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Poker Blogs for the month of October 2008
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of October 2008.
So i've been a member of this site for some time now and visit regularly. I decided to post here because this seems to be one of the coolest communiti (more)
Hey gang, I made day 2 of the EPT with 34.2K, which I think is somewhere in the vicinity of average. I only remember a couple big pots, I won a bunch (more)
Busto in 3rd level of the day. Only a couple of biggish hands.
Hand 1: 500/1000 a100 First hand of the day it folds to the SB who shoves his 11.3K (more)
My maxim is as follows:
[b]We all suck at poker. [/b]
Ok, maybe not all, but almost all, even good winning players with access to all the poker (more)
I’ve been talking to a number of my friends who are highly successful tournament grinders lately such as Seabeast, Psyduck, and StevoL about the ‘ (more)
I havent posted in several weeks due to a few reasons, but mainly just a lack of motivation to write...However i am begining to get back into the swin (more)
While everyone should check out Bond's new post about MTT grinding, I've never been the kind of guy that does very well playing an 8 hour a day - or 4 (more)
These two hands happened within an orbit of each other:
http://cakepoker.com//HandHistory/?Hand=xcLAwMaywbDAw8TExMzGwYjFxcbMxcc%3d
http://cakepo (more)
Every now and then I write something where I criticize the play of Phil Hellmuth. I maintain to this day that while Phil certainly isn’t ‘bad’ i (more)
Just a quick post to update that I made it to day 2 of the High Roller tournament. I have 118K which is roughly average with 14 players left of 86 who (more)
Today seems like an odd choice for which to write a positive minded blog entry. I had a truly awful day.
I woke up at 6am to catch an 8:15am flight (more)
Well as most people probably know by now I finished 3rd for 241K pounds. It was a tough tournament and I never had a ton of chips so I was pretty happ (more)
I placed about 95% of my poker winnings in Vanguard mutual funds a year or so ago. I've lost half. I realize other people are in the same boat but d (more)
September was my most profitable month ever. After grinding and grinding and studying I finally got my 2nd 4 figure score and my best cash when I took (more)
I'd like to say that something interesting happened for me in poker last week, but no, not really. I only played extensively on Sunday. Results: my da (more)
Because I completely lack originality and wit, I’ve titled my birthday blog entry with the most cliché yet applicable of the classic Hollywood one- (more)
I know I haven't blogged in a long long time. I've been working and hardly playing any poker, but no one probably cares anyway. I had to blog cause (more)
With only two weeks remaining in October I've decided that i need to up my play a bit. One of my long standing obstacles has been finding the time to (more)
I’ve written many times before that I think online poker is superior to live. After spending the last six months experiencing a high volume of both, (more)
Hey I've been lazy and haven't written anything in a little while so here's what I've been up to this week. After I busted Niagara I drove home immedi (more)
Won a seat to the $150+13 65k on fulltilt earlier today via a $26 STT. Normally i just unregister and use the $T for other tournaments that i normally (more)
As more and more online players gain live success and fame they’ll likely encounter the business side of poker. Unfortunately, the sponsorship game (more)
Today started like almost any other day. I woke up and lazed around for a bit. Eventually I forced myself to go get a workout and then I came back to (more)
Who cares right? Oh well.
Hey Guys. I guess you all thought that I died or just gave up since I haven’t posted a blog in over 3 months. Well I d (more)
Not a very successful day 1 today unfortunately. I finished the day with 25K of my 45K starting stack. My starting table was very soft, the only other (more)
I want to give a shout out to one of my best friends, Ben Mintz (The Destroyer-online screen name). Ben took down a WPO preliminary tourney yesterday (more)
Well I'm busto. I grinded my short stack for quite a while but every time I got something good going I immediately lost a pot to give it back. In the (more)
Celina left this morning for Macau. She’ll be there for a week, and then spend about 10 days visiting friends in Kuala Lumpur. After that she’ll b (more)
I never really "quit" doing CR so much as I just quit playing tournaments (outside of Sundays, at any rate.) As you guys know, for the last two months (more)
I’ve referenced ‘the invisible hand’ numerous times before in my blog when discussing poker player’s motivations and their ethics. The term co (more)
As many of you know, I stated that I would be having a November challenge with my friend Stevo. We elaborated on that idea and decided to challenge EV (more)
Well, I haven't written in an extremely long time, and it's largely because I've been laying low, and partially because it's been a busy/crazy time ou (more)
With the combination of Celina being gone for a month, my strict diet, and my needing to get up early in the morning every day, it’s safe to say I d (more)
I was talking to Greg Raymer on skype today about strategy in tournaments and mixed games. While I was playing in a $109 freeze out I played a rather (more)
Today was the maddest I have ever been at a poker table. I don't give a fuck about bad beats or about bubbling the stupid tournament. I'm partly very (more)
First, the very short term: I'll most likely have another article on P5's either this weekend or on Monday. It'll be about Obama and poker - I'll have (more)
Today was a big day for my poker career. That’s because today I had my first hate thread in NVG, meaning I’ve attained enough notoriety in poker t (more)
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