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Poker Blogs for the month of October 2007
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of October 2007.
I have finally decided to make the jump and move to Atlantic City. I will be living with a friend who is a fellow poker player. He is a really strong (more)
Well, I just wrapped up a grueling 2 weeks at the Borgata. I was playing everyday averaging over 10 hour sessions. Unfortunately, it was not a profita (more)
Since I'm a Cardrunners pro now, I took half a day off today and made a few videos.
Good news: I made a final table!
Bad news: I read souls :(
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I imagine most people would expect this blog entry to be about the WCOOP main event, seeing as It was the largest online poker event of the year. Let (more)
Well, it’s been a few days and the WCOOP ME has past us, so I think it’d be appropriate to update.
Sunday was the WCOOP Main Event, unfortunate (more)
Today I was up 1 1/2 buyins after only playing about 90 minutes. I feel like I'm playing well once again. I have gotten plenty of sleep lately and I (more)
The proposed regs are out. [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12310590]Here's the 2+2 discussion.[/url]
I haven't rea (more)
I didn't cash in the WCOOP main event, and as I've been saying for some time, I'm quitting tournaments for a while.
I just haven't been having fun (more)
Well it's been nice being back home for a whopping 3 days, and now I am leaving again. I am heading to Cleveland to watch the Yankees dominate the In (more)
I love Indian food. Since getting back to Melbourne I hadn’t found a regular place for my occasional Indian cravings, so I looked up Indian restaura (more)
Its 6 in the morning, I can't sleep so I'm posting this entry to answer a question I've been asking myself for the past few weeks. Are live SNGs worth (more)
Wow.....I've possibly been running as hot as ever. I have made a few good plays here and there. Thing is, I've managed to pull a 1-outer, catch AA 7 (more)
When I read over SSMTT I often see a lot of the same mistakes over and over. I also see a lot of mistakes I used to make a lot, and I’d like to do w (more)
Today I am still continuing the most ridiculous run I have ever been on playing NL10. The hands won't stop, the juicy tables are plentiful, and the d (more)
One of the most common mistakes I see on these forums is a lack of understanding in regards to position. You see this at all levels of play in MTT’s (more)
TI Tourney/George Carlin
***Warning*** Poker stupidity contained herein, continue at your own risk!
There's a reason why Dave's winning these (more)
Day 2, 9/22:
Saturday started out like any other day....any other day that smacks you upside the head at the CRACK OF DAWN! I'm on a typical vegas (more)
Venetian Tourney Hands:
I have so many titles for this post:
I Sure Got My Moneys Worth, One Bad-Beat Deserves Another, That was a $6,000 Doll (more)
Day 3, 9/23:
Sunday was pretty light with the whip cream on the Irish coffee being the AVP Tourney at TI
I ended up finally getting some dece (more)
Day4, 9/24:
Monday ended up being a light day, as will the next two most likely since I actually have to do some work this trip
Got some “s (more)
Vegas Trip- Actually had to do Some Work to pay for the Ride by StrayBullet Posted October 6th, 2007
Day5/6/7, 9/25-27:
Pretty boring couple of days as I actually had to finally do some work
I had to observe a new Instructor over the course o (more)
Day7, Thursday continued:
Damn, all I can taste is fruit juice from whatever umbrella’d concoction I was throwing down my gullet last nite (hey (more)
Day8, 9/28:
Is anyone getting sick of this yet? I think I’ve “talked” more to you folks than I have my own wife, but then again, she doesn (more)
Day9, 9/29:
F’variance, F’the poker gods, F’karma….f’em all Now don’t get me wrong here, I ALWAYS have fun when I visit Vegas, it’d (more)
Day9, 9/29: continued:
But it’s only one-thirty in the afternoon and it’s my last day in Vegas. I still need to mentally recover from the cool (more)
Day9, 9/29, the ride is over:
OK, so it’s 8:30pm and I want a cigar, except I’d already smoked the only one I brought with me. I talked with C (more)
Things it took me a while to learn 3, What're you trying to accomplish? by Bond18 Posted October 7th, 2007
This post will seem a little repetitive of some of the things Gobbo covered in his ‘Stop saying you’re betting for information!’ thread but I’ (more)
I returned to Austin a couple of days ago, and I haven't been playing poker since. Haven't been reading the forums, really, either, and only occasion (more)
After a nice two mostly poker-free weeks (although I've put in a few hours in the last several days), I'm finally leaving Seoul tomorrow. It's been a (more)
I've been trying to watch the Yankees lose tonight but the TBS feed keeps messing up so it makes it nearly impossible to watch. I figured I would mak (more)
It’s been well over a month and a half since I have been to my favorite card room, the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horses (more)
My car's in need of repairs, so I spent most of the day at home. Luckily for me, I decided to put in some hands at $1/$2 heads up.
