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Poker Blogs for the month of February 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of February 2008.
January was a nice start to the year. I had a good trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City and got fully rolled for 50NL on PokerStars without having to d (more)
Enough being lazy...time to post hands!
At this point, the details of Day 1 are sort of blurry. Most of the action early on was focused on John Hen (more)
So the super bowl is tomorrow and being as im not from Mass. I hate the patriots and hope they lose. Apparently we are having a party which is kinda (more)
I'd been really pushing myself to play a lot this week, and as a result, when I finished a session, I didn't always want to think, talk, or write abou (more)
He won EPT Dortmund yesterday for 933K Euro or just shy of $1.4M USD. He's just been on a tear to start the year. Sadly I didn't have any of his actio (more)
For whatever reason, Day 2 is easier to remember than Day 1...
My first table had several decent players, including WacoKidd with an identical stac (more)
I love MTT, but with time demands and bankroll taking a hit is there any better way to build a roll than mult-tabling low-stakes STT? I was playing t (more)
The start of the bankroll build on FT. I'm not playing today so its a good time to start this blog to keep track of my progress. (more)
Pretty meh month.
Lost $530 at the Horseshoe-Bossier City on [url=http://tworags.com/blog/mr_taterhead/post/1775/lol_livepokeraments]Landlord79's (more)
So yesterday i started playing at 2pm and played almost all the bigger tournies from then till 10pm. I played something like 22 tournies which is a r (more)
Only $200 or so, but hey, money's nice. I only played about four tourneys, bubbled the UB 200K, but went very deep in the Stars 1M again before bustin (more)
Can someone help me figure this out?
What are the odds of getting the same 2 cards, 3 hands in a row (6 handed), no suits?
I just got
9cQd
9c (more)
from my post on 2+2:
26th in FUPER, 26th in Stuper, 6th in 50FO, 7th in $26 donkfest on FTP, 22nd in $150 32k guarenteed.
and for the additional (more)
This is odd. I almost never write a real blog entry, the kind where I ramble about what I’ve been doing with my life and what I’ll be doing upcomi (more)
Well, I’m just about all settled in my new apartment.
Today I got a ton of furniture delivered. My apartment is nearly completely furnished, and (more)
I recently did my post Aussie Millions numbers for my deal with Timex. Going into the Aussie Millions I was in fact not the player with the largest ma (more)
Good news: I made my first '08 final table last night. (That sounded really bad until I realized I'd played 30 donkaments all year, lol. Which leads m (more)
This was my first post on a blog on another site in October, I changed a bit of it. I mostly play mtts now, I now play mtts in the range of $5-$55 as (more)
Last night I went down to meet up with 2+2er [b]Heisenb3rg[/b] who’s in town from Toronto to grind out some limit and check on [b]lakong[/b] in the (more)
Hey, everybody,it's been nuts at The Commerce....Sorry We haven't had the chance to say "Hello." Thanks for your support, and thanks for helping us k (more)
I made it out to the Commerce last Friday night (February 1st) for the $545 NL event #8 of the LA Poker Classic. Approximately 550 runners showed up (more)
Well, here they are - pictures of my new pad. The pictures might be a little sloppy, but I really wasn’t too concerned with quality when I was takin (more)
So this week has been really solid for me. As of Friday I have final tabled 8 tournaments and am up about 12k this month. It was pretty frustrating (more)
Over the last couple of days I’ve made my first two videos for the training site www.pokersavvy.com. The first one I made yesterday followed my run (more)
Played both FTOPS events today and had bad beats on both to bust out. I know suckouts happen, but I cannot win on FT no matter what. I have never done (more)
So not 10min after I busted out of the FTOPS #9 (20min ago), I am sweating my friend Surfer781, and here is another perfect example of typical FT BS:
(more)
Last Friday I was bored and entered a satellite for the FTOPS $100 rebuy. At the time I didn't even know it was a rebuy tourney :) I was in one (more)
Today I grinded out a TON of tournaments.
I was actually running horribly in all of the bigger buy-in tournaments. I won’t bore you with specific (more)
Sunday is the biggest day of online tournaments of the week, and it’s not even close. This week I got up at 8am (I normally didn’t bother and just (more)
Hey hey, I got in safely yesterday in time to play Sunday tournaments online. No luck in the tournaments but I had a profitable day because of a good (more)
I really had a hum drum, kinda sucky January as far as final tables and big cashes went. The very last day I played a 50/50k and cashed for $414 finis (more)
I was glancing over my intended schedule of upcoming live poker recently. For a while the rumor was the APPT was going to be starting up again in Maca (more)
I arrived in LA Sunday night and played the 2.5k tournament yesterday. I started out on a really good table with a lot of people who didn't seem to be (more)
In fact, I don't think I broke the 2 hour mark anywhere.
