$1-$2 NL Anyone?

Because I didn't think I Was gonna run my pink game on Friday, I had planned on running $1-$2 NL on Saturday since College Park wasn't running and Pops game was a no go this weekend...This is the start of a busy, very tiresome weekend already...And this only reminded me how tough it is to run a $1-$2 NL Game...its totally different than runnin the pink game...

Anyway, had a great turn out this past Saturday, with TONS OF ACTION...Wow...it was a ton of money on the table!

Game broke at 7:30 AM Sunday Morning...I didn't get to sit down till about 3AM when game felt like it was about to insta break...but luckily, some of the players wanted to play short handed, it was 5, then 6 handed for a while, went back to 5...and at this point, alot of us wasn't even playing the cards, but playing each other...it was pretty sick what type of hands were takin down pots...

I ran my stack to about $800 bucks, shipped about 2oo of it back before the game broke...So it was a pretty good night...LOTS of cleaning up this past weekend having back to back games...no more of that for me...tooo much work for me alone to do...

Finally got to sleep around 10AM after cleaning up, Taking My daughter to her mothers house in the morning...Had to get a ton of sleep cause im Dealing Wheaton Game Sunday night...

Game was slow, and weak...I shipped it...yup, fuckin around in the game...Big Fella Stacked me when he didn't chop with me..I guess he caught feelings cause it was short handed when we were supposed to chop, told him its short handed and not chopping till we get 6 or more players before I start chopping, Anyway, he didn't want to chop with me so I raised it preflop to 12 bucks with T4o he calls, Flop comes out QT7, he checks, I Bet $20, he calls, turn brings a 4, He checks to me again, I bet out $25, he says, lets see how strong your hand really is...um...now I NEED to fold, He min raises me and I insta call....river brings a 3 or somethin stupid...he pushes before i get to push, I insta call he turns over QT....ooops....I shipped it...

Black Friday...Naaaa....PINK FRIDAY

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was pretty good, Ate well, Chilled with Family, Didn't even gamble...Was gonna shoot some dice with my cousins...but he didn't have any dice in sight!!!! Which is a good thing!

Earlier in the week, I asked all the regular pink game players if they wanted to play on Friday after Thanksgiving...Alot of them said no...Friday came around...And they wanted to play...So I got on it and put the word out, if enough interest for the evening, we was playing...And we played! Full table the whole night! I got stuck early, but crawled out of the hole and made a decent profit for the night!!!

Game broke around 5AM (I think it was that early)

Kenny jumped in the game and got his feet wet, Didn't have no clue how to play some of the games in rotation...so it was pretty scary when he raised it and even capping some of the betting rounds...

Game got short and decided to play Holdem instead of Crazy Pineapple, and took Stud H/L out and played Pitch and Bitch...it was a one time thing and the pink game will go back to the normal format when all the regulars play...

Added a new rule to Crazy Pineapple, well its not a new rule, but put into effect that its the players responsibility to discard when its time to discard and when the turn peels off and you are caught with that 3rd card, your hand is now dead...dealer will announce on the flop to discard only 1 time and collect the discards as you make you action...the dealer will not baby sit the players like the dealer did when we first started playing...speeds up the crazy pineapple rounds, makes the players stay on their toes...everyone liked that new rule on Friday so I'll have to announce it when the rest of the regulars show up next week...1 player was caught slippin once and he would've turned a boat...mistakes suck and are costly! Don't get caught slippin!

Show Me The Ace Man!!!!!

Dealing Zach's Game in Wheaton last night, game was kinda short, started late also, Since Bi was there before I was, he was first in the box...So I decided I would sit in the game to keep the table decent till other players arrived...

2nd Hand in I get dealt pocket K's but only got action preflop...took that down...

One orbit around, I decided to play A5o in the CO to a limped pot, 4-ways...Flop comes out A8J, Checked around to me and I bet out $10'sion and everyone folds to me, to get check-raised by Jimmy to $30 bucks..."Call" Happy Jimmy and I are heads up going into the turn...I peel a 5 and Jimmy bets out $50, Insta-Call..River, 5, Jimmy checks, I bet $50, he insta calls, I flip over 5s full and he says God damn it E...What The Hell Man??? Very Next Hand, Jimmy raised it to $30 preflop angrily....

