Things I learned today..

And its not even 9:30am yet!

1. Conjunctivitis is Pink Eye
2. No matter how long you leave the puppy out, he will still come inside, and crap on your carpet.
3. My WHOIS domain info is wrong.
4. Del Taco Breakfast foods give me the runs.
5. My office will always be the stopping point for people to come chat.

Ok, nothing earth shattering, but still, an educaitonal morning thus far.

Yesterday, I was home sick, and did some pokering while recovering. I went on a nightmarishly horrible cold decking. I started at $2/4 with $64 (yeah I know its low to join that game, but it's all I have on Carribean Sun, where I am tryign to clear a bonus), when a bad run of cards kicks me down to $52. I jump down to $1/$2 to ride it out. I lose all the way down to $39 left. I jump down to $0.50/$1.00 to ride out the monster cold decking I am receiving. I end at $54. About as good as I could have hoped for, I guess. Heh.

Tonight is Pub Poker. Yay!

Thanksgiving

How can I not win a $5 No Limit Tourney in my house on thanksgiving weekend against my wife, sister-in-law, her husband, my wife's mom, and her boyfriend?

I dunno, but I went out in third place. I went all in on a scary board of Ah6d7d, and got called by A4 offsuit. So much for bluffing. :)

I was shortstacked the entire tournament when twice I bet heavy on a set only to be called down by someone who rivered a flush. Both times I had priced them out of the pot, but they stuck it out. Long term, that play works for me, but luck was not on my side that night. I also lost a bunch when my flush got beat by a full house. Second Best Hand Syndrome sucks.

That was the only poker I played all weekend. I spent most of the weekend when I was not running a pro tour qualifier playing the free ticket drafts on Magic Online. End of the weekend put my at even on packs, up about 60 points in ranking, and some good rares to sell for tickets to keep up my drafting habit. It was fun times.

Sorry for the long weekend and short blog, but I don't have a lot to talk about right now. See ya soon.

Comment Responses

First, Happy thanksgiving all. :)

I was glad to see so much discussion about my 100 hands in Comments, so I decided to respond to the responses somewhat here. I have three windows open now of this one, the original blog, and if the comments, and will respond as I can.

Regarding the pocket Jacks hand from T-Pup. I think the pot is too big for me to fold. There's 11BB in the pot when that turn reraise hits and I think he must have the queen, but technically I only have to right 9% of the time to make calling down at that point the right play, and I don't think I could discount him having AK more than that 9%. That's why I called down instead of folding.

Regarding Ax suited and Kx suited. Ax suited has the added benefit that you can often win when an Ace hits, even with your bad kicker in these games, lord knows why. I submit exhibit A from that history:

RayPowers balance $53.75, bet $4, collected $15.25, net +$11.25 [ 4c Ac ] [ a pair of aces -- Ac,Ad,Ks,9d,5h ]

The disadvantage of Kx suited in this world (at these stakes) is that the hidden Ace for the nut flush will always be played to the bitter end, so now you are in a position where your flush must be exactly a three card flush from the board, or you are still screwed. If the board flops JsTs2s and you have Ks4s, the guy with As is calling you down the whole way. In short I don't advocate the Kx suited at these stakes where there are too many chasers. I do agree with the niceness of being able to get away from Kx suited more than Ax suited.


Regarding me playing tight. Mike, this is purely a playstyle. I play super tight aggressive, normally. There's a couple hands in there where you saw me abandon TAG play, but aside from the first one, where I did it to gain information, I don't think its the wrong way to play because at these stakes, people pay you off with your great hands. Fishing a lot in this field is the schooling mentality of "everyone is fishing so I should too because I have odds" to me is very scary because when everyone is fishing, you have to be fishing FOR THE NUTS (like the Ax vs Kx suited argument above) otherwise you may make a fished for hand only to find yourself losing to a higher fished for hand. You play much more LAG than I do, and I don't think either is right or wrong, its just how we play.

I do have a brief argument for you on fishing in limit vs no limit, however. I think fishing at a passive table like this is INFINITELY better in No Limit vs limit. The implied odds of getting more money out of a made fishing hand in No Limit is MUCH higher than the... one bet you get out of fishing on a limit table. I'm not sure where you were going with that comparison, but I admit I did not get it. (This is the comment you made that throws me off, for reference: "In a limit game, you get paid off a lot making draws to the nut hand (or nearly nut hand) rather than finding a leading flop and trying to hammer people.")

Regarding brain farts from Ogma. This is a problem I have and its a HUGE leak. The problem comes down to the fact that I simply never am able to focus on poker 100%. I have a two year old and a three year old. I have a new puppy. While I was doing that game I was also downloading media to Keller's new web site (coming soon!) and downloading all of our home movies off of the digital tapes. I think if I could ever focus entirely on what I was doing, I do great, but with lack of focus, I have mini "matusow blow ups" that cost me a ton of profit. Dan mentioned as well that those hands read like "good play, good play, good play, give some guy $3 for no reason." If I can get to the point that I can either a) be able to focus on playing only, or b) be able to not have huge brain farts when I am unable to spend 100% of my brain power on poker, then I would do a lot better. I shudder to go back over those hands and count "bets given away for no reason." I bet it would drive me to depression.

Regarding preflop raising, I think I only flat called with a small pocket pair or Ax suited. Every other time I raised or reraised preflop. I am a big believer in flop equity. I think I even raised once with Ax suited because I thought the limper before me was weak.

Regarding the hand with the second 2 hitting when I had pocket sixes. I think the bet on the board pairing is not a bad plan. After all, I bet the scary over card/flush draw card, why not bet the 2? My reasoning really falls under the fact that he had already raised me once, and I felt committed to call down there at that point. Now, let's ignore that I probably shouldn't have called down, because in retrospect, I shouldn't have. If my intention is to call down, then I don't want to put an extra bet in on the turn if he raises me to call down. If your intention is to fold ot his raise on the turn, it's fine. If your intention is to still call down, then you basically can't bet the river unless a six hits... Which I guess doesn't matter as the bets equal out. Ok, I'll concede betting the turn is fine.

Wow, that was good for a whole post. :)

Congrats to Bits for winning the Pub Poker on Wednesday night. I'll be pokering up more this weekend. Maybe I'll do another hand analysis early next week.

100 hands

I decided to post my last 100 hands for critiquing, including me beating myself up a bunch, but everyone else can feel free to join in.

Ok, some preface to this.

1) I started at $25. At the time of these last 100 hands, my start is $59.50, and I end at $52.25, a loss of 7 Big Bets. My overall run for the night at this one table however, was plus 27 big bets.
2) Debbyl and IAMMACHOMIKE are both madly Loose Passive calling stations. Miamivisc is Loose Aggressive. Overall, play was poor (including mine as we will see).

Here we go!


***** Hand History for Game 3080164021 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:29:10 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
Bloo6T posts big blind (0.50)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 9h, 8s ]
IAMMACHOMIKE raises (1) to 1
RayPowers folds.
*** Uh yeah, a roaring start to this hand analysis!


