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Day 2a on the Twitter…

Emily — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:48 +0000

Day 2 underway, live updates on twitter. Messages are slightly encrypted because the A key is broken, but you’ll get the idea: twitter.com/thinkingpoker

Twittering from the table

Emily — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:45:24 +0000

Andrew is at a meh starting table with a good player on his left. For those not following the twitter, here are the updates so far:

3:35pm Fish wins huge pot off of best opponent. this is a very very good thing.

First Break- 2:15pm Just over 30K starting stack at break. Table is awful- mostly unspectacular tourney guys but one seemingly very very good guy on my left.

2pm 3bet k8s on button turned nuts guy bet folds a one card straight

12:15pm Shitty table. already double barreled and called down two streets with k high.

Imperial Palace, Here I Come!

foucault — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:38:00 +0000

So apparently Vegas isn’t quite as dead as I thought and waiting until the day before my arrival to make hotel arrangements was not wise. The Rio is booked solid until Tuesday, so I’m spending my first three nights at the good old Imperial Palace. I stayed there last year, and honestly, I expected worse. Hopefully I didn’t just get an abnormally non-crappy room.

Quick little Twitter update/clarification (sorry I am just learning how to use this): you don’t actually have to have a Twitter account to get updates. Just go to http://twitter.com/thinkingpoker and you can you see my most recent Tweets.

I’ll be using that for occasional chip count updates and reports on important hands, but I’ll still try to post more substantive stuff on the blog as time permits. It shouldn’t be a problem through the first few days of the main event, but should I make it to Day 3, I’ll have a lot less free time from then on out.

Wish me luck!

How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker

foucault — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Yesterday’s New York Times ran an article about how poker players are using Twitter. I can’t say it’s particularly thorough and insightful, in fact it seems to be based almost entirely on an interview with Joe Sebok of Poker Road, it’s neat to see our little world getting some mainstream attention.

As reporter Marshall Kirkpatrick notes, “Big name players are Tweeting but small timers at the big show are too. Traditional poker reporting didn’t shed much light on the experiences of amateurs, but Sebok says those players on the margins can now tell their families and friends to check Twitter for play by play accounts of their experiences in Vegas.”

As it happens, I myself will be Tweeting from the WSOP on @thinkingpoker. So follow along!