I see your Condo and raise you a House

I usually don't gawk, but I mean seriously WTF. This just blows me away.

***** Hand History for Game 10064702728 *****
$100000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 15, 10:05:04 ET 2009
Table GusHeaven (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 2: LarsLuzak ( $203407.00 USD )
Seat 4: Phil Ivey ( $318940.00 USD )
Phil Ivey posts small blind [$500.00 USD].
LarsLuzak posts big blind [$1000.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Phil Ivey raises [$2500.00 USD]
LarsLuzak raises [$9500.00 USD]
Phil Ivey raises [$28500.00 USD]
LarsLuzak calls [$21000.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 9s, 3s ]
LarsLuzak checks
Phil Ivey bets [$44000.00 USD]
LarsLuzak raises [$171907.00 USD]
Phil Ivey calls [$127907.00 USD]
LarsLuzak shows [Ks, Ts ]
Phil Ivey shows [Ah, Ac ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
Phil Ivey wins $406813.50 USD from main pot

Booking A Loss

I am competitive person, I hate to loose. Without a doubt competition has been a driving force in my life for as long as I can remember. I know for a fact that is why I am driven by poker, It gives me a way to compete again. It is this fact that gets me into trouble again and again. I can't book a loss because it tears me up to think that someone just beat me. I am trying to curb this with better bankroll management, more focus, ect.. I have thought I might focus the competition from the other players to a bankroll competition, however I am afraid that If my progression doesn't meet my expectations that my cause me to push to hard? Anyone else have any ideas from your own personal experiences?

Self Imposed Exile ends at Midnight

My 60 day self imposed exile ends at midnight tonight. I am focus and ready to start 09 out on a good run. However, I wont play until Sat evening in order to balance my family commitments. I do plan on playing in several of Al's BBT 4 events and of course I have to play the M00K and try to knock out members of Team IT and Team Schaubs. Till then keep loving life and living the dream.

Royalty

I think this is my 5th Royal

Don't tell me I can't chat, that will only piss me off.

First off congrats to LJ and Iggy for winning their ME tickets in the big give online ME lottery
give away. Also congrats to F-Train for a deep run in the most sadistic of all poker games Razz. Go by and show some luv to them.

So as you may know I am on a forced voluntary hiatus from online poker to heal up some homelife wounds and see if I can stop my donkey like tendencies of being a full fledged BRA member . So last week after I showed my Jack Ace I withdrew all my funds, I mean it had nothing but zeros, 883 FPP points and couple hundred Iron Man Medals baby. I am going cold turkey.

So last night around 8:00 I was checking email and I decided I would check an see how many bloggers were still left in the FTP 150 give away, (BTW FTP nice scheduling on fathers day) I notice that Alan and LJ are the only 2 names I recognized. So I go to LJs table and type in Good Luck LJ take it down and get the most rude slap in the face I could have ever received.


"You must have real money balance or at least a token in order to chat during this tournament"

So I can't even rail, that is just too much for me to handle. This forced self induced hiatus is to much, but I refuse to give in, but I really want to rail. I remember how calming it was to me last year when the bloggers railed in force during my ME seat win. What to do ------ hmmmmmmm

I know I will enter a 800 FPP winner take all $26 token SNG. A mere 30 minutes later my account has $0.00 real dollars, 83 FPPs, 1 $26 token and I got to rail LJ from about 1000 remaining to right before she took it down.

Now what the hell am I going to do with that token?

Interesting Hands

Oh Poker why doth thou burn me

Since this is a poker blog I guess I need to post a poker story. I have recently been on a losing snide. I have exhausted my online roll by refusing to use good roll management and therefore it is decimated. I have also lost the zeal for the game and therefore I would take more risks than were needed because I wasn't or wouldn't devote the needed attention to the game.

