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Poker Articles on 08/2005
Tuesday, Aug 30 2005
Poker Player of the Year 2000-2002 - Well, the game slowed down to a crawl over these three years. We played 16 times in those three years, with most of the games held in 2002.The departure of Manny, Ralph, French Charlie, Chris Bid and BartMaverick meant we had to recruit some players. Thi...
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Monday, Aug 29 2005
Marathon Weekend - With Jen working so much since Thursday evening, Ive had plenty of time to scratch my poker itch on UB....I just wish I could say it has been more productive/profitable...heres the stats since Thursday evening after putting the girls to bed. And for any f...
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Saturday, Aug 27 2005
Beerhog Wins a Qualifier on Poker Stars - The whole country is winning on Poker Stars - except me!Beerhog beat 164 players to win a seat in the main qualifier for the WCOOP Main Event.Money can be won - even if he fails to move on to the next round.His next tourney is #11526904, starting on Satur...
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Friday, Aug 26 2005
Slacking v2.0 - Sigh...what a week. Spent Wednesday in NJ audting a micro contract lab, so that was very fun, getting back into a micro lab again. Our washing machine died again while I was on the trip, so Im on the search for a new drain pump to get the washer working...
The New Internet Poker Top 20 List - Okay, I have played another few months and have re-evaluated my list.I am allowed - after all I am a poker GOD! Poker Stars - still #1 and still kicking my butt. I love the site but it hates me. Lots of players, great software, tons of tournaments at all...
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Wednesday, Aug 24 2005
A Case for Moving Up in Class - I get emails (mikeniks@yahoo.com) and a question came up about rakes and accumulating bonus points on- line. A good player was complaining that his Frequent Player Point Program (FPP) was not growing very fast. This discussion prompted this post.Whether ...
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Monday, Aug 22 2005
Slacking - Wow...longest delay between posts for me...shame on me.The last 11 days have been pretty hectic. Spent the day on 8/12 with Jen and the girls at the Ohio State Fair...was very hot, but we stuck it out for about 5 hours, mostly letting the girls see the a...
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Sunday, Aug 21 2005
Nik Makes Final Table on Poker Poker - I found a new site! I like it for one reason and one reason only - there are alot of cheap BIG tournements.The site can be found at poker. com Talk about the perfect IP address!It was the second tournament I played in on the site and managed to finish 1...
Nick D. Cashes BIG, Finishing 5th in Freeroll on Absolute Poker - Nick D. won over $300 in a freeroll on Absolute Poker - finishing 5th in a $3000 freeroll.Absolute Poker runs quite a few freerolls - however most are no where near this high a payout.I also played in this tournament before - but did not have Nicks succes...
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Friday, Aug 19 2005
Sit and Go (SNG) Profit Analysis Update - After playing in hundreds of SNGs now, I have decided that due to fluctuations in the cards, the toughness of tables dropped into, and quality of my game brought to the tournament -I have decided to change my base (accounting rules) for monitoring my succ...
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Monday, Aug 15 2005
NPP Next Games - How is this for planning!Here are the dates for the next 3 NPP games.Sorry we have to bypass August, but the renovations (6 wet bars, 40 wide screen TVs, cigar lounge, and complete sandwich/pizza/ grinder outlet) is taking longer than expected.NPP will ma...
Online Casino Advertising Faces Ban in Canada - Up until now online casino advertising, especially for some of the popular internet poker rooms, was legal in Canada. Theses online casinos featured ads on Canadian television without any problems. But now pressure is mounting and there is a campaign in C...
40 police close poker game. Yesterday, they let the game go on... - By SAM RICHES 15aug05 THE Australian Poker Association returned to Adelaide and card dealing yesterday - two months after their last tournament was raided and closed by police. A free tournament, which provided cash prizes from a range of sponsors, was ...
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Thursday, Aug 11 2005
Stuff - Not much going on the last couple of days. Jens been working a bit more due to some more people leaving BNoble...looks like theyre loosing some staff this month (school and such) and could use some new help. You get a nice discount and then Jen wouldnt ha...
Quite a week of 1st's, 2nd's, 3rd's, 6th's and Dead Lasts - What a week and it is not over yet!Went out of town for work and decided to play SNGs instead of ring play. This is a little scary for a few reasons. One, the connection could go out at the hotel and I am out of luck.Two, SNGs are a very tough way to make...
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Tuesday, Aug 09 2005
Beware...poker post for today - so...youve been warned. Played a bit of poker last night on UB...$5/10 limit and cleared about $100 over an hour or so. Was able to win a couple of hands right off the bat, playing A-10 in the BB on my first hand against a raise from the button...called ...
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Monday, Aug 08 2005
Monday again - Had a busy weekend, no poker to speak of since the game from last Thursday...watched some high stakes play (300-600 limit) on UB...crazy heads-up action, watching guys with excess of 100k throwing pots back and forth. Spent Saturday in Toledo,OH at the a...
Poker Player of the Year - 1999 - Well, by this time the game has really settled in.The guys at the games knowledge of guys who play poker have been exhausted.(Not only that, who wants to be friends with the guys in this game anyway?)Only 15 different players played in the 10 games held i...
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Sunday, Aug 07 2005
Spartan003 Qualifies for a $1 Million 1st prize Tourney on Paradise Poker - Nik Faldos son, Spartan003, won a seat on Paradise Poker that is running freeroll qualifiers.I guess anyone playing poker on that site gets one freeroll shot at qualifying. After that I guess you have to earn 100 FPPs to get another shot.This is news to m...
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Wednesday, Aug 03 2005
Wednesday morning - Wow....how time flies these days. The family reunion in PA went well this last weekend. Really enjoyed seeing all of my cousins, aunt, uncles and everyone in PA for the day. Was a long day for us, as we spent 10 hrs in the car travelling to PA and ba...
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Tuesday, Aug 02 2005
Tolly Does It Again! - 1st in a Pot Limit Holdem Poker Stars Tourney - This is getting boring. I was getting close in 1st place tournament finishes on - line to Tolly, but now he is pulling away again!There were 547 players in this one and the entry was 90 frequent player points (FPP).Now Tolly took the 900 FPPs instead of t...
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