Here I am...

Well, its been a while since I have written anything. I just haven't been in the writing mood these past couple weeks.

Lets see...

I picked up a new dealing gig on Wednesdays...Timmy runs a $10-$20 H.O. rotation game, its a pink game on steroids, I love this game, 30 minutes a round of Holdem, and then it switches to Omaha H/L for another 30 Minutes, I'd rather be playing than behind the box, But the box is so much safer, I did ship it last time I played, so I'll be in the box next week.

The Pink game has been running really strong. Sometimes might last a couple days! Those weekends are pretty brutal, but its sooo much fun! If you don't already know, Ricky and I got the spot back in Laurel and run pink and the Monday game.

I finally got a ride, so I'm back on the road! I picked up a nice 95 Lincoln Continental. All leather, power everything, its wet! No it wasn't from Gypsy Pete either...worse bad beat of the year for me by far...Those of you who know Pete, he is a pretty good guy, His credit was good with me, and we got along really well, definately want him at the table splashing chips with you....Last August, after me saving money up, finally had enough to get me a ride...He said he could get me a nice Caddi, and he did, and I payed him in cash for it...sweet, took a look at it, its fine, drove it around the weekend, all good, then the problems came out quick, so he took the car back to have it fixed, 1 month he strung me along...still giving him the benefit of the doubt cause he was good peoples to me....then, it got harder to get in touch with him...cell phone is off....not returning emails, PM's, nothing....starting to take it as a loss...he left me a bucket as a loaner car till he found ma new one...i think the loaner car was the car he was gettin me before he all of a sudden disappeared, guess he did that to make himself not feel as bad or guilty? There really isn't nothing I can do....but take it as a loss....definately a $4k loss...oh well, im ridiin now Thanks to Ricky Bobby who looked out like shit!

December is here, Christmas, Cheyenne's Birthday, so its gonna be alot of dealing and less playing this month.

Lets see if I can keep this up like I used too....

FTOPS VI - Event #6 Stud H/L

Decided to play this event just to see how I do, some how I decided to play this since Alex, a local player around here offered to stake me for a tourney during the FTOPS events, I accepted and decided to play the Omaha H/L tourney, Blah, its not limit, its Pot Limit...and I hate PL...But its H/L, so maybe I can work something out...

But I decided to buy my self in the Stud H/L Event since it wasn't that expensive to play...$100+$9 to play in the event...

Started with 806 Players paying out top 96 players...

I cashed in the 2nd tier of the money ladder, wish I could've takin it down, but at this point of the tournament, the blinds/antes left me with no more than 3BB left...I had to push it in with the best cards I could find since I was pretty much card dead after the bubble busted...

Not bad though, just wish I could've done better!

78th place out of 806 for a $225.60 cash.

Back At Home!!

After a long time squatting in different places to have my pink game, we are back at home finally!

Thanks Noelle and Paul/Dave for letting me host the game at your homes the past couple weeks!

Well, as you all know, we are now back at the old spot, "The Russett Room" is what we call it and Ricky Bobby and Myself are running the game, Travis, Bi and Kevin are my new dealers and this past Friday was the first game back! The game went smoothly!

We were trying to be more of an upscale game compared to the other games now, just trying to step our game up, Home made food, Made to order food after the main dinner is served at start of game, Breakfast made to order if the players are still playing in the morning, Thinking of bringing in a waitress...Just trying to have a better game than the games I've hosted the past couple years!

I can say the 1st game was successful with a full table all night long! The dealers did a great job, and everyone had a great time!

Mondays will bring back the $1-$2 NL game as well!

This is definitely the start of a great game!

Other than that, I've been really busy, thats why I haven't really updated lately, I've been working almost every night dealing games and if not dealing, I'm playing...So the days are for me to sleep 'till Cheyenne gets off school, then its Daddy/Daughter time till she goes to her Mothers house in the evening, the poker starts back up again...

My BR Management experiment is still going, and its in the negative! lol, Combination of playing bad and running bad, but I will get over it, and really try and focus on playing better...I just wish I can be consistent...its so hard, especially when I start to have fun at the games when I should be serious and trying to make the money...

Sleep is Over rated

Its been a while since I posted simply because its been a busy 2 weeks for me.

Lets see, where I left off was going to Tim's $10-$20 HO rotation game.

Basically, I just been working and playing trying to get this money while I can before games start to slow down again...

I picked up a new dealing gig at Paul's place on Tuesdays...Its a $1-$2 NL game, but I like to jump in the game and give action after a couple of shifts and let Mikey, the other dealer there deal the rest of the night away...Its been cool, haven't rally been doing to bad playing there....

Wednesdays have officially died out. Its just hard to get the players out to Nellys for the Wednesday game, I just can't get the players out like Travis used to be able too...If you don't already know, Travis has been staying in Pennslyvania the past month cause things just didn't work out with the two of them...But all of a sudden, Travis gets his life back in order when Ricky and I found out that we got the place back in Laurel...To help offset the rent over there, Travis will now be staying there and thats where Ricky and I will be running the games from...But thats another story when we start that back up...

But Travis shows up at my doorstep after he has an interview with Money John's company. Money John is a player from Steve's game that has his own company. Sitting around talking Wednesday, we decide to go up...It didn't help that JB called and wanted to go up as well...Well, Travis didn't have any money to go, so I lent him some and borrowed money from JB so we all can go...God damn it, off to AC we go...

So figuring out where we are going to play, Its a simple answer, to the Trop we go, but I remembered the Borgata started running a late night Tournament...I've talked about going up just to play it cause I like the Borgata Tournament structure. So we end up going, JB and his boy didn't play any poker while we were there, but Travis and I jumped in the tourney, before the tourney started, we had about 40 minutes to kill so we sat at the $2-$4 Limit table to mess around, No Looky, Raise it up, cap it up...It was fun to frustrate those players there...Guy hits Quads on me and says I wish it was NL...Heh...Poor fool must not know I'm just messing around there and its only $2-$4 limit, He is pretty sure I pay him off if its NL...Fish, he wishes it cause I wouldn't have been in the hand in the first place if we were playing NL...so the tourney starts up and I last 5 rounds...I just lost huge pot when I flop 2 pair and the guy hits a set on the turn and I have to bail out....It was a good fold and he showed me it was by showing me his Set...whew, dodged that one, but now im under 10x the BB and look down to AKo...I go all in early position to get called by someone with less, gets to the donkey woman who goes in the tank...She then says, I guess I should call cause my cards look pretty (she didn't say they look pretty, but thats what I imagine whats going through her head)....OOOPS, I guess im done...GL you all

I flip over AKo
Guy that called instantly shows AJs
and the woman...flips over her monster KQo

wow, did you really have to think about calling with 2 all ins in front of you with KQ???? You all already know where this is going, but good lawd, I just wonder why I can't go far in these tournies the way some of the players play, They play sooo Bad its sick...

FLop comes out QQ4 and now I have no shot...Me and the guy with AJ just say wow, NH lady and laugh it off...and I go out on the floor and watch JB and his boy play Roulette for a lil while Travis is playing in the tourney...

I come back to him and look at the field, and he mentions to me, its funny how they these players out lasted you huh? So gay...I swear I wanna go back up and play again...

We head down to the Trop and jump on 2 differnt $1-$2 NL tables and I pretty much break dead even when Travis ships it, so we decide to just go home in the morning cause I gotta be home anyway but afternoon when Cheyenne gets off school...

I deal Steve's games on Thursdays and his game has been running really well...

Now Fridays, the Pink game has been sick the past 2 weeks, Last Friday was the first Pink game at Pauls house, I moved it from Nellys to Pauls house for different reasons. Locations, etc, etc...blah blah blah...

Remember the marathon when we moved from Laurel? Well, this time no breaks...Game started at 8PM on friday and ended at 8:30AM........not saturday..but Sunday Morning...36.5 hours straight! WOW...That was SICK...I am not sure if it was just that Friday...Lets see....

So now you know how my week has been going, this week wasn't any different...cep't on Wednesday, we didn't go to AC, I called Keon to see about this soft $1-$2 NL game he goes too...Lets go....so we head off to VA for this game,

Its a decent game and when we walked in, our mouths started to water...you can see just how fishy this game is...Funny, I sat down thinking, this is a fish game, im shipping it...and I sure did..It wasn't cause I was playing bad, well I could've gotten away from 2 hands, but being Tilt is a helluva drug...I shipped it...wow the cards ran me down something fierce...Its nice to see that they think im the biggest fish that came out LOL, I'll see them in 2 weeks and get my bread back...

Pink ran this weekend again...I'm just now waking up not too long ago cause I got home this morning after the game finally broke at 10am Sunday Morning, and the game did start at 8PM Friday night...another 35+ hours of pink...it was sick again...I was stuck in the game a lil bit, but came out un-scathed...not bad for as long as I played, stuck less than 1 rack..whew...

Guitar Hero III came out today, so what am I doing typing on here? I gotta go, just felt I needed to catch up on my blog...Got another busy week coming up...Felt good to stay home instead of going out with Travis and Kenny to a $1-$3 NL game, save me a good $500 bucks tonight by staying in the house...Now im bout to go online and play some guitar hero...last game I played I got punished....Let me get punished again, if anybody wants to play online, I got it for the WII so look me up if you tryin to rock out!

Biggest game I've ever played

I decided to go against all bankroll management rules and take another shot at a big game. This is the biggest game I've ever played. $10-$20 HO8 (30 minutes of Holdem/30 Minutes of Omaha H/L8). This game was GREAT! I actually played good tonight. Lately, I've put my head into the game and play right, specially that I want to reach a goal by the end of the year. Luckily for me I only dropped $360 of my BR th other night, so I'm looking to make it back tonight.

I decided to go and play at Tim's game tonight after I got my hair braided. I only played a couple of hours bcause you guessed it..I'm still car-less waiting for the guy that I bought the car from to replace the lemon he sold me...This shit is starting to get old, but Keenan was nice enough to pick me up and take me to the game...I owe so many peoples rides when I get my car, so I guess I'll be the designated driver to drive to AC for a while LOL. Anyway, since he has to go to work, we left earlier than normal...

