tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85881712024-03-10T03:15:07.331-05:00Poker NationA journey through a poker-crazed countryTuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.comBlogger621125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-57641282238131310982015-09-25T11:17:00.002-05:002015-09-25T11:17:26.034-05:00Loving Daily Fantasy Sports on DraftKings<br />
No, I haven't quit poker, but I have developed a passion for daily fantasy sports in recent month, moving much of my focus there.<br />
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At first I thought the game it was a total crapshoot once I started playing baseball in June, until I figured out that really it was baseball that was more of a crapshoot. (Consider that hitters only bat four or five times a game, compared to running backs and QBs who touch the ball 20 or more times a game -- hence reduced variance.)<br />
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Now that football season has started, I've been doing much better, and had I not made a couple of last-minute switches last Saturday I would have won about $15,000 on DraftKings. Ouch.<br />
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I see why many poker players have gravitated toward daily fantasy sports, as there are some similarities between the games -- playing against the field instead of the house, making +EV moves and watching them win out over time.<br />
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I do apologize for letting the blog fall by the wayside, it having now been dark for about 16 months. Since I last wrote my baby girl has gotten much bigger, which tends to happen when you go from 4 months to 20 months. My son is now 5 and I am 38, but maybe feel like 48.<br />
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There was also some poker. I bombed out at the WSOP last year, taking my worse summer loss ever, mainly because I took a shot at a bracelet event and some other decent-sized tournaments. On the positive side, I now participate in a local underground game featuring some of the worst players I've ever had the pleasure to face on the felt.<br />
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This quick post is mainly, however, to promote my new ebook on the Amazon Kindle store. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WIX2EN8">Essential Guide to Vegas During the World Series of Poker </a>is pretty much what the title describes: a guide to all you need to know about poker and Vegas in general while the WSOP is taking place, with tips on hotels and airfare and how to best plan and spend your poker bankroll.<br />
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It's just $2.99 in the store, of if you have Kindle Unlimited you can read it for free.<br />
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Please check it out, and thanks.<br />
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<br />TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-72624579298151193422014-01-08T17:21:00.003-06:002015-01-14T15:10:00.355-06:00Best poker tip you'll hear this weekHello folks. Sorry for the long hiatus. Haven't played a lot of poker of late, but I do have a few stories to catch up on: the couples' trip to Vegas, my low rolling at the Moose Lodge and a year-end recap.<br />
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But I wanted to knock out this quick post to alert you to a sweet overlay in Tunica this weekend.<br />
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Some may have heard that the Gold Strike is closing its poker room effective Sunday. The once booming room has seen a significant downhill slide, and with the rise of the Horseshoe poker room next door it's closing its doors.<br />
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First, they've got to give away tens of thousands in promotional money that by law must be returned to players.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gold Strike will host a "player appreciation" tournament to close out the room, running Jan. 10, 11 and 12. Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th will serve as two Day 1s, with the field playing to a winner on Sunday the 12th, so you can just come Saturday if you want to start that day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The buy-in will be $150, plus a $10 staff appreciation, with the amount expected to be added to the prize pool now at $20,000.</span><br />
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So for your $160 buy-in, you'll have a shot at a first place prize that I figure will be in the $15,000 to $20,000 range. No clue how many runners they will get, but I would expect players to crawl out from under rock and weed to get to this one.<br />
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co-creating “The Simpsons,” continues to fight terminal colon cancer, after
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The 58-year-old gave Hollywood Reporter details on how he’s
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“I have more money than I’m interested in spending,” he
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Much of the money has gone to Save the Children, PETA and
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Of course, we know him in the poker world as one of our own,
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Little did I realize, before doing some Hendon Mob research,
that Simon has played tournament poker for two decades. <a href="http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=53925">His first listed
cash is a victory in a $100 Seven Card Stud event at the 1995 Big Poker
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I’ve never spoken to Simon, but I semi-railed him as the
players at the 2007 WSOP main event made it close to the cash. I was getting some
color for a PokerWorks blog post that day, floating around the Amazon room at
the Rio. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As any of you who have witnessed that period during the main
event knows, it’s a heady, nervous time, as players on the bubble try to creep
into the money. There’s a massive difference for most players between going
home with zero and about $20,000.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I watched, none other than fellow WSOP mainstay Norm
McDonald was standing on Simon’s rail, the poker player celebrity club rooting
for each other. I chatted some with
McDonald (I had met him at the previous WSOP) as he followed his friend, who
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Simon would make it through that day, going on to finish 329<sup>th</sup>
for $39,445. He’d cash several more times in future WSOPs, including a 20<sup>th</sup>
place in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship in 2009 for $24,066 and 500<sup>th</sup>
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It’s a pleasure to see a man in Simon’s position be as philanthropic
with his money as he has been, and I for one will pray that he can beat this
cancer and sit at the green felt at the WSOP once again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-56210618999280602072013-09-26T09:52:00.002-05:002013-09-26T09:57:05.660-05:00Get your Full Tilt Poker money!<div class="MsoNormal">
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In case you haven’t heard, the Garden City Group, the
administrators for returning Full Tilt Poker money back to U.S. players, has
finally started the petition process at <a href="http://www.fulltiltpokerclaims.com/">Full Tilt Poker Claims.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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I filled mine out yesterday to get my little nugget back. Unfortunately,
it’s about 10 percent of the money I had on World Poker Exchange that
disappeared into the ether, but at least it’s something.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The process was easy enough – verify some info, put in the
bank account, check to make sure the amount was correct (it was). What’s
unclear is how long it will be before the money comes in, and if it will be for
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The process closes in November, though I don’t think that
necessarily means the virtual checks will immediately come in. It’s sad, but
likely true, that me getting my full nut is dependent on some people not filing
claims. After the administrators, lawyers, Justice Department and anyone else
with their hands out get their cut, I don’t think they would have enough left
over to pay 100 percent of balances. But I suspect some people are either
unaware of the process (that is one really short window, is it not?) or have
such small balances they don’t plan to fool with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-7693313637649228442013-09-11T09:35:00.000-05:002013-09-11T09:44:27.375-05:00Pros (and celebrities) I’ve whipped at poker<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">OK, so I didn't exactly whip all of these celebrity types. In
fact, some may have whipped me. In most cases I hardly played a hand I had against
them, but I did play them, sometimes resulting in great stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Watching a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" rerun recently and
seeing Richard Kind guest starring reminded me that I had intended to post a
Top 10 list of notables I've played against in my years in poker. Kind also
played an online poker pro in the mockumentary “The Grand.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I can’t remember if he was supposed to be Canadian or from
somewhere near the border. I’ve played against plenty of </span><a href="http://www.pokersites.ca/"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Canadians</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> online and off, but no one from north of
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Some of these are celebrities from entertainment while others are
well-known poker players. I rank them based on what I would perceive their Q
ratings to be among the general public. With no further ado here is my Top 10:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">10. Dewey Tomko</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> – I played against the former
Kindergarten teacher in my first WSOP event, a $1,000 NLHE affair in 2004 with
a star-studded table. (Remember, with the small fields a decade ago stacked
tables were pretty common.) I don’t think we played any significant hands
against each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">9. Amir Vahedi </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">– I tangled with the gregarious Iranian in
that same 2004 WSOP tournament. </span><a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2004/10/wsop-article.html"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One hand is recalled in detail in one of my first
Poker Nation blog posts</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.
