tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133519062012-01-14T04:46:30.773-05:00thoughts on poker and other ruminationsSoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.comBlogger1531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-56572349361990049232008-08-12T21:41:00.000-05:002008-08-12T21:43:00.708-05:00

But who is the least dumbass.

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This blog has assumed the same state as the Cowboys' season.Feel free to delist.

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BabySox, born May 22, 2007, a day the Red Sox beat Yankees, and the year the Sox put to rest the sad Yankee fan taunt "it'll be another 86 years." Coincidence? I think not.Oh, someone remember to send Mangina a thank you note for videogate--just the inspiration the Pats needed to get angry. Looking forward to Evil smashing up Mr. Class next week. Please note small tweak to blogger template on

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.Registration code: 9338874

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Am I still a blogger? Eh. Well here's a post, call me what you will--and I know what that means for quite a few of you! I know Pauly used this post title first, but I'll take it from the public domain as I had already used it in a private e-mail to a blogger whose posts I've found unusually interesting as he maps to my poker-finance intersection of the universe an IMHO expresses considerable

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I arrived at the final table in the ICU, with an M of 3. In fact, I had been in last or the last 3 or 4 places from when we were at about 35 players. I stayed in last until we were down to 6. And then, a funny thing happened.I got lucky when I had to of course. But mainly, I folded. A lot. And then I doubled up. A lot. And then I won. A lot.I am still in shock.And lest this be only about

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Yeah, it's a baby blog.

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This blog is sorta on the ropes.Not playing very much poker as the most beautiful girl in the world is better than hitting a one out royal draw on the river against quad aces.That being said, I have played in Kat's donkament rebuy the last 3 weeks, winning the May 25th (first poker game after Sarah was born), coming in 5th last week (and cursing TripJax into bubbling), and chopping 1st/2nd with

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Meet Sarah Ana, 9 lbs 9 1/2 oz, born today at 11:14 A.M. EST.All is fine in the world.

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Last night I got in a quick one hour session at some place in New York that is not Salami or EBB. I was very tired and stressed after an action packed week at work with little let up on Friday, but had a little time to kill before the KATM got someone to open up his leg shackles at Big Firm to come out and have a drink. So I figured I'd get a few hands with a view to playing extra cautious given

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I was just posting how little live play I'd had recently. That changed in a big way starting last Saturday with my home game. On top of that, since then, I hit a new club on Sunday and played in the Crackhouse game last night. I am supposed to take a business acquaintance of mine to that club tonight [UPDATE: based on apparently false rumor of this club's demise, our plans got cancelled], and

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Not claiming original thought here, but I'm joining the chorus of people beginning to think the online game is dying, or at least in middle stages of a debilitating degenerative disease. It's a slow asphyxiation kind of thing. I had already taken several grand out of my online at the end of last year, leaving me with perhaps 3.5k online (spread around on Stars, Full Tilt, UTB and Neteller).

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Has been very busy.Playing a bit online, but late hours and a decimated team has required me to invest 100% of mental energy to work. So my mind is more than usually attuned to reading things from a professional state of mind rather than a poker state of mind. So....I was reading an article in the Times about Eliot Spitzer, former attorney general and brand new Governor of New York, about some

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Don't really have much urge to post about poker (and certainly have had no urge to post about sports). In the meantime I've been doing a lot playing of and thinking about triple draw lately so perhaps I will write up something at some point. In the meantime, this hit my e-mail box and I found it funny:NEW DENSEST ELEMENT DISCOVEREDA major research institution has just announced the discovery of

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Being a fan for the Pats goes like this:When it seems that all hope should be lost, in our hearts we feel faith that it will be okay, that we will find a way to win. And we do.Being a fan for the Sox goes like this:When it seems that all fear should be lost, in our hearts we feel doubt that it will be okay, that we will find a way to lose. And we do.It makes for a somewhat schizo approach to

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This chat, from a 130fp silver star satellite (which I pulled off woohoo!) is pathetic:The Gouger: AK rookiedevinr12: dude i am a professional poker playerdevinr12: i play 5-10devinr12: NLSoxLover: that is sadDealer: Regular time for player nyc cannibas has expired, TIME BANK has been activateddevinr12: for a livingThe Gouger: dude i am a profesion dont give a rats azz playerdevinr12: dont tell

