Fun Poker

Merk has a sunday .50-$1 NL game where there is no rake, just a night of fun poker and drinking, Merk had a little too much to drink and I found it to be a bit entertaining...I wont get into details about what was going on, you just had to be there....

I shipped $175 though, but had a good time...

I'll most likely play again, cause its fun and Big Chris aint having a sunday game nomore seems like, so till that game goes again, guess I'll be here on Sundays to chillax a little with some fun, expensive poker!!!

**Side Note** Still played like a 1-2 NL game just smaller blinds LOL

Pot!!!

went over to Trav and Nelly's new spot, yeah, they got a really nice spot now that they moved out the apartment...I can't wait to see how they decorate the "poker room"

Anyway, game today was Pot Limit Holdem and Omaha...I like the game, but its stupid...I don't understand why "Pot" has to be the bet every time....everyone that plays the 1-2 game doesn't go all in every hand.....so why bet pot? I don't know, I'm a fish at PL, cause I never play it, then I don't really play Omaha High only....I like H/L...I'll have to go read the "book" on Omaha then I'll try my luck again

long story short...I sat with 2 balls, shipped it and went home, wasn't really feeling too good in the first place...forgot my inhaler, allergies were acting up, so I was ready to go home anyway, cheyenne was with me as well, so I'm not fully concentrating in the game regardless...

Oh yeah, I got some slowrolling to do to scooter, I know its bad etiquette, but He is gonna get it...He flopped 10s full...which is cool, I shipped it in Omaha, which is fine...I didn't talk any shit, graciously got up and said i'll see everyone later...Scooter hits me with the "Sorry E" and I say for what dawg? then he goes and says, no I'm not sorry with his dumb little giggle....which I found to be uncalled for specially I shipped him my remaining stack, just take the chips, why pour salt in the wound? oooh I can't wait to slow roll his ass now and laugh at him!!!!

Pink Game

Another insta break this friday, but we played short handed for a little while...ran my stack to 3 racks, shipped one stack short handed when we were playin holdem, decided to play Holdem, Omaha and crazy pineapple and took out stud...wanted to play pitch, but decided to play holdem instead....

didn't do to bad....game was still fun!!!

Hopefully my foks will still let us run fridays even when family gets into town, whenever that may be.............

Double Dagger

Playing Bad and Running Bad is a deadly combination only asking for trouble and definately a ship it situation...

Last night, went over to the Coral to play some $1-$2 NL...For some reason, I got so bored that I started playing bad...I knew I was playing bad, but I just couldn't help it...Not only on top of that, I'm running real bad, I can't draw for shit, Card dead the whole night, and when I did get a decent playable hand, it turned out to be 2nd best if that...

I stayed shipping it, and what was my final decision to call it a night...When I shove my whole stack in when the pot is raised to $15 preflop and gets 5 callers, I'm in the CO and decide to ship it with AQo...folds around to PDoggie who just calls $90 more...Jefferson shows me AQ as well...shit im done, 28664 was the board, and PDoggie called me with 23....Nice call...Now I'm pretty sure im running bad...got 1 more ball to ship it next hand when I get KTo and Keenan raised it to $8, I call, as well as a couple others, K68 (2 clubs) I bet out 20, he raises me, I insta shove and get beat by AK...

Yeah, I go home EARLY...Still early, I'm going to Tradewinds and party with Backyard Band tonight...Pooky from the Wire was in there partyin...seen alot of oldschool faces and I think this just brought back how it feels to go out and party...it was nice, got a lil drunk, Back was rocking, so many women...I'll be there next Wednesday again...So win or loss at the Coral, I'm leaving at Midnight from now on and heading over to the winds to party with BYB

Whew, Thats how to break even

went over to Natalias place to deal, and this spot is God awful when it comes to tips..you make half what you should be making in an hour, I don't know if its cause its a slow game to deal or if the players just suck at tipping, yeah, Its the players that suck at Tipping...

anyway, to make any type of money there, I usually have to jump in the game towards the end and win some, I usually get in with my tips and maybe add a little bit to sit with $200...Its a $5-$10 3-4-5 card H/L8 game...when the game got short Monday night, we took out the 3 card game and rotated between 5 card h/l and pitch and bitch...