Good news: I made the NY Times!
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/13leon (more)
I was eating dinner with Ed and Shaun deeb at the Commerce yesterday and they had a laugh at the volume of tournaments I play. I quit playing tournam (more)
On Tuesday, I rolled down to the Commerce around 2:30p and hunted down [b]shaundeeb[/b] for a lunch at the Arena Bar and Grill, Commerce’s sports ba (more)
I know that's an enormous amount of money. To be able to win that much in a day I should be ecstatic. Lots of people probably don't make that in a yea (more)
[b]I'm Back[/b]
What's up guys? I decided to take a little break from blogging because I was running really bad and was pretty upset. I didn't f (more)
Pokerstars was on the fritz again last night so I loaded up $100 on AP to play some small stakes donkaments. First one I play is the nightly $5r whic (more)
Well sorry I've been really active lately playing and usually playing till I fall asleep sometimes while still in a few tourneys oops. I haven't trave (more)
Life has been busy lately; I've been looking for a new place to live and been bouncing around a little as a result. I've managed to play some poker; (more)
Well, it took a long time, but I finally found the EPT Barcelona produced coverage online. The final table isn’t uploaded yet, but the first 2 episo (more)
Just a quick one again. Turned 26 on Wednesday and had a great day up until I got home and realized I had lost my keys somewhere while out at the bars (more)
OK not really but the stuff I do sometimes makes me wonder. I fucked up really bad today in the $2500 NL LAPC event. I'm not going to tell you the han (more)
For the fourth or fifth the straight day I wake up at 9am. This makes little sense, since I’m going to sleep around 2 or 3am and getting exercise du (more)
Today started out pretty boring. I wasn't getting dealt any hands in good situations, so I was basically just watching everyone else play. Luckily no (more)
Today I made my quickest exit of the series. I had chipped down to about 3.2k chips by level 2 when I pick up KK utg. I open to 300. The button flat c (more)
Well after getting back on stars with a small $50 deposit and playing some sngs to double it I played some MTTs. (I do not use bankroll management wit (more)
I down a melatonin before bed in hopes of staying asleep. I wake up at 9am anyway, but feel tired enough that after spending 15 minutes or so on the c (more)
Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since I last updated. Where to begin?
[b]Sports[/b]
Well the first part of 2008 made it a good decade for (more)
[b]“Awesome. I think he’s gonna die.”[/b]
After insisting to my wife and friends that the flu bug that’s savaged everyone I know would lea (more)
I played 8 mtts last night. I cashed in 3 of them, I was so close to a 4 digit score. I finished 60th in the ftp 24/24 for $69, 160/1179 of the stars (more)
I have primarily been playing uNL cash games on the internet for the last year or so and I have faired pretty well. I usually don’t have the 5-6 h (more)
Sort of a good news/bad news type thing. Good news: I got a NY Times interview (see last entry) that apparently got reprinted in a few places that fri (more)
This title would have worked a lot better if I was able to win a tournament today, but I'm going to use it anyways. I managed to save my Sunday with a (more)
Let’s see what’s been going lately…
Saturday I slept through the morning tournaments…including the FTOPS $2,500….sigh. I woke up at 3pm a (more)
Mid-month Update on my “Break”:
My February goals were:
Reinvigorate my spiritual life.
Create new habits
1. Prayer time
2. Reading tim (more)
After being up late on Saturday at a friend's graduation party and having to spend twice as long driving back to Madison on Sunday because of a ten in (more)
Just a quick update. I recently did an interview for pokertips.org.
Here's the [url=http://www.pokertips.org/weekly.shuffle/archives/2008-02-17]li (more)
I'm running so hot online since I arrived in LA. Today I played a tournament on Everest Poker. $100 freezeout and I finished 7th for $1100. So what yo (more)
Does this make any sense at all?
[IMG]http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd135/brad2002tj/starsprofitbydayofweek.jpg[/IMG] (more)
These pictures simply don’t justify how awesome this TV is……
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/bender330/DSC01253.jpg[/img]
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So Ive decided to create a Poker/Life blog to help satisfy a few new personal goals of mine as well as hopefully provide some insightful and/or entert (more)
First of all, huuuuuuuuge thanks to Scot and Kyle at TwoRags and Dave and everyone else at the [b]Commerce Casino[/b] for making this happen. It was a (more)
I busted out shortly after the first break. Important facts and hands:
2500 starting chips, blinds 25-25, 40 minute levels.
The table was a rem (more)
This hand was against the man who doubled me up with the 77 vs. my JJ.
