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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
This week’s series of guest posts begin with one from Riggstad dealing with a touchy subject: live tournament chops. Nobody wants to talk about what goes on behind the scenes and it’s something to think about when you find yourself sitting at a major final table.
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Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
I wake up a little before 11am, not bad given how late I got to bed and the fact that I knew I’d be jet lagged to the point that sleeping in would be difficult. I get dressed and eat one of the breakfast bars Kyle gave me in a gift basket. There’s a deep stacked tournament in the poker room at 12:30 that I have assurances will end before the 7pm start of the Red Dragon Macau Cup main event.
I go down to the poker room and play the event but wind up busting out early after being mostly card dead and cramming an open-ended straight flush draw on the turn which gets called by a made straight and misses.
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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
"Tuscaloosa" Johnny is a blogger who has written for many publication and brings a solid background to whatever he decides to do. He spent a large part of his summer reporting on the WSOP for various sites, including his trip reports on Poker from the Rail. He won his way into several smaller WSOP events via the Battle of the Bloggers and represented us well. The Main Event played down to the "November Nine" and he was able to get some time to speak with Dennis Phillips and brings us his profile.
As always, comments or questions can be sent to Battleofthebloggers@fulltiltpoker.com.
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Posted by Bond18 | Filed under Bond18
When we arrive at the hotel the front desk does not have our reservation. It takes a while for them to call up to the poker room and sort everything out while we sit in the lobby reeking of 30 plus hours spent on planes and in airports.
We get up to the room and I find it’s currently 10am. I don’t quite feel like sleeping anymore so I go down to get some lunch then try and find the poker room. We’re in the same hotel as last November and while the poker tables on the main casino floor are all still there with posters of various players, there is no actual poker in sight. I go back to the room and tell Celina I’ll be hitting the spa with the laptop to do some writing.
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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Throughout the next several weeks I will highlight the writing of bloggers who focus their creative energy on poker content. Some may be new to you and others may be familiar, funny or enlightening. I will be putting up many guests posts and I’m always looking for new material. If you are a blogger and interested in getting your words posted here, simply shoot me an email at Battleofthebloggers@fulltiltpoker.com. There are some basic guidelines but submission is simple.
Before the questions start to hit my email inbox, here are some quick answers off the top of my head.
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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
At the dawn of online poker, it was practically impossible to arrange a private tournament on any of the sites. Iggy would spend countless hours working with sites that did not have the ability to have private events and were not terribly interested in doing so just to get a blogger tournament scheduled every few months. Obviously that all changed and now you can have you own private tournament in the amount of time it takes to write an email.
Popular actor, author, and blogger Wil Wheaton was one of the first to really run a large, regularly scheduled private blogger tournament and set the standard. These days you can look under the Private Tournament tab in the Full Tilt Poker game lobby and find pages full of private games. The blogger tournaments are more laid back than your standard multi-table tournament with the same buy-in, with plenty of banter between participants and generally better play. But, as with any blogger tournament, always beware of The Hammer.
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