$1-$2 NL at the Donkey Coral

Went to Nelly and Travis' game last night...Game broke earlier than normal with most of the big chips cashing out...game broke around 1AM but the ones that usually stay late decided to just sit around and play some $2-$4 Limit Dealers Choice Game..any game was good except wild card games...we played 7-card Stud High and H/L, Omaha high and H/L, Holdem', Badoogie, and from the Gypsy...Pyramid LOL That game is STUPID LOL...Badoogie and 7-card Stud H/L was the choice for most of the evening...

Yeah, I lost my ass in DC...Everytime...Travis Begged me to deal cause he knows I lose my ass in DC as well LOL...I didn't listen...

I didn't lose any money when we were playin $1-$2 NL, I actually had a small profit...to be all lost in DC...within 1 rotation...im down to almost $50 bucks...hit $40 and decide fuck this game, I'll deal LOL

Broke even and said, "I'm tired" sat on the couch...at 6AM i found myself after breaking even from dealing, i made a whopping $6! I'm going to McDonalds!

I like paying off Royal Flushes!

Doubling the guy with a Royal Flush is FUN!

Played at Big Chris house tonight...friendly game of $1-$1 NL.

Who told Buddah to play tonight? Kenny owes me 2 Buy-ins!!!

Anyway, hand went down like this...

Live...Playing $1-$1 NL Friendly game with my crew......

7-players...
I had
Buddah had
Folds to Buddah, Buddah limps in for $1, Fold
I raised in the CO to $5, SB/BB folds, he calls

Pot: $12
Flop
Check, I bet $10, He Calls

Pot: $32
Turn: [ ]
Check, I push to get him off the club draw, he calls, only has $62 bucks left

Pot: $156
I ask Kenny, no clubs...Buddah says put a club out there
River: [ ]

Kenny says Club, Buddah Says Flush, Rosslyn says no thats a straight flush, I say no that is absolute Nutz Royal Flush....

I ship it...Glad he didn't have more behind him and left me with about $38 bucks...

Anyway, if anyone got hit with the deck it was Buddah...He couldn't miss any flops...he used it to his advantage and got me off hands where I would've rivered the best hand...He played well. There was no stopping him, lady luck was sittin on his lap giving him a lap dance while throwin the deck at his head...oh well...stuck $177 bucks at Big Chris house...I don't know why I even put that much money into the game when they don't even buy in for more than $30 at a time...I just try to grab the money they stick in the game and just keep scoopin each small buy in as my stack grows, but once Buddah Crippled me somethin viscious...It was re-buy after re-buy after re-buy...If only I played bad and thought that 1 pair was golden even bottom pair, I would've made money cause I would've been hittin trips the whole night...But with Buddahs Big Stack and he kept betting and his image he established with me flopping joints or monster draws and hittin them...I had no choice but to fold...

Tilt started after a 3-way all in when I flop a set of 5s, Dennis has KK, and Big Chris has a gut-shot on the flop...Dennis raises his KK, I re-raise my set of 5s..chris thinks and re-raises all in with a gut-shot straight draw...Dennis is all in cause his call wasn't enough to cover Chris' all in, I have both of them covered...to be rivered and Big Chris hits his 4-outer...Kenny knew exactly what I had and started shippin me the pot on the turn till that stupid 3 hit the river to give Big Chris that straight....4 outs...a gutshot...yeah...pushin all in when there was a big bet and a big raise is a real good play...BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP...This game is stupid and even more stupid when bad plays get paid off....Big Chris house will now be called Bad Beat Central...

But with Buddah's double up...I can't help to say that was a great hand...for him at least and he played it to perfection especially that I kept hammering at it...cant blame him for the call though...that flop was a monster for him! Too bad Buddah won't see that for another 7 years!! LOL

The Streak has been Broken!!! What a weekend of Games....

Wow what a GREAT FEELING TO ACTUALLY CASH OUT! I got my iPod back..its on and poppin again!!!!!!

Reds actually got higher towards the end of the night LOL

Pops Game at the S.H.O.P was great! Really no big hands stuck out to me...started growing early...

Got mixed up in a hand with Redpit and Brettster. Raised pot and I look down to AQ of apples so I call..Flop came out TsJd7s. Brettster bet out maybe $25 and Redpit and I call. Turn K of non apples...Brettster bets out $75 (he is fuckin around with 2 pair), Mikey pushes all in for over $300 (he is fuckin around with a straight...he flopped the lower end of the straight) and I hit the gutshot broadway on the Turn so I say "All In" also...just cause it sounded good to say it right after Redpit does LOL. Brettster thinks a minute and folds...with a real jizzled stack for Brettster after all the shaningans...River brings me a 5s and backs me into the nut flush...Redpit gets up and leaves for the day and I stack my chips...

Feeling all cocky I look down to KK with a raise from Slavi, Call, Call, I re-raise...Slavi sticks another $75 on my raise and I eye Slavi's stack up...ask him how much it is....and tell him to stick dat shit in there...."hope you don't have Aces man...stick it in there man" heh...he has AA, of course he does...I ship him a $300+ pot...didn't sting till an hour later when I realised...I wanna snap this kid off somethin bad now LOL No more of that again...LOL Lesson Learned LOL I play REAL GOOD!

