MTT vs Shootout

I am still on the fence about my win last night. Especially after reading the comments (thanks for the comments folks!). For example, Hoy says a win is a win and I should count it as one. I totally agree. But on the other hand, Fuel55 says I had to dodge a lot of minefields to get through 728 $5 donkeys. But I really didn't. I had to beat only 24 donkeys. I had to beat 8, then 8 more and then 8 more. And most of these donkeys beat each other up pretty badly.

Does winning three SNGs in a row equate to beating 728 players? Does playing a triple shootout equate to beating three final tables? Three heads-up matches?

Chad asked if it was a Sunday Million seat. It's actually 3 seats if you look at the payout!

I am definitely going to count it as a win, trust me. But I guess the taste of victory comes in all kinds of flavors.

Replay of the final table with hole cards exposed will start next Tuesday at noon EST and I will post a reminder when the time comes. I will probably do a through hand analysis before that though. I can already say that the final table was probably the easiest of the three, which was a surprise. And I certainly got lucky at the right spots. The toughest part of the tourney was at the second table when we were down to three handed. The blinds were getting up there and the other two guys were just raising every pot.

More later. Thanks for all the comments again!

Triple Shootout Win (and another Token Frenzy) (1/729)

I just won a triple shootout on PokerStars a couple of hours ago. Why am I up writing this now? Because I have an early START to my day today. My schedule begins at 3am. I love my job!

Anyway, 729 runners in the $5 triple with replay and I came out on top. Oh yeah, there's a final table replay which will be up next Tuesday and you can all watch as I annihilate the final table.

Guess what? I didn't take a single screenshot. Well, none except for this one:



Very nice!

Thanks to all the folks who gave WBDR shout outs and BOOOOOOOOMs and WOOOOOOTs. I think since it's a final table replay they did not allow observer chat.

I might go through some hands later and discuss. As the Cawfee Tawk lady says: "discuss amongst yourselves".

But here for your enjoyment is the little chat from the guy I beat in the second table:

Dealer: fordfatboy has two pair, Sevens and Threes
Dealer: Kajagugu has two pair, Kings and Threes
Dealer: Game #14946082199: Kajagugu wins pot (8890) with two pair, Kings and Threes
Dealer: Game #14946094320: Kajagugu wins pot (3250)
fordfatboy: coome on
fordfatboy: bs
Dealer: Game #14946101302: Kajagugu wins pot (2450)
Dealer: Game #14946109882: fordfatboy wins pot (850)
Dealer: Game #14946114850: Kajagugu wins pot (850)
Dealer: Kajagugu has a pair of Queens
Dealer: fordfatboy has two pair, Queens and Tens
Dealer: Game #14946118619: fordfatboy wins pot (3520) with two pair, Queens and Tens
Dealer: fordfatboy has a pair of Sevens
Dealer: Kajagugu has two pair, Jacks and Fives
Dealer: Game #14946127354: Kajagugu wins pot (7040) with two pair, Jacks and Fives
Dealer: fordfatboy finished the tournament in 134th place
Kajagugu: gg
fordfatboy [observer]: bs u suck
fordfatboy [observer]: lucky ****
Kajagugu: nice
fordfatboy [observer]: dude you got lucky
fordfatboy [observer]: ****** donk
Kajagugu: how's that?
fordfatboy [observer]: look at the hand history moron
fordfatboy [observer]: check it out
Kajagugu: where did I get lucky?
Kajagugu: which hand?
fordfatboy [observer]: later donk look moron
Kajagugu: k buh bye

So that left a good taste in my mouth heading to the final table.

I am not sure how to look at this win and judge it. Is it really 1st of 729 or is it three SNGs in a row? Or is it the same? I'll just call it a win, m'kay?

I also won a $75 token frenzy tonight after almost blowing the chip lead like a monkey. I had jeciimd at my starting table and then NewiNov at my second.

No Vegas :-(

Meeting canceled. Makes sense. Too much money. Not enough content. It would have been -EV for my company to make it happen. I will be sad at the missed opportunity to play live, but happy to be home.

HD DVD is Dead (PSA)

Not sure how many of you care, but the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD war is pretty much over. So if you were thinking of getting an HD-DVD system, you better think again:


Just thought you should know.

Bird Poop

Seriously, this guy must be the dumbest person alive:

Chops

I don't mind chops. I try to avoid them because I like the game and want to win, but sometimes there are other reasons to chop. But this is getting ridiculous.

First MATH of the year, get in the money, 4 way chop.
First Big Game of the year, 4 way chop on the bubble.
Razz RiverChasers this week, chop, chop, chop.

And there have been a bunch of other chops I seem to remember.

January was the Month of the Chop.

So are all the blogger games becoming bubble chops now that the BBT2 is over and there is no TOC on the line? Pardon my French, but that's bullshit. And all you chop advocates can kiss my ass.

Let the flame wars begin.

Buzzsaw (17/499)

The past week has been tough. This is what Strep+Flu+Trench Mouth sounds like:



That's what's been sleeping in my bed the past week. Like a needy little furnace who wants her sippy cup at 4am, then wants me to get out of the way, then wants me to give up my pillow, then breathes on me and turns on that buzzsaw in my ear.

So needless to say, not a lot of pokery goodness this past week. But last night there was no fever and so the transition was made back to her big girl bed. And there she slept loudly through the entire night. And since I was so excited to reclaim my bed, I could not sleep and played poker half the night.

My bankroll on FTP had suffered complete annihilation in the past few weeks, bankroll management genius that I am. I basically had two $75 tokens left and enough cash for a few HUC6 matches. As the hour was nearing midnight I jumped into two tourneys. The first was the Midnight Madness, in which I cashed when I eventually could not get a FCD (Flush Chasing Donkey) to fold his heart draw. Standard Flush Tilt crap.

Meanwhile I used one of said tokens to play the midnight 16.5K guaranteed KO tourney. This one drew 499 runners, each with a $15 bounty on his head. I collected 5 of these bounties along the way and busted in 17th place because I got infected by the idiocy of the players in this thing. You would think that a higher buy-in would equate to better players, right? You would think. I sat there slack-jawed at the atrocious play. Especially when we were nicely in the money. I mean, top spot pays almost 7K. It's almost worth playing for, right? Wrong!

Let's go through some hands, shall we?

