New Year's Eve

Today is the last chance for you all to do something good in 2011. As for tonight we are treating it just like any other night. We may go visit the wife's parents and maybe mine too. Other than that we are staying home and fighting to stay up until midnight. Let's home 2012 is the year our government fixes the Online Poker mess. Happy New Year's Eve. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Online Poker

Damn I hate the way idiots play! Six people limp as does the button. In the Big Blind I shove for 30BBs with A-Q of hearts. All fold to button who goes into the tank. He finally calls with Kings!!!! How could I see this one coming. Such a bad play in so many ways but of course I get stacked and have to rebuy. Bad players like this are poison to my bank roll. Most nights I would stay at this table and get it all back. Not tonight I finally gave up down 3 buy ins. Of well I will get them tomorrow. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Cake Poker

Lately Cake Poker is the only Online Site I have been able to play on. Being I live in America it's the only site I have a roll on. The games are usually super soft. The stakes are low so I am just playing to pass the time. Thing I love is the Double or Nothing Sit-N-Gos run often and are super easy to beat. At the very least I use the site to keep my skills up so I don't get too rusty. It keeps me in "Shape" for when I get to go to Atlantic City or Foxwoods to play some live "real" Poker. It feels like the minor leagues to me now. Hope you all had a good holiday. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Merry Christmas

I want to thank all my loyal readers for coming here and reading my scribbles. Everyone have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays. Tony

Another Great BLOG

This week I am continuing sharing my favorite BLOGS that I read regularly. The BLOG below is one of the best No Limit Strategy BLOGS you will find anywhere on the web. I've been reading it for a few years. Add it it your BLOG roll, you won't be sorry. Read and enjoy. Thanks for reading Tony

Thinking Poker

Great BLOG

I have noticed a trend by Poker Bloggers this year. They are posting less and less. Makes sense with the lack of money to be made blogging. Plus people just move on to bigger and better things. Dr. Pauly hasn't been posting as often as he used to but his posts are still awesome. His BLOG inspired me to start my own 5 years ago! Check him out below.

TaoPoker

Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables.

P.S. - This was not a paid Post. The opinions expressed in this Blog are mine and nothing more.

Ebook Sneak Peek

Here is another, very rough draft, chapter from my ebook I am currently working on. Enjoy and please leave me a comment. Tony

Tommy Tootoria was having a bad week and he was in a foul mood. Just hearing the name makes my skin crawl up! Tommy lived in a suburb of Atlantic City called Absecon, where I happen to live in also. It is a small town with some really nice expensive sections and some cheap one filled with motels on Route 35, which is the area I happen to live in. Tourists/Gamblers use these motels to avoid paying $200 plus a night to stay in an actual Casino. Unless of course you are a high roller/big spender who gets their rooms comped, paid for by the casino. Of course if that’s the case you most likely lose 10 times the price of the room in order to qualify for it for free. Worse yet many of the motels in Absecon are paid for as a monthly rate by down and out gamblers. Also some are used to deal drugs or by prostitutes to conduct their business. So Absecon is a real contradiction in status. On the one side of town you have $1.5 Million plus houses on the other side you have roach motels. Back to Tommy, he owns a company that got the contract to pick up Atlantic City’s garbage. The contract was huge for 16 million a year and companies fight to for a chance to win it. You have to wonder why everyone wants the contract being garbage pickup is done all by Union workers some of which can’t be fired and make over 100K a year! Not bad for unskilled labor. So Tommy’s Company won the contract and on the surface it looked like he was on top of the world, just rolling in the dough. Behind the scenes things for Tommy were anything but great. In the previous football season he got totally beaten down. Losing a huge sum of money for the last 8 weeks straight of the regular NFL season. Then he chased his loses trying to make it back in the playoffs, only to fall deeper into a hole. The Super bowl was no better when a last second Interception caused his team to not cover the spread by a single point. That point put Tommy so deep into the hole that his business and house might be lost to the bookies. Of course he owed the money to one of the biggest mobsters in Atlantic City, NJ, and actually the whole country. The head of the Bubouts family the infamous Vinny! Indicted for every crime you can think of including 4 murders but none of them have ever stuck to him. Maybe it’s because the witness always had a way of changing their minds or disappearing at very opportune times. Tommy was in serious trouble the kind that your body could end up deep in the New Jersey Pine barons to maybe never be found again. He could end up like Jimmy Hoffa, rumored to be buried in cement under Giants Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey, but only the people responsible for his disappearance know for sure.

