Ok.. if you laughed at that you have a sick sense of humor. Just like me! Click the image to check out “Married To The Sea”. I’ve been having a blast reading through the archives.

Have a look at this searchable database of wallpapers taken from 4chan’s /w/ and /wg/ boards. Pretty amazing stuff.

http://suigintou.desudesudesu.org/4scrape/

I played in a $55 +5 +5 tourney today at the Yellowhead Casino in Edmonton. The extra $5 is for the house, and the other extra $5 is an optional 1000 extra chips (which everyone took). I placed 4th and took $285. Not bad for my first tourney there. On the last hand I was the low stack at the table and pushed pre-flop with pocket 6′s. The small blind called me with AKos, and hit a king on the flop. That’s all I can ask for I guess, I got my money in with the best hand.

I’ll definitely have to enter this tournament again, it was a lot of fun.

I am playing a small cash game on full tilt right now, and just had a near perfect scenario happen.

I’ve also been playing around with a site I found recently which is really cool..  pokerhand.org allows you to post hand histories from all sorts of different poker sites. It parses the information and displays the hand in an easy to look at fashion. Check out this hand!

In this twitter-esque post, I’m writing to tell you that I’ve updated my backloggery page to reflect the reborn state of my pc now that it’s been cured of it’s swine-flu (also known as Bioshock). I also added a few new games that I’m “now playing” even though I have done nothing but play poker in the recent weeks.

I entered into a 36 man shootout tourney tonight that was a satellite for the $500 buyin, $2,500,000 FTOPS Main Event. Top place wins a seat, second place gets $41, and third and down get nothing. I won, and I now have a seat to the FTOPS Main Event on the 14th. I’m stoked!

There’s going to be quite a few Full Tilt poker pros playing in it, including Jennifer Harman, and 7 others (so far). Should be a good time.

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Today…. Today was a good day. I entered into a $20,000 freeroll tournament last week, and the tournament was today. The tourney was for Canadians only, and only those who had bought in on full tilt for the first time in april. When I read this the first time I thought “man… that can’t be a very big player field”. Turns out I was right, and was surprised to see only 318 entrants at the beginning of the tourney. I came late, we all started with 1500 chips and I was down to 1260.

I slowly but surely built my way up, and made the money, which was top 90 players, and paid $80. At this point I had about chip average and was feeling pretty good. I kept on building my stack until I was chip leader with over 40k in chips. At this point there were only three tables left or so and I was poised to make the final table easily.

Poker has it’s ups and downs though and I ended up swinging up and down a bit, and eventually getting down to the final table with only about 20k in chips. The chip leader had roughly 120k at that time. I ended up losing all my chip with two pair to a better two pair. I pocketed $300 which is pretty awesome, but disappointing in itself because the money on the final table is very good, with 1st place taking $3600.

Right afterwards I sat myself down at a $.50/$1 table and promptly lost my full $100 stack with a set over set. Well that sucked…

So I entered into another tourney. I bought in at a 27 player $20 +$2 sit-n-go.  I was short stacked right from the beginning after losing a 3rd of my chip stack in the 1st hand I played. I was not able to make things work and ended up just barely hanging on to reach the final table. To give you an idea of just how short stacked I was.. I started the tourney with 1500 in chips, and made the final table with 620. I was very pleased to not be the bubble boy (the last person out before the money) until I realized that only the top 5 pay, not the full final table.  I doubled up a couple times and felt comfortable enough to start playing my game. I worked at it and played very well, building my stack up to the chip lead with over 10k in chips. When there were only 7 of us left I took two players out in one hand to give myself a 2-1 chip lead over anyone else at the table. I said “you’re welcome fellers” to the remaining players as a joke because they had all just made the money because of the last hand. :)

When heads up started I had a huge chip lead. Something like 32k to 9k. We swung back and forth for a bit, and he eventually went all in for his last 9k. I called with a J 4 offsuit, and he hit two pair on the flop (queens and nines). I went runner runner 4′s on the turn and river to win. Even if I had doubled him up I would have still had a chip lead and I’m confident I would have won. Admittedly I got really lucky on a few hands, but that’s bound to happen in any tourney.

I played a Sit-N-Go on Wednesday. The buy-in was $3 +$0.50, and there were 45 players. I took 1st place and won $59. Yay me!

I also played a couple really good poker hands online this week.. here they are.

Hand 1 (Friday afternoon):

I held 3 3, he held 8 5.

I was first to act and tripled the big blind before the flop and he called.

Flop came down 2 5 5, and I bet out three times the big blind. He called.

Turn was a 3. This is an interesting card because it improved my hand to a full house, and looks like a brick to him. We both probably thought we had the best hand, and he didn’t seem to be scared of the straight because I raised pre-flop. I bet out again, 5 times the big blind, and he called. I’m not sure why he didn’t raise me here. With the possibility of a straight, full house, and two different flush draws, you’re better off to raise to see where you sit. If I call the raise or re-raise he would know that his trips are probably beat.

The river came down a 3. Jackpot! The only hand that could beat mine would be pocket fives, and I definitely didn’t put him on that because he was just calling the whole way. This is a great card for me because it also improves his hand to a full house, primed and ready to lose his chips. I bet out ten times the big blind, and he raised all in. I called and felted him.

Quad threes screenshot here

Hand 2 (Today):

I held A K. He raised 7 times the big blind pre-flop and I called.

The flop came down A 2 K. He bet out 7 times the big blind and I called.

Turn card was a K. He checked and I did the same behind him.

River was a 5. He bet out ten times the big blind, and I min raised him. He re-raised all in. I thought about it for a second, thinking it would be sickening if he had held aces the whole way. but I can’t see him checking the turn if he has aces. I called and felted him. He held a measly A Q. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t raise on the flop, I might have won the pot too early.. although I was really surprised to see his hand.. why would he think he was good? Maybe he was trying to bluff, but he can’t expect to bluff me when I cam calling 7 times the big blind.. *shrug*..

I love donkeys. Especially when they help me win a pot worth nearly $100.

Kings full of aces screenshot here