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      <title>Slaves to fate (nath)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (nath)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sunday my run in the Million was cut short in 82nd.  These three hands took me apart:

Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10000/t20000 Blinds - 9 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter [url=http://www.deucescracked.com/?referrer=converter_2p2]Powered By DeucesCracked.com[/url]

BB: t387978
UTG: t576253
[b]UTG+1: t78438[/b]
UTG+2: t326300
MP1: t275780
MP2: t311466
[b]CO: t398967[/b]
BTN: t189438
[b]Hero (SB): t557064[/b]

[b]Pre Flop:[/b] Hero is SB with K:diamond: A:diamond:
[i]1 fold[/i], UTG+1 raises to t76438 all in, [i]3 folds[/i], CO raises to t396967 all in, [i]1 fold[/i], Hero raises to t555064 all in, [i]1 fold[/i]

[b]Flop:[/b] (t908372) 4:spade: A:heart: K:club: (3 players - 3 are all in)

[b]Turn:[/b] (t908372) 2:heart: (3 players - 3 are all in)

[b]River:[/b] (t908372) T:heart: (3 players - 3 are all in)

[b]Final Pot:[/b] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 08 03:43:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Starting over (jiacstrap)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (jiacstrap)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Started over today with online poker by loading 190 onto stars.  School is over and got tired of playing live games (too slow, competition is cake compared to online though).  The main reason I don't like playing live is because I love 6max/HU games online.  I started with the 6 dollar hu turbo SNG's then worked up to the 11's pretty quickly.  I bought into two of the 22 hu mtt's and lost in the 3rd round on the first one, and lost in the 4th round on the 2nd one (cashing for 40 bucks).  I started to 4 table the 11 dollar heads up games and single tabling the 23's.  The bankroll is sitting at 473.55 right now.  Im sticking with 20 buy in's t play at a level.  I did start playing the 23's a little early, but it worked out.  Right now I am rolled (20 buy in's) for the 23's.  If I run good early I want to stay at this level until I hit at least 700 preferably 800 before I move up to the 34.50's.

Last summer I worked two jobs in AC. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 08 01:18:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Melbourne Poker Champs - Event 1 (OzzieGrinder)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (OzzieGrinder)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Last night I wittnessed the worst poker to have ever been played, it was in event 1 of the the melbourne poker chaps.  I caught the action with 5 players left.  The short stack had 3 BB ( and was fold to a raise on his BB) the big stack had 10 BB and was playing so careful it wasn't funny.  One bloke put 60% of his stack in the middle 3 times and layed it down to a shove.  What was this idiot playing? 

It was the worst hour of poker i have ever seen.  It was a disgrace to the poker world that the bloke what won did win.  they where all so bad.  

i am off to play now and may play in event 3 the PL event tonight]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 23:10:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Shortest 9-handed SnG ever! (lakong)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (lakong)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I played in the weirdest Sit-n-Go ever.  It was a Stars step qualifier to the WSOP Main Event.  I was just fooling around at Step 1.  The entire SnG took 10 minutes and 23 hands.  We just played 1 hand at the 25/50 blind level.  Has anyone ever seen a 9 handed tournament go from 9 down to 2 players in less time?  Here's how it went down:

This one guy, ussro, kept on going all-in from the very first hand.  It didn't matter if he was the first in the pot at the 10/20 limit of if he was pushing after a standard raise.  He just kept on going all-in.  On a few hands he did fold, but not normally.  

On the 5th hand ussro RR all-in and is called by two players.  He has jh8h and the other players have QQ and AK.  He turns quad 8's.

On the 9th hand he goes all-in with QT and gets called by AT.  He flops a Q!

On the 14th hand a guy goes all-in, he calls and another guys calls.  ussro had kc4c and the other hands were AhQh and AdJd. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 19:55:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>El Dorado gold (5/10/08) (GarryM)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (GarryM)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Don't know how much gold I could buy with the profit from this visit, but I could if things kept coming up like they did. 

Bought in at 4/8 table for $100 and was down to nothing in about an hours after really getting nothing.  Rebought for $100 and left the table with $320+ an hour later.  

No really big hands, just a couple of good rushes and one player that liked to pay me off.  

