CORRECTION: While I always hate to admit I’m wrong, once in a great while/blue moon/lifetime I have to admit I made a mistake. As I did with this review of the Poker Superstars. Somehow I totally missed like 20 minutes of the show, I don’t know how I managed to do that, but whilst folding…
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First of all, congrats to all the overfed Patriots fans out there, and my sympathies to the Iggle fans trying to come to grips with the fact that their terrific season ended in heartbreak. I feel your pain, believe me. Pretty much a dog of a game, both teams played lousy in the first half,…
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After failing to place in the first 219 SNGs I tried at Stars I’ve cashed back to back, winning once and taking second in one just now. In the first I have to say that I played magnificiently, building up my chips with almost telepathic reads and laydowns until I was able to remorselessly beat…
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Two of the activities that take up much of my leisure time are poker and volleyball. I must ask the question, why is it that nearly every time I finished playing either I end up muttering darkly to myself? Is this just temporary frustration, congential dypepsia, or am I a masochist who really likes inflicting…
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While the President spoke on every major and minor network laying out his plan for the next year and beyond, I was sitting in front of my monitor watching my betters play down to the end in the WPBT tournament. Yes, I’m a fully engaged citizen of the United States of America. Ehh, I’ll just…
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Actually, I categorically refuse to call pocket Queens the “Hilton Sisters”. All respect to Pauly, I can’t stand them, can’t stand that they’re famous, that they’re clogging up the media, that otherwise attractive young women are trying to model their look on them. And I’m not calling them the “Olsen Twins” either. Blech. They’re pocket…
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The latest WPBT event is tonight at 9PM at PokerStars. Readers are welcome to play, so on the very odd chance to read this blog and no other poker blogs, feel free to join in the mayhem. It’s under the “Private” tournament tab and the password is “thehammer”. Admission is $22. I think at the…
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