Archive for June, 2009
I advance to Day Two of WSOP Event 24
Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:30 2 CommentsI don’t have a ton of chips, but I’m still alive! This is the event that I finished 24th in last year, so I’ll try to outdo that performance this time. We start at 2:00pm Vegas time (5:00pm at home) and if I do well, I’ll be playing long into the night. I have less [...]
Tournaments and Tilt
Friday, June 5, 2009 13:21 No CommentsOne of the things I pride myself on as a poker player is that I have an extremely high resistance to tilt. At this point in my poker life, I have seen every possible way to go down in flames. I’ve been called by terrible hands that had no chance to beat me yet somehow [...]
WSOP Trip Report Part Three
Monday, June 1, 2009 10:56 1 CommentThere is one event in poker that everyone wants to play more than any other. The Main Event of the WSOP is the best and most prestigious tourney in all of poker. Everyone wants to play this one. Even someone semi-jaded on poker like myself. The problem for most of us with the Main Event [...]