I was also fortunate to be perhaps the last writer to interview Vahedi before
his untimely death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">8. Jeff Madsen – </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I played against wunderkind Madsen the
same year of his breakout, when he won two bracelets in 2006 at age 21. It was in a
$1,500 NLHE bracelet event they ran concurrently with the main event for people
who had busted out. It was, I believe, the only year the brass at Harrah’s
decided to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">7. Mike Caro – </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I tangled with the “Mad Genius of Poker”
briefly on Day 2 of the 2006 WSOP Main Event, though tangled is a strong word.
Caro was moved to our table and took a bad beat to go out within the hour.
Pretty sure I never played a hand against him.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">6. Patrik Antonius</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> – Ironically, of all the players on this
list, Antonius is probably both the best and the own I most owned at the table.
That’s the nature of run good.<a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2006/07/wsop-day-1b-report.html"> Read my post on Day 1 of my 2006 WSOP Main Event run for more details</a> – it never hurts to flop quads and turn a set, I’ll tell
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">5. Phil Hellmuth</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">– The Poker Brat tops my list of poker
players on my celebrity list. The fact that he is merely fifth shows how I
figure the general Q rating of poker players is -- pretty low. But what an
experience to play the 10-time bracelet winner in my first major tournament
experience. This was the previously mentioned $1,000 NLHE with rebuys event at
the 2004 WSOP, the last one held completely at Binion's Horseshoe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">4. William Hung</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">– Here's a guy whose 15 minutes of fame
stretched a little more along the clock face. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_hung"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He
parlayed his horrid rendition of "She Bangs" on "American
Idol" into two albums in which he butchered classic songs and Christmas
tunes</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. Nice kid, though.
I ran into him at the World Poker Challenge at the Reno Hilton in March 2006 --
the same placed I tangled with Shamrock. I was sitting down to play cash games
one night when I heard Hung was at the $2-$4 LHE game so I decided to sit down.
<a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2006/03/he-bangs.html">The recounting of what transpired is located here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. Ken Shamrock – </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">One of the early UFC fighters, Shamrock
was a sweetheart at the poker table, very gracious and almost bookish in his
eyeglasses if not the bulging muscles hanging out of his sleeveless shirt. I
played him in a $10-$20 LHE game in Reno, a day after meeting Hung.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. Richard Kind</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">– Kind is a guy whose face you recognize
but the name draws a blank. He most famously played Paul Lasiter on "Spin
City" for several years opposite Michael J. Fox and Charlie Sheen. I
played $1-$2 NLHE with Kind at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget in 2007 when he was
there filming "The Grand". Some other stars of the film darkened the
doors of the poker room, I am told, but the only other one I saw was Jason
Alexander. Unfortunately, I could not get a seat at his table or he would be
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. Jennifer Tilly –</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> I will rate Tilly as #1 on my Q list just barely. She's
been in enough movies and has such a distinctive voice that I think she is
fairly well known. I played with Tilly at the same $1,500 bracelet event in
which I played Madsen. Since I had just won $16,500 I figured I would take a
shot at this one. Tilly sat to my right. Interestingly enough, she was missing
a yellow 1,000 chip from the bottom of her stack when she sat down. I can't say
I was too impressed with her play. I saw her call down in obvious folding
situations to lose much of her stack. I think she still had chips when our
table broke and I was sent off to get my A-K cracked by A-J.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-20055786060690952852013-09-01T09:37:00.003-05:002013-09-01T09:37:45.839-05:00Introducing Sarah Beth KampisI haven't posted a lot lately, but I have a good reason, that being:<br />
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Our little girl was born last Saturday, Aug. 24, weighing 7 lbs. 4 oz. and 20 inches long.<br />
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It was nice to feel that feeling of unbelievable love again that I remembered from John Harper's birth.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-18610168124165937532013-08-13T10:21:00.004-05:002013-08-13T10:27:40.140-05:00A man among boys (and girls)I played poker for money for the first time in my hometown
of Cullman, Alabama, Friday night, and it was an ego trip.<br />
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Standard Q from family: “How did you do?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me: “I won, of course.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A group of people get together ever so often to have a poker
tournament at a local social club. It’s all very public (I saw an ad for it in
the local shopper’s guide classified) because half the money goes to charity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously, the first question one must ask himself here is:
can a 50 percent rake be beaten? In this case: perhaps.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The entry fee was $100 (half to a local high school girls’ volleyball
or softball team, I think) with $50 add-ons and rebuys. I plunked down the $150
to start with the bigger stack, and we had about 25 players with the top four
getting paid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I mostly sat around amused as I folded most hands and took
my turn dealing as I got nothing to play for the first hour or two. I was
amused because probably every rule in the Tournament Directors Association list
was probably broken, but should that be surprising when I was probably the only
one in the room who had ever heard of the TDA?<o:p></o:p><br />
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One grandma was giving advice to her granddaughter who said she had never played in a tournament before. (One player to a hand? Huh, what's that mean?) In one instance the girl obviously flopped trip kings by the way grandma acted and told her to bet it hard. Despite this obviousness, she got called down by players holding an ace in their hands to match the one on board.<br />
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Still, the hand was not without some danger. Four hearts came on the board and the girl didn't have a full house or flush.<br />
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After the hand, one player asked grandma why she pushed her granddaughter to bet the river when any flush beat her.<br />
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These people were bad, epically bad. Perhaps my perspective
was skewed from playing against mostly very good players in casinos, but one
thing was obvious – I was a man among boys (and girls). But the blinds worked
against me, doubling every 15 minutes, or about every 5 to 8 hands considering
how long each hand took. They eventually froze the blinds, meaning if I built
up a stack I could just wait and pick apart my foes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It got to the point where I had to pull the shove-and-pray
move a few times, which worked better than expected because people loved to
limp and see flops, but hated to make or call big bets. So I built up some
decent chips by just being aggressive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a key pot once we reached the final table, I tripled up
with QQ vs. JJ and A6.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Later, playing five handed, we got to the river cheaply with
me holding the ace of spades and a fourth spade coming on board. I bet out
12,000 into a 20,000 pot and got raised to 24,000. Now, if we were playing in a