My boys James and Kentland Jay came by to play also...they don't play too much $1-$2 with the MD-Poker Circuit of Home Games...Kentland Jay busted pretty quick...James was playin Ok as well...I got real lucky on him when he flops 2 Pair on a A95r board and I think I have AJ in my hand...Turn was a 9, we both check, river was an A to fill me up to give me a bigger boat over James turned boat...heh...I hit a 2-outer...me so lucky! I asked him to check it down, I even turned over my Ace on the turn but James didn't pay attention to me doing it and pushes it all in on the river...I should've thought twice cause if he seen my Ace and knew I had Aces Full...what else would be pushin? the big 2 pair red and black 9s...I insta call and he says 9's full i say Aces full and he ships it...he didn't even see me turn my Ace over to show him he told me...Gutsy call if you ask me cause if he did see that Ace and pushes...you would hope to believe he was pushin quads LOL

Anyway, stack just grew and grew...game was about to break when Goodfellas game breaks and he has a couple of guys that still wanna play, he sends them down to Pops game and they, at least Josh was drunk off there ass! They get to Pops place a little after 3AM and Greg and Josh sits down...we all agreed to cash out and re-buy back in cause we felt it wasn't fair to have them sit down to stacks between $600 - $1000 around the table....They said it was cool...I cash out and leave $250 on the table...

Greg busts and Josh is the only one playin against Me, Travis and Jeff...Drunk as I don't know what...he was Sweatin Hennessy LOL Talkin was slurred...it was funny, but we wasn't tryin to let him leave at all....

He was raising every pot, pushin all in alot...and he pushed one time when I had 99...took a second for me to call, I had to talk myself into callin him cause he was playin so wreckless and wild and he was drunk...Heh..he had KK..but the turn card was a hell of a turn card turnin me 14 outs...straight, flush and a set but heh, I miss LOL he stacks my chips...

The three of us take turns stabbin at Josh's Chips...Pops finally calls the game at 7AM so we need to get his chips quick...

Heh, what do you know..AA!!!

I limp in as well as everyone else...Josh Raises of course....I think how can I get this dudes chips in the middle...I min raise him...Travis looks at me funny....and folds...He already knows what I got, Jeff Folds and of course...Josh re-raises all in...BOOOM...CALL! Flips over AKo...AA holds up and I scoop the pot, they roll out, we count our chips...another small profit...cash out and call it a day...Heh, Steve's tournament is in a couple hours...

Get home to take a 3 hour Nap and get up to get going to Steve's Fish Tank to play the $100+$10 tourney...Had 30 players locked...but only 22 players showed up...I bust pretty early wanting to get into the $1-$2 NL game...I gave up on the tourney after I flopped TPTK on an 8 high board...I had A8h and 1 heart came on the flop...heh, I got TPTK with a flush draw LOL guy keeps hammering it and I won't go away...turn a heart, now im deffinately not goin nowhere...River is a rag of non heart...FUCK...oh well...he checks his KK cause he got worried cause I aint go nowhere, I should've flat banged it there, but just checked it and said I have an 8...LOL table is like WTF cause I didn't play a hand for at least 30 minutes when I was moved to the table...everyone was like, uh oh, he hasn't played a hand and every one folded...LOL they were suprised what trash I was playin LOL

Ran downstairs to get into the cash game b4 it filled up, that is why I gave up and just wanted to dump my chips cause I didn't want to get on the wait list..got into the game to run my stack up to a little over $500 to make my buy in back from the tourney and make a small profit for the day/night/early morning...Heh, not a bad weekend!

Oh yeah...My friday game was a blast! We played 2-way $3-$6 Limit 30 Minutes of Omaha H/L8 and 30 Minutes 7-Card Stud H/L 8..Game was awesome! Kill pots brought the Omaha game to $5-$10 and that was SICK!!!

Great weekend! What a weekend of games!

Next game is Wednesday at the Donkey Coral...If you haven' t been yet, you need to go! Great Game with Nelly's good home cooked meals!

The Streak will never end.....

Add another L to my Loss column...I swear...can't win a game for shit!

Went over to Pops game on Tuesday to play a $100 Tournament...Ended up only being 1 table. We played it head hunter style so basically it was $120...Luckily I knocked Pops out when he decided to push when I woke up to AA...they held up one time!

Bubbled the tourney so I took a $100 loss...

Game ended early and Pops didn't want to have a cash game, so we decided to just have a 6 handed Sit N Go for $50 bucks..winner take all....

Played 1...I lost
Played a 2nd one...we were down to 3 of us left..waitin for 1 to get knocked out to chop up the prize money...ended up not goin nowhere, and I begged for a chop to lock me in for $100 to make back the $50 I lost on the first one...I'll be happy with that...So ended up being stuck $100 for the night....

Wednesday night, Travis didn't have his Wednesday Night Game...came back too late from Atlantic City, didn't get the word out in time to pull a game together...

Keenan has his buddies friendly game on Thursdays and he was hosting it this week..he invited me over so me and Kenny went down there to play a $10 tournament...top 2 gets paid...i think it was 12 of us playing..then we played some dealers choice for .20-.40-.60 limit....very fun, help Kenny learn other games...and he won a good $70 bucks from it...me....im stuck $4 bucks in there plus the $10 from the tourney...

Chalk up another losing session again...I'm just glad it wasn't a shit load of money and we were just playin penny poker for a change...sure did help the bug out of wanting to play with out destroying more of my bank roll...hopefully that got out all the bad luck and losing streaks out of my system...

I'm hosting a Friday Night Game this Friday...somethin small..We are going to play $3-$6 Limit Round of Each...Omaha and 7-Card Stud H/L8...should be fun! Lets just hope I don't donk off my chip stack this time around so I can play the rest of the weekend...full of poker as usual...Pops $1/$2 NL game Saturday and Steve is having a 3 Table tournament $100 buy in and its full too! That should be a sweet game right there!

