Adventures of the Pokersluts

the perfect man...

2008-02-06T12:53:00.000-06:00

Would surprise me and take me to see this...

effin degenerates...

2008-01-27T14:13:00.000-06:00

Khan: hows u?
Tokn: goot, a tid tired
Khan: ya
Khan: im rly sick
Khan: sucks
Tokn: eww bird flu
Khan: yup
Khan: fuckin turkeys
Tokn: im in a last longer bet whoever lives longest surviving bird flu
Tokn: u want in? its $5
Tokn: survivor take all
Khan: ill do it for $10
Tokn: done
Khan: holler

Pokerslut Tour Season VIII BEGINS!!

2008-01-27T08:47:00.000-06:00

You know you've always wanted to play. You look at the leaderboard every week, wishing you were at the top.

Well, now is your chance. It is time to step up and quit being a pussy and be a...

POKERSLUT!

Roccopalooza Day 2

2008-01-27T08:21:00.001-06:00

Despite waking up at 1:30 to let T stumble into the room I was unable to snooze in late as planned. I guess that's what happens when you hit that certain age where your body just refuses to NOT wake up.

I strolled over to the registration/breakfast area and grabbed some eats and headed back to the room. OMGWTF my ears are FROZEN. Turns out the temperature was -1° with a windchill of -14°. D'oh. I made a pot of coffee and fired up the laptop.

T slowly gained consciousness. I called the Poker Party Room to see what the status of the mystery guest was only to be informed that we would hear from him when he arrived.

After slurping down a pot of decaf while T made her high octane we get the call. The mystery guest was on his way to our room with Rocco! We were stumped. He wasn't anybody we'd seen before. I made a stab with a guess of Entegee and he was impressed when I nailed it! Wooooooot! Not bad for somebody I'd hardly heard of.

You think Huck and Entegee have some history?

We decided it was time to get some poker going and headed to the Poker room where there was some sign of life. Knighty showed up just in time for "Shuffle up and Deal!". Rocco drew the "Jesus Seat" left of Huck. If Huck raised you knew Rocco was calling. And he did. And he did... and he did. Only once did a hand of Rocco's hold up though. He managed to get it all in with an OESD that hit on the river. NH Rocco!

Huck was getting his game on again when he called REV's allin with 45o. I'm sure REV was not happy when he saw this flop and the turn sealed his fate.

I was definitely not PERKY this morning, nobody was. Maybe this will explain why:

Reload?

We all start getting hungry for lunch and WTF?! Pizza!?!?!? You must be kidding me! But no, we ordered pizza knowing we were going out to a famous Chicago pizzaria for dinner. WTF were we thinking?

Pizza: the official meal of Roccopalooza.

D'oh.

After a brief nap and shower we meet before dinner to show off our new "EFF ROCCO" tshirts. They were a hit.

Eff Rocco!

We even wore them out to dinner!

It was back to the Poker Party Room for more, yeah, you guessed it, poker. This time we had a table of LO8 and one of S8. I played a little O8 - not my favorite game - then cashed out to join Rocco on the couch. We had the tv going but not much of interest was on until we stumbled on to an episode of the WSOP Tunica Circuit Event that Daniel Negreanu won.

No, I wasn't sleeping just resting.

I called it a night as soon as that was over. I have no knowledge of what went on after I went to bed. None. Don't even ask. I know nothing. Nothing, I say.

Roccopalooza Day 1

2008-01-27T08:20:00.001-06:00

The drive up to Chicago was far more pleasant than I thought it would be. Props to T for the TomTom she gave me for Xmas. I definitely heart my TomTom!

I picked DTM up on the way and he proceeded to lob me softballs that I hit outta the park of course. He asked why I was so mean and I replied, "You make it too easy, duh!"

Thankfully, Huck had already checked into the Poker Party Palace and told the nice lady at the desk to let us have a key since my room wasn't ready yet. Dan and I hauled the two tables and 16 chairs, chips, cards and Poker Party Paraphernalia up two flights of stairs tyvm.

We then head out the official liquor store of Roccopalooza: Famous Liquors. I called T and took her order as we filled a basket with goodies. We head back with our haul and unpack as Huck, Rocco and Knighty arrive. They immediately head out to... wait for it, wait for it... the official liquor store of Roccopalooza: Famous Liquors.

Alrighty then. Now that the fridge is stocked it's time to play some POKER!

The five of us start a .10/.25 NLHE cash game. T was the next to arrive (if I remember correctly) then Asian finally found his way to the hotel after something like 5 phone calls. Hard to believe that boy only lives 20 minutes away!

Huck started off donking it up like the Huck we know and love. He had already rebought once maybe even twice when this hand came up. I took a free flop 3 ways with Huck and Dan with Q7o. The flop AQX. Huck fires out A DOLLAH and I call knowing he's full of it. I don't remember if Dan called. Huck fires a couple more DOLLAHS on the turn when a blank hits and I say "I'm all in". He goes into the tank and says he had a part of that and eventually folds his Q face up and then I flash him mine. I had his kicker by one pip. This was the start of a glorious evening.

Side note: what is it about playing live cash that makes you think that calling a bet with a lonely little $1 chip is the thing to do on a board like that when, if I were playing online, I would have insta-folded that hand? $1 seems like so much more money when you are throwing it around on Full Tilt. We ended up with over $400 on this table. Do you ever see that on a .10/.25 table on Full Tilt? Ok, let me qualify that: any table that's NOT the Forum Table?

MTPockets, eriver, Sly round out the cast of characters when I hit my biggest pot. Eriver raised to $1 utg, Huck calls, I call with TT, and then I get up to look at T's cards cause she's off somewhere. MTPockets is between T and I and he reraises to $4 nanoseconds after I say "Oh, T's calling (the $1)". I then said, "Ok, now she's gonna have to decide for herself." T had 99 and opted to call the $4 as did eriver, Huck and I. The flop came down AQT. Woooooot! I hit bottom set and I'm hoping somebody has AQ and doesn't suck out on me. Eriver led for $10 and with $42+ behind I shoved (I bought in for $20 and had chipped up partly when I hit top two v Asians bluff shove!).

All in? Orly?

MT goes into the tank for a few and decides to call. The shocker was when eriver called as well. Eriver was on a heart draw and MT had AK. He later said it was a donkey call and I have to agree because he was waaaaay behind even just AQ at that point. My TT holds and I take down a HUGE pot.

The cash games breaks up and we decide to play a 6-handed PLO tournament. This is my first time ever playing PLO live. It took a while for us to figure out what a pot bet and raise were but I think we finally got it.

Did I mention that we started drinking as soon as we had booze?

Man I can't believe I left THAT part out.

Early on I had a wheel wrap draw that hit on the river and took some chips off of MT. He wasn't too happy with me but I did have outs. I was surprised at how fast people went out. I used the same structure I use for my home game and it's pretty slow. No need to donk it up. But I guess that's what happens when you give people 4 cards!

We had the final table around level 3 or 4 (20 minute levels) and the next 2 went out pretty fast. The bubble was upon us. Sly was the SB to my BB and he limped in. I popped it with a nicely suited Ace hand and he called. The flop came down A34 and Sly leads into me. Now, I'd been trying to represent a big hand and I did have an A so I re-popped him essentially putting him all in. Sly went into the tank and I really didn't want to a call here. Eventually he did call with A4 for two pair. Shit! After the turn I was drawing dead to a 7, not a good place to be but OMGWTF! the river was a 7 sending Sly home on the booble as my French ami Compton would say. Sorry Sly!

ITM Bitches!

This did nothing to improve my image with MTPockets; he was still whining about that wheel hand. MT takes T out and we end up headups. We push the same few chips back and forth for a while when we get to a hand we both want to get it all in with. He flopped top and bottom and I flopped middle set on a T64 board. My set of 6s holds up and I'm the Winnah! Woooooot!

As soon as T got knocked out I heard the words "strip club" and then the room was practically empty. I was like, um WTF!?!?!? did you bitches leave me here to go to a strip club!?!?!

So, it's 11:30 and I BUZZED! SRSLY BUZZED! I decided to take the rest of my stuff to my room. Once I got there I wasn't in the mood for any more drinking or poker and I crashed. The phone rings at 1:30 and a voice says T is trashed, let her in the door at the same time I'm opening the door. She falls the two steps in the door to her sofa bed and crashes without a word. I don't know what made me do it but I fixed up her bed before I crashed. Good thing, too.

I'm still pissed about the strip club. Srsly.

Stay tuned for Day 2!

poker paraphernalia...

2008-01-17T08:17:00.000-06:00

We all has it. I even read a pretty funny blog entry about it (via zooks) the other day. It reminded me of a little side trip I made with my sister and her husband on Sunday.

For those of you who don't know, my family plays poker a lot. Pretty much every time we are all together, which is at least once a week, we throw down cards. There isn't usually money involved, we play for pride and bragging rights. (altho on special occasions we've been known to throw our dollaz into the pool too).

My sister and her husband have been talking about getting one of those fancy dancy poker dining room tables. You know the one's, that look like a beautiful table until you flip it over and its a casino worthy poker table. If you don't know the one's, I have provided a picture off my handy dandy phone camera that I am so fond of.

While this is all fine and good, it is not the point of my post. The point of my post is the picture you will find below. It is a wall mounting that was for sale at the store where we were shopping for new dining room tables. And this my friends, is priceless.

i heart sluts...

2008-01-13T08:24:00.000-06:00

AA Goes Down

2008-01-06T18:12:00.000-06:00

Not in a good way, either.

Back to back hands my AA gets run over.

Needless to say I hate poker right now about as much as poker hates me right now.

sluts n tours n whatnot...

2008-01-06T08:23:00.000-06:00

I'm telling you, it's hard, time consuming work, being a slut. At least that's my excuse for not posting in like 6 months!

But I did manage to make it out to Zooks last weekend for some douchebaggery and bowling.

Saturday night Zooks had her homegame. For those of you who have never been (which is most of you), Zooks has the BESTEST home games. She has nice tables, nice cards, nice chips, good structure, keeps it organized, and she even tends to stay sober and be a good host.

Your friendly neighborhood Pokersluts
Zooks and Khan

I mean what else can you ask for!! Oh wait, I know... maybe that she doesn't rig the turney so she ALWAYS WINS!!

Another thing you may not know, since you've never been to Zooks home game is that she makes you wear GOD DAMNED NAME TAGS. I guess it's not so bad because you do end up always knowing a persons name, but you see, (SW) when you're as kewl as I am, you always get a "special" name tag. This game I was KW Bitches, which is fine when I'm around a bunch of effers that know me by KDub, but it drew a lot of questions from others. My favorite was from Mary when she said,

Mary: "So, what's your name?"

Me: "I'm Teresa"

Mary: "OK, cause I was just gonna call you Bitch, but I thought it might be a bad first impression"

Me: "It's OK, I answer to that too"

I liked her right away!!!

And for all the awesome new people I had the pleasure of meeting that evening, I have two things for you:

1. The story about Bitches

2. 88 is called ladies night because... WHAT GIRL DOESN'T LIKE TO GET 8 TWICE?!?

Zooks gives a really good breakdown of the game here. It's always a better story when you won, so go read most of the details there.

Personally, I remember rivering a 3 to beat a pair of 5's that should have folded to my all in anyway (ya I'm talking about you Jeff), having my AK cracked by A7 (ya I'm talking about you Gordo), building my stack back up and then going el busto on a bluff (again getting called by a hand that should have folded- and by this time I can't remember who did this... was it Tim?).
No offense to the callers, obviously, but I'm just sayin :)

Oh, and somehow I did end up with a name tag that said "Teresa" at some point... I put it to good use.

Anyhoo, we played some cash after the turney and I won a pretty big pot putting me up quite a bit, and managed to spew it back (which I'm sure Jeff was thrilled about) over the next few hours.

But, at the end of the night we were invited to a game at Mary and Gordo's the next day! The sluts were down, sfobv, but the sluts also tow 4 kids in line and we needed a sitter. Mr. Zooks pulled through for us and didn't even charge! HOLLA!

We used the tomtom to get us to their house on time for the game, and they had a pretty kewl set up! One day I want a finished basement with a stocked bar, poker table, and 3 TVs... hell, they had places to sit AND a bathroom! I was in heaven.

My stack was up n down the entire turney, mostly what I remember is Shane's hair, Toby having a horrible run of luck, Tucker's iPhone and getting down to three way action with Gordo and Tucker.

I busted Tucker when he limped on my BB and I flopped two pair, lucky me.

Then Gordo and I played HU, we went back in forth for 10-15 mins and I was getting bored. I double checked the payout and it was only a $15 difference between 1st and 2nd, so my 78s looked goooooooood and I pushed in. Gordo called me with his Ace but I drew out. I think we played a few more hands, and I hit again and won the turney.

Earlier that day Zooks took me bowling for the first time!! I've been to visit her many times and we had never made it bowling. It was a great time (even the kids had fun) and zooks is an awesome bowler!! I might have to do a bowling class in school and try to show her up :) yayaya I know, GLWT!!

Last but definitely not least...

THE POKERSLUT TOUR IS BACK TONIGHT, BITCHES!!!

You've had two weeks off, so bring your game!

PS VII LHE Results

2007-12-17T10:47:00.000-06:00

Yep, it's that time again.

Time to check out this week's leaderboard.

Pokerslut Tour VII Stud Results

2007-12-10T14:13:00.001-06:00

Click here.

Pokerlsut Tour Season 7 Razz Results

2007-12-03T18:01:00.000-06:00

Leaderboard is here.

Pokerslut Tour VII LO8 Results

2007-11-19T08:47:00.000-06:00

We had a record number of new players join us for the Tour last night.

Welcome to all of you and I hope you can make more events!

Results Here.

wassup mah bitches!!!

2007-11-18T08:08:00.000-06:00

If you hadn't gathered, season SEVEN of the pstour has already started, and you still have time to get your sorry ass on that leaderboard....

so let's ride

Realtime Heads Up Display

2007-11-10T07:17:00.000-06:00

Realtime is a free heads up display ala PokerAce that will show you the mucked cards after the hand is over as well as various stats for the players and the table.

The newest version works with Cake, PokerStars, Full Tilt and more.

It's easy to install and doesn't need PokerTracker to work as it builds it's own databases from your saved hand histories.

Recap: Free, Free, did I mention FREE and DOESN'T NEED POKERTRACKER.

Run don't walk!

Click here to get it.

Be sure to send the developer a token of your appreciation!

Misclick

2007-11-09T10:21:00.000-06:00

I was multi-tabling on Cake this morning when I misclicked and called a raise with 62o.

The chat afterwards was hilarious:

Dealer: LuckTard wins $3.80 with Straight, Eight high
fastfast: ok 62
LuckTard: misclick, what can I say
fastfast: nothing, just please keep playing

At least it was checked to the river. LOL.

And, yes, my screenname at Cake is LuckTard.

Bitches, LOL!

2007-11-08T19:41:00.000-06:00

OK, I love me some T when she's drunk and on a roll:

I usually just delete these things, but I like the chick that sent it to me, so here goes....

