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Hey all, I haven't blog much the last week and the i've got 1 word and 3 numbers as to why i haven't been blogging much - XBOX 360!!!

I have borrowed my brothers xbox, hooked it up to the internet and have been lost for the last 3 days running about shooting the hell outta Americans, English, Scottish, Itallian and French people on Gears of War.

I signed back into poker.com tonight and found $50 refer a friend bonus so i'm having a little break from the xbox tonight and i'll have a small game of poker. $11 buy in for $1500 gtd prizepool, rebuys and addon. I'll give this a bash tonight and see how it goes cause the 1K gtd was rebuy madness so i guess with the increase in prizepool the rebuys will possibly get even madder. I dont plan on rebuying and i'll see if i can make it to the break before deciding if i need the add on.

I'll post about how the game goes and for anyone that has an xbox 360 and play it online my username on that is SeeWeed82

Look forward to seeing some of you on the tables and some of you in the warzone!!!!

Posted by elc3105 at 12:05 PM | Permalink | Comments

Last night i played the $10 NL tournament and managed to finish 8 and get $20 for my efforts. Its not much but profit is always good :-) Whilst playing the $10 NL game i decided to play on the real money tables as well.

All the Yellowstone tables were full and the waiting lists were all 3 or higher. I pulled up a seat at an empty table and waited till i got some company. Didnt take long and about 10 hands in i had lost my entire buy in to this donkey calling all in on a flush draw and hitting it. I instantly rebought for the table maximum ($25) intent on getting my money back off this numpty.

The table filled up quickly and now it was a game of patience and waiting for the right hand at the right moment. I waited and waited, picking up a few pots here and there and finally i decided enough was enough, the BB was about to land on me so i started running my bath. Just before the BB hit me i thought ' bugger it, i'll get another round in before my baths ready'

Aint i glad i decided to wait, A A dealt to me in the SB. UTG raises 4x BB and the guy i was waiting to bust all game called the $1 and all folded round to me. I reraised to $5, a little heavy but i wanted the cash in the pot NOW. UTG initial raiser called and the guy i wanted to bust folded - dang - oh well next time. The flop came 10 J 2 with 2 clubs on board and me holding A clubs. I decided to move all in to deter my opponent from flush chasing, he call the $22 and flipped over K K. The turn was a blank another curly, giving me more cards to hit and one less for him, he was drawing to the last K in the deck as he didnt have the K clubs and if the K clubs appeared on the board he woulda had trips and i woulda had the nut flush. The river was a blank and i scooped the pot, over $58.

This more than made up for my earlier losses. I left the table at the end of that round happy i was up but a little sad at the fact i didnt get to bust out the numbnuts. I did check the table again about 30 minutes later and noticed that numbnuts was sitting with $1 so he had probably donked it all off with a missed draw of some sort. HAHAHAHA

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Tomorrow sees the release of the eagerly awaited James Bond film, Casino Royale. The 21st Bond movie to be made and the lads over at Zoo Magazine have given us 17 interesting facts about this movie.

