Buy A Basket of Players for the WSOP Main Event

If you enjoy following live poker tournaments, then you have to check out Chipmeup.com. CMU is a staking site where you can buy pieces of other players for both online and live tournaments.

If you are an active player with a good tournament record, you can also get staked on the site yourself. This is a great way to step up to bigger buy-in tournaments when you still have a relatively small bankroll.

One of the really cool things about the site is that they have several pros that are selling pieces on the site, both online and live pros. Some of the pros that you might recognize that have sold slices of their WSOP tourney entrees include Kathy Leibert, TonyG, Erik Seidel, David Plastik, Jeff Lisandro and Andrew Jeffreys.

Its a cool way to participate in the WSOP without dropping big dollars on a buyin.

Following the WSOP on Twitter

I love the WSOP and wish I could be out there this year, but if you are like me and want to follow the action live -- then hop over to Twitter and follow some of my favorite poker tweeters. I wish some of the bigger names knew how to tweet but many of them talk more about their breakfast than any hand histories. Oh well, hopefully they will learn over time.

But these poker tweeters know how to keep your interest so check em out:
@taopauly - Pauly is one of the original poker bloggers and a very good writer. If you have never read his blog you have to check it out. But now he is also an active tweeter and he can hit some nice barbs in a 140 characters.

@joesebok - Joe is a very active tweeter while in tourneys and he does a real nice job with key hand descriptions in the 140 character format. Also pretty tapped in technology-wise so can go off-topic nicely.

@JustinBonomo - One of the best young players out there and infamous from an online multi-accounting scandal. He has already made it to the Final Table of the 40k event in 2009. Likely to be at a few more this WSOP. Definitely worth a follow.

@JonFriedberg - Another young gun of poker that knows how to tweet what we want to read. He does great hand histories from the table and provides a good sense for how his stack is ebbing and flowing.

@BarryGreenstein - The Bear is a very active tweeter at the tables. I am guessing Joe taught Bear about twittering. If you want to experience the ups and downs of tournament through the tweets of a legendary pro, then check out Barry's tweets. He plays in most of the events too so he is tweeting most days.

@phil_hellmuth - He doesn't tweet as much as Barry Greenstein while at the tables but does tweet enough to keep you interested. Worth checking out.

@shannonshorr - A good young player that provides a lot of details of his tournament runs. Also definitely worth watching because he has had a lot of success in a couple year career in poker.

For fun and humor:
@Wickedchops - Wicked Chops is a funny blogger who also usually finds some tasty pics of the ladies. At any rate if you want to find out what is happening away from the tables, check out his tweets. Like the one about Doyle Brunson's scooter race with Amarillo Slim down the Rio hallways.

My Top 7 Poker Posts from Betting for Value

Without any fresh inspiration on poker topics to cover, I thought I would provide you with a quick reference to some of the best posts that I written over the past couple of years. I know Top 7 is an odd number, but I could not limit it to Top 5, so you get two bonus posts. Hope you enjoy them:


My Top 10 Insights on Cash Games
In this post I provide my 10 most important tidbits for maximizing your winnings (and minimizing your losses) in cash games.

My Top 10 Insights on Tournament Poker
In the same vein, here are my top insights for winning in tournament poker.

On Keeping your Head
In cash games, we grind out small wins over time, but can quickly lose a month's worth of winnings by losing our head. This post was dedicated to keeping your cool.

Some Additional Hands to Avoid that can Lose a Lot of your Stack
As the title suggests avoiding these hands can improve your win rate.

Building a Big Stack in Rebuys
The advantages of rebuy tournaments are that you can build a big stack during the first hour that gives you more flexibility. But you have to know how to build that big stack.

Description of a Win in a PokerXfactor Tournament
I thought this was one of my better descriptions of the key hands in a online tournament win.

Having the Lead When All the Chips go in.
This is a post I wrote on the Dos and Don'ts of Bubble Aggression. Raising often but only calling all-ins when you think you are a likely winner.