- What's Been Going On?
Lots of pokering lately. Let's do a quick recap . . .Tuesday, June 30th: Played the Binion's O-8 tournament with Drizz and Tuscaloosa John. Snuffy was across the street at the Golden Nugget playing th…
- Heading into Day 2
I am beyond exhausted right now. Today totally felt like a grind. I worked my stack up to 17,775 but was moved to a new table to start level 7. Once there, I went through a horrible stretch where I wa…
- It's Monday Already
Weekends tend to go by pretty quickly around these parts.Friday I went to the Venetian to meet up with a former colleague from my investment banking days. We ended up grabbing drinks and dinner before…
- Skin in the Game
Tuesday June 23 is WSOP Event #46: $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo.I will be playing in it.Are you looking to get some skin in the game? If so, please read below. (Note: for obvious reasons, it sounds very technic…
- In Case You Were Wondering What I Sound Like . . .
The fine folks at PokerSoup have invited me to be a guest on their upcoming podcast.To get the live audio stream, go to this link on Sunday at 9pm ET / 6pm PT. If you're not around on Sunday, you can…
- Introduction to Badugi 101
I ended up at the Wynn last night with fellow bloggers LJ, cmitch and Shabazz Jenkins. The plan was to start a $4/$8 mixed game with some other randoms who were milling about the room. But then a bit…
- Blogger Updates
First, a HUGE congrats is in order to LJ for finishing 10th in the WSOP $1,500 HORSE event! What an impressive accomplishment for someone who's never played HORSE live. We all know LJ as a strong NLHE…
- Event #25 Snippets from Day 2
My Day 2 starting table looked like this:Seat 1: Casey Kay - 12,300Seat 2: Stuart Spivack - 39,800Seat 3: Jason Mercier - 14,400Seat 4: Bart Hanson - 16,600Seat 5: Scott Clements - 26,700Seat 6: CK -…
- Event #25 Snippets from Day 1
Some stats:376 entrants40 paid153 advanced to Day 214 advanced to Day 3Phil Ivey won the bracelet (his 7th) and $220,538My starting table consisted of the following:Seat 1: Tom Koral (final tabled the…
- I Will Not Be Results Oriented (Well, Not Completely)
I am the 39th best Omaha-8 / Stud-8 player in the world!According to the official tournament results.But I feel like I played like a champion. My head is still a bit all over the place, but I can only…
- Quick Update
Made it through Day 1 with 22,600, which is above the average of 18,194.376 entrants. 155 survived Day 1. 40 get paid.Seats 3 and 4 at my table were the death seats. I think we lost 4-5 players in eac…
- I Will . . .
1. Remember to think about my image and use that to my advantage.2. Remember to remember, particularly in the Stud-8 rounds.3. Remember that I played some pretty tough WSOP tables last year and never…
- Time Keeps on Ticking
I had planned to write a post on Monday about the BBT4 TOC but I didn't quite get around to it.Silly me.Excuse my tardiness. Here's a rundown of the tournament from my perspective.Blogger opinions gen…
- Who Knew?
$2k seat that I'll use toward the $2,500 WSOP OE on Thursday.Thank you to Al for putting the BBT4 together and to Full Tilt for donating the prize packages.Congrats to JJ and actyper on the Main Event…
- Quick Thoughts on Venetian Tourney
For those of you who weren't following all of my Twitter updates, I didn't cash in the Venetian Deep Stack event. I made a decent run, but I had disastrous levels 8 and 9, tried to double up during le…
- Locked In
I registered for the Friday Venetian $550.I was the first person to do so. Kinda made me feel like a dork. Some of the staff (whom I know quite well) were laughing at me.In my defense, there was a guy…
- Sometimes I Confuse Myself
In my last post, I debated skipping the $2,500 WSOP OE event to go to a $10 movie about poker (which, as many commenters noted, would probably suck). Then I discussed playing in the Venetian Deep Stac…
- Tidbits
I gave in and finally signed up for Twitter.The BBT4 qualifying tournaments ended last night with the Big Game. I was way too tired to play, so I just railed some of the action for a bit. Congrats to…
- Taking the Plunge . . . Sort Of
Yesterday I finally made my way to the Amazon Room at the Rio. The plan was to meet up with my brother, LJ, Cali Jen and Al for dinner / drinks. (Sprstoner and his fam ended up joining us as well.)The…
- AFC Redux
In case you didn't know, this Sunday is the last day of the BBT4. That means another installment of the Big Game.Tournament: Blogger Big GameWhen: Sunday, May 31st at 21:30ETGame: Superstack NLHEBuyin…
- One Year Ago Today . . .
I arrived in Las Vegas. At that time, I wasn't sure whether Vegas would be a permanent thing or merely a couple months' distraction from my life in NYC. My plan was to play poker for a living on a tem…
- First Day Back
Sunday was my first day on the golf course since last summer. It was also my first day using my new crubs. JCutt hooked me up with a free round at Reflection Bay, which was pretty sweet.The day starte…
- Lacrosse National Champions!
Congrats to the Syracuse Orange for winning the NCAA Div I lacrosse national championship! Cornell put up a great fight and even had a three-goal lead with 5 minutes and 30 seconds left in the 4th. Sy…
- Workin' (On) It
I have decided to work on my online NLHE MTT game.Surprised?First of all, there's that BBT4 TOC thing coming up. If Hoyazo writes one of his TOC handicapping posts, I guarantee you that I will not be…
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Solely because I have become a lazy-ass blogger . . .Ruckbox = Bayne**********Ruckbox: yesterday I lost a $600 pot on stars button raisesme: oh god do i really have to listen to this? hahahahahahahaha…
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