You know whats awesome? When you get in the game and the game breaks not too long afterwards....its 1am and the game is bout to break, and I'm in the freakin game stuck $140....Its ok...some of them want to play Tonk...deal it up!!!

we played $5-$10 Tonk till 4:30 am and it broke me dead even for the night, well....$5 bucks stuck of my own money if I didn't go there and deal at all, so basically lost all my whopping $80 bucks in tips and $5 bucks from my own pocket...which made me feel a little better about the night instead of being stuck more than that....

Having 2nd thoughts about dealing that game now...just go cause I found it a good way to network about grabbing new players for the pink game and some of the $1-$2 NL games I support, but they still haven't been out yet, cept for Natalia and Kendall...The other players keep saying they will come but still haven't been yet.....

Heading over to the donkey coral tonight to play some $1-$2 NL tonight!!!

Tourney at the SHOP

Since its been a while since I played a tournament...decided I would play Pops tourney...$90+$10 + $20 Headhunter tourney...

Played tight but it wasnt good enough to take it down...Only won 2 pots the whole time, guess I played too tight, one was pops was peakin over my shoulders and I showed him 24o and called a raised preflop with it...3 players, Flop comes out Q95r vince was first to act and checked...christian checked, and I bet out t$1500 into a t$1800 pot...vince thinks for a while and Im pretty sure im beat if he calls duh lol, but he decides to make a crying fold, christian on the other hand, decides to almost call...tells me to give him a reason to fold, talkin in chinese voice, I tell him bet is too big, he has to fold...He ends up folding his OESD and I take down the pot...It wasn't so spectacular though...

Next hand that I won was pocket 5s, blinds are 400-800 and I push with $3500 and get called by vince and all in dave...All in dave has AJd, Vince has 77...7 hits the flop...I turn a set of 5s and Keenan, stands up, snaps his fingers, and calls for a 5 for me...BOOM river layed down a beutiful 5. I end up busting out in 9th place, out of 27 players, paying out 4 places with $1100 to 1st place.

Sat in the $1-$2 Game for a short period of time before I have to go, plus im extra super tired from lack of sleep...hit for $120 profit after getting in the game for $200 and cashing out to break dead even for the day...soon as I got home around 7:30 PM after picking up Cheyenne, was gonna head back to Pops place to finish playing the cash game, but was just too tired, fell asleep at my computer desk watching Cheyenne play the Wii....

Pink Fridays

One of the days of the week I can't wait for...Fridays for the Pink Game...I love hosting as much as I love losing my money here!!

Not much to say, cep't the game was a great one...I got stuck in the game for over 2 racks ($650) but made most of it back when it got short, I can't play for shit when its a full ring game, but short handed I actually have a shot!

Game ended around 7am and I have to clean up and get ready to go to Pops Tournament at 2PM...Another weekend of no sleep....gotta love Poker!!!

Fish Tank, First Impressions...

Nothing big to tell about tonight, cept a hand I was dealing...

Brand new guy comes over to play, he plays at a $15-$30 stud game not too far from the fish tank...

I'm not sure how the betting was done, Just know that he just sat for maybe 25 minutes, the new guy that is...and had a pretty decent stack cause he was at the must move table and that table broke and everyone from the MM table sat at the main table...Travis, Jeff and Jake are the ones mixed up in the shenanigans...Travis was the aggressor and when it got to Jeff, Jeff shoved his stack in there....Jake just calls, and Travis then goes all in on top of that, Jake calls...

KK - Travis
JJ - Jeff
AQ - Jake
Pot - +\- $800 bucks

Flop: 642r (something of that nature)
Turn: A (I look at travis and he has a disgusted look on his face)
River: A

Travis says I have aces and kings...
Jeff mucks
Jake goes pair of aces? I have trip aces with a queen, thinking travis had the other ace with the King Kicker...

when Jake sees its a Pair of kings for aces up...He celebrates so viscously, pumping his fist, clapping his hands..and we are all looking at him like an idiot for even being in that hand in the first place....thats not it...

After that, he collects his chips, says "fuck this, I'm done, cash me out"

WOW...

Hee-Haw Coral wednesday Night

Shocking...I haven't played since I left Steve's game...It was nice to not play or deal, a little break you can say...

Soon as Wednesday rolled around, I was ready to play some poque!!!

Played fairly tight this time around...wasn't tryin to get snapped off so quickly...

I was card dead most of the night, and when I got my first pair of Kings, They got snapped off to my AT...Keon had ATh and the board came out 10 high with 2 hearts on the board...I Raised it to $17 preflop with Keon calling me...He bet out some stupid bet and I raised him and he flips over his Ten and calls my raise...I tell him so what...you are a fish for doing that....turn brings out a T...wow...I check he bets of course I fold...

