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Poker Update – Running good

Poker Update – Running good

So I havent posted in a while, mainly because ive been moving house and also playing more than ever, Ive been running good so its encouraging me to play more. Ive had some more poker coaching with my poker coach reviewing my playing style by analysing a video of me playing online. Its given me [...]

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Poker Lesson – Thanksgiving is all about the giving

Poker Lesson – Thanksgiving is all about the giving

Biggest poker lesson I will ever pass on is to always always play poker when the yanks have a public holiday. For the last two nights ive never seen anything like it, just pure donators on every single table. It takes me back to 2003 when nobody online knew what they were doing, and basically [...]

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Largest Pot in Online Poker History – Part ii

Largest Pot in Online Poker History – Part ii

The most important poker lesson I ever learnt was that of bankroll management. In fact, I pride myself on my ability to not play in games that are beyond my means, its all about the discipline. Given this, its just amazing for me to see whats going on in the online poker world over the [...]

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Largest Pot in Online Poker History

Largest Pot in Online Poker History

Breaking news, the record has just been broken for the largest pot in online poker history – a whopping $878,958.50. That’s real money, not tournament chips! The beneficiary was Patrik Antonius who is arguably the top online cash game player in the world. The donator being ‘Isildur1′ who, as mentioned a few days ago on [...]

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20 buy-ins in 14days, boomswitch activated?

20 buy-ins in 14days, boomswitch activated?

About 2 weeks ago, I had a minor downswing at $2/$4, nothing major, and well within my bankroll limits, however, I decided to step down a limit to freshen up my game, and generally build some confidence back. I think this is key, given there is such a fine line in poker between thinking you’re [...]

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James Akenhead is my hero, or should that be isildur1

James Akenhead is my hero, or should that be isildur1

So, the online poker world has quite simply gone crazy this week, high stakes poker player durrrr has got action from some lunatic swede called isildur1. To cut to the chase, isildur1 is up about $2.7m for the month, most of which coming from durrrr. These guys are 6 tabling $500/$1000 which is just nuts. [...]

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DuskTillDawn and James in the WSOP Main Event

DuskTillDawn and James in the WSOP Main Event

So im registered for the £80k guaranteed at DuskTillDawn tomorrow, hopefully will see some of you down there. Drop me a bell here if you’re planning on playing. Im due a big tourney score, so here’s to shipping first. lol.
As a side note, a special shout out to James Akenhead of the Poker Hitsquad (see [...]

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live poker this weekend

live poker this weekend

Ive decided im due a big score in a tournament, so looks like I will be heading to Dusk till Dawn this weekend to play in their £100k guaranteed. With a buy-in of just £300, its not particularly a cost effective use of my time, but playing in live tournaments has other benefits such as [...]

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back to back $1k days, and a couple of £1k hands

back to back $1k days, and a couple of £1k hands

The last week or so has been pretty swingy, but finally ive been able to string a few sessions together with the net result of having back to back $1k days. Obviously im happy with that, and its cementing another good month for me.
 
Here are some fun hands, both around the $1600 mark, which for us brits [...]

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Marathon Poker Session…sort of

Marathon Poker Session…sort of

Haven’t played much so far for October, so on Saturday I decided to put in a ‘marathon’ session. I say marathon, I played for 6 hours, which for me is a marathon session. Hahaha. I played Saturday lunchtime (GMT) and the games were sick soft, so im definitely going to try to play more around [...]