Tom's PICK for the FUTURE of On-Line POKER

Tom's PICK for the FUTURE of On-Line POKER




Finding poker players a...

"REAL DEAL"

On-Line



XFilesPOKER is the First Poker Site & Forum to support REAL DEAL POKER

(Xfilespoker.com has been talking "BRINGING FAIR" poker for ON-LINE POKER PLAYERS with REAL DEALS owner.. "Gene Gioia" since late 2007)



Xfilespoker.com was BORN due to REAL DEAL POKER...



Select forum members are currently testing the new "REAL DEAL"

"Real Card Delivery system" and expect to see things rolling (LIVE) by Spring of 2010.

(see video below) 



After all these years of cursing the (non-random) RNG's..

BIG DADDY and many forum members (and many NON-COMPUTER PLAYERS) are ready for some REAL POKER ON-LINE.. "NOT!" what we had to LIVE WITH up to now.

"On-line poker.. YUK"

We do not figure we will miss the RNG one bit.



If you would like to be a part of the next round of testing.. JOIN our XFP "POKER FORUM" by CLICKING HERE - Say hello by making your first post - then contact TOM via dwyertj@xfilespoker.com OR "Private message" (Xfilespoker) on forum.

Title the e-mail REAL DEAL TEST.



This "IS" the future for ON-LINE POKER and the FUTURE "HOME SITE" for XFilespoker.com and it's totally 100% BIG DADDY approved.




SEE VIDEO HERE and JOIN UP in the XFP FORUM!

News - BIG DADDY style. Change coming to ONLINE poker -

Me talking about a major change coming to online poker players -

A "REAL" deck of cards - With a REAL CUT of the cards - REAL POKER ON-LINE -

Not online poker as we see it now.

Listen to this 13 min Audio - then contact me in the XFP forum - With any QUESTIONS, CONCERNS.

http://www.xfilespoker.com/XFilesPOKER_NEWS_YV3A.html

Poker is the DEVIL.. Easy does it kids. Easy does it.

Poker is the DEVIL.. Easy does it kids. Easy does it.




POKER "You know - You never know you know.."



Poker - I tell my players; "Poker...it's the devil." Because at times POKER "IS" the DEVIL. It's the BEST way to explain HOW this great game can be at times.



Poker, for some, can be like a caged animal that needs to be held on a

very short leash. This is the REASON for this poker-blog today.



Poker is super fun to poke around with in the beginning (small stakes) - but sadly, is a BEAST that can snap your neck quicker than a dry twig in the woods. Poker MUST be contained. Controlled. Balance. In poker and life.



What am I talking about? (Big Daddy - Please Explain)



Over the years of watching all too many poker players, A whole lot of players.. from both back room games as well as the regulars in Atlantic City and Vegas etc.. I've seen it all.. (well.. not all POKER is like that, 90% for sure) From close friends wasting pay checks week after week - to players playing who should never have even taken that first seat, having serious life issues or conditions

(mental health wise) that had them CONSTANTLY on the edge of the bridge... ready to jump.



One of my close poker friends Jimmy D actually called me from the hospital not once

but "TWICE," Jimmy lost it all! Family, great Job, everything. Hell - He had it all going for him too - Not something I'd wish on anyone. So sad. Jimmy was only 30, 31 I believe... When he started his mega loss. (Not sure where Jimmy is today - He just drifted away) Jimmy, if you are out there.. I hope you turned it around buddy.



Not all of the devilish details from the dark side of the game are as bad as Jimmy's.. Let's just say the truth, that players not keeping their action in check will be hurting a lot of people. I've had calls from wives.. girlfriends/boyfriends and parents.. OTHER PLAYERS..



YOU CAN SEE WHY the media stays away from such topics - it's not going to help the bottom line. Not going to make poker so easy to fall in love with for the newbies watching ESPN and NBC.



Big Daddy will give it to you straight. I'm not a BOTTOM line (only) kind of guy.. If it's not good for my players (I warn them) If it is good (I share with them) In other words.. PLAYERS! If the

fire is too hot in the kitchen.. I'll suggest you stay out of the kitchen... If you are bothered or stressed by the high heat anyways..



Here is the thing, poker is super fun at the beginning - players get the bite, ("OMG! - Poker is so much FUN!") at this point of the action the infection starts, and all is still going WELL, ALL is STILL fine. ("OMG! I'm having even more FUN! This game never gets boring especially when you really start to study it's finer components") You can run fine for years without a hitch. Then BOOM! The next lever of poker sneaks up on you... Then the next, and so on.



Many of you know what I'm talking about - You know a friend or family member that can't stop.. They can't stop going for the next big win, even if it means losing their last chip. Some will blow their gas and toll money for the trip home. These players need action and FOR some - The only good move is to QUIT poker all together. (Easier said then done - I'm sure.)

As I always say, Poker is a great hobby (for most of us) that pays you back at times (Sometimes, in those "special games" - PAYS US LOTS!) But, try to keep your game in check at all times. Play smart, not hard.





The trick as Big Daddy sees it... Is keeping this super charged "vehicle of fun" under control at all times... Poker is a game that starts out like a mini-bike, but can end up a high speed rocket ship.. Faster for some.. never for others. We can all drive cars right? (Well most can) but you won't see Big Daddy running a top fuel dragster any time soon.



I played football like a madman when I was a child - running around ANY field and in any back alley or lot - getting creamed by all the local kids and.. LOVING IT I might add.. However,you won't see strap on a helmet and stand on the front line of an NFL pro

football team.. I'd get myself killed.



Poker is a double edged sword.. One side - super sharp fun. The other - Super sharp PAIN. (For you and sadly everyone who knows you. Your loved ones should not be put through hell for a card game folks) Think of these people in your life FIRST "before the action" - and do your best to make smart choices. KEEP POKER FUN! Balance.



Now.. I'm a lover of poker since 1991. I've been around my share of action. I'm not here to ruin any ones fun here, "really I'm not!" Actually - this is an attempt to save some of you players. From horrors you might not see coming. (Sad things I've seen too many times) I'd guess some never knew these traps were out there in the first place. A small number of you.. I'm just going to flat out suggest that you NOT play poker.. Just STOP. Stop any gambling games of chance for that matter - like Black Jack or craps. People who have a problem setting limits - need to avoid these sometimes high octane games.



Poker - starts out small and stays small for 90% of the players - problem is, Some rounders choose to go right after the bigger stacks, the big money games (many with little or much skill) jumping up in class as soon as their wallet allows. You know the type.. Action junkies who always press the bets - go for the long-shot.. go for the GOLD..Chase that old man river card. They might even HIT BIG for the short term - which will only have them yearning for more... More what?



Action!



These are the players we need to pray for. These are the players Big Daddy is trying to help.



Bigger question might be - Can these players be helped? (I dunno for sure - I'm Big Daddy, not a Dr.)



Poker is a gamble that gives you a pretty major edge over any others players that are clueless. With poker WE are not playing the house. (except w/low limit poker's rake.. Hard to beat that) The problem is... Poker adds all sorts of variables that the other games of chance do not. Sorta like WAR. Desperate times = desperate measures... (Yep. At the poker game too)



You might get in an iffy hand and have to super aggressive players lobbing grenades at the pot. Poker is hand to hand combat. Man/woman vs. or Vs. many men/women.. (Some of them nuts, BONKO about action)



Poker is a people game. (Play the PLAYER!!!) Player vs. player - "NOT" player Vs.HOUSE. (Casino) As you climb the buy in ladder - the stress meter goes thru the roof.. until you figure it out. (some never figure it out..More for some than others) The larger, higher stakes games have many super

skilled players - bank on it.



Kids living with parents have outs.. (How many thousands of 15-20 year old's are looking to be the next Cada?) It's OK for them to JUMP I guess.. They have a soft landing and a place to fall back on. (Mom and Dad) People who have family depending on them might be a different story - These poker players do not always have such a cushion. **It's not always possible to go to friends and family for a hand out if you're donking off you pay check in poker games** My advice; DO NOT ever put your

poker game before family, health, mortgage and the electric bill, etc..(If you do.. Remember I told you not to do it.. I stopped saying I told you so's long ago) Seen too many poker players crash and burn. I'm burnt out from seeing it. I usually just listen to their poker story and try and get them to see - Things can always get better.



