PokerStars' reload bonus is now safely added to my account after an hour of playing break-even poker. It wouldn't have been break-even poker and I would have been up except for a couple of Riverstars specials. I won't tell you about flopping two pair with AK vs. 99, and I won't tell you about the opponent hitting his two outer on the river. Nay. I'm better then that. I also will refrain from whinning about having a decent low draw and full house in a Omaha 8 SnG only to have the opponent hit a higher full house and not make my low draw on the river. I'm stronger than that. I need a drink to stop with these stupid beat stories. If I start telling one in Vegas, kindly shove a shot or some bOObs (not mOObs) in my general direction.
Much appreciated.
I had about as much fun as a person can have playing break-even poker. The 3rd place in a $20 SnG paid for the $15 Pot Limit Omaha SnG that finished rather quickly due to unfortunate events. I wanted to hit up Noble Poker last night to see if the traffic continues to bustle there as it did on Tuesday night. But instead I went home to Full Tilt (BONUS CODE: Drizz99) to continue scraping out points towards the big WSOP freeroll. If you don't know about this already, Full Tilt is giving away 10 seats to the main event in a tournament for those who earn 10,000 "Full Tilt points" between now and June 18th (I believe). Go down and sign up! I did manage a small win on the .25/.50 and .50/1 NLHE tables (yes I was four tabling two different sites again). Nothing too exciting except I found myself to be more disciplined when calling big river bets.
For example: AKo on a board of K Q Q 7 T, one caller to my pre-flop raise, I led out a 5XBB bet on the flop, he smooth called. Checked the turn (weak/tight?), he checks. I check the river (weak/tight?) he bets 15XBB, and I fold. Way too many hands had me beat, and not enough hands that I could bet except Kx (not pairing the x card). Normally, I'd pay him off not pay attention to the various hands that could have me beat, and there were several KK, Q(anything), 77, TT, AJ, J9, KT. And this guy was capable of playing all of those hands.
I saw Evelyn Ng playing the $100/$200 hold em' table at Stars and chatting it up about checking out Wynn's new place or clubbing. Way too much action at that table for this railbird. Ace high won 3 hands out of the 15 that I watched, once capped pre-flop, all 15 went to showdown also. Very different game being played by the pros compared to the nickle and dimes that I'm used to playing for.
I will be heading up North to Grand Casino Hinckley this weekend (and its brand new card room)... actually going to my cabin, but I'm sure there will be a little side trip on the way :D Not sure if I'll be back in time for the next WSOP WPBT satellite (Sunday @ Stars, check Iggy's website for details), but I'll at least join the rails to root on the next blogger to join Otis and Bob "Pimpin' Aerostars" Respert at the Rio for some low stakes 52 card pickup.
Thanks for dropping by, now go do something more productive like playing Everquest for the next 12 hours.
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