June, 2006 Archives

First Live Update

June 30th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I decided to relax and get a massage this morning and sent Suited to
the 1/2 NL table at the Hilton. She won a little bit and I’m very
relaxed. Were goofing off and doing tourist stuff.
I’ll probably play a little after dinner tonight. Elmo and Chrisjp
are playing a tourney at Binions. Elmo said [...]

First Live Update

June 30th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I decided to relax and get a massage this morning and sent Suited to
the 1/2 NL table at the Hilton. She won a little bit and I’m very
relaxed. Were goofing off and doing tourist stuff.
I’ll probably play a little after dinner tonight. Elmo and Chrisjp
are playing a tourney at Binions. Elmo said [...]

Ready to rock and roll in Vegas

June 30th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I took up Full Contact Poker’s offer to give me a microscopic share of Daniel’s winnings if I wear their hat and I’m meeting them today to collect a bunch of gear.
I arrived just in time to miss Matthew busting out of the $1,500 PL event.  I did get to watch him collect a big [...]

En route!

June 29th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’m off to the airport.  Vegas bound, baby!

If I played exclusively MTTs, I’d tell bad beat stories all day long

June 25th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I just had a nice run in a Stars FPP freeroll where they gave 5 seats over a field of 1,700 runners or so.  I finished 100th.  I was among the chip leaders for some time, but the ever-increasing blinds took their toll.  There were short-stacks who were pushing on a wide range.  I doubled [...]

Countdown to the WSOP

June 24th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I leave for the land of sin and sun in about five days now.  I’m starting to get amped up about it.  I will try to post live updates here as best I can.  The WordPress post-by-mail interface is not very good, so I don’t know how patient I will be to do so but [...]

The ITH People’s Champion Fund is up and running

June 21st, 2006 · Posted in poker, sportsbetting · 0 Comments

I officially launched the ITH People’s Champion Fund a little less than a week ago and we have raised almost $7,000 so far.  Of course, the strongest supporters joined up quickly and there will be some people who sit on the fence and sign up right at the last minute, but I think we probably [...]

Dismal performance in the blogger event

June 19th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I was doing well enough for a while, but two big hands did me in.  In the first hand, I flopped two pair and wound up making a crying call on the river to see the flush that I knew he had.  That cost me a good-sized chunk of my stack because on the first [...]

The ITH People’s Champion

June 15th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve come up with what I think is an excellent idea to send an ITHer to the WSOP ME.  We are going to organize a ITH only tourney where participants put in $200 to compete in a MTT to send someone to the main.  My innovation is that the losers will all retain 40% (or [...]

CheckNRaise poker is reneging on WSOP seats

June 13th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’m so angry about this I can’t hardly focus. In my mind, this is the next PokerSpot. There are just too many rooms and we know nothing of their long-term viability and financial health and there is no way to sue them.
I’ve now seen three different posts on different forums with this same [...]