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Dwans bracelett side action
Hey D, hope you are well also. Not much poker lately, pretty much just the WSOP. I'm doing some writing again at , and I'm actually tweeting! What's it coming to'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 9th, 2010
Dwans bracelett side action
I think the right number is about 8-9 million.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 8th, 2010
Re:It's World Series Time!
Thx. What you and everybody who populates this board can do is join the WPA. Help us help you as poker players to stand up and be heard.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 31st, 2008
Re:It's World Series Time!
My intention wasn't to disparage the PPA. I'm sure there are many dedicated and hard working people involved in the fight against the UIGEA, and it's a fight that needs fighting. My point is that the focus of the PPA and the WPA are quite different. What's frustrating is that many players think they are similar and that it isn't necessary to support both organizations. There are many issues, such as ethics, rules and procedures, revenue sharing and the basic problem that players are too often not treated with the respect that they deserve that aren't the province of ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 28th, 2008
It's World Series Time!
The WSOP is upon us again. We’ll see what Harrah’s has in store for us this year. On a good note, I was able to sign up at the main cage at the Rio last week for the early events. This can save a lot of hassle for those who are able to get down there before the crush. Hopefully the rest of the cage and signup logistics throughout the WSOP will also be improved. As par for the course, Harrah’s gives a little and take a little. Last year they had a really cool player’s lounge. Membership required a $1000 donation to the Nevada Cancer Institute. At the time I joined I asked for assurance that ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 28th, 2008
Re:ESPN, Harrah's, Milwaukee's Best, Give the WSOP what it deserves!
You have the right idea, but the wrong vehicle. The PPA is dedicated to keeping poker legal. It has the support of the card rooms, both live and online, and therefore a large budget by which they have been able to sign up an amazing number of members. However, the PPA’s interests don’t include acting as a collective voice for poker players to air their concerns. Go to their site: and read their mission statement. Nowhere does it mention the ethics of the game and the concern that players be treated fairly by the card rooms. The card rooms and the PPA have done an incredibly good job of ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 4th, 2008
Re(6): WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ERIC MOLINA?
He was at my table in the PLO at Wynn. He said very little.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Mar 16th, 2008
Re(1): Discussion on WSOP coverage/FT seclusion/hole cards etc..
It’s absurd that players are forced to play in that cramped, uncomfortable “sequestarium”, show their hole cards from every hand for the whole world to see, have friends (other than two) be denied the opportunity to root them on, and basically miss out on the excitement of a playing a WSOP final table in front of a cheering crowd, for basically nothing, while Bluff and Harrah’s make money from a pay-per-view. Sure, it’s great to be able to see every hand and see exactly how certain players play. In fact, as much as I disagree with it, I bought it so my wife could watch my FT from Thailand. ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jul 16th, 2007
Re(3): Blair Rodman Wins Event 47!!
