Monday, June 30, 2008
Razz, Prop Bet Win, and new TV
The subject pretty much sums up my weekend. Laid around doing squat all weekend was nice, I feel very relaxed today (could also be because its a short work week).
Played some .50/1 Razz while watching "The Lost World". Was down $10 bucks early to some redonkulous players. A234 in the first 4 only to grab a 9, 2 Js and a K. It was pretty bad for awhile, but those lovely fishies that call with 8, 9 even 10s are gold. Ended up the 3 hour session $7 bucks, but it was hard fought and well earned. Hand of the night was when I got dealt A-3-5 and some dude with a 9 showing is re-raising 3rd. His next board was an 8, then he caught a J and and a 10. Re-raising the whole way. I thought I would be the recipient of all this action when I caught a deuce on 4th, A-2-3-5 but I bricked out and the 8 to my left took it down. A $25 pot. What did the donk show down? Trip 8s and an OESD to the Q....lol Aint stud dipsmit!
The lovely wonderful gf of mine continued to furnish our new house on Sat and Sun, getting some great deals on dishes and all that other stuff we need. Hands down the best thing we bought, was yesterday she got a Samsung 52" LCD 120 MHZ TV for a steal price of $2245 instead of the normal $3100. SA-WEET.
And of course the most important thing happened early Sun morning as Ivey was eliminated from the 50k HORSE and Greenstein still in, sealed my $10 victory over Unimpressed in our prop bet. Grats to Scotty for taken that mutha down.
Thats about it, I forsee a lot more Razz in my future, and a Mookie, but thats pretty much it. Civilization Revolutions comes out next Tuesday and I'm pretty stoked for that, Phillies have something like a 9 game losing streak since Cole said the PHI vs BOS matchup was a WS preview (lesson learned, shut ya face even if we know it to be true!)
Played some .50/1 Razz while watching "The Lost World". Was down $10 bucks early to some redonkulous players. A234 in the first 4 only to grab a 9, 2 Js and a K. It was pretty bad for awhile, but those lovely fishies that call with 8, 9 even 10s are gold. Ended up the 3 hour session $7 bucks, but it was hard fought and well earned. Hand of the night was when I got dealt A-3-5 and some dude with a 9 showing is re-raising 3rd. His next board was an 8, then he caught a J and and a 10. Re-raising the whole way. I thought I would be the recipient of all this action when I caught a deuce on 4th, A-2-3-5 but I bricked out and the 8 to my left took it down. A $25 pot. What did the donk show down? Trip 8s and an OESD to the Q....lol Aint stud dipsmit!
The lovely wonderful gf of mine continued to furnish our new house on Sat and Sun, getting some great deals on dishes and all that other stuff we need. Hands down the best thing we bought, was yesterday she got a Samsung 52" LCD 120 MHZ TV for a steal price of $2245 instead of the normal $3100. SA-WEET.
And of course the most important thing happened early Sun morning as Ivey was eliminated from the 50k HORSE and Greenstein still in, sealed my $10 victory over Unimpressed in our prop bet. Grats to Scotty for taken that mutha down.
Thats about it, I forsee a lot more Razz in my future, and a Mookie, but thats pretty much it. Civilization Revolutions comes out next Tuesday and I'm pretty stoked for that, Phillies have something like a 9 game losing streak since Cole said the PHI vs BOS matchup was a WS preview (lesson learned, shut ya face even if we know it to be true!)
Friday, June 27, 2008
Drunken Rock Band and not much else
No poker last night, worked till 8 then went to the gf's cuz's graduation party. Got a little tipsy, came home and finished it off.
"..and there was much rock-banding, and guitar hero-ing, and breakfast cereals...."
So yeah. No headache, but the head is definately in a fog, which means most likely no F-woods tonight.
Phillies got swept again by the A's, jump on the fire Charlie bandwagon now while its still early!
Hope everyone has a good and profitable weekend.
PS. Greenstein is second in chips atm in the HORSE, which means im in the lead. Actually i still have Greenstein and Bloch left, Joe is down to Ivey.
"..and there was much rock-banding, and guitar hero-ing, and breakfast cereals...."
So yeah. No headache, but the head is definately in a fog, which means most likely no F-woods tonight.
Phillies got swept again by the A's, jump on the fire Charlie bandwagon now while its still early!
Hope everyone has a good and profitable weekend.
PS. Greenstein is second in chips atm in the HORSE, which means im in the lead. Actually i still have Greenstein and Bloch left, Joe is down to Ivey.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Razz Tilt & Shawn Chacon does something every Philly fan wanted to do
So last night was the MSOP #45, Razz, event. I started off playing some .50/1 razz to get me in the right frame of mind and I ended up dropping 15 bucks. No biggy.
The event starts and Im doing awesome. I employed the simple strategy of "bet when im ahead, fold when im behind" simple enough. By the break in the first hour i was up to 13th out of 529 with 5300 chips (starting was 3k). Then IT happened. I usually leave chat off in these tourneys because you always get the wise-guys or the whiners typing junk in there, well i left it on and had one guy ribbin me through the tourney after i sucked out a 4 on his 8-6 for a wheel. Nothing big just the standard olololol.
