Playing the Investigative Journalist
Soo browsing about the web I found an ad for Heaven Poker (Isn't there already a Poker Heaven hmm) who were offering a free trip to las Vegas 3 nights 2 days.. to all new signups. Im thinking its gonna be total bull or a timeshare or some malarky but I thought it would make some interesting blogging. So the SAE is ready to go today and I will keep you all posted on the results
Pokerwise its been another quiet week grinding the sng turbos on stars yawn :|.
Find of the week has to go to the guys over at ITH for the funny videos found in this thread. The one by tuff_fish is funny and quite frightening at the same time 
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Oh almost forgot Cincinattis was raided by 70+ police officers on Wednesday night.. all their stuff was seized and a case is being brought against them under the gaming act? However they were allowed to reopen the day after and they have followed all procedures to make the club legal. GG polis.. doing a grand job.
Matthew on 06.27.06 @ 11:59 AM GMT [link]
World Cup Fantasy Football Update + a lil poker
I've been real busy just with stuff in general hence the lack of updates so here goes.
Firstly the i-reraise.co.uk fantasy football league and the standings are as follows (I do not apologize for the shoddy editing):
reraise.co.uk League
# Team Manager Game Tot
1 PaleDroids Wil Bert 52 103
2 Mullet Wariors Pete Ranson 37 97
2 Foolish XI Leon Kessler 60 97
4 i-reraise.co.uk Matthew Milne 48 96
5 bayer never-losin greg klar 44 95
5 Donk Bets terry steer 43 95
7 RUPERT XI Rupert Elder 49 94
8 24 left feet Neil Dewhurst 42 92
9 The Clarets Paul Taylor 52 90
10 Franks Pie Shop Joe Moran 36 86
10 Bovine XI chris mccord 40 86
12 Angus_Deyton_XI Mark Flynn 37 86
13 fatshaft grant duguid 41 83
14 Flying Hellfish FC Sami Kuronen 44 83
15 irish's army iain hall 45 78
16 Llanlad 2 beat Jaco Justin Heal 39 76
17 Eng's Exterminators. jamie wilson 33 75
18 British Rail Madrid Noel Ryan 56 56
Its all squiggly anyway as I said the winner will get some sort of stake in me.
On to the poker which has been up and down really.. Last night I tried to defend my crown in the WCBOOP or something on stars (the blogger freeroll) where I lasted 1 orbit before losing AA to K8 :/ onto the million and things were a bit better with blinds of 400/800 I was crippled with 876 chips.. I got a walk in the big blind and double double double and i hit a high of 40k chips and coasted with ease through the bubble. Unfortunately I went completely card dead at an aggresive table.. I was stealing when I got the chance and with my last 22k i shoved A8 from the SB into 55 of the BB and that was that 195th for $1k. A new personal best in the Sunday tournie
Ive had 3 hrs sleep as I had to get up at 6am so im a bit narky, If i can stay awake I plan on playing the £20 rebuy sat to the £1000 main event tonight at the Maybury.
Matthew on 06.19.06 @ 12:15 PM GMT [more..]
The post with no title
I have no idea what to call todays entry so thus it stands. Played a few tournaments this month with notable mention to a 17/493 in the $10 rebuys and a 398/5265 in the Stars million. With help from friends in ITH I managed to stop myself going on major monkey tilt when my AA was cracked my KQo allin preflop. Believe me it was hard not to break stuff and donk away the rest of my chips but after regaining myself I coasted ITM nicely for my second cash in the big un.
Browsing through my stats tracker I noticed that Poker Magazine had added my blog to their directory.. again I'm still shocked that anyone other than myself and friends who I force to read the blog actually read it. Here is their synopsis:
"I reraise is the poker blog of Matt Milne. The author is a very consistent poster who shares the ups and downs of his online poker experiences. With good advice and perspective on tournament play, Matt is not overly analytical but instead captures the overal flow of the tournament game as a way to give his readers an edge.
Does that mean I need to start posting hands with mathematical anaylsis?? I dunno I suppose all I do is bitch, whine and occasionally boast. But if it gets read its good tv.
I'm going to try to squeeze in some more MTT's it's just finding the time and with the nice weather and the World Cup starting its gonna be hard.
Anyway.. til next time
Matthew on 06.05.06 @ 09:26 AM GMT [link]