***** Hand History for Game 3080172347 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:30:30 EST 2005
Bloo6T posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
MasterFrost posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 8s, Ks ]
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** Yeah, that’s right baby! Early position raise! Seriously, of all the bad plays I will describe, this is not as much one as you would believe. Three new people had joined the table, and I wanted to see how tight they were against an early aggressor. I was prepared to lose two big bets on this hand to gain a lot of information. Is this a leak? I guess theoretically yes.
Patty_Poker folds.
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (1)
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4d, 6d, Qs ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** Honestly, this is what I want to see here. Who will cave and who will call me down. It was even better that Cyber_dude and Masterfrost were two of the new guys, so my information play worked well.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
MasterFrost folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7s ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Still pushing
Cyber_Dude folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 5d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE bets (1)
RayPowers: well thats scary but i have to call
RayPowers calls (1)
*** That was hilarious, I river a straight with my bad hand, but there’s a flush on the board. Honestly, knowing IAMMACHOMIKE, I put him on a pair. But no reason to push harder on what was just an experiment hand anyways.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $9.25 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 4d 6d Qs 7s 5d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE balance $34.50, lost $3.50 [ 6c 3c ] [ a straight, three to seven -- 7s,6c,5d,4d,3c ]
RayPowers balance $65.25, bet $3.50, collected $9.25, net +$5.75 [ 8s Ks ] [ a straight, four to eight -- 8s,7s,6d,5d,4d ]
RayPowers: whew
*** The absolute best thing about this hand was it should have immediately labeled me as a maniac to the rest of the table. Open raising and pushing with K8s :P


***** Hand History for Game 3080178641 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:31:31 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ah, Kd ]
Patty_Poker folds.
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
Bloo6T raises (1) to 1
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1.50
Cyber_Dude calls (1)
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8c, Qd, 3s ]
RayPowers checks.
*** Mistake number 1, I should have bet out here. The problem really was that I just showed that stupid maniac hand, and thought my bet would not be respected enough to push a fold. Or am I thinking wrong and I should have bet thinking I may actually still have the best hand? Missed Bet Count: 1
Cyber_Dude checks.
Bloo6T bets (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7c ]
RayPowers checks.
Cyber_Dude checks.
Bloo6T bets (1)
RayPowers folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
*** Not much value in calling there I think, I have already given up the lead.


***** Hand History for Game 3080188532 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:33:07 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
Melissa72 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Js, Ks ]
Cyber_Dude folds.
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers raises (0.75) to 1
Melissa72 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jh, Qc, 9s ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7s ]
RayPowers bets (1)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 9d ]
RayPowers bets (1)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $7 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ Jh Qc 9s 7s 9d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE balance $34.25, bet $3.50, collected $3.50, net +$0 [ Jc Kc ] [ two pairs, jacks and nines -- Kc,Jc,Jh,9s,9d ]
RayPowers balance $63.25, bet $3.50, collected $3.50, net +$0 [ Js Ks ] [ two pairs, jacks and nines -- Ks,Js,Jh,9s,9d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE: so funny
RayPowers: indeedy
*** Not a lot to say there. Preflop raise I feel was warranted based on no one open raising and no aggression. The flop and turn offered me a lot of outs, so I kept on the pressure.


***** Hand History for Game 3080193144 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:33:51 EST 2005
Melissa72 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
dmiller25 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6c, 4s ]
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 checks.
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** I am not a big fan of 64 offsuit.


***** Hand History for Game 3080199658 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:34:54 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
McBeard posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Tc, 2s ]
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 raises (1) to 1
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
RayPowers folds.
*** Nor am I a fan of T2 offsuit.


***** Hand History for Game 3080205466 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:35:51 EST 2005
McBeard posts small blind (0.25)
MasterFrost posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ah, 8h ]
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** I am a fan of Ax suited in this environment, where you often get paid off for your flushes.
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ad, Kh, Jc ]
MasterFrost checks.
MYBABY555 checks.
IAMMACHOMIKE bets (0.50)
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** I think I really need to see if I am outkicked right here, and this is the best way to do it. (Or if someone has QT.)
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 calls (1)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
*** Probably not outkicked.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 2c ]
MYBABY555 checks.
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Not outkicked, fire fire fire!
MYBABY555 calls (1)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 2s ]
MYBABY555 checks.
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers checks.
*** I should have bet this. Not like this was a scare card with the way the hand was going. Missed bet, right here. Missed Bet Count: 2
** Summary **
Main Pot: $7.75 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ Ad Kh Jc 2c 2s ]
MYBABY555 balance $20.50, lost $2.50 [ Ts Tc ] [ two pairs, tens and twos -- Ad,Ts,Tc,2c,2s ]
IAMMACHOMIKE balance $38.25, lost $2.50 [ Kc Qs ] [ two pairs, kings and twos -- Ad,Kc,Kh,2c,2s ]
RayPowers balance $68.50, bet $2.50, collected $7.75, net +$5.25 [ Ah 8h ] [ two pairs, aces and twos -- Ah,Ad,Kh,2c,2s ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080211464 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:36:48 EST 2005
MasterFrost posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qc, Ts ]
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** QTo mid position seems too crap to open raise with, and not good to limp in with. Anyone think otherwise?


***** Hand History for Game 3080217227 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:37:45 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
dmiller25 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5c, 5d ]
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** This seems loose, but I am almost guaranteed to get enough callers to make the set odds worthwhile.
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
McBeard raises (1) to 1
*** Until that bastard did that. :P
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 calls (0.75)
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** In for a penny… I think I should have folded this.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Kc, 2s, Tc ]
MYBABY555 checks.
dmiller25 bets (0.50)
Bloo6T folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Yeah, I trust that flop about zero.


***** Hand History for Game 3080229127 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:39:40 EST 2005
dmiller25 posts small blind (0.25)
Bloo6T posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jd, 6d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Oh, there are the bad cards! I was wondering where they went.


***** Hand History for Game 3080231316 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:40:02 EST 2005
Bloo6T posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7d, 6h ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Yummy! Not.


***** Hand History for Game 3080237077 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:41:00 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qc, Jd ]
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers checks.
*** Does anyone raise here? Two limpers including the small blind. Likely my QJo is bets hand?
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5c, 4s, Qs ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** Well, I definitely bet here.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $2.25 | Rake: $0
Board: [ 5c 4s Qs ]
RayPowers balance $68.75, bet $1, collected $2.25, net +$1.25


***** Hand History for Game 3080240999 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:41:39 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 9c, 7h ]
Melissa72 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 calls (1)
dmiller25 calls (1)
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Who attacks my blind like that guy?


***** Hand History for Game 3080247155 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:42:40 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jh, 8d ]
McBeard folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Well, I played a lot of hands. Obviously it’s time for me to take a break.


***** Hand History for Game 3080254087 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:43:51 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
MasterFrost posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4d, Jh ]
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** /me goes to get chips and a soda…


***** Hand History for Game 3080260067 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:44:51 EST 2005
MasterFrost posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
Silvergreen5 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qh, Jd ]
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** I think this is a bad call. If they were suited sure, but they are not. I am likely dominated.
debbyl folds.
Silvergreen5 checks.
Cyber_Dude folds.
MasterFrost raises (0.75) to 1
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** And this is an even worse call.
Silvergreen5 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4s, Kh, Kd ]
MasterFrost bets (0.25)
MasterFrost is all-In.
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T raises (0.75) to 0.75
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.75)
RayPowers folds.
*** And this is me running like a scared little girl, which I should have done preflop


***** Hand History for Game 3080269162 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:46:23 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
dmiller25 posts big blind (0.50)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3c, As ]
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Axs ok in this world. Axo not so good in this world.


***** Hand History for Game 3080277009 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:47:43 EST 2005
dmiller25 posts small blind (0.25)
Bloo6T posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2d, 4h ]
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Monstarrrrrrr!

***** Hand History for Game 3080281601 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:48:29 EST 2005
Bloo6T posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 8d, Jd ]
RayPowers folds.
*** I honestly think that jacks are magnets to trash cards. I swear Jack x o, hereby known as Jack Shit, is the hand I see most.


***** Hand History for Game 3080287657 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:49:30 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Kh, 3s ]
debbyl folds.
Silvergreen5 calls (0.50)
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
MasterFrost calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.25)
RayPowers checks.
*** Uh yeah, might as well see a flop for free.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7h, Js, 6d ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** I figured I should try to win the pot right there.
Silvergreen5 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
MasterFrost folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Qs ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** At this point, my stupidity monitor should have kicked in. I KNOW he will call all the way down with near nothing. But his near nothing beats my nothing. I should have checked this down. Bad player, Ray, No cookie.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ Jh ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $7.50 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 7h Js 6d Qs Jh ]
IAMMACHOMIKE balance $34.12, bet $3, collected $7.50, net +$4.50 [ 3h 7c ] [ two pairs, jacks and sevens -- Qs,Js,Jh,7c,7h ]
RayPowers balance $64.50, lost $3 [ Kh 3s ] [ a pair of jacks -- Kh,Qs,Js,Jh,7h ]
RayPowers: nice call =)
IAMMACHOMIKE: lucky me
*** These people only make you money if you play against them correctly, then they are your gold mine. I did not play against them correctly. I was nice about it tho. 


