Annette15´s Blog.

A little update on Annette15´s blog, Anentte has played two big live tournaments this year so far The Aussie Millions and Pokerstars EPT Copenhagen, and she is disappointed not to go deeper in any of them.

Annette writes:

" There's nothing more annoying than having played sick poker for four days, not having been all-in a single time without having my opponent drawing dead postflop just to have someone call your 4-bet shove the first hand you sit down at the table..ah well....I still love poker.

Bubbled at the Copenhagen EPT...these things happen.

Best of luck to new Betfair sponsored Pro Peter Jepsen whose contract was announced on the opening day of that tourney.

I'm sure Peter is going to do well in both cash online at Betfair and in the live tournaments."


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Doyle Brunson Is Pleased With The New Doyles room.

Doyle brunson has been getting a lot of questions about the article, “100 Most Likely to Die in 2009.” It has him listed as the number 16th celebrity most likely to die this year.
But Doyle is cool he´s plan is to reach at the least 102 years of age in honor to the poker hand 10-2 named after him.


Doyle Brunson also says "" i´m really pleased with the new DoylesRoom poker room. We moved to a new network and we have more players in U.S. primetime than we had at our other provider. There are lots of sportsbook customers that play, which makes for looser and better games.""


It’s Super Bowl time and Doyle is betting on Arizona +7 points. This is one of Doyle´s favorite times of the year and he´s going to the Super Bowl Party at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.



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Daniel Negreanu´s WSOP 2009 Plan.

Here is the list of events Daniel Negreanu plan on playing at the WSOP 2009.

Some events do overlap so it's highly unlikely that Daniel Negreanu will be playing all of them, but if an event is NOT on this list, Daniel guarantees you that he won't be playing it.

Daniel Negreanu´s WSOP 2009 schedule:

May 28th: $40,000 No Limit Hold'em
May 29th: $40,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 2)
May 30th: $40,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 3)
May 31st: $40,000 No Limit Hold'em (Final Table)

June 1st: 5pm $10,000 7 Card Stud
June 2nd: $10,000 7 Card Stud (Day 2)
June 3rd: $10,000 7 Card Stud (Final Table)

June 4th: 5pm $10,000 Mixed Games

June 5th: 5pm $2500 Limit Hold'em (6 handed)

June 6th: 12pm $5000 No Limit Hold'em

June 7th: 5pm $10,000 Omaha 8
June 8th: $10,000 Omaha 8 (Day 2)

June 9th: 5pm $3000 HORSE
June 10th: 5pm $10,000 2-7 NL Lowball
June 11th: 5pm $2500 Stud 8/Omaha 8
June 12th: 12pm $1500 Limit Hold'em
June 13th: 5pm $10,000 NLH Heads Up
June 14th: 12pm $2500 PLO/PLH

June 15th: 5pm $10,000 Limit Hold'em
June 16th: $10,000 Limit Hold'em (Day 2)

June 17th: 12pm $5000 Pot Limit Omaha
June 18th: 5pm $10,000 Stud 8
June 19th: 12pm $2000 Limit Hold'em
June 20th: 5pm $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha
June 21st: 12pm $5000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
June 21st: 5pm $2500 Mixed Games

June 22nd: DAY OFF

June 23rd: 12pm $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
June 23rd: 5pm $2500 Omaha 8

June 24: DAY OFF
June 25: DAY OFF

June 26th: $50,000 HORSE
June 27th: $50,000 HORSE (Day 2)

June 28th: $3000 Triple Chance No Limit Hold'em
June 28th: $1500 Stud 8
June 29th: $2500 2-7 Triple Draw
June 30th: $5000 No Limit Hold'em (6 Max)

July 5th: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 1C)
July 8th: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 2)
July 10th: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 3)
July 11th: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 4)
July 12th: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Day 5)
July 13th: $10,000 No LImit Hold'em (Day 6)
July 14th: Play down to 27
July 15th: Play down to 9


Daniel Negreanu´s $10 to $10.000 project is going very well and he is only $7 away from graduating to next level $0.05-$0.10 cash games read more at Daniel Negreanu´s blog.


if you want a shot at Daniel Negranu on pokerstars, you'll usually find him on there at approximately 11:00pm PST on most nights.




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Daniel Negreanu´s Blog: From $10 To $100.000

Daniel Negreanu has been spotted at the microstakes NL cash tables blinds $0.01-$0.02. at Pokerstars.

Starting from just $10 Negreanu will try to turn it into a whopping $100.000.

As Daniel writes on he´s blog "" This is actually way more fun than I thought it was going to be.""

Daniel Negreanu has set a bunch of rules, one of them is to play poker with a 500 big blind bankroll, and move up a level whenever he has 500 big blinds to the next level.

Here is a list of all the rules:

1. I won't move up in limits unless I have 500 big blinds for that limit. I'm starting at $0.01-$0.02 with a $10 bankroll.

2. When possible, my buy in amount will allow me 5 buy ins at that limit. For example, if I have $5 left, my buy in for the game will be $1. I'll continue to do that until I dip below the min buy in.


