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fight night 2!

Date: Sat, Aug 9, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

What an exciting card tonight! I know the fights started 20 mins ago but I've got it on DVR so I haven't seen anything yet. I wrote this as quick as I could so that I could make some predictions beforehand. Usually I like to make the predictions when I see guys step into the ring. If I don't know either fighter, I just consider the fighter's builds, their prefight interviews, and who looks like th

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fight night!

Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

I’m a huge fight fan and a few nights ago featured a number of really good fights. I feel like I have a pretty good knack for looking at two fighters and predicting the winner, although this doesn’t really take the odds into consideration. Here were some of the fights from the other night, as well as my thoughts and predictions: Brodie Farber vs. Rory Markham Prediction: Markham – correct W

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wsop wrap-up

Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

In customary Kwickfish style, I really didn’t want to post anything right after I busted from the WSOP main event. So a few days late, here’s the recap. On day 01, my table played extremely conservatively, as did I. Most pots were limped, which suited me just fine. Other than Lee Markholt, I didn’t recognize anyone at the table. I hadn’t played with Lee before but I was really impressed by his pla

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a lucky letter?

Date: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Although I haven’t played that many events this summer, I brought my A game for every single one. Most of the time, I’ve known exactly which two cards I’ve been up against. I feel great about tomorrow. I’m focused, confident and extremely excited about poker. All that said, there’s one more thing I know I’ll need: Lady Luck. No Main Event contender will go far without her. 

So dear lovely, sweet,

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random thoughts

Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Good thing the new iPhone is coming out in two weeks because two days ago I relaxed in the pool at Tao Beach. With my phone. So if I haven’t called you back….. So I was thinking… Kind of sucks that the Main Event runs during the fourth of July. Don’t get me wrong, poker is fun. But the fourth is for barbecue, volleyball, and beer. Here’s my Main Event plan: Play Day 1a on July 3rd, hopefully ma

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$5,000 nl (6max)

Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Well, I had the honor or playing three mentionable hands today, resulting in a slightly quicker exit than in my previous four tournaments thus far. The first hand developed when it folded around to me in the small blind and I raised a J,9 to 175. The big blind quickly called and the flop came Qd,8h,5d. I bet my gutshot 250 and my opponent quickly called again. The turn brought the Qh. I decid

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viva las vegas

Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Hey, what’s up? The Series is in full swing and I’m really happy with how things are going. The last event I played was the $5k NL and although I didn’t cash, I’m very satisfied with how I played. I’m focused, motivated, and having fun. I had a great last weekend. Some friends of mine road tripped it out here and we hung out with a bunch of players who are all renting a huge house for the series

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player of games

Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Hey what’s up? As you probably know from past posts, I basically live for games. If I didn’t make money playing poker I’d be playing some other game, probably for a lot less money. Since I play poker most days, I only allow myself to play one person games (i.e. video games) for small periods of time. That said, I’ve been playing a lot of Rome Total War, which is fun, if a little slow paced. During

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kwick summary

Date: Tue, May 13, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Hey what’s up?

I haven’t written anything in a while because there hasn’t been much to say. I had a small cash at the Bay 101 but other than that, things have been pretty lukewarm for me at the poker table. 
I celebrated the Bay 101 score with a trip to Colorado, where I took one run at my favorite ski resort (Arapahoe Basin) and promptly destroyed my knee. When I got the knee checked out, the i

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wsop academy

Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

I taught in the WSOP Academy for the first time recently and it was really fun. Helping other people fix leaks in their game and seeing how much fun they were having playing poker made me really happy. The other instructors included Mark Seif, Joe Navarro, Alex Outhred, and Brandon Rosen. Mark is a great guy with a lot of perspective on the game. Even though our styles are just about polar oppo

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wsop academy

Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

I taught in the WSOP Academy for the first time recently and it was really fun. Helping other people fix leaks in their game and seeing how much fun they were having playing poker made me really happy. The other instructors included Mark Seif, Joe Navarro, Alex Outhred, and Brandon Rosen. Mark is a great guy with a lot of perspective on the game. Even though our styles are just about polar oppo

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the worst decision i’ve ever made

Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

A little over two years ago I decided to buy a new desktop. When I buy something I have a tendency to go all out and buy the best thing on the market. After some research I decided that an Alienware computer would be best, so I went online and custom ordered the best computer available. I wanted a sick gaming computer and all the reviews had Alienware as the nuts. I ended up spending $5,200. I

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the fish and the bay

Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

*written from the plane* Well, I’m out of the Bay 101 Shooting Star. On day one, I played the best tournament poker of my career. Unfortunately, on day two, I played like absolute garbage for the first half of the day but was then able to come back strong. Today I’ve had a lot of mixed emotions, which normally I’d say is a bad thing, but I learned a lot and I’m going to use this knowledge to t

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let the games begin

Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 Professional Live Tournament

Well here it is, time for some NBC heads up action. The draw party was actually really fun. Red carpet, interviews, and most importantly, free drinks. The MC was Ali Nejad and he killed it. He’s got the gift. I didn’t get to attend the draw party last year and although I would have preferred to repeat at the LAPC, the draw party was a nice consolation prize. People were in good spirits and even

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