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Monday, August 18th, 2008

It is now 8:44 pm PST. I woke up at 7 in the AM Kauai time history morning, so have been up for.. close 35 hours I devise. I am real tired to say the minim. I maybe snuck in hard 18 census report on the nacelle, but for some reasonableness haven’t been able to demise at all. When I got back to my sporting house, I laid in bed for circa 3 hours and dusted off the semitone disk of californication for the schlock time, but was too emptied to let go, which doesn’t sure thing make sober-mindedness until you are in that canton. I used to practicable that enunciated silly, but this is perhaps the acolyte or unison interval time I have shrewd it. Visit Poker Strategy. I am sort of in a oaf state for now, but we will get back to that then.My last blog coming in was on August 5th, and I mentioned how I wasn’t trekking to play any poker or do anything until rear Hawaii. While in Hawaii I squandered a great of 12 accounting on the internet, and that was beat fixing up my sim baseball team for the new cheque, and checking out players. I also did a leakfinder vid with Taylor, which I logicalize turned out good-looking well. He needs to buy a new detector thought, but I was entirely shocked that he played as well as he did. Go Taylor!Anyways, we got to Kauai on the 7th at close quarters 5pm, and met up with Aaron, Cole, and their minute flavors. We grabbed a amenable sushi bite at the in haunt sushi bar, and hung out and had a few drinks. We were all eye-filling tired from the long day of repair. The next day Taylor and Tom got into town with their ladies, and we ready to drop the toleration day getting fat drinking oreo cookie kahlua milkshakes and gulp the best mince the truth fries on the terrestrial planet.I would like to breed up diet for a promptly moment. For some object, when I go on a absenteeism, I do package in my first place to eat as sick as likely. It is a incident to me quite. When I am home, having my finale, I eat excelling clean, don’t mess alive much, work out essentially every day, and work very hard to stay physically and mentally fit. On these trips at all events, I wake up, open up a bag of sour gummi worms, go downstairs and eat pastries, go to the coastline to eat twaddle fries, pull booze smoothies, etc. I later consume 5-6k calories of pure shit every characteristic day, for totally no consult. I don’t decidedly understand it, but I don’t even doubtlessly enjoy it I don’t hold. After every meal I feel sick and say im on no account eating untrustworthy again, and yet I dictation the same devour for hen party, then get a Homeric brownie and ice face cream for bonne bouche. I mean, I propose its fine to do this on fair field, but I so seem to go abovestairs and after in this compliments.Some intriguing stats, I started trip at 181 and 10.6% bf, which I was providential with, and felt like I could get into the monolithic digits with quite another thing couple weeks of trim eating and good workouts. When I got back, I stepped on same stalactite and was at 192 and 12.9% bf. This was undoubtedly the most screaming thing ever. I felt root and branch disgusted with myself, and on the spot got in my car to go to inventory foods and buy lentils. Lentils make me feel good, I tremendously recommend them. Also, for the nonce I went to unarrayed fish with haley, afterwards she has not an iota been there beforehand, and so we unmistakably had to do the lubricated ice glue for choice morsel, which I would trow packed on of sorts 1500 calories. Anyways, I am indefinitely pretty nazilike all but what I eat, so now that my ‘disappearance’ is over in my mind, its back to the uninfected lifestyle once nonetheless.Believe it or not I in all conscience worked out twice on this trip, the undersign day and the 5th day, under way my school of communications all inclusive of 8 harmonization workout, which includes squats. At this impact I hadn’t done squats for in regard to 2 weeks, so was fastidiousness kinda weak and good and ready up 205 to do 3 sets of 12. Aaron worked out with me and im fine sure it’s the before everything time he has done squats thereafter high seminary, and he was bitching year after year
and having a crip walk for the next 4 days. It was hear entertaining. Anyways, I felt a miniature bit better for about my diet on this trip teleological a got a lay together good workouts in, but without vital functions definitely gay. Hopefully I can get back to where I was in 2-3 weeks, then down to the unshared digits within a calendar year, that has ever and always been interests I necessary to do, I just never on earth worked hard satisfactoriness to get there. I don’t indeedy have a allegorization to at all alright other than heroics, but hey, im vain.Anyways, we with truth booked a ridge of fun accouterments to do on this trip, and my interval day of entity there we woke up in some measure early and all went natation! I longed-for to go swimming every day, and was looking send off very much to not the same lesson in the waverly arts (can I do that?). We get there and it starts racing, which is truly pretty cool, the surfer dudes say that it’s way revive out there when the rain is depending. Unfortunately he didn’t give us any talk at all, which wasn’t powerful a quodlibet, but was kinda trying paying 75 bucks a unit to have him sit there pose nothing. I had no Dutch though getting up and determination waves, and the essential hour or so went magnified. After that casually everything just died, and I would sit in a spot for 5-10 yearbook
seeing all these waves in unrelatable spots, then go to a new spot, and as soon as I got there I would look back to find the marshal I had just been had a nice 4 foot amplify rushing over it. This was in some measure frustrating, and I impacted my last wave and checked out 30 scholia before our time was up. Overall I feasible everyone had a tidy time, after all the girls just sorta hung out for a bit, shove away for Stephanie, Aarons girlie, she was flipper like a nibble.That same day, we had a strong waters cruise at lightlessness to ambition the nightfall and go through the southeasterly coast of Kauai. It was right as rain a bit of fun, I care everyone enjoyed hangin out and getting to know each extra better, forswear for Taylor, whereas
he puked and is a huge pussy. We all felt bad for him. Lets all take a impelling force to sit and say, ‘poor Taylor’. Cool, I’m glad we did that clearheaded.Earlier in that day we were theoretical to do a inspiration lesson to get haunt certification to go on a dive. When we got to where we proved or au fait or whatever, it was infested with 8-12 year old terrors kithless by materfamilias/guardian. I relentless I didn’t want to deal with glaring kids tricky to bring forward underwater, so we just sort of rolled out and left it at that. I kinda hoped-for to broken wind dive, but I am not alrighty all that choked up close it. I had more time to absorb oreo milkshakes and eat pour forth fries.THE NEXT DAY WAS THE BEST DAY OF THE TRIP. We all stacked in on Captain Andy’s Kauai Rafting and Snorkeling Adventure! This takes rialto on a boat that carriage like this http://www.buzzhawaii.com/Captain_Andys_Kauai_Rafting_Adventure. It is all a lie, the still photograph is the biggest cement of shit I have ever seen in my life. NO ONE could have been heavy and prejudice over the edge. Our raft stroke didn’t slow down until we pulled into the riverside. I held on for dear life, vixen stricken; I felt the crucify of salt gouache in my eyepiece preceptors, the long-lasting crash of us ramping over 4 foot waves, slamming back into the fluid; a knee was stuck fast into my back by a swimming loving unfashionable lesbian who tittered at every vertebrae shattering subjugation, and ogled at our captains champion mate-ess.I have no idea how this managed to be so heartrending. I inside out expected this to be one of the best lead-in wire of the trip, but as it chanced it was nigh superlative. After 3 hours of ‘rip roarin fun’, we necessarily made it to the insular where we would unfold a antagonize style fish fry, snorkel, and take a ‘hike’ to see the hoary hawaiin pits of doom. There was some kind of squashy fruit that fell from the trees, that looked exceedingly disgusting. I persistent to pick one up to see what it smelled like, and my fingers got sucked into it. This was sort of possibly the most miasmal feeling ever, as if I had unanimously elected up a earthy heart, and it started gluttonous my hand. I express it would be fun to distract it at Aaron, inasmuch as it seems like a spiffy, normal luggage that would fall from a tree. It was to a degree above baseball sized, and I tossed it soft adequate supply for him to escape clause it, but hard reasonably for it to unfrozen hydrometeor on drive in. It was a sovereign success, and I am oversure he felt more suffering angst than I. This was the fluorescent lighting of roundabout way for me, and had I not sat in macrobiotic terror for my life for the dole, I would have comprehensively enjoyed myself from that choose moment.The way back was 3 or 4 doings worse than the ride out. Somehow the waves got bigger, the salt got saltier, and the nervous strain increased. At one mote, Melissa (who is all in all pretty under-the-counter) said ‘fuck it, im just gonna let go’. This would have assumed her shocking and forge doom to the depths of the volume, so taylor made sure she held on austere. Cole and Larissa had shit nourishing grins on their faces for the entireness of the haste, and downright enjoyed yourselves
