With the closure of the two largest sites in the US I’ve taken to playing a lot more live as I live in Las Vegas. I’m still feeling things out and running around to various poker rooms to see what’s going on at each one. Here’s a picture of Binion’s from earlier tonight:

I [...]

Help JCarver is writing all these posts and taking over the website!!!
No really they’re worth reading, so be sure to go check them out.
I’ve got some interesting stuff in the pipeline, one is a review of probably the first poker book I’ve read in almost 2 years, and it’s not me making fun of T. J. [...]

It has, quite obviously, taken me awhile to write a new blog entry.  It’s not that I don’t have things going on – there’s certainly been plenty to write about – I’ve just been unmotivated to write in blog format this year.  I have a half-dozen posts partially written and have been writing [...]

Since getting over being moderately sick for a few months I’ve started to pick things up again. I’ve got a couple of students who are doing good: one went from being a losing player to being up 150 buyins in slightly over a month and has moved up two levels and the other doesn’t [...]

After seeing the doctor on monday, we decided to continue ahead with the plan I discussed in my last blog and cut off the final drug I was on to control the ulcerative colitis.  It’s been years since a major episode, but going medication free is still a risk.  I’m obviously hoping to not fall [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I planned to spend today at work (yes, at work!) on various projects and can report a pretty varying degree of successes:
1. I planned to finally get officially started with a workout program/diet regimen with Alfalfa from SA. He operates a company called PetraFitness where he creates customized plans for training/nutrition. I [...]

As is quite obvious, I haven’t posted anything in several months.  At least I can say I’ve been doing well, as evidenced by the five (four of them from live poker!) bragbot posts taking up blog space in my stead.  I’m quite happy and rather proud of the last few months’ successes.  I’m not really [...]

I’ve been pretty busy since getting back from WSOP, but it hasn’t been from playing poker. I’ve been trying to finalize plans to move to Vegas at the end of August. Things are finally starting to get going on that front though. However, I have even bigger news…
I recently got signed as [...]