Michael Odeh proves once again he is an idiot

Now he isn't a household name but I had the unfortunate experience of playing about 5 hours with this guy at the Rincon prelim event this past March. We both made the final table him finishing I think 9th and me 7th. He was a jerk who kept apologizing (seriously like 5-6 times) to the table about his antics saying it is just an act blah blah blah. He got lucky early in the tourney when I called his all in with QQ and he had 88 and spiked an 8 on the river. Another time he slow rolled Aces when a guy trying to make a move went all in. He thought about it for at least 30 seconds making a speech he only looked at one card and that was why he was the initial raiser.

Anyways just a dumbass and he displays his dumbassness again when he doesn't know who Hank Azaria is. I mean he may not be the most household name but the guy has been acting and doing voices for years. Maybe I'm being too hard on the guy or maybe I just wanted to flame him for the world to read or least our 3 fans out there who read this but he is one annoying jerky poker player.


Craziness at Table 127
Kevin "Lucko" O'Brien takes a big hit down to $7,200 when his opponent flops Quads.

Shortly afterwards, Hank Azaria raises to $600 in middle position. Pete "The Beat" Giordano, raises him to $1,600. When the action gets around to Azaria, he re-raises to $5,600. Giordano immediately goes all-in and has Azaria covered. Azaria has $2,900 left, and he asks Giordano if he has Aces. Giordano says he doesn't know, but that he would like Azaria to stick around for awhile. Azaria is torn on his decision. He already has about 2/3 of his chips in the middle, but he hesitates to make a decision. The cameras swarm around him, and he eventually folds the KK face up. Giordano tells him he made a good decision, and turns over the AA. Michael Odeh, who is one table over, comes over to tell him what a great laydown he made. Someone tells Odeh that even celebrities can play, considering Rene Angelil made the same laydown earlier in the day. Unfortunately, Odeh doesn't know who Azaria is, and asks for his credits. Azaria doesn't seem to be in the mood, but he does a few voices from The Simpsons, including Chief Wiggum and Moe Sizlak.

The next two hands, Azaria takes down both pots and builds himself right back up to $5,000 in chips.

Donkiness reigns at WSOP ME

Man I kinda wish I was playing, but who am I kidding I'd probably bust out in day 1 but hey I'd make it farther than NBA. Why this guy didn't call his last all in is beyond me. Aren't you pot committed. He put in $16,000 and then won't call Varkomyi's last $1,400. I sure hope this is a card player error...wouldn't be their first.

Varkonyi Wins Battle of Blinds
Action is folded around to Robert Varkonyi in the small blind, and he limps, the big blind raises to $1,000 and Varkonyi calls. The flop is 654, Varkonyi checks, the big blind bets $2,000, and Varkonyi calls. The turn is the 10, Varkonyi checks, the big blind bets $3,000, and Varkonyi calls. The river is the K, Varkkonyi bets $5,000, the big blind raises to $10,000, Varkonyi then re-raises his last $1,400 all-in, and the big blind folds. Varkonyi now has $33,400.

Perhaps the funniest prop bet in WSOP history

Fri Jul 28 16:31:00 PDT 2006

Joe Sebok has arrived at the tournament dressed as "Robin" from the Batman and Robin comic book. Sebok lost a bet to Gavin Smith on who would perform the best during the preliminary events at the 2006 WSOP. Sebok must make an appearance dressed as a different super-hero for each day of the main event (Smith gets to choose which character).

This guy obviously won his seat on Party Poker...

This guy is actually playing in the WSOP ME...

From Cardplayer.com:

Fri Jul 28 12:32:00 PDT 2006

On a flop of 10c 7c 5s, Tim Rod bets $300 and his opponent raises to $600. Rod calls and the turn puts the 3c on the board. Rod again bets out with $1,500 and is again raised by his opponent to $4,000. Rod calls and the river puts the 3s on the board. Rod pushes all-in and his opponent immediately calls. Rod flips up KQ for a turned flush. His opponent says, "Do I have a straight flush? Oh, no I don't," as he shows 8d 6s for 8-high.

