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Jun 24

2009

Click a mouse, get a house

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I actually had to click way more times than I want to think about and only got 20% of a house but I still thought it was pretty sweet. I used the concierge service to turn over 3 million FPPs into the downpayment on my house. Katie and I are moving in on Saturday. It's a two story, 3 bed, 2 bath bungalow style house. The place is about 80 years old but it has all new windows and is completely

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Jun 05

2009

1/2 way there

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I hit 500K VPPs on Monday so I'm still cranking the 10 month pace. Nice to have $5K dumped into your account (actually only worth $4200 since you have to use 50K FPPs though). Seems like it keeps getting tougher to get VPPs though. The 114s are barely even running. There's actually only 1 going now at 4:00 pm on a Friday.

Meeting Katie for dinner in Philly soon.

Good luck to everyone at WSOP. I

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May 05

2009

Monte Carlo was a blast!

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Monte Carlo was a really scenic and rich place. There were more Bentley, Ferrari and Rolls Royce rolling around then I've ever seen. I also finally got to meet a ton of people I chat with online all the time. I hung out with theoverman (hg1l7), JohnDayton, Neil_Rick, azntracker, spacegravy, gravy's buddy Bruce, bigjoe, alesanre, DNA2RNA, and floes. I also met Quasifiction, BIGMICKG, LuisGallo,

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Apr 23

2009

Monte Carlo soon

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Katie and I leave on Sunday. We get in early on Monday morning and I play on day 2b so we'll have a couple days to check out the place before I play. Hopefully I'll meet some other SNG players. There's a freeroll on May 3rd for the 70 elite players that are going. Final table gets a ticket to the Sunday tourney on Stars and the winner plays HU vs a PokerStars pro for $5K. Not a huge value but

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Apr 14

2009

Podcasts for the grind

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I use to think they were pretty boring but they're actually GREAT to listen to while grinding.

My current picks (you can just search itunes for them):
two jacks in the hole
Adam Carolla
two plus two poker cast
poker road radio

Any other suggestions?

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Mar 29

2009

300K VPPs

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I haven't updated in a while since nothing too exciting has been happening. Just the normal grind. I'm on pace to get elite in 10 months now. That seems like a pretty good pace for me. 9 months would be ideal since that's when my elite status expires but I haven't been playing any 225s lately since they seem pretty tough and the variance sucks. That slows down my VPP earn rate a lot.

Other news:

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Feb 25

2009

Funny videos

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If you surf twoplustwo you've probably seen these but I thought they were pretty funny. Only if you're a poker player though. The second one has NSFW language. Enjoy!

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090224161759433

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090222182227485

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Feb 11

2009

I got a raise!

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I was slaving away in my office this morning when my boss came in. He told me what a great job I've been doing and that he thought I deserved a raise. I obviously agreed, kissed his ass a bit with the thank you sirs etc. and got back to work.

Seriously though, Scotty from PokerStars posted the new details for the VIP program. Supernova Elite is going to be extended until the end of September

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Jan 31

2009

Started playing in a 9-ball league

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I’ve been looking for something to do to get out and meet some people. I found a contact on the American Pool Players Association (APA) website and started playing last Sunday. For the most part it’s standard 9-ball rules except you don’t have to call the 9-ball and you get one point for each ball pocketed and two points for the 9-ball. You continue to play until you reach a specified number of

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Jan 21

2009

A day in the life of darinvg

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Someone asked what a day in the life of a SNG pro is like so I thought I'd make a blog.

I'm a very motivated and organized person so I treat poker much like a normal job. I've actually been getting up early when my girlfriend does for the last week ( 6 or 7 am) to start the grind. The tables have been pretty tough to start the year with all the supernova elite grinders. The tables seem a little

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