BBT5!!!

ck31 (Observer): cruuuuuuuuuuuuuubs (aka Mookie #3)

About a Year after Mookie #2, I finally take down Mookie #3. The end game happened insanely fast. 7-handed seemed to take FOR-EV-ER, with tons of raise/fold hands going down. With lucko to my right, I had a hard time stealing since HE was stealing so often. Luckily, I had hoy and edgie, a couple of TAG players, to my left so when I did raise, they tended to give me respect.

Edgie finally took a stand against me with 5-5, I was holding 9-8 of Diamonds. I think it's exactly 50-50, tho I might have a slight bit of equity. I bink the straight on the river with about 12 outs to hit (board was paired and all cards were above 5, and I had an OESD).

Then, I sat back and watched lucko and heffmike blow their loads all over the place, and when the dust settled, it was me and heffmike HU4title. I quickly got a double up when I called his shove for about 15bbs with A5o. He had KQs, outflopped me but I spiked an ace on the turn AND river. A few back and forth hands of nothing, and then we get to the final hand, which was a little interesting to say the least...

Full Tilt Poker Game #18166164592: The Mookie (135782084), Table 3 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:46:20 ET - 2010/02/04

Seat 1: heffmike (26,727)

Seat 7: NYRambler (45,273)

heffmike antes 125

NYRambler antes 125

heffmike posts the small blind of 500

NYRambler posts the big blind of 1,000

The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to NYRambler [Ac Kc]

heffmike calls 500

NYRambler raises to 3,000

heffmike calls 2,000

*** FLOP *** [2s 2c 5s]

NYRambler bets 4,000

heffmike calls 4,000

*** TURN *** [2s 2c 5s] [9c]

NYRambler checks

heffmike bets 14,250

NYRambler raises to 28,500

heffmike calls 5,352, and is all in

NYRambler shows [Ac Kc]

heffmike shows [9s 6s]

Eh it's a close race. I have 4 pair outs (non-spade Ace or King), 9 club outs. that's 13 outs to try and hit the river to win my third Mookie Title... So I'm about 28% to win... but wait a minute...

ck31 (Observer): cruuuuuuuuuuuuuubs

YES! the Queen of Crubs, CK, has blessed us with her call! This immediately doubles my win-rate to 56%!

Uncalled bet of 8,898 returned to NYRambler

*** RIVER *** [2s 2c 5s 9c] [7c] (obv)

NYRambler shows a flush, Ace high

heffmike shows two pair, Nines and Twos

NYRambler wins the pot (53,454) with a flush, Ace high

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 53,454 | Rake 0

Board: [2s 2c 5s 9c 7c]

Seat 1: heffmike (small blind) showed [9s 6s] and lost with two pair, Nines and Twos

Seat 7: NYRambler (big blind) showed [Ac Kc] and won (53,454) with a flush, Ace high

Thanks, CK!

-Kenny

Freerollaments!

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 121052

The MiniFTOPS

The MiniFTOPS is in full swing right now, and I've played one tournament, Event #1. I cashed in it, finishing in 1606th (yep, that's a cash lol) for a $10 profit (lol)

A fellow blogger bubbled the final table of the $10 rebuy for a sweet score, but he's always running good in huge MTTs.

The next tournaments I'll play are the HORSE and Turbo NLH on Tuesday; If anyone wants to back me in the HORSE Event (I'll sell up to $15 of my action, which is 30%), let me know.

-Kenny

So I Made a Final Table...

I woke up early Sunday Morning (fail) and decided to see what kind of tournaments were running over at FTP. I had a $26 token in my account, so I used it to buy in to the $15K Guarantee tournament that started at 10AM.

5 hours later, $379 score for 9th place.

I ran a crappy bluff when we were down to 15 or so... I tried a blind steal with Q4o, was called by the BB (LPP). Flop was K hi with 2 diamonds. He checked, I c-bet and he snap called... it was here that I put him on a FD. Turn was a blank, he checked, I fired again repping the K, he snapped again. River was a blank that completed a backdoor straight, he checked again... I shoved and covered, and he tanked then called with KJ. oops.

I nursed a short stack from that point on, made the Final Table with about 6BBs, and was the SB, found 74s, shoved into AT, flop was AT7... turn gave me a flush draw, but I missed on the river.

Since then, I am now at a point where I can practice good bankroll management and play the blogger tournaments adhering to those rules (first time in a long time lol)

I want to play 1/2 limit O8 or Stud 8, but there's never anyone playing... So i stick to $25NL, and tend to be the most aggro player whenever I play, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I dropped a little less than 2 buy-ins last night, mostly by getting it in with draws and missing... however, I hope that variance can kick in and allow me to do better.

I'll probably be posting more poker content on here in the future, as I found more motiviation to do well.

-Kenny

Back in the Swing of Things: 3rd in the Skillz

I made my return to Bloggaments last night in the Skillz series... taking down 3rd place after being in the Dank Position for most of the first hour. Some key hands vs. Numb and Chad got me a big stack, and I was hovering around the 8K mark for the remainder of the tournament, until a JJ < KK vs Numb sent me down, and pushmonkey's stubbornness for my bruffs cost me the rest of my stack. However, it felt good to be back in the game, and I will be playing The Mookie tonight.

Also, I am interested in starting up a regular game on Mondays again; I'm going to call it 'Monday Night HORSE', and it will start Monday, January 4, 2010, at 10pm. If anyone out there is good at making banners, if you can make one for this, it will be much appreciated. The Password will probably be 'mnhorse', and the buy-in will be $10+$1, save for an end-of-quarter tournament on the last monday of every 3 months, which will be a $24+$2 tournament.

-Kenny

I'm Back... Baby

Back on Full Tilt. You'll see me at the Mook on Wednesday :)