The tables there look like they are due for some refurbishing soon.  ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 10:19:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Around the World in 90 Days with Full Tilt, Days 10-12 (Bond18)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Bond18)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Here's the link guys, Cheers:
 [url=http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/203/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Days-10-12]http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/203/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Days-10-12[/url] ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 09:46:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>I'm backkkkk (shaundeeb)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (shaundeeb)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well, I apoligize for the few of you who keep checking back for updates I never felt like I had much good to write about. Had a really bad sickness in San Remo a great Amsterdam trip, then a disappointing day2 after a massive climb of chip stack on day1. I basically been resting up since my 2nd amsterdam trip. I ended up going to AC for their 2k event last weekend but I got shutout in redic gay fashion. The staff there really messed up in how they ran the registration and alternate list for that tourney was a shame looked like a good field to play. 

On the poker side of things haven't had much to write about thayer's been kicking my ass in our 5 figure prop bet I was down a whopping 16-10 because I went nearly 5 weeks without a 10k score that wasn't a wsop seat. Earlier this week I played a pot 4 handed for about 80% of the chips in play in a decent 100r ended up losing and getting 4th a little while later which was on the 5figure score bubble. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 07:08:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The waiting game is the hardest part... (CBorders)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (CBorders)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[.....Still waiting for my mobnies to come from FTP. I withdrew everything with the intent of putting it on Stars. That was almost a month ago. Poker Stars has a retarded limit of like $100/day, $300/week for deposits, Im still waiting for them to raise the limits just a tiny bit so I can get to grinding stakes I want to play.

Ive been learning to mass multi-table for the past week. With only a few hundred in my account I decided its was good time to learn. I fired up 26 tables of NL5 or NL10 or something like that, turned on PT3 and got to work. Its surprisingly fun playing with guys that are 76/0/.01 over a 128 hand sample. The idea behind all this is to get accustomed to 26 tables and then cut that down to 12 when I finally get the bankroll situation figured out.

MTT's have been slow, I played a bunch of 45 and 180 mans with a little sucess, cashed in a few $11fo's and final tabled a $5fo but got 9th after I 4bet 44 into AA. Oh and I got 2nd in a . [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 08 04:16:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Profit on the Red (5/10/08 -  5/11/08) (GarryM)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (GarryM)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Two 4/8 sessions on 5-10 and 5-11 for just under 4 hours total.
Saturday bought in for $100 then got felted after about and hour.  Rebought for another $100 and ended up taking away $338 and hour later.

Sunday bought in just before the 10am splash the pot for $100. was down to my last few chips after about 45 mins again.  That time A3o in the BB.  Flopped a set of 3s.  Rivered an A for the boat to bring be back to live.  
Later had 74 spades in the BB, flop 8 9 10 all spades.  6 of spades on the turn, two just kept betting and then calling my raise.  River was trash and two check callers to me.  Put me well on the plus side for the day and I stayed there. Picked up after hour and 45 minutes with a $33 profit.

To go with about $125 profit from El Dorado the night before had almost $300 profit for the weekend.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 22:07:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Around the World in 90 Days, Days 6-9 (Bond18)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Bond18)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey guys,

Unfortunately due to awful working absurdly expensive internet I haven't been able to get the updates linked properly or consistently in here. That period is over now, so things should be a lot more smooth.

Please let me know if these links work or not, Thanks, Bond

Days 7-8:
[url=http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/199/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Days-7-8]http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/199/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Days-7-8[/url]

Day 9: 
[url=http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/201/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Day-9]http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/201/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Day-9[/url] ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 20:57:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Hanging With Shaun + the Borgata 2K Deep Stack (Doylestown)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Doylestown)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A week ago Friday I met up with Shaun at Borgata for what would be my first face to face coaching session. While I waited for him to arrive I churned some $5/$10 NL profits. Shaun navigated his way to AC a little late due to his GPS going haywire on him. We grabbed a quick bite and headed to the room to begin the nightly grind. The plan we discussed at dinner where Shaun would limit his tables to about 6 or so to allow us to really focus on the coaching aspect quickly went out the window. Shaun just can’t help himself, he’s a true blue “degen” and I mean that in a good way. Within a short time there were a gazillion miniature tables all over Shaun’s laptop. From 8PM until 3AM Shaun kept up the grind and continued coaching me as I tried to absorb it all. 

At some point past midnight we loaded one of my old hand histories into a replayer on my laptop and reviewed it in fine detail as Shaun continued to multi table (he’s clearly a savant). [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 14:37:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Busto in New Orleans (brad2002tj)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (brad2002tj)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I played 2 donkaments in New Orleans, both Friday.  I played Circuit Event # 1, a $500 event, and a $300 "second chance tourney."  Neither tournament was very eventful and I never really was in a spot I liked.  In both tournaments I ended up short stacks and shoving wide which eventually resulted in being knocked out by a better hand.

