My company is holding a charity event at this location today around noon, and then leading into another freeroll wvent where we try to break the record of number of players ever in one location.. (save TOC's) at any event.... the record I believe is 186 players, so we will see if that happens...
I have a poker friend who acutally lives at the course this is being held at and he is also having a party afterwards where I'm sure there will be plenty of cash games... He also has a fireworks display scheduled... I told him to collect $15 at the door from everyone so that he will be able to pay the fine that the cops give him once he starts sending them off... :)
Al will be there, and we will be discussing the online tour, making plans for future events, the second half of the year prize pool, and scheduling the freeroll...
I'll post back with details later on tomorrow...
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
MTT's and cashing percentages
I read a blog, forget who's but it was about cashing percentages and what is a good one. The suggestions was that a 22% cashing ratio was not a good one because of the probability that most of those cashes were early money cashes, and that 13% was probably a better number because you would be getting more wins, hence more profit than being at 22%...
Not really explained all that well in the above statement, but I got it... My MTT play lately has been good, and I have cashed alot, and at least have made every final table in the tourny's that I have played in the last few weeks... SNG MTT's at least.. (18-45 persons)...
I have won several but for the most part have have had some no cashes or early cashes...
So I decided to become a little more aggressive.. stealing a lot, and re-stealing even more...
When it works, it puts me in a situation to win more, and has been successful... Lets just say I see the value in pushing a little harder and taking down more wins than just cahses, which is great for the bank roll.....
I was in the BBT freeroll last night, but couldn't play because Iwas working, and by a stroke of luck, FT crashed... so maybe I get a chance to pllay again if they "redo" it...
Tonight is the Riverchasers Tournament.... log on and play if you get the chance.. usually a pretty good field and just an overall fun time! See you there!
Where: Full Tilt
When: 21:00 est
Buy-in: $10+$1
psswd: riverchasers
Sunday, July 22, 2007
family reunion and an impromptu poker tournament
Saturday I ventured up to broadheadsville in northern PA for a family reunion. Very fun time to meet some family members we rarely get to see with lots of kids and a bunch of folks in the same predictament (lots of kids). This one was especially cool because we just lost an uncle who was dear to everyone, and GG... our grandmother of 97 years, both within the last 3 months.
So we're having fun, eating, DRINKING (woot!), and watching the kids have fun in the pool, when someone asks me about the Vegas trip... As I spoke about poker, and the experience, and my company, a few decide it would be cool to have a tournament.
One uncle, who is particularly competitive, and old (70's) starts spewing about how us "kids" couldn't possibly compete against the old guys. I smile and think this oughta be fun.
When it comes to competitiveness, I am no slouch. In fact, its one of my wifes pet peeves about me (which will come out in a different post later on... has to do with therapy :) )
Anyway we get into the tourny, about 16 of us, for a very small amount of money, so much so that I personally put up the prize pool, as we needed players and some didn't know how to play much, and didn't want to put up any money. so I decided that it would be cool to put up $200 for first place (winner takes all) and just have fun.
It was kinda like Kats friday donkament in the beginning, save the rebuys...
Let me just cut to the chase here... Uncle and me get down to heads up. He was bloating the whole tournament when he put out some players (who had no idea how to play) and how he was going to just run over everyone...
Now, I personally put up the prize pool, and I guess the assumption was that the winner would at least poney some up to the host who spent a lot of time preparing, and money on food and stuff... and it was alot.
We get heads up and he is just catching like crazy. I take some pots off of him, to his dismay, and outplayed him on one hand where he actually caught top two, and folded to my jam with 4 to a straight. he was being an ass so I showed him my cards... Now believe me when I tell you I wasn't being confrontational, just being a wise ass more or less, but with a hint of sarcasm, and even humor...
