Road to Perdition

I only got 4 hours rest before I went to bed, so I was pretty tired to go and almost didn't. But I told Paul I wanted a ride the day before, so I just went. THAT WAS THE 1ST MISTAKE ( I wanted to read a little more info on limit) Paul asked me if I had seen what was outside, and I responded no of coarse, since I don't see the outside very often. I'm like a cat that hisses when it feels like it is threatened. He showed me a mountain of snow outside and so we put on the snow chains for my wheelchair and off we were! The salt from truckers tires got all over Paul's window when we were driving, and the washer fluid wasn't squirting high enough to clean the window, so we pretty much Ace Ventura'ed it all the way to the next gas station, with a couple wrong exits and turns in the mix, but we finally got to the club; body parts still attached.

I ate my usual brakefast and off the the tables I was! The table I was at pretty much sucked after my first hand (so far every time I sat down at a table for the first time, I win the pot) because there were two maniacs at the table. So there was no seeing a flop with out it being raised at least once preflop. Half the time it was capped! I played when I had good cards to play and of coarse it was capped preflop by this d00d named chester, but I flop a nut flush. Of coarse the pot is capped almost every turn, and he gets his 2 outer on the river on me. So I put my name on the board to move to a different seat as fast as I could.

I got to the next table and this table was even worse! Every hand I would play I would get sucked out on the river! It happened so much the dealer was like, "man, you've been having horrible beats man you should take a brake." It was good advice because I was starting to steam then and he simmered it down a little....... but not enough. I started loosining my starting hands and started calling turns and rivers when I should've just folded, and had the patience to get premium hands. So, I was definately not playing my A-game after all those beats, and playing marginal hands after getting beat all those times, made me loose double when I should've just lost on the bad beats. I actually didn't win a hand until after sitting there for 2 hours, because I either got beat on the river or the hands were just so terrible that I had to just fold and be gone with the hands. and that just lost me more money. Like I said before and I'll say it again, Limit and No Limit are poker games the they play like night and day compared to the two.

In the end I came out negative, but walked out with some valuable, but expensive lessons. Lets hope they pay off!

Preboot Camp

I'm back here for round two of the Canterbury Park mission, and going to invest my time and Bankroll towards limit for now, and I think it's going to be a very good investment at that. I've been here for about 5 days now getting all situated and I wanted to catch up on some knowledge before I sit back down again. Not that I couldn't sit down right now, I just wanted to be prepared for everything and anything, especially getting every extra ducket that I can in the pot.

The Wolf, my bro and me have been all crammed up in one room for the past 4 days because Paul didn't come up until later, but finally arrived today at 6am. I stayed up until he came, and then had a little session before bedtime. My bro and I just got done rearranging our room, so we are all situated now and I'm just waiting for his ass to get home from the gym, so I can grip on some food. He actually goes to the gym after he works for 10 hours! Reason why is so he whole body doesn't get outta wack, because he only uses certain muscles while working. I guess he don't want to look like Popeye. My plan is to hit up the Park on saturday and try and work my mojo. Saturday is always a good day for the bones to be rollin. Hopefully my way!

Until then...
Ez

The Canterbury Park Plan

The Canterbury Park Plan

I got a good nights rest, the day before and was pretty hyped to get there ( I actually had trouble sleeping for a couple hours because I was thinking to much. I got myself out of bed and made sure Paul was up, and he decided to just take me to the Park, and my bro would drive to work with Wolf. Just as we arrived at the Park, Paul gets a call from my brother saying his car won’t start so poor Paul had to go back to the hotel to pick those cats up and then go to work. But enough about them, lets get to the casino.

The place was pretty dead since it was 6:30am, but as long as there’s a table for me to play on I don’t care. I wanted to have a little breakfast first so I got me my favorite breakfast meal, 2 eggs, 2 toast, 4 pieces of bacon and a glass of OJ. I have a whole system for eating the meal, but I won’t get into that. I gave the service lady a generous of enough tip that she said it made her start of the day.

I put my name up on the board for the 2/4 and got called before I could even check the coat I borrowed from Paul. After I got back and sat in my seat, I took a hundo in chips an started my day off. I doubled up pretty quickly, but then caught some bad luck on a couple big pots that were capped. One had I had the nut flush and this guy hit his out on the river and gave him a full house.

The hand that really got me was when I was in mid position and had a pocket pair of deuces, and this guy that bought in with 20 and looked like Coolio, capped it preflop and I was heads up with d00d. The flop came 2,3,3 rainbow, and I flopped a full house. The turn was a 6 and we capped it with 4 bets. I put him on a set of 3’s by now and the river came a 7. For some reason he slowed down and just checked and I bet 4 and he called.

