Ok, it's never to early to start talking about the California State Poker Championships at the Commerce Casino.  You might recall that the CSPC main event was the one in which EdmondDantes made his awkward run toward the final table only to pull up lame two spots short.

In any event, this year's CSPC will be held from Sep 2-21 and features buy-ins from $120 up to $1580.  It looks like the Commerce has reduced the buy-ins (this year's ME buy-in is $1580 vs. $2590 last year) and they've added a nifty little $120 buy-in deepstack event smack in the middle of the series.  More poker for less money?  Are you kidding me...we're in!

Click here for the tournament schedule.

More updates from the Aussie Millions, PCA, the Bike, life...

A_Junglen surveys the room damage and betting lines before the Main Event...Good Times in Australia. *NEW*

shaundeeb checks in from the Aussie Millions.

Bond18 posts a Book Review:  Kill Everyone, by Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib and Kim Lee.

Adanthar is sick as a 3:1 dog...Feeling like death. *NEW*

SirWatts gets in some drunk kickball...Day 1A I guess? but busts out early in the Aussie ME...Sigh...*NEW*

BadgerPro is still Busto at the PCA at the Atlantis.

Doylestown snapped his tournament skid...Thank you, shaundeeb. *NEW*

nath doesn't have a Wikipedia page...a humbling moment. *NEW*

WTF?  ckingusc Finally won SOMETHING. *NEW*

ianisakson posts his First Blog - Upcoming PCA.

As does rendall11...First Post.

Read and comment on these blogs or register to add your own today!  It's free!

I was glancing over my intended schedule of upcoming live poker recently. For a while the rumor was the APPT was going to be starting up again in Macau in late March, though currently the consensus seems it’s more likely to happen in late April. After finding this out I realized it may line up very nicely for some of the other live poker I want to do, and end up creating a somewhat direct line of high stakes poker from Melbourne to Las Vegas.

Read Bond18's complete first post here...Around the World in 90 days

Sick of entering tournaments, grinding away and getting nowhere?  We know the feeling.  Fortunately, Bond18 has some insights for you in his definitive series on tournament play.  Do yourself a favor.  Take a break and read the posts.  You might just start making the money!

Part 12:  LP Opening Ranges

Oh, and check back for updates.  He's not through with your game yet!

Mr_Taterhead:  Hellooooooooooooo!!

Typically, you're your own worst enemy.

Dan Harrington held:	Howard Goldfarb held:	The Board came:

In 1995, Dan Harrington was sitting with 9d, 8d. Howard Goldfarb had Ah, 7c. Goldfarb raised pre-flop to $100,000 and Harrington called.  The flop came 8c, 2c, 6d. Goldfarb decided to bluff by moving all-in after Harrington checked with top pair.  Harrington called immediately as if he knew that Goldfarb moved in with nothing. The turn and river offered no help to Goldfarb and Harrington won the title and the $1,000,000 prize money.

I'm happy to report that we held our WSOP satellite tournament at Club One today, and it drew enough entrants where we didn't have to cough up too much extra dough to satisfy the seat guarantee that I agreed to months ago in a bourbon-fueled burst of confidence.

I was bracing myself for the worst since I've been running bad lately. For an owner, "running bad" is defined as paying out back-to-back bad beat jackpots and dealing with an HVAC system that, like many folks in the region, doesn't want to work when it's hot out. Fortunately, through a last minute blitz of fliers, posters and begging, we pulled just enough entrants to cover the guarantee...

Read Edmond's entire Trip Report here...Club One hosts a WSOP satellite.