I ran my stack up to a little over $800 in a couple of Omaha hands, thats where I mad most of my money. I shipped a lil bit with QQ when I had to slow down when an ace falls on the turn and I had to bail out. AK and A9o was calling me down for no reason at all, none of those hands hit the flop, it was pretty gay. Then I tried to peel before we left when I flopped trip aces in Omaha on a AA8 board, I'm holding AK69..yeah I know, I don't even know why I was in the hand in the first place...but Keenan and Ali are going crazy the whole way and im sitting there trying to peel, I miss and Ali and Keenan flopped a boat, but ali was holding the aces full while kenan had the eights full...

So Keenan ships the rest of his stack, game changed to Holdem, and Its time to go...I cash out a rack of redbirds for a small $100 profit...Blah...I should've made WAY more than that...i wish I knew Omaha was gonna end and I wouldn't have tried to peel LOL

Big Chris Tourney/Cash Game = Sickness

WOW!!!!! If you don't already know...let me begin to tell you about this sick ass game.

we started the day off on Saturday with a $75+$10 NL Tournament. It was 11 players paying out 3 places...we got down to the final 3. Congrats to the final 3. We decided to chop since I couldn't wait to get in the cash game, plus I was just tired of folding and the blinds were up there, and for single table tourney, we had gone almost 3 hours already...lets finish this thing up and play cash game, looked like everyone was standing around waiting anyway, so lets get it going...Finally busted Ryan in the bubble and decided to just chop the money.

1st - Jizzle - $325 ($495)
2nd - E - $250 ($247.50)
2nd - Cody - $250 ($82.50)

Cody and I were pretty much even stacked and Jizzle was chip leader, Jizzle didn't want to chop even money split between us 3 at $275 each, so Cody and I decided to give Jizzle $25 each to him and we split the rest up evenly, he took that deal and we chopped it up.

Now to the sickest $1-$1 NL game ever in history......

For the first 1 1/2 hour, I got in for $100, my first couple hands I shipped something small to th new guys and added on for another $160, so now in im the game for $160...I get on a huge heater and next thing I know im sitting with more than $900 bucks. The new guy has allot of money, its actually 3 of them...he keeps re buying, re buying and re buying...he decides to ask if he can get in for $500, SURE!!! The rest of the table agrees and this is where the fun began! I somehow get the most cooler hands ever...

First off, My AA gets cracked with a J7 when the new guys hits his gut shot on the river...for a nice dent in my stack, im steaming, and get QQ...There is no point to slow play cause the new guy only folded 8 hands the whole night preflop, whatever the bet was preflop, he was right behind you, mind you this is a $1-$1 NL game and if you made it $32 bucks, you will get called in 3-4 spots! My QQ ran into his AA and it was all in preflop...OK, now my once $900 stack is down to >$300 bucks and look at KK...get it all in preflop with the new guy...yup you guessed it, he is sitting on AA again. I stack off and im STEAMING. I almost re bought for $1K...was talked not too do it cause I was tilting, so I got in for another $600, now I'm in the game for $960 bucks...my whole BR that I was trying to re-build. I somehow went on the biggest roller coaster ride ever...at 3AM, the table was holding on to <$3,500!

Its 4PM and the skins game just ended, it was still 7 of us playing and the game was very sick still...Chris has to go but we don't want the to break, Jizzle is sitting with over $2K, I'm at $800 close to breaking even, Kenny with over 1K and the rest of the table had misc. stacks. Big Chris calls last 2 orbits, and what do you know...the last 2 hands were the cooler hands!

2nd to last hand Jizzle and new guy are going at it...I know Jizzle made a $500 turn bet that was called and on the river, new guys pushes all in for the remaining of his stack...Jizzle showing us KK with the board having 4 diamonds and doesn't have a Diamond. He makes the laydown and new guy shows AA AGAIN!!!

Last hand, I call $30 Preflop with Jd9d and flop 2 diamonds, I call a $75 bet on the flop and turn a diamond...Keon checks, New guy checks, I make it $100 to go and he pushes all in....I have $600 behind and don't want to risk it if I lose...I make a deal with him, I'll keep the original $100 bet, you call that and we'll run it out, I stress its the last hand so lets keep it kosher, whats in is in...he agrees and shows me a boat LOL the turn card was a cooler for the both of us, I ship it and walk out there with a $360 loss....Sucked but the new will be back faithfully he says, I like this kid, he has alot of gamble! I'm just happy to walk out with more than half of my BR back..."Whew, what a ride this was" I said as I walked out the door.

Honestly, never will we see a $1-$1 NL game like this unless everyone at the table loses there head like the other night....$4K on the table is just SICK. Typical buy in is usually no more than $40 bucks, here we are one night r-buying for $500+ each time or even adding on to a stack of $200 with $500 LOL, Poker is FUN!!!

Pink Game - Getting close to the 1K mark!

Pink game ran this Past Friday, Ran well, and a good time was had by all as usual. We are coming to the last couple weeks in October and the move back to Laurel is in arm's reach. Monday games will be back in action with a whole new player base and Friday all nighters should be back in action when we are back in Laurel. There are plenty of good changes to be made with Ricky Bobby being my new partner for the games. Everything should be great when November rolls around!

I did get into the game and managed to run my stack up after getting in the game for $150. Yes it is a very short buy, but it works for me, I tent to play a disciplined game and by the time my stack has ran up more than 1 rack, im already used to playing that way and play that way the rest of the night, so I don't ship it....I used to be th biggest pink fish here, but after a long break from playing, fine tuning my game, I have learned a few things for limit poker and now im not doing bad at the game. I'm pretty sure still have some leaks in my game, just waiting to notice them so I can tune them up, so my BR has grown more and I almost reached my 1K mark, Just know im very shy of breaking the 1K mark!

Game #2 - Pops $5-$10 Dealers Choice

Alright, I said I was gonna take a LONG shot at this game...

I called Pops on the way up there cause Keenan and I were talking bout, this is too big of a game to play Dealers Choice too...Its a Holiday today, I'm chilling, I want to play some cards and have some fun at the same time, DC is just too wild of a game on top of that, and $5-$10 can get pretty expensive. It was not agreed on, so the hell with it, lets gamble...$5-$10 it is!

Game started out and the low-ball games, (Razz and Badugi) I kept bricking...I started getting frustrated. I pretty much put up what I won from Chris' game the other night, so I wasn't too happy at the time.

I managed to get back all of the money and run my stack to up a little over $300. Keenan is not too happy, he keeps shipping it, he wants more chips, so he says lets flip...he has $54 to flip before he re-buys. They want to run out 7-card stud, but I tell them I found a new way to flip, its extra fun, I learned this watching some players at Steve's game flip $100's at the end of the night...Anyway, the game goes like this...All cards are mixed up in the middle, everyone grabs any 2 cards and rolls 1 card up with out looking, highest card gets to pull the flop out the pile of cards, then next in order pull the turn, then river. I rolled a T which was the highest, and pulled the flop, AKK hits the board, a 9 gets pulled and a duece gets rivered, I squeeze my last card, and the tip showed and called a 7 out, pissed cause a pair of 9s were leading, i opned up my cards all the way and it was a K, not a 7...SHIP IT! "SLOW ROLL, SLOW ROLL, SLOWWWWWW ROLLLLLLL"

Well, I cashed out an even $500 to add to it, so its slowly getting up there...I was gonna keep a running tab on here, but that might be a little too personal as far as exact $ amount, I'll just give updates soon as I hit my 1K mark.

Taking a shot

This is going against all BR Management rules...

Gonna take a shot at Pops $5-$10 Dealers Choice Game...wow...

This was a fast experiment!

Strarting from Scratch - Game #1 - Big Chris House

I'm going to start from scratch with this new "project". This should get interesting...

I'm going to re-build my bankroll off with a hot $60 bucks, thats a Min buy-in at the $1-$2 Tables...but at Big Chris house, its not $1-$2 NL, its $1-$1 NL. Most of you all know about this game already from my talk about it or blogging about it. After my lesson from last Wednesday, I'm going to go into this game a little more different, I'm going with the intentions to make money.

Night started off slow, thinking all my cousins and boys were going to be there, not everyone showed up, but it was decent. Here is the good thing about it, its no raked game, but there is a dealer...Buddah dealt first shift, so he was pretty much the only person to cash out for the night, the rest of the night were re-buys after rebuys, and alot of switching dealers. The good thing about jumping in the box here, is that you get tipped, and after someone busts again and has no more rebuys, they jump in the box and the dealer before them circulates those chips again! This went on all night, till 8:30am this morning, Big Chris walked into the room this morning and was already ready to go to work, us, not even realizing that the sun was up! It was alot of crazy hands, I hit a straight flush this morning when I flopped a flush, but it was a gutterball SFD. I turned it to complete the SF, but that 4th diamond to hit, ruined the action on the river, cause my brother flopped a straight on an all diamond board and he thought I was drawing to one more diamond.

Anyway, I ran my original invested $60 bucks to $325 for a $265 profit. I put back the $60 so now its all free-rolling from here on out. Problem is, $265 is not enough for a $1-$2 NL game, I mean I could take a shot and get in for 1 buy in at $200 and see where that goes, or I can just wait till' next week to play at Big Chris house again.

So Game 1 of my new project was good..lets just hope I can run well this month and build it to $1K+ by end of the month.

Always Learning!

The Wednesday $1-$2 Game was on and poppin this past Wednesday, and if you ever Talked to Erick, Everytime we have chinese food there, the actiong gets pretty disgusting. Well thats what we ate. The game looked to be a short game with Nelly and I actually playing, but we had a nice turn out with a couple new faces.

The action was pretty sick, The chips were flying none the less! Ran my stack up peaking around $570 or so...and the way I was playing,well, I was playing like I do at Big Chris house, Like a maniac. if I came in the pot, i came in raising, and really didn't care what 2 cards I was holding. If it was straddled, I made it a point to raise it, specially if alot of limpers. Simply put, it was a hell of a roller-coaster ride! I was just in one of those moods, I didn't care if I lost, and my stacks fluctuated up and down, up and down.

I doubled up on a nice hand., UTG I look down to AJo, Limped around to Jefferson who makes it $12 to go, I call, Kenny calls and I think we picked up another caller as well. Flop comes out 78J (2 hearts). I check, Kenny checks, check, Jefferson makes it $20, I insta call, Kenny raises it to $80 folds around, and Jefferson doesn't look like he wants to fold then does it, I re-evaluate my hand, Kenny just bluffed me off a big pot couple hands ago, I decide to go all in. With kenny covering me, after the $80 bet, it was only $93 bucks to call or something like that. He thinks, asks me if I have a SB Special, I sit there as to try and give nothing away, Now I want him to call, he does, turn brings blank, river brings the flush out, I turn over AJ and he looks at his cards, looks at the board, says I'm good, he flips over 89 for midpair and a Gut shot. Now its on!

