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Thursday night I went to a sleep clinic to try and figure out my sleeping problems so Friday was going to be a sick day until a storm hit and SVSU closed for the day anyways. After getting home around 6:30am I decided to play some poker for a few hours. Big mistake!

I went to 4 tables of $5/10 limit like I had mentioned in the last post. Towards the end of my 3-4 hour session I missed about my last 20 flush draws. It was unreal. Most of the time I either had the nut draw so I had an ace for 3 more outs or I already had a pair so I could have hit 2 pair or trips to win as well. I didn’t win a damn one. Those draws should have been hitting by the river 33% of the time. Instead I hit none and lost 1/5 of my bankroll.

I’ll be moving back down to $3/6 for awhile until I can get my head on straight again. Or I might try out some tournaments. Maybe I’ll even get into Omaha 8/b like I’ve planned to for nearly 6 months.

Nickels and Dimes

I’m still playing the $5/10 limit games on Party Poker. I haven’t played more than two tables at a time yet, but might try 3 or 4 soon. I’m feeling more and more comfortable with the stakes of play. The biggest differences from the lower limit games are there are more opportunities to steal and you tend to need better hands to win a large pot.

Moving Up

I usually try to keep my bankroll around $3,000 and if it gets much higher I pull some money out of Neteller for investments, bills, and whatever else. 300 big bets is the recommended bankroll for limit poker, so I’ve had the roll to play $5/10 for over a year. Scared? Most likely.

Super Bowl Weekend

I played a little poker over the weekend. I also played a little poker about as bad as I could.

Before the Super Bowl we ran a couple of mini $5 tournaments. In the first tournament I was the first one out of 4 people. It only took two hands. The second time around I was second to go out of 5 people. Never bluff a calling station.

Later after the game… By the way, that had to be one of the worst all-around Super Bowls I can remember. The national anthem sucked, the refs sucked for the millionth time in this year’s playoffs, the half-time show sucked, and the game was rather boring. So later that night I fired up Party Poker and saw the Bad Beat Jackpot was over $250,000. Might as well play for a couple of hours. I donked off somewhere between $100 and $200. The next morning I woke up and the BBJ still hadn’t hit so I said why not and played again. There went another $250 or so.

My poker game isn’t running well at all this year. It might be time to switch it up and learn Omaha 8/b for a change of pace.

2005 WSOP on ESPN

I finished watching the the broadcasts of the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker a couple of weeks ago. I was only 3 months late, but that’s the beauty of having a DVR.

I enjoyed the coverage more than the last two years and I’ll even admit that I enjoyed watching Mike Matusow. When he and the Sheik (sp.?) went at it, it make for great entertainment. I really wish Steve Dannenmann could have pulled out the win. He was a class act and thoroughly enjoyed the game.

Can’t wait to see what kind of characters come out for the 2006 WSOP. Will we see 10,000 players?

Where To?

The lack of postings here have been a result of a lack of poker play as well as taking a break from blogging. I have played some poker in the last month or so though.

On New Year’s Eve I played in St. Ignace, MI. They run $2/5 no-limit with a maximum buy-in of $100. So much for sitting down with 100 big blinds! I won $160 on the night, but lost a huge $400+ pot to my dad when I outplayed him and he got lucky. I’m still cheesed about the hand over a month later, so let me give a quick recap. Dad likes to raise pre-flop with any pair and some junk cards a lot of the time. I was in the one of the blinds (don’t remember which) with 9T suited and decided to call the $20 to see if I could flop a pair. I had already decided that if I did, I was going after him. The flop came down ten-high and I knew I was ahead. I checked, he bet $20, and I check-raised to $80. He thought for a bit and called. The turn was a harmless 2, so I bet $50 trying to get something out of him. He quickly called and I got a little worried. The river was another 2, so I decided to check. He pushed out $50 and I had no choice but to call with a pot that would be over $400. He turned over a pair of twos and had hit running cards to make quads on me. The table went nuts and I just shook my head. I knew I had him beat, but that’s poker. He called my check-raise with 2 outs and hit both of them. Ouch!

I also played a late-night session at the MGM in Las Vegas on my return from San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. We got to the casino around midnight, played for almost 5 hours and headed back out. I sat at $1/2 no-limit and ended up winning a total of $2. I just couldn’t get any cards or when I did I split the pot. I had a player to my right all-in 3 times and each time we had the same hole cards to make the same hand. With KJ and QJ (2 different hands) we split with 2 pair and with KT we each turned the nut straight. Live poker is rigged!

I’ve played a bit here and there online in the last month or so and I think I’m behind overall. I never got around to reading up on Omaha 8/b like I had planned, but I did get a couple of new poker books for Christmas I’m looking forward to reading.

With the trip to California and moving to a new townhouse this past week things have been a bit hectic, but that should all change in the next week. I hope to be getting back to the online tables on a more consistent basis. See you there…

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