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		<title>The online poker mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure many people saw the headlines late last week. The U.S. Department of Justice charged close to a dozen representatives of Full Tile Poker and Poker Stars with bank fraud, money laundering, and other related crimes. The two sites&#8217; domains were seized by the feds (since released) and they stopped allowing U.S.-based players to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2011/04/21/22_20/the-online-poker-mess/</link>
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		<title>A tale of 2 disparate days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poker is not a linear endeavor. Unlike building a house, you don&#8217;t pour a foundation, put up the frame, add the siding, and work the finishing touches until you get to the point where you have a finished product. It&#8217;s a lot more like a Sissyphean task, where you think you are making progress, only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2011/02/18/20_14/a-tale-of-2-disparate-days/</link>
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		<title>Maximizing value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting hand in my last $6/$12 session at Artichoke Joe&#8217;s. Before I can get to the hand, I have to set it up. It was a new table, and I was one of the last ones called. I was happy with the seat for one reason, because a layer I knew was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/11/06/14_57/maximizing-value/</link>
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		<title>How to win a $200 pot in $6/$12 limit with JJ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hand began innocently enough. After one weak player limped, a NL player who had come to our game raised. Two people cold-called, the player to my right went all-in for one bet, and I found pocket jacks on the button. With this action, I didn&#8217;t want to pump it preflop; with the players involved, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/10/26/15_43/how-to-with-a-200-pot-in-612-limit-with-jj/</link>
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		<title>Stupid luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was playing the Thursday morning tournament at Artichoke Joe&#8217;s a roundup tournament where the object is not to accumulate the most chips, but the most roundup discs, each worth $40 when the tournament ends. It&#8217;s a limit tournament and it was getting to the middle rounds, when most people would be considered &#8220;short stacked.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/08/06/00_03/stupid-luck/</link>
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		<title>With days like today&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The one god thing I can say is that the vast majority of players would not have lasted as long as I did. I got to Artichoke Joe&#8217;s late for the morning tournament, but there was an open seat in the $6/$12 game, so I took it. I had a known bad/loose player on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/08/03/19_58/with-days-like-today/</link>
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		<title>Luck brings me back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was an awful session. Just awful. No, I wasn&#8217;t suffering bad beats. I was just completely, utterly card dead. An hour went by and I&#8217;d done little more than post blinds. I&#8217;d seen one pocket pair (8s), and most of the rest was trash, trash, trash. I didn&#8217;t hit any of the random big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/07/30/12_56/luck-brings-me-back/</link>
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		<title>Leaving when the ATM does</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing a bit more at Lucky Chances in recent weeks. I&#8217;d been getting involved in some tough games at Artichoke Joe&#8217;s, despite the claim of day games being &#8220;soft,&#8221; and despite the additional jackpot drop at Lucky Chances (they take $2, in addition to the $3 rake), I thought a change of scenery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/05/25/19_14/leaving-when-the-atm-does/</link>
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		<title>A good way to start the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a good way to start the week: Win the Monday tournament at Artichoke Joe&#8217;s. I would have been happy to chop at the final table, as is common. I made it to the final table with about a middle-of-the-road chip stack. The chip leader was on my immediate right, and the next biggest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/03/15/17_09/a-good-way-to-start-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Luck leads to tournament success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s roundup tournament was interesting, and not just because I finished in the money, with 5 roundup discs. No, it&#8217;s interesting because of three hands in which I got very, very lucky. I also made one bad decisions that cost me a better finish. I began the tournament completely card dead. The only hand I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chuck.martin.name/poker/2010/02/26/00_31/luck-leads-to-tournament-success/</link>
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