San Mateo County Poker Meetup Group

This past week, I found out about The San Mateo County Poker Meetup Group a local group of guys that get together once a month to play different poker games. I joined the group and on Tuesday we all met up for a 7 Card Stud Tournament. It was a good group of guys and it was fun to play another form of poker besides Hold Em. I've added a link to the left sidebar so if anyone reads this they can find out about other Poker Meetup groups in their area. See you at the tables.

ESPN Omaha

I played some Omaha tonight. Started at $500, ended at $17,000. Holla!

One way to crack Aces

Check me out. I have the Kings (of course). Flop reads from right to left (must be our Asian blood). 

Hand History

Been playing PartyPoker, check out this hand history for $25 NL Hold Em. Why can't this happen more often, when I have more money?

***** Hand History for Game 1893032377 *****
mmtheprodigy has left the table.
0/0 TexasHTGameTable (NL) - Thu Apr 14 05:08:19 EDT 2005
Table Table 37172 (6 max) (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: TMCtitan ( $24.75)
Seat 2: spiritfound ( $47.75)
Seat 3: Gsolis31 ( $16.7)
Seat 6: thegahi ( $74.82)
Gsolis31 posts small blind (0.1)
thegahi posts big blind (0.25)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Gsolis31 [ 9c, Tc ]
TMCtitan calls (0.25)
spiritfound calls (0.25)
Gsolis31 calls (0.15)
thegahi checks.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7c, 8c, Qh ]
Gsolis31 checks.
thegahi bets (0.25)
TMCtitan calls (0.25)
spiritfound calls (0.25)
Gsolis31 calls (0.25)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Jc ]
Gsolis31 checks. (Jackpot! Now I'm just waiting for someone to bet out)
thegahi bets (0.25)
TMCtitan calls (0.25)
spiritfound raises (1) to 1
Gsolis31 calls (1) (Excellent, please, someone overcall!)
thegahi calls (0.75)
TMCtitan calls (0.75)
** Dealing River ** : [ Qd ]
Gsolis31 bets (4) (Eh, a scare card for everyone else, I thought I wouldn't get paid off)
thegahi folds.
TMCtitan folds.
spiritfound raises (10) to 10
Gsolis31 raises (11.2) to 15.2
Gsolis31 is all-In.
spiritfound calls (5.2)
Creating Main Pot with $34.6 with Gsolis31
** Summary **
Main Pot: $34.6 | | Rake: $1.8
Board: [ 7c 8c Qh Jc Qd ]
TMCtitan balance $23.25, lost $1.5 (folded)
spiritfound balance $31.05, lost $16.7 [ 8d Qc ] [ a full house, Queens full of eights -- Qc,Qh,Qd,8d,8c ]
Gsolis31 balance $34.6, bet $16.7, collected $34.6, net +$17.9 [ 9c Tc ] [ a straight flush, jack high -- Jc,Tc,9c,8c,7c ]
thegahi balance $73.32, lost $1.5 (folded)

Goob can't have all the fun

Check out this hand. Flop reads right to left. I gots the A7. 

Artichoke Joe's 4-13-05

Yesterday I finally got to use my 2nd freeroll and was hoping to continue my pattern of moving up spots, but it was not to be. I didn't get a lot of great starting hands, won a decent pot with AQ early on but as the blinds started to go up I had to keep throwing away marginal hands. Some hands that did hit I had to chop. Took a gamble once with A3 in the BB with just the SB playing. Flopped a gut shot, checked through, with a Jack on the turn the SB goes all in for 75 more and the blinds right now were at 60-100. So with a 275 pot I put in the 75 to call assuming he had the Jack and hoping that my gutshot with a hopefully live overcard would come through but I lost when a blank hit (now calculating this I was a 5.25-to-1 dog to make the winning hand so it wasn't the greatest gamble but at the time I thought he might also be making a desperation bet with overcards so that Ace high might also have been good). I had to keep folding hands and pretty soon I only had 200 in chips left. I was waiting for any decent hand to raise all-in as every one seemed pretty tight, trying to survive. I finally got 77 and raised all-in to $200 UTG, the SB reraised to clear the field and he turned over AQs as the cards were dealt. I usually have no race luck at the tourneys so I lost to his flush on the turn. Aside from my one stupid gamble not much else I could have done differently so I'll wait till next time for the better gambles.

Artichoke Joe's 3-22-05

Another late post. So this tournament was the first freeroll I got to enjoy. On our way to the tournament, my friend and I were discussing the merits of low pocket pairs and had come to the (more or less conventional) conlusion that with JJ's or lower, a limp is the best strategy with a large field and with no set on the flop, get ready to jump ship. First hand, 44 UTG, I limp and thankfully get no raises. On the flop I get my set and of course check it through since there was an Ace and someone in LP bets, I just call to induce some overcalls and get one more. On the turn I lead out, LP bettor raises, I reraise, and he reraises back. I simply call, perhaps could have reraised him back but thoughts of a bad beat and also wanting to conceal my hand a bit made me go with the call. On the river, the board pairs, I lead and get a crying call, I show my 4's Full, he shows down AQ. I was up huge and couple hands later in the BB I flop two pair and manage to get more bets. I lose a bit later with pocket Ten's against pocket Queens but I manage to survive and in the end squeak out a 2nd place win for another freeroll and points for the Freeroll Tournament later this year.