The Fish Tank

Just came from the Fish Tank...Went up with Big John and Kenny and played a $40 Tourney...17 players...I bust out in 7th place...top 3 was paid...Pretty much short stacked after being bluffed off my KK when the board has 2 hearts on the flop...I raised preflop, bet the flop and was smooth called, 3rd heart came out on the turn, I bet out, got raised, then I fucked up and checked the river and he pushed all in...I put him on teh flush draw when he just called me on the flop...so the heart fucked my head up...

Push a couple times and get trippled up in one hand when my AA set on the flop...still had hearts to dodge, and they held up...

got put out when I pushed with 55 pretty much short stacked and A8h called and an 8 hit the turn and I can't tag a 5...

Off to the cash game...$1-$2 NL

Asked Travis to spot me $150 to jump in the game...he let me get that, said I'll get it back to him on Saturday at my game or just give it to him if I can make some money...

Played scared at first...I don't know why...then got comfortable with the table and made a lil bit of money...We stopped at 3AM slid Travis the $150 he let me get, and ended up cashin out $175 profit.

Had I not played that stupid tournament, I woulda had an extra $40 bucks...I don't think ima play home tourneys anymore unless its at least 3-tables...

Off to Travis and Noelle's game tomorrow evening.......If I can hitch ride out there!

Nice hand!

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
10 players
Converter


Stack sizes:
UTG: $28.90
UTG+1: $53.89
Ehonda500Mob: $19.58
MP1: $14.75
MP2: $37.55
MP3: $41.01
CO: $24.40
Button: $20.78
SB: $25.30
BB: $24.50


Pre-flop: (10 players) Ehonda500Mob is UTG+2 with Q♠ J♠
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, Ehonda500Mob calls, MP1 folds, MP2 raises to $1, 5 folds, UTG+1 calls, Ehonda500Mob calls.


Flop: 7♣ K♠ T♠ ($3.35, 3 players)
UTG+1 checks, Ehonda500Mob bets $2, MP2 calls, UTG+1 calls.


Turn: 2♦ ($9.35, 3 players)
UTG+1 checks, Ehonda500Mob bets $4, MP2 calls, UTG+1 calls.


River: 9♠ ($21.35, 3 players)
UTG+1 checks, Ehonda500Mob bets $8, MP2 calls, UTG+1 calls.


Results:
Final pot: $45.35
Ehonda500Mob shows Qs Js
MP2 doesn't show Ac As
UTG+1 doesn't show Jh Qh

Memorial Day Weekend...

Started the weekend at Big Chris place with the fellas to play $1-$1 NL...Usually deal Bert's game out Wheaton, but decided I didn't really feel like dealing and it was pretty easy to make money at Big Chris' house, but yeah...I run down my stack to as small as $22 bucks, to come back and cash out for the evening $134 to be stuck a whopping $16 bucks...Oh well, it was fun playing...

Saturday afternoon at the S.H.O.P

Whoa...this game was TUFF this week...Not getting cards could also help factoring how hard this game was this time around...I get there and already see 3 huge chip stacks...Get in for $150, get run down...Rebuy for another $100...and can't do nothing, I won 3 hands for the night...Dude named Jeff bust me for the night...I get dealt AK raise to $7, couple callers, Flop is A59 (2 clubs), I bet out $17, calls, folds, heads up, turn is a rag of club, I bet out $40, he thinks...thinks...calls...(Hollywood me and I never saw it coming) River is a red card hoping one more club hits the board for me to have the nut flush with my K...he had 2 clubs, QJc and busts me...oh well...time go to...Stuck $250

Go home and get ready to go deal Adam's game in Laurel...figured it would be just in time to make back what I donked off at the S.H.O.P.---------Game Cancelled--------Boooooo....

OOOOHHH...Big Chris is having another game on Sunday! Yes...Bigger game than Friday when he called...Pretty much the whole crew is supposed to be there...Ended up being 9 handed alot of the night...Of course, played Heinz poker as usual...Down to my last $18 bucks when one of Rosslyn's friends brings her boyfriend over and he decides to sit down at the table...Bingo...He is gonna stack me! And yes he did, he easily dropped a good $100 in less than 20 minutes and he was ready to go...He did leave and say he would be back and he wasn't losing this time around...Sure you are...you are welcome back anytime sir! Kenny and I picked that bama off quick LOL...Anyway, ran my stack to double what I bought in for, and game broke after I snapped kenny off...they decide they don't wanna play 4 handed..Fine, cash me out..Kenny says lets play a mini tourney...5 handed at $25 with winner take all...Kenny out first, then Tall Jizzle, then Me, Chris and Frank went heads up with Frank takin it down to break him dead even for the night...I'm up $125 for the night and go home....

Call JesseY and reload Party Poker for $150...

Played a 5-Table SnG $6 NL tourney, made 5th place
Played a $6 $1K Added to the prize pool and made 108th place out of 1300+ to make the 2nd tier of the pay scale.
Played a $11 99 Max tourney made 21st place
gonna play a lil more tonight since im about even...then see what I can do tomorrow...

Hope everyone had a great memorial day weekend, I need the AC guy to come fix my AC, I'm so freakin hot right now, i don't know what to do....thermostat says 88 degrees inside the house...Weather woman says 91 Tomorrow...I don't even wanna think about how hot its gonna be in here tomorrow...

Classic Heinz Poker...

Well...Last night I went to the Travis and Noelle's Wednesday Night Game last night...

Game started out slow so we decided since it was only 5 handed to start the night off that we play a little $2-$4 Limit Dealers Choice with a Full Kill...Games we play are Razz, Omaha, Omaha H/L, 7-card Stud, 7-Card Stud H/L, Pitch and Bitch, and the various Pineapple games...Usually no drawing games...

