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Poker Blogs for the month of August 2007
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of August 2007.
This report was actually from January of this year, but I wasn't using this blog site then so only posted the report on 2+2. Since I haven't won too (more)
Some articles on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) by legislation Posted August 5th, 2007
In my 'Links' section you'll see that I have included various links to important pages on the internet that cover the latest news on the legislation. (more)
I took a 400$ hit to my roll. That may not be alarming to most, but in my world i dont like it a bit. For 2 days my money was in good but drawn out (more)
I just got back from Vegas and while I was there i had time to play in a $50 rebuy at the Aladdin. The "room" is small because it is under constructi (more)
I was in San Diego over the weekend and I found a cool little poker room called the Lucky Lady. The cardroom is smaller than most LA rooms (about 7 t (more)
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**will contain pictures, but they might be big, and some are from a cell-phone, so they’ll be crappy**
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Gladiators with paper swords and an orgy. Just another day at Caesars! by PianoMan Posted August 5th, 2007
Whenever I think I’ve seen a twisted hand—BAM!—another more twisted one shows up. On my recent trip to Caesars, I saw two of the sickest hands (more)
The tournament started with something like ~190 runners. We all received 3000 chips; blinds start at 25/50 and go up every 30 minutes. I like Turnin (more)
Atlantic City. Live $5/10 and I had about $1500 I front. In MP raised to $75 with AA after a few limpers got 1 caller.
Flop comes TTT. I checked (more)
I'll have a couple of trip reports coming soon on my trip to Tahoe and Reno, but first I need to vent about a situation that came up yesterday. I wen (more)
One of the things that wasn't fully covered in my last post was what I did between the 200/400/50 and the 1000/2000/300 levels. Since I was only post (more)
After taking a short break from cards (and I mean short. It was less than a week, but we skipped our usual home game, which felt kinda long), my husba (more)
Played the $550 deepstack at Venetian on 6/13 and did well. Started with $10K in chips and my table was very aggressive and lots of good players (1 ma (more)
So played again the next day and again got up to $60k in chips.
Early on got very lucky when all in with 44 vs. 99 and flopped a set. Flopped a set (more)
I've been mixing up the games I play for a change of pace, and because I want to get good enough to find a profitable situation when it arises in any (more)
Well I guess I am going to start contributing to the blogosphere or try to contribute that is. I am going to try and write a couple of entries a week (more)
I've been playing 2/4 and 3/6 no-limit heads up on them. I put in a profitable session of 1300 hands (including a brief trip to 5/10 where I got stac (more)
Tonight I went out with friends to celebrate a totally pointless 6 weeks of life. We got very drunk and this is what happened:
Watts/Stevepa/Johnny (more)
I haven't put in much time at the tables these last couple of weeks, largely due to writing, running errands and being lazy (okay, not in that order.) (more)
I didn't play the Sunday Million last week and went out early the week before, but tonight, I made another deep run in the biggest tourney of the week (more)
What can I say? It was an awesome trip, I was reading people really well and the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe - (more)
Ok, so here is a little back story on BJJIII.
Life Story:
I am the youngest of 3 children raised by a single mother, who is my idol. I am 25 y (more)
It's been a while since I've updated, but I've been busy running sick good. I've run super hot at tournaments (at least at the end of July) and at ca (more)
I'll be back to posting daily (or close enough to daily) for a while starting the day after tomorrow, as I'm taking a ten day trip to [url=http://www. (more)
[b] Bad News [/b]
Well, it finally happened. Even after a cash influx I have still officailly hit bottom on my FT acct. It's the 2nd time an acct (more)
Wow, I didn't realize it had been so long since I wrote. I apologize for that.
I arrived at Turning Stone late last night. I busted out of the $3 (more)
The one problem with these tournaments (I'll have a trip report up at some point this week - this room and series are both very well run) is their sta (more)
[b]Birthday Thoughts:[/b]
Tomorrow August 13th is my birthday. I will be 25. I always like to look back when my birthday rolls around and think o (more)
The California State Championship is just around the corner. The first event kicks off on September 4th and the $2,500 no-limit championship event wi (more)
Won the $55 9:30 PM freezeout on Stars tonight for 11k. Over 1000 runners. Nice little score to put me in the black for the month on tournaments.
