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Had a really great time playing online last night. I entered a $6 + $0.60 qualifier tourney on Full Tilt and the top 4 (out of 20) won $26 tourney coupons. So I used my coupon to enter a $16,000 Guaranteed tourney. By the time it started 740 people had registered. […]

A grade school program in the United States has 9-year olds playing chess as a means of gaining concentration and developing math and other skills. So far, according to the participants, it appears to be a success.
I’m wondering if card-playing could also be used to teach similar skills.
Having myself been a math geek in past […]

A couple of years ago my step mother was diagnosed with cancer right around Christmas. It was a pretty scary time and we all missed Christmas while she was in the hospital to try and save her life, which they did. Over a year later and a ton of treatments she was declared in remission. […]

The week before Christmas I took the wife to Vegas. It was our first trip there and I was looking forward to lots of gambling and hopefully some poker as well. By the end of our 2nd day my wife had drug me through the malls at the Monte Carlo, Caesars Palace and […]

Poker has become so popular that just about everyone and their mother is playing. I should know, I got beat by my own step-mother. I got hooked playing poker about a year ago when I saw my first Celebrity Poker tournament. The game was no limit Texas Hold ‘em and that’s been my game of […]

ThePokerDB.com did a slight redesign. It looks nice and it will work well with their new features (some of which haven’t been released yet).
Steve is in Australia. If you’re lucky he’ll post an update after he visits one of the local casinos and steals all the local’s money.
I haven’t been playing much poker, […]

I am finally back - I had a physical hard drive failure on Sunday last week and I haven’t had my computer since then. Good thing Steve enjoys posting, otherwise this place would be pretty boring…
Anyways, I’m back and I have a short story about a hand that caused quite a bit of controversy […]

While most of the time I’m playing poker the goal is to make maximum profit and get that profit back into my bank account there are times when I play poker just for the fun of it. One of my roommates made a big cash last year for over $2000 in one tournament and […]

My original intent in going to the charity poker tournament was to play in the side games they have after the first hour and people started getting knocked out. However, since Ben and I both made the final 6 I never had time to sit down and try my hand at some live ring […]

As Ben posted earlier we played in a live $50 NL charity event while we were home for Thanksgiving Break. I didn’t have much access to a computer to post any while I was home, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Ben ended up finishing 3rd while I placed […]