Going Deep @ the DSE
If you follow my Twitter feed then you know that last weekend I final tabled one of the $340 tournaments at the most recent Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza series. I had my trusty Flip Mino along and...
View ArticleNot Nice Nines
One of the little idiosyncrasies of poker is that it offers up all sorts of apparent patterns to tantalize you. You know what I mean - the people who observe things like "fours are hitting the board a...
View ArticleLoose Button
You hear it all the time in poker, position is critical. Well, recently I decided to put that to the test in a tournament. I walked in with the plan that, during the early levels, I would play every...
View ArticleA Slowrolling Rant - Plus Seiborg!
While playing a recent tournament I encountered what I think is a pretty clear slowroll, and I speak my mind about it in this video; then, to lighten the mood a bit I talk about a song/YouTube video...
View ArticleTiltless
Busted pretty early from a recent tournament, but had a bit of an epiphany as I was walking out. There wasn't that disappointed, irritated feeling that typically accompanies a bustout. Had I achieved...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Tourney
Stations Casinos recently ran a series of five tournaments that they called something like the "Million Dollar No-Limit Hold'em" series. It involved four open tournaments each with a $200,000...
View ArticleMakin' Burgers
A while ago I did a video about making homemade pizza. It was fun and I decided that it was time to do another food video. This time, I'm making bleu cheese stuffed burgers:
View ArticleNasty Chop
In general, when I'm playing in a low buy-in tournament I tend to be pretty mellow about chopping. Three's a couple of reasons for that. One, I recognize that these kind of tournaments have a heavy...
View ArticleThere Is No Substitute
This is a no poker content video, but I don't think people are going to mind ...I have a friend who is an automobile broker. I got an e-mail from her a few weeks ago asking if I was available on a...
View ArticleShe's A Cruel Mistress
Typically when I go out and shoot videos I'll try and get them posted roughly in chronological order. There's typically some lag time involved with the editing process, so often you're seeing videos...
View ArticlePlaying with Brad Garrett
The Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas has undergone a pretty substantial renovation recently, along with that they have reopened their poker room, and the other day they held a bit of a promotional...
View ArticleGrump's Golden Ticket
When word hit a little over a week ago that the Poker Grump had won Dan Cates' Main Event drawing I knew I'd want to have a Grumpy guest appearance on the vlog and the Grump graciously obliged me with...
View ArticleFireworks
This last weekend was Fourth of July and while I got a good amount of poker in, the "main event" as it were was getting out with Mrs Flops to celebrate the Fourth. I guess you could say we did three...
View ArticleGrump's Golden TIcket - Part Deaux
A couple of week's ago I sat down with the Poker Grump as he got ready to play in the WSOP Main Event for the first time. You can see the post with that video right here. On his first day I had a...
View ArticleSh*t Poker Players Say
One of the recent memes going around the Interwebs are "Sh*t people say" videos which typically feature quick cuts of folks in different settings throwing out little sayings specific to a certain...
View ArticleLike Stevie Wonder - I've Got a Superstition!
One of the beauties of this little card game we like to play is its blend of science and art. There's science in figuring odds and probabilities down to the nth degree. There's art in recognizing how...
View ArticleDoctor Doctor Give Me the News, Ive Got a Bad Case of the FPS Flu
Hmm - this is the second straight post that I've begun by referencing a song title, perhaps that is a trend. So, as I talked about in a vlog entry from last year I have focused my play on tournaments...
View ArticleDid I Just Pwn Someone?
It's been two weeks which really sucks. I've tried 8 times to finish that sentence with something that starts with, "because I want this blog to ..." and every attempt ran right into the realization...
View ArticleAnother Year ...
Yesterday was my birthday and it was an exceptionally nice day. Things started off with Mrs. Flops delivering me a birthday cupcake in bed. In this case, that is not a euphemism. I had planned to...
View ArticlePlay That Funky Music
I've always had strong roots in music. Those roots stem from my mother's side of the family. My maternal grandmother got a masters degree in music back in the early part of the 20th century when the...
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