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Poker Articles on 08/2005
Wednesday, Aug 31 2005
Mmm, malaisey... - Finally rolling with the cable modem hookup. Woot. Had a decent return to teh online poker last night, bubbling in a tournament at UB but picking up a little bit of scratch at 15/30. Im developing a bit of a bad attitude lately, in regards to gambling in ...
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Tuesday, Aug 30 2005
Beep Beep - Assumuing nothing goes horribly awry, we should be hooked up with RoadRunner at some point today, finally restoring blessed Internet to our domicile. Id like to say that this little hiatus has restored my appreciation of nature, or of cooking, or of somet...
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Monday, Aug 29 2005
Jebus Bless You, Mucho Hearts - Where to start, where to start... So I got up pretty early on Thursday morning, rolling into the Coushatta in Louisiana at around 2 or so in the afternoon. Grabbed some lunch and played a little blackjack, just to get in the gambling groove. Little did I ...
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Friday, Aug 26 2005
ESPN to Expand Coverage of WSOP Circuit - Harrahs Entertainment said ESPN will provide television coverage of the 2005-06 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit.The second season of the WSOP Circuit features an expanded schedule of 12 stops at Harrahs casinos around the country, up from five Circui...
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Wednesday, Aug 24 2005
You are Getting Very Sleeeeeeeeppppyyyy - Yes, Im one of the rarer monkeys that enjoys limit poker more than NL. That said, the ESPN coverage last night proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that watching the final table of a limit event is about as exciting as watching paint dry. The only thing that...
Phil Ivey Plays on FullTILT - Not a bad day yesterday -Fulltilt $50+5 MTT - 4th place - $478.50Ultimate Bet $40 +4 MTT - 4th place - $601.80Fulltilt $100 +9 MTT with Phil Ivey - busted out before the money.Play Online Poker
Make the Hurting Stop - Man, I am one out of shape monkey. Last few days of hard monkey labor finally caught up to me, as Ive been gimping around all morning. I also managed to hit myself in the eye yesterday with a 50 lb. bag of mortar, which takes some doing.All systems go for...
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Tuesday, Aug 23 2005
Back Home - I cant believe the week long vacation is now over. On Saturday, we left Albany and went to Foxwoods Casino to meet up with my wifes roommate from college and her husband. Foxwoods is like 3 casinos in one. It is absolutely amazing. You could spend a w...
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Monday, Aug 22 2005
Pioneering Days - Twas a fine weekend, spent with much hearty labor, toiling at improving the homestead by day, and reading Homer by candlelight at night, rising early the next morning to begin anew. Yeah, fuck me, still no Internet access at home. Didnt quite finish the b...
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Friday, Aug 19 2005
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Poker - Bah, who needs poker anyway. That wasnt so bad, as far as Day #1 of no Intraweb at home. Granted, I cheated a bit, and bought Rome: Total War to amuse myself with, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. Plans are to tile the back patio over the weekend...
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Thursday, Aug 18 2005
And the shaking, and the sweating, and the DTs begin... - The horror... So were ditching our land line/DSL in favor of RoadRunner, largely to consolidate things and to upgrade to a cell phone plan that includes a phone for me, as well as ScurvyWife. I currently dont have a cell phone, and am pretty happy with th...
Working for the Weekend - Man, the weekend needs to hurry its weekend ass up. Fantasy football geeks out there should mosey over to Donkeypunchers and sign up for the fantasy football league hes running on Yahoo. Its been a few years since Ive been in a league but I thought what ...
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Wednesday, Aug 17 2005
PokerShare.com - Pretty interesting story about a poker start-up that plans to pay players dividends (and potential conventional shares in the event of an IPO) based on the number of raked hands they play every month:Online poker start-up to offer players ownership stakes...
Turning Stone Trip Report - We made the drive over to Turning Stone casino on Sunday afternoon. It was a little less than 2 hours from Albany. I had previously made reservations through the poker room and was able to secure the room at the special rate of $75. As we were standing...
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Tuesday, Aug 16 2005
Committing to Taking Hands to Showdown - One interesting side effect of moving up in limits is that more and more pots end up being contested heads-up, often from the flop on. While thats nice in some ways, it also puts you in more difficult spots, as far as what you do exactly when you flop mid...
Gin and Juice - Raise your hand if you just listened to the Gourds version of Gin and Juice approximately sixteen times in a row. Just me? Thats what I thought, biatches. Pretty hectic weekend with little poker playing. ScurvyWife and I went to San Antonio on Saturday an...
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Monday, Aug 15 2005
State of the Poker Union: August 1-14 - August Poker Results Results for 15/30 (August 1-7): +$948.70Results for 15/30 (August 8-14): +$224.00Total August results for 15/30: +$1172.70Results for $5/10 and lower for August: +$56.00Results for MTTs and SnGs: $-175.00 Total August Poker Results: ...
