Ehonda's Poker Chronicles

If I didn't black cat myself!

2009-08-22T13:17:00.003-04:00

Yes indeed...I black cat myself. If its one valuble lesson I have learned over the years of playing poker, is never get ahead of yourself. What I mean by that is, You really can't go to a game, in your mind, "knowing" you are the best player there. Gotta stay humble, or you will find your self making the most dumbest plays ever.

Its a couple games that I have been frequently playing at lately, just because the play there is so bad...I have been going off and on the past 6 months maybe, hitting one of the 3 games at least once every 2 weeks...logging in a win...then I started making it out more frequently...with more wins being logged, and worse case scenario, I break dead even, and make a run for it...just to keep my record clean at these games.

Friday night's game didn't run last night, so I get a text from @onafolddraw "what's your back up plan?" My reply, "I'm going to Wolf's game tonight, you want to go and run it like we did in Atlantic City?"

So the plan has been set, we are off to Wolfs...So Travis stops by my place, its a little early...so he has the bright idea and wants to tell me he has an ego boost. So of course, I had to brag a little bit and tell him that I have never lost at these games. I swear, 15 seconds after I said that, I knew it was a wrap for that game. All I kept thinking about was the Ted Effect.

Ted Effect (Adj.) 1. To brag about ones self of superiority to another, then ship it at the game as punishment for bragging. 2. Black catting ones self. 3. Simply put: You Jinxed Yourself Dummy!

What's really put the icing on the cake, Knowing I jinxed myself, I still made a comment on Twitter, that I really didn't want too, but did anyway... Ehonda500MobReally, the fish are getting frustrated...hate to sound so up on myself, but these dudes are so outclassed

After that tweet, it was a wrap...The frustration set in early...couldn't shake it tilting for nothing...But like I heard someone say to someone...How can you be tilting when you are already playing bad.

I should've gotten up even to keep my record clean...Just couldn't get myself to give up...All that "swallow up your pride" to withhold an image is out the door again...

So to end my night, I decided to do a bonehead play and give @fivefingerz a +400 pot. He makes it $30 PF, I cold call with A5s. Flop: AdXsXs Top pair, Nut Flush Draw, Ricky bets out $35, I just mush for over $200...He tanks, and thinking I had the As ready to show, I turn my card over and see its the 5s...It's already too late to play it off, so whatever happens, happens...He ends up calling with AJ, which after I show the 5, he doesn't put his house note in the pot, I have no clue...But he ends up calling and I get up cause the Spade doesn't fall...Bonehead I swear...I swear...I meant to show the As to induce action. Eh...Live and Learn...Lesson...Just never show the fucking card...it never works out...How about when I get QQ the other night at Tanyas and Ivans game and Donk to my right flopped Bottom pair (He is holding 64o) to a raise of $35 pf. He checks on a 9 high board so I put him all in for for nomore that $100 and I show him 1 Q...he says, I am probably beat so he sticks his money in...oh look at the turn card, he peeled his 2 outer...6 on the turn..Ding!

Fuck Showing Cards, That amateur play is out my play book from now on!

2009 Borgata Poker Open

2009-08-21T04:23:00.003-04:00

Eh, If you did not know already, I didn't go to the last O8 event at the Borgata couple months ago. I didn't want to go solo up there, and being I had to leave to AC immediately after Monday Night's game, there was no way I was going up solo.

Well, I got another shot again!

The Borgata has the 2009 WPT Borgata Poker Open coming up September 9 - September 24, 2009. I'm going to take my shot at the Omaha H/L event. $400 bucks for a 2 day event.

I guess since I'm up there, if I don't survive, I can take a shot at a sattelite event to get into the Main Event.

I suck at keeping up my blog...I can text my ass off though...so follow me on Twitter @ehonda500Mob

I always say this, but I'll try to keep this up.

Borgata Summer Open '09

2009-06-14T22:59:00.002-04:00

Looking forward to the Omaha H/L 8 tournament on Tuesday.

Hope all goes well and I will be able to make it out there...just gotta take care of a couple things and I'll be good to go. It's only a 1 day tournament so only plan to stay up there to play the tournament, then head back to MD.

Good luck to the MD-Poker Circuit out Vegas in the WSOP $1500 HORSE tournament!

Hope 1 of you fucks brings a bracelet home!

The S.H.O.P Closes its doors.

2009-05-19T07:57:00.006-04:00

Whats up everyone? Let me sweep the dust out of here...its been a while...just got nothing to talk about. Same ole, same ole, dealing here and there, playing here and there, shipping it here and there...notice I didn't say win money over there and over there...cause its not like that. I've been shipping it since I got back from Atlantic City on my birthday.

So I'm chilling, taking a small hiatus playing for a little while...just trying to stack bread to ship back to the poker community soon...I'll make sure to let everyone know so you all can add it to your calendar and expect a bonus check that week.

Work has slowed down, expenses keep rising, can't afford to ship it as much as I like too.

Pop's last game was this past Saturday, I'm sad I couldn't play....I did deal the tournament, which the winners did take care of me...just sad I couldn't get in the cash game that day.

Thanks Pops for the 3 years of great games!

No sleep, Spanish Chicks, Daddy Yankee and Whores!

2009-04-08T08:34:00.003-04:00

After that awful bus ride up to AC, I just wanted to get off the bus, I wanted to get off so bad, I said fuck the $20 bucks cash you get back if we just stayed on the bus till we got to the Tropicana. Figured, getting dropped off at the Trop, and catching a cab back to the Showboat, still would've had some extra cash back making the trip up cheaper.

So we get off Resorts and walk across the street to the Taj Mahal. We just make it in time to see the TOC tournament winding down. We stop by the Tah's Poker room to see the ATLARGE crew and say whats up to the rest of the MDP gang.

Check in for ATLARGE and head to our room over the Showboat. Finally check in the Showboat, whole time Amir is just buggin the shit out of me and Kenny trying to find where our room is at, calling every 5 minutes 2 hours before his arrival to AC...he finally makes it and meets us in our room. I mentioned I wasn't playing any poker and wanted to go out and drink and party tonight...Amir is always down with a party that has something to do with hooking up with bitches.

After being up the whole time the night before, drunk out my ass might I add, Sleep was needed...I got a full 2 hours sleep before Amir called and said, that Daddy Yankee was at the Taj that night and said it would be a ton of broads there...Kenny, Amir, Ricky and I ended up going to party...Click the link, I saw a bunch of people recording it with their phones, so I looked it up and saw that some were posted on youtube. I was hoping it was the chick next to me cause then you could've seen the bitch I was tryin to holla at...wow, Dominican chick, was so sexy, sexy accent...good lawd...I aint get none though...sucked....had a good time at the show though...I never even heard of this guy till we went...not my type of music, but good lawd, the women in there...I swear, I want to marry me a spanish chick!

After the show, we headed to the Tropicanna for the afterparty at the Cuba Libre Wow so many women down there, struck out for the regular women, but as drunk as I was, I couldn't tell the AC Whores from the club chicks.

So after going back over to the Taj, extra drunk, just decided every single chick walkng around was a whore and decided to call it a night and go to bed...had the ATLARGE No limit tournament in the morning to play, so I would attempt to get some sleep...nice hit, its 4am and the tourney starts at 11am...oh yeah will I be ready for that!

Last Night's Game

2009-04-02T11:58:00.002-04:00

I've been reading this book that Travis let me borrow. Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan N. Schoonmaker. Its not a book on poker strategy/theory or anything like that. More like helping you to identify and stop psychologically based mistakes, Using Intuition vs. Logic, Evaluating Yourself and the Opposition, Understanding Unconscious and Emotional Factors, Adjusting to Changes and Handling stress.

This book is great so far, Yes its kinda hard for me to understand, so I re-read it and re-read it...It has helped out alot this year so far, I'm still reading it, for some reason it takes me forever to get through a book...I guess cause if I don't understand a section, I'll go back and re-read it again. Like some people, they are good just reading it...some learn easier with a teacher...I need both. I need to go home and read it, then go to class and the teacher talk about the chapters in my face.

