tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43346394267481228032012-02-16T02:44:27.757+10:00The day to day ramblings of an Australian online poker grinderDazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-78548155163368555802007-11-25T12:13:00.001+10:002007-11-25T12:13:00.143+10:00

I just got back from my Asian holiday. I had a great time in Thailand eating and drinking too much, and doing a ton of shopping. It also gave me some time to think about where I'm going with the whole poker thing.My goal has always been to get my game to a standard where I can take a year off work and have a shot at going pro. I've carefully calculated what level and win rate I need to be at to

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-67994590308291314542007-11-12T18:39:00.001+10:002007-11-12T18:39:40.178+10:00

Things have been flat out for me lately. A new Asian airline has started flying into the gold coast, and has done an opening special of $99 flights to Malaysia. I managed to get a couple of weeks off work to take a holiday up there, but I promised to get everything up to date before I leave this Thursday. That means 14 or 15 hour days at work to get everything sorted, but it will all be worth it

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-10533393552487356742007-11-07T18:24:00.001+10:002007-11-07T18:30:58.006+10:00

I 12 tabled the Pokerstars NL50 tables again last night, and I can't believe how much softer they are than the NL100 tables. I was thinking of moving back to the NL100 tables tomorrow, but the games are so good at NL50 that I am thinking of taking a shot at 15 tabling them for a couple of days. Don't know how it will work out, but i'll give it a shot tomorrow and let you all know how it goes. 15

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-21063845043673794092007-11-06T15:08:00.001+10:002007-11-06T15:12:50.595+10:00

I've been in a bit of a rut with my poker lately. My results have been fairly average, and I am struggling to get excited about grinding out the hands each day. I have thought about moving up a level but decided it could be a dangerous move, so have decided instead to play more tables. I used to 12 table without too many problems, but wanted to concentrate on improving my poker play, so cut it

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-87141970510162784962007-11-05T17:42:00.001+10:002007-11-05T17:42:31.299+10:00

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I played a bit of poker and did a lot of relaxing myself. Was going to play in the Supernova freeroll on Sunday but being in Australia it's on at some ridiculous time like 4 am. Next week maybe. Tomorrow is Melbourne cup day. Melbourne cup is Australia's version of the Kentucky Derby, and each year the nation stops to watch the race and have a party. My hot pick

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-42869338661492392752007-11-02T17:15:00.001+10:002007-11-02T17:22:38.372+10:00

It's been a long time coming but last night I finally reached SUPERNOVA status on Pokerstars. I was expecting a little bit more fanfare, but a small box appeared on screen advising me I had reached Supernova. I was planning on reaching it a month ago, but got a bit sidetracked in that quest. I'm pleased that I have made it, as it does now guarantee an equivalent of about 33% rakeback. This saves

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-67392632842978349632007-11-01T11:15:00.001+10:002007-11-01T11:15:28.532+10:00

The last couple of days I can do no wrong at Pokerstars. I just keep hitting everything. I hoping I'm on the start of a rush (if this doesn't jinx me nothing will). October as a whole was a fairly poor month. I struggled in the cash games, and donked off a bit of money playing sit'n'go's. The one good thing about a tough month is that it does force you to think about your game and make an effort

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-25344616968020624112007-10-30T15:49:00.001+10:002007-10-30T15:49:29.271+10:00

Things were fairly steady with my poker over the weekend. I've found it really hard to get my big hands paid off lately. If I raise everyone folds, if I slow play their miracle card comes and I lose a huge pot. I guess these things happen sometimes. I've been doing a bit of sports betting over the last few weeks for some entertainment, and have been doing really well. I'll keep at it and if

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-58641171144627824752007-10-26T11:40:00.001+10:002007-10-26T11:48:14.469+10:00

Hi everyone. Played a few MTT's last night but failed to cash in anything. I got my pocket aces cracked 3 times which never helps your chances. I'm getting back into the cash games first thing tomorrow morning, and am really looking forward to it. Not much else going on in my poker world, but I am planning on playing a lot over the weekend so should have some news Monday.Today's Topic: The state

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-22728915677656005772007-10-25T12:10:00.001+10:002007-10-25T12:15:15.950+10:00

