To update...

I have been somewhat AWOL lately, especially in the BBTwo which is really unfortunate because from the reports it is filled with amazing amounts of dead money. Advertise and they will come I suppose. Monday's I've been playing at my local casino where I've gotten into a nice rhythm of showing up around 3 PM, playing some supersoft 1/2 NL Holdem, taking a little break for supper around 6, and back to the poker room for the 6:30 $40 Omaha Hi/Lo tournament. Boy I love me some O8.

Two weeks of playing the tournament and I've come out of it in 4th and 1st, the latter time being all-in with my big blind with 7 players left, and winning the main pot by rivering eights and sixes on a QJ896 board. The man in the 10 seat said it must be destiny, and from that point forward I didn't lose another hand I played, knocking out four of the other six players from that point.

Add those two results to the $430 cash I made by winning a $25 blackjack tournament on the last hand and you can see why I'm spending more time there as of late. The BJ tournament was the sickest finish ever, more nerve-racking than any all-in I've had lately. In 3rd place I bet 500 of my 1600 and of course I get 8s against a dealer 9. Go big or go home, so I split the 8s making the bet 1000, 6 on the first one, hit the 14, get a 7 for 21. The second one is a 3 for an 11, double down that one making the bet basically my whole stack, and lo and behold a beautiful king for another 21.

SICKEST. HAND. EVER.

So there it is, that's what I've been up to lately in the poker(ish) world. I've got some kind of banner coming for knocking mookie out of his own tournament with aces against the hammer. So maybe some new scenery around here. We'll call it growing pains. Tonight I'll be skipping the MATH to play the O8 tournament. Good luck to all.

Good News, Bad News

So I didn't do so well in the mookie, and I crapped the bed in the dookie. However, I did manage to knock out mookie and hoyazo, the two big main blogger tournament hosts. And the KO on mookie came with AA against 72o, as the hammer failed to suck out on me. So I got my choice of a Vegas Bet or a banner for the blog. Seems like I'm gonna have to go with the banner, I'm sure it'll look good. That's all for the night, bedtime.

It's October Already!?!

Yes welcome to October, where the leaves change color and perennial football powers such as South Florida and Boston College loom the top ten. Maybe not so much the latter, but its getting colder, so that means I'm stayin inside where its warm and making me some hot chocolate and playing more poker.

First, the mookie is tonight, everyone should attend, it's not like you have anything better to do. I'm gonna be trying to make my way onto the money list. I've played four times, and the best I've done was the final two tables. I should be able to change that tonight.

Second, I will be attending the Canterbury Card Club's Fall Classic, and playing in the 200+30 NL Hold'em tourney on October 16 at 7 PM. A couple of friends and I decided to take a stab at it, and it would be nice to get some live experience back under my belt. It'll be my first big tournament of that size, and I'm really looking forward to it. The only thing I'm indecisive about is what my table image should be. I've come down to two options:

1) Hot Shot Young Gun, break out the Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki jersey and a Full Tilt hat and glasses, headphones and the music, maybe bring a sweatshirt so I can easily move from that to the Phil Laak look.

2) T-shirt and nice jacket with lucky blue jeans, try to put across the fact that I'm more of an old school, manners kind of guy.

I really am more like #2 but #1 has its advantages too. Decisions, decisions...

My beloved Cubs lost so I won't be watching any more baseball the rest of the year. Don't get me wrong, I love baseball, I just have no interest in Indians-RedSox or DBags-Rockies.

That's all for now. See yall at the tables.

Welcome Back, Kotter

Ok folks here's what we're looking at. About a month ago, I decided to take one last swing at the whole online poker thing. So I put some money into Full Tilt and took a swing at it. Now normally that wouldn't be enough to get back to blogging, but I got a nice kick in the butt Monday when I got second in Mondays at the Hoy for a nice $140 profit, and that's only because my AA got cracked by KJc with a river flush. It couldn't have happened to a better blogger, as bdidde of biggestron.com took the $250 dollar profit and put it toward a worthy cause in Leukemia research. If you got anything to spare, this would be something good to put it toward.

So during the final table I had many people ask me if I had a blog and I gave the same answer "I used to run one, but I had a hard time writing a lot." Well I gave it a second thought, and sure why not, lets go at it again. So here I am.

There's gonna be some changes in layout and I'm gonna do my darnedst to write everyday. But now I gotta get back to the mookie. Short stacked is no good way to go through a mookie.