***** Hand History for Game 3080294753 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:50:40 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2c, Qc ]
Silvergreen5 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers calls (0.25)
*** I should have raised here. Missed Bet count: 3
debbyl checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2h, 8c, 5s ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** See comments above on this hand. Its an exact replay of my stupidity. There’s nothing more to see here, move along, move along.
debbyl calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 3c ]
RayPowers bets (1)
debbyl calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ Jd ]
RayPowers bets (1)
debbyl calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $5.50 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 2h 8c 5s 3c Jd ]
RayPowers balance $61.50, lost $3 [ 2c Qc ] [ a pair of twos -- Qc,Jd,8c,2c,2h ]
debbyl balance $20.50, bet $3, collected $5.50, net +$2.50 [ 9s 5c ] [ a pair of fives -- Jd,9s,8c,5c,5s ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080299891 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:51:33 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
Silvergreen5 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4d, 6c ]
Cyber_Dude folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
MasterFrost calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** And then, I got my brain back.. for a little while.


***** Hand History for Game 3080305952 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:52:33 EST 2005
Silvergreen5 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6h, Ks ]
LasVegasDi calls (0.50)
MasterFrost folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Bad hands go a long way to helping you chill after tilting like a moron for two hands in a row.


***** Hand History for Game 3080310837 *****
MasterFrost has left the table.
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:53:23 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, 8s ]
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Suited connector, middle position.. I like the call here.
debbyl calls (0.50)
Silvergreen5 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.25)
LasVegasDi checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5h, Ad, Ks ]
Cyber_Dude checks.
LasVegasDi checks.
MYBABY555 bets (0.50)
dmiller25 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** And I knew when to run like hell.


***** Hand History for Game 3080321771 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:55:13 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2s, 5s ]
MYBABY555 folds.
dmiller25 calls (0.50)
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Monstarrrr!


***** Hand History for Game 3080329917 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:56:36 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jd, 4s ]
dmiller25 folds.
Bloo6T folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Look! Its Jack Shit!


***** Hand History for Game 3080336377 *****
dmiller25 has left the table.
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:57:41 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ks, 5s ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Now that I know the table, there will be no more Kxs shenanigans like there were in that first hand.


***** Hand History for Game 3080340946 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:58:27 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, Kh ]
debbyl folds.
Silvergreen5 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.25)
RayPowers checks.
*** I feel the mellowness.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8s, 4s, 9h ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers checks.
** I have Mike in, and Cyber_Dude, both which seem to follow a hand all the way to the end. I also have Miamivsic, who is aggressive enough to raise here. I don’t even try to steal the pot.
Cyber_Dude checks.
LasVegasDi checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** No brainer.


***** Hand History for Game 3080349102 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Tue Nov 22 23:59:47 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
MacBain_2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ad, 2d ]
Silvergreen5 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (1.25) to 1.50
*** I have no idea what my reasoning behind this raise was. Let’s assume it was a misclick, ok?
debbyl calls (1)
miamivisc raises (1) to 2
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Have to call here, though.
debbyl calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3s, 3h, 7h ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** I can not picture what he could have that I would not be way behind on.


***** Hand History for Game 3080353868 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:00:35 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 9 is the button
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
Silvergreen5 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6c, 8s ]
Cyber_Dude folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Good, I needed a break. After all, I just raised with A2s.


***** Hand History for Game 3080356869 *****
RayPowers: hes ona rush ladies and gents
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:01:05 EST 2005
Silvergreen5 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5d, 6h ]
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Hey, its past midnight. Maybe that explains the raise back there.


***** Hand History for Game 3080363409 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:02:11 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6h, 9d ]
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** It’s Sixty Nine Dude! (Insert Wild Stallions air guitar solo here)


***** Hand History for Game 3080370184 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:03:20 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, Kd ]
MYBABY555 folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Anyone got any clever names for K7?


***** Hand History for Game 3080376697 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:04:26 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 9s, Kd ]
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Or K9 for that matter? Oh wait, heh. K9. Canine! HAHAHAHA! (Can you tell its past midnight?


***** Hand History for Game 3080385158 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:05:52 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
numadude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jh, 2h ]
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** GG Jack Shit!


***** Hand History for Game 3080394204 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:07:24 EST 2005
numadude posts small blind (0.25)
MacBain_2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qs, 9s ]
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Tempting… But no.


***** Hand History for Game 3080399906 *****
Silvergreen5 has left the table.
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:08:23 EST 2005
MacBain_2 posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3c, 8c ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Tempting… oh wait, not even tempting..


***** Hand History for Game 3080406411 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:09:31 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ad, 3h ]
debbyl folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (0.50) to 1
*** There I go with that ridiculous raise button again! WTF? Its not that close to “check” on Party Poker.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Qs, Qd, 7c ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** Might as well maintain the lead?
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6s ]
*** See above.
RayPowers bets (1)
Cyber_Dude calls (1)
miamivisc calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ Tc ]
*** See above. Oh no wait, I gave it up at the end. At least that’s one bet saved. Should have saved 2.5.
RayPowers checks.
Cyber_Dude checks.
miamivisc checks.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $7.25 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ Qs Qd 7c 6s Tc ]
Cyber_Dude balance $31.25, bet $2.50, collected $7.25, net +$4.75 [ Ac Ah ] [ two pairs, aces and queens -- Ac,Ah,Qs,Qd,Tc ]
miamivisc balance $33, lost $2.50 [ Kd 3c ] [ a pair of queens -- Kd,Qs,Qd,Tc,7c ]
RayPowers balance $56, lost $2.50 [ Ad 3h ] [ a pair of queens -- Ad,Qs,Qd,Tc,7c ]
*** Yes, that’s right, pocket aces just called down, including checking the river. Thank you pocket aces. All in all, let’s pretend that hand never happened.


***** Hand History for Game 3080410977 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:10:17 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2c, Jc ]
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Jack Shit FTW!


***** Hand History for Game 3080416466 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:11:14 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
BombDog2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3h, 6d ]
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Oh look, a rerun of West Wing is on.


***** Hand History for Game 3080425222 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:12:48 EST 2005
BombDog2 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ah, 5d ]
LasVegasDi raises (1) to 1
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Oh, it’s the one where Leo goes to Cuba after the rumor is circulating that Castro is dead. It’s a good one, but seen it many times before.


***** Hand History for Game 3080430229 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:13:41 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2s, 8s ]
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** But, but they were sooooooooooooted!


***** Hand History for Game 3080438665 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:15:11 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4h, Qs ]
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Queen Shit does not have the same ring to it that Jack Shit does.


***** Hand History for Game 3080445708 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:16:27 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5h, 7c ]
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Oh look, the puppy peed on the floor.


***** Hand History for Game 3080450337 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:17:16 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
numadude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5s, Qh ]
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Queen Sh… no, it really doesn’t work.


***** Hand History for Game 3080456623 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:18:25 EST 2005
numadude posts small blind (0.25)
MacBain_2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ad, Ks ]
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** Holy found a hand batman!
debbyl calls (1)
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (1)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (1)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4c, 6s, Kh ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** Holy hit a flop batman!
debbyl calls (0.50)
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 9c ]
RayPowers bets (1)
debbyl folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
miamivisc folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $7.25 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 4c 6s Kh 9c ]
RayPowers balance $60.50, bet $2.50, collected $7.25, net +$4.75


***** Hand History for Game 3080462094 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:19:24 EST 2005
MacBain_2 posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4h, Kc ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Love them eight gapers.


