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Poker Blogs for the month of March 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of March 2008.
Unfortunately I’ve been busy lighting money on fire at live poker so I haven’t been able to write for a while. I don’t have much live to play fo (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 15, Small/Mid and High differences by Bond18 Posted March 1st, 2008
Recently the online sites have been adding more and more high stakes tournaments to their schedules. Four sites now have a weekly $1000 tournament, Ti (more)
SluggerWV from pocketfives.com here. I found this site thanks to a post by Bond18. Im a low limit player who really enjoys MTTs. I love studying the (more)
February is in the books and what a month it was. To review, I deposited $50 on UltimateBet and set a goal of hitting a $500 roll by the end of the mo (more)
I was wondering if any of you planned on playing the nite of March 14 and 15, as there are a lot of Thorogood fans around that nite, do you think the (more)
Sunday:
109r: I didn't have time to rebuy on the first hand, so when I picked up aces, I naturally shoved (I love shoving monsters on the first han (more)
I vividly remember my last trip departing from Las Vegas back home to Cleveland. I told myself I'd never return to Vegas until I was 21. While I had a (more)
[b]Look How Far I Have Come![/b]
It has been a crazy ride. One year ago I was in college cramming my ass off because I got off to a slow start an (more)
Calling them Sundays here seems a little ‘I’m American and America is the center of the world!!!’ish but for the majority of people in the onlin (more)
Been taking time off poker lately since I've gotten back from L.A. (Okay, I did enter some events on Sunday, but after busting out of the two biggest (more)
February turned out poorly. I was having a decent month then I decided to take a shot at 200NL under sub-optimal conditions. I quickly dumped 1.5 bu (more)
This space will be used for my introductory blog on who I am, and my past experiences and future goals with poker/life. I'll also include a trip repor (more)
Well after getting done with the LAPC I got home it was cold and snowy def not the environment I felt like being in. So I decided to book a flight to (more)
So I was fortunate enough to final table the Sunday Million. It was pretty exciting and despite my poor fortune to get 7th it was really satisfying a (more)
I was thinking about the few online staking groups that are around and i had the thought of how to describe them as far as play and personality goes. (more)
I won my second triple crown today. The triple crown consists of winning 3 tournaments on 3 different sites with a prize pool over $10,000 and 100 pla (more)
I didn't win the protege contest
Q@$%!@#$%@#$^@#$^@#^@#$^@# (more)
Ok so its been about 1 week since my last, (first and only) blog entry. I left off just giving a brief explanation of what I had planned on doing wit (more)
I’d like to think the title of this post pretty much sums up Las Vegas. Currently in a massive STD scare. It’s obviously all over the news here, I (more)
I had a pretty decent month, OK my best month ever. I'm a little jaded that I was a coin flip or a better flop away from having a HUGE month. I ended (more)
For the longest time I played regular smaller-field MTT's on AP and only SNG's on Stars and FTP, except the occasional huge field Stars MTT.
I'm ab (more)
In the last few days, I've returned to playing more or less full time (and running terrible - I think I'm ~25% with overpairs since Sunday - but that' (more)
I’ve been talking to a few players I respect lately who, for various reasons; be it playing an enormous volume that wore them out or running bad hav (more)
I don't know if anyone else feels this way, mtt poker doesn't seem all that fun at the moment. After my biggest cash last month I can't get anything g (more)
For the past week I’ve been playing the Bodog Poker Open series of tournaments. It’s good to see the smaller poker rooms making an effort to incre (more)
Since I haven't been able to post about wins and I didn't want to post about breaking even I went a new direction. I play the lower buy-in MTT's when (more)
I play a lot of the lower buy in bounty tournaments on UltimateBet.com (UB). Last night's tourney was the first in awhile where I was able to play we (more)
Congrats to Dan "Wretchy" Martin for making the final table of the $100+9rebuy on FullTiltPoker last night after having taken down second place in the (more)
Happy Birthday to TheWacoKidd and congrats on a great Bodog Poker Open by SluggerWV Posted March 11th, 2008
Happy Birthday to a great player and even better dude Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby. I hope it is a great day for Waco and I imagine that there will be a (more)
Just wanted to say a quick hello to all. I will make an updated post later with my "poker story" if any of you are interested. Much luck and success (more)
Summer of 2003, I'm recently divorced, have a 7 yr old son and an 8 yr old daughter. Kids live here with me half the week. It's just after dinner and (more)
I've thought about this before but Bond's recent post about SCTrojans quitting poker due to high volume play and burnout made me think about it again. (more)
I wasn't going to post about [url=http://www.natarem.com/2008/03/10/60-minutes-considering-absolute-poker-story/]this[/url] until after the taping and (more)
I've been taking a hiatus from poker for a while, as Real Life has dictated that I'm not to have any free time.
