Where Has the Time Gone????

Well, so this is awkward.  1 f-ing entry since last July? 1 god damned entry. That is deplorable.  So what is new????

To be honest, not that much on the poker front.  Haven’t been able to play as much as I would like but there was a stretch in there where I was playing at least 5hrs per week, which is a lot for me.  At the end of last year, I ended up making money again and carried a 2 BB/hr winrate which I guess I can’t complain about but…there is so much I need to improve.

There really isn’t any reason for these leaks, or intricacies that I haven’t been able to figure out; I’d really say that I just need to play MOAR to iron these things out.  I am sure that after many hours I will be able to push the winrate up higher.

Life Update – Bullet Points for sheer laziness

-          -Got Married

-          -Took some trips (Mexico, Belize, Denver, Vegas)

-          -Sold House

-          -Currently looking for new one in better neighborhood

-          -Playing Softball w/ Nik and AC, Tommy is cameraman

-          -Still work at same job :yawn:

This will be just a short update as I will work to post lots during the upcoming months as I plan on playing lots before during and after Vegas with the 67 crew.

Hey, I may even post some hands, YAY?!?

7/31: Council-Tucky, Omaha, Vegas, and Other Ramblings

I think that this whole 'blog' thing is now basically a quarterly ordeal.

Work Update:

As I sit here in the beautiful Homewood Suites in Omaha, my final day of a 30 day stint for the Missouri River Flood Fight is looming. There is much to be said about "decency of good men". A major and damaging flood has hit the Missouri River Basin from South Dakota down through Iowa. The event experienced had a 1 in 500 chance of happening in any given year. Finishing the inspections, recommendations, and fast-track designs the area of Council Bluffs, IA and Omaha I have witnessed that people, for the most part are stubborn idiots. You tell someone to leave, they say thats nice and tell you to GTFO. But all that aside, I have enjoyed my time in this area of the country and the career experience. A big thanks goes out to the following: beer, decent food, and meeting another forum member. Hi Stacker :waveyguy:

Aside on the Midwest:
I had never been to the midwest I have discovered a few nuggets of wisdom.

1. What's with all the Mountain Dew consumption. That shit is poison.
2. Freeways are knows as interstates.
3. People think California is some far off land full of surfers, dopers, millionaires, and that there are only 2 cities. LA and SF.
4. When a midwesterner asked another midwesterner where they are from, they respond that they are from 'X' county. This concept baffles me.
5. Dentistry is meerly a suggestion.
6. Most people are nice, courteous, and helpful.
7. Learn to drive, seriously. Traffic in the midwest is like a 2am drive in California.
8. Where are the Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, and Korean restaurants.

On the positive note, the population density is not so bad at all. In all, I ended up mingling with some locals in Council Bluffs at the Horseshoe Poker Room for some limit holdem action. I was a foreigner to them, most people were very curios as to why/how I had made it out here and why? It was almost a land of xenophobes.

Life Update:

The wedding is fast approaching, hooray for marrying up. I learned from the best big ups to: P2, Shifty, Shabba, and Luske. There will be a "Very 67 Wedding" Thread as 3 members from the forum are in my wedding party: Nik Santi, superdonk, and poker superstar acbarone. Should be fun. The batchelor party agenda has been confirmed. Tailgate, Giants v. Dodgers at AT&T, Brewery Tour, and dinner. Teh pokers may or may not be involved. Sounds like a kick ass time. All parties welcome.

Oh and no more tests for me. The State of California obv screwed up and gave me an engineering license. gg tests.

The house is for sure coming together, backyard is done and the painting is getting there. We also have a line on a contractor that the wifey knows. Hooray for remodeling.

Upcoming trips planned: Cabo for Honeymoon in November, Vegas with 67 in January (hopefully work doesn't bend me over on this one), Belize in March, and then back to Vegas in June. #verylucky

Vegas/Poker Update:

More than half the year has been gone and I think that I am somewhere in the vicinity of where I want to be profit wise for someone who plays as little and infrequent as I do. My monetary goal I set at the beginning of the year is definitely achievable. I am excited about that for sure, but waaaay more excited and motivated about the trend and style that play is going. The biggest month of the year for me was March by far. Since about that time, I started looking at the game in a whole different light thanks to the guys of 67. I am looking at you Nik, AC, Shifty, Deuce, Shabba, and Tommy. I don't want to go into detail as to what I have changed and how much differently I play in certain spots as compared to a skant year ago. Lets just say that I love the 'fuck-you' turn raise, and it is hard to make hands, so make other people have the tough decision. Basically I have upped the aggresion...in non-forum games.

Vegas was awesome as usual. No detail more needed. You know the drill. Drinking, poker, railing craps, snipers, robberies, overall a wholesome good time. No names and specific activities needing to be mentioned.

Thats it for now. I leave 2 days from now and return to Sacramento, the mecca of limit holdem and levee problems.

4/1: April Foolishness - A Recap of the 1st Quarter of 2011

This is gonna be a half and half blog. Half results up to this point, half a little monologue about the June 67 Vegas Trip.

Part One: Pokers

So, tbh after shitting the bed last October for the PE exam, I have put in shit hours live. Out side of the January Vegas trip, I think I played 2 times. The President's Day weekend when the Sac Town Crew met up w/ Barone, Luske, and Oak, and a couple other times outside of that.

Short story is that I have had a couple decent size sessions where I booked a win, and one where I got smoked, and ran like shit.

Oh well, that is life I am up almost 6 racks at 4/8.

And the other side of this thing is that I have been play more than usual online. Mostly LHE on Stars and FTP (standard), and some micro-NL on AP. So I really don't make a habit of keeping a lot online so i cashed out a bit which just hit my account, sweet.

From the other games category, I am really gonna hit the books hard and study up on Omaha 8/b. Its pretty much a good transition game from LHE. I feel that I have progressed to a point where I can say I have a pretty solid understanding of limit concepts and I can make the transition fairly well.

Enough of this poker shit....

Part 2: Monologue

Your legs have warmed up the most comfortable, familiar point...
You are sitting with bunch people from an internet poker forum
You aren't drunk (unless you are shifty, and that's an under-statement)...
"Waitress, 3 kamakaze's, 7 Newcastles, 2 Colorado Bulldogs, a cawfee w/ milk, skim milk, side of bacon well done, chicken parmesan w/ scampi."
"So what's in the mix????"
"Limit, Crazy Pineapple, O8, NL????? Nah"
"Tree bets"
"You are the worst."
"2 pair, 8 high?"
"Mbn!"
"Aye Yahhhhhhh"
Raise, 2-4-6-8-10-12-14-16
Video Pokers
Booths at Sapphire

Can you feel it??


Your bag is packed, it waits by the door. You make sure to check in to your southwest flight not 1 second late, you get the taunting txts from the first arrivers in vegas, you figure a cocktail will ease you tension. well lets be honest, maybe 2 or 3. The countdown continues. You get to work the next day. At this point time has seized, and your skin is crawling with anticipation and angst. Lunch time, hits, fuck finally you think only 4 more hours. Meetings, co-workers, and any resemblance of a productive thought have long since left your mind. You have officially transitioned into Vegas Mode.

Deuce's flight is delayed, shifty is shipping w/ 2 overs and a frush draw, rambler & turtle are being new yorkish, abbahs and his close friend shabba have checked in to a baller suite, santi and superdonk have touched down, reb is driving up w/o an ipod, eric has been 86'd from the wynn for no reason, dd and his accent are donutting their way across the country, ac is looking for love whilst in the cab from McCarran to flamingo w/ a random, oak has toted his Black's Law dictionary from nocal, fender has now landed and gone to bed... (sorry slinger, you haven't made a trip yet, you don't qualify)

But where are you???

