Saturday, February 23, 2008

Omaha 8 Pot Limit in Cary

I must say I sort of felt like Rick or Elli last night as I flopped or turn some monsters.... there were a couple of soft plays where I lost the pots, but it was a pretty good night for me in terms of catching cards. O8 is one of those games where you do need to get some cards since your opponents all have 4 cards each the likelihood of pulling off a bluff is minimal. It can be done and I have done it, but it must be executed under the correct circumstances and against the right players. But to give you an idea..... I flopped quads three times, turned a straight flush once and rivered the double-nuts twice in about a 3.5 hour stretch. You'd better walk out a winner with those kinds of cards. Unbelievably my biggest pot was early on against Rick and Mike D....

I've got 2, 3, 4, 5 on the button. Rick is the big blind and pumps it up another $30 when it gets back to him. Mike D calls and I call. The flop is A, 2, 10 with 2 spades. Rick bets the pot and Mike D calls and I call. The turn is a 4x and Rick pushes all-in, Mike D calls and I push all-in and Mike D calls. My wheel holds up to scoop the pot.

I also flopped quads after Ron had raised pre-flop and when he bet a paltry $20 on the turn, I min-raised him and he folded. There were 2 other significant hands.... in the first I held: Ac, 3h, 4h, 5c. The flop was 2h, 5h, 7s.... there was a pre-flop straddle and I bet the pot on the flop. Everyone called and the turn was the 6h... giving me the nut low and a straight flush. Mike D bet $25, Joe called and I raised to $75 hoping that he had the Ace flush and maybe a decent low. Mike D folded and Joe called. The river was a blank and I bet and Joe folded.

The other hand was against Rahj... he was the big blind and raised it $30. I really felt like I owed him one from an earlier hand so when there were 4-5 callers I called with 2c, 3h, 8h, 8c..... the flop: 8x, 8x, A... oh boy did I hope that he was raising pre-flop with pocket Aces. I lead out with a $50 bet and everyone folded. Oh baby... I was hoping that he thought that I had an 8 or a low draw and that he would come over the top. I also didn't want to let someones low draw get there unless they were committed to it and willing to pay.

Oh well... let the suck outs begin!

Owned

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Slow Play = Quick Pain Part II

Hard to believe that this hand happened the same night... I guess this just proves that Rick is right again.... I ain't trainable. As is often the case, flopping bottom set in Omaha 8 No Limit is death. Not many times however do you convert that set to quads on the turn to lose to a straight flush on the river. It may be difficult for some, but dammit, I can do it!

The problem again was early position. I have always hated early position especially when you are trying to maximize the amount of chips that you are able to collect on any given hand. Being out of position is probably one of the worst hurdles to overcome. In this hand, I did make a mistake and I believe that it happened on the turn. Here is the setup. We're playing $2/$5 Pot Limit Omaha 8. There are about 8 of us at the table in Cary and it has been a rather calm night compared to how they usually run.

I'm the small blind and Ron is the big blind. My hand is not anything to get excited about but with limpers all around, it is easy for me complete the blind to see the flop as I am relatively certain that Ron will not raise. If it does, it is an easy hand to get away from.

My hand:






I'm not certain of Ron's other two cards. It seems that when you have a stroke at the poker table, it is possible for you to lose some short-term memory. That most certainly is what happened here.

Ron's hand:

? ?



I would like to say that he had the Ace of clubs and maybe a low wheel card. That is easy for me to put him on as he will typically not play any hand that doesn't have either 2 Aces in it or at least a suited Ace with 2-3 wheel cards in it.

I don't believe there was any straddle on this particular hand and no raise pre-flop so we're probably looking at a $40 pot. Here comes the flop:






As is normally the case, I will make a bet when I flop a set just to see who else is out there and alert. I don't completely recall, but I am fairly certain that I bet the pot. As Rick has taught me many times, he will normally flop the top set when I flop the bottom set so I really do this just to build the pot for Rick... it's something that the Juice and I feel strongly about. Ron calls which immediately sends up the radar... maybe a better set, maybe the nut low draw with a flush draw. But definitely a hand. And Joe calls. And there may have been 1-2 more calls... again... the stroke.
I can't describe how pretty the turn card was....