This is a prime example of the kind of play you get. This idiot limps as does the guy to his left and I raise to 240 in position. Folds around to him and he min-raises me to 420. So for 180 more I get to see a flop in position. Brilliant. Of course we get the puppy toe flush draw on the flop, but I hit my set and the only thing I fear here is Aces, but I doubt he has them, especially when he shoves 2,485 into a 990 pot:



First hand back from the break and this hand happens. I will just go with the HH and let you try to guess what he has:

FullTiltPoker Game #4998445244: $16,500 KO Guarantee (37296270), Table 32 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:07:53 ET - 2008/01/26
Seat 1: complex x (755)
Seat 2: ajt1974 (6,560)
Seat 3: jotan83 (9,691)
Seat 4: Kajagugu (8,065)
Seat 5: Damage1 (2,555)
Seat 6: DavyMcMurphy (8,530)
Seat 7: jdub13 (2,160), is sitting out
Seat 8: RazeKane (6,754)
Seat 9: javashampoo (6,265)
jdub13 posts the small blind of 60
RazeKane posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [Jc Jd]
javashampoo folds
complex x folds
ajt1974 raises to 360 - This guy has been very LAG and I can't give him too much credit yet.
jotan83 folds
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu raises to 900 - I need to see where he's at so I raise. Good? Bad? Enough?
Damage1 folds
DavyMcMurphy has 15 seconds left to act
DavyMcMurphy folds
jdub13 folds
RazeKane folds
ajt1974 calls 540 - So I guess he has something.
*** FLOP *** [5d Qc 8s]
ajt1974 checks
Kajagugu bets 1,020 - The pot is 1,980 and he checked. I can only worry about a flopped set or potentially AQ/KQ. I bet a little over 1/2 the pot and....
ajt1974 calls 1,020 - he calls. Hmmmmmm....
*** TURN *** [5d Qc 8s] [Kh]
ajt1974 checks
Kajagugu checks - He's been so agrresive that I figure he is slow playing something big and just check behind. Good?
*** RIVER *** [5d Qc 8s Kh] [Ad]
ajt1974 checks - Why would he check here? I figure this check to mean he's beat. If he has a hand that beats me he bets here for value.
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu bets 600 - This was actually supposed to be 1600 into the 4020 pot, but thanks to the wonderful FTP interface that didn't happen. I don't know if I like betting here actually. What would you do here? I mean, it's a pretty big pot and he has played it very passively. Has he given up? Can I take it away with a bet?
ajt1974 calls 600 - He still calls. What do you think he has?

Scroll down for the answer.


















Doh! I'm thinking if I bet 1600 he probably folds there.

Then this gem. At the 100/200 level I raise to 580 with Queens. I have been fairly tight and I am trying to get some action here. And action I get, in the form of an all-in from the guy to my left for 2K more. Don't laugh too hard:



But we all know how these things end, right? Deliver the four flush please.....



Oh, wait a minute. That last heart paired the board? Muahahahaha!!!!!

Nearing the final 2 tables I won a few timely races to get a chip stack going:





Technically the AQ vs AK is not a race, but it will be significant later on.

Then this fun hand in super slow-mo:






I manage to dodge the three outer and hit the final two tables with about 80K. But then comes the eventual blow up:



Why? Why? Why?

Well, because I thought I saw this guy raise with Ace-rag several times. Looking back at my tracker I see I am dead wrong and his raise UTG should have been a serious warning. He raised to 10.5K and I should have just easily folded. But I stupidly jammed and got called and adios. After I busted I saw that he was in the lead at Midnight Madness as well. Silly Kaja, look before you leap.

I was so upset about my play here that I didn't even wait to see how VinNay did (he finished 14th).

I had this. I am still mad at myself this morning. I have to avoid these mistakes if I want to win one of these. Seriously, the level of play was so bad (mine included) that when I get myself in position to win, I need to think harder about my actions.

OhCaptain could be right. I am going to have to rethink playing AQ. Or at least when I see that bitch of a hand, stop and think things through. This shove was uncalled for. What was I hoping for? UTG raiser, what could he possibly raise with? If it's AA, KK, QQ or AK then I am pretty much toast. Any other pair is basically a race and I should not race for my tournament life when down to two tables, right? He would not raise with KQ, QJ or small pairs, I hope. Muck that AQ crap and wait for better spots. There will be better spots.

Bad Kaja. Bad!

HUC6 is coming

Even though I am complete dead money in these, I have signed up to play in HUC6.

If you want to practice for free you can go to the NBC Heads-Up Championship site. You can even win a seat in the big tourney in Vegas.

Razz is all the rage

Read around the PoBloSphere and you will notice everyone is talking about Razz. New Razz blogs are coming up and everyone and his cousin are talking about implied odds and bricks and blah blah fucking blah....

Razz is a dumb game. There is absolutely no skill involved. It does not matter how you bet, call or fold. It is almost entirely luck based. You can start with 2345 against someone showing a high pair and go KQJ to end up with a Jack low hand. If this means nothing to you so far, good for you. Don't even try to understand it or learn it.

The only good thing about razz is the entertainment value in seeing people explode when their hand goes down the crapper. And people will freak the fuck out. Instead of just looking at this game for what it is, a dumb luck game, they will think they have been robbed by an idiot playing an unplayable hand.

I will not play this game again. Unless it's part of a HORSE game (which I will rarely play anyway) or a freeroll. It is a waste of my already limited poker time. But to all of you fine folks who are in love with this whore of a game, good luck. I mean it. You're going to need it. Please use a condom.

That said, I finished 9th out of 40 in last night's RiverChasers. Fun times.

Las Vegas!!!

I am finally going to Vegas! I think I mentioned it before here, but I have not been to Vegas in any serious manner in a very long time so I am super psyched. It's going to be a very short trip and I will be mostly sitting in a conference room all day dreaming about the fun I could be having elsewhere, but anyway it looks like I arrive late on the 10th and leave on the 12th in the early afternoon.

Anyone have a suggestion for a late night tournament on Sunday night? So far I think I will head to Caesar's for their 11pm $120 tourney. But I would welcome other suggestions. Then on the 11th I will probably have some company function that I will not be able to get out of and will probably end very late so no tourney for me that night.

Like a kid in a candy store.....

UPDATE: Trip has been canceled, booooooooooo......

Don't mess with Texas

Had to go to a meeting in Dallas today. What a freakin' waste of time. And what makes it worse is the dumb blonde who keeps pronouncing words with double vowels.

