They are still out there

The MATH was disaster, man I really suck at 6 handed games. I just couldn't fight the aggro monkey at my table, finally got pissed enough to make a re raise push with XX and I will be damned if the guy who had re-raised me 5 times before didn't wake up with KK.

So I decided to play so $1/$2 and did I find a honey of table, this table was full of fish. This is was a crazy hand. This guy was pretty new to the table but showed a propensity to bluff in position and was aggro. He made a standard raise to $7, I re-raised to $23, and he the min raised to $55. Now I couldn't see him playing AA/KK that way, I figured if he had the goods he would have re-popped to about $70. His bet seemed weak so I ranged him from 10/10 to AK or complete air so I pushed for $170 more and he insta-called with

but the were sooted!!!

Moose Knuckle

So we have a controversy. Should it be booom, choo choo or roar . I want to submit my vote for moose knuckle . You can use it the following ways.

Seat 1: Hero ($539.60)

Seat 2: Villian 1 ($527.60)

Seat 3: Villian 2 ($432.20)

Seat 4: Villain 3 ($339.50)

Seat 5: Villain 4 ($506.05) SB

Seat 6: Villain 5 ($400) BB

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to Hero [Ac Ad]

Hero raises to $14

Villain 2 calls $14

Villian 3 folds

Villain 4 folds

Villian 5 folds

Villian 1 raises to $60

Hero raises to $196

Villian 2 CALLS $182

Villian 1 raises to $400, and is all in

Hero raises to $539.60, and is all in

Villian 2 CALLS $331.60, and is all in

Hero shows [Ac Ad]

Villian1 shows [Qd Qh]

Villian 2 shows [Kc Ks]

*** FLOP *** [9h 3d 3c] <--- Moooooooooooooosssssssse

*** TURN *** [9h 3d 3c] [4s] <--- knuuuuuuuuuuuuuxxx

*** RIVER *** [9h 3d 3c 4s] [Qc] <--- holy effn moose knuckle

If mama aint happy aint no one happy!

OK so here is the my dilemma, my wife is complaining about to much poker and I am hate to say she is right. In the past it wasn't uncommon for to play every night and all weekend (hell I have qualified several months at the Iron Man level on FTP).

So here is the compromise 2 nights a week online probably Tues (Bodonky because I have some money there)/Wed (M00K) until the after the series qualifiers. If I do get lucky and win a seat the money will have to go to furnish the new house we are building so no Series for me this year.

I would love to play on either Saturday or Sunday but I think for a while I may just have to concede. (except the TOC, I do have a kitchen pass)

So here is my question to any of you that have scaled back or taken a hiatus? Did you game improve, decline or stay the same. I am wondering?

And yes I am henpecked, but she is worth it.

Has anybody seen AL? Just Checking because ......

TOC - Here I come

I took down the Riverchasers tonight for my TOC. Pretty sweet considering how I went out at the M00K final table last night, with my AK vs Lucko's KQ

First off I didn't even take any screenshots until the Final Table. The First Big hand I remember was midway in the 2nd hour. I was dealt AA in the SB and the chip leader made a pot sized bet on the button, I decided to smooth call and hopefully use his aggression against him by check pushing on the flop. I don't usually do this because it invites the BB to come along for ride which he did. The flop came out 10 high and two to a flush but I had now committed myself to going through with plan. Action goes like this, I check BB pushes all in for about 1500 into 2500 pot, Button pushes All In for about 6000, what do you do. I decided to call because I was fairly certain I was ahead of the Button and the side pot would be about 9000. Cards turned over, BB had the flush draw, button had QQ and I scooped the pot when the turn and river blanked. This hand pushed me into the top 3 I basically stayed there until the final table.

Now the Final Table got interesting. This was the first hand that I got involved with I made a standard raise and Loretta8 pushed in over the top which had been his standard play but I called getting 2 to 1 and was not real happy when he flipped AK. This was the only race I think I won all night.