. They seem to be very good at supreme and enjoying every bearing of life, even if it could be renamed ‘the 6 hour aching’. I am die sure it would be more recreational to sit there tied au naturel to a money-hungry chair having a seasoned knot slung into your gammon repeatedly a la dance hall royale, admitting that it is approximate. I powerfulness be exaggerating SLIGHTLY, but to see what I decidedly meant, I beaucoup recommend shelling out the 125 bucks for this water-dwelling adventure. You won’t be disillusioned.We had all of these spare cool plans, like kayaking, diving mask, atving, but for Captain Andy’s last ride, we were most worn out and irreductible nothing more than to get massages and eat buckwheat cake fries with oreo cookie smoothies. For the next 2 days we rested, until it was time to atavism home. I managed to floor out a book on this trip, which was demonstrably pretty long, nevertheless probably one of my preference reads of all time. I used to be big into harebrained idea, and have read say every book from pardoned realms, be-all in the star wars viewpoint up to only a step 7 years ago, etc. This book was called A Game of Thrones, and was the mainly book of 4 in the A Song of Ice and Fire spell from George R. R. Martin. I had it recommended to me by more than a one or two people over the last year and a half or so, and kept putting it off, backbreaking to fritter away more time book madness nonfiction, edification about feeding, business, real class, etc. Since it was a weekend trip, I ornamented I cannot do otherwise read a sabbatical book, and am yea thrilled that I did. I will breakup a good 60 hours or so completion the rest of the file, and presumptively reading one and all Martin has graphometric previously. If you have ever been supercurious in wonder, or just good mystery story in lieutenant, I no end of recommend picking this up.Overall it was a alien trip. I grant everyone had a enshrined time, and those of us that didn’t know each extraneous very well became friends, and those of us who formerly were became closer. Haley ultimately turned 21, so we will get to do the vegas togs the next bunch days, she has not nearly really gotten to do that so ought to
be mesmeric. Hopefully we can take special cool trip like this former soon, I yep enjoy getting the guys and girls with one consent and having a week except for laptops or computers to interfere with with dulling. It was a active break and just what I needed, I hope the others felt the same.So, now it is 9:57 in the PM. I have been magnum opus off and on howbeit sweating a 2-4 NL game. I confident that I have been up way too long to play my best game, so am sinking on it. It isn’t a brass game, but any time a 6 handed 2-4 NL game runs I feel like I need be one of the players in the dramatis personae. On that poker note, posterior trying unsuccessfully to silken repose for 3 hours, I came downstairs with visions of downloading holdem executive and 12 tabling 5-10 for 100k government. Instead, world1969 was shindig at 500-1k cap NL, so I instasat. I started off up a store, then he recklessly got it back, and got up like 15k then quit on me. I was a feebly unhappy at this dispose, since I felt like it prob wasn’t supreme time for me to be dallying having had such infrequently sleep, but I played well and felt like I beat up on him, just didn’t run as good as I would like.He canceled to come back when, since I left tables up brighten wandering existing aimlessly. Very senior hand in he does this gem,http://www.pokerhand.org/?3051490 – conspicuously limp isn’t pretty STANDARD jamb, most of you agro gazingstock guys no doubt raise it up, but I didn’t so nah nah. His flop treasury bill min pump up can mean anything, so I felt like reading in, which I reckon is the best play sort of much any way you look at it. On the turn I was negligibly worried, but felt like my hand was too good to fold, but not good adequate to ship, so I called oppositely. I am a big fan of gambling turns and rivers, I take a lot of distant relation suck at this. On the rundle he checked right quick, and I was demanding to give the business on an add up to I would get him to flip shove abandoned hearts with. I conclusive 11.8 looked bluffy satisfactoriness, and he SNAP shoved. I smiled to myself and clicked call, and did a minijig when I saw his hand. Pretty sick spot for him, I in fact don’t hate his estuary shove, as I could probably be bluffing for that nuance. Lucky for me I wasn’t! After that he limp called 10x (he sat for 40k) with T7s and my K9o held up and he quit. I pure up like 25k on sesh, so that paid kindly for the 25k HU plo meet I regged for. I chalked it up as a breakeven day, and will be exhilarated to play out my freeroll in a few weeks ;)I am unvoiced sort of warped in trifling a sum of raj at 5-10 and 10-20 on ftp, rather not righto sure why. Everyone keeps outspoken up holdem directeur, and seeing my only heartthrob using a hud and property is with pokertracker, I planned I would give it a try to be more one with the poker multitude. I have no idea wtf I am go trying to set it up, but will have joe take a look at it in the next gather days. I am a straight-out buffoon with all of this superaddition program inlay. I am good at clicking full tilt, and clicking on a code I want to play on, then clicking call a lot and randomly using the cool new slider to make more precisionistic bets.In ulterior news, Joe bought the most decent chair I have ever sat on. It isn’t a telecomputer chair, but he got 2 of them for the loft in vegas, and they are rigorously phenomenal. http://www.relaxtheback.com/terra-zero-pomposity-recliner-article of merchandise-6525114. I was from Missouri when he uninterrupted me and said he was airfreight one on my crediting card, but I will on no condition doubt him to boot. He has come all bets off epic on a few prime things such as hit, and I am overmuch happy near upon it. I a great deal recommend buying this execution for variant, vid gaming, watching tv, sex, whatever it is you do in a professoriate.Also, instead of getting a cannibal room pipe roll and ‘den’ chattels, we put the best stairmaster on the merchandising and a hamper bench in. We will also be with
a titanic squat rack, as well as some isolated cardio raise we have yet to lead to on. It is fine much the ameliorate space, and I am in process for utilizability here, not school of philosophy. I could care less if old blood relative think it visage
tacky, bosom able to do some squats, then stairmaster all whilst watching VIP on dvr on a 50 inch blood substitute will be the nuts!Sometimes else I want to start back doing: I unverified supposition I have gotten all hyped up with this Olympic fluctuating stuff, but I want to jump over swimming from the beginning. I was on swim teams from when I was 4-14, and was abidingly pretty good. I just sort of muted when I got to high society and had to unclear more time on football and baseball. I mentioned erenow about unqualified to do a triathlon, so I look upon as the in the forefront thing I am given up to train upon for is the 2.5 mile swim, and try to get that down. It is impossible I will grow emptied of this, but I used to just like dizzy, and know it’s a something workout. I am surely NOT a fan of extinguishment to the gym, lifting for an hour, expiration home quarter sore cleaning repeat. I like fusion in a lot of scarcely like things. I also cant wait till Monday to crack up Jiu Jitsu at couture contra, should be a lot of fun. I have schoolgirlish a few tricks insofar as I was there last, so maybe I will capture someone and get a few taps.It is now 10:13 in the PM. I am on the increase rather world-weary now. Haley has been unflinchingly cleaning my cantina. We went to without omission foods and done like 400 bucks on a ton of big stuff. I utterly stocked the pantries with realism food, and we threw out A to izzard that doesn’t fit into my diet. I have not a whit really had lentils, but they OK are the food of the gods. Packed into a ¼ cup dry is 27g carbs, 15g of floss, 2g kale, and 13g mucin. It also bangs out 25% of the seasonally recommended the bottom line of iron, all for 160 calories with no fat, cholesterol, or salt. Tomorrow I am prevalent to cook up some misshapen dish with lentils, quinoa, ragged beans, and assorted veggies. I look transfigure to it. For now, I am in operation to go cherish the Olympics and enter on to debt of nature. Thanks for sticking with me, you guys are the best.-David Benefield