That's right, its that time again. Vegas. Yup, it will be epic. I wish I could explain more, but I can't. You have to go.

At first, it was kinda about the moneys, then it was about the needles, then it was the food, and lastly and what it has evolved to, the most important thing, its about the experience and awesomeness that will ensue.

This is the big trip of the year, during the series. Here is bullet list of what will go down.

- Limit Mix Games
- Alcohol
- Tittays
- Bacon
- The Lux
- Stupid Randoms
- Ignorant Sports Betting
- Lodden Thinks
- Ball Busting

Did I forget anything??? Most likely.

Bottom line, get the fuck to vegas.

/this has been fender403 for 67suited vegas trips.

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1/9: So this is the new year???

So, I will get to it.

Vegas in 3 days !!!! This is gonna be the shit.

Lots of pokers, profuse amounts of tittays, exorbitant portions of bacon, french toast, and luxe, and of course all the guys from 67.

Ended up the final tally for 2010 up a decent sum (roughlt $4k) and played quite a bit at the end of the year which attributed to 25% of the profit. I felt that my play has improved quite a bit just over this year alone.

I played about 4hrs of 6/12 on Saturday and ended up swinging from +180 to -180 loser on the night. It was extremely slow, started off well had 3 winners in the first hour but then just didn't pick up a had for the next 3 literally.

I did try to iso some weaker players using my fucking nit image due to card deadedness and that completely backfired horribly.

Basically, it might have came off as spew but w/e. If I can't iso 3! from the button against a early position open from a loose player and not get there WTF right. I felt that this was the correct play at the time. Short story was I 3! from the button a against loose/weak ish player to knock out the blinds w/ KQ of clubs, well, that didn' t happen one of the blinds (kelly-douchey oaf) capped it, and I whiffed the flop of 456 all diamonds and called one and whiffed the turn as well.

I did kinda get a little spewey w/ 99 in a 3 way pot in position on a board of A84 rainbow. Snap raising one of the other 2 who donked out. I continued on the turn both called :-(. and the river is an Ace where I got to show it down of course one of them has the Ace. I guess that I pretty much have to check behind the turn after the other person calls 2 cold out of position, that almost always means weak or mid strength ace.

So I learned a bit more and just gotta not make those -EV plays like betting the turn w/ the 99.

Amped, for LV, can't wait bitches.

12/23: Fa Ra Ra Ra Rahh, Ra Ra, Ra Rahhh

Ho, Ho, Ho!!! Merry LHE Christmas!


So its Christmas time and the poker games seems to be steadily gaining momentum towards the end of the year. Capitol is now running a couple of promotions with their new players card system which gives $1/hr comps which should be pretty good for food over the upcoming sessions. They are giving away a 2011 Ford Mustang, 3 Poker Cruise Packages, and a bunch of cash. The drawing is 2/19/2011. You qualify for a ticket when you have a full house or better. Personally, I would just like to see them go back an add $1k to the BBJ everyday instead of saving up for this promotion. But w/e I hope I/Nik/SD win some portion of this.

I did sneak in a small blargh session last night for like 4ish hours. Nothing really to report. I only played no joke 6 hands preflop. QQ 2x, AK 2x, A9s, and TT. Thats it. I did have a pretty awesome 4/8 table it started out with lots of limps pre followed with lots of maniac-type flop and turn play.

As the night went on there, the flop play was transferred to pre-flop and it was just crazy. There were roughly 4 straight maniacs, which is 2 too many imo. I usually like 2 maniacs because they usually clash with each other, but with 4, that is kinda nuts.

Well, all in all I ended up dusting off a rack due to 1 pot where I got rivered in a kill for a $200 pot, aye yahhhh. I might make an appearance tonight when Nik and SD are playing till tomorrow morning, fucking degens, lolz.

TP: -$96
TSP: 4hrs
BB/hr: -3BB/hr.

Merry Christmas, and it is Christmas and not Happy Holidays.

12/18: "This is the greatest LHE game in the world!"

So after taking the dog to the vet and finding out he had a case of "buffet stomach" from eating shit-tons of food because his food bag was open, I made it down to Capitol to play some limited hold'em. I had txt'd both Nik and SD earlier in the day and put the word out. Tommy said he would def be down to play, Nik was 50/50.

I walked into the cardroom and who'd a thunk it, they were both there. Tommy at 4/8 and Nik at 6/12. Nik looked meh, and he said he was stuck a bit and grinding it out. Tommy said the same at his table. A new table opened shortly and I took my seat with a bunch of LPPs and some reg's which I have put in some hours with in the past. need less to say I was very comfortable with my table lots of limping and check calling flops. All in all the table make up was OK, not great, not terrible. I played there, as I was fully intending to play 6/12 for a good while.

I think I chopped 1 pot and won another and after about an hour I was roughly even minus my omelet. I was 2nd on the 6/12 and was hoping to be called soon. Observing Nik's table it was pretty prime. A couple spazzes, an off shift dealer, a white laggy guy who would make some odd plays, Nik, older women who like to pay people off with all sorts of hands and then Davin Anderson. Davin is a pretty decent guy, for those of you who don't remember, he is the dude who was on the intro of the WSOP ME coverage who says, "This is greatest tournament in the worrrrrrrld!!!!"


Davin finished 25th in the 2004 WSOP Main Event and had been playing professionally in AC for quite sometime before coming to the west coast. Neat guy, kinda crazy, opened J8os in EP vs a straddle. But none the less he is definitely a solid player.

I take the 5 seat, to the left of Davin, Nik and this older guy Wayne who plays really good, or really bad. I haven't seen an in between with him. I loved my position at the table. It was a slow day and I either had premium hands or shit hands. Early on, I held with KK in a capped 5 way pot.

After that I had AA firmly planted in my anus by the laggy white guy who CR'd the turn on a paired board or KQ7K. From the looks of things, Nik was not holding at all and he finally was starting to turn it around and won some really nice pots finally hitting some draws and holding against the minefields.

At this point I am up about 70ish and get dealt AK of diamonds UTG and open, Suzanne the quite attractive off shift dealer calls 2 cold, and it is folded to Davin on the button who 3-balls, blinds fold I cap, and both Suzanne and Davin call.

I have played with Suzanne, and she plays any decent hand for a raise so and pocket pair, and hands like ATs, JT+ and any two face cards are definitely in her range. Davin, definitely had noticed that I wasn't playing too many hands at all so for him to 3-bet I am pretty sure he is not having trash in his range. I put him on 88+ and AJ+ which is less likely because I hold an ace.

So the flop comes J7x w/ 2 diamonds. I lead the flop and both call. I am particularly worried about Suzanne, but Davin I am concerned with. with the flop being containing the flush draw I would expect him to raise with an overpair or a set here. Him just calling makes me think that I am going to get popped on the turn if a diamond doesn't come off.

The turn is the T of diamonds making me the nuts, I bet again and am only called by Davin. the river brings an offsuit Q which does make some straight and I was hoping this maybe hit him and he would raise. That was asking too much, he just calls and says this is probably a bad beat. He did flash Aces to Nik and then mucked. I didn't expect that at all. I really figured he would raise an overpair and sandwich in the 3rd player.

