Vasectomy...ugh.
PokerStars Steps to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. I love the step program on Party Poker and I'm looking forward to playing them on Stars.
I think I am 400 FPP away from Silver status for the month.
Need to transfer $500 over to FTP to play BBT2, might need help with this.
Win $75 token in a hurry.
Would be nice to win the first one so I can keep getting my beauty sleep (6 hours) as opposed to when I play blogger tournaments (3 hours if going deep, if I'm lucky to fall right asleep at my desk).
Oh, and that pesky 27 page draft paper due on Tuesday. Of course I've started, if by "started" you mean giving it a title and putting my name up top.
Me = Awesome.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Tip from Google
So, I signed into my Gmail account and Google always has some tip up at the top. This tip was obviously tailored specifically for me.
You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil.
Indeed you can, I'm wearing mine now!
You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminum foil.
Indeed you can, I'm wearing mine now!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Home Game Funny Story
This actually happened a couple weeks ago and thought I'd share.
Before the game starts there are two new guys (to me at least) who show up. One is a big guy, looks like a lumberjack, the other looks as skinny as a rail and could have been (read: was absolutely) high. The skinny one is carrying 3 miller lite bottles in a six pack container. Nothing abnormal for people to be drinking beer at the game, so no biggie.
When we get down to 3 players I hadn't even noticed the guy drinking, but he was definitely not the best player. Hell, he wasn't even mediocre. He liked to limp in and min bet everything. So, my standard play was to play along and check raise every hand regardless. This worked 90% of the time. The other 10% he only called and I knew I was toast. Anyway, at least 5 times within an hour or so dude would knock his bottle over and it would clink around the floor until he picked it up. Only at the very end did we realize he had somehow switched from miller lite to a fifth of Jim Beam that was nearly polished off. There may have been a shot left. Not sure how much it had in it to start, but I am going to assume dude was completely blitzed at the end. Didn't show it too much as he just sat there the whole time looking dumb.
Yeah, probably not funny unless you were there, but still. I ended up winning that night taking a 150K chip lead against 5K. It only took one hand to finish him off. I'm sure it only took one more swig to finish off that bottle as well.
Before the game starts there are two new guys (to me at least) who show up. One is a big guy, looks like a lumberjack, the other looks as skinny as a rail and could have been (read: was absolutely) high. The skinny one is carrying 3 miller lite bottles in a six pack container. Nothing abnormal for people to be drinking beer at the game, so no biggie.
When we get down to 3 players I hadn't even noticed the guy drinking, but he was definitely not the best player. Hell, he wasn't even mediocre. He liked to limp in and min bet everything. So, my standard play was to play along and check raise every hand regardless. This worked 90% of the time. The other 10% he only called and I knew I was toast. Anyway, at least 5 times within an hour or so dude would knock his bottle over and it would clink around the floor until he picked it up. Only at the very end did we realize he had somehow switched from miller lite to a fifth of Jim Beam that was nearly polished off. There may have been a shot left. Not sure how much it had in it to start, but I am going to assume dude was completely blitzed at the end. Didn't show it too much as he just sat there the whole time looking dumb.
Yeah, probably not funny unless you were there, but still. I ended up winning that night taking a 150K chip lead against 5K. It only took one hand to finish him off. I'm sure it only took one more swig to finish off that bottle as well.
BBT2
This is taken directly from Alcanthang's site regarding the upcoming BBT2. I started to do the first BBT and was faring well until exhaustion set in from the late nights. I've done well in Blogger tourney's in the past, so I'm hoping to play 2-3 a week and get into the TOC for a shot at the package.
From Alcanthang:
Full Tilt Poker has given us an $18k Aussie Millions package to give away for our next challenge.
$18,000 Prize Package for you and a friendThe 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event begins Monday, January 14th and promises to be bigger than ever.
$18,000 Prize Package for you and a friendThe 2008 Aussie Millions Main Event begins Monday, January 14th and promises to be bigger than ever.
Play for your $18K prize package, including:
* Aussie Millions Main Event entry worth AUD $10,500
* 10 nights stay at the luxurious Crown Casino Resort
* Round-trip airfare for the winner and a guest from Los Angeles to Melbourne
* $3,000 in spending money
* Winner & Pro golf outings, dinners, winery tours, seminars and a bounty tournament
Pretty god damn cool if you ask me and I was stunned when they brought it up. This was the package I really hoped to give away but thought was lost since I started so late on the planning. An opportunity to send a player and companion to the Land of Oz for 10 days with a $10k tournament thrown in there.