1. Casino Royale is the first Bond film to feature scenes shot in the rain.
2. Daniel Craig is the first Bond actor to be younger than the franchise itself. He was born on March 2nd 1968, while the first Bond, Dr. No, was released in 1962.
3. If you recognise Tsai Chin, who plays Madame Wu in Casino Royale, thats because she played Ling in 1967s You Only Live Twice.
4. A 1954 TV adaption of Ian Flemmings Casino Royale novel featured the first on screen appearance of Bond. It was also shot as a 1967 Bond spoof starring David Niven and Woody Allen as 007.
5. The film covers the start of Bonds career and begins with black and white footage of Bond earning his double-0 (each 0 marking an assasination) by killing an MI6 agent and his contact for selling secrets.
6. Over £2million worth of cars - including Maseratis, Ferraris and Jags -were in the car park during the scenes shot at the fictionsal Hotel Splendide Montenegro.
7. Caterina Murino - who plays the wife of villain Alex Dimitrios - came fourth in the 1996 Miss Italy contest, has advertised Nescafe coffee and was once the WAG of an Itallian footballer - whom she refuses to name.
8. Sean Connery was reportedly considered for the job of directing this Bond movie.
9. Casino Royale was also the name of the casino where Pierce Brosnan's 007 gambles during Tomorrow Never Dies.
10. Richard Branson makes a brief cameo as himself.
11. The extensive stunt scenes helped push production costs to an estimated £72million.
12. The Ford Mondeo that Bond drives at the start if the film is a hand built prototype. Actual production of the car will not begin until spring 2007.
13. Daniel Craig suffers from vertigo and the scenes that feature Bond Jumping from 150ft cranes took 8 weeks to film.
14. In 2004, Quentin Tarantino pleaded with Bond producers EON to let him do an adaption of Casino Royale, starring Pierce as Bond and Uma Thurman as Vesper Lynd. Tarantino claims he lost interest when it was revealed that Brosnan would no longer be playing Bond.
15. The Casino Royale novel includes the recipe for Bonds legendary vodka martini : ' 3 measures of Gordons, 1 of vodka, half measure of Kina Lillet(vermouth). Shake it very well until its ice coldm then add a large thin slice of lemon.
16. The Aston Martin DB5, a version of which Bond drives in Casino Royal, set the slowest ever time in Top Gears power laps segment.
17. The crane scenes were filmed on anabandoned hotel site that, when under construction was used as a location for 1965s Thunderball.

Posted by elc3105 at 11:58 AM | Permalink | Comments

Event #5 of the second season of the Blogger Poker Tour kicks of this Saturday at 15:00 Poker.com time. Hosted by Poker.com regular Skinski and his The House of Poker Blues blogs, its simply and fittingly called called The House of Blues.

As always the password and updates are available from his blog, and for up to the second results you can go to the results page.

• Tournament: Blogger Poker Tour - Season 2 Event 5
• Date: 18 November
• Time: 15:00 Poker.com Time (EST)
• Location: Tournaments > Scheduled > Special tab
• Structure: 10 min levels, 2000 starting chips
• Entry: Free to Blogger Poker Tour Players
• Prizes: $500

In the words of Skinski it will be "something that will let all know they are in a house with the blues being played on a guitar. Something with that mississippi bayou feel..."
With the new games at Poker.com painfully close, Skinski was rather sad that he couldn't make it a 6 handed 5 card draw tourney. (Next season for sure!) So instead it will be a shorthanded 6 seat Texas Holdem Tournament, all the regular structure, just short handed. In the last event we thought the numbers would be hurt by the switch to Omaha, but 97 players showed up to duel it out in what turned out to be a fantastic event.

Its the business end of the season now, and every point is starting to really count. So to try and claw your way into that top 20, to to secure you place there make sure you keep the fields growing. As I always say register for the next event, get your friends to register, get strangers to register, just get as many people you can to take part, then when you win you will earn maximum points and we might see you in final, battling it out for the guaranteed prizes including that Aussie Millions entry. Then you can join me and the Queen of hearts in beautiful Melbourne Australia in January.

To keep track of all everyone's leaderboard points go to the all inclusive BPT Leaderboard. Also don't forget the secon d major prize in this seasons BPT, a trip to Melbourne to blog the Aussie Millions! Have your say in the Blogger Poker Tour forum, which is also a great place for help and advice for your blog!

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I've been waiting for the last 5 days on a bank transfer so i could fund my poker account. It normally takes 3 days but weekends dont count so i had to wait a little longer and i now know if i'm gonna use a bank transfer again to get it done on a monday morning.

I redeposited $40 on poker.com and used the reload code NOVRELOAD06 and this got me %50 extra on my deposit and a free $11 coupon which can be used in any $11 satellite tournament. I think i will use it for one of the 6 seater $11 which gives the winner a $60 satellite coupon. If i manage to get a $60 coupon i will be using it to enter the 20K tournament on a sunday at poker.com

Once i redeposited i decided to hit the ring games and taken a seat at 'Yellowstone' 10c/25c NL. I've been sitting at the table for almost 2 hours now and i'm up about $45, i sat with $15 and i'm almost at $60. A couple of key hands for me was 7 7 with 5 to the flop and me turning a full house, pot ended up $18. 10 10 on a rag flop all the way to the river with a calling station holding a str8 draw and missing, this pot made it to £30. K Q vs A A and the river gave me another K for trips (lucky hand)

I'm still at the table with $58 and think i will stay for another 30 mins or as and see how we can do. If i honest, i could leave the table with anything over $45 and i will still be happy.

