Poker Blogs by lakong in the General category
Below are all the poker blog posts written by lakong in the category of "General".
Random thoughts on poker Posted 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)
Poker on TV Posted 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)
Poker on the Radio Posted 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)
Quad Kings -- Odd Situtation Posted 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)
Good Phil Ivey - Patrik Antonius Hand on FT Posted December 16th, 2006
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)
Home Game Fun Posted 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)
HSP Hand - Townsend vs. Antonius Hand Posted April 11th, 2007
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)
Gazes vs. Brown HU - misreading board and letting it affect future play 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)
Moneymaker Folds KK pre-flop at WSOP Event Posted June 6th, 2007
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)
Welcome to the WSOP Posted 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)
Venetian Deep Stack Tournament Posted 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)
NL 1500 - Event # 35 Posted 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)
Hey, WSOP Bracelet Winner. Get out of my seat! Posted June 24th, 2007
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)
deliberate stalling in online tournaments Posted August 29th, 2007
I was just reading through a thread on twoplustwo that really hit home to me. The author of a post was playing a $1000 satellite to an EPT event onli (more)
So Mikey.... what do you really think of your buddy Gus? Posted September 20th, 2007
I was reading Bond18's recent post [url=http://www.tworags.com/blog/Bond18]The Worst Player I know[/url] and it made me think of a video I saw a whil (more)
ePassporte is such a joke! Posted September 25th, 2007
I haven't played online in months since the old neteller days and wanted to try my hand at some of the wcoop events so Adam suggested I give ePassport (more)
When you lose a hand -- just shut the (*&%$% up! Posted October 15th, 2007
I was just playing a 6-handed turbo on PS when this hand came up:
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PS Blog Championship -- playing like a maniac, no other choice Posted October 15th, 2007
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)
TwoRags.com just changed servers and new design Posted November 5th, 2007
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)
A fun little heads-up hand for your enjoyment! Posted November 26th, 2007
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)
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)
Commerce Freeroll, Bike Cash games and upcoming LA Poker Classic 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)
Brunson, Flack, Conseco and the TwoRags Gang Posted February 26th, 2008
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)
WSOP PS Step Challenge - Step 6: Part II Posted May 30th, 2008
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)
I'm sick to my stomach over Bond's WSOP Final Table Beat Posted June 18th, 2008
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)
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)
WSOP ME - End of Day 4 Podiman, Badgerpro and Thayer still going strong 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)
Podiman ME Update -- 100th place Posted 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)
WPT Bellagio Cup IV -- TwoRaggers on the Leaderboard Posted July 15th, 2008
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)
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)
60 Minutes Absolute Poker Scandal Feature Posted December 1st, 2008
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)
Word Series of Poker Final Table Posted 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)
Funny pokerstars chat exchange Posted 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)
Classic Bond18/Fossilman = Woody Allen/Marshall McLuhan Posted February 2nd, 2009
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)
Pokerstars Colluders Caught and I was Cheated... Who knew? Posted April 10th, 2009
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)
Great Prop Bet -- Spoon Bending with the Mind Posted April 24th, 2009
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)
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)
Nag-O-Meter iPhone App and a little Poker Content Posted June 15th, 2009
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)
NY Times article on a parent's perspective of Online Poker Playing Posted June 29th, 2009
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)
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