All you traveling bloggers must be giddy with anticipation, this time next week the MGM bar will be up to its neck in drunken donkeys. Drink one for me why don’t you…just don’t die.
I envy each and every one of you who are going, I better be getting a phone call in the hideously early morning pissing off my wife. You know who you are.
I’m heading up to NYC on Wednesday. Hopefully I’ll bump into F-train and others before their trek out west.
APBTII is coming in 2 weeks + one day!!!!
I have an all-star cast of confirmed players, I’ll be posting a lineup like the one I did last year since it was so much fun.
You take care this weekend and wish me luck on Fantasy Football, I need to beat the Top Team in the league to guarantee a playoff spot.
End of the first level in the bodonkey, I’m in the big blind with KTo.
smokkee makes a 3x Bet in MP.
I call to see a flop, putting him in a range of speculative cards.
Flop is a beauty, 9 Q J rainbow.
smokk bets $150, and I double to see how much he likes it, he pushes with JJ obv.
I call and Q hits the river…. yay me.
All of my tounaments have been going like this for so long it doesn’t even phase me anymore. It’s bound to turn around sometime.
I re-joined Bodog after a year hiatus and played this last week. Bodog has definitely set up a great tournament structure and a decent overlay.
Hopefully Bodog will update its software in the near future to more closely resemble Pokerstars and Full Tilt, but the action at Bodog is great if you play low limits and like to gamble sports too. See you tonight!
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The mega-weekend started on Wednesday as I headed out to a neighborhood buddies house for a ‘friendly’ game of HORSE rotations. This is at least how it was explained to me.
What I experienced was more akin to dick slinging competitions. No worries for me. I was underfunded, but I knew how to beat this game. This is what my neighborhood game devolves to on the way to utter fonkeyness.
I should have known, yes. JewFro (no he’s not Jewish and I’m not anti-Semite, he has a JewFro, get over it.) and his brother BigBalls don’t have the slightest idea how to run a friendly game. Their idea of friendly is letting you keep your car, but not the title.
Sooo, as I pull up and LF is in the driveway trying to figure out how to lock his car while putting a dip in, talking on his phone, carrying a 12 pack while stumbling drunk at the same time.
I licketh my chops already.
LF goes on to tell me how lucky he is, despite being in a fight with his wife, he just got himself out of a DUI and figured poker is in order. genius
We sat down and shoot the shit for awhile, waiting for more players. LF described his awesome luck in more detail. Finally, we get 2 more neighborhood regulars, Swift and the Dutch Oven. JewFro began to dole out chips…
LF buys in for 300, JF for 200, BB for 200, and the Dutch oven and I exchange looks.
“So much for friendly”, says Dutch and I agree with 100 a piece in front of us. JF started to recant, but I say, no worries, its limit, right…..well, sorta.
Now a smart poker player can excuse himself from a game he doesn’t belong. A donkey who wants to play regardless ignores such possibilities and decides he can outplay the rest of the table.
We began to play 1/2 limit HORSE with $5max after the turn. After describing RAZZ for the fifth time, the game turns into HO…. which is fine by me.
Dutch busts on the second orbit of OH/8 and leaves in somewhat of a huff. I completely understand his problem, since the table is loose as hell and he didn’t want (couldn’t) put more money at risk.
I was playing frogs ass tight and had scooped a pretty nice OH8 pot, and bluffed a hold’em pot to get roughly 3x my starting stack.
3 more players I’ve never played with before showed up and we began playing Pot-limit hold’em and OH/8 dealer’s choice.
Long story I get stacked in OH8 when my nut flush gets boated on the river. JF stakes me another 200 and I have to go back to building mode. Meanwhile LF has played nearly every pot dealt and had been raising like a maniac. He LF’ed into a huge stack, and I knew I could get my chips back from him.
By the end of the night I had 700 in front of me and LF was into JF for a grand. Crazy fucker I tell you.
Of course the house can’t pay me at the end of the night as LF has mortgaged the game. I’m cool about it though as I know they are good for it and settle for half of my profit for the time being. I looked at my phone and realized we had played till 5Am..ugh.