Well of course I need to play these different games more often, I know basic strategies of the game but rely much more on luck...Ended up being stuck $70 bucks before the rest of the players got there for the $1-$2 NL game...

I should have takin a nap before going over there...I already knew I was tired...soon as I sat down...I'm already falling asleep at the table...and I'm famous for just falling asleep out of nowhere...

anyway, I end up shipping my stack to Keenan when I flop top and bottom to his top set...

rebuy...

Now im playing Heinz poker for this session...very sleepy by the time table is about to break...I actually am up $67 bucks at one point...Then...get mixed up with Nelly...at this point of the game I even mention I don't even care anymore...I just want to go home or fall on the couch and go to sleep cause I'm riding with Pops..Damn again, I didn't follow through with my plan to leave when Mikey leaves like I said I would...I told myself to never break plans cause I always lose...lesson learned AGAIN!

Anyway, being tired blinded me when I get mixed up in a hand with Noelle...by this time we are 4-handed and I look down to K2o and limp in...limped pot

Pot: $8
Flop: K27 (maybe double suited)

Noelle bets $10, I raise to $30, She re-raises me $40...Any other time I know I'm beat...but I'm so tired to realize my hand is no good...."all-in"..."call"

"you have a set don't you?"
"Yup"
"shit"

"Here Girl...I'm going to sleep on the couch now..."

I swear any time I know better to do that...Fatigue and poker doesn't mix people...Oh well..lesson learned...

Going to play with the old crew on Friday...I usually deal a game on Fridays at Bert's place in Wheaton, But i just don't feel like tryin to get out there and dealing...I wanna hang out with the crew, and play a friendly game of poker...we play $1-$1 over there...finally convinced them $.50 chips are stupid LOL

Pops on Saturday

And I'm dealing Adam's game in Laurel on Sunday...full weekend of poker...Wanted to go to AC, but I think I'll just stay in town this weekend since I wasn't feeling to well today.

Poker Stars Blogger Tourney

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7330476

Tuesday Night at the S.H.O.P - Jinxed...Maybe Not...

I wasn't sure what I was going to do when I got there, I wanted to play the Tourney, but then again, I wanted to play the cash game...But I had asked Pops for the box a week ago and just wanted to deal...

I've been having some really good sessions lately except for the time I donked off all my chips on the crazy table at the Trop on Sunday, other than that, I have been playin great. I decided, what the hell, I'll help Travis deal the Tournament and split the tips down the middle...and possibly jump into the cash game...Soon as 1 table broke, there were 2 players waiting for the cash game to start up, so I decided to just sit down and play 3 handed till players started bustin from the final table...it was only 15 players for the tourney...

Tourney ended up being chopped 3 way with P-Doggie takin 1st place spliting bottom money with Rob and Mikey....

The cash table filled up pretty quick and I was just folding away my time...watching everyone on the other side of the table rake in chips...Ughh....another one of those nights....We were playing $1-$2 NL and bought in for $150 bucks, biggest buy in was $200 so it was pretty slow...Alex had a couple of suck outs that ate some stacks up to give him a good bit of the money on the table...he called he had to leave at 12:30AM so he ended up takin most of the money off the table...

Then cards changed up for me...Started hittin flops hard, makin good lay downs, then I was sittin on about $300 when Pops busted and started dealing when Travis decided to take a break from dealing, When Travis came back in...he saw Pops was in the box cause he had busted, so he decides to sit down and play instead of dealing...

Pops tells me to straddle, and at the time, I wasn't hittin flops or catching good cards, so I refused to straddle...he said, I hope you get Aces and they get cracked and lose your money or somethin like that...I'm like WTF Pops, why did you just jinx me and I took it pretty hard for some reason and said, fuck it, I aint playin nomore, you just jinxed me and I aint tryin to lose what I got here...and said, cash me out...everyone said don't be that way so I said I was just gonna fold till yall decide to break the game...first hand I get KQo and it was limped to me...and said look, FOLD...Heh...Board...KK6 or somethin like that...Mikey and Lance were betting the shit out that flop too...Got dealt TT folded also to a limped pot cause I thought I was just jinxed...

So much for the jinx huh? ended up runnin my stack to $960 before cashing out for the night.

I was supposed to pay off Pops when I flop the nut straight and he calls with bottom pair to end up filling up...I'm just glad a 3rd apple came out on the turn to slow me down, bet out $20 to see where I was at, and he just smooth called me so I said I was done with the hand, he checked the river when the river paired the board and I check...he said shit why don't you bet at that? HUH? Look at the board...he called my flop bet with bottom pair...when everyone knew I hit the nut straight cause I looked down at my cards and said, wow look what I ran into LOL Well played Pops! LOL

Mikey tried to trap me too but kept it cheap for me when he fills up but it didn't work...

But what boosted my stack was me flopping open ended, bet, call, Turn..."Skrait" I bet, I get raised a good bit, I think, make sure I got the nut straight LOL, Push all in, Calls....Top 2 he doesn't fill up, he has a good stack left of about 300+...Sent Lance home...

Before that, I flop a set of 8s and Travis hit open ended straight draw on the flop, I bet, he raises, I think, I push have him way covered...he is seriously thinking of what I have, I tell him, slow down, just fold...I show AN 8...he convinced himself i have 89, I beg him to fold...he says fuck it, calls....i show the set of 8s...he ships it...Try to donkey punch me do ya????....we are down to 4 handed waiting for someone to bust to call it a game cause Travis and Pops don't wanna call it quits cause they are stuck...Pops finally busts when Mikey rivers a diamond frush and if you know Pops, he ships it, but when he ships it...the chips all of a sudden can fly!

