#6

Well, in 1 month and 8 days I had 3 Royal Flushes...hitting my 6th last night at Kevin's house. We were playing some live holdem/omaha for practice and I was playing 8 tables online as well. I hit a diamond royal with just the jack as one of my hole cards. Flop came with A/K/Q and I told Kev I had the draw. He looked and went back to dealing. I rivered the 10 and said "Yep...there it is." By the way...I was finally back up yesterday as well (for the first time in almost a month). Yay fun!

And another one....

This makes 5:

PokerStars Game #21262771780: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/10/17 6:38:22 ET
Table 'Lesya IV' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: icroid ($26.90 in chips)
Seat 2: ItsHolliday ($47 in chips)
Seat 3: Krazy222 ($5.40 in chips)
Seat 4: iD,Squall ($26.80 in chips)
Seat 5: maui_dd ($20.80 in chips)
Seat 6: FFMikel ($6.45 in chips)
Seat 7: Zar1971 ($24.50 in chips)
Seat 9: Pillemann23 ($6.75 in chips)
FFMikel: posts small blind $0.10
Zar1971: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ItsHolliday [Jc Kc]
Pillemann23: folds
icroid: folds
ItsHolliday: raises $0.25 to $0.50
Krazy222: folds
iD,Squall: folds
maui_dd: calls $0.50
FFMikel: calls $0.40
Zar1971: calls $0.25
*** FLOP *** [Tc Qc 7d]
FFMikel: checks
Zar1971: checks
ItsHolliday: bets $0.75
maui_dd: calls $0.75
FFMikel: folds
Zar1971: calls $0.75
*** TURN *** [Tc Qc 7d] [Qd]
Zar1971: checks
ItsHolliday: checks
maui_dd: checks
*** RIVER *** [Tc Qc 7d Qd] [Ac]
Zar1971: bets $1
ItsHolliday: raises $1 to $2
maui_dd: folds
Zar1971: calls $1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ItsHolliday: shows [Jc Kc] (a Royal Flush)
Zar1971: mucks hand
ItsHolliday collected $7.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $8.25 | Rake $0.40
Board [Tc Qc 7d Qd Ac]
Seat 1: icroid folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ItsHolliday showed [Jc Kc] and won ($7.85) with a Royal Flush
Seat 3: Krazy222 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: iD,Squall folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: maui_dd (button) folded on the River
Seat 6: FFMikel (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: Zar1971 (big blind) mucked [Ks Jd]
Seat 9: Pillemann23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Odds...anyone? This was insane!

Not that anyone cares (as it seems I'm talking to myself)....

I was just playing in a 45 person sit n go tourney. First hand, had pocket kings and ended up doubling right off the bat. Two hands later I got dealt pocket Queens, raise, get called. Flop comes 5/6/7 and I bet, get re-raised, I push and the guy calls with pocket 6's and hits the fourth 6 on the turn...quad 6's. As if to rub it in another Queen hit on the river but it clearly didn't matter. OK...nice hand and I'm back to my original $1500 in starting chips.

Later on in the tourney, I'm about 12xBB at this point and get dealt pocket Queens. The shortstack in front of me goes all in for about $1500 and I re-raise to isolate and it ends up just me and the initial raiser. He turns over pocket 6's....flop hits 9/6/9....turn hits the other 6...un-f'ing-believable.

What are the odds my pocket Queens get beat by quad 6's twice in the same tourney? A short one at that too (turbos). My last $1000 I was left with went all in against a min raise. I had A/9 suited and the min-raiser had pocket 8's. I hit my 9 on the flop...but, oh yeah, he hit another 8 as well....

Check this runner runner...

