Home Sweet Home
Finally got home from my Jersey and London adventure the day before last. I'll get to telling all the tales from the road eventually, but for now I just wanted to post a quick blog before I fire up...
View ArticleWPT Foxwoods Day 3: The Bathroom Bluff
Editor's note: This post covers Day 3 of Stout's final table run at the recent WPT Foxwoods main event. To play catch up check out Days one and two before reading this. I went into Day 3 of the WPT...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from Jason Mercier
As I sat at my parents' house next to my only sister, I asked her what I should write in my blog, as I wanted to post something about Thanksgiving. She suggested (being the intelligent person that she...
View ArticlePlaying Down to the Final Table at WPT Foxwoods
When I left off with the ongoing (for almost a month now...damn I'm lazy sometimes) saga of Foxwoods, I had ~465k @ 2/4k with the average stack around 290k. There were 46Â players remaining entering...
View ArticleIs Live Poker/Drinking Making Me Insane?
I’m sure you are all wondering, what do you mean Jason? Well I’m about to tell you, so hold your horses! I’m going to elaborate as much as possible, but basically I’m going to try to share the...
View ArticleMaking the TV Final Table at WPT Foxwoods!
At the end of my last blog entry I was already in the most lucrative position of my poker career, chip leader with ten left at the WPT Foxwoods main event. The seating assignments and chip counts were...
View ArticleMatt Stout's WPT Five Diamond Day 2
At the end of my last blog post I mentioned that Bellagio had set up all the tables for day two as seven- and eight-handed. Apparently they did it just so that I'd research my table draw the night...
View ArticleMatt Stout's WPT Five Diamond Day 3
I entered Day 3 of the $15k Bellagio Five Diamond WPT event with over 300k at 1200/2400 - good enough to put me in about 12th place out of the remaining 131 players. I had a pretty wild start to the...
View ArticleCan Poker Players Have Normal Relationships?
I am sitting here in my condo with 15 minutes left before I am supposed to get started playing online for the next 10-12 hours. This will be my second to last blogpost that I will write for 2009. I am...
View ArticleMy 8th Live Win!
My last blogpost, I mentioned how I wasn't going to take my flight that morning to Biloxi because I wasn't feeling good and didn't want to fly sick. I ended up finally leaving the walk in clinic that...
View ArticleStout's Bahamas Trip Report - The Final Chapter
In the first two parts of this blog, I ranted about everything on my vacation to the Bahamas going wrong (and I do mean just about EVERYTHING) and my sick cooler hand to bust out of the main event. Oh...
View ArticleMy First Sunday Report: Feb. 07, 2010
I'm starting to get a bit bored just telling stories from my travels on the tour, so I'd imagine my readers probably are to some extent, too. That's why I've decided to add a new feature to my blog...
View ArticleRushing Back to LA for the $3k Six-Max
Rushing back to LA on Sunday night for the $3k shorthanded event at Commerce's LA Poker Classic proved to be a good idea ... sort of. I managed to get back to LA around 4am and got plenty of sleep...
View ArticleStout's Sunday Report: February 28, 2010
Poker pro Matt Stout is back with another installment of The Sunday Report. Stout will track all his results for his full online MTT Sunday schedule, complete with profits and losses. Keep track right...
View ArticleCash Game Tales and Tournament Analysis from ADZ124
This week in LA has been rough in terms of poker, as it has in the past for me. First I want to make a correction to my last post. I had said that blinds were 4k/8k but they were actually 8k/16k in...
View ArticleStout's Sunday Report: March 7, 2010
Poker pro Matt Stout is back with another installment of The Sunday Report. Stout will track all his results for his full online MTT Sunday schedule, complete with profits and losses. Keep track right...
View ArticleADZ124: LA to Las Vegas Trip Report
Hello, hello. Just wanted to give you guys an update on the weekend's activities. I believe we last left off with me running super bad at the LAPC and losing the high-roller to a one-outer on the...
View ArticleStout's Sunday Report: March 14, 2010
There's not much to say about this session, and definitely nothing good. I should have known right when I woke up and told myself, "Just sleep in and take the day off." Normally I really look forward...
View ArticleWPT Foxwoods Final Table Preview Part 1
Back in December Matt Stout made his first major televised final table at the WPT Foxwoods main event. The episode is airing tomorrow and Stout's here to give you a special insider preview on how it...
View ArticleWPT Foxwoods Final Table Preview Part 2
Back in December Matt Stout made his first major televised final table at the WPT Foxwoods main event. The episode is airing tomorrow and Stout's here to give you a special insider preview on how it...
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