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I started with the free $5 you get on PS for signing up and played .01/.02 limit single table about 6 months ago.You wanna talk about a boring slow grind:icon_cry: When I got to $10 I started playing 4 tables and now I'm up to $17. Go me!

At least we know which one got the talent gene!http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_...e_damon_affleck

Read the Tao of Poker (285 rules to transform your game and your life) by Larry W Phillips.Chapter 13 is titled "On Steaming, Calm, and Composure" : The importance of emotional management in poker & of having an emotional strategy for each phase of the game.The book taught me how to deal with the ups & downs of poker that are just part of the grand scheme of the game.Or you can just get a cat, and kick the little furball across the room every time you lose.They both work for me.

What about getting that hypercaffinated Spanish guy that does the soccer broadcasts?Instead of yelling "GGGGGGGOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!"He could scream "QQQQQUUUUUAAAADDDDDSSSSS!!!!!"

Dave Foley & Phil Gordon?I thought they were a good team in Celebrity Poker Showdown. Gordon would have a field day with all the hideous playing of the first days players. And when they busted out they'd go to the Losers Lounge with the hot waitress....

So I'm watching this years WSOP and chuckling at some of Norman Chad's jokes and one liners when I got to thinking....Then I took some Advil and felt better.Seriously though--what would the WSOP be without Chad and McEron's color commentary?What if someone else was doing the play by play?So today's question is this: If you could pick anyone, living or dead, to do the WSOP commentary, who would it be?I'd like to see Ali Nejad and Gabe Kaplan. I think that'd be interesting.Aaaaaannnnndddd go.........

^^^^^^That just made up for a really bad night at work!! Let me know if you make it to Milwaukee and the Potowatomi Casino---I'd love to see something like that!!

Wouldn't it seem that since we (being poker players) are around an awful lot of different people in the casinos all the time, some of whom have questionable hygiene in the first place, would be exposed to potential viruses all the time anyways? Who knows what's floating around the cardroom at any given time? I've seen players looking like death hacking up chunks of lung at the tables, but refuse to go home cus they're stuck a couple hundred. Some dealers aren't much better but they need the tips.I would think that in itself would be a strong case for getting the shot....Pancakes.

42 going on 22.....Age ain't nuthin' but a number!!

Any old school 25 cent video game......Namely Galaga, Centipede, Asteriods or Space InvadersBring it on!!!

Live full ring 3/6 LHE table. After all the cards are dealt, the dealer is filling his tray brought by the runner, and not really paying attention to the action. The player in the the big blind has a lamer for $100 for another buy in. UTG+1 raises preflop, everyone folds around to the big blind who says call, but the dealer apparently didn't hear cus he's still messing with his tray, looks up, and seeing no action after the raise, collects all the cards into the muck, pushing the small blinds chips to UTG+1. We point out that the big blind had said call, but all the cards are already mixed tog

<----------------Should be the host.Just sayin'

Anytime anyone at the table starts quoting lines from Rounders in KGBs accent....."Hee beat me. Straight tup. Pay heem. Pay dat man is muney...."

Live 3/6 LHE FR game. Villian is waaayy laggy. Raising every preflop hand he plays (about 80%), any ace, any pair, any face, any posistion. Straddles every blind. But most annoyingly he has been getting luckier than Jamie Gold at hitting boards. Previous hand he took down a 20 bb pot with 7 2 by hitting a set on the river.Villian is 2 seats to my left. Hero is UTG w/AKs.Hero raises, villian 3 bets, all fold, bb calls, hero caps. villian, bb call.Flop: Qs 5s 2hHero bets, villian raises, bb folds, hero 3 bets, villian caps, hero calls.Turn: 2dHero bets, villian raises, hero....?Villian could hav

Every time the flop comes A A X or K K X some idiot just has to say "Guess I shouldn't have folded my pocket Aces/Kings."I just want to slap them upside the head! It doesn't get any funnier by the 20th time either....

I think I've played about 30 of those aggravating hypers on Stars.....Cashed once for a nickel! Lemme borrow that gun.........

Go get yourself a straw.....Cus you SUCK!!!!

I hear you can find all sorts of things on Ebay......

Isn't Daniel only like 5' 6" in the first place?What are you.....a jockey?

You should have shaved your head, put some dark Marylin Manson makeup on and wearing all black.....She probably would've called the cops! Or had a heart attack.

Finished earlier today. I thought it was a pretty good read. Mike was pretty open about his past, talking about his beginnings in poker, his drug addictions, his wasting a shitload of money sports betting, partying and taking his posse out clubbing, the events leading up to his jail time, his friends in the poker world that stuck by him through it all and his finally coming to terms with himself and seeking out the help he needed.It takes courage to put your life out there for everyone to read about. I definately have a different view of him than I had before. Not that I thought bad of him bef

I'm up to chapter 14. After finally deciding to get himself clean, Mike got royally screwed over by an undercover cop who he had met at a party months earlier and pretended to be his friend, then set him up on a bogus drug trafficing charge that he ended up having to do 6 months for after a plea bargin. The guy lied his ass off on the stand and made Mike look like a freaking drug kingpin! The Ultimate Bet Aruba Classic was his last live tourney before going to jail, and he explained why he was so emotional.He also went into more detail about the confrontation he had with Raymer in the 04 WSOP.

Maybe try Amazon.com?I'm 10 chapters in now. So far Mike has went on a nasty losing streak where he refused to go down in limits and almost went busto, then backed Scotty Nyguen in Scotty's WSOP win in 98 (Cus he had an 'intense dream' that Scotty would win), won his own first braclet in Omaha, almost got mugged for his winnings (That he took in cash!), is building his roll back up and has just tried ecstacy for the first time to aleviate is depression....It's funny and kinda heartbreaking at the same time. You gotta feel for the guy as you read about his ups and downs.

Chapter 25 is titled Bipolar Poker. Maybe it will get into the details of his dealing with it. I'm only on chapter 3: He's just discovered the world of Texas Holdem after playing (and losing at) video poker.

Copied verbatim from the back jacket of the book, so please don't sue me for copyright infringement or plagurism!:Get ready for a wild ride....Hang on tight as Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, poker player extraordinaire, takes you with him on a breathtaking, true-life roller coaster ride ride from his humble beginnings in a trailer park to a rock and roll lifestyle full of hot women, sex, wild drug filled parties and million dollar wins and losses.Yet behind the glamour and glory of his high-stakes poker career lurked the flip side: a person torn between two debilitating mental illnesses-bi polar di