During the original BBT there was some positive and negative comments about the point system plus the number of people awarded points. For the BBTwo you won't have to worry about those points. We will be awarding the Aussie Millions package to the winner of a Tournament of Champions. So if you'd like to win the trip, you have to win one of the events during the eight week run. No worrying about making the points. No worrying about who made the most money during the challenge. Win an event and you are in the TOC and a shot at the Aussie Millions package.
So if you are interested in winning the Aussie Millions package, play them to win them.
But only so many people can win an event during this stretch so what about everyone else? We want everyone to play, enjoy themselves, and have a shot at winning something. Full Tilt Poker has given us the Aussie Millions Package but that's not all they're giving us.
FTP is giving us an entry into their weekly big Sunday guarantee tournaments whic we will reward to the Player of the Week. This is where that pesky point system comes in again. We will be using the same point formula as the last Challenge but this time around only the top 25% of players in each event will receive points. Whoever earns the most points during the week will get a ticket into the FTP Sunday Guarantee Tournament.
The point system will also be used to determine players to qualify for an end of challenge freeroll which is still being worked out.
There are just a couple more things to finalize and we'll get back to you with the details. I have an FTOPS Main Event seat to give away and we're just kicking around ideas of what to do with it. I also have an iPod Touch to give away courtesy of the folks at donkit.com. So many things to give away, so little time to figure out how to give them away.
So there you have it. BBTwo is about to kick off and it's time to reload your FTP account, start firing up those Token Frenzies, and strap in for an 8 week, 27 tournament challenge to see what you are made of.We are going to kick things off on Sunday, October 21st with the big prizepool in Miami Don's Big Game. The rest of the Blogger Schedule will go as planned except now the Riverchasers events will also be weekly during the challenge. The challenge will run for 8 weeks ending on Sunday, December 16th with another Big Game.
If you have any questions, feel free to drop them in comments or shoot Al an email.
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Tournament: Mondays at the Hoy
When: Every Monday. 10pm ET
Game: NLHE DeepstackBuyin: $24+2
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Tournament: Riverchasers Online Poker Tour
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Home Game, Hero of the Week
I'm back, more on that later, but first I want to start out with a weekly feature that will run titled, "Home Game Hero of the Week". For some background, I play in a home game that occurs every Friday night near my house. This game consists of a variety of players ranging from great, to good, to bad, to awful, to downright sick how the fuck can you play those to cards together?
It's a good mix with the good players winning 95% of the time and the other players sneaking a donkey win or place every now and again. The game normally consists of 15-20 people and I'll introduce them all to you throughout the course of this series. This way, you'll understand some of their tendencies and be able to evaluate hands with me as we go further along in the series. I won't be specific with names at all, but I'll try to provide you all the information necessary to understand a certain player.
The Home Game, Hero of the Week will generally consist of the donkey that busts me, not just because it gives me a chance to wallow in my own self pity, but also because I will have the maximum amount of information for that hand. I will occasionally list hands I was not involved with as well, since these hands are often as important as the hands that I would be playing. Got it? Good. Moving on. The game this week consisted of 9 people (considerably low for normal). Starting stacks of 20K, Unlimited Rebuys for the first hour.
This week's Home Game, Hero of the Week involves Five-Gap. Derived from the term one-gap or two gap. Also derived from amount of space that is seen in his upper set of teeth. Examples of hands seen by Five-Gap include J/5, 10/4, K/8(insert any number after a K, Q, or A). These hands are gold for Five-Gap. Of course, soooted is preferred. At the time of his famed move, there were 5 rebuys from 4 people and we are now down to 5. Two places paid tonight, first place gets $250, second place gets $100. There are 420K chips in play and Five-gap has luckboxed his way into over 180K. With blinds at 400/800 he is in no trouble of easing into the final 2 for his first every payout.
