Tunica, Titan, and The Hogs

Last weekend, me and some of the boys went to Tunica, MS for a couple of days. Tunica isn't Vegas, and I haven't been, but it hsa to be second....I like to refer to it as the Vegas of the SouthEast...We had a hell of a time, and I actually didn't lose very much money at all...We played golf at Tunica National on Saturday Afternoon, four of us, so we decided to gamble and split into a 2 vs 2 scramble....Well, Craig& DJ evidently didn't get the memo that going to Tunica a night early and staying up all night drinking/gambling, not sleeping even five minutes, and continuing that until we picked you up in the lobby the next day at 2:30pm is not the best way to prepare yourselves to play golf. Needless to say, NateDogg and I were more than eager to get at this money making oppurtunity. And yes, we beat them, pretty bad, by 4 strokes..which in a 2-man scramble is far worst than just stroke play. Had a helluva a time and drank the whole round of course.
We got back to the casino and only could think about eating a good meal, and I didn't want to play first to get a comp so we could eat, but with Gregger urging, we decided that paying for a meal in a casino is the same as capital murder....so we hit the craps tables for like 15 minutes and then got $20 comps to the Atruim, which is quite fantastic...After we ate, which seemed like we ate for like 3 hours, we went str8 up to the poker room and played all night, atleast til about 5 in the morning....played $3/$6 limit which seems like a grind, but we had a damn good time, and after playing 6 hours of Poker, we got a $12 comp to the Atrium....wait that doesn't make any sense....Buy-in at the Craps table for $40, play for 15 min....get $20 comp....Buy-in at the Poker table for $150, play for 6 hours...get a $12 comp...oh well, it was still good when we used it...
We played in a $50 freezeout at Sam's Town the next day at 11:00am, which means I got little rest, but was suprisingly ready to go the next morning...71 players, Top 9 pay, with 1st getting about $1250...I busted I think about 26th after being severly crippled when my KK got cracked by JJ when he flopped his set, but 2 out of 7 of us that played made the final table...So congrats to Twitty and Coby...although it didn't pay excellent, still a good accomplishment, Twitty got 7th and Coby got 5th...After the tourney, we went back to the Gold Strike to eat, and then from there played a little bit more and then went the hell home...

Since I have been back I have been playing on Titan Poker again...not b/c of the wide(horribly small) selection of games or their awesome(mediocre at best) software, but because they gave me $50 for free...Friday night I had some drinks and managed to take that $50 down to exactly $15.50...On Tuesday night, I got on there playing retard-aggressive and managed to turn that $15.50 into almost $250 somehow, what a donk....but since then have slowed down and it has been nice to be playing some half-decent games with a little bank, and have went up even more since then...but one problem faces me...POKERNET actually issued the bonus and they say you can't withdraw any money until you earn 4500 Titan points, in fact, they say that Titan will lock up your account if you try...Well....I think this is bullshit, POKERNET, other than being in some sort of affiliate type program with Titan, has nothing to do with them, and they should not be able to control user's accounts/withdrawals, I tried to get to the bottom of this with the help of Titan's Online Support last night, which is a joke...The guy's name was supposed to be Eddie, and you all know that was really Mohammad Ouhskjdojd Ojdfiunweewfwjin Indsciudv Ammon...but he wouldn't say anything when I got down to it, but call the toll free phone number for the Terms/Conditions and insisted on giving me the number like 15 times....but I will figure this out, and plan on making a withdrawal far before I reach 4500 Titan points, so I will let you alll know when I do...

Until then I dont have much, only 9 days left until the Razorbacks first game Vs. USC in Fayetteville...so definately looking foward to that....Late

Razorback takes 25th in WSOP Main Event 2006

Well, a huge congratulations to Mark Garner from Little Rock, AR for taking down 25th place in the WSOP Main Event this year...I just found out and that's why I am a little late posting it...Mark aka MGCAPRI on Pokerstars won his seat in the $10000 buy-in ME from the ever so famous $160 Double-Shootouts on Pokerstars.

Hardly ever do you see names from the SouthEast US going far in any of the big events, much less the Main Event, and even more less someone from Arkansas...Mark is an investment banker in Little Rock for Simmons First Ivestment Group, and is already back to work, and I'm sure that he will know how to "invest" that $500k properly...Seeing that this guy live in Little Rock, he might participate in a home game around here somewhere, and I would like to meet this guy....

So anyways, Another big shout out to Mark G. for an amazing accomplishment...

