Happy New Year
Tonight I’m off to St. Ignace for some casino poker. I can’t wait. I haven’t played there in at least 6 months, so it’s long overdue. My limit game has improved dramatically since then. I’m out to have fun, but plan to take some cash in the process. From my experience there, the level of play is much worse than online. They do have a weird betting structure though. It’s always been 3-5-10-10 when I’ve played. I should probably change my game a little for this, but I don’t really know which way I should go so I’ll play my normal fish beating game.
Rogers City Poker Series
On Monday and Tuesday, the Rogers City Poker Series (or that’s what I’m calling it at least) was held at my house. My brother Isaac and his buddies came up with a plan for 4 tournaments. Each player, of which we had 9, bought in for a total of $50. The top three places in each tournament would pay out money. We were to play hold’em twice, ohama once, and stud once.
Big Hands Win
Over my last 10,000 hands, the cards with the highest winning percentage are A♦A♠, K♣K♥, Q♣Q♠, A♠K♠, and A♥K♦. In that exact order too. It’s reassuring to know that the best hand wins the majority of the time, even online.
The Poker Gods Wish Me a Happy Birthday
The poker gods must know it’s my birthday. The big 25!
I played two $2/4 tables this morning and won 48 BB in 99 hands at one table and finished less than a BB ahead at the other. Not a bad way to spend an hour and a half.
My brother gave me 4 suited show glasses as a present to go along with the card protector he bought me for Christmas. The shot glasses are pretty neat. My sister bought me a few more books, namely Tournament Poker for Advanced Players and Caro’s Book of Poker Tells. With all of the new reading material I won’t have any time to play poker, but I should be making a TV final table soon. Ha ha!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all the poker players out there. We just finished opening our presents and I got a few poker related goodies. The two books I was given are Hold’Em Poker for Advanced Players and Winning Low-Limit Hold’em. My best gift of the year though is a kick ass card protector from my brother. Check out the picture below. The back is also engraved with my name. It suprisingly heavy too. They aren’t cheap, but you can buy your own.
Winds of Change
Poker was fun last night. I had bout 30 minutes to blow before going to play basketball so I fired up Party Poker and sat down at a $2/4 bad beat jackpot table. I wasn’t getting any playable cards, but I sure was getting good at clicking the FOLD button. For the second time this week I was noticed at the table. This time is was by someone who reads and comments once in awhile. The guy lost 25 BB in about 20 minutes! Just the mere mention of me having a web site seemed to give me a table image.
Big Bankroll
Somebody just sat down at my $2/4 table with over $4,400! Is this supposed to be intimidating?
Christmas Wishes
What’s on your Christmas list this year related to poker? I really hope I get Zen and the Art of Poker: Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Game. I’m doing well at handling all of the bad beats, simply because I’ve come to expect them, but I think this book would really help out the mental aspects of my game.
It Never Ends
When will the bad beats end? Seriously!?
- Big slick ends up splitting a pot with A3o after the board pairs on the turn and the river, giving us the same full house.
- Big slick, which paired the A, loses to a gutshot straight draw on the river.
- Pocket tens loses to a guy raising me like crazy with his KQo when a Q comes on the river.
- AT, which paired the Ace, loses to 55 when a 5 hits on the turn.
- Flop a flush and get beat when the river pairs the board for a full house. The guy called like 18 raises between me and another guy.
- Pocket rockets beat by T4 who called me all the way down without any draw at all and ends up hitting the runner runner straight.
- Pocket tens beat by 72 when a 2 came on the turn and a 7 on the river.
- Pocket sixes beat by 94o when a 4 hit the turn and a 9 on the river.
- My QT vs Q7 with a Q on the flop. You guessed it, he hit one of the three remaining 7s on the turn.
- My A2 suited hits an A on the flop and I also get a flush draw. I raise. I pair my two on the river. Raise again. River is a 3 to give the guy with A3 the win. It was going to be a split pot if no one improved, but I hit one of my twelve outs on the turn and get beat by a 3 outter on the river.
Each of these pots were over 10 big bets and some approaching the 20 big bet pot. If I’m such a magnet for miracles why can’t I win this bad beat jackpot?
Yes, those are all from a few hours of play tonight. I didn’t even include the ones from earlier in the night before I went out to finish my Christmas shopping. I can’t hit a flush draw when I’m getting the odds to call, but everyone else seems to be shitting bricks of gold. I’m getting unreal hole cards tonight and hitting some flops, but getting outdrawn by people that have no business calling my flop or turn bets. If I win 2 or 3 of those pots, I’m ahead. If I win another one or two, it’s a great night at the tables. If the odds go my way for once this month…it’s one hell of a night at the tables. But no, I’m a big LOSER!
Have you noticed how fast the Party Poker Bad Beat Jackpot is climbing? DAMN! I think I just contributed 2 grand to it myself. Ok, so not really, but it feels that way. These bad beat tables are so unbelieveably juicy, but I can’t win a hand. But it’s impossible to win here when the cards are going the way I showed above. And just when I thought I was back on the winning trail…I get bitch slapped upside the head. Where’s the love? Maybe I should just stay away from the BBJ tables, but I can’t help myself. When the jackpot gets over $100,000, everyone shows up to play. I just can’t catch a run of cards to take advantage of the douche bags. I should change my screenname to “Fish Feeder” because they’ve been living off me lately.
Time for bed…
New Streak
Two winning days in a row. I can’t remember the last time that happened.
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