Yesterday was the big 100 game SnG challenge. I ended up playing 119 of them and learnt a couple of important lessons in the process.I got off to a late start with the challenge due to a couple of unforeseen commitments. I was still determined to achieve my goal of playing 100 SnG's so decided to 9 table the $17 turbos to catch back up. Playing 9 tables is ok to start off with, but once you start

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-43272293763918329362007-10-24T10:32:00.001+10:002007-10-24T10:39:08.420+10:00

I've got the day off work, so my goal is to go hard at it and try and play 100 turbo SnG's for the day. I average 1 about every 6 minutes playing 7 tables so it will take me about 10 hours to complete. I'll have to break it into 3 three hour sessions. I don't normally like to play more than 5 hours in a day, but I'm really enjoying my SnG challenge and am in the mood. I'll give 9 tabling a go to

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-34064340979541017242007-10-23T11:24:00.001+10:002007-10-23T12:13:01.126+10:00

I started my SnG challenge last night. I started out just playing the $10 standards and $15 Turbos on Pokerstars, to get back into the SNG swing. It sure has been ages since I played a lot of SnGs so it might take a couple of days to get back into it. As promised I have listed my results below. I'll keep them updated each day while I play.As you can see I played 35 SnG's last night for a profit

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-20235102052402596912007-10-22T09:54:00.001+10:002007-10-22T10:04:03.915+10:00

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent a lot of time down at the Indy track watching the car racing going on this weekend at the Gold Coast. I didn't play to much poker. The weather is starting to really heat up where I live in surfers paradise, and the lure of the beach and bars is a lot stronger than the lure of the poker tables for me at the moment.Over the last few months I have been

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-14717509308403290662007-10-19T09:32:00.001+10:002007-10-19T09:51:22.065+10:00

I've been a bit busy caught up in the fun of the Indy festival here on the Gold Coast to be following all the goings on in the poker world this week, but having a quick look around the forums there are a couple of huge stories going on which are very interesting.The first one is the Absolute Poker hole card scandal. There has been talk that someone has been using a supposed Super Account on AP to

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-21330990199779077022007-10-16T17:24:00.001+10:002007-10-16T17:24:35.187+10:00

Things are just cruising along on the poker front. Pokerstars has been looking out for me this week, not dealing out their usual barrage of bad beats. I'm hoping to move up to NL200 on the 1st November. It's been a long time coming, and things are starting to get a bit boring hanging around at NL100 for so long. I could easily move up to the NL200 games tomorrow if I wanted, but I want to be at

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-91448539241058730172007-10-15T13:06:00.001+10:002007-10-15T13:06:47.981+10:00

I planned on getting involved in some blogger tourney's over the weekend, but it was not to be. I started off with the final raisetheriver.com league game Saturday morning. Things were going well, but about 30 mins into the tourney strange noises and smoke started coming out of my computer. I quickly turned off the computer and upon opening the case found that the fan on the video card had

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-85846115028322304682007-10-12T16:00:00.001+10:002007-10-12T16:06:38.066+10:00

I'm hoping to play a couple of blogger tourneys this weekend. Raisetheriver.com has their final premier league game on Friday at 8.30pm BST. I've only played in a couple of these because of traveling and losing my notebook, so it would be nice to play in the final one. Pokerstars $40,000 bloggers freeroll is on Sunday so that should be a lot of fun.Got my insurance payout for my notebook, so

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-67762622532249866152007-10-11T14:22:00.001+10:002007-10-11T14:22:10.325+10:00

Today was fairly uneventful at the Pokerstars jungle. Finished up a little, and got that much closer to Supernova. Less than 10,000 vpp's to go, so should be Supernova by the end of next week. It's a little bit scary in some ways because once I reach Supernova, and invested so much time at Pokerstars, I don't have a lot of incentive to play elsewhere. The overall bonus works out to be good

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-2605557324645993112007-10-10T14:28:00.001+10:002007-10-10T14:28:06.957+10:00

Just booked my biggest win in a cash game sessions this year. I just kept flopping the nuts, and the bluffers just kept pushing all-in. In one hand I had 66, call a raise along with 3 other players and flopped 2 more 6's for quads. I'm in middle position First raiser checks I check, 3 person bets, first person goes all in, I call and third person also calls. Easy triple up. Ship it. Variance can

