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That number you see in big bold letters up there is the amount of people that kept me from the Main Event. As i said in the previous post, it is one of my dreams to play in this tournament. When i got my computer loaded up and saw the amount of people that i was going to have to run through, i almost withdrew. Seeing how the odds were going to be better on Full Tilts seat guarantee tournament i was going to play there. Then i decided, you know what, im stayin on stars no matter how many people sign up. I know the structure 10x better, the players 10x more, and im 10x more comfortable. You have to face obstacles on your way to your dreams, and this was mine.

It started with Lee Jones - Poker Room Manager giving us a nice little message.



Before i start this, i want to talk a little bit about my gameplan. I didn't want to play big pots unless i was 99.99999% sure i had the best hand. There is no reason to mix it up early when i dont need to be. A lot of people had a set number of chips they wanted to get. This wasnt the case for me. I just wanted them all. The more chips i can get a hold of the better. The chip count goal is a little off because it depends on when you get a hold of that number. If i get 50k in chips in the first 3 hours and then keep folding, chances are im going to get blinded out. As you'll see i make a couple of lay downs, where if it was a cash tournament i woiuld have pushed over the top or called. Comments are great so leave plenty!

It was great to play in the biggest satellite in history, but it wasn't going to be fun running through the 7300+ people. So without further interuption, i give you the 150 seat guaranteed tournament history of trixter23.

4:38 - Im in the sb and pick up Ac Qc. There are a few limpers ahead of me, so instead of makin a raise i just complete from the sb.

Flop - 9d 4h Qs

Hero - Bets 60
Villain 1 - Calls 60
Villain 2 - Calls 60

Turn - 9d 4h Qs [As ]

Hero - Bets 85
Villain 1 - Calls 85
Villain 2 - Calls 85

River - 9d 4h Qs As [4d]

Hero - Bets 100
Villain 1 - Folds
Villain 2 - Calls 100

trixter23: shows [Ac Qc] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
DarthJ7: mucks hand
Seat 8: DarthJ7 mucked [Jd Qd]

4:42 - Get dealt KK and raise it up and everyone folds.

4:48 - Everyone folds to the sb and he completes, i check and we see a flop.

Hero - 10d 7d

Flop - 3d 7c Kc

Hero - Bets 20
Villain - Folds

Blinds go up to 15/30

4:58 - Folded to me in the cutoff and i hold Ah 8h and make a raise.

Hero raises 60 to 90
Villain calls 75

Flop - Kh 4c 6s

Hero - Bets 120
Villain - Folds

Half way through first level - 6889 of 7377 left.
I have $2925 chips which is good for 1947 of 6889.

5:08 - Get dealt KK again. I'm in the big blind and actually was more worried about the flat caller from the sb, so i re-pop and they both fold.

Button - Raises to 90
SB - Calls 90
Hero - Raises to 230 to 320
Button - Folds
SB - Folds

Blinds go up to 25/50

5:21 - Get dealt AK UTG, make a standard 3x raise to 150, UTG+2 (who is a new player to the table) re-pops me with a 4x raise and after a few seconds i fold and he shows KK. Which boosted my confidence. Never show your cards unless you have to.

Hero - Raises 100 to 150
Villain - Raises 450 to 600
Hero - Folds
Villain shows [Ks Kd] (a pair of Kings)

5:21 - Dealt Jc 8c in the big blind. Everyone folds to the sb and he completes and we see a flop. Again i probably should have made more off him but if he has spades im done, so i was making very small bets so i could get away from the hand later. I was very surprised to see what he mucked.

Flop - 7s 9s 10s

Villain - Checks
Hero - Bets 100
Villain - Calls 100

Turn - 7s 9s 10s [4d]

Villain - Checks
Hero - Bets 100
Villain - Calls 100

River - 7s 9s 10s 4d [Jh]

Villain - Checks
Hero - Bets 100
Villain - Calls 100
Seat 3: Fantini21 (small blind) mucked [Tc Qh]

5:22 - Dealt 77 in the sb, i make it 150 to go and the bb folds.

First break - 1 hour mark
avg stack - 3030 my stack - 3220
5974 of 7377 left.
im 2152 of that 5974.
5740 left to go.

Blinds go up to 50/100

5:40 - Very interesting hand. Villain 1 wins me a nice side pot when he limps and brings the guy next to him into the pot. Plus, looking back, its a good thing Villain 1 didnt have that many chips.

Dealt to Hero: QQ

Villain 1: calls 100
Villain 2: calls 100
Hero: raises 300 to 400
Villain 3: folds
Villain 1: calls 185 and is all-in
Villain 2: calls 300

Flop - 5d 9c 7d

Hero - Bets 750
Villain 2 - Calls 750

Turn - 5d 9c 7d [5h]

Hero - bets 2020 and is all-in
Villain 2 - Folds

River - 5d 9c 7d 5h [Td]

Hero: shows [Qd Qs] (two pair, Queens and Fives)
Hero collected 1730 from side pot
Villain 1: shows [Ks Kd] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
Villain 1 collected 955 from main pot

5:46 - Get TT and limp. bb makes it 700 to go and i fold. - he shows JJ. After a 7x raise, unless i flop a set i cant continue the hand. So i fold and it was the correct fold.

5:47 - I get KK and raise it to 350 and everyone folds - stack at T3800.

5:56 - Ausing the guy in the bb yet again. This guy is a goldmine. Everyone folds to the sb yet again who completes. This time if i hit, i take him to the bank.

Dealt to Hero [Ah 3h]

Flop: 2h Ac 4d

Villain 1: checks
Hero: Bets 200
Villain 1: calls 200

Turn: 2h Ac 4d [7s]

Villain 1: checks
Hero: Bets 300
Villain 1: calls 300

River: 2h Ac 4d 7s [9d]

Villain 1: checks
Hero: Bets 500
Villain 1: Folds
Hero collects 1200 from pot

Blinds go up to 75/150
my stack T4200
avg stack T3625
4966 players of 7377
im 1592 of that 4966

6:18 - dealt AK on the button. I see tons of people do this and im not sure why. Maybe if you were in EP and actually had a hand, this would have raised a red flag for me and im not sure if i would have called. This guys image was horrible as i saw him as a gold mine. Lucko always talks about telling a consistent story and this guy didnt do it. When he calls from the cutoff it screams, I want to play my hand, but it's just not quite good enough to raise with it. I think i beat him into the pot when he pushed.

Villain: calls 150
Hero: raises 300 to 450
sb: folds
bb: folds
Villain: raises 1660 to 2110 and is all in
Hero: calls 1660

Hero shows As Kh

Villain shows Ac Jh

Flop: 5c 3c 2d
Turn: 3h
River: Tc

Hero collects T4445 from pot and my stack is now at $6010.

6:22 - I get a walk in my bb, awesome

Blinds go up to 100/200
avg stack is 4808, my stack is 6010
3819 of 7377 and i rank 1074
3585 to go

6:31 - I pick up AA in mid to late position. UTG Raises and i repop, he calls and we see a flop.

Villain: raises 400 to 600
Hero: raises 1000 to 1600
Villain: calls 1000

Flop: Js 4s Th

Villain checks
Hero bets 2500
Villain folds

Hero collects 3500 from pot

2nd break.
avg stack is 5558 i have 7010
3199 left and im 747 out of that group.
2965 left to go.

Blinds go up to 100/200 Ante 10

6:53 - dealt AK and raise from EP and everyone folds.

7:00 - dealt AK in the BB, folds to sb who completes, i raise and he folds like a little girl. Stack $7120.

7:03 - dealt AK in cutoff, a raise comes from UTG, i flat call, and fold to a bet on a horrible flop.

UTG raises 400 to 600
Hero calls 600.

Flop: 8s 9h 4h

UTG bets 800
Hero folds - Stack $6480

7:07 - Get a walk in my bb - Stack at $6520

7:09 - Loosening up a little bit, i get dealt 9T in the cutoff and make it 600 to go, and everyone folds. Stack at $6890

blinds go up to 150/300 Ante 15

7:18 - Dealt TT UTG+1 and make it 900 to go and everyone folds. Stack at $6815.

7:19 - get a free pass in the bb. Stack at $7010.

7:22 - Neat little hand. Cutoff makes it 1200 to go and i re pop to 3000.

Hero: Q Q

Villain: raises 900 to 1200
Hero: raises 1800 to 3000

Villain: "whens the last time you raised? lol"
Hero: "about 4 minutes ago"
Villain: folds
Villain: "I had a big hand to.

Stack at $8660

7:23 - Raise with AK and everyone folds. Stack at $9250

Blinds go up to 200/400 Ante 20

7:30 - This was one of many big hands i had throught the night. This guy raises 7x the blind from UTG+1. When i usually see overbets like this, it means this guy doesnt want to see a flop and wants to take the pot down now. He could have a mid pp like 66-JJ, which im a favorite over. He doesn't have AA or KK or he wouldnt be raising that much, because he would want action. After about 30 seconds off my time bank i come over the top and go all in. Looking back again, i realize how big of a decision this is, i forgot he had so many chips. If i lose this hand my tourney is pretty much over.