I ran into a few of his made hands with bluffs, and lost a race or two to make us just about even. Thats when it happened... I get K's.. I raise to his limp, and he looks at me and says, I don't believe you... He min raises my raise, and I jam... He calls with A 10... A on the flop and the tourny is over... We all kind of laugh and congratulate, and he starts ripping me.. Like I'm a joke, and I'm wasting my time playing this game, and blah blah blah... I look at him and say, nice call with a weak Ace while your dominated... the non players are laughing and not knowing any better think he is right... any Ace has to be good... I say someting about how he had to hit a three outer to beat me, to which I got , "whats an outer?"
Then he says.. "where's my money bitch?"
Bitch?
now this guy is retired, rich, and old... and he's calling me a bitch...
So I says... Hey!, 50 cent.... Here's your money.... and I take a roll of 20's over to him and reach out with my hand... as he goes to grab it, I drop it on the grass. I then say, make sure Aunt Sue gets her piece...he looks at me and says, "I was right, you are a bitch", to which my reply was "and you're a c%nt"...
I know, I know, not the most appropriate word I could come up with but it was in the heat of the moment and I was pissed at his lack of maturity and well, lets just say we were both wrong.. But I was pissed...
Kinda like the time I called a guy in a wheel chair at the Borgata Christopher Reeves because he got about $600 of my money when he called an all in with 10 8 of clubs against my set of Queens on the flop... He CALLED 400 more on a ten high flush draw in a cash game, not to mention the $40 raise on the flop wth 10 8... Thats another story for another time, maybe tomorrow, but its a good one...
I felt bad about the situation and we shook hands and apologized to each other before we left, and had a laugh about it, but it shook me up a bit that this guy would behave that way... Good Times!
So we're having fun, eating, DRINKING (woot!), and watching the kids have fun in the pool, when someone asks me about the Vegas trip... As I spoke about poker, and the experience, and my company, a few decide it would be cool to have a tournament.
One uncle, who is particularly competitive, and old (70's) starts spewing about how us "kids" couldn't possibly compete against the old guys. I smile and think this oughta be fun.
When it comes to competitiveness, I am no slouch. In fact, its one of my wifes pet peeves about me (which will come out in a different post later on... has to do with therapy :) )
Anyway we get into the tourny, about 16 of us, for a very small amount of money, so much so that I personally put up the prize pool, as we needed players and some didn't know how to play much, and didn't want to put up any money. so I decided that it would be cool to put up $200 for first place (winner takes all) and just have fun.
It was kinda like Kats friday donkament in the beginning, save the rebuys...
Let me just cut to the chase here... Uncle and me get down to heads up. He was bloating the whole tournament when he put out some players (who had no idea how to play) and how he was going to just run over everyone...
Now, I personally put up the prize pool, and I guess the assumption was that the winner would at least poney some up to the host who spent a lot of time preparing, and money on food and stuff... and it was alot.
We get heads up and he is just catching like crazy. I take some pots off of him, to his dismay, and outplayed him on one hand where he actually caught top two, and folded to my jam with 4 to a straight. he was being an ass so I showed him my cards... Now believe me when I tell you I wasn't being confrontational, just being a wise ass more or less, but with a hint of sarcasm, and even humor...
I ran into a few of his made hands with bluffs, and lost a race or two to make us just about even. Thats when it happened... I get K's.. I raise to his limp, and he looks at me and says, I don't believe you... He min raises my raise, and I jam... He calls with A 10... A on the flop and the tourny is over... We all kind of laugh and congratulate, and he starts ripping me.. Like I'm a joke, and I'm wasting my time playing this game, and blah blah blah... I look at him and say, nice call with a weak Ace while your dominated... the non players are laughing and not knowing any better think he is right... any Ace has to be good... I say someting about how he had to hit a three outer to beat me, to which I got , "whats an outer?"
Then he says.. "where's my money bitch?"
Bitch?
now this guy is retired, rich, and old... and he's calling me a bitch...
So I says... Hey!, 50 cent.... Here's your money.... and I take a roll of 20's over to him and reach out with my hand... as he goes to grab it, I drop it on the grass. I then say, make sure Aunt Sue gets her piece...he looks at me and says, "I was right, you are a bitch", to which my reply was "and you're a c%nt"...
