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Weekend Warrior Playing

Posted by Assistanc3 On June - 29 - 2009

http://www.thedonkeyofpoker.com/poker-images/1/1-22.jpgWas a big weekend of big games for Sunday.
Carbon Poker $50k and MiniSOP Event #53 were the two big games I had scheduled to take part while mixing in some cash table, Black Jack and Roulette… the adventures of a donkey and a dream continues.
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$77 Carbon Cash Table

Posted by Assistanc3 On June - 27 - 2009

Poker is a funny game sometimes.  We laugh we cry and sometimes should leave it be and walk away when things are just not going your way.  Well, that is what I did when I was playing $25 Black Jack for about an hour till I ran into a cold run changing my swing to -$200 (was up almost $500 – ya I know, you have your job I have mine).

So I decided to go play some poker and recoup some of my loses


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Cashing $937 on Carbon Poker

Posted by Assistanc3 On June - 25 - 2009

Playing the $3,750 GTD on Carbon Poker knowing I was going to be needing some addon money for the Sunday $109 buyin $50,000 GTD cashing out this game was a must, I am already registered next week with my coupon I won.

Closing down all my messenger programs and open up Firefox to tweet my involved hands (donkeyofpoker tweets) I was ready to play and focus on getting into the money.
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SnG with a Replay

Posted by Assistanc3 On May - 9 - 2009

aced pokerStarted off the morning talking with a student about making more of a successful run at playing poker, a keen student that sometimes lacks the fundamentals of bankroll management and suffers from bad beat syndrome.  The good part of this is he knows his own mistakes so at least his has some where to start from.
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$10k Satellite Risky Move

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 13 - 2009

Sometimes making the risky move doesn’t always look good, but then again that is why it is risky in the first place.  K6 from late position I was trying to make the steal after folding on the button.  Does the button even matter in a satellite?
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