Mercier get #2!

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A big congrats to one of my favorite young guns- Jason Mercier as he snagged his second bracelet this week in Event #35. The $5000 PLO 6 max event had roughly 500 players and it was a tough field to navigate.

Durrr made a deep run in this event but eventually missed the final table. Mercier took a commanding chip lead and ended up victorious after three days of play.

You gotta love this guy. It seems like every final table he makes, he ends up taking it down. He's got some serious end-game skills and he's always a blast to sweat.

Congrats Jason!

#12 Tonight???

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You either love him or you hate him- or you're like me and always on the fence. I laugh at his antics, somtimes feel like he gets what he deserves- but ALWAYS route for him at the final table...

At the time of this post, we are down to the final nine in Event #33 of the 2011 WSOP. It's the $10k Stud Hi Lo Split 8 or Better Championship and The Poker Brat is sitting with an average stack of around 550,000 chips.

A few tourneys ago, Phil almost broke out of his no limit shell by taking down the 2-7 Single Draw tournament, but John Juanda spoiled the party by coming back from a 2-1 chip deficite to capture the title.

A few events later, Phil has another chance to snag a bracelet in a non hold-em event. The table is streaming live over at WSOP.com and he's got a tough table to navigate through. Still alive are Joe Tehan, John Racener and Ted Forrest.

The competition will be tough, and if Phil can do it, it will be history well earned....

Good luck Phil!

Event #31- realcharder30's to lose...

Cropped this photo, so let me just go and and credit PokerNews for the photo above....

With 13 people left at break, Christian Harder is currently the chip leader in Event #31, $3,000 PLO. Christian is a fellow Marylander, and we wish him the best of luck with this bracelet run. He has over $1,750,000 in earnings, but this would be his first jewelry addition to his resume.

The final 13 won't be tough to navigate. Still in the running are Sam Stein, Adam Junglen, Brock Parker and Tex Barch to name a few...

Christian currently has 810,000 in chips, just about double the current average.

Good luck Christian!

Shaun Deeb's Turn?

At the time of this post, Shaun Deeb is chip leader of Event #29 with 10 players left. The $2500 10 Game Six Max Event is currently on dinner break, and Deeb is in the pole position with 635,000 chips.

Following his tweets, you'd be hard pressed to think that Deeb is confident about taking this one down. He's had a yo yo stack the past couple of levels, but alas he's currently at the top of the mountain.

Deeb's live earnings are around $550,000 but he's been crushing the online world the past couple of years, including over $3,500,000 in cashes on Pokerstars alone. With the current landscape of online poker in the US, this may just be the year that Deeb makes his mark at the land-based events. He's got a legitimate shot at taking this event down, and hopefully he can bring home the bracelet.

This cash will be Deeb's fifth cash of the 2011 WSOP. He's got about $33,000 in cashes so far. The winner of Event #29 will take home roughly $250,000.

Good luck to Shaun on grabbing his first bracelet.

Contracted with PTG

It's time to get the dust off my blogging pen. I've recently been contracted to write for PTG, a site being released in a couple weeks, and I'm looking forward to getting back in to the blogging game. It's an exciting time, and among other things we will be bringing back the Brawl.

I don't want to get into too much detail about the new site, but what I can tell you is that it's from a unique perspective, and all of the guys there are full pledged dedicated degenerates. They've all been around the game for years and match my passion for poker.

Since my last post, I've been enjoying the flourishing economy just like everyone else. The side games dried up for a while and I've been grinding online everynight. Recent live action has picked up and been pretty steady for the last couple of months.

I've got a staking arrangement online now that's been working out pretty well. It's a 50/50 split on MTTs, and we've both carried the other through negative variance. The arrangement is in the black right now, and I'm pretty confident that we will keep climbing.

Life is good. I've got a munchkin on the way. The wifey is healthy. Still have a job. Still stacking chips. And now I'm jumping back into the blogging arena.

I've been keeping up with everyone's blogs. Most are easy to keep up with since the posting counts are down. :0)

At any rate, I'm back, and looking forward to rededicating myself to time that I don't have to put some words down and publish.

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

The Brawl is private no more

The official post...

After a good solid run of nine months, the Bmore's Brawl (as a private tourney) will cease to exist.

Starting next week, I will open the tourney up to the public.

This is good for the Brawl. It served it's initial purpose. I wanted to have a tourney in which all the old school grinders could meet up each week and take flops with each other if they wanted to. I think we had some great tourneys and it was a blast.

However, participation is down, and I need to open this up to the public to keep it going.

Everything else will remain the same. And who knows, the public may never get interested in the Brawl. I've got to give it a shot though, as I like hosting the tourney every week.

The next Brawl will be:

Wednesday, October 8th @ 9:00pm EST
Full Tilt Poker, password = omrounders

See you there..

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore

thebmorekid takes down Brawl #38

Yeah, I know...

I slacked off. The last Brawl I posted results for was #33. Unfortunately, the Brawl as a private tourney hasn't been able to keep momentum by itself. I should be happy, it's outlasted The Horsey Ride, and Rocco's Rumble...

It's tough keeping the tournament private. On the one hand, you want to have an event once a week where all of your friends can get together and play each other. It's fun. We've got grinders all over the states at this point. I never counted up the states represented, but there was a lot.

Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Missouri, Las Vegas, California, North Carolina...

So yeah, it was great. We were able to catch up with each week with guys who used to play in our home games. These were guys that we were used to seeing once a week across the table. For one reason or another, they had relocated, and we handn't played cards with them in months.

For the first couple of weeks we were rolling. I think our attendance record was around 35. Very very fun. And then, who knows?

FTP accounts went busto...
Wives started complaining that they were playing poker again every week...
Dart leagues...
I forgot...
FTP is NOT random...
House game got robbed...
New live game on Wednesdays...

We started dwindling down, but we were still seeing 15-20 guys, and I was fine with that. I noticed that when I didn't have time to send the reminder email, the count would drop a bunch. Even though it was always on a Wednesday. Always at 9pm EST. Always the same password.

I don't know. It doesn't matter. It was fun while it lasted, but it's tough to keep the momentum going when I restrict the tourney by making it private.

With that said, I think I'm going to make a post right now officially opening the Bmore's Brawl up to the world...

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore