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Poker Blogs for the month of December 2007
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of December 2007.
On Friday last, I was inspired by [url=http://www.tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=blogs&todo=view&ID=765]Pechorin's recent run through Europe[/url] and w (more)
Hello everybody. I decided to start this blog mainly as a motivational tool for myself. It wasn't difficult to choose TwoRags.com as the place to host (more)
So I check my calendar late in the day and realize that I’m supposed to be at a concert/fundraiser at the Japanese consulate here in LA in a little (more)
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)
Well, yesterday I had my Lasik procedure and it ended up being a bit more of a hassle than I thought it'd be, but it ended up working out fine.
At (more)
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)
Law and Order,P5's Division,The Imper1um Investigation(Written by Bond18) by Bond18 Posted December 6th, 2007
Authors Note: For those not aware, famous online pokerstar Imper1um was accused of buying an account deep in a Sunday major on Full Tilt. For those ne (more)
[b]Ambassador of the Quan[/b]
So just to recap the last blog, I went to a World Series of Poker Circuit audition at Harrah’s about a month ago a (more)
[b]NEW BEST MONTH EVER!!![/b]
October may have been meh, but November was ROCKIN’! With one hot handed trip to the [url=http://tworags.com/in (more)
This pretty much sums up my month. All at Bodog $100NL.
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I didnt get (more)
Short version: I went 1 for 6 today, but the 1 was a 7'th place in the UB 200K for 7,000. This one's bittersweet; I sucked out on the first hand of IT (more)
November was not my best month in poker. Buoyed by my success at 1/2 and my desire to take it slow and play overrolled, I found myself, either consci (more)
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)
One request that came up numerous times in the "What do you want to see?" thread was late position opening ranges. I think since so many of our raises (more)
This is my first chance to discuss my 3rd place finish at the WSOP Circuit Event in New Orleans, LA.
I took Monday off work to fly to NOLA and play (more)
I had two very similar finaltables go down and if you saw hand by hand you would think they were almost identical cept in the 100r I was winning flips (more)
Sorry it's been forever since I've had a blog up. I usually try and wait for some good news like a decent tourney score or a sick day in cash games w (more)
It turns out that scheduling a 1 hour, cross-airline layover is not a good idea when you're flying from NY through Minneapolis in bad weather. Not onl (more)
[b]Live Poker[/b]
After some creative juggling I’ve found a way to get some time off and I’ll be using it to head down to Atlantic City next (more)
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)
t takes only an hour flight to get from Melbourne to Sydney, a welcome break from spending double digit hours on a plane just to get to a series of to (more)
The 3K yesterday was amazing - I actually managed to go 0 VPIP for the first 90 minutes. Given I showed up a little late, it means I went into the fir (more)
So, I decided to open a PokerStars account. I've never had one before, so I took advantage of a promotion from Pokersourceonline.com to get an annual (more)
Last Thurs night around 9p, I headed down to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/CommerceCasino.html]Commerce Casino[/url] to update my [url=http://www.t (more)
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)
I stayed away from tournaments for the most part this week and stuck mostly to the cash games. I didn't put as many hours in actually playing this w (more)
[b]Recap[/b]
I left you guys off in the last blog with a lot of uncertainty. This blog will probably be no different. I don’t know where I sta (more)
[i]Cliff notes: Edmond plays the WBPT tournament at the Venetian. Busts out with A4o. Watches flight attendants play slots at the airport.[/i]
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With yesterday being the PLO event that I have no business playing I was hoping to head down to the beach, get a tan, become really drunk, and tell pe (more)
Had one of the simultaneously most successful and frustrating Sundays I've had in a while.
to summarize:
-16th in the Stars Sunday Warmup.