After that there was really not much to report from the 6/12 game. Nik ended up leaving to go to work about 30 minutes later. I shipped him his secret santa gift of Red Dead Demption - Undead Nightmare and a 12-pack of...


Tommy text me and asked me to come sit with him a 4/8 for a bit so I did. The 6/12 game was getting a little slow because 2 people were eating and a few people were just kind of milling about not really playing any hands. I said fuck it, and racked up my $130+ profit and took the seat immediately on Tommy's left.

Tommy looked to still be hovering about a rack down at this point and just couldn't hit a hand. Well that was about to change. After me losing with JJ against 2 opponents on a Q-high board which I got to show down for free on the river which was nice, Tommy, a few others and I got involved in a 4 way capped preflop pot where I flopped top two w/ AK and then got turned by Tommy when he hit is set of jacks, oh well. Nice hand, if you were wondering he was getting 21:1 there, basically warranting a call with a gum wrapper and a uno card.

After that hand, I had blasted through close to all of my profit at 6/12. I was about to leave when I mistakenly raised TT UTG in a kill pot and got called by 4 people which was nice. I bet all the way and was good so that brought me back to even for the 4/8 session.

Tommy has been on a bit of a downswing lately and has needed to run better. He finally did just that and had some hands hold and eventually posted a winner for the session. I racked up an orbit later after getting 67suited snapped off by a turned 2 pair when I flopped top pair and a flush draw oh well, that's life.

Totals for the day were:

TSP: 6hrs
4/8: -$55
6/12: +135
TP: +80.

See you all next week, I only work 3 days, wooooot!!!

Short aside, its called a Christmas Party, not a Holiday Party don't ask me if I am going to a Holiday Party, I will tell you to fuck off.

-Out

12/11: Cool Stories Bro, No.

First off I will come back in a day or so and do the full update. But anyways, this douche, name Jay wouldn't shut the fuck up about lots of things during my session yesterday. Apparently, according to him I am no good at poker and play badly.

And ftr, I just let him go on and on about stupid shit.

Spoilers: I ran well, value bet lots and made some money. I will add in some interesting hands for your reading pleasure.

-Out till tomorrow.

----And we're baaaaaack

So, to the action. I got to Capitol after a fantastic run at Chipotle always delivers. Sidenote: if you have to ask for a menu at Chipotle, you are doing it wrong. The 2 people in front of me both asked to see a menu, WTF, seriously. The answer is burrito. Always, even if you think its not, the answer is burrito. No tacos, or quesadillas, burrito.

Ok, so I walk in to Cap and to my dismay I see that there is no 6/12 running and only a list. So I add myself, and wait to be called for the new table of 4/8 that would open shortly. I sit in the 4 seat and am joined by a bunch of regs, mostly LPPs, and 2 kinda LAG spew types both black dudes one looking like Hancock with the beanie and sunglasses (definitely a necessity at 4/8, I don't see how you could win w/o them tbh). We got involved in a few hands which came out about even for me.



The other LPPs at the table were a smattering of pretty straight forward middle aged guys, and one older lady who was primed to hit and run which she pulled off nicely after hitting a 3 outer in a huge pot (7ways capped pre, and capped 4 ways on the flop).

So, as I said I am in the 4 seat and Hancock is in the 8. The first hand we got involved in was a pretty big pot in the end. I raised ATos after he limps UTG, and seats 1 and 3 limp behind both blinds and everyone else calls. Flop comes AT6 rainbow. Checks to me in position, I bet, bb calls, Hancock check raises seat 1 calls 2 cold, and the other limper folds. I 3-ball, bb folds, Hancock caps it and the other guy calls. I am pretty sure I have the best hand although, I am kinda more worried about the other guy in the hand. What the fuck could he have? I later learned that this guy, an older Greek guy wasn't really all there and wasn't necessarily of a sane mind. So the turn is a 5 putting a heart flush draw out, and Hancock checks, if I am behind I am gonna find out now, the old man does as well, and I fire. Hancock just calls and the old man folds, hmm?

At this point, I am sure I have the best hand. River is an offsuit T making me tens full. Check, bet, call. I show, he mucks A6os. Nice pot there.

We went on to get involved in some other hands with similar action. In one, I have Aces in the SB and raise a family preflop, put in 3 bets against him and 2 others, on a board of 754 rainbow. Turn was a 7, I lead, she calls, he now raises and 1 guys calls in between and I think for a while and decide to fold. I am pretty sure I am beat here most of the time and my 2 pair is no good against 3 opponent and I am drawing to 2 outs. Turns out that, the old lady had TT, he has T7os for turned trips and the other guy had a naked 6. Thoughts on this, it is probably a call, but I didn't really see him bluff raise at all.

I might have been giving him too much credit but it was the correct play for this hand, and probably not in the long run.

Now about 1 hour into my session, Nik texts me and says he is on his way down to join in the fun. I am up about 10ish bets at this point and then this hand goes down. The very next hand after the Aces hand. I pick up JT of spades on the button and 2 people limp, Hancock, and this Indian (7/11, not peace pipe. Remember, realist, not racist there is a difference). I hesitate and just call instead of raising. I have been getting into the habit of raising these types of hands for straight value here, thoughts???

So we see a flop 5 ways with the sb, and bb coming along for the ride. I flop the fucking world w/ KQ9 and the King and Queen both being spades, nuts with OESFD to the Royal weeee, checks to the Indian guy who bets out, I snap raise, folds back to our beanied friend who calls 2 cold (I put him on a weak King type hand or maybe a small flush draw). Turn is a red 4, great card. Checks to me and I bet, both call. WTF, I am supposed to hit the royal right???, River is a T basically killing the action, and hancock leads out, yada yada yada we end up chopping. FTR he had QJ of hearts.

Continuing on, I get AK shoved up my ass on the turn in a pretty big pot and I am up around $40 when Nik is moved directly to my right in the 3 seat. He sat down and had a couple hands snapped off by some pretty sick running beats in monster pots. Say it with me ayeeee yahhhh.

I guess Nik kinda turned on the boomswitch for me and I picked it up. QQ flops a set in a kill pot and holds. 88 flops a sets and gets paid on 3 streets. KJ gets 3 streets 2 ways w/ 2 pair and an extra bet on the river vs. a smaller 2 pair. I also value bet 2 hands that made me 2 extra BBs on the day. Once w/ AJ on a board of J84K3, pretty standard, and once w/ Q2 suited on a board of JJ294 but that really doesn't qualify because the guy folded but I did get the bet on the turn though.

After those hands and a $1 Fat Tire, I am up about $240ish and am poised for a bigger run. Nick takes a break and we get short. I open 22 flop a set and river a boat getting 3 streets 2 ways. Then I make top 2 purrrr with AQ and get paid on 3 streets by 1 guy.

Our table ends up breaking and Nik takes the 6/12 seat in the Pai Gow room, and I am first up on the that list. I am moved to another table with this guy Jay. To start out, we really don't have any history, he is not very attentive to who he is playing against but claims that he plays great (allegedly a 2+2er) and makes a point to tell people that they are doing things incorrectly. Word to the wise, don't do this ever, ever. And for what ever reason, if you are an ass and just have to do this, it helps to have a decent amount of chips in front of you. (I had like 500, he had 40)

He went on and fucking on about "I made 3k playing 3/6 in Reno at the Sands Regency." Then it was, "I called an all in river bet w/ JT high because I knew it was good and I knew this guy had nothing at a no limit game a couple weeks back." /coolstorybro.