PokerStars Game #20794215376: Tournament #111145828, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/09/29 15:53:10 ET
Table '111145828 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: Dwight Box (4720 in chips)
Seat 4: donhamel (2185 in chips)
Seat 5: LUPILEON (1730 in chips)
Seat 6: CrusaderP19 (6300 in chips)
Seat 7: ItsHolliday (770 in chips)
Seat 8: beliall666 (2415 in chips)
Seat 9: Riddick2000 (2945 in chips)
CrusaderP19: posts small blind 100
ItsHolliday: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ItsHolliday [3h Qs]
beliall666: folds
Riddick2000: folds
Dwight Box: folds
donhamel: folds
LUPILEON: calls 200
CrusaderP19: calls 100
ItsHolliday: checks
*** FLOP *** [Jh Ts As]
CrusaderP19: bets 200
ItsHolliday: raises 370 to 570 and is all-in
LUPILEON: calls 570
CrusaderP19: folds
ItsHolliday said, "K"
*** TURN *** [Jh Ts As] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Jh Ts As Js] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ItsHolliday: shows [3h Qs] (a Royal Flush)
LUPILEON: shows [Ad Tc] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
ItsHolliday said, "LOL"
ItsHolliday collected 1940 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1940 | Rake 0
Board [Jh Ts As Js Ks]
Seat 3: Dwight Box folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: donhamel folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: LUPILEON (button) showed [Ad Tc] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 6: CrusaderP19 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: ItsHolliday (big blind) showed [3h Qs] and won (1940) with a Royal Flush
Seat 8: beliall666 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Riddick2000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Where the hell is everyone?

Poker....ever heard of it? It's this neat little game with cards and chips and stuff. Anyway, I was just checking in since everyone disappeared so I'm not even sure if anyone will even read this. How's everyone doing? Winning? Losing? Playing the hottest new online multiplayer geekfest?

Anyway, I've gone back to my old ways for a bit (playing 8-12 tables of full ring). I've been winning so I'm happy about that. I think I need to grind myself out of the lower limits so I can go back to 6-handed.

Tournaments are going OK. I played in the WCOOP Appreciation Freeroll (anyone who played in the WCOOP got a ticket) yesterday. Took 251st out of 10,180 so that wasn't too bad...only won $31.50 but it was nice to go pretty deep. I'm playing in the $1 Million Turbo Takedown today so we'll see how that goes as well.

Hope all is well. Latez...

Meet Nick S.

So yesterday at the a tourney I met someone named Nick S. his last name was some long name I can't remember. Anyway, he has been serious about Hold'em for 5 years now, even got a degree in pysch. He moved out to vegas with 3k and started gambling. Thinks were going ok, he was running late to a tourney and missed it so he found that it was only $333 for a satalite for the WSOP. He gave it a shot and won, then he sold the seat for $10,200. He played it again (34 people) and won again, so he sold that seat as well. He decide he would play more and if he wins again he would go and play the 2008 WSOP. So third satalite he just missed it and didn't win, was very close. So he played a fourth, then a fifth, and finally winning his 3rd time on the sixth.

He went back and slept for 3 hours and came back to play in WSOP, he played very tight on day 1, day 2 he sat with a maniac and watched this guy just run over people by playing reckless, so day 3 he decided to do the same thing, then day 4 he continued playing that way, finally day 5 he started tighting back up. Well he did very well and ended up in 13th place they started out with around 6.5k people. He took in $436k. Pretty crazy meeing someone like that at a free tourney...he even told Holliday in the middle of the hand...man you gonna play your kings that way? He had a pocket pair of Kings..lol.

Also in the tourney grats to Holliday for 5th place, Nick placed 3rd. I went all in with AKo vs Ad Qd Flop hit rainbow A 10 J dealer says you sure you don't want a Q I said ok I'll take a Q, so next card, BAM Q I hit my straight. Dealer said now you don't want a Queen do you, well BAM Q again, Villian hits a full boat..tough way to go out. Final Hero: AK, Villian: AQ, Board A 10 J Q Q. Rachel went out on Ac7c and board was 2 clubs, went all in and missed the flush against 2 pair.

On Fire

So I feel like I'm really getting 10 NL down. This weekend it is amazing how many fish there are who go all in with nothing. I did catch some cards so it wasn't all skill but I feel I did pretty well. If I kept this rate up I would be at $25 in no time, but I'm not in a hurry yet. I do feel like I get burnt out much quicker because of how much I am concentrating on the game. Well here is my overall progress thus far.