Catching up

Haven't had too much time to post lately, adjusting to parenthood as most of you know, has it's challenges. I have been sneaking in some cash game, sng's, and a few tourney's, in between the naps, feedings, etc.

I had been jounaling all the BBT3 games that I played in, the day after. My memory isn't all that good, so for games #29 - #34, I don't have much to say. I played a few of them, and other than getting some points in the Mook, not much going on. I sort of knew going in that I wasn't going to be doing much, with all that was going on, but it served as a good 'other' thing to do, which is also important, in the sense we all need some kind of break of the real things going on in life. Congrats to all who have cashed in and won TOC seats for those games.

Last night was #35, Miami Don's Big game. I had carved out some time to actually try and focus, and play well. However, had another ho-hum effort, and busted middle of the pack or so. I believe Wormsu won, and if so it's his 2nd. Nice going! By the way, I'm sure most of you know this, but the absolute easiest way to get the $75 token for events such as this, is to play the $26 2 table SNG, where the top 5 get tokens. You can be brain dead and make the top 5, the game is that easy. I don't know why I don't play them more often, I only seem to do it for the Big Game, but if you dedicate yourself to that game, I think anyone with half a game can definitely be on the +EV side of the scale in that game.

Leading the BBT3 April race, is none other than everyone's favorite poker player, Mr Waffles himself. After last nights 3rd place showing, he should be able to cruise to April's WSOP 2K seat prize, unlike your's truly how crashed in burned after leading the March race for most of the month. Nice work Waffles, you da man!

Now for some poker musings from the weekend.

This first one is from a $55 SNG. It doesn't happen often, but isn't it a great feeling when you have a bet and a raise in front of you, and your holding the mortal nuts? ! :-)



That's equivalent to hitting that perfect golf shot, right on the sweet spot, stiff as can be, and dancing the mambo! Keeps ya coming back for more, eh?

Now from yesterday's $750K, a little blogger humor, although I don't think I recognize this guy as one of our players or partime players:



He LOL to my comment, so either he knew what it meant or was just messing with me, either way, it gave me a good chuckle.

Now from the 'what the hec was this guy thinking' file, here's a guy who CALLED on the river with ....well see for yourself:




And fnally from a cash game, the 'cooler' of the weekend:



Tonight is Monday at the Hoy, as the BBT3 rolls on. Password as always is 'hammer', and it's good ole 6 max NL Texas holdem.

2BA

In a moment, back to our regularly schedule program

Hey all, as I mentioned in the comments on my last post, I want to thank everyone who left kind and wonderful sentiments, my wife and I truly appreciate it.

I've been camped at the hospital since Wednesday, we are hoping to go home today, but perhaps not until tomorrow. There were some complications which have extended our stay, but I am happy to say my wife is feeling a billion times better, and she is recovering nicely.

As for my little girl, she's doing great, eats well, and has me changing diapers like they are going out of style! :-) But it's all great!

Thanks to some free wireless here at the hospital, I was able to get a few late night sng's and cash games in. In fact, I'm up very nicely, and have made a dent into what will be my 20% of the bill.

Even got a little DQB action:



Thats all for now, good luck to everyone vying for BBT3 TOC seats.

2BA

Welcome Juliette! 2029 WSOP Champ! :-)

BBT3 - Game #28 Skillz 'what skillz?'

I think this graphic can sum up my performance from last night:



My way of giving back to the community! :-) Big Congrats to Senor Hoyazo for taking it down in a huge way, and earning the TOC seat.

So since that was over before it started, I played some other tourny's and heads up cash matches.

This one is from the 32K last night. It's my daily vice tourney. The play is pretty horrible, especially early on. If presented with a good situation where I can get a huge stack, I'm willing to gamble it up. Check this guy out, 'trapping' me with his flush:



Here I figured to have the best hand preflop, and was willing to gamble it up to get a huge stack. Unfortunately, it didn't work out:



And fellow bloggers and readers, 'the final hand:'



By the way, this was the 2nd Straight flush of the night against me, what are the odd's???

2BA

BBT3 - Game #27 MATH & Epassporte alternatives

Busted out of the MATH early last night, so not much to talk about there. Skidoo took it down, and wins the TOC seat, so congrats to him on the victory.

Tonight BBT3 rolls on with Skillz, I think it's going to be limit stud h/l.

As many of you may have heard, Epassporte is no longer a funding option for U.S. based online poker players. I ran across this post, which lists some alternatives.

The only real impact it has on me, is that I used Epassporte as my $$ portal between FT and Stars. So I'll have to figure out some other way to do it, although my play on Stars is minimal, given they have no rakeback program (that I am aware of at least).

2BA

Sunday Satty's & Donkament record confirmed

First things first...Kat has confirmed my donkament record. And OhCaptain has confirmed his gratitude! :-) So from now on, I'll let someone else be the nutso to try and break that record, but as you can see in the previous post, the only thing two things required is button mashing skills and FTP's 45 fully cooperating! Really simple!

So Sunday turned out to be Satellite day for me. And it was a good day to say the least. I managed to win a $500 seat to the main event tourney and also won a seat to the 750K. I played the latter (with no luck) and cashed out the T$'s on the former.

I then happen to notice with about 2 minutes to go, that the $26 buyin to the Monday night 1K only had 25 or so signed up. So I giddyuped ala Kramer, only to notice that another 15 had the same idea! Oh well, shit happens:



Pretty nice, considering I was major leagued outchipped when we got 3 handed. I had a little help from this hand to put me in position to contend:



Sweet win considering the buyin, of course, I cashed out the T$'s. For one, it's a very tough field, and I'd pretty much be dead money. Second, I may have to scado0dle at any moment with Mrs 2BA being overdue now, and I'd be between the proverbial rock and hard place! (just kidding honey!)

BBT3 resumes tonight with Mondays at the Hoy, $24 bucks gets you in, password is hammer!

2BA

BBT3 - Game #26 Riverchasers & Donkament Donkery

So I failed to make the points again in the Riverchasers, although I think I am playing well, the cards are just not falling for me right now. I had a hot March start, but April has been pretty cold, as far as the BBT3 goes.

For this tournament, the only interesting thing was that PirateLaywer, had some really huge hands in the Big Blind. IIRC, Aces 2 or 3 times, Kings and Queens 1 each, but had the misfortune of running into quads, with one of the aces, and the table gave him a walk on the others. The queens was a hand against me, in a Sb Vs BB situation:




I have absolutely no idea where my head was in this hand. Most of the time, I'm raising this hand preflop, yet I completed. . And my river action has me scratching my head. It worked out obviously, and even though I'm sure PL has beat himself up about how he played the hand, I think I was really the one out in LALA land, and just got dumb lucky. Oh well, it happens.

Friday night, I Donked it up in the Donkament once again. Other than the last 3 hands, I played every hand...as in I pushed every hand. I've been doing this trying to break the record of most rebuys, which I think is 54. Well I had 73 plus the addon! However, that may not be good enough, as PokahDave was doing a good job of keeping up, so I don't know how many he had, but thats my posted number. I took a snap of the stats too:



So that was alot of fun, and OhCaptain was the benefactor of my donkish play.

I've been donking it up also in some heads up sng's....I enjoy playing them because they are fairly quick. Sometimes one is all that is needed. At any rate, good ole 45 keeps me in check, no matter what I play.



I'm going to try and get into the 750K today, maybe I'll see some of you guys out there.

2BA