That being said I decided to go to my home game last night for the first time in few weeks. Our game is a $50 buy in, 3500 in chips, 20 min blinds. Last night the attendance was down only 16 runners. We usually are up around 20. When I hit the final table I was the short stack with only about 1800 chips and the blinds where 100/200/25. I was able to chip up to 2700 by stealing the blinds. First big break came at 7 handed 200/400/25 when I attempted a steal from UTG with Ad10d, the only problem with the move was I pot committed myself to any push, which is exactly what happened from the UTG + 3, I called praying I was in race or at the very least not dominated. Pusher flipped up KK and was saw a flop that was the best I could I hope for XdXdX, now I had 12 outs twice and the river brought the much needed diamond and I now had a few chips to play with. From there I just played decent poker. When we got to the money bubble at 5 hand I made a sheer odds only call for about 1/5 of stack with 2d5d in the BB when the SB pushed and I was getting 4:1. I turned a lowly pair of ducks and that was enough to bust the money bubble. I caught a very lucky break 3 handed when I set the BB all in with my A5, he called with A8. I had twice as many chips as he did so I wasn't playing for my life. The door card was the 5 and just like that I was heads up with a 7:1 chip lead. Heads up last about 4 hands, my Q7 on KJ7 flop was enough to take down $375 first place prize.

New Toy = New Stats

I finally downloaded and registered TourneyManager so I will post my stats from April forward. I only have april forward on this machine since I bought a new laptop and didnt think to copy them over before the 30 day window expired.

I only included the ITM finishes

$22 SNGs
I need to quit taking shots in the $110

$33 SNGS
$55 SNGS

They Wonder Why I drink.....................

Poker Sux! I don't know how else to put it. It was a classic not my night situation. I lost 3 buyins last night when I caught 2 guys over playing AK and both times they rivered me with me as a 80-90% favorite.

I have been so busy at work. My overlord boss up and quit 2 weeks ago (Yea!) so I have been stressed out a little. Last week my divisional VP told me I should review our Red Corporate Policy and Procedures Manual in the storage room.

He went on and on about since I may be stepping up to an AD position that I needed to understand all of the intricacies of dealing with unruly suppliers, pain in the ass employees, ect... I informed that I would try and read manual as soon as possible.

Earlier this week I totally uncorked on one of my vendors. The vendor forgot to ship me a truckload of 40,000 lbs of raw material and I had about 400 people standing around on the clock with nothing to do.

Needless to say this "screw up" was costing my company Thousands and Thousands of Dollars in lost productivity. I knew that my ass was cooked and that very soon I would be getting a call from the VP.

Not 30 seconds later I got the call. First words out of the VPs mouth was "you haven't read the manual yet, have you?" I confessed that I hadn't and apologized and then braced myself for the proverbial "ass chewing" that was coming next.

In a very stern voice I was told to go to the storage room get the manual and the proceed directly to his office so we could review the procedures manual and discuss how to handle this situation.

We spent the rest of the afternoon reviewing the manual but I can't remember why, nor do I care.

Without further hesitation I present a grab bag of

Gotta Luv Strange named Bavarian Towns and their public transportation

Wonder what the High School Mascot is? The Trojans?

Sometimes only the Lucky Ones win (Be sure to look at where the boat is from, very fitting)

Sometimes you feel like a nutt .....
Speaking of Nuts.... I love NASCAR dont you

Why I hate KK

This is a Series of 10 Blogs.
Here are the titles of future installments.

Why I really really hate AK
Why I hate small/mid pocket pairs
Why I hate Big Pocket Pairs
Why I hate suited connectors
Why I hate open ended strait draws
Why I hate flops that give you 4 to the nut flush
Why I hate hitting sets with 3 of the same suit on the flop
Why I hate AA

(and the last installment will be the one that pulls everything together)

WHY I HATE POKER

FullTiltPoker Game #3084915567:
Table Quetonia (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:36:43 ET - 2007/07/28
Seat 1: nonthinking ($202)
Seat 3: oossuuu754 ($98.65)
Seat 4: PKowalski ($306.95)
Seat 5: dammage81 ($196)
nonthinking posts the small blind of $1
oossuuu754 posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to oossuuu754 [Kh Kc]
PKowalski folds
dammage81 raises to $7
nonthinking calls $6
oossuuu754 raises to $28
dammage81 has 15 seconds left to act
dammage81 calls $21
nonthinking folds
*** FLOP ***
[4c 5h 4s]
oossuuu754 bets $70.65, and is all in
dammage81 calls $70.65
oossuuu754 shows [Kh Kc]
dammage81 shows [9h 9c]
*** TURN ***
[4c 5h 4s] [9d]
*** RIVER ***
[4c 5h 4s 9d] [7c]
oossuuu754 shows two pair, Kings and Fours
dammage81 shows a full house, Nines full of Fours
dammage81 wins the pot ($202.30) with a full house, Nines full of Fours
Shmily413 sits down
oossuuu754 is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $204.30 Rake $2
Board: [4c 5h 4s 9d 7c]