I know, I know, not the most appropriate word I could come up with but it was in the heat of the moment and I was pissed at his lack of maturity and well, lets just say we were both wrong.. But I was pissed...
Kinda like the time I called a guy in a wheel chair at the Borgata Christopher Reeves because he got about $600 of my money when he called an all in with 10 8 of clubs against my set of Queens on the flop... He CALLED 400 more on a ten high flush draw in a cash game, not to mention the $40 raise on the flop wth 10 8... Thats another story for another time, maybe tomorrow, but its a good one...
I felt bad about the situation and we shook hands and apologized to each other before we left, and had a laugh about it, but it shook me up a bit that this guy would behave that way... Good Times!
Friday, July 20, 2007
kids and poker
I've written about this before, but watching kids (4 of them while the wife is away on a trip to see her brother's family) and playing online poker just doesn't mix... I try, I really do, but its almost impossible, even at 11pm, to try and keep them in bed and happy, while their mother is not in attendance and they know it... Its almost like a pass to mess with Dad...
See, Dad doesn't like infants.. in general. Now, of course I love my son.. more than anything in the world, but I'm the type that needs immediate feedback, and crying doesn't do it for me. I need intellectual back and forth that an infant just can't give, and I have no time for that...
So when they all go down nice and smooth, and I have done what I think is my parently duty, such as reading books, tooth brushing instructions, and over all "before bed" hygiene, I expect a little in return... like going to sleep, and being left alone to feed my poker habit, reading a book, cleaning up, or even just sleeping myself...
Last night was a clear example that in my kids eyes, when Mom isn't here, its a license to "f" with dad... and for the most part I take it pretty well. I don't take anything out on them, although my wife does get a piece of it, but when she wasn't there to take it, I was lost in a very deep hole without knowing what to do... or how to vent
So when I finally got them all on my side, and down for the night, I took it out on the poker tables... I knew I was probably going to donk off a pile of my bankroll, and figured it would be a good price for some therapy. But I got lucky. Extremely lucky.
I got into a $10 45 MTT. and I pushed just about everyhand. If someone raised preflop, I rr behind them. Didn't matter what cards I held... I just decided to bully right out of the gates... and bullying with the 1500 starting stack can't really be described as bullying. As I witnessed first hand.
I knew I would be called by even marginal hands. The first three times I did this (the first three hands mind you) It was folded to my aggression... Only one of those hands was worth the raise to a standard raise (AK). But everyone folded.
Then, I get 8d9d... UTG min raises 3 callers, and I go to 450... UTG calls and everyone else folds... The flop comes 7d 10d Ad... MIRACLE!
He checks, I bet half the pot, and he shoves... holding A 4o... Funny stuff to me. He min raises utg with A4o and calls a 10x raise with it, and then shoves a sooted flop with a naked A and no suit...
From there it was crazy... I picked up a pile of monster hands, all which were folded to or held good when I was called. I held the chip lead all the way to the final table... fell to three in chips, and then back to the Lead with about 4 of us left...
I haven't figured out how to copy the table images yet, or to copy and paste the hand histories... I will though and will start to post them here as well with my successes and failures... I think they are a good learning tool, and just a cool thing to do...
I won the tournament when HU with even stacks, my opponent limped with AA, to which I checked Kc 3h... The flop came 2 3 4 all clubs. I checked, he checked (???)... the turn came the K giving me two pair and the 2cnd flush draw... I let out pot, (2,000) he jammed (24,000), and I called... They hold up and I win...
It was fun playing that way, but definatley losing poker .. I was lucky to have some pretty tight players... I was stealing pots with hands that I didn't need to, and with to many players in them... One was 4 callers to a min raise, I was holding 8 5o (midway thru the tourny) with a huge stack... I shoved it all in, and all folded. even a super shorty, which I just don't get... If he was willing to call a raise with those cards, he should've been jamming them pre, instead of call/ folding to an aggressor...
It was some good therapy though!
