Bond18:  What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss?

Not quite as much as Anton Chigurh would prefer I bet, but losing a $12,000 flip still feels pretty terrible. I didn’t per say "lose" $12,000, which of course would be much worse, but it seems similar.

I was heads up in the Bodog $250 satellite for a $12,000 World Series package (that you can option to take in cash) against a pretty bad player. The stacks sizes were my 44,500 to his 45,500 at 600/1200. I opened QQ on the button to 3200 and he shoved from the BB, elimating AA and KK from his range. Boo yah. He tables AhKh...

Read Bond18's complete post here...What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss?

Landlord79:  Mid-Month Update on my "Break"

My February goals were:
Reinvigorate my spiritual life.
Create new habits
1. Prayer time
2. Reading time
3. Exercise program
Purify my body, through a strict diet.
Retool my calendar so that I am doing things based on what is important, not what I feel like doing.

Well, I can’t say that I have thoroughly kept any of my stated goals for the month...

Read Landlord79's post here...Mid-month Update on my "Break"

Mr_Taterhead:  Switcheroo!!!

I have primarily been playing uNL cash games on the internet for the last year or so and I have faired pretty well. I usually don’t have the 5-6 hours on average that it takes to play a tourney. I only have a couple of hours a night that I am able to dedicate to poker. Between being a full time accountant and a full time dad to a newborn, I just don’t have the time. I decided last week that if I ever wanted to get out of the 5x5 cubicle that I spend 40hrs a week in, I was going to have to play in some bigger cash games or make a few nice scores in a couple tourneys. Since I have been running pretty bad at uNL cash games this month I decided that taking a couple of shots at some bigger NL games was probably a bad idea, so this weekend I made a conceded effort to play a couple of tourneys on Stars...

Read Mr_Taterhead's complete post here...Switcheroo!!!

CBorders:  Wooo

Yawn...Boring end of the week. Tournaments didn't go so well, cash games went okay and I was up a little on the week. I'm having a hell of a time getting money transfered and I have a couple grand sitting in limbo until my account is approved, which sucks. Tonight I played the $24+$2 $28,000gtd, which became $37k because of 1558 players. I was hella card dead for the first half hour but kept rolling nicely. AT

Read CBorder's full post here...Wooo

EdmondDantes:  The Year of the Rat

After the events of Super Bowl Sunday, I had no idea when I’d be allowed out into society at large much less back into a licensed casino. By Wednesday, though, I’d sold the UCLA medical staff on releasing me to the custody of my wife, and by 7p Thursday, she was 40 minutes into a yoga class and I was leaving my car with the valet at the Commerce Casino. Obviously, the Commerce doesn’t subscribe to weekly updates of the Las Vegas blacklist or doesn’t consider my behavior as documented in the Mirage security report abnormal—the valet greeted me with a friendly “Welcome back, sir! Leave it up front?” Why yes, thank you.

I was back at the Commerce with the simple goal of tracking down Thayer (reportedly playing the $1500 event) and perhaps redeeming my shocking exit from a single table satellite the prior week. As it turned out, I was sidetracked from my task by the buffet, Asian hotties, a frenzied mob and an unruly pride of paper mache lions. The events as transpired are still hazy but fortunately I had my digital camera and convinced the Commerce staff that my use of same was of journalistic significance. I’ll do the best I can to recap the events and provide photo verification where possible.

Read Edmond's entire Trip Report here...The Year of the Rat:  Celebrating the Chinese New Year...Commerce style!

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