Sunday morning

Haven’t played much cards this weekend, although I did get in a 3-3 session of heads up live vs my buddy Donnie on Friday night. We alternate NLHE and Omaha hi, 10 bucks a game, and the first to ten wins gets an additional 20. It’s alot of fun, and we don’t play nearly as much as we used to.

The momentum swung back and forth, with no real crazy hands to speak of. I managed to get quads twice over the night in Omaha, and I also made one rediculous tight call (and not reraise ) with a boat. All in all a fun session, a few beer, and a few laughs.

Online, haven’t been playing as much last few days, and my momentum in the cash games has slowed. I am thinking I’m going to play some SNG’s for a while for a change. The cash games are sooooo swingy, and I have a hard time concentrating in the limit games less than 2-4. Stupid I know but its just the way it is.

Looking forward to continuing in the Blogger tourney’s on FullTilt. I am (mostly, lol) over being eliminated from all three tourney’s last week by river cards and I am looking forward to playing some strong poker and trying to win my way to the free roll for a shot at the 18,000 package.

Going to take care of my fantasy pools.

Sunday morning

Haven’t played much cards this weekend, although I did get in a 3-3 session of heads up live vs my buddy Donnie on Friday night. We alternate NLHE and Omaha hi, 10 bucks a game, and the first to ten wins gets an additional 20. It’s alot of fun, and we don’t play nearly as much as we used to.

The momentum swung back and forth, with no real crazy hands to speak of. I managed to get quads twice over the night in Omaha, and I also made one rediculous tight call (and not reraise ) with a boat. All in all a fun session, a few beer, and a few laughs.

Online, haven’t been playing as much last few days, and my momentum in the cash games has slowed. I am thinking I’m going to play some SNG’s for a while for a change. The cash games are sooooo swingy, and I have a hard time concentrating in the limit games less than 2-4. Stupid I know but its just the way it is.

Looking forward to continuing in the Blogger tourney’s on FullTilt. I am (mostly, lol) over being eliminated from all three tourney’s last week by river cards and I am looking forward to playing some strong poker and trying to win my way to the free roll for a shot at the 18,000 package.

Going to take care of my fantasy pools.

I'm back

Well I haven’t posted in ages, but I am back and ready to go poker wise. I had barely played any poker in the last month or so, as the poker league I run ended for the summer on July 15th, and I was just poker burnt out. After the World Series I totally shut down from Poker, not looking at a poker blog, forum, book or a poker tv show and only played 3 sng’s online over 5 weeks. But now I am starting to itch to play again.

Last night I played my first heads up session in ages with a buddy and fellow TNT’er. We played a mix of a games and I ended up coming out on top 10-5. We then jumped into playing a first to ten wins NLHE set up and got in 6 games, ended up deadlocked at 3. I ran very good, getting lucky, hitting 4 huge game changing (and a couple times ending) rivers. I’ll take the wins tho no doubt. I picked up a little tell on him but let him know what I saw, as while of course I am trying to win, and will do whatever I can to win, at the same time, I would like to do whatever I can to help my buddies improve their respective games. Anyway It was a lot of fun, had some great laughs and got me thinking poker again.

I am out of town the next two weekends, and I am busted online so I likely won’t be playing any cards for the next little bit. I have my league starting up again on Sept 21st, and also the next day a buddy of mine is starting his own league. There is also 3 times a week tourney’s in the local pool halls as well as cash games. In theory I could find a game every night if I wanted, (and if I were single) but for the well being of my marriage, I won’t push the envelope….lol. I will play all the heads up I can fit in with my friends (my favorite form of poker) and I will attempt to play twice a month live. I plan to be online agan within the next 6 weeks or so, so I am easing my way back into poker after my 5 week or so hiatus.

I’m back

Well I haven’t posted in ages, but I am back and ready to go poker wise. I had barely played any poker in the last month or so, as the poker league I run ended for the summer on July 15th, and I was just poker burnt out. After the World Series I totally shut down from Poker, not looking at a poker blog, forum, book or a poker tv show and only played 3 sng’s online over 5 weeks. But now I am starting to itch to play again.

