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Yeah, Gus is certainly a great player to watch, although some see him as a loose cannon, he certainly does take calculated risks, and he can also change gears completely like he did in Poker After Dark where he seemed to take everyone by surprise by playing a very different style to his normal style.

Hey Daniel, can certainly see where you are coming from. Obviously you need to consider what is best for you and I'm sure nobody can hold anything against you for doing what you need to do.If it's any help, I know that your posts and blogs are an inspiration to many, including myself, I'd sure love to see them continue, but at the same time if your heart is not in it, and you feel that you need a break from them, either temporary or permanent, then I'd rather you did take that break rather than continue doing something you didn't want to do.

Can't you play at an online headsup playmoney table via your LAN?

From what I've heard of the "interview" they are lucky they picked on someone with as much class as DN, if they'd tried that garbage on a lot of other players it could have turned very ugly for them.Inviting a guest on to a radio show and not knowing who he is or anything about him is just plain bad form no matter what show it is. Bottom line is they screwed up and made asses of themselves now they continue to spew garbage out. It should be those clowns calling Daniel to apologize for making fools of themselves and to clear the air, not Daniel calling them.

Well for those interested, I did have a series of email communications with the company running the event. They fully admitted that they screwed up, that rules were broken by their staff and that I was disadvantaged as a result. I received a phone call from the director of the organization to offer his personal apology. They refused to offer any form of compensation including qualification for the next event as, get this, that would be breaking their rules, lolOh well, at least I know what to expect from them if I ever play in another one of their events.

Well the move to a position worse than I would have been had I not been moved at that critical stage of the tournament had quite a large effect on whether I cashed or not, particularly when the combined big/small blind is roughly equal to the average chip stack and I'm only 5 players off the money, being moved from UTG on the next hand to being big blind this hand makes a fair amount of difference. My first response was that it was bad luck, not much they could have done UNTIL I read their rules and realised they were not supposed to do this, and that when I questioned it they were supposed t

The organization in question is a national poker league, so yeah, I play anywhere from 6-12 events with them per week. The event is the state championships which are held every 3 months which you have to qualify for via a few methods, such as being in the top 10 points for the state over a 1 week period, etc.I'm thinking at the least they could give me automatic qualification for the next event, but we'll see what they say.

Fair comments.I've put an email in to the organizers to see what they say. Like I said, if it wasn't for seeing those two clauses I would have just written it off as bad luck. To have those two clauses in their rule book however and yet have the head tournament director of their biggest event not know or not apply them correctly is pretty poor form IMHO

Hey guys, interested to hear what others think of this situation-In a "major" invitational tournament prize money is around 30k and first three places get a seat in a 1.5 Million dollar+ invitational event.We are down to 21 people out of a field of close to 400 starters. The tournament is a fairly poor structured event, whereby the blinds as we move down to the final 40 are very close to the average chip stack. I'm sitting one in front of the big blind for the next hand when I am moved to another table and asked to sit in the big blind spot. I point out to the Tournament Director that I am

Yep, he got me good, I read that section 3 times in utter disbelief before I read further down and saw that I'd been had.