End of the Night Post and I'm on a Roll

Surf made it past the 2nd break before getting busted out in 40th out of about 140. It was folded to him in the sb and he raised with A9 and the bb called. The flop was T9x and he pushed and was called. BB had AT. He'll be playing tomorrow in a $550 event.


As for me I made it to the Final table bubble in the token razz tourney. I got sucked out on back to back hand to kock me out but I'm happy with the way I played. I also final tabled a Horse tourney ending up in 6th place for a small cash. I'm not sure if it is from softball being over or what but I'm on a roll.

That's it for tonight. I'll update tomorrow night after I get back from the lake and a day of fishing.

More Tunica part 3

Surf is sitting at the tournament tables as I write. This morning he played two more sngs and won another so he has now spent a total of $255 and has made $1250 towards buy-ins. Not bad for a tight/aggressive donkey. To repeat, he has buy-ins for two $550 events and but another $150 in his pocket.

His buddy Huntsvegas has not faired as well and was leaving for home when I talked to Surf around 11:15. I think he had lost in every game he had played and had dropped over 1K for sure. Surf offered to give him one of the buy-ins but he turned it down because of his bad run. I would do the same because it can be hard enough playing with my own money let alone someone else’s money.

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Surf bombed out quick today. He raised it up with a couple of limpers in front trying to isolate while holding KJ of hearts. The big blind and the limpers called. An all low flop with 2 hearts and it is checked to him and he bets to thin the field and there is two callers. The turn is a brick and the first player pushes as well as the second player. He was getting better than 5-1 on his money so he called. First player had AA and the second player had Ax of hearts. He was done.

He is playing the $200 second chance event in a little bit so I will update when I find out.

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He has made it past the first break with a little more than he started with. If you know Surf then you know he is in great shape and I expect him to make a run before it is over.

I'll be playing a Razz tourney as well as a Horse tourney so if you want to stop by and say hello feel free to do so.

Live From Tunica

I talked to surf this afternoon as he was drive to Tunica. Nothing exciting to say other than he is ready to go deep. I'm expecting to get a call from him later tonight so I'll post anything I here. As for Friday I'll post what I know when I get home from work and I'll update later if he has some news. I will not be posting Saturday until after I get home from the lake so don't expect anything before 10 pm. Otherwise I'll post as I get info for the rest of the weekend.

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I just got another call from Surf. He played a SNG for $65 and won his ticket for event #2 in Tunica. When he got heads up with his opponent he offered a save of sorts by giving the guy $150 and keeping the $550 entry fee for tomorrows event. He held a 4-1 chiplead at the time. Not bad for the second best player in his family.

He’ll be calling me during breaks tomorrow so I’ll try and give updates as they come along. It’s hard to do it from work now but I’ll do my best. My guess is I’ll have an update around 4:30 central time tomorrow otherwise it will be after 6 o’clock. Tune in tomorrow for more breaking news of surf and his attempt at poker greatness.

Surf is Going to Tunica and Loving Omaha HL

Surf will be on his way to Tunica at noon on Thursday. Remember to come here for up dates on his meteoric rise to the top of the poker world.

It was Mookie night but I never signed up. I was playing a couple of other tourneys and doing well so I made the decision to skip it and work at something a little more + ev. I started an Omaha hl PL tourney at 7:45 and since I was chipping up, I added the $3 turbo to keep me distracted. In the end I cashed in the turbo going out around 80th of the 600 or so runners. Not the greatest of jobs but that’s ok. The Omaha tourney was better.

I played a nice tight aggressive game and moved up the ladder. That is until we got 8 from the money and I missed a double draw. Short stacked I held on to the bottom spot and moved into the money in my 3rd straight Omaha hl tourney. I looked for spots and doubled up and after an eternity I made the final table. There were some very solid players at the table and as the short stack I had work to do. I doubled up and waited around until we got to 6 players. I called a raise from the table donk and flopped a good low draw and the 2nd nut flush draw. I pushed not caring if he calls or folds. He called and neither draw came in. That would have put me into 2nd place but oh well. It may have been a questionable play but with the blinds so high I needed to make a move and with both draws I think it is right.

So now that I’ve taken 1st, 14th and 6th in 3 straight Omaha hl tourneys, I’ll probably take a shot at a bigger one and see how I do.

Almost Another Final Table

I went deep in an Omaha HL limit tourney ending the night in 14th place. Not bad but I took a big hit when my trips lost out to a bout on the river. I was top6 at the time so wining that hand would have been huge. I also got all my chips in the middle with 3 callers with a set that ended up getting split 4 ways. I would have doubled up to top 8 if I hit. It was a fun game but a little dissapointing.

I also played a little 1/2 Razz cash for some fun. I made about half a buy-in to make back a small loss from my sng play so over all I ended the evening about even.

Don't forget to play te Mookie on Wednesday night. It starts at 9:00 central and the password is vegas1 as it is every time. I think the Dookie is Stud h/l so the donkeys should be out for that game.

And finally, good news came the other day when I found out my friend doesn't have cancer. I'm so happy for the family I can't really put it into words.