And here's the problem. Early position. If I bet, everyone goes away. If I check, if I am lucky enough to have just made someone a boat when my quad-7 hit the board. I will probably get paid. So.... I check. And of course, it checks all the way around.
Then the river:






I can't be too concerned about the straight flush as I bet the flop when the two straight flush cards hit the board. Ron most certainly would not have called if that the only draw that he had so he must have had a low draw with it. As fate would have it, I didn't have many more chips and there were still a couple of people behind me so rather than raise it, Ron just checked hoping that others would call. No one did....
As I was in first position and I am the perfect picture of not slow-rolling, I announced .... I've got the 2nd nut. And after a minute or two in order to build suspense, Ron turns over the straight flush and says something like, "I've got the first nut."
It certainly wasn't a surprise to me when he called my bet on the river. I fully expected him to have it when he called. But the slow-roll wasn't necessary. He may not have done it on purpose, he may just be slow in general. Perhaps....
At any rate, it is almost eerie that both these slow-plays were thwarted by Jacks and both involved a flop with the 7 & the 8. Too spooky to comprehend?
Let the suck outs begin!

Monday, February 18, 2008

Church Poker Approved by South Carolina Senate

Church Poker Approved by South Carolina Senate
by PokerPages.com Mon, Feb 18th, 2008 @ 12:00am

The South Carolina USA state Senate approved legislation last Thursday allowing churches and other nonprofit groups to raise money by hosting poker and other casino games, exempting them from South Carolina's 200-year-old law that prohibits dice and card games.

So under the bill, it would still not be legal to get together with friends for a night of poker, but you could play Texas Hold 'em, five-card draw, or seven-card stud at church, as the bill specifically mentions these forms of poker can be used to raise money for charity.

"If it raises money for a charitable cause, then I don't have a problem with it at all," said Sen. Paul Campbell, R-Goose Creek, who serves on the subcommittee that gave the bill a favorable report Thursday. Campbell said none of the members spoke against the proposal.

The law that currently bans the games is rarely enforced, but, according to an article in The Post and Courier, it has stopped plans for several charitable gambling events in the Charleston area in recent years.

NOT EVERYONE IS READY TO SHUFFLE UP

Despite poker's popularity, not all church staff would jump at the chance to host a poker fund-raising event, even if it were legal.

"I am totally against it. That is not the biblical way of providing for a ministry," the Rev. Stephen Singleton, pastor of Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street in Charleston was quoted as saying in The Post and Courier.

"Under no circumstances do I have a problem with the church soliciting funds, but when we go to games of chance, we become a casino," Singleton added.

Additionally, Pastor Leonard Griffin of Morris Street Baptist Church in Charleston said, "I saw the news, and it shocked me to think that games of chance would be allowed at the church. That's not something we endorse."

The bill is set for further discussion during the next full Judiciary Committee meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 26

Slow Play = Quick Pain

I've actually blogged about this point several times on here. When do you determine it is wise to "slow play" your monster in order to let someone "catch up?" Opinions vary, but I think that you have to determine how much of a monster, YOUR monster, really is. If I had known Mike D's hand on the flop in the example that I am about to give you, I would make the same play over and over again as I have him drawing to only 5 outs. Plus I've got a decent low and even if he were to get lucky and hit his 5 outer, I've still got re-draws to half the pot. In most instances, I'm more worried about him having and betting a low draw which means that now we're only increasing the rake on what is very likely to be a split pot. Enough prelim's... here's how it happened.

We have a surly bunch of characters including the ab-normal regulars at our Friday night Cary game of $2/$5 Omaha 8 Pot Limit. It's been a game that I have had marginal success with as Omaha 8 is definitely a "draws" game. I've heard Rick say many times that to flop the nuts in this game is the "kiss of death" and likely to cost you your entire chip stack. He is right again.....



My hand:










Mike D's hand:









The flop:










Wow! What a flop.... I'm in early position, small blind actually and as I catch of the glimpse of the big blind, he is rallying his chips as if to make a bet. I decide to let him, unfortunately Theron (sp.) loses his nerve or at least decided against it. It checks all the way to the big blind and thank goodness, Mike D decides to bet the pot. Now the 2nd dilemma.... re-raise and try to take down the small pot or at least isolate and bet out the draws. But no, greed sets in as I remember that Theron was wanting to bet on the flop.... who knows, maybe he'll isolate. So I just smooth call and Theron folds. Strap yourselves in... here comes the turn.

The turn:






Fortunately, Mike D didn't have many chips and I believe that his pot bet put him all-in and I immediately call and get the bad news. Yep, he bet the flop drawing to only five outs and found all that he needed was one. Now my only hope to get at least half the pot is any 2, 3, 5 or 6 any suit.... and you guessed it, the river:






And Mike D doubles up through me....
Let the suck outs begin!

