Sleep With the Fishes, Dine on the Whales

4 rounds of golf under 100 in one calender day. No cart. For a measely 350K Eric accomplished this today. Phil Ivy was on the hook for 200k. Gavin Smith and others actually bought out their bets after the 9th hole of the last round so Eric did not officially win 350k today, but it was still close to it. What's the lesson in all this? Don't get drunk with Eric Lindgren after busting out of the Horse event and then go betting him prop bets for the next morning. Don't do it. In related news, Jaime Gold lost multiple prop bets to Robert Varkoni. Gold could not complete 4 continous laps around Greg Raymer on foot in one day. Gold also failed in his attempt to go 12 hours without mentioning his bracelet or shaking his wrist with it on it. In his last attempt, Gold couldn't get a nod of recognition from Phil Hellmuth walking through the Rio. All told Jaime owes Varkoni $19.73. There is some dispute as Jaime claims multiple people had pieces of him. Actually, since he sold off ...

Welcome to our latest blogger on Gulf Coast Poker. NET. I get a lot of useful strategy and information from him because our games are so different. I am a deliberate tight player, aggressive but tight, he's more a loose player who vacuum up chips early in tournaments to play for the top prizes. I find myself in situations like this. On the BB, (blinds 1 and 2oo), Limp, Limp, Limp, Limp, Limp, Limp, Button raises to $600 (????), fold, action to me. Right now there is $2100 in the pot. I have AK. I have $4500 left. I read weakness across the board and think the button has either a middle pair or a couple of overcards like AK, AQ, AJ. Since I have AK, it's more likely a hand I have dominated. If it were Aces or Kings wouldn't he thin the field with a much large bet--so it's not them. I could even be suited connectors and he's trying to build a big pot if the hits it on the head. Even if it's middle pair, I'll take the coin flip by isolating with all t...

I won't do this too often but every once in a while I will focus on some issues facing our region... http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070627/ts_csm/aprivate The gist of this article is that... "The monies for rebuilding are coming first from private sources ... and that is definitely what is leading the recovery effort," says Doug Ahlers, a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "Government funding is slow to arrive and is ... not playing a leadership role." and... "As of last week, New Orleans had received "zero" federal dollars for long-term community recovery, Mr. Blakely says." Not that it's worth anything, but I believe generally the rest of the U.S. believes basically what Bush said he would do when he was broadcasting from Jackson Square is what he has done. I talk to a lot of people that think our city is now drowning in federal funding ie their tax money. And they are pissed about it. The Katrina fatigue, that has...

The legdrop has landed... Benoit strangled his wife on Saturday. He likely put a pillow over his sleeping kid on Sunday. He hung himself on Monday. What's next... The wife's boyfriend will be unveiled soon. WWE will make numerous statements about this to the press trying to take the highroad (though the true highroad would be to distance themselves from the tragedy completely). Vince McMahon will be on all the talk shows defending the wrestlers livestyles this will be on the front burner. Next week will be a tribute to the deceased wife and son.

Sorry a departure from Poker and a little bit about the huge story. I used to follow wrestling so her are my thoughts.... At the start of the three hour tribute to Chris Benoit last night, I texted my friend--what if he killed his wife and kid? For those living in a hole pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife, and his young son all found dead in his Atlanta home yesterday. WWE scrapped it's storyline investigating the death (fake) of Vince McMahon, and canceled it's live three hour RAW special and instead aired a tribute to Benoit last night. Replete with WWE stars describing their love and respect for Benoit it was tearjerker and the more these huge musclemen cried and cried, the more it became compelling TV gold. Benoit was portrayed as a fallen hero. Yes, potentially a guy who just killed his 5 year old and his wife gets a three hour tribute. Triple H told a story about Benoit administering discipline to a young wrestler that disrespected his elders just last week. Of course Be...

in honor of phil hellmouth's torrid WSOP.

Wednesday: 3:00 Boomtown Biloxi 6:00 Imperial Palace or Beau Rivage Thursday 11:00 Isle of Capris 6:00 IP or Beau Friday 12:00 IP or Beau Plan on practicing a bit for Vegas. I'm of mixed minds about where to play. At the Beau, I believe the top 5 finishers at every one of their tournaments wins a seat in their $500 satellites for the 10k WPT event. Nice cherry on top--if it's not coming from the prize pool. I will play once at the IP to keep my receipt and play in the Sunday freeroll tournament. But I don't know which tournaments to play when. Starting to recognize a lot of the rounders from the coast hopefully they haven't figured out the ABC tendencies of my game yet. If I go 0-5 I will fess up to it but that will be an abysmal start to the summer... Btw, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schoenfeld is the doosch I was referencing earlier. Sounds like his one poker highlight is Evenlyn Ng. She probably dumped him when he explained how cliche it was for her to...