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For starters, just to let my CheckRayz'rs know, I've not forgotten ya, I promise. In fact, tomorrow right here on the Poker Pub Poker Blog, we will have a special edition of the Friday Mailbag - back by popular demand.

The biggest question in the minds of most of the CheckRayz'rs is... "Mike, where the hell have you been?" That question, I won't make you wait to tune into... I'll answer it right now, after the break...

Right now, the Beer Guy has many an iron in the fire. In fact, it's safe to assume there are too many irons in the fire. In no particular order, here are some of the many things I have going on:

1. Maintaining CheckRayz, which includes setting up tourneys, finding money, answering email and marketing... among other things. Yes, last three tourneys will be put into the leaderboard DB tonight.

2. Writing for the Poker Pub, which includes uncovering a story or figuring out wtf to write about.

3. ~~Playing Online~~... see below.

4. Supporting the "Aussie or Bust" mindset, where I'll accept myself being no where other than Melbourne, Australia come mid-January.

5. Working on one of the six books I've started but not come close to being finished (and yes, I am talking about writing a book, not reading --- we all know I ~~don't~~ can't bring myself to read any book not poker or philosophy related - sad but true.

6. Reviving my soccer "career."

7. Running my weekly charity tournaments locally.

8. Raising the twins.

9. Maintaining some sort of personal life.

10. The Blogger Poker Tour.

10. Everything else not mentioned (eat, sleep, etc).

So yes, I'm quite busy... or is it unorganized? "Yes" is the correct answer, busy being unorganized. So in any event, something has to give here. And, I think my decision is to make only cameo appearances on the virtual felt until after the Super Bowl. Safely assume I will be playing event seven and the grand final of the BPT. Also safely assume I'll appear in one or two CheckRayz events between now and the end of the year. Otherwise, unless it's moving me towards Aussie in January, I probably will not be playing in it - that includes the cash games. I will be writing here regularly and focusing on some modifications to the CheckRayz site, but otherwise, I'm done til after the SuperBowl, because I need the time in my schedule to persue other interests at the moment.

More tomorrow on the Friday mailbag. Moving on...

Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tipses...

As promised, some PLO8 resources.

1. FeliciaLee - Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better resources --- note: I wish felicia would continue to write. I miss her commentary and blogging.

2. O8poker - strategy site.

3. PLO8 key concepts

4. Skinski talks a bit of PLO8

5. BPT Event 7 thread

6. Lauradm getting ready to either discuss her Phil Hellmuth chapter or putting up another picture of herself - coming soon???? (Read: A request from the BeerGuy).

Mike

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2006/12/04

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Omaha Hi/Lo advice wanted...

2006/12/03

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BPT, "What 'they' say 2"

For starters my thoughts: The Blogger Poker Tour event six was great. I think the biggest story of the tournament is that JayNYC made yet another top twenty five finish. For the record, he did not start until event three, placed 24th in that event. Followed it up with an 18th place finish, then a third... and now this week 7th. If he's not the hottest player on the tour right now, and odds on favorite to be playing in Aussie, I'm not really sure who is.

Second, it's disappointing that one or two people attempt to hijack the tour and whine about things, as stated in my post yesterday on the Blogger POKER Tour. Especially from someone who puts themselves out there not just as a blogger, but also as a journalist... to link a forum thread to the thought that "other bloggers are not happy either" (about event seven being pot limit omaha hi/low), when in reality, there was one negative comment on that thread --- (but even that comment wasn't all that negative). Furthermore, that thread was in support of event six and just got a bit off track! My advice, go back to the school of journalism, learn to seperate fact from opinion, learn how to express the difference between fact and opinion, and finally... if you don't like it, simply don't play. Quit whining, nuff said...

Now onto "what 'they' had to say" about event five of the blogger poker tour:

Two from Skinski at the House of Poker Blues:

"Evil has been on a huge roll at the tourneys lately and yesterdays BPT was no exception...
"And to think that the next game is hi-lo omaha ....This is evil's game of choice folk , so BEWARE !

AstinaGuy - "after a beautiful saturday paintballing and drinkin with some mates i was ready for another blogger event!"

Hacksaw over at the 5th st forum blog - "...(*^)(^_(&_)(*_)&(&)(^&$##*%*(^(&&^..." --- beerguy note: I assume someone sucked out...

Beerguy note number two --- does only a few of the top players blog in nearly real time? continuing on...