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

A Re-run of AA vs KK - Greenstein vs Farha

"I'm the only gambler on this table I guess...." Boy, if I had a nickel for everytime I said that.... the Juice is on chip preserve.

Hopper's Analysis is Correct.....

In a recent comment on Your thoughts..... Hopper notes that the hand analysis that he and FTP had just completed relative to a hand played by FTP was the first "real analysis" in a while on our site where a hand was really broken down, disected and analyzed. And I absolutely agree.... I liked the comment. But for those of you who have seen ME play, you would not want me doing hand analysis.... it would be like putting the Juice in charge of Black History Month. Lots of opinion, but not much content.

At any rate, thanks to Hopper for beginning to blog and this is a sincere request from me for those of you who are reading regularly to begin to contribute. I'm certain that we all can learn from each other's experiences at the table. The only thing that I ask is that if you are going to be critical of someone's play, please have the intestinal fortitude to log in to do it. These hit & run slams by anonymous are below the belt and typically all wrong. As a matter of fact, any hostile anonymous quotes will be deleted going forward.

We want to hear your thoughts about the game and I look forward to some of you guys who have been regular readers beginning to contribute to the site. We need you!

Let the suck outs begin!

Saturday, February 16, 2008

St. Baldrick's Foundation Fundraiser for childhood cancer research!






Here we “glow” again.

This year’s motto:

We'll shave our hair away;
Please do what you can to pay;
So our children can keep cancer at bay.

It is that time of year again where a select few brave souls shed their beautiful locks for a good cause. As we did last year, the company where I am employed, ITXchange is participating in the St. Baldrick's Foundation drive as we support one of our core values. What is St. Baldrick’s some of you newer folks ask? Here is a brief overview for your information:

St. Baldrick's began as a casual conversation between friends and has exploded into the world's biggest volunteer-driven fundraising program for childhood cancer in just eight years!
St. Baldrick's is the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family. Events have taken place in 18 countries and 46 US states, raising over $34 million, and shaving more than 46,000 heads!

The 2008 season is expected to be another fantastic year for raising funds to fight childhood cancer by shaving heads. This is the 9th year of St. Baldrick's events, and the 4th year of existence for the independent St. Baldrick's Foundation.In 2007, St. Baldrick's events were hosted in 46 U.S. states, in addition to Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and more events are signing up daily as the movement continues to spread. Shavees and volunteers can participate in honor or in memory of kids who have fought, or are fighting, cancer. These children and teens give a face and a story to the cause, inspiring all to go the extra mile (or inch, in terms of hair!) in raising funds and awareness.Since the first event in 2000, St. Baldrick's volunteers have raised over $34 million for life-saving research and 2008 promises even more exciting progress. Every child, teen, and family deserves our very best effort to cure childhood cancer, and that's just what they'll get from the St. Baldrick's community!

The ITXchange contingent contributed over $12,000 dollars last year and is looking to increase that to $20,000 this year. It can not be met without your help and generous donations. IT Xchange has again pledged to match our donation up to $5000 with every one keeping their eyebrows.


To donate, click on the link below, then click on “donate for this team” on the right hand side of the page and use your credit card. The donations are tax deductible.



I am the manager of the local ITX team as I believe that most of you are aware that I already have a shaved head.... but you may make your contributions to me in person if you prefer.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Hold'em for Hunger - Chapel Hill

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Stressful Night

Well I just got busted out of the FTOPS Razz tourney and I'm just extremly dissappointed with myself. I played great the entire time except for 4 hands and the last one was the biggest dissappointment of them all. Its after 3:00 am and I've been up for 16 hours so I guess I'm making an excue for my stupidity. I thought my hand read 76432 and I had locks on a massive pot that would have put me back into the top 10 in chips but the action was going so fast that when I made the last bet of $10k I realized that I had 75442 which made me a 97 vs his 8. Such a let down after being chip leader or top 10 for most of the night. Ended up busting out in 25 th place put really felt like anything less then a final table was underachiving. Oh well, ended up with an $1,100 cash after a $40 satelitte buy-in so not bad but first paid out over $41k, 2nd $27k and 3rd $18k and I was right there in the running for it. There is still some more events to play. The Stud even is tomorrow and I think I will try to learn how to play that tomorrow (I greatly overvalue my hands and need to work on that), the PLO rebuy is also Sat which will be wild but I might go in with only one buy-in and try to get lucky and build up a stack, then the big $2,500 buy in NLHE two day event starts Sat with deep stacks and extended blind levels to allow for some real playing time with 1st taking home at least $368k so that's worth a shot to satellite into. Then the short handed NLHE event is Sat night and the Main Event is Sunday with a payout of at least $350k. So the next few days will be filled with satellites trying to get in cheap and hope for a monster, life changing payout.