FullTiltPoker Game #2978901035:
Table Sphinx (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:02:27 ET - 2007/07/17
Seat 1: Fastf7 ($39.15)
Seat 2: HeySupBro ($445.90)
Seat 3: rbrizzy ($72.70)
Seat 4: IAmClutch ($262.20)
Seat 5: thelilbearbeeny ($323.70)
Seat 6: oossuuu754 ($143)
IAmClutch posts the small blind of $1
thelilbearbeeny posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to oossuuu754 [Kc Kd]
oossuuu754 raises to $5
Fastf7 folds
HeySupBro folds
rbrizzy folds
IAmClutch folds
thelilbearbeeny raises to $16
oossuuu754 has 15 seconds left to act
oossuuu754 calls $11
*** FLOP ***
[4c Qs 4h]
thelilbearbeeny has 15 seconds left to act
thelilbearbeeny bets $24
oossuuu754 has 15 seconds left to act
oossuuu754 raises to $55
thelilbearbeeny has 15 seconds left to act
thelilbearbeeny calls $31
*** TURN ***
[4c Qs 4h] [7d]
thelilbearbeeny checks
oossuuu754 bets $72, and is all in
thelilbearbeeny calls $72
oossuuu754 shows [Kc Kd]
thelilbearbeeny shows [As Ah]
*** RIVER ***
[4c Qs 4h 7d] [Qh]
oossuuu754 shows two pair, Kings and Queens
thelilbearbeeny shows two pair, Aces and Queens
thelilbearbeeny wins the pot ($284) with two pair, Aces and Queens
oossuuu754 is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $287 Rake $3
Board: [4c Qs 4h 7d Qh]


FullTiltPoker Game #3076306107: The Fifty-Fifty (22320379),
Table 13 - 10/20 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:36:02 ET - 2007/07/27
Seat 1: onejiggaman (930)
Seat 2: oossuuu754 (2,290)
Seat 3: dpottz (1,970)
Seat 4: rarecf (2,160)
Seat 5: JesseWJames (2,010)
Seat 6: logicwins (2,710)
Seat 7: socialrunner (1,920)
Seat 8: doleman19 (1,980), is sitting out
Seat 9: Giocatore82 (2,010)
doleman19 posts the small blind of 10
Giocatore82 posts the big blind of 20
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to oossuuu754 [Kh Kc]o
nejiggaman folds
oossuuu754 raises to 60
dpottz folds
rarecf folds
JesseWJames folds
logicwins has 15 seconds left to act
logicwins folds
socialrunner folds
doleman19 folds
Giocatore82 calls 40
*** FLOP ***
[2c 8d 9s]
Giocatore82 checks
oossuuu754 has 15 seconds left to act
oossuuu754 bets 100
Giocatore82 raises to 200
oossuuu754 calls 100
*** TURN ***
[2c 8d 9s] [9c]
Giocatore82 bets 340
oossuuu754 calls 340
*** RIVER ***
[2c 8d 9s 9c] [8h]
Giocatore82 bets 1,210
oossuuu754 has 15 seconds left to act
oossuuu754 has requested TIME
oossuuu754 folds
Uncalled bet of 1,210 returned to Giocatore82
Giocatore82 mucks
Giocatore82 wins the pot (1,210)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,210 Rake 0
Board: [2c 8d 9s 9c 8h]

Why you should fold KK on a River Bet

He called bets all the way to the river, then fired 1/3 pot bet when the J hit the river. I knew I was beat with his AJ but the inner donkey in me paid him off. This is why I continue to be a donater in big MTT.

Speaking of Donkeys, yours truly manage a to Bucklox one last night at $2-$4 table.

