Sometimes re-buys go good and other times they can hurt you.  Bonerack’s hosted another $20 buy-in last night.  I played recklessly horrible (sometimes reckless pays off) and while I won a few smaller pots, I never won any significant pots.  By the end of the night I spent $60 and was out in second place.  I’m very disappointed in myself.
What really hurt me was three times I picked a pot to be mine and three times I went up against  someone who had a made hand (or at least wouldn’t budge off their cards).  The end of my night actually …read more

Pete was gracious enough to host yet another poker night.  I always have fun on the felt, unfortunately my play was only up to 5 days past the sell by date standards.  Before I get into the happenings, let me go over the core group you can almost always count on at Pete’s.  The below summaries are my overall observations of the players having played with them at least 7 or 8 times.  (Names have been distorted.)
Tim – Tim started off as a notable novice and often walked away frustrated after a short night of cards or multiple buy-ins.  He …read more

I made two extremely crucial wrong decisions in the poker game.  Here is the scenario of the first (or at least my best memory).  I wake up with pocket aces in the big blind.  The person directly after me calls.  I get a raise from the last person in the hand.  So three players in the hand.  Blinds were at 300-600 and he makes it 2,000.  I smooth call.  Other caller does as well.  Flop comes out semi scary for straight possibilities.  I believe it was 865.  I check.  Player 2 goes all in for $8,000.  Player 3 calls.  I …read more

I have about two weeks worth of blogs from the game last night.  I even took some pictures to give you some visuals of the 4 1/2 hour marathon.  Usually the game only lasts 3 hours give or take but this one was a much longer affair.  I finished fourth and the game ended about 30 minutes after I was knocked out.  We started at 10 players.  I played well overall, but misplayed a few major hands and I believe it cost me the tournament.  Some players may have been card dead but I was catching monsters all over and …read more