celebrity Slot Online fans

The latest celebrity to "come out" as a poker fan: Jack Black.
"Lately, I've really been into the Slot Online Championships' no limit hold-'em," Black says. "You get to see their cards, which is amazing. You get to see them bluff and move around ($5,000) piles of cash."
poker trivia
Latest bit of poker trivia you probably didn't know: legendary porn actor John Holmes was "discovered" in a Gardena poker club men's room, changing him from forklift operator to Johnny Wadd.
poker in usa today
USA TODAY ran an article today on the growing popularity of poker, with a spotlight on the World Poker Tour and "Sweet. Chatty. Cute." Jennifer Harman.
wagerline
Wagerline is a nice site I came across (via The Gambler) which allows you to create an account, and make picks (and a "unit" amount from 100 to 500) across all major sports. They have competitions you can enter, or you can just make picks to have them recorded for posterity, which are tracked both by accuracy as well as net unit gain based on an 11-for-10 line. The interface is nice, apart from a few too many flashing ads, the site is fast, and they have about 10,000 picksters registered. It appears to have been going for almost two years now.
It seems like a good, low-maintenance way to track your theoretical winnings and losses, especially if you're not betting all the games you pick.
The net winnings leader for NFL is 69-35-2 (66.35%) for +15250 units, while the leader for all sports combined is 1621-1497-143 (51.99%) for +57978 units.
I might start tracking my picks in there, but trust me, I won't be going 69-35.action, hellmuth, and playing blind
In Phil Hellmuth's book, Play slot hoki Poker Like the Pros, Hellmuth writes about a player he knew who would sit down at an $80-160 hold'em game, and proceed to play every hand blind for an entire round (10 hands), betting or raising the max every time it got to him.

Hellmuth uses it as an example of how to loosen up a table, and although he doesn't come out and recommend it, seems to suggest it as a possible strategy. He implies that it was worth it for the guy, because he got almost unlimited action for the rest of the night and it would cover the "$3500" (according to Hellmuth) it cost him to do this.
I looked at that number and immediately thought, it would cost you WAY more than that to play that strategy. This is a matter dear to my heart, because I am known to play blind from time to time. (Side stories to follow.)
Playing blind can be a good way to loosen up a tight table, but if you played blind as described every time you sat down, you would be looking at a costly proposition.
At an 80-160 game, assuming a full 10-player table, an average of 3 bets/round (not quite capped but close due to your maniac play), 4 players/hand, and you (the blind maniac) in ten hands in a row, and winning on average one of those hands, your net would be -$8,640! That's 54 big bets which would take a LOT of action to recover from. If you don't win one hand, you lose $14,400 or 90 big bets!
So, I can heartily recommend not taking Phil Hellmuth's friend's lead and capping every time you sit down, blind, for an entire round.
As I alluded to, however, I have had my moments in the sun playing blind. Here are my two greatest playing blind stories:
$1-2 pot-limit hold'em home game in Austin, about three years ago. I had been developing a healthy rivalry with an up-and-coming player in the game, let's call him BJ. In one particular hand, I got up to go to the kitchen for some refreshments but got dealt in. I was standing in the kitchen and someone shouted that it was $10 to go. I hadn't seen my cards, and yelled out "call". On the flop, it was just me and BJ heads up. I remained in the kitchen and was first to go. I yelled out "pot" to make it about $25. I heard BJ say "repot", raising it up to about $100.
At this point I decided it was probably prudent to come back to the table and actually look at my cards. I walked back and saw the flop was 3-4-5 rainbow. I decided that if I had any kind of hand, including two biggies, I was coming back over the top. I looked at my cards very quickly and saw an absolute angel: 6-7 offsuit for the nut straight! I instantly repotted it all-in, and BJ instantly called me and about died when he flipped up K-K and I flipped up the stone-cold nuts. I think that hand put him on tilt for about three months :)
Second story: I was in Vegas about two years ago and had been cavorting around, doing my best to exploit the casinos' free drink policy. I decided maybe it was a good time for some low-roller poker action. I was in the Luxor, so went to their tiny poker "room" (4 tables with a rail around them) and asked for a $4-8 seat. There was a huge list, and I didn't want to go to another casino, so I decided to REALLY low-roll and play the worst poker game in history, $1-5 seven-card stud.
$1-5 seven-card stud attracts a rather unique brand of players, mostly the 70+ set who like to bet $1 or $2 a hand and sit around smoking Lucky Strike unfiltereds and talking about game shows. I find it amusing, when no other tables are open, to sit down and absolutely jam the pot while I wait for a table.
I sat down, ordered a double shot of vodka, and declared my intention to play the first hand blind as my introduction to the game. I raised $5 on the open, which instantly got most of the table to fold, probably without even looking at their cards. I ended up heads-up against a gentleman who clearly thought he was going to outplay me, and in his defense probably was the best $1-5 seven-card stud player at the table (a very dubious honor). I jammed it the whole way, managed to get another shot in, and at the end flipped up my hand and was pleased to see a full house.
I then declared I would play the next hand blind also, to give him a chance to win back his money. At the end, against two opponents, jammed the whole way, I flipped up a 6-card straight and took down the pot again. I ordered another shot and decided that I was having a very good time playing blind, and I didn't care if I didn't keep winning, I was going to play every hand blind. Even if I lost it was worth it just to see the expressions on the other player's faces :)
I ended up playing $1-5 seven-card stud, completely blind, doing shots of vodka and toasting my opponents, for almost an hour. It was the most fun I've ever had playing $1-5, and maybe ever in poker. I didn't even lose -- I ended up +$125. That's 25 big bets, my friend!
The best part was absolutely putting the rest of the table on tilt, including clearing 5 of the original players from when I sat down -- I busted 2 of them out, and 3 left out of rage or frustration.
What's the moral of the story? Perhaps you can play blind and win blind sometimes, but you can't play blind and win blind all the time.

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