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Poker Blogs in the "General" category
Below are all the poker blog posts in the General category.
I haven't played since the Anti-gambling legislation was signed. Since I usually play on Pokerstars there is nothing really stopping me, but I guess (more)
If you know me then you know that I love two things -- poker and Borat. I play poker every chance I get and I just LOVE Borat. The guy makes me laug (more)
Don't want to rant here but this online poker BS is really getting me down. Sure there are plenty of places to play, but it just isn't the same anymo (more)
Today is Monday, and I really miss my weekly fix of High Stakes Poker. Not only is this my favorite televised poker show, it's probably my favorite T (more)
My Chargers got themselves into quite a hole. They were down 28-7 at halftime. Did any of you see the game? They actually won 49-41. Can you f**&^ (more)
I'm pretty pumped about the new James Bond. This guy looks much more serious than some of the recent bonds.. Kind like Sean Connery in the earlier f (more)
I started playing UB again today. It's been a while since I've played there, but I'm pretty happy I did. I won a couple $20 sngs and played in the $ (more)
I really enjoy listening to the Circuit radio broadcast. I listen to it via podcasts. You go to the itunes music store and download the broadcasts t (more)
I took a 400$ hit to my roll. That may not be alarming to most, but in my world i dont like it a bit. For 2 days my money was in good but drawn out (more)
So was playing the $3/$6 on PS the other day when this doozy came up. The MP2 player was Loose-Agressive, playing too many pots, and betting hard on e (more)
Had an odd situation come up yesterday. I'm playing two tables on Full Tilt. On one table I get dealt two black kings just as the flop gets dealt on (more)
Here's a pretty sick hand I just watched. Luigi66369 is poker pro Patrik Antonius. I didn't put it through a hand converter, but it's worth followin (more)
I am a better than average mtt player, but I have a question I would like some feedback on. I make it deep in a lot of mtt's, but it seems like there (more)
I haven't watched much poker on television lately but do have my TIVO set for Monday's premier of season 3 of high stakes poker. God how I love that (more)
Went away camping in the mountains with a few other dads and their daughters. After the kids went to sleep we decided to play some $1/2 NL. There w (more)
I agree that the new tournament room at the Hustler is very nice. The new light brown or tan colored tables makes it easier to see the cards when I a (more)
Be prepared to wait along time to open an Epassporte account. The call volume is through the roof and it's really hard to get through to someone, if (more)
Epassporte seems to be working so far...i think. It took about two weeks to validate the account and customer service seems to be non-exisistant. On (more)
We had a sick hand last night. Couple limpers.. flop comes 972, 1st player
to act bets $30 (1/2 the pot), 3 folds then the BB raises to $90, the orig (more)
The Special $20,000 Sunday No-Limit Tournament is now a monthly event, held on the last Sunday of each month at the Chumash Casino Poker room. It feat (more)
Hello, everyone. I am a new writer here at Tworags and would like to introduce myself. My online nickname is Adanthar; I am a high stakes online tourn (more)
In my first blog entry, I wrote about the common 'decent player' fallacy of playing hands 'the way you are supposed to' rather than thinking about the (more)
Lately, it seems the tournaments where I get hit by the deck early, I've been losing late. I played a donkament the other day and had 2 full houses, (more)
Just finished watching the last episode of HSP season 3. There were several great hands, but one in particular had me a bit confused. Brian Townsend (more)
Has anyone been able to use the "new" pokerdb, since BLUFF took over? (more)
After 45 minutes ($-18) there, it’s time to go back to the room to round up for the Spearmint Rhino visit. Why are we going at 11am on a Sunday, you (more)
Last night, a friend and I played in an annual, invitation-only tournament sponsored by a national financial services firm. There were 144 entrants ( (more)
In addition to sat strategy like the last post, over the years, I've made a couple of big satellite threads on 2+2. At one point, I promised I would u (more)
4-27-06 I got home yesterday to an empty house so I sat down to play some cards. I only played one table since I was very tired from staying up to w (more)
I broke another of my disciplines Friday night, I have figured this one out with trial and error and I know I should abide by it. I had a date night (more)
Sorry about the delay, work has gotten busy and it is harder to take some time and give updates about my bankroll building process.
I have been hav (more)
Hi.
While I assume you at least know something about who I am if you're here, I can't be sure. So let me tell you a little bit:
My name is Nath (more)
Playing Full Tilt FTOPS #6, $200 short handed. Made some great bluffs, got some great cards.. had great table image, allowed me to steal a ton. 2,555 (more)
Gazes vs. Brown HU - misreading board and letting it affect future play by lakong Posted May 17th, 2007
So the match is Kristy Gazes vs. Chad Brown. Gazes has a small lead and the BB, Brown has the button. Blinds 1500/3000, not sure of stack sizes but (more)
5/30/07
Location: Mobile, AL
Hey everyone and welcome to my blog! I am in a unique position of having the freedom to travel the country for the ne (more)
Now that I have a(nother) blog, I suppose I'll start writing in it. But, I have to wake up early tomorrow, so I can't even grace what few readers I m (more)
Bankroll update!!
I know it’s been a while since I have posted about my Full Tilt bankroll building process, so I’m gonna try to get everyone u (more)
Just a quick update. My wife was out of town last week, so I got a lot of card playing in, including a trip to the casino which I'll write about tomo (more)
Location: Key West, Florida
Hey guys! Well I'm 5 days into my trip and there so much to talk about. Our first stop was in Panama City (known for w (more)
There was an interesting post over at 2plus2 discussing a laydown by Chris Moneymaker in Event #3. The action goes like this:
"Chris Moneymaker ma (more)
Location: Atlanta, GA
Hey guys, how is everybody doing? I left you guys from my last entry in Key West. Key West was obviously beautiful with its (more)
Enough said...no comments required. (more)
Unfortunately, I'm continuing to run very bad (0 for 3 big 70/30's in just one Sunday tournament is impressive, honestly, as is running Ax into AA 4 t (more)
Location: Chicago, IL
I last left you guys on the way to Myrtle Beach, SC. So we got there late last Friday night and decided to crash for the nigh (more)
The good thing about being a poker player is the ability to set your own hours. A lot of people in and around poker have written a lot of things about (more)
Long days of poker with not enough sleep in between. Made it well past dinner break today ($3000 NL) but still busted short of the money.
I will p (more)
For folks new to blogging, I thought I’d offer up some suggestions to make your blogging easier and more interesting for readers.
[b]Note Taking[ (more)
I get into town this evening after a 6 hour drive. Fairly uneventful, but I did get a later start then I wanted and hit quite a bit of traffic while (more)
Location: Buena Vista, CO
I have not updated this blog as of late, because we have been making long driving legs between stops of the trip. From Ch (more)
My first WSOP event isn't until tomorrow (thurs) so I decided to play in the Venetian Deep Stack $330 NL event today. I started off strong and was qu (more)
Nothing going on the last two days (other than me lasting exactly two hours before losing a big coinflip in the last 1500) since I needed to move into (more)
My first wsop event of 2007. Pretty excited and ready to open up my game. I get lucky and am at a table full of tight-passive players. Over the firs (more)
I was playing a 1/2 game at the Imperial Palace on my off time while I was in Vegas. The poker room is new at IP , and the action is not bad. The 1/2 (more)
Event #37 - $2000 Pot Limit Hold'em
I get to my seat, which is #6 and find Jeff Lisandro seated there. He apologized and moved to seat 5. Jeff wo (more)
...but my roommate, Matt, just won the 1K Sunday Million for 315K while playing and running very well. Ship 3K for getting him the chiplead while he w (more)
[url=http://cakepoker.com/HandHistory/?Hand=xcXDzMTFxcDDwMTExMTAxYjFwMXEwMw%3d]Sick three-bet bluff on Cake Poker[/url]
I showed, of course. (more)
Tuesday and Wednesday I played online and made the money of four events while making no final tables (that's three final two tables and a final three (more)
So today's story...
...after getting into the $1500 NL as an alternate and waiting two hours to be seated, I get crippled early when I run 44 into (more)
UB $530. I was chip leader going into the final table.
Hand #44016431-20 at Sun830pm75K-Final (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Started at 02/Jul/07 (more)
Location: Hollywood, CA
So I don't even to know where to begin with this blog. Its been so long seen I have last updated a few of you might of thou (more)
Here's how I got the chip lead going into the final table of the UB $530 last night. It's the final table bubble, and again, villian is BelowAbove.
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It occurs to me that I don't blog enough. This is a problem not just because it deprives you, the reader, of many interesting hands and stories (not (more)
Didn't make it far in the Stars $320 though I had some wild swings early on. Tripled up with a straight draw in a 3-way pot, then couldn't get AQ to (more)
Full Tilt Poker Game #2870798131: $55 000 Guarantee (21385599) Table 27 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:20:37 ET - 2007/07/06
Seat 1: Dungz (2 600)
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This is my first blog in quite a long time and the first that I'm taking seriously that has a real audience; sometimes, I forget that more than 2 peop (more)
OK, this one isn't exactly like a huge beat, except that i can't get there on the river:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (5 (more)
I'm liking this new FTP rebuy schedule. I've been playing them as much as I can since they added the $55 rebuy and the $109 6-max rebuy. Tonight I (more)
Location: Las Vegas
Well, I have finally arrived into the sin city! This is my first visit here and I am really excited about it. Let me first tell (more)
Frank Sinatra once sung “Your nobody until somebody loves you”. At least, I think it was Sinatra, but I was way to drunk at the time to tell the (more)
I decided not to enter the Bellagio Cup main event. I played a $1500 supersatellite for it Tuesday night and after busting with JJ < AK in the first (more)
Location: Lansdale, PA
WARNING: This blog contains negative content they may damage your positive demeanor so please read at your own risk!
I am (more)
So, I totally neglected the blog during my World Series of Poker trip. My bad. Many a time I would think of something marginally interesting to writ (more)
Sorry for that, but I was in the middle of getting things together to leave Las Vegas. I wasn't playing much poker anyway, so there wasn't really any (more)
Quick recap of my last week...
-This is my third week being ranked in the PocketFives tournament player rankings. I've moved up to #89 this week. (more)
I've been mixing up the games I play for a change of pace, and because I want to get good enough to find a profitable situation when it arises in any (more)
I've been playing 2/4 and 3/6 no-limit heads up on them. I put in a profitable session of 1300 hands (including a brief trip to 5/10 where I got stac (more)
Ok, so here is a little back story on BJJIII.
Life Story:
I am the youngest of 3 children raised by a single mother, who is my idol. I am 25 y (more)
I have finally decided to make the jump and move to Atlantic City. I will be living with a friend who is a fellow poker player. He is a really strong (more)
I'll be back to posting daily (or close enough to daily) for a while starting the day after tomorrow, as I'm taking a ten day trip to [url=http://www. (more)
Wow, I didn't realize it had been so long since I wrote. I apologize for that.
I arrived at Turning Stone late last night. I busted out of the $3 (more)
[b]Birthday Thoughts:[/b]
Tomorrow August 13th is my birthday. I will be 25. I always like to look back when my birthday rolls around and think o (more)
The California State Championship is just around the corner. The first event kicks off on September 4th and the $2,500 no-limit championship event wi (more)
Won the $55 9:30 PM freezeout on Stars tonight for 11k. Over 1000 runners. Nice little score to put me in the black for the month on tournaments.
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Preface: Over the course of the WSOP I received an enormous amount of support through the threads of these trip reports, IM, email, facebook, and PM. (more)
Well I was tired of hearing Landlord79 talk about how good he was running so I jumped into the waters at Bodog and played a little poker tonight. I p (more)
It's in the "Inside Straight" section. Look for the "Online hand-to-hand combat" section.
[url=http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/16901]na (more)
I'll be honest - I tried to figure out how to recap that tournament from a couple of days ago and couldn't really do it, because it winds up being one (more)
I started playing poker 2 years ago. The Moneymaker craze was in full effect and many of my friends were hosting tournaments which I never attended. (more)
[b]Tilt or just bad play?[/b]
I’m not sure how many readers follow macroeconomic events, but the recent market developments are worth observing, (more)
Wound up going back home last night and playing a full schedule tonight, where I proceeded to lose something like $60 on the day. Given the $1500 or s (more)
I had a pretty brutal week this week. I know I posted about the win in the Stars 50k earlier, but I'm pretty sure nothing else went right.
I got a (more)
Just a quick update while I am at home checking on the dog. My wife and I had our first child on Sunday afternoon at 3:10. We are so excited.
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So, right after mentioning I was gonna go back to cash, I basically didn't play for a week except for a random night of razz somewhere in there. Part (more)
I started school last week so poker has taken a back seat for a little while. I was waking up between 10-11 most of the summer so getting up at 5:45 (more)
Greetings from Houston, TX. I'm in Texas for a few days; I'm going to look at places to live in Austin and take a few days off from poker.
My lapt (more)
I was just reading through a thread on twoplustwo that really hit home to me. The author of a post was playing a $1000 satellite to an EPT event onli (more)
Vic Champs Trip Report (part 8 maybe?), To Little to Late, Vic Champs Main by Bond18 Posted August 31st, 2007
Vic Champs Trip Report (part 8 maybe?), To Little to Late, Vic Champs Main Event
“Procrastination is a lot like masturbation, it’s fun for a whil (more)
I just wanted to report in about what my best month ever looked like:
[img]http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/controlserv/AugBME.jpg[/img]
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Had a few minutes free here, and I wanted to put this up for a while.
I posted the hand history of my win in the Stars $55 50k guaranteed on PokerX (more)
Since my temporary retirement from the live scene I’ve been able to really hit the online grind again. I’ve moved back to Melbourne Australia, and (more)
August Results and September Goals
Here are my August results and September goals:
[img]http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s177/billyjoiner/A (more)
Why is it that Aussies don't seem to like women at their tables? by Gabby Posted September 2nd, 2007
Perhaps another title might be ...
Was there a better way I could of handled this?
Okay, here goes ...
I was in Vegas back the end of June, (more)
Growing up as a kid I was really skinny. How skinny? While walking into a taco bell at the age of 13 some random dude on the steps went “Daaamn bo (more)
Ok, time for an off-topic trip report to provide a little balance to my recent posts. Sunday night, my wife and I joined another couple in their box (more)
Mostly, I'm waiting on the Cardrunners microphone to get here so I can play around with making some videos. I tried to do some stuff with the regular (more)
On a near daily basis, someone PM’s me or IM’s me asking to be their coach. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally flattered at the requests and the (more)
Was a success! I turned a nice day's profit, mixing in some 2/4 and 3/6 NL with some 30/60 limit. I think the lion's share of the money was made at l (more)
Hey guys, since this is my first blog we will have to start out with a little background information. I love poker, I have been playing it since the (more)
I don't claim to be the best player, but I am def. top 2-3 at my home game, i win consistantly there. We have a WSOP pool going, each week we start wi (more)
This is my first ever Blog entry here so I guess Ill give a quick background on myself first. Also, Im not a great writer so this could come out readi (more)
Pocketfives Podcast
Some time last week I received a private message on pocketfives from David Huber who does the pocketfives podcast, asking if I (more)
Hi again guys, I am back from Atlantic City this morning as I took a quick one night trip down. I didn't play unfortunately, but I was able to get so (more)
Wow, I'm a pretty big slacker when it comes to updating the blog. Of course, I've been traveling, so that explains some of it. So, I'll recap what's (more)
I heard Negreanu on tv the other day talking about being in a poker zone which got me thinking to how much "the poker zone" is very similar to the fee (more)
So I am back again from another trip from the Atlantic City area. It was a productive trip, but it did not go the way I had wanted it to. First, the (more)
Fuck You, Nobu
“Pretension is a dish best served cold.”
