Peninsular Poker
A series of deep-stack tourneys just kicked off over at the Venetian yesterday — $300, $500, $1,000 buy-ins and the like — the 2008 Deep Stack Extravaganza I. It was apparently a pretty big deal … I heard two reports […]
Poker-Watch
Afterpoker Face: +$92
It was my final regular Batface home game — $.50/$1 NLH at the new Texas Stadium Fawcett\’s house … even though Fawcett wasn\’t there. I didn\’t really have time to play, but sat in for \”one round,\” and then \”maybe
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My First Royal Flush of 2007 (and then some)
It\’s been a long time since I posted an online hand history, but if we can\’t celebrate this one, then really … why are we here? (Props to Robert Goldfarb on how I played it to maximize my return.)
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Barcelona Hates Me, or Vice Versa
OK, so I already talked about how the Barcelona gypsies took my money, and you may have read about how I busted out early in the WPT Spanish Championship I should have re-raised with Aces instead of calling a raise
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POW / WCOOP: AZP Kicking Arse Online, Dan Less so Live
Let\’s not talk about me (and how turning the straight with the second-nuts flush draw didn\’t get there) … no no, there\’s far more excitement going on in Scottsdale, as our good friends in the Arizona Posse are making quite
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POW: Never Fold
THACKERVILLE, Okla.–Damnit, where\’s my head? I guess I went on tilt when I folded away a $700 pot. I had K-J (with a jack as the top card on a no-straight, no-flush board) and folded to an all-in from Mr.
Cash Game Report
LAS VEGAS–Funny how being in Las Vegas has put me so out of touch with all the poker news. I think there are some big tournaments going on, online poker execs in the courts, business deals shaking down, but I\’ve
RE: Not Quite a Quasi-Semi-Pseudo-Pro
LAS VEGAS–Just looking at a little more thorough analysis of all my gambly activity over the past two months — including what went down before I began formal experimentation — and it\’s pretty interesting, if not accurate. The numbers below
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Not Quite a Quasi-Semi-Pseudo-Pro
LAS VEGAS–So as hinted at before, I can\’t seem to leave Las Vegas. Something about this place … would like to think it\’s the phalanx of hotties around every corner — none of whom seem to have rings on their
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Boy, that was fun
My run at the WSOP main event ended six hours after it began when my short stack was put at risk while I held JJ vs. my opponent\’s AQ. For the second year in a row, the player seated directly
