Wow, that was quick..

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So I play a "little" poker on PartyPoker. Well I used to anyway. I haven't played with my own money on PartyPoker in about a year. Just before christmas they gave me $25. The only catch was I had to play 250 raked hands to keep it. Well I did, and then more. Then in March they gave me another $25 with the same 250 raked hand stipulation. Once again no problems there. Long story short, I've ran this free $500 all the way up over $250, down to less than $5, and back again, at least a few times. A couple of weeks ago I lost about $100 one evening in hold em' leaving me about $25 or so. Well I figured it was free money so I'd just go loose it playing Omaha. That didn't happen, some how I held my own in Omaha. Well just a few minutes ago I figured I'd spend a little time in a $.50/$1 Limit Hold em' cash game. Three minutes, count them, THREE minutes is all it took for me to loose the final $25. Two bad beats in a row. I lost with a set of J's on the first and a boat Ten full of J's. I think that's enough poker for me. Well at least for today. :)

Nice Win

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Had a pretty nice poker hand tonight online. It was in a $.50/$1 game. I caught my third jack on the river to beat two pair A's and 10's. Not bad since I started the evening out with only $12. Here is the whole hand.

***** Hand History for Game 3230308487 *****
Table Table 64858 (6 max) (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: alwaysyellow ( $42.50)
Seat 2: mBudovsk ( $18.50)
Seat 3: squizzle19 ( $20.25)
Seat 4: IFLYC5z ( $36.50)
Seat 5: farmboy2 ( $19.75)
Seat 6: seamus_mcduf ( $23.50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to IFLYC5z [ Js, Jc ]
IFLYC5z calls (1)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7c, Tc, As ]
IFLYC5z raises (1) to 1
IFLYC5z calls (0.50)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5d ]
IFLYC5z calls (1)
** Dealing River ** : [ Jh ]
IFLYC5z raises (2) to 2
IFLYC5z raises (2) to 4
** Summary **
Main Pot: $20.25 | Rake: $1
Board: [ 7c Tc As 5d Jh ]
IFLYC5z balance $49.25, bet $7.50, collected $20.25, net +$12.75 [ Js Jc ] [ three of a kind, jacks -- As,Js,Jc,Jh,Tc ]

Poker

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Last night we had a poker game. It's the first one I've had in like six months at least. It's been a while. Way to long if you ask me. I'm thinking about having another just after the new year. We didn't really know how it was going to turn out. We didn't have enough people until really the last minute. It ended up being myself, Lynda, Jon, Ed, Thomas, Rob, Brenda, David, Julio, and Troy. I was nearly knocked out early. I took a pretty big hit on like the third or forth hand. I thought for sure I had it, but the guy I was up against hadn't ever played with live ppl. He'd only played online. It took a little bit for me to figure him out. Of course by that time he had a big chip lead. We started out with $2125 in chips, by the 3rd or 4th hand I was down under $800. It seems I play short stacked a LOT. Would that be art imitating life? Well that's a whole other story. Anyway, I waiting until the cards came back and was able to get back even with the starting amount, but by that time a few others were building their stacks. I ended up all in for about $3000 and two pair Q's and 9's. I lost, but I ended up in the money with third. That's $50 in winnings. So I doubled my money. That was great and all, but I think the coolest part of the night was Lynda. Friday night she came over and with her never really playing a serious Texas Holdem game, we did some training. Lynda, Brandt and I played a learning game for about 4 hours or so until LATE Friday night. We would play then hand and then turn up our cards and say why we played the hand the way we did. That way we could discuss the hand and decide if we could have played it better next time. So by the time last night came around she was awesome. She kicked so much ass, including my own, and tied for 1st. She and Troy were playing heads up for quite some time. They decided that they were just going to call it and split the winnings. Troy actually, since he was ahead at the time, insisted that he get more. So he won $101 and Lynda won $99. Not bad for a $25 tournament. Anyway, next time I should probably not teach her so well so she won't beat me so bad. :)

The River

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So last night, I'm in this poker game. I'm in with a bunch of dorks that'll take a pair of 6's to the wall, so it's easy money. I draw the dreaded 2 & 7. Well I know as well as anybody to fold that. I folded. By the river the pot was $120 on a .50/1.00 blind game. That's pretty big for a low cost game. The flop was 2, k, A. Still the fold was the right move. The turn was a 7. Two pairs now, it's marginal but with the money in the pot you have to figure someone has something big. The river... another 7. I folded the full house 7's full of 4's. This is about my luck lately. Well actually things might be changing a bit. I'll catch ya up on that later...