Keep it in the Family

What up to everyone and hopefully you are having a good friday...I am!...It halloween weekend and we are having a party Sat. night which should be fun and I am going to deer camp tonight, so all is well. Last night Me, my wife, Nate Dogg, and JR went to Supastarr's parents house...His mom called me mid week and told me they were having a tourney last night and that it would be easy money for me because no one really knew how to play and just did it for fun. Well, should could not have been moer correct! My dad came too, he didn't fair well as he got some bad beats put on him early on...it was a winner-take-all tourney and Jen, Nate Dogg, and myself, made it to final 3 and chopped, how ironic...i actually did play good, because seeing that the skill level wasn't very high and everyone just wanted to have fun, people would call you down with anything and usually hit their 2 outters on the river for a two pair of something like 7s and 4s....but a good time and can't wait to go back....I will say that it was the most unorthodox tourney I have ever played in, probably again due to it being for a good time and not to serious...But you had unlimited rebuys for the first...WHOLE tourney! If it was down to 3 and you wanted to rebuy after getting busted you could, you would be dominated, but you could...that was kinda odd...no one really took advantage of that though, most rebuys were fairly early on....Second...the chips had no denominations, all the same value, and you got 50 to start with, which made for a big mess in the end trying to seperate 1200+ chips into their approriate colors...And a winner-take-all tourney with a field of about 20 people with probably 10 rebuys or so...odd, good thing we chopped....But a definate shout-out to my wife, she knows a lot more about poker than I thought and certainly more than any other woman I know, It was only her 2nd or 3rd time playing with me, so I am very proud, b/c she didn't just play good hands, she slo-played when necessary and even bluffed....But I took $120, and Nate and Jen both got $75 in the end, only b/c I had them about 2 to 1, but glad to go to a tourney for the first time and just run it over...but enough about poker...

This weekend will be fun with the party and all, going to try and get in some online poker if I get a chance, couple of MTTs or something, but I will holler back on Monday...

Toilet Paper, Haunted Houses, Poker, and a bunch of liquor....

This weekend was fun to say the least, did a lot of stuff that I haven't done in awhile and made some good money playing poker, and played good poker in general. Start off with going to play in the CSC poker tourney on Friday night. Craig went with me, its a $30 buy-in w/ unlimited rebuys for the first 1.5 hours and 19 people showed up...only one rebuy though. Anywayz,I grinded it out and ended up getting 2nd...I had my HU competition dominated skillz wise, but not in chips and he wouldn't chop so we played it out. He gets lucky when he needs to and beats me, but I got 1st place last time and 2nd this time, Im happy...only $140 though for 5.5 hours of play...

Got home from conway about 4 am Fri night and get up at 8:45am with my little boy and play outside for about 2 hours, fun except for I had a nice hangover...watched the Hogs game at 11am..Not sure what happened there, we suck all year and can't beat Vanderbilt, but almost beat No.4 ranked Georgia, only lose by 3....good game though. Darren McFadden is the shit, and Robert Johnson still sucks....Sat night we had a lil get together and grilled out and drank...and drank...and then we drank some more...good times...Drove by the haunted house at bout 11:30 hollering obscenities for no apparent reason except for the fact that it was hilarious. Then we decided to pull out the high-school card about 1am and go "roll' some houses..."Rolling", for all of you non-redneck Yankees, is "secretively" going to someone's house and throwing toilet paper in their trees and usually putting shaving cream everywhere. Its kinda an adrenaline rush, b/c you got to mash-out quick when you see the porch light come on. Anywayz, totally pointless, but good ignorant fun...

I played in the Pokerstars Blogger Championship yesterday...really cool prizes and we started with 2000 chips which I liked. I played gun-shy kind of b/c I wanted to make it deep and make atleats the top 100...got put out when my 66 ran into AA...All-in post flop with board of 6J3....i had the set that beat him until pokerstars screwed me with an Ace on the River...oh well...Congrats to Dna4ever for atleast getting a prize...Last night played a cash game at Craig's house, I put in $20, and then had to get $20 more, but ended up cashing out with $122, so a good night for friendly cash game.

$10+1 Rebuys is where its at.....