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-88458814759047703682007-10-09T13:37:00.001+10:002007-10-09T13:45:05.605+10:00

I took another thrashing on Pokerstars last night. It is starting to get a bit depressing. My new strategy of only buying in for 60BB worked well in theory. With a good hand and opponents on a suspected draw I was happy to push all my chips into the middle. The problem was they kept calling with their draws and kept hitting. I guess I'll just keep plugging away and let variance takes its

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-86038753010295775782007-10-08T11:49:00.001+10:002007-10-08T11:57:53.680+10:00

Hope everyone's luck was better than mine over the weekend. I'm back playing on Pokerstars, and I'm finding that players are just getting more and more aggressive. It puts you in the position of making some really tough decision on a regular basis and when 9 tabling it becomes hard work. What really gets me is when you make the right decision on numerous occasions and still get sucked out on.

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-41247723600873083322007-10-05T15:56:00.001+10:002007-10-05T15:56:23.555+10:00

Loaded up my backups onto the desktop last night and all my data seem to be fairly intact, which is good news. Played a bit of poker and lost a couple of hundred dollars to a collection of different draws. I hate it when you haven't played in a while and you start back with a negative day, but I guess that is all part and parcel. I'm hoping to play a lot of poker over the weekend so will report

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-23773545206937757892007-10-04T08:24:00.001+10:002007-10-04T08:24:04.043+10:00

Arrived back in Aussie last night. I live right on the beach and there is nothing better than getting up and going for an early morning dip, I really missed that. Good news on the laptop front, it looks like my travel insurance is going to pay out on it. So shopping time. I think I'll probably buy another dell, unless anyone has a better idea. My last dell had a 1920 X 1080 resolution 17"

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-4667986629359429952007-09-28T05:14:00.001+10:002007-09-28T05:14:30.453+10:00

Sorry for no posts this week. I am still stuck in New Zealand just finishing up on my contract. I can't wait to get back home to Australia. The reason for no posts is that my notebook computer got stolen last week. I left it sitting on a desk while I went to the restroom and when I returned it was gone. It had everything on it. All my poker stuff, work stuff, and blog stuff. I was gutted. I've

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-20129631238557279442007-09-17T11:59:00.001+10:002007-09-17T12:08:01.874+10:00

Hope a good weekend was had by all. A couple of work issues have come up for me, so it means I'm in New Zealand for a couple more weeks. I don't mind being here but it does get in the way of my poker routine.Pokerstars offered a rare reload offer over the weekend. You have 6 months to clear it, so you may as well stack it up even if you don't play on there at the moment. It sure has brought a lot

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-66007899977251913572007-09-14T15:23:00.001+10:002007-09-14T15:25:14.506+10:00

Played another frustrating Full Tilt $24 tourney last night. Made it into the money with a fairly decent stack. I had the second biggest chipstack at the table when I woke up with AA in the big blind. The chipleader made and early position raise and got one caller. I re-raised and after a couple of seconds of contemplation the chipleader pushed all-in. I called and he turned over QQ. You guessed

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-77422725968349346382007-09-13T15:37:00.001+10:002007-09-13T15:44:16.750+10:00

I finally had a free day to concentrate on poker. Played 3 tables of NL200 and 6 of NL100 on Pokerstars this morning and did fairly well with both. I think I will be mentally prepared to play 9 tables of NL200 by the beginning of next month. I haven't noticed a big difference in the skill level between NL100 & NL200, maybe just a little more aggressive. The main issue for me is getting my mind

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-39245708212500391642007-09-12T15:44:00.001+10:002007-09-12T15:49:25.816+10:00

Hope everyone had a fun weekend. This is my last week in New Zealand. I've got most of my work done, so should have more time to concentrate on poker this week.After taking a few days off, it sure is hard work getting back into the poker grind. If I'm playing regularly I get used to playing each day and mentally prepare for it. When I take time off I realize how much I enjoy doing other thing and

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-7703318722265778822007-09-05T16:05:00.001+10:002007-09-05T16:05:59.018+10:00