It doesn't help that this guy looks like an out of work high school math teacher but smells like an ashtray. Seriously, I would rather you smell like straight shit, than Marlboro. Mix in a breathe mint bro.

I end up putting him all in, in a kill pot when I held AQ high at then end and basically my turn bet forced him to call it off, big deal. I show, I am good. He then starts his little hissy fit. I don't understand how you can be the turn (board is T552, and AQ is a pretty strong hand here, imo), what did you think I called your bet on the flop with. I wanted to say something but I was pretty obvious that he had AJ or something to that effect. I just play it coy and say I don't know, I thought you fold or something like that.

After, he reloads, we get involved in a multiway pot. Basically UTG raises, 2 calls, I 3! with red Tens, he calls 3 to the face, ok, that is AQ obv. and it ends up getting capped 4 ways pre. Flop is 974, w/ 2 spades, UTG leads, 1 call, I raise, Jay disgustedly folds, saying, "you probably have Ace high here too, great play." tyty. Anyways, UTG 3-bets and I am pretty sure I am behind to an over pair here. Until the turn...the T of spades. UTG leads, 1 call in between, I raise both call. River is a low card and I get 2 more BBs for that 2-outer vs UTG's JJ.

Fuck this has gone waaaay long. I am gonna wrap this shit up. I kinda spewed w/ KQ against a nitty guy where I felt I could get some free cards in position, it worked, I could hit any of my outs though.

Jay berates me again for raising pre w/ KJos in a kill pot and double barreling in a pretty decent spot. Oh well, w/e I got in a few more winners and racked up.

Final tally for the day in 6hrs-ish of play, I came up $380, weeeeeeeee.

I look to be back next week sometime possibly next Friday night.

-Out.

12/3: 2 Small Sessions

Part 1 - Someone Gets Locked Out...of the House


Yeah, so the original plan was to leave work around 330pm, have a pint at Brew It UP, then make it to Capitol for some 6/12. I didn't end making it down until 5, oh well Nik put me on the list as he was already playing.

I arrived at Cap and didn't even notice that they had 2 tables of 6/12 going which meant the game should be pretty awesome. I take my seat opposite Santi in the 9, he in the 6 seat. We really didn't clash at all during small amount of time we played to together. Only sat at the same table for roughly 1 hour or so.

So, hands. Nik was a up a bit when I sat down maybe a rack or so, so things were going swimmingly to start off for him. I started off pretty slow, watching Nik value town a couple guys an iso-raise pre w/ KTos and get a couple streets of value.

I raised a couple hands and took it down on the flop w/ a C-bet to keep me at even. First off, this next hand isn't anything special at first, its a chop for ffs but Nik and I were talking later, there were a bunch of ways the villain could have played the hand.

I open JT of hearts from MP, SB & BB call. Flop comes AT8 w/ 2 clubs. Checks to me I fire, SB calls, BB folds. Turn - 4 of clubs. SB checks again. I fire. The SB now, laboriously calls.

This turn play by him, I think he was a few possible hands. Now, basically w/o getting in to it, if he has a T and a club here he should CR the turn for a couple of reasons.

1- His hand has lots of showdown value HU if he has an Ace or a Ten w/ a good kicker.
2- He can put me in a real tough position w/ a hand like JJ-KK or a T w/o a club redraw.
3- If he is behind to me, and I call he still has outs.
4- He finds out if he is already beat by a flush or up against a better hand.

So back to the hand. River pairs the 8 (no floosh). He checks, I think about value betting here but I am pretty sure that I am only getting called by something better at this point, so I decide to check behind.

He tables JTos w/ the J of clubs. We chop it up. Oh well, kind of an interesting hand at second glance.

A couple orbits later, I raised AK form the SB and took 5 people to the flop, flop TPTK, and somehow I hold w/ 1 pair and get paid off by Clark (he is the owner of Capitol Casino) w/ a weaker Ace, and that was a nice pot and I am up a bit.

I whiffed a few other hands and then the phone calls started. Well, obviously, someone locked themselves out of their house and didn't remember my phone number, and didn't have a cell phone and is stuck at the neighbors :-( Supernit to the rescue.

Not before leaving this hand comes up. Feliz and Gloria have joined us now. Feliz is probably one of the more decent players at Cap and has been playing for a living for the last 2 years, I like the guy. Although he is a Dodger fan w/e we all have flaws.

So I pick up AQ of hearts in the BB in a Kill and I nit it up and don't raise pre and we are 4 way to the flop. God I suck. Flop comes Q 8 6 w/ 1 heart. Gloria checks, I bet, Feliz raises, Gloria calls 2 to the face, rut rho, weak 2 pair? I 3-bet and all call. Turn is the 3 or hearts great card. Gloria checks, I fire, Feliz now folds, maybe a hand like 99 or something like that??? Gloria still calls. river is and offsuit 5, Gloria checks, and I fire again and she tank calls, I am good. She flopped an open ender w/ 75 and paid off the river w/ a 5 nice.

That was pretty much my entire session, I left up about $155, went home, let the gf back in the house. Came back to Cap primarily for dinner w/ Nik. Sat for a little bit and made another $10 or so. Had the Kung Pao Combo for dinner, talked angle-shooting by people at tables and then took off. Nik ended up staying and playing for another few hours.

Total for the short night was $165 up in about 3 hours. I absolutely hated leaving that awesome of table but w/e life happens sometimes.

Hopefully, I won't be working next Friday and get to play some more 6/12 at a good table.

-Out

11/30: Um, Well, November Wasn't Quite Over

After my last blog, I didn't think I would get out to play until the weekend. I was incorrect.

I made it down to Cap around 630ish and quickly ordered the Double Mushroom Chicken and Steam Rice prior to sitting down, which is delicious btw. My new table was opened shortly, and I drew bad as usual and posted the BB.

Hey, look at that, 1st hand I get red Jacks and raise 6 people, yay!! And we are off, unfortunately the flop is Q-high, mono-suited (clubs) and I bet the flop 3 calers and the turn is a 4th club effectively ending the hand for me. So much for a good start.

Next hand I end up rivering a weird straight and getting paid off for a little profit to get me back to even...

Here is where the night took off. I raise 4 limpers in a Kill-Pot w/ KK and be the whole way and get paid off on an all unders board. Weeee, nice pot there. A few hands later, I raised red Nines UTG, get 3 bet by the button, the SB caps it, BB calls, and all call. Flop is 9-high (mbn) and get paid off by 1 person who was all-in at the river decent start :-)

Then, I felt a rumbling...Aces hold in a 4-way pot for a sick pot. AK flops hard in a kill pot and holds. I make a play and get there w/ a rivered flush against SK (see Nik's blog).

More thunder and lightning. 88 goes runner-runner for tilt factor against some guy who full on berates me, I fucking love it. I win another hand him w/ AK in a big multi-way pot. And, I am just gonna say it, God-Mode Engaged.

We played 6 handed for like an hour and a half were I made some good plays, like semi-bluff raising and getting there with a big combo draw. And then just straight snap raising a guy w/ A-high, barreling the turn w/ the flush/over card hit, and hitting an Ace on the river. Aces flop a set and hold again. Weeeee....

When all was said and done the result looked like this.



I enjoyed that configuration :-)
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I ran awesome. Came up +$450.

**Updated end to the Month.

TSP: 17hrs
TP: +850
Hourly: 6.25BB/hr (yeah, that's nuts, lol definitely sustainable)

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More updates to come. I might come back and post some strat on 1 hand where I barreled and got there.

