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Poker Blogs for the month of April 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of April 2008.
I haven't been able to play as much as usual the past couple of weeks so it was nice to get to the Final Table in the $6.50 Bounty Tournament at UB. (more)
I was a small winner at MTTs in March, mostly because a week and a half into the month I grew completely bored with tournaments and decided to stop pl (more)
The good thing about April from my POV is that it's not March. I think last month was my worst month ever tournament-wise, largely due to being down s (more)
I won about $1000 tonight and decided to sit in a juicy 5/10 game. There was a guy limping, raising and reraising with a wide range of hands. He was (more)
Spend enough time blogging about your own life and even you get sick of you. I’ve decided to write an entry about those I know in the poker world ar (more)
Most of you work a 9 to 5 job like me and play poker for recreation and extra income. Poker only made up about 10% of my income in 2007 and although (more)
An earlier blog entry of mine received a couple of anonymous comments from people I wanted to respond to.
Number one: The first post questioned me (more)
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)
World Series of Poker Europe is airing in Australia and some parts of Europe. Anyways, the episodes are available on Pokertube - which also has my EPT (more)
I just having a talk with my friend Corey-Ann online and she did one of those things mid conversation where whoever you’re talking to says ‘how ar (more)
I have had a pretty crappy year, poker wise. I have yet to have a winning month and it is making me doubt my ability as a poker player. Do I suck or i (more)
Well, here goes.
First, hello and thank you to everyone already blogging at TwoRags. Since Bond started hosting his trip reports and strategy seri (more)
I haven't blogged in awhile mostly because not much is goin on, I didn't think posting about bad beats and running bad would be a good read. I made a (more)
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)
Party Poker locked me into their cruise today. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Party Poker and Moneybookers support and am happy to say (more)
March was absolutely blah!!! I made 2 trips to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe - Bossier City[/url], losing $600 (more)
In no particular order, but maybe I'll make a top 10 list out of this someday!
1)"AK is a drawing hand". I've never met anyone that took this phras (more)
I have very little clever on my mind to write about today. There was a request in the comments about getting more HH links up, so I think this might b (more)
I have a friend who likes poker and wants to play all the time but will do nothing to try and improve their game. I'm talking about a person who limps (more)
Well the internet has turned me quite tilted right now as I got into amsterdam it went down at some redic key points for me when I was shortstacked in (more)
So far this month has been decent. My 2nd session of the month saw me have a pretty disappointing but slightly profitable day. I finished 27-729 in a (more)
On Friday, April 4, 2008, iLLNuGWichee had a day at the tables that few dare dream about. He made 5 final tables at 4 different sites.
He finish (more)
I haven't been able to play much the past week and the two tourneys that I did get to play saw my KK chased down by two outers on UB. I had a few hou (more)
Charlton Heston was a great actor and a man committed to his beliefs. I was sorry to hear about his death this morning. RIP Sir
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After 6 hours of play I just finished 33rd in the Stars Sunday hundred grand. Only $334, but at least it's paid for all the Sunday 100k lotterys I've (more)
It was a great weekend at the tables. Even though it was a small field, I was happy to make the final table in the $5.50 Stud MTT at UltimateBet. Af (more)
In the Chinese tradition, yin and yang represent “two opposing and, at the same time, complementary aspects of any one phenomenon." Yin qualities a (more)
It wasn’t enough being sick for more than half the month, the Poker Gods also decided to kick me while I was down.
[b]Tournaments[/b]
Mar (more)
Eesh, after running my bankroll up to a record-high, I've lost nearly a third of it back in a day. I'm not playing to the best of my ability and its a (more)
Before we look at the two hands that actually made me think tonight, I've got a question:
Why does organic milk have an expiration date that's 2 mont (more)
Was frustrated last night to get knocked out of the $7 bodog mtt 7 away from the money when I got my AA in pre-flop vs AKs. Of course, the flop gave (more)
Big night last night and early this morning for a couple friends of the blog.
Mathclub, playing under his Pokerstars screenname jakehekejnr, beat o (more)
Would like to hear some thoughts about how I played this hand. My bet after the flop was designed to get him to re-raise so I could put him in. But (more)
Stuff that everyone reading this should do if they haven't already:
-Get an extension. Anybody know a gambling CPA in the NYC area? :(
In case t (more)
the tournament kicked off last night at 7:00. my starting table i started off with 3000 chips. within the first few hands i had knocked out 3 people (more)
The blog entry I made about the poker players around me was polite and complimentary, and I’d really hate to get in the habit of that. Today I’d l (more)
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)
I've been a dedicated micro-donk mtt on-line poker grinder since roughly the turn of the century. This experience has opened many doors for me, many o (more)
No details other than what I'm reading on 2+2, but I thought I'd pass it on. It looks like they're still processing withdrawals if you have money actu (more)
Now that the around the world schedule has been finalized I’ve had to go through the process of creating arrangements for everything outside just pl (more)
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)
I have waited a while to blog because I didn't think I had much to say that was interesting. But the last 3 weeks have been just a bit more than inte (more)
I woke up yesterday with little memory of getting home and the events of the night. My laptop was on my chest (how it didn't fall off my bed and die, (more)
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)
I tried really hard not to go into the 200k today expecting to do well. But I couldn't help but hope and imagine taking it down for $45k. I envisioned (more)
yesterday i was in a few hands that kinda made me hesitate a little. I am playing 1/2
BB: 82.00
UTG: 109.32
UTG+1: 94.45
MP1: 125.60
hero:8 (more)
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)
The ‘people I don’t know’ blog entry created a bit of a controversy. Someone decided to link it over at P5’s and given my description of most (more)
Updates from www.sluggerwv.blogspot.com about the big week and tournament prowess of the usual suspects which happened while tworags.com was on hiatus (more)
In 1986, Dan Harrison ( see picture above ) was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.