Got KK again, and raised them $15 to go preflop getting called in 4 spots...I'm on the button...Anne, Keon, Jefferson all call me in that order...Flop comes out KJ2(2 diamonds), Anne checks, Keon leads out with $51 bucks, Jefferson Hollywoods his smooth call and I take it upstairs and shove $100 on top of the $51 bucks...Anne shoves her whole stack in the middle which is about $120 more...Keon folds and Jefferson thinks for a while and folds...Meanwhile, I'm crying that my set of Ks won't hold to the flush draw...if Anne was on it...The 3rd diamond comes out on the river and I think im done...I flip my set of Ks over, Anne says she knew it and slammed her set of Js on the table...Jefferson tells us he folded a set of dueces, and Travis confirmed he did...set over set over set...this game is sick...

Short buy Justin comes in the game and always gets in for Minimum buy in...$60 bucks, he ran it to $600 and it made us sick, We eventually picked him off to make him rebuy as well as his boy which is always good...walked out with a decent profit after tilting a little bit from Keon when he busted up my set of 3s with a flush draw on the flop, and just calling, then pushing when he got there, of course I call knowing he hit the flush, it wasn't alot to call and I just prayed the board paired...stupid game..

Other than that, I walked away with a small profit of a little over $200...

Back to the Fish Tank

Scheduled to Deal at the tank this saturday, was gonna go to Atlantic City, but just paid my mortgage, didn't have the money I want to have to head up and play, Dealt Steve's tournament then his $2-$5 NL game...actually He had a $4-$8 Omaha and Stud H/L Game going, so I dealt that and played at the same time cause the table was short, Got a little irritated cause its hard to deal and play at the same time, the $2-$5 game was juicy and decided to get my money back in tips...Only dropped around $120 for that game...

Went down to deal it, the OE game broke and Pops hung around, I'm dead tired from lack of sleep and let Pops break me for a little while, layed down on the couch and i was knocked out..woke up, dealt another 30 minutes and was gonna go home...But na...I wanna play cause im just a degenerate...

This is my first time playng $2-$5 NL and did pretty well for myself!

Steve let me off the hook after talkin some shit if he had bet out on the turn i was gonna push all in, he didn't want me too and said, give me a ball out my stack and you can have the rest, He flopped a boat and let me hit my flush to hang myself..Ooops...ran may stack up a little, then back down to as low as $74 bucks then got on a monster run and cashed out a cool $700...Sweet, Pops wife called and he had to go, brought the game to 5 handed, so I said I was cashing out as well...Going home to get some sleep!!

Sunday will be a day of rest!!!!

I love the Pink Game!!

Pink game on Fridays is AWESOME!!! Anyone that plays, can tell you how much fun this game is, and it aint a dry game, its extra juicy for a $5-$10 game...Vince made a good $1400 bucks, Rocco made a little over 3 racks as well...Me...I broke dead even at the end of the night, but can I stop the game? Hell no, Matt, Eddie, Kenny and I decided to play 4 handed, and kept the game at $5-$10 Limit Holdem the rest of the morning, they broke the shit outta me, Eddie calling any cards and getting there, busting me, I was irritated and blown, and blew up at Eddie at his shit talking afterwards...after them being stuck over $1500 between the 3 of them, I put them on the board to help them break even, just didn't expect it off me, It wasn't alot, cause I was only in the game for $250, but still, Doesn't feel good to bust specially trying to avoid sticking a red entry in my spreadsheet for January...Pops game comin up next....again...another sleepless day comin up...

The good ole' Fish Tank

Went over to Steve's house to deal, Put some brutal beats on Blevins, it was insane, I wish I can remember hand histories, but these beats were best not to be remembered. I felt bad for him that he had to go through that...it was disgusting...Other than that, another night of dealing for me to help even out any losses I took during the beginning of the month to keep me in the black...Another early morning, This time, I didn't get any sleep after taking Cheyenne to School, Picked up a Nintendo Wii and set it up and played it all morning instead of being smart and going to sleep....another sleepless weekend is brewing....

The Donkey Coral

Wednesday Night and I missd it last week, so I have to go this week...argh...so much for taking a break...

