Slowing down

Couldn't believe it's been over a week since my last post....but not really surprising. I have not been playing my usual compliment of tournaments this past week, and frankly don't see me having time other than the couple of nightly rebuys I've been enjoying as of late, with a few others peppered in as well.

The main reason is that I am buried in work. I'm in one of those cycles where I can't really do anything other than keep focus on work, and when that happens, my poker hobby takes a hit.

At any rate, today is Sunday, and after spending time with my family, I will try and hit up some of the afternoon Sunday tournaments on FullTilt.

On a different note, the L.A. Poker Classic's main event is going on at the Commerce right now. If you haven't heard by now, Joe Sebok lost the last longer bet vs Jeff Madsen & Gavin Smith. Those guys have been making dopey prop bets for some time now, but this time, they have reached an all time stupidity factor. The loser (Joe) will have to have both Jeff and Gavin's face tattooed on his body. Madsen will only have to have Smith's mug, since he came in 2nd. I have only 2 words for Joe and Jeff.... BUY OUT!

The umpteenth new WPT hostess (bring Shana back already!) interviews them here, here, and here.

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Blah blah blah

Couldn't win a flip holding a pair for the bustout. Blah!

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23.5K Rebuy Final Table

Sometimes, it happens that a tournament is a blur, and I couldn't begin to remember how I made the FT without reviewing the HH's. This is one of those times. I must have sat out a dozen times, just multi tasking and not being able to really give the tournament my full attention.

Down to 2 tables, I think I finally zoned in, and actually paid attention. In the end, I shoved AQ 4 bet over a late position raiser who had me covered. He flipped over 77, and my horse didn't get there. Still a nice little cash for what I had invested in this rebuy.

As I've said before, I'm going to keep banging away at these rebuys, and hopefully continue to have good results.

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PokerStars

I play almost exclusively at Fulltilt. Every once in a while, I will play on Pokerstars, like in the recent Bloggers tournament, of which I only played 2 events. The main reason I like to play on Fulltilt, is because of rakeback. Stars to my knowledge doesn't offer it, and instead has a VIP program. I realize that their program comes with many nice perks, but I really haven't put much thought or research behind weighing the benefits vs getting rakeback from FT. The bottom line is that I rather concentrate my play on one site and get the full benefits, rather than split between the 2, and for the last 3 or 4 yrs, my business has gone to FT.

Having said that, I got an email that Stars is coming up on their 4o Billion hand, and they are going to party it up, as they usually do. What has caught my eye, and thought I'd share is next week's Sunday Million's guarantee will balloon to 4 Million! That's a huge number obviously, and I can only guess the lucky donk who wins it will take home 1Mil +.

You can read about it here

I guess I'm going to have to donk it up with them. This will be a huge field.

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High Stakes Poker New Season

Set your DVR's, HSP returns starting tomorrow.

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Bubbled the Final Table

Not bad for a little under 2 hrs worth of work! Love me these Super Turbo's!

Of course, what could have been, as I took this beat to bust:

Poker cruelty at it's best!

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First Royal of the Decade!

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