-25t (more)
Law and Order, P5’s Division, The Imper1um Investigation, Conclusion! by Bond18 Posted December 11th, 2007
In the Pocketfives justice system, all defendants are extremely guilty at the moment of accusation, but considerably more guilty after confession, aft (more)
Today counts as a weekend because I say it does and because it equally went nowhere, heh. I didn't play either of the Bellagio 5K's (under the weather (more)
Had to drop off some tworags/commerce promotional cards at the Commerce this afternoon and even though I didn't have much time to play I couldn't resi (more)
I'll have more about Vivek's hand in my next entry since he still hasn't posted it online yet. In the meantime, here's a brag post about the satellit (more)
Hey guys,
My new blog is up at my main site: [url=http://www.adamjunglen.com]AdamJunglen.com[/url], so I forgot to cross-post here. Anyways, here' (more)
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)
SirWatts reports in during second break in WPT Bellagio ME:
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_bellagiomea.wav]Bellagio Five Diamond - ME - (more)
Tonight I was playing the 3.30 rebuy on Pokerstars. During the first hour, I played really well and only made the initial rebuy. I chipped up to aroun (more)
Okay, where do I start with today?
Umm...let's start with yesterday, instead. I lasted 90 minutes in yesterday's sat (thus, 0 for 3 on seeing the 2 (more)
On second thought, I can't really sleep yet (soon, though!), so briefly, good hands from today:
-Re: Vivek: He calls PF. I think this is okay again (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)
I settle into my seat for the $1600 6 max tournament. This is the prelim I look forward to the most, since it has a pretty solid structure and the fie (more)
Hi everyone. I used to keep a blog on blogger.com, but got bored with it and stopped. I do like to discuss poker and sometimes contribute in poker d (more)
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)
I final tabled my second consecutive UBOC event on Wednesday night (I didn't play Monday or Tuesday's events), taking 8th in the PLO8. Obviously 8th (more)
Riddle me this, fish or entertainment player, shows up at your table, and why is it that it seems, some self proclaimed 'expert' at the table Makes it (more)
Short version because I'm a little tired: I have 119,700, right around the average with 152 people left (paying 100). The blinds will be [edit: 1500/3 (more)
I don't want to make it official yet but I think the downswing and the running bad is finally coming to an end. I'm not running good yet but I'm defi (more)
Buuuuuuuusto ~54'th for 29K (which, minus staking and makeup, means I made 1K on the series. Ship it?)
There were a bunch of hands, but the key fou (more)
Well I will write tourney reports for the EPT Prague ME and the 2k Euro side event I played both with a lot of interesting hands and such but right no (more)
The most recent batch of Sunday tourney’s was pretty sick. UB had their UBOC final, a $1k with a 750k guarantee, and FTP had their monthly million g (more)
Well I’m back from Atlantic City and I have plenty of poker related issues dancing around in my head. Don’t think they’ll all fit in this writin (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_bellagia1.wav]VBlog trip report from Bellagio[/url] (more)
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)
I tear through my luggage looking for my Melatonin. I could swear I packed, it, or was that Macau? Shit, I can’t remember. Without the sleep medicat (more)
Well I had a pretty sleepy 13 hours worth of flights to get over there wasn't so bad Im kind of getting used to this whole pond hopping traveling. Get (more)
Feeling way better about poker in general (although, of course, the guy from my last post wound up finishing fourth obv.) I even put in a Sunday where (more)
Well....For my first Blog I figured I would blog about playing the Stars $10 Rebuy tonight. The Rebuy period has gone well so far after doubling up w (more)
2nd Hour started off nicely but ends badly.....
After a guy lost most of his stack except for about 4K and I got my AQ in against his 107s preflop (more)
Playing $10 Rebuy again tonight.....Hopefully goes better than last night. Also.....somehow I just managed to deleted my $3 Rebuy blog that I posted a (more)
Stars Nightly $10 Rebuy 2nd Hour & Cake Poker $20 Bounty by justinsampson Posted December 20th, 2007
Second Hour of $10 Rebuy starting at 22.5K.......Also playing a $20 Bounty Tourney on Cake Poker. Updates
to come....
