The Triple Up...

Shortly after my 9pm blog post last night about being the donkey at the table of other donkey's... well I did get my triple up. I closed the night with a profit of $75. So it was a good night, a frustrating one, but a good one.

No poker today (unless it's during my lunch hour) but tomorrow I hope to start out the New Year on a positive note with some good poker play. I hate online poker, I would rather play live any day but doesn't look like that's going to happen for awhile until Vegas end of April.

I did get invited to play Saturday at a friends house for a tournament and a cash game after. Last time this guy had a game, there was like 30 people there, so it should be a good time.

Happy New Year to everyone. Have a safe night.

PEACE!

Donkey

I'm the donkey... have you ever just sat back in your chair and watched a train reck happen before your eyes? That's me. Today has been a complete donkey-fest. I mean I have played the worse limit poker ever. I'm chasing flushes, straights with four on the board. It's sick. What is even sicker... I am only down about $10. While I am writing this I folded pocket Q's to a raise, re-raise, and another re-raise on the flop, turn, and river... what did the winner have... pocket Q's also. It's insane. I"m an addict. I need to be on A&E TV show Intervention. I can't stop playing against these other donkey's at the table. I have played some shitty poker the last few hours but the other 9 players at the table has also played by far worse poker then I could ever play. Isn't it a matter of time before I double up? Triple up.

I'm a donkey and I love it... tonight anyway!!

New Poker Table

I had to return a gift that I got my g/f this weekend and when I walked into Kmart (of all places) they had a 84 inch 10 person poker table on sale for $75. I have seen these online for about $299 so I think I got a great deal!!

Shuffle Up and Deal

Random Poker Events...

Santa was good to me, he brought me 10 players to participate in the home league which we will start middle of Jan. It's going to be my run at the WSOP Main Event. After all the title of this blog is "My Poker Path To The Main Event" so here it goes... stay tuned for updates.

PokerStars...
I was playing at a $.10/$.25 NLHE on PokerStars this morning and after about 50 hands I get pocket JJ's. I might have over played them... but the donkey on my left overplayed his big slick and I won a decent pot... I just had a feeling about this guy and decided to go with my gut feeling that he didn't have crap... I was right, he didn't have crap.



Home Game...
I played in a home cash game on Friday, $1/$2 NLHE this game can be very juicy. Seems to be the same college aged morons for the most part with a few middle aged decent players thrown in for good value. The morons tend to be donkey's that like to gamble A LOT. I broke a major rule to begin with, drinking while playing poker. Went out with friends prior to arriving at game so I was a little "happy". I played pretty loose in the beginning because of it, but also felt I was making some great calls based on the players. I lost $100 in the first hour or so. I bought back in with my last $40 and managed to cash out at $220 after about another 2 hours of play. So overall profit of $80.

Some Poker, Some Family, More Poker

It's Christmas time, what's better then some family time... AKA Poker Buddy's!!! So that's what I asked Santa for this year, a few poker buddy's to play in my 2010 WSOP Main Event Home League. Everyone does it right, it's not a strange request for the big white headed jolly guy. Anyone who is reading this, and it may just be my girlfriend, would ask the same thing.

On a more serious note, family is in town, it's nice to have them around during the holiday's and anytime for that matter. It's going to be a crazy few days around here but fun nonetheless.

I have been playing some poker online, doing OK. Playing on both ClubWPT and PokerStars. I have gone back to the $25 max buy-in NL tables and doing really good, getting my confidence back at the NL tables. Maybe I was playing outside of my skill level, letting my cockiness get the best of me. I haven't had any losing sessions in the past few weeks. Not all winning some break even but not losing which is what matters.

Regarding the 2010 WSOP Home League, it's something I have wanted to do for a long time. Me and a close friend have been talking about trying to arrange it for awhile and never seem to get enough people committed to the long 18 month "season" but we are close to getting it off the ground. Hopefully we can round up a few more team members and we will start the season mid January. I'll keep everyone posted.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my Poker Buddy's!!

PEACE

15th.... Not feeling good about it

I played in a 567 person tournament this evening on ClubWPT.com. I was doing pretty good and had a solid chip stack until... darkness. All of a sudden the power goes out in the living room. Mind you, we have a zillion Christmas lights outside and could tell those lights were still on so obviously it wasn't an Electric Company problem. We start going around the house testing all the circuit breakers. Finally after about 20 minutes we find the correct one. Internet is restored, ClubWPT.com is restored, I go back to my table and I only have $2300 in chips with 137 people left. Not good.

The poker Gods were good to me, I had great cards and before I knew it I was chip leader. I continued my aggressive play and had a ton of chips, not in the lead but top 5. 15 people to go I find myself in a big pot with one of the chip leaders, he barely had me covered. I flop the straight, check... check... bet, call, check, bet, all in, call... he had a higher straight then me, I'm out 15th place.

Oh well, life goes on. I had great cards, I played very aggressive and took note of what I was doing right and what I might have been doing wrong.

Until next time...

ClubWPT.com

I started playing on ClubWPT as they were running a special 50% monthly membership fee. So for $9.95 a month I can play in big field MTT's to get experience and the chance of winning some cash and/or prize packages. I played today in the Tournament "HX GiftMembership" which had over 400 players and I came in 3rd. I won 650 Tournament Points which will be used to play in more tournaments. I honestly can't make up my mind if I like playing on ClubWPT.com or not but I have decided I will continue to give it a try until at least my three month membership is done in March.

They also have a TV poker show on and they have one tournament each night for a seat. Prize package is pretty neat, they fly you and a guest out to LA, put you up in a nice hotel, take you to dinner and you get to play at a televised final table on TV. So I will at least try really hard to win one of these tournaments.

Until next time...

PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 139076

Greektown Casino

I haven't been playing much poker lately, been to busy with the work, holiday's, and just life in general. I did go home to Detroit to visit mom and sis in Detroit this past weekend and I went to Greektown Casino to play some poker.

Normally I play $1/$2 NL but didn't get a good vibe of the table when I walked in so decided to just play $3/$6 limit. I arrived around 5am. They had a full table going of people who had been there all night. It was an entertaining table with two guys getting into it, one guy getting nasty with one of the dealers (uncalled for) and a loose table of drunks. I managed to come home $116 up after about 3 1/2 hours of play. I can't complain.

It was good to be back at the table. I miss it, want to play more. After the holiday's maybe I can get back on tracking of playing more often.