I don't have too much to say right now so I'm just gonna talk about 1 hand tonight. In the 50-50 on FullTilt I had the pleasure of busting out Chris Moorman, who I believe is on of the best poker players out right now. The hand went like this:
Seat 1: BARNIBUS (2,770)
Seat 2: Hewitt46 (3,290)
Seat 3: JokingJaded (4,680)
Seat 4: SARAH03 (7,765)
Seat 5: str8upnutz (2,370)
Seat 6: MoormanI (1,975)
Seat 7: FTvball9 (1,900)
Seat 8: Givemeyochips (4,830)
Seat 9: DevilsBankroll (3,705)
BARNIBUS posts the small blind of 40
Hewitt46 posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DevilsBankroll [Jc Ah]
JokingJaded folds
SARAH03 folds
str8upnutz folds
MoormanI has 15 seconds left to act
MoormanI raises to 240
FTvball9 folds
Givemeyochips folds
DevilsBankroll calls 240
BARNIBUS folds
Hewitt46 calls 160
*** FLOP *** [5d 7h Ks]
Hewitt46 checks
MoormanI has 15 seconds left to act
MoormanI checks
DevilsBankroll checks
*** TURN *** [5d 7h Ks] [Jh]
Hewitt46 checks
MoormanI checks
DevilsBankroll bets 480
Hewitt46 folds
MoormanI raises to 1,735, and is all in
DevilsBankroll calls 1,255
MoormanI shows [Qd Jd]
DevilsBankroll shows [Jc Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5d 7h Ks Jh] [7c]
MoormanI shows two pair, Jacks and Sevens
DevilsBankroll shows two pair, Jacks and Sevens
DevilsBankroll wins the pot (4,230) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4,230 | Rake 0
Board: [5d 7h Ks Jh 7c]
Seat 1: BARNIBUS (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Hewitt46 (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 3: JokingJaded didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: SARAH03 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: str8upnutz didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: MoormanI showed [Qd Jd] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 7: FTvball9 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: Givemeyochips didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: DevilsBankroll (button) showed [Jc Ah] and won (4,230) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
I definitely don't play this hand like this every time but against Chris, and the way he was playing tonight, it was the right move.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Casino's: A review of my experiences: Harrahs New Orleans
Although I haven't played all over the world, I have had the pleasure of traveling to a number of places around the US to play cards. The four trips that I've done the most or stuck out in my mind (good or bad) are New Orleans, Las Vegas, Reno, and Atlantic City (in no specific order). Here is a story or at least some words that I've jumbled up together to discuss my experiences in each.
New Orleans
This place holds a special place in my heart since it is where my girlfriend is from as well as the first place I cashed in a WSOP circuit event (see earlier blogs). It's an awesome place to play cards (Harrahs) and you get an interesting mix of people there. One of the most fun trips that I've had to New Orleans was during Mardi Gras. This was the most profitable trip for me to go there as well. I made tons of money there from drunk 'guests' to the city. The only real drawback is that when I was leaving I contemplated hard about taking a cab no more than 2 blocks to the hotel that I was staying at because there was a group of guys watching me from the rail once I started collecting a nice stack and were quick on their phones when I went to cash out (at 4AM!!!). It was no coincidence that they left the casino the same time I did...At which point I headed right back in. So, I took a cab the 2 blocks. Awesome place but not always the safest. My only real dislike of New Orleans is that they have toned down their food because the tourists say it's too spicy. Give me a break, New Orleans is about spicy food. If you don't like it, go to subway (which I think should also spice up every sandwich in there).
Next review will be Atlantic City. Until then: Good luck in everything that you attempt.
New Orleans
This place holds a special place in my heart since it is where my girlfriend is from as well as the first place I cashed in a WSOP circuit event (see earlier blogs). It's an awesome place to play cards (Harrahs) and you get an interesting mix of people there. One of the most fun trips that I've had to New Orleans was during Mardi Gras. This was the most profitable trip for me to go there as well. I made tons of money there from drunk 'guests' to the city. The only real drawback is that when I was leaving I contemplated hard about taking a cab no more than 2 blocks to the hotel that I was staying at because there was a group of guys watching me from the rail once I started collecting a nice stack and were quick on their phones when I went to cash out (at 4AM!!!). It was no coincidence that they left the casino the same time I did...At which point I headed right back in. So, I took a cab the 2 blocks. Awesome place but not always the safest. My only real dislike of New Orleans is that they have toned down their food because the tourists say it's too spicy. Give me a break, New Orleans is about spicy food. If you don't like it, go to subway (which I think should also spice up every sandwich in there).