Picked up small pots here and there, lost some small pots when I missed the flop here and there and I'm getting ready to jump in the box at 11PM till I get mixed up with Ken...

Again, I'm in late positon with 8s9c to a raised pot of $10 with 5 calls before me...Flop comes out 5s6s7s and Ken bets out $25, everyone folds, and I yell, Raise...as I'm counting my chips out, im not looking up, Ken doesn't hear me call raise and assumed everyone folded he shows his hand to everyone, everyone said wait a minute, E raised...he quickly grabs his cards and covers them up...Bi makes me min raise it and I do to be on the safe side and ken goes all in and tells me to fold...I saw a black AJ but not sure if its all spades, I ask what did he show, you gotta tell me dawg...he refuses...after asking a couple times, he shows me the Js...I know he has a black Ace, but not sure if its a Spade or Club...and I know Ken makes moves like this all the time...everyone is telling me to fold...I flip over my cards...if Ken is on the spade draw, I'm calling...after looking at the time, looking at my stack, I have about $170 behind me after the raise and whats in the pot, I say fuck it, Gamboool, im bout to get in the box anyway, toss my chips in, snap my fingers, point at the board and Bi peels out the 9s....BOOOOOM!! Straight Flush...Shiiiipppp Itttttttt!!!!!! Pops is Right...3 Outs or less = $$$$$$$$...Ken did have the Ace of Spade...OOOOPS

I sat in the game for another hour then jumped in the box cause the wait list was growing 6 deep at the time...

I made up for to Ken when I was dealing shoving him a $2400 pot against Earl, aka EZ-E when they are both the big stacks of the table with way over $1K each...going into the Turn, after Earl calls a $150 raise on the flop after he bets out $50, Ken goes all in for over $900 bucks and Earl insta calls on a KTxx board with out hesitation...Earl had AK vs. Ken's flopped set of Ts...He tipped me around $80 bucks for that hand...that wasn't the end of it for Ken...He managed to run his stack to way over $3500 after he can't miss a flop for shit..busting everyone left and right...Kevin that Deals Bills game with me on Thursday dropped a shit load of bread as well, after having his stack at around $400, Ken egged him on to add on another $500, the table didn't mind, and Ken ended up stacking him on a bad beat...wasn't dealing that hand, so I can't remember what happened, I just know that Ken cracked Kevin's Pocket Aces....

"Heinz" blogging

Oooops...Been a while since I have updated...just way too busy and been tooo tired to update my blog lately...Let's catch up on what has been happening...

November 10, 2006 - Pink Game

Pink game went real good, packed house again...Scooter, "scootered" his stack to walk out with a $50 profit after running it to over 1K. Can't really think or remember anything since it's been a while since the game...I made a decent profit that evening though...


November 11, 2006 -Pop's Game

All I remember is I PLAY REAL BAD...one hand i remember was pushing on a K high flush draw on Merk and getting there...wow...Merk bet out on his pair of kings and i just pushed...i dropped a good $600 that night I believe...Kenny came out with me and I dealt the last 2 hours or so cause Nelly was tired...Tried to get my money back, it was a 5-handed game, kenny played 98% of his hands, Pretty sure you know where this is heading...lol...Scooter first put Pops on tilt after Pops showed Scooter a set of jacks on the turn, Scooter still calls the bet and gets there on his 6 high flush draw...Then Pops gets dealt pocket Kings and its a Q high board...Kenny pairs his Queens and Pops is betting out and kenny calling all the way down to spike another Q on the river to crack pops' hand...Pops turns Gambit on Kenny and throws his cards at kenny and immediately kicked us all out and the game was done.

