This Weekend's Grind...Trip to AC!!

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

I left the seat red and wet....

What the fuck....Pink Pink Pink is sooo brutal to me..

This past Fridays game was sick from start...Not even an hour into the game, I had 2 racks of pinks left to be bought...the rest were on the table, thanks to me at start...crazy Pineapple is brutal...AA got cracked to a runner runner wheel....KK smashed, QQ smashed, AK smashed...did I mention those were the first couple hands in too? REBUY...

Finally table fills up, thank god I can get out of this crazy game....

I haven't won at Pink this year....so sick....

Some Short Shit

Down to my last $2.30 on Absolute Poker, so only thing I could play was a $2 tournament...

400 players...hit for 4th place, fucked up trippling up folding TT to 2 all ins...Maybe I'm supposed to call and race at this point short stacked? I play real good :(

Anyway, a cool $50..some short shit...but the glory of final tabling isn't bad :)

You Wanna Slow Roll Me Huh?

Its been a while since Big Chris had a game at his house, he is either working late, working early, or both...His work hours can get brutal..but last night he was able to have a game and I went over there to play...

I called Kenny to go, he always tells me he doesn't want me to call him to go to the other local $1-$2 NL Games cause he seems to play bad and ship it ALL THE TIME...But I know he loves to go over to Big Chris house...and when I called him, he nearly came in his pants tellin me to pick him up...Just remember how excited he was to go over to Chris house last night!

Anyway, Game was as normal, ran my stack up a little bit early, and not playing like a donkey, just playing good till Kenny started talkin alot of shit to everyone...I felt I was gonna be the hero and burst his bubble...

One hand where he became chip leader, I handed him over my stack on a silver platter...He raises to $11 and gets a couple callers...I act like I'm going to re-raise him and he begins to talk his talk...so I smooth call with AhTd..its 3 people going into the flop with me to act last...10 high flop, checked around to me and I reach for chips...he says, if you bet, im going to push, If you check im going to push...so I bet out $25 bucks and he instantly mushes his stack in there, folds around to me, and he quickly turns over KK like he scared...I call just so I can see you throw up when I tag my Ace or Ten...His Kings end up holding up...not more than 15 minutes later, his $200+ stack is back down to $35 bucks, with me getting my money back plus some and I begin to laugh and talk shit to him and he sat there quietly...He ends up Rebuying...

For some reason, when Rosslyn would bet, I have hands to raise her...I have to give it to her, she changed her game and I was impressed at her play last night....except for this hand...I act after her, and we are somewhere in mid position...she raises to $11 and I thought about raising her, but just smooth called her raise with AKo...4 people go into this flop when it comes out Kh6d3s, checks to Rossly and she leads out $20, I raise it to $50, folds back to her and she instant mushes...I go into the tank and decide to make the call...I have her pocket 10s way crushed till she turns a 10 then says, I knew it was coming, thats why I mushed the flop....yeah right...nice hand...Now the rest of the night im playing Heinze Poker...I get alot of it back from her but she somehow learned to stay away from my pots cause she couldn't wiin another hand from me after I show her the nuts the rest of the nght...

Meanwhile Kenny is talkin shit, so I mention to him I would slow roll him the rest of the night...I only said that to him cause he is talkin big shit to me, and the rest of the table...So we get into this one pot and I ended up having King High...everyone mucks they cards and Kenny shows a King as well, I say I have a Jack with it, and he sits there waiting...waiting for me to scoop the pot...I say Jack high is good I guess and I reach for the pot, and he flips over his other King for Pocket Kings....I try to ignore the slow roll but he stares at me smiling, till I say somethin and the whole table laughs...Ok....He started somethin now...He sat there and stared till I acknowledged the slow roll and I laughed..but its on now...

Ha, Here is my perfect opportunity to get his dumb ass back...Matta fact, last hand of the night...which puts me over the top for a small but decent profit for the game....

