Chasing Chris Ferguson

This poor lonely little blog started out with such a strong idea. The idea fizzled as the year went on. Turning -0- into 10K is no easy task. Unless you get monumentally lucky and hit some tournament pay-outs in the high numbers, it’s almost impossible. (more…)

Let me set the stage. If you’ve followed my poker playing nightmare here, and read along as it unfolded, and you play poker, then you have been right where I’ve been. Never picking up a playable hand and when you do, you can’t win the pot, even if it’s a BIG DUKE (John Wayne type of hand), it gets shot down by some lesser crapball and you are once again shaking your head (typing swear words as you NOTE the player), and wondering if there’s something written in stone in a cave somewhere that would prevent you from ever winning a tournament…or even one stinking hand. (more…)

that they have allowed the Card Fairy free reign to fuck with me? No. If you followed my play closely, you would see that I am set upon by monsters that are unseen and twists of fate that would point at cheating but it is only the Card Fairy spinning her ugly web as she pounds me into mortal hamburger, removing all semblance of human flesh, ripping out the cartilage and bone that was once the fiber of my structure and held me together, now only my inexhaustible, undefeatable spirit roams the green felt tables of cyberspace. (more…)

My title is appropriate for both my poker play and the season! Once again, I got into the Tourney $ freeroll at Full Tilt that runs at 7:40 p.m. ET.  (more…)

It’s almost Halloween and what have you seen, in those nights betwixt and between?

That old full moon just couldn’t wait, so darker a night Halloween will make!

The Jack ‘ Lanterns sneer in knowing, that much evil will be flowing.

The witches brew will be a’ bubble, making way for much more trouble!

The vampires, werewolves, goblins and ghouls, will be on the look out for all brave fools.

But when it is all said and done, hope your Halloween is lots of fun! (more…)

Sundays are usually the day I play most of the day. Not by choice, but because that happens to be when PokerStars decides to schedule the tournaments I want to play in. Today it was the Million Dollar Man (MDM) 500 FPP tournament and the Sunday $200k guaranteed event. Then this evening it was the PokerWorks Family HORSE tourney.

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If you do, now is your chance! Come take us on - in the PokerWorks bi-monthly HORSE tourney on Sunday October 19th. Registration is now open on PokerStars and it is only a $5.00 + 0.50 buy-in and you can afford to spend that for some fun! (more…)

I wish I had some really hot meaty news to report but I only have cold potatoes! (more…)

By choice I am low rolling in Freeroll or FPP buy-in tournaments. I have jumped in and out of ring games, just long enough to know I am still in the card-dead-zone.  The way things are going right now, I don’t have a lot of desire to risk much money playing anything. (more…)

Paying attention to the game brings me to the fact that the beats are paramount in every aspect of poker, and though it seems like Murphy’s Law has me singled out, they happen to everyone. I read a lot of tournament reports simply because they come across the pages of PokerWorks and I am the editor, and I play a ton of poker when I get started on a day of play. I may go for two or three days without playing, but when I do decide to settle in, I usually play nine or 10 tournaments or more. Yes they are always free rolls or frequent player points tournaments because I have no bankroll. (more…)