No, I’m not going to work for Full Tilt.
The news is that I bought a house. I own property in West Santa Barbara Goleta. I closed escrow today. Tomorrow, I’m meeting with a general contractor to figure out all the work that needs to be done:
I think that’s all. I’m pretty excited about it, and can’t wait to move… or at least can’t wait until I’m finished moving. I will post pictures of it when I can get to it. Right now, the gallery just has pictures of it tented for fumigation.
Unrelated to all of that, I finally got my pin up in the case at the bowling alley. Click the image at the left for a bigger picture. Now I’m just waiting on the ring.
Not much to report on the poker front. Really, I’ve been too busy to play much lately, and when I have had time haven’t really felt like it.
Where the hell did this guy come from? Besides AA, I mean. In four games since he’s been called up, he’s hitting .538 with four homers, including one in his first major league AB, and two last night. The Mets are right in the middle of the wildcard race now, tied with three other teams only 2 games back, and only trailing the Phillies and Astros. They’ve also been getting great pitching and scoring a ton of runs, with an 32 over their past two games. They scored 18 last night with Beltran and Floyd a combined 0-7, and Piazza and Cameron out to injury. Even Seo chipped in with a double, a walk, and a few RBIs.
I know I shouldn’t post this, because their losing streak will start tonight because of it. It’s not like they can score this many runs for Pedro, anyway.
It’s good to see Beltran back in the lineup, though now Piazza’s out a few days instead. The Mets have been so frustrating this year – Still in last place in the NL East 7.5 games back, but still over .500 and right in the middle of the wild card race. The problem is they have to climb over the rest of the division to win it, but anything’s possible. There’s still a good month and a half left to play. The Padres have dropped below .500 again, so now the whole NL East has a winning record, and the whole NL West has a losing record. I really hope it stays that way.
I got to one of the games at Dodger stadium last week, with a bunch of people from work. It was a great game, except for how it ended. It was nice to see Diaz come back strong with the two homeruns, and they were both monsters. The first one was halfway up the foul pole. Also, it’s always fun to wear my Mets Piazza jersey in Dodger stadium. I can’t believe how much they still boo him when he comes up to the plate there. I’ll be heading up to San Francisco next weekend for the Saturday game against the Giants.
Let’s see if the Mets can make up for losing two outta three to both the Padres and Dodgers by sweeping the Pirates. Might not be easy with Zach Duke on the mound. 😉
Just a month after my biggest session (Parts I and II), I won my biggest pot in a live game. I’ll get to that. The session started out pretty badly. I lost three hands with A♠K♠, though one of them my ace high was good and I got bluffed out. I don’t remember how I lost the end of my first buyin, but my second one was on a bad beat. I’m not complaining about the beat, and they don’t really bother me anymore, but I feel like describing the hand. I had Q9o in the big blind and called a minimum raise from a nut. The flop was 982, and I bet. He called. The turn was a 4, I bet more, and he called. The river was a 5, and I pushed. I guess a decent amount of money did get in after I was beat, but he called $50 on the turn with a gutshot, and showed me A3. I just mucked my cards and rebought.
In the game for $600, I had just gotten back above water, barely, when I got AKo, UTG. I raised, got a caller, and then a maniac reraised. I was sure he had a pair, but not aces or kings. The two other people in the pot both had under $200, so I just put them both all in, and they both called. They had TT and QQ, and we saw a flop of 9JK to give them four outs between them. AK hadn’t been holding up for me today, though, so I wasn’t at all surprised to see the T on the river steal the $450 pot from me. I was surprised, however, to see how little I reacted to it. I’ve seen it so many times now, I seemed to be able to just let it go.
I don’t really remember how it happened, but I managed to build my last $200 buyin up to $1200. There weren’t any massive pots in there, just a bunch of decent $100 or $200 pots. I then proceeded to lose it all back down to $200, in similar fashion. Raising with good cards and missing, a bad beat, and one bad play, and I was back down $400. This bad beat did get to me a little bit, because the money got in before I was beat, and I made a good, tough call. I had AJ, and raised preflop. The flop was 89J, and I bet $40 when it was checked to me. Someone checkraised all in for $150 more or so, and after thinking about it for a while, I called. He showed Q7s, for just a gutshot and overcard. Running spades gave him the pot, with the J♠ on the river to rub it in my face and give me trips. That one got to me a little bit, and I lost another $40 or so playing badly because of it. A little later, I saw a flop in a raised pot with ATs from the big blind. The flop was AA3, and I checked to trap. The problem was when the raiser bet, I knew I was beat, but just couldn’t get away from it. I called $60 on the flop, we checked the Q on the turn, and I called $60 on the river, to see his AK. I’m just glad I read him for the AK and didn’t push at it harder. In fact, I didn’t bet at all. I just don’t know why I couldn’t fold. Maybe some day, I’ll be able to lay that down.