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. Things have been a lot busier than I expected. I went snowboarding over the weekend and had a great time. Stayed down at the snow for 3 days rather than the 2 that I had planned for. This means that I got a bit behind on my work and have spent the last couple of days catching up. I won't have too much time to blog for the rest of this week as I'm off down

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-43318103864640263082007-08-31T07:59:00.001+10:002007-08-31T07:59:35.036+10:00

The rain finally stopped in New Zealand today, so I've been out doing a bit of sightseeing. Went to Auckland's Sky City casino last night and played some poker. They have a nice enough poker room, but the rake is a bit high. I played NL200, the game was as soft as a sponge, but luck was not on my side. There were about 6 people to every flop even after a raise, but I didn't catch any cards. They

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-46742660244870532702007-08-30T14:26:00.001+10:002007-08-30T14:42:39.586+10:00

I have just arrived in New Zealand. The plane was delayed by 6 hours (fun, fun) so didn't land until 4 in the morning. New Zealand is a beautiful country, but it sure does rain a lot here, hasn't stopped since I got off the plane. I'm hoping to get some skiing in while I'm here; the mountains are about six hours drive away, so might go down in the weekend.Played a few hours of poker this morning

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-85969128122763856522007-08-28T06:36:00.001+10:002007-08-28T06:43:41.328+10:00

Not much news on the poker front. Played a bit of NL100 on Pokerstars (getting closer & closer to Supernova) and was up a little. Played a couple of satellites for Sunday tournaments with no success. I've gotten used to playing 7 cash game tables while having a couple of tournament tables running in the corner. It definitely helps break up the boredom that creeps in while playing cash games, it

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-53011896912168230962007-08-27T12:04:00.001+10:002007-08-27T12:14:34.976+10:00

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I played a fair amount of poker over the weekend. I used up most of my Full Tilt $26 tokens, with little reward for my efforts. I run so bad in tournaments. I get my money in with the best hand, but that suckout is always only one river card away. Also played a lot of NL100 on Pokerstars. The tables were fairly soft over the weekend and I ended up a fairly decent

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-57019419663853071162007-08-24T09:44:00.001+10:002007-08-24T10:02:53.799+10:00

It's been a bit of a nothing week for me so far. I've been playing the $24 tourneys on Full Tilt and after 6 of them I've made one cash for about $38 and one for about $96. Cash games this week I've found fairly tight. It's strange how some weeks the tables seem tighter than others. I guess it's a case of continuing to grind it out. I played one table of NL200 along with my NL100 tables today.

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-21919552132145498362007-08-23T10:50:00.001+10:002007-08-23T10:53:29.326+10:00

Sorry for no post yesterday. It was my girlfriend's birthday. I took her on a romantic mountain picnic and got back a bit too late to work on the blog.I've started a new arrangement for my poker time. I've collected over 20 $26 Full Tilt tokens, and I seem to be winning them quicker than what I can use them. So I've started running 7 cash game tables and 2 tourney tables simultaneously. I don't

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-35636389830687109202007-08-21T12:21:00.001+10:002007-08-23T10:39:21.877+10:00

Had a bit of a downswing on the cash table's yesterday morning. Didn't feel like playing cash games last night so fired up some of the super soft $26 token satellites on Full Tilt. They cost $8 each and the top 5 of 18 win a $26 token. I can play 4 at once while doing other things, only playing premium hands. Doing this I won 6 tokens from 8 satellites in about 2 hours. I used 4 of my $26 tokens

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-89480485634702480352007-08-20T12:29:00.001+10:002007-08-20T12:39:50.136+10:00

Moved back to NOIQ Poker to play over the weekend. The games are extra soft and they have a great bonus and VIP structure. The players are really passive which makes poker so much more relaxing. Feel free to use "dazza" as your signup code to get a $600 bonus and entry to their VIP system. I'm still playing at Pokerstars, but only between 1am – 4am EST. The games really loosen up during these

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-91552863457238301892007-08-17T13:00:00.001+10:002007-08-20T12:43:40.655+10:00

