by htotheizzo | Jul 19, 2018 | Interesting Hands
This is going to be the most surreal blog post I’ve ever written (even more than the one about the guy who stuck his finger in my mouth). The two biggest pots of my life both involved getting it in with a flush draw deep into the WSOP main event. Bizarrely, both...
by htotheizzo | Jul 14, 2017 | Interesting Hands
Bobbed and weaved but they finally got me in the last level of day 2c. I had a great experience overall during the main event and played lots of interesting hands. One hand really stuck with me. You know the one that leaves you wondering? It was early in day 2. Blinds...
by htotheizzo | Jun 6, 2017 | Interesting Hands
A fun thing happens as you get near the money in a poker tournament. You become keenly aware of the payout ladder and you are faced with a tough dilemma. When should you risk elimination (and a much lower payout or even worse missing out completely i.e. bubbling) for...
by htotheizzo | Apr 20, 2017 | Interesting Hands, Poker Weird
These two situations are the closest I’ve come to puking at the poker table. This first one still stands as my most bizarre experience at a poker table. It was the tail end of a long session. The guy to my immediate right was a semi-regular older white guy who...
by htotheizzo | Apr 12, 2017 | Interesting Hands
Playing with Hellmuth was a mixed experience. Its cool to play with someone so famous, but he didn’t exactly charm the table. He bought in after the dinner break as he usually likes to be fashionably late but when facing his first tough decision at the table he...
by htotheizzo | Dec 5, 2016 | Interesting Hands
Wanted to share with you guys one of the more interesting hands I played in the wpt shot clock event against a very tough opponent, Tom “hitthehole” Middleton. It was still relatively early in the tourney. I didn’t know yet exactly who Tom was but I...