Lets Call E a Fuckin IDIOT

This deserves its own post to show how STUPID ONE CAN GET PLAYIN ONLINE AND FUCKED UP.....WTF.....



WTF FUCKIN RETARDED MAN

***** Hand History for Game 4554516882 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:25016800 Level:3 Blinds(50/100) - Tuesday, June 20, 00:01:55 ET 2006
Table Regular(736112) Table #23 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: jamesbong3 ( $909 )
Seat 2: gostosa77 ( $6165 )
Seat 3: magicmatt123 ( $11320 )
Seat 4: willy72 ( $1935 )
Seat 5: MikesBarto ( $5974 )
Seat 6: Ehonda500Mob ( $3848 )
Seat 7: Aubrey_O ( $6585 )
Seat 8: hutchb21 ( $18805 )
Seat 9: ShmyEmmy ( $3750 )
Seat 10: STAMINAKINGG ( $3685 )
Trny:25016800 Level:3
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ehonda500Mob [ Tc Th ]
>You have options at Regular(736106) Table #22 Table!.
MikesBarto folds.
Ehonda500Mob raises [200]. - for some reason i thought it was fuckin still 25-50...
Aubrey_O calls [200].
hutchb21 calls [200].
ShmyEmmy folds.
STAMINAKINGG folds.
>You have options at Regular(736106) Table #22 Table!.
jamesbong3 calls [200].
gostosa77 folds.
magicmatt123 calls [150].
willy72 calls [100].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Jh, 5d ]
magicmatt123 bets [100].
willy72 folds.
Ehonda500Mob calls [100].
Aubrey_O folds.
hutchb21 calls [100].
jamesbong3 calls [100].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
magicmatt123 bets [470].
Ehonda500Mob folds. <--------------------- WTF GOD DAMN IT.....
hutchb21 calls [470].
jamesbong3 folds.
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
Ehonda500Mob: XXXX
Ehonda500Mob: XXXX'F
magicmatt123 bets [1162].
Ehonda500Mob: XXXXI HIT FOLD INSTEAD
Ehonda500Mob: XXXX
hutchb21 calls [1162].
magicmatt123 shows [ 7c, Jc ] a pair of jacks.
hutchb21 doesn't show [ Qs, Ad ] high card ace.
magicmatt123 wins 4864 chips from the main pot with a pair of jacks.
Game #4554526503 starts.

YEAH I FUCKIN PLAY REAL GOOD GOD DAMN IT!!

**** UPDATE COUPLE HANDS LATER IN ANOTHER TOURNEY****

This made me feel alot better!

***** Hand History for Game 4554612088 *****

NL Texas Hold'em Trny:25016044 Level:5 Blinds(150/300) - Tuesday, June 20, 00:16:35 ET 2006
Table Regular(736106) Table #22 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 3: Ehonda500Mob ( $21308 )
Seat 4: LuKkyWon ( $10012 )
Seat 5: doougle ( $4269 )
Seat 6: bad69creek ( $6404 )
Seat 8: flyers1113 ( $3703 )
Seat 10: Ifilterblood ( $17254 )
Seat 2: policeman369 ( $20121 )
Seat 7: Queeny_Bee ( $6356 )
Seat 1: Hastveda ( $7444 )
Seat 9: superstone2 ( $4983 )
Trny:25016044 Level:5
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ehonda500Mob [ 5s 5h ]
doougle calls [300].
bad69creek calls [300].
Queeny_Bee folds.
flyers1113 folds.
Ifilterblood: wtf?
superstone2 folds.
Ifilterblood folds.
Hastveda folds.
policeman369 calls [300].
Ehonda500Mob calls [150].
LuKkyWon checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 5d, Ks ]
Ehonda500Mob checks.
LuKkyWon bets [1025].
doougle folds.
bad69creek calls [1025].
policeman369 calls [1025].
flyers1113: ?
Ehonda500Mob calls [1025].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
flyers1113: whats the matter
Ehonda500Mob checks.
LuKkyWon bets [5600].
bad69creek folds.
policeman369 folds.
Ehonda500Mob calls [5600].
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
Ehonda500Mob checks.
LuKkyWon is all-In [3087]
Ehonda500Mob calls [3087].
Ehonda500Mob shows [ 5s, 5h ] four of a kind, fives.
LuKkyWon shows [ Qs, Kc ] two pairs, kings and fives.
Ehonda500Mob wins 22974 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, fives.
Player LuKkyWon finished in 287 place

E's Saturday $1-$2 NL Game

Well another great game this past Saturday! Full table all night! Shortest we got was 6 handed around 3:30 AM with alot of the money still on the table...lots of guys fell victom to River Ed's wins on the river...Wasn't alot of cash outs for the night either, with Steve, CEO of the Fish Tank is the big winner of the night! $1400 win!!!

HAND OF THE NIGHT

Steve is on the button with 9...ony a 9 because he was only dealt 1 card....i believe it was limped around to him and he raises....then asked the dealer for 1 more card...everyone laughs and it was re-raised to him afterwards...(yall know my hand history skills so this might be slightly off from what happened...I'll get corrected though...) Anyway..he ends up callin whatever the raise was...and the flop doesn't give him a set...there was probably a bet on the flop with a re-raise all in and gets called...now its a 2 way all in with Steve having Ross and Ed covered...seriously, I can't rememeber when all the money went in teh middle, but the river brought a 9 to set Steve and to scoop...he didn't need that last 9, but it made the hand that more interesting...everyone got up with "ooooohhh shitttts" lol River Ed and Ross rebuy...