Ended up pretty much going up and down, got sucked out on scooter, Can't remember how, but he did and crippled me, I end up getting back to even for the night, but the game was bout to end, so we ended up playing a little H.O.E $2-$4 Rotation for a little while...I got stuck about $120 for the night, not bad, maybe less, I have to take a look, but I wasn't sweating it, had a good time which is what mattered...Of course, Left early in the morning, Early enough I didn't have to go to sleep when I got home cause I would have to get cheyenne in a couple minutes, so Just stayed up till it was time to go, then scooped her up for school...

So I lied!

What a week, Whew...Today is Sunday, and I can say I got some decent sleep today, and it felt sooo good to be in my bed today!!! Why No Sleep???

Well, after lying to myself, I said I wouldn't go to Goodfellas Game this past Tuesday...Travis called me up asking if I was gonna go, I said I wasn't planning on it, but if he wanted to go, I would....Off we go to Goodfellas game Tuesday Night...

Game didn't go too-too late, but late enough to make it very tiring to pick Cheyenne up in the morning to take her to school...I specifically read somewhere that I was supposed to be running bad this month...so I said I was gonna play "Tight Is Right." That can get pretty boring, but built a nice chip stack up maxing out at $750 in a $1-$2 NL Game...

Close to the end of the night, I got dealt QQ Vs. the kid that ran his began his heated run after getting down to $24 bucks...It was raised to $10 and I bumped it up to $35 getting 2 callers behind me...Flop came out 779...checked to me and I bet out $50 to get called then raised $100 on top, I think, call the meatball, other guy folds, and the turn drops a beutiful Red Ace...Nice...Kid shoves $100 and I end up folding and he shows me a monster 52o...Nice Play, I played it so beutifully, he cashes out a couple orbits later and so do we...I end up a nice profit still of about $600 when we leave out there...

$5-$10 "3-4-5" with the Older Crowd

I know I said I wasn't going to be playing this month, but I just can't help myself...I actually went over to Natalia's place cause I thought I was gonna deal, but brought $200 bucks just in case to give some action cause she has been comin to the Pink game and gave me a dealer spot at one of her games she hosts...I knew her normal dealer was back in town, and she called me to just come over...I did indeed deal a couple shifts, but really didn't feel like it, so I told her I wanted to just jump in the game and give action...and thats what I did...

Dealt 2 shifts cause the table was full so might as well try to make some tip money to freeroll most of my buy in...

3-4-5...is the game of choice there...Its 3 card holdem H/L, 4 card which is Omaha H/L, then 5 card Omaha H/L...crazy action game and the limits there is $5-$10...comparing to the pink game, aint that many chips being tossed around using the normal $5 red chips...

It was pretty funny that Leonard, one of the hosts asked me to just deal instead of playing cause he said I don't know what I'm getting myself into....I don't know how they "Play" the game...I've dealt the game once before and watch the donkiness that I was stepping into...and yes, they play like some donks...Its an older crowd with the youngest being me and Eric while the rest of the crowd is 50+...Its an older crowd compared to the games I've dealt at or been too...and its funny just to watch them play...anyway, knowing how they played, I went into the game playing good starting hands...not sure what was good starting hands, but made sure it was hands that could run into the nuts both ways...and bailed when I thought my hand was dead or comin in 2nd best...and it worked, specially how aggressive they can be raising with the shittiest hands ever and getting there...they play so bad, but I came out on top...alot...cashing out with a decent profit out of there....

This brings me to what I was thinking about on the ride home last night, Maybe I'm not running bad, but PLAYING bad...I think when I am playing NL, My patience is thin, and forcing alot of hands to win...playing over aggressive as well...I'm going to give NL another shot this Wednesday at Travis House on Wednesday...I can go to Goodfellas game tonight, but would rather just chill out and not press my luck, and relax at home, clean up, and hang out and have some time to myself maybe read some books, watch a DVD, and get some sleep for a change...Hopefully I won't play so bad at Trav and Nelly's game this comin Wednesday...

End of the week review....

Going with my better judgement, I didn't play at Trav's and Nelly's game this week...I said I wouldn't play any any NL Games this month so I stayed home, I almost went, but said if there was no seat at start, I would stay home, and I did...and saved me a few Hundred bucks!

