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Poker Blogs in the "Tournaments" category
Below are all the poker blog posts in the Tournaments category.
Played in a couple tournaments last night in my regular home game. In the first, a $10 buy-in six-handed, winner-take-all, single table donk-n-go, I (more)
We had our bi-weekly home game last night and I was fortunate enough to win it. Actually, I split the 1st and 2nd place money w/ a visitor and took t (more)
Today, I'm going to take a break from posting in lesson format and just talk about satellites.
I love sats. They are my best game and almost everyo (more)
I recently played the WSOP Circuit event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas ($5,000 buy-in Main Event) and ran into two hands that have started me thinkin (more)
Moving up in the points race!
I played in my “other” home game last night. The host set it up after my structure and it is a very enjoyable game (more)
Taking a long break always makes me want to play more poker right after getting back. I've been playing a decent amount since Thursday and should have (more)
In a fit of OCD waiting for room service during my recent Tahoe trip, I compared the 2006 WSOP structure with the revised "double stack" structure for (more)
A quick announcement - a new quarterly magazine is picking up this blog as a syndicated column, along with some additional content from yours truly. W (more)
WSOP trip report part 1, fun with culture shock/gazillion hour flights by Bond18 Posted June 6th, 2007
So I guess I’ll keep a WSOP log in this manner throughout the series to catalog interesting events and play throughout the events. I’ll be playing (more)
5k mixed holdem - Day 1
When I headed down to the Rio poker room I knew things would be busy, but what I was not expecting was the absolute pandamoni (more)
WSOP report part 3, The Devil in Miss Elizabeth, events 3 and 5
After a quick day 2 bust out in the 5k event (that was highly uneventful seeing as I (more)
WSOP trip report part 4, Return of the Rebuy, event 8
I had to stand in line for about 20 minutes to register for today’s 1000 rebuy’s tournament (more)
Not much happened today. I went to the Venetian to play their 1K deep stack event (instead of the WSOP 5K pot limit event, which is supposedly harder (more)
Today, unfortunately, was pretty much a wash. I busted out of the main $1500 event fairly early with AQ against AA on an ace high flop (yuck), then we (more)
WSOP trip report part 5, Grounddonk Day, Event 10
Is there really anyone out there who didn’t enjoy the classic Bill Murray comedy ‘Groundhog d (more)
Most of those hours, unfortunately, were not in the $2500, as I busted out of that at the 150/300/25 level. My actual bustout hand was fairly uneventf (more)
Also, I got no pocket pairs, AK's or AQ's in 90 minutes. Busto! Meh, there's always the limit shootout next month.
The good news is, other than a (more)
WSOP Event #15 $1500 NL: In which Dana goes deep, Edmond chops an STT and Adanthar continues his war with luck...
[b]The Setup[/b]
My buddy (more)
Ugh, I tried to update this a night or two ago and my PC crashed in the middle of writing. Anyway, I'll give you a quick recap.
Friday I entered t (more)
Well, when it comes to sats, anyway. I didn't get anywhere in either of the last two big tournaments - once due to a bad bluff on my part, once due to (more)
I've got 7100 chips with ~134 people left, right around the average. I was completely controlling my first table for a while before going card dead, s (more)
It sucks when you do, though. 0 for 3 in big pots with a medium stack/winning one pot overall will do that. I didn't play particularly well, but there (more)
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)
I made the round of 64 in the WSOP $5000 heads-up match. They started with something like 390 players so many of us (including me) got first-round by (more)
Well, mostly. I had time to chop another satellite in between sweating Nath and a couple of other people. The 525's are getting a bit harder as the WS (more)
Its 3:30pm on the day of event 13 and I’m in my room writing. In the last two days I lasted a total of about 5 hours in 2 tournaments. Lets find out (more)
Ugh, I feel like I never have time to write these out in full. Anyway, a quick summary before I leave:
Wednesday was day 2 of the heads up event a (more)
There's too much stuff for me to put into one post, so I'll just start off with the trip report from Saturday's 1500.