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Seems to be a theme here.Your results:You are Iron ManIron Man 85%Spider-Man 75%Hulk 70%Batman 60%Green Lantern 55%Supergirl 45%Catwoman 40%The Flash 40%Superman 40%Robin 30%Wonder Woman 25%Inventor. Businessman. Genius.Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...Your results:You are Lex LuthorLex Luthor 88%Dr. Doom 75%Apocalypse 73%Magneto 71%The Joker 66%Mr. Freeze 61%Riddler 59%Green

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Not I, it would seem.

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I ended up getting six hours sleep on Friday night, which had to put me in the top decile for tourney entrants.On the way over, I picked up these babies from the eyewear shop in Caesar’s mall. Normally I need prescription sunglasses, but I’m getting Lasik in the New Year so these were an early birthday present to myself.When the tourney started I found myself for the second year in a row directly

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11:30 Vegas time on Friday morning, after four hours of addled sleep I woke up with the overwhelming feeling that I’d rather not have. I thought I was going to avoid this this time, and I suppose it was improvement from July. But. I. Hurt.I could not get back to sleep. So I undertook to shovel, shower, and schlep myself downstairs (a few others eshes as well I am sure). At the Geisha bar, I think

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Dictator- ENTJ 86% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 63% Thinking, 80% Judging Have you no soul? It's clear you have no heart and that your blood runscold, but really, do you have even one redeeming factor? Sure. You're a natural born leader. So was Hitler. You just don't like people, do you?You don't play games. You take charge. And there's very little room formistakes in

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First session up: the flight out.Worked a half day from home on Thursday before heading to Newark for my 4:20 flight. Hit an unexpectedly good flop when checking into the electronic kiosk I was offered a seat on the 3:20—30 minutes to get through security and I was off early. Managed to double up when the window seat next to my middle seat remained empty after the cabin door shut. One Ambien and

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This happenened to me deep, I mean deep, into the 100+9 shorthanded table tourney.I chipped back up near the bubble.Then I got AK suited all in against JJ.I had been chip leader for a hour earlier.I won $0.

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Just got a very interesting comment on my post on the topic earlier this month, from someone named "David" (I play poker with several of those but they all go by their own nicknames so I wonder if I know this one).I found it very interesting, so much so I start rambling off into a long comment. Long enough I just decided to promote it to its own post.David said:Your willingness to accept the

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Objectively, the night went well for me. I exactly bubbled the final table in the 15k on Full Tilt which started at 8 and managed to take down the Mookie which I had played at simmultaneously from 10. It was not quite as enjoyable as it sounds--funny how the way you feel about how things turn out jumps around with how high your expectations go.I started playing the 15k guaranteed with Weak Player

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Here is the situation:Pretty loose-aggressive 1-2NL table at the Extra Big Blind on Friday night, no obvious idiots, people (other than me) are straddling nearly every hand. I've got 375 or so in front of me in the small blind, there are a mix of 50-250 shorter stacks around to the cutoff, who has the biggest stack with about 500 and has shown a seriously aggressive streak (and who has tried a

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A lot of stuff going in in SoxLife right now, work, vacations, and more. Posting hasn't really been a priority.Brief thoughts on the online poker ban:Without question, it is a spectacular example of crass politics, idiotic policy and bad law.It is an archetypal case of a malum prohibitum, or something illegal because the statute says so, not because it is wrong in itself. The true Holy Rollers

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Warning entirely non-poker content to follow.Just a little international current events commentary on a country that probably doesn’t mean much to most of the readers of this blog. It does however, interest me a great deal as I lived in that little land for three years of my life, among other things, meeting SoxWife (who is not from there) and making some pretty deep friendships that persist

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Things that I like:The recently #2 ranked Irish getting stomped at home.The Iggles stinking it up at the end of a won game to interrupt their chase of the '72 Dolphins.The Pats holding on after stninking it up at the end of a won game, incidentally covering the spread (you can pay me at the Bash).Oh lastly,ROLLED QUADS BEECHES!!!!

