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Join Date: Feb 28th, 2006 |
7 | 3k Posts That's a lot of wood Here's a list of some of my favorite posts I have made over the years: /#post1707628 classic I quit poker post: /#post18664 ok, the other 2,997 posts so far were worthless, and the 2nd link is only good b/c of how pathetic it is. So you are welcome OT, I have come in here and disappointed the hell out of you(although to disappoint you would have to ... Published: Jul 1st, 2010 |
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hotriceaaJoin Date: Sep 6th, 2005 |
7 | Status 2 Important thing that I should note is that while I've been running pretty bad, I haven't tilted once. So far I'm doing very well at being disciplined and patient, not playing when tilted, and playing within my bankroll. Although I only have $87, and I'm already playing .02-.05 tables, I will grind out cash games until I reach 25 buy-ins for the next level. So I won't be playing .05-.10 tables ... Published: Nov 17th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Nov 23rd, 2010 |
7 | $10 to $10k Challenge - Update #006 Been mostly playing stud hi and having some wins. Been studying the game quite extensively, giving my brain a bit of a break from NLHE. Only learnt it a few weeks ago and have just been studying Chip Reese's (RIP) section in Super System and watching the mixed game videos from Joe Tall on DeucesCracked. I have also been studying the tendencies of the micro limit players on stars and have worked ... Published: Dec 23rd, 2010 |
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Join Date: Mar 2nd, 2011 |
7 | Year In Review What a year! My first full year grinding in Vegas was an quite an experience. They say you never forget your first time, now I’m not quite sure who “they” are but they are correct. This year I survived knee surgery a diagnosis of diabetes, and two of the worst run bad streaks that I have ever had in my life. But despite that I still managed to keep my shirt and most importantly a roof over my ... Published: Dec 21st, 2011 |
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braincabbage Join Date: Jul 29th, 2012 |
7 | AAAAAAAAnnnnd crash I am broke... I have no money....nothing to show for my poker efforts except some meaningless VIP points and the fact that I am now 40 dollars closer to my 100k badge...Only 99,960 dollars to go. I built my roll up quite nicely until it all came crashing down slowly but surely. As my bankroll waned so did my attitude as I was just expecting to be bad beat that I never had a real chance. IT was ... Published: Feb 18th, 2013 |
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Join Date: Aug 2nd, 2011 |
7 | Running Hot! These past two weeks have been awesome for me! I made three final tables on America's DonkRoom, one live final table, and turned 300 into 1500 in the juiciest cash game that I've ever been a part of. I will continue to study the game, work on my leaks, and make more +EV decisions to continue this success. Good luck everyone! Positive thoughts to all! Published: May 5th, 2013 |
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dpechal Join Date: Jun 30th, 2008 |
6 | $50 to $5000 Bankroll challenge Well today (08-11-08) I was reading some forum's and I heard about Jesus's $0 to $10000 challenge. After reading some minor bankroll management tips I decided to try this out on Poker Stars. I deposited $50 today and started playing the $0.01 / $0.02 tables. (Buying in with $2). According to numerous bankroll articles it says for NL-Hold'em you need anywhere from 20 buyins to ... Published: Aug 11th, 2008 |
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gershenator1 Join Date: Jan 28th, 2008 |
6 | Sunday Oct. 19th Report Published: Oct 19th, 2008 |
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Join Date: Dec 14th, 2006 |
6 | The tension, the drama, the buzz, the crowd, the mistake So I started day 2 with 95k chips, perfect position with around 300 players left. My table was nice and soft with mainly stacks with 20bb’s and no-one particularly good or aggressive. In the first level and a half I slowly increased my stack to 110k playing a fair few pots but not making many hands. Soon after that my table got broken and I moved to the table of death. Somehow my healthy 110k ... Published: Jan 22nd, 2009 |
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Join Date: May 27th, 2008 |
6 | My Last Mtt Session (Maybe) So the last time i posted a goal on here it came through, the battle of the planets shippage. Lately ive been having a good run at the 180s on stars building my roll but its not as high as could be as i keep playing mtts with no success so i decided this is my last mtt session unless i go deep of course then it could be the start of some big times. I broke my bankroll into 3 different sections ... Published: Apr 28th, 2009 |
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Join Date: Mar 11th, 2009 |
6 | great experience at turning stone... So I went to Turning Stone Casino in Verona New York and just had an awesome experience there. As I said in a previous entry I was playing in a $90 tourney. Registration for this was fairly easy and the staff was there for any questions you had. Once I had registered and got situated in my seat a heartland poker tour champ sat 3 seats to my left. I said hi and said I recognized him from HPT and ... Published: May 6th, 2009 |
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stsitron Join Date: Jul 2nd, 2007 |
6 | My WSOP Part 2 I’ve been spending the last night trying to remember key hands and situations from day 3. The more that I think about it I was basically just cruising thru not playing too many hands and just chipping up very slowly. I ended up doubling my stack very turtle pace and without any huge pots or big all in pre flop situations. Something I tried my best to avoid the entire tournament. So slowly that it ... Published: Aug 21st, 2009 |
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Join Date: Oct 28th, 2008 |
