"It just cannot be RIGHT!"
As I have posted in the past I am obsessed with Check N Raise Poker and getting my bonuses. My friend Mr. T informed me that he has been having luck on the NL $.05/$.10 tables and slowly working off his check points. Well I have been giving it a try and "It just cannot be right!"
I am beginning to think that there is a problem with their algorithm or I am simply destined to lose my entire bankroll at their site. Here are two examples:
I do not recall my position, but I have pocket 9s and I came in with a modest raise of $.30 (blinds are $.05/.10). I had two callers I believe. I flopped a set with 9Q6 rainbow. I bet $.60. I get one caller. I think the turn was a duece. I am pot committed at this point so I go all-in. The guy calls me and turns over 78o. You guessed it a ten comes on the river. There goes $4 more of my dwindling stack.
I quit playing only to be lured back in by the obsession a little while later. I pull out $4 more. I am in the BB with A40. The flop comes A4. I go all-in. Yes I get one caller, who again hits a straight on the river.
Man it just cannot be right!
Just thought I would blog a short blast. I am currenly playing $.25/.50 at Paradise. I can not get a starting hand to save my life.
Christmas Eve we did make it to midnight Mass. Our 5 year old then stayed up until 3:30 AM. At least Santa got to play some poker until he fell asleep. Santa finally got to bed around 4:45 AM. Christmas was good, but at some point the commercialism needs to come to a halt. It is not time to rant about that however.
Hopefully I will post again before 2005, but if not CHEERS!
Play on!
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Friday, December 24, 2004
"Lessons learned - NOT!"
OK after two trips to the crowded grocery store I am back and a bit more calmed down. Perhaps I will learn some lessons. The first is to turn off the feakin mouse pad so that when I am typing on this notebook I do not accidently do something I will regret. That is done! Second lesson is to always type your create words into another editor then copy and paste into Blogger. Unfortunately since our infamous hard drive crash I do not have Microsoft Office installed yet. But oh I will very soon.
Lets see if I can recapture my thoughts.
On December 17th I was invited to play poker at D's house. It was a $30 buy-in NL Holdem tournament with $30 in chips. The table was pretty quiet, so I started enjoying my Guinness (Iggy potion) and starting miscellaneous conversations. It was still an extremely quiet table. Mr. B did tell us about his father's X-mas present, which was a t-shirt with famous words - "But they were suited!". There are three hands that I can still vividly recall. By the way I had only played poker with 4 of the 16 players before, so I did not have previous tells to go by.
Pockets Jacks - I was the small blind with pocket hooks and I decided to just call the Big Blind. The flop comes 235. UTG I make a $2 raise (blinds were still .25/.50). I glance around the table and the guy directly across the street had a sparkle in his eye. He raised it up to $5. I knew he had just hit the wheel. Although it was extremely hard the hooks went into the muck! I was right he had A4o. He did manage to grab some callers and now he was the big stack. Lesson learned here is to pay attention to the "sparkle in the eye"!
Pocket Nines - After folding a zillion hands I found pocket 9s as the button. Everyone limps in! The flop was 544 and the player UTG (Dad - that means Under the Gun or first to bet) checks. Everyone checks around to me. I decide I had better isolate the good hands to I raise $5. The player UTG goes all-in. Hmmm! Did he flop a set or pocket Queens. I mucked my pair of nines. It was a good houdini move because he had flopped a boat. Yikes! A little later I gave him a new nickname. I started calling him the Slow Playing MFkr. Everyone got a chuckle out of the nickname.
Well I managed to get blinded away, limping in a couple of times, down to a large stack of $6. UTG I had A9s, so I went all-in. I thought I was eliminated, but caught the flush on the river. I noticed just in time before someone else raked the entire pot. The very next hand I caught another flush on the turn and raised all-in. I got one caller so I doubled up again. A few hands later I caught a third flush on the river to build up a healthy stack.
There were 7 of us left and they were paying the top four (4th got their money back). I was the button and I dealt myself AT. The player UTG raised it $20. I put him on AJ or AQ. The player to his left called then it was to me. I decided to call the $20, which was about half my stack. Board comes out with AJQ. I now have an inside straight draw and top pair with a low kicker. I felt I was pot committed so I moved all-in. The raiser goes over the top of me all-in for $110. The other player after much debate calls. We turn over our cards AJ, A9, and AT. My king does not arrive to save the day, so I am out 7th. It was a bummer, but if I pulled off that miracle hand I most likely would have won the tournament. I started calling the guy who won MFkr and everyone got another good laugh.
Unfortunately my "Obsession" will remain incomplete, but another lesson learned is when editing in Blogger save to draft often. Ready! Saved!
