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Monday, December 17, 2007

Poker, Live or Online?

I have just witnessed something very bizarre. Betfair ran a $150,000 gtd tournament today and had commentary on the final table. Two betfair sponsored pros were giving their opinions whilst hands were being played. For what its worth annette_15 and milkybarkid are both great people, both at poker and in the way they handle their fame and fortune. Full credit to betfair for trying to be creative but having outsiders speculating on what hands people could have during play would never be allowed in a live tournament so why allow it online? Yet another example on how online poker can be so different from live poker.

It was good to see betfair have a tournament with a fairly decent prizepool yet once again they displayed how far behind they are in relation to online pokers big players. The satellites were pretty awful with mainly $10 sats, 70 runners playing for 1 seat. Also the structure was awful with the final table lasting no longer than thirty minutes. To their credit though betfair did contribute a fair bit out of their own pocket to cover the guarantee. When was the last time anybody can remember pokerstars reaching into their own pockets to cover a guarantee!

Congratulations to all who cashed in it, Punterz08 was out level 3 AA v KK preflop and my friend Mr Silent also lost on level 3 KK v AQ PREFLOP for over 200 big blind pot. Long may the donkeys keep playing!