Over all...good night, played real good...sure beats just dealing huh?

Heading over to the new and improved Travis and Noelle Wednesday Night Game tonight, I have a $150 credit there so I'm going to see what I can do with that...Oooohh...Taco Pie....I aint eatin lunch so I can have me alot of Taco Pie!

I forgot about the Hammer...

LOL

If you are a regular at the trop, you might know who I'm talking about...Yankees fan, Puerto Rican cat always has his hat tilted...maybe mid twenties-ish...

Anyway...

I'm in the Big Blind....THE BIG BLIND...

Look down to 72o

Limped pot 4 players....

Pot: $8
Flop: J72 RB
Check-$10-Fold-I min raise to $20-Fold-Call

Pot: $48
Turn: [J72] 3h (2 Hearts on board now)
Check-$20-Call

Pot: $88
River: [J723] 9
Check-$50-He looks at me like WTF-Calls

Pot: $188
Showdown: AJd vs. 72o

Needless to say he was very Sick and asked..."Why the Fuck did I play that hand..."
" Wow dude....I'm in the big blind dude" laughing..and ask, "what do you want me to do? How do you not raise AJd anyway????

7 hands later he looks up and says..."How do you play 72 man...thats just sick"...and gets up from the table....

I guess I have to fold my BB if I am dealt 72o...Personally, I like the hammer...

Hammer, Hammer, Hammer Time!

Idiot's Guide to the Herd's Terminology

I decided to put together a post that I'll update frequently when we come up with more terminology or whatever...

When reading our blogs, we might use some terminology that you just don't know...I may explain some in some posts, but if you forget, you can use this as your resource instead of searching for an explanation. (Like alot of folx read this anyway....)

Everyone has a favorite hand right? Well, In the herd, when we win with each others hand, we toss that person a nice shiny white chip as a Thank you for being able to rake a pot in with your favorite hand. So if you ever sit down with one of us either in Atlantic City or a game around MD and see us toss each other a $1 chip, you know why...We either just won a pot, and sometimes alot of us know why, we wait a couple hands and toss the $1 chip later on but we toss it regardless.

If you would like to add or remind me of a term or hand I forgot, or just want to add your hand to the list...Leave me a comment and I'll update it.

And now on to the Guide!

The Hands with a Plan (Or Our hand Nick Names)

• The Beast: TJ
• The Nelly: T8
• The Trav: 58
• The E: AT
• The Scooter: KT
• The Mini Scooter: QT
• The Redpit: 36
• The Anne: J4
• The Ice Pick: 57
• The Big Jizzle: J7 or K9 (But you only get the $1 with J7 cause its worse than K9)
• Pre Flop Nutz: T5
• The Revised Hand: Duece-Four
• Water: AQ
• The Kendrick: 72 (or anything with a duece)
• The Katie: 56

The Herd's Terminology

Apples: Spades. This word was derived from the Taj Mahal days in the Travis/Nelly/Woody game before he owed us $$$ and fell off the face of the earth.

Allen Iverson: All In.

Bets an E: $17. If you know me, regardless of what is in the pot after the flop comes out, If I bet, I bet $17 (in a $1-$2 NL game) So the bet $17 was tagged with my name. (Doesn't have to be on the flop, you can still bet an E on the turn/river, just means you bet $17 bucks.)

Bloop-Bloop-Bloop: A Sound effect one makes instead of calling some one a fish or some one makes a bad play.

"BRRRPRPRPPRPR": (The sound you make when you stick your tongue out and make the farting noise) Is used during the sliding of all your chips a Tournaments.

Donkey Punch: To knowingly play trash to intentially suck out on the better hand and win.

Donkey Show: A "player" that has re-bought into the same cash game 3 buy-ins or more.

Eileen: All in.

Floatie: Lowest boat - 22233

Hee-Haw: A sound effedt one makes instead of calling someone a donkey or someone makes a bad call.

Heinz Poker: To play "Catch-Up" poker. After being stuck in a game, you are not playing for profit, but playing to get back even in that session's buy in.

Hoagie - $500. 5 Meatballs.

Jizzled: To be short stacked. Came from Tall Jaye always short-buying in with minimum buy in amounts.

Meatball - $100

Nifty: $50.

Quack-Quack Bet: $22

Raft: Having the smaller boat on a boad consisting of 2 pairs.

Tension: $10.

Twelve-shun: $12. Derived from tension. Note: It irritates Nelly so be careful using it too much.

Stitches: When you bleed your stack away.

Yo bet: $11

Sheets: any King

Tropicana Trip in AC

Yes Yes Yes, There would be now way you could tell I was ever sitting the hospital bed sick all week the way we just head up to AC after a weekend full of dealing games and not resting like I'm supposed to be.

After leaving the Fish Tank, Travis, Noelle and I head up North to AC and hit the Tropicanna.

We get there about 1 AM and told Redpit that we would be up there at that time. He stops by to say hello and ends up being seated at my table, Not an hour of playing, I ran my stack up a good bit..playing great solid poker. Doubling-and-a-half my $200 buy in within the hour...made the players respect my side of the table. Not within that hour, Redpit is seated at my table....wow, we ran that table after Redpit fuckin off his $200 buy in and I spot him a rebuy of $200, he gets the dude he kept playing mind games with whole stack back to have him sitting in a mountain of chips. We both are the only ones with a mountain of chips. Our tables keeps rollercoasting from 4 players to a full table back to short handed because Redpit and I keep knockin out the new players being seated.

