I was running so bad in Online Poker Tournaments that I took Tuesday off for a break and to reflect on the causes of the downswing. I came back today thinking more about the game, position, and what every person’s actions meant. It seems to have helped. I took a bad beat from a bad player in an Omaha tournament. Lower buyin, so you have to expect dumbness. But as I write this I am one of 25 left in an $11 buyin bounty tournament at Doyles Room. I have made $6 of my original investment back already and will profit no matter how deep I get.
I see the whole game better now that I took a small break, and barring variance jumping on me and beating me on the head, I hope to make some deep runs going forward.
Thanks to iMEGA, the PPA, and mostly the people of Minnesota, no longer is the department of public safety trying to impose their morality upon the Minnesota people.
Minesota State Rep Pat Garofalo led the charge with a bill legalizing internet gambling. This put pubic safety back in its place by saying “hey dimwits, the legislature makes the laws around here, not you pencil pushing, holier-than-thou public servants.
iMEGA filed suit against the department and their department head who shall remain nameless here since he perpetrated this heinous action just to get his name in the news (and probably pick up some sweet graft from Indian Casinos).
The PPA was advising the Minnesota attorney general about the legal standing (none) that the action was founded upon.
So everyone came out in force and beat down a civil servant who wanted to get in the news and cash in on the noteriety. Good job making online poker rooms safe once again for freedom loving people in Minnesota and this once great nation.
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Bodog may actually be moving into the Canadian market after what most Canadians consider a very long wait.
I can understand their frustration, but guys just think about it a bit. You have all those Canadian Poker Rooms while we here in the United States of Oppression can not play on even half the poker rooms that you can. So next time you are playing a non-US site, stop and think about our plight before you bemoan the prospects of not being allowed on Bodog Poker yet.
The 2009 WSOP begins with a huge $40,000 buyin game to celebrate the 40th year of the World Series of Poker.
It only seems fitting that the legendary Doyle Brunson has made it to day 2 in this event with a modest chip stack. Doyle has been there for all of it. He was won two WSOP Main Events and has played in every one of them.
He even has his own poker room. Doyles Room has some neat tournaments and offers the chance to play the man himself, Doyle Brunson twice a week for as little as $11. His site does have some creative and fun tournaments not found at other sites too.
I am rooting for Doyle in every tournament he plays in this year’s WSOP. And you should be too.
The World Series of Poker kicks off Wednesday with the casino employees $500 buyin tournament. I will not make it to Vegas until late next month. That should give me ample time to take some more shots at a WSOP Main Event seat.
My current attempts are centered on Ultimate Bet Steps. Ten steps to a WSOP Main Event package. I started with step 3 for $1 and am currently at step 6 for $30. A long way to go but decent start for a $1 investment. More attempts will follow. Good Luck me!
Well, the WSOP is almost here. Exciting times for all. To get everyone who cannot attend into the action Full Tilt Poker has a couple of events.
First is the Mini Series of Poker. MSOP features 57 games that mirror the WSOP, but at 1/100th of the buyin of the real deal. It has a leaderboard and some prizes also. The kickoff game is a $5.50 buyin, so cash that and play them all.
The other…well I guess you will have to wait for my next post….
I think I will take a few shots at a WSOP Main Event seat in a couple of PokerStars $11+R 2xturbos. These seem like the cheapest and best single tournament short of freerolls to take a shot at that big seat. Poker has been doing well and I am more inclined to take stabs at bigger paydays as my bankroll grows. PokerStars has many more WSOP chances available including some freeroll events too.
Holdem Poker Chat and Full Tilt Poker present a special tournament to benefit the Bad Beat on Cancer Organization.
Cost for the tournament is $5 for the prize pool, plus an additional $5 for the charity. Several Full Tilt Poker Pros
May 24th, 6:00pm ET
Full Tilt Poker
Private tournament tab: Bad Beat on Cancer
Password: badbeat
$5 plus $5
Tournament #91037395
(Under the Private Tournaments tab)
All proceeds will go to the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.
The Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation was started in 1985 when Founder and President Carolyn Aldige first understood the power of prevention to defeat cancer — and recognized that too few of the country’s resources were used to promote cancer prevention research or education. Today, it is one of the nation’s leading health organizations and has catapulted cancer prevention to prominence. Since its inception the Foundation has provided more than $74 million in support of cancer prevention and early detection research and education programs. CRPF peer-reviewed grants have been awarded to more than 250 scientists from more than 150 of the leading academic medical centers nationwide. This research has been pivotal in developing a body of knowledge that is the basis for important cancer prevention and early detection strategies.
About Bad Beat on Cancer:
Bad Beat on Cancer was started a few years ago by Rafe Furst and Phil Gordon to help fund cancer research and prevention – by playing poker. They ask professionals and amateurs alike to donate 1% of whatever they win at the WSOP. They’ve been extraordinarily successful over the last few years, raising over $1 million for a very worthy cause. It’s a very fiscally responsible organization, nearly 86 cents from every dollar goes to the cancer research programs that they’re funding. It’s a great organization and they have most of the world’s greatest players signed up.
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