Work Porker Nights

©2008 PKR Pete – Well, as you might have guessed, I am a poker fan, not quite a poker player, dabbling in online poker games. But have yet to sit in a card club or casino on a ‘real’ game of poker.

At work, we have quite a few poker nights, getting up to around 15 seats. Cash buy-ins, top 3 finishers take home the cash, I have had quite a good run, out of 7 games, I have won 4, placed 2nd once, 3rd once, and a 5th place.

Today was one of the wins, small table, small cash, but I played pretty well, eliminating everyone on my way to the win, after a slow cautious start, before turning on the Gus Hansen of old, my aggressive poker player within showed up and gained a big stack and for the heads-up, I was dominating my opponent with 85% of the chips, and finishing him off with AAAQQ.

We have another Poker night coming up in July, with a bigger pot, more seats and hopefully a top 3 finish to get some of the cash.

Next stop, World Series of Poker!!! I WISH!!!

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Harrelson Wins Cannes 2008 Charity Poker Tournament

©2008 PKR Pete – Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Tim Robbins, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper, Goldie Hawn, Salma Hayek and Alice Taglioni battled it out in the Cannes 2008 Celeb Poker Tournament, for the chance of winning $500,000.00 for their chosen charity.

At the end of the day, it was Harrelson that came out on top, outlasting all the other Celebs, there is some talk that the pot was split with Taglioni. Harrelson gave his winnings to environmental group Oasis.

I am still trying to find an only stream of the tournament, sounds like it was an exciting event and alot of fun, if you know where I can watch this online, please let me know.

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Gus Hansen

©2008 PKR Pete – Gus Hansen is my all time favorite Poker Player, he is from Copenhagen, Denmark, but now resides in Monte Carlo in Monaco. He was a world class backgammon player, and also plays many other sports such as tennis and even as far as becoming a youth champion, so far, Gus has made 7.1 million US dollars in live tournaments. He has won three World Poker Tour open tournaments (the only player to do that), in Sep 2006 he won The London All Star Challenge on the European Poker Masters, winning £53,600, he has also won the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament taking home a cool $1,000,000 US

PKR Pete

Welcome to my blog, I am a poker enthusiast and LOVE the game of Texas Hold-em, I will be writing about my studies into the game and sharing my experiences. Also talking about all the news and tournaments around the world and following my favourite players. Hopefully I will learn alot about the game along the way, so, I hope anyone out there finds something interesting and can learn this great game along with me.

Thanks for reading.