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Does anyone know if they show repeats? I know for the first Heads-Up Tournament that they showed reruns on like CNBC or MSNBC, but I'm not seeing it listed this time. I also missed the TJ vs. Daniel match also because of the Tivo screw-up. It was only one episode, but still I really wanted to see it..

You are dead wrong. Phil was a pretty good player in the 80's and 90's when he cared, but there is simply no chance that he is among the top 20 NLH tournament players today. ff the top of my head, here are a few guys that would crush him:I think Daniel is right. It does not seem to me that Phil cares as much since poker really took off. I think he makes good money and has a great time now being a celebrity. He hardly plays that many tournaments. This is my opinion, but I was watching the 2003 WSOP Main Event, which sort of was the tipping point of poker craze and Phil seemed to play with m

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Somebody might steal Daniel!!!!!!!!!

Am I the only one who thinks that everyone here is misinterpreting Jim McManus' comment. When he said it was a conservative institution, I don't think he was referring to conservative as in liberal = left, right =conservative in a politcal sense. I think he meant that the times organziation is conservative compared to tabloid-esque papers like the NY Post or Daily News which report more on pop-culture, tabloid, and whatever sells. I think the he means that the NYTimes tries to project a high-intellectual seriousness image, and since poker is now a popular cultural phenomeon, it isn't someth

One time I am playing $2-4 at Commerice Casino. I have folded already, and three people are in, including a guy to my left who is an extreme fish who has been running bad. Anyway here comes the turn and fish bets $4, the guy next is short stacked and bets $7 all-in, and then the next guy is bring more chips forward to raise, but he has a puzzled look on his face, like he cannot decide how many chips to use. Anyway I tell it is $11 if you want to raise, and the guy says thanks. Anyway the fish to my immediate left gives me a dirty look and nastily says " You don't tell him what to do." Oka

The check-call guys you are referring to are asking you to take their money. I often play $2-4 limit at B&M and quite frequenly I get somebody who even with absolute garbage, any draw, any pair will call all the way to the end and not think, care or consider what someone else has. Why do they play this way? It is because they have played over some period of time where they go on rush, or lucky streak where they pull miracle after miracle, give bad beat after bad beat and feel like their play is justified. I saw somebody at 2-4 win like $300 in about 2-3 hours because he kept sucking ou

If the popularity keeps up they are definitely going to have start raisingthe buy-ins, not to keep the prestige, but because it will be almost too difficult to run tournaments with 10,000 people or more.

The field has gotten exponentially bigger. I feel like they should increase the buy-ins of the events, but $50,000 is way too much for main event. I think a reasonable compromise without going too far would just to double the buy-ins of most, or all the events. I think the WSOP is becoming too big, since before the event would never "sell-out."

I am at B&M casino playing limit $2-4. Anyway somehow I start talkingwith this one guy next to me and he brings up the computer handQ7o. He said it is called the computer hand because some experts analyzing the game using computers found you are dealt this hand more than any other hand. I say that is obviously not correct, and that over the long run, you will get Q7o just as much as you get AKo or 27o or any other two unpaired unsuited cards. He said I was wrong and for some reason you just get Q7 more than any other hand. I was arguing about this for awhile, bring up probability, and

I am surprised no one has mentioned Chris Ferguson as someone who deserved a spot at TOC. He already has 5 bracelets, and I maybe wrong,but I think he set a record for the number of cashes last year at a singleWS. Just my opinion.