Thx everyone. It was a real thrill. For me, it answers the question loud and clear as to why I put up with all the shit they throw at us and keep playing. However, now that I've got my bracelet, I plan to cut way back on my playing next year at the WSOP. It's just too exhausting to play a full schedule. I'll play the events I rerally enjoy and skip the rest and play golf and have fun. See y'all at the party.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jul 3rd, 2007
World Series of Golf on NBC today
Noon pacific. Not sure about other time zones.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 23rd, 2007
Re(8): what was Matusow talking about
"what is the difference between the PPA and WPA'" The PPA is concerned with the legalization of poker. They have nothing to do with player's rights. The WPA is working to help players get a fair shake, both in the way tournaments are run and in procuring a share of the revenues being generated by their efforts. I don't care who mandated the sequestering of the players, I want to know what the players got out of the revenues generated. Eric, can you answer that'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 12th, 2007
Re(6): what was Matusow talking about
Exactly correct. I don't blame them. In fact, for them to fail to do so would a negligent to their stackholders. I blame us for not taking steps to get our share.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 11th, 2007
Re(4): what was Matusow talking about
What Mike meant was that Harrah’s has dreamed up a way to make even more money from the players while inconveniencing them and giving nothing in return. This doesn’t even consider that friends, fellow players and fans didn’t get to see Phil’s historic moment live. This is a classic case of exploitation of poker players without commensurate compensation, far too common in the modern poker climate. But this is just a symptom of the greater problem; the constant erosion of conditions favorable to players due to the absence of motivation for those running the game to do otherwise. The thirst for ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 11th, 2007
WSOP Day 3
Funeral for a Friend I skipped the $1,500 pot-limit event to go to a memorial service for Richie Klamian, a long-time Las Vegas sports bettor and poker player, who passed away far too young last week after a valiant battle with cancer. In attendance was a who’s who of the sports-betting community, including Billy Baxter, Billy Walters, and Jimmy Vaccarro. Richie’s formidable talent in his chosen profession was surpassed only by his goodness as a human being. Tragedies like this put a lot of things into perspective. Seems Like Old Times One of the issues long-time players have with the poker ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 4th, 2007
WSOP Updates
I'm not going to do in-depth tournament reports like I have in years past, but I am doing daily blurbs for All In magazine. They can be found at: I'll also try to post them here later in the day. Here are my updates from the first two days: First-Day Notes from Blair Rodman Lines and More Lines-How could Harrah’s not have been prepared for the throngs of players' It’s almost inconceivable. Last year the tournament cage was besieged for two days before the first event. This year it didn’t even open until the morning of the first day, leaving players stranded in lines upwards of 1,000 ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Jun 3rd, 2007
WSOP Sign-up Blues
I went down tonight to sign up for tomorrow's event, hoping to avoid the long lines in the morning. The cage in the tournament room wasn't open. They sent me to the main cage. When I got there I saw 5 cashiers standing there doing nothing. Perfect, in and out quickly. I went to one of the cashiers standing dead and told him I wanted to sign up for tomorrow. He pointed me to the casier at the end. As I walked there I had a bad feeling. Sure enough, around the corner the line appeared, maybe 80 people. Each player had to fill out the paperwork and sign the release, so it looked like about a 3 ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 31st, 2007
What is Harrah's Thinking?
I think it’s safe to say that the poker boom of the past few years took everyone by surprise. What’s even more surprising to me is that there hasn’t been a 60 Minutes-type piece on the dark side of poker, or an industry-shaking cheating scandal. In my opinion, poker rooms leave themselves exposed to this by not taking extensive precautions to protect the industry. I think much more could be done on the part of management to preserve the integrity of their games. Instead we seem to going in the other direction. At the Caesars circuit event a dealer made us aware that during the WSOP ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
May 31st, 2007
World Series of Golf
Quick note on the WSOG. I’ll write an in-depth report later in the week. I played my heart out but didn’t win my first round, eliminating me from the event. Rhett Butler, who took 5th at the WSOP ME final table last year, came from way back to beat Matt Othick, who basketball fans might remember as the starting point guard at Arizona from 89-92. Matt kills the ball, bet aggressively and made it hard on the rest of our foursome. On the par three 17th, I had a chance to triple up and get back in it after Matt and Rhett had hit bad shots, but I missed the green also. Rhett made an unbelievable ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
May 15th, 2007
Re(7): ONE of the funniest old posts IMO
This is one of the sickest threads ever. Also one of the funniest.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Apr 22nd, 2007
World Series of Golf
In early 2006 I met a guy at my country club, Canyon Gate in Las Vegas, named Ken Maul. He knew I was a poker player and told me of a concept he and another member named John Slitz had been working on combining golf and poker, which they had named the World Series of Golf. I’ve heard a lot of far-fetched ideas as to how to package golf and gambling in a way that would appeal to gamblers and the viewing public that didn’t fly, so I was a bit skeptical. The next time I saw Ken we played a few holes with Terry Leiweke, of the sports savvy Leiweke brothers, whom they had brought on board ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Mar 28th, 2007
Re(3): HO(E)
This was after his Tyson days. He was generally pretty miserable at the poker table. This was the only funny thing I ever heard him say, but it was a good one!