skillful game the move I pulled next would almost never have worked, but this
was definitely not that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I counted out 12,000. Then I counted my entire stack. I
studied the board, studied my opponent’s stack, looked afraid to make eye
contact. All elementary stuff that would obviously be a ruse when I eventually
pushed all in. To the skillful player it looks like a strong move meant to look
like a bluff. To the novice player it simply looks like a bluff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was called, doubled up to the big stack at the table and
eventually chopped heads-up with the same guy. I chopped because it was nearly
1 a.m., the tournament organizers had already been wanting us to quit so they
could go home and there was only a $100 difference in the prize money between
winning and chopping first ($600) and second ($400).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can the rake be beaten? Probably. <o:p></o:p></div>
TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-75800292191840353882013-07-30T17:26:00.004-05:002013-07-30T17:26:53.925-05:00A late Vegas wrap-up<div class="MsoNormal">
As July passes into the ether (and since I haven’t posted
since my immediate trip report), I thought it time to reflect more on the Vegas
trip since I don’t exactly play a lot of poker these days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the spirit of Buzzfeed, which these days is all the…err…buzz,
here’s five takeaways from my two days in Vegas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Yes, I mentioned it before, I think, but must
emphasize again: where was all this Omaha Hi-Lo action when I spent weeks running
around Vegas? Is this backlash against Hold’em or folks wanting to play Omaha
without the swings of PLO? I’m not sure what the impetus is, but for some
reason my favorite poker game is white hot in Vegas, at least this summer. Now
granted, back in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 when I was in Vegas for weeks at a
time, I was not the O8 player I am today, so even if the game was big then I
might have got my hat handed to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Is Murphy’s law at play here in the fact that
(speaking of white hot) I’ve been on fire at poker, but now am in a place where
I can’t play much of it? Unfortunately, my laptop with my month-to-month
results is on the fritz and unaccessible, but I can tell you with fair
estimation that I made around $10,000 the first six months, plus first week of
July, at the poker tables. My $2K in two days result in Vegas only reiterated
how confident I feel at the tables.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Caesars seems to have its act together with the
World Series of Poker. They’ve been using the same set-up for three years now, I
believe, with the main tournament action in the Amazon ballroom and most everything
else in Brasilia. Brasilia has the bright lights while Amazon is much more
dark, adding to the intensity. I like that. And to think, for the first couple
of years, ALL of the action was in Amazon. (Sort of like thinking in amazement
in 2005 that the WSOP was once contained in tiny Binion’s.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->What are they doing to Fremont Street? They’re building
this giant zip line to cover the entire four blocks under the canopy. What an
eyesore. On the bright side, I saw fewer costumed characters out and about,
although I noticed more panhandlers. Also, Fremont East, once the home of
closed-up storefronts, seems to be booming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I only got a taste of the Strip so I hope Amy
and I get to return in November for that couples’ trip we’ve been discussing. I
ought to have us some sweet comps (free rooms, meals) through MyVegas when we’re
ready to go.<o:p></o:p></div>
TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-76775465634728729232013-07-12T12:44:00.001-05:002013-07-12T12:44:34.371-05:00A final table, if not a win<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes you play your best, but the cards conspire against
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Perseverance, that’s the key.<o:p></o:p><br />
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That proved to be my saving grace in Vegas on the Fourth of
July in what was a profitable, if not spectacularly successful, trip.<o:p></o:p><br />
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But 2K in two days? I’m not complaining.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I flew out after work on July 2, leaving at 4 p.m. for
Birmingham for the 6:40 p.m. flight. Unfortunately, an already long day got
longer when the flight from Chicago to Vegas was delayed about an hour. We
reached the McCarron tarmac about 12:30 a.m. PT, or 2:30 a.m. in my neck of the
woods.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I made it down to Four Queens and crashed in Ted’s room, but
had to get up about 6 a.m. to start my half day at work. I found Internet at
the McDonald’s at Plaza and edited <a href="http://watchdog.org/">Watchdog</a>
stories for four hours before we knocked off and I entered the $125 Golden
Nugget tourney, for which I had won a freeroll seat.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Not much doing in the first few levels there, until several
players limped to my BB and I knuckled with 6-8. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Flop: 4-5-7<o:p></o:p><br />
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I checked, saw a bet, a raise and I pushed all in. Initial
bettor folded and the raiser called with 4-4. Did he fill up? Heck no, he hit
two more hearts to four flush me with the 4h. Dirty.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Strip and over to the Rio, which I wouldn’t have gotten a chance to do
otherwise on this short trip.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I wondered down to the Venetian and met up with my pal
Stephen Ladowski, who chauffeured me over to the Rio, where we grabbed a quick
bite and then headed to the WSOP area. I sat in a 10-20 O8 game with half kill,
and scored $500 in a few hours “work.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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Why couldn’t they have played this much O8 when I was
hanging around Vegas for weeks at a time during the WSOP in past years? I’ve
noticed from the Bravo app that the 8-16 and 10-20 O8 games are healthy these
days at the Rio and Venetian. I think I’d have cleaned up if these were popular
back then.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I cabbed it back to the Golden Nugget to finally sleep in my
comped room, again for only four hours or so. (A lack of sleep is a recurring
theme – I got about 12 to 14 hours in three days)<o:p></o:p><br />
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I knew I played well on the 3<sup>rd</sup> and was brimming
with confidence for the$600 GN tournament on the 4<sup>th</sup> (another comped
entry). I started fast, boosting my 15K stack to 55K slowly, before I nearly
came crashing down. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Player on the button raised my 400 BB to 1,200, SB called, I
looked down at AA and made it 3,600. The button folded and the SB shoved in for
about 20K. He turned over AcQx and said he thought I was making the ol’ squeeze
play. I don’t really mind his play here, and not because I held aces – it seemed
like a pretty good move.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Anyway, you know the drill: the flop was Qc3c4c and he hits
the fourth club on the river.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It’s uncanny that as few $500 to $600 tournies as I have
played over the years – no more than 10 to 15 – that twice I have had AA
cracked by AQ on a four flush (the other was a WSOP Circuit event in New
Orleans, which eliminated me with about three quarters of the field gone). It’s
just a sick way to lose a hand. I’d rather my aces lose to a set.<o:p></o:p><br />
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So they knocked me down to about 30K when I could have had
80K. I tried to maintain my composure since it’s easy to go on tilt. I got a
little squirrely and proceeded to dust off about 10K before break.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Now back at an even keel, I pulled a risky maneuver at the
400/800 level by moving 12K over the top of a 2,400 raise with 22. The initial
raise had opened a lot of pots so I figured I could get a fold. Well, I did
from him, but the button called me. I was happy when he turned over AQ. The
