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Poker Blogs for the month of July 2008

Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of July 2008.

Made day 2 of the $1500 by nath Posted July 1st, 2008
First day 2 and first cash of the series. I have 65k going into day 2 at 800/1600/200. I'm exhausted so no full writeup but more will come when it's (more)
[b]Day 46[/b] By far, the least enjoyable tournaments during the WSOP are the $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'em ones, of which there are an infinite amount. (more)
Networking > poker by Adanthar Posted July 2nd, 2008
My final 2 prelims turned out to be a standard 0 for 2 - I won 1 hand in one of them and 0 for'd the other. (When you 3 bet ~5 times in limit and wind (more)
lol min-bet by SirWatts Posted July 2nd, 2008
Today was the final preliminary event of the 2008 WSOP, the $1500 limit shootout. It got 823 runners. I was actually pretty excited for this event be (more)
Quick Update by Doylestown Posted July 2nd, 2008
Had a few minutes this morning so I decided to throw in a quick update. I wish there was more time to keep up with my blog but lately it’s been toug (more)
Every good cardroom should have its own tournament series, yes? Hence the First Annual Central Valley Poker Championships held Aug 3 through Aug 9. (more)
went to bed at 4:30am and up at 7am. Body thinks its 10am, havent adjusted yet, so time to catch you up on my first day in vegas. Got in today arou (more)
Slowly But Surely… by A_Junglen Posted July 3rd, 2008
I guess if you take a look at some of the links on my sidebar, there’s a variety of sites. Well, they used to just links to my friends and some of m (more)
[b]Day 51[/b] Yet another $1,500 No-Limit tournament… how thrilling. Even though I made an effort to get to bed early, I couldn’t fall asleep (more)
Ahoy! by Hagbard_Celine Posted July 3rd, 2008
Howdy folks! So, I’ve been on something of a heater the past several weeks, having gotten deep in a bunch of stuff, shipping several tourneys and (more)
Main Event Time! by SirWatts Posted July 4th, 2008
So I busted in the 2nd round of the limit shootout. The key hand was when I lost a big pot to mattg1983 with AJ vs QT on a QJ9JQ board after I 3-bet h (more)
the $1500 and the Main Event by nath Posted July 4th, 2008
I busted 82nd in the $1500. The hands have been reported, but basically, I doubled up in a huge pot when I called a shove with an overpair on the tur (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/voice-message.wav]Day 1b First Break Update[/url] [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/voice-message_secondbreak. (more)
Day 1 in the books, 104K by SirWatts Posted July 5th, 2008
Day 1 went really well for me in the main event. I won several big pots mostly by flopping sets and finished the day with 104,425 chips. Early on I wa (more)
Day 1 tomorrow by Adanthar Posted July 6th, 2008
I had a couple more really productive meetings in the last few days and got a lot of work done, so, regardless of what happens tomorrow and afterwards (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/adanthar voice 1.mp3]Break 1 Update[/url] [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/adanthar voice 1 2.mp3]Busted[/url] (more)
WSOP Voice Blogs - Day 1d by nath Posted July 7th, 2008
[url=http://tworags.com/files/nath_voiceblog1.mp3]Day 1d - First Update[/url] (more)
First One in Awhile by A_Junglen Posted July 7th, 2008
Well, if you hadn't noticed yet, my volume for online mtt's has dropped quite a bit over the last year. At times I'll still put in moderate volume, bu (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/podiman - voice 1.mp3]An Easy $500 and the ME hasn't started[/url] [url=http://tworags.com/files/podiman_voiceblo (more)
Finally, after months of nothing but poker and few impressive finishes including a WSOP final table, our man Bond18 brings home the jewels. Event #2, (more)
WSOP ME Day 1 by nath Posted July 7th, 2008
I finished day 1 with 58,825 chips. After I won a big pot in the first hour, I basically did nothing until the last hour, when I caught a big rush. (more)
WSOP ME Day 2b table question by Podiman Posted July 7th, 2008
I heard some people talking that you could find out whos at your table for day 2, does anyone know where to get this info? I am currently 64th over (more)
Day 2 tomorrow, finally by SirWatts Posted July 8th, 2008
Alright, I finally get to play Day 2a tomorrow. The UFC was awesome to go to live. We saw 2 really just sick fights. We arrived a little late and the (more)
WSOP ME Day 2 - my table listing by Podiman Posted July 8th, 2008
Damn... looks like a tough table John Dolmayan - 39,350 R46 01 Vassilios Lazarou - 11,850 R46 02 David Oppenheim - 114,400 R46 03 Pawel Andrzeje (more)
So I just sat down at 2/5 maybe 15min ago. I buy $1000 in chips, and look around. Decent stacks, so I put another $1k in cash behind. 5th hand in, (more)
Speaking to a group of players and they were talking about my table. Said that there is a good shot they choose it for the TV table. Once the tables (more)
June, my worst month ever! by Landlord79 Posted July 9th, 2008
June was my absolute, worst month ever. I played (more)
[b]Day2a: Report 1:[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day2a_1.mp3]Day 2a: Report 1[/url] [b]Day2a: Report 2:[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/f (more)
A Rocky Day 2 by SirWatts Posted July 9th, 2008
My basic game plan on Day 1 of "Flop set, bust donk" turns out to not work as well when you don't flop 6 sets in one day. I basically was miserably ca (more)
WSOP - Day 2b - Updates by Podiman Posted July 10th, 2008
We're waiting for some Voice Updates, but we have heard from Podiman via text messaging and he's hanging in there. Here's a link to his chip count mo (more)
Short update - I was planning to do a recap of the ME (all 2.5 hours of it), but my laptop is pretty busto at the moment/there's a significant chance (more)
and on to Day 3 by nath Posted July 10th, 2008
