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July 2009 - Pud's Poker Progress

Welcome to the world of a small stakes player - a small stakes player with a dream.

Poker blog round-up: dD, Steve Holden, Vizer, Joppa Road and Julius Goat

This week's poker blog round-up contains some stalkers, bad beats, people quitting poker, some sick, a few funny videos and Rick Astley! Where else on the net could you find such a mixed bag of...

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Matthew Pitt

31 Jul 2009

They think it's all over...

...it is now! I've finally managed to make it to the 10,000 hand mark at $0.02/$0.04 and feel like hanging myself! Jesus it was stressful and something I would not like to repeat....

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Matthew Pitt

30 Jul 2009

Poker blog round-up: Raptor, Green Plastic, Acbarone and Scampmanio

It's poker blog round-up time and although the past week or so has been a bit of an anti-climax after all the goings on in Vegas, there have been some excellent blogs written, a selection...

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Matthew Pitt

24 Jul 2009

Feeling the burn

Matthew Pitt aka Yorkshire Pudding starts his fitness regime but suffers a set back in his 10k hand challenge.

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Matthew Pitt

22 Jul 2009

Poker blog round-up: Hit Squad, ex-Snowman, Foxwoods Fiend and It's Orange Not Red

The past couple of days have been really exciting for me mainly because the World Series of Poker Main Event was in full swing and some of the big names were still in. Reading and...

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Matthew Pitt

17 Jul 2009

Cheeseburgers are on me!

Whilst I haven't played an extra 2-4k hands as I originally planned at the end of my last post, I have managed to play around a thousand hands taking me close to 2,000 hands played...

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Matthew Pitt

16 Jul 2009

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

On Friday afternoon I finally started my No-limit Hold'em challenge by firing up the Betfair Poker client, sitting myself down at four cash tables with astronomical blinds of $0.02/$0.04 and started to grind towards my...

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Matthew Pitt

13 Jul 2009

Poker blog round-up: Pinky, Ant040689, JonnyBCash, Cheesies

Well the 2009 World Series of Poker is almost complete with around 2,000 players left in the Main Event all battling it out for the chance of the $8,500,000 first prize and title of World...

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Matthew Pitt

10 Jul 2009

A No-limit Hold'em experiment

When it comes to poker I am what some would call an underachiever. I'm like one of those youth team footballers that looks like they are going to be the next Premiership star but they...

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Matthew Pitt

6 Jul 2009

Poker blog round-up: Shamus, Melted Felt, Wicked Chops, Liquid Eyes and Greekstein

I've been fully immersing myself in the 2009 World Series of Poker these past few weeks, either reading or writing about it or even both. To say I am jealous of everyone out there is...

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Matthew Pitt

3 Jul 2009