Archive for August 2006
Life on the road
On my trip back from Vegas this week I encountered two innovations that really struck me. The first isn’t new to me, though I think it’s quite a find for many: the airline seat map service SeatGuru.Com. Nowadays most of us book enough of our flights and checkin online that we choose our own seats. …
Read MoreAnd the hits keep coming.
Chris and I just watched Katie in the 11:30am Paris tourney. She nursed a small stack until she caught decent cards and became a force at the final table and eventually taking third place for $280. Congrats Katie!
Read MoreDrunken $2/$4
I went over to Bally’s to catch up with Chris, who was crushing the low limit table and beating the rake (quite a feat). After the statistical bath he’s taken for a few days, I wanted to hang out with him and keep him company while he was winning. But my brain hurt. I’d been…
Read More..and then I took second in the next tournament.
I got incredibly lucky several times when I hit improbable flops, though I did choose my spots well. I pocketed $400 and decided to take the night off and go keep Chris company while he crushed the $2/$4 table at Bally’s.
Read More…but that’s not all.
We went over to the Paris casino and played in the 1:30pm tourney. 50 people played for $50 each with the top 6 paid. My KJ beat an AJ early on and once I picked up a big stack I never looked back. At the final table once I had the chip lead I stole…
Read More..and I’m out.
my ten-ten ran into ace-ace. off to play more tourneys at paris.
Read More1,400 at end of first level.
my aj ran into ak or better on an ak4 flop and I folded.
Read MoreTeam Safdar: Live from the WSOP
Welcome to Team Safdar, Live from the Rio at the World Series of Poker 2006. We are Shabbir’s local support staff, and will be updating you throughout the day on Shabbir’s progress in Event #40, $1000 buyin NL Hold’em. For those of you who have somehow managed to secure secret video of the event, he…
Read Morewell here we go…
1,500 in chips and we’re about to start. surprise! it’s 11 handed. 🙂
Read MoreWell i could swear this thing started at 10am…
…but it starts at 11am. now we have to kill time…
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