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Poker Blogs for the month of May 2009
Below are all the poker blog posts for the month of May 2009.
April 25th, Las Vegas: About 50 feet away from the Caesars poker room I realize I’m $200 short to buy into their $2,000 event today. When I walk int (more)
Day 1:
I missed out on a Vegas trip last year and decided I couldn't do it again. 2 friends of mine from our website lolnicesqueeze.com, RichC and (more)
Very recently, a friend of mine – who’ll be playing at one of the lower buy-in WSOP events this summer – asked me to offer him some constructive (more)
Ok, so because I have been traveling I have been lazy on the blog thing. Lo siento. So here is my goals/recap and also what is going on post.
Goals (more)
April 26th, Las Vegas: I’ve gotten way behind in my writing so I’ve decided to sit out by the Bellagio pool all day to simultaneously work on my b (more)
April 27th, Las Vegas: In order to buy into the Caesar’s $5,000 I’ve had to take one of the 5k Bellagio chips that Shaundeeb gave me via Charder t (more)
Ugh, I'd been thinking about writing something recently but I didn't realize I'd gone so long without a new entry.
I'm back on the low-stakes grind (more)
April 28th, Las Vegas: I awake feeling well rested and feeling ready to grind my 20 BB stack into something meaningful. I take a shower, throw on a su (more)
Alright so Monte Carlo has come and gone. I lost just over 40K euros playing live on the trip plus probably like another 8k playing Sundays which is p (more)
April 29th, Milwaukee: I wake up and look at the clock; it reads 3pm. Sounds about right. The apartment is empty as it seems both my friends are at wo (more)
When I left off in my previous blog, I had just doubled my extreme short-stack, when K7 held up against 98 of clubs. Blinds at 300/600/a50 with a stac (more)
April 29th, Milwaukee: I wake up and look at the clock. It’s slightly past 3pm. Man, jet lag can seriously go fuck itself. I throw on some shorts an (more)
April 30th, Milwaukee: I wake up when Jenson enters the room. I look at the clock; it reads 8:21am.
“Oh sorry, did I wake you?” he says
“Oh, n (more)
May 1st, Madison: I am woken up at 8:10am by Semo standing over me telling me to “Get the fuck up.”
“Ooooooh God, are we really doing this?” (more)
Wednesday night I took 2/1908 in the Stars 27.50 for $5400. Call it luck, coincidence, timing, what you will, but it was a fortuitous endeavor and an (more)
Day 2 trip report for Friday. Really day 2 pokerwise sucked for all 3 of us so it'll be really short as none of the hands I played were anything more (more)
May 2nd, Madison: Today wound up being a very straight forward day, not particularly suitable for blogging. I sat home and grinded online tournaments (more)
This was by far the best day of the trip for a few reasons. 1. I think I had some interesting hands. 2. I actually remember some hands. 3. I actually (more)
I just finished watching the Cavs sweep the Hawks in the conference semifinals. I love watching the game, but to be quite honest my knowledge of it is (more)
May 3rd, Madison: I wake up at 11am. I have made plans to go to lunch with my dad and some of his old coworkers from before he retired last year. We (more)
I'll give a spoiler and say I ended up getting 4th for like 110k euro. The tournament went ridiculously well for the first 2 days and kind of coasted (more)
May 4th, Madison: I wake up a little before noon. I immediately throw on some shorts, socks, and tennis shoes and go running around my neighborhood. T (more)
I love thinking about reciprocity as it relates to poker. Tommy Angelo talked a lot about it in his Elements of Poker book and I want to give a few e (more)
I was invited to a home game up in the Valley last night. The lineup was made up of some great guys, all of whom are highly successful internet found (more)
May 5th, Milwaukee: I wake up in Jenson’s apartment around noon. Jenson is nowhere to be seen but Rufio is outside in the living room playing Counte (more)
So, to make a long story short, the finance startup thing went nowhere. It was an interesting experience and I wish those guys well, but to be a littl (more)
May 6th, Madison: I wake up around noon in my bed. I go downstairs and ask my dad if he’d like to play some tennis, which he obviously does. I grab (more)
Day 3 Part 2
I have few hands where I get involved with Asian guy but for the most part I’m sure he’s learned he better have it vs. me since I (more)
May 7th, Milwaukee: I wake up to sound of Jenson slamming the door to his bedroom. Ah shit, he’s pissed. I look at the clock, it reads slightly past (more)
For those of you who have been following this blog and my progress, thanks a lot for your interest and support. For anyone just coming into this blog, (more)
On day 1b, ch0ppy and I wandered all over Venice, it was pretty funny to be in such a major city and still run into people we know all over the place. (more)
... and getting berated in both chats at the same time. Read the chat. Ship it!
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May 8th, Milwaukee: I wake up in the hotel in the early afternoon. I throw on a pair of boxer shorts and do 30 minutes of running around my hotel room (more)
It's almost that time of year where professionals, amateurs, enthusiasts, and degenerates all converge on Las Vegas for the holy event that is the Wor (more)
Within 3 minutes I lost allin KKvTT, AKsvAJs, AKsvAQo.
I am sick of this.
Done with NL100 for the month.
$533 below EV, I am convinced of the dooms (more)
I hit 100,000 VPPs for the year today earning me Supernova status lasting until 2/28/10. I did it playing NL($0.50)(6-max) where I ran good in flips s (more)
So I went into day 3 with almost 1/10th of the chips in play and was just waiting for the blowup. I started with Dario on my right with a decent numbe (more)
I used to think it was fun to be the loosest most aggressive non-donk at the table. But guess what ... after nearly two years of playing that style an (more)
May 9th, Milwaukee: I wake up in my hotel bed feeling surprisingly good at 10:45am; water is some kind of miracle drug. I quickly take a shower, get d (more)
May 10th, Madison: I wake up in the apartment in the early afternoon. I make a quick run to the bathroom then jump back into bed, which wakes Martina (more)
While I don't usually want to admit defeat on anything before even starting to take it seriously, I have to give mad props to Tony Dunst and hereby co (more)
May 11th, Madison: I wake up alone in the apartment in the early afternoon. I have plans to see a Brewer game in Milwaukee tonight but nothing to do f (more)
Yes I finally won one, even thought it was only the 15 fpp sattelite to the million dollar turbo takedown. None the less it felt fucking amazing to st (more)
I apologize for it taking so long to get these trip reports out. I've actually had these written for awhile but I needed to edit them so they made a b (more)
May 12th, Milwaukee: I awake in the morning to Derek telling me to get up. I woke up several times during the course of the night because some part of (more)
So im playing in the turbo takedown and this hand takes place
Blinds : 50/100
Me: 3115
Villian: 2675
Folds to me on button with 2[h] 2[c]
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