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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Say what you will.....
Tiffany Michele is not a good poker player. I was watching the WSOP tonight and what I noticed is that Tiffany thought she was much better than she was. I know that what they show on TV is not indicitave of how they play, but she runs her mouth quite a bit when whe should just shut up. And now I saw it all. She just called the clock on a guy that was playing for 12 million chips. Why?
Now I just saw her go broke on a hand where she held A J off suit on a flop of A 9 8. Why? She is terrible.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Now I just saw her go broke on a hand where she held A J off suit on a flop of A 9 8. Why? She is terrible.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Almost there....
Hey folks, it certainly has been a while. I was considering ending my very short tenure as a blogger, but then decided to give it another go. See, the vast majority of my life as of late has been consumed with my wedding, which is right around the corner. I leave for wonderful Las Vegas in exactly 2 weeks from today and get married to the future mother of my children 2 weeks from Saturday. I can not stress enough just how unbelievably lucky I am. Dayna is the most caring, beautiful women that I have ever met. Why she is marrying me is a question that I will ponder for the rest of my being.
We are getting married at the Flamingo gardens and having a little cocktail reception at the Garden bar in the Flamingo afterwards. Any of you out there that might actually read this and are going to be in Vegas at the time, feel free to stop by and say hi and I will buy you a beer. On Sunday we leave Las vegas and start our honeymoon. I am so excited for this. We are flying to Vegas one way and renting a car to drive back to MN. We will first be heading to the Grand Canyon and staying a night there. Then we drive to Bryce canyon to see that park and stay the night there. The next leg is up to Grand Teton National park where we will be staying in Jackson Hole WY. For 3 nights. This is the part of the trip that I am probably looking the most forward to. Other than Las Vegas, Dayna and I have never been to any of the the places we are going on our honeymoon. We have always wanted to visit the national parks out west. I have wanted to go to the Tetons for a very long time and have just never done it. After the 3 days in Jackson Hole, we are heading to Deadwood SD for 2 nights to vist Mt. Rushmore and the rest of the badlands. Then we head home to Minneapolis. If any of you out there have been to any of these places and have some advise on what to do, I am all ears. We are just going to wing it for now and figure out what we want to do once we get there.
On another note, I am still playing some poker with rather poor results which is probably why I haven't posted in a while. I will be playing quite a bit more, once the whole wedding thing has come and gone. Until then I will try to post when I get a decent idea in my head, or when I actually have some poker content to discuss.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
We are getting married at the Flamingo gardens and having a little cocktail reception at the Garden bar in the Flamingo afterwards. Any of you out there that might actually read this and are going to be in Vegas at the time, feel free to stop by and say hi and I will buy you a beer. On Sunday we leave Las vegas and start our honeymoon. I am so excited for this. We are flying to Vegas one way and renting a car to drive back to MN. We will first be heading to the Grand Canyon and staying a night there. Then we drive to Bryce canyon to see that park and stay the night there. The next leg is up to Grand Teton National park where we will be staying in Jackson Hole WY. For 3 nights. This is the part of the trip that I am probably looking the most forward to. Other than Las Vegas, Dayna and I have never been to any of the the places we are going on our honeymoon. We have always wanted to visit the national parks out west. I have wanted to go to the Tetons for a very long time and have just never done it. After the 3 days in Jackson Hole, we are heading to Deadwood SD for 2 nights to vist Mt. Rushmore and the rest of the badlands. Then we head home to Minneapolis. If any of you out there have been to any of these places and have some advise on what to do, I am all ears. We are just going to wing it for now and figure out what we want to do once we get there.
On another note, I am still playing some poker with rather poor results which is probably why I haven't posted in a while. I will be playing quite a bit more, once the whole wedding thing has come and gone. Until then I will try to post when I get a decent idea in my head, or when I actually have some poker content to discuss.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Its all right buddy, everyone knows each other here.
Hello people. I am back from a well deserved relaxing vacation to the cabin. What can I say about it other than it might be my favorite week of the entire year. Fishing was slow but the weather was great. Wednesday night is the night that my fiance, my sister-in law, my brother, and myself, go to a small casino up north and play in there little tourney. This year my bro couldn't make the trip north due to work so it was just me and the girls.
The play in this tournament is by far the worst I have ever experianced in a casino run game. I had told my fiance that I was either going broke early or winning the thing. So this tourney is a 30 dollar buy in with a 10 dollar one time add on for the first hour. I always opt to take the add on right away. I hate playing short stacked, mostly because I am not that good at it, but also I do not see the point of putting yourself at an immediate disadvantage by not taking it. So as we are seeted waiting for this goofy thing to start, the tourney director asked if anyone from my table would be interested in moving to another table to even out the tables. I took a look at the other table and saw that the 5 seat and the 10 seat were available. I raised my hand and moved to the 5 seat on the short table. As I sit down the dealer tells me that the 5 seat is taken and the only availabe seat is the 10. I hate the 10 seat. I kind of tilt just by being so dumb as to move from a table where I had the 3 seat to a table where I had to sit in the crappiest seat at the table. Stupid me. As I sit there, cursing my stupidity, I realize that this douch had me switch to fill up a table and leave my previous table short. What the hell kind of sense does that make?
