanc after dispatching Steve
Bierman.
Today at 11am it's Joel v. Jerry and Scott
v. Jaron with the winners colliding to see who will face the
other side of the bracket. Over, there it's Chris Dupuy vs.
Easton Oreman and Phil Treaudo v. Chris Canan. The
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POKER
GRAS
POKER GRAS
EVENT #3 BOUNTY:
Devin Shrake beat Big
Phil Treaudo heads up to win the plaque after agreeing to a
three way chop. Micheal Vernace got the third share.
Congrats also to Anthony Dixon and Ross Leitz who cashed in
fourth and fifth respectively.
POKER GRAS
EVENT #5 WORKING MAN'S:
$200 buy in
with reentries
FLIGHT A:
6 players bagged. They
will be close to the money on day two.
Chip Counts
Stanley Seelig $301,000
Steve Gutierrez $136,000
Steve
Bierman $94,000
Charlie Bartlett $63,000
Dale
Trosclair $52,000
John Gibbons $16,000
Flight 5B
starts on Tuesday at 4pm with registration open until the
start of level 9 which will be approximately 8:20pm.
POKER GRAS EVENT #4 HEADS UP:
Four players advanced to Wednesday. Still time to join
them.
Chris Canan beat Joe Meteye and then Steve
Meyers to make day two. Canan will play Big Phil Treaudo who
beat Lee Thibodaux and then Jerry Giroir. Easton Oreman beat
PJ Horrigan after getting by Steve Bierman. Easton will play
Chris Dupuy who took out Bill Phillips and earlier Scott G.
Today at 11am the other half of the bracket will play
out. You might want to call ahead to lock up your seat.
Final eight players (four from A and four from B) will
join up and play it out tomorrow with the final four getting
paid.
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POKER
GRAS
Main event starts
Thursday at 11am with a $600 buyin Flight A. Flight B
starts at 11am on Friday...then we slide into Saturday where
we have 2 flights ...Flight C at 11am and Flight D at 4pm
Saturday.$100k Guarantee and we had almost 250 players
last yeat ...we are anticipating coming in North of 300
runners this year. Plan your days accordingly.
RESULTS:
 EVENT
1 REENTRY:
1. Ronald Lane $11250
2. Prissy Giroir
$6750
3. Jaron Bailey $4050
4. Desmon
Holmes $3600
5. David Chocheles $3150
6.
Corey Harrison $2700
7. Stephen Bierman $2250
8.
Peace Marvel $1800
9. Bruce Little $1350
10.
Hugo Deinken $1350
11. John Ducote $1350
12.
Easton Oreman $1350
13. Ronnie Hope $900
14.
Ryan Taylor $900
15. Derek Ridley $900
16.
Daniel Herrinton $450
17. Charles Bartlett $450
18.
Bruce Little $450
EVENT 2 GAME OF THE CENTURY:
1.
Jason Regas $2145 2. Derek Ridley $1287 3. David
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POKER
GRAS
EVENT ONE CONTINUES TODAY!
Event 1 features a BagWow! format. It's a best bag forward
three flight event. Meaning you start Day 2 with the
biggest bag you advance. But wait... there's more. Bag
Twice... win a Poker Gras Main Event seat (added to the
Prize Pool). Hold up don't stop reading, there's even
more... Bag Thrice (nobody says thrice)... win a Poker Gras
Main Event seat AND $900 cash (paid out on day 2). First
flight featured 8 baggers. Two flights today!
POKER
GRAS HOTEL ROOMS:
Due to two
large coventions in town, rooms at partner hotels and those
near Harrahs are at a premium this year. Unfortunately, not
just the poker world realizes what a fun city New Orleans is
to visit.
However, if you dodge rush hour there are a
lot of comparitively cheaper options, in Metaire and outside
the city, within 10 to 15 minutes. Here's a search we
found on
Trivago
for Metairie including (at the time we searched) options for
~$82 a night.
MAKERS MARK BUST-OUT LOUNGE?
Bad beat, coolered, bluffed it off?
Come get a complimentry Maker's Mark cocktail to take off
the edge. Details
here.