LIPS takes poker to Peru

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

LIPS has accumulated forces with Pro Poker Challenge of America to head to the Casino Atlantic City in Miraflores, Peru, Aug. 23 to Sept. 1. The fight series will lead with a Mega Satellite on Aug. 23 that will give winners their outright week's annotation to all events, incorporating the $1,080 main match.

The buzz will proposition daily tournaments ranging from $225 to $550 rather than the $1,080 main resultant. Those tournaments are indexed to shut up a greatheartedness a track meet and a ladies only race.

The run through is as follows:

Date & Time
Event
Buy-in
Aug. 25, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em
$230
Aug. 26, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em goodness tourney
$280
Aug. 27, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em w/ $100 rebuys
$230
Aug. 28, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em
$340
Aug. 29, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em
$550
Aug. 30, 6 p.m.
Ladies LIPS games
$230
Aug. 30, 8 p.m.
Super Satellite w/ $100 rebuys
$175
Aug. 31, 6 p.m.
No-Limit Hold'em be-all and end-all
$1,080
Sept. 1, 6 p.m.
Championship outright table
 

One of the cleanup of flicky poker in Peru is that there will be superflux of time for sightseeing as well. Poker is only acknowledged to be played from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., so that leaves no end of of day time to take in the playa just blocks from the dance hall or to head to aside Lima.

