Quest of a Closet Poker Player

If you didn’t know or haven’t kept up, Dr. Chako is in Iraq doing medical duty with our troops.  His wife has also started a blog to capture some of her experiences as he is so far away.  If you haven’t dropped by there, I encourage you to do so regularly.

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cmitch at Opoker had a link to an upcoming documentary by N 82 50 24 on four UGA online players, including Jeff “yellowsub” Williams.

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Out of pocket for a few days as PokerWorks did some maintenance on servers etc.  I wanted to get deeper into the month’s results (now back up to -$300 or so for the month).  Specifically, I wanted to look at these big pots that I’ve been losing, as well as why I win some of them.  It seems every step forward I make is joined by another backwards.  Interesting what data shows.

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Thanks to everyone who has emailed me or left comments regarding my big losing session.  I’ve come up with a new gameplan which hopefully will strengthen my poker pursuits in the coming months.

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The results (-$2,357.20) always trigger this, but I’d been contemplating whether all of this is worth it before yesterday’s disastrous run.

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Annette “annette_15″ Obrestad has hounded the online MTT world for the last year or so, quickly becoming one of the dominant players at big tourneys and small alike. At the tender age of eighteen, she’s become the latest woman to take home a WSOP bracelet and now the youngest bracelet winner in the history of the World Series.

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As you know, PokerWorks is a website whose revenue comes from advertising and signing up for poker sites.  I’d been asked to look at Duplicate Poker, which seemed like another in a very, very long list of poker sites.  I even downloaded the software to check it out.  Seeing very few players, I shrugged and filed it away as another site not to worry too much about.  Then I received an email from Nolan Dalla.

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I was four-tabling yesterday on PokerStars when I stumbled upon what I considered a very difficult table. How do you approach a table with a couple maniacs on it?

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I can’t remember the last time I only posted once in a week, but for various reasons last week was one of them.  Highlights include online gin rummy, movies, and a sure-fire way not to get loving from your wife for probably at least a month.

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I’d held off even mentioning anything about this until I received an email upon my return from the Labor Day Weekend.

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