Andy Bloch Interview, Karaoke Phil at the State Fair and More!!!

The Andy Bloch interview can now be heard in its entirety. Just listen to the newest podcast release.

Also, Karaoke Phil spent some time at the Minnesota State Fair yesterday. You can catch a glimpse of him on the web at:

http://www.livecast.com/live/Default.aspx?dotheimpossible08

Click on "Day 6 of Minnesota Political Theater" and then go to the 8 min 18 sec mark through about 8min 50 sec. You'll see Phil off and on for about 11 or 12 of those 30 seconds (he's the one in the background handing out literature).

Finally, Running Aces has come up with a name for their HPT Tournament in November. Drum roll......it'll be called .....The 10,000 Lakes Poker Championship.

New CPL podcast discloses that Andy Bloch interview took place

This week's podcast wraps up the CPL 2008 Summer Session, talks about the TOC and the tournament at Running Aces (including Karaoke Phil's Heartland Poker Super Satellite and Omaha H/L tournies.

But, the big news is that CPL Co-Director Mark Cardenas scored a 20-minute inteview with FullTilt Poker pro Andy Bloch. Yes, Andy Bloch. But, you'll need to tune in to next week's podcast to hear the full interview - a little teaser for you.

Running Aces website not always right--By Blind Me Down

So it's a Monday night and the wife is in San Diego. I went online to
check the Running Aces tournament schedule and noticed an 8:30
tournament scheduled for 8/18. 5000 chip stack, 20 minute blinds and
a $100 + 15 + 5 buy in. Sounded nice so I called up dad (Cowboy
Wally) and headed out there. We arrived at 8 sharp and asked the
cashier if we could buy in for the 8:30 tournament. She said we were
the 4th people to ask about a tournament that didn't exist. We were
pointed in the direction of the card room manager who was also
baffled by this. After a couple minutes of confusion we got him
online to check out the website and were told to wait while they
sorted this out. There is supposed to be Midnight Madness tournys on
Mondays but there online schedule was saying otherwise. We continued
to do some complaining about how far we drove and what they could do
to accommodate us. He finally decided to call the tournament director
whose shift didn't start until 10 for the midnight madness game. The
tourny director then came in over an hour early and held an 11 player
sit and go for those of us that came out there for the game listed
online. The impromptu game had the same blind structure and starting
chip stack that was advertised online and we all sat at 1 crowded
table and got things underway. After all the dust settled and things
moved into there rhythm it was a very nice tournament. They never do
sit n go's with that structure and never with 11 people but they bent
over backwards to make sure we were all happy customers. I have to
hand it to them for taking a bad situation and trying to make it
right. The tournament lasted 2 and a half hours and paid the top four
places. $500 for 1st, $300 for 2nd, $200 for 3rd and $100 for 4th.
Wally had a roller coaster game being short stacked early on, then
chipping up to 8500, then back down to the short stack where his A 2
suited ran into A Q off suit. Once it got to the turn he had almost
every card in the deck as an out with a flush draw, straight draw,
the 3 remaining dueces and even the board pairing would have worked.
The A Q held up and he went out in 6th. I myself played about as
water tight as I possible could have and found myself heads up at the
end. The other guy had me out stacked six to one at least and after
doubling up once, I went absolutely card dead. I couldn't get
anything going and lasted about 15 minutes before going out in 2nd
place and taking home $300. Not bad for a quickly thrown together
game by a card room that seemed to want to do everything they could
to make things all well and good.

So, next time you want to go out to the card room for a tournament
listed online, call ahead to make sure it actually exists.

-Blind Me Down

Fall Poker Classic schedule now up

Even though we're now sweet on Running Aces, Canterbury Park continues to be a player in the Twin Cities poker scene. Their signature event is probably the Fall Poker Classic, a series of 15 events taking place each October. Canterbury has just released the schedule for this year which you can view here: http://www.canterburypark.com/Poker/FallPokerClassic/tabid/146/Default.aspx

Karaoke Phil is especially jazzed up for the OH8 tourney on Wednesday, October 15. That, and yet another indication that Running Aces is generating competition in the area which directly benefits players. For the Fall Poker Classic it is added chips (Canterbury is calling it "Deeper Stacks" and "More Chips!!") - meaning more play for your dollar and a greater advantage to skill (versus luck) per tournament.

Running Aces adds tourneys

Running Aces continues to evolve (though they still have a little work to do) and has added a couple of new tournaments.

The 3rd Sunday of every month will now see a $100 ($80 plus $15 plus $5) OH8 Tournament. The web says 3000 chips starting stack the photocopied handout for the tourney says 5000. Either way, it's 20 minute blind levels and a 3 pm start. And, either way, Karaoke Phil is jazzed up about this one.

Also, on December 11 - there's a $10000 free roll for the top 100 tournament players. Not much about it on the web and the hand out seemed to be a little off as it stated that results from:
Super-Satellite, No-Limit, and Limit tournaments would not count towards points. That doesn't seem to leave much left.

CPL at Running Aces!

The CPL 2008 Summer Session comes to a close with 3 CPL Members playing in a medium buy in tournament at Running Aces in Columbus MN.  With a 5000 starting chip stacks and 30 min blind levels there definitely was plenty of poker to be played tonight.  But in the end...non on the CPL folks made it to the money.

After level 3, NewLife was ahead of Blind Me Down and Verbal with over 8000 in chips, Verbal was sitting at 6800, and Blind Me Down was damaged with around 3100.

However, NewLife was the first CPL member knocked out during level 4 as Greg ran into pocket aces, not once but twice in a row...and against the same opponent!!   Somebody check the automatic card shuffler...

Blind Me Down went out during level 5, and Verbal hung in until the end of Level 6 where my pocket 8's did not hold up against A-Q even though I survived the flop...and was a 74% favorite.

Oh well!  It was a great time and I look forward to the next outing at Running Aces!

Mark


--
CPL Director Mark Cardenas
and
CPL Co-Director Phil Fuehrer

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