Party Time?
LAS VEGAS–Text to Tom (who has been a gracious sounding board this WSOP on matters of game selection, bankroll management, and getting to know that leavin\’ feelin\’) late last night: 5:11 am — I am good at poker, bad at […]
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Unstuck
LAS VEGAS–Good morning. I\’m just getting ready to go to bed. The sun\’s been up for just a few hours, and it\’s already over 100 degrees. But inside the Rio … about negative 64. So friggin\’ cold, especially in the
I Love / Gonz Hates LA
LOS ANGELES–I just got back from The Bike … my first venture into a California poker room. Played some Little-Big Game … $2/$3 NLH… Buy-in: $100 Cash out: $965 Tore that shee-it up! But I had to leave because it
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The Lines Don’t Lie
I\’ve been much better about keeping track of my bankroll this year, thanks to Pokercharts.com — even though, thus far, it hasn\’t been a winning year. Kinda interesting. Just tonight/last night … I had a pretty good session (ended up
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Text-by-Text Tourney Coverage
LAS VEGAS–Let\’s be honest, I haven\’t done shit tournament-wise throughout the entirety of 2006 … can\’t remember the last time I cashed, and like seriously, what-da-fug\’s a final table? And yet, somehow, the $300+40 \”main event\” of the Ultimate Poker
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RE: 60 Minutes
LAKE TAHOE, NV–Am off to eat and drink with a bunch of dealers. So much I forgot to tell you all about. Be sure to check out PokerBlog to read my live-blogging of the 60 Minutes episode and the end
That’s it … I’m done playing crappy cards
So I decided to kick it old school last night. I went to \”JR\’s\” for a cash game. Things had changed in the many months since I had played there — the game is no longer 1/2/5 … it\’s back
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Rough Night in Vegas
This has little to do with poker or the WSOP, but surely some players and/or other pokery people were affected by it … late last night a man climbed to the top of the backdrop of the MGM lion (using
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Why I Am (Still) Not a Very Good Player
Three weeks or so ago, I found myself going bust in a $2/$5 NL game at the WSOP, and it all hinged on a single hand. I had called a small raise with 8-9s and the flop came 9-9-10. As
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More Bad Beats-Violent Desires
LAS VEGAS–Playing good poker is so friggin\’ hard. This time the subject of my ire was a totally affable a-hole who happened to be the big stacks. I was playing so well today. And that meant laying down big hands,
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