Sunday 1/4 Million

I played in the PokerStars Sunday 1/4 Million event yesterday, over 28,000 players. 4500 position get paid. I went out 2211th for $29.00 pay day which equals a $18 profit for 3 hours of play. BLAH.

I took notes on the computer the entire time, not something I normally do. Thought I would share them here. They may or may not makes sense. Here are copy's of my notes:










This is my last hand of the night when my pocket 8's didn't hold up:

Local Cash Game

Played in a local $1/$2 NL game last night and came home with a small profit of $70. We only had 7 players to start the night, then lost one guy early who had his Ace's cracked to trip Jacks and didn't buy back in. We played the next 1 1/2 hours six handed before another guy showed up but then lost another player again.

I think I played pretty conservative, which isn't in general my style of play. I haven't had a winning cash game session on a few months and really wanted to focus, not try anything stupid and just play a good solid game. I think I did that for the most part.

I was up about $50 when I played a horrible J3 in the small blind and lost a big hand against the big blind. There was another guy in the pot as well, huge pot by the time the river card hit the board. Jack on the flop which was the card I guess I thought I needed to continue to play. 3 on the river that got me in trouble. My two pair was crap to this guys straight. My mistakes were; 1) I should NOT have even seen the flop with J3, that's just horrible starting cards. 2) I should have realized with two other people in the pot, I was probably beat with anything they had. During this hand, I never even thought about that. 3) When first guy bets $15, I reraise to $30 and BB comes over the top for another raise of $60 I should have insta folded. I didn't. BIG MISTAKE. I called, he had the straight, I suck!

Work to build my stack back when I get involved in a huge pot, he basically pushes me all in, and I turn over top two pair to his bottom two pair. That hand doubled me up and basically ended the session with $70 profit.

Can't wait to go back, good game to play in and it's better then driving 3 hours to the Horseshoe.

PEACE!

2nd Annual Poolside Poker Tournament

Saturday, August 22nd, we held the 2nd annual poolside poker tournament here in Nashville. As mentioned before this poker/pool party doubled in size from first year to second year and I hope it continues to be successful.

Picture above is of the winner, Stefen, who not only took home the trophy and bragging rights, but also $250. Great job Stefen!!


Here is a pictures of the 2nd place finisher, who did a great job also. Don't be surprised if you see her on ESPN soon.


Although this picture doesn't show her even interested in poker, believe me she is. Maybe she was thirsty for another drink who knows... it was August in Nashville and it was HOT.


I have to give a shout out to my uncle Doug who allows me to throw my party at his house every year. He puts way more work into it then I ever do. (Between you and me, he enjoys it and works great under pressure). Thank you Doug again, your the best uncle any niece could ever have.

My partner in crime, Dana, was the hostess with the mostess and even made a few tips that evening. OK, I think the only person who tipped her was her brother, LOL. She enjoyed wearing her sign that said "No tips, No drinks".

Thanks again to everyone who attended the party, I hope you all had a great time and I look forward to next year. We have already talked about how to make it bigger and better, so mark your calendar's now!

Another new poker show... yeah right!

Have you heard? I can't imagine this one will be any better then Face The Ace, wait is that even still on?

Has anyone seen 2M2MM another cheesy poker show.
Could they have not found anyone more interesting then these four nerds? I know, I know, I probably couldn't do any better AND they are professional poker players AND I am jealous as hell, wish I could live 24 hour in their shoes but still, DORKATHON for sure!


Also, remember that Tuesday nights on ESPN is 2009 WSOP Main Event, tonight will be show 3 and 4.


This past Saturday was the 2nd annual pool side poker event. This year it was twice in size with 22 starting players, last year I think we only had 10. First place took home $250, not bad for a $25 buy in event. I will be updating the posting once I get my pictures.

Stay Tuned for updates!

Redemption

Last night we had our 8th event for the home league. My buddy Chris said before the game got started, "Robin you won't be writing about me this time in your blog." Chris is the one who I wrote about last month in what I considered an out of character call and poor play early in last months event.

Well I am writing about Chris in my blog today because he has redeemed himself. Not only did he pretty much dominate the night but also followed it up with a win. First for him in this league. He played very well.

Overall the play last night from everyone was great. One of the league leaders went out in the second hand when he had pocket A's and flopped trips and another player had a straight, it happens.

Another heads up match that took another player out was pocket K's against A's, like I said just happens.

Great job everyone. With last nights point standings it brings everyone a little closer which means more competition!!!

We have 10 months left, can't believe we have been playing for 8 months now. Time flies when you are having fun, and I sure am having fun!

Random Updates

Been focusing on my tournament play, came in 2nd in $20 SNG for a nice profit. Saturday going back to Bob's place to play, looking forward to that. Bob always has a good group of people. Wednesday is our Home League so I have plenty of poker coming up. If it rains as the Weather Man says it is supposed to this weekend then I plan on playing in some bigger field tournaments all day Sunday.

Congrat's to home leaguer Chris W. on his recent tournament win in Chicago for around $1700, great win!!!

PEACE!!!

$32.25 Profit Lunch Hour

Played 43 minutes of limit $1/$2 online at Poker Stars during my lunch hour. Played 45 hands, won a profit of $32.25. Not a bad way to spend your lunch hour.

Face The Ace = Worse Poker Show on TV

Seriously, worse poker show on TV ever. I know TV producers know how to put on a decent TV show, look at High Stakes, great show. I assume no great poker TV show can consist of everyday people as apparently they are all off the wall.

Hopefully the show gets cancelled soon.

PEACE!