Next interesting hand was shipfaced12 raised in the hijack and I re raised enough to put him all in. He had basically what I thought but I lost as the 60% favorite and he was the first of many that I would double up.

Final Table Hand # 27 me and Shipface tangled again preflop this time it stung a little harder.

The very next hand and the same result for wwonka69

Now this was the turning point for me, I could have tilted but I remained focus and continued to pick my spots. This was just such a spot. I am pretty sure it was folded to me and I made a pot sized raise, pushmonkey72 was the 2nd largest stack compared to me and re raised me about 1/4 of my chips and I called. I was fairly certain that I had the best hand but I wanted to see the texture of the flop before I made my move. I knew when the Ace hit that I would feign weakness with the check and I never thought twice about calling his All In push.

This hand I called shipfaced raise and did backflips when this flop hit

We started heads up I held a 14 to 1 chip lead and proceeded to double VBPro up 3 times in a row with me holding the favorite each time (I had KQ,KQ, A rag) and then he went into push fest. I think he push 6 hands in row and all of sudden I only had a 2:1 lead. It was then that I completely changed my game plan and went into limp fold mode just waiting for my spots. I think this confused him and then he started limping so I pushed him about 3 pots just to rattle him some more. I finally ground him down again to about 20k to my 140K and caught all sorts of flack on Dank Radio for not calling his shove getting 3:1 but I didn't see the need to give him any momentum by me calling All In with any two. Shortly after that I changed gears pushed with a Q7 and doubled him up and caught more flack about why I would call getting 3:1 one but I was more than willing to push, because I wanted to set the trap. We still had a huge amount of play in the stacks and I new eventually I would catch a big hand and he would get caught and here it was

The chips went in pre flop so I was the favorite when the money went in. The flop gave him 13 outs, turn Q took away5 of them thank goodness because he did hit his 5 on the river.

Interesting Hands

That's Just Wrong has been replaced with WTF - NSWF

WARNING THIS IS NSWF!!!

Here are so front runners for a caption contest.

1) Where's the beef?
2) No, it does not taste like any chicken I've ever had.
3) Well maam, you son does not have hoof and mouth disease.
4) According to Bill Clinton, oral sex is not really a sex act.
5) So you think the stupid shit you did when pledging a fraternity was bad?
6) The real reason why California cows are so happy.
7) Why my kids are very particular where they go as foreign exchange students.
8) Didn't they do this in a Chris Farley movie?

Home Game Yum! (I mean Fun)

Last night was our home Game. Our usually lineup is $50 freezout with T3700 and 20 min blinds that start at 25/50. We ususually will have a min 20 plus runners and they bust we start up 1/2 NL game with a max 10 people. Once in a while we will do a$100 freeze and last night was just such occassion. We had a total 17 runners (not uncommon with the higher buyin) and low and behold I won.

Pretty ABC poker except the following suckout hand that propel me into the chip lead for good. With blinds 200/400, the UTG pushes all in for $3900 (now he could have a vairety of hands but I put him on pp because of the nature of his push, also he is much more likely to limp with a monster) folded to button who calls all in for about $1900. I am in the BB with KJo and I tank. I know I am behind but feel that I getting close to 2:1 odds with a chance to knock out 2 of the 7 remaining. I also will still have about $4k left. I call, UTG tables AK (doh misread) Button tables A10 (correct read). So I drawing to J and low behold Js on the Flop and the K on the river and bingo I am dominant chip stack with 5 left. From there I abused the table with one to go until the bubble. It took about an hour to pop the bubble and then only about 20 minuntes to end the whole thing. All in all, ended up netting $800 for the night.

That is just wrong!

