SrslySirius is a genius

Black and Yellow



Wow, just amazing for all us poker degens who get all the references

I am not a toolbox


Mesageboard Grinder

Mizzi vs. Racener

I think Gary Wise says it all. I haven't even looked at the 2+2 posts and probably won't, but nonetheless, can we get two less credible people in the poker world. I mean Vinnie Vihn's chair has more credibility than these two.

http://jgarywise.com/?p=261

Update: http://jgarywise.com/?p=286

Praise Baby Jesus

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/02/senates-number-two-republican-jon-kyl-set-to-retire.html

One of the biggest opponents of legalizing on-line poker is going to retire.

Hilarious Poker Rap Song

Hey I got a question
Is the durr challenge finished yet?
I miss sammy and his unlit cigarette
I don't really care if you queers hate rapping
Straight maxin wit gabe Kaplan
My hottie's a blonde and her bodys the bomb
I won her flippin quarters from bobby belande
Think you can beat me, well that is erroneous
I mack hoes like Patrick Antonius
You wont see me coming with the Derringer sparking
But you will see me cumming on Jennifer Harman
Girls come in twos like when noah crafts an ark
I don't mean the show but ill poke her after dark
Come on annete obrestad shake ya ass
Girl get low like we're playing razz
I just went broke so in the meantime?
Picking up Asians
With barry Greenstein

Yeah it's the pokerz
I play it everyday
Got the sturdiest chip stacks
From Tournies to six max
Hate us for nothing
straight flush or bluffing
Please Believe
Ill be caking and crushing

Im durr on the river goin for the killshot
Playing lodden thinks with Antonio and phil laak
Who the hell let alan Meltzer on tv?
every time I see him I think its in 3d
Vanessa selbst looks like a manly dude
But id rather bang her over annie duke
Im glad full tilt
doesn't check my credit score
I can get a whore with just a single metaphor
all my skinny girls are astounding with brain
But I date fat chicks just to balance my range
If we're playing heads up then id prolly win
At the party wit Bacardi like im scotty wynn
Just face it children im here to make the millions
Make em see defeat like they were david Williams
When it comes to ranges my brain is higher
So watch me triple merge like an asian driver

Yeah it's the pokerz
I play it everyday
Got the sturdiest chip stacks
From Tournies to six max
Hate us for nothing
straight flush or bluffing
Please Believe
Ill be caking and crushing

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The Micro's rock

I love the the motorcycle driving by taking the chips...LOL Bellagio!

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One of the greatest lay-downs

Jump to 7:00 minute mark. This is one of the greatest lay-downs in poker history. This was live on ESPN last Saturday. The Poker Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is one of the three or four biggest tournaments of the year. Winner gets $2.3 million, second gets $1.8 million. Thinking through like he did and listening him to explain his reasoning it makes sense but the way Oliver played (a maniac) during the final table makes this a tough lay-down.

Oliver ends up losing the heads-up battle. Like Daniel said, this hand will come back to haunt him.

Interesting blog piece

http://ftrain.blogspot.com/2011/01/online-poker-not-out-of-dukes-league.html

Interesting take that Pollack and Duke may start their own on-line entity.

New Pro Poker League

New Pro Poker League
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=6032880

Saw this post yesterday on a new pro poker sports league. This league is being started by Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack. Pollack is the former commissioner of the WSOP and is currently chairman of the PBR and a former NASCAR and NBA executive. This is not the first time an attempt has been made to form a pro poker league. On the face of it, it sounds like a great idea that would be successful. However, Duke and company face a big challenge ahead of them. The biggest obstacle will be sponsorship from mainstream companies. To create the prize pools, they will need corporate sponsorship from other than poker related entities. So far this has proven impossible from well known and established companies. The WSOP has been successful in getting Milwaukee's best, Jack's Beef Jerky, and Planters Peanuts. This is fine and dandy but for a professional league to be successful you need more leading commercial companies like soft drink companies, leading beer companies, fast food chains or a cellular provider. This will prove difficult for them I fear as there is still a stigma associated with poker and gambling in general.

The second issue is who do you choose to play and what criteria do you create to allow for new entrants to gain admittance and for exempt players to keep their spots. There are so many top notch poker players from around the world that this will be hard to limit to 200. They will get all the old guard that are popular and have had significant TV exposure in the past. This will include people who have not done much in the last 3-5 years but because they were big at the poker boom in 2003-04 they will get invited.

The third issue will be tv coverage. For this to be successful they need a network to host it. ESPN may or may not since the calendar is full of more popular sports and they show a good amount of poker right now with the NAPT and the WSOP. Other cable channels will not expose this to the common man. The people who watch on Fox sports, GSN and Versus are hardcore poker junkies like myself, not your causal weekend sports watcher. ABC, FOX, NBC, or CBS need to be the destination. I suspect Fox or NBC may be ideal since they already show poker related content.

I wish them luck and hope they are successful but I feel it may be difficult to accomplish this and sustain it successfully.