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Whats up yall ,

Starting my first blog here to just have a place to throw ideas , track progress , etc , for my mtt progress in 2012 . I have played poker sorta of professionaly for a couple years now with some being successful and some not so much lol . I got lazy at one point and really fell off the curve in mtts and am now trying to catch back up.

I feel a whole new commitment to poker as a game as a whole and mtts especially. I have been successful throughout ...

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There's Something About Barry:
A Look at Barry Greenstein's Full Tilt Debts

In the endless saga of "Will-We-Or-Won't-We-Get-Our-Full-Tilt-Money-Back", the latest chapter involves a not-so-surprising revelation that various pros borrowed millions from Full Tilt and never paid back.

The total debts are said to be $18 million. Some of the names involved include Phil Ivey, David Benyamine,

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Time to Boycott Lock Poker

If you're a US player still brave enough to play online after Black Friday, you're probably playing on the Merge Network. The Merge Network is comprised of a lot of different "skin" sites, all combining to form one network of games. For example, if you play on Hero Poker, you're probably sitting at the table with players on Carbon Poker, Lock Poker, Black Chip Poker, and many others. While other networks still offer games to US players, Merge

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The year was around 2006 and I was working as a sous chef in a high end restaurant. At the time I was heavily involved in sports gambling and was playing poker at least 20 hours a week. I would play a lot in local live 1-2 nl games and play some 5-10 and 10-20 limit at Foxwoods as well. And I had been dabbling in online poker as well since 2004. I never really played over 5-10 limit online accept the few times I ran my roll up in a drunken ...

Beating the Yelp Filter

Yelp was initially a great idea -- and they're doing the type of thing I really support. They are essentially a review site for local businesses. All of the material is user-posted -- kinda like TripAdvisor, except Yelp is aimed at local businesses and not travel.


However, unlike TripAdvisor, Yelp has an annoying and poorly implemented feature -- the filter.

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