Last night I played my first heads up session in ages with a buddy and fellow TNT’er. We played a mix of a games and I ended up coming out on top 10-5. We then jumped into playing a first to ten wins NLHE set up and got in 6 games, ended up deadlocked at 3. I ran very good, getting lucky, hitting 4 huge game changing (and a couple times ending) rivers. I’ll take the wins tho no doubt. I picked up a little tell on him but let him know what I saw, as while of course I am trying to win, and will do whatever I can to win, at the same time, I would like to do whatever I can to help my buddies improve their respective games. Anyway It was a lot of fun, had some great laughs and got me thinking poker again.

I am out of town the next two weekends, and I am busted online so I likely won’t be playing any cards for the next little bit. I have my league starting up again on Sept 21st, and also the next day a buddy of mine is starting his own league. There is also 3 times a week tourney’s in the local pool halls as well as cash games. In theory I could find a game every night if I wanted, (and if I were single) but for the well being of my marriage, I won’t push the envelope….lol. I will play all the heads up I can fit in with my friends (my favorite form of poker) and I will attempt to play twice a month live. I plan to be online agan within the next 6 weeks or so, so I am easing my way back into poker after my 5 week or so hiatus.

I’m back

Well I haven’t posted in ages, but I am back and ready to go poker wise. I had barely played any poker in the last month or so, as the poker league I run ended for the summer on July 15th, and I was just poker burnt out. After the World Series I totally shut down from Poker, not looking at a poker blog, forum, book or a poker tv show and only played 3 sng’s online over 5 weeks. But now I am starting to itch to play again.

Last night I played my first heads up session in ages with a buddy and fellow TNT’er. We played a mix of a games and I ended up coming out on top 10-5. We then jumped into playing a first to ten wins NLHE set up and got in 6 games, ended up deadlocked at 3. I ran very good, getting lucky, hitting 4 huge game changing (and a couple times ending) rivers. I’ll take the wins tho no doubt. I picked up a little tell on him but let him know what I saw, as while of course I am trying to win, and will do whatever I can to win, at the same time, I would like to do whatever I can to help my buddies improve their respective games. Anyway It was a lot of fun, had some great laughs and got me thinking poker again.

I am out of town the next two weekends, and I am busted online so I likely won’t be playing any cards for the next little bit. I have my league starting up again on Sept 21st, and also the next day a buddy of mine is starting his own league. There is also 3 times a week tourney’s in the local pool halls as well as cash games. In theory I could find a game every night if I wanted, (and if I were single) but for the well being of my marriage, I won’t push the envelope….lol. I will play all the heads up I can fit in with my friends (my favorite form of poker) and I will attempt to play twice a month live. I plan to be online agan within the next 6 weeks or so, so I am easing my way back into poker after my 5 week or so hiatus.

HU vs Donnie July 22nd

July 22nd HU vs Donnie

Session 5-0

This session took place on Saturday afternoon the night after my monthly tournament. I played two games against Donnie the night before while waiting for people to show up for my tourney’s. In that short heads up session, I frankly got my ass handed to me. The first game was over in 4 hands, as an unlucky river in a big first hand, and then a flopped straight in the 4th hand took me out. The second game was back to hold em and this one went back and forth a little bit with both of us down to around 25 chips (out of starting 60 as usual) but in the end Donnie took me out 2 games in a row. Giving him a 2-0 session as well as an 8-2 lead in the current race to ten.

Saturday thankfully was a different story. I played with confidence, and just wanted to get myself back in this race to ten and make it respectable. Donnie when running well is a very aggressive player and plays almost entirely on instinct. His strongest trait at the table, in my eyes is his ability to read people, and know where he is in the hand. I have stated before, he has never read a book on poker, and to my knowledge has never been to a poker forum or whatever. He even told me while we were surfing channels and I stopped at a strategy show on the Casino network that he has no interest in watching or reading about poker strategy. He learns entirely by watching all he can on tv, and playing as much as he can live. He had a good result in my tournament the night before and was chip leader when an unlucky river took him out, when he got beat by a miracle draw, losing two thirds of his stack.