OK - Where to begin.

Small ball poker seems about right. 2/4 limit, 3/6, 4/8. Low limit Stud, etc are Super fun to play. Low buy-ins and hours of action - Even on the worst days many of us can just equate our poker sessions to an afternoon or evening of great entertainment.. These games are much cheaper than many of the "regular activities" people choose to take part in. (Like say, a day skiing or maybe playing golf.. Hell, a Day at the Movies..WHY DO MOVIES COST SO MUCH???) Even if we lose.. Many times we STILL WIN... especially when it comes to friendship and just plain getting out of the house or a day away from the grind.



Anything larger, poker buy in wise - Well, I can only speak of 1/2 NL and 1/3 Pot limit. If you are an average income earner or even if you are doing a little better than average - these limits can cost you big. Don't be fooled by the players coming from mega-rich families (Trust fund babies) or people that are worth millions. The games are not the same for such people. It's the NEVER play poker with scared money line. BE CAREFUL!



What are you going to do? Do you have friends playing too deep? Are you? Come play with me (Low stakes poker) on FULL TILT POKER - Search for "Bigtime Loser"

(with the space) Or hit the link below and visit us on the XFP forum.



This was a long post - I hope it reminds some of you to keep it simple, avoid the traps poker sets, reminds you BALANCE is a key.. and taking care of yourselves & your family.

The MEN of XFilesPOKER! Semi nude men.. With Big Daddy in the MIDDLE

Not sure why I'm bald in this video.. but it works.. This is the video mentioned in the previous post I post it here for FACEBOOK, etc THE MEN of XFP - ENJOY!  The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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Poker friends are some of the BEST friends.. Thanks everyone! Especially KIM SHANNON and JOE NAVARRO

This past week sure was busy for Big Daddy! New links and events added to the site XFilespoker.com - (From here on in, known as "XFP") This week I re-learned something. (Something Major)  Moss does not grow on a rolling stone.... We have to keep ourselves moving.  I "feel so alive..." LOL. It may sound silly but just like MATT DAMON'S line in the poker movie ROUNDERS. (It's true) I have to be ME. I just plain love poker, I just love MEETING & READING PEOPLE. I'm not sure I'll ever know why I LOVE poker and POKER PLAYERS so much.. Guess poker is in my blood.  Guess I'm a goner. This week, Joe Navarro - The Nonverbal Expert gave XFP his blessings on a special forum on "Poker TELLS." Joe is famous to all us rounders due to his connection with the poker brat himself Phil Hellmuth.  His sharing of information is fantastic.. I hope all reading this blog will buy his books! (He's a good man with much to offer to your poker game) This alone, (Meeting Joe on-line) would have made me happy. but no no.. so much more was in store for me. Thank you Mr. Navarro. Here is link to Joe's site By the way... Navarro-tells web site click here - If you are on TWITTER - Follow Mr. Navarro and I, as we are always twittering back and fourth.  (follow @navarrotells and @xfilespoker)  Another big thing that happened was the hooking up with some "really special" new XFP forum members.. Fellow blood brothers & sisters @kimshannon @callmeroger @callmecaveman @morieeel to name just a few.  You can meet them all on TWITTER. Kim and the crew - really GET my whole concept behind the XFP WEB SITE - and in a very short time they have ignited a very exciting forward motion of growth.  @rezzzpoker @Sycostevesethe1st @mretiface and many many more who have been with us since day one - Also need mention. (If I forgot anyone.. it's just my lack of sleep) Let me know and I'll make the fix. My forum guys and gals (Kim's doing) topped off my week with a MAJOR cherry - A video showing some of the male member's from my poker forum.. KIM, I luv ya.  Here is the VIDEO - THE MEN of XFP - ENJOY!     So much happened this week... Can't remember it all.. and I know the coming weeks are going to be even better.  Added this past week.. TWITTER POKER TOUR LINKS, #TPT hash tag on TWITTER. "Tom's Stashed Cash.." plus regular scheduled poker games on FULL TILT POKER - for XFP forum members... XFP on-line poker GAME CALENDAR Also added was the XFP NEWS LINK... Last but not least.. (Mother-ship)  It's CLOSE..  So close!  Soon  we will have an on-line poker site with real integrity.. Soon my members will be able to PLAY POKER ON-LINE!  Instead of PLAYING ON-LINE POKER.. (No way that RNG is random.. sorry folks)  Soon!  Soon. Stand by.. 'speaking with mother-ship almost daily and he's posting in the forum as well.. (Mrrealdeal) OK.. Who wants to play some poker!  Download the FULL TILT SOFTWARE HERE and enter the BONUS CODE "Santa." Most our on-line poker games are LOW LIMIT buy ins or Free rolls.  NO DEPOSITS REQUIRED for FREE ROLLS. Hope you're all flopping quads today.. See ya on the poker forum. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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Game two today on FULL TILT - Always feeling SET up on FULL TILT

If you are going to BLUFF - try to avoid making a move on a MAJOR hand.. This happened to me today... I was card dead - He was hitting every hand - I TOOK A SHOT.. LOL

Love Full tilt poker for a good laugh. Http://www.xfilespoker.net/phpbb if you want to chat poker and play in our group NL games.

As I was posting this BLOG - I ran into this HAND - huh?  SO SOON? (Daily $1)  It's not even funny how many times I have the goods and get beat on the river.. or turn - I should have just folded here - (Play FULL TILT RNG POKER)

Oh well - Next game TONIGHT is the Xfilespoker.com TWITTER 9pm GAME.  For info - http://www.xfilespoker.net/calendar We play these games every night of the week.  Come say hi in the FORUM too!  Make your first post and get involved.. Post some POKER chat/thougts soon.

In about 2 days - we will have poker games for the Xfilespoker crew - day and night - weekends too..  Keep an eye on the calendar - for games and NEW promotion "Tom's STASHED cash" (see forum for details)

Very soon - we will be PLAYING POKER ONLINE instead of PLAYING ONLINE POKER...

(Online poker IS nothing close to real poker - I'll bank my last worthless $1 on it)

Hey... Did you hear the joke..

McDonalds is offering a NEW "OBAMA MENU" -  You go to the counter - ORDER WHATEVER YOU LIKE and the guy behind you has to pay for it!!!  (Time for TERM limits) 

One Man with Courage - Makes a Majority. Read about my day PROTESTING ILLEGALS in the rain with Dan, Greig and Ruth.