He has easily busted (whether they rebought or left after the rebuy period) 6 people thus far. Some of the hands used to collect chips to this point include A2o, 22 unimproved, Q8, J4 and 54s. Five-gap has been known to play ultra aggressive with any hand, call down with any hand, and cannot be bluffed. He is the ultimate aggressive calling station. Five-gap is the ultimate limper. He has been known to call raises against tight players with ATC and this sometimes causes players to stop raising with hands like AK, AQ, JJ-88 because they know Five-gap will call and they are better off controlling the pot size. Just because Five-gap bets a lot, does not mean he does so well. T200 into a T5000 pot is normal for Five-gap because he does not understand pot odds or pushing people out.
A second player in this hand, The Boss, runs the game out of his garage and is an exact replica (minus a foot in height and mustache length) of the father from Orange County Choppers, Paul Teutul, Sr. His game is very much like that of a calling station, but a very loose calling station who will actually bet when no one else is inclined. He will call you down with top pair in most situations, but he is a generally smart player who has just not gotten into a lot of the strategy involved in poker. Consistantly, and I cannot say that strongly enough, gets into the bottom 2-4, with one win. Seems to always know when he is ahead and behind and difficult to read because of his loose starting hand requirements. Back to the hand, 5 players left and I am is sitting with 75K in the BB. I've played with Five-gap on three different occasions and have seen many of his spectacular moves to this point.
I'm dealt Jh4h and am ready to check my option, as the table has been as passive as could possibly be (one guy has had KK twice and not raised either time). Limpers all around and we see a flop of Js 4s 3h. Check from the small blind and I check looking to check raise whoever got a piece of the pot with my top two. UTG, The Boss, leads out for T3000 into the T4000 pot. UTG+1 folds, Five-gap calls, SB folds and I reraise T12000 more. UTG thinks for a minute and calls. Five-gap instacalls. I have T59000 at this point and need to put them both on a hand while the turn is the 8h. At this point I've narrowed Five-gap down to a shitload of hands. Hands that I am getting beat by at this point include JJ, J8, 88, 44, 33. He could easily (this is what I initially put him on) have top pair with a 9+ kicker where I would be 88% to win. He could very easily have two spades which would put me at 70%-30%. A straight draw is possible which would put me close to 90%, two lower pair which would put me at 90% or just bottom pair which puts me at 91%. At the time, I put him on either top pair, a medium pair that's not a set, or a flush/straight draw, maybe both but not likely.
I put The Boss on a flush draw, from previously playing with him and he tends to think more about calling with draws, than calling with his made hands. I was inclined to think at the time that one had a flush draw, while the other had top pair, most likely AJ, QJ, KJ, 10J as these are all hands played frequently by this bunch. The 8h on the turn made my hand all the more stronger, as I now have a redraw in case I am up against an unfortunate set. I want to know on the turn if I am up against a set, or whether they are drawing so I decide to bet T45000 into the T49000 pot. Looking back I should have just pushed or bet smaller to give myself some room to get away, leaving T15000 doesn't do me much good either way. I don't like it now, but I thought it would be effective to punish or push out the drawing hand and punish the top pair hand. UTG thought for two minutes solid and folded. At this point I am certain that he had the draw, but the bet would have effectively put him close to all in and he chose to fight another day. Five-gap instacalls again. I've seen this call before and it screams, "I have top pair and I will call you down don't bluff me". I've seen it before, and I'll see it again. Thus the reason that the 3c did not scare me. I really didn't want to give him a chance out of this pot without paying me off for the rest. I was certain that he had top pair, and if I was wrong I was certain his flush did not get there and he might be tempted to call me down with Ace high for the price and the pot being T139000.
I put my T15000 in and as I was counting it out Five-gap thought about it and I grew more and more confidant. After counting it out, he waited another 20 seconds before calling and waiting for me to table my 2 pair. To say he slow rolled me would be an understatement, first he placed his cards face down, then he turned them over, one on top of the other with the Ks showing. Then he slid that to the side to reveal the 3d which tripped up on the river. That one took a minute to register and I had to actively think to myself to stay calm because I did not want to scare off the fish for next time.
For that hand, Five-gap earns my coveted Hero of the Week award. The Hero of the Week award would not be complete without telling how Five-gap finished. I stayed til the end because I drove one of my friends to the game and was able to witness Five-gap play every hand for the next hour, doubling up every player and eventually busting in 3rd place with no money. After he left, The Boss and I talked about his play and it was not the first time that Five-gap had taken a monster chip lead into the last couple of players. And we're both certain this would not be the last time he takes a monster fall like the one this week.