Dealt the rest of the week till the Travis' and Noelle's game at the Coral

November 15, 2006 - The Coral - "My New Nemisis"

Went over to my regular Wednesday game and lately I been able to run my stack up to over $500 bucks...I got dealt 9T and the flop came out 678 (2 diamonds) I'm not exactly sure if this is how the betting went, I checked the flop, Katie bets a decent amount, Anne calls, I raised it, Katie thinks, calls, Anne pushes all in, I push all in, Katie goes into the tank and mumbles, i wish I never started this or something and mucks...Anne tells me I have to play dodge ball...she has an OESFD and my nut straight holds up! This time I planned on keeping it my stack, lean over to whisper to Travis, "how long do you think i'll keep this before I run it down to $80 bucks"? He tells me im keeping it this time around...Now for Katie...For some reason, Katie, everytime I bet, or raised, she came over the top of me with a better hand...and yes, she did have a better hand...but it was very, very annoying and I mentioned it...Now, I got dealt pocket 7s and raised it to $10...Gets around to Katie and she re-raises me...cep't this time, the whole table went "ooooohhh" and I decided I was gonna stand up to her raise this time around and call the $30 bucks, Jefferson calls as well...Flop comes out K7x...I check hoping Katie makes a move and she bets out $50 or $60...I raise, Jefferson mucks, Katie moves all in, I insta Call...Of course she hits her set of kings to my under set of 7s...I ship her a little over $400 bucks to leave me with $83 bucks ....43 minutes is how long I held my stack...ended up shipping her the rest of my stack when I flopped an OESD and just shoved it in on tilt and missed....

November 17, 2006 - Pink Game

This was one of the juciest pink game ever....Cynthia destroyed the game as well as Scooter...This time, Scooter kept his stack...Lots of players were stuck, at least 3 racks and was able to get it back, I dropped a good amount as well...Game went till 7:30 AM...I Was gonna catch the early morning bus to AC to meet up with everyone else, but the game went long, I was able to get some good sleep before my 6:30pm bus up to AC...One hand I remember, I was dealt rolled up 2s and kept rammin' and jammin the pot with also a low drawing brewing as well...by the river, my set of 2s were good, everyone turned they hand over and i was splitting the low with pops....pot was huge, and after a couple minutes, after zach shipped me the first split stack, katie goes, oh wait...i have a straight....what? god damn she did have a straight....that shit sucked it was like handing me a present and taking it away from me...Scooter took a picture of his stack also....was about $1, 350 in a $5-$10 game...

November 18, 2006 - Tropicanna Poker Room

Took the bus to AC...I think its the cheapest way to go...instead of buying gas to gas the car up, tolls and what not, I paid $40 to greyhound it up, lots of room cause the bus don't be packed, and when I get to the trop, You get a bonus of $20 in cash...so it really costs $20 to catch a bus up there, thats less than buying gas alone!!! Anyway, get to the Trop at 9:30pm...Run into Keenan, as he was bout to cash out a rack of redbirds...I Was extra hungry so I went to grab something to eat before sitting down at the tables...

I ran over the table they sat me at and ran my original $200 buy in to a little over $600, Our table broke and I was moved over to another table where I proceded to do the same shit talking and raising and just trying to bully the table...I paid off a boat when we both rivered the card we need...I had the nut flush when he rivered the Jack diamonds to fill him up...Uh oh...Nelly and Keenan yell across the room asking if I Want to play pink $5-$10 2-way game...Holdem/Omaha H-L8...of course I do, i try and talk some of the players at my table too play, but they are all 1 trick ponies like I figured...so I get up after donking $150 of my stack to the table to sit at the 2-way game...I sit for a rack of pinks and run that up to over $500 bucks...walked away with a decent profit after the game broke, decided I didn't want to follow Kennan and Nelly's footsteps to go to bed to play some $1-$2 NL...again, i run my stack to over $450 to end up shipping it to the Bmore dude that I was running over...he plays sooo freakin bad, and I tried to slow play a flopped 2 to his OESD when he gets there on the river...tilted after that, and end up leaving with $104 before travis actually talked me into going to bed with a slight profit from this evening session...