Nothing going on so far at B (more)
Stars Nightly $10 Rebuy 3rd Hour & Cake Poker $20 Bounty by justinsampson Posted December 21st, 2007
Well....The wonderful world of my $10 Rebuy at the end of the 2nd hour. Down to 15K and well below average after losing 1010 to KQo allin. Standard (more)
Well still moving along in $10 Rebuy.....made the money and finally picked up some cards....up to about 85K with 130 left after doubling up wiht AQ vs (more)
So im stuck at home for the next week or 2 with my family. I probably won't play a whole lot cause it's too hard for me to focus on playing cash game (more)
Waking up after almost 12 hours of sleep is an amazing thing. Even more so when u had spent the previous 10 hours in a car as I had done driving to Ne (more)
So now we're in the money and i can tell my table feels like its won the lottery and i think a few guys even called their wives to tell them about the (more)
So final part of this trip report that got delayed pretty much indeffinitly due to it getting garbled and I was too pissed off to rewrite it. Now i f (more)
So finally i rewrote the final part of my trip report. I'm sad to say it's alot less entertaining but it does let you know what all happened atleast. (more)
Back at it again.....Lets get a FT this time.
1st Hour
Doubled up in the first few hands with AA vs AJ. Pretty quiet table so may be difficult (more)
so with nothing better, me and shaun deeb came up with a drinking game. Basically i would rail him in a single tourney, whenever he opened, it was si (more)
[b]WSOP Circuit Event[/b]
After a long and successful cash day on Tuesday I woke up early Wednesday morning feeling good. After a quick detour dow (more)
So after playing the $10 Rebuy on Stars I decided to play some Cake Poker 1/2 NL. I usually play 3 or 4 tables, but I was sticking to just 2 at the t (more)
So there are 2 topics on the forums today that i found interesting. Let's start with the JJ thing. There is alot of controversy surrounding JJ and i (more)
Playing the Stars $10 Rebuy for the last time until after Christmas.....
1st Hour
About ten minutes in I pick up 10[s] 10[d] in the BB. I call (more)
It's freaking impossible to make my family members understand poker. I went and visited with my grandparents, cousins, etc today and they were all sh (more)
Short version: Went nowhere, only played one least bit interesting hand all day.
JackPotter2 is at seat 0 with 2770.
[b]korrupt911 is at seat 1 wi (more)
Alright now Sunday couldn't have started off worse then I had planned, I was reg for the Sunday brawl on ftp and hoped to be up for the warmup. I just (more)
...regardless of which particular holiday you celebrate, today is a day for love and joy, a reminder of what really matters in life. I am in Lake Cha (more)
A few weeks ago, I posted on a [url=http://www.tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=blogs&todo=view&ID=1409]heads up match[/url] I had with a spider in a rent (more)
Just wanted to wish everyone a [url=http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1633809528]MERRY CHRISTMAS!!![/url] with this Christmas card.
BJJIII and I made (more)
[b]Catch-Up![/b]
First off, I want to apologize for not keeping you guys up to date during basically the most important time of my poker dealing c (more)
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I feel somewhat obligated to update since it’s been so long since my last post.
I had a nice Christmas, spe (more)
Just got back from 2 days in Vegas and boy did I run terrible. I didn't feel i played my best game at times but I also had some bad beats. I lost 10 (more)
[b]Dec 22nd Trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City[/b]
I took a day off from work Friday to extend my holiday weekend and to give me some time to play (more)
Played a half dozen or so tournies tonight as it's my first real night of no responsibilities. Started out decently well with me cashing the 1st 2 to (more)
Well....I have not entered a blog in a while because the last 3 or 4 days have just been crazy. I have not had barely any time to put in poker or eve (more)
I’ve been back from AC for a couple of weeks and have finally gotten back into the online groove. Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happenin (more)
Other than that one Sunday and a couple of tourneys today/tomorrow, I'm taking a break until the New Year. Nothing particularly important - I just wan (more)
It could’ve been a better Sunday, but I certainly can’t complain.
Just skimming through my blog I really haven’t played much online poker the (more)
so today i decided to shortstack some 5/10 as i had done it in the past and it's extremly profitable so far. I prefer doing it at full ring, buying i (more)
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)
Sunday was a relatively pointless 0 for 4, some tough breaks blah blah blah, whatever. That isn't really the point of this post.
Since it's Dec 31 (more)
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