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Root of all Evil

I drove back to Saginaw today and just pulled in about an hour ago. I don’t remember seeing so much fog in an afternoon and I had it the whole trip. At least I didn’t hit any animals like I did on the trip up north. I hit a porcupine (pictures) and will have to get my frong bumper ever “rigged up” or replaced. Just what I needed less than 2 months before the lease is up on the vehicle. So we’re talking at least $300. Nothing I can do about it, so it doesn’t pay to go on tilt.

I didn’t think I’d get in any online poker over the weekend, but I got bored and installed Empire Poker on Mom’s computer so that I could work on the 1050 raked hands I needed to clear for their recent bonus. Playing $1/2 6-max it took me 1,600 hands to clear the $150 bonus. In addition to clearing the bonus, I came out 40 BB ahead for an average of 2.5 BB/100 hands. It was a good weekend for the bankroll. If not for a couple of 2-out suckouts in a row, it would have been much much nicer though. That’s poker.

To The Front Page

Thanks to everyone who has linked to Poker Chip Tricks! I just checked Google and the site has risen from the dead to the first page of results. I hope the stay is permanent.

Back at Empire

I logged into Empire Poker today just for kicks and voila! They’re having a redeposit bonus of 25% up to $150. So much for sticking at UB. I just can’t pass up the bonus whoring. Since I’ve been loving the short-handed table and the Party skins don’t have $2/4 6-max, I jumped around some of the $1/2 6-maxers. After stopping by four tables I finished up a total of 28 BB and cleared over 150 of my 1050 raked hands for the bonus.

Tomorrow after work I’ll be heading to my parents for the weekend in order to get my taxes done and visit the dentist, so I won’t get in any online play. We might make a trip to St. Ignace for some casino play, but it’s more likely that we’ll just play some home games. I haven’t done that in quite some time, so it should be fun.

Update: Played another 50 minutes while waiting for laundry and took down another 11 BB. Take advantage of the Empire bonus while you can!

Let the Cream Rise to the Top

As many of you may know, back in September, I launched pokerchiptricks.com, a site dedicated to tutorials on doing poker chip tricks. The site has been very successful and has opened a few doors for me. One thing that bothers me though, is that the site is still not listed near the top of the Google results when searching for “poker chip tricks” so I think there are many people missing out if they don’t search through the three or four pages of results before finding the site.

I hate to do this, but I’m going to ask for some help on this one. As many of you know, the more links, the higher a site ranks with the search engines. Some of you already link to the site and I THANK YOU! For those of you that don’t currently link to it, do me a favor and check out the site. If you like what you see, throw a link up on your site with the words “Poker Chip Tricks” as the text of the link. If you’d prefer to use an image and link to the site, I have a few different sized images that you can use. If you link up, feel free to leave a link to your own site over at that post.

Thanks for your time on this!

HAMMERth Place

I went out in 72nd place in tonights WPBT event. A total of 151 players entered for the biggest event so far. I would up at my first table with Dr. Pauly and definitely had the most hammer showings in history. Before I was moved the hammer was shown for about a 6-6 record. The Dr. had the most notable when he picked up the hammer on the button. The cutoff had AA and the big blind had KK. They were all-in pre-flop. The flop came down with two 7s and the hammer took out the two best hands at the same time. He even ended up with a full house on the end.

I didn’t get any real exciting hands that I need to recap. I had quite a few pocket pair, but either didn’t get any play back or didn’t hit anything. CJ from Up4Poker took me out when I tried to pick off his steal from the button. I had A♥5♥ in the small blind. He raised it up to 3x the BB and I then doubled it. He called and the flop came down with two clubs and a queen. I was pot committed at this point so I pushed with an inside straight draw and my ace as outs or hoping he would fold. He made an easy call with Q♣T♣. When I think about it, I should have pushed all-in pre-flop instead of just doubling his bet. I may have gotten him to fold, but I think it was a pretty easy call for him to make calling what I did bet. At least I lost to a blogger.