Woke up and went back downstairs to play...Was on the table with Patty (Mel's Wife...the "Phil Ivey Fans you see on the older WSOP shows on ESPN) I know better to play with them...I flopped a pair of 9s with Q9o on a 9 high flop, 2 spades, Patty bet $40 on it and i go into the tank, and decide to call, i know she is protecting her bigger pair from the flush, so if the flush hits, i can make a move...turn was a blank, and she bets out $50, I call, River brought a Qs and she looks disgusted, so I bet $50 and she mucks...I mumbles that I was chasing a flush, so I showed 2 pair still knowing I was beat the whole time...but like I said, i was trying to set it up to make a move when the flush hit if it did, I got lucky to get 2 pairs! I end up paying some all ins off and need to rebuy...Keenan busts out and is ready to go, I say one more orbit before I go and look down to pocket 8s UTG...I raise $10'sion and get 5 callers to flop a set of 8s with a 7 on that board...i check it and its checked all the way around...the ugly 9 came out and I bet out $25 to get min raised and Anna, Noelle's twin sister that is a regular at the trop decides to shove her stack in there, wow...i ship my stack in there as well to get called...both callers had JQ...duh...to hit there gutshot on the turn, and I can't pair the board....Time to go....down from the trip $250 which I said I Would limit my loss anyway...

Went straight to Zach's game in Wheaton to deal...and the game didn't kick off...so we all decided to play some $5-$10 Omaha H/L8...I made a whopping $45 dollars when I had ran my stack to a little over $400 when I missed every draw on the last hand...caught my 2nd nut low, but Shawn had the Nut Low and Ryan had the high to chop my money up...

Next game will hopefully be at Travis' house...Wanted to play at Big Chris house, but they are moving it to Wednesday, but I think I'm going to go over to Travis' place to play some $1-$2 NL if the game is a go!

Its an Uphill Battle to be left broken hearted....

Went over to the Coral Last night. What a ride I took again...How quickly I ran my stack up to a little over $600 with a $200 buy in to double up Vince TWICE with his pocket Qs hold up...I just leaked, leaked, leaked and needed to call a medic to cure this gash...i needed stiches quick...

On the good side of things...I only bled what I had profited..Anne kept sayin, look at it like this, you are still up $17 bucks lol...Which made me look at the game a little different after leaking away my profits.

Jefferson believed I bluffed him out alot of pots we were in which is not true...I really had a good hand, I was runnin pretty good last night...not saying I didn't bluff at pots...needless to say I was runnin pretty good at the beginning of the game...I had to slow down a bit because everyone started lookin me up so I backed off and only played good hands...

So I sat on what was my original buy in when the table started to break down to leave us 6 handed...Ryan asked that I move over to give room but I really didn't want too so I can still be at the end of the table where I like to be...record be known, I was gonna move, but I like to just be like, "Damn dawg...im right here, man we straight" and I'll still move, but he got ahead of himself and fuckin got loud with me...bama said I was ignorant...what the fuck...Hold up dawg...1., you aint gonna come at me like that, raise your voice then call me ignorant, I aint no sucka dawg...you really think ima move now? I let him know that shit...after all that, i was ready to leave, cause that shit really blew me foreal...But I'll stay till the end of the game cause thats just what I do, unless im broke...

So couple minutes later, Ryan doubles me up....I raise $15 with 44, he just smooth calls me...i check the flop as he does behind me...I believed i check the turn, he bet, i raised, he put me all in, i insta call and he ships it..he has Pocket Aces...to my flopped set of 4s.

Litterally, game is about to break...and I get Aces in the straddle, Dave makes it $12 to go, I bump it up to $35, he calls...QTx (2 clubs) hit the board and I bet $50 on the flop..he calls, I think a 4 hits the turn, i push all in for $142 more, he is really thinking, I almost show my aces, but I want the call...I know I have him beat right now...I actually put him on AQc cause he says he has a big draw...He eventually calls and the river peels off a red 9...i knew that card was a fucked up card, i threw my aces up and said fuck man...he shows KJ for the straight...he got there...I ship my stack to his 6 outer and I call it a night...well it was the end of the night anyway as it was 4 handed after I busted...