The real story comes from playing cash game on Saturday night.  I was playing 2/5 NL with a whole crew of locals and a few good players.  After about 2 hours of play I was down to about $250.  I called a $20 raise with 77 from the BB along with 4 other callers.  Flop comes K67 with 2 hearts.  I check, someone bets $100, 3 call, and I shove my remaining $230 in.  I get 2 callers who both cover me by about $200.  So the main pot is about $900.  The turn is the 6[h] giving me a full house and completing a flush.  The other 2 players shove/call the turn.  One tables A6 and the other KJ.  River - K. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 14:03:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Brutal week... (SirWatts)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (SirWatts)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well I haven't posted in a while, I guess i didn't really have much to write about because I've basically just been getting my ass kicked all week. I've started playing some 2/4-5/10 PLO full stacked to try to learn the game, and while I feel like I'm playing reasonably well the results just haven't been there so far. I might be running bad, but I don't really have the experience playing PLO to really be able to tell. I've even been taking a bit of a hit at Holdem cash games lately, though for the most part I'm pretty happy with my play in those and I think I've just been running bad. Here is an example in which I get "Matusowned" (when he made his little speech I thought he had AA for sure hence my chat).

[url=http://www.pokerhand.org/?2592084]http://www.pokerhand.org/?2592084[/url]

Even tournaments haven't been going that well. I've been playing a lot of the step 5 and step 6 WSOP satellites. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 00:17:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Hey Everyone (afstuddmuffin)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (afstuddmuffin)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey guys, 

sorry its been so long since my last post.  I thought i'd
drop a line to everyone to let you know whats up.  Here lately
i thought i'd take a break from poker.  Todays actually the first
day in a while that i've actually played a few hands.  
The reason for my break is that i've been trying to just reestablish myself.
i've been kinda reading here and there just taking a break from my game.
someone posted a blog, "if you dont have the passion, you're not going to shine".  here lately, i havent realy had that "passion" for the game to sit
and have the patients to play.  I notice i'll play a 5000+ tournament and i'll end up in the top 100. (in an hour or two) and i'll just feel bored with 
waiting.  i know this game is about patients.  and lately my mind isnt on
the game.  i hope all is well with everybody.  anyways.  take it easy guys
-Paul]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 08 00:12:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Sigh (A_Junglen)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (A_Junglen)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the $3k, and now I’m officially busto from everything here.

Bleh

The main event had 302 entrants, and I believe first paid around $275k. Well, that’s not too big of a concern now that I’m eliminated. I lasted about 6 hours. I never accumulated too many chips, but feel as though most of my reads were on, and that I was playing well.

We started with 15k, and I hovered between 12k-24k all day. I don’t think I played more than one 5 figure pot. It was just one of those days. I also had several aggressive players to my left, so that didn’t make life easier. I started my bust-out hand with roughly 16,600, and my opponent covered me by about 8-10k. With blinds at 150/300/25, he opened the button for 900. The small blind folded, and I pick up AKo in the BB.

Well, this opponent (BB) had played with me for a good portion of the $1k bounty on the 7th, and he had been moved to the table roughly 90 minutes ago when this hand came up. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 08 07:36:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>FTOPS 2-5 (Adanthar)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Adanthar)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I only had time to play one event in the last two days, FTOPS4 (the 200 PLHE event), which went nowhere after a promising start. Who knew that the triple shootout would sell out 40 minutes ahead of time? I'd have tried the Stud 8 tourney tonight, as well, but some allergy or other that's making my nose itch like crazy also made me cut the day's session short after 5 PM or so (and just as importantly, I'm not nearly as good at S8 as at razz). 

Tomorrow's tourneys are a 535 PLO (no way) and a 100r (maybe, if I feel better and find enough other stuff to fill up a screen with.) Sunday is a 530 HU (probably not; I think I'm +EV in a field like that, but not by a huge amount, and its too early for my other tourneys) and a 300 freezeout (definitely); Monday has a 200 PLO8 tourney (maybe, since I don't horribly suck in those) and a 1K (meh, pass.)

While I'm at it, those of you that want to take a close look at variance should check out [url=http://forumserver.twoplustwo. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 08 21:12:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Case of the second best's (OzzieGrinder)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After writing my last entre, instead of going to bed I thought I would go get some breakfast on southbank.  So I went to Greco (which was AMAZING) the american bacon was to die for.  