Joey over at Eat, Sleep, Poker - "...I've gone to the breaking point now that if poker.com didn't have such great online support or offer so all these great promotions, I'd dump them"

Bolcs - "I wanted to make it to top 5, so I get more points, but it's okay too. Now a little light came up at the end of the tunnel..."

Paul being "made famous." --- way to hit your goal! haha...

Quote of the day so far... Lightning36"What a game. Even if you play perfect poker, you can still get beat if the poker gods are cheering for the other player. I guess that is why we love this game so much ..."

Well, not even two minutes later, my daughter calls and totally hijacks the quote of the day on something not poker related... in case you didn't know, I have twins that are six yrs old. This morning, my parents took them bowling. My daughter calls me to tell me all about it. She's quite a talker, so she is chattering away and then she asks:

"Daddy, what are you doing?"

I tell her that I'm talking to her...

Then she asks, "Well, Daddy... are you sitting down or standing up?"

Why is that the quote of the day, you ask? At six years old, that question is cute... Any older, and she has some news to drop on ya, and it ain't good... You're pretty much needing to be sitting down for it.

And finally... Wise and Foolish"I’ve resigned myself to instant death in the Blogger Poker Tour
. . . it’s inevitable."

Hope everyone enjoys the reading...

Mike

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2006/12/02

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It's the Blogger POKER Tour...

Shane did an entry earlier about this being the BLOGGER Poker Tour, when he was citing that bloggers who have a blog and actually blog are what makes up this tour. I think he did a great job of bringing that home. Now here I am, preparing to host event number seven. I'd however, like to touch on another part of that same title. It's the Blogger POKER Tour.

I know we all love hold'em, for the most part... On December 12, poker.com is rolling out some of their new games - stud, omaha hi/low, razz, draw... you know, other POKER games.

Originally, this game of pot limit omaha hi/low was supposed to be irongirls' event. Poker.com, however, was not ready to roll the new games out when she was hosting. Knowing that, and knowing that the event I was to host would coincide with the roll out of the new games, it makes complete sense to host such an event.

Without naming names, or building links... This is the Blogger POKER Tour... not the Blogger Hold'em Tour. And either you're ok with that... or you're not. I think it's a shame that one or two people would whine and complain, citing conspiracy theory, or how unfair it is - specifically the one who was whining about the host on the host table today...

This is a fun tour, a positive tour. And while everyone is in fact entitled to an opinion... if you do not like the event, don't register... If you do not like hosts getting a host bonus, don't play... it's that simple...

We have two weeks... I'm not an omaha player, and surely not an omaha hi/low player either. I'll be looking for, and providing omaha hi/low tips that I come across on the net. Also, I believe I have a CheckRayz Omaha game on the calendar for anyone who wishes to give it a test run.

This is a positive tour, let's keep it that way.

Mike

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2006/12/01

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Poker Pub Ramblings...

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I don't really have any one thought in mind this morning for what I want to talk about. Also, I'm not sure I feel up to making 50 million posts... so I guess I'll just ramble on and on topic hopping... This can get me back into the habbit of using the bold subtitles too...

That being said, match day 2 of the CheckRayz League at Bugsy's Club is tonight. Match Day 1 featured 26 CheckRayz'n poker players. Will there be more tonight? Be there at Bugsy's Club 9pm... The password for Bugsy's Club is on the tourney schedule page of the CheckRayz site.

Moving on...

Thoughts on Freerolling

I am considering either cutting back on freerolls again, or putting some sort of temporary "restrictions" on them at select poker rooms. For the second event in a row at Poker4ever, three or more of the top ten players are not members of CheckRayz --- or at least not tracable members.

Poker4ever is one of those poker rooms where passwords seem to be passed out more freely than... well, passed out freely. I need to come up with a method to prevent this from happening going forward. Ideally, we need more members to grow. To do so, we must spread the word, but at the same time it is not ok to freely distribute the passwords to the tournaments.

The reason I require log-in on the CheckRayz site to access the passwords is to keep the tournaments closed to our CheckRayz Poker Community. Giving passwords out takes away from the sense of community. So, stay tuned for further measures to maintain our community.

Continuing...

Blogger Poker Tour

The Blogger Poker Tour Event six is this weekend. So far, we have 97 blogging poker players registered. I suspect Skinski's record from event five shall be surpassed.

As always, there will be complete live coverage of of the Blogger Poker Tour event six right here on the Poker Pub Poker Blog.

Finally...

Omaha Hi/Low

While on the topic of the Blogger Poker Tour... Your's truly will be the host for the final event of season two... We'll be holding Last Call for the BPT right here at the poker pub for some drunken, no standard Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better.

