Day 1: Today started pretty rough, but got better as it went on. I went to sleep about 2:00 AM and had to be back up at 4:00 AM. My plane left Gainesville at 5:20 AM and I arrived in Seattle at 9:30 AM local time. The
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I should write this down so I don’t forget about it. We had a doubles foosball tournament at work today and my team won. Then I went home for an hour or so and got ready to go play a couple of single-table ten-dollar poker tourneys. I
Read more →On Wednesday evening, I headed west to Las Vegas. As it turns out, I also arrive in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening since time stands still when flying west (in the States anyway). This demonstrates Superman’s superiority as Boeing can merely cause time to stand still, while
Read more →This was only my second live tourney since October and I felt I played well until (of course) the last hand. We started with 5K chips, 10/20 blinds and 30 minute levels. It was a pretty good structure and I really liked my chances. I was sitting
Read more →Tonight was the Tournament of Champions (TOC) for one of the groups that I’ve been playing with this year. I don’t know if I’ll have a chance to write up a full recap, but here’s a brief summary: I was basically card dead all night. That being
Read more →Saturday I played a $45 buy-in tournament. We started with 10K in chips with 30-minute levels and 25 players. This tournament was very difficult for me both physically and psychologically. It began exactly 12 hours after Friday night’s tournament ended, so I had very little time to
Read more →I just got back from a $50 tourney where I took 2nd of 33 players for a $400 prize after about seven hours of play. I don’t feel like writing a full recap yet, but I played very, very well… until we got heads-up when I goofed
Read more →I had a pretty good weekend at the poker tables. Nothing incredible, but I had decent results. I played a total of 12 tournaments–11 online and one live. I cashed in four of them and made one final table (the live tourney was a one-table tournament, so
Read more →I don’t typically do my recap immediately after a tournament, but this one will be so short, I might as well get it out of the way. During the first two levels, my table was doing a lot of limping, so I joined the party. I made
Read more →$75 tourney recap I played in an oddly structured tourney tonight. Initially, it was billed as a $50 tourney with a single $25 rebuy, available if a player went broke. We started with 6K in chips and the rebuy was for 6K and was available for the
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