Monday Madness and Best of Music contest/survey

It's NLHE tonight for Monday Madness - 8:30 pm central start time. Open to everyone - password is: CPL

And, don't forget that Round 1 of the 2009 Best of Music Survey and Contest runs until only 11:45 pm on 12/02. Anyone can take the survey and help decide who the top ten will be for 2009. And, if you have a Full Tilt account you'll be entered into a drawing for a $40 prize pool that we're giving away. We've had several entries, but relatively few people have (or are willing to tell us their screen name) Full Tilt accounts. Get in on the action. You can enter again during Round 2 (the Finals) - so get in that extra entry now.

Click here to take the survey (see full groupings, etc. in our 11/20/09 posting below).

BREAKING NEWS: UIGEA Postpones Rollout 6 Months

The CPL has just learned that on Friday (11/27/09) the Treasury and Federal Reserve announced that it would postpone implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) for 6 months based on the petition filed by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). This is a big win for poker and may be the first step in allowing legislation to be passed to legalize Online Poker in the USA.


Join the CPL in this fight and become a member today of the Poker Players Alliance.


Read more here on Cardplayer.com.

Happy Thanksgiving and more

The CPL would like to wish all our readers and podcast listeners (btw - the new podcast with the last half of our interview with Phil Mackey is up - see the player to the left) a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Also, don't forget our Best of Music 2009 survey and contest - help us select this year's best songs and you might win part of our $40 prize pool (yes, we're giving away $40).  See the 11/19 post for full info and:


!! Click Here to take the survey and enter the contest!!

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CPL Best of Music 2009 - Survey and Contest Round 1

We are live with Round 1 of our Best of Music 2009 contest.

!!Click Here to take the survey and enter the contest!!


We're GIVING AWAY $40 as part of this 'Best of"  promo (the prize pool will be FullTilt cash transfers to the winners - so you'll need an account there to qualify for the prize portion).  Okay, here's how it works.

In the survey (btw - Round 1 will stay up until 11:45 pm on Dec. 3 2, 2009 - edit on 11/22 - we meant the 2nd) you'll see 10 groups of three songs each.  You'll rank the songs #1, #2 and #3 for each group.  There will be two "flight groupings" - rank the songs, we'll then mix them up in a second grouping and you do it again.  Additionally, you'll have a chance to select the song you think will be the ultimate overall #1 selection (for the Top 10 Podcast).

Anyone can rank songs but there's one more hitch to winning any prize money (in addition to needing a FullTilt account) - you'll need to listen to the Best of Show.  We'll only be announcing the winners there and setting the deadline for contacting us back telling us you heard your name on the show and requesting your winings (we'll give winners a few days to listen/contact us).  We'll be giving away 2 - $10 prizes for participating and a $20 prize from the pool of those who successfully picked the eventual winning song.

All songs can be found at GarageBand .  Here are the songs in their Round 1 Groupings. Song Name (Band Name).  Follow the links below to listen to the songs on GarageBand!

Flight #1
Group1 - Construct (Little Tin Box) , Killer Sea (Stealing Seconds), One From Two (Burgess Norgaard)
Group 2 - Flicker (Morrisson), New Day (Live Native), I'm OK (Uber Cool Kung Fu)
Group 3 - Ex Girlfriends (Suzanne), Even Though It's Wrong (Mushmouth), Don't You Need Me (Justin Bell and the Lazy Susan Band
Group 4 - Sink With Me (Dime Theory), Loser (Quarter Roy), Missing (Justin Bell & the Lazy Susan Band)
Group 5 - The Driving Seat (Leslie Rich), Wanna Say (Loft), Winning War (8 Switch)
Group 6 - Prelude (Kip Blackshire), Upside Spiral Down (One Great Day), Haircut (Gold Standard)
Group 7 - These Last Days (Thinland), For the Taking (Casey Petersen Band), Good Enough (8 Year Weight)
Group 8 - Machine (Uber Cool Kung Fu), Freeter (Professor Sketchy), All Right Psycho All Right (Toolan McDonald)
Group 9 - Eyeliner (Parachutes Fail), Still Standing (Morrison), I Wish - Thoughts of Home (Left Behind Acoustic)
Group 10 - Have a Little Hope (Burgess Norgaard), Can't Make you Love Me (1/2 Act), Life Like This (Crista McCrae)