I love lines like the title of this blog. (Andrew Jackson I respect)  I have these words of Mr. Jackson's, framed and hanging on the walls of my living room. The man running the event today (The event I'm about to share with all of you) made me think of how much I love this framed message from many years ago.  Today (Hazleton, PA) - I took part in a friendly protest against illegal aliens in the United States.  It was a very small crowd. It had many supporters BEEPING horns and waving hands - as well as a few snickers and hard looks towards the protesters.  (It's America - and while I can do this sorta thing.. I'm doing it.  We never want to lose this valuable right we all have. Its how I see it anyways.)  It's not my first time at such events.  I wish we had more of them. At the gathering, (Hard to call it a rally really with 9 people - hmm they did have mega phones x 2 however) I ran into a researcher from the University of Liverpool - It was a super cool afternoon for me... It was like I was transported to a street in London as I stood there in front of my cites CITY HALL.  I had to stay too - I couldn't let them (mostly kids) stand alone. I respect people who have the guts to take a side... (Like Dan and Ruth - More on them to come)  Greig Campbell, MA (Researcher) my new bloke from London told me in one of our conversations.. something close to this.. "AMERICANS know their history.." and from what he told me.. The mans done his homework on American history, especially in the Hazleton Pa area. (I agree with Greig here) Americans DO KNOW THEIR HISTORY.. We just need more Americans to wake up and get their heads out of the sand... before all our cities get turned upside down.  You see.. Hazleton Pa, if you go back about 10 years - never had gunfire in the streets.. (It was once every ten years that GUNFIRE made a news story here) Now, after the rush of people coming in.. - it's almost an everyday event.  Legal or not legal - The people doing all the shooting need to be run out of town on  rail - In other words..They can go back the hell where they come from.  I told you people I love Ted Nugent. I also ran into a nice lady named Ruth who, turned out.. drove a good while to be a part of this peace-full protest.  I took a picture of her as we stood in the fog and rain.  I'll add it to the end of this post. Let me go on the record.  I love all people everywhere - HELL I play poker!!!  Poker is the biggest MELTING POT ever.  I just happen to LOVE the LAW OF MY LAND and I LOVE the UNITED STATES of AMERICA more!! I'm very tired of all the Spanish speaking going on in public... all the big business selling us out.  If you love America??. LOVE AND RESPECT AMERICA by speaking English.  RESPECT. If you are an ASSHOLE - I don't care what color or race you are.  YOU'RE just an ASSHOLE. I'd like our leaders and citizens to Love and respect AMERICA by keeping AMERICANS working.. By not shipping jobs overseas.. by CLOSING the boarders (Who leaves the door wide open after an event like 9/11?  That's right - NO ONE!  Unless you are AMERICA)  It's clear to me - many in Washington DC - sold themselves and us OUT long ago.  It's harder for them to hide this simple facts as we enter the insane world of TAX AND SPEND (Spending money we don't have - Our KIDS MONEY.)  ALL THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE... and FAST. P E R I O D. If you are here, living in the USA - legal or illegal.. and you love the country that you came from, more than the United States - (and yes.. It is your right)  That's fine. HERE'S THE THING! It's also MY RIGHT to tell all of you to Get the hell outta here and go back home....and take your gun shooting criminals back home with ya. (oh.. that feels good - try it!) Most of you here might not remember John Wayne.  That last passage was his style (My style too)Hey Illegals! DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS.  (I (we) love my/our guns - but I/we don't go around shooting at people in the streets)  Some of us hunt, target practice and own them to protect our homes..  Americans will never give up their guns without a fight.. Americans want peace.. but we are not afraid to FIGHT for our RIGHTS.. We will protect ourselves when they come looking to take our firearms away. (Don't think it can't happen folks)  HISTORY showed us all what happens when people lose their right to own arms.  The event in Hazleton today was promoted or "sold" in the local NEWSPAPER (Today mind you - Thanks for the heads-up Standard Speaker) as a TEA PARTY event (Maybe this event was reported to make the Tea party look bad as Dan's groups are much smaller "Usually" - He's had some big ones too) - The event today is actually an event from the www.voiceofthepeopleusa.com - Here is a YOU-tube of Dan working.  He's a good younger man with a lot of passion.    Dan does not do it for money.  (He said he takes no money) NO WONDER HIS EVENTS ARE SMALL.. You must advertise!  Hell the kids today are not even on TWITTER!???  Being a great American, with balls, I stood with Dan and a few others in the rain, even though I thought I was going to a TEA PARTY event. (I'm not clear on the Tea Party and I wanted to 'see and hear" things for myself) I respect people who speak their mind... Dan's a good American.  I might not agree with everything Dan says (Truth is I don't know everything about DAN) - As to his message on illegals in the USA - I'm 101% behind him.  In America. - We already have good laws of the land. It's a kick in the teeth to all citizens who live everyday following the laws... Also the people who worked hard to get to America the legal route.  PEOPLE are not ASSIMILATING.. (My gut tells me they don't want to and never will..)  WAKE UP AMERICA!  They can stay - but they got to STAND by the RED WHITE AND BLUE. I spoke for a good while with Dan - He worked the clean-up from the towers in NYC.  He lost a few family members  on that horrible day as well.. You can see it in his face - how upsetting all of it is to him. Since 2001 - He's been standing up and speaking against illegals to anyone that will listen. One or thousands.. Today's event in Hazleton, Pennsylvania was very small... but hey.. They were out there and you have to respect that. Here is a picture of RUTH - Like Ruth, I also love the flag of the UNITED STATES. (Also a past President of the Hazleton Elks Lodge #200 The Elks stand for God and Country)  I have to get me one of these umbrella's Ruth! If anyone reading this blog is into poker or KNOWS someone that LOVES poker - Please send them to the XFilesPOKER forum sign up page  and please bookmark this blog.  I always play these days on FULL TILT POKER - Sign up GREAT AMERICANS!  Then - let's talk poker!   Oh! The best part of today!  Remember that BLOKE from London - He want's to interview me.. (Maybe I can plug poker in the UK)  no.. LOL.  He told me he could get me pictures of the BREAKER from my small COAL TOWN in which I live.  I feel like I won a huge pot of chips by meeting him.  I've been looking for quality pictures of our breaker (which burned down in the 70's or 80's can't remember) for years now. He also suggested a book by Susan Campbell Bartoletti - (Growing up in Coal Country) She is a Sibert Medal-Winning Author of BLACK POTATOES.  Greig Campbell - is currently writing a book.  Keep an eye out for him.. He's a smart cookie. Well - That's all for now!  Remember Americans!  FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! Thanks to our service men and women (USA) again as well. All of you ROCK! NEXT POKER GAME I'm PLAYING (I tanked in the first one today) 9pm est. on FULL TILT POKER - Come on!  Sign up and try and get my chips!  I play poker like a game of WAR. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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XFilesPOKER "TWITTER" poker games start today! Search @xfilespoker on TWITTER

Today!  The XFilespoker games BEGIN!  WHO WILL TAKE DOWN THE FIRST XFILES/TWITTER games? Maybe you? 6pm .est $1.50 (Tourney # 117393408) and 9pm $2.50  .est (Tourney # 117392979)- FULL TILT POKER. Play me BIG DADDY!  Show me your poker skills then chat about action on the xfilespoker forum. NOTE!  Tonight is the FIRST!!  These games will run EVERYDAY at the same time!  Plus - other XFilesPOKER games as requested in poker forum. Win $5.00 for knocking me out in TODAY'S games! (Xfilespoker active forum members only please) Search "BigTME loser" on Full Tilt for the games I'm playing on FT - or Check out the XFilesPOKER FORUM THIS GAME WILL BE ON PALTALK!  Download if you like (FREE)DOWNLOAD PALTALK HERE!  Then SEARCH for  "xfilespokerTWITTERgames"  ONE WORD - No spaces. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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XFilespoker Twitter poker games - Our poker forum and a great American named Joe. (US NAVY)