One dude sits down and tries to run the table, he can't...I get dealt AK and a flopped a K, but before the flop after he raised my limp, i ask how much you got dude, he is like "what" like WTF you askin me for...Ok...mr. attitude....Flop comes rag-K-rag rainbow and I stick a stack out there, he insta-calls and is insta-out with his BS...he gets up and says nice hand cool guy so very sarcastically and we laugh.

another time, 2 guys sit down Fake ass Soprano look-a-like (Dude Redpit kept messing with) and some other egg-head. Anyway, I'm in mid position with some Pocket Pair and raised to $7 after a couple of limpers. He pushes for no reason...da hell, for some reason that made me mad and said aight ima get this bama. He saw the frustration from me and ended up whispering some sweet nothings into the Soprano dude's ear.

Not 25 minutes into the game, he runs his stack up a lil bit and me and him clash hands again..yes I got this bama now! I look down to JJ, I raise to 7, he re-raises me to $20 and I give a disqusted look again and calls..flop is all rags, rainbow, nothing hire than a 9, I bet $17, he pushes...again...like every pot he was in...everyone folds and I insta-call, whole table goes "OOOOOH" lol he flips over 88 and doesn't improve, he gets up and gets out. LOL.

I hit Quads 2 times on this table within a 4 hour session! Sweet...

Now D&G guy has his girl sittin behind him for a while, stone face all serious...what a joke...Its somethin about these guys comin into the poker room with hats, Big earphones and SUN GLASSES that really make me laugh...they are a joke to me...like they watch too much ESPN or soemthin...I don't know....Just seems like they try to hard...anyway, he is frustrated with me and Redpit. They are short stacked compared to our mountain so they just pick there spots...Now I know im runnin on the heater and look down to 55 when D&G pushes in late position after alot of limping...This table, there were no pre-flop raising for some reason...the only ones were me and redpit...it was obvious everyone was walking light which made it easier for us to get out of the pot when need be. Anyway, D&G Pushes his stack of about $141 bucks left....frustrated push I tell Redpit and show my side of the table 55 and said I wanna call soooooooooo bad....."Fold man...fuck i wanna call you so bad dude..." Redpit then says, you should've called man, he aint got shit but 2 overs, You know you are going to flop Quads...if you flop quads, im done for the morning and I'm going to bed....."Quiet Black dude insta-calls, and some misc guy sitting at the table calls...I ask the dealer can I have my cards back...

Huge pot
Flop: 554

WTF Quads....I fall out my seat, I see travis look up from the middle tables and he yells What you fold Quads again donkey?

D&G was fuckin around with AKo, Quite black guy had KK and the other guy had AK also...AK holds up and they chop quite dudes chips...Wow, I scooooooooop if I didn't play so Tiiiight....I had the chips to call, but didn't wanna just throw it away....I tell the table, im done off that BS and me and redpit call it a night/morning.

Take a micro nap in the car cause Travis and the girl are still playing...Noelle made alot of money in the Omaha H/L game w/a full kill....so I wake up about 1 hour before the Tropicanna $10K guaranteed for 1st place starts...I sit down at a $1-$2 NL table to try and re-free roll it, but only made about $60 bucks for the short session, I don't cash my cash game chips and just stick it in a rack and head to the tourney table, im on table 1 so I know I'm not moving at all through out the tourney...make it to break with decent chips...at one point, I'm ready to just quit and double up twice before the add-on period so im sitting on some good chips...I add on for another $100 and sit back down at the $1-$2 Table i was at before start of tourney and end up getting enough for a free add on! it was a 20 minute break and I end up getting KK vs. the gamblin asian guy...he fortunately has a hand and calls my re-raise to him...he popped it preflop to $20, I min-raised him and everyone gets out the way and he calls, we are heads up...

Pot: $85
Flop: A73 (2 apples)

I bet $35 to see where I'm at, he thinks, calls.

I think he has the Ace now and is slowrolling me into me spewing my chips to him....

Turn: Rag of non-apples
Check, check

River: Rag of non-apples
Check, Check

I got Kings....they good man....TT

Thanks, ship it...

sorry folx, tourney startin, gotta go! See 2 more hands and get back in time for my action in the tourney....yes, got my free add on!

I make my way to the last 4 tables and bust out in 36th place or so...
Top 9 make the money with 1st getting 10K

I go back to the $1-$2 Table and can't make nothin work, I end up getting on a crazy table, did well, then did bad, but in the end, played very horrible...can't hit flops, gettin mad at mumbling old man, tryin so bad to snap him off, I was on snap off tilt and end up shipping the majority of my stack to him, I take a long break, go eat at the Seaside Cafe, come back thinking in good again, then got on Gypsy poker mode and played everything and some, time to go, its 2:45 AM gotta be home by 7AM and end up shipping my stack with a redpit only calling a $10 bet then pushing on the flop hitting the 6, 2 callers for the all in, and guy ends up crackin the AA, I turn trip 6s and rivers skraight to the 6. I tell everyone I enjoyed the crazy ass game, gave everyone dap and said see yall around...that was the most fun table I ever been on and didn't mind shippin the rest of the money I won on that table...

Over all

EVEN

Whew....and that was that...get hom at 6AM and clean up a lil bit, check some emails and go to bed....im up now....waitin on a friend since Cheyenne is at the baby sitters to play with her friends for the day, so I figure I'll go play also!

Should be a Laurel game tonight...The guy runnin it asked if I could be his dealer..Sure! We'll see if that kicks off!

40 Person Tourney at the Fish Tank

Well...Steve ran a very good tourney this weekend at the Tank! Me, Travis and Keenan just dealt instead of playing.