I flip over my 2’s and he flips over 7,3! I felt like going to the bathroom to go and throw up. He was trying to buy the pot preflop and thought I was just bluffing for some reason, prolly because I was winning alot of hands, while he was at the table. My bankroll went all the way down to 40 bones at one time, but I managed to hang on and kept on rolling.

When I first sat at the table there was this guy by the name of Aaron that sat next to me. He had been playing for more than 20 hours and still playing. He pretty much made the day go by just talking about poker among other things. One time this old d00d sitting next to Aaron, actually said, “ jesus Christ, will shut up for a second my hurting my ears!” Aaron replied back.. “ don’t say the lords name in vain”. After that I had to brake the ice because it was getting serious after that and the whole table was having fun before that.

Aaron stay there as long as I did,(27hours around) and he lost about 300 hundo while I was sitting at the table with him. He told me that he didn’t care if he won, he just played to see if he could stay up as long as he could and still do it. That’s not really the plan I would really go for, because if your tired, you will just make errors that you normally wouldn’t do, and it wouldn’t just stop after a couple of errors, which would mean more and more money lost on just trying to hit any 2 cards you have. You will start thinking that you have to play until you are even, but I learned that if you just stop playing while you are at a loss; you are already even in money. Just wait until the next day and start off fresh.

I played at that same table for 10 hours and it went by just like a snap of the fingers. At the end of the day I had 9 stacks of 40 sitting next to me and that was definately intimidating my opponents that were at my table. I walked out of there with 4 racks (360 bones) and a big grin on my face. The plan was a success, and I think I could grind this out just like I did every single day I play!

So Wolf and the Paul and my brother are off for the week for Thanksgiving and coming back on Sunday. I’ll be coming back with them as well, and I’ll be going to my job at the tables while they go do there job. Paul is nice enough to hook me up with a ride to the Park as long as I give him gas money, but of coarse that’s fine with me. I’ll even include brakefast, shit!

This is a great opportunity for me since I can’t get out of the house and go to the tables whenever I want and there isn’t a card club where I leave either so, this is the perfect for me to test out my limit holdem skills to the fullest. And I definitely need some more knowledge in the game, so I’ll be getting my SS2, and my Limit Holdem resources that I have never touched until now. It really sucks that they don’t have No Limit, but I don’t play so hot when it comes to No Limit cash games anyway. I think I see my future already. Me playing Limit Holdem for Cash Games and me Playing NLHE for the tournaments. Usually people play limit before no limit when they learn the game, but I guess I’m doing the vice-versa approach to it.

I never really was a big fan of the Limit but I’m starting to like it. I don’t think I would ever play it at any home game still, but as for the live play I’m down for it for now. We’ll see how it all goes in a couple of weeks.

Tournament at Canterbury Park

I missed the first tournament they had because I was in a funk and wasn't feeling it, but this time I was prepared and woke up fresh and my friends Paul & Wolf and my bro came home around 5:20pm and was pretty much ready to go. Just as I put on my shoes, I wanted to give a call at the card club to see if there was still room since it's 130 max. The registration started at 5pm and the tourney started at 7:30pm, so I gave a called and of coarse they are all sold out. Well that really sucked because I'm pretty much a tourney player, so I was really looking forward into getting at least ITM the tournament. Every minute that went by we were not feeling Canterbury Park, but we all gave that last umph and we were off to the races. (I guess they do actually have horseracing betting there)

It was the first time I seen snow outside in minnisota, and I was in for a real treat outside. And I thought Wisconsin weather was cold, shit!, if you like freezing parts of your body off like your ass, and ears that's the place to go. I was swearing and screaming ( I really really do hate the cold) until the heat finally started emitting out of the vents and I got some Mc d's in my belly.

We finally got there and it turned out that the place was a whole card club. So there wasn't any slots and that's what wolf and paul wanted to just do; Sit and relax and have some dranks. They decided to go hit up a bar while I play poker, but I didn't get a seat on a table for about an hour and a half. I also seen a bar in the back of the cardroom so wolf and paul didn't even have to leave. (they thought the only bars were outside the card room. ) I wanted to call them but my dumbass forgot my phone so I was going to call collect, but you know how much they are asking for a collect call from wis is? 9 fuggin dollars! I cashed in some of my chips to get some quarters to call up my brother and to tell paul that there was a bar in the card room and they could just chill there.