I wish I had an outside source that can be very honest with me with my play and what not. Being that I play with alot of the people in our circuit. It's hard for me to distinguish someone critizing me for the better or to use it for later on down the road to felt me. Seriuosly, when someone says I have been playing good, I can't tell if its genuine or if its a ploy to keep me playing the same way. Even when playing around, we call each other fish, and I believe half the time they really mean it cause I know I do!

I made a mistake going to the game with only 1 bullet. I normally have a stop/loss at $500 and call it quits, when you beat, you beat, right? I just can't see getting into a $1-$2 NL game for more than that. I've seen it done, and yes, I'm guilty of it, but I know what it feels like, and its not cool.

The night was pretty much cut and dry. I went into the night saying to myself, I am more of an intuuition player than logical player, but this year, I have been putting alot of logic to my thinking so I can help correct my mistakes. In turn, I am not making my decisions so instantly.

Last night I learned a good lesson. I will not post it on here, because alot of people I play with actually might read this blog. But here is a hand history that actually felted me last night which helped me on my self evaluation. Also, I have a theory I want to test out on one of the players I think I figured out last night, the whole night, I tried to predict his actions, and most of the night I was correct, which is why I should've went with my gut instinct last night. I guess from that, you'll know exactly who I'm talking about. Mind you, so many people have different opinions on this guy. Even though he might be an asshole to most of everyone when playing poker, I actually think he knows the game very well. I actually think he is a good player. Most might disagree, which is why the poker economy will never go dry. No one will ever think or play this game the exact same way!

I'm starting this hand with around $335'ish and I started out the night with $200. I'm on the button and its limped around to me, and I make it my normal $7 to go preflop...I catch 3 players to tag along...

Pot: $30
Flop: Jc3s7s

Ted Checks, Harold checks, JayH makes it $10, I raises it to $35, Ted makes it $135, Harold Folds, Jay folds, E re-raises to $185, Ted moves all in, I call. Ted has me way covered.

Turn and river I don't remember, I know the flush got there on the river, but Ted turns over a flopped set of 7s and I flopped bottom set and lose.

I call it a night.

(Its hard to believe me, but Honestly, I actually go in the tank and first thing that came to my mind was he hit a set of Js again. I wanted to muck so bad but then this exact thought came to my head..."I don't care, I'll stack off with a set all the time" Those that know me know I have been saying that for years, and after that thought, "raise" came out my mouth...I decided that I needed to see for myself, and even if Ted was fucking around with AJs, He'll lay it down, but since my mouth acted faster than my brain and I decided not to go with my first instinct and give the hand up after only committing $42 total dollars, I raise enough to commit me to get my money in the middle.)

Bus Ride to AC

2009-03-27T08:35:00.003-04:00

After a night of partying and trying to sober up at a $1-$2 NL game, it was time to pack and get on the bus to AC. The bus departs at New Carrollton Station at 9:15am...Makes a 10 minute stop at Downtown Baltimore, Travel plaza in Baltimore, then the AC Bus Depot, then the misc casinos.

Kenny and I have caught the bus up before and the bust was empty so I was anticipating being able to sleep and snore my ass off...nope, fail...Packed Bus...PACKED!!!! So I sit by a 50 somethin' lady and her friends were sitting in the row in front. OK...Now I have to stay awake just to respect her space and me knowing my snoring is off the hook.

FAIL!

Not even 15 minutes down B/W Parkway, I catch myself drifting into sleep and caught myself just as I'm about to snore my ass off....At the same time, the ladies in front of me decided to comment, in a fashion that the whole bus can hear...about how she has to sit by a snoring man...wow...they was going, oh it wasn't one comment and lots of laughing!

We finally reach the Travel Plaza so I get out hoping the cold air and me stretching my legs will wake me up a little bit, so as I'm walking off the bus, I'm looking for Kenny, I didn't see him, oh well, he might of stepped off the bus...

So I'm standing outside the bus and look up and see kenny's face pressed up against the glass...I don't know if he was laughing or trying to say Help! How come I didn't see him whenI left, oh yeah, the lady he is sitting by is the biggest lady in the world, and on the bus. LOL I thought I had it bad with the joning ladies...But Kenny can't breath up there! I wanted to take a picture, but I don't have a Blackberry with a camera.

When we got to AC, we got off the bus, as tired as I was trying to fight sleep, I didn't want to wait to get to the Trop just to get the $20 cash back. If you go any other casino, they give you a voucher, Trop is the only one that gives actuall cash back. I just wanted to get to the showboat and get in the room and take a nap.

We finally get to AC, stop by the Taj Mahal Poker room and check in on everyone else that was playing the TOC tournament. Travis took 1st for a nice hit!

Walk over to Showboat so I can put my shit in the room, get something to eat, then go to sleep...No sleep, I got a 1 1/2 hour nap, then it was time to go out and party some more!

Amir met us up there and we couldn't figure out where to go drinking and partying, he said Daddy Yankee was up at the Taj, and it was gonna be a ton of women...Um, I never heard of this bama, but Fuck It, lets go party!

AC Weekend (3/13/09 - 3/16/09)

2009-03-26T11:48:00.002-04:00

Guess I should write up that weekend in Atlantic City for my Birthday...Guess we should start it out that Thursday since I consider that whole weekend one whole day with couple naps here and there...

So get up with my folks, Ryan, Keon, Chris and get twisted and go see Junkyard down Dat Bama's spot, Marygold's. Met some other random folks there, seen alot of oldschool faces that was always at the JY show. I Know JY gonna rock regardless cause its Buggs birthday also. Its also Moe Shorter's Birthday also, he was Junk's manager back in the day...and back in the day, wow, it was a party!!!!

Kenny was supposed to meet us up there, but of course, the degenerate that he is, said he was gonna play some poker before heading up to the spot...he never showed, he must be stuck...but what a bright idea we had...drunk out our minds, we say, lets go play some cards after leaving the show...Drunk as fuck, we head down to Doy's $1-$2 NL game...Oh I remember the reason now...we were hungry and Doy can make a mean Filipino dinner! Being that it was 4am when we got there, there wasn't much food left, but luckily everyone that was playing, got hungry...Doy made some bangin ass Adobo for breakfast...bangin indeed! I finally get to sit down after about 1 1/2 hours of waiting cause the table was full, I got to sober up a lil bit and sat down to play, only played till 7am cause I had to be home in time to catch the Greyhound bus to AC. The original plan was to ride up to AC for ATLARGE and make the smokers dinner Thursday night, But I chose to see JY and party with my folks down here before heading up to AC...It also gave Kenny a chance to make some money so he can head to AC...we ended up talking him into going up anyway...so I make what I spent at the club, Kenny made a killing, we dip, and we head home so I can finish packing for the weekend...

Next...The Bus Ride Up...

33rd Birthday

2009-03-12T12:00:00.004-04:00

Today is my 33rd Birthday...Gettin old, gettin old!

Got nice Nuggets and waked and baked...nothing new...

Going to see Junkyard Band tonight.

Then Atlantic City first thing in the morning for ATLARGE.

I would like to go right after seeing Junkyard tonight, but I'll be too drunk, high, lets just say fucked up to do any driving to Jersey! I put in for a rental car anyway so I'll just Greyhound it up and meet up with Ricky and the rest of the MD Poker circuit up there!

Through the Snow We Go

2009-01-29T20:28:00.002-05:00

Going back to the Tuesday game the chicks run cep't we are going early. I didn't really feel like going out there in the first place, and the weather Tuesday night didn't make it any easier to make me want to go...but then I thought about it again. I'm sitting at home playing COD:WaW with Kenny and say, aight, lets go, we are leaving at 11PM cause the roads are gonna be brutal coming home freezing over night.

Yeah right, I beat that game up again. I would've stayed longer, but they did some gay ass shit.

