MATH Recap 5-22-07

MATH recap not much to say except I am a HEE HAW! I didnt get many hands the first hour, chipped up nicely during the second hour with some speculative hands that hit the flop hard and allowed me to climb into the top ten with 3 tables left. Then for some reason I decided I needed to play K9 sooted in the BB to TripJax raise on the button. We both started the hand with about $7500. I knew he wasn't strong on all rag flop so I fired the pot (about $750) and he called, the turn was a Q and fired the 3/4 pot($1800) and he waited and waited and called again. Now I figured the Q had helped him and I most likely put on AQ-KQ but if another rag hit the River I was going to fire the third bullet. The river was a J and I knew a jam would be easier for him to call than a 1/2 pot bet that screamed set value bet. So I fired about $2900 into $5600 pot leaving him fold equity him but showing him that I was committed and begging for a Jam from him as I have now pot committed myself. We he made a good call and i was down to about $2700 in chips and lasted a few more orbits.

Looking back on the play I don't really regret it, I wasn't catching many cards and I believe that I played this hand the best I could other than not playing it at all. TripJax made some really tough calls and was rewarded for his reads. I succeeded because I gave myself the best chance to win the pot with cards and situation I was in. Next time it maybe a set that I play the exact same way.

I was able to gain one spot (2nd) on the BBT Leaderboard since Bayne nor Iggy were able to garner any points. (This fact also lead to my decision to play a little looser and go for the win) Next stop of the BBT is the M00K on Wednesday at FullTilt (Bonus Code OSU)

Final note if any of you drive a vehicle like mine you can appreciate this picture.

3rd Sucks, But 2555th Blows!!!!!!

Before I go any further head over to Hoy's and Cmitch's and NewinNov give them three a shout out for their 101st, 215th and 318th placement in the FTOPs ME. Some nice chaa ching going on over there, Hoy would probably still be playing if some tard didn't call his ALL IN re raise with a QJ, jeez, and Cmitch did a daily double with a nice cash in the Stars Million. Way to go guys. As for yours truly, I am overrated, overrated!!!! I chipped up pretty nicely with KK with in the first 30 minutes and was in the top 100 when I pulled a classic HEE HAW move and couldn't get away from AK on A6x flop when it was obvious the guy had flopped a set and that knocked me down to about 1.5K in chips. I hung around for almost 2 hours, clawed scratch and even got back to an above average stack when I violated cardinal sin numero uno, Never take things personal at the table! I had a tard that just was popping my blind every time and I finally said enough with pocket 10s. Now I could have made the same statement with a normal raise but NO not me I must make a statement, and that statement is I SUPER Donk will gladly risk my tournament with pocket 10s, OH by the way your pocket aces are a nice hand sir.

Please head my warning poker is not personal, the cards could care less if a tard is pushing ATC, when you make mistakes you will be sent to rail more times than not. That is the beauty of poker.

Now on to the Big Game hosted by Miami Don. I was not in the right frame of mind to be playing, In fact I was in FBT (full blown tilt) and it showed. However there are some key hands we can look at and hopefully learn from my mistakes.

The first key hand was against Cmitch . I was UTG and make a standard raise with QdQc and get called by Cmitch on the button. Flop J57 rainbow and I lead a 1/2 pot sized bet and get smooth called, at this point I am still liking my hand and put him on J, 98 or Ace big. Turn is 6d, which completes a straight for the 98 and puts 2 diamonds on the board. I fire another 1/2 pot sized bet and again get smooth called, at this point I am only about 50/50 on the hand. The river is an absolute ugly card for my hand, the Ad. I check with the intention of jettisoning the hand if the bet was to big but was pleased to rake the pot when my Ladies held up against his J10

Next key hand was the very next hand. I am in the BB with AQ ScottMc makes a 3x raise and RecessRampage calls on the button, flop comes 9c4sAs, and I check with intention of check raising, ScottMc obliges but RecessRampage smooth calls. Now this should have set off alarm bells, but I am in full blown tilt mode so It didnt and I pop the hell out of the Blonkeys too the tune of $2200, Doh! nice hand RecessRampage , should have known better.



So guess which donkey is dead last with about 41 or the original 49 runners still left. Hee Haw!!

