O-Poker

I was planning on posting this on Monday, but work had other plans. I got tied up in meetings (VTCs with California and Hawaii) all day Monday from until 7 PM EST. I was pretty tired and didn't feel like playing much poker but decided to play the MATH anyway, which turned out to be a good decision.

I don't know how much poker I will get in this week because I am tied up in video teleconference meetings every night until 5 PM PST (8 PM EST - my time).

Anyway, on to the disappointing weekend recap

Hard Rock Tampa $1k MTT

I headed over to the Hard Rock in Tampa early Friday morning and was feeling pretty good about my game. The night before the tourney, I got a PM from Cory! on Pocketfives saying that he was going to be at my table. He pretty much destroys the rebuy tourneys on pokerstars, so he knows how to play deep stack poker. I decided to try not to play too many big pots against him unless I had a monster. Things didn't work out quite as planned.

A few key hands

Hand 1

I was in the 6 seat. Early on, the guy in the 8 seat was a major calling station and almost always bet at any sign of weakness (any time it was checked to him). I was dealt QQ on the button, Cory raised, I decided to get a little tricky and just call, Seat 8 (BB) also called. The flop came J38r. It check to me and I made a pretty good size bet. Seat 8 called. Cory folded. The turn brought a 2. Seat 8 checked to me and I bet about 1500. Seat 8 insta-raised to like 4k (I only had 6.5k left). I wasn't sure if he had AJ or 2 pair. I asked him if he could beat AJ. He looked confident and said, "If you had AJ you would have already put the money in." It was obvious to me at that point that I was beat. I folded my Queens face up and he showed his Jack-freaking-2!!!! Well played.

Hand 2

Shortly after the 1st break. I was down to 5,800 of my starting 10k. I raise to 600 utg with AA!!! UTG+1 (a pretty tight competent older guy) raises to 1,200. It folds to me. I felt like he had a really big hand, but didn't want to scare him away by shoving since he was fairly tight. I thought for about a minute and just called. The flop came all low cards. I check. He insta-shoved with QQ and I insta-called. Weeeeeee. Back up to 11k

Hand 3

I get Ah4h otb and call after 5 or 6 people have already limped into the pot. The flop come 4J7 with 2 hearts. I have a pair and a flush draw. Seat 1 (MP) bets about 600. It folds to me. I call. Everyone else folds. Turn is an offsuit Q. Seat 1 bets 1,700. I call. The river brings a heart. Bingo. He digustingly checks to me. I bet 3,500 and he thinks and says something like, "You wouldn't have called 1,700 with a flush draw. You have a jack right." He finally called and didn't show his hand. I'm guessing he had AJ or KJ based on how he played. Up to 23k chips. He went on and on about me calling with just a flush draw. I guess he missed the pair. :)

Hand 4

Cory was short and shoved all-in for 3,300 just after the 2nd break. I had AQ otb and felt like his shoving range was A10+, KQ, any pair. I decided to call and his AK held up.

Hand 5

Blinds 200/400 and Seat 1 raises to 1,800 utg. I had AKs and opted for just flat calling from MP. I didn't want to raise and get shoved on. The flop came all low cards and he bet out 3,500. I folded. Down to about 12k.

Hand 6

I doubled up with AA vs KK and was up to around 22k chips again.

Hand 7

I have around 22k chips when the following hand happens. Blinds 200/400 plus antes. I raise to 1,200 preflop in early position with KK. Seat 8 (calling station calls) and Cory calls from the BB. Flop comes J82. Cory checks. I bet 3,400. Seat 8 folds. Cory shoves for 5,800 more. I really felt like he had a set, but I have to call 5,800 into around a 13k pot. I am pretty sure that I am beat, but I think that I have to call in that spot. He had a set of 8s. I'm down to 11k in chips.

Hand 8

Blinds are 400/800 with 100 ante and I have about 6k chips. I am push or fold mode. I have shoved enough times to maintain my stack, but it seems like every time that I have a shoving hand there is a raise before it gets to me and the hand isn't strong enough with no fold equity. I finally shoved A3s and ran into pocket Aces. What was worse is that the guy was trying to draw other people in so he thought for about 3 minutes before just calling with his pocket Aces. At least it allowed enough time for my beer to get there.

