WSOP and other stuff

I thought I’d start today’s blog with a quick critique of last nights 2004 WSOP events on ESPN. The first event, $5,000 Limit Hold’em was pretty good. Powers was the most interesting character at the table, and love or hate him, this is a man who knows how to get air time. The absolute worst play didn’t come from Powers; it came from McManius, Powers arch nemesis. Powers is heads-up with McManius and betting out, McManius is calling the bets with a bloody Queen high right to the river. He must have been on a serious tilt because calling with a Queen nothing at the river is insane. The only other play worth commenting on is when Gallagher called Tran with a 7-5 suited. I know she was trying to defend her blind; but, after the flop didn’t improve the hand Patty’s aggressive play killed her. She had no read on Tran and the 7-5 turned into real trouble for her when it became a pair to Trans straight and then two pair on the river. The (almost) final hand was about what I expected, two monster hands running into each-other, Ace flush beats a King flush and it’s about over with Hennigan winning and Tran in second.

For the Omaha championship event both Lederer and Negreanu were at the final table and both were soon eliminated. The wild card this time was Ted Lawson, a newbie to poker, who made some horrible plays with the worst being when he misread his hand thinking he had a straight and, in fact, he had nothing. Bad play aside, Lawson managed to take the event beating out Lee Watkinson (who also took down a few events at the Orleans Open/2004) and favorite, Freddy “Must be the Shirt” Deeb.

In other news, I’ve been busy with a couple of projects. I’ve been looking at blogshares the past few days and been working to put every Poker Blog in the gambling category (not an easy task). I’ve run across a few good blogs while doing this and plan to overhaul the ol’ blog roll later this week. I’ve finally got all the new Las Vegas photos in the gallery and it has over 70 images with more coming.

Cool post of the day: Varaience from Crazy Game of Poker