It's a good mix with the good players winning 95% of the time and the other players sneaking a donkey win or place every now and again. The game normally consists of 15-20 people and I'll introduce them all to you throughout the course of this series. This way, you'll understand some of their tendencies and be able to evaluate hands with me as we go further along in the series. I won't be specific with names at all, but I'll try to provide you all the information necessary to understand a certain player.
The Home Game, Hero of the Week will generally consist of the donkey that busts me, not just because it gives me a chance to wallow in my own self pity, but also because I will have the maximum amount of information for that hand. I will occasionally list hands I was not involved with as well, since these hands are often as important as the hands that I would be playing. Got it? Good. Moving on. The game this week consisted of 9 people (considerably low for normal). Starting stacks of 20K, Unlimited Rebuys for the first hour.
This week's Home Game, Hero of the Week involves Five-Gap. Derived from the term one-gap or two gap. Also derived from amount of space that is seen in his upper set of teeth. Examples of hands seen by Five-Gap include J/5, 10/4, K/8(insert any number after a K, Q, or A). These hands are gold for Five-Gap. Of course, soooted is preferred. At the time of his famed move, there were 5 rebuys from 4 people and we are now down to 5. Two places paid tonight, first place gets $250, second place gets $100. There are 420K chips in play and Five-gap has luckboxed his way into over 180K. With blinds at 400/800 he is in no trouble of easing into the final 2 for his first every payout.
He has easily busted (whether they rebought or left after the rebuy period) 6 people thus far. Some of the hands used to collect chips to this point include A2o, 22 unimproved, Q8, J4 and 54s. Five-gap has been known to play ultra aggressive with any hand, call down with any hand, and cannot be bluffed. He is the ultimate aggressive calling station. Five-gap is the ultimate limper. He has been known to call raises against tight players with ATC and this sometimes causes players to stop raising with hands like AK, AQ, JJ-88 because they know Five-gap will call and they are better off controlling the pot size. Just because Five-gap bets a lot, does not mean he does so well. T200 into a T5000 pot is normal for Five-gap because he does not understand pot odds or pushing people out.
A second player in this hand, The Boss, runs the game out of his garage and is an exact replica (minus a foot in height and mustache length) of the father from Orange County Choppers, Paul Teutul, Sr. His game is very much like that of a calling station, but a very loose calling station who will actually bet when no one else is inclined. He will call you down with top pair in most situations, but he is a generally smart player who has just not gotten into a lot of the strategy involved in poker. Consistantly, and I cannot say that strongly enough, gets into the bottom 2-4, with one win. Seems to always know when he is ahead and behind and difficult to read because of his loose starting hand requirements. Back to the hand, 5 players left and I am is sitting with 75K in the BB. I've played with Five-gap on three different occasions and have seen many of his spectacular moves to this point.
I'm dealt Jh4h and am ready to check my option, as the table has been as passive as could possibly be (one guy has had KK twice and not raised either time). Limpers all around and we see a flop of Js 4s 3h. Check from the small blind and I check looking to check raise whoever got a piece of the pot with my top two. UTG, The Boss, leads out for T3000 into the T4000 pot. UTG+1 folds, Five-gap calls, SB folds and I reraise T12000 more. UTG thinks for a minute and calls. Five-gap instacalls. I have T59000 at this point and need to put them both on a hand while the turn is the 8h. At this point I've narrowed Five-gap down to a shitload of hands. Hands that I am getting beat by at this point include JJ, J8, 88, 44, 33. He could easily (this is what I initially put him on) have top pair with a 9+ kicker where I would be 88% to win. He could very easily have two spades which would put me at 70%-30%. A straight draw is possible which would put me close to 90%, two lower pair which would put me at 90% or just bottom pair which puts me at 91%. At the time, I put him on either top pair, a medium pair that's not a set, or a flush/straight draw, maybe both but not likely.
