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Poker Blogs for the month of June 2007
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of June 2007.
5/30/07
Location: Mobile, AL
Hey everyone and welcome to my blog! I am in a unique position of having the freedom to travel the country for the ne (more)
Now that I have a(nother) blog, I suppose I'll start writing in it. But, I have to wake up early tomorrow, so I can't even grace what few readers I m (more)
Bankroll update!!
I know it’s been a while since I have posted about my Full Tilt bankroll building process, so I’m gonna try to get everyone u (more)
Just a quick update. My wife was out of town last week, so I got a lot of card playing in, including a trip to the casino which I'll write about tomo (more)
I had a bunch of interesting hands this weekend, but one ultimately totally inconsequential one stood out. In the Absolute 150K, with effective 5K sta (more)
I had the good fortune to attend the Cirque du Soliel show LOVE at the [url=httphttp://www.tworags.com/MirageHotelandCasino.html]Mirage[/url] this pas (more)
I went to play cards at my favorite location this weekend, the Horseshoe- Bossier City. I actually rented a room this time and was able to play some (more)
My fellow coworker (Landlord79) and I went over to Bossier City, LA to play some $1-$2 NL live poker this past weekend and the following is a session (more)
Location: Key West, Florida
Hey guys! Well I'm 5 days into my trip and there so much to talk about. Our first stop was in Panama City (known for w (more)
Please forgive the long/rambling nature of this post; I'm pretty new to posting about strategy, and I guess I'm just longwinded by nature. I hope you (more)
There was an interesting post over at 2plus2 discussing a laydown by Chris Moneymaker in Event #3. The action goes like this:
"Chris Moneymaker ma (more)
WSOP trip report part 1, fun with culture shock/gazillion hour flights by Bond18 Posted June 6th, 2007
So I guess I’ll keep a WSOP log in this manner throughout the series to catalog interesting events and play throughout the events. I’ll be playing (more)
5k mixed holdem - Day 1
When I headed down to the Rio poker room I knew things would be busy, but what I was not expecting was the absolute pandamoni (more)
Short update since I just got back from a long day: I'm in the money at my first WSOP event of '07, the 2K NL (Event #10.) 125 of 1500-odd people rema (more)
WSOP report part 3, The Devil in Miss Elizabeth, events 3 and 5
After a quick day 2 bust out in the 5k event (that was highly uneventful seeing as I (more)
Final tally - 63'rd/15xx for (40% of - I'm fully backed) $8,359.
I started out at a pretty decent table and quickly chipped up to 5500 from the st (more)
(I had a strategy blog entry I wanted to write, but I'm putting it off because I had to talk about Vegas.)
So I got to Las Vegas two nights ago. L (more)
WSOP trip report part 4, Return of the Rebuy, event 8
I had to stand in line for about 20 minutes to register for today’s 1000 rebuy’s tournament (more)
Not much happened today. I went to the Venetian to play their 1K deep stack event (instead of the WSOP 5K pot limit event, which is supposedly harder (more)
Location: Atlanta, GA
Hey guys, how is everybody doing? I left you guys from my last entry in Key West. Key West was obviously beautiful with its (more)
Enough said...no comments required. (more)
Today, unfortunately, was pretty much a wash. I busted out of the main $1500 event fairly early with AQ against AA on an ace high flop (yuck), then we (more)
Unfortunately, I'm continuing to run very bad (0 for 3 big 70/30's in just one Sunday tournament is impressive, honestly, as is running Ax into AA 4 t (more)
WSOP trip report part 5, Grounddonk Day, Event 10
Is there really anyone out there who didn’t enjoy the classic Bill Murray comedy ‘Groundhog d (more)
Most of those hours, unfortunately, were not in the $2500, as I busted out of that at the 150/300/25 level. My actual bustout hand was fairly uneventf (more)
Also, I got no pocket pairs, AK's or AQ's in 90 minutes. Busto! Meh, there's always the limit shootout next month.
The good news is, other than a (more)
WSOP Event #15 $1500 NL: In which Dana goes deep, Edmond chops an STT and Adanthar continues his war with luck...
[b]The Setup[/b]
My buddy (more)
Location: Chicago, IL
I last left you guys on the way to Myrtle Beach, SC. So we got there late last Friday night and decided to crash for the nigh (more)
I must say, June is turning out to be a very bad month so far. I'm down about $250+ and am just not able to put in any wins. After picking up $15 or (more)
The good thing about being a poker player is the ability to set your own hours. A lot of people in and around poker have written a lot of things about (more)
Ugh, I tried to update this a night or two ago and my PC crashed in the middle of writing. Anyway, I'll give you a quick recap.
