Phil Galfond
Friday is here. Finally. But this isn't your endure chapter of The Nightly Turbo this week. Analysis aback on Sunday for The Nightly Turbo's annual wrap-up, The Anniversary That Was...in case you absent annihilation that happened this week.
Run Good? Run Bad?
It's inevitable. A point will appear in your poker career if you will run bad. Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond was the additional bigger champ on Full Tilt endure year. Now, according to High Stakes News, he's down about a actor this year over about 4,000 hands.
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Galfond took to his blog to let out some of his thoughts:
"Yesterday, I bent myself activity like I run bad, and got absolutely mad at myself. Every year, I see humans who I apperceive I'm bigger than accept bigger after-effects than me. Does that beggarly I'm active bad? Of advance not. Some appealing simple anticipation sims will appearance that anniversary of the bigger winners every year are VERY absurd to be the best amateur in the world, or the amateur who played best that year. I was one of the bigger online winners in '08, and I won one of the beyond WSOP events. No amount how acceptable I anticipate I am, I acutely ran great. So why was I activity apologetic for myself? I dunno. I get absolutely balked with myself whenever I am casuistic like that. Or I assumption I should say, whenever I acquaintance emotions. Selective anamnesis makes anybody anticipate they run bad. If you win a flip, you don't anticipate abundant of it, but you anticipate about every cast you lose."
But he's not absolution it get him down, and, with his absolute outlook, he'll be aback in the blooming in no time. Looks like we're not the alone ones who accept in base your academician for absolute results. Acceptable luck Phil!
Read his accomplished blog at Bluefire Poker.
FullFlush on the Radio?
Everyone's admired no-filter-when-he-talks poker player, Luke "_FullFlush1_" Schwartz, will be a bedfellow host on online poker radio show, The Poker Show. It's the show's additional adventure of the division and afterwards its arguable alpha endure week, we can alone anticipate this anniversary will top that. Especially now that it has been activate out that Schwartz faced his absinthian battling Andrew Feldman on the Late Night Poker show.
Schwartz will be on the appearance Monday night, August 31, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. BST (that's British Summer Time for those of us on the added ancillary of the pond).
Catch the appearance at ThePokerShowLive.com.
Poker TV Shows
We've been talking a lot about poker on TV. Anybody wants a little section of the poker pie it seems. Well, actuality we accept a new one and an old one to allocution about.
Rounders Abode is a appearance that is accepting billed as "Big Brother and Survivor had a babyish that played online poker." Cameras will be rolling 24/7 in the house, so admirers never absence a minute of what's traveling on. The contestants of the appearance will change because online satellites will be active constantly. The appearance will be filmed in Las Vegas in November.
To acquisition out more, analysis out RoundersHouse.
Looks like Face the Ace is accepting a little makeover. If the appearance allotment to NBC in September, a few things will be different. Producers took into annual the suggestions of admirers and tweaked the appearance for the accessible episodes. The admirers will be abundant added complex this time, hasty the date if players are all in (probably oohing and ahhing added too).
“We’re not traveling to accomplish the poker junkies blessed with this show,” Executive Vice President of NBC Sports Jon Miller said. “They’re not traveling to be annoyed with what we’re accomplishing here." An absorbing animadversion from the NBC exec, indeed.
The appearance is aggravating to abduction a added boilerplate audience. Hopefully these little changes work. Maybe poker junkies will end up affection it too.
The Las Vegas Sun has more.
Durrrr Seeing Red?
According to Howard Lederer, if the amount is right, he could be. "I'm abiding that Full Tilt would adulation to accept him. I anticipate its just a amount of Full Tilt and durrrr alive it out, and alive out a fair price," said Lederer on ESPN's Inside Deal.
After the money affair is settled, the alone added catechism would be...would he still be durrrr or would they accomplish him change his awning name?
They're already discussing this on TwoPlusTwo. What do you think?
In Case You Absent It
WPT Cyprus is just about the corner. Antonio Esfandiari, Mike Matusow and Jeffrey Lisandro are just a few of the game's best that are headed to the admirable island. If arena adjoin them isn't abundant of a acumen to go, again maybe the admirable beaches and the best resort will attract you. Analysis out WPT Cyprus is Bringing the Heat for more.
A lot goes on abaft the scenes at some of your admired online poker sites. We apperceive that you can't be agitated searching for all the account (which is why you're account this) because you're so active crushing your opponents on the felt. That's why we're bringing you a annual amend of what's traveling on in the online gaming market. So, afore you alpha a cilia in our forums about why some website isn't sending you your cash-out check, apprehend The Online Poker Marketplace Report.
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau Main Event is rolling forth absolutely smoothly. Day 2 is over and the players are all in the money. Forty-two players will activate Day 3 tomorrow with the hopes of accepting crowned champion. Analysis out the Day 2 address for a epitomize of all the activity and get all the activity as it happens at the Live Reporting page.
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