Full Tilt and the Navy. Today on FULL TILT POKER I played quite a few small limit games (tourneys) and had a mix of hard luck and one cash (3rd place - 90 player knockout game) For my forum members who know my style play.. I'll show a picture (BELOW)of the final 3 players.. I'm "Bigtime loser" - (Note- I go in with the best and I'm out like the rest!) Today we posted on the forum that TODAY November 14, 2009 X-FILES-POKER will be starting PRIVATE (password protected) games for our forum members as well as our pals on TWITTER (@xfilespoker) The games will run on FULL TILT POKER EVERY DAY @ 9pm est. There will also be other poker games at various times of the day, as needed - Weekend games too..  Games will be LIMIT , NL and STUD and H.O.R.S.E. for now. (Suggestions can be made in forum.. We will do what we can to get it right)  I'll be playing in as many "BUT NOT ALL" of these games as possible (During winter months) with a focus on a special run game called "Tuesdays with Tom on Full Tilt.." The games above will be $1.50 and $2.50 and the Tuesday game will be a $5.50 buy in game  Today in the xfilespoker forum! Earlier on our xfilespoker forum XFILESPOKER FORUM SIGN UP  A new member (&Great American) named Joe (US NAVY) came on and posted about his idea's on how on-line poker "might" be rigged.  I thought it was odd that he DID THIS in his 2nd post and he later mentioned it was the sites statement of allowing an open talk on the subject (poker being rigged or not) as to why he logged on & signed up. Joe found us on TWITTER. FYI - Xfilespoker does not say on-line poker IS or IS NOT rigged - We welcome any and all question's and idea's on the subject. Here is the snippet posted by Joe   "I just dropped this one on your forum for possible on-line rigged play. Enjoy. "I believe and this is just my personal experience, look first if they are in the leader board, if they are and you hold QQ or higher, see the flop as cheaply as possible, if you do and the flop misses your hand entirely and he shoves all in, the A$$hole has some sort of RNG or works for the site to collect winnings for the site (maybe, just saying, its obviously not the truth just speculation). Also, I try and avoid any hands that guy is in for the rest of the tourney. Pay closer attention to how people on your table (especially deeper in the game) and also pay attention to the leaders that just blast through the first few hands of the tourney and make notes on just how fast they are winning to keep in mind who you need to avoid. If the player that is winning is playing correct and calls normal hands and doesn't win with junk (Q-4 o/s and trips his 4's) then it maybe safe to tangle with, if not, fold and wait. These tactics have helped me place deeper in the tourney. Let them cheaters beat the piss out of the other players deep. You just keep climbing the ladder until you get cut. I know that is like laying down and taking it but if you are a glutton for punishment and like playing against either 1. Really, really good players 2. Really Really lucky players 3. Really really cheating players 4. Or just plain psycho loose donkeys then that is your punishment. Happy hunting!!"         Joe The reason I show this post from the forum is to let readers know that we are talking about this subject in our forum often and we welcome both sides to the debate.  Say what you like. I myself lean to the fact that on-line is "not right" - but it's just my thinking and it's based on GUT more than stats or data.. My guts are good enough for me.  I trust my gut. The forum is picking up nice and I expect that many will return for the winter. We have a lot of good players in our forum.. Let's see.. We started the PAL TALK service as well - For use during Tom's classes/Forum poker games.  If you need PAL TALK - It's a free download and can be found here - DOWNLOAD PALTALK HERE - Once downloaded - Search for "XfilespokerTwitterGames" (on word - no spaces) This is my account. What else.. Hmm Well - Big news hit the WSOP and poker world as Jeffrey Pollack resigned As Harrah's WSOP Commissioner - I've not read into the topic but I think he was quoted as saying he was.. leaving to "'explore new business challenges."  Sounds to me like he was let go in a nice way.  Maybe Harrah's wants to make a break with the old guard and usher in a whole new crew/plan for 2010.  Hell even FT poker hired "Tom Duuur Dwan" - My guess to appeal to the 15-20 years olds that will soon be flocking to the the live tables in the coming years.  (I'll have a good blog on my thoughts of all the young guns in poker coming very soon)  My thoughts on Pollack and WSOP - I think many mistakes were made and too many complaints came pouring in from players and fans in the last few years - My big gripe was with the live audio coverage of this years WSOP - Bluff Magazine's coverage went from VERY GOOD to REALLY bad - It was great with Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth, etc.. and very bad with what I'll call the KIDS.. (I don't know their names - never heard of most of them) Their take (When Annie and Phil left the air) sounded like 7th grader material and was many times crude and well, Rude..  The W.S.O.P is a BIG production and it the biggest event in all of poker - happens only once a year - It needs to be more polished and professional period. (A piss pore job makes poker players, poker itself, HARRAH'S and WSOP look bad in my eyes)  POKER WILL GET SO MUCH BIGGER IF THE RIGHT MOVES ARE MADE.  HARRAH'S need to have much better oversight on such things in 2010 and beyond.. (I'm available for the right price.. wink wink.) There were of course other big complaints as well.. such as not having enough poker tables/dealers - Players turned away.. FOOD QUALITY.. etc..  Do a search WSOP + BAD - I'm sure there are more.  I met Mr. Pollack and good number of times at the wsop (He's not a close friend) He's always been very nice.  Given the task and the insane growth of poker  since 2003 - I'd say he did a good job overall..  It's time to move on - try something new.  I'm excited to see what goes down next.  I'm going long here.. If you are new to my blog - WELCOME.  If you are new to POKER welcome! Please consider joining our POKER FORUM and signing up today.  It's worth it alone for "Kim Shannon's Hot Tub" - but the new poker games we have everyday now - should give our members hours of poker fun.  Plus you get to try and take me out!  Good luck with that. you can track my every move on TWITTER (@xfilespoker)  Let's get on-line and play some cards!  Any questions - Hit us up on the forum. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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Poker, pink Cadillac's and a WSOP Bracelet.. Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada HEADS UP NL Hold-em 11/09/09

That's Moon in the CENTER with the light shirt (and my belly)

Look, I'm in Pennsylvania this year.. I'm no where near Las Vegas or the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and yet.. I'm feeling CLOSER to this years event than ever before.


One reason. Darvin Moon.

Here is the GUY I have to push for.. For his cool name (Cool names always win pokers BIG ONE) For the fact that he's a regular dude.. worker bee kinda player. He's OLD SCHOOL.

It's Moon vs. Cada in the 2009 WSOP! Wooot! Let's get it on!

Not to take away from Joe Cada, he's one great player to get this deep in a field of poker players so huge and so talented. (He's also very lucky! He won races with small and medium pocket pairs.. as well as AK) My point is.. Mr. Cada is young. He has the rest of his life to go for the poker gold. (I'll write a blog on Mr Cada as well.. as soon as it comes to me)

For now though, enough of Mr. Cada.. Let this 40 something poker playing (poor writing) rounder since 1991.. soak all this in and enjoy all this years poker action. This blog is for my new pal Mr. Moon.

Now - To get this blog straight and to keep things honest - Mr Moon has had his share of "what the hell" poker moves during the final table "November nine hands" that were played out at the Rio Hotel and Casino. Strange moves like NOT CALLING a huge pot.. when a player could call with one of the cards BLANK, lol.. (Due to the pot size,position and amount to call)

Then there was an odd move calling an after flop all in with A4 (having nothing on the flop, bad draws and scare cards galore) He should have considered SET? TWO PAIR.. Nope - HE CALLED WITH NADA! It's hard to understand this huge miss step from Mr Moon.. We can GUESS he THOUGHT he was holding AA (It happens) or that the player, again, plain missed all together (but an ALL IN in this GAME?)... It's a major stretch. I joked that it might have been one of the BEST"Advertising moves of bad poker play EVER!" - Sure.. He lost a few chips.. But NOW look at the players scratching their heads.. (ALL OVER THE WORLD) In the end.. Most of us will agree.. The move sure did suck.

Even still.. The man named Moon was patient all summer- and made it to the November nine.. plus, hell - "People everywhere and pros "like him." (I think I read he never once had 1 ALL IN move to get to the November Nine)

I could go on and on about poker and Mr. Moon - I'm sure we all have a lot to learn about this WSOP MAIN EVENT "heads-up" poker playing Moon man.

Here are just a few of the reasons why I like this guy..that stuck out (to me)

* He's a WORKER. (A mans man) He is not a college drop out chasing the poker dream or a son of people with mega means..



*Moon is a logger.. C'mon. A logger to a WSOP bracelet winner?? JAMES DEAN COOL! Anyone who reads my blog for a few years knows I cut trees for exercise - hobby.. and for heating my compound.. not to mention to get OUTSIDE in the deep woods... Teach my 6 year old about working hard. (**Away from everyday life.. the wild) **Try it sometime it's awesome!



*Phil Hellmuth reported on Bluff Magazine radio that Moon (Up to the heads up action at least) had refused offers of up to 500,000.00 to wear on-line poker sites gear. caps, patches - etc.. He said something to the effect of... "He did not want to promote things he knew little about and he did not want to be owing anyone anything.. He just wanted to play poker." Man has some Integrity.



*He was helping Fire fighters raise money via poker tournaments when he won his seat.. (He had choice of CASH or 10K buy in) With his brothers pushing - He took the 10K buy in. Yeppers - More cool.



*He's buying his father a Pink Cadillac.. (This story alone sucks me in to this man's poker life/story)
Do I need to go one here?
Don't worry - "I will" and in very short order... You can BET on it!

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Heads up POKER "ACTION" - Tonight! Darvin Moon vs. Joe Cada - Me and my pals will e live on TWITTER - listening to the AUDIO from Vegas. Come joins us!