Most of us coming from the SA (more)
I was going to do a full update of these two days, as well, but as it turns out, I actually played a full day today so that will have to go on the bac (more)
Today's also known as "the day I played the best hand of my live poker career and have nothing to show for it". Sigh.
There won't be any good tour (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 7, The Never Ending Gory, Event 15 and Venetian 1k by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
Warning: This chapter chronicles two tournaments as well as various random happenings, and since one of the tournaments was deep stacked it’s going (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 8, An Afternoon with Phil Hellmuth, Events 19 and 21 by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
It’s the morning of event 19, $2500 NL holdem, and I need to meet Stevepa to get money as I am cash busto. Lately, whenever I call up Steve the conv (more)
Some nights you get just the perfect amount of sleep, enough to feel fully rested, but not so much that you’re a little drowsy. This morning I wake (more)
WSOP Trip Report Part 10, Screw you guys, I'm going home, No events by Bond18 Posted November 20th, 2007
Because I’ve got a flight today at 6:30pm I didn’t play any events yesterday or today. The next event I’ll be playing is the $2500 on the 18th. (more)
On Friday afternoon I left for the Vegas airport for my 6:30pm flight that would touch down in Milwaukee a little before midnight. When I got to the a (more)
Today at the WSOP is the $5000 heads up tournament which I have really have no interest in playing, so I decided to go over to the Bellagio and play t (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 13, Never Say Never Again, Bellagio 5k and Event 35 by Bond18 Posted June 27th, 2007
It’s Wednesday or Thursday and I’m heading out to the Bellagio for the 2pm 5k event. I say ‘Wednesday or Thursday’ because in Vegas knowing th (more)
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)
Unfortunately, my PC ate the first version of this, so, a quick recap: after not playing yesterday, I decided to play the 5K 6max today. I got from 10 (more)
I skipped Friday's 2K event due largely to lack of sleep, but played in today's 1500 event. Despite starting the day as an alternate 2 hours in (meani (more)
Step 1: Get dealt 66x1, 55x2, 22x1 and no other pairs or AT+ in 4 hours
Step 2: Drift down from 93K at 1/2K to 43K at 2/4K
Step 3: Lose a race
Ste (more)
The rebuy results = pretty uneventful. I busted 370-ish out of 1000 after misplaying a hand, but in retrospect it was a pretty tough spot to avoid. I (more)
I just realized I said '2 for 13' in my last entry but didn't explain what that actually means. Most people don't understand how ridiculous the tourna (more)
[22:09] Adanthar: so I have a limit shootout table with matt matros, david levi, shawn keller and 2 other guys who aren't supposed to suck
[22:10] Ad (more)
It’s been over a week and I still can’t shake the image. Her bovine body…bloated face…open mouth…chewing…and chewing…
It was (more)
If there’s one event I really don’t care to play during my stay in Vegas for the summer, it’s a $1500 buy in WSOP event. The fields are absurdly (more)
WSOP Trip Report part 15, The Devil in Miss Elizabeth 2, Bellagio $1500 by Bond18 Posted July 5th, 2007
When you’re going to bed at 6am planning to play a 2pm tournament you know your not getting enough sleep, you so you anticipate not having your full (more)
[url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=11083579&an=0&page=0#Post11083579]Iweargoggles runs worse than me.[/url] Not that bei (more)
I wasn't even going to enter the Stars 100k until my roommates talked me into it and I registered a minute before it started.
I took down almost 24 (more)
I'll let my 2+2 posts speak for themselves:
8:13 PM:
[quote]11K @ dinner break after a (two card) boat < quads and AT < 66 on an A43 board. pret (more)
Big news today: the house has yet another 100K winner, as JCarver won the FTP 500K tonight while making some absolutely spectacular calldowns. Congrat (more)
It was over a short five and a half hours in.
