2010 Thoughts…

Twenty-Ten looks to be an exciting year! Many thanks to MN Poker Mag for adding in the CPL Poker Podcast to their stable of bloggers, we are thrilled to be here!

We run a home poker league (starting its fourth year) and also host the only poker podcast from Minnesota – (check us out on ITunes – CPL Poker Podcast).

We kicked off our contribution to the MN Poker Mag Blog Team with some home game resources – This blog edition offers some thoughts for 2010:

Thoughts That Confuse Us

2010 WSOP Tournament schedule – This year’s WSOP will bring back and expand the $1000 “stimulus” tournament idea. There will be four – $1000 bracelet events. Does that mean the economy is in even worse shape??? It is a little more opportunity for those of us who don’t have the really big bucks to put down on a tournament (a lot like our home-grown Minnesota State Poker Tour) – so, we guess that’s a good thing.

Thoughts We Simply Don’t Understand

Bellagio WPC schedule- What’s with the Bellagio’s Five-Star World Poker Classic schedule?? ALL of the tournaments are rebuys!! Seventeen prelim events leading up to the main event and all of them are rebuy events?? Huh?

Thoughts We Really Don’t Understand

“FAIL” – apparently the trend for the kid’s these days on the interweb seems to be the use of the word “FAIL” to mean some variation of “didn’t go well”. As in, “tried to get in to the midnight showing of Avatar – long lines – FAIL”. If things go really bad you can call it “epic fail” – as in, “I flopped a four flush on an A high board, played it like I had the A. Moved all-in on the river with a massive Q-high only bluff. Guy snapped called me with his pair of 3s…Epic Fail”. Hey, here’s our idea of an Epic Fail…the use of any variation of the term FAIL in 2010.

Thoughts We Can’t Possibly Deal With

Pronouncing Tolkien – A Swedish online poker phenom by the name of Isildur1 stormed onto the scene in October, 2009. This has led to innumerable mispronunciations of his name by such folks as Ante Up Podcast, Raw Vegas TV/Wicked Chops, and Mike Matusow (BTW- clean up that foul mouth, Mike, damn). Each tending to butcher the name by pronouncing it along the lines of: IZ-ill-der. My God – do you even watch movies? Over three years (2001 to 2003) the Lord of the Rings Trilogy racked up 17 Academy Awards and each film ranks between 2nd to 15th in All-Time Worldwide Gross Receipts. Okay, we can live with some regional dialectic variations in the pronunciation – give us ih-SEAL-door or ee-SILL-dur, or some mash of the two, but NOT – IZ-ill-der, that’s just….Epic Fail. Now go read Silmarillion as punishment.

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