***** Hand History for Game 3080465989 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:20:06 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ah, Td ]
RayPowers: wowzer
debbyl calls (0.50)
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers checks.
*** Should I raise here? I really am unsure. I will be out of position for the rest of the hand…
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Tc, 6h, 7d ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** I HAVE to bet here. 89 will raise me, and I am likely ahead of everything else.
debbyl calls (0.50)
Cyber_Dude folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5s ]
*** Do I really put someone on 34 or 48? No.
RayPowers bets (1)
debbyl calls (1)
miamivisc calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 9d ]
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Well, now any 8 beats me, which is slightly scary.
debbyl raises (2) to 2
*** Make that VERY scary, but I have to call here.
miamivisc folds.
RayPowers calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $10.25 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ Tc 6h 7d 5s 9d ]
RayPowers balance $56.50, lost $4 [ Ah Td ] [ a pair of tens -- Ah,Td,Tc,9d,7d ]
debbyl balance $34.12, bet $4, collected $10.25, net +$6.25 [ 9h 9c ] [ three of a kind, nines -- Tc,9h,9c,9d,7d ]
RayPowers: bad river, no cookie!
*** I don’t think I could have done anything differently here. I just got rivered. It happens.


***** Hand History for Game 3080471814 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:21:07 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3c, 6d ]
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 raises (1) to 1
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Always good to get a bad hand after a bad beat.


***** Hand History for Game 3080477079 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:22:05 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
BombDog2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, 8h ]
Cyber_Dude folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Ok, this is my super bad call for the night. I have no idea what this call was about. What did I expect my 78o to do here?
debbyl calls (0.25)
BombDog2 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ac, 9c, Ks ]
debbyl checks.
BombDog2 checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Well, duh. I actually was so happy to see that flop as it drove me right out of the hand before I got (more)stupid.


***** Hand History for Game 3080481455 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:22:52 EST 2005
BombDog2 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Kc, 7s ]
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** /me hums the Jeopardy Theme Song


***** Hand History for Game 3080487988 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:24:03 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4h, Qd ]
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** This hand looks familiar…


***** Hand History for Game 3080491807 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:24:44 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2s, 3d ]
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Monstarrrrrr!


***** Hand History for Game 3080499268 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:26:06 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
numadude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4s, 5d ]
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Bigger MONSTARRRRR!


***** Hand History for Game 3080503441 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:26:52 EST 2005
numadude posts small blind (0.25)
MacBain_2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5d, Ad ]
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** Not sure what this aggressiveness was about here. I just hate open calling.
debbyl folds.
BombDog2 raises (1.50) to 1.50
Cyber_Dude folds.
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** No one else in the pot means my flush odds are the sux, but I want to see a flop at least.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2d, Qc, Js ]
RayPowers checks.
BombDog2 bets (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Comments on this call? I wanted to pay to see the next card for my back door nut flush draw. Good or no?
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7c ]
RayPowers checks.
BombDog2 bets (1)
RayPowers folds.
*** No nut flush for me, run run run.


***** Hand History for Game 3080507650 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:27:39 EST 2005
MacBain_2 posts small blind (0.25)
IAMMACHOMIKE posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qd, 4s ]
RayPowers folds.
*** This hand looks REALLY familiar.


***** Hand History for Game 3080512854 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:28:37 EST 2005
IAMMACHOMIKE posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 8h, 5s ]
debbyl calls (0.50)
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude folds.
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.25)
RayPowers checks.
*** POWER!
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Js, 7d, As ]
IAMMACHOMIKE checks.
RayPowers checks.
*** I got no dukes.
debbyl checks.
numadude bets (0.50)
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** I fold with my no dukes.


***** Hand History for Game 3080518001 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:29:33 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6s, Ks ]
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers raises (0.75) to 1
*** Cyber_dude played so many hands they I was just automatically discarding him having a good hand, so acted like he didn’t exist and raised against the big blind.
debbyl calls (0.50)
Cyber_Dude calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2h, 9d, Js ]
RayPowers checks.
*** But I wasn’t that hungry to keep throwing bets out there. I had learned my lesson about debbyl following me to the river.
debbyl checks.
Cyber_Dude checks.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7d ]
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Or maybe not. Bad bet! Bad!
debbyl folds.
Cyber_Dude calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ Qh ]
RayPowers bets (1)
*** I put him on Ax at this point and figure he missed, so tried to take down the pot. I think this one was ok, because once I bet the turn I was committed to bet the river. The real answer I think was I shouldn’t have bet the turn or the river.
Cyber_Dude folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $5.50 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 2h 9d Js 7d Qh ]
RayPowers balance $55.75, bet $3, collected $5.50, net +$2.50


***** Hand History for Game 3080522050 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:30:18 EST 2005
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ac, 5h ]
Cyber_Dude folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Lost my Wheaties.


***** Hand History for Game 3080529074 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:31:36 EST 2005
BombDog2 posts small blind (0.25)
Cyber_Dude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5d, 7s ]
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
IAMMACHOMIKE folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Bleh.


***** Hand History for Game 3080535224 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:32:42 EST 2005
Cyber_Dude posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7c, 2d ]
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** GG Worst hand in poker!


***** Hand History for Game 3080543256 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:34:10 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ah, Qs ]
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky checks.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** Seems like a good plan to open raise here.
debbyl folds.
BombDog2 folds.
Cyber_Dude raises (1.50) to 1.50
miamivisc calls (1.25)
MYBABY555 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Given the hands the two players in the pot are likely to have, I should have capped this. Missed Bet Count: 4
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5s, 2h, Th ]
miamivisc bets (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** I dunno. Raise here? Missed Bet Count: 5
Cyber_Dude raises (1) to 1
Cyber_Dude is all-In.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Missed Bet Count: 6
Creating Main Pot with $8 with Cyber_Dude
** Dealing Turn ** : [ As ]
miamivisc checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
miamivisc folds.
** Dealing River ** : [ 2s ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: $8 | Side Pot 1: $1 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 5s 2h Th As 2s ]
Cyber_Dude balance $0, lost $2.50 [ 3h 3c ] [ two pairs, threes and twos -- As,3h,3c,2h,2s ]
RayPowers balance $61.25, bet $3.50, collected $9, net +$5.50 [ Ah Qs ] [ two pairs, aces and twos -- Ah,As,Qs,2h,2s ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080549509 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:35:17 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
numadude posts big blind (0.50)
LasVegasDi posts big blind + dead (0.75)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jh, 3s ]
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Jack Shit! I missed you!


***** Hand History for Game 3080556682 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:36:36 EST 2005
numadude posts small blind (0.25)
MacBain_2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jd, Jc ]
cbloszinsky raises (1) to 1
RayPowers raises (1.50) to 1.50
** Yummy
debbyl folds.
BombDog2 folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky raises (1) to 2
RayPowers calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ts, Ks, Jh ]
cbloszinsky bets (0.50)
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
cbloszinsky raises (1) to 1.50
RayPowers raises (1) to 2
*** Yummier!
cbloszinsky calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Ah ]
cbloszinsky bets (1)
RayPowers raises (2) to 2
cbloszinsky raises (2) to 3
*** God dammit he must have a queen. Motherfucker.
RayPowers calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 2h ]
cbloszinsky bets (1)
RayPowers calls (1)
*** Gotta call down just in case.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $16 | Rake: $0.75
Board: [ Ts Ks Jh Ah 2h ]
cbloszinsky balance $32.50, bet $8, collected $16, net +$8 [ Qc Ad ] [ a straight, ten to ace -- Ad,Ks,Qc,Jh,Ts ]
RayPowers balance $53.25, lost $8 [ Jd Jc ] [ three of a kind, jacks -- Ah,Ks,Jd,Jc,Jh ]
*** Ouchie, ouchie, ouchie, ouchie, ouchie. Could I have played this differently? Looking for input here. I think not, but I want feedback.


***** Hand History for Game 3080561498 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:37:29 EST 2005
MacBain_2 posts small blind (0.25)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6h, 5h ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Still in shock, I fold suited connectors. In first position, obviously I should have. I just think its funny that I did not notice they were suited when I folded them.