2 friends check down the hand after I bail out on the turn, already having money in the pot, after a failed steal attempt with 66 on a Jack high board, guy hit the set bet out, i fold, then his boy says, lets check it down. I say wow out loud and the dealer says they have to play it out, they can't do that. Guy still calls, they still check it down with the guy rivering quads softplaying his boy. I know it wasn't intentianal, but its still gay. I say, I got 1 more orbit, ended up taking a nice size $400 pot before its time for me to cashout when I turn a gutshot with 58h, I owe Travis $1, when that beutiful 6 gives the guy 2 pair and straightens me out and he took a one way trip to value town, and that ticket cost him a nice $125 paid at da ticket booth at the river.

Very Superstistious: The Idiot's Guide to the Herd's Superstitions

2009-01-26T13:23:00.002-05:00

We all are poker players and we all have our own superstitions. Some know I am very superstitious about alot of things and I'm so serious about it, that I will cash out or at least threaten and throw a tantrum fit if someone violates it.

Thought I would make a list of the Herd's superstitions just in case you run into one of us, you won't think we are crazy.

I'm not sure of everyone's, but feel free to comment if you want to share it, I'll share the ones I already know.

Here are my personal ones, then I'll list some general ones that the Herd shares at times.

E's Superstitions

- Don't ask to make Change out my stack
- Don't stack my chips higher than the normal 20 chip stack
- Don't stack a 2nd or higher tower.
- If at Pops house must make towers 60 chips high.
- Don't playing while having chips racked up.
- Please if you are my table neighbor, please don't take it upon yourself to change my SB/BB.
- I hate playing with any chips higher than a $5 chip in a $1-$2 NL game, If you are dealing,
get ready to work!

General Superstitions (I'll add more as I remember or be reminded)

- Complimenting someone's chip stack is a No, No.

STT anyone?

2009-01-26T02:04:00.002-05:00

It's ok to play poker and have some fun once in a while. I still have alot of last years play left in my system that doesn't fit the "09" formula plus Big Chris has been having a hard time getting a game together for us to play, so I decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a fun game at the apartment.

$50+$10 got you T$8,000 in chips. The 10 bucks went towards getting us a dealer cause it really sucks to have to deal your own hands in a tournament....it sucks to deal yourself in any poker game honestly...anyway, blinds were fairly long at 25 minutes and almost the same blind schedule as the Borgata WPO tournaments. I thought it was a good idea just so we could play for a couple hours into Sunday night, but not too late and still have fun playing poker. I guess it worked out, I had fun, seemed like everyone else did. Thats cool!

Big Fella Will took it down, and Kenny took runner up money, it was a good show to watch, the shit talking was priceless, and the the hand of the night, man I don't know exactly how the hand went, but Kenny and BFW had trip 8s, Kenny's K kicker dominated BFW's 7 kicker when all the money went in...that river brought a sweet 7 to fill BFW up to cripple Kenny to the point Kenny just took the 2nd place money.

It would be cool to do something like this once a month to play, shit talk, and shoot the shit w/o losing a million dollars! Wow I played bad tonight!

I learned how to play pitch, its pretty tight, would want to play with more people and play for money of course, but its fun, but then I saw Kenny wanting to play Gin for $1/point. First game I scooped, 3 hands to get 100 to 0...Kenny ships me $100, 2nd game, we ran back, 100-36, Ship me $64, Gets the 3rd game 100-50, I ship him the $50 back, for a $114 profit! I Quit, lets go home.

Kenny said there was fish!

2009-01-21T03:10:00.003-05:00

Kenny found us a new circuit of players! How? Well, Guy that used to round at a game I used to deal at couple years ago asked me to deal his game last Monday, but I was getting ready to go to AC for the Borgata WPO tournaments so I declined and said I knew a dealer for him, Kenny, so Kenny went over there and met some girls that run a game close by also!

Today I ran a whole bunch of errands, not only that, only got to sleep a couple hours the night before, so I was dead tired, I was ready to pop my feet on the table and watch some TV and then play some Call of Duty:World at War, when Kenny decides to call me and see if I wanted to go to this game. I almost declined but decided it was a good time to do some Monday recruiting.

I walked in to see the most weakest table ever...Its crazy, when I sat at the table at the Borgata tournament, I felt like the biggest fish in the world, when I sat down tonight, I felt like I knew everything there is about poker...Needless to say, when I sat down, the're mouths watered...and the loudest one of the game, was the quietest one close to the ending of the game, specially I had to send him out to the ATM when he tried to push on me, his feelings were hurt when I pushed all in over top of his ass with a measley pocket 7 that held...

There was an older gentleman there that was bitter towards me...All I did was win 3 hands off him, the pots were not even huge, and only went to showdown once...he took a big hand off me when the wheel gets there on the river and all of a sudden goes all in...I had air and fired bullets till the river, I couldn't get him off his hand...he mumbled after I mucked, why he didn't check...he really thought I was a cold blooded idiot...he said he owed me 1 more after that hand LOL well he said it to his neighbor and I over heard it...

I don't wanna knock anyone's games, but It just amazes me that all these games I have seen, don't offer as much as certain games I know and Pull LESS than these other games, and yet can run everyday of the week....baffles me...

Guess I'll finally talk about the tournament

2009-01-19T14:57:00.003-05:00

If you haven't figured it out, I didn't make the money in Event 1 in the Borgata's WPO this year. It sucks not to make the money and make it so deep in the tournament. Not even that, get through day 1, drive back to MD, then have to drive back up in 2 days to play day 2 since day 1 was split up into 2 different days.

I'm a terrible Tournament player. I just don't have enough experience in these big multi-day tournaments...

I thought I was doing ok, sitting through out day one above chip average. I think I played too tight just trying to make it to day 2. I think I played way too tight through out the whole tournament. I hated myself for not making the money, but what should I expect being it only the 2nd big multi-day tournament I have played in. I think I need to re-read some books again on tournament poker, look back how I played this tournament and find my mistakes, I realize I am still in school when it comes to tournament poker, oh don't get me wrong...I'm still in school when it comes to cash games, at least I have a little more confidence when it comes to cash games then tournaments.

But I do believe I have some potential to become a better tournament player when I understand how to go about it better. I'm just glad it happened now. I'm so motivated right now to turn myself around and become more serious about this shit. I mean I'm about to really try to learn this game inside and out...Bamas tapped that tank the past couple years and its time I got my shit together cause I aint gonna be that guy at the poker table nomore.

WTF man, I WAS the biggest fish at table 9 on day 1a of event 1....fucked up foreal...

Travis should like this hand

2009-01-14T16:20:00.003-05:00

Playing the Borgata's Winter Poker Open

Antes and Blinds are at 300/1500/3000 and I'm on in the cut off.

folded around to a guy that just moved to our table maybe 2 rounds ago...he throws out 2 grey chips and makes it $10,000 to go folds around to me and I call...He is sitting with around $70K and I have close to 100K

Pot: T$27,200
Flop: 2d5h6d

He insta mushes and I tank for about 2 minutes trying to figure out what the hell...then I thought about Travis and said, you know what, fuck it, im a fish, call and flip my 3h3d over. Dude said "what, you call?" dealer said yes he did and pointed to my cards flipped over...he shot me a dirty ass look and turned over his cards...8h4h wow

turn was a Qc and the river is a Ks

SHIP IT!

Table captain giggled and said, nice call kid, i pointed to my 3 of diamonds and said, i got a 3 high flush draw, plus a gutshot...made the table laugh a lil bit as sweat poured down my head cause all of a sudden it got all extra hot lol

Welp, Made it to day 2

2009-01-14T07:23:00.003-05:00

First off, This shit is all new to me so I'm jive excited about the whole thing. I am really not a tournament player at all...I'd rather grind it out at the cash game tables. But I thought it would be cool and fun to play in a big tournament rather than the normal daily tournaments up in AC.

It wasn't what I expected at all...It's long as shit, I'm pretty sure we started with 770 players and they said they are expecting and going to cap day 1B at 900 players, making the prize pool jive hefty!

I don't think I was all the way prepared for this. Its a long ass grind man, it'll ware you out foreal, after all that, I didn't even feel like playing poker anymore...went straight to my room and wanted to throw craps or just go to sleep.

