"Jones! Jones! You play poker right?" "You know I do." "I've got a proposition for you... There's a tournament in the Hunter Valley on Sunday. You make the final table, you get a grand." "How many runners?" "A hundred, maybe a hundred fifty. I'm driving up tomorrow and it makes it ch
10.21.2010| poker | Kurt Robinson
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You guys should be proud of me. A couple of months ago I moved up stakes to $2/$3. No more micro bullshit. And hardly any old nits. Everybody on $2/$3 at Crown wants action. You can be first to act and make it $30 pre-flop and get two or three callers. The word is, Crown has one of the loosest
06.27.2010| poker | Kurt Robinson
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Crown Casino is filled with hustlers and punters, glam girls and the occasional rail bird. Late at night, rich Vietnamese women are running around to talk to other Viets. They're trying to sell a $10 000 ring for $3 000, to put the money on a baccarat table, and win their original stake back so th
04.9.2010| poker | Kurt Robinson
No CommentsEvery week or so, we have a regular home game at Diefendorf's or Ruchstashel's place. Though Dief hasn't really played much, ever since that night when I made it $6 preflop with seven-deuce. He flopped a pair of kings with top-pair-top-kicker, and I flopped two pair, sevens and deuces. It must ha
02.21.2010| poker | Kurt Robinson
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