Moved back to Pokerstars to continue with my Supernova quest. I got totally slaughtered today. Sets vs higher sets. Everyone hitting their draws etc. I really think that the level of play in the NL100 and above cash games is just that bit higher at Pokerstars than elsewhere. This leaves me with a real dilemma. I have just over 80000 vpp's so only need another 20000 to reach supernova. I was

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-46661570826809060702007-08-16T13:24:00.001+10:002007-08-16T15:42:03.940+10:00

Just a short post today, as I'm just about to catch up with friends for a few drinks. Still no poker news to report. I've only play a couple of thousand hands the last 2 days so got some catching up to do for the rest of the week. Should be back playing on Pokerstars tomorrow, still chasing that Supernova.Today's Topic: Poker site safety and precautions:Today's topic was prompted by today's link

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-73690170425835299042007-08-15T10:00:00.001+10:002007-08-15T10:00:43.140+10:00

Not much to report poker wise today. Didn't get much chance to play poker yesterday. It was a beautiful day here, so spent most of the day down at the beach reading a book, floating in the water and just relaxing. It's hard to get excited by the poker some days when the sun is shining and the beach is packed. Hoping to play a good number of hands tonight.Today's Topic: Is it really random?

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-45823807625520972932007-08-14T13:33:00.001+10:002007-08-14T13:43:29.230+10:00

The last few nights I've been doing work on a spreadsheet for activities outside of poker. While I've been working I've constantly had a couple of satellite poker tourneys going on my second screen. I never realized how weak the competition is in these things. One of the weakest I've found is the $8 turbo satellites on Full Tilt to win $26 tokens. My simple strategy is to only play AA,KK,QQ, AK,

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-75425936377303489632007-08-13T13:56:00.001+10:002007-08-13T13:56:02.519+10:00

Yes another week is upon us. Had a steady weekend on the poker tables. Played in the "raise the river" poker league tourney on Sunday morning for a bit of fun. Ended up going out early with my QQ getting outdrawn by a flush draw (yet again). When I left, Yorkshire pudding was way out in front, hitting everything and going for his second win. Today's Topic: +EV Hands.Just out of curiosity I ran

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-3812796080490329932007-08-10T11:38:00.001+10:002007-08-10T11:47:10.408+10:00

I really don't want to jinx myself but…. Things are just going really well for me in poker lately. I'm consistently beating the NL100 games, placing in a few tournies, and feel like my game is still improving.Poker is a funny thing. When things are going well, hitting your draws, bluffs working, hitting flops, I feel like the best poker player in the world. My confidence skyrockets and I think

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-78419496465867810252007-08-09T12:37:00.001+10:002007-08-09T12:41:59.805+10:00

With Pokerstars latest update yesterday all my AHK scripts stopped working. While I can still play 9 tables okay without hotkeys, I find it to be a bit like hard work. So until I get it sorted out I'm back at Full Tilt for a few days. I played in one of their $24 tourneys last night. I don't often play tourneys so was surprised to see that even when people have a sizable stack it was pretty much

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Not much poker news from me today. Started my day off badly with a few suckouts going against me on Pokerstars, but pulled it back and ended up ahead for the day. In poker any day in the black is always a good day.Topic of the day: The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition (Book Review)Just finished reading this new book over the weekend. The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide (

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I went and saw the movie "Mr Brooks" last night, and it was really good. I'm not a big Kevin Costner fan, but he did an excellent job of playing the role of a psychotic killer. If you enjoy thriller movies make sure that you check it out.Another steady day playing at Pokerstars. Just lately things have been very smooth no big upswings, no big downswings. I know that I'm tempting fate by saying it

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Hope everyone had a good and profitable weekend. I find the weekends can be a funny time to play online poker. After about 9pm EST I find that most of the recreational players have gone out to party on Friday and Saturday nights, leaving the tables full of solid, dedicated poker players. Not a good time to be playing. If you can wait until about 2am EST (about 5pm Australian time), things seem to

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I cashed in my Full Tilt points yesterday for a bunch of useless merchandise. I didn't have enough points to get anything worthwhile, and couldn't see me earning enough in the future to make it worthwhile saving them. I got myself a Poker book, JVC headphones, Poker Set, and a beach towel. It got me thinking that I've built up a ton of loyalty points at various sites over the last couple of

