You gotta love KD

Especially since he has a name for my favorite hand. The Vortex (68s)

You're such a whiner...

I am going to start calling you “Mr. You Never Play Live Poker With Me Anymore”. MYNPLPWMA. It doesn’t look like DYKWTFIA but is just as cool.

The Miz

The office

Ahh...it's blue. Perfect!

Chip Reese - Folds on the Turn

The poker world will be mourning today and for some time to come.. Word is that Chip Reese died in his sleep last night. Our thoughts are with him and his family.

WCP linky

Full Contact Poker linky

two plus two linky

pork and bean freeroll

I just realized that I, pretty much unconsciously, obtained "extra chicken" last night at the L&L Hawaiian BBQ place. Well, it wasn't chicken, but it WAS free. While trying to establish what to order as side dished to the Mixed BBQ Combo, I was in a quarry about whether I should go ahead and sacrifice the pork and beans and get the macaroni salad that Amy wanted. I really wanted to try the pork and beans because I don't eat macaroni salad that is not mine. So, I asked the question, which, as it turns out, was basically an unconscious angle shoot, "how much would it be to get the macaroni salad AND the pork and beans?". The young lady at the counter said $1.50 extra for the pork and beans. I said, "well, nah, I'll pass". Since it was our first time, we had already asked what was good and what she recommended. She was extremely kind and I think she felt a need to "take care of us". Needless to say, the next few words were like music to my ears. She said " well, let me see...maybe I could.." and after a few keystrokes on the register, voila... macaroni salad, rice AND pork and beans for NO UPCHARGE. Needless to say, I was impressed. Not with her, but that I had actually obtained the pork and beans free without intentionally trying... Nice shot!
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It's hard being me, but somehow I manage.

I did it

I played a micro limit sng and never looked at my cards, not once. I took 2nd. I strictly played position and feel based on the scenario of any given hand. Folded every hand, I think until about 5 handed, then started to put pressure when I felt that I could. I did get in all in with 43 or 53 at one point and had flopped a 3 and turned another 3 to triple up 3 ways. This was a GREAT learning experience. Looking back at the hands it was funny to have folded QQ, AK, etc..pre flop.

Black Friday 10k

Played the 10k guaranteed at Viejas on Black Friday. I didn't fair so well. Early on, I played KQ suited and flopped top pair losing to a turned flush. Then, in a blind vs blind battle I lost the least with AK vs AA. After these early blows I was never able to get anything going.

Old skool

Busted not the good ole mantis for a cash session today. Wish me good luck..or at least no bad luck.

3ll3 loves blue chips....

Headed out to Viejas to play a bit of 1-2NL. I was pretty tired since I have not been going to bed before 1am most nights this week. I hit up the monster (not to be confused with monster the job site) so I could wake up a bit and get the mind working on reads before I even arrived. Well, I picked a good night. There was one table running and the list was about 5 deep. I put my name on, took a pager and headed back out to the car, since I left my phone in the Matrix. After I returned to the room we were still waiting for enough players to make a table. I went ahead and took an empty seat at the 3/6 game. I have not played limit in some time, but I wanted to see some cards and kill some time. I was utg with A7h and decided to limp and see a flop, I was looking over at the sign in desk and noticed that the 7 names listed were flashing....PERFECT and brand new table. I love starting a fresh table. I went to lock up seat 3 and came back to the 3/6 table. Someone had raised and it was 3 more to me. I went ahead and called to see a flop. It was 3 bricks so I check folded and move to the NL game, limit is just never that exciting. Especially 3/6. I do want to play some more limit though as I think it is a good game for practicing and playing a lot of hands.

Well, I ran pretty well, I caught several draws and the next thing I know my starting 3 stacks swelled up to 16. Ship! Ran $60 up to $311. Very nice night.

One notable hand was a family limp from the SB with KTo. Flop comes down KJT rainbow, BANG top and bottom pair! This was very nice, but could also be bad if someone was slow playing KJ, AQ TT or JJ. I can't put anyone on these hands since there as there was no PF raise. I was sure that I was ahead here, but lead out for about 40% of the pot to see if anyone was interested in tangling or if there was a straight draw with me. I was popped by a Laggy Asian Dude (we'll call him LAD) with a crooked hat. This guy had shown several random hands with money in and had some monsters as well, so it was tough to tell where he was at sometimes. He was NOT a good player, just tough to read for me because he overbet often and sometimes with air. His stack was like a buffet tray of food that would get eaten and then refilled from some suckout. He had earlier stacked my good friend that sat down next to me with AKo against his KK with a four card flush on the river. Anyways, I really wanted to play a big pot with this guy. He raised to $28 following my $6 poke. At this point I am thinking that I have two choices. Play for stacks or keep it small as possible, just in case of the MUB. In poker, you can't play scared though. You will be eaten alive by good players. As the article states, "Risk/reward is the name of the game. You cannot expect substantial rewards if you are unwilling to assume the risks." With that, I decide it ORANGE CHIP TIME! I grab the All In button and toss it in. At this point I have $104 total and he has me covered. There was a bit of silence.....I was relieved that he did not insta-call, but he did decide, "ok let's go". I knew I was leading now since he delayed a bit before calling. I was hoping for a draw that would not get there. The turn brings another T and now I am tens full of kings and I can safely turn over my cards and drag a pot. The river was a brick and he shows TJ for tens full of jacks. He had flopped bottom two and I had flopped top and bottom, so he was pretty much dead to 2 jacks. Whew, double me up to $200+...

peace

Laptop + 46" HDTV = HD online poker

46" of pocket aces

AA

Very first hand on the 46" display, I pickup aces..