The hand in particular I have [A-3]-7 showing, guy to my right completes with a 6 showing, i call. I brick a Q on 4th, and he nets a 3. He bets and I decide to call thinking he may have paired 1 of those cards. Next card I pick up a 9, he picks up a K. In keeping with my strategy, of bet when ahead, I throw out a bet out there. He goes into the tank, and starts saying in the chat: "You are either really good at this game or you have no idea how to play. The only way you could bet there is if you know I paired my 6" The lol guy, says im an idiot and they both discuss hwo ill make the final table with my crappy play. Chat off, but the damage was done. I brought up razz guides as the tourney is going on to figure out how to improve my play. Pretty much Razz is a game that "is what it is", If i have 3 cards 8 or lower i should at least call to 4th when theres no heavy betting action, if i have 3 less than 5 raise and re-raise. Pretty much I was doing this already.
Back to the tourney, I went card dead and semi-tilt. Folding a lot, bringing-in A LOT. I estimate i lost at least 1/4 my stack from just bring-ins alone.
By the time i got a playable hand, A-6-4 no less, I had 2k chips and it folded to me with the bring-in on my left. I completed figuring i was just going to pick up the bring-in and antes since he is showing a J and im showing my 4. Nope. He raises. I guess he thought I was stealing, so i popped him back and he capped. He graps a 9, and I grab an 8. I bet, he raises, he re, i cap and hes all-in. I have 1k behind. Well wouldnt you know along with his J-9 he has 2-5 under. Lets just say thanks to 2 pair and and a K i did not win this hand. So I have 1k and im really on tilt now. 2 hands later im the bring-in for the elventy billionth time and i Have a K showing with A-4 under. 2 to my right guy with a 5 completes. I do my best aw-fukkit like the bring-in did to me and I get it all in. He bricks 4th and 5th, while I make an 8 by 6th, the A he grabs on 7th sends me to the rail.
So what more intelligent thing to do then when your tilting join a 26 buck HORSE tourney. So thats what I did and I got my ass handed to me.
Bankroll down to $104. A few beers and a few missions of Ace Combat logged, I wander off into slumber.
On the way to work this morning, I hear about this from ESPN radio:
Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended indefinitely by the team Wednesday for insubordination after reportedly grabbing general manager Ed Wade by the neck and throwing him to the ground.
The thing I wonder is why Placido Polanco or Scott Rolen do this while he was still the Phillies GM. Best quote from ESPN's chat board: "Everyone in Philadelphia is now a Shawn Chacon fan."
Indeed. My horses are still running goot in the HORSE, after some bad info from pokernews and even ToP himself, Joe's stud Patrick Antonius IS running in the event.
The event starts and Im doing awesome. I employed the simple strategy of "bet when im ahead, fold when im behind" simple enough. By the break in the first hour i was up to 13th out of 529 with 5300 chips (starting was 3k). Then IT happened. I usually leave chat off in these tourneys because you always get the wise-guys or the whiners typing junk in there, well i left it on and had one guy ribbin me through the tourney after i sucked out a 4 on his 8-6 for a wheel. Nothing big just the standard olololol.
The hand in particular I have [A-3]-7 showing, guy to my right completes with a 6 showing, i call. I brick a Q on 4th, and he nets a 3. He bets and I decide to call thinking he may have paired 1 of those cards. Next card I pick up a 9, he picks up a K. In keeping with my strategy, of bet when ahead, I throw out a bet out there. He goes into the tank, and starts saying in the chat: "You are either really good at this game or you have no idea how to play. The only way you could bet there is if you know I paired my 6" The lol guy, says im an idiot and they both discuss hwo ill make the final table with my crappy play. Chat off, but the damage was done. I brought up razz guides as the tourney is going on to figure out how to improve my play. Pretty much Razz is a game that "is what it is", If i have 3 cards 8 or lower i should at least call to 4th when theres no heavy betting action, if i have 3 less than 5 raise and re-raise. Pretty much I was doing this already.
Back to the tourney, I went card dead and semi-tilt. Folding a lot, bringing-in A LOT. I estimate i lost at least 1/4 my stack from just bring-ins alone.
By the time i got a playable hand, A-6-4 no less, I had 2k chips and it folded to me with the bring-in on my left. I completed figuring i was just going to pick up the bring-in and antes since he is showing a J and im showing my 4. Nope. He raises. I guess he thought I was stealing, so i popped him back and he capped. He graps a 9, and I grab an 8. I bet, he raises, he re, i cap and hes all-in. I have 1k behind. Well wouldnt you know along with his J-9 he has 2-5 under. Lets just say thanks to 2 pair and and a K i did not win this hand. So I have 1k and im really on tilt now. 2 hands later im the bring-in for the elventy billionth time and i Have a K showing with A-4 under. 2 to my right guy with a 5 completes. I do my best aw-fukkit like the bring-in did to me and I get it all in. He bricks 4th and 5th, while I make an 8 by 6th, the A he grabs on 7th sends me to the rail.
So what more intelligent thing to do then when your tilting join a 26 buck HORSE tourney. So thats what I did and I got my ass handed to me.
