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Poker Blogs by SirWatts in the General category

Below are all the poker blog posts written by SirWatts in the category of "General".

A little introduction for you guys Posted October 23rd, 2007
Hey all, for those of you that don't know me my name is Mike Watson and I'm a 23 year old poker pro from Newfoundland, Canada, currently residing in T (more)
I ended up making back a lot of the money I lost to start the week and not taking too bad a hit on the week. Tournaments were still really disappointi (more)
WPT Niagara Day 2 Report Posted October 30th, 2007
Sigh today went pretty bad and I busted on the 3rd last hand of the day. Early on I busted a fairly shortstacked guy with AA vs his A9 to get to 88K. (more)
Foxwoods $2K NL Event Day 1 Posted November 4th, 2007
So today was my first Foxwoods donkament. People here are really bad at poker. Steve and i both made it through to day 2 of the tournament, play start (more)
Down to 7 handed, SirWatts is about average in chips. Here's is his voice blog report during a recent break: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sir (more)
Busted out in 7th place. Here my vBlog below: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts-11-4-07_b.mp3]Click here for voice blog[/url] (more)
#$&#$* Gutshots Posted November 7th, 2007
I believe I was either the 4th or 5th person eliminated from the main event today. I played some really crazy hands in level 1 today, most involving s (more)
Back in TO, Sunday, FTOPS Posted November 13th, 2007
On Thursday I played some live cash at Foxwoods, the big games were super tough so I mostly played 25/50 and lost around $5K. I didn't really make any (more)
It was a good week until Sunday Posted November 23rd, 2007
I'm just on such a cold streak in tournaments right now though. The live final table at Foxwoods was great but busting 7th really sucked and other tha (more)
Today was the best Sunday I've had in a long time, I doubt I've ever gone deep in as many tournaments in one day as I did today. But it was the same s (more)
Vegas in the winter is weird Posted December 1st, 2007
Something just seems off here.... I have only ever been to Vegas in the summer during the WSOP. It's scorching hot every day, and the very thought of (more)
Bellagio $5K Report Posted December 2nd, 2007
Yo. My 0-for streak continues in $5k+ buy-in events. Here's how it went down. Hand 1: I made the nuts against David Pham a few times and managed to (more)
Venetian $15K Report Posted December 3rd, 2007
That was probably the worst 2 levels of poker ever. I didn't win a single pot that had anything in it. My table was actually pretty good. Other than G (more)
Quick Cliff Notes of last Couple Days Posted December 6th, 2007
went semi-deep in the $2K NL event on Tuesday busting 37th when 27 paid. Then I played drunken 2/4 mixed games at TI for 12 hours straight which was a (more)
A Final Table and Another Cash Posted December 8th, 2007
So I finished 2nd for $26.5K in one of the nightly $1K 2nd chance tournaments, and then 23rd in the $3K the next day for $5K. Let's see if I can remem (more)
"No, we're brother and sister" Posted December 13th, 2007
I haven't played at all the last 3 days, my sister came down to visit me when she finished up with school for the term so I've just been hanging out w (more)
Today was up and down, but overall pretty poor. I don't feel like running through all the hands again right now. My level by level chip count went 30K (more)
Busto Posted December 14th, 2007
Spent more time on the colour up to start the day than I actually played in the tournament. I folded a bit, moved in once, and was down to 7700 when t (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_bellagia1.wav]VBlog trip report from Bellagio[/url] (more)
Sunday: $100K bubbles and Aussie sats Posted December 17th, 2007
This week's Sunday heartbreak comes from a new source! Pokerstars added a $5K 20-player winner-take-all tournament which I decided to give a shot. I'm (more)
Quick 2007 Year in Review Posted December 31st, 2007
I kind of don't feel like writing a big long year in review, so I'm going to do the cliffs notes version instead. I started the year with basically a (more)