I had a really, (more)
I haven't posted for several days now, but I also haven't played a great deal of poker, or at least as much as I'd liked to have. I have dropped a co (more)
There is no other way to describe it. This has been the most emotionally and mentally tough month of my life. I am not big into posting about my per (more)
I won't get into too many of the boring details of the trip. Most of my time was spent at the beach drinking, swimming, getting a tan and the rest wa (more)
The last week I haven't played much poker, but have still been very busy.
I've been spending time with my family and doing some relaxing, but have (more)
Wow......figures.....I am now down half a buy-in on the month after some ridiculous coolers. I have now slipped 6 buy-ins in about 4 days. Absolutel (more)
Came down with a cold the last day before leaving Aruba so I've had a headache and been congested the past few days. Despite not feeling the best I h (more)
I was just playing a 6-handed turbo on PS when this hand came up:
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Big Blind is (more)
Still feeling sick which sucks but it's not enough to keep me in bed just enough were I feel like crap all day. Not sure if it's been good for me to (more)
Guys I am in a weird mood. I don't know what my problem is. I don't have any drive to play any poker. I haven't played online in about a week. I k (more)
Today I went car shopping, and hung out with some friends.
I went to the Honda dealership to check out the Civic's. Turns out the 2007 models were (more)
PokerStars is hosting the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, a free-roll to poker players who blog. First prize is a $12k entry into their C (more)
Well...we'll see if this works because the requirement is to have a blog for a minimum of 2 months. I'm exactly at 2 months to the day tomorrow.
I (more)
Well, the ALDS really sucked being such a die hard Yankee fan. As soon as I got to Cleveland the bad run continued. The first flight I had booked got (more)
...I've played about an hour of poker, a 15/30 razz session that ended with me up $2. Jet lag can be brutal, and it seems like west -> east is a lot w (more)
This trip report consists of a day of me playing basically the lowest buy in no limit that exists. Maybe this will be helpful to anyone who is curiou (more)
Wow...the past few days have been the roughest in my poker life. It just seems that I can't stop getting coolered and outdrawn. Of course I might ha (more)
Adjusting to moving and all that other crap that has been going on has been hard. I finally got back on my horse and played my first session last nig (more)
"I've reset my goals from winning...to finishing ahead of Swami....to surviving long enough to post an ante." - EdmondDantes
I won the tworags cham (more)
Played close to 7,000 hands at $1/$2 and made ~$5100. Ran about 18 PTBB/100. I have no idea if that's an indication of running really hot, or just t (more)
This is the first day where I've actually started to feel good. Still have a pretty wicked headache but it's much better than where I was at before.
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I had registered for the Pokerstars free-roll blog championship. The tournament started at 12pm CA time, but we had plans to at 12:15 and wouldn't be (more)
I finally got my car in and saw it today. Unfortunately it's not ready yet, I have to wait one more day for them to put the accessories on it, but Tue (more)
When we last left off, we were talking about User #363:
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..."[S]tarting 2 minutes into the tournament, Potripper's table was being observed for (more)
Just got to the final table of tonight's FTP $1k. For a change, I'm going to write this report as I play. Wish me luck!
