Quest of a Closet Poker Player

This is my last post at PokerWorks. My departure is a bit complicated.

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Jim McManus wrote a recurring weekend column on poker for the New York Times. It was short-lived, missing the mark it seems for both poker zealots and the general population alike. Sunday’s article on the death of Frank DeSena, unfortunately, was read more widely.

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Kajagugu highlighted a recent 2+2 thread of an internal FullTilt email generated by Howard Lederer.  It was posted by Jimmy “goboboy” Fricke, last year’s runner-up at the Aussie Millions.  Here is a snippet of Fricke’s request to FullTilt and the comment from Lederer.

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Sweetie fell asleep with the Little Guy last night, which meant I got to sneak into the Mook.  The result:  a final table, this time making an arguably bad play to go out in 5th.

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After reading an article on Slate about the Mario Brothers sequel deemed too hard for Americans, I decided to watch a master at work on YouTube.

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I made it through jury duty unscathed last week, but watching the boys while Sweetie had a girls weekend away proved to be a bit more challenging.

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Well, I guess it could be worse.  I could have been in this hand…

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Ridiculous. I’ve now found something that is more of a waste of time than online poker: Age of Empires.

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So, I guess I’ve figured out that my Sony Vaio laptop has a whole video component to me (quick on the uptake here).  Without further ado and no editing comes the launch edition.

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I was able to play in a blogger tourney for the first time in a long while as a record 112 players convened in the Mookie.  I had a wild ride along the way.

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