Why would anyone say the word tool as tu-ool? Or why would you say perspecteeeeeve? I want to rip her tounge out. Especially when she mispronounces my last name when introducing me. Every. Single. Time!

Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

Why am I here instead of at home where KajaKid is sporting a 104+ fever for the last three days? Why do I stay in this retarded job? Is it because of the wonderful health insurance that charges me 500 bucks a pop per non-lethal ER visit? WTF???

Rant over. Heading back to airport.

Cush? Cushman vs Maguire!

You remember when Cushman screwed Jerry Maguire? Like right before the NFL draft? Because he didn't show him the money? Ok, you get it.

You probably have all heard or seen the lunacy that is the Tom Cruise Scientology video. If not, then, come on! So Jerry O'Connell is hilarious. I don't know what else to say about this:

Lolinator

This stuff is way too funny. Give it a shot:

Lolinator

Tom Brady Top 10

Not sure how many of you have ever visited the Top 10 Kid, but he put up a hilarious top 10 list of Tom Brady facts.

Just a flavor of number 2 on the list:

2: TOM BRADY WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF KAJAGOOGOO

Flop Turn River

Has anyone run into this cool forum? FlopTurnRiver wasn't around in my forum days, but it looks like one cool site. I actually signed up today as I was looking for some ways to boost my bankroll through freerolls and bonus codes. They have an extensive list of supported sites so you can get bonus codes for most major sites, such as the Full Tilt Poker Referral Code. It's a very easy process and shows you step by step what you need to do to sign up.

I also like the fact that in these post-UIGEA hostile times they clearly list the sites that Americans can play on. Just look for the little US icon on the right.

A really cool feature is the Poker Videos section. It seems like site members can upload their videos for everyone to view and unlike some of the paid sites, this is a free feature. It's easy to sort through and find the site, limit or member name you want to see in action.

Which leads me to the Poker Forum. It's a very robust and well designed poker forum offering great section on tournaments and freeroll, member blogs, strategy, etc. If you're looking to share ideas and learn about the game through discussion, you can't go wrong here. Many forums have been suffering from a huge decline in membership and posting has become scarce, but it seems like FTR is thriving and going strong.

Give FlopTurnRiver a shot and leave comments if you're a member or if you found it useful. You can find me there as Kajagugu, as always.

Aces Cracked

Is there anything I could have done differently in this spot? I don't think so.

POKERSTARS GAME #14631606351: TOURNAMENT #73431502, $10.70+$1.00 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - MATCH ROUND I, LEVEL IV (50/100) - 2008/01/17 - 20:07:18 (ET)
Table '73431502 2' 10-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: olandex (1755 in chips)
Seat 2: paulbrk (1595 in chips)
Seat 4: Kajagugu (1545 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (2220 in chips)
Seat 10: sios_knn (3385 in chips)
alexrossUKGF: posts small blind 50
sios_knn: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [Ac As]
olandex: folds
paulbrk: folds
Kajagugu: raises 200 to 300
alexrossUKGF: folds
sios_knn: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [Td 4s 8c]
sios_knn: bets 300
Kajagugu: raises 500 to 800
sios_knn: raises 2285 to 3085 and is all-in
Kajagugu: calls 445 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Td 4s 8c] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Td 4s 8c Qc] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sios_knn: shows [Ts Qd] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Kajagugu: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
sios_knn collected 3140 from pot

When I saw his spectacular hand I called out the Queen before it came on the turn.

$3 KO Challenge (2/90 & 4/90)

So I had 3 cents left on FTP. Totally my fault for playing like an idiot and way above my bankroll. I am not too disappointed as I have been kind of in a poker funk anyway. I also have 2 $75 tokens that I am trying to figure out what to do with. My inclination right now is to put them into one of the guarantees but I am not sure yet.

So I was sitting in the Denver airport waiting for my red-eye and did a quick time calc to see that I could play the Mookie. I saw Bayne on IM and asked if he wanted to do PS$ for FTP$ trade and instead of just getting the Mookie buy-in I went for a new challenge. I got enough for 10 buy-ins to the $3 KO turbo 90 seat deep stack SNGs.

These things are insane. They play pretty much like freerolls. You can't get anyone to lay down a hand pre-flop no matter how much you bet. AKs in EP you raise 10xBB, get called by T7s who sees a KT7 flop and you're done. It's a real minefield. But that's why it's a good challenge. I obviously don't play $3 for the money. I play them to learn. About my game mostly and about other players (sometimes).

So how have I done so far? Not too bad. I've played 16 of these in the past two days. They start up fairly often and fill up quickly. And from home I can easily play in 4-6 at the same time. So out of 16 I have a 2nd and a 4th. If you want to get exact figures you have to keep track of the 50 cent bounties. Anyway, I have a 47.03% ROI. I also have two near bubbles (13 & 14 - only top 9 pay out).

I think I am going to run with these for a while and see where it goes. I like a few things about these tourneys:

1) They are super fast and only take about 2 hours to complete.
2) There are a lot of marginal situations late in the tourney because of the huge blinds.
3) The trash talking that goes on at these tables is hilariously funny.

So there you have it. If I get a bankroll going I might start playing the blogger events again. Or I might bump up the buy-in and start playing the $10 ones.

AQ hand summary

I completely understand now that my UTG bet was not a good one. I guess I was trying to get fancy or something and basically knocked myself out.

Most of the comments have been jam or fold, with the majority preferring that I jam. After thinking about it some more, I would actually tend to agree with the minority for a few reasons:

1) I am UTG and have 9 players behind me. AQo is a race at best here and getting through 9 other players is going to be tough, because most of them had more chips than me and would take the race. I assume the guy to my left would not have folded his 9s had I jammed in that spot.

2) I have been jamming a lot in the last orbit so my jam would not get much respect and I would get a caller out of the 9 players left to act.

3) Even if I fold, since we just went back to a full table I would have 4900 after the blinds got through me and can wait for a late position jam opportunity or a monster.

I am still on the fence about which would be the better move, but right now I think I would rather fold than jam.

Thanks for all the comments. It has been very helpful hearing all your opinions about this hand.

Airport bar

Yeah, I got stuck in Denver on my way home tonight. Why? Because it snowed in Atlanta and everyone freaked out and shut down the city including the airport. Idiots.

So I'm sitting at the restaurant bar and ordering some dinner. After I place my order I have this funny exchange with the barman:

Barman: Do you have any preference as to how you want your food?
Kaja: Yes, I prefer it to be delicious.