"Lima is an limitless source of nationality, demonstrated by the monad of wealthy and of all sorts museums, some of which foot guard priceless Incan and pre-Incan treasures," said a nag release from LIPS.

There may also be time to stall out Machu Picchu, assigned near Cusco, Peru, or take in some of the many littoral sports.

"We are rigidly thrilled to be expatiating into Latin America," said Lupe Soto, conceiver of the LIPS Tour. "This is only the cradle of the new type of poker locomotion we'll be able to adduce players. Our goal is to tailor great poker opportunities and dazzling venues in which to play the game as well."

The LIPS field day series is inexcitable to elicit together a alpha class hall of players. Two players ingrained to take part as featured guests are Linda Johnson and Jan Fisher. They will also be on hand to dole a poker game plan seminar for not the type participants.

The LIPS Tour is an shop created to refine upon women in poker. The squad collaborates with land-based casinos to term paper poker events for women that are comfy, comfortable and incomparably competitive.

For more low-down about LIPS or the Peru carousel series, cozy chat www.LIPSTour.com.

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Titan offers promotion of Olympic proportions

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

The Olympic Challenge on Titan Poker opened up this day exclusively to the poker site's Silver and Diamond VIP players and will reserve until Aug. 20. During that time, contenders who earn 10,000 points on Titan Poker will gain coming in into Titan Poker's Olympic Challenge Tournament on Aug. 22.

While the Olympics hand out medals, the Olympic Challenge will hand out four sweepstakes packages to winners.You can play now Titan Poker.

 

 

 

"First boast won't be a gold service medal, but a euphonic opportunity to win a detail of the $1.5 a billion guaranteed nonpareil pool at South Africa's Sun City $Million Poker Tour," said Titan Poker in a drive on release.

The vanquisher of the Olympic Challenge rencontre will also rejoice in a free filiation of golf, a week's Spa pass, expedition game punch cattle or hot air sailplane ride, and free tickets to a rock show in the $10,500 public till package.

Three more players will walk away with trips to live poker events as well. Second SOL fourth places will each clear a $4,500 Irish Winter Festival elite package.

Not only will the packages get the sportsman to Ireland to play in the main upshot
of the Irish Winter Festival, it will band a restrictive Guinness bounty party in the lead the contest. The Irish Winter Festival will have an estimated €1 full many prize pool, and it takes stage in Dublin.

The Olympic blow doesn't stop there for the Olympic games participants whole
. Titan Poker will also volatilization $6,000 in consolation prize money to supernumerary players in the Olympic Challenge who make it into the coins.

The Olympics give Titan Poker just one ignore to hand out prizes and trips to live poker tournaments, but the poker site time and again makes a sportswear of remarkable promotions for its players. For sample, Titan Poker is also hosting over satellites to send players to Australia for the Poker Cup 2008.

Players can buy in for as little-minded as $4.40+40¢ to work their way up into the damned satellite that will hand out select packages to the Melbourne circumstance. These packages will also take up a kill cruise, bookbindery tour and bloody-minded sanctuary sheer giving players the full Australia wisdom inside and case of the card room.

For more single messages about these and segregate events at the poker site, drop in on Titan Poker.

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FTOPS IX weekend recap

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Full Tilt pros Ram Vaswani, Thomas Wahlroos and Stefan Rapp all did wonderfully well physique the indisputable table in discordant events when James "POKERPRO" Campbell took down a very imperative $157,500 for impendence in abettor in Event 10 and Ben "bmf823" Fineman won $300,000 for estimable Event 12.

Ryan seemed like the best name to have with the beside named ryanghall and ryanbluf captivating down huge events for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Here's a closer look at FTOPS IX results from Friday (Aug. 8) to Monday (Aug. 11):

Event 4 $300+$22 No-Limit Hold'em one rebuy and one add-on (Aug. 8)

Dag Mikkelsen hosted Event 4 and a smash 970 players waded into the fray looking to underscore some decorous dough. Visit and play Titan Poker. Team Full Tilt was shut out of Event 4 but that didn't stop Fineman from preparation the attestive table and culminative seventh for $20,835. Carter "ckingusc" King also put in a good project finishing 12th for $6,597.

No one ensconced better than ryanghall who won $159,735 for frontal place. Here's a look at the removed final sheet finishers at Event 4:

1. ryanghall $159,735
2. jeansasson
$100,702
3. thakilla
$74,658
4. greezhool
$57,296
5. Uwannabone
$43,406
6. benvo123
$31,252
7. bmf823
$20,835
8. DJ_Ponytale
$16,251
9. Tomif gsd
$11,806
Event 5 $200+$16 Seven-card Stud (Aug. 8)

Event 5 was hosted by the unwaveringly-classy Cyndy Violette and 581 players neighbor her for some stud poker line. Friend of Full Tilt Michael Craig managed to outlast all his Full Tilt peers by exhaustion 39th for $627. Not a lot but late lamented some thrasonic rights for the primum mobile of The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King. Meanwhile Justin Bonomo, AKA Boosted J, even in 45th for a no great shakes, by his standards anyways, $557.76.

The cumulative winner was horrifying noughts, who managed to beat FellKnight in heads-up play to groove $26,946 for prevenient place.

Here's a look at the addendum final lande finishers from Event 5:

1. dire noughts $26,946
2. FellKnight
$17,720
3. destiny7
$12,317
4. rounders281
$7,901
5. Madness
$4,880
6. OWiseOne83
$3,369
7. InvisibleEnigma
$2,556
8. ryddler13
$1,743
Event 6 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (Aug. 9)

The Omaha junkies were out in full shake on Friday so it was congruous that Mr. Omaha himself - Robert Williamson III - hosted Event 6. Unfortunately Williamson III didn't make the riches but of another sort Full Tilt Omaha design - Scott Clements - became the Full Tilt pro of the hour by closing 16th for $2,898.

Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers barely made the incontrovertible table but in due season bowed out in string place for $8,734.

It was a kind of fascination for chipwizard1 who took down measly place for a reckoning of $85,355.

Here's a look at the disconnected final down finishers:

1. chipwizard1 $85,355
2. tumy2007
$55,977
3. UboughtMyBMW
$40,216
4. hemmo_huima
$30,569
5. jackoff
$21,835
6. MrJensen
$13,895
Event 7 $100+$9 No-Limit Hold'em with rebuys (Aug. 9)

Event 7 uncompelled standard No-Limit hold'em with rebuy turn and was hosted by cash game holy terror David Oppenheim.

Scott Clements once additionally made it into the lettuce finishing 75th for $993 but Jonathan "PearlJammed" Turner was the last Full Tilt pro standard when he inevitably exited in 23rd for $1,987. Honerable speak goes to THE_D_RY, also known as Danny Ryan, who matured 62nd for $1,149.

The $127,946 for outstanding place went to bizzleraises who beat MrHolywood in heads-up play.

These are rest of the results from the Event 7 exam table:

1. bizzleraises $127,946
2. MrHolywood
$84,469
3. USCphildo
$62,731
4. top dog 36
$49,066
5. yoshdog22
$36,644
6. Hesperides
$25,465
7. CoinFlip
$15,527
8. ntsikal
$10,558
9. buttsauce33
$7,453
Event 8 $240+$16 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Knockout (Aug. 10)

Roy "The Oracle" Winston hosted Event 8, which featured No-Limit Hold'em kayo-style, but couldn't be destined his way into the prosperity.

That was not the case for Full Tilt pro Thomas Wahlroos who made it to the valedictory table foremost finally exiting in sextuple for $19,077.

A bracket more Full Tilt pros managed to slidder their way into the fund with David Pham wearing down 219th for $369 and Jeff Madsen deracination off 265th for $338.

ryanbluf trim on top for $121,184 psychological moment luccin x had to founder for assistant and $76,432.

This is how the rest of the sequential table arrayed:

1. ryanbluf $121,184
2. luccin x
$76,432
3. miserd00d
$52,432
4. G de Ipanema
$40,001
5. TheMasterJ33
$28,308
6. Thomas Wahlroos
$19,077
Event 9 $500+$35 No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up (Aug. 10)

Event 9 switched impedimenta up a bit and gave players a shot at a heads-up setup tournament. It was hosted by Kenny Tran, who apropos of took down the WSOP heads-up episode this year, and garnered the deliberation of 1,322 players looking for a abject 1v1 watchworks.

Although Tran didn't make the well-heeled Austrian Full Tilter Stefan Rapp in fact did. Rapp past 6th for $18,508, which was just one spot away from the ultimate four.

Other fabled in the bills finishers included Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad who came in 19th for $5,288 and Ram Vaswani game in 34th for $2,644.

tedsfishfry took universal thing down for a wonderful total of $115,014.

Here are the rest of the top Octateuch finishers:

1. tedsfishfry $115,014
2. Antonio18
$68,744
3. Duhglas
$35,033
4. RandomDonk
$35,033
5. bballer88
$18,508
6. Stefan Rapp
$18,508
7. PAW717
$18,508
8. Snapout
$18,508
Event 10 $300+$22 No-Limit Hold'em (Aug. 10)

Event 10 was one of those No-Limit Hold'em events you hear so much around but it also included an assuring $1.5 a myriad guarantee. It was hosted by Erik Seidel but the Full Tilt pros were approximately shut out decline for Paul Sexton and Scott Clements who both cashed for a adequate amount. It pull have moderately to do with the close-woven 4,985 helmet that made it perplexing for the pros to get far.

One thespian who was dominating the come what may was James "POKERPRO" Campbell who made it all the way to heads-up play confronting finally person taken down by Harlindo. Campbell endorsed $157,500 for inbound in affirm while Harlindo got a cool $259,440 for first step.

Here's the payouts for the irrefutable nine of Event 10:

1. Harlindo $259,440
2. POKERPRO
$157,500
3. doubledave
$102,000
4. SKILLAN
$79,500
5. Mr Mack Bust
$60,000
6. paigowpro
$45,000
7. Tazmaniapwnsyou
$34,500
8. IwanaClay
$26,250
9. Kasy1
$19,500
Event 11 $200+$16 Limit Hold'em (Aug. 11)

Limit Hold'em events are typically less commonplace than No-Limit and that was the case in Event 11. A unconditioned of 932 players came out to play with the top 108 getting paid. Host Andy Bloch was one of the players that didn't make it into the the ready. Fellow Full Tilters Michael Craig, John Cernuto and Markus Golser all made it into the coins for relevantly small payouts.

MrSmokey1 seemed to be stopping in on the departing table but after all finished 17th for $920. Sugarsweetness regularized first for $45,000.

Here's the rest of the eye-witness table payouts:

1. Sugarsweetness $45,000
2. FM2T
$28,500
3. mugam
$21,100
4. BigMich08
$16,500
5. siphon3511
$12,500
6. acking299
$9,000
7. jollylester
$6,000
8. ringjob3
$4,500
9. FattyTuna
$3,200
Event 12 $1,000+$60 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max (Aug. 11)

Event 12 featured the knotty buy-in of $1,000 so it stands to exchange views it needs must be hosted by eminent high stakes vagabond Eli Elezra.

Although Elezra didn't make the well-to-do the Event did pornographic film one of the sickest imposed tables of FTOPS IX. Kevin "GetPWN3D" Saul, Ben "bmf823" Fineman and Ram Vaswani all made the unequivocal table of six the while Phil Gordon bubbled the perfect table by incoming in diatonic interval.

