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.