Played the Morning NL Hold’em shootout this morning at the casino after much debate with the wife. We hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before and had to drag each other out of bed to take the kid to school which just so happens to be just passed the casino. A coincidence I assure you. A convenient one true but sometimes a slight hindrance when other things are getting put off because hell the breakfast there is decent and pretty cheap and might as well go play some poker and make some money while were at it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: freeroll, hold'em, shootout, tournament
Went to the casino tonight for a drawing they were having and thankfully they had a Omaha H/L game in the poker room. I lost a little bit before the game broke up because of a tournament that was starting. I hung around (was going to be there for the casino drawing anyway) and another game broke out about two hours later.
The game went alot better for me. Had a couple other aggressive players and a few rocks mixed with some calling stations. This made for an enjoyable game and wining made it that much better.
Football season will be starting which will bring more people to the casino and most likely lots of action and Omaha seven days a week.
Well a new bill has come out that will make it truly “legal” to play online poker again. Seems this new bill HR 2267 is on it’s way to set the new standard.
The bill will require that all online gambling ( and poker ) sites be based in the United States ( the ones to service the U.S.) . Meaning no more offshore accounts and no more wondering where in the world your money could be.
These companies will now be legally liable to the patrons of the online poker casinos and could be held accountable for anything that could happen ( Say like the president of the company wants to back door everyone on the site and take millions of dollars scott free).
The big players online are going to be scrambleing to get a foot hold on the U.S. market so there should be some good bonus deals flying, and lets all hope the players are kept in the forefront because with out us there is no internet poker.
Tags: HR 2267, internet gambleing, poker
Finally an online gaming network ( Absolute & Ultimate Bet ) has stepped up and created a bad beat jackpot for Omaha players. The problem is it’s only for PLO (pot limit Omaha) players and not eight or better plus they take a hefty thirty five percent off the top when it does hit. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apsolute, bad beat, Omaha, PLO, poker, royal flush, ultimate bet
Trivia question…………..
Name the two Hall of Fame poker pro’s that are from Dayton Ohio?
Post your answers and we will see who is the winner!
Ok, I’ll give you a hint……..one of them is a commentator on T.V.
Tags: Dayton Ohio, hall of fame, poker pro, trivia
I waited a long time to get into the Omaha H/L game this morning ( well didn’t actually get in till this afternoon) and was a little anxious to play. I had played a single table Hold’em shootout tournament that morning and got knocked out fourth place ( no money) and because of my bad timing I was far enough down on the Omaha list to make for a long wait. So i left the casino for about two hours or so and got back on the list.
Tags: flop, Flush, fullhouse, Omaha H/L, river, set, straight, turn
I think we all put way too much energy into what has gone wrong and how unfair it all is. ( I know I have ). I’m really trying to look past the surface of the “bad beats” and learn from each decision.
Whatever the out come, did you really make the best decisions through out the whole hand? or for that matter were you even supposed to be at that table or even that level? Should one hand in the scheme really make any difference? Maybe if we think a little deeper into the whole situation we will find there was alot of other factors in play then just not raising enough pre flop with your pocket Kings or whatever.
When things seemingly go wrong they have an immediate hurt effect and we are ready to blame everything and everyone else. Maybe a better approach would be to take a couple steps back and look over the whole situation. Maybe it wasn’t best to jump in a game when you have 10min. before you have to go to work or while dinner is cooking. Sometimes the out come of things is just a way of telling you to think it all the way through next time before you put your foot through the monitor screaming how fixed internet poker is.
Just a bit of Zen poker logic, hope it is helpful.
Tags: bad beat, internet poker, zen poker
“Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones – through practice.”
Tags: habits, practice, wayne dyer
Will be posting some updates of my recent exploits in Vegas at The World Series of Poker, so wait by your computer in anticipation and I’ll get to it when I can.
Tags: vegas, World Series of Poker
Back home and it’s later, around 10:30pm, and I get the feeling it’s going to be a good night to hit the $5-$150 hold’em spread game at the local casino. So it’s kisses all around and off I go. I’m not letting the days bad run effect me, I have full confidence I’m going to come out a winner. I even tell my wife on the way out that I think I’m going to win $500 tonight.
I get to the casino and get on the list, 2nd name from the top, but I don’t have to wait long. the table has the usual maniacs and a couple unknowns. There is a lot of money on the table and one of my favorites has most it (we shall call him Mr. T and he has what looks to be $2,600+) Mr. T is very aggressive and is raising every pot. It is throwing off some of the non regulars but I’m used to it and better yet I can tell when he’s got it or bluffing.
Right off the bat I get involved in several hands but must lay them down. In one hand I had Jack, seven of diamonds on the button and call a small raise along with six others in the hand. The flop comes seemingly perfect with seven, four, two and two diamonds, so I got top pair and a decent flush draw with position on everyone. Well everyone else must like it too because they go crazy with betting and raising. I may have the best hand now, I don’t know, and a nice draw but I’ve got a bad feeling and lay it down without putting anymore in the pot. Mr. T makes a straight, nobody believes he has anything and he gets paid off with a huge pot and best of all I didn’t let myself get trapped in the hand and lose a lot of money.
Now I’m down a bit but I’m still feeling good. I win a couple pots, with pocket Jacks no less (made a set) and squeezed as much as I could out of the players. I got nervous in one hand when one of the tighter players kept calling my big bets (I was on a Queen high flush draw and trying to win the pot without a show down) and I really couldn’t figure out what he had but he seemed determined to stick with it. My flush didn’t appear but I hit my six kicker for a pair, bottom pair but a pair no less. I can feel he wants to bet after I check on the river but thankfully he can’t pull the trigger and I take down a healthy pot. The guy told me he had an Ace high flush draw, no pair. (Glad that spade didn’t come). Another hand I have pocket two’s in my hand and call a raise in late position (come on deuce I pray). Bam! right on the flop, Ace , eight, two… beautiful. There is two to a flush so I raise Mr. O to try and narrow it down to heads up. We end up getting all his money in when he makes two pair on the river (Aces and Kings) and I take down a six hundred plus dollar pot. Mr. O is a restaurant owner and doesn’t seem to care much about money, he bought everyone breakfast soon after that hand.
I call some big bluffs from Mr. T and make some really good value bets and now I am the big chip holder at the table. I play till about 5:30am miss a flush draw and decide it was a good time to cash out my $1,200 and book a bad ass win.
Tags: aggresive, bluffing, casino, hold'em, kicker, maniacs, pair, set
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