***** Hand History for Game 3080566015 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:38:19 EST 2005
cbloszinsky posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6d, Js ]
debbyl calls (0.50)
BombDog2 folds.
LasVegasDi calls (0.50)
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers checks.
*** I get to play Jack Shit!
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 5c, 5s, 4d ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** That flop had to miss everyone right?
debbyl calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Tc ]
RayPowers checks.
*** Why bet? She will just call.
debbyl checks.
** Dealing River ** : [ Qh ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl bets (1)
*** I do not foresee my jack high winning this.
RayPowers folds.


***** Hand History for Game 3080569900 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:39:03 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6s, 6d ]
BombDog2 folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.25)
*** Is this a missed bet? I don’t think so, but I’m curious how people feel about pocket 6s in the small blind with only one limper.
debbyl checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2d, 3s, Ts ]
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** I like my over the middle pair
debbyl calls (0.50)
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
*** Well, I did.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
debbyl calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 2h ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl checks.
miamivisc bets (1)
*** I think I should have folded here. I don’t see what he can have that I am not way behind against.
RayPowers calls (1)
debbyl folds.
** Dealing River ** : [ Qs ]
RayPowers bets (1)
*** I tried to bet the scary flush board and the over card. Didn’t work.
miamivisc raises (2) to 2
RayPowers calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $10 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 2d 3s Ts 2h Qs ]
miamivisc balance $50.25, bet $4.50, collected $10, net +$5.50 [ Ks 2s ] [ a flush, king high -- Ks,Qs,Ts,3s,2s ]
RayPowers balance $47.75, lost $4.50 [ 6s 6d ] [ two pairs, sixes and twos -- Qs,6s,6d,2d,2h ]
*** This hand was horrible. This is the kind of hand that destroys an hours worth of profits.


***** Hand History for Game 3080574481 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:39:54 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
BombDog2 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4h, 3c ]
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky raises (1) to 1
RayPowers folds.
*** Monstarrr!


***** Hand History for Game 3080580382 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:40:59 EST 2005
BombDog2 posts small blind (0.25)
FTIP16 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jc, 9h ]
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** ??? Feeling my Wheaties apparently. This was a bad call.
debbyl calls (0.50)
BombDog2 raises (0.75) to 1
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
numadude calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** As was this. I was determined to get out if I had a bad flop.
debbyl calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8d, 7d, 2s ]
BombDog2 checks.
miamivisc checks.
numadude checks.
RayPowers checks.
*** Well, if they want to give me a free card to my gutshot….
debbyl checks.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Jd ]
BombDog2 checks.
miamivisc checks.
numadude bets (1)
RayPowers raises (2) to 2
*** I don’t think he has the flush or a jack. I think he is betting the scare card. I decide to test him to see.
debbyl folds.
BombDog2 calls (2)
miamivisc folds.
numadude folds.
** Dealing River ** : [ Kd ]
BombDog2 bets (1)
*** *insert Jay and Silent Bob Strike back Fuck song here* I think I should have folded to the one bet. I think I win this less than 10% of the time.
RayPowers calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $11.75 | Rake: $0.75
Board: [ 8d 7d 2s Jd Kd ]
BombDog2 balance $22.25, bet $4, collected $11.75, net +$7.75 [ Ad Ks ] [ a flush, ace high -- Ad,Kd,Jd,8d,7d ]
RayPowers balance $43.75, lost $4 [ Jc 9h ] [ a pair of jacks -- Kd,Jc,Jd,9h,8d ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080588293 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:42:29 EST 2005
FTIP16 posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6h, 5c ]
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky raises (1.50) to 1.50
RayPowers folds.
*** I like it that the poker gods deal me a shit hand every time I play a hand wrong.


***** Hand History for Game 3080593129 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:43:23 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Ad, 6h ]
MYBABY555 folds.
numadude calls (0.50)
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Ax unsuited, still not good.


***** Hand History for Game 3080596901 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:44:06 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6s, 7h ]
numadude folds.
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Sixty Seven Dude! No, that’s not right..


***** Hand History for Game 3080601145 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:44:54 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
numadude posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5h, 2d ]
MacBain_2 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Monstarrr!!


***** Hand History for Game 3080605737 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:45:47 EST 2005
numadude posts small blind (0.25)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2c, Td ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Doyle Brunson, I will never be the man you are and play this crap.


***** Hand History for Game 3080610275 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:46:38 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3d, Th ]
BombDog2 calls (0.50)
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.25)
*** But I’ll play something almost just as bad in the small blind!
debbyl checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Ah, Qh, 3s ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl checks.
BombDog2 bets (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Thank you lord, once again, for providing me with a flop that I can get away from easily. For a moment of amusement, I will paste the results of this hand:
Board: [ Ah Qh 3s 8s 4c ]
BombDog2 balance $24.25, bet $3, collected $6.50, net +$3.50 [ Ts Qs ] [ a pair of queens -- Ah,Qs,Qh,Ts,8s ]
miamivisc balance $41.50, lost $3 [ Js 3c ] [ a pair of threes -- Ah,Qh,Js,3c,3s ]
Yeah, that’s right, he called down with J3 offsuit. And you all wonder why I so often say “I don’t think he has it.”


***** Hand History for Game 3080615898 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:47:43 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
FTIP16 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, 6c ]
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** Huh? I am going to claim unconciousness for this entire hand. I honestly do not remember the travesty that was this hand. No further comments because I seriously have no idea what happened here. I don’t even remember it.
debbyl folds.
FTIP16 calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 8s, 2d, 4c ]
FTIP16 checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6h ]
miamivisc bets (1)
RayPowers raises (2) to 2
miamivisc calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 4h ]
miamivisc bets (1)
RayPowers calls (1)
** Summary **
Main Pot: $10.75 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 8s 2d 4c 6h 4h ]
miamivisc balance $47.25, bet $5, collected $10.75, net +$5.75 [ Qc 6d ] [ two pairs, sixes and fours with queen kicker -- Qc,6d,6h,4c,4h ]
RayPowers balance $38.25, lost $5 [ 7s 6c ] [ two pairs, sixes and fours -- 8s,6c,6h,4c,4h ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080621342 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:48:46 EST 2005
FTIP16 posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6c, 9h ]
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
** Must have woken back up here.


***** Hand History for Game 3080626967 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:49:51 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
sueblunu posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, As ]
MYBABY555 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Ax suited, trying for the flush. Notice I have not yet hit a flush. I have not yet even come close to hitting the flush. But I am undaunted. I press forward.
debbyl folds.
sueblunu checks.
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi calls (0.25)
miamivisc checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4h, Jh, 8h ]
LasVegasDi checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** I got daunted somewhere in there.


***** Hand History for Game 3080630100 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:50:25 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qd, Qs ]
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers raises (1) to 1
*** This seems nice.
debbyl calls (1)
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi calls (1)
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 9s, 7s, 5c ]
MYBABY555 checks.
RayPowers checks.
*** LasVegasDi was a habitual positional better. I was shooting for the check raise. I missed. Missed Bet Count: 7
debbyl checks.
LasVegasDi checks.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 4d ]
MYBABY555 checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Not gonna let that happen again.
debbyl calls (1)
LasVegasDi folds.
MYBABY555 calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ 9c ]
MYBABY555 checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
debbyl calls (1)
*** She better not have a nine again.
MYBABY555 folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $8.75 | Rake: $0.50
Board: [ 9s 7s 5c 4d 9c ]
RayPowers balance $43.50, bet $3, collected $8.75, net +$5.75 [ Qd Qs ] [ two pairs, queens and nines -- Qd,Qs,9s,9c,7s ]
debbyl balance $37.37, lost $3 [ Qc 7c ] [ two pairs, nines and sevens -- Qc,9s,9c,7c,7s ]


***** Hand History for Game 3080637139 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:51:46 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
mom55 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 5d, 6c ]
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** bleh.


***** Hand History for Game 3080641382 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:52:35 EST 2005
mom55 posts small blind (0.25)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qs, 6h ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Bleh.