I don't know what it was about that loss, but for some reason I jarred me from my tilt induce hazed and I played LDP (lock down poker). I was card dead but was able to win a few scraps but for the next 80 hands I didn't get above 1400 chips. On hand #105 I was in the BB (80/160) with AdQh and it is folded to IronGirl who makes a 3x raise for me this was a no brainer push and I guess IronGirl felt pot committed and make the call Qd10h.

Somehow I manged to avoid the suckout and voila I am up to 2860, only 140 less than I started with.

A few hands later I lost 1/4 of my stack on a button steal attempt with a Q10 soooted, I had to abandon this hand when the Ace hit the flop and and the SB fired. Back down to 1800 and in the cellar again.

About 10 hands later I raise 3x with pocket 88s and pushed the flop when only one over card hit. Chip count now 3120. Then 11 hands later I got my first and only pair of AA in SB, ScottMc made a push with the Hiltons for all of his 2400 chips and I was more than happy to call and excited when they held.

From this hand to the final table it was ABC poker, I did get cute Iggy on one hand but dammit I was tired of the little dwarf min raising my blind. Oh chit see rule numero uno above. When we got to the final table I was real close if not dead last in chips, but to be honest there were 3 monster stack and about 6 small stacks. Now believe it or not I had not suckout one time the whole tourney until this hand#247. 6 Handed I am UTG (800/1600/200) with 9.6K in chips I looked down at KQ off and push, Chad makes an isolation AllIn push and I immediately type "I need a suckout" as soon as the cards are flipped and I was obliged with Q on the flop and the unnecessary K on the river.


A few hands later I get most of Chad's chips with my JJ

GoatBoy took a horrendous suckout (go read about it) to get us down to three handed. On the very first hand of three handed my to counterparts got it all in and the short stack (and eventual winner) caught runner runner flush to win the hand and pull even.

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, Oh well. We played 3 handed of monkey push poker for almost 30 hands, with me actually taking the chip lead at one point but on hand 315 I found A8 and called and All In push from twoblackaces with pocket 5s and the race was not mine to win and out in 3rd again. Dam one of these days I will win a freakin race when it gets to three handed.

Don't forget about MATH tonight I will be looking to inch up one more spot or two on the BBT LeaderBoard . See ya Then.

A Chip and A Chair!

We have all heard that saying before. Some of you may have even heard the comeback story of "Treetop" Jack Strauss winning the 1982 WSOP with one single $500 chip. Last night was the first time I can say I lived the saying in a MTT format.

I played in a couple different MTTs last night, one of them was the M00K where I was trying to improve my 3rd place standing on the BBT Leaderboard but that was not meant to be. (Rant coming please read on!) The other was the pocketfives.com 10 seat added FTOPs Main Event qualifier. There were 492 runners for this $26 MTT and the top 32 got a seat. Not a bad deal with almost $5K in added money.

I would have to rate my play for this Tourney as B- , I made some questionable pushes (Gambles) early on and I just wasn't in the best mind set to play. Lets take a look at a few Key hands. The first hour not much of note, I was able to chip up nicely with out ever risking many chips. I had some big hands that hit the flop hard so I was well in the top 100 at the first break.

My first big hand came at hand number #98 towards the end of hour number one. The hand played out like this. Now before the hand started I had almost $5k and Mr. Tard had about $4.7k we are both well above the average stack size of $3.5K and are 2 of the bigger stacks at our table. I am in the BB (80/160) with AdQd and MP Tard had been stealin and pushin me around all night. On more than one occasion I had seen him push Ax and small pocket pairs, so when he re-raised to 480 I didn't give him any credit whatsoever, and promptly Re-pop him to 1.6K. Without any hesitation he goes All In, so now there is $6.8K in the pot and it only cost me $3k, I put him on a 77-JJ and rationalize that I am taking a coinflip but definitely getting more than 2 to 1 on money, so I call and CHIT! He flips up QQ, nothing like getting you money in as 3:1 dog, Oh well NI HAND SIR, but wait .....




nothing like your opponent drawing dead after flop and boooyahhh I am numero uno in the tourney with less than 1/2 field remaining

This would be my high water mark for a long long time. From this point I tried to play big stack poker but was met with All In re-raises and or flops that didn't connect. I think I fluctuated to as low $3K at one point to back up to $7K when this hand reared it ugly head. I am in SB With Ah8d blinds are 600/300 75 ante, it is folded to me and I decide to push and make the BB come up with a monster since I had him covered. Well I guess 88 was goot enough to call all of your chips off with.