I believe my obsession story concluded something like this. I now have only $51 left in by Check N Raise Account. I am still chasing the bonus money and I need another 91 Check points to get $25. I am obsessed with winning that bonus money, but I am losing my entire bankroll in doing so. I should have just taken my $170 and started whoring other sites for sign up bonuses. Oh well perhaps in my next blog I will be writing that I am $100 + and on my way to getting all of my bonuses. The good news is that I did qualify for the $10,000 tournament on Sunday. Hopefully I have earned enough bachelor points to play in the 12:30 PM tournament.
Well I want to wish my family and friends a blessed and safe holiday. I would also like to wish anyone else ready this blog a blessed Holiday season and a profitable 2005. As usual I get a little Bah Humbug with all of the commercialism, but it is part of the season. I am pretty energetic in that I do not have to cook anything. My wife has made a beautiful chocolate cake and two pumpkin cheesecake pies. I just finished making the colored egg wash so she can cover the pies with autumn colored maple leaves. Perhaps I will post a picture!
Well before I lost the original post. I did manage to win $9 playing $.10/.20 Holdem at Paradise Poker. I owned the table. I got pocket Aces twice within 30 minutes. Man I like that algorithm!
Play on!
OK after two trips to the crowded grocery store I am back and a bit more calmed down. Perhaps I will learn some lessons. The first is to turn off the feakin mouse pad so that when I am typing on this notebook I do not accidently do something I will regret. That is done! Second lesson is to always type your create words into another editor then copy and paste into Blogger. Unfortunately since our infamous hard drive crash I do not have Microsoft Office installed yet. But oh I will very soon.
Lets see if I can recapture my thoughts.
On December 17th I was invited to play poker at D's house. It was a $30 buy-in NL Holdem tournament with $30 in chips. The table was pretty quiet, so I started enjoying my Guinness (Iggy potion) and starting miscellaneous conversations. It was still an extremely quiet table. Mr. B did tell us about his father's X-mas present, which was a t-shirt with famous words - "But they were suited!". There are three hands that I can still vividly recall. By the way I had only played poker with 4 of the 16 players before, so I did not have previous tells to go by.
Pockets Jacks - I was the small blind with pocket hooks and I decided to just call the Big Blind. The flop comes 235. UTG I make a $2 raise (blinds were still .25/.50). I glance around the table and the guy directly across the street had a sparkle in his eye. He raised it up to $5. I knew he had just hit the wheel. Although it was extremely hard the hooks went into the muck! I was right he had A4o. He did manage to grab some callers and now he was the big stack. Lesson learned here is to pay attention to the "sparkle in the eye"!
Pocket Nines - After folding a zillion hands I found pocket 9s as the button. Everyone limps in! The flop was 544 and the player UTG (Dad - that means Under the Gun or first to bet) checks. Everyone checks around to me. I decide I had better isolate the good hands to I raise $5. The player UTG goes all-in. Hmmm! Did he flop a set or pocket Queens. I mucked my pair of nines. It was a good houdini move because he had flopped a boat. Yikes! A little later I gave him a new nickname. I started calling him the Slow Playing MFkr. Everyone got a chuckle out of the nickname.
Well I managed to get blinded away, limping in a couple of times, down to a large stack of $6. UTG I had A9s, so I went all-in. I thought I was eliminated, but caught the flush on the river. I noticed just in time before someone else raked the entire pot. The very next hand I caught another flush on the turn and raised all-in. I got one caller so I doubled up again. A few hands later I caught a third flush on the river to build up a healthy stack.
There were 7 of us left and they were paying the top four (4th got their money back). I was the button and I dealt myself AT. The player UTG raised it $20. I put him on AJ or AQ. The player to his left called then it was to me. I decided to call the $20, which was about half my stack. Board comes out with AJQ. I now have an inside straight draw and top pair with a low kicker. I felt I was pot committed so I moved all-in. The raiser goes over the top of me all-in for $110. The other player after much debate calls. We turn over our cards AJ, A9, and AT. My king does not arrive to save the day, so I am out 7th. It was a bummer, but if I pulled off that miracle hand I most likely would have won the tournament. I started calling the guy who won MFkr and everyone got another good laugh.
Unfortunately my "Obsession" will remain incomplete, but another lesson learned is when editing in Blogger save to draft often. Ready! Saved!
I believe my obsession story concluded something like this. I now have only $51 left in by Check N Raise Account. I am still chasing the bonus money and I need another 91 Check points to get $25. I am obsessed with winning that bonus money, but I am losing my entire bankroll in doing so. I should have just taken my $170 and started whoring other sites for sign up bonuses. Oh well perhaps in my next blog I will be writing that I am $100 + and on my way to getting all of my bonuses. The good news is that I did qualify for the $10,000 tournament on Sunday. Hopefully I have earned enough bachelor points to play in the 12:30 PM tournament.
