BBT3 - Game #25 Mookie & PushFest Snafu

So we had a real nice thunderstorm last night in the North Dallas area, and my notes on last nights's play got zapped when I found my notebook restarted this morning. Wonderful, eh? What was even more unsettling was that the hospital where Mrs 2BA is going to deliver our daughter, lost power! Wanna see some chaos, go to a hospital with power issues. Good thing baby girl didn't decide to come last night.

Ok back to poker.....played the Mookie last night, and actually was doing ok. I think I got bounced around the middle of the pack when IIRC we were in a 3/4 way limp pot, and George decides to move in from the BB. Limpers in front of me fold, and I had TT, and decided he was making this play in that hand with a smaller pp, so I called. He flips 99 and hits a set on the flop, and I am crippled, and go out shortly thereafter. That's poker, and in the 'long' run of the game, he was due to pay me back, as I do recall coming from behind once or twice during the BBT series against him as well.

Congrats to the so called 'worst player' on the victory last night, Waffles takes (and dishes) a lot of crap from/to many folks, all hopefully in good jest, but all in all, I think he's a pretty good guy, and very decent player.

I also hopped into the blogger cash game last night, but other than losing 30 or 40 bucks, not much happened. I have a ways to go to play at the same level as these guys, but I'm always up for the challenge, and will continue to play as long as we don't go up higher in stakes.

I also hopped on board the PushFest train again, and this time we played $3 90 player tournament. I think this is much better than the 50 pts tourney format we were running. We played two, and in the 2nd one, I got hit by the deck about as hard as you can. I mean I was sucking out left and right, and amassed some ridiculous lead, which on normal days would have been enough for the win. However, Bayne also did very well, and when I was at my high point of 55k or so, he had 35k or so, and next person was below 10k. It was at this point where I somehow got folded at my table. I got dealt the cards, but when the action came around to me, instead of allowing me to play my action, the software folded my hand. Now I have had this happen to me before. At least on my machine, the FT client is a hog. Even though I have 2 gigs of ram, sometimes the client freezes up on me for a second, and if it happens right at the time it's my action, the dang software folds me. It's pretty frustrating, as this has happen with me holding KK's, AA's only to see the hand get folded. I can dig up the hh, but I am certain that the person in 2nd place at my table didn't have more than 5 or 6k at the time, and so losing a hand would not have had a material impact on my stack, given I still would have had a large lead. At any rate, Bayne popped in an offered me a chop, and in all fairness with the snafu just occuring, I accepted. Although I suppose by the letter of our rules, I should be DQ'd. If the general consensus is that I should, I'll be happy to live with that, at this point, I believe Bayne did send me the chop bucks. So do chime in if you disagree, but at this point I'm incline to send Bayne the $$'s.

It was certainly alot of fun though, and the chat comments by the other player's are absoultely hilarious. It's a storm that hit's them real good, and there is no cover! KaBoooooom!!!!

2BA

BBT3 - Game #24 Skillz HORSE & some cash game hands

Last night skillz game was HORSE. I left the party early on, I don't know why I even bother, I hate limit games, and just don't have the patience. Is it possible to play PL/NL HORSE? ;-)

Congrats to Loretta8 on the win, and earning the BBT3 TOC seat.

So I decided to jump into a couple of 2/4 cash games, and had very good results. Mostly on these two hands, which gave me a nice profit for the evening:





Nice to be on the right side of these kind of hands for a change. Tonight is another installment of The Mookie, as the BBT3 rolls on. See you all there.



2BA

BBT3 - Game #23 MATH

Bubbled the points last night in the MATH, although I was lucky to even get that far. Early on I was down to about 1000 chips, and had to hit some cards (read:suckout)to survive, and eventually move up. The first hour I played like a maniac, I was raising like a madman almost every hand, but to my left was Tuscaloosa John, Schuabs, Julius Goat, and collectively, they weren't have any of that, and repopped me plenty of times. The only one that let me get away with it, was Hoy, who was there but not there.

One fun little hand I had, was getting to the lay the hammer down. I've done it many times before, but I always forget to uncheck the automucker, but yesterday I paused (which should have been a tell), and got away with it:



Fun times!

2BA

BBT3 - Game #22 Riverchasers & Bloggerdom drama thoughts

Congrats to KatieMother for taking down Riverchasers and the coveted BBT3 TOC seat. I was at her table for a while and we had a little 'tete a tete' going on. Probably a little leftover biz from our recent play in the 50/50.

