Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Ten mins late and event not st…
Ten mins late and event not started yet. Harrahfail
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
blog updates
Despite strong personal and politico-philosophical reservations regarding the use of twitter and related phenomena, I have temporarily handed in my Neo-Luddite membership card and will experiment with tweeting during live tourneys. Unfortunately, it is clearly the most efficient method. And so I am dragged, figuratively kicking and screaming, into the 21st century, less than a [...]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Lunch with ace who kindly lent…
Lunch with ace who kindly lent me some td reading material. Terry fator show tonight with sash and rie as i have a surprise day off.
1 Comment » - Posted in Tournaments by Spencer
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Out
10 minutes before end of day, was down to 5300 at 8/16, opened AKs utg and Amir Vahedi 3bet from co with 44. I 4 bet, bet 753 flop and put in the last 1300 on 6 turn drawing dead.
Amir only had about 10k himself to start the hand, but he and Marcel Luske seem [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Tournaments, World Series of Poker 2009 by Spencer
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Event #38: $2k Limit HE — Third Break.
“Had 22k down 2 15k now. Dropped 5k calling down k hi was prob fine tho”
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Event #38: $2k Limit HE — Dinner break.
13k. Spence said avg around 8k.
An interesting hand: Blind levels 150/300
MP open-limps. Spence raises in late position. brock in BB calls, limper calls. Flop is AA2. MP checks, Spence bets, brock folds, MP raises, Spence calls.
Turn is a 10. MP bets, Spence raises, MP thinks and mucks. Spence shows his 9-8.
Comments Off - Posted in Tournaments, World Series of Poker 2009 by Julia
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Event #38: $2k Limit HE — 2nd Break
Nice recovery from being down to 4k after the first break, and Spence is now sitting on 8k.
Next update at dinner in 2 hours.
And can someone please talk Spence into using twitter for tournament updates? So far, I’ve made no headway.
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
wsop schedule
June 19th $2k LHE
June 21st $2500 Mixed (8-Game)
June 23rd $2500 O8
June 26th $1500 LHE Shootout
June 29th $1500 NL
July 4th $10k NL Man Event
Comments Off - Posted in Tournaments, World Series of Poker 2009 by Spencer
Monday, June 1st, 2009
green shoots of recovery
are appearing, at least in relation to my own fiscal downturn. It’s no secret that the year has been pretty torrid for me with some large negative numbers from high stakes cash games, a chiplead in London blown early on 2nd day and a general doubt creeping in as to whether I was over the [...]