Kenny is first to act and raises to $10...folds around to me and I re-raise to $20 with AKh..he calls...Flop comes out 9K2..he checks, I bet out $25, he just calls, Turn brings a 4s and he checks, I push all in...he starts talkin shit again..."what, you did what? you fucked up...shows me a K...I just sit there, he asks me to show him 1 card...I tell him I can't in this situation, stop wasting time and fold...He shows me his Q kicker...now he is out of his seat, talkin shit, tryiin to get me to show a card, I refuse and he says, sorry but I gotta call...I immediately say Good call and act like im bout to muck my cards...then a K falls on the river..he is boosted, so when he is about to rake the pot in, I say I win, and show my king with an Ace...he says how do you win...I point to the ace and he is SICK...3 handed after that hand, so we call it a night....Get Back at its finest!!! He was like, damn I thought I won that pot like shit, I was cised then you did that bullshit on me, I seen him earlier today and still talkin about it LOL He told me its war from now on out!

Pink Game is Brutal

No matter what I do, How I play, I ship it...

My hands just can't hold up when I flop the nuts, or monsters not gettin there...Maybe its cause I host...I honestly feel that I play decent, I can play bad, but I try not too play THAT bad...I don't open up my hand selection that much, only playing hands to scoop...betting when I need to, raising when I need to, trying not to miss any bets when it counts at least...but I just can't seem to get the garbage out there or even someone drawing to a bigger hand, which is understandable...

Point is...I can't win at my own game, But the game is soooo much fun...eh...maybe next Friday I can make up for all the losses I have takin at my own game....

Damn the pinkness is brutal to me, but a gold mine to others that seem to cash 3 plus racks every week!

Who knew the straddle was a piece of gold?

When I said I was gonna deal the Fish Tank last night to see some crazy action, I wasn't lying...Indeed it was a CLASSIC evening!

Pops made a nice piece of change lastnight! Pops told me a story from last Tuesdays Game, but I promised I won't put it out there...ask Pops and maybe he will tell you the story, but you won't get it out from me, but it is classic!

The night started out with crazy action...seen alot of huge pots at start of the game...But it really didn't get too crazy till the wee hours of the morning...after 2 AM...

Candice got some dealing time, which was good for me so I can get a break, but soon as she sits down, couple hands later...she lets Erwin hit the Quad Jacks Bonus...and from what I heard from Candice's Friend was it was some crazy action...from here on out, we'll call Candice Friend that I have no clue what his name as CBF...Anyway, the quad jacks paid out $640 bucks to Erwin which he took in cash. He already had a decent stack in front of him.

Dimitri comes in the game after 2am and gets in the game for a million bucks...he is runnin REAL BAD...and decides he is going to blame Erwin for calling him out...they get into alot of verbal arguments and tells Erwin if he ever calls him after 2am to play poker, never to do that, in a threatining manner...He even went as far as if you ever want to play so early in the morning, come over his house and play heads up for any amount of money...which I found very humerous...and so did the rest of the table...Dimitri ships it all night, yelling at Erwin, blaming him for dragging him out the house, then threatens that he Erwin calls him again he would shoot him which is even funnier!

Now the straddle is golden....why? This is where CBF comes in...

Danny, a new regular at the Fish Tank missed his straddle...CBF is sitting behind everyone and there is an open seat in the 7 seat, so everyone invites him to sit down and watch the game from there instead of looking behind the 4 and 5 seats shoulders...he comes over and sits down...and Danny offers to give him the rock to play...the whole table had to agree, but Eddie said he didn't like it...but he didn't want to be the odd man out and was like fuck it...so I dealt him a hand and a couple people called maybe 4 spots called the straddle...flop comes out, couple people bet out, and Erwin sticks a big raise in there to "Protect" CBF...yeah good job, he lost the pot and CBF takes the pot down...and he played tight...getting his stack in with the best of it and as I sat there and watched that $6 free straddle from Danny, I would look at Danny and laugh my ass off cause his stack went from $6 bucks to over $250 in no time...Thats when everyone wanted to be dicks and be like, you should cash out now...I even heard I don't want him taking my stack when he only had $6 bucks...BUT YOU ALL LET HIM PLAY WITH IT, DON'T COMPLAIN NOW, AND YOU CAN'T FORCE HIM TO CASH OUT...In My Opinion, that would be the last thing I want is for him to cash out after running good, running his $6 bucks to way over $200...I guarantee that will never happen, and I knew it was gonna happen in the back of my head...