Post tomorrow night about event 5 of the BPT and how you can enter it.

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Poker.com's Sunday $15,000 Guaranteed tournament has long been the best E.V. online... But at Poker.com we wanted to give our players an even better chance at winning even more cash.

That's why we've increased the prize pool yet again!. So, now you can play for your share of...
$20,000 In Guaranteed Cash Every Sunday!

But that's not even the best part. The tournament usually has between 200 to 227 players which means the field is far less than the guaranteed prizepool. $20,000 / $55 = more than 363 entrants, which means that there is heaps of extra money to win, and not as many players as would normally be needed to generate that amount.

You have two options available for entry, including:

• Buying straight in for $55 + $5
• $60 Satellite entry coupon (You can win this for as little as $2)

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With event 5 coming up this weekend i thought i would do a post giving you the rundown of the 1st 4 events. I was ineligible to play event 1 cause my blog hadn't been validated yet. If you want to get in for event 5, be sure you have a blog(poker orientated if poss), be sure you sign up at www.bloggerpokertour.com and make sure you use elc3105 as your referal. More news on event 5 but first the lowdown on the first 4 events.

Event 1 - Sept 23rd 2006 - Poker.com's Poker Blog

Event 1 was hosted by poker.com's own blog. There was 75 entries in this game which was 10 seater NL holdem. The commisioner of the BPT played this event and put a bounty on his head. Whoever knocked him out received the same points as the winner and the honour went to ViezeMan.

The Top 10

1st ReplicantPoker ($125) of ReplicantPoker Blog
2nd Michael1965 ($100) of Counting my outs
3rd Irongirl ($75) of Irongirl01
4th BobbyOlsen ($55) of From schoolboy to pro
5th JCL514 ($45.00) of Drawing Dead
6th natsdad ($30.00) of natsdads myspace blog
7th Quackpot ($25.00) of Quack's Poker Quest
8th Hacksaw2000 ($20.00) of Fifth Street Forum
9th astinaguy ($15.00) of astinaguys poker blog
10th brodoughno ($10.00) of Gaminology

Event 2 - Oct 7th 2006 - Royal's Bluff Till You Drop Bender

72 players took part in the second event of the BPT. Some familiar faces on the final table and natsdad pushed on from his 6th place in event 1 to grab victory in this 10 seater NL holdem game.

The Top 10

1st natsdad ($125) of natsdads myspace blog
2nd iyatoni ($100) of Perfectly Beastly
3rd DamRiver ($75) of Eat Sleep Poker
4th booboy119543 ($55) of From schoolboy to pro
5th brodoughno ($45.00) of Gaminology
6th mick5434 ($30.00) of AAbully27
7th Porkrind333 ($25.00) of Porkrind's Grind
8th Quackpot ($20.00) of Quack's Poker Quest
9th purechaos ($15.00) of Scary Poker
10th elc3105 ($10.00) of elc3105s blog

Event 3 - Oct 28th 2006 - Ultimate Poker Forum.com Tournament Blog

After one false start and a reschedule of event 3 we finally got under way 1 week later than originally planned. A record 101 bloggers signed up for this event showing that word of mouth was spreading the news of the BPT. This has been my best event to date finishing 3rd. My A J suited ran into the SB maniac who went all in holding a 10 4 off, hit his 10 on the flop and no help for me on the turn or river.

