Stars $15+$1.50 MTT

Been a while since I posted so I might as well Blog a Brag Post!

Last night playing on Stars $15+$1.50 MTT and somehow they let me sneak in the final table!

I was sturggling the first 2 hours of the tourney Just barely making the money at 45 players out of 315...going into the 3rd hour, I was pretty much sitting as chip leader flopping back and forth from 1st to 2nd...,

sittin at 45 players left, I'm left with 3378 in chips already making the money, its late, lets gambOol so I can get my Xbox360 on...Blinds at 200/400/50 ante I make it 1200 to go, get 1 call, heads up...

Flop: 6d2hKh

Check to me, I check

Turn: 9d

Guy bets 2200, I'm all in for less

River: 3d

my 9cJc is good, ahhh 7506 chip pot..lets play!

Next hand I make it 1200 with no contest, I steal blinds and antes with 66..

Going into the very next hand with 8506 in chips, I make it 1600 this time around, guy I beat with the J9c hand looks me up Heads up to the flop

Flop: 3sTs2s

I shove my remaining 6856 in chips and get called.

Turn/River: 5s5h

my KK holds up and I scoop a 17,962 chip pot to have me sitting quite nicely now!

It was on more key hand that helped me coast to the Final table

Blinds are at 600/1200/125 ante

I'm going into the hand with 54,110 in chips in the BB. Guy before me makes it 2400 and I call.

Flop: JsAs7s

I make it 4500 to go, guy raises all in for 10,851, 6351 for me to call, I call.

we turn our cards over:

E: AcTs
Villian: KhKs

Turn: 9s
River: 8s

DING! Strizzle Fizzle!!

Make the final table 3rd in chips and gets card dead, wow the aggressiveness scared me a lil so I played more tight than I usually would've played...but snuck in to get heads up with the guy...I go into heads up as an 2:1 underdog and just cant pull the win off...we play heads up about 30 minutes and he ends up taking it down and I take 2nd for a $696.94 win...

Didn't know how to play this...

OK, I was in a hand last Wednesday and I guess I played it wrong cause apparently when I tried to ask some of my friends opinions, I got laughed at instead of helped. I know many of times we discuss hand histories together, not bad beat stories, I can't stand hearing those, but I really wanted to know if I played this hand all wrong and couldn't get an honest opinion from anyone, and got angry and dropped it...

Villian is nicknamed "I hate money R***" (IHMR) Now I have dealt to this guy alot already and "I Think" I know how this guy acts when he has a big hand. Anyway here is how the hand played out.

$1-$2 NLHE

IHMR is in EP1 and limps in, 1 caller and gets to me 1 off the cut off, I make it my standard $7 to go starting the hand with $142. IHMR calls, other player folds, heads up.

Pot: $19
Flop: Jc3c7c

IHMR instantly moves all in and has me covered. I tank a little bit and ask, why so much? he then pulls back a stack and says, well how about this then, will you call this?

1. I've dealt to this guy many times and seen him do this before and have a made hand, not necessarily the nuts, but on that board, I'm pretty sure he flopped a baby flush and protecting his hand from another club from falling.

2. Its $19 in the pot plus $135, so I'm risking $135 to win $154 going in the hand as a huge underdog. I only invested a hot $7 bucks in this hand.

I decided to let him have the $19 bucks in the pot and find a better spot to double up on.

I tabled JJ just in case you didn't figure it out...Top Set...I've always said I would stack off no matter what if I flop a set, but for some reason this night, I said I wanted to try and play good poker and not peel off winners like I usually like to do...I didn't feel like running around with a sniper rifle and didnt' think it was worth the peel.

Oh I caught alot of laughter at me, and got ragged alot, but still feel good about my laydown, I felt i was beat and didn't find it worth the risk for such a small pot...

Now did I play this hand horrible or play it good? And yes, go head and berate this fish if its a bad play!

Poker Lessons at the Zoo

I went to the National Zoo today with the kids. I was walking through the reptile house and there was a big rule hanging there...I've been good at this back when I first started playing, but I guess bad beat after bad beat, it gets a little frustrating and its hard not to berate the bad players or the bad plays, next time, congratulate them on there stellar play, eat up your steam and just keep the game going...keep berating the fish, the fish leaves...so on that note:

Taste of my own Medicine

Wow, That shit hurts...

I already busted making a bad call to JP on a 77T board when 5 people limp in for $2 and im on the button and make it $12 to go and everyone calls. Flop comes out and it gets checked around to me and I'm already thinking if I get raised, I'm folding...I make it $45 and get raised by JP as he shoves the rest of his stack in the middle...after tanking a little bit and giving JP more credit than he should have I make the call and just have to prove to myself that anyon that pushes on me will have that 7...he flips over 57

Frustrated a little bit, I rebuy and look down to AA and make a small raise to $40 after i think 3 people already called a $12 raise before it got to me...oh, everyone called the $40 at that...I rebought for $150 and when the flp came out mushed to get insta raised by Travis to $250, everyone folds and he shows me 24, he felts me, I do the "E Cringe" and nobody is trying to laugh, but soon as I say, "wow, now I see how this feels, this shit aint cool..." that was everyone cue to bust out laughing! "I didn' want to be the one to say it," Travis says...But when I sit there and chuckle to myself after snapping someone off with Duece-Four, I promise I won't laugh next time I felt someone with my hand cause this shit hurts...That my friends, is a taste of my own medicine.