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Met a reader

The break right before I busted was about to end when someone walked up to me and asked if I was Mitch. The guy was little bit older than me but looked familiar. At first I thought he was one of my Dad's friends. Then, he told me he reads the blog all the time. Pretty cool! It was nice meeting you Lex. Sorry, I didn't get a chance to talk to much but I was really short and was going to be the BB with a short stack after the break. I looked for you (and the Gator visor) after I busted out but couldn't seem to find you. How did you wind up doing? Drop a comment and let me know. Go GATORS!!!

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WSOP Step 6 on Pokerstars

LOL - Uggggh!!! Yuk!!!

I finished in 9th place (out of 9) in the WSOP Step 6 Friday night after I got home from busting out the Hard Rock tourney. I try to stay away from the bad beat stories, but I had A7s in late position and lost a monster pot early on a 7s8s7 flop against 9s10s after the turn was a 9 and the river was a 9. I lost the rest of my chips on a coordinated draw heavy board with KK vs a flopped set.

It really sucks to have worked my way up from Step 1 to Step 6 and have nothing to show for it, but that's pooooooooooooooker.

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So many more things spinning through my head while I sit through all day (and them some) long meetings, but I have to stop before this turns into an even longer ramble.

Weeeeeeeeeeee. I'm so glad I had a TOC seat!!!!!!!!!! I was really starting to think that I'd be a BBT3 bridesmaid.

Live Poker - Hard Rock Tampa

I started off my weekend early by heading over to the Hard Rock in Tampa (about 1 1/2 hrs away) for a 4 PM super satellite to a $1k buy mtt they are running next Friday-Sunday.

The mtt is going to be the biggest tourney that the Hard Rock in Tampa has ever put on - a $1k mtt with a cap of 600 players, 10k starting chips, 1 hour levels, and spread over the course of 3 days. May not sound great compared to some tourneys, but this is pretty huge considering most of their mtts have 15-20 min levels and are geared towards finishing in a couple of hours. They have two starting days (Friday and Saturday) with 300 players each day playing down to 30 players. The final 60 players (all itm) will continue on Sunday and play until there is a winner. I am playing next Friday so that I have a day off if I make it into the money and can make it to my daughter's basketball game on Saturday.

I walked into the Hard Rock around 3:30 PM and purchased by $100 super satellite ticket. I was completely unaware that it was a rebuy until about 15 minutes later. I had looked at the mtt schedule on the Hard Rock website, saw $100 Super Satellite listed and assumed that the sat was $100 freezeout since the other rebuy tourneys on the schedule were listed as rebuys. No big deal. I figured that is just meant we could play a little deeper. It had a crazy rebuy structure. You started with 2,500 chips and could rebuy 1,000 chips for $25 if you had 2,500 or less chips. So if you went broke, you could rebuy back up to 3,000 chips for $75. There was also a $100 add-on after 1 1/2 hours (six 15 minute levels - lol) that gave you an additional 5,000 chips.

I was up and down during the rebuy period but never had to rebuy. Most of the players were clueless as to how to play a rebuy. There were several players that rebought 1,000 chips for $25 instead of 3,000 chips for $75 when they went broke. I think 3 players at my table never rebought and just left after they lost all of their chips. I am pretty sure one of them had no clue that you could rebuy even though there had been several players at our table that had already rebought.

I won't go into a ton of details, but I will say there was a lot of horrendous play. A guy directly to my right (even after the rebuy period) was over shoving all-in any time that it checked to him when he was last to act - betting 10k chips into a 1k pot. He got knocked out when he shoved with 66 on a J73 flop and was called by J2.

I got short late thanks to some untimely steals, but managed to win a few key races both with 55 against over cards. Then late I had a hand that locked up my seat. I had 15k chips and the blinds were 2k/4k no ante, I was the BB with a dead SB. I told the table that there was no reason to go after my blind since there was no SB. It folded to the button (about 40k chips) who said that we would fold to me unless he had a big hand - gotta like that. He looked at his cards and shoved telling me that he had to. The poker gods were smiling on me as I looked down and saw AA. Insta-Call!!! The button turned over A2 saying that he had to do it because he had an Ace in his hand. About 20 minutes later, we all locked up our seats and I registered for Friday.

The structure looks pretty good. I am wondering what the starting level will be on Sunday though since they are playing down to 30 players each day instead of playing the 2nd day to the same level that the first day stops.

I got my table assignment and am pretty sure that it is the last table to break which means that I should be at the same table the entire first day. I think this is going to be a huge advantage since I will be able to use any reads that I pick up without having to worry about the table breaking before I take advantage of them.