**EDIT** The real hand history directly from Steve:

STEVE said...

real hand history .. limped to me .. I make it $20 on the button with a 9 (just a 9). River Ed raises to $40 .. Ross to $140 ... I think about it hollywood style .. then say >> "I'll need 1 more card to call.." I get the card and auto call $140 with 9/9.
flop comes 8/5/3 and I push all in.

River Ed calls ... I hit the set on the river and take it all. I honestly dont think I needed the 9."

There was no lookin back for Steve though...stack just grew and grew and grew the rest of the night!

Another memorable hand of the night that started a war between JackJr. and Pops....I small raising war preflop when JackJr. decides to make a $100 raise to pops re-raise...Pops smooth calls and the flop is AQx...At this point...Pops thought JackJr. was all in and flips over his set of Queens while JackJr. was about to bet again...JackJr. . was so frustrated for some reason that he felt the need to stand up and slam his cards down to show a set of Aces...He only had $81 behind him, but he could've probably doubled up if Pops didn't show his hand...none the less...JackJr. shouldn't have shown his cards and just went all in and see what Pops would do...

JackJr. ran his stack up a lil bit and did one thing that puts pops on tilt....suck out somethin bad lol...he knew he was gonna do it too...Pops obviously had the best hand but of course JackJr. doesn't like people drawing on him, but here he goes chasing a flush again and ends up spiking it on the river after pops is hammering each street with bets lol. After that, Pops targeted JackJr. till he was down the felt...

Then at 4:50 in the AM...Pops finally gets the job done.....after talkin shit to get JackJr. to put me all in for my double up with my set of Jacks...I think he tilted a little bit after that....and especially he was tryin to leave for the past 2 hours...we kept talkin him into stayin a while...

I'm not exactly sure what the flop was but the flop was Jack high and that gave JackJr. a set on the flop and he pushes in the remaining stack he has...Pops says he can't fold I have to call you and is disqusted that JackJr. shows his set...Pops says I need help and turns a Q to give pops a set of Queens and he says there it is and shows on the turn, River is blank and JackJr. ships his stack via knockin the stack across the table and exits the table with out sayin anything to nobody....wow....the game is sick.....

No games today cause its Fathers Day...I stayed in Bed all day after a long weekend of poker and no sleep, I slept good, but now im up all night...Game at Big Chris' house Monday Night...I need to go over there and play good and not like a jerk and win my money back I lost on Friday...I didn't lose alot, but still I have lost money there the last 2 games I played there and its a must I leave out a win...

oh yeah, I did jump in the game last night to only lose $37 bucks...still in a losing streak and Steve brought my iPod and I forgot to get it out his car so I might not be playin any games this week...............Got a couple of guys that owe me some money at the next upcoming games as well, I might not play just cause of the Cash Out curse.....

The Donkey Coral.....What a dumb game...

Yeah....So I blame Steve for my $900 loss but was reminded about the Cash Out Curse so he is off the hook for $600...I blame Steve for my $300 loss last night at the Coral!

anyway so yeah...Me and Ed get into a hand and this is just sick.......Its a limped pot and Travis will correct me if I'm wrong...I'm dealt 89o so I stick around in the CO...

Flop is 7KT 2 clubs
bet, call, call
Turn is 9 of non clubs
bet, call, call
River is 6c
bet 20, call, I raise to 60, ed goes all in, pops folds, I call

E: "I have a straight"
Ed: "Flush, King High"
E: "There aint no flush....SHIT....FUCK...THERE IS A FLUSH"
Laughter through out the room...Blue won't shut the fuck up...I get rode for a while.....What a Gay Game....Rebuy....

Play tight...tight is right....get dealt AKo limped in as does the majority of the table...
Flop is A8X
I bet 35, I think Matt just calls
Turn X
I bet 50
He pushes
I call
Shit....
set of 8s

This game is gay....Not too long, Ed makes his board back and cashes da fuck out...early night...I'm home by 11PM...

Play on party and do OK....Made $150 in the $1/$2 NL game....

My game is Friday, if you aint doin nothing, come on out!

River Ed will Drown Ya at the Fish Tank

Even though River Ed didn't walk with any money for the night....it was too late to recover from drowning and being reminded why we call Ed..."River Ed"

Went to the Fish Tank last night to play Steve's $40 2-Table Tourney and $1/$2 NL Cash Game...Already planned on playin the tourney as a freeroll and stick it in there and either double up or get da hell out....Yeah, I was 2nd to bust...River Ed 1st....Travis 3rd...That should've been a givin as we were the top 3 donkeys in the house! LOL

Cash game didn't start in no time...started soon as 4 was able to play...Travis looked up to me and said "bad table Selection" and I was already thinkin that and couldn't agree more...Starting line up while we waited for players to bust was Alex, River Ed, Me, And Travis...That means trouble....

Soon, players were busting and the table fills quick...

Ed Busts Travis and he now will go pick up Noelle and stop by the store for us...He wasn't even gone 20 minutes before I was rebuying Twice already....

This is when I was reminded why we call Ed..."River Ed"

Let me set up this story when he got me on major Tilt and it was no lookin back to becoming sane again....

At the S.H.O.P...River Ed shows up and we get in a hand that it was raised and River Ed re-raises and it comes to me and I re-raise...I'm sittin with a little $700 at this point...I think about what will Ed bet...so I decide to just put him all in cause if he just calls my raise...the money is gonna end up going in the middle on the flop regardless...so not to leave myself with a hard decision on the flop...I decide to just stick it all in there..."I'm all in Ed"

Ed replies, "Do you have pocket Aces?"
"Yes...I have Aces"
"I believe you, I call"

everyone laughs and I slam my Aces on the table...

