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Poker Blogs for the month of May 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of May 2008.
Hi everyone - I consider myself a rookie at poker, I used to play some online. I've only played in Poker Rooms about 5 times (Morongo, near Palm Spri (more)
This hand helped pull me out of a 3 buyin hole. It's my biggest hand won to date and I hope to keep winning bigger ones as I move up!
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The PLO heater came to a crashing halt the last couple nights, as expected really. At my peak I was up around 100K but I lost most of that back. The t (more)
I took a trip to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe Bossier City[/url] this month, once again I was unsuccessful in (more)
$2K buy in, $30,000 chips and 50min levels day 1, 60min levels day 2 and 3.
I have been playing very well and my game has def gone up a notch. I a (more)
It was a decent month for me. I made lots of fts, I just couldn't get that 4 figure cash, I was just out of the money to barely in the money of some 5 (more)
The last few days I’ve just been rifling through various movies, video games, and TV shows. Lots of time on the couch and by the TV - which was conv (more)
...my first grandchild, Gabriel Zane. He showed up this morning at 12:11 am and wieghed 6 obs. 5oz. and he's the most beautiful thing you've ever cas (more)
I have never, ever, ever been bent over and f’d as hard as I have today. I was up $1K yesterday playing 2/5 here at Borgata and played well. Was rea (more)
had so many and was so tired, this one slipped my mind..
QT is one of my fav hands, so limped in early pos w/ Q[s] T[c], 5 players to the limped fl (more)
Hello all!
I know its been quite some time since I last posted and I feel guilty. So guilty in fact that I was hesitant to create another entry kno (more)
Quick X post from 2p2 since my battery is about to die and I don't have time to write anything:
Hey guys,
So for those who don't know I'm going (more)
April was a great month for me, I finished up about $3k and finished 185th on the Stars TLB (got a fat $50 bonus from Stars).
The first week of May (more)
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away
I was tired and was going to quit but decided to play a few more orbi (more)
Here's the link guys, Cheers.
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/196/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Day-6 (more)
April online results were pretty solid. I didn’t get to play as much as I wanted to, but who does right? I did all of my playing back at my old hom (more)
Last night, I finalized my WSOP living arrangements - all I need to do now is finally buy flight tickets and I'm set. As some people can tell you, the (more)
Now that the primaries are essentially over, I think I can safely post my Intrade experience. I just made a long post on 2+2 that I'll copy here.
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"I read this article a while back that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretaries than any other company in the world. They took stock o (more)
Yup, that’s what the events here in Vancouver are being called. WPT Canada, short for “[b]World[/b] Poker Tour: Canada”
….Right…
Well, (more)
And a diamond is just a lump of coal until it's been under pressure.
And other platitudes to make me feel better about the frustration of the last (more)
It's not a great one because I always hate finishing in this area for a little while after I bust, but 40/4100-odd runners for ~2K isn't bad. (Add up (more)
WOW, what a night. I finished playing a 13 hour session and ended up $470. I was on top of my game tonight, through out the 13 hour session I manage (more)
After writing my last entre, instead of going to bed I thought I would go get some breakfast on southbank. So I went to Greco (which was AMAZING) the (more)
Unfortunately, I only had time to play one event in the last two days, FTOPS4 (the 200 PLHE event), which went nowhere after a promising start. Who kn (more)
Yesterday was the $3k, and now I’m officially busto from everything here.
Bleh
The main event had 302 entrants, and I believe first paid aroun (more)
Hey guys,
sorry its been so long since my last post. I thought i'd
drop a line to everyone to let you know whats up. Here lately
i thought i'd (more)
Well I haven't posted in a while, I guess i didn't really have much to write about because I've basically just been getting my ass kicked all week. I' (more)
I played 2 donkaments in New Orleans, both Friday. I played Circuit Event # 1, a $500 event, and a $300 "second chance tourney." Neither tournament (more)
A week ago Friday I met up with Shaun at Borgata for what would be my first face to face coaching session. While I waited for him to arrive I churned (more)
Two 4/8 sessions on 5-10 and 5-11 for just under 4 hours total.
Saturday bought in for $100 then got felted after about and hour. Rebought for anoth (more)
Hey guys,
Unfortunately due to awful working absurdly expensive internet I haven't been able to get the updates linked properly or consistently in (more)
Well, I apoligize for the few of you who keep checking back for updates I never felt like I had much good to write about. Had a really bad sickness in (more)
Don't know how much gold I could buy with the profit from this visit, but I could if things kept coming up like they did.