Ship It! Or Can I pay you later???

Went over to Big Chris spot to play with the fellas and ladies of the crew...packed house as we went longer into the evening, started off slow with 5 of us playing...I'm supposed to leave at 12 no matter where my stack was but when 11pm came rollin in...so did the rest of the game...how can i leave now? Tide rolled in and its time to go Fishing!

Hand I remember cause it tilted Frank and he wanted to keep talkin bout it all night...I raised $7 preflop with QTo in the CO, Ryan Calls, Frank calls the rest of the table folds...
Q64 hits the board...I Bet out $12 and Ryan shoves his stack in there for $35...Frank, after some thought (actually hollywooding) smooth calls the $35...I visit the think tank for a minute and then ask Frank what he has behind his towers...Frank already was running ok at the start and built up a nice stack...$81 behind the $35...I shove $116 in the pot to put frank all in and he insta calls...turn is a K, River 10...Ryan flips KQ Over for the main pot, i flip over my 2 pair, and Frank mucks his 64 and rebuys...Needless to say, he was pretty sick...

I just took advantage of that and bullyed the whole table, raising every hand i got pretty much and follow up bets, never just calling...I made Frank fold some big hands to me which he would've won...I turned over a couple just to tilt him as much as possible...

Another pretty disgusting hand I got into...8d7d was a monster...I raised my straddle to $12 and got Rock to go all in for another $20 some dollars...Rosslyn pushes her stack in that was another $36 more...I got a little over $100...Pot is huge when it comes to me and I told them off the top, I got a big pair buster...No more action so the board comes out KT487 and runner-runner'ed the shit out of Rosslyn's QQ and I have no clue what Rock had...She was heated with me as well...

For some reason....Rock and Rosslyn get into it about the game before...apparently there was a board for Rock and I really wasn't paying attention...but Frank got into it as well and was alot of arguing...Frank decides to cash out...now knowing there was a board for tonight as well...I'm overhearing rock wasn't gonna pay his board that the pot owed him money, with Frank runnin his stack back up to a little over $250 including his board...and my stack was at $360, I decided it was that time to roll out before I aint gettin paid...plus it was already late and I need to get Cheyenne back home for school the next day, even though she was sleep at Chris House...So made a decent profit tonight...but just shows how bad a board can be for a game...had the house kept better track of boards and the money, I stay a little longer, but didn't want to rick not gettin all the money I worked hard for...I am still owed from some game ago...not alot, but still owed is the point..From the conversation and all the arguing, some players were not paid out all the way this past Friday at his game....get out while you can or be owed money later down the road..........

Tick Tock..The Mouse Ran Up Scooters Crotch!

Ahhh The Pink Game...Friday Finally came!!!

We started the night off with a $50 NLHE Freeroll Tourney that got chopped up 4 ways so we can hurry up and start the Pink Game!

During the Freeroll...Scooter started hittin himself on the leg...got up, did a dance..doing the boogy woogy...then ran in the back and took his pants off and out flew a little tiny mouse! We all were laughing and looking at Scooter like he was crazy! It might sound disgusting...but after watching Scooter take down pot after pot, literally never folding a hand..chasing down every draw and catching...we all wanted that mouse in our pants as well!

Ricky Bobby had a ROUGH night...gettin hit with Quads Twice...I can't play till an open seat is available since I host the game, so I sat behind Ricky Bobby and pocket cam'ed his cards...i saw him turn aces full of 3s holding on to a pair of aces in Omaha H/L8 to get crushed by quad 3s on the river...

Scooter stayed the whole night...and we all just grinded tryin to stack Scooter for those chips...But its Scooter...and he ended up shipping those stacks to everyone by the end of the night...well early into the morning! Alot of players cashed in to bust out so in the morning, the majority of the chips were still flying around..which meant a good night for the remaining players...

