Archive for September, 2005
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Viennese Poker
My other career sent me to Vienna for a week.
I recalled from Badblood’s blog that they played a little poker there. I knew I wasn’t wasting my time reading poker blogs at work.
A quick web search turned up the Concord Casino, billed as the largest card room in Europe. They had hosted the a [...]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2005
Barry Greenstein in a Bathrobe
I watched the end of the WCOOP Event #7 ($500 buy-in Pot Limit Hold’Em) at Pokerstars last night. Normally I wouldn’t watch internet poker unless I was actually playing internet poker, but when I logged into Pokerstars I was informed that Barry Greenstein would be doing a live streaming commentary on the event after it [...]
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Rehnquist was an action junky
One of the things I like about poker is the way it feeds my hunger for gambling action. I think that the desire to gamble is fundamental for anyone who has a measure of success at life. Self proclaimed gamblers who would wager which way the wind blows are just people who acknowledge and have [...]
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Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Sharp New Poker Blogger Tool
I’m a sucker for script writing, especially when I get to parse text output with python, my weapon of choice.
While reading hand descriptions, I realized that I just skim through and look for the bad beat (forshadowing, my first bad beat posting is below). It occured to me that poker hands should be presented [...]
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
Bottom of the posted odds ain’t so bad
Regarding this post, Jennifer Tilley has chalked up another win. The ladies invitational – not quite the main event, but still a back-to-back win since the last lady’s event was the WSOP.
Maybe Phil Laak should open a poker school.
Here’s a picture I snapped of Jennifer at the Bay101 Shooting Stars Event. I heard it was [...]
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
An Up and Down Week of Poker
Tuesday night old game
We play $2 spread limit every week. It has grown towards the boring side of my weekly events, but I still play because I like the people. It is my longest running home game – I don’t want to break that streak! It is the first gathering where I really got a [...]
