Archive for February, 2006
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Looking In and Looking Out for the Doldrums
I grew up in a very small town in Canada, midway between the city of Windsor and the farmlands of Essex County. We didn’t even have a post office. When asked, we gave our address as being the small town next to us, which was part of the 20th century in that it did have [...]
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Poll Results, sans Hanging Chads
Apologies to Chad.
Here is what I get, from 30-40 responses:
Buy-in: Split between $10 and $20
Day: Split between Wednesday and weekend
Games: Rotating series.
Frequency: Most votes to weekly, but actually split between weekly and not weekly.
Comments: No new sites!
Here is what I propose:
A bi-weekly series of $15 events, held every other Sunday [...]
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Monday, February 6th, 2006
And The Nominees Are…
A Florida newspaper has just claimed a solid lead on poker headline of the year.
Go check out:
Poker Game Leads to Butt Stabbing
You really do have to know when to walk away and know when to run.
WPBT Survey
In other news, I would like to see a regular bloggers only on-line event. I’ve created a survey to [...]
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Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Running with Scissors
Hrrmm. Seems I’ve had a slew of visitors in the past few days. Normally I get ~1000 hits a month. On Friday I got 500. Have a look at my stats above. Methinks I owe it to a diminuative master of the cut & paste. Not many can chug Guinness while repeatedly [...]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Social Reset, Part 5
Social Reset, Part 5: Another Moment.
[This is the fifth and final installation of my story describing my experiences at my first WPBT event in Vegas. Find Part 4 here. The beginning of the story is here.]
I opened my eyes the next morning to see the blurry digital clock clicking off the last few [...]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Happy February.
Ok – no more poker in January for me. The very first tourney I played in February, I made it to the final table as the chip leader. I stepped over 586 other players to get there.
So how could I mess up a chiplead and sputter out 2nd from the final table, you ask? Well, [...]