***** Hand History for Game 3080646890 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:53:39 EST 2005
Table Table 75417 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
cbloszinsky posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Td, 5c ]
debbyl calls (0.50)
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers checks.
*** .. Sure.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 6h, Ts, Jd ]
RayPowers checks.
*** Missed Bet count: 8 I should have bet this, I think. Opinions? Debbyl and miamivisc were both likely to call.
debbyl checks.
miamivisc checks.
mom55 checks.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ As ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl checks.
miamivisc bets (1)
mom55 folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** I doubt I would have pushed out miamivisc anyways, so .. crap.


***** Hand History for Game 3080650748 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:54:24 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6c, 3d ]
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.25)
*** Half a small bet to see the flop, mise well.
debbyl checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Kc, 9d, Jh ]
RayPowers checks.
debbyl checks.
LasVegasDi checks.
miamivisc bets (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Oh well.


***** Hand History for Game 3080657934 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:55:47 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
sueblunu posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6s, As ]
FTIP16 calls (0.50)
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 calls (1)
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky raises (1.50) to 1.50
RayPowers folds.
*** Honestly, not worth calling 3 bets cold to chase a nut flush.


***** Hand History for Game 3080664858 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:57:07 EST 2005
sueblunu posts small blind (0.25)
FTIP16 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2d, 4s ]
LasVegasDi calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Monnnn.. I’m tired of saying that.


***** Hand History for Game 3080671515 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:58:24 EST 2005
FTIP16 posts small blind (0.25)
LasVegasDi posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6s, 9h ]
miamivisc calls (0.50)
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** I do hereby dub this hand: Bill and Ted.


***** Hand History for Game 3080676391 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 00:59:21 EST 2005
LasVegasDi posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2h, Ts ]
MYBABY555 folds.
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** Curse you Doyle! Curse you!


***** Hand History for Game 3080680981 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:00:15 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Tc, 7d ]
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** *sigh*


***** Hand History for Game 3080686834 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:01:24 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
Master7253 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4c, Ac ]
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** I still believe one day I will make a flush. Not sure when tho.
debbyl raises (1) to 1
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
LasVegasDi folds.
miamivisc calls (1)
MYBABY555 raises (1.25) to 1.50
Master7253 folds.
mom55 calls (1)
RayPowers calls (1)
*** Almost exact odds for the flush draw.
debbyl calls (0.50)
miamivisc calls (0.50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 9d, Ks, Ad ]
MYBABY555 checks.
mom55 checks.
RayPowers bets (0.50)
*** This is my standard bet/raise to see if I am outkicked. I don’t see how I can’t NOT be outkicked with the action the way it went, but maybe two of them had pocket pairs.
debbyl calls (0.50)
miamivisc folds.
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
mom55 calls (0.50)
*** Well, that was not enlightening. I think my ace is actually good tho. Weird.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 3d ]
MYBABY555 checks.
mom55 checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** I refuse to be daunted by the third diamond!
debbyl calls (1)
MYBABY555 calls (1)
mom55 calls (1)
*** Fuckin bunch of calling stations!
** Dealing River ** : [ 5h ]
MYBABY555 checks.
mom55 checks.
RayPowers bets (1)
*** Oh look not a straight draw hit too, but honestly, who stayed in with 24. Must bet!
debbyl calls (1)
MYBABY555 folds.
mom55 folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: $15.25 | Rake: $0.75
Board: [ 9d Ks Ad 3d 5h ]
RayPowers balance $53.75, bet $4, collected $15.25, net +$11.25 [ 4c Ac ] [ a pair of aces -- Ac,Ad,Ks,9d,5h ]
debbyl balance $29.12, lost $4 [ Qd Qs ] [ a pair of queens -- Ad,Ks,Qd,Qs,9d ]
RayPowers: wow how the heck did i win that one


***** Hand History for Game 3080694645 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:02:57 EST 2005
Master7253 posts small blind (0.25)
mom55 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 7s, Th ]
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** That helped ye ole chipstack, time to sit back some.


***** Hand History for Game 3080698199 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:03:38 EST 2005
mom55 posts small blind (0.25)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Js, 8h ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Jack Shit strikes again.


***** Hand History for Game 3080703984 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:04:48 EST 2005
cbloszinsky posts small blind (0.25)
RayPowers posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 2d, Th ]
debbyl folds.
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
Master7253 folds.
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky raises (0.75) to 1
RayPowers folds.
** What’s this Doyle crapI keep seeing?


***** Hand History for Game 3080709259 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:05:52 EST 2005
RayPowers posts small blind (0.25)
debbyl posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Qd, 5c ]
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
Master7253 calls (0.50)
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers calls (0.25)
debbyl raises (0.50) to 1
miamivisc calls (0.50)
Master7253 calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** So much for a cheap flop with total crap.


***** Hand History for Game 3080714471 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:06:54 EST 2005
debbyl posts small blind (0.25)
sueblunu posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 6c, 2d ]
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc raises (1) to 1
MYBABY555 folds.
Master7253 calls (1)
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** monster.


***** Hand History for Game 3080719344 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:07:52 EST 2005
sueblunu posts small blind (0.25)
FTIP16 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3h, 5c ]
miamivisc calls (0.50)
MYBABY555 calls (0.50)
Master7253 folds.
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** .retsnom


***** Hand History for Game 3080723107 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:08:38 EST 2005
FTIP16 posts small blind (0.25)
miamivisc posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jh, 5d ]
MYBABY555 folds.
Master7253 calls (0.50)
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** .tihs kcaJ


***** Hand History for Game 3080727439 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:09:31 EST 2005
miamivisc posts small blind (0.25)
MYBABY555 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 3d, Ad ]
Master7253 calls (0.50)
mom55 folds.
cbloszinsky calls (0.50)
RayPowers calls (0.50)
*** Could this be the one? The flush of desire?!?!?
debbyl calls (0.50)
sueblunu folds.
FTIP16 folds.
miamivisc calls (0.25)
MYBABY555 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2s, Th, Js ]
miamivisc bets (0.50)
MYBABY555 folds.
Master7253 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky calls (0.50)
RayPowers folds.
*** Nope, sure can’t.


***** Hand History for Game 3080735354 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:11:08 EST 2005
MYBABY555 posts small blind (0.25)
Master7253 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 4s, Kc ]
mom55 calls (0.50)
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** King four is such an unlikely pairing. I mean, why would the King hang out with a four. Maybe the four shines his shoes or something.


***** Hand History for Game 3080741569 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:12:26 EST 2005
Master7253 posts small blind (0.25)
mom55 posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ Jh, Tc ]
cbloszinsky folds.
RayPowers folds.
*** JTs is my favorite hand. JTo is.. not worth it in this position.

***** Hand History for Game 3080744389 *****
0.50/1 Texas Hold'em Game Table (Limit) - Wed Nov 23 01:13:01 EST 2005
mom55 posts small blind (0.25)
cbloszinsky posts big blind (0.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to RayPowers [ 8h, 4h ]
RayPowers folds.
*** Ending on a high note baby!



Well that’s it. I wonder how many people went all the way through this. If so, please don’t leave all that time wasted! Comment on my donkeyness and places where you don’t agree with what I did so I can learn!

Captain Placeholder

Bah.

I have 100 hands to review, which I want to spread out amongst FCP and here.

FCP Forums are down. Hand Converter is down.

More to come when FCP is up and I find a new hand converter. The short version is that it was a good night last night. I ended up 27 Big Bets.

Con

So, last weekend was Gen Con So Cal. Adam, Ben, Jay and I headed out Thursday to begin helping run the greatest of all geekness, a con. Jay insisted on driving his car, which has good space, but Jay drives slow. It's a coinflip to me if not having to drive at all is better or worse than arriving a half hour later. Not counting the multiple times we drove in circles because the MapQuest directions did not take into account some truly amazing road construction in California.