I told you all I wasn't going to be fucking around anymore playing, and that's how I played last night, I had to have mucked my deuce-four hand plenty of times, I didn't get cute, played as solid as I could. All I know is, I need alot of schooling when it comes to tournament poker...I'm just glad and more surprised that I actually made it this far!

Honestly, there are not alot of hands that stand out, I didn't have to go to showdown alot, and if I did, I was good, I don't remember getting into any hands that lost at showdown to be truthfull...

Welp, I'm just rolling in the house from AC to work a game tonight then I'm headed back up to AC to play day 2...Lets just hope I can get some chips early cause I'm going to have to do some work when I start the day out going into day 2 with $T77,700 in chips and level 15 will be (ante/SB/BB)500/3000/6000 leaving me with not that much room to sit around and leak...Hopefully I'll have to spend the night Thursday to play the Final Table on Friday...If that happens, I'll be up there the rest of the weekend to play a satellite to get into the main event that has a 2 Million Guaranteefd prize pool!

First Break

2009-01-13T12:42:00.001-05:00

Day 1 started with around 650 players...expecting 1000+

Currently sitting with 23K in chips...mostly card dead..

Its tough to update cause no phones on the table...Ill try to update as often as i can.

Just got here

2009-01-13T06:09:00.000-05:00

Arrived about an hour ago so to kill time I played some craps...broke dead even!

Registered for event 1 already...bout to get some rest for the tourney.

On the road

2009-01-13T02:20:00.001-05:00

More like a test to see if I can update my blog from my phone...

Right now im shooting up I-95N to my favorite playground!

Borgata Winter Open

2009-01-11T15:16:00.002-05:00

Looks like its carved in stone now. Keon and I are heading up to the Borgata Winter Open to play in the 1st event. Its a 3 day deep stack tournament with 45 minute blinds....starting with T$25,000 in chips...Should be a good tournament.

Hoping to make day 2, so the plan is to play the 1st day, come home and deal Wednesday's game, then head back up to the 'Gata for day 2 hoping to have to spend the night, if I don't come home Thursday night, I made it to the final table on Friday!

Guess I'll go from there, lets just hope I can get some sort of luckyness going and cashing in the event and being able to play more events...Would be nice to satellite in or win enough to get in the main even that has $2 Million guaranteed!

See those of yall that'll be up there up there on Tuesday!

$1-$2 NL last night

2009-01-08T22:59:00.002-05:00

Supposed to deal this game, but I had the itch to play, Travis wanted to deal last night, so he took my shift and I waited for a seat to be available since it was already a full game.

12:04 am this morning I get a text from Keon:

"SBJ sittin wit a dime. (Just cracked 2 players). Seat open (1). Let me know if yous till want it or I'll take it."

I replied:

"Eh, I'm high and don't feel like drivin' nomore."

Left it alone, got into some Call of Duty: World at War, and got another text from Travis.

1:36am

"SBJ has over $1.4K in front of him - and Keon is his ride home - I tried to call kenny and tell him - phone no good"

Oh, Chris is playing on COD with me, I tell him to tell kenny, (mind you kenny is sleep already) that SBJ has over $1400, do you wanna go?

We left right away...

I ran my stack up to $800, Kenny made a lil bit, its time to go home...

Another Friend Makin Moves!

2009-01-06T16:11:00.003-05:00

Yall know Ricky Bobby....Yall know he is at the PCA this week playing the PCA Main Event that could change his life! Well, Dr. Pauly wrote a great article/interview with RB on the Poker Stars Blog.

Here is the Direct Link to the article

PCA 2009 Profiles - Ricky "Fivefingerz" Bobby

Go Gettem' Ricky! GL Sir, Play real Goooot!

Wipe the Dust off for 2009

2009-01-04T23:59:00.003-05:00

Well, Its been a while...I been writing in this blog for a couple years now. Might as well not stop now, even though I've slowed down writing. You know why I stopped? It just reminds me how bad I play poker. It was a time I didn't even record my win/loss sessions last year.

2008 had alot of memories. Lots of good as well as the bad. We did lose a good friend that was part of our little poker community...Big Jay...He'll be missed. I'm thankful to God that we made it through another year. I'm grateful that I have a healthy daughter and my family is still close to me and have the friends and associates that I see on the regular.

But 2009 will be a new year, start fresh with some new goals to accomplish. I'm raising the bar for myself just so I can stop fucking around and play good. Its not a game anymore. Its time to make some moves and stop nickel and dimin' my way through the year...Its time to step my game up. Its time to make some real money, Its time to stop fucking around.

This is how 2009 gonna go this year...Betta Than the Last Time

Stars $15+$1.50 MTT

2008-11-10T08:27:00.004-05:00

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...

2008-10-12T11:28:00.001-04:00

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

2008-09-14T20:25:00.003-04:00

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

2008-09-11T12:37:00.002-04:00

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!

2008-08-18T15:45:00.001-04:00

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

2008-08-14T19:41:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-14T18:09:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-13T17:59:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-13T13:18:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-13T02:11:00.002-04:00

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...

2008-08-13T01:17:00.003-04:00

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

2008-07-31T15:33:00.002-04:00

$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

2008-06-03T15:39:00.004-04:00

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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2008-04-07T23:15:00.002-04:00

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

2008-03-25T23:04:00.002-04:00

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

2008-01-22T12:43:00.000-05:00

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

2008-01-16T08:57:00.000-05:00

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!

2008-01-12T10:51:00.000-05:00

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

2008-01-09T18:47:00.000-05:00

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!!

2008-01-05T22:02:00.000-05:00

"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

2008-01-01T11:51:00.001-05:00

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!

Here I am...

2007-12-05T19:27:00.000-05:00

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

2007-11-11T19:24:00.000-05:00

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!!

2007-11-11T19:16:00.000-05:00

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

2007-10-28T23:30:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-16T02:28:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-15T14:37:00.001-04:00

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!

2007-10-15T14:31:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-08T22:53:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-08T15:53:00.000-04:00

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

2007-10-07T21:31:00.000-04:00

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!

2007-10-05T13:21:00.000-04:00

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!

Poker Stars Blogger Championship!

2007-10-03T12:04:00.001-04:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3750027

OOOPS

2007-09-27T12:47:00.000-04:00

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...

2007-09-23T16:10:00.000-04:00

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

2007-09-19T18:44:00.001-04:00

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

2007-09-17T17:52:00.000-04:00

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

2007-09-03T12:31:00.000-04:00

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

2007-08-27T16:46:00.000-04:00

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

2007-08-22T01:48:00.000-04:00

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???

2007-08-16T11:02:00.000-04:00

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

2007-08-12T12:01:00.000-04:00

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!!!

2007-08-11T02:21:00.000-04:00

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!

2007-07-12T16:28:00.000-04:00

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!

2007-07-11T05:51:00.000-04:00

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!!

2007-07-09T19:33:00.000-04:00

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...

2007-07-03T03:09:00.001-04:00

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

2007-06-28T17:13:00.001-04:00

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

2007-06-22T22:27:00.000-04:00

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

2007-06-18T15:28:00.000-04:00

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...

2007-06-12T16:23:00.000-04:00

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

2007-06-06T10:00:00.001-04:00

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

2007-06-04T07:30:00.000-04:00

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

2007-05-25T01:28:00.000-04:00

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

2007-05-10T14:16:00.000-04:00

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

2007-05-06T21:58:00.000-04:00

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!!

$20 Deep Stack on Stars

2007-05-01T00:31:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I have final tabled a Multi-Table tournament online...maybe about a year or so...But on Poker Stars, I have never final tabled a MTT ever, so this is my first!

I took Cheyenne to school...and usually when I get home from dropping her off...I usually play a SnG or 2 before I go back to sleep...specially I know I will be having a long upcoming night...

So I jumped on Poker Stars and found a Deep Stack Tourney just about to start...so I jump in it for $20+$2...Deep Stack tournies you start with $5000 in chips and blinds are 30 minutes each...Blinds start at 10-20 so its a very slow moving tourney, you can actually play good cause you have alot of chips to splash around...

Merk mentioned to me on Friday its been a while since I have won or placed in a MTT so I decided I was not going to donkt around and play right...

