http://fslexcducktales.com Vanessa's ramblings on poker and life Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:17:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for the lack of updates; I'm just so confused by the umpteen forms of social media that I'm supposed to take part in.  I've now (somewhat reluctantly) started a twitter page, and also a facebook page that has all of my various poker related happenings. My current news: I'm finishing ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=140 Hey everyone - I'm in Vegas this weekend, going to be playing the women's tourney and then I guess maybe the 6max limit if I bust this early?  I'm just here for the weekend until I fly out for some real WSOP action on June 28th.  You can follow my ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=137 So I'm excited to be getting back into poker very very soon.  One thing I've been thinking about a lot (and thanks to Tommy Angelo for his help with this) is beginning my own live poker coaching program.  We can either focus on cash games or tournaments - up to ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=133 So I was browsing twoplustwo and noticed a thread about police - and there were some links to incidents of police misconduct that I thought I would share with you all.  Bear in mind that these are only the incidents for which videos actually exist.  When I was arrested and ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=114 Here are some hands I wrote up for the Cardplayer article Final Table Takedown.  These were some of my more interesting hand from the final 2 and final tables of the tournament. Hand 1: A5s is so pretty, how could you fold? So right now there are 12 people left in the ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=111 Whoa.  This is still sort of unreal.  I took off to Mohegan Sun (45 min drive) about 10 days ago to play the 1k prelim at Mohegan Sun.  I busted in like 2 hours, and then played well in cash games until I took a couple of beats and tilted ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=104 "Motion to Treat My 14 Year-Old Client As a 75 year Old, White, Privileged Corporate Executive." That was the motion that Bryan Stevenson, delirious one night from emotional and physical exhaustion, filed in court for a 14 year old client they sentenced to life imprisonment.  14 years old. Stevenson figured ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=94 so i'm up at foxwoods working on some law school stuff, playing poker, and just generally not sleeping enough for spring break.  beats a week in cancun... right?  right? well anyway, i thought this would be a good time to share a hand i played last night. some background - well... i've ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=98 Hey everyone! So for one, I figured out that I'm going to be able to go to the WSOP for about two weeks this summer, since the people at my summer job are super awesome and chill and are letting me take off two weeks right in the middle of the ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=95 Hey all, So I wanted to give you all a heads up on some more sweet news for Australia.  The Executive Producers, Founders, and couple other coaches from Deuces Cracked are heading down to Melbourne to play the events and have fun in the sun.  But we're also running the Aussie ... http://fslexcducktales.com/?p=92