So it seems over at the Nobu, which just opened in Melbourne at Crown. My friend Howie i (more)
On Friday last, I was inspired by [url=http://www.tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=blogs&todo=view&ID=765]Pechorin's recent run through Europe[/url] and w (more)
The last blog entry that I made was about a week ago and I displayed my results (August 2007) and goals for September. August was probably one of the (more)
Today was my first session at 25NL and I was mixed about my results. I sat for 5 minutes short of 2 hours and played 146 hands(1 tabling). But befor (more)
I was looking at desktops online and talking to Adanthar when he mentioned the $200 turbo at 5 PM and the $100 satellite to the $1k at 5:30 (both on F (more)
That last post was borne out of a bit of frustration. After venting, I approached my problem more rationally and decided the solution was to grind som (more)
The Man With no Seoul
After thorough consideration, it turns out I won’t be going to Seoul. The expenses involved turns out to be in the area of a (more)
You know that evil twin sibling, as we all have one, they were born on the day we first started playing poker.
For guys, his name is Donkzilla, f (more)
For some reason I was browsing pocket fives today. I encountered a thread which described Ram Vaswani slow rolling Action Jeff in London. Moderately (more)
Okay Gabby, time to pay up or shut up. (aka changing Colorado Gaming Law) by Gabby Posted September 13th, 2007
Welcome to Gabby’s Quest to try to change the Laws of Colorado, to try to rid Colorado of No Fold ‘em Hold ‘em.
Well, today I put my money (o (more)
Hi all. Sorry I haven't blogged in a few days, but I haven't really had anything to talk about. I'm still waiting on information about a lot of apar (more)
[b]It's not personal.[/b]
In the Godfather: Part II, there’s a scene where [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Roth]Hyman Roth[/url] discuss (more)
I have been realizing that I need to make some changes in my game on and off the table lately. The first I realized was I need to stop multi-tabling. (more)
On a whim-- well, not quite a whim, but a moment of inspiration-- I decided to jet from Austin City Limits early on Day 3 and play the WCOOP event and (more)
So today instead of doing my normal self absorbed and blabbering blog entry I decided to go with something with real content this time around. I’ve (more)
I know its been forever since you heard from me, but I’ve been busy making the move to Atlantic City. I now live in a completely furnished apt. in a (more)
I had my best session at 25NL to date late last night into early this morning. I went through all the motions that I had wanted to during the day. I (more)
Just wanted to put up a quick hello to everyone here at TwoRags.com and to let everyone know I will be starting to blog here now as opposed to my old (more)
Well it has been about a week since I have updated. I played a couple session over last weekend. On Friday night Landlord79 and I played some on Bodo (more)
Hello Everyone,
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. My name's Adam Junglen, and I'm going to be letting tworags crosspost my blog ([url=h (more)
The Absolute tally thus far: three days, five clearly cheating accounts, upwards of half a million dollars, zero acknowledgment from senior Absolute m (more)
I have been playing poker since I was in high school and tonight I finally had a straight flush in a cash game. Talk about the all time action killer (more)
I'm not even sure many people read my damn blog....especially with all these higher profile people now joining :) Badgerpro, AJunglen the list keeps (more)
Like most poker players I talk a fair bit of shit about my opponents. Some forums in 2+2 simply exist to spew hate, and the MTT world in general tends (more)
Alright, time to get used to writing up at my new home here at tworags blogging community. I couldn't turn down the offer to write here with many of m (more)
I was reading Bond18's recent post [url=http://www.tworags.com/blog/Bond18]The Worst Player I know[/url] and it made me think of a video I saw a whil (more)
Another cash in today's WCOOP (#9 - the $200 rebuy). I finished like 143 out of 2600 and some. Not especially interesting or worth the time (I playe (more)
Well today I figured I would start my blog after playing a few hours of NL10 on FTP. Of course, FTP turns out to be down once again and my 'Stars acc (more)
I played about an hour of NL10 this afternoon...Didn't as well as I would have liked. I finished down about 3/4 of a buy-in but battled back at the e (more)
Sorry I haven't blogged in a few days I have been so busy getting ready for my move in tomorrow morning in a city outside of A.C. It all happened rea (more)
In what seems to be the final word - because they're definitely not doing anything else so far, and it's been over a week - Absolute is on the record (more)
Last night after work I found a NL50 home game to play in with some friends. After a couple hours I was up around 20 BB. I did have one nice size po (more)
I still find it kind of unfathomable that blogging exists. It seems unreal to me that when you put down in words the little bland intricacies of your (more)
It's just after 3 a.m. and I finally got a chance to sit in front of the computer. I had a break even afternoon session of NL10 before work. Nothing (more)
The last few days I've been playing some online poker and have been truly enjoying it. Turns out the month long break from online play was just what I (more)
After getting home late once again I managed to register for FTP's "The Ferguson" with a few minutes to spare. For you who don't know what The Ferguso (more)
I arrived at home just after midnight again and decided to multi-table NL10. I hit a few big hands which won me a decent amount but I couldn't stop s (more)
So, UltimateBet offers a jackpot now. On jackpot tables (shown red in the client, and labeled as "jackpot") they take an extra 50¢ from the pot when (more)
Well, let's see what's been goin on....
My webmaster hasn't completed my site yet, so for now I'm still exclusively blogging here. I'll admit I was (more)
After about 18 hours of travel time, I'm writing this from my hotel room in Seoul, where I'll be playing the APPT event in a couple of days. Initial i (more)
I haven't played online in months since the old neteller days and wanted to try my hand at some of the wcoop events so Adam suggested I give ePassport (more)
Tonight I arrived home at about 12:30. For the first time in several days my head felt clear and I was dyin to play some poker.
I bought into 4 (more)
So, yeah, I'm on a bit of a downswing recently. As always, I dropped money at the Borgata, first by blowing $2k in a supersat, then by blowing $10k i (more)
Hey guys, I am semi moved into my apartment now and I finally have cable and internet! I obviously have not played any poker and was not able to blog (more)
Hey All,
My new blog is finally up, it can be found at [url=http://www.AdamJunglen.com]www.AdamJunglen.com[/url].
As far as continuing writing (more)
Rules of Engagement
For all of my loyal fans out there who check my blog every day hoping to get a line or two from me, =) sorry that I haven't wr (more)
Ok, I know that it has been a while since I posted, but I have been swamped at work. I recently got promoted to a different job, so the t (more)
Once again I have another disappointing poker moment to post in the first week of my blog. I arrived home at midnight once again with no homework to (more)
So for this blog I decided to post all my goals both poker related and for many other things too. I think its pretty clear that my September was not (more)
I've been dealing with some personal stuff this week. I'm in Louisiana right now and probably won't play anything until the main event. When I'm don (more)
I’ve written before how I consider people in terms of ‘realness’. That is, most people have a level of legitimacy to them. Often, players in the (more)
Played a quick one hour session tonight on Bodog and ended up winning a little over 1 BI. I love when I get lucky.
I play with the button pretty o (more)
So why the title of this post? I was actually vacuuming while playing poker the other day. First of all let me just say that I am a lazy ass and hat (more)
Here were my September goals:
1. Play 4K hands
2. Take some shots at $200NL online
3. Play some live poker once again, since my son is born now.
(more)
I imagine most people would expect this blog entry to be about the WCOOP main event, seeing as It was the largest online poker event of the year. Let (more)
Well, it’s been a few days and the WCOOP ME has past us, so I think it’d be appropriate to update.
Sunday was the WCOOP Main Event, unfortunate (more)
Today I was up 1 1/2 buyins after only playing about 90 minutes. I feel like I'm playing well once again. I have gotten plenty of sleep lately and I (more)
I didn't cash in the WCOOP main event, and as I've been saying for some time, I'm quitting tournaments for a while.
I just haven't been having fun (more)
Well it's been nice being back home for a whopping 3 days, and now I am leaving again. I am heading to Cleveland to watch the Yankees dominate the In (more)
I love Indian food. Since getting back to Melbourne I hadn’t found a regular place for my occasional Indian cravings, so I looked up Indian restaura (more)
Wow.....I've possibly been running as hot as ever. I have made a few good plays here and there. Thing is, I've managed to pull a 1-outer, catch AA 7 (more)
When I read over SSMTT I often see a lot of the same mistakes over and over. I also see a lot of mistakes I used to make a lot, and I’d like to do w (more)
Today I am still continuing the most ridiculous run I have ever been on playing NL10. The hands won't stop, the juicy tables are plentiful, and the d (more)
One of the most common mistakes I see on these forums is a lack of understanding in regards to position. You see this at all levels of play in MTT’s (more)
Venetian Tourney Hands:
I have so many titles for this post:
I Sure Got My Moneys Worth, One Bad-Beat Deserves Another, That was a $6,000 Doll (more)
Day 3, 9/23:
Sunday was pretty light with the whip cream on the Irish coffee being the AVP Tourney at TI
I ended up finally getting some dece (more)
Vegas Trip- Actually had to do Some Work to pay for the Ride by StrayBullet Posted October 6th, 2007
Day5/6/7, 9/25-27:
Pretty boring couple of days as I actually had to finally do some work
I had to observe a new Instructor over the course o (more)
Day7, Thursday continued:
Damn, all I can taste is fruit juice from whatever umbrella’d concoction I was throwing down my gullet last nite (hey (more)
Day9, 9/29:
F’variance, F’the poker gods, F’karma….f’em all Now don’t get me wrong here, I ALWAYS have fun when I visit Vegas, it’d (more)
Day9, 9/29: continued:
But it’s only one-thirty in the afternoon and it’s my last day in Vegas. I still need to mentally recover from the cool (more)
Day9, 9/29, the ride is over:
OK, so it’s 8:30pm and I want a cigar, except I’d already smoked the only one I brought with me. I talked with C (more)
Things it took me a while to learn 3, What're you trying to accomplish? by Bond18 Posted October 7th, 2007
This post will seem a little repetitive of some of the things Gobbo covered in his ‘Stop saying you’re betting for information!’ thread but I’ (more)
I returned to Austin a couple of days ago, and I haven't been playing poker since. Haven't been reading the forums, really, either, and only occasion (more)
I've been trying to watch the Yankees lose tonight but the TBS feed keeps messing up so it makes it nearly impossible to watch. I figured I would mak (more)
My car's in need of repairs, so I spent most of the day at home. Luckily for me, I decided to put in some hands at $1/$2 heads up.
I had a really, (more)
I haven't posted for several days now, but I also haven't played a great deal of poker, or at least as much as I'd liked to have. I have dropped a co (more)
There is no other way to describe it. This has been the most emotionally and mentally tough month of my life. I am not big into posting about my per (more)
The last week I haven't played much poker, but have still been very busy.
I've been spending time with my family and doing some relaxing, but have (more)
Wow......figures.....I am now down half a buy-in on the month after some ridiculous coolers. I have now slipped 6 buy-ins in about 4 days. Absolutel (more)
I was just playing a 6-handed turbo on PS when this hand came up:
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Big Blind is (more)
Guys I am in a weird mood. I don't know what my problem is. I don't have any drive to play any poker. I haven't played online in about a week. I k (more)
Today I went car shopping, and hung out with some friends.
I went to the Honda dealership to check out the Civic's. Turns out the 2007 models were (more)
PokerStars is hosting the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, a free-roll to poker players who blog. First prize is a $12k entry into their C (more)
Well...we'll see if this works because the requirement is to have a blog for a minimum of 2 months. I'm exactly at 2 months to the day tomorrow.
I (more)
Well, the ALDS really sucked being such a die hard Yankee fan. As soon as I got to Cleveland the bad run continued. The first flight I had booked got (more)
...I've played about an hour of poker, a 15/30 razz session that ended with me up $2. Jet lag can be brutal, and it seems like west -> east is a lot w (more)
Wow...the past few days have been the roughest in my poker life. It just seems that I can't stop getting coolered and outdrawn. Of course I might ha (more)
Adjusting to moving and all that other crap that has been going on has been hard. I finally got back on my horse and played my first session last nig (more)
"I've reset my goals from winning...to finishing ahead of Swami....to surviving long enough to post an ante." - EdmondDantes
I won the tworags cham (more)
Played close to 7,000 hands at $1/$2 and made ~$5100. Ran about 18 PTBB/100. I have no idea if that's an indication of running really hot, or just t (more)
I had registered for the Pokerstars free-roll blog championship. The tournament started at 12pm CA time, but we had plans to at 12:15 and wouldn't be (more)
I finally got my car in and saw it today. Unfortunately it's not ready yet, I have to wait one more day for them to put the accessories on it, but Tue (more)
When we last left off, we were talking about User #363:
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..."[S]tarting 2 minutes into the tournament, Potripper's table was being observed for (more)
Just got to the final table of tonight's FTP $1k. For a change, I'm going to write this report as I play. Wish me luck!
I had the CL going into (more)
The latest 48 hour recap of the AP dramabomb:
-Once upon a time, before the scandal ever broke, CrazyMarco (second to Potripper in the cheater's 1K (more)
My last two sessions have been short and painful. Two days ago I played only 91 hands and got crushed for a little less than a buy-in. Every hand I (more)
Maybe, just maybe things are finally turning around. I just woke up and am getting ready to go to class....Yesterday I played zero hands of NL10 for (more)
So i wrote an article for www.pocketfives.com, which unfortunately wasn't able to be put up on the site. The owner, Adam, seems like a really cool guy (more)
Throughout my life, I have been seen by other people as somewhat of a "realist".My thoughts about the world and life in general has been described as (more)
Today Shawn Green contacted me asking if I'd be willing to do an interview for Cardplayer TV.
I see no reason to decline, so tomorrow I'll be on t (more)
[b]Latest breaking news:[/b]
At this point, every AP insider is swarming over Nat Arem's (www.natarem.com) and my own instant messenger looking to (more)
Well I wanna start off by sayin whats up everybody? Just found this site and thought it would be pretty cool to join and get tips and stuff, plus tell (more)
The other day I saw where Chris Ferguson made 10,000 from 0 on FT. This idea interested me, so I'm gonna try something similar. I'm gonna try to turn (more)
Well I finally got out of the funk that I was in I think. Today was the first time in about 3 weeks that I even opened up Bodog to play some poker. I (more)
Wow...I just realized how busy I've been lately without playing a single hand of poker.
Yesterday I finally picked up my car - 2008 Black Honda Civ (more)
If there were an Internet Detective paying job, I'd never play poker by Adanthar Posted October 18th, 2007
Major and minor updates this morning in our developing story:
-AP has announced a full internal audit by the Kawanakhe Gaming Council, their licens (more)
Over the last few months several people have asked me to get into more detail about dealer’s school, so EdmondDantes and I discussed creating a seri (more)
If there’s only one thing I could teach or imprint upon another poker player it’s how important bankroll management is. There are a ton of talente (more)
After a rough month, I cashed out and took some time off. I finally have a few things to talk about so here goes.
I started playing BoDog again th (more)
I spent a large chunk of today giving interviews to some surprising places after the Associated Press (the good AP, not the bad AP) picked up the stor (more)
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At any rate, Nat tells me AP's ready to cave.
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15 minutes later:
PocketFives just received a phone call from Absolute Poker confirmin (more)
First and foremost - major thanks to Nat Arem (who'll never get all the credit he should get for this - for those of you who haven't gotten the skinny (more)
I've noticed lately that a good number of players are over-betting the pot on the flop. I have seen successful players using this tactic and have see (more)
Hello everybody. I decided to start this blog mainly as a motivational tool for myself. It wasn't difficult to choose TwoRags.com as the place to host (more)
I've got so much going on right now it's crazy.