I'm on the Button with 6d4d, Kenny, UTG makes it $11 to go, picked up 5 callers, "I can't fold now, call" 6 see the flop

Flop: 66A

checks around to Solo who makes it $20 to go, I call, everyone folds.

Turn: duece.

Check, Check.

River: 4

Solo slids $50 into the pot, I think, and announce Raise it up. $75 more, I wanted to put Solo all in, but I didn't think he would call...$75 was just right, he makes the call. Ship It!

I double Kenny up when he moves seats and goes all in with AK and flops an ace, I say good luck, he knows what I have..."dirty motha fucka" he says...his Ace holds up, I ship him close to $100...24 no good :(

Here is where I learn my lesson...

Now there were 2 new guys from Keons games. Good folks, Decent players, Usually I expect some big fish comin from Keon's games that he goes too, but these guys were really not fish.

Now Im in the CO with TJo and make it $12 to go, I get one caller, new guy.

Flop: T55

I make it $17 to go, John thinks, "Raise" Now its $50, He's been waiting to do this all night to me, both of us are fairly deep stacked compared to the table. I think for a minute, shuffle chips around, Re-raise, I made it $100...He thinks and moves all in..I tried to get some info on it, hoping for just a call...but that min bet was screaming, "I think I have the best hand, but I'm really not sure" and a real bet should get me outta there, I think, think, and give him the benefit of the doubt, and fold my hand after thinking forever. His friend says he had the 5 quietly to him and I heard him and was in digust, "Wow, I did have the best hand" I told John, He says, I only did that cause I know you can lay down big hands, I saw you do it to Jefferson earlier in the night and heard you say that to him. and if you all know me, I lay down big hands to Jefferson allot! I kick myself cause I'm pretty sure now I have the best hand.

anyway, point is that these new guys payed close attention to all the action, and used all the information they were given, and honestly, they got ALLOT of information from all of us. At the Coral, we are all friends, we play to have fun and gamble, but they came to make money. And with all the friendlyness going on, I show alot of bluffs, I expose my cards after hands, I talk too much...I see this is a Major leak in my game and Steve pointed that out to me yesterday talking to him on AIM. I give out too much information and the players that play down here, friendly as it may be, are decent players, as much as we call each other fish, I have allot of respect for everyones game around here and I KNOW FOR A FACT, that they use all the information wisely. Hmmm...I wonder why Its so hard for me to beat allot the games here in MD...maybe cause I just put it on a chalkboard of exactly how I play, reading my blog also just shows how bad I play and everyone can use it to there advantage. At the poker table from now on, Information will not be given ANYMORE. I want to see how this might be able to improve my game, cause I always say, It's so much easier to beat AC, and in AC, I have the mindset to make money, not have fun and make friends. I hardly ever show my cards or talk about strategy and my reasoning behind my decisions. So going to the MD Circuit games, I'm gonna act like I'm in some far off underground poker room 200 miles away from AC. That doesn't mean I won't have fun, I'm just gonna be more serious about playing. Matter of fact, the more I think about it, The quiet ones at the games are usually soaking up all this info all of us give out. Its a different ball game now you all!

Anyway, I just want to talk about one more hand before I let you all go, cause Set over set is always fun!

I went over to steve's game last night to deal, Bi is usually in the box when I get there, it was 9 handed, I was bored and still itchin to play, I havae been playing all week so far, so why not one more day? Seth was on his way to the game as well as others, so I sat down with the intentions to get up when they arrive to avoid stacking off and just deal as planned.

2nd hand in...

I played for 1 hour, played 2 hands. Tom raise makes it $12 and gets 6 callers, I join in the ride in the Small Blind. I have Pocket 5s.

Pot: $72
Flop comes out: T54

I bet out $20, call, call, call Raise to $60, I re-raise $75 on top of that, folds around to her, she goes all in for a total of $265, I cover.

Pot: $590

Turn: T
River: 8

She turns over pocket 4s for 444TT
wow am I a lucky bitch! Ship It! Flopping Set over set is always a fun ride!

Pink tonight looks sick...should be some good stories tonight!

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OOOPS

Wednesday game didn't go again...Looks really bad...I mean, during the last couple weeks Travis was Running the Coral game with Noelle, it was already getting slow, I mean, everyone's game goes through a slow spell, but this is just scary...

So back up plans was to go to Strikes in Bethesda for some bowling, drinking and a lil bit of gambling on bowling, Um...wonder why nobody called me yet to go...already blown cause my car wasn't ready Wednesday, now the date its gonna be pushed back to Friday, and even maybe Saturday, the mechanic doesn't work on Saturdays, but assured Pete if the car is not done by Friday, he will be in the garage Saturday to finish the job...I've learned not to get my hopes up, so I won't be as blown as I was yesterday...so we'll just have to see...but anyway, a night out would've been good, but I missed my calls cause I left my phone in the other room, and was sittin in my room gettin my head right...When I saw that Noelle called, it was already too late, they were already in Bethesda...Could've gone out there, but no car, so got a lil more upset at the whole situation.

Jeff IM's me and tells me that He and Saad won the 15K guaranteed on Absolute Poker Tuesday Night, Nice Hit Sir! Took down $4500 for 1st place! Fuck it, I'm in the house, ship me $100, changed my mind cause I know Its just burning money, so I only asked for $50...Its a good way to give me something to do cause playing with play money SUCKS.

So I entered the 7K Guaranteed and busted out in 201st place when I was holding TT to a AJ4 board with 2 clubs, we both check, Turn is a Tc to give me a set, I mush what I have left after he checks and he insta calls with Ace high flush, Can't pair on the river and I'm out...

While I was playing that tourney, I had already started a HORSE tourney till the 7K started, I actually did well in this one, Took it down! Its been a while since I've won a tournament, so to me a win is a win, It was a small one, only 50 players for a $5 buy in. But you know what, its a small win, but I'll be proud of the win since its been a very long time I've been in the top 3 of a tourney and I been runnin so bad online and live!

Call it a break if you wanna...

So much for taking a break...

Well, After going to Union Jacks of Bethesda...I dealt Steve's $1-$3 NL game at the new Fish Tank. Game went well, juicy as always, but broke earlier than normal. I didn't complain, Pink game is Friday night and I knew it was another night to pull an all-nighter. Game was pretty sick and of course juicy as all can be. If you ever came to our games, you know its a more friendlier game than alot of the NL games in town, cause, we're all having alot of fun playing and the other games are alot more serious. Natalia and friends came by. They are one of the funniest crew in the world. I swear its like the twilight zone, Natalia's poker clique is how I like to look at my friends in 30 years when we are playing poker, they talk as much shit as we do...and if you haven't figured it out, they are all over the age of 50...really, look at us when we talk shit to each other, and thats what Natalia and them are doing at the game..its HILLARIOUS

Anyway....

The original plan, well for Keenan, Noelle and the rest of the clan was to go to AC for Anne's Birthday Friday after noon and stay till Sunday. I needed to run pink and depending how the game went, I would go to AC...Well game went well...but one thing, I'm supposed to be taking a break. I tried to find every reason I could just so I couldn't go, but how can I NOT GO? Keenan was talking to Nelly about who was riding and he mentioned Jeff was going to ride up with them...What? That means, Keenan, Noelle, Eric, and Jeff...what? What about me, you already said I could ride up with you guys the other day! Keenan forgot that when he was talking to Jeff...so I said never mind, I'll just stay home..."Shut up E, You're going to AC with us..."

"Fine" I'll go...I just can't say no...

Finally get to AC a little after 9:30PM...Head to the Trop...and sit down at table. I'm playing bad of course, and ship 200 to my neighbor with AT, when Flopped top pair on a rainbow board...I raised it preflop to 7, get re-raised...Im playing bad, stubborn, I call, Bet the flop, get raised again...so I decide to be in a giving mood.."I guess I have to rebuy" Mush, insta call...dude flips over QQ and is real good....River's a Q just to rub salt in the wound.

Game breaks and I'm almost even to my 2nd rebuy...Get moved to the High-Limit room and feel more comfortable playing now...So lets play some poker....Stack runnin up...nice...I don't want the table to leave cause of drunk young boy..playin real bad...table is down to 5 players cause we all want a piece of drunk boys stack...and I get a small piece, and some other older man gets the rest of it when he flops an OESFD. Drunk kid is betting out strong. I can't remember the flop, but the turn was the perfect diamond...6d if I remember correctly, young boy says,I have to go all in now. I have you beat...old man says...You lose, I call, kid flips over A4d for the ace high flush, old man says, this is my 2nd straight flush today. Ship it...Kid is sick!

Its early morning at this point so the table starts to fill again...I run my stack to over $700 and Keenan and Nelly come from the room and is ready to go...OK, last round, I just paid my blinds,I'll get up when I'm UTG.

3 hands into it I look down to KhJh.

I make it $7 and get 8 callers.

Flop: Qh3h6h

I check...Dread man bets out 25, Old man that was getting owned by this one guy smooth calls, fold around to me, I make it $85 more, Dread man calls, Old man shoves, I shove, and dread man is all in, I have both covered but I have a side pot with Dread man.

Dread man turns his 7h9h over
Old Man turns his Q6o over

Turn: Q
River: Q

Time to go....cashed out 6 rows of redbirds....

Guess I'll start my break after big Chris game tonight...

Poker Recruitment

Ahhh its about that time to fill the table up with some new faces....Where the heck can I find some new players for the game?

Gotta go hit other poker games, network, maybe meet some new players in AC that are from MD...but that requires me to play, which I really can't right now and need to stack bread. Need to take a break and wait for things in my life to fall in place a little bit so I won't be as stressed out. I've learned before, its not a good idea to play when things are really bothering you, when losing money can actually effect your game play, your whole way of thinking, and worse of all, makes you play worse than you are already playing, so its best to stay away from throwing chips around right now.

Well, I found a site called www.homepokergames.com where I have actually listed my games for others to see...If you scroll to the bottom you can see a million email addresses of other poker players looking for games...sounds a little sketchy? Kinda...but I just won't let anyone in my games...Tonight should've been the Donkey Coral Wednesday $1-$2 NL game, but seems like alot of the regulars can't play tonight...Eh, perfect time to hold a meet and greet for some of these perspective new players. Well I emailed each and every one of those email address, except the ones I recognized of course, and got a good bit of replies saying they were indeed interested in the game, so tonight Noelle and I are headed to Union Jacks of Bethesda to have some drinks and meet up with some of these new players, hope this works out well!