Full Tilt Poker Game #2960155723: Table Simmons (6 max) - $2/$4 - No Limit
Hold'em - 23:25:13 ET - 2007/07/15
Seat 1: oossuuu754 ($625.50)
Seat 2: ColmsUM ($511)
Seat 3: Last Stance ($398)
Seat 4: Dauphin ($349.20)
Seat 5: hauptizzle ($515.50)
oossuuu754 posts the big blind of $4
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to oossuuu754 [Ts Js]
ColmsUM folds
Last Stance folds
Dauphin raises to $12
hauptizzle folds
oossuuu754 calls $8 (Gotta See a Flop, after all they are SOOTED)
*** FLOP *** [4h Qs Jd]
Eight9 sits down
oossuuu754 checks
Eight9 adds $90
Dauphin bets $22
oossuuu754 calls $22 (This to me looks like a CBet, I called with the intention of Check Raising the Turn if a another Blank hits, I range him from 77-AK, but was leaning to AK)
*** TURN *** [4h Qs Jd] [2d]
oossuuu754 checks
Dauphin bets $44
oossuuu754 raises to $200
Dauphin calls $156 (Uh OH, I am done)
*** RIVER *** [4h Qs Jd 2d] [Jc] (Rather be lucky than Good!!!!)
oossuuu754 bets $391.50, and is all in
Dauphin calls $115.20, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $276.30 returned to oossuuu754
*** SHOW DOWN ***
oossuuu754 shows [Ts Js] three of a kind, Jacks
Dauphin mucks
oossuuu754 wins the pot ($695.40) with three of a kind, Jacks
Dauphin is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $698.40 Rake $3
Board: [4h Qs Jd 2d Jc]
Seat 1: oossuuu754 (big blind) showed [Ts Js] and won ($695.40) with three
of a kind, Jacks
Seat 2: ColmsUM didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Last Stance didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Dauphin mucked [Kd Qh] - two pair, Queens and Jacks

Seat 5: hauptizzle (button) didn't bet (folded)

So mark a big pot up to Donkey Blogger, HEE HAW!!

I might play in the MATH tonight, I need to win token.

Cash Craziness / Live Win

TGIF!

I finally booked a winning day on the virtual felt for the first time in a long time. I decided that I needed change it up, so I fired up some cash tables. Now I will to be the first to tell you that I am a cash donk! It is part of my game that I just hadn't worked on. About a month ago I bought PokerTracker and PokerAce HUD (yes I know welcome to the 20th century) with the goal of trying to improve my cash stats and plug some leaks.

Yesterday the programs paid for themselves. I had a few hours to kill before my weekly home game started and I didn't want to run the option of getting stuck to big so I bellied up to a big ol .50/1 NL 6 Max table on FullTilt (Bonus Code OSU). Now I dont fish for juicy tables but I do look at the chip stacks and players per flop as a guage. I dont and wont set down at table with a bunch of short buyers, my ideal is several people at the hovering around the max buyin and maybe one or two big stacks. The table I chose had had the following stacks at it: 2 people $100, 1 person that had $150, one at about $75, and one big boy at a little over $300. I had stats on most of the guys especially daddy warstacks whom pokertracker had auto rated as a "Tight Aggressive Aggressive" so I want to be leary of him, so I thought.

Within 10 minutes I had double through Mr. TAA when he pushed JJ into my AA preflop. So far so good, I continued to play for about 30 minutes with my chips hovering around $200 when the following hand came up. I was in the BB with 3d3c, Mr TAA is on the button and makes it $4 to go, the SB calls (no stats on him but he had about $60 in chips) so I call for implied set odds. Flop is Ah3hX and I know that Mr. Tight has more than like just paired his Big Ace (thanks to my Poker tracker and PokerAce Hud, I see that he will play aggressive after the flop), SB checks, I check to give Mr TAA a chance to define his hand. Just like clockwork he fires out $12 and then the SB goes allin over the top for about $55 more. WTF is going here, no way am I folding a set here. I cant worry about set over set, so I put him on two pair or a flush draw but I then wonder if I can get Mr. TAA to come along for the ride. So I min raise the to $90 leaving myself about $90 and to my surprise and joy mr TAA pushes all in and I insta call. The cards are revealed and SB was indeed on the flush draw and MR TAA risked his whole wad on TPTK with AK. All I have to do is dodge a heart to win the huge main pot but at worst I should win a very big side pot that will issure some profit on the hand. The turn is 4c and the river is a heart, the 4 of hearts. So I rake a pot of over $575 and decide to take the money and run to finish up almost 5 buyins in about 45 minutes.

