Breakfast Club Poker

Hooker Bar with the Bloggers

If you read Pauly's Tao of Poker, you've heard the Hooker Bar mentioned time and again. Like the legendary stories from Pauly's strip club-filled world, the Hooker Bar always  brought  dream-like adventures to mind.  Some day, I thought, if I could stay up late enough, when I had enough money to pay for lap dances and cover charge after cover charge on a strip club crawl—then maybe, just maybe, I could join Pauly on a famed trip to the Hooker Bar.

So you could imagine my surprise when Otis turned to me in the media room and asked if I wanted to join them at the Hooker Bar. A bunch of the bloggers were going over there for a drink. Already a few drinks in, I started packing my things. I walked over with Pokerati Dan and my friend Sarah, but was distracted by a search for an ATM. I needed cash! Dan easily dismissed my need for drink money and said he had things covered. So, you can imagine my double surprise when the Hooker Bar was a video poker corner with bar staff behind it.

Tao of Poker on a Break

It's 730am. If the players are on a break, so is Pauly.

This is a pretty late nght. I'm tired, but I can't complain. I didn't get here until 130am.

Make sure you read the HORSE event updates on Tao of Poker. Pauly works his butt off.

Here's the post he put up before the nap...

6:55am... After 160 hands+ of heads-up play, Chip Reese doubled up with K-K against Andy Bloch's 9-9. Reese pulled near even to Bloch with 3.7M to 3.45M. After he won that hand Reese walked over to his sons and said, "We're back in the game, boys!" After nearly five hours of heads up play, both players are close to even in chips.

Photo taken by Snoopy with Blonde Poker.

Angry Aussies? Joe Hachem and Mark Voss

I saw Joe Hachem surrounded by two Aussies last night as they watched Phil Hellmuth try to take his shot at bracelet #10. I think it's great that Joe made a final table already and had a 2nd place cash. ($256,600 in the $ 2,500 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em)

Aussies seem to be in the spotlight even more now that Mark Voss won his bracelet the other night in the $2,000 NL Hold'em Event. But wait...there's drama.

Shane, the Poker.com blogger, reported yesterday that things are not all quiet on the Aussie front. Is it a good natured competitive rivalry or is it something darker?

Read all about it on "Poker Rivals Splitting Chips".

Pressure Poker

Support a blogger. WPBT member DoubleAs has a new book out and we need to get our copies. I've been in publishing for eleven years, and writing a book is no easy business. There are a gazillion snafus that can happen between inception and arriving on a bookstore shelf. It's truly humbling to think of all the hands that touch it between the time an author turns in his manuscript and the poitn at which your friends can buy the book.

Pressure Poker: Poker Strategy and Tools to Improve Your Game

In his announcement of the book being done, DoubleAs Scott Galant thanks his co-writers, some of whose names you will recognize like Otis, Pauly, and Grubby. Read more about the book launch and all the contributors who participated on his blog.