6 | Back to the grind. Well I've started to grind again... and I have depositing 200 each on pokerstars and fulltilit so I will be grinding MTTs and SNGs.. Had my first session at like 10 pm yesterday and I was dead tired.. this session should be a bit earlier. First Grind results from both sites: file:///C:/Users/JAMESN%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.pngfile:///C:/Users/JAMESN% Ehhh would like it to be ... Published: Jan 28th, 2010 |
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serbie Join Date: Oct 15th, 2006 |
6 | aussie millions prelims and live poker thoughts i played 3 live tournys since i last wrote a post. these were it: $340 WSOP Circuit event in Atlantic City $1100 Aussie Millions Event #1 $1650 Aussie Millions Bounty Tourny in the wsop circuit event, i made it all the way to the last hand of the day. we had been playing for 15 hours and were already in the money, with 23 ppl to go. blinds 2k/4k with an ante there was an early position ... Published: Jan 31st, 2010 |
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symotobol Join Date: Nov 19th, 2009 |
6 | Ooops. I'm a donkfish... Well, I just bombed out in 4th in an MTT for a $7.65 cash. I made a whopping mistake by misreading my hand. I glance up and thought I had flopped a straight, so my heart started pumping... while my brain forgot it was there to do the counting. My heart does not know that 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 does not make a straight, apparently. Problem was the blood-lust choice had taken over before my brain kicked in, ... Published: Feb 17th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Jan 2nd, 2007 |
6 | update gonna make this quick cuz i know there were a couple of you reading this. i said in my last post that i was getting sick. turned out i was sicker than i thought, might have still been able to play but like i said in the beginning of this, i don't have a time frame. the point is to make money and not lose money. also had a ton of personal shit happen in the last week or so that has all worked ... Published: Apr 22nd, 2010 |
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Join Date: Aug 22nd, 2006 |
6 | April, low volume. Def didn't put in very many SNGs in April, but my results are coming along nicely, my avg buy in is $2.32 and I have $43.65 in winnings, that's a 26.5% ROI, which I am hoping to try and keep nice and high over a huge sample. I have been playing cash games, and the odd MTT, but I figured I would keep at it with the goal I set out at the beginning of the year with SNGs. I will post a few ... Published: Apr 29th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Nov 24th, 2007 |
6 | I made my backer happy. But now what? So a quick recap, I was awarded a $55 round two stake on PTP. The instructions are to play 100 games at the 1.10 45 man's, 2.20 90 man and mtt's at 2.20 and lower. After 49 games I was up roughly $50 in profit. Last night I went over the 50 game mark and game #50 was the 2.20 5k guarantee that started at 10:00 PM CST. There were 2,573 runners and I played until 5:30 am CST. I entered the ... Published: Apr 30th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Aug 27th, 2007 |
6 | Annoying nightly 100k ahhhh This tournament is driving me nuts. I have played it probably 15 times in my life and cashed about 10 of them, and placed...9th (last night), 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 28th. 3 or 4 of those finishes were in like my last 5 attempts in the last month. I just can't finish strong in this tournament and it is absolutely driving me crazy. But anyways what can you do' For last night...I was so happy ... Published: May 7th, 2010 |
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DoubleS00ted Join Date: Oct 22nd, 2006 |
6 | Excited to play "Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." I havent played poker in a week, School has been super busy and I can finally work out again so the free time I have had has been spent in the gym. I am very excited to play tommorrow and I plan on crushing everything in site. Its crazy how busy ive been , over the last 6 years Ive really had ... Published: Sep 11th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Feb 7th, 2010 |
6 | Uh Oh Need to step up the volume big time soon. Friday afternoon is going to be a long grind to makeup missed time and volume. Published: Nov 9th, 2010 |
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bellaca Join Date: Jan 3rd, 2010 |
6 | PCA 2011 The Pokerstars PCA event for 2011 is underway at the Atlantis in Nassau, The Bahamas. Phil Ivey is here, Joe Hachem, Moneymaker, Victor Ramdin, Joe Cada, Sergio Garcia, Erik Sidel, Tristan Wade, Michael Binger, Phil Laak and Elky Grospellier to name a few.... I went one day after work and sat down at a $1/$2 NLHE table with $400. Within 15 minutes, I had doubled up to $800. Here's how... I got ... Published: Jan 13th, 2011 |
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Join Date: Dec 8th, 2005 |
6 | BOOM Finally! So, things have been going a little better lately. I ended up getting 9th in the FTP 50/50 last Wed after running my JJ into KK. Well tonight/this morning I just chopped the 50-Hundo because of double guarantee week. I made the most of my 1 entry, chopped it for 18,000. The bad news, I have to go to work in about an hour so no sleepy for fratzner. But the 18k score is my largest by about 2x. I am ... Published: Mar 30th, 2011 |
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aniceboy Join Date: Oct 5th, 2009 |
6 | Anything's possible You have to always thanks others for their mistakes, was playing the 11+ 32 K earlier and with 11 players left I had 1.5 BBs (!!!!!) left after a hand, so what the heck I thought, we'll make the FT some other time. Then this hand comes up, note that the player GOTTARDO333 clearly was going for glory and greed but in the process he made the best hand fold as was evident in the chat that followed ... Published: Apr 23rd, 2011 |
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drnobody1 Join Date: Aug 23rd, 2010 |