See, Dad doesn't like infants.. in general. Now, of course I love my son.. more than anything in the world, but I'm the type that needs immediate feedback, and crying doesn't do it for me. I need intellectual back and forth that an infant just can't give, and I have no time for that...
So when they all go down nice and smooth, and I have done what I think is my parently duty, such as reading books, tooth brushing instructions, and over all "before bed" hygiene, I expect a little in return... like going to sleep, and being left alone to feed my poker habit, reading a book, cleaning up, or even just sleeping myself...
Last night was a clear example that in my kids eyes, when Mom isn't here, its a license to "f" with dad... and for the most part I take it pretty well. I don't take anything out on them, although my wife does get a piece of it, but when she wasn't there to take it, I was lost in a very deep hole without knowing what to do... or how to vent
So when I finally got them all on my side, and down for the night, I took it out on the poker tables... I knew I was probably going to donk off a pile of my bankroll, and figured it would be a good price for some therapy. But I got lucky. Extremely lucky.
I got into a $10 45 MTT. and I pushed just about everyhand. If someone raised preflop, I rr behind them. Didn't matter what cards I held... I just decided to bully right out of the gates... and bullying with the 1500 starting stack can't really be described as bullying. As I witnessed first hand.
I knew I would be called by even marginal hands. The first three times I did this (the first three hands mind you) It was folded to my aggression... Only one of those hands was worth the raise to a standard raise (AK). But everyone folded.
Then, I get 8d9d... UTG min raises 3 callers, and I go to 450... UTG calls and everyone else folds... The flop comes 7d 10d Ad... MIRACLE!
He checks, I bet half the pot, and he shoves... holding A 4o... Funny stuff to me. He min raises utg with A4o and calls a 10x raise with it, and then shoves a sooted flop with a naked A and no suit...
From there it was crazy... I picked up a pile of monster hands, all which were folded to or held good when I was called. I held the chip lead all the way to the final table... fell to three in chips, and then back to the Lead with about 4 of us left...
I haven't figured out how to copy the table images yet, or to copy and paste the hand histories... I will though and will start to post them here as well with my successes and failures... I think they are a good learning tool, and just a cool thing to do...
I won the tournament when HU with even stacks, my opponent limped with AA, to which I checked Kc 3h... The flop came 2 3 4 all clubs. I checked, he checked (???)... the turn came the K giving me two pair and the 2cnd flush draw... I let out pot, (2,000) he jammed (24,000), and I called... They hold up and I win...
It was fun playing that way, but definatley losing poker .. I was lucky to have some pretty tight players... I was stealing pots with hands that I didn't need to, and with to many players in them... One was 4 callers to a min raise, I was holding 8 5o (midway thru the tourny) with a huge stack... I shoved it all in, and all folded. even a super shorty, which I just don't get... If he was willing to call a raise with those cards, he should've been jamming them pre, instead of call/ folding to an aggressor...
It was some good therapy though!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Pop goes the weasel...
Congrats to DON for winning the Bounty on my head, and to this guy for busting Al... both have been contacted and are aware of their prize collection logistics...
I love the mookie... absolute awesome time. I played pretty much uneventfully for the first hour or so taking down some pots with c-bets after my prefloop raises getting up to about 3900 in chips... then nothing... made some moves to no avail, having to fold on reraises (steals :) ) and then finally getting so short in 22cnd place with KJ... hadn't played a hand for about an hour so I jammed to the utg caller.. (don)... everyone folded, Don said GL, to which I replied "Oh Man" and he turned up 99... I hit air and was gone with the exclamation of Don hitting his set on the riv...
The dookie was fun as well and I managed to double up a few times, only to half fall asleep while playing and being invited to a $1/$2 cash game (razz) by Al Hoy and others...
Dumbest quote of the night... FUEL was playing and talking about a land deal him and his wife were contemplating.. he quoted the space and said it was for a teardown and rebuild and how much per square foot... a rail bird said "thats 1.5 mil!" "you rich fuel?" no, he plans to steal it dumbass!