It's mostly business stuff that's been occupying my time - stuff I'm not sure I should talk about (more)
I finally got above the 0 mark today in a freeroll for cardschat.com on Full Tilt. I placed 25 and won 1.37. Not alot, but a start to my goal. I plan (more)
Ok well I have had a pretty good weekend. Poker wise, I won a little over 2.5 BIs at my bread and butter $100NL game on Bodog. I pretty much just play (more)
First of all, thanks to everyone for the warm welcome to TwoRags.com
I’m not yet certain how I’ll be using this blog. For now I want to just br (more)
This weekend kicked off the Poker News Cup at Crown with a $175 NL event. I didn’t end up playing it because I wanted to maintain my dignity but unf (more)
I want to know everyones experiences from Wheeling Island Racetrack and Casino and from the Mountaineer Casino and Racetrack poker rooms. (more)
Well sorry I haven't posted for a long time. I really hoped my blog would be a daily journal more than a weekly update but it hasn't been going that (more)
It's amazing to me that Absolute Poker is still running commercials on ESPN but the one I just saw has so much more meaning now. It shows a guy on hi (more)
It’s hard to find a good balance between to much pre flop reraising and not enough. For quite a long time I was just 3 betting non stop, if only to (more)
Well as I said last time I had won 1.37 in a private forum freeroll. Tonight I played in the $100 HORSE freeroll on Full Tilt. I played for over 6 hou (more)
Ok, so I haven't updated since [b]Swami54[/b] ran over me in the unofficial 2R last longer. But that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. Oh no, in fac (more)
Hey all, for those of you that don't know me my name is Mike Watson and I'm a 23 year old poker pro from Newfoundland, Canada, currently residing in T (more)
I ended up making back a lot of the money I lost to start the week and not taking too bad a hit on the week. Tournaments were still really disappointi (more)
Opening blog entry to get started (more)
Last night was the $230 NL event at Crown last night. After looking over the structure sheet, I had no intention of being a masochist and playing, but (more)
[b]"Ah you hup me in crass?"[/b]
I am glad everyone enjoyed the first installment of this series. I guess I will start where I left off with the (more)
Obviously, over the last week, the AP mess has more or less continued to spiral around the 'net. It's going to keep doing that for a while, while the (more)
Well, I'm all packed and about to leave for Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, last night I was backing out of my driveway and my front bumper just randoml (more)
Sunday came and it was back to the cash tables. I’ve had a solid start to the week.
Sunday + 2/3 buy in
Monday + 1 ½ buy ins
Tuesday + 1 1/3 (more)
It's been a while since I wrote, but to be honest, there isn't a whole lot to talk about. I'm still grinding that heads-up; I played less last week t (more)
This morning I called the Honda Service Center to inform them that my front bumper fell off randomly while backing out of the driveway. They were prom (more)
Nice win today after getting to heads up with about 1/3 the stack size of my opponent........came all the way back to go way up and then got dealt KQ (more)
Well, I'm just about to goto sleep, but I'm going to give a quick update before I play tomorrow.
I really didn't do much of anything today - which (more)
For two weeks I’ve been telling my girlfriend “I’m going to win the Poker News Cup ME.” She normally just rolls her eyes at me and tells me to (more)
[b]Making some changes[/b]
If you haven’t read the first blog entry of this series you know that I came down to Atlantic City to build maturit (more)
Sigh today went pretty bad and I busted on the 3rd last hand of the day. Early on I busted a fairly shortstacked guy with AA vs his A9 to get to 88K. (more)
Last week came to an end on a positive note with Saturday netting me + 2 ½ buy ins for a total of + 7 for the week. Unfortunately that’s where the (more)
At this stage, it appears as if the investigation from my own standpoint is largely over. AP has cleaned up as much as they could - I can't test them (more)
[b]October Results/November Goals[/b]
Well first of all I hardly played any online poker this month ~1.5K hands, but I did come out a winner and I (more)
After talking with Edmond tonight I figured I would write an entry. Poker is a side venture for me and one of the main things I'd like to spend my wi (more)
Poker News Cup TR part 2, ME, The Spew-Out at the Crown Casino; Conclusion by Bond18 Posted November 2nd, 2007
I raise one of my first hands at the table with 88 on the CO, and the Estonian quickly 3 bets from the SB a massive 5 times my raise. Without knowing (more)
I just want to say that October was meh... It was lots better than September, but only 1/3 as good as August. I had a good turn around at the end of (more)
I've only been home for a few days now, but as usual I've been pretty busy.
About 3 days ago my agent called me about a poker radio show that want (more)
So today was my first Foxwoods donkament. People here are really bad at poker. Steve and i both made it through to day 2 of the tournament, play start (more)
Down to 7 handed, SirWatts is about average in chips. Here's is his voice blog report during a recent break:
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sir (more)
Foxwoods $2k Final table Voice Blog report -- bust out in 7th place! by SirWatts Posted November 5th, 2007
Busted out in 7th place. Here my vBlog below:
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts-11-4-07_b.mp3]Click here for voice blog[/url]
(more)
We're happy to report that we changed ISP's this past weekend and are now on our own dedicated equipment. Up until now, we have been co-located on a (more)
Toward the end of October after I had a few really nice runs in tournaments I was considering playing them full time again and leaving cash behind for (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 6, Strategy and Mentality Lies by Bond18 Posted November 6th, 2007
I regret to inform you that you’ve been lied to, a whole hell of a lot. Actually, I’m not sure if lie is the right word, but misinformed almost ce (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 7, Metagame and Concentration by Bond18 Posted November 7th, 2007
For a very long time I didn’t really bother with metagame very much. I’d fire up 8-12 tables, switch to auto pilot, and maybe if I made a final t (more)
Was out of town for four or five days there so I didn't get a chance to play or write -- I was hardly ever at a computer.
However, the FTOPS is sta (more)
I believe I was either the 4th or 5th person eliminated from the main event today. I played some really crazy hands in level 1 today, most involving s (more)
Because the FTOPs was a 6max event tonight I figured I'd spend one more day playing tournaments and look to hit a nice score. Once again it was a big (more)
Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, been sort of lazy about it I guess. Nothing much has been happening since my last entry. I've been grinding live 2- (more)
I got what I wanted in more ways than one………
Last I wrote I had identified a couple of “leaks” in my game for lack of a better term, when (more)
It’s FTOPS time again, which is in my opinion a whole hell of a lot better than the WCOOP since it goes off on a reasonable time for me and the even (more)
This entry will have two distinct subjects. My newest business project, and then I’m going to respond to some user feedback and answer how I got int (more)
Just wrapped up an early morning cash session in what was likely an end to the week for me. The last 3 days totaled to a loss of ¾ of a buy in. My we (more)
I guess I'll continue where I left off when I started writing about how I first got into poker.
After I won the tournament at AJ's I went to Border (more)
Cash games players don’t have a lot of respect for guys who are strictly tournament players. One of the largest factors for this lack of respect is (more)
During May of 2006 there was an MTT competition on 2+2. It was based on the TLB formula on PokerStars. At the time I had mostly posted in the SNG foru (more)
Didn't get any deer this weekend bow hunting. Had two smaller bucks come by but I passed on them and then the one big buck I did see didn't come clos (more)
On Thursday I played some live cash at Foxwoods, the big games were super tough so I mostly played 25/50 and lost around $5K. I didn't really make any (more)
Before I continue with my live tournament adventures, adding onto my "How I got into Poker (blogs)," I'm going to address the amputation questions tha (more)
Now that I've played a few FTOPS events, I feel qualified to comment on what I've observed since my return to tournaments. My conclusions? Well, rea (more)
After finishing 2006 with my first 5 figure cashes and live tournament success I was ready to take my game to the "big leagues."
After some last m (more)
Well what can I say? I have been pretty much stuck in reverse since the month started and it is not looking like things will be changing anytime s (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 9, Tournament Hand Reading by Bond18 Posted November 15th, 2007
Things it took me a while to learn part 9, Tournament Hand Reading
Continuing our comparison of tournaments to cash, tournament players have an eas (more)
Well sorry for being so delayed in updates I had some problems with getting the HH from stars so I maybe using a different tourney for a hand history (more)
I haven't decided yet if I'm going to continue writing about how I got into poker. For the most part I think I covered most of the real questions of h (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 10, Poker, variance and life by Bond18 Posted November 16th, 2007
It seems presumptuous and condescending to tell people how to live their lives. One of the single greatest enemies of poker in our time is the “We k (more)
Authors note: Since Zpaceman was good humored enough to supply details to his latest story of social misanthropy it seemed only appropriate to continu (more)
I'm gonna set a little goal for myself. Namely, I'm gonna re-read part 10 of Bond's post and stop griping about variance :)
Check out the whole ser (more)
Happy Thanksgiving
It’s been a week since my last update. As I mentioned last time I was facing an extremely busy week at work so poker had to ta (more)
Well after a great week in Boston at mikes house I finally went home for the first time in almost 6 months being home for more then a week. It's still (more)
He Said He Said, The Karam/SCTrojans WPT Story, (Ghost Written by Bond18) by Bond18 Posted November 21st, 2007
For those wondering about the back story that lead up to this, here's the link: http://www.pocketfives.com/EF71C218-6816-4BC3-9C9F-3E34759E135F.aspx
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I haven't posted on this blog for months, I haven't played poker for about 2 months and I'm going insane. The culprit, BT (British Telecom). Somehow, (more)
[b]On to graduation[/b]
When I last updated, I left you guys off at week 3 of dealer's school. Week 4 was basically review of everything we learn (more)
I'm just on such a cold streak in tournaments right now though. The live final table at Foxwoods was great but busting 7th really sucked and other tha (more)
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving :)
After Sunday, I took another break this week for obvious holiday-related reasons - well, that, and too ma (more)
So I'm back in Louisiana visiting the folks for Thanksgiving. In between big homecooked meals and football, both televised and backyard, I found the (more)
My parents live out of state and so do one of my good friends parents, so for the past 2 years we've made a turkey, drank beer and watched football. H (more)
Here's a post I made on 2+2 earlier today felt like I never give you guys any real strategy I swear sometime this week I will get a PXF handhistory up (more)
Authors Note: This first trip report doesn’t actually contain any poker, as none will start until tomorrow. However, it will serve to set up the res (more)
Yesterday was the satellites for the main event. At the time the event not only had its original 250 seats sold out, but apparently they were very muc (more)
Climbing the Ladder, Thanksgiving and Football
The last time I posted I was having a terrible downswing, but I have been climbing back up the ladde (more)
Well, Thanksgiving, my Grandmother's 80th Birthday, as well as some poker has been taking place since my last update.
First of all, Happy Thanksgi (more)
I've been playing a little heads-up lately on pokerstars. Nothing major, just a little $1/2 or $2/4 every once in a while. Here's a beauty that you (more)
Today was the best Sunday I've had in a long time, I doubt I've ever gone deep in as many tournaments in one day as I did today. But it was the same s (more)
Live Poker Adjustments/Considerations/Tendencies (Discuss please) by Bond18 Posted November 28th, 2007
I've been thinking a lot lately about the adjustments we need to make to adapt as internet players in the live arenas. I'm not trying to write a defin (more)
After finishing my writing I head downstairs to watch Bondgirl deep in her event. They’re down to 42 with 40 paying and everyone is playing pretty c (more)
/begin rant
Well I guess I shouldn't have been bragging about coming out of my downswing the last time I posted, because the poker gods over at Bod (more)
So I check my calendar late in the day and realize that I’m supposed to be at a concert/fundraiser at the Japanese consulate here in LA in a little (more)
Well the last few days I've been not playing much I kind of welshed on my goal for TLB early when I decided I would be heading to turningstone for the (more)
I haven't written any strategy posts so far and I don't intend to as I believe I need to work on my game a lot more than I need to give anyone advice. (more)
Things it took me a while to learn, Part 11, Time and Tilt Management by Bond18 Posted November 30th, 2007
I’ve got some time over the next week before I have to get back to live poker so I thought I’d get back to writing some of these. A lot of people (more)
[b]Cash Games:[/b]
I just wrapped up my best month at the online cash tables since I began playing 6-max back in August. I wound up winning 17 buy (more)
Something just seems off here.... I have only ever been to Vegas in the summer during the WSOP. It's scorching hot every day, and the very thought of (more)
Well, yesterday I had my Lasik procedure and it ended up being a bit more of a hassle than I thought it'd be, but it ended up working out fine.
At (more)
Yo. My 0-for streak continues in $5k+ buy-in events. Here's how it went down.
Hand 1: I made the nuts against David Pham a few times and managed to (more)
Law and Order,P5's Division,The Imper1um Investigation(Written by Bond18) by Bond18 Posted December 6th, 2007
Authors Note: For those not aware, famous online pokerstar Imper1um was accused of buying an account deep in a Sunday major on Full Tilt. For those ne (more)
[b]Ambassador of the Quan[/b]
So just to recap the last blog, I went to a World Series of Poker Circuit audition at Harrah’s about a month ago a (more)
[b]NEW BEST MONTH EVER!!![/b]
October may have been meh, but November was ROCKIN’! With one hot handed trip to the [url=http://tworags.com/in (more)
This pretty much sums up my month. All at Bodog $100NL.
[img]http://www.pkrimages.com/uploads/images/phpSW5YBf1196653074.jpg[/img]
I didnt get (more)
November was not my best month in poker. Buoyed by my success at 1/2 and my desire to take it slow and play overrolled, I found myself, either consci (more)
That was probably the worst 2 levels of poker ever. I didn't win a single pot that had anything in it. My table was actually pretty good. Other than G (more)
One request that came up numerous times in the "What do you want to see?" thread was late position opening ranges. I think since so many of our raises (more)
I had two very similar finaltables go down and if you saw hand by hand you would think they were almost identical cept in the 100r I was winning flips (more)
Sorry it's been forever since I've had a blog up. I usually try and wait for some good news like a decent tourney score or a sick day in cash games w (more)
[b]Live Poker[/b]
After some creative juggling I’ve found a way to get some time off and I’ll be using it to head down to Atlantic City next (more)
went semi-deep in the $2K NL event on Tuesday busting 37th when 27 paid. Then I played drunken 2/4 mixed games at TI for 12 hours straight which was a (more)
t takes only an hour flight to get from Melbourne to Sydney, a welcome break from spending double digit hours on a plane just to get to a series of to (more)
So I finished 2nd for $26.5K in one of the nightly $1K 2nd chance tournaments, and then 23rd in the $3K the next day for $5K. Let's see if I can remem (more)
I stayed away from tournaments for the most part this week and stuck mostly to the cash games. I didn't put as many hours in actually playing this w (more)
[b]Recap[/b]
I left you guys off in the last blog with a lot of uncertainty. This blog will probably be no different. I don’t know where I sta (more)
With yesterday being the PLO event that I have no business playing I was hoping to head down to the beach, get a tan, become really drunk, and tell pe (more)
Had one of the simultaneously most successful and frustrating Sundays I've had in a while.
to summarize:
-16th in the Stars Sunday Warmup.
-25t (more)
Law and Order, P5’s Division, The Imper1um Investigation, Conclusion! by Bond18 Posted December 11th, 2007
In the Pocketfives justice system, all defendants are extremely guilty at the moment of accusation, but considerably more guilty after confession, aft (more)
Hey guys,
My new blog is up at my main site: [url=http://www.adamjunglen.com]AdamJunglen.com[/url], so I forgot to cross-post here. Anyways, here' (more)
I haven't played at all the last 3 days, my sister came down to visit me when she finished up with school for the term so I've just been hanging out w (more)
Tonight I was playing the 3.30 rebuy on Pokerstars. During the first hour, I played really well and only made the initial rebuy. I chipped up to aroun (more)
Today was up and down, but overall pretty poor. I don't feel like running through all the hands again right now. My level by level chip count went 30K (more)
I settle into my seat for the $1600 6 max tournament. This is the prelim I look forward to the most, since it has a pretty solid structure and the fie (more)
Spent more time on the colour up to start the day than I actually played in the tournament. I folded a bit, moved in once, and was down to 7700 when t (more)
I final tabled my second consecutive UBOC event on Wednesday night (I didn't play Monday or Tuesday's events), taking 8th in the PLO8. Obviously 8th (more)
I don't want to make it official yet but I think the downswing and the running bad is finally coming to an end. I'm not running good yet but I'm defi (more)
Well I will write tourney reports for the EPT Prague ME and the 2k Euro side event I played both with a lot of interesting hands and such but right no (more)
The most recent batch of Sunday tourney’s was pretty sick. UB had their UBOC final, a $1k with a 750k guarantee, and FTP had their monthly million g (more)
Well I’m back from Atlantic City and I have plenty of poker related issues dancing around in my head. Don’t think they’ll all fit in this writin (more)
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_bellagia1.wav]VBlog trip report from Bellagio[/url] (more)
This week's Sunday heartbreak comes from a new source! Pokerstars added a $5K 20-player winner-take-all tournament which I decided to give a shot. I'm (more)
I tear through my luggage looking for my Melatonin. I could swear I packed, it, or was that Macau? Shit, I can’t remember. Without the sleep medicat (more)
Feeling way better about poker in general (although, of course, the guy from my last post wound up finishing fourth obv.) I even put in a Sunday where (more)
So finally i rewrote the final part of my trip report. I'm sad to say it's alot less entertaining but it does let you know what all happened atleast. (more)
so with nothing better, me and shaun deeb came up with a drinking game. Basically i would rail him in a single tourney, whenever he opened, it was si (more)
[b]WSOP Circuit Event[/b]
After a long and successful cash day on Tuesday I woke up early Wednesday morning feeling good. After a quick detour dow (more)
So there are 2 topics on the forums today that i found interesting. Let's start with the JJ thing. There is alot of controversy surrounding JJ and i (more)
It's freaking impossible to make my family members understand poker. I went and visited with my grandparents, cousins, etc today and they were all sh (more)
Alright now Sunday couldn't have started off worse then I had planned, I was reg for the Sunday brawl on ftp and hoped to be up for the warmup. I just (more)
...regardless of which particular holiday you celebrate, today is a day for love and joy, a reminder of what really matters in life. I am in Lake Cha (more)
A few weeks ago, I posted on a [url=http://www.tworags.com/index.php?ACTION=blogs&todo=view&ID=1409]heads up match[/url] I had with a spider in a rent (more)
Just wanted to wish everyone a [url=http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1633809528]MERRY CHRISTMAS!!![/url] with this Christmas card.