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I took the day off today to get my license renewed. Fearing the worst, I budgeted several hours at the Jersey City DMV. I brought two(!) books along and prepared myself for a long haul.You know that great feeling you have when you make a crying call at the river with bottom two when some psycho bets half the pot and proceeds to showdown top pair no kicker? That's how I felt when I strolled out of

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Just trying out PokerRoom for a spin after getting a mailer offering me $20 free and a $250 bonus to clear for a $500 deposit. I haven't been playing almost any NLHE online (triple draw, stud hi/lo and stud hi fill my cash menu), but not so many stud games running there, so I figured I'd see how the software worked at a $50 for NLHE. Seemed like the best action at the 5 player tables so I figured

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I'm on the verge of letting this thing die. Though I've had some false starts towards making posts, grand ideas even, it's just not happening.Part of it is work and life throwing up relative distractions (looked at more properly, the blog is the distraction of course, but this after all is on the blog so we'll pretend the order makes sense).A large part of it is poker sucking for me. I've

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As usual, while I was getting prepared to go make the doughnuts, the fairer Sox (ok, the much fairer Sox) slumbered away, her dreams slightly troubled. As I approached her side, her furrowed brow deep in thought, she stirred and mumbled her first interrogatory of the day, “What’s with the min raise?”I shit you not.The poker bug is apparently contagious. Last night was another installment of

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Dawn put up a post describing the lunacy that was my play at her tourney and cash game last Friday. I must admit to having been a wee bit more LAGgy than my normal sedate self.[Update: math below corrected by FTrain, see him ream me in the comments too...]Dawn mentioned a particular hand I played with Ugarte:"The first hand I remember was Ugarte pushing all-in with a set of tens and Soxcalling

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I have been running North Pole cold since Vegas, until yesterday when I pulled down a Stars satellite to the 530 (cashed for T money immediately) at the same time Garth did.Tonight, this happened in a 20+1 heads up sit and go on the FIRST HAND.Ouch. OK, not THAT bad....Go Ryan (a/k/a my horsey)!

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It’s been awhile. Normal excuses: lots of work, family in town. Truth of the matter: I’ve been running a bit cold and trying to avoid depressing people. Actually, when I say running cold, I mean mostly playing more poorly than I’d like. Two hands really depressed me as they make me question my ability to ever be more than a mediocre player. Both involved 400+ pots, both in involved players (

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Major kudoes to my better half, who did this all while coughing up blood. Imagine if she had been healthy.My advice to her on playing Bobby Bracelet: "hit him with a 2x4 in the cranium, it's the only thing he understands."Here they are on a hammerless hammer flop:

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Thursday:I flew in after working a half-day at home (thank you kind boss for agreeing to that). Knowing sleep would be at a (massive) premium once I got to sin city, I popped an Ambien and slept the whole 5 hour flight (I think I'll do this every time).Hit Excal, dropped off my bags and found Chili at the bizarre 1-3 NL they spread, and then DonkeyPuncher, the first bloggers I met for the weekend

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Came in 8th in the Garthmeister Invitational WWdN tonight. I feel this almost as good as winning it given the insane card deadness I experienced. I am happy in particular with my patience, but boy was that adventures in fold'em.I managed to survive essentially by betting occasionally with nothing and getting fair number of folds from those paying attention enough to realize I was playing almost

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SoxLover to SoxWife: "You know it baby, I'm the best man on earth for you!"SoxWife to SoxLover: "You're right. I want another planet damn it!"Doh!

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Prelude: update on poker life, skip next 4 paragraphs if you don’t give a crap how I have been running. Also, fun new donkey hand at the way bottom apropos of nothing.It's been a while since I posted, in part I must admit because June started out pretty poorly. First, I had a rough night at that off-the-hook club that I will continue to avoid directly naming although others have taken a less

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Today is the first anniversary of my first post on Fish Soup.Work is crushing this week, so I'll use this as an excuse to pass off a flashback episode as new material. My favorite post from each month:June 2005: In memory of Playstation. Playstation is the New York club where I think I got my chops, such as they are. I have fond memories of the place.July 2005: Glory of 519. This was probably the