Anyways the game gets under way and I am playing super aggro, realizing that these people are not the best players in the world. I steal about every 4th or 5th hand I kid you not. I lose a couple raises when I actually run into hands and then one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen at a poker table happens. There is a pot going on where one person is all in and he has two callers. This one jackass who thinks he is a serious player because he wears a huge cowboy hat and big belt buckle to the game, is in the 3 seat. He has called the all in along with another young kid. The flop comes out, and cowboy douch bets into the dry side pot. This is not whats funny, whats funny is when the DEALER, looks at him and says, "Jim, I sure hope you have something if you are betting into a dry side pot." What? there is still another guy to act in the hand. Before I can say something, Jim, aka cowboy douch starts having a conversation with the dealer about what is going on in the hand and what he thinks the other 2 are holding. Remember this is right in the middle of the hand and he is discussing this with the DEALER. I can not contain myself. As I interupt and tell both the dealer and cowboy douch that you really should not be discussing this hand, cowboy douch cuts me off and says " Its all right buddy, everyone knows each other here." I almost laughed. I said "listen Jim, you don't know me and I don't know you so how about we play by the damn rules." Apparently the floor overheard and decided to come over to our table. Things settled down after that and I continued to steal pots for about a half an hour. I kid you not in the first hour my best hand was KQ off.
After the first break I was at 4500. We started with 3000, as long as you bought the add on. About 5 minutes into the second level I picked up 1010 out of the BB. 3 people call so I raise it up 3 times. I get one caller. The flop comes down AA2. I find it hard to believe this guy has an ace, since he just called on the button. The turn is yet another ace. This is where the hands gets funny. I bet he raises and I push. I have him coverd by about 2000. He actually thinks for about 30 seconds. During this 30 second slow roll, old cowboy douche pipes up. Here is what he says, " show him that ace so he know who he is messing with. BAHHAHAHAHAH. I litterally laughed out loud. The guy calls and I show my tens, and he shows A6 for quads. After the hand I look aver at cowboy and he says, "thats how its done." Really? How whats done? what did that guy do that made that hand so great. He played A6 to a raise which is questionable at best and spiked a board with 3 aces. Nothing to spectaculer there I don't think.
So after that funny episode our table breaks and I am sent to a table with a short stack. At this point I am sick of playing this tourney and would like to get into the cash game thats going on. The first hand I see is 10J off suit, with the J of hearts. I call along with 3 others the flop is a beutiful thing. 8910 all of pretty little hearts. I have top pair with an open ended straight flush draw. First guy bets and I push with my short stack. The other two fold an the original better calls. What does he call with you might ask? A5 off suit with the 5 of hearts. Do you believe that. No hand and is drawing to a 5 high flush. Of cousre what happens? The turn comes 5 and the river comes 5. Unbelievable! I am out 27th out of 47 players. It was by far the worst tourney experience I have ever had and I am not sure if I will play again next year now that I know that "everyone know each other there." I did manage to take 130 dollars profit from the cash game and another 100 dollars from the blackjack table, so overall it was a profitable night.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
The play in this tournament is by far the worst I have ever experianced in a casino run game. I had told my fiance that I was either going broke early or winning the thing. So this tourney is a 30 dollar buy in with a 10 dollar one time add on for the first hour. I always opt to take the add on right away. I hate playing short stacked, mostly because I am not that good at it, but also I do not see the point of putting yourself at an immediate disadvantage by not taking it. So as we are seeted waiting for this goofy thing to start, the tourney director asked if anyone from my table would be interested in moving to another table to even out the tables. I took a look at the other table and saw that the 5 seat and the 10 seat were available. I raised my hand and moved to the 5 seat on the short table. As I sit down the dealer tells me that the 5 seat is taken and the only availabe seat is the 10. I hate the 10 seat. I kind of tilt just by being so dumb as to move from a table where I had the 3 seat to a table where I had to sit in the crappiest seat at the table. Stupid me. As I sit there, cursing my stupidity, I realize that this douch had me switch to fill up a table and leave my previous table short. What the hell kind of sense does that make?