I got a free beer.

And the food was in fact delicious. Time to board the redeye. What a bad beat that is.

WWYD? (Live final 2 tables)

Not sure if anyone read my last post and question but I can't stop thinking about this hand. I would really appreciate some feedback. I am going to break it up into simple multiple choice decisions and scenarios. Here' the setup:

$70 Bounty Tourney ($20 bounties) with 89 runners (10 paid, top spot is $1K) and 3K starting stacks and the following structure:
25/50 - 20 mins
50/100
100/200
200/400
300/600
400/800
600/1200
1000/2000

We are about half way into the 400/800 level UTG with 6100 chips. The tables have just combined to 2 full tables with the final 20 players and we got 3 new players. I have a very tight image, having played about 4-5 hands up to this point. Basically folding away for almost 2 hours. In the last orbit I jammed once in the CO with A7o got folds, I then jammed on the following hand after UTG min-raised with AQo and I had AJo and doubled up on a Jack high flop, then I jammed the very next hand with pocket 9s and got everyone to fold. This brought me to 6100 chips.

UTG I get dealt AQo. I see four options here:
1) fold - I think this is wrong. This was the best hand I got dealt up to this point.
2) limp - I also think this is wrong, unless I want to get raised and then re-shove.
3) raise - The question is how much? Min-raise? 3xBB? More? I guess any raise is pot committing me anyway, because I only have 6100 to begin the hand and a re-raise would put me practically all-in.
4) jam - My M is 5 and I can just jam. This is not a bad move at all but since this has been my only move in the last orbit I think it would look weak. I think I get called more if I jam than if I raise at this point.

So my real decision at this point is whether to raise (and how much) or jam. What would you do? Both options will end in me moving all-in eventually. Right?

I decided to raise 3xBB. I think an UTG raise 3xBB from a tight player who has just jammed three times looks stronger than another jam. I think it gets more respect and defines my hand as High Ace or High Pocket Pair.

UTG+1 flat calls my 2400 raise and has about 10K+ behind. He has played a lot of drawing hands and mid-low pairs this way so I put him on mid-pair. If he had a big pair or a big ace he probably puts me all-in instead of just calling.

The rest of the table folds and the flop is KT4 rainbow. If I go with my read of a mid-pair this is a scary board for my opponent. Again I have a few options here:

1) check - If I check I can get some information on my opponent by his actions. He would have to think that any bet by him is getting called at this point. I didn't double up just to fold on this flop. But if he checks behind I am giving him a free card and I don't like that. I am also giving away the lead in the hand.
2) bet - At this point with 6000 in the pot I can't bet anything less than my full stack. Right?

What would you do at this point?

I chose to move all in. Here's my thinking:

1) If my read is right and he has a mid pair he is looking at two overs and a bet of about a third of his stack. If I am in his place I fold there.
2) If he does decided to call with a mid-pair I am not that far behind. I have 10 outs or about 40% to win the hand with any Ace, Queen or Jack.
3) He might have called with AQ or AJ- and I might actually chop or be in the lead.

He sat there and though for a long time. Both him and the guy to his left asked me to count my chips again because it looked like I had less chips. I actually stacked my chips in a way that made it look like there was more there than in reality, but even the 3700 was a big bet there. He then thought I might have AK. Then he said there's no way I am going to bluff at that point. Then he thought some more and called. He had pocket 9s and called a third of his stack against a board with two overpairs and a very tight player. I think that is a bad play on his part, but I missed all my outs and he knocked me out and took my bounty.

Do you agree that the call was bad in that spot?

Do I need to play AQo UTG a different way in order to try to make the money?

I see this is a critical hand. These are the kinds of hands that I will run into late in a tournament especially if I am very card dead and don't have a stack to work with.

What would you do?

Live Poker @ Horseshoe Council Bluffs - Part 2

I made it in time to sign up for the tourney. I don't have much to report other than to say I had absolutely no cards for the 2 hours I played in this thing. Complete card death. I only saw a pair of 9s one time when I was in shove mode and I got the table to fold. I was down to 2800 with the blinds at 300/600 and when UTG min-raised I just jammed with AJo. He had AQo and I flopped a Jack to double up and stay in it. I had enough chips to do some damage and was getting some respect from the table. One woman said that I probably only played 3-4 hands in the first hour and a half.

So when I saw AQo UTG I raised to 2400 (blinds were now 400/800 and going to 600/1200 soon). Guy to my left flat called and everyone else folded. He had been playing a lot of hands and hitting his draws. When the flop came KT4 rainbow I thought about it a little and put him on a mid pair. There is no way he would have called me with suited connectors pre-flop or a big pair or even AK. Anything like that and he puts me all-in pre-flop for my tournament life. I had only 3700 left and had three options:

1) If my read was right and he had a middle pair I can jam and get him to fold.
2) I could check and see what he does. If he bets I could check-raise or fold.
3) We might both check and see a free card.

With the blinds so high and my read on his middle pairs I was not going to check and give him the opportunity to test me. The pot had 6000 in it by now so any bet he made would commit me. I had to take the initiative and jam. He thought and thought and though some more. I knew he didn't have a King or he would have insta-called. He eventually did call with 9s and I missed any Jack, Queen or Ace (10 outs) or the board counterfeiting him with a double pair.

I was out in 20th out of 89 starters. I won no bounties. Final 10 paid with the winner taking down more than $1000.

What do you think of my play here? The only other way to play this I can think of is jamming pre-flop instead of betting 40% of my stack. The only problem there is that this had been my only move and people were just looking to call me. I think the UTG raise shows a lot more strength at that point. I only had 7.5xBB (M of 5) and would be paying the blinds next. Really not sure about this.

I think I showed tremendous patience tonight. I kept thinking about how Howard Lederer played patiently in the $100K event that he just won. I kept telling myself to just sit and wait for a spot. Not sure if this was the right way to go though.

So, in conclusion, it was a fun poker trip. I also played some 3/6 limit as the bad beat jackpot was somewhere in the 85K range and it was something I could do to kill time before the tourney started. The Horseshoe holds daily tournaments, so if you're into this sort of thing I really recommend it. The tournament director and dealers did a top notch job and kept everything flowing very well. I had a great time and still left up a little, I think.

I am looking forward to my next trip out here and the possibility of playing here again.

