Posts tagged "General"

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Goodbye Card Club

I still living in exile but I needed to make a post this weekend to congratulate Sean, Brent and the boys on a great 84 episode run on Card Club on Lord Admiral

No WPBT Summer Classic For Me

Wow, look at all the dust that's collected on this thing. Even I wasn't sure that I would be able to stay away, but it seems that life has kept me pretty busy.

Throwing in the towel

Well, there are probably few who actually still visit this dusty little corner of the web, but for the few who do, I just wanted to let you know I'm officially

Goodbye Las Vegas

Ha, my firefox autocomplete remembered the title of my post from the last time I left Vegas. God bless wireless access in Macarran International Airport. Th

Vegas Ho!

No, I'm not pointing out one of Vegas' many ladies of the evening but instead expressing my excitement for my pending trip to Vegas. I'm looking forward to see

What's new

I am a very, very bad blogger. It's actually not been as long as I thought since my last post, but it has still been pretty sparse here. Of course, just beca

Update

This blog is usually about poker, but gaming is on of my other hobbies and I have been enjoying The Escapist for weeks now. Their recent article, Conquest of O

Caught with my pants down

There's nothing like getting a kind mention on your favourite podcast (thanks Sean!) when you haven't posted to your blog in over a month. So, at the prompting

Gracie wants...

Gracie told me to do it. I can only obey. Simply put "Your Name is" into Google and see what comes up. Travis is where French people learn to play the blue

Day 4 - Finally a Win!

First, a disclaimer before you read this post. Yes, I am a geek. I've never hid the fact and if you saw me in Vegas you might have seen me involved in a passi

Day 3 - Golden Nugget

Wow, if I keep up the pace of one post a week, I may get this done before the end of the summer. But, I digress. On with the story. At the Golden Nugget we

Day 3 - The Main Event

Wow, this is turning out to take quite some time to get finished. I'm only just getting past the halfway point now and it's been three weeks. I already have

Day 2 - Storming the Castle

I apologize for the delay in the continuation of the Vegas epic, but a combination of this cold and a busy schedule has kept me from the keyboard. But I'm here

Day 2 - I ... See ... Famous People

Still no air conditioning here and my place and I'm still feeling like death warmed over (pun intended). But, I was back in the office today, so I suppose I ca

Laid out

Ugh...I have to say that my return from Vegas has not been a good one. First off, my air conditioning is busted and it's been 30+ degrees (90+ farenheit, for m

Day 1 - A Grand Ol' Time (part 2)

Wow, *I* even got a mention on Card Club in the PokerProf segment, as a Canadian blogger down in Vegas. Of course, they forgot to mention that JP from Vancouve

Day 1 - A Grand Ol' Time

Where to begin? I'm facing a pad full of notes and I'm finding the prospect of getting them all written down rather daunting. And there is the huge number of

Goodbye Las Vegas

I'm sitting here at McCarran airport writing my first (of many) trip report for the latest blogger gathering. I have over a dozen pages of notes that I'll need

It's me

I expect to be surprised by many bloggers not being what I expected them to be this weekend, but I thought I would dispel at least part of the mystery, courtesy

What's Vegas going to be like?

I was chatting with a few of the people I'll be meeting up with in Vegas in two days and over the course of the conversation ended up typing "alcohol enema" int

Best of April Fool's

As expected from bloggers on April Fool's, there were a few tall tales spun today. Here are some of them from across poker bloggerdom. Badblood - the first

Uberpost

I don't know if I've ever written an uberpost in the history of this blog, but I think this may qualify. One of the players from my bi-weekly tournament invi

Sadly neglected

The blog is once again starting to look like an abandoned wasteland. But I assure you a new post is in the works . It's just that the new PSP I picked up on T

I'm in, I'm out, I'm in again

Last week I posted that I had booked tickets for the June poker blogger event and was really looking forward to it. Unfortunately the excitement did not last v

Ugh!

5am in the morning (6 Dominican time) and I just got back to my apartment. That was definitely not according to schedule. Must sleep now.

I'm off

In under ten minutes my ride should be arriving to eventually take me to the airport and off to the Dominican Republic for a week. Appropriately enough the wea

Sunday afternoon

It feels good to stretch those poker muscles. I managed to put in a good two hour session 4-tabling 25PL at Empire. I should probably be looking to move up th

Poker Year in Review

The new year is already a few weeks old and still I have not made good on my New Year's resolution to post to my blog. I was almost there last week, but was la

Happy Holidays

It's a bit late for well wishing, but I'm here sitting at my parents' house browsing on my laptop and a nice wireless connection and I started thinking to mysel

Remembrance Day

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. I would remind all my fellow Canadians, and really, everyone worldwide, to remember those who have fought and died to make

On a break

I've been taking a bit of break from poker play. I've been very stressed by the work I'm doing right now and my mind has been constantly churning trying to sol

The lastest in pumpkin artillery

This cannon can reputedly shoot a pumpkin a full mile. My friend sent me the above image from an event he attended this weekend. Results of the Morton, IL

ALCS

Well, that was a bit anti-climatic. After hearing for days about the incredible BoSox vs. Yankees series, game seven was pretty much over in the second inning.

