In honor of Show #100

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April 22, 2007

In honor of Show #100

To commemorate our 100th show I designed a special logo. Everyone knows the standard color for a chip worth 100 units or $100 is black. So with that in mind I took it a step further and made this. I have inserted the logo on the left and what it looks like on a shirt on the right. You can buy this shirt at our store, and we offer different types of shirts (long and short sleeved) but only in white. The chip would get lost in a black shirt.

As for poker, I played in Gambit's home game Friday night and won a little in the cash game portion of the evening but went out first in the tournament when I turned a straight, plus picked up a straight flush draw. Someone bet out and I pushed. After much deliberation he turned over a very low made flush and my one out was in his hand. Oh well, I still played well and went home and won $40 playing Stud/8 and NLHE on Full Tilt. It was a positive weekend despite the tournament bust. Also, Saturday Scott and I worked on Show 100 at his house ... oh, and I kicked his butt in Chinese Poker! We played the standard 13-card game, then the 13-card variation with the middle board playing as 2-7 lowball, and then we played 18-card Chinese Poker where the second board from the top was 2-7 and the first, third and fourth boards were progressively better hands. That's when I trounced him!!!! I may have cured him of his Chinese Poker obsession. If he can't beat, me he can't beat anyone!

Also, keep sending those trivia questions to Fasso@sptimes.com for this week's show. If you don't know what I mean, click here.

-- Chris

Posted by Times Editor at 10:54:42 PM on April 22, 2007
in Home Games , Miscellaneous | Permalink

About This Blog

Christopher Cosenza is co-host of the longest running poker podcast on the planet, Ante Up! He started playing poker seriously in 2003 and his favorite players are Phil Ivey and Kenna James, though he tends to act like Phil Hellmuth if you make a bad play against him.

Scott Long, Ante Up!'s other co-host, is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade, named his state "Gambleland" for a school project (State Animal? Loan shark, of course).

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