Anyway, I ended up back down to $200 at some point, and then built back up to $365 when the big pot happened. I was in late position, and called a raise to $20 with A♥J♥. 5 players saw the flop of T♥7♥3♣. The maniac in the big blind (same guy with QQ from an earlier hand) bet $40, and a calling station called. The preflop raiser pushed for $165. The maniac had me covered, and the calling station had $70 behind. I was getting just over 2:1 on the call, and not expecting the maniac to reraise or bet the turn, so with two cards to come it was a good call with the flush draw. I also thought my ace was good if I hit it, so it was an even easier call. As it turned out, the maniac just called, and the calling station called all-in for her last $70, so it was a $165 call at a $705 pot. Easily a correct call, there. The 5♥ on the turn gave me the nuts, and I pushed all-in when the maniac checked. He called for my last $180, and the river was an offsuit 8, which didn’t pair the board or put a possible straight flush out there. I had the nuts, on the river, in a $1065 pot. The maniac showed just a K♥. I assume he had at least a pair on the flop, so something like K7o. He called on the turn with the flush draw in the hopes that I had a lower flush. The calling station had 88 for a rivered set. The preflop raiser showed QQ.
I played for a few more hours, and left the table with $1199, for a nice $599 profit. Twice during the night I turned $200 into $1200. I just wish I hadn’t played all the hands in between. 🙂 My past four trips to the casino have been profitable ones. I wonder if it’s a coincidence that those happen to be the only four times I’ve been there with my hammer.
Ever had a team lose all three starting outfielders to injury the same day?
It could possibly have just happened to the Mets today. Cameron and Beltran collided in the outfield, and didn’t catch the ball that eventually led to the gamewinning run for the Padres. They both came out of the game. An inning later, Floyd was hit in the knee with a 91mph fastball. He stayed in the game, but probably only because the Mets had no outfielders to replace him with. He’s having it xrayed.
There’s video of the collision linked off of this article. And pictures here.
I don’t really have much poker content to talk about. I’ve been playing online at Eurobet and Superior (for ECD comp), and I’ve been swinging up and down, but with a generally upward progression. I played live last night for the first time in a few weeks (my parents were here, no time for casino), and made $100 in a pretty uneventful $200NL game. Have I mentioned I hate JJ? Especially when the big blind has the monster 64o.
Anyway, poker has been pretty good lately, but nothing terribly significant to write about. I’m really just posting this because the damn bad beat hand history has been the newest post here for far too long now.
Yeah, yeah. It’s a hand history. (I’m geek_and_pro, cause I hit enter before I realized the name was too long and I can’t change it. It’s my new account for rakeback at Eurobet.)
I especially like the chat.
***** Hand History for Game 2463531267 *****
$100 NL Texas Hold’em – Tuesday, August 02, 00:14:28 EDT 2005
Table Table 37011 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MNShamrock ( $99.28 )
Seat 2: StickmanAA ( $73.05 )
Seat 3: NE_Blizard ( $214.85 )
Seat 5: poker_hammer ( $63.70 )
Seat 4: geek_and_pro ( $107.40 )
Seat 6: budliteman83 ( $41.54 )
budliteman83 posts small blind [$0.50].
MNShamrock posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to geek_and_pro [ Kh Kd ]
StickmanAA folds.
NE_Blizard calls [$1].
geek_and_pro raises [$4].
poker_hammer raises [$20].
budliteman83 folds.
NE_Blizard: forget
MNShamrock folds.
NE_Blizard folds.
geek_and_pro: got aces?
geek_and_pro is all-In [$103.40]
NE_Blizard: no
StickmanAA: cal
StickmanAA: call
geek_and_pro: i have kings
NE_Blizard: nh
StickmanAA: ok
poker_hammer: i dont i have 9’s but here we go
poker_hammer is all-In [$43.70]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 2h, 2c ]
NE_Blizard: rutroh
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
poker_hammer shows [ 9h, 9s ] a full house, Nines full of twos.
geek_and_pro shows [ Kh, Kd ] two pairs, kings and twos.
geek_and_pro wins $43.70 from side pot #1 with two pairs, kings and twos.
poker_hammer wins $127.90 from the main pot with a full house, Nines full of twos.
Is poker_hammer one of us? And if so, I want my money back. 🙂
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