Musings...Poker and Otherwise

Oh What a Night

2008-05-09T10:31:00.003-05:00

Early May back in 2007. I love that song, but this blog is about having more balls than brains. After being flush with cash for the first time in a long time at Full Tilt, I decided to screw around a bit and enter some higher entry fee satellites. So, what do I do? Go out and win the first one for an entry into a $150 tourney, which I actually can't play due to upcoming travel. So, $163 in $

Finally

2008-05-06T09:33:00.002-05:00

Ok, what is the most likely thing to happen when you are in the midst of your largest downswing in the last few years. A MTT win, of course. How bout Daily Double A on FT last night. To the tune of $2185.What started out as a tourney to just blow off some steam and maybe get to bed early turned into a late night success. Dropped about 500 chips early pushing edges that just weren't there, and

Bleh Bleh Bleh and Bleh

2008-04-14T05:30:00.003-05:00

So, AI decided to go off for 35 in the Nugget's blowout win over the Rockets which propelled Frank to the fantasy basketball title and a disappointing second place finish for me. I hadn't lost a game since the second week of JANUARY. Very frustrating. But, it does come with a payout of about $450 so that will help. Another bad day of poker yesterday with a roughly $150 loss. Mostly due to

Big sports day

2008-04-13T09:30:00.002-05:00

So, plan on spending the day watching the final round of the Masters and a bunch of guys that no one thinks will do anything but choke. I think 5 shots is too much for Tiger to overcome, but if Immelmann does not play the first 4 in even or better, I will take Tiger.Made the complete comeback last night in my fantasy basketball final. I start the day up about 11 pts and have 3 guys playing

Back to back winners and a long comeback

2008-04-12T06:53:00.001-05:00

Posted another winning day yesterday...grinding out an $80 win for the night. Big hand was a complete suck out by me when I had QQ and got it all in against AA. Q on the river FTW!!Fantasy basketball - my team, after being down 130 pts on Wed, has pulled to within 15 with 2 days to go. My best bet for improvement is Boozer or Miller. And Frank has Iverson at 89...and he has 2 games to play.

Attitude means everything

2008-04-10T22:36:00.001-05:00

Spent the evening listening to 2 videos as well as playing 1 table of $100 NL at Bodog. Amazing what a clear mind can do. About 2 hours and there was not one tricky decision. Up 2 BI's for a good night. Still a long way to go, but a good start.Abby17

Deuces Cracked

2008-04-10T15:04:00.002-05:00

Just signed up for it. Doing the month by month with no initiation fee. My goal is to watch at least 2 videos per week and also, if I ever start winning again, or get up my FT pts high enough, I am going to get a video iPod to play the videos on.Only fell to 27th in the Bodonkey standings. Not bad for a second to last finish. I look to be 1 final table away from the Top 18. My guess is some

Bleh

2008-04-10T09:50:00.003-05:00

2 sessions last night. First was a disaster as most have been lately. Dropped 8, yes eight, BI's to one guy playing HU. First was unlucky in flush vs flush. Second was not hitting a big draw. The rest was complete and utter spewage. That game is so damn tilt inducing. Second session was at Bodog playing the 100s. Back to normalcy. I won about $50 which isn't great, but any win right now

Almost forgot

2008-04-09T12:11:00.002-05:00

Almost forgot about my completely forgetable performance in the weekly Bodonkey. My rivered str8 was no match for my opponent's turned boat. Nothing like hitting your "gin" card only to find out you were drawing dead. That has actually become somewhat of a theme in the last week or so. I have chased a bit too much only to hit what I think is a great card on the river and am forced to call a

Wow

2008-04-09T08:06:00.002-05:00

Going through the worst 8 day stretch of my poker career, money wise. I have had 4 days this week where I have been down $1000 or more at some time in the day. This has made for a real strain on my Bodog bankroll. Better hope that everything I have in the works is ready soon.Did roll a guy for 3 BI's HU last night at FT. Again, the douchebagginess of people is just unreal. We played about 30

Talking trash and poker

2008-04-08T10:32:00.000-05:00

One thing I am finding increasingly annoying in my old age is the proliferation of duochebags on the internet, especially in poker rooms. I know this subject has been beaten to death, and I don't want to come across as some "holier than thou" Bible thumper, but what ever happened to both common sense and some civility. Couple key points:1. From a strictly financial point, it is rarely good (<

That is why they play the games

2008-04-08T05:59:00.000-05:00

Ok, we all thought that Memphis's bad free throw shooting would eventually catch up to them in the end. Well, at least we all did going into the tournament and also after their second round game against Miss St where they shot 20 for 39. But after watching their next 3.9 games, most of those doubts were erased; at least, I thought they were. Then, CDR decides to become Shaq. Wow.That actually

Getting increasingly frustrated

2008-04-07T07:40:00.000-05:00

Spent the entire night last night getting 3 bet and c/r. Made a couple huge mistakes - the biggest being NOT getting up from the table. Once your table image is shot, it is really hard to get it back. I got rivered in a few huge pots, then played too tentatively. Made a lifetilt push on a guy that was screaming AA, which happened to be exactly what he had. Unfortunately for him, it was no

