Month: September 2005

Wie Turning Pro

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It’s been announced that Michelle Wie will turn pro before her 16th birthday. With as much talent as she has I think it’s a good choice. Too bad she isn’t a little closer to her 18th birthday or I’d say we could look forward to seeing her in a few swimsuit issues.

Review: iPod nano

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Most of my friends had iPods. I didn’t. I didn’t want to haul around the mp3 playing brick. I was holding out for something smaller. I was excited when the iPod Mini came out, but still wasn’t too impressed. Around the 1st of September I read a press release explaining that Apple would be making a big announcement on the 7th. It would definitely have something to do with the iPod family. I was excited because I knew it might be what I was waiting for.

After I arrived at work on the 7th I checked various sites around the Internet. Many seemed to think Apple would be announcing an iPod phone and a smaller iPod. Finally the word got out and Apple had the iPod nano on their site. Immediately after I saw the specs and photos I knew I was ordering one. Less than 2 hours later I did. Using the Education discount (By the way, anyone can get the Education discount because they don’t do any checking on you.) through the Apple store I put in my order for a 4 GB black iPod nano with free engraving. Line one would get Nick Momrik and line two ‘MtDewVirus’. After tax the total came to just over $242 (with free shipping). Not bad for an item listed at $249.

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Introducing…

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Hi, my name is Isaac Momrik, I am Nick’s brother. I have been asked by my brother to write for 2holecards.com to add a little something new for the site. I will be sharing some of my personal tips along with some of my personal experiences for your entertainment. For my first blog I would just like to give a little personal information. I attend Saginaw Valley State University where I work with Nick for ITS. I am majoring in Computer Engineering and plan to transfer to Kettering University at the end of the school year. I am a regular player of Full Tilt Poker and I am looking to add a few more sites to my list. You can usually find me around the lower no-limit games and in all types of no-limit Sit n Go’s. Look for DigitalChip on FullTilt and stay tuned for future tips and updates on my poker life.

Sucky Sake

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On Saturday I went out to Genji’s, the local Japanese steakhouse. I’ve been to one other Japanese steakhouse, but it was at least 10 years ago in Florida. It was great food back then and great food this weekend. Since we were out celebrating a friend’s birthday, we got a round (which actually turned out to be enough for 2 rounds) of Sake. I’ve never drank a steaming alcoholic drink before, but if they all taste like Sake, I hope I never drink one again. That stuff smells nasty as hell and tastes even worse. At least I can say I’ve tried it.

Drunken Poker

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After a night out I got home at 2:30 and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to play some online poker. SNGs on Bodog were the game of choice. After placing 3rd in one out of 4, I decided to try some heads-up. I won a $50 and then a $20, both in less than a 10 minute period. I won’t be playing poker for the rest of the day, so I finally have a winning day on the books. Wooohooo!! The players in the heads-up SNGs are usually pretty bad. Just before I won the $50 SNG last night the other player commented in chat, “Do you raise every hand?”

Here fishy fishy…

A Good Showing

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A quick post. Last night Bodog had a $7,500 guaranteed for $10+1, so I signed up. There were only 571 playing, so nearly $2,000 was added to the prize pool. I was short stacked most of the tournament, but as we approached the money (top 54) I finally went above average with a nice rush. From there I went up and down.

With the blinds at $1,000-$2,000 I had about 7 big bets and found 99 in the big blind. 4 other players limped in. I figured I had the best hand but decided to check and see what the flop brought. If I had pushed there was one small stack that would have to call and I thought at least one other player would call. I didn’t want to take my 9s against 2 players. The flop came 2-4-2 and I was happy. I pushed out a bet of about half the pot. The small stack called and the button raised. I pushed the rest of my chips in. I was up against A9 and 55. The turn brought a 5 and the river a 3, so I lost to a full house and a straight. I went in with the best hand and that’s all I can ask for.

Looking back, I wish I had either pushed as the first to act after the flop. I still think I would have ended up against the same two players because A9 didn’t have a choice with barely over $2,000 left and 55 had a large stack where he could take the risk. Pushing would have been my best chance at getting one of them to fold. Betting half the pot could have looked like a steal. If only the small stack would have called I would still have been in the tournament with about 5 BB and on the small blind for the next hand.

That was the end of my tournament though. 17th out of 517. Not a bad showing. I think I’m going to concentrate on some tournaments a little more until I can get through this cold streak trying to beat the 6-max games.