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Step 1

Played in two of the Step 1 sit and gos today and placed 3rd in the second one, giving me a free spot in a Step 2. The play is actually worse than the $10 sit and gos if you can believe it. The only reason I didn’t place in my first try was because some idiot called my big raise with big slick when he had pocket 5s and they hold up. Of course, several hands later he calls my pocket 5s all-in with pocket 2s and spikes a miracle 2 on the river. I was out in 11th place.

Party Steps

Party Poker has a new Step Challenge. It looks fun and challenging, so I think I’ll give it a try this week. I haven’t played any poke since Saturday morning, so this might be just what I need.

Bubble Boy

Ok…the recap from Friday afternoon’s home tournament is finally here. I know, I know, I’ve been slacking!

I helped my brother set up his poker table in the living room and brought in some chairs. The tournament was supposed to start at 2:00, but at 1:45 they were still calling people to play. We ended up with 15 guys, which turned out to be a good number after it was all said and done. My brother announced that we’d be paying the top three places, $100, $30, and $20. WHAT?!?! I couldn’t believe it. What ever happened to the standard 50% for first place? And why aren’t the top 4 getting paid with 15 people? Hey, whatever I guess, it’s not my tournament, even though I had to come up with chip distributions and help set everything up.

First Fifty

After my first fifty $10 Sit & Gos on Party Poker here are my stats…

In the money = 40%
Return on investment = 14.55%

Place	# of times
1st	5
2nd	8
3rd	7
4th	9
5th	8
6th	7
7th-10th	6

Mental Lapse

I’ve been playing the $10 Sit & Gos on Party Poker recently as a break from the ring games, so today I was looking around for some advice. I came across one of the greatest pieces of no-limit advice I’ve ever heard.

A K is good for an all-in bet, but not to call an all-in.

Ah Ah, I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Now, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is the .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and could blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?
Dirty Harry - (Audio Clip)

Just a little while ago I had a streak like no other. I’ve never seen cards like this anywhere! If I needed a card to hit, it would show up, except for a couple of flush draws that missed. I was just killing the table and it was a blast. I couldn’t believe my own eyes, so it was no wonder everyone was calling me down. I had to leave the table after exactly 60 minutes because the fish swam out and the sharks filled in when they saw the average pot size of the table. For your reading pleasure (and my love of bragging) here are the major hands.

Sit & Go

I’m getting really good at finishing 4th-6th in the Sit & Go Tournaments on Party Poker. In fact, I haven’t finished higher or lower than that in one yet.

2005 World Series Of Poker Schedule

Harrah’s has announced the schedule for the 2005 World Series of Poker. The WSOP will begin “its evolution from a month-long special event into a year-round sport.”

Players will earn points based on their performance in the circuit tournaments and the World Series of Poker. The top 100 point-earners will receive a free invitation to the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, where a single winner will take home a top prize of $2 million.

Greektown Tournaments

Greektown Casino in Detroit is now holding what they call Lightning Round Tournaments. They sound just like a sit-n-go to me. Might have to check this out some day.

WBPT V Recap

First another big thanks to Iggy for setting up WBPT V. Also a quick note to mention that there was a celebrity at the tables. It was Wil Wheaton, who you may know from his roles in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can talk about the tournament…

After learning about the $20 NLHE tournament for poker bloggers and their readers, I was undecided if I would try it out. After all, I figured I would be dead money with my limited No-Limit experience in what would prove to be a quality field of 133 poker players. A few days before the tournament, I started an account on Poker Stars and deposited $50. Thursday rolled around and I made the choice to play. I figured the $20 would be a good investment because it would get me a chance to get my name out there and drive traffic to my poker blog. I surely didn’t expect to make the cut or win any money. I was looking at the tournament as an investment.

Me and Poker: A History

Earlier this week I had been thinking it would be good to do a post about my history playing poker. After the big win last night in the poker blogger tournament, there isn’t a better time for it, so here it is…

I’m Shocked!

Tonights Poker Blog Tournament
133 poker players
$20+$2 entry fee
$798 for 1st place

Wow, I can’t even express how I feel right now. Amazing. I’ve never played better poker in my life. I won’t be able to sleep a wink, but I’m tired as hell from staying up last night to watch the Red Sox, so I have to try and get some sleep. Tomorrow I’ll post a complete recap of my first ever big tourney win. For now I have to thank Iggy for putting it all together. Maybe now that I won, he’ll finally pimp my blog. It was a great tournament with some of the best poker players the blogging world has to offer. I really don’t even belong in their company. Congrats to Todd who battled with me heads up at the end and finished 2nd. He started out a short stack, but was killing me and took the lead several times. He’s a much better player than I am, but I got the cards at the right times.

I’m off to bed…sweet dreams!

Blog Tourney

Poker Blog Tournament tonight at 9:00 for poker bloggers and their readers over at Poker Stars. Visit the link for all of the information.

Monsters

I witnessed this hand in a FreeRoll tournament on Empire Poker.

Blinds (200/400) - 8 players
UTG folds, UTG+1 raises 800, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, CO folds, Button calls 800, SB raises 1000, BB folds, UTG+1 raises 800, Button calls 800, SB calls 400

Flop
5♠K♣8♣

SB checks, UTG+1 is All-In, Button is All-In, SB is All-In

Turn
T♥
River
Q♠

SB shows A♠A♦ a pair of aces. UTG+1 shows A♣K♦ a pair of kings. Button shows K♠K♥ three of a kind, kings.

SB wins 5302 chips with a pair of aces. Button wins 9976 chips with three of a kind, kings.

I don’t think I could have folded any of those hands after the flop either. A♣K♦ was dominated the whole way. The only way he was going to win the hand was with a flush or straight. Ouch!

Home Poker Articles

Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing a series of articles for Professional Poker Online. They’ll go over the aspects to setting up your own home poker game. I’m pretty excited about the opportunity. The first article, published today, gives some introductory information and then discusses choosing ring games or tournaments for your home game.

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