I'll be making the video preview for live tournaments during February and March in a few days, so if you know of an interesting tournament series in your area, please let me know about it. Anything with multiple tournaments with buy-ins larger than $200 or any single event $1,000 or larger would be of interest.

Speaking of tournaments, my pal Bryan Mileski runs the Mid States Poker Tour, and they are kicking a***, with a ton of $1,100 events this year and huge guarantees. Check them out at msptpoker.com. 

While I am working on some other projects, there are so many good tournaments in my area lately that I may be able to make a living primarily as a live tournament player and Black Friday and online poker can both bite me! 

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Piling up interviews for the Under The Gun podcast this week, with the next three episodes already covered. We interviewed Kristin from Poker Refugees this week and learned about the process a potential client goes through to move to another country to play online poker. It was great stuff. I also did an interview with top limit holdem pro Palamino, a monster player and a great interview! We'll also be interviewing out favorite live tournamnet director this week, and Brian Mileski, CEO of the quickly growing Mid States Poker Tour drops by. Great stuff and all good interviews! 

We still wish we had more reader mail and feedback on the podcast. Let us know what you think, give us some ideas, and ask any questions you like by emailing us at utgpodcast@gmail.com.

As for me, I am in the winter doldrums. Running bad, probably not playing my best, and annoyed at the lack of good games in Minnesota. Went drinking with JohnnyGstacks and a few other pros a couple nights ago and had a good time. I definitely needed to get out and get away from poker. Some guys at the bar kept inviting us to their home game and were shocked when we told them we weren't interested. We play poker for a living. Woudl you invite a plumber over to work on some pipes and be shocked when he didn't jump at the chance to do even more plumbing!

The good news is that there is a $500 or a $1k nearby almost every weekend between now and the end of February, so if I can just win a couple of those I should be in good shape. The bad news? Tax time is coming. Ugh. Time to drag out all those receipts and make another promise to myself that I'll better track of my expenses this year.  

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We have a little bit of good news for the holiday, the Department of Justice has decided that the Wire Act of 1961 doesn't apply to online poker. We already knew that, and the idea that it would apply is ridiculous, but the DoJ does what they want regardless of the law all too frequently, and it's good news that they appear to be backing away from their attacks on online poker. Now that allof the real competition has been swept out of the way, and the government is changing it's position, we may see things moving forward in the coming months. 

I have also had a great tournament run over the last two weeks in small tournaments here in Minnesota, with a chop and a 2nd place in consecutive weeks in the Wednesday $235. Cash games have been good too.  

I recorded the videos for my series on heads up sit and go tournaments today, and they should be up on the site in January. I definitely ran into some interesting spots playing smaller buy-in heads up sngs, and was ableto show that there is still a little money to be made playing these even for US players.

I hope everyone enjoyed my pal JohnnyGStacks on the podcast, nice guy and a great player. If you have suggestions or questions about the podcast, don't forget to email us at utgpodcast@gmail.com. 

Potential guests over the next month or two include noted psychologist and poker author Dr. Alan Schoonmaker, limit holdem specialist Kristin 'Palamino' Lawson, and a representative from the Poker Player's Alliance. Should be some fun shows. 

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Yeah, I missed a Friday immediately after I announced that I was going to blog every Friday. I'll try to be better about making it happen every week. 

In PXF news, I have more of my Poker Math video series coming as well as a monthly tournament update to help you plan for any tournaments in your area or anything you that might be worth traveling to...

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In our interview with Mathew 'mjw006' Wakeman, I mistakenly identified him as a PokerStars Pro. I knew that Mathew was talking to stars or workingwith them in some capacity, but I forgot to ask him during the interview what his actual status was, and I assumed he was one of their pros...

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I've decided Friday will be blog day for me from now on. I may have occasional other updates, but a blog every Friday to recap the week will help insure that I post every week. Starting next week, I will recap my week, the upcoming podcasts and any other PXF stuff I've done as well as whatever I'm thinking about for the upcoming week...

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We still have a few tournaments left in our series here at Canterbury Park, but I'm headed to the Horseshoe in Hammond Indiana as soon as our $1,100 Main event is done this weekend. The series has been a bust for me so far, losing every race possible, but I think I'm still playing well, so I can't turn down a chance to play some more big tournaments when they are only about seven hours from home...

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In the fall in Minnesota, we have changing leaves, a sense of impending doom as winter looms on the horizon, and tournamnet season. We just finished up with the Midwest Poker Classic at Running Aces, and now we're in the middle of the Fall Poker Classic at Canterbury Park...

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We need some feedback from our subscribers, and we aren't getting much in the way of email for the podcast, so I thought this would be a fun way to try and get you involved! Please feel free to answer these in the comments here on the blog, or email us at utgpodcast@gmail...

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We're working on this week's podcast already, and just booked Adam Small, cofounder of pocketfives.com as an interview for this week. Also started recording my video for the month last night, going very well so far, and I think the new style will make a lot of people happy...

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 The Merge network seems to be running into more and more trouble over the last few months. There are now unconfirmed reports that the DoJ is about to go after them (something I predicted months ago) and they are having problems with cashouts...

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Last night chat on tells went really well, and we were able to build on the work we did last week on reading an opponent's appearance. Alex Wice dropped by and showed us some video from pokerstars.tv where he had given away a big tell in a hand with Shaun Deeb...

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I only have two hands in my inbox for tonight's chat. If you get them to me an hour before the start of the chat, earlier is better, I can have them in presentation/quiz form and we can all go over them in the chat. We get started at 7 pm EST and run for two hours...