Anyway after breakfast i decided to walk down and see what the game was like, sure enough I see this one table with 4 blokes I was playing with at 6pm the evening before.  They where pouring the beers down as fast as they where at 6pm (which was a great effort I thought) so I sat down and the 3rd hand in I pick up pocket queens, UTG who is blind drunk and cant see past his nose grabs a hand full of chips ($60) and drops them in the middle, everyone else folds except for his drunking weed of a mate who was in the cut says "your a fuck head, you got nothing" and throughs all his chips ($127) in the middle.  So i shove, the blinds fold and the twat UTG calls.  We turn the cards up, UTG has J4s and his mate has Q10o. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 08 00:41:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Live play is fun (OzzieGrinder)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (OzzieGrinder)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[WOW, what a night.  I finished playing a 13 hour session and ended up $470.  I was on top of my game tonight, through out the 13 hour session I managed to only show my hand 6  times.  6 out of the 6 I was a overwhelming favorite.  I  was all in with kings 4 times, queens once and aces once.   Unfortunately they all didn't hold up, infact only 2 of them held up.  My kings where cracked by AK 3 times and aces cracked by 8's.  Other than that I managed to take down a number of good sized pots with aggressive play.

I had the pleasure of playing with Peter Aristidou tonight, he was very polite and friendly and very aggressive.  Peter is currently siting in 2nd position in the Crown's Poker Player of the Year.  I am sure with the Melbourne Poker Championships starting this sunday Peter will be number 1 shortly.

I think that I was really happy about was the quality women that where playing, it was really good to see. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 08 15:49:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>FTOPS1 - a good start (Adanthar)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Adanthar)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's not a great one because I always hate finishing in this area for a little while after I bust, but 40/4100-odd runners for ~2K isn't bad. (Add up another few hundred in CR fees because this has at least 1 vid in it and probably 2...if FT emails me the HH's. Who knew this laptop didn't save those by default?)

I'm incompetent at PLO and will pass on it, but the shootout tonight looks cool.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 08 11:14:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>If you don't grind, you don't shine (nath)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (nath)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[And a diamond is just a lump of coal until it's been under pressure.

And other platitudes to make me feel better about the frustration of the last few days.

I've been trying to put in lots of volume, both to rebuild my online bankroll and to prepare myself for Vegas.  Unfortunately, there have been a lot of close-but-no-cigar chances at scores-- slight cashes, money bubbles, and the like-- and even the occasional final table doesn't quite pan out.  Tonight I finished 6th in the Stars $22r for $1600, which put me at +600 on the day-- which does beat losing, but it's a far cry from the big score I could have used.

I busted many things in painful fashion as well-- getting outdrawn, losing races, and being victimized by the Timex theorem more than once (essentially, your opponent always has the weakest hand possible that dominates yours).  Just seemed like a day where I couldn't make the right decision in any close spot. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 08 06:12:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>WPT..Canada (A_Junglen)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yup, that’s what the events here in Vancouver are being called. WPT Canada, short for “[b]World[/b] Poker Tour: Canada”

….Right…

Well, regardless of whether or not the name makes sense, I’m having a pretty good time here. Of course, I’d be having a better time if I hadn’t been knocked out of the $1k bounty today, but oh well.

We started with 10k, and 25/50 blinds and 45min levels. A pretty good structure for a $1k, I really don’t care to grind out long levels for a $1k. But for a 2 day event (2 days, plus final table), it was great. Being a bounty was a neat experience as well. It was the first live tournament I’d played in a few months, and I think I played pretty well. I didn’t open nearly as many pots as I normally do, and just hovered between 7-13k playing pretty patiently. At 200/400/25 I got my last 11k in the middle with 99 vs Ah 2h on the Kh 9h 3x flop. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 08 05:03:44 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Beginning (OzzieGrinder)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (OzzieGrinder)</author>
      <description><![CDATA["I read this article a while back that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretaries than any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. 

I remember there was this photograph of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrrari. Blew my mind. You see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think it's possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The 87 million dollar lottery winner. That kid actor that just made $20 million on his last movie. That internet stock that shot through the roof. You could have made millions on it if you'd just got in early. And that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator. I just wanted to make the quick and easy buck. I just wanted in." 
 
Even though this quote came from the movie Boiler Room, a truer word has never been spoken. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 08 01:10:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Intrade (Adanthar)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Now that the primaries are essentially over, I think I can safely post my Intrade experience. I just made a long post on 2+2 that I'll copy here.

[...]I estimate my final primary election wager results at around +10K (on an initial 10K roll on Intrade and another 2K or so in Paul bets). On the one hand, this does represent a nice 250% or so yearly ROI. On the other, I actually thought I could do better.

[...]

Postmortem:

In addition to being very profitable, the first phase of this experiment has definitely taught me some valuable lessons. In fact, the reason I'm writing this post out is to gather my thoughts; although the market between now and November only contains a handful of good opportunities, I want to get some of the more useful information down on paper in order to remind myself of these concepts down the line.