Checking in went smoothly, and the original setup was nothing strange. They had no power for us, no sound system. On the bright side we did have a BAC (Big ass Clock) for a change of pace. The worst part is that, this time, the board games were at the far side of the convention hall, and the TCG's at the other side. So I was destined to spend the weekend walking back and forth a half mile at a time.

Speaking of which, I really disliked the layout this year. Here is my bad map representation of the hall.


---- ----
SSSS UUUU S = Sign In
AAAA UUUU A = Artists
WWWW UUUU W = Wizard's TCGs (Trading Card Games)
WWWW TTTT U = Upper Deck
RRRR TTTT T = Other TCGS
RRRR
EEEE OOOO O = Other Stuff, Kids Play etc
EEEE OOMM M = Miniatures
EEEE BBMM E = Exhibitors
EEEE BBMM B = Board Games
--------- R = Role Playing


The building was a big square, so this looks weird, but it's good enough to explain my issues. The first thing to understand is the target audience is a gamer, and the primary purpose of the con is to sell product for the exhibitors. You do this primarily through them PLAYING games, or trying them out, and then buying, which is why most exhibitor booths are highly directed towards demos.

Now, first, we should decide what is a destination location for these events. This is a retail term for places that people will actively hunt out. For a con like this, the obvious destination locations are the Artists, the Exhibitors, and the Wizards and UDE TCG areas. People don't happen upon Magic: The gathering as they are walking by, look at at it, and decide to sit down for a tournament. Someone in my TCG area came there because they know Magic and they came there to play. For UDE its even more simple in that they run Invite based events there. Half the people in UDE's area were personally invited there.

So theoretically those sections should go to the back of the con area. People will find them because they are looking for them, and it would be nice to make them walk through some of the less popular areas on the off chance that they seem something new they would like, especially if it's visually appealing.

Enter, board games and miniatures. Both game groups are MUCH more visually appealing than TCG's, and more likely to 'catch someone's eye' as they are walking by. While I agree that the artist area and the UDE section was visually appealing to someone walking in, it's not like they are going to draw people into Gen Con because Gen Con itself is a destination location. Not only that, but you can't get in to see the UDE area and the Artist area without buying a ticket, so it does not act correctly as an external visual draw.

If I were doing the layout, I would have done it like this:


---- ----
SSSS OOOO S = Sign In
RRBB OOTT A = Artists
RRBB MMTT W = Wizard's TCGs (Trading Card Games)
RRRR MMTT U = Upper Deck
WWWW MMTT T = Other TCGS
WWWW
EEEE AAAA O = Other Stuff, Kids Play etc
EEEE UUUU M = Miniatures
EEEE UUUU E = Exhibitors
EEEE UUUU B = Board Games
--------- R = Role Playing


So, as soon as you sign up you see some fun interesting things to your immediate left in the O section with the Gamer's Olympics and Paint a figure and such, and the kids play area is right there for easy drop off. Then as you walk down the hall you see board games on the right and minis on the left, both visually attractive areas, and they can set out games for people to look at, making it a second demo station (in addition to the exhibition area) as well as a gaming area. However, since those areas are slightly low attendance wise, right behind them we have the TCG's and the Role playing Games. The Role Playing especially is always heavily populated, and rather loud, so you get a feeling for a popular gaming atmosphere from the people and noise, as well as the visual attractiveness of the "cool looking games."

Further back you run into the Wizard's TCG on the side right as it the rest of the flow moves off to the next big visual aspect of the con, the artists and the exhibitor hall. Putting UDE in the back corner does take away from the stunning visuals of their area a little bit, but I think the visuals are more for the media than walk bys, and honestly, they will get plenty of walk by traffic being right next to the exhibit hall.

Yeah, I know I am anal about this sort of thing.

Some highlights for the weekend:

1) On the way down I asked everyone to bet me money that at some point during the weekend Tim Shields would come out of nowhere and invite me to dinner, and I was willing to make this bet not even knowing if Tim was attending. No one took the bet, which was good for them since Tim wasted no time and ran into me as we were checking into the hotel to invite me to a Scotch tasting Saturday night. Not quite dinner, but close enough.

2) Saturday morning we (being my staff) got accused of not showing up to run an event we were supposed to. Turns out the event was not even ours, but I did send staff down to run it in a pinch. So we went from the 'idiots who don't know their own schedule' to the 'super nice guys always willing to help out in a pinch' in the span of a half hour or so as the mistake was discovered.

3) Matt Tabak wins for best stories of the weekend. I can not relate the stories, but they have to do with a giant conspiracy theory in which he Disqualified someone in the top eight of the Versus Pro Circuit which coincidently got one of his friends into the top eight. Obviously just a funny coincidence, but great conspiracy theory fodder.

4) My favorite "I crack myself up" moment of the weekend came with the following exchange: (Jay) Don't be counting in French or anything, you Canadian. (Ben) Hey, I can count to one hundred in French. (Jay) What comes after one hundred in french? (Me) "I surrender"

5) I jumped into a booster draft as I was getting off shift (in so much as I actually stayed in shifts) to fill it up since the poor people were waiting for forever. I smashed them. I forgot how bad the average booster drafter is. I even played horribly. It was great fun though.

That's about it for highlights from the weekend. Last night we got a new puppy, so no sleep for me, but he is very cute. The best part is that the original puppy owners/breeders named them colors to keep track of who was who (by the color of their collar or something). We got "blue." To make it easy for the puppy, we named him Bluebeard the Pirate on his papers, matching the theme that our other dog is named Captain Simon of the high seas. My three year old son, however, disagrees with our naming, and has decreed that the puppy must be named "Blueberry Juice."

No really, he came up with that on his own, and won't let it go. Fortunately we can just all call him Blue and everyone is happy...

Gonna play some poker tonight I hope, so some interesting fun coming in that respect as the next two evenings should be poker filled activities...

Have a good one all.

(edit to fix the font on the floorplan layouts so they were readable)

Oif

Look, I'm too tired to post anything today.

I swear, cool updates to come after I get some sleep.

Different stakes..

I headed down to Keller's last night to work on some stuff. We got his office rearranged, some data for his new web site coming down the pike, talked some about staking and such, and fixed his computers. I also, in the midst of the night, joked about a poker lesson, and he decided to sit me down at a couple of online tables to see how I played.

Two $30/$60 tables and a $100/$200 table.

A little higher than my normal stakes. He asked if I would be nervous playing for those stakes, and I replied that since it wasn't my money, no. I wonder if that made him feel better or worse about the idea.

The $30/$60 table was tight. Super tight. Two to three people to the flop tight. And Aggressive. Super Aggressive. Never an unraised pot preflop aggressive. I had talked to Thomas about how I thought my weakness was in how to play smaller pairs and middle suited connectors and he told me 'Don't worry, at this table you will never have the odds to play those hands.' He was right.

By contrast, the $100/$200 table was super loose aggressive. More people in preflop, still a lot of raising. Post flop the table was more passive, but still pretty loose. All in all, I lost a couple hundred on the $30/$60 table, and won a couple thousand on the $100/$200, all in a span of about 20 minutes before we moved on to other things.

Pretty fun and exciting. I didn't really get to learn a lot, though. Most of the hands we played were really straight forward. "You have pocket Aces, raising is good." or "You have 9/2 offsuit, folding is good." We had a couple hands that I would have played differently where he check called down a hand I would have check folded on the turn, and then for a similar hand check folded the turn same way I would have, and I didn't get to ask him why he called down for one and not the other, as the pot sizes were similar. I look forward to doing this some more tho, as I think it can really help to plug up my game if he can help me out more this way. We shall see.

Tomorrow I am off to Gen Con So Cal! Expect little to no updates for the next few days, sorry. Hope to see some of you there.

No Content

I have two friends, one a lawyer, one a lawyer in training. Both have blogs. Both talk a lot more than I do. It's like they always have something to say, something to discuss, something to impress up on you, something to convince you of.

I admit I don't. It's not what I use my blog for. I have no desire to convince you of anything. I have nothing so important that I feel the need to impress it upon you in the simple storytelling device.

