The Shark Tank

35 tables so about 350 entered. That would pay 36 or so

It looks like it strips the body of my posts off so updates will be short and sweet.

I’m not going to talk about the Protege freeroll where I drifted down early with some speculative limps and a hand where I lost two pair over two pair from the BB.  I think I played pretty solid, but wound up pushing with AK against 88 and failed to improve.
I did get to check out [...]

I’m driving up to Atlantic City tonight. Unfortunately, there are two on-line events that I really care about tonight at 9:30. There is an ITH moderator tourney at Full Tilt and there is the 100 person protege freeroll at FCP. I have thought from the beginning that the 100 person freeroll was [...]

Its official! I’m going to drive up to Atlantic City Thursday night and play in the minor event on Friday. I’ll probably also try my hand at a super-sat or two and see if I can win my way into the WPT event. I’m not going to spend $10,000 of my own [...]

I was able to charm my friend Angela Adams a/k/a Angelfish into building a snazzy new title graphic for my blog. As with all of her work that I’ve seen, I think it is first rate. She is talented, charming and a fine poker player. How John managed to hook up with [...]

I got a real nice bet down on the Carolina/Seattle game, where I was assured of a 2.5% profit no matter who won. It involved some risk because I locked in one side of the bet way before I bet the other side and I couldn’t be sure the line would move the way [...]

I’m now eliminated from the competition for another seat. Last night was Round 2 in which 400 players were to play down to 40. We had a very crazy night on the home front and I wound up missing the first several hands by arriving a bit late. Worse yet, the stupid [...]

Its finally time for me to pay the variance tax. I had a very juicy 15/30 table with a real chip-spewing maniac at the table. He actually was a thinking maniac and played reasonably decent post-flop, although his relative skill post-flop didn’t make up for his horrid selection pre-flop. The best part [...]