Archive for the ‘Poker’ Category

World Series of Poker

May 29, 2010 | 3:26 pm | FDSaussure

It’s WSOP season and I’ll be flying out to Vegas on June 13th and I’m awesomely excited about it! Some other Eurodonks and I have rented a house for a full month and I’m pretty sure this is going to be the most fun period of any of our poker lives/careers so far. I’m playing [...]

JCarver wins SCOOP 37 and all the money

May 18, 2010 | 1:35 am | bragbot

PokerStars blog post about the final table and his win.
Also he final tabled SCOOP 1 and SCOOP 28 for $350k in cashes.
And he won a watch, probably this one:

JCarver finishes 4th in PCA $5K for $81,480

January 12, 2010 | 11:57 pm | bragbot

Wilson

December 10, 2009 | 1:29 pm | superfluousman

I’m heartened to see I got a few comments on my last post.  Thanks to all who left comments or read my post, I’ll address the questions raised at some point (even the hooker one, even though I’ve never knowingly patronized one so I guess my opinion isn’t worth a whole lot in that regard).  [...]

mid stakes gambling

December 4, 2009 | 9:59 am | JCarver

November was pretty damn good to me.  A lot of aspects of life are “progressing nicely” at the moment – I’ve got a rekindled desire to play online MTTs again, I’ve been successful at cash games, my coaching group is plugging along nicely, I’ve spent a ton of time working on my own game, and [...]

JCarver wins 25k in PokerStars 500k

December 1, 2009 | 11:38 pm | bragbot

Casinos and sports betting

November 23, 2009 | 2:45 am | Derk

So on PokerVT there was a post yelling at me to make more blog posts so I’ll make an effort.  It’s not like I’ve forgotten about the blog, but rather that anything I want to write has another platform for it.  Strategy stuff I pretty much limit to the PokerVT forums.  In fact, I’ve made [...]

the bounty of boldness

November 20, 2009 | 2:39 pm | JCarver

a few days ago I found a package on my porch. it was pretty large – the side of the box informed me that it weighed almost 35 pounds. I was worried that I’d have to call some burly friends to help me move it, but I remembered a trick I had learned [...]

StefanProdan wins Cake $250k guarantee for $51k

October 27, 2009 | 6:16 pm | bragbot

What Is Poker?

October 8, 2009 | 7:11 am | FDSaussure

A few weeks ago I found myself with my friend Chris still up and drinking at 7:30am in the Penny Black (one of Edinburgh’s more notorious drinking institutions which opens at 6am, conveniently exactly as casinos shut). One of the strangers we were chatting with mentioned that he quite liked chess. “Oh, Chess is a [...]