Doom Doom Doom!!

I can't find the stupid Zim theme song!!! Can find some music and the lyrics.. just not together...


Argh!!!!

TOAST!!!!

Stingy? Me?

Those two or three of you that follow my poker exploits, via this blog.. know that I do not play very many hands.... Im stingy that way... and it isn't something that I do on purpose... It sucks. Folding and then waiting for the others to figure out what the hell they want to do, all the while the clock is ticking... I mean come on..... you should know what your gonna do with your two cards... in a mattre of seconds.... you can fold, call or raise..... how hard is it to decide that.... I suppose you could check.... I think people still do that on occasion...

But, I travel wordily far and away from that which i desire to talk about....

Played in another APL tourney last night... and let me share with you some of the hands I got, early on.. ( Oh, I did very well and was way pleased with my play ).

First hand of the evening, and I should preface this with the fact that I had sat down, fully prepared to fold... I had even devised new and interesting ways to throw my crappy cards into the muck..... so, I look down at card 1... Ace....slowly push the two cards apart... another Ace.... first hand... I'm UTG.... blinds at 10/20.. 6 of us at the table.... I really want these rockets to pay off... but I also don't want any suck outs... I debate for a short time on calling, raising to 40, or raising to 100. I was pretty sure the next guy would call my 40, as from previous encounters... he plays any two cards.... and I was hoping for one more caller and the the BB to call... well, everyone called.. :) 6X40=240 in the pot...flop was A54 rainbow... check/check to me, I bet 40... 4 callers this time... including my buddy to my left... 160+240=400 in the pot... turn is a Jack... I bet 100... buddy calls..600 in pot now, yay him... no one else... river is rag... I bet 200, he calls.. 1000 pot.. trip aces beat whatever he mucked... I feel pretty good...next hand...

AKs..... medium size pot... then couple rag hands....then:
KK.... medium size pot...then:
AJ
QJ
KJ
77.. all in a row.. all winners... I've got like 12k in chips...dominate chip lead at my table and for the tourney as well....I am sitting pretty as they say... then.....I get:

J10s
I bet strong, get one caller.. flop is qj9 rainbow... i bet strong.. she wouldn't budge.. turn and river were no help to eithre of us..she had a queen. she took most of my chips... oh, she had come from another table and had just dbld up, putting her rather even with me in chips....... forgot to mention that.. anyway.. she took about 80% of my stack... I was pretty devasted at being so stupid... then I realized.... I played that right... she just had one pair and had no clue that a straight was even possible... funny as things go.. a bettre player prolly would have folded that pair of queens to the possible str8.. highly possible str8... but, she didn't... and bout knocked me out of the tourney...

I built my stack back up slowly.. by being very aggressive and actually getting more than my fair share of luck on the flop.. plus, the blinds had gone up and peeps were getting tighter....

lil latre... won all my chips back from that lady... plus a few more from a young man who felt forced to go all in with Q9s... she only had a pair and I won the huge pot, monster pot.. with 3 sixes.... I was feeling pretty good again...then I got moved... and never won another hand...

Ended up in 9th place outta bout 40 people... good enuff for points....

The blind structure sucks, towards the end... and your pretty much forced to play, everyone is... very lil strategy happening... you have to have ALOT of chips to win with attrition.... example.

we all colored up.. I had 20 1k chips... forced to color up.. now i have 4 5k chips.
lady has 30 1k chips.... after coloring, she has 6 5k chips.
dude has 1 1k chips.. colors up to 1 5k chip.
booboo has 6 1k chips.. colors up to 2 3k chips.

blinds are 5k/10k.. lady is BB. dude post sb of 5k ( all in ) lady posts bb of 10k.

its pretty much a crap shoot from this point... the reason is time constraints... they have to finish the 1st tourney by 9pm and have to finish the second one before the venue closes.. so.. one must gather those chips early on.. and lots of them...

anyway.... felt good to get so many good hands, and to play them well, and to have some luck for once....

plus my lady was there and she got to watch me rack in the chips and she found that exciting... ( she doesnt play but wants to learn ).

man!! that was fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poker on an Empty stomach..

