cafreythebulldog

I also am a fan of gigantic chip stacks, but you cant push in 50 stacks! I think they should keep some 50K chips on the table and have some 10 or 25K's to pay for antes. I definitely don't think coloring up to all 100K's is a good idea but maybe color up 1/2 the 50K's once they reach the final table would be a good idea. P.S. The 100K chips should be made of solid platinum and be diamond encrusted in order to blind the viewers at home on ESPN.

I was just thinking with 84 million in chips that will be in play at the final table, shouldn't there be a 100K or even a 250K denomination chip that gets colored up to. I think last year they used 50K chips for the first time but that might even be a bit ridiculous this year with an extra 30 million on the table. Any thoughts?

Blinds are 25/50. I'm in the BB. UTG Makes it 100 to go. UTG+2 is a short stack and moves all in for 115 total. I look down at 8h9h. At this point in the tournamenet the blinds are sky high in relation to our stacks. I have about 650 left and the UTG player has about 600. The UTG player is ultra tight so I put him on AK, AA, KK or QQ. He is also the guy running the tournament. I just call thinking that the UTG player can't then move back over the top because the short stacks raise wasn't indeed a full raise. Anyways thats exactly what he tries to do and an argument ensues and we go back a for

Word is Dutch Boyd took it down. Just wondering if any railbirds had any details about some hands or the payouts.Actually it may have been Monday night but whatever.

I love to read Dennis Waterman's column at www.pokernews.com. He has some pretty good insight on the daily life of a Tournament Circuit player. I thought I would share a tidbit from his latest piece."We travel back in time to a tournament in Reno, Nevada. It is 1988 and there is one barnburner of a side game going, it is pot-limit and the blinds are 2-3-5 with the 2 going on the button. Player one limps in, player two limps, our hero limps third [already a suspect play with AdAh], two more players limp and now the cutoff raises it to 30, the button and two blinds call as well as the first two

I stayed right there at the Radisson. Either stay there or the Hyatt.By far the two nicest hotels on the island.

Yes I can see how the dealers become creatures of habit by the way the natives play. If they got into a heads up pot with each other and one of them called a bet on the flop they would just checked it all the way down no matter how big of a hand they had. Top2, a set, flush it didn't matter they just wouldn't play against each other. Congrats on your finish down there by the way Patrick I was rooting for you.

It was at the Raddison. I actually met the guy who founded the Poker Room. Real nice guy from Arkansas who lives down there now named Mason. We talked a little bit about the poker room came about and said it was a joint business venture between himself and the Raddison. It seemed like he used himself as a prop player as well as a couple others but they just seemed to keep action in the game which was refreshing.

Indeed she was. It was quite fun to watch. The Scuba instrcutors leg may not heal quite right but whatever.

It is officially listed as Dutch, but believe me when I tell you the official language in Aruba is Spanish. Just got back from my honeymoon and while there I decided that I'd pay for the trip by playing a little 4-8 hold-em. The game is the same with one exception, you can bet 4 or 8 on the flop and if someones decides to bet 4 on the flop you can raise to 12. So my first night there I turn my $200 into $400 relatively easily when our two tables of limit poker start to break down. Before I knew it it was down to one table with myself and 3 native Arubans...alll speaking spanish to each other a