Next review will be Atlantic City. Until then: Good luck in everything that you attempt.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Blog 1 from WSOP Circuit event in New Orleans: Part 1- Reprint
For this post and the next I'm going to be reposting the story of my second WSOP Circuit event (the first that I cashed in). I'm breaking it up into two blogs because it's a bit long for a blog and how else will I generate repeat visitors...other than putting 'to be continued' at the end of a story. Admit it, you always see the sequel no matter how bad you think it's gonna be. In my case, the SAW series is a perfect example of this...it sucks at this poitn but I see every one of them in hopes that they will turn it around. So, part one of the story:
"Crystal (My girlfriend) and I flew out Thursday after work and made it into New Orleans. The flight was good, got a nap in. I was surprised to find out that there is no shuttle service to Harrahs casinos once we got to the airport, no big deal though. So after a cab ride, we check into the hotel and make a plan for what we're doing on the first night. After a vote we decide, Buffet and play some video poker. After playing a bit we checked the line at the Buffet and it was not anything that we were in the mood to wait for, so back to the video poker machines. No luck this time on those machines so after some time we went back and waited for about 20 minutes for the Buffet. Once we get to the front of the line we realize that we have the wrong months coupon for free Buffet and the right one was back at the hotel. Thank goodness for the nice lady working that line. She said that we could go back to the room and get the right coupon (because I am NOT paying 60$ to eat dinner, no matter how good the food is if I canget it for free). We get back to be pleasantly siurprised to see that the woman didn't go directly on break after we left (which we thought would have been kinda standard in this situation). So, one word to describe the Buffet, great...except the rolls kinda suck there. After that some more video poker, hitting up the ol slot machines and then to bed for us. The next morning we had breakfast at a little place called Mothers which was a real dive but the food was good and it was PACKED. Good for them in a bad economy. Crystal then headed home with her brother to surprise her mom for mothers day weekend (since she didn't know we were coming).
After breakfast I headed over to the casino and got registered for the event. I was surprised at how small everyone expected this tournament field to be. In Atlantic City there were over 1000 people signed up for almost this exact same event. When I asked people if they thought there would be more than 1000 people in this one the looked at me like I had three heads or something. They were kinda right, although the field size was bigger than they have ever had here, it ended up being a field of 572. That equates to 54 people getting paid and a first place finish of a little over $40,000.
On day one I feel that I played well and the great thing was the structure of the tournament was set up so good players made the money, not the lucky ones, which suites me just fine as I don't fall in the lucky category too often (although I did once in this tournament-you'll see later). I did get knocked around a whole lot by people catching 2 and 3 outters early in the tourney and found myself super short stacked. To be exact I had 800 of fmy 7000 starting chips with about 250 people to go when the blinds were at 100. **I'll write a blog to explain this stuff because I know some of you that read this have no idea what I'm talking about.*** To come back from that I trippled up by getting all in w/ AJ against A9 and some 2 trash cards (which I thought was odd). After that I made a call to a min-raise (worst play in poker...EVER), and caught a set of nines. From there, it was easy to get the guy w/ AA to ship those chips on over. Once I had some chips it was pretty standard play to get back into the running although I only got 3 or 4 really good hands all tournament."
To be continued...
"Crystal (My girlfriend) and I flew out Thursday after work and made it into New Orleans. The flight was good, got a nap in. I was surprised to find out that there is no shuttle service to Harrahs casinos once we got to the airport, no big deal though. So after a cab ride, we check into the hotel and make a plan for what we're doing on the first night. After a vote we decide, Buffet and play some video poker. After playing a bit we checked the line at the Buffet and it was not anything that we were in the mood to wait for, so back to the video poker machines. No luck this time on those machines so after some time we went back and waited for about 20 minutes for the Buffet. Once we get to the front of the line we realize that we have the wrong months coupon for free Buffet and the right one was back at the hotel. Thank goodness for the nice lady working that line. She said that we could go back to the room and get the right coupon (because I am NOT paying 60$ to eat dinner, no matter how good the food is if I canget it for free). We get back to be pleasantly siurprised to see that the woman didn't go directly on break after we left (which we thought would have been kinda standard in this situation). So, one word to describe the Buffet, great...except the rolls kinda suck there. After that some more video poker, hitting up the ol slot machines and then to bed for us. The next morning we had breakfast at a little place called Mothers which was a real dive but the food was good and it was PACKED. Good for them in a bad economy. Crystal then headed home with her brother to surprise her mom for mothers day weekend (since she didn't know we were coming).
After breakfast I headed over to the casino and got registered for the event. I was surprised at how small everyone expected this tournament field to be. In Atlantic City there were over 1000 people signed up for almost this exact same event. When I asked people if they thought there would be more than 1000 people in this one the looked at me like I had three heads or something. They were kinda right, although the field size was bigger than they have ever had here, it ended up being a field of 572. That equates to 54 people getting paid and a first place finish of a little over $40,000.