The structure (10k starting chips)

Level 1 25/50
level 2 50/100 15 minute break after this level
level 3 75/150
level 4 100/200 25ante 15 minute break after this level
level 5 200/400 50ante
level 6 300/600 75ante 15 minute break after this level (race off chips)
level 7 400/800 100ante
level 8 500/100 100ante 1 hour dinner break after this level
level 9 600/1200 200ante
level 10 800/1600 300ante 15 minute break
level 11 1000/2000 400ante
level 12 1500/3000 500ante
level 13 2k/4k 500ante
level 14 3k/6k 1k ante 15 minute break (race off chips)
level 15 4k/8k 1k ante
level 16 5k/10k 2k ante 15 minute break
level 17 8k/16k 2k ante
level 18 10k/20k 3k ante 15 minute break
level 19 15k/30k 4k ante (race off chips)
level 20 20k/40k 5k ante 1 hour dinner break
level 21 30k/60k 5k ante
level 22 40k/80k 10k ante 15 minute break
level 23 60k/120k 15k ante
level 24 75k/150k 25k ante


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MTTs are torture

I decided to play a few mtts on Saturday night for a little practice. It didn't take long before I remembered why I don't play a ton of mtts. The beats can be brutal, especially late. I made a deep run in the 50/50 and was sitting in the top 10 in chips for most of the tourney. I wound up busting out in 32nd when my QQ was no match for 66 aipf. Man, mtts can be frustrating.

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Crazy Cash Game Weekend

Nothing went right on Friday night. I had flopped straights losing to flopped sets when they filled up on the turn. I lost 3 or 4 pots to half stacks when I either had a dominating hand (KK vs. 77) or was racing (AK vs. 55). I read a guy completely wrong and shoved into the nuts once. I lost a 150 BB+ deep stack with KK vs. AA, etc, complaint, etc, complaint, etc, etc. Overall I lost 6 buy-ins Friday night.

Saturday was the complete opposite. I wound up winning 3+ buy-ins (in 200 hands) on Saturday night after busting out of the 50/50 and another 2 buy-ins on Sunday even though I spewed quite a few $$ to a fish at a table that Alan I were playing.

All in all I wound up down a little over 1 buy-in for the weekend after being down 6 buy-ins on Friday night, so I'm happy with how things turned out.

The guy at Alan and my table was playing 86/13/1.0 and rarely folded. His stack went from $100 to $650 to $0 to $100 to $500 to $0 to $100 to $300 to $0 to $75 to $0. I paid the guy off twice - once with the ass end of a straight vs. his higher straight. The other time with a 10 high heart flush vs. his J high heart flush on a board with all hearts. He over shoved the river and I called thinking that there was about a 33% he had nothing, 33% chance he had a worse heart, and about 33% chance that he had a better heart. I still think that it was the right call because I think that there was at worst of 50% chance that I had the best hand and I had to call $211 into a $326 pot.

He finally lost all of his chips and left and I could leave and go to sleep about 2 hours after I originally planned.

Alan wound up the beneficiary of the guys spewage thanks in part to the following hands:

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players

The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Octopus8 (MP): $67.40
OhYesTGPFA (CO): $780.20
MrT999 (BTN): $221.90
RecessRampage (SB): $1000.50
HereFisheyFishey (BB): $543.30
Hero (UTG): $400.00

Pre Flop: Hero is UTG with 4 T
1 fold, Octopus8 raises to $14, 2 folds, RecessRampage raises to $46, HereFisheyFishey calls $42, Octopus8 raises to $67.40 all in, RecessRampage calls $21.40, HereFisheyFishey calls $21.40

Flop: ($202.20) J Q T (3 players - 1 is all in)

RecessRampage bets $100, HereFisheyFishey calls $100

Turn: ($402.20) 6 (3 players - 1 is all in)
RecessRampage bets $833.10 all in, HereFisheyFishey calls $375.90 all in

River: ($1154.00) 8
Final Pot: $1154.00
Octopus8 shows As Kc (a straight, Ace high) and won ($199.20) with a straight, Ace high
RecessRampage shows Qd Qs (three of a kind, Queens) and won ($951.80) with three of a kind, Queens
HereFisheyFishey shows 7c 8h (a pair of Eights) - LOLOLOLOL


Alan got lucky that they guy with the Kings was the short stack:

Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

JotJot (UTG): $216.50
OhYesTGPFA (MP): $629.90
MrT999 (CO): $92.70
RecessRampage (BTN): $1234.50
HereFisheyFishey (SB): $587.50
Hero (BB): $646.80

