http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog Dedicated the successful management of our world's fisheries. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:50:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I managed to earn enough points to get back on track for SuperNova in October, but essentially completely droppped out again in November.  I think I played about 400 hands in November and I guess I've officially given up on the quest.  Although SuperNova would significantly increase my rakeback, I ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/12/04/im-officially-not-feeling-it-now/ For some reason, I enjoy legal disputes in the poker world.  There hasn't been anything exciting since the Gold-Leyser debacle a while back.  Now I have a new legal interest.  Clonie Gowan (or Cycalonia Gowan as it turns out) has sued Full Tilt and pretty much all the associated Tilters ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/11/17/clonie-gowan-sues-full-tilt-poker/ The discussion of the hand where Darus busted on 2+2 is putting me on serious tilt.  Our hero was on the Button and the action folded around to Scott Montgomery who raised on the CO to 1.5 million.  The blinds and antes are worth another million and Darus has a ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/11/10/darus-bustout-hand/ Here are a few things I deduced from the simulations we did.  We did one with exactly the current table layout, in fact. 1)  Dennis Phillips will either get lucky and accumulate a ton of chips or get in big trouble in a hurry with his combined tendencies to open limp ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/11/09/a-few-predictions-on-the-final-table/ Virtually every outlet is reporting that the final table will be played with people in the same seats they had when the tourney suspended four months ago.  We spent a lot of prep time with the understanding that they would redraw.  We concentrated a great deal on how different seat ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/11/09/main-event-final-table-seating/ As many of you now know, my mysterious reference last week was about Darus.  Eirc "Rizen" Lynch is his coach and one of the things he did in preparation was to assemble a talented group of poker players to simulate the final table.  Somehow I slipped in by association. I'll say ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/11/08/preparing-for-the-final-table-with-darus-suharto/ I've been a Phillies fan since I was seven, which is an embrassingly long time ago. I was never much of an athlete. In fact, the highlight of my athletic career was when I was ten years old and knocked in the winning RBI in our little league ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/10/29/go-go-go-phillies/ I'm up to about 9,000 VPPs now, but I'm finding it very boring.  It is hard to find good games on Stars right now, so I often wind up playing 5/10 because that seems to have a lot of full tables running more often than any other limit.  I've been ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/10/26/powering-through-the-old-grind/ I just agreed to an interesting offer.  A friend of a friend is doing some coaching for one of the November 9.  As you probably know, the final table of the WSOP Main Event has been set for some time.  The nine guys who are still alive in the event ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/10/21/wsop-final-table-preparation/ The thing is that I essentially stopped playing when I got back from the WSOP, so I have to turn up the pace just a bit to get there.  To give you an idea how little I've played, I still haven't cleared the deposit bonus from July.  Essentially, I need ... http://www.nsidestrate.com/blog/2008/10/16/ok-im-thinking-about-resuming-the-supernova-quest/