Seat 4: Hero (8675 in chips)
Seat 1: Villain (7394 in chips)

Villain: raises 2400 to 2800
Hero: raises 5855 to 8655 and is all-in
Villain: calls 4574 and is all-in

Hero: QQ
Villain: AK

Flop: 7h 2c Js
Turn: Jh
River: 6c

Stack is now at $16,809

7:47 - dealt KK and raise it up and everyone folds. Stack at $15,199

Break time - 3rd break.
1556 of 7377 left.
im 421 of 1556.
avg stack is 11852 and im at 14749.
1322 to go.

Blinds go up to 300/600 ante 30

8:00pm - raise from cutoff+1 and get re raised all in and have to fold. I figure ive been showing down good hands, i should take advantage of that and try and start stealing some pots.

Dealt: Ad 3d

Hero: raises 1200 to 1800
Villain: raises 5579 to 7379 and is all-in.
Hero: folds.

Stack at $12,499

8:11 - call an all in with AQ and chop the pot. I called with AQ because he had 7 bb's left and could be pushing with anything. my stack at the time was a meager $10,609. You have to pick up all the dead money you can to be good for later. I almost hit the spades.

Villain raises 4165 to 4765 and is all-in
Hero: calls 4465

Flop: 4h Ks 2d
Turn: Qh
River: Kh

8:15 - get dealt As Ts, raise it up, 1 caller and we go to the flop. I make a continuation bet and take the pot.

Hero raises 1200 to 1800
Villain: calls 1800

Flop: 6s 3s Jc

Hero: bets 2400
Villain: Folds

Stack at $13,804

8:17 - Another nice little hand. Get dealt KK for the 4234th time this tourney. I didn't want to see an ace flop and have to fold so i push all in over the top and he calls.

Villain raises 1800 to 2400
Hero raises 11,374 and is all-in
Villain calls 8107 and is all-in

Flop: Kc Ac 9d
Turn: 7h
River: Ah

Hero shows KK a full house, Kings full of Aces
Villain shows 88 for two pair, Aces and Eights.

Stack is now at $24,850

8:22 - get a walk in my bb and stack is now at $24,531

8:24 - raise from the CO with Kc 4h to steal and i get re popped and have to fold. Stack at $22,011

Blinds have increased to 400/800 Ante 40

8:26 - This is a very cool hand. I love post-flop play with deepstacks and being able to maneuver and go with your reads. This is just the case with this hand. This guy told me he was weak all around.

Dealt to Hero: Ah Kd

Hero: raises 1600 to 2400
Villain 1: calls 2400
BB: calls 1600

Flop: 8s 8c 4c

BB: bets 1600
Hero: calls 1600
Villain: folds

I make a little different play here and flat call his bet. There are a couple reasons why i made this play. 1) By flat calling, hopefully it scared him a little bit. I'm in position and i want to keep the pressure on him and decide how/if to bet. 2) No matter what card comes, he is going to dictate what i do on the turn. If he makes the same 1600 chip bet, i raise. If he goes lower, i raise. If he goes higher, well it depends on how high. 3) He bet 1600 chips into a 7200 chip pot or so which is extremely weak.

Turn: Js

BB: bets 800
Hero: raises 4000 to 4800
BB folds

Hero collects 12,760 from pot
Stack is now at $30k

It's hands like those that make a difference. In satellites everything is almost all pre flop play. I would have loved to play more suited connectors and such in position but it just wasnt the case tonight. If you would raise, no one would flat call, they would come over the top for all their chips. So you were forced to play premium hands.

8:32 - raise on the button with KQ and get re popped all in and i fold.

Hero: raises 1600 to 2400
Villain: raises 10640 to 13040 and is all-in
Hero folds

Stack $26,011

8:35 - Another huge hand. Again im happy these guys didn't have more chips or i would have some decisions to make. I was a little worried after i re raised when Villain 2 went all in also. I made it clear i wanted to be heads up with Villain 1 and i had a hand. I think he could have gotten away from Queens here, but he chose this spot.

Villain 1: raises 4362 to 5162 and is all-in
Hero: raises 4838 to 10000
Villain 2: calls 2213 and is all-in

Villain 1 shows Th Th
Hero shows Ah Kh
Villain 2 shows Qd Qh

Flop: 9s As 8c
Turn: 4s
River: 3s

Hero collects 14097 from pot
Stack is now at $35k.

Blinds increase to 500/1000 Ante 50

8:53 - raise it up with A8s and steal blinds. Stack at $29,406. I didn't play any hands for a while and was getting blinded down.

8:55 - I got moved to a new table and my image is clear again. I wanted to stay at that table because i knew i was going to get respect with my raises and get people to lay down hands. When i moved to this one i had to build a new one. I think i made the right plays here, but who knows. How would you guys have played these next few hands?

Seat 6: Hero (29356 in chips)
Seat 8: Villain (23176 in chips)

Dealt: Tc Ts
Hero(UTG): raises 2000 to 3000
Villain: raises 20,126 to 23126 and is all-in

I think i have to fold here. I mean i dont know how this guy plays at all. It's pretty much for my tourney life and i cant put him on a hand. I believe it was a good move. Stack is now at $26,256

8:53 - i get 77 and raise and everyone folds. Stack at $26506

4th break.
my stack is at $26,456
avg stack is $26,122
706 of 7377 left and im 280th.
472 to go.

Blinds go up to 600/1200 Ante 60

9:13 - I fold to an all in, in the BB. Even though its a short stack, i cant call this. I'm not getting odds to call and im dead to 3 outs if that. He does have 11 bb's and still has room to maneuver. So again i think this is the right play.

Seat 6: Hero (23936 in chips)
Seat 7: Villain (13890 in chips)

Hero has Ah Td

Villain raises 12630 to 13830 and is all in
Hero folds from the bb

9:19 - This was just bad luck. I am greatful i actually ran into a hand then a bad beat. My table image here is that i keep folding to re raises. I decide to take a stand here. I can't keep folding to re raises. I'm getting about 2.1-1 on my money and am only a big dog to an over pair. I usually dont play anything UTG unless its AA KK or QQ, but i was getting desperate. How would you have played this?

Seat 2: Villain (13504 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ( 21656 in chips)

Hero: raises 2400 to 3600
Villain: raises 8344 to 13444 and is all in
Hero: calls 9844

Hero shows As Qh
Villain shows Qd Qs

Flop: Js Kh 4d
Turn: 3h
River: Kc

Sometime later - I was crippled and passed an orbit waiting for a hand. I pick up 33 utg and go all in.

Hero: raises 6952 to 8152 and is all in
BB: calls 6952

Hero shows 33
BB shows AK

Flops: 6c 6c 8s
Turn: Kd
River: 7h


And just like that, it was over. Before the AQ hand that crippled me i hadn't lost a hand all tournament and being 8 for 8 when i went to a showdown. I think i played pretty well. I should be happy that i ran through almost 7000 people to get where i was. I played to the best of my ability and thats all i can ask for. I wish everyone the best of luck that qualified, and i'll see you in vegas.

Huge Weekend

This weekend coming up, i very well could say is the biggest tournament of my life to date. There are 150 seats being given away on PokerStars and 100 seats being given away on Full Tilt. Yes, i am talking about seats to the Main Event at the World Series of Poker. I am registered for the 150 seat on PokerStars already. If anyone wants to buy directly in, check out Pocket5's W$ Transfer promo Nat is doing. He is selling W$370 for W$330. I did that and bought directly in.



There are going to be TONS of satellite players in this event and i want to get in the mix early. I don't mean playing huge pots but playing small pots where i can see all 5 cards and really outplay these guys. Building a stack early on is so crucial in satellites. You can sit back and push people around 10x more in sats than a reg tournament. It's a dream of mine to play in the Main Event and if i can even play in the tournament, it would be something i would never forget.

Even if i dont make it into the ME, im still going to Vegas baby. My cousin is working for CardPlayer at the WSOP and has an apartment there. Basically that will be the place ill just be crashing at when i need sleep. It is very nice. I'll be out there from July 27th(1 day prior to the start of the ME) through August 9th. I rented a car while im out there because taxi's are ridiculously over priced there and hes a couple miles off the strip for the shuttles. A roundtrip taxi fare where he is, is $50. Im stayin for approx 2 weeks, and that would come to $800 minus tip for the trip. And thats only if i stay at the same place all day! So i rented a car. I lucked out because i got a Jeep Grand Cherokee - Laredo. This is awesome because i have the exact same car, but mine is fully loaded and is the Limited version. I'll be saving atleast $500 by doing it this way. I know lucko21 will be out there playing so i'll watch him play for a little bit and maybe a few others. If you're planning on being out there shoot me an email or a comment and we could possibly get together.

New Home Game

My buddy Greg has wanted me to go to his home game for a couple weeks now. I've always had things to do on Wednesday nights, but i cleared my schedule after my basketball game last night and headed on over. I only knew 2 other people that were there so it would be a fun night. Reason being is because i get to make a first impression. None of these guys have seen how i play, nor have i seen how they play. So who has the advantage? Did you really think i was going to say anyone but myself? Going into a room of new players it's fun because you dont have an image. It's like if you were not popular at a school, then you moved across the country you can start off fresh.

