Tuesday Freezeout Club

November 6th, 2024 Newsletter Cold Deck Quote: "Everybody will eventually run worse than they thought was possible.  The difference between a winner and a loser is that the latter thinks he doesn't deserve it."  - Irie Guy What in the word...... "Freezeout" Once you are out, you're out for good!  Just like a dip in this lake. I'll get to the nuts and bolts of it on this one.  We will explain the meanings of some tournament types including: Freezeout, Chill, Rebuy vs. ReEntry, PKO, and Bounty. A Freezeout is just as it sounds.  Once you are out, you are frozen from playing in the tournament again.  There are no rebuys or reentries into a freezeout tournament.  Examples are the WSOP Main E

October 15th, 2024 Newsletter Cold Deck Quote: "I like it when I lose so much money I can barely breathe.  That's the feeling I go for.  I'm addicted to that feeling."  - Phil Ivey Talking WSOP prizes..... The previous winners.  Legend has it they are still friends! We are almost halfway through our fiscal WSOP points year.  That means it is time for me to crunch some numbers and set some parameters on this years prizes. All of you who sloughed through last years discussion know that I will set some wide parameters today.  I will narrow them once or twice more as this year winds down.  I will set and announce the final prizes at the end of January. The reason, of course, that th

October 2nd, 2024 Newsletter Cold Deck Quote: "You get your chips your way.  I'll get my chips mine."  - Phil Ivey What in the word...... "Cooler" Mighty chilly in there! The other night at the VFW, I open min-raised TT from the HJ and was reraised all in to 9 BB by the CO (Rosalee).  The action folded around to me and I called.  She turned over JJ and she held. All of this is pretty standard.  A player then asked if that was a cooler.  There was a bit of debate on the subject and some differing opinions. One person immediately said that yes it was.  Another opined that a cooler can only happen postflop to which someone mentioned KK vs AA preflop.  Needless to say, I thoug