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Apparently Yahoo liked my answer to the first dating question I got, since I've received another Dear SoxLover query.It seems that Yahoo tweaked their algorithm since the original question as my site no longer comes up in response to the original query; it used to be the first result.I nevertheless feel a responsibility to answer, so:Dear Waiting,Do not give up hope!There could be many reasons he

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I have a lot of material I could write about, but last night really warrants most of the attention.So quickly to get up to date before last night, I never wrote up Foxwoods from a week before: several hours, went well then poorly; made a few good plays and made two large mistakes that in the end made the difference between a medium win versus a medium loss.I had a home game on Friday night, with

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Raveen made a comment on my last real post on squeezing EV out of a loss, so I looked him up and saw a question for a basic mathematical analysis of a particular poker decision. My kind of puzzle, I put out a comment calculating the EV of the options fairly precisely.Mookie in a comment to my last post pimping Bloggerstars asked how much math I actual use in big hands at the table. My response

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.Registration code: 7330476

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I was posting a comment on Fluxer's site when, as often occurs to me, it got rather voluminous. Rather than run on in his comments, I decided to make a virtue out of verbosity and flip it into my own post.Fluxer responded to TripJax's first question (What is the biggest mistake people make at a NL table?) as follows:People don't realize that they will lose money after making good plays. I used to

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Saw TripJax prepared questions and it seemed like an easy way to write a canned post:1. What is the biggest mistake people make at a NL table?Assume question is addressed at ring games. If you mean people, the biggest mistake I see is when people can't fold when they're beat. For big bets--especially at lower level NL say up to 200. It may not be the most frequent mistake (which is definitely

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I posit the obvious point that for poker in general but no limit in particular, one needs to develop an intuitive grasp of the interaction between the odds and the human element. By this, I mean the ability to calculate pot odds, odds of winning against a range of hands, the ability to put an opponent on a narrow range based on his or her play in that and past hands and perceived current mental

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May you have already, but I just discovered Google Video. A few of my favorites:What's the internet for?The future of China.Helping hand.

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When I tell Mrs. SoxLover it was a really good day, she knows that means two things.1. The Red Sox won.2. The Yankess lost.So yesterday was a really good day. Better than just that however. See, we both were attending a small live tourney with a few bloggers and half of Brooklyn's young Russian poker playing community graciously graciously hosted by the gals at I Had Outs.We had two tables full

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I actually posted a lot this week, perhaps buoyed by my recent good run--I hope that didn't jinx me--but mostly little blurbs.Although this week has been quite busy (avoid deals with time zones in far continents where strange people come from), I did manage to get in a good amount of poker this week.On Wednesday, I went with a recent nominee (by yours truly) to this list to play a few cards on

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Found an interest link on Russel Fox's site to a humor-type test.I think it may have gotten it right: the Provacateur(61% dark, 38% spontaneous, 47% vulgar) your humor style:VULGAR | COMPLEX | DARKYou'll crack on anything, and you're often witty, even caustic, about it.Therefore,your sense of humor is polarizing. You're transgressive, and you've gota seriously sharp 'edge'--maybe too much

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I can only assume Waffles was trying tilt me with his second comment to my post below. In fact, it spurred me this morning to write a point by point refutation as a comment, which I'll attach, since I bothered to do it, at the bottom of this post.I realized however that, just like last night, I was getting angry thinking about the hand. I then had an inspiration. Getting angry about this hand is

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GRob is evil.Yes I realize there may be irony in this given the title of my last post, but please see where the chips went in.Congrats to him for winning the whole thing--it would have been really embarrassing if he hadn't.

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Here's the situation.You're in middle position with $150 in a 9 handed online 100NL game, you get all five limpers to your pocket eights. You decide to limp as well.The player on your immediate left in the cutoff has $200, is pretty tight, makes it nine to go. It folds around to you. You believe the raiser is not a moron or maniac, probably an above average player for this level, quite tight,

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The irony is pretty deep that my first blogger tourney win is in Stud. Insanely deep.1st, I think stud might be my 6th best game after NLHE, OPL, O8, Razz and Triple Draw (which is not to say I am particularly good at any but the first).2nd, I almost didn't play this because of the 1st thing and the fact that it started so late.Perhaps not unrelated to the 1st thing, I got CJ-level luck at

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Bruce Banner, incredible Hulk.Sox Banner, incredible work.Woohoo thanks Kat!

