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One of the best events in Floirda is just around the corner. The first Day One is October 31st in Pensacola. For those of yuo who didn't do it last year, there are Day Ones throughout the state. Ten percent of each field capped at 150 players makes it to Day Two at the Palm Beach Kennel Club on December 11th. Everyone who gets that far is in the money, but the big money, of course, it at the top.  The Florida Million maintains a very good site with progress updates.  I gave myself two chances last year at $550 each and came in on the bubble on my…   [more]

What was I thinking, arriving just 20 minutes early?  Already the alternate line was forming.  I usually refuse to be an alternate coming to the table full of big stacks and rising blinds, but this event looked just too fun to miss, so there I was in line with other poor planners. Can't complain since the Grinder's brother Eric, was 57th on the alternate list and I was 41.  The event was buzzing with media and was well-organized.  My only complaint was that the levels, while 30 minutes long (not awful), were very fast with about  5 missing. This was a turbo of sorts and I intended to play it that way.  Busted…   [more]

At the Hard Rock which is becoming my usual cash home for now,  my 2/5 NL table is skewed toward maniac bluffers. One is a  lawyer  who relishes bluffing people off their hand with a huge bet then showing 72. Next to him is a kid who looks 12 and told me 4 times that "this is my job" i.e. he was a professional. Yeah, sure...that's a pretty loose category these days. He told the maniac lawyer next to him that he was his new hero and they begin competing to show the biggest bluffs. There were two others who were prone to calling with air, and 2 very tight players. I thought this table might turn out to be my personal stimulus…   [more]