-Out.

11/29: End to November

So after a terrible last session this past Saturday, I tallied up my results. Overall I ran pretty well for the month.

TP: +$400
TSP: 13hrs
BB/hr: 3.8BB/hr

Hopefully with the holiday approaching and the nights getting longer, I will be able to put in some work and have some long sessions and really push my game and though processes up to another level before Vegas in January.

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Online, I haven't really been playing that much at all. It goes in waves for me, sometimes I feel like I want to fire up a few tables, but I just can't stand not playing live. It is more fun and entertaining to me.

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On the strategy front, particularly I have found that turn aggression has been a little suspect in my game. I have turned it up quite a bit. I have gone for some raise/fold lines on the turn in spots where I felt that I could be showdown (semi-bluff) raising with the best hand and got burned for it. ROT? most likely but I like those plays sometimes.

Standard example:

Hero limps behind 2 limpers in LP w/ A6 soooted (raise pre???). 5 to the flop.

Flop: 862 (1 of my suit)

Checked to me in position, I bet w/ 2nd pair. 2 calls.

Turn: 3 (of my suit, I pick up nut frush draw).

1 Limper bets, 1 call, Hero???

Call? Raise? Fold???

I found myself in these situations at least 4 times the last 2 sessions. I kinda like to raise here w/ the NFD and there is only a 1 liner to a straight out there. Its possible we have the best hand, 1 limper in between might fold an 8 and we can showdown 2nd pair or hit our flush etc.

This might (most likely) is way off, but I just wanted to put it out there.

What do you think?

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I want to hit Cache Creek soon, or Cordova w/ the $200 Aces cracked that runs for 6 hrs everyday and $100 for the other 18 hours.

See you at the tables.

-Out.

11/26: Belch

Puked on myself...
Kicked in the groin...
Overall just flat got slapped around...

Well, after all the turkey had made its way through my system, I decided to join Nik down at Cap for what I thought would be a good day for some 6/12, however the must move was shit and I decided to play 4/8.

Oh well, that might have been a good decision. I hate playing in a bad game with the possibility of getting stuck and then being faced with the task of having to grind back at a lower stake game.

I will just say this will be a short blog as I only won 2 hands, both without showdown. Its pretty difficult to win monies when you are card dead and don't hit a flop. As is life, that is how it goes some times.

I did manage to value town someone my first hand with 2nd pair in a kill pot getting 3 streets in against a weaker 2nd pair. But that was about it. I had to fold an over pair on a 4-flush, paired, and 4-staight board, which would have been good but there was a bet on the river and 2 callers in between, so I am obv not good right, wrong, lol live pokers I guess.

No big deal, as the session went I got turned a lot and had to lay down some decent hands to turn check raises.

No real hand histories to report just that I got outflopped 2x in some big multiway pots and got to showdown some hands and not call a river bet.

That is all.


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Oh, yeah, read Nik's up coming blog, you will see what it is like to have everything go right and just straight CRUSH a table.

MBN right?

Sick, sick day at 6/12 for him.
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In other life news, (prepare for brag post).

Brag: New position should be opened up for me which that comes along with about a 15% raise. I say should because of the organization that I work for is known to take months to get on shit like this.

Beat: More worthless meeting, and middle management type crap that I have no business being involved with at my level of experience. Yay for upcoming mistakes, lol?!?

Variance: This is wouldn't be taking place until August of 2011 :-(

11/21: Wait I had a blog???

Well, obviously, there is a a BLOG in here...

Where the hell have I been??? Well, to be honest, lots of fucking places in the last 6 months since my last blog entry.

I'll give a little Cliff Notes of what went down my last 2 Vegas trips, trip to Europe, P.E. Exam, and oh yeah teh pokers.

So starting off at the top the June Vegas 67 trip was my longest time spent in Vegas ever, 7 days, 6 nights. That is a long-ass time. Dare I say, too long. It went awesome though. Now since all of the guys on 67 are IRL friends, we found lots to do and talk about outside of degen'ing at the worlds most skill-related poker game...Cap NL Omaha, what a fucking swongfest. The world cup was in full swing, England lost, US won so that made us all happy except for AlbinoKid, who disappeared for a day following England's atrocious performance against Algeria, or Kazakhstan, of Tahiti. Oh, those damned Tahitians what a soccer powerhouse.

As for the poker, it has now pretty evident that the poker economy has evened up with the world economy in that the good 10/20 games of a couple years ago have dried up, and the 8/16 game at Venetian which was semi-decent last January, is now becoming a nit-fest and only a few live ones wanting to gambooool up. I think total overall for the trip, I had a slight loser like $400-$600, mostly from being hit w/ the run bad and card-deadedness the entire trip.

Greatest moment of the trip: Rambler losing CCR at the deli. Like 20 people in unison screaming "Yahhhhhhh!!!" at 3am in the middle of a packed Carnegie deli, soooo epic.

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On to my next trip, after returning from the dumpster fire that is Jacksonville, FL, I went to a bachelor part for 2 people. Pokers: +/- $0, meh, Sapphire was epic. It will definitely on the docket for the January trip weee. Everyone had an awesome time I a pretty sure of that. Shifty and my other buddy Nick are now married so big congrats to them.

/bachelor party trip
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Europe: Where the history comes from.

Well, 2 days after returning from the bachelor party trip, the gf and I boarded a plane for Europe and a hosteling adventure. A quick run down of awesome points/cliff's on the trip along with the place we visited.

Land in Dublin: Proposed to Girlfriend, she said yes :fistpump:

London: Sick ass place, possible site of future 67suited forum meet, so clean, easy to get around, great eats/beer. Met up w/ Albino Kid and HG. Such great times. Thx guys for making it down to London.

France: Calais & Paris. FUCK YOU FRANCE...in the words of ahhhhhsht, "I hope you all get cancer of the dick and die." Worst.Cuntry.Ever.

Switzerland: Lausanne. Holy fuck this place is awesome, expensive as shit. How expensive you ask??? About $30 at a McDonalds expensive. I love Lausanne, it is incredible, right on Lac Leman, and great people.

Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice. Rome-cheap, dirty, great food, can be seen in a day. Florence, one of the greatest places on earth, best food I have ever eaten, very intimate setting but has the gypsy. Venice, a great place to get lost, and drink lots of cheap wine from a bag.

Austria: Innsbruck. Just like Davis, CA. College town, great breweries, strip clubs galore, and live gambling everywhere. Kick ass zoo as well.

Germany: Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Cologne, Munich. All amazing places, met up w/ a friend from SLO, Thomas at Oktoberfest, just like beerfest the movie btw. Rothenburg, medieval village with walls still in tact, great night watchman tour. Cologne, stopped there for a bit, got to see the Dom, such a goth cathedral and pretty sick place.

Belgium: Brussels, Brugges. Waffles, beer, waffles beer, dutch people. Brussels in a town that doesn't wake up until about 11am and doesnt turn off until about 3am. Brugges was kinda meh to be quite from.

Dublin one more time for emPHAsis: Guinness factory tour, drunkards peeing on buses, and more beer.

Fly home. Amazing trip.

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Well Europe was pretty much all of September, October was pretty much a polar opposite. I studied for 1 month straight for the Professional Engineers exam. Pretty fucking hard test. We will see how I did in like 3 months.

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Pokers: SD and I had been playing pretty regularly up to the time of the bachelor party trip and I had been doing pretty alright. Took all of September & October off, and finally made my return to the LHE arena a couple weeks ago. November is going decent.