Pre Flop: Hero is BB with 4 A

JotJot raises to $12, 2 folds, RecessRampage raises to $42, HereFisheyFishey calls $40, 1 fold, JotJot raises to $216.50 all in, RecessRampage raises to $1234.50 all in, HereFisheyFishey calls $545.50 all in

Flop: ($1395.50) 6 8 K

Turn: ($1395.50) K

River: ($1395.50) 3

Final Pot: $1395.50
JotJot shows Ks Kd (four of a kind, Kings) and won ($650.50) with four of a kind, Kings - Guess this is one time that you can love short stackers.
RecessRampage shows Qs Qc (two pair, Kings and Queens) and won ($742) with two pair, Kings and Queens
HereFisheyFishey shows 8d Ac (two pair, Kings and Eights) - LOLOL - Guess he thought it was pokerstars and the ace would be a given!!!

Sometimes, you just can't leave a juicy table no matter how tired you are. I was ready to hit the sack after the guy left. Unfortunately, i wasn't able to get all my $$ back from the guy, but at least some of them went to Alan. :)

FTOPS/Tourneys

First of all - I hate the FTOPS. I played the Main Event and never really got much going and wound up going out with a flush versus a full house. I played a few other tourneys without cashing - I forgot how frustrating they can be.

I think that I am only going to play cash games for the rest of the month. No tourneys other than a blogger tourneys and maybe a few smaller buy-in tourneys for a break from the cash grind.

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Multi-Tabling

I have been playing anywhere from 1 cash game table to 6 cash game tables at a time. I think that the optimal number of tables for me is four as long as I am focusing 100%. I can play 6 tables but wind up missing some reads and playing too tight, especially if I'm not 100% into playing. I think that I'm going to limit myself to 1 or 2 tables if I'm doing something else (watching TV, talking to my wife, surfing the internet, etc, etc, etc) and 4 tables max if I am playing without any distractions. No more 6 tabling until at least the end of the month.

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Blog Links

The bloglines links on the right are pretty out of date. I am going to go through them and delete the dead blogs and add some long over due links.

Let me know if you want me to add your link. I know that there are a lot that I am missing.

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Old Elevators are Scary



This isn't poker related but I have been meaning to post it for a while now.

A few weeks ago, I was on an inspection of an 18 story beach condo for a legal case. A ton of people were on the walk through - lawyers for both sides, architects, engineers, a rep from the insurance company, etc, etc. I think that there were 13 people including the property manager.

We had been taking the elevators in shifts - usually 7-8 max people on each trip. About halfway through the day, we were heading from the 8th floor to the 12th floor. Three guys took the stairs while we were waiting for some people to come out of one of the condo units. I almost followed them but I was waiting for one of the guys to come out of the unit. Just then the elevator opened. Nine of us piled on. One person was still standing outside the elevator and the property manager said, "We can fit one more.", so she squeezed on.

The property manager pressed the button for floor 12. The elevator started to go up, stopped, dropped a couple of inches and then stopped again. I thought, "Great, we are stuck in the elevator. I wonder how long before we get out of this thing?" A few minutes later my thoughts changed to "Get me off of this freaking elevator!!!!" The elevator tried to go up again, but instead it dropped about 6" and then the brakes caught. About 30 seconds later it did the same thing again. Then again about 20 seconds laters. Then again about 15 seconds later. The 6" drop repeated about every 15 seconds for a few minutes!!

The insurance rep (half) jokingly said, "I hope everyone's life insurance is paid up."

The property manager who had been there since the building opened called the maintenance guy on her phone and said, "Yeah, I've never seen the elevators do anything like this before." That is when I started to get really nervous. Did I mention that she had been there since the building opened. I pressed the 8th, 9th and 10th floor buttons in hopes that the elevator may open on one of those floors. She said, "I wouldn't press those buttons if I were you." LOL - wtf. Should I just wait until we drop all the way to the basement? :)

Shortly after this exchange, she found the key and was able to stop the elevator. A few minutes later the maintenance guys were able to open the elevator and we climbed up a few feet to safer ground. Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We dropped probably between 1 and 1 1/2 floors while we were on the elevator - pretty scary stuff. One of the guys said it was probably one of the three scariest moments of his life.

I decided to take the stairs for the rest of the day and took the stairs the entire day on the next project that we walked.. I need the exercise anyway.

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.

