Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 28th, 2005
My Brush With Poker Greatness, x2
First Brush with Poker Greatness
I have this photo from my summer trip to Vegas for the WSOP ME. I thought it was funny to see that Flickr has a rather poor opinion of ‘The Mouth’
“12 views / Nobody counts Mike Matasow as a favorite [...]
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Saturday, November 26th, 2005
Dr. Pauly’s Saturday Tourneys
Thanks for the tourneys Pauly – it was fun playing a regularly scheduled game against the same group of players. My craptacular results in the tourney series speak for themselves. I stand (sit?) to improve my game against this crowd. In the end, I wanted to gun for the booby prize, but was mathematically [...]
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Monday, November 21st, 2005
Broomcorn’s Uncle
The title is a reference to a corny joke from Doyle Brunson illustrating the idea that it can be correct to play any 2 cards. If you don’t have a copy of Super System handy – Broomcorn’s uncle was ‘auntied’ (anted) to death.
This entry had been sitting as a draft for the past week, but [...]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
My Castle Alert List
Since I really don’t know anyone, I just went to Bill’s Frappr map and picked the bloggers closest to me geographically. That meant anyone on the left coast.
Since it appears that not everyone has cell phones (honestly, how do you people live?) I settled on a list of 4:
April (my only Bay area peeps)
JoeSpeaker (Kent)
penner [...]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
The Very Essence of Low-limit Poker Chat
I’m not sure if this is a joke or if the guy is for real. In any case it is the funniest poker blog I have read.
Check out the Red Pill (I came across it while lurking through Daniel N.’s FCP forum – I was looking to see where he played on-line for [...]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Once more, DAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
Shouts out to the Poker Geek for his blog entry convincing me to hit the big tourney, Jason TNSpaceman for rail support, and MEKING for sweating me.
I lost AJ vs AQ for what would have been a massive chip lead. I gave it up to Harberts12 who had been on my right and super-aggressive [...]
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
Let me say it in Swedish: “Daaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh”
See you in Vegas, sharpshooters.
There is only one more chance to get seats in this awesome tourney:
Full Tilt Poker
$10 +1 NL
Sunday, November 20th
3pm EST
Only open to people who will be attending the Dec. 10th WPBT event in Vegas. Email Bill for password (for those who played last week, same password).
My [...]
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Saturday, November 12th, 2005
When to Fold the Hammer
I felt a fool (and not in the way you are thinking, especially if you just came back from SnailTrax).
While playing in the Saturdays with Pauly tourney, I raised with the hammer not once, but twice. Both times I took the min bets and/or blinds and piled them neatly into my stack. [...]
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Friday, November 11th, 2005
Cracking Aces by Email
I’m playing in the World rec.gambling Poker Tournament. It is the oldest on-line poker site in existence – it started in 1991. You make your moves by email!
Anyway, my bankroll was healthy enough for the $10K buy-in, and I’ve always loved the idea of playing games over email. I tried to convince [...]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
The Commento-Sphere
Winner for best comment is….
(opens envelope)
Brad Batt aka texref
“blah blah blah… However, I’ve played Omaha about 3 times in my life, so the sawbuck is not guaranteed to be mine!”
He might be slow playing me here, but that kind of statement is the key to making it into one of my heads-up freerolls.
Actually, he did [...]
