Hey everyone,
Just a quick post letting everyone know that Week 5 stats have been posted to the STATS PAGE. Also, for the second time we have a back-to-back repeat winner - Bob Kotarba. Bob took 1st last week, and then came back from a short stack this week to take first place yet [...]

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Week 3 stats have been posted to the STATS PAGE. Congrats to Jim Babinski for his 1st place finish in last night’s game, and congrats to Mike Fischetti for his runner-up finish.
Not a whole lot of news regarding the game, so I’ll keep this post short and sweet. Hope to see everyone next [...]

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Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that our new start time of 7pm begins this week. This is a half hour earlier than normal, and will be the start time each week from now on - so please make a note of it. Also please try to arrive with enough time for registration and seating, [...]

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So apparently the state of Illinois is taking a hard stance on free tavern poker tournaments, and have put a stop to them for no good reason. Here’s the link: http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/596081,CST-NWS-brown10.article

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So you guys see me complain about bad beats all the time here on the blog, but check this one out: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1572346
This was actually in the Bodog 30k guarantee from Tuesday night, I had to manipulate the hand history file so Pokerhand.org would accept it.

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Hey everyone,
Week 1 & Week 2 stats have been posted to the STATS PAGE . If you notice the point values looking a bit strange for this week’s game, that’s because I finally added those 2 point bonuses to the 16 “championship game” players - so you should see a two point bump for [...]

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A big congrats goes out to MarkM for his win of the last points round. I meant to post this days ago, but simply haven’t gotten around to it until today. Mark outlasted a tough field of 16, coming into the championship game as one of the lowest chip stacks - but overcame [...]

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Hello everybody,
Week 9 results have been posted to the STATS PAGE, and a big congratulations goes out to MarkB for his very impressive come from behind victory in this week’s game. Also a big congrats goes out to DebB for a great runner-up finish in tonight’s game.
Mark needed this win to hit the Top [...]

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First blind level in a $30 SNG - this maniac comes over the top of me for all of my chips. If he had AA or KK he wouldn’t be making this play, so after thinking about it for quite awhile (which you don’t see in the re-player) I make the call. Well, [...]

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Hey everybody,
Just a quick post to let everyone know that Week 7 results have been posted. As always, click the STATS PAGE link up top to see all the current point standings.
BettyK was a wrecking machine last night, knocking out player after player and going on to take 1st place in the tournament. [...]

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