Travis talked me out of playing and just dealing the game so we can head to AC for the rest of the weekend. I did. We dealt a great game, Split the tips down the middle which new guy from MD-Poker was very generous to leave a double tip and we wait for the 2nd cash game to break to head up North to my favorite playground!

Friday Night at Wheaton

Well, after alot of rest I thought I would be able to deal Bert's game in Wheaton. I did pretty well, but had to cut the night out a little early around 2AM.

So if you are looking for a Friday Night game now a days, I will be dealing this game every Friday from now on. So just hit me up and let me know if you ever want to come out.

Lots of crazy action, at times he'll have 2 tables. Good game, gotta talk to him about that rake and food selection, but I think the better he runs his games, A good Friday night game should be in the making!

No Updates? Where ya at?

Well...its been about a week since my last post...I didn't attend any games this past week cause I was in the hospital all week long. I went into the emergency room monday evening and stayed in the hospital the whole week till Thursday afternoon.

They told me I had Diverticulitis. It was no joke going into that emergency room...

Anyway, im up and goin again so everything is cool now!

Just gonna watch what I eat from now on and hopefully never get caught up in that blower again!

Saturday Night At the S.H.O.P.

Went up with Keenan to Pops place Saturday afternoon to play $1-$2 NL...Nothing really big happened...Was a pretty decent night for me. Bought in for $125, Didn't bad beat anybody.

If you have been keeping up with my blogs, you know I told myself next time I flop a boat, I'm mucking them....

6 Players limp the pot and I'm on the button with 8To

Pot: $12
Flop: TT8 (2 diamonds)

Kim Checks.
Pops throws a bet out there for $15
Todd Calls.
I call.
Kim Calls.

Pot: $72
Turn: Xx [TT8]

Kim Checks.
Pops stabs at the pot again with a $35 bet (I think, yall know how I am with Hand Histories)
Todd Folds.
I call.
Kim Calls.

Pot: $177
** In my head, im jumping up and down, thinkin to myself I got these suckers now! Pops keeps betting into the boat...Kim keeps calling...what the hell do they have? I put one of them on a diamond draw and one of them holding the case T.**

So I say "No diamonds"

River: Q of non diamonds

Kim finally throws a bet out there. "$80"
Pops decides its time to check out.
I stood up and said wow....
"All-In"
Insta-Calls...My heart actually stopped beating cause now I'm thinkin...wow, QT just killed alot of my stack...

CHOP-CHOP

I flip over my hand and she flips over the same, cept' her's were "SOOTED" 8Ts...Whew, at least I didn't get screwed again floppin a boat like the recently past boats I have flopped, This time I got Half-way Screwed...Picture That....I hate flopping Boats...honestly...I really do...the way they have been swcrewing me lately...

Other than that, I lost a race against Todd...

I look down to TT and raise it to $7, everyone folds and we are heads up.

Flop: J9T (2 Diamonds)

I bet $17
He raises me to $34
I ask for a chip count, Its about $76 more to put him all in.

I think about it for a second and re-raise him all in...He calls with a Diamond Draw and an OE Straight. He calls.

Turn: 8
River: K
Gets there more than 1 way

For some reason that hand made me mad...not really tilting, but it was just irritating to ship a stack of red to him....

Game ended breaking at 4AM 4 handed with Keenan, Myself, Scott and Nevin...

Cash out with $525. Not bad.

Dealt Berts game, Played Pops game, not a bad weekend for me...Gettin ready for the return of the Wednesday Game (Check the link for the Blog of the up-coming games and more info on the games) that Travis and Noelle host! Good times!

The Outcome

"LOL You all know I don't know no better, but I was proud of myself cause I think I usually would've called cause im a donkey LOL

Ehonda500Mob folds.
Creating Main Pot with $19524 with mrblue02
Creating Side Pot 1 with $3062 with hal2001ny
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jc, 9c, 4c ] - mad when I seen that too....
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7c ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Kh ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 19524 Side Pot 1: 3062
Board: [ Jc 9c 4c 7c Kh ]

alpat balance 7045, didn't bet (folded)
mrblue02 balance 0, lost 6308 [ Th Ts ] [ a pair of tens -- Kh,Jc,Th,Ts,9c ]
gomoleygo balance 7908, didn't bet (folded)
zeddlin balance 30700, didn't bet (folded)
TWDF13 balance 33784, bet 7839, collected 22586, net +14747 [ Qc Qs ] [ a flush, queen high -- Qc,Jc,9c,7c,4c ]
Ehonda500Mob balance 11146, lost 600 (folded)
hal2001ny balance 0, lost 7839 [ 7h 7d ] [ three of a kind, sevens -- Kh,Jc,7h,7d,7c ]

Stupid Tow Truck/How would you play this hand?

Got me...Highway Robbery...I hatem' Hatem' Hatem' Got me for $260....Sick....

Anyway, playin a 99 player max tourney on Party Poker Down to the last 3 tables...I have no reads on the players cause I wasn't payin attention really...only pays final table....

What do you do???

***** Hand History for Game 4236884143 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:23365622 Level:7 Blinds(300/600) - Wednesday, May 10, 21:27:49 ET 2006
Table Regular(692659) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: alpat ( $7045 )
Seat 6: zeddlin ( $30700 )
Seat 8: TWDF13 ( $19037 )
Seat 9: Ehonda500Mob ( $11746 )
Seat 2: mrblue02 ( $6308 )
Seat 10: hal2001ny ( $7839 )
Seat 3: gomoleygo ( $7908 )
Trny:23365622 Level:7
Blinds(300/600)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ehonda500Mob [ Jh Js ]
hal2001ny is all-In [7839]
alpat folds.
mrblue02 is all-In [6308]
gomoleygo folds.
zeddlin folds.
TWDF13 calls [7539].
Ehonda500Mob: wow
Ehonda500Mob: i have JJ
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How do you play it?

