Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 31st, 2006
Yeah, baby.
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
143 Tom Ellsworth 40,650
144 Innaki Pinna 40,425
145 Frank Watkins 40,400
146 Ryan Kallberg 40,350
147 Mark Bassham 40,300
148 D. Rosenbloom 40,150
149 R Ticsay 39,850
150 Jim Osmani 39,750
I missed a 10K freeroll at Noble Poker that I was invited to [...]
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
A Cure for Poison
Another night of practice for my upcoming WSOP event, but the only money I made was playing against the queen of heads-up matches, Madame Yo. Go check her blog for a recap – I suggested a few site changes.
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Visions of Sugar Plums.
Gentlemen, start you engines. Play ball. Let’s get ready to rumble. Go to your corners and come out at the sound of the bell.
Shuffle up and deal.
I was explaining to a non-poker playing friend that the WSOP ME is the Christmas of poker season. She’s Jewish so [...]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Hello, Variance Stick.
Ugh. We are in the midst of record-shattering heat wave and air conditioners everywhere have been calling it quits, including the central cooling system used where I work.
Rather than face the stifling heat while I try to plod through reams of data, I gave up and headed for my local cardroom, Bay101. I [...]
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
A Good Warm-Up
I wanted to get as many FT guarantee tournies in as I could as practice for my upcoming $1500 events. The levels are shorter, but the starting chips and fields are pretty similar.
On Friday I burned through two tokens – the first really sucked. On my third hand with blinds at 15/30 I [...]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
The Banker Who Over-Reached
I tried to wire money for my entry into the $1500 event I plan to play at the WSOP (Event #41) at my local bank branch today. The cute Asian bank teller was really interested in the fact that I was wiring money for a poker tournament and asked a lot of questions about [...]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
New POY Results Are Up.
Whaddya mean 2 weeks is too slow? Well it is, especially when I had it down to less than 15 minute post-tourney turnaround time for previous events. Me having to manually enter results = huge activation energy barrier (geek scientist joke)
You can see the points at stake from the larger field – F’Champion’-Train [...]
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Two Statements
1. I have booked everything for my upcoming WSOP shot – I’ll be in Vegas Friday Aug 4th through Tuesday Aug 8th (with flights at uncivilized early hours both days). I’m staying at the IP – with my frequent flier miles I’ve hoarded over the past years the trip is setting me back [...]
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
The WSOP and Pieces of Me.
Dear Reader -
I have a confession to make.
The WSOP, and more specifically the coverage from the 2004 year on ESPN was one of the major contributing factors to my ongoing love affair with poker. It still excites me: the history, the drama, the stories, the people, the money, the cards, the [...]
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Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Live Poker is So Not Downloadable
I need a little help getting names/blogs/id’s straight to give POY points from the Ceaser’s live event. If the following people could contact me (email or leave a comment) that would be great. Otherwise you are going into the POY list as initials only.
AlanR
JeffH
JohnC
JeffR
MarcelaC
JohnK
DanielL
MarkE
MichaelS
JeremiahS
BryanK
DonW
StephC
AnyaS
JorgenJ
Also – if anyone can recall the exact number [...]