You know what sucks...most of the night, I knew what everyone was holding, and knew who was gonna win and can push the board up to show what was gonna win before the winner can table his cards...why can't I get reads like this when I play poker? Some crazy shit, That just shows me, that I don't pay as close attention when I play...which I need to start doing, I think I have just discovered 1 of a million leaks in my game...so I'm going to try and fine tune that either tonight at the pink game, or if I don't get a chance to play tonight, at Pops game Saturday Afternoon...I'm pretty sure there should be some nice stories tonight!

Snow + Ice +Poker = Alot of poker

Valentines day was Wednesday and the Girl didn't want them spending V-day playing poker, so they moved it to Tuesday Night...Just happens it was a major storm rollin through the DC area of nothing but mixed snow and ice...

Now I wasn't planning on coming out cause of the weather...I was broke too...Had $23 Bucks to my name after paying off my bills for the month...BUT...I was on the lock list and Trav said he would board me a buy in or two....Off to the Coral I go....

I think it was 7 maybe 8 player max cause of the weather...supposed to be a full table, but its understandable...

Wow I ran good...AA 9 times, KK 4 times, QQ 5 times...you get the picture?

Peaked my stack to a good $650 before I ran my QQs into some BS and got sucked out on, then it went down hill...I lost a good $200 and felt stuck, even though I was still up $200...I'm pretty sure alot of yall know the feeling...so I decided I aint leaving...game got to 4 players and we still played, ended up playing $5-$10 Limit four a couple of hours then back to NL again....lol Wholetime, I'm wondering where my last $200 was disappearing too...Fuck...

Game ended up breaking at 8:30 in the morning...left with a $19 profit...Sooo Stupid...Now I gotta fight the ice on the way home and the roads were TRECHEROUS...not to mention I left my phone there and didn't realise it till I got home...took a nap and went back out before it got dark and everything on the road re-froze up again....

Dealing Steve's game tonight, hopefully I'll be able to see some crazy shit tonight!

Online is Stupid

No live games lately...Not till Tuesday Night at the Coral at least...

So on MD-Poker.com, Pdoggie ended up getting a bunch of us together to play a $10 HORSE Sit N Go...Yeah I suck...Top 2 gets paid out...not a bad pay out for $10 bucks....But I didn't cash in none of them...

So I decided to play a $2 MTT on Absolute Poker...So stupid, to play so long to make shit money, granted I know its only $2 to play, but god damn...its ridiculous...but I am Happy I made it as far as I did, but I just couldn't close the deal when my AQ ran into AA...oh well, floped 3 hearts with my Ace being a heart, but couldn't pull the 4th heart out...oh well....Ned to build up a roll to play some real tournies on here...maybe I can do it like I did on Poker.com...Sitting with a little over a meatball starting with a hot $20 they sent me to play on the site with....

oh well...27 out of 402 players is pretty good I guess...if I can make it that far, I should be able to seal the deal :(

PINK

Pink Friday couldn't have come any sooner....Lots of the regs went up to Atlantic City for the weekend, so it was a possibility that the game was a no go....WRONG....Full game till the early morning!

Lots of rebuys, means lots of pretty pink chips on the table being flung around...I didn't get a chance to play this week, (which I believ is a good thing from how bad I have been running)

Anyway, game went on as usual and JackJr. was giving a run for everyone's money....He wasn't playing real well, but getting lucky on alot of draws....I saw him scoop a pot with 3 aces in his hand im omaha h/l...quad Kings up in 7-card stud...then delivered a crucial scoop in stud with some ridiculous hand that scooped a pot well over $500 bucks, then tried to cash out not even 15 minutes after that pot...granted it was close to 3am, but everyone felt it was a hit and run type move and I begged him to stay at least anouther 15 minutes so he stayed at least 30 minutes after taking that huge pot down...he agreed, but stayd longer than the 30 minutes and bled his 4 stacks down to cashing out $30 bucks...