BJJIII and I made (more)
[b]Catch-Up![/b]
First off, I want to apologize for not keeping you guys up to date during basically the most important time of my poker dealing c (more)
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I feel somewhat obligated to update since it’s been so long since my last post.
I had a nice Christmas, spe (more)
Well....I have not entered a blog in a while because the last 3 or 4 days have just been crazy. I have not had barely any time to put in poker or eve (more)
I’ve been back from AC for a couple of weeks and have finally gotten back into the online groove. Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happenin (more)
Other than that one Sunday and a couple of tourneys today/tomorrow, I'm taking a break until the New Year. Nothing particularly important - I just wan (more)
It could’ve been a better Sunday, but I certainly can’t complain.
Just skimming through my blog I really haven’t played much online poker the (more)
So I got hammered yesterday-- mixing in no tournament cashes with a 12-buyin cash downswing. My "big month" that I had anticipated after the 2nd plac (more)
I kind of don't feel like writing a big long year in review, so I'm going to do the cliffs notes version instead. I started the year with basically a (more)
Sunday was a relatively pointless 0 for 4, some tough breaks blah blah blah, whatever. That isn't really the point of this post.
Since it's Dec 31 (more)
Here is a fun little HU sit-n-go. We're about even to hand #10. After hand #12, I have [b]10[/b] chips left with the blinds at [b]20/40[/b]. Happy (more)
Haven't played much poker lately but hope to change that with the upcoming LA Poker Classic at the end of January and through February. I'm shooting (more)
Ok so I was working on posting two trip reports from my last two trips to the Horseshoe-Bossier City and just as I soon as I hit the post button it sa (more)
It’s a bit late for Christmas wishes but there’s something on my list that can only be got in January, a win in the upcoming Aussie Millions. I (more)
I've noticed something about the scene. Since UIGEA, it's a lot easier to find a nosebleed game - every site out there now has at least 50/100 NL and (more)
Big Happy New Years to everybody!!!!!!
I'm glad to be out of 2007 as it was not as good to me as 2006 was. I felt like my game improved from what (more)
Unfortunately, I have nothing to really update in this entry. I came back to A.C. after New Years and I just sit at home all day. I went to the Show (more)
So after talking with the wafflecrush guys some the past few days I am now officially playing under their stake for ONLINE play. Live is still on my (more)
[url=http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adanthar&search=Search]Link to Adanthar MTT CardRunner vids on YouTube[/url]
Check it out - it's (more)
So I've arrived in Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. Today was the first event, a $1K NL event with 537 players. I just busted out after losing a fli (more)
This is a post i made on 2+2, thought i'd share it here:
So I've often thought of these sort of scenario's and i thought i would ask OOT what their (more)
Today I didn't do too much. After running so bad at tournaments I'm taking a couple of days off to recollect my thoughts and keep from burning myself (more)
[img]http://www.tellmewhereonearth.com/Images6/Nelson-plane_crash.jpg[/img]
I've been playing on Cake, where I have been winning and placing in a (more)
I’d like to apologize for delaying so long in posting my 2007 results. December was an absolute sputter after a great month such as I had in Novemb (more)
Book Review: Kill Everyone, By Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib and Kim Lee by Bond18 Posted January 8th, 2008
When Lee Nelson asked me to review his new book ‘Kill Everyone’ I got a little worried. I thought Lee was a nice guy, but I also thought that most (more)
Ok just a quick little weekly update for the 2 people that read this little thing they call a blog. I am still currently 12 tabling $25NL and it is go (more)
[b]Why here? Why now?[/b]
I've been sequestered in London, splitting time between a grad school stint at the London School of Economics and fillin (more)
Haven't played poker at all this year. I went to Houston for a few days, then Baton Rouge for the BCS Championship Game (Geaux Tigers!) and now I'm i (more)
Reservations are set and I’ll be heading to Borgata next Tuesday morning with a return home Sunday to hopefully watch the Giants in the NFC Champion (more)
Even after everything I've done, I have a long way to go, and a lot to do before I really "make it". Today's reminder of that:
My [url=http://en.w (more)
Even if that something is just a $44 6am tourney with 59 runners. I actually was telling deeb when i joined it i was playing it so that i could just (more)
Yoooooooooooo. So I was playing some drunk kickball with the rest of the poker nerds today. Team Goggles kicked some ass imo. After that great victory (more)
Pretty much out of it since Friday. This is gonna be the first Sunday I've voluntarily missed in at least a year. Dumb flu :(
Totally wrecks my sch (more)
Yet another early bustout for me in a major tournament. Considering how conservative I tend to play this is getting kind of ridiculous. My table draw (more)
[b]Snapped the Skid - Tournaments[/b]
Last post I mentioned how badly the year had started in both tournaments and cash. Really couldn’t have b (more)
Wow I'm bad at keeping a blog. Third time lucky to get the ball really rolling? Ok lets go.
As Ive said in earlier blogs, I am a low limit MTT play (more)
Commerce Freeroll, Bike Cash games and upcoming LA Poker Classic by lakong Posted January 16th, 2008
Haven't been playing much poker lately. I've been pretty busy on the new tworags design, which should go up today, and some other projects. I did ma (more)
From the Dealer's Box: Finally Working Again- Borgata Winter Poker Open by xxrod17xx Posted January 17th, 2008
[b]Borgata's Professionalism[/b]
So I started working the Borgata Winter Poker Open on the 15th, and I am super pleased with how things are going (more)
I am prowling around the new format and it looks great! Best room reviews on the web...thanks guys! (more)
So far the grinding is going well. I need to put in more hours, but I'm playing well and game-selecting well, and as a result I'm up about 3k in the (more)
The Los Angeles Poker Classic starts next week! The series runs Jan 24th-Mar 3rd and includes events with buy-ins from $335-$10,000. You can see the (more)
Very nice IMO :)
My poker vacation's stretched to an unprecedented 2 weeks (granted some of that was involuntary and Wednesday was the first day I (more)
So I bubbled both of these. I played pretty well though, there were some sweet hands. In the first round of the HU I played Doug Lee. As far as I know (more)
Quick update:
-Played one big AC tourney, a 1K sat (too busy the next day to play the other one.) Won 0 hands in 3 hours. Highlight (also the only (more)
So after getting 13th in a major and my 2nd straight week of getting close to a monster score only to get break even on the day money is very frustrat (more)
Sorry for not putting something up over the past 2 weeks I was busy losing money in funny ways for all the live events. I had a nice 0fer for this s (more)
Ok, by now you know we upgraded the look and function of the site. We've found and fixed most of the bugs but we're looking for feedback. If you run (more)
Just a reminder, the LA Poker Classic starts tomorrow (Thu, 1/24). I won't be playing the first events but will play a few the 2nd week and a couple (more)
Won the 8k guarenteed ($100buyin, 2pm) on UB for $2280 today, looks like it's served it's time. Unless it's lucky and thus i should keep it... (more)
I put in over 4,000 hands on Monday. I rarely do anything like that, but I was feeling the need to work, and I decided to just stay home all day, buc (more)
OK, time for a quick little update. I have moved up to regularly 9-12 tabling $50NL on PokerStars after a couple of good runs at the $25NL tables. I (more)
I haven't posted in awhile because I came to the realization "Who really gives a crap what I have to say?" I talked to Dante and he reeled me back in (more)
Does anyone have anything to say about either Mountaineer or Wheeling Island. I am looking for comments on play, structure of games, room reviews, goo (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 14, Playing a Chip lead/Big Stack by Bond18 Posted January 26th, 2008
Authors Note: Some of you may notice that part 13 in this series is missing. Part 13 is on the topic of ‘ranges’ and has been finished. Long story (more)
Hey everyone, I'm back safely in Toronto just chilling. Really it was a super lazy week. Anyways my plan for the next couple months is to really get b (more)
Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been keeping busy preparing to move out lately. I get the key to my new place tomorrow, and couldn't be more ready (more)
It all started when Scot from TwoRags IM'd me to ask if I was going to the LA Poker Classic. I explained to him, as I wrote 2 days ago in my last entr (more)
Authors Note: After having read Ansky’s inspiring post I realized too long had I stood by and done nothing about the online cheating situation. I de (more)
It was a sluggish start online in the New Year for both cash and tournaments. The Borgata excursion mid month proved lucrative thanks to my success at (more)
I am looking forward to the LAPC this year, yet again. I hope to see a few of you show up for the series. For the past few years I have played the Sn (more)
January was a nice start to the year. I had a good trip to the Horseshoe-Bossier City and got fully rolled for 50NL on PokerStars without having to d (more)
So the super bowl is tomorrow and being as im not from Mass. I hate the patriots and hope they lose. Apparently we are having a party which is kinda (more)
I'd been really pushing myself to play a lot this week, and as a result, when I finished a session, I didn't always want to think, talk, or write abou (more)
He won EPT Dortmund yesterday for 933K Euro or just shy of $1.4M USD. He's just been on a tear to start the year. Sadly I didn't have any of his actio (more)
Pretty meh month.
Lost $530 at the Horseshoe-Bossier City on [url=http://tworags.com/blog/mr_taterhead/post/1775/lol_livepokeraments]Landlord79's (more)
Can someone help me figure this out?
What are the odds of getting the same 2 cards, 3 hands in a row (6 handed), no suits?
I just got
9cQd
9c (more)
from my post on 2+2:
26th in FUPER, 26th in Stuper, 6th in 50FO, 7th in $26 donkfest on FTP, 22nd in $150 32k guarenteed.
and for the additional (more)
This is odd. I almost never write a real blog entry, the kind where I ramble about what I’ve been doing with my life and what I’ll be doing upcomi (more)
Well, I’m just about all settled in my new apartment.
Today I got a ton of furniture delivered. My apartment is nearly completely furnished, and (more)
I recently did my post Aussie Millions numbers for my deal with Timex. Going into the Aussie Millions I was in fact not the player with the largest ma (more)
This was my first post on a blog on another site in October, I changed a bit of it. I mostly play mtts now, I now play mtts in the range of $5-$55 as (more)
Well, here they are - pictures of my new pad. The pictures might be a little sloppy, but I really wasn’t too concerned with quality when I was takin (more)
Over the last couple of days I’ve made my first two videos for the training site www.pokersavvy.com. The first one I made yesterday followed my run (more)
Today I grinded out a TON of tournaments.
I was actually running horribly in all of the bigger buy-in tournaments. I won’t bore you with specific (more)
Sunday is the biggest day of online tournaments of the week, and it’s not even close. This week I got up at 8am (I normally didn’t bother and just (more)
Hey hey, I got in safely yesterday in time to play Sunday tournaments online. No luck in the tournaments but I had a profitable day because of a good (more)
I really had a hum drum, kinda sucky January as far as final tables and big cashes went. The very last day I played a 50/50k and cashed for $414 finis (more)
I was glancing over my intended schedule of upcoming live poker recently. For a while the rumor was the APPT was going to be starting up again in Maca (more)
In fact, I don't think I broke the 2 hour mark anywhere.
Good news: I made the NY Times!
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/business/13leon (more)
I was eating dinner with Ed and Shaun deeb at the Commerce yesterday and they had a laugh at the volume of tournaments I play. I quit playing tournam (more)
I know that's an enormous amount of money. To be able to win that much in a day I should be ecstatic. Lots of people probably don't make that in a yea (more)
[b]I'm Back[/b]
What's up guys? I decided to take a little break from blogging because I was running really bad and was pretty upset. I didn't f (more)
Well sorry I've been really active lately playing and usually playing till I fall asleep sometimes while still in a few tourneys oops. I haven't trave (more)
Life has been busy lately; I've been looking for a new place to live and been bouncing around a little as a result. I've managed to play some poker; (more)
Well, it took a long time, but I finally found the EPT Barcelona produced coverage online. The final table isn’t uploaded yet, but the first 2 episo (more)
OK not really but the stuff I do sometimes makes me wonder. I fucked up really bad today in the $2500 NL LAPC event. I'm not going to tell you the han (more)
For the fourth or fifth the straight day I wake up at 9am. This makes little sense, since I’m going to sleep around 2 or 3am and getting exercise du (more)
Today I made my quickest exit of the series. I had chipped down to about 3.2k chips by level 2 when I pick up KK utg. I open to 300. The button flat c (more)
I down a melatonin before bed in hopes of staying asleep. I wake up at 9am anyway, but feel tired enough that after spending 15 minutes or so on the c (more)
Sorry it’s been a couple of weeks since I last updated. Where to begin?
[b]Sports[/b]
Well the first part of 2008 made it a good decade for (more)
[b]“Awesome. I think he’s gonna die.”[/b]
After insisting to my wife and friends that the flu bug that’s savaged everyone I know would lea (more)
I have primarily been playing uNL cash games on the internet for the last year or so and I have faired pretty well. I usually don’t have the 5-6 h (more)
Sort of a good news/bad news type thing. Good news: I got a NY Times interview (see last entry) that apparently got reprinted in a few places that fri (more)
This title would have worked a lot better if I was able to win a tournament today, but I'm going to use it anyways. I managed to save my Sunday with a (more)
Let’s see what’s been going lately…
Saturday I slept through the morning tournaments…including the FTOPS $2,500….sigh. I woke up at 3pm a (more)
Mid-month Update on my “Break”:
My February goals were:
Reinvigorate my spiritual life.
Create new habits
1. Prayer time
2. Reading tim (more)
Just a quick update. I recently did an interview for pokertips.org.
Here's the [url=http://www.pokertips.org/weekly.shuffle/archives/2008-02-17]li (more)
I'm running so hot online since I arrived in LA. Today I played a tournament on Everest Poker. $100 freezeout and I finished 7th for $1100. So what yo (more)
Does this make any sense at all?
[IMG]http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd135/brad2002tj/starsprofitbydayofweek.jpg[/IMG] (more)
These pictures simply don’t justify how awesome this TV is……
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/bender330/DSC01253.jpg[/img]
[ (more)
So Ive decided to create a Poker/Life blog to help satisfy a few new personal goals of mine as well as hopefully provide some insightful and/or entert (more)
With the Joe Hachem Deep Stacked series over I’m free to occupy myself with more serious online play. I wrote about the very hot day I had in [url=h (more)
After a loooong break even stretch I've started making some money again. My stars bankroll is now up to $700 and my plan is to get it up to $1000 by (more)
Not quite as much as Anton Chigurh would prefer I bet, but losing a $12,000 flip still feels pretty terrible. I didn’t per say ‘lose’ $12,000, w (more)
Left early yesterday morning on what was supposed to be a 3-night stay at Borgata. After grabbing a quick bite I sat down at $5/$10 NL at around 1PM. (more)
Everytime I look at my son I realize that there are more important things than running good at poker. Make someones day and tell them you care about t (more)
This blog was inspired by Bond18's current heater as described in his blog and [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=136771]Body Man (more)
Sorry to do this but a part of the competition for the Everest Poker sponsorship is getting a lot of hits over on my blogs and any videos I might post (more)
[b]Part of the Showboat Family[/b]
One of the things I was most afraid of when starting this new job was to not really fit in right away. At all th (more)
Most of them think I played it fine. I disagree, because my initial instinct was to squeeze preflop, and I strive to always trust that first. But it (more)
(subtitle: How people support each other on the road and how they improve each other's games.)
