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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Spiral Into Insanity

Not only did the postal shooting happen less than two miles from me, but the other person shot lived in a condo right next to my old apartment: http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LOCAL&ID=564675238294585647

After a little peer pressure in IRC, I decided to play the $8k guarantee on FullTilt with one of my tokens. I knew I had to get to sleep early because I actually had to get to work at a reasonable (read: not 11am) hour today, but figured I’d bust out quickly as usual. Byron and JoeSpeaker played in it, as well. In my first 40 hands I was dealt 52o 6 times. Great start. I somehow managed to hold on and steal often enough, never hitting a flop, to stick around a while. I managed to double up with QQ vs 88, and suddenly I was in the money. Not sure how it happened. Byron made it, too, and we ended up at the same table.

I stole his big blind twice in a row, not because I was picking on him, but because it seemed those were the only times I could manage to be first into the pot. So, the next orbit, when I got dealt the hammer and it folded to me with him in the big blind, I had no choice. Everyone folded, and I showed. Sadly, that would mean the end of easy stealing for me, and I’d need a hand to do it. He also said he’d get back at me for it, and he did. With both of us still in shortstack pushdonkey mode, he pushed from UTG+1. I had AKo in the small blind, and called when it folded around to me. He showed KQo, and the flop came all rags. As soon as I said “sorry” in IRC, the queen hit the turn, and I was left with 29 in chips, with an ante of 100. I flopped the best hand all in on my ante with Q5o when AA5 came out, but the turn gave the luckbox (who would later bust Byron with A9s vs AK) his flush, and I was out in 31st. Lucky for me, though, because 32-36 paid $50.06, and 28-31 paid $50.07. I got my extra penny.

Maybe it’s a start to another winning month of (online) poker after an absolutely horrible January. At least live poker was good to me last month.

Tonight:
What: WWdN Dr. Pauly Appreciation Tourney
Where: Poker Stars
Tournament Info: #19063218 (Check under Private Tourney tab)
When: Feb 2 @ 11:30 PM (or 8:30 PM on the West Coast)
Buy-in: $10 + 1 NL
Password: monkey