flop was finally gin for me: 2-7-2. I doubled, and button whined for minutes, if
not hours (he was one of THOSE types).<o:p></o:p><br />
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I chipped up, and made the final table, where I proceeded to
get almost immediately coolered. I raised with TT, get it all in on a 9-T-J
flop and was up against Q-K. I did not fill up, busting ninth and earning about
$1,300.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Notice that this was almost exactly the opposite situation
of what happened to me the day before when I busted. The difference being that
I lost both times.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Lucky me.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Still, enough bitching. I managed to net $1,940 over two
days in Vegas, with a comped room on top of it. Including my free flight I got
with Southwest Rapids Reward points, I spent about $150 all told getting to
Vegas and back home.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I felt confident from my recent successes in St. Louis,
played well and felt pretty validated by my results. It would have been easy to
lose my head after getting my aces cracked, but I did persevere.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The competition was no slouch either, as I played with
two-time WSOP bracelet winner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Andrew">Howard “Tahoe” Andrew</a>,
noted poker writer Chris “Fox” Wallace and recent WSOP Circuit points leader
Rex Clinkscales.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not sure how Andrew finished, but <a href="http://foxpoker.com/general/play-for-the-money-chop-the-ring">Wallace
chopped first with a fellow Minnesotan.</a><o:p></o:p><br />
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There was an epic situation involving a drunk who got not
only tossed from the tournament, but arrested and led out of the GN in
handcuffs, but I will save that for the next post…<o:p></o:p></div>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-61612923617652315062013-07-02T15:01:00.001-05:002013-07-02T15:01:23.850-05:00Headed to VegasJust a quick note to post that I have decided to go to Vegas for a few days, flying out tonight after work and playing those two tournies at the Golden Nugget ($125 on Wednesday and $600 on Thursday) before flying back Friday afternoon.<br />
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Hard to pass up two free shots at some very solid cash.<br />
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Updates to come.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-88034962447740350592013-06-25T09:50:00.001-05:002013-06-25T09:54:22.930-05:00Sheldon Adelson calls online poker ‘fool’s gold,’ but who’s the fool?Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands, parent
company of The Venetian and Palazzo, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2013/06/19/sheldon-adelson-online-gambling-is-fools-gold/">weighed
in on Forbes last week, calling for a reworking of the Wire Act or a new
federal law banning all online gambling.</a><br />
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It’s long been known that this hypocrite, and what one
commenter called a “relic,” has been adamantly against online poker (and other
forms of Internet wagering).<o:p></o:p></div>
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But no, I’m not a hypocrite, Aldeson explains to us, by
stating his concerns are as a “father, grandfather, citizen and patriot of this
great country…” and later notes that the majority of his “casino profits come
from Asia.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hey Mr. Patriot, how many Americans are you employing in
Macau?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fatherly Adelson uses the opponents’ standard line of
reasoning that children will find a way to place online wagers and that a
desperate, debt-riddled society will fall deeper in the hole trying to fill
that inside straight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Will some children manage to sneak in a few bets? Sure.
Parents can’t control them every waking moment. But how many kids now view
pornographic pictures and violent films online now? Hordes. The Internet is in
some ways a wasteland of morass. It’s a Pandora’s box that has been opened, and
there’s no closing it. And let’s not forget that people can now play poker,
blackjack, slots and much more online in a very unregulated environment. If
Adelson really wants to protect the people, including the children, he should
push for regulation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As for that debt-riddled public? A recent report projects
U.S. credit-card debt will increase $47 billion this year. Online poker isn’t
causing that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I enjoyed the rebuttal by user Henry428:<o:p></o:p></div>
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One can read through the lines and your attempt to associate being a good father
and loyal citizen to the anti-online stance. That’s a little disingenuous. I
fought in two wars for my country and feel just as strongly that my government
has its place…and its not regulating what it’s citizens can do over the
internet, especially when they are causing harm to no one else. Washington
doesn’t need to save its citizens from themselves. We need government banning
less activities, not more. Don’t ban me from drinking 22 oz. soda and don’t
force me to drive 30 minutes to a casino when I can do the same activity online
at home.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adelson promotes his logic citing the jobs that he claims would be
lost by land-based casinos. Henry428 notes that it’s possible there could be
fewer jobs, but the ones created by online gambling would be for higher-paying
technical jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Henry428 writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fewer bank tellers are needed due to
the rise of ATM’s yet we don’t outlaw ATM’s.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m not convinced we would even see a net decrease in
casino-industry employment. Witness the first poker boom created by the rise of
online poker and the Moneymaker effect: sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt
Poker sent thousands of players to land-based casinos to play in the World
Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and other events, and new poker rooms popped
up everywhere. Since the PokerStars-sponsored Moneymaker won the WSOP in 2003
the event has grown tremendously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Already, in Nevada, we’re seeing properties such as Golden Nugget
and Stratosphere use their free-play sites to promote their Las Vegas-based
casinos by giving away free rooms, meals and show tickets. When others, like <a href="http://www.888poker.com/">Treasure Island (with 888)</a> and Caesars are
up and running, I would expect them to do the same. Online poker will allow
casinos to market their brick-and-mortar properties to the masses. Who wants to
sit in front of their computers when they can experience the real thing?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adelson talks about how “a person makes an effort to get dressed,
join some friends and head to the local casinos for a night of entertainment”
as a point of how their behavior can be observed “and ultimately managed by
security and other staff if needed.” Realistically, unless someone is so drunk
they can’t sit on a slot stool or they are causing a disturbance when does
security staff ever stop a person from gambling because they somehow know they’re
in over their head? Please, Mr. Adelson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everything he argues stands against standard free market
principles (and one wonder how many taxpayer subsidies Adelson may have gotten
to build some of his casinos). Stop this old-school nonsense, and let the
people live their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nolan Dalla, the longtime poker writer and WSOP mouthpiece,
weighed in. I’ll leave you with his post:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sheldon Adelson is a pathetic embarrassment to himself and the
industry he proports to support. He’s a stone ager thinker whether it comes to
donating $40 million to Newt Gingrich, blindly supporting Israeli colonialism
on the West Bank, or protecting his own self interests as a casino owner. Liar
and hypocrite, Sheldon Adelson has nothing to contribute to this important
