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Month: July 2006
Corey Pavin Shoots 26
Corey Pavin shot an eight under 26 on the front nine at the U.S. Bank Championship. TENTY-SIX!
Tiger Woods Uses a Weighted Golf Club
He has a specific plan for what he wants to accomplish in every practice session, a plan he comes up with the night before when he’s home swinging a weighted club.
I’ve bought a weighted club earlier this summer and just love it. I use it to warm up before I play a round of golf and also on the practice range. When you switch from it to a normal club, it feels like you aren’t even swinging.
2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Results
A list of the winners so far in the 2006 World Series of Poker.
- $500 No-Limit Hold’em Casino Employee – Chris Gros
- $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Brandon Cantu
- $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em – Rafe Furst
- $1,500 Limit Hold’em – Kianoush Abolfathi
- $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6/Table – Russ Boyd (Dutch Boyd)
- $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Mark Vos
- $3,000 Limit Hold’em – William Chen
- $2,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB – Jack Zwerner
- $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Jeff Cabanillas
- $1,500 Seven Card Stud – David Williams
- $5,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB – Sam Farha
- $1,500 Limit Hold’em – Bob Chalmers
- $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Max Pescatori
- $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em w/ Rebuys – Allen Cunningham
- $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em – Mary Jones
- $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha – Lee Watkinson
- $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Jon Friedberg
- $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em – Eric Kesselman
- $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Seniors – Clare Miller
- $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. – David Reese (Chip Reese)
- $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6/Table – William Chen
- $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Jeff Madsen
- $3,000 Limit Hold’em – Ian Johns
- $3,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB – Scott Clements
- $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout – David Pham
- $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys – Eric Froehlich
- $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha – Rafael Perry
- $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Mats Rahmn
- $5,000 Seven Card Stud – Benjamin Lin
- $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em – John Gale
- $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6/Table – Jeff Madsen
- $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Justin Scott
- $1,500 Seven Card Razz – James Richburg
- $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em – Jason Lester
- $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Phil Hellmuth Jr.
- $1,000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB – Patrick Poels
- $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball – Daniel Alaei
The $10,000 No-Limit Main Event starts tomorrow and it’s scheduled to run through August 10, 2006 when we’ll have another world champion crowned.
The WSOP Player of the Year race is still wide open. Jeff Madsen, a 21-year-old college student, is currently in the lead with 4 final table appearances, 2 bracelets, and over $1.4 million in winnings. After winning his record tying 10th golf bracelet the other night at his 3rd final table, Phil Hellmuth sits in 2nd, and has won over $1.1 million. Hellmuth also ranks #1 in career cashes at the WSOP with 55.
List compiled from results at CardPlayer.
Send Text Messages to Email
It baffles me how few people realize you can send a text message from your cell phone directly to your email address. Instead of typing in a phone number, just enter the email address. I use this nifty little feature all the time to send myself reminders or to get photos off of my phone. In the address book on my phone I have contacts specifically created for Flickr, Gmail, my SVSU email, and maybe a few others.
Verizon even lets you send something from an email address directly to your phone using vzwpix.com. The service creates an email address of xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com where you can send the email to. Their service then converts it and sends it on to your phone as a text message. I don’t know if other cell phone service providers have something similar, but I’d imagine they would. If you know of something, leave a comment.
Plugging Greens
It rained for a good 3 or 4 hours in the Saginaw area, so the plans I had to play 9 holes with a few friends were canceled. While sitting at home after dinner I realized the sun came out and it cleared up. Sidewalks and driveways were starting to dry out. So I jumped in my ride and went a block to a 9-hole course called Pleasant View. The name does not fit the course. Only on “special” occasions will I play there.
My main reason for going to play was that I wanted to hit some clubs around the golf course. The course wasn’t very busy and I was playing for myself, so I had a chance to hit extra balls around while waiting. I played 2 main balls during the round and would try out some short wedges or other shots as I had time. I even hit 3 with my driver off the first tee after using a 3-hybrid to tee off for the shots I was counting. When all was said and done I shot a 44-42. The part of the round that really killed my scoring was putting. With all of the rain we had received, golf balls were plugging on the green. If they did manage to hop, it was backwards. Putting on soaked greens is an entirely different story. I took 18 and 19 putts which is 4-5 over my average for 9 holes.
All in all, I was pretty satisfied with my play. When I hit driver I was crushing it down the middle, and then from there my wedge shots were solid. When I had longer 2nd shots into the par 5s I came through. I hit a great 3-hybrid to the front where it hit the bunker rake someone had left in the wrong spot. On another par 5 I hit 3-hybrid to hit the fairway, staying safe, and then blasted a 5 wood right next to the green. Made a nice chip, but missed the birdie putt because of all the water. The greens were the wettest I’ve ever seen, but I’m not worried at all about my putting. I’ll admit I didn’t take much time putting either, so things weren’t being lined up. I wanted to really focus on ball striking because the greens weren’t playing like any other greens I’ll face all summer.
If I can keep the driver and wedges straight, I’ll be all set.
Jeff Madsen Who?
Jeff Madsen is a 21-year-old poker player from Los Angeles, CA and he’s dominating the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP). This year is obviously his first WSOP and he’s already won 2 bracelets and finished 3rd in another event. Early this morning he made yet another final table and will go for gold bracelet #3. Currently he’s 2nd in the WSOP Player of the Year standings to Phil Hellmuth (20 points behind), but that will change after today’s event is over.
The kid’s results are quite impressive.
07/05/2006 Omaha High-Low 8/OB – 3rd place ($97,552.00)
07/16/2006 No-Limit Hold’em – 1st place ($660,948.00)
07/22/2006 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6/Table – 1st place ($643,381.00)
07/26/2006 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB – 3rd place ($65,971.00)
The interesting thing is that Madsen isn’t dominating any single type of poker. He’s made the final table in 4 completely different games of poker. That’s skill.
Spell rhythm
I can never figure out how to spell the word rhythm. Where are all the vowels? All we get is a single ‘y’ in there. I thought ‘y’ was a “sometimes” vowel. No wonder I’m clueless when I type it out.
Phil Hellmuth Quotes
After Phil Hellmuth won his 10th WSOP bracelet yesterday, there couldn’t be a better time for the top 10 Phil Hellmuth quotes of all time.
I Need Time for a Redesign
I didn’t mean for that post title to rhyme, but it did and I’m not changing it.
I’ve wanted to pump out a redesign of MDV for a long time now. The homepage will get a drastic change with areas asides (what I call quickies here), recent full posts, flickr photos, links, menu, and who knows what else. Single post pages will get a nice reworking with a better layout of comments, trackbacks, post info, ads, etc. Archives will become more organized so that it’s easier to access posts by date, tags, and searching.
This all takes time and I really don’t see it happening or probably even getting started until at least September. It’s been the busiest summer in years for me and I still haven’t done a lot of the things I’ve wanted to. I’ve had some decent ideas for posts I think would be neat, but I’m going to put them on hold until things get cleaned up around MDV.
If nothing else, this post will serve as a reminder of what I want to do.
Nick Momrik 