One Day...

So I was waiting for my Razz satellite to start so I railed the $25/$50 NLHE game on Stars for a few hands:

PokerStars Game #6303800956: Hold'em No Limit ($25/$50) - 2006/09/16 - 04:00:35 (ET)Table 'Alioth V' 9-max Seat #5 is the button

Seat 1: hoodiewho ($925 in chips)

Seat 3: radders1111 ($4800 in chips)

Seat 4: The Iotola ($3098.05 in chips)

Seat 5: MOMUS_2006 ($6469 in chips)

Seat 6: ZappyB ($8538 in chips)

Seat 7: Ozzy 87 ($6893 in chips)

Seat 9: BDM.BDM.BDM ($11050 in chips)

ZappyB: posts small blind $25

Ozzy 87: posts big blind $50

*** HOLE CARDS ***

BDM.BDM.BDM: folds

hoodiewho: folds

radders1111: folds

The Iotola: raises $100 to $150

MOMUS_2006: raises $350 to $500

ZappyB: raises $550 to $1050Ozzy 87: folds

The Iotola: folds MOMUS_2006: calls $550

*** FLOP *** [Ts 6d 3c]

ZappyB: bets $1750

MOMUS_2006: raises $1750 to $3500

ZappyB: raises $3988 to $7488 and is all-in

MOMUS_2006: calls $1919 and is all-in

*** TURN *** [Ts 6d 3c] [3s]

*** RIVER *** [Ts 6d 3c 3s] [4d]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

ZappyB: shows [Qc Qs] (two pair, Queens and Threes)

MOMUS_2006: shows [Ah Ad] (two pair, Aces and Threes)

MOMUS_2006 collected $13135 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $13138 Rake $3 Board [Ts 6d 3c 3s 4d]

Seat 1: hoodiewho folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 3: radders1111 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 4: The Iotola folded before Flop

Seat 5: MOMUS_2006 (button) showed [Ah Ad] and won ($13135) with two pair, Aces and Threes

Seat 6: ZappyB (small blind) showed [Qc Qs] and lost with two pair, Queens and Threes

Seat 7: Ozzy 87 (big blind) folded before Flop

Seat 9: BDM.BDM.BDM folded before Flop (didn't bet)

WOW. I like the smooth call of the PF re-raise by MOMUS holding AA. I don't think I could commit all my chips (nearly $8,000!!) on the flop though for fear the other guy might have flopped a set of 10s... God, if I got AA cracked and lost $13K I don't think I would make it through the night... Lucky for him though the best hand held up and he raked in a pot worth more than my car.

NBA... A man of many talents

My first EVER razz tourney... LOL thanks for the encouragement, Stewman!!

More Roy Green Hillarity

From Walter Zuey's blog:

Roy Green - One of the top 3 Cards in the AZ era. Personally launched the careers of several young pros during a year of so playing 75- stud. Swore it off. Back sometimes and improved a tad, tho it may just be regression to the mean.

Hahaha! It's nice to see he's as bad of a stud player as he is a NLHE player.

Love it...

3-0, Bitches

Now that football season is here, I have something to brag about.

My week 1 record. Perfect. 3-0 in 3 leagues. Bitches.

A recap of my ESPN leagues:

I am very happy with both my teams... I feel like I have the team to beat in the league I created (will be referred to as MY league from here on out).

My League:

I am solid in every offensive catagory. Hasselbeck at QB, LT at RB, Harrison at WR, Crumpler at TE, and Rackers at K.

I drafted the NY Giants (#1 on my list for D) but they have a TOUGH schedule the first 2 weeks (Indy and Philly) but I picked up the Bengals' D to start the first 2 weeks.

I'm a bit thin in my "slash" position (RB/WR) and my second WR position. Right now, I am flipping a coin for who to start in my slash spot. I went with what I thought was the obvious choice last week and started Reuben Droughnes against the Saints thus benching Julius Jones vs the Jags. Oops. Droughnes looked extremely average and his line looked less average. Jones on the other hand looked great against a tough Jacksonville D. Perhaps this is the year for him? I hope...

My second WR position is either Andre Johnson or Terry Glenn. I started Glenn this week knowing the Cowboys would be down most of the game and they would have to go to the air... well, I didn't take into consideration that Drew Bledsoe continues to be one of the worst QBs in the league. I will use the same strategy employed last week and plan to start Johnson this week vs the Colts.

In my other league, "Mike's League":

Although I consider my other team my best team, I consider this team the team with the most up-side. Culpepper at QB, LT and Portis at RB, McGahee at RB/WR, Hines Ward and Javon Walker at WR, Ben Watson at TE, Chargers D and Shayne Graham at K.

This team has the potential to go undefeated... seriously. There will be weeks where certain players don't do much, but for the most part, these guys should score a ton of points consistently.

I won't bother going into detail about my 3rd and final team this week... I auto-drafted that team and still have a lot of work to do.

My fellow blog mates had a mixed weekend. In the 2 leagues we all play in, here's how we all did:

NoBlackAces: 2 - 0
Stewman: 1-1
RiverRat: 1-1
Sinatra: 0-2

Off to a good start this year... I'll post week 2 predictions in a few days.

