April 2008
5 posts
Pokerstars Sunday Million
I played online last night in the Pokerstars Sunday Million tournament. First prize was $200,000 and I finished in 65th for around $2,500. Not the big score but I’ll certainly take it. Here is one key hand I played. I have approximately 80,000 in chips which is good for 2nd most on my table. The guy sitting two seats in front of me is the chipleader on my table and has around 125,000. ...
Weird Hand from Foxwoods
This hand comes from the Foxwoods Poker Classic’s $5,000 buy-in event last year. I’m in the 7 seat and an aggresive player, the big stack on the table is in the #6. So I’m in a pretty good spot, and I’ve got an above average stack, lets call it 65,000. Blinds are 800-1,600 with a 300 ante. I’m dealt the 3h-4h in the big blind and it is folded around to the small...
More Poker
SCENARIO: Borgata $10,000 entry tournament, over $1,000,000 prize to the winner. We are in day 3 of a 5 day tournament and have about 80 of the original 400+ players left. I have been playing fairly solid poker and all players left at this stage are good/strong. I have about 100,000 chips which is just below average at this point. The #10 seat has 180k, the #3 seat 120k, and the #9 seat 75k....
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Poker Content
Originally wanted this to be a mixed blog about gambling in poker and gambling in the financial markets. So I’ll kick off some poker content now. The format will be like this: I’ll give the background/details of the game, and then I’ll go into some interesting detail on some hands. If you’re a poker newbie and you dont understand the terminology, I apologize in advance....
February 2008
5 posts
LONDON
Brother: Yo dude. I decided that I'm going to London tonight. You should come.
Me: When's your flight?
Brother: 7.
Me: Let me see what I can do.
So the wheels were in motion. I talked to my boss and demanded the day off tomorrow (OK- i asked). Got the green light. Talked to my mom about the ticket. She works for Delta and hooked up business class for $400 round trip. I happen to have a gift certificate on US Helicopter for a free ride from Manhattan to JFK (it takes about 8 minutes, compared to 1.5 hours by car). Our cousin lives in...
Hola
Hi. I’m new to this. I haven’t decided whether or not I will be tumbling or whether I’ll just use this to follow my friends tumblogs. So for now, I’ll leave you with a quote:
“It is better to be silent and thought of as a fool, than to speak and remove all...”