Fanblog about World Series of Poker 2006 winner Jamie Gold

    
Monthly Archives: November 2007

Shana Hiatt gets JJ & TT, and meets Jamie Gold

Shana gets dealt two great starting hands on the short stack in this Pro-Am Equalizer tournament, and she gets beating out of the TT’s by Jamie’s Aces.
She had no way of escaping. Maybe she should have moved in pre-flop with the jacks, could have saved her an all-in with the tens — but who knows… [...]

Jamie Gold on CNBC after winning WSOP 2006

After winning the World Series of Poker main event back in 2006, Jamie is asked to appear on CNBC to talk about an imminent ban on online poker. He’s also asked about his past, a life in Hollywood.
Not the most exciting video footage ever taken, and Jamie does slip up at one point, saying: “I [...]

Jamie bluffs Daniel Alaei off KK

Jamie Gold showing how good he can bluff. He checks the turn, feels Danny’s fear when he checks it back to Jamie — and fakes a valuebet on the river // making Daniel Alaei lay down his kings.
Funny detail: I’m sure Daniel Negreanu WOULD have called the ten thousand. I mean — it’s not like [...]

Jamie = Bluffing 80% of the hands

I love it when Jamie feel comfortable enough at the table to play the way he likes to play. He talks about showing his bluffs, talks about sidebets with the poker brat Phil Hellmuth (and taking over 10k off Phill that day), and about being happy having position on Twan Le, helping him bluffing him.
I [...]

Jamie Gold vs. Paul Wasicka final table

Starting off this fanblog, off course we have to show the table that made Jamie the poker-millionaire he is today: the final table of the world series of poker back in 2006. What an excellent sale on that final hand, and you can’t blame Paul Wasicka for calling, Jamie probably would have if he was [...]