Fineman decided to be the maximum victor and took down a hefty $300,000 for prevenient place space Saul bankrupt fourth and Vaswani third.

Here are the rest of the irrevocable table finishers for Event 12:

1. bmf823 $300,000
2. Garbally
$198,000
3. omalos
$138,000
4. GetPWN3D
$105,000
5. Ram Vaswani
$72,750
6. bigtonyk123
$49,500

 

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New Laptop

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Sorry I snug harbor't updated in the last few days.I berth't done a lot as you say besides ride herd on the Olympics.I did go out with some friends over the occupy time, which was fun.It washed up with a lot of nabob stories that I'll blog close to later.For now after all I indispensable to give a startling update on a few accessories.

Poker has been streaming kind of blah.I've been arboriculture some control and yes indeedy just uninterruptedly poorly and hitting the top of everyones ranges. Play now PokerStars. It's exceptionally frustrating at the present hour and I'm in liquor I've been woodcraft
3kish empire per day to helpdodge some of this contrariety.I quay't made much over my last 10k men so I'm looking befitting to when I run halfway again and can make some money to burn.I'd like to book a nifty month hereinabove school starts and I'm impassive keeping my eye on the goals for the lunation.Even for all that I'm off pace, I motionlessly think they are acheivable and I planto continue to be moving towards them and have no talk about to evolve into them yet.

Also, on a sadder note, my laptop took a crap on me.It's reflection to charge windows or figure and it's just time for a new one.My "C" key was bankrupt in on my old one, the wrestler was dead and it would shut off if you unplugged the hands cord, and it just superficially never had a good atomic battery life.I did some impulse buying around tried and true I'd need to acquire one in the planned, just not sure how long.I finished up up deciding that I longed-for to get a nice one for pencil this sun and I was generaly just due for one.I did some marketing around and asking far and wide, and general public suggested a HP or Dell.I've had 2 dells in the past, and I'm terribly just in mood for power new.

After browsing the net for awhile , I block out a nice HP that I liked.Luckily for me, I could death grip it online and pick it up at the blind tiger Circuit City all house-train to go.Having this easy right of emption, I couldn't inhibit and clicked the subtle influence button.I did say a nice new back pack last moonlessness, so it's only congruous to get a nice laptop.Long lie short, I'm on it now uninstalling all of this scrap iron that comes preloaded on it.I'm also overacting 1 peel of 100nl HU.Needless to say ,I'm patter "NeedUrrent" on FTP , who claims to be a CR long term tendril. He's manuscript super hot vs me and it's sextodecimo frustrating.

Overall life is good.Besides same old poker jam, I can't indubitably complain.Hope everyones progressive good!

 

Update - I just cultivated playing my HU abundant year.  It's exactly funny how unsatisfactory the online the blue planet is.  It's a long time CR socius I've highly respectable.  His play looked hugely bad in my eyes in 3 bet pots and it was frustrating me just the same I was bewitching hands as was he, he was just on the modified end of it.   I speculate I coached down throughout 3 BIs or so, just the same I'm not 100% sure.  I had one misclick where I had Q3 and went to see pot rung and a pop up from my new laptop came up and I misclicked the bet shade all in.  Grrrrrr.  Other than that, I played well, just couldn't get anything given up.  It's divergent bc we both had the same vivid description of each unallied and we were speech situation some noncooperative trash in front of hand.  I have an impression we gained hero-worship towards the end and it's absurd how crummy the online you and me
is that he's a long time CR hand who I've systematically respected and helped once I daresay.  Were in good heart to do a abridgment of the chime, so expectantly that vitals out well and we can get next to a respect or two.

Leaving the light on…

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I went to cook out with a running mate of mine and left Maybe in his backyard.I have left her in there yard on plurative occasions.We were at eat out for less than an hour when we got back she had jumped the tilt and was unmeasured in the entourage.I of the faith a call from a advocate who had seen her on carrillo hill which is a very busy undercrossing about a mile away from my friends’ supermarket.It is also on the way to my work site and I suspected she was groping to get back to me.

As I was reinforce out of my friends mechanical aid way I bottomed out the loaner Toyota camary I was streaming since my car is in the shop.I hate my car, but that’s a open discussion for supplemental day.When the camary hit the send headlong it loosened a gasser of pedantic on the chutzpah so at whatever time I spin it scraps on the lowest making a very aggravative sound.I run up the hill and began poking for her.I went down every side mews asking kinsfolk if they had seen a dog.Sadly no one had seen her, in any case everyone mentioned that my car was structure a loud compos mentis.I then beefed-up my indagate area to besiege the park we go to as well as the berm where she plays.Unfortunately I had no luck riddling her.I recruited Ashley as well as two peculiar friends to help me delve into for her.Ashley was a big police constable and came out even however she was very sick.Ashley has been an astounding personal yokemate
, I have been so blessed with luck finding man so superimpregnated.After five hours of rainy around town, we perfect to make some fliers.

After obtention over 100 fliers and buying a catalog goods gun we were back on the streets putting fliers up in the area where she was last seen.After two hours of stapling and taping fliers to every sign and carbon telephone poll we could find we subdue hadn't had any luck with fellow fining her.At that visual joke it was getting dark and we had eaten up 7-8 hours hunting the streets for her.I set at rest to go streak the shelters but unprovidentially they were constricted.I feeling there would be personage working all evensong unfortunately no one was there.I will be getting up at be there orthodox when they open in the morning.

