solid weekend...

With Melissa headed down to Florida for Friday and Saturday night, my plan was pretty simple.

1. Mow the lawn
   
2. get some cd cases so I could consolidate my dvd/cd collections and get rid of two book shelves full of them
   
3. pick up my wedding ring from the city
   
4. put up a shelf in the closet
5. drink some drinks on Friday night while...
   
6. Playing lots of poker...and
7. win lots of money playing poker

started out with some small stuff and then ventured into the $11Rebuy $55k guaranteed...couldn't get much going there and with the help of the alcohol probably, I decided to enter the $109+Rebuys ... what the hell am I thinking here? :-) I started looking up all my competition's stats on pokerdb and just about everyone i was sitting with had over $50k in winnings...great! Then...woopdeefreakindoooo...I get moved two to Rizen's left. Nice, tourney just got a lot easier ;-) I actually took down the only two pots I played against him. One time with air (probably better air than his judging by how aggressive I hear he is) and one time with bottom pair of deuces and he didn't want to see any more cards. Snaked my way through all these juggernauts to end up here...

Saturday was the day from HELL! took bad beat after bad beat all day long and blew through several hundred dollars. No lie, I took PP against smaller PP and lost at least 5 times to 4 card flushes. just disgusting stuff. I would have my revenge though...

Sunday started out like Saturday when I busted out of my first tourney of the day with AA v. 22....yup, another 4 card flush. OMG, not again. luckily the day turned around and I won my entry to the $215. Only played a few tourneys on Sunday, the Stars $1,000,000 being one of them. I really would've liked to see some cards in this tourney. Here's the breakdown of the garbage I had to work with...

• AA = 0
• KK = 0
• QQ = 1
• JJ = 0
• TT = 3
• AKs = 0
• AK = 0
• AQ = 2
• AJs = 1
• AJ = 1

some smaller pp's obviously, but that was it for the 4 hours or so that I played. those are some disgusting hands. but I managed to small ball for close to two hours to work my stack up to around T7k. Made my way into the money along with Tdizz...and got chopped back down to around T9k when I pick up TT UTG...blinds are in the neighborhood of 300/600, so I feel like I have enough to make a standard raise. correct me if I'm wrong here. I bump it up to 1800 and the button puts me all in. I instacall at this point. can't fold TT in this spot...unlucky as he's got KK...

but the board brings 4 beautiful diamonds and I get a little revenge on the 4 flush board :D ... i get berated for a while about calling with TT there...Lucko comes to my defense (thanks Kev), I can't fold TT there...no way no day. not after already making the money.

I'm able to weave my way into $800 worth of cash when the final hand comes up. folds around to me in the SB and I've got J8o...i just complete here and the BB makes some retarded raise of like 1.8 bb's or so. this guy has not gotten cute with anything that I've noticed. I call and the flop is 587 ... two spades I think. I lead out and he pushes instantly...I'm not really deep at this point and my read on him preflop was something like AT, maybe KQ something along those lines. certainly nothing better than 88 as he would've pushed harder preflop to win it right there. On this flop, I'm pretty damn sure I'm good. I call and he flips up 86o...so he's got top pair and the OESD and I've got top pair better kicker...he turns a 6 and I don't catch a jack and I'm out. Great call...unlucky on the 11 outer. and I'm done here:


Good weekend for me...could've been better. Never settle...

I'm lazy...

damn, I am.

I even have some decent stuff to report that you guys all know about already. I won my first live Casino tourney. It was a pretty small win, but 1st is 1st. It was Friday June 9, the Trump Taj Mahal $80+20 limit 8/b tourney. I've played this tourney 3 times now. 1st, 4th and 5th so far. Yeah, I own this tourney. It's just a shame that it starts at 3:15pm and I have to take vacation time to get there for the start.

That was the start to a good weekend. hung out with some of the +1 crew (Phil-mackem, Kevin-lucko, Dave-dwal, Dawn-Raven)...a good time was had by all. Kevin destroyed the $2/5 NL game at the Trop and the Taj. Phil seemed to be up, not sure of a final tally and I don't know how Dawn finished up. Dave had a bad run of cards and finished down a little.

nothing exciting online lately ... more tomorrow

It's Thursday ... :D

nothing exciting to report lately....Poker wise that is. Melissa is doing great after the Lasik surgery. the one week check-up went very well and they said everything is healing nicely. i'm guessing she'll be completely fine by the end of the weekend. amazing stuff.

on the poker front, we've run into some bad hands...lost a couple big pots at key points in tourneys. once to a runner runner bigger full house and once to a 4 card straight with AA losing to 33.

tonight should be fun as we have our first forum tourney in a looooooooooong time. those are always a good time. shame I have to pwn all ya'll.

big weekend coming up. fishing a bluefish tournament on saturday with my boss (if the weather holds up)...and then saturday night and sunday are atlantic city days...Sunday night, melis and I are meeting up with the snadlys and neccowafers at the Trop in AC. maybe dwal too?