2 Lessons: Free Hands are not free, Never Throw Dice!

I rode with Keon to a local $5-$10 3-way rotation game Saturday evening. Keon is a 1-trick pony when it comes to poker, but felt he needed to give some action. So I said I'll roll up there with him. The vast majority of the game are from the old school...I'm talking about 65 and older. We are babies to them! Anyway, I miracly was able to run my original $200 to a lil over $500 and leaked a little bit before cashing out cause Keon and Ricky busted. The plan was to head up to Atlantic City afterwards. Its around 11:30 and we are headed up to AC.

Keon had to stay behind and play Mommy so it was just Ricky and I. I didnt' want to drive, neither did Ricky, so lets just rent a car...we stop at BWI Airport and rent a fully loaded Chrysler 300M chromed out, leather seats, wood grain panels...It was indeed a very nice car!

Get to AC and stop at the Trop and play some poker. I get into the game for $400 at $1-$2 NL. No hands really stand out except the standard E plays and I finally get even, actually, up $45 bucks. Ricky is walking around the trop and I call him on his cell phone and ask if he is ready to roll now that I'm even, I say aight, come to my table and get me when you ready, I said that to buy some time till I was UTG. I always wanna see my "free" hands, but who knew it could be so expensive, He says, lets go, I say, got 5 more hands, 3 of 5 hands in, he hands me a rack to rack my chips up, I said, got 2 more, bout to go, get to my 2nd to last hand and look down to TT...Ricky already knows its gonna get ugly so he steps back and watches the hand go down. I make it $7 to go and get a couple riders and gets re-popped from Mr. Hollywood to $30...I tank a few seconds and make it $75 to go. He calls. Flop comes out KQ5 I believe and he checks and I stupidily check behind him. Turn comes out a 8 and I honestly don't know what happened after...Ricky knows...but the J falls on the river he checks and I check behind...he rivered a set of Jacks and for some reason I tought my TT was good all the way to the river not realizing he had JJ LOL I even said something like damn I was good all the way till the river, I swear, you'll always find the fish in the river! Um...He was ahead the whole time FISH.

After that hand, I cashed out $255 and head to our room and go to sleep for a lil while...Woke up, took a shower and hung out on the boardwalk, played some craps, did OK till I threw the dice...I even said, I can't throw dice cause for some reason the dice just can't cooperate with me. I threw my point, took the dice, one of the dice landed on the side of the chip, 5 up, the other a 2...WTF...man fuck craps, that was a $100 reminder not to throw dice, ended up stairs at a $15 Black Jack table and got my Meatball back from the Crap game and called it a night, had to be home Monday Morning by 7, so we left AC at 4:15am and headed back home...Of course I didn't make it by 7, I was lucky Cheyenne's Mom was running late in dropping her off!

My Pops First Live Game

Talked my Dad into playing some fun poker hoping it would help me get the bad play out of me since we sat at a $2-$4 Limit Game. I let my Dad sit first and watched him play. You can tell he was nervous. The table just looked so serious and everyone was quiet....till I sat down...RAISE IT as I slam $4 shiny white chips on the table...oh that woke everyone up...got le-laised by some bama dude, and fold round to me...CAAAAAPPP ITTTTTT and we are heads up, I bet, he calls all the way down to river thats when I decided to look at my cards...oh yeah? 4To beat that sir...he taged a pair of 8s with his A9s cards...I pretty much kept saying shit you would hear at the pink game, they were pretty confused.

Thats how it pretty much went till the prop bets started, with me and young boy playing black/red for $2...I punished him and he decided to stop it, but bama dude picks it up saying he'll play, kool, lets up it to $5...actually, lets play $5 red/black, all black/red flop is double, suited is tripple...wow, he punished the hell outta me black every flop i might hit 1 out of 8, but I didn't wanna quit...got angry caus all my chips are done, dealer, im $1000 behind. I lay ten $100 bills down "cash plays" dealem' out and play continues. I did wake the table up, and heard the bama dude say he hasn't had so much fun playing in a game like that, My Dad said I wok the table up, it was pretty funny...I had a blast playing at that table, I definately had a great time giving away $115 bucks...I'm pretty sure everyone else did as well, my Dad enjoyed his first live game, which is what I pretty much wanted. I thought it was pretty funny cock teasing the table thinking that $1K was actually gonna be disbursed amongst themselves.