3. I will play only NL cash games. I'll try to play full ring games as much as possible.

4. If I double my bankroll in a session I'll quit on my blind to help avoid risking too high a percentage of my bankroll in any one hand.

5. At about the $5-$10 limit I may decide to increase the number of big blinds required to move up in limits. 500 BB's is plenty for the micro games, but could be rather short for the higher limit games with better opponents. I'll base my decision on when to do that at my discretion.

6. I may also lower the buy in amount for the higher limit games from 1/5th of my bankroll per session to 1/10th of my bankroll per session. Again, I'll make that decision when the time comes.

7. When the amount needed to reach the goal is less than the 1/5th of the bankroll buy in, the buy in will be equal to the amount needed to reach the goal. Example: If 1/5th of the bankroll is $4.50 but you only need $2.50 to reach the goal, the buy in for the next session will be $2.50.

If you go to Daniel negreanu´s blog you can read what he thinks about playing microstakes on Pokerstars.

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Doyle Brunson´s blog

Last week Anurag Dikshit agreed to plead guilty to a charge related to internet betting and pay the US authorities $300m.


Doyle can´t imagine what was going through his mind.


Dikshit was one of the owners of Party poker and became a multi-billionaire when Party went public.


It looks like he would feel a sense of obligation to online poker, the industry that made him a rich man. Instead, he folded up like an accordion and plead guilty to breaking some kind of mystery law and is paying a 300 million dollar fine and a possible 2-year jail term.


It certainly created some ill will from the other online poker sites.


I personally can't imagine what was going through his mind when he made his decision.


You can read the rest of doyles blog here.


Mr Dikshit was the technician behind Partygaming´s meteoric rise that resulted in a £5bn ($7.8bn) flotation in 2005 to become a FTSE 100 company.

He wrote the software that enabled it to become the world’s biggest online poker site before anti-gambling legislation in 2006 forced its exodus from the US. He retains a 27 per cent stake in the company.


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Beating the Weak Player.

On Daniel Negreanu´s blog i found a really good post about beating up on the weak player.



If someone describes your playing style as weak, let's just say you're in lots of trouble. In fact, its the weak players that are the ones you should focus on when you are at the poker table.

Rather than duke it out with the strong, fierce, aggressive players you'll risk less, and win more in the long run against the weak, timid, passive players.


In order to pound on the weak players properly, the first thing you'll need to do is identify them. There are generally a few clues that you can look for that while not always totally accurate, could be clues nonetheless:

1) How they dress. If someone dresses extremely conservatively they will generally play poker that way! If they dress loudly they'll more than likely play more aggressive or flamboyantly.


2) How they talk. This is in line with the previous clue. If they are quiet or timid in the way they talk, chances are that's how they'll play poker.
Again, conversely, if you a dealing with an aggressive talker they are more than likely aggressive players.


3) Do they raise before the flop or just call? If they like to limp in on a regular basis, you might be dealing with a weak player.


4) Do they like to bet, or check and call? Aggressive players are bettors while weak players tend to check, or just call others bets.


So once you've identified the weak player, it's time to strategize against them.
Playing against weak players is without a doubt, the easiest type of opponent to face. In fact, your cards often don't even matter since they play so predictably!


You can read the rest of daniel´s great post here: http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/negreanu66.htm



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Daniel Negreanu's Blog

Daniel Negreanu actually write good posts on his blog.

This time a little about WSOP 2008 and betting rules at bellagio in Las Vegas.

Daniel writes:

It seems that every year at the WSOP people go bonkers at some point and act, well, just randomly bizarre. I assume it's the pressure, but man, some of these outbursts are downright awkward and annoying.

You got one 'classy' kid yelling, "Who's the bully now," after busting a Russian, than you have another guy yell, "You are an Idiot," to an opponent four times while pointing right at him aggressively.

Some people just completely lose composure and let their emotions take over. When the amateurs do it I can give them a pass, they have likely never been in that kind of situation before, but when a longtime pro does it, it's just totally inexcusable and pathetic.

When people play for that many days they'll often just crack and lose their minds on one hand and usually go broke.

Aside from the play, I did see a hand come up which involved a pet peeve of mine. Losev pushed forward 3 million in chips, took it back, and then cut out just 1.5 million in chips.
The floor was called over and they ruled that the bet should only be 1.5 million instead of the 3 million that was originally pushed forward.

It's a dangerous precedent to set, but the procedure used at Bellagio is by far the absolute worst of anywhere in the world. The set up there is absolutely designed to help cheaters and angle shooters.

At Bellagio there is a betting line. Unless verbally declared, only chips that cross that betting line count as a bet. There are a million ways to take advantage of this rule, but here is one good one:

You are on the river and your opponent bets 100,000. You have a marginal hand and aren't sure if it's good. Here is what you do:

Take four 25k chips, splash them forward but not far enough to touch the betting line. Your opponent will likely turn his hand up.