Ebook Progress

I have been writing my book for almost 9 months now. Let me tell you it's a lot of hard work. The beginning and end parts weren't that bad. It's the filling in of content to get to the end that is a real struggle. I have been making slow and steady progress. Am now up to 30K words but it's real ruff. I will have much re-writing to do. The finished work will be worth waiting for. Hopefully a few more months and I will be done. "Trouble in Atlantic City". Read about the Poker Playing P.I. in the Atlantic City Area. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

More Blogging

This week I am continuing sharing my favorite BLOGS that I read regularly. The BLOG below is one of the best No Limit Strategy BLOGS you will find anywhere on the web. I've been reading it for a few years. Add it it your BLOG roll, you won't be sorry. Read and enjoy. Thanks for reading Tony

Thinking Poker

Cake Win

My MTT win on Cake on Saturday felt really good. Even if I didn’t cash I would have been happy with my play. Didn’t get it allin and behind even once the whole tournament. Granted it was only a 19 man MTT but still a good feeling. I made some really good lay downs. In one I folded tens from early position when the under the gun tight player min-raised. I didn’t like flatting or raising here with all the players behind me to act. Sure enough the button shoved and the under-the-gun raiser snap called. I would have been far behind being the button had Jacks and the under-the-gun player had A-K suited. Dodging that bullet allowed me to survive to go on to win it all. Can’t wait for the day that online poker is back in full force in America. For now I pass the time playing for micro-stakes on Cake. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Great BLOG continued

I have noticed a trend by Poker Bloggers this year. They are posting less and less. Makes sense with the lack of money to be made blogging. Plus people just move on to bigger and better things. Dr. Pauly hasn't been posting as often as he used to but his posts are still awesome. His BLOG inspired me to start my own 5 years ago! Check him out below.

TaoPoker

Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables.

P.S. - This was not a paid Post. The opinions expressed in this Blog are mine and nothing more.

MTT Win

It's been a long time since I took down an MTT. Feels good even if for micro stakes! Thanks for reading. Tony

Ebook Sneak Peek

Here is another, very rough draft, chapter from my ebook I am currently working on. Enjoy and please leave me a comment. Tony

Tommy Tootoria was having a bad week and he was in a foul mood. Just hearing the name makes my skin crawl up! Tommy lived in a suburb of Atlantic City called Absecon, where I happen to live in also. It is a small town with some really nice expensive sections and some cheap one filled with motels on Route 35, which is the area I happen to live in. Tourists/Gamblers use these motels to avoid paying $200 plus a night to stay in an actual Casino. Unless of course you are a high roller/big spender who gets their rooms comped, paid for by the casino. Of course if that’s the case you most likely lose 10 times the price of the room in order to qualify for it for free. Worse yet many of the motels in Absecon are paid for as a monthly rate by down and out gamblers. Also some are used to deal drugs or by prostitutes to conduct their business. So Absecon is a real contradiction in status. On the one side of town you have $1.5 Million plus houses on the other side you have roach motels. Back to Tommy, he owns a company that got the contract to pick up Atlantic City’s garbage. The contract was huge for 16 million a year and companies fight to for a chance to win it. You have to wonder why everyone wants the contract being garbage pickup is done all by Union workers some of which can’t be fired and make over 100K a year! Not bad for unskilled labor. So Tommy’s Company won the contract and on the surface it looked like he was on top of the world, just rolling in the dough. Behind the scenes things for Tommy were anything but great. In the previous football season he got totally beaten down. Losing a huge sum of money for the last 8 weeks straight of the regular NFL season. Then he chased his loses trying to make it back in the playoffs, only to fall deeper into a hole. The Super bowl was no better when a last second Interception caused his team to not cover the spread by a single point. That point put Tommy so deep into the hole that his business and house might be lost to the bookies. Of course he owed the money to one of the biggest mobsters in Atlantic City, NJ, and actually the whole country. The head of the Bubouts family the infamous Vinny! Indicted for every crime you can think of including 4 murders but none of them have ever stuck to him. Maybe it’s because the witness always had a way of changing their minds or disappearing at very opportune times. Tommy was in serious trouble the kind that your body could end up deep in the New Jersey Pine barons to maybe never be found again. He could end up like Jimmy Hoffa, rumored to be buried in cement under Giants Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey, but only the people responsible for his disappearance know for sure.

