May 22, 2007
Malcolm Tent makes it $50. It all depended on how the cards were falling for me. Wiseguy. But not before I realized that we were playing none other than Brian Saltus, the winner of this year's TOC. My play poker hands will not get tired. Copycat killings, near-perfect reenactments of past serial murders by the psychotic fans of the high-profile murderers, happen far more often then you would like to think. The Forensics Investigators have come and gone. If you're up against a good player, who knows when he's beat and plays accordingly, then lower your implied odds.
I ask, Penelope, would you like to make a bet? And I made my first final table since January. He knew that we knew. Since Henry Orenstein helped to propel poker into the mainstream by inventing the playpoker card camera, poker has been floundering around attempting to find its direction. Craig looses a little ground to the moderately tight opponent by playing too many hands.
He plays it smart, like poker, weighing the risks and rewards of each action, isolating variables and narrowing their values, and coming up with the best play. So I decided to play one more satellite, which I actually won. At my table I found Miami John Cernuto and Dale Phillips. I call. This pot really was a boost to my stack with an additional t1550. Yes, you! Remember what I already told you: After betting, the Kid had hesitated, re-examined his final card, leaned back, pondered, and eventually raised with a sigh.