POKER PRO Phil Ivey BUSTS OUT EARLY - Earlier than expected... WORLD SERIES OF POKER TALK & FREE ROLL INFO

OK all poker fans! - We posted the WELCOME BACK free roll info in the Xfilespoker.com calendar. (see link to calendar on Xfilespoker CALENDAR ) This free roll is for ALL forum members. Fun time last night with forum members on Twitter (@xfilespoker) talking poker!  Ivey busted as I predicted.. a little earlier than  expected.  I got crushed playing LOW LIMIT NL poker on FULL TILT POKER  - I'll blame it on keeping up with Phil Ivey. We all left the poker/twitter action about 4am -and woke to insane news that it will be CADA (almost to the felt last night) vs. Moon!  HEADS UP poker! We here at Xfilespoker.com must support MOON - It would be UN-alien not to. (lol)  Think of all the MARKETING the poker world could push to death.. "To the MOON Alice!  I'm playing POKER!" We seen some silly cards from MOON and some super aggressive and LUCKY play from CADA.. This heads up poker match should be neat to watch.. I give them both credit - Hell - They are sitting there and we are watching!  I like that MOON did not sell out to the POKER machine that IS the "current monster on-line poker companies."  He passed on a sure 500,000.00 per Phil Hellmuth's radio visit on bluff magazines audio cast.  To me.. that is very cool. All the kool-aide drinking poker fans will have to wait another few lifetimes to see Ivey at that final table - as more and more players are figuring this NL poker game out.  I hate to keep peeing on everyones parade - but I don't see it happening.  He is HUMAN after all.. Winning bracelets 5+ years ago vs. today is a much tougher task to pull off.  With that said - No doubt he's a master of the game. I wish I was there!  Maybe in 2010! The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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Frustrated fans of poker WSOP 2009 the NOVEMBER NINE - If it's a LIVE tv event - I sure can't find it..

I'm on Twitter (xfilespoker) and all over the web today pulling what little bit of hair I have left, OUT! I'm searching for information on today's big WSOP final table. (November Nine)  I could swear I read somewhere a while back that said today's event was going to be broadcast "live." The World Series of Poker (main event) is the biggest game of the year for poker fans.  This years event finally gives us MAJOR poker ACTION with a major TV poker PRO - He's short stacked against some really good players. (Players that had months of rest and time to READ UP and study their foes) He does not need any introduction in this blog "for anyone following pro poker."  (For any poker newbies.. His name is IVEY) ESPN needs to drop back and punt when it comes to covering these events.  I'm scanning my TV guide on DIRECTV and nothing lists until 11pm tonight?  What the hell kind of LIVE action is this?  If this event is happening live and we are all missing it somehow - It's all the fault of the POWERS THAT BE at this years World Series.  Shame on you guys. HARRAH'S / Rio in Las Vegas has had many years to work out the bugs with these events and yet - every year they drop the ball. This year - sending players AWAY (not enough tables/dealers) I dunno.. Time to hire some new people to run things.  Is this event on TV live?  DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW? Phil Ivey and some other guys are playing in the BIGGEST poker game of their life - plus, most poker nuts LOVE Ivey. DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG THIS DAY IS TO POKER ESPN/RIO? If Ivey's able to pull this off and SNAG the win - It's huge for HIM/POKER/RIO/ESPN & the other 8 felt masters.  (I'm a fan of Ivey but I put him out 4th or 5th due to the fact that players today's are a smarter bunch)  Let me say it agina..This is huge for the RIO.. (HARRAH'S) It's huge for ESPN!  It's huge for "ME" and countless other poker fans, and the players that are new to poker. Some of us have been in poker since JESUS won the main event... (Jesus - that's a long time ago folks) How can all of the BIG SHOTS mess this UP?  Talk about DONKEYS.  (send me an e-mail and explain please) How are we ever going to get to the day when PEPSI pays me (whoops I mean US) to play poker on live television if all the REAL POKER fans can't even find the coverage for this, the biggest event in all of poker. (I want to break something! Someone give me something to snap)  My blog today is due to FRUSTRATION.. I'm frustrated.. My pals that watch poker are Frustrated. My dog Zowie - "The famous poker playing Doberman Pincher" is freaking frustrated. We wait all year for the FINAL TABLE of the WORLD SERIES OF POKER and you can't find out if it's LIVE or NOT (when it's on TV?).... Fans should be able to KNOW (yes or no) if there is coverage of **ANY** WSOP final table event within 2 CLICKS of a mouse.. Internet searches. (look into them WSOP) Such a BIG deal is made of the NOVEMBER NINE.. and what happens.. they leave us hanging.  This is enough to make even the most seasoned poker pro TILT.  I'm glad I'm still a year or two away from playing in the series and making the final table..or I'd be ripping all the people on national television for a job NOT WELL DONE. I would not want to do it - but cm-on.. Someone needs a kick in the ass. THIS IS TOO BIG A GAME. All eyes want to be on Phil Ivey today as well as the other 8 skilled/lucky rounders. Lives are going to change today.. (Poker fans want to see it) Somebody playing in this years NOVEMBER NINE event is going to DISNEY LAND for crying out loud.. "for PLAYING POKER." THEY GET THAT BRACELET!!! Playing a game they/we ALL LOVE.  The WINNER of this event will go from WHO'S DAT? to ROCK STAR and we can't find it anywhere on the web. Anywhere on our DIRECTV. Ivey even made it on the cover of ESPN magazine this year for crying out loud. That's it - I'm calling VEGAS.  Get Vegas on the line.  The main man in this event has PRIVATE JETS!  (cough.. Maybe)  We can't SELL THAT VEGAS? OK - I'm going back to the wsop searches.. If I find information WAY down low in a search engine - I'll let everyone know via TWITTER.. (look me up - come debate pro poker with me "xfilespoker") If you want to play ME.. "A regular Joe" kinda winning poker player - I play on FULL TILT POKER  I DO NOT have a private jet. (yet)  If you want to join our regular Joe's poker club sign up today (It's free) - X-Files poker forum We have a FREE roll coming up soon. No deposits required. God - Please let me watch today's game..  (This was for a poker playing friend/writer named Kim) @kimshannon on TWITTER.    The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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Forum @ Xfilespoker.com

8:51am - Just back from taking my little girl to school - what a crisp and sunny fall morning in the Poconos.  Love it! I just wanted to thank the members of our friendly poker forum - http://www.xfilespoker.net/phpbb for coming back after a long summer break.  I'm working hard to make the site more and more fun each day - and promise BIG changes for the better are on the way.  I'm in study HOURS a day and have found a new teacher that has me reading and reading. I'm trying to network with poker players with integrity - players who LOVE and RESPECT the game. If you know any? - Can you get them on board...  It's an OPEN forum that asks ANY and ALL topics poker and gambling. In the coming months you can expect free rolls as the budget allows - as well as new games such as our NEW "HEADS UP" challenge - $2 games on Full Tilt.  Working on building the brackets this month.  I think in time - our free rolls will advance to some pretty big games.  (Maybe this will help some of you build your poker roll)  Get you IN the CASH! We will starting TUESDAYS with TOM this winter.. Playing in select on line tourneys and ring games that we can later discuss on the forum. Videos are in the works as well (For newbies) I love talking poker to players new to the game and watching them go from clueless to winning players.  Learn proper poker from the start and join in the poker forum today!  No such thing as a dumb question on xfilespoker.com If you are NEW to us.. Please sign up today and get to posting poker chat.  Bring friends!  I had about 3 hours sleep last night - so I'm off to crash and catch an hour of rest before work.  Hope to see everyone on the xfilespoker.com poker forum soon! Also!  If you are on TWITTER - Please follow "xfilespoker" and start pumping us everyday!  Twitter is really getting the word out there.. Have a great day all.  Hope you flop nothing but quads all day long. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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I'm not buying any of this ONLINE POKER "RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR BS.." & BUCK ROGERS "Quantum Photon Shufflers"