Some highlights:
-Playing far too many pots, I swing early up to 22k down to 19k up to 24k down to (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)
In all honesty, going into today’s main event, I’m not looking forward to it. In some manner of speaking, I don’t even want to play it. That doe (more)
My whole life I’ve been pretty lucky in regards to health and physical concerns. I’m allergic to nothing; never been seriously ill, fast metabolis (more)
I convince Sirwatts to spend an entire day out Wednesday wasting time and eating food so I’ll be appropriately tired that night. The plan works and (more)
Looks like I've got 3 recaps to write instead of 2. I set tonight aside to finally get to work on the blog after I busted out of the Sundays, but mana (more)
Fortunately, it keeps on not happening because instead of having time to write a long entry, I keep making deep runs. Tonight was a nice monkey off my (more)
Another day, another FT - this time, 4'th/231 in the UB 129 bounty-ment for $2,000. I ran and played pretty well up until the final table, where 66 < (more)
Before I start, yet another "congrats", this time to my friend Leo (Pechorin/Superfluous Man on this site), who FT'd both the $1050 and the $162 MTT's (more)
In my last blog, somebody asked me what tricks I've learned over the last couple of months. I wasn't going to talk about it much - there are some thin (more)
Tonight I went out with friends to celebrate a totally pointless 6 weeks of life. We got very drunk and this is what happened:
Watts/Stevepa/Johnny (more)
I didn't play the Sunday Million last week and went out early the week before, but tonight, I made another deep run in the biggest tourney of the week (more)
It's been a while since I've updated, but I've been busy running sick good. I've run super hot at tournaments (at least at the end of July) and at ca (more)
The one problem with these tournaments (I'll have a trip report up at some point this week - this room and series are both very well run) is their sta (more)
Short update:
I wound up not playing Event 3 (the bounty tournament) for sleep reasons, either. I did play the 6 max this morning (and the 1K 6max (more)
I never thought I would start a blog but I'm doing this for one main reason...to meet other poker players to help improve my game. I've read cou (more)
[b]Exposition and Early Levels[/b]
From the moment [b]lakong[/b] approached me about making a post describing my PokerStars Sunday Million win, I t (more)
After the < 2 hour run at TS, I put in a full tournament schedule tonight but quickly busted out of everything except the FTOPS LO8 event I entered on (more)
Pre-7/1, tournaments around town routinely drew fields of 100 or more, at several different rooms. This was at the truly horrid 30% vig with 20 and so (more)
In four years of playing poker, I've never managed to outright bubble a big satellite until today. 35'th/169 with 34 paid - they tried their best to b (more)
After writing my entry today I entered a Stars $109 and finished 2nd to last...lol. I had TP with a fdraw and villain flopped a flush with 24s.
(more)
[b]Sputtering start, but a start indeed[/b]
My week started off very well as I picked up a buyin at $50NL on Monday night. On Tuesday night I play (more)
There's no particular overriding theme to these hands, but I think they're worth posting and make for a good read...
This is a story of 3 hands fro (more)
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 playing the FT $26 tournament today and would like some insight on how I played this hand. Sorry about the format. 1000 entrants and about 50 p (more)
Also got a bunch of videos out of it, but still trying to figure out how the software works. I might have something up later.
Anyway...77'th/3499 o (more)
What it do, tworaggers?? Your friendly neighborhood [b]magloo[/b] here, reporting in. I just wanted to write a blog and fill you guys in on what’s (more)
Most of this week's been pretty uneventful, with the exception of me blowing lots of chips in the WCOOP 5cd event (not that anyone knows how to play 5 (more)
I was going to write a longer blog today but one of the guys who took 10th in the 5 Card Draw (5CD) tournament that I finished 5th in writes over at f (more)
Haven't played much since the 5CD tourney. Played in the $530 WCOOP last Sunday and then in the $1050 WCOOP this Sunday.
I went home for the weeke (more)
This has been another odd trip back to London. The things that I expected to workout have all failed miserably and anything I didn't expect to work di (more)
I haven't played any tournies in awhile because I really don't have the 5-6 hours of time it takes to dedicate to playing one during the week. I got (more)
Wednesday was frustrating again and I'm completely fed up with tournaments for the time being. I'm not going to play the WCOOP ME and probably won't (more)
I played the PLO and Triple Shoot-out WCOOP events on PokerStars today. I was looking forward to both.