I dealt most of the game cause Kenny wanted to take a break and ended up jumping in the game so I was in the box the rest of the morning till game broke, Kenny and Eddie played heads up $5-$10 Holdem till he broke kenny, played 2 short handed sit and gos, then called it a night.

Good Lawd I got My ass Handed To Me

God Damn It...I got my ass whooped last night at the Coral...Night started off slow...

No cards...finally....KK...I'm somewhere in Mid Position and was faced with Keenan's $8 raise...Upstairs....I make it $23 to go...$15 raise...Folds around to him and he makes it $45 to go, I insta call board comes out like 9 high...all red...he proceeds to shove his stack in the middle...I do have a feeling he has aces so I ask him..politely...
"Do You Have Aces?"
Keenan replies, "No"
"K..I call"
He flips over his Aces...
"why did you lie to me man?"
"I was being sarcastic"
River brings a heartbreaking KING!!!
"Oooh" I flip over my kings..."You should'nt have lied, I would've folded"
which I honestly would've...

The rest of the night I folded away...
Got in a hand with Jeff...now I get to feel how it gets sucked out on...
No raise and I limp in with 55
Flop comes out 85Q (2 clubs)
Now I'm not sure if Jeff checked and I bet, or if Jeff bet and I raised...to see the turn
Turn comes out and he flat bangs it for the rest of his stack, I insta call...
River comes out a 9 and his TJ gets there for the straight...

Rebuy...Rebuy...Rebuy...Rebuy...Rebuy..was the story...

Last hand that finally made me tired of gettin my ass whooped...I'm UTG and look down to AA...Raise it to $15...Pietro is the only caller, 7 high board, I decide I'm going to check raise him and get some money in the pot, I check, he bets out $15 or $20, I raise it all in, he insta calls and says "set" god damn....2 outs can't get there...he shows me dueces....I can't take nomore ass whoopings and call it a night...

I dont think I played bad, and going over many of the hands last night, I don't think I would've played any hands any differently...Thats just how it goes sometimes....Gotta roll with the Losses from time to time...STUPID GAME!!!

The Dreaded weekend...

HORSE tournament at Pops House! Looking forward to this tourney since he posted he was gonna run it...did I get to play? Hell No...After my Pink Game broke, I didn't even have the power to clean up the mess we made from the night before, Didn't even make it home, jumped on the couch and went to sleep...got enough nerve to drive home, dizzy as can be, to sleep the rest of the night away till Sunday afternoon.....

Now Sunday afternoon, I was locked for Digg's Super Bowl Bash...Poker, Strippers....Party Party Party....and I wasn't a part of it....I did force myself to get out of bed close to game time to head over to my cousin's house at the very least where I can feel comfortable being sick around family...Played some $1-$1 NL also....made a quick Ball after getting into the game for $200 when Kenny stacked me with A9o to my Kings when he tripped his 9s on the river....Got him back though....Game broke fairly early, wanted to go home early anyway....now im here typing, still under the weather...I have 3 days to get my health back in order to play the Coral.

P*I*N*K*I*T*U*P

Scooter said he didn't want to play this week, and jumped on me because he is always shipping it, but he has it the other way around, when bad play pays him off, he is a happy scooter, but when he plays bad and loses, he is ready to quit...

He ended up comin out, after waiting a million hours...I hope he learned his lesson taking off the auto lock!!!

anyway, Lawd I was SICK as a dog...I mean nasty sick, it was nasty....I felt bad just coughing all night long and tried to stay as far away from the table as possible...heh, till it was my turn to play!

Game went really well, despite the fact I was super sick...and its Super Bowl weekend too....Lots of parties/poker coming up that I was looking forward to attending....

Anyway, chalk up another loss for me at the pink game...not that big of a loss this time around, when I was actually ramming and jamming the pot when I flopped a set of Kings on a king high, non straight board...Scooter is in it to win it with his flopped set of I can't even remember....the only thing I can be afraid of is the the flush draw....after capping the shit out of each street, the flush draw gets thereon the river....Busted....This game is AWESOME!