I was having a few beer, was relaxed, but determined to get back into this Race. My games with Donnie are quite different than my games with Jeff, and we play more of a “friendly game” as the raises are usually not as big in my games with Jeff. I am just as competitive with both, and hate to lose to anyone, especially these two. Two of my closest friends, and I hate to lose at anything to either of them.

The games were pretty close, and there were a couple big swings and both of us were down to under 25 chips in game 2. I definitely got lucky a couple times and I also played way too tight in a couple positions. I had one spot where I folded with a gut shot straight and a flush draw and folded for 16 more. Of course I went rabbit hunting and I hit the one card that gave me both the flush and straight draw.

After the third game Donnie started talking a little bit saying I should be out by now and that I was making it respectable. Even when I got it to 8-5 I still thought maybe I could get this even closer and while I wanted to continue playing tight aggressive, I didn’t want to get careless, but yet wanted to keep up the pressure. SO i put the peddle down, kept raising in position and kept pushing.

One thing about playing with Donnie, as I said he is very good at knowing where he is in a hand. It’s hard to get free cards with Donnie, thus you need to be aggressive back at him. He will bluff, and he showed me a couple of them. We both show quite a few hands when we play, which is very different than when you play with Jeff. Jeff does not give off a whole lot of unwanted info. He will not show hands if he doesn’t need to unless he’s showing you a bluff to get a desired result. I on the other hand may show too many hands. A lot of times I do show a hand to get a desired result, other times I am drinking, and I don’t care and just show, haha.

Didn’t talk about the hands much in this session recap, just tried to show some differences between my matches with Jeff and Donnie. Both very aggressive, but different players. Jeff puts alot of poker thought into nearly every street of every hand. He reads and studies poker alot. Donnie plays by instinct. Both are aggressive, but my games with Donnie for the most part are not as aggressive as the games I play with Donnie. I love heads up, it just may be my favorite way to play. Phil Ivey calls it the most pure form of poker. I am not sure if thats true but it is sure alot of fun. I have played hundreds of games vs my two buddies and I try and take away as much as I can from my games with both. The sheer amount of heads up poker has helped me tremendously in my live tourney’s, having reached heads up of the last 4 MTT games I have played.

HU vs Donnie July 22nd

July 22nd HU vs Donnie

Session 5-0

This session took place on Saturday afternoon the night after my monthly tournament. I played two games against Donnie the night before while waiting for people to show up for my tourney’s. In that short heads up session, I frankly got my ass handed to me. The first game was over in 4 hands, as an unlucky river in a big first hand, and then a flopped straight in the 4th hand took me out. The second game was back to hold em and this one went back and forth a little bit with both of us down to around 25 chips (out of starting 60 as usual) but in the end Donnie took me out 2 games in a row. Giving him a 2-0 session as well as an 8-2 lead in the current race to ten.

Saturday thankfully was a different story. I played with confidence, and just wanted to get myself back in this race to ten and make it respectable. Donnie when running well is a very aggressive player and plays almost entirely on instinct. His strongest trait at the table, in my eyes is his ability to read people, and know where he is in the hand. I have stated before, he has never read a book on poker, and to my knowledge has never been to a poker forum or whatever. He even told me while we were surfing channels and I stopped at a strategy show on the Casino network that he has no interest in watching or reading about poker strategy. He learns entirely by watching all he can on tv, and playing as much as he can live. He had a good result in my tournament the night before and was chip leader when an unlucky river took him out, when he got beat by a miracle draw, losing two thirds of his stack.

I was having a few beer, was relaxed, but determined to get back into this Race. My games with Donnie are quite different than my games with Jeff, and we play more of a “friendly game” as the raises are usually not as big in my games with Jeff. I am just as competitive with both, and hate to lose to anyone, especially these two. Two of my closest friends, and I hate to lose at anything to either of them.

