Archive for August, 2006

I got done watching the WSoP day 1c on ESPN and noticed that I don’t appear once in the telecast. Instead they followed Mike around for his very short day at the office. So in the spirit of Nick Bakay’s tale of the tape I offer up me vs Matusow.
Category: Bobble head dolls.
Matusow: Has [...]

Well it took a while but I am finally back in the grove after the vegas trip. The past few days I have cleared $400 in bonus and made almost twice that at the tables. Last night was four-tabling mostly 3/6 but one 5/10 included. Tonight the 3/6 tables just comepletely broke [...]

If you’re like me, and you’ve been reading elsewhere in poker’s corner of the blogosphere today, you’ve read others slobbering over the supposed juicyness of the new HORSE tables at Stars. Trying to decide how to unwind after a day at work, I decided I needed to see it for myself.
I picked a random table [...]

No SnG action for me last night, but I did decide to take another stab at the $11 Double Shootout to the Sunday Million. In round one, I again found myself heads-up, and pushing aside any confidence issues as best I could, found myself raising a pair of sevens from the SB. After a call, [...]

After three weeks away from internet poker I was back at it last night clearing last month’s hollywood reload. I have plenty of bonuses I want to clear but I started with this one because it needs to clear at full ring and since I had only played full ring in vegas I thought [...]

Took another shot at the $11 Double Shootout satellite to the Sunday Million tonight. Was going very well until I got to heads up with an $8k to $4k chip lead. Unlike my previously documented heads-up troubles, it wasn’t that I felt a little lost in this one. No, this one was just stupidity.
And topped [...]

Second place, that is.
I think I need to work on my heads-up play. I’m cashing in just over 50% of my SnGs over the last few weeks, but something like 90% of my cashes are for 2nd place. I’ve finished 2nd in the last two FOFC Colossal Squid tourneys as well.
On the one hand, I [...]

So we’ve lost one member, and watched another play in the WSOP Main Event. The rest of us have been polishing off our cricket impressions.
Me, I’m fresh off a move back to the States, and still working on getting the family settled. And yet my own laziness has been the primary reason for my ubiquitous [...]

So apparently crypto has decided that people who won via a freeroll won’t get to play in the 200K freeroll.Â? The interpoker team put up a fight but no luck.Â? They said since I was told that I was going to be playing they will compensate me into my poker account.Â? So [...]

These 1,500 chip tourneys are not the time to go three hours without a pocket pair. After a decent run of cards in the main event just nothing today. A few AK that didn’t connect and I got short pretty quick. Doubled up once at the 50/100 level but then ran into [...]