UPDATES
AND LIVE FEEDS CAN BE FOUND ON THE BLOG OR FACEBOOK...
We will be blogging some Poker Gras final tables, and
some of the events here and there. For sure most
of the Main Event. Check in these places for more
coverage. Or if you'd just like to review the action
from the just completed Pearl River Poker Open.
TOURNAMENT
BLOG
and
FACEBOOK.
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MUNROE MAULS FINAL
TABLE:
Go to our blog for more in depth coverage of how Gavin
Munroe won the Main Event at the Pearl River Poker Open. He
knocked out almost all of the other final table players and
seemed like he was on a mission. And we have to get a
pic of our winner on our primary site right?
Lots of
talented players fell by the wayside as he lifted the
trophy. Thanks to Pearl River for a great event. Go
here
for more. |
POKER LINKAGE:
Sorry, we've been deep into coverage of our own
tournaments on our other platforms but here's some linkage
we've missed.
-Two poker players talk Survivor.
Boston Rob's interview on
Yahoo.
-Mo Nuwwarah does not pull any punches in his coverage
of the Venetian for
PokerNews.
-Wow, that's a pretty Guitar shaped casino hotel in
the mecca of live poker
Florida.
-Ben Afflecks Drunk Hit 'N Run. Not nearly as bad as
that sounds as he wasn't behind a steering wheel although
the actor did sit drunk at a Commerce poker table win a quck
$1500 from some 1-3 players and the tore off in the night
like a rebuilding a bankroll grinder.
People
covered this poker story.
-This is behind a paywall
at the
Wall Street Journal
but if you have access here's a story about the overlap of
investing and pokering.
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ONLINE POKER NEWS:
Wow... so much news from the online world we needed a
block devoted just to our internet friends.
-Online
cheating scandal exposed.
High tech makes High Stakes dangerous.
-Finally
online poker in
Pennsylvania? This has moved slower than
the cases were processed in the drunk court under Veterans
stadium on a Sunday.
-Zynga
Poker (legal online poker in the U.S.)
propels the stock to new heights.
-Early returns in
massive
online poker
consolidation?
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SOCIAL MEDIA CONTESTS:
Congrats to Janice Randall who won a seat to Pearl
River's Monster Stack (October 30th) AND Poker Gras Main
Event (November 14th).
Currently we have two social
media contests still going. Scroll down for direct link to
Rookies contest. Or, get your last chance to win a
seat in two different events. Yes, you can win a 150k
Guarantee BagWow! (see video below) Re-entry Tournament seat
at
Pearl River
AND a
Poker Gras Main Event Seat.
That's two seats to two different tournaments with 250k in
guaranteed money. Not too shabby. Go to our Facebook page's
pinned post or @GCPNet's pinned tweet for instructions on
how to earn an entry. That video just below... that'll
be on the post. |
BAGWOW?
VIDEO OF THE WEEK:
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE
GLOBE:
RIDLEY WINS IT:
Last
Friday, Derek Ridley took down a Baton Rouge tournament for
a nice payday AND won an entry into the Rookies tourament at
Pearl River.
Congrats to Derek and that's a really
nice hoodie!
ADKINS BETS BIG AT BESTBET:
Cash game pro Josh Adkins from Tallahassee, called his
shot when he won the 5k Main Event at the
WPT BestBet Jacksonville
event. With only 20k in tournament cashes he still entered
the event. Then he texted his buds he was going to win
and did just that for over 331k beating Tan Nguyen heads up.
IVEY DENIED IN EUROPE BUT STILL ON A HEATER:
Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik won the 25k Short Deck
tournament at the WSOP Europe on his home turf of King's
Casino. He beat none other than Phil Ivey heads up. Ivey
entered with a giant chip lead but Leon overcame the odds to
deny Ivey his 11th WSOP bracelet.
Not sure if Leon
allowed Phil to play Baccaret or if anybody was waiting for
Phil by the pay out cage.
Ivey then bagged the
biggest stack in the High Roller No Limit Event and cashed a
previous short deck tournament.
Catching heat.
