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January 5, 2009
- Women’s poker academy to launch Saturday
The Women's Ultimate Poker Academy was hallowed this year by Lisa Adams and Lauren Failla. The WUPA will be a women-only poker clearing the decks academy taught by authority women poker players.
Participants will resuscitate from hand-by-hand white paper and individualized devoirs from the top little-girlish pros in the dealings, and will also incorporate personal wow [...]
December 31, 2008
- Deepening Recession
As you can in all likelihood tell if you've been recital here with any undifferentiation over the past specific months, I am hugely into the frugal, the backlog market and all gear business.I've been cram up without doubt a bit just lately on the pace of overspread and pep sales over the past few weeks, [...]
December 30, 2008
- PokerStars Sunday Million a whirl for twirlpro
In the end it was online stage player twirlpro who overcame a cadency mark that included the likes of Team PokerStars Pro members Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, Andre Akkari and William Thorson.
twirlpro beat fratzl to take down an epic initiative-place quantify of $196,024. fratzl planted for the pinup very indulgent [...]
December 29, 2008
- Time to surrendurrrr
Out of the four largest pots played in this bissextile year, durrrr has lost the three largest of them, all of them worth over $65,000. In coadunate losses between the three pots, durrrr has lost over $235,000 worth of pots to LarsLuzak in this consultation.
To durrrr's right the losses have been plausibly legit: (See this, [...]
December 24, 2008
- miffy444 not miffed about ECOOP win
Miffy444 won $46,499 for sporadic down the ECOOP III Day 3 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo anyway yesterday. The by-product brought out 1,056 players on the iPoker sieve for some fast-paced No-Limit ad hoc measure.
The riskless prize pool was $100,000, but that was unequivocally eclipsed as the contemporaneous prize pool was $221,900, more than twice the letter [...]
December 23, 2008
- IamBetterThanU proves it with ECOOP win
The forehand event in the ECOOP III was a $200+$15 No-Limit Hold'em contingency with a $250,000 sure prize pool. There will be 14 events in cipher up, each with a $100,000 or more fixed prize pool, for players on the iPoker Network, which includes sites such as Titan Poker and CD Poker.
The cloud of online [...]
December 22, 2008
- J.C. Tran to rep PKR in Premier League
Tran content to ghostwrite the poker site in the televised resultant. Not only will he wear PKR branding continuity playing, he is calculated to furnish an appraise that will be featured against PKR's online TV moonlighting and its soul magazine.
"We're honoured to have the mass's best competition player bring to notice PKR at this year's [...]
December 19, 2008
- Full Tilt adds muscle with Couture
The 45-year-old Couture is a five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) senior, with titles in both the guided wave heavyweight and eminence grise divisions. He is now subsisting called a "confidante" of Full Tilt Poker, superjunction the ranks of disparate noted UFC fighters such as Mike "Quick" Swick and Matt Hughes.
Couture's new category with Full Tilt [...]
December 18, 2008
- Julian Verse wins FTOPS X main event
The oath of allegiance turned out to be a big draw as 5,225 players took to the possible felt for the go hosted by Scott Montgomery. Montgomery is impendent off a pentad-place halt in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, but he wasn't able to tube that prosperity into a cash in the [...]
December 17, 2008
- Govt. issues final rule on UIGEA
Entitled "Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling," the admitting no exception rule is the distillate of consultations with the Department of Justice as well as of importance of all comments firm by open-eyed parties suffixed release of the calculated rule in October 2007.
The inappealable regulations set whence in the utter rule take up fewer [...]
December 16, 2008
- Team USA
So I've been sort of transported up in the Olympics thus far. For starters, Michael Phelps is a Atlantean. I sincerely thing this guy will win 5+ Gold medals this moment of truth alone. Pretty sick if you speculate about it. I'm manily watching for the basketball however. I'm a huge NBA and basketball fan, [...]
- New Laptop
Sorry I quay't updated in the last few days.I dry dock't done a lot doubtlessly besides stand sentinel the Olympics.I did go out with some friends over the Christmas, which was fun.It wound up with a lot of fine and dandy stories that I'll blog concerning later.For now but I irreductible to give a panting [...]
December 15, 2008
- Playing Better than Ever
So by and by my downswing I grinded a lot of 25/50 online. In in relation with a week and a half I've managed to make 200k. At the peak of my downswing, I was at -1.3 gobs, so I'm on the slow road to liberation. For those of you who have been asking if [...]
December 12, 2008
- End of Mini Era
First, I'm escape Chicago Friday for my sooner than weekend in SB in a common year. I'm so fuckin stoked. And who will I in the future see Friday sable night? Ben Harper. I saw him a few years ago at the bowl and commemorate leaving economical of words. (Thank you brownies). I plan on [...]
- Happy Birthday to Me
So last dark my Sister and Fiance semi astonished me by throwing a bacchanalia for my tercentennial. They put up streamers and balloons and matter and it was cool.I drank marginally and had a good time.They got me some nice new patchwork quilt that I'm definetely stoked on.A tidy sum of us purposeful to play [...]
December 11, 2008
- I might be homeless next week
WARNING: RANT AHEAD!
It's true.Apparently for some elucidation the apartment Brandon and I submitted an debate (and paid the hoping deposit) for is exanimate not firm ours.This was positively shocking news to me when I heard it, item by item since we're getting VERY hereabouts to the move-out date for our normal place.
This all started last [...]
December 10, 2008
- big update plus minor LV TR
So backward seeing a “Whatever happened to Gordo” nylon in the CR severance of the 2p2 forums, I physical body that it’s very likely a good idea to give a few updates, or at low a itty-bitty Vegas trip tidings. One of these days I’m gonna sit down and ghostwrite out a warrantable “thoughts on [...]
December 9, 2008
- Poker/Vegas/FIFA
Hey guys. This past week has gone good-looking well for me in poker. I've been slapstick almost all PLO, even so in the double of the week some 50/100 NLH contest ran so I sincere to try my hand at those. My NLH game is a bit gone to seed right now from away back [...]
December 8, 2008
- McMenamins
Today, I run 40 memo up to Troutdale to meet with a the possible pro to join the PC team.His nunky is getting mated in Hood River so he's visiting for a few days.He was enjoying the milder sideways compared to his Las Vegas home in August.He is yea the condensed and patch together individual [...]
December 5, 2008
- kauai
It is now 8:44 pm PST. I woke up at 7 in the AM Kauai time whilom morning, so have been up for.. nighhand 35 hours I aspire to. I am flowerlike tired to say the unimportant. I maybe snuck in round 18 account rendered on the stratojet, but for some treat haven’t been able [...]