What a difference a year makes!

I see it's been nearly a year since I posted here. No I have not quit poker despite the way it may have sounded in some of these entries. LOL it's actually a bit embarrassing to go back and read some of what I wrote so I stopped.

I've grown a lot as a poker player in the past year. I seldom get particularly upset at bad beats even when it was a stupid bad beat. It helps some that I seldom play APL any longer I suppose.

I'm mostly living in Hernando, MS now and play regularly at the casinos in Tunica. I only get to Orlando about 2 weeks in 6 or 8 and generally only play APL on Saturday and Sundays.

I'm making steady money in my little 4/8 limit hold'em games. I'll write more about that later. I'll also write about the 7-card stud tournaments that I've been playing (but not winning yet) at the Grand (now Harrah's).

This entry was to toot my horn for winning one of PokerStars WSOP round 1 freerolls and a seat into the weekly final. The prize for THAT one is a seat in the WSOP and 2500 cash if I make it into the top 3.

The tournament started with 5000 players and was a turbo format. I normally hate turbo format tournaments but being as it was all there was and it was free I did it. I played a VERY different game than my normal game, much looser and more open. I got lucky in spots but there was also a bit of good solid play also I think.

Surely you can't get into the top 50 of a 5000 player tournament PURELY on luck. I was actually about 10th when we got down to the final 50 so I didn't just squeak in, I got in very solidly. I'm pretty proud of it even if the competition was probably not exactly world class.

Now will come the weekly final, there will probably be 600-1000 players all vying for 3 available seats. And these are the players who already did well in their freerolls. If my "it can't be all luck" theory holds then I've got my work cut out for me. The good news is that THIS tournament is more my style. 5000 starting chips and blinds of 10/20 with 15 minute levels. I'll have some time to really PLAY.

It's good to finally be back to writing here. I need to do it more as a tool to grow my game I think and just to record things for later years when I want to look back.

More later....

A Measure of Revenge

I went back for the second tournament last night. I did much better, placing 7th in the end. I played well but then I was playing well before. I've been playing well, it's just not been helping a lot.

This time I was careful to try to play smaller pots, at least with people I knew I could not put on any sort of hand. I even took a large chunk of chips from my brilliant adversary from the early tournament. I had AK offsuit in the big blind and he raised under the gun (yes I ended up with him on my left AGAIN). It was just the two of us and I hit my ace on the flop. I made a modest bet and he called (who is surprised??? anyone???). The turn brought my king. I made the same modest bet. I figured he was going to call no matter what so just in case he sucked a straight or a flush out by the river I might as well keep it cheap. Maybe that is not the right thinkng. I'm not sure yet. Anyway a third flush card fell on the river and I checked. He bet, the same 500 chip bet I'd been making and he'd been calling. Then he asked if I was going to check raise him. It was tempting except that he could have had anything at that point and my two pair was nowhere near the nuts. In the end I won and he was left crippled. I was left happy.

He didn't last much longer. Alas I was not the one to take him out.

Oh and in a bit of injustice he went on to win the first tournament after busting me. I didn't see it but was told by a couple of people that he was incredibly lucky and playing real trash. (I knew that part).

Seems that a blind squirrel does indeed find a nut every now and again huh?

Why APL sucks

As you can maybe guess I just went out of an APL tournament early and it was because of a totally idiotic play...at first on an opponent's part and then second maybe on my part. You be the judge.

It's early in the tournament. Blinds are 50/100. I have 3450 chips (starting chips are 3650). I pick up pocket Kings under the gun. I raise to 300. The absolutely brilliant player to my immediate left calls quickly. The big blind calls as well.

The flop comes down Jc 8s 4h. The pot has 950 chips in it. I lead out 1000 chips. I get an immediate call from the absolutely brilliant player to my left. The big blind is a wimp and folds.

The turn brings the 8c. I go all in for my remaining chips, 2150. I figure the absolutely brilliant player to my left either has J8, a straight draw or some other pair. I'm steaming already....

And then this absolutely brilliant player turns over A8 offsuit. He called a 300 chip preflop raise with ace rag. Then he called a huge pot sized bet on the flop with middle pair and no other draw.