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My usual search results come from people looking for recipes. This one was for advice.I'm thinking first night.

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Meant to write a post about Jordan's game on Friday, but events overtook it so I'll get that out of the way first.After leaving work at 6:30, I had 3 hours to kill before the game, so I figured I'd fill it in by playing poker. Went to the club, dink and donked, pulled of one sweet bluff pushing someone off his pair of aces weak kicker, actually won a showdown or two, managed to book a

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Something about this play seems familiar.

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I wrote a long post yesterday that blogger ate. Pissed me off and I didn't know when I'd have the heart to write another.Tonight I had one of those things in poker that happens occasionally and just makes you smile from ear to ear. It also inspired me to take another shot at a post so here I am.First, here is the lost post reconstructed as best I can. I was writing that I had stabilized my game

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Just for kicks:Ultimate BetNo Limit Holdem Ring gameBlinds: $0.50./$1.10 playersConverterStack sizes:Fishiswa: $149.40UTG+1: $61.35UTG+2: $41.45MP1: $54.20MP2: $57.55MP3: $30.80CO: $109.65Button: $118.75SB: $111.60BB: $86.35Pre-flop: (10 players) Fishiswa is UTG with A♠ A♦Fishiswa raises to $3.5, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls, 7 folds.Flop: K♠ Q♠ A♣ ($8.5, 2 players)Fishiswa bets $8.5, UTG+2

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As I was writing my last post and thinking about the use of hand histories, I recalled that I had a drafted and never published a post back in December about what this blog is intended to do. I never published it then, but I think I might as well now.----So many people have served up such great stories about the WPBT Winter Classic, far more than I experienced (or can remember) as I largely

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Two nights in a row, I had two tabled at Full Tilt 100NL games.Two nights in a row, early in my session I had either suffered a bad beat or made a poor play early on and had spent the time gradually regaining some of my lost chips.Two nights in a row, I planned to end my session shortly, accepting that I'd be booking a small loss for the night.Two nights in a row, so resigned to my fate, I was

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I was pretty stoked to play the WSOP satellite last night--even managed to win my buy-in plus a little sweetener at the ring game tables at FT (100 NL full ring has become my new grind game, nothing specaturlar but steady profits for the past month or so).I was in for a bit of a surprise however when I got to my table and found myself with 5,000 chips and 30 minute blind levels. It definitely

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WWDN Tourney was going pretty until just about this point--some good play I think (aggressive play got my big hands paid off) mixed with significant luck (set over set against Kaellin). I had been chip leader, lost with QQ versus Wheaton's AA (should have folded it UTG) but recovered chip lead, then moved along for awhile hovering from 1-6th place with about 20 left, top 9 pay. Then it all

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Utterly card dead, busted out out in 19th, but happy with my play. No stupid moves (except for the 3rd hammer drop, and that would have worked if the short stack BB didn't have AQ), and I actually outlasted Mrs. SoxLover for once. Also, I did enjoy this one hand:PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) converterUTG (t1600)UTG+1 (t1090)MP1 (t385)MP2 =#A500AF(Wil Wheaton)/ (

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I think poker hand names are cool (to which FTrain/Weak Player/[insert other SoxLover wiseass friend] would probably reply "which makes it unlikely they are").I started out trying to come up with my own full list, but found this pretty comprehensive list here on Holdem Secrets. I like it especially because it takes a stab at the etymology, which is what I find really interesting. Impressive in

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All in preflop:Loved pushing with the hammer. Hated to be called prelop (AT is a monster!)Justice served.

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With Mrs. SoxLover out this week on a trip back home, it was the perfect opportunity to get down to the East Coast's pale imitation of Vegas. (It also a great chance to finally win our family last longer in the weekly WWdN.) I made plans to meet with Garthmeister, the remaining core of what initially would have been a trip with as many as five bloggers.I was on the fence about coming down Friday

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I am pretty much always posting only poker related stuff but I just wanted to express my relief. I've had a public speaking engagement on the calendar for over six weeks--it involved speaking to over 500 industry professionals in a venue where they were paying significant funds for the privilege of hearing yours truly on something I have been working on for more than a year. Believe it or not,

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Came in second (though there was a deal) in the SirOldMan classic. She even got all her money in with best of it heads up but it was not to be. I'll settle for being the second best player in the family for tonight.Nice job beautiful!

