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Since I began playing poker way back in the late2007’s, I thought there weren’t any bad times to play poker, barring weddings and funerals.  But this Thanksgiving week/weekend, proved me wrong!  I was never home long enough to play as I had thanksgiving at my parents and at Kelly’s house.  And then as soon as family leaves, I get the shits and thrown ups, medically known as a stomach virus.  It was not pretty; I missed the Twitter Poker Tour because of family and missed playing poker because of the horridness that found every way to exit my body as humanly possible.  I tried to login and play some online poker on Full Tilt, but just wasn’t in the mindset to play.   

One good thing about being sick and bed ridden is that I can still browse the internet’s looking to learn something more about holdem and I found a great place to learn the rules, over at Full Tilt, along with the series of blogs, I found Poker from the Rail, I was able to entertain myself while sitting on the throne and puking into a bucket!  Good times!  The good news is that I feel 100% better today and if I can turn my $2.12 of poker funds into $6, I will be playing with Geoff and Paul and the rest of the TPTpoker gang in the Twitter Poker Tour, which plays every Thursday at 9 PM EST on Full Tilt Poker!  Join Geoff and Paul on the twitter poker show this week are Jason Mercier and maybe Randal Flowers.  The reason I say maybe Randal Flowers is because after the TPT tweeted that he and Jason were joining the show, @RandALLin replied, “I am? Lol” So, you’ll have join them live at http://twitterpokertour.com/live to see who shows up!  See you all on the virtual felt.  Peace.

Going into last night’s Twitter Poker Tour, I was somewhere around 31^st on the leader board, mainly due to my horrendous 50^th place finish last week, as the week before I finished in a somewhat (insert donkey sound) respectable 22^nd.  So I told myself to play better, tighten up my opening range, which usually hovers around almost anything depending on my mood and stop getting in good and getting sucked out!   I picked up Aces FOUR times, unfortunately, twice was in the BB and everyone folded around, once I opened up to 4x and only got the BB to call, then check/fold the flop and the fourth time, I was in middle position, and kbinferno opened up 3x and FTP decides to lock up on me and force a time out.  I got wilted down and shoved 77 into JJ, lucky for me a 7 fell on the river to more than double me up and I was sitting pretty, around 7^th of 35 remaining (I believe 93 started).  After that, nothing good happened, I remember a few times being forced out of pots with nothing.  Eventually, near the money bubble, I was dealt JJ.  Scott Diamond, aka, DeputySD, aka chiwawa, opened up a standard raise, Val Zlasdjkflasjkdflakfowekasldagaldk (pardon that his last name is too hard to spell),aka, Blizge, smooth called and I jam my remaining chips, to my delight, both Scott and Val called, I was looking at a triple up! The flop came T high, two hearts, Scott shoved and Val insta called.  My heart sank.  I knew I was beat. And man was I ever beat, Scott held TT for a flopped set and Val held QQ .   Both players had me, I was looking to spike one of the last two Jacks, but fortunes were not on my side and Scott’s set held and eliminated me in 22^nd.  Money was at 19.  Oh well. I really enjoyed playing and listening to the broadcast as Paul and Geoff interviewed November 9’er Matt Jarvis and was later joined by Bluff Magazines senior editor, Jess Welman and the man who takes pretty pictures and knows a lot about the happenings in the world of poker, B.J. Nemeth.   Lifelong TPTer Tracy Snell would end up shipping the event, thus securing himself a leader board top spot and a ticket into the 750K Guarantee on Full Tilt Poker this Sunday (or any Sunday he wants to play).  Thanks again for a great show and event guys.  And remember; if you play online poker, please come join us every Thursday night at 9 PM EST! See you next week!