NBA

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Dmitri Nobles is the new Aaron Kanter

Jeezus that guy is a donkey's donk. I mean, he makes Stewman look like a world champion! The guy called all-ins time after time with one pair (and weak pairs at that!) The guy managed to donk off a stack that was once 22 times the average and finished a miserable 76th place!

I'm sick of donkey's drawing out

See hand below!!!! Don't mind the call on the flop but to call off 2/3 of your stack on the turn I don't know about that. I guess he had about 19 outs he thought...not sure what he was thinking but of course he hit. I knew he was on the flush draw too and I thought he would fold since it didn't hit on the turn but since he turned an open ender I guess he thought he was good. Maybe I played it wrong. I think going all in was the appropriate move. No point in betting $4000 to $5000 and then either folding with less than >2k or calling because pot committed. Comments appreciated.

So that $54 dollars, all gone. I played a $11 6 handed sng. 4 players left and I have aces vs kings all in pre flop and he hits a king on the flop and I'm out. Then lost $21 playing the micro nl when my AA lost to AK. I raise to 1.50 and get reraised to $5.00. I reraise all in for about another 20 and he calls with AK. Flop comes with a K and the turn is another K. That's poker but to lose these 3 hands today all within 2 hours of each and to get my bankroll back down to $0 kills me after spending over 5 hours playing in the tourney yesterday.

#Game No : 5105951177
***** Hand History for Game 5105951177 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:28320256 Level:5 Blinds(150/300) - Tuesday, September 05, 02:39:05 ET 2006
Table Regular(820545) Table #12 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: Garbonzo24 ( $6110 )
Seat 4: flammbo69 ( $4925 )
Seat 7: Stewman20 ( $8730 )
Seat 10: jaguar33 ( $11894 )
Seat 9: heathen414 ( $12060 )
Seat 3: Durnwyn ( $10825 )
Seat 6: AVRIO_ED ( $4912 )
Seat 5: R0saParks ( $5221 )
Seat 1: NWKing ( $20754 )
Trny:28320256 Level:5
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Stewman20 [ Tc Ad ]
Durnwyn folds.
flammbo69 folds.
R0saParks folds.
AVRIO_ED folds.
Stewman20 raises [1000].
heathen414 folds.
jaguar33 calls [1000].
NWKing folds.
Garbonzo24 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5d, Td, 2s ]
Stewman20 bets [2000].
R0saParks: 99
jaguar33 calls [2000].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
Stewman20 is all-In [5730]
jaguar33 calls [5730].
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
R0saParks: nh
Stewman20 shows [ Tc, Ad ] two pairs, tens and twos.
jaguar33 shows [ Kd, Qd ] a flush, king high.
jaguar33 wins 17910 chips from the main pot with a flush, king high.
Player Stewman20 finished in 171 place

Still searching for first in a large MTT but getting closer

So if you remember a few posts back, I played in a PP points free roll and finished 20th good for $18. Well I built that $18 up to almost $200 but then lost it all on some sick beats and just bad luck. My account soon read goose eggs so I ponied up 100 PP points to play in another free roll because I am a degenerate and currently have no life (hint hint to all the ladies who are currently not reading this...I'm single...can you believe it). OK so back to poker, there were 905 entrants I finished 3rd. I did have the chip lead with 4 left but lost it when in the bb I raised the sb who just called with 10's and he moved all in and had jacks. At the end, I went all in on a flush draw and gut shot straight and it turns out the chipleader had the nut flush draw. Nothing hit and IGHN. Oh well, made $54 so let's see how I can easily blow that.

I feel my game is coming around and I'm ready for the big time, just need someone dumb enough to back me in a large tourney, say the festa al lago in October. Yeah right!!!

One of these days I will get a win, you can count on it.

Donkeys always draw...what a jopke

I guess this is what I get for slow playing before the flop.

#Game No : 5087428095
***** Hand History for Game 5087428095 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $33 Buy-in Trny:28210164 Level:1 Blinds(20/40) - Saturday, September 02, 18:24:25 ET 2006
Table Table 112148 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 5: Stewman20 ( $1710 )
Seat 4: azziz222 ( $3860 )
Seat 2: genes7 ( $1880 )
Seat 6: Nisa06 ( $2610 )
Seat 1: howard3018 ( $1940 )
Trny:28210164 Level:1
Blinds(20/40)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Stewman20 [ Ah Ks ]
howard3018 calls [40].
genes7 folds.
azziz222 calls [40].
Stewman20 calls [20].
Nisa06 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Tc, Kd ]
Stewman20 bets [200].
Nisa06 folds.
howard3018 calls [200].
azziz222 calls [200].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
Stewman20 is all-In [1470]
howard3018 calls [1470].
azziz222 folds.
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
Stewman20 shows [ Ah, Ks ] three of a kind, kings.
howard3018 shows [ Qs, Ts ] a straight, nine to king.
howard3018 wins 3700 chips from the main pot with a straight, nine to king.
Stewman20 finished in fifth place.

I'll take 5th anyday

Just finished 5th in a speed tournament. Took down $135.94. A profit of about $130.