Probably for 3 or 4 orbits, she was raising my BB, and then even though I was in early, I had been raising up her BB. She didn't know this of course, but I had Aces each time. It was so weird, I had AA in her BB at least 3 times. The last time, I suppose she finally got fed up and appears she either decided to play a Stop N Go on me, or perhaps she had a hand. Check it out:



Obviously she made a good laydown, I really thought at the time, she had AJ or some kind of Ace, maybe even the flush draw (KQ?), and thus put out the blocking bet, altering the plan if she indeed was thinking about the S & G. At any rate, she could have spewed some more chips obviously, and the tournament may have had a different outcome. Good play on her part.

On another note, I was way behind on the news, and last night was catching up to find there's some drama going on in bloggerdom. I remember when I first started playing with the bloggers, I had many 'comments' directed at me, which were very unfriendly.
I attributed that to the fact that I was not a blogger, and that I was in some way 'intruding' on the community. I did at one point recall, maybe it was in Hoy's blog, that the blogger tournaments welcomed reader's as well. Frankly, I think it's good to have it an 'open' event, and given you still need the passwords, I think it gives good advertisement to the overall poker blogging community, and in the case of the BBT3, a nice increase in the prize pool. Nevertheless, the only thing that seems amusing to me, is that any person who throws out an insult in the chat, whether it was a bad beat, or a bad play, a stupid call, a donkey call, etc.....has not only done it him/herself, but has done it on MANY occasions! Right??? Present company included. If your going to throw out the barbs, under the premise that your own play is perfect, hence somehow justifying the comment, is beyond ludicrous.

So I hope really hope that in the interest of sportmanship, we all take the friendly banter with a huge grain of salt, let's just not make things personal.

I really don't think there is a need to take it there.

2BA

BBT3 - Game #21 The Mookie

Played the Mookie last night, and was fortunate to make another final table. I wound up busting in 6th, when Mr Julius Goat hit a two outer on the river. Of course, he only needed that because I outflopped him, being behind with KQ vs A5. Here's the hand:



Last night also saw another blogger cash start up, this time .75/1.5 deep stacks, with most buying in for the max $300. I'll have to verify on my tracker, but I think I basically broke even. I managed to win back most of my losses on one hand where I flopped a boat with 77, and managed to get paid off by Bayne who made a straight on the turn, but with a paired board checked called all the way.

Initially the guys had started up at $2/$5 deep stacks, but didn't get many customers, so it seems that the smaller stakes were in more people's comfort zone.

Tonight the BBT3 continues with the River chasers game:

Tournament: Riverchasers Online Tour
Where/when: Full Tilt, Thursday 21:00ET
Game: ???
Buyin: $10+1
Password: riverchasers

2BA

BBT3 - Game #20 Skills Series Omaha 8/B

Skills game last night open up a new month of BBT3 action, and another 2k seat is up for grabs for the overall monthly point leader. The game was Omadraw 8 or better, and 90 runner's showed up. I started off fairly well, but fizzled in the middle of the pack, when I was gunned down by some interesting callers who hit their draws on the river. So not too hot of a start, but frankly I don't expect to be much of a factor this month. I will try and play as many events as I can, but with Mrs 2BA less than 2 weeks from delivery, my time will be directed on more important matters. :-)

The guys got another blogger cash game going last night, so I jumped in. Friendly game with $60 max buyin, and .15/.30 blinds. I managed a leave about $40 winner, but it was just more about playing and having fun with the bloggers. Fuel was playing some $5/$10 game, so that was interesting to watch as well, and then it appears he jumped to a $25/50 table, which on his blog he blogs about a sick hand against Matusow...although I thought at first it may be an April fools joke? but nevertheless, if it did happen, it was a hec of a pot.

There was also another PushFest last night, and wouldn't you know the first time I get seated at a table with No Bloggers, I get AA on the first hand, only to see everyone fold! Drats!!! and DoubleDrats!!! At any rate, those are fun, and watching the chat of the regular player's is a hoot and then some.

Tonight is Mookie night, and back to good all NL holdem donkery!

2BA

BBT3 - Game #19 Math

Well I crashed and burned on this hand, and for good measure at the hands of the guy I had to beat, TuscaloosaJohn. Congrats to him for taking the 1st monthly WSOP seat.



Right or wrong, I played this hand exactly how I wanted to. I went with my gut, and in this instance, I suppose I was wrong. My flat call with the AK of prophet's raise, was to either reraise anyone (esp John) who repopped, or if they all folded, I had position on prophet to play the hand. As you can see, Andrew came for the ride sweetening the pot, and John raises 25% of his stack, leaving 3k behind. Given that we both knew our position's last night in the BBT3 standings, I felt a push was even better because I didn't think he'd call with anything other than kings or aces, and I thought the setup was good enough that he would be making that raise with a pp he could get away from. Well he had qq's, and went with them and won the flip. Ce la vie. Truly a disappointment given I had the lead for the better part of the month.

I suppose the super 'cooler' doesn't know his own strength either. (Big Grin Waffles)



2BA