NOT DEAF ENOUGH:
Allegations are swirling in Australia that the winner of a
Deaf Poker Australia
Championship wasn't deaf enough to be
eligible. Chris Smitton identifies as deaf and pointed to a
tatoo by his ear with a mute symbol when the other players
introduced themselves by sign language. |
LINKAGE:
GULF COAST POKER AWARDS:
PokerNews broke the story: at
this year's Poker Gras,
in the Friday, November 15th Main Event flight we will award the first annual
Gulf Coast Poker
Awards in eight categories. How did PokerNews get the story
first? We must have a leaker. To see the nominees go
here.
Great write up by Chad Holloway and a ton of locals
deserving of the spotlight. Go to our GCP Facebook
Group to let us know who we missed.
RIVER
RAT ROUNDERS GOING TO PEARL RIVER:
The Memphis Bar League
River Rat Rounders (see pic above) will be sending at least two rookie's
to our Rookies And Rounders event. Under 10k in
earnings you can still join them. Want to go for free?
We currently have two social media contests going
the Rookie and Rounders post (embedded below):
Also check out the latest
contest pinned atop our
FACEBOOK and
TWITTER
where we give away a $600
POKER GRAS Main Event Seat and a $200 Pearl River Monster Stack seat.
A.I. HALLOWEEN
COSTUMES:
In search of something novel
for your halloween outfit? Why just rely on A.I. to tell you
to 6x pot with a draw when you can utilize it for your
costume choice too. Some of them include:
Sentient Stone, Eight Ball of Wrath, Skunk in a Moose suit,
or A Poker Player in Possession of an Onion (if only it were
a Poker Player Possessed by an Onion). For more choices go
here.
BEATING BOTS HURTS BOTTOM LINE:
Speaking of A.I.. Crackdown on Bots hurts
Party Poker?
Hopefully it's only short term.
JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT INTERPRETATION OF WIRE ACT TO BE INTERPRETED:
Enforcement and intrepretation of Wire Act has flipped
and flopped as it pertains to online poker depending on some
fairly arbitrary opinions of law enforcement. It's possible
with some cases up for appeal it may be finally and
definitively
interpretated
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HAND OF THE WEEK:
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LOCAL TOURNAMENT NEWS:
BagWow!
The re-entry
tournament that kicks off
Poker Gras
at Harrahs, NOLA on
November 7th will feature a best bag forward format. If you
bag twice you'll also win a $600 Main Event seat. Bag
thrice
three times and you'll win a $600 Main Event seat AND $900
cold hard cash.
*Okay... We can't guarantee it'll be cold
or hard cash. It
could be soft or warm or it could be hot and crinkly cash. But it
definitely will be cash.
BagWow?
Speaking of BagWow! we got another
one of our dumb goofy videos coming as
soon as next week promoting the BagWow! format at Pearl
River. To whet your appetite it's got something to do with
this.
What's that
format? Well everything is one notch better in Pearl River
this fall. The tournament has been moved to a smoke free VIP
room. The guarantee has been bumped up to 150k and then the
bonuses that'll be making you say BagWOW!
The event
starts October 24th with a flight on Thursday, two on Friday
and two more Saturday. Bag once? Good luck on day two!
But... it's a best bag forward format, so might as well bag
twice and get some extra chips. Then you also a earn a 1k
bonus. You want to bag again, you got five flights to play,
so why not. If you do, we'll give you another 3k bonus.
1k + 3k = 4k in bonuses all before you make the money on Day 2!
Again, you will win cash, but no guarantee it'll be cold or
hard.
BestBet MAIN STARTS:
Here's is the complete
schedule for BestBet Jacksonville's current tournament
series which includes the 5k WPT Main Event that starts
today:
Structure
Here.
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TWEET OF THE WEEK/HAND OF THE WEEK:
Joey Ingram is dominating our tweets recently but
considering PostleGate has dominated poker content for two
weeks, and he's kind of the authority on it... hard not to
quote him. And at this point in time, is there
anything posted not be
about Mike Postle? So more Postle but wait... there's a twist. It's a hand he loses.
And there's dancing and taunting and more.