Just like that I am dead, I have a whopping 710 chips with about 65 people left and only 32 people getting the seats. GG me looks like I donked my way out this tourney, but wait the next hand I get Kd2h and call my last 635 chips to an all in push from UTG. Cards are flipped and I am only 26% to win vs his pocket 10s and somehow I survive with a miraculous suckout to make trip Kings.

Now I have 2861 chips but I am still setting dead last. I waited 5 more hands and found As7h, by now the blinds had gone up to 800/400/100. I got some protection from the cutoff wow pushed allin. Cards are flipped and once again I am 26% to win facing yet another pair of 10s. This time I only made a pair of Aces on the flop.

Now I have a whopping 7,122 chip but this is still about $5K less than the average stack. Two hand later I am in the BB with A3 and I make an all in Reraise to a weak steal attempt by the Button who folded immediately. Booyah I am now at a new high water mark for the tourney at over $10K, 2 hands later my pocket AA pickup the blinds again and now I am at the average chip mark. Maybe just maybe I can squeak back into this thing, but it wouldn't be easy because on hand 194 I am dealt the death hand. Yes many a times has the old dreaded AK been my nemesis, why is this such an attractive hand, why and why do I always seem to get it in the BB when someone else pushes? And why does it loose when the guy who pushed with AQ and catch a Biatch on the flop, why......................................... NI Hand Sir

Oh well I am the cellar dweller again with a mere $3.6k in chip and 25% of those are going in the SB on the very next hand which the powerful 92 off. Somehow I found the resolve to fold for 4 more hands and decided to make my stand in MP with the mighty J7 off and instantly met with a push from the cutoff. Needless to say I am ecstatic when he flips 44 and am slack jawed when I flopped the nut straight. The odds have to 200 to 1 to do this.

7,864 chips and about 10 to go before the bubble breaks. I am still in push monkey mode, but I wait, I fold the next 7 hands including both my blinds to a series of All Ins, but on the button I find 66 push and pickup the now huge blinds of 1000/500/100. Over the next 12 hands I pushed and stole 4 blinds and got myself up to $12K.

From hands 207 to 240 I played hide and push. I would hide from the big stacks and pushed when they folded. Amazingly enough I was able to take 7 of 33 pots uncontested and was now sitting above the average stack with $18.5K. We were at 4 tables and about 4 or 5 away from the bubble and the bigstacks just started an all in fest that lasted until the bubble broke. I didn't play a hand and fold QQ, AK, AQ to all in pushes from the monster stacks. There were 4 or 5 micro stacks on 3 different tables that would be all in on the next blinds. Surprisingly the all survived including one of the most blatant forms of collusion I have ever witnessed when the SB folded to the BB who was allin when it would only cost them $300 to call. $ or 5 hands later I the SB is all in and 3 people call as do I with KK, granted this was an extremely risky move since it left me with just $1.5K in chips but I was determined to do my part in this all out gang up on the SB.

and thank god I did because the SB would have won with his J8.

So there you go my chip and the chair story.

I almost did it in the Mook after my AQ was busted by the eventual winner's lame azz UTG steal attempt with K7 off.

Brutal just brutal this left me with about 200 chips which I parlayed up to $3k but was just went down to this flush over flush.

Oh well, dont forget about these upcoming BBT events

Tournament: Riverchasers Online Tour #10

When: Thursday, May 17th, 21:00pm ET

Game: NLHEBuyin: $10+1

Password: riverchasers

Tournament: Blogger Big Game

When: Sunday, May 20th, 21:30pm ET

Game: NLHEBuyin: $69+6 or token

password: donkey

That is Just Wrong

Wednesday's are usually a slow post day since I usually don't play any MTTs on Tuesday night. So I want to add a little humor and help you kill some time at work, which after all is the only reason anyone really reads these blogs anyways. I would like to start a photo journal on Wednesday which is called "That is Just Wrong" I promise to keep these at a "R" rating since I have kids and there are better places to go to look at BOOBIES IN POKER . I will try to have a centralized theme but sometimes the photos may just be random. I am also not claiming that any of these will be original, in fact several of them will probably be so ancient that you have seen them a hundred times before. With that being said lets get it started with our first look at

Thongs and Shorts gone wrong

Don't forget about the M00KIE tonight and I will probably be defending my Dookie title even if I am not a very good PLO player.