It starts with the small things. Poker players are (more)
As many of you know, we joined forces with Pokernetcast.net (the old Live at the Bike team) to put together a single table tournament for the ages. T (more)
Hey everyone,
I'm a 21 year old student, born and raised in Houston, TX, and attending college in my hometown. I went to the University of Alabama (more)
Well I ended day1 of the LAPC 10k with 50k well above avg after playing really aggro getting a nice suck out in 1 big pot and losing 10k chips last ha (more)
At least it does if you don’t mind sitting for hours at live 2/5 NL cash games. I went down to Crown last night with my friend Joel and we sat in wh (more)
Hey guys,
I know it’s been awhile since my last entry, just not a lot to report.
I haven’t been playing too much poker. Today was the firs (more)
I feel a need to get back home. I've had enough of poker and enough living in a casino.
I didn't really even get to see Los Angeles-- just like la (more)
Hey I'm 6th/18 in LAPC Main Event heading into Day 5 with 987K chips. Just a spot for you to post your comments here since you can't on Everest's site (more)
This is what I was seriously thinking regarding Stars' intentions. It was one of those days where it seemed that the infamous 'Doom Switch' had been f (more)
I would like to start this blog by saying Hello to the tworags community. I am super excited to be a member of this site as I love the whole concept (more)
At this point it’s no secret, I had my biggest winning day in online history today. I normally have to talk myself into playing a 100 rebuy tourname (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 99, What Would Phil Hellmuth Do? by Bond18 Posted February 29th, 2008
Authors Note: As an additional exercise for this segment, see if you can figure out which hands were actually played by Phil and which I’ve made up. (more)
I mentioned before that I applied for Taylor Caby’s protégé contest and I was thinking last night about what my realistic chances are of winning. (more)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
[img]http://farm3.static (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I haven't been able to play as much as usual the past couple of weeks so it was nice to get to the Final Table in the $6.50 Bounty Tournament at UB. (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The good thing about April from my POV is that it's not March. I think last month was my worst month ever tournament-wise, largely due to being down s (more)
I won about $1000 tonight and decided to sit in a juicy 5/10 game. There was a guy limping, raising and reraising with a wide range of hands. He was (more)
Spend enough time blogging about your own life and even you get sick of you. I’ve decided to write an entry about those I know in the poker world ar (more)
Most of you work a 9 to 5 job like me and play poker for recreation and extra income. Poker only made up about 10% of my income in 2007 and although (more)
An earlier blog entry of mine received a couple of anonymous comments from people I wanted to respond to.
Number one: The first post questioned me (more)
I was a last minute entry into EPT San Remo today when Shaun effing Deeb had to withdraw because he was really sick. I was able to buy-in and take his (more)
World Series of Poker Europe is airing in Australia and some parts of Europe. Anyways, the episodes are available on Pokertube - which also has my EPT (more)
I just having a talk with my friend Corey-Ann online and she did one of those things mid conversation where whoever you’re talking to says ‘how ar (more)
I have had a pretty crappy year, poker wise. I have yet to have a winning month and it is making me doubt my ability as a poker player. Do I suck or i (more)
Well, here goes.
First, hello and thank you to everyone already blogging at TwoRags. Since Bond started hosting his trip reports and strategy seri (more)
I haven't blogged in awhile mostly because not much is goin on, I didn't think posting about bad beats and running bad would be a good read. I made a (more)
Could have saved me 5K Euros by not getting sick but instead I had to play the EPT. It was a pretty short day, I doubled up with AKo 4-flushing AKs in (more)
Party Poker locked me into their cruise today. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Party Poker and Moneybookers support and am happy to say (more)
March was absolutely blah!!! I made 2 trips to the [url=http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html]Horseshoe - Bossier City[/url], losing $600 (more)
In no particular order, but maybe I'll make a top 10 list out of this someday!
1)"AK is a drawing hand". I've never met anyone that took this phras (more)
I have very little clever on my mind to write about today. There was a request in the comments about getting more HH links up, so I think this might b (more)
I have a friend who likes poker and wants to play all the time but will do nothing to try and improve their game. I'm talking about a person who limps (more)
Well the internet has turned me quite tilted right now as I got into amsterdam it went down at some redic key points for me when I was shortstacked in (more)
So far this month has been decent. My 2nd session of the month saw me have a pretty disappointing but slightly profitable day. I finished 27-729 in a (more)
On Friday, April 4, 2008, iLLNuGWichee had a day at the tables that few dare dream about. He made 5 final tables at 4 different sites.
He finish (more)
I haven't been able to play much the past week and the two tourneys that I did get to play saw my KK chased down by two outers on UB. I had a few hou (more)
Charlton Heston was a great actor and a man committed to his beliefs. I was sorry to hear about his death this morning. RIP Sir
[img]http://farm (more)
It was a great weekend at the tables. Even though it was a small field, I was happy to make the final table in the $5.50 Stud MTT at UltimateBet. Af (more)
It wasn’t enough being sick for more than half the month, the Poker Gods also decided to kick me while I was down.
[b]Tournaments[/b]
Mar (more)
Was frustrated last night to get knocked out of the $7 bodog mtt 7 away from the money when I got my AA in pre-flop vs AKs. Of course, the flop gave (more)
Big night last night and early this morning for a couple friends of the blog.
Mathclub, playing under his Pokerstars screenname jakehekejnr, beat o (more)
Would like to hear some thoughts about how I played this hand. My bet after the flop was designed to get him to re-raise so I could put him in. But (more)
Stuff that everyone reading this should do if they haven't already:
-Get an extension. Anybody know a gambling CPA in the NYC area? :(
In case t (more)
the tournament kicked off last night at 7:00. my starting table i started off with 3000 chips. within the first few hands i had knocked out 3 people (more)
The blog entry I made about the poker players around me was polite and complimentary, and I’d really hate to get in the habit of that. Today I’d l (more)
Hello, bonjour! I am now settled in the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort, and it is pretty much the best place ever. I'll have lots of time to rave ab (more)
I've been a dedicated micro-donk mtt on-line poker grinder since roughly the turn of the century. This experience has opened many doors for me, many o (more)
No details other than what I'm reading on 2+2, but I thought I'd pass it on. It looks like they're still processing withdrawals if you have money actu (more)
Now that the around the world schedule has been finalized I’ve had to go through the process of creating arrangements for everything outside just pl (more)
So I play tomorrow (Sunday). Looks like there's going to be around 800 players so probably over 2 million euros for first. I'm not ready to tell you a (more)
I have waited a while to blog because I didn't think I had much to say that was interesting. But the last 3 weeks have been just a bit more than inte (more)
It was a pretty frustrating day. I more than doubled my stack at my first table to 32K but then got moved to a new table that was pretty tough and did (more)
OK let's do a quick recap of Day 2. I quickly chipped up to about 27K winning small pots and picking up the blinds, unfortunately most of the hands I (more)
The ‘people I don’t know’ blog entry created a bit of a controversy. Someone decided to link it over at P5’s and given my description of most (more)
Updates from www.sluggerwv.blogspot.com about the big week and tournament prowess of the usual suspects which happened while tworags.com was on hiatus (more)
In 1986, Dan Harrison ( see picture above ) was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University.
On a hike through the bush, he (more)
I haven’t been playing much poker lately so I’ve decided to write up a very old story of mine. Most schools Proms are some time around mid or earl (more)
I love poker, the Tournament side of it that is, which comes as no surprise to those of you who are close to me or happen to read this blog. I’ve be (more)
As some of you know this entry was on the front of www.pocketfives.com for a little while, and they ask me to delay a couple of days before I move it (more)
Wretchy started out the final table of the $50+5 (1r +1a) MTT on FullTiltPoker tonight with one of the smaller stacks. But ability can overcome many (more)
Ok, so a few months back the folks from [url=http://www.pokernetcast.com]PokerNetcast[/url] (formerly, Live at the Bike) invited us over to their offi (more)
Well, April has been, among other things, hectic and bizarre, so if you're wondering why I haven't written in a long time, you'll have your answer soo (more)
Update!: Checkout my poker commentating debut. TwoRags has posted a couple clips from the live $1000 sit and go we played in LA back in January. Check (more)
Played only two tourneys today. #1 was a weird, tiny Cake gold card freeroll rebuy where, on the first hand post-rebuy period, I got AA in vs. KT for (more)
…I jam the $8,000 Stevo has given me into my jeans pocket and keep the other three in my wallet. The wallet is busting at the seams attempting to co (more)
Sorry for the lack of content recently. It’s been a difficult few weeks for my family and I.
I’ve actually been somewhat sick and out of it lat (more)
“Hey Steve, you remember those games I was telling you about?”
“Right yea mate, are you going tonight?”
“Yea, did you want to go?”
“N (more)
I'm having a pretty rough month in my personal life. And no it's not that bad no one has been diagnosed with cancer or anything. I got forced on a rot (more)
I’m normally a pretty calm guy. It’s something I pride myself on, since I very rarely feel anything from poker outside very slight annoyance or di (more)
Well I had an interesting weekend from a poker perspective to say the least. There were some really big special tournaments this weekend so I played a (more)
Frustratingly Good (April results and observations about my game) by Pooojo33 Posted April 28th, 2008
Well, April has been a rather up and down month. I've accomplished a few things that are positive, and at the same time I'm becoming overly frus (more)
So this weekend I was watching the NFL Draft and I fired up my laptop to mess around with some PLO and in < 2hrs I ended up winning 10 BI’s. Too b (more)
Your humble author cashed for the first time in what seems like a decade yesterday, but the big story was the friends of the blog slicing through tour (more)
Just a quick entry today. My flight leaves in 5 hours. Tilt has yet to give me a URL to link to so I don't have that to provide at the moment, but it (more)
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)
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)
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.
[ (more)
"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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
Meh, swingiest month ever for me. Took my biggest downswing to date, but fortunately I did learn how to luckbox PLO.
[IMG]http://i175.photobucket. (more)
Well, it’s officially June. The weather’s starting to get a bit nicer here in Ohio, which is always nice.
I think it’s been about 2 weeks sin (more)
So I skipped event 2 and played online this weekend with little success. The only thing I seem to be winning at online lately is PLO strangely enough. (more)
[b]Catching Up[/b]
Sorry I haven't blogged in a while, I know some of you enjoyed my road to getting a dealing job. Now that I have it I am work (more)
Today was the $1K+rebuys. I ended up in for the "minimum" of $4K and never really had a ton of chips. I had one mini-rush where I picked up AK on back (more)
12:45pm: Call cab since everyone else drove in for 12pm event. 10mins to an hour wait time. OK could potentially be cutting it close but no worries.
(more)
Final Table at FullTilt and two friends deep in World Series event by SluggerWV Posted June 7th, 2008
I haven't been able to play as many non-satellite tournaments for the past month or two. I have never had a lot of success at FullTilt even though I (more)
No luck in the $5K shootout. My table wasn't that bad though it was certainly tougher than most. I was the first eliminated. I got off to a good start (more)
Today was a $2500 NL event and I busted before the first break again. One interesting hand:
25/50 5K starting chips. I have a little under that CO (more)
Just letting you guys know there was a content update at PokerVT, which includes the replay of my Sunday Million win from July 2007.
Check it out
(more)
I'm leaving for the WSOP on Tuesday. I'm getting there a little late, but I wasn't quite ready to go. I had to finish some things at home, not to me (more)
I had a horrible May. I had my second worst month ever playing only half my normal volume. I can’t say I’m playing my A game as often as I did on (more)
I finally made my first final table in one of the biggest Sunday tournaments! I final tabled the $750K Guaranteed on Full Tilt. It was a bit of a stra (more)
Well it’s been a while since I last updated. Apologies go out to my friends and family who actually read this to keep up with my poker happenings, a (more)
It has been a while since my last update, but not a lot has changed in the world of Mr Taterhead. The last time I wrote I mentioned that I was going (more)
Well Monday was a $1500 Shootout event. The $1500 events only give you 3K starting chips (all events have twice the buy-in starting chip bank) so if y (more)
Another short update...and I mean that pretty much literally. As I was getting out of a chair to go sign up for an event this morning, my back decided (more)
Today was an up and down day. I ran really good off the start but then messed up some hands at the end to lose a lot of my chips. Early on I flopped t (more)
Scott Freeman Eliminates Michael Watson
Michael Watson raised to 4,440 and Scott Freeman called from the cutoff. Both players checked the {A-Diamon (more)
Over the weekend I went up to Turning Stone with some friends from home. I went up mostly to hang out with my friends and have fun, which I did. I als (more)
I don't really remember my previous post here. Its been months. I do think it was sometime when I ran semi-deep in the UB $200k and made $1100 and tho (more)
Sooooooooo...
I've been a member here for a long time, but have really only used the site to lurk, reading other member's blogs, etc.
However, i (more)
I read yesterday about Bond18's bad beat at the final table at the WSOP $3k NL event and I still feel sick to my stomach. If you haven't heard here' (more)
I’ve adjusted to my crazy schedule and doing the little things like going over my past mtts and watching pxf vids. In 35 mtts I’ve made 4 final ta (more)
I was hoping to play the Venetian $2,500 today, but when I came home from the Rio yesterday I feel asleep nearly instantly around 10PM. I woke up at 1 (more)
0 for 12 -46.5K now. Gave all my chips to JC Tran in the 1500 PLO rebuy today like a true holdem donk after luckboxing a stack early. Played meh in t (more)
Pretty OT post...The Happening ***SPOILER ALERT***...a night off by Hagbard_Celine Posted June 19th, 2008
I took last night off playing in order to spend some time with my girlfriend.
And by taking time off that means that I played the 12pm 109 on tilt, (more)
Apologies for no updates the last few days. I've been out of communication because my laptop-- which was already my backup laptop, broken keys and pr (more)
The past couple of days have been bittersweet.
We'll start with yesterday.
The sea was angry that day, my friends, and I'm surprised I made it t (more)
Haven’t been doing much of anything lately. Things are going to start picking up this week though. I did an interview for PokerRoad on one of their (more)
After some hassles with a bank that has a dim view on shipping to a different address than the billing address, the order should go through today and (more)
Now up to 0/15, -51.5K. I had relatively quick and painless exits in the $1500 NL and $2000 PL events last week. I skipped the $1500 NL event on Satur (more)
Taking a couple of days off between NL events (I think my next one will be the 5K 6 max on Thursday.) In the meantime, here's the Scotty story I promi (more)
I'm through to Day 2 of the $1K rebuy with 61K in chips which is about average. I'm now 4/4 in making Day of these tournaments at the WSOP, and I'll b (more)
Got back from Borgata on Sunday and can report that I completely stuck to the game plan I had set for myself. I had the family along and on the first (more)
Well I finally cashed a WSOP tournament today. Things got off to a very good start when I won a whole bunch of smallish pots to get up to over 90K. Th (more)
Well, for some reason or another, I find myself back here at Turning Stone for the HPT. Not really sure why, which usually means it's a bunch of small (more)
Not much to report. I very uneventfully busted from the 2K (there was some hilarious stuff at the table, but not much of it involved me), then felt a (more)
Well, there was no repeat TV appearance for me. I busted in the 3rd level of the HPT $1.5k with Kings against my opponents turned set of 8s. It was a (more)
Instead of playing the usual online tournaments yesterday I was playing the $10K PLO tournament at the WSOP. I was pretty excited for this one being a (more)
Been a while since my last post.
I've been putting in some good volume, but am consistently getting disappointed in big tournaments.