Aces hold up and I rake a pot in worth $800+/- dollars!

So anyway...On to last night....Me and River Ed are in a hands heads up again...

it was an unraised pot and I limped in with A5o

Flop came out 753 somethin like that....

He checks, I bet $12, he calls...

Turn is a [753]5

I bet again...$35...while he is about to call...I say wait Ed...I have trip 5s man...just fold....
He says...I believe you E...but the river hasn't come yet...I can win...I call

OK..fine....River 7

Fuck...I check...Ed says "All in"

God damn it....I fold....he shows me the fuckin 7 for 7s full when I just have 5s full....

and rebuy again...Slapped with a big reminder....and it was all down hill from there...

End up shippin my 2nd buy in within 20 minutes when its a 3 diamond board and I hit top pair with 1 diamond in my hand and shove it in on the flop to be called with a set of 2s from Alex...

I try to find me a Heinz Kethup pack to use as my card protector from here on the rest of the night and couldn't find one, so I took his kethup bottle from his fridge and used that as my card protector...

It wasn't heinz so it didn't work...and I took a slow death last night to leave me stuck $600 bucks....

Does the new set of chips come with a new dealer button?

If anyone got hit with the deck last night it was Haga...Soon as he sat down, his stack just kept going, kept going, kept going and he never looked back...As for the other players...Lets say One warned me not to be alone in a dark alley and the other was my ride back home and was threatened to be dropped off on the beltway...then that was followed by, im following you home cause when you drop E off, I'm going to run him over like he is lettin me get ran over by Haga!

That was the top conversation at the Fish Tank last night as I dealt the night away.

Haga deserves the big win as much as he has been losing at the cash games most recently...last time we seen him win somethin big was at the Fish Tank's 40-person $100 tourney.

Lets talk about Sam...Sam I am is his famous hat...I can't remember a time when he has ever won when I dealt the cards...he is a decent player, but when I deal...he might as well either get up or just pass out his money evenly to all players....Every time I deal...he complains about the cards he gets...I've only played with him once before and I never heard him complain, all the other times he has played, I have been dealing the game and he always complains...at times I'll look at his cards and he isn't lying...T3o...Q2o....K3o.....T3o again, etc...you get the picture...But you know what? If Sam could only play the trash I was giving him last night, he would've had the Stack Rob was sittin on last night...That made him hate me more LOL...

Big John...Well...I suck...thats it to it...I suck real bad...It didn't fail that I gave Big John cards that actually hit the flop...2 pair...pairs...to only get crushed by Rob's Bigger 2 pair or straights hittin the board....or bigger flushes...While Big John said he liked The Fish Tank's New Cash Chips..he asked if the new set came with a dealer change button!

Everyone else just sat around and folded either to make a couple dollars or to lose a couple dollars....

River Ed came by also...warned everyone to strap there seat belts on...they loved River Ed. Like Saturday...River Ed didn't last long...Now he owes me $400!!! "$15 live Straddle" when he figured out that didn't work...he went higher..."$20 live straddle" yall know how River Ed loves to put his chips in the middle...pretty much happened every hand he was in...only to find out when he is finally called, he was beat!

I tell yall what...Haga kept gettin cards cause he is ONE HELL OF A TIPPER!!!

Lesson Learned...if you run on the heater for a while..tip well...and the heater will never run cold!

Sick Sick Game...

God Damn this game is sick...

Saturday afternoon headed up to the S.H.O.P with JackJr. and got there at 4PM for start of the game...Got in the game for $160 to start with...slow start, bled a little bit and had to re-load my dwindling stack another $100...Played tight, Didn't try and make any moves and built my stack little by little...Then got in a hand with Lance and Mike...Mike was a new guy that works with RobBobGolf...It was a raised pot to $7 bucks and I look down to an un-suited Scooter (KTo)

Flop came out 9JQ(2 hearts) and Lance bet out $12 bucks, called by Mike and I bumped it up to $35 bucks...Lance smooth calls, Mike re-pops me maybe another $40 so I push all in, Lance says fuck it and calls, and so does mike....I turn the nuts over and ask for no hearts..they both turn there cards over and Lance is lookin for the Nut flush while Mike is lookin for the 2nd nut flush...sweet...they both sharing hearts! Ask Noelle to put a heart out there and I dodge the flush and rake in a huge pot!

This is where the heater starts and end up runnin my stack to a good $1300 at one point...

The blues got as high as the red chips at one point with a buck and a half stack of greens, blues are $10 and of course reds are $5 and Whites are $1...It was at one point I had to look around my stack to see my cards LOL...It helped that my big pairs held up alot...couple hands I outplayed others and took down some pots...

Then I got AA again...when it was straddled to $4 then re-straddled to $8...

Dan, new guy to the game ends up pushin it up to $40 bucks...

"$140 to go"
Dan Calls...Dan calls and we see a flop,

Q48 (2 spades) somethin like that....

"$150" I say...
"All-In".....A little more than $1000...
"Wow"

I talk my self though some hands he could have and put him on a set of Queens, I muck...in disgust and he shows me his set...good fold...tilts me a little...as Dan is gettin lucky the whole night and has me racing to be chip leader..both of us were the big stacks of the table...