Look for me to track down some strategy tips, rules, commentary, and ideas on PLO8 in the days to come.

Mike

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2006/11/29

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Poker4ever Password Fixed

2006/11/28

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2006/11/27

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2006/11/24

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CheckRayz Leaderboard Chase...

2006/10/25

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Poker.com - best kept secret on the net

Play free poker at CheckRayz - free entry, cash prizes and money-added buyin poker tournaments. Sign up now!
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high quality inexpensive poker chips only at 5 Star Deal.

"They say" that it's neither polite, nor wise to tell secrets... or to brag about a good thing when you've got something sweet going on! I once had a friend of mine who used to swear up and down that every girlfriend he ever had (at that present time) was HORRIBLE in the sack. When he got older, and married, he admitted that the reason he would say stuff like that is so none of his friends would be enticed to make a move on his woman. He figured if everyone thought what he had was not the bomb, no one would want what he had - why brag, why call attention to it, why risk ruining a good thing, right?

Well, apparantly I am not that wise and not nearly that disciplined. I have to tell all you Pubbers, I've got a great thing goin on at Poker.com. And by great, I mean really f'ing great! Let me just run down the features and benefits real quick-like.

Soft Ring Games

First of all, soft games... speaks for itself. Second, speaking of ring games, there's a wide variety of ring games available to pad the bankroll. You can find regular games most of the day from .05/.10 NL to $5/10 NL. The fixed limit side still needs some work, as I've only really seen games up to $1/2 limit.

Lots of Sit n Gos

Additionally, Poker.com has a wide variety of sit n go poker tournaments for your choosing, be it satellites, shorthanded or full tables, they have what you're looking for if you're an SnG enthusiest.

Did I mention the soft play?

Freerolls!

Why do I feel like I just captured everyone's attention? Oh, I see... the word free up there in freeroll, gotcha. So here's the bottom line with this... They have a sh!tload of freerolls. Here's the rundown...

Every three hours, a new player freeroll. I'm not a new playa there, so people like me... can't get in. These new player freerolls are a great way for the new ~~donkeys~~ players to pad their bankrolls, which then sends them to the ring games (see commentary on soft ring games).

They pretty much have a regular "all play" freeroll every two hours as well. This too helps to ~~constantly restock the pond~~ regularly pad the bankroll of their new players.

I'm not done talking free stuff yet... Monday through Friday, poker.com have a $1000 daily Freeroll. Earn yourself 1000 comp points in the previous 3 days and play the roll...

Every Saturday, there's a $2K Freeroll. Once again, 1000 comp points over previous 72 hours gets you a ticket.

Sundays are even better... Sundays, well, with the exception of the last sunday of the month, but we'll get to that in a second... 2500 comp points in the previous 168 hours gets you into the weekly Sunday $10K Freeroll! Talk about padding bankrolls...

The last Sunday of the month, for 5000 comp points, you play for $50K --- in a freeroll. Let me say that again... 5000 comp points = $50K freeroll coupon. This happens every last Sunday of every month at Poker.com. This tourney is enough reason alone to bring me to their tables... As I write this, there are 627 players registered for that tourney... Everyone's starting equity, right this moment is nearly $80!

Best kept secret on the net for the tourney enthusiest

Finally, one of the biggest overlays in the land, is the Sunday $15K Guaranteed. Overlays galore! Buy in directly for $60 or win your way in via satellites. This Sunday tourney is by far the most value added regular tourney out there!

Multi-tabling Friendly

Poker.com use their own proprietary software. From personal experience, I can tell you that they are in tune with our needs as poker players. Hell, if I didn't know any better, I'd say between the ability to show one card, rabbit hunt, and to muck or show at showdown, they already have the best bells and whistles of any poker room around... But I can't stop there.

My favorite feature is the ability and ease to multi-table. One may either cascade the multiple poker tables, or place them in Grid Mode, so that up to four rooms can show at once. That way, you never lose site of the action, you don't have any overlap at all, and you're 1 click away from busting a donk. If you don't believe me, take a look below. I have two tables up, and the best hand in poker at both of them all at once... And yes, I dropped the hammer in both spots...

Don't forget...

Don't forget, Poker.com is also home to the Blogger Poker Tour, where 2 BPT participants will in fact be heading to Melbourne, Australia the Crown Casino's Poker Room for the Aussie Millions.

And by the way, Poker.com takes players from everywhere... No discrimination. All are welcome!

Download Poker.com here.

Join the Blogger Poker Tour.

2006/10/16

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2006/10/12

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