The Shark Tank

PokerStars is hosting a World Championship for bloggers. ITH’s own SuitedJock tore up the event last year. I’m going to give it a shot this year.
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.
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As I’ve posted before, I believe in making sports bets that are sure things.  I look for arbitrage opportunities so that I’m going to win no matter what happens.  However, certain betting situations just don’t lend themselves that well to that kind of play.  For instance, as an enticement from one of the sportsbooks I [...]

It seems to me that some of the Stars sats during the weekday always have overlay.  I played some DS sats that went off very, very short.  I won one that was short at the final table!  I think it started 5 handed at the first table and only wound up with eight at the [...]

There is another angle I’ve been considering today.  We’ve already discussed the players who become despondant during their losing streaks and tilt off money.  Some of them will tell you the rueful tale of the day they took a shot at a bigger game, lost several hands and tilted off most of their bankroll.  This [...]

I’m sitting on a deck of a beach house, looking out over the ocean with a laptop and a lounge chair. PokerStars is apparently confused because I’m connected from the wrong place and every draw I have is coming in. My brother-in-law is keeping the margaritas coming and the nephews are splashing in [...]

Poker is a game where skill rules in the long run, but luck completely dominates the short run.  The difference between winners and losers is that winners will extract more money when they hit the good hands and lose less money when they are holding the short end of the stick.  I always laugh when [...]

I’ve decided I’m going to absolutely play in the July 1st $2,000 NL Event.  It starts at noon on Saturday and I should be on the final table on Monday.  I’m looking at my schedule to see if I can get out early and play the limit event on Thursday or not.  The limit [...]

I know that he aggravates a lot of people, so I’m in a minority in that I actually find him pretty amusing most of the time.  He has a long history of conflict with various poker discussion boards.  He likes to get people worked up about things and he favors a certain juvenile humor that [...]