Pacific Ave and the wall of Casinos

Did you know there was a thing called a boardwalk on the other side of Pacific Ave and those buildings that we call casinos? If you are like me and my friends, you rarely frequent the "other side" of our wonderful adult playground. If we go casino to casino, its easier for us to catch a cab rather than walk the board walk. Hell who am I kidding, I'm lazy as all hell! Not to mention some of the casinos are connected with a walkway.

anyway, after waking up around 1pm, I got up and got myself together, my Dad took Cheyenne to the beach to swim and play while my mom was downstairs playing slots. I caught up with them and took Cheyenne so we can hang out so that my parents can chill and do what they do.

The day was great! The weather was good! We pretty much walked the board walk, playing arcade games, carnival games at the Steel Pier, riding rides and the Haunted Story was unsucessful though...it cost us both $20 bucks to get in, to see a bunch of actors tell a scary story, but the settings of the theater was too scary for Cheyenne, we stayed a record time of 45 seconds in there. I was pretty pissed cause she wanted to see it then we just wasted the money, I'd rather had just gone to the Ripley's Believe it or Not...Maybe next year I'll take her there, but for now, im ready to hit the Hard Rock Cafe over at the Taj Mahal and eat on the boardwalk.

After all the fun and games, we rode the lil carts that get pushed down the boardwalk...man, if I ever have to walk the boardwalk again, I'm jumpin in a cart and get my lazy ass pushed down the boardwalk!

Got back to the hotel and just spent the rest of the night at the pool till it closed then grabbed dinner at 6ix bistro then called it a night...Well Cheyenne called it a night, its poker time for me!

Welcome to the other side of the Trop

Small story...So the table moved and we picked up a couple new players, and maybe yall know "Johny" Spanish guy with a heavy accent, young bushy haired guy, was very drunk during the wee hours of the morning...slowing up the game worse than me!

Anyway, I'm still sitting with almost $800 in my stack and got in a hand with Johny...again, I made it my standard $7 and got I think 4 callers...

Pot: +\- $28
Flop came out 2s5s8d

check, I bet $17, Johny raises to $35, folds around to me and I push on his ass for his remaining $28 bucks...He tanks and starts talking, "should I call" "what do you have" the normal gay questions people ask while playing poker...I answer yes johny to all his questions. He then turns to one of the new kids playing, alot younger than me and he says, should I call? this guy says Yeah call him man...Ms. Linda then says, in her mean voice, uh uh, no you are not supposed to say anything, meanwhile Johny is saying, OK I'm going to call you...Did I mention that while Johny was tanking, I said, Ms. Linda, I know he is slowing up your game, if he calls, you get to drop his $28 bucks for you...when he says call, Ms Linda runs the cards out with all blanks and I turn over 2-4...he looks at me and i say, Johny, turn your fuckin hand over, don't you slow roll me and turns over 8-3. Ms. Linda says put them out (to the guy that said something and especially to Johny) and I go balistic on the guy that said, you should call him. the whole table actually gets mad at th kid and the old man next to me said he should even me out for that stupid shit he did...mean while Johny is is giving the kid a high five and yelling out loud, he put me all in with a 2 and a 4 and would laugh...Kid at the next table said, thats his favorite hand though! LOL...I was pissed and continued to leak out $200 cause of the whole thing and said im done...I picked up my rack of red birds and went to the cage and called it a night.

High Limit Room is No Longer

After having a great meal from Room Service, and Cheyenne thought it was real cool that we had room service, we sat around and watched TV for a lil bit and it was getting late, she was about to go to bed, so it was time for me to make a move back over to the Trop.

To my surprise, Paul is still at the Trop playing...but his stack looks allot different, I asked what the hell happened, He told me a couple hand histories and I just said Wow...really...a $10K stack at a $2-$5 table just blew me away, a $10K stack by it self just blew me away, what was really funny was that he needed to make 2 trips to the cage when he cashed out!

anyway, James mentioned to me earlier that they were closing down the High Limit Area as we were playing and they were moving players from the HL side over to where you find most of the limit games going on, but thy filled us in from back towards the front. Our table was second to last that they broke. No one wanted to leave but they said we would all sit in the same order and button continues where we left off...thats fine, whatever, I said, lets get this last hand in first, This is the last hand dealt to us 8 before the room is closed and I wanna scoop this pot as remembrance of my favorite spot in the whole poker room!

I am UTG and make it my standard $7 to go, and got 4 callers. I'm sittin on about $400.

Pot: $31
Flop: 5dThKs

checked all around

Pot: $31
Turn [5dThKs]2h (Everyone knows by now at the table that my hand is 2-4)
I bet out $25, fold, fold, Raise...$75, I le-laise $175, Guy goes all in, I insta call.

Pot: +\- $750
River, [5dThKs2h]Qc

I table TT and he tables 55, SCOOP!

Nice pot for my last pot in th High Limit Room at the Trop.

8/11/08 in the wee hours of the morning the High Limit Room closes for ever. Slots shall take over that room after renovations have been made.

I been a Trop Poker room regular since 2000 so I have many memories up there playing with my friends and the locals, Its fine sitting in the stupid part of the poker room, but please, please, I hope I never have to sit in the Simulcast area!