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NEWS BITES:
LATEST ON POSTLE-ABILITIES:
When did he gain superuser status and his Impostable
super powers? YouTuber Gumpnstein did the work and Joey Ingram
recaps
it in this video. Gumpnstein narrowed it down to the first
moment of the cheating. Also, Postle's winnings and absurd win-rate get even more
absurd.
If you want to hear Postle's take on
the situation. He went on Mike Matasow's podcast.
OWN A PIECE OF POKER
HISTORY:
For just under 12 million you can purchase
the gambling den Benny Binion used to hang out at before
opening the Horseshoe in Vegas. Located outside of
Dallas it
has three lakes and 1369 acres.
RUNGOOD BOSSIER RESULTS:
Mykel Comroe first for
over 40k. Dennis Jones second. Mike Sanders and Mark Burford
final table. Judge Leo Boothe, Preston McEwen, Chris Hight,
Wes Gauthier, Matt Stroud, and Shawn Calvit cash.
PokerNews.
WALTERS' APPEAL FAILS:
Sports bettor legend Billy Walters lost his appeal on an
insider trading charge. Details
here.
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RON GERMANY
WINS LATEST CONTEST:
The
 Georgia
player earned his entry in the drawing by sharing our
FACEBOOK post. This week we still have the Rookies and Rounders
ongoing post (scroll down) AND just pinned our latest
contest.
You can win your way into the 150k, Best
Bag Forward, 1k bonus for bagging twice, 4k total bonus for
bagging thrice. Earn entries by following the instructions
there and on
TWITTER. |
GCP TOURNAMENT NEWS:
8 PLAYERS 5 SEATS:
Pearl River Resort's first satellite guaranteed 5 seats to
the 150k Guaranteed Best Bag, Multi-Bag Bonus opening
flight.
8 players entered last night and 5 people
won seats. Wow!
The next one is Saturday at 7 pm.
All these guarantee 5 seats.
If you like overlays it's worth the drive.
More
details on that 150k tournament here:
POKER GRAS SCHEDULE TWEAKS:
So, the
Working Man's Special, a multi-flight multi-NIGHT tournament
has been ammended. November 11th at 4pm is Flight A,
November 12th at 4pm is Flight B, and November 13th at...
you guessed it 4 pm is NIGHT Two.
For a $200 buy-in you'll get a nice
structure and be able to make it to work the next day.
The opener a three flight Monster stack will be best bag
forward. We are working on offering a bonus for anybody that
bags all three flights.
Updates to the schedule will
be posted
here
shortly.
We will start our seat giveaway promotions
for Poker Gras NEXT WEEK. |
MORE ON THE IMPOSTLEABLE:
It's always nice to see
major media cover Poker. Unfortunately, most of the
time when they do it's covering a scandal. Scott Van Pelt
distills this scandal expertly...
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NEWS AND LINKAGE:
RC DALE WINS HIS WAY TO ROOKIES AND
ROUNDERS:
Congrats to Mobile's RC Dale who won a promotion we ran with
All In Entertainment to earn a seat to Pearl River's Rookie
and Rounders tournament October 27th. We'll see you
there, RC!
Btw, head over to our
FACEBOOK page if you too want to win a Rookies seat. We
have a still running promotion for that. Also this
afternoon we will announce our latest winner AND start yet
another free seat giveaway. Plenty of chances to win
your way into our tournaments at Pearl River featuring TWO
$150k Guarantees! Schedule
here.
FORMER GCP BLOGGER RUNNING GOOD:
Last time Matt Stroud played in Bossier City he won the
RunGood main event for 47k. He returned as a bounty in
another RunGood tournament at the Horseshoe and promptly got
the biggest chunk of the chop. Unfortunately, after the
agreement they played it out for the ring and Timothy
Gilliam prevailed. Stroud pocketed 4k in the $135 buy-in.
Gilliam, Christopher Shaw, and Brandon Gilliam each made
almost 3k. Ben Mintz, Michelle Wolkomir, Mary Fowler, Sean
Hardy and Dennis Baker all cashed.
IVEY
LEGAL TWIST IN EDGE SORTING:
Poker News
has the story on Phil Ivey's ongoing battle with Borgata.