We had a total of 22 people. I must say everything was very organized. I didn't get the name of the program the guy used, but he had a tournament program that would keep tract of avg chip count, levels, etc etc. He had the main computer, and 2 monitors in each corner of the room. He had 3 poker tables set up, 1 that was very nice, an octagon table that was good and another 9 man table that was clean also. I felt like i kind of got the shaft on the first couple of tables. The reason i say that is 4 people didnt show up. So we had to blind off their stacks. This meant that i couldn't take their chips.

I only had to identify how 2 players at my table played. The guy directly to my left played a very LAG type. I would be able to get him later. I didn't get any cards in the early going at all. So i was playing pretty tight. Then 2 more players filled the seats and we could get going. I got half of LAG players chips when i flopped a pair of aces and turned 2 pair, he folded to my river bet. One of the new players on the table was raising and everyone would fold and respect those raises and he would show an ace after the folds. He made a 3x raise UTG and i had AQ on the button so i repopped to 400, he re raised again and i folded and he again showed an ace saying, i wouldnt mess around with you UTG. I then took LAG players last chips when my AQ out raced his 77 when i turned a queen.

i had about 2200 when i picked up KK on the button. The UTG raiser from before was in the bb and he was the only one who called my 3x raise. The flop came Q 5 2. Excellent flop for Kings. I made a continuation bet of 400, he thought for a moment and re popped to 800. I went hollywood for a couple seconds and just went all in. I had him covered by about 400 chips and he folded. So i only had to showdown 1 hand while i was at the table.

With starting stacks of T1000, i managed to triple my stack, then a little more and ended up with T3200 at the FT. Well again as i said we had less players than the other tables, everyone else had about an average of T6000. I didnt do anything crazy and found myself easily short stacked. I pushed in on the button for T1600 with blinds at 200/400 with A6. The big blind had a little bit more chips than me called with 33. He hit his set on the flop and just to taunt me the Ace came, but i was done. I will definitely be playing there again because i can see already it will be very profitable.

Limit Omaha 8/B FT Part 2

So looking at the chip stacks, it looks like i have my work cut out for me, but it's limit and the blinds are ginormous so we're ok. My gameplan going in was to catch someone with their pants down like i did in the previous post.

About 20 hands into the FT, we still had 8 players remaining. Stacks looked a little bit like this..

Seat 1: Gabrielucas (21216 in chips)
Seat 2: *AUM* (115455 in chips)
Seat 3: Smarky G (123696 in chips)
Seat 4: connjurer (132006 in chips)
Seat 5: booya25 (105942 in chips)
Seat 6: trixter23 (82392 in chips)
Seat 7: dracula15thc (138275 in chips)
Seat 9: CLUBN (169018 in chips)
booya25: posts small blind 4000
trixter23: posts big blind 8000

So we're in the big blind and get dealt -

4s 8c 3d 5s

Considering im in the bb, if no one opens for a raise ill just check to see a flop. In some cases early on in the tournament, i'll raise with this hand. Reason being people who play A2 w/out a backup(1 or 2 more low cards other than A2) can get caught very easily. If the flop comes A 2 x for instance, their 2 pair maybe good, but ill have the hammer lock on the low if it comes and possibly even the wheel which would then turn into a 6 or 8 high straight. The action goes like this.

dracula15thc: calls 8000
CLUBN: folds
Gabrielucas: folds
*AUM*: folds
Smarky G: calls 8000
connjurer: calls 8000
booya25: folds
trixter23: checks

The flop comes..

Kd 6h 4d

This is a decent flop for my hand. I picked up a wrap draw. Im not going to get fancy here, the right thing to do is check call, because of the sheer fact that we have 3 players left to act behind us.

trixter23: checks
dracula15thc: bets 8000
Smarky G: calls 8000
connjurer: calls 8000
trixter23: calls 8000

Size of Pot = $68000

The Turn:

7c

Jackpot! Right now i have the current nuts. This is a great card for that reason and because it gave someone the low. There is 1 problem though. There are 2 diamonds on the board. After the turn hit i think i immediately starting saying to myself, NO DIAMOND, NO DIAMOND! Knowing someone has the low, i checked so that whoever has it will bet out, then i can re raise. If a diamond comes on the river, what can i do? Id rather maximize the value of my hand and make them pay for their flush rather then just play it soft and let it come. So i check and the awesome guy bets out and i re pop it up to 32k. Everyone calls so i know i can get beat.

trixter23: checks
dracula15thc: bets 16000
Smarky G: calls 16000
connjurer: calls 16000
trixter23: raises 16000 to 32000
dracula15thc: calls 16000
Smarky G: calls 16000
connjurer: calls 16000

Size of Pot = $196,000

The River brings.

10s

This wasnt such a great card for me at all. Someone could very easily have A289 and im on my way out the door. I bet out hoping to get raised, because 1) that will tell me that im able to go to bed because someone hit their straight or 2) I get ALL my chips in the middle with the current nuts going to 1 card on the river. I almost can live losing like that. Nah i cant. Here is the final action.

trixter23: bets 16000
dracula15thc: raises 16000 to 32000
Smarky G: calls 32000
connjurer: calls 32000
trixter23: raises 2392 to 34392 and is all-in
dracula15thc: calls 2392
Smarky G: calls 2392
connjurer: calls 2392

Size of Pot = $333,568

We all know what i have, but lets see what everyone else has.

trixter23: shows [4s 8c 3d 5s] (HI: a straight, Four to Eight; LO: 7,6,5,4,3)

dracula15thc: shows [Jd As 2c Qc] (HI: high card Ace; LO: 7,6,4,2,A)

Smarky G: shows [Ad 8h 2h Qd] (HI: high card Ace; LO: 7,6,4,2,A)

connjurer: shows [Kc 9c 2s Ah] (HI: a pair of Kings; LO: 7,6,4,2,A)

It was an absolute miracle that a diamond didn't come on the river. But needless to say I literally thanked dracula for raising. When you look at the action he raised with his low draw. All 3 of these guys had the A2 and got quartered. I was in bliss when i saw their hands. Their ROI was horrible because.....

trixter23 collected 166784
potdracula15thc collected 55595
Smarky G collected 55595
connjurer collected 55594

And that ladies and gentleman, is how you grab the chip lead.




Like i said though, in limit its easy to lose a lead.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?403711 - Almost hit the 200k mark on this hand

http://www.pokerhand.org/?403716 - 230K working the magic. After this hand i didnt play some for a while because people got short stacked and they somehow made recoveries. 2 of the Players were horrible. So i took the scenic route and tried to fold to more money. Which is something you shouldn't really do. Because when hands like this next one come up, you get crippled.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?403719 - I was sick this hand. I knew i should have just checked behind on the river but i had to throw money out there. Im not sure what that guy is thinking playing that hand, but he did. I had the intention of just check calling all the way down but why would he just check the river? You put 56k in the pot, why not another 32? And of course he knew his 4 high flush was good. This hand killed me and sent me to 126k in chips.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?403734 - I raised 1 hand after that and got re popped and made a flat call. I completely missed the board and had to fold which put me down to 60k. With blinds 8/16k this was not fun. AUM was all in maybe 4 times ahead of me and no one could knock him out. I inevitably had to make a stand.

I played well, but when you get that deep you always want to win. Tonight i have the CP tourney which i have to make a splash in. I've missed the last 2 and i have to start pushing to get points for not only my team but to make the Table of Champions. See ya all there!

Limit Omaha 8/B Final Table

Before i get to the main post, a quick couple of things. I was able to add live updates of the WSOP under the affiliate link. It's a nice little way to get their real quick if need be. I had planned to have another post about the AC trip because there was a hand i wanted to talk about in the tournament and a couple of other things. I made it real deep so ill post about that tomorrow.

I don't know what i was thinking but i decided to get in the Omaha 8/b $5 rebuy tournament at about 1:30 am last night. I guess it was because i was having a ridiculous day filled with some stupid hands that lost me some money. I love playing Omaha, but this late was not very smart. Not to toot my own horn but whenever i usually play this game i cash, and thus being a rebuy would be longer to get in the money, etc etc.

Let me tell you a little something about the rebuy period in a limit game. It's absolutely horrible. People were just playing every hand and capping the betting each street. I managed to get to 6385 after the break which was the 41st best stack of the remaining 170 people or so. With only 18 places being paid, i would have to accumulate. I play less hands in this game rather than NLHE, because you will get paid off on your hands ten fold. In limit sheer aggression is one of my main factors for winning. You can figure out pretty easily what people are drawing to. Take this hand for instance.

Seat 1: Tenace (7723 in chips)
Seat 2: dragonlore (10605 in chips)
Seat 3: Quebeker1 (12774 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (6785 in chips)
Seat 5: FOX 27 (6172 in chips)
Seat 6: Bevo05 (8350 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 7: griga (7602 in chips)
Seat 8: Rencius (3092 in chips)
Seat 9: philsky2003 (5169 in chips)
Tenace: posts small blind 150
dragonlore: posts big blind 300

Dealt to trixter23 Ah 4h Qc Tc

CALL Quebeker1, 300
RAISE trixter23 , 300 to 600
CALL FOX 27, 600
CALL Rencius, 600
CALL Quebeker1, 300

With Stakes being at 300/600 and me only having T6785 in chips i wasnt worried about having to make some plays yet. But a weak player entered the pot in front of me and i wanted to try and isolate with him and the blinds. You should always know where your chips are going to come from, and when the opportunity presents itself you have to take advantage of it. Also my hand is very susceptible, it's by far a made hand and needs work, a lot like almost every other hand.