Tuesday Night Poker at the S.H.O.P

Went to Pops place to play a $90+$10 2-table tourney....20 players, top 4 got paid...Went up with Big John, Kenny, and Rock...For some reason, I just didn't play like I'm supposed to in the tourney, I played maybe 80% of my hands LOL...Raising with a sooted RedPit (36) and junk cards like that...You know I got snapped off in 13th place...I think its cause I was ready to deal the cash game....

Anyway, I busted out with Q3o on the button...

This was a coinsident...I recieved an email from Full Tilt Poker...Its like a newsletter from differnt FT Pros with tips that can help you out...anyway I was reading this and it happened to me last night...after reading it, its not like I didn't know this already...YOu can find the archives here: Full Tilt Learn from the Pros

It was from Rafe Furst about playing Bottom Two Pair

Basically saying, don't slow play 2 pair cause it might look like a powerful hand, its still vulnarable to be beat...so basically get your money in there while you are ahead and if you get bad beat, dust it off LOL At least that way you have every right to call that player a donkey unless you flopped a set on yo ass LOL

Anyway, I'm on the button with Q3o in a limped pot...3 players

Flop came QT3

SB checked, LP checked, I threw a pot sized bet out there, to be check raised by the SB who bets enough to put me and LP all in...

LP thinks forever, and I insta-call.

SB has TT for a set
LP has AQ for TPTK
I have Top/Bottom pair with 1 out...

TT holds up and he knocks both of us out...

Anyway, cash game went till 2AM when Pops cut it off...crazy, silly game...Crazy Gypsy Pete and Rock were the big winners last night, Dealt Steve KTo and flop came KTK for kings full, turn was a J River is irrelevant....Anyway, Other guy was holding KJ and got all his money in the middle....dagger for Steve...

thats the only hand I really remember...

Anyway, I dealt the cash game, made my tourney buy in back plus a lil more extra...

Thinkin bout heading up to AC this weekend again, since I think I'll be starting work for a temp agency till something permanent comes along...so Might as well take a trip to AC before I get back into the 9-5 world again....

Snap, Crackle, POOF

Went to Big Chris house last night to play $1-$1 NL...Had a good crowd this time around..and it was actually some money floatin around the table! Tonight I was blessed to have the company of Jizzle, Kenny, Ross, Joel, Big Chris, Derrek, Buddah and Dennis.

Lots of rebuys early...only sat with $60 and easily ran it up to over $120...Kenny was drinkin Icehouse so he was a lil more talkative than normal...talkin alot of trash cause he knows he can easily intimidate everyone else at the table...raising preflop to $17 with junk and good hands, mixin it up a lil bit, but I know he is only doing that to put everyone on tilt...I just sit back and wait for premium hands to snap him off...He knew what he was doing, he would only do that if he was able to act before me, if I entered the pot before him, he would only limp in for the $1...

I notice this, but I'm still tryin to trap him because he is just playin semi drunk poker and acting wreckless...so I tried to get cute when I'm UTG to see KK in the hole...I limp in for $1 (Silly me) and it's called around with probably like 2 folds...

Pot is $5
Flop: Jd9h4s

Ross was in the SB and bets $7, I raise and put $15 on it, he pushes all in, I insta-call

He flips over J9o

River and Turn are all blanks and I don't improve...He has me covered

**SNAP** The trapper traps himelf....Lots of fun!

Reload for another $60 bucks...

In the game (-$120) Now its time to play Heinz Poker....

Get some pots here and there...run it close to $100 again...almost even and look down to 88 in the hole on the button...everyone limps in and I raise to $9 bucks to go...

Joel re-raises me in the SB to $21 and folds around back to me and I Insta-call.

I called so quick because of a previous hand me and Joel was involved with when he called a raise from me with some junk cards and thats just how Joel plays, suited cards, 1-gappers, connecting cards and any pairs doesn't matter what position, he will call any raise...so I'm thinkin im good...

Pot: $50

Flop: KhJs8d

I check and Joel immediately goes all in...I call faster than he can push his chips in the middle...flip over my set of 8's and he shows AA

I outflopped his AA

Turn: A
River: 7

Set over Set he takes my stack.

**CRACKLE**

I'm done with this foolishness...Pops has a $90+$10 tourney and a $1-$2 NL game so I just leave the this foolishness and go home...

**POOF**

Heh, its only 10PM when I get home...This game is so brutal...

Showboat - Final Table!

Just got home from AC...its late...

Anyway, after coming home from Goodfellas game Saturday Night, I wanted to catch up with everyone in AC...Called around, even tried to rent my sisters car to head up to AC Saturday night...Had to wait till mornin when the Greyhound leaves...so get up early, text Keenan and Jay to make sure I'll have a ride home...It all worked out till Jay texts me and says he's busted broke, I told him im on the way up, to just go sit in the $1-$2 NL table and get that money back and I would buy him in for the Tourney at the Showboat...I didn't have that much money going up cause I was only takin the money I won from Goodfellas place...So the plan was to sit in on the $1-$2 NL game then whatever I make or break, I would play the $50 Tourney at the Showboat...Why? Cause its fun, its been a while since I played a tourney in the casino and over-all, I just had a good feeling bout going up to AC...so I stayed on my game plan...

