Poker Blog Posts

The 1500 chip straight flush

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:07:32 EDT

i was on full tilt poker at a table where the blinds are 500/1000 and everybody folds to me(big blind), except little blind. i look down to find 5 4 of hearts and check. the flop is A,2,3 of hearts and LB checks and i check, then on the turn is a K of clubs. LB checks and i bet the blind and he folds. what a waste.

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Im at a Crossroads in my Weekly Hold em Game What do I do

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:42:11 EDT

I have been playing a weekly to semi-weekly game of Texas Hold'em with a rotating group of friends now for about five years. I believe we started on New Year's Day 2004 with just five of us in someone's living room. Only one of us (not me) had really had much experience playing hold'em at a casino while the rest of us just watched on on TV and occasionally called it out in the semi-weekly dealer's choice game we had been playing for years before that.

So one day we decided to just play tournaments. We each put $10 (or sometimes $20) in and played for a first or second place prize. We did this for a few years and it was a blast. We all started to learn each other's tendencies. We would make casino trips together and sit at the same table so two, three, four of us would have fun playing with the strangers who would sit down. We would never cheat but we knew each other so well that we could anticipate each other better and it would make for a more fun game. Throughout that time, we would have people who would only show up every now and then and give us games of 10-20 people but was the same five or six of us would always show up. We never really did it to try to win lots of money. We just liked getting together every week on a Friday night and having some fun.

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Old Friends Retirement

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:40:36 EST

Many people campaign for better treatment of race horses, and still more campaigned to end slaughter. How many actually put their money up to support these horses?When a 10 year old bay gelding was found in a feedlot in the northwest he looked like he had a "story." Indeed he did. Approaching the mandatory retirement age for Thoroughbreds he made his last known start at a small Oregon track, far from the crowds just months earlier in California. Without a stud career to look forward to like his famous brother, the gelding landed in a feedlot. Someone put the pieces together - he was Cappucino Kid, a respected race horse. A racing fan fronted the money to get him out of the feedlot, and funds were raised to send him to a retirement home in Kentucky. Home to other famous and not so

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3 yrs ago today- Championship Sunday taken over by Kobe

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:47:06 EST

Three years ago today I was sitting in a poker room watching some football and then it started filtering in. Kobe had 40 pts, well that's good are they winning? No they are down and its early third quarter and I was like wow, but realize that Kobe had scored 56 in 3 quarters against Memphis a year earlier or so. Then it was 50 and we are still not through with the third and we all started paying attention. Then in the fourth quarter Kobe went into a gear that has never been seen and has not since. Forget MJ, even forget Wilt (making 4 foot finger rolls over guys you are 4 inches taller than doesn't count) and simply sit back and wacth offensive greatness that not be surpassed for 30, 50, or even a 100 years. MJ could never shoot this well so before this

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No LUCK in poker

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:59:55 EST

Poker is a game of chance (wait im not finished), yes skill is required but no matter how much skill you have you can
not just make that king magicly come up on the river to make your gutshot straight draw. With that said I love taking chances, there is nothing better than sitting down at a table with eight other people wondering the whole time who will get the cards tonight.
There is no luck in poker, ill say it again, there is no LUCK in poker. Stop looking at your computer screen funny,
im going to explain...People go on rushes, they get good cards, they play the cards they get really well, or by some chancenthat king of clubs does come up on the river. Then you have the bad beats such as your aces full of 9's get crushed by quad 9's, yes that happened to me just a few days ago), or you get outplayed or someone else catches that elusive king on the river. Either way its not luck, no my friends its not luck, the cards fall the way they are shuffled and actually the game is decided before the cards are even dealt out.Now im sure i'll get some E-mails on that, but guess what...Thats exactly what I want, E-mail me, let me know what you think, im an open minded guy.

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Im on the Fence about where Poker is Going- World Series of Poker

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:16:08 EST

I was watching ESPN's 2008 World Series of Poker final table preview show on election night and they showed where the final table will be played. It will not be in the Rio card room, or even a different casino. Contrary to tradition, it will be held in the Rio's Pen and Teller theatre. I wouldn't have thought much of it until they showed the theatre itself. This theatre looks like it seats hundreds of spectators, if not more. If you're like me at all then you like to see the player run over to his family and friends to be embraced after catching that ace on the river or seeing his kings hold up. But what now? Are we going to see "Chino" Rheem sprint up a flight of stairs to be congratulated by his cheering section? However, all of this is irrelevant compared to the bigger picture

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How to Host a Successful Poker Night

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:11:16 EDT

Poker, specifically No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, is a craze that is currently sweeping the nation. With the constant television coverage of the World Series of Poker and its rise in popularity, everyone and their mother has suddenly become a poker player. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson are becoming household names. Poker rooms continue to pop up in casinos, dog tracks and jai alai frontons around Florida and local poker games are becoming easier and easier to find.

But hosting a poker night is not as easy as it sounds. Establishing a well thought out poker night, requires dedication, commitment, the proper equipment, a good core of friends and a variety of other intangibles. Any one can have people over to play some cards, but in order to set up a steady batch of players, it is crucial to do it right if you want it to become a regular gig.

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How To Host a Successful Poker Night

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:09:00 EDT

Poker, specifically No Limit Texas Hold 'Em, is a craze that is currently sweeping the nation. With the constant television coverage of the World Series of Poker and its rise in popularity, everyone and their mother has suddenly become a poker player. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Doyle Brunson are becoming household names. Poker rooms continue to pop up in casinos, dog tracks and jai alai frontons around Florida and local poker games are becoming easier and easier to find.

But hosting a poker night is not as easy as it sounds. Establishing a well thought out poker night, requires dedication, commitment, the proper equipment, a good core of friends and a variety of other intangibles. Any one can have people over to play some cards, but in order to set up a steady batch of players, it is crucial to do it right if you want it to become a regular gig.

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If The Bruins Are On Play Poker Instead

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:55:46 EST

Last night was one of those nights when there just wasn't much on TV. The Boston Red Sox didn't have any spring training games to yawn through. The Celtics had the night off. And the Bruins flat out took the night off. Just when I thought it looked like the Bruins might have found their identity, they went back to skating on thin ice. They lowly Maple Leafs drowned the B's 8-2. The Big, Really Bad Bruins seem to be back to their old habits, losing. But luckily for me, I could care less. I won a whopping $20 bucks in a poker game.

A group of 6 of us play Texas Holdem on Thursday nights. Holdem's a good game and according to Mike McDermott, it’s considered to be the Cadillac of poker. None of us are

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Burnin with the Great Bambino

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:40:48 EST

PART 1 of 2

I hung out with Babe Ruth last night. Sure, it was only a dream, but this was a such a mystical tale it just had to be real. I started crying like a baby when I awoke, because, well, it just had to be real.

I met him at a dive bar in Hells Kitchen. He was sitting in the corner, beer mug to his left and shot glass to his right, with a blonde by his side and a brunette on his lap. He wore a grin on his face the size of the grand canyon. He had that Ruthian look that told you there was no other place that he would rather be. He swigged from his beer mug then kissed his two lovely companions before they exited the bar.

The empty seat next to him was now mine, and there I was, sippin sizzurp with the Sultan of Swat.

"I'm a huge fan. I mean, I never got to see you play, but I've heard the stories Babe. From your struggles in a Baltimore orphanage all the way to the days when you were blasting those balls in the Bronx. The called shot, Murderer's Row, barnstorming in the winters and that final speech in the Camel Coat. Man, it's an honor to meet you sir. Your an American legend."

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