..not a good thing.... I was literally starving last night, when I arrived at Razoo's, to play in another APL tourney... I had 11 dollars.. I could have ordered sumtin, but I decided to wait until after the tourney....by the time we got to two tables... I felt like I was literally going to passout... and I am sure, my unconcious antics had everyone believing I was on some sort of tilt...

I played alot more hands than 2, this time... busted out in 14th place.. good enuff for a few points... first 3 hands of the tourneys would have been big winners for me, had I not folded them preflop... I need to stick by my 'play any unraised flop early in the tourney' strategy. I do not know why I do not... chicken shit comes to mind......

First hand I played was AKs, flopped a A and bet strong to take a medium size pot..

Second hand, KK.. guy before me bet like t500 on top of a t200 BB.. I went all in with T3300 ( guy to my left was calling all of the ALL IN bets, apparently, he had to leave.. ya right ), and initial raiser called. So, my t3300, me+1 had exact same amount, and the other guy had T3000 total... about T10k, with the blinds... so I gleefully flip my KK over... next guy flips JJ and the instigator flips 77. I never felt so 50/50 and all my life... and I prolly should have felt 33/33/33. But, isn't that the same, in a wierd math sort of way.. KK held up and I had a huge chip advantage.. to go along with my huge hunger pains...

Went up a bit more with K6.. raised with it... one caller.. flop had Kxx... caller checked, so I went all in... he folded K8.. he would have won... not sure what it was that made him fold.. timid I guess.. another nice medium size pot...

Called an ALL in with 2/3 my stack a lil latre... 66... got beat by A9o, think he got a 9 on the turn... so, now my hunger is starting to make me do stupid things... at least alot more stupid than I had been playing...

Not long after that 66 fiasco.. should have folded that... I was easily gonna coast into the final table.. anyhoo.... after that, we had only 2 tables left.. final 16.. all point winners.. i didn't care anymore... I started praying for anything that even looked remotely interesting to go all in with my 3 remaining chips ( t15k ). yes, T15000... you have to understand how the blind structure works in these tourneys... suffice to say.. I had 22 1k chips... and with my second to last hand, I had about T3000... went up agaisnt the BB with T1500 and he won...

Last hand I had A9s, all in with T1500 and two callers..... hit a pair of A's on the river, which also gave the winner a straight... he was BB with 34.. heh.. I had squandered anything I might have had to been able to bet him out of that 34...as it was.. I only had enuff to call the BB... all well..

My friend had left an hour or so earlier to go get some burgers... and I was sure he was back by now and I was happy to be out of the tourney so I could leave the restaurant and eat a burger.... and some fries... my friend had not made it back yet.... argh.... he did show up about 20 minutes latre tho... and I devoured some food.. went home and to bed.. and now look.. here I am telling you about it... to the best of my knowledge...

The only part I recall 100%... I was damn hungry.

4th place, played only 2 hands

Yep.. 40 odd folks in the tourny... I played a total of two hands....won the first one, lost the second one, busting out in 4th place... imagine that... let me try to draw ya a picture of how it went down...

This was an APL tourny and the blinds start out at 10/20 and rapidly increase..... the first reason I did not play a hand, is simply because I could not get a hand to play... not even a mediocore hand.... the best hand I got, during this 'phase', was 9 7 offsuit... this phase cost me T30 chips... one BB and one SB.. oh wait, I did actually get 77 once.. but the dealer, to my right, took my cards and mixed them in with the other folded cards.... I had said "CALL".. my cards were right in front of me... and he took them and put them in the muck..... I could not believe it.... I went ahead and called my two cards with the redeal, as I was just trying to maintain one extra chip for the color up happening soon.. ( they round up... so, eleven T10 chips will get you two T100 chips... whatever edge, right? )

Anyway...we had a player that just could not deal very well at all... and before the blinds came round to me again, enuff people had busted out from two tables, ours and another, for the director to combine us... and we drew for another dealer and I ended up Button -1. The phase cost me, one BB T200. Again.. no cards... actually, I got AKs with my BB, flop was 10 10 9, big giant raise to put me all in if i called, so i folded... dude had the other two 10's...busted out 2 peeps... and we were combining again....at this point, there are now two tables, 16 peeps.. top 16 get points.... im ITM, so to speak... without even playing... so, we draw for dealer again....