Stopped by the Trop to see Travis and all them, Noelle and Keenan were sleep in the room and Travis was sittin in on the $2-$5 NL table...soon as I walked in there and see a hand he was involved in, it was straight Donkeyness...Guy re-raised all in when Travis bet $50 bucks when 5 players check to him...Board I believe was 7J4 rainbow, somethin stupid like that...but for Travis to call was only $38 bucks and he was betting on his 79...somethin around that area....Guy had AKo to hit runner-runner broadway...sick...So I go grab lunch and hook up with Jay at Caesars...Wow at the Boardwalk...Its changed so much since last I've seen the boardwalk...Whenever we go to AC, We never walk the Boardwalk, just either taxi it casino to casino or just drive....Normally I would've taxi'ed it to Caesars from the Trop, but decided to walk the boardwalk to enjoy the sunny day...Seen a Putt-Putt golf on the boardwalk, the shopping mall that used to be the ship has been renovated...there is a Rainforest Cafe and alot of new Bars/Restaurant on the boardwalk...It was nice!

Anyway, I end up sittin at Caesars on a different table from Jay..I sit with $200 and run it up close to $500 when Jay comes in and says, its 5:15, lets head to Showboat...that is what time I said to get me...Now normally I would've just stayed there and kept playin till I'm broke, but I have been gettin better and setting myself a time and getting up when I say I will to avoid going broke..I know how I am when it comes to playing...I need more discipline...and its proving to be working especially when I can walk away with profit! So I get to freeroll the tourney at the Showboat!

Head to the Showboat and come to find out the tourney don't start till 7PM...damn...Buffet time! I hadn't eatin since the evening before, no breakfast, just went straigt up to AC...Buffet hit the spot...Tourney time....

I played real well through out the tourney...early in the tourney, I run my stack to about 14K and get KJo in late position Blinds are at 100-200, 2 limpers, I end up callin and folds around the rest of the table, SB and BB both call and check...5 players...im last to act...Flop is KJ7 rainbow...I bet out $850 folds to Big Girl...She looks at me, thinks, calls....

Pot: $1850

Turn: [KJ7] T still rainbow

I bet out $1600
Big Girl calls...

Pot: $5050

River: [KJ7T]A

so gay...she goes all in...I muck...flip over the KJ, she shows me QQ

OK..whatever....

I somehow get my stack back up and become Table Captain after someone raised, I went all in, 2 callers with another All in...I have JJ

The 2 guys that called me were A4d and TT

My JJ holds up and im sittin pretty...

Make it past the 2 breaks, we get down to 11 and decide to cut the bubble in for the buy in back, we all put up $5 bucks for whoever bubbles...Next think ya know, I get to the Final Table with about $40K with blinds at $2000-$4000...one guys has way over $150K and he couldn't manage his chip stack...he doubled up almost everyone at the table...I end up pushing with a "Sooted-Scooter" after the blinds ate me up a lil bit to double up and brought me back to about $40K again...guy called me with TT and I sucked out a K on the river....

I end up having $38K left and look down to 66....I kinda beat myself up cause I think I could've played it different to move up a couple spots, but a normal raise would be more than 3/4 of my stack at blinds at $2000-$4000 so I just push...AKo calls me and he spikes an A on the turn to put me out in 7th place...

Yeah, the tourney was a small one...93 players with a $50 Buy in...actually $40+$10 with 1st place payin $1300 bucks....

7th place was only $186 bucks..but hey, it was fun as shit gettin there....it felt good to make a final table and have folx watchin the play from the side lines...and I get to add it to my resume...so it had more value than just the $186! Seriously...makin the final table felt good!

I'm not used to playing with blinds that big especially in home games..having that many chips...but it throws me off cause they color up the chips and it seems like you have NO CHIPS...especially watchin TV and they have HUGE stacks in front of them...Guess it can't get like that with about 100 players anyway...I definately need more experience with late tournament play, but I think I played pretty well the whole day! Played well in the tourney also...So I don't really think it was a waste of time to play that long to only win $186..I can win that in 1-3 hands in a $1-$2 NL game, but the accomplishment factor definately is worth the time and its good practice!

If you can't tell, its my first Final Table in a live tournament...and on the ride home and thinkin about those pocket 6's and only gettin 7th place...its a disappointment also..I could've played hands alot differently throught the tourney which would've had me sittin a little more pretty with chips at the final table....but hey, trial and error is the key...Final table is fine and dandy...feels good, but I bet 1st place would've felt better....so next time, I'm not just gonna shoot for the Final table, cause that was my mind set, make the final table at the very least...this time, It's a must to take it down!

It sure is alot different than when I play online and winning those Multi Table Tourneys or even makin all those final tables...Live is WAY BETTER!!!!!!

Short and Simple....

No game Friday...Played with the fellas Friday Night at Big Chris house...Talked them into playin at the very least $1-$1 NL...$.50 chips are just stupid...Kenny was good for dropping $150 in the game...Bought in for for $60, cashed out $150...ended up playin a $30 6-player tourney...lost...mis-played AKo to Kenny, thinkin I had the Ad and tryin to get Kenny to fold on a Qhigh board all diamonds...stupid game anyway....

Want to go to AC but only have $160 to my name, I decide to not go....

End up goin to Goodfellas game in Odenton, MD....Went up with Scooter...he laughed at me cause I was only goin up with $160...anyway, bought in for $120, Scooter busts out...says lets go...stack was up to $409, gotta go, I could've hitched a ride with Jimbo or River Ed cause he was on his way up...but decided it was best to leave with some money in my pocket for the week...got the AC itch though...but think it should pass by tomorrow...made plans to Greyhound it up in the morning, but might not foreal....who knows...set my alarm just in case....

I might be back!

