Root of all Evil

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I drove back to Saginaw today and just pulled in about an hour ago. I don’t remember seeing so much fog in an afternoon and I had it the whole trip. At least I didn’t hit any animals like I did on the trip up north. I hit a porcupine (pictures) and will have to get my frong bumper ever “rigged up” or replaced. Just what I needed less than 2 months before the lease is up on the vehicle. So we’re talking at least $300. Nothing I can do about it, so it doesn’t pay to go on tilt.

I didn’t think I’d get in any online poker over the weekend, but I got bored and installed Empire Poker on Mom’s computer so that I could work on the 1050 raked hands I needed to clear for their recent bonus. Playing $1/2 6-max it took me 1,600 hands to clear the $150 bonus. In addition to clearing the bonus, I came out 40 BB ahead for an average of 2.5 BB/100 hands. It was a good weekend for the bankroll. If not for a couple of 2-out suckouts in a row, it would have been much much nicer though. That’s poker.

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Just What I Need

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I made it to Rogers City safe and sound, but my car didn’t. Less than two fucking months until I turn in my lease, so what happens? I run over the biggest fucking porcupine ever and it damn near tears off the front of my car. I’ll take some pictures tomorrow during the day. I’m […]

Mailing List Opt Out

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Tired of receiving credit card offers in the mail? Me too. I found a way to opt out of these offers. Either call 1-888-5OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688) or visit optoutprescreen.com. The web site doesn’t look legit, but it is. I called the number and they even gave that URL in the phone message. How do I know […]

Back at Empire

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I logged into Empire Poker today just for kicks and voila! They’re having a redeposit bonus of 25% up to $150. So much for sticking at UB. I just can’t pass up the bonus whoring. Since I’ve been loving the short-handed table and the Party skins don’t have $2/4 6-max, I jumped around some of the $1/2 6-maxers. After stopping by four tables I finished up a total of 28 BB and cleared over 150 of my 1050 raked hands for the bonus.

Tomorrow after work I’ll be heading to my parents for the weekend in order to get my taxes done and visit the dentist, so I won’t get in any online play. We might make a trip to St. Ignace for some casino play, but it’s more likely that we’ll just play some home games. I haven’t done that in quite some time, so it should be fun.

Update: Played another 50 minutes while waiting for laundry and took down another 11 BB. Take advantage of the Empire bonus while you can!

Change Of Scenery

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MtDewVirus realy needs a change of scenery…I just haven’t wanted to spend the time on a new design though. WordPress 1.5 has entered the gamma stage, so it shouldn’t be long before the final release. Maybe that’s when I’ll work on some changes around here since there are some new features that I’ve planned to […]

Let the Cream Rise to the Top

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As many of you may know, back in September, I launched pokerchiptricks.com, a site dedicated to tutorials on doing poker chip tricks. The site has been very successful and has opened a few doors for me. One thing that bothers me though, is that the site is still not listed near the top of the Google results when searching for “poker chip tricks” so I think there are many people missing out if they don’t search through the three or four pages of results before finding the site.

I hate to do this, but I’m going to ask for some help on this one. As many of you know, the more links, the higher a site ranks with the search engines. Some of you already link to the site and I THANK YOU! For those of you that don’t currently link to it, do me a favor and check out the site. If you like what you see, throw a link up on your site with the words “Poker Chip Tricks” as the text of the link. If you’d prefer to use an image and link to the site, I have a few different sized images that you can use. If you link up, feel free to leave a link to your own site over at that post.

Thanks for your time on this!

HAMMERth Place

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I went out in 72nd place in tonights WPBT event. A total of 151 players entered for the biggest event so far. I would up at my first table with Dr. Pauly and definitely had the most hammer showings in history. Before I was moved the hammer was shown for about a 6-6 record. The Dr. had the most notable when he picked up the hammer on the button. The cutoff had AA and the big blind had KK. They were all-in pre-flop. The flop came down with two 7s and the hammer took out the two best hands at the same time. He even ended up with a full house on the end.

I didn’t get any real exciting hands that I need to recap. I had quite a few pocket pair, but either didn’t get any play back or didn’t hit anything. CJ from Up4Poker took me out when I tried to pick off his steal from the button. I had Ah5h in the small blind. He raised it up to 3x the BB and I then doubled it. He called and the flop came down with two clubs and a queen. I was pot committed at this point so I pushed with an inside straight draw and my ace as outs or hoping he would fold. He made an easy call with qctc. When I think about it, I should have pushed all-in pre-flop instead of just doubling his bet. I may have gotten him to fold, but I think it was a pretty easy call for him to make calling what I did bet. At least I lost to a blogger.

I have to say that the list of people now on the rail shows a lot of familiar names I recognize from blogs, so I’d bet there is a very strong showing by the readers. I just hope they don’t take the crown and finally win won of these things. GO BLOGGERS!

I played well and had a good time. That’s all I could hope for…besides a showing in the money of course.

It turns out that a blogger did win the tournament. Congrats to on_thg! Go read his recap.