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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Back to back live tournament wins

I am so sick at live tournaments! This is quite strange because for the last 6 months I’ve only been playing online cash games. For some reason I play tournies better offline and I play cash games better online. Last … Continue reading

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Good news and bad news

First the bad news: Since I started playing poker again (25th of June) – I was up about $3000 online within 2 days. I am now down approx. $500 over this period of time. I’m about quits at Party and … Continue reading

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First day of poker

I won ~$1700 today online and lost £40 ($80) offline.This is the most I have ever won in one day. I played maybe 5 hours online today. I’ll post some of the big hands tomorrow. I don’t feel I played … Continue reading

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A Superstar finally Wins a Bracelet

Allen Cunningham today won his 5th WSOP bracelet. Allen, one of the quietest players in the game, won his bracelet in Event 13 – $5,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold’em event. He beat Jeffrey Lisandro in heads up play to … Continue reading

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$1500 freeroll

I came 71st out of 123 runners in tonight’s TowerGaming freeroll. The quality of the players was surprisingly good. Usually everybody goes allin the first few hands of these freerolls and you’ve lost half the field after about half an … Continue reading

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$1000 TowerGaming Freeroll

I forget to play in the Tower Gaming $500 freeroll last night. But I did remember to play in the $1000 freeroll tonight. Unfortunately, the freeroll started at 9pm GMT and that’s when The Apprentice was on. So I registered … Continue reading

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The best lay down I ever made…

I’ve made a few good lay downs in my time, but I think the best has to be the time I folded AA on a 442 flop. It wasn’t just the cards. It was the confidence I laid down the … Continue reading

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Made £46 last night

I lost £60 in the rebuy tourney. Went out on the 2nd hand into the freezeout. I was in the BB with AJo and I end up going allin with the SB, who has ATo, preflop. I’m a 75% favourite … Continue reading

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