This is the story of my poker career.
I started playing online poker in March 2006, 2 months after my 17th birthday. My 1st deposit was $20. I doubled it up quickly. I then cashed out $20. I then lost the $20 in my account and redeposited $20. I doubled this money up, cashed out $20 [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 16, 2008
I turned $20 into $31,000 through online poker and then quit
July 15, 2008
WSOP Update: World Series Of Poker 2008 Final Table: We’re down to 9!
It’s disappointing that there are no superstars left in the event, nonetheless it should be a great final table.
The most notable name at the table is David “Chino” Rheem. Rheem had many professionals supporting him on his way to the final table including J.C. Tran, Nam and Tommy Le, Greg Mueller, Quinn Do, Tommy Hang, [...]
July 15, 2008
How to Win at Poker and at Business
I just read an interesting article at BusinessWeek entilted How to Win at Poker and at Business. The title is much better than the actual article. Hopefully, I’ll do a better job of the article.
The main point BusinessWeek addresses is that you improve people skills while playing poker.
Acting persuasively, reading opponents’ motives, and handling the [...]
July 15, 2008
TowerGaming add massive sign-up bonuses!
TowerGaming is one of my personal favourites. I have played thousands of hands there and they have payed me thousands of dollars in bonuses.
They are currently offering a 500% signup bonus up to $12,500!
That means that if you deposit $2,500 with TowerGaming and play enough hands you they will give you $12,500 in your account [...]
July 14, 2008
More WSOP 2008 Main Event Updates. Hellmuth and Matusow out
Day 6 is over and we’re down to the last 3 tables with only 27 players left.
All the big names left in the tournament were knocked out today. Here are the eliminations:
64th place: Victor Ramdin — $96,500
45th place: Phil Hellmuth — $154,401
30th place: Mike “The Mouth” Matusow — $193,000
I really wanted to see either Hellmuth [...]
July 13, 2008
WSOP 2008 Main Event Update
The $10,000 WSOP Main Event started off with 6,844 players, a prize pool of $64,333,600 and a first place prize of $9,119,338.
We’re now down to the final 79 players. Play has finished for the day.
Some of the notable players still left in the event are: Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Victor Ramdin and Matt Matros.
Here are [...]
July 13, 2008
The big players do lose a lot of money! But they also win it back
Gus Hansen explains in this video how he lost $1.1 million in a period of 2 months over many short sessions. He then goes and wins back $1 million in 50 hours of online poker at Full Tilt Poker. Legendary!
Note: Gus Hansen is a big poker star, but has gone bankrupt [...]
July 13, 2008
High Stakes Poker has really up the Antes
I’ve missed a year of HSP and there has been a lot of action. Although I’ve quit playing I’ve got a lot of watching to catch up on.
On YouTube there loads of videos of the big pots. They’ve really raised the stakes.
So far I’ve watched:
$363k pot between Brian Townsend and Patrick Antonio
$807k pot between Phil [...]
July 12, 2008
Best Poker Quote
This was taken from an interview with Brian Townsend (sbrugby/aba20):
Would you place yourself into the category of a “mathematical player” or “emotion-based player”? I know there are some pros that actually don’t really know math at all, just barely count the outs.
- All poker games have the same general principal. You have a hand and [...]
July 11, 2008
iPhone and iPod Touch Poker applications
There have been rumours of Full Tilt Poker and TowerGaming bringing out online poker software for the iPhone and iTouch.
Whichever online poker site comes out with the software first will have a huge edge. I’m rooting for TowerGaming. They have great bonuses.
