BBT4 points the first

Pretty disappointed, due to the fact that the kid woke in the middle of the night. I saw KQ off, pushed it UTG. Went to attend to the kid and got back and saw the final hand.

Plus BBT4 is pretty boring. The series is great and a big thanks to the people who put it all together. Maybe i'm just bored with tourament poker.

Whats the over/under....

Whats the over/under of how many times AQ outflops AK, in the upcoming BBT4???????



Played the Mookie last night. I got off to a good start. then went dead, expect, 2 preflop raises with JJ and 10s that went uncontested.

then at somepoint in the 2nd hour, i get AdKd, I make my standard raise, get a caller, and the button smash his whole stack, that has me cover by 100/200 chips or so. I call, and the other caller folds.

Happy to see that I'm ahead, until the magical 3 outer of the Q appears on the flop and its GG Zambia.

Dont know how much i'm going to be able to handle this in BBT4.

BBT4 Starts March 1 2009

taken from Alcanthang

Borgata Trip Hand Conclusion

So, to finish the hand from Sunday, when I was down AC at the Borgata for the start of the of the 3k deep stack Main Event, I was able to get to the poker room to play.

Recap.

Sat down at $1/$2 bought in for $140 (I know its light)
Built it up to $190ish
I have been playing for 2+hours and have a good read on everone at the table. No one has been out of line, pretty standard stuff.

I'm UTG+2 or 3. That the only part i cant remember but I know it was semi-early position.

the kid of my direct right limps for $2, so I'm pretty sure only the SB and BB were in the hand.

I look down and see Ace of hearts and Ace of Spades.

I raise to $16, folds all the way around to the limper and calls the $14. Kid has been playing tight and solid. Has not been involve in many hands and stay out of trouble. At times, he look frustated, trying to make preflop decisions.

Flop was Jh, 8h, 3s

he checks

and I bet $26.

in about maybe 30 seconds, he re-raises to $200, putting me all-in. So the way he grab the two stacks of red chips, with both hands and aggressively put them in the pot, my stomach jumped out of my body and screamed "FUCK"

The check raise made me feel sick. I tank for about maybe 2/3 minutes thinking what he could have, to limp call UTG.

The hands that ran through my mind were KK, QQ, AJ, KhQh, JJ, 88. I ruled out KK, QQ, JJ, figuring he would at least put in some kind of raise, even if it was small. so I knock them. I didnt think he would call a raise OOP with 88, but it still sat in my mind.

So I eventually put him on AJ, KhQh hand and I make the call.

He didnt even wait for the dealer to finish dealing and slams top set Jacks over, to reveal that he had a lock.

Turn and river brick. And my Aces go down.

I posted this hand in the RC forums. I think everyone except for one person said, I have to call, no matter what. Stating that I lose more money overtime folding, to the check-raise So big time cold deck. Live poker is rigged.

Borgata Trip

my experience today from the Borgata....

I went down today for the start of the Main Event, pretty much just a chance to get out of the house and maybe play some poker....

LJ and Lucko, were playing but didnt get to say Hi, but was able to track their play here

Also, met $mokkee himself.... cool dude, who runs good at the cash games at the Borgata keep it up and nice talking to you. Hopefully we will get to meet again sometime.

I believe there were a couple of other bloggers there as well...

So.....

any way....
got to 1/2 table and only bought in for about $140.. built it up to about $190... been playing my TAGish style for the 2 hours I was sitting there and had a good read on everyone. No one was really out of line.

i'm maybe UTG+2 maybe 3... kid on my right playing fairly tight for the 2 hours that we have been playing calls 2...

i look down at Ace of hearts, A of spades. I raised and made it $16...
folds around to the limper on my right and calls the 14. pot is now about $35 (if there was another limper, but cant remember is there was one or not) and he is sitting on about $300+ he had me cover....

we see a flop of J of hearts, 8 hearts and 3 spades......

he checks...

i bet of $26.

he says... all in, with two hands puts two stacks of chips in....

whats your play...

Streak for the cash!

I sure most of you have seen ESPN: Streak for the Cash, contest.. if not here.

I just currently hit my longest winning streak, 3! Go ahead laugh.... hahahaha.

Right now the longest streak is 18. You have to get 27 wins in a row, to win the cash. 1 Million doll hairs, or dollars.

Twenty fucking seven wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crazy, Crazy.

Tonight, I will be playing my first tournament of the year. Its a freeroll, for a Borgata Main Event Seat. WCP is putting up the seat. The private tourney is on FTP. Get there! Looks like 650+ people are already signed up, with a couple of red name pros.

Hopefully, and God willing I take down this seat, i dont have to worry about airfare. A full tank in the "dad wagon" and we're there! Most likely I will not win the seat, I'm trying to get out of some family time, to go down anyway. Its going to be crazy, but I think i will know some people down there.

Cash games are going ok... its up and down, up and down. But I did take a small shot, at the next level. It took a couple of orbits, to get a feel, but ended up make a small profit, after getting cooler, twice for my chips. Crazy thing was that both times, my Aces didnt hold up... so sick.

I deal good!

Was offered to deal a private tournament over the weekend.

The tournament was held at private mens club in area. This was the first time that the club itself held a tournament like this but the members were mostly members of a private golf club in the area as well.

Going into the game i had no clue what was going on. No structure, no numbers of people, no info whats-so-ever.

I met the guy (John aka Hondo) who had ask the wifey if i would be interested in dealing the game, at a local establishment near the country club. We watched some college basketball, had some beer or two and then off to the club.

The ride to the club was about 10-15 mins away. It was basically a house converted into club, big basement, big front room, pool table, darts, shuffleboard, pinball, decent size bar. Your standard private mens club.

So walked in and introduced to the owner and supposely organizer. It was poorly organized and setup. So me and John had to set everything up. Nothing was unwrapped, everything was brand new, so all the equipment was nice and clean.

Not knowing the exact numbers, we setup four tables of 9 players, figuring there would be at least 35-40 people. Thats what they were expecting.

Final count 20 players.

Structure was a rebuy tournament. $75+15, with unlimited rebuys in the first 3 rounds, but you had to be broke in order rebuy (to me this makes no sense) and the rounds were 15 minutes long. It was super fast.
Blind levels started at
10-20
20-40
40-80
break/add-on
75-150
100-200
250-500
break
300-600
500-1000
800-1600
1000-200

I think i might be missing a level but you can see it was a crapshoot and poorly sturctured.

My first table was the first to break, so i had some time to watch some of the play at the other tables and the play was just as bad at the those tables as to mine. Just horrible.

The final table was set pretty quickly and it moved even quicker. Top 4 got paid. with 4th place being kicked in the nuts, because the payout for 4th was less then $150 assuming you added-on with no rebuy. First place was a healthy $1400+. It would be a nice payday for 3+ hours of luck.

I made $100 for dealing and then an extra $90 in tips from the final table, overall a nice little payday for myself for doing something that i love to do.

After the game i was approached by the owner and his father. Its seems that they want to do this more often, we exchanged emails and i told i can show him a better structure and organization of how they can put on a better game. So hopefully this can turnout into a nice little job.