100 Things about me that you wished you never knew

I was tagged by poker4peace for the 7 things, well I had already started on my 100 Random Facts so I will just post them instead and you can pick your favorite 7. Before I get to them I will go ahead tag my five and here they are:

Wippy

Windbreak247

Bayne_S

Pokerwolf

Scots_Chris

1. There were 26 in my Graduating Class in High School.
2. I graduated 5th in my class with a 3.86 (4 girls had 4.0)
3. We played 8 man Football and I was 2nd team all district my Sr. Year
4. When I was in the 8th grade I contracted Spinal Meningitis and spent 3 weeks in the Hospital.
5. My Freshman year in College I was elected State Vice President for the 18,000 members of the Oklahoma's FFA.
6. I exhibited Cattle in High School and once won $25,000 as the Grand Champion at the National Western Livestock Show in Denver Colorado.
7. I acquired my Pilot's Licence in college and have an instrument rating, but haven't flown in over 10 years.
8. As a student pilot I lacerated my eyebrow during a preflight check, it didn't start bleeding immediately so I continued my solo cross country flight and landed a destination about an hour later. When I landed the plane a gentleman at the airport came out to fill up my plane but nearly passed out because I was covered in blood and didn't realize it.
9. I got married my Jr. year in college.
10. I went 3 years straight without a break in college to finish up as quickly as possible.
11. I have a BS and MS in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University.
12. In my adult life I have lived in the following places in order, Stillwater OK, Plainview TX, Ft. Worth TX, Denver CO, Omaha NE, Alex OK and Oklahoma City OK
13. My first wife and I divorced on our 13th year of marriage.
14. My first wife is a quasi-tv star, she is an auctioneer on the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction.
15. I met the love of my life (my current wife) on an online dating service kiss.com
16. We were married (May 8, 2003) in Las Vegas in the back of a Limo at the Little White Wedding Chapel.
17. 30 minutes before we flew out to Vegas to be married, a tornado touchdown 5 miles from the Airport and delayed our flight causing us to almost miss or connection in Phoenix.
18. I have five kids. 2 daughters, 2 step daughters and a son.
19. When I was 17 I witnessed a relative being shot during a fight that I was trying to break up.
20. I know first hand the scares that adultery can have on marriage.
21. I have only had 3 loves in my life, and am glad I found true love this time.
22. On my first date I had after my divorce I got my only tattoo - Pistol Pete the Oklahoma State Cowboy Mascot, the lady I went out with got her navel pierced,
23. My wife got her Master Degree and is a fan of the one college I truly don't like - OU
24. I use to raise and show Siberian Huskies and once took a top5 in a National Show with more than 700 entries.
25. The huge majority of my best friends are females.
26. Chances are that you have eaten a Hamburger that I purchased the meat for. I am a purchasing manager for one the largest hamburger patty makers in the US,
27. I owned my own Pickup Truck Accessory Business for about 2 years.
28. I was a registered Commodity Broker for 5 Years.
29. I moved to Chicago one summer, without knowing a soul and interned on the Chicago Board of Trade.
30. I have landed a plane on the Meiggs Field Airport, which is now closed. For those you that don't know where this is it right across the street from Soldier Field in Chicago and is about 7/8 surrounded by water.
31. My Poker Playing name (oossuuu754) was derived from obviously OSU, the 754 was added at to my sign on at the online dating site kiss.com (where I met my wife) and it has just stuck.
32. The Main Event at World Series will be the first time I have ever played live poker in Vegas. I haven't been to Vegas since 2003.
33. I like so many others was lured to Poker because of Moneymaker and the WPT.
34. As a personal challenge to myself I didn't drink a soft drink the entire year of 2006 but on January 1, 2007 I started right back to the tune of 2 or 3 a day.
35. Diet Mt. Dew is the soda of choice.
36. Mexican Food would be my last meal.
37. Coors Light, Tecate or Michelob Ultra are the Beer's in my fridge.
38. I have alcoholic tendencies - so I try to stay away from hard liquor. But If I drink hard liquor it usually a pinkie up type drink.
39. I am 6'1 and about 35 lbs to heavy
40. I once lost $10K in about 5 minutes on a commodity trade.
41. I have never smoked pot or tried any other illegal drugs to get high. I drank like a fish and did a round of steroids in High School and that was it.
42. The first Casino I went to was in the Bahama's when I was 18, my dad sat me down at Blackjack table and showed me how to play. 30 minutes later I got up and left his table and went to my own. I won $4k that week but have never had that kind of score (besides online) in a casino since.
43. Drowning or being burned alive would be the absolute two worst ways to die. IMO
