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An Experiment in Excessive Poker Play

Matador Sign

Well, I’m back at Matador for my usual Thursday Orlando Hold’em league poker tourney. Early on in the game, I am in a limped pot with Qh9h and the board comes Kh5hQc, nice result I have mid pair and a second nut flush draw. Some small betting and calls, and the turn comes 9s. I now have 2 pair and a flush draw. “Mr. R” (I have plenty of history with this player) bets 260 and I raise to 600, feeling that I am probably best here. He goes allin for about 1,200 total. Sigh, I believe I have at least 13 outs to anything he has (Unless it’s KQ or K9 – then I’m dominated, he could also have my flush covered, but I think these are small risks). I also have a decent chance to be best in this spot against this particular player. What can I do here but call off my chips and hope I get there. I call, he shows the straight and I lose and am down to 135 in chips, which I proceed to lose shortly. Read the rest of this entry »

I was thinking about the odds of a hand I recently played, where I flopped trips and ran into bigger trips. What are the odds of that happening? Using PokerOdds ( a free program ) I crunched some numbers and came up with some rules of thumb for beat card odds on the flop.

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Hard Rock Tampa

Ok, I went to Tampa to play a 12:30 tournament and some cash game after, time willing. However, the most interesting thing that happened today has nothing to do withpoker. So it’s the end of the day for me, about 6:00 and a late-30′s (guessing) lady joins the cash game on my left. We chat a little as we’re playing, and 20 min. later she picks up her smart phone, brings up a photo on a website and enlarges a naked photo of herself and places the phone on the edge of the table directly between us! whoa…. this is a first. Escort or exhibitionist? I have not idea how to handle this and I am sure the player to my right saw it too. We both ignore the phone for about 15 min. and she picks it up, excusing herself by saying she has a 7 o’clock dinner reservation. Should have got the website address … I would post it, lol.

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Wow, I am completely burnt out today. I wasn’t able to get it together enough to get to a brick and mortar casino, so I am going to play a sit-n-go online.

I play a small stakes sit-n-go on UltimateBet and or course, it goes badly. I flop a set and my opponent gets his flush. There goes 1/3 of my stack. I flop 2 pair and my opponent gets a set. There goes 1/2 of my remaining stack. I flop top pair and a flush draw and my opponent has a set. I lose the remainder of my stack and go out 7th out of 9 players.

I’m going to go to Hard Rock Tampa tomorrow, hope I can get some traction there.

Wish me luck!

I think I caught 2 or 3 hours of sleep on the plane, so I am a zombie when I get back to Orlando at 5ish. A buddy of mine, Big H. , is having a home game tournement tonight at 8 and I promised to be there. A shower and couple of cups of coffee later I show up and buyin for $60 – 50 for the pot and 10 dealer incentive. Level 1 blinds are 25-25 (He uses WSOP blind schedule).

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Golf at Bali Hai

Today we started off with some golf at Bali Hai which is just off the strip. It used to be you couldn’t get a tee time, never mind afford it, but times have changed and the rates are 1/2 off and the next tee time after us was an hour later! We almost had the course to ourselves. We only saw one person, looked like the clubhouse pro, playing a speed round through us. Awesome day out, despite the 104 degree heat.

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Bellagio Poker Room

So here it is day 2, and after that disappointing start yesterday I decided to try a new venue, the Bellagio. I have heard they have a nice poker room. I get there about 2:00 and there is a tournament already in progress that i could buy into for $540 – Wow, I guess I’ll give the ring games another try. I sign up for 1/2 NLHE and after a few more sign ups, they start a table for us. This crowd is more social than the midnight MGM burnouts, so I am already enjoying myself more. I sit at seat 10 and put a hundred in and the cards fly. Most others are in for $200 which is the table max buyin.

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