About the Author

Curtis Mayfield III

Curtis Mayfield III is a freelance poker writer with several years of online and live experience.

He is also the son of R&B superstar Curtis Mayfield. As a player Curtis excels in all forms of poker and prefers No Limit Deep Stacks tournaments.

Curtis is author of the Do or Die Poker blog

He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and 2 daughters.

Favorite Quote: “In order to live, you must be willing to die!” –Amir Vahedi

Venetian Deep Stacks Extravaganza

The Venetian Deep Stacks Extravaganza is taking place as we speak. This tournament has been on my radar for quite some time and I gotta tell you that I am excited just to talk about it. Basically it is a series of $300 and $500 no limit poker tournaments culminating with the $2500 championship at the end. This is one of the most reasonably priced poker series around and it includes many professional poker players. The structure is outstanding and the smallest stack you will be playing is $10k all the way up to $20k for the championship event.

The series is run for the common man. It gives you a chance to mix it up with some very good players as well as a few pros. I have played poker many times in the Venetian poker room and it is the best run poker room on the strip in my opinion. They treat everyone like a king no matter what stakes you are playing. I plan on playing in the Deep Stacks series next year as it is run each quarter. So if you get an opportunity to play in one of these tournaments you should take it. It is well worth your time.