The games were pretty close, and there were a couple big swings and both of us were down to under 25 chips in game 2. I definitely got lucky a couple times and I also played way too tight in a couple positions. I had one spot where I folded with a gut shot straight and a flush draw and folded for 16 more. Of course I went rabbit hunting and I hit the one card that gave me both the flush and straight draw.

After the third game Donnie started talking a little bit saying I should be out by now and that I was making it respectable. Even when I got it to 8-5 I still thought maybe I could get this even closer and while I wanted to continue playing tight aggressive, I didn’t want to get careless, but yet wanted to keep up the pressure. SO i put the peddle down, kept raising in position and kept pushing.

One thing about playing with Donnie, as I said he is very good at knowing where he is in a hand. It’s hard to get free cards with Donnie, thus you need to be aggressive back at him. He will bluff, and he showed me a couple of them. We both show quite a few hands when we play, which is very different than when you play with Jeff. Jeff does not give off a whole lot of unwanted info. He will not show hands if he doesn’t need to unless he’s showing you a bluff to get a desired result. I on the other hand may show too many hands. A lot of times I do show a hand to get a desired result, other times I am drinking, and I don’t care and just show, haha.

Didn’t talk about the hands much in this session recap, just tried to show some differences between my matches with Jeff and Donnie. Both very aggressive, but different players. Jeff puts alot of poker thought into nearly every street of every hand. He reads and studies poker alot. Donnie plays by instinct. Both are aggressive, but my games with Donnie for the most part are not as aggressive as the games I play with Donnie. I love heads up, it just may be my favorite way to play. Phil Ivey calls it the most pure form of poker. I am not sure if thats true but it is sure alot of fun. I have played hundreds of games vs my two buddies and I try and take away as much as I can from my games with both. The sheer amount of heads up poker has helped me tremendously in my live tourney’s, having reached heads up of the last 4 MTT games I have played.

Surfing around the blogs

Well in my post last night/this am about my cash game Sunday night I forgot to mention that Donnie and I played heads up on our camping trip on the weekend. We played in the dark, outside in a screenhouse for about an hour and 15 min in a session that was cut short by my daughters and our wives desire for us to come sit around the camp fire.

We got in three games and it wasn’t much quality poker but more, drunken, Bet raise reraise all in. The first two games were over in about 25 min total with Donnie winning both. The third I won with my slowplaying my trip A’s. Again, both of us were quite drunk, and neither of us were really backing down, and it turned into a who would blink first kind of deal. Give him credit though, as he took a 6-2 lead in our current race to ten.

I am on vacation yest and today for a 4 day weekend. It is a rainy day today and I have spent much of it cruising around the net reading different poker blogs. I have been fascinated reading the different WSOP live blogs and have been following the results of the early WSOP tourney’s online. I find reading poker blogs can be a long process, as one blog leads me to the next, and that one to the next.

That reminds me I have been meaning to add more links to my blogroll, and maybe get my blog set up to technorati, and some other of the sites to maybe get some more traffic to my humble little poker blog. I should get to it I guess!

Surfing around the blogs

Well in my post last night/this am about my cash game Sunday night I forgot to mention that Donnie and I played heads up on our camping trip on the weekend. We played in the dark, outside in a screenhouse for about an hour and 15 min in a session that was cut short by my daughters and our wives desire for us to come sit around the camp fire.

We got in three games and it wasn’t much quality poker but more, drunken, Bet raise reraise all in. The first two games were over in about 25 min total with Donnie winning both. The third I won with my slowplaying my trip A’s. Again, both of us were quite drunk, and neither of us were really backing down, and it turned into a who would blink first kind of deal. Give him credit though, as he took a 6-2 lead in our current race to ten.

I am on vacation yest and today for a 4 day weekend. It is a rainy day today and I have spent much of it cruising around the net reading different poker blogs. I have been fascinated reading the different WSOP live blogs and have been following the results of the early WSOP tourney’s online. I find reading poker blogs can be a long process, as one blog leads me to the next, and that one to the next.

That reminds me I have been meaning to add more links to my blogroll, and maybe get my blog set up to technorati, and some other of the sites to maybe get some more traffic to my humble little poker blog. I should get to it I guess!