In the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament I busted f (more)
Its 6 in the morning, I can't sleep so I'm posting this entry to answer a question I've been asking myself for the past few weeks. Are live SNGs worth (more)
Day8, 9/28:
Is anyone getting sick of this yet? I think I’ve “talked” more to you folks than I have my own wife, but then again, she doesn (more)
After a nice two mostly poker-free weeks (although I've put in a few hours in the last several days), I'm finally leaving Seoul tomorrow. It's been a (more)
This is the first day where I've actually started to feel good. Still have a pretty wicked headache but it's much better than where I was at before.
(more)
I was in a tourney on PokerStars today and had a fairly funny hand occur at my table. I was in 2nd position after the BB and was dealt AA. Blinds are (more)
Ok, so I miss the first couple of hands of the tournament but whatever, we're starting with 10k and 50/100 blinds.
I sit down and my first hand tma (more)
Bodog Poker Blogger Tourney #2
Filed in archive Internet Poker by David Aydt on September 11, 2007
Info from this site: [url=http://www.keepyou (more)
I'm going to add some hands as I go...hopefully it will help me play better after my idiotic play I just made :)
I'm the chip leader on button with (more)
1st is the worst, 2nd is the best, thayer's the one with the hairy chest by shaundeeb Posted November 2nd, 2007
So I wanted to toss something up quick prior to the post with my 1k HH from my recent 2nd place in the Stars Super Tuesday tourney. I took down close (more)
I honestly don't remember the last time I made a post regarding online poker results. As most of you know by now, I only play online when I'm in the m (more)
Since the AP thingamajig started, I've played very little and have gone on a very peculiar streak. On the one hand, I'm "almost" playing well - making (more)
Keeping a promise to myself to at least briefly update the blog after Sundays:
Everything considered, it was a pretty mediocre day, one of those "o (more)
I have plenty to talk about today. Also I want to thank you guys for your comments, keep them coming.
[b]Borgata Deep Stack 5K[/b]
One of my t (more)
I haven't posted in awhile because I haven't played that much poker recently. On Sunday I got the itch to play in a tournament and was going to play (more)
lol tournaments. Jeez, can I stop losing with AA to Ax for a week? I think that's three in a row now. :(
Oh well. In lieu of anything resembling a (more)
I was playing very well in this tourney and self destructed. With 190 or so left I was in the top 20 with a 95k stack. My table was playing very tig (more)
[img]http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9153/56kwindx1.jpg[/img]
Step 1: suck out hardcore ~5 times
Step 2: play pretty well
Step 3: set up, then (more)
I'm extremely upset at how I ended this tournament. I was 2nd in chips with 15 left when the hand below happened. I was in a good situation in this (more)
Showing other people how I play so that they may beat me at pokah by Adanthar Posted November 29th, 2007
In between taking a couple of days off (I always do this when I play so late it messes up my sleep schedule) I've been analyzing my play in the donkam (more)
Short version: I went 1 for 6 today, but the 1 was a 7'th place in the UB 200K for 7,000. This one's bittersweet; I sucked out on the first hand of IT (more)
This is my first chance to discuss my 3rd place finish at the WSOP Circuit Event in New Orleans, LA.
I took Monday off work to fly to NOLA and play (more)
The 3K yesterday was amazing - I actually managed to go 0 VPIP for the first 90 minutes. Given I showed up a little late, it means I went into the fir (more)
Today counts as a weekend because I say it does and because it equally went nowhere, heh. I didn't play either of the Bellagio 5K's (under the weather (more)
I'll have more about Vivek's hand in my next entry since he still hasn't posted it online yet. In the meantime, here's a brag post about the satellit (more)
SirWatts reports in during second break in WPT Bellagio ME:
[url=http://www.tworags.com/files/sirwatts_bellagiomea.wav]Bellagio Five Diamond - ME - (more)
Okay, where do I start with today?
Umm...let's start with yesterday, instead. I lasted 90 minutes in yesterday's sat (thus, 0 for 3 on seeing the 2 (more)
On second thought, I can't really sleep yet (soon, though!), so briefly, good hands from today:
-Re: Vivek: He calls PF. I think this is okay again (more)
Short version because I'm a little tired: I have 119,700, right around the average with 152 people left (paying 100). The blinds will be [edit: 1500/3 (more)
Buuuuuuuusto ~54'th for 29K (which, minus staking and makeup, means I made 1K on the series. Ship it?)