See what I mean? You must be a fucking genius to make this kind of play. Either than or a clueless idiot and surely there are none of those at APL.

Wait...there is one...me! I thought I could actualy push a worse hand out of the pot with correct poker strategy! What a dumb ass! Don't I know people are there to have fun? Nobody is there to actually learn to play good poker!

Wait...I am...so I have to come to the conclusion that I am the dumb ass for playing there. What can you possibly learn from this hand? Of course what you learn is that if you make stupid plays then you sometimes get lucky and really piss a dumb ass off.

Will I go back? Well yes I will. I like most of the people there and well I'm a dumb ass and everybody knows that dumb asses keep doing dumb ass things over and over again.

Tune in next time for another entry in the saga of the worst poker on the planet....

Looking back on the past year

I've not posted a meaningful entry here in quite a while I see. A lot has changed since then. Looking back over the last several entries I see that what I'd heard of prolonged slumps can and do happen. That one lasted a long long time but it was a slump it would appear.

I'm just about to leave on a cruise around the Western Carribean. That is not all that noteable I suppose. We do that sort of thing with increasing regularity since Lee is older and now that we've got an empty nest we will probably do it even more. What is noteable is that poker paid for it. My playing paid for it.

Actually I suppose my good luck paid for it. I was playing the $1/$2 game in Tampa at the Hard Rock. We were in town for concerts at the Plant City Strawberry Festival. I'd just sat down at the table and three hands later in the big blind I'm dealt the KQ of spades. As usual in those games most of the table had limped by the time it got to me. I was still settling in so I just checked. (If I'd been more accustomed to the table I'd have definately raised). The flop came A and T of spades and a low red card. I had the nut flush draw a gut shot straight draw and a gut shot ROYAL flush draw. I saw no reason not to bet and had it been raised I probably would have three bet to build a pot. There were several callers but no raise. The turn was a red ten. I checked, hoping but not expecting a free card. Surely the inevitable ace would bet. It checked around. Go figure. The river card that I got to see for free was the J of spades completing my royal. I can't lose, why not bet? I got one caller and when I flipped over the royal the table went nuts. It seems that the Hard Rock has a progressive jackpot for spade royals. I'd hit it for $4,855!

So on the basis of that profit I'm about to go on a cruise. It's a 'cheap' one, the cheapest I could manage for a week on a ship I like. It used about 25% of that jackpot, the rest, what taxes and tips won't suck up will sit padding my bankroll.

Shortly after that hit I took a trip to Biloxi and Tunica for eleven days. I did not only very well but fantastically well. I was ahead around $1200 at poker for the trip although I did give some of it back at video poker (my one vice but one I can easily give up). Over the time I played I was ahead around 3 big bets per hour. My sessions were not long, few over 4 hours and many around 3. That could have something to do with it and if that is what it takes for me to win then I'll play shorter sessions.

Was I losing my concentration in longer sessions? I don't think so but maybe I am since the results seem to show that. If I was realy just doing hit and runs with lucky short sessions then I would not have won on 19 out of 22 sessions I do not think. that is pushing luck a little far. I WAS hitting cards, make no mistake. I was not getting sucked out on excessively. That was a big factor and I realize that is luck...it was also skill though in that I was able to get away from many hands that would have lost even more than they already had. I folded ONE winner that I should not have...a lesson learned that I will NOT repeat.

Nine days after returning from this cruise I once again head to Biloxi and Tunica. Two days in Biloxi and nine days in Tunica. It will be interesting to see how that plays out. I don't expect 3 big bets per hour. That was exceptional. I do expect to have a winning trip. We shall see.

This year, since January, I've played a lot of APL. It's just free poker but it's local and it's fun and I believe it's decent practice. I think it may have even helped my cash games even the limit ones.

