chocolate and peanut butter.

A) Christmas
B) Spring Break
C) Playoffs!!

The answer... C) Playoffs.... Hockey playoffs to be specific.

The question was "What's your favorite time of the year?"

At least two games a night for the first two rounds. Back to back games, players fighting for their playoff lives, goalies standing on their head to make saves... just... good times all around.

ahem.. .go Detroit...

Add the BBT3... and you have chocolate and peanut butter. My nights have been busy in April and my cards have been cold for '08 so I haven't seen many tournaments in the BBT3 yet.. but the ones I have seen I have played well but I just can't seem to win a race for the life of me. Not that I'm counting, but I am... 0 and 6 in my last 6 coin flips. Yes... variance, yo comprendo. But it is so 'effin frustrating. I made the mistake of selling off the majority of my bankroll because I was running well at the end of 07, and the turn of the year has turned the tables. I'm now buying back some of what I sold off (luckily I have people who owe me money, so it's no out-of-pocket cash, but its money I'm buying back nonetheless).

I am hoping tonite is when FTP changes their decks... shuffles once more before dealing the cards... whatever they need to do to give me the 3 out of 6 coinflips that I should be winning.

Oh, here's another one that astonishes me... I have played maybe 150 hands up to this point in the tourney, of which 18 of them were Big Blinds... I go 17 of them with no cards and all raises ahead of me... then on the 18th I got the b!tches (QQ) and i get an 'effin WALK!!?!?!?!

Ok... so I just won a flip... for no money. My A8 vs lowstacks 33. 1 for 7 now... I'm still owed the next 5 in a row... I hope FTP is keeping count like I am... if so, I have a shot to win this biznatch.

I'll be back later after the tourney is over to update my final hand/status.

Good show on BuddyDankRadio again.. best of luck to them at The Borgata and their live broadcast... I'll be listening. Congrats to Waffles for his April Top Pt Earner and his $2K WSOP buy-in. I'll be reloading and hopefully making my push in May.

See ya'll out there.

BeepBeep

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Update

Won another race prior to the break, lost one following the break... sitting at 5k and shortstack at the table, blinds 250/500 with ante 50. I wasn't going to fold my way out of the tourney...

99 UTG just after a big hand between two other players, I figure I won't get any action with a raise... so I raise half my stack... get reraised and I click the "Call" button when it's my turn... they table AK off, flop A.. gg me.

Finished 21 out of 105... top 18 make money, top 4 make real money... 7th and 21st really feel the same to me... such is the life on the coinflip.

I might make that my next post... "Life on the Coin"...
Beep Beep

Never say your sorry...

But sometimes... it's ok to feel it.




and sadly I would never have done this if it wasn't a blogger tournament.

So this was the 2nd hand of the Mookie on Wednesday nite... not a bad way to double up early on. I spent the next hour missing the board like my dishwasher misses the dried lasagna so I began setting up the new Wii with Super Smash Brothers Brawl (I'm not 30 yet... leave me and my video game problem alone).

For those of you who haven't seen a commercial in the past 2 years because of DVR's and TiVo... this basically takes all of the characters that Nintendo has ever made video games for and pits them into a battle royale. It's fantastic on so many levels that I can't describe it in words.

At this point I'm just praying for the break so I can fire up the Wii.

If you haven't had a chance yet... but again, I'm sure if you're reading this I don't have to tell you about it... but check out the Buddy Dank Radio show broadcasting whenever the hell he wants, but specifically during The Mookie.

If you don't know.. now you know.

Until I come back and have to apologize again later...

Beep Beep.

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Not sorry... this was just a rough hand... this happened in the middle of the situation I'm about to explain.

So here's the bitch of this... I get moved to a new table and 4x raise 4 different times in mid-to-late position.. each time I get shoved on by a pretty much equal stack... It wasn't desperation time, we were all in the mid stack of the tourney... but if I felt like gambling I'd be playing roulette and not playing poker. Yes.. you gotta win some races.. but you don't always have to get involved in them.. THEY ARE ONLY RACES ... and I'm living proof that when you suck at racing you have to avoid it like ... like.. .like shit you just wanna fucking avoid.