Now appealing the 2016 verdict, his lawyers brought up a
case maybe they should have cited in their first trial. Go
here.
FANDUEL, POKERSTARS NOW ONE AND THE SAME:
More on the megrer that Joins Poker Stars/Full Tilt/Sky
Bet with Paddy Power/Betfair. Also means Fox Bet will join
FanDuel in the US. Irish Times has
more.
DRAYMOND GREEN GETS CLOCKED CLEANED BY HO:
Golden State Warrior Draymond Green tried to run a bluff
on Maria Ho. How'd
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IMPOSTLEABLE?
HANDS OF THE WEEK:
This
has been the conversation of the week on Twitter, our
private GCP
Facebook Group
and messageboards everywhere. Mike Postle, often seen in his
Ole Miss hat on the Stones stream and with a connection to
Tunica poker, has been accused of cheating. Many think he
possibly hacked the RFID or somehow received signals about
the hands as they played out. Doug Polk wraps it up pretty
well with some hand analysis.
TWEET OF THE
WEEK:
Want some persuasive evidence...
CAN ANYBODY BE TRUSTED?
You
want to still believe in Heros? Let's watch a great poker
player make a great river decision on a live stream without
staring at his crotch, playing with his hat, and not winning
at an impostleable rate?
Garrett Adelstein
is your man...
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 POKER
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(UPDATED:
5/13/19)
Gene D's outlook on the local and national poker scene:
"Ok...looks
like I will get to fire at a few tourneys this week in New
Orleans for the last circuit event event before the chaos in
Vegas kicks off and the World Series of Poker.....
Been watching that whole twitter
feud/fiasco with Kid Poker and Shaun Deeb. I watched the entire
Joey "ChicagoJoey" Ingram podcast where they discussed this and
a slew of other topics...2 hours worth."
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 THE POKER MONKEY
[UPDATED:
08/20/19]
Poker Monkey shares his insights on the tournament poker
circuit, life in general, and the battle to make it happen:
"Been formulating ideas in my head to write about over the
past month or two. Had an "interesting" day of poker at the Beau
a few weeks back that had me inspired to put pen to paper, as it
were. Sometimes, especially in poker, you see things that simply
deserve to be shared with someone...ANYONE!
One thing I know that I never did...or rather HAVEN'T done
yet...is share the cool details of my trip to Scotland and
London that preceded my trip out to Vegas for this year's
eventual disappointing WSOP event. I have to confess...I find
myself, the older I get...getting more and more private and
unwilling to share personal details that in the past I was
always fairly eager to share.!" [+}
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 POKER
FACES IN THE CROWD
[UPDATED:
11/8/19] BEN SAXTON is writing a poker book based on the
Gulf Coast scene. Here is an archive of interviews and
features of poker players from all over but with a spotlight
mostly on our locals.
"Captain Peace Marvel has an enviable job: he takes people
fishing for money. Thanks to a lot of enthusiasm and the
Captain’s joky trademark — a morning prayer of forgiveness —
Peacekeeper Charters is one of Louisiana’s most popular fishing
agencies. Marvel, who’s from Baton Rouge and lives in Pearl
River with his family, is a voracious outdoorsman, traveler,
music-lover, reader, writer, and poker player."
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 VLOG
CORY PANSANO
[UPDATED:
10/12/18] CORY is Harrhas NOLA cash player who has moved to
Vegas to take his shot there. The Vlog chronicles his
efforts.
"Cory's first few blogs have included appearences by Drew Brees
(okay kind of a drive by), Daniel Negreanu (not a drive by at
all), and an Harrahs NOLA reg many of you may recognize.
The
vlog started in pursuit of a PokerStars contest but Cory expects
to keep blogging in the future. Track his progress on
www.corypansano.com or
on his YouTube channel. Good stuff."
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 JASON
MERCIER SHOWS NO MERCY
(UPDATED
11/11/15) Florida's Jason Mericer is one of the best poker
players in the world. Why wouldn't you read his blog?
"I'm back home in Florida, relaxing for most of November before
heading back out for more tournaments in December. Now that the
NBA season is underway, I'm taking advantage of the time off to
watch some hoops, including following how my Miami Heat are
going to do without LeBron James this year.
