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Post-WSOP Syndrome with Jason Mercier
As I sit here watching this obnoxious group of young adults disturb the entire rest of the plane, I figured it's a better time than ever to write a blogpost. This group of seven kids (I'm calling them...
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Stout's Sunday Report: August 8, 2010
It was another massive Sunday for poker pro Matt "All in at 4:20" Stout. Every week he brings us up to speed with a full report on his Sunday online poker MTT results and this last one was a doozy! He...
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Stout's Sunday Report: August 15, 2010
Matt Stout has been running super hot since he started the Sunday Report back in February, racking up almost $200k in profits! Unfortunately this week's session didn't go quite so well. Check out...
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Stout's Sunday Report: August 22, 2010
Matt Stout is back with another edition of the Sunday Report. Each week Stout reports on the profits and losses he sustains during his Sunday online poker MTT schedule. Get an honest look at what it's...
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Stout's Sunday Report: August 29, 2010
Matt Stout's back with another excluive Sunday Report. Each week Stout gives us a full rundown of his Sunday online poker tournament schedule, complete with full profits and losses. Check back every...
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Stout's Sunday Report: September 5, 2010
Matt Stout's back with another excluive Sunday Report. Each week Stout gives us a full rundown of his Sunday online poker tournament schedule, complete with full profits and losses. Check back every...
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Tunica Part 3: More Rungoodsauce Than Me?
As I mentioned at the end of my last blog, I went into Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit main event in Tunica with $255,500 at $1,500/$3,000 ($400). I was second in chips out of the remaining 61 players, 27...
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Tunica Final Table Part 2: Riverboat Gambling!
At the conclusion of part one, I had just taken a pretty gross beat for about a quarter million chips at the hands of Kai Landry. However, I was still left with about 960k going to 8/16k (2k) and was...
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Tunica FT Pt. 3: My Untimely Demise
It's finally here! The conclusion of Matt Stout's WSOPC Tunica final table run. At the end of my last blog, I asked readers to guess what the most ridiculous hand David Dao could be holding after he...
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Coughing, Disappointments, and Inexperienced Players
For the past week, I have been just maintaining a cold which causes me to cough hysterically. I thought that it would have gone away by now, I have tried all kinds of things: resting, drinking tons of...
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Getting My Run Bad Out Before Monte Carlo
It's 4 am in Italy right now and I just woke up from a nap. Fell asleep while just surfing the internet possibly because the internet is so slow here. I started off the day by waking up to a phone...
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FTOPS Triumphs and Tribulations
After a good long 6 days following my meltdown deep in the 2500 ftops event, I feel as if I'm over it and can finally talk about it. Coming off the win in FTOPS event 23 the night before, I entered...
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PLO for the First Time
I was really looking forward to the WSOP Event 5: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha, which was my first live PLO event. Since I never read structure sheets even though I should, I didn't realize that they had a...
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Got To Set New Goals
When I was planning out my schedule for the WSOP, I basically only had two goals for the series. I wanted to have a profitable series (make money), and I wanted to win a bracelet. After my win in...
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CSPC 2k NL Part 3: A Deal Is a Deal … Or Is It?
The next hand I played with Evgeny really left him a little shocked. Still five-handed, he limped from the small blind and bet out on a K♥ 8♣ 3♥ flop. I called with 8♠ 2♦, and we both checked when the...
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Don't Ever Give Up
At the end of my last blog, I mentioned that I was really looking forward to the $1,500 NL six-handed event. It turned out to be a very soft field, as expected, of 1,459 players. Many of the...
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Phil Ivey - The Greatest Ever
Yesterday one of my poker buddies, who primarily plays cash games online for a living, asked me this question (which I hear quite frequently). "Who do you think are the better poker players: cash-game...
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Matt Stout's Separate Lives
I'm going to interrupt my WSOP Main Event story because there's just no need for me to write about something that sucks that much right now. I'd rather focus on the positive at moment...after just a...
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Feels Good to be Supernova Again
In May of 2006, I became, somewhere in the neighborhood of, the 75th person to achieve Supernova status on Pokerstars. I had earned 100k vpps in that calendar year. In December of 2006, Pokerstars...
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Borgata Blow-Ups!
OK, so they weren't complete blowups ... but I'm definitely not happy with myself in the wake of the Borgata Poker Open. When I left off in my last blog I had a big stack in the $400 NL opening event...
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