On a hike through the bush, he (more)
I haven’t been playing much poker lately so I’ve decided to write up a very old story of mine. Most schools Proms are some time around mid or earl (more)
I love poker, the Tournament side of it that is, which comes as no surprise to those of you who are close to me or happen to read this blog. I’ve be (more)
okay.. so everything was great. first hand AK with 2K on the flop. with lots of action. it was obvious that i was going to be starting off well. my (more)
I was staying with my parents in DFW so we decided to head up to the Choctaw casino in Durant. My parents play the slots but I would have at least a (more)
As some of you know this entry was on the front of www.pocketfives.com for a little while, and they ask me to delay a couple of days before I move it (more)
The Wednesday 5/10 nl game had two full tables with a waiting list. They also have a Omaha 5/10 with a kill This room is a gold mine, saw a few friend (more)
Wretchy started out the final table of the $50+5 (1r +1a) MTT on FullTiltPoker tonight with one of the smaller stacks. But ability can overcome many (more)
After a really frustrating month and a half, I finally have a major FT to show for it, the UB 200K. That tournament's been very good to me over the ye (more)
In addition to a 33rd place finish in the Pokerstars Sunday Hundred Grand and some other deep cashes, grinding $12/180 turbos on stars has been going (more)
Ok, so a few months back the folks from [url=http://www.pokernetcast.com]PokerNetcast[/url] (formerly, Live at the Bike) invited us over to their offi (more)
Well, April has been, among other things, hectic and bizarre, so if you're wondering why I haven't written in a long time, you'll have your answer soo (more)
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)
Played only two tourneys today. #1 was a weird, tiny Cake gold card freeroll rebuy where, on the first hand post-rebuy period, I got AA in vs. KT for (more)
[b]Stars & Stripes[/b]
While other poker rooms have seen tournaments attendance soften, the [url=http://www.tworags.com/BicycleCasino.html]Bicycle (more)
…I jam the $8,000 Stevo has given me into my jeans pocket and keep the other three in my wallet. The wallet is busting at the seams attempting to co (more)
Sorry for the lack of content recently. It’s been a difficult few weeks for my family and I.
I’ve actually been somewhat sick and out of it lat (more)
Bike Stars and Stripes $335 NL Tournament -- following through with a plan! by lakong Posted April 24th, 2008
Podiman called two weeks to say that he’s coming out to LA for a visit and was to play in the Bicycle Club’s [url=http://www.thebike.com/tourname (more)
“Hey Steve, you remember those games I was telling you about?”
“Right yea mate, are you going tonight?”
“Yea, did you want to go?”
“N (more)
I'm having a pretty rough month in my personal life. And no it's not that bad no one has been diagnosed with cancer or anything. I got forced on a rot (more)
I’m normally a pretty calm guy. It’s something I pride myself on, since I very rarely feel anything from poker outside very slight annoyance or di (more)
So I decided to give it a full Sunday schedule today. Started at 1 PM (Central) with the $109r on Stars and the $240 knockout/warmup/I'm-not-sure-wha (more)
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)
Frustratingly Good (April results and observations about my game) by Pooojo33 Posted April 28th, 2008
Well, April has been a rather up and down month. I've accomplished a few things that are positive, and at the same time I'm becoming overly frus (more)
So this weekend I was watching the NFL Draft and I fired up my laptop to mess around with some PLO and in < 2hrs I ended up winning 10 BI’s. Too b (more)
Since my last entry, I've played 2 full tournament days (by "full", I mean "very little", because I suck at volume) and a half day on Sunday. The Sund (more)
Your humble author cashed for the first time in what seems like a decade yesterday, but the big story was the friends of the blog slicing through tour (more)
Just a quick entry today. My flight leaves in 5 hours. Tilt has yet to give me a URL to link to so I don't have that to provide at the moment, but it (more)
I got a PM on 2+2 that posed an interesting question so I thought it might me good to post the question and my response on here.
[b]Question:[/b] (more)
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