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Off to Vegas

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

off-to-vegas

I’m on my way out the door to spend a week in lovely Las Vegas. I’m going for work, but I’m sure I’ll find some time, some where, to play some poker.
Expect a few updates from Vegas.
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Poker resolutions

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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It’s that time of the year, for all the new resolutions to come out of the wood works. Here’s a few poker resolutions that I have.
1. I don’t cold-call that often, but I resolve to cold-call even less.
2. Play more live poker. I play online a lot… but seriously… it’s boring. […]

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Merry Xmas

December 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

merry-xmas

I’m off to the Gulf Coast to play some poker tonight. It’s my own xmas miracle. LOL.
I’ll leave you this Xmas eve with a little tune. I’m not a singer, so bare with me.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: A suckout in a pear tree
On […]

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PokerStars now on Mac

December 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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A year ago, I made the switch from Windows based laptop to Mac laptop because of Final Cut Pro and my job as a film maker. Only then did I realize that most of the poker sites I was playing at didn’t support Mac. Slowly that’s changing because finally, PokerStars has recognized that […]

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All I do is think about poker!

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

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Maybe I have a problem. When I’m not playing poker, I think about poker. When I go hang out with friends (who don’t play), I have a hard time thinking of things to say that DON’T relate to poker.
Luckily, I think most of my friends understand this. They understand that I’m obsessed. […]

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Harrington on Poker and other ramblings

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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I finally finished the Harrington on Hold ‘em: Vol. III. If you don’t know, it’s basically a workbook to further study the lesson of the previous two volumes. In this you take multiple choice quizzes of poker problems taking from real world examples and then Harrington gives you his thoughts and points for […]

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Bored man playing… raspberries!

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

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As I said in a previous post, I’ve been getting bored of playing NLH online… and not surprisingly, I’ve started to lose money by playing. So today, I’ve started to try to figure out the ins and outs of Razz.
It’s a weird 7 card stud variation, where the lowest hand wins. Straights […]

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