Friday I entered t (more)
Well, when it comes to sats, anyway. I didn't get anywhere in either of the last two big tournaments - once due to a bad bluff on my part, once due to (more)
Long days of poker with not enough sleep in between. Made it well past dinner break today ($3000 NL) but still busted short of the money.
I will p (more)
I've got 7100 chips with ~134 people left, right around the average. I was completely controlling my first table for a while before going card dead, s (more)
It sucks when you do, though. 0 for 3 in big pots with a medium stack/winning one pot overall will do that. I didn't play particularly well, but there (more)
So I'm finally ready to stop writing about poker and actually start playing poker. The schedule is cleared, the reservations have been made and the b (more)
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All right, since my last post there has been a little activity. I played 2 SNG’s Saturday morning to try to pick up a quick addition to my bankroll (more)
I made the round of 64 in the WSOP $5000 heads-up match. They started with something like 390 players so many of us (including me) got first-round by (more)
Well, mostly. I had time to chop another satellite in between sweating Nath and a couple of other people. The 525's are getting a bit harder as the WS (more)
I get into town this evening after a 6 hour drive. Fairly uneventful, but I did get a later start then I wanted and hit quite a bit of traffic while (more)
Its 3:30pm on the day of event 13 and I’m in my room writing. In the last two days I lasted a total of about 5 hours in 2 tournaments. Lets find out (more)
Location: Buena Vista, CO
I have not updated this blog as of late, because we have been making long driving legs between stops of the trip. From Ch (more)
It turns out I had just enough time to go to the Rio and play one satellite, which I won outright. I'd asked for a chop twice - once at 100/200 when I (more)
My first WSOP event isn't until tomorrow (thurs) so I decided to play in the Venetian Deep Stack $330 NL event today. I started off strong and was qu (more)
Nothing going on the last two days (other than me lasting exactly two hours before losing a big coinflip in the last 1500) since I needed to move into (more)
My first wsop event of 2007. Pretty excited and ready to open up my game. I get lucky and am at a table full of tight-passive players. Over the firs (more)
Ugh, I feel like I never have time to write these out in full. Anyway, a quick summary before I leave:
Wednesday was day 2 of the heads up event a (more)
I was playing a 1/2 game at the Imperial Palace on my off time while I was in Vegas. The poker room is new at IP , and the action is not bad. The 1/2 (more)
Event #37 - $2000 Pot Limit Hold'em
I get to my seat, which is #6 and find Jeff Lisandro seated there. He apologized and moved to seat 5. Jeff wo (more)
Horseshoe, Bossier City, LA
6/23/07
One thing that I am starting to realize in live play is that table selection is vastly more important than it (more)
...but my roommate, Matt, just won the 1K Sunday Million for 315K while playing and running very well. Ship 3K for getting him the chiplead while he w (more)
There's too much stuff for me to put into one post, so I'll just start off with the trip report from Saturday's 1500.
Most of us coming from the SA (more)
I was going to do a full update of these two days, as well, but as it turns out, I actually played a full day today so that will have to go on the bac (more)
Today's also known as "the day I played the best hand of my live poker career and have nothing to show for it". Sigh.
There won't be any good tour (more)
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I showed, of course. (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 7, The Never Ending Gory, Event 15 and Venetian 1k by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
Warning: This chapter chronicles two tournaments as well as various random happenings, and since one of the tournaments was deep stacked it’s going (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 8, An Afternoon with Phil Hellmuth, Events 19 and 21 by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
It’s the morning of event 19, $2500 NL holdem, and I need to meet Stevepa to get money as I am cash busto. Lately, whenever I call up Steve the conv (more)
Some nights you get just the perfect amount of sleep, enough to feel fully rested, but not so much that you’re a little drowsy. This morning I wake (more)
On Friday afternoon I left for the Vegas airport for my 6:30pm flight that would touch down in Milwaukee a little before midnight. When I got to the a (more)
Today at the WSOP is the $5000 heads up tournament which I have really have no interest in playing, so I decided to go over to the Bellagio and play t (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 13, Never Say Never Again, Bellagio 5k and Event 35 by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
It’s Wednesday or Thursday and I’m heading out to the Bellagio for the 2pm 5k event. I say ‘Wednesday or Thursday’ because in Vegas knowing th (more)
I apologize for running a bit behind on my tournament blogging, but I did write up a long post two nights ago only to have it vanish in the internet t (more)
Unfortunately, my PC ate the first version of this, so, a quick recap: after not playing yesterday, I decided to play the 5K 6max today. I got from 10 (more)
Tuesday and Wednesday I played online and made the money of four events while making no final tables (that's three final two tables and a final three (more)
So today's story...
...after getting into the $1500 NL as an alternate and waiting two hours to be seated, I get crippled early when I run 44 into (more)
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