- Mookie was all in prior to me and I laid down.


I 4x raise, dyers shoves... I fold. He says AK

. I 4x again... dyers shoves.. .he says AK again.

I 4x again... PokerFool shoves.. I call (I had him covered) We chop.

Next orbit same positions... I 3x, PokerFool shoves and I lay down.

All in from Martyr and I lay down (1/3 of my stack to call)


Two hands later, all folds to me, I just go away as I'm disgusted by having all these 2nd best hands.


on_thg pushes, Martyr calls, I go away preflop.

If there's anything I hate more than getting my aces cracked by bad play it's having so many playable hands and having to go away because I have lost so much fucking money because I have to raise... limping is no option, shoving is no option, and folding with no action ahead of me is simply idiotic.

I couldn't screencap my last hand as the table broke, but I ran my AK into QQ... no love for Dr. Jones. Speaking of Dr Jones... I'm avioding 100% of the previews for the new Indiana Jones movie as I do with all movies that I really want to see. We'll see how it unfolds.

Beep Beep.

No Skillz to pay the Billz

Alright... can we quit it with the BOOOOOM every 4 hands. Once a tourney... maybe... but jesus it should be used like the Macarena now -you're only allowed to do it if you are a female, 16 years old, and at a wedding.

I blame myself mostly for it... it was my friends and I that did it in our heated battles over Super Mario Kart and 4-player Tetris…and I brought it to poker and to someone who can sell ice to an Eskimo... all facts.

I have no shot at the Skillz series tonite on FullTilt in the BBT3. If you are reading my post, I have no need to describe it in further detail or link to it. My goal was to start playing every event in April with the hopes of grinding out points to backdoor my ass into one of the 2k WSOP seats for having the most points. Hopefully, somewhere along the way I'll fall ass backwards into a win as well... but it ain't easy being me.

The RNG hates me already, and now you add a game where no matter how much I put someone up against the wall... they can 4 out themselves to win half my pot. I'm not naming names here... but when you get 3 bet preflop and you are holding KK77... and you miss the flop and the turn and you are still just holding KK in H/L... go the F away. Are you seriously praying for a 4 outter for HALF THE POT? SAVE YOUR BET. sheesh. I guess they don't teach FOLDING when you are dominated as part of a Skill.

At the first break I'm just over even but if it wasn't for a 4 and 8 outter I'd be near 6k... so be it. Blinds are up so now I can just get all my bets in good and get 2 outted for all my loot... standard operating procedure for me.

I've played a good handful of blogger events, mostly in the BBT2, and there are less than a finger full who can say that when the money went in that I was dead to rights... unless of course the obvious of being extremely short stacked and have to push a.t.c.

Sadly, it's not the bloggers that get me... it's the Riverchasers (tm) players... none of them ever believe I have a hand yet when I get their backs to the wall... I'm the one who ends up with the swirly.

I got halfway thru the Skillz tonite ... pretty much blinded out before the 2nd break. I wasn't going to sit on 3k and see how long it'd last me. I made a push with a suited midPP with a min-wrap. Flopped top pair and still had my overpair…ran into a good drawing hand and was outdrawn. So be it. If you have nothing else to do but rail my table and cheer on the opponents after I go busto, then you need to find a life... one w/o possible jail time for fraud and grand larceny. Just remember, I have nothing to hide.

But on a better note, I think I’m going to start stealing another blogger’s idea… forgive me as I can’t seem to recall who was doing it… but I just picked up a Wii and I think I’m going to be playing it during the breaks. I’m obviously not doing much wrong with the poker.. money is going in good but the hands just aren’t holding. So I figure I’ll just keep my mind busy with other things to distract me from what would normally end up as a horrible chain of events à get 2 outted, tossing the laptop, removing it from the wall and cleaning up the LCD screen from the floor, patching the hole in the wall and repainting, replacing the LCD once it’s shipped from DELL. Oh yeah… add in the part where I pray that my laptop turns back on.. yeah.. that’s a lot of Hail Mary’s.

Things to remember: Say no to Boom. Don’t steal. Folding is a skill. There’s no prayer in poker, God doesn’t want you to win the hand more than your opponent.

Beep beep.