TripJax

Mookie 3 Not To Be
Sunday, July 05, 2009

Not much happening in my poker world these days. I played the first event in the Bodog 2009 Mini Series on Friday, but only made it about 1/3 of the way through. I missed last nights event due to July 4th partying, but I'm signed up tonight. Hope to see you there.

Other than that, I played The Mookie with a massive 14 entrants and almost landed my 3rd title, finishing in 2nd place. Let me just say, I don't care if there are 200 or 2 entrants, if I can win a Mookie I'll have a smile on my face. Oh well, it was not to be as Lightning36 took it down. Well done sir. I'm thankful I did cash since my Mookie buy-in brought my balance down to $.24 at Full Tilt after recently cashing out my roll for upcoming travel funds (unfortunately not Okie-Vegas).

That's about it for me lately. See you all at the tables.

Until next time, may the felt be with you.

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Until next time, may the felt be with you.

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"America, F#%k Yeah!"
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Happy 4th Everyone...

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Speaking French, In Russian, While Eating Mexican. Thank You Dos Equis XX.
Friday, June 26, 2009

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The Onion Needs New Material...Or My Services. Read On...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

There's no denying I dig The Onion. They make me laugh and, several times in the past, I've written posts as if I was a writer for them. I enjoyed it and I hope I made 1 or 2 people laugh. In the end I did it because I have a blog and...well...I can (rip brandi).

All that said, I now have to laugh when I wrote this in May 2008...

LPGA Commissioner Euthanizes Annika Sorenstam

And they just pumped this out in June 2009...

Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg

If I find out Julius Goat, is the editor for The Onion, there's gonna be some splainin' to do.

Until next time, may the felt be with you.

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Bodog 2009 Mini Series Coming July 3rd
Monday, June 22, 2009

The poker world is in a frenzy with the 2009 WSOP recently hitting the halfway point. For those unable to make it to Vegas, but still looking for some poker action, I'm happy to report some pretty cool opportunities coming courtesy of Bodog.

For starters, Bodog is again making good for the poker bloggers out there with the Bodog 2009 Mini Series, starting Friday, July 3rd. Be sure to keep up with the action and full details over at Smokkee's site. His latest post offers more details, but I'll go ahead and give you the mini scoop...

The top 9 leader board finishers receive:

1st place: A 2010 WSOP Main Event seat and a 2010 Team Bodog membership (valued at $12,000).

2nd and 3rd place: A Bodog Poker Open IV Prize Package (or a buy-in to all BPOIV events to be hosted in the fall of 2009).

4th and 5th place: A Bodog Flight Club Semifinal seat (valued at $270).

6th thru 9th place: A seat to a Sunday $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament (valued at $109).

I'm hoping to play all of the 13 qualifying events and, if things go well, the semifinal and final as well. I hope you'll join me along the way. With 13 events over 13 days and a total of 15 events over 21 days, it is sure to be a crazy time. Of course you don't have to play them all, but the more you play, the better chance for pay!

Also, If you are looking for action above and beyond the Mini Series, don't forget about the 2009 WSOP Main Event props and odds available at the Bodog Sportsbook. I'm thinking about putting a little bit of coin down on a bet or two, but I haven't decided what I want to do yet. I've really enjoyed the times I've put action down in their sportsbook and I've actually run pretty goot overall.

So there you have it. Again, be sure to visit Smokkee early and often if you have any questions or comments regarding the series.

Until next time, may the felt be with you.

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Wisdumb by TripJax

Today's lesson learned involves...wait for it...wait for it...poker! How about that?!

This one is simple and if you've played online poker enough, you've probably been there.

Buying into a tournament when you know you don't have time due to prior obligations.

Maybe you have enough time to make it halfway through or even into the money, but ultimately you know you have to go well before the final table or 1st place.

Well here is my shocking words of wisdumb...

DON'T BUY-IN TO THE TOURNAMENT YOU TERARD!

If you are not in it to take it down, you shouldn't be in it at all.

You will either fonk it all away, realizing you wasted your money, or get a nice stack and lament your chances when you have to leave, again wasting your money.

So save your money and do something else before you have to go do whatever it is you do when you do that thing you have to do. Yeah, I'm not gonna re-write that last sentence, even though I should.

In the past I've bought into tournaments KNOWING I couldn't stay the whole time and I always felt like an idiot when I was walking out the door.

So take it from me and stay away if you don't have time to play.

Until next time, may the felt be with you.

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Happy Pappy's Day Wankers!
Sunday, June 21, 2009

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Fon-Do or Fon-Don't?
Friday, June 19, 2009

Fun times were had during birthday dinner #2 for SupaNats. We were a tad worried about an 8 and 4 year old at a quiet fondue restaurant, but they were behaved and, surprisingly, ate very well. Knowing the melted chocolate was the finale helped the cause. Now for the pictures...all that food on the table and they are scarfing down lemons...

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