I have been working with Russell Thomas the past couple of months on short stack play and ICM issues.  I am doing an entire series of videos about my work with him over on PokerVT.com where I make poker training videos. You can also check out more of his training he did with Jason [...]

While watching and listening to the broadcast for the Big One for One Drop there was a lot of interesting analysis from very high level pros, but there was a pretty big mistake that several of them made.  I heard them say a couple of times that once it got to the final table and [...]

With my personal WSOP at its end, only one big sweat remains : the conclusion of the 25K fantasy draft (alternatively here, and official standings here).  I’ve never participated in any sort of draft before this one and was worried that I’d make a bunch of dumb mistakes so I tried my best to prepare [...]

It’s WSOP season and I’ll be flying out to Vegas on June 13th and I’m awesomely excited about it! Some other Eurodonks and I have rented a house for a full month and I’m pretty sure this is going to be the most fun period of any of our poker lives/careers so far. I’m playing [...]

http://www.pokernews.com/wsop/2009/event-57/payouts/
Sigh… why won’t PokerNews take any pictures of him? 

I’m back from the WSOP so I figured I’d write up a trip report.  No pictures though because my digital camera, which is now 4 years old, has some problems and my phone’s camera kinda sucks too.  Time to upgrade.
I got in on the evening of June 8th and promptly got lost getting to my [...]

This is JCarver’s second final table of the 2009 WSOP. Full details can be found here: http://www.pokernews.com/wsop/2009/event-52/

More info here: http://www.pokernews.com/wsop/2009/event-15/payouts/

May was one hell of a month for me.  Full Tilt Poker kept doing triple point happy hours and I wanted to win the rake race on my affiliate, which is based on FTP points earned.  I had previously gotten 2nd twice, so for the first 25 days of the month I did nothing but [...]