Posts by Shabbir

After Katie’s $7,000 win, her urgings to me to play the $50,000 guaranteed tourney on the site with the awful players seemed like good advice.   Katie, I, and 735 others sat down this past Sunday and played no limit Hold’em.   Throughout the tournament we were never at the same table, but instant messaged constantly, talking about the general mood of the players, and when the blinds were getting too expensive to just sit back and wait for cards.  For the most of the tourney our stacks were almost exactly the same.

I’ve been hanging around the lower limits of Omaha 8 or better for several months now.  I play best at a full ring, and so I’ve been sticking to 9 and 10 handed table as much as I can.  I finally moved up to $5/$10 limits.  This means that the early bets are all $5 each, and the later bets are all $10 each.  The most I can lose in a single hand, if I bet like an idiot and had someone else betting with me, would be $120.

Thomas ‘Thunder’ Keller is a young player who won a World Series of Poker event this year only days after getting married.  He interviews his wife on what it’s like ot be married to a professional poker player in this two part series.  My favorite quote: When you go through big swings, I go through…

It’s her birthday today, she’s building an amazing new resource about tuberculosis, and last night she won third place in a large 800 person poker tournament, netting her $6,900.  She didn’t even hold it against me that my coaching resulted in her being put out in third place.  (I’m an impulsive no limit player)