Later that night I am playing in my weekly home game. We do a $50 freezeout with $1/2 after the tourney. We normally have about 20 people show up for the tourney, with highs of 30 people lows of 14. last night I think we had 19. I was card rack early, I caught KK twice, AA and AK all with in the first 5 levels, so I hit the final table as the predominant big stack. We played down to about 6 people when this interesting hand came up. I was in the BB (800/400/50) with 9s7s and UTG + 1 open pushes AI for 3300, MP calls off his last 3000 and then I decide with 3:1 odds I have to call off about 25% of stack. Both players flip up KQ off (yes I play with donks) and I am golden on the flop when it comes 6810. As Fuel would say flopped straights are gold. When we got down to 3 handed it became push monkey time, won a huge pot with A7 vs KJ and had about 70% of the chips, we decided on a chop gave me 85% of first place money.

Have a safe weekend.

One Hand

In every poker tournament there is usually "one hand" that defines your fate, good or bad. The good hand can be getting someone to commit themselves to TPTK when you flopped a set, or when you totally misread your opponent but go runner, runner for the suckout. If it is the bad hand it doesn't have to be the bustout hand and it doesn't have to necessarily be a bad beat, just a hand that eventually lead to your demise.

Yesterday in the FTP 100 WSOP ME, I got off to a good start. I flopped a set within the first 5 hands and played it to perfection with a hyper aggressive player who bet enough to pot commit himself but somehow managed to laydown an allin check raise by me on the turn with the pot laying him 4:1.

I also flopped a boat but couldn't get the same hypo to bite, and got several mid to big pairs. The first hour was pretty good and I was in the top 25% of chip leaders.

Sometime during the second hour my table broke and I was moved to a different table with one of the chipleaders. The average chipstack was may 4.5K this person had almost 30K and was on my left three people away. This guy was limp/calling every hand, calling any bets on the flop and betting enough to put the person all in on the turn. So needless to say I was not getting to see many flops but was still in top 50% of chips. It was about 15 minutes till the 2nd break when the "one hand" that defined my tournament played out. I was in the SB with a 4h6h and $6K in chips, the Monster Stack decided that he would not play in MP and 4 people limped I called and we saw a flop five handed. The flop was 4s8d6d, now I have bottom 2 and I am first to act. With all the possible draws there is no need to get cute, I over bet the pot $1200 into $1000 pot and get smooth called in 2 places. The turn was the ugliest card I could have ever seen.

I am not going to go broke with 2 pair when both a flush draw and straight draw just completed. I have no choice but to check fold and watch 1/3 of my chips get shipped. I didn't tilt necessarily, but I just somehow felt that this was an omen. The next hand I pick up an AJ on the button, I make a 3x raise not realizing "Monster Stack" had limped UTG, he calls and we see XXX flop rainbow and Monster checks, what do you do? Now I have $4.5K which is avg, there is $4K in the pot, If I check I am dead even if an ace comes because I he could have anything, so I decided that I was going to throw out a Cbet bluff that looked like I wanted a call and would pot commit me of 2.5K. I felt like I had to gain information and this was the only way I could. Monster stack goes into the tank and lets his timer run down and then even uses his time extension for a little more theatrics before re raising me just enough to set me in. Now his performance convinced me I was drawing dead to either a set or AA and I laid my hand down getting 4:1, maybe it was a bad lay down but I still had a couple chips. I busted out shortly later when my KQ ran into AK on K high board.

I don't know how I feel about my performance, I am disappointed but not defeated. See ya at the MATH tonight.

O'fer

O'fer 3 this week in the BBT events. I must admit Bayne_S is putting on clinic, I am not conceding yet, but man his performance has been impressive. As for me, Mookie and MATH I was pleased with the way I played but the cards didn't go my way. That's Poker!

As for my performance in the Riverchasers, lets just say it is damn near impossible to play in a live tournament and online at the same but I tried last night. Busto in fifteen minutes in the Rivershasers, took 2nd out of 30 in the live $50 tourney.