Running Bad isn't cool - FUCK POKER

Wow Fuck Poker!!!

Runnin so bad right now....I'm supposed to take a break from playing, but Steve talked me into playing last Wednesday. Did fine, but ran into some coolers...Nothing you can do in these situations 'cept get stacked off....

I'm UTG and limp in with TT...Couple players limp in and Bessman takes it to $9 in the SB...I call and Steve calls.

Flop comes out AAQ

all 3 of us check the flop and see a free Turn Card:

Turn: [AAQ]T The most perfect card in the deck...a whopping T

Bessman Checks, i bet out $15, Steve raises to $45, Bessman thinks, flat calls the $45, and I raise it another $80 to $125 to go, Steve calls and Bessman calls...Wow I'm not too confident in my hand anymore...

River: [AAQT]K

Bessman checks, Its a little over $400 in the pot, I have $86 bucks behind me, so I shove it in the middle...Steve insta calls me and Bessmans thinks and calls as well...

I table my Ts Full of Aces
Steve tables Aces full of Queens, he flopped it holding AQ
Bessman tables his Broadway KJ hand...

Football Season starts!!!

Alot of my boys usually get together to watch the Skins game over my cousins house and a poker game usually breaks out...Except we get blessed by the company of the DCFD...Couple of firefighters that work at my cousins firehouse that also play, and might I add, they are one of the worse players ever...

I run my stack peaking at $600 bucks when I get coolers turning my straight and Big Chris turning a bigger straight, when one of the D's work mates shoves all in on the turn, I re-raise another $80 on it and Big chris pushes all in to double up...I can't fold for another $22 bucks...

Then he just goes on the most sick run ever...Forcing him all in when I get dealt KK, he decides its a good call to call with TT..when he flops a T and rivers another T for quads...that once $600 stack in front of me is now over at big Chris seat and I'm felted and call it a night

Pink game ran after cancelling earlier in the day cause I couldn't get enough players, ended up running a decent game.

Lawd knows I need my car, fuckin still in the shop and anticipating to pick it up this week...

Can't wait to get this Monday game going back on track and get my Friday game back in full swing...Till then, Im chillin playing, this time im taking a real break...need to stack some bread...

I fucked up this Saturday playing with money I shouldn't have been playing with and shipping it...wow, I suck real bad....Things just feel like they are going downhill right now...

FUCK POKER

Break Time Once Again

Time to take a break and reflect on a couple of things going on in my life.

For one thing, I'm taking a break playing poker...More on the NL side of things, I'd just rather play NL up in AC than down here in MD...It's time to stack bread again and play when it aint so much on my mind bothering me.

I need to get a spot to run my games again and when I do, half of my worries will be out of the way.

Gotta get my car back from the shop, Thats probably whats been bugging me the most and it really caused a major inconvenience to me right now....I pretty much don't do shit cause I don't have a way to get anywhere, I think I would have a spot by now if I had my car, but being car-less I just can't do shit. I haven't even been to the barber shop.

Talking with some friends over breakfast, the conversation we had really stuck in my head and its about time that I went a tried to find a job. As much as my Mom has hammered it into my head, I refused to listen...but seeing it in a different perspective, It might be just the thing I need to do anyway. Shit, I had to overcome some road blocks just cause I don't have a legit source of income. Shit, why not make some more money right? It will definately make life alot easier to become a "normal" person. I know the transition is going to be hard, But it might be best for me. I fucking hate office jobs, and even more manual labor but lets see where this road will lead too...Its all about my daughter...I get things done when it comes to her, but its obviously not in a responsible way...I'm not as responsible as I thought I was...I mean, she has alot more than the average kid....some come to say she is very spoiled cause of me. She sees that I don't need to work to get whatever she needs and I don't want her learning bad habbits through me and that might be the most irresponsible thing I can do...show her its ok to be lazy and gamble to make ends meet...thats NOT what she needs to be learning at such young age...

I came to the conclusion I want to sell my condo...or even thinking about renting it out and finding a nice place to live and continue to run my game...Its time I mapped things out and write up a new route to take...Living this life is fun, but its very very stressful at times. Trust me, if I didn't have a daughter to raise, I wouldn't change shit about th way im living right now. Maybe this might work when she is 18 and is able to take care of her self and I can move away to where this would be more accepted as a way of life than here in MD...I could actually get a gig at a casino and play at other casinos, but till then, it might just be the right choice to get a decent job, run a game, play to help supplement the income from the "real" job.

I Think I'm Done with Online Poker

I haven't really played since Travis' and Nelly's game last wednesday so I been feenin' to play...

I ran my lil bit of money on Absolute Poker up to a little over a ball...yeah I know..I'm not big into online poker so I won't put alot of money on there...I usually just play to kill time during the day im home chillin' so I shipped it all the other night.

alright, I'm going to give this another shot...Stuck another ball on Full Tilt to see what I can do...I playd the 11K Guaranteed and made it half way through the field of 1000+ entrants...I was out around 350th some place..Took down a $20 SnG, Played a 4K guaranteed HORSE tourney and made it half way through and just got frustrated with the whole thing...

Best hands can't hold up...Getting out drawn, Out flopped, can't win a coin flip...nothing...Maybe I play bad, but I felt I was playing decent...who knows...I know I was yelling at the screen.."why why Why does it always happen to me?????" Pretty gay.....so FUCK ONLINE POKER....

Vomit

Yeah, I ran pretty sick the other night over at Big Chris house...Wasn't long till I was in th game for about a good $160...Oh yeah, this is a $1-$1 NL Game...Keon came along also...he was in the game over 2 balls within the first hour....

I said I wasn't going any deeper, so I played tighter than normal...then it got sick...I was catchin back door flushes playin garbage like 6-duece, K6...Needless to say Jizzle was pretty sick when I re-poped with the bullshit 25 and caught bottom pair on the flop to his pocket 4s when we got it all in preflop...did I mention T6o was a monster....on the button its good to see the flop for $40-some bucks spcially when Rosslyn moves all in with KK with 4 callers...Not only did Rosslyn pull the pot close to her as we see the flop, she was jumping out her seat when T66 hit the flop....OOOPS...don't get too comfortable holding on to my pot! UUUGGGHHHHH she wasn't too happy either...

Kenny ran his chip stack up as normal to ship it at the end of the night...Keon and I ended up with everyone's chips to walk out with a small profit!

playing micro-limit stud h/l on AP tonight...im gettin bricked bricked and not getting there...so I played a $10 donkament and accidently final tabled it...Made 5th place when I pushed short stacked with 55 and AKo called with just about the same amount of chips leaving him with 200 some behind..window card of course is the ace...and can't set my 5's to be eliminatd in 5th place for a whopping $60 bucks....1st was $275 which wouldn't be bad for a $10 tourney with 101 players...

You wanna go Up???

Keon got a pass to be a "free" man this week since his wife and kids went to VA Beach for the week to be with family so I hit him on AIM and asked if he wanted to go to Atlantic City Sunday night since there really wasn't any good games Sunday night...So Monday after Cheyenne's mother picks her up, we were ready to go! Travis sleep on the couch, I yell out "wake up, you tryin to go up?", "what?" he says..."Do you want to go UUUUUPPPPP?" He gets up so quick like he just got a shot of adreneline to his heart and started figuring out where he was gonna get some cash to go.

We are going for 1 session, then we comin home...The plan was to be home by Tuesday afternoon......well that was supposed to be the plan.

We get to the Trop, say our hello's and go sit down at the tables...All 3 of us are at different tables...I'm not having the worse time, but wouldn't mind takin a break, or going somewhere else...we talked about playing the Midnite Madness Tournament at the Taj Mahal...so I text Keon and say you tryin to play the tourney? Sure he says, up a little bit...I get up quick before I decide to ship my whole stack...Stuck just a little over a ball, I walk over to travis to see if he wants to go...He was in the middle of a hand...He shipped a big pot and says, why the fuck didn't I come 2 minutes earlier...he decides it might be best to get up and burn the $50 bucks in the tourney...We head to the Taj Mahal to play...

I make it half way through the field but the blinds are just getting huge round after round...mind you that blinds are 12 minutes long...I mush all in with my last 7K in chips with KTd, AQo is all in, 57s is all in as well...I pick up my flush draw on the turn and the river brought a Q to scoop the pot, im out, Keon busts out not too much longer after me and Travis is sittin on a very short stack...but at this point, th chip leader is also a short stack compared to the blinds, Its late, so we are railbirding Trav when its down to 3 tables...Trav gets movd to another table and runs his stack up mushing every chance he could pick up those blinds, as players are busting out like quickly, travis is headd to the final table as chip leader...they want to take a 10 way chop...bottom monyes $71 bucks, while 1st place takes 2K...travis is chip leader with 9 BBs and Encouages the table to take the chop for a $470 take evenly...that chop takes home more money than 4th place money...so we grab a cab and head back to the trop..Grab breakfast and sit down to play a lil more...

Me and trav sit down to the sickest table I've ever played at that I can remember...I'm running cold the first couple hours and it was taking a toll on me...so instead of me tilting off my chips, I decide to figure out ways to make this run warm up a lil bit...I splurted out a couple of ideas like jumping through the glass over the escalator from the poker room to the downstairs hotel lobby and landing on my face, I asked Travis to stab me and my eyes out....I called Cheyenne and ask for some good luck from her, I even text keenan to tell me I was gonna win a million dollars...last time he said that I won big...Then it was time to change the set ups....as they were changing the decks out, I asked politely if I could burn that set up as I welcome to the new set up to the table. Its on now...

I got one more hundo from Travis bought 20 more red betting disks to add on to my stack after dropping $450 to the table already and worked my stack back up little by little...Now this table is sick...its numerous players sitting on very deep stacks...couple of them sitting with more than 1K...There was plenty of action and this table surely wasn't playing like it was a $1-$2 table...if you looked at the table, it looked like a $2-$5 table...shit at one point the table was deeper than the $2-$5 table running...