I got myself a snack and went home. The wife was sweet enough to let me sleep till about 10AM. (little did I know that she had stayed up till 4am with her sister)
I managed to make it through 2 T-Day dinners with my wits intact .
I got a little bit of cards in on Bodog over the weekend. I started playing $25 max tables, which ain’t so smart when you have a $100 to play poker with. I got stacked twice in short succession (KK vs AA) (AK vs QQ – AKQflop)
So I moved down to the $10 max tables and built it back up to 75 in a few short sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’ve REALLY had to adjust my play at Bodog, which I think is good overall, these tables are sooo juicy so far.
Saturday morning we drove up to Watkinsville to visit my uncle who is a very talented potter. He has a yearly show that we always make it to. Usually my sister and brother are there with their kids. So it another chance of all of us to get together. Since my brother moved to Phoenix though, he was absent.
Saturday afternoon was a great day football wise as my 2 bets on GA and Kentucky came through. My sister and the rest of her crew came over to play and watch the games.
I also won my week of my college football pick’em league with 14/20 against the number. This ties me with the wins leader (3) and puts me 2 points behind in the season standings.
Sunday was a fine day of relaxing mixed with cleaning. I celebrated by grilling a couple bone in rib-eye. The quality wasnt the greatest, so I dry rubbed them with a bit of red pepper, cayenne and sea salt. Turned out not so bad, I’m gonna turn the left overs into some kick ass fajitas, I tell you what.
Eventually, I will get back on FT for the end of the BBT2 and see if my lottery numbers hit, but for now I’m enjoying a bit of a break.
I hope you all had a safe and relaxing break, see you around.
I’m thankful for the humility that online poker has given me. I have the utmost respect for those of you who profit online. It is a disciplined and multi-faceted endeavor. I’ll be taking a vacation from FT for awhile, at least till the end of the year.
I should have known better to use my last token on the donkfest that was last night’s MATH. I unregistered form the 28K for that crap? Only when it started did I realize not only was it 6max but turbo..so is Turbo no limit Razz next?? no thanks. GG ME.
I’ve put a few duckets on Bodog for the time being. I’m going to make some sports bets and play poker with smokee and the and the rest of the donks at Bodog. Wish me luck.
THIS JUST IN:
I have moved APBT II to Saturday December 15th. You should have a revised invite in your mail. If you have not gotten an invite and think you might make it, PLEASE send me an email 23skidoo at gmail.com The desired effect is more players, I hope it works out for everyone.
Allright boys and girls, it’s that time again, I’ve put it off too long and the year is almost over.
Everyone within eyeshot and earshot is invited to the second annual Atlanta Poker Blogger’s Tour at palatial skidoo estates. I know Brain, Kajagugu, and Daniel have regular games, but last summer I gathered together the first and largest gathering of Atlanta poker bloggers that I am aware of. Next year I swear I’ll give more notice for everyone in ATL and nearby to make this an event those of us in the southeast won’t want to miss.
I did want to put together something before the end of the year though, so I can honestly claim this to be an annual event.
Saturday December 15th is the day. I’ll be sending out an Evite to everyone I think who might be interested. If you don’t get an invite, then I don’t have your email or I don’t think you’d be interested. If you fall into those 2 categories and might show up then drop me a line here with your email or you can email me at 23skidoo at gmail and I’ll send you the info.
Have a good week and hopefully I can donate some chips to you in one of the BBT2 games next week.
I’m such a fish. How stupid of me to assume someone holding a monster like 45h would fold to a measly 4x bet. My bad.
How completely retarded of me to expect someone to fold a flopped flush with such a hand, its infallible! I truly don’t understand this game, lest I forget that I must play 2 easily dominated cards such 45h should call any bet in the 4x to 8x range. Duh. I guess I’ll never learn.
Yes I continue to lose to mouthbreathers and yokels, you see my stats, you’ve played against me, I’m an aggro fish passive calling station on MASSIVE tilt, of course you will hit your 2-4 outer on me, it’s written in the stars, enjoy my money you fucking toolboxes. You need it more than I do.
