quack-quack, call two blacks
flop comes two sixes, a ten
all in, dumb, dumb, dumb.
We interrupt our normal programming
Just finished the latest Harry Potter book. I can't wait until the next one. Not much poker since I was reading the book. Took 2nd in a sit-n-go Monday night after leading for most of the game when heads up the guy hit a 3-outer (AK vs KQ) on the river.
-tmo
-tmo
Signs that you're playing too much poker....
This morning in that semi-conscious state where you're not totally awake I had a dream.
I was in a tournament, maybe THE tournament. Anyway, for some reason I arrived late. I don't think it was the start of the tourney, maybe it was the second day or maybe we were returning from a break. Somehow I had been given a 10 minute penalty when I wasn't even at the table. I seem to remember that I was not the only person who was penalized. Upon finding out that I was being assessed a 10 minute penalty I sought out the TD for more information. I think I was arguing with her but clearly not getting anywhere. I'm still yelling at the TD when someone tells me that my time is up and I can go sit down.
I rush to my table to see Johnny Chan sitting immediately to my right.
I'm not quite sure how but the flop is already on the table with two 7's and I look at my hand and see pocket 7s. I think there's been action already when I stop and decide whether I'll slow-play but decide to shove all in because I rationalize that limping would be suspicious.
Now it gets really wierd because my sister is suddenly sitting to my immediate left. I think she call (but has me covered) as well as one other person, I can't remember if it's Johnny or someone else.
I think my sister calls off the rest of her money going to the river. But then the game must have changed because I don't have pocket 7s any more, in fact, I have four cards in my hand. I'm pretty sure the 7s are still on the board, but now I have a 7 and K to make Sevens full of Kings, which still take the pot.
I'd like to know what Freud would think of that one!
-tmo
I was in a tournament, maybe THE tournament. Anyway, for some reason I arrived late. I don't think it was the start of the tourney, maybe it was the second day or maybe we were returning from a break. Somehow I had been given a 10 minute penalty when I wasn't even at the table. I seem to remember that I was not the only person who was penalized. Upon finding out that I was being assessed a 10 minute penalty I sought out the TD for more information. I think I was arguing with her but clearly not getting anywhere. I'm still yelling at the TD when someone tells me that my time is up and I can go sit down.
I rush to my table to see Johnny Chan sitting immediately to my right.
I'm not quite sure how but the flop is already on the table with two 7's and I look at my hand and see pocket 7s. I think there's been action already when I stop and decide whether I'll slow-play but decide to shove all in because I rationalize that limping would be suspicious.
Now it gets really wierd because my sister is suddenly sitting to my immediate left. I think she call (but has me covered) as well as one other person, I can't remember if it's Johnny or someone else.
I think my sister calls off the rest of her money going to the river. But then the game must have changed because I don't have pocket 7s any more, in fact, I have four cards in my hand. I'm pretty sure the 7s are still on the board, but now I have a 7 and K to make Sevens full of Kings, which still take the pot.
I'd like to know what Freud would think of that one!
-tmo
WSOP Final Table
It's all come down to this. The final 9 players are seated at the final table of the main event. There's over $50 Million in chips on the table. The SHORT STACK begins with over $1 million. I can't even imagine saying "raise, one million."
For those of you who haven't discovered the Tao of Poker, well, I don't know where the hell you've been:
http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
Pauly has been a one-man army from event one providing great updates about the going ons in and around the poker room. His has been the first blog I'd check every morning.
-tmo
For those of you who haven't discovered the Tao of Poker, well, I don't know where the hell you've been:
http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
Pauly has been a one-man army from event one providing great updates about the going ons in and around the poker room. His has been the first blog I'd check every morning.
-tmo
I get what I pay for
Nursing my little bankroll, I've been playing the $5+.50 multi-table sit-n-gos on Ultimate Bet lately. I like their new MTTs but the following example is a hand that just makes me want to scream.
