World Series Of Poker 2006

The WSOP schedule is out, or it’s been out for a while and I just noticed it.  Either way, it’s pretty interesting.  Since I am not, as many of you might suspect, a wildly rich man, for me to play in a $1,500 event I have to save for a few months to get the…

"I just thought about what would happen if I won,” Gold said. "Out of the goodness of their heart, a lot of people would feel like they needed to talk to me, they’d want to know what I was doing, cameras would follow me around. I don’t want my life on display. I don’t have…

I had a handful of folks over last night to watch the final table of the main event on pay per view.   I thought sitting at home watching it alone would be kind of pathetic, so we had steaks and played a small $5 tournament while we watched Jamie Gold bully the table with his…

So I’m back and finally recuperated from my trip to the World Series Of Poker.  Many important things were learned about my poker.  My preparation was good, but I honestly found computer players in Poker Academy to be softer than the real ones at the World Series.  I have to figure out how to make…

Welcome to Team Safdar, Live from the Rio at the World Series of Poker 2006. We are Shabbir’s local support staff, and will be updating you throughout the day on Shabbir’s progress in Event #40, $1000 buyin NL Hold’em. For those of you who have somehow managed to secure secret video of the event, he…

I’ve spent the last 5-6 months honing my tournament game.  This wasn’t because I’m going to play in a baby $1,000 event this week.  I’m always studying poker, and I treat tournament skill like a muscle, you’ve got to use it and exercise it to improve it.  At the same time I didn’t want to…