The Poker Bookie

A journal dedicated to my exploits into Poker, Sports Betting, and Thoroughbred Racing

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Happy Turkey Day

This is my favorite time of the year. Family, football, and feast. Fortunately we will not have to do any travelling this year and it will be a nice relaxing 4 days vacation from work. On Thursday, we will drive to my parents for Thanksgiving dinner and catch the NFL games there. On Saturday, we'll have a few people over at our house watching the Georgia/Georgia Tech annual Civil War.

Poker has been great. I took down another of the nightly guaranteed tournament on FullTilt. This time it was for a little over $1900. I absolutely love the tournament structure on FullTilt. I now spend 90% of my time on that site.

I won a six team teaser in the NFL last week so I am feeling a little frisky. I am going to recommend that you play Georgia minus the 3 points this weekend. I think Tech is just not ready to play Georgia after their huge win over Miami. Be warned that I have been horrible this year whenever I post any of my plays on this blog. Hopefully, I didn't just jinxed my beloved Dawgs.

Hope everyone has a safe holiday season. Make it profitable, but most importantly take the time to spend with your family. It will be more rewarding and enjoyable than anything that money can buy.

Beatbookie

Monday, November 14, 2005

Quick Update

Sorry for the lack of updates lately if any of my readers are still out there. It's tough to update when things aren't going well at the table.

October was a rough month. It was a break-even month for me but I was so accustomed to winning that it really felt like a losing month. I lost my fair share of races and I would spend 2-3 hours in a tourney and bubble a few spots from the money when someone would hit their perfect card on the river. I guess that's poker and that's what they call variance, but it is still tough to stomach when you are going through it.

November has been much better. I won $2500 on Friday night by taking down 1st place in the nightly guaranteed tourney on Full Tilt.

Outside of poker, I had to disable the comments on my blog as it was being hijacked by spammers. If any of you want to contact me, you can find me most nights playing on Full Tilt under the name "beatbookie".

My Dawgs have been disappointing of late. We have dropped two straight with losses to Florida and Auburn. There goes any hope of a National title. Fortunately, we can still end up in the SEC Championship game with a win over Kentucky next week. They have traditionally been our whipping boys so hopefully we can continue that trend.

I am going to be out In Phoenix for business the first week in December. Anyone know of any poker rooms out there?