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Poker Blogs for the month of January 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of January 2008.
Played in the October tournament series at the Bike last night. The buy-in was $350 with 200 or so runners. I got home around 3:30am and only slept (more)
So I got hammered yesterday-- mixing in no tournament cashes with a 12-buyin cash downswing. My "big month" that I had anticipated after the 2nd plac (more)
The Commerce Casino
6131 East Telegraph Road
Commerce, CA 90040
(323) 721-2100
[url=http://www.commercecasino.com]website[/url]
[img]http://ww (more)
Here is a fun little HU sit-n-go. We're about even to hand #10. After hand #12, I have [b]10[/b] chips left with the blinds at [b]20/40[/b]. Happy (more)
Haven't played much poker lately but hope to change that with the upcoming LA Poker Classic at the end of January and through February. I'm shooting (more)
Well back to the rebuy tournaments for 2008. I have one trip report/room review typed up, but am waiting for one thing to complete it. It should be (more)
Ok so I was working on posting two trip reports from my last two trips to the Horseshoe-Bossier City and just as I soon as I hit the post button it sa (more)
It’s a bit late for Christmas wishes but there’s something on my list that can only be got in January, a win in the upcoming Aussie Millions. I†(more)
I've noticed something about the scene. Since UIGEA, it's a lot easier to find a nosebleed game - every site out there now has at least 50/100 NL and (more)
Big Happy New Years to everybody!!!!!!
I'm glad to be out of 2007 as it was not as good to me as 2006 was. I felt like my game improved from what (more)
Hello readers,
This is my first blog and I just started it up to keep everyone up to date on my poker playing.
I'm heading to the Pokerstars Car (more)
Unfortunately, I have nothing to really update in this entry. I came back to A.C. after New Years and I just sit at home all day. I went to the Show (more)
So after talking with the wafflecrush guys some the past few days I am now officially playing under their stake for ONLINE play. Live is still on my (more)
[url=http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adanthar&search=Search]Link to Adanthar MTT CardRunner vids on YouTube[/url]
Check it out - it's (more)
So I've arrived in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. Today was the first event, a $1K NL event with 537 players. I just busted out after losing a fli (more)
[b]Don’t I know you?[/b]
Vegas is littered with degenerate dealers that go up big, quit their jobs and live large, slowly give it all back and re (more)
Just a quick update:
Started with 20k in chips for the tourney and I've survived day 1 but am really short with 10k. The average right now is prob (more)
This is a post i made on 2+2, thought i'd share it here:
So I've often thought of these sort of scenario's and i thought i would ask OOT what their (more)
The Bicycle Casino
7301 Eastern Avenue
Bell Gardens, CA 90201
(562) 806-4646
[url=http://www.thebike.com/]website[/url]
[img]http://www.twora (more)
Today I didn't do too much. After running so bad at tournaments I'm taking a couple of days off to recollect my thoughts and keep from burning myself (more)
Nothing of note this Sunday. I did go deep in the only thing I played on Saturday, a big event, but, you know, mess up a hand, lose half your stack, w (more)
Just busted out of the PCA. Reshoved A5o from the BB into a CO raise and he called with AJ and it held. Headed out to the beach now to get some sun. (more)
[img]http://www.tellmewhereonearth.com/Images6/Nelson-plane_crash.jpg[/img]
I've been playing on Cake, where I have been winning and placing in a (more)
I’d like to apologize for delaying so long in posting my 2007 results. December was an absolute sputter after a great month such as I had in Novemb (more)
I'll make this a quick one, full trip report to come.
I busted out of the tourney about 3 hours into day one. In the first hour I ran a set into a (more)
So just played my first sunday under the wafflecrush banner and was looking to get off to a good start. Now obviously i know that it is a sunday and (more)
Well I was finishing up a session at like 3am when I busted in the midnight tourneys I wasn't sure when my flight out of Albany was but I knew my LA f (more)
So I've arrived in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. Today was the first event, a $1K NL event with 537 players. I just busted out after losing a fli (more)
Book Review: Kill Everyone, By Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib and Kim Lee by Bond18 Posted January 8th, 2008
When Lee Nelson asked me to review his new book ‘Kill Everyone’ I got a little worried. I thought Lee was a nice guy, but I also thought that most (more)
Hey, we're 4 events into the Aussie Millions now and I'm still having a blast. I haven't had too much success myself so far, but friends have already (more)
After 20+ hours of either being in an airport, or in the air, I've finally made it to the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia.
