I played a whole lot of poker this week
September 24, 2007
With the WCOOP going on I played a lot of hours every day this week except Thursday when I decided I should leave the house. Unfortunately the results for the week were pretty craptastic. I lost a bit playing cash, and had little tournament success so …
Thought of the Week - September 23, 2007
September 23, 2007
Before we get into today’s topic, I am again looking for volunteers to act as Admin for the forum. With the publication of the two books I was involved in (my book: Advanced Limit Hold’em Strategy, and the Borer-Mak book, Limit Hold’em: Winning Short-Handed Strategies), I need to reopen the forum to […]
Albany Poker League Big Game
September 23, 2007
Post time is 1 PM!! Ray (Snake5970) with Lex (BigTai) and Trent (LGKeeper) in another vehicle will soon be ringing me up when they hit exit 8A of the Northway. I’m meeting them at Salty’s (a great seafood pub down the street from my house) where we w…
Cameo at the Broadway
September 21, 2007
Thursday saw my first live poker appearance since Brighton, at a £500+50 no limit tournie at the Broadway in Birmingham. After a pleasant drive down I was looking forward to playing. A one hour clock with 8,000 chips starting at 25/50 on an hour clock…
Cheaters
September 21, 2007
So it seems like someone might have managed to hack Absolute Poker, probably in the same way Planet Poker was compromised back in the online poker industry’s dark ages. No big surprise. They’ve been a giant steaming pile since day…
Lame catch-up post
September 21, 2007
It’s 5:30 on Friday night and I’m still at the office. The only other noise I hear is the cleaning lady emptying recycling bins. Work has been chaotic for the past few days while half the department moved cubicles. Oh the joy of packing up all your crap just to haul it 20 feet down the hall.
I wish I could get excited about my new, bigger, cubicle. But a cubicle is a cubicle is a cubicle.
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I played a lot of poker this week. Sitting at home on Tuesday while Banky and I got our windows replaced allowed for a lot of online poker. I decided to play some micro-limit NL on FullTilt, and I actually had fun. I also played some O8 and Stud H/L. Again, low limit, but lots of fun. The biggest difference in these sessions… I turned off chat.
I’m a pretty social person. I’m not the best ‘mingler’ there is, but I enjoy (most) people, and I love a good laugh. But after my recent post about feeling so ‘blah’ at all the degrading and rude things people say at the tables online, a few people suggested I turn off the chat…and it made a huge difference. I didn’t feel like I had to justify myself to the rude people, I didn’t get titlty because someone was acting like an ass…it really helped me focus on the game.
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BamBam over at TuckFard Poker tagged me in a “10 things you don’t know about me” thingy…..since I already wrote 7…I figure I’m only on the hook for 3 more…but now it’s 5:42, and I want to get home to Banky, so those will have to wait!
Recognized
September 21, 2007
I’m sure at least one poker blogger has posted about this already but I’m way behind on my reading. Plus, it gives me something to blog about and it involves poker. Professional poker player Jean-Robert Ballande is a contestant on this season of Survi…