Interesting Night

Well I just just got finished playing the $26K Guarantee and what a crazy show that was. Early on in the tourney I lost half my chips and was just waiting for a good hand and then came along a gem to keep me in the game.

Yes thats a Royal Flush ladies and gents. Not only is it a Royal Flush but it beat out a flopped boat to help me get back into the game. Then about 15 minutes later I got another crazy hand.

Yup flopped quads and got me another nice pot. Shove a horseshoe up my ass and call me lucky. I've never seen that kinda luck before. I just wish it would come around a bit more. But I'll take what I can get, unfortunately I didn't get anything else to help me out later in the tourney and I went out in 121st place, earning $40. I really want to get better at these MTT and by the looks of it, I might have the chops for it, maybe.

I also had a great run in the $75 token frenzy basically staying in the top 10 for most of the time and even hitting number one for a few minutes. When the token bubble came around I was sitting in second and easily cruised my way to a token. Now I can play in the blogger big game this weekend. I hope some of this luck from tonight makes it over to that tourney. See you all there.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Good...

Last night I played in the weekly blonkament hosted by Katitude. It's just a laid back $1 rebuy tourney where the bloggers just mess around. For the first hour I got some good hands and build a sizable stack without having to rebuy. The rest of the time I just tried to play good poker and I think I did pretty well, I believe I only had one suckout so not too bad. When all was said and done I won the tourney. Yup, another blogger tourney under the belt. Geez I'm such a lucky donk. Well that was about the only good so far.

The Bad...

I think I'm down over $100 for the past 48 hours at the cash tables. My aces and kings just seem to love getting cracked. Fun! I did play in a four Tier One SNGs and wound up winning 2 tokens, the bad part is I should have had three but suffered a huge suckout when my aces got cracked on the river.

And now The Ugly...

I decided to play in the Tier Two Frenzy tonight so I could have a $75 token ready for the Blogger Big Game next Sunday. I was doing great, I was 4/88 and then ran into this gem of a suckout:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mtnrider81 [Ad Kh]
mtnrider81 raises to 210
krs477 calls 210

*** FLOP *** [Qd Kd 5s]
mtnrider81 bets 510
krs477 has 15 seconds left to act
krs477 raises to 1,905, and is all in
mtnrider81 calls 1,395
krs477 shows [Jc Qh]
mtnrider81 shows [Ad Kh]

*** TURN *** [Qd Kd 5s] [6h]

*** RIVER *** [Qd Kd 5s 6h] [Jh] (OF COURSE!!)

So douche bag gets his out on the river. Instead of being in first and easily making it to the token payout, IGH a few hands later because I'm on huge-mega-wanna-stab-him-in-the-eye-with-an-ice-pick tilt. Gotta love this game sometimes. Ok, I'm done now.

I haven't updated this blog for two weeks now and for a very good reason. I was lazy. I took the entire week off last week and didn't do much except drink, hence the lack of posts. Between beers I did manage to go to the beach, play in a small tourney and make it to Vegas for a night. Vegas was a blast up until I got in a fight with a dresser and lost. I was so drunk that while getting into my hotel room I took a digger and smacked my face against the dresser in my room cutting my cheek and nose a bit. Thankfully I was so trashed that it didn't hurt and I just passed out right after that. Made it down to the Rio the next day to check out the WSOP and that was pretty cool.

I played a small $30 tourney at a semi-local casino last week. I didn't make the money and I probably only played three hands the entire time but it was still just fun to do. Whats funny is today I found out that one of the guys I played with last week just took third place in the WSOP Event #27 yesterday, so congrats to Seth Weinger. While playing in our tourney he was telling us how he gets to play in those tourneys for free because of his business, he sells card protectors, how nice is that?

Played in the MATH last night and what a horrible showing for me. In the first 15 minutes I got pocket queens twice but had over cards on both flops and had to throw them away. After that I was card dead for the rest of the time. Not one damn playable hand. I finally found two face cards and went all-in with those but ran into ATo and was sent packing. I know I need to try to just pick up blinds when I can but I didn't even have anything to steal with. Well I just need to keep practicing.

