Results and News

Thursday I played in a holdem tournament and a omaha tournament at the bar. I had my pocket jacks cracked on the two-outter river by my friend Kimme who had pocket nines. Then I came in 4th in the omaha tournament which paid the top 3 spots. Ugh!

Last night I played in two tournaments at the same time. Both were private freerolls. Both tournaments had between 100 and 200 players. The first one only paid the top 5 spots. The second paid the top 20.

I was building a nice chip stack in the first one, but was card dead in the second, folding almost every hand. I eventually got knocked out of the second on a bad play by me, where I called a raise, then called an allin reraise which was called before me. I had TT, a very stupid call by me. A short stack after me even called. The first 2 allins had KK and AA, the short stack had KJ. AA took it down and I finished in 35th.

I played solid poker in the first tournament. We were down to 6 players and on the bubble when this hand happened. The short stack was small blind and didn't have enough to call the full big blind. The big stack limped as did I with JJ. I was assuming that the small blind would call with anything and we would check it down. But... the small blind folded. I guess his thinking was that the big stack might knock me out and move him into the money. He was almost right. The flop brought 8 high, and the big stack bet 1/2 my stack. Knowing that the small stack was going to be anted out soon, I did not understand why he would bet, let alone so much. I thought if I took a stand, he would realize he could not steal this pot and might change his mind. I called, the turn came another rag, and he bet 98% of my stack. I was furious. If he somehow flopped two pair, I would be knocked out and not win anything, so I folded my jacks, even though I thought I was ahead. I fought tooth and nail, and came in 3rd.

In the news, Fossilman had his Poker Stars account hacked. Some schmuck figured out Raymer's password and started to donk off chips to his account. A player watching thought the play was suspicious and notified PS. They froze both accounts. Greg confirmed that it was not him playing, and his money is getting returned. That is one way to Bust A Fool.

Mookie and the Texaswheel Buy-in

I played in two tournaments last night. First, I played in the Texaswheel Buy-in on VegasPoker247. For some reason, they did not charge anything, so it was a freeroll. This resulted in only the top 5 places paying instead of the advertised 18 places. With about 100 players in this thing, it was a challenge to make the money. I was doing really well throughout the whole tournament until we got to the final table. Then I went card dead and my steal attempts failed. I was slowly falling from top 3 in chips to bottom 2 in chips. Then the clouds parted, the light shone through, I was dealt pocket rockets. I got all my money in was ready to be second in chips, when the clouds moved back in, a jack came on the river, rain and sleet pounded from above, as my opponent's pocket jacks beat my pocket aces. Out in 9th with no money.


While this tournament was going on, I finally played in my second Mookie. I traded chips back and forth until I got pocket tens. A flop of KKx looked pretty good against my single opponent, but it was not. His big slick thumped me and I was out in 30th or some bad result like that (out of 38).

Tonight is my live tournament at the local bar to try to win another qualifier into the monthly cash prize tournament. If I am doing poorly, I may dump my stack to get into the omaha tournament that they also run. My omaha game is hot and my holdem is not.

For all you soccer fans out there, I will leave you with this great photo.
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Tuesday's Results

I played in two online tournaments at the same time last night. One was the Riverchasers HORSE tournament with 224 players. I played well, except there was one player who I could not beat. He was musselmang, and he was extremely lucky. He would get a raising hand every time. At first I thought he was stealing or bullying, but after people started calling him to the river, I saw he was playing it correctly. He ended knocking me out in 43rd place, out of the money. AlCantHang was still in it when I got busted.

The other tournament I played was the Texaswheel $1 buyin with rebuys. I finished in 3rd place and in the money. I did not have to rebuy, so it was a decent night.

Tonight there are 3 freerolls I want to play and the Mookie. I doubt I can play in all of them, but we will see. Not sure if I can bust that many fools at once.

Couldn't Get More Poker, Even If I Injected It

Last week was poker week. I played every day, mostly live. This also meant that I drank every night, since most of my poker was at bars. This is often a bad thing, but it turned out to be good and educational. I find that I play PLO much better when I drink than when I don't. Not the same with holdem, but that might just be because I was mixing holdem and omaha. My body does not like ity when I mix alcohol, and my game does not like it when I mix poker.

Saturday I played Big Deuce for the first time. I did not do too well. I dropped $50 in about 4 or 5 rounds. That is not too good considering I won about $0 in one round.

Sunday I lost a 180-person Omaha tourney. Damn, I forgot to drink. I started a single table satellite to next month's tourney, and was doing really bad as I got the nut flush on the river only to be beat by a boat. I started drinking about half way through the tournament, and strangely, my stack started growing. There was one lady at the table who was super aggressive. She was playing everything and often raised the pot preflop and post flop. She was knocking people out left and right and built up a huge stack. When we got down to heads up, she had a 5-1 chip lead over me. In two hands I knocked her down to practically nothing and made it three in a row to win the satellite.

Feeling good about myself, I called a girl I knew in the area and we got together, had a few drinks, and made out in her car in the parking lot like we were in high school.

This week will be another poker week, but this time it will mostly be online. I have 1 or 2 private tournaments set up each day except for Friday. Thursday I will play in the live game at the bar as they are giving away a bunch of qualifiers for the monthly cash tournament for $10,000, in which I only have one. The more qualifiers you win, the more chips you start with.

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Poker, Violence, and the oh-so-close Non-Victory

Last night I went to a local bar and played in a poker tournament they were having through the amateur poker series. The first tournament of the night was NL holdem and about 40 people showed up. With only 3 tables, it was looking to be a long night.

Toward the end of the first hour of play, I finally got hand, a pair of black jacks. Under the gun, I raised 4x the BB to $400. Everyone folded to the BB, who called. The flop brought a JK3 with two hearts. The BB threw in three $100 chips. I threw in two $100 chips along with a $1000 chip. I said nothing. He told me that I had to say 'raise' if I wanted to raise. I told him that I did not have to say 'raise' in this situation, only if I was tossing in a single overchip. He proceeded to argue with me. At first I held my ground, but after asking the dealer, who was very quiet, I decided to let it go, but this guy did not. I told him I have been playing this game for 20 years in Vegas and no one plays like this. He started getting very angry and asked me to settle this outside. At this point I asked the dealer to remove the player. She finally called over to the dealer at the next table and asked him if I had to say 'raise' when tossing in multiple chips. This dealer knew his stuff and backed me. My dealer was new, and was friends with the irate man. The guy finally folded, I took the pot, and we went on break.

On break, a dealer I knew came over and he overheard me talking to my dealer about the situation. It turns out he was also friends with the irate man, but he asked me what happened and proceeded to find the guy and give him a 10-minute penalty. It was nice to see that even though he was friends with the guy, he knew that to keep their business out of trouble, he had to do the right thing. While the guy was serving his penalty, other players at my table told me that the guy was wrong for acting the way he did.

I went card dead for the rest of the holdem tournament and busted out, out of the money, but in time to enter the Omaha tournament starting up.

The Omaha tournament was good. Many of the players did not know how to play. The guy to my right kept misreading his hand, but in a bad way. He kept thinking he lost while I had to point out that he won. Five hands in a row this happened, except for the fifth hand, in which he could read that he had quad-aces by himself. I managed to make the final four, when my flopped trip-jacks got busted on the turn by trip-aces. The guy to my right went on to win the tournament.

I am looking forward to playing again on Thursday. This time I hope to not have any threats against me, and win one of the two tournaments. Check back on Friday for my results and any interesting stories that always seem to find me when I play poker.

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