Rocking hammers to beat down cancer …

Having played more than my fair share of freeroll satellites lately (hey, they’re cheap – when a donkey makes a horrific call to crack my hand, I can’t complain much), I’ve made a few observations about them that may help you survive them. 1. Don’t play the early stages. The first few rounds bring nothing [...]

First, an instructive example. In a 90-player freeroll which had a prize of exactly one entry into the next tournament, the following hand decided the match: Full Tilt Poker Game #785277592: .NET Satellite to Round 1 (5202652), Table 1 – 500/1000 – No Limit Hold’em – 10:42:11 ET – 2006/07/10 Seat 6: puckett101 (78,320) Seat [...]

Isn’t it odd that, instead of allowing financial services to transfer money to casinos and allowing U.S. citizens to use gaming services located off-shore to comply with the WTO rulings

It’s been some time since we put a true Hammer post up. Since I was semi-short-stacked in a freeroll and needing to go, I pushed with The Hammer and had a caller. You can guess what happened next: Full Tilt Poker Game #791457239: .COM $200K Giveaway Rd. 1 (4930906), Table 85 – 30/60 – No [...]

Tonight, Phil Gordon and some of the other folks associated with the Put A Bad Beat On Cancer drive hosted a small buy-in tourney to benefit the charity. I had almost forgotten about it but remembered in time to sit down and not get blinded away. To call it a gala event understates the case. [...]

This article raises the possibility that the FBI misused passenger lists given to them by airlines in order to arrest David Carruthers of BetOnSports.com this week. These lists are made available to federal authorities to allow them to screen flights for potential terrorists.