And again.. Button -1 for me... now the blinds are like 1k and 2k and I have like 1500....I go all in with K10 ( this is the hand I actually played ) and ended up winning the hand with a pair of 10's, K high. Now I have like 9k in chips.. and am at the final table....where, we draw for dealer again.. and guess what...-2 from button this time... blinds go around me once, leaving me with 5k ( one white chip ), A2o and I go all in.... one caller...Q2o, she flops a Q and I don't improve... ended up in 4th place without even playing....

It's too difficult for me to play agaisnt these folks... they don't respect raises and they think getting lucky on the river is equivalent to being a good poker player... I need to learn to play like them.. as, I have nothing at stake... just time.. it doesn't cost anything to play.... my 10 5 should be just as good as thier J6, right?

oy

Edit: Decided I should fill you in a lil bit more on this APL thing... they have regional tourneys for the top point earners each month... our region, there are 5 in Texas, only 3 are currently active... our region, only has 2 venues... which play two nights a week... for a total of 4 tourneys per week.... now, its not hard to just sit there and fold your way into the top 16... I've done it twice... and the thing is.. their website says they take 100-200 top point earners for the monthly championship... well, to date, there are only 135 people on the point list... I'm currently ranked 89, but that is going to go up a bit after last nights results get posted... anyway.. long story short... I am starting to believe that it is going to be easy to get into every championship.. each month... plus the points your earn are also reward points which can be traded for 'stuff'.. tshirts and the like...

what fun!

I'm pregnant

"It's a shame that the ignorance of the human race is what is holding us back" - 15 year old girl

I'm not really pregnant.. I am a male thing, not gonna happen.... just seems rather impossible for me to come up with a title for a post.. ever.

Not much poker..... I've been spending some time with a lady I met recently and just really getting way too spoiled with female companionship... only playing in freerolls at AB or pokerroom.. and not really caring too terribly much how I do...

I had 6 bucks and a couple hours to kill on PartyPoker... got busted out with KK vs 77, they hit a 7 on the flop... I took 4th.. again... not entirely sure why that suprised me..... wasn't much I could have done different.... every loss was a suckout... and since I don't play that many hands, it won't take many losses to bust me out....

prolly be playing live at least once a week at a local establishment, hosting tourneys for APL.... I think mixing up live play with online play is a good thing....

Just have not been all that interested in poker last 10 days or so.......

well, not as much anyway... ;)

5 high is good?!?

I didn't do all that well in the first tourny wednesday night.... did bettre in the second one... These are tournys sponsored by the Amatuer Poker League. They use a point system... I suppose the top point winners compete each month for a nice prize or sumtin.. I haven't actually read the fine print or anything....

So, the first tourney, started at 6 pm, and immediately, i feel awkward. We have, 5 different chip colors.... 10,20,100,500,1000. Way different than anything I am used to.. and not only that, there are very few 10's and 20's, only 1 500 and 2 1000.. majority being the 100's. Ok, no biggie... blinds start out 10 and 20, they go up on a regular schedule, only after the 1st level, each subsequent level goes up one minue earlier than the last... so, its like 15,14,13,12 break, then 10,9,8.

The first tourny, the deal made the orbit before each round.. which was nice.. the second tourny, we had some um, lets call them idiots... and the blinds were going up before a full orbit.. very frustrating..

