Entries from August, 2008
Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Days 93-94
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
As much as I enjoy grinding online, it doesn’t exactly give me a lot of material to write about. After so long of being exhausted by forcing myself to get up at 11am I’m now exhausted by forcing myself to get up at 10am, though it’s much easier to get to sleep early in Melbourne than Vegas. All I’ve been doing for the last couple of days is waking up, putting in my session, then relaxing in the evening as a result of being drained from my traveling.
The online tournament scene has changed a bit since I last played heavily. I’m seeing a lot more people aware of +cEV shoves and open shoving a considerably wider range between 11-16 BB’s. I’m also seeing a number of guys who three months ago were unheard of playing quite well and aggressively. People also seem a bit more stack size aware than three months ago, with less blatant mistakes being made at the higher stakes tournaments. However, things are still clearly very profitable for the expert tournament players and there’s a larger variety of tournaments than ever.
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Bloggers On The Rail – Guest Post: Julius_Goat 3
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Julius Goat takes a break from his best selling Stupid/System to bring us his thoughts on the always fun bad beast.
"A child of five would understand this! Fetch me a child of five."
-Groucho Marx
OK, I’ll take a one-week break from Stupid/System, and instead bring you my sincere, unvarnished thoughts on poker. What that means, essentially is this: Like Stupid/System, this is a post that displays a shocking and laughable lack of understanding of poker, but unlike Stupid/System, it is not on purpose. Get ready to stop laughing with me, and start laughing AT me.
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Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Day 92
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
With a few days to kill before the start of the Vic Champs I’m back at the online grind, which I’ve missed horribly. My normal day online begins by forcing myself awake at 10am and stumbling over to my computer sans shower. Then I fire up every site I intend to play on and register for all the tournaments in advance, preventing the all too common failure to register in time. After that I spend the next seven to nine hours playing up to about fourteen tables, though I normally average around eight or nine.
Although I honestly enjoy playing tournaments online, staying focused and genuinely interested for the entire session proves difficult. While I refuse to go so far as turn on the TV or watch a movie I’m always listening to music and browsing the internet, as well as occasionally having programs like AIM and MSN up, though I normally close those down when my session gets more hectic.
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Bloggers On The Rail – Guest Post: HighOnPoker
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
HighOnPoker is a fickle balance of neuroses. His addictive behavior is kept in check by his anal retentiveness. In other words, he plays too much poker at too little stakes. During his day job, he goes by the name Jordan, and does his best impression of a lawyer. But don’t hate him because he’s a lawyer; that’s too easy and there are much better reasons to hate HighOnPoker.
As always, if you’d like to contribute to Blogger on the Rail please contact me at Battleofthebloggers@fulltiltpoker.com.
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Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Day 91
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
As I mentioned in the previous post I think it’d be a fun idea to list out what I’ve learned on this trip. So without further adieu, I bring you “Shit you learn by going around the world in 90 days”:
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Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Day 90
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
The 90th day is finally upon me. A full three months of going to tournaments around the world and trying to write up every day of my life. Obviously, I’m a little tired. When I look back at what I’ve accomplished over three months I feel mostly proud, both of my work on and off the felt.
I feel like the blog has mostly been a success, although my falling behind by double digit days during some periods in the trip is a disappointment. I think the blog works more successfully on the reporting angle when the information is very recent, but to be honest if I forced myself to write up my day as soon as I busted each tournament I would’ve ended up killing myself. I’ve found trying to find something interesting and clever to blog about every day is actually quite difficult, as many days are kind of ordinary or bland. Also, since tightening up in live poker a little bit I think the hand histories themselves are somewhat less interesting, though I think the adjustments I’ve made are very much for the better in terms of my equity in the tournaments.
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Bloggers On The Rail – Guest Post: BWoP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
BWoP or Black Window of Poker or just plain CK. She’s known by many different names but also known for her skills at the non-HE games. She made the move from NYC to crazy world of Las Vegas to take advantage of the schooling fish in town for the World Series of Poker. She even survived an insane idea of driving across country to get out there.
One of the smartest bloggers out there, she brings you a unique way to look at your poker game.
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Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Days 88-89
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
Celina and I wake up around 2pm without the slightest disturbance from the hotel. I’m fairly certain the Chinese version of the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign hanging on my door translates to “Get the fuck out of here. That means you house keeping.”
We leave the hotel in the evening after grabbing dinner and show up at the airport early. The airport staff has some problem about my passport and some kind of glitch about my not being allowed in the country, likely a left over from my ban two years ago. Celina does her best to translate the issue between us, and after half an hour of waiting around they clear everything up and let us advance.
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Bond18 – Around the World in 90 Days: Day 87
Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
The live poker is over for a time now. All that’s left is to enjoy a day in Macau hanging out in the spa and browsing my various websites.
Spending all day in the spa is the kind of activity you can get used to, if not addicted to. I almost feel bad sitting here while people wait on me and give me massages, but then I remember how awesome it is. After three months of non stop travel spending a few days doing nothing but relaxing is exactly what the doctor ordered.
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Bloggers On The Rail – Guest Post: Julius_Goat 2
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Julius_Goat brings us Chapter 10 of his critically acclaimed poker book. Critically acclaimed by me, but my opinion is the only one that matters. This chapter of Stupid/System deals with hand ranges and bet sizing.
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