Still can not believe I donked away those chips....I will be better rested next event and more focused.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Your thoughts....

I feel like I played this hand right but right now I'm not too sure. I was a 55/45 favorite preflop and on the flop when my money went in. I'm glad the guy called b/c he was drawing to only 4 cards to improve his hand and boatup for the nuts when I had backdoor straight draws on the flop and of course any diamond gives me the flush. I just don't understand his call with no redraws in that spot. I'm just pissed off right now but I would like to know hat you guys think.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2102138

A Short Night of Juice

Well, it was a rather unusual night with the Juice this week.... we had our table of usual suspects until..... the Juice announces around 11 or so that he's cashing out. No one could believe it.... I heard the murmurings around the table, "what poker room owner puts on gay porn and then leaves?"

It didn't take long for the table to completely dry up.... I think that Ronnie was the first to go. Then Rick.... I couldn't believe it either. Rick is the one guy who is always the first one there and the last one to leave! Then Superplaya or Dean-O... I think Dean first. That pretty much left me, Bill T, Ron and Keith.

We struggled with the game for about 30-40 minutes and we were out of there before midnight. There were no monster hands at least whilst I was there.... The closest I came to it was bluffing Keith out of a hand on the river when he turned two pair and made a small bet at the pot. When the river brought in a flush, I bet, he folded. Whee.....

Let the suck outs begin!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Almost here!

Tomorrow is a very special day. I have been looking forward to it all year and its finally here!!!! That's right everyone, tomorrow is FTOPS Razz Tournament!!! Oh yea there's also Valentine's Day but does that really matter to me? Appearently not..... Anyway, I've put in about 14k hands so far this year but lately been concentrating more on my NL 6 max ring game on FT which has been steadily improving over the past 2 weeks. I plan on focusing back on Razz all day today and tomorrow until the tournament tomorrow night. It will be interesting on what the field is like. I wouldn't think that there would be very many non razz players there but then again, during my 14k of hands, I played with over 1,700 different players in total but of that number, only 33 players have put in more then 100 hands against me and only 10 that have put in 200 hands or more so as you can see, there is only a very select group that plays Razz at the 2/4 and lower limits with any consistancy. So it should be filled with mainly players who have little experience with Razz and think that its a simple enough of a game that anyone can win. I mean really, the worst hand wins right? How much theory and stratagy can be involved in such a stupid game.....lmao!!!! As Ted Forrest said "Razz is the purest form of poker becuase good players will win money and bad players will lose the money. It's a beautiful, beautiful form of poker."

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Grand

Everything I've read and seen so far is that this is going to be funny and a great movie. It was all, or just about all, done improve with no script. Comes out March 31st.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Don't Play the Game if you Can't take the Pain!!

The last few blogs about The Juice, have been pretty tough to read let alone be the one to take the bone hard in the ass on the river from Charles, Dean, & Rick! My dad always said if you are going to play with girls, then you may as well beat those pussies. I took that to heart so when I sit down with the few who have their skirts on this Tuesday night; get ready for the royal of all royal pork chops!!! I think that when Dean slowed rolled the royal flush on me that was the kiss of death and He along with all you other homos will pay the price for the river beating I have been taking!!! Piss on all of you who rivered me, from Bart and his one outer quad fives to Ricks runner, runner Aces full - Suck my asspipe and get ready to rumble!!!

P.S. Lets all take down Ron (SCROOGE) the tight, cheap, boring, cheap, irritating, CHEAP, one buy in Mother F#@*r!!!! FYI if a restaurant waiter gets on great service 20% after the Dinner & Dancing then should the dealer get at least .00025% of the winnings if you win? Lets see, buy-in for $300, cash out for$3,600.00 - tip $5!!!!! Did I mention CHEAP.

P.S.S. Charles, I don't want to hear about the rake ever again after the $3,000.00 "Come on guys just one more round...Please"... FU ALL


The Juice

Omaha 8 No Limit @ the Juice

Boy, I was getting slammed over and over and over again Saturday night and Sunday morning with the river card from hell.... I mentioned in an earlier blog that I must have been quartered 10 times. And in many of those cases, I was the quarter'er until the river and then I got quartered. I should probably be thankful though as the majority of those happened early in the evening so I had time and patience to make it back up.