However, the company I work for mad (more)
It's good to be a friend of SluggerWV apparently. My online friends are making daily runs deep in tourneys which more often than not find them at the (more)
Seriously, fuck day light savings. Fuck it and the sadist communist bastards who invented it in order to annoy people in Australia who have to work on (more)
I used to play at Full Tilt a while back, where I grinded out $200 or so playing STT, cashed out profits, and then ran (played) horribly and went bust (more)
I live in the backwoods of the public poker world; Florida. Here, there's a maximum $5 bet in limit poker, and a lot of folks who want to play ultra- (more)
Ok lets try this again!
I will try to re-capture the same essence of literary perfection that found me yesterday before I decided to mistakely press (more)
Major runs through the tournaments again for Wretchy, Illnugwichee and Agriffrod last night.
Wretchy final tabled the Wretchy Open Rebuy, aka the (more)
In my last entry, I wrote about what to do when the blinds are comparatively small. Now, what do you do when the blinds are comparatively big?
For (more)
We added the "72 (seven duece)" to our home game the same way they do on HSP, except we only pay $5 (2/5 game). We have seen our fair share or winners (more)
So if you read my last post.. this next hand happened the following week. First some set up.. The hand was being discussed quite a bit, so 72 was def (more)
Meh day @ the Shoe.
Last Saturday fellow tworagger [url=http://www.tworags.com/home/landlord79]Landlord79[/url] and I headed over to our home casin (more)
Sorry for the lack of recent updates. To be honest, there hasn’t been anything terribly exciting going on.
I really don’t like talking about in (more)
After a frustrating few days, I limped into the money in a $5.50 NLHE MTT on FullTiltPoker. I was actually pleased with my play tonight as I was much (more)
Well this is a thing I have had happen to me early in my poker multitabling career but for over a year it has stayed away. Until 2 nights ago session (more)
Until yesterday the make-up o’ meter was sitting somewhere around $125,000. The tournaments I play for Timex every week include the $1,000 freeze ou (more)
I am really steamed as I right this because I tried to blog twice earlier today, and every time I would get to the end I would hit tab and then backsp (more)
Brag: Had a straight flush with 9[d] 9[s] on a 8[s]10[s]J[s]Q[s]5[d] board.
Beat: Lost the $500 pot (1/2NL) when villian turns over A[s]K[s]
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I really enjoy playing in the bounty tournaments on UltimateBet. Those tourneys always seem to draw a lot of players and remind me of the glory days (more)
I spent the last few days in Fresno visiting Ed (aka the Rake, Bugsy, Moe Green) and had a great time. I don't write many trip reports for fear my lit (more)
My last post I talked about how I ran bad and whined like a little girl. I ran average and made a couple of final tables and went fairly deep either b (more)
With a season full of major live tournaments including the World Series fast approaching there are quite a few satellites running on the various poker (more)
Happy Birthday to the Kiwi King Mathclub. Hope it's a great one. Mathclub is a final table machine and a really good guy.
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With my live poker trip fast approaching and a new season of live poker in front of us I thought it was time again to discuss the upcoming live poker (more)
If there were only four cards to a flop, I'd win every one. That's all... (more)
So the Everest competition ends this Friday and my position in the online popularity contest part is unlikely to change so I've decided to start cross (more)
I've finally returned to playing a full (for me - bond and shaundeeb leave me in the dust four times over) schedule; it feels good, even if I don't ha (more)
Well this tworags business looks like a lot of fun, so I figured why not and joined in so I could post my poker ramblings rather than on my usual blog (more)
Sigh. I just wrote a really long entry detailing my upcoming plans and lost it when I had to re-log in. Note to self, write long entries in a Word d (more)
I'm continuing a good run at Full Tilt. I've been playing almost all $11 turbo STT during this stretch but also final tabled a large donkament. Gri (more)
Well, St. Patrick's Day is over, and let's just say my liver could use a rest. Saturday I woke up at 9 am and immediately did a car bomb with my two (more)
A variation on Adanthar's Party Steps theme 4 the bankroll deficient by Grader6 Posted March 19th, 2008
I was always intrigued by Adanthar’s 2 stickied posts about satellites on 2+. “The Party Steps are your friends,” as I recall his prose. Party (more)
The other day I spoke with the Editor-in-Chief of Bluff Magazine, Mr. Matthew Parvis.
We discussed the possibility of having me write for Bluff. A (more)
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Last night after reading up about a few different rooms, decide to extend the s0stn (more)
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Originally posted on my blog [url=http://www.acehighwine.com]how a luckbox ran like God f (more)
I had a quiet Monday this time around. I got myself up at 9am in order to play the Full Tilt $1 million. I blanked just about the entire day until I f (more)
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A bit of a nice surprise! Bring on Australian Stars Millions winner number #2! (more)
Next month is the EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo.