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Sunday, Aug 14 2005
FullTilt Has Been Good to Me - I am currently blogging from Saratoga. New York. I went to the Spa yesterday and had a break even day at the track. Tonight I am heading over to Turning Stone to play in the Empire State Holdem Championship tomorrow.Play Online Poker
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Friday, Aug 12 2005
Odds and Ends - Everyone should go buy Pauly a virtual round as he wraps up his initial WSOP onslaught. Ill give you a nickel if you can find better tournament coverage anywhere and its all brought to you for the low, low price of free. While youre at it, make sure to ch...
YoYo Poker - This poker week is apparently destined to be of the yo-yo variety, as I seem to either book big daily wins or junk-kicking losses, with nothing in between. Yesterday was of the junk-kicking variety. Moving right along... The only bad thing about PokerAce ...
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Thursday, Aug 11 2005
CrazyPoker Rakeback - I think its pretty interesting that Crazy Poker has been the first site to basically break ranks and say the hell with it, offering players a direct 33% monthly rakeback. It was pretty inevitable that someone would eventually do that, what with all the ra...
Where Does the Time Go? - Working on a big ol honking post about aggressive poker play but not quite done yet. Things turned around nicely yesterday at the poker tables. I wish I could say it was stellar play but the bulk of the profits came from junky hands in the BB that the flo...
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Wednesday, Aug 10 2005
Not a bad start to the week - Monday - The streak continues. Cashed out for a little under 2K in the 8:00 PM $109 MTT. I wish I could play these every nights but they end too late for me and my sleep has been suffering so Ill take it easy the next couple of days. Thanks to all the r...
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Tuesday, Aug 09 2005
Playing Like an Emu - (I agree, there has to be a better term than donkey, due to its massive overkill these days, but man, its hard to find a good dumb replacement animal.) Poker baffles me sometimes. Or, more accurately, I baffle me sometimes. Got deep in a PL Omaha 8 tourne...
Super Sunday and Week in Recap - Boy was Sunday a long day! I just wish it had been a little longer. :) After waking up and eating breakfast, I logged into Pokerstars around 11:00 AM. I told myself that i was going to play in the $500,000 guaranteed tourney but I didnt want to buy in ...
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Monday, Aug 08 2005
Back in the Saddle - ScurvyWife and I had a nice little jaunt to Galveston this last weekend for a few days, consisting of doing absolutely nothing but relaxing. I tried to play a little poker, bootlegging a wireless signal from our hotel, but it was weak enough that I keep d...
State of the Poker Union: August 1-7 - August Poker Results Results for 15/30: +$948.70Results for $5/10 and lower for August: +$456Results for MTTs and SnGs: $0 Daily 15/30 results: 8/7/05: +$139.008/5/05: +$51.508/4/05: +$2098/3/05: +$46.708/2/05: +$502.50 Total Results from August 1-7: +$1...
Make it 4 - Made another final table on FullTilt in the $109 MTT. I finished 6th when I had to push with a marginal hand because blinds were just too high for my stack. I think the payout was a little over $400. I came back last night and entered the $163 MTT. Chr...
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Saturday, Aug 06 2005
3 in a week - Three final tables this week alone on Fulltilt. However the only win came last night in the $4000 guaranteed. When it got heads-up, I was a 3-1 chip underdog but fought my way to a win and a $1824 payday. Not bad for 4.5 hours of work. What has impress...
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Thursday, Aug 04 2005
Scary Cards - Im not going to say that poker is going well, due to the inevitable junk kicking that will follow. So I wont say that. Nope, not at all. Its amusing when you encounter situations that might previously have gotten you worked up but which now slide right of...
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Wednesday, Aug 03 2005
Adventures in Grouting - So, umm, yeah. Front walkway of our house is pretty much finished, except for sealing the Saltillo tile, and it looks decent enough. I could leave the story there, flush with success, but Id be leaving out a few small details. Including, you know, just ab...
Nude Shana Hiatt in a Box - I have sitting on my desk at work right now, in an Amazon box, a copy of Harrington on Hold em Vol. 2 and the infamous Playboy: The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic, Naked In Paradise DVD, featuring a barely legal Shana Hiatt. However you spell her name (Shanna, ...
I am back - Wow! I cant believe it has been close to 3 months since I have posted in this journal. I doubt that I have many readers left, but lets get it crank up again just in time for football season. I am going to be putting up some free sports picks for those t...
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Tuesday, Aug 02 2005
State of the Poker Union: July 1-31 - Total July Poker Results July 1st-July 15th: +$1,046July 16-July 24th: -$541 July 25th-July 31st: +$2211 Total for July: +$2,716 Breaking down the numbers a bit: Results for $15/30 for July: +$1,485Results for $5/10 and lower for July: +$856Results for...
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Monday, Aug 01 2005
Worky Worky - Have to say that Im still immensely digging the new schedule, as far as telecommuting Fridays and Mondays. Yesterday was a pretty silly poker day. Barely played, as I was busy finishing up tile work and doing other householdy chores. I think I finished th...
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