My One Goal

By blogadmin on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Filled Under: Poker Tournaments

I don’t really set goals, because I always saw in their limits. Instead, I’ve always just tried my best to get what I want and if it works, it works. If not, well then it should be. There is not much that I want to achieve at this time, but what I would do, and is as follows.

For the past 2 years there has been something I’ve really been wanting to do, and it’s the only thing I don’t do that kind of gets me down and that’s traveling.  All my affiliate managers know by now that I don’t go to conferences because I get very uncomfortable away from home yet I still get asked if I’m going every time conference time rolls around and I run out of excuses.

It’s not a fear of flying, it’s more a fear of not being the one in control.  If the plane crashes and burns, big deal, but if I have to sit on a runway for 2 hours trapped on a little plane with a bunch of people, FUCK THAT!

Last year was the first time I had flown in 7 years and it was the trip to the Poker Stars Affiliate thing in the Bahamas.  Living in Florida, the Bahamas is literally a hop and a skip away.  Plus we flew private because of Chip leader promo credits we had won so total travel time was about an hour and a half, from home to hotel!

There are so many places I want to go, and I think I just have to do it to get over the uncomfortableness.  Flying private is something I might do for 2 or 3 domestic flights then I’ll just try flying first class on the normal planes. Flying private costs about $25,000 domestic so its not terribly bad if you don’t fly a lot.

A couple places I have in mind are Puerto Rico at the end of the month.  That’s a good starter flight as I can use the private jet credits to go there with all our surfboards and just leave the boards there or what not depending if I stay for longer than a week, month, few months, who knows…

Some other places that seem really cool are Las Vegas (never fucking been and I’m in the gambling business), Colorado, Montana, California, Spain, and Russia or any far east country like that.  Also to hit up 1 or 2 gaming conferences would be cool.  For shits sake though, sure would be nice if they didn’t hold them all in Europe.

Most people have them, “make money, lose weight, build a successful business, stop smoking, buy a bunch of useless shit,” but for me it’s just being happy frightening on the beach somewhere surfing, golfing or sleeping, plain and simple.  I think it was a Pappas Roach song that said, “The things you own, own you.”  Oh so very true.  Money is not a means to buy loads of crap, but instead a means to be free from working…at least that’s how I see it.  But to me, the one thing that is missing is traveling.

I want to say thanks to Google shit all over the web these past two months. Cock sure would be nice for a good placement in good time is again … I think this is partly my doing though. Sometimes it seems to touch all in a pile of manure that piles up recently.

Poker Is Not a Game For The Faint Hearted

By admin on Friday, January 7, 2011
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Filled Under: Online Poker, Poker Strategy

Poker Is Not a Game For The Faint HeartedPoker is not a game for the faint hearted. If you want to win a poker game is sure to have the courage to do so. You must understand how to exploit the opportunities that come your way. If you have a suited king and queen must have the courage to raise before the flop.

Sometimes when you’re given seven and two who are still not fit, you’ll have to deal with it. As many would say, poker is fifty percent of chance and skill than fifty percent. As the wise say, fortune favors the bold.

If you want to take advantage of the fifty percent luck then you have to be pretty bold to seize the chances when luck comes your way. If you play too safe in poker then you will end up losing. For example, if you have a ten and a jack that are suited, what would you do before the flop comes out? Will you raise the pot or will you simply call the big blind? These are matters that your only your guts can deal with. When the flop comes out, you see a queen and a king that are of the same suit as yours.

What will you do? Are you going to be confident and raise the pot or are you simply going to call what everyone put in the pot? If you are a daring player then you will go all in even without the nine or the ace showing up. Are you going to take advantage of this opportunity? Are you going to go for it? If the flop comes out and a six shows up, what are you going to do? Are you simply going to call everyone’s bets or are you going to go all in?

Since there is only one card left to show up, what are the chances that a nine or an ace will show up? The chances are pretty slim. Your opponents may have a hit a pair or even a two pair already. Are you going to go all in or are you going to wait for the river card to show up? If you are the daring and gutsy kind of player then by all means, you will go all in even before the river card comes out.

You will definitely feel the rush of the moment. If you want to scare all away, even if you do not hit anything the only way to do this is through courage, not by thinking. Go ahead, do it and win!