Today's poker topic kiddies is.. The dreaded "RNG" & a little thing called a  "Quantum Photon Shuffler"  This Sunday morning..  I was reading my ALL IN poker mag with the sun shining in the window.. doing not much really,  scanning my face-book, twitter (Xfilespoker) while doing my normal sunday thing.. slamming down my 2nd big gulp coffee. Then I got this message on FACE-BOOK - (My face-book gets the most action l8tly for some reason...) So anyways the message was from an old friend on mine - Poker instructor "AL Spath"  It was a link to a site called Virtue-poker - and since I respect Al - I had to go and take a look.  For some reason.. my gut tells me something seems way off here (Online poker today) - and hm mm how can I say this.. hm mmmmm..over SOLD maybe?.. I guess?  No dis-respect towards Al Spath.. (I suggest you learn poker from this man) He only suggested the link. First off.. Let's break it all down and take a look the name of this site.. "Virtuepoker" - The name itself says - SAFE. BUILT by PEOPLE WHO CARE.  (Why the need to pump safety & Integrity with an on-line poker site?)  Are poker players unhappy with the OLDER sites?  I notice.. when I open the Virtuepoker's site that it is a set-up of buttons (links and names of links) that I've seen recently on another new poker site by a different name.. It's very close if not an exact match..  (Forgive me for not knowing the name) but it WAS the same setup....  OK, no biggie.. - This is what we call a "NETWORK of computer poker sites" in the on-line poker world.  Virtuepoker is a SKIN site - I got no problem with that..  But still, something is just not right? Why is there a need for a lot of the newer names of poker sites to be bundled up and wrapped around  a stamp of being SOLID.. SAFE.. Using words like INTEGRITY & VIRTUE? How many players did online poker rake over the coals the last 10 years?  (I see a shift in marketing)    Should we expect the book to give us what the cover is selling???... Should we BELIEVE these pitches because of what we read on a few of the poker sites links or in a poker magazine?  Why do these new sites have to OVER SELL these pitches all of a sudden?  Was RNG'S an issue?   (I sure do think so.. and so do many of my pals playing on-line.. There are quite a few that left on-line all together.. In a nut shell... I know with all my heart I'm not alone here) I've been in sales many years - and I can tell you - there are many times when a salesman can OVERSELL-PUSH and lose customers that they ALREADY HAD in the bag.  It's never a good thing to PUSH too hard.  Better to just show the buffet and let the customer choose what they like.  Quality sure does help as well..  DO WE REALLY HAVE THE BEST and SAFEST POKER WHEN WE PLAY ONLINE? The big questions I'll ask you to answer today is.. DO WE (Should we) BELIEVE WHAT WE READ ABOUT A POKER WEB SITES SECURITY and RNG to be 100% true?  If the site SAYS they have "INTEGRITY" - Should we just believe this as FACT?  (I'd like to see time and time again what a poker site is doing to give me a fair shot at winning.. To date - I don't think any these sites prove to us that we are getting a REAL RANDOM SET OF CARDS.. I'm not sure from talking to some computer nuts that TRUE RANDOM by a computer can ever be had...  I've seen too many KEY hand situations where LONG SHOTS.. crush quality cards and even more.. QUALITY PLAY.. I've seen this with various accounts. Mine, friends.. People I've railed/teach etc.. etc..) Enough of my babble.. Let's look into the Virtue poker sites "INTEGRITY" link - the pop down menu gives you an option to see what their RNG is all about .. (It's the best!)  Is it?  I dunno.. Maybe.. It would be fantastic to KNOW that we as players are getting TRUE RANDOM.  WHY the really fancy word OVER SELL??.. If ever I've seen an oversell like the 20 year old salesman at the car lot.. This is it!  OK - enough of my thoughts..  YOU MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND... This is how the powers that be explain their RNG. Virtuepoker's Real Random Card Shuffler   We're convinced that our card shuffling system is the best one out there. In fact, we're so convinced that we built an on-line poker room around it. Our "Quantum Photon Shuffler" is essentially an unpredictable, scientifically- proven quantum-mechanical process inside a special, impregnable, 'hack-proof' "black box". All on-line casinos use an RNG, but not all RNG'S are the same. Of course, for security reasons, we can't tell you exactly how ours works; but we can give you an idea:  At the start of every game, the table asks for a freshly shuffled deck. The Shuffler requests a clean set of random data from the RNG. The RNG generates purely random data using the simple yet highly reliable and secure mathematical representation of the statistically random behavior of photons (particles of light) when fired through a half-mirror - or a mirror which allows only 50% of all light to be reflected while the other 50% passes through. As it is impossible to tell whether a photon will pass through or be reflected, the resulting data is a totally random string of ones and zeros, or binary code. Just to be sure, the Shuffler monitors the output of the RNG for randomness. If the data is clean, the string of code is translated into a freshly shuffled deck. This process is repeated again on the shuffled deck - i.e. a double shuffle. The cards are then sent along a secure, encrypted line to the table - a freshly double-shuffled deck. Before each card is dealt out, a re-shuffle of the remaining cards takes place. This means that each dealt card has been randomly drawn from a freshly reshuffled deck, each and every time. And so on, until the game is over and the next one begins. This process of continuous shuffling is a measure of added protection to ensure the highest level of randomness and security that can be obtained. A unique system: It is impossible for player actions to influence the cards. It is impossible to predict future cards. As all the shuffled data is sent along a secure, encrypted line, it is impossible to intercept card data Hole cards are only visible to the players that hold them. Even our floor manager cannot see what you are holding until the game is finished. The design is simple and therefore fail-safe. The "black box" shuffler is itself set within a totally secure system. The only thing which can enter our shuffler is a secure, coded request for a freshly shuffled deck of cards. The only thing which can come out of our shuffler is a shuffled deck of cards. Virtuepoker works hard to give you the peace of mind you deserve - so you can concentrate on your game. " OK.. back to my thoughts.. (This next line I think isssss a MAJOR over sell) "Quantum Photon Shuffler" is essentially an unpredictable, scientifically- proven quantum-mechanical process inside a special, impregnable, 'hack-proof' "black box". All on-line casinos use an RNG, but not all RNG'S are the same. Of course, for security reasons, we can't tell you exactly how ours works; but we can give you an idea: " Remember the WIZARD OF OZ?  Something tells me there is a man behind the big emerald crystal wall... Pushing our buttons with BULL SHIT.  a "Quantum Photon Shuffler"  - BEEAAAMMMM ME UP SCOTTY!  Somebody Quick.. get me a real deck of cards.  Pennsylvania!  Please RUSH and bring me LIVE casino poker.. "Quantum Photon Shuffler" - Like they say on Saturday night live.. REALLLLLlllllllyyyy?  LOL!!! "The "black box" shuffler is itself set within a totally secure system."  Yeah... there is a system in place alright.. and my gut tells me it's a very complex system of BALONEY.  It's a good thing for us rounders however that these virtuous people have our backs.. so when our stack of CHIPS.. (REAL CASH) crashes and burns.. at least they have a "BLACK BOX" - We have a NEW system to blame.. GOD DARN "Quantum Photon Shuffler"  I'm not a fan of current RNG's or these NEW "Quantum Photon Shufflers"  I'm told by many that the cards we all receive on-line are really random..  I'm simply NOT BUYING IT.  If this is so... Why the OVER SELL? ("Quantum Photon Shuffler" - PPAAA LLLLLEEEAAASSS EEEEEE!) Why a need to sell like this at all??? Would not a product like a REAL DEAL POKER system from a "real deck of cards".. sell itself?  I think if anyone ever comes up with a REAL DEAL POKER system - Ads won't even be needed - The news of a real deck of cards will spread like the H1N1 virus..  Killing all these older systems or at least - making them change the current SYSTEMS. While I'm on a steam roller - I'll add.. It might be possible that some players are playing on ONE legit system while another is playing a not so legit/fair system.  (we have to at least ask these questions)  Don't be mindless on-line poker zombies. Integrity - That's a major word.  We would expect quality cards to hold up and win even after the turn and river card.  At least the majority of the time..  Hell - The RNG pitch is so good at Virtuepoker that even I might have to try this (new) site..  WAITE..  HOLD ON... EXCEPT ONE THING (I have this feeling I'm being oversold and possibly even ripped off by yet another used car lot salesman)  I'd like to know WHY a site like this felt the need to BUILD a new site around this new magic black box?  What was wrong with the RNG's that have been out there all these years?  Huh?  ANYBODY? You can disagree with me.. but at least THINK ABOUT ALL THIS.. Of course poker players - I could be wrong... but I really doubt it. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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A good balance of life and poker will make you a winner.

