I’ve been playing unconcious poker the last month. When I lose I lose a few bucks. When I win I win big. Won the tournament and then when I played after that I posted modest wins. It seemed I couldn’t lose. And, after awhile, I started to believe I couldn’t lose. Oh, I might get…
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It would be nice to rest on my Grublog laurels for a bit longer, but the tables beckoned and I played a bit last night. Almost couldn’t play–my kitten (my wife would laugh at that, as she considers Izzy hers and hers alone) is in that biting-everything stage, and the little rascal chewed through the…
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Ever wake up, and you’ve been having a fantastic dream, and for just a moment the dream is still real to you…and then you realize that it’s Monday morning, you aren’t a superhero with antigravity boots, and you gotta get to work in 40 minutes? Well, I woke up this morning imagining that I’d actually…
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I won the Grublog. I can’t believe it. I am walking on air. I played really, really well I thought, and was glad to get into the money. But once I got there I wanted to win. I really wanted that chip set, really really really. I wanted the cash. But most of all I…
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The Grublog Poker Classic is one hour away, and I’m ready. Cleaned up my den so I have a pleasing atmosphere, ate some chicken for protein, hydrated properly, stretched out my hamstrings. I’m ready. I know I promised I wouldn’t play anymore until I finished my Hellmuth post, but, uh, I played. I wrote some…
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Day by day, bit by bit, I’m getting better at this game we call Hold-Em. Reading my Brunson, learning a few moves, adding to the bankroll. But it is true that we learn more from our failures than our successes…actually, let’s stop to think about that for a moment. Wouldn’t it be great if we…
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With the Grublog Classic looming like a big…looming thing, I’ve started cramming for the big event. Got Phil Hellmuth’s book out of the library (mostly for material for my Phil post, which is almost done and now tops 2,000 words, Iggy) and stopped over my brother’s last night to pick up Super/System. Five days to…
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During the 2003 World Series defending champion Robert Varkonyi, low on chips, played a fateful hand with 1998 champ Scotty Nguyen. Varkonyi was dealt KK and raised. Nguyen, holding AA, re-raised. Varkonyi went all-in and Nguyen of course called. As Scotty showed his aces Varkonyi looked across the table and said, “I knew it, I…
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I was in B-school during the height of the dot.com revolution, when it seemed like everyone was becoming rich except me. And by rich I mean RICH, rich-beyond-avarice rich, Arabian-sheik rich. I read an article in Fortune about this guy who went to Penn State the same time I did who owned a gaggle of…
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Iggy, always pimping we pokerbloggers, sent a query to Poker Top10, a site that has all sorts of Top 10 lists about poker (but you guessed that, didn’t you?) and asked them to put up a list of the top poker blogs. And yours truly placed number 4! I’d be lying if I said I…
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