44. I don't think I could ever touch a dead body.
45. If I smell Tequila it will induce a Gag reflex, however I can drink it in a Margarita.
46. I am really good a my job and can do it in my sleep, but I don't like it and long for more challenges.
47. I have one sister, one 1/2 brother and one step sister.
48. I am tolerant of "alternative lifestyles" because I have a sibling and cousins that have chosen that lifestyle. I don't approve but I still love them.
49. I have only recently "learned" to like myself.
50. I turned down my "dream" job in Memphis because my X didn't want to move out of Oklahoma. If I took the job it would mean that I only got to see my daughters on the weekends. Less than 1 year and 1/2 later we were divorced and she move to Texas to work and eventually marry her Boyfriend.
51. My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS 80 - circa 1978.
52. I first got online in 1993 - Hello, you've got mail.
53. I got my first mobile phone in 1992, first cell phone in 1995.
54. I long to travel and see the world.
55. I would love to be on the Amazing Race.
56. Republican - but I didn't vote in the last elections
57. I own4 guns
58. I don't really like to "hunt or fish" and I have never been camping and don't really plan on going.
59. 80s Rock rules - from "Hair Bands to Heavy Metal"
60. First car was 1971 Mach 1 Mustang
61. Dream car is a 1959-62 Corvette
62. I long to succeed but don't know how to measure success.
63. I hate snakes - do to a childhood run in with a bull snake.
64. I watch way to much poker on TV
65. We were told by an emergency room physician that we "lost" or son early in the pregnancy and didn't find out we didn't until 3 weeks later.
66. My wife bought me a subscription to Playboy for Christmas but some of them are still in the mailer envelopes.
67. My Grandfather was robbed and murdered at his business in the mid 80s and they never solved the case.
68. I was born on St. Patrick's Day
69. The year I was born
70. My High School Football Jersey Number
71. I don't deserve my kids or my wife but I thank GOD for them every day.
72. I long to renew my spiritual relationship with GOD, but just not there yet.
73. Even though I am/was a pilot, I still say a prayer before every takeoff when I fly commercially.
74. I have owned in my life an Sports Car, Airplane, Boat, and Custom Street Motorcycle but I don't own any of these at the present.
75. I don't have a favorite movie per Se but I like the action and comedy genre. I will always watch any of the Star Wars movies if they are on. Armageddon is another one I seem to watch over and over.
76. I had an authentic fake ID that expired 2 weeks before I turned 21.
77. I have lost more money (or been responsible for losing) than most average people would earn in 10 years. This is not gambling losses, these were losses sustained in the futures market. While this is not something I am proud of, I do believe it gives me an advantage on the felt because I have a certain disregard for money which all successful card players must overcome.
78. I saved my company a documented $1 million dollars in the 2006 calender year.
79. Last year I purchased over 100 million lbs of beef to make into hamburgers.
80. In April 15, 1996 I had knee surgery that morning and that afternoon went in to quit my job to go to work for the competition.
81. 6 months later I was fired from the new job.
82. It takes a lot to push me over the edge, but if I reach that point watch out I don't care who you are just ask some of my bosses.
83. I learned how drive when I was 4 or 5 on the farm and there isn't anything with a motor that I cant operate but don't you dare ask me to work on them because I am not a very good mechanic.
84. I lost my virginity the night before the biggest (and last) HS football game in my life and didn't sleep at all that night, we lost the game 40 - 14
85. For 2 weeks in college I worked the Graveyard Shift in a Convenience Store and then went straight to class, it was the longest 2 weeks in my life.
86. I attended/worked the SEMA Convention in Vegas for 4 days and maybe spent 4 hours gambling, I know hard to believe.
87. Year I graduated from High School
88. I got caught trafficking stolen history exams in High School and talked my way out of punishment.
89. I prefer College Sports to Pro.
90. I only started blogging to make me think about hands and specific instances that came up on the felt the night before.
91. I truly believe that if I can get lucky 7 times I can win a major poker tournament.
92. I can usually tell how good or bad I am going to do in a tournament before the tourney begins.
93. I don't like pets indoors but we have an indoor yorkie.
94. Patience is a virtue that still eludes me.
95. I have bought a house in 4 hours and sold a house in 5 minutes.
96. I have auctioneered at several charity auctions.
97. I have given a speech in front of 15,000 people.
98. I have been on Regional TV on more than one occasion
99. I commuted 65 miles one way for almost 8 years.
100. I am happier now than I have ever been in my life.