Several of my good f (more)
I promised a tourney report and today had some interesting hands so it should make a decent one.
Rebuy period: I usually clown around a bit in live (more)
Ok just a quick little weekly update for the 2 people that read this little thing they call a blog. I am still currently 12 tabling $25NL and it is go (more)
[b]Why here? Why now?[/b]
I've been sequestered in London, splitting time between a grad school stint at the London School of Economics and fillin (more)
Haven't played poker at all this year. I went to Houston for a few days, then Baton Rouge for the BCS Championship Game (Geaux Tigers!) and now I'm i (more)
Today I played my first event here in Melbourne, a $1,500 event - and it was quick and painless, which was just fine by me.
I ended up getting QQ (more)
Reservations are set and I’ll be heading to Borgata next Tuesday morning with a return home Sunday to hopefully watch the Giants in the NFC Champion (more)
Even after everything I've done, I have a long way to go, and a lot to do before I really "make it". Today's reminder of that:
My [url=http://en.w (more)
Even if that something is just a $44 6am tourney with 59 runners. I actually was telling deeb when i joined it i was playing it so that i could just (more)
Yoooooooooooo. So I was playing some drunk kickball with the rest of the poker nerds today. Team Goggles kicked some ass imo. After that great victory (more)
Lots of funny anecdotes coming from Australia the last few days.
Guess I’ll start with my roommates antics. Jeff played the $100k buyin tournamen (more)
Pretty much out of it since Friday. This is gonna be the first Sunday I've voluntarily missed in at least a year. Dumb flu :(
Totally wrecks my sch (more)
Yet another early bustout for me in a major tournament. Considering how conservative I tend to play this is getting kind of ridiculous. My table draw (more)
[b]Snapped the Skid - Tournaments[/b]
Last post I mentioned how badly the year had started in both tournaments and cash. Really couldn’t have b (more)
I played a few major tournaments on Sunday, the Sunday 100k on stars and Sunday 100k on Cake. Was way up early in stars 100k but went card dead for a (more)
Wow I'm bad at keeping a blog. Third time lucky to get the ball really rolling? Ok lets go.
As Ive said in earlier blogs, I am a low limit MTT play (more)
Just finished 2nd in a stars $4/180. I've played a lot of these and this is my best finish. Unfortunately I am not happy with my heads up play at al (more)
I was a little worried that the PCA trip this year wouldn't measure up to last year but it did and I once again had a blast while I was down there.
(more)
Just a quick note from Australia.
Ended day 1 with 60.4k. High point being near 90k, but spewed some off/ran kinda crappy during the last level. I (more)
Commerce Freeroll, Bike Cash games and upcoming LA Poker Classic by lakong Posted January 16th, 2008
Haven't been playing much poker lately. I've been pretty busy on the new tworags design, which should go up today, and some other projects. I did ma (more)
From the Dealer's Box: Finally Working Again- Borgata Winter Poker Open by xxrod17xx Posted January 17th, 2008
[b]Borgata's Professionalism[/b]
So I started working the Borgata Winter Poker Open on the 15th, and I am super pleased with how things are going (more)
Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event ended up being an extremely frustrating day of poker.
I didn’t play any particular large pots, just lost (more)
I give up on trying to embed it, here's a link:
[url=http://www.megavideo.com/?v=DJTC7UO9]Video[/url]
this is the megavideo version, the proble (more)
I am prowling around the new format and it looks great! Best room reviews on the web...thanks guys! (more)
So far the grinding is going well. I need to put in more hours, but I'm playing well and game-selecting well, and as a result I'm up about 3k in the (more)
The Los Angeles Poker Classic starts next week! The series runs Jan 24th-Mar 3rd and includes events with buy-ins from $335-$10,000. You can see the (more)
Very nice IMO :)
My poker vacation's stretched to an unprecedented 2 weeks (granted some of that was involuntary and Wednesday was the first day I (more)
Well, this trip's sucked.