My biggest hand of the night came against the Juice as most folks in North Raleigh were rolling over Sunday morning at least thinking about going out to get their newspaper. I had slowly and painfully built my stack back up to about $2800 and took two big hits from Rick and the Juice that knocked me back down around $1800 when this hand unfolded. I was definitely at the all or nothing point, but wanted to hang my fortune on what could be a huge hand. And then... this hand.

The game is Omaha 8 No Limit $5/$10 blinds and I'm in the big blind when I find this:

My Hand






We have basically run everyone else off.... I think that Big Dave was the first casualty somewhere around 3:00am. Then SuperPlaya, then Ronnie, then Keith.... Bill T never showed up. Then Ron made, I think, the correct fold pre-flop when he would have made a boat and thinking that he gave up a huge pot, cashed out. The truth is that had Ron been in that hand, the pot would not have been that big... at least with any of my chips. Oh well.... back to the last hand of the night.

Feeling froggy.... I raise it $100 and everyone calls... there's only four of us at this point, me, the Juice, Rick and Dean-O. I like the flop but it could have been better....

The Flop





Dean checks.... I check.... the Juice bets $400. Rick considers and then folds. Dean folds. Although I may be behind there's a good chance that my Ace/King is ahead AND that the Juice is on a worst flush draw than I have so I decide to see if another card to the low comes off so I just smooth call.

The turn:





I really like this card as it means that any card that doesn't pair the board 8 or under gives me at least half the pot. Any spade that doesn't pair the board gives me the nut flush and the nut low. Still wanting to make certain that I get my chips in good, I check. The Juice bets $500 and I beat him in the pot with my chips.

The river:





I take just a moment as this is the first time tonight that my draws had actually gotten there.... I have $700 left and push it in.... I don't remember exactly what his cards were as he threw them across the table, but I do remember that he had a King high flush.... It turns out that I was ahead the entire time with the Ace/King. But the nut flush just made it a little sweeter. As he matched up my stacks to pay me off, it totaled what would be my biggest pot of the night. Right at $3500 or so and a tidy little $3000 after the normal rake.

Welcome to the Juice.... Let the suck outs begin!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Traveling to WSOP?

I have received several emails wanting to try to put together a group of locals attending some of the events at this WSOP in Vegas in July. Please let me know by way of emails & comments to this blog if there are others interested in such an effort.

I would be interested in even putting something together for some of the Circuit events or a WPT event. There's a Circuit event in AC coming up in early March.

Playing poker legally? What a concept!

One of those nights...

and unfortunately for me... it started early! I'll bet I was quartered 10 times last night! And in about 70% of the cases, I was the quarterer prior to the river and then "SLAM" right up the ole kiester. LOL. But I did get some payback and fortunately it was near the end. I got as much satisfaction of just costing the Juice money as I did out of winning. The first time that my cockles were warmed came when the Juice bets into Rick and Rick raises all in giving the Juice the "ok, how bad shape am I in?" The board had just paired 8's and the Juice says... oh, you're horrible shape and turns over what appeared to me to be 2 pair Queens and fours which were just hammered by the board pairing eights. But to his defense, he did say.... "I've got a boat!" and began to scoop the pot as a meaningless river comes. Even though I'm not in the hand, I feel it to be civic duty to straighten this crap out... so I say "hold on!" and Rick's trip eights with an Ace scoops about $1300 pot..... Nice! I had fun with that for the next hour or so....

The next big hand was between Rick and the Juice too.... I may have to show you this one graphically.... (the suits will probably be incorrect, but the are not that important here anyway).

Rick's hand





The Juice





The Flop





The Turn & the River






Both hands flop monsters, anyone will assume when the Juice raises pre-flop that he has a big pair of some sort and the flop gives you trip 3's that you are most likely in great shape and have him drawing to a 2 outer. So when the Juice pushes all-in, you can't wait to get your chips in the pot.... especially if you have the nut low re-draw. When the Ace comes on the turn, you're there... you're free rolling for at least half the pot based on the way the cards lie. And then, the dagger in the Juice's heart.... another Ace, giving Rick Aces full of threes and the nut low! Whee! And welcome to the game that we love to play.... Omaha 8 No Limit or in the biblical terminology... "Shall we gather at the River?"

I've got to tell you about the last hand of the night, but I'll wait to do that till later as I've got some things to deal with today. I am hoping that Dean-O will log in and tell you about the hand of the century that he hit ... also against the Juice in the whee hours of the morning.

Alrighty, let the suck outs begin!