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The Micros Episode 3

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Many of you recently watched episode 2 of the online poker series The Micros. At the end, you may have heard Tommy refer to poker blog post from Tommy Angelo. If so, many of you went, who? For those of you that may not be familiar with Mr. Angelo, read on to learn more about him.

Tommy Angelo didn’t start out as a poker pro. In fact, he started out as a musician, where he spent most of the 80’s playing country and rock and roll. It wasn’t until around 1990 that Angelo became a poker professional. Years later, Angelo started to write articles for Poker Digest Magazine, Bluff, and Pokerpages.com.

This ultimately led to him writing his first book on poker titled Elements of Poker. The book was released in 2007 after he spent a bit over a year writing it. Angelo states on his blog that when he got his first check for writing about poker in 1999, he felt that it wasn’t fair because he is making money for doing something he enjoys so much.

In addition to his writing, Angelo also is a renowned poker coach. Some of his students have included Jay Rosenkrantz, David Benefield, and Phil Galfond screen name OMGClayAiken. At present, Angelo is working on his next book entitled “Painless Poker.”

Angelo focuses primarily on cash games, and does not have much of a history in tournaments. If you check out the archives at sites such as PokerPages.com, you will find archives to many of his blogs. Some of the information may seem dated, but many of the concepts still apply to the modern game.

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PokerStars Superstar Showdown challenge 4

The fourth PokerStars Superstar Showdown challenge went down on Sunday as Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 took on Eugene Katchalov screen name MyRabbiFoo. The two agreed to four-table $50-$100 No-Limit Hold’em for the event.

It wasn’t until around hand 400 that a player would take any type of a solid lead. On a board of Kd-6d-7d-6s, Katchalov moved all-in with Kh-Qh and Blom called with 9h-6h. Katchalov could not catch a king and Isildur1 drug a $20,300 pot. This gave Blom an $11,850.

Katchalov proceeded to erase that lead and managed to take the lead after a pair of 20k pots. He won a $22,000 pot after flopping a set and getting paid off. Then a bit later he cracked a set of threes against Isildur1 when he rivered a flush for a $20,800 pot.

Katchalov’s lead did not last long. A sizable pot went to Isildur1 when Katchalov ran pocket eights into aces. Then the largest pot of the night went down between the two. The board at the river was 2h-3c-Jd-Kh-9h and Katchalov moved all-in against Blom and was called. Katchalov turned over pocket nines for nines-full, but found himself second best when Blom turned over pocket kings for kings-full. Isildur1 drug the $62,500 pot and the match was never even close after that point.

In the end, Isildur1 took $111,750 against Katchalov, making this the most profitable challenge for Isildur1 to date. In the end, this wound up being one of the duller challenge events. Other than the run by Katchalov early on in the event, the match was never really close. Blom is now 3-1 in these challenges with his only loss coming in the inaugural event against Isaac Haxton.

The next SuperStar Showdown will take place on February 27. Isildur1 will take on online qualifier DodgyFish72 in a $5-$10 challenge event. DodgyFish72 won a heads-up freeroll event for the right to face Blom. PokerStars will put up $15,000 for DodgyFish72 to use in the event.

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Lindqvro at Full Tilt?

It seems that late last night a player with the screen name Lindqvro started to multi table 4 screens VS Daniel Cates screen name Jungleman12. The player’s country was listed as Sweden and he played Identical to Viktor Blom. The readers of Two Plus Two and myself are speculating that it is in fact Viktor Blom
and hes changed his name from Isildur1 to avoid any violations of his contract with Pokerstars.

Lindqvro would go on to take $300,000 from Jungleman12. Viktor Blom had also pummeled jungleman12 under the name of Isildur1 to the tune of 500k a ways back.

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