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04:17 pm
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Colleen's First Poker Lesson
So, nothing like a lazy Sunday afternoon for teaching the kid poker. She IS nine, already. Spend ten minutes showing her the hand rankings and quiz her til I know she's got it. What's a good beginners game? Hmm, how bout No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven. So we get out the monopoly money and I allot $100 to each of us. $1 ante, no blinds with an alternating button. If she wins all the money, we go swimming. If I win, we watch the entire Led Zeppelin DVD including bonus features. A couple non-hands, and then
me= button.
I get dealt J98. She checks, I check. She draws three, I draw two making a QJ. "WELL, I BET NIIINE DOLLARS." (into a two-dollar pot) Heh. You don't get these sweet tells online. I call. She shows me 97532.
Very next hand:
her=button.
I'm dealt J9873. I bet $1, she calls. I rap pat. She draws 3. I bet $2. She "misclicks" and throws out two pink bills without saying anything. I think it's important that she understand there's no take-backs in poker so I snap call the "eight-dollar raise." She shows me 97532.
This is 100% fucking true.
Gotta go. Games are good. Send monoopoly money.
Tags: offspring, poker
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08:11 am
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A New Coney Island Tradition: Nathan Lane's Hot-Dog Eating Contest
From The Economist, May 24th, 2008, p31:
Tokyo's food-on-the run is vast and diverse: at its best a thing of genius,
while at its worst it can out-affront anything the United States has to offer.
As well as the yakisoba dog of the ubiquitous combini (convenience store),
you find the potato-salad sandwich (also available in vending machines),
the katsu sando (breaded pork-cutlet sandwich) and the curry pan, a doughnut
with a slurry of curry powder and meat gristle, irradiated for longevity.
Friends showing discrimination in other parts of their lives confess to a
fondness for such outrages, though even they cannot swallow the homo sausage.
Various piss-poor attempts at titles for this post included:
1) Try a Little Tenderizerness
2) Gag Me With a Spooge
3) Hold the Cream of Sum Yung Gai
Tags: rebroadcast
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10:49 am
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008 WSOP Roto after day 5
Down to 3:jorj: Cantu 2,280,000
me : MikeM 1,169,000
Tad : PhilH 721,000
EDIT: George wins, and Cantu promptly self-immolates.
Tags: poker
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12:09 pm
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 4
George maintains a slight edge with three guys in the top 25:
jorj95
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#4 1981000 Cantu
#21 1367000 Hansen
#30 1141000 Cunningham
me
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#124 0458000 Matusow
Tad Jurgens
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#107 0581000 Hellmuth
Tom, Ryan, Robert = out.
Non-horses I'd be delighted to see win:
Chip Jett
Allen Cunningham
Matt Matros
Thomas Keller
Non-horses I'd like to see win, solely for Hangman purposes:
Jamal Kunbuz
Jamal Sawqdeh
Mao Qiu
Diren Yildiz
Non-horses I'd not only be delighted to see lose, but also have their car towed and then deported over a 13-year old sexual misdemeanor:
Shawn Sheikhan
Tags: poker
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10:55 am
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 3
George has a slight edge:
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham 386k Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius X John Phan X Ralph Perry X
Ivey X B. Greenstein X Dario Minieri X Daniel Wong X David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus 355k Michael Binger X Elky 181k Jonas Klaussen X Isaac Baron X EDOGN X
Robert Miz 138k David Singer X Michael Miz X JC Tran X Nam Le X Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko X Brian Townsend X Layne Flack X Erik Seidel X Hellmuth 475k
Juanda X Alex Jacob X Johnny World X J v. Altsyne X Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. X Nick Schulman X Haralabos V. X Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. X Joe Cassidy X
Thayer Rasm. 394k James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet X Jordan Rich X Oppenheim X
Brandon Cantu 710k Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad X Jen Harman X Antonio X Laak X
Sorel Mizzi X Kathy Liebert X Matusow 438k Chad Batista X Jesus X Rafi Amit X
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic X Meng La X Chris Lee X J J Liu X A. Galajian X
Jorj95 X Tom Schneider X Jim Geary X Ryan Hughes X Robert Goldfarb X Tad Jurgens X
All the same, I think I'm willing to let jorj take the roto-pool if ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jnala can bring this one home.
