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Re-isolating
Re-isolating is one of the most dangerous, yet also potentially rewarding moves in poker, particularly at the higher limits.... Read more | Comment now
Changing Your Behaviour When Re-Stealing
After reading Marcus Bateman's excellent piece about when you should be re-stealing, I thought I'd look at the situations where you should be looking to change your own behavior depending on the stack sizes around you.... Read more | Comment now
Attacking The Big Stack
Most players in tournaments try and avoid the big stack at the table. This is mainly because they can bust you, where as you can't bust them - which gives them a sizable psychological and practical edge over you.... Read more | Comment now
Heads up SNGs - Position
The single most important concept to understand when playing heads up is position. If you do not understand the importance of position and how to use it to your advantage you will be an easy target in any heads up... Read more | Comment now
Kick Boxing Main Event In Latest Prop Bet
Seems like it's the Prop Bet season and last year's weight loss bet with Rolande De Wolfe now seems pretty tame compared to what I have in store once the WSOP starts.... Read more | Comments (3)
Bellagio Videos
Couple of videos below while at The Bellagio hanging out with the best DJ in the world Tiesto and the freaky magician Antonio Esfandiari! Antonio Esfandiari bets Tiesto's friend Val Kolton $7,000 on a coin flip!!! Coinflip 1. Heads or... Read more | Comment now
A quick review of 2008 - Sorel Mizzi
Passing the million dollars mark in live tournament earnings, winning my first major live event and being just one river card away from winning a WSOP bracelet all meant 2008 was a pretty special year for me at the poker... Read more | Comment now
Collusion and soft playing in Italy
So I'm in Italy to do an interview on an Italian poker television show called "Poker Sportivo" in Bologna and there just so happens to be a 2200 Euro event 200 km away in Venice. How can I pass this... Read more | Comment now
Day 3 Niagara - Ups and downs and pleased with a cash
I'm start off on a decent table with one good online player and Gavin Smith. I lose the first three pots I play and get down to about 170k. Then I make a really good value bet against Gavin with... Read more | Comment now
Day 2 Niagara - Short-stack to top ten stack
After ending Day 1 with just 9,100 chips, I had a lot of work to do. With the blinds being 400/800 with antes, realistically, I have low expectations, but it is a fun stack to play, and I never give... Read more | Comment now
Day 1 Niagara - Should have shoved on the flop
Day 1 was uninteresting in the early levels. I played a solid game in the beginning and got up to 40,000 within the first hour by playing very standard. However, during the later levels of Day 1, there were some... Read more | Comment now
Cutting down on mistakes
I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about some hands from WPT Niagara while it's still fresh in my mind. I think I played the entire tournament near perfect other than two or three mistakes I made throughout the... Read more | Comment now
LOL Donkaments
Started Day 2 with 68k at 400/800... proceeded to lose 16k chips with AQ vs JJ all in preflop.... table got broke. Proceeded to lose another 22k chips with AK vs TT.... at this point I'm at 20k at a... Read more | Comment now
EPT Barcelona
I woke up in the morning of the tournament and went for a nice long run... does wonders for clearing my head. I recommend it to anyone =) Started the day off really well by doubling up to 20k after... Read more | Comment now
Backkkk in Business
Back on the circuit! After a long (2 month) break from intense poker following the WSOP, I am finally ready to start traveling the circuit again and playing in enough tournaments in enough different countries to keep me living out... Read more | Comment now
What Grinds My Gears: Journalists making comments without Merit
You know what really grinds my gears?... Read more | Comments (6)
The run continues.....
Okay, so I get to my $1500 PLO rebuy table, look around, and see absolutely no one I even remotely recognize. Generally speaking, this is usually a sign of a table that isn't going to be doing much gambling during... Read more | Comments (3)
WSOP Events 1 and 2 + Weight loss bet results
The first two WSOP events have been quite disappointing... In the 10k Pot Limit Holdem event I got off to.a really good start by winning big pots in situations where I had my opponents drawing to very few outs.... Read more | Comments (2)
Updates on weight loss prop bet!
Okay, so Roland and I decided to cancel the 1k penalty rule since both of us had gotten penalties from eating restricted food way too many times and it was hard to keep track of. Pretty sure Roland would have... Read more | Comments (2)
EPT Monte Carlo- Part 2
The EPT Grand Final had a structure similar to the WSOP which meant tons of play throughout the entire tournament. At my table I recognized three players, Greg Raymer who was to my immediate right, David Peters (dpeters online) to... Read more | Comments (5)
EPT Monte Carlo- Part 1
When we arrived at Nice Airport we had the option of taking a cab to Monte Carlo or going in style and taking a helicopter over the French Riviera to MC. The interesting thing is taking the helicopter was only... Read more | Comment now
EPT San Remo and future of poker
Another EPT another day 1 bust out. I was down to 3k chips in the first level after the following hand occurred:... Read more | Comments (3)
Winter sports, prop bets and Warsaw trip report
A couple weeks after Copenhagen my friend Roland De Wolfe invited me out for a 1 week skiing trip with himself and his parents in Zermatt, Switzerland. I elected to go snowboarding instead of skiing as I remembered having a... Read more | Comments (3)
Setting the record straight on that FTP issue
I have fought and debated with several people including myself about talking any further about the FTP issue. Most people have advised me to "let it go," "don't raise the issue again", "people will forgive and forget". Despite the advice... Read more | Comments (8)
Hi... Welcome to my blog
I've been meaning to start writing a blog for quite some time but haven't really had the time or motivation to kick it off. One of Betfair's requirements is that I keep an updated blog, so that's more than enough... Read more | Comments (5)
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