Archive for June, 2005

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First Final Table Well, I made my first Final Table in a poker tournament tonight. The irony is that it was in a Pot Limit Omaha tournament. I’ve never played PLO before, so I wasn’t expecting to do too well. I have played some Omaha and O/8,

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Sorta’ bored Since I got back from Europe, I’ve felt a little down. Nothing serious, but I just haven’t felt spectacular. I can think of a lot of reasons for this, but I think a big one is I’m just kinda’ bored. I feel like life is

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Big Tournament = Huge Letdown I got no cards for about 120 hands. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a run of cards that bad, but I guess it had to happen some time. Here are my statistics from the entire tourney: 120 hands played and

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Getting ready for a big tournament In an hour, I’ll be playing in the highest buy-in tournament I’ve played yet. It’s $200+15 and there are thousands of dollars at stake. I’ve seen first place in this tournament pay as much as $150,000. Of course, I’ll need all

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Bad luck with poker What a great contrast to last night. I figured I played well last night, so I’d take a shot at today’s PokerStars $10+1. There were 1385 people registered. This is literally the first hand of the tournament: PokerStars Game #1893303229: Tournament #8870985, Hold’em

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Getting back into the swing of things This week has been better than last. Last week, I basically just wanted to be back in Europe… or at least not sitting at my desk or running around to get mundane things done. This week, I think I began

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Updates from Europe Well, I have been back for a few days, but just haven’t updated the blog. I kept a journal while I was there and my initial plan was to transcribe the journal into my weblog… until I remembered the three updates I sent out

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