I feel better now, move along.
Craig is the latest (and last) casualty at Pokerworks. Update his links to HERE, and wish him luck in his continued quest.
I did get a few responses from my last post, and I will most likely schedule a gathering at my house on one of those dates. I’m still in negotiations with the wife to see which weekend works, so I’ll have that info soon. I’ll send one of those ghey Evites you guys are so fond of.
So please, if you even think you might be interested, send me an email ( 23skidoo at gmail.com) so you are on the distribution list.
Hey folks!!
I had a great weekend aren’t you PUMPED!!!!!!!?!?!
OK, I know you aren’t but I need to fill this page with something other than my whining and complaining.
Friday Night was Monthly Poker in my Hood and I had 2 confirmed bloggers showing, which turned into 1 present blogger and one who went from confirmed to infirmed. Bad beat, I hope Butch is feeling better.
So we we gathered around 8:30 and I began setting up The Tournament Director when I somehow erased all of my tournament settings…doh. I had to redo the whole thing, at least I kept my player database.
We started the first tourney around 8:30 with 13 players. We decided to allow rebuys for the first hour to juice the pot a bit. Eventually 5 rebought, but near the end of the rebuy period, the blinds were a little big. I messed up the blind escalation. It still ran pretty well as I extended the levels to 20 minutes.
Here’s one early hand of note.
3nd level I have been tight, biding my time waiting to double up or rebuy.
I get KJc in the SB. This is the first hand I’ve really considered playing. There is one limper in front of me and a raiser (~3bb) in CO. I call and the limper folds. We see a flop with 2 hearts and a Jack. I’m fairly certain I’m ahead here, I know my opponent overvalues high cards and draws from playing him frequently. He goes all in and I make a Hellmuthian instacall.
He shows 44 and I double.
I got to open up a bit after that and went into the money as the chip leader. The blinds got astronomical after a bit and I had the worst succession of cards the whole night, I had to push with 94o eventually and busted in 3rd. Congrats to Surf for taking second.
The second tourney ended up with 9 players@$40 per. I had a really interesting hand that set me up for the whole tournament.
Blinds are 50/75 (yeah I need to redo my blind structures, sue me) and I get KQo in late position. There are 4 limpers in front of me and I decide to make a semi-bluff at the pot.
I say aloud “oh no no no no we cant have that”, and bump it up to 300. I get 3 callers… DOH
Flop comes out 789 2spades. I really hate this flop! I decide to keep up the ruse and bet 400. 3 fucking callers again. I may have to be done with this hand.
7 diamonds comes up next, and I actually like this much better, it doesn’t improve any draws and theres no way I can put anyone on a boat. This is confirmed by the fact that it checks around to me again, and I decide to check.
I’m really trying to sell pocket pairs for the river, but am prepared to fold to any big bet. The river comes off with a very raggy 4h. And it checks around to LF.
I’ve played cards with LF for the better part of 4 years. He is an action junkie and is allergic to money. Dude just gives it away. Every now and then LF catches a miracle though and earns the luckyfucker moniker. I call him LF for brevity’s sake.
LF bets 300 into the ~2000 pot. I push, everyone folds to him and he folds the missed nut flush face up. I show the bluff and get groans form the whole table. I’m called a whole lot after that and run the table over, cruising in to the win.
So $200 Profit minus beer and I’m still home early enough to get a good night’s sleep WOOT.
Give me live cards over online coinflips and lottery tickets any day.
Speaking of…say you live in the Atlanta area and like to play cards and possibly blog about it from time to time. Might you be interested in a ATL blogger gathering at casa de Skidoo December 15th? Perhaps the 22nd?? If I get enough positive response (10+) I will light that candle. Let me know if its a possibility via email or a comment. I’ll decide yes or no by 11/26. STAY TUNED
BAH! What does he know?
I’d like to come up with something clever to say about it, but it speaks for itself.
Truf is da truf.