1. What is a question that people ask you that always gets on your nerves?
how did you get so hawt, bitch?

2. Name something you have in common with all your siblings?
bitches

3. What is the greatest amount of physical pain you have ever had?
pushin lil bitches

4. What number of drinks constitutes your limit?
OMG BITCHES DONT HAVE LIMITS

5. Do you fold your underwear?
WHAT UNDERWEAR, BITCH?

6. Who is the last person you wrote a letter to on paper?
some triflin bitch

7. Have you fired a gun before?
f ya bitches

8. Name someone you consider a genius?
youre lookin at her, bitch

9. What was your favorite childhood toy?
WEEBLETOBBLES, BITCHES.

10. Name a sound that disturbs you.
sober bitches

11. Name something random that you would never do?
never say never, bitches

12. Name a person who's diary you would love to read?
its a secret, bitches...

13. Have you ever had the same dream more than once?
over and over and over, bitches...

14. Name something that makes you happy?
hangin w mah bitches

15. Name something that made you laugh today?
my silly bitches

16. If you were in an emergency situation and you had to deliver a baby, could you?
i can handle baby bitches, fo sho

17. What is on your refrigerator door?
bitches, duh

18. Name the closest thing to you that is green.
my shirt, bitch

19. Name something you have to do tomorrow.
drive to see my bitches!!! woooooooooot

20. Name a movie you are looking forward to watching?
THE HOBBIT!!! w my lil bitches

21. Have you ever called 911?
no, but those bitches have been at my house....

22. Name something about women that tends to be true?
f those bitches

23. Do You Own An iPod?
i have an ipod and I call it bitchy and it shall be my bitchy.

24. What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
the Princess Bitch... i mean Bride.

25. Do Any Of Your Friends Have Children?
omg those LITTLE BITCHES!!!

26. What CD Is Currently In Your Cd Player?
U JUST ASKED ME IF I HAD AN IPOD BITCH! NOW YOURE ASKING BOUT A CD PLUR?

27. Do You Prefer Regular or Chocolate Milk?
omg bitch, which one has rum?

28. Has Anyone Told You A Secret This Week?..
i have all the secrets, bitch!! (oh and nicole, i can tell u a few :)

29. When Was The Last Time You Had Starbucks?
3 days ago, and its been waaaaaaaaaay too long bitch :(

30. Can You Whistle?
im a whistlin bitch, fo real

31. What is your favorite line from a song?
I GOT BITCHES IN THE LIVING ROOM GETTIN IT ON....

32. Do You Think People Talk About You Behind Your Back?
bitches never shut up...

33. What Movie Do You Know Every Line To?
THE PRINCESS BITCH..... I MEAN BRIDE

34. Are you wanting any Tattoos and Piercings?
well ya bitches, lets go!!

35. Would You Ever Date Anyone Covered In Tattoos?
omg, i love those bitches...

36. What Did You Do Before This?
hollered at mah bitches..

37. When Was The Last Time You Slept On The Floor?
bitches dont sleep on the floor plurc... remember it

38. How Many Hours Of Sleep Do You Need To Function?
this bitch dont need sleep, just alcohol

39. Are You Picky About Spelling And Grammar?
SFOBV BITCHES

40. Do You Get Along Better With The Same Sex Or The Opposite?
get it bitches... opposite

41. Do you sleep on your side, stomach, or back?
whateva i feel like, bitches

42. Do You Watch The news?
f those bitches

43. Who was the last person to make you mad?
bitches dont get mad, we get even..

44. Name one place you would rather be right now?
u dont know already? hangin w some hawt bitches.. fo real.

Slut Pwns S8

2007-11-05T08:16:00.000-06:00

Wooooooooooot!

Zooks took down the final event of the Pokerslut Tour Season VI!

Click here for the Leaderboards.

Pokerslut Tour VI HORSE Results

2007-10-30T09:11:00.000-05:00

Click Here

Pokerslut Tour PLO results

2007-10-22T11:02:00.000-05:00

Just like every week, they can be found here.

Nice job all!

and in case you didn't know...

I HATE PLO!

:)

Home Game

2007-10-21T08:30:00.001-05:00

Khanwoman, her brother, and I went to Smboatdrinks' home game last night.

Illini Fan also showed up in this shit. All I can say is ewwwwwww.

After watching boats play ATC I got in a hand with him. Of course he flopped top set to my underpair and got a lot of my chips when I put him on a flush draw (d'oh). I went out shortly after that with AJd (all the way with an A and a J) v AQ. Sigh. I suck.

We got a cash game going with IF, Eric, me, Mike and John. I ended up +11 in cash game which covered my initial buyin plus another $4 cause IF was kind enough to buy in twice without realizing it and we ended up splitting that $20 amongst everybody at the table.

Teresa played a great first game. They did a 5 way chop so we could start the next game.

Boats also made both final tables. That boy is the king of the splash around early to build up a chipstack then suckout. His button raise with 57o v HIS DAD ended up fugly when he flopped trips and turned a boat. He also ran QQ into Khan's AA but the door card was a Q. Live poker is RIGGED I tell you. He took me out of the second one, too. Button raise with 89h I shove for not much more with ATh he flopped and OESD and rivered his straight. IGHN.

The highlight of the evening was a hand at the second final table. Todd was getting very short. Somehow he got all his chips in with this hand.

Now, why do you think he's got such a huge smile on his face? Maybe this will explain it to you.

So, thanks for letting me donate to your home game Boats! I had a great time. Sorta. Well, ok, not really but poker is poker. :lol: :P :roll:

Pokerslut Tour VI LHE Results

2007-10-15T13:37:00.000-05:00

Result are found at Pokersluts.org

Pokerslut Tour VI Stud Results

2007-10-08T16:51:00.001-05:00

Results Here.

PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker

2007-10-02T19:15:00.000-05:00

I (not Zerbet!) have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7694571

Pokerslut Tour VI Razz Results

2007-10-01T08:06:00.001-05:00

Check out our new webpage!

I subscribe to Ben's Bargains RSS feed.

They had a free website from Microsoft listed among the deals the other day. After discussing it with Khanwoman we decided FREE was a price we could afford. We ended up with .org because the other options were already taken. But, as someone so kindly pointed out, we apparently don't make any profit from poker so it's all good. :P

Check out the new and improved Leaderboard.

This will be the only place to find the tournament results as I'm done with posting it in three different places and in two different formats. So don't be lazy! Go ahead and click the link already!

Pokerslut Tour ...

2007-09-30T09:06:00.000-05:00

It's tonight, and every Sunday for that matter -

it's never too early...

2007-09-29T13:41:00.001-05:00

"No sweetie, it's only THE HAMMER when it's not suited."

Pokerslut Tour VI LO8 Results

2007-09-24T10:56:00.001-05:00

Season VI Leaderboard

Overall Leaderboard

Annette pwns!

2007-09-18T08:03:00.000-05:00

"I didn't get paid off on my big hands but I hit a lot of flops with my more mediocre holdings."

- Annette Obrestad

She kicked their butts!

I love the fact that getting down to 20BB didn't phase her at all.

This girl is going to pwn poker for a long time to come. I'm glad she's got a good head on her. I doubt we'll ever see pictures of her flashing her private parts to the world while she's on her way to get plastered at some ritzy bar.... well not for a couple more years anyway!!

Note: Sarcasm is my forte', if you don't get it don't bother reading this blog ;).

Two birds - one stone...

2007-09-17T12:59:00.000-05:00

For those of you who live in a hole and read the Pokerslut blog before every other poker blog

a) you're a lewzor
b) Annette_15 just won the WSOPE Main Event, becoming the first woman, and youngest player to do so.

This is major stuff boys. And ladies, it means those bathroom lines at the big turneys are gonna get longer.

NINETEEN years old... sick sick sick stuff.

Get em girl!!

Someone (no not zerb) said she looks like yours truly. I say, gimmie the two mill to hold up and we can test the theory!

Pokerslut Tour VI NLHE DS Results

2007-09-17T08:34:00.001-05:00

Season VI Leaderboard

Overall Leaderboard

in the black...

2007-09-04T21:20:00.000-05:00

Or, the GREEN as the case may be

I've switched over to Stud8 as my frustration level with nick dime was increasing (not to mention my money going bye bye). I feel I have more of an edge in this game when it comes to ring play. But, we will see how it holds in the long run.

Since I heart irony --

SlimFatty: why pay the rake

Dealer: SlimFatty has 15 seconds left to act notice he wasn't sure his lo was gooood

Dealer: khanwoman wins the high pot ($2.15) with two pair, Nines and Eights
Dealer: SlimFatty wins the low pot ($2.10) with 8,5,4,2,A

khanwoman: oh, mah bad, ill just stop betting from now on

SlimFatty: i guess u dont understand thats ok

khanwoman: im a girl, what do you expect --omg I crack myself up!

SlimFatty: well u had the high and no chance at the low i was showing the low so every time you bet we are spliting it and paying the rake with only 2 players --this is the best part, I use the "I'm a girl" line and he just cant resist

SlimFatty: 50 cents to win 45 not too smart

khanwoman: and ill keep makin u pay to chase

SlimFatty: i was showing 4 cards for the low u idiot

khanwoman: ya w two high under -- takes an idiot to know that too

khanwoman: gfy

Dealer: khanwoman wins the high pot ($4.50) with a straight, Eight high
Dealer: khanwoman wins the low pot ($4.50) with 6,5,4,3,2

*crickets*

World Cup of Poker

2007-09-04T10:41:00.000-05:00

There's a live feed thanks to our friends at PokerStars.

Greg Raymer is playing for the US team.

WOOOOT

TID GREG

FTW!

(props to (no not zerbet) for the linkage)

br update...

2007-09-01T10:46:00.000-05:00

I haven't played much this week because of this...

My past 4 sessions were all LEWZORS, and other than one happened very quickly. Once I got my $$ in behind w QQ vs KK, but against the player I called off my stack to, I'd pry do it again.

I'm currently challenging myself to play with my head clear, ie: no distractions etc., which in my house is rare. This is another reason for not too many sessions this week.

I decided to go eff around with $3 I had left over on UB, and turned it into almost $50 playing sngs and 08 ring. I think I'm trying to hard with the whole br challenge thing and I needed to just go blow some steam with money that wasn't involved in my FTP br.

Steam Blown and ready to roll.

Gotcha

2007-08-29T14:12:00.000-05:00

This guy had been sucking out and donking off to everybody on the table BUT ME.

I finally got mine.

Full Tilt Poker Game #3400771336: $2 + $0.25 Tournament (25927456) Table 9 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:09:45 ET - 2007/08/29
Seat 1: gadzooks64 (3 565)
Seat 2: BaileyDog (2 656)
Seat 3: TraderSteve (5 235)
Seat 4: fishingdon11 (11 027)
Seat 5: Reginald V (4 354)
Seat 6: AA_BLADE_AA (5 280)
Seat 7: frosty59 (6 007) is sitting out
Seat 8: Boldeagle2 (4 025)
Seat 9: jeanmachine23 (3 510)
jeanmachine23 posts the small blind of 60
gadzooks64 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #8

Holecards:
Dealt to gadzooks64 [ ]
BaileyDog folds
TraderSteve folds
fishingdon11 calls 120
Reginald V folds
AA_BLADE_AA calls 120
frosty59 folds
Boldeagle2 folds
jeanmachine23 calls 60
gadzooks64 raises to 600
fishingdon11 calls 480
AA_BLADE_AA folds
jeanmachine23 folds

Flop:
[ ]
gadzooks64 bets 1,000
fishingdon11 calls 1,000

Turn:
[ ] [ ]
gadzooks64 bets 1,965, and is all in
frosty59 has returned
fishingdon11 calls 1 965
gadzooks64 shows [ ]
fishingdon11 shows [ ]

River :
[ ] [ ]
gadzooks64 shows a pair of Queens
fishingdon11 shows Ace King high
gadzooks64 wins the pot (7 370) with a pair of Queens

SUMMARY:
Total pot 7 370 | Rake 0
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: gadzooks64 (big blind) showed [ ] and won (7 370) with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: BaileyDog didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: TraderSteve didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: fishingdon11 showed [ ] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 5: Reginald V didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: AA_BLADE_AA folded before the Flop
Seat 7: frosty59 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: Boldeagle2 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: jeanmachine23 (small blind) folded before the Flop

Getting In Ahead

2007-08-28T10:35:00.001-05:00

Hand #45622909-9474 at Volcano Village (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 28/Aug/07 11:33:38

Dagu05 is at seat 0 with $1 .30.
Gutnutshoot is at seat 2 with $ .90.
berlin001 is at seat 4 with $2 .27.
KingofWood is at seat 5 with $ .23.
Skate81 is at seat 6 with $ .15.
GLD70 is at seat 7 with $3 .85.
CashDavis is at seat 8 with $ .77.
DeutschBank is at seat 9 with $1 .63.
The button is at seat 7.

CashDavis posts the small blind of $.01.
DeutschBank posts the big blind of $.02.

Dagu05: -- --
Gutnutshoot: -- --
berlin001: -- --
KingofWood: -- --
Skate81: -- --
GLD70: -- --
CashDavis: -- --
DeutschBank:

Pre-flop:
Dagu05 calls. Gutnutshoot folds. berlin001 folds.
KingofWood goes all-in for $.23. Skate81 folds.
GLD70 folds. CashDavis folds. DeutschBank calls.
Dagu05 folds.

Flop: (board: ):

(no action in this round)

Turn: (board: ):

(no action in this round)

River: (board: ):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:
KingofWood shows .
KingofWood has : two pair nines and fives.
DeutschBank mucks cards.
(DeutschBank has .)

Hand #45622909-9474 Summary :

$.04 is raked from a pot of $.49.
KingofWood wins $.45 with two pair nines and fives .

Spewing

2007-08-28T10:15:00.000-05:00

So Khan and I decided to play our micro bankrolls at UB today.

Who knew I was so good as spewing?

Hand #45622909-9436 at Volcano Village (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 28/Aug/07 11:10:18

Dagu05 is at seat 0 with $1 .17.
rgster is at seat 1 with $ .45.
wallyaug1 is at seat 2 with $ .79.
TeresaLea is at seat 3 with $1 .78.
mikes000420 is at seat 4 with $1 .52.
KingofWood is at seat 5 with $ .47.
TheReasonu is at seat 6 with $ .22.
GLD70 is at seat 7 with $1 .95.
CashDavis is at seat 8 with $ .34.
DeutschBank is at seat 9 with $2 .22.
The button is at seat 2.

TeresaLea posts the small blind of $.01.
mikes000420 posts the big blind of $.02.

Dagu05: -- --
rgster: -- --
wallyaug1: -- --
TeresaLea: -- --
mikes000420: -- --
KingofWood: -- --
TheReasonu: -- --
GLD70: -- --
CashDavis: -- --
DeutschBank:

Pre-flop:
KingofWood folds. TheReasonu folds. GLD70 calls.
CashDavis folds. DeutschBank raises to $.09. Dagu05
folds. rgster folds. wallyaug1 folds. TeresaLea
folds. mikes000420 calls. GLD70 re-raises to $.37.
DeutschBank calls. mikes000420 calls.

Flop: (board: ):

mikes000420 checks. GLD70 bets $.70. DeutschBank
goes all-in for $1.85. mikes000420 folds. GLD70
goes all-in for $1.58. DeutschBank is returned $.27
(uncalled).

Turn: (board: ):

(no action in this round)

River: (board: ):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:
DeutschBank shows .
DeutschBank has : three eights.
GLD70 shows .
GLD70 has : three kings.

Hand #45622909-9436 Summary:

$.42 is raked from a pot of $4.28.
GLD70 wins $3.86 with three kings .

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2007-08-27T14:29:00.001-05:00

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Cards, Cards, Cards!

2007-08-26T09:01:00.001-05:00

I have sooooo many decks of cards.

No, really.

I'm not even including all the paper Bicycle, casino, souvenir, and pron decks that I have.

Those near and dear to me know of this "issue" and graciously choose to ignore me when I start talking about cards.

