25 May 2009

Women’s French Open Poll

Women’s action at Roland Garros began with defending champion Ana Ivanovic winning in straight sets.

21 May 2009

Maria Sharapova-Sliding Through in Warsaw

After battling injury for nearly all of last season, Maria Sharapova is slowly making a comeback in women’s tennis. Today she reached the third round of the WTA’s Warsaw Open, beating her opponent 6-2, 6-0

21 May 2009

Maria Sharapova-Sliding Through in Warsaw

After battling injury for nearly all of last season, Maria Sharapova is slowly making a comeback in women’s tennis.

19 May 2009

On the Economy & the 2009 WSOP

We’re getting close, peoples. Just a week more and satellites get crankin’ at the Rio

19 May 2009

Raise Folding

One of the first signs of a new player’s ability when you first start playing with them is if they have the tendency to raise and then fold to a re-raise. “….but when they get played back at holding junk they fall for the oldest illusion of hold’em - the desire to see a flop.” All good players raise fold a great deal, as they have a decent grasp of both the gap concept (that of needing a much stronger hand to call with than raise with), as well of effective stacks and their effect on what hands they should be calling with pre flop. Bad players will happily raise with both good and bad hands, much like good players, but when facing re-raises their behavior changes drastically

There’ll be no repeat of Shane Lowry’s odds-defying victory this week as it’s strictly professionals in Surrey. Bill Elliott will be there… The delight that cascaded over the County Louth Golf Club in Baltray on Sunday when Shane Lowry won the Irish Open was understandable.

18 May 2009

40th Annual World Series of Poker

photo by flipchip • lasvegasvegas.com Doyle Brunson, legendary poker player, opens the 2008 World Series of Poker With Las Vegas daytime temperatures hitting triple digits the poker rooms around town are seeing increased business as poker players from around the world begin to make their way to the summer’s big poker show, the 2009 World Series of Poker.

Roger Federer has won his first singles title of the season and his first against Nadal on clay in we can’t remember how long. Roger won in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 against the world number one who was clearly a different player than the one witnessed yesterday against Novak Djokovic in the longest ATP match in history, 4 hours and 2 minutes. Nadal never seemed to get the fire necessary to turn things around as he did in yesterday’s second set against Novak who had won the first won so decidedly

At the Madrid Open, Rafael Nadal faced an unbelievably tough opponent in Novak Djokovic of whom Nadal handed the first set over 3-6. It then became a battle of wills in the next two sets that would last a little over four hours but each would end in two tie-breaks; one in which Nadal completely controlled, and the other where he fought off two match points. Although Nadal led in the error category 50 to 43 and trailed in winners 31 to Djokovic’s 37, Djokovic’s a major downfall to his excellent game was his inability to convert more than 2 of 8 break points, a couple of those being match points

15 May 2009

What the Rules Say (2009 WSOP)

Was leafing through the “Tournament Rules ” for the 2009 World Series of Poker yesterday. When the rules for this year first went online about a month ago, much of the attention was given to the new “Code of Player Conduct” that appears as Rule No.