WSOP – Week 1

Posted by | at 4:55 am

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The first week in Las Vegas for the 2011 World Series of Poker has not gone quite as planned.   I’ve had a few near misses including a pretty deep run in a Venetian Deepstack where I flopped the nuts and ended up losing to a rivered full house for 200 BBs with the bubble approaching. … Read more »

The Vegas Summer Begins

Posted by | at 10:48 am

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Waking up at 6:30 am was not how I planned for the summer to begin, but since I did, I figured I might as well start things off in a productive fashion and get a blog post done. I arrived at the TPE house at 2 PM yesterday.  Cougars and Bigdog had already arrived and… Read more »

Business as Usual

Posted by | at 11:05 am

[Total: 4    Average: 9.8/5]

Despite the recent changes in the poker landscape, it’s business as usual for the bigdog.  I was able to take 2nd recently in the Poker Stars Sunday 500 for $42K and then a few days later took 2nd in FTOPS #31 for almost $11K. Along with a few other decent sized scores it was a… Read more »

Every New Beginning

Posted by | at 10:54 am

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." – Seneca I think I have recovered. The shock of Black Friday has passed. The sun still seems to be coming up every day and I'm playing poker again. I made a $500 deposit on Carbon Poker in early May in hopes that I could occasionally… Read more »

The Day After

Posted by | at 4:18 pm

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Black Friday has come and gone and today was the first day waking up knowing that I could not fire up tournaments on my favorite poker sites. I leave for a cruise on Monday, so I am taking that opportunity to relax, reflect and clear my mind before returning home and deciding my next steps…. Read more »

tlb prop bet

Posted by | at 1:08 am

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So now that I'm back on the grind at AP/UB (my former home), I've decided to spice it up a little bit.   Approximately 5-6 years ago when I was only playing on AP, I used to win the leaderboard quite often. If I didn't win it, I was always close. I want to give it… Read more »

The AP 50k – “bigdogpckt5s Invitational”

Posted by | at 5:04 pm

[Total: 2    Average: 9.5/5]

Hey guys! I just finished up playing the second ever "bigdogpckt5s invitational". I made a much better effort at winning my own tourney this week as I finished in 5th place. I really thought I was going to stone-cold bubble the tourney because I was really short being 19 of 19 in chips and 18 people made… Read more »

Shock the System

Posted by | at 6:14 pm

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2011 has been a great year for me.  I've regularly been chopping out nice wins for myself and my backer for the entire year. However, long upswings can also lead to what I think can be an unhealthy feeling of comfort. When you are winning, it's easy to stop focusing on improving your game. It… Read more »

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Posted by | at 9:55 am

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The TPE nation is destroying!  So stoked to see so many members and pros crushing MTTs.  It seems like every time I log in to chat at night, someone is at a final table.  If it is not the Bigdog at a $100r final table it is HITTHEPANDA just destroying peoples souls in an FTOPS… Read more »