45s. What flop are you hoping for?

Ok, so I’m swapping emails with a buddy trying to help him tighten up his game a bit and he makes some statement about playing 45s on the button with several other callers in. I started thinking about it and the only thing I could think of was, what the hell kind of flop are …

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PartyPoker Freezes

Just throwing this out there in case anybody has any advice. I can’t seem to stay on PartyPoker. I login, sit down at a table or two or three and within a minute or so all of the screens lock up. I click close and Windows pops up an error message telling me that the …

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Damn You Ivan

Looks like Panama City airport is closed and flights are cancelled. In fact, I’ve heard the town is under mandatory evacutation in prep for Ivan. In other words . . . I won’t be in Florida this week so I guess I all have to find some things to blather about here.

Another 8th Place Finish

My buddy Mike called me up Sunday afternoon and asked if I would be interested in playing in the Bike $25 +$5 Limit Hold ‘Em (Headhunter) tourney so . . . I said ok. Pretty uneventful. I pretty much played tight, conservative poker and limped along long enough to make the final table with $3500 …

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Is Phil Hellmuth Sane?

In the Sept. 10th CardPlayer Magazine there’s an article written by Phil Hellmuth in which he discusses getting blown out of the Turning Stone American Poker Championship Tournament. Here’s Phil in his own words: Instead, a mere five hands later, with the blinds at $250-$500, I raised it to $1500 to go with the 3h2h, …

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