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 [...]
Two TPT events – cashed in one
Image by horde.lt via Flickr Yesterday I played in both the Twitter Poker Tour European event at 7pm CST and the regular TPT at 9pm ET. I finished 2nd and cashed in the TPTE and I finished 16th out of 34 in the TPT. I think I played well for the most part, especially in [...]
Poker Players Alliance – A poker advocacy group
Image via Wikipedia The Poker Player Alliance (PPA), is considered to be the largest and most effective of all the poker advocacy groups in America. The following paragraph about the PPA is from their “about page” and says what they are about: “The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of online [...]
Poker Resources – there are lots of them out there
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Woe is me
Image by dotbenjamin via Flickr I have been stuck of late and this week I was not feeling up to par. But still, I was looking forward to playing on Full Tilt Poker at the Twitter Poker Tour. Both events are No Limit Hold ‘Em and the entry fee is 5.00 + 1.00. We each [...]
Now a New York Times Bestseller ….
How often can a “dad” announce that his son has co-authored a book that became a “NYT Bestseller” in just three days of being officially released? I really don’t know the actual answer to that but in my case, Chris Brogan’s new book, “Trust Agents” by Chris and Julien Smith has become a best seller [...]
Poker Hand Nicknames
Image by ghbrett via Flickr In the world of poker, certain card combinations have been given names as the result of common usage or the personalities involved with the hand. There are even some superstitions that follow the hands in some cases. Perhaps the oldest is named the “Dead Man’s hand”, which was a pair [...]
Guest Post – using comments by Paul Ellis of Pablosplace.com
Image by dno1967 via Flickr On July 14, I wrote a post about “When to Move to the Next Level”. My twitter poker tour friend, Paul Ellis AKA @CoolWhipFlea of PablosPlace.com wrote a great comment. Here it is in its entirety. Thank you Paul. ————————————– ……. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Remember [...]
