A Round Up of Poker Ferguson Michigan Poker and a Mish Mash

Chris Ferguson held the chip lead in the LA Classic until the end of the day yesterday.  He started the day with 1.7 million in chips and the lead.  He ended the day in sixth place and a chip stack of 1.5 million and the low stack at the final table.  The chip leader, Chris Karagulleyan, begins today with a stack totalling 4.0 million chips.  Ferguson got off to a very bad beat at the beginning of the round and dropped 500,000 in chips in one hand.  His round was a roller coaster ride, which saw him drop as low as just over half a million in chips and then recover to over 2.2 million only to go back down to the ending balance of 1.5 million.  This is his second final table at a WPT event.

Michigan may be going through a tough economic time, but Poker is still alive at the new poker room at the Turtle Creek Casino that just opened in its new location in June 2008.  The poker room has enjoyed a full table experience since it open.  Leslie Vancamp the poker room manager stated that the Poker Room had been booming from day one of its grand opening.

People are still a buzz about the Hansen fight and are trying to figure out why Gus and Theo did it.  The few people that saw the fight were disappointed that it ended in a decision instead of a knock out.  The fighters are grateful friends that it ended the way it did.

Phil Ivey is tearing up the high stakes no-limit tables at Full Tilt poker.  The other day he recorded a nice win of 1.1 million and this was in a cash game.  This is ample proof why other players are respectful when he is in the game.  Phil is not shy about risking very large bets when he thinks he has the winning hand.  This little online casino game just shows how shy he is about his wagers of real money.

Some players are still arguing that the WSOPE is equal to the original WSOP.  At the grand age of two events, this opinion is still voiced by a minority of players.  Give it a few more years and some of the huge player counts and it could be mentioned in the same breath.

TagsChris Ferguson, online gambling, online poker, poker game, poker players, poker rooms, WPT

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