Archive for August, 2005
Saturday, August 27th, 2005
Home Game Tourney
I played in our home game tourney at J&E’s.
The format is more of the ‘friendly game’ variety – NLHE $10 buy-in gives T5K, no rebuys. The 20 minute blind schedule favours patient play over luckfest gambling for the first two-three hours. The table was pretty weak-passive for those first two hours – I was catching [...]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
Odds for the WPT Legends of Poker
Odds have been posted for the 2005 WPT Legends of Poker at Sportsbook.com
Phil Ivey is again a favourite (66:1) to win. He was the favourite along with Negreanu for the WSOP main event – both at 450:1 at Bodog.com. Phil Ivey made it pretty deep – somewhere in the top 40 of a [...]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Do I Want to Lose?
How do you grow a bankroll? After nearly a year of playing, I’m still struggling with the discipline required to get my bankroll up to where I can play some of the bigger buy-in tourneys and higher limit levels.
My problem is that disciplined poker is a little on the boring side. It is way more [...]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Bob Costas Dismisses Poker
Quoted from http://insidebayarea.com/
Bob Costas:
On his HBO show, he said, “I hold in my hand the New York Times, and in the sports section, their new regular column on poker. … Now at the risk of alienating degenerates from coast to coast, I must say I find it hard to get worked up over a [...]