issue.</span></blockquote>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-48109577627024443712013-06-14T14:32:00.002-05:002013-06-14T14:33:42.306-05:00Federal online poker legislation DOA?<div class="MsoNormal">
While he may not have been the flag-bearer of integrity (<a href="http://pokerfuse.com/features/in-depth/jeremy-johnson-alleges-million-dollar-harry-reid-bribe-on-full-tilt-behalf-31-01/">see
his alleged pay for sponsorship efforts</a>), Nevada Sen. Harry Reid did seem
to have a good grasp on which the way the online poker legislation wind was
blowing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not at all now or in the future, in his estimation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I felt for several months now that I don’t see any movement
on this,” he told the Las Vegas Sun. “I don’t see anything happening.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reid made those comments in light of a bill filed by New
York Rep. Peter King in the U.S. House this week that tries to federally
legalize most forms of online gambling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Poker has a shot, but if you lump it in with the likes of blackjack
and slots then you have some seriously lame-duck legislation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We’re still trying, but I’m not really confident we can get
something done,” Reid said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The move away from Congress and toward state-by-state
regulation has seemed to be the way the legalization effort has been moving for
some time now. Consider that the Poker Players Alliance has already pretty much
given up on Capitol Hill and focused its efforts on state regulation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On the bright side, the game has not only been legalized in
three states, but is also already running in Nevada – including free play for
non-Nevadans (<a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2013/05/april-2013-what-month-of-poker-for.html">thank
you very much Golden Nugget.)</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Those of us in the ultra-conservative states, ahem, can get
out jollies with free play on stalwarts like <a href="http://poker.starsdownloadbonus.com/">Poker Stars (and its excellent
bonus codes)</a> and Full Tilt Poker.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Me, I still need to find a good underground game. There’s
got to be one around here somewhere. Bueller?<o:p></o:p></div>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-68047610069535065612013-06-11T09:40:00.006-05:002013-06-11T11:55:16.912-05:00So long St. Louis<div class="MsoNormal">
I haven’t written in a while because life away from the
tables has kept me quite busy.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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For starters, I’m writing today from my new home, and my
hometown, Cullman, Alabama.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Less than a month ago, I got word I was being promoted to
content editor at <a href="http://www.watchdog.org/">Watchdog.org</a>, which
meant I was no longer tied to Missouri. With my wife nearly seven months
pregnant, and a nephew on the way, too, in a few weeks it was an easy decision
for the family to move back home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We quickly found a rental, and moved into our new home on
Saturday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Poker? ‘Round here. Sheesh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Were I an Aussie, I’d find a place to play at <a href="http://www.pokersites.com.au/">http://www.pokersites.com.au/</a>,
but being in the good ol’ USA, and specifically in one of the most
ultra-conservative counties in the most ultra-conservative regions in the
country poker might be tough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse for me at
Bovada and I busted the little roll I had on there, but not before netting a
$1,500 profit on my initial investment. You may recall the phrase, “Nature
abhors a vacuum.” I think that applies to online poker sites too – if the
action is juicy, good players flock to it to fill the skill void.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s the same reason I believe there’s no such thing as “the
best place to play $1/$2 NL in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_vegas">Vegas</a>,”
a very frequently asked questions on the poker forums.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have some leads on some home games and association games
in Cullman, so maybe I can play some underground poker as I did in Tuscaloosa,
but I won’t bank on that just yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another surprising development was a win by yours truly in
the final freeroll of the Golden Nugget online series, which nets me a seat in the
$600 Poker Player Newspaper event in Las Vegas on July 4, and two nights’
accommodation at the GN. You may recall (if I remembered to post it, perhaps
not) I previously won one of their weekly events, which earned me a $125 seat
plus a two-night stay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now comes the debate on whether to go. At least, with us
back in Cullman, Amy has her support system nearby. If I go, it will be for the
minimum two days so I can go play the $125 event on July 3, the $600 tournament
on July 4 and fly back the 5<sup>th</sup>. As long as I can find flights for a
decent price, it’s hard to pass up a free shot at some serious cash in the $600
tournament (I figure first in the July 3 event won’t be for more than a few
thousand, but there could be tens of thousands to be won in the finale.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think I’d pledge any big winning towards the Disney
Vacation Club. We had a blast on our trip with friends in October, and unlike
almost all other time shares this seems like a decent deal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As for St. Louis, it was a lot of fun living in the big
city. There was a ton of stuff to see and do, and I didn’t check but maybe half
of them off my list. I was pretty mopey as we packed up, but in the end it will
be nice to have a great telecommute job and be able to live back home.<o:p></o:p></div>
TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-44229868230713627172013-05-14T17:01:00.003-05:002013-05-14T17:04:00.552-05:00April 2013 -- What a month of poker for yours trulyVariance.<br />
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Sometimes it's a beeatch.<br />
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Other times...<br />
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The fourth month of 2013 proved to me how fluky poker can be.<br />
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Longtime blog readers (all two of you) will recall that between the summers of 2005 and 2006 I set out on an adventure to travel the country and subsist on my poker winnings, with an eye on a book deal.<br />
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The success was modest -- in 12 months I made about what I would have in salary at my former newspaper job (minus any benefits), with highs (the WSOP main event cash) and lows (the standard variance of a few losing months). No book was forthcoming, but I made contacts that would prove fruitful down the road as a freelance writer.<br />
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Now, in April 2013, with a full-time job and a 3-year-old to wrangle, I managed to win nearly $6,500, which I believe bests every month I've played poker except for the WSOP cash in August 2006.<br />
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In addition to the Hollywood Poker open chop highlighted two posts ago, I returned to the tables the next week to play a $100 second-chance event on the first day at the Heartland Poker Tour at River City Casino. I chopped this one four ways, too, again as the chip leader, scoring a $2,400 profit.<br />
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I've also begun playing online again at Bovada (shhhh), which has pretty darn soft games, and I cashed out a $1,500 profit there in April.<br />
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In 2005-06 I played hours upon hours of online games, underground games in Tuscaloosa and made several trips to casinos from Atlantic City to Vegas, but in only one of those months did I fare better than I did last month.<br />
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Did I mention that poker has a lot of variance?<br />