Thursday Night I dealt Steve's $1-$3 NL Game...He had a $500 Freeroll for the top 10 players last month who logged in the most hours at his game...game was pretty strong till early morning when the game was about to break, and I decided since I wasn't going to get in another shift, to let Bi continue to deal and I sat down and played, I sat with an un-even amount of chips from my tips which was $72 bucks and ran into pocket Aces, got paid off for a double up...grabbed a small pot from Travis, then got dealt AQ that was raisd to $17 and called by 4 players, QQ9 fell on the board and the original raiser lead out with a $30 bet, folded around to Steve who just calls and I pushed all in, D folded and Steve shows me a Q...after telling him Q is no good, he still calls my push and my AQ holds up...game breaks before a full orbit goes around to me and I'm up $320

Pink game ran pretty strong breaking around 7:30 am and I ran my stack to a little over 2 racks and started bleeding them away...got in a big hand when it was 6 players, with the game threating to break, limped 5 ways in a kill pot, flop comes out, and I don't remember the exact flop or cards I had, but Me and Nelly obviously flopped the nut straight as it gets capped 4 ways...turn comes out which gives me the bigger straight, which gets capped 4 ways again....river comes out that pairs the board and completes a club flush as well...everyone is scared with an all in and it gets checked down....travis shows down an Ace-high flush with a low which was the perfect card for Travis, he flopped two to the low and turned a flush draw for the high, river is where he caught both sides of the pot and scoops it for a HUGE pot...maybe Travis can post the hand history on that hand...I blew up and its not too many times I blow up, I wasn't mad at Kenny or Travis for playing that hand, I would've done the same as Travis, I was just very upset that it happened at the time it did cause I have no chance to pick up the chips I lost in that pot...Nice Hand sir!

Went over to Pops game on saturday to play some $1-2 NL and it was against my better Judgement, Shipped $235 before taking my daughter to the movies...came back to Pops house and ran into a dealer spot in the Box cause Christian was leaving, Made back over $200 in tip money in 2 hours which brought me $8 shy of breaking even for the evening, so I decided to jump into the game cause it was going short and wanted to keep the game going...sat with only $150 and shipped it...I need to listen to my self and not play....

But I can say I am up for the week which is a good thing! I'm going to keep a better track of my bankroll this year and made up a spread sheet to keep track of these things, luckily I have a Treo 700wx which has MS Excel so I can bring it with me everywhere I go and update it on the spot!

2007 is Here!

I hope everyone had a great Holiday and New Years! 2007, gonna be alot of changes for me...hopefully for the better!

I at least started the year off good with a win...not too big of a win, but a win is a win right?

Went over to Big Chris house for the New Years Eve get-together with the crew...Rosslyn and Tamara cooked a good meal for all of us to celebrate a new year...and since we were all together, fuck it, lets play some poker...Lots of blazing caused me to Pass out off a couging spell which freaked pretty much everyone out...I woke up and didn't even notice I blacked out, and carried on like nothin happened...pretty funny if you ask me, thats the 2nd time that has happened to me, but last time happened over 10 years ago over a chick named Erin's house after hitting a 5 footer Bong...anyway, brought the new years raking in a pot which was cool!!! This session, I was playing Heinz Poker the whole game after shipping over $140 bucks to Kenny when my pocket 7s didn't set to his pocket Aces...I should've listened to my instincts and that article in Bluff Magazine that said I was gonna be runnin bad in January and making terrible decisions...Heh, I ended up $15 bucks ahead at the end of the night!

Happy calls me the next day so I hit up Keon to go over there to play his $ .50/$1 NL game...Him and Skills has been running for a while, I just never go over there...I won't go into too much details about the game, but just say after attending alot of the games in our own circuit, I'm very spoiled when it came to his game...very disappointing...But it was good to see them and play with them again...I didn't want to go in the first place, but felt obligated for some reason and it was a $200 obligation...fuckin sucked lik shit, first game of the year, stuck $200...

Luckily, Natalia calls me the next day to deal her game because her regular dealer is still out of town, I jumped at the opportunity to deal it, her game is 3 variations of Omaha H/L8...they call it 3-4-5....3 card/4 Card/5 card Omaha H/L 8 with a High Hand Bonus every 3 hours...Networked with some new players that don't like holdem like the craze has been, so I naturally invited them over to play in my mixed game, now we have some new players for the Pink game coming very soon! and they are Action-Marathon Players!!!! tips weren't that well, but it helped out to even out the loss I already took...

Now I told myself that was it for me as far as playing in January, but I think I'll stop by Trav and Nelly's place and play a little $1-$2 NL for a while...if a seat is open at start of game...if not, then I will be chillin in the house!!!!!!

Can't wait till January is over and get back into the groove of playing again! Till then, I'll let this bad run, run its course and try to rebuild the roll I lost the last week of December....