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Pancake draft: cube draft for two players
Magic: the Gathering has been one of my favourite games ever since I learned to play it in 1994. When I was in highschool, I played a lot with local friends. However, when I went to university, our play group … Continue reading
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Tagged cube, cube draft, cube draft for two, draft for two, for two, magic, mtg, pancake, pancake cube draft, pancake draft, the gathering, two, two people, two player
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Diablo 3: practical melee Wizard guide for buying budget gear
After reading Maxiym’s Entree level Melee Wizard guide, I decided that my previous spec and gear needed a small modification. I wanted to replace Spectral Blades by Energy Twister, but suspected I needed more +AP on Crit gear for that. … Continue reading
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Tagged AH, auction house, budget, budget gear, diablo, diablo 3, gear, guide, melee, melee wizard
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Diablo 3: getting bored of your wizard?
Are you bored of your Wizard? Are you frustrated with dying to not having enough room to kite? Are you stuck in Act 1 Inferno? Are you afraid that you need many tens of millions to get decent gear? I … Continue reading
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Tagged act 1, act 2, bored, bored of wizard, bored of your wizard, critical mass, diablo 3, diablo 3 bored, inferno, kiting, melee wizard, wizard
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AJIP 6 – $0.02 / $0.05 blinds cash game
It’s been ages since I’ve last posted about poker. That’s mainly because I haven’t been playing it much. I’m still interested though, and still want to learn this difficult game, and last weekend I played a couple of hands on … Continue reading
The many faces of Day[9]
Somewhere in 1999, one of my friends recommended that I try playing StarCraft. It was my first RTS game, and I loved it. I played it with friends and online, made new friends through it, and enjoyed it thoroughly (including the … Continue reading
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Tagged day9, day9 daily, funday monday, funny, funny faces, protoss, screenshot, starcraft, starcraft 2, terran, zerg
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AJIP 5: Two hands from a cash game
This will be a shorter blog than usual. Maybe that will lead to some more feedback than the walls of text I usually produce 😉 Last night, more $0.02/$0.05 cash game with $12.50 max buy-in at PokerStars. A friend, who … Continue reading
Posted in A Journey Into Poker
Tagged a journey into poker, ajip, cash game, hold'em, poker, pokerstars
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AJIP 4: $12.50 buy-in cash game at PokerStars
The titles of my blog entries were getting a bit long, so I’ve shortened “A Journey Into Poker” into “AJIP”. I wonder how long it will take before googling for “AJIP” has my blog on the first page 🙂 Last … Continue reading
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Tagged a journey into poker, ajip, cash game, online poker, poker, pokerstars
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AJIP 3: some useful basic concepts
Some people have told me that they don’t know enough about poker to be able to follow my “Journey into poker” articles. So, today, I’ll write an article aimed at people who haven’t played poker at all, or have played … Continue reading
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Tagged a journey into poker, ajip, hold'em, online poker, poker
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AJIP 2: play money tournaments
Playing for fake money (or Play Money, as they call it on PokerStars) is strange. Very strange. If there’s nothing valuable at stake, people gamble and bluff much more (I’m sure there must be scientific studies that prove this theory, … Continue reading
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Tagged a journey into poker, ajip, hold'em, online poker, play money, poker, pokerstars, sit & go, tournament
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A journey into poker
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine said to me: “Hey Joost, I think you would be really good at playing poker online!” At that time, the only exposure to poker I had were a couple of home … Continue reading
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Tagged a journey into poker, ajip, hold'em, online poker, poker
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