Since my la (more)
Actually, the title was just me having fun. Club One, Edmond's card room up in Fresno is very impressive. Ed invited me up this weekend for his WSOP (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
[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 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)
[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)
[url=http://tworags.com/files/nath_voiceblog1.mp3]Day 1d - First Update[/url] (more)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
WSOP ME - End of Day 4 Podiman, Badgerpro and Thayer still going strong by lakong Posted July 11th, 2008
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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]
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
[img]http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s235/SirWatts/020.jpg[/img] (more)
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)
Welcome to my new blog where in the coming months and years i look forward to keeping everyone informed and updated on my poker results and my run ins (more)
There's been a thread in the Brick and Mortar forum on 2+2 about jackpots with a number of regular players complaining that they're a tax on the syste (more)
As is getting par for the course for me these days, the only tournaments I played all week were the Sundays just now. Results: four total bricks, one (more)
I didn't get back home until around 2:30 so I missed most of the eurodonkaments, but I played most of the usual later Sunday tournaments on Stars and (more)
So after a interesting week of switching from a all-tourny player to a majority-cash table player, i have mixed feeling about my week, but mostly posi (more)
Que pasa fives...
Its been a shamefully long time(early June)since I’ve sat down and updated my blog. My blogging aspirations have been seemingl (more)
I imagine that title will apply to the content of this blog entry as well as it does to what I've been doing the last week or so. I still haven't pla (more)
My claim to fame right now is that I helped out the eventual winner of FTOPS #10.
Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold'em Tournament, 30/60 Blinds, 9 Players
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The second half of my stay in Fresno turned out to be a lot of fun. It was divided into three parts - the main event (lasted an hour; got two pair in (more)
The interview was a long time coming, but it did finally happen today. I'm proud to say I think it went well. ETA: sometime this fall.
Fun fact: i (more)
Another week of grinding out the cash tables seems to have paid off agian...I profited another $1221 4 tabling 1/2nl for 20 hours this week after $127 (more)
Right after I got back home from the 60M thing, I got a strange email in my inbox from CNBC asking me to contact them. Turns out they read the NY Time (more)
I have finally started playing a bunch of poker again the last few days with FTOPS running. It hasn't gone especially well though, but at the same tim (more)
I know everyone has been waiting and waiting for me to post a blog /sarcasm. Not much has happened for me in the last month or so since I last posted (more)
Wow, apologies for taking so long in between posts. I thought I had written something last week.
I barely played any FTOPS events. I couldn't qui (more)
For the last seven days I have been on the most soulcrushing downswing I have ever experienced... I am down 100 buyins at the 4.40/180s and I really w (more)
...waiting for a particular text message is getting old.
Since being on the scene for this is probably worth several grand, it's more than worth it (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 19: Putting the peices together by Bond18 Posted August 23rd, 2008
I wrote this article with Nath a while ago, then while browsing Tworags today in preparation for my soon return I realized this one had yet to be uplo (more)
Does anyone know... Is Perry Friedman part owner in FT? Or just a sponsored pro? (more)
[url=http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=831859206&play=1]The CNBC interview aired today.[/url] Since 60M hasn't aired yet, this is my first major T (more)
My ROI for poker this year: some puny, not particularly high number. (In fact, if you count live poker, it's pretty spectacularly negative, but that's (more)
Well, it's been a while since my last entry mostly because nothing super exciting poker-wise has been going on. I helped my sister move to Montreal la (more)
Well, sorry to all for me being redic lazy and deciding not to blog for a few months. was really motived to start it up again right before wsop but th (more)
Today marked my first day back at UW-Madison... and after a long break I don't really know how things are gonna work out now in my life. For a whi (more)
Haven't posted in a while. Haven't played much or done anything of note. I've been throwing in short sessions of HU cash, to get my head back in the (more)
Well, when I told people I was heading to macau most didn't know where it was but anyone who doesn't mind a 10-13 hour flight depending on where in th (more)
I had kind of an odd month, I broke out of my life nit ways and got a 52" tv along with a ps3 so that I could watch blu-rays. So far I've watched part (more)
Well WCOOP started this weekend. I'm off to a fairly decent start so far, cashing 3 of the first 4 events I played (I skipped Friday to go to a stag). (more)
Nothing in particular is going on - I just got some signs of tournament burnout and am taking a couple of weeks off except for Sundays and the occasio (more)
Commerce California State Championships - Event #9 Results by MattSavage Posted September 11th, 2008
Kevin Farenbaugh of La Crescenta is the winner of the $17,655 first prize of event #9 played on 9/10/08. Congrats to Kevin and all of the winners! T (more)
Hey guys,
My Around the World in 90 Days blog is nearly finished in it's writing so this one will get some more attention upcoming. As for the mome (more)
I never thought it was possible for a tournament to have too good a structure, for there to be too much time to gain an advantage through skillful pl (more)
Commerce California State Championships - Event #10-13 Results by MattSavage Posted September 15th, 2008
Following are the winners of Events 10-13 of the Commerce California State Poker Championships. Congratulations to all the winners! Event #14 will b (more)
I'm sitting on my back porch eating yet another can of progresso chicken gumbo I heated up on the grill. This is the exciting life of someone in a tow (more)
It wasn't the best event to final table but it was a fun one! I final tabled the $500 buy-in 2-7 NL single draw event of the WCOOP today and finished (more)
Vivek Rajkumar just won the Borgata Poker Open and a cool $1,424,500. This is coming off the heals of SirWatts's big win and Amit Makhija's 2nd place (more)
Vivek Rajkumar just won the Borgata Poker Open and a cool $1,424,500. This is coming off the heals of SirWatts's big win and Amit Makhija's 2nd place (more)
The last couple of weeks have been a little hectic. As I said earlier, I had a bunch of real life stuff to do, especially the CLE classes ("I'd like t (more)
I didn't have much luck with my Sunday tournaments today. I managed a couple small cashes but lost a bit overall. I bubbled the WCOOP main event after (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 20, Manipulative vs Deceptive Play by Bond18 Posted September 24th, 2008
Hey people, it’s been a while since I’ve done any strategy writing but I assure you I was very busy rotating between grinding long days of live po (more)
I was unable to extend my live tournament winning streak today in the 5K pound PLO tournament. I busted on the very last hand of the day getting all-i (more)
While I'm still only playing a little bit, I couldn't really justify not doing much poker-related stuff to myself, so in the interim before I ramp up (more)
So it’s about time that I got back into the habit of regularly updating my blog. After having done so much writing for the Around the World in 90 Da (more)
WSOPE main event is just not my tournament. Last year I busted in level 1 with bottom set vs top 2 pair all-in on the flop, and this year I didn't fai (more)
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)
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)
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’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)
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)
Just to prove it’s all about how you spin things let’s take a look at the reasons why live poker is vastly superior to online:
1. Social intera (more)
So to make a very long story short, it would appear Celina and I are broken up. I won’t get into a long ranting post about the reasons why, not only (more)
Tomorrow will bring two things: the election of Barack Obama (no jinx plz) and the end of my year-long Intrade experiment. Although I'll leave some ca (more)
Now that I've been home a few days I've had some time to sit down and plan out the next few months. The rest of this year is going to be pretty laid b (more)
I think it's a great outcome. Many of you undoubtedly disagree. Let's set that aside from now on and hope Obama is a good leader (and, oh yeah, fixes (more)
What’s happening people? I’ve had a very pleasant few days since I last wrote in this blog. I spent a few days playing poker online at more relaxe (more)
the HU grind has been going okay. I've had a profitable run at it, at least, although I've also had a couple of sessions I should have quit sooner. (more)
Since arriving back in Toronto I've quickly gotten back into my normal lazy at home routine. I stay up too late, then sleep away the hours of the day (more)
So I’ve been in Hawaii for a few days now living with my friend Cade and his very awesome mom Jada. Let’s take a look at what I’ve done with mys (more)
As pretty much everyone reading this knows, the UIGEA regulations are out, the Bush administrations last attempt to restrict your personal freedoms be (more)
I just woke up and it’s past 2pm. Thanks to Cade forcing vitamins and water down my throat last night I don’t have any form of hangover and will l (more)
That's what I've been doing this weekend. Well, just Saturday to be more accurate, I gave some back today. Saturday was one of the best days of my int (more)
I only had one cash in the FTOPS, but I played a very small schedule. I finished 46th in event 19 (out of some 2200-odd). A deep run that I couldn't (more)
[url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation/new-ag-eric-holder-346518/]According to this 2+2 thread[/url] that quotes a NY Times artic (more)
I’ve been kind of adrift for the last few days. I haven’t really been doing much of anything, and I didn’t even bother to play on Sunday for the (more)
I am an ambitious person. In many people that’s a quality, but I’ve seen what mines done to the point that I know it’s much closer to a fault. I (more)
Authors note: The following entry has been written while considerably inebriated. Enjoy bitches!
“Hey! Didn’t I see you over at Pearl?” I yel (more)
Last night is a blur. I know I told Cade and Kari I’d be taking things easy but it didn’t quite end up that way. At the point I ended up in a kara (more)
A few of my politics cashouts are still outstanding, but the other day, I got a very big check from Intrade in the mail. I've gotten bigger ones than (more)
Ideas for continuation of 'Things it took me a while to learn' series by Bond18 Posted November 24th, 2008
So I did this thread quite some time ago and attempted to to accommodate a number of the requests. As of lately I'm running a bit low on ideas for how (more)
I've easily been on the biggest online heater of my life this month and this week was just more of the same. I didn't really play all that much this (more)
Well, I really am bad at getting into writing consistently, Been a few months since I wrote up a blog not much as changed though on the outside it may (more)
Things it took me a while to learn P.21 Catching bluffs from weak players by Bond18 Posted November 25th, 2008
The title of this entry into the series must seem odd at first glance. Since when do weak players do all that much bluffing? You’re right to think t (more)
Yes, it's true. I too, am a massive online MTT multiaccounter. I bet you're wondering why I'm bothering to confess to this, perhaps my conscience has (more)
It's been almost a year or so (!) since the story's been announced, six months since it was going to wrap (cereusly, you can blame any outright negati (more)
I leave Cade’s house in Hawaii at around 6am, heading towards the airport. When I arrive there’s already a line at the Qantas desk and I’m worri (more)
Hey hey rags,
I though what better to cure a bout of insomnia than to post a long overdue blog entry..Here goes...
November is gone and for some (more)
60 Minutes finally ran the feature on the Absolute Poker Scandal. You can watch the video and read a [url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/6 (more)
And so, after a year and a half or so, the story draws to a close...well, no it doesn't, because I'd give good odds on some DA deciding to charge Russ (more)
I wake up at 9:45am to get ready for the seminar which starts at 10:30. I wasn’t able to fall asleep until 4am like normal, so the wake up process i (more)
So I stuck to the plan and took a week off of poker while I was down in NYC partying with some friends. New York was awesome, really an amazing city, (more)
I'm still on the heads-up tip. I've been slowly picking up my hours, but it's not enough. My life is somewhat busy these days and I'm often doing ot (more)
Before I go on with this entry, I once again want to thank Gilbert Gaul from the Washington Post for writing an excellent two part piece. He'll almost (more)
I wake up at 7:00am to Jarred knocking no my door. I had set my alarm for 7:10, even though the Titan $2500 starts at 7:00, but had asked Jarred to ge (more)
Over the course of the evolution of tournament poker certain plays have come in and out of style and popularity based on how well known they’ve beco (more)
A few people have asked for summation of how I got to where I am in poker via forums or in PM’s, so I’ll try and write everything relevant to my e (more)
Hey hey it's time for a little update about what I've been up to here in Vegas. I got in Tuesday night and played the $5k tournament on Thursday. I go (more)
I haven't posted much lately, mainly because I've been trying to overcome a crushing downswing.
With about a week and a half left to go in 2008 and (more)
This was really the tale of 2 completely different months. After having record profit months in August and September I followed up with another record (more)
It was a short day, I was super card dead and when I finally got a hand I folded the winner on the flop. Got the last of my chips in against Mark Telt (more)
I was sitting outside at a neighborhood café today looking to get a 1pm breakfast of pancakes and coffee. I’d taken the day off as I had some thing (more)
Despite spending a couple of days stuck in airports (did you know Houston could have blizzards? Yeah, neither did I. Too bad that was a filthy lie and (more)
It’s a bit of a strange period in my life right now. It’s come to my attention that because my relationship with Celina has been dissolved my lega (more)
I had the appointment with my immigration lawyer yesterday. I laid out the whole situation for him and asked how it would be possible for me to stay i (more)
I wake up at around 1pm on Christmas “morning”. It looks about 30 degrees Celsius outside and I go for a run in the heat. When I get back I call A (more)
Little belated, but better late than never, right?
Good fortune, good wishes and good times to everyone. (more)
I've fallen off the map a bit this year. Part of the reason is that I wanted to spend more time at home, having settled in somewhere for the first re (more)
I frequently get PM’s asking for coaching and staking. These days I do basically zero staking (though I do buy percentages of people now and then) a (more)
There’s no reason for me to be hung over. I wasn’t even that drunk last night. I sat around the casino for hours waiting to sober up drinking wate (more)
That’s right; the Aussie Millions is only a week away. Less actually, five days if we must get super technical. As I’ve mentioned somewhere in the (more)
I just read in CP that the heads-up portion of the final table of the WSOP was actually the longest ever -- over 100 hands, yet it was cut to only 2 h (more)
Okay, not really, but kinda. Since NYE, I've only had one day without at least 90 minutes' worth of cash games. Baby steps, right?
Things are going (more)
It really is the best tournament series. My entire day was a breeze. I woke up and played my normal 7ish hours of tournaments and unfortunately didn (more)
I didn't get home from New Orleans until the 3rd. The only session I've played since I've been back, I lost 3 1/2 buyins. I feel I'm still playing t (more)
I arrive at Crown at 11:45am. The tournament starts at 12:30am and having failed to buy in the previous night I need to get it done this morning. I’ (more)
It’s been a while since I busted a live tournament thinking “Whoa that was fucking spewy.” Event 2 of the Aussie Millions for me, the PokerPro $ (more)
Alright, I've been super lazy about blogging so far this year but I think it's about time I wrote up something real. First of all, Bahamas trip report (more)
I’m a bit tired to write the third installment of the Aussie Millions trip reports for the moment, though I did recently do an interview for pokerve (more)
Yep basically December was a repeat of November losing roughly 50 avg. buy ins. Over and over I lost big pots with way the best of it or a coin flip i (more)
In all honesty, I have (had) no intention of continuing to spend X amount of time every day documenting more Cereus scandal(s) fallout and/or security (more)
The amount of writing required to do the trip report for this event simply isn’t feasible at the current hour. I’ve made the final table of the $1 (more)
This is my first blog here, so greetings. I have another (social) blog, but it was getting very poker-oriented and wanted a separate one to be able to (more)
What to say i have been playing poker for about 2 years , not very good but tryin to improve . This is my first blog and im pretty drunk right now so (more)
Here is a post I made in a forum regarding poker podcasts. It's a post I made about 3 months iirc after an initial podcast post.
I figure it's ti (more)
I was playing some heads-up on Pokerstars last night and got into this one match with a guy who was playing extremely weak-tight and I was running ove (more)
I knock on the door of that apartment Timex and Sirwatts are staying in. They got here yesterday and decided to stay in the same apartment building as (more)
Hi all..
I've been chipping away for almost a month now so figured I'd update. I work at least 50 hours a week so my volume is probably not as much (more)
Hi all...
I've had a crummy downswing today..so what better way to distract myself than to discuss strategy and good playing. I wanted to post a fe (more)
The mere fact that you are reading this post 19 days after my last one should tell you all you need to know about my failure to meet my goals as a pok (more)
I woke up on Saturday after three hours of strange sleep. I didn’t feel hung over per say, but I wasn’t feeling great either. Despite being so dru (more)
L A P C 2009
Date 1/29/09 Event #8 LIMIT HOLD'EM (more)
Congratulations to Event #6 winner Russell Coakrell.