I, for one, LOVE the four color decks. I even snagged a Copag set of them:

I had already ordered a set of the "official" and "authentic" WSOP cards online from the Gamblers General Store before I even went to Vegaspalooza. Snuffy told me he was headed to the B&M store and I tagged along. Talk about card lover's paradise! I snagged me a deck of KEMs, woooot! and a couple sets of Star Wars cards for the kids.

I also asked them about the cards that were rejected after the first day of use. Now THOSE I'd really like to get my hands on. Not sure where that stands; I'll probably have to give them a call here pretty soon.

The other half tossed me a package after his trip the the mail box. This is what was in it!

Yes, I am a shameless consumer.

I'm sure I'll pop the plastic on these bad boys eventually but it'll have to be a pretty special occasion.

demoralize me plz... ty.

2007-08-24T11:16:00.000-05:00

I've had 2.5 losing sessions... and they went a 'lil something like this

The .5 came this morning when my KK was beat by AT, and no ace was on the board. I just shook my head, rolled my eyes and got up. I immediately felt "I'll come back for you later".

I'm coming to the point where I don't even want to talk about the suck outs anymore, it makes me tired, mad, and puts me in a bad mindset.

Lesson of the Day:

When you are playing within your bankroll, YOU NEVER GO BROKE, so guess what -- you live to fight another day CONQUISTADOR'S!!!

So, when I'm not hungover and feel well rested, I can come back and pwn some wankage.

And one side note for those of you who don't read REX55's blog, she made an excellent post about how she handles the downswings we all face in poker:

The beauty of poker is also its brutality. They go hand in hand.
Our control lies in how we
handle it,
adjust to it,
play through it,
overcome it.

if life were your favorite poker forum....

2007-08-24T10:34:00.000-05:00

thx bob -- good work

keep on truckin...

2007-08-21T09:06:00.000-05:00

So, I was totally deflated after playing in the Tour. I was kinda mean to JT after this hand, and I pry shouldn't have been. He did end up winning after all. So gg JT.

Looking back, I guess I coulda 3 bet the AQ pre-flop. But, I didn't feel like overplaying AQ oop. Of course had I been ~~psycho~~ psychic, and known he had J9s...

I came back to my grind the next day and played, what felt like, a horribly long losing session. But I actually ended up another $5.

About two hours in, I had finally doubled on one table, but was only up .40 ish on the other... I really do love notes and making great plays with them (like I said in an earlier post), it actually makes things like this easier to stomach. I had been sitting tight waiting for the moment to felt this dude, c'est la vie.

I've also decided to start taking screenshots of my stats at the end of each session, so I can track if I'm winning more consistently when I play a certain way etc.

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2007-08-20T20:26:00.000-05:00

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just in the nick of time...

2007-08-19T19:53:00.000-05:00

Things started out pretty crappy today...
But I managed a short win before dinner...And another small one after dinner...
And then I topped the evening off with making my goal of $30 for the week to play in the PSTOUR!!
The things I do for you people :)

I actually wanted to get up $2 more dollars so my BR would be at an even $80 after buying into the tour... but my tables became very volatile at the end, and I thought the best decision was to bank my win and go have some fun!

Oh and....

DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO FELT A WANKER

The lesson of the day...

It is tres important to get away from the chillins and take notes on the players I'm up against. The K9 hand I played in one of the links above was purely off of notes I had kept on the two players.

i tried...

2007-08-18T16:31:00.000-05:00

...to log one more winning session today so I could play the pstour tomorrow

After about an hour I only had $3 to go to hit my goal -- when this happened

Go ahead, click on em and look at the time stamps -- I dare ya.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1385033

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1385032

Grind Update...

2007-08-18T09:07:00.001-05:00

I wasn't able to start my bankroll challenge until Thursday this week... it was the end of the quarter for me at school, and for those of you who read my personal blog you know that the end of the quarter for me is an extremely busy time.

Anyhoo - I was able to start Thursday and I have played 3 sessions since then.

It didn't start off with a flare thats for sure. I was able to stack up almost 2 buyins in less than an hour, but a couple of 77>KK hands and I left down half a buy in.

*I just realized I had the wrong screenshot here*

My second session was pretty frustrating, again I was up a bit early (not much) and at one point I was dealt 33 and decided to take a flop with it since a lot of people had limped... I flopped my set and made a great "read" played the hand well... but you all know how that goes. One thing I noticed about this session is my vpip was 19%!! Awful I know, but even when I tried to get it up, I was getting cold decked.

Third time was a charm, and I had finally managed to get up my 4 buyins in about an hour and I quit. I had two great tables that paid me off and at one had a guy that insisted on continuing to try and bluff me, even tho I called every time. I thought I was playing great here, sticking with my reads, thinking out the action when a river bet was posed and I didn't have a great hand. It was hard to leave when I was having a good session for once, but I did!

The biggest lesson I've learned?

Of course, this lesson I already knew, but it's nice to have it come back to you when I actually stop and take notice.

POSITION POSITION POSITION

We all know it is a crucial element of poker, but I know I forget crucial things more than I'd like to admit.

It is extremely difficult to try and outplay a donk when you do not have position -- maybe if I keep ramming that thru my skull I'll start to remember it one day.

As for now, since I haven't been able to play 5 sessions yet this week, there is no pstour playing for tomorrow. I will try to get in two more winning sessions today if time allows so we shall see!

JAMOT

EDIT:

I had AA vs AA twice during this session -- but I came out ahead in the end

Banned!

2007-08-15T14:01:00.000-05:00

Thank you, Mr. Bill Rini.

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2007-08-14T16:41:00.001-05:00

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I'm Such a Lucky Girl...

2007-08-12T08:44:00.000-05:00

After much deliberation, I have a plan of attack for getting past my roadblock in poker.

I'm lucky because I have a group of people that actually give half a damn when I'm running bad and want to help. I received a lot of great advice from them, but in the end I had to make a decision about having a game plan to get back in this game!

So, I took a little time to process all the info I was getting and do some reading, exploring etc. I still wasn't sure how I was going to attack this problem and decided to play a few low stake MTTs. I played 4 and all 4 I went out to two or three outers. One was even the first hand I played in the turney. This is when I really started considering getting away from sngs and MTTs and go back to grinding ring. I had gotten a lot of advice advocating I start to grind ring and keep track of my play in Poker Tracker. Mainly, to find leaks and be able to plug them. Not to mention, my turney play was becoming more and more frustrating. This was starting to make more and more sense to me.

That's when I came across another thread on FTF of interest to me on bankroll management. It was written by a new effer on his blog, his poker nick is RivRunsDeep. Of course his blog post was in reference to limits that exceed my $50 br so I left a comment on his blog asking if he could bring it down to another level.

To my surprise I received a note from him on AIM last night wanting to discuss it with me. It was a pretty long convo so I wont drag it out here, but the jist of it was this:

RivRunsDeep: i like the micro NL games
RivRunsDeep: but I would pick one game
RivRunsDeep: no mixing
RivRunsDeep: if it is gonna be NL
RivRunsDeep: i would start with Micro
RivRunsDeep: whichever blinds offer a buyin around 4 bucks
RivRunsDeep: play 2 at a time
RivRunsDeep: and i would play ABC poker
RivRunsDeep: period
RivRunsDeep: look to book 3 buyins as a win and then stop for the day
RivRunsDeep: thats 12 bucks as a goal
RivRunsDeep: EVERY TIME
RivRunsDeep: if you lose 8 bucks........you are DONE
RivRunsDeep: you STOP
RivRunsDeep: if you do this for a week
RivRunsDeep: and win 5 days and lose 2
RivRunsDeep: that is a 44 dollar profit
RivRunsDeep: and the BR goes to 100
RivRunsDeep: very manageable
RivRunsDeep: if you stay within the guides
RivRunsDeep: and no POKERSLUTS buyins or fuckin around with Compton and Virge with shove games

Of course we had to make a little compromise with the Pstour thing :D I have to bank a $30 win every week to play on Sunday, or no pstour. So that will be your way of knowing how i did that week!!

Anyhow, the thing I wanted to make a point about is that everything Riv said sounds so damn elementary and simple. But when you're sucking and down in da dumpage... sometimes you need simple concepts drilled back into your brain.

That's also why I like to ask advice on FTF -- lots of times it is stuff I already knew, but have somehow started to fall away from as I play worse and worse.

So, my decision is to start to play ring only (except for pstour as stated above), to track my stats and follow br management guidelines. When I get my br up to play at .10/.25 level, I am going to buy myself poker tracker as a reward! I've decided to just use checkyourbets.com for now, since I will be playing nick dime, and take A LOT of notes on players. I'm going to do this because this is what I did when I first became a winning player, and that's what this is about for me, getting back to where I started.

So, wish me luck!! I will keep everyone posted on my progress via this blog.

And thanks again EFFERS!! It really is great to be part of a poker community.

I Bubble With Style

2007-08-10T13:46:00.000-05:00

Full Tilt Poker Game #3211183166: $10 + $1 Sit & Go (24547928) Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:45:30 ET - 2007/08/10
Seat 2: gadzooks64 (1 910)
Seat 3: katjing (2 240)
Seat 7: cooperwine30 (5 820)
Seat 9: PalloAlto (3 530)
gadzooks64 posts the small blind of 100
katjing posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #9

Holecards:
Dealt to gadzooks64 [ ]
cooperwine30 raises to 600
PalloAlto folds
gadzooks64 raises to 1,910, and is all in
katjing folds
cooperwine30 calls 1,310
gadzooks64 shows [ ]
cooperwine30 shows [ ]

Flop:
[ ]

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]
gadzooks64 shows two pair Fours and Threes
cooperwine30 shows a full house Fours full of Threes
cooperwine30 wins the pot (4 020) with a full house Fours full of Threes
gadzooks64 stands up

SUMMARY:
Total pot 4 020 | Rake 0
Board:
[ ]
Seat 2: gadzooks64 (small blind) showed [ ] and lost with two pair Fours and Threes
Seat 3: katjing (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: cooperwine30 showed [ ] and won (4 020) with a full house Fours full of Threes
Seat 9: PalloAlto (button) didn't bet (folded)

Khanwoman called it!

2007-08-09T22:09:00.000-05:00

I'm in token frenzy and it's becoming obvious that I'm NOT going to fold into the money. I push UTG with AQ right after I pushed into a early limper with AQ (we both showed AQ and split the blinds and antes).

We knew BrownMoose was calling. He was the worst big stack in one of these things. He actually took out another idiot big stack when idiot in sb pushed with AT and BrownMoose called him with 66 and flopped a 6.

Khanwoman was Skyping with me when I pushed and he started to call and she said call her with A4!

Khanwoman is all knowing! Woooot! Token Baby!

As ComptonMasta and Khanwoman like to say, "Oh look, Zooks won another token. Yawn."

Going broke...

2007-08-08T13:05:00.000-05:00

Thank god that the token frenzies are so good to me. This way I'm only going broke $6.60 or $15 at a time instead of $24 or $75. If I could convert EVEN JUST ONE OF THE DAMN TOKENS I WOULD QUIT WHINING ... FOR A NANOSECOND ... MAYBE MORE.

I've been playing tight and getting short when I pick up KK in the BB:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3190685813: $9 000 Guarantee (23854879) Table 46 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:22:09 ET - 2007/08/08
Seat 1: MIAmi_JoEL (5 545)
Seat 2: gadzooks64 (2 305)
Seat 3: bigstack1980 (6 775)
Seat 4: oldgatorman (5 665)
Seat 5: dmony (5 630)
Seat 6: ward6889 (3 135)
Seat 7: makbelieve (3 925)
Seat 8: futbolking29 (1 973)
Seat 9: Killpot13 (5 000)
MIAmi_JoEL posts the small blind of 60
gadzooks64 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #9

Holecards:
Dealt to gadzooks64 [
bigstack1980 folds
oldgatorman calls 120
dmony folds
ward6889 folds
makbelieve calls 120
futbolking29 folds
Killpot13 folds
MIAmi_JoEL raises to 540
]gadzooks64 raises to 2,305, and is all in
oldgatorman folds
makbelieve folds
MIAmi_JoEL calls 1,765
gadzooks64 shows [ ]
MIAmi_JoEL shows [ ]

Flop:
[ ]

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]
gadzooks64 shows a pair of Kings
MIAmi_JoEL shows three of a kind Jacks
MIAmi_JoEL wins the pot (4 850) with three of a kind Jacks
gadzooks64 stands up

SUMMARY:
Total pot 4 850 | Rake 0
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: MIAmi_JoEL (small blind) showed [ ] and won (4 850) with three of a kind Jacks
Seat 2: gadzooks64 (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: bigstack1980 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: oldgatorman folded before the Flop
Seat 5: dmony didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: ward6889 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: makbelieve folded before the Flop
Seat 8: futbolking29 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Killpot13 (button) didn't bet (folded)

Every fucking time.

makbelieve: i folded a jack.
dmony: FTP Style
MIAmi_JoEL: i had one out
MIAmi_JoEL: thats a first

One effing out. One.

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2007-08-07T11:44:00.000-05:00

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roadblocks...

2007-08-05T12:52:00.000-05:00

So, it’s been a bad month for me. Well, longer than a month… I had a bad run before this, if anyone remembers. Since then I’ve proceeded to lose around $300.

It all started with the usual suspects, and proceeded to get worse. I’ll give you a quick run down that you can choose to click at your own discretion*:

The good ‘ol FTF table

Token Frenzy

Tier 1 double fisting

O8 sng

90 man sng

Beat The Dead (ya ima beat it alright)

HU horse (at least I monied)

Play money even hates me

Deep in Rebuy (again)

*Keep in mind, this doesn’t even include when my table closed after the inevitable beats, so puke a few more times just for good faith (ie: AK loses to KQ even tho AK flops top two)

And, even though yesterday I was at the point of having completely lost confidence in my game, I didn’t want to have a lewzor attitude and decided to give a last ditch effort and satellite into the 500k today.

I was going to spend $30 to play 4 token sngs. The goal was of coz to win 4 tokens.

1 of 4

This was over relatively quickly when I decided to ask Virge for advice:

Khan: ok im otb w AKs

Khan: i raise

Khan: bb pushes

Khan: do i call?

virge: gotta call

2 of 4

This is when I found out, I can’t even suck out right, and I have really bad timing.

3 of 4

This was so bad FTP wouldn’t even save the HH after this. I really do hate it when I’m planning a bitch post and the HH doesn’t save right. SFRIGGED.

4 of 4

You know it’s a bad sign when this is your first hand, and this is your last. I’ll let you use your imagination to see what came in between.

Now I’m at a road block. I don’t know what to do with myself and my poker game.

Do I flick the variance chip off my shoulder and keep pluggin? If I keep pluggin, how do I plug the holes in my game, because I’m sorry, but all that couldn’t just be bad fucking luck. There has to be more to it. And how long do I let it go? Till my entire br has been lost?

Do I give up because I obv have no game? Cause let’s face it, even if you’re just playing for fun, losing isn’t fun.

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2007-07-30T18:53:00.001-05:00

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Bubble Bitch

2007-07-29T16:01:00.001-05:00

I used my latest 75$ Token to play a sng.