Flop: 8s 9s 5c

BET Quebeker1, 300
RAISE trixter23 , 300 to 600
CALL FOX 27, 600
CALL Rencius, 600
CALL Quebeker1, 300

This flop barely hit me. I have 4 to the low but it's not the nut low. A backdoor straight and flush draw. Here im keeping my aggressive style, and im doing this because i don't want to stay predictable! I can't say it enough, if someone catches onto your style of play, especially in omaha, your a dead duck! I was a little worried here that maybe someone flopped a straight, in which case i wasnt in great shape.


Turn: 9c


CHECK Quebeker1:
BET trixter23 , 600
CALL FOX 27, 600
CALL Rencius, 600
CALL Quebeker1, 600

Now right here i begin to think that all 3 of these guys are on low draws. Any card that is Ten or higher i'm pretty much going to bet out on the river. If someone had a 9 they would have re popped there. If someone had a straight they would have done the same thing. They would have seen the 2 flush draws out there and made someone pay to get there.

River: Jh

CHECK Quebeker1:
BET trixter23 , 600
FOLD FOX 27
FOLD Rencius
FOLD Quebeker1
trixter23 collected 7650 from pot
trixter23 : doesn't show hand

To be honest even though i got a straight there, it did'nt even matter what my cards were. They made it so obvious they were on a low draw. I can't stress it enough, you have to stay unpredictable. If i know you only raise with cards for the low then im gonna adjust when i play you. I doubled up here and i didn't even have to showdown my hand, beautiful!

Here are some hands that helped me reach the FT for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?401643 - No idea what is going on there.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?401645 - This one was even worse.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?401648 - That's gg to you sir.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?401649 - Thank you for playing.

I pretty much played every hand on the bubble of the FT to get to $100k in chips. A guy made a ridiculous call the final hand of the bubble and i went in with 76k.





A guy went out in the first hand, so i couldn't get a screenshot of the full final table. In my next post ill talk about what place i finished.

AC Trip Report 2

We all had comps at harrah's at 1 of the cafe's so we went there for lunch. After lunch considering the poker room is right next to the cafe, barry and i sat down at a $1/$2 NL table.

The rest of the table didn't know barry and i knew each other. This will be signifant later for reasons ill state. No we dont collude, but nor do we play pots against each other usually. At harrah's max buy-in for 1/2 is $200 so i bought in for that amount. I took a look around the table and see about all average stacks ranging from 150-300 stacks, but this 1 guy had a stack of about 11 black $100 chips. So i thought to myself, either this guy is pretty good or hes a super donk who is getting lucky. I guess ill find out in a little bit.

First couple of hands i folded to get a read at the table a little bit. The 2nd hand i was there the guy next to me open raised to $30! Right then and there i thought this was going to be bad. I should have picked up my chips and left. Now i know opening raises live are a little on the high side, but thats 15x the blind. Thats getting ridiculous. I asked what he had that he could be raising so much just to see if he would budge, and he flipped over AK.

After that hand i was kind of giggling to myself. Approximately 15-20 hands later i pick up 6c 7c on the button. The guy with a huge stack made a small raise to $10. I flat called and both the blinds fold. The flop comes 2c 5h 8c. He makes a standard continuation bet of $18. Now against an overpair of any kind im almost a 60-40 favorite here. With this guy having a huge stack, i can double up through him. I haven't played with him enough yet to know if hes paying off hands or really what hes been doing. So i raise it up to $50. Which keep in mind is 1/4 of my stack. He calls my raise.

The turn brings the 10s. He just checks here to me. If he thought i was on a draw he definitely wouldn't have checked. So the nice guy that i am, i give myself a free card and check behind. The river brought the Kh. Then the guy asks how much i have left, and i told him about $150 or so. He bets out $90 and after doing some hollywood i fold. What he had really doesnt matter, but i played the hand pretty normal and ill usually win that most of the time.

This next hand is the one that really set me off. Again the guy with the huge stack makes a raise of $12 UTG. I get dealt KK on the button and smooth call not wanting to give away my big hand. Again everyone folds and we go to the flop. It comes Qd Jh 6s. I dont really like this flop too much because i dont have enough to push him off his hand if hes on a straight draw with KT or AK, etc etc. He makes yet another cont bet of $25 and i re pop to $75. If he comes over the top im not sure what i would have done but he smooth calls here. The next card brings an Ac. He checks and i bet out $25. He mini raises to $50. Now if you saw one of my last posts, where i flopped a set of kings against a set of aces the guy mini raised pre flop to signify his monster. I wasn't so sure this guy had one. The river brings a blank and he checks. Why would he check? What hand could he have that he can re raise me on the turn and not bet the river? With an Ace Queen and Jack out there im not betting anyway and i check. And here comes the shocker, he flips over A4.

I almost fell off my chair. I made a casual comment of "nice flop" and flipped my kings. He said well i had the Ace of diamonds with the diamond draw. I was like "um, it was a rainbow flop pal and you only had 1 diamond." This conversation was going on after the hand was cleared from the board and he wanted to argue with me that i was wrong. I had about $25 bucks left and instead of pick up my chips and leave i went all in blind. And of course a $25 dollar raise warrants a call from the guy next to me with T7. I got up and was walking from the table and i said "barry watch for the A4 its the new nuts".

I'm guessing they didn't know who i was talking to because after i had left, everyone at the table (not including barry obv) said that i had no business at the table and i was afraid of losing money. Even the dealer said this. My first reaction was to go back in the poker room and give them a piece of my mind but i wanted to be a bigger person and just let it go.

Sometimes you get these idiots and you can't do anything about it except to just walk away. I know i was a better poker player than any of those people at the table and if i know that, that's all that matters.

This post is getting long and its 5:30 in the morning AND ON TOP OF THAT, sigh my TT just lost to J8 all in pre flop, when the guy caught a flush. What is stars coming to!?!? Anyway, next post ill talk about the 11 am tourney the next day at the showboat.

And if you dont have a stars account already, check on the right of the page and sign-up!

AC Trip Report

The night before i went down to AC, we had home game action. To make a long story short after a 1 hour 35 minute heads up battle with nick i took it down for $200. It's always nice to get a little bit extra spending money on the way down to AC.

So we got down to AC around 12 and couldnt check into our rooms until about 1-ish. So we decided to go down to the hilton and register for the $40+10 tourney they had starting at 2pm. I haven't seen the new poker room there yet. I must say they put it together pretty nicely. We got our registration complete and went to check in. Luckily we did that pretty quickly because we just made our tables to start the tournament. I didn't know the structure for this tournament. I found out we're only starting with 3k in chips, so if i dont build a stack in the early going this is going to be a short tourney. About 20 minutes in i looked for Barry and Tom at their tables and they were no where to be found. They busted out apparently.

I started out pretty aggressively taking stabs at mid sized pots that no one wanted to take. On one instance i picked up TT in the UTG+2 and raised it up to 300 with blinds at 50/100. A guy in mid position calls and we see a flop of 8 6 2. I bet out 450 on the flop and the guy raised to 900. I just jam the pot and go all in for 2500 more. He says "i probably have ya but ill let it go". I'm guessing A8 or so. I continue my aggression and have about 5200 in chips.

I then get moved to a new table. Blinds are at 200/400 at this point and on the button i get AK. There really wasnt any significant big stacks at my table other than 1 other guy who had slightly more than myself. So now i see UTG+1 limp for 400, UTG+2 limp for 400, MP limp for 400, Cutoff limp for 400. Combined with the blinds thats 2400 in the pot without my chips in there. I raised to 2000 hoping to take down the pot right there and then and increase my stack size about 40%.

Everyone folds around to the MP player who goes all in for 4k total. Then it folds around back to me. So this guy limps in, then thinks his hand is good enough to go all in with. You see this being done online all the time and people showing garbage. If he had a had like JJ-AA he would have re-popped the pot when the UTG players limped in. He could have 22-99 and think i was just trying to steal the pot. He leaned back in his chair like he had a good hand. So i called and he flipped over 88. The guy to his left said, that guys not gonna be happy i folded an 8. The flop comes A K 3, and im in very good shape. That is until the turn brought the last 8 in the deck and i didnt catch an Ace/King and i was crippled down to 1200.

A few hands later i get JJ. The guy next to me raises and i just jam the pot. He calls and flips over QQ and i dont improve and go out.

Altogether i didn't like the amount of starting chips that we had, but being a newer poker room they dont have as many dealers to commit to the tourney when they're only getting $10 out of everyone.

I'll write about everything else later

PokerXFactor

Before i get into my post, you'll notice a little change to the site. If you look just to your right you'll notice a banner to pokerstars. I joined their affiliate program, so if you dont have a pokerstars account as of yet, get moving and signup.

Now about the post. I joined a site entitled pokerxfactor.com. It's a poker training site with people such as cliff"johnnybax"josephy and eric"sheets"haber doing most of the teaching. I've watched a few of the videos so far and implemented sheets' strategy for SNG's. I dropped down a level to see how it would work. Take a look at these stats.

