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Entries from April 2007

Horrible night

April 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments

horrible-night

Not a good night at the poker tables at the Beau Rivage. I started by playing 4-8 Limit while I waited for a 1-2 No Limit table to open. The bad news started there, fairly quickly I was down about $120 bucks or so… then I moved to the No Limit table and […]

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Wow, have I been slacking

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments

wow-have-i-been-slacking

I’ve been on one film shoot after the other, unfortunately… so not a lot of time to play poker, except for a few home games and a bachelor party. But as luck would have it, currently I’m on a commercial shoot for the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi Mississippi. After shooting during the […]

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Bluffing

April 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

bluffing

Far too many players, especially those new to the game, think poker is all about bluffing. Actually, the power of bluffing is used far less than these players imagine.
The basic principle of bluffing is that you want to bluff with a little more than you need to get the job done; i.e. your opponent […]

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