Now I'm tryin to get my stack back to what it was supposed to be...and get mixed up in a hand with Greg (came later in the morning) and Travis...I've got a Suited Nelly and flop 2 to the flush...bets all around I think $10 or $12....Turn is a diamond...sweet...Bet out $40, Greg pops me for a min raise to $80, Travis calls and I ask who has the most between the both of them...Travis had Greg Covered, so I re-raise enough to put them both all in...Greg folds...Travis calls...He knows im beat...asks for the board to pair....River K to pair the board..."Fuck" Travis says Quads...I'm more sick...now im tilted....

Stack gettin smaller and smaller....barely over $500 bucks now...still have my red towers though so I'm ok...I'm seriously tilted...not having a good time anymore....

Now ever since Greg got there...he got the rock (Forced straddle) and always raised it to $12 to go...and would always win the pot, nobody could beat Greg when he had the rock and had to put it out there...and of course, everyone limps around to him expecting a raise, I wouldn't play unless I was gonna be able to call his raise...I tried to make a play on him but It didn't work..this time I got him...the whole table limped around to me and I popped it up to $40 to go...folds to Lance and he calls me...Board is a ragged rainbow flop and I bet $100 to play...Lance pushes all in for an additional $226+ and if I called it would pretty much break me even with about $13 more than what I was in the game for...Wow....What do I do here...I don't put him on a set, but put him on over cards like QQ or KK and after alot of though, decide to fold..I don't wanna gamble...I don't wanna be back to even....he shows me AK and bluffs a big pot to get Lance back in the game...Had I made the call, he busts and he doesn't get his money back at the end of the game....Now im TILTED....

Long story short...I end up makin a come back and end up getin my stack back to a little over $795 and its now 7AM and its time to go...Had it not been Pops' daughter's birthday, we probably still be playing right now...

NL has brutal swings...and is a very sick game....all that work for a $475 profit after shipping Travis $60 bucks I owed him for some Party Poker Money...

Gonna deal Steve's game later on today, so hopefully I can get back the difference I lost in those big hands earlier last night...Bed Time for a couple hours now................

Simply Amazing

Im sittin here playing party poker outside on my porch while I'm watching Cheyenne play outside...and it just dawned on me...

On Wednesday...JesseY, who is barely 21...was 4-tabling $10-$20 NL because he was on tilt for losing 3K at the chairmans game...plays $1-$2 NL with us and drops easily $400...

He ships it to to Travis and Noelle to pay his $400 board...

Its just funny to me that he has over $10K in play with a HUGE BANKROLL that I won't put out there, but I know myself personally nor my bank has ever seen that much money ever...but he can't afford to buy in a live $1-$2 NL game...Fuck Off! Thats my new saying...I just finished watching the Osbournes First Series on DVD...Too Funny!

As JesseY Walks in the Door

"Hey Guys! I'm on Tilt, I dropped 3K at the Chairman's Game..I aint folding no hands for the first orbit of the game..."

Couple hours later...

"Fuck, I'm having a real rough night...I'm on super tilt...I think I'll go 4-Table $10-$20 NL on party and fuck off $8G more"

Classic!

Cutty's Thursday Tourney

Haven't been to Cutty's game in a while...probably since winter time some time...

I was trying to get a game together and play a single Table Tourney..somethin cheap and friendly so we can get together, play some cards and hang out...but of course...as my boys complain we don't have tourneys, I tried to put one together...they don't wanna come out...go figure...

So I call Kenny and see if he wants to head down to Cuttys game...he has a $100+$15 Re-Buy tourney...Kenny only likes to play tourneys that is $100+ so I knew he would be interested especially since he got either 3rd or 2nd last time we played...

We head out there and games starts about 10 minutes I get there...

I decide I wanna be cute and chase the nut straight...I flopped open ended...I know Rocko has a good hand and I just try and force my cards to get there...end up losing a shit load of chips LOL Board wasn't scary enough for me to bluff at it cause I know he knows im chasing...

sit around a couple hands...try and see some flops...keep missing, now im down to T$3600 in chips...from T$10K in starting chips...mind you not even 10 minutes have passed...couple hands later, i get JJ and raise to $700 to go...Rocko re-raises me and I end up shoving the rest of my chips in there along with Launtz...wow, im so dead...Rocko has QQ, Launtz shows AJo and QQ's hold up...REBUY!

Now im in for $100 and decide to play right...All-In Dave doubles me up I can't remember how...and he re-buys...lots of rebuys on my table cause Launtz and All-In Dave like to shove chips in the middle...

Of course i get in another hand with Launtz and All-In Dave...Launtz is acting first and limps in and I limp in with JQd and All-In dave limps in as well...Blinds are 200-400 and 2 hearts hit the board and I pair my Q for 2nd pair on the flop and Launtz fires at the pot...I sit and think, look at my cards...decide to smooth call his ass, dave does the same....Turn brings a 2h....Launtz decides to check when that heart falls...I think...think...and decide to fire $4500 at the pot...Not overbetting the pot...damn I wish I remember what the numbers were and all that, but by now you should know that I can't remember hand histories for nothing...but anyway, I fire at the pot, Dave mumbles good bet and folds after thinking...not that long though...uh oh...Launtz is counting chips...he keeps lookin at me, he keeps lookin at the board...I thought I seen him start to throw the chips in the middle and then he goes...god damn good bet E...mucks his cards...I rake the pot and show the JQd and Dave and Launtz are upset...Launtz was ahead with 2-pair and a possible flush if 1 more heart hits the board...All-In dave is upset and asked to see the rest of the cards..he would've tagged a straight some how...I don't know...thats what he said but never showed his cards...couple hands later they still sayin, damn that was a great bet...had I bet $2K or less, they was in it to win it...Whew...got away with that one...and that put me at over $20K in chips and they move Rocko to the other table and now I am table captain!