I was doing pretty well going into the final table when I tried a bluff on a guy who was going to call his top pair, top kicker even though I made a suspiciously small bet on the river when the third club fell. I'm not sure if it wasn't suspsiciously small enough, or maybe I was giving him too much credit for even seeing the possible flush on the board.
Anyway, I managed to fight my way back from the lowest stack to 5th and then 4th. I'm the small blind with blinds at 200/400. The little stack shoves all in from the button for T515. I'm tempted to call (which would leave me with about T1200) with two suited cards but look to my left and figure the BB, chip leader I might add, will call the extra T115 and decide to fold. BB folds!!! WTF!!??!!?? It costs him 115 to win 1115, almost 10 to 1 on his money. There is no hand that he is a 10 to 1 dog.
I had to bite my lip not to start lecturing him right then and there.
My KQs goes down in flames against a guy who called my pot-sized bet with A9o pref-flop, bets T400 on a 10-high rainbow flop and then calls my all-in.
SIGH. Should I expect anything else from guys who are playing $5 sit-n-gos?
-tmo
I was doing pretty well going into the final table when I tried a bluff on a guy who was going to call his top pair, top kicker even though I made a suspiciously small bet on the river when the third club fell. I'm not sure if it wasn't suspsiciously small enough, or maybe I was giving him too much credit for even seeing the possible flush on the board.
Anyway, I managed to fight my way back from the lowest stack to 5th and then 4th. I'm the small blind with blinds at 200/400. The little stack shoves all in from the button for T515. I'm tempted to call (which would leave me with about T1200) with two suited cards but look to my left and figure the BB, chip leader I might add, will call the extra T115 and decide to fold. BB folds!!! WTF!!??!!?? It costs him 115 to win 1115, almost 10 to 1 on his money. There is no hand that he is a 10 to 1 dog.
I had to bite my lip not to start lecturing him right then and there.
My KQs goes down in flames against a guy who called my pot-sized bet with A9o pref-flop, bets T400 on a 10-high rainbow flop and then calls my all-in.
SIGH. Should I expect anything else from guys who are playing $5 sit-n-gos?
-tmo
gutted
I watched the Cincinatti Kid over the weekend. It is a great movie, a must see for every poker player. What's great about it is that it doesn't have the hollywood ending. It's the real life ending: about a guy who thinks he has what it takes and takes on the best only to learn that one outters do happen. Part of me wishes someone would do a remake, but I know I would be disappointed, because in the modern version, the kid would beat the man and get the girl.
In the end the kid is gutted by the man. It's an apropo description that I'm surprised isn't still used these days. These days I think it would be fitting to say "I was gutted by (insert online poker website here)."
Yes, friends, once again my account is down to a mere pittance. I had a nice run on sit-n-gos but I lately I've been catching the wrong end of the coin flip too many times and people have gone runner-runner more than I care to remember. Not that I haven't done my share of suckouts, I've given almost as well as I've gotten, but in the end my bankroll is no more.
Probably for the best. We're getting ready to move into our house at the end of the month so I really do have other things to do with my time. Maybe a sabatical will be good for me.
I did place 17th out of 461 in a tourney. I was pretty happy with my play up until I made one stupid mistake that knocked me out. At least I cashed, although I probably could have folded my way to the final table.
off to bed and dreams of pocket rockets.
-t
In the end the kid is gutted by the man. It's an apropo description that I'm surprised isn't still used these days. These days I think it would be fitting to say "I was gutted by (insert online poker website here)."
Yes, friends, once again my account is down to a mere pittance. I had a nice run on sit-n-gos but I lately I've been catching the wrong end of the coin flip too many times and people have gone runner-runner more than I care to remember. Not that I haven't done my share of suckouts, I've given almost as well as I've gotten, but in the end my bankroll is no more.
Probably for the best. We're getting ready to move into our house at the end of the month so I really do have other things to do with my time. Maybe a sabatical will be good for me.
I did place 17th out of 461 in a tourney. I was pretty happy with my play up until I made one stupid mistake that knocked me out. At least I cashed, although I probably could have folded my way to the final table.
off to bed and dreams of pocket rockets.
-t
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