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In Case You Missed It 6 Jul 2011 | 07:58 pm
I won another one. I’m still pretty shocked, but I guess sometimes we run good. Never thought I’d win the first one, and I sure didn’t think I’d win a second. So that must mean I’ll win a third? I’ll...
D-Fence! 3 Jun 2011 | 07:46 pm
Hey Poker Fans, I’m back in Vegas for another round of World Series of Poker. In fact, my first event is the title defense in the $1,500 Limit Hold ‘Em. During the final table in 2010, I vowed not to...
CNN Appearance 27 Apr 2011 | 02:35 am
Welcome, all of you who found this blog through my piece in the Washington Post! A CNN producer read the article and decided to film an interview with me. The segment should air tonight (I’ll update w...
Zero-tabling: My thoughts on Black Friday 19 Apr 2011 | 09:23 am
We all knew something like this could happen. Online poker has existed in a murky legal environment in the U.S. since its inception, and there was always the possibility that it would eventually disap...
Leaving Los Angeles 25 Feb 2011 | 11:24 pm
Another poker trip is about to come to a close. Sadly, I went 0-for-5 in tournaments for the week; 0-for-9 if you count the four online events I played Sunday. These things happen. I hadn’t planned on...
No Dice on Sunday 22 Feb 2011 | 12:18 pm
I managed to blow through five FTOPS entries in time to play the LAPC Ironman event. Somehow I didn’t think they really meant it when they said, “there are no scheduled breaks.” I guess what threw me ...
Arrival in LA 19 Feb 2011 | 10:07 pm
Well I’m here at the LAPC, though at least for now my wallet wishes I’d missed the flight. I played the PLO rebuys today. In one of the first hands post-rebuy, a very loose raiser opened from the hija...
West Coast Bound 16 Feb 2011 | 08:06 pm
In case you missed the updates, I had a roller coaster Borgata Winter Open main event. My starting stack of 30,000 fell to 5,000 on Day One. At least 10k of that was lost when I tried to bluff a guy o...
Shorthanded Very Short 30 Jan 2011 | 07:59 pm
Well, I didn’t even make the 1.5-hour mark I set for myself in the last post. I induced a guy to bluff all three streets, and it worked! I caught him! Except he was holding aces and I was out in a hur...
Breaking–Borgata First Event Lame 29 Jan 2011 | 07:44 pm
As promised I played the Borgata’s 2K No Limit Hold ‘Em event today, but good times were not had by all, and especially not by me. I couldn’t have asked for a much better table draw. I got only one in...
