CNE Casino
I finally managed to sneak out of the office a bit early (4pm) to try my luck at the nearby CNE Charity Casino. As I suspected, the list was much shorter than
August 2004
24 posts
Monty Memorial
Well, my performance in the Monty Memorial was not terribly memorable. The blind structure was horrendous. Even though we started with T1500 stacks, 30 minute
Back in the game
Due to some inclement weather, my conflicting plans for Sunday night have fallen through, so I will be attending the great Monty Memorial blogger's tournament t
Quick Update
Ended up not hitting the Charity Casino last night. Just didn't have the energy or patience to wait for an hour or two in the smoky haze. And now I'm not ev
Friday Home Tourney
It's coming a bit late, but I finally have a few minutes to piece together my notes from Friday's home PLHE tourney. The big difference this week was the $5 bo
No-go
I went to the Charity Casino at the Ex last night, but after an hour of waiting, I decided to head home to take care of some laundry. Only a quarter of the nam
Pacific restitution
Well, you have to give Pacific Poker some credit. They have said that they will be making up for the missed Monty Memorial tournament by crediting all the entr
Still exhausted
I'm still very tired after two full days of volleyball this weekend. In fact, I was so tired last night that I didn't even harass Pacific Poker about dropping
Beach Volleyball
I managed to catch the Women's Beach Volleyball match today between Canada and Cuba. I got my laptop hooked up on the wireless network at the office and brough
Olympics junkie
It's been a few days since I last posted and there's a very simple reason for this. I am an Olympics junkie. I've probably watched in the neighbourhood of 30
Milestone
I hit another milestone this evening, though it took longer to happen then I had hoped. My bankroll now sits at $3084 (US). The last grand took just over two
Ultimate hit & run
When I got home from volleyball last night (1-1, for 6-2 on the season) I decided to sit down at the poker tables for a little bit after I washed all the sand o
Spoke too soon
I mentioned on Monday that I came across a new poker portal and was disappointed that I wasn't listed among the many poker blog links. Well, apparently word go
Validation
It's always nice to follow up a bad session with some solid cards. Monday night I got right back in the saddle at Pacific and posted a +17BB run at 2/4 in a li
A blow to the ego
I was just going through the daily slate of blogs and over at College and Poker I read about a site he stumbled across (Poker Portal) that has links for just ab
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Pauly, what does someone get when they have their pocket aces cracked by the Hilton sisters? On the river no less. Lost more than a buy-in worth at the 50PL t
Saturday poker
Started in today on my new bonus at Multi Poker. I told myself I was going to stop chasing bonuses, but since it's a Party skin I won't be giving up any of my
Friday night poker
It's Friday night. It's been two weeks. My ten two regular readers know what I'm talking about. Except it didn't happen. With a lot of last minute bail outs
The <i>Experte</i>
I forgot another funny incident from the game last night. At one point, shortly after midnight, the security guard for the building came by on his rounds and w
Pacific 10K
I've had this post half-written in my queue for the past couple days, but this is the first chance I've had to finish it off. I haven't played much at Pacifi
Sports are good for you
I just got back from a night of volleyball and I'm exhausted. We had our first game of the season against a challenging team and we managed to blow it. A comb
Holiday poker
Monday was a statutory holiday here in Canada, so since I'd gotten my chores taken care of earlier in the weekend, I was going to take advantage of the opportun
Poker mishap
I was working on my evening post to sum up the day's play, but I just had a terribly disheartening sequence of hands and I just need to get away from the comput
Argh!
I got my dates confused for the monthly $3000 and $1500 freerolls at Intertops. Now, I would have been busy for this evening's 9pm $1500, but I could definitel