On day one I feel that I played well and the great thing was the structure of the tournament was set up so good players made the money, not the lucky ones, which suites me just fine as I don't fall in the lucky category too often (although I did once in this tournament-you'll see later). I did get knocked around a whole lot by people catching 2 and 3 outters early in the tourney and found myself super short stacked. To be exact I had 800 of fmy 7000 starting chips with about 250 people to go when the blinds were at 100. **I'll write a blog to explain this stuff because I know some of you that read this have no idea what I'm talking about.*** To come back from that I trippled up by getting all in w/ AJ against A9 and some 2 trash cards (which I thought was odd). After that I made a call to a min-raise (worst play in poker...EVER), and caught a set of nines. From there, it was easy to get the guy w/ AA to ship those chips on over. Once I had some chips it was pretty standard play to get back into the running although I only got 3 or 4 really good hands all tournament."
To be continued...
Friday, November 6, 2009
My poker diary...entry #1
As you may well have realized, A lot of what will get posted here will be about my life and my background playing poker. Concurrently, I have started keeping a Poker Diary. For those of you who care, this first entry should get you up to speed on my life. Enjoy:
OK, so I’ve decided to keep a poker diary. Since I’m not that interested in presenting my progress to others, this is for my own good, I can skim through potentially learn a few things (haha, then I post it online within a week of writing it). Lets summarize my poker ‘career’ up to this point. I started on Bodog. I think I deposited $300 or so in order to get the maximum bonus at the time. I played and I played bad (which is typical on Bodog IMO). I played down to under $10 and that was the end of my frustration. I vowed never to reload, if I couldn’t figure it out then don’t waste the money. I read one book to get me started (Super System II of course). I skimmed it really but it must have set something off in the ol thinker because I didn’t have to redeposit…ever (knock on wood). I built that up slowly grinding penny cash and single table SNGs, and I mean GRIND. When I finally made enough money I took that original 300 out, so, I’m playing w/ other's money so to speak. To sum it up, so far I’ve made about 35K in profit or so, played w/ some of the best in the world, and had fun doing it. Do I play for the fun of it, no, do I play for the thrill, no, I play for money. Luckily, I don’t depend on it, but I set goals and I want to hit them. My most notables include:
This kinda catches me up with where I am now although I'll post my an entry from an older blog about my first WSOP Circuit event cash next week.
Until then: Good luck in everything that you attempt.
OK, so I’ve decided to keep a poker diary. Since I’m not that interested in presenting my progress to others, this is for my own good, I can skim through potentially learn a few things (haha, then I post it online within a week of writing it). Lets summarize my poker ‘career’ up to this point. I started on Bodog. I think I deposited $300 or so in order to get the maximum bonus at the time. I played and I played bad (which is typical on Bodog IMO). I played down to under $10 and that was the end of my frustration. I vowed never to reload, if I couldn’t figure it out then don’t waste the money. I read one book to get me started (Super System II of course). I skimmed it really but it must have set something off in the ol thinker because I didn’t have to redeposit…ever (knock on wood). I built that up slowly grinding penny cash and single table SNGs, and I mean GRIND. When I finally made enough money I took that original 300 out, so, I’m playing w/ other's money so to speak. To sum it up, so far I’ve made about 35K in profit or so, played w/ some of the best in the world, and had fun doing it. Do I play for the fun of it, no, do I play for the thrill, no, I play for money. Luckily, I don’t depend on it, but I set goals and I want to hit them. My most notables include:
- My first 4 figure score: 1400 or so- Jan 2008- Don’t quite recall the feeling but followed it up 2 days later w/ a 900 win and moved forward from there.
- Breaking the 5000 mark- March 08, took a 44$ tourney for 5500. That was a real rush.
- My first big cash on FullTilt- July 2008- Took it down for 5400. Needed that because I was pretty much starting over w/ the grinding small stakes on that site. The next day I finaled an Omaha Hi/lo w/ Jon Turner and some other pro who are mad lucky… I was learning as I went.
- My first (and only) 5 figure score- May 2009- 2nd in the Bodog 100K. Talk about a rush. I think I may have misplayed 1 hand QKs that cost me the tourney and 10K though. Learned form that one.
- Finaling the 100K again the very next time that I played it...taking down 4th and 7K...as always, feel like I should have won it.
- Busting Huck Seed in the FTOP event- nothing special, AA vs KK. Should have went on to final that one but alas…a cold run of cards ran me over.
This kinda catches me up with where I am now although I'll post my an entry from an older blog about my first WSOP Circuit event cash next week.
Until then: Good luck in everything that you attempt.
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