Archive for May 2007
Most awesomest Ranger Rick video ever!
My colleague Jordan Hirsch recently got cast in a new video for Ranger Rick that was too funny. I’d totally forgot about Ranger Rick, but he’s 40 this year and they cast Jordan to do a web video about his relevance. Check it out, and hire him if you need acting work, just don’t take…
Read MoreOur stuff has arrived.
What little stuff we brought originally to California we could easily fit in a rented van. We’ve been living on it for 3 months, and as I said to a close friend, we weren’t that attached to it. In fact I suspect that were the van stolen, it would save us a lot of hassle. …
Read MoreTaking a shot at $8/$16
I feel I’ve got my $6/$12 game under control, and so tonight as I waited for a seat at $6/$12 I sat in the $8/$16 game (half kill). The half kill means that if you win two pots in a row, the stakes go up to $12/$24. I’m comfortable at these stakes, but I don’t…
Read MoreTilting to the left of me, tilting to the right, here I am stuck in the middle…
The lady to the right of me is muttering that the guy to my left is "brilliant, just brilliant. Just keep playing those cards." He consistently plays junk and beats her top pair because she doesn’t know how to play post-flop and can’t smell two pair. When she starts, he starts talking to himself, calling…
Read MoreMy big mistake, and how I lucked my way out of it.
An afternoon session of $6/$12 at Garden City Casino yielded this hand in which I executed a strategy that would have been otherwise smart at this table, and it backfired on me. I caught a lucky card and ended up with a big pot. Sitting in middle position, I was dealt black Aces. A strong…
Read MoreIt’s time to get serious.
I’ve taken the last two afternoons off to play cards with Katie while she was visiting. We logged good time at both Bay 101 and Garden City Casino. (We liked the players at Garden City more, since they were more passive) I had a couple of epiphanies during my 7 hour $6/$12 session with Katie,…
Read MoreWell, I lived through 40.
I made it to and through 40. Steve graciously took and posted a gazillion photos up to flickr, including this one at right. If you missed it, I’m sorry, stick around until I’m 70. Incidentally, if this party looks like a lot of fun, I suggest you hire Johanna Walsh, our friend and party planner…
Read MoreI should be sleeping…
…but I’m posting my rah rah hand moment. I played at the Big Dirty Game tonight. It was destined to be a tension filled evening. Of course I couldn’t forget my $800 slide there the last two sessions, along with my self-doubt that I was playing without a clue. After my successful no limit weekend…
Read MoreAtlantic City revisited
I just came back from my first of two birthday weekend celebrations in Atlantic City. Apart from the poker, I met someone from the local Maryland poker community, ehonda. The guy actually plays poker as much as I wish I could! Go check out his blog, I’ve been reading it for a while and when…
Read MoreBay Area Poker Information
Now that I’m starting to settle in California a bit I’m starting to aggregate information about poker rooms out here. I’ve built two useful resources for people interested in Texas Holdem poker in the Bay area. The first is a Bay area map of casinos that I know have poker rooms. I’m using “Bay Area”…
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