The Power is On and Semi Live From Tunica

We finally got the power back up and running at work around 7 pm last night. Com ed came by in the afternoon but couldn't give us a time table to when we would be up and running so we went with a contingencey plan that involved a 5 hour trip to a partner company to do some production and come back home in time to start work this morning. So the boss and I, as well as two production workers set out and got a call around 1 1/2 hours into the trip so we turned around and went back home. It was nice to be home instead of driving all night and being expected to work all day today.

I watched a little bit of the hoy last night. The donkemant was fun to watch and I think that I need to start playing it. It's just hard for me to add another night of tourneys to my regularly scheduled life. Maybe I'll jump into one of these but It is kind of hard on my family if I play to much.

I'm sitting on a token so I'm trying to find a tourney I want to play. I'm thinking about Razz or Horse because the firlds are a little smaller and most players suck at these games. I'd play hold'em but the amount of time it takes to play a bigger event is a little long for me unless the family is out for the night. We'll see what happens.

One last thing...Surf and Huntsvegas will be going to Tunica ans I have been asked to post some updates while they are there. So if you have a piece of their action or just want to know how they have done, stay tuned in later this week to find out how well thay do.

I Can Win Sometimes

I played almost 4 hours of donkey poker last night and all I got for it was an MTT win. That’s right, I won a tourney. I even have proof.

I was sitting around watching some stupid movie last night and jumped on to see what was starting and saw Omaha hl. I’ve done ok with the game so I pulled it up and waited for the start time to arrive. The I realized it was NL Omaha hl. I realized this with time to spare but I figured I’d donk it up and got waffles to play it with me. He lasted for a while but could handle the donk plays that came from every direction. My strategy was to stay on the sidelines unless I had a strong hand and then play it super aggressive. It worked as I maintain a smallish stack for much of the tourney. I took a big hit when I pushed with a double flush draw and the nut low draw but can up empty. I had 800 chips left with average at 5600 and came back strong. I pushed a few hands in a row and got lucky to get me out of danger. I stayed low and maintained my stack as the bubble approached and hit a couple of big hands to move into the top ten. When I hit the final table I was in 6th and waited for a few to bust. The I attacked the medium stacks and built up until someone finally played back at me. This time I had a hand and moved into 2nd. IWhen I got into a hand I bet in such a way to show I was committed to the pot and the weakness of my opponents came out. I eventually took the chip lead with about 160K to 80K and 70K. I didn’t let anyone limp and I re-raised half of their stack over and over again. When I knocked out the 3rd place guy I held 4-1 lead and eventually took him out when he got tired of me pushing him around.

It was a nice score and long overdue.

I was going to recap my midnight madness run but this win over shadowed it so I’m done with that.

Softball E had her first practice with her new team on Sunday. They are going to kick some butt…mark my word. They best part is that SE is no longer the star on the team. There are a couple of girls, including her, that can fill that role on the team and that is a good thing. It should help her bring up her game. During batting practice she hit one to the fence that would have been out is she had lifted the ball a little. Anyway, the skill level on this team is much higher than her old team. And the team speed is much higher.

That’s it for today…have a great day.

It's Been a Long Time, Been a Long Time, Been a Long Lonely Lonely Lonely Lonely Time.

It is Saturday morning and I went to bed about 4 hours ago. I had no intentions of staying up that late but sometimes things happen that are out of your control. I played the Midnight Madness last night for the first time in 9 or 10 months and I played well, got lucky, and played bad all in the same tourney. I think there was almost 2000 runners last night and I ended up getting knocked out in around 30th place. I’m going to try and recap the tourney a little later but right now I’m to tired to break it down. Thanks has to go out to surf who also played this and helped keep me focus and patient during much of the event. Also, thanks goes to JJ for wishing me good luck and watching for the last hour or so.

TTFN.

Name That Band.

I Can Still Play Limit and to Much Rain

I can’t believe all the friggin rain we’ve had here in northern Illinois. We’ve had rain every day for at least a week and all the rivers are ready to over flow if they haven’t already. This afternoon we had a huge storm that knocked down trees and had the roads flooded with oil slicked water. The power went out at work and we scrambled to get the clean room working after the power came back on. In the end I left work with only partial power and hope that full power will return during the night so we can actually make product tomorrow.


I played a little limit hold’em tonight. I haven’t done that in a long time and sometimes I wonder why. Limit was the game that got me started way back when I had a $5 bankroll that I earned by filling out a survey. I play .02/.04 limit for a long time before switching to jackpot sngs on Noble poker. I could go back to grinding limit but it is a grind that I really don’t get excited about. Maybe I’ll try it for a little while.

One of the guys who signed up through me made a deposit so I’ll soon be on my way to financial freedom. We’ll see how it goes but I’m hoping he has all the success he can find. I watched him play for a while and he saw 70% of the flops so I’m hoping he has disposable income and keeps reloading.

That’s it for tonight. Have a great Friday.

My Neteller

I say why worry about .57. I was smart enough to move my money before the money was frozen.

I was asked to evaluate players for one of the local teams. So I'll be helping out and determining who is good enough to play and who isn't. My guess is that they won't have enough players because most players have already been to tryouts. The ones that are left are the ones that are left. I feel bad for the coach because we are friends and she got screwed like I did...You see, she was the coach that I was asked to replace. The world turns in strange ways. This is also the coach that cut SE from the 14U team last year because she was a 12 year old. I don't hold a gruge...well I do but I also forgive.