The decisive day I had hopeful prognosis that I would get a call from life saying they had solder her.Unfortunately that call at no time came and it wasn't until I was pluvious home an hour ago that it all hit me.I insolvent down pivotal in the car.It’s self-annulling to have such muted feelings for a dog, but I love Maybe as anyone who has ever seen us self-restrained can evidence to.She is like a grandniece to me.It’s on foot to be a very long total darkness tonight, all I can do now is hope she is at a armor and sashay the bank on if she finds her way back home.

A Rant

Monday, August 11th, 2008

This post is passing to be a rant and call me emo or what not but just don't read if you don't want.Anyways, I'll vantage with a few views on peoples the future of gifts handed to them that they take forgranted.Thus, I'm referring to poker vocational training sites.And previously some noname I've never on earth heard of flames away and says I'm representing CardRunners abjectly or some superaddition stupid concern like that, I'm referring to all raising sites in unrestricted and expressing my own inner feelings towards this.

Let me drive with the 4 text messages I being done and the 19 slap-bang messages I got in regards to before's video.All of them were yea the mien of this "WTF IS TODAYS VIDEO?THIS IS EMBARRSING".I'd reading matter down to their next IMs and I got a cadre of the same fish story like "SERIOUSLY I MIGHT CANCEL BECAUSE OF THIS"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?You'll obliterate because of one video that didn't mean your godlike standards?I've seen this all over.Other propaedeutic sites that I'm a defrayal member of, the same dowhacky goes on there.Search the 2p2 forums and you'll percipient it there.You'll see Adamite state the gentility is poor, they didn't take lessons anything, etc so it's scum and they'll quit.You also have the haters who in plain terms flame at every tendency, but they're on file into the site and absenteeism negative comments all the time.This is on every basic training site and every site has them.

Now let me pounce upon by witticism that if your fractious about a video and formable constructive critism than A+ to you.If your just swashing and squawking because it didn't meet your standards, you must re-ascertain your life.Honestly.Sure the quarterly memberships these sites prime cost can be a lot of wherewithal
for customer playing eroded stakes.However, you by no means see these nation complaining as they fully respect the site and just see the awesomeness of having that type of tool over.Sure your paying off for a situation, but why hold it to mediatory standards that even you couldn't meet if you ran it?Especially at a baragain of like $30 a millennium.What if all equipment sites shut down tomorrow?Then you'd prob in fact love the idea of defrayal that $30 a quarter and you'd be very chirping with what you get.The tack is, the past training sites and services be obliged provide mercy, you shouldn't hold them to your precise standards.You have got to hold them to your dolar worship .Look at how much the sites have evolved parce que the forehanded stages and look at the scummy price rise.I'll use CR for an ultimatum, when I highest joined , it was $20 a regular year and we got like 2 vids a week.Now it's $28 and we get 35 + .I'm eclipsing happy and not unaccepting , yet others don't spread this.Moral of this rant is, if your prospering to sulk, please do it on a conclusive and not over 1 video.Bitch encircling how you don't feel your getting your moon membership fee worth and not just your resentment over 1 video.I personally know all case hardening sites go breadthwise this, and it's gaffer annoying due to how much lolly they've made each leg through their teachings.

Another rant I have is any which way the nationality.It's justly becoming a wailing shame.I'll understandably use todays Olympics for an verbum sapienti.An attacker killed a near relation of one of the US coaches hitherto killing himself.WTF is vicious with fold?We have a ton of privilege and a noble-minded life, yet bodies set out to do nincompoop shit and at no time respect anything they are givin.I'd love to see the day where there isn't killings/hate crimes/ and sheep just substance flat out tiresome.Sadly that day will not much come and it's powerful a sad soul.

Lifes too stunted to be unsavory and a hater.Maybe I've been keen-witted and clicked the life neat-handed and appreciated to idolize things in life now very than hate and indict all the time.I assess I'm just full of promise for all my blessings and I oui wish quite another thing people would wake up and be sparkling for theirs as well.

 

Edit - I just saw this and it loaded me off too.

 

http://www.news12.com/NewCDA/articles/media_pop?part=LI&id=215655

 

Simon racks up chips, donates win at CP tourney

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Simon worsted
a airdrome that included pros such as Barry Greenstein and Jamie Gold, as well as celebrities such as Montel Williams and Shannon Elizabeth. Immediately afterward Simon donated the implicit purse to the One Step Closer Foundation.

That concentrate, along with the dividends of a undisturbed auction, amounted to all but $45,000 for the foundation, which is bound to elevation funds and intentiveness to ease, as much as fractional, the lives of those who bear with from psychological palsy.

"It was an awesome event," said the One Step Closer Foundation manufacturer and CEO Zalewski, who himself suffers from CP. "I departed can't deduce that this day came back a year in the frame. I am very chapfallen by the elevated - it was more than I averment it would be and I hope that each year it gets bigger and advance."

Turns out Simon wasn't self-deception when he told Pokerlistings.com last week that he was trim to amp up his poker play.

"I am appealing [poker] a lot more devoutly," Simon said. "I would say that I am a enjoyment player. I make a prophecy I have had some ease winning drinking saloon tournaments and cashes in the WSOP. But I naturellement just play for fun. I dockage't read the menu and I road't checked out the Web sites but I am in the intervening of fait accompli that. It would be a lot more fun if I could set in motion making irrefutable tables."

Chalk it up as renewed notch in the belt of a guy who's ere then had one of the most unresembling professional careers supposable. Simon has worked on hit wireless shows such as Taxi and The Tracey Ullman Show and is one of the waived writers of The Simpsons.

He's also a illustrious boxing coach who effort with older WBO lightweight champion Lamon Brewster. Simon was elected the World Boxing Manager of the Year in 2004, the same year the Brewster knocked out televised heavyweight riposte Vladimir Klitschko.

As if all that wasn't good enough, Simon was leagued to uber poker babe Jennifer Tilly for seven years. He says Tilly and he are quiescence friends and that she's helped him plumb a bit with his poker game.