Now im playing good, not getting out of line, having a great time at the table, the whole table is in a good mood and just can't really fathom of how sick this table was made it a great game going! These guys were happy to lose chips! peeling 2 Balls at a time to rebuy when they ship there stack...and not even angry about the losses! It was great...so as the stacks are getting larger and larger, I'm finding the light at the end of the tunnel of red back to black! sitting with a close to a rack of red birds...I get into a big hand with one of the donkeys at the table...he was sitting with a stack a little over $400 and I have him covered going into the hand...I'm in the BB looking at 66, guy makes it $12 and gets 4 callers.

Flop comes out 622

Travis makes it $25 to go after I check, young boy makes it $50, I take it to $135, travis insta mucks, and young boy doesn't even think hard about it, looked at me and called ..wow

Turn brings a T..he checks it, I make it $250 to go..I wanted to say I bet a rack of pink chips, but I didn't wanna make any jokes about it so just stuck $250 out there...this dude thinks and calls...WOW...he leaves himself with about $61 behind

River brings a 2...I hear somebody say that counterfit me, and me being me, I just always think the worse of the situation...thinkin he has the duece to quad him up....I put him all in and he says he can't fold now and flips over QQ for dueces full...that no goot...i table my 66 to scoop the pot, whats funny was young boy was like I have a boat what are you doing, dealer had to explain why he lost LOL, He got a green bird and 2 red bird tip for that hand...and a hand full of white chips couple hands later when I was done stacking his chips!!

When players busted, they just kept filling out tables out with players waiting...and when they sat with the max buy in of 300...they were short stacked compared to the table...it was sick...and nobody who sat at our table got up with chips, oh, they left it there...and if they realizd they had no shot, they got up and changed tables, but they got up leaving a good portion of they stack...

I busted this chinese dude who thought he was the shit, another young player not more than 23 years old sits at the table and runs his stack up a smidget...sitting with a little over $300 when he originally sat with around $140...I look down to AA and make it $7 to go...he makes it $17 and everyone folds around to me, so I make somethin like $45 to go and he just calls....Flop comes out 994, I bet out $125, he moves all in and I insta call...can't remember turn and river, but he flips over AJo and my aces hold...ship the whole team...he gets up and storm out the poker room. Its funny at the reads other players have..young guy sitting next to travis and Ted whispered over to Travis and said you boy is way behind...trav looked at him and said you think? you are way wrong sir...travis told him what I had..shit, it was writtin over my face, and I surely didn't try and hide it...I tabled it to confirm that travis was right to the guy...and more importantly to claim my pot!!!

when the fish finally stopped comin, it was close to 6am wednesday...we were at that table for close to 24 hours lol we decide to move tables...one of the young dudes that was at our table that tilted 10 minutes of sitting at our game was at another table, I started scoping tables to see where I was gonna sit at when our table broke and it was that same table he was sitting at i wanted...specially after he says, dn't sit here, we don't want you here...hmmmmm...I'm going to sit over here when my table breaks just to break his ass...

Our table breaks and sit opposite sides of the table of him...I'm sitting with 1K and the dealer tries to tell me I can't sit at the table with my stack...huh? coming from a broken game you are allowed to sit with your whole stack...while talkign to the dealer about this..travis sits down with 3 racks of red...1 guy with a stack barely over 100 got his mouth watering like he is gonna do something...yeah, he stacked off...but the guy that said I was welcome to sit down, racked up his lil $200 bucks, got his friend, and they left before I was dealt my first hand...and just kept mumbling this is bullshit lol

I ran out of gas and just couldn't play any longer, told travis im done if h wasn't i was going to the car to go to sleep and wait till he is ready to go...he cashed out when h was UTG and got out and headed back to DC for the wednesday game...

Lets Play Pink

This weekend, I ran the Pink game over at Nelly's place...the Donkey Corral...Turn out was good, and the game was great! Lauren baked us some BBQ Chicken for dinner with corn and rice...Most of the regular pink game players came out for a night of splashing pink chips around!

I got in the game when it got short...I dont like playing with a full ring game...I can't play it that way for some reason, I'm more of a 6 person table...maybe 7. As the game gets short, we like to mix it up even more with adding a few new games here and there and one of my new favorite games is Duece to Seven Tripple Draw...I am not no expert in this game, but damn, this game is a ton of fun to play!

I got in a hand with Greg and this sticks out the most cause he was quite upset at this hand.

I get dealt KK7

5 Limpers to see the flop
Pot: $25
Flop: 886

1 bet goes into the pot, 3 players
Pot: $40
Turn: [886]K

1 bet goes into the pot, 3 players still remain
Pot: $70
River: [886K]K

Bet, Raise, Fold, Re-raise to cap
Pot: $150

Board: 886KK
Me: KK7
Greg: 886

"Not That Card!"

Duece to Seven Tripple Draw hand I found amusing

I get dealt KKJJT

By the time it gets around to me, I 3 bet it and it gets capped by our 1st draw comes out
I draw 5 cards LOL

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I believe it gets 2 or 3 bet before our 2nd draw
I draw 1 card

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Not That Card!

2 bets before the 3rd draw
Stand Pat

1 bet all the way around, Keenan is all in

Nutties....SHIP IT...

I play Real GOOOOOOOD!!!

Hello Everybody!!!

Well Hey Yall!!!

I know, I know..Its been a while since I've posted...It's been a while since I have even read other blogs...Things have been pretty busy lately for me, which is a good thing I guess. At least you all know I'm still alive and haven't gone totally broke...Thats probably why you all are thinking I haven't blogged in a while...Its not that...Aside from being busy, I haven't really been in the writing mood either...

Well...I can say nothing has changed with me...Win here and there, Ship it back over there...You know the cycle...

But my game has lost a home :o( As most of yall know, I was running out of Laurel for a while now...Well, a couple months...But things change...Not in a bad way...Just different directions and circumstances came that I had to move the game...I procrastinated trying to find a new home for the game...and now the game is...well...."Squatting" every Friday...Its only been 2 weeks...But it SUCKS...Hopefully I will be able to find a home for the game..Till then...Pink runs where ever I can run it...and Mondays have been put on hold...

The last pink game in Laurel, we made sure we did it big...and we did it big...Game started at 7:30 PM Friday Night, Game broke around 7AM Saturday Morning...and at 7:30 PM Saturday , we did a Freeroll tournament and ran Pink again...This time, it ran till 8AM Monday Morning...Wow...afterwards...we'll see everyone Monday night for the $1-$2 NL Game...Pink was sick this week...and I was spent...I crashed Monday Night trying to deal the game...I was done...But it was the sickest weekend for poker I have ever hosted...It was a great time too!!!

But my Thursday game I deal hasn't been really strong lately...I have been complaining about that as well...and well...I'm going to go through another 2-3 weeks with out it...That is hurting me as well...

Um...Wanna hear another dagger? I finally got a car...I have been driving around with my parents truck but finally got my own car so I can give it back cause now my lil Brother is now car-less...My parents have they own car, so the truck is the pass around truck...So I got me a nice Cadillac Seville STS...Its a beauty....I fell in love with it when I got it...Clean...All leather, All Power, And it runs really good....I'm Lying...This fuckin car is over heating...So I dumped all this money into it to fix it...Head Gaskets are done...I'm pissed...I'm heated...So I'm working it out with the guy I bought it from, I won't even put him out there...I know he didn't intentially sell me a lemon, but it is done...E is Sad...So not only do I not have a car to drive around..I don't have the car I was able to drive around in...Im paying insurance on a car to sit in my parking lot...Its all good...I know the guy will swap me a nice car in place of the caddi...





























































Other than that, Things have been good on my end...Cheyenne is about to start back school in a couple weeks...I should be able to get a home for my game soon...I'll have a new car to push...and everything should be back on track...right now...Its a tough time but have been put in tighter spots...so I should get through this...But the good news is I aint totally broke! I ran well during the pink marathon...so that should hold me off for a while!

I'll be visiting the other bloggers and catch up with everyone as well! I'll be making it a priority to post as often as I was...but right now I'm sitting around the pink game...Chips are flying...I'll get int he box in a lil bit...Till then...................

Bad Beat Jackpot takin down at $5500!

Last night at Trav and Nelly's Donkey Coral, the ever growing Bad Beat Jackpot was at $5,500 never being hit since it started maybe 2 1/2 to 3 years ago? The Jackpot grew $1 larger on pots over 100 through out the night...Aces full of Jacks must lose to something higher with both hole cards being used and is shown down...and thats what happened last night....

Congrats to Jefferson and Jimbo for hitting it last night!

Jimbo just came out of retirement from the circuit, we haven't seen Jimbo at a home game since my $1-$2 NL game in New Carrollton...but he decided to come out tonight...and that was a nice welcome back gift!!!

The winners of the Bad Beat Jackpot:

Jimbo: $2,750 - AhQd
Jefferson: $1,375 - AcKd
E: $170
Ali: $170
Keenan: $170
Erik: $170
Bessman: $170
Rob: $170
Billy: $170
Tim: $170

Board came out: Ad Qs As Ks 2s





















I did alot better than I did last night Thank God!

Jefferson out played the hell out of me when I laid down KK to him preflop.

Other than that...My hands held up all night...cashed out a little over 1K but in the game for $400...My Quad Dueces were fun also!

Thank God for the Box!

Wow!!!! Have you ever played a session where you did not pick up not 1 pot???? KK no good...Aces up No Good...Draws are just in arms reach but you can't reach it? Wow!!!

Should've known that the night was gonna be like this..Folding the Nuts, playing the worse hand...First hand I sat down to was 44....I called the raise to $12 Preflop...But on an AT7 board and a C-bet on the flop, my 44 didn't look to good...Turn...4...River T...wow...

2nd hand, K9o...Flop K9 and river the K to fill up....OOOOPS...

Couple hands later J9o UTG...Fold...Flop JJ8...Yeah, I'm flopping monsters but I just can't get in the rythem of the game...I end up shippin it, Rebuy, Ship It, Rebuy, Shipt It...Its only 1am and Keon is ready to go...

Game might break too...Rob's dealers says he wants to get in the game and offers me the box...Hell yeah I'll take it..Long as Keon will stay longer cause I rode with him...He stays and I get my chance to soften up the loss I took tonight...

Whew...I'm only stuc $180...Great tippers tonight...only dealt 3 hours....Nice Come back if you ask me!!!

Wow...I didn't rake one pot in tonight...Wow...I was really stuck tonight..Wow...is all I can say how bad I ran tonight...Thank God for seat 11!!!!

This Weekend's Grind...Trip to AC!!