Well I finally got on a 2/4 table, I was on the waiting list for 3/6 too, and I was ahead 80 before my last 2 hands before I left. I had pocket Jacks and it was raised max preflop, and the flop comes Q,Q,3 and long story short it was raised to the max on the turn and me and another person called his bet on the river. What does he have? Q,3 of coarse...... limit I love it! So I made about 30 in a couple hours but that's how limit is, a less exciting game than No Limit, but you can make money if you take the time and patience to do it. That's what I plan on doing in a couple days. I'm going to go back there on friday and stay there the whole day while the boys are at work and see how I do playing Limit Holdem, my weakest game I play.

One thing I forgot to tell you is that I'm in my metal chair rolling around, and my feet rub the floor alot, and that of coarse conducts electricity, and then my ass gets zappped whenever I touch metal. Just to let you know I get take pain like any man can; but this was the worst zaps I ever got from static electricity. I actually seen a small lighting bolt form from my finger and the metal, I kid you not. So on friday I have two plans, take my time and wait for premium hands and be patient and try to not touch any metal.

Ez

1st Royal Flush!

On the Road again.... da da da

I have friends by the name of Paul and Wolf that work in construction and they are gone for weeks... months at times, and then come back home for a week or two and rinse and repeat. My brother is kinda of buff like Paul an Wolf so they asked my bro if he wanted to try out and work with them because they are short on people and need help. The hotel that they are staying at has internet so what more do I need? As long there is some place for me to plug in I'm good! So I pretty much stay in the hotel while my bro goes to work and play my usual online play. There was a NLHE tournament at Caterbury Park that was a 220 ducket entry fee, but I decided not to go. I was actually planning on going to it, but I wasn't feeling it for some reason, so I went with my gut and didn't go. I'm going to be checking out the website though for any new upcoming tournaments. I wanted to say happy B-day to Kryptonite Jason, and congrats on his huge BR he made from 50 duckets.. way to go man. It's been pretty interesting here so far... I've had internet connection problems since I've been here though. I had to get a new wifi usb adapter but still have a crappy connection. Right now I'm afraid to play a lil poker, because of the connection. I hope that it don't act like this all the time, because that's the main reason why I came out here. Well also... I HAD to get outta the house before the November Cabin fever kicked in. I'll be keepin posting as usual, and hopefully I can get tons of poker in while I'm down here!

The Joys of Data Entry

I intended to make this entry about 12 hours ago, but those hours have passed and I'm on a 28 hour high listening to Cypress Hill Illusions right now.... whoa crazy! Nice track to go with my flo right now. Well since I have been playing online and live games, the past 2 years, I've been keeping track of all of my wins and loses in my PDA. I also have a subscription to Poker Charts right now, and if you don't know about that site Poker Charts is a web-based service that allows you to easily and anonymously log, chart and analyze the results of your poker games. If you interested they have a free trial, so you can check it out yourself. The reason why I like it so much it it's all right there for you too see, whatever your looking for... ROI,money earned to date,Win rate accuracy,Best Win,worst beat, win/lose streak, etc.

Only thing is I've been really slacking on transfering it from my PDA to Poker Charts. I think 80% of my logs are on my PDA and 20% on Pcharts. I better start making it useful ey? Plus I'm very interested as to see where I'm at as of now. I'll be back to report my stats, if there good enough that is!

More Free Money for Poker

I found another promotion going on right now to get you 50$ free on new poker site. No credit card or deposit required, The new site is called Poker Fantasy and to get the 50 duckets just send an email to signup@pokerfantasy.com and in the subject line put FREE50C and then just put your email and your name and send it. Then wait until they send you a email with a bonus code you use when you sign up and fill out your info. Click on this link http://www.pokerfantasy.com?ref=451566 and then you need to sign up and fill out your info; so do that and put in the bonus code they send you via email. Then you just play the waiting game like me and await your 50 duckets. They said it takes 24hrs after you signup.

So do it quick while they are giving it away!



UPDATE 10-6-05 - I got my 50 Duckets! Time to x8 that shit.

Schools in Session!

I've signed up for school on Oct. 1st and it's not just any ordinary school it's a Pro Poker School. Brett Jungblut aka Gank is the creater of it all and for those that don't know who he is, he's won a WSOP braclet last year in 2004, the $ 5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split World Championship and was part of the crew with dutch boyd and Scott Fischman. But his off doing his own thang and doing it right with this Poker School he started. For those of you who don't know about this, let me give you a little more info on this. Brett has been working with one of the leaders in virtual education to bring to you the FIRST poker school with LIVE instruction. Everything is in real-time, which allows the instructors to connect with players with all different skill levels. There will be seminars on every game, and on every aspect of poker, especially as we will be using members' feedback and ideas to help come up with seminar topics. We will also be bringing in special guests (Poker Pros) to give seminars. So that sums up what is going to be available, plus a forum and freerolls and alot of extra stuff well worth the money and then some. Again, if you have never heard of Brett Jungblut, he is mostly an online player (plays most of his games online) so let me give you some of his stats for 2005 so far......