G'day from Melbourne Posted January 5th, 2008
So I've arrived in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. Today was the first event, a $1K NL event with 537 players. I just busted out after losing a fli (more)
Day 1A I guess? Posted January 13th, 2008
Yoooooooooooo. So I was playing some drunk kickball with the rest of the poker nerds today. Team Goggles kicked some ass imo. After that great victory (more)
Sigh... Posted January 14th, 2008
Yet another early bustout for me in a major tournament. Considering how conservative I tend to play this is getting kind of ridiculous. My table draw (more)
$5K HU and $2K 6-max Posted January 19th, 2008
So I bubbled both of these. I played pretty well though, there were some sweet hands. In the first round of the HU I played Doug Lee. As far as I know (more)
Hey everyone, I'm back safely in Toronto just chilling. Really it was a super lazy week. Anyways my plan for the next couple months is to really get b (more)
lol I lied Posted January 30th, 2008
It all started when Scot from TwoRags IM'd me to ask if I was going to the LA Poker Classic. I explained to him, as I wrote 2 days ago in my last entr (more)
Timex is the sickest Posted February 3rd, 2008
He won EPT Dortmund yesterday for 933K Euro or just shy of $1.4M USD. He's just been on a tear to start the year. Sadly I didn't have any of his actio (more)
LA Days 1&2 Posted February 13th, 2008
Hey hey, I got in safely yesterday in time to play Sunday tournaments online. No luck in the tournaments but I had a profitable day because of a good (more)
I know that's an enormous amount of money. To be able to win that much in a day I should be ecstatic. Lots of people probably don't make that in a yea (more)
I must be the worst ever Posted February 16th, 2008
OK not really but the stuff I do sometimes makes me wonder. I fucked up really bad today in the $2500 NL LAPC event. I'm not going to tell you the han (more)
I must be the greatest! Posted February 18th, 2008
This title would have worked a lot better if I was able to win a tournament today, but I'm going to use it anyways. I managed to save my Sunday with a (more)
Another good day Posted February 19th, 2008
I'm running so hot online since I arrived in LA. Today I played a tournament on Everest Poker. $100 freezeout and I finished 7th for $1100. So what yo (more)
Help me win a $100K Sponsorship! Posted February 22nd, 2008
Sorry to do this but a part of the competition for the Everest Poker sponsorship is getting a lot of hits over on my blogs and any videos I might post (more)
LAPC Day 5 Posted February 27th, 2008
Hey I'm 6th/18 in LAPC Main Event heading into Day 5 with 987K chips. Just a spot for you to post your comments here since you can't on Everest's site (more)
I'm Back! Posted March 17th, 2008
So the Everest competition ends this Friday and my position in the online popularity contest part is unlikely to change so I've decided to start cross (more)
Everest Contest Preview Posted March 25th, 2008
I didn't play at all this weekend hence the absence of blog updates. I spent Thursday-Sunday visiting family and friends in the area and enjoying that (more)
Sigh..... Posted March 29th, 2008
Well I'm out of the Everest contest. I don't imagine I ever actually had a chance. The day went pretty well, we played a few sit n gos and I finished (more)
I won a donkament!!!.... Posted March 30th, 2008
...and it was so much fun I went ahead and won another one. With no $100K sponsorship package and still a little pissed about the whole ordeal it was (more)
I got into the EPT! Posted April 2nd, 2008
I was a last minute entry into EPT San Remo today when Shaun effing Deeb had to withdraw because he was really sick. I was able to buy-in and take his (more)
Damn you Shaun Deeb Posted April 4th, 2008
Could have saved me 5K Euros by not getting sick but instead I had to play the EPT. It was a pretty short day, I doubled up with AKo 4-flushing AKs in (more)
Pisa, Florence, and Monte Carlo! Posted April 11th, 2008
Hello, bonjour! I am now settled in the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort, and it is pretty much the best place ever. I'll have lots of time to rave ab (more)
EPT Monte Carlo Day 1B Posted April 12th, 2008