Here's how I went out:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3094185770: Tier Three $69+$6 Sit & Go (23634317) Table 1 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:52:31 ET - 2007/07/29
Seat 1: NaaPeru (4 916)
Seat 2: steindog (3 509)
Seat 5: gadzooks64 (2 935)
Seat 7: MCastro3 (2 140)
gadzooks64 posts the small blind of 30
MCastro3 posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #4

Holecards:
Dealt to gadzooks64 [ ]
NaaPeru raises to 210
steindog folds
gadzooks64 calls 180
MCastro3 folds

Flop:
[ ]
gadzooks64 checks
NaaPeru bets 460
gadzooks64 raises to 920
NaaPeru raises to 1,780
gadzooks64 raises to 2,640
NaaPeru raises to 4,706, and is all in
gadzooks64 calls 85, and is all in
NaaPeru shows [ ]
gadzooks64 shows [ ]
Uncalled bet of 1,981 returned to NaaPeru

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]
NaaPeru shows a full house Aces full of Eights
gadzooks64 shows a full house Sevens full of Eights
NaaPeru wins the pot (5 930) with a full house Aces full of Eights
gadzooks64 stands up
The blinds are now 40/80

SUMMARY:
Total pot 5 930 | Rake 0
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: NaaPeru showed [ ] and won (5 930) with a full house Aces full of Eights
Seat 2: steindog didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: gadzooks64 (small blind) showed [ ] and lost with a full house Sevens full of Eights
Seat 7: MCastro3 (big blind) folded before the Flop

In the mean time I'm playing the RTR freeroll and finally made the money when I decided to get aggressive and amass some chips as I was a huge shortstack. Plus it helped that I was finally getting some hands to play.

Last hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3094227455: RaketheRake Freeroll (22619921) Table 157 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:56:52 ET - 2007/07/29
Seat 1: mamamia78 (8 762)
Seat 2: Dorktaku (17 490)
Seat 3: Cardtruth (20 219)
Seat 4: XXcosmoXX (9 478)
Seat 5: Jade RedStone (9 939)
Seat 6: gadzooks64 (5 370)
Seat 7: Tunica Rags (31 041)
Seat 8: Spiff321 (1 585)
Seat 9: magglioordonez (3 248)
mamamia78 antes 25
Dorktaku antes 25
Cardtruth antes 25
XXcosmoXX antes 25
Jade RedStone antes 25
gadzooks64 antes 25
Tunica Rags antes 25
Spiff321 antes 25
magglioordonez antes 25
Tunica Rags posts the small blind of 150
Spiff321 posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #6

Holecards:
Dealt to gadzooks64 [ ]
magglioordonez folds
mamamia78 folds
Dorktaku folds
Cardtruth raises to 1,100
XXcosmoXX folds
Jade RedStone folds
gadzooks64 raises to 5,345, and is all in
Tunica Rags folds
Spiff321 has 15 seconds left to act
Spiff321 folds
Cardtruth calls 4 245
gadzooks64 shows [ ]
Cardtruth shows [ ]

Flop :
[ ]

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]
gadzooks64 shows two pair Queens and Tens
Cardtruth shows two pair Aces and Queens
Cardtruth wins the pot (11 365) with two pair Aces and Queens
gadzooks64 stands up
The blinds are now 200/400 with an ante of 50

SUMMARY:
Total pot 11 365 | Rake 0
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: mamamia78 folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Dorktaku folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Cardtruth showed [ ] and won (11 365) with two pair Aces and Queens
Seat 4: XXcosmoXX folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Jade RedStone folded before the Flop
Seat 6: gadzooks64 (button) showed [ ] and lost with two pair Queens and Tens
Seat 7: Tunica Rags (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Spiff321 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: magglioordonez folded before the Flop

GG me.

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No Matter Where You Go... There You Are.

2007-07-05T11:36:00.000-05:00

La parte final de un poste de la huésped, no por Zerbet por supuesto.

When Lloyd the Floorman announced they were about to start a new $1/$2 "Low Limit No Limit" table he might as well have just said, "Hey, take a twenty out of your wallet and burn it for me, wont cha?"

Without so much as a by-your-leave, both Worn Hat and Claude Rains immediately stood up and went over to stand around and wait while they set up the new table. I was a little surprised; after all, Worn Hat had been on an Uber Heater only a couple hands before, but I could tell watching him that he never even considered staying at the Stud table.

With the Mumbling Frowner having been crushed like a bug during The Attack of the Hilton Sisters, that left only three of us at the Stud table. Our dealer, sensing a window of opportunity, instantly asked the Large Woman (whose stacks I'd just replenished to what looked like just about her original buy-in) "Do you want to continue?"

Much to my surprise, the Large Woman immediately looked at Trembler and pointedly said, "I don't want to play three-handed, do you?"

I don't know for a fact that these two were married, but he sure picked up on her body language and verbal clues like they were... and then he quietly answered, "Naw."

They began racking up their chips, while I was scratching and shaking my head... and the ~~dumpster-diver~~ Dealer set the deck down in front of her, folded her hands, and smirked at me.

Much to my chagrin, my crafty ploy of calling two $6 bets to make a statement to the table had become a completely wasted effort.

Remember, this is NO ANTE, NO BLIND Stud. It is free to play unless you decide you have a hand and voluntarily throw some chips into the pot! I guess they were afraid they were going to miss bed-check at the home, or something...

With the Stud table broken, I was back where I'd started when I wandered into Your Place for the Best in Live Poker! in the first place: do I play $4/$8 with a short stack, or $1/$2 No Limit... with a MANDATORY short stack?

A quick survey of the people sitting down at the newly-launched $1/$2 game made the decision for me. There were at least two who appeared slightly drunkish, Claude Rains was a known quantity, and the attitude and all the comments from Worn Hat had me convinced that he had "ATM" written all over him (assuming the Queen storm had blown over, of course.)

Not knowing how long the waiting list for NLHE had become while I was playing Stud, I asked Lloyd if the new table was full. He said, "Well let's see, one, two, three..." as he began to literally count the people sitting at the table OUT LOUD while pointing at each seat as he did it.

Uh, thanks pal, I'll take it from here.

The 10 seat and the 2 seat appeared to be open, but when I got to the 2 seat there was Zippo lighter sitting on the felt; someone had already taken that seat. I hate the 1 and 10 seats, but I guess someone has to sit in 'em...

A new dealer was sitting in the box, waiting for someone to unlock the chip tray. I told him I was taking the seat, but that I needed to go buy some more chips. He gave me a weird look but didn't say anything, so off I went.

When I got back with my $40 in red $5 chips, Lloyd was struggling with the key to the chip box, but he got it open after a couple of whacks to the case. I sat down, adding the chips to my stacks of $1 whites... and realized two important things immediately...

The first was that no one counted my stack up when I got back from the cage. I think I could easily have brought down another $60 or $70 or $80 worth of mixed colors from the Cashier. When everyone else had $100 max, I would have had an extra $30, or $40, or $50...

The second thing I realized was that I had just short-stacked myself! While I started with $60 on the Stud table, I had won a $2 raise-and-take-it hand but lost a $38 hand (my ill-fated Aces-Up hand.) When I rushed up to the Cashier cage, I bought enough to bring my total chip buy for the night up to the $100 max for the table... but forgot to add in the $36 I was stuck!

There are times when a man is prepared to look stupid, but sitting down with a bunch of strangers at a poker table with the clear intention of taking their money away is NOT one of them - at least not for me.

I also intended to play pretty damn tight unless this $1/$2 table turned out to be the only one I'd ever seen that didn't play loose as hell. Given my fear of looking silly and my intention to play tight, I convinced myself that I was OK sitting with only $64, at least until I knew I was going to need/want more...

It's so sad when a man let's his Macho drive, ain't it?

As the first hand at the new table was dealt, I took a look around the table to see who I was up against:

Seat 1 - a guy in his 30's who never spoke the entire night.

Seat 2 - Zippo guy, an active and very aggressive player.

Seat 3 - a twenty-something guy also wearing a ball cap.

Seat 4 - a young lady with a determined look in her eyes.

Seat 5 - a young blond guy with a smirk that never left his fact.

Seat 6 - Worn Cap and his big stack. He brought his chips over from the Stud table, and as I suspected, no one counted them out to make sure he didn't exceed the max buy in.

Seat 7 - a boisterous late 30's/early 40's guy named Ralph with a quick wit.

Seat 8 - a guy in his late 30's who talked college hoops the whole time.

Seat 9 - Claude Rains from the Stud table.

Seat 10 - Your Narrator and Guide for the evening.

The dealer pitched a card in front of everyone, the young lady won the button, and the dealer re-shuffled and dealt the first hand. The tone for the evening was immediately clear; fold to Worn Cap who limped, Ralph made a joke and limped too, it folded to Zippo who threw out enough chips to raise it... to $35.

$35. Into a $7 pot.

Everyone folded except Worn Hat, who surprised everyone and flat called. Flop came out with three small cards and two clubs. Worn Hat bet $20, and Zippo shoved his stack into the pot.

Remember, this is the FIRST HAND.

Worn Hat calls without any hesitation. No one noticed that while Zippo's all-in bet left him, as you might expect, with no chips, when Worn Hat called he still had a couple pretty big stacks left behind.

Zippo flips over a 6 of Clubs and a 4 of Spades, matching two of the cards on the flop for Two Pair. Worn Hat flips over the Ace and 5 of Clubs for... nothing but a bare flush draw.

The Turn hits no one, but the River is the Jack of Clubs, giving Worn Hat his first flush of the evening.

You may suppose from the use of the word "first" that this was not the only flush he had that evening. Such a surmise might be the second biggest understatement since the dawn of time.

With a few minor exceptions here and there, this was pretty much how most of the next hour went:

Huge over-raises by Zippo, who actually built quite a stack a couple of times from hitting his preposterous starting hands against players with, y'know, big pairs and soooted high cards and junk like that.

Crushing beats from Worn Hat who played any two soooted and simply refused to be bet off of any flush draw no matter how much Zippo (or anyone else) bet. He hit a flush on the Turn or the River. Over. And. Over.

Zippo took his beats without a flinch, hopping up and running upstairs to the Cashier to get another $100 stack, usually only missing one or two hands in the process.

Others were a little less resilient, and Ralph, particularly, commented about Hat's insane flush chases... but not about Zippo's bizarre overbets, I noticed.

It didn't take long to figure out why he was all over Hat's case but ignoring Zippo.

When the guy in Seat 8 was finally felted trying to play normal poker with this one-ring circus going on, the determined young lady in Seat 4 - who'd proven to be a pretty good player, taking shots from time to time to see if she could get Zippo's stack and staying the hell out of hands with Worn Hat - asked for a seat change, saying "I don't want to have to sit next to my brother anymore."

Turned out that the blond guy with the smirk was her brother, and making it known to the table prompted Ralph to laugh loudly and exclaim, "Wow, you play with your brother? So do I!" while pointing over at... Zippo.

Watching from then on made it clear that the siblings were staying out of hands with each other. Makes sense, I suppose, if only because they have to sit around the Thanksgiving table together...

I'd actually played a couple of hands myself during all this, but missed every flop completely with drawing hands and was forced to fold JJ in a non-Zippo/non-Hat hand when Claude Rains appeared from nowhere with a pot-sized bet on the Ace-high flop.

After a while my stack had dwindled down to about $50. It was getting to be late, and it was pretty clear that Zippo and Worn Hat both were planning on hanging around for a long time. I was in the Big Blind, and I decided as the cards were coming out that I was going to play another orbit and then get out of Dodge.

It folds around - even Zippo and Worn Hat both fold - to Ralph in the Cutoff, who raises it to $7. The determined young lady who moved seats is on the Button, and she smooth calls the raise. Claude Rains in the Small Blind thinks... and then raises it to $28.

I say, "Jesus! I don't even want to look," peek at my cards and find, believe it or not... two red Queens.

I'd played so tight that I was pretty sure if I raised I would lose at least one and possibly both of the people between me and the Invisible Man. I'd never seen HIM fold, once he was committed to a hand, though...

I thought about it some, and decided that even though I wasn't able grind out a profit as I'd hoped, I did get some serious entertainment out of the trip, and sometimes, you just have to grit your teeth and hope for the best.

So, I put my stack into the pot and said those fateful words... "I Ore Eeen."

The dealer counted it out and said, "All In for $48 total." Ralph folded so fast I believe he created a vacuum where he cards used to be; then the determined young lady looked at her cards again, and she too, mucked.

Claude Rains peeked at his cards, and then said, "No choice I guess, I call" and flipped over Big Slick, suited in clubs.

The dealer, who'd been competent but not especially engaged in the game, suddenly came to life and whipped out the Flop, Turn and River so fast the entire board was out before I finished flipping over my Queens.

As I double- and then triple- checked the board, I found that, for once, I'd managed to dodge six outs and win the hand!

It turned out, of course, that he really only had three outs. Worn Hat claimed he folded a King, and both Ralph and the determined young lady claimed they folded an Ace.

I stacked up my $90 in chips and waited for the Blinds to come around, never seeing two cards above and 8 for the whole orbit. When the Big Blind was going to hit me next, I folded my 94o, stood up and said "I'm done!"

Total damage for the night: six or seven bucks for beers (they can't give you free drinks, it's Missouri remember) and a couple more for tokes (hard to toke much when you win maybe three hands all night.)

At least, that's what I thought... until I got to my car and realized I'd forgotten to get my parking ticket validated at the casino. So, $7 for beer, $3 for tokes, plus the $5 stupidity tax for forgetting the validation.

Quite the entertainment extravaganza for a mere $15, don't cha think?

~ Fini ~

The Attack of the Hilton Sisters

2007-07-03T14:35:00.000-05:00

(Guest post. Part Three. Not Zerbet.)

OK, so maybe "Stud Game From Hell" was a tad overstated. Call it poetic license; how else am I supposed to get you back to read the next part, anyway?

Once I'd returned with my $60 in chips and sat down at the $2-$6 7CS game, I scanned the table and tried to classify the players in hopes of coming out ahead with my mad Stud skillz.

"Mumbling Frowner" was in Seat #1. One of those guys who has obviously had a frown since birth, I'm not sure if he even realized that he was speaking out loud more or less continuously.

Seat 2 was empty, and Seat 3 was an older man with a bit of the Trembles - some of the Vegaspaloozers will remember the old guy who sat in on our Razz game at Binion's. This guy wasn't quite THAT bad.

Seat 4 was a very large woman in a print dress. She was quiet, but the way she sat at the table had me wondering if maybe they built the table AROUND her.

Studmaster Stoney McRock was in Seat 5. (That would be me.)

Seat 6 was an Indian-looking man ("India" Indian, not Native American Indian). He was one of those guys who is really good at being invisible until he suddenly pops up with a raise... so let's call him Claude Rains.

Seat 7 was Worn Hat. In answer to my prayers, the guy who earlier asked me whether Stud was dealt "all face up" was now sitting in range of my Uber Stud Skillz... (that's comic foreshadowing, for those who missed it.)

There was no one in Seat 8; in fact, there was no CHAIR at the 8 spot, and it didn't look like there ever was one.

So, all in all, it was pretty much the standard collection of folk you'll find sitting around a low-stakes Stud table in a second tier casino on a Friday evening.

And of course, there was our dealer, Elizabeth. I know it's going to come across as harsh, but the truth is the truth, and when I sat down, looked up, and first laid eyes on her, my first thought was, "I guess there was a special on Crack this week."

She was skinny, with vacant eyes, and her connection to the game (and this particular dimension) was tenuous at best.

As the cards came out, I scanned the way each player handled their cards and their chips, trying to establish a baseline against which I could compare later actions and detect changes implying what cards they held.

This was, of course, underly ridiculous and a complete waste of time.

