November Nine Handicapping
October 8, 2009
My old friend AlCantHang was nice enough to invite me to a little WSOP November Nine handicapping on Full Tilt’s Poker From The Rail blog. That’s not the sort of opportunity that comes along very often, so of course I jumped on it. Joining me in assessing the chances of the nine guys who will be sitting under the bright lights in November is another poker friend, the one and only Riggstad.
We’ve divided the work up into three posts examining three players each, beginning with the biggest stacks and working our way down. Accordingly, the first post deals with Darvin Moon, Eric Buchman, and Steven Begleiter. Head on over to Poker From The Rail and check the first installment!
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October 9th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Nice job, I agree with your assessment of the top 3.
I think Darvin is setting everyone up, with diminished expectations.
Do you believe that he could win the ME and then disappear to log again?
October 11th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Well, obviously anything I say about Darvin is a pure guess since he’s so reclusive, but I think it’s quite possible that if he were to win he would be able to shun the spotlight to a large degree. Chances are that he’d get roped into doing some of the standard champion PR stuff, but I don’t really get the impression that he’s a guy who’s cut out for the role – at least not in the way that the online poker rooms and Harrah’s expect their champs to be pitchmen. I’d say he probably about the same as Jerry Yang in that department.