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Short update:
I wound up not playing Event 3 (the bounty tournament) for sleep reasons, either. I did play the 6 max this morning (and the 1K 6max (more)
I never thought I would start a blog but I'm doing this for one main reason...to meet other poker players to help improve my game. I've read cou (more)
I'm not going to claim that I'm a good poker player, but as of right now, I'm having the best month of my poker career!!! Well, except for the month (more)
[b]Exposition and Early Levels[/b]
From the moment [b]lakong[/b] approached me about making a post describing my PokerStars Sunday Million win, I t (more)
After the < 2 hour run at TS, I put in a full tournament schedule tonight but quickly busted out of everything except the FTOPS LO8 event I entered on (more)
Pre-7/1, tournaments around town routinely drew fields of 100 or more, at several different rooms. This was at the truly horrid 30% vig with 20 and so (more)
Preface: Over the course of the WSOP I received an enormous amount of support through the threads of these trip reports, IM, email, facebook, and PM. (more)
Well I was tired of hearing Landlord79 talk about how good he was running so I jumped into the waters at Bodog and played a little poker tonight. I p (more)
I went to the Naples-Ft Myers Greyhound Track poker room for the first time in 4 years last Saturday. My, how things have changed! The room was jump (more)
The check is an often-overlooked tactical maneuver, and one that can be profitable for you [i]if used in the correct manner.[/i] Most players look at (more)
It's in the "Inside Straight" section. Look for the "Online hand-to-hand combat" section.
[url=http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/16901]na (more)
I'll be honest - I tried to figure out how to recap that tournament from a couple of days ago and couldn't really do it, because it winds up being one (more)
I'm running so good I keep pinching myself and I have the bruises to prove it!!!
Bodog No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed) Hand History converter (more)
So you're playing, and it doesn't matter what you get. KQ suited with 2 pair flopped, and someone draws to the river to make a straight. Flop a set, (more)
I started playing poker 2 years ago. The Moneymaker craze was in full effect and many of my friends were hosting tournaments which I never attended. (more)
In four years of playing poker, I've never managed to outright bubble a big satellite until today. 35'th/169 with 34 paid - they tried their best to b (more)
After writing my entry today I entered a Stars $109 and finished 2nd to last...lol. I had TP with a fdraw and villain flopped a flush with 24s.
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[i]Author's note: This short article is inspired by one I read in either Poker Digest or Card Player about 6 years ago. The content is all mine, but (more)
[b]Tilt or just bad play?[/b]
I’m not sure how many readers follow macroeconomic events, but the recent market developments are worth observing, (more)
I visited the Commerce last week to meet with some potential business partners. After the meeting I decided to stick around for a few hour cash game (more)
Wound up going back home last night and playing a full schedule tonight, where I proceeded to lose something like $60 on the day. Given the $1500 or s (more)
Sometimes, even when you win, you might have played wrong. Background: I'm a limit player, almost totally; I'm good at the math of limit, and not so (more)
I had a pretty brutal week this week. I know I posted about the win in the Stars 50k earlier, but I'm pretty sure nothing else went right.
I got a (more)
This trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City was filled with perils and pitfalls for me, both on the table and psychologically. If you keep up w/ my blog, (more)
Just a quick update while I am at home checking on the dog. My wife and I had our first child on Sunday afternoon at 3:10. We are so excited.
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Teddy KGB busts Mike
The final hand from the Cincinnati Kid
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[b]Sputtering start, but a start indeed[/b]
My week started off very well as I picked up a buyin at $50NL on Monday night. On Tuesday night I play (more)
So, right after mentioning I was gonna go back to cash, I basically didn't play for a week except for a random night of razz somewhere in there. Part (more)
I started school last week so poker has taken a back seat for a little while. I was waking up between 10-11 most of the summer so getting up at 5:45 (more)
Greetings from Houston, TX. I'm in Texas for a few days; I'm going to look at places to live in Austin and take a few days off from poker.
My lapt (more)
There's no particular overriding theme to these hands, but I think they're worth posting and make for a good read...
This is a story of 3 hands fro (more)
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I was just reading through a thread on twoplustwo that really hit home to me. The author of a post was playing a $1000 satellite to an EPT event onli (more)
Vic Champs Trip Report (part 8 maybe?), To Little to Late, Vic Champs Main by Bond18 Posted August 31st, 2007
Vic Champs Trip Report (part 8 maybe?), To Little to Late, Vic Champs Main Event
“Procrastination is a lot like masturbation, it’s fun for a whil (more)
I just wanted to report in about what my best month ever looked like:
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Had a few minutes free here, and I wanted to put this up for a while.
I posted the hand history of my win in the Stars $55 50k guaranteed on PokerX (more)
Ok, enough of the coolers. If you didn't see this sick prop bet by Lindgren during the World Series, you're in for a treat. Four rounds of golf, eac (more)
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