Each of them did the same thing, every time; look at card #1 when it came (grimace if not Ace or Face,) look at card #2 when it came (same,) be sure NOT to catch card #3, and make sure NOT to arrange it anywhere near them (but grasp at it in desperation if at least one of the first two cards is not an Ace or Face card.)

Within a few hands, I began to sense that there was something I was missing. There WAS something of a "stir" among the players when I shockingly (and completely unexpectedly) voluntarily folded my cards the first couple of hands - but that wasn't what was starting to tickle in the back of my mind.

As we played four or five hands, what started as a small tickle in the back of my mind slowly, slowly grew and expanded as my finely-tuned Stud skills and my Adrian Monk-like talent for observation revealed the anomaly in the game.

I had somehow stumbled upon the Holy Grail of Stud poker - a low-limit game with no ante and no blind!

I was, to say the least, astounded by this revelation. This was a game that I could sit at all night long while I waited for rolled up Aces - for free!

What with The Universe being its nasty, ironic self, almost immediately after this astounding discovery Worn Hat won his first pot. You may suppose from the use of the word "first" that this was not the only pot he won. Such a surmise might be the biggest understatement since the dawn of time.

This mook won pot, after pot, after pot, after... well, pot. He won that first pot with split Queens. He won the next pot with buried Queens. He won the pot after that with buried Aces over... Queens. The fourth pot, he didn't have two Queens... until 6th street.

He won SIX straight pots (busting Mumbling Frowner along the way) with two OR MORE Queens featured in EVERY. SINGLE. HAND.

After the third one, we made the ~~Crack Ho~~ Dealer scramble the cards for, like, ten minutes or so. To no avail, obviously.

Fortunately for moi, I did not get any cards to play during this stand-up comedy routine by the gods of statistics. It didn't take long before I began to fold my cards without even looking, frankly.

After a nice "flourish" at the end of the run (a full house; something really insulting like Threes full... of Queens) the table was pretty shell shocked, and everyone kind of sat back, stunned - even Worn Hat, now with a nice little stack of chips, most of which from Mumbler when he could not accept the inevitable Queen coming to beat his middling two pair to a bloody pulp.

Naturally, that is when I got the cards for the only hand I played at this table.

Finding a small pair buried (threes or fours, I think) and an Ace door card, I opened for $4. The victims of the bombardment were still aware enough to realize I hadn't been playing (or victimized) alongside them, and fold, fold, (holy crap, Worn Hat folded!) fold... until it got to the large woman, who called with a... Queen showing. {gulp}

4th street was a blank for me and a Ten for her. I bet $4 again (that having been established as the "I have a hand" bet when I surveyed the game earlier) and she called, again. Hmmmm... on the Broadway draw, obv.

5th comes an Ace for me giving me Aces up (and of course reducing her outs for a Broadway straight,) and a blank 6 of Puppy Toes for her. I crank it up to the max $6, and she has her call screaming into the pot before my chips get there.

6th is a blank for me, and a Jack for her. I bet my $6 and, of course, she raises me $6.

So, I reached over and slowly crushed her throat with my bare hands, chanting, "Die Chasing Monkey, Die Chasing Monkey..."

Or, I called. One of those.

7th was not an Ace nor a Three for me, and she didn't even look at her last card - and I watched her drag a noticeable piece of my stack toward her.

When I realized on 6th street that she had, indeed, chased against my obvious two pair, I'd decided that it was worth the $12 price to show the rest of the table that I would call down with a made hand.

I hoped to both avoid some of the bluff attempts that are inevitable in a Stud game, while also encouraging the chasers to run with me.

I do believe in odds, I do believe in odds, I do I do I do believe in odds...

Turned out she chased with an INSIDE STRAIGHT DRAW. As I always like to say, Confusious say "Man who chase inside straight is waiting for roast duck to fly into mouth."

Just at that moment - when I had intentionally put chips I knew to be lost into a pot, in hopes of setting up a long night of bleeding these chasers dry - Lloyd the Floorman yells out...

"Opening up a new No Limit table! Who wants a seat?"

End Part Three

Game Selection: Art, or Science?

2007-07-02T08:48:00.000-05:00

(This is Part Two of a guest post. Still not by Zerbet.)

And a Tip o' the Hat to CentV for the recent history on The Admiral in the comments to Part One!

Having your subconscious a) recognize a sound so faint that it blends in with the background noise, and then b) grab the steering wheel, jerk you into a 180° turn and hit the gas can be, um, disconcerting.

Before I really thought about it, I was walking down that hallway full of out-of-use slots like a hound on the scent. (Speaking of scents: imagine what a really old boat smells like. Now add decades of smokers sitting at slot machines. Mix. Garnish with a sprig of beer-soaked felt for that just-right presentation.)

About halfway down the length of the boat I pass a small snack bar area (curtains pulled closed, no one around) and then an empty cashier station (piles of empty chip racks haphazardly stacked) and then, low and behold, I see dead people - no, wait, they're poker players!

The area felt very small, but I was trying to keep in mind that less than two weeks before I was in Vegas, playing at some of the nicest card rooms in town. As I walked into the "room" (don't rooms have, y'know, walls?) I noticed a guy in a jacket sitting at an empty poker table counting decks, just about the same time he noticed me.

"What you lookin' for?" says he, with a nice smile on his face as he gave me the once-over.

"I dunno, what you spreadin'?" says I, trying to sound like a Sophistimacated Gambler. I looked around for a waiting-list board or something similar... nothing.

He gestures towards a couple of tables in the middle, "We got four-eight," then to three tables around the edge, "No Limit," and finally to a table near where I came in "and Stud."

I scanned the tables as he pointed them out (there were eight tables in the room, and six were in use) and each of them looked full. "Mind if I look around a little before I sit?" I asked. He shrugged.

He asked if I lived in St. Louis, and I told him I did. He asked if I'd ever played poker in a casino before (from which question I astutely surmised the Sophictimacated Gambler guise might need some work) and I told him I'd been in Vegas a couple week before.

"Did you play at Red Rock? Best room in Vegas." he asked. "Nope, we played a couple different places, Ceasar 's, the Flamingo, Planet Hollywood. The Red Rock is out of town a ways, isn't it? We stayed at the Imperial Palace so we played at places that were walking distance."

His smile grew huge at the mention of the IP. "I helped build that place. Put all them damn palm trees in myself, with a shovel!

I smiled knowingly just as a dealer at one of the No Limit tables yelled, "Floor!" and he jumped up to head over. I thought to myself, "There were palm trees at the IP?"

I walked around the room and looked to see which tables had open seats. Both $4/$8 tables looked full, and I was OK with that - the last time I played $4/$8 (the MGM in Vegas) I got my ass waxed (along with most of the rest of the table) by some clueless flush-chasing mook.

Fortunately, I'm not bitter about it.

I prefer a nice $3/$6 game and that was what I was planning when I hit the ATM on the way, so sitting at 4/8 under-funded was even less appealing.

The No Limit games also looked pretty full, but I did spot a couple of empty seats. Then I walked over to the Stud table and watched the play for a few minutes.

While was on my little tour of the room another player came in - a young "rural" looking guy with a seriously worn-down baseball cap. Just as I began to watching the action on the Stud table, Worn Cap walked over and asked if I knew what games they had available. I gave him the same description the Floorman had given me, ending with "and Stud" while pointing at the table in front of me.

Worn Cap watched for a minute, and then asked me, "So, they deal all the cards up?"

At this point I thought it was appropriate to take a moment and offer a little silent prayer:

"Dear Lord, I know we don't talk much, and I'm sorry about that stuff last week, but please, God, when this gentleman decides to try Stud, let there be TWO seats open. Amen."

I explained the basic workings of a Stud game to him, including that it was a split-limit game (which I'd figured out only moments before he arrived through the cagey process of walking over and reading the little placard next to dealer's elbow) and how the three cards at the beginning, and each card delivered after were called "streets" and that 7th Street came face down.

He then asked if there was a Bad Beat Jackpot for this game. I barely stopped myself from hugging him.

The Floorman - who's name was Lloyd, as I'd learned from people calling out to him - came by at that point, and my young companion asked him if there were any seats for No Limit. As I chanted "Please play Stud, please play Stud..." in my head, Lloyd told him that his name would be fourth on the list ("...please play Stud, please play Stud...") and that they announce when the seats become available over the casino loudspeakers so he could go play slots while he waited, if he wanted ("...please play Stud, please play Stud!")

Worn Cap asked if there was a seat at the Stud table (yes, we were still standing NEXT to the Stud table) and Floyd pointed at the empty chair next to him and said, "The minimum buy-in is $30."

I asked Lloyd whether we could buy chips at the table (putting the final nail into the coffin of Sophistimacated Gambler persona) and was told no, of course. Um... duh. With Missouri's lost limit rules, they have to sell chips from a central location so they can swipe your card and log your chip purchase.

Worn Cap walked off towards the stairs and was back pretty damn quickly with a rack of about $50 (Thank You, Jesus!)

During the time he was gone, I watched the play and counted the stacks of the people at the table. The people at low-limit Stud tables in most small casinos are usually a little "family" group who know each other very well, and I wanted to try to "fit in" as best I could by sitting down with a Red Riding Hood stack - not too big, and not too small.

Just as Worn Cap sat down another seat emptied right next to him and quick-like-a-bunny, I ran upstairs, bought $60 worth of $1 chips, and ran back downstairs to sit at the Seven Card Stud Game From Hell.

End Part Two

Your Place for the Best in Live Poker!

2007-06-30T12:00:00.001-05:00

Or not.

(This is Part One of a guest post. Not by Zerbet though.)

The stars aligned on Friday when The Dear And Patient Wife advised that she was ~~dragging~~ inviting The Kid with her to see Grease at The Muny that night.

To coin a phrase, show tunes went off in my head. As might well be expected, the recent Vegaspalooza trip left me with a jones for live poker, so the opportunity for "a trip to the boat" as they say here in Missouri - there is no land-based gaming here - couldn't have come at a better time.

I had it in mind to try to find a tournament with a reasonable buy-in and structure to play, but after checking a couple of places I found that there aren't any tourneys around here after about 2 PM or so on Fridays - I guess the don't want to take their tables and dealers away from the high cash game play, or something...

Anyway, a while back a St. Louis-area blogger (to whom I'd link if I could just remember who it was...) mentioned that his favorite room to play in St. Louis was in the President Casino. As I recall he was particularly complimentary of the dealers and he liked that the room was separated from those damn slots.

The President floats on the Mississippi very near the Arch in downtown StL, which is near where I work... and yet I'd never been there. I didn't know it even HAD a poker room for a long time, and since the river front is pretty seedy looking overall, even when I found out about the room I'd supposed it, too, was probably small and "less than attractive."

I decided to check it out - if it turned out to be a dump, I could always head out to Harrah's (which is much newer and very nice) or the AmeriStar, (another place I haven't visited yet.)

Given that this is Missouri, I knew that the first thing I'd have to do when I got there was to get a player's card. I hopped into a line of 20 or so people waiting to get one, and almost immediately found myself explaining to a nice lady in line who was visiting from out of town WHY we are REQUIRED to get a card to enter the casino.

While these cards DO serve the "usual" purpose (awarding comps like free valet parking for various levels of play) in Missouri they are MANDATORY because it is against the law to lose more than $500 over two hours of gambling!

Obviously the casinos have to track your loses relative to the clock, and the cards are used to a) validate your age, etc., when you get one, and then b) track your chip purchases & slot play to make sure you don't break the law.

I was pretty shocked to discover that The President actually charges you $2 to issue the card, too. No one else charges, at least that I know of. I don't know how they've managed to get that past the Gaming Commission, but ya gotta give 'em props for finding a way to shift the cost burden to the consumer... the bastids.

So, little black card in hand and about a half hour after getting there, I finally actually enter the casino. While the entry area outside is quite stylish and well lit, once you get to the actual boat (christened The Admiral - yes, it's a real boat and not just a modern-day raft like most of the rest use) the appearances take a serious turn for the worse. Frankly, the place is pretty much a dive.

I wandered around for about five minutes trying to find a way to go down to a different deck (I knew the poker room was on Deck A) but there were NO signs of any kind that I could see after walking the boat from stem to stern.

I finally had to ask someone and they pointed toward a doorway near the central bar and food court (does four tables and a half-door counter on the side of the bar qualify as a "food court"?)

There was a small stand-up sign with the claim that is the title of this post just inside the doorway at the top of the stairs, so it initially seemed that the directions I got were good... then I went down to the bottom of the stairs and around the corner as guided by the velvet ropes and saw... a large empty hallway with rows of out-of-service slot machines lined up back-to-front-to-back in storage.

I was obviously in the wrong place. I reversed my path and began to climb back up the same stairs (anticipating the weird looks from the patrons at the slots around the doors at the top) when I heard a faint sound that my senses, so finely-tuned from a full week in Vegas, instantly recognized as the sound of chips being riffled, far away.

End Part One

just a reminder...

2007-06-30T09:24:00.000-05:00

For Mac...

2007-06-28T06:04:00.000-05:00

Because he actually reads this blog... so hey, I'll give you your very own post.

To make a long argument short (because sersly, I could take up the whole first page of this blog with the suckout and comments after) I'm gonna stick with the after-argument Mac and I had last night.

To complete (the bring in) or not to complete (the bring in), that is the question.

I'm talking about a poker game called Stud 8 or Better, but I think the concept applies to Stud AND Razz for that matter. And I'm not talking about just completing, but completing the BRING IN.

For starters, I'll start with a quote from the FTP Forums (this is a whole thread on the subject btw) by Perry Friedman, who is considered an accomplished Stud player:

And here I am! My tip was written about stud hi, but most of the same reasons apply to hi/lo and razz. Other than in rare tourney situations, I will never bring in for a completion in stud hi/lo.

Here is a link to my tip:
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/proLessons.php?lesson=26

Perry

Well, here is the actual link to the tip. But here is the jist of what it says:

Furthermore, bringing in for a completion limits your betting options. If you bring in for the minimum and someone else completes the bet, you can raise back for a full bet, whereas your opponent can only complete for a partial bet. You can also decide to slow play your hand if someone completes. Completing the bet exposes you to being raised back a full bet. By always bringing in for the minimum, you do not give away the strength of your hand and leave your options open on third street.

So ya, I think completing your bring in is stupid, not aggressive (and that goes DOUBLE in HU play). Aggressive Stud is betting your hands when you know your opponent is weak, fighting over a bring in when its 10 chips is stupid.

EDIT: I found a bit more info on the subject from Ray Zee (courtesy of Dekker, ty Dekker)

"It doesn't happen often, but occasionally the bring-in...will start the action with raise. This always means that he has a playable hand, and it usually means that he has a fairly good hand but not a great hand."

"When the bring-in raises, he typically holds three small flush cards, three small straight cards, or a high pair in the hole. Of these three possibilities, his most likely hand is a high pair in the hole, and he is trying to limit the field. The exception is when this player is steaming, which can be determined based on how he is conducting himself and how he has fared in the last few pots."

"In this situation, you should play very tightly. Players likely to be contesting the bring-in will have quality hands. Also, you will not have the added equity of the bring-in money, since this player usually will not be folding because of additional raises."

[Ray Zee: High-Low Split-Poker for Advanced Players, page 31]

My argument isn't that completing can never be done, but it does typically advertise your hand. And as Perry stated, even with a strong hand, completing your BI for half the bet isn't the smartest play.

another edit!!

Mason Malmuth says this on the 2+2 forums (courtesy of postmodernboy):

I disagree. I virtually never make this play. Against you, I would know that you do not have a pair when you are the bring-in and only call. Against someone who never makes this play, you can never be sure.

