I realize I’m a year early, but I’ve decided I’m going to try hard to get into the series in 2009. I’m not going to Vegas to just play one event so I’m hoping to have at least $20k to buy in to a couple events apart from the main event.
I’ll probably be doing a couple of small-number player satellites hoping to get in on the cheap and I’ve started putting 5% profit asides from this month on. I’ll keep you up to date of my progress. Wish me luck! 
I haven’t had a Royal Flush in quite a long time so when one of our readers sends me a pic of their royal flush I feel like sharing it with the audience here on my poker blog. This one comes from Party Poker, Pot Limit Omaha Hi, low stakes.
If someone else has royals to share — send me!!!
While doing my daily tour of the blogosphere I stumbled upon a website called Casino Chips Collection — and I’m pretty intrigued by the idea of chip collecting myself! I mean, I visit quite a few casinos, and I wouldn’t mind keeping the smaller denominations of chips in stead of giving them to the dealers of the damn blackjack tables I keep ending up at… 
Anyway, the site is still really slow, but I like the look… For every chip that gets added to the site they’ve got a photo AND a video, this 1980 Sundance Hotel & Casino Chip for example looks real nice… But so do some of the other ones! Hope the site grows quickly!
When a lot of people hear the word poker, they immediately think of the version that they see on TV in Texas Holdem. More specifically, they may think of No Limit Texas Hold’em as this is the type that is often broadcast. This is because it is the most exciting due to the lack of a betting limit. However, there are actually many different poker games out there.
First off, there is the aforementioned Texas Hold’em. This is definitely the most popular version of all the poker games and Hold’em sees many new players join its ranks everyday. Poker as a whole has benefited greatly from the popularity of Texas Hold’em and its TV exposure has taken the game to new heights.
Another one of the poker games that has become more and more widespread is Omaha. It is hard to say if Omaha is truly the second most popular variation of poker or not but it is close. The reason for its rise among poker games is that Omaha is very similar to Texas Hold’em and people who have become used to Hold’em can naturally make the switch to Omaha.
Before the popularity spike in Hold’em, 7 Card Stud used to be the most widely played version of online poker games. 7 Card Stud differs quite a bit from the previously mentioned games in that players are dealt two downcards each, four upcards each, and then one more downcard.
These are pretty much the three most popular of all the poker games. There are many other types of poker and variations to each type but these are the three that you’ll normally see being played across the world. And if you ever get tired of one type of poker, it doesn’t hurt to try something else once in a while in the form of another one of the poker games.
Looks like Unibet Poker is a great place for flopping quads. At Poker Ustmib, they’ve posted two flopped-quads screenshots in just a couple days… That’s pretty scary!
Click the images to see the brutality in full size
Source: quads kings & quad dueces!
Aargh. Just got home from my weekly home game, and even though ended up after pulling off a big bluff in the final half hour, I’m still steaming. During the first hour of play, I had KK twice, and was up against AA twice.
Twice against the same guy, twice no suckout.
We even ran it twice (two full boards) the second time (I think he felt bad for me hehe), but no suckout on the ten-shotter either…
I’m quite pleased to end in the positive numbers, but do feel kind of sick from being on the wrong end of these cold deck situations twice in such a short time….
Oh well
I’ve decided to give Betfair a little go after I discovered they accept paypal deposits. I’m not too sure about the software now that I just installed it, but I suppose I could end up getting used to the somewhat flash-feel it has…
Will keep you posted, hopefully not with bad beat screenshots hehehehe
It’s tough to find free gambling related wordpress themes. A lot of the famous themes for gambling related websites charge up to a hundred dollars for a single license — so I applaud every single attempt that’s made to make a free, pretty and valid blog theme with a gambling theme!
Pokerblog.cc has done just that. With their Wordpress poker theme they’ve created a nice free theme, and I’m here to support it!
Joe Hachem getting interviewed by the pokernews people. He actually talks about Pot Limit Omaha. Can you imagine Hachem playing PLO? I guess he’s got more game than I gave him credit for. Good for you mr. Auzzie-man!
(found this video of Joe Hachem on Pot Limit Omaha on Mad World of Poker — thanks guys!)
Hi everyone! Played quite a lot of poker this weekend, and ended up with two reasonably big poker wins in tournaments this weekend.
The first one was a pretty easy 45-player sit ‘n go on Full Tilt Poker. Can’t believe how easy this was. I was a card-wreck. Picked up KK in the first hand, doubled up against a guy holding QJ (hit the Q on the flop) — picked up AA a couple hands later, took another big chunk of chips as I made a set of aces against his A9. Cruised on, never really got into trouble. Went heads-up with an 8-to-1 lead. Good stuff.
Second one was a 180-player SnG. Was carddead throughout the first 60 minutes, and actually only played like 3 hands in the first hour — but ended up doubling up twice with only 25 players to go. Got on the final table in 7th chip position, picked up 9T of hearts to make me a nut straight (against lower straight) — and got a lucky break when my KK beat AA. Once I won that hand, I pretty much sailed to victory.
Decided to take a break for a few days, kind of tired.
