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June 21, 2008
Here are the links to my first 10 articles on PokerNews.com
Volume 1-My Road to the WSOP
Volume 2-No Disclosure
Volume 3-Ladies Only Events
Volume 4-WSOP Rule Changes Part 1
Volume 5-WSOP Rule Changes Part 2
Volume 6-Dewey Tomko Part 1
Volume 7-Dewey Tomko Part 2
Volume 8-Tournament Tipping Issue
Volume 9-2002 WSOP Before the Boom Part 1
Volume 10-2002 WSOP Before the Boom Part 2
Congratulations Layne Flack!
June 20, 2008
Layne Flack is back! As I stated in my PokerNews Article I truly believed that Layne was on the right track and he joins some pretty elite company with 6 bracelets.
Top Bracelet Winners
11 Phil Hellmuth
10 Doyle Brunson
10 Johnny Chan
9 Johnny Moss
8 Erik Seidel
7 Billy Baxter
6 T.J. Cloutier
6 Layne Flack
6 Jay Heimowitz
6 Men Nguyen
Asian Poker Tour moving forward
June 07, 2008
Coming out of the APT Manila I am more excited about the future of poker in Asia and more importantly poker overall than ever before. I truly believe that Asia can be the next boom that poker desperately needs right now. 316 players competed for the $1,000,000 prize pool and the APT ended up adding $273,000 to meet the guarantee. Most CEO's might pull the plug after taking a loss like that but APT CEO Chris Parker considered the event a huge success and why not, the tournament was only announced only 8 weeks before the start of the event.
Chris even raised the buy-in to $5,300 and guarantee to $1,500,000 for the next leg in Macau. Please join the Savage Tournaments team in Macau August 26-31, 2008. Our team will return back to Macau for the second year in a row this time with the Asian Poker Tour.
Asian Poker Tour- Manila Winner David Saab
June 04, 2008
Although I have been involved with the Aussie Millions for the last three years I had never met or even heard of David Saab. It is strange because this guy can talk! In the Asian Poker Tour event recently held in Manila David Saab and I crossed paths early in the tournament when he was table captain of table 5. It generally irritates me when players are so outspoken as David is but by the end of the tournament he won me over. I think David will be a good representative of the Asian Poker Tour as he joins Tony G. as the first two APT winners.
Day One In Manila- APT Tour
May 25, 2008
Just arrived in Manila at the Dusit Thani Hotel yesterday morning and already having a good time. After getting a 2 hour Thai massage with my wife for $11.50 US dollars each we headed downstairs to meet Chris Parker who is the CEO of the Asian Poker Tour and Asian Logic. Chris is a great guy and he has a passion for the game of poker which I think is sometimes missing from executives trying to cash in on the poker boom.
After our late lunch we headed upstairs for a 2 hour nap before taking a trip to a couple local poker rooms with Chris, Martin Elliot (business development manager) and "Jason Morris (Tournament Operations). Also on the trip were 1991 WSOP Champion Brad Daugherty, 1996 WSOP Huck Seed, Quinn Do, Steve Sung, Jack Fox, 2006 Bay 101 WPT Champion Nam Le and my wife Maryann.
I was SHOCKED to see the amount of action going on at these rooms with games as high as 1,000-2,000 peso blinds (roughly $25-$50usd).
I really think that poker will take off her in Asia as witnessed by what we have already seen here in Manila.
I did play a few hands of 100-200 peso no-limit and when everyone agreed it was time to go I said I would play to the button. I only bought in for 7,000 and was the short stack at the table. After getting pushed of hands AQ (suited), AQ, KQ (suited)after the flop, I decided that I would go all in on the last hand before the button with any ace which I unfortunately received. This is how the hand played out
I was under the gun but straddled it for 400 making me last to act. I looked down at A-4 and when a player in seat 7 raised to 2,200 the big blind called and then I shipped in my last 4,600. Player 7 called and then the big blind moved in for 50,000. I put him on a big pair obviously and had to hope for an ace which is OK until the other player called his last 35,000 ($821usd) more with A-9 offsuit. Of course the ace still came on the turn but was out kicked. Apparently this is typical play for Manila from what Chris tells me. After the tour we took a trip to see some of the local attractions of which there are many even on a Sunday night. We then called it an early night and cam back to the Dusit.
The guys behind the APT have put a lot of time and resources in a short time since the announcement of the dates just 2 months ago and hopefully for Asian poker's sake will continue the effort. Now over 200 are confirmed for the main event and we are really pushing to make the Asian record of 352. I really like their idea to allow all online sites to send players to the events and know that more will jump on board for later dates slated to happen in Macau, Singapore, and Korea.
There is still time to get here and register for the $1,000,000usd guaranteed tournament that starts on Thursday the 29th. The buy-in is $2,300 + $200 and needs 435 to meet the guarantee so I am positive there will be an overlay and maybe a substantial one at that. the complete schedule can be found at www.AsianPT.com.
I have a radio interview in three hours with Mo Twister who is called "the Howard Stern of Manila" so I better get some sleep.
Talk to you tomorrow