There were a bunch of hands, but the key fou (more)
Well I had a pretty sleepy 13 hours worth of flights to get over there wasn't so bad Im kind of getting used to this whole pond hopping traveling. Get (more)
Well....For my first Blog I figured I would blog about playing the Stars $10 Rebuy tonight. The Rebuy period has gone well so far after doubling up w (more)
2nd Hour started off nicely but ends badly.....
After a guy lost most of his stack except for about 4K and I got my AQ in against his 107s preflop (more)
Playing $10 Rebuy again tonight.....Hopefully goes better than last night. Also.....somehow I just managed to deleted my $3 Rebuy blog that I posted a (more)
Stars Nightly $10 Rebuy 2nd Hour & Cake Poker $20 Bounty by justinsampson Posted December 20th, 2007
Second Hour of $10 Rebuy starting at 22.5K.......Also playing a $20 Bounty Tourney on Cake Poker. Updates
to come....
Nothing going on so far at B (more)
Stars Nightly $10 Rebuy 3rd Hour & Cake Poker $20 Bounty by justinsampson Posted December 21st, 2007
Well....The wonderful world of my $10 Rebuy at the end of the 2nd hour. Down to 15K and well below average after losing 1010 to KQo allin. Standard (more)
Well still moving along in $10 Rebuy.....made the money and finally picked up some cards....up to about 85K with 130 left after doubling up wiht AQ vs (more)
Back at it again.....Lets get a FT this time.
1st Hour
Doubled up in the first few hands with AA vs AJ. Pretty quiet table so may be difficult (more)
Playing the Stars $10 Rebuy for the last time until after Christmas.....
1st Hour
About ten minutes in I pick up 10[s] 10[d] in the BB. I call (more)
Short version: Went nowhere, only played one least bit interesting hand all day.
JackPotter2 is at seat 0 with 2770.
[b]korrupt911 is at seat 1 wi (more)
Played a half dozen or so tournies tonight as it's my first real night of no responsibilities. Started out decently well with me cashing the 1st 2 to (more)
Well back to the rebuy tournaments for 2008. I have one trip report/room review typed up, but am waiting for one thing to complete it. It should be (more)
[b]Don’t I know you?[/b]
Vegas is littered with degenerate dealers that go up big, quit their jobs and live large, slowly give it all back and re (more)
Just a quick update:
Started with 20k in chips for the tourney and I've survived day 1 but am really short with 10k. The average right now is prob (more)
Nothing of note this Sunday. I did go deep in the only thing I played on Saturday, a big event, but, you know, mess up a hand, lose half your stack, w (more)
Just busted out of the PCA. Reshoved A5o from the BB into a CO raise and he called with AJ and it held. Headed out to the beach now to get some sun. (more)
So just played my first sunday under the wafflecrush banner and was looking to get off to a good start. Now obviously i know that it is a sunday and (more)
Just finished 2nd in a stars $4/180. I've played a lot of these and this is my best finish. Unfortunately I am not happy with my heads up play at al (more)
Just a quick note from Australia.
Ended day 1 with 60.4k. High point being near 90k, but spewed some off/ran kinda crappy during the last level. I (more)
Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event ended up being an extremely frustrating day of poker.
I didn’t play any particular large pots, just lost (more)
Not gonna write much of a blog right now since I'm rather tired. Started out today by having a great cash session and then decided to jump in the two (more)
UB continues to love me as I played their new $150, 20k guarenteed last night at 9pm. The field had 127 entrants and im torn on how soft i want to sa (more)
Got here last night and just played the $5200 event ("just" as in "busted an hour ago".) It was another non-starter where I never got over my starting (more)
Well I have not played much since the beginning of the month. Was in Vegas earlier this week for 3 days and will have a trip report coming soon.