The chips piled up...it was slow but I did it...won alot of small pots, couple big pots when I did play, never going in as an underdog and my hands hold up...Not 1 suck out the whole tourney and I didn't suck out on nobody during the whole thing...suprised I didn't have to take alot of coin flips or mush my stack in there alot during the course of the tourney...

Anyway, I final tabled the tourney after 7.5 hours of play...I'm already late pickin up Cheyenne from school...I wanted 1st place and shit, I could've used that money...it was paying close to 1,100 bucks...not bad for a 20 investment huh?

Well, I got 6th overall for about a 200 take home...My QQ's got sucked out on by J4d when he pushed all in as a short stacked, i re-raised all in to keep it heads up...and he runner-runner flushed me...to tease me a little...the river was a Qd

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1050042

Oh well...Next time I have some time, I'll get into another deepstack tourney.

Its Time To Make Some Changes

2007-04-28T22:59:00.000-04:00

I don't know what it is, I've just been playin so badly, I'm the biggest fish ever these past couple months and I just don't know what to do anymore...I can't help shipping my stack and distributing my chips across the table...am I playing with the same group too long? Do I just get that unlucky whenever someone sucks out something viscious on me? Whatever the reason is, it all comes down to one thing...I play bad and it shows.

I HAVE TO PUT A STOP TO THIS...Maybe I have too much on my mind lately...which I do but I won't put it out here...but has it been causing me to play incorrectly? To make bad decisions? My Tilt meter has been more sensitive lately also...Its too easy to tilt me now...My patience has been running thin as well...all signs of destruction and going BROKE. I don't have a job and soley count on playing, hosting and dealing to make ends meet, and if I can't work it out the right way, im going to be in alot of trouble...

Not only poker that I have been making bad decisions...also my life decisions have been a little suspect...I've been doing alot of stupid shit lately as well...I've gotten O.C. with it...just running wild...and it needs to stop...I'm putting myself on restriction...restriction? Yes, restriction! No More Poker Games to play in...No More wildin' out on my free time...I've also found myself neglecting my family and friends as well...

New plan from this point forward...Dealing and hosting will be on my agenda...I need to rebuild some type of bankroll and manage it correctly. Its hard not to jump into a game, but I'm going to have to just practice strong will power...Let this money stack so I'm comfortable with what im doing with it...Spend more time with my daughter...flat out take a break from playing in games...Thats it...

I know its gonna be hard to believe, especially when I have friends that will try to make me play...I'm just going to have to practice "NO" for some time now...but its not bad to take a break and just do other things....

Its getting warmer, I'm going to go play some golf with my cousins again. I'm going to get enough sleep during the week and try to eat better...be more healhy with it...Excersice more...Hopefully when I jump in the game, I'll have a whole new attitude, a good attitude, patience, good judgement and hopefully be more profitable playing again..till then, we'll see how it works out...

BTW...if you haven't guessed, all this came from taking another loss at my Pink Game this past Friday and Pops game tonight...I was so irritated at my bad play, that I was ready to drive like a maniac on BW Parkway....I felt really angry tonight and this is not the way it should be...definately a wake up call for me.

Losing Sucks

2007-04-17T19:23:00.000-04:00

Well its been a while cause it's been rough this week since last I posted...So much for a break, this time, I'm dead serious about a break, I just need it, I need to clear my head and get on track...I don't know what it is, I'm running bad, playing bad....which only leads to disaster!

I haven't really blogged my losses this past week and a half cause I just didn't want to talk about it, or re-live it again..just know its been pretty brutal...3 outers or less here and there...playing bad...its just retarded...But I am not gonna go over all the hands from this past week, just know Pocket 4s are the devil's cards...wow pocket 4s really put a hurtin on me lately!

But I started this week on a good note, crushed Big Chris game last night...Maybe it took that to get my spirits up...We'll see how everything goes tonight at the $1-$2 NL game that Keenan and I run on Mondays..I definately want to jump in the game!

I have been itchin to go to Atlantic City, so I might just make a day or 2 trip up there this week...depends on how tonight goes, if all is well, I'll be taking the first bus up in the morning Tuesday...unless someone wants to ride up with me and split costs, then I'll drive up instead of bussing it...prefer bus though, leave the driving up to bus driver...slap on my iPod and just sit back and relax till I get dropped off at the Trop! Cheaper bussing it up anyway instead of paying gas and tolls!

Now Thats a Blocking Bet

2007-04-12T14:00:00.000-04:00

Well First off, I said last week I wasn't going over to the Donkey Corral this week...So on Tuesday, We decided to go play Goodfellas Game that evening...It wasn't planned at all either...Keon came around for a little adventure early in the evening...Didin't go so well, so we called Kenny to go to Sinsationals. I have never been and its practically around the corner from my house...I heard its like Irvings part II...if you don't know what Irvings is, its a club off Central Ave in Capital Heights, MD...Sweatpants is required wear, at least for me it is!!

We arrive at Sinsationals and Keon just punished 2 Dueces of Heinikins in between the 15 minute drive from the liquor store to the club...he didn't want to go cause he said he has been and it sucks...so I take his word, he says lets go to Baltimore, I don't care, he then talks himself into playin some poker....uh...OK...lemme go home and grab some money...and we are off to the poker game in the middle of the night...

Get to Rob's game and wait about 10 minutes when the big stack cashes out and some lady, so we both sit down, and I sit down to QQ...raise from the BB and Nick, some other guy, and Tim all call me...AJ7 falls, I bet out $35 and get called by one person, Nick...turn 7, I check, Nick bets out "SEVENTY -FIVE" Not the way we say it, but it made me laught and just mucked and showed my queens...

Ended up runnin my stack up peaking at a $75 profit and game starts to break, 4 handed and im in the BB and look at 44, I just check...me and Rob in the hand...4c7c9d, I check, Rob Checks, Turn Qh, I check, Rob Bets out $10, I raised to $20, he calls, River is an 8, I check again, he bets out $30 and im stubborn and call knowin that was bad and I was beat...I just had to make sure I was right...(Stupid), he has 5c6c..flopped a fuckin monster!

I left dead even.

Wednesday night, I know Im going to want to go play tonight...I'm in a hand with Ree...Can you take me to the store? RAISE, Let Cheyenne spend the night with me tonight, She calls, we both check the river...2 pair... Baby Sit/No Game! I baby sit Cheyenne and Can't go to the game cause I know my degenerate ass would've ended up showing up so no game for me....I scoop a $600 pot that I would've probably donked off tonight at Travis' and Noelle's Game! Now Thats a Blocking Bet!

No AC for E

2007-04-10T18:37:00.000-04:00

Well, Last nights game ran pretty well..ended around 7:30 am..played 6 and 5 handed for the majority of the morning...The line up was pretty sick and I wanted to play like shit...but of course, when I finally get in the game, its pretty much the better players of the evening still sitting waiting and salivating for that rake back program that I participate in.

I lose my stack to Travis when it was straddled and he min raises it to $6...I make it $18 with 5s7s and picked up 3 hitch-hikers...Flop comes out 5c6sAs...I bet out $35, Travis calls, Eddie folds, 9c rolls off on the turn and I mush the rest of my stack, Travis quickly calls. River brought a blank, and I have a pair of 5s. He flips over 2 red cards, 9J to stack my ass....Man, This guy is Real Good!

I rebuy and just go card dead..played extra tight just so I can last the rest of the morning...Its alot of straddles, restraddles, $15-$20 to go preflop game between the 5 of us...I complain I just wanna re-raise one time...couple hands later I find 2 red Jacks! Big John Re-straddles to $8, Travis just calls, "Raise...Finally!" I say..."$40", eddie quickly calls, Big John Folds, Travis Calls...Oh yeah, before it got to Eddie, Ricky Bobby is pondering to either Mush or fold...I go into this speach, I'm mushing whatever comes on the flop...He says, why wouldn't I go all in, and I say cause I want callers. That got him to fold ( I Think) and was hoping the rest of the table would follow..but tagged 2 callers...

MUSH DARK

Flop: KcQsXc (Maybe?)

