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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

WSOP Final Table in progress

I am sitting here watching the WSOP feed checking out every hand. I know it's kinda crude but it is actually kind of fun as I am using my imagination to fill in the blanks. Anyhow, everyone seems to be playing particularly cautiously early on. No real big pots until Darvin Moon lost one and went down to $51 million. He quickly recovered and went back up to $59 million shortly thereafter.

Phil Ivey has been steady and has inched up on his chip count to $11 million. Only one player is out now and that is James Akenhead. So now we are down to eight players and I expect the action to begin to speed up a bit now. I still suspect Darvin Moon will finish in the top three or four at the very least unless he blows half his stack on a really bad play. He has enough patience to wait for a hand when he does play. That could be a very good trait to have at this table as the action unfolds.

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