Live Poker @ Horseshoe Council Bluffs - Part 1

I like this poker room. It's away from the casino, so you don't have to listen to the slots machine noise and it is smoke free. 18 tables in a spacious setting with lots of TVs all around. When I walked in around midnight they had 4 tables running. I asked about No Limit and was told they had 1/3 and 2/5 going. I sat bought in for the 200 max and went to sit at the 1/3 table.

There were 6 people at the table, 2 of which just sat down. Here's the line-up:
1) Young guys with sunglasses and a HUGE stack of red chips. Probably 4-5 buy-ins.
2) Red-headed bearded mountain man looking fella. Also had a big stack of red chips, but not as big as the 1 seat.
3) Young guy, just sat down.
4) Another young guy, just sat down. These two were obviously friends.
5) Random dude who played 1 hand and went busto with KQ on a KT4 flop vs seat 3 who raised on the button with KTo and caught two pair.
6) Empty seat, then half way through the session Ace-rag playing all-in-jamming luck-sacking donkey.
7) Me
8) Empty
9) Guy with girlfriend and another massive stack including a few $25 chips.
10) Empty, then some older guy who bought in short and busted KK vs seat 2's AA.

So off we went and almost every pot gets raised by seats 1-4. It was a severely unbalanced table, with the 1-4 playing very LAG and the rest playing very TAG. I folded for two orbits and didn't even complete my SB when it was limped to me because I had 42o twice. I figured my tight image will get me some respect.

Well no it didn't. I finally look at QJs on the in the CO after it had magically been limped to me by 4 players and so I pop it to 15 and everyone calls. Nice. Flop is AKJ with two diamonds and gets checked around. There is no way I am c-betting against these guys on this board and so when the turn brings a third diamond I easily fold.

I fold for another couple of orbits and eventually look at JJ in position again. I pop it to 15 again and this time only get 3 callers. The flop is an ugly A98 with two hearts. It's checked to me and this time I figure if someone had an Ace they would have bet, so I throw in 25. I only get one caller, the 4 seat. We both check a club turn and when the river is a small spade and he checks to me I go ahead and make a 25 value bet which he does not call. He says he had a flush and straight draw, but I don't buy it. I've seen him bet his draws hard.

In fact, a hand I was not in was a great learning vehicle for me for later in the game. The 1 seat raised from the BB and the 4 seat limp-called. The flop was K high with two hearts and when the 1 seat bet out 25, the 4 seat raised to 75. The 1 seat agonized over this for a while, said he thinks the other guy flopped a set and eventually folded AK face up. The 4 seat took it down and showed his KhJh for a top pair and flush draw.

So a couple of orbits go by and I am nicely folding away until it is limped to me in the CO and I just limp along with 66. Seat 1 is the BB and raises to 12 and gets called by everyone. We see the flop 4 or 5 handed and it is a pretty KT6 with two diamonds. Seat 1 bets out 25 and it folds to me. I am not giving him an easy draw and raise to 75. He goes off about how this is exactly what happened last time. Yadda yadda yadda, how much do I have left, I put you all-in. Nice speech sir, I call hoping he doesn't have a higher set. No, he has AKo again and I double up nicely.

I don't remember many hands after that but from my initial buy-in of 200 I walked away after about an hour and a half with 473. Not bad at all.

So what do I do on the way out of the casino to my frozen car? I stop at a table game of Hold'em Poker and lose $100 in 5 minutes. I am a bankroll genius.

Anyway, I hope I get off work early enough to make the 7pm tourney tomorrow night. It's a $70 buy-in bounty ($20). You get 2500 chips but can add-on $5 for an extra 500. They say it will sell out at 100 people so I need to be there at the latest an hour before game time.

Wish me luck!

LOL

Just a random weird thought. Use previous words to decode.

LOL
ROFL
LMFAO
ROFLMFAO
ROFF (awesome)
ROFFMLAO (too much? too gay!)

I is in weird mood today. More laterz.

Post yours in comment land.

More Omaha in Omaha?

Heading for the airport to go to Omaha (yuck-o) and will probably hit the Horseshoe in Council Bluffs after I land tonight. I might try to make their 7pm bounty tourney tomorrow evening if da bidness ends early (please, please).

Any tips on 1/3 NL 200-max? That's probably what I will play if they spread it. Or 3/6 Limit. I doubt I sit in the Omaha pits with the chasing regulars and get crushed again.

Fun with Railtards

Railtard: Can someone send me a few bucks?
Kajagugu: I can only send you 91 cents.
Kajagugu: but you have to come over and clean my house first.
Railtard: min transfer is $5.
Kajagugu: So send me $5 and I will send back $5.91
Railtard: What's your deal with he 91 cents.
Kajagugu: You can't figure it out?
Kajagugu: Come clean my house and I will show you.
Railtard: I'm not cleaning your house for 91 cents.
Kajagugu: How much do you want?
Railtard: I just need a few buck, man.
Kajagugu: I can give you 91 cents now and a few bucks when you come clean my house.
Railtard: are you stupid? the min transfer is $5!!!
Kajagugu: So send me $5 and I will send back $5.91 - do the math, you get your 91 cents.
Kajagugu: but we only have a deal if you come clean my house.
Railtard: What will I do with 91 cents?!!!
Kajagugu: Whatever you like. No strings attached.
Railtard: Are you serious?
Kajagugu: Yes. Why would I not be? My house is a mess.
Railtard: I don't have $5 to send you or I wouldn't ask for a few bucks.
Kajagugu: How much do you have?
Railtard: I have nothing.
Kajagugu: And I have 91 cents. You can have them if you want.
Railtard: BUT THE MIN TRANSFER IS $5!!!
Kajagugu: I ONLY HAVE 91 CENTS!!!
Railtard: idiot
Kajagugu: lol

Mortal Nuts?

I am sofa king we Todd did (12/180, 7/180, 1/180)

If you have no idea what the title means, then just say it out loud to someone and see what they think.

So as you might recall I was going to play these $4 180-SNGs on PokerStars. It's a great tournament with a decent structure and with 20 tables it takes just around 4 hours to complete. I already wrote about cashing a couple of times and making a final table. Well, I tried my luck again yesterday (it's 7am, so it really was yesterday) and had two of these going at the same time.

I managed to cash in the both and final table one. Of course, you just have to not get unlucky in order to make it through. Unlucky as in Kings against 7s that make quads.

So here's how I busted in these two:

1) I get AKs and raise 4xBB and the big stack to my left jams. He has been raising and calling with air so there is no way I fold it. He shows JTo and flops JJ6. GG me. 12th out of 180.