So I play tomorrow (Sunday). Looks like there's going to be around 800 players so probably over 2 million euros for first. I'm not ready to tell you a (more)
16.7K on to Day 2 Posted April 13th, 2008
It was a pretty frustrating day. I more than doubled my stack at my first table to 32K but then got moved to a new table that was pretty tough and did (more)
Busto (Updated with Details) Posted April 15th, 2008
OK let's do a quick recap of Day 2. I quickly chipped up to about 27K winning small pots and picking up the blinds, unfortunately most of the hands I (more)
Back Home! Posted April 22nd, 2008
Update!: Checkout my poker commentating debut. TwoRags has posted a couple clips from the live $1000 sit and go we played in LA back in January. Check (more)
How to Tilt Posted April 28th, 2008
Well I had an interesting weekend from a poker perspective to say the least. There were some really big special tournaments this weekend so I played a (more)
Epic Fail Posted May 2nd, 2008
The PLO heater came to a crashing halt the last couple nights, as expected really. At my peak I was up around 100K but I lost most of that back. The t (more)
Brutal week... Posted May 11th, 2008
Well I haven't posted in a while, I guess i didn't really have much to write about because I've basically just been getting my ass kicked all week. I' (more)
There might be hope for me yet... Posted May 14th, 2008
Hey hey! I've rebounded pretty nicely the last couple days. Let's take a look at the list of things that were going wrong in my last entry. First, I f (more)
Last Week before WSOP! Posted May 25th, 2008
Well let's see where was I last time I posted. Oh yes FTOPS was running. I ended up staying home last weekend and losing lots of money playing in thos (more)
WSOP 2008 Preview Posted May 30th, 2008
Hey gang, welcome back. I arrived in Vegas today and got to our house for the summer with no problems. I'm living with a bunch of different people thi (more)
One Down Posted May 31st, 2008
Well I busted the 10K PLHE pretty quickly. I screwed up this hand: I have 19.3K of 20K starting stack at 200/400. Eric Assadourian (I think?) raise (more)
Another Miss Posted June 3rd, 2008
So I skipped event 2 and played online this weekend with little success. The only thing I seem to be winning at online lately is PLO strangely enough. (more)
Made a day 2 Posted June 4th, 2008
Today was the $1K+rebuys. I ended up in for the "minimum" of $4K and never really had a ton of chips. I had one mini-rush where I picked up AK on back (more)
Didn't make day 2 Posted June 4th, 2008
12:45pm: Call cab since everyone else drove in for 12pm event. 10mins to an hour wait time. OK could potentially be cutting it close but no worries. (more)
Such bustoness Posted June 7th, 2008
No luck in the $5K shootout. My table wasn't that bad though it was certainly tougher than most. I was the first eliminated. I got off to a good start (more)
Another Quick Day Posted June 8th, 2008
Today was a $2500 NL event and I busted before the first break again. One interesting hand: 25/50 5K starting chips. I have a little under that CO (more)
A Big Sunday Final Table! Posted June 9th, 2008
I finally made my first final table in one of the biggest Sunday tournaments! I final tabled the $750K Guaranteed on Full Tilt. It was a bit of a stra (more)
Fast Structures Quick Bustos Posted June 11th, 2008
Well Monday was a $1500 Shootout event. The $1500 events only give you 3K starting chips (all events have twice the buy-in starting chip bank) so if y (more)
On to Day 2 Posted June 12th, 2008
Today was an up and down day. I ran really good off the start but then messed up some hands at the end to lose a lot of my chips. Early on I flopped t (more)
I am an idiot Posted June 12th, 2008
Scott Freeman Eliminates Michael Watson Michael Watson raised to 4,440 and Scott Freeman called from the cutoff. Both players checked the {A-Diamon (more)
Still an idiot Posted June 19th, 2008
0 for 12 -46.5K now. Gave all my chips to JC Tran in the 1500 PLO rebuy today like a true holdem donk after luckboxing a stack early. Played meh in t (more)
Back on the Grind Posted June 24th, 2008
Now up to 0/15, -51.5K. I had relatively quick and painless exits in the $1500 NL and $2000 PL events last week. I skipped the $1500 NL event on Satur (more)
