http://pokeradept.com A blog about playing poker and improving your game Tue, 20 May 2008 00:57:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I jumped back into the poker pond last weekend. PokerStars is having an interesting promotion for the World Series of Poker.  You can win a seat to the Main Event ($10,000 Buy in)  plus $2,500 spending money, and hotel accomodations during the event, for as little as $7.50, or even ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/05/19/climbing-the-steps/ Sorry for the lack of posts the past few weeks. Sometimes you need to step away from the game and take a break, and that's what I've been doing.   I'm using this time to clear my head, do a little reading, and come back to the game with a fresh start ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/05/12/taking-a-break/ I wasn't able to play too much poker this weekend, but I did play a bit last night, and once again came tantelizingly close to the Big Enchilada. I played in a $33 buy-in event,  198 players. I was almost knocked out in the first 10 mins when some bozo sucked out ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/28/came-close-again/ Another tough session in Sit-N-Go Hell on Poker Stars tonight. After all was said and done, I ended up down $66.15 for the night. I took a few 3rds, and a 1st in the single table $6.50 Turbo Sit-N-Go's,  and didn't finish in the money in a few 3 and 5 table Sit-N-Gos. It ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/25/im-not-a-grinder/ What a strange evening. For the first time ever,  Pokerstars crashed on me while I was playing online. I had (3) single table Sit-N-Gos, and a 45 player tourmanet going at once, when BLAMO...  frozen tables... no connection. I tried for 30 mins to reconnect,  I couldn't even log onto the Pokerstars website from ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/23/network-problems-lead-to-win/  A quick update on the $300 challenge. The evening started out well enough,  I did very well in the $6.50 turbo Sit-N-Gos,  taking two 1sts, two 2nds, and a 3rd out of 8 tournaments. But then I pressed my luck, in the search for the Big Enchilada again. I entered the $109 Buy-In ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/22/another-tough-night/ So I jumped back into the poker pond this weekend and resumed the $300 challenge. However I really wasn't in the mood to grind it out playing dozens of tiny turbo sit-n-gos.  I know that's the mission of the $300 challenge, to try to have long term gains based on positive ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/21/a-shot-at-the-big-enchilada/   If you play a lot of poker, sooner or later you come to aquire a lot of URL's to helpfull websites, I thought I would share three usefull sites with you, hopefully you'll find these pretty usefull. Sharkscope By far one of the best player databases online.  Here you can search players on a ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/18/three-links-you-should-have/ Well on my 2nd night, the $300 challenge almost came to a screeching halt. I started on the $6.50 single table Sit-N-Go's, as planned,   and after a few hours was only able to get a few 3rd places and I think one 2nd.   I took a break, and then played some ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/16/the-bad-beat-blues/ I started the $300 challenge last night, and I didn't do all that badly. I only had time to play for an hour or so,  so I played in 5 Turbo $6.50 Sit-N-Go's on Poker Stars.   I finished 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, and 7th,  cashing three times for a grand total ... http://pokeradept.com/2008/04/15/300-challenge-first-night-results/