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By fkassela, on April 21st, 2011
The last week has been tough for those of us in the poker community, even people like me who almost never played online. I have to watch friends of mine who have managed and maintained very healthy incomes from the comfort of their homes have to scramble into the Aria and start figuring out . . . → Read More: Calivada Poker.Com … Let’s get it done!
By fkassela, on March 30th, 2011
It really sucks to get knocked out of a poker tournament after doing everything right to get the other guy to put all of their money in bad, only to hit the (however many) outer to bust you. Almost nothing worse…that is nothing other than playing solid all day long, losing concentration during one . . . → Read More: Bay 101 and Wynn
By fkassela, on February 17th, 2011
I ended up getting Crazy Mike to carpool with me from Vegas over to the Commerce yesterday. I like to have someone along for the ride on road trips because I’m not a big fan of the radio and I would rather just shoot the shit with someone. Luckily in Crazy Mike I think . . . → Read More: Late Night Early Morning Blogging From LA
By fkassela, on February 7th, 2011
Ok for those who maybe heard that Piper (my wife) and I got bounced from a casino last week I will address briefly. I have already talked to the people involved on the other side and they want everyone involved to move on like it did not happen and I said I would speak . . . → Read More: Getting Bounced
By fkassela, on January 27th, 2011
I finally got to play a few tournaments in a row this week and I did make one final table…of course we only started with 7 people in the field!
Prior to the Beau Rivage Main event the only other event I have been able to play this year was the HPT Main event . . . → Read More: Finally Played a little Poker this Year
By fkassela, on November 10th, 2010
Been a super busy last few days going back and forth from the Rio watching/taping the WSOP final table. My buddy John Racener is the guy I was rooting for so I was excited to see him make it to heads up but bummed out when he lost. Funny thing is they actually played . . . → Read More: What a final table
By fkassela, on November 6th, 2010
Got some blog catching up to do so here goes. Since my last update we have travelled to the WSOP circuit event and regional championships. Piper and I decided to take the big brown bus to Chicago and drive it back across the Midwest and Rocky Mountains in hurricane force winds and a blizzard…fun, . . . → Read More: Who’s gonna legalize online poker?
By fkassela, on October 16th, 2010
Ok so I feel like a mega slacker! It’s been over two weeks since my last entry so I will try to do my best to catch up. The last blog I wrote was the day after I got knocked out of the WSOP heads up event just before my WSOPE main event.
I . . . → Read More: What a slacker
By fkassela, on September 21st, 2010
Ok for a quick update on WSOP Europe action…I have ended up blanking in the first four events and only have the main event left to earn that third bracelet on the year which I really wanted to do. I’m gonna do my best to keep the recaps shorts and sweet:
Event #3 the . . . → Read More: WSOPE Update
By fkassela, on September 17th, 2010
Just finished playing my second of the five World Series of Poker Europe events offered up for this year, which was a 5000 pound ($8000) buy in pot limit Omaha event. The first event on Tuesday was a 2500 pound ($4000) buy-in Six handed no limit hold em event. It seems like we were . . . → Read More: WSOP Europe Kicks off
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Monkey’s Latest Posts- THE BAN ON MONKEY is TOAST!!!! May 23, 2011
Driving to N. Alabama on Saturday with my wife Squirrel, we hit a wall of traffic, the result of an overturned oil tanker, that closed a 5-mile stretch of I-65. We would sit on that highway for 3 hours and 45 minutes.
15 minutes into that wait...... - Monkey does Vegas....sort of! February 3, 2011
Lying at the bottom of that cloud is a previously healthy chipstack. My chipstack. Yes...it has now been obliterated!!!! Kaboooom! My plane landed Tuesday at 11:05am...amid much enthusiasm and optimism on my part. It was a sunny day. The temperature ...
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