O-Poker

I played three PL Omaha Tourneys last night and was out on the first hand in two of them.

$12+$1 Blogger Skill Game (out 1st hand)

Flopped bottom set on very coordinated flush board. I pretty much knew that I needed the board to pair to win. I decided to double up on the first hand or be done. The board didn't pair and the nut flush won. I could have passed on the hand (both preflop and on the flop) and waited for a better spot, but I was impatient last night and wanted to gamble.

$5+$0.50 Cardrunners (out 1st hand)

Flopped an OESD, Flush Draw, and turned 2 pair in the big blind. I was up against a guy that flopped a set and didn't improve.

$24+$2 PLO $4k Guarantee (out 113 out of 187)

I was cruising along pretty good in the top 10-15 for most of the time until I hit a bad run. I ran a top set into a flush draw and the guy's draw got their after all the money went in. A few hands later I flopped top two pair and an OESD from the BB and got all the money in against a guy that couldn't fold AAxx (no draw, no other pair). The river brought another Ace and I was out.

It official - I suck at PLO. I think it is a good release if you just feel like gambling, but probably has a bigger luck factor than just about any other form of poker.

$24+$2 NLHE $28K Guarantee (140 out of 1,357)

I also played the $26 NLHE 10 pm mtt since I was still in the PLO tourney. I'm not sure why I play these $26 large field tourneys. You have to at least make the final table (out of 1,300+) to make it worth the time to play and it becomes a big crapshoot after about 3-4 hours. I sucked out with AK vs KK late to stay in the tourney only to lose a huge pot a few hands later in a 3 way all-in with QQ vs AK and 1010. Flop had both an Ace and King and I was off to bed with my big $39 payout.

I'm hoping to find time to play some cash games tonight and test out Holdem Manager a little more.

I've been working my ass off since Christmas. I've worked every day other than the two days that we spent at the beach (New Year's Eve and New Year's Day) which has left very little time for poker. I've only played around 1,200 hands so far this month. I played a few tourneys while watching TV, but nothing major and no big cashes.

Hopefully things will slow down as the week goes on and I can put in some solid cash game session later in the week or over the weekend. I have only cleard 1,200 points of the 16,500 points that I need to clear for my $825 FTP end of the year Iron Man Bonus.

Holdem Manager

I was messing around with Holdem Manager last night while watching OSU get stomped by another SEC team. It is awesome and has so, so, so much more information that Pokertracker and PAHUD. I'm going to try to write a review of it sometime this week.


Blogger Skill Series

I'll probably try to play the Blogger Skill Series tourney and maybe the Cardrunners MTT league tonight even though I am pretty run down.

Tonight's Blogger Skill Series game is Deep Stack PL Omaha Hi with Knockouts ($12+$1).

The Cardrunners MTT League tourney tonight is also PL Omaha Hi ($5+$0.50).

EDIT: I decided to make it a trifecta and registered for the 9:15 PM FTP $26 PL Omaha MTT also.

I am really bad at Omaha, so I'm sure to piss some people off with ridiculous calls and suckouts. Hopefully, someone will go off on me like Devilfish did on Burt Buton (sp?). I'll report back on horribly I played tomorrow.

This should be a good way to blow off some steam after a stretch of non-stop work.