Grinding
I am going to see if I can grind a little income playing Limit Poker at The Poker Room NH located in Hampton Falls NH just across the Seabrook NH town line on US Route 1. I might accomplish this if I stick to a schedule of playing set hours. Perhaps from 3 pm Monday [...]
The check is in the mail?
I am still waiting for three sites to release my monies deposited with them. TruePoker, FullTiltPoker and UB. Supposedly TruePoker is processing my cashout check as I now have a zero balance there. But since their bank accounts have been seized by the DOJ (Department of Justice), I am not holding my breath until it [...]
Online Poker is just about gone for US based players
No surprise if you are an online poker player, but our options of playing online have effectively been taken away from us. The UIGEA law enacted in 2006 made it illegal for banks and financial institutions to transfer funds to and from online Poker sites. On April 15, 2011, the DOJ used that law and stopped all [...]
Goals yet to be reached
It is a good thing that I am not dependent on my earnings from poker as I seem to be stuck. My bankroll needle stands at $171.00 or about 34 buy-ins of A$5.00 each. Last night I played in my second Guarantee tourney on Full Tilt Poker, an affiliate site. The last one I attempted [...]
Hoping to play the 2-11 WBCOOP
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play. Registration code: XXXXXX 555267
I don’t play the big tourneys but …
Image via Wikipedia That does not mean I am not interested in the biggest live poker tourney, the WSOP main event for 2010. In particular, the final table, which has a great line up of players. What makes this year’s group of nine more interesting to me is the fact that 7 of the 9 [...]
The Twitter Poker Tour is almost two years old – time to celebrate!
Image via Wikipedia It does not seem possible that two years have passed since I started playing “online poker” with a group of twitter poker players in a group called the “Twitter Poker Tour“. They have been playing lately on “Full Tilt Poker“, of which I am an affiliate (see my FTC Disclosure page). When [...]
Please “Help Put a Bad Beat On Cancer”
Image by larrykang via Flickr Help Put a Bad Beat on Cancer! On February 21st, 2010 the Twitter Poker Tour is teaming up with Bad Beat on Cancer to raise money to benefit the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Join the TPT and a host of Full Tilt Red Pro’s starting at 6PM ET on Sunday the [...]
One step closer to the “WPT Doyle Brunson 5 Diamond Poker Classic”
Image via Wikipedia I mentioned in my last post that DoylesRoom.Com currently has a promotion going, “WPT Doyle Brunson 5 Diamond Poker Classic”, in which you play for the chance to win a first class Vegas Experience worth $17,000.00 and a chance to win a seat at the final table of a WPT event. You [...]
Results of playing on a RailBird.com Freeroll
Image by popofatticus via Flickr Last night I decided to enter one of the RailBird.Com freerolls that are offered many times throughout the month. As the name implies, there is no cost to enter the event. And the prize pool was $150 to be divided up amongst the top 108 players. The best paid are [...]