2) I get AKo in the BB and the SB raises 4xBB. I shove he calls with AQs and flops the nut flush. Boom....

How stupid is that? Anyway, 7th out of 180.

OK, so to my point, why am I we Todd did? Because I hosted a home game tonight and had a bunch of guys over until around 2:30am. There's nothing to say about how badly I played and how I got chased down and beaten by flush after flush. The point I am trying to make is that I decided to fire up one of these things and play in it, starting at around 3:30am. And guess what?




Yeah, I won the thing. It took 3 1/2 hours and I am going to be so tired today, but I don't care. I set out to do it and I did. I am so damn proud of myself.

So far I've played this thing 16 times since I started the challenge and I have been ITM 5 times (31.25%), 3 final tables, 1 win and an ROI of 318.3%. Not too shabby. Total buy-ins $70.40 and net amount won is $224.08 and total won $294.48.

So how did I get it done? There were a lot of fun hands. Let's see:

That was a fun hand where I busted two players to get a stack going. I raised in MP and got a jam and a call from a shortie. Easy call and I fade all their outs. Then this:

This fool called off a lot of chips with the second nut straight. Who plays J3s out of position like that? Idiot.

I am not immune though. This tool min-raised UTG and I had seen him play very weak hands. I popped him and he jammed. It wasn't a lot more to call and I have him dominated. So what does he do? Hit all his 3 outs in a row to make quads. You just have to laugh:

Eventually with the chip lead and near the bubble I just started pounding these fools, lucko style. I didn't even notice that the bubble burst and raised with QJo on the button. SB re-popped me and I just called and saw this great flop. He min-bet the flop, so I called and made my nut straight on the turn. That's when he decides to jam his Kings into my made hand. Yes, that's him to my left, where it says "Empty Seat". That makes me an even bigger stack:


At the final table I got the same situation exactly where I busted previously with AKo vs AQs. This time I came out on top and got close to the chip leader who had been on my left through the entire FT:



Another push with A3s from a short stack and I call and take him out and now we are pretty much tied for the lead:




From here we just took out the rest of the players and got to heads up almost even in chips. We had about 135K each and the blinds were only 800/1600 so we have about 85xBB and I settled into what looked like a long heads-up battle. It didn't take long, though.

We passed the lead back and forth and I noticed that I could bully my opponent when she made weak bets and then folded to raises or re-raises. I guess all this aggression got to her and she made a really bad call for almost all her chips. When I jammed and she paused for a long time I knew I was good:



I had to fade 3 outs or running puppy toes and I did:



The next hand sealed it. She jammed her 3K it was over quickly:



Mission accomplished. Challenge completed.

Now what should I do as an encore? Should I keep playing the $4 or move up to the $10? I was going to play 20 initially, but now I am not so sure.

LOST

I used to watch LOST when it came on the air but kind of stopped somewhere in the middle of the second season. I'm thinking of picking it up again now that people are saying it got better. So here is a little freebie for all y'all. Go to Free iTunes Downloads and get the finale and complete LOST recap for free. Yes, free. No problem, you can thank me later.

WWYD? (Cash with Aces)

Let me know what you think?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4819202564: Table Glendora - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:11:32 ET - 2008/01/11
Seat 1: Lenstonbain ($54.95)
Seat 2: possborus ($19.95)
Seat 3: Pimp-N-Aces 07 ($18.35)
Seat 4: Kajagugu ($49.25)
Seat 5: dfade ($83.35)
Seat 6: swebear ($74.60)
Seat 7: Led_NepHiLim ($15.95)
Seat 8: KAZAG ($50)
Seat 9: jose005 ($50)
swebear posts the small blind of $0.25
Led_NepHiLim posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [Ac Ad]
KAZAG folds
Lenstonbain raises to $1.75 - This guys is LAG (42/16/5)
possborus folds
Pimp-N-Aces 07 folds
Kajagugu raises to $3 - Isolate and go heads-up in position
dfade folds
swebear folds
Led_NepHiLim folds
Lenstonbain calls $1.25 - Expected although I was hoping for a re-raise
*** FLOP *** [7s Qs Qd]
Lenstonbain checks
Kajagugu bets $5 - This sure is a lousy flop, I wan to see where I am
Lenstonbain has 15 seconds left to act
Lenstonbain raises to $11 - He min-raises me after a little pause. What does this mean?
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu has requested TIME
Kajagugu: KQ?
Kajagugu: AQ?
Kajagugu raises to $46.25, and is all in - I did the little speech to make it look like I might have the AQ (which is a hand I played in position earlier and lost with to AK) - Right? Wrong?
Lenstonbain has 15 seconds left to act
Lenstonbain folds
Uncalled bet of $35.25 returned to Kajagugu
Kajagugu mucks
Kajagugu wins the pot ($27.35)



Is the speech/jam effective? What would you do?

This is some crazy shit!

Imagine using a table saw and accidentally slicing off your thumb. The doctors try to reattach it but it doesn't really work well. So they have another idea. Why not shop off your big toe and reattach it to your hand instead? Sound easy enough, right? Holy shit!!! You have to see it to believe it.

I don't know about you, but that freaks me the fuck out! Why not just use a prosthetic thumb? It's not like that toe is going to have a lot of movement in the joint anyway. And just imagine how your hand is going to smell. And you can never again bite your nails. And you've got a freaking toe attached to your hand!!!!! Arghghghghgh!!!!!

What's next?

WWYD? (Final table with Queens)

Another hand from the same final table, a little earlier:

Full Tilt Poker Game #4804573025: $10 + $1 Knockout (36365026), Table 25 - 1000/2000 Ante 250 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:06:46 ET - 2008/01/10
Seat 1: Jwilson16 (35,612)
Seat 2: c-munny (35,888)
Seat 3: staceyz (55,125)
Seat 4: papamonkey (44,353)
Seat 5: vince-l-c (17,299)
Seat 8: Kajagugu (59,572)
Jwilson16 antes 250
c-munny antes 250
staceyz antes 250
papamonkey antes 250
vince-l-c antes 250
Kajagugu antes 250
staceyz posts the small blind of 1,000
papamonkey posts the big blind of 2,000
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [Qc Qd]
vince-l-c folds
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu raises to 5,850
Jwilson16 folds
c-munny folds
staceyz folds
papamonkey calls 3,850
*** FLOP *** [6d Kc 6s]
papamonkey ???
Kajagugu ???
*** TURN *** [6d Kc 6s] [5c]
papamonkey ???
Kajagugu ???
*** RIVER *** [6d Kc 6s 5c] [Td]
papamonkey ???
Kajagugu ???
*** SHOW DOWN ***
???