As usual, the Pink Game was Good...'cept for me...Started 6 handed as the late players were comin later on in the evening...I sat for no more than 30 minutes to ship a cool $300 to the table...That did piss me off just a little bit because the plan was to go to Atlantic City as soon as the game breaks....Game breaks at 7am and we are headed off to AC for the rest of the weekend...

Plan was to play the Borgata Saturday morning Tournament...$300+$40 with 30 minute blinds and a starting stack of 10K...

I busted maybe somewhere in the 80s out of 155 players...Keenan is still in the tournament so Nelly and I go play some $25/min Black Jack...I shipped $200 (Down $540 now)...Keon came over after he busted and was drunk and obviously having a good time playing Black Jack for the first time...Nelly is a Black Jack Rounder!!

We head over to the Trop and check in our room...Dead tired, we order some Room Service....Took about an hour..while waiting I fell asleep for a quick nap...ate some food, Took a shower and headed to the poker room.

First table I sat at, im in for $200..added on another $100....with my stack just leaking and takin a pot or 2 down to break even, 1 hand got me over the top only $100 before breaking the table...

Im in for $8 with 9Ts in Mid Position...5 players...
Pot: $40
Flop: 9h9d3s

Check around to me, I bet out $25, "all in", fold around to me...I have him covered...eh..I call...
he flips over 33 and I table my 9Ts

Turn: 7
River: 7
OOOOPS....Ship it...table breaks not 1 orbit later....

Move to a dead table, that breaks within 30 minutes...Charles wants to fill the Simulcast table and I just hate playing in that room, I ask for the High Limit room and sit at a great table...I'm runnin this table over, stack is at over $600 only to sit at the table with $200 cashing my profit from the other table...

MEDIC

Top Pair, Nut Flush draws...MISS
I flopped a straight, to get run down by the diamond flush draw on the river...
Draws can't get there, and as the morning went close to Noon, I ask for a table change..the whole table just changed...good players, and they were not there for fun, serious WSOP Wannabe's sittin at the $1-$2 NL table...Keon is at a table that is loud, laughing..and BAD PLAYERS...Keon is one of the 2 big stacks of the table sitting with close to 1K...I ask if he didn't mind me moving over to the table..he doesn't so I move tables...and what a move...

I sit down to the deck smashing my head over...

I Just ran my $200 stack close to $500 again then got mixed up with the other big stack of the table...

I look down to KK and make it $8 to go...I been raising almost every hand since I sat at the table...so I frequently got alot of callers....

Bunch of us see the flop
Flop: AdKh9x

I bet out $25 and got raised to $50...folds to me and re-raise him $100...stick my $150 out there and get insta called...

Turn is Jx

I check and the guy bets maybe $125...I pause a lil bit and say all in...

he thinks and calls..flips over AJ

River is 3x and my set of Kings hold up for a MONSTER POT bringin me close to 1K...

Guy sits down and plays over aggressive, always re-raising me...he sat with $300...I let him steal a couple pots from me, and finally look down to KK again....he bet out $10 Preflop and I raised him to $45...he insta calls....

Flop: 3dKdKh

He bets out $20 and I say I have outs and just call the $20

Turn: can't remember but dude bets out again and I just put him all in...he thinks but he only has about 70 behind, he calls and he flips over TT...I say 2 pair and table the KK for Quads...

Another hand at the other table I hit quad 6s and got paid off by the old filipna lady who was holding QQ when the Q hit the River...I flopped a set of 6s, turned my quads and she is betting saying she has the best hand, just calling all the way to the river then stuck a nice bet out there puttin her all in on the river...that Q was monster cause she couldn't call any faster than she did!

I also hit a straight flush holding 67s when I rivered the 5s giving me the NUTS and got paid off with a nice $65 river bet after getting there...the K high flush got there...wish he had the Ace cause he would've stuck his whole stack in there...he asked me...would you have called an all in on the flop? I flopped a flush draw and a gut shot straight draw...i said sir...I would've asked if I could take money out my pocket...he said I had gamble...

I just hate when people ask that question...my answer is always the same, Yes I will call an all in...or can I pull money out my pocket...Its funny to me when other players ask that question and the other player actually thinks about it and re-caps the hand the way it was played to answer the question...just fuckin say Yes I would've for Pete's Sake!!!!!

Cashed out a nice $1,160 to make the money back I dropped playing the tourney/floor games at the borgata with a small profit! Keenan said I was gonna make $1300 and he was close...Thanks For reverse jinxing me!!!

I think I built my Kharma Level up at the Trop a by 2 points...Standing in Line...2 Female Dealers come to me and say...we try to push you the pot all the time...you take care of us when you are here...I said next time you take care of me, I do the same and smiled...I thought it was cool to hear...I do tip my dealers well there...I was throwing them $1 or $2 chips as tip for the players that never tipped when they scooped a pot...I see big pots get won and the dealer gets $2 bucks...I mean its fine and all I guess...but as a dealer...I know for a fact, I'd rather ship the pot to the better tipper....Take no offense when I say that..I know there are good reasons not to tip huge like that...specially when you play alot...it can add up and at the end of the year, if you tracked just tips...I can see it getting high in the thousands....specially when a game is raked 10% up to $4 max at the casino....when I won that monster pot I tipped the dealer $25 bucks and after stackin my chips 1 hand later, I strung tipped him more red birds...big pots deserve big tips...thats just my opinion...oh..don't let me and keenan at the table...lucky dealers like James will get in the middle of a tipping war! LOL I been in one of those on the dealer side and I must say they are very fun!

What Happened This Weekend...

Steve's $1-$3 NL Game on Thursdays didn't go off so I didn't have to deal...took a day off...which pretty much sucks...

I aint gonna bank on that game going off the ground any longer that his $2-$5 game has gotten off the ground every Sunday...If it does, its a bonus for me..if not...eh...fuck it...

Friday's Pink game was good....I actually jumped in the game in the afternoon...yup..Saturday Afternoon...I wonder if there was nothing going on the following Saturday, would the game not stop running...I had to break the game Saturday afternoon to make it to Travis and Nelly's Rebuy Tourney at the Donkey Coral.

Shot over to the tournament after breaking the game...it was a great tournament...42 players I believe was the field...it was a $30 rebuy tournament for the first 4 rounds...then you were able to double add on...I didn't have to rebuy at all...survived till the add on period...then I went card dead...blinded off...had to push with KTo and flopped KTJ....unfortunately, the guy that called me had JJ...matta fact, another guy re-raised his cold call all in and he called...the other guy had Ad7d...wow strong...couldn't peel a 2 outer to win the pot...

I'm now at my $1-$2 Game taking a break from dealing...might as well update my blog...its a full table right now, just breezed through the wait list....at 3:15, I finally got 1 person to get on the table, then the game will go till morning hopefully...hopefully the afternoon...that would be just on time!

This is the last game till after the July 4th festivities...

Hope everyone has a great 4th!!!

I'm off to my cousins house in SE to celebrate the 4th...BBQ...all the Family will be there...and we get to play poker!!!! The "older heads" will be playing Majong the whole night as well...I wonder if I can get my Dad to play some NL with us....That would be very interesting!

Wednesday Night Donkey Coral

Went over to Travis and Nelly's $1-$2 NL Game last night....Yeah I shipped it...I was pretty annoyed with my play as well...

I kept getting Big pairs to ugly boards that I can't maximize off of....

Katie sat to my immediate left...and when I would bet my hand, she would come over the top of me...every time....I know she wasn't particularly "coming after my stack" She is just betting her hand...and the good sport that she is, after seeing that I was getting annoyed, she relieved my mind by showing she had the better hand, and I didn't doubt she did at all...It just eased my mind to help not tilt off her plays.

I was ran down more than once last night also...I was just running real bad...It was an early night for me was home before 1am and stuck a good $400...eh....maybe its that time again to rebuild the proper bankroll...but things wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have so much to pay for this week....getting my license re-instated really killed me this week then the day before that I paid my Condo Fees...My mortgage is comin up also, so im going to be taking a little break from shipping it and focus on grinding and rebuilding some money....

The game is moving very soon but more on that as I find out more information.

Family Trip to Atlantic City

Monday's $1-$2 NL game was a go..had a new face, but I doubt he knew what he was getting himself into...he was just learning the game he mentioned to me, and Monday's game was not the game to get your feet wet in...He pretty much had no shot and exited the game alot sooner than he planned...For a short game, the action was pretty sick but it ended earlier than normal...

Off to AC I go first thing in the morning...

I went up with my Parents and they said I could bring Cheyenne so she can go to the beach...It was a good thing cause I would be able to take breaks from playing and hang out with Cheyenne. My parents were comped a room for the week at Showboat so I just said I would stay there...there was no need for me to get a seperate room cause I already knew there would be no sleeping for me and I only would need to go up there to take a shower and change clothes.

Soon as we get to AC, I didn't even bother going with them to check in..."Drop me off here and I'll hook up with you all around 8PM so you all can go play and I'll take Cheyenne to the Steel Pier Carnival in front of the Taj...Cheyenne and I had a blast there that night, we rode all the rides and played some games, then we walked across to the Taj to play in the arcade. She likes to play the games where you can win tickets for the prizes like at Chuck E Cheese, and she made a bunch of tickets!!

So back to the Trop...I played $1-$2 NL and made a decent profit...Took a cab back to Showboat, hung out with Cheyenne then went and was going to play the Midnight Tournament at the Taj but it was a little early, so I went downstairs to the poker room at the Showboat but they didn't have a seat open so I caught a cab to the Trop...WRONG MOVE

My whole plan was to win some money to freeroll the Borgata Open on Wednesday...it was the $500 buy in....how quickly I was in the game for that $500...I HAVE to cash 1K now if I want to play...arghhh....let me get comfortable...It was disgusting how quick I was in for the $500...Boat after boat after boat was crushing me...with my last buy in, I ended up gettin all my money in on the flop when I flopped top 2 to bottom set..ship it that'a way...I can't take this beating any longer...see yall tomorrow...caught a cab back to the showboat and just couldn't see myself going upstairs w/o tryin to get it back here....lets try this...Sit with $100 and played extra tight..sneaking in a few pots takin them down little by little...I finally have a little over $200 and look what I found!! I found my voice!!! Talkin shit here and there....next thing I know I'm stuck $100 over all for the night...Eh...Only need to get $100 to break dead even..."MEDIC!!! MEDIC!!! I NEED STITCHES PLEASE"

Wow...where the hell did my chips go? Oh hell now..this table is breaking...aint that a bitch...Switch to the other table and its well into the morning now...the poker room is starting to fill up for the morning tournament...still grindin..playing Heinz Poker...I finally get into a big hand to stack some kid when I flopped a set on a K63 board...I raised my Pocket 3s, and the kid caught Top 2...we went into a raising war and finally got my chips in the middle with him looking like he wans to earl when I stuck the rest of my chips in there...I get up and walk away for him to decide specially there was a crowd just hanging out watching waiting for the tourney to start...Just had to throw the dramatic all in walk away joint in that joint, he calls..told him I had a set, he said he had Top 2, he gets up and walks out the room...pot was close to $800 at end, and I'm actually up for the session....2 orbits later, CASH ME OUT BITCHES after leakin about $125 away....Pretty much dead even for the trip now...