Meh

2008-04-06T13:05:00.000-05:00

So, my buddy Neff told me he is planning on moving up to the $100 NL HU games because he feels like he is one of the best at the $50. Now, that does not surprise me because I think his feel for the NL game is one of the better ones around. What does surprise me is how fast he did it. Less than 2 months and he is ready to roll. I know I still feel lost often playing NL against any aggressive

The new Roller Coaster

2008-04-05T00:32:00.000-05:00

So, played a bunch today in 2 distinct sessions. In the first, I played really well and ran better. Up about $100 at FT and another $450 at Bodog. Really needed that to make up for some of the disaster of the last couple of days.Session 2 was crazy. How bout -1200 to +200 to -400 to even. Actually up $50. I think this was likely a bit more of some bad play, some stubbornness on my part with

Good god

2008-04-04T01:39:00.000-05:00

Ok...the first 1000 downswing sucked...how bout another one back to back? This one actually doesn't hurt as much for some strange reason. Probably because it was over 1800 at one point and I whittled it down to 500 then dropped another 500 to make it an even grand.Enough poker. Anyone seen this site? It is crazy funny. I live for sports and this is just totally hilarious. My guess is

The Good, Bad and Ugly

2008-04-02T01:12:00.000-05:00

First things first, I am an idiot. I FORGOT about the Bodonkey. Now sure how that is possible other than I didn't even open Bodog tonight.The good - First double cash in the Daily Double. Woo HooThe really good - 6th in DD A - $409 for the good guys.Bad - 2nd overall for best finishes. That just blows. Coulda been another $800 or so.Played well, ran well, now too juiced to go to sleep. Also,

Bodonkeyness Tonight

2008-04-01T12:08:00.000-05:00

Looking to follow up on my pro-busting this week with what I am sure will be a specatular flame out in the blogger tourney at Bodog. 8:05 PM CDT. Come join the hilarity. Quite possibly one of the tightest tournaments in the history of the interweb.Looking to move up from 23rd into the Top 18 so I can play in the final 18 person SnG and likely finish 2nd and jump off a bridge.Abby17

Out like a lion, urr, a lamb

2008-04-01T10:43:00.001-05:00

So, yesterday being the last day of March, I wanted to get a bunch of hands in to try and hit my March goals. Well, I ended up playing only for about 90 minutes with some moderate success. Up a bit less than $100 for the night; which isn't bad, but didn't get my goal. So, on to April. Good thing about April is that I have RB coming from my friends at www.rakerecovery.com. They are great to

One day to go

2008-03-31T08:15:00.001-05:00

To reach my March goal of $1500. Had a pretty good night last night - winning about $220 with little to no stress. Had 2 Bodog tables going up about $90 on each quickly. Then, fired up a FT HU and won a BI. All tempered by a ridiculously early flame out in a $26 sat on FT where my KJ had no chance against AT on a flop of KQJ. Blah. My second half of March tourney results have not been good

2 days left

2008-03-30T10:07:00.000-05:00

And I need to make about $330 to make my March goals. I took last night off to get drunk with my wonderful spouse. Lots of vodka sodas in the comfort of our own basement. Nothing beats a night like that.Gonna go out to watch Texas hopefully kick Memphis's ass today. More important, I would sure like to see a good game as this tourney seems to be lacking a lot of excitement. What does it say

That didn't take long

2008-03-29T15:46:00.000-05:00

So, there goes the non-losing session streak. It ends at 16. Lost about $30 this morning at FT playing HU. I need to go back and see how I played. I know I did a great job of getting my money in with the worst of it a few times. But, I did get in trouble through some bad luck as well. I hit 2 different hands runner runner when I was drawing dead on the flop. So, I hit exactly what I want,

God Bless Texas

2008-03-29T08:53:00.000-05:00

What a boring night of basketball. 4 games and 4 blowouts with the only saving grace being Texas advancing easily, which insures a profit for the Auction 2008. Maybe this fiscal responsibility thing has some merits as it sure feels nice to know that I don't need some team to make or win the finals to make money. Poor Ozzy and Neff are set to take a pretty good beatdown unless UCLA runs the

Texas and the NBA

2008-03-28T15:28:00.000-05:00

Here is hoping for a big win by Texas tonight. I bought them in the annual auction and they are my last team standing. A win tonight guarantees a profit for me.And, please God, let my fantasy basketball team run this hot for 2.5 more weeks. No score less than 480 in a month and a half. High score 4 weeks running. Couldn't possibly be hotter. One time. Pay the fat kid his $850!!!

Not much poker

2008-03-28T08:39:00.000-05:00

Played a small amount of HU last night at FT. Lucky that I run good. I start out just playing way too passively against a pretty good, but overly aggressive villain. He takes about a half BI from me with me just doing check/call, check/fold over and over. I hate when I get in those ruts as I often struggle to get out of them.Then, I get AA in position. I raise pre and he 3 bets me as has

New spot for blogging

2008-03-27T07:44:00.000-05:00

Ok, I figured I would attempt to move my blog from Cardrunners over to blogger as I let my CR membership expire. Also, this will be a good spot to track my ongoing quest for the Bodonkey Blogger WSOP seat. I had a great tourney on Tuesday, busting Josh Arieh as well as finishing in 3rd overall. So, my $11 investment returned over $270...not a bad ROI. I have moved up to 23rd in the standings,