Wish me luck I am playing in FullTilt's (Bonus Code OSU) 100 seat ME Give Away this weekend since I qualified for it almost 3 months ago and hopefully can snag my 2nd seat. Lord know my BR could use the $12k.

Have a great weekend and to all the dads out there enjoy your day but mostly enjoy your kids.

Would you do it again the same way if you could do it over?

This is the question I ask it to myself when I bust out of a MTT. If I am more inclined to answer yes then I feel I have succeeded. Did I get my money in with the best hand, did I give myself the best chance to win the tourney? Ect.. If the answer is no time to re-evaluate and find the leaks. Why did I push when he had no fold equity, why did I not pick up the warning signs from his betting patterns, ect..?

After last night's MATH I pondered this question over and over, but before we get to my conclusion lets set up the problem. We had 36 runners and my table was you typical Blonkament Table with LAGs to super LAGs. During the first 13 hands I picked up KK early but no action so my stack was just were I started 3K.

_________________________________

Yesterday I skipped lunch and decided to read a little more of the Full Tilt Tournament Guide, after all it is one of my goals this week. I read the interesting chapter that Quiet Lion wrote about online MTTs and one of the key points he drove home was that in the early stages of MTTs are all about implied odds. In other words the first few levels (specifically the first 3 levels in a deepstack)you can make some questionable calls if you feel that implied odds justify them. Hmmm very interesting stuff.

After Lunch I perused Hoy's archive of the Anatomy of the slowplay 1-3, Hoy states his goal when he slowplays a monster is to get every chip period, and he went into great lengths to explains the various methods how he gets his opponent to commit all their chips to a play where he is the favorite. Hmmm very interesting stuff.
_________________________________

Hand number 14 started off very interesting, I am in the BB with KdJd and UTG makes it 70 to go, now believe it or not more time than not I will let this hand go, especially in a HU situation with the original UTG raiser. Most time if I am going to play KJ suited I would like a multiway pot. But I read something early today about implied odds... hmmmm....... I think I might just call and see a flop.

Well the flop slapped me right in the face Kc8dJd, top pair decent kicker, 9 outs to the second nut flush and backdoor straight. This a monster, but how can I get all of his chips ....... hmmm... I think I read something earlier today about slowplaying a monster ...... I think I will check and see how much he likes his hand. So cefredmd fires out a little over 1/2 pot, standard Cbet and then re-raise him 2.5 his bet just to keep him interested, when ...................... wham he shoves all in. So should I be happy or mad, happy that I got what I wanted which is an opportunity to stack him or mad that I am probably behind to either AA, KK or AK. My action was made as soon as I saw the flop but lets look at the odds of the 3 hands before we get to the results, for simplicity we will assume that my opponent doesn't have a diamond.

Against AA, I am favorite 51%

Against AK I am 47.27%
And against KK I am 30.91%
So all in all I am not that bad shape and pots odds compel me to call my last $2K for a $6K even if against a set. So we get in and I am somewhat please to see that I am against AhAd but I am disappointed to see he has the Ad

Here a the odds now that I know I am against the AhAd - 45.96%

And here is the board offering no help!


And the Gigli goes to:

Now to answer the question would I do again? Yes, because of few circumstances. It is BBT tourney and I wanted and needed to win the tourney not just slide into the points in order to have a shot at Bayne_s on the leaderboard. I need to book a win or decent showing because of the motivational factor I need going into the WSOP. I actually felt really good about this decision because I made the plan and stuck with it even thought it didn't have the desired outcome.

Weekend Update for 6-9-07/Goals for the Week

Played a little this weekend with no good results. Here are the lowlights.

In $15K Silver Iron Man Freeroll I lost to TPTK, we he open shoved 7x the pot on Jd8c6d flop with 2 diamonds, I had Ad8d and called with what I thought was 14 outs twice but realized I only had 11 outs. Hindsight bad call by me but I stuck with my read and went with it.

Won a MTT satellite into the $50 Super for the $400K. I really like this tourney since it offers a 1 in 4 shot into the $400K. Well no excuses, I blew it. I finished about 100 short of the payday when I probably could have folded my way into. I didn't play for the prize and I should know better then to try to play big stack poker in these push monkey type tourneys. So no $400K for me.

