O-Poker

I just placed an order on Amazon.com. I am going to get as much cramming in as I can before the WSOP. I ordered three books.

1. Pressure Poker by DoubleAs - I have been looking forward to this book for a while. For those of you that don't know DoubleAs (not sure who doesn't), he has a great blog with a lot of interesting takes on different situations. You should go buy this book.

2. Harrington on Hold 'em: Expert Strategies for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. III--The Workbook - No explanation needed. The first two books were awesome.

3. Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - This isn't a poker book. "Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant." from Amazon.com. Sounds like it will help will decision making, reading other players, and most importantly putting yourself in the other person's shoes. Hopefully, this well help with a deeper understanding of why the other players are the table are doing what they are doing. VeiwfromtheRail had a good review on the book.

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I'm playing a live point leader $1,000 freeroll tonight for the top point earners in what used to be my regular game. Should be fun to play some live poker.

I am probably going to another live game on Friday night. It is a 2/5NL game with no cap on the buy-in. I have only been there once before and the average stack was around $1,500 with a lot of loose players - should be a wild game.

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22 days to VEGAS!! It seems like a year.

cmitch