Check In, Stay In

So we check in our room and I go lay down while we all get situated. I told my parents to go play and me and Cheyenne will go to the Steel Pier tonight and go hang out and play arcade games.

Soon as we get ready to go, its a damn Monsoon outside, its raining super hard, the lightning is making the sky look brighter than it already was with all the lights coming from the casinos, and the crack of the thunder made sure everyone took cover in all the boardwalk's entrances into the hotel...and they were soaked. There was now way we were making it to the Steel Pier tonight, I'm hungry anyway and so is Cheyenne. There really isn't anything to do in Ballys for kids other than the pool that was already closed. She was a bit upset, but she got over it when w actually got lost trying to find our room. I never had a reason to learn Ballys, only because I rarely play there, non the less get room there, so yeah, it took me and Cheyenne a good 45 minutes to get to our room, after going back and forth, more than two occasions down the same hallways, elevators...I gave up trying to figure it out and just asked some security guard where the hell is my room at.

We finally made it and immediately order room service, my parents walk in and are in for the rest of the night, so thats my cue to go and play more poker...I kiss Cheyenne good night, grab some money, my room key, my Poker Card and find a cab to drive me over to the Trop...I aint walking in the rain, but its don past, still aint walking though....Got the first cab that past me and I had to hear him talk about his girl the whole ride, im thinking, dude, shut the hell up and just drive me to the trop man...I get to the Trop and History is made...well in my book it is, but it is a sad, sad story coming up.........

Off To Atlantic City I Go...

After a very, very long weekend this week, I had plans to go to Atlantic City for a couple days with my Mom and Dad and Cheyenne. Things have not changed through out my Family...My Grandparents always going to Atlantic City and my parents bringing me as a kid like Cheyenne gets to go to Atlantic City with Her Grandparents and me bringing her down as a kid. She is just like Daddy, Loves AC! She couldn't wait to go since I told her we were going up. When she hears me saying going up, she knows "up" is AC. Damn I wish I had a scanner to scan some of my baby pictures in Atlantic City on that board walk or me and my cousin Nat running up and down the boardwalk just roaming the beautiful hall ways of each Casino down the board walk hitting up all the arcades, stores, trying to catch a chick to hang out, eating and just goofing off while our folks gambled. How many of you all remember when the House of Blues was a big ass bowling alley...wow, we stayed there for hours playing Kid Niki!!!! Man I remember me and my cousins sitting outside the Taj Mahal on a bench for hours watching the people walk past some throw up on the board walk and we laughed for hours as we watched people stumble over it so they don't step on it, some just looked at it, and some stepped in it, that was the funniest! Can't forget meeting Lionel Ritchie in the morning. He was walking down the board walk and me and my cousin were practicing doing olley's on our skateboards. I said whats up, shook his hand and went back to skate boarding, wow, my life is soooo complete now!

Anyway, we leave for AC around 5AM...I'm dead tired from the weekend, so I slept, and snored, all the way up...I asked to be dropped off at the Tropicanna and I'll meet up with them when they check in the room at Ballys. Rooms were free, cause my Mom plays a ton of slots and my dad is playing roulette and craps.

So I walk in and see Paulson, If you all played Trav and Nelly's old game and my my old game and the game at the club house, you all will remember Paulson that went to Howard U, that played alot of poker with us. He moved to Philly so we don't see him alot, so we spoke and got caught up...I asked how he was doing, he had been playing since since Saturday and sitting on a stack of about $4k at a $2-$5 NL game. I'm asking why the game is paused, it just hit the Bad Beat Jackpot and since Paul was dealt in the hand, he got a $1600 piece of the Jackpot in cash. It was good to see him doing well, but I wanna play too, so I go get chips and get seated at a table where James is dealing and me and him shoot the shit while he is in the box. For some reason I wanted to play the morning donkament, so I sign up and sit back down to play some $1-$2. I won half the buy in of the tournament within the 30 minutes I was sitting down...so I go cash out and sit at my table, played my 1st 2 hands and I end up all in to a dude that flopped a set of 6s when I raised Kenny's 7-2 hand and flopped top pair and moved all my chips in the middle when dude check raised me hahahahaha well that was a fun 10 minutes of tourney...oooohhhhh now I remember why I don't play these things!!!

Get back in the $1-$2 NL game and proceed to ship $400, this is gay, I'm going to the room...and walk down the board walk....

wow...as much as I go to AC, I rarely walk the board walk...Luckily its not a muggy summer heat wave and feels soooo good outside with the breeze, no humidity and the temperature being 81 degrees! Its a whole different world out there, it was scary at first, but I adapted pretty quickly!

My Hand to the Death

$1-$2 NL at Keon's place.

Been playing pretty good the whole time, picking up pots here and there, and took my original $150 Buy in to close to a rack of red birds. I go upstairs to take a piss and tell Kenny we gonna dip soon...specifically at Midnight. Then the black catting starts..."E, I can tell you are playing good down there." What an asshole. I know he meant better, but its an indirected black cat spell.