I had the CL going into (more)
The latest 48 hour recap of the AP dramabomb:
-Once upon a time, before the scandal ever broke, CrazyMarco (second to Potripper in the cheater's 1K (more)
My last two sessions have been short and painful. Two days ago I played only 91 hands and got crushed for a little less than a buy-in. Every hand I (more)
Maybe, just maybe things are finally turning around. I just woke up and am getting ready to go to class....Yesterday I played zero hands of NL10 for (more)
So i wrote an article for www.pocketfives.com, which unfortunately wasn't able to be put up on the site. The owner, Adam, seems like a really cool guy (more)
Throughout my life, I have been seen by other people as somewhat of a "realist".My thoughts about the world and life in general has been described as (more)
Today Shawn Green contacted me asking if I'd be willing to do an interview for Cardplayer TV.
I see no reason to decline, so tomorrow I'll be on t (more)
[b]Latest breaking news:[/b]
At this point, every AP insider is swarming over Nat Arem's (www.natarem.com) and my own instant messenger looking to (more)
Well I wanna start off by sayin whats up everybody? Just found this site and thought it would be pretty cool to join and get tips and stuff, plus tell (more)
The other day I saw where Chris Ferguson made 10,000 from 0 on FT. This idea interested me, so I'm gonna try something similar. I'm gonna try to turn (more)
I had a few hours to kill today so I went down to HG to try some $100 NL.
Sat down after waiting about 10 min. At the table one guy had about $7 (more)
Well I finally got out of the funk that I was in I think. Today was the first time in about 3 weeks that I even opened up Bodog to play some poker. I (more)
Wow...I just realized how busy I've been lately without playing a single hand of poker.
Yesterday I finally picked up my car - 2008 Black Honda Civ (more)
If there were an Internet Detective paying job, I'd never play poker by Adanthar Posted October 18th, 2007
Major and minor updates this morning in our developing story:
-AP has announced a full internal audit by the Kawanakhe Gaming Council, their licens (more)
Over the last few months several people have asked me to get into more detail about dealer’s school, so EdmondDantes and I discussed creating a seri (more)
If there’s only one thing I could teach or imprint upon another poker player it’s how important bankroll management is. There are a ton of talente (more)
After a rough month, I cashed out and took some time off. I finally have a few things to talk about so here goes.
I started playing BoDog again th (more)
Edmond and I met with the marketing folks at the Bike today and we were done around 5pm. I saw no reason to head out the door when the sweat sound of (more)
I spent a large chunk of today giving interviews to some surprising places after the Associated Press (the good AP, not the bad AP) picked up the stor (more)
"The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play
for big stakes."- Warren Buffet
This is my motto for online po (more)
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At any rate, Nat tells me AP's ready to cave.
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15 minutes later:
PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirmin (more)
First and foremost - major thanks to Nat Arem (who'll never get all the credit he should get for this - for those of you who haven't gotten the skinny (more)
I've noticed lately that a good number of players are over-betting the pot on the flop. I have seen successful players using this tactic and have see (more)
I've been running pretty well lately until an $800 loss today but I thought I'd post a couple of my losing hands which I thought were played fine.
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I was in a tourney on PokerStars today and had a fairly funny hand occur at my table. I was in 2nd position after the BB and was dealt AA. Blinds are (more)
So I left my house quite later as we overslept a bit, and made it to the airport less then 30minutes before our scheduled departure. We are told there (more)
I've got so much going on right now it's crazy.
It's mostly business stuff that's been occupying my time - stuff I'm not sure I should talk about (more)
I finally got above the 0 mark today in a freeroll for cardschat.com on Full Tilt. I placed 25 and won 1.37. Not alot, but a start to my goal. I plan (more)
Ok well I have had a pretty good weekend. Poker wise, I won a little over 2.5 BIs at my bread and butter $100NL game on Bodog. I pretty much just play (more)
First of all, thanks to everyone for the warm welcome to TwoRags.com
I’m not yet certain how I’ll be using this blog. For now I want to just br (more)
Ok, so I miss the first couple of hands of the tournament but whatever, we're starting with 10k and 50/100 blinds.