Buy-in: $10
Fee: $1
Times: 30
$Won: $603
Net $Won: $273
ROI%: 82.73
ITM%: 60
1st Place: 8
2nd Place: 7
3rd Place: 3


All in all i couldn't say enough great things about this site. It's definitely worth the price of subscription

Weekend action

Nothing big to report over the weekend as far as wins. I've mainly been playing a gazillion SNG's. Im tryin to find a level that is going to be profitable and that i can consistently beat. The $10 level ive been absolutely crushing. Out of 25 sng's my ROI is 67% and im ITM 58% of the time. You really cant base anything on 25 sng's but that is pretty damn good. The $20 level i can beat easily as well, but i've found i can only play 2 or 3 of those at a time. I have to concentrate a little more. Even though i have the BR for it, i haven't dabbled in the $30 sng's which i hope to do.

Saturday night i played in my home game. Everything was goin good, got paid off with 2 full houses and made a couple nice calls. Blinds were getting a little high and a kid who i havent played with before raised it up. Blinds were 200/400 and he made it 1000 to go. We started with 10k in chips and at the time i had about 14k. I looked down and i had two red aces. I reached for my chips and shawn, who was next to me, said stop. I'm like uh why. He goes "because i have 3 cards". As soon as i saw that i almost puked. He was in mid position so it screwed with everyone elses cards. The hand was declared dead and we were going to re-deal. I just shook my head and threw over my aces. The guy who raised next to me had Queens. Little things like that can turn the night around like that. A few bad calls later and i was done.

Sunday i played in the 2nd annual WBCOOP(World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker). For the first hour, it was me and another guy and that was it. Everyone else was sitting out. So we took turns raising and at the end of the first hour i had about 9k in chips. When we actually had to play poker it was horrible. In one instance i tried to push someone off a hand and they called all the way down. Lucko21 found out the same thing a little later in the tourney. I busted out 230th of 2247. Top 54 i believe got prizes.

Later that night, i dabbled into a $5 MTT. This was an interesting hand and explanation from my opponent that utterly lead to my demise. Stacks looked like this.

Seat 1: dinosaur7 (2270 in chips)
Seat 2: trixter23 (1760 in chips)
Seat 3: sosumome (5420 in chips)
Seat 4: wdprsns (4575 in chips)
Seat 5: nuuuuubie (5375 in chips)
Seat 6: elk_metal (4775 in chips)
Seat 7: frenzykid (1265 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: quiltyf (3615 in chips)
Seat 9: indyo (1515 in chips) is sitting out
indyo: posts small blind 50
dinosaur7: posts big blind 100

UTG i pick up [Ac Kd] and raise it up 300 to 400 total. Normally i wouldnt raise UTG with AK i usually fold since im oop, but im getting short stacked and up to this point i havent had anything to play with. Everyone folds to the BB who flat calls my raise. The flop comes

*** FLOP *** [3c 5d 6c]

I totally missed the flop, but i make a continuation bet. I want to take this pot down right now.

dinosaur7: checks
trixter23: bets 600
dinosaur7: calls 600

Now, there was 850 in the pot and i bet 600. I don't him drawing to anything and if he re raises i know im beat. The smooth call kind of confused me. It was a quick call also which means he could have had something like pocket 4's, and he was drawin to a straight, or he could have had a flush draw. The turn comes.

*** TURN *** [3c 5d 6c] [9h]

This is where i probably made my mistake on this hand. He checks and i check behind. If i bet here and he was on a draw, or possibly go all in he is folding. Then again we are playing in a $5 dollar tournament and if he has anything hes calling.

dinosaur7: checks
trixter23: checks

*** RIVER *** [3c 5d 6c 9h] [Jh]

The river comes Jh. He kind of thinks about it a couple seconds, then throws out 100 chips. So im guessin he had AJ or KJ or somethin and hit his jack. It was 100 chips to win 2050, so i make the call. I was shocked when i saw his cards.

dinosaur7: shows [3s Qc] (a pair of Threes)
trixter23: mucks hand
trixter23 said, "oh my"

So lets see. He's calling my raise OOP with Q3?!? Then on the flop calling 600 with bottom pair? He wasnt drawing anything, why didnt he just raise or go all in like the rest of the donks. So me being the good guy that i am start the conversation.

trixter23 said, "hey lets call raises with q3 woooooo"
dinosaur7 said, "lol"
dinosaur7 said, "ok"
dinosaur7 said, "take it it was AK......played terribly"
trixter23 said, "AK isnt aces"
dinosaur7 said, "or AQ...."
dinosaur7 said, "er......good point........well noticed"
dinosaur7 said, "if u had gone all in u woulda won........do it with A7 but not AK......." ( 2 hands later i pushed with A7 because no one opened and i was in the cutoff with 5 bb's so i moved all in)
dinosaur7 said, "interesting"
trixter23 said, "are u dumb?"
trixter23 said, "why would i go all in with AK and nothing on the board?
trixter23 said, "im short stacked i have 5 bb's"
trixter23 said, "why wouldnt i with an ace"
trixter23 said, "just like im doing now"
trixter23: raises 435 to 535 and is all-in
dinosaur7 said, "no i read u like a book....and not a very good book"

That last hand i had AJ and lost to A3. But it just goes to show how people think AK is like AA or KK, it STILL NEEDS HELP PEOPLE!

I thought that hand was funny.

Anyway, next weekend im heading down to AC to play a little bit. Pick on the bad players in 1/2 and maybe dabble in 2/5 a little bit depending on how im doing. I love playing cash games 10x better than online. For multiple reasons.

1) I actually get to see what my players look like. Girls/guys..young/old...etc etc. It all makes a difference

2) They are 10x easier to read then trying to pick up betting patterns.

3) I absolutely love the opening raises live. Online its the usual 2x or 3x raise. Live its 15x the blind. It's great.

Plus they're many other reasons but those are the main ones. I'll definitely have some news about that when i get back. Other then that, i have nothing.

Good luck to everyone at the tables

Cash Game Hand

Im going to skip part 3 of the series entitled "rebuy madness". I may get back to it at some point but who knows. This hand come up when i was 8 tabling .25/.50 NL. The way i played it was very different then i would normally play. I trusted my instincts and my read and in the long run, saved me half my stack to play on with.

Seat 5: trixter23 ($52.45 in chips)
Seat 6: Nazareen ($52.35 in chips)

RAISE trixter23 , $2 to $2.50

I pick up KK UTG and make a 5x the blind raise. At the .25/.50 level you see many robots. Who only raise with monsters or AK and AQ. I switch up my play and raise and re raise with suited connectors or i flat call with kings or aces. You have to switch up your play or you become predictable to your opponent.

RAISE Nazareen, $2.50 to $5

The guy immediately to my left MINI raises to $5. Right now bells are going off in my head. To warrant a re raise on this level he has to have a monster. AA, AK or KK come to mind. Yes he can have KK. I think about and figure im 90% sure he has aces and 5% for AK/KK. Only $2.50 more to call i decide to put the money in to see if i can get lucky and catch a king if he doesnt have KK that is.

Flop: (Pot: $10.75) As Kh Td

Well now this is going to be very interesting. He doesnt have KK since i just flopped one. I HIGHLY doubt and hope hes not re raising me with QJ. So that leaves AK and AA. Im going to go with my read here. Instead of check calling, i bet into him. Yes, you heard me right. If he does have aces if i bet into him hes more than likely to smooth call till the river. I want to control how much i'm going to lose on this hand. So i make small "value" bets toward the pot. Would you be able to lay down Kings at this point?

BET trixter23 , $3
CALL Nazareen, $3

Turn: (Pot: $16.75) As Kh Td 4d

The turn puts a diamond draw on the board. But if my read is right he cant be on it. So i fire a bet 1/4 the size of the pot.

BET trixter23 , $4
CALL Nazareen, $4

River: (Pot: $24.75) As Kh Td 4d 9h

There is $25 dollars in the pot. I don't want to check and have him bet, to put me in decision making mode and have to call $25 more for an all in. So i bet $5 into a $25 dollar pot. He doesn't hesitate and re raises to $15. Thus making the pot around $40. To call $10 more dollars to win the size of that pot is nothing. The problem is i know im beat. Do you guys call $10 more dollars to take this pot down? Before i get to that part this chat ensued on the table.

BET trixter23 , $5
RAISE Nazareen, $10 to $15

trixter23 said, "did u really flop 3 aces"
trixter23 said, "i think u did"
trixter23 said, "devil this is sick"
EVDevil03 said, "yeah i know"
trixter23 said, "i have to pay him off"
AArbrad3 said, "jq"

I dont know what the guy saying QJ was thinking. Did he watch the whole hand? I make the call and our read was dead on.

trixter23 : shows (three of a kind Kings)
Nazareen: shows (three of a kind Aces)

The way i played the hand was very uncommon. I stuck with my read and controlled the betting throughout the hand. If i played it like i had the nuts, i would have been out of my whole stack. Well i cant say that because i had him covered by 10 cents. Im happy this was a cash game hand rather than a tournament hand. If it was a tournament hand i probably would have gone bust. Im interested to hear from you guys how i played this hand, and how you might have played it differently. Here is the link to the hand from pokerhand.org.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?372235

Part 2

I pick up today with the 2nd part of a 3 part series. When i left off yesterday, i had T70 in chips very early on in a sit and go and had no shot of winning, let alone cashing. I was on a mission, and acesofclubs was a marked man. I'm going to update my stack and acesofclubs stack at the same time. He says hes not a "bad player", but i was out to prove otherwise and eliminate him.

