Short Update

Well, I thought I would post a small update from the last couple of days.

It has turned to Summer around here. The weather is nice and I finally got the boat launched. So, any nice days will take away from my Poker time because we will be out cruising, fishing, and drinking on the Lake.

I played in the final SNG Challenge game last night. I got third place. Anne Marie (gotmewrong) won. She did a good job. Blagger showed up for a little while. He has been quite sick for a while.

I hope he gets better soon.

Dog and I played a couple of SNG’s after the Challenge. I didn’t make the money in any of them. There was one point during the tourny that was pretty wierd. We were watching the hand and the flop came. Right after the flop I told Dog the next card was going to be the 3 of hearts. The turn comes and it is the 3 of hearts. So then I tell him the river is going to be the J of diamonds. Boom! The river shows and it is the J of diamonds. I don’t know what the odds are of me guessing 2 cards in a row like that but I bet they are pretty high. If I could do it all the time, I would be making some good money.

I am going up north to help a friend this weekend. Hopefully, I will be back Sunday but Sunday is also Fathers Day in the U.S. so I may not get to play.

Monday night is Live Play night and on Tuesday I need to go to West Virginia on a business trip.

So, the pickins look slim for Poker.

I will do my best to hook up with some of the Skype Crew to play some games.

Until then…Good Luck at the tables

3rd Chance?

I went and played live last night. I hadn’t played for a couple of weeks so I thought I would go.

I actually ended up at a pretty tough table. Everyone sitting there I had played before except for one person. All of them are pretty solid players so I knew I was in for a challenge.

One of the players is a pretty aggressive player. If you want to be in a hand with him you better be ready to call raises and no checking after the flop.

Luckily, I started catching some good cards.

It’s funny, the table started out aggressive and I didn’t play the first few hands. After I started catching some cards, I found myself being more aggressive than usual. I guess I picked up on the table dynamic and shifted my play a little.

People talk about on line being rigged because of how hands play. Last night I had pocket K’s twice in three hands. This just shows you that weird stuff happens live too.

Anyway, I was going ok until after the second hour then the deck went ice cold on me.

I ended up 20th out of about 80 so not too bad.

I was on my way out the door when I was asked if I wanted to play 3rd chance.

The tourny’s have what they call a 2nd chance. 2nd chance is for the first 10 people knocked out. Those 10 can start a new game and the winner can get a couple of points.

3rd chance is a game where there are 10 people but it costs $20.00 to play.

I figured, what the heck and gave it a shot. I ended up second in that one and won $40.00. (First got $60.00). I made a mistake in heads up and lost most of my chips which cost me the game but other than that, I played pretty good.

The extra $20.00 probably barely covered the cost of the beer I drank while I was there.lol

So, all in all, I played poker for 5 hours live and at the end, covered my costs.

Not too bad…..

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