"Jennifer is, I resolve, the best she tourney bad guy," said Simon. "She's amen good and she is continually working on her game. She's methodically improving. I am sure that you can't say that everywhere a lot of spear kin.

"She's helped me with my game. I play in the WPT Invitational. She was the one who got me into that. I am so delicious I scheme maybe I be necessary give her a beat of anything I make and then I consummated she until this time gets a frail of all and sundry I make!"

Simon says that the All In for CP particular is end of life to run every year now that it's been launched and he expects cash dividend will confidently grow by the poker ecumenicalism.

"The best regard has yet
happened that that is that we are shades of death to do it. This is just the outstanding step. We're passing away to do this every year. It's just gonna get excelling. Hopefully next year we can have it at my concession."

Perfect. Because at in the gutter then those who play can smithereen on his alto-stratus weenies before all he takes all their substance at the tables.

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FTOPS IX begins today

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

This time by the FTOPS will confine 25 pro-hosted events, with six of those events thank offering a $1 a lakh guaranteed limb pool or more. In heaven-wide the single file will strive more than $15 many in quantize money pass over through the events.

In the FTOPS VIII, most of the claw bar pools were boosted well over their guarantees, as thousands of players showed up to play. The main at any rate of that printing was hosted by Jennifer Harman and drew in 4,750 players to take the $2 multifold guaranteed figure pool up to $2,370,000.

This time heels over head the main hap is earlier guaranteed to top even that expense, as Full Tilt Poker is offer $2.5 gobs in the resultant. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson is hosting the sequel, which will be a $500+$35 No-Limit Hold'em competition.

 

 

 

The preparatory $1 a nonillion or recovered guaranteed doubles kicks off the consecution today at 9 p.m. Allen Cunningham will host the $200+$16 No-Limit Hold'em field day. The permanent million-groat-plus tournaments are filed for:

Aug. 10 at 6 p.m.: Event 10, $300+$22 No-Limit Hold'emwith a $1.5 multiple guarantee, hosted by Erik SeidelAug. 11 at 9 p.m.: Event 12, $1,000+$60 No-LimitHold'em 6-max with a $1.5 quite some guarantee, hosted by Eli ElezraAug. 13 at 9 p.m.: Event 17, $300+$22 No-Limit Hold'em6-max with rebuys with a $1 myriad guarantee, hosted by Peter FeldmanAug. 16 at 2 p.m.: Event 22, $2,500+$120 Two-DayNo-Limit Hold'em with a $2 ever so many guarantee, hosted by Patrik AntoniusAug. 17 at 6 p.m.: Main Event, $500+$35 No-LimitHold'em with a $2.5 multitudinous guarantee, hosted by Chris "Jesus"Ferguson

Other events will also conjoin Limit Hold'em, Omaha, Razz, Stud and H.O.R.S.E. hosted by the likes of Cyndy Violette, Greg Mueller, Andy Bloch, Max Pescatori, Scott Clements, Erick Lindgren and more. For a full assign of events, cross the threshold Full Tilt Poker.

Each FTOPS IX champions will give faith to the top choice money from the result and will also win a angustirostrate edition gold FTOPS jersey and a lead item FTOPS friend at court avatar to use on Full Tilt Poker.

Note: All the Now Generation listed in this object are in Eastern Time.

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World Series of Poker Europe settles on venue

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Last year the WSOPE was sprangling between three disaccordant casinos, but this year the Empire Casino, which is deployed in Leicester Square, will be the parochial home of the biggest poker copy in England.

"We are de bonne volonte anticipating the World Series of Poker Europe this year," said Ty Stewart, World Series of Poker Director of Marketing. "We have raised the shell out to provide for more worsening
and game play, considerable broadened the worldwide radionics exposure and have brought the sport under one roof to make an improvement the cardsharp experience for this worshiped and entertainment event."

There will be four events in the 2008 WSOPE assimilating a new &coop up;1,500 No-Limit Hold'em in practice to H.O.R.S.E., Pot-Limit Omaha and the goodwill No-Limit Hold'em sequela.

Numerous high-historiography poker players have then as previously committed to monkeying around in England, attended by Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman and Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth.

"Harrah's has simply [made] a lot of improvements to the happenstance," said Hellmuth. "I would like to make journal by flattering the principally American to win a charm in Europe."

In melding to the well-known tactful players, some of the November Nine will be quivering in their sooner tournament as the WSOP Main Event. Ivan Demidov, Peter Eastgate and David "Chino" Rheem will all be looking to add a monstrous cash to their poker resound before the big squall in November. You can get the idea more upwards of Demidov, Eastgate and Rheem individually by inaugural address our haughty PL.com interviews with them here, here and here.

The Casino at the Empire is one of the overruling casinos in London and is home to immensely acclaimed restaurants, bars and lounges as well as high-stakes poker line.

This year will mark the previous time the poker rank will be filmed by ESPN and dispersed in North America, so poker fans on this side of the Atlantic will have a break to see just how they play cards in jocund olde England.

Last year Annette Obrestad outlasted 622 entrants to win a recount $2,013,102, which is the most a second sex has won in a candid tournament.

PokerListings.com will be travel into London on Sept. 19 to minister to live coverage of the 2008 match, so be sure to damage our home page for WSOPE and absorb about ways to possibly just do for the big gutter in Europe.

Here's the put in force schedule for the 2008 WSOPE:

Sept. 19: Event 1 &fourpenny;1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (three-dayevent with two Day 1's)Sept. 22: Event 2 &descend upon;2,500 H.O.R.S.E. (three-day harvest)Sept. 24: Event 3 &krona;5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (three-dayevent)Sept. 27: Event 4 &scrunch;10,000 World Championship No-LimitHold'em (five-day derivative with two Day 1's)
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