F (more)
I've got 69K heading into Day 2 (~45K average, 360 of 500-odd left, 54 paid.) It was a tough table/seat draw, with John Hennigan (last year's winner a (more)
This is a couple of days late largely thanks to lack of laptop, but I busto'ed on Day 2 in an impressive fashion, first getting to 157K (2x average) l (more)
Enough being lazy...time to post hands!
At this point, the details of Day 1 are sort of blurry. Most of the action early on was focused on John Hen (more)
For whatever reason, Day 2 is easier to remember than Day 1...
My first table had several decent players, including WacoKidd with an identical stac (more)
So yesterday i started playing at 2pm and played almost all the bigger tournies from then till 10pm. I played something like 22 tournies which is a r (more)
Only $200 or so, but hey, money's nice. I only played about four tourneys, bubbled the UB 200K, but went very deep in the Stars 1M again before bustin (more)
Good news: I made my first '08 final table last night. (That sounded really bad until I realized I'd played 30 donkaments all year, lol. Which leads m (more)
Hey, everybody,it's been nuts at The Commerce....Sorry We haven't had the chance to say "Hello." Thanks for your support, and thanks for helping us k (more)
So this week has been really solid for me. As of Friday I have final tabled 8 tournaments and am up about 12k this month. It was pretty frustrating (more)
Last Friday I was bored and entered a satellite for the FTOPS $100 rebuy. At the time I didn't even know it was a rebuy tourney :) I was in one (more)
Pokerstars was on the fritz again last night so I loaded up $100 on AP to play some small stakes donkaments. First one I play is the nightly $5r whic (more)
Just a quick one again. Turned 26 on Wednesday and had a great day up until I got home and realized I had lost my keys somewhere while out at the bars (more)
Today started out pretty boring. I wasn't getting dealt any hands in good situations, so I was basically just watching everyone else play. Luckily no (more)
I played 8 mtts last night. I cashed in 3 of them, I was so close to a 4 digit score. I finished 60th in the ftp 24/24 for $69, 160/1179 of the stars (more)
After being up late on Saturday at a friend's graduation party and having to spend twice as long driving back to Madison on Sunday because of a ten in (more)
I busted out shortly after the first break. Important facts and hands:
2500 starting chips, blinds 25-25, 40 minute levels.
The table was a rem (more)
Confession: when it comes to travel, I'm pretty incompetent. Oh, I (read: my wife) pack light, don't sweat the small stuff, and haven't ever done anyt (more)
I have 54,000 in chips going back at 1k/2k. 18 of us left; tough field.
I'm too tired to post specific hands, but what's most notable is that I ha (more)
So I woke up today played a few online steps and a few mtts said if I bust everything quick I'll play the 1500 live mtt here so I busted everything sa (more)
*in busting out before the first break, heh.
The Commerce is a very good cardroom; my impression is that the games are as soft as anything outside (more)
as much as i want to win i really can't complain about cashing for 80k. michael binger won and he played well so i can't fault that. it unfortunatel (more)
I'm making this entry about 48 hours after I took 4/560ish runners in the stars $33/5k. This cash gave was my biggest, $1270. I had a $500 coin flip w (more)
I have 16,300 chips. I would very much like to have more but Michael Mizrachi runs like god against me postflop. To wit:
(all of these hands happ (more)
Getting this entry in fast because day 2 starts in 25 mins :)
Played a big sat on Friday, lasted long enough that it was too late for SNG's but did (more)
I won my first pot at showdown of the entire tournament at the 200/400/50 level. Then the next level I screwed up PF when gbecks opened 1800 in the C (more)
To be honest, there really wasn't even much to say about today. Very early on, I made my once a month customary bluff with total air. Usually, that st (more)
Sunday:
109r: I didn't have time to rebuy on the first hand, so when I picked up aces, I naturally shoved (I love shoving monsters on the first han (more)
Well this tworags business looks like a lot of fun, so I figured why not and joined in so I could post my poker ramblings rather than on my usual blog (more)
