I have done three radio interviews lately. Two of them, for Rounders Radio, have already aired, but are in the archives at roundersradio.com. One show was Lou Krieger’s Keep Flopping Aces, and the other was for Mr. X5000 on The Daily Grind.

The third has not yet aired. It will be on houseofcardsradio.com Monday June 22. The interviewer, Ashley Adams, asked very interesting questions about professional poker. Please take the time to listen.

I had hoped to do the final table of the $10K Limit Hold’em Championship for ESPN360, airing live on June 17. Instead, they got Daniel Negraneau. I expect I will be doing the ESPN360 webcast on June 26, which will be the final table of the $2,500 Mixed Hold’em event. This is the first time the WSOP has alternated rounds of limit and no limit hold’em, and the contrasts should be interesting.

At the recent Women in Poker Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, Jan Fisher was inducted, with Cyndy Violette and June Field. The ceremony,emceed by Mike Sexton, was excellent. Jan is a deserving member of the this Hall, now in its second year.

In conjunction with this was yet another charity tournament, this time for pokergives.com, which this year will provide funding for Special Olympics, Paralyzed Veterans, and the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. I made the final table for tiny cash, but enjoyed the event.

My apologies for the time between posts here. My site was hacked and I was unable to update for several weeks. I was was too stupid to realize what I should do about it. I finally worked out to tell my web hosts, the great folks at Zelfanet. They got it fixed quickly, so we can communicate again.

Let’s see. The oldest news is that played in the Andre Agassi Charity event at the Red Rock resort and casino. He was not there as far as I could see, not, even more disappointing, was Steffi. I went pretty far, but not at the final table.

I had serious problems with this event, as, because of the number of entrants, they decided to play it in two shifts. So we started at 11 AM, and just before 1 PM they announced that this was the last hand until the next shift played and we were to come back at 5 PM.I did not like this, as I have limited stamina, and entered expecting to play until it was finished. I had 4 hours to kill, and finally figured out to go to the lovely spa and get a massage.

The two starts was worse for those players who showed up expecting to see the poker celebrities that were advertised. Since half of them had a 2 PM start time, the early players did not get to see them, and the late players did not get to meet the ones who started early and busted out.

Yes, I understand it was a good cause, but they need to work out a better structure in the future.

I was playing in a $30-$60 game.  A very personable young man was a couple of seats to my right.  He, and a couple of other people, were keeping the table light, which I appreciate and join in on.   Poker is a game, and it helps to have fun.

I had gone so long after sitting down without playing any hands at all that people were starting to comment.  I got nothing to play, but I joked about it with them.  then I got a hand to play:  Ah Qd under the gun.  Not great, but playable.  I open-raised, and the nice guy on the button called.

Flop was A-K-9 with two diamonds.  I bet and he called.  The turn was a king, which did not thrill me, but as I was getting ready to be, the opponent ostentatiously checked on the button.  This had no effect on me, as i was always planning to bet, so his “check” did not influence me.  I bet, and he raised.

Can I have the best hand?  If he had not shot the checking out of turn angle,  might conjure up some fancy hands for him, but his desperation to have me bet convinced me I was drawing very thin.  i mucked.

Yes, I know I could be the victim of some deep psychological triple cross, but the overwhelming chance was the he hit a king and was afraid I would check and fold, so he did the check thing.

When I started playing hold’em in the Dark Ages, I played In Garden City, a cardroom in San Jose, CA which had a house rule, “Checking out of turn bars aggressive action.”  This means if you check out of turn and everyone checks to you, you must check, and if you check out of turn and someone bets into you, you can fold or call but you cannot raise.  I always liked the rule, but soon found out is not very common in other cardrooms.  Oh, well.

I do not mind losing, but I really despise angle-shooters.  Seeking “revenge” by trying to target a specific player is a foolish game, and I did not do this.  I was delighted however to see that karma took over and this fellow lost and lost after that, becoming increasingly annoyed.  Eventually he lost his last all-in (my K-Q suited beating is A-9), and he stomped away. 

This is not a cautionary tale, unfortunately.  He was just as likely to win as lose.  But there really is no place in out game for angle-shooters.  Just play.  If you are good enough, you will win anyway.