6 | rail for 180 $8.80 turbo First hand: 1845 1740 3605 2325 3925 Moved to other table 8200 50 left Moved to other table 8050 45 left 3786 35 left out in 33th Published: Oct 10th, 2011 |
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Join Date: Oct 26th, 2011 |
6 | Days Before SCOOP Hello again! It's been quite a while since my last post so i thought id catch everyone up on whats been going on in the past few weeks. After a good start to april going deep in so many tournis, i went on a pretty bad swing for a couple weeks, probably loosing around 2-3k. When thing just seemed to keep getting worse i decided it was time to take a break and step away from the game for ... Published: May 1st, 2012 |
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Join Date: Dec 13th, 2005 |
5 | I blame the Cleveland Browns for Sunday I wish I could come up with something better to say for myself on Sunday, but congrats to my buddy Gary, who won the Sunday Mulligan on Full Tilt. He one-ups me in this tournament as my best finish was second, but we all know who won the MarioKart tournament at Memorial Junior High. I went to watch the Browns utterly dismantle any hopes I had for our organization ever being good. After that, I ... Published: Nov 24th, 2008 |
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Join Date: Sep 23rd, 2008 |
5 | My bad beat video link. Published: Mar 4th, 2009 |
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Join Date: May 27th, 2008 |
5 | Into Focus: Emotional Energy In my previous blog I touched based on ideas centered around psychology--the feelings and emotions generated by playing poker and betting the horses. I also noted that the benefit of the whole cause-and-effect-relationship of emotion/reaction processes isn't simply confined to sports/gambling but also applies to life in general. In this entry I plan on taking a closer look at an exceptional ... Published: Jul 17th, 2009 |
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NitroHUN Join Date: May 9th, 2008 |
5 | God-given gifts I've been playing poker for around one and a half years now. I have the blessing, that after paying the "learning money", I'm now a solid winner, and I'm planning a serious future in poker. One thing, however, that keeps me from becoming even better is bad beats, tilting, and anything related. Now 99% of poker players would say they hate listening to bad beat stories, but ... Published: Jul 30th, 2009 |
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Join Date: Sep 16th, 2006 |
5 | once again bent over on pokerstars got queens he rivers four for ace straight sick 700 hundred dollar nand PokerStars Game #31217608639: Hold'em No Limit ($5/$10 USD) - 2009/08/03 20:35:18 ET Table 'Hynek' 6-max Seat #6 is the button Seat 1: Gith ($1000 in chips) Seat 2: corrado_1984 ($200 in chips) Seat 3: marciukelis ($133 in chips) Seat 4: ill_skillz ($120 in chips) Seat 5: JubbbJubbb ($363 in chips) Seat 6: ... Published: Aug 3rd, 2009 |
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Join Date: Aug 7th, 2009 |
5 | 8/11 Update Today I played a mixture of games including $2 HU PLO, $1 45man and also the $2 27man turbos. Today was another one of those "average" days where I could have done better but I still did pretty good. Below is the new beginning graph. Published: Aug 11th, 2009 |
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Join Date: Aug 2nd, 2007 |
5 | 17K Gaurentee FT So I finally final tabled one of these large MTT's. I feel like I played pretty good through out and was able to chip up without any big hands. I only picked up a big pair three times throughout the tournament and one time my AA were cracked late (but that was actually one of the better hands I played). I ended up in 7th for ~660, but it doesn't feel great since first place was over ... Published: Aug 30th, 2009 |
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Join Date: Feb 21st, 2008 |
5 | Back to School Well, here I am, back at college. Still playing poker though. I made final 3 in the $28k the other week, so that's got me rolled enough to play for real again, and even pick up a couple things I've been looking at buying, like a long board I designed. I'm sure there will be pictures once I have it, though it still has to be built. I'm back at work too, here in the music library ... Published: Sep 14th, 2009 |
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Join Date: May 27th, 2008 |
5 | Update #4 - It's Over Yo! I hate blogging. It's a waste of time imo. Blogging to the "$100 Birthday Bankroll Challenge" is over. Peace! Jason "WSOP Legend" Booth Published: Oct 26th, 2009 |
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5 | What is the best line? OK....A guy raises 3x in 100/50 blinds from the Cutoff...I re-pop 3x to 900 on the button with AKo....guy calls. The flop comes Qd_Jd_2c...He checks I wait...then check. The turn is a 10c...bink....he bet 1/3 the pot (600)....the pot with that bet is 2550...what would be your proper re-raise' He has 5150 after the bet and I'm over 10k. I don't know if I should bet something like ... Published: Nov 18th, 2009 |
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Join Date: Nov 16th, 2009 |
5 | 11/24/09 Well yesterday was a good day finally. After 2 long weeks of running bad and bubbling final tables finally stopped taking bad beats and made a little money. To start the day off I took a 1st in the 20.00 rebuy for 2450.00 and then last night I took a 2nd for 3075.00 in the 30.00 rebuy on AP. Total profit for the day was appx 5200.00 not a bad days work. With any luck it will keep up and I can ... Published: Nov 24th, 2009 |
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mattispro Join Date: Aug 30th, 2006 |
5 | the 1/2 cent grinder needs a reason to play on pokerstars again... I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play. Registration code: 383311 Published: Jan 21st, 2010 |
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Join Date: Nov 22nd, 2006 |
