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Hello everyone! SCOOP 2012 has arrived! If you’re not familiar with SCOOP, it’s an online tournament series exclusive on PokerStars where they each event has a low, medium, and high buy-in. I’ve compiled my list of events (mainly NL and FL holdem) for you guys to see! I’ll be playing the majority of the events on this list unless I change my mind on some or depending on my mood. It might be tough playing every single one of these events given some of them start early but I’ll give it my best. There are 2 events which I’m not sure I’ll be playing yet which are events 34-H-Limit Holdem 6max ($5200) and 37-H-NL High roller HU. These events I’ll decide as the time comes closer if I’m in good condition to play them.

Be sure to join the “SCOOP 2012 Fan Club” Home game room! You can join with the club id: 634789, and invitation code: scoop2012

I’ll be in and out of that club to chat and there will be other team pros joining the conversation too. Definitely check it out and maybe there will be some promotions in there too! More details at:

Overall, SCOOP will be nice round of tournaments especially since it’s before the WSOP that’s coming up in June so let’s see if my tournament game has improved. Hopefully, you guys join me at the SCOOP events whether it’s low, medium, and/or high! Even better if we both make the final table. Good luck SCOOPing everyone!

Hi there everyone! Hopefully most of you have seen my short video ‘I AM NANONOKO’ and loved it! The mastermind behind it was Ryan Firpo and due to such positive reviews of the video PokerStars has gotten more videos released!

The latest Team Online short video is featuring Tyler ‘frosty012′ Frost. He actually lives here in Vancouver, BC, Canada just like myself! I definitely recommend watching the video for nice insight to this guys life. I met him personally at the PCA and he’s a great well balanced guy. He really does believe the time spent away from the table is just as important as the time spent at the tables. On that note, I believe it’s a very good point that recreational time is just as important to keep your spirits up & give you something to go to when you need a break. Also it’s good to have balance so that you aren’t so absorbed into poker that the downswings and such hurt more. Overall, give the video a watch! I think it’s a great reminder to work hard but have a balanced life.

If you want to follow his blog you can check it out at: www.frosty012.com

Let me know how you like the videos!

Hello everyone! The Micro Millions is here! Basically it’s the micro version of all of the big tournament series out there! Cool thing is that the buy-ins are ridiculously low and you can win huge prizes with them. Definitely going to be a lot of fun with huge fields at such a low price! There’s one special event that’s coming up tomorrow Sunday March 18, event 34: $5.50 NL holdem knockout turbo. This event will have an extra number of team pros playing it, myself included and we’ll all have a bounty on our heads of $50! That’s 10 times the buy-in just for busting one of us which is huge. I recommend you guys check out the Micro Millions if you get the chance and I’ll be playing some of these events as well. Who knows maybe I’ll even record some. =)

If you want more details about the Micro Millions check out: Micro Millions

Randy “nanonoko” Lew

Hey everyone! You guys are probably use to me making video blogs as of lately but that doesn’t mean I can’t mix it up! So the newest tournament series around the corner on PokerStars is the ‘World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP)!’ The WBCOOP begins soon on February 23rd & ends on March 4th with over $50k in SCOOP tickets. Plus there’s lots of extra prizes such as:

$5,000 CASH for the Best WBCOOP 2012 Blogger
$1,000 CASH for the Best WBCOOP 2012 Live Tweeter (use hashtag #wbcoop)
and $11 in T-Money for busting any of the members of Team Online in these tournaments! Myself included!

They’re also running a leaderboard where 1st place is going to get a WBCOOP trophy, tournament package worth up to $7,000 in value, SCOOP medium Main event ticket, and a special chipset.

If you get 2nd in the leaderboard, you’ll get the SCOOP medium Main event ticket and the chipset. 3rd will get a Step 4 ticket and chipset.

This is truly one of the best freerolls ever in my opinion. I say this because the prizes they are giving away is quite amazing and you don’t even have to spend any money to enter! Pretty cool that players of all skill levels can compete in this too.

