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lakong
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I've been playing poker all of my life, but didn't start playing Texas Hold'em until Moneymaker's World Series win. I do play cash games, mostly $3-6 and $5-10 NL, but like to focus mostly on tournaments. While I sometimes play the local weekly tournaments at the Hustler casino and have played few large multi-table online tournaments, I focus predominantly on $500-2,500 professional tournaments at WPT events in Los Angeles and Vegas. I have played quite a few events at the World Series the past two years, including the Main Event in 2005. My best finishes to date are a 2nd place at a $500 rebuy event at the Commerce, a 1st place on a Partypoker $100+9, and a few top 15 finishes at various events in the $500+ buy-in range.

Poker Blogs by lakong
For those of you who might not have noticed (is it possible to not have noticed?), we're now offering rakeback... do you see those promotions in the l (more)
Strong cash game resultsPosted July 4th, 2009
Played at the Hustler again last night. As always, I started in the nightly tournament which was a $100 buy-in event. They started us with 10k in ch (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)
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)
You got to love home games!Posted May 15th, 2009
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)
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 newof (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)
I ended up playing 4 NL tournaments -- two full table normal tournaments, one shootout and one short-handed. I didn't go very deep in any of them. I (more)
I had planned on playing the 6-handed $545 tournament. Matt Savage and I exchanged emails and I wanted to stop by to see him and get in some poker. (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)
Funny pokerstars chat exchangePosted January 21st, 2009
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)
Word Series of Poker Final TablePosted January 6th, 2009
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)
More live poker...Posted December 24th, 2008
First things first... in my last blog entry I recapped the beginning of several hands without discussing my actions. In summary (not sure if order ma (more)
I haven't played any poker in a few months and was really missing it so decided to head over to the Hustler on Friday night. The session was extremel (more)
60 Minutes finally ran the feature on the Absolute Poker Scandal. You can watch the video and read a summary of the story here. Adanthar is featur (more)
Vivek wins Borgata Poker Open!Posted September 18th, 2008
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 wins Borgata Poker Open!Posted September 18th, 2008
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)
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)
Podiman ME Update -- 100th placePosted July 13th, 2008
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)
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)
Great Fun at Club One -- NOT!Posted June 30th, 2008
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)
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)
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)
It's that time of year again. The WSOP is just around the corner and need to decide on my plans. Three years ago I won a seat into the Main Event by (more)
Edmond and I made plans to "bring our home game to the Commerce" this past Monday. The Commerce has a great program where they will host your regular (more)
Shortest 9-handed SnG ever!Posted May 12th, 2008
I played in the weirdest Sit-n-Go ever. It was a Stars step qualifier to the WSOP Main Event. I was just fooling around at Step 1. The entire SnG t (more)
Podiman called two weeks to say that he’s coming out to LA for a visit and was to play in the Bicycle Club’s Stars and Stripes tournament this we (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)
David, out friend from the Commerce, sent me a text message informing me that he had 5 tickets to the Commere’s private suite at Staples Center. Th (more)
I made it out to the Commerce last Friday night (February 1st) for the $545 NL event #8 of the LA Poker Classic. Approximately 550 runners showed up (more)
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)
Played in the October tournament series at the Bike last night. The buy-in was $350 with 200 or so runners. I got home around 3:30am and only slept (more)
Happy New Year!Posted January 1st, 2008
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)
Had to drop off some tworags/commerce promotional cards at the Commerce this afternoon and even though I didn't have much time to play I couldn't resi (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)
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)
Sucking out at the BikePosted October 18th, 2007
Edmond and I met with the marketing folks at the Bike today and we were done around 5pm. I saw no reason to head out the door when the sweat sound of (more)
I was just playing a 6-handed turbo on PS when this hand came up: ****************************************************************** Big Blind is (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)
ePassporte is such a joke!Posted September 25th, 2007
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)
I was reading Bond18's recent post The Worst Player I know and it made me think of a video I saw a while back. If you enjoy watching guys go off on (more)
First Satellite I made it the Commerce around 3pm. The tournament wasn’t starting until 7pm so I had plenty of time to play a one table satel (more)
Finally playing a live tournament!Posted September 6th, 2007
I haven't played a live tournament since the end of June during the World Series of Poker. It's hard to believe it's now been over two months since I (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)
I visited the Commerce last week to meet with some potential business partners. After the meeting I decided to stick around for a few hour cash game (more)
Party $100+9 Multi WinPosted August 20th, 2007
This report was actually from January of this year, but I wasn't using this blog site then so only posted the report on 2+2. Since I haven't won too (more)
I don't recognize anyone at my table and most people look pretty nervous so I just peg everyone as inexperienced unless they show my that they are not (more)
I have two pair. Can you beat it?Posted June 29th, 2007
I apologize for running a bit behind on my tournament blogging, but I did write up a long post two nights ago only to have it vanish in the internet t (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)
NL 1500 - Event # 35Posted June 24th, 2007
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)
Venetian Deep Stack TournamentPosted June 22nd, 2007
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)
Welcome to the WSOPPosted June 20th, 2007
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)
2007 WSOP Journey starts tomorrowPosted June 18th, 2007
So I'm finally ready to stop writing about poker and actually start playing poker. The schedule is cleared, the reservations have been made and the b (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)
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)
Played in the $125 plus one rebuy tournament last Monday. There were approximately 130 entrants and we started off with 1500 chips at the 25/25 level (more)
I made my way over to the Huslter last night for the 7pm tournament. Hadn't played any poker for a few weeks so when StrayBullet mentioned that he w (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)
This is one of the sickest poker hands you'll ever see. Comments are welcome! (more)
$1k NL LAPC tournamentPosted February 27th, 2007
I played in the last event at the LAPC prior to the main event. It was another $1k event with about 500 runners. Like last week, I got off to anothe (more)
So my wife and I planned to head up to Santa Barbara wine country for a romantic Valentine's dinner at the Sunstone Vineyard with a few other couples. (more)
LA Poker Classic - $1k NL eventPosted February 7th, 2007
I got off to a REALLY fast start. We start off with 2500 chips for the 25/25 level (big field – about 450 runners, $1k each). At the end of the 2n (more)
Home Game FunPosted January 22nd, 2007
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)
Fun session at Caesars PalacePosted January 2nd, 2007
I visited Vegas last week and played in the new room at Casears for the first time and really enjoyed it -- see my review at here. I played the $2 (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)
Quad Kings -- Odd SitutationPosted December 2nd, 2006
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)
Full Tilt -- no bad beat storiesPosted November 30th, 2006
I've continued to receive some bad beats, but I've also began to suck-out just as much -- a few QQ and KK beating AA, my two pair getting all in on th (more)
Hey, I don't mean this blog to be filled with bad beats. But this one was classic. I guess the 5 out-er on river that I wrote about last night was n (more)
I decided to try my hand at Full Tilt for the first time - and play like the pros as they say on the commercials. Or do they say 'Play with the pros? (more)
Poker on the RadioPosted November 21st, 2006
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)
Poker on TVPosted November 13th, 2006
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)
Back to work at the HustlerPosted November 9th, 2006
So I was speaking to Edmond yesterday and he mentioned that he was heading out to the Hustler for their Wed. tournament. If you read my blog from yes (more)
Random thoughts on pokerPosted November 8th, 2006
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)
I stayed at the Rio the last time I went to Vegas. I had a pretty sick hand come up at the $2/5 NL table. My action on the river still bothers me a (more)
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