Poker From The Rail
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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Welcome to the new section of Poker From The Rail, Bloggers On The Rail. We are going to attempt to bring you some of the best from around the world of poker bloggers. We will feature some road trip stories, tales from the table, even some posts with actual poker theory. Some guest bloggers will bring you posts that will have you laughing; others will show you new ways to think about your game. We’ll be attempting to expose you to some of the best people who write about this game we all love while trying to entertain and enlighten. Starting soon we will be putting up posts from bloggers you know and some that are brand new.
Tags: AlCantHang, Guest Posts
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
The Bellagio Cup IV $15,000 Main Event is about as tough as a live tournament gets. The vast majority of good players have busted the WSOP Main Event by now and almost every major online tournament player either has the backing or the roll to go ahead and take one more shot before leaving Vegas. Having talked to other online players before the event, playing on Saturday is clearly the favored day, leaving the opportunity to play online for huge prize pools on Sunday, or in my case, go play the Venetian $5,000.
Sirwatts and I are the only ones playing from the house. We catch a cab in the morning and for the seventh time straight, Sirwatts loses the flip to pay for the cab. Having run so bad this Summer, and really for the last year in live poker, I can’t get the idea out of my head that Watts is going to do something big.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by Big Donkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Ahh… late July. The WSOP is over until November, the sun is out, and the world’s poker pros have all scattered to their private islands to bake the toxins of the
Either that or they’re sitting around in front of air conditioners, chowing down on Ben & Jerry’s, and playing a little online poker here at the Tilt. Either way, they’re certainly having more fun than me.
Tags: Gus Hansen, WSOP
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
Things are much quieter now. More and more people are leaving Las Vegas having busted out of the Main, and those left are just hanging around playing a few days of online tournaments then heading out shortly.
Over at the World Series, it’s the bubble day and only Sirwatts is still in from our house. Everyone else is at home hanging out and making arrangements to get out of town. At the moment, I’m the only person in the house planning on playing the Bellagio $15,000, though if Watts busts, he’ll almost certainly be playing.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
We usually have a blogger-iffic rant to present to you every Friday, but I’m really not in a ranting kind of mood today. Instead, I feel like it’s been a while since we’ve really clued you all in to what’s going around here at Full Tilt Poker. Blame the WSOP, blame Tiffany Michelle’s breasts, blame us for not doing our jobs properly. Hell, blame Canada if you want. Whatever the case may be, you guys deserve better. So here’s a quick rundown of what’s going on around these parts, plus a little teaser of great things to come:
Tags: FTOPS, Patrik Antonius
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers Corner
Welcome to Poker From The Rail, a poker blog brought to you by Full Tilt Poker. We aim to give our readers the best in poker news, entertainment, pro interviews, and insane poker related rants. We’re also very pleased to host Bond18 as he goes Around the World in 90 Days and blogs daily about his experience playing in more than 50 poker tournaments worldwide.
We’ll be posting at least once a day, with five categories of posts that we’ll be bringing you each week. The Week at FTP will keep you up to date on all the happenings and big time action going down at Full Tilt Poker. The Pros Speak will bring you exclusive interviews and access to our ever-growing stable of the world’s best poker pros. In Reader Mail we’ll take the time out of our busy day to answer mail from you, our loyal readers. Heads Up will bring you a “March Madness” style tournament where we pit 64 of our top pros against each other to see who will come out on top. Finally, Blogger’s Corner will be where we, the almighty bloggers, finally get to let loose and tell you all what’s really on our minds.
So take the time out of your daily grind and enjoy poker blogging at its best – witty, unpredictable, possibly even informative. This is Poker From The Rail.
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
As always, I spend my day off relaxing around my pool and firing up the grill, then trying my best to catch up on some writing despite all the distractions. Over two months into my trip and I can see and feel myself getting increasingly out of shape, a result of the Vegas diet of huge but occasional meals, low sleep, almost zero exercise, and doing nothing but sitting in a chair and doing math problems. When I get back to Melbourne the first thing I’ll do is hire a personal trainer and get very strict with my diet to try and repair the damage this trip has done to my health. Until then I’m just going to try and be a bit more mindful about reducing junk food and getting a little more sleep, which even living well off the strip, proves hard to do in Las Vegas. With day two starting tomorrow, I’m aiming for eight hours tonight.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Heads Up
Welcome back to another round of the Full Tilt Poker Heads-Up Challenge, where we take 64 of our top pros and face them off against one another until we’ve determined who’s number one. This week’s match is a seven seed versus 10 seed affair, with David “Flag Draper” Chiu taking on Barny “Not a real mobster” Boatman. One quick note before we get started: I’m an idiot. I completely underrated Chiu as I was making the seeding for this competition. He deserves to be a much lower seed than he is, and I apologize to everyone out there for this grave injustice. With that said, let’s get this party started:
Tags: Barny Boatman, David Chiu
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
Grafyx and I get to the Bellagio about 15 minutes before the start of the $5,000 preliminary event. We stroll up to the cashier and find a massive line waiting for us, insuring that we’re going to be a few minutes late for the event. Not only is there a line, but I need to take money out which I’ve put on deposit after having won the $3,000, and I know that’s going to take even longer. The biggest problem though is that the lines are full of Internet players (who show up late much, much more than recreational players) and if we register late, it’s almost guaranteed I’ll be jammed on a table with several of them.
Tags: Bond18
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Reader Mail
Here we go again – madness, mayhem, Reader Mail! The WSOP Main Event has reached its final nine players and is now on a four month hiatus, so let the discussion begin. Email us at pokerfromtherail@fulltiltpoker.com with any comments, questions, or conspiracy theories about the battle for Tiffany Michelle’s breasts. On to the show:
Tags: Mike Matusow, WSOP
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