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09:13 am
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2008 WSOP Roto after all day 2's
George is looking strong:
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham 126k Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 29k John Phan X Ralph Perry X
Ivey X B. Greenstein X Dario Minieri X Daniel Wong X David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus 95k Michael Binger X Elky 151k Jonas Klaussen X Isaac Baron X EDOGN X
Robert Miz 270k David Singer X Michael Miz X JC Tran X Nam Le X Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko X Brian Townsend X Layne Flack X Erik Seidel 101k Hellmuth 196k
Juanda X Alex Jacob X Johnny World Xk J v. Altsyne X Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. X Nick Schulman X Haralabos V. X Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. 170k Joe Cassidy X
Thayer Rasm. 136k James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 115k Jordan Rich X Oppenheim X
Brandon Cantu 224k Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad X Jen Harman 20k Antonio X Laak X
Sorel Mizzi X Kathy Liebert X Matusow 97k Chad Batista X Jesus X Rafi Amit X
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic 283k Meng La X Chris Lee X J J Liu X A. Galajian 15k
Jorj95 X Tom Schneider X Jim Geary X Ryan Hughes X Robert Goldfarb X Tad Jurgens X
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08:54 am
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3:55
New personal record Las Vegas to Phoenix.
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02:41 pm
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2008 WSOP Roto after all day 1's
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham 49k Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 64k John Phan X Ralph Perry X
Ivey X B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri X Daniel Wong 8k David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus 103k Michael Binger 31k Elky 25k Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron X EDOGN 92k
Robert Miz 142k David Singer 128k Michael Miz X JC Tran X Nam Le 13k Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko 45k Brian Townsend 91k Layne Flack X Erik Seidel 65k Hellmuth 79k
Juanda 12k Alex Jacob 25k Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne X Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. 52k Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. 46k Joe Cassidy X
Thayer Rasm. 54k James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 70k Jordan Rich 35k Oppenheim 114k
Brandon Cantu 79k Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad X Jen Harman 63k Antonio 93k Laak 45k
Sorel Mizzi 76k Kathy Liebert 39k Matusow 48k Chad Batista X Jesus X Rafi Amit X
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic 91k Meng La X Chris Lee X J J Liu X A. Galajian 12k
Jorj95 X Tom Schneider X Jim Geary X Ryan Hughes 63k Robert Goldfarb 21k Tad Jurgens 15k
Tags: poker
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05:58 pm
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WSOP 2008 Main Event: I Go Home Now
Had a great table. All Americans. No kids. No pros. Never had a shot.
Third hand of the tournament:
Limp, limp, raise, call, call, call, call.
Flop is K-T-2. Small blind goes all in to an 2000 pot for 15000 (yes, he already had spewed a quarter of his stack in one of the first two pots when he made second pair on the turn as his opponent made top two.) Raiser thinks for a long time and finally calls with AA. 222 goot.
Typical raise would be 50-100 blinds , fold fold fold, 700. Every post-flop bet was between 1.5 and 2x the size of the pot. Forget bluffing. I resolve to flop sets and let them monkey out on me.
First hand I play after the flop, I limp behind a school with red sixes. Flop is JJ4. I bet, and get checkraised by a not altogether unattractive girl. I think she thinks I wouldn't bet a jack on the flop and is trying to put a move on me. Turn puts up a third diamond, and I figure I'll let her come to grips with all her fears if she has a bigger pair and bet. She calls. Oops. River is a fourth diamond, and I contemplate the sick vb, but decide to just take the pot. KJo for her. 22k for me.
Next hand of note @ 100-200 blinds, I have QQ. Raise to 600 get called by showily nutty older Asian on my left and one of the uberfishys. Flop is QT8 w two spades.. I bet 1100 into a 1900 pot I think. Call, fold. Turn is an ace, and I bet 2k, he raises 8k more! I think, call. River is the 2 of spades. Check all in. Tank. I fold.
Still had about 10k at a soft table. Few hands later. JJ in the small blind. School comes in. Late position raises, I call as well as most of the school. Flop is KJ5. Well, you know the rest.
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08:20 am
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 1-C
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 64k John Phan Ralph Perry X
Ivey B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri Daniel Wong David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus Michael Binger 31k Elky 25k Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron EDOGN 92k
Robert Miz 142k David Singer 128k Michael Miz JC Tran X Nam Le 13k Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko 45k Brian Townsend 91k Layne Flack Erik Seidel 65k Hellmuth
Juanda 12k Alex Jacob 25k Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne Max Pescatori X Daniel Alaei X
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. 52k Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. 46k Joe Cassidy
Thayer Rasm. James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 70k Jordan Rich 35k Oppenheim
Brandon Cantu Jeff Lisandro X Hooman Nikzad Jen Harmon Antonio Laak
Sorel Mizzi 76k Kathy Liebert 39k Matusow 48k Chad Batista X Jesus Rafi Amit
Mimi Tran X Nenad Medic 91k Meng La Chris Lee J J Liu X A. Galajian
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes 63k Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens 15k
I'll be rallying my team in a few hours, at which point the rest will be academic. Heh, just saw Boom-Boom on the tennis pimpin for Stars. Hope that's a sign he's at my table today.