I had a goal to just see how high I could get in the region. Before my last Tunica trip I was as high as 25th. Right now, playing less and having been out of town for half of March, I'm 44th. I can probably stay in the top 50 doing what I'm doing, playing around 7 tournaments a week. Many of the players above me are playing 14-16 a week. I'm not willing to do that although I was as high as 10-12 per week for a while. It was a bit much and I'm enjoying life pretty well at the pace I'm playing so that is the pace I'll continue.

I've been working on trying to not just make final tables but set myself up to WIN. I think I'm betting better. I did win another one and have another second or two. Everybody is so short stacked by the final 4 or 5 players that it seems more to require luck than skill. Maybe that is an excuse. I don't think so...but maybe.

It will be interesting to see where the roller coaster that is Poker takes me next. I'll be back eventually to let you know.

Puzzled

I know nobody is reading this any longer and almost nobody who could have answered this question ever DID. Good thing I write this for me. Someday I may look back on this and know the answer, but I doubt it.

The question that has me puzzled is this. I am playing a lot of low buy in NL tournaments and cash games lately. Over and over I see people make mini-raises, raising the minimum. What do they hope to accomplish?

Do they think doubling the big blind will scare anybody out? Do they just want people to defer to the raiser, even if the raise was nothing?

I realize there are certain circumstances when it's handy to do. I'll do it with a good hand I want to get action on if my raises have been folding the table over and over. I'll do it with a hyper aggressive player behind me who will raise with a wide range of hands. If he raises me then I can slam in a big re-raise.

Mostly it seems like people just say "gee I have not raised a pot in 5 minutes, I don't have much so lets raise the minimum." You'd think they were afraid if they didn't use the raise button every so often it would wither and die on the.

Oh well this is, I suspect, one of life's little mysteries and probably due in large part to the fact that most of the people at these low buy in tables (myself included no doubt) are really not very good.

I'd love to hear thoughts on this though.

Ok so MAYBE I lied

I obviously have not quit poker. I went into this trip to Tunica in a VERY bad mood and with no optimism. The start of the trip seemed to bear that out but then things picked up. I actually feel like I'm playing better poker than ever. I'm not saying I don't have a lot of improving to do but I can, at least, beat the $4/$8 games here fairly consistently. I've pulled some $500 out of them this week. That's hardly earth shattering money but on the other hand it beats the hell out of minimum wage and besides most of the time it was fun.

I have very likely, for all intents and purposes, quit online poker. I will dabble in it from time to time but for the most part when I'm home I'll spend most of my time doing other things unless I can get to one of the live poker rooms around. My tight, unimaginative, game works fairly well there.

I have not quit posting in this journal obviously but will probably not bother to post much since as near as I can tell the only people who read it are Connie and Robin and I suspect Robin does so to be nice since she knows nothing about poker. I do appreciate it by the way, both of you (and anybody else who struggled through my mood swings here without commenting).

So it appears that I lied about quitting...what? You're surprised that a poker player would actually LIE??? :)

The End

This, unless something major happens very soon, will be the last entry in this journal. It's time to face the fact that I'm just not a good poker player and I lack what it takes to become one. It's not the first thing I've failed at and won't be the last. Shortly I will begin cashing out my online accounts except for possibly a very small amount on Poker Stars to use to play some of the tiny little $1 45 seat tournaments. This coming trip to Tunica will probably be mostly in the nature of a goodbye to poker trip, if I even make it. I'm thinking of just staying home and working on the house on Wickersham. That was making me happy even though the work was hard and I'm not as happy with the results as I could be. I am a lot better at that then I am at poker anyway. To anybody that did read this journal thank you for any support you gave me. If you were lurking just to see how I was doing or whatever you know know the end of the story. I admit it. I have failed...again.

I will probably keep this journal just to remind me not to get my hopes up ever again. I'll never be really good at anything. I'll never have much in the way of friends. I'll be a little old man digging around in his yard, all alone.

Times are Changing

I've wondered recently if the face of poker  is changing. I am pretty sure I've asked that very question here as I pondered my progress, or lack thereof.

I just read an article in Cardplayer Magazine that pretty much mirrored what I'm seeing in my little corner of the poker world. It's nice to know that I'm not going nuts. It's a little disturbing though to have been proved right, or at least to have found somebody who thinks as I do.