As for my Goals for Last week let recap

• Apologize to Waffles for the Riverchasers Tirade -- CHECK
• Make the Points in Both BBT Tournaments this Week -- CHECK
• Final Table on the BBT Tourney -- CLOSE BUT NOT REALLY SEE MATH RECAP
• Win a BBT Tourney -- HAHA
• Finish Reading FullTilt Tournament Guide -- DIDN'T GET TO READ MUCH THIS WEEK SO 1/2 WAY THERE
• Walk with the Family in the Evenings -- SOME BUT NOT ENOUGH

I give myself about a C on the goals report card. I will try to finish up the uncompleted goals and add a few more.

• Make the Points in all three BBT Tournaments this Week
• Final Table a BBT Tourney
• Win a BBT Tourney
• Finish Reading FullTilt Tournament Guide
• Walk with the Family in the Evening
• Win 2nd Seat on FullTilt in the 100 WSOP ME Giveaway on Sunday

In the words of Curley -- "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seeds"

See ya tonight at the MATH

M00K recap 6-7-07

I cant say much except made the points and made the best of the hands that I was dealt. With only 1500 starting chips you have to start out early with a bang and that is something I didn't do. I lost over half my chips early when my top pair and pot sized bet (25% of my stack) was called by a gutterball draw that made a bigger top pair on the river.

I was able to chip back up to about average stack when I was dealt my 1st pair rockets and was able to get a shorter stack to commit to his pair after the flop.

So at the end of the first break I was just about par, but unlike the trends of past BBT events the bustouts were happening quickly which meant there were some very big stacks starting to appear around me. Shortly into hour number 2 we hit the points bubble. Now since Bayne_S had busted out early I knew that I was going to gain some ground on the BBT but if I wanted to make the most ground up I was going to need to go really deep so I put on my GAMBOOLin hat. First gamboolin hand was this hand. My 88 against a limped 1010.

That took a big chunk of my chips but shortly after that I picked up the Hammer but I chickened out and oh how Fulltilt mocked my decision.

For my lack of Hammer Faith I was only awarded the blinds with my rockets deux.

With the blinds climbing to 100/200/25, A9 sooted was good enough to make my stand with my last 1300 chips against Elf's allin push preflop, her range was huge and I honestly liked my called given that fact. She was able to hit her set on the turn after I jumped the lead with an Ace in the door and then just for the added humiliation Fulltilt (Bonus Code OSU) slapped with two pair on the river. GG me out in 20th.

The Dookie was just wild. First of all it was a $25 freeroll and secondly it wasn't a Turbo. Jeez it took for ever (1:00 AM) because there were several Ghost playing that just wouldn't die. Schaubs was ghost that survived 2 or 3 allins in the blinds, then Schaubs signed into FTP and got to play one hand before he was eliminated. Lucko even made the final table as Ghost. I had a big chipstack at the final table so did Bayne_s but to be honest with you with on 3 places getting paid and only $12.50 going to the winner it was hard to get excited about although it was fun because the railbirds were going crazy and RadioDank was shooting out some crazy chiat. I double up a couple people with AQ vs AK and Bayne_s deliver the death blow with AK vs my Ax 5 handed.

Overall I cant complain about my performance this week in the BBT, I made the points in both events had the chips to make a final table on the MATH but donkey barfed them away. This weekend I am playing in the IronMan Silver Freeroll were 1/4 the field will get a payday and I want to play a few of the MTTs. Hopefully I can satellite into the 400K and make a score.

Good luck to all the Bloggers in Vegas this weekend I will hoist a shot facing westward your way. Be safe this weekend and my you have many success on the felt.

Ode To Waffles / Thats Just Wrong Wednesday

Since I didn't play any poker last night I thought it would be a great opportunity to take a shot at everyones favorite target. I present to you an ode to Waffles.

Oh an I think I know why Wafles computer crapped out on him. I think it is time for an upgrade.
Speaking of Upgrades I present to you this weeks That is Just Wrong.

Worlds Worst Album Covers. Enjoy!

Don't forget about the M00K tonight see ya then.