Oh, poker.  The grip you've had on me since 1991.. Since my younger sun/fun filled days in Las Vegas.  This rounder made 50 trips to the city of sin, (a cool number), countless trips to New Jersey, Mississippi etc.. and of course night after night in back room games (I even ran my own games for a good 3-4 years 1-3 pot limit) and then - BOOM! I took ill... Most, but not all of these trips I mention, were prior to the MONEYMAKER years of poker.. I say this.. because I played with many of the big names in poker - before they became big names..  They became huge!  I... BOOM! I had to leave the whole poker scene behind.  I had to take a break from the action I so loved. I had to leave for a few years, (How would you like that? huh? It sucked.) Except for small stakes poker on-line Full Tilt Poker Homepage   and WPT & WSOP on TV... I was out of the poker loop. In a nutshell..  I had to die or get better..  No cards for me. I'm happy to say, I'm back baby..  Daddy is 98% back and feeling fine!  SO DEAL!  To me.. Playing poker is just as fresh as it was back in 1991. To me.. Nothing beats the live poker game.  Nothing.   (Now looking back.. It's OK. - I had a lot to learn in NL poker anyways)   I'm sure many reading this have been to Vegas... Some.. I'm sure been there many more times than I even and made tons more loot! (God bless ya.. really it's a tough game) but for a few reading this, the jump to the city of lights or Atlantic City..well, it's still a dream you have (As you sit in your house about to "go all in" with a click of the mouse....)Hell.. Some of you are probably 12-16 years old. (shame on you!) Wink wink..  Just do it! I'm here to tell you it's a good dream wanting to treat yourself to the fun of poker in Vegas and Atlantic City, etc.... And.  That you can get there if you learn to play quality poker & learn to use BALANCE.  Get your schooling first.. (*Non poker schooling for crying out loud - Have a plan B & C) Earn your pay the right way... Work.  Make poker a hobby that PAYS! (*Then get some poker schooling if you really take to it)  If you hit the 1.5mil mark.. Maybe I'll vouch for you playing PRO. Let's get back to Vegas. Let's face it folks.. If you love poker (And boy do I ever love poker) Las Vegas Rocks! Vegas poker rooms are at the top of the heap.  Every true rounder will make their way to the strip in time.. It's a must do.. They will all choose the card den of choice and purchase a rack of red or white.. As they improve maybe even more..  Rounders will also make there way to DOWNTOWN Vegas as well..  (If you don't know why - your just a rounder in the works, better come visit our poker forum Xfilespoker Poker Forum )  OMG!  I miss the midnight steaks and the quick dinners at the food bar/diner.. Boy - they took care of you downtown.. Even the 2/4 players.  (Are you with me?  If not.. Pretty sure that's all part of history now)  Good times! Poker is a hobby that pays you back many times over when you play with skill and have oh.. a little bit of lady luck on your side. This (+ balance) Patience, game selection, skills of hands and position, selective aggression, playing the player.. etc..  You got to love it!  It's an awesome freaking game! Be warned! (Enter scarey music here) YOU WILL LOSE at times.. Bad even.. (like kick you in the junk bad) But if you stick to a winning program.. you should come out at the end.. after many years or sessions of playing.. saying you have chose one great hobby.  (It's the hobby that pays U back remember.. THERE MIGHT BE A TEST LATER - PAY ATTENTION!)  Even if you lose some poker sessions.. (and you will) many nights are SO MUCH FUN.   Just the PEOPLE you meet in poker is worth the buy-in many days. (The good , the bad and the ugly & smellyare all there people) Poker is a rainbow,   Plus... Real rounders LEARN when they lose a session... so it's not all bad. Another thing... Rounders are far better off than the people playing slots and table games. Avoid these sucker bets as much as possible. (Yes - I played all these games too) HARD CORE.  Sometimes you got to roll the dice.  (They don't call them one armed bandits for nothing) HI - LOW - YO! I'm going long with this blog.. But, hey.. Just to paint a good image for you in your head.. I've stayed at just about all the big hotels.. always drove rented gold Lincoln Town cars, always parked valet. Always and STILL WILL get back-rubs at the tables and at the spa.. When I flew out west to play poker.. I stayed no less than 10-21 days on average... (This was all prior to my daughter being born - times change :) I played in every poker room they had in Vegas... Uptown, downtown, across town and out by hoover dam. - I had parties in comped suites, or in rooms or suites they would give to me at check-in with a lucky draw (regular rooms were sold out)  I went to all the big shows..  some of which I hit two and three times to take friends out for a night on the town.  (Seeing Kiss in Vegas was a childhood DREAM come TRUE)  What can I say.. I was a poor kid. I ate at the top steak houses WELL DONE please - KILL IT! (Circus Circus and Binions to name two) I've had my share of 99cent cocktails and cheap late morning breakfasts as well.. so many comped meals.. and room service.. I'd have to guess $ wise.... Actually I can't guess...  but it was a lot.  I played poker for days on end without sleep but soon gave that program up. (some never do) I read Dr. Pauly on the Internet before anyone knew this great poker writer. I went to poker seminars when poker seminars where ALL the rage and NEW..  I tipped dealers and board people (list of games) more than the cost of an average home today I'm sure.. I drank Makers Mark and coke at the pool (never drank in a poker game, except maybe  2/4 limit) and... I played the radio loud... usually Queen, Kiss, Zeppelin or Johnny Cash.  If I was a special trip with the boys - I'd even hit the strip clubs and had me a few lap dances.  (I'm a bad catholic, Forgive me father for I have sinned) When in ROME.. you know..  (Major key is.. I never fooled around.. Always came back to my wife.. the lady I love.. or I simply asked her to come with me)  BALANCE. The point of all this is not to brag.. it's to offer you newbies hope! It's also to thank God for this life of mine.. (and the 2nd chance he gave me) plus to thank all the great players, writers, etc.. I met along the poker road. You see..  I did ALL this..and I did it with my poker winnings 90% of the time.. and I was never what you could call richy rich.  Most, if not all of it was with LIMIT POKER too.. (yes kids.. it is an option.. shocker I know) My wife and I built buildings with my winnings/$1500.00/$2500.00 at a time.. A truck of block here.. Plywood there.. Buildings that are still to this day paying us back.  I ran with scissors with poker.. While I played I ran and built a new photography studio attached to my compound of a house.. During this time I made countless 2-3 day trips to Atlantic city... and those darn seedy back room games..  I always played hard.. payed attention and took it serious - while having one hell of a fun time. I could never have afforded all the back-rubs and royal treatment had over the years had it not been for poker.  (note - again, no big money man here)  No Bobby's Room poker reports from this cat.  I'm the biggest SMALL time player you will ever meet. 5/10 was good to make it happen IF youcould leave a winner.   I went long here with this post.. but I needed to make a few points..  I did all of this by A. Taking care of my wife and keeping the heat and lights on high.. B. Running a great photography studio (easy work for me) Another gift from God C. Learning how to play the game (really learning) hooking up with better players and listening. D.Tipping people that took care of me/us (Gave us great information) E.Always having BALANCE.. Getting away from the action.. Doing the pool, shows.. the Grand Canyon.. Why make money if your not planning to ENJOY the making of money and caring for the ones you love.. F.I Cashed out a winner... One of the best moves in poker is CASHING OUT!  and (this is huge) I mailed the money home right away. (This trick paid for the next plane ride out and then some)  G. I did it all UNDER THE RADAR and with not being known for the most part. I ALWAYS TRY TO LEAVE A WINNER - IF EVEN $5 up in those hard grinding nights.  Tomorrow is another day.. The card game never really ends as they are always in the air.  We just take breaks is all..  If I can;t leave a winner - I cut my losses. I'll close by saying this.. I'm back!  Like babe Ruth - I'm pointing towards VEGAS! I'm telling all the poker players out there that are smart enough to listen.. STANDBACKWORLD!  I'm coming back to your limit games.. Your NO-LIMIT games and your Tourneys too! I'm coming DAVID LEE ROTH style..   I don't look the same - I'm a tad older and heavier.. but I got game and I'm coming to crush your stack.  Be ready Phil Hellmuth.. Ivey. 2010 is my breakout year.  I've been under the radar long enough... Time to make a run for the gold. God, thank you.. I love poker.  (Strippers are cool too once in a while :) If you want to talk poker - I invite you to my super small, super FRIENDLY forum Xfilespoker Poker Forum were all levels of poker play and talk are welcome. - Our will be coming back to life any week now.. We take the summers off.  (Balance) Note - NO BAD LANGUAGE in our forums please..   The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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WSOP November Nine, Phil Ivey and (?) Private Jets? TEST FOR FACEBOOK