I try to make my blogs all poker related....but I guess you can relate this entry to poker because it will help with "Bank-roll"

Anyway...As you all know I am currently looking for a new gig...I had an interview yesterday with A.J. Dwoskin & Associates, Inc. I met with the Vice President of Office and Retail Management, Ms. Carol L. Holder. Very nice lady...I believe the interview went very well...started off with her asking if I had a hard time finding the building...I kinda did, but I lied but I noticed this was a building my old job used to manage at Foulger-Pratt Companies. She was like, Oh yeah, that is right and started speaking about the property manager for that building..which was not in my portfolio, but I knew exactly who she was talkin bout and she wanted to clown him but decided it was best not too...we laughed about it though...Anyway, it wasn't much of an interview, she pretty much asked if my commute was hard being that I lived kinda far...told her, nope...actually it was a GREAT commute!! I mean, I ride one end of the Metro on the Orange Line to the other! I get a seat the whole way and I get to watch everyone rush to get a seat, stand or whateva...But you ask why is it a great commute? Well its 1 hour ride, like my last job, but I don't fight traffic, I don't drive, and I can't miss my stop when I fall asleep because its at the end of the line! How can you argue the fact I get to see the BEUTIFUL Women of DC in the summer time with their summer time business suits on..lookin all good...I might even find me a new girlfriend this summer...well find me a new friend to kick it with between playing poker! I get to stay fresh now, nice suits, fresh cut evey week again...man if I land this job, I will be so damn happy and its been a while since I have been a happy person...The benefits are off the hook except the Dental Plan...FLEX TIME!! What!!!! I can NEVER be late! lol Anyway, like I said it wasn't much of an interview, but gettin to know me, she was convinced that I have the qualifications and experience she is exactly looking for, the job description was pretty much my resume! She does have to meet with 2 other people this week, but I believe that I am the closest person she is looking for, being that she said that, but not in those words...Lets just cross our fingers and hope I can land this gig! Its funny...Ree asked my how my interview went and all I said was "it was aight" that was it....I don't need to speak more than I need to her...for what? Fuck that.....

Anyway, If I do get this gig, that means I don't have to beg to be someone's dealer and can actually play poker hopefully not Heinz poker cause I can actually put some money to the side to start my bankroll back up again!

It was tough to wake up yesterday...I like sleepin in till yall almost done with the work day, I like being up in the middle of the night when all is asleep...but I need to get my self together and get gig in order!

It's Immoral to let the sucker walk with the chips...

That was the whole story last night at Steve's Fish Tank...

Steve let me deal his game last night cause I need to re-build my bank roll...and cause im Broke as a Joke. We get to Steve's game at 4:30 PM Sunday afternoon with 6 players there playing...Other folx on the way there, and game fills up about 1 hour later with a wait list of 2...Big John and Rock. I think there was a higher-limit game going on that evening also, that a couple of folx had planned to attend already. Paige gets up from the game, no later than that, 2 others get up from the game, and Ryan and Cynthia call that they will be leavin in an hour...Travis and Noelle get there and Ryan and Cynthia leaves in a couple of rotations...Devon calls and says he is about to arrive with a friend...This is where the action begins....

His name is Erick, or you can call him E or you can call him R or you can call him Rick as he kept sayin and asking what the blinds are every 20 minutes...If you don't know, this guy is DRUNK as hell...he reaked liquor...sweats liquor...and talks like the liquor got the best of him! LOL

Buys in for $85 bucks...Ship it...gets his stack takin...I liked him cause he was tippin $5 bucks a hand he won...LOL

His boy Devon rebuy's him back in for a Ball...but he would make alot of crazy plays that he would push his stack in the middle...he did it on Travis...Travis doubles him up...next thing, Noelle doubles him up, then he is playin aggressive drunk poker and ends up runnin his stack to a good $650 maybe?

Gets around 11 and Pops is ready to go, Game looks like it will break, Travis decides to play Heinz poker early...Pops is already playing Heinz poker from earlier hands...gettin sucked out on...so nobody is tryin to let the kid go...we end up gettin him to play till he loses his stack....He was funny as hell...well..anybody drunk as he was is funny to me...till he got a lil racist...then he just left a bitter taste the rest of the evening and I couldnt wait for his stack to go...so im tryin to give hands to everyone especially those that are playing Heinz Poker...the later it got for Erick, the more his chips started to dwindle...they chipped him down to about $282 and then it happens....

Everyone enters the pot for $20 I believe because Erick bumps it up to $20 bucks...

Board is somethin like Js5s8s

checks around to Pops but Erick flat bangs it for the $262 he has left...Pops is pondering what to do...he is like "really" except Erick banged it out of turn...I tell him to hold on...its Pop's go...Pops is thinkin about callin...couple minutes later..."Call" Wow...Steve wanted to call...He mentions he has the Ace of spade and folds...I bind Erick's all in...Pops flips over 55 for a set of 5s and Erick has J9o with the 9 being a Spade...I get the pot right and I tell Pops straight up sorry Pops before I pull the turn out...Turn comes a Ks...I know the feeling of that...it sucks that Erick is about to get this monster pot...to lose this hand is heart breaking....But pops is family...I can't let this guy scoop this pot....River 8d....BOAT!!! Pops claps...tips me $30 bucks...this guy Erick is sick...he leaves....we cash out and call it a night.....

NEVER LET THE SUCKER LEAVE WITH ALL THE CHIPS is the saying...and this is one example of not letting the sucka leave....Pops beat Heinz poker today....I dealt for 14 hours straight with 1 break, didn't get a chance to eat lunch/dinner on Sunday...I did really well in tips...I'm happy, I'm super tired right now cause I only got 5 hour sleep....I can't wait to get my job man....I'd much rather play than deal, but dealing is guaranteed a win for me in my book...As erick would say, I can read that in chapter 6 page 179 from the "super series" book LOL