Gypsy Pete is a beast...he sat down with a rack and ran it up over two racks Quick...thats just how Gypsy Pete Goes..Last time he played, not even an hour he say down with 300 to run it over 1K....but back to Friday...After runnin his stack up..next thing you know, he's down to six chips, and it's a Killed Stud H/L hand. He gets it all-in on third street, and Richard is in the kill, calls the three more chips...after 3rd Streen, Travis deals all the cards face down to make it a little more exciting and they turn them up 1 at a time...Richard shows a pair of 10s with 4 cards to the low, Gypsy hits 2 pair...7s and 4s with no low to scooooop a dooooop! I don't know what the hell happened...but after about 20 minutes, he did his Gypsy Magic and ended up with over $200 in his stack again!

I love me the pink game...I didn't do too bad either...I got in the game for $200, added on another $100 and was able to hit Scooter with a huge Omaha H/L pot when I had A679 and ended up filling up on the turn 6s full of 7s and was able to pull a low on the river to scoooop a dooooop the pot! I ended the night with exactly 2 racks to give me a $200 profit!

Those that haven't played the pink game is surely missing out...one of the greatest home games in our area!!!!!!!!!

Weee..Rollercoasters Are Fun!!

Went over to the Donkey Coral tonight to play some $1-$2 NL. I was looking forward to playing tonight since it would be the first time in a while I'm playing a "free man" I decided that I was gonna play tonight a little more aggressive than normal...since everyone says I sit on my orignal buy in the whole night meaning I sit and play tight...I also play very passive...Tonight wasn't gonna be that kind of night...I was gonna play more aggressive, see more flops...raise alot of pots and see how it works out...and that mixture of plays makes for a hell of a roller coaster ride...

I got in the game for $200 at first and worked up my stack to a little over $350...oh yeah, i shipped...shipped it right to Bessman's Stack...It was a SICK hand too...wow it was sick...I'm in the Cut Off with Pocket 10s...and its a straddled pot that was limped around to me...5 callers till it got to me and i stuck $15 on top of that and made it $19 to go...4 callers to see the flop...ATA comes out...Nice :) , checks to me, i bet out somethin like $50 and folds to Bessman who re-raises me to i have no clue cause soon as he said raise, and stuck chips out there, i just pushed all in..took him a while to call but when he finally called i turned over my TT for 10s full of Aces...of course he has an ace...A7 to be exact...and long and behold...that magical 7 falls on the turn...Blah...$600+ pot down the drain...Oh i was HEATED!!!

Rebought for another $200 and ran that back up to a little over $500...and that itself was a roller coaster ride, with that running down to less than $120...back up to over $400...then back down....WEEEE its really fun!!!

I talked my way out of a chopped pot when I raised $12 with 8h9h preflop to get 3 callers...Flop comes out TJ4 with two clubs out there....I'm OE with no flush draw and its checked around to me and I bet the flop for $20 bucks or so...JackJr. called and the Qc hits the turn...I bet out $60 on the turn and he goes into the tank...he shows me 89o for the straight...and i just sit there...he asked me what I have behind my 60 bucks bet and i just shoved my chips in there...i tell him if he just smooth calls, you might as well put me all in cause im stickin my stack out there on the river regardless what comes out...I also mention he called me with that bullshit when I raised that pot...he finally mucks his cards and I turn over the same hand...I think that tilted him the rest of the night cause it wasn't long till he ended up shipping the rest of his stack...I Talked my way out of choppin a pot though...WHEW!

Last hand of the evening, Me and Katie are mixed up in a hand...I End up flopping 2 to the club flushy...she bets out and i just call...hit my flushy on the turn...5 high flushy...she bets out 40, I min raise it to 80, she then procedes to raise well tried to raise 100 on top, but she put out 8 blues thinking that was 40 when it was 80 then went back for chips to stick 100 out there...OOPS...String Raise...its only 40 to call, i call it and check the river down and she shows me KQclubs which makes me stuck $45 for the night...considering how all my hands played out, I'm pretty content on being stuck $45...it could've been alot worse than that...

Dealing the College Park game Thursday, then the Pink Game is on and poppin on Friday!