Let me set up the action with an earlier hand:
Blinds 25/50, pot is five (more)
With the Joe Hachem Deep Stacked series over I’m free to occupy myself with more serious online play. I wrote about the very hot day I had in [url=h (more)
Confession: when it comes to travel, I'm pretty incompetent. Oh, I (read: my wife) pack light, don't sweat the small stuff, and haven't ever done anyt (more)
I have 54,000 in chips going back at 1k/2k. 18 of us left; tough field.
I'm too tired to post specific hands, but what's most notable is that I ha (more)
So I woke up today played a few online steps and a few mtts said if I bust everything quick I'll play the 1500 live mtt here so I busted everything sa (more)
After a loooong break even stretch I've started making some money again. My stars bankroll is now up to $700 and my plan is to get it up to $1000 by (more)
*in busting out before the first break, heh.
The Commerce is a very good cardroom; my impression is that the games are as soft as anything outside (more)
Not quite as much as Anton Chigurh would prefer I bet, but losing a $12,000 flip still feels pretty terrible. I didn’t per say ‘lose’ $12,000, w (more)
as much as i want to win i really can't complain about cashing for 80k. michael binger won and he played well so i can't fault that. it unfortunatel (more)
Left early yesterday morning on what was supposed to be a 3-night stay at Borgata. After grabbing a quick bite I sat down at $5/$10 NL at around 1PM. (more)
Suite at the Laker Game, Limos, Bad Beat on a Crazy Prop Bet... by lakong Posted February 22nd, 2008
David, out friend from the Commerce, sent me a text message informing me that he had 5 tickets to the Commere’s private suite at Staples Center. Th (more)
Everytime I look at my son I realize that there are more important things than running good at poker. Make someones day and tell them you care about t (more)
This blog was inspired by Bond18's current heater as described in his blog and [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=136771]Body Man (more)
Sorry to do this but a part of the competition for the Everest Poker sponsorship is getting a lot of hits over on my blogs and any videos I might post (more)
I'm making this entry about 48 hours after I took 4/560ish runners in the stars $33/5k. This cash gave was my biggest, $1270. I had a $500 coin flip w (more)
I have 16,300 chips. I would very much like to have more but Michael Mizrachi runs like god against me postflop. To wit:
(all of these hands happ (more)
Getting this entry in fast because day 2 starts in 25 mins :)
Played a big sat on Friday, lasted long enough that it was too late for SNG's but did (more)
I won my first pot at showdown of the entire tournament at the 200/400/50 level. Then the next level I screwed up PF when gbecks opened 1800 in the C (more)
[b]Part of the Showboat Family[/b]
One of the things I was most afraid of when starting this new job was to not really fit in right away. At all th (more)
Most of them think I played it fine. I disagree, because my initial instinct was to squeeze preflop, and I strive to always trust that first. But it (more)
(subtitle: How people support each other on the road and how they improve each other's games.)
It starts with the small things. Poker players are (more)
To be honest, there really wasn't even much to say about today. Very early on, I made my once a month customary bluff with total air. Usually, that st (more)
Theory: He who controls the initiative, controls the hand.
If no player makes a good hand or a decent hand on the flop, turn or river, what determ (more)
As many of you know, we joined forces with Pokernetcast.net (the old Live at the Bike team) to put together a single table tournament for the ages. T (more)
Hey everyone,
I'm a 21 year old student, born and raised in Houston, TX, and attending college in my hometown. I went to the University of Alabama (more)
Well I ended day1 of the LAPC 10k with 50k well above avg after playing really aggro getting a nice suck out in 1 big pot and losing 10k chips last ha (more)
At least it does if you don’t mind sitting for hours at live 2/5 NL cash games. I went down to Crown last night with my friend Joel and we sat in wh (more)
Hey guys,
I know it’s been awhile since my last entry, just not a lot to report.
I haven’t been playing too much poker. Today was the firs (more)
I feel a need to get back home. I've had enough of poker and enough living in a casino.
I didn't really even get to see Los Angeles-- just like la (more)
Hey I'm 6th/18 in LAPC Main Event heading into Day 5 with 987K chips. Just a spot for you to post your comments here since you can't on Everest's site (more)
This is what I was seriously thinking regarding Stars' intentions. It was one of those days where it seemed that the infamous 'Doom Switch' had been f (more)
I would like to start this blog by saying Hello to the tworags community. I am super excited to be a member of this site as I love the whole concept (more)
At this point it’s no secret, I had my biggest winning day in online history today. I normally have to talk myself into playing a 100 rebuy tourname (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 99, What Would Phil Hellmuth Do? by Bond18 Posted February 29th, 2008
Authors Note: As an additional exercise for this segment, see if you can figure out which hands were actually played by Phil and which I’ve made up. (more)
I mentioned before that I applied for Taylor Caby’s protégé contest and I was thinking last night about what my realistic chances are of winning. (more)
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