$1K Rebuy Day 2 Posted June 26th, 2008
I'm through to Day 2 of the $1K rebuy with 61K in chips which is about average. I'm now 4/4 in making Day of these tournaments at the WSOP, and I'll b (more)
First Cash! Posted June 27th, 2008
Well I finally cashed a WSOP tournament today. Things got off to a very good start when I won a whole bunch of smallish pots to get up to over 90K. Th (more)
Instead of playing the usual online tournaments yesterday I was playing the $10K PLO tournament at the WSOP. I was pretty excited for this one being a (more)
lol min-bet Posted July 2nd, 2008
Today was the final preliminary event of the 2008 WSOP, the $1500 limit shootout. It got 823 runners. I was actually pretty excited for this event be (more)
Main Event Time! Posted July 4th, 2008
So I busted in the 2nd round of the limit shootout. The key hand was when I lost a big pot to mattg1983 with AJ vs QT on a QJ9JQ board after I 3-bet h (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/voice-message.wav]Day 1b First Break Update[/url] [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/voice-message_secondbreak. (more)
Day 1 in the books, 104K Posted July 5th, 2008
Day 1 went really well for me in the main event. I won several big pots mostly by flopping sets and finished the day with 104,425 chips. Early on I wa (more)
Day 2 tomorrow, finally Posted July 8th, 2008
Alright, I finally get to play Day 2a tomorrow. The UFC was awesome to go to live. We saw 2 really just sick fights. We arrived a little late and the (more)
[b]Day2a: Report 1:[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day2a_1.mp3]Day 2a: Report 1[/url] [b]Day2a: Report 2:[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/f (more)
A Rocky Day 2 Posted July 9th, 2008
My basic game plan on Day 1 of "Flop set, bust donk" turns out to not work as well when you don't flop 6 sets in one day. I basically was miserably ca (more)
WSOP - Day 3: Voice Blog BUSTED Posted July 10th, 2008
First Report: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_1.mp3]First Report[/url] Busted: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_2. (more)
Sigh Day 3 Posted July 11th, 2008
Well as I'm sure most of y'all know by now I busted early in Day 3 well short of the monies. Here's how that went down. Level 1: Noting happened an (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 1 Posted July 13th, 2008
Today was a really fun day at Bellagio Cup, but I finished with a sour taste in my mouth when I lost a bunch of chips in the last orbit, which is real (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 2 Posted July 15th, 2008
Out of nowhere I ended up having a sick day 2. I won two key huge pots in the last level to vault my stack over 400K. I finished with 427K which must (more)
[b]Day 3 - First Break, all good so far -- chip leader with less than 100 left and in the money[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_1.mp3 (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 3 Posted July 16th, 2008
Well, I had another super sick day at the Bellagio Cup. I was chip leader for most of the day and finished with 2.272 million chips to take a solid ch (more)
[b]Day 4 - First Break[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day4_1.mp3]Day 4, First Break[/url] [b]Day 4 - Second Break[/b] [url=http://two (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 4 Posted July 17th, 2008
Hey, it was another long day and I'm pretty tired so I'm just going to write something here quickly. I'm the chip leader heading into the final table (more)
Holy crap I won Posted July 18th, 2008
Wow I run good. Wow. Wow. Wow. I'll write more about the final table later after I've slept or something. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for (more)
The Aftermath Posted July 21st, 2008
The last few days have been really hectic. I got maybe 2 hours sleep before my flight and felt pretty terrible until I finally got a little extra slee (more)
What I Did Today Posted July 29th, 2008
[img]http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s235/SirWatts/020.jpg[/img] (more)
Well..... I played some poker today Posted August 4th, 2008