$14 + $5 + $10 = $52?

So sunday I played a new tournament at Sycuan. It was a $14 buy in with $5 rebuys and a $10 addon. There was a $1500 guaranteed prize pool so I thought what the heck. I played very well and even got lucky a couple times where it saved my hide.

Sycuan Sunday...

Here we go, $14 w/$5 rb and $10 ao.

Psyc(uan)ed!

Good session at Sycuan last night. Played mostly ABC poker. I did have to make some pretty tough calls for big pots, but I made the right decision most every time. Only challenge was that I had many many draws that just would not get there. Those can add up. $60 investment $229 return, ship!

Impressive casino food?

The braised short rib sandwich wast very good. It was bbq short ribs, gouda cheese and cole slaw on a ciabatta roll. Of course, I asked to hold the slaw, which they forgot, but after scraping it was fantastic. Plus, it was free! $hip!

One and Done

I like to play micro stakes sng's on AP like .50 and $1, but today I felt like stepping it up and went for the $2.















After a pretty lame suckout early... I waited....waited and used patience a weapon.

Gut Flopping, nice fetish (NSFW)

OK, this is just weird.....

Dumped then pumped..

Very nice night at the "blue chip" game ($413) for +$253. As usual, I dumped two buy ins almost immediately, but I was able to go to work and get it back after a few hours

Jackpot!

Starburst at 75% red, is definitely +ev.

SEAT OPEN!

The third office, a place to study...

Sun am $27 no rb

New screen name 3RDBULLET. Got into trouble wAT but won a nice pot with a 3rd bullet. Just busted at 3 tables.

Poker Chip Sound file

I am going to make this my new ring tone.

Negative EV with a Car Rental?

So back to the trip to Vegas. I tried some mobile posts, but they were not posting via the phone. Just got that fixed with an "over the wire(less)" firmware upgrade so now I can texts away.. This will be a wired post though..



OK..Sat am starts out pretty good, well, other than the cockchugger at the Budget Car Rental Desk. I see why this guy works at "Budget". He is a budget employee IMO. Anyways, he proceed to ask us for 3 forms of picture ID and I said "3, really?", then he is silent and walks to the large sign and points at it for me. It says some BS about 3 forms of picture ID. Thanks asshole, I can read and I may have missed that HUGE white sign. Then, once we provide 6 pcs of picture ID's, he ask for a form of payment for the deposit. Mrs gives him a debit card, he states that they will hold $350 on the card and I said oh yeah babe it's a dumb policy. Then the guy says DUMB? Well, you can go somewhere else and rent if you would like. What a cocksucker...Mrs tells me to pipe down basically, but I had to bite my tongue to keep from hurdling the count and choking that MF'er.

I guess that karma is a bitch, because he haunted me...

We're (I'm) driving the PT Cruiser which I had hoped to get since I have never driven one. BTW, he wanted to charge an extra $10 for a 2nd driver (me) and I simply said that I would not be driving. We (I) decide to pull up on the curb in the median of S. Las Vegas Blvd to take this shot.



It was a bit rough to CLIMB the curb on the way up but the PT Cruiser handled it quite well. After we were done and got the shot, we went back off the curb. I eased it off slowly so as to be careful, but we did hit a bit hard on the asphalt. It seemed ok.....at first. I mean the frame slammed a bit hard, but cars are tough. As we drove down S. Las Vegas Blvd I started to feel the car vibrating and pulling to the right. Oh great! Apparently, it was the off the curb SLAM that hurt us...or at least the 3k miles new tire on the passenger side. Yeah it was flat, real flat and it wasn't a nail or anything that I could see. I think the bead popped or something. Long story short we pulled into Luxor and I changed to the monkey spare tire. Mrs Mantis tried calling customer service line several times, but to no avail. Somehow I managed to get right through to a person and asked if we should just use as is or take the car back and trade. Needless to say, she said it was probably not safe and we went back to trade it out for the less phat ride, a Chevy Malibu. The Mrs. had to complete an incident report and hopefully we are not responsible for the bead poppage.

Down at least a moral buy-in right from the get go..

MGM runs 12-14 1-2 tables....wish I could multi-table live

Classic how MGM was running like 12 tables of 1-2 when I walked in. Yup, 12.

Binion's

Binion's Baby!

The Mantis has arrived

So we are here. Yup VEGAS BABY! It all startedwith a major doucheball at the Budget counter givin

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Off to Vegas

Well, my girlfriend surprised me and planned a trip to Vegas for my birthday. I'm excited, it's been a while since I have been there. In fact I was not even a "poker" player the last time I was there. I just dabbled in slots and maybe some roulette. Wish me luck. I will definitely play some cash games and hopefully I will get to play at least one tournament.

