One of the best things about being a blogger, other enjoying than the daily acclaim of the masses and knowing for certain that you’ll go down in history as having made a deep and serious impact on humanity, is the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker. It’s been a fantastic event since they began [...]

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Riggstad and I finished up our November Nine handicapping over at Full Tilt’s Poker From The Rail yesterday. Part Two of the series, which was published last week, took a look at Jeff Shulman, Joe Cada, and Kevin Schaffel. Part Three, published yesterday, dealt with the short stacks: Phil Ivey, Antoine Saout, and James Akenhead. [...]

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My old friend AlCantHang was nice enough to invite me to a little WSOP November Nine handicapping on Full Tilt’s Poker From The Rail blog. That’s not the sort of opportunity that comes along very often, so of course I jumped on it. Joining me in assessing the chances of the nine guys who will [...]

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I won’t be in Vegas for this year’s WSOP – the first time since 2003 that I haven’t been around for at least part of it and the first time since 2005 that I won’t be working there. I do have a lot of friends on the ground in Vegas, though. I’ll be following their [...]

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Today is my last chance to run good – at least, to run good for a free $1,500 WSOP seat from PokerListings. The final installment of the Run Good Challenge WSOP Edition will play out in less than an hour at PokerStars. Twice as many seats are up for grabs as last week’s Run Good [...]

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The lads at PokerListings.com have set up another Run Good Challenge, this time with a two-event schedule with WSOP goodness at the end of the rainbow. Today is the first event, with the winner walking away with a $1,500 WSOP seat and everyone else holding on to fond memories of chat box hijinks. Next week [...]

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The PLO cash games continue to go well for me. I’ve begun sticking to the full ring tables since that’s where I’ve enjoyed the most success, actually winning rather than just breaking even. The last two days have been my best back-to-back in two months of playing, taking 11 buy-ins off the tables thanks to [...]

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When I want to play poker lately but don’t want to sit at the cash tables, I’ll pull up a pot limit Omaha sit and go. I like the Matrix tourneys on Full Tilt since I get to play four tables at once. I also enjoy the heads-up matches. At the lowest buy-ins, which is [...]

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One Day at a Time
I count myself lucky because I’ve worked pretty steadily since I first started writing for a living in 2005. All that time I’ve been able to avoid Cubicle Hell, where I worked before and aim to never see from the inside again. The last year was my best year yet, as [...]

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There’s been a lot going on lately so I haven’t had time to write on the blog. I have been writing an awful lot for PokerListings, though – you should check out the Year in Review series I’ve been writing for the news section. Here is the July article, and you can link to the [...]

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Only three spots in the RGC II final are open, so I need a good finish today to lock one of them up. I’d prefer to take it outright, but if I tie again at least I know I’ll have a shot at breaking it to score a seat.
– me, before the third event of [...]

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In just a few hours I’ll be playing the third and final tournament of the PokerListings Run Good Challenge II. I’ll need to run good for the first time in either installment of the RGC in order to get into the final, as I failed to earn any points last week.
Last Saturday I got [...]

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The first event of Pokerlistings Run Good Challenge II took place yesterday afternoon at PokerStars. We’ve got a bunch of tournament reporters in the field once again, so I’ll let you read their cogent analysis of the event instead of rambling on to you about how I got lots of big hands but no action. [...]

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After seeing it played on television, I started playing poker online in early 2004 and found the game immediately fascinating. The mix of psychology, strategy, and analysis required to play well, along with the fact that I could quickly improve my game through study and practice, made it much more appealing than the other competitive [...]

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You might remember that back in September I got invited to play in the inaugural PokerListings Run Good Challenge, a three-tournament series of freerolls hosted by the fine folks at PokerListings that culminated with a big Grand Final tournament among the highest-placed finishers. You might also remember that I narrowly missed the Grand Final, falling [...]

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