I guess I hoped that this was just a blip and I'd go back to the way it was. That ain't gonna happen.

There was a huge in flux of poker players in the past couple of years. I was one of those. My results were, apparently, due to just learning a little faster than most. Things are now shaking out. The truly abysmall players have by and large gone broke and given up or just decided it was no fun. Lots of the players who stuck it out and who were learning slower than I was have now caught up and/or passed me.

None of this means that all hope is lost. I know I'm relatively intelligent and have a decent set of basic poker skills. I know I'm going to have to vastly improve my post flop play and really my play overall. It will be a grind and I may end up having to view poker as more of a really cheap hobby than anything else. I'm pretty sure that the way things are going I will never really be able to consider myself a pro but that's ok with me. I think I can get what I want out of the game.

It remains to be seen but I think I can keep learning at a rate that will keep me ahead of the low limit games that are the bulk of the poker in Tunica and places like that. I won't ever crush those games but I think I can keep it where I can expect to make a few bucks. Add that together with cheap hotel rooms and meal comps and the next few years will at least  have a lot of cheap,  probably free and possibly profitable vacations in store.

Once Connie changes careers if we then move to Mississippi all I really will have to do is hold  my own and maybe win a few bucks. Between our savings that we've worked hard for over the past nearly 30 years and her teaching salary coupled with the low cost of living there we will do fine even without me providing much.

There are options of course. I could begin dealing once we're there. I think I could do that and I think I might like it. I could, if I work and study hard enough, possibly even get good enough to make good money. I suspect that my overall gaming skills are not strong enough but time will tell on that one.

I suppose the thing to do is to try to relax and do the best I can while not putting so much pressure on myself that it's not fun. I'm finding working on the house to be a nice distraction between visits to Tunica and I'm really playing very little poker online right now. What I probably should be doing and am not is spending a lot of time, a couple hours a day at the least, studying poker books and sifting through the poker forums online. I guess if it's important enough to me then I'll do what it takes to get better. If I don't then that sort of gives me an answer to some of my questions.

Post Jax Musings

Well the trip to Jacksonville went very well. Connie and I had a good time at the poker room and otherwise.

My results were not spectacular but WERE better than one big bet per hour. Over nine hours total time played I was up a bit over 2.5 big bets per hour. That is encouraging I suppose.

What is not encouraging is that I cannot seem to do nearly so well in a $1/$2 game online. I can't even make money lately. It seems like a totally different game. The only thing I can think is that the online players are MUCH better than the live players in Jax and other places I play. That pretty much tells me that I'm really not very good. Ok I can beat the people playing for recreation in Jax and Tunica most of the time but I can't seem to touch the same limits online. It's depressing and I'm starting to dread playing online.

I don't think I'm getting any better. I'm not even sure WHAT I need to improve. Is it luck? Is it lack of skill? Is the online game even a fair game? I'm starting to wonder but I don't want to blame me losing on anything other than ME without absolute proof and I don't have that.

How can I improve? I read the books. I play the simulators. I practice. I really don't think I'm getting better. Maybe it's time to admit I've achieved all I can. Until the players in Jax, Melbourne and Tunica improve I suppose I can continue to play there. At least I still win. I'd love to learn to beat the online game and move up in limits but that doesn't seem to be going to happen.

I wish I knew what to do. I hate to give up on a dream but there comes a time when you've got to stop beating your head against a wall that you can't knock down. Is it that time?

Off to Jax

I was looking over my last entry. I can't let it stand as the focal entry for the journal, the first one that would be seen should somebody find this journal. I stand by what I said. Things got a bit better. My play improved, dramatically I feel. There is still a good bit of that feeling that I may be regressing to the mean though.

We're off to Jax for the weekend and should get in a couple of sessions there. I played well the last day of my trip in Tunica and had very good luck in the Hamilton Card Room and Jax on the way home from the trip. I'll write more about that I hope. I played well and tried some new things that work well in loose-passive games.

I'm working on other ways to maintain my mental stability as well which is as necessary as any other skill to successful poker I think. I'll write more after this mini-trip.