[img]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll223/lakong/RussellCoakrellEvent61.jpg[/img]
The (more)
Now that the Aussie Millions are over it’s time to look forward to what’s upcoming in my life over the year 2009, and it’s shaping up to be inte (more)
L A P C 2009
Date 1/30/09 Event #9 NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $485 SC $15 ENTRY FEE $45
ENTRIES 409
PRIZE POOL $198,365
1st PLACE Matthew Lapossie (more)
L A P C 2009
Date 1/28/08 Event #7 NO LIMIT HOLD'EM SHOOTOUT (more)
This is not a post about bad beats. It really isn't. I know it happens to everyone, but what I don't understand is how the better players deal with (more)
What do you guys think of of this bluff on the river? I felt that the villain had a medium strength hand like a middle pair because of the check call (more)
As a result of having played so much recent live poker I’ve found myself in quite a few interesting spots against a vast array of players. I’ll po (more)
putting 5k on stars n tilt going to grind out Mtt and Cash games have a strict broll management plan which (IF)lol i stick to it will be impossible t (more)
I was browsing through 2plus2 today and came across the following hand post by Bond. I'm sure he won't mind me sharing this on the site. It is funny (more)
I've set the wheels in motion to sell action to some FTOPS events. I plan to play a dozen of the NL events starting this weekend. Shoot me a PM if (more)
I spent the last few weeks dealing with some non-poker related life stuff and having a good time. For the next 10 days, I'll be in Mexico with my wife (more)
[i]"You do it to yourself, and that's what really hurts.
You do it to yourself, just you, you and no one else."[/i]
-Radiohead
I busted out of (more)
First, before I begin, I need to point out that my WPT epsiode has FINALLY been pirated by the fine people of the internet and is available over at th (more)
February 4th: Our crowded taxi pulls up to the Qantas terminal at the Melbourne airport at 3:55pm. Our flight is at 4:30. As agreed upon I sprint out (more)
After a miserable November and December I managed to have my 2nd biggest month ever. My 3 biggest cashes were:
1) 4th in a ftp 26/28k for 2.3k
2) (more)
ANZPT Adelaide Trip Report Part 2, Good decisions and near results by Bond18 Posted February 15th, 2009
February 6th: I’m stirred awake at 11:30am by the alarm on my cell phone. I feel fairly good considering the events of last night. The airlines had (more)
I’ve essentially never experienced writer’s block before. Every article and blog entry I’ve ever written with the exception of ‘Around the Wor (more)
So I made a pretty standard 12/180 play and made a new friend:
Poker Stars $11+$1 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t400/t800 Blinds + t75 - 8 players (more)
I'm not going to make it to Los Angeles. I just couldn't work out the finances. It's unfortunate, but also understandable; I work in a field where " (more)
Hey y'all, I've been in LA for the LA Poker Classic for almost a week now. The WPT main event starts tomorrow and I'm hoping to improve on a deep run (more)
I apologize for having gotten so lazy about finishing up this post. I wish I had a more appropriate excuse but no, I’ve just been a lazy fuck lately (more)
2009 is off to a good start. I've been running hot at SNG's after starting to 8-table them and yesterday took 5th in the big pokerstars $5 rebuy for (more)
For some reason I’m off the charts motivated lately. I’ve gotten considerable organizational work done on the book and written a chapter and a hal (more)
Yoooo. So I decided to stay in LA for the Celeb Invitational freeroll today. It should be a really fun tournament, I'm definitely not going to take it (more)
I was in Lake Charles over the first few days this week, visiting family and taking the opportunity to hit the live games some more. I put in two ses (more)
With Celina back in Australia I was alone in Milwaukee with nothing but time on my hands and minimal interest in going out partying with my friends si (more)
It has been widely reported that the first person eliminated from the WPT Celebrity Invitational was Antonio Esfandiari. This however is simply false. (more)
Playing live again and starting from the ground up has forced me to reconsider the way I play fundamental poker. It's forced me to re-establish a bas (more)
Put in a brutal session at the Isle earlier this week. My play got sloppy and I also got in a $1400 pot with the best of it and lost.
I'm taking a (more)
Mega City residents:
We all start out as Mega City residents. They accept everything as it appears. They play their hand based on the absolute s (more)
It's a pretty good month to be home from traveling. We've got the NCAA tournament starting next week. We had the World Baseball Classic here in Toront (more)
This entry marks the first time I've gone more than a week in between updates since I've started blogging on Tworags two years ago. Throughout this ti (more)
Authors note: I’m not proof reading this one tonight because I’m really tired, so if there’s grammar errors deal with it for now. I’ll probabl (more)
This will be my first attempt at writing on a continual basis, which in itself I find a bit intimidating. Let’s not even get into the predicament of (more)
Friday: I wake up at 9:52am and immediately turn on my computer. As always I have to wait a moment for it load up, then click the ‘resolve later’ (more)
Still trying to get more money online. Don't have much now, so I've stuck my toes in low stakes MTT SnGs to get warm until I do. I'm also trying to (more)
Let’s get down to business right away – I might fill you in on some of the questions I posed in my intro-post a little later, but this is supposed (more)
I've basically spent the last 4 days on the couch watching the NCAA tournament with my laptop on my lap. It's been really fun! There were a lot of goo (more)
Well, ladies and gentlemen – I suppose we’re now officially ’off’, what with my first poker-related entry posted online for all to see and thi (more)
[b]Tournament 1: NLHE, 5 dollar buy-in & 584 entrants. $2,000 Guaranteed Prize-pool.[/b]
[b]Tournament 2: NLHE, 25 dollar buy-in & 135 entrants. Dou (more)
As the title of this blog hints at, I’m running really well at the moment. I’m not sucking out with 3-outers, in fact I’m not really getting mys (more)
Things are about to wrap up here in Melbourne, I have barely over a week left. In reality my free time in Melbourne ends tomorrow when I start pulling (more)
Today I final tabled the 10 rebuy and ended up getting heads up as a short stack, clawing my way to the chip lead, and then losing with JJ < 46o for a (more)
My Monday got its start at 3am my time, around noon in the States. I accidentally over registered throughout the course of my day, and wound up 22 tab (more)
I spent a few hours these last few days, railing some of the bigger online tournaments. Because I’m in Sydney, a lot of the Sunday tournaments’ (more)
I’ve been trying to work on updating and fixing the leaks in my game lately. I feel over the previous six months I got involved with a lot of stuff (more)
Yoooo. So I've been in Montreal visiting my sister and haven't played a whole ton of poker lately. But with the SCOOP starting on PokerStars that is q (more)
[IMG]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w63/Bond18/Scarfacepicture.jpg[/IMG]
That’s right, I put a serious foot up the ass of that losing streak (more)
My girlfriend is studying for her Master’s degree here in Sydney and from time to time, she seeks my advice on various subjects, when she struggles (more)
I completely morphed into a newbie-donk last night. All of my poker wisdom went down the drain when I committed my chips with my no-pair-no-draw-hand. (more)
I've seen many staking dramas play out over the years I've played poker, from disputes over terms/fpps/when the relationship was over etc. but never e (more)
April 8th, Melbourne Australia: I look over my two packed suitcases and carry on bag for anything I might have forgot. I recheck the list I created at (more)
April 9th, Melbourne Australia: I wake up a little before 10am. That’s not a good sign if I hope to play the SCOOP main event in Hawaii, as the even (more)
Hey kids, what's up? I've been SCOOPin hard the last week playing most of the M and H events. My in the money % has been really high as I've cashed 8 (more)
I just received an email from Pokerstars to let me know that I was cheated out of money. They told me to login to my account to find out the credit. (more)
April 10th, Melbourne Australia: I arrive at the airport over two hours early for a domestic flight on a Friday afternoon. The place is practically ab (more)
April 10th, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean: I groggily awake in my plane seat on what is April 10th in the Hawaiian Islands meaning I’m reliving a (more)
April 11th, Honolulu: By far one of the most interesting aspects of my around trip so far has been interacting with what I refer to as ‘normal peopl (more)
[i]I’m hot – cause I’m fly;[/i]
[i]You ain’t – cause you not;[/i]
[i]This is why;[/i]
[i]This is why;[/i]
[i]This is why I’m hot![/ (more)
April 13th, Honolulu: I awake at slightly past 10am, groggy and less than perfectly rested for the long day of tournaments that I’m about to engage (more)
April 12th, Honolulu: Kari and Cade wake me up around 11:30am. It’s an hour drive out to the shark diving and the boat leaves at 1pm. Kari has broug (more)
Ok this will be my final SCOOP-related post. I cashed the $10K main event but lost a flip to bust 33rd for $30K. That cash probably put me around even (more)
This article is a result of a few guys in BBV4L asking me to write about fashion, and will hopefully be interesting and educational.
I personally s (more)
April 14th, Honolulu: I wake up needing to urinate horribly, but I’m still so tired I just lie there for a while wondering if perhaps I can just fal (more)
Nobody likes a whiner and that is exactly what I equate anyone in the poker community to, if they start telling me a bad-beat story.
Annoying Wh (more)
April 15th, Honolulu: I wake up around 11:30am, totally refreshed after a night of the most pleasant sleep. A glass of wine and a three milligram pill (more)
Authors note: This entry was written while mostly drunk, so the grammar and spelling in it promises to be a disaster.
April 16th, Somewhere over t (more)
April 17th, Las Vegas: The phone rings loudly, jerking me out of sleep.. I pick up
"Hello?"
"This is your wake up call" responds a womans voice. Ah (more)
April 18th, Las Vegas: I wake up naturally a few minutes before my inevitable wake up call, and by naturally I mean needing to piss horribly. I sprint (more)
Self confidence is a huge asset to have with you, when you’re playing, whereas cockiness is usually the first step on the way to self-destructing. I (more)
I recently started a new blog to focus on what I really do for living, building/investing/consulting on web-oriented businesses. The site is at [url= (more)
April 19th, Las Vegas: I’m standing in the room of a friend at ‘Panorama Tower’, wearing casual clothes for once, and feeling very hung over. I (more)
Hey, sorry I have written in a while I just haven't really felt like it. WPT Champs didn't go great, I busted early on Day 2. I don't really feel like (more)
Wow I guess it's been awhile since I've blogged. Well I guess I'll start with my results. My average buy in is around $35 and I feel like since Decemb (more)
April 20th, Las Vegas: I wake up well before the tournament feeling refreshed, though having eaten the Korean BBQ so late at night is wreaking a littl (more)
April 21st, Las Vegas: I wake up in a haze, slowly putting the pieces of last night back together. I stop by a friends place and find him packing a b (more)
April 22nd, Las Vegas: I awake with only a minor hang over. My water drinking attempt was clearly a great success. I call my friend and ask him if he (more)
April 23rd, Las Vegas: I arrive at ‘The Venetian’ poker room about 10 minutes late for the tournament. I buy in with the $2500 in cash ‘Shaundee (more)
April 24th, Las Vegas: I meet ‘Luckychewy’ in the hallway outside my hotel room. We’ve decided to have breakfast (at 2pm obviously) at the Bella (more)
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!
[img]http://blogs.cardrunners.com/images/image/verneer/two_tabl (more)
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]
(more)
I don't have much super exciting to write about but I've got nothing else to do while I'm sweating Isaac Haxton to victory in the $40K tourney and I f (more)
I suppose primarily my friends back home are to blame, since they’re the ones who encouraged my writing to begin with. There were roughly 16 of us, (more)
Alright, once we got moved to the final table average stack was like 65BB(blinds were 5k/10k/1k) which is far deeper than most live final tables.
(more)
So far so good:
[img]http://blogs.cardrunners.com/images/image/verneer/6_1_2009.jpg[/img]
I cashed out a lot so I don't have much online, but I (more)
Authors note: In the interest of staying current while playing in the WSOP I’ll be temporarily skipping ahead to the current date. The entries from (more)
June 3rd, Las Vegas: I wake up naturally at 10:30am in the house. I take a shower, put on a suit, and go downstairs for breakfast. I am the first one (more)
Adding to my already pretty awesome year, this evening I won one of the $33 rebuy WSOP ME packages on pokerstars. I plan to play it, and already book (more)
One of the things that still really annoys the shit out of me – about myself – is that I STILL haven’t managed to lose the trash-talking, when I (more)
Been back in Waterloo for a week and a half and have been a lot more active than I usually am and enjoying myself quite a bit. One way or another I've (more)
Look at these 2 hand histories. One I have a fairly weak hand, but call huge bets based on my read. One I have a super strong hand (top set) and getti (more)
I played tournaments Friday and Sunday and did reasonably well, Friday I had like 13k in cashes across 3k in buyins(won a WSOP satelite and got 2nd in (more)
Still doing solid:
[img]http://blogs.cardrunners.com/images/image/verneer/blog/6_4_2009.jpg[/img]
It's pretty amazing how good some of the game (more)
Hey gang, I guess I'm due to write something here again and I played a couple hands that were kind of interesting today so I might as well write about (more)
My goal was to win 100 BI's at 100NL HU. Initially I wanted to make it 100BI's in 30 days, but since I will be traveling to Vegas, I doubt I will get (more)
June 4th, Las Vegas: I wake up at 10:45am in the Vegas house. I take a shower, get dressed, and go downstairs for breakfast. Again I am the first one (more)
In between regular sessions playing videogames and figuring out what I'm going to do Vegas-wise (current status: definitely playing the razzament, up (more)
Poker Podcast Guide 3rd Edition
In the world of Poker podcasts not many that stick around for long. Some have poker pros that are essentially losin (more)
As I blogged earlier, I was so tilted I had to quit twice while playing today, but overall had a good day which brings me up to 46% of my 100NL HU goa (more)
Actually I haven't booked my flights yet so I don't really know for sure whether it will be 8 or 9. Pretty excited about the run and hope everything g (more)
I am horrible at live poker. I've played at the Rio, Wynn, and Stratosphere (within walking distance of The Sky where I'm staying) and am down for th (more)
I absolutely intend to continue the soon-to-be “series” of blog posts about What I Do Well and What I Don’t Do Well, but right now I was in a wr (more)
Today I officially launched my first iPhone App. It was a bit longer in the works than planned but I'm really happy with Nag-O-Meter Deluxe. You can (more)
Well the analysis of last month has paid off the last couple of weeks.
Either that or I got lucky.
I got PokerTracker 3, but I haven't had a chanc (more)
Today is my last day in Vegas and so far I've really enjoyed my trip. Yesterday I was playing 1/2 at the Venetian with my CR hoodie on (it's freezing (more)
I check-raise well. God, I am just the awesomest (quote, Barney Stinson) check-raiser ever. When I check to all the donkeys and they donk into me with (more)
Around the World in 150 Days, Day 56, Bond18 and the Homosexual Groper by Bond18 Posted June 18th, 2009
June 5th, Las Vegas: I wake up in the upstairs room of the Vegas house. I take shower, eat breakfast, and then set up my laptop on the table in the li (more)
June 6th, Las Vegas: I wake up in the Vegas house and immediately feel like I ate too much Korean food last night. I’m going to Los Angeles today fo (more)
I played some six max today and a few hands came up, but this one was a gem:
Seat 1: Chicksbear ($135)
Seat 2: yankee34 ($96)
Seat 3: TheXC ($1 (more)
What a disaster this hand was. 1) Failed attempt to backraise preflop. 2) Misclick fold on the flop. 3) Trying to check hand history and time out on 2 (more)
Man I'd love to have a monthly review every month but fml I'm so busy. OK so here it goes.
In April I went to Vegas on my one weekend off of the mo (more)
Well, I don’t need to tell you – do I? You know all about it, you’ve been there before and will be there again soon enough… Yeah. Puke, yuck, (more)
Hey, I haven't written an update in a while though I figure my tweets should be doing a good enough job keeping you up to date. Obviously the series i (more)
Since the last update
Alright, last Sunday went pretty well, won the UB 530 and got 5th in the Party 530 with a pile of other cashes. I more or les (more)
[img]http://blogs.cardrunners.com/images/image/verneer/6_21_09.jpg[/img]
I did cheat a little as I took a shot at 200NL for a few hands when I wa (more)
I have run bad the last 2 days.
At least I broke even (largely due to people going allin drawing dead).
