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Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
The people living in the normal world have a huge problem with anyone attempting to sleep beyond 11am. Being able to sleep to this hour is so strange, so inconceivable to them, that they simply won’t tolerate it.
Despite calling the hotel desk the night before and telling them I won’t need a wake up all until 2pm (and double checking that this was cool) the hotel manages to have two phone calls and three knocks on the door previous to the 2pm call. When the call finally arrives I call down to the desk to inform them I’ll be checking out around 2:30pm. They seem less than pleased.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
I ran into one of the main hurdles if you want to spend your entire day reading blogs and playing online poker. I found myself with a complete lack of internet access. Now that my issues are almost completely behind me we can move on to highlighting some of my favorite blogs looking to waste your valuable work time. By the time we are done I will give you enough reading material to take up your entire day. A few more posts and we’ll start looking at bigger and better things including special guest posts and maybe a tournament or two.
Without further ado, here are my next 5 suggested blogs to read and bookmark. More humor, some "real" writers (not us fake bloggers) and the best run blogger tournament around.
Enjoy.
Tags: AlCantHang, Guest Posts
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
With it being our last day in Fresno and having been out until 4am last night we spend a low key day around the casino and I do some writing work.
With little to talk about in this entry I guess it’s a good opportunity for some reflection as the blog begins to near its end. I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it before, but Tilt and I have agreed to a brief extension that will cover the few days I’m going to Macau for the Macau Cup then back home to Melbourne for the Victorian Poker Championship. The Vic Champs ends on August 19th, but that’s assuming I make it to the final table of the main event, an event which should have roughly 400 players.
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Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
Seeing as it’s Sunday and I’m finally in the right time zone to play every tournament I’ve decided to play all day today. The casino is pretty quiet on a Sunday and everyone seems a bit busy, so it’s fitting that I just zone out in front of the computer for 10 hours.
Ten hours of grinding later I’ve busted out of every tournament without a single cash, a phenomenal performance if I may say so. When I’ve finished Su drives Celina and I over to a local Indian restaurant because Indian food is obviously the greatest accomplishment in the history of man. After that it’s more karaoke in the bar, but Kyle decides to call it an early night this time.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
As part of the massive amount of hospitality Kyle is showing Celina and I, he has arranged for us to have a massage over at a local spa at 11:30am. Naturally we have some trouble waking up at such an hour and make it over 15 minutes late, but nobody at the spa seems too pissed.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by The Captain | Filed under The Pros Speak
Last week we presented Part One of our interview with Full Tilt Pro Greg Mueller on what it takes to succeed at the World Series of Poker. This week we’ll continue along those lines and go even further in depth on tournament poker as a whole. Enjoy!
Speaking of learning as you play, do you think it’s important to discuss your play or specific hands after tournaments?
Well, it all depends on who you’re discussing it with and why you’re discussing it. If you’re doing this to get sympathy, to tell a bad beat story, it’s just not worth it. If you’re talking with good poker players, you can get a lot of good information and a lot of insight. I don’t discuss hands as much as I used to, but when I was getting started, I’d talk with the people that I hung out with about key hands all the time, because you can get so much information and learn from the experience. Whatever the case is, sometimes you think you know a lot and after a conversation, you wake up.
Tags: Greg Mueller, WSOP
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Hi folks, there’s one quick thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post. Don’t forget to check out ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker, airing tonight. They kicked off the festivities last week with Event #1, the $10K Pot-Limit Hold ‘em Championship, won by none other than Full Tilt Poker pro Nenad Medic. It’s ESPN, so I’m sure re-runs of that show have been airing non-stop if you want to check it out.
Tonight’s show will focus on Event #2, a $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em donkament. Team Full Tilt’s Chris Ferguson is there to represent, as he guns for his sixth WSOP bracelet. So make sure to catch all the action and cheer Chris on from the comfort of your own home. Check your local listings to find out when the WSOP airs, or go to ESPN.com for more details.
As an added bonus, I heard that Full Tilt Poker pro Perry Friedman (who narrowly missed making the final table of Event #2, coming in 11th) actually had an FTP logo shaved in to the side of his head. If that doesn’t deserve a few seconds of air time, I don’t know what does. That’s it for now; we’ll have an all new The Pros Speak up for your enjoyment in a bit. Stay classy Pokerland…
Tags: Chris Ferguson, WSOP
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
Sleep deprivation sucks. Having stayed out until nearly 4am celebrating with Sirwatts and Korean BBQ (they didn’t even finish playing until about 2am) our noon check out time from the house feels much too early. I’d called one of the owners a couple days ago about pushing it back to the afternoon but he said noon was the absolute latest. Celina and I haven’t even packed yet, meaning when the owner arrives I tell him “We just need to spend a few minutes to finish packing” then proceed to take over half an hour.
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Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
I first met Mike ‘Sirwatts’ Watson at the beginning of the 2007 WSOP. He and Stevepa hadn’t been able to get into their place that night and needed to crash somewhere else and wondered if I could accommodate them in my room. When I met Watts he was so quiet I didn’t even hear or realize who he was the first time we spoke. I knew of him from his 2+2 posting, tournament scores, and the fact that one day while browsing through the highest stakes games on Full Tilt I saw him sitting at 200/400 and asked Timex if it was the same Sirwatts. It turns out Timex had bought a large chunk of Watts to short stack and take shots at the soft game, which initially went quite well but due to unfortunate run ins with David Benyamine ended up being a mostly break even endeavor.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Well folks, today is a very sad day for all of here at The Rail, as Big Donkey is officially no longer with us. And today is especially sad for me, because now I have to (at least temporarily) take over The Week at FTP. Fear not faithful readers (there have to be at least two or three of you at this point, right?), for I will do my best to fill Big Donkey’s rather large and donktastic shoes. So without further ado, let’s get this weekly wrap-up under way:
Tags: Erica Schoenberg, FTOPS
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