Regression to the Mean

My results appear to be in the mode of regressing to the mean. In other words I've been losing and my overall results will, I suppose, more correctly reflect the way things really are. Since I've been here this trip I've played 42 hours and would have made more working at McDonalds if you look at just pure poker results. Purely based on results of play I'm under one big bet per hour which I find disappointing but not surprising. I'm really NOT that good I'm learning. Still I AM ahead of the game. I'm just not really beating it much. If you figure in comps and the jackpot (and I didn't even try to add in anything for the lower hotel rate) then I'm up to about $25 an hour, a bit over three big bets per hour. Those results though do not adequately express my skill level but rather show that if I really want to make money at this I damn well better find someway to just get really lucky.

Still I suppose there is hope. Overally I feel my game has improved. Right now I feel it's sliding back. I played  very poorly last night. I also did not get out of a game that I knew I should  have. Actually there was jsut one player I kept trying to play with and he kept beating me. I've got to get over this kind of macho bull...crap that I seem to get in my mind where I beat my head on a wall I know I can't batter down that way. He was outplaying me I could see that. Why did I think I could change it then? In time I may learn to or maybe I just needed to be  patient and wait for better cards, better opportunities. What I should not have done was  to keep doing what I was doing and donk off chips. At least I had the good sense to just stop when I got near $100 down and walk  away. In truth I did not lose THAT many to him but the game didn't feel good, I should have left. I don't know if he knows how good he is but he got me good. He is very friendly and kinda makes  you want to stay. He plays a tough but loose game and I guess I thought because he was loose I could beat him. Maybe I could with good play, good hand selection and good cards. Instead I choose to play a bit too loose myself instead  of  tightening up. I then played those too loose hands poorly. I was also just not hitting, not all day really except for a few instances. All in all I was a donk. The only good thing I suppose is that I know I was and MAYBE, just maybe I learned something. If so it's very possible that it was worth the loss there rather than a larger loss down the line possible. Time will tell.

Is this normal?

My trip to Tunica in January was, in my view at the time, a near disaster. Looking back it actually was not THAT bad. I didn't come away a winner but I didn't ding my bankroll that badly at all.

This trip is the mirror image of that one. I've had down sessions but more up sessions. I'm up a bit over $500 purely on Hold'em winnings. Then there is the fact that the bad beat jackpot hit yesterday while I was at the table and that netted me another $750 after taxes and tips.

I guess it's normal for it to be hot and cold. I know I didn't play nearly as well in January as I could have but I didn't play that badly either. I was getting sucked out on a lot which I realize is going to happen in such a low limit game as 4/8 where people just want to play every hand and have fun.

This is going to take a lot of mental adjustment for me because while I like the upswings I get far too down about the downswings. I need to learn to have faith in what I'm doing. That's never been my strong suit. Maybe poker will be the thing that will somehow help me develop some confidence in my abilities. I hope that is the case and I hope it spreads to other facets of my life.

I may post some more detailed info on the games I've played but for now if you want to read more about the trip go to my main journal. You can find the link to My Journey in the sidebar.

One more time

As of tomorrow morning I'm off to Tunica one more time. I'm actually going in a relatively positive frame of mind. I've had a good dose of reality so some of my previous hopes and dreams are a bit toned down, or at least not really expected to happen anytime soon. I do think I can go this time and have a fun and possibly even profitable time.

The apartment thing is on hold for a couple of reasons. First is that I have tons of stuff to do to get the other house ready for when Connie and I move into it and I don't think I can take the time to spend two weeks out of every month in Tunica. I don't need to yet, we don't need the money. Even if I did show a profit it would not be enough to change things now. That will be different if we're living there anyway and living on Connie's (then) teaching salary which will be around a third or less what she makes now. That's three to four years down the road now and I'm not ready for the stress of feeling I have to make money playing. It was messing me up emotionally and it was stupid thinking the way I was because I have three to four more years to get better and let things settle out. Who knows where poker will go in that time.