The first hand after the loss to AQ, it should have just ended right here. In MP i get A8c and raise 40 to 70 and go all in. This is when blinds are 15/30 mind you. No one calls and i take down the pot. My stack T115: aoc(acesofclubs) T2815. A few hands later i get Kh Td. UTG makes it 90 to go and i re-raise all in for a massive 25 chips more. He flips over AK and i am dominated. This was the only time i came back to win a pot as an underdog when the board comes [3h 5c Th 4c] [6h]. Trix T245: aoc T2635.

Blinds are at 25/50 now and im still very much in danger with only 5 bb's. A little bit of retribution comes on the next hand. I pick up As Ad in MP. Our buddy aces is UTG and smooth calls. With my stack as short as it is, there's no fancy way you play aces. It's all in why? because all in is fun baby! So i raise 170 more and go all in for my remaining 220 chips. He calls and flips over pocket 8s. I believe it was stu ungar who said, "aces are only good to win a small pot, or lose a big one". Luckily this didnt happen and i flopped an ace giving me my set. If i didnt, he hit an 8 on the river to give him a set and knock me out. I double through aces and he adds "atta boy". Trix T515: aoc T2415. I go all in with As Ts and get 0 callers. Trix T640:aoc T2340. I get Ks 3s and i feel good about it, raise it up 100 to 150 and get no callers. Trix T615:aoc2340. The next hand there is a stack smaller than me with 480 chips in the bb. I make a standard 3x raise to 150 with As 7d and get 0 callers again. Trix T690:aoc T2340.

Blinds have gone up to 50/100 now. Of course it goes up on me, it's only natural. I get the juggernaut of 2c 4s in my BB. Everyone folds around to the small blind who smooth calls. I check and the flop comes Qc 7h 7c. He checks and i check behind. Turn brings a 4 and he bets 100 and I call with my 2 pair. The river brings the Ts. He bets 100 again and I raise 390 more to 490 and go all in. He folds and im back in the game, well sort of! Trix T990:aoc T2265. I pick up Jc Js in the big blind and have the intent to push if anyone raises. The short stack, yes i said short stack im still not the lowest one, raises 230 to 330 and goes all in. zeebaron to my right flat calls 280 more. I dont want to let him see a flop, so i re raise 610 more to 940 and go all in. Baron folds and short stack flips over 4s and doesnt improve, i did i turned a Jack for a boat and i took down the pot. Trix T1600:aoc T2265. The gap is closing!

I get 8h 8c in late position and raise and everyone folds. Trix T1700:aoc T2315. We lose another player and now have 7 left. aoc raised and someone came over the top and he folded. What a little girl. Blinds have increased to 75/150 now. Trix T1475:aoc T1490. Wow are we joking? The guy had a 25-1 chip lead on me and now im only 15 chips away from this idiot! I dont think i played a hand at the level and got blinded down. Blinds escalate to 100/200 and im sitting with T900 in chips and in desperation mode once again. Our buddy aces has T1115 and isnt doing that hot either. In the sb i make a push with nothing and take the bb. Trix T1100:aoc T1115. 5 chips away! We lose another player and go to 6 handed.

Blinds are getting ridiculous, im tryin to double up incredibly bad at this point. I get A8 and push all in and everyone folds. I've done it! I achieved 1 of my goals and i have more chips than aoc. Trix T1300:aoc T915. And no lie The 2nd time aces has stepped into a pot since we bucked heads he goes all in for his last 915 and gets a call. He flips over QT and baron flips over A4. Both the and the queen come and aces is gone! I achieve my 2nd goal of lasting longer than him. Then the magic phrase comes, trixter23 said, "gg aces". He left gracefully and didnt say a word.

To make a long story short, I got heads up with baron the guy who was calling all ins with Ax no matter how much. I picked up AK and we 3 bet and get it all in pre flop. I flipped over AK and he flipped over 82. I had 4k in chips so it wasnt like he HAD to call, but he flipped over 82. Of course the 2 hits and i go out in 2nd place. But after what i went through to even get to that point i felt like i was on a free roll. If anyone has been watching the new US Poker championship you have seen brian haveson come back from 475 chips to over 44k. That is an amazing feat. In part 3 ill discuss the madness of people in the $3 rebuy, but for right now i guess i can really believe in the phrase "a chip and a chair"

Unbelievable comeback and madness

This will be a 3 part post since it will be pretty long. While i was in the $3 rebuy i hopped in a $20 sng. The hand that happens is only what drove me to success.

It was the 9th hand of the tournament and i picked up QQ on the cutoff. With blinds at 15/30, UTG+1 makes it 90 to go. I re-raise to 360 showing strength. Everyone else folds to the original raiser who calls. The flop comes 4c 7s As. I didnt have any particular read on this guy considering its fairly early in the tournament. He checks to me and i throw a bet of 300 into a pot of 745. He thinks for a minute, literally, then raises 710 more and is all in. We both turn over and he shows Ah Qd. Before i made the call i thought he had AK, which i would have been able to live with considering its basically a coin flip. When he flipped over AQ, it just sent me over the edge seeing he hit his 3 outer and called a pre flop raise OOP with that hand. So now im pretty much done considering i have $70 in chips left. This is the chat that we had over probably 25 hands or so.

trixter23 said, "of course"
trixter23 said, "re raise and the donk calls with aq"
AcesOfClubs said, "donk? lol"
AcesOfClubs said, "feel free to check my stats"
trixter23 said, "i dont care about stats"
trixter23 said, "that was a horrible plya"
AcesOfClubs said, "i think you are the donk for calling"
AcesOfClubs said, "learn to fold"
trixter23 said, "u should learn to fold when ur beat"
trixter23 said, "aq"
trixter23 said, "woooooo"
AcesOfClubs said, "you gotta be kidding"
trixter23 said, "catch that 3 outer stars"
AcesOfClubs said, "if it bothers you this much to lose with QQ, you need to find another game"
AcesOfClubs said, "perhaps checkers"
AcesOfClubs said, "you didnt lose to a bad player, just take it in stride"
AcesOfClubs said, "but you made a really bad call, so you have no room to argue"
trixter23 said, "i dont care about losing with queens its the fact people with ace anything calls no matter what"
trixter23 said, "u had that magic ace so u had to call"
AcesOfClubs said, "that makes no sense"
Wilsen said, "he is saying aq not the nuts lol"
trixter23 said, "so ur saying with blinds 15/30 and u raise to 90 and i re raise u to 360, u think u had the best hand?"
AcesOfClubs said, "but if you bet 300 and i put you all in with an ace showing...."
AcesOfClubs said, "its ok to call?"
trixter23 said, "the only logical thing u could have called my re raise with would have been AK"
trixter23 said, "and if u hit ur 3 outer im fine with that"
AcesOfClubs said, "logical?"
trixter23 said, "but AQ i just dont agree with"
AcesOfClubs said, "maybe i just think you are a bad player"
trixter23 said, "hey im not the one whose calling re raises with aq"
AcesOfClubs said, "and thought I could outplay you"
AcesOfClubs said, "and I did"
trixter23 said, "u didnt outplay ****"
trixter23 said, "no one outplayed anyone"
trixter23 said, "u got lucky and hit ur ace"
AcesOfClubs said, "ok 115"

After he said that i didnt talk to him again. Pre-flop i was absolutely positive i had the best hand. When he check-raised all in then it was pretty obvious he had an ace. With only 480 chips left i decided there was too many chips in the pot to just fold. He could have been on a flush draw also. It was a bad play by him pre flop, and most likely a bad play by me afterwards. But its a sit and go, you need chips, and you need them quick. In my next post i'll tell you about how i made a triumphant comeback and i was the one who said "gg acesofclubs"

Pot-Limit Omaha

For some reason i havent played an omaha tournament in a long time. I'm not sure why this was, but in the coming weeks im going to try and play more. I've had much more success with this type of game in such a short period of time. I think Josh Arieh was correct in stating that with WSOP fields being so large, you have to focus on more than just hold'em if you're really in the hunt for a bracelet. Playing online especially, people dont really know what they're doing. In the early going you get a lot of people who go all in with AA49, etc etc and either suck out on ya or lose. You want to take advantage of those people with the hands like AKQT, double suited connectors, hands like those. Here are some of my stats on PL-Omaha from thepokerdb.com

12/7/2005 - $10 Omaha Pot-Limit - Rank 2(chopped 1st and 2nd) - $390
1/11/2006 - $20 Omaha Hi/Lo-Limit - Rank 1 - $743
2/6/2006 - $10 Omaha Pot Limit - Rank 3 - $281

I have tons more in the top 18 range but those are my bigger finishes. This leads me into the tournament i played last night. We started with 166 people and top 18 getting money. At one point i was chip leader but played a hand and a guy hit his set on the river. I should have played the hand way different. Then another hand came up, which i will illustrate now.