After looking at my records, it looks like I am up an OK amount for the year (for someone who doesn't really play all that often), somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5-3k. My hourly is about 1.85BB/hr, not Santi like, but I'll take it. I am really looking to start playing more, and improving my game. I really feel that I am looking at the game in a different light and that I am evolving as player, pushing edges in marginal situations where I was pretty unimaginative before.

So, I am going to try and get the blog going again on a pretty regular basis and posting strats at 67.

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Vegas in a 7 weeks bitches.

/blog

Can You Feel It???

Ahhhhh shit. Get yo bankrolls 67sooooted 'bout to tear up Bellagio, Encore, Wynn, and Venetian too!!!

We on a plane,
We on a plane.

It only feels like yesterday when AC & Shifty were staring longingly into each others' eyes over a gelato at Trevi. A scant 6 months ago, Shabba was found on top of a mechanical fallus at a convention for porn. Mr. Shit placing his 67suited hat in some working whores' ass cheeks, Superdonk was in search of tentacle porn, Deuce was finding ways to get out of going to the deli and Santi was being Santi.

So, in :countdowncheck: 14 short days, a huge crew from 67 and CP will be headed out to vegas for the June Forum Trip. Oh the douchbauchery that will ensue. Might I mention that left to our own devices we will be playing lots of poker.

Congrats to Paddy, and :cough cough: the 23yo virgin for winning Main Event Seats, Paddy will be playing and obv winning w/ a 67 patch on his shirt. Rambler will be ducking us in the mix games but playing a $2500 HA tourney at the series.

Here is the list of who will be in attendance and where we all are staying:

Deuce (Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Panti (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shabba - (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20) - Encore
Superdonk (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Mirage
Fender (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shifty (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - IP
Turtle and his never touched a pussy ever friend(Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Harrah's
ACbarone (Thur 6/17 - Sun 6/20) - Transexual Flamingo
ttthomas (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20 ) - IP Deluxe room bitches
Oak (Thur 6/17- Sun 6/20)- IP
Asshat (Wed 6/16- Tues 6/22)- Wynn
Ashley and her boyfriend (Thurs 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Pika (Fri 6/18 - Mon 6/21) - IP
minnesotasam and texansocer7 (Sat 6/19 - Tue 6/29) - House 6 miles from the strip that will smell like buttsex
DD AKA "Ron Paul's Fluffer" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) -Venetian
Ryansphoto AKA "Brokedick inbred" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Luske (Tue 6/15 - Fri 6/18) - Encore
DanMcw (Fri 6/18 - Wed 6/23) - IP
Albinokid - Somewhere

Its gonna be an amazing turnout. It looks like we will have a waiting list to get into our private game which will be held in the the Ivey Room at Aria, lol (not really, but we will be playing an assortment of cash games w/ each other)

Just a short post about how this all works for 3T.

-Arrive in LV
-Degen Pit Games
-Go to eat at Deli
-Play pokers w/ 67suited members
-Eat at Luxe
-Nap (for deuce obv)
-Play cards w/ tourists and take their monies
-Eat at Luxe
-Play more pokers
-Win Monies
-Sleep

Lather, rinse, repeat 6-7 times.

/vegastrip

And that is how we do it.

glglgl to everyone going, may we all make lots of monies, and ice each other lots.

-out

Las Vegas: Poker and Porn - Trip Report

So, once again Vegas has come and gone. I will keep this TR short and bulleted as all the stuff is on the forums.

Day 1:

- Listened to TSA about getting to airport early (beat)
- Get to Vegas on time look at houses. They were pretty sick and not too pricey.
- Check into Imperial Shithole way in the back not even in the main tower.
- Meet up w/ the 67suited crew (Shifty, Shabba, Nik, Deuce)
- Deli Trip No. 1 (the gf had never been)
- Get hammered at IP playing Chinese w/ 67suited meet up w/ Ahhhhhsht
- Woken up at 4am by broken glass a couple rooms down from us. Had to switch rooms

Day 2:

- Porn convention Day 1
- SD arrives with a bevy of hoes in toe
- Watch lots of skank bitches flaunt their wares
- Find out the gf has friend in porn lolsmallworldaments
- Deli Trip No. 2
- Reb arrives w/ gf (ty reb)
- Walk to Aria to play O8
- Not win a Single Hand at al
- Drunk Shifty, and Drunk Eric are pretty awesome to be around
- Barone arrives - Jack Russell Terrier in human form. AC's hilarious.

I will pick it up now.

Day 3, 4, 5:

- More Porn convention stuff
- Shabba rides a mechanical cock
- 67suited hat goes in pornstar's ass
- Play lots of LHE
- Run lame at 8/16 w/ the Iceman (I did snap him off in a decent pot)
- Run good at 4/8 at B w/ Aaron and TFong whilst drinking Bacardi & Coke
- Not go to LAX
- The Lux is the Nuts
- Watch the J E T S Jets Jets Jets beat Ocho no show
- Dinner at Trevi where Shifty and Barone shared a loving embrace over some Gelato
- Watch Cardinals win in OT
- Play more LHE - run bad

Day 6:

- Tell everyone to fuckoff and seem them on the internets
- Play Videogames at Gameworks w/ SD, Santi, and gf
- Go to airport, talk about the next trip.

It was a great time, big thanks to all who attended.

Next trip is already on the schedule. June 16-21 for the WSOP trip.

There were many quotes from the trip, but you just have to go.

Stop It!!

Pictures possibly to come. Who am I kidding, that is not happening tough shit fuckers.

12/6: Capitol 6/12 - "Steve, you are a prop now?"

I got out this Sunday to go and play some 2-Card poker (LHE) and it was an interesting day.

The table had 2 maniacs that played every, I mean every hand for the first hour and a half of my session. Every hand was at least 3 bets preflop, kill pot or not. LOL live limit hold'em. Gotta love.

Well I really didn't win any hands at all for the first couple hours until 1 of the maniacs left. Then I made back the half rack that I lost earlier in the session trying to set mine w/ 6's 4's and 5's in capped pots preflops.

TSP: 3 Hrs
TP: +$110

No really interesting hands, flopped 2 sets that held, turned a straight in a kill pot and didn't get paid off on the river. I did over play a hand where I think I got a little bit out of live w/ a 1 card straight flush draw which rivers a straight but loses to the flopped nut straight.

And in other news, Steve from Cache Creek who mildly resembles Kyle Gass from Tenacious D is now a prop player at Cap. He plays pretty solid, and is a pretty fun guy to bullshit with while playing. We didn't get into many hands together.

Next weekend I will be playing...guitar with Wigs and Ties live in San Luis Obispo. I will post the setlist as a trip report when I get around to it.

Woooot 80s rock.

11/27: Black Friday 6/12

Ok, so this is just going to be a blog tease. Will be back later to write about my session.

Spoiler Results:

TSP: 4 Hrs
TP: +$155

-Missed BBJ by Villian not having QQ
-Made $13.50 on selling Hi-Hand to Feliz

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Opinions to come on this Isildur1 character and this ridiculous action that he is giving/getting to all comers including the newest Full Tilt Pro durrrr.

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Ok, so I am back to give some quick thoughts on durrrr vs. Isildur1. Speculative information that we know of:

-Swede Viktor Blom "Blom90" on iPoker (Euro Site) has been outed by Ziigmund et al.
-At one point during the month of November he was up close if not above $6 Mirrion.
-At the end of November he was listed to be up only over $1M.