Another Great BLOG

This week I am continuing sharing my favorite BLOGS that I read regularly. The BLOG below is one of the best No Limit Strategy BLOGS you will find anywhere on the web. I've been reading it for a few years. Add it it your BLOG roll, you won't be sorry. Read and enjoy. Thanks for reading Tony

Thinking Poker

Another Great BLOG

He doesn't post as often as he used to. When he does it's a well thought out in depth worth reading post. Not really a Poker BLOG but more a Sports, Poker, Investing, etc. Worth reading for the once or twice a week rants.

Hoy

I will continue posting about good BLOGs to read this week. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Poker Ebook

My hat is off to people who write books for a living. It's taking me a long time to finish my Ebook about a Poker playing P.I. I've been at it for 6 months and only have 28K words. My goal is 50K and then I have a lot of proofing and rewriting to do. Just want to bang out the 50K than will worry about the rest. I already know how it will end and that's easily the best part. The beginning was easy but the middle is taking me a long time. Character development is hard! Look for it in I guess 3 months. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables.

P.S. - Read my last post for a sneak peek.

Yet Another Ebook Sneak Peek

Here is another, very rough draft, chapter from my ebook I am currently working on. Enjoy and please leave me a comment. Tony

Tommy Tootoria was having a bad week and he was in a foul mood. Just hearing the name makes my skin crawl up! Tommy lived in a suburb of Atlantic City called Absecon, where I happen to live in also. It is a small town with some really nice expensive sections and some cheap one filled with motels on Route 35, which is the area I happen to live in. Tourists/Gamblers use these motels to avoid paying $200 plus a night to stay in an actual Casino. Unless of course you are a high roller/big spender who gets their rooms comped, paid for by the casino. Of course if that’s the case you most likely lose 10 times the price of the room in order to qualify for it for free. Worse yet many of the motels in Absecon are paid for as a monthly rate by down and out gamblers. Also some are used to deal drugs or by prostitutes to conduct their business. So Absecon is a real contradiction in status. On the one side of town you have $1.5 Million plus houses on the other side you have roach motels. Back to Tommy, he owns a company that got the contract to pick up Atlantic City’s garbage. The contract was huge for 16 million a year and companies fight to for a chance to win it. You have to wonder why everyone wants the contract being garbage pickup is done all by Union workers some of which can’t be fired and make over 100K a year! Not bad for unskilled labor. So Tommy’s Company won the contract and on the surface it looked like he was on top of the world, just rolling in the dough. Behind the scenes things for Tommy were anything but great. In the previous football season he got totally beaten down. Losing a huge sum of money for the last 8 weeks straight of the regular NFL season. Then he chased his loses trying to make it back in the playoffs, only to fall deeper into a hole. The Super bowl was no better when a last second Interception caused his team to not cover the spread by a single point. That point put Tommy so deep into the hole that his business and house might be lost to the bookies. Of course he owed the money to one of the biggest mobsters in Atlantic City, NJ, and actually the whole country. The head of the Bubouts family the infamous Vinny! Indicted for every crime you can think of including 4 murders but none of them have ever stuck to him. Maybe it’s because the witness always had a way of changing their minds or disappearing at very opportune times. Tommy was in serious trouble the kind that your body could end up deep in the New Jersey Pine barons to maybe never be found again. He could end up like Jimmy Hoffa, rumored to be buried in cement under Giants Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey, but only the people responsible for his disappearance know for sure.