I'm continuing a good run at Full Tilt. I've been playing almost all $11 turbo STT during this stretch but also final tabled a large donkament. Gri (more)
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Originally posted on my blog [url=http://www.acehighwine.com]how a luckbox ran like God f (more)
Like sand through the hourglass, these are the 60 Minutes of our lives by Adanthar Posted March 24th, 2008
[d][d][d][d] Poker content here [d][d][d][d]
The lack of entries in the blog this week is largely because, for the first time all year, I'm playing (more)
lil over 1250, won 8 matches in a row plus 9 or 10 34$ HU SNG in a row = I am on fire and celebrating. Bank roll is up to 2100 :) The players in thi (more)
After 6 hours of play I just finished 33rd in the Stars Sunday hundred grand. Only $334, but at least it's paid for all the Sunday 100k lotterys I've (more)
okay.. so everything was great. first hand AK with 2K on the flop. with lots of action. it was obvious that i was going to be starting off well. my (more)
After a really frustrating month and a half, I finally have a major FT to show for it, the UB 200K. That tournament's been very good to me over the ye (more)
In addition to a 33rd place finish in the Pokerstars Sunday Hundred Grand and some other deep cashes, grinding $12/180 turbos on stars has been going (more)
So I decided to give it a full Sunday schedule today. Started at 1 PM (Central) with the $109r on Stars and the $240 knockout/warmup/I'm-not-sure-wha (more)
Since my last entry, I've played 2 full tournament days (by "full", I mean "very little", because I suck at volume) and a half day on Sunday. The Sund (more)
I got a PM on 2+2 that posed an interesting question so I thought it might me good to post the question and my response on here.
[b]Question:[/b] (more)
April was a great month for me, I finished up about $3k and finished 185th on the Stars TLB (got a fat $50 bonus from Stars).
The first week of May (more)
Last night, I finalized my WSOP living arrangements - all I need to do now is finally buy flight tickets and I'm set. As some people can tell you, the (more)
And a diamond is just a lump of coal until it's been under pressure.
And other platitudes to make me feel better about the frustration of the last (more)
It's not a great one because I always hate finishing in this area for a little while after I bust, but 40/4100-odd runners for ~2K isn't bad. (Add up (more)
Unfortunately, I only had time to play one event in the last two days, FTOPS4 (the 200 PLHE event), which went nowhere after a promising start. Who kn (more)
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)
Sunday my run in the Million was cut short in 82nd. These three hands took me apart:
Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10000/t20 (more)
16 left in the FTOPS $300r 6-max.
Full Tilt Poker Game #6422686934: FTOPS Event #16 (45241217), Table 115 - 4000/8000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em (more)
Took down my biggest online score today, the Cake $12.5 guarantee $20rebuy tournament, for $2900. Nice bankroll boost and changing the tide of my bad (more)
At 8:30 pm (20:30) EST Monday, May 19, 2008, there will be a benefit tournament on PokerStars for Dean Poter, father of Devin "TranquilChaos" Porter. (more)
After my last entry, I wound up only playing a handful more events - the razzament (made it deep, but to no avail), a few other midstakes NL tourneys, (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)
Last week was pretty gruesome, culminating with today, when, in addition to playing my B or C game most of the time, I managed to take my first 3%'er (more)
Full Tilt Poker Game #6601960394: $14,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (49477142), Table 6 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:16:42 ET - 2008/05/28
Seat 1: wooki (more)
For the last day or so, the rumor was that day 1 of the $1500 event (Saturday) would be sold out, as every online pro picked it over playing live on S (more)
So, I broke my own record and bustoed the 1500 pot limit event (that I decided to play at the last minute) on the...fifth hand or so.
The hand: Wi (more)
The following takes places the 2nd or 3rd hand of the final table of the Cake 30r $20k guaranteed. If I win this hand I have a sizeable chip lead and (more)
...but 0 for 2 on making the second break. I'm working on that, though!