I watched one of this week's episodes of Poker After Dark last night - I think it was the Tues night/Wed morning episode. Doyle and TJ were reminiscing about some of the Old School poker players. They started talking about one guy in particular (don’t remember his name) that TJ said played extremely tight when he was sober and too loose when he was drunk. He went on to say that the guy was one of the toughest players that he had ever faced when he only had a couple of drinks in him.

(I stole this image from Craig - hopefully, it is ok. If not, let me know and I'll take it down.)

Alcohol lowers your inhibitions, but it can also cloud your judgement. When it comes to poker, there is a very fine line between the two. There are a few players that immediately come to mind.

I have had a long stressful week at work, so I decided to take it easy and have a couple of drinks last night. I knew that it wouldn’t be a good idea to fire up four 6 max cash tables. My mind wasn’t into it. I messed around with a few games here and there while waiting for the final HU match with meclarich. He beat me pretty handily. On the final hand, we got all in on a Queen high flop – my Q2 was no match for his KQ and a very solid player moves on to the next round. GG Me.

I played in the FTP $50/$50k last night and decided to take a get chips early or bust out quickly attitude. I know this isn’t the best mind frame for a mtt, but I was itching for action and testing out playing a lot more hyper aggressively than normal. I wanted to try to build a big stack quickly to be able to muscle later pots with a big stack when I sensed weakness. I’m sure the drinks were starting to kick in, but it was probably good for the gambling style that I was trying to play.

The following hand came up early and I felt like it was a perfect spot to gamble: (Opinions?)

Full Tilt Poker Game #3554475240: The Fifty-Fifty (26070880), Table 109 - 10/20 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:36:23 ET - 2007/09/13
Seat 1: johnpilot (2,300)
Seat 2: portlewis2 (1,890)
Seat 3: TAYCAR (1,560)
Seat 4: cobrakai111 (2,960)
Seat 5: mmt5269 (1,410)
Seat 6: cmitch (1,980)
Seat 7: Freightwhore (2,000)
Seat 8: greggb1 (1,900)
Seat 9: Anna508 (2,000)
cmitch posts the small blind of 10
Freightwhore posts the big blind of 20
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cmitch [7c 9s]
greggb1 folds
Anna508 folds
johnpilot folds
portlewis2 has 15 seconds left to act
portlewis2 raises to 120
TAYCAR has 15 seconds left to act
TAYCAR folds
cobrakai111 folds
mmt5269 folds
cmitch calls 110 (Horrible call, but I wanted to gamble. I know, I know - really -EV call, but if I hit I am most likely doubling up) - Don't need opinions on this call.

Freightwhore calls 100
*** FLOP *** [6d 7h 8c]
cmitch bets 20 (The little bet sometimes stop people dead in their tracks. They usually either flat call or make a huge overbet.)

Freightwhore calls 20 :)

portlewis2 raises to 500 (He is letting me know right now that he has an overpair and doesn't want to let me draw.)

cmitch raises to 1,860, and is all in (I figure that I'm almost a coin flip, 45-47% range against an overpair, plus the added advantage of a very loose image if I win the pot.)

Freightwhore folds
portlewis2 calls 1,270, and is all in
cmitch shows [7c 9s]
portlewis2 shows [Kh Kc]
Uncalled bet of 90 returned to cmitch (I had him covered too.)
*** TURN *** [6d 7h 8c] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [6d 7h 8c 2c] [Ad]
cmitch shows a pair of Sevens
portlewis2 shows a pair of Kings
portlewis2 wins the pot (3,920) with a pair of Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,920 | Rake 0
Board: [6d 7h 8c 2c Ad]
Seat 1: johnpilot didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: portlewis2 showed [Kh Kc] and won (3,920) with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: TAYCAR didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: cobrakai111 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: mmt5269 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: cmitch (small blind) showed [7c 9s] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 7: Freightwhore (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: greggb1 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Anna508 didn't bet (folded)

No luck. GG me on the next hand.

The funny thing about it was that two players commented on how horrible getting all in on that flop was and how far behind I was. I want more of these guys at my tables. I knew that I was behind but came to go big or go home. I put him on an overpair, so I had 13 outs twice (Four 5s, Four 10s, Three 9s, and Two 7s).

So, was it the alcohol that made me shove? Maybe. I think it had more to do with my mindest than anything else. I came to gamble early and an ideal spot presented itself.

In the comments on my last post, Lightning36 said, "I'd be interested in hearing your strategy for chipping up early on in a big (field) MTT."