5 | End of First Week Played significantly less than i had wished but still made my target dollar wise. Definitely could of made more but when i did play like an idiot at least i stopped quickly. Made ~$250RB & $1422.61 over 12370 hands / 37.62hrs @ 4 tables 50NL Seems quite high to make $6.60/hr rakeback but i'm not complaining. I'll be sticking to 50NL till i get upto $4,000 which hopefully is by this ... Published: Feb 7th, 2010 |
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Join Date: May 16th, 2009 |
5 | all is fair in poker and war. I can see a bead of sweat drip down the side of his face. The drop races to his jaw line where it slows and begins to slide ever so slightly towards his chin. The droplet reaches the apex of his face and stops, as if contemplating the depth of its inevitable fall. He reaches up and captures the sweat, swiping it way and saving it from the fateful plummet. “I raise” he declares and he sets his ... Published: Feb 23rd, 2010 |
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techbob77 Join Date: Nov 18th, 2009 |
5 | Luckbagging my way past $250 Yeah you know it's going your way when your chatting on a table and then you accidentally shove all-in with A7 after someone raised..and then you win vs A10. Anyway I did 6 2.20 180mans today and did the 2+2 podcast listeners $1.10 tourney on stars got a 3rd and a 5th place. Amusingly(well sorta) I ran AQ into JJ on two tables at literally the same moment and lost both. Well I guess I should ... Published: Mar 14th, 2010 |
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lawfreefly Join Date: Apr 21st, 2009 |
5 | PLAYING WITH ANNA W. AT THE BORGATA I played in the 350+50 PLO tournament at the Borgata last Thursday, and while the turnout was disappointingly low, it was fun regardless. What made it fun was Anna Wroblewski who won the event and made an otherwise boring tournament, memorable. For those of you who don't pay attention. Anna Wroblewski is skilled live and online player with overall winnings exceeding 1 Million plus. We ... Published: Apr 20th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Dec 31st, 2009 |
5 | Let's finish strong! Now is the time when people are already thinking about their goals for the following year. There is already a thread about it with several replies. I honestly haven't thought about it yet because I would rather stay focused on the goals I gave myself to finish 2010. November was another month "in the black" as they say. Only 2 final tables over 200 tourneys played. Took 3rd in the Stars $3rebuy ... Published: Dec 6th, 2010 |
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Join Date: Oct 22nd, 2005 |
5 | Micro Sng's What up young world' I had a good weekend My girls birthday was Saturday night, we went out to Mill ave. here in Tempe az. with some friends, good times with some good people cant ask for anything better! Ive been grinding all month playing between 25-50 STT's SNG per day mostly non turbo ones. My goal for the month of Jan. was 250 games played Im on pace for right around 400 played on the month. ... Published: Jan 17th, 2011 |
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Join Date: Jul 25th, 2009 |
5 | End day 3 I threw in sum DONs but didn't run so hot. Wound up down 6 buyins. the +ev half was that I became accustomed to 20 tabling really quick. I moved that knowledge on lobby clicking over to my 45mans and was able to finally get a +ev session in with 12-17 tables running. The number varies because I couldn't keep my tables open and sustain them fast enough. I saw aces get cracked for all my chips at ... Published: Feb 4th, 2011 |
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5 | l00zer I got my ass handed to me this month. I'm not exactly bothered by it like I would have been in the past - I'm just more or less disappointed. Disappointed in what, though' I don't even know. I think I'm playing okay, but I might not even recognize if I was developing some major leaks. I probably don't 'study' as much as I should, I just load up more donkaments and see what happens. I've always ... Published: Feb 27th, 2011 |
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5 | Repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 My name is Sara. I live and work in the State of Florida and I am a Poker Player and a member of the Poker Players Alliance. There are 1.5 million active members in the Poker Players Alliance and our numbers and votes are growing. You will hear from many of us this week. Poker is not a crime. I have played on-line poker and I play at Casinos and Card Rooms. Poker is a game of skill. The game ... Published: Apr 18th, 2011 |
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5 | Live poker It might be a very limited sample but I'm 0 for 4 in live mtts and I just feel their very frustrating.They take many times longer than any online tourney and it drives me absolutely crazy waiting for a hand when I get short. My last 2 bustouts at the foxwoods june megastack I think were a bit impatient but without anything else to occupy my mind I take those marginal spots and hope for the best. ... Published: Jun 29th, 2011 |
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5 | otherside I am currently in Huntington NY, flew back from Mexico Tuesday, last session I played was on Sunday, ran pretty deep in 3 majors but couldn't finish em out. My lease in Mexico ran up end of October, and I am moving to a house on the golf course down there. Im pretty pumped to live on a golf course, and work on my game. Just the chipping/putting aspect of golf is an area i rarely ever practice so ... Published: Oct 26th, 2012 |
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BenFaz Join Date: Feb 8th, 2010 |
5 | Riding the wave, eating the fish Thought i would make another blog as things are going so well at the minute.. I am still on a ridic heater i am onto my 15th continuous winning session, and on Sunday i binked the $221r1a for $11k while also making deep runs in the bigger 109, 54 turbo and coming 3rd in a $26 12.5k gtd on ftp for about $2.2k. Sunday was awesome probably my 2nd best Sunday and i hope there is more to come like ... Published: Dec 18th, 2012 |
