Blog entries for JSaw

Book Review - Positively Fifth Street

JSaw

Ted Binion murder trial. Jim decides to give into “Bad” Jim try to win his way into the WSOP with his advancement for the article. He has two college aged children and two young children at home and nothing but bills. With all of the tension of the story Jim is sent to cover, his own personal tensions slowly become the center of the book, especially after he enters the tournament and goes up against famous players, including the author of Jim's favorite tournament book, TJ Clouti [...]

What would it take to play Poker for a living?

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to get my thoughts together and see what it would take for be to be able to play for a living. Things to consider:

1. What size poker bankroll should I have to start?
2. What site should I play at?
3. Multi-Table ($2/4 or $3/6) Single table $5/10?
4. How should I pay myself?
5. How long could I really do this?
6. What happens afterwards when I have a years gap in employment history?
7. Insurance is not a problem!
8. What will I be saving vs. [...]

The lack of feel in poker.

JSaw

and cash once, but should have done much better. The first night I'm not really counting cause the event started at midnight and my ISP decided that would be a good time to go out. So I missed about 45 mins and got blinded down to where I had to make a coin flip call due to the size of the blinds.

So the last two I played are the ones that I have been upset with my play. In the second event I was able to play tight the first 2 hours and had some great hands hit when I did play that [...]

New Resource for Poker Hands in an animated flash video

JSaw

wizard for recreating hands, or copy/pasting your hand histories from your favorite poker sites. Hands are then recreated in an animated flash video that can be easily embedded anywhere online (on your blog, forums, etc.).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com

Phil Hellmuth Hurt In Racecar Crash

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legend Phil Hellmuth lost control of his high-speed racecar.

Hellmuth had spent the day testing the 200 mph racecar in the Nevada desert. Upon approaching his hotel, the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner lost control of the vehicle and crashed head-on into a pole.

While the racecar was totaled, witnesses report that Hellmuth was conscious as he left the vehicle unscathed but visibly shaken. According to one onlooker, Hellmuth quipped, “Well, you can’t win eve [...]

Some Poker Tools

JSaw

improve you game and keep track of your information.

First was a a standard deviation spread sheet. What is standard deviation?
The mean is easy to explain … it is the average number of what we are observing. Its where the graph peaks. In poker we are interested in the earn rate per 100 hands. So this number is your BB/100.

The variance describes how fat or thin that graph is. The bigger it is the fatter it is. The smaller it the thinner it is. If yo [...]

My poker set-up

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Up" title="Poker Desk Set-Up" src="images/63/PokerDesk.JPG" />After reading a post today on the forum about multi-tabling I thought I would come up to my office and take a photo of my set up. While I don't multi-table as much as I use to (mainly because I don't get to play as much as I would like), I still multi-task a lot when I'm play. I've got a dual monitor set up so I can use one screen for work and the other for my tables. You'll see on the wall that I still have my hand chart up. I used [...]

Get to know JSAW 2007

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them already.

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:30

2. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds if I have to pick.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Shrek 3

4. What is your favorite TV show? The Office, House, The Avatar

5. What did you have for breakfast? Never eat breakfast, and I know it is suppose to be the most important meal.

6. What is your middle name? Shawn

7. What is your [...]

Some advice that has helped me in the past

JSaw

My thoughts: (on the bubble with pocket tens).

For me it was too big of a gamble to risk missing the money. The blinds are going to knock someone out before you. I think you've gotten off the Bubble have force 9 other players behind you to out play you. In some MTT you're not playing for first, just take as much as you can and have some profit to show for your efforts. Plus playing as a team I would think so of the lower level wins would help play back some of the buy-ins. If the team [...]

Rambling....

JSaw

I can remember a year or 2 ago posting about how I like mowing my yard now, because it gave me time to get a way to find some piece of mind. Well those days are over. I'm back to hating mowing!

I am however going to try and be more active with my blog here. I may not make long post all the time but I'll try to post when ever something is on my mind.

On the poker front I've not been playing much at all. I'm pretty sure I had a case of poker burn out for the last [...]

A quick way to drop $22

JSaw

Hand #4470706-5 at Wed9pmB-018 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Powered by UltimateBet
Started at 16/Feb/07 21:07:08

1Seal1 is at seat 0 with 1455.
CHE55 is at seat 1 with 1445.
SierraFox is at seat 2 with 1635.
pergos57 is at seat 3 with 0 (sitting out).
JSaw is at seat 4 with 1490.
MattieG is at seat 5 with 1500.
PUGSDAD is at seat 6 with 120.
Uroboros is at seat 7 with 2875.
paldonWa is at seat 8 with 1500.
h [...]

Thoughts from my First Live Events!

JSaw

January 13, 2005

Last night I played in my first live tournament. A bar has fromed a poker league that plays 10 player SnGs where you earn points toward prizes. Each player has to play 12 events, but can play more and have their top 12 finishes count. I'm not 100% sure yet on how the prizes are going to work, but at the end of they season a 2005 WSOP seat will be up for graps. I live not to far from fellow ITHer and Blogger Vatrlrman, so I asked him if he wanted to meet me after [...]