ForPeyton Auctions – second lot
So, the second lot of auctions are indeed online now…so for anyone who missed out on the first lot (see here), here’s your second chance – same goes for anyone else: head over to the ebay auctions, now!
So get your lazy behind over to ebay already, thanks!
Just horsing around, I doubt it…
Wow is all I can say to the final table lineup of the 50k H.O.R.S.E tourney at the WSOP:
- Chip Reese
- Doyle Brunson
- Andy Bloch
- Phil Ivey
- Jim Bechtel
- David Singer
- Dewey Tomko
- T.J. Cloutier
- Patrik Antonius
I think it couldn’t get much better/harder than that…let’s see how this one works out in the end…play will start at 9pm tonight…excitement! The only thing that’s a little weird is that they have battle back and forth in 5 different games for 2 days and now the final table is strictly NL Hold’em, hmm, I guess it wouldn’t take too long to finish otherwise…
Follow-up on the first forpeyton.com auctions
As I mentioned in one of my prior post, there were quite some amazing things up for auction at ebay. The crown jewel of this first set of auctions was, at least IMHO, the Phil Gordon package including not only a signed copy of his “Little Green Book”, a signed copy of his DVD “Final table poker” and a signed photograph, but also an one hour phone lesson. Wow! Although I was eager to get my hands on this one, but in the end it was a little over my price range (the winning bid was 321.27$) – still one heck of a steal at this price!
So while I bid in numerous of the other auctions (including the signed photograph by Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier and Mark Seif’s Jersey) I set my sights on my second favourite item, which would be Daniel Negreanu’s package including a signed T-Shirt, a signed hat and a signed photograph – so basically a three in one deal. I went ahead and put a bid in and to my surprise my “early bluff at the pot” resulted in all of “my opponents’ ” folding.
So I take it down. Nice. Now the only thing between me and the package is finding the best way to ship it to me (to Germany) without it costing a fortune, but I’m sure that Shelly Hokanson and/or Bob Nardi will sort that out for me. I’m so excited that I’m able to help this good cause and receive such great stuff in return, which makes it even more exciting.
I want to take the opportunity to point your attention to the ForPeyton homepage once again and especially to the auctions page as there’s a good chance that there will be more exciting things up for auction in the (near) future! There’s also the ongoing possibility to simply donate some money to the cause, see the donations page for further information.
Furthermore I would like to spread some link love to all the pros who were generous enough to devote time and/or donate things and/or money to this good cause (in no particular order):
Get ready to reraise your fellow bidders
As most of you might already know there is an effort to raise money for the little girl Payton (if that doesn’t ring a bell, head on over to ForPeyton.com ) and the first auctions have started on ebay – a little less than two days left.
Sidenote: I already contacted Bob Nardi about the possibility to ship overseas and he said that something can be worked out (e.g. via USPS), so I’m going to bid (as a matter of fact I already did on the signed Isabelle Mercier photo, but Sir Al bid higher and holds the highest bid at time of writing this). So get out your wallets, help out for a good cause and get some cool signed stuff of a pro player in the process! Reraise your fellow bidders!
The items currently up for auctions are:
First german celebrity poker tourney…
…aka the biggest bullshit I’ve seen in my life. German tv host Stefan Raab hosted the first german celebrity poker tourney tonight. Setup: There were 4 other celebrities invited (german pop singer Sasha, TV comedian Elton, actress Heike Makatsch and comedian Bully Herbig) which were joined by an online qualifier (a 19 year old student, who allegedly beat a field of nearly 50.000 players to win the seat). Starting chips: 10k, blinds starting with 50/100.
There were some weird plays early on and you could really feel that most of the players at the table didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They were calling down bs hands like crazy and there was not much movement at the table. Then the luck/bs factor came into play as they kept raising the blinds like crazy (up to 3k/6k within the last 30 minutes). The host Stefan Raab put a bad beat on the online qualifier as he cracked the pocket kings with 36o, shortly after that he busted out in 4th, not to shabby though – 10.000 Euro for a little poker on television.
In the end it was happy go lucky as tv comedian Elton hit the deck like crazy to take down the 50.000 Euro. I was really looking forward to the event and I was disappointed. Too few poker hands crammed into a two hour format with commercial after commercial and a crapshoot blinds structures, all I can say is one thumb up for Bully Herbig’s comedic performance at the table and two thumbs down for the overall tourney…
…maybe it’s time that a major player in the poker game (e.g. PokerStars, FullTiltPoker, …) got involved in such a tourney…
Big pimpin – New pooker book
Thursday July 06th 2006, 3:28 pm
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Poker StuffA little late to the party, but nontheless:
Scott better known as doubleas has his book on the market now. It’s called “Pressure Poker – Poker Strategy and Tools to improve your game” 
…head over to his post about it…there’s an Amazon link where you can order it directly and give him some extra affiliate money in the process! So what are you waiting for? Don’t be a fool, get your copy today!
New Team PokerStars member and new software
So, there’s a new member of team PokerStars – is it just me or are there more and more members as we’re approaching the WSOP main event? Who is it? None other than, one of my favourite players, Barry Greenstein – the “robin hood of poker”. Cool.
In other PokerStars news: they updated their software which now features the two most noteworthy features: themes and resizable tables (see pics below, click for real size)…
Post imminent
Well, after yesterday’s home game I was confused and my mind was running at 180mph. I had a pretty good discussion on the drive home about the question “How does ‘questionable’ play influence your own game?” and the things surrounding that question.
I’m still writing on this very interesting topic and so this is just a note that there will be a post about it as soon as I got all the things worked out. Could be today, could be tomorrow, could be a few days…you’ll find out soon enough… 😉
Pimpage and request
First of all let’s do the pimpin: Just in time, too…tomorrow evening/night is the next DADI event…DADI 6, Pot Limit Hold’em…if you’ve got the time, play it! I’m not sure if I’m going to make it, the starting time of 10pm (= 4am over here) is a little bit late…so don’t be disappointed if I’m not there…all useful infos in the pic below…
After that is out of the way let me make a request:
I’m an avid reader of many, many poker blogs and usually I’m an avid commenter, too. But some blogs don’t allow me, or many others for that matter, to comment at all. Why? Because the comments are only open to users of the blogger platform. Well, some of you might say that I should just get a blogger account and that’s that – I need to disagree here as I don’t want to setup a empty/fake site just for commenting on other blogs, especially as people won’t find anything useful there and I like to have a link to my site if I comment somewhere (I don’t care about PR or whatever on this site, it’s my passion and not a business site, so what it comes down to is – if I comment, ppl should be able to find my site.)
Why do I even care? Because it sucks that you’re reading good stuff about strategy, disappointments and big achievements (i.e. Hoyazo aka HammerPlayer winning the 40k on Party, etc) and you can’t give your 0.02$ or congratulate the person…so please, do as Chuck says:
Not sure if Chuck is talking about you? Some blogs immediately come to mind and there are many that I’m too lazy to single out atm, you know who you are…
…some blogs excluding non-blogger broggers:
Edit: Alright, I give up – if you find new comments on your blog which originate from ingoalscommentaccount.blogspot.com you know who they’re from 😉
Tips from the Pros
Not in the poker playing mood today, watching some poker can’t hurt though. The Poker Channel is showing the British Poker Open tonight and there’s a segment called “Tips from the Pros” they’re showing during the breaks. Some good stuff there and then they show one by Donnacha O’Dea (Irish Poker Pro), his tip:
“When playing poker, try to minimize your losses and maximize your profits” 😆 😆
Now that’s a tip right there, why didn’t I think of that before myself?! 😆 😆