I actually just took a trip up to Charlotte, North Carolina to
watch the Heat play the Hornets a few days ago. A friend of mine
has courtside tickets and invited me to come up because he knows
how big of a Heat fan I am. I've wanted to sit courtside for a
Heat game for quite some time so was really excited to
experience it for the first time. We sat right next to the
Hornets bench, so hearing the interaction between the players
and the coaches was pretty awesome. It was one of the most fun
things I've ever done and I can't wait to do it again.."[+] |
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 RIVER
POKER
[UPDATED:
01/01/18]
Davy Murrah dispenses poker insight with an intriguing
approach to the game:
"This is a "True Confessions" blog. My confession is that I
don't always pay attention to everything that is happening. I
suspect that we all are guilty at times but I KNOW that I
certainly am.
It usually happens when you put your
opponent on a straight draw after the flop and concentrate so
fully on what cards would complete his straight and whether they
fall that you miss the board flushing or you put him on a heart
flush draw and concentrate so completely on whether or not
another heart falls that you fail to notice the board
straightening.
A similar but different lapse happened to me
the other day."
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 RECOGNIZE
AND REACT
(UPDATED
01/14/15) A
new title but the same blog,
Goondingy or Big Smoove and pure aggression on the felt examines
live poker action:
"Greetings and salutations! I did it, I played a bit of poker! I
met my buddy Wild Bill at Lauberge Casino in Baton Rouge to play
the $100 tournament and follow up with some cash games. I got to
the last three tables before I busted. Had to play like a nit,
could not catch anything and when I raised most folks folded.
We got there before the tournament started and were instant
alternates, something about a supervisor not being on the floor
to help open up another table, but after about 30 minutes they
opened a table and about 30 more minutes later I was called to
action. Played very tight and just observed, I wanted to get my
feel for the game back and it took a very long time. I picked up
blinds where it was necessary had one scare where a gentleman
chased me to the river and folded on my river bet but my
downfall hand was pocket jacks in the cut-off, I believe the
blinds were 1k 2k with a $100 ante. " [+] |
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 SAINTS
WIN
[UPDATED 01/01/18] ReidG ...who was raised in New Orleans and
lives in Mobile brings his poker Saints
football perspective on to GCP.NET.
"How's this for a
couple of days of bullshit?
A day before the Saints
played the Falcons on December 7th, the NFL’s Arthur Blank-led
compensation committee finally rewarded Roger Goodell with a
$200M contract extension.
Goodell’s contract came after
months of bad blood and threats of litigation from Jerry Jones,
who had obstructed the formalities. Blank eventually won this
power struggle between two of the NFL’s most influential owners,
and delivered Goodell his new contract.."
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POKERBAT
[UPDATED:
10/21/14] THE POKER BAT is an online player from Northern
Louisiana who is trying out blogging to help him with his game.
Bat will delve into hand scenarios and discuss issues facing
today's online player.
"From his poker blind, the Bat watched Kai magnificently wade
through that minefield of Q10 loving princesses and get to heads
up action. Heads up action in a ladies tournament… creepy smile,
creepy wink, creepy nudge (somebody needs to design that
emoticon). There the Bat hears some of the exiled ladies
talking. One of them a brutish looking tight end for an Canadian
Football League team tells the others, if Kai wins he’s not
getting out of the parking lot with the pendant.
This got the Bat picking his nose, actually, the Bat was already
knuckle deep, this got the Bat thinking, about poor Kai getting
jumped in the parking lot. So taking stock of the future mob,
the Bat envisioned the scene if he won:
Kai exits the elevator, with the Ted Nugent muzak fading away as
he walks into the IP garage, a car skids out in the distance,
but this floor of the garage is empty except for Kai’s car (a
vintage Aston Matin) parked by itself overlooking the beauty of
the bay of biloxi. As Kai, walks sipping from his shaken not
stirred victory martini, the lone light above his car flickers
rapidly and turns off, turning the garage to shadow. Dripping
water echoes loudly and Kai can’t help but shake the idea he’s
being watched"
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