What a call!!

This particular call is pretty much what fueled me to take 2nd place in a 3000 entrant freeroll on AP.

Stage #947412787 Tourney ID 1906837 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $2000 - 2007-10-17 03:40:11 (ET)
Table: 330 (Real Money) Seat #8 is the dealer
Seat 1 - BIGKAHUNA37 ($13761.25 in chips)
Seat 2 - QUICKDRAW70 ($7070 in chips)
Seat 3 - HEYRUBE ($26146.94 in chips)
Seat 4 - BIGCHEEKS23 ($38722.50 in chips)
Seat 5 - RAIKOLEE ($105825.50 in chips)
Seat 6 - TONY_COBRA ($41498.58 in chips)
Seat 7 - POKERCHIP989 ($57688.66 in chips)
Seat 8 - LUCE_CALL ($13135 in chips)
Seat 9 - M4NT1S ($29894.68 in chips)
BIGKAHUNA37 - Ante $150
QUICKDRAW70 - Ante $150
HEYRUBE - Ante $150
BIGCHEEKS23 - Ante $150
RAIKOLEE - Ante $150
TONY_COBRA - Ante $150
POKERCHIP989 - Ante $150
LUCE_CALL - Ante $150
M4NT1S - Ante $150
M4NT1S - Posts small blind $1000
BIGKAHUNA37 - Posts big blind $2000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to M4NT1S [ ]
QUICKDRAW70 - Folds
HEYRUBE - Folds
BIGCHEEKS23 - Calls $2000
RAIKOLEE - Calls $2000
TONY_COBRA - Folds
POKERCHIP989 - Folds
LUCE_CALL - Calls $2000
M4NT1S - Calls $1000
BIGKAHUNA37 - Checks

Flop:
[ ]
M4NT1S - Bets $2000
BIGKAHUNA37 - Folds
BIGCHEEKS23 - Folds
RAIKOLEE - Calls $2000
LUCE_CALL - Folds

Turn:
[ ] [ ]
M4NT1S - Bets $6000
RAIKOLEE - Calls $6000

River:
[ ] [ ]
M4NT1S - Bets $2000
RAIKOLEE - Raises $28000 to $28000
M4NT1S - All-In $17744.68
RAIKOLEE - returned ($8255.32) : not called

Showdown:
RAIKOLEE - Shows [ ] (One pair, kings)
M4NT1S - Shows [ ] (Two Pair, kings and fours)
M4NT1S Collects $66839.36 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total Pot($66839.36)

Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: BIGKAHUNA37 (big blind) Folded on the FLOP
Seat 2: QUICKDRAW70 Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: HEYRUBE Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 4: BIGCHEEKS23 Folded on the FLOP
Seat 5: RAIKOLEE HI:lost with One pair kings [ - B:Ks B:Kd B:9h P:8h P:7s ]
Seat 6: TONY_COBRA Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 7: POKERCHIP989 Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 8: LUCE_CALL (dealer) Folded on the FLOP
Seat 9: M4NT1S (small blind) won Total ($66839 .36) All-In HI:($66839.36) with Two Pair kings and fours [ - B:Ks B:Kd P:4d B:4c B:9h ]

OK, here was a bad call

Stage #947470108 Tourney ID 1906837 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $36000 - 2007-10-17 06:17:43 (ET)
Table: 323 (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - KROSSKEYSKID ($850854.69 in chips)
Seat 6 - DRR5 ($115868.84 in chips)
Seat 7 - SHAGGY CORR11 ($1017755.68 in chips)
Seat 8 - M4NT1S ($1997235.79 in chips)
KROSSKEYSKID - Ante $1800
DRR5 - Ante $1800
SHAGGY CORR11 - Ante $1800
M4NT1S - Ante $1800
DRR5 - Posts small blind $18000
SHAGGY CORR11 - Posts big blind $36000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to M4NT1S [ ]
M4NT1S - Raises $72000 to $72000
KROSSKEYSKID - Folds
DRR5 - Folds
SHAGGY CORR11 - Raises $216000 to $252000
M4NT1S - Calls $180000

Flop:
[ ]
SHAGGY CORR11 - All-In $763955.68
M4NT1S - Calls $763955.68

Turn:
[ ] [ ]

River:
[ ] [ ]

Showdown:
SHAGGY CORR11 - Shows [ ] (One pair, jacks)
M4NT1S - Shows [ ] (One pair, tens)
SHAGGY CORR11 Collects $2057111.36 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total Pot($2057111.36)

Board:
[ ]
Seat 5: KROSSKEYSKID (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: DRR5 (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 7: SHAGGY CORR11 (big blind) won Total ($2057111.36) All-In HI:($2057111.36) with One pair jacks [ - P:Jd B:Jc P:As B:10h B:8h ]
Seat 8: M4NT1S HI:lost with One pair, tens [ - P:10s B:10h P:Qs B:Jc B:8h ]