Posts Tagged ‘Julius_Goat’
Weekend Plans
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
You’ve had a tough week at the office, the kids are driving you nuts, or maybe none of that is true. You can use any excuse available to justify a little personal time hitting the tables at Full Tilt. There are plenty of chances to hit up the big games online this weekend or you can hit up the small ball games while railing your favorite pros.
Full Tilt Poker started a new promotion which is running at the moment. Take 2 is running now through April 10th where you have a chance to earn double points as well as cash bonuses. All for playing multiples cash game tables which you are probably doing already. Click on the link above to get the full details.
There are big guarantee tournaments running all weekend long starting this evening as well as some special blogger games. Some of the tournaments highlighted after the jump.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Battle of the Blogger Tournaments, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, durrrr Challenge, Friday Night Fights, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Julius_Goat
Goatttt Challenge Terms are Set
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
A few weeks ago, our guest blogger Julius_Goat issued a challenge to fellow Full Tilt blogger Michael Craig similar to the durrrr Challenge. Except it would be micro-limit, far fewer hands and nothing major at stake. But completely the same other than that.
Well Mr. Craig responded and now Julius_Goat offers up his end of the bet. I hope this happens and it’s nearly as funny as we all think it will be. You can read his terms after the jump.
(On a serious note, you need to check out the durrrr Challenge stat tracker. Just shy of 6,000 and they are almost dead even.)
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat, Michael Craig
Guest Post – Drizztdj – Chatting for Profit
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
The Battle of the Blogger Tournaments 4 started up this weekend with a great showing. Bloggers/readers and a few big name online pros made their appearance in the first few events. These are not your average smaller buyin events, the play is a little tougher than you would expect at these levels. Not unexpected with thousands of dollars in added prizes on the line and 7 WSoP seats.
You will also find some very interesting banter in the chat as a lot of players have seen each other over the course of play and sometimes it gets a little heated. When that happens you need to know how to use it to your benefit.
Funnyman/blogger Drizztdj brings us a primer on that very subject. Stop back later in the week for a roundup of the week’s action as well as Michael Craig responding to the Julius_Goatttt Challenge.
Chatting For Profit
by Drizztdj
You’re a busy person.
Work, kids, school, A-Rod Fan Club President, professional poker player, needs to get a haircut. In the mist of getting twenty-five things done at once, you find the time to sit down at your favorite laptop , PC, or MAC and decide to fire up a few tournament tables here at Full Tilt. With that extra block of time you choose a couple of MTTs with fat guarantees and settle into your chair with a favorite beverage or eight sitting to your right.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, drizztdj, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat, Michael Craig
Guest Post – Julius Goat – The Goatttt Challenge
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
No doubt every online player knows that Tom “durrrr” Dwan is in the middle of his Challenge with Patrik Antonius on the Full Tilt PLO tables. They have played near 10% of the 50,000 hands and Dwan is currently leading. A long ways to go.
While you are watching those great games from the rail, we have another challenge that could be fun to watch. Blogger versus blogger, a little bit of money but a ton of smack talk. Resident Poker From the Rail guest blogger is throwing down the gauntlet to fellow FTP blogger Michael Craig. Not nearly the amount of money in play as the durrrr Challenge but these guys have their egos on the line.
Waiting on Michael’s response.
The Goatttt Challenge: Calling Out Michael Craig
by Julius_Goat
Like most of you, I am following two new developments in the wold of Full Tilt Poker with great interest. Unlike most of you, I am following it with nothing but two atrophied brain cells and a complete lack of fact checking as I write this, but I’m sure I am getting all the details correct, so just take my word for it, okay?
The first development is the now-famous “Durrrr Challenge” named after the young internet poker phenom Tom “Durrrr Dwan” Challenge, who first came to national prominence in a televised heads-up match with Phil Hellmuth, who accused him of using far too many of the letter “r” in a row.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Julius_Goat, Michael Craig, Tom Dwan
Guest Post – Julius Goat – Stupid/System Chapter 12
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Julius_Goat pulls himself up out of his state of extreme sleep deprivation to bring along another chapter of his critically acclaimed Stupid/System. This chapter explorers whether or not you are ready to become a pro poker player after all his previous help.
I suspect that if you’ve followed Chapters 1 through 12 you might be only using play-money chips at this point.
Stupid/System Chapter 12: Going Pro
by Julius_Goat
If you’ve been following along with me, you now have a lot of the “tools” that you’ll need for long-term, online and live poker success. You know how to fire the third bullet with air, shove a double belly to represent the set, get the fish to double you when you’ve got the nuts, play ATC, abuse the bubble, and exploit the weak-tights with squeezes, overbets, underbets, brass knuckles, clarinet solos, the crane kick and other advanced moves.
So now you are asking yourself: Is it time for me to go pro?
Woah! Wait a second there, Sparky! Not so fast!
First of all, of COURSE you should go pro! You’re totally, lusciously, awesome! Read the first paragraph! You’re like the Bruce Lee of poker, and you’re getting your “Heeeeeeoooooooow!” on. The question you need to ask yourself is, what KIND of pro are you going to be? There’s more than just one kind, you know. I mean, if you don’t decide that, how are you going to know whether or not to buy a cowboy hat or a hoodie? Get with the program.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat
Guest Post – Julius Goat – Tournament Director
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Our boy Julius_Goat comes back from his trip to insomnia land and waxes imaginative, what would he do if he was in charge of running Full Tilt tournaments. He has some technologically creative ideas to increase your tournament experience.