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I'm back playing on Pokerstars for the month. I 'm determined to reach Supernova level and I'll be going out all month to achieve it. I have stepped back to playing 9 tables at a time on Pokerstars. The tables seem to act really fast at Pokerstars, and I think trying to keep up with 12 tables was leading to some costly mistakes for me. The only site I've found where the action moves faster is

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Hi everybody. I Didn't feel like playing cash games today, so played in a few tourneys instead. I hardly ever play tourneys and often find them frustrating. It's hard when you spend 3 hours getting close to the money to lose to a 2 outer. I didn't cash in any of the tourneys except to win a satellite to pokerstars Sunday millions. It was fun for a change of pace though. Also did a bit of online

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The main part of my game that I have been trying to improve over the last couple of months is playing more aggressively. It can be a hard thing to do as raising in the wrong spot will get a re-raise coming back and give you a difficult decision, or if you are behind in a hand to an opponent who just isn't going to lay his down it can be fair costly. On the other hand there are many situations

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Hope everyone had a great weekend. I went to the beach and watched a few videos, so nice and relaxing for me. Pokerwise I finished clearing my bonus at Full Tilt so I'm back at Pokerstars chipping away at that Supernova status. The one difference I have noticed between the players at Stars and Full Tilt is that while the Stars players are not necessarily better they are certainly a lot more

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-68223059254665448902007-07-27T10:51:00.001+10:002007-07-27T10:51:51.930+10:00

One of the main problems with playing on Full Tilt is that when the site gets busy things start to slooooooow down. Even though they only have halve the players that Pokerstars have (with no slowdown issues ever) once the player count on Full Tilt starts approaching the 50,000 mark, all actions on a table start slowing down. It is something that normally I've got use to and don't worry too much

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There is hope for mankind after all. The computer bot Polaris was finally beaten in its challenge against 2 poker pros.Had a few suckouts against me on Full Tilt today. But overall things are still going well. Fingers crossed.Though I'd give all my foreign readers a quick overview of poker in Australia. Five years ago poker had a very small following in Australia. How things have changed. With

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Things are still going well on Full Tilt for me. I don't want to jinx myself but it could become my poker home for a while.For those of you interested in the bot matchup currently Polaris the bot is winning by 1 game. Of course you need to allow for variance, but this isn't a good sign for the future of online poker. Go the humans.Now for today's topic Multi-tabling. If you want to increase

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I've got off to a great start on Full Tilt this week. In the past Full Tilt is a site that I've had my share of bad beats on. This week the level of opposition has been quite soft, certainly a lot softer than Pokerstars. So if you are a small stake NL player looking for a change give Full Tilt a try. They currently have a great $600 bonus on offer for new signups use bonus code "DAZZA".

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I played some H.O.R.S.E on Pokerstars over the weekend. For those of you not familiar with the game, it is a combination of Holdem, Omaha, Stud, and Razz. You play 10 hand of each game before moving onto the next one. While NL Holdem is currently dominating nearly all poker sites I feel that over the next couple of years it’s popularity will start to shrink. Everyone just keeps getting better

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Congratulation to Jerry Yang. Winner of this year World Series of Poker main event. He beat 6,358 players to win $8.25 million in prize money. The overall amount of players was unsurprisingly down from last year’s record of 8773, but still a very good turnout considering the effects of the American UIGEA legistation. Overall the amount of players competing in all WSOP events was up from last

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Since the beginning of the month I have spent a lot of time playing NL100 on Pokerstars. The goal has been to reach Supernova status in their rewards scheme before the end of August. I started off well but then have had one of my worst runs in ages.Not pretty at all. Includes getting all in before the flop for $100 3 time against KK twice and QQ once and losing all three I have to say that the

Dazzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04592003522309481347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4334639426748122803.post-35107814581076141282007-07-18T15:21:00.000+10:002007-07-18T16:00:21.942+10:00

Welcome to my new poker blog.I'm sure a lot of you are thinking great, just what the world needs is another poker blog.I read many poker blogs myself and think that over the past couple of years I've had enough experience with both live and online poker that I can help new players improve their game.I will try to make posts each and every weekday, and will keep you all up to date with my poker

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