Anyways the game gets under way and I am playing super aggro, realizing that these people are not the best players in the world. I steal about every 4th or 5th hand I kid you not. I lose a couple raises when I actually run into hands and then one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen at a poker table happens. There is a pot going on where one person is all in and he has two callers. This one jackass who thinks he is a serious player because he wears a huge cowboy hat and big belt buckle to the game, is in the 3 seat. He has called the all in along with another young kid. The flop comes out, and cowboy douch bets into the dry side pot. This is not whats funny, whats funny is when the DEALER, looks at him and says, "Jim, I sure hope you have something if you are betting into a dry side pot." What? there is still another guy to act in the hand. Before I can say something, Jim, aka cowboy douch starts having a conversation with the dealer about what is going on in the hand and what he thinks the other 2 are holding. Remember this is right in the middle of the hand and he is discussing this with the DEALER. I can not contain myself. As I interupt and tell both the dealer and cowboy douch that you really should not be discussing this hand, cowboy douch cuts me off and says " Its all right buddy, everyone knows each other here." I almost laughed. I said "listen Jim, you don't know me and I don't know you so how about we play by the damn rules." Apparently the floor overheard and decided to come over to our table. Things settled down after that and I continued to steal pots for about a half an hour. I kid you not in the first hour my best hand was KQ off.
After the first break I was at 4500. We started with 3000, as long as you bought the add on. About 5 minutes into the second level I picked up 1010 out of the BB. 3 people call so I raise it up 3 times. I get one caller. The flop comes down AA2. I find it hard to believe this guy has an ace, since he just called on the button. The turn is yet another ace. This is where the hands gets funny. I bet he raises and I push. I have him coverd by about 2000. He actually thinks for about 30 seconds. During this 30 second slow roll, old cowboy douche pipes up. Here is what he says, " show him that ace so he know who he is messing with. BAHHAHAHAHAH. I litterally laughed out loud. The guy calls and I show my tens, and he shows A6 for quads. After the hand I look aver at cowboy and he says, "thats how its done." Really? How whats done? what did that guy do that made that hand so great. He played A6 to a raise which is questionable at best and spiked a board with 3 aces. Nothing to spectaculer there I don't think.
So after that funny episode our table breaks and I am sent to a table with a short stack. At this point I am sick of playing this tourney and would like to get into the cash game thats going on. The first hand I see is 10J off suit, with the J of hearts. I call along with 3 others the flop is a beutiful thing. 8910 all of pretty little hearts. I have top pair with an open ended straight flush draw. First guy bets and I push with my short stack. The other two fold an the original better calls. What does he call with you might ask? A5 off suit with the 5 of hearts. Do you believe that. No hand and is drawing to a 5 high flush. Of cousre what happens? The turn comes 5 and the river comes 5. Unbelievable! I am out 27th out of 47 players. It was by far the worst tourney experience I have ever had and I am not sure if I will play again next year now that I know that "everyone know each other there." I did manage to take 130 dollars profit from the cash game and another 100 dollars from the blackjack table, so overall it was a profitable night.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Friday, June 20, 2008
Vacation
I am off to beutiful northern Minnesota tomorrow for a week for some fishing, a little bit of poker and a whole lot of relaxation. I will be playing a Wednesday night tourney at one of the small casinos up there. Last year I finished 5th. Hoping for a win this year as the play is absolutly horrible. I will post a report when I return. Here's to everyone having fun and safe week. See you in a week.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
So this is what it has come to.
I have not been playing hardly any poker as of late. So last night I decided to fire up stars and donk around in there sattalite section. I chose a 50FPP hundred person shootout to one of the million dollar tourneys. My first table was incredibly tight. Which I soon used to my advantage. You could be fairly certain that if anyone at this table reraised you they had a monster. So I stole a lot of pots and eventually got heads up with a 5 to 1 chip advantage. My opponent managed to chip up a little by pushing a lot of flops where I had wiffed. I eventually took down table one when he flat called pre flop and I checked my option with 10 3 suited. The flop came down 10 6 3 rainbow. I checked he bet around 2/3 pot. I pushed and he called with A 10 suited. His play here really baffled me. Up until this point in heads up he never slow played any ace. Anyway I won the first table with only one to go.
The final table started kind of rough for me. On the second hand I was dealt AK. I raise, only to see 3 callers. The flop was interesting to say the least, KQ10. I really was not that excited about my hand. The first player to act bet pot and the other 2 folded. I was not sure what I was thinking but I decided to raise to find out where I am at and of course he comes over the top all in. I thought for about a second and decided there is very little I can beat here. I fold. Now I am down from the starting stack of 1500 to a little less than 1100. A few orbitz go by and I pick up a few pots, mostly with steals, when the perverbial axe came crashing down on me. I pick up AA in the small blind. The player in the cutoff makes it 350 to go. It folds to me and I have about 1700 in chips, which happens to be the second shortest stack at this point. I decide to push against this player knowing that he does not need much to call. He is an action guy, loves to gamble. So as predicted he calls and turns up JJ. The flop comes down all blanks, as does the turn, thats when I looked at the screen just in time to see the jack spike on the river and IGH in 6th out of 100. Now I know that the odds are not very good that you are going to win a seat when only 1 out of 100 gets one, but as soon as I was at the final table for a few orbitz I knew I was a better player than the rest of the table.
