Wow. I can’t believe I haven’t written a blog in over a month. I guess I expected my new website to be done by now. The good news is that it’s looking really good! Ok, let’s see how I can sum up over a month. The weirdest thing that happened involved my last Bluff article. I wrote about a bad play I made, and how a bunch of factors contributed to me going on tilt, and I wrote something to the effect of, “I do this thing I do where I start to shake and lose focus, and it usually goes away ...

Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ll get to that in a bit. In 3 hours (5pm PST / 8pm EST), the first episode of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E tournament will air, followed by the second. There are 6 episodes total, two each Tuesday. It’s hard to say exactly, but I think I’m going to be shown in episodes 2 and 3. Maybe a little bit in 1 as well. So if you can, turn on ESPN tonight and watch me! This tournament meant a lot to me. In my opinion, it is the most prestigious tournament of the entire year. Unlike the ...

Unfortunately, the Legends of Poker WPT at the Bike didn't go as planned. Last time I wrote, I was in great shape going into day two of the $2,500 tournament. Unfortunately, I lost a 40/60 fairly early in the day for all my chips and finished 16th. I was really looking forward to playing some of the bigger events, but came down with a pretty bad fever on the Sunday after the $2,500 tourney. The fever only lasted for a few days (my girlfriend took great care of me), but large amounts of coughing and phlegm build up prevented me from being ...

The WPT is in town! The Bike has been running a bunch of tournaments leading up to the Legends of Poker. They are mostly smaller buyins which I don't play, but yesterday I played the first big event they had, the $2,500 NL. I haven't played any live poker since the Bellagio Cup, but I managed to play my A game anyway. We started with 5,000 chips, and I grinded a small stack, playing really tight for hours. By the 200/400 level, I never once had above 7,000 chips. I finally managed to double up, and never looked back. I was up to over ...

Well that was painful. If you were wondering… yes, I have busted out of the main event. I played at two tables and both were amazingly loose and passive with calling stations galore. The blinds started at 50/100 with 20k in starting chips, and this beauty of a hand happened the first level: UTG limps, UTG+1 makes it 400. I called with 85 of diamonds, both the blinds called, and the utg limper called. The flop came 742 with two diamonds. The small blind led out for 2000. The raiser called, and I called. The turn was the 9 of diamonds completing my flush. It ...

I only played one event after the $1500 NL, - the $1,000 rebuy, and boy was it ugly. I was gambling a bit early on, just trying to double my initial stack. The next thing I knew I was in for over $15,000, and hadn't even gotten that one pot that I wanted. My chips weren't going in THAT badly either. I was only drawing dead once, and was an 80/20 dog once. Every other time I was at least live, if not the favorite. I lost two huge all-ins with two pair for example. I finally won a pot, and after ...

World Series Event #21 - $1,500 No Limit Shootout. Lots of people refer to this as the event that Daniel Negreanu and Erick Lindgren both final tabled, but the REAL story of the event happened on day 1 at a starting table. They were down to three players, only one of which would advance to the second table. The blinds were 100/200, and no player had less than 9,000 or more than 11,000 chips. In other words, they were all dead even with around 50 big blinds to work with. A gray haired older main (at least 60) was on the button. ...