The 5k HU event went poorly (to say the least). I won game 1 (best 2 of 3), and dropped 2 and 3. Pretty much summarizes (more)
So I bubbled both of these. I played pretty well though, there were some sweet hands. In the first round of the HU I played Doug Lee. As far as I know (more)
I played Last Saturday nite at the Horseshoe in Bossier, and the action was good, and loose, lots of new players.
I played for an hour, and was u (more)
Quick update:
-Played one big AC tourney, a 1K sat (too busy the next day to play the other one.) Won 0 hands in 3 hours. Highlight (also the only (more)
Not gonna write much of a blog right now since I'm rather tired. Started out today by having a great cash session and then decided to jump in the two (more)
The Borgata is a first class establishment. Their accommodations are superb, they have a great poker room and of course their tournaments are among th (more)
So after getting 13th in a major and my 2nd straight week of getting close to a monster score only to get break even on the day money is very frustrat (more)
Sorry for not putting something up over the past 2 weeks I was busy losing money in funny ways for all the live events. I had a nice 0fer for this s (more)
Ok, by now you know we upgraded the look and function of the site. We've found and fixed most of the bugs but we're looking for feedback. If you run (more)
Just a reminder, the LA Poker Classic starts tomorrow (Thu, 1/24). I won't be playing the first events but will play a few the 2nd week and a couple (more)
Won the 8k guarenteed ($100buyin, 2pm) on UB for $2280 today, looks like it's served it's time. Unless it's lucky and thus i should keep it... (more)
I put in over 4,000 hands on Monday. I rarely do anything like that, but I was feeling the need to work, and I decided to just stay home all day, buc (more)
OK, time for a quick little update. I have moved up to regularly 9-12 tabling $50NL on PokerStars after a couple of good runs at the $25NL tables. I (more)
I haven't posted in awhile because I came to the realization "Who really gives a crap what I have to say?" I talked to Dante and he reeled me back in (more)
UB continues to love me as I played their new $150, 20k guarenteed last night at 9pm. The field had 127 entrants and im torn on how soft i want to sa (more)
[b]Cliff Notes on my 29th Birthday Trip to the HS-BC[/b]
In celebration of my 29th birthday, [url=http://tworags.com/home/Mr_Taterhead]Mr_Taterhe (more)
Got here last night and just played the $5200 event ("just" as in "busted an hour ago".) It was another non-starter where I never got over my starting (more)
Well I have not played much since the beginning of the month. Was in Vegas earlier this week for 3 days and will have a trip report coming soon.
F (more)
Does anyone have anything to say about either Mountaineer or Wheeling Island. I am looking for comments on play, structure of games, room reviews, goo (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 14, Playing a Chip lead/Big Stack by Bond18 Posted January 26th, 2008
Authors Note: Some of you may notice that part 13 in this series is missing. Part 13 is on the topic of ‘ranges’ and has been finished. Long story (more)
I've got 69K heading into Day 2 (~45K average, 360 of 500-odd left, 54 paid.) It was a tough table/seat draw, with John Hennigan (last year's winner a (more)
[b]Vegas for the Super Bowl?[/b]
Yikes, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated. We’ve been over the top busy with site-related updates and (more)
Hey everyone, I'm back safely in Toronto just chilling. Really it was a super lazy week. Anyways my plan for the next couple months is to really get b (more)
Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been keeping busy preparing to move out lately. I get the key to my new place tomorrow, and couldn't be more ready (more)
It all started when Scot from TwoRags IM'd me to ask if I was going to the LA Poker Classic. I explained to him, as I wrote 2 days ago in my last entr (more)
This is a couple of days late largely thanks to lack of laptop, but I busto'ed on Day 2 in an impressive fashion, first getting to 157K (2x average) l (more)
Authors Note: After having read Ansky’s inspiring post I realized too long had I stood by and done nothing about the online cheating situation. I de (more)
It was a sluggish start online in the New Year for both cash and tournaments. The Borgata excursion mid month proved lucrative thanks to my success at (more)
I am looking forward to the LAPC this year, yet again. I hope to see a few of you show up for the series. For the past few years I have played the Sn (more)
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