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First look at PokerTracker 3.0

Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

The PokerTracker 3.0 beta test is open to the public now. I downloaded it from their site last night and ran my last month’s data through it. All the key numbers matched the numbers in my old PokerTracker DB, which is good news. It comes with a built-in idiot-proof install of the [...]

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Pandora’s Box

Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

So, I got PokerTracker running on the macbook using Parallels and I’ve loaded all my hands and I have much better precision on my results.  As I suspected, I’m losing at 5/10 trying to play four or more simultaneous tables.  I’m also getting killed heads-up.  It turns out I’m getting waxed at pretty much every [...]

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I’m back (more or less)

Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

After a hiatus from all things poker (except ITH, which seems to be an addiction) I find myself back in the poker playing groove with the new year. I know exactly what started it. I read somewhere that PokerStars now has a native Mac client. Since I have pretty much forsaken the [...]

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I busted out of the Main Event.

Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I went broke late on Day One.  I will eventually manage to make a full report, but right now I’m pretty bummed out about the whole thing.  I started out with some terrible beats from a terrible player, but I recovered over the course of the day.  The actual bust-out was an ordinary hand where [...]

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I busted out of the Main Event.

Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I went broke late on Day One.  I will eventually manage to make a full report, but right now I’m pretty bummed out about the whole thing.  I started out with some terrible beats from a terrible player, but I recovered over the course of the day.  The actual bust-out was an ordinary hand where [...]

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I busted out of the Main Event.

Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I went broke late on Day One.  I will eventually manage to make a full report, but right now I’m pretty bummed out about the whole thing.  I started out with some terrible beats from a terrible player, but I recovered over the course of the day.  The actual bust-out was an ordinary hand where [...]

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Heading out for the Main Event

Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I’m about to get on a plane for Vegas. The Main Event is so big that there are four completely different Day Ones. The first of the Day Ones goes off today. In about 10 minutes. I will play Sunday, in the third of the four Day Ones. I am [...]

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Spammers have become so complimentary

Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

Here is a sampling of the great things they have had to say about my blog lately: “Your site is a refreshing change from the majority of sites I have visited. When I first started visiting web sites I was excited by the potential of the internet as a resource and was very disappointed initially. You [...]

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Wrapping up my Vegas reporting

Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

The quality of play is really amazingly donktastic.  Every time I go to Vegas I tell my wife that I ought to move out there and play full time.  There are a number of good players who have done so, and the game is not as soft in middle limit Hold’Em as it used to [...]

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Event #10 Trip Report (I win some money!)

Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I felt very good about my play thus far in the series even though my results had not been that good.  That is the most difficult thing to get used to with poker.  You can play great and lose everything and you can play badly and win a ton.  You just have to understand that [...]

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I have made day two

Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

I have made day two and have exactly 44,000 chips. .

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Event 6 recap (or “I refuse to dwell on bad beat stories”)

Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

The one constant of playing in the WSOP is the buzzing of bad beat stories in the air.  As you walk from the room where the main tourneys are held, you hear everyone in a one mile radius telling the story of how they fared badly at the hands of a less-skilled player.  No one [...]

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Event 4 recap (or “How I tilted Jamie Gold”)

Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

Sunday was the $1,500 pot limit event, which I was able to enter by virtue of my horrific finish in Saturday’s event.  Whereas Saturday’s event was a complete zoo with thousands of entrants and no one I knew at my table (and many apparent donkeys), Sunday only attracted 781 runners and the field was dense [...]

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Wow. Just when you thought Harrah’s couldn’t be any dumber.

Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2007 Internet Live Tournament

Richard Brodie is something of an internet friend of mine (although we’ve never actually met).  I first encountered him on flyertalk, where he was a regular contributor and we got into a number of good natured discussions there.  He has generously given me some good advice on Vegas hotels and is generally a cool guy.  [...]

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