I put The Boss on a flush draw, from previously playing with him and he tends to think more about calling with draws, than calling with his made hands. I was inclined to think at the time that one had a flush draw, while the other had top pair, most likely AJ, QJ, KJ, 10J as these are all hands played frequently by this bunch. The 8h on the turn made my hand all the more stronger, as I now have a redraw in case I am up against an unfortunate set. I want to know on the turn if I am up against a set, or whether they are drawing so I decide to bet T45000 into the T49000 pot. Looking back I should have just pushed or bet smaller to give myself some room to get away, leaving T15000 doesn't do me much good either way. I don't like it now, but I thought it would be effective to punish or push out the drawing hand and punish the top pair hand. UTG thought for two minutes solid and folded. At this point I am certain that he had the draw, but the bet would have effectively put him close to all in and he chose to fight another day. Five-gap instacalls again. I've seen this call before and it screams, "I have top pair and I will call you down don't bluff me". I've seen it before, and I'll see it again. Thus the reason that the 3c did not scare me. I really didn't want to give him a chance out of this pot without paying me off for the rest. I was certain that he had top pair, and if I was wrong I was certain his flush did not get there and he might be tempted to call me down with Ace high for the price and the pot being T139000.
I put my T15000 in and as I was counting it out Five-gap thought about it and I grew more and more confidant. After counting it out, he waited another 20 seconds before calling and waiting for me to table my 2 pair. To say he slow rolled me would be an understatement, first he placed his cards face down, then he turned them over, one on top of the other with the Ks showing. Then he slid that to the side to reveal the 3d which tripped up on the river. That one took a minute to register and I had to actively think to myself to stay calm because I did not want to scare off the fish for next time.
For that hand, Five-gap earns my coveted Hero of the Week award. The Hero of the Week award would not be complete without telling how Five-gap finished. I stayed til the end because I drove one of my friends to the game and was able to witness Five-gap play every hand for the next hour, doubling up every player and eventually busting in 3rd place with no money. After he left, The Boss and I talked about his play and it was not the first time that Five-gap had taken a monster chip lead into the last couple of players. And we're both certain this would not be the last time he takes a monster fall like the one this week.
Portal the Flash Version
This game is awesome. Portal the Flash Version. It looks like it's only been out a few days. There are 41 levels and it took me about 2 and a half hours to beat the whole thing. A well spent two and a half hours I might add.
Monday, October 15, 2007
WBCOOP
Well, this was interesting. I was wiring my basement with my uncle yesterday. We started at 3:15, right after the blogger championship started. Third hand in I get QQ and raise. Get two callers on and take a 9 high flop. One bets the other calls and I push. Two folds and I am at 18000. I go help for an hour come back and have 14000. While my uncle smokes I play 10 hands, on #9 I get 9c10c in late position and call a raise with two others. Flop is 9h8c7c. There is a bet from the OR, a min raise and I push. Min raiser calls with 6h6d. Turn is the 6s. River 6c. Yep, straight flush > 4 of a kind. Go me. I am at 30000 only playing 10 hands an hour. I come back and there are 400 some-odd people left and I have 16000. First hand back I raise the 400/800 blinds to 4000 from MP with 99. Two callers including the button and BB and we see an A 10 9 flop rainbow. BB goes all in for 16000 or so and has me covered by a bit. I instacall and the button folds. He flips the JackAce. Turn 8. River Q and I am done. We stopped working right after that too and I could have came back with somewhere around 30K heading into the homestretch with 500/1000 blinds. Very shitty way to go. Also because of the work had to leave a HORSE tournament with 30K in chips and 50 people left. Ended up blinding out in 25th place. Really didn't think I'd go that quick, but I guess the antes and blinds got me. Probably a lot of bring-ins as usual in RSE.
I'm not complaining too much, my uncle the electrician did the whole back of our basement for free. We are turning it into a workout room and all we have paid for so far is the wood for the frame and the dry wall. My father in law did the framing, uncle for the wiring and a friend of mine will be doing the dry wall. The dry wall may have to wait unless I can get another big guy to come over and help lift it, as I'm having my vasectomy this Friday and won't be able to left anything. We'll just have to wait and be hopeful.
I'm not complaining too much, my uncle the electrician did the whole back of our basement for free. We are turning it into a workout room and all we have paid for so far is the wood for the frame and the dry wall. My father in law did the framing, uncle for the wiring and a friend of mine will be doing the dry wall. The dry wall may have to wait unless I can get another big guy to come over and help lift it, as I'm having my vasectomy this Friday and won't be able to left anything. We'll just have to wait and be hopeful.
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