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SITE OF THE WEEK: I may start highlighting some newer poker-themed websites that I've discovered and enjoyed reading. <a href="http://aintluck.com/">AintLuck.com</a>, which features a variety of news articles and strategy tips, is one of those. It's got some pretty good stuff on the WSOP and the various bonuses you can get on a number of online poker sites.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-80702529941479471732013-04-30T14:37:00.001-05:002013-04-30T14:37:11.950-05:00Ultimate Poker Live -- First hands of legal U.S. online poker dealt today in Nevada!Today is a historic one for poker players, as the first hand of legal online poker in the U.S. was dealt at the Nevada-based Ultimate Poker at noon eastern.<br />
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Here's <a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation-forum-brought-you-ppa/whats-going-nevada-online-gaming-1197313/index66.html">the 2+2 forum discussion on it</a>, and here is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/poker/2013/04/30/poker-ultimate-poker-las-vegas-nevada-gaming/2123275/">a USA Today article about it</a>.<br />
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I tried to sign up for the site to see what kind of error message I might get, and to see if they were running any freerolls for non-Nevada residents as the sites for Golden Nugget and Stratosphere have been doing.<br />
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It wouldn't have mattered where I am located, as it turns out because the site tracks your location by your cell phone, and the local tower you use, and there is a problem tracking my service provider (Verizon) at the moment. So if you live in Nevada and use Verizon you are SOL, at least temporarily.<br />
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I don't think they are letting anyone not currently in NV play anyway so no freebies for me. You can sign up from any state, but can't play unless you are at this moment in the Silver State.<br />
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<br />TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-55115389300164732942013-04-19T13:39:00.000-05:002013-04-19T13:39:21.189-05:00Tournament takedown at Hollywood Poker Open...BOOM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Technically, not a takedown as we chopped first place four ways, but I did collect $3,200 in winnings from the $245 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event at Hollywood Poker Open last week.<br />
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Was really hoping to capture the trophy, as I was a small chipleader at the time of the chop and do not own a poker trophy, but we dealt one final hand and the high hand got the hardware.<br />
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Lots of run good in the event, of course, but I played well, I think.<br />
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The Heartland Poker Tour starts today at River City Casino, and I'm headed over there to test my fortunes this evening.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-26615482748809928572013-03-29T07:21:00.002-05:002015-01-14T15:09:43.653-06:00Why Nevada online poker is gravy for non-Nevada residentsI’ve discovered recently why those of us who may have wait a
while (and as a likely resident of either Missouri or Alabama for many years to
come I may wait a REALLY long time) for our states to legalize online poker can
still benefit from games in other states.<br />
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Freebies!<br />
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Some of the Nevada-based sites already have free-play
software up and running. You just go to the website, create an account and load
Java or Flash and you’re off and running online, no download necessary.</div>
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The sites already in place are ramping up marketing in
anticipation of offering real-money games to Silver State residents by handing
out a number of prizes in the tournaments. These are given out under
sweepstakes laws, which exclude some states – though not Missouri.<br />
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Obviously, it’s getting harder to play for real money online
so these free sites with free prizes are great for us who still have a
competition itch because it gives us something of value for which to play.<br />
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Check out online poker here: <a href="mailto:jurgen@onlinepoker.de" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">onlinepoker.de</a><br />
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The prizes on the
free-to-play Nevada sites range from the lame (logo casino swag) to the
excellent (how does a $1,000 live tournament entry sound?)<br />
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First, you have AcePlayPoker.com, affiliated with
Stratosphere (and Arizona Charlie’s), which hands out a lot of free stuff for
that north Strip resort (term used loosely).<br />
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I kid. I’ve stayed there before and it was perfectly
comfortable. The casino is plenty spacious, and I seem to recall the buffet
being fairly good. It’s not the Bellagio, but it’s not supposed to be.<br />
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So what exactly can you win?<br />
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There’s a daily tournament at 9 p.m. CST awarding a $50 Stratosphere
gift card to the winner, with the top several finishers winning seats into the
Sunday tournament. It has a good structure, averaging 12-15 players and lasting
about three hours.<br />
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The buy-in is 550 play points, and you can reload for 1,000
every day so you can play this tournament every day without fail. Look for
TuscaloosaJo.<br />
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I asked the administrator of the Ace Play Poker Facebook
page what you can use the gift card for, and he/she said it’s good for rooms
and food, but not shows. I’m not sure if you can use it in the gift shop or for
such things as tower admission. The best part is that you can stack them. So if
you’ve got three gift cards, you’d have $150 you could use at one time for a
nice meal at Top of the World or for a room upgrade.</div>
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The Sunday tournament’s prize is more specific. As I recall,
you win a two-night stay in a room, two free buffets and your choice of two
tickets to one of the property’s shows.<br />
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So you have six pretty decent chances at free stuff there
each week.<br />
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They’ve also offered other special event prizes, such as a
weekend trip to Laughlin for a Reba McEntire concert and tickets to some NASCAR
events at the Las Vegas track.<br />
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Golden Nugget has also started its online site, at GoldenNuggetPoker.com.<br />
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This has been around several months, and although I got an
email about it and tried it when it first launched I quickly lost interest.<br />
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They’ve upped the ante, however.<br />
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To promote the annual Grand Poker Series this summer, the
Nugget’s giving away a bunch of seats into the tournaments. Every Sunday there’s a weekly tournament
with a grand prize of two nights’ accommodation at GN and a $125 entry into the
GPS, with second and third places each getting $50 Landry’s gift cards. In the
monthly tournaments the prizes are similar, but first gets a $230 tournament
entry.<br />
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All final-table finishers in those 15 events get seats in
the championship tournament, where the winner earns an entry into the $1,080
main event of the GPS and a sweeter hotel stay package. Second gets two nights
and a $230 entry and third merits two nights and a $125 entry.<br />
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You can buy in directly to these at 105 for the weekly
events, 215 for the monthly and 1,100 for the championship. <br />
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At Golden Nugget Poker you start with 50 play points each
day and can reload once. So a quick double up plus five more points will get
you in the weekly event. There’s also daily freerolls (no points needed, so
even more free than the other tournaments, which are all freerolls, of course)
with each final-table finisher getting entry into the weekly events, and the
