Back at Home, Why Leave Commerce?

I am back at home after busting out of the Borgata. I began the second day with 66,600 in chips, which turned out to be an ominous number. I lost a couple of hands early against short stacks, all in pre-flop calls with KK and AK losing to AK and A 9, …

Onto Day 2 of WPT Five Diamond with 84,075

I’m on to day 2 of the $15,000 WPT Five Diamond with 84,075 in chips. The average is in the neighborhood of 80k. The day was just kind of whatever. I was at a table with John Monnette, Kathy Liebert, Tyler “tnetter” Netters, Cornell Cimpan, Steven …

DOYLISM OF THE DAY: “He who buries his talent is making a grave mistake.”

Well, I thought I would be pulling for Phil Ivey and Jeff Shulman at the WSOP final table. But when Daniel wanted to bet Ivey over Moon, I had to take Moon who has 5 times the chips of Ivey. It is a must-win bet so probably we won’t have action. …

Operation Destroy Juanda: Day 3

For the third straight tournament I’ve doubled my chips…

I’m having fun…lots of it!

I guess that goes with out saying when you have almost 7 million in chips…

Well Whaddya Know, I Got Me Some Chips!

Day two is officially in the books and with 27 players remaining I sit in 5th place with 140,200…

Aruba Ariba

I feel like I was on a dream and it finished a bit too soon! Now that I am back in Costa Rica doing my blog again and I can’t believe that just a week ago I was at the beach with a background sound of the chips flowing at the poker tables in Aruba.
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33 left at the Bellagio

My goal was to end day 3 with 500,000 in chips, but I fell way short with 174,000…

Aruba

Well it has been quite a few weeks. After a frustrating week or two of poker in London I flew from Amsterdam to Aruba on the 3rd. I knew immediately that I was in for a great week. I managed to convince my brother Nick to come out to Aruba for the first time so [...]

Tells: Part 1

Master the art of reading people and
poker will be as easy as taking chips
from a baby

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