Tony Veckey is a software engineer.  He’s also a WSOP champion.  Veckey was the sole survivor of the $1,500 No Limit Hold ‘em tournament to win $673,276.  In a field of 2,817 players, Veckey won despite having never played in a WSOP before.  He has quite a percentage going there.  I don’t know if anyone has ever been 1 for 1 at the WSOP.
I also came across a great hand I wanted to share with you.  It involves one of my favorite players, Tom Dwan, who gets unlucky and then lucky against Antonio Esfandiari.  Here is the video:
As you can …read more

Last night I watched Grant Hinkle take home the 2008 WSOP $1,500 No-Limit event.  He won on a push with 10-4 against James Akenhead’s legitimate AK.  The flop and turn came out 10-10-4-10!  Akenhead was crushed and Hinkle took home an elusive WSOP bracelet.  This really wasn’t right.  I mean if you’re Akenhead, you play right, you get yourself in a dominate position heads up at a prestigious world class event and some goofy guy raises you, then pushes all-in with 10-4 and catches his miracle cards.
Of course Hinkle’s mom was in the audience and just thought he was some …read more