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WSOP Circuit Event coming to Harrah’s

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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I wanted to talk about tells, but that post isn’t quite ready yet… but I need to mention this sooner rather than later.
WSOP Circuit Event
Friday, May 09, 2008 to Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Schedule:
Fri, May 9th 12 PM
Event #1 - No Limit Hold’em $500
Sat, May 10th 12 PM
Event #2 - No Limit Hold’em $500
Sun, May […]

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2008 WSOP

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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Baseball has the World Series. Football (American) has the Superbowl. Football (rest of the world) has the World Cup. Poker has the World Series of Poker.
It’s getting ready to be that time again. Yesterday, the WSOP released the schedule for 2008 and started taking pre-registrations. 55 events in all and […]

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Playing your gut

February 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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I’m not an active fan of playing your gut, hunches, instinct, “feelings,” etc. But sometimes when I don’t listen to my gut and it cost me a really big hand, I have wonder if I’m making a mistake. Annette certain listens to her gut and she’s one hell of a player.
Here’s the story: […]

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Been awhile

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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So… been a little while. Sorry about that. January, after Vegas, I didn’t play a lot of poker. I didn’t do badly in Vegas, lost a little, but life just got hectic for me. I had a lot of film work that kept me busy and I got kinda disinterested in […]

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2008 WSOP Schedule Announced

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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If you’re serious about poker or even just like it as a hobby, you’ve probably dreamed of playing the World Series Of Poker.
Harrah’s Entertainment released the official schedule of events for the 39th WSOP, which will once again return to the Rio. It will run from May 30 – July 16, 2008 and offer […]

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Quiz 7 - Against a flush draw

December 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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Okay as promised, this is taken from a hand that I witnessed at my table during the Boomtown Casino weekly tournament last night. Since I know the cards and how it played, I present it to you. BTW, pretend that you performed the action the player you are playing with did and decide […]

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Another Boomtown tournament bad beat

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

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Second week in a row that I got busted out of the Boomtown tournament when I was a favorite to win.
I was on the short stack and had KK in the cutoff. UTG+1 raised to put me all-in ahead of me and I was delighted to find him holding ATo (a bad play on […]

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