The major interesting hand was, once again, the fifth of the day. With 4K c (more)
Last entry, we left off with me accidentally turning top two pair into a bluff. Yesterday, I followed up on that with this hand about 45 minutes into (more)
Still not an actual Day 2, though. Quick update because it's late: today's event went better than the ones before it and I'll post some hands later, b (more)
Well, I arrived Tuesday night and jumped right into Wednesday's 5k and Thursday's 2k. In each tournament I made it to the break after dinner with 12. (more)
As expected, I was mostly fine the next day, but wound up skipping the 5K event (which a friend of mine won - congrats) to hang out at home and watch (more)
I busted the $1500 today about 3 1/2 hours in; I donked my stack down to 600 at one point, fought valianty back, then lost A9 < QJ and A3 < A4 to end (more)
Long story short, 0 for the last 2 as well, but there was a third break and a legitimate bad beat or two in there so things were, theoretically, movin (more)
Somewhere around 11:30 in the morning Watts and I realize that nobody with a car is going to play the $5,000 No-Limit event today. We don’t have eno (more)
I arrive at the Rio well in advance for my 2pm start time. I’ve drawn a table with Raj and my friend StevoL, though ours will be one of the first in (more)
Played 2 tourneys in the last 3 days - the Bellagio 1080 (uneventful, busto, etc.) and today's $1500 at the Rio.
Long story short, I finally have a (more)
Long story short:
I have 70K at 1500/3K and make it 8500 with kings in EP. The next guy to act, with a 60K-ish stack, makes it 20K. I flat because (more)
Out of this one in about 6 hours, but did play a bunch of interesting hands. I'm going to post pretty much everything I remember from memory without m (more)
Brief review of my last three live tournaments:
-I start at a very tough table in the 5k six-handed and bleed chips until the table breaks. I doub (more)
First day 2 and first cash of the series. I have 65k going into day 2 at 800/1600/200. I'm exhausted so no full writeup but more will come when it's (more)
[b]Day 51[/b]
Yet another $1,500 No-Limit tournament… how thrilling. Even though I made an effort to get to bed early, I couldn’t fall asleep (more)
I busted 82nd in the $1500. The hands have been reported, but basically, I doubled up in a huge pot when I called a shove with an overpair on the tur (more)
I had a couple more really productive meetings in the last few days and got a lot of work done, so, regardless of what happens tomorrow and afterwards (more)
I finished day 1 with 58,825 chips. After I won a big pot in the first hour, I basically did nothing until the last hour, when I caught a big rush.
(more)
Short update - I was planning to do a recap of the ME (all 2.5 hours of it), but my laptop is pretty busto at the moment/there's a significant chance (more)
I have 38,700 chips. It was a rocky day for me, and I had something to do with that, with my impatience and attempts to make things happen when I did (more)
Not very interesting. I raised ATo and won the blinds and antes; I raised A7o on the button and folded to a shove (he showed AQo); I shoved AKo over (more)
Today I took second out of around 5900 runners in the stars $10 30k guaranteed tournament for my biggest online score ever, $5k. First paid $7300, so (more)
My flight from Vegas was overnight, so I got back home at around 10 AM EST (7 PST) after not being able to sleep at all on the plane. My wife had just (more)
[b]Days 71-72[/b]
Things are much quieter now. More and more people are leaving Las Vegas having busted out of the Main, and those left are just ha (more)
[b]Day 91[/b]
As I mentioned in the previous post I think it’d be a fun idea to list out what I’ve learned on this trip. So without further adi (more)
These two hands happened within an orbit of each other:
http://cakepoker.com//HandHistory/?Hand=xcLAwMaywbDAw8TExMzGwYjFxcbMxcc%3d
http://cakepo (more)
Won a seat to the $150+13 65k on fulltilt earlier today via a $26 STT. Normally i just unregister and use the $T for other tournaments that i normally (more)
I never really "quit" doing CR so much as I just quit playing tournaments (outside of Sundays, at any rate.) As you guys know, for the last two months (more)
First, the very short term: I'll most likely have another article on P5's either this weekend or on Monday. It'll be about Obama and poker - I'll have (more)
After copping a few sick beats over the weekend resulting in mincashes or bubbling, I had a good run last night - three cashes from five tourneys, inc (more)
Hi all...currently just finishing off my tables for the night. I load up no more than five tables when I get home from work, and load no tables later (more)
Is it still possible to make a living playing online MTT's?
A couple of days ago, Gobbo posted [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stake (more)
Might as well make the logo big. I will win this. You heard it here first. [img]I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championsh (more)
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