I have to say that the list of people now on the rail shows a lot of familiar names I recognize from blogs, so I’d bet there is a very strong showing by the readers. I just hope they don’t take the crown and finally win won of these things. GO BLOGGERS!

I played well and had a good time. That’s all I could hope for…besides a showing in the money of course.

It turns out that a blogger did win the tournament. Congrats to on_thg! Go read his recap.

Poker Tips

There’s an interesting dicussion over at Pokerati about a recent tip (or rather, the size of the tip) made by the recent WPT Tunica winner. Before I had this poker blog I wrote a post about dealer tipping on my personal site. It’s a very interesting topic for poker.

Poker Nickname

pokernickname.com labeled me as Nick “the count” Momrik.

A Final Table

I made the final table in the limit tournament and finished 9th in a field of 162 for a $32.40 profit. My Mrs. Slick went down to a guy who called two raises pre-flop with his pocket threes and hit a third on the flop. I played well but didn’t really get any hands until when I was down to my all-ins. I couldn’t even get a hand to steal the blinds with. I did make two moves that allowed me to get to the final table though. An aggressive player on the button raised when nobody else entered the pot. I reraised with my pocket fives and bet the flop and turn to put myself all-in. I figured he was on a steal and he end ended up foldin the turn. Another time I stood my ground against a steal with TJo and bet the flop and turn again with no help on the board. I was all-in, but the player folded and I doubled up. I started the final table as the 9th stack I think, so it was going to be an uphill battle and I needed to double through soon with the blinds so high. You can’t win them all. I’m happy with the way I played and didn’t make any bonehead moves, so that’s always a good sign.

It’s kind of nice to be able to enter these cash tournaments with Ultimate Points that you earn while playing the real money tables at UB. Great practice and you can’t beat the price! I think I’m ready for the WPBT tournament tomorrow. Watch out for the defending champ! Boy, I’ll be glad when I can stop saying that. I can already feel the pressure to make a decent showing tomorrow. I’m pretty sure last time was a fluke. The other bloggers really are much better no-limit players than I am. I just happened to get cards at the right times.

I ended up 23 BB to the good at the $2/4 table I was playing, so it’s a nice positive day for the bankroll again. I had doubled my buy-in (always for 30 BB) in the first hour, but then my flopped set of 6s got beat by a 2 outter on the turn by a bigger set in a 19 BB pot (I’m glad the player ran out of money early on the turn). From there I didn’t get any hands for quite some time. I made a few steals, but the key was keeping my composure unlike last night. I was forced to fold my chip stack all the way back down to even, but stuck to my game and came out on top in the end. Imagine that…you do better without tilting.

Tough Beats

When I got home I fired up UB and saw a $5 turbo tournament starting at 5:00, so using my Ultimate Points, I joined for free. In the 2nd or 3rd level I get cowboys with an early position raiser, so I bump it up to 400 and only the raiser calls. The flop comes Q high and he checks, so I bet the pot. He goes all in and it’s an easy call for me. He has Mrs. Slick and of course the ace comes on the turn giving him two pair. I’m down to 135 chips. Two hands later I get KJo and with one early limper I push all-in. Only the limper calls and he has J7 of diamonds. The flop brings a 7 and I’m out. I guess this is turbo! I played for a grand total of 15 minutes losing to a 5 outter and a 3 outter. I got my chips in when I was the favorite and that’s all you can do.

I’m now playing in a $10 limit tournament which I also used Ultimate Points to enter for free. We’ll see how this goes. On a side note, I’m already up over 15 BB playing one table of $2/4 6-max.

River Bets

Riding the F-Train has an interesting post about betting the river. Great information, but like some of the commentors, I don’t agree that this is true for the low limits. If I didn’t value be the river most of the time, I’d be missing out on a lot of bets. Checking and hoping they bet doesn’t work either…well rarely ever.

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