tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316572822008-03-23T10:09:45.221-04:00JD52Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-82948047500821164932007-09-07T22:12:00.000-04:002007-09-07T22:16:23.637-04:00

Where am I? What have I been doing? As many of you have noticed my poker career has been on hold for a bit however... The location I am moving to is approximatly ten minutes from the Bay 101. I can assure you things around here are going to pick up very shortly. Everyone hang tight and thanks for visiting.

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1161355772998766552006-10-20T10:49:00.000-04:002007-08-15T19:21:48.450-04:00

101 Ways To Improve Your Poker Game#002 - Be Honest With Yourself.One very important tool every poker player should work on is the ability to objectively critique his or her own play.At the conclusion of every hand you should go over the hand you just played and decide whether or not you played it correctly. When analyzing in this fashion you should put little weight on the outcome of the hand.

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1161268935199181382006-10-19T10:42:00.000-04:002006-10-19T10:42:15.203-04:00

101 Ways To Improve Your Poker Game #001 - Be Patient In poker it is always vitally important to be patient with yourself, your opponents, and most importantly the cards. In hold'em for instance you only receive decent starting hands a small percentage of the time. Only a small percentage of those good starting hands will improve with the flop. Mostly poker is a game of waiting for your shot.

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1161178055446470292006-10-18T09:27:00.000-04:002007-03-07T10:59:58.661-05:00

I have recently seen a spike in traffic from people looking for information regarding the "Poker Ban" in the US. To call it a poker ban is somewhat of a misnomer because it doesn't ban or even make illegal playing poker online in the US. What does it do then? What it does, is attempt to make it illegal for financial institutions to knowingly make transactions with companies outside the US

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1160689479371722002006-10-12T17:44:00.000-04:002006-10-12T20:18:47.676-04:00

Here is another exciting episode of Poker Week in Review. WoooHooooRight now you are wondering why there is a picture of a pig in a barrel to the left. It is to remind you that while the government dosen't want you to have the right to transfer funds to online poker sites they are perpetually spending millions upon millions of tax payer's dollars on hundreds of pork barrel projects. Something to

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1160146102457556002006-10-06T10:48:00.000-04:002006-10-19T16:26:25.973-04:00

So the bill that I feel will effectively kill online poker as we know it in the US has passed the House and the Senate and is sitting on Bush's desk awaiting his signature. Most likely he will sign it. Amazing that 75% of the population of the US thinks the bill is bogus yet it is swept through the government faster than shit through a goose. Once online poker dies, many of you will be looking

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1160012682668417272006-10-04T21:44:00.000-04:002006-10-18T09:23:15.083-04:00

Here is a link to the full text of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Please notice that the first part of this is the completely unrelated Port Security Bill?!I think we need a little government reform here. How does it make any sense that certain parties can "tack on" garbage to completely unrelated topics to try and "sneak" them through. I do realize that the President can and

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1158973942516814562006-09-22T21:12:00.000-04:002006-09-23T11:24:39.380-04:00

As many of you know OwnMySeat.com sponsored a prize in the writing contest over at problogger.net. We would like to congratulate Lucy from Free-From.com who won the prize this site sponsored which was a $200 gift card to Amazon.com. Also here is a link to all the great submissions that were submitted. On to the poker stuff! WCOOP event #6 215 NL W/Rebuys. Imagine winning $221k playing poker

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1158636882539259132006-09-18T23:34:00.000-04:002006-09-18T23:34:42.600-04:00

Problogger.net is holding another group writing project and I am sponsoring one of the prizes.  The five people who win the prizes are randomly selected from the pool of entries. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/09/18/problogger-group-writing-project-how-to/ If you are serious blogger I highly suggest putting forth a legitimate effort to participate. Besides you could also win some cool

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1158437687411024072006-09-16T16:14:00.000-04:002006-09-16T16:14:47.436-04:00

Telling lies and being deceitful is a very big part of the game of poker. Here are a few links to articles how how to become a better liar. These articles are not specifically about poker but you can easily see how the concepts apply. http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/lie/lie.html http://www.wikihow.com/Lie

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1158435595021320222006-09-16T15:39:00.000-04:002006-09-16T15:39:55.140-04:00

I have come to the decision that once the list of newsletter subscribers to this site reaches 500 I will be holding a private online freeroll tournament specifically for subscribers. I am currently in talks with several online poker sites to determine who will be hosting it. This tournament will be for real money. The total amount of the prize pool has yet to be determined. This newsletter will  

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1158202097986120112006-09-13T22:48:00.000-04:002006-09-14T22:49:42.246-04:00

Moving UpMany times I hear newer players complain that the players at their current level play too crazy or too loose. They then try to use this fact to justify a move to a higher limit. This is incorrect. Regardless of how your opponents are playing there is a wrong way to play and a right way to play. If you have not yet learned how to deal with different types of play at your current level

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1157945881623971642006-09-10T23:38:00.000-04:002006-09-12T16:16:13.036-04:00

Since there was little or no news last week here are some links to some very important and useful articles on logical decision making. Not specifically about poker but it all applies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_makinghttp://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook5.htm

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1157724545443814352006-09-08T10:09:00.000-04:002006-09-08T11:38:50.300-04:00

Here are a few tell tale signs that a players who are new to the game are missing the point of poker.1. Wearing sunglasses to a $1-2 (or lower) no limit holdem game. Seriously they are not fashionable and they have no practical purpose at this level. Mostly the opponents you will face have little or no reading ability anyways. 2. Spending more time working on chip tricks than studying the game.