In the spirit of the political season I have decided to resurect that Just wrong. Please enjoy this political satire and ask yourself this question? Do we want these leaders to send a this kind of message to al-qaeda

So does this Make me a Pro

Got bored so I thought I would play a $330 Sng. Way above my online roll but I figured it was worth a shot. Extremely tight play, so I was able to steal with ease. I guess nordberg put me on a steal and didnt give much credit. All the chips went in on the flop and this pushed me into the chip lead. I eventually placed 2nd after a push fest heads up that last about 15 mins.

Lesson #517 - how to play top set vs 2nd set

Gotta love it when you get it all in on the flop and realize your opponent has one out. Note to self rather be lucky than good any day.

Have a good weekend.

Close But No Cigar

2 quick updates:

WSOP 1K ME Qualifier - 31/90 - never got anything going. Went out when in the 3 rd hour when cutoff pushed allin (3K), I called with A10 (I had 5.5K) because I read him desparate but the BB pushed and had me covered. I called my 2.5k getting 6 to 1 but knowing I was toast. Sure enough the cutoff had 10-4 and the BB had AQ.

Riverchasers - I sucked out huge against AA and then went on to amass a huge stack (23K) until $mokee showed up at my table. I then proceed to double him up and then double up 4 consective people, each time I got my chips in as dominant favorite and each time nadda. I once again hit a string of cards back to 21K, then back to 15K, then back 21K then back to 15k. On the hand after I busted out of the $1K, I woke up on the Button with KsQs, I popped it $moke min reraised and I called. Flop gave me 2spades and gutshot, I pushed with 12 outs twice (Flush and Gutshot), $moke called with AAs, Q on the turn gave me 2 outs but nada on the river and boom I am done.

I then procede to my local home game and took out my anger on them.

Have a great weekend.

1 in 12 shot, I like my odds!

Well I qualified for the $1K WSOP ME satellite on my first try. Here are a few random pics, with just some random comments

During the first few hours it was pretty much raise or fold for me. I busted the last 2 people before the final table so as you can see I had a comfortable 2nd place in chips.

The chip leader had been uber aggressive post flop. On this hand he smooth called my raise in the cutoff and then lead out on the flop. I think I actually may have been ahead but I chose to wait for a better spot.

The hand below the button raised and I put them on a steal, so I re-raised and he called. The call screamed weakness to me, so I assumed my top pair on the flop was good. I bet enough to commit him and as you can see I was basically drawing dead on the flop. Bad read by me but I still had 20x the blinds.

Here was the hand I decided to go with. Given the uber aggressiveness of the small blind I didn't think twice about getting it all in preflop. He did have a better hand than I gave him credit for but fortunately the Queens held.

The hand below I think I might have played different but my thoughts at the time were this. I have a chance to take someone out for only about 20% of my stack. The guy had just lost the majority of his stack a few hands earlier and could be pushing with complete air, in which the majority of the time I am a 60/40 or even a 80% against a lower pair. As you can see I had to suck out and we were on the bubble.

This was the final hand, I raised and he pushed preflop. I was willing to gamble since I had really big stack. I figured I was racing and with a 40X the blinds even after the call I was willing to take my chances.

Hopefully I can seal the deal tonight and head back to the big show

Back to the Future

Ok I am now Back to The Future. I don't know if anyone still checks here or not, but that doesn't matter. The reason I started this blog was for self growth. Growth in poker, job, ect.. While I definitely grew, I regressed even further. Especially in poker. (We can get in the non poker growth/regressions later)

I achieved goals that I never thought I would, I also made the most basic mistakes that signified how little I had learned.

For me poker is a DEMON,

I feel like I can control it and even master it but it pushes me to brink of obsession.

So I start over again and go back to the future. I have set a goal to go back to Vegas for the big one. I want to play like I was playing when I won (at least play online that way) my seat.

I have already registered for several of the Thursday $1K WSOP satellites, and I plan on playing in some the BBT3 events starting tonight with M00KIE.

Happy Hallo Weird!!!

It is back for Hallow Weird. That is Just Wrong, Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong! Enjoy these oldies but goodies.

By the way pet costumes are just wrong period!