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Archive for July, 2005

Jackpot!

Posted by Chuck on July 25th, 2005

Sometimes it’s just fun to get lucky. Low-limit and even middle-limit players are probably well versed in the concepts of bad beat jackpots. That little chip that gets dropped, sometimes in a separate drop box, separate from the rake, and the big gaudy numbers posted somewhere in the room. Friday night I was the one [...]

My First Tournament Win

Posted by Chuck on July 11th, 2005

I was going to write about the wild and wooly Saturday night I had at the poker table (Saturday because I had something come up on my usual poker-playing Friday night), a 6 hours at a $6/$12 limit table that played like a $1/$2 table with 4 or 5 players routinely in a showdown and [...]

The Southern California Weekend

Posted by Chuck on July 5th, 2005

What a wild and wonderful and educational weekend it was. It was the July 4th weekend, a long weekend because the 4th was on a Monday, and while the rest of the professional poker world (and many of its fans) were in Vegas for the World Series, I decided to take a poker weekend to [...]