So I played my Pocket 9s bad to amir when I clearly should have folded them on the flop instead of trying to gas him. Geez...I'm playing like this fish named E now...Got my chips back, then got into a huge hand with amir, some chinese guy...I'm first to act after the blinds and make it $7 to go, get raised to $30, Amir Calls, Ted Calls, I call...

Flop J48, I check, chinese guy goes all in for $81, Amir Calls, Ted Folds, I call...amir mentions, "E, 24 is no good here sir"

Turn: A

I check, Amir bets $100, I say wow, really? He mentions again, 24 is no good here I say really, and turn over and show 24..I said, Amir, Ima peel like a motha fucka on your ass and make you cry...I slam my stack of reds down, $100 called.

River: 2 ding ding ding, every goes wow..wtf, but amir turns over AJ for aces up and my feelings are hurt.

Fish Game Breaker

Been a while since I have posted, so I figured I'd post this one hand from last nights $1-$2 NL game since it was pretty funny...or stupid....

Game got pretty short last night, wasn't that strong of a game after the chips were flying since the first hand was dealt. No wait list, so the starting table was pretty much who was playing for the evening...and when they busted, they were done, maybe 1 rebuy..but that was it...

I believe it was straddled and I'm somewhere in late position, Jay just gave me a $200 present when I pushed all in after his re-raise to Johns bet and he couldn't let his big pair go on a 248 board (I said wow and big john looked at me and bet $23, Jay called and I shoved instantly...no I didn't have the nutz 24, but I did flop a set of dueces), so anyway, Jay is first to act and pushes all in around $60 bucks...Jefferson re-raises and goes all in for more, but not enough for anyone to re-raise...I look at the stacks of the remaining players to act and big John is the only one that can do some real damage to my stack, im sitting with just a little under $500...I decide to call and Tammy wants to call so bad. While I'm eye balling the stacks, I see Big John already is in position to muck his cards, if Tammy calls, I have Jay, Jefferson and Tammy covered. so I shoved my stack in to match Jeffersons stack...after Tammy thinks, she shows John her cards and says this is the winner, watch.

Noelle gets the main/side pot correct and the flop comes out

TQT 8 T

When the last 10 fell, I said, shit, that last 10 counterfeited me...Jefferson flips over AK and said, trip 10s with AK high...

I'm like, wow, I was counterfeited as I said it out loud again...

Show Jay, what did you have, he turned over KJ..whole time, my cards are position, ready to fly like a helicopter to the muck...

In frustration, I slammed my cards down to show what I had and the pot got pushed to me...What the hell? I slammed 33 down face up so its technically tabled and cards speak, and it spoke in my favor.

"Tens full of Threes you fish,"

Wow...whole time I'm bout to muck, complaining i got counterfeited...I kept sayin that cause before the flop came out, Jefferson and Jay never said they had a pair so at the time I knew my 3s were golden and when that 3rd 10 dropped, it registered in my head, that 2 pair was on the board and that Jefferson's A high played...

I'M A FISH, AND THAT HAND BROKE THE GAME AT QUARTER TO MIDNITE.

After that hand, It left us 4 handed, Ted, Hyatt, Big John and myself, Big John cashes out cause Tammy is now done, leaving us 3 handed, Ted doesn't want to play 3 handed and neither did I, so thats all she wrote.

Lesson learned, always table your cards, I usually always do anyway, but that there is the reason you should always table cards...cause if you are an idiot like me, well, you gonna ship it!

2nd Lesson learned, I'm just going to keep my mouth shut cause I felt like a DUMB ASS. LOL

By the way, Tammy said she had pocket 6's, and her stack was less than Jeffersons...glad she folded!

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Holy Shit I am a fish!!! No wonder everyone asks if I'm playing! I knew I have been playing bad and losing, but when I saw it on paper, "Holy Shit," I said to myself...I am a F#(K!N Fish man!!! I don't even wanna talk about it its embarassing, I need to take a break and chill out for a second, get my composure together and get back on track...this fish talk is not cool at all........Takin a F%(K!N Break man!!!! Hmpphhhh

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All Is Well

All is well, I haven't posted in a while cause I haven't been really in a writing mood these past couple months...But tonight, I'm sitting around hanging out not really doing anything so I might as well update my blog.

Let's see, Last I left off was at the Winter Borgata Open. Nothing really has changed, its been the same thing day after day...Games been running strong, down to dealing just Steve's games. I said I was gonna make more time for myself and not involve poker everyday and thats what I just been doing. I'm even thinking of getting one of those Jobs...Thats just showing you how bored I am during the day now a days...I figure I'm only running the game on Mondays, Deal on Thursdays, play Big Chris game when he has it, Play Pops game on Saturdays, during the week, I should be able to get some rest and go to work...Maybe im just bored though...but we'll see how that turns out...

Other than that, I jumped out there and grabbed one of these XBox 360 joints. Been playing Call of Duty 4 like a champ! Even Cheyenne is good at it for her age...sometimes she does better than me on some boards lol but that Online is MONSTER!! We also play Rock Band and Guitar Hero III so if you tryin to get blasted or rock out, look me up on there!