I sit on chips...play and pick my spots...and make it to the final table with Decent Chips...Cutty's moms made the final table and she bubbled out....I say, lets cut a deal for 5th place as 4 places are being paid out instead of 3 because of all the rebuys...sweet...Since I have a good track record of bubbling out of tournaments...I was straight...they decide to cut out $100 off 1st place and give it to 5th...even if I hit 5th, I still lose money cause I was in for $215 cause of my 1 rebuy...

Played well, stole some pots...they never called any of my raises...which was sweet...then Launtz decides to stand up to me and re-raise my 4x BB raise...I'm lookin at KK and go all in on top of his raise he naturally calls and has AQ, I ask for the Ace to come and it didn't! It worked again and of course they are confused..."Why are you asking for an Ace to come?" Don't you know if you ask for a card NOT to come, it comes...so to confuse the poker Gods...I ask for the Ace to come...and it worked! Gotta thank Travis for that lil trick!

Down to 4 handed...and Lance and Erick are in a hand together...Lance limps in, so does erick...me and dude fold...heads up..flop is rags and and lance checks...Erick pushes all in with Q5o and he pairs the 5 on the board...bottom pair....Lance calls with AQ and tags an Ace on the turn to put Erick Out..he is upset..."How do you call?" Lance says, how do you call an all in with that garbage...Erick is very purturbed and just sits there in disgust...no one says anything cause it got a lil tense...so we continue to play...fold a couple of orbits...and short stack asked me to chop 2nd and 3rd place prize...I look at his chips and says...na lets play man...he says you know it only takes 1 hand..I know man...as Lance raises 3x the BB...I push all in with AQ and he insta calls with QQ...like dude said...all it takes is one hand....im out in 3rd place for $300 bucks....wow All that to make $85 bucks LOL..2nd got $500 and 1st got a good $900 bucks...

The cash game was Whoa....Lots of rebuys. and those rebuys going in on 1 hand...they are playing dealers choice with Pitch as there game of choice...its 7-card stud H/L8...dealt 4 cards, pitch 1 card, roll 1 up and play goes like 7-card stud...I decide I'm going to deal the game...Kenny sits 1 orbit to see how to play...wins his first pot..and instantly falls in love with the game...he ended up shippin his stack when he mis-read his cards and thought he had the nut low when he was 9 high LOL...Did I mention this game was $2-$5 PL capped at $50 bucks? man...pots were huge!!!!!! Dealt the game for less than 1 hour...made another $50 in tips and Erick says its raining outside...Kenny says his wipers don't work...tags are dead...its time to go...Thanks for the tips fellas...great game...see ya next time!

Made a couple dollars...

Going to deals Berts game tonight...Hit Pops Game Saturday...and either deal The Scotts' game on Sunday or play...either way, full weekend of Poker!

I need to get out to the Trop on Wednesday for the Deep Stack Tournaments they are runnin now! $80+$10 and you start with $10K in chips as the blinds start at 25-50...NICE!

Catch yall on Monday!

Wednesday Curse has been broken!

Last night I went to the Donkey Corral and got in the game for $150...we started out playin $2-$4 Limit Dealers choice while we waited for more players to show up...About 3 rounds later $1-$2 NL started up...

I wasn't going to show up cause I didn't have a ride or enough money to play and I felt like shit cause I got sick on Tuesday...but of course, I have to go...I bring medicine, call a cab and make my way to the game...

Started off slow...slowly building up my chips...This time, I aint gonna take any coin flips and play solid poker the whole night...

I only lost 1 big pot the whole night when I flopped top 2 with 2 diamonds and Jeff ended up turning the nut flush and I ended up folding...

Lost a decent pot when I flopped a set of 7s and the flop was horrible with it showing 567 turn 9 and the river bringing 3 to the flush...can't remember what the suits were, you gonnna have to ask Travis the hand history man...

Over all...it was a good night..ended up cashing out with$570 for the night...took a cab home and tried to fall asleep but couldn't...still feeling a little under the weather...

Couple of buddies expressed interest to play a $50 Single Table Tourney...so hopefully I will be able to pull a couple of more playersfor tonight...

Side thought...As im sitting here typing this in...Celebrity Poker Showdown is on...I hated this show from the start, but seen it was Phil Helmuth on there as the co-announcer or whatever...but wow...these celebrities are TERRIBLE...how can I invite them to some of our $1-$2 NL Home games???

Weekend Recap

Friday Night at Big Chris' House

Finally got a chance to pick up Guitar Hero for the PS2 Friday...Waiting on Bert to give me a call if he needed a dealer for his Brother's game...but didn't hear from him so went up to Big Chris house for a friendly game of $1-$1 NL with the crew...

The little kid that I am, I didn't want to put down my new toy when the cards started flying....First hand I'm still jammin on my new toy and it was limped to me...

"Raise" $5 to go...in the dark

Two callers including Big Chris....Uh oh, now im in trouble, cause Chris wont play unless he has somethin...

Pot: $17 in the pot
Flop: [Q37]r

Check to me...

"I bet...$7" still playing with my new toy...still in the dark

called both ways...

Pot: $38
Turn: [Q73]7

Checked all the way around...

Pot: $38
River: [Q737]Q

Check to me...
"OK...no one bet...$12 to play"

Chris calls quick....Folds...

"What ya got?"
"7s Full"
"Lets see what I got...T...Q...Oh....Bigger Yact! Ship it"

Couple hands later...Franks arrives at Big Chris house...sits down...

