At about the 6:15 mark you will see a profile of Dean Hamrick, he is one of the nicest guys in poker and he crushes online as MSUsfinest.

This article talks about Badugi Poker - I’m sure you’ve all seen the “Badugi Coming Soon” in the PokerStars Lobby. I learned that Badugi actually has different hand rankings than normal poker, which is something that threw me for a loop when I tried playing at a home game the other day.

If you read a little down in the article it talks about the hand rankings, and how you can actually end up with a hand between 1 and 4 cards total depending on the suits and cards in your hand. Anyways, I thought it was cool, and now I’m ready to tear up Stars once they release it.

I had a successful trip down in Louisville even though I didn’t get to play as often as I would have liked but I was happy with my play for the most part. I won 11,000 the first session… 1,400.. the second.. 700 the third… and 2,800 the last. The last 3 sessions were such a grind it was sick. I started off big stuck all 3 days and someone grinded back a win. I was never winner until the very end of every session but sometimes you just have to take what you can get. I really wanted to play the 5K NL tourney that started sunday but it was my friends birthday so I ended up staying in town to go out with them. That decision might have cost me alot of money though because I heard the game has been really good the past few days and the tourney field was really weak. However, that doesn’t mean I would have won money but at least the odds would have been in my favor.

I am supposed to head out to Las Vegas Wednesday to hang out with some friends and go to the PGA event but I am not sure if I should go or not. I just bought a house in my hometown of Avon, Indiana and I really need to pack and get moved over there. I guess there isn’t too much of a rush though since I still want to paint and do some other things. I almost hate to leave because I of the PLO game here in Louisville. I have won my past 8 sessions and even though I don’t really care about how many times ive won compared to how much money ive made, it is still good for my confidence and temperament.

I hope everyone else has been doing well and incase you have wondered… I still cant win online.

Matt Humphrey

humphreyin@hotmail.com

Haralabos Voulgaris (Bob left and currently Shaniac is filling that seat) and Scott Huff have started a new podcast on pokerroad.com. The show is more about the gossip in poker rather than how to play Ace King.

Full Tilt has a habit of providing its customers with insights into the game of poker.  If you want to hear how the best minds in poker think of the game, these are for you.

Weekly they have a podcast featuring ranked online poker players or people making poker headlines around the world.

This show follows the path of pro poker players everywhere. Hosted by Gavin Smith and Joe Sebok is a well done show. Almost as good as Big Poker Sunday’s

Home of Gary Wise (columnist for Bluff) and some of the biggest names in poker stop by to give their opinions and observations about poker.  Also home of the Krazy Ho poker show featuring James “Krazy Kanuck” Worth and Mark “Poker Ho” Kroon.

Phil is an interesting character in poker. He is not quite a degenerate the way that most poker players would like so he is a bit on the fringe but he is incredibly sellable to a wide stream audience and he gets great guests.

High Stakes Poker 500k buy in 1 of 4 videos from the biggest game ever televised.

High Stakes Poker 500k buy in-2 of 4 2nd in a series of 4.

High Stakes Poker 500k buy in-3 of 4 3rd in a series of 4.

Great Bluff by David Benyamine in this fourth of 4.

Frankly I think the video is lacking a little bit but it was talked about a lot so I am putting it up.