Another reason not to bother with an apartment now is that I can get rooms at the Grand for $35 weekdays and $45 weekends and for two weeks that adds up to less than rent and utilities and such would be. True I give up some convenience but it's well worth it in terms of flexibility and less hassle.

I'm thinking I can work in one more trip before our cruise that is planned for May 27th in honor of Lee's high school graduation. If things go VERY well I may try to squeeze in two trips. For that to happen I'd have to place in the top three in a tourney there or make $500 or more over my expenses on this trip, or both. It's not likely to happen. I may not even PLAY any tourneys and I'll only be there for eight nights so I'd have to clear a bit over $100 a day to make $500 over expenses. It's not impossible but the way things have been going it's not likely. I'll be VERY happy to make enough to break even for the trip.

I did, FINALLY, cash in a tournament last night. It was only a tiny little 45 seat sit and go but I placed 2nd, felt like I played well and felt like some luck had come back. Actually I don't feel like I've been playing all that poorly either in NL tournaments orin limit cash games. I have identified some problems but for the most part I've been doing the right thing and just getting beat. There are times when I can really relate to Phill Hellmuth's much ridiculed statement "If it wasn't for luck I'd win every one." I'm sure knows that no matter how good you are there IS luck involved. Lord knows I know that now after having it hammered into my head over and over again. By the way I'm in no way comparing myself to Phil. He may be a bit annoying to watch but I'd still love to have his skills. Probably I'll never come close but I'll keep trying, in between temper tantrums of my own I'm afraid. I realize that they are unproductive in so many ways though and I"m really trying to eliminate them. It will be an ongoing battle, wish me well.

I'll post the good, the bad and the ugly from Tunica. I'm not sure how regularly but I'll do what I can.

last year...

As an addendum to the previous entry...

Last year I played 137 tournaments of various buy ins. I was in the money 32 times for a very nice profit. One in five is about what I kind of expect, I can definately live with that.

Books...I love books but am questioning the value of most poker books. I've read all the most recommended ones. Maybe I didn't read them good enough. I'm not giving up on them but...

One problem seems to be that most people have NOT read them. They play nothing like the books would lead you to expect or say is correct. I don't know how those people do long term but I know that they beat me pretty consistently in the short term.

Are poker books for real? Can they really help? Are they a scam? I'm talking here about some of the most recommended ones..."Harrington on Hold'em", "Winning Low Limit Poker" by Lee Jones, "Supersystem", "Theory of Poker" by Sklansky...and many others. They are a mint for their writers no doubt and I honestly feel that they MAY have helped me.

I have no doubt I am a better player than I would be without them...but can they make me good enough to actually be GOOD? This is what makes me wonder if I have what it takes. Am I alone here?

Oh...and yes I realize that my 2005 results added into my 2006 results so far are still in the 1 in 5 range...so maybe I'm just panicking early but 1 for 17 just sucks. So far the hardest part of poker for me is the emotional side which really should not be a surprise now that I think about it....

17-1

That last entry about good news was maybe a tad premature. It WAS no doubt good news but it's about the only good news. I've played 17 tournaments thus far in 2006 and have been in the money one time...one. Can anybody's luck be that bad? Sounds like a skills problem to me...or lack thereof....sigh...

Finally some GOOD news

Ok so it was only a $1 SnG... I just wanted to play and the way things are going was frankly afraid to play for REAL money. Anyway I hung on to win this one. At one point I was down under 10X the big blind and had to push all in I don't know how many times but fate finally shined on me and I actually won the sucker. I put a couple of horrible beats on people but I figure I'm owed a couple...hundred.

It wasn't much but just to finally win SOMETHING was much needed. I may well stick with these little $1 SnG's both single and mult-table until I get a little confidence back. They are probably decent practice for my no-limit game. Even if the competition is hardly the best, it seems to be better than it used to be at this level. At least I finally felt like I had some clue what I was doing. I did not play as well as I'd have liked, I was a bit hesitant and probably a bit timid even but I bit the bullet and got aggressive when I needed to and this time it worked.

Just thought anybody who reads this journal might like to see some good news for once (this one's for you Robin and Connie since far as I know you are my entire readership at the moment).