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1157125976739836812006-09-01T11:52:00.000-04:002006-09-01T11:52:56.786-04:00

Sorry for the shortage of posts this week folks. I have another big project that has been sucking up all of my time lately. Police have raided the home of WSOP final table participant Richard Lee. Police allege he was involved in an illegal gambling operation. Field hearing on the proposed internet gambling ban. How they can lump poker in with other gambling activities is beyond me. Daniel

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156652554679219982006-08-27T00:22:00.000-04:002006-08-27T00:28:29.950-04:00

In many cases the most profitable way to play poker is by going against the flow of a game.Here are two situations and examples of what is meant by this.You sit down and find that the table you have chosen is pretty tame. Not a whole lot of re-raising, bluffing, crazy play etc going on. Everyone is having a good time. Not many confrontations taking place. Raises are always the standard three

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156393072397948762006-08-24T00:17:00.000-04:002007-08-21T15:47:03.937-04:00

Due to the overwhelming over blogging of the strip poker world championship there will be no links to this event here. However I felt the photo was necesary. Online poker reaching out to the X-Game Generation. Big story from earlier this week. Jamie Gold is being sued for half of his WSOP payday. Sounds like it may be legit to me. The boys over at Rec.Gambling are at it again this year. The 13th

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156389670880273202006-08-23T23:21:00.000-04:002006-08-23T23:30:19.123-04:00

Position is one of the most important yet far too often overlooked concepts in poker.Regardless of which poker game you prefer the most advantages position you can have is the last position. It is the position where you literally have all the possible information regarding your opponents and how they have behaved up to this point. You get this info before you put a single cent into the pot.Being

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156209916511000452006-08-21T21:25:00.000-04:002006-09-14T18:37:21.443-04:00

ForewordBefore we get started here are a few things.Never risk more than you can afford to lose. If you find yourself selling off your personal possessions, mortgaging the house, or tearing through your child's college money it may be time to seek some counseling.At some point you should ask yourself if you are just playing for fun or if you are serious about growing your bankroll. Most people

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156099072691345192006-08-20T14:37:00.000-04:002006-08-20T21:45:30.390-04:00

Although I am relatively new to the poker blogging scene I have noticed that the vast majority of poker submissions to social networking sites such as Digg are blog spam. Of course this comes as no surprise to those who frequent these sites. As someone who cares a great deal about poker, both online and live I find this completely unacceptable. Below I have put together a list of identifying

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1156020169753931562006-08-19T16:42:00.000-04:002006-08-19T17:46:57.113-04:00

Daniel Negreanu is looking for another protege. From the sounds of it the first person to win this honor, Brian Fidler,  is doing quite well. Partypoker.com is on the verge of dealing their 5 billionth hand. This means a lot of milestone bonus hands leading up to the big one. Allyn Shulman blogs about his experience at the 2006 WSOP. Article from TheStreet.com talking about Harrah's ownership of

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1155871812587479652006-08-17T23:30:00.000-04:002006-08-19T17:57:43.190-04:00

Good poker players have very deliberate reasons for everything they do at the table. Here we will discuss the reasons behind raising and limping in preflop play.RaiseTo drive out other players with sub-standard hands. Any hand has better odds against fewer opponents. From Phil Gordon's Little Green BookPocket Aces against a random hand wins 85% of the time. Pocket aces against four random hands

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1155754370173319982006-08-16T14:52:00.000-04:002006-09-16T18:52:31.746-04:00

If you have ever played poker online or live you have most likely seen the following scenario take place.Player 1 makes a terrible call or silly all in raise. Usually involving bottom pair or a runner runner straight/flush draw. Usually 25% or less to win the hand.Player 2 has either a large made hand, flopped straight or flush or a large over pair in the hole. Usually 75% or more to win the

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1155699870133448072006-08-15T23:44:00.000-04:002006-08-16T00:04:19.893-04:00

As you can see the concept of this site has changed quite a bit from what it once was. Please do not panic. I can assure you there will be much more content here to keep all of you interested.In addition to all of the original content I have planned I will also be posting a weekly blog with updates from around the poker world. I decided this would be a good way to kick things off.Daniel

JD52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31657282.post-1153960425583046612006-07-26T20:33:00.000-04:002006-07-26T20:41:34.600-04:00

There should be more professional poker players involved in this suit. Should they win it will impact anyone who ever plays in a WPT poker event. Their biggest problem is that to participate you "must" sign a waiver which gives the WPT permission to use your likeness in any way they see fit. It is a rip and has been an issue long before this lawsuit. read more digg story Here is a link to

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