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Jesse May surfs up a slice of international online poker action
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Jesse May, multiple
author in the gambling field and sometimes dubded the "voice of poker", writes
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Email :
Jesse
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Seen something
going on in the online world of poker besides bad beats?
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Conspiracy theorists take note. Eighteen of
the best online tournament players on the planet played for a $10,000 WSOP seat
on PokerStars last Saturday, a game which saw some of the baddest beats ever
witnessed from an evil mind and a deck of cards, and get ready for this --- Not
one person complained. Not at all. In fact, just the opposite. 55lucky55, after
having his pocket aces thoroughly demolished by a two outer on the river (yet
again) and thereby most of his hopes and dreams for going to the World Series
for free, was heard to comment, I guess Ill take that pee break
now. This is a man, by the way, who upon seeing two opponents all in,
regardless of the situation, has the class and good natured psyche to type
without fail, good luck to both. All you conspiracy theorists about
online poker take note. Thats just the game, and if it takes watching the
best players on the planet for a player to learn how to behave, get on that
rail more often.
Yes, the two-table tournament that took place last
Saturday night provided some brilliantly fierce competition and proved to be a
strategy masterclass for anyone with a notepad, but the real lessons to be
learned from it were philosophical. Never have I seen a more mannerly and good
spirited group of online poker players, people who were falling all over
themselves to roll with the punches and put every eventuality into perspective.
And maybe, just maybe, thats the whole point. You might be good, but
youll never, ever be great, until every hand comes with a shaker of salt.
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I have to believe the cream
rose to the top. I dont know the real name of TheBeat, from Liverpool,
but if his live game is anywhere like his online one, hes one to watch at
the World Series of Poker. And not to limp in to the final table with half a
stack, either. A guy to be coming down the pike with both barrels blazing, eyes
on the prize and very little else. Everyone of those eighteen players may have
wanted a seat, but TheBeat was dialed in like a telescopic freight train. In a
tournament where the money said to relax early on, TheBeat was a machine. Two
players went early, both railroaded by TheBeat, speculatively. Anytime
you guys are ready to start playing, he chirped. And once the fear of God
clause was invoked, everybody stayed out of his way. And TheBeat rolled through
to the final and a well earned seat at the World Series of Poker.
Most
players impressed. The audience, extra large to be sure, got every bit their
moneys worth as the banter was fast and funny. Of course the perception
that these eighteen might spend a dangerous amount of hours facing two
dimensions and a card table is plausible, but G316k from Akron said early on,
after hes been all in with the eight nine suited on the flush draw he
says, You want to know just how nuts I am? Im sitting in a casino,
in a hotel room, playing poker on the Internet. Dont worry G,
youre not the first. Slimmouse, bidding to become the only man in history
to win a WSOP seat online three years running, played an inspiring shortstack
to climb back to the fore after being initially down for the count.
You-cant-win looked to be the class of the field for a while - she took
Slimmouse to the wall with her pocket aces - and was on perfect play cruise
control until dastardly misfortune took all of her chips but not an ounce of
her smile. Miros made what must have been the monster laydown of the tourney.
The reraises were polite but insistent from You-cant-win, and Miros thought for
ages before laying down a hand which must have been a two queens minimum on a
raggedy flop. Not a cross word was heard all day, and thats the real
story of the tourney. Its nice to know that the best at this game do it a
credit by playing.
If youre an online poker player right now and
youre not fixed on a chance to win a World Series of Poker seat, then
your head is either in the sand, or like me, youd as soon watch the World
Series as play in it. Either way, there have been and are right now a plethora
of $10,000 seats being given away by all the various sites, but the best deal
right now must be the giveaway going on at Ladbrokes. Two seats will be given
away next week via a twenty player tournament, but to qualify for those seats
you have to jump through far less hoops than compared to their online
counterparts. Two places in the final tournament are being given away each day
on Ladbrokes, and most could be obtained through a scant 24 hours of play.
Scant, I say, because other sites stretch these poker promotions out for months
on end, but at Ladbrokes for instance on April 15th, the two players who win
the most $50 tournaments between midnight and midnight come in, and on April
17th the stalwart who wins the most $10 tourneys in a 24 hour period gets in.
Its good value, believe me it is, check the details at
www.ladbrokescasino.com/home_frameset.asp if you dont
believe me, or just get playing. Good luck to all.
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