The reason for the title of this post is because I can't help but think back to a time not to long ago where I would not have given two shits about a tournament like this, but last night I was generally mad about how it turned out. Just a couple short years ago I was making a decent amount of money online and never even thought to play a 50FPP sat. I guess I will just have to start over again once things on the homefront are taken care of. The only thing is that if I knew now what I knew back then, I would still have a fair sum in my online account. Thats not to say that I pissed the money away. I just didn't know much about bankroll management back then. I would take out money and buy stuff. Stuff that I needed at the time, stuff that I didn't need. Oh well, I guess you live and you learn.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
The final table started kind of rough for me. On the second hand I was dealt AK. I raise, only to see 3 callers. The flop was interesting to say the least, KQ10. I really was not that excited about my hand. The first player to act bet pot and the other 2 folded. I was not sure what I was thinking but I decided to raise to find out where I am at and of course he comes over the top all in. I thought for about a second and decided there is very little I can beat here. I fold. Now I am down from the starting stack of 1500 to a little less than 1100. A few orbitz go by and I pick up a few pots, mostly with steals, when the perverbial axe came crashing down on me. I pick up AA in the small blind. The player in the cutoff makes it 350 to go. It folds to me and I have about 1700 in chips, which happens to be the second shortest stack at this point. I decide to push against this player knowing that he does not need much to call. He is an action guy, loves to gamble. So as predicted he calls and turns up JJ. The flop comes down all blanks, as does the turn, thats when I looked at the screen just in time to see the jack spike on the river and IGH in 6th out of 100. Now I know that the odds are not very good that you are going to win a seat when only 1 out of 100 gets one, but as soon as I was at the final table for a few orbitz I knew I was a better player than the rest of the table.
The reason for the title of this post is because I can't help but think back to a time not to long ago where I would not have given two shits about a tournament like this, but last night I was generally mad about how it turned out. Just a couple short years ago I was making a decent amount of money online and never even thought to play a 50FPP sat. I guess I will just have to start over again once things on the homefront are taken care of. The only thing is that if I knew now what I knew back then, I would still have a fair sum in my online account. Thats not to say that I pissed the money away. I just didn't know much about bankroll management back then. I would take out money and buy stuff. Stuff that I needed at the time, stuff that I didn't need. Oh well, I guess you live and you learn.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Long time, no post.
I guess I am not very good at this bloggning thing yet. It has been over a week since my last post. To be truthful, not much has been going on in my poker world lately. Other than the sat, I won to get me to the WSOP finals on Stars. Thats kind of exciting. I have options on when to use the ticket I won. I am not sure when I will play but I will for sure search for softest of the finals. Wish me luck.
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Lets see, what else has been going on? I had an awesome memorial day weekend. Every year, my brothers, Dad, and a couple of freinds always go up to the whitefish chain of lakes for the Bass fishing opener. The weather was perfect and the fishing was the same. We had one of our best bass openers ever. Plenty of fish. Good times. While we were up there, my pour fiance was at home enduring a tornado that swept through the north metro. Luckily my house was still standing with only a little damage to the deck and the roof, which will have to be replaced. Dayna called me while the storm was going through and it sounded like the damn house was falling apart. I kind of felt bad that I was in such nice conditions while she was stuck in that crap, but that feeling quickley passed. Sorry babe. She did have a couple friends over at the time so it wasn't so bad for her. I also got a promotion since I last posted. It goes into affect July 1st. More money but also much more responsiblity. Wish me luck on that as well. Thats about all I got for now. I will post my results for the WSOP final.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
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Lets see, what else has been going on? I had an awesome memorial day weekend. Every year, my brothers, Dad, and a couple of freinds always go up to the whitefish chain of lakes for the Bass fishing opener. The weather was perfect and the fishing was the same. We had one of our best bass openers ever. Plenty of fish. Good times. While we were up there, my pour fiance was at home enduring a tornado that swept through the north metro. Luckily my house was still standing with only a little damage to the deck and the roof, which will have to be replaced. Dayna called me while the storm was going through and it sounded like the damn house was falling apart. I kind of felt bad that I was in such nice conditions while she was stuck in that crap, but that feeling quickley passed. Sorry babe. She did have a couple friends over at the time so it wasn't so bad for her. I also got a promotion since I last posted. It goes into affect July 1st. More money but also much more responsiblity. Wish me luck on that as well. Thats about all I got for now. I will post my results for the WSOP final.
Talk to you later.....
-Grouse
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