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ALLEN

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About Me

My name is Allen Kessler. I have been playing on the poker tournament circuit for the past few years. I have made many final tables including finishing second in event #21 at the World Series in 2005, 4th in 5,000 stud in 2006,and making a WPT final table which was aired on the travel channel. I enjoy the travelling and casino atmosphere. I also enjoy backgammon, computer games, all forms of casino gambling and live poker action. I just made a second WPT final table which will air early in august.Check out how I'm faring on the tournament circuit with these links.CardPlayer Ranking ------------------------------------------------------------ Pokerpages Ranking ------------------------------------------------------------ World poker Tour Profile ------------------------------------------------------------ Bluff Magazine/ESPN Power rankings ------------------------------------------------------------ Sign up at full tilt using this link and receive a 100% bonus up to $600.

My Interests

Tournament Poker, WPT and World Series of Poker events, Backgammon, Casino gaming

Music:

Contemprary pop music, 70's, 80's music

Television:

Seinfeld, Any Game show, The Apprentice, Any Poker show

Books:

Kill Phil by Blair Rodman

Heroes:

Anyone who won a WSOP bracelet

My Blog

Frustrating 5k tourney out 30th 27 paid and a bizarre play

With only 4 more to go before the money in todays 5k Bellagio event, the following hand came up.  The blinds are 1500 3000 with a 500 ante. No pot has been limped for several hours. The blinds an...
Posted by ALLEN on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:48:00 PST

How badly did I play vs Barry Greenstein today?

Here is the scenario. We are playing the $2500 no limit tourney at Bellagio. I started with $5,000 chips and by the end of level 3 had accumulated over $25,000 in chips without ever risking a large po...
Posted by ALLEN on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:37:00 PST

Another Close Call at Venetian

I got to the Venetian at 3pm today to play the rescheduled $2500 tourney. There were about 5 or 6 people there and it looked like we werent going to get it started. I convinced the staff to wait and ...
Posted by ALLEN on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:16:00 PST

Venetian Rescheduling to Accomodate Bellagio Bustouts

After some coaxing, the Venetian decided to change the start time of tomorrows $2500 event to 3pm with late signups all the way until 5pm. This move will allow players who chose to play the huge field...
Posted by ALLEN on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:16:00 PST

Venetian NPL Las Vegas Tourney Second Place showing

I made yet another final table this time at The Venetian NPL Televised Tournament. The buy in was $2500 and the final table will be aired in a few months on a network called MOJO. Supposedly this netw...
Posted by ALLEN on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:11:00 PST

Pokerbowl at the Palms

My team advanced to the finals at the palms tomorrow. There are 5 teams left. the winning team gets 600,000 the other 4 teams get 100,000 each. My opening table included my great partner Anna wroblews...
Posted by ALLEN on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:01:00 PST

Pokerbowl Lineups finalized

Ftom Cardplayer.com   The Inaugural Event Starts Saturday and Official Team Rosters Announced The PokerBowl team tournament begins tomorrow at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, and teams are nearly...
Posted by ALLEN on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:12:00 PST

Cheating at Pokerstars as well

Does anyone know more details on this one? Nice job by Pokerstars taking immediate action and not denying that there was wrongdoing.... From www.poker-king.com October 15th, 2007 2:20 pm ESTPokerstars...
Posted by ALLEN on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:04:00 PST

More on Absolute Poker Cheating

Hopefully Absolute can figure out a way to remedy this situation and to complensate those wronged. It appears that they were innocent bystanders to an incredibly well thought out cheating scheme. The ...
Posted by ALLEN on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:55:00 PST

Fast response by Absolute poker to cheating

Here is the statement from Absolute Poker. Nice job....   Absolute Poker has identified an internal security breach that compromised our systems for a limited period of time. The cause of the bre...
Posted by ALLEN on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:38:00 PST