I multi talbed two $10 18 person tournies while playing all three other rooms.. I managed to win the first one, and I forget how I did in the other because I was falling asleep... I think I won, not sure :)
Al tried texting me to see if I was still alive... I responded by saying yes, I think.... I'll have to check stats though this morning to see if I dreamed the cash, or if it actually happend...
I love the mookie... absolute awesome time. I played pretty much uneventfully for the first hour or so taking down some pots with c-bets after my prefloop raises getting up to about 3900 in chips... then nothing... made some moves to no avail, having to fold on reraises (steals :) ) and then finally getting so short in 22cnd place with KJ... hadn't played a hand for about an hour so I jammed to the utg caller.. (don)... everyone folded, Don said GL, to which I replied "Oh Man" and he turned up 99... I hit air and was gone with the exclamation of Don hitting his set on the riv...
The dookie was fun as well and I managed to double up a few times, only to half fall asleep while playing and being invited to a $1/$2 cash game (razz) by Al Hoy and others...
Dumbest quote of the night... FUEL was playing and talking about a land deal him and his wife were contemplating.. he quoted the space and said it was for a teardown and rebuild and how much per square foot... a rail bird said "thats 1.5 mil!" "you rich fuel?" no, he plans to steal it dumbass!
I multi talbed two $10 18 person tournies while playing all three other rooms.. I managed to win the first one, and I forget how I did in the other because I was falling asleep... I think I won, not sure :)
Al tried texting me to see if I was still alive... I responded by saying yes, I think.... I'll have to check stats though this morning to see if I dreamed the cash, or if it actually happend...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Mookie Tonight!
Play in the Mookie tonight! Bounty on myself and THIS guy... RPT hat from me, bottle of SOCO for Al... (no substitutions as that would be completely unethical!)
10pm est... buy-in $10 + $1... passwrd: vegas1
and then there is the Dookie at 11:30 I think... check out MOOKS site for details on that one.. also a lot of fun! See you there!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Cee gar's!
I missed the MATH last night because one of the crew decided that 3 books wasn't enough to put her asleep. I usually preregister for this but got caught up in a meeting yesterday afternoon, and never had the chance until I got home.. which was late, and went right into bedtime mode.
So I decided to have a smoke in the porch with a neighbor. It was fun to sit back and just relax for once without the glow of an LCD display shining back at me. Although after a while I got right back into it.
I had a few boxes of Cigars given to me from the TINDERBOX since they sponsor my company, and I am putting together a deal with them and Layne Flack, and a couple of other pros to have their own signature series lines. Layne sent me an email saying he was moving, so I can only hope that the samples I sent him reach his new address.
This should be a really cool deal for him and the others, and I hope it takes off...
I watched Bonehet play in the 28k and he was doing well when I went to bed... 8k in chips and already in the money. I played an 18 MTT, won that and thought, ok, time to go to sleep. Of course I saw the Phils were playing (I mean losing) the Dodgers so I watched the rest of that debacle, and then, headed off to sleep.
I will def be playing the MOOKIE tomorrow night... Never Miss the Mookie!
So I decided to have a smoke in the porch with a neighbor. It was fun to sit back and just relax for once without the glow of an LCD display shining back at me. Although after a while I got right back into it.
I had a few boxes of Cigars given to me from the TINDERBOX since they sponsor my company, and I am putting together a deal with them and Layne Flack, and a couple of other pros to have their own signature series lines. Layne sent me an email saying he was moving, so I can only hope that the samples I sent him reach his new address.
This should be a really cool deal for him and the others, and I hope it takes off...
I watched Bonehet play in the 28k and he was doing well when I went to bed... 8k in chips and already in the money. I played an 18 MTT, won that and thought, ok, time to go to sleep. Of course I saw the Phils were playing (I mean losing) the Dodgers so I watched the rest of that debacle, and then, headed off to sleep.
I will def be playing the MOOKIE tomorrow night... Never Miss the Mookie!
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