-The majority of his profits came from newly inked Full Tilt Pro Tom "durrrr" Dwan.
-PTR & High Stakes DB tracked Isildur1 to have taken roughly $5M from Dwan.
-A few months back there was a new kid at the nosebleeds, "Martonas' also a Swede has been rumored to be Isildur1's neighbor; w/e if for some reason this is true that is a bad play by these two. It would be hard to imagine that no information was passed between the two.

All that information as side the railtards, me included have been watching this intermittently. And as I am writing this right now Isildur1 and durrrr are 6-tabling 300/600 with Isildur1 up about 1.2 on the day taking close to $900k from Brian Townsend and is up about $150k on durrrr. Soooo ridiculous.

More speculation has been put on the amount that durrrr has lost than anything else and the validity of the tracking sites. I would have to think that they are quite accurate because so few players can play that high it would be hard for them to miss a hand. No one really knows what is the state of durrrr's BR and what his deal w/ FTP entails, but whether or not he had all of himself in the last matches vs. Isildur1 the $5M has got to hurt somewhat.

Short history of Isildur:
He first appeared on FTP in October playing 25/50 and ran up his BR a good amount then sat down w/ Patrik, Gus, Degenamine, CTS, Haseeb Quershi, Phil Galfond. Then he proceeded to absolutely facefuck durrrr in both PLO and NL for $5M+.

All that aside this last month has been historic for FTP and the online poker world.

Since his downswing Isildur1 has been rumored to be broke; that is probably not true. And if he keeps up what is going on right now he will finish the day up more that 1M.

On the other side of things for durrrr he has since comeback a little bit winning roughly $2M in the 7-game and 200/400 PLO and 300/600 NL.

Many people have thought that durrrr should move back down and rebuild a little bit which he has done quite nicely.

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As I just typed, this here is the chat posted at the end of their NL session:

Isildur1: i am to tired to play 36 now
durrrr: i have 45min more
durrrr: les play here for that?
Isildur1: i can play 5001k
Isildur1: any game
durrrr: k
durrrr: come 5001k plo
Isildur1: k
durrrr: jus 45min hto
Isildur1: ok

So they are 6-Tabling 500/1000 PLO. How is that for BR management Mr. Ferguson.

-Later

11/22: Atlantic City

So, the warmup forum trip has come and gone. Good night Atlantic City, you're beautiful. Actually it was. Really, I had my preconceptions about what the East Coast in particular AC was going to look like, and I was completely wrong/

I didn't see the troves of Italians cursing, profuse smokers, and that annoying Jersey accent (sorry Deuce) was drowned out buy the mass of opulence that was the Borgata Poker Room. 85 tables all going at the same time, awesome.

A quick thanks to Shabba for picking Nik and I up in Philly, chauffeuring us to AC, and the return trip was equally appreciated.

So onto the live forum games. Well, what's new??? Shifty fucking owned as expected to the tune of about +8k. Shabba finished the trip up 2k. Rambler lucksacked his way to a great trip scoring +1.5k. Nik made $700. Deuce I think was down a little bit. Dennis was even. Loretta, well we all know what happened there he probably was the big winner imo.

And then there is me... I played NL for the first time live. It wasn't bad, or good for that matter. But I have to say that it is pretty slow moving as compared to limit, and for some people that is fine but I haven't got into it yet.

Summary and 1 HH.

7.5/15: -300
1/2 NL: -200
Pai Gow: -100
1/2 HA (Half NL, Half PLOrly): +600
Total: +/- Even :facepalm:

So the trip started out on a good note and I made about 200ish at 1/2NL, and then proceeded to give back that profit in the 67/CP Pink Chip Game to the tune of a $500 down. And Pai Gow is no good for me or Loretta for that matter.

So my trip came down to 1 hand that got me back to even. The CP/67 Crew made it back to Harrahs about 3:30 Friday Night and decided to get a mix game going. 1/2 HA, half hour rotations. Rambler decided to leave his tampon in and spectate being content w/ his 1.5k upswing for the trip instead donating to us obv :-)

I was needless to say playing pretty tight and was pretty card dead.

HH:
Shifty (covers)
Shabba ($275-ish)
Hero (&275-ish)is dealt KKJ7 double soooooted in hearts and spades
Nik (n/a)
Deuce SB (n/a)
Dennis BB (n/a)

Shifty - Pots UTG to 10, Shabba calls, Hero calls, Deuce calls, Dennis folds - ($40)

Flop: K89 (top set, all money is obv going in)

Checked to Shifty, who leads for 30, Shabba calls 30, Hero makes it 120 straight. Folds back to shifty, who effectively shoves me AI, Shabba calls, and I call all in.

Pot is now $800 and change.

With the cards turned up, Shifty shows 8976 for bottom 2 + a open ender, Shabba shows the low 13 card wrap, and I show top set w/ blockers.

So, the turn brings the 9 giving both Shify and I boats, Shabba is drawing dead. Leaving only 1 win in the deck that doesn't show up on the river.

I douche-ingly exclaim "Ship it all!!" and rake in a niiiiice pot to bring my trip back to even.

So that was AC; fun, fun, fun.

Later in the week I am gonna get into the carnage that has been endured by durrrr's bankroll, Isildur, Patrik, and Phil. Along with some small stakes musings from the Cap NL realm.

-Cheers

10/30: Upcoming Trips...

“I come all the way to Atlantic City to see your Mugs…”

“Welcome to Las Vegas East…”

Well, not exactly. For the interim forum trip this year, Santi, myself, and hopefully the Superdonk will be venturing to Atlantic City. Seems fun and is shaping up to be a short but badass trip.

I, having never been to the East Coast before, have this mental picture painted in my head of what AC/Philly will be like:

Things to look for would include but are not limited too:

-Degen Pai Gow w/ Shifty where he will inevitably own the game
-East Coast Accents
-Lots of Italians
-Coffee and Milk
-Yankee/Philly Fan
-Deuce commenting on who’d “Get it.” And making advanced plays at 4/8
-People burning heaters one off of another
-Cursing
-Overall Hatred of People from the Left Coast
-Orange Faced broads from Staten Is. / Long Is. / North Jersey
-Turtle from Entourage
-Wrestling Talk
-Live MFK Game
-Shabba commenting on how gross a play was, and that he is “face-fucking” insert name of poker game here

I think that about covers it.

Oh yeah, there will be poker in there somewhere with the famed game “Johnny Lodden Thinks” and Limit Hammer throwing, etc., Now if only there was a Carnegie Deli.

The games should be pretty juicy so said Deuce/Rambler. I am looking forward to the ‘Pink Chip Game’ (7.5/15) and the 10/20 at the Borgata which has a spectactular room.

Santi and I are red-eying out to Philly Tuesday night, kickin it in the city of brotherly love to get steaks Wednesday, and then being politely chauffeured to the entrance of Harrah’s AC by Shabba. (Thanks again man)

So its only 2+ weeks away, woot.

And then a short 8 or so weeks after then we get back to the ol’ stomping ground of Southern Nevada where the ‘Sand turns to Gold’ wait wrong description but w/e.

Poker and Porn II will commence in the first week of 2010 highlighted by a great turnout which already includes:

Santi, Deuce, Shabba, Shifty, Reb, AC, Superdonk, Me, KL, Ahhhhst, and other’s still yet to confirm. I am sure that there will be long periods of bedlam involving busted hoes at the Convention as well as ridiculous antics at the tables.

PLO/LHE/O8/NL Mix game has already been discussed…It just needs a name…

More details to come on this.