Here I took out all the actions. How do you play this hand after the pre/flop/turn/river?

UPDATE: Chad and Tart are right, papamonkey checked it to me and I should have made a c-bet in this spot. I figure unless he has a King he's not calling anything. But instead we just checked it down and I won the hand when he showed A8o (should change his name to papadonkey). I guess I just got skeered.

Once again, a very weak play by me.

WWYD? (Final table with Eights)

This is a hand from the final table of the $10 KO I played last night. The setup is that I had been chip leader for most of the last two hours. We finally make the final table and I lose some chips but still have a good looking stack. The villain has been playing very tight and almost every orbit when he is in the BB I get a very good hand and raise. If I was looking at this from the outside, it would certainly look like I was picking on him. He has folded most of the times and one time when he was short he jammed and I called with QQ and obviously he had Aces. So now he has a big stack, bigger than mine and he has opened up a little.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4804757092: $10 + $1 Knockout (36365026), Table 25 - 1500/3000 Ante 400 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:31:10 ET - 2008/01/10
Seat 2: c-munny (147,282)
Seat 3: staceyz (70,050)
Seat 4: Earthcloud (27,954)
Seat 5: vince-l-c (93,696)
Seat 6: POWERBYNOS (21,445)
Seat 8: Kajagugu (39,293)
Seat 9: steadyloser (91,068)
c-munny antes 400
staceyz antes 400
Earthcloud antes 400
vince-l-c antes 400
POWERBYNOS antes 400
Kajagugu antes 400
steadyloser antes 400
Earthcloud posts the small blind of 1,500
vince-l-c posts the big blind of 3,000
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [8d 8s]
POWERBYNOS folds
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu raises to 9,000
steadyloser folds
c-munny folds
staceyz folds
Earthcloud folds
vince-l-c has 15 seconds left to act
vince-l-c calls 6,000
*** FLOP *** [Ah 6d 9h]
vince-l-c checks
Kajagugu checks
*** TURN *** [Ah 6d 9h] [Ac]
vince-l-c has 15 seconds left to act
vince-l-c bets 84,296, and is all in
Kajagugu has 15 seconds left to act
Kajagugu has requested TIME

So what would you do in this spot? Should I just jam my eights instead of raising to about 1/4 of my stack? Does it look like I am trying to bully him again? Can I call this massive overbet? Why would he make this move in the first place? Is it an overbet for value?

I will post the rest of the hand after I see what you fine folks can come up with.

UPDATE: Mike is right in saying that my raise brings in a lot of other players, especially the BB into the hand. I think this is a big leak in my end game. My problem is that with a 13 BB (but an M of a little over 5) I should just jam and not get fancy. But do I have the balls to open-shove a pair of 8s here? I guess the answer is no, and there go 3 of my 13 BB with this bad raise. Bad play all around if you ask me.

and the BEATS go on.....

I was just reading through some blogs about how brutal the beats have been lately. The past two days have really taken their toll on me. Granted, I played a ton of tournaments (for me and my limited schedule), but it has been awful.

Here are some highlights (not races, but hands I was waaaaaaay ahead):

1) I ran into quads twice at the final table where I finished 6/180. TWICE!!! The last hand was a beauty where my KK ran into 77 that flopped a boat and turned quads. Sick.

2) SB vs BB I complete with 65o and BB checks. Flop 766, I check-raise and turn is a 4, BB has 44. Nice. In this tourney I was down to 413 chips in the BB (400) and came back to take the chip lead after a double (99 vs A8o), quintuple (A6o vs QQ, K2s and KJo on a fun board [4d Ks 3h 2s 5s] where they went to war on the side pot - and then another double up QQ vs JJ, so I can't really complain too much.

3) Flopped boat with 33 vs KTo (TT3 board) rivers a King. Standard. 5th hand of the tourney.

4) AK vs AQ AIPF (All-In Pre Flop), you guessed it, Queen on the river. Thank you RiverStars.

5) A7 vs A4, turn 4.

6) KK vs 99, flop 9.

7) QQ vs A4, river Ace.

8) KJ vs K3, flop 3, turn 3. Ouch! I was short, bite me.

Anyway, this has been an interesting exercise for 2 reasons:

1) I got to see that I almost always get my chips in the middle with the best of it. Most other times are just short stack shove & hope for the best.

2) I got to see a lot of hands I played that I should have played differently. I will share some and ask for your opinions later.

I guess that if I keep playing this way and getting those chips in ahead, the math will eventually work itself out for me. I guess....

Fund Raiser For TripJax

Last week we had our monthly hood poker night and the turnout was so low that we decided to run it again this week. I sent out invites to 37 people and got 7 replies. Fuckers. I guess poker is on the decline in America.

I always invite TripJax and his brother as they are not too far away, somewhere in the Carolinas or wherever people still wear feathered native American head-dress. Bro says he's coming and it would be great to see him again after we met (and took all his money) at the APBT2.

But I was disheartened to see TripJax's response. He said he can't make it because he has syphilis. I was crestfallen. If not treated, syphilis can cause serious effects such as damage to the heart, aorta, brain, eyes, and bones. In some cases these effects can be fatal. So what all these fancy words mean is that TripJax is going to die.

So we have to do something about it. And we are!

Announcing the first "Annual Nickel for TripJax Syphilis Fundraiser Poker Tournament" hosted by Kajagugu.

We will ask each participant in the next home game to donate a nickel to the fund and at the end of the night we will send all those nickels in an envelope to TripJax with his brother. I think these extra 35 cents will go a long way in helping fund his medical expenses as today's medical environment is just brutal on the wallet. And just in case he is healed, he can use these funds to buy a condom next time he's in the mood for some lovin'. We will continue raising funds for TripJax's condition for as long as he has it or until he dies, whichever comes first (no pun intended, sorry 'bout that right there).

It will be a somber evening to say the least. We are all going to play with some serious syphilis tilt and the results will not be pretty. I just hope we can work through the pain and support our dear friend.