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sharkzilla1 Join Date: Jul 6th, 2006 |
4 | Quick session Played a quick 30 sngs tonight and made $114. No luck really putting up a good score on the leaderboard and I really dont ever see myself winning the "low" one unless I catch a sick heater. Tomorrow will be a much bigger grind, hopefully 80-100 sngs. Published: Apr 6th, 2008 |
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Phi Join Date: Mar 23rd, 2006 |
4 | Sooooo exhausted!!!!! So I spent this ENTIRE weekend playing SNGs. Trying to make that money before Vegas. Unfortunately the site that I play on makes it hard to multi-table and I am forced to run 6 SNGS at a time for a sesh. I made a goal to play 100 SNGs from Saturday until Sunday at midnight. Well, its 10:15 PM and I just got done w/ my 100th SNG. The stats for the weekend are: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 100$7 $24 27%$712 ... Published: Jun 15th, 2008 |
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4 | Tournament Time After my sucess at the STT tables and my favourable cashes at the MGM daily tournaments in April/May to start playing some Pokerstars tournaments. A buddy suggested that I play the 210 FPP 20 seat MTT to win a seat at the weekly 100k. I had played a couple 70 FPP STT's and had managed to get 2nd 3 times and no T$. Played the 210 MTT and placed in the top 6 and got a seat to the 100K. ... Published: Jul 2nd, 2008 |
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ztw30 Join Date: Aug 30th, 2007 |
4 | whew...its been a while Wow! its been a while since my last blog. I have been busy, "down in the lab", creating a new strategy. That's when i realised, there is no strategy, you just play. There is no guaranteed strategy, there is no correct strategy. There is certain guidlines that i believe should be followed, but one certain strategy. No way! I say stop trying to find it. There are only three things you ... Published: Aug 16th, 2008 |
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4 | $3 Rebuy I'm currently playing in the $3 rebuy on Full Tilt. I've only went uber deep in it once when I got 12th or something. But after being on a losing streak for a little while I feel as if I'm turning the corner. Lets go through this tournament as we go. I'm at the 2 hour break sitting in 113 out of 251. I'm in for $12. A recap would be me tripling up at the end of the rebuy. My ... Published: Oct 9th, 2008 |
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4 | Poker, Blogs, and Parties South of the Border It's time to take another shot at this blogging thing....for a few reasons. I'd like to blog regularly, but I get into a lull on content sometimes. I've been playing a lot of poker lately, and poker always makes for good content considering the audience here on P5s. I'm not going to get too far into it today, but I have started to play quite a bit in a local 2-5 game that plays ... Published: Oct 18th, 2008 |
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4 | Neues! So, hab schon länger nichts mehr von mir hören lassen, was hauptsächlich bedeutet, daß es wenig neues gibt. Das wiederum hat damit zu tun, daß der September recht pokerfrei war. Wie schon in einem früheren Eintrag berichtet hab ich mit den 45-Spieler SNGs auf Full Tilt angefangen. Damit lief der August recht gut und ich hatte eigentlich große Hoffnungen für den September. Doch alles kam anders, ... Published: Oct 19th, 2008 |
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4 | I am an idiot! I know this title does not ensue a poker bloggers regular read but this subject is much more dear to me than making the correct move in poker, its about making the correct moves in life. Recently i broke up with the love of my life. My desicion was irrational, ill thought, and just plain stupid. I have pushed her away time and time again only to realize that i miss her, need her, and would do ... Published: Oct 27th, 2008 |
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4 | The Free Roll - Playing With Fire You ever sit at a table and wonder where the hell am I' Like you are playing a totally different game than you sat down at. You call for the floor and have them verify that you are playing no limit hold em and not some other variation. You look at the table again and are totally confused by what you see. 6 betting with K 10o all in preflop with 2 4. Not calling stations...more like like calling ... Published: Dec 18th, 2008 |
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4 | 2008 Wrap Up 2008 was an interesting year. In national news, our country is about to have a black president, Spencer and Heidi got married, and the stock market plummeted losing big money to lots of people (myself included). In personal news, I'll talk about what happened in my life in each month of 2008 January I was dating Marnier and living in the Pritchard house with Bakeshow, Panic, Biggie Smalls, ... Published: Jan 1st, 2009 |
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4 | Taking care of your health Half of the reason why I am leaving the game for a while is due to health issues. I sit around a lot, plus the stress of bad beats and not leading a very active lifestyle (jagerbombers over the weekends don't help either..lool) has lead me to having high BP. Not going to go into great details about it other than it was 166/106 which is considered extremely high. I am hoping if anyone reads ... Published: Jan 13th, 2009 |
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4 | Holy Mary Mother of Downswing I started playing mostly cash live NL $1/$2 cash games in the summer 2007. It was a bit of a rollercoaster and I ended the year very much in the red. I did some studying, went over my own notes from each session with a fine tooth comb, and told myself, "if you don't show significant progress in 3 months, you are not allowed to play cash games anymore." And by the end of March 08, ... Published: Feb 19th, 2009 |