Tags: poker
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09:19 am
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 1-B
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius 64k John Phan Ralph Perry X
Ivey B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri Daniel Wong David Pham X Kenny Tran X
Gus Michael Binger Elky Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron EDOGN 92k
Robert Miz 142k David Singer Michael Miz JC Tran Nam Le Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko 45k Brian Townsend Layne Flack Erik Seidel 65k Hellmuth
Juanda Alex Jacob Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne Max Pescatori Daniel Alaei
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. 52k Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. Joe Cassidy
Thayer Rasm. James Mackey X Mike McClain X gigabet 70k Jordan Rich Oppenheim
Brandon Cantu Jeff Lisandro Hooman Nikzad Jen Harmon Antonio Laak
Sorel Mizzi Kathy Liebert 39k Matusow Chad Batista Jesus Rafi Amit
Mimi Tran Nenad Medic Meng La Chris Lee J J Liu X A. Galajian
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
Let me know if I missed anyone.
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09:05 am
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2008 WSOP Roto after day 1-A
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham Negreanu X Vanessa Selbst X P. Antonius John Phan Ralph Perry X
Ivey B. Greenstein 21k Dario Minieri Daniel Wong David Pham X Kenny Tran
Gus Michael Binger Elky Jonas Klaussen 18k Isaac Baron EDOGN
Robert Miz David Singer Michael Miz JC Tran Nam Le Benyamine X
Tom Dwan X Alex Krachenko Brian Townsend Layne Flack Erik Seidel Hellmuth
Juanda Alex Jacob Johnny World 52k J v. Altsyne Max Pescatori Daniel Alaei
Scotty Ng. 23k Nick Schulman 69k Haralabos V. Gavin Smith X Minh Ng. Joe Cassidy
Thayer Rasm. James Mackey X Mike McClain gigabet 70k Jordan Rich Oppenheim
Brandon Cantu Jeff Lisandro Hooman Nikzad Jen Harmon Antonio Laak
Sorel Mizzi Kathy Liebert Matusow Chad Batista Jesus Rafi Amit
Mimi Tran Nenad Medic Meng La Chris Lee J J Liu X A. Galajian
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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09:00 pm
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Blue Is Nice
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01:41 am
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WSOP 2008 Main Event Roto
So tonight at the dinner celebrating my roommate Ryan's second 7-stud-hilo bracelet*, we decided to have a roto for the main event. Bet is to have the highest finisher. Each player had ten picks and one woman as well as themselves.
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
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Cunningham Negreanu Vanessa Selbst P. Antonius John Phan Ralph Perry
Ivey B. Greenstein Dario Minieri Daniel Wong David Pham Kenny Tran
Gus Michael Binger Elky Jonas Klaussen Isaac Baron EDOGN
Robert Miz David Singer Michael Miz JC Tran Nam Le Benyamine
Tom Dwan Alex Krachenko Brian Townsend Layne Flack Erik Seidel Hellmuth
Juanda Alex Jacob Johnny World J v. Altsyne Max Pescatori Daniel Alaei
Scotty Ng. Nick Schulman Haralabos V. Gavin Smith Minh Ng. Joe Cassidy
Thayer Rasm. James Mackey Mike McClain gigabet Jordan Rich Oppenheim
Brandon Cantu Jeff Lisandro Hooman Nikzad Jen Harmon Antonio Laak
Sorel Mizzi Kathy Liebert Matusow Chad Batista Jesus Rafi Amit
Mimi Tran Nenad Medic Meng La Chris Lee J J Liu A. Galajian
Jorj95 Tom Schneider Jim Geary Ryan Hughes Robert Goldfarb Tad Jurgens
* Ryan now becomes the first player to ever win two bracelets in stud-8. The really amazing thing is that besides these tournaments, Ryan has never played the game. Strong.
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05:46 pm
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2008 WSOP Event 47 7-Stud Hi-Low Day 2: Oh, The Humanity
It turns out that I am at about the best table I've been at all Series, on a day 2, with chips, in a game I'm pretty good at. I mean it was like the home games in college. Seriously. AND we were the last table to break.
Never had a chance. Went from 15000 to 25000 the first 90 minutes and from 25000 to 0 in the next twenty minutes.
One hand, an opponent and I went five bets with a straight-6 (him) vs a straight-7 (me) with a dead 7 and 8, and no dead aces or deuces. He had no clue what kind of trouble his hand was in. http://twodimes.net/h/?z=4859234
pokenum -mc 500000 -7s8 7h 6s 5c 4d 3d - 6h 5s 4c 3s 2h / 8h 7s jh jc 6d 6c
7-card Stud Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled outcomes
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
6s 5c 4d 3d 7h 78427 454088 4258 41654 88416 354715 56869 0.592
5s 3s 4c 6h 2h 2560 4258 454088 41654 354715 88416 56869 0.408 I'm over 30:1 (16% : .5 %) to scoop him, but no problem: 9, Q for me and a 7, 8 for him.
