Well, thanks to Al's great work in generating interest from Full Tilt in sponsoring our little private tournies, there is a great prize pool available for the BBT3. Most of the details can be found in this post from Al and I'm going to actually try and play some of these and win my seat to the WSOP this year.
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers. Registration code: 7563442
Well, not exactly. Although I did in fact golf on Friday. That was the day that this years' annual G1 (personnel section) golf tournament. They do it as a fund raiser every year. In addition to the golf there was also a silent auction of various pictures, guitars, and football goodies signed by famous people.
I ended up having a blast in spite of the 96 degree heat and our team not playing so well. It was pretty amazing that I ended up playing the best of the foursome despite having the least amount of golfing experience. My favorite shot was putting my tee shot on a par 3 within 10 feet of the cup using a 6 iron at about 175 yards out. That ended up being the only hole we would birdie all day. That's pretty terrible for a scramble event. But as I said, I still had a good time and hope to start golfing on at least a semi-regular basis.
The other day I ordered
'The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide' from Amazon. Ya just gotta love Amazon Prime and the free two-day shipping! I anxiously awaited my shipment and basically blew through the book in two days. I did skip the chapters on the non-holdem games for now mostly because I wanted to concentrate on that game for the upcoming trip to Vegas. I also only skimmed Andy Bloch's chapter, because there was just WAY too much math in there for my taste. Some of you that love the theory of holdem may buy this book just for that chapter though.
I thought that this book brought some of the style of Super/System in that every chapter is by a different author and I liked that. The difference is that each author looks at a different aspect of the same game. The betting, post-flop play, and leverage chapters by Chris Ferguson and Howard Lederer were suberb and I'm already looking to work some of their strategies into my own play.
Anyway, I'm not going to give too much away, although I want to discuss more about leverage here sometime soon. If you've already ready every poker book in your collection multiple times and you play tournaments then buy this book, you won't regret it!