If you can beat his hand, just take the pot, if he shows you his hand and you can't beat it, just take your chips back and tell the floor he should get a penalty for turning his hand face up in the middle of a hand!

If the floor says you have to call the bet you just say, "Nope, my chips did not cross the line and I did not say call." That's cold blooded! According to the awful Bellagio rule, though, it would be considered perfectly legal to do that.

You can read the post and see Daniel Negreanu´s blog here: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/blogs/article/453


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DANIEL NEGREANU´S BLOG

DANIEL NEGREANU says in he´s blog that he use alot of time looking on poker stats.

""I've been loving poker lately, just really enjoying playing the game and I have no idea why, but it's true.

I'm looking forward to every tournament I enter and expect to go really deep.

I play poker at this point mostly because I'm a total stats geek, especially when it comes to fantasy sports.

Instead of rooting for random athletes to do well in games, I can check up my own poker stats and look to improve them.

Kind of a high goal I've set for myself is to overtake Jamie Gold as the all-time money winner in tournament poker since they've started tracking those types of stats, within a year.

Right now I sit in the #2 spot, and in the top 10 are each and every one of "my boys" who started out in this business around the same time: John Juanda, Phil Ivey, and Allen Cunningham.

Among the 4 you are looking at 18 WSOP bracelets and close to $40 million in career earnings depending on which site you are looking at.

One site has the top ten looking like this:

1st Jamie Gold $ 12,170,024
2nd Daniel Negreanu $ 10,874,018
3rd Joe Hachem $ 10,744,616
4th Phil Hellmuth Jr $ 10,681,368
5th Allen Cunningham $ 10,306,817
6th Scotty Nguyen $ 10,017,543
7th Phil Ivey $ 10,007,716
8th T.J. Cloutier $ 9,373,135
9th John Juanda $ 9,330,774
10th Erik Seidel $ 9,294,401

I have a slim lead on the all-time WPT money list and I need to start playing more of those to strengthen that lead:

1st Daniel Negreanu $ 5,491,232
2nd Carlos Mortensen $ 5,260,360
3rd Tuan Le $ 4,490,643
4th Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi $ 4,168,766
5th Gus Hansen $ 4,110,801
6th Alan Goehring $ 3,929,407
7th Joe Bartholdi Jr. $ 3,760,165
8th David Chiu $ 3,615,036
9th Nick Schulman $ 3,127,762
10th Justin Cuong Van Tran $ 3,077,798

The WSOP stats are where I really fall behind and need to put a few good years together in a row to make some moves on those lists.

With my three WSOP cashes in Europe that gave me 8 on the year, but just 33 overall in 11 years for an average of 3 a year which is much lower than some others.

How about this stat, though, Layne Flack has only cashed 19 times at the WSOP but won... 6 times! That's pretty sick.

There are 18 people in the world with more WSOP bracelets than me.

My 33 cashes puts me 33rd on the list, Juanda has a total of 45 cashes by comparison.

I rank 25th in WSOP earnings with $2,984,419, while Allen sits fourth on the all-time WSOP money list with $7,341,873.

Both Ivey and Juanda have also earned more than I have at the WSOP.

Ivey has the most WPT final tables with 8, and an impressive group of players follow him:
1 Phil Ivey 8
2 Daniel Negreanu 7
2 Gus Hansen 7
2 Scotty Nguyen 7
5 David Pham 6
5 John Juanda 6
7 Barry Greenstein 5
7 Erick Lindgren 5
7 JC Tran 5
7 Ted Forrest 5

I surf through all this stuff all the time and have a ton of fun with it.

Also helps motivate me to climb the ladder or in some cases maintain a lead.

I don't really care all that much about money, I really don't. I play poker because I love the competition.""

You can read the whole post, or Daniel Negreanu´s blog here:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/blogs/article/453

Doyle Brunson blog: Take me back

In doyle brunson´s blog you can read that doyle would lowe to go 10 years back, and the state of kentucky´s attemt to seize the url´s of internet gaming sites.


I don't know if everybody is following this extortion attempt that is going on in Kentucky.

The out of state attorneys that started this attempt to seize the urls of internet gaming sites are making ridiculous claims that internet gaming is hurting Kentucky's citizens and prevents them from having money for horse racing.

I'm not going to go into all the legal issues but Kentucky is in for a hell of a battle and every legal opinion I've heard says they don't have a chance of winning.



I've been home from London for a week now and while I've recovered physically, I still feel it would be hard to focus enough to play high stakes poker.

I can't get caught up with my e-mails, snail mail, phone calls, and appointments.

It seems like I have to take all my time with different business opportunities, my obligations to DoylesRoom, and worrying about what to do and when to do it.

When I look back ten years at what my life was like and then look at what it is now, I get sick.

There is no life that is as good as being a pro poker player with no other concerns.

I could play when I wanted to and didn't have to answer to anyone or anything.

I wish I could get a time machine to take me back in time, I would do a lot of things differently.

One thing I know for sure, if I could do that, I would leave myself time to play the game that I love.


You can read the whole post on doyle´s blog here:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/blogs/article/4597