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Last Thursday was Spoon’s birthday as he joined the ranks of the other 33′ers amongst the group so we planned a day of poker followed by a night of debauchery but as you’ll learn the poker stretched long into the night. We headed to Bally’s Billy’s Poker Room (confusing I know) for the 1PM $55 [...]

Jason Deutsch has playing online since 2008 racking up over 500k in career earnings and while I was covering the Borgata Spring Poker Open last week I had the pleasure of meeting Jason. After he finished the event in 5th place bringing in over 60k for that effort he agreed to answer a few questions [...]

We’re now down to just 10 players remaining in the hunt for the top prize of over 270k. Having fun today railing met some twitter folks today in the stands @onafolddraw and @Keon_S who are here sweating their boy from Maryland Adam Cook. He’s at around 800k as we move to the final table. We’ll [...]

The field of 165 players from Tuesday was by the end of play at nearly 3AM Wednesday reduced to just 25 players left. Among those still in the hunt are Day 2 chip leader Mark Wahba (468k), Matt Glantz (800k), Adam Cook (601k), Billy Gazes (467k), and our chip leader at the end of Day [...]

After the split start the fields merge on Tuesday at 11 AM. 42 survived day Day 1A while 123 would survive to from Day 1B to reach Day 2 of the championship event. Creating a group of 165 players in search of the top prize of over 270k. Only 45 however will get paid so [...]

Getting back to the grind here. News coming in from the Borgata today that today’s Event 13 field will reach well over 1000 players and feature a 40k top prize. Not too bad for a $200 buy-in event! Let’s take a look at some the week’s prior action. Event 6 – $1090 No Limit Hold [...]

Started this post on Saturday but with all the bad/sad news in the online poker world since Friday it just kept getting pushed to the back burner. We’ve said enough about all that here for now as not much has changed since my last post on the Black Friday events. So let’s move on here [...]

April has arrived with it comes some rain some flowers and some big poker tournaments return to the Borgata starting next week as the Spring Poker Open will get underway on April 13th. Check here for the full schedule of events (printable version here) and here for everything else you’re looking for including special Poker [...]

As avid followers of the @acpokerblog twitter feed surely already know have an Omaha problem… well I guess it’s not a problem really but it’s just that I find hold’em just doesn’t do it for me anymore of late. Why would I want to have just two hole cards when I could have four? So [...]

Took me a minute but I just dug up some info on the massive bad beat jackpot that had been swelling for weeks at trump. Unlike the one at Harrahs which pools from all properties in town and pays everyone playing in any of the poker rooms at the time a small taste the Trump [...]