I had a fantasy about covering this year’s NBC Heads-Up Championship. If you look at my posts from 2007 through 2009, you will see a large number of posts in a very compressed period. You will also see, in my opinion, a few really excellent posts. Even though I was writing while the matches were ...
[This is my final post in the series about the 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship. NBC started broadcasting the matches two weeks ago, with an hour of coverage on April 18, following that up with two hours last Sunday, the 25th. Today and the following two Sundays (May 2, 9, and 16), you can see another ...
Before the 2010 NBC Heads-Up Championship, this is what the most famous hand in poker history looked like: Johnny Chan limped on his button with Jc-9c. Erik Seidel checked his big blind with Qc-7h. The flop was Qs-10h-8d, top-pair for Seidel but the nut straight for Chan. Seidel checked and Chan bet 40,000. Erik called and raised another 50,000. ...
I told you, I like Phil Hellmuth. His talents and accomplishments, despite his focus on what he hasn’t done or on his shortcomings, are real. He can be a compelling television presence. It’s not a coincidence, however, that his wife is a psychologist by profession. But even I – a friend and fan of Phil ...
The impossible happened. Six of the most magnetic television performers participating in the tournament lost their matches during the second half of the Money Round. The most stunning of the losses – and consequently making the most compelling television – was Phil Ivey’s defeat at the hands of Scotty Nguyen. Except for the hands where they ...
While sitting next to Joe Reitman as Annie Duke and Andy Bloch battled in the first round of the NBC Heads-Up Championship, I thought I saw Joe’s ex-wife, Shannon Elizabeth, on the far side of the room and pointed her out. It wasn’t inconceivable that Shannon Elizabeth would be here. Shannon, who made the semifinals of ...
[The issue of the Blog spacing have been fixed, and you'll be pleased to know I have a healthy backlog of high-quality posts. Therefore, I continue with my coverage of the NBC Heads-Up Championship.] There is an old expression that goes, “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” I never knew what this meant but ...