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Archive for the ‘bad beats’ Category

November 27th, 2007

Contest Results Posted Tomorrow

Results and winners from the Bad Beat story contest will be posted tomorrow afternoon. You can still send in between now and tonight at midnight.
Otherwise, check back then!
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November 23rd, 2007

Turkey

Too fat from 3 dinners to think about playing cards. Instead zoning out to High Stakes Poker downloaded on my computer and wondering when I’ll have enough blood going to my brain to think clearly again.
Winners of the Bad Beat contest will be announced Monday… so come back then to check it out.
And it’s not […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

November 20th, 2007

Gross beat

SO, just came from my local 1/2 game. Bought for a hundred doubled up in the first hour off a donk betting every hand and stood with my pair of fives on the flop to put him all in on the flush draw. Won.
Then got into another hand about 30 minutes later. Big blind in […]

By Blake -- 4 comments

November 5th, 2007

Blog Contest: Win WPT Gear!

 
For the next 2 weeks, All Poker Addicts will be running a Best Bad Beat Story contest. Entry is simple: just send in your best bad beat story!
The top three worst beats will be awarded prizes provided by the World Poker Tour, including shirts, backpacks, decks of cards, keychains and more!
Send your worst bad beat story, up […]

By Blake -- 4 comments

October 17th, 2007

Online play rigged?

In the past 2 years I’ve done a lot of signing up for poker websites (I used Ultimate Bet and then Full Tilt) and heard a lot of talk about whether or not the games there are “rigged.” I know I’ve certainly had moments where I felt like I was going to take my very […]

By Blake -- 3 comments

September 21st, 2007

The cold streak continues

Another long night of cards at our weekly $.50/$1 home game in which I played pretty much perfectly over a 4-5 hours and ended up with almost triple my buy-in, only to take a short string of rather crappy beats followed by a mammoth all-in for the last hand of the night where the most […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

September 19th, 2007

Sick sick beats

In league with my recent thinking on bad beats, here are two of the more nasty ones seen lately on High Stakes Poker.
I’ve gotten pretty sick of watch the all-in fests of televised poker lately: even with the pro shows like Poker Superstars and etc. you don’t get to see a lot of good post-flop […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

September 19th, 2007

Cold streak

I thought I’d start off the poker discussion here with a topic that’s been particularly concerning to me: the cold streak.
I’ve been taking a lot of bad beats lately. Ican remember 5 or 6 specific hands in the past week where I got all the money in as a 70% 80% even 90% favorite and […]

By Blake -- 0 comments