Flight #2 - we've adjusted the match-ups for this round (rank them one more time):
Group1 - Have a Little Hope (Burgess Norgaard), One From Two (Burgess Norgaard), I Wish - Thoughts of Home (Left Behind Acoustic)
Group 2 - Machine (Uber Cool Kung Fu),  I'm OK (Uber Cool Kung Fu), Can't Make you Love Me (1/2 Act)
Group 3 - Construct (Little Tin Box) , Winning War (8 Switch), Haircut (Gold Standard)
Group 4 - All Right Psycho All Right (Toolan McDonald), Eyeliner (Parachutes Fail),  The Driving Seat (Leslie Rich)
Group 5 - Flicker (Morrisson), Still Standing (Morrison), These Last Days (Thinland)
Group 6 - Don't You Need Me (Justin Bell and the Lazy Susan Band, Missing (Justin Bell & the Lazy Susan Band), Freeter (Professor Sketchy)
Group 7 - Upside Spiral Down (One Great Day), Wanna Say (Loft), Life Like This (Crista McRae)
Group 8 - New Day (Live Native), Good Enough (8 Year Weight), Sink With Me (Dime Theory)
Group 9 - Even Though It's Wrong (Mushmouth), Loser (Quarter Roy), Prelude (Kip Blackshire), 
Group 10 - Killer Sea (Stealing Seconds), For the Taking (Casey Petersen Band), Ex Girlfriends (Suzanne)
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Suck Out - A Horse with no Name Recognition - Set to Continue

Okay, it's been a little while, but we're about ready to get back to it.  We only promised that we wouldn't take as long as the Tom "durrr" Dwan Challenge and we're still on track to beat that.


As a refresher for our newer readers (as readership is up considerably since our last Suck out post two months ago).    Suck Out! is the CPL's own Docu-Series on staking. Part One can be found here (Forward/Intro), part two here (Staking), part three here (Backer's Perspective), the Horse's Perspective (part IV) here and the Match 1 results (part V) here. The results for Match 2 are here.  


So, why the delay??  Mostly just life stuff - the wife insisted on repainting the basement.  Sure, it's a nice Viking's purple now, but I'd rather not have had to do it.  Then there's all the winterizing activities you need to do here in Minnesota.  

I was still playing some poker, but mostly OH8 Limit cash games.  I even played an $11 tourney or two, but, I didn't have the right "vibe" for risking someone else's money on it - so those were on "my dime."  Probably a good thing as I didn't cash in any of them.  We're back now and well rested and match 3 will be covered in our next podcast  (not the one we finished last night but the one coming out around Thanksgiving).   


You've got a little time to catch back up on the series as were set to continue next week.


Karaoke Phil

Mark Wittig Scores First Victory During Week 9!

Mark Wittig showed the CPL what he was capable of during Week 9 by being the last member standing and taking down the top spot during Week 9!  A great week of poker for Wittig as he slowly gained chips throughout the evening...then with 4 players remaining kicked it into high gear!  In heads up play with Wittig was Mike "Unabomber" Bowman who continued his record breaking session by saving himself from a much earlier exit and fought back all the way to heads up play!  In third place was Kelli G, who played a great match and was poised to take first place herself...but the chips left her stack in a hurry.  Still a great finish for Kelli.  Fourth place goes to Malinda "Nemesis" Cardenas, who also had the potential to win the night with 4 players remaining but it seemed that the cards were against her.  In 5th place was Voni "Rookie" Khang.  The Rookie had a great middle round evening and lost her stack just as fast during the late rounds.  In 6th place was NewLife as he returned to the points for the first time since clinching the TOC seat.  Rounding out the CPL points is yours truly Verbal, who had high hopes earlier in the evening just to find his chips dwindle away during the middle rounds.

Thanks to Bill for hosting during Week 9!!

CPL Quote of the Week:

"We have a saying around here...no drinking small warm Coronas!"--Bill "Comeback Kid" Lanoux

CPL Leaderboard-Adjusted

Points Awarded During Week 9