Archive for the 'Tournament poker' Category

Straight Flush for Teh Jinx

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Ustmib-friend Teh Jinx just sent us an e-mail announcing his first Straight Flush ever since he started his online poker blog Teh Jinx Poker… Excellent work, Teh Jinx!
He got rewarded for playing his QJd very aggressive pre-flop, flopping a jack-high flush draw. Betting out on the flop seemed to be the right play, getting called [...]

Knocked out of a tournament with back to back Aces

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I don’t feel like talking about this for too long, but I couldn’t just ignore this one on the blog as it has never ever happened to me before and I am begging to the Lord that it will never ever happen to me again in the future.
I was in the chip lead of a [...]

Why Play Tournament Poker?

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

The recent No Limit Hold’em poker boom has been fuelled “World Poker Tour” (WPT) and “World Series of Poker” (WSOP) being televised. Particularly the success of internet player Chris Moneymaker who was an internet player turned household name. What other arena can you turn $200 into $200, 000 in an evening playing online?
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