End of an Era
by Vanman
When my wife and I moved out here, it was supposed to be temporary. My wife and I have always maintained that when we started our family we would venture back home. Well life has finally come full circle, seven years later, two kids, a dog and some other stuff, we are finaly going back home.... |
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SNGs Collusion or Not
by Vanman
So last night I played 3 SNGS. It was truely a horrible experience. The first one I was card dead the whole time. The blinds were fast approaching 100/200 and I had about 700 in chips left. I picked up AA and of course as always I didnt get any action. The very next hand I picked up JJ. I bet 300... |
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The Amazing Race....
by Vanman
Not the TV show, but the marathon Friday Five last night. The evening started just as the sun went down, and ended just before the sun came up. It was truly a grinding experience. Ten people descended upon this week’s Friday Five, it was a who's who of Weston Pokers elite corp. We had two 4 time ... |
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NL, what a feeling
by Vanman
After 3 months of playing limit poker, I have decided to go back to NL. Why? Well in the last 3 months I have actually lost money, but with bonuses and rakeback I have only lost about $600. In the first 5 months of the year I won 5K playing NL, so its time to go back to my roots and push my bankr... |
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DSOP Event #9
by Vanman
I have been really busy lately and my blog has suffered. I will try and get back on course this week and post every couple of days, with that said, I played in the DSOP this last Friday night.
I got a pretty good table draw, mostly tight aggressive players. The first 4 hands I got were 22... |
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Titan Poker
by Vanman
Well, its offical. I have pulled my depleted bankroll from this site and I dont think I will be returning anytime soon. I made an intial deposit of $500, they gave me $20 more and I cleared $80 of the bonus, my net total was $600. However, I only got to withdraw $277 for this site.
Over t... |
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Slap Jacks
by Vanman
Have you ever played the game called Slap Jacks? It's a crazy fun game that I played often as a child. The object of the game is to accumulate all the cards. Everyone is dealt a card in succession until all the cards are dealt from the deck. Once all... |
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Hiatus
by Vanman
I'm back. I spent the entire 4 day weekend with the family, well not the entire weekend, I did go up to choctaw Friday night, but I have not played any poker since then. I have already warned the wife I will be hitting in hard this week. I am looking to win about $300 this week to cover my loses ... |
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Weston Poker Softball Showdown
by Vanman
Tonight was the night of the Weston Poker Softball showdown. It was old lions agains new lions, the best of the best 4. The game started off with the bottom of the fifth up 2 to nothing. We ralleyed back to tie it up. The second inning they score another 2 making it 4 to 2. We tie it up after our... |
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A new week a new begining
by Vanman
Last week wasn't very nice, I busted out second at the weston poker tourney on Saturday and then ran up to Choctaw and lost $200 up there.
So first the tourney, the hand that did me in was KK vs QQ. I had KK and Crown called me down to the river with QQ. He ended up rivering the flus... |
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BAD BAD BAD
by Vanman
Well this week has been rather disappointing. First we lost both softball games this week, that hasn't happened in a long time. We couldn't get the bats going and gave up a bunch of runs on errors. Disappointing.
The experiment update I have played 1500 hands and have my BB/100 hand... |
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Updates
by Vanman
Its been a few days, man real work sucks, I am just too busy these days. Anyways as you know I tried to qualify for the UB 1 million dollar free role. I made it to the second of 3 qualifying tourneys. Well it wasnt pretty. I was pretty much cold decked the entire time. Oh sure I was getting a few... |
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Cold Decked....
by Vanman
So as you know I started my 10k hand experiment this week. I have played a total of 250 hands since Monday, I know a slow start. I had planned to play about 1000 hands this weekend, but my wife has informed me it is our anniversary and we are going out tonight. Payday has come ea... |
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The 10k.....
by Vanman
I have decided to run a little experiement. Well it may not be little but you get the jist of it. I will play 10,000 hands of 1/2 limit over the next month or two. My goal is to average 4BB/100 hands of profit. If I can do this I will see a net profit of $800. With my rakeback and bonus clearing ... |
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The Bay 101
by Vanman
I had the good fortune of visiting the Bay 101 last week. Those of you that dont know what or where the Bay 101 is, well it's a casino located in San Jose, California. It is also home to the shooting stars WPT Event.
As I drove up to the Bay 101, it looked just like any other building in... |
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The DSOP….
by Vanman
Last weekend I had the privilege of being invited to play in one of the DSOP’s Friday Night events. Let me first say they have a pretty nice setup, they have 4 tables nicely spaced apart. They have non alcoholic beverages that you make partake in and during the first break they have someone cook.... |
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8700 Hands and counting
by Vanman
I just finished importing my hand histories from last month and I was shocked at how many hands of poker I played last month. I played 8700+ hands in cash games, two trips to choctaw, two Friday Fives, and 8 tournaments. So what does this all mean? I play a hellava lot of poker. So what did these... |
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So close but so very very far away
by Vanman
I'm trying to qualify for the quarter million tourney on absolute. Its completely free and first place gets 50k, not to shabby for a freeroll. In order to qualify you must play in a satellite tourney where everyone at the final table gets an entry. Absolute runs these qualifiers 3 times a d... |
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Eye of the Tiger
by Vanman
When Rocky was chosen to fight Apollo Creed, he trained in the streets. It wasn't until he caught the chicken that he was ready to fight. When Rocky became the world champ, he got complacent and eventually lost to Clubber Lang. Rocky however learned from this defeat, with the help ... |
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The Rebuy King
by Vanman
Cy young's 511 wins, Nolan Ryans 7 no hitters, and Hank Aaron's 755 home runs are among the greatest sporting records of all time. As Barry Bonds closes in on one of those recoreds there isn't a red blooded American that wouldn't love to be there when he does. The thing about records is they are ... |
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3rd Times a Charm
by Vanman
Thats right, it took me 3 satellites
before I finally won a $26 dollar token. Talk about a grind. I think I
could have actually made more than $26 just playing in a ring game for
this long. After my first two miserable attempts I finally decided to
play a little t... |
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