Season 3 of Windy City Poker Championship is Here!
Windy City Poker Championship is back. Episode 1 aired Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 7pm CDT with the first of four new episodes. Check your local listings for re-runs or go to our Episodes page to watch the current episode online.
The new seasons begins with a Heads Up Match featuring 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion Jerry Yang versus 2010 WPT Player of the Year, Faraz Jaka.
Following the head's up match, we'll jump into the $1500 buy-in Winner Take All event, featuring professional poker player Chad Brown, high stakes cash game player Rick Rahim, WPT Boot Camp instructor Nick Brancato, local players Paul Fisher and Meg Bertini, TV and Radio personality Richard Roeper, WGN and CSN Chicago's David Kaplan, Bust Out Poker Wear's Nikki Griffith, and Yang and Jaka return to the felt.
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Windy City Poker Championship Returns - New Season Begins This Sunday
Windy City Poker Championship returns to your television set this Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 7pm CDT with the first of four new episodes. We begin with a Heads Up Match featuring 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion Jerry Yang versus 2010 WPT Player of the Year, Faraz Jaka.
Following the head's up match, we'll jump into the $1500 buy-in Winner Take All event, featuring professional poker player Chad Brown, high stakes cash game player Rick Rahim, WPT Boot Camp instructor Nick Brancato, local players Paul Fisher and Meg Bertini, TV and Radio personality Richard Roeper, WGN and CSN Chicago's David Kaplan, Bust Out Poker Wear's Nikki Griffith, and Yang and Jaka return to the felt.
If you're in Chicago, or get Comcast SportsNet on your local provider (including national broadcast on DirecTv and Dish Network) you can tune in this Sunday night at 7PM Central. The show will also be broadcast on regional sports networks in the Washington D.C. area, the Mississippi gulf coast region, the West Coast, and in Florida. Check your local listings. The show will be available here as well, to stream over the interwebs.
Another sneak peak after the break...
Rising Star Shines Brightest at Home
Hello Everyone,
The last time you heard from me I was in the midst of the 2nd worst downswing of my career. I had just busted the Borgota $3500 Main Event Flight 1A and was contemplating whether or not to play flight 1B the next day. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted and I had to consider the bankroll management aspect of being in a single tourney for $7000. I changed my mind at the last minute and got out of bed 2 hrs late to play flight 1B. On my 3rd hand I got sucked out for 85% of my stack. This was demoralizing with all things considered but I didn’t give up. I played perfect and almost made it to day 3 of the tournament. I didn’t cash… BUT I DIDN’T QUIT. I fought so hard against the odds, did the best I could, and put myself in a position to go deep. I had lost a lot of money but I didn’t care. I was so proud of the way I composed myself, acting and feeling like a true professional. I was down on my luck but still moving forward with a supreme confidence. I had tunnel vision and I was still so hungry for glory. So off to Tunica I went.
I met up w one of my best friends, the great Kurt Jewell, when I got down to Tunica. Kurt won the Hammond Main Event in 2010 for $242k (my home stage—foreshadowing), won another ring in St. Louis in an Omaha8 tourney, the first time he had ever played an Omaha8 tourney (foreshadowing again), then made the Main Event final table here in Tunica last year. He didn’t win this one though, he held the chip lead w over half the chips in play 8 handed and got 8th. He blew a big opportunity here, but would soon get a shot at redemption.
I played very well this trip with 3 cashes; a 23rd place finish in the $355 where I overplayed AK and punted my stack off to some idiot late in the tourney, a 12th place finish in the $565, and an all important cash in the Main Event. In the Main Event I got off to a horrendous start. I got sucked out over and over again and was so miserable. I made my friend Cory Gunz rail me the whole first day so I didn’t just give up and punt my stack away. He encouraged me and I hung in there. I showed a lot of heart and I put myself in a spot to go deep, but I fell just short after losing a big coin flip AK to QQ late to eliminate me. But it wasn’t my tourney to win. Remember that Kurt Jewell guy I mentioned? The guy who gave away the Main Event in Tunica last year? Yeah that’s him…. We stayed and rooted him on. To make a long story short, I spent the next 2 days watching Kurt play the most unbelievable game of poker he had ever put together on his way to winning his 2nd WSOPC Main Event Championship. What is even sicker is the REDEMPTION he achieved; a story that gives other poker players hope and inspiration. There are a lot of other reasons that made this achievement so outstanding but I will not get into them bc this is MY BLOG and should be about ME, not Kurt…
Just Kidding. Riding high from his victory he led us down to West Palm Beach for more WSOPC tourneys.