Eric Haber wins WSOP Circuit event at Caesers AC
By Matt | March 18, 2008
He Scores $431,136 and WSOP Main Event Entry
Eric Haber is the winner of the World Series of Poker Circuit event that attracted 277 players to Caesars Palace Atlantic City over the weekend. He won $431,136, a Circuit ring, and entry into this year’s WSOP main event.
The players generated a prize pool of more than $1.3 million during this $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. This is Haber’s largest cash. The online player known as “sheets” has cashed into the six-figures online, but because the 41-year-old has two kids, he says he can’t play in as many live events as he would like.
“I really cherish the opportunity to play in live tournaments. I am married with kids, and I do not get the opportunity to play in as many events as some others, so I really have to make the most of it when I play live with real people,” Haber said. “To be able to grind it out day after day after day at one of these major events and then make it all the way to the final table is something really special. This is what it is all about for me.”
The top nine finishers and their payouts:
Eric “Sheets” Haber (Syosset, New York) — $431,136
Dan Hicks (Tampa, Florida) — $237,124
Sumeet Batra (Lubbock, Texas) — $121,257
Soheil Shamseddin (Houston, Texas) — $94,311
Steven Greenberg (Flanders, New York) — $80,838
Nick Binger (Las Vegas, Nevada) — $67,365
Scott Blackman (Rochester, New York) — $53,892
Steven Merrifield (Fairmont, West Virginia) — $40,419
Marc Morris (Woolrich Township, New Jersey) — $26,946
The next Circuit series takes place at Caesars Palace in Indiana March 30-April 14.
Credit: Cardplayer.com
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Swingy
By Matt | March 18, 2008
Yesterday was a swingy day. Started off bad, was down around 2 buy ins, but by the end of the session I was up almost 2 buy ins, not bad going really. I just seem to be getting raped by chasers at the moment. Every time I’m in a relatively big pot, I always seem to be in there with someone chasing either a straight or a flush, and lately they seem to be hitting. Really gets annoying after a while. I know I’m supposed to be glad that so many people are paying to chase cards, but when they keep hitting it gets ridiculous. Since I moved up to NL10 I’ve been playing well, but I’ve been subject to some ridiculous beats so although I’m up since I moved up, it really should be more. Some profit is better than no profit I guess.
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NL10
By Matt | March 11, 2008
So I took the plunge with NL10 finally. Its just as bad as NL4 if not maybe even a little worse. People are happy to stack off with top pair, or call off there whole stack chasing the nut flush draw. Provided you can avoid to many suckouts you really cant fail to make money there if you play solid. I’m kind of treading water at the moment. I lost a couple of buy ins early on and got them back over the past few days. I’m slightly up now after about 5 days and but for a few nasty river cards I would be up by a good amount more. It really does amaze me quite how bad some people are.
There was even a guy at a table yesterday that didn’t know what “chasing” mean, you really cant make this stuff up.
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Ugh….
By Matt | March 3, 2008
I really fucking HATE downswings. I can’t win a race to save my life, I can’t flop a set and then when I do everyone insta-folds to my bet. Then when I finally get a hand some fucking idiot calling with a piss poor hand hits his fucking 3 outer. It annoys me so fucking much, they call a pot bet with a gutshot and of course it hits, hell even when I’m the favorite I still lose the race. I’m so glad I stayed at NL4 and didnt step up to NL 10 or this would have REALLY sucked 
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WSOP Circuit News
By Matt | February 28, 2008
The final nine will get together later today to determine who will be the champion of the World Series of Poker Circuit event that took place at Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa this week.
Michael Martin, who has more than $600,000 in tournament winnings since August 2006, is the chip leader with 214,500. Bernard Lee, who has more than $1.2 million in tournament winnings, is close behind him with 155,500.
