Michael Craig at Full Tilt Poker

Filed in archive Poker Blogs on February 15, 2007

Michael Craig the famed writer of The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King is now blogging exclusively for Full Tilt poker. His famous poker book recounts the battle between Billionaire Andy Beal and the Corporation made up of several poker pros such as Doyle Brunson and Phil Ivey playing heads up limit hold em with astronomical blinds at $50,000/$100,000.

Craig now brings his story-telling ways to the Full Tilt team to re-tell his tournament experiences with some of the Full Tilt pros on the real felt and virtually where he has made a few bucks for himself in the larger guarantee multi table tournaments.

Here's a snipet of a blog posting about the recent addition of rebuy tournaments at Full Tilt:

I had played the rebuy tournaments during their first incarnation on Full Tilt, back in the olden days of January 25-26. Now those were some wild times! In the first $1 tournament, there were over $2,000 in rebuys and first place paid $700. I played a $10-rebuy the next morning and everyone in the tournament was railbirding everyone else, buddies from having braved as many as half a dozen rebuy tourneys together. (I asked how many tournaments some of these guys had played and received the same answer: "All of them.")

"I haven't been to sleep yet. But I gotta rest because there's a $30 rebuy in five hours."

"In the $3 rebuy last night, I swear one guy paid $100. His table had over 100,000 in chips."

"I'm never playing another tournament without a rebuy."

I played one of those $3-rebuy tourneys and it was like playing poker in a hot tub at the Playboy Mansion: wild, indulgent, supposedly pleasurable, disorienting.