Also I am posing a BIG question to the US readers involving a overseas trip. Would anyone want to me the man, the myth, the accent that is Doyle?

What do you think about a 2011 WSOP Europe Trip? Could be fun.

And a short side note on poker- I have played only 3 live sessions since Vegas, and have posted positive sessions all 3 times. I have been putting time into learning NL and have been playing 10NL online.


-Later

CP3: Belated LV Blogs...In before tl;dr

Wednesday June 10

After landing the Santi and I cabbed it to Harrah’s and checked our bags to wait for the crew to arrive in town. Kid, Rambler, Dennis, Trey, Trey’s wife and Shifty were already in LV and we came to find out that Shifty had already satellited into the $1500 NLH WSOP tourney to start on Thursday. We all eventually met up at Venetian and got some food w/ Ramble, Dennis, Shifty, and the Shabba.

Sidenote: the Mexican place in the Venetian food court has delivered 2x now.

After some food we all make our way over to Mirage and meet up w/ Pika and Deuce. From then on we basically played some 4/8 (lol minibetaments as Shifty would call it) with a mandatory straddle and sometimes restraddle, as well as Hammer Throwing (7-2 Game) was on, obv. This time we only ran off 3x tourists. It was slightly down from last trip.

I think that I came up like a rack at this game after boating w/ TT against Nik when he attempted to throw the hammer at me with a turn CR. I felt kinda bad for Pika because when Nik left to go check into the room, Pika got a seat and Rambler threw the hammer 2x and I did once so Pika was down $15 without even being dealt a hand (move to LOL Live poker).

We hit the deli for round 1 of the trip after the short 4/8 session and I just chilled for the rest of the night.

Thursday June 11 – Santi Day

After a semi late awakening, I headed over to the Deli and had some French Toast shipped my way. The Deli is a always kick rainbow, btw. After eating with Pika and AK and Rambler, we decided to join Nik and Deuce at B. As a sidenote, Bellagio no longer spreads the 8/16 game only failed interest lists right now. Its either 4/8 or 15/30 gay gay gay.

Jason (Pika), Kenny (Rambler) and I got on the 4/8 list and railed Deuce who ended up running pretty bad in the 30/60 game but the action in that game was pretty juicy. Nik looked to be maintaing at the 15/30 but nothing really of note. I think that he ended the day down a little bit. There wasn’t much to say for the 4/8 session except that I think I came up a little over a rack after sitting w/ Pika and Rambler and some other random douches that just wouldn’t STFU.

After a mildly amusing session Deuce, Shabba, Nik, Rambler, Pika, and I headed for the Rio to rail Shifty in the $1500 NLH event. Shifty looked to be running pretty decent and at the end of Day 1 he had roughly 26k in chips. It looked pretty promising that he would cash in the event with like 100 to the money bubble.

We did end up seeing some notables one Phillip Hellmuth Jr. who ended up busting out before Shifty, that’s right suck it Phil. The Chark, The Mouth, Roland de Wolfe, Kido Pham, and Chino Rheem to name a few.

But the highlight of the night by far AINEC was Deuce proceeding to own Shabba in the WSOP HU video game that the Rio had in the halls outside the Amazon Room. As I recall it K2 > A4 100% of the time. Of course the cab ride back to the Mirage for the Deli was priceless. Shabba just ripping Deuce up “King-Deuce is the nuts” the whole way back. FTR, Deuce is 3-0 in this game after owning some random chick who we thought to be a hooker but obv., we were wrong.

An aside, the cab talk this trip was tops over any other trip. Shabba commenting as we walk into the Rio about how some story about a guy who had some chicks staying in his room and not banging then and what the Cabbie must have thought of us the entire ride.

So if you are keeping track 2x to the Deli today.

Friday June 12 – Check Raising Dr. Buss

So as Nik and everyone else on the forum has mentioned we did get to play H.O.R.S.E. with Dr. Jerry Buss owner of the Lakers. Superdonk, Nik, and I being from Sacramento had to hold back our comments that regarding the Lakers and anything that may have happened in the playoffs (cue Luske).

But anyway, Dr. Buss was directly on my left, great. All in all he was a pretty chill guy. It was pretty funny when he was trying to explain to his girlfriend easily 18 years old what Stud 8 was. I think that she was more enthralled with he bejeweled phone that anything that was going on at the table. He also mentioned that he wouldn’t be going to Game 5 in Orlando, instead he was going to play in the $1500 H.O.R.S.E. event at the Series.

I pretty much owned the H.O.R.S.E. game, I came up a little under $300. I did pretty well only understanding 4/5 games. I still have no idea what I am doing in Stud 8. I smoked the hold’em rounds and ran pretty good in the Stud Hi rounds as well.

I gotta give one hand history. I am in the BB w/ T8os and Dr. Buss is UTG he raises, Nik calls on the button, Superdonk called in the SB, and defend in the BB. Flop comes Q97 rainbow. Superdonk checks, as do I, fully intending to check raise anybody who bets the flop. Jerry bets out, Nik folds along with the Superdonk, and I check raise. Jerry just calls. Pretty obv that he has AK here. A 3 hits the turn and I lead and he folds. Yep, I check raised Dr. Buss and took it down. I had some suspicion that he felt bad for us and just folded and let us play our game and didn’t our mere pocket change.

Reb (67) eventually took SD’s seat in the 2 and we BS’d a while and I got up and then just continued to drink Grey Goose and Hypnotic. Somewhere around 2 or 3 I called it a night and headed back to Harrah’s.
Also Shifty cashed up a level for some where around 3.5k and then took down the $175 SNG for another 1k. Shifty is owning LV so far (recurring theme of the trip).

Saturday June 13 – 6 Hours of 10/20 and Life Failing at Horse Betting

After French Toast at the Deli for the 2nd time, Shabba, Nik, Pika, Deuce, Shifty, and I each shipped the Mirage Sports book $20 for some degen horse betting. Oh well it was an interesting way to spend 2 hours.

It was classic to hear Shabba screaming, “For the Love of God Goooo.” Repeatedly as our horse fell back in the pack every single race, lol horse betting I guess.

After the burning of the $20, all the guys except me decided to go play the Venetian $120. I stayed at the Mirage and play the 10/20 for about 6 hours. What really sucks about the Mirage is that they had 3 tables of 10/20 going at one point. A must must move, into a must move, into a main game. I played at the must move table for about 5 hours and was up about $350 or so but once I got moved to the main game it was with a bunch of old nits and I just whiffed for an hour and came down to up only $35 for 6 hours, gay gay gay.

The middling limit games like the 10/20 there was not a lot of live ones in the main game. At the must move there was probably 4 bad players who donated and then got stacked and left which was unfortunated.

1 HH for the session it was pretty weird I was pretty much abusing my image of being pretty TAG although I was blind stealing pretty liberally and opening fairly light in position of course.

Folded to me in MP w/ two black 5’s I raise, and am called by the button SB, and BB. Flop comes AJ4 all check to me, I fire, button folds, as does the SB and the BB calls and obv says the std. one time. I am thinking that he has me beat probably with 77 or is just hoping to see another 4 hit the turn. The Turn ends up being a 6 which is a safe card for me. I didn’t see the BB hitting that so I figure to fire the turn, he tanks and eventually folds and I take it down.

That was about it for the 10/20 session. I eventually met up with the guys at B and played some 4/8 w/ Rambler and Nik for a bit then walked back to Harrah’s around 3 or so.