Bought in at 4/8 table f (more)
Here's the link guys, Cheers:
[url=http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/203/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Days-10-12]http://www.f (more)
I played in the weirdest Sit-n-Go ever. It was a Stars step qualifier to the WSOP Main Event. I was just fooling around at Step 1. The entire SnG t (more)
Last night I wittnessed the worst poker to have ever been played, it was in event 1 of the the melbourne poker chaps. I caught the action with 5 play (more)
Started over today with online poker by loading 190 onto stars. School is over and got tired of playing live games (too slow, competition is cake com (more)
Sunday my run in the Million was cut short in 82nd. These three hands took me apart:
Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10000/t20 (more)
Sorry in advance.
Full Tilt Poker Game #6394538751: FTOPS Event #11 (45240880), Table 70 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold’em - 23:58:27 ET - 200 (more)
Rather than slog through FTOPS, most of which wasn't stuff I really wanted to play anyway, I just caught up with some friends on Monday and otherwise (more)
Hey hey! I've rebounded pretty nicely the last couple days. Let's take a look at the list of things that were going wrong in my last entry. First, I f (more)
Wow, I can't belive I havn't played more Omaha Hi/Lo. This is a great game, a game which I found very easy to understand. Unfortinatly for me my tor (more)
Vancouver ended up being incredibly frustrating - the hand history posted below was the last hand I played while in Canada. I did end up seeing Iron M (more)
16 left in the FTOPS $300r 6-max.
Full Tilt Poker Game #6422686934: FTOPS Event #16 (45241217), Table 115 - 4000/8000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em (more)
Well today started out pretty badly was a huge ftops even with a 300r so I was scrambling around trying to get horses enough money. I really like this (more)
Took down my biggest online score today, the Cake $12.5 guarantee $20rebuy tournament, for $2900. Nice bankroll boost and changing the tide of my bad (more)
Edmond and I made plans to "bring our home game to the Commerce" this past Monday. The Commerce has a great program where they will host your regular (more)
At 8:30 pm (20:30) EST Monday, May 19, 2008, there will be a benefit tournament on PokerStars for Dean Poter, father of Devin "TranquilChaos" Porter. (more)
After my last entry, I wound up only playing a handful more events - the razzament (made it deep, but to no avail), a few other midstakes NL tourneys, (more)
DO NOT FORGET THAT THE TOURNAMENT FOR TRANQUILCHAOS' DAD IS TONIGHT
AT 8:30 EST ON POKERSTARS
$30+3 buy in
winners are asked to donate a perc (more)
For those that don’t know, I got forced into a new schedule in the beginning of April. On this shift I work no more then 3 days of one shift in a ro (more)
Well, I’ve been talking about this day ever since I became apart of the project, and now it’s finally here.
After several delays, [url=http://w (more)
Well, the WSOP is about to start, which means…..not much for me. Those of you that have been keeping up with my blog for the past year will remember (more)
It's that time of year again. The WSOP is just around the corner and need to decide on my plans. Three years ago I won a seat into the Main Event by (more)
Well let's see where was I last time I posted. Oh yes FTOPS was running. I ended up staying home last weekend and losing lots of money playing in thos (more)
Jennifear is a fantastic young poker player from Niagra Falls, New York. She is a proud Contributing Writer for Pocketfives.com and a Presto Award Win (more)
Well last night was the final table of the main event of the melbourne poker champs. I played in 3 events and played ok in the 200k event, couldn't wi (more)
Last week was pretty gruesome, culminating with today, when, in addition to playing my B or C game most of the time, I managed to take my first 3%'er (more)
last night was interesting, I was playing blackjack with Michael a mate of mine. After 30min I was up $350 and was getting quiet pissed, then all of (more)
Full Tilt Poker Game #6601960394: $14,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (49477142), Table 6 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:16:42 ET - 2008/05/28
Seat 1: wooki (more)
Hey gang, welcome back. I arrived in Vegas today and got to our house for the summer with no problems. I'm living with a bunch of different people thi (more)
Well, after a bit of drinking down in ocean city I headed to vegas wed afternoon. Had a nice direct flight got here got to jon's then passed out for t (more)
Hey Rags...
This is probably the first time I’ve ever been excited reporting poker news. I think its simply because I can start to see some of th (more)
As you might have read in my previous post on this subject, I've been trying the PS steps to get my seat this year. I made it to Step 6 and flamed ou (more)
In a move that surprised man, online poker legend, World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and former Number 1 ranked online player Cliff "JohnnyBax" J (more)
Well I busted the 10K PLHE pretty quickly. I screwed up this hand:
I have 19.3K of 20K starting stack at 200/400. Eric Assadourian (I think?) raise (more)
After an uneventful trip, I got to Vegas the night before last and have been chilling with SirWatts and grafyx ever since. Aside from fixing a bad rou (more)
For the last day or so, the rumor was that day 1 of the $1500 event (Saturday) would be sold out, as every online pro picked it over playing live on S (more)
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