Total Winnings: $159,381
Total Final Tables: 140

Date Tournament/Event Place Winnings
09/11/2005 Hold'em NL $1000 178 $1,432
09/08/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 5 $245
09/07/2005 Hold'em NL $50 7 $980
09/04/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 8 $405
09/03/2005 Omaha PL $20 1 $990
09/02/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 3 $333
08/28/2005 Hold'em Limit $10 13 $48
08/27/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 5 $360
08/26/2005 Omaha PL $100 2 $720
08/26/2005 Hold'em NL $3 36 $13
08/25/2005 Hold'em NL $2 53 $6
08/25/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 17 $70
08/25/2005 Hold'em NL $100 4 $2,712
08/24/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 7 $264
08/24/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $5 9 $32 (Qualifier Ticket)
08/24/2005 Hold'em PL $50 2 $1,820
08/24/2005 Omaha PL $10 1 $712
08/23/2005 Omaha PL $20 4 $186
08/22/2005 Omaha PL $10 19 $48
08/22/2005 Omaha PL $20 2 $608
08/21/2005 Hold'em NL $100 26 $564
08/20/2005 Hold'em NL $10 20 $253
08/20/2005 Omaha PL $100 4 $516
08/19/2005 Hold'em NL $10 21 $180
08/18/2005 Hold'em NL $100 8 $757
08/18/2005 Hold'em NL $5 47 $19
08/18/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 7 $272
08/18/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $40 1 $1,728
08/18/2005 Hold'em NL $30 44 $68
08/18/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 13 $52
08/18/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 5 $432
08/17/2005 Hold'em NL $20 11 $121
08/13/2005 Omaha Limit $20 15 $26
08/13/2005 Hold'em NL $10 54 $73
08/13/2005 Omaha PL $200 1 $2,600
08/13/2005 Omaha PL $100 3 $672
08/12/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 1 $810
08/12/2005 Omaha PL $100 2 $810
08/12/2005 Hold'em PL $100 6 $468
08/12/2005 Hold'em NL $50 11 $254
08/11/2005 Hold'em NL $50 10 $240
08/10/2005 Hold'em NL $50 4 $1,780
08/08/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $10 3 $342
08/08/2005 Hold'em NL $10 106 $57
08/08/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $10 7 $135
08/08/2005 Omaha PL $10 13 $89
08/06/2005 Hold'em Limit $3 29 $10
08/06/2005 Hold'em NL $100 32 $158
08/06/2005 Hold'em NL $10 28 $211
08/06/2005 Omaha PL $100 1 $1,800
08/06/2005 Hold'em NL $50 5 $1,480
08/06/2005 Omaha PL $20 11 $42
08/05/2005 Hold'em NL $3 50 $12
08/05/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $50 13 $65
08/05/2005 Hold'em NL $100 5 $2,496
08/04/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 10 $52
08/04/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 2 $504
08/04/2005 Hold'em PL $20 18 $56
08/03/2005 Hold'em Limit $30 3 $578
08/03/2005 Hold'em PL $10 5 $256
08/03/2005 Hold'em NL $10 101 $16
08/03/2005 Hold'em NL $5 49 $44
08/03/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $5 33 $10
08/03/2005 Hold'em NL $100 16 $539
08/03/2005 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit $20 11 $34
08/02/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $2 5 $63 (Qualifier Ticket)
08/02/2005 Hold'em PL $100 3 $1,499
08/02/2005 Hold'em NL $20 6 $1,055
08/01/2005 Hold'em PL $50 22 $75
08/01/2005 Omaha Limit $10 10 $14
08/01/2005 Hold'em PL $100 9 $220
08/01/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 9 $36
08/01/2005 Hold'em NL $100 16 $392
08/01/2005 Omaha PL $20 6 $158
08/01/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 18 $52
07/31/2005 Hold'em NL $10 79 $112
07/31/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $200 4 $1,872
