Running 2006 World Series Of Poker Thread

[CentralIllinoisan]

Remember watching the 2003 ME and at the beginning they had Varkonyi and his "coach" on there talking about how math helped them win the ME in 2002. While math helps, it does take skill and tons of luck as well. I'm betting Varkonyi had tons of luck and math in 2002.

Of course, this is coming from someone who's only one one 7-card stud Hi-Lo tourney on Poker Stars 

So you're the guy I play hi/lo stud with. ... there's not many.

 

[Satchel Pooch]

No doubt about it, Bird. Varkonyi probably signs 1/10th the autographs of Moneymaker and Co. I wonder if it bothers him.

I remember reading a piece about the World Series in either 04 or 05 where the guy emceeing the thing announced a bunch of former world champions in the room and neglected to mention Varkonyi. The reporter wrote that Varkonyi looked around and said "Hey, what about me?"

A valid point, but nobody gives two shirts about him. He came before Moneymaker but isn't one of the "name" poker players. He may as well me "ButtFuzz" or "SoxFan444" on the Internet.

 

[Traveling]

I like Hachem, I think he's definitely some giddyup in his game. he really needs to retire that "pass the sugah" garbage, though.

Hach got lucky when he said that to Andrew Black last year, because the sugar almost got passed back to Black. If I remember correctly Black was one card away from a higher flush on that hand.

I believe the hand you're talking about came when Hachem flopped the nut flush, got Black to put in all of his money with a top set of queens and blurted out "Pass the sugar!" before realizing Black had 7 outs on the turn and 10 on the river to win, making Black only a 4-1 underdog. It's about a "slim" of a favorite one can be when he flops the nuts -- most of the time, you're much more dominant than that.

 

[rascalface]

Remember watching the 2003 ME and at the beginning they had Varkonyi and his "coach" on there talking about how math helped them win the ME in 2002. While math helps, it does take skill and tons of luck as well. I'm betting Varkonyi had tons of luck and math in 2002.

Of course, this is coming from someone who's only one one 7-card stud Hi-Lo tourney on Poker Stars 

yes, because math helps you get pocket aces about a billion times. Varkonyi has certainly improved from those days, but c'mon. the deck hit him upside the head so hard it about knocked his retinas across Fremont Street.

on a side note, anybody heard anything about negreanu's new book coming out in september? I'm actually going to be out in vegas the day it's released. I'm hoping there's a party to crash.

daniel cracks me up. his video blogs over on FCP are pretty good, too.

 

[peixeiro]

I'm betting Varkonyi had tons of luck and math in 2002.

There was a point at the final table (I believe when there were 8 or 9 players left) when he was the short stack.
Hachem was the short stack when there were 5 or 6 left last year, but that's more doable.

 

[Sly]

Anyone know if Mikey the Chimp is still alive in the tournament?

 

[Jim Tom Pinch]

Anyone know if Mikey the Chimp is still alive in the tournament?

Is he related to Murphy the dog?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Moneymaker was very fortunate.

Bobby V was friggin' unconcious.

Kudos to Varkonyi for working his way deep into the tournament, but a monkey could have played those final-table hands and won.

 

[Chi City 81]

Pros Phil Ivey, Juan Carlos Mortensen, Layne Flack, Freddy Deeb and Josh Arieh were knocked out.

All remaining players are in the money.

 

[imjustagirl2]

DAMMIT! PHIL IVEY!!!!

 

[Satchel Pooch]

Pros Phil Ivey, Juan Carlos Mortensen, Layne Flack, Freddy Deeb and Josh Arieh were knocked out.

All remaining players are in the money.

I don't know how my life is going to move on. That forking guy. :

 

[urgrad04]

I saw on pokerwire.com that Negreanu is down to 55k. He started the day with 300k or so and was in the top 10. Now he's around 125th place and treading water. Does anyone know if that's a misprint? If not that's a massive collapse. Whatever I guess you have to try to make a move at some point in the tourney.