Went to sleep finally woke up and hung out with Cheyenne for the night..went back to the steel pier..played more games, rode more rides...won some prizes....it was fun...but it was getting late, so I take her back to the room, My mom is done for the night, so I make my way to the Taj toplay the midnite tourney...Blinds are 12 minutes long so since you get to see maybe 5 hands per level, I was just gonna build chips fast or make for a fast exit...I stacked this lady who gave me the finger by the way...it was jokingly...I think cause she did it with a smile...but either way it was funny to me....Stacked her and doubhled through her with 23h...Blinds are 100-200 I make it 600 to go...Kh3c8h...we are heads up...$1500 in the pot...she checks, I bet 900, she thinks, she calls...Qd...she checks, I go all infor maybe 9000 or so...she auto calls...i flip over my 23 and she flips her cards...OOOPS....Duece on the River...Ship the Pot please...she is left with 200 chips...I smiled...and gave me the finger.

I end up shipping it later on a flush draw and head to the trop....

Get to the Trop...Soon as i sit down, I sat in the BB and woke up to the monster 78o...limps 6 ways all the way around...Flop 9TJr...Wow..."Yo Bet" Yo Bet, $11 to go...drunk guys looks at me and raises...wow...$35 now to go...folds to me...Raise....Damn man, I just sat down, I need chips again....$120 sir....He thinks...Calls...."all in dark" I shove my chips fast...drunk guy says I can't do that...Its dark sir, its my bet for the turn...dealer explains..8 falls, I says wow thats a bad card for me sir...he sys uh..call...River Trey....He flips over KJ and I say, no good sir, ship it...Skraight....Later that morning, I get stacked by a guy tilting hard from a broken game...He raises $10 and I call with QJd...Flop comes out QsQh7s...I bet it out maybe $30 and he makes it $100 to go...I have about $275 behind me after the call, I tell him...fuck it man, only 3 hands beat me dawg...I'm all in..he thinks....calls...wow...Js....5s....he flips over KsKh..wow...I tell him, that wasn't one of the 3 hands that beats me and he flipped out on me...I don't give a fuck bout that man...I don't give a fuck...Whoa homie..I stood up, aint no need for all that dawg...all that animosity...he pulled me to the side 25 minutes later and appologized for the outburst...

so I go back to the showboat and play till its time for us to go home...eat at the buffet, got a massage at the spa right outside the poker room...I sat out an hour for that shit...came back to get stacked to runner runner broadway when the ace that fell gave me aces up...eh...

My moms wants to stay another night, you don't have to ask me twice...but no more more rooms available, so we just make our way back home...

Over all I was stuck $25 bucks for the trip...but I spent a shit load of money outside the poker room...Indeed I had a Great time!

Can't wait to go up in 2 weeks and grind it out foreal foreal!

Off To AC I Go

Well...I haven't played cause I'm tryin not to ship any money before I head up to AC this weekend.

Fathers day was yesterday...I had a blast, I spent the day with my Dad and Mom and Cheyenne out Hershey Park..we had a blast...no poker!!!!

Noelle made the money in Event 27 at the WSOP in Vegas...I believe it was 1000+ players for this $1500 event and she was very close to that bracelet...out in 63rd for a nice 9K payday! Good Shit!

I'll be heading to AC in the morning after the game tonight...if it goes off tonight...at this current time, I dont have enough locked for tonights game...which sucks...so I'm going up to AC a little shorter than I expected...Its the Borgata Open this week and IF....i can make it up by Tuesday morning, I'll try to play the Limit event..if not, I'm definately tryin to play the NL event on Wednesday..$500 buy in...Other than that, I'll be at the Trop playin $1-$2 NL....

Not too much happening...

Really have no complaints other than its hot here...Hate the heat....

anyway, I went over to the Fish tank on Thursday to deal. Not too much stuck in my hand...nice action the whole night though!

Friday was the Pink Game...I saved money not jumping into the game, Kenny decided he wanted to give action instead of dealing so I jumped in the box the majority of the night/morning. Saw couple of quads, straight flush---and Kenny didn't even know he had it LOL. Game went real well breaking at 11:30 am, A Little earlier than usual but still a nice run.

Saturday spent the day with Cheyenne...Sunday didn't do too much of nothing either, well deserved rest days!

Last night was the $1-$2 NL Game...Jumped in the game cause the game didn't fill up at start, but don't let that discourage you from bring some action..the action was sick last night...I was in the game for $400 before Kenny happened to get a call from work that he had to attend to ASAP so I jumped in the box till he came back...luckily I was able to make $6 shy of breaking even!

When he came back there were 2 open seats so I jumped in one to play till game breaks...I managed to run it up something small so its all good...its a win so im not complaining!

Keenan, Travis, Noelle, Steve and a whole bunch of others are headed to Las Vegas...I'm here stuck, so I'll probably make a trip to AC on Tuesday after the Monday game.

Ewww

I think I jinxed myself...or was I playing Bad? So I decided to give $500 away at Me and Keenan's game this past Monday...That was fun....

We ended the game playing $4-$8 O.E. which was retarded...

I jinxed myself...

Anyway, going to Trav and Nelly's game tonight...Lets see how that goes

















In Other News, My Baby Graduated Kindergarten today! I'm so so so Proud!!!!

Her class had a little graduation ceromony today with a "Hawaii" theme, the kids were great!

Off to 1st Grade next year!!!

Felt really good seeing her up there!!!

May is Done...Bring on June

Well, I have to say this has been a very good month for me, so far the best month of the year for me...Even though I didn't deal Steve's game most of the month, I still managed to get through the month on top of things...I played pretty good this month also...I actually am in the black this month and I'm happy for that!

The pink game has been running well, last Friday the game broke unusually early...late shift didn't come through this weekend, it was an insta-break but thats fine....I actually got some rest on a Saturday which I didn't mind at all....

I shipped it the last Monday game, but made it back jumpin in the box...

Nothing too exciting has happened which is why I haven't really blogged it...no hands stick out...

Did ok at the Coral also

The rest of the gang is going to Vegas, and I'll be home....Good luck to all of them out there in the WSOP events!

So far June looks ok but I don't want to jinx it...

Played at Tight Tims game last night, he ran a pink $3-$6 Omaha H/L game, ran my $100 bucks to $440 and had to go, I would've loved to stay and ship it, but had to go! Game was pretty nice, except for the cat, afte a couple hours, the cat started gettin to me and I was ready to roll...

I have been playing online lately, jumping back and forth from Poker Stars and Full Tilt...I'm not doing bad on there, not runnin like Joe Black, but I been cashing alot in the $10 SnG's and doing pretty well on the Omaha H/L tables, and the Micro Limit NL Tables to keep my interest while I sit in the SnGs...Between me selling online money and shiping it, I was down to my last 70ish bucks and sat at $2/$4 Omaha H/L....cashed out a little over $200 bucks...now im back on track...I'll try and have some sort of bankroll management online, but I just play on there for the fun of it during the day....maybe if I can take it more seriously, I can do well...eh, who am I kidding, Let me keep it for fun instead of turning it into a grind, I already do that most of the week....

Superstitions

Whats good everyone? It has been a while since I have blogged anything...Well, Its because this month so far has been treating me good for a change! So Its not just cause losing in poker that makes me not blog...I came up with this superstition that I have been losing because I have been blogging...who am I kidding, I have been losing all year so far! I never realized that I am not as profitable at just playing as I thought I was...

Well...Lets recap since my last entry from the week after my AC Marathon. I haven't been dealing Steve's game lately cause he has been focusing on getting his Sunday $2/$5 NL game off the ground...Sucks for me cause I can't really deal that game...honestly, I don't want to deal it as bad I thnk I do...I just don't feel the same way about the game cause its not just Steve's game anymore, He partnered with another Home Game Operator which is now a mix of both crowds. After my game was robbed almost 2 years ago and the small rash of robberies lately, I just don't feel comfortable with a crowd I don't know or play with on a regular basis. Now this is my personal feeling that some of the player base from these games have flowed from some of the recent games or regulars from the recent games that have been robbed...and honestly, I think the ones that set up the robberies are still playing in these games...but thats just me. But Steve says he will start it back up by the end of this month or the first week in June, but gave his players an option to start it back up where the sunday game is or keep it at its current location which I hope he does, cuase if not, I might be out of a dealer job on Thursdays...Not because I don't like the other operator, cause I do, I'd prefer to work for Steve and not both...thats all...

Other than that, the Pink game and the Monday Night $1-$2 NL Game have been very successful lately...I'm happy with the turn outs.

Playing at the donkey coral has been pretty good to me this month as well...I did lost last week cause I made a huge mistake againsts Seth...and I knew better, but I felt very giving last week and shipped my $700 stack to Bartender Pete who got all his money in off a flush draw that got there on the river and I paid off a set of Kings when I flopped top 2 (AK). Eh...Easy mistake that I'm pretty sure will not let that happen again.

But Last Wednesday's game was sick...There's a guy named Gregg...Tripple G is what he likes to be called...clown...Now I know yall have seen these types before...and it really irked me about him...he was the type to sit at the table, and calculate his odds, outs, and all the math guru shit about the game...Yes I know its good poker to be able to do that, but if you do it every hand, out loud, perpetrating to make your game look solid is some clown shit to me....I can see if he was always stackin the table, but thats not the case...he's a fuckin fish if you ask me. More a clown if you ask me, but why don't we welcome him to the table? Because he is a clown...Talks too much...and is just a plain jerk off....and last wednesday, he finally got himself not welcome to any more of our games.