I was dealt Kc Qh Jd Jh in the cutoff and with blinds at 100/200 i made it 600 to go. This is a decent hand, but it needs help to win, if someone calls with an ace and one comes on the board and i dont get a flush or straight draw, i have to dump if re raised. The flop comes Js 5h As. Giving me 2nd set and a straight draw. I know this guy doesnt have Aces in the hole so my set is looking ok. Unlike hold em when you get a hand here you really cant slow play because there is always a drawing hand around the corner usually. Before the hand started i had 7785 in chips and my opponent had 5542 in chips. I bet the pot, which was $1300, the guy thinks and uses his time bank for a little bit then re raises and goes all in. The only thing i can comprehend him having is a spade draw and i make the call. He flips over Ad 9s 8d Qc. At this point im actually laughing to myself wondering how this guy makes the call pre flop and how he thinks his Ace is good. Even if he thinks im on a flush draw, his hand is to susceptible.

Now remember in Omaha you have to play 2 and only 2 cards in your pocket. He has a pair of aces and no re-draw at all. I'm feelin great about havin 14k and gettin to the FT. I forgot i was playing on pokerstars though. The turn comes a 10d. This is the 2nd worst card i would have saw in the deck. I cant lose the hand at this point. But i can tie it. And of course the river brings the Kh, giving us each broadway and we split the pot.

This was just me being unlucky at that point. This hand happened on the bubble and it would have put me in the top 10 in chips with about 15k. I ran the numbers on cardplayer and pre flop i was a 60-40 fav. On the flop i was 95-5. On the turn it went to me being a 92 percent fav and him drawing dead and only being able to tie at 7 percent. I eventually went out 13th when i failed to improve on a hand.

Hopefully i have some better luck in my next tournament.

Sigh...

Took down another $20 sng on FT, those things are pie. Didnt cash in either the rebuys and i was killin the $10 MTT on stars till i took these 2 beats. The 2nd one isnt really a bad beat but its just a HORRIBLE way to lose.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?359450
http://www.pokerhand.org/?359460

I did get a visitor at my $5 rebuy though. I did have fun stacking him twice. Seat 5 is none other than Scott Fishman

Slow day..

It's been pretty slow the last 2 days. The rebuy tournaments I have been getting my nice starting stack in the 10-20k range, but after the break it seems like I just can't do anything. Cards go completely dead, and when I play in position, short stacks(around 8k) just push. This is at the point where I'm plan tight as can be and only playing premium hands. I realize people dont pay attention as much as they do playing in a live tournament but still. You dont need to be pushing 12k all in when blinds are still 75/150 or 100/200. Anyway I've had KK cracked by JJ twice all in pre flop when a J hit and then I had this catastrophe to sum up my day.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?358396

So after cashing out some of my winnings, I deposited $500 on full tilt and $500 on bodog. I put money on full tilt because its my 2nd fav site and they are running sats to the pre lim events at the wsop. I'm definitely going to play atleast 1 event but IM not sure which one. I would love to play more, but it all hinges on what I do the next month or so. I played a quick $10 sng and it was the easiest tourney I have ever played. I took it down in, get this, 80 hands. I started at 7:24 and was done at 7:57. This wasn't a turbo it was a normal sng.

It was my first time putting money into bodog so I didn't really know what to expect. I signed up and when I tried to login it gave me an error stating that I didn't have access to the poker room. Traditionally I'm not a superstitious(sp) person but when it comes to money I am. I called up customer service and got through. They had to delete my account and I had to delete all aspects of bodog and re install it again. I got everything up and running and played a $10 sng. If you have never played on bodog its truly a changeup. You start with 1k in chips and blinds start at 5/10. I didn't like the structure at all! Overall it just didn't have the same feel as a pokerstars or FT. When I'm playing, I want to be comfortable, so after a couple more tournaments I cashed out(with a $50 dollar profit).

Hopefully the rest of the weekend ill catch a nice run and make some money. On a sidenote lucko is deep in the $5 rebuy and would like to say gl and hopefully ya take it down. Peace

Nice!

I just took 3rd in the 3 dollar rebuy for a nice cash of $1540.81 I played very well but of course i went out in true stars fashion again. To start the FT i had very bad position. To my left i had the 2 chip leaders and to my right i had short stacks. This is incredibly bad. For one its hard to steal from the big stacks because if they have a hand they can just re raise or put you all in and you are surviving for your tournament life if you dont have the best hand. To my right the short stacks dont have enough chips to play poker so they just go all in 24/7.

For the entire FT i was completely card dead. I would take what i was givin by the other players. The first 2 got out pretty quickly which put us down to 7. Then it became a blind situation. I was in the sb with 3s 5s and elected to just call. The bb called also. The flop came 4h 7h 6d. It's always fun to flop a straight. With blinds at 30k/60k i bet out 120k to see if he caught a piece. I got better than that when he went all in. I immediately called and he flips over Jd 6c. No redraw possible, the pot was mine. The stacks looked like this at that point

Seat 2: buffman (3648034 in chips)
Seat 3: whiteal (958120 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (1571138 in chips)
Seat 5: Pass_72 (554028 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (4086465 in chips)
Seat 7: haiau (1744215 in chips)

After that hand, it litterally went form 6 anded to 3 handed in 10 hands. I could have spun this 2 ways. It was good because i was guaranteed no less than 3rd or $1540 dollars, but it was bad because it left me with only 1.5 million. Here were the chip stacks going into 3 handed play.

Seat 2: buffman (5529249 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (1237138 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (5795613 in chips)

As you can see i was at a considerable disadvantage. I was definitely holding my own and winning pots. I was chipping away at buffman because he was the weaker of the 2 other players at the table and i had a very good read on him. I won a very nice all in from him and i was 2nd in chips.

Seat 2: buffman (3473249 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (1313138 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (7775613 in chips)
buffman: posts the ante 4000
trixter23: posts the ante 4000
Hustler1985: posts the ante 4000
trixter23: posts small blind 40000
Hustler1985: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [Kh Td]
buffman: raises 160000 to 240000
trixter23: calls 200000
Hustler1985: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kd 8s 2h]
trixter23: checks
buffman: bets 320000
trixter23: raises 749138 to 1069138 and is all-in
buffman: calls 749138
*** TURN *** [Kd 8s 2h] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 8s 2h Qd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
trixter23: shows [Kh Td] (a pair of Kings)
buffman: shows [Jc Ac] (high card Ace)
Hustler1985 said, "nh"
trixter23 collected 2710276 from pot
trixter23 said, "ty"
*** SUMMARY ***

After that hand the stacks looked this way.

Seat 2: buffman (2160111 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (2710276 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (7691613 in chips)

After that hand i got A9 and raised on the button and buff went all in, he could be pushing with any 2 and i felt like i needed a made hand so i folded. He then took another pot when he did the same thing to hustler and just like that im back down to 3rd in chips.

Seat 2: buffman (2588111 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (1638276 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (8335613 in chips)

After a while stealing and trying to get some other pots i picked up KK. buffman raised and i didnt have enough to re raise so i put it all in. He called with A8 and flopped 2 8's. After playing that long it sucks going out that way but what are you going to do? I took $15 and turned it into $1540 so i guess i cant complain. A couple more of these and ill be on my way to the WSOP.


Seat 2: buffman (3592111 in chips)
Seat 4: trixter23 (1166276 in chips)
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (7803613 in chips)
buffman: posts the ante 4000
trixter23: posts the ante 4000
Hustler1985: posts the ante 4000
buffman: posts small blind 40000
trixter23: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [Kd Kh]
Hustler1985 said, "k"
Hustler1985: folds
buffman: raises 240000 to 320000
trixter23: raises 842276 to 1162276 and is all-in
buffman: calls 842276
*** FLOP *** [8s 8h 2c]
trixter23 said, "ffs"
*** TURN *** [8s 8h 2c] [6h]
Hustler1985 said, "ouch"
*** RIVER *** [8s 8h 2c 6h] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
buffman: shows [8c Ah] (three of a kind, Eights)
trixter23: shows [Kd Kh] (two pair, Kings and Eights)
buffman collected 2336552 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2336552 | Rake 0
Board [8s 8h 2c 6h 9h]
Seat 2: buffman (small blind) showed [8c Ah] and won (2336552) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 4: trixter23 (big blind) showed [Kd Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 6: Hustler1985 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

What do i have to do?

It's such a coincidence that i wrote about how i wanted a huge stack going into the final table of the 3 or 5 rebuy. I was in the 3 dollar rebuy today, and playing awesome poker. I wasnt getting dealt any hands what so ever. But like Mike Matusow said to Phil Hellmuth, some people need cards to win at poker and some people dont. At the first break i had a nice amount of 20k. I was only in for yet again $9 dollars my investment was great.