Bankroll down to $104. A few beers and a few missions of Ace Combat logged, I wander off into slumber.
On the way to work this morning, I hear about this from ESPN radio:
Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended indefinitely by the team Wednesday for insubordination after reportedly grabbing general manager Ed Wade by the neck and throwing him to the ground.
The thing I wonder is why Placido Polanco or Scott Rolen do this while he was still the Phillies GM. Best quote from ESPN's chat board: "Everyone in Philadelphia is now a Shawn Chacon fan."
Indeed. My horses are still running goot in the HORSE, after some bad info from pokernews and even ToP himself, Joe's stud Patrick Antonius IS running in the event.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
50k HORSE prop bet & Phuckin Phillies
Unimpressed challenged me to a last longer in the 50k HORSE event. Choose 3 people, flipped for first pick.
Heres something ironic, I picked tails based on the poker movie "All-in", if you havent seen it im sorry but you will have to sit through the entire thing on your own...
So I won and i picked Greenstein. He got the next 2 with Ivey and Antonius. I followed up with Bloch and a questionable choice with Deeb. He took David Singer.
THe bet is only $10, but its good to win as many of these things as I can.
Still taking last-longer bets for the Main Event.
MSOP #45 tonight, also Mook. I guess Mook is the fallback if I crap out of the razz MSOP early.
Whats up with the Phillies, seriously? Since the clobbering of the Sox 9-2 last Monday they have dropped 6 straight games. They had a nice comfortbale lead in the NL East and now....
2008 National League - Standings
EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA DIFF STRK L10
Philadelphia 42 36 .538 - 22-18 20-18 400 324 +76 Lost 6 2-8
Florida 40 36 .526 1 22-16 18-20 372 372 Lost 2 4-6
NY Mets 37 39 .487 4 20-16 17-23 350 358 -8 Lost 2 5-5
Atlanta 38 41 .481 4.5 27-14 11-27 361 322 +39 Lost 2 4-6
Washington 30 49 .380 12.5 15-25 15-24 287 397 -110 Lost 4 3-7
At least everyone else in the East sucks, but we're screwed if ATL or NYM go on a hot streak. I think the Marlins will crumble, as they always do. Amazing that the Phils lost 6, and still are 6 over .500, as any Phils fan can attest this is an exciting feat to see pre-all-star game.
Heres something ironic, I picked tails based on the poker movie "All-in", if you havent seen it im sorry but you will have to sit through the entire thing on your own...
So I won and i picked Greenstein. He got the next 2 with Ivey and Antonius. I followed up with Bloch and a questionable choice with Deeb. He took David Singer.
THe bet is only $10, but its good to win as many of these things as I can.
Still taking last-longer bets for the Main Event.
MSOP #45 tonight, also Mook. I guess Mook is the fallback if I crap out of the razz MSOP early.
Whats up with the Phillies, seriously? Since the clobbering of the Sox 9-2 last Monday they have dropped 6 straight games. They had a nice comfortbale lead in the NL East and now....
2008 National League - Standings
EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA DIFF STRK L10
Philadelphia 42 36 .538 - 22-18 20-18 400 324 +76 Lost 6 2-8
Florida 40 36 .526 1 22-16 18-20 372 372 Lost 2 4-6
NY Mets 37 39 .487 4 20-16 17-23 350 358 -8 Lost 2 5-5
Atlanta 38 41 .481 4.5 27-14 11-27 361 322 +39 Lost 2 4-6
Washington 30 49 .380 12.5 15-25 15-24 287 397 -110 Lost 4 3-7
At least everyone else in the East sucks, but we're screwed if ATL or NYM go on a hot streak. I think the Marlins will crumble, as they always do. Amazing that the Phils lost 6, and still are 6 over .500, as any Phils fan can attest this is an exciting feat to see pre-all-star game.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Speaking of Razz...
Just found this: KORS, this may be the big tourney the razz folks were talking about last night.
My interest is piqued.
My interest is piqued.
And all that Razz
So after crapping out of 2 NL SnGs, I decided to play a 5.50 Horse tourney. Omaha in these types of low limit tourneys is like a minefield. Case in point I cap the raising between 3 people when I hit top set on an uncoordinated, undouble sooted board. I end up losing to a lower set on the flop turned and rivered into a straight.
So im barely surviving in that tourney when I see a razz sat to the MSOP event. Long story short, I won a seat into the razz MSOP on Wednesday and eventually bounced from the horse tourney after i made an awesome comeback to lead the field after bein the gigli for a while.
Also ended up playing 1/2 razz ring game, won all the money i lost in tourneys back and padded the bankroll a smidgeon. Up to 145 now. The train keeps a rollin...
So im barely surviving in that tourney when I see a razz sat to the MSOP event. Long story short, I won a seat into the razz MSOP on Wednesday and eventually bounced from the horse tourney after i made an awesome comeback to lead the field after bein the gigli for a while.
Also ended up playing 1/2 razz ring game, won all the money i lost in tourneys back and padded the bankroll a smidgeon. Up to 145 now. The train keeps a rollin...
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