Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Real Life Beats teh Virtual Suck
Last Sunday, I played poker in a live cardroom for the first time since my December Vegas trip. On-line play is good, but it is like playing the piano with gloves on. You never really get a good feel for what you are doing (and for how my January on-line play has gone, more like [...]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Mission Accomplished, But at What Cost?
I made the IronMan Challenge at FullTilt, but I paid a price for it. Something has drawn the fish to Full Tilt (maybe the guarantee tourneys, or Challenges like this…) and the $3/6 LHE game that was a steady profit maker for me turned into a game of no fold ‘em hold ‘em. Some people [...]
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
The Stereo Junk-Kick
When you are on a cold-streak, Mistress Poker gets bored and has to find new ways to have her way with you.
I discovered a new pain last night while dropping two buy-ins at my 3/6 Limit grind:
The Stereo Junk-Kick
How does one achieve this? Well, pull up an ice-pack laden pair of jockey shorts and I’ll [...]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Greatest Contest Since the 1988 World Series Heads-up
Chan took down Seidel with a reverse tell. Its in Rounders, blah, blah, blah.
Its hard to make reverse tells online, but I love that fact that at Full Tilt you can find yourself virtually sitting next to a poker legend. I sat in the $20+2 HORSE tourney last night, and made it through [...]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Anatomy of a Bankroll (Crash)
Ok – I’ve been whining about my bad run of cards. I log my play, and I’m a scientist so I like to investigate when things go wrong.
This is my look into my 3/6 play, which has been the fuel behind my bankroll growth. It funds my entries into tourneys (which have themselves actually grown [...]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
WPBT Event Calendar
Hello tens of readers and fellow WPBT’ers -
One of the things that helped me with the reader/blogger transition was the WPBT series of events that ran last year. These events have suffered the 1-2 punch of the December gathering followed by the holiday season. However, it looks like the rope-a-dope is over and they are [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
Waterloo, Waterloo, thppt to all of you.
Congratulations to fellow Canadian Steve Paul-Ambrose. Steve is currently studying science at my alma mater University of Waterloo. He just won the Poker Stars Carribean adventure.
The University of Waterloo is an engineering, science & math powerhouse, often dubbed ‘The M.I.T. of Canada’. I studied chemistry there. It is located in a rural area [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
The Price of Poker is Going Up
As I had long expected, the $10K buy-in at the WSOP is no longer the big-daddy of poker. From this article at Cardplayer:
The company added a $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E event to the 2006 WSOP, which is the first time an event with a buy-in of more than $10,000 will take place at the WSOP.
Taking [...]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2006
Social Reset, Part 4
Social Reset, Part 4: Closure
[This is part 4 of my trip report describing my experiences at my first WPBT event in Las Vegas. Find Part 3 here]
Back at the IP, I located the poker room so that I would know where to rush to for the morning tourney. It was around 1 AM [...]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2006
Is Paul Phillips Lex Luther?
I think Paul Phillips is a dick. But I also respect him – he’s smart and he’s been successful in practical matters.
Maybe contradictory, but now I find him even more fascinating. From his blog:
Leaving aside the fact that some people believe issues of principle are important, there is the question of experience. Many [...]