I have 38,700 chips. It was a rocky day for me, and I had something to do with that, with my impatience and attempts to make things happen when I did (more)
WSOP Day 2b results - on to day 3 by Podiman Posted July 10th, 2008
Today was a up and down day. Started with 106K, got to $140K, down to $50K, and ended at $142K. I was at a table with David Oppenheim and Antonio.. (more)
WSOP Day 3 table lineup by Podiman Posted July 10th, 2008
doesnt look to scary.. Veronica Dabul 22,500 B44 01 Nath Pizzolatto 38,700 B44 02 Ron Agar 55,800 B44 03 Robert Fuller 64,900 B44 04 Noble Simp (more)
WSOP - Day 3: Voice Blog BUSTED by SirWatts Posted July 10th, 2008
First Report: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_1.mp3]First Report[/url] Busted: [url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_2. (more)
Out of the main event by nath Posted July 10th, 2008
Not very interesting. I raised ATo and won the blinds and antes; I raised A7o on the button and folded to a shove (he showed AQo); I shoved AKo over (more)
Podiman, Badgerpro and Thayer are still alive with healthy stacks going into day 4. There are 474 left and all players are in the money. Podiman (Ma (more)
Sigh Day 3 by SirWatts Posted July 11th, 2008
Well as I'm sure most of y'all know by now I busted early in Day 3 well short of the monies. Here's how that went down. Level 1: Noting happened an (more)
[b]Feedback Wanted[/b] I know there are many more blogs on Two Rags now than when I started blogging 9 months ago. So I’ll just toss this out t (more)
Podiman ME Update -- 100th place by lakong Posted July 13th, 2008
Marc "Podiman" Podell was just busted in 100th place at the ME. After a tough day yesterday where little went right, he started the day short-stacked (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 1 by SirWatts Posted July 13th, 2008
Today was a really fun day at Bellagio Cup, but I finished with a sour taste in my mouth when I lost a bunch of chips in the last orbit, which is real (more)
New biggest online score, ever by brad2002tj Posted July 13th, 2008
Today I took second out of around 5900 runners in the stars $10 30k guaranteed tournament for my biggest online score ever, $5k. First paid $7300, so (more)
My flight from Vegas was overnight, so I got back home at around 10 AM EST (7 PST) after not being able to sleep at all on the plane. My wife had just (more)
So Podiman did us proud in the ME finishing in the top 100. Badgerpro also made a deep run and SirWatts finished just shy of the $$$. Now comes the (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 2 by SirWatts Posted July 15th, 2008
Out of nowhere I ended up having a sick day 2. I won two key huge pots in the last level to vault my stack over 400K. I finished with 427K which must (more)
[b]Day 3 - First Break, all good so far -- chip leader with less than 100 left and in the money[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day3_1.mp3 (more)
I'll be on the Pokercast discussing the UB scandal (special guest: Freddy Deeb) at 12:30 AM EST - check it out. (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 3 by SirWatts Posted July 16th, 2008
Well, I had another super sick day at the Bellagio Cup. I was chip leader for most of the day and finished with 2.272 million chips to take a solid ch (more)
[b]Day 4 - First Break[/b] [url=http://tworags.com/files/sirwatts_day4_1.mp3]Day 4, First Break[/url] [b]Day 4 - Second Break[/b] [url=http://two (more)
Bellagio Cup Day 4 by SirWatts Posted July 17th, 2008
Hey, it was another long day and I'm pretty tired so I'm just going to write something here quickly. I'm the chip leader heading into the final table (more)
Holy crap I won by SirWatts Posted July 18th, 2008
Wow I run good. Wow. Wow. Wow. I'll write more about the final table later after I've slept or something. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for (more)
1.6 million reasons by Swami54 Posted July 18th, 2008
When I saw that SirWatts won I let out a couple of wows and my girlfriend wondered what I was looking at. I explained how this guy on 2rags won the W (more)
Unwinding at home by nath Posted July 19th, 2008
Well, I've been home for a week now, just unwinding. Very little playing poker-- I tried for a couple days, but I still needed to decompress before I (more)
I am new to the 1 2 nl game I like the game a lot better than the 3 6 limit I use to play.My problem is playing against aggressive players who raise r (more)
The Aftermath by SirWatts Posted July 21st, 2008
The last few days have been really hectic. I got maybe 2 hours sleep before my flight and felt pretty terrible until I finally got a little extra slee (more)
For the last week, I've definitely been feeling the after-effects of the WSOP - namely, a lethargy and inability to play anything poker-related, espec (more)
So, I’ve been really lax in posting into my blog lately. Mostly due to a downswing that reaches back into February. So I’m going to give a conti (more)
Adam Blogs? by A_Junglen Posted July 26th, 2008
Yea, it’s been awhile since my last post. I’ve probably sat down with intent of writing a new blog about 5 times now, but there really hasn’t be (more)
OMG poker content! by Adanthar Posted July 28th, 2008
As promised to myself earlier, I'm temporarily done with MTT's except on Sundays (for the record, yesterday was pretty ugly, but mostly unavoidable - (more)
The Lonely Front Lawn by Swami54 Posted July 29th, 2008
The next time you're outside take a second and look at everyone's front lawns. Is there anyone doing anything useful with them? If so it's probably (more)
What I Did Today by SirWatts Posted July 29th, 2008
[img]http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s235/SirWatts/020.jpg[/img] (more)
Rebuilding mode by nath Posted July 30th, 2008
Like an NFL team who bought a couple of expensive free agents to make a Super Bowl run and now finds themselves well over the cap, I'm in rebuilding m (more)
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