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DaWarsaw's Thai surprise
It's been almost 24 hours since I have arrived in Thailand, where I will be for the next nine months. Together with two of my poker friends, also from Poland, we will be renting a house in Phuket and,...
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WSOP 2013: Rise of the machines
There is a definite if unspoken line in the PokerStars stable. On one side of the barn sit the Team PokerStars Pros, live rounders, many of whom were poker celebrities long before they hoisted the flag...
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WSOP 2103: Innerpsy will not be ignored
Today, I imagine Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov as a child. He's calling for his mother, but she's not listening. So, he makes a little more noise. Still, she doesn't listen. So, he starts banging some...
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Grinding it UP! (with xflixx)
Every year when summer comes around I start to feel this grinding-it-up itch. It reminds me of how I managed to build up my first serious poker bankroll in the summer of 2006 and it makes me want to...
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Chips (and tales) from around the world
When I started playing live poker (at the first ever poker club in Yekaterinburg), I decided to also start collecting chips from different clubs. I wanted to raid a lot of casinos during my planned...
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Chips (and tales) from around the world: Part 2
As I said in my blog post yesterday, collecting things from different parts of the world is fun. They act like markers in your memory and I've found that a lot of events and emotions come back to you...
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Tatiana 'Mysters_Y' Barausova: No bracelet, but at least I got a dress
When I returned home from Las Vegas and the World Series of Poker I felt very ill. It was a hard flight after a long summer. I got up early the next day, but still didn't feel very well and could not...
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For those who really want to be a pro: limits and behaviors
Folks ask me the right way to start a career in online poker. Looking back in hindsight at my over seven years of grinding experience, I believe that the success of a poker player can come in many...
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Grinding it UP! (with xflixx) - the July update
Another month, another review! June wasn't a great month looking at some of my poker results, but July is pretty much making up for it. Here we go. Cash game results I didn't get a lot of volume in,...
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Adventures in NLO8
Over the last few weeks I have been experimenting with a new game. It goes by the name No Limit Omaha High Low Split....or for simplicity NLO8. I took the game lightly, not expecting the games to...
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The difference between online and live: location
There is something magical about live tournaments for online pros. They become our vacation time. We spend most of our time grinding at the virtual tables on PokerStars, so it's a great pleasure to...
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It's good to be innerpsy
I watched Mikhail 'innerpsy' Shalamov go deep in this year's WSOP Main Event, and I remember thinking, "That kid is quite a poker player. I wonder if he does anything besides play cards." After seeing...
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Weekend review: talonchick wins...on a boat
So, a great many thousands of you sat down over the weekend to compete in one or more of PokerStars' weekend majors. But, how many of you won? Okay, yes, there were a lot of you. But how many of you...
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Caveman or victory!
In my last blog, I told you I was moving to Thailand on July 1st for 9 months. For the couple months before that, I was working on my game, improving my strategy a little and my mental approach a lot....
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My first VIP Club Live experience
Last Saturday in Berlin, PokerStars hosted their first German edition of the VIP Club Live series of parties for PokerStars players. Not one to miss a good party, together with my wife, I made my way...
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Giving it up
I had a great original idea this weekend. The idea to steal Leo Babuata's idea for an experiment which he calls "A Year of Living Without". The concept is simple - each month for the next twelve I will...
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Marriage, award, and the 2013 ACOP
A lot has happened for me recently, and the biggest one is that I just got married! As if that wasn't big enough news for one month, PokerListings just had their first ever "Spirit of Poker" Awards,...
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Moving up stakes via the Freeroll Approach
The success of a poker player, especially the long-term success, will have a great deal to do with how that player manages themselves away from the tables in terms of money management. Aside from...
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It's STILL good to be innerpsy
I have a wonderful life. I really do. I'd change some things if I could, but I'm a happy guy. But Team Online's Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov? That guy...I mean...well just LOOK at him. That's the Team...
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$57,000 and counting: Coimbra Twitcam this weekend
My last update was at the end of June when I had $18K, so you are probably wondering about what happened to me during the June. As planned, I started by playing really early, and while it took me some...
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