If you want to be a part of WBCOOP 2012 and win free stuff and try and knock me out of some tournaments to win some free prizes then all you got to do is tell PokerStars “what you would do if you won the $5,000 cash prize as the best WBCOOP 2012 blogger” by making either a ’60-second video blog’ or a ’500-word (minimum) text blog’. Also, don’t forget to share it with your friends so they have a shot at winning too. When you submit your entry at http://pokerstars.com/wbcoop you’ll get 10 tickets to play in any of the 30 events. If you cash in any of these events, you’ll get a ticket to play the main event.

Personally, I love blogging. It’s a great way to connect with other people especially with those that share the same hobbies as yourself. Whenever I post blogs especially about poker hands, it actually helps develop my game as well. You start analyzing hands even more and you start to learn things you didn’t realize. Plus it’s great to get people to share ideas about the game and even better when we get some interaction going that might help one another. In my opinion, you guys should definitely try it out some time since it’s always great to express yourself and hey it might improve your game too.

If you’re gunning for that $5,000 cash prize WBCOOP 2012 Best blogger award. Be creative and have fun with it! If you’ve watched any of my videos lately, maybe it’d help you get creative too. Now that I think about it, I wonder what I’d do if I won the $5,000 cash prize? I’d probably spend it on video blogging equipment so I can make some better quality fun videos for you guys. Well hey now that I think about it, I’ll probably do that anyway!

Hurry and submit your submissions ASAP as the deadline is February 21st at 5pm ET!
Now go get blogging and live twittering it up! #wbcoop

Submit blog entry at: http://pokerstars.com/wbcoop

Hey everyone! I’m going to be playing at the final table of the PCA $25k high roller event! I’m the shortest stack but I did win Macau w/ this short stack so anything is possible!

You can watch a delayed LIVE stream starting at 13:40 ET on Saturday January 14th at:

pokerstars.tv

You can also get live updates over at either:

PokerStars Blog

or

PokerNews Live Updates

Besides making it to day 2 of the PCA Main Event with 16,200 chips, I’ll be attempting to set a Guinness World Record in the presence of an official Guinness certified judge at the PCA, today.

The record I’m trying to set is the most hands played in an 8 hour period while showing a profit. This is going to be a lot of fun so come and show your support! If you’re at the PCA, I’ll be in the main tournament area on the right corner as you walk in the main door. If you aren’t at the PCA, you can follow the action online on PokerStars to see the action live! Also, you can go to www.nanonoko.com to see a live updating stats on the record attempt.
It’ll display the number of hands played, number of current tables, the net amount won, and the start & end time.

There’s also a special promotion running for this! If you play 100 hands with me during the World Record Attempt you’ll gain an entry into an exclusive $5,000 freeroll on Sunday, January 15th. You will most likely find me at the .25/.50 cent tables or you could also find me by using the search feature in the PokerStars client. So come play with me if you want to be a part of this World Record and gain a chance at a cool freeroll too!

I hope you guys show your support! I’d like to say the following disclaimer right before, if you chat to me at the tables, I probably won’t respond! Doesn’t mean I don’t like you though! So remember to follow the action either on PokerStars or at www.nanonoko.com

Don’t forget about the PCA Scavenger hunt if you’re here! That starts on Monday, January 9th 00:00 ET, where you have to find the members of Team Online wandering around the resort! Find me, and I’ll hope punch the card for you. More details at: PCA Scavenger Hunt

Lastly on January 11th, I’ll be doing a Q&A session at the PCA for 1 hour. It’s in a room on the left on your way to the tournament area. I’ll tweet more details when I get more information.

Hello everyone! The other day I went over the the 2+2 Pokercast studio in Vancouver as their featured guest on their latest episode! You can either play it in browser or download it on iTunes. Anyways, check it out guys and hopefully you guys like it!

Link: 2+2 Pokercast Interview Episode 202

*If you want to skip to my segment it starts at about 1hr 4min.

So if you’ve been following my facebook or twitter you’ll know that I went to EPT Loutraki (Greece) and that I’m currently in Macau for the APPT! I made day 2 and you can see how many chips I have in the picture below! Can you figure out how many chips it is? Wish me luck going into day 2!

Pokernews live reporting would probably be the best place for updates since I don’t have internet on my phone in Macau.

Pokernews Live Updates – APPT Macau