Pud's Poker Progress / Dave Allan / 01 October 2009 / Leave a comment

With Pud feeling the effects of man/swine flu this week I've stepped into the breach to report on the blogs that have taken my eye over the previous weeks.

The poker world was absorbed with the WSOPE this week won in dramatic fashion by Barry Shulman in his lovely tartan shirt and I was lucky enough to make it the Casino at the Empire for Thursday and Friday before the start of the main event.

I met up with the enigma that is Amatay and his mate Adam and was joined later by a Greek fish called Greekfish or Greekstein. When they weren't talking poker that was way over my head there was fun to be had involving Howard Lederer, Freddie Deeb and a pretty South African waitress.

I discovered that watching live poker is as dull as a blog full of hand histories. The Pot Limit Omaha final table was not helped by Jack Effel mumbling into his microphone, there was no crowd and no TV pictures of the flop cards.

However, everyone seems to have agreed the WSOPE was a great tournament, well organised and held in a great city...all that is except that grumpy old bastard poker legend Doyle Brunson. "They need to change the venue of the WSOPE to somewhere besides London", Brunson said. "The kids just can't come here it's too expensive, the weather's bad. They need to have it in Barcelona or Italy somewhere"

James Keys who has written for this site in the past showed once again what a tremendous talent his is becoming and while he failed to land a hat-trick of cashes at the WSOPE still put in a fine run to finish just short of the money on Day 4. Read his account of Day 1 when still feeling optimistic.

Fellow Scouser Rossi has named and shamed his mate in his latest post. I can't blame him either after this shocking piece of play. Even this little fish knows better than this.

"Pre-Flop: The button raised to $4.50 to which my mate called (fair enough with 66)
Flop: My mate opened with a $10 bet (fair enough again I suppose, bluff to take down the pot there and then, but fold to any resistance)
The other player folds and the btn raises to $30
Here it is an insta-fold but for some reason my mate min raises to $50...WTF
The btn insta-shoves all-in and instead of only wasting half his stack my mate calls for the rest of his stack.
The Turn is a 6h which gives villain the nut flush and my mate the chance of scabbing a full house that doesn't happen on the River and never will when you are playing shite well above your bankroll.
The button was gob-smacked as my mate instantly left the table, and the button even typed 'WTF' in the chat obviously as bemused as me."

Pud can get away with non-poker stuff, I'm sure I can as well....so I leave you with some random rubbish...it's actually very good.

A normal and a better service will return next week.

Thanks for reading.