In addition, by making this play in a small ante game I believe that the mistake is even worse. When someone tries to steal a large ante pot and they run into a hand in the bring-in they are not always in awful shape because of the size of the pot. In a small ante game that won't necessarily be the case.

am i dreaming?????

2007-06-27T18:18:00.000-05:00

For a few years now I've heard stories... goot stories... fairytales of poker in my town.

Not just poker, but poker with the pros.

There is a live poker club in my town called The KhanIsHawt Club (name changed for obv reasons) that is owned by the Sexton's. My town is home to greats such as Mike Sexton, Chip Reese, and Ron Rose. Old skewl mofo's.

Among these stories were rumors of how hard it was to get into this club. You had to be with a member to get in, and well, altho I am one hawt babe, I had never met a member.

Until today.

The club opened a second location, and my brother knows one of the dealers. Last night he went to play and became a member.

The awesome part of this whole story is that the club spreads every game you can think of, and at a low stakes players budget.

And if you think I'm NOT about to run over the 4/8 o8 game, you gots another thing comin.

TILT!!!

2007-06-23T07:56:00.000-05:00

Last night I sat at a 1/2 Limit HE table for a couple of hours. After being up over $20, I ended up dropping $60 on runner runner suckouts.

I was pretty pissy. $60 is A LOT to me.

So, I decided to go play some 1/2 stud8 instead.

I've not played much s8 on FTP in the past, and when I did it was smaller limits for short amounts of time.

I sat at the table with $20, and over the next 30-45 minutes proceeded to scoop over half the pots I won, and leave the table with over $150, AND cleared a bonus.

I doubled my bankroll.

I'm not trying to brag, I wanted to share with all my friends who play s8. I wonder if the s8 is this juicy all of the time, and if there is less variance in the game. I doubt it, but I'm gonna find out.

Vegaspalooza Pics

2007-06-19T11:01:00.001-05:00

I think I finally managed to organize the pictures into something resembling what actually happened and when it happened. Sorta.

Check them out here.

Check out Khanwoman's pic here.

sluts everywhere!!

2007-06-18T23:42:00.000-05:00

So, I've met a lot of interesting people at the poker tables... but this one takes the cake.

While in Vegas, the last day I was there, we were playing at Ceasar's. We got a O8 table going. I haven't gotten to this part of my trip report yet, so here's an early taste.

Snarf says to me "Hey, come here I have to show you something" so I get up and walk over (we are on either side of the dealer) and he points over to the other side of the room. When I look up I see this HUGE PLUMBER BUTT staring me in the face.

Poor guy, we all had a great laugh about it. A dealer waiting for his turn to deal at our table called the floor supervisor over. She laughed as well and said someone had to tell him but it wasn't gonna be her!!

Then of course, being the effers that we are, someone (i forget who) offered her money to drop a chip down his ass. hahahaha.

Anyhow, the story comes full circle when Zooks and I decide to play a $1 HORSE sng before bed, a lil slut nightcap if you will when we meet an interesting person (you gotta read this):

khanwoman: pokersluts.blogspot.com ellen

ellenwheels: what's that?

gadzooks64: our blog

khanwoman: we have a poker tour, and a blog

ellenwheels: i'll check it out

ellenwheels: a tour?

ellenwheels: where do you tour?

khanwoman: ya every sunday at 9

gadzooks64: yeah a tournament tour

khanwoman: here

ellenwheels: online?

gadzooks64: sundays at 9 eastern

khanwoman: on ftp

khanwoman: ya

gadzooks64: 5$ buyins

eeduub: how come no one want me to play?

khanwoman: we do want u to play

gadzooks64: you're broke

gadzooks64: lol

ellenwheels: can't play. work until 6 on sunday

gadzooks64: sorry meant to complete

ellenwheels: pacific time

khanwoman: ahh

ellenwheels: usually 6. but it changes sometimes

khanwoman: nh

eeduub: I just got $50

eeduub: give me time

Dealer: ellenwheels shows [Kd Ks 2c Kc Qc 2d]

Dealer: gadzooks64 shows [Tc Td Jh 8c 9c 4h]

khanwoman: oooh a check raise

Dealer: ellenwheels shows a full house, Kings full of Twos

Dealer: gadzooks64 shows a straight, Jack high

Dealer: ellenwheels wins the pot (3,136) with a full house,

Kings full of Twos

khanwoman: dayum nh

gadzooks64: dangit nh

ellenwheels: i needed it

ellenwheels: where are you?

khanwoman: im in ohio

gadzooks64: IL

ellenwheels: never been to either

ellenwheels: any live poker there?

gadzooks64: in chicago but not where I am

khanwoman: ya sometimes, we have riverboat casinos too

ellenwheels: never been on a riverboat. like to

ellenwheels: i'm looking at your site

gadzooks64: we have fun with it

ellenwheels: lotta people on your site?

khanwoman: actually we hang at a couple of forums

gadzooks64 (Observer): we have the leaderboards posted

khanwoman: fulltiltforum.com

gadzooks64 (Observer): on two diff forums

ellenwheels: that one of you at caesars?

ellenwheels: that's where i work

gadzooks64 (Observer): we get about 18-24 people that play

the tour

khanwoman: really?

khanwoman: in LV?

ellenwheels: yup

khanwoman: woooot

gadzooks64 (Observer): we were there this past week

khanwoman: ya we were just there

gadzooks64 (Observer): played o8

ellenwheels: ha

gadzooks64 (Observer): 3/6 limit

ellenwheels: floor supervisor

ellenwheels: poker room

gadzooks64 (Observer): one of the players played the daily 330

ellenwheels: funny

khanwoman: were you there when you had to go tell a guy his

butt crack was showing??

gadzooks64 (Observer): Caesar's is beutiful

gadzooks64 (Observer): hahaha

ellenwheels: yes

khanwoman: that was us

khanwoman: who told you

gadzooks64 (Observer): yeah the guy said he'd pay you to

throw it in htere

ellenwheels: in the library?

ellenwheels: funny

ellenwheels: wanted me to put a chip in it?

ellenwheels: wow

khanwoman: YES

khanwoman: hahahaha

khanwoman: omg what a small world

gadzooks64 (Observer): that's awesome!

ellenwheels: i'll get myself fired some time

khanwoman: i gotta save this chat

gadzooks64 (Observer): I took pictures of every naked statue I

saw

khanwoman: wow im in shock

gadzooks64 (Observer): very pretty place

ellenwheels: really small world

ellenwheels (Observer): gogame

khanwoman (Observer): gg ellen

ellenwheels (Observer): good

khanwoman (Observer): nice to meet you again!!

gadzooks64 (Observer): we'll have to look for you

ellenwheels (Observer): you too!

gadzooks64 (Observer): fun playng with you

ellenwheels (Observer): see you around

i shoulda known...

2007-06-17T14:32:00.001-05:00

After winning every race in TWO token sngs back to back to win my $75 token

I was fucked

So I enter my 100 seat gtd satellite, double up my chips in the first hour when this happens...

Dealt to khanwoman [Kc Kd]
pettyfiend calls 80
bigfella one has 15 seconds left to act
bigfella one folds
calibuds86 folds
BRIKZ folds
Just1ce raises to 360
gianthit folds
nextphase folds
butter09 folds
khanwoman raises to 2,840, and is all in
pettyfiend calls 1,646, and is all in
Just1ce calls 1,566, and is all in
khanwoman shows [Kc Kd]
pettyfiend shows [Ks Kh]
Just1ce shows [Qc Qh]
Uncalled bet of 914 returned to khanwoman
*** FLOP *** [7h 3h Jc]
*** TURN *** [7h 3h Jc] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [7h 3h Jc Jh] [Ah]
khanwoman shows two pair, Kings and Jacks
Just1ce shows a flush, Ace high
Just1ce wins the side pot (400) with a flush, Ace high
pettyfiend shows a flush, Ace high
pettyfiend wins the main pot (5,218) with a flush, Ace high
pettyfiend stands up

I sho do love me some four flushes

I push w 66 and get no callers, blind down some more when I get, you guessed it, KK in the bb again

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to khanwoman [Kh Ks]
Zengy folds
notmeitsu folds
Gator93 folds
trancegemini folds
pier85 folds
ginola1999 folds
COREY627 folds
StupidGambler raises to 360
khanwoman raises to 874, and is all in
StupidGambler calls 514
khanwoman shows [Kh Ks]
StupidGambler shows [8d 7d]
*** FLOP *** [4h 9c 2d]
*** TURN *** [4h 9c 2d] [8s]
*** RIVER *** [4h 9c 2d 8s] [8h]
khanwoman shows two pair, Kings and Eights
StupidGambler shows three of a kind, Eights
StupidGambler wins the pot (1,748) with three of a kind, Eights
khanwoman stands up

StupidGambler: thank god
khanwoman (Observer): oh stfu

and a "god" thanker to boot.

nh gg ighn

UPDATE: I did go home, and I took a nap

I thought on a whim I'd check to see if he made his token (the second guy) and he was still in the turney!! 3 away from the bubble with 776 chips left, bb was 800

I know, I couldn't resist either

khanwoman (Observer): dude, next in line has 5k, stalling wont
help much
StupidGambler: thinking thx
khanwoman (Observer): np, im here to watch you bubble
StupidGambler: i no
StupidGambler: u still mad
khanwoman (Observer): im a woman, im always mad

his bb rolled around

khanwoman (Observer): wooooooooooot
Dealer: StupidGambler shows [7s 2d]
Dealer: ArtieRufio31 shows [Kd 9h]
Dealer: ArtieRufio31 wins the side pot (448)
Dealer: StupidGambler shows a pair of Twos
Dealer: ArtieRufio31 shows King Queen high
Dealer: StupidGambler wins the main pot (1,328) with a pair of
Twos

ArtieRufio31: Fourn?
StupidGambler: 72
khanwoman (Observer): he doubled w the hammer, sacrelidge
muckersilly: lol
ArtieRufio31: no call for half a blind?
NedRierson: we all should have played that hand
khanwoman (Observer): uh ya

Dealer: StupidGambler has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: leavenworth shows [Ac As]
Dealer: StupidGambler shows [8c 8h]
Dealer: leavenworth shows a pair of Aces
Dealer: StupidGambler shows a pair of Eights
Dealer: leavenworth wins the pot (4,406) with a pair of Aces
Dealer: Hand #2693196452
khanwoman (Observer): awwwwwwwwwww
muckersilly: nh
StupidGambler (Observer): happy now
khanwoman (Observer): yes i am ty

and truly, I am happy now.
That's right, don't get on my bad side folks.

Planet Ho Tournament

2007-06-16T20:28:00.000-05:00

Zerb and I are seated at the same table. There's a woman I recall from the Binion's Ladies event.

The first hand I play is AJ in late position, I raise and the Lady calls from BB, she checks and I take it down with continuation bet on a Q high board.

I pick up 9Ts in late position in a limped pot, flop flush draw, turn a gutshot, river flush. I bet every street and the one player with me the whole way insta-folds on the river.

I look down at A5s in SB and complete, flop top two, bet out get raised, tell him I'll bet him all in and he folds.

Get AA twice and get pushed on both times and thankfully they held up. First time was a couple hands after Snuffy had it; he raised up to 18k so I min raise to 16k and get pushed on by QQ. That really helped me out as I was starting to get short. One guy had his AA outrun by 66 and wasn't very happy about it.

Final table, I'm one of the chipleaders and I push with A6 into the short stacks from early position get called by A5 flop is 23x turn 5 river 6. Ship it.

When we get down to 6 Snuffy suggests that 4th-6th pool and split evenly and 1st-3rd do the same as those players were pretty close in chipcount. The 4th place guy wanted nothing to do with it. Next hand he lost a boatload of chips to another SS player but he managed to get them back and finished 4th when I put him all in with A7 and he called - A on flop and he's done.

We got down to three: Handsome Swiss Guy (120k), Snuff (110k) and ME (80k)! The HSG proposes a deal where we hold out $600 to pay 2nd $200 more than 3rd and 1st $200 more than 2nd. Sounded like a great deal to me - 3rd place actually benefited the most from that arrangement.

First hand 3 ways HSG raises from the button and Snuffy folds. I debate it for a long time and decide to push with A7. He calls and shows AK, doh! NH, GG, IGHN with $487 tyvm. After the fact Snuffy tells me he folded A5 and he normally would have never done that.

Who knew a Slut could cash in tournament at Planet Ho?!?!

Flamingo Tournament

2007-06-16T20:27:00.003-05:00

As was par for the course for me in Vegas, I showed up right on time for the 7:00 pm $60 buy-in tournament at the Flamingo. Turns out that wasn't early enough to get immediate seating.

DranDead and I were put on the alternate list.

Unfortunately for the other 5 Effers and Ante Uppers, they all DREW THE SAME DAMN TABLE. How bad would that suck?

I made it on a table right after the first level. Folded the first few hands and then picked up KK in middle position. I raise to 4x and get 2 callers. Flop JTx. I bet 900 into a 1200 and get raised to 2000 which would put me all in. I call and he shows....... drum roll please, KTh. He put me all in with MIDDLE FARKING PAIR AND A RUNNER RUNNER FLUSH DRAW. I doubled up early which is always nice.

I get some strong hands and raise but get no action after having shown the KK hand.

Pretty soon we are down to 2 tables and I'm not getting much. I honestly don't recall playing another hand until the final table.

A maniac came to our table that had run amok at the Effer's table. He'd been pushing all in and sucking out in rare fashion. He started to pull the same crap at my table but he was caught with his pants down a few times. He managed to spew to JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY ON MY TABLE BUT ME! Damnit. He donked off big to this one pretty good and aggressive woman who rode that chip lead to the final table.

I wasn't in too bad of shape when we hit the final table but I got screwed twice when the blinds double on my big blind. Aggro Bitch raised my BB when I had 92o and I had to fold, sigh.

A very tight player was UTG and raised it up. I was on her left and looked at AJc. I wasn't sure was she had but it was getting to desperation time for me so I pushed. Oh shit, she had AKs. Flop was AJx. She was totally pissed. I apologized like a fool.

One guy, who later admitted he didn't think he would be the one to benefit from his offer, suggested we take money off the top few places and pay the Bubble Boy his entry back. Turns out he ended being Bubble Boy.

So here we are In The Money when I get hit with the newly doubled BB, Aggro Bitch raises me again and I have trash so I fold. I post the SB and I had maybe a couple hundred chips behind when I pick up K2d. I figure I can't be in all that bad of shape versus a random hand so I push with it and of course the damn BB wakes up with AQ. NH, GG, IGHN.

Zerbet chewed me out because the BB and the UTG were both short stacks. He thought I should have folded there and hoped that one of them would go out before me. I'm sure he has a point. When you don't have the chip counts on the "screen" in front on you it is sometimes hard to think ahead like that. I might have been able to go up one more spot or maybe even two had I done that.

$100 - $60 buy-in = $35!

Suhwheat!

Leaving Las Vegas

2007-06-16T20:26:00.000-05:00

Parting is such sweet sorrow. I'm ready to get back home to my regular routine of beating my kids and ignoring my husband but I will certainly missed the fast paced life that was Vegaspalooza.

Karma

Karma is paying me back for bitching about freezing my ass off in every poker room in town by letting me swelter on the tarmac for 50 mins while my plane waits to take off.

Not all Karma is good.

Mixed Games at IP

After the HORSE tournament came to a close we planned to meet for some Razz. We were originally going to to Binion's since they had been so nice to us on Saturday night but instead convinced the IP to spread it for us.