So, the first tourney, I'm playing tight... too tight I come to learn latre... folded a pair of 5's to see a J5 win the pot with J high vs. 97s... neither on a blind... wow, i say to myself.. that is interesting.... so I stay tight and try to guage who the good players are vs. the , um not so good players.. and I pick out two players i really don't want to challenge early on... and try to stay out of there way.. this is working and i find myself stealing blinds from the others, and taking small pots with easy bluffs....but, nothing substantial....just enuff for another round or two, and the blinds go up... yada yada... things are starting to look grim..... even tho I am playing well...I'm just not getting enuff ammo for the second half.... then I get AKo....I'm first to act... the blinds had just gone up..a lil earlier and would prolly go up after this hand.. they are 200/400, would be a break before the next hand and blinds prolly at 500/1000... I have like 3000, raise the BB 600, making it 1000 to play...now, everyone folds.. and I am mainly after the blinds... SB folds, BB calls... Damn! I say... I immediately know my bet was not big enuff, or was it, or did it mattre... heh...flop is AQQ... gives me aces and queens... BB checks... I bet 500.. 'to see where I am at' he puts me all in before my 500 chip stops spinning.... I go to the tank for about .3 seconds, toss my cards in the muck while saying, 'your AQ is bettre than my AK'.. he flips over AQs and tells me... well played.... btw, he was one of the two I had determined a good player... me, i would have called my 500, prolly got me to go all in on the turn or river and took me out.... he said he hasn't had such a good hand in such a long time that it went to his head.. heh.. i can understand that.... I busted out after the break going all in with 99.... got beat by 82... i know.. they hit a 8 and a 2 on the board... was so so sad...ended up 25th or so outta 50 or so..no points.

second tourney.. i played alot looser in the beginning... took out some really clueless folks...ended up 11th..... 15 points... I got busted out going in with the 'almost best hand' vs 3 freaking callers... argh!! I was first to act.. AJs, BB was 2k, I had 6k, I go all in... call,call,call. and the 5th player at the table folded... leaving 4 in the pot.... I don't recall the details all that well, but, after the hole cards were flipped, it looked sumtin like this... Me AJs, Me+1 crap, Me+2 QQ, Me+3 crap with a 10.. Me+3 won with trip 10's, and he had everyone covered...

I know how they play now.... they like to take high cards to the river and middle and low pair even... my 5's will never be folded again.. that is for sure...

I'm falling for this lady.......cept, its more of a flying/floating sensations...

simple

She said, I seemed like a simple man.... I said, are you saying I'm retarded... together, we laughed..... she just meant I am not pretentious, or at least not overly so and that I am not materialistic... ofcourse, she said it so much bettre than I ever could....

I talked with her on the phone... for almost 2 hours.. before my phone's battery died.... it was plugged in, however, it does not charge while in use... go figure... I could have talked to her til the sun came up.....

This not smoking venture, sucks..... alot.

I played in two freerolls last night, online at Absolute.. prolly could have won or at least placed in both of them... if I had not gotten so bored so fast... I busted out with a pair of 9's, on both tables... I figure that had to be worth something... they were both $50 dollar freerolls, 9 places paying.. $10 for 1st and 5 for the remaining 8.. I want to win one of these, instead of actually depositing money... they have them everynight... more than a few... just need to work on not getting bored with the whole shebang.

Going to be playing in an APL tourny tonight.. well, at least that is the plan right now... it starts at 6 pm, sign ups open at 5pm. I think it is a non smoking establishment, which should make things, um, hell I don't know.. oily.

Supposed to play at Clicks at 8pm.... but.. I just don't think I have the wherewithall for a 6+ hour session... not today anyway... work is still getting in the way of my poker...

Dick Van Dyke dances with penguins in the move Mary Poppins... this is true..

Die die die

Ok, I had my last cigarette about 10am today...couple hours latre, put a nicodine patch on...and right now... 2:30 pm or so... someone needs to die by my hand... not too particular about who it is eithre....

I'm pretty sure I'll make it home without ruining anyone's family future...whereas I can boot up MOH and kill a few simulated Germans... and lets hope that cures what ails me..... so, they say the first 3 days are the hardest... hmmmm...

I'm guessing about after about an hour of killing germans, with lil to no regard for mercy.... I'll be curled up in my bed, chanting some obscure mantra I make up at the time......

Maybe I can just sit and blog during the entire 3 days... wonder how that would work out....

Online poker is out of the question, as I would be going in tilted.. so to speak...

Maybe I can dust the furniture in the apt... nah... killing and curling... Im sure that is the answer....

Blog Askew

Seems, to me anyway, my sidebar over on the right is messed up and not showing up at top like it should.... I haven't done anything with my template in quite sometime, least not that I recall... maybe it is just me and this machine... will have to remember to check it out on the home computer....