I didn't get back home until around 2:30 so I missed most of the eurodonkaments, but I played most of the usual later Sunday tournaments on Stars and (more)
Here, there, and everywhere Posted August 11th, 2008
I imagine that title will apply to the content of this blog entry as well as it does to what I've been doing the last week or so. I still haven't pla (more)
Sundays and... Cats? Posted August 18th, 2008
I have finally started playing a bunch of poker again the last few days with FTOPS running. It hasn't gone especially well though, but at the same tim (more)
A Little Update Posted September 1st, 2008
Well, it's been a while since my last entry mostly because nothing super exciting poker-wise has been going on. I helped my sister move to Montreal la (more)
WCOOP! Posted September 8th, 2008
Well WCOOP started this weekend. I'm off to a fairly decent start so far, cashing 3 of the first 4 events I played (I skipped Friday to go to a stag). (more)
Not so crazy about WCOOP Posted September 15th, 2008
I never thought it was possible for a tournament to have too good a structure, for there to be too much time to gain an advantage through skillful pl (more)
WCOOP success! Posted September 17th, 2008
It wasn't the best event to final table but it was a fun one! I final tabled the $500 buy-in 2-7 NL single draw event of the WCOOP today and finished (more)
WCOOP over, off to London! Posted September 22nd, 2008
I didn't have much luck with my Sunday tournaments today. I managed a couple small cashes but lost a bit overall. I bubbled the WCOOP main event after (more)
Winning streak snapped at one Posted September 24th, 2008
I was unable to extend my live tournament winning streak today in the 5K pound PLO tournament. I busted on the very last hand of the day getting all-i (more)
Made the break this year Posted September 28th, 2008
WSOPE main event is just not my tournament. Last year I busted in level 1 with bottom set vs top 2 pair all-in on the flop, and this year I didn't fai (more)
EPT London Day 1a Posted October 2nd, 2008
Hey gang, I made day 2 of the EPT with 34.2K, which I think is somewhere in the vicinity of average. I only remember a couple big pots, I won a bunch (more)
EPT London Day 2 Posted October 3rd, 2008
Busto in 3rd level of the day. Only a couple of biggish hands. Hand 1: 500/1000 a100 First hand of the day it folds to the SB who shoves his 11.3K (more)
EPT High Roller Day 1 Posted October 5th, 2008
Just a quick post to update that I made it to day 2 of the High Roller tournament. I have 118K which is roughly average with 14 players left of 86 who (more)
EPT High Roller Day 2 Posted October 8th, 2008
Well as most people probably know by now I finished 3rd for 241K pounds. It was a tough tournament and I never had a ton of chips so I was pretty happ (more)
Festa al Lago Update Posted October 19th, 2008
Hey I've been lazy and haven't written anything in a little while so here's what I've been up to this week. After I busted Niagara I drove home immedi (more)
Awesome Day! Posted October 21st, 2008
Today started like almost any other day. I woke up and lazed around for a bit. Eventually I forced myself to go get a workout and then I came back to (more)
Festa al Lago WPT Day 1b Posted October 22nd, 2008
Not a very successful day 1 today unfortunately. I finished the day with 25K of my 45K starting stack. My starting table was very soft, the only other (more)
Festa al Lago Day 2 Posted October 22nd, 2008
Well I'm busto. I grinded my short stack for quite a while but every time I got something good going I immediately lost a pot to give it back. In the (more)
GOING TO FUCKING KILL SOMEONE Posted October 30th, 2008
Today was the maddest I have ever been at a poker table. I don't give a fuck about bad beats or about bubbling the stupid tournament. I'm partly very (more)
November and Future Plans Posted November 5th, 2008
Now that I've been home a few days I've had some time to sit down and plan out the next few months. The rest of this year is going to be pretty laid b (more)
Since arriving back in Toronto I've quickly gotten back into my normal lazy at home routine. I stay up too late, then sleep away the hours of the day (more)
Winning All the Gold Posted November 17th, 2008