Test for FACE BOOK using posterous.. (If your getting this post for a second time..my appologies) Ok - Early morning, drinking some joe and thinking poker already....   We are just a few days away from the 2009 final table action at the world series of poker in Las Vegas.  Phil Ivey has all eyes on him.  Can he take a small stack and double up? (He still has a good few orbits in him)  What will be his plan of attack? Will the big stacks keep the pressure up early? The stakes are high and the table is set for some great poker strategy.   Darvin Moon - 58,930,000 Darvin Moon?  Will he hold the lead?  Will this loggers life be changed forever? He's a satellite winner with a very good shot at a wsop bracelet.  It's rare for the big stack to stay the big stack but we will see how the card fly.  He seems like a regular dude.. Not sure he's the best for pokers future.. but props to him for a great stack going in.  I place him 3rd     Eric Buchman - 34,800,000 From NY - a poker player with some serious cash winnings prior to this event.  He plans on having all his friends to Vegas..  Another large stack.. It will be fun to see if he comes out ready for battle or lays low..     Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000 Winning his seat in the 2009 wsop via a home-game league - this player is one of my picks for the WIN.  It's a great story with him being an amateur who is already saying he's won.  Not the bracelet.. Just by being at the final table in this years event.  He's quoted to have said.. "he's dancing between raindrops..in the middle of a minefield and somehow I'm still standing"   Yes sir.. I'm pulling for this guy to be another Moneymaker.  The other league members will chop 20% of his take.. (not bad.. not bad at all)      Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000 Did you hear about a guy this year saying that if he won a wsop bracelet he'd throw it in the garbage?  Yeppers.. That's this guy.  He's most known as the editor of Card-Player Magazine who has lots to say about a lot of things.  (I have to say - I think SPADE-CLUB is trash.. just my thoughts Jeff)  I do agree that Harrahs has managed some parts of the series poorly.   Jeff pretty much thinks he a favorite... It will make for exciting TV watching him work his angles at the felt.  I put him in 6th place.  Figuring people will attack him.     Joseph Cada - 13,215,000 The youngest player in this years event will be this man.. Joseph Cada.  He's a poker player with some really good winnings from on-line poker Full Tilt Poker Homepage - He took a break enjoying the Michigan summer and plans on doing the best with the cards he's dealt.  He seems like he has a good head on his shoulders..  I'll be pulling for this guy too.  I give him spot 5    Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000 51 year old - Father of 2 with his second deep run at the main event. He has 168K in tourney winnings to date - so this cash will be his biggest pay day ever no matter what finish.  He and his son are very excited!  Kevin can't Wait to come back.. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.. he said.     Phil Ivey- 9,765,000 You know - YOU just KNOW!.. Phil has some plans on how he's going to climb the chip ladder this November..  He's a machine with way too many years experience.  The question is - will the cards fly right for this legend of poker. How will the others play him?  I can't see them not keeping him on the hot coals.. He's flying around in private jets (not sure I believe all this... hmmm  Might just be good media hype for all the teenagers) and living the high-life. He's a poker legend with many years to come.  If he pulls this feat off - it will be one hell of a short stack comeback and only seal the deal as to WHO the best player is in all of poker.  (Sorry to my pal Phil Hellmuth) I hate to be a spoiler - but I put him on being out 7 or 8. No way these players are going to roll over for a guy who already has 2 bracelets in 2009.  I predict - many players will push HIM around.  For the sake of a good show.. I'd love to be wrong. Good luck to Mr. Ivey.. He deserves much respect but he's one big bulls-eye.     Antoine Saout - 9,500,000 Antoine is from France.. Nobody likes the french... so I don't see this player doing much.  ONLY KIDDING. (lol)  He's another satellite winner (Everest poker) His mother was not liking that he decided to play poker for a living.. he's hoping this years final table showing will change her thinking. Go France.  I'll put him 4th or so..  (Someone has to be the lucky short stack)      James Akenhead - 6,800,000 Talk about a small stack... This Londoner is no BIG BEN at this years event.  He's a member of  an England  based poker club called the "HIT SQUAD" so you know he's taking poker serious.  He was a runner up in one of last years $1500 tourneys too..  So close!  They say you have to lose one first right?  He's looking to double up quick and make it happen.  I'd give this player a nod if he gets lucky early - Top 5/6 for sure.       The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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WSOP November 9, 2009 - Phil Ivey and PRIVATE JETS? C'mon private jets?

Ok - Early morning, drinking some joe and thinking poker already.... We are just a few days away from the 2009 final table action at the world series of poker in Las Vegas.  Phil Ivey has all eyes on him.  Can he take a small stack and double up? (He still has a good few orbits in him)  What will be his plan of attack? Will the big stacks keep the pressure up early? The stakes are high and the table is set for some great poker strategy. Darvin Moon - 58,930,000 Darvin Moon?  Will he hold the lead?  Will this loggers life be changed forever? He's a satellite winner with a very good shot at a wsop bracelet.  It's rare for the big stack to stay the big stack but we will see how the card fly.  He seems like a regular dude.. Not sure he's the best for pokers future.. but props to him for a great stack going in.  I place him 3rd Eric Buchman - 34,800,000 From NY - a poker player with some serious cash winnings prior to this event.  He plans on having all his friends to Vegas..  Another large stack.. It will be fun to see if he comes out ready for battle or lays low.. Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000 Winning his seat in the 2009 wsop via a home-game league - this player is one of my picks for the WIN.  It's a great story with him being an amateur who is already saying he's won.  Not the bracelet.. Just by being at the final table in this years event.  He's quoted to have said.. "he's dancing between raindrops..in the middle of a minefield and somehow I'm still standing"   Yes sir.. I'm pulling for this guy to be another Moneymaker.  The other league members will chop 20% of his take.. (not bad.. not bad at all)  Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000 Did you hear about a guy this year saying that if he won a wsop bracelet he'd throw it in the garbage?  Yeppers.. That's this guy.  He's most known as the editor of Card-Player Magazine who has lots to say about a lot of things.  (I have to say - I think SPADE-CLUB is trash.. just my thoughts Jeff)  I do agree that Harrahs has managed some parts of the series poorly. Jeff pretty much thinks he a favorite... It will make for exciting TV watching him work his angles at the felt.  I put him in 6th place.  Figuring people will attack him. Joseph Cada - 13,215,000 The youngest player in this years event will be this man.. Joseph Cada.  He's a poker player with some really good winnings from on-line poker Full Tilt Poker Homepage - He took a break enjoying the Michigan summer and plans on doing the best with the cards he's dealt.  He seems like he has a good head on his shoulders..  I'll be pulling for this guy too.  I give him spot 5  Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000 51 year old - Father of 2 with his second deep run at the main event. He has 168K in tourney winnings to date - so this cash will be his biggest pay day ever no matter what finish.  He and his son are very excited!  Kevin can't Wait to come back.. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.. he said. Phil Ivey- 9,765,000 You know - YOU just KNOW!.. Phil has some plans on how he's going to climb the chip ladder this November..  He's a machine with way too many years experience.  The question is - will the cards fly right for this legend of poker. How will the others play him?  I can't see them not keeping him on the hot coals.. He's flying around in private jets (not sure I believe all this... hmmm  Might just be good media hype for all the teenagers) and living the high-life. He's a poker legend with many years to come.  If he pulls this feat off - it will be one hell of a short stack comeback and only seal the deal as to WHO the best player is in all of poker.  (Sorry to my pal Phil Hellmuth) I hate to be a spoiler - but I put him on being out 7 or 8. No way these players are going to roll over for a guy who already has 2 bracelets in 2009.  I predict - many players will push HIM around.  For the sake of a good show.. I'd love to be wrong. Good luck to Mr. Ivey.. He deserves much respect but he's one big bulls-eye. Antoine Saout - 9,500,000 Antoine is from France.. Nobody likes the french... so I don't see this player doing much.  ONLY KIDDING. (lol)  He's another satellite winner (Everest poker) His mother was not liking that he decided to play poker for a living.. he's hoping this years final table showing will change her thinking. Go France.  I'll put him 4th or so..  (Someone has to be the lucky short stack) James Akenhead - 6,800,000 Talk about a small stack... This Londoner is no BIG BEN at this years event.  He's a member of  an England  based poker club called the "HIT SQUAD" so you know he's taking poker serious.  He was a runner up in one of last years $1500 tourneys too..  So close!  They say you have to lose one first right?  He's looking to double up quick and make it happen.  I'd give this player a nod if he gets lucky early - Top 5/6 for sure. The VOICE of PENNSYLVANIA POKER MrXfilespoker Xfilespoker Poker Forum WHERE I PLAY - Full Tilt Poker Homepage

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