These lessons didn't come cheap. Although, as I said, my yearly ROI is ridiculous, had I done everything right, I think I would have broken twice that.  [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 08 12:55:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Last night, I finalized my WSOP living arrangements - all I need to do now is finally buy flight tickets and I'm set. As some people can tell you, the last time I took a flight to attend a tournament, I managed to sleep through a gate change, so as insurance, I promise to blog about anything similar happening this time in the most embarrassing way possible. 

In online news, after a week...well, not really 'off' (playing 1-2 tourneys a night for fun > not playing anything, but not actually work, either), it's once again time to spend a few K and a bunch of time on FTOPS events. The bad news is that 1)for whatever reason, I run so awfully at FTOPS that my best finish was in an LO8 event of all things, and 2)since I have little cash online, I'm gonna have to actually do well if I don't want to shift money around. The good news is that...well, it's FTOPS. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 08 09:30:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>My Future as a Poker Player (Mr_Taterhead)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[	April online results were pretty solid. I didn’t get to play as much as I wanted to, but who does right? I did all of my playing back at my old home of Bodog where I played mostly $50NL with a little bit of PLO to make the degenerate inside of me smile. I made my standard 10BIs that I was making before I tried out the rock garden over at PokerStars. I know that Stars has a wonderful VIP Program and awesome tourneys, but I don’t understand why people love banging there head against a wall over there. I guess you can say that I am a Bodog man through and through. It was hard to leave Bodog at first, but it was really easy to go back.  I mean when you can consistently beat a game for 8-10ptbb/100, why would you want to scratch and claw your way around the sharks at ‘Stars? I am sure Landlord79 has an answer, if you want to know just ask him.

	I made a single trip to my home casino, HSBC, and I ended up losing one BI ($300) when a guy goes runner- runner Ts for Quads on me. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 08 22:53:32 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Around the World in 90 Days, Day 6 (Bond18)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here's the link guys, Cheers.

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-from-the-rail/article/196/Around-the-World-in-90-Days:-Day-6]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 08 16:15:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>You got to know (Swami54)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Swami54)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away

I was tired and was going to quit but decided to play a few more orbits after midnight...what a mistake.  It's definitely been a theme for me lately so I thought posting might make me think twice next time :) 
The hands after midnight were atrocious...completely my fault...no suckouts.

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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 08 13:28:53 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>185th on the Stars TLB for April, then Doomswitch (brad2002tj)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[April was a great month for me, I finished up about $3k and finished 185th on the Stars TLB (got a fat $50 bonus from Stars).

The first week of May has been horrendous.  Lost almost $1k of my April winnings right off the bat.  It's part running bad and part making bad (dumb) plays.  I'll get to play lots of live poker in New Orleans this weekend, and hopefully play and run better.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 08 11:41:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Around the world updates (Bond18)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (Bond18)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Quick X post from 2p2 since my battery is about to die and I don't have time to write anything:

Hey guys,

So for those who don't know I'm going on this around the world poker trip to play tournaments in the Mediterranean, France, Spain, Vegas, and California, then back to Melbourne,all in about 90 days. It's basically a larger and longer version of what I did with the WSOP last year.

I got a writing deal with Full Tilt to sponsor the material in exchange for exclusive rights. So basically for each update I can just create a thread like last year and provide a link. It took them a few days into the trip to get things rolling so there's already a few updates up.

I can't actually see what has been put up so far because the .com version of Full Tilt is apparently banned in Italy so hopefully the links work and everything.

Intro: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-f...rld-in-90-Days

Days 1-2 - http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-f... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 08 04:15:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>April's teachings May's promise (St_Lucifer)</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (St_Lucifer)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello all!

I know its been quite some time since I last posted and I feel guilty. So guilty in fact that I was hesitant to create another entry knowing how long ive been away(like I don't deserve to blog). 

Anyways April was a very interesting month for me. Being a SnGo enthusiast I recently began starting to learn MTT's as I had almost never played them. I wasn't doing well in early April w/ SnGos on Stars and tried my hand playing 180s. Now with favorable results behind me I am wondering why I hadn't learned to play them sooner (yes cash games one day i assure you).

I started to multitable the 4/180 and mostly broke even for a stretch of 400 games while still getting a handle on MTT strat (P.S. thanks to Bond and TJ for their insight). Then in the last week of April everything just seemed to click. I had made no real money at that point but in a span of 5-6 days i netted around 900 dollars without putting too many hours in. 


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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 08 15:31:06 -0400</pubDate>
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