Eddie folds, Travis Calls...shit...

a Black Ace falls and a 9 falls on the river...

I'm hating the board and flip my JJ over and he says they are good.

Meanwhile, Ricky Bobby is falling off his chair when the river fell...Kenny said I told you so...His Set of 9s REAL GOOD.

Whew...Almost Even!

Can't catch cards again and leaked a Ball before the night ended...Stuck $115 from being in the game $400...

Guess I aint going to AC..Might go check out Goodfellas Game tonight though....We'll see...

Weekend Recap

2007-04-09T09:38:00.000-04:00

Well after trying to get over Wednesday night, I had the pink game on Friday, Didn't jump in the game till around 5am to keep the game going...I did fine and didn't ship it.

Right after the pink game, I had to go straight over to Steve's Tournament to deal...30 players for that tournament with a $220 buy in...top 5 was paid out with 1st getting a good $2700...You would've thought dealing that tourney would be worth the money...Blah...it was real bad...dealt the cash game for a little while afterwards...

Sunday there wasn't much happening, no games to go too and I was itchin to play....Probably better off that way...

Tonight is Mine and Keenan's $1-$2 NL Game...I'm probably gonna go to atlantic City afterwards..hopefully someone will want to roll out with me, if not, I might just make a solo trip up there...I kinda want to play the Wednesday 10K Guaranteed at the Borgata on Wednesday...Its all up to tonight though...we'll see......

Pops and Travis games...

2007-04-05T03:10:00.000-04:00

Well, Monday, Keenan and I had to cancel our Monday game cause he had some family going over his place to watch the NCAA Championship Game...So Pops decided to have a $4-$8 Dealers Choice Game...

So I went over there to play...we played some fun game, and DC Games are tons of fun, I could say I'm starting off the month on a good foot...till Wednesday over Travis Game...

I'm stuck pretty early and finally make the board money back plus some of mine...I'm almost dead even till I ship my stack to fuckin Scooter...Man, I fuckin hate losing to Scooter...I hate losing to alot of people, some I don't mind losing too...But for some fuckin reason I hate losing to his ass...

So the hand that stacked me...Scooter raises to $7, can't remember positions...Nicoli calls, I call, Eric Calls...4 of us see the flop...4d 8d Jc somethin like that...Now I remember, I'm last to act...Eric then makes it to $12, Both Scooter and Nicoli call, I raise to $50, Eric mushes his remaing stack in making it $68 I believe??? Scooter elects to just call, I say all -in...but because Eric's raise was not more than half my raise, I can only call...I say fuck it, ima go all in on thie next street anyway....Turn brings a K...and I tell scooter, "Don't make no stupid ass bet" and motions all-in..I insta call and river brings a non pairing, non diamond blank...scooter turns Pocket Kings over for a set of Kings, I fuckin toss my cards face up while throwing up and show my flopped set of 4s...Eric tells me he was fuckin around on the diamon draw...Scooter Scoops...

Fuck next Wednesday, I'm unlocking my seat as we speak for next week...I'm starting to get tired of shipping it over there, next to the pink game, which I won't be playing for a while either...Is the 2nd worse spot to play at...I'm down so much money over there im just tired of gettin my ass whipped over there...fuckin ridiculous how bad im running over there....

Not Too Much Happenin' as the month of March comes to a close...

2007-04-02T08:42:00.000-04:00

Well, been a week since I posted, but not too much has been happenin' this week...

Lets see...No Poker on Tuesday, No Poker on Wednesday, which is shocking...I usually go over to Trav and Nelly's Donkey Coral to play $1-$2 NL, but I had Cheyenne with me, so I wasn't able to go sling chips around, Dealt over Steve's on Thursday, Had the Pink Game Friday, that went till early morning again...It was a pretty sick game, specially that we changed the game up a lil' bit after early morning...played some pitch and bitch and introduced 5 card omaha to the mix...

I went over to Pops game on Saturday, Played and Shipped it..Got up, which would've made the game very short handed, so Nelly said she would play and let me jump in the box...Luckily, by the time the game filled up with a wait list that Nelly said she would give up her seat, I made enough back to cover what I dropped at the game...Whew...

Cheyenne is off of school starting this Wednesday for her Spring Break, so I want to go to AC on Monday and Tuesday, so if anybody tryin to go, you know how to get in touch with me...

March overall was good so I have no complaints...I could really try to play better, I want to see a big jump in profit the Month of April as far as my play is concerned.

Poker Is Fun

2007-03-28T08:28:00.000-04:00

Because poker is fun, I made a whopping $5 bucks profit in my Monday Night $1-$2 NL Game this past Monday.

Game ran really well...ran till 10:30am Tuesday, and it would've ran longer, but I had to cut it short cause I had obligations Tuesday Morning...(Stupid Responisibilities)

Anyway, Justin was sitting around 1K and we all know he would ship it if he sits and plays, luckily he has a problem getting up like the rest of us so he proceeded to ship it...My problem was...I started having too much fun, or was I delirious from being up all night and morning without no sleep? Probably both, but when I was sitting with a nice stack of $500, It was fun shipping it, It was fun calling with hands that would suck out and the laugh would be well worth it...but it wasn't so funny when you look down to a stack and a half gone to get a laugh...

Its hard not to have fun at a friendly home game, but its nothing wrong with trying to make some money, anyone knows you can make some decent money in a smalls stakes $1-$2 NL game, but if you are tryin to make money, no fun makes playing such low stakes a serious grind...you just can't help not to have fun in a friendly home game...Now I realize a leak in my game...Too much fun causes loss in profit...So I think I'll tame having fun, but not getting too serious that it actually blinds me from making the correct decisions...you can have fun with out making it seem like a grind...just don't make foolish mistakes to get a laugh...

This Week in Pink

2007-03-26T00:54:00.000-04:00

what can I say, had a wait list of 8? wow...how many showed up? 4 of 8...I guess folks are hip if there is a wait list, fuck it...How bout the first on the wait list didn't get a seat till 2:30AM? Why were the rebuys/addons in such large numbers this week? This game is SICK. If you haven't been....why not? Betta get ya balls in there and get in on this action...too bad I can't keep my balls from getting involed....Yup you guessed it, yet again, I have a shipment of chips to distribute to the table...What does it feel like to actually win at this game? Travis thinks he is a pink fish...heh...take a better look around.....But its a great game...don't let the stories scare you...besides, what can you expect from faggie pink chips?

Well, I definately can't play for at least 2 weeks...Gonna take care of bills first, get them out the way, cause the way im playing, I betta pay the bills first before I fuck myself and get behind...cause I like to ship it....game is so sick....

So what do I do this lovely Sunday Afternoon? I proceed to purchase $150 in Poker Stars Money from Travis...Not bad though...earlier today, I ran it to about $350...Hung out for a little while and played some Scottland Yard...who Cheyenne proceeded to kill me, (Mr. X) and I didn't even get to make 3 moves...Came back in the house and played more online...playing right now though....sat with another $150, up to $250 currently...

I'm writing this cause I am not two or three tabling on stars...I have 1...yes..only 1 table going and im getting bored folding...so might as well take care of my blog entry for the last pink game...

OOOHH...Monday Night $1-$2 NL...Any action that I CAN ACTUALLY NOT PLAY????

Going Back To School....at least try to....

2007-03-23T12:36:00.000-04:00

After going to Travis' and Nellys game at the Corral, I decided it was time to take a break and go back to school...Go back and read a couple books, figure out why I like don't like to win at poker...Why I don't like money...

On Wednesday night, I was up close to $700 at one point when I went on a nice run...I guess cause the players that were scheduled to play, Travis told me it was best to get in for max that night, so I did...after runnin my stack up, I leaked like I never leaked before...I remember even calling Pops all in for over $100 with an off-suit revised hand (duece-four). I guess thats when the game started getting fun...till I looked down to my stack and it was less than $200...at one point I was down to less than $75 bucks...I managed to work all that back to breaking almost dead even by 7AM. thats right...I was $10 bucks stuck...Heinz poker is not fun at all.....

