Trying to win #3

Well, let's see if I can contend with all the other good finishes for #3.

Playing a $3 6-max double-stack MTT with 587 people and I've faded a couple hundred so far in about a half hour, so let's see how deep we can go. Looks like I'd need to finish 15th to take over the lead.

Here's hoping for a late night.

UPDATE: No, I don't think 281 of 587 will be good enough.

At least I'm still break-even-ish...for now.

UPDATE #2: No I'm not, after getting junk-kicked twice for a stacking

If You're Gonna Lose...

Might as well be like this. I really hate suckouts, but this one made me smile.


FYI - this is the new screen for "Last Hand" on FT. It's interactive, meaning you can actually watch the whole hand as it unfolds (not in my screencap, but in the actual program). It didn't work at first, but when I shut down and restarted the program it worked fine. Pretty cool, actually. - DrC

Non drunk poker rocks!

a little better tonight.... had a bunch of stations at both of my tables... that always helps :)

4 more BI and I'm back to even! whoohoo!

PATHETIC START

I'm vying with kat for the biggest percentage loss contest. Why aren't we putting bets on that?

This is from the start:

... and below was just last night. 

Spent the night driving from the smokey mountains. I got back to NYC at about noon after no sleep, went to work, went out to see a friend play at a nearby bar, didn't eat, drank myself silly - and decided that it was a PERFECT time to play poker. I don't even remember any of the hands I played (I do recall getting AA cracked by a donkey with QTo), but from the looks of the graph, I wasn't doing too well in the showdown dept.

The camping trip, however was great. I watched this d-bag almost get mauled by a bear when he walked right up to it, put his camera in the bear's face, and started taking flash pictures. WTF are you frigging idiots thinking??? The bear was pretty small, but def coulda done some decent damage, and he was pissed. He took a few swats at the dude, but braniac got away unscathed, unfortunately. Wouldn't want my daughter to see it, but man did the dude deserve a few stitches... or missing arm... or a punch to the spleen... I'm pretty sure that guy plays razz tourneys.

xxxooo - BLAARGH!

15/567 for Dr. Chako

Beat that!

By my calculations, that's 2.646%

Easily Beat

36th of 893 works itself out to 4.03%

The best part had to be chatting along with Dr. Chako while we were both deep in tournies. I got knocked out before him, and he did the math that he needed to finish 12th or better to beat my 4.03%. He finished 13th after a 2-outer to keep a different short-stack alive, and a 4-outer to save another person from elimination.

I think the winner of this challenge #3 will have a percent under 1%.

1st Two Hands

So, I'm playing the 3 + .30 knockout tournament on FT. There are 848 runners. I registered late.

Here are my first two hands.

Hand #1: Hugh raises pot in MP with 9-10 off (moron). I call from the small blind with Ah-Jh and the big blind comes along. Look at this action flop, fer cryin' out loud! I have a good open-ender and check. BB checks the nuts with a draw to the flush. Hugh, the original raiser, flops 2 pair and bets pot. I have no idea where I'm at and should fold, but I call. BB now pushes, Hugh insta-calls, and I'm forced to muck.

Turn improves BB from a straight to a flush. The river? Hugh hits a 4-outer for his full house.


Hand #2: Limped pot, so I see a cheap flop with Ad-5d. I lead out on the flop to see if my Ace is good (they all limped, after all). Solid raise from A-10, re-raise from the suited Negreanu, insta-call from the button with his 2 pair and once again I muck. Straight and flush both get there on the river.



How I'm still alive is anyone's guess. I hope to go deeper than yesterday where I pulled within a hair of beating MHG for the deepest run.

Edit: Hand #3 and it's all over. I made the hero call on the push from my earlier nemesis Hugh. Brilliant, right? Runner-runner flush and IGHN.


I believe I hear a glass of Warre's Warrior Port calling my name.

Edit #2: So sue me. As I was typing the post I busted out so I didn't edit properly. In hand #1, BB technically flopped the 2nd nuts. And in hand #2, there was no straight. Don't you people have better things to worry about?!