Naturally, if you take any of the following serious, I would direct you first to this link.
Full Tilt Memorandum
From: Julius_Goat
To: All Full Tilt Staff
RE: DONKEY CHOKER POKER — IMMEDIATE SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENT
Dear Team Full Tilt,
First of all, thank you for hiring me as tournament director! It was a surprising choice to be sure, but I can assure you that my total lack of qualification in no way . . .
Huh, lost my train of thought there. Anyway, it’s been a great ride so far, and I’d just like to personally apologize to Chris Ferguson about the hat thing. I really wasn’t feeling well; think I ate some bad shrimp at the buffet.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat
Guest Post – Julius Goat – The Donkey Test
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
When our blogging brother Julius_Goat gets insomnia during odd days of the week, I tend to see interesting guest posts pop up in my email inbox. This week his post popped up earlier then I expected. I assume he was feeling sympathy pains for my Eagles during their time of loss in football (not proper football, for that he’d have to be watching Chelsea).
This week’s moment of brilliance brings us the next version of the Donkey Test. Simple enough, follow the questions, answer and score yourself at the bottom.
Enjoy.
The New Donkey Test
So, I was scouring through the poker-net, and I came across a new version of that Donkey Quiz that was popular a few years back. Remember that thing? It’s a pretty good little quiz, and creates what I consider to be a fairly strong profile of your poker game. I, for example, scored in the 98th percentile for excellence the seventh time I took it.
Well, somebody has created a new one, and I have been allowed to reproduce a section of it here for your edification. Enjoy!
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat
Guest Post – Julius Goat – Stupid System Chaper 11
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It’s been a few months since noted author Julius_Goat presented us with the next chapter in his award-winning book Stupid/System. This time around he takes a look at tournaments which are outside the normal average MTT you’ll see online. The other chapters are listened below.
Enjoy
Stupid/System Chaper 11: Atypical Poker Tournaments
Not all tournaments are created equal. This may come as a surprise to some of you that haven’t been playing Texas No Limit Hold Them for as long as I have (since 2005), but it is true. I mean, sure, yes, you may well be familiar with the typical, meat-and-potatoes garden-variety online poker tournament, where the leisurely fifteen-minute blinds and the 1500 starting chips allow for lots of advanced play (like the min. raise, the triple check-call, and the early position limp). It’s quite possible, I admit. Oh yes. I admit it.
But did you know that there were a whole other variety of tournaments out there for you to sink your fangs into, if you are a wolfman, or possibly Dracula? Even if you don’t have fangs, you can still easily play any number of tournaments whose differences from the norm result in novel changes to structure and optimal strategy in this game we love. [1]
What are these types? You know, I was hoping you’d ask me that. Let me go read some poker books, and then I’ll tell you.
OK, I’m back. Here is a complete listing of the atypical tournament types, along with a few notes for optimal play.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Guest Posts, Julius_Goat
Guest Post – Julius Goat – Blogger Donkeys
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
While a big chunk of poker bloggers prepare for their weekend of carnage in Las Vegas, I bring you another guest post by Julius_Goat. He asks the eternal question about bloggers and their poker playing ability. Everyone has their own opinions but the Goat brings us his unique perspective.
Enjoy and we’ll see you on the other side of debauchery.
Are Bloggers Donkeys?
by Julius_Goat
“Go, and never darken my towels again.”
-Groucho.
I’m going to give everybody out there in Bloggyland a tip.
Play me in coinflip situations. You will win. That is all.
And now, the nub of my gist. The crux of my rubric. The friggin’ point of this post. The question before us is:
Are bloggers donkeys? Wait! Don’t hollar ‘YES’ so quickly! The question, by the way, is not: “Am I, Julius_Goat a donkey?” That’s been made pretty clear. Like, with abundance and stuff.
See, there seems to be an occasional sniff of a rumor, floating among the tubes or the nets or whatever they make this I-N-ternet out of, that bloggers are the donkingest donks to ever give the hee a haw. Diggity donkiddy doo, yeah? Dang.
I don’t know. That’s not my impression. Here’s what I mean.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Julius_Goat
Guest Post – Julius Goat – Focus
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Our boy Julius Goat is back with another hilarious guest post. After presenting us with a few chapters of his highly acclaimed Stupid/System, he brings us his unique way of concentrating his focus while playing the big guarantee MTT’s and making your bets.
I’ve never employed this strategy but I’m pretty sure the “Moonwalking Bear” move is something even your top pros would never see coming. I’m still finding it tough to believe that Julius_Goat has never won a MTT in his career after reading his post. There is plenty more after the jump.
Sharpening your focus or How the Moonwalking Bear improved my game
by Julius Goat
You know how it is. You’re playing a long tournament, and your mind is wandering. You have the latest South Park open (hilarious). Every so often, the poker client screen flickers to the front and you make a quick decision, based on increasingly limited information. Fold. Fold. Call, fold. Cartman. Raise. Fold. Do you know who is aggressive at your table? Who is tight? What does it matter? You’ve been here before. If you get a nice size stack, you’ll pay attention. But for some reason, you just haven’t been getting that big stack lately . . .
That’s right. You’ve lost focus.
I’ve been trying something lately. It’s been helping. The results have been good, but results in MTT are deceptive. No, it’s been helping my mindset. Perhaps it will help yours, as well. One can only hope, and, after all, I’m here to help.
I have the recipe for you now. Here’s what you do.
Ready?
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