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End of a Poker Journey
Published on 2008-06-06 16:21:00
How interesting that the last post I might make on this blog; coincides with the 'supposedly' deteriorating quality of writing within my blog.Two weeks ago, my dad got diagnosed with cancer - and I will be fufilling his one wish by not pursuing poker fulltime.I feel that this is the most natural time to be quitting this game as a serious hobby due to the fact that I started a new business only 2
Like my donkey play...
Published on 2008-05-11 19:09:00
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2595849
Interesting Hand
Published on 2008-04-27 10:09:00
here's a fun hand http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528791 usually i don't slowplay JJ preflop, but there was jus too much chance that the first 3-bet player had JJ crushed too often to make 4betting an option.
Sickest Tourney Bluff Ever
Published on 2008-04-14 22:43:00
Full Tilt Poker Game #6039680281: $18,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45280374), Table 4 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:39:19 ET - 2008/04/14Seat 1: Zookie1095 (3,980)Seat 2: Bruce Buffer (3,937)Seat 3: uwantmeinurgame (4,198)Seat 4: TXrounder1 (4,398)Seat 5: ohmyguinness (7,583)Seat 6: ChangPogo (8,870)Seat 7: MsXRed (4,410)Seat 8: baxur (5,279)baxur posts the small blind of 40Zookie1095 posts the big
On Top...Again
Published on 2008-04-02 03:07:00
I won another tourney last night; and this is now the second win in as many weeks. Last night's score is 4,6k so the scores are getting bigger. Check out my ranking at pocketfives.com in the australian leaderboard - i'll hopefully get to the top 10 by the end of the year.I had some miraculous suckouts including 2 outers, and very bad edges in huge pots - the following pot coming as a pure
And the Winner is...
Published on 2008-03-27 20:48:00
So i finally took down my very first tourney (i've had a few final tables), and I was chip leader going into the final table, and for once I didn't screw it up - i dominated from the first to the last hand, culminating in the final hand.http://www.pokerhand.org/?2337851Although the win was only over 200 or so players and the first prize was only 1k (i've had larger wins of 8k and 6k in larger
Happy Easter?
Published on 2008-03-25 09:13:00
This easter has been the most hectic, dramatic and possibly life changing in my life for my past 25 years. I finally feel that 2008 is the year for me, and while it almost seems like we're halfway there, it seems like i've got an eternity left for the year to play out.I have stopped playing online poker for the past few days, and plan not to play until the 15th of april, working on some perhaps
The 1 dollar Coin
Published on 2008-02-25 00:38:00
A story from the Book 'water logic' by Edward De BonoJohn was a young boy who lived in Australia. One day his friends offered him a choice between a one dollar coin and a two dollar coin. John took the one dollar coin. His friends laughed and thought he was very stupid because he didn't realise the smaller two dollar coin was worth twice as much as the bigger coin. Whenever they wanted to
Trippin and Demerging your Range.
Published on 2008-02-20 02:25:00
What is the meaning of 'tripping'?trip1 /trɪp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[trip] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, tripped, trip·ping. –noun 1. a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris. 5. a stumble; misstep. 7. a slip, mistake, error, or blunder. 8. an error or lapse in conduct or etiquette. So in essences, you can have a trip as in a journey,
Prison Break of the Mind
Published on 2008-02-06 04:33:00
Prison Break the tv show has many uncanny similarities to how our mind works - a way of understanding how we make decisions and feel emotions and take directions in our lives.I like to think of our minds as a prison - we are trapped by the realities that our mind forces upon us. What we learn in school and from our surroundings is not freeing our mind, only adding more prison cells to our