|  What if they called a war and no one showed up? Poker is constantly flirting with that possibility. As it gets bigger and bigger, and as the risks to poker's future expand, I always wonder, at least a little, if this is when the bubble pops, when we all read more |
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|  I'm taking a very short break from my proofreading. I have to send the completely proofread galley pages of The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition to Warner Books in 15 1/2 hours. I have completed only 20% of the job in the nearly two read more |
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|  Sorry for the absence over the last few days. I've been proofreading the galley pages of The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, working on getting a new literary agent, and playing some events at the Wynn Classic in Las Vegas. I have read more |
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|  In the first three parts of this series (#057, #058, and #059), I explained how super-pro/super-nice-guy Robert Williamson III, as the Texas bombshell Miss Lulu, made the final table of the FTOPS Main Event and then made it to the final four. I watched read more |
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| | Parts I (#057) and II (#058) followed the final table of the FTOPS Main Event from Robert Williamson III's study. Robert, as Miss Lulu, has maneuvered through the first three eliminations, the most recent when he limped and then folded A-Ko. Dallas mai read more |
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| | In Part I, I raced the 30 miles to Robert Williamson III's home at 2 AM so I could watch him (a/k/a Miss Lulu) play the final table of the FTOPS Main Event. Amid connection break downs, Williamson's reluctance to throw away a hand with a funny name, and read more |
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| | The gated community in which Robert Williamson III and his wife Cate live is so new that my navigation system, named Elle MacPherson because it shares an accent with the Australian supermodel, can't find it. I am racing to watch Robert, under the nom d read more |
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| | At 5:16 AM EST, after over 11 hours of play, traheho won the Main Event of the third series of the FTOPS, when his A-K held up over Boosted J's A-Q. The 15,000,000-chip pot won traheho $288,000. I will be filing a report as soon as I can about the fina read more |
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| | The bubble recently popped in the Main Event and players have been racing for the exits. They pay 459, a level that was reached about 10 minutes ago. As I type this, there are just 371 left. There are 4 Full Tilt Poker pros still in action with 15 min read more |
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| | It's break time after 3 1/2 hours. There are 1,168 players left, with the average chip stack being 13,771. pcyb has the chip lead with 63,595, and four other players have over 60,000. A lot of Full Tilt Poker pros are in a position to do damage. Mark read more |
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