I'm on the button and look down to AA. Everyone limped to me and I made it $17 to go...Gregg and Ahmed call me...Greg is first to act but I can't remember the flop and Greg leads out $25, Ahmed calls, I make it $75, Gregg moves all in, Ahmed makes the call for less and leaves me with a decision...WTF is going on here? A Little over $250 to make Gregg's call...I go in the tank and reveal my Aces to Ahmed...he mentions to me I should fold...which I was 50/50 on, I was close to calling Gregg's all in, but Ahmed made me think 3 times about the call...during this, Greg notices me pull up my cards and asks Ahmed what he said...and goes into this collusion thing...I end up folding and fuckin Greg shows 8 High and Ahmed shows T high to take the fuckin huge pot...Gregg pulls back his money and is trippin about collusion and asked to be cashed out. We tried to explain to him that since there was no more action except to me, I showed my aces...he got angry with Katie and just completely lost his mind. He was kicked out the game afterwards.

Well Pink this weekend and the last game for me till Friday again, takin Monday off for the Holiday...Hopefully makin it up to AC for the day or 2!

So This Is What It Feels Like

What a way to build my confidence back up.

Keenan and I ran our Monday game after the trip to Atlantic City...Game went well and strong for the most part of the beginning...after around 1AM, I smelled insta break...Who am I kidding...Hamid coming off a 3K win in AC this weekend after chopping with 1st place chip stack in the Trop Tourney on Sunday...4 way chop leaving him with a little over 3K...Ali....Its Ali, he aint going nowhere...I'm in the gam and I aint going nowhere...Ricky Bobby..hasn't been out in a while, he knows better to leave for various reasons...and then it was JaySr...Said he was supposed to leave at 12am but its almost 6am when he noticed that...so the game went well...and I finally held on to my stack this time around.

Cool...I guess I can go to Trav's game this week...

Bad thing on Monday was my Truck broke down on the Beltway...Transmission fluid happened to leak out while I was driving and all of a sudden, I can't accelerate...wow...I try to move over lanes and call a tow truck...I look under my car and its leaking like somebody cut a hole in there somewhere...

So I'm not sure if I'm going to Trav's anymore...Kenny calls and asks if I'm going, I say lets go, he complains but is easily pursuaded to make that ride...good move on him...He crushed the table running his stack to $1,300 from his initial $200 buy in...He was mad at me cause I was the only one that he couldn't beat...lol I got a good amount of my stack from him...I played tight the whole night and ran my stack up to jus a little over $600 when Kenny says, cash me out, he gave at least 1 hour notice before leaving and since he is my ride, I get up as well...Travis and Keenan offers me a ride home but I don't think so...I'm leaving...as many times as I come over and ship it even when I have a stack, I'm leaving out here with some profit this time around...I felt bad cause it was gonna break the table and we were taking alot of chips off the table...but I'm tired of losing, I'm tired and im ready to go...

So far so good this month...last month was rough but right now its looking like im due for some wins!

No Game tonight at the Fish Tank so I'm off tonight from dealing..which is a nice break cause I know this weekend is gonna be filled....Pink Game, Deal Pops Game, then Mothers Day on Sunday...Don't forget bout Moms this weekend!!!!!!!!!

Poker Marathon

I should be asleep!!!!!!

I just walked in the door, put my stuff down, and I'm kinda awake after a LONG POKER WEEKEND at the Trop!

Um...I didn't go to Travis' Game last wednesday...I did deal all night at Steve's Fish Tank Thursday, Got home in time to do laundry before picking up Cheyenne from her mother's house and take her to school...mind you she had a half day so I had to wake up afterwards (dealing Steve's game) at 11:45AM to be in time to pick her up and drop her off at her moms place and start getting stuff for the Pink game Friday Night which leaves no nap time...

If you remember, last Monday, we found out Ali has never been to Atlantic City before and planned a weekend up there so we can take Ali up to see what poker is like in the Trop. So we planned right after Pink this past Friday, we would go straight to Atlantic City...and we sure did!

Pink lasted till 9AM with the game ending playing POT LIMIT Omaha Hi/Holdem'. Yes the game was sick.

Then we went straight to AC...Ok I cheated and fell asleep on the ride up, but Travis just knew I wasn't going to sleep after we arrived...he was right...Jumped on a $1-$2 NL Table when we arrived and never saw the room except for the time I took a break and a shower sunday morning, my head never touching the bed, and we left AC around 6:30PM Sunday Afternoon.

So I was sat in the high limit area and played some $1-$2 NL when we arrived. Wow, I just knew I was still running bad...I got in the game for $200 bucks. I folded my first hand, and my 2nd hand in I looked down to KK. "Raise! $12 bucks" from mid position. I get 3 callers for the ride and we see a flop. K73r. Sweet, check, I check, and the chick goes all in for $75 bucks or something small like that, "Raise," I say..."$175" before I can stack my chips 5 high, 7 in a row next to each other, I see the dude's cards go to the muck...Heads up...I don't turn my cards over till I see im drawing to 1 out...7 rolls off the turn and she turns her flopped set of 7s over and screams "Yes" I flip my Kings over at that time and say Nice Hand Baby and ship her the pot. "I stand up and say to Keenan 1 table over...Typical 1-outter scenario for me...Its starting already...I sit back down and tip the dealer $2 bucks for a nice hand....MF'er LOL...George's shift starts and I see him and say hello and says he'll see about a 2-way game starting before I can even ask him! We get a $5-$10 game started with a full kill for Omaha H/L...the Game was Omaha H/L and Stud H/L changing games at every dealer change...before switching over to that game, I managed to make an $80 dollar profit from the $1-$2 NL game and take my stack over to the $5-$10 game to play a non-holdem game for a while.

Game runs nicely till we all get hungry and the game got stupid when it was all the locals from our circuit only playing the game, game broke when we all get up to get some food at the cafe' and I leave $80 stuck from my original $200 buy in when we first get there...Mind you I did run my stack to a little over $400 during the course of starting the session and playing the 2 way game till we ate...so the loss felt a little bigger to me after walking to the cage $80 light of my original buy in, $280+ bucks short at the peak of my stack.

Dinner was quite interesting, I wonder if the folks sitting across from out table just knew how much of degenerates we are. They probably over heard our conversation that went something like this. Travis comes up with, all 7 of us will give $10 cash to leave for tip...but $70 bucks was too much for a tip to the waiter, so lets cut that in half...$35 bucks goes to the person that can guess closer to the exact price of our bill without going over. OOOOH Lets play!!!! We get loud and excited and we go around the table guessing what the bill is going to be...I guessed $142 bucks, Eric says, $142.01...well god damn, the waiter comes out with the check...$142.36....Eric freeroll's dinner....all conversations stoped at the table next to ours and I looked up and all they heads are turned to us when we announce what the price was and who won the bet. I thought it was pretty funny.

Head back to the poker room and I get seated at a $1-$2 NL Table over in the Simulcast area...Table broke and I'm $170 profit from my $200 buy in, I pocket my profit when the table breaks and sit at Katie's table starting off with just $200 from when my last table broke...and I pretty much planted my ass here till Sunday Night when we left...only leaving to take a break when I took a shower and got my stuff before it was check out time.

Wow I'm down to my last $65 bucks and played uber-tight till I ran my stack back to a little over $125 and started playing some poker again when my only bet is not a raise-all in on the flop...

Super Drunk Guy is just dropping chips back and forth to the I call every hand down to the river guy...he honest to God saw 98.5% of his hands and running it down to the river and scoop the pot, his stack was huge just like the drunk guy's stack...after being able to get a normal stack, I was able to help those to guys leak there chips into my stack helping me build my stack...after time goes, I end up being 2nd in chips, the game got sick at one point playing like a $2-$5 game, but how often do you not see a $1-$2 NL game play like its supposed too....buy I end up bringing up my stack to over $750 from $65 bucks....I was definately 2nd in chips next to the solid player that was sitting at the table long before I showed up.

But there is 1 hand that I will definately never forget. He was the last person at the table I wanted to get mixed up in a hand with because he was the only person that could felt me if we had to go to blows....While opinions differ from how the hand played out and the actions that should've taken...Let me tell you all about this hand and you can leave what you think....

I have been playing solid, good poker, In the midst of a nice heater...I have definately gained the respect of the table...Now Chip leader of the table has been playing very solid...he was definately one of the best players on the table.

6 of us limp for $2 bucks and when Solid Guy raises to $15 in the SB and he picked up 3 callers with me being 2nd to act. I look down to 6sTs and call the $15 (Yes I know what am I doing calling the raise from the solid guy in the first place...but remember I felt I was still on the heater)

Flop: 7h8h9c

Whoa...I flopped the 2nd nut straight...he leads out $15 into a $57 pot and I stick $65 on top of his $15, folds to the 3rd hitch hiker and its solid guys action...he thinks and re-raises me to $200.....wow, I wasn't expecting that..what do I do...I appologize to the table for the time im taking and I was in the tank a while too....I gave him credit for not raising TJ from the SB, but wasn't 100% sure...I don't think he is making a play with a set....He can only have a big draw...I'm assuming along with actually playing TJ...the only thing is a big heart draw which I raised in the first place so he won't go chasing some flushy hand....I flip over my cards and show my straight just so I can get his reaction and to let the table know I'm not taking my time with some stupid type hand...I wanted them to know I flopped my straight. Not only that, I was thinking of what is going to happen on the turn/river...Do I play back at him and mush my stack? If he has TJ, I'm going to get felted...I'm pretty sure if I just call the $200, im going to have to put my stack in on the turn when he shoves all in which I believe he will HAVE to do...So what do I have to do?

He showed me his hand after the hand....but if you leave in the comments what do you do in that situation, im interested to see what you all do...

I also met Shabbir at the Trop...He is a reader of my Blog, If I got your name wrong, my fault dude, after such a long session, my brain is dead and I honestly can't remember your buddy's name either...But I just wanted to mention that it was cool to actually meet someone from outside our circuit that reads my blog! Oh, I also met "Import" Steve at Travis' game...He is from Indianapolis and he was in town for business and stopped by Travis' game on wednesday! It was really great to meet all of you and look forward to meeting more that actually read this thing!

Well It felt good to have a winning session and go to AC and not come home broke! Gained some of my confidence back and I guess I'll put it to the test on Wednesday...most likely on Monday as well for my $1-$2 NL Game!

Damn I had a good time this weekend!!