Storytellers

Well, for a while now Wil Wheaton has been giving the poker blogging community a run for their money in terms of great poker tales. But today I read an excelle

Volleyball

I had my usual indoor Volleyball game last night. Now, this season - 4 weeks old - has been a bit rough, with the entire team having a bit of difficulty findin

Here I am

Just got settled in my hotel room in California. I'm going to be here for the rest of the week for some work. At least the internet is working in my room. Mi

Arrrr...

I missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day again! Each year I mean to get in at least one good Arrrrr!, but invariably I only remember it on both sides of t

Go Canada!

Well, there may not be an NHL season this year, but there was one last night of hockey tonight. Canada defeated Finland 3-2 to take the World Cup of Hockey. C

Odds & Ends

Due to a looming deadline at the office, I'm not going to be able to put much of a post together for the next couple days. I have a post about my vacation on t

Home again, home again

But I'm too exhausted to write anything now. I think I'm just going to collapse into bed.

I'm off

My bags are packing and I am just waiting for the phone call letting me know that my ride is downstairs. I'm heading northwest of the city for nice 4-day weeke

Congrats Felicia

Congratulations to Felicia for her great finish in the Stud 8 tournament at the 4 Queens Poker Classic in Vegas. Outstanding result and great write-up.

Writing

I haven't been posting as much recently (duh!). I'm been suffering a bit from blog and poker burnout. As any of my fellow bloggers can attest to, both activit

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

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

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

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

*grumble*

Internet is dead again. But after 45 minutes on the phone this morning things are in motion and hopefully they will sort out the problem further up the line.

Update

Well, it looks like my ADSL modem was not the problem as it works fine at a buddy's place. So, I'm trying a second one tonight and if that doesn't work (as I e

Still alive...

But my home internet access is decidedly dead. After being up and working for nearly a week, it was back down for four days and counting. Trying to sort out t

Slowplay lesson

I managed to drop a few bucks playing online Monday night (mostly due to losing my buy-in with a set lost to an unlikely flopped straight) but I had some pretty

Not dead

Despite the appearances of this blog, I'm not dead. Nor have I abandoned this blog. I've just been busy with both work and life, leaving me little free time (

Home again, home again

I just wanted to let everyone know that despite appearances here, I am still alive. I got back from my vacation yesterday and spent the majority of the day sle

In the Wild

Ok, perhaps I'm not quite in the wild, but I am on vacation north of Toronto. In a nice little cottage by the lake that just happens to be wired up for interne

Pissed

Ok, I'm pissed. Or maybe I'm actually not. We'll see where I am by the end of this post. But I started out pissed. I was just perusing my web stats as I am

New post on a new toy

Well, as my loyer readers might have noticed, I've mentioned purchasing a new toy recently. It wasn't my intent to tease it, but I was really wanted to have it

Friday

Ugh...that's the last time I let Dave convince me to go out instead of following the regularly scheduled programming. Ok, maybe it won't be, but it probably sh

Blogs are...again...

I'll reiterate what I said just a few days ago, blogs are a very interesting thing. It is amazing what can affect you. My thoughts go out to the Blogfather's

Blogs are...

Blogs are a many splendored thing. It is amazing the people you can come to care about, however briefly, through a shared monologue. It can only be my hope th

Monday Night

If you are here about poker, I encourage you to leave already. This is about another subject altogether. First off, my sympathies to Pauly. Unfortunately t

Oops

Got to hate it when you accidentally post a draft posts. I put up my tournament notes from a 10K guaranteed tourney last night at Pacific. I've yanked them ag

Ultimate Thursday

Thursday night I have ultimate, and for the first time in the last few weeks I got to feel good about a game I participated in. We annihilated the other team 1

Volleyball...ugh!

Last night was volleyball and once again we managed to stink up the beach. We had some moments of glory, but managed to drop both games against pretty unspecta

Not-so ultimate ultimate

I managed to make my second ultimate game tonight (third game for the team) and I was to make another decent showing for myself. I had heard rumours that our c

First foray in 2-4

Wednesday means volleyball and unfortunately I missed out on an online tournament I was invited to play in so that I could knock the ball around. At least the

Long weekend

This weekend is a long weekend in Canada (Monday is Victoria's Day) and I managed to book Friday off, so I was able to get a much needed break from work. I dec

Volleyball

Wednesday night means beach volleyball again. After our good showing last week in the ranking games, we actually ended up placed in the Competitive division in

Sportscentre

Well, I've been busy, busy, busy. Haven't had the time to keep up with blogs let alone post to my own. Spring sports season started this week and I had my fir

Art shows

I had been getting back in swing of regular posts last week until work came back and kicked me in the ass. I did have a few half written posts that I didn't ha

Go Flames!

