I'm in nyc for 2600's fifth hope. (hope.net) Pics and whatnot to follow.

--Chris Falco

Got my first issue of allin magazine. Not too bad. Lots of pics. It'll be interesting to see the next issue and the standard format.

--Chris Falco

At the cubs game with my dad for fathers day, its 70 degrees and sunny, and we're in a skybox. Very nice.

The cubs are going to put a beatdown on the A's.

Updates to follow.

--Chris Falco

Sister just fnished high school, what a scam they don't even get their diplomas during the ceremony, they get them afterward in the cafeteria. Lame.



--Chris Falco

I have posted for a while simply because I've been so damn busy. So anyways, here's the lowdown.

School is done and about time.

Now I can work and play poker all summer.

On the poker front, I've had a great few weeks and have been tuning my game up really nicely, thanks much in part to poker tracker and some good books.

I'm playing in the no limit $25, $50 and $100 games now. Been making about 18 bb per hour.

Not too shabby, I believe my success has a great deal to do with game selection.

I'm thinking to myself the other day, a typical $2/$4 game has blinds of $1 and $2. The online nl $100 game has the same blinds.

I'm thinking about never playing limit again unless nothing else is available, or for fun only. At $1/$2 blinds and a full table you can wait for monster hands and try to cash nicely when you do get them.

Plus you have more leverage to avoid suckouts if you bet correctly.

I'm going to vegas at the end of july, new york in the middle of july so the whole summer looks to be busy and fun.

Vegas 3x a year? Sure why not!

By the way if you like great, dry humor, get "the office" from the bbc on dvd. Its excellent, funny and smart and a nice little dvd nugget hidden on store shelves.

--Chris Falco

Tornado here for another 15 mins. Wish me luck!

--Chris Falco

Have I told you lately how much I love jager?

--Chris Falco

MeAt meat MEAT

Yeah that's it.


--Chris Falco

Why is it every time I check hiptop nation I am greeted by pictures of meet?



*cough* kale *cough*

--Chris Falco

Well the WPT Championship finished in Vegas this week, and of the final table 4 of the 6 players were rec.gambling.poker regulars. I sure hope a "Presto Hand" makes it to TV. 8.5 Million prize pool and around 340 players each buying in for $25,000. Amazing.

Poker has comea long way baby!

Friday night, I took the night off from grinding the fish on Party Poker to go see The Strokes and The Raveonettes at the Aragon Brawlroom in Chicago. The Raveonettes are great, they have a really excellent and unique sound, think rock and roll soundtracks to 50's leather and motorcycle B rated horror movies. Plus lead singer Sharin Foo is a cutie, I actually found her after the show and thanked her for the excellent performance.

I only snapped a few shots of the show, as the lighting made taking good pictures nearly impossible, but here they are anyway.

The Strokes once again knocked Chicago on its collective asses. There's something amazingly simple and pure about a Strokes show.

The music is great, and although many people in the crowd are there to be part of some "scene", those of us there for the music really see what's so special about this band.

First of all, the lead singer (Julian Casablancas) introduced the band himself. Proceeded to play a blazing 70 minute set, even broke out Clampdown, from the Clash.

The Strokes don't do encores. They are 110% rock and roll without the bullshit. If they are coming to your town, check them out.

In other news, I got e-mail from Party this week about a 15% reload bonus before April 30th, so I'm emptying all my accounts so I can deposit $667 and get my maximum $100 bonus. Then I can start working off the 1000 raked hands I'll need to play to get it released.

I've still be enjoying the 6 Max NL tables party has gotten and been making quite a bit of cash from them. I'd recommend NL players to check them out, especially if you want to play a lot of raked hands quickly [you know, to release a bonus]. I find lots of action, and you can buy-in short if you want too, and wait for a killer hand to go all in with to minimize your risk. Min buy-in for the NL$25 is $5, $10 for the NL$50 and $20 for the NL $100, so get in there and double up!


--Chris Falco