Archive for December, 2008

The "Ignore It and Hope It Goes Away" Game: Success Story #34

Several weeks ago I was up in Indiana for some reason… I forget why. Probably to plant some corn or talk about basketball or something. Anyway, I had a rental car from Enterprise that I had put nearly 1,000 miles on in a week. On mile #975, I backed into my friend’s mailbox and put [...]

Non-Poker

New Orleans Wrap-Up

Three New Orleans $5k events, three second-to-final-table finishes. Last night, I technically got a taste of what making a final table there would be like. We combined to one table of 10 players. I was pretty short stacked and moved all-in with Tens. Two guys behind me woke up with Aces and Queens. Not much [...]

Poker Travels, WSOP

N’awlins Day One

Just finished up day one of the $5,000 buy-in “Winter Bayou Poker Classic” in New Orleans. Only 102 players came together for this one. Thirty-three of us made it to tomorrow and I’m sitting really healthy with 92,000 (average is about 60,000). This was all thanks to getting Kings all-in preflop against David Fox’s Aces [...]

Poker Travels, WSOP

Idea for Monetizing Facebook

Okay if you don’t know much about how the business of running a website works, here’s a quick crash course:
You make a site that (presumably) gives people something they want. Whether it’s information (PokerTips.org), entertainment (YouTube), or a medium through which to connect to their friends (Facebook), the idea is the same in each situation: [...]

Non-Poker