On my degenerate end of the poker world, I haven't been playing much...just mainly MTTs, nothing big enough to note, a few cashes, but I have been real busy getting ready for school and what-not and haven't had the time to play, but me and guys(except Belew's homo ass) are going to Tunica, so I will be playin the cash games there Sat. night and a tourney Sunday morning....So I will proabably post after the trip, unless I have a good score tonight or tomm...Late

And Remember...

SNGs are pointless...

Don't have shit to say really...Can't get anything going worth talking about...I have decided that SNGs are pointless, although, I'm sure I will change my opinion back shortly and continue to play them. If I had the bankroll to play the $525's then maye I can see making good money playing them, or even if I consistently played the $50's, but I don't...I like to play the smaller ones because the suit and aggressive style, are faster than MTTs, and are excellent for 4-6 tabling or more...I am a winning player based on my results, and therefore SNGs should be +EV, but it just seems that I can only use them to build a lil money up or rack up on FPPs...

I did have a dissapointing run in a $20+2 MTT...like 800 players I guess, the late one on Stars, First place was just under $4000...to me anything but Top 18 is bad, but I do like to at least cash in tourneys like this only because I played well for 2.5 hours, only to go cold and get outdrawn the last half hour and go out like 25 spots before the money...So I will be playing more this week, right now I am currently looking for a quick big money score instead of trying to grind out a profit in the cash games, so I will be playing for a couple of weeks with that mindset and will be making a final table soon for a score of at least $2k...thats the plan anyways, which like many of you, Stars loves to ruin....

And I beleive Twitty spoke on this but I wanted to address it again...Not enough will the "Voice of the Razorbacks" Paul Eells be missed in his recent passing...He has gone to a much better place and instilled many memories in the minds of Arkansans....

In memory of Paul Eells...1935-2006

"Touchdown Arkansas!!!" "Oh My!"

WSOP sounds great, but I'm not there...

It has only been like 3 weeks since I last updated, and I was going for a month of blogless life...Not really, but I haven't had much to post about, I have been very busy with everything but poker and just haven't played very much...The little I have played is not very exiciting, and that even further adds to the reason I have not blogged.

The World Series of Poker has been going on for more than a month now, in fact, as I write the beginning of Day 2a is finally here...I will be rooting for Matt Maroon as he finished day 1d with $83,150 and will be going into Day2b very strong and I am an avid reader of his and like his takes on the poker lifestyle. It seems to me that the WSOP is getting out of hand, in a good way of course...The finally tally on the number of entrants this year is up to 8,773...thats just insane...not to mention the $11,500,000 prize for finishing first....DAMN! thats a lot of money...even to the high-stakes pros who already have a lot of jack.

Since I have last posted, wifey and I went to St. Louis for a nice 4-day vacation...We did the whole tourist thing including Six Flags, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Laclede's Landing, Cardinals Game,etc....My wife also had her first live poker experience, which went horrible, and she now may never play again...to make a long story short, we were playing in a $1/$2 NL game with a $100 max buy-in...she sat down with $40, then wakes up with AA about 25 min. in and makes it $8 from EP...gets 2 callers....flop comes 7K7...shes drops immediately, and RandomDonk makes the call with 7s5s...it guess it was SOOTED would have been his excuse, but I don't see that play really...Of course, she is a woman, so she was pissed....I tried to explain to here that live games are considerably looser(at least in my opinion) and she wants PF calls like that in the long run, it will make her money, but she could have cared less at that point... I actually won a couple of pots, including quad 7s where I didn't get paid, but then ran QQ into KK...but in my defense, KK smooth called my PF raise as did 10 4os...and he made the reraise post-flop to get all 3 of us all in when the flop came 10 4 9....but running nines gave the KK the higher full boat and ASSclown with 10 4os was shown the exact reason you don't call raises with any two cards...But other than that, St. Louis was the shit and had a great time and we also got out of there right before they had that horrible storm blow through...

Again, what little I have got to play had been extremely steady...No big losses, no big gains...I can't complain about the no big losses, but at least I would have some material...I have been playing mostly SNGs and MTTs, with very little ring game play.....A couple of cashes, but nothing major, but I have had "that feeling" again that its about time to make a Top 3 in a decent MTT for a nice score, so hopefully that report will be coming soon...I think with summer rounding down and school about to start back I will get back into playing a lot more, atleast until deer season...So theres that....enjoy it....Late