The Top 10

1st kufolem ($125) of Poker Athletes Blog
2nd CawtBluffin ($100) of Haley's Poker Bl-Auggh!!
3rd elc3105 ($75) of elc3105s blog
4th Chatuba ($55) of Na Poltrona
5th DavidMalek ($45.00) of 11ave.blogspot.com
6th brodoughno ($30.00) of Gamingology
7th Brunsie ($25.00) of dabruns droomt van.....
8th Hacksaw2000 ($20.00) of 5TH Street Forum
9th ViezeMan ($15.00) of Peetscheet
10th royalroynr1 ($10.00) of Blogg For De Fleste

Event 4 - Nov 4th 2006 - Irongirl's Omaha a Go-Go

Event 4 saw the hostess Irongirl going for some host advantage and choosing her favorite game, omaha 8 handed. 97 players signed up for this event and with omaha not some peoples forte it didn't seem to matter. I started strong pushing myself into the top 3 after about 30 mins of play. My whole game collapsed when my flopped nuts str8 was called all the way to the river with someone holding 2 pair and seen them rivering a full house. One of the best stories of the day, 2 new sign ups, Stevenslb159 & thepurdle, both made the final table in their Blogger Poker Tour debut. They finished in 7th & 10th place respectively, a great leg-up to a possible top 20 place, despite their late start. It shows acheiving the top 20 can be done even with a late start.

The Top 10

1st freeroll26 ($125) of Freerollcalendar Weblog
2nd imjusthere4thebeer ($100) of Poker Pub
3rd EgonOlsen ($75) of EgonOlsenPoker
4th astinaguy ($55) of astinaguys poker blog
5th MTLdon ($45.00) of the life of a don
6th kufolem ($30.00) of Poker Athletes Blog
7th Stevenslb159 ($25.00) of slb159 poker
8th Rahaboss ($20.00) of Joemehe Pokker
9th PearlSnapMan ($15.00) of PearlSnapMan Plays Poker
10th thepurdle ($10.00) of Purdle's Poker Adventures

Now you know how the 4 events have went, check out the BPT leaderboard here and while your at in get yourself signed up and validated in time for event 5. Event 5 is hosted by poker.com regular Skinski, i will do another blop regarding event 5 either later tonight or tomorrow.

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High Stakes Poker - Ouch

$575,000 pot, Bad beat with some nice play by both these players. OUCH

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Funny Ass Family Guy

One of the funniest family guy clips i have ever seen :-) Hope you enjoy it.

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In the 7 preliminary freerolls, hosted by bloggers on poker.com the prize pool is guarenteed $500 and costs nothing to enter. All you need is a blog, sign up for the BPT and open a poker.com account.

The prize payout for the preliminary events is top 10 paid out ;

1st $125
2nd $100
3rd $75
4th $55
5th $45
6th $30
7th $25
8th $20
9th $15
10th $10

At the end of the 7 preliminary games the top 20 in the leaderboard qualify for the grand final with some awesome prizes on offer ;

For your chance to play for these prizes you must register at www.bloggerpokertour.com dont forget to use elc3105 as your referal

Have an existing account or open a new account on poker.com

Lastly, have a blog!

See you all at the next event.

Posted by elc3105 at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments

Some information on the Blogger Poker Tour. I will be posting alot more later to do with the blogger tour and if any other bloggers sign up dont forget to let them know elc3105 refered you.

www.bloggerpokertour.com or click the link on the left of the page

The Blogger Poker Tour is a series of tournaments hosted by bloggers, for bloggers, with the top prize being a $12,500 Aussie Millions package.


In this season of the Blogger Poker Tour, Poker.com will be the venue for a series of 7 preliminary $500 freeroll tournaments, each one hosted by a different blog & blogger(s).
This year to earn your place in the BPT Grand Final, and take your shot at over $25,000 in prizes, you will need to make it to the top of the BPT Leader board.
BPT Leader board points are awarded as the reverse of the field, so if 100 players enter a tournament, the first player out will be awarded 1 point, and the winner will be awarded 100 points. As a bonus those players that make the final table will have their points for that round multiplied.


1st - 300%
2nd - 250%
3rd - 225%
4th - 200%
5th - 175%
6th - 150%
7th - 150%
8th - 150%
9th - 150%
10th - 150%


So the player that finishes first in a field of 100 will end up with 300 BPT Leader board points.
As a bonus for hosting a round, the host will receive the same points as the winner of that round, so the more players in the tournament you host means the more points you earn.
There is also a bonus of 20 points for every player you refer to the Blogger Poker Tour.
At the end of the season, the top 20 on the BPT Leader board will take their place in the BPT Grand Final and share in over $25,000 in prizes.

Posted by elc3105 at 10:25 AM | Permalink | Comments