I took MOHAA:Warchest back to Target and they exchanged it for me, for another one... this new one, I was able to install Spearhead and Breakthru expansions.... still need to finish MOHAA tho.. I'm on chapter 6, which I think is the last chapter... my accuracy has gone from a low number to up above 55%, and this last lil leg of the the chapter I did, it was 70%. :)

I have made the concious decision to suffer thru the aches and pains and agonies I will go thru by not having another cigarette... I hear tell, the worst of it last three days, and after those first 3 initial days, it becomes alot easier... we shall see.. I get stressed pretty easy... despite my relaxed demeanor.. I suppose, it just seems like things get to me more than normal, while I am in 'quit smoking' mode... hmmmm.. Anyway.. I have one cigarette left and am going to see how long I can stare it down today.. I am pretty sure it will win and I end up consuming it... just when is the question... timing is crucial....

I saw 'Flight of the Phoenix' and 'The Aviator' over the weekend.. Both were fairly decent movies... Aviator is long.. way long.. bring a donut if your over 40 years old... I'm still suffering from a bit of cheek strain.... I liked Flight mainly because of Dennis Quaid.. I think he is one fine actor... see 'The Rookie' if you disagree.... but, my plan was only to see one movie.. and since I saw two, I'm lil behind with the dinero this month.. and I got to thinking.. what difference does it make if I give 20+ bucks to a movie theatre, or to poker players... least with poker, I have a shot at dblng it... and occasionally, you get some movie quality drama at the tables.. heh..

I still plan to rebuild my bankroll... I guess I am on an unintentional break... which is not a bad thing... I have a choice of two places to play this coming Wednesday.. two live tourneys.. one Ill get points for placing.. the other offers cash for 1st and second... the cash prize game will last till after midnight and I risk being late to work... the point game will be done before 9pm... this would be an easy decision if I were 10 years younger...

TILT premiers this Thursday, the 13th, at 9pm ET.

May your day today, be twice as good as yesterday and half as good as tomorrow.

( Not sure who said that, but, it's kinda stupid if you think about it )

Not much poker lately

Well.. haven't played online hardly at all in last week or so.... but did manage some live play over the weekend.... I played fine, except the circumstances for each of the tourneys... there were two, were less than stellar...

1st one...
The peeps...( Ill go around from my left )
Me
D - Female - knows poker, but not strong at holdem
S - Female - never played poker, never played holdem
J - Male - thinks he knows everything about poker, one of the worst players I've ever seen
A - Male - average player. tight agressive aggressive.. has improved his game since starting 2 or 3 months ago
L - Female - Same as A... also engaged to A.
L2 Male - older gentleman.. knows the game... decent player
M - Female - married to L2 beginner.

So, only 4 of us, out of 8, knew what was going on, at any given time... was only a 5 dollar buy in and more of an excuse to just get together, than it was any serious poker... the owner of the chips, decided we should use all the chips he had.. so, each of us started out with Greg Raymer size stacks.. and I don't mean his girth, I mean his stack size thru out most of the 2004 WSOP thingy... this meant, we were going to be there for awhile..

No need to tell you that people were sucking out left and right... I ended up throwing in the towel, after 75% of my stack was lost to J, who was holding out for a 1 outter and got it on the river..... oy vey...... other than those minor details... oh, and a certain person telling me you should never fold KK... ever.. heh.. this will be the next, what would you do....

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Your dealt KK.. ur UTG+2..... UTG raises 400 to make it 500 to go... UTG+1 folds, you call, everyone else folds.... flop is A 8 2, rainbow... UTG goes all in for an amount equal to approx. 75% of your stack.... you can call or fold..
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You know this person is incapable of bluffing, they are a beginner and have been playing TPP for the last hour....