First naked poker.com and now this

Pamela poker

what's can possibly be next!

The great Stu Ungar

Look at him in this compared to his 97 appearance. What a shame what happened to this guy.

81 WSOP final

A Well Played Hand To Win A Mini Step 1

Sometimes I even impress myself with my uncanny poker playing skills and abilities...

This was the final hand of a mini-step 1:

#Game No : 4804769213
***** Hand History for Game 4804769213 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $6 Buy-in Trny:26481426
Level:5 Blinds(200/400) - Tuesday, July 25, 12:52:24 ET 2006
Table Mini Step 1 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 1: NoBlackAces ( $11385 )
Seat 8: elheim ( $8615 )
Trny:26481426 Level:5
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NoBlackAces [ As Td ]
elheim raises [900].
NoBlackAces calls [700].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, Ts, Th ]
NoBlackAces checks.
elheim bets [3900].
NoBlackAces calls [3900].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
NoBlackAces checks.
elheim checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
NoBlackAces checks.
elheim is all-In [3615]
NoBlackAces: gg
NoBlackAces calls [3615].
NoBlackAces shows [ As, Td ] a full house, Tens full of aces.
elheim shows [ 8d, 6d ] a pair of tens.
NoBlackAces wins 17230 chips from the main pot with a full house, Tens full of aces.
elheim finished in second and wins Entry to Mini Step 1

Just look at the discipline here... I check it the whole way... We go check-check on the turn and even when I boat up on the river, I have the patience to check it AGAIN. I just know that he's going to bet at it with NOTHING and I know that I can win the tournament if he does.

He does, and I do.

Is it possible to get an errection from reading hand histories?

Yes.

Cold Decked

So I'm in step 4 feeling good. 3rd hand in dealt KK...cold decked. Now back to step 1, so demoralizing.

#Game No : 4802271705
***** Hand History for Game 4802271705 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $165 Buy-in Trny:26466529 Level:1 Blinds(20/40) - Monday, July 24, 22:56:07 ET 2006
Table Mini Step 4 #1271108 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 2: k0pier ( $1940 )
Seat 9: Stewman20 ( $2000 )
Seat 10: OlManRvr ( $1900 )
Seat 7: Poker_Puss1 ( $2000 )
Seat 3: crafty8413 ( $1705 )
Seat 6: tcubeast ( $1037 )
Seat 4: younGGunJG ( $2140 )
Seat 5: company5111 ( $1415 )
Seat 8: IcheckRAISEtoo ( $5863 )
Trny:26466529 Level:1
Blinds(20/40)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Stewman20 [ Kh Ks ]
tcubeast calls [40].
Poker_Puss1 folds.
IcheckRAISEtoo folds.
Stewman20 raises [150].
OlManRvr folds.
k0pier folds.
crafty8413 folds.
younGGunJG raises [365].
company5111 folds.
tcubeast folds.
Stewman20 raises [950].
younGGunJG raises [1430].
Stewman20 is all-In [900]
younGGunJG: oine time
younGGunJG: kk?
younGGunJG calls [185].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, 6s, 2c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
younGGunJG shows [ Ad, Ah ] three of a kind, aces.
Stewman20 shows [ Kh, Ks ] a pair of kings.
younGGunJG wins 4080 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, aces.
Stewman20 finished in ninth and wins Entry to Mini Step 1 + $1

Welcome back, Mr. NBA

1st MTT since Vegas.... took down 8th place for a meager $180. 1st place was almost $1,300... woulda been nice.

Still haven't won a MTT for a lonnnnng time...

Roy Green, boy...

Damn that guy is a good lookin sonnavabitch...

I haven't even thought about poker since Vegas... until today. Noticed that Jeff Madsen won his second bracelet of this WSOP... Wow. 21 years old, 2 bracelets and $1.4 million... all before the main event.

Of course, I have many regrets from this last trip... perhaps my only poker regret was not playing in an event. I don't think I'm going to have an opportunity to play in a WSOP for many years to come now and I just wish I would have dragged myself away from that 1-2 NL table long enough to play more satellites and an event. Oh well