The Shark Tank

I 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 [...]

One 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 [...]

There 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 [...]

My troubles really began on the 7th hand of the event.  I find myself on the button.  UTG open limps for 25 chips (we all have almost exactly 4,000 chips at this point.  I’ve actually already raised twice pre-flop and took down the blinds both times).  The next few players call.  I believe the dealer [...]

Traveling to Vegas was a huge PITA, but I got here in the end.  All’s well that ends well they say. I was able to check into the Rio early in the morning and get settled in my suite.  When you are here for short bursts, the Rio is actually a pretty good choice.  The [...]

Posting when I am extremely tired is much like posting when I’m drunk in terms of how disorganized and incoherant my thoughts are, but with less entertainment value.  Therefore, I make no promises about the quality of this entry.  I’m pretty sure it will be so long that even my mom doesn’t make it to [...]

The judge has issued the formal order in the case which starts the clock ticking on the deadline for Gowen to refile.  It is fairly critical of the initial complaint, charactarizing it as “problematic in its breadth” and “reaching too far.”  Although most of the claims permitted Gowen to refile, there was at least one [...]

As in past year’s WSOP events, I am taking small amounts of backing money from friends that want to “invest” in my WSOP endevours.  With my 24th place finish last year, people seem to easily imagine the big rewards that would have come my way if the cards broke differently.  Apparently, they don’t give the [...]

There may be some weirdness going on the blog and the RSS feed today.  I am testing out integration with Twitter, which looks like what I will use to update people on my progress in the WSOP.  You can check out my poker Twitter activity at http://www.twitter.com/nsidestrate to get the information directly.  During the WSOP, [...]

Tweet This Post