Well school is coming to an end before Christmas break and I am stuck in my room studying for a philosophy test and playing PL Omaha8, and giving neither activity the attention needed to do either well. I have class until 4 on the last day of school, I have to be out of the dorms at 6, and I can’t pack anything because my roommate is still asleep at noon. Going home is going to be nice though, as I don’t have much down time between getting home and Christmas. Past years I’ve had two weeks before Christmas and I’ve been ridiculously bored, and have had nothing to do whatsoever, except play videogames and waste away to nothing.
This year is perfect though. I’m back home tonight, Christmas Sunday, then the post-Christmas workouts to try to get back what I lose on Xmas Day. Probably won’t be much poker content here over the next couple weeks, mostly because of the lack of internet access at home but I’ll put up some random blurbs about holidays and what not. Until then, I bid you all adieu.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Late Night O8
(This was supposed to be much longer but as I published it, I lost everything. So this is version two of this entry.)
I wanted to play some fun poker last night so I decided to fire up the internet and found a nice O8 freeroll, 550 players, 27 people paid and first place a whopping… $1.50. Yeah its not much but just some fun poker. I decided to play kinda crazy, capped everything preflop, and played my best after the flop. I could afford to do it cause it was somewhat deepstacked and ten minute levels gave us some time to work. Donked around for about an hour and a half, picked up some scoops and enough lows to stay aound average.
I hit a really nice hand with about 60 players left that moved me into the chip lead. I came into the hand with a better than average stack and found Kc3c5d5h. It was 3-bet to me and I capped it preflop, not exactly textbook play, but like I said just having some fun. The flop came down A26 all clubs and I can hear Vince Van Patten talking about sugar plum crap dancing around in my head (or something like that, I don’t really watch that stuff anymore.) Turn Jd, river the money card 4c, virtually guaranteeing me 3/4ths of this pot if not all. It was capped on every street, all three callers played every street, and I got to see what they were playing.
-Qc7cJsJh (flopped second nut flush, turned set of jacks)
-AsAh3h4h (flopped set of aces and nut low)
-Ad2d6s8s (flopped three pair)
Through the magic of twodimes.net:
Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 376992 enumerated boards
cards scoop HIwin HIlos LOwin LOlos EV
Kc 3c 5d 5h 33600 82259 293867 9429 96048 0.162
Js Qc 7c Jd 72964 100824 276168 0 0 0.230
As Ah 4h 3h 68032 90961 285165 87195 74433 0.295
8s 6s Ad 2d 72787 102082 274845 91398 87813 0.313
Thank you, poker gods for the flop love, despite the poor EV preflop.
I ended up getting counterfeited at the final table, after my straight and 23 nut low, was undone. I came in ninth place loving the eight cents I won. A couple more of those and I can buy a gumball. But it was more about trying out a slightly new style and having some fun. That’s all for now, time for some lunch. Frozen pizza sound good?
I wanted to play some fun poker last night so I decided to fire up the internet and found a nice O8 freeroll, 550 players, 27 people paid and first place a whopping… $1.50. Yeah its not much but just some fun poker. I decided to play kinda crazy, capped everything preflop, and played my best after the flop. I could afford to do it cause it was somewhat deepstacked and ten minute levels gave us some time to work. Donked around for about an hour and a half, picked up some scoops and enough lows to stay aound average.
I hit a really nice hand with about 60 players left that moved me into the chip lead. I came into the hand with a better than average stack and found Kc3c5d5h. It was 3-bet to me and I capped it preflop, not exactly textbook play, but like I said just having some fun. The flop came down A26 all clubs and I can hear Vince Van Patten talking about sugar plum crap dancing around in my head (or something like that, I don’t really watch that stuff anymore.) Turn Jd, river the money card 4c, virtually guaranteeing me 3/4ths of this pot if not all. It was capped on every street, all three callers played every street, and I got to see what they were playing.
-Qc7cJsJh (flopped second nut flush, turned set of jacks)
-AsAh3h4h (flopped set of aces and nut low)
-Ad2d6s8s (flopped three pair)
Through the magic of twodimes.net:
Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 376992 enumerated boards
cards scoop HIwin HIlos LOwin LOlos EV
Kc 3c 5d 5h 33600 82259 293867 9429 96048 0.162
Js Qc 7c Jd 72964 100824 276168 0 0 0.230
As Ah 4h 3h 68032 90961 285165 87195 74433 0.295
8s 6s Ad 2d 72787 102082 274845 91398 87813 0.313
Thank you, poker gods for the flop love, despite the poor EV preflop.
I ended up getting counterfeited at the final table, after my straight and 23 nut low, was undone. I came in ninth place loving the eight cents I won. A couple more of those and I can buy a gumball. But it was more about trying out a slightly new style and having some fun. That’s all for now, time for some lunch. Frozen pizza sound good?
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
The Beginning of the journey
The fun begins. This is a poker blog. At least for now. I hope I can keep it that way, because other attempts at a poker blog have shown me that I suck at taking notes. The name is a reference to a recent in-game poker chat blunder made by Poker Brat himself, Phil Hellmuth.
I turn 21 in about a month so until then, I get to deal with the holiday brouhaha, and the online poker crap, until the 11th of January at which point I get to dive into live poker headon. So this is the beginning right now, and thats all I got right now so there.
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