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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