New WPT Host
Say HELLO! to the new host of the World Poker Tour…Courtney Friel.
Drunken Poker
After a night out I got home at 2:30 and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to play some online poker. SNGs on Bodog were the game of choice. After placing 3rd in one out of 4, I decided to try some heads-up. I won a $50 and then a $20, both in less than a 10 minute period. I won’t be playing poker for the rest of the day, so I finally have a winning day on the books. Wooohooo!! The players in the heads-up SNGs are usually pretty bad. Just before I won the $50 SNG last night the other player commented in chat, “Do you raise every hand?”
Here fishy fishy…
A Good Showing
A quick post. Last night Bodog had a $7,500 guaranteed for $10+1, so I signed up. There were only 571 playing, so nearly $2,000 was added to the prize pool. I was short stacked most of the tournament, but as we approached the money (top 54) I finally went above average with a nice rush. From there I went up and down.
With the blinds at $1,000-$2,000 I had about 7 big bets and found 99 in the big blind. 4 other players limped in. I figured I had the best hand but decided to check and see what the flop brought. If I had pushed there was one small stack that would have to call and I thought at least one other player would call. I didn’t want to take my 9s against 2 players. The flop came 2-4-2 and I was happy. I pushed out a bet of about half the pot. The small stack called and the button raised. I pushed the rest of my chips in. I was up against A9 and 55. The turn brought a 5 and the river a 3, so I lost to a full house and a straight. I went in with the best hand and that’s all I can ask for.
Looking back, I wish I had either pushed as the first to act after the flop. I still think I would have ended up against the same two players because A9 didn’t have a choice with barely over $2,000 left and 55 had a large stack where he could take the risk. Pushing would have been my best chance at getting one of them to fold. Betting half the pot could have looked like a steal. If only the small stack would have called I would still have been in the tournament with about 5 BB and on the small blind for the next hand.
That was the end of my tournament though. 17th out of 517. Not a bad showing. I think I’m going to concentrate on some tournaments a little more until I can get through this cold streak trying to beat the 6-max games.
Call it Down
Somewhere in the last month I’ve turned into a calling station. Not good for the bankroll. In the past 3 weeks I’ve had one winning day. ONE!
The Ultimate Secret
Bill’s post titled The Ultimate Secret to Winning Poker is a great read for any poker player. New or old. I’m not great at poker, but I don’t suck either (or so I like to think). His post hit home on some great points. I’ve read the strategy books and understand the concepts. When I’m losing at the tables it’s usually because I’m not doing what I know I should be.
Review: Harrington on Hold’em - Volume I
I finally finished reading the best poker book available on tournament play. Dan Harrington has done the poker world a great service by writing Harrington on Hold’em. I would have finished the book much sooner, but it was my bathroom reader, so I was only reading 10-15 pages a day.
Harrington breaks down the game of no-limit just like any other author by pre-flop, flop, turn and river. What makes this book stand out though are the awesome Problems presented at the end of each chapter. Dan uses actually hands that he’s run into or observed over the years. He lays out the hand and then asks you questions along the way. He describes what you should be thinking as you make you decision. It’s great to see what a world class player and World Series of Poker Champion is thinking during a poker hand.
Volume I is a great book for any poker player of any level. The attention to details is fantastic and the book is easy to read. I can’t wait to get my hands on Volume II for some of the more advanced topics and moves.
Harrington on Hold’em: Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments (Strategic Play) definitely gets an A+ from me.
Bonus Whoring The Party Network
Over the long holiday weekend I bonus whored Empire Poker for their quick 3 day reload and then Party Poker. I’m a sucker for the free $100 each site gave me. Or are the poker sites the suckers?
Playing 4 tables of $25 No-Limit 6-max it took about 5 hours to clear the Empire Poker bonus. I was up, down, up, and down again. With only a couple of hands left to clear my bonus I was up $20 and felt good. I was going to log my first winning session in a week. I cleared the required number of raked hands and played out my orbits, which I always do. I was still up about $20. On the 2nd to last hand I pick up KK. The board wasn’t scary at all and I ended up losing to a slow-played AA. It felt like a kick in the junk. So much for that winning session. I finished down $2.90 for the 5 hours, but still made about $20/hour because of the $100 bonus.
Empty
It’s all Dr. Pauly’s fault. I first read about the cheese balls on on his blog last Tuesday. Or is it Otis’s fault? After all, he invented the holiday party Pauly was writing about. After reading about the cheese balls I got a craving. On Thursday of last week I finally broke down and picked up the 37.5 oz monster container from Sam’s Club. Let me tell you, those are some damn good cheese balls!
I finished off the container today and along with it went a $500 deposit that I made last week while eating the cheese balls and a $100 bonus I had earned during the same time. I swear, I didn’t have anything to do with the losses. The orange crunchy puffs of air brought about bad beats like I haven’t seen in a long time. Hands like AK were beat by A6, A3, and K3. Not on the flop either! Tonight the account which had the deposit finally hit zero. The last two hands went down like this…
Straight Gut Flush
I love a straight flush!
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