So I went out and bought a new book to read...Skalansky and Miller's No Limit Hold'em - Theory and Practice. So far its a good read..just brushing up on how I approach the game, I've actually learned some things I neve even thought about on how to approach the game...So hopefully this will teach me to be a better player than a big fish swimmin in MD.

So last night, I was reading the book between shifts at the Fish Tank...caught some laughs from players like Asian Alex...which didn't really bother me...Its all good though..I aint ashamed to try and gaiin knowledge that should benefit me in the long run...The game last night wasn't a big game like it used to be because of the Robbery that took place 2 weeks ago down the road...had nothing to do with this game, but Steve decided to take precaution because it was so close to home...which is a good thing, at least the robbery opened his eyes and will keep eveyone on there toes when it comes to this horrible nightmare we have to deal with at any poker game we attend.

The game started getting short around 2:30 am...I fell asleep on the couch wakin up to my own snoring before it got real bad and embarrassing I might add...It was no use to get back in the box to make less than another $50 for the night, so I decided to sit in the game and play instead of deal the rest of the night, Jimmy and I were taking shifts and I gave him the remainder of the night...which was a good move...

I sat short stacked for a $1-$3 NL Game...actually with the stacks at the table, $190 wasn't bad...I wanted to leave at least keep some tip money in my pocket so I didn't go there for nothing...I ran my stack up to a little over $700 and the game broke...Ryan had a monster $1800+ in front of him..he deserved it after running so bad at the pink game...So overall it was a decent night...I did play some hands differently after reading the book...I like this book so far, its opened up my mind to think of things I never even thought about as far as approaching the game and the way certain hands are played. Well this is probably gonna be the last game I play for at least 2 weeks, I shoudn't even have played last night cause im supposd to be on a break...but whats a degenerate like me supposed to do when I get that itch? I feel like a junkie when it comes to poker.

I Wanna See Your Cards

2007-03-20T20:29:00.000-04:00

That was the phrase that heated up some players and was a major cooler for the room last night at Me and Keenan's $1-$2 NL Game last night...

The game went well and has been running pretty strong for the first 3 Monday games we have held at the new spot...Just added my TV to the room which I removed from my bedroom which made Cheyenne very very disappointed...she actually cried because she won't be able to watch on that TV anymore...But its cool, she'll end up discovering a bigger TV to replace that one in the near future and im pretty sure she'll forget about it tomorrow...But with the replacement TV being smaller, just reminds her of the old TV and her complaints of how small it is will be heard till its replaced...anyway...

Game was pretty sick, more like the old Friday Games...with the deep stacks sitting on the table, the out playing of each other was lovely...till around Midnite when Dat Bama sat on the table...Ricky Bobby and Travis was battling in a big hand when the pot gre kinda huge...at showdown, Travis wins the pot and the magic words from Dat Bama came out...I want to see his cards, I want to see what he was calling down with...

Now because it was equal action, this is allowed, but should only be enforced to prevent collusion...not to collect unseen information...The table was tryin to convince Dat Bama that he shouldn't really ask for it, especially Ricky Bobby was the one to lose a big pot and now must show his cards for what? He shows in disgust and storms outside to calm his nerves with a cigarette...Paul then says his peace and we all know he doesn't bite his tongue...he tells him how much of a dick move that was, and Dat Bama gets angry with his remark and Paul lets it go... That was a major cooler for the room and it pretty much broke the game cause Paul decides to get up, then Ricky Bobby follows suit...Merk was already planning on leaving...

So to keep the game going, I sit down and dump $400 in 20 minutes...luckily enough, I was able to make a nice come back to being only stuck $45 bucks....whew...
But if you want to see how the hand went down, Click on Travis' or Ricky Bobby blog to see what all the commotion was all about and to see the hand history tht started this craziness...

If This Is Not A High Blower

2007-03-16T08:49:00.000-04:00

I head out to the Fish Tank a little earlier than normal cause its raining and in DC/MD, People just don't know how to act when it rains...The driving here is TERRIBLE.

So on that note, The Fish Tank is not close either, It took me an 1 1/2 hours to make my way there, I walk up to the door and don't see Steve's car...maybe he hasn't gotten back from pickin up food/refreshments for the game...I wait around on his porch, and the game usually starts at 7:30, nobody is walking to the door...odd...I give Steve a ring...you not home yet are you? I'm standing on your porch...Steve tells me he is at Outback, and that the game has been cancelled..."What?" Thanks for telling me Steve...He said he sent a text out to all his players, but I didn't get it...Keon didn't get one either, and it wasn't a cancellation notice on MDP. Now I gotta fight traffic on the way back again? I did get a break from traffic, it only took me 1 hour this time getting home...

FUCKIN BLOWN.

Keenan hit me up to go out drinking too...But I'm thinking I have to work...

I call Merk cause I remembered him having a $.50-$1 game, So I head over there.

Went over there, had a good time, made back the gas it took me to get to Steves and Merks...Yeah, Merk lives far also...

Oh well..Its Pink Friday today, I love Pink Fridays!

Wednesday Nights at the Coral

2007-03-15T10:54:00.000-04:00

Alright then, Here im thinking im going to go over here and fold my life away, that wasn't the case, I folded half my life away, cept the cards I played actually held up or I was able to grab the pot. I did run my stack up to a good $700 after I doubled up through Bessman when I raised $7 with the revised duece-four. Had about 8 callers and the flop came out 249. It was checked around to Bessman when he bet $15, I check-raised him to $45 and folded back to him when he pushes all in...If he hit a set, nice hand, but I'm paying him off...I call...I thought the heart flush might of got there when the turn was a heart, but it didn't, he showed A9 for a pair, and I flip my two pair over to scoop the pot...

Then I leaked..leaked a good $300..proceded to get it back and build it up to a little over $600 when Kenny busts, he gets in the box...he then asked Travis if he can get another board of $200 and since Kenny's credit is good, he got it...I told him, don't cause I'm leaving soon, I planned on leaving at 3am, but since kenny was in the box, I stayed till trav kicked him out the box. Kenny asked me to stay another 45 minutes, its 3:15, fine, I'll stay till 4am then im gone...so kenny sits with his $200 and procedes to raise to $20...I look down at KK and tell him to get the fuck out the pot and go upstairs to $80, folds around to kenny when he goes all in and I insta call...he flips over AA and hey hold...I'm extra pissed and cash the fuck out off that bullshit. Luckily he found a ride home so he stayed...and from what Ricky Bobby told me, he ended up shipping it on a flush draw and missing...

Note to self: When I plan to leave or call it a night, DO IT!! Many times I say I'm leaving but im such a degenerate I have to keep playing...I've ALMOST ALWAYS SHIPPED IT... or took a big hit to cause some damage to my stack to lessen the profit...Its happend many of times, and last night is the last time it has happened, so no matter how hard you try to make me stay, it won't work, I aint goin for it nomore...when im done, IM FUCKIN DONE.

Off to deal Steve's game tonight at the Fish Tank.

My Birthday $1-2 NL

2007-03-15T10:50:00.000-04:00

Well, Keenan and I ran our game on Monday. Game was pretty good, pretty good action. I can't complain how my birthday was, playing cards, running a game, what else is new?

I did give action when a seat opened up finally, but it was after 12 so booooo...still had a good time..nothing big to talk about though.

Bringing in my Birthday at Big Chris' Spot

2007-03-12T12:24:00.000-04:00

Welp, Big Chris pulls off another game and me and Kenny headed over there to play $1-$1 NL...I wanted to bring in my birthday at midnite SMAKED...so that was the perfect place, gettin smacked and playin some cards...I guess I got a nice birthday present over there...Ran my stack up to something nice considering its a 1-1 game...Me and Kenny were battling, but he kept gettin the best of it with me, but I got his stack a good bit also....ended up running my $100 to peaking at $500 to cashing out a little over $400...

Off to My game tonight and said I was gonna play, too many people want to play, and the host came out of me to give my seat up and I'll jump in afterwards...

Wish I could've gone to AC!

Pink Friday

2007-03-11T12:48:00.000-04:00

Well if you don't know already, I have moved my pink game over to a new spot in Laurel. Its a nice spot, with less work for me to do than at my old spot.

