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Poker Articles on 12/2004
Thursday, Dec 23 2004
Christmas party tournament with poker pros - Well Sunday I went to a Christmas party with a bunch of poker pros along with their friends and families. A buddy of mine is good friends with several of them and this is my second year celebrating the holidays with them since he invited me last year as w...
HEY, I HOPE YOU HAVE BEEN COOL - Its been a while. I have been doing well. Well, lets see. I went on a whim to Vegas...Decided that morning. Got a good deal at the Mirage, and sauntied on over to the Bellagio...Big time pros there-and me. I can play with the big boys. I lost at li...
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Wednesday, Dec 22 2004
Funny stuff? - I thought I might use this column to pass on some of the things that have happened in the last few months that may be funny or at least slightly amusing.The first of these things happened last year at the Orleans Open. It occurred one day during the tourn...
The Ace: Don't Leave Home Without One - In a hold 'em ring game that I played in at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, there were two players who would regularly slow roll their hands by showing an ace first. Then, the other card if their opponents didn't muck. Their comments upon revealin...
Impatience is not a Virtue - One of the troubles with getting old is that you lose your patience. My whole life, I've heard that as we get old, we become more patient, more understanding. It didn't happen to me! If I ever had any patience, I lost it somewhere along the way.I had bett...
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Sunday, Dec 19 2004
Back to Action - Well, I havent posted for a few days because Ive been ridiculously busy lately and didnt get a chance to play on Thursday or Friday. I did play a little bit tonight, going 1-1 in $50 heads up matches and losing in a $20+2 and a $30+3 tournaments. The same...
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Thursday, Dec 16 2004
No Back to Back - Well, I took another shot at the $20+2 tournament tonight at 10:30 and couldnt come through with back to back tourney wins. There were about 560 entrants tonight and I ended up busting 271st. It was a pretty uneventful hour. I didnt catch any big hands at...
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Wednesday, Dec 15 2004
MIA - Well Ive definitely been missing in action lately. Now that Christmas break is here Ive finally found the time to start playing online again. I have played some over the past few months but not a substantial amount as school, intramural, etc. seemed to ke...
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Friday, Dec 10 2004
Hand of the week - Id like to do a hand of the week each week. It will be a hand that I especially remember either because I won a lot, lost a lot, had a bad beat, or wasnt exactly sure how well I played it. Anyway, heres one from yesterday. How do you think I played it? I...
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Thursday, Dec 09 2004
A week later - So its been about a week since I definitely decided to make poker my profession. In the early months of 04, I did pretty well at the 2/4 and 3/6 limits for holdem at Party Poker. I progressed to the point where I was playing 3 tables of 3/6 holdem at on...
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Monday, Dec 06 2004
CHASING FOR THE COSMOS - This guy I know, Nadav, has a tourny that he now holds in a hotel. ITs a 200 buck buy in. I was doing great, accumulating what I needed. I had the venerable KK, sitting on the button. The dude in the BB not only called, but raised all in. I had about...
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Saturday, Dec 04 2004
SELF REMEMBERANCE - What we awareness dudes are taught--its basically anti-multitasking. It has made my online game unbelievable. Changed it. No email. No anything. Just the game. Just the flow. It works. I did a past life meditation this week. I was a fireman in 192...
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Thursday, Dec 02 2004
Purpose of this blog - Hi all. I love poker. I love it so much that Im going to try and make a living at it. This site will detail my trials and tribulations in the quest of trying to pay my bills without having a real job. A little background on me: I graduated with a mechani...
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