The World slot demo Tour today opened their “Poker Walk of Fame” at the Commerce Casino yesterday. First honorees were Doyle Brunson, James Garner, and Gus Hansen. Link

Am I the only one who thinks Gus Hansen is a questionable first honoree? I guess he’s there because he’s been the big WPT winner, but if you really want to have a legitimate poker walk of fame, I can think of a dozen people who should easily be included before Gus Hansen.

Nevertheless, it’s a great idea and will probably be the #2 poker status symbol behind Binion’s Wall of Fame.

grublog poker classic wrap-up

In the aftermath of the first ever poker blogger tournament last night, there has been a fair amount written about the adventures.

First, congrats to Mean Gene for taking slot online down the whole thing! He wins online bragging rights until the next one. Grubby has posted full results here.

Tournament wrap-ups:

Mean Gene basks in his win

The Fat Guy thinks second place sucks

Sean is considering using his winnings to upgrading his blog

The Poker Coder admires Felicia’s play

The Penguin is the self-proclaimed Hellmuth of the tournament

Felicia makes some recommendations for tournament preparation

HDouble recounts his tournament highlights

Edward enjoyed going up against me

Iggy also invokes Phil Hellmuth

Chris blames his wife

McGrupp quotes some funny table talk

Rick says he choked. Big time.

Liquid Swords got free poker lessons for busting out first, and followed up his loss with 2 $10+1 sit’n’go wins

Updates:

Dan invites random bloggers to his home

The Daily Grinder had the door to the final table slammed in his face by some unsuited, unconnected garbage

Grubby has posted his well-detailed recount of the tournament

Paulsburbon pleads guilty as charged to the Penguin’s accusation of steal-raising

the tourney’s over

Well, at least for me. I busted out one off the bubble (8th of 32), which in this case was the true bubble since there was even a prize for the bubble boy 😦

I had been getting blinded down steadily, and ended up having to go all-in under the gun with K8 clubs, and was called by Penguin’s AQo which was good.

Good game all, it was a good time. The main issue I had with the tournament, shared by several others, was that we played 10-minute levels which was pretty fast. I’d prefer to see more of a championship-type structure with much longer levels in the future.

I may have not made the money but I did crack aces with the hammer, which almost made it worth it 🙂