Well I want to wish my family and friends a blessed and safe holiday. I would also like to wish anyone else ready this blog a blessed Holiday season and a profitable 2005. As usual I get a little Bah Humbug with all of the commercialism, but it is part of the season. I am pretty energetic in that I do not have to cook anything. My wife has made a beautiful chocolate cake and two pumpkin cheesecake pies. I just finished making the colored egg wash so she can cover the pies with autumn colored maple leaves. Perhaps I will post a picture!
Well before I lost the original post. I did manage to win $9 playing $.10/.20 Holdem at Paradise Poker. I owned the table. I got pocket Aces twice within 30 minutes. Man I like that algorithm!
Play on!
"Obsession"
Obsession is not the fragrance sold at Foley's. What I am talking about today is my obsession with Check N Raise poker. I am obsessed with letting this site take my entire bankroll that I so craftily accumulated. I had accumulated through hard work and grinding about $170 at Dynamite poker. Well Check N Raise had promised these great bonuses for transferring to the new site. Well they offered me $106 in bonuses. I think I previously posted that I would have to play a zillion hands to see any of these bonuses. Well in order to expedite the bonuses I of course moved up to higher stakes. My logic was that people might play with more resolve and I could play premium hands and earn the bonus a bit faster. Well I have quickly been smacked into reality. People play just as crazily as a $.05/.10 game. Needless to say I have lost some huge hands on the river with premium hands, losing 70% of my bankroll. Oh wait! It is more than that because I actually received my first $25 of my bonus. Crap!
Here are a couple of example hands that have cost me $30 - $40 pots.
Sitting on the button with pocket eights! I limp in! The flop brings an AJ8. I start maximizing the betting and have two callers following along. The turn brings a King. One player folds and one caller who I think was the big blind or UTG. River brings a Q. Indeed the winning player was calling all my raises with T2o, hitting the straight. One of the players stated at the table "That is not right!" I could not have agreed more!
The other huge loss was when I flopped the nut flush of spades. A beautiful hand I must say. I am raising to the maximum again. One caller stays to the river. You got it! The board pairs giving him/her a BOAT! Oh the PAIN!
Oh I am so pissed off! I had typed a zillion elegant paragraphs highlight my poker adventures over the past couple of weeks only to have IE F&*^N lock up and lose all of my beautiful work. I will attempt to write those elegant words again as soon as I calm down. Oh I am pissed! Fortunately I saved a tiny portion.
Stay tuned
Obsession is not the fragrance sold at Foley's. What I am talking about today is my obsession with Check N Raise poker. I am obsessed with letting this site take my entire bankroll that I so craftily accumulated. I had accumulated through hard work and grinding about $170 at Dynamite poker. Well Check N Raise had promised these great bonuses for transferring to the new site. Well they offered me $106 in bonuses. I think I previously posted that I would have to play a zillion hands to see any of these bonuses. Well in order to expedite the bonuses I of course moved up to higher stakes. My logic was that people might play with more resolve and I could play premium hands and earn the bonus a bit faster. Well I have quickly been smacked into reality. People play just as crazily as a $.05/.10 game. Needless to say I have lost some huge hands on the river with premium hands, losing 70% of my bankroll. Oh wait! It is more than that because I actually received my first $25 of my bonus. Crap!
Here are a couple of example hands that have cost me $30 - $40 pots.
Sitting on the button with pocket eights! I limp in! The flop brings an AJ8. I start maximizing the betting and have two callers following along. The turn brings a King. One player folds and one caller who I think was the big blind or UTG. River brings a Q. Indeed the winning player was calling all my raises with T2o, hitting the straight. One of the players stated at the table "That is not right!" I could not have agreed more!
The other huge loss was when I flopped the nut flush of spades. A beautiful hand I must say. I am raising to the maximum again. One caller stays to the river. You got it! The board pairs giving him/her a BOAT! Oh the PAIN!
Oh I am so pissed off! I had typed a zillion elegant paragraphs highlight my poker adventures over the past couple of weeks only to have IE F&*^N lock up and lose all of my beautiful work. I will attempt to write those elegant words again as soon as I calm down. Oh I am pissed! Fortunately I saved a tiny portion.
Stay tuned
Monday, December 06, 2004
"Stars are misaligned"
There will not be much poker content in this post tonight although the over view of the Universe definitely applies to poker. Ever been on a losing streak?
Recently it seems as though the Stars are not quite aligned perfectly for our family. I posted awhile back about getting laid off and the elderly gentleman smashing into the side of our new car. Well it seems that we are now in round two.