What started as Razz turned into Dealer's Choice. And I really mean DEALER'S choice. Tommy sat down and proceeded to boss us around and we loved it. Razz, O8, Badugi, 2-7 Triple Draw, 5 Card Draw, Stud 8, Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple Hi/Lo, you name it we played.

I'm sure we will never again play some of those games at a live cash table in a casino. Tommy was good to us. We had a great time with the dealers at IP even though they were short staffed and none too familiar with some of the games.

My favorite hand happened in Razz. I'm sure it will never be one of Columbo's OMM hands so I can tell you. Columbo had a 3 up and I had an A up. He completed and I called. He was dealt a 5 and I was dealt a 6 pairing one of my down cards. He checked to me which I found highly suspicious and I checked behind. I was convinced he paired that 5. I think he hit a good card on 5th as did I. It's been so long that I don't recall if either of us bet that street but we did end up going to 6th. Columbo caught a 9 and I caught 7 giving me two pair to what I was sure was one pair for him. I had the better board showing so I bet into him hoping he was worried about his 9 being beat by a made 7. He hemmed and hawed and starting counting outs on his fingers. I had to tell him that is wasn't looking good for his hand even though I knew I was sitting on two pair. Eventually he folded and I showed him my buried 6 and 7. He laughed and said that he, too, had two pair.

Pros bets killed me. I don't know how but I managed to get stuck with Red for all my flop props and came out behind both times. StB took my chips the first time and Mr2jt did the second time around - at least he didn't let me sleep my props which I tried to do many times.

At one point a bunch of Effers decided to pool $5 each to put on Red or Black at the Roullette table. We, oddly enough, opted for Black as a group (only one red vote among us). I'm sure it had NOTHING whatsoever to do with my losing prop streak on Red - NOTHING what so ever. Of course, you know where I'm going with this. Yep, it was Red. At least Mr. Red (not Zerbet) wasn't the least bit bitter.

Ceasar's, Binion's Ladies Tournament

2007-06-16T15:30:00.000-05:00

Saturday

Today’s big event is the Ladies NLHE Event at Binion’s, which all the ladies are playing (all = myself, zooks, drandead and ELM).

Zooks and I woke up unnaturally early AGAIN and although I was awake, I did not want to get out of bed. So instead I went over to zooks’ bed and laid there semi-passed out while she uploaded Vegas Pics, wrote up some posts, and chatted on AIM with Snarf and MacAnthony. SNARF? WTF is snarf doing online? Oh he’s just playing AIPS TWO HOURS before he has to leave for vegas. What a degenerate. I finally drag myself out of bed, shower, and we decide to first head over to the RIO to do some pro gazing.

As usual I start with my phone calls to all the effers to see who wants to come along. When I call ELM I find out that am is playing in the Flamingo morning turney and is doing quite well. So, I wish him luck and tell them to contact us when they are done. Just for the record (because I don’t know when in my story I will get this in), our wonderful friend ELM gives killer back rubs. And when I say killer, I mean KILLER. She can put you into a trans in 0.5 seconds, and she does this little trick she calls “the piano”. I offered am a buy out on the marriage, but he didn’t go for it.

I was grumpy, tired, a bit hungover, and HUNGRY this morning – you will pry be able to tell when I get pissy about a few things.

So, we (zooks, dran, mr2jt, zerbet and myself) start the walk over to ceasars to catch the RIO Shuttle. I was in a bit of a hurry because I was STARVING, little did I know that zooks had a nekkid statue fettish, and it would take awhile to get thru ceasars. But two hours later we finally make it into the RIO and we stop and get some food.

That’s when I get the call, “AM WON! HE WON THE TOURNAMENT!” wooooot wtg am! Then I get am on the phone and he says he chopped 4 ways for about $450 (I think).

We check out the gift store and try to get into the Amazon Room to get some pics of Virge playing, but none of us can remember his table number. Altho, it didn’t really matter, because they weren’t allowing spectators at that time. We did manage to sneak in with DraNDead when she registered for the Ladies event. So there I stand outside of the registration line with Zerb, gazing upon a full Amazon room. It really is a sight, poker at an orgasmic level.

This is when I see zerb start to pull out

his camera. I tell him not to do it! But nooo ooo ooo will the old man listen to me?! He just has to try focusing his camera on a light, he’s not even taking pics. From being in the Amazon Room before, I know, that when there are no spectators allowed, and you sneak in, you pry shouldn’t use a camera. Somehow the guards think “oh that’s a spectator, lets go eat him” and sure enough, our local female Gestapo was on her way over. gg zerb.

As I wandered around I did find a way into the Amazon Room, but I couldn’t find Virge. After piddling thru the WSOP gift shop, we finally headed over to Binion’s to register for the ladies turney.

We get registered and walked around buying some things from pocketjjacks.com (she makes great ladies poker stuff) had about 4 glasses of water at the bar, tried to get out of my funk etc etc and then it was time to get seated. This is when we found out that Ladies Poker is the new softball. I have never seen so many Lesbians in one room in my life. There were whole “crews” with “spotters” railing and keeping an eye on everyone in the crew.

We met up with ELM and am, figured out where everyone was seated so we could keep an eye, and it turned out that DraNDead was not only at my table, but directly on my right. I’ve played with Dran enough to know, this wasn’t a good thing for me.

And sure enough, the first two hours I watched Dran run my table over and triple up her chips. I was just treading water, staying even. Our table was a pretty good table. I was afraid being a ladies turney it might be tight/passive, but I didn’t feel like it was. There were a couple of weak players at the table, and they were gone in no time, allowing for more weak players to enter. Our table pretty much ate them up.

Enter – young poser girl

That’s when a very beautiful young lady gets sat at our table. Well, she might have been beautiful, if I could have seen her face. She was very tall and thin, but had on a hat, sunglasses, ipod, sat with her legs up to her chest and came to our table with a massive stack. She immediately tried to play every pot and push some of the better players at our table around (including me) but ended up doubling the two short stacks, and bleeding chips off to the rest of us. By the time our table broke, she was on the short stack and most of us had doubled up. I was actually dealt AA twice, when in a pot with her that she had raised pf. Both times I pushed and she folded. Both times I thought she would call.

This player had a ton of potential, but she really needed to learn how to pick her spots.

On this trip I had a few discussions with some people about the luck factor in tournaments. The more I play, and watch others win, I realize you have to get lucky to win. Yes, you have to be skilled enough in the other instances, but you have to win races, and suck out occasionally. I had that moment happen when I was short and looked down at AJs and moved in. When a tight player behind me moved in, I knew I was in deep shit. Sure enough she flipped up AKo and I was praying for spades. Instead, the poker gods brought me a J on the flop and J on the turn, and no diamond on the river to give her a flush. WHEW.

When I left this table I had doubled my chips, but I was still pretty short, just a lil over 10 bb with the way they were increasing. As in most turneys I found myself winning a pot, only to have the blinds increase and leave me at 10x, again. When my original table broke (table 30) I was moved to table 29, which meant I was the next table to break. Sure enough, 5 mins later, our table broke, and I was moved to table 28! 3 mins later, this table broke and when the turney director came over I said “If you throw me table 27, I may have to hurt you” card comes “table 27 thanks guy” and he just keeps saying “its all completely random ma’am”. Finally, after table 27 I was moved to table 22, and if it weren’t for this move I wouldn’t be telling a story about cashing in this tournament.

I was on the shortest of short stacks here, I believe I had about 5-6k in chips but the blinds were 800/1600. There were two big stacks at the table, but the rest of the table had similar stack sizes to mine. As I sit and watch, waiting for my pushing hand, I start to realize this is the MOST PASSIVE TABLE I HAVE EVER SAT AT IN MY LIFE. I watched a woman with LESS CHIPS THAN ME fold AK, and she woulda made a boat. Then I listened to her reasoning about why she folded it (someone was all in ahead of her) I was astounded. So, that’s when I started pushing. I felt I had the read I needed, even the two big stacks weren’t calling allins, and the blinds+antes were over 3k. Every time I pushed with a good hand (med-high pair or AK/AQ) I would show, so that I could keep pushing with lesser hands. Sure enough, I left that table with almost 20k in chips, and I wasn’t called once.

We had a break, and I went over to check on the effers and these guys are playing razz with no ante! They had convinced Binions to spread a one/two razz game with no ante and they only rake pots over $5!! What a HOOT! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Binion’s is the greatest casino to ever be. If you go to Vegas with out playing there, you’ve completely missed out.

Anyhow, dinner break over, I get my well wishes from my razz friends and head back to the tournament. We are reseated with 3 tables left, 30 players, 25 pay. The first 10 only get their money back, and the TD comes around to offer that $500 be taken off of 1^st place so that the 5 that aren’t itm get their money back. I was cool with it, I figured it would get the ss’s pushing if they knew they got their buy in back.

We get down to two tables in no time and right away I have a few big hands. The first is when I am in the bb and utg +2 limped in, it folds around to me, and I look down at KJs. I decided to check my option here. I had only been at this table for about an orbit and I didn’t really want to raise w KJs out of position. I figured it would be best to hit my hand and trap the limper.

So here comes a rainbow K high flop. That was pretty much what I was hoping for, so I check, hoping to go for the check raise, when the limper moves all in. I go into the tank a bit here, I look at her and I say “wow, I was going to check raise you, did you really limp with Aces?” She sits back in her chair and folds her arms and I just stare her down. She looks nervous to me, and not in the good way, I can see her chest heaving a bit, shes trying to breathe slow, consciously. So, my read was that she was weak, I wasn’t sure if she had a mid pair or an Ace, but I had her beat.

Now I had to convince myself to go with my read. I wasn’t a big stack, or even middle of the road, I counted down my chips and thought she had me covered by maybe a chip and said “alright, lets rock n roll… I call” the girl to my left says “ya baby!” and I flip over my top pair and she flips over AQc. I had to sweat a few outs, especially when the turn brought another CLUB! But, damn I was hawt, what a great call.

A few hands later I felted another chick when she over played her KQ vs my AK. It was funny because she had been at my first table, and I had noticed she was playing KQ like it was going out of style. And I had decided then I was going to trap her playing the second best hand.

We had been reseated, and I didn’t like my spot. I was seated with super LAG asian lady on my left. I knew I couldn’t play position with her on my left and I wasn’t happy.

Now for the mother of all hands.

I was in the bb, and LAG lady limps utg, two seats after bets a standard raise, player two seats later goes all in, for about twice the original raise, it comes around to the sb and she moves all in as well, she has less than the first all ins chips. And wouldn’t you know, I look down at TWO RED LADIES. Oh boy, any day online, I muck this so fast, and I was about to do it here. I mean when you play a mtt online and you have a bet, raise and two all ins, QQ is no good. But before I muck I sit back and look at my table. Could I really muck QQ here?

When I look around I see that the two all ins were so short, they pry had less than 6 bb’s, this means their pushing range isn’t small, its pretty wide. The original raiser was starin me down with this scared look on her face, and I knew she was going to fold, and if there was this much action, I doubt limper LAG lady was limping with aces.

So now I look at my stack, I’m short too, not super short, but I have about 10x, and I’m here to win, I already have my buy in back. So I say “Screw it, I’m all in”. The table of ladies gets all excited! The limper and raiser fold, and I find myself against TT and AJ… my ladies hold and I felt two people and win a HUGE POT worth over 60k.

Ya that’s hawt.

Oh and I can’t leave out the split deals goin down. It was so ridiculous and I was actually embarrassed. At TWENTY people, TWO TABLES, the short stacks start cryin for a chop, a FUCKING CHOP AT 20 PEOPLE. And not even a fair chop, these whiney ass bitches wanted EVERYONE, even the chip leaders to chop an even 1200 each. Cause they wanted to be “nice” and be sure everyone got to play in the ladies wsop event the next day.

It was so pathetic, every few hands, or when someone else busted, another chop offer from the shorties, not ONCE did they offer to compensate the chip leaders. I refused the deal every time, and I wasn’t a big stack. But I do have pride. Then some bull dike says “you know poker is about getting value, not just winning” WTF does that mean? So I say to her “you mean it’s valuable for someone with 20 times your chip stack to win the same amount of money as you have?” And the people at my table acted like I was the only one refusing the deal, there were about 12 of us left by the time they cut the shit out, and the big stack was at the other table and she was having NONE of it.

SO EMBARASSING and there was another turney going on in the same room, I can only imagine what these people were thinking.

Well as expected, the LAG asian woman was the end of me. The blinds were huge, I think around 2500/5k so after the blinds passing me a few times, I was back to an average stack at the table. Of course I get ATs in the sb, LAG in the bb, and it folds to me, I do a standard raise, she calls, I lose. Couple orbits later, I get KQd otb, I do another standard raise, she calls, I lose.

I pushed in a few times with no callers, and finally again with 88. LAG lady calls w AKo and hits a T on the river for broadway. I make the call with AKo too, but just the fact that it was HER and it was a GUTSHOT ON THE RIVER hurt a bit. I went out in 11^th I think, but it could have been worse (zerb said 15th or something), I wasn’t really paying attention since it wasn’t first.

Thank goodness we were at Binion's and they agreed to spread a 1/2 razz game with no ante and only raked a pot when it was over $5. Dekker(right) and Mr and Mrs Snarf(left) had gotten in as well, so plenty of fun to be had. I sat down for a bit before we decided it was time to give up for the night.

part deux...

2007-06-14T18:45:00.000-05:00

Just as I was typing up part deux of my vegas report, i received a blue screen of death on my laptop. I've had my systems admin working on it (aka joe) and it looks like my HD is fried.

Not only do I hate repeating myself, but I hate typing things twice... so I'll get to it as soon as I can.

omg i forgot about VIRGE...

2007-06-13T13:41:00.000-05:00

I just realized I left my first Virge sighting out of my previous story.

As I was sitting at my first 2/4 table (the one with the Paris Hilton guy) I look over to Zerb's table to see if anything is going on and I see (what I thought was) a couple walking toward my table. I coulda sworn the dude was checkin me out, but his companion was this tall, blonde drink of water, so I thought it was a bit strange being that I pry wasn't his type.

Yet here he came, closer and closer to the T, till he was almost right next to me. I looked up, and he puts his hand out and says "Hi, I'm Steven" I shake his hand thinking, mkay and he says "Virge"

OMG ITS VIRGE!

He was much different than I had expected, very tall, clean cut and reserved. I dunno what I was expecting, but maybe that guy at the football game with his belly painted with Texas letters.

He made his rounds and said hello to all the effers, and shortly after had to leave to "get some sleep" with the tall drink of water saying he had been up all night.

Veni Vidi Vici…

2007-06-13T08:46:00.000-05:00

I would like to precede the beginning of my saga with a disclaimer:

1. Despite my tendency to pretend I'm 19 years old, I spent my first day home with ice packs on my ankles, swollen hands, and slept approx 18 hours.

This is all I have time to type up for now, more to come later.

And that we did. I knew it was fate when the first casino I had to go to was one of the two I hadn’t seen the year before. I met zooks at the IP after getting off the plane. It only took me two hours to get from my plane to the hotel, note to self: take a frakin cab.

Anyhoo, we headed right over to Ceasar’s card room and WOW, what a place. Zerb and Mrs. Sly were sitting at 3/6 limit HE (Separate tables) and Sly was over with the big dogs at 4/8 HORSE. I had to get some food in me, so while I ran over to get the best chicken wrap evah and make a few phone calls, zooks sat down at yet another 3/6 limit HE table. When I came back I was seated at Zerb’s 3/6. I was a lil awestruck being in this room, it really is something else

I was surrounded by agro young hotheads, which I don’t mind having at my table, but one on my right and two directly on my left is a different story. Finally one doubled up and left and the other two busted. I wasn’t sad to see them go and after being down about $60 when they left, I left the table up about $40.