Wednesday Evening

I thought that maybe instead of dropping down in cash games maybe I'd do better against better players in slightly larger players, thought maybe I'd get sucked out on less. Boy did that not work. Played a $3/$6 game...there went another $68. I'm getting to the point where, while I WANT to play, I'm almost afraid to. I actually dread getting good hands because I just know they will get sucked out on by the river...and they do usually. I wish to hell I knew somebody that could tell me for sure if I can actually play or if I should just take up knitting. Since I know no one who can tell me and I'm not likely to meet anybody I guess it may be time to just give up since my results seem to prove I cannot really play. Another dream shot all to hell I guess...

FISH - a definition

I don't often explain poker terms here but since, as near as I can tell, Robin is the only person who even reads this (except maybe Connie every now and again to check up on me) I will explain a term from my last entry.

I said I was going go get some fish food... here is the definition of the term fish as it is used in poker:

FISH - a sucker or a player who is either clueless or a very bad player.

Now I grant you that if you look at me you'd say I'd been plenty well fed that is just too good a sale on fish food to pass up so if you'll pardon me...

Monday afternoon cash game...

down 22.5 big bets in an hour and a half...do I know how to play this game or what? Got to go, I hear there is a sale on fish food...

Bad play or bad luck?

Where did I go wrong on this hand? No matter what I get and how good it looks it loses lately. Has to be me...maybe not this hand although I have my doubts about the way I played this but in general my luck can't be this much in the crapper. I must just not be able to play this game called poker. You check out this hand, I'm going to check out the bus schedules to find one to walk in front of....

Getting Hand History Information...
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Hand #11234944-4498 at Powell ($1/$2 Hold'em)
Powered by UltimateBet
Started at 30/Jan/06 17:32:57
 
     Camian is at seat 0 with $112.
     Garfield1967 is at seat 1 with $45.25.
     worf21 is at seat 2 with $74.
     lowoncash is at seat 3 with $105.50.
     Fireman727 is at seat 4 with $93.
     marz0629 is at seat 5 with $96.
     petitefille is at seat 6 with $95.50.
     Owen69 is at seat 7 with $44.
     colddimes is at seat 8 with $53.50.
     guru4yall is at seat 9 with $64.
     The button is at seat 9.
    
     Camian posts the small blind of $.50.
     Garfield1967 posts the big blind of $1.

     Camian:  -- --
     Garfield1967:  -- --
     worf21:  -- --
     lowoncash:  -- --
     Fireman727:  -- --
     marz0629:  -- --
     petitefille:  -- --
     Owen69:  -- --
     colddimes:  -- --
     guru4yall:  Th Ts

Pre-flop:
 
          worf21 calls.   lowoncash folds.   Fireman727 calls. 
          marz0629 folds.   petitefille calls.   Owen69 folds. 
          colddimes folds.   guru4yall calls.   Camian folds. 
          Garfield1967 checks.  

Flop (board: 9s 2s 2d):
 
          Garfield1967 checks.   worf21 bets $1.   Fireman727
          calls.   petitefille raises to $2.   guru4yall calls. 
          Garfield1967 calls.   worf21 folds.   Fireman727 calls.
           

Turn (board: 9s 2s 2d 2h):
 
          Garfield1967 checks.   Fireman727 checks.   petitefille
          bets $2.   guru4yall calls.   Garfield1967 raises to
          $4.   Fireman727 folds.   petitefille calls. 
          guru4yall calls.  

River (board: 9s 2s 2d 2h Jd):
 
          Garfield1967 bets $2.   petitefille calls.   guru4yall
          calls.  

         

Showdown:
 
     Garfield1967 shows 2c 7c.
     Garfield1967 has 2c 2s 2d 2h Jd: four deuces.
     petitefille mucks cards.
     (petitefille has Tc 9c.)
     guru4yall mucks cards.
     (guru4yall has Th Ts.)
         

Hand #11234944-4498 Summary:
 
     $1 is raked from a pot of $32.50.
     Garfield1967 wins $31.50 with four deuces.
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