I think that you have to either get hit by the deck, gamble early, or play really aggresively against a table full of weak players to build a really not just big, but huge stack early in a large field $50 buy-in or less tourney online tourney. Once you get that stack, you can tighten up until the antes kick in and put a lot of pressure on other players at your table.

I think that this hand is a good example of taking what may look like an unnecessary gamble to try to double up early. It is definitely not how I would always play the hand.

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FTP $1 Million Guarantee

I did make a mistake last night. I thought that I registered for a $26 180 player sng, but accidentally registered for a $26 satellite to the $530 FTP $1 Million Guarantee tourney on Sunday. OOPS. I had opened the lobby to the $26 sat earlier and decided against playing it because I probably won't be able to play the FTP $1 Mil on Sunday. I opened the lobby to the 180 player sng and another table that I was playing popped up for my action. I folded then went back to what I thought was the 180 player sng lobby to register.

A few minutes later a tourney table popped up. I thought to myself, "Wow, I didn't think that the 180 sng would fill up that fast." After looking at the table description, I realized what I did. I had registered for the sat - OOPS.

I don't think that I will be able to play Sunday, so I looked at the payouts. 1st place was a $530 seat and 2nd-4th also got paid. I decided to play hyper aggressive early and wound up building a huge stack after getting all-in with AKs vs. 77 and hitting a King.. As it got closer to the final table, I wasn't sure if I should try to bust out 2nd or win the sat.

When we got down to four players, I had 36k chips and the other three all had less than 10k in chips. I decided that I was going to try to win - no going for the 2nd place money. I would figure out a way to play the tourney.

I took it down about 15 minutes later.

Now what? I probably won't be able to play until about 6:30 or 7:00 pm and the tourney starts at 6:00 pm. If you wind up sitting at my table in the first hour, you are welcome for the free chips.

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Some Full Ring Cash Fun - DQB!!!!

I saw Alan (RecessRampage) at a full ring 2/4 table that had some open seats and decided to sit while playing the sat.

I hit quads against his hand (air or underpair is my guess). Too bad he couldn't have a real hand to pay me off.

Full Tilt Poker Game #3555232872: Table Castle Cove - $2/$4 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:43:18 ET - 2007/09/13
Seat 1: rlatjsdo ($394)
Seat 2: TOAFK ($303.40)
Seat 3: cmitch ($513.90)
Seat 4: Hurley222 ($209.90)
Seat 5: SilentSupra ($478)
Seat 6: Sudbury Slim ($105.30)
Seat 7: KILLEDPhill ($210.20)
Seat 8: eaglestorm76 ($97.60)
Seat 9: RecessRampage ($443.90)
cmitch posts the small blind of $2
Hurley222 posts the big blind of $4
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cmitch [Th Tc]
SilentSupra folds
Sudbury Slim folds
KILLEDPhill folds
eaglestorm76 folds
RecessRampage raises to $14
TOAFK adds $96.60
rlatjsdo folds
TOAFK folds
cmitch calls $12
cmitch: :)
RecessRampage: no shame in folding cmitch
Hurley222 has 15 seconds left to act
Hurley222 calls $10
*** FLOP *** [6h Kc 9d]
cmitch checks
Hurley222 has 15 seconds left to act
Hurley222 checks
Sudbury Slim is feeling happy
RecessRampage bets $32
TOAFK: i love how short stacked ignorant kunts like you bet 12 so you can "trick" people into calling
cmitch calls $32
Hurley222 folds
*** TURN *** [6h Kc 9d] [Ts]
cmitch checks
TOAFK: im gonna bust you regardless of what you bet you dumb fck
TOAFK: im not folding to $80
RecessRampage has 15 seconds left to act
RecessRampage checks
*** RIVER *** [6h Kc 9d Ts] [Td]
cmitch bets $60
RecessRampage folds
Uncalled bet of $60 returned to cmitch
TOAFK: wake up you dumb kunt
cmitch shows [Th Tc] four of a kind, Tens
cmitch wins the pot ($103)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $106 | Rake $3
Board: [6h Kc 9d Ts Td]
Seat 1: rlatjsdo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: TOAFK (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: cmitch (small blind) collected ($103)
Seat 4: Hurley222 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: SilentSupra didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Sudbury Slim didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: KILLEDPhill didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: eaglestorm76 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: RecessRampage folded on the River


It's almost the weekend, go grab a beer and play some poker!!!

GO GATORS!!!!!!!