Next hand I have a guy going to war with me til he's all in with KKJ8 v 2345 with zero aces or 6s showing:http://twodimes.net/h/?z=4859262
pokenum -mc 500000 -7s8 ks kc jh 8d - 2h 3h 4h 5c / 8s qh 3d tc ts
7-card Stud Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled outcomes
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
Ks Kc 8d Jh 90540 206034 293966 0 0 0 0 0.297
5c 4h 3h 2h 293966 293966 206034 0 373747 0 0 0.703 Jack, ten, ten for me.
Next hand a woman tries committing suicide into my open ace on 5th with a pair of queens ("I'm ready to go.."):
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=4859281
pokenum -mc 500000 -7s8 qh qs jc 4d 7h - ac tc 5s 4c 8c / qd 9s kh 3d 9d th
7-card Stud Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled outcomes
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
Qs Jc 4d Qh 7h 76205 236815 263185 0 0 0 0 0.313
5s Ac Tc 8c 4c 263185 263185 236815 0 316613 0 0 0.687 Jack, nine, ten.
Final hand is A843 v 8723.
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=4859288
pokenum -mc 500000 -7s8 ad 8s 3d 4d - 8c 7s 2h 3s
7-card Stud Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled outcomes
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
8s Ad 4d 3d 196970 321439 178398 163 290356 56426 336 0.639
7s 3s 8c 2h 57502 178398 321439 163 164273 182124 336 0.361 He makes a pair of deuces and a low, and I catch , stop me if you've heard this before... jack, ten, queen.
Could be worse, I guess. There could be a $1500 donkament tomorrow at noon. Oh, wait....
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12:26 pm
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2008 WSOP Event 47 7-Stud Hi-Low Day 2 Table
Here's my table:
(Table 32)
Jim Geary 15,300
Craig Gray 11,500
Ron Long 5,800
Michael Gisondi 13,700
Rajiv Khanna 12,100
David Daneshgar 8,600
David Miara 16,800
Ryan Dreyer 28,900
Don't know a single guy, not that that means anything. At my table last night, the only guys I knew were DonZ and David Singer, but everyone else seemed pretty good, too. Looked like there was some deader money out there; hope I can find it.
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/tournament-chip-counts.asp?tid=4941&grid=411
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03:09 am
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2008 WSOP Event 47 7-Stud Hi-Low Day 1
Day 1 went pretty well. I was probably chip leader from hours 4 to 6. Didn't drag anything from 6 to 8 and ended the day with a mere $15300, slightly above mean, and a bit above median I'd imagine. Some really bad players visited my table, before eventually being replaced by pretty good players. Looking forward to the scramble. 117 of 543 remain. They pay 56, but I'm shooting for 57th so Prock doesn't call me a farmer again and make me cry.
Play resumes @ 3pm tomorrow.
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/tournament-chip-counts.asp?tid=4941&grid=411
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03:08 pm
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2008 WSOP Event 43 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low
I ended up 15th out of 720 for $9828. I never had many chips, but I didn't spew with a bad hand just because I was short. The lack of antes in Omaha allows one to pick their spots more selectively than in Holdem. I looked like an uber-nit farming into 15th for the extra 2k, but I was trying to win the tournament. I just decided that the best way for me to win the tournament wasn't to put the last of my chips in from the big blind with QJ55-b getting 2:1. I was card-dead the entire second day. It's weird I made it anywhere near the final table.
I'm heading to the Rio now for the $1500 8-or-better stud. I seem to do well in these tourneys. I think I might know what I'm doing.
1 of 19 -$41172
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09:07 am
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2008 WSOP Events 40 and 43 (partials)
Event 40 $2500 2-7 Triple Draw I fought for a long time. I didn't win. Longer report to follow.
Event 43 $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split I fought for a long time. I lost a lot of $ to Ed Smith(the chip-leader) in a pot on the bubble, but still made the money. I now have a low stack, but it's not a crisis. Play to resume @ 2pm today.
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/tournament-chip-counts.asp?tid=4937&grid=411
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updates.asp?rr=3&grid=411&tid=4937
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07:43 am
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Gay Dates for Straight Guys
So last night jorj95 and I ended up getting out of the house and getting dinner. We're driving around LV and all of a sudden I see X.
me: "Cool, let's stop!"
jorj: "That is so gay."
me: "What? We saw Garden State together; what's the big deal?
jorj: "On the 1-10 gay scale, seeing Garden State was a 7. X is a 14."
Solve for X.
We have a winner. Feel free to guess and then compare your answer with the correct one.
NB: Even though we didn't actually go to X, the waitress must've picked something up, because she was asking us how we met, etc...
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