New Bloggers/Interview, Round 2 with Biloxi, lotsss of Vids

Dienstag, September 29, 2009 22:03

Hey Guys,

I hope everyone is doing well! I am sorry for the delay in the blog as I have been busy with trying to come up with some new features for pnews that I think you guys would like. Hopefully they will go through soon. We have two new bloggers who have joined us this past month, Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis http://my.pokernews.com/RaSZi/vegas-and-double-u-c oop.htm and Billy “patrolman35/durangodan35” Kopp http://my.pokernews.com/BillyKopp/unproductive-sun day.htm . This past week I sat down and interviewed Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin who had a very productive WCOOP and he also talks about why he left Full Tilt for Absolute Poker. Check it out: http://www.pokernews.com/online-poker/interviews/o nline-poker-spotlight-matt-plattsburgh-vengrin-609 5.htm

As for poker, these past months tourneys(wcoops) have raped me to say the least. I have decided no more tourneys and I will just keep playing PLO cash since I have been winning at it decently well. I have been using Card Players free pokertracker(at the top right of their page) since I don’t run poker tracker or holdem manager, but God you don’t realize how much you spend in tourneys daily or monthly, until you look at it. I saw Jon “PearlJammer” Turner saying on his twitter that he was spending 7.5k on one day then 7k the next day. http://www.pokernews.com/online-poker/twitter-poke r-pros/ Geezus that’s a lot! BTW I also went to Biloxi this past wknd and got rocked yet again. I said last time I lost about $1,800 in Casino games, but yet had brought my laptop and made $4,200 playing PLO while there. This time I lost $3,400 on casino games. It all started out with me and my 5 friends going over to The Hardrock Casino, and me ordering us 10 shots to get warmed up…..I know, smart play. I tell everyone were going to play Texas Holdem Bonus poker. If you don’t know much about it, it’s a very simple game to understand. First, you have to put your “ante” out there or your bet. There is also a bonus which you should always play for $5. Even if your cards are 7-2 you’re supposedly never supposed to fold in this game and always see a flop. You always have to bet “double” the amount of your ante to see the flop. The turn and river you can check, but it if you decide not to check the turn or river and bet it, the bet has to be the size of your ante. In conclusion after 3 days, I got rivered three times for about $2,800. You never get to see the dealers two cards until everything is dealt out. Blackjack also cost me a good $300 and same with 3 card poker. I did play one $40 tourney at the Hard Rock and made the final table, but JJ<KK first hand too. Overall, there were plenty of drinks and beautiful women at the Hard Rock so it ended up being ok for me. The US POKER Championships was also going on at the Beau Rivage while I was staying there. Chad Brown had a sick run. He won the PLO $535 rebuy and won the Main Event too. There were several big names there such as Vanessa Russo, Josh Arieh, Brian “Sn8wman” Hawkins, Ryan Welch, and Matt “mattg1983” Graham.

As for sports wise, my fantasy team is killing me and Tom Brady is not performing like he should Smile . At least the Falcons are 2-1 and looking good for the most part. I don’t know if you guys watched most of the US OPEN, but it was disappointing to see Federer lose to Del Potro. Del Potros forehand is a monster though, and he just outplayed him. At least a my buddy(John Isner) who I had played doubles in the earlier years beat Andy Roddick and my old college teammate(Jesse Witten) had a sick run.

Here are some random videos and articles, but I think they are all a good share : ). I forgot to say, I saw Ferry Corsten in concert two weeks ago…simply amazing.

Have a good week and GL to you all!

Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho on TV show Amazing Race

Sick Federer Shot