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I’m making the transition to a full time video blog now.  Give me feedback guys!  Tell me what you think.

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When A Slow Night Goes Bad - Short Stack Update

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Week 2 Better Than Week 1

The play in week two of the Short Stack Challenge has solidified some of the thoughts I had after week one.  My play was limited to only two days but I found that I was much more successful than last week.

Keeping my stack at a minimum of 20BB’s helped facilitate a quicker move up in levels.  Where I might have had to double up twice last week due to losing money in the blinds, this week a single double up would allow me to move on to the next level.  Using that strategy I was able to hit the 1/2 level which I was unable to obtain in week one.

Playing only premium hands helped keep the guess work out of the equation.  That made the play easier but also much less fulfilling and also much more boring.  It does appear to be the formula for success as a short stacker at this point so that’s what I’ll keep doing.

I started the week $18 in the hole but managed to come out $20 up.  That means I’ll be starting at the .5/1 tables instead of the .25/.50 when I begin play this week.

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Bet You Wish You Were This Good

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RSS Awareness Day

In recognition of RSS awareness day I want to point out the RSS feeds for my current blogs/projects.  That amounts to a total of three right now but come late summer I’ll be launching a few more projects.

• My Poker Blog
• Poker Sift Blog
• Poker Tech Reviews Blog

There are also numerous RSS readers out there.  The one I use is Google Reader.  Check it out!

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WSOP Now The WFOP - World Farce Of Poker

They went and made the nonsense official.  As was rumored Harrah’s and ESPN have decided to destroy the greatest brand in poker.

The World Series of Poker will pause play on July 14th when the event is scheduled to be down to nine players.  Those nine will return on November 9th to play out the final table.  The next day the final two players will play heads up to determine the eventual “champion”.  Capping things off ESPN will air a two-hour showing of the final table on November 11th.

That’s right.  The final table will be delayed 4 fucking months so that ESPN can air a two hour shove fest.  So what the hell changes here?  At least make it interesting and show the damn thing live.  If ESPN isn’t going to change the format of it’s telecast then what’s the point?

I covered my arguments against this a few posts back so I won’t rehash it here.  I just can’t believe they went ahead and followed through with it.

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Movie Night sooo Play Delayed

Wife wants to watch a movie tonight so I’m going to pick up AVP2.  That means I won’t be playing at my scheduled time… maybe later.

peace out

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Short Stack Challenge Week 1

Week one did not go as swimmingly as I had hoped. Ending the week down $36 after starting on an upswing was a little disheartening.  I did manage to try a few different strategies though and I’m going to work on refining a few things during week 2.

To start with, only play solid starting hands.  When playing short stack you simply don’t have the chips to try anything speculative.  Sure you might get lucky and hit something for a big pot, but if your looking to get lucky with a hand, don’t play it.

Twenty big bets is enough to see a flop for a standard raise but if nothing pans out on the flop you simply don’t have the chips to continue with the hand.

Other players will call your all in with weak holdings.  Try to get all in as soon as possible in the hand.  Preflop is fine but the flop is better.

That’s it, I’ll incorporate these items for this week and see how it goes.

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Let Me Know What You Think

The blog over at Poker Tech Reviews doesn’t get much traffic yet so I need to tap my readers.  I believe we’ve settled on a logo and I want to get some opinions.  I like it because it’s simple yet sophisticated.  What do you think?

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Video Post Short Stack Challenge Update

I don’t seem to have much time to write anymore so I’m going to start doing more video updates.  Here is the first one, if you can’t see it in RSS (I’ll try to fix it) then please visit the site.

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