Here it is… again…

Tournament: $5 + $.50 sit and go
Position: 1/9
Prize: $22.50

I’m pretty good at card games, it’s been said.

Highlights:

I get it all in with an overpair, the other guy gets in with top pair… he gets runner runner to split the pot. It’s always disappointing to get it in ahead and lose like this. By the time you’re done reading this entry, I will have made myself a hypocrite twice… for instance…

I call his preflop raise and flop the nut straight. He goes all in on the turn… and… yeah…

This stung. We’re heads up, and I made a nut flush on the turn. I was hoping to trap him, and I push him all in on the river. He calls with… a straight flush?! Well look at that. Now I’m crippled… but a few hands later, I’m push with Qs2d and he calls with Ac8c…

The great/awesome/sad part is that this is not the first time I’ve flopped quads. Last time was in 2004 at Turning Stone (I was holding K7 and the flop was 777. Sadly, the game was 1-3 Limit Hold’em. Consolation: betting on this hand was capped on every round and there were 4 people in the pot until the end.) I’m still short stacked after this double up, but the other guy wasn’t pushing very hard and I was able to chip back up until this happened.

I get dealt AcAs. I decide to slow play it and only pre-flop call. Opponent raises, I call. Flop comes 3c7s3d. He pushes, I insta-call. He turns 10c10d. He doesn’t hit his 2 outs. I’m a weeeeener!

Poker is fun.

He hits his 3-outer, I hit my 1-outer re-suck for the win, sometimes abbreviated FTW.I once thought those letters meant "FUCK THE WORLD" and wondered why people who won all the time were always angry.

Set-mine hits and busts the unfortunate fellow with KK.

Coin flip pre-flop, top pair on the flop, all gravy from there.

Full Tilt won’t give my my second lifetime Royal Flush though.

I go on to lose, partly because I lost patience 30 hands later and pushed into the nuts.  $27 ain’t too bad though.

I’m sure I can figure it out, but I’m just speaking rhetorically.

For those who’ve never played the game, Razz is played exactly like 7-card Stud, except it’s the lowest poker hand that wins and not the highest.

So, of course, when I play Razz, this happens to me. (click to enlarge).

Edit: 2/2/2008: Comments locked because for whatever reason, spam bots love submitting spam comments to this post and akismet doesn’t auto-block them.

From : (me)
Sent : Saturday, December 2, 2006 9:59 AM
To : support@FullTiltPoker.com
Subject : Unable to Connect to Server

Hello…

I just downloaded the FullTiltPoker program. It installed successfully, but when starting up the program, it reports “Sorry, Unable to Connect to Server.” I checked the server status on fulltiltpoker.com and they seemed to be operational. Please advise.

Joe

This is followed by…

From : Full Tilt Poker Support
Sent : Saturday, December 2, 2006 5:38 PM
To : (me)
Subject : Re: Unable to Connect to Server (KMM701068I18073L0KM)

Hello Joe,

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Perhaps I should’ve mentioned that I was looking to register, but it just seems like whomever saw my e-mail saw my e-mail address did not belong to a registered user and decided to kick back a form letter without even reading my e-mail. I replied back saying that I wasn’t a registered user and still need assistance, at which point I did get assistance.

It’s fun being on the other side of tech support.

Newsday story (link will expire in 7-or-so days)

I guess I’m not going there for my poker needs… ::shifty eyes::

Not like I ever did previously, I’m just saying… you know… if I ever felt the need to gamble… I won’t be going there to do it… ::shifty eyes::

Played on PartyPoker last night… I play $.5/$1 Limit Hold ‘Em. I get dealt A3 offsuit as the BB in a 6 handed game. Only one raiser, I call. Flop is T J K rainbow. So I have an inside straight draw. He bets, I call. In No Limit, I’d just fold with an inside straight draw, but in Limit poker, I can call one bet if it’s the flop. Since the bet doubles on the turn, if I don’t have a hand by then, I’ll usually fold it. Turn is a queen. I make my straight! More importantly, it’s the nut straight, meaning it can’t be beat; only tied. I bet, he raises, I re-raise, he caps, I call. I wonder what he could have. Trips? An ace? I have all hands beat at this point, so my play is a no-brainer. River is a 3, pairs my hand but it’s useless since I already made a straight. Pot gets capped again, he reveals pocket 9s.

What made his play bad? When the pot got capped on the turn, he should have suspected he was beat. He shouldn’t have capped the pot on the river. He lost $3 more than he should have.

I :heart: dumb poker players.