Fulltilt Poker Swag RANT! and MATH

WARNING BEGINING OF RANT!

Got my Fulltilt poker swag for the Main Event. I must admit that I am disappointed, from what I hear PokerStars really does it up with first class stuff. Here is what I got. One cheap duffel bag, One hat, One deck of cards, One hoodie, One Polo. NO JERSEYS, NO TSHIRTS, NO BOWLING SHIRT, ECT... ALSO this is just stock Fulltilt gear, you would think they would at least have something that said Team FullTilt or something. I am one the biggest FullTilt supporter there is. It is the only site i have money on and I love the interface, but come on FullTilt let go of some MOOLAH you guys rape us for and buy the Main Event Qualifiers some swag that they will be proud to wear. One other thing isn't freaking HOT in July WTF am I going to do with Hoodie at the ME. Oh and I guess that FTP doesn't plan on any of the qualifiers making it past day one since there is only one shirt, heaven forbid three or four of us make it to the Final Table because that is going to be one RIPE SMELLING group.

END OF RANT!

The MATH Tourney in two words or less: CARD DEAD! I chipped up nicely the first hour when I Flopped a set Queens against DDionysus KK and swear to God I almost laid it down to his re-raise preflop. That would be my high water mark and from then on out NOTHING. My Raise of AJ in the hijack position was called by QJ which promptly flopped a Q and River a J for two pair, my steals wear Re-raised All in by BB and SB and my soooted connectors never connected. This is the first tourney in a long long time where I was actually blinded down to making a lowly stand with a 92 off because I didn't have enough to post the SB in the next hand. Absolutely pathetic run of cards. I finished in the points but a disappointing 20th. BLEH!

Weekend Recap - Not much to show for 3 hours worth of work!

Just goes to show how long you can hang around without many cards. Big slick burnt my arse twice in this here tourny. First time I just flat made a bad play and I could get away from TPTK even though I knew I was behind. I raised in EP and get 3 callers including both of the blinds, flop comes 3h8hAd, both blinds check I fire out a pot sized bet and get checked raise All In by both blinds. I somehow convinced myself that there was still a chance that I could have the best hand since both of these two players had been splashing around in several pots and were at the bottom end of the chip stacks so I donk called and am rewarded with this, Dems Quads BEECHES!



Last time an open raise UTG+1 with the Blinds 500/1000 and 200 ante I decided to set the guy all in for his last 19K especially when I read my notes about him (R UTG AJ sooted) doh he flips up KK and I don't improve and bust out a few hands later when my pocket 4s couldn't survive 3 callers who checked all the way down and the river ace did me in.


Don't forget about Hoy's MATH tonight, I will be trying to inch back up into the numero uno position on the BBT Leaderboard.

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What is that smell?

It's the Dookie!!!!




I haven't went through the hand histories yet. One hand that vaguely sticks out was this one: At the final table, 8 or 7 handed I beleive, in the Razz orbit. 2 or 3people all in by 5th street and I have them covered and knock them out with a 7 or 8 and we are now 4 handed and on the money bubble and I have 3 times as much as anyone else. I just start playing Big Stack Poker and eventually wear them down. We did play 3 handed for along time and I finally Rivered a pair of Aces on PokerPeaker in Stud H/L. Heads lasted one hand as I found A2X and figured I was going to go with it since Wippy only had enough to call 2 BB. I think I made 2 pair and scooped the pot.

As for the M00K , I didn't have any hands to speak of. The hand that I went busto on went down like this. I am in the BB with Ad7d folded to the BB who raises, maybe even min raises. I call and see a flop that looks like this AcKdXd. I have slightly more than what is in pot and I push hard figuring I am up against a bigger Ace, but thinking I have a full 12 outs. Little did I know the button was slow playing KK and I was drawing extremely thin. No Improvement and I am sent to the rail.