At least he's in good company. Some very (un?)important people have been suspected of having syphilis or even dying from it. Among them are Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, Howard Hughes, Nietzsche , Lenin and even Ivan the Terrible. This is all based on information I gathered from Wikipedia, so as Michael Scott of "The Office" says, you know it's the most current and accurate information out there because it is gathered and posted by random people from all over the world. When people come together, great things can happen (damn that pun again. Not intended. Again).

If you would like to support this important cause and help a brotha' out, feel free to send nickels to:

Syphilis Nickels for TripJax
c/o TripJax
5 Yphilis Way
S. Philly, PA

* Please don't send any money. This is clearly a joke.

Masochism (6/180, 11/547)

One of the questions Mookie asks in his champion profile is: Between Nihilism and Masochism, which do you think better describes why you play poker? I think this is a rhetorical question. If we were not masochists, we would not play this game. This painful, hurtful, disgusting game that rips our beating hearts out of our chests, takes a big old bloody bite and throws the rest to the dogs.

I played a ton of tournaments in the past few days. I can't even begin to count the number of times I went in good just to see the river drop a 2/3-outer on my ass. Time after time after time. It was the most aggravating bunch of shit I have ever encountered in such a short time span. I have no idea how some people do this on a daily basis for a living.

Even though I am pretty much desensitized to the beats by now and just laugh it off, it is just amazing to me. Obviously, the fact that I played so many tourneys and saw so many hands make it seem like the beats are closer together and more than usual, but really they are not. I have seen the same beats live. Only difference is that I can only play one tourney live while online I played as many as 8 at one point.

So how did I do? I busted early in the Mookie playing wild and loose. TheCloser dacided to go to war in the blinds for 1/2 his stack with A7 against my 55 and of course I am the unluckiest man alive and can't win a race to save my life. Bad call Closer. Sorry, but it was. Dookie Razz was therapeutic and nothing more.

I made a very deep run in the $10 buy-in KO on FTP. I came in 11th of 547 runners and managed to get 11 bounties along the way. On the way I managed to get my AK into a spot where a shortie chased his flush to the river that gave me trip Kings. Then I started picking up QQ every third hand it seemed. This was obviously not going to end well and I doubled another shortie in the SB who got Aces. Standard.

I have played a few of the $4 180-SNG on PokerStars. That site is just full of idiots. It has to be. If you have 150K people at the tables, you are going to see a lot of poor play. You just have to maneuver around it somehow. The last two I played tonight I managed to cash in both. 18th and 6th. Not bad, but I wanted the win. Problem was my KK ran into quad 7s. The quads guy also cracked Aces two hands before when he rivered a set of Jacks. Standard.

Anyway, I have a bunch of interesting hands and situations to discuss, but since it is a little late I will eave that for another time.

Catch you later, masochists.

So True

If somebody out there is not a regular viewer of HIMYM (How I Met Your Mother) then something is wrong with you people. The writing is so good and on point that it just makes you stop and think "how true". Case in point, the hot/crazy scale:



Tell me this is not true. I want to see you try.

Oh and while we're on the subject, if you're not watching "30 Rock" just shoot yourself right now.

So this is why they call it the MATH

As soon as the MATH was ITM they did a 4 way even chop:

MiamiDon: I'm bored to tears
MiamiDon: I'd chop
MiamiDon: in a heartbeat
MiamiDon: I have no ego
InstantTragedy (Observer): No trip on the line...
Mike_Maloney: I'm okay with a chop
Mike_Maloney: I'd rather go to bed
HighOnPoker: im in
Kajagugu (Observer): the anti-climax
InstantTragedy (Observer): 150 appeace
InstantTragedy (Observer): KAJA!
Astin: 4-way chop, huh?
MiamiDon: lets chop then
Mike_Maloney: You in Astin?
Astin: sure
Mike_Maloney: cool
HighOnPoker: done
Kajagugu (Observer): this is so pathetic
MiamiDon: someone do math to who sends what
HighOnPoker: haha
HighOnPoker: this is poker
InstantTragedy (Observer): 1 will send 90 to 4th 2nd will send
30 to 3rd
Astin: boredom at the Hoy :)
Kajagugu (Observer): this is the begining of the end of
blogamments
InstantTragedy (Observer): Kaja... relax...
HighOnPoker: come on, kaja
MiamiDon: chop is real life man
Kajagugu (Observer): lol
HighOnPoker: this is the reality of poker
HighOnPoker: haha
MiamiDon: happens in all tourneys
HighOnPoker: someone do the math
HighOnPoker: whats the breakdown
Mike_Maloney: IT did
InstantTragedy (Observer): I did it already
InstantTragedy (Observer): 600 4 ways is 150
MiamiDon: who sends who what
Kajagugu (Observer): IT is a MATH geek
ck31 (Observer): it's easy
InstantTragedy (Observer): 1st will send 90 to 4th
MiamiDon: its not hat easy
ck31 (Observer): first place sends $90 to fourth place
InstantTragedy (Observer): 2nd will send 30 to 3rd
ck31 (Observer): second place sends $30 to third place
InstantTragedy (Observer): so whoever wins sends 90 to Mike
InstantTragedy (Observer): Jordan send 90 to Mike
HighOnPoker (Observer): ok
MiamiDon (Observer): who sends what
ck31 (Observer): jordan $90 to mike
InstantTragedy (Observer): Don send 30 to Astin
Mike_Maloney (Observer): Don you send $30 to Astin
ck31 (Observer): don $30 to astin
Astin (Observer): there's the math
Astin (Observer): gg all
HighOnPoker (Observer): done
HighOnPoker (Observer): gg
Mike_Maloney (Observer): Thanks Jordan
HighOnPoker (Observer): the pleasure is all mine
MiamiDon (Observer): so I send astin $30?
Mike_Maloney (Observer): Yes
Astin (Observer): yup
MiamiDon (Observer): tell hoy
ck31 (Observer): you guys are too nice
MiamiDon (Observer): 4 way chop
moondrops (Observer): not 30
MiamiDon (Observer): get the money right
moondrops (Observer): 20
Astin (Observer): 30
Astin (Observer): 600 4-ways
Astin (Observer): 150
Astin (Observer): 180-30 = 150
Astin (Observer): 120+30 = 150
InstantTragedy (Observer): I am NOT special OLYMPICS bound
InstantTragedy (Observer): I was right Dammit Janet
MiamiDon (Observer): sent
Astin (Observer): yes you were
Astin (Observer): moondrops however...
MiamiDon (Observer): gg all
Astin (Observer): gg

You can't make this shiz up! Good job guys.