Super Turbo Knock Out

Finished in 4th place out of 554 entrants in the $14 Super Turbo KO. That’s my best finish yet in a big tourney (apart from the smaller s&g ones). Forth place is good for $533.23 plus a number of $3 knock outs.

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Progress

Finished 2nd in a $24 S&G Tourney for $351 plus $20 in knock outs. Making some progress in moving up to the next level. Now I have to work on my heads up play. But the good news is the bank roll is back up to healthy levels again after this final table and one [...]

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Update

The bankroll took a little dip this past week as I spent a little more entering a couple larger tourneys. If I’m gonna improve my game, I have to start playing some bigger ones. Two notable finishes though. Finished in the money at 86th out of 1023 players in one tourney. And 55th out of [...]

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Life, Faith & Poker

The more I play poker, the more it’s been teaching me about life and faith. I don’t think being a Christian precludes me from playing poker. I just need to make sure my priorities remain in the right place. There are just so many similarities. Here are a few. Know when to have patience and [...]

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Monday Night Poker

Live blogging is not working this week. But that let me concentrate on the game a little more. Got first place this week. Went all in on the first hand of heads up with A2. Deano calls for less with A5. I should have lost this one. Flop was [593] and I get a 4 [...]

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Pre-Monday Night Poker

Hanging out with Isaac and playing a little poker online. I finished one $3 S&G with 90 people in first place for about $80. He got 4th in a different one. Not too bad for a little post-work session. Lets see how we do at Monday Night Poker at “Brentwood Ranch”. I think those guys [...]

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Bad Beats

Not my day. He only had 4 outs… Full Tilt Poker Game: $5,000 Guarantee – No Limit Hold’em *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Chumdinger [8d 8s] Chumdinger raises to 100 Fedex316 calls 75 placeurbetts calls 50 *** FLOP *** [Ah 8c Tc] Fedex316 checks placeurbetts checks Chumdinger checks *** TURN *** [Ah 8c Tc] [...]

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Poker Friday!

Just got 1st place in a small $3 Sit & Go with 90 people for $80. — The big story is I entered the $16k Guarantee with 804 players. Buy in was $24. It started paying at 90th place. There’s currently 25 players left and I’m still in it… $4400 for first place but I’m [...]

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8th in a $24 S&G for $60

It’s Friday morning and my weekend has started. I’m trying to challenge myself more so I’ve started to play the higher level $24 Sit & Go Tourneys. The caliber of play is more challenging but I’m holding my own. Finished this one in 8th place for $60. Lost on a coin flip as he put [...]

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Midweek Update

Tuesday, I worked a 14 hour day at church. Yup, staff chapel in the morning, then meetings, then lunch, then prep for Foundry (theFoundryLA.com), then running the program that night… done at 10pm, hang out with folks ’til midnight. Still loving the job, and I still love playing poker too though didn’t have time to [...]

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