The other tourney, later that night, was at Clicks.. and it was good to see my old poker playing buddies.. they obviously had missed me.. and made short order to welcome me back... I had an hour before the tourney started, so I sat and chatted with the director, oh shit.. I was supposed to send him some links... argh... anyway.. we caught up on the faces that were missing and I got a lil dirt on the new faces.... time went by pretty quick... and before ya knew it.. it was time to play.. i am seated at table 3... didn't know anyone here... first hand.. two people go all in and they are laffing and I figure sumtin is up... so I asked, who here has qualified for the money game? Well, everyone that was playing had qualified.. and not just at our table, but at all 5 tables... so, everyone that was playing had nothing to gain or lose... blergh... what fun is that... btw, I took a friends qualifying win, cuz he had qualified earlier.. so, I really didn't feel like playing much, but I thought I would buy into every flop so I could see how these guys play.. incase I got some good info for Wednesdays money game.. if i go....

On a more exciting note... I met someone... A lady... a nice lady... we were going to meet up Friday night, but I went to clicks instead... I was not in a very good 'make a good first impression' frame of mind, or attire, or even general hygiene for that mattre.. having not shaved in a week.. wearing crud jeans and a simple tshirt.... so, I called to cancel our friday meetup and we decided to meet up Saturday..... this worked out... I got all cleaned up Saturday, shaved and found a shirt with a collar, a pair of jeans with no holes and some nice casual shoes... i didn't even know I could look so good.... put some cologne on, just a tad... and headed of to the movie theatre we had agreed to meet at.... got a call from here about 5 minutes away... insured her I was coming.. found out she almost didn't go.. cuz she was worried I didn't want to meet her, from the night before and all...

The movie was Flight of the Navigator.. and it was an ok movie.....she seemed to enjoy herself.. I know I did... we shared a drink and some popcorn... walked her to her car... kiss goodnight..another kiss...well, maybe 2 or 3 more.... was nice.... I needed to leave, but, I didn't want to.... we got together at her place the next day, which would be yesterday, and watched another movie.. Garden State.. another ok movie...

This is a really nice lady...girl.. women... person... I am looking forward to seeing her again... I actually shaved 2 days in a row due to her... I have not done that in over 20 years... :)

When I win Wednesdays tourney, I'll put that money into party and UB and start up online again... but, will not go at it everynight....

Good Read

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Killing germans is like therapy

That prolly is not the best way to title this post.... ah well... I loathe changing original thoughts... here is the deal.. only poker I have played in last 2 days or so is the WSOP NLHE Freeroll on Absolute and I couldn't get my mind into it, even tho before the first round of blinds was over, I was well into the 9k chip range, due to an amazing run of cards, and a lil bit of suck out luck... didn't mattre tho... cuz, even tho my passion for Poker, Hold Em in particular, is great vast and immense... it does not compare to my passion for movies... what I had done, was register for the tourney immediately when it became open, about an hour before it started.. then i went to Target and bought myself some stuff... Dual Alarm Clock Radio, Saving Private Ryan on DVD, Dark Blue on DVD, Medal of Honor:Allied Assault::Warchest...

by the time I got back home, the tourney had just started... I was the first BB and I missed that hand... won the next three hands.. folded a couple times... won about 3 hands.. yada yada... but the whole time... All I was really thinking about, was the special features on the SPR DVD I just bought, or is this Dark Blue movie as good at the critics say it is, it has Kurt Russell in it.. couldn't be all that bad.. he played Elvis for christ sakes.. more than once in fact....... so, I blew the tourney off and watched the movie... and it was good....then I installed MOH and killed germans for about 5 hours..... hence, the title...... not thinking about poker hands, odds...and such... was a nice change of pace....

These were not real germans.. they were computer generated germans...and they kilt me a fair number of times as well....

Thanks to SirFWalgman, author of Online Poker Thoughts, for the kind words....

I havent played live in over a month and I think the change of pace will help my game.... my bankroll is at zero dollars.... I am even, but, not particulary happy about starting my build all over again.... gonna try to recreate how I started the whole venture, and leave out the mistakes... live play was there in the beginning, so, I need to start doing that again more regulary.. despite the poor prize odds and travel and time and other overlooked necessities of life.... besides, sometimes hot chicks show up, smile at you, and for a second, you believe you have a chance....

MOH came with two expansions.. neithre of which will install... argh.... prolly have to return it for store credit... might get World of Warcraft.. but, if it is like DAoC, it will end up sucking the soul, what is left of it, from my life....