Close but no cigar

Played in the MATH last night and did pretty well but still not good enough. I made it to the final table but busted out in 8th place two spots before the money. I really need to learn to lay down mid pair cards. With eight people left and the blinds getting extremely high, I think most of the players had an M value of five of under which is nuts, I found 66 in MP and decided to raise and hopefully steal the huge blinds out there. Unfortunately someone raised all-in two after me and I had a decision to make. Earlier I saw this guy pushing with Ax a few times and hitting. I called figuring I was at least a slight advantage. He flipped over KQo and I made the right call but the AKQ flop sent me packing. Oh well, you live and learn. Now I just need to learn to get away from those races. I'm sure hoy and a couple of others have noticed that about me and my donk moves. Time to step it up and start playing smarter. At least the final table appearance helped push me up in the BBT leader board. I'm still trying to get into the top 25 and if my play keeps improving like it has I think that it's quite possible to achieve.

Quick Sunday recap: Played, loss a little bit. Played in a $5.50 MTT, got so tired of the donk races and horrible played that I decided to play Gears of War on my Xbox 360 while playing the tourney. Whats sad is I still made the money without trying, fcuking losers.

Ok, I'm really upset right now because it has now been close to a year now since my last trip to Vegas; very sad I know. What makes things worse is the World Series of Poker is going on right now and is something I would really love to at least go see. Also I keep reading how almost all the bloggers are going to be heading out to the city of sin. What sucks is I have all next week off because I needed a break from work but no money to make it out there. Right now I am missing the bright lights, gambling and debauchery that takes place. I need my fix but like most junkies I don't have the green. Maybe I can knock over a liqueur store to get me there...

Lazy Saturday

Well didn't do much today but play poker and didn't do to bad for myself. Here are the stats:

Date	Session	Profit/Loss
6/2/2007	$.25/$.50	$18.25
6/2/2007	$.25/$.50	$36.10
6/2/2007	$.25/$.50	$17.20
6/2/2007	$.25/$.50	$30.65

Recap #1

Well yesterday was the first day of my $40,000 challenge. Ha, that sounds so funny, like I'm some big shot. Yeah right. Alright, the first day wasn't so bad. I was up the entire session, however I ended only $30 up at the end. At one point I was a little over $50 up, but a couple of bad hands subtracted from that. I was rather upset because I played for just over four hours and not many good cards came my way, but at least I was able to make the most of what I got. The only interesting hand of the night was this one:

Table Florentine - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:14:51 ET - 2007/06/02

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mtnrider81 [Qc Qs] (I think this was the 5th pocket pair I've had in 3 hours)
GGreen folds
VulcanRush calls $0.50
kj0820 folds
Run You Over 22 folds
DRRAVEN calls $0.50
GREATMAN222 folds
mtnrider81 raises to $2.50
ritman4life calls $2.25
bennyc1777 has 15 seconds left to act
bennyc1777 folds
VulcanRush folds
DRRAVEN folds

*** FLOP *** [9c 8d 8c] (Not really scared with this flop)
ritman4life checks
mtnrider81 bets $5
ritman4life raises to $10.75, and is all in
mtnrider81 calls $5.75
ritman4life shows [9s Js] (Yeah I've got you buddy)
mtnrider81 shows [Qc Qs]

*** TURN *** [9c 8d 8c] [9d] (Are you shitting me?!?!)

*** RIVER *** [9c 8d 8c 9d] [Qh] (HAHA, resuckout bitch!)

*** SUMMARY ***
mtnrider81 (button) showed [Qc Qs] and won ($26.60) with a full house, Queens full of Nines

Shuffle Up and Deal...

Well today marks the beginning of the World Series of Poker and with it comes all the great coverage from the talented bloggers, Dr. Pauly, Change100, MeanGene, and others. I'm gonna look forward everyday to hearing from them and they're experiences during this great event.

Today will also be my beginning of a poker challenge to myself. I'm gonna try to take $150 and turn it into $40,000. However, knowing my donkey playing I'll be broke by week's end, but I need to try and see what I can do. So everyday I play I'll put my stats up here and try to give any recaps of good plays, bad beats or questionable hands that I come across. Wish me good skill, and even a little bit of luck cause I'm gonna need all I can get.