I wanted to work on gear changing and i think i worked that to perfection today. I had players confused with my bets and that really contributes to what i was trying to do. The p5 article on blind steal has really helped out tremendously. With blinds at 8000/16000 Ante 800 the follow hand occurred

Dealt to trixter23 [Js Jc]
vitesse2: folds
hoyts2005: folds
KrutMoney: folds
trixter23: raises 32000 to 48000
Dr Leusse: folds
tosseper: folds
virre86: raises 129198 to 177198 and is all-in
jslk: folds
ottley: folds
trixter23: calls 129198
*** FLOP *** [5s 4d 2s]
*** TURN *** [5s 4d 2s] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [5s 4d 2s 7s] [8d]
KrutMoney said, "nh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
trixter23: shows [Js Jc] (a pair of Jacks)
virre86: shows [Kh Ad] (high card Ace)
trixter23 collected 385596 from pot
ottley said, "gg m8"


I was utterly surprised my JJ held up. I hadnt gotten a hand in a while and i needed chips. I had the right read on the guy and thought it would be a coin flip and it held up. Another move i made was this one right here. I have wanted to do this all tourney and it was the perfect guy to do it against at the perfect time with the perfect board. Im going to talk more about this hand a little later but here it is.

PokerStars Game #5071374954: Tournament #25061163, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVIII (6000/12000) - 2006/05/27 - 18:57:50 (ET)Table '25061163 10' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: virre86 (221798 in chips)
Seat 2: jslk (61180 in chips)
Seat 3: ottley (447330 in chips)
Seat 4: JBLinWis (196260 in chips)
Seat 5: hoyts2005 (195228 in chips)
Seat 6: KrutMoney (76004 in chips)
Seat 7: trixter23 (201104 in chips)
Seat 8: buck10957 (120444 in chips)
Seat 9: tosseper (210056 in chips)
virre86: posts the ante 600
jslk: posts the ante 600
ottley: posts the ante 600
JBLinWis: posts the ante 600
hoyts2005: posts the ante 600
KrutMoney: posts the ante 600
trixter23: posts the ante 600
buck10957: posts the ante 600
tosseper: posts the ante 600
KrutMoney: posts small blind 6000
trixter23: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [8c As]
buck10957: folds
tosseper: folds
virre86: folds
ottley said, "dont like A s hitting when i get cowboys"
jslk: folds
ottley: folds
JBLinWis: folds
hoyts2005: raises 24000 to 36000
KrutMoney: folds
ottley said, "just in case u were wondering"
trixter23: raises 44000 to 80000
hoyts2005: calls 44000
*** FLOP *** [3d 2h 6d]
tosseper said, "nope"
trixter23: checks
hoyts2005: bets 36000
trixter23: calls 36000
*** TURN *** [3d 2h 6d] [Kd]
trixter23: bets 84504 and is all-in
hoyts2005: folds
trixter23 collected 243400 from pot
trixter23: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 243400 Rake 0 Board [3d 2h 6d Kd]

Then this ridiculous hand occurred and i was out. Again ill elaborate later

Seat 1: jslk (136580 in chips)
Seat 3: ohmyohmy77 (259293 in chips)
Seat 4: haktar (419231 in chips)
Seat 5: trixter23 (472702 in chips)
Seat 6: arzCARDZfan (564688 in chips)
Seat 7: bpstar (337880 in chips)
Seat 8: psavoie (180136 in chips)
Seat 9: Ripall (215171 in chips)
jslk: posts the ante 800
ohmyohmy77: posts the ante 800
haktar: posts the ante 800
trixter23: posts the ante 800
arzCARDZfan: posts the ante 800
bpstar: posts the ante 800
psavoie: posts the ante 800
Ripall: posts the ante 800
arzCARDZfan: posts small blind 8000
bpstar: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [Jc Jh]
psavoie: folds
Ripall: folds
jslk: folds
ohmyohmy77: folds
haktar: folds
trixter23: raises 48000 to 64000
arzCARDZfan: raises 499888 to 563888 and is all-in
bpstar: folds
trixter23: calls 407902 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7h 2d Td]
*** TURN *** [7h 2d Td] [2c]
trixter23 said, "unreal"
*** RIVER *** [7h 2d Td 2c] [Kh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
arzCARDZfan: shows [Ts Th] (a full house, Tens full of Deuces)
trixter23: shows [Jc Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Deuces)
arzCARDZfan collected 966204 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 966204 Rake 0 Board [7h 2d Td 2c Kh]

Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere

In the past week i've made 3 FT's and bubbled 3. While this is a decent week, I'm trying to make money to get into the WSOP Main Event if i can't satellite in. These aren't final tables of the 1 or 2 dollar tournaments either. I got 11th in the $10+1 MTT which first was around $1700. The $5 rebuy where first was a cool $6000, which i got 11th. And another rebuy, where yet again i got 11th.

Maybe it would be acceptable if 11th got paid first place money but it doesnt lol. I have some holes in my game that i do want to improve on. I need to steal more in position to have enough chips to get people off hands in the later portion. Those 3 final tables i went in either middle of the 9 remaining or with a short stack. I would love to get there with the 1st 2nd or 3rd biggest stack so i can really use my chip position to make that stack grow.

That's about all im in the 3 dollar rebuy on stars now. I'll update once thats over, Laters.

$3 rebuy on Stars

Hey guys, i recently posted this on cardplayer.com's forums to see what others thought. I thought i would post it here also

Hey guys, Unfortunately 7 hours and 35 minutes into the $3 dollar rebuy i just busted out in 6th position, but i won a nice chunk of change. I do have some questions though. The situation is this. We reach the final table and everyone sighs a breath of relief. Bubble play on the 12th, 11th, and 10th finishers was brutal. I was able to pick up blinds and antes off the short stacks and had a nice stack of about 1.2 million in chips. A cool 20 minutes in we had already lost 2 players. The other players were talking about a 7 player chip count chop. I told them i wont guarantee anything, but i will take a look at the numbers. Cards didnt seem to come and at the time i was the 2nd shortest stack with about 1 million in chips. Everyone was guaranteed 7th place money and then would be divided among chips.

Here were the payouts.
1st - $4959.25
2nd - $2930.47
3rd - $1916.08
4th - $1420.15
5th - $1149.65
6th - $901.69
7th - $676.27

Now again as i said, i was 6 of 7 in chips. What was being offered to me was $1525.64 or a little more than 4th place. I was only $9 dollars deep in this thing. So $1500 is a nice net from what i paid to play. Then i looked at what was going on at the table. Everyone was talking about how tired they were and how they would just like to chop after this amount of time playing, etc etc. I told everyone i would like $2k or we can keep playing. Surprisingly i was the only one who objected to chopping. Everyone was grumbling. What contributed to making my decision was for a couple of different reasons.

1) The table has already stated they were tired and didnt want to play, hence they are probably going to play bad or worse than their "A' game.

2) The player directly to my left was an extremely (and i mean extremely, you'll see) loose aggressive player. With blinds as high as they are, i figured i can get some nice pots off of him.

3) Most likely other people are going to go out and ill upgrade pay levels.

4) Again the +EV i could be getting on my $9 fee in a rebuy was incredibly too good to pass up.

5) Im playin to win.

With everything stated, i told support we can play on. So we started and a player was knocked out shortly there after. While had passed and i was the shortstack when i caught the extremely loose player trying to steal(well who knows with this guy). Hand below. So i guess luck wasnt on my side for that hand. That was the 2nd hand of 24 that i had lost when showing a hand down to the river. So instead of $1525 i netted $901 Please dont gauge the hand history as the topic of this conversation. I'm more interested on the chop discussion more than anything else. As i said i play to win and i dont regret my decision. With all those facts, what do you do?

Deal or No deal?

PokerStars Game #5004124173: Tournament #24673738, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVII (40000/80000) - 2006/05/21 - 03:36:39 (ET) Table '24673738 82' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: nicktg18 (2087081 in chips)
Seat 2: trixter23 (783480 in chips)
Seat 5: kasin (3419778 in chips)
Seat 6: anticon (1232126 in chips)
Seat 7: chansmaster (941016 in chips)
Seat 9: lilsewon (3307519 in chips)
nicktg18: posts the ante 4000
trixter23: posts the ante 4000
kasin: posts the ante 4000
anticon: posts the ante 4000
chansmaster: posts the ante 4000
lilsewon: posts the ante 4000
nicktg18: posts small blind 40000
trixter23: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to trixter23 [6h Ad]
kasin: folds
anticon: folds
chansmaster: folds
lilsewon: folds
anticon said, "yes"
nicktg18: raises 2003081 to 2083081 and is all-in
trixter23: calls 699480 and is all-in
nicktg18 said, "uh oh"
*** FLOP *** [Ts 5s Qh]
lilsewon said, "lets gooo"
anticon said, "i was under trixter"
*** TURN *** [Ts 5s Qh] [As]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 5s Qh As] [Qs]
nicktg18 said, "gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
nicktg18: shows [4h 9s] (a flush, Ace high)
trixter23: shows [6h Ad] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
lilsewon said, "oooooo"
lilsewon said, "snap"
nicktg18 collected 1582960 from pot
nicktg18 said, "chop guys?"
anticon said, "wow gg trix"
nicktg18 said, "chop?"
*** SUMMARY *** Total pot 1582960
Rake 0 Board [Ts 5s Qh As Qs]
Seat 1: nicktg18 (small blind) showed [4h 9s] and won (1582960) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: trixter23 (big blind) showed [6h Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 5: kasin folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: anticon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: chansmaster folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: lilsewon (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Hey Folks!

I have been extremely busy with a lot of stuff. I havent had a chance to write at all this past month and a half, but i wanted to let everyone know I will be participating in this!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 7330476