going to restart an old tradition - the Open Internet Challenge - take 40 bucks and build that bankroll -

$40 - .5/$1
$80 - $1/$2
$160 - $2/$4
$240 - $3/$6
$400 - $5/$10
$800 - $10/$20
$1600 - $15/$30 - (limits subject to change based on what the site offers)

and at $2000, you win - cashout, rinse, repeat.

first hand I got Doyle in the BB - that's NOT a good sign

RB

man...the years went by quicker than I thought -

been googling some old emails, websites, and places of cyberpresence tonight since there are visitors and the BF3 servers are shut down and I've had one too many bad beats on Bodava this evening.

when your emails don't show up on google anymore, u can probably rejoice a little - this little ambitious experiment at the request of Felicia Lee (actually to get into a planet poker blogger tourney as I recall) came and went - it's heyday directly proportional to the amount of alcohol I consumed.

now we're all connected on facebook instead of poker blog links - like survivors of a war where we won the battles but got a raw deal in the armistice - poker's biggest star now is a parody cartoon of microgrinders - that works for me.

the hair and belly are greyer (actually will be working on that in Feb.) - but mostly, it just seems to have gone by quick - this year I will turn the big 40 - and while it's not as big as it used to be, I remember a cartoon where a guy had 3 surprise birthday parties - at 20, 30, and 40 - and for the first two he was like "aw, thanks guys" and for the 40th, he was like - shut the hell up already.

a lot has changed - but a lot has stayed the same - a coin operated arcade with 80's classics just opened up here in Minneapolis, and these folks who ran two failed businesses in the same location are now literally....paying the rent with quarters - what a great idea.

tomorrow I'll try to write another 14 songs in 28 days - and I expect a lot of failure but maybe an unpolished gem or even a nugget of gold to fall thru - we'll see

when I'm gone this and my 2+2 postings will be my legacy - when I run for public office, they will sink my career the first week - LOL - good times, good times.

wow....what the hell just happened - I got middle-aged

RB

so here's the deal - Full Tilt is being called a ponzi scheme

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/20/2238257/Feds-Call-Full-Tilt-Poker-a-Global-Ponzi-Scheme

I had an ad for the site on here - I received credit to my account for it (apparently manufactured out of thin air like much of the other money) - and when they folded and I lost $450, I had traded off $600 of my money in the last year on a 1-1 basis for money on other sites when I wanted to play on them - One other site in particular, Pokerstars, forced me to cash out and take my money.

fortunately, there are few readers left of this blog - so I hope I didn't lead too many of you astray.

Now seriously - WTF -

they were one of the three biggest players, and they had a license to print money legitimately - what the hell was up with raiding player's funds to pay extravagent bonuses when I would think typical money operations could cover it

gotta love that love of money stuff

the problem with a buggy poker site with questionable software and bad results tracking is u never really know how good you're doing -

I know in those buck tourneys I've placed 4 times, bubbled once, and busted a few - I've made 20% of my Bankroll (I like to keep my buyins for MTT's to 1-3% of my roll) and I haven't struck gold yet in any 2-5 buck tourneys.

but the fact I do so well in a 120 player tourney regularly is a source of some joy - I guess if winning 7 bucks for 2.5 hrs means anything - LOL -

isn't that what Johnny Moss or Nick the Greek used to say at the end of their life, slumming the low limit tables? - Hey...it's action

RB

playing a 1 buck tourney right now - the payout is small - (91 people) - the software is buggy, the means of cashout are dangerously suspect, and the future is uncertain.

Best $100 I've spent playing poker in a while

RB

I just got $100 into an online website - I won't say which one, and I won't say how the money got there except to say I think it was all above board -

It is a questionable site from a software perspective, and it is a little flaky

I'm having flashbacks to the days when I was on Paradise Poker - (god those were great) using that old software and playing 3/6 with $100 online - (cause I didn't know bankroll management yet) -

gonna hang onto this $100 like it was gold though

RB

playing a 215 dollar "free money" tourney - 8 game rotation

yah, I'm kinda bored

deleted the FTP banner - I still appreciate them for the games they've provided but right now they've got a lot of US players in the lurch big time with no answers and I can't abide by that -

gotta admit, kinda like Phil Ivey shaking up the game tonight -

RB