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4 | .10 $50 Added PS tourney Yep, I'm back. I decided to play one of these to see how I'd do. 2259 People had entered this tourney. I was doing ok at first til the blinds got astronomical after the first break. I entered the break at 9th, and just dropped like a rock cause I didn't get any cards at all But when it was all said and done, I fought til I got 98th place. Not too bad considering. Though some reading ... Published: Feb 27th, 2009 |
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4 | Wheres the Edge? Part 2 Someone asked this question on the forum, "Excluding the donk-type freeroll players which you'd hardly find , isn't poker just a game of luck when everyone is playing just perfectly especially towards later stages of tournaments..I mean where's the edge coming from when everyone is playing just correctly'" and I thought my responses could be of use to the community as a ... Published: May 16th, 2009 |
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clivestraddle Join Date: Aug 11th, 2008 |
4 | May 9 - slept all day - heard that T. Venus bought Sin City and will probably be playing their shortly - I don't know how long it will last but there was certainly easy money at the old place Thinking of heading out about 2 a.m. but am a little shell shocked and probably just play chess and backgammon to relax - Up $400 for the day in backgammon and down $1.45 online Published: May 23rd, 2009 |
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4 | My 2009 World Series of Poker Experience I am out in wonderful Las Vegas. So far I played two tournaments and have ran pretty card dead in both. I played one $1500 WSOP event at the RIO and got knocked out on level 4 (four hours into the event). I had QhQd and opened in early position for 4x the blinds. An older gentleman smooth called on the button. Flop came out 4d9d2s. I bet out three quarters of the pot and my opponent raised my all ... Published: Jun 18th, 2009 |
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4 | Live Poker Blog #1 Hi, I've been playing live poker for almost 3 years. I first started when I attended the Mountain View Casino College in North California on 9/06/2006. I graduated from the course, but never became a dealer. I moved to Philadelphia where I would travel to Atlantic City to play $1-2 NLHE frequently. I was able to play in A.C. for a year, attending such casinos as: Showboat, Taj Mahal, Borgata, ... Published: Jul 5th, 2009 |
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4 | My mostly useless talent (4-max PLO8) It appears I have a mostly useless Poker talent. I am excellent at 4-handed PLO8 MTTs against donkeys. There's only one tournament on the net in this format - the $4.44 $1k guarantee 4-max Omaha/8 on Pokerstars every day. That's why this skill is mostly useless... Pokerstars, in their infinite wisdom, decided the other day to allow late registration for a full HOUR after the start time ... Published: Jul 7th, 2009 |
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chris5764 Join Date: Sep 16th, 2008 |
4 | The curse has been lifted It is official, I finally took first in an online poker tournament. No late missteps, no sicko run of bad beats, just solid poker all the way to the end. It feels great, almost the city of Chicago would feel if the Cubbies won the series. It is almost as if a massive weight has been removed from my shoulders. I am ready to ride this wave and hope it lasts for a while. Going to be playing pretty ... Published: Jul 9th, 2009 |
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4 | Regular $33 Tourney Party Poker Ok, 40 Players started, 18 players left. I have 9.045 chips, chipleader millndog has 18.000+. First price is $ 444, 6 get payed (6th is $ 84). Lets see where i'll get from here. Not having a good day so far, only won 1 Sit & Go $ 22 table of 10 ($ 100). Also playing Shootout $22 and Rebuy $11, so 3 tables. Will be the last tables for this afternoon. I get bad crap hands almost all ... Published: Jul 28th, 2009 |
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4 | Renegotiating stakes after a win... This is a forum post I made on a staking site (chipmeup) about a user who, after winning $7k, tried to guilt me and the other buyers into giving him a larger percentage. This person still doesn't agree with what he did as being wrong, so I wanted to get an opinion that is unrelated to that site. Here is the post: Published: Aug 5th, 2009 |
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4 | Week #5 1/2 - JOURNEY TO WSOP WAS AT $450 IN WEEK 4 AND I AM AT $447 AS OF LAST NIGHT SO I HAVEN'T MADE ANY PROGRESS THIS WEEK (see attached hands, you'll see how my luck is running, lol). TOOK THE GIRLS TO DISNEY LAST WEEKEND SO HAVEN'T PLAYED TOO MUCH THIS PAST WEEK. LAST NIGHT I PLAYED A 45 MAN $3 SIT N GO (1ST PLACE IS $42). I WAS IN SECOND PLACE OUT OF 9 LEFT THE 1ST TIME I GOT POCKET ACES AND I WAS IN 5TH ... Published: Sep 11th, 2009 |
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miamigreen Join Date: Feb 15th, 2007 |
4 | $500 to $10400 in One Year Playing Live. 10/4/09 Jewish high holidays, family visiting and the need for some serious teeth work have stopped me from playing. I figure i'll get back in the game during the wsop event here on the 16th. Published: Oct 5th, 2009 |
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chexraisen Join Date: Feb 2nd, 2009 |
4 | iraq 2 10 Oct 2009 I know I said I wanted to start blogging a few times a week and posting them here on P5’s about just life in Iraq as a civilian contractor as well as grinding some tourneys threw out the week. I have actually been working on two different article/blogs, after listening to some old shows from I came up with the idea to write a blog on what I think the responsibilities of the members ... Published: Oct 10th, 2009 |
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TwentyPoundBall Join Date: Apr 30th, 2009 |