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At the risk of jinxing myself, since my gloom and doom post awhile back I've been running decently online.After casting some suckout magic on BadBlood to salvage a bad weekend I booked several small but steady wins this week, with only one losing day and that only 10 cents if you can believe it. Not a huge rush as I haven't had a huge day but it sure beats losing.Last night we had a blogger IM

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The weekend began so so for me.I managed to win a few heads up matches (but not against the Poison) and a few small sit and goes to basically tread water in monetary terms, but the frustration level built as I kept going deep in tourneys and getting knocked out on the bubble in various painful ways--I re-raised all in big with blinds large with JJ called by AJ ace flops to go out in a 3 table, I

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My posting has become less frequently and I'm feeling guilty since I accepted Full Tilt sponsorship. So here I go.Honestly, it's because poker has been beating on me. For awhile. Like a redheaded stepchild.I'm trying unsuccessfully not to whine about it too much because who wants to read that. But I really don't have much good to say about it.This month looks to be one of my worst, with a

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I made the big time I guess. I'm now a shill for Full Tilt—see to the right.Adding the code completely flummoxed my crappy customizations and fouled my display. So I took the chance to change my template, customizing it a bit more carefully this time. Still need to work out the short post code since right now it shows the "See the Flop" for both full and short posts (I also removed the Barcelona

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I've found a place to play live poker again. I don't like it as much as the other places I've played in the past year which either had very large player bases or at least really cool management. This place features a small player base and the management, while not being awful or unfriendly, is not up to the other places.But small is probably good right now, and they are able to spread games.Oh,

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A few weeks ago I received a letter from the past. It was from the old crew from Playstation, one of the big two New York poker clubs along with NYPC that had been in the first wave of raids last May. It seems they had gotten their shit together and decided to give it another go. I was at first dubious, thinking that if they mailed me, they must have mailed a few thousand others, at least one of

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[Sorry for the very long hiatus--week in the Caribbean, busy work, and the desire not to pull in too much traffic when saddled with Venino's evil banner all conspired to suppress my January posting.]It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity . . .An apt description of my

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Long rambling post warning, but good results and some interesting hands I think.This week I'm off to St. Lucia to hit the beach with Mrs. SoxLover as well as Mr. and Mrs. Weak Player. The last week at work was a bit busy, so I fell behind my posting a bit, but not as bad as Weak, who after an impressive first month of frequent posting has trailed off--I hope he comes back refreshed and puts some

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I hope everyone had a good one.Yesterday was a clean start, a new session if you will. Believe it or not, I decided to start out with triple draw.I found a juicy 3-6 table with Weak Player (not that it was juicy because of Weak Player) and several 3 card draw 3 betting small blind maniacs. The end of the previous sentence might not make sense to the bulk of the world with no experience (or

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I was down in Florida for the weekend visiting the maternal unit, who recently moved there from of all places California (to be closer to maternal unit's maternal unit). Knowing of my poker predliction, she kindly organized a trip with the slot slinging geriatric crew to the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Casino in Ft. Lauderdale.I remember from Gracie and her boyfriend that the Florida poker scene, due

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It has continued to be a rocky road for me lately, particularly online. I helped myself a bit on Friday night late: with Weak Player sweating me, I managed to finish 13th out of 421 in a 50+5 on Stars. I suffered a very nasty bad beat at the end--QQ losing to 55. I would have most likely made the final table with some very large cash prizes, but I can't really complain as I had enjoyed one

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Hand 1. Thursday night, MGM grand 2-5 table:Started out with full 500 buyin, whittled down to just over 300 on a table with occasional 50+ opening raises and multiple callers plus one French luckbox who a) bet 3 of 4 hands like he had the nuts, b) had the nuts 3 out of 4 hands (the same 3) and c) got paid off every freaking time (nastiest I saw was when his 47 boated up to beat the nut flush).

