Once again summing up and snarking up whatever I feel like writing about whenever I feel like doing it, which is usually when I'm cranky. Deal with it.
A Figurative Kick In The Junk, Still Better Than A Literal Kick In The Junk. Michigan player Dean Hamrick was the unfortunate final table bubble boy when he busted 10th in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Poor Dean. He won't cash in on those sweet sweet online poker room logo dollars or win a bracelet, but on the positive side he also won't spend the next four months being hounded by agents, large guys from Eastern Europe or a permabuzzed Johnny Chan. Oh, and he picked up a nice $600,000ish consolation prize. Dude, can I get a loan?
Charity BOOOOOOOOOM. The poker boom is over? Somebody forgot to tell Michigan people, as a newish concept is exploding all over the state. The name of the game is the charity poker room - a fixed location where legal poker games - technically called "Millionaire Parties" - are held to benefit a rotating cast of charities. Instead of trying to get people to the game, the game comes to the people. Brilliant. Efficient. Rakealicious. Did I mention that some of them have super-rigged blackjack?
Charity poker rooms have recently opened in Bay City and Jackson, joining existing sites in suburban Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Brighton, Holland and Muskegon, among others. Here's a 2+2 thread on the subject to chew on if you're so inclined. For more information or to find a game in your area (hint: if the same location has a bunch of licenses, it's probably a charity poker room, duh), use the Millionaire Party Locater at the Charitable Gaming Division's home page.
Casino Uh ... Boom? Hey, if you don't want to play charity poker, you can always play casino poker. Maybe (depending on regulatory hurdles). The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians --not to be confused with the Little River Band of "Reminiscing" fame:
is announcing plans today to purchase the closed Great Lakes Downs thoroughbred track and open its second casino. The original facility in Manistee has a decent little poker room, it just suffers from the problem of being convenient to exactly nowhere.
No potential opening date is known. If you can't wait that long, there is always Four Winds, Soaring Eagle, Greektown, Motor City, your neighbor's basement ...
To the best of my knowledge, nobody kneecapped Phil Hellmuth with a 7 iron.
There Is No Me in Charity Poker Even If There Is An I. I was tipped recently by Mike (blog deleted) that a new charity room would be opening in a local bowling alley. It's not open yet, but I have high hopes*, despite the presence of multiple competing rooms within a reasonable driving distance. Trip reports will undoubtedly follow.
* High hopes directly influenced by probable availability of cheap beer at adjacent bowling alley bar.
In unrelated news, while surfing the various charity room sites I found a picture of myself playing in a cash game. Woo I'm famous. More specifically, about the top quarter of my head is famous. Table 3 FTW.
Some Leftovers. This guy from Chicago turned $63 into $257,000 at the WSOP. Some lawmakers actually get it - California may at some point have approved, regulated instate online poker (mention of tuff_fish included for any fan club members). Tennessee people apparently don't have a charity poker room in every town which means busts and arrests for the crime of poker (LOL at the owner's history). I'm not even going to touch the Gambling911.com story titled "poker sex ring taken down". Scared. Michael Ian Black once played poker against Star Jones and lived to tell about it. Also tells David Sedaris to "suck it".
The internets are a weird place.
A Figurative Kick In The Junk, Still Better Than A Literal Kick In The Junk. Michigan player Dean Hamrick was the unfortunate final table bubble boy when he busted 10th in the World Series of Poker Main Event. Poor Dean. He won't cash in on those sweet sweet online poker room logo dollars or win a bracelet, but on the positive side he also won't spend the next four months being hounded by agents, large guys from Eastern Europe or a permabuzzed Johnny Chan. Oh, and he picked up a nice $600,000ish consolation prize. Dude, can I get a loan?
Charity BOOOOOOOOOM. The poker boom is over? Somebody forgot to tell Michigan people, as a newish concept is exploding all over the state. The name of the game is the charity poker room - a fixed location where legal poker games - technically called "Millionaire Parties" - are held to benefit a rotating cast of charities. Instead of trying to get people to the game, the game comes to the people. Brilliant. Efficient. Rakealicious. Did I mention that some of them have super-rigged blackjack?
Charity poker rooms have recently opened in Bay City and Jackson, joining existing sites in suburban Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Brighton, Holland and Muskegon, among others. Here's a 2+2 thread on the subject to chew on if you're so inclined. For more information or to find a game in your area (hint: if the same location has a bunch of licenses, it's probably a charity poker room, duh), use the Millionaire Party Locater at the Charitable Gaming Division's home page.
Casino Uh ... Boom? Hey, if you don't want to play charity poker, you can always play casino poker. Maybe (depending on regulatory hurdles). The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians --not to be confused with the Little River Band of "Reminiscing" fame:
is announcing plans today to purchase the closed Great Lakes Downs thoroughbred track and open its second casino. The original facility in Manistee has a decent little poker room, it just suffers from the problem of being convenient to exactly nowhere.
No potential opening date is known. If you can't wait that long, there is always Four Winds, Soaring Eagle, Greektown, Motor City, your neighbor's basement ...
I'm So In When They Have The World Series Of Websurfing. Some used car salesman auto enthusiast named A.J. Johnson won the World Series of Golf sponsored by Full Tilt Poker.net. Johnson is from Michigan and I've never heard of this event, which are the two reasons why it's being mentioned. First prize was good for $250,00, so they must have had a fair number of fish donkeys hackers entrants, and apparently highlights were recently shown on CBS. Huh.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody kneecapped Phil Hellmuth with a 7 iron.
There Is No Me in Charity Poker Even If There Is An I. I was tipped recently by Mike (blog deleted) that a new charity room would be opening in a local bowling alley. It's not open yet, but I have high hopes*, despite the presence of multiple competing rooms within a reasonable driving distance. Trip reports will undoubtedly follow.
* High hopes directly influenced by probable availability of cheap beer at adjacent bowling alley bar.
In unrelated news, while surfing the various charity room sites I found a picture of myself playing in a cash game. Woo I'm famous. More specifically, about the top quarter of my head is famous. Table 3 FTW.
Some Leftovers. This guy from Chicago turned $63 into $257,000 at the WSOP. Some lawmakers actually get it - California may at some point have approved, regulated instate online poker (mention of tuff_fish included for any fan club members). Tennessee people apparently don't have a charity poker room in every town which means busts and arrests for the crime of poker (LOL at the owner's history). I'm not even going to touch the Gambling911.com story titled "poker sex ring taken down". Scared. Michael Ian Black once played poker against Star Jones and lived to tell about it. Also tells David Sedaris to "suck it".
The internets are a weird place.
3 comments:
I finally began to look up these charity poker rooms, once I realized there is one close to my house. I might go to see how it is one night but I imagine the rake is just horrible.
The rake *is* pretty horrible - 10% to $6, but that's not notably worse than any of the casinos that I've visited in MI. At least it doesn't take much to cover the cost of gas.
(note - it's 10% to $6 where I've played, but I think that's up to the house - one place lowered it to $5 and shorthanded tables usually get a break)
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