4 | update i have put in 3 sessions since my last blog. my last three sessions were +120 (7hrs), +223 (1.5hrs) and +374 (2hrs). the second session was 5/5 NL whereas my normal game is 1/2NL. my focus has been good overall but i did make a few mistakes. i played in a freeroll event on wednesday. there were 400 runners with the top 3 receiving a $6,300 ticket to APPY Sydney in December. I ran pretty good and ... Published: Oct 30th, 2009 |
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mastaofkings Join Date: May 20th, 2007 |
4 | Climbing a Mountain: Update 3 Current BR: $1,164.57 Low volume. Again. Rakeback payments came through but I've only played a couple hundred hands. Thanksgiving was a great break and it felt good to get away from the stress of poker for a while. To my delight, my BAP for MTTs sold out on a staking site I am a member of so I have been focusing on MTTs. I busted on two final table bubbles so far...hoping to hit soon. As ... Published: Dec 2nd, 2009 |
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4 | poker and life I just got from the Bahamas recently where I played in the PCA 10k Main Event buy in which was great experience. Very nice to meet couple of fellow online players and see all those known live players around. The weather in Bahamas could have been better though. I made it to day 3 of the Main Event and busted in 270th place. 225 made the money, I'm very happy with my performance. I ... Published: Jan 19th, 2010 |
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KobraCai Join Date: Jan 16th, 2010 |
4 | Poker world can be a shady place Anyone that has played online long enough has probably been scammed by someone they "thought" was a reputable high character guy. I have decided to no longer help, stake, loan, assist in any way possible in regards to funds. I consider myself a man with high integrity and a man of my word. It's too bad that we can no longer expect the same from others. Out of 100 online ... Published: Jan 23rd, 2010 |
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4 | Italy Without Poker Full excerpt at "Why did we get on the first train we saw. We should get off and at least check if it's the right one." "But then we won't have sweat for the train ride." -Matt "Ch0ppy" Kay and Simon Charette It's very important for poker players traveling together to have some gambling sweat in one form or another. Anything can be bet on. Throughout ... Published: Apr 24th, 2010 |
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4 | Well Damn Haven't updated this thing in forever as I have seen no reason to. I played the first week and a half of the Scoop competition in the low bracket and was playing well but then I had finals to worry about and an intersession course after that. So all my time is going into that now, so I won't really be playing until July or so, at which time play should pick back up quite a bit. I will ... Published: May 21st, 2010 |
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4 | SNG/MTT BR Management and Cashout Strategy I've been approached several times about how to manage a bankroll, and when to cash out. I'm going to address this question very heavily in this post. You can keep up with edits and updates to this post here at this thread: / The following guidelines will assure with a high confidence level that you never go broke if you are +ROI in the games you are playing, and you exercise good game ... Published: Jun 3rd, 2010 |
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4 | It's been a while - Random things happening in my life (mostly poker related) Honestly, I kind of forgot about this blog for quite a while, but have been meaning to update it for the last month or so. I'm not going to give an update of tournaments, like I had done in the last 2 posts, but maybe if I start updating this more in the near future I may start doing that style again. I am basically just going to talk about a few things that have been going on the past few ... Published: Jul 29th, 2010 |
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4 | Poker anxiety Hi guys! How you doing' Hope that at least better than me because I'm having an awful month. I haven't played a lot and (big mistake!!) I haven't respected the BR management rules. I took my BR from $80 to $1K and then started to spew it playing $25 and $15 MTT that I'm not ready (BR and game) yet. If we add losing every flip and few Way Ahead situations and almost $200 in cash you got my BR ... Published: Oct 10th, 2010 |
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4 | right...it's settled I have no patience, i have no br management, and i have no tilt control -- lol /blog Published: Nov 2nd, 2010 |
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4 | 2011 is not off to the best of starts.... I am part of the low stakes comp. which i am really looking foward to however day 1 was not good. I only managed 4 min cashes ...... My first ft of the year ended up being a joke. It was the 2$ 6k cubed on stars. Even though it was only a 2$ tourny 1st place was just over 2k. I toke this picture at my high point. 586795 Not winning this tourny sucks as i feel ... Published: Jan 9th, 2011 |
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ukanttouchme Join Date: Jun 1st, 2009 |
4 | A week "off" for good behaviour With lectures starting again i've put in just under 700 sngs in the last 7 days which leaves me behind supernova pace. Not the best start but i've enjoyed doing other things. Can't get enough of playing snooker at the moment and my games really improving...if only i could say that about other aspects of my life. Hartlepool are doing the polar opposite of what they did in December. I can't help ... Published: Jan 24th, 2011 |
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mav09 Join Date: Aug 28th, 2007 |
4 | 1st blog, part two... I don't know what happened, or how to fix it, so let's start this again. 2007 OPR stats: 388 tournies, $1737 in prizes and 1% ROI 2008 OPR stats: 774 tournies, $2170 in prizes and ROI 2009 OPR stats: 145 tournies, $208 in prizes and ROI 2010 OPR stats: 1198 tournies, $2144 in prizes and 47% ROI 2011 OPR stats: 766 tournies, $3,073 in prizes and 46% ROI Something happened to me in November ... Published: Mar 10th, 2011 |