07/29/2005 Hold'em NL $20 46 $39
07/28/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 5 $396
07/28/2005 Hold'em NL $100 2 $6,800
07/28/2005 Hold'em Limit $30 16 $45
07/27/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $5 12 $23
07/26/2005 Omaha PL $100 2 $888
07/26/2005 Hold'em NL $100 5 $2,312
07/24/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 13 $140
07/23/2005 Omaha PL $100 5 $328
07/21/2005 Omaha PL $100 3 $496
07/21/2005 Hold'em NL $10 43 $77
07/20/2005 Hold'em PL $100 8 $243
07/20/2005 Hold'em PL $50 11 $103
07/19/2005 Omaha PL $10 12 $52
07/14/2005 Hold'em NL $50 4 $1,320
07/14/2005 Hold'em NL $100 3 $2,844
07/13/2005 Hold'em PL $100 5 $496
07/13/2005 Hold'em NL $50 7 $817
07/13/2005 Hold'em NL $100 7 $974
07/10/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 6 $540
07/09/2005 Omaha PL $200 3 $1,000
07/08/2005 Hold'em Limit $30 1 $1,701
07/08/2005 Hold'em NL $50 11 $226
07/06/2005 Hold'em NL $20 44 $40
07/05/2005 Omaha PL $20 1 $768
07/05/2005 Hold'em PL $20 15 $56
07/01/2005 Hold'em NL $50 7 $611
07/01/2005 Omaha PL $10 12 $55
07/01/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $50 7 $236
06/26/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 2 $1,260
06/12/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $200 17 $293
05/29/2005 Hold'em NL $100 13 $792
05/29/2005 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit $100 6 $448
05/27/2005 Omaha PL $20 6 $140
05/26/2005 Hold'em NL $10 11 $380
05/26/2005 Hold'em NL $50 3 $1,692
05/25/2005 Hold'em Limit $30 4 $259
05/25/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 2 $462
05/25/2005 Omaha PL $100 5 $256
05/24/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 8 $223
05/24/2005 Hold'em NL $5 36 $70
05/24/2005 Hold'em NL $10 5 $1,192
05/24/2005 Hold'em PL $100 5 $496
05/21/2005 Hold'em NL $10 11 $374
05/21/2005 Omaha PL $100 4 $490
05/20/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 3 $432
05/20/2005 Hold'em NL $10 17 $344
05/20/2005 Hold'em NL $50 33 $84
05/20/2005 Hold'em NL $150 26 $266
05/20/2005 Hold'em NL $5 30 $59
05/20/2005 Hold'em NL $10 6 $1,112
05/20/2005 Omaha PL $20 3 $278
05/19/2005 Hold'em NL $5 15 $142
05/19/2005 Hold'em NL $10 2 $2,792
05/19/2005 Hold'em NL $50 3 $1,932
05/19/2005 Hold'em NL $50 17 $144
05/19/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 13 $53
05/18/2005 Hold'em NL $100 4 $2,544
05/18/2005 7 Card Stud Limit $20 8 $96
05/17/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 15 $65
05/17/2005 Hold'em PL $100 3 $648
05/17/2005 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit $10 14 $22
05/17/2005 7 Card Stud Limit $20 8 $69
05/16/2005 Hold'em PL $100 4 $810
05/16/2005 Hold'em NL $50 9 $398
05/16/2005 Hold'em NL $5 1 $2,226
05/15/2005 Hold'em NL $20 7 $102
05/13/2005 Hold'em NL $50 1 $3,424
05/13/2005 Hold'em NL $10 26 $64
05/12/2005 Hold'em NL $100 7 $1,578
05/11/2005 Hold'em NL $20 37 $38
05/11/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 7 $191
05/10/2005 Omaha PL $10 2 $952
05/10/2005 Hold'em NL $20 10 $255
05/10/2005 Hold'em PL $100 6 $592
05/08/2005 Hold'em NL $50 2 $1,620
05/04/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 3 $594
05/01/2005 Hold'em NL $200 71 $1,026
05/01/2005 Hold'em PL $50 4 $405
04/30/2005 Hold'em NL $30 26 $169
04/29/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 2 $540
04/29/2005 Hold'em NL $150 8 $940
04/28/2005 Hold'em NL $100 7 $917
04/26/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 9 $43
04/23/2005 Hold'em NL $100 3 $2,520