His first hand in I believe...

I look down to 25s on the button...limped all the way around 7 players.

Pot: $7
Flop: As3s6h

Checked to Frank...He bets $5, Folds to me, I call...Chris Calls also...

Pot: $22
Turn: [As3s6h]4d

Check all the way around...

Pot: $22
River: [As3s6h4d]4s

Frank Bets $17
"Raise...$35 on top"
Chris Folds
Franks calls..."Boat 6s Full"
"Steel Wheel sir"
"Boat" pointing out the boat to me....
"Steel wheel is straight flush man...I win...ship it"
"Ohhhh...Damn"
"Chris...Lemme get $50 more"

after a string of boats everyone was catchin tonight...I ended up cashing out $50 profit....I don't know...don't ask me...

My First Saturday Game...Back on the Circuit! $1-$2 NL

Got my game kicked off hoping to revive what was my old Friday Night Games...The game actually went very well!

Started the game off at 4PM with Lauren Catering the best food we have gotten since Fridays Games...Food is actually been the very best since she started catering for my games! She made this week Baked BBQ, Corn on the Cob, Awesome Greenbeans, Potato Salad...yes indeedy...a Little messy cause of the baked BBQ Chicken, but none the less...everyone was full!

It was good seeing some old faces from the Friday game...It was good seeing Don come on through with one of his buddies from the Chairman's Game...Anne made a special appearance..been a while since I've seen her...Of course Pops, Travis, Noelle came on through along with some players from Bert's game as well, Keenan came by later on the night after he faded himself thinkin Cambridge, MD was close to us...so it was a good mix of new players for everyone...Travis ,Noelle and Keenan wanted to go to Atlantic City instead, but I asked that they just play a couple hours and head up...They left that evening to head up to AC when the new shift of players came on through...

Game was real good with tons of action..The board was up to $3000 at one point...it was around 1AM when we noticed that alot of players came through and left without cashing out a significant amount...the majority of the chips were still on the table...

All in all it was a nice juicy game...Thanks to all of you that came out to make the game a sucess...Hopefully this will work out every other Saturday opposite of Pops Saturday game!

Sunday Night...Back at Big Chris' House $1-$1 NL

"The Scott" ended up cancelling his game for Sunday so I ended up playing back at Chris' house on Sunday...Was a bigger game from Friday and the new fish from last week ended up showing up again to try and redeem there 1st loss last week...By the time they get there...I'm in the game for $250 already...The girl was jive drunk and was very flirtatious...I wish I knew dude she came with wasn't her boyfriend then I would've been a lil more open instead of tryin to be slick when she was sittin beside me...Me and Kenny kept lookin at each other like, we need to take this chick back home afterwards LOL...anyway...it was already 11:34 and I was sitting with $85 bucks left from my $250, and I bet Rosslyn and The girl..(I have no idea what the chick's name was) I would be back to even in 30 minutes..."yeah right" OK Bet...they claimed I bet $20 each, but I don't remember...anyway...I was $13 short from breaking even when the 30 minute mark hit...I ended up giving them $5 each cause I don't remember betting the $20...

Anyway, played Heinz poker the whole evening barely breaking the $250 mark back and forth...and game ended up breaking up but Frank didn't wanna quit cause he was stuck a whole lot...plus he didn't have more than $80 left, so I said lets play heads up...

Kenny and Rosslyn couldn't just sit there and watch, so they ended up rebuying a couple times to get back in the game...Kenny rebuys twice when we are 4 handed...

Big hand came when it was just me, rosslyn and frank...

I have Ad9s

I can't remember how the betting went, but rosslyn ended up raising it to $10 or somethin like that and we both just call...

Flop is all diamonds...rosslyn pushes all in, I call, Frank Calls...

Black Ace comes out on the turn...Frank pushes all in, I think a while...thinking I should just call cause I tagged teh Ace...and I still have my diamond draw...Now I woldn't have called if the Ace didn't hit...but since It did, I had frank covered...I been hittin flushes all night...and if I win the hand, game is over, I clean the table and get the whole bank....River Black 5 to give Frank the Wheel....

Ended up playin till 5:30AM to be stuck $165 bucks for the night....What a silly game....

Dealing Pops Tourney this Tuesday...$70+$20+$10 Head hunter game...These headhunter tourneys are fun...I just think I need to deal this time around cause of the loss I took on Sunday...

I so wanted to go to Atlantic city with Travis, Noelle and Keenan...Hopefully I can make it up soon...Wanted to meet up with Karol and Dawn and donate some money to them on the $1-$2 NL Tables...They are poker bloggers I ran into searching for poker blogs to read and started reading there blog on a regular!

Argh..The donkey Coral....

ARGH......2 Weeks in a row....WTF....

I get a stack early...run my $150 to a little over $400 in about 2 hours...Now Usually...When I get a stack...Its hard to get me off my stack...Within 1 1/2 hours...stack dwindles to a little under $100...

KK - No good
KK - No Good again...2 hands later after getting the first
JJ - No Good
JJ - No Good again..
QQ Actually held up one time...

Missing tons of flops for no reason...

Bang it in for my last $70 bucks..scoop 1 or 2 limpers plus the blinds with 99

Very Next hand, get JJ...Bang it again...Pops calls so quickly....QQ....I ship it...

Grab another $150 on the board...Game is quickly breaking...Pay the board back $150 with 4 shiny white chips to cash out...stick $1 bill under the huge 4 white chip stack and recieve a nice crisp $5 bill! Yeah....This game is just silly....