That's what I've been doing this weekend. Well, just Saturday to be more accurate, I gave some back today. Saturday was one of the best days of my int (more)
Mo' Gold Posted November 24th, 2008
I've easily been on the biggest online heater of my life this month and this week was just more of the same. I didn't really play all that much this (more)
So I stuck to the plan and took a week off of poker while I was down in NYC partying with some friends. New York was awesome, really an amazing city, (more)
Bellagio Five Diamond Update! Posted December 15th, 2008
Hey hey it's time for a little update about what I've been up to here in Vegas. I got in Tuesday night and played the $5k tournament on Thursday. I go (more)
Aaaaaand busto Posted December 16th, 2008
It was a short day, I was super card dead and when I finally got a hand I folded the winner on the flop. Got the last of my chips in against Mark Telt (more)
First Real Post of 2009! Posted January 12th, 2009
Alright, I've been super lazy about blogging so far this year but I think it's about time I wrote up something real. First of all, Bahamas trip report (more)
Adelaide Posted February 10th, 2009
First, before I begin, I need to point out that my WPT epsiode has FINALLY been pirated by the fine people of the internet and is available over at th (more)
LA and PS+ Posted February 20th, 2009
Hey y'all, I've been in LA for the LA Poker Classic for almost a week now. The WPT main event starts tomorrow and I'm hoping to improve on a deep run (more)
Another Week in LA Posted February 28th, 2009
Yoooo. So I decided to stay in LA for the Celeb Invitational freeroll today. It should be a really fun tournament, I'm definitely not going to take it (more)
How I Do Posted March 1st, 2009
It has been widely reported that the first person eliminated from the WPT Celebrity Invitational was Antonio Esfandiari. This however is simply false. (more)
March Posted March 15th, 2009
It's a pretty good month to be home from traveling. We've got the NCAA tournament starting next week. We had the World Baseball Classic here in Toront (more)
Swingy Weekend! Posted March 24th, 2009
I've basically spent the last 4 days on the couch watching the NCAA tournament with my laptop on my lap. It's been really fun! There were a lot of goo (more)
Last Week and Scoopaloop Day 1 Posted April 3rd, 2009
Yoooo. So I've been in Montreal visiting my sister and haven't played a whole ton of poker lately. But with the SCOOP starting on PokerStars that is q (more)
SCOOP Update Posted April 10th, 2009
Hey kids, what's up? I've been SCOOPin hard the last week playing most of the M and H events. My in the money % has been really high as I've cashed 8 (more)
SCOOP Wrapup Posted April 14th, 2009
Ok this will be my final SCOOP-related post. I cashed the $10K main event but lost a flip to bust 33rd for $30K. That cash probably put me around even (more)
A Quick Pre-MC Post Posted April 26th, 2009
Hey, sorry I have written in a while I just haven't really felt like it. WPT Champs didn't go great, I busted early on Day 2. I don't really feel like (more)
Monte Carlo Wrapup Posted May 5th, 2009
Alright so Monte Carlo has come and gone. I lost just over 40K euros playing live on the trip plus probably like another 8k playing Sundays which is p (more)
The Annual Pilgrimage Posted May 22nd, 2009
It's almost that time of year where professionals, amateurs, enthusiasts, and degenerates all converge on Las Vegas for the holy event that is the Wor (more)
Quick Vegas Update Posted June 1st, 2009
I don't have much super exciting to write about but I've got nothing else to do while I'm sweating Isaac Haxton to victory in the $40K tourney and I f (more)
$5K NL Report Posted June 7th, 2009
Hey gang, I guess I'm due to write something here again and I played a couple hands that were kind of interesting today so I might as well write about (more)
A Blog Post! Posted June 26th, 2009
Hey, I haven't written an update in a while though I figure my tweets should be doing a good enough job keeping you up to date. Obviously the series i (more)
A Good Week for Watts Posted July 12th, 2009
Thursday: Golf at Paiote Golf Club 30 mins down the I-95. Very nice course and I shot my best round of the summer. Friday: Main Event Day 1A. Went (more)
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