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Recovering from overload.Quick impressions---Some top moments:- Witnessing the bucolic smile on F-Train's sallow face when he worked through the 99 player field at the Sunday night Sahara tourney to take first place and unstick himself for the weekend (cracking my kings with A5 off along the way, the bastard!).- Making a nasty little reraise move to bluff Weak Player off a big pot--not a chink in

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I went back at the old club for the first time since it reopened. The weekend they reopened, I was in AC getting tossed around like a locked-up 100 pound manboy with a tear drop tatooed on his face (stay away from that white collar crime KATM) and since then, but for playing KD's game the day before Thanksgiving, I've been licking my wounds.To be perfectly honest, I've been playing with a feeling

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Well there are bad poker nights and there are bad poker nights. Last night,I didn't lose money (I actually won a small amount). I did however lose my dignity.Note to self: do not make side bets on $5 heads up matches unless you're willing to face the consequences in the morning. Note the new banner above--results of me getting bulldozed 2 of 3 by Veneno. Happy Veneno? FYI my wife is cracking on

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I few weeks ago I wrote a post bemoaning the demise of the NYC club scene. FTrain called me chicken little and seems to have been right as the scene seems to be slowly reawakening in the aftermath of the FührerMayor's reelection.At any rate I was genuinely concerned that I was not going to have a decent live game closer than a 2 hour drive down the Garden State Parkway. The low stakes home game

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I am still in a bit a of shell shock from last week and have drastically reduced my playing time just to get my bearings. I've turned to other compulsive activities--namely Sid Meier's Civilization 4. The only thing it has going in the way of a bad beat is getting your best city taken in a surprise attack just after switching to Pacifism.I did manage to achieve something in the poker realm

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1132075486617628292005-11-15T03:29:00.000-05:002005-11-15T16:04:59.700-05:00

FTrain if you don't want to read this, stop now, you're not obligated.For the rest of you, if you are into Schadenfreude, you'll get a kick out of this.I almost did not write this but I need to fight the tendency to only write when I'm running good.Technically, these are not really bad beats for the most part, but rather coolers. I have a genuine desire for comments as to how I could have played

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1131378871266840222005-11-07T10:40:00.000-05:002005-11-07T10:54:31.286-05:00

The desert continues: no live play in New York city. The last club I know of (the one I did not mention in my last post about closing clubs because hell, I thought I'd keep one quiet in my pocket) seems to have closed itself as well. Chicken Little, one of the nicer things FTrain has called me, or not--I'm jonesing for live play. His theory is that this will all blow over as soon as the mayoral

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1130650175909015512005-10-30T01:27:00.000-05:002005-10-30T00:33:55.683-05:00

If I can't play live, I'll have to get better online.I think this is my first ever final table in a limit game. Psyched.

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1130609397316534522005-10-29T12:07:00.000-05:002005-10-29T13:11:00.913-05:00

I did not think it would come to this given the number of new clubs that have sprung up, but the immediate future of NYC club poker seems in doubt.In addition to the latest wave of busts, my current club last night had a sign outside saying they were closed for renovations. At 7:30. On Friday. Without warning (I was there on Tuesday). I don't think they were shut down, I think they shut

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1130335948200890272005-10-26T11:55:00.000-05:002005-10-26T11:58:02.076-05:00

Down and up night at the club.I sat down with 300 at what seemed to be a good table in a reasonably good position: I was in seat 9, rocky old guy in 10, unknown in 1, KATM's childhood friend Steve whom I'd met last Thursday in 2, unknowns in 3 and 4, two tight-weak players in seats 5-6, aggressive criminal lawyer in 7 and unknown obligatory Asian player with sunglasses and spiky hair in 8.

SoxLoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734288856544594471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13351906.post-1129907231451441782005-10-21T09:35:00.000-05:002005-10-21T10:53:48.843-05:00

Certain people have told me they aren't particularly enamored with my bad beat and cooler stories. I know, nobody really cares. I do try and tell them with a little flair, but I hear you nonetheless. Thus, I'm not going to go through some of the more painful moments of the last few weeks online. It's been a very poor run.I am going to tell you however about a couple of bad beats I laid on other

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