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eyOVJXwz22 (more)
During my stay in Vegas, Vanessa and I watched Cash Cab and these guys ended up taking over $2,000 during their ride. They decided to go for the vid (more)
Ew. I hate taking this long between updates, but I get in a spot where I sense that I haven't done anything, and writing about doing nothing is worse (more)
I just read a really interesting article from a parent's point of view of what it's like to have a child choose a career of professional internet poke (more)
June 7th, Los Angeles: I wake up around 10am in the hotel bed next to Andrew. I wasn’t even close to drunk last night but I still feel less than ste (more)
About 16 hours ago I was already mentally preparing a blog-entry. At the time, I still had several live tables up on my screen, but had just closed on (more)
Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.
Standard tournament on PokerStars, in the sense that we st (more)
[i]Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.[/i]
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Hey, this'll be pretty short since not much has happened since the last update, I just figured I'll keep updating pretty regularly so I don't get into (more)
I had my best month of ring NLHE results this year.
I got over $3,000 winning at every level ($25/hr, 123 hours).
An additional ~$1,500 in rakeback/ (more)
[i]Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.[/i] _____________________________________________________ (more)
June 8th, Las Vegas: I wake up in the Vegas house a little before 11am. I jump in the shower then throw on a suit and eat breakfast. A number of guys (more)
[i]Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.[/i]
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[i]Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.[/i]
Hand #284 – Stack 66328, blinds 1K/2K/a200
A (more)
Sometime on Wednesday I was still uncertain as to whether or not I would play in the Main Event, then decided to move some shares. I sold more than e (more)
Buy-in was $30+3, 666 entrants; the whole thing took 7.5 hours and 1st place was $3,746.
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Hey, again not a whole lot happening here. The last couple days I've been going through season 5 of lost and having mixed feelings.
I decided a lit (more)
After having a great June, I was hoping for it to continue into July. I had a rough start, being down $700 at one point. Not much winnings, but I stil (more)
This day gave me a hard reminder of why I don't like this city: Everyone is always trying to take your money.
It started with a simple taxi ride f (more)
Thursday: Golf at Paiote Golf Club 30 mins down the I-95. Very nice course and I shot my best round of the summer.
Friday: Main Event Day 1A. Went (more)
I think it’s almost inevitable that some sort of decline will follow after big successes. The days after my 4-figure score on PokerStars certainly f (more)
I had a few deep runs in some MTTs this morning, bubbled the NLO8 very crazily, the bubble lasted about 20 minutes, with about 15 allin survivals, the (more)
As anyone who has ever read this blog before knows, I can be a reckless person. The other day’s decision to write and post the Devilfish story was a (more)
I busted out of the Bellagio Cup main event yesterday, which was my last event of the summer in Las Vegas. Early this morning I took a flight from Las (more)
June was another month to forget. I managed 103 mtts with a profit of -$1369. Last month was just a continuation of running terrible. I managed 807 ha (more)
Hey, last week I played tournies 3 days last week(including Sunday which didnt end up turning around) and just about brokeven between them. For the fo (more)
I played a guy earlier today who was 3-betting 40% of his hands and just playing super aggro. I would limp and he would make it $8 to go almost alway (more)
Oversetted 5 times in 2 days vs. the pfr for my stack (not really reflected in the graph below).
Top set losing to flush draw, backdoor straight etc. (more)
It's the weirdest thing (or perhaps not, in case someone knows something I don't) but out of all the poker sites, I struggle on Full Tilt the most. Si (more)
10K since starting my new database in June:
[img]http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/914/7142009stats.jpg[/img]
And the graph:
[img]http://img339 (more)
Hey, FTP is pretty awesome, the seat they booked for me turned into a full out bed that was super comfy, definitely the best overseas flight I've had. (more)
I had my worst day ever at my normal limits NL($1).
This excludes the 2 times I took shots NL($50) and $30/$60 HL Stud.
Lost $825 over 16,200 hand (more)
Alright, so I basically was able to spend as much time in London as possible without the trip being a financial success.
As stated in my previous e (more)
If you - like me - feel that you're a fairly accomplished poker player, who knows his/her own game very well, but also recognizes his/her own limitati (more)
I am currently sitting in an internet cafe near central Nairobi. It has been one week since I've arrived now, and it has not been without incident. I (more)
Just picked it(Black 2008 Lexus IS 250) up this afternoon, its really nice and surprisingly convenient. Today while thinking about what to eat for din (more)
After complaining about running bad for ~3 weeks straight, I actually ended up with decent results in my largest volume month ever.
I played ~169,0 (more)
In July I managed 160 mtts with an average buy in of around $20-$25. Coming in to the last session of the month I was stuck for $735, but I managed to (more)
I’m finishing up my last few days here in Nairobi. It’s Saturday and I’m off from school until Monday and then leave for Dubai on Wednesday. I k (more)
I played 27k hands the last 2 days and I am $600 below allin EV. That translates into losing 30 coin flips in a row when short stacking NL($1)(6-max). (more)
Hey. still no pictures of the car but I'm really stupid for not getting one quite some time ago. Today I tried starting to make videos multiple times (more)
I cleared the $2000 milestone bonus (free $1200). It felt good. The journey was not as pleasant, being down $600 in allin EV is not fun.
I played 32k (more)
I decided to by a Eckhart Tolle as someone suggested in the comments in one of my previous blogs. I've also started watching some of Jared Tendler's (more)
Time to review my results once again. The last time I performed this excercise, I had a meager 190-200 rows of data to work with, whereas I'm now at a (more)
The recent conception of this blog has had an interesting affect on my personal life. I got used to anonymous comments and judgments being made about (more)
So the last couple weeks were fairly busy for me. I had the last couple weeks of running before my marathon, my marathon, the FTOPS and I went up to m (more)
I decimated my poker account the last 2 days.
$2000 downswing.
~$600 heads-up NL($1)
~$500 PLO
~$400 6-max NL($6)
~$500 in various NL
After (more)
I have not coached in a long while because I felt I wasn't happy with the product I was providing. Since then, I have done a lot of free sessions/eva (more)
It has been a long five months. I left Melbourne on April 10th and got back at about 6am this morning, after leaving Macau early because I didn’t fe (more)
Things it took me a while to learn part 23, Considering Variables Against R by Bond18 Posted September 3rd, 2009
Authors note: As I wrote, when I returned home I would return to the job of studying and writing, including strategy writing. It's been a long time si (more)
Could you quit playing poker if you wanted to?
What would you do with an extra 5-6 hours a day to fill the time?
Will you think about the money you (more)
Since the last update I haven't played online at all, but my new 2 part video series is up. I haven't rewatched them since making them several weeks(m (more)
Was considering giving up, and had withdrawn all but $1000.
I have only rebuilt to $1900 in the last 3 weeks, still not enough to play the normal lim (more)
Another short update, will make a more thorough update of the trip once I get home but my flight leaves in a few hours. Yesterday I didn't really get (more)
I haven't updated this blog in quite some time.
I lasted 3 days in the WSOP ME, but busted well before the money. I probably played at least one (more)
Hola, amigos. Been a long time since I rapped at ya. (Great, I'm ripping off [url=http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/view/anchower]Jim Ancho (more)
The hard drive on my computer died and I lost all my files (poker and otherwise). I had a few important files backed up, but I lost all my databases, (more)
Ottawa has been pretty fun so far, I played 3 days of WCOOP this week and unless my 12k stack in the main event turns into something, it was pretty di (more)
Play 6-max and try to maintain a b/e or positive red line. I will try not to check the amount of $ I won until the end of each week (although I alrea (more)
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August was terrible I finished the month playing 122 mtts and lost $1.5k. September was very much the opposite I only played 72 mtts but finished th (more)
[b]Posting on 2+2[/b]
The whole reason for writing a blog is – for me at least – to have an outlet. You know, to broadcast victories, losses a (more)
I have had several friends/associates ask me about backing me and i was hoping to get some feedback/advice/suggestions on a biz plan that I can put to (more)
Final table of the PS $109 Turbo $20K guar last night and down to 6 handed and this hand comes up: (technically 7 handed but 1 is so short hes moot)
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... Unfortunately not mine though.
Good news, only a freeroll, so didn't cost me anything.
Playing in the Carbon Badugi freeroll today, where g (more)
Havent blogged in a long time but I may start more simply because last night I got in contact with Shodown Couture and I am now part of their regional (more)
I've never had my own blog before, but I've decided that I may as well start one. Seems as though it's a prerequisite to being good at poker, so this (more)
I would have had an awful lot of fun winning a damn tourney yesterday, that's for sure.
I had a good day Friday, picking up 3 2nd's on Friday in (more)
It has been over two months since I've wrote a blog entry. Although the last two months of my life have been some of the most absurdly motivated and p (more)
October I'm really not sure how I did somehow I misplaced 1k of my bankroll due to some math errors after adjusting for an extra 1k I made right aroun (more)
I haven't felt so indifferent about poker in a really long time. I don't really know why, but nothing has really been going right on a consistent bas (more)
So I got home from class at 3:30 today, and instead of doing what I planned on, which happened to be literally anything that wasn't poker, I sat down (more)
I feel like I'm playing a lot better over the last few months than I had ever been, and results are finally starting to show up. I've put in more vol (more)
I get numerous requests for coaching a week. Interestingly, I get requests for coaching on a number of different subjects; poker, women, writing, fitn (more)
(Authors note: I wrote this for BBV4L on 2+2 and to generally try to put some positive light on an aspect of my life that gets highly stigmatized. Yes (more)
I've never had a 5-figure score until a week ago, when I played the initial tournament at the APPT Sydney. They started the series off with a 1K Deeps (more)
I just realized that I forgot to write a Trip report for the Girl Talk concert that was at my school about 3 weeks ago. Let me start off by saying th (more)
Sydney has always been one of my favorite stops in the tour. I arrived late in a cool sumer evening the night of the 28th off a 10 hour flight from (more)
Well, 2009 is about to come to a close, and with it, I'm wrapping up my time in Houston, at least temporarily, and setting forth on the poker trail on (more)
I think I played 2 tourneys between my last entry and Saturday night. Seems kind of ridiculous, but I had to try and do something other than play pok (more)
I've been actively posting on the 2+2 tournament forums since early 2006. In those days Party was the highest volume tournament sight and Paradise pok (more)
I never liked Tiger Woods. I never disliked him either, as far as I was concerned he wasn't interesting enough to feel strongly about. I was always a (more)
I can still remember the first time I played poker with my friends. It was just a little over seven years ago, and I was recently 18. We were at a fri (more)
Before my trip I threw a birthday party in my apartment for my friend Lachie. At our high point we had perhaps 40 or 50 people in the place and everyo (more)
I've been playing a lot more over the holidays and I feel like I've finally turned the corner. I went on a tremendous winning streak starting about t (more)
I've turned into a poker geek again. For a long time my focus just wasn't on the game, but lately I've been playing six days a week again and really g (more)
Having not written anything in the last 20 days or so, there's plenty to catch up on. First off, I still haven't done the 24 hr session. I'll do it (more)
I recently read Lee Watkinson's latest blog entry. I don't know the guy particularly well, but from what I can tell he seems like a nice guy and I've (more)
I had a really weird 2009. I made 4 fts to big mtts for me during the first 3 months and ran really bad at them getting 2 4ths and 2 8ths. However I d (more)
I had a few bad sessions in a row the last couple of days-- nothing crushing, but enough to make me pause and rethink what I was doing. The loss coul (more)
In point form-
- I found a full on backer. I'm going to make a fuckload of money for him.
- I'm trying to stay positive, however:
- (more)
It's that time of year again. I look forward to the Aussie Millions more than any other tournament series. It's the perfect length, in the perfect cit (more)
Went to the bar last night to watch a band. They were okay. One of my roommates was sitting with a bunch of her girl friends, so obviously I start h (more)
I played the first event of the Aussie Millions twice. Much like the Poker News Cup before it, the event was a "repecharge" where players are allowed (more)
I just heard about this, but it seems that Stars is offering a little freeroll series the last week in January for bloggers. Winners get SCOOP ticket (more)
At work things have been really slow, so my company I still technically work for decided to transfer 6 of us to other departments for less pay. I wasn (more)
Nothing like getting a backer and bricking every single tourney for the first week. I've been running like hell ever since we started and have subseq (more)
I dunno if anyone reads this but went semi good in the FTP Superstack 15k Guaranteed last night before being busted with A[d] J[d] to a third parties (more)
I've been watching LOST with my roommates constantly for the last like week-10 days in preparation for the season 6 premiere. We've marathonned the e (more)
My January consisted of me working the first 2 weeks at my job and the last 2 weeks I grinded 8 sessions. Tilt seems to be my biggest issue and I thin (more)
I only played 3 online mtt sessions. On Monday I felt really drained and just slept in real late, I'm pretty sure it was a combo of a minor sinus infe (more)
Geez, I'm terrible at updating this thing regularly. I keep thinking about it, and then I get to it once every two weeks or so.
Anyway, a big re (more)
After accumulating five years of material all over various blogs and websites I've decided to consolidate it on a proper website of my own, though it (more)
Some girl just messaged me asking if I Went to "the review class on Wednesday?"
Crap.
Apparently I have a midterm tomorrow morning at 9:45. I (more)
February Week 2
I didn't get the volume I wanted. I played Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday which was good but I also wanted to get in a long se (more)
I'm gradually learning to structure my life better. I've pared my life of most of the unimportant things, and now I'm trying to stop wasting time and (more)
The last week has been a total waste. I was correct in my self diagnosis of strep throat, and it kept me coughing and exhausted for the majority of th (more)
February Week 3.
Wow!!!! I had one hell of a week. I fted a bunch of shit. I felt a bit snake bit at the $55 fo fts I made. I ended the week by win (more)
I went up to Austin last weekend for my first real vacation in nine months or so. It was a revelation; a great chance to decompress and a reminder of (more)
Haven't really done much worth writing about in the last little while. I've had a ton of school work to do since I last wrote. Mostly papers and ass (more)
I have played 2 sessions of poker in the last 2 weeks. I've been extremely busy with exams, which sucks since I was going on a bit of a tear before t (more)
I've put a lot of hours in this week, which has me thinking about poker, which has me thinking about writing something about poker. It's late this ho (more)
I blew it today. No bones about it.
I ran well and played well (and developed a pretty solid strategy for the format in the meantime) in today's e (more)
My life is boring. Just letting everyone know that I'm still alive despite not writing in a month. I'm also on a ~90 ABI downswing, but don't wanna (more)
Still not a whole lot to say, but there have been a few developments of late, so here goes.
Got a message from my backer the other day. He was cur (more)
There's a live $330 Freezeout coming up this weekend, and there was a satellite for it tonight at 7PM. I show up at 7:05 and ask if I can buy in late, (more)
My First Live Tourney- TR. Freaky and weird, dude. also quite long. by thebigeasy59 Posted June 14th, 2010
I show up like 2 minutes before they deal, but am somehow the first person to sit at my table. I draw the 1-seat (:sad: ) We started with a comedic 4k (more)
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=19691904&postcount=178 (more)
I'm on a heater. Won a $2r turbo for like 400, took 4th in $25 MSOP for 5k, won $15 super turbo for 1500 all within about 24 hrs. I thought it was c (more)
(1:09:21 AM) Grady:
someone was talking about phil laaks marathon session and how he played 104 hours or whatever, someone mentions that his longest (more)
Just when I had some money goals and hand goals I wanted to reach at the end of the month, I immediately hit a 20-buyin downswing. Every time I sat d (more)
Nothing much to report, hence the lack of blogs lately. I've been downswinging since mid-June, which I suppose is to be expected after a really heate (more)
A few of you took me up on my offer last time it was open. Here's a brief detail:
Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I'll be posting a much mor (more)
Getting ready to move back to school in a couple days. I'm typically pretty excited to get back, but this time around it feels pretty different for a (more)
Meant to update this before the MLB playoffs started but I forgot. Roy Halladay is good at baseball. I put money on all the Pinnacle underdogs becau (more)
Brent Buckley Pleads Guilty
April 15th 2011 will forever be remembered as Black Friday in the poker world. With that da (more)
So I’m learning how to play Omaha. Well, I know HOW to play Omaha, but I’m learning how to really sit and play the game. Chinook Winds has (more)
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