The chip counts of the others in the top nine follow:
- Ben Hock — 122,000
- Samuel Shamburg — 117,000
- Keith Murrell — 116,500
- Dan Jensen — 83,500
- Nicholas Manganaro — 75,000
- Howard Wolper — 63,000
- Ron Koenemann — 43,000
This Circuit event attracted 99 players who put up $5,000 to try for the circuit ring. The winner of the event will take home almost $170,000. The final table starts at 2 p.m. CT.
Credit: Cardplayer.com
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Moving up?
By Matt | February 26, 2008
So, after depositing a mere $50 back on January 2nd and playing only NL4 I find myself currently at just over $200, not a bad return in around 7 weeks. Which begs the question, is it time to move up to NL10? Possibly yes, part of me wants to stay at NL4 until I hit $250 just for that extra bankroll cushion, but part of me wants to step up now and see how it goes. I am in two minds right now and I guess I need to figure out what to do. I’m happy stacking the donks at NL4 but I could build my roll quicker at NL10 obviously, thats provided I don’t get kicked in the ass by variance of course. Poker is such a complicated beast!
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Quote of the day
By Matt | February 21, 2008
So I get AA and raise to 24c (NL4) all folds around to SB who pushes for $3 and then the BB calls, obv I call. BB has KK and the SB has 55!!!!!!!. Of course the 55 guy hits quads and when someone questions his push he justifies it by saying it was a “position bet” LOL
Good job im up over $20 today so I can laugh at this tool. 
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A few bets
By Matt | February 20, 2008
So I like to bet on sports, not large amount but just for fun mainly so I figured I may as well post my picks on here.
Today in the Champions League I have a 4 team parlay with :-
Arsenal
Man Utd
Barcelona
Fenerbache
That pays around 17 to 1
I also did
Barcelona to be winning at half time at +160
Arsenal to be drawing at half time +110
Fenervache/Sevilla under 2 1/2 goals -135
Lets get some WINNARZZZ!!!
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Andy Black gets a win!
By Matt | February 19, 2008
It’s been a long time coming but Andy Black has finally won his first major poker tournament.
The poker-playing Irishman, who has spent more than 20 years trying to capture his first major title, beat a final table that included Annie Duke, Marcel Luske, Roland de Wolfe, Tony G and Alexander Kravchenko to win the 2008 PartyPoker.com Premier League Grand Final.
Black has ranked among the elite players on the poker circuit for years but in the past had an unfortunate habit of accumulating an astounding amount of chips and then burning through them in a short amount of time. In 2005 Black came to the final table of the WSOP Main Event holding more than a third of the chips still in play. Despite his chip lead Black still managed to bust out fifth.
More recently Black was one of the early chip leaders on Day 1a of the 2007 WSOP but didn’t make it to Day 2.
Black came to the final table of the Premier League as one of the chip leaders with $330,000 and we had to wonder if we would see another spectacular meltdown.
Instead Black managed to reverse the curse and finally get a coveted first-place finish. Black will receive $250,000 for his efforts as well as the removal of the bus-sized monkey on his back. Each player bought in for $60,000 with PartyPoker.com adding an extra $280,000 to create a $1 million prize pool with $520,000 allotted just for the final table.
While the 2008 Party Poker Premier League was incredibly successful for Black it was the exact opposite for Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth.
Last year Hellmuth was one of the dominant forces in the Premier League and finished atop the league standings by winning four separate heats. This year he finished with zero points in two heats and acquired only eight points during the entire season. The Poker Brat essentially finished last.
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WSOP Schedule Changes
By Matt | February 19, 2008
It was announced today that two changes have been made to the 2008 World Series of Poker schedule to enable comprehensive coverage by ESPN for the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. World Championship.
The biggest buy-in tournament of the series of was originally scheduled for Sunday, June 22 at noon but will now begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25. It is switching places with the $2,500 buy-in deuce-to-seven triple-draw lowball event which has been changed to begin on Sunday, June 22 at noon.
The 2008 WSOP will run from May 30-July 16. Fifty-five bracelets will be awarded during the series including the $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em World Championship that begins July 3. ESPN will begin airing coverage of the 39th edition of the WSOP in July.
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