Because that's all my blog really is; a storytelling device. It's here for me to relate to you a tale or two about my life, and maybe share a few emotions. It's a way for me to share my life with friends I don't get to see as often as I would like, and let them know what is going on and how I am feeling. To me, it's not a medium for discussion, or a method to convince some one of an interesting new idea I have. I'm not saying it's wrong for people to use it as such, it's just not something I do, and I find it interesting that people use their blogs for such different purposes.

I'm off half of tomorrow while my house gets worked on for some warranty work, then Thursday I am off to Gen Con So Cal. My wife has been having issues with her hormone medication, so hopefully she will not go crazy and destroy the house and children while I am gone. I did not get to play Poker last night, but did find out how to get my hand histories off of Caribbean, so will start doing some posting of those soon for those of you looking for poker content. I will not be at Pub Poker this Wednesday because I want to visit with the family some before I leave to So Cal.

And that's all I got for today. No deep message. Just a quick update. Hopefully, for my readers, that's enough.

So, how did that PTQ go?

Well, let's review....

Friday afternoon I get a call, the product shipped for the San Diego PTQ had an incorrect address on it. Miki calls the carrier to try to get a correction, no deal. Then he calls back (at my request) to see if they will let him pick it up, and they say the driver will call him.

My nightmare PTQ that was moved at the last minute, ends up having 45 people. I needed 63 to break even. San Diego was worse. They had 44, and the driver never called so the product did not show up. I asked him to just buy some boxes off of the local vendor and use those.

But the local vendor did not show up either. Apparently not only was the vendor sick, but he had forgotten about it to begin with. Yay. So they had no vendor AND no product. Good lord. Any San Diego players that may be reading this. I apologize. :(

Honestly, life in "hard" mode sucks. I also had some big losing poker sessions this weekend, and will get some hand histories to start posting tomorrow here and on FCP.

Friday started with a great session ending up about 10BB on $2/$4. Saturday I donked it up and ended up DOWN 10BB on $2/$4. Sunday I decided to go back to being a super rock, but even when catching action on my monster hands, I suffered three nightmare suckouts (with them catching a 2, 3, and 3 outer respectively) than ended me another 10BB down in $2/4 AND 10BB down in $1/$2.

This does not bode well for Caribbean sun, as now I am basically down to $45 bucks in there, and have a ways to go to fill my promotion. Bleh. I really think I played well on Sunday, and super rock seems to be the way to go at those tables right now, but I can't afford to ride a negative variance much further on this site and come out profitable.

I'm reading State of Fear right now, and its interesting to see how much the push is to show Global Warming as basically a myth. Its hard to pull the fact from fiction novels sometimes, even with references, but I give the author some huge kudos for forcing a change of perception in American culture about this sort of thing.

Gen Con So Cal coming up this weekend. Wheee. Let's hope that goes well...

Misc.

Supposedly Alyssa Milano has herpes according to a gossip/radio show I heard. These destroys so many fantasies of mine its not even funny. :(

NAU is officially the site to never again deal with, screwing up my PTQ this weekend by requesting an insurance addition that no insurance company would ever agree to.

New on the list of top ten sucky things for more reasons that I can count: Having the three year old walk in on you and the wife during that "special time."

Eating one a day vitamins, makes me throw up. I've tried three times now with different variations of eating and drinking before and after taking it. Nope, I always throw up.

I am likely to have to cash out a lot of my Poker bankroll to pay for x-mas this year, as I just had a horrible money week between the NAU thing and a $900 car repair bill.

I'm just pretty pissed about this week, that's all there is to it.

More better things to come... I hope.

The power(?) of AQ

Well, as most of you know, I have a disturbing trend of whining about never getting a hand to play. That streak is officially broken for last night. While I never got a pocket pair above 99's, I got four pocket pairs, K-10 three times, AK twice, JT (suited) twice, and AQ FIVE times. Three times my pocket pairs hit sets, and the third pocket pair was 22, which I was able to safely pitch on a flop of AKQ. Anyone thing I was ahead there? :P

Notice I only mentioned suited for the JT. While "good hands" were slapping me in the face all night, very few times were they suited, so they rarely became premium hands. Still, in an aggressive style in Pub Poker, these hands can make and break you. Last night they did both for me. Here's a few highlights.

In middle position I picked up J/10 suited and limped in to see a flop. As with all Pub Poker tables, it was lose, and I was virtually guaranteed to have odds to be in the pot, even though I was only the second one in. On a flop of 10-10-K I fired away with trips and a backdoor flush draw. I got three callers on a 2/3 sized pot bet! Wowzer! On a turn of 6 of my suit I know had a flush draw and still the trips, and I fired again, called, then raised, then called! With no preflop raisers, I didn't put anyone on pocket kings, and certainly didn't put anyone on pocket 6's staying in on the flop bet. If I am facing another ten, I have to pray I have them outkicked, but what I am hoping is that I'm facing King x. After thinking it over, and being worried about someone having a higher flush draw than me, I push all in trying to knock out the draws. Fold, Call, Call. I am the biggest stack, so even if I lose this, I still have some left over, but not much.

I turn over my J/10. Next guy turns over K-10 for a flopped full house, OUCH! Last lady, a new player, turns over J/Q for an open ended straight draw. We're both drawing dead. The turn is another spade, giving me a flush, but it's irrelevant, and suddenly I am short stacked. Not deathly so, but under 10 Big Blinds.

This begins my saga of AQ. I had already had AQ once in the event, and it just won me the blinds on a preflop raise. Now that I was shortstacked, it was time to make a move, and I got into a raising war with me all in preflop. He turned over K-10 offsuit, and I was pretty happy to flip over my AQ.

Until the flop hit of K-10-6. Who doesn't get the crappy sinking feeling in their chest at this point? Thankfully, on the river, my miracle jack comes up for the suck out straight to beat his two pair. Shortly after that, my pocket 6's hit a set and I doubled up again to go from bottom to top chipstack.

One table move later and I had pocket 9's, and they hit a set and I virtually doubled up again, when two diamonds and a straight draw on the board kept people in to try to hit their draws. Finally, I pushed all in and pushed out the draws, and beat the one person who was already all in.

Then AQ found me again, and another betting war ensued. Before we go any further, let me highlight that I KNOW AQ offsuit is not the best hand out there, or anywhere near close. I was on a rush of cards and really trying to be a maniac to shake off some of my more rockish tendencies, and a free pub poker place is a good place to do that. Although it may seem ridiculous, I picked spots against players where I was sure my AQ was good when I took a stand for it.

For this betting war, one guy ended up all in, and I and another player were down to being short stacked preflop with so much in the pot. The board blanked horribly, and we checked down a board of 88694. I flipped over my AQ, the other guy flipped over J5 offsuit (er????) and the all in guy flipped over A9 to triple up with his two pair.

With only 3K left and the blinds at 500/1000, with the blinds going up next hand, I pushed all in in early position to try to buy the blinds to survive for an orbit to pick up a hand. I got called by A5 offsuit of all things, which beat my 35 offsuit. Soundly. I honestly thought I could have just picked up the blinds there. The two blinds were cautious players, and there were two short stacks just biding their time for a hand. I didn't see anyone calling me without a premium hand, but I was wrong, and just like that I was out, with only two tables left. Ah well.

The lesson for the night was that I was obviously over attached to AQ, and although I did always put my money in with the best hand, more often than not my edge was small for such big pots with the hand. There wasn't a lot of strategy to talk about aside from that last night, sorry. I made a couple good laydowns, but not much to say there. Overall I had a good night, it just didn't happen for me.

As a funny side note, the Card Player just came out with my article in it, and has just hit the web at the following url: Pub Poker

Someone at the poker league read the article last night, and when he was done, said "Hey, the poker kid you're talking about is my friend I think!" I was aghast that I would have bashed one of his friends, but when described his friend, I told him that I don't think it was him. But later on that night, I was sitting at the table with his friend, and I might be wrong. His friend might indeed by the poker kid I described. I'll have to look again next week.

Have a good one all.