Oh yeah, its one hand I wanna tell cause it was extra funny at Big Chris House...I'm talking trash to Reymond, so he makes it $10 to go in a $1-$1 NL Game...I of course call with the worse hand, Qd3d, flop comes out 2sJd5h and he bets out $15, after he bets out, I announce I have a diamond draw and I promised him I will get there, so I end up showing both my cards to him and ask him if he still wanted me to call, he tells me do what I gotta do, and shows me AQo...i say, damn, I guess I am losing huh, so I call his $15 bet, turn brings a lovely 6d, I laugh and say see...he checks so I follow right behind and check, river brings a 4s and I look at him and say dag, and he insta mushes all in...in confusion i had to look at the board again and call lol, i have a straight, Reymond says huh? Shit, I was so worried about the flush and it didn't come, I didn't even look at the board lol, we all got a good laugh about that for at least an hour!

Borgata Winter Open

After pink broke this weekend, I had to go straight to Pops house for the bad player $500 freeroll. He kept track of all tournament play during the 2007 at the SHOP. I was bottom 10! I'm a bad player and what do bad players do? Bust out tournaments quick!

Played Pops $1-$2 NL game till it was time to head up to AC...I don't know how I drove all the way up there with the rest I had, but I did it.

We got to the Tropicanna and walked through the poker room to say my hello's...If you haven't already known, the Trop has been going downhill lately but I still love the Trop...but there wasn't alot of tables going when we got there. We didn't play there cause I wanted to play the Borgata Late night cash tournament. So we head to the Borgata and barely make it, but got to the poker room and I couldn't find where to register at...So I didn't play, but ended up sitting at a $10-$20 FL Omaha H/L8 Game. There were 2 tables next to each other and Andy thought they were 2 way OE8 games...but they werent, the table andy decided to sit at was the OE8 game, the table I was at was strictly an O8 game. I was playing well the whole game and ran my stack to a dime till goofy guy comes over and sits back down from earlier...He was shipping it when I first sat down and he wanted to take a break and he came back later....Cep't this time, his goofinss loosened me up a bit and I proceeded to leak chips back into the game...I looked down and leaked $200 back to the game and it was 7am already...I had to get some sort of rest before playing the Borgata Open's Limit event so I cashed out and used the winnings to pay for the tourney. FREEROLLIN!!!

Wow at the tournament, The first couple of dealers were garbage...shuffled slow, dealt slow, couldn't run the game very well, and some of them even paid attention to the big screen TV's with th NFL Play off games showing...anyway, there was a break every 2 rounds and the first 2 rounds, I didn't rake a pot in...I splashed around a bit, but never got a pot to go my way...the River killed me EVERYTIME. Some of the hands shown down I didn't understand why they would play the hand they had to the river...maybe cause AKo looks real good to them? Or was it cause the chips didn't hurt them if they lost it...I heard that alot at my table as players scooped in pots that were retarded, "these early levels if you lose a pot, cause the blinds are so small it can't hurt you..." LIES...maybe its not hurting you all, but it sure is hell killing me!!!!

Coming back from break, It was my turn for the best hand to hold up, Its about time the 1 pair draws didn't get there!!! Don't get me wrong though, my stack still suffered from idiot plays, but I happened to have a nice come back to look down to over 10K in chips....then it started happening again...I lost a ton of chips when it was 1 minute to go to dinner break, ATc on the button with 4 limpers behind me, I pop it up and everyone calls, T high board with the flush draw is out there and its checked to me, I bet, and only got 1 caller, we are heads up to the turn/river and a non flushy 2 comes out, checked to me, and i bet, he calls...River is a K and he checks, I bet, he raised and I wanted to punch him caus I know what happened here, i of course called it and he flips over AKo...NH sir....Coming back from break, blinds are not 400/800 and im short with 2900 chips left....i look down to J9s in late position and jam my chips in, heads up on the flop and I flop 2 spades, check, I bet, he calls, Turn gives me a gutshot, check, bet all in, call, River bricks out and his 1 pair is real good! I believe it was over 310 players and when I went out it was 19 tables remaining...Going back to go chill in the room, I was gonna go catch a movie at the Imax theater at the trop, but of course I decided to see if they can spread a 2 way game downstairs and end up sitting at a fishy $1-$2 NL table, quickly trippling up my stack, I run into my cooler players....the first guy was catchin AA and KK and JJ tagging sets, straights on my ass...I told his ass I aint giving him nomore action LOL Then, some Asian kid sits down and he is running the table over, I finally get a hand to play him with and get into it....Kid makes it $12 to go with 1 caller before it gets to me, I raise it to $25, Kid calls and the other guy folds, Heads up. I'm holding QQ...Flop: KhQh7h, I lead out $75, he calls, xd falls on the turn and I lead out $150 and he calls, River brings a 9h putting 4 hearts on the board and I mush all in for my remaining $165 +\- and he thinks...he calls, I'm about to much my cards and say "your flush is good, I only have a set." He says which one, and I flip over my flopped set of Queens, he turns his flopped set of Kings over and scoops the pot and I got mad as shit for him slowrolling me like that...if you are holding top set, why ask which one and not just flip it over since its obvious its no sets out there larger than his set of Kings...I had a meltdown the rest of the morning and proceeded to ship it....Our table breaks and I move to the only $1-$2 NL game going at the time...I stacked off on a bluff before it was time to go....I look down to 24o on the button. Stupid Indian, Won't shut up Guy makes it $12 to go...4 other callers to me and I make it $65 to go, everyone folds cept the old Asian guy...very quiet guy...Flop comes out K37r, I make it $85 to go leaving me $52 behind and he starts talking to himself, what did I get myself into here...he kept saying, he has Aces...I thought he was gonna fold till he said, oh well, if im wrong, you deserve this, I'll put you all in, I insta call lol and gets none of the board, nor the pot!!! NH Sir, Hurry up Andy and wake up so we can go back to MD...he calls down 15 minutes after that hand and I leave when I was under the gun....