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4 | Austria Trip and P5s Training Vids Hey everyone, Apologies for not writing any blogs for the last few months, with the training site popping off now I'm going to be updating alot more regularly. Trip Report I last minute decided to go to Austria because my good friend Stevie444 said I could crash for free if I came out and I hadn't been skiing in a long time. So, I figured why not' I would like to consider myself the ... Published: Mar 26th, 2011 |
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4 | A strange twist Well so much for my goals for the end of the month. Last week my HUD stopped working (I use Hold'em Indicator) so now I can't really multi-table the games I used too. So I decided that I might as well get Holdem Manager but didn't really have the money. Luckily I came across this great promotion where I can get Holdem Manager and 3 months cardrunners free after $100 MGR. So I deposited $50 on ... Published: Apr 11th, 2011 |
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4 | One more time The delusion is that no one has suffered like you. No one has taken as many beats as you. How many times can this happen to me' Unfortunately, one can not convince the delusional with reality if they are unable to look cognitively. Too often, the ELEPHANT in the room is overlooked. The most important aspect if you plan to make a living at tournament poker…..how do you handle losing' Volume is the ... Published: Jun 5th, 2011 |
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4 | Welcome back - lol Mergeaments 1st day grinding on Carbon yesterday and I bink off 2 FTs including a win in the $5R turbo. But is it real money'' We'll see how the cashout process goes. Regardless it feels good to be grinding and earning those PLBs again.... Carbon's schedule is bigger and more diverse than I thought at first. Sunday 100k guarantee today will be fun. Watch out for me in the lobbies because I am ready to ... Published: Aug 28th, 2011 |
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4 | The Italian Funeral The Italian Funeral A man was leaving a convenience store with his morning coffee when he noticed a most unusual funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A black hearse was followed by a second black hearse about 50 Feet behind the first one. Behind the second hearse was a solitary man walking a dog on a leash. Behind him, a short distance back, were about 200 men walking single ... Published: Dec 17th, 2011 |
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4 | Change of Direction This weekend changed some things for me. I decided to load a small amount onto Intertops (Cake) and Carbon (Merge) and give it a run.I was mildly successful,playing in a few Guarantee tournaments, final tabling 4 times, winning one. But I am way more a cash game player, so I decided to go a different direction. So as of now what I'm gonna do is build a bankroll by playing micro stakes. I plan to ... Published: Feb 8th, 2012 |
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4 | Dan is tha man Blogs get moderated it seems... so my scores are up : ) tx to the team :) Now I can grind down those HU tourneys cheers Published: May 15th, 2012 |
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4 | update 3: 500 Grand Sierra chopped 3ways! BINK! just chip chopped 3 ways in the 500 at Grand Sierra for 9kish. My biggest ever score live or online. Grinded a 10 BB stack and came back from a 5bb stack most the time. Final Chip counts: me:180k guy1: 400k guy2: 600kish so it was a real good chop. i ran good winning the 3 flips but I played the FT with no showdowns and just picked good shove/reshove spots with a 10-15 BB stack. LETS ... Published: Oct 5th, 2012 |
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Bobmurphy Join Date: Jul 19th, 2007 |
3 | Round II Haha, we will see. I will get $8.94 by May 5th. We will see what I do with that :). Would be funny if I succeeded then. I'm pretty much just gobbling up all the poker information and strategies I can right now. We shall see... Published: Apr 12th, 2008 |
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ALPAllstar20 Join Date: Aug 4th, 2007 |
3 | Grindin... Well this weekend got off to an awesome start. Come home ready to transfer over my money to Stars of FTP from Epass and see all the news. You know it figures that as soon as I start to use the card that they are shut down. I have such horrible luck. I guess I was lucky enough to have what little funds i did have sitting in the account and not stuck on UB. I'm sure they would have found a way ... Published: Apr 12th, 2008 |
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epiphil Join Date: Apr 30th, 2007 |
3 | Bad play Well yesterday i went to westgate. sat tight for a while and was watching most of the players, establishing my position and skill at the table. was doing well remember the people, calling their hands in my head time after time. especially this one guy, a little talkative, big stacked about 400 dollars at thsi 1 2 no limit table. i sat down with 70 bucks and blinded down to 65 dollars and catch ... Published: Apr 27th, 2008 |
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3 | Bodog 8K 4/29 8th, yet again. 18+2. This time for $208. Published: Apr 28th, 2008 |
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DAZ072 Join Date: Feb 26th, 2008 |
3 | While wife was away I Play and Play Wife was off in the US for a week for work. So each night I had the boys off to bed by 7.30, then from 8 - 9.30 I had tournaments starting on sites Pokerstars, Full Tilt and Part Poker. Played pretty well, got lots of small cashes some of which are on my profile. Placed 2nd in 3.30 HORSE on Pokerstars for $99 - not on profile and best win on Pokerstars. Won a 2.25 NLH on Full Tilt - only ... Published: May 4th, 2008 |
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