Last year Gavin Griffin took down the title and over $2.2 million. Aside from WSOPE, I believe t (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 16, The flaw in level 2 thinking by Bond18 Posted March 22nd, 2008
Special Guest: Shaundeeb.
I’ve been thinking about this concept quite a lot lately. At first I thought I was being results oriented, paranoid, or (more)
[b]Long Time No See[/b]
I wanted to post a few blogs over the past week or so, but I got really really sick. I know how I got sick which is the (more)
Sorry that I haven’t updated in a while, poker has been kind of up and down this month. I’m up $300 or so online but down $645 in live play. We (more)
I’ve had this segment requested a number of times and there seems to be a lot of questions and misinformation within the community about staking arr (more)
Stars Australia-only Millions satellite, WSOP Step 6 and misplayed Queens! by s0stndrd Posted March 23rd, 2008
On the back of my Sunday Million win earlier in the month and being the first Australian to take down the big weekly Sunday tournament, PokerStars las (more)
The long and short of it is I got absolutely walloped by the Flu. Been over 2 weeks now and I’m still not completely recovered. It started a day and (more)
Like sand through the hourglass, these are the 60 Minutes of our lives by Adanthar Posted March 24th, 2008
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The lack of entries in the blog this week is largely because, for the first time all year, I'm playing (more)
I didn't play at all this weekend hence the absence of blog updates. I spent Thursday-Sunday visiting family and friends in the area and enjoying that (more)
PokerStars Game #16237379183: Tournament #82198404, $75+$7 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/03/25 - 10:00:01 (ET)
Table '82198404 1' 9-ma (more)
I am so tired of banging my head against the wall at PokerStars. I am taking a break from Stars and heading back over to Bodog, where I was beating $ (more)
It has been awhile since my last post. I have been working on finding top players to do a Q & A with me. If everything works out I should have some r (more)
I was very fortunate to have Good Friday off from my job, so you can guess how I spent my day off. That’s right. I made a trip to the [url=http://t (more)
Hey guys! A few things happened in the last week and one thing I really want to blog about. Classes all are going the same. Haven't really played m (more)
Mathclub was only able to final table 3 tournaments yesterday. He spread out the success over three different sites as well: finishing 3rd of 411 in (more)
We finalized the deal with Full Tilt. I’m not sure what their wishes are as far as keeping the details private or public, but until I talk to them a (more)
This really sucks, but I'm going to have to cancel the trip to Monte Carlo.
Sorry on the false report. I arranged a Dollar to Euro transfer and eve (more)
I've asked a couple of people if they were interested in doing some coaching. I've been reading their forum posts and blogs and thought they did an e (more)
I was doing the paper work necessary for the Party Poker Million cruise today and they have a player profile section you need to fill out for TV and m (more)
Villian had been lagtarding his crap hands and limping his strong hands. He must not have gotten the memo that deception only works if you don't do i (more)
So my vacation from poker is about to come to an end. I'm currently in Seattle, where I've been hanging out with my cousin the last few days. (I wen (more)
Ok starting this off again as my last attempt ended with me losing a 1k heads up SNG to a sick two outer vs. an opponent who was down 49k in his lifet (more)
Well I'm out of the Everest contest. I don't imagine I ever actually had a chance. The day went pretty well, we played a few sit n gos and I finished (more)
Had a fantasy baseball draft today and played a lot of 34's HU on stars. One of my boy's who is a sick MTT player was playing some of the big weekend (more)
lil over 1250, won 8 matches in a row plus 9 or 10 34$ HU SNG in a row = I am on fire and celebrating. Bank roll is up to 2100 :) The players in thi (more)
Just played the $30R WSOP sat on PS. 202 entries 1 seat for $12,500 and 2nd-19th get $215.
Not going to get into the individuals hands that got me to (more)
Really sick but I think im playing in it today, taking a shot. Have over 2300 in the roll, and won 21/22 HU SNG games, 8 of them were not turbo's tho (more)
...and it was so much fun I went ahead and won another one. With no $100K sponsorship package and still a little pissed about the whole ordeal it was (more)
This is going to be a more serious than my average blog because I am upset at this issue all the way around. I skimmed through the thread on 2+2 abou (more)
As I’ve said before, I have forever given up waking up early on a Sunday to force myself to play, even if that means missing the quarterly $1050 mil (more)
Been on a nice run playing the 115's. Got my sharkscope down to 3, 690 and I need to rack up a little over 1k in fpp's. I played a lot yesterday, so (more)
I've actually been keeping fairly busy lately. That's right, the content that's found in these entries may actually occur!
Well, I'll stop with the (more)
Had 2,250.95 left in my account, lost a 2, 250 HU SNG. So I have .95 cents left. But its ok, stars let me know right after the lose that I acheived (more)
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