I sit down and my first hand tma (more)
This weekend kicked off the Poker News Cup at Crown with a $175 NL event. I didn’t end up playing it because I wanted to maintain my dignity but unf (more)
I want to know everyones experiences from Wheeling Island Racetrack and Casino and from the Mountaineer Casino and Racetrack poker rooms. (more)
Well sorry I haven't posted for a long time. I really hoped my blog would be a daily journal more than a weekly update but it hasn't been going that (more)
Bodog Poker Blogger Tourney #2
Filed in archive Internet Poker by David Aydt on September 11, 2007
Info from this site: [url=http://www.keepyou (more)
It's amazing to me that Absolute Poker is still running commercials on ESPN but the one I just saw has so much more meaning now. It shows a guy on hi (more)
It’s hard to find a good balance between to much pre flop reraising and not enough. For quite a long time I was just 3 betting non stop, if only to (more)
Well as I said last time I had won 1.37 in a private forum freeroll. Tonight I played in the $100 HORSE freeroll on Full Tilt. I played for over 6 hou (more)
Ok, so I haven't updated since [b]Swami54[/b] ran over me in the unofficial 2R last longer. But that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. Oh no, in fac (more)
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)
Opening blog entry to get started (more)
Last night was the $230 NL event at Crown last night. After looking over the structure sheet, I had no intention of being a masochist and playing, but (more)
[b]"Ah you hup me in crass?"[/b]
I am glad everyone enjoyed the first installment of this series. I guess I will start where I left off with the (more)
Obviously, over the last week, the AP mess has more or less continued to spiral around the 'net. It's going to keep doing that for a while, while the (more)
Well, I'm all packed and about to leave for Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, last night I was backing out of my driveway and my front bumper just randoml (more)
Sunday came and it was back to the cash tables. I’ve had a solid start to the week.
Sunday + 2/3 buy in
Monday + 1 ½ buy ins
Tuesday + 1 1/3 (more)
It's been a while since I wrote, but to be honest, there isn't a whole lot to talk about. I'm still grinding that heads-up; I played less last week t (more)
This morning I called the Honda Service Center to inform them that my front bumper fell off randomly while backing out of the driveway. They were prom (more)
Nice win today after getting to heads up with about 1/3 the stack size of my opponent........came all the way back to go way up and then got dealt KQ (more)
Well, I'm just about to goto sleep, but I'm going to give a quick update before I play tomorrow.
I really didn't do much of anything today - which (more)
Not much really happened in the first few levels. At one point I restole preflop with 6[d]7[d] and the flop came 9[d]5[d]3[d] and he folded to my bet. (more)
Still no tourneys for me this week though I’ve been reading and thinking plenty about them. I've been continuing to play cash on a daily basis. I've (more)
I'm going to add some hands as I go...hopefully it will help me play better after my idiotic play I just made :)
I'm the chip leader on button with (more)
For two weeks I’ve been telling my girlfriend “I’m going to win the Poker News Cup ME.” She normally just rolls her eyes at me and tells me to (more)
[b]Making some changes[/b]
If you haven’t read the first blog entry of this series you know that I came down to Atlantic City to build maturit (more)
Been two weeks since I've put a blog up. My computer took a crash on me... again. Just before last weekend my internet browsers stopped working and (more)
King Me!!!!
[url=http://www.tworags.com/home/BJJIII]BJJII[/url] and I decided to make a run to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity (more)
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)
[b]Landlord79[/b] and I along with my buddy Ben, who is an online pro, made a Friday afternoon trip to play some live $1-$3NL at my home casino, [url= (more)
At this stage, it appears as if the investigation from my own standpoint is largely over. AP has cleaned up as much as they could - I can't test them (more)
[b]October Results/November Goals[/b]
Well first of all I hardly played any online poker this month ~1.5K hands, but I did come out a winner and I (more)
After talking with Edmond tonight I figured I would write an entry. Poker is a side venture for me and one of the main things I'd like to spend my wi (more)
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