winner earning a $50 Landry’s gift card and second and third getting GN swag.<br />
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You can also get points for high finishes in the weekly and
monthly events, gaining you enough to buy into several future tournaments of
their kind.<br />
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Field sizes: about 150-250 for daily events, 75-100 for the
weekly tournaments. I would expect that grow to as word gets out.<br />
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So how have I done?<br />
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The competition is plenty soft, but I haven’t had a lot of
run good lately at the live tables, and it’s evidently imported to the virtual
ones, too.<br />
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One day last week I managed to finish second in both the Ace
Play Poker and Golden Nugget daily events, missing the $50 gift cards at each
by a smidge. Then in the first weekly GN event I got fourth, again one spot out
of any prizes. At least I have my entry already locked down for the May 27
final so maybe I can find some good fortune and win the main event seat.<br />
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I finally snagged a couple of the Stratosphere cards recently, and hope to get some more for dinner at Top of the World when Amy and I take a couples' trip to Vegas at the end of May.<br />
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I would expect this kind of stuff to only grow in the coming
years, as these Nevada online poker sites will provide good platforms for
casino resorts to market their properties.<br />
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While only Nevada residents can play for real money, I think
these sites will continue to let all American citizens play for free, and
offering complimentary rooms and other enticements should draw out-of-state
visitors to town, spending more money inside their facilities.<br />
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Heck, maybe Caesars will offer opportunities to win <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_series_of_poker">World Series of Poker</a>
seats for free once they’re up and running online in the U.S.<br />
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We can dream.</div>
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-20663975871380530662013-03-13T14:44:00.001-05:002013-03-13T14:44:58.759-05:00Grading the poker magazinesDuring my last poker trip I managed to score copies of all four (I believe there are now four) major poker magazines that are widely distributed to poker rooms around the country -- Ante Up, Bluff, Card Player and Poker Player.
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Sadly, Rounder long bit the dust. My gravy train ran off the rails, and at least I didn't get banged up too much by the con artist who last owned it. He only owed me about $600 when he folded and didn't pay anybody. Others got hosed for much worse...<br />
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Obviously, as a former poker magazine "managing editor" (it was a pretty loose term) and an avid poker player, I am always interested in what other poker magazines have to offer. So let's take a quick look at what's available today and see how they compare in various categories:<br />
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<b>Ante Up</b><br />
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<i>Content -- </i>Chris Cosenza and Scott Long, the publishers of this Florida-based publication, have focused on the lower-bankrolled, regional-based player, which I think is a smart move for them. Unfortunately, it can make for a rather boring magazine. The brunt of content in Ante Up is written by area "ambassadors" detailing events and personalities in their areas. (Full disclosure: I talked with Chris about doing something for them in the St. Louis area until I learned there was no hope of getting paid for my work.) The ambassadors work for free, which I think is pure marketing genius by Cosenza and Long -- they get most of their content for gratis by puffing up the egos of folks who like to have their pic and name in a national magazine. Ante Up also includes strategy from notables such as Jonathan Little and Joe Navarro, as well as several pages of useful daily tournament listings from casinos around the country. <b>Grade: C-</b><br />
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<i>Design -- </i>Tons of black and white, with only small photos breaking up the text. It's not a thing of beauty...but it's not the ugliest poker magazine, as we shall see... <b>Grade: D+</b><br />
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<b>Bluff</b><br />
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<i>Content -- </i>From the start (about 2005 or so, I think) Bluff has put out a publication with a nice variety of content, from news briefs to feature stories on important topics (recent issue: The Power 20) to tournament coverage to strategy. I've never been a fan of the "party of the month" columns from the likes of Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilley, but I can handle a few turds among the gems. Bluff only include token tournament listings from Vegas, California and Nevada. <b>Grade: A-</b><br />
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<i>Design -- </i>Bluff excels again here, from professional portrait shots (see the recent Power 20 cover) to great graphic design. The layout is lively and pops out. The only knock is the overuse of some generic card and chip graphics for some of the strategy columns. <b>Grade: A-</b><br />
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<b>Card Player</b><br />
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<i>Content -- </i>Now in its 26th year, Card Player is like that warm, fuzzy blanket you grew up with and can't part with. It's a good mix of stuff, but also a fair amount of content I could do without. I'm really digging the Bart Hanson column, as well as a new column on poker rules and etiquette. The hand analyses are cool, and strategy article by the likes of Gavin Griffin and Steve Zolotow are good. On the other hand, there's a fair amount of valuable page space dedicated to profiles of online luminaries that I don't care about. There's a pretty good daily tournament schedule from around the U.S. for those who need it. <b>Grade: B</b><br />
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<i>Design -- </i>Most columns consist of text and mugshots, with the occasional generic photo creating eye appeal. Like Ante Up, Card Player seems to depend on colorful ad pages to break up the monotony of its actual editorial content -- a bit lazy, if you ask me. <b>Grade: C-</b><br />
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<b>Poker Player</b><br />
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<i>Content -- </i>We got your press releases! We got your grammatical errors! (Can we do without a few of those overused commas Mr. Sludikoff?) There's two main areas of content here: recaps of recent tournament main events, which read as if they were ripped straight from the press release and strategy columns from recreational players. You get the occasional well-written news recap from my old colleague Haley Hintze or trip recap from Russ Fox. The Mike Caro bipolar ask himself questions column every month is tired, and lame. <b>Grade: D</b><br />
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<i>Design -- </i>Oh, Lord, what a mess. This tabloid-shaped magazine looks like old newspaper did when they used to literally cut and paste the text and photos onto large sheets to print before computer software such as QuarkXpress and In Design became available. Caro's column often jumps across three of four pages throughout the publication. <b>Grade: D-</b><br />
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So that's my two cents. I think Bluff is far and away the best magazine, with Ante Up and Poker Player significantly below Card Player.<br />
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For the record, my old magazine was pretty fallow from the content standpoint, but had pretty good design. It'd probably fall in the middle if it were compared to the current publications.<br />
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<br />TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-63317802363907752082013-03-04T15:10:00.001-06:002013-03-13T14:45:55.640-05:00Was my arrival in Missouri destiny?Was reminiscing with a look back at some of my 2005-06 blog posts and found a gem.
