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Playing Poker on Sportsbook.com: Notes
Published on 2011-10-27 11:30:00
Post-Black Friday, US players are naturally looking for places where they can still play poker. Sportsbook.com, on the Merge network along with PlayersOnly, is a top rated sportsbook that has made significant improvements to their poker software after upgrading to PlayAces software.They offer a wide variety of different cash games, MTTs and SnGs and while the player pool naturally can't touch the former levels of Full Tilt Poker before its shutdown, there have been many active games every time I
Effects of Black Friday on the 2011 WSOP
Published on 2011-06-03 14:27:00
Ever since Chris Moneymaker's win in the 2003, the WSOP fields have been growing at incredible rates: the 2010 main event featured over 7,300 players and the total prize pool for the series was nearly $200,000,000.Many of these entrants win their spots via online satellites, many of which are run by Full Tilt and Poker Stars. Of course, these mega-sites have been shut down by recent US Department Of Justice indictments, announced on a day which has come to be known as Black Friday.How is the 201
Home Game Report
Published on 2011-05-06 17:11:00
I haven't had many opportunities to sit down for a home poker game recently, so when my roommate and a few friends were getting a game together yesterday, I gladly joined in. Little did I know, the game would end up teaching me an interesting lesson.I’ve always thought about what it would be like to play ring games without thinking at all about the money. That is, if my only goal is to amass as many chips as I can, instead of focusing on winning twenty of fifty dollars, I figure I would make m
Mixing in a lot of MTTs Lately
Published on 2010-11-21 14:53:00
I've been grinding a lot of .25/.50 limit these days, and doing pretty well aside from the occasional day when I get absolutely crushed. (Funny game, it is...)To balance that out I like to play about as different of a Holdem game as I can find, and I really enjoy big No Limit MTTs. The thrill of the tournament format really gets me and I've had a few big final table cashes this year. I haven't won a large-field tourney yet though, so that's my next goalAnyway, I'm doing the $200K Double Deuce at
Upset by a Bad Beat? Write About It and Win Prizes!
Published on 2010-10-19 23:05:00
We all suffer bad beats. They can make us curse out our adversaries in the chat box or complain incessantly to our friends and significant others. But have you ever sat down and crafted an interesting story about a bad beat? If this sounds like an interesting concept to you, as it did with me, it could even win you some cool prizes.Poker Buddy is an add-on, used mostly used mostly for Zynga poker, that uses algorithms to help evaluate your game and improve poker play. They have just launched a c
Set up PT3 on New Laptop, Ready to Go
Published on 2010-10-17 17:45:00
I took a major step forward today by finally transferring PokerTracker over to my new laptop. I've had the computer for a few months now, but for whatever reason I thought it would be difficult to transfer everything over. It's really not. Your licensing code is good for two computers so I just re-installed PT3 and PostgreSQL and entered it. I thought I'd have to do something complicated for backing up the database, but I realized it would be super simple to just save all my HH files on a flash
Another Promotion Hooks Me In + New Poker Writing Job!
Published on 2010-10-10 12:24:00
Well, after Full Tilt got me back to playing with a random $100 bonus, they just announced another Take 2 bonus, which I found to be incredibly easy money last time. All you have to do is amass a small amount of points by playing two ring game tables for ten days in a row, which I would probably do anyway. You also get double the full tilt points, although this doesn't matter for rakeback players.Also, I'm officially back in the game because I just started a new poker writing job. It's for bankr
Biggest Break from Poker I've Ever Had. Not Recommended!
Published on 2010-10-07 21:29:00
I must apologize for letting this blog slip into oblivion for way too long.I started grad school this fall, and in addition to classes I have also been working 20-30 hours a week. I've been extremely busy, and unfortunately there has been little time for poker...What, then, has gotten me back on track?Full Tilt's clever promotions, in fact. I saw their offer for a fresh $100 bonus a few weeks ago, so that hooked me back on board and I ended up playing about 15,000 hands. I didn't unlock it all,
Frustrating Night
Published on 2010-07-15 10:08:00
My "Move up through uNL" challenge is going well for the most part, as I haven't encountered any real adversity and am still cruising through 2 NL.Last night, though, I had a terrible time at the .25/.50 limit tables, which is usually my best game. Everything was getting cracked, my c-bets were always getting raised and aggro players seemed to be stumbling onto the nuts with high frequency.I didn't get too affected, though; it was only about 70BB or so in an evening. (I four-tabled a session fir