Archive for December, 2006

My wife got a great job in St. Cloud, MN so we are going to relocate there. Instead of finding a job in that area I am going to take a shot at playing poker full time, starting in January. Let me thank my incredibly wonderful wife for allowing me to give this [...]

Having finished assembling the street hockey goal my son will use to hone his shooting skills, I just wanted to take a minute to wish any and all readers a Merry Christmas and/or Happy [insert holiday of choice].
We’re hitting the road up to Toronto tomorrow, so my immediate future will be void of pokery goodness, [...]

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Frankly, it’s a question I’ve been mulling privately for some time…and I’ve even been working on a post about it. This isn’t it, but I can say that earning $0.50/hr is NOT one of the reasons.
And yet that’s what greeted me today as I took a break from what has been a hectic freelance schedule [...]

Not a hand that I played particularly well, or a hand that won me a lot of money, but a pretty fun hand. I was playing three tables of the bodog 4/8 game and was about 300 hands in. I was up for the night despite getting dealt AA and KK twice each [...]

No not me, but the guy sitting to my right at one of my 3/6 tables on absolute last night. He bought in for $100 and ran it up to $500 with the following stats:
VP$iP: 67%
PFR: 5%
Aggression: 0.26
Hands: 325
I was down $85 and none to pleased when his 65h beat my AhKs on a [...]

Hi my name is Rick and I am a multi-table tournament addict. MTTs consume my every poker thought. Despite a lack of overwhelming success in MTTs I can just not stop playing them. I riding possibly my biggest hot streak ever in NL cash games and yet I am not getting anywhere near enough hands [...]