The sickness of the game has not changed though...It started early and next thing you know, all the pink chips were on the table except for 10 chips sitting in a tray in the closet...It was alot of deep stacks this night.

To my suprise when I finally got to jump in the game around 4am...I didn't ship my stack...but will always lose to Keenan suckin out somethin stupid on the river to me..that dude runs soooo good at this game....

Game ran till 2:30 PM Saturday afternoon! Thats pretty sick...with players comin back out after I started texting people at 9am saying the game is still running...not bad!

ATLARGE Weekend in AC

2007-03-05T08:21:00.000-05:00

We headed up to Atlantic City for the ATLARGE events at the Taj Mahal for the weekend. We had a good time and it was a ton of fun...

We had blocked off about 3 rooms for a good majority of folks from MDP and our local home games to room together...

Got to the Trop and sat at a $1-$2 NL Table and did pretty well first night in...walked out with a profit but lost track of time...I kept saying I was gonna go to bed at 3am so I can get some decent rest for the HOE tourney at the Taj in the morning...Heh...It was 9am when I went upstairs to take a shower and everyone was almost ready to leave for the trop...I'm dead tired and we all make our way to the Taj for breakfast before the tourney.

I didn't do well at the HOE tourney, more irritated being card dead and im just so tired, Keenan ends up getting sat at my table and I end up shipping him the rest of my stack in an Omaha H/L Round..."good game fellas" walk out the poker room, jump in a cab, head back to my room and slept till dinner that was being held in the ballroom at the Taj...Dinner was fun with everyone, the food was pretty good...Headed back to the trop to get some pink action going!

We arrive at the Trop and asked George to spread a Pink $5-$10 2 way game, Holdem' and Omaha H/L...The game was pretty good, I did do some disgusting though...Probably the only hand I remember from the session...

I can't remember what I had in my hand, but it was trash that flopped a gutshot straight flush draw....it was capped on the flop maybe 5 ways...(Not too sure of the gory details) but I show Katie my cards and whisper to her, Ima try and peel this card...the money card was the 9d to make my hand, and the next card to peel on the turn was the 9d...wow....capped again on the turn, only 1 bet on the river when it was down to 3..somebody hit the nut flush, but I had the stone cold nuts to scoop a huge pot...tipped the dealer good and smooth coasted the rest of the game...

After the game broke, I decide to sit at a $1-$2 NL Table...Paul ended up sitting with me, and it was some cocky college kids there, talking shit, just thinking they are the shit..I whisper to Paul, I'm going to crack one of these mother fuckers...after sitting around, I pick up pocket 10s..I make it 12 to go and get 5 callers...973 hits the flop and one of the college kids throws $30 bet out there, pick up 1 caller and folds around to me and I shove my stack in there, Its not much, about $130 left after the previous action...he insta calls and shows me a 97o for 2 pair...Turn sets me when a 10 rolls off, then a blank hits the river, 2 pair didn't stand up, OESD didn't get there, and the pot gets pushed to me...Now im sitting nice and one of the college kids is still talkin shit after playing bad jumping out of his seat, huffing and puffing and talking to himself...Now I look down to AA and make it $17 to go UTG...folds around to the goofy college kid who now shoves his stack in the middle for a little over $100, folds to the guy to my immediate right who just calls the bet...I say, "Fuck it, all in" and shove my stack in the middle...guy goes are you serious? and shoves his stack in for a little over $150 and I have him covered...My Aces stands up and scoops another monster pot...Game breaks not too long after that and then I decide im going to bed, walk past a table and say, eh, fuck it..I'll sit till its time for the NL Tourney...Yeah, great idea...one guy is on a major heater..

Heater guy makes it $11 to go preflop, look down to pocket Q...I re-raise him and make it $45 to go...he calls. T73 board comes out and I bet $75 and he calls, now im scared and confused...turn brings a non pairing, non flushy or staright card out, so I make a $150 bet on th turn and get re-raised all in...I fold and he shows me a set of 7s...

I decided it was time to go upstairs after hitting the 2nd nut flush to dudes ace high flush when I mushed all in and get insta called. I ship everything and go to bed stuck.

Saturday Morning, I get ready to go to the Taj for the NL Holdem tournament for ATLARGE. Pretty sleepy too, go a little early with Paul so we both can register and grab breakfast. Breakfast just gave me the itis and made things worse. I'll just either go out early, and go to bed, or try to win this thing...

Tournament had a decent structure, 132 players entered the tournament for a 5K payday for 1st place. Made it to the first break with 2100 in chips, we all started with 3K in chips with 30 minute blinds...Blinds are getting up there now, and I'm pretty much all in with any raise. Paul talked me into playing good cause im not out of the race...so I did...players were dropping like flies and next thing you know, I was above chip average winning alot of races when pushing with nice pairs getting called with the bullshit.

I ended up final tabling the tournament. First hand after break when we broke into the final table, I get dealt AKh in the big blind. Guy under the gun moves all in and folds around to me, I call. we both flip our cards and he had AJo. I'm feeling good about this right now...

Flop: TQK
the railbirds and the table went off LOL wow i was blown
Turn: 3
River: J
CHOP IT UP!

WHEW...sitting in the final table short stacked with 24k with blinds at 4K-8K so its just mush time, KK, all in...guy is in the tank, folds, very next hand, 44, I mush again, he finally decides to look me up with AQo and tags his ace on the turn. I'm out of the tourney in 8th place.

Sunday was just in ship it mode. Sat at $2-$5 NL and lost a decent pot for $1200...Raised AJs to get a million callers...Flop was K83(2 spades) first to act bets 10, I raise to 60, then get re-raised to 120, call, call...Turn is a 10, check, check, all in, call, I push all in cause it would leave me with 75 bucks so might as well stick it in. flopped set of 8s takes down the pot..play a little pink to kill time before we leave then we head back home.

I had a great time playing, and can't wait for the next ATLARGE event next year...Only stuck $100 bucks the whole weekend...what a fuckin roller coaster!

Closing February

2007-03-01T02:22:00.000-05:00

Well, I'm glad February is over and done with. The past 2 months have been brutal as far as playing...I have been running bad the past 2 months...I'm just fortunate to have 2 side gigs to keep my head afloat, whew.

I'm in the red as far as playing so far this year, but Looking for my Birthday Month to be a little more profitable, hopefully putting my YTD Standings back in the black...

I closed the month off playing at the Coral, which I really didn't want too only cause I'm headed for AC tomorrow. Of course I can't stay away and take a credit from Travis to play...I'll settle up after the trip or sometime after Monday when we get back...Hopefully I can win some money this weekend. But anyway, ended up stuck as usual there...The Coral is where I have lost the most money this year so far...Hmmmm...no I take that back...my own Pink game fucks me badly...But the Coral is a close contender.

Looking forward to the AC trip, I'm hoping I can start the month off the right way!

I feel like a little kid

2007-02-28T08:36:00.000-05:00

You know when you were a kid, you couldn't sleep the night before Christmas, or if you were going to Kings Dominion? How about if it was your birthday the next day?

Thats how I feel about tomorrow!!!!

ATLARGE starts March 1, 2007 and Me, Keenan, Travis and the Girl will be leaving MD to head up to Atlantic City!! We should be there till Sunday afternoon...

Guess I'll try to make the Taj for the Midnite Tournament Thursday night then head back to the Trop to get some rest for the morning..

Friday Morning is a H.O.E Tournament at the Taj
Saturday Morning is the NLHE Tournament at the Taj
Sunday, I want to play the Morning Tournament at the Borgata.

Side action games, catch me at home...at the TROP!!!

Leave me a comment if yall gonna make it up or look for me and say whats up!

Relaxing Week...

2007-02-26T13:42:00.000-05:00

Its Monday today, No Games till Wednesday, then off to Atlantic City for the ATLARGE tournaments...

Should have some stories when I get back....

But I guess I'll be playing online till we go...

Played an Omaha H/L Tourney this morning, Final Tabled it...even was 2nd in chips at one point, then BAM...