Another stgrong Monday

Monday ran real strong this past game...Game broke at 2pm Tuesday afternoon...full table pretty late again.

I usually have to leave at 7 so I can make it home and wait for Cheyenne to be dropped off so I can take her to school, after that, I go straight back to the game and jump in...

Ship it.....Ship it....Ship it.....God damn, im already in for Nickel and it hasn't been 30 minutes LOL

Take a small break to shake it off and get back in the game again...ran that up a lil bit. Played my QQ real weak against Trav...Doubled up a couple hands...Jay stopped by in the morning to run his stack up to a lil over $800....he shipped it as fast as he raked it in...

Wow I played bad this past Monday...Just got lucky to hold on to my chips after closing the gap up a lil bit...

Re-charge the Bunny!

Guess the batteries died.

Its 10:51 am and I'm at home washing clothes, when I should be asleep being up all night at the pink game, but yeah, I'm at home cause Pink Broke at 7:30 am this morning. Guess from a marathon $1-$2 NL game, comes a slow Pink game to follow.

Just weird sitting at home at this time. Pretty cool to see Saturday's daylight also. Its been quite some time since I was able to see the sunlight on a Saturday afternoon from outside instead of sitting at the table looking out the window.

Game was pretty nice, couple set backs put me in a mood early in the evening, but I got over it and all is well. Sorry if I snapped at anyone last night. Stuff just got complicated for a second there...Nothing going on till Monday, unless Big Chris has his game this Sunday, if not, I'm looking at a couple days off to rest and play some Guitar Hero III on the Wii :o)

Just like the energizer bunny

We keep going and going and going and going....

Goodness...Monday's $1-$2 NL game went till Wednesday morning officially breaking a 4am. The game got pretty sick, Monday night, "chips" is all I heard coming from Travis' mouth every 15 minutes for reloads. I don't know if its cause Monday didn't run 2 weeks straight cause of the Holidays or the right table assembled Monday night.

I got into the game for a semi-short buy and dwindled down to my last $57 bucks when I ran into the a viscious heater. Started when O pushed all in obviously with a big hand, Travis just calls, I thought about pushing my stack in there, I called with the nutz. Flop comes out 369 and travis throws a bet out there and I insta called, turn brings another 6 and we both check and long and behold the lovely 5 drops on the river.....MUSH is the sound my chips made sliding into the pot and get called for me to scoop with a straight....under all the wow's and me laughing, I hear travis call me a dumb ass. LOL

I ran my stack up peaking at $1400 when I know my heater is done, I go on leak tilt. I leaked off a rack of redbirds trying to stack Justin and his Boy. No medic in site, im just glad that they finally quit cause I wasn't quitting until I got the chips they held or until I passed out on the table...

Well, we I finished the night off on a positive note, a not so bad start to the new years!

Oh My God!!

"Oh My God!!" Means nothing...sometimes...after all the delirious-ness of pink, that little phrase was extra funny to me so I kept saying it till everyone else kept saying it!!!

I swear, if its one game that I can't wait for, its Pink, Its hands down, one of the most fun games to ever be at! The action is CRAZY, The players are "real goooood" and its just a great time to be had by all! Harry and Natalia are a show in itself, while the rest of the local MD Circuit players...well, its us and if you been to our games, you know we can be a great bunch of people to play poker with and be around!

Anyway, to bring in the new year, first game in was Pink...and yeah I tried to play "Gooot!" I sat down at start cause a bunch of players came earlier than schduled, so we got the game started, as the players started filling in, I got up with a small profit...but its very early, so I refuse to act like its a win...When I finally was able to get into the game foreal, I shipped it...Travis wanted to play so I got in the box for a little while to break even, got back in the game and SHIPPPED IT! Took a small break and got back in the game to keep the game going...broke back even and we stuck some other games into the rotation since we got 5 handed...Kept Tahoe and Omaha in, but we took Stud H/L out and stuck Razz and Pitch and Bitch into the rotation, Ricky bobby never played it before so I said, go grab 1 stack and play, so you can learn, its fun...While im DEAD EVEN..Ricky scoops the shit outta me not once, but TWICE in a row!! Who the hell told this guy to play???? I'm rolled up with 4s, and Ricky hit a wheel with on 5th street...Oh My God!