On Tilt

I am officially on tilt. Played a cash game tonight at a local guys house. Nice setup, nice group of people. $1/$2 No Limit is the game, bought in for $200. I'm up about $70 when I get pocket A's. I bet, guy raises, I reraise to $52, he goes all in, he has me covered.

HOW CAN I LAY DOWN POCKET ROCKETS PRE FLOP. You just don't, bottom line, unless you are a moran. Now I might be a moran but not in this case, I call. He has pocket 9's, 9 comes of the flop and I'm out.

I buy back in for another $100, grind away for a few more hours, made one great lay down of pocket Q's with all low cards on the board, guy had the rockets.

I had pocket Q's about 3 times tonight, never made a f'ing $$$ off of them.

I haven't had a winning live cash game session since Vegas in May. I'm officially on tilt from live cash games.

Back to the grind of the online tournament scene tomorrow.

PEACE!

BrokeLivingJRB - Twitter

It's Friday, it's almost the weekend, I can't wait to play some poker. Last Sunday I played almost the entire day. I hope to get some cash play in as well but as you know my focus is on tournament play.

Does anyone follow BrokeLivingJRB a.k.a. Jean-Robert Bellande?

OMG if you don't you should look him up on Twitter. I can't figure out if his tweets are real or if he is lying. Below is a copy of some recent twitter updates from him:

BrokeLivingJRB: On Aug 13, I owe Joe 1K for every lb I weigh over 150lb and win 1K for every lb below. Current BR $700

BrokeLivingJRB: re: weight loss bet. Goal weight is 250lb and not 150lb as I earlier reported.

BrokeLivingJRB: Awake at 7am. Did dinner and a show last night. Ate at Off The Strip and watched Zumanity. Fantastic. Need to Build a Bankroll. BR 0

BrokeLivingJRB: Time to update my tweeles on my life action... Sunday, Huck spotted me 2k to play 5-10nl at Wynn. Lasted 45min. br: 0

BrokeLivingJRB: Monday: Big Paul gave me a 20k start to play the 10-20nl at Bel. I won 20k. Then dropped my 10k share in teh 200mix. Br: $3000

BrokeLivingJRB: Tuesday: Yosh and Snackers stake me in Bel 10-20nl. @adamjunglen in the game. Won 4.5k. Playing 40 mix w my share now. br: 3k

BrokeLivingJRB: getting drilled by the clueless newbie. He drew 2 with 1 to come into a pat #3 and made the wheel. Unreal! Br: $1200

BrokeLivingJRB: cashed out the mix for $1300 - current BR. Now Marco J is staking me in the 2-400 mix.

BrokeLivingJRB: damn. Game broke. Going home fr $1300

BrokeLivingJRB: just paid huck back $400 so I still owe him $1600. br 1k

BrokeLivingJRB: taking my 19yr "friend" to Hawaii tonight. I lost my ID and have no $. How will I pull this one off? Lol. BR $250

SERIOUSLY... is this guy a loser or what??? If this is what it's like to be a professional poker player then my dream of becoming one just went out the window. Dude you need to get a life and one quickly.

PEACE!

5th place finish... disappointing

I played a 180 person SNG this afternoon. 4 hours and 11 minutes later I finish in 5th place for $46.80. Very disappointing as I think it's the best poker I have played in a LONG time. Maybe next time.

PEACE!

Reviews by MsPokerTN

I watched the first two episodes of the 2009 WSOP $40,000 No Limit on ESPN and the NBC new prime time poker show "Face The Ace".

Review #1: 2009 WSOP

I like the new graphics at the beginning when they show the chip stack counts and the percentage of the total chips in play that person has. I enjoyed the Jack Link's Beef Jerky Wild Card where they don't show one players hold cards so you can play along and see what you would have done. I can't remember if it was part 1 or 2 that Greg Raymer's hold cards are hidden and he ended up playing 2 / 5 and flopping the straight, I would have gone broke in that hand.

A few things I thought was poor for a televised poker show was that you could not see the hold cards due to the shadows. I think maybe I seen one or two hold cards, all the other ones were announced by Norman Chad. Of all the poker TV shows I have seen that had hold card camera's never have I seen so many hold cards not being displayed due to lighting.

Another odd thing was a few times when the overhead camera would look down on the board during the flop, you couldn't see the first two cards of the flop due to the head of the dealer.

Not really sure why ESPN was having these problem but I wasn't impressed and I sure hope it gets better.

Review #2: Face The Ace

I was excited to hear there was going to be a prime time poker TV show. I knew it was coming many months ago but forgot about it until I received my daily twitter update from WSOP with the reminder. Soon as I got home from vacation I set the DVR to record the program. Needless to say, I was VERY disappointed.

The host, Steve Schirripa, was horrible. He couldn't read the teleprompter without obviously reading it, he was rude to both qualifier's. Now I am sure NBC had no control over this but the first qualifier was a complete dork. He kept biting his lip, had his hat down so low you wouldn't see this eyes, never added to the conversation, just simply a complete anti-social DORK with a capital D.

The second qualifier was a little better but he was a 40 something truck driver who's mother, sister, and two nieces lived with him and he stayed in the basement. Steve Schirripa kept calling him a "basement dweller" and kept making reference to "ordering him another pizza". I mean COME ON NBC, you can't have the host continue to insult the guest.

Mr. Basement Dweller is going for 1 million big ones on the next show, after that, not sure how much more I can watch of it. I am sure, without a doubt, will even put money on it if someone wants to make a bet with me, that this show will NEVER last.

PEACE!

Face The Ace - NBC Prime Time

If you haven't already heard, tonight, August 1st, at 9pm ET, NBC is going to air the first of a 7 episode series of a new prime time poker game show called Face The Ace. Follow the link to learn more.