The ramblings of an often frustrated online player.
It’s been awhile since my last post, but I’ve still been in the game (a little). My run at Cake Poker continues as I took the 59 gold chips and used them to enter some larger Gold Chip tournaments. Thanks to some tight conservative play, I was able to cash in a couple of them. [...]
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I’ve been taking it easy the last week or so while waiting for my withdraw from eWalletXpress to make it to the bank. Originally the plan was to move the balance to Full Tilt and revive my account there, but now I find they no longer accept eWalletXpress (there goes another payment processor). So, since deciding [...]
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The move up in May didn’t produce any positive results, and in fact made me withdraw from the blog and poker for awhile. I would look at the icons on my desktop and just feel like giving up on the whole thing. In reality, I was only a loser at Stars, and this was likely due to a [...]
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Going against everything the training sites recommend, I decided to move up a level to see how I fared. My theory was that even though I was playing within my bankroll at .10/.25, I was playing against some real crackpots. On numerous occasions I’ve had good cards cracked by opponents playing unbelievable hands. Even in [...]
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I originally started this entry a week ago (damn I need to keep up with this). I decided to go back to the cash games and mix it up a little. It seems like I need a change from time to time, plus the sit-n-goes have run cold. I finally stopped the bleeding in the sit-n-goes, [...]
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I’m a little late with this entry, but it’s been a hectic week. ePassporte’s pullout has really messed things up for the short term. I’m sure another processor will step up soon, but until then our money remains captive. The one thing ePassporte and Neteller allowed you to do easily was move your money between [...]
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As I suspected when I first heard the news, we can thank our freedom loving government for the pullout of ePassporte. PokerNews.com is reporting that a letter sent to online poker rooms stated the move was in response to “a widespread investigation of Internet gambling, including poker, by the United States Attorney’s Office for the [...]
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Sometime in the last 24 hours ePassporte quietly stopped allowing poker related transactions. An email from Cake Poker was my only notification. “We have received notice from ePassporte today that they are unable to continue to provide CakePoker with merchant e-wallet services. We have since confirmed that this situation is not unique to CakePoker and [...]
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Wow, how things can change. This past week has reversed nearly all my success in the sit-n-goes over the past month. In just one week, my run at Poker Stars has been so bad that I’m down $200. It’s been sick. The beats have been ridiculous, and worse the players have put their money in with [...]
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When I redesigned HoldemDogs.com, I decided to make it less of a poker strategy site and more of a personal reflection of my ideas and experiences. The emphasis would still be on poker, but from my point of view. Initially, I published a few of my original articles from the old HoldemDogs and a few new pieces, but [...]
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