What a hockey game! Almost worth staying up until two in the morning to finish watching. Unfortunately, my poker play was not quite as exciting, unless you

Had to be shared

This news story gave me a much needed laugh in an otherwise frustrating day. Hopefully it may do the same for you. Party Barge Flips Over Near State's Only

And the ride continues...

Well, the twists and turns kept coming fast and furious. My PL25 bankroll peaked at 120 and dipped as low as 50 from where I left off at my last post ... oh ..

The dream is over...again

*sigh* Looks like I'm joining The Fat Guy on the sidelines as another dejected hockey fan who's 5th place team got bounced in the first round of the playoffs.

Finally

Just got back from my volleyball game this night. It was the final game and we were playing for first place so I decided to suck it up and play with my sore fo

Go Sens!

Now that was a hockey game! Jacques Martin looks pretty smart putting Vermette back in the line-up. He played a great game and got the game-winning assist. W

Scooby Doo, where are you?

It's been a while since I've posted here. Just about a full week. The reason: nothing of much interest has been happening. My poker playing has slowed consid

And the puck drops...

The 2004 NHL Playoffs have just begun. And as I typed this, the Nashville Predators scored the first goal. As readers who aren't reading this via RSS may have

Change of Pace

First, the good news. I went to the doctor this afternoon and he confirmed that it's probably just a bruise on my heel and though it may hurt quite a bit, it wi

Limping for real

Well, the biggest story coming out of my PLHE tourney on Friday actually came after the games on my way home. I was supposed to get a ride back to my house, bu

Chili Cookoff & Poker Lessons

Last night we had a company Chili Cookoff event here at the office and I, along with 4 others, contributed my chili for the judgment of my peers. It was pretty

Monday Night

I just got back from volleyball - we squeaked out a win at the end - and I'm exhausted. Unfortunately, that means my anxiously awaited post about Sunday's PJK

Home again, home again

I just got back from my California business trip last night. Started off great with a drive up the coast from San Francisco, before we turned back east to Peta

Weekend woes

After my friend left Saturday I dove into the pools at Party to try my luck at 1/2. Apparently that was a bad idea and over the course of a long night I manage

Truly Up

Was feeling a little bit under the weather again, but the tables at True and the last of my bonus deposit were beckoning. Unfortunately, the holes in my game t

Tuesday

I've now officially been on my diet for a full week. I've lost 8 pounds, but that is just weight I've put on since my last push. And the weight always comes o

Taking the plunge

Well, tonight was the night. After squaring away some work I brought home, I started up True Poker to take my chances at my new 1$/2$ limit. First thing I n

Name change

I started this site with the name tp's tidbits for lack of a better idea when I first threw things together. I wasn't really happy with it, but I figured since

WBT II @ TruePoker revisited

What a hectic day I've been having, getting stuff organized for multiple projects, running between meetings. I finally just got a few moments of my own to make

Another day, another dollar

Well, I think I'm on the mend, though I'm still not feeling anyhere near 100%. Hopefully I'll remain coherent enough to get through my day at the office and to

Struggle

I just had the most thoroughly miserable day. Was feeling pretty ill and I managed to drop $20 at a table in Empire over the course of an hour. I guess I shou

Struggle

I just had the most thoroughly miserable day. Was feeling pretty ill and I managed to drop $20 at a table in Empire over the course of an hour. I guess I shou

Sick and tired

Well, it seems like my cold is just getting worse. I ended up staying home from work today, but I'm feeling enough out of sorts that I'm hesitant to sit down a

The wide world of poker

I had a great dinner last night at a Portugese restaurant with an old friend I hadn't seen in far too long. The BBQ chicken, roast potatoes and rice was pretty

tp at TP

I played in my Tuesday night Ultimate game last night and we won handily. Of course, the other team was short a player, so it wasn't much of a contest. But it

15 seconds of fame

I just got back from visiting some friends in Cambridge and instead of taking the nap I meant to, I took a quick shower and sat down at my computer. First thin

Curling

I love my company. Tonight the glee club had arranged an outing to go curling at the Leaside Curling Club. Not many people knew how to play so I ended up skip

Positively what?

The strangest thing happened tonight. A few weeks back I order a copy of Positively Fifth Street, and it was shipped on Monday and showed up at the office toda

First post

Just bought a new domain (www.provick.ca, should be propagated over the next couple days) and some web hosting services. An hour later I had server access. 15

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