Big Pocket Pairs, Limit Hold ‘Em
A little while back I went up to a local card room for a tournament. I got there plenty early and had some time to kill so I decided to play some limit hold ‘em to pass the time. A little side-note to that, Minnesota doesn’t allow no limit, thus the game that I [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway #5, Happy Halloween!
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. For the fifth giveaway, we are [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway #4, Win it before you can buy it addition!
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. For the fourth giveaway, we are [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway #3
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. For the third giveaway, it will [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway Winners
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. Below is a listing of each [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway #2
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. For the second giveaway, it will [...]
October Birthday Bash Giveaway #1
Welcome to birthday month at Showdown Poker Gear! October is the birth month of co-owners Joel and Erik. And that means birthday presents. But not for them, for you! We here at Showdown Poker Gear will be giving away five separate items all throughout the month of October. For the first giveaway, it will [...]
Feeling gut-shot
I’m not talking about hitting a gut-shot, as in an inside straight draw. I am talking about the feeling of completely getting run over, getting blind-sided, a sense of horror and of what the hell just happened. That was me on Friday night. Let me preface this story by reminding you all that I am [...]
Facebook integration with Showdown Poker Gear
Good afternoon everyone! I am quite pleased to announce that Showdown Poker Gear has integrated their comments sections with Facebook. In the past there was a generic commenting system that worked ok, but was largely unimpressive. Now, all you need to do to comment on any blog posting at Showdown Poker Gear is to be [...]
I finally made it up to the RRPL, gallery included!
On July 9th I finally decided to make the nearly 4 hour trek up north to play in my first River Rat Poker League (RRPL) tournament. But Erik, why travel 4 hours to play in a home-game poker tournament? Well, I’ll tell you. RRPL’ers, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here: the RRPL [...]