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I played some $10-$20 limit at Binion's on the final day of the 2005 World Series of Poker, and <a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2005/07/finally-final-wsop-trip-report.html">wrote disparagingly of one guy at my table</a>:
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The one seat player wasn’t too sharp anyway. After he heard me speak earlier in the night, he asked me if I was from Missouri. “People from Missouri don’t sound like me,” I told him.</blockquote>
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I also noticed that earlier that summer I wrote about a girl at the $1-$2 NL game at MGM Grand who had survived a brain tumor. <a href="http://pokernation.blogspot.com/2005/06/vegas-day-3.html">Where was she from? Missouri.</a><br />
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TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-84545897535365702492013-02-27T15:40:00.000-06:002013-02-27T15:40:55.199-06:00New Jersey legalizes online pokerGov. Chris Christie signed the re-configured online poker bill Tuesday, making New Jersey the third state to legalize online poker.
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It's a slow comeback, but at least it's something.
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<a href="http://www.pokernews.com/news/2013/02/new-jersey-becomes-third-u-s-state-to-legalize-online-poker-14414.htm">Read the PokerNews story on the issue here.</a>
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The state senator that pushed the legislation hopes to have games up and running this fall.
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Does it surprise anyone that Harrah's (or whatever they calls themselves these days...Caesars Entertainment?) offers a $1 million guarantee tournament that fudges on the numbers? The so-called Millionaire Maker to kick-off things in May will have a buy-in of $1,500 with two starting flights on the same day to allow re-entries. Al notes that the payout structure will be adjusted to award the seven-figure top prize so there won't be any overlays on this thing. You'd figure selling some $10 burgers in the Poker Kitchen would cover any unexpected losses for CE in this thing, but I digress...
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On the positive side, the brass figured out how to dissuade men from entering the Ladies Championship. The official buy-in is $10,000, but women get a 90 percent discount, ahem, paying $1,000 to enter. Exactly the same as years past! What are the odds?
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Lastly, although it's not a bracelet event, the $5,000 Open Face Chinese poker tournament is getting plenty of buzz. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the link to my FTP Poker from the Rail blog post in which I gave Chinese poker a very good chance of returning to the WSOP. Just take my word that I prophesied it!
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Will these guys be planning the Chinese poker tournament? Count on it.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-41499247087854178122013-02-12T15:09:00.001-06:002013-02-12T15:09:50.202-06:00New Jersey Online Poker?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It appears New Jersey may agree to legalize online poker. Gov. Chris Christie seems on board as long as the state's lawmakers can agree to some of his wishes, which include:
-- Increasing the tax rate on online poker operators from the proposed 10 percent to 15 percent
-- Putting more of the state's revenue into a program to combat problem gambling
-- Adding a sunset provision that would make the law expire in 10 years if it's not renewed by the legislature.
It would seem that online poker is likely a go in New Jersey if lawmakers can agree to those amendments to the bill.
<a href="http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-and-regulation/conditional-veto-for-new-jersey-online-gambling-bill-07-02/">Read more at PokerFuse</a>.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-72729413304304917382013-02-04T14:23:00.000-06:002013-02-04T14:23:45.009-06:00A Harry Reid bombshellIf you haven't heard the recent news about the alleged $1 million bribe given to Nevada Sen. Harry Reid to push online poker regulation, <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55717936-78/johnson-swallow-reid-senator.html.csp">read this link.</a>
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Of course, Reid's staff is denying the claims, but I think we have all heard enough politician lies to have our doubts. And since I'm neck deep in politician shenanigans <a href="http://watchdog.org/category/missouri/">at Missouri Watchdog</a> you'll have to forgive my overt cynicism here.
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That'd be another nasty black eye for our beloved game if one of the few lawmakers pushing hard for online poker regulation was on the take. It would seem to only hurt our chances.
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Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/14910-doj-announcement-soon-on-full-tilt-poker-remission">a Justice Department spokesperson told Card Player that an announcement on the funds remission process for us left holding the bag at Full Tilt is coming "soon,"</a> whatever that means. Could be weeks, could be months. But after nearly two years of waiting, what's a little more patience worth?
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Since I don't have a 'roll to speak of, it'd be nice to collect my ~$1,500 from FTP, however.TuscaloosaJohnnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02415009493932267301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588171.post-85233194052340809452012-12-05T14:39:00.000-06:002016-08-18T14:02:23.238-05:00Of Bond, hobbits and pokerCheck out online poker here: <a href="mailto:jurgen@onlinepoker.de" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">onlinepoker.de</a><br />
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If you haven't seen Skyfall proceed directly to the theater. Even if you don't like James Bond movies I think you'd enjoy this one. I'm a big Bond nut so as you can guess I thoroughly enjoyed Skyfall.
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I'm looking forward to The Hobbit, which I'll probably go see over Christmas break. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a delight, I think in part for the New Zealand landscape as much as anything else. I'd love to one day visit New Zealand or Australia, but that's no cheap plane ticket.<br />
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I haven't played poker in two months -- I mean ANY. Sometimes it's nice to take that break. My new full-time job (<a href="http://watchdog.org/category/missouri/">check out Missouri Watchdog here</a>) has kept me plenty busy, and our nationwide network just met at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida, for a conference and a little R&R. It's not a bad gig, believe me, and I get the entire week off between Christmas and New Year's.
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I'm getting back on that poker horse this Friday, with a visit to St. Charles, where Harrah's completed its sale to Hollywood. I doubt much has changed over there but the signage. The poker room seems to be running as it was before, from what I hear. Hopefully, I can get done with work early enough to hit the $5-$10 w/ FK Omaha/8 game at Ameristar. It's truly one of the easiest games in the area.
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I'm also planning a Tunica trip this January to finally go play in the World Series of Poker Circuit event again. It's been about five years since I've been to Harrah's (it was still the Grand Casino at the time) and I still possess a $100 tournament buy-in chip. Thankfully, those don't have a date on them and they've used the same ones perpetually.
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If I'm feeling frisky I might dabble in some casino games, perhaps some leisurely roulette. A good source for information on the game is at <a href="http://www.onlineroulette.org/">onlineroulette.org</a>. I believe that Bond played some roulette in Skyfall, which might be a first for 007 in the series.
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I'd love to make a return trip to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_vegas">Las Vegas</a> for a brief time this summer, but we'll just have to wait and see on that one. Family vacations come first. John Harper, who turns 3 on Dec. 8, had a blast at Disney World last month and I can't wait to figure out another cool place to take him -- Las Vegas is not one!
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Woody, Buzz, Andy, Jesse and Mr. Potato Head. You guess which is which!
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