04/21/2005 Hold'em NL $50 1 $3,946
04/19/2005 Hold'em NL $20 3 $1,316
04/19/2005 Hold'em NL $5 51 $13
04/19/2005 Hold'em NL $5 42 $49
04/19/2005 Hold'em NL $10 8 $533
04/19/2005 Omaha PL $20 18 $25
04/19/2005 Hold'em NL $20 10 $63
04/18/2005 Hold'em Limit $30 5 $316
04/18/2005 Hold'em NL $150 37 $242
04/16/2005 Hold'em NL $10 16 $252
04/15/2005 Hold'em NL $20 16 $131
04/15/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 9 $92
04/15/2005 Hold'em NL $5 55 $34
04/15/2005 Hold'em NL $10 33 $124
04/14/2005 Hold'em NL $100 12 $282
04/14/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 13 $35
04/14/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $20 4 $216
04/14/2005 Hold'em NL $50 4 $1,144
04/13/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 5 $288
04/09/2005 Hold'em NL $100 22 $176
04/09/2005 Hold'em NL $10 27 $194
04/08/2005 Hold'em NL $50 2 $1,170
04/06/2005 Hold'em NL $10 11 $105
03/31/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $40 14 $76
03/31/2005 Hold'em Limit $10 3 $399
03/30/2005 Hold'em NL $100 6 $990
03/26/2005 Hold'em NL $100 1 $6,990
03/26/2005 Hold'em Limit $200 5 $1,488
03/25/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 3 $432
03/24/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $40 6 $288
03/22/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 6 $263
03/22/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 4 $445
03/22/2005 Hold'em PL $30 1 $2,005
03/17/2005 Hold'em NL $30 6 $550
03/13/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $200 18 $317
03/12/2005 Hold'em NL $100 4 $2,870
03/12/2005 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit $200 5 $592
03/11/2005 Hold'em NL $10 25 $179
03/11/2005 Omaha PL $20 15 $32
03/10/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $40 4 $461
03/09/2005 Hold'em NL $30 49 $45
03/06/2005 Hold'em NL $100 12 $700
03/05/2005 Hold'em NL $100 20 $181
03/04/2005 Hold'em NL $50 3 $2,342
03/03/2005 Hold'em NL $30 10 $160
02/26/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 14 $65
02/24/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 9 $72
02/24/2005 Omaha PL $20 8 $84
02/22/2005 Hold'em NL $5 96 $9
02/22/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 7 $76
02/22/2005 Omaha PL $10 8 $113
02/20/2005 Hold'em Limit $100 5 $720
02/19/2005 Hold'em Limit $200 8 $603
02/18/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $10 15 $35
02/18/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $50 3 $504
02/17/2005 Hold'em NL $100 7 $858
02/17/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 6 $292
02/17/2005 7 Card Stud Limit $20 5 $115
02/16/2005 Hold'em NL $150 27 $413
02/15/2005 Hold'em NL $10 13 $399
02/15/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $50 4 $468
02/15/2005 Hold'em NL $10 125 $12
02/13/2005 Hold'em NL $200 11 $3,744
02/11/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $50 5 $380
02/11/2005 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit $20 13 $53
02/10/2005 Hold'em NL $100 9 $416
02/10/2005 Hold'em Limit $50 2 $1,260
02/10/2005 Hold'em NL $5 14 $105
02/10/2005 Hold'em NL $10 20 $87
02/10/2005 Hold'em NL $2 63 $4
02/10/2005 Hold'em Limit $10 7 $96
02/09/2005 Hold'em NL $10 8 $602
02/09/2005 Omaha PL $20 2 $520
02/08/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $20 2 $576
02/07/2005 Omaha PL $50 6 $280
02/07/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo PL $10 18 $22
02/07/2005 Omaha Hi/Lo Limit $5 15 $36
02/07/2005 Omaha PL $20 1 $702
02/07/2005 Hold'em Limit $10 12 $65