Wasn't gonna play...

..Last night.. but, I did anyway.... ended up only a lil bit behind, and a whole lot frustrated..... just couldn't catch anything.. nothing, zilch... that and being gun shy.... one game, I did manage to get a pretty good run of cards for about 5 hands in a row, that took me from t290 up to t3300. ended that one in second.

early in the tourny, you got 10 9s, and you think, Im going to raise if no one else does, and if they do, I'll call it, then raise thier first bet.... now the blinds are 5 and 10, and UTG goes all in for 800.. ok, well, guess I'll fold....

still early in the tourny and you have AJs and you are UTG and raise 3xBB and then 2 seats down, a raise of 5x your raise, and couple more seats an all in, then a caller on the all in..... i folded...... board ends up with a jack and an ace and the winner of the the hand has QJo...

very next hand, QJs, well, we think this is bettre than QJo, lets check since there are no raises.... flop is 654.... SB bets the pot... ok, i call.... 2 more callers, then a raise... im out of this hand too...... SB hand 66 so this one didn't hurt too much...pride wise...

those are three outta bout 5 or 6 different situations that I struggled thru last night, constantly... it was never ending........

Once, I had KK and 3 people were all in before me.....all of them had me covered.... i mucked cuz, i figured, 1 or 2 of them were out, and i would still be in..... they had 10's, 6's and the other had AJs.....AJ won with a flush...took the other two out and had a tremendous chip lead....

I'm trying to play less tight, I really am... but it seems like no one wants me to... seriously here is what happens.. im on the button with 4 players... everyone folds to BB, same thing next hand, now im BB and everyone bets or raises... now im SB and the other two fold and leave me with 6so or some shit to fold to BB, which I do fold, cuz well, cuz it is prudent.... this happens, like 5 times in a row... everyone folds to the BB, unless the BB is me.....then they all bet like maniacs...luckily, 2 of those times, i had the bettre hand.... but still.. dingle berry over here has like 1.5 BB, you have 10+BB and you fold your SB to him... 1/2 a bet you give him.... now he is catching up to the other short stack... argh..

over and over and over and over... people just waiting to slide into the money... I played about 30 tourneys... and came just shy of breaking even for the day... when I tried to be aggressive and take control, I would lose to a suck out... I can not recall one time I did not go all in with the worst of it... and this is easy to recall, since I don't go all in all that much..... I tried to be passive and play only the premium hands... and just not getting them... time and time again, the bluffer would steal blinds and pots, over and over.. the maniac would just run away with the chips.... EXCEPT, if i had a hand.... every single fricking time I had sumtin to challenge him with, he would fold before my turn to act.... happened alot...so,

i said, let me be that dude..... first hand... raised to 100 with 4 people in at a 15BB, and got 4 callers... WTF!..... i had crap and bet 50 after the flop, next guy, raise to 100, next guy raise to 200, next guy called.... i've got 53o with a painted flop.... its like, they fucking know what I have... at every single table I play at..... at any site..... time to change my handle, perhaps... maybe..

on the other side... I did manage a few suckouts on my own... usually str8 or flush draws... 3 of kind... but no where near enuff to make up for the ones agaisnt me......

Worst moment... second or third hand of a tourney.. AQs... 3 all ins before me... I went to the tank.. keep in mind, I had played about 20 tourneys already..... I wasn't ready to lose another, and especially so early in the game... so I mucked.... turns out i would have won that hand and quaded up.... ah well, still took second in that one.. took me a few hands to untilt tho.... swearing next time i get AQs, its all in baby...... so did I? heh... don't know, haven't gotten it yet... :)

I think I will start ignoring my starting cards and just bet on a hunch... prolly do alot bettre....

Figured out my major leak..

Boredom.. I can play 2 or 3 games rather fine and almost always end up ITM... and then I get bored and start playing stupid. I am 'break even Steven'. cept, my name isn't steven, well, my middle name is...

Im going to stop playing every day.....am going to play only SnG's when I play.. that is my current strong point. so to speak.

And this ends my post for today.