Tournament players in L.A. had difficult choices to make today. A $100k guarantee at the Hustler with a $225 buy in, a $150k guarantee for a buy in of $335 at the Bike or the Commerces overlay $30k for $120. I would have taken the latter option , the smallest buy in , only four [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Camryn for children at the Commerce
Sunday, October 18th, 2009WPT Marrakech a success
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Day 1 has just concluded in Marrakech and the resuts are in. 416 players entered, the majority from France,151 survived the day.
Some of the more relevant counts:
1) William Delagorce (fr) 158k
7) Rory Brennan (Ire) 137k
15) Scott Montgomery (can) 103k
28) John O’Shea (Ire) 77.7k
32) Tony G (Aus) 79k
44) Barny Boatman (Hendon) 70k
79) Liz Lieu (usa) 45k
80) [...]
Tour de Bike chaque Lundi: Dream Team Poker
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Dream Team Poker, the medias favourite poker event, has teamed up with the Bike in an attempt to kick start the Monday Night Football tournament. A series of eleven MNF tournaments will be held starting next Monday, October 19th, at 7pm. They will run until the end of the season when the league leaders will [...]
Return to poker: today only!
Monday, October 12th, 2009Although not as catchy I was in danger of becoming “horseygossip”. So, today I visited the Bike for the final day of their $200 buy in $100k guarantee. They made the guarantee attracting over 700 players. The word is out that the Commerce’s Friday night tournie has had a $10k overlay the past two weeks. [...]
I want candy!
Monday, October 12th, 2009Englands D team beat best of USA
Sunday, October 11th, 2009Kentucky Derby winner Mine that Bird, Tiago or Colonal John. Who would win the Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita today? Answer: A horse from England that usually runs at lowly Wolverhampton on a Saturday evening.The horse would not be rated in the top 100 of Englands three year olds. I was all over this story [...]
Kieren Fallon + Saeed bin Suroor at Santa Anita
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Kieren Fallon is like the pied piper to the British media but at Santa Anita on Friday he rode John Sadlers Becrux without any fuss. The controversial Irishman has flown over to Santa Anita to ride Breeders Cup longshot Gitano Hernando on Saturday for Newmarket trainer Marco Botti. I asked him to sign my racecard [...]
Results page
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Thanks to Sam Quinto in Aruba and the Bellagio for supplying results. If you are playing at the Big Poker October at the Bike ask them to send results to the poker media otherwise your wins will not appear on thehendonmob or cardplayer databases.
Dirty Wally has his photo in this weeks “Pasadena Independent.” The article [...]
Monday at the Bike
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009It’s a long way to go, for me anyway, to pick up some results for you but that is why I spent my Monday evening at the Bike in Bell Gardens.Todays tournament was a $120 buy in with a $25k guarantee. It looks a close thing with about 200 seated and another two dozen in [...]