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In working with students over the last few years, I put together an article which I sent all them that I simply called The Tournament Rules. I never published it anywhere because I thought it was very valuable information and it was too long for a standard magazine article...

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Here's the list of resources from my limit holdem seminar last night. 

Holdem Excellence and More Holdem Excellence by Lou Krieger are excellent books for getting started in loose low-limit holdem games.  

Winning Low-Limit Holdem by Lee Jones - Less necessary than the Kriger books, but great stuff if you are looking for more books on small fixed-limit games...

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Well, I finally whipped up a spreadsheet and got a schedule worked out for the World series. The seminars that I'm doing for Pro Poker Seminars put a little cramp in things, but I still have a bunch of tournaments to play and a few days off to grind cash games...

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Wenesday's seminar was recorded, so it will be available in the training center sometime soon. Until then, here are the links I recommended in the seminar, including some great resources for heads up SNG play.

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Wednesday's seminar on the transition to live games was great, and we're definitely working on more ways to help those of you who want to play more live poker...

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As a PPA rep I thought I would post a little something to let everybody know what's going on, at least as far as we know. Unfrotunately that isn't very much, this was definitely a surprise attack. 

The domains at FullTiltpoker.com and PokerStars...

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The heads up spreadsheet that a lot of subs have been asking about since my seminar on heads up sit and gos is now available for download. Get it by going to foxpoker.com, clicking on downloads and other info and scrolling to the link at the bottom of the page...

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I have signed a deal with the Poker Pros Network again, and this time they are on the Cake network so I'm really excited about the potential of the network. We have a special chat for PPN players only, and there is almost always a pro in the chat to offer advice...

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My apologies for the slow replies to PMs this week, I've been really busy in Vegas. This week might not be much better since I have tournaments, students, and an interview / book signing in town as well. I did finish third in the main event at the Caesars Winter Classic for $24k, so the trip is a nice success and I still have another ten tournaments to play...

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I'm headed to Seattle tomorrow to start group lessons with a small group (three so far). If you are in the area and interested in attending this week, PM me on the forums or email me at pokerfox.net @ gmail.com and I'll getyou more info. These lesson sare $250 per day or $600 for all three days...

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I just booked a trip to Seattle in January to do some live coaching with students there. We'll be primarily focused on no-limit and spread-limit cash games, though I imagine there will be some tournament education as well. There are some excellent 5-200 spread games in Seattle, and we'll be focused on how to beat those games as well as heading out to play them in the evenings...

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A few projects rolling along -

Remember that there are live seminars happening all the time here on PXF, including seminars from me on Monday and Wednesday evening. You can see the whole schedule at Read

If you aren't tired of hearing my voice from all the seminars here on PXF, you can head over to Rounder's Radio this week and download the podcast of my appearance on Lou Krieger's radio show. Get it at

http://traffic.libsyn.com/roundersradio/Keep_Flopping_Aces__11-18-10...

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A number of people have asked about reserving a seat in the poker camp, so we've added an option for those of you who want to reserve a seat now but don't have the entire price of attendance right now. You can reserve a seat with a $100 deposit now at

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The heads up spreadsheet from last week's seminar is up on my site now. You can download it at http://www.foxpoker.com/transfer/HeadsUp.xls

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We don't have a site up yet for signups, but we have solidified a date for a live poker camp in Las Vegas. Dates will be Friday through Sunday the 11th, 12th and 13th of March. We'll start with dinner Friday evening and then two days of intense study...

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I am the featured guest on the PocketFives podcast this week. If you can't get enough of me with the weekly podcast here on PXF, now you can hear another 20 minutes (mostly on the book) on P5's. They do a great job with the podcast, you should really check it out every week...

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I am finally holding books in my hand and we'll be shipping them out starting tomorrow to everyone who preordered. I spent the last two hours signing all the preorders! Any books ordered this week will be shipped out priority mail at no extra charge because that's how we're shipping all the preorders as we process them...

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While I haven't spent enough time with the software to be comfortable with it, I am really impressed with a new piece of software that I think will be a game changed for cash game players (and maybe some tournament players too). Note Caddy allows you to create sets of rules and the software will create notes on your opponents based on those rules...

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I just finished DUCY?, the new book from Al Schoonmaker and David Sklansky and I have to highly recommend it for anyone interested in critical thinking. This is not a poker strategy book from Sklansky, nor is it a Psychology book as Schoonmaker has written in the past...

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This week's Wednesday Seminar had was great. Total attendance was over one hundred people, and the seminar went very well. We came up with long term study plans for about fifteen people and I think everyone learned a little something. 

We have a new schedule for the Chat Sessions which keeps the Wednesday session right where it was this week at 7 p...

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I'm back home (finally) and running seminars on a regular basis again.

The weekly seminar will be back on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. EST, starting with a short lecture which will become a podcast, followed by Q&A and general discussion about the week's topic...

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My book on no-limit cash games is finally ready to go. It's geared toward low and mid-limit cash games, both live and online and I think it's going to be very well received. It's more about learning how to think instead of memorizing and learning what to think...

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No more seminars until July 8th because I'll be out of town. If you are in Vegas shoot me a PM on PXF on the 27th, I'm putting together an informal meet up on my one scheduled day off. I would love to see a bunch of PXF'ers show up. 11 WSoP events planned, at least one bracelet expected...

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Here's why you don't slow play a big pair when the blinds are big