School starts very soon, and I've been excited about this since I heard about it months ago. If you want more info on it go here.. http://www.propokerschool.com They is a special right now if you sign up, go to the site and check it out!


In the past week or so I haven't been playing much poker though. Eversince that bad day I had where every game I lost, I've been feeling the wierd vibes of the Badbeat Bunghole around me right now, so I'm holding off on the poker and have just been soaking up knowledge right now by books, mags, internet and doing other things I haven't been doing, like playing video games. I also went to my best friends wedding last saturday in Madtown. I was the best man, so I had to do a little dressing up ( it's rare in my book) and a little boozin. I also Don't drink at all so the half a bottle of the Champagne did me good for awhile. It was pretty kewl though, we got our own tables at the head of the room and we were fed first like kings at Midevil TIMES!

The DJ had karaoke as well and that turned out to be alot of fun actually. For my song to sing, I picked Sir mix alot- baby got back, and trust me I looked at the whole karaoke book and that was the best thing I could find! I knew about 90% of the song, but I thought I did fairly well and the DJ gave me props as well. The DJ turned out being an ass though, he didn't let one of my friends sing one more song (pokerdamus) and he had practiced the song for a week and wanted to sing it as the last song. The song was It's not unusual by Tom Jones, a classic song to bring the night down with. But for some reason the Dj didn't let him sing it and turned everything off. This assclown of a Dj went up and sang about 7 songs himself on the Karaoke during the time we paid him to DJ! So now you know why I called him an assclown; that and he sounded like Mr. Ed trying to do a duet with a man squeezing a cat at the same time. We ending up going to the bar after that, and I took a detour back to my hotel, that I haven't even checked in yet (it's now 12:20am) to have a session with Nick the Hitman. He also got a room there as well and it was his birthday when it struck midnight so we had to do a little celebrating. We decided to go to the bar, since it was walkin distance and when we got there, the husband and wife were not there. They went to another bar, because katies brother wasn't allowed in the bar from doing something in the past, so we went to the next bar. My bro and I finally got there and as soon as I got in the bar I knew I should have just went to the hotel. Every one was drunk out of their minds, to the point where I knew they weren't going to remember this part of the night. So I found a ride to the hotel quick, so I could order some food before they closed. The hotel was 170$, for one night! It was because of the badger game, so it was a bad night to get a hotel, but I got the last room and it had a whirlpool in it so I got some use out of that. A couple of my friends didn't have a place to crash so they ended up sleepin in my room. Wolf and Paul were both cashed out, before the pizza even came. I eventually got Wolf up with a couple of slaps to the face and the sweet stench of pizza in the air got him up to at least eat before passing out. Paul was another story though, and the picture below explains how far he got to eating it.


It turned out being a good night though, and I'm really happy for my best friend Nick and his wife Katie.

Congrats!

Shit I just deleted my whole blog!

I was trying to erase this other blog I started and just clicked delete this blog without even reading which blog it was, sheesh what a dumbass I am at times or not 100% crisp as some people would say. I'm going to use my computer skillz and see if I can recover some of it at least, so it looks like a have another job on my to do list. On the poker side, I haven't been playing much poker this week mostly because I'm taking a little brake and I feel the Reaper is out there right now. If you don't know what a Reaper is, it's like a Cooler, but only 100 times worse. A reaper doesn't even have to be near you to suck all the luck out of you and make the impossible possible. Like a 1 outter hitting on the river, your nuts being beat by a miracle suckout, getting dealt poop every hand until you finally get a hand like A,3 and go all in and go broke.

Don't fuck with the Reaper!

Well I'm going to get back to this sng I'm playing, and then write down what I have to do tomorrow on my to do list. I have to rent a hotel for the wedding reception next sat. and do some other stuff as well. So keep on doing what you do, and I'll catch you on the flipside!

more back to back plus one more back

In the basketball world they would call it a three-peat, but in the poker world I don't know what the hell they would call it so I'll just call it back to back to back. I haven't been posting much of the home game events but this one will go in the books. (for me at least)

Ever since we have been playing at my friend Nicks "the hitman" house, no one has ever won 3 times in a row. Of coarse we have had a back to backs before at the hitmans house but no one has hit a back x3 since last saturday that is. I really didn't think I was going to win at all, since I had been up for more than 28hours already. I decided to just stay up and not take a 2-3 hours nap because I'm not good at all with naps; when I sleep I sleep like a bear needs hibernation in the winter. I'm one of those people that wish sleep was a drug, so you could just take it and get it over with and use up the rest of the day doing whatever, instead of wasting the day away sleeping. But that's not how the world is and instead I sleep as much as I am awake at times. I was pretty much cracked out on not getting much sleep, but I think my game was pretty on, compared to my other motor skillz like talking and other thangs like fumbling my chips. My schedule is pretty much the opposite of a working mans job, since I stay up for 20hrs and then sleep 12hr, but that's the closest I'll ever think I'll get to a schedule but back to the game....

I think the biggest mistake I did was not giving the new player that came to the game enough respect. I was in SB, and the BB had raised it $1.50, blinds were 20/40c at that time. Middle position and Mid-late position also called. I had 5,6d and it was a perfect hand to get in with, since there was 3 other people in the hand, and the flop didn't even hit yet. The flop came 8,5,8 rainbow and raised it $2.50, the BB called and so did Mid position, and mid-late folded. I figured that I had the best hand so far and that the other hands were high cards and on some sort of draw. Then on the turn there was another 8. I have a full house now 8's over 5's and I thought it was a definate lock. So I raised it 7$ and the new player called as well and mid-pos folded. It was then, at that time I knew what he had and I was beaten. So the next card came out and it was a big blank for me, so I just checked. Sure enough he flips over QQ, and scoops the massive pot. If I could go back, I would have definately checked instead of raising on the flop, but at the time, I was thinking to protect my hand and nothing else, and I should've just checked it to see if anyone would bet at the pot and then act accordingly. It's just another lesson you learn and hope to remember it when the scenario comes up when your playing.

