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P.L.O. Comes to Poker After Dark

Reed — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:30:06 +0000

Finally a T.V. cash game that features something other then No LImit Hold’em. There is other card games and yes people would like to see them played.

Poker After Dark does it right with the right game (PLO ) and the right line up. Big names like Ivey, Dwan and Patrick Antonious battleing it out with four card and one hundred thousand miniumun buy in.

Pot Limit Omaha is a very fun and complex game and I would like to thank Poker After Dark for bringing it to us.

World Series of Poker Begins Tuesday

Look Ma! No hands …..again…

Reed — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:33:01 +0000

I took a a break from playing the live tournaments at the casino because I was going through a ridiculous bad run ( not wining a single hand during tournaments qualifies as ridiculous to me ). Now granted I have been running very good with a record of nine out of eleven final tables in muti table NL Holdem tournaments at the casino including a first place, so I wasn’t surprised to get slapped in the face at least once with a horrible showing, but I have had enough.

I never proclaimed to be the best in the world or without luck I would win every hand, hence my punishment seems unfair. I get variance. That means ups and downs, not straight down and hang out in the depths of card deadmanship and lets wallow here for a while. ( cue Rocky theme music softly then increase volume steadily ) Time to get back on track, Time to take the Bull by the horns and show him who’s the boss. I’m absolutely gonna win it, because I’m ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. Time to get back to work.

On the Tournament Trail

On the Tournament Trail

Reed — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:27:45 +0000

Been doing really good in NL Hold’em tournaments as of lately. Been playing the live tournaments at the casino and have a record of four out of four final tables.

Going to play again tomorrow night and see if I can make it five by five ( thats for all you Buffy fans out there who will get the reference) .

Held My Ground and Took It Down!

Reed — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:26:49 +0000

Played in the morning shoot out at my local casino. It was the normal Monday/Wed./Fri. crowd with only two people out of the eleven didn’t recognize. Didn’t take me to long to size up the two variables and label them both tight/conservative.

I wasn’t getting any really good starting hands but found a couple good situations to raise and take down some dead money just waiting for me in the middle of the table. Then I got a saving grace when I raised with Ace Queen off and pushed on a all low board. Got called by Ace King suited ( two of his suit flopped) and happy to say I hit a miracle Queen on the river to double up. Now I have some chips and gives me some breathing room to play some poker. I run my stack up and down till I get to heads up against one of the local pro’s.

He offered me a deal but ended up turning it down after he wouldn’t budge over leaving a tip. So we played it out. He was ready to gamble but didn’t let him suck me into that kind of no skill coin flip type of pissing contest. We ended up getting it all in four times and every time I had the best hand and amazingly they held up every time.

It was a good win and very satisfying to get the whole thing after the guy wouldn’t make a reasonable deal.

(he lost it all over a dealer tip)

Took 1st Place at UB PLO8 Tournament

Reed — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:45:34 +0000

This was a fun little tourney I played on Ultimate Bet. It was a low buy-in with rebuys and add-ons. I was doing good before the brake so I didn’t do any re-buys but did the add-on just to pad my chips a little.

Stage #384248635 Tourney ID 5770529 Omaha Hi/Lo Multi Normal Tournament Pot Limit 2,500 – 2010-10-05 19:31:14 (ET)
Table: 1 (Real Money) Seat #6 is the dealer
Seat 6 – DEMONBIRD71 (130,459 in chips)
Seat 7 – MEME917 (16,041 in chips)
DEMONBIRD71 – Posts small blind 1,250
MEME917 – Posts big blind 2,500
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to DEMONBIRD71 [4h Kd 3c 10h]
DEMONBIRD71 – Calls 1,250
MEME917 – Raises 5,000 to 7,500
DEMONBIRD71 – Calls 5,000
*** FLOP *** [10c Kh Js]
MEME917 – All-In 8,541
DEMONBIRD71 – Calls 8,541
*** TURN *** [10c Kh Js] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [10c Kh Js 2s] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DEMONBIRD71 – Shows [4h Kd 3c 10h] (Two Pair, kings and tens)
MEME917 – Shows [Jd 9h 8c 10s] (Two Pair, jacks and tens)
DEMONBIRD71 Collects 32,082 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(32,082)
Board [10c Kh Js 2s Ac]
Seat 6: DEMONBIRD71 (dealer) (small blind) won Total (32,082) HI:(32,082) with Two Pair, kings and tens [4h Kd 3c 10h - B:Kh,P:Kd,P:10h,B:10c,B:Ac]
Seat 7: MEME917 (big blind) HI:lost with Two Pair, jacks and tens [Jd 9h 8c 10s - B:Js,P:Jd,P:10s,B:10c,B:Ac]