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 13th, 2007
Re(2): View from Costa Rica
The Peace Lodge is awesome.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Feb 12th, 2007
HO(E)
I was playing in a HOE (Hold'em, Omaha 8, Stud 8) game at Commerce a few years ago. John Horne, one of Tyson's ex-managers, asked what we were playing and then sat down. After playing through the hold'em and omaha, the game changed and the dealer asked for antes. Horne said "What's the ante for. What are we playing'" One of the players said "HOE--H-O-E." Horne looked at him and said, "You gonna tell a black guy how to spell HO'"
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 12th, 2007
Re(5): Cheating in Poker
One reason heads up play is so popular online is that it eliminates the collusion problem. Playing heads up in B&M’s isn’t feasible because tying up a full table and dealer for a heads up game is too expensive and a waste of resources. However, mini heads up electronic tables would solve that problem. I understand Hollywood Park has some. Anyone know the status there'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 9th, 2007
Re(4): Cheating in Poker
Like I said in the OP, I think he goes too far, but on the other hand most people underestimate the problem. I reccommend getting both books for a comprehensive take on the subject.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 9th, 2007
Re(2): Cheating in Poker
I don’t think you can get card rooms to really care. While they don’t want the same players getting all the money and thereby killing the games, they are not going to dedicate significant resources to the problem. Again, the majority of the policing of the games must come from the players. Education as to the ways of the cheaters is the key, which is why I recommend all serious players educate themselves with books such as the ones I mentioned. I talked to some people from management in rooms that have the electronic tables. On the ones I’ve seen the problem of someone else seeing your ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 9th, 2007
Cheating in Poker
I was on a panel yesterday at the World Game Protection Conference. The subject was Cheating in Poker. Anthony Curtis was the moderator and on the panel with me were Sal Piacente, who is an expert in all forms of cheating and who does some amazing card and memory tricks, and Richard Marcus, author of American Roulette and Dirty Poker. I spent some time the night before at the welcome reception talking to Marcus. He’s not my kind of guy—he’s an unrepentant cheater—but I was interested in what he knows. As I suspected from reading Dirty Poker, Marcus doesn’t know a lot about poker. His ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Blair Rodman
Feb 9th, 2007
Re(4): Golf Gambling--Is Phil Ivey a Cheat?
I never said anything is fair game. That’s silly. I also never said there’s no morality, respect or honor. My point is that there are certain codes of conduct that are unique to each arena. There are many things that are definitely against the golf-gambling code, not paying being one of them.
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Feb 1st, 2007
Re(2): Golf Gambling--Is Phil Ivey a Cheat?
The point of all this is that there are at least 3 different golf arenas: 1) The professional or scratch arena where there are no handicaps and all the rules and traditions of golf apply. 2) The world of handicap golf. This encompasses sanctioned amateur tournaments, private amateur tournaments, and friendly wagering among golfers who keep handicaps and use them as a basis for making wagers. Sandbagging, or lying about handicaps, is considered cheating in this arena. However, it is a far too common practice, especially in certain parts of the U.S, notably Palm Springs, Dallas and ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Jan 31st, 2007
Golf Gambling--Is Phil Ivey a Cheat?
I hope I'm not highjacking a thread here, but I don't see anythuing about this and I thought it was interesting. There have been some long threads on other forums about a golf match with Phil Ivey winning a lot of money from Ram Vaswani, Eric (Eric 123) Sagstrom and Marc Goodwin. Here a post from 2+2: Heard the following the other day from a friend of Ram Vaswani, who plays golf regularly with Phil Ivey in Vegas: Marc Goodwin, a very self-regarding semi-successful tournament player (and ex double-glazing salesman) plays off scratch (zero handicap) and has been very boastful of his ...
Posted in: Off Topic 		Blair Rodman
Jan 30th, 2007