Game breaks and we head straight to Pops house for his Head Hunter Tourney, I bust out fairly quickly when my KK runs into the monster 9To, Blinds are 50-100 and I make it 400 to go, Pete calls and and we are heads up, the board comes out 259r, I lead out $1200...by mistake, I put out 2-500 chips and 2-100 chips, when I meant to lead out 700, Pete took it as a bluff with me trying to over bet the pot, and then I started acting like me as usual and he pushed all in on me, I insta-call and he rivers a T. DONE. I didn't try to over bet the pot, but then again, I definitely didn't mind the push by Pete either.

The cash game was $2-$4 H.O.R.S.E. with a Full Kill...I didn't play too long cause I had to pick up Cheyenne, but we played a little while, and while waiting for the tourney to end, we played $3/point Chinese Poker...None the less, I shipped what I won plus some out of the pocket in H.O.R.S.E. and left to go home...

Oh My God, what a way to start the year off!!!!!!! Red is such a beutiful color specially on my spreadsheet!

Happy New Year! 2007 In Review

Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone partied safely New Years Eve to bring in 2008!!

I haven't writtin on purpose cause' I wanted to wait till the new years and start fresh. So on that note, I hope everyone had a great Holiday this month and ready to take on '08!

2007 was a decent year, this was my first year not working in a real job. I'm not going to say it was easy to pull off, but I did it this year! Let me be honest, if I was solely dependent on poker play, I'd already have lost my house, prolly staying with my parents and prolly working the corners of 13th and M St, NW catchin tricks. No I wouldn't go that far, but you get the picture.

I have to thank the hosts of the other MD circuit home games for giving me a gig different nights of the week to deal there games, I also have to thank my players for supporting the Pink Game and the Monday Night NL Games! 2008 Ricky and I will come up with more things to show our appreciation for our players attending our games. Seriously, Thank you all very much for the support this past year!

Like I said, 2007 had allot of ups and downs, suprises, drama, twists and turns...It had allot of happy days, sad days, scary days...Lets go back and look back at '07 and see the memorable moments!

- Dealt a hell of a lot of games this year!
- Sick Hit' N' Run - Travis has KK, Jeff has JJ, New Guy (Jake) has AQ, Jake is just calling
through out the whole betting sequence and everyone is all in on the flop, Trav's KK gets
to the mighty AQ for a <$800 pot and right after, Jake says, "fuck that, im done!"
- 2nd Year at playing ATLARGE, I final tabled the NL event for a 8th place finish.
- Running Pink and the Monday Night NL Games with Keenan after moving from my Folks
house.
- Going to Atlantic City with Keon and Travis for one of the greatest cash game sessions ever!
Not only did all three of us come home a winner, Travis and I dominated the table to be known
as one of the SICKEST $1-$2 NL games ever! Then we get pulled over and Keon tells the cop
may all his pots be live and his cards be monster. What a jack ass! Its even funnier cause he
said it backwards!
- Took a trip to AC with my parents, I was able to bring Cheyenne with me, we got to hang out
at the Steel Pier, play arcade games at the arcade, and wonder around the hotel, then at night
I threw chips around the poker table, My parents and Cheyenne were able to watch the action
from the outside at the Showboat.
- After 3 years, $1 for $1 for pots <$100, the Bad Beat Jackpot was finally hit! Coach Jimbo and
Jefferson were the players that hit it, AAAKK vs. AAAQQ. The Jackpot was $5500 bucks!
- Travis and Nelly break up and that marks the fall of the Donkey Coral Legacy.
- Keenan moves in a hot room mate, NL Game is now on hold, Pink game is now squatting at
different host's homes. Started at the Coral, Then moved to the Pdoggie's Playground.
- I catch a bad beat from Gypsy Pete after him selling me a fluke ass Cadillac STS, then him
running off with out getting my money back or a new car.
- Wanting to rebuy 1K in a $1-$1 NL game that ran for 2 days straight
- I get a new partner for the Pink Game and the NL Game, back at Laurel! Ricky and I are
running Pink and Monday Nights, The game has taking a big change for the better!
- I cashed in the FTOPS VI, Event #6 - Stud H/L.

I finished up the year and celebrated New Years Eve like I do every year, I hung with the crew, the OG's of that good ole 5 Double 0...Played some cards and got TWISTED!

So whats new for this year?

- I plan to improve budgeting of my money.
- I would LOVE to be more disciplined when playing poker...It seems to me that just because
I have back up income source is an excuse to play bad...its not, I should be playing more like
its my sole source of income.
- I need to work on actually keeping a poker bank roll.
- Keep poker tracking in the black, Red SUCKS!
- START MAKING TIME FOR MYSELF INSTEAD OF POKER ALL DAY, EVERYDAY!

I hope everyone has a great 2008 and i'll see you up AC at the tables!