Omaha Crash and Burn Day

Reed — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:21:37 +0000

Played the live cash Omaha H/L game at the casino today. It started out a little slow then my cards started hitting and I blew up about three and a half buy-in’s. This was great because i dropped a couple the other night during the Jeep drawings.
Most of the table was the same old regulars with a couple new people to figure out peppered in. Didn’t take long to see the new people had no idea what they were doing, which was good for a while………until……all of their runner runner and two outers on the river started to hit. And hit, and hit.
I started to feel sick as much nut hands on the flop and turn were being run over with hands sane people wouldn’t even have called pre-flop! They stopped being the pay off fish and were oblivious sharks falling into one wining hand after another. My sickness was getting worse as my chips kept disappearing.
I ended up busting out of the table and not re-buying. All I can hope is that this session re-inforced thier bad play into their minds and they will keep coming back hoping to get amazingly lucky.

Showed No Mercy at No Limit Hold’em Shootout

Reed — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:26:39 +0000

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.

As you may have already guessed I decide to play the tournament, while not so much me as the blackjack machine my wife was playing. We do as the machines tell us. She had a set amount to spend and if she was doing well when it was time for the shootout to start then I would play, if not, it’s back home to get something done ( or nap , which ever).

I was playing well, got a hold of some chips and started to push the local heavy table. most of them are push overs and even when they do get a big hand they priced me in or slow played it till I caught up and busted them out. When it got down to three handed I had the chip lead and the lone woman at the table took her stand with no pair when I put her all in with trips on the flop. Yes I raised with Jack three off suit and hit trip threes on the flop, I was running good and I figured they were just going to fold.

Heads up! Most of the time the locals like to chop the pot at this time and either get into a Hold’em game or go about their day. Not today my friend i was here to play and wasn’t about to show any mercy (Slayer is now playing in the back ground). I have played alot with Mr. D. and know his game well. He thinks of himself as tricky but most of the time I see right through him. I pulled off several bluffs and got away clean when he had big hands and in the end I was victorious. I got all the cash and a entry into the end of the month freeroll.

Feeling good.

Let there be Omaha

Reed — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:13:25 +0000

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.

Got High at the Omaha H/L Game

Reed — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:09:56 +0000

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.

I sit down and right off the bat I get some premium hands that hit the board square on and get paid off. The start of a good session. I know most of the table really well, a couple new faces but all in all I know exactly how to play to squeeze out the maximum from the poor and frankly weak play.

I get this hand on the button (Qd,Qs,3h,9h) which by all standards should have not only been folded but burned might be more appropriate. Anyway there was the usual table full of limper’s and frankly I was thinking I was going to at least hit a Queen so I limped in also. Flop came Kc,Qh,3c. Bingo! Well my feeling was right now My set of Queens just has to hold up ( if I’m not beat already with someone holding pocket Kings) so after two people check a moderately aggressive younger guy bets out, couple callers and here I come over the top with a raise to try and protect my hand while at the same time get more money in the pot. I get two callers ( at this point I have a filthy three percent chance of wining after finding out what my opponents had I ran it through a calculator). The turn reveals a Ah. Not a horrible card but it certainly made at least one of them a straight so it’s time to slow down. Sure enough the caller was now betting with what I figured to be a made nut straight ( but I still have a forty one percent chance of wining with my flush and full house draws). A beautiful 8h hits the river giving me a flush. The original better fires out a bet leaving me only able to call with my weak flush. The other person called also with their straight.

My flush holds up for high and I get a very decent pot. Unfortunately the original better also had a 2,4 to split half the pot (he also had the nut straight with the club re draw)

Bad beat?

Reed — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:45:46 +0000

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.

Big Slick Bad Beat