As for other news I qualified for FullTilt (Bonus Code OSU) weekly WSOP ME Freeroll and I will also be playing in the Gold Level Iron Man Freeroll this weekend. I have pounded no I have tilted away the online Roll pretty hard this week so I am scaling way back and going to concentrate on what I do best $22 SNG Turbos and satelliting into the Big MTTS.

Once again I apologize for the vague details in this post, if I can I will plow through the Hand Histories and correct as needed.

History Revisited -- May 8 2003

Four years ago today was a day in my life I will not forget. Lets take a look at what happened that day.

Fast Facts about the May 8, 2003 Oklahoma City Tornado

• The tornado was first reported by a spotter on the west side of I-35 at Hwy. 37 in Moore, near the intersection of Santa Fe Ave. and 149th St. at about 5:10 p.m. It then tracked across I-35 at 12th St., through south Oklahoma City, across I-240 at Sooner Road, across Tinker Air Force Base, across I-40 into SE Midwest City, and into Choctaw.
• Approximately 21 minute lead time for Moore in Cleveland County and approximately 30 minute lead time for Oklahoma County.
• Preliminary estimates indicate the tornado path was about 19 miles long.
  The tornado outbreak was forecast several days in advance.
• The NWS Forecast Office issued a regional weather discussion at 4 p.m. that specifically mentioned the risk for severe storms in the Oklahoma City metro area between 4:30 and 6 p.m.

The devastation of The May 8, 2003 F4 tornado can be seen below.




But lets get to the real story, it was about 4:30 pm on 5-8-03 and I was about to leave OKC on my way to Las Vegas for a short 2 day trip, I hadn't eaten and decided that to stop at Chili's to grab a quick bite and drink before my 6:30 flight. If all went according to plan the plane would touchdown in Vegas at 10:00 the Limo Driver said he would be at baggage claim to pick me up and I would still meet my agenda with a 11:59 deadline. But mother nature had her own agenda and a Tornado threaten to ruin my plans for this trip. When the Parking Shuttle driver pulled into Will Rogers World Airport the Sirens were wailing. A F4 Tornado had touchdown only a few miles north of the airport and service had been grounded temporarily.

But there still might be hope for this trip. As long as the airport didn't loose power, there was a small window that my flight could make, granted I would have to hurry to make my connection Phoenix but there was hope. If ever I had to be somewhere it was Vegas tonight, because I had date with destiny that night I was finally going to collect on the Biggest and Best Gamble I had ever taken or will ever take. Yes 4 years ago today I married the love of my life in a Limo at Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. You see she and I took a gamble and fate brought together through the online site kiss.com . We both had gambled and lost at love before and we both afraid to "Rebuy" but we did and together we have won the biggest jackpot ever.

Cyndi, I love you and I thank God for you everyday. Even though our Wedding Day started out stormy we found our Rainbow in Vegas

Well that Sucked!

How else can I describe my weekend foray on the felt. Let me give you highs and the lows.

Highs

• Numero Uno on the BBT Leaderboard


• Satellited into both $400 K and Sunday WSOP ME with not much effort.


• Won my 1st Horse SNG in preparation for the Sunday Riverchaser Horse Event.


• Outlasted Waffles in the RiverChasers Horse Event


• Booked Flight and Wired the Money for the ME

Lows

• Busto in both $400 K and Sunday WSOP ME due to me being a DONK!


• Didn't realize the Horse event Started at noon my time and was blinded out for an hour and half, played one hand in Stud picked up 4 to straight on 5 street and didn't connect.


• Lost a $550 pot in $1/2 when an absolute tard Pushed $150 into a $70 pot 276 rainbow flop. The pot was raised and re-raised (by me) and called in 2 spots. Mr Tard pushed the flop, 2nd caller folded I call with JJ putting him on 88-10, or AK or AQ and am just mortified that he called and then pushed with a mighty 54 off. You know the rest of the story.


• Tilted off several Buyins trying to eradicate all tards off of full tilt. While trying to do this realized that I had become a tard just by osmosis.

Needless to say me and my BR need some time to heal. I will play in the BBT events this week and try to maintain my ranking at the top of the Leaderboard. I am going to drop back down to the $22 sngs, no more cash until I can handle the Tilt induced by the TARDS and also concentrate on winning another seat by satelliting into the $1k.

I have major leaks in my game, especially in big MTTs and I have to fix them in the next 60 days before I go out to Vegas.

Don't forget about about the MATH tonight