Well, last night I was "staked" by the infamous Styx21684, a well-known online player...I know him and b/c money is nothing to him, him loaned me $35. I have decided where the golden treasure is on stars....Its not in the limit or no-limit cash games like I had thought originally....its in the $10+1+rebuys($45,000 guaranteed) that they have every night at 9:15...You have to plan on spending anywhere from $30 to $60 if you are going to rebuy a couple od times and add-on...but do you know what first place was last night.....$13,445....yeh....13k baby...damn....wouldn't it be nice...I think I am going to concentrate on that....its a crazy toruney and takes some good play to survive, but if you do, what a nice piece of pie you are eating at the finish line. The first hour is unlimited rebuys, so it is rediculous, every one going all-in with sub-par hands just trying to double through and amass a big stack to play with....after the hour break and the add-on period is over....it calms down a little and the real grinding begins....I went out last night about 1.5 hours into when I limped with Q9 of diamonds from the small blind and saw a flop of K 6 8 all diamonds...of course I bet it big and got it all in against another player who has A2 of diamonds for the nut flush, I have the second nut flush and am eliminated....I can think of a lot of shitty ways to get out of a tourney, but that one was horrible...anywayz...I got out too early and didn't get a chance to make a decent run at the big money, but it will come another day, I think I am going to star playing this tourney as much as I can....later....

Last Minute Home Game

Nt much online poker at all this week, haven't even made a deposit since sunday, I really have just not felt like playing on there. I do want to put some money in Party Poker however, because they have a new option where you can play blackjack for real money at the same time you are playing poker, you can also pull up a window in which to side bet on the color of the flop and it pays 8-1, a great house advantage and sucker bet, but it still could be fun.

Put together a home game last night last minute, b/c one of my buddies has been wanting to play for awhile and I will be gone all weekend at deer camp, so played a 5 man game for 3-4 hours...then after our late finish I remembered I had a big test this morning so i stayed up and studied for it, and of course I am tired as shit today. But I think I did good on the test so i'll get over it. The highlight of last night was a hand where I called a small raise with A8os and was in the hand with the raiser(QQ) and another caller(10J)...The flop comes AA2...so very nice for me that my A-x that was way behind now it a set. Big bets and I smooth called...the turn is another A giving me the NUTS, quad aces...I am playing it off jokin with the raiser about him not tryin to act like he has the Ace when in fact I can't wait til he bets it like he does. River is a K and caller checks and I bet out a $5 value bet to the raiser and he thinks and then goes all in with about another $20, so there is a good $50-60 in the pot....I turned it over and he shows QQ, so he got pissed off and left, but he actually he took it pretty good... But a good hand and a couple of other key pots and I turned $20 into $97, so not bad for our home game...

I wil l be at down south at my deer camp all weekend hunting and drinking and gambling...it is my first weekend to be able to go b/c I have been so busy, and the season hass been open since Oct. 1...but its all good, this weekend will be fun..report back on Mon.

Quote of the Day: "SupaStarrs are few and far between but once you've come across one, chances are you'll know it, or your bankroll will show it. " - Poker champion, SupaStarr

Raped...

Well, as far as poker goes, this weekend sucked...but as far as everything else goes, I had a very good weekend...

I went to Benton to play in Phil's home game Fri. night, and got raped...I think I lost about $100, but when you are playing .50/1 and buying in for $20 at a time, thats horrible..I had a good time for most of the night, but I got on tilt real bad and was kinda pissed off about my plans being ruined for Sat., and I just didn't need to be playing. I did however play good for the 1st couple of hours, but just kept gettin burnt, I mean it was ridiculous. $50+ on the table in one hand with me having the nuts, only to get drawn out by a 2-outer that had no business calling the hand down in the first place. But as long as I have been trying to play for serious money and profit, the bad beat stories just get more repetitive and boring, so I will spare you any more. But they are all good guys and fun to play with, even though they have you bent over the whole time.

Saturday was a hell of a time. Arkansas Razorbacks beat the LA-Monroe Idiots 44-15....not a very impressive win considering we only covered our 28 pt spread by one point, but still a good time, because it was the first of two games at War Memorial in Little Rock. Me and my wife got to the game at about a 2:00 and it didn't start til 6, so we tailgated all day. Seems like everyone in central arkansas was at that game tailgating. But that all for now...check out Pokerstars.com, they have a good 25% deposit bonus going until the 16th...late

Married Man

Wut up to everyone...I haven't made a post all week, cuz I have been really busy with work and haven't played much poker. But I'm married!...still hasn't set in, but I'm happy, Jen is the shit...But I've sucked at the little poker I have played this week, Im wondering if the cashout curse has taken effect.

I cashed out about $2000 in a 2 week period, and I can't do shit this week...I have been gettin burnt by the fish at the limit cash games and the same in the No limit MTTs I've been tryin to play...Props to Dna4ever for finishing 8th in a big $20+2 MTT and cashing for more than $400, so close to the big money, first was over $5000.....Going to Big Phils house tonight in Benton to play some cards, will probably get raped, cuz those cats are good at doing that to me, but will have a good time anywayz...