Can you believe another Thursday is here and that means its Twitter Poker Tour time!  And for the second week in a row, a $216 ticket to the $750,000 Guarantee is up for grabs!  Last week there were over 80 participants, almost double the normal weekly game.  We hope to eclipse this mark and continue growing the TPT each and every week.  Don’t forget that Paul and Geoff will also be on Ustream with guests ESPN’s Andrew Feldman and Gary Wise.  They will talk about the goings on in the world of poker as well as the TPT’s new partnership with DeepStacks University.  If you play online poker and haven’t played in the TPT, today is your chance.  The game is always the same, a No-Limit Holdem $6 buy-in, 3000 chip starting stack and a felt full of donkies, wannabes and casual players!  Just hop on FTP, search for “Street 3” and use the password “tptpoker”.  

If you do play, join us in the new “wife…k” chat game!  It’s a simple game that can be played by seated players as well as observers.  It’s easy to play, all you have to do is type in the chat box any sentence that contains the phrase “wife..k”, if done correctly one will immediately summon the ever elusive MODERATOR which will bestow upon thee a Warning or Ban.  Those lucky (or unlucky) enough to summon the Moderator many times will have their chat suspended for varying minutes dependent upon the number of infractions.  For me personally, I have summoned the Moderator so many times I am currently on 30 minute*  1 hour chat bans!   So join us, this week and every week for great game of poker and give my regards to your wife…k!

*Post updated to reflect 1 hour ban after losing AK to AK all in preflop when villian four flushed me out in 13th of 90…paid 9

The Twitter Poker Tour, or #TPTPoker, is quickly approaching it’s two year anniversary.  The first game, played on Full Tilt Poker on October 30^th, 2008, was the beginning of a weekly game between amateur players who found each other on twitter.  The game has grown from just a few friends, to many different players, including some pros, sponsorship deals with Dueces Cracked, Bluff Magazine, Full Tilt Poker and others along the way.  Prizes are awarded each week and to the top three finishers in a monthly leaderboard. Some ridiculous prizes have even been provided by Matt Waldron just by listening to the live show on Ustream.  That’s right, the #tptpoker is broadcast live each week by hosts Paul Ellis and Geoff Manning.  Weekly quests have included the likes of Andy Bloch, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Alex Outhread and many more. The TPT is open to anyone who wants to shell out $6 for a double stack, no-limit holdem tournament, a twitter is account is preferred, but no necessary.  Lots of ribbing and joking and shit talking along the way, but all in good fun!  The Twitter Poker Tour even sent a player to the 2010 WSOP.  Mike 4get 2 4bet Me won entry into Event $47, a $1,000 buy-in event.  He played extremely well, but ended shoving QQ into KK and finishing just short of the money.  As the TPT continues to grow, more players are likely to win seats into similar and bigger events in future WSOP’s.  If you don’t already play, sign up is easy, just visit http://twitterpokertour.com, download Full Tilt Poker here, http://www.fulltiltpoker.com, create an account and join us every Thursday night at 9 PM EST for the best online poker league around and be sure to listen and chat while you play!

A little over two years ago i joined twitter at the encouragement of my friend and co-worker @thenardier.   I started to gain followers by searching for my main interest:  bitches and hoes….just kidding….sort of.  I was actually searching for poker players and a few of my first were @cprpoker and @pokerplasm.  These two guys were the brain children behind the Twitter Poker Tour : http://twitterpokertour.com/.  A weekly game was set up to alternate between Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars and actually kicked off on my birthday, October 30th, 2008.  Eventually, the games would be solely played on FTP and each week more and more players signed up to play.  I play almost every week, unless i am out getting dqunk.  Today, the Twitter Poker Tour usually gets 40-50 players and Geoff, with the help of Paul Ellis, @coolwhipflea, have set up a live broadcast of the event.  This broadcast can be found on Ustream, here:  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/twitter-poker-tour.  Each week, leaderboard points are accumlated and the top 3 of each month are awarded prizes, ranging from poker training site subscriptions to t-shirts and magazine subscriptions.  The players in these game range from pretty good to downright horrible (me).   But the beautiful thing about it, is that you can learn from them and they are more than willing to help you with your game.  I have gained some lifelong friends through the TPT and hope to gain many more.  It’s a weekly home game in an online world.  I will forever be a TPTer.