ChicagoMike (aka Schoon157) finally showed his purdy lil face and joined Sly over at the HORSE oh I mean TORSE table. That’s right, they changed the holdem to Triple Draw. I LOVE VEGAS.

About an hour before I took off from Ceasar’s, Mr2jt showed up and sat at our 3/6 table. Of course I took the opportunity to raise his blind every orbit, or so he says anyhow. When zooks and I decided to head back over to the IP to play there (closer to our room and we were rounding the corner on 24 hours awake) I had just ordered a red bull and vodka. Zooks says “get a to-go cup” and I said “its vegas baby! All cups are to go” and the guy next to me chimes in that yes, you can in fact take any container with alcohol you want anywhere you want in vegas. Zooks was impressed.

The IP was uneventful, we waited for the rest to join us, but turned out Zerb wasn’t going anywhere when he hit quad 8s and a high hand jackpot over at Ceasars. We were waiting for ELM and am to get in, their flight was arriving late that night. We finally saw the Sly’s go by, they stopped and gave us waves etc. Figuring out ELM and am weren’t coming down after their flight, we finally decided to call it a night, or a morning and headed back for what turned out to be a nap.

We awoke 4 hours later. I had no intention of not sleeping full nights in vegas, but little did we know it was about to be par for the course. But it worked out because ELM and am couldn’t sleep either, and we went and got some breakfast and chatted. I had met am before but was looking forward to meeting ELM and she was just as great as I has suspected. And just fyi, this is one of the cutest couples you will ever meet.

Today’s big game was the $250 HORSE over at Binion’s. Sly and ChicagoMike were ready to play it, and we were going down to rail, play side games, and check out Fremont St. As we waited by the front door at noon for everyone, we made about 4 trips to Starbucks, and I gave Pokerlusky a call at Sly’s request. I didn’t realize lusky was in town already, but I guess he had been there all week. I told him our plans for the day and to get his toosh down to Binions. This was when my one moment of taking charge in vegas happened. I got the hotel cabbie guy to get us cabs. WOOT. Responsibility is such a burden. As we stood there waiting, I looked over and said “OMG its Guy!” everyone just stood there “No, guys its LYNX” finally a response, and we laughed about how our timing etc and then decided that a few would stay back with lynx while the rest of us headed to binions.

After getting a cab driver that obv didn’t speak English OR drive downtown very often, we got the boys reg for HORSE and the Sly’s and I decided to get a bite to eat in the Binion’s Diner. Sly and I discussed Stud8 strategy, and general turney strategy over brunch. And I just wanna tell you, I love these two. The Sly’s are two people I am better off for meeting.

We walked around downtown a bit waiting for the lynx stay behinders to get there. When they did, I showed them how to get $10 free to play slots at the golden nugget, we considered playing a $65 mtt there at 3pm, but finally decided against it. While they played their free slot money, I went on a hunt for the place with the giant daiquiri drinks. Mrs. Sly obliged as we walked up and down Fremont street. I had thought it was Mermaids, which was where we started, but I didn’t go in and check and ended up walking the whole strip and going back there. After a few taste tests and all the effers showing up, I went for the strap on drink and zerb/zooks shared the pussy drink.

And this is when it started to get goot.

We went in Binions to check on the horse boys, both were still in, and I sat at a 2/4 limit table. I had a strap on drink afterall, I didn’t want to get too serious. After losing every hand I played, including having my Aces cracked by JTo, QQ beat by A2o, elm rivering an Ace to beat my top pair, and mrs sly flopping trips w 89o vs my 77, this big mouth to my left started getting philosophical about PARIS HILTON. YES, Paris Fraking Hilton, and he would NOT shut the eff up. Given that he was already getting on my effing nerves before, he had cracked my aces, and he was one of those annoying guys that had to talk during every hand, I looked at the dealer and said “get me a rack”. I mean if I’m gonna sit here losing money, I wanna have fun doing it damn it. So, I got on a list for another table, and ended up at Zerb’s 2/4 limit table.

I’m soooo glad I decided to come over to this table for many reasons:

A) Zerb was there

B) Hot guy to my right

C) Whole table was there to have a goot time, half were drunk (like me) so I might actually win a hand

And sure enough, we had a blast. The hot guy to my right had a couple of big rings on, so I asked what the one was. Turned out it was some hotty totty bowling ring and he was a retired pro of some sort. So, I told him about zooks who was sitting at another table. And then he showed me another ring and said if I knew what it was he would be impressed. Well, I did in fact know what it was (a free mason ring) and hawt guy wasn’t impressed like he said he would be (Bastid). Zooks ended up coming over to talk to Zerb and I and I got the bowling convo started, she invited him to play horse w us on Sunday but he never showed.

By this time I was about ½ way thru my strap on, and the guys were out of the HORSE so everyone was talking about heading back, getting food, and moving to another room etc. I remembered that pokerlusky had said he might come down to Binion’s and when I took a potty break I saw that I had missed a few calls from him, so I gave him a ring to let him know we were leaving, and he was on the Deuce headed our way.

It was an opportunity for me to finally put a dent in my massive daiquiri, so I wasn’t disappointed that we were waiting for Lusky.

By the time we got back to the IP, my strap on was empty, and I decided it was time to take pictures. Good ones, like of everyone getting their player cards at the IP, or of them on the escalator, or even the security guard....

While everyone ate, I thought it would be prudent to go sit at a bar and get another drink. To my delight, there were two hawties there to chat with. Turned out they were from the same town as my husband, and when I called my husband to inform him of my drunken stupor and my company, one dude took my phone and started talking to Joe. Yeah, Joe was thrilled. But I was impressed he took it so well. gg joe.

This is when it dawned on me that I was drunk enough to NOT be around people any longer. So I told zooks I was headed up to our room to lie down for a bit. I somehow ended up in the Sly’s room and passing out. WOOOT 48 hours in and my pass out gave me 7 hours of sleep. I needed it. When I awoke (2-3 hours later) I was alone, so I gave zooks a call and she said they were down at the MGM. So I freshened up a bit and headed down to the MGM on the monorail. Funny fact, a two way ticket on the monorail is $9, an all day pass is $8. gg monorail.

DraNDead had flown in and was at the MGM as well. So, since we were both on the waiting list, we got to sit and chat for about 2 hours before our names were called. At one point, a gal came over and started talking to Dran, and I had no idea who she was, it turned out to be Shermy! So we sat and chatted for a bit. We waited so long I went and took pics of some of the effers playin at the MGM to help time pass, and FINALLY had my name called, Theresea, is how they spelled and called it. Mkay.

Zooks was having a ball at her blogger table. I believe they were playing 3/6 horse. Im not sure what the others were playing but I was sat at a 2/4 limit, and Dran was sat at my table shortly after. This was a pretty fun table, and I think Dran and I were cracking them up a bit with our convo. I was telling dran about our escapades before she had gotten there, throwing in a “omg he was hawt” every now and then. Finally this young guy sitting next to me goes “aren’t you married?” and I said “sure I am, I even put one of the hawt guys on the phone with my hubby a few hours ago, he was thrilled”.

We finally headed back to the IP about 3am because that’s when the monorail closed, Dran and I got a bite to eat and finally hit the sack around 5am.

To be continued...

Still to come, my experience in the Binions ladies event, and me falling out of a cab.

Straddle me, baby!

2007-06-09T10:22:00.000-05:00

Miami Don told me the bloggers would be hitting the MGM to play low stakes mixed games on Friday night. Weeeeeeeell, you know I'm up for that.

I get to the MGM at 10:00 and there was no HORSE table running. I asked about making an interest list and the room manager told me that it wouldn't make. I actually had to go back and make them start a list. I sat at a 3/6 limit table in the mean time and just kept an eye on the electronic board to see if anybody signed up.

Next thing I know [which in poker time is about 1.5 hours later] they are calling my name for the HORSE table and I hear Colombo and Falstaff's names called as well. I knew then that the bloggers had arrived. Woooooooot!

I couldn't play today's Blogger tournament because I will be playing the Binion's Ladies event at 4:00 so I figured I would donk around with them at a HORSE table. Not that anybody but maybe Columbo knows of me. That didn't seem to bother them much though - more dead money for them.

Falstaff bought in for $500 and made a nice tower of chips on the table. That should have been a clue that this wasn't going to be your momma's HORSE game. I didn't recognize the names of the few people that I asked but I found out who Columbo was and there's no way in hell anybody would NOT know Falstaff - that boy has big ... personality.

I pimped the FullTiltForum private HORSE tunry at the IP to them as well as the Pokerslut Tour. Maybe some will actually show up. I played a few pots and lost two with HUGE draws and one just cause I was gamboling. First thing you need to know is this: EVERY POT WAS STRADDLED! Yes, you heard me, straddled. Talk about having pot odds.

It was folded around to me with KTh. Of course I 3 bet and get called by the straddle. Flop came Q high all diamonds. I bet out confident that it didn't hit him and he called. The turn was a 2. I check he checks. River was a Q. I looked at him and said you got there didn't you? LOL. I call his bet and he asks what do you have. "Shit, you?" He showed two black cards and a craptastic pair of 2s that took down the pot. Oh yeah, THAT was fun.
I have Ah34h6 and limp in the straddled pot. Flop comes with two hearts and two non-counterfeiting low cards. One bet is called all around. The turn was a high card that helped no one. At this point I have the nut low draw and the nut flush draw. As some would say, "I have a brazillian outs." The river paired the 2. Sigh. A bet and a call to me. "I'm the only idiot in this hand without a fricking 2." I fold. I could have scooped that pot.
Folded to me with ATh and here I go again, "I have to make it three." One caller. Flop KJhKh. Well what a fugly board but my opponent is villain from hand one so there's a better than good chance he didn't hit this flop. I bet he calls. The turn paired my T. I at least felt better about betting here. I figure he makes a move here if he's got a real hand but he just calls. I'm hoping for a heart but no o oo ooo. I think it was a 9. I bet, he asks if I'm full as he calls and I said, "EFF NO pair of tens," to his straight. I heard someone say something about a royal flush draw which I had neglected to realize; I have been totally content with just the nut flush.

Long story short, I played HORSE from 11:30 until 2:45 and was down half my buy-in which was considerably less than Falstaff's. It was totally worth it though. I thoroughly enjoyed the table chat and had a blast overall. I won a pot in LHE and a S8 hand but the rest of the time was spent folding really bad cards. I'm sure these guys thought I was uber weak-tight.

Early on the manager came over and asked us to give up some of our blue chips as the room was on the verge of running out and obviously we didn't need nearly as many as we had in play. He also ordered the dealers to not sell us blue chips. We had several very good dealers that changed every game change it seemed. He gave each one explicit instructions how to deal and when to change the game. I think it all went quite smoothly.

As hard as it may be to believe, we were actually given a language warning by the manager. Who knew we had such potty mouths? Well, besides my own.

I thought the table might break when Falstaff and another person left together but the seats filled rather quickly. There seemed to be a serious personality vacuum after Falstaff left and I think we all missed him for a moment - sorta like the call after a storm.

I really enjoyed talking to the two guys on my right. I was in the 10 seat so the dealer was between me and the guys on the other end.

The MGM was a really nice room. The screens with the wait lists were very nice and it didn't take long at all to get a seat. I was getting annoyed with the cocktail people. Not once, not twice, but 3 times I ordered water and had to re-order the next time one came back around. The restrooms near the poker room were very small and incredibly busy. Even though we sat two players out during the stud hands, there was still not enough time to get a bathroom break in sometimes.

All in all and great way to spend some time at the poker table. Today will be spent at the Rio trying to satellite into the WSOP Ladies event that runs tomorrow and then playing the Binion's Ladies event this afternoon. Wish the Pokersluts luck!

One Slut Down...

2007-06-07T06:08:00.000-05:00

That's right folks, one slut is on her way to vegas, and the other will be shortly.

And yes, I'm posting this at 7am, even tho I had one too many last night in hopes of it making me sleep like a good fishie.

What can I say, I was awoken by dreams of beating the two time Slut Tour winner in horse last night.

VEGAS HERE WE COME!!

Stay tuned for pics and postage.

Two Time Wiener...

2007-06-07T05:58:00.001-05:00

It takes someone "special" to win the Pokerslut Tour two season's straight. Someone who can battle the best at every game, choosing the proper time to play rags and win. No ordinary donkey could accomplish this with such flare. It takes ELSNARFGRANDE to win two season's of the Tour in a row.

WTG Snarf, you've been a great addition to the Slut Tour. *tear*

He keeps saying we need to rename the Tour to The Snarf Tour, but me thinks he needs to change his nick to ELSLUTGRANDE.

OMG I'm a fraking Genius.

You can bask in your leaderboardness here, but don't cry when you see that winning two seasons of the Tour didn't make you the overall leader. :)

Pokerslut Tour Season IV Stud 8 Results

2007-06-03T22:40:00.000-05:00

Well, we did it. We finished up Season IV. Congrats to all who played! We hope to see you for Season V, starting with NLHE DS on July 8th. We're taking a break for Vegaspaloooza! and summer vacations.

Pokerslut Tour Season V Schedule

2007-05-28T21:26:00.000-05:00

Make plans now to play in the next Pokerslut Tour Season!

07/08/2007 - NLHE Deep Stack

07/15/2007 - Limit Omaha Hi/Lo

07/22/2007 - Razz

07/29/2007 - Stud

08/05/2007 - LHE

08/12/2007 - Pot Limit Omaha

08/19/2007 - HORSE

08/26/2007 - Stud Hi/Lo

Pokerslut Tour IV Horse Results

2007-05-28T20:36:00.000-05:00

Pokerslut Tour IV Leaderboard

Pokerslut Tour Overall Leaderboard

Pokerslut Tour IV PLO Results

2007-05-27T16:44:00.000-05:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Yes, it took forever. Get over it.

Season IV Leaderboard

Overall Leaderboard

Betting Your Biggens...

2007-05-23T10:16:00.000-05:00

We've all had it happen, you flop a big hand and you want to sucker the sucker in, so you check it. Hoping and praying that he/she bets. But in the end, they just draw out on you, and you have another bad beat story to rant about.

Today I was listening to an episode of PokerWire, and they had a great discussion about this topic. It starts at minute 22:13 and I suggest you listen!

Pokerslut Tour PLO

2007-05-20T08:40:00.000-05:00

Is tonight on Full Tilt Poker!

Pot Limit Omaha at 9pm eastern

$5+.50 buy in

Password imapokerslut

and i thought this only happened to me...

2007-05-14T17:34:00.000-05:00

Seriously, I did...

ALL IN or FOLD

2007-05-12T09:32:00.000-05:00

It's Saturday and AIOF is back on the schedule. FTP corrected their error, but of course, no incentives for you this week except that you get to play a nice round of AIOF with yours truly!

ALL IN or FOLD

Private tournament on Full Tilt Poker

$5 + .50 NLHE Turbo

Saturdays at 9 pm EST.

Password is igoallinorfold**

If by some chance you haven’t played before the rules are as follows:

· You go all in or you fold

· Turn off your auto muck, as you should show your cards each time it is folded to you.

**As usual, yes it is fine if you would like to share this password with friends. Although, it isn’t a good idea to give out the pass in a table chat!! As always, just make sure the person you are inviting knows the RULES of how to play.

See ya there!