In the end me and Kryptonite "jason" went heads up, and it was a great battle just like the week before it was Jason and me Heads up as well. Next week, the odds of me winning again are very very low since I've won 3 in a row; but who knows it may be a no luck night and skill will be my only weapon. We've been talking about starting up a point system and having tournaments based on the points accumulated and then having match ups based on the points or something like that. It will be alot of fun I think.

Keep on showin your nuts!

holy Schnikeys back to back baby... back to back

I just got done taking down another MTT this time there was 136 players and it was a 7 ducket buy in. There were no rebuys and just a straight out tournament. In the begining I was getting great cards. Everything I wanted came to me and whenever the flop came it made it better. Don't you love those moments when you have those runs, It's one of the great things about poker.

Let me just write it down so you all know what I placed, 1st! Just in case you think back to back is a poker move or something. The odds of winning a 3peat is pretty freaking high if you ask me, but I'm going to try my hardest on my next MTT to see if I can get ITM, but I'm aiming for 1st as always.

Yours Truely Collects another 1st

Whew! What the hell time is it? 8:20am? Man, I gotta get up and get ready for the weekly game in under 10 hours or so and I love sleep. But I decided to play a multi table tournament that was starting in 25min. I killed time playin heads up games until then, and didn't do so good so I didn't fell that hyped to play the tournament which was almost a sign for me to unregister but I went on with it anyway. It was a 11 duckets to enter and 60 people entered the tournament. Long story short I took the tournament by the horns(tournaments have horns?) and broke it's neck like my next victim. Another MTT 1st place under my belt, and the prize was alright as well.

Time to take my ass asleep!

Dan Harrington saved my ass Coming back from Colorado

I went on a trip to Colorado to see a friend we'll call stinky pants, and it all started on a monday night at the stroke of Midnight pretty much. Me and my friend HotShotz started our 17+ hour Journey to the state of good ol Colorado. Hotshots and I are pretty hardcore because we did the journey nonstop, all to way there and stopped only to gas up and grab a bite to eat once at this place called Good Food. It looked closed by the outside of the place but the food was........ good.

When we got to Stinkypants house, we were so happy not to be going in a forward motion anymore. We all went inside and Stinkyp showed me the whole house which was very nice and even had a hottub, with an excellent view outside. StinkyP is have a problem with the bees, because there's a couple nests outside by the nice view. He also wouldn't let me spray them with hair spray and light the nest either. What kind of friend is he anyway? After Stinky showed me his whole pad, we had a session with the treas and chilled out hard.

I didn't do much while I was up there though; Stinky showed me the hills and the nice views they have there. While we were going back down from the 10,000ft. I felt this huge pressure by my eyebrow and eye and it felt like my eyeball was going to pop outta my head Total Recall style. That shit lasted a couple hours and totally sucked. After that passed, me and Stinky went to this place called Dave and Busters. It's a chain place that is an arcade for adults. They serve booze and food and have video games, what more could you want?

Well Hotshots and I were ready to leave so off we went on our 17+ hour straight drive again, and everything was going good until we were on the freeway. We were driving awhile so I decided to bust out the harrington book volume2 and to catch up on some reading. So I'm reading my book and all of a sudden Hotshots slows down and pulls over. Yup he got pulled over and my nugget jar was in the glove compartment. So the po po asks hotshots for his license and registration, and hotshots knows about the jar and looks at me like what are we going to do now? So he does a double check in his wallet and I go to open the glove compartment. But when I opened it, I put my book down over it because the trea jar was on sitting on the bottom and then began to look for hotshits registration.

We get off with a warning, and I tell hotshots that what the hell is he speeding for and don't do it anymore. So a couple hours later, what do you know? He gets pulled over again! This time doing 18 over! You bet your ass he got a ticket this time! Geez, if he was to get pulled over again, I think I would've find a grayhound or some shit, I'm not even kiddin you!

We get home about 2am in the morning and left at 7am..... what a hell of a drive and a journey that was.... but overall it was a good time.

Moving on up..... to the East Sideee

Well I finally got to the goal I wanted to in bones, so I'm going to do what I said and move up to a higher level in Sng's now. I usually have a method I work with when I play, like if I lose a Sng, I will go straight to a Heads up game and play a lower level game and keep on playin them until I get my money back from what I lost in the previous sng. The system seems to be working right now for me, so I'm going to keep using it until it fails me, or when I have a 20 in a row losing streak. I'll be letting you know how I do with these higher level sng's. I know that if I keep geting ITM, it won't seem so much as a grind with these higher levels with more bones comin my way. Oh yeh, you must be thinking, well what limits did you move up on? I forgot to mention it, I'm up to playing 11 bone STT's. I started playin just the 3 bone STT's with my broke ass a long time ago.