Robbie Strazynski

We begin the last episode of this season’s High Stakes Poker by raising the stakes to $500-$1,000 blinds with a 300 ante.

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To wear or not to wear sunglasses at the poker table? That’s the issue we discuss in this thought-provoking post. We’ll also see what two leading poker bloggers, Daniel Negreanu and Roy Winston, have to say about the matter.

I’d like to start off by saying that I absolutely LOVE Gabe Kaplan’s intro to the episode. I think it’s very smart of the producers to acknowledge the tape-delayed nature of the broadcasts by letting Kaplan give up-to-date news of Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan’s vegetarian prop bet.

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David Williams, who finished runner up in the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event, added another achievement, winning the 2010 WPT Tour Championship.

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I love how the episode starts out with Gabe Kaplan’s commentary about Shabbat dinner at Eli Elezra’s house. As a proud member of “the tribe” myself, it’s always funny to hear other Jews make fun of themselves. Sure, I’d play poker with my friends too instead of having a Shabbat dinner with my kids, LOL, why not?!

Disclaimer: This episode was far more notable for being “laugh out loud” hilarious, rather than for its poker play. We’ll try to get some poker commentary in here, but it’s impossible to write about what happened without focusing on some of the episode’s funnier moments. Also want to shout out to Gabe Kaplan – Mr. Kotter, you’re freaking hilarious!!! I hope you stay on this show forever!

Isildur1 reportedly fails to show up for a planned appearance at partypoker’s Big Game IV, where the world was supposed to learn his identity.

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Away from the table action, once again I liked the Negreanu Did You Know? segment about implied odds (excellent addition to the show this season!). What was even more entertaining, however, HILARIOUS as a matter of fact, was Gabe Kaplan’s post-segment commentary about “putting your opponent on implied tilt and he might give you an implied middle finger” LOL…

They say that nowadays poker is a solved game… Well one mystery the poker community is still trying to solve is “Who is Isildur?” This article speculates as to possible answers.