A week ago the hard drive crashed on our new laptop. Of course it would not have been so bad if we had been doing routine back ups. Hey that is why we bought the external hard drive. I would not have been so bad except my better half had just downloaded all of our great Halloween pictures and more. Not to mention that all the indexes associated with the pictures on the external drive. We went as far as paying Best Buy $90 to attempt to recover the data. Oh wait we went even farther than that. I secured a copy of GetDataBack so that Best Buy could try to recover the data. A very trusted programmer assured me that it would work. Well Best Buy just called and stated that they could not get any data from the hard drive. Now it has to be shipped off to Toshiba for repair. Man that sucks! I requested they return the drive to me so that I can try myself to retrieve the information from the media. This was definitely a bad beat. When we get it back we had better set up automatic incremental back ups or my poker playing days are probably over!! I think there is a business potential here somewhere retrieving data. I am going to investigate further.
Prior to this the hard drive on my PC crashed. I believe the drive is under warranty, but it is in an HP and is nearly impossible to swap out. Hopefully Best Buy did not put in that hard to reach screw. This is minor compared to the laptop because I intentionally kept anythin important off that machine.
Now this evening came strike 3. On November 11, 2004 we bought a new 27 inch Phillips TV. I am watching one of my favorite shows, Las Vegas. :o) When all of a sudden I hear a loud pop. No more picture and perhaps no more TV. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. It comes on but the picture looks like a bunch of lines doing the hula. I managed to lower the monster to the floor and drag it into the garage with a blanket. I loaded it up in the van, so it can be taken to Best Buy. Hmmmmm! Perhaps I should buy stock in Best Buy or better yet just move into the store. My better half insisted on buying the service agreement. Ok she was right once again.
Enough whining, but I really think the stars are misaligned over our house!
Ok one more quick bitch about poker. I have been playing the new Check N Raise Poker site since it opened. The promised me all of these great bonuses. Well they did give me $106, however, if I calculated it correctly ( at the stakes I play), I am looking at playing over 7200 hands to obtain that bonus. I had to earn 400 CNR Credits to get my first $25 and 400 for each $25 thereafter. This is a total rip off! I probably would have been better off totally cashing out and joining other sites with sign up bonuses. Oh well! I like the people that moved from TNT poker to this site.
Play on!
There will not be much poker content in this post tonight although the over view of the Universe definitely applies to poker. Ever been on a losing streak?
Recently it seems as though the Stars are not quite aligned perfectly for our family. I posted awhile back about getting laid off and the elderly gentleman smashing into the side of our new car. Well it seems that we are now in round two.
A week ago the hard drive crashed on our new laptop. Of course it would not have been so bad if we had been doing routine back ups. Hey that is why we bought the external hard drive. I would not have been so bad except my better half had just downloaded all of our great Halloween pictures and more. Not to mention that all the indexes associated with the pictures on the external drive. We went as far as paying Best Buy $90 to attempt to recover the data. Oh wait we went even farther than that. I secured a copy of GetDataBack so that Best Buy could try to recover the data. A very trusted programmer assured me that it would work. Well Best Buy just called and stated that they could not get any data from the hard drive. Now it has to be shipped off to Toshiba for repair. Man that sucks! I requested they return the drive to me so that I can try myself to retrieve the information from the media. This was definitely a bad beat. When we get it back we had better set up automatic incremental back ups or my poker playing days are probably over!! I think there is a business potential here somewhere retrieving data. I am going to investigate further.
Prior to this the hard drive on my PC crashed. I believe the drive is under warranty, but it is in an HP and is nearly impossible to swap out. Hopefully Best Buy did not put in that hard to reach screw. This is minor compared to the laptop because I intentionally kept anythin important off that machine.
Now this evening came strike 3. On November 11, 2004 we bought a new 27 inch Phillips TV. I am watching one of my favorite shows, Las Vegas. :o) When all of a sudden I hear a loud pop. No more picture and perhaps no more TV. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. It comes on but the picture looks like a bunch of lines doing the hula. I managed to lower the monster to the floor and drag it into the garage with a blanket. I loaded it up in the van, so it can be taken to Best Buy. Hmmmmm! Perhaps I should buy stock in Best Buy or better yet just move into the store. My better half insisted on buying the service agreement. Ok she was right once again.
Enough whining, but I really think the stars are misaligned over our house!
Ok one more quick bitch about poker. I have been playing the new Check N Raise Poker site since it opened. The promised me all of these great bonuses. Well they did give me $106, however, if I calculated it correctly ( at the stakes I play), I am looking at playing over 7200 hands to obtain that bonus. I had to earn 400 CNR Credits to get my first $25 and 400 for each $25 thereafter. This is a total rip off! I probably would have been better off totally cashing out and joining other sites with sign up bonuses. Oh well! I like the people that moved from TNT poker to this site.
Play on!
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