Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Now that's Exciting Poker
So I headed down to Greektown this past weekend. Started playing NL. Moved to 3/6 when a seat opened up. I won $140. Whoooo Hoooo!
Only problem, is that I made a 50/50 deal with a friend that I went with. He lost $300, so not such a good night after all.
My table was really really juiced up when this drunk, greek chick sat down and started really donking it up. She won 6 hands in a row. When you win 2 in a row at this game, the stakes double. $3/$6 becomes $6/$12. It's really important to win the hands you play at the higher stakes if you want to have a productive session. She accumlated about $400 in profit within the first 20 minutes.
On one hand, we were 6 handed. It is a kill pot. I raise from the button with Q-9 suited. I have 4 callers. The flop comes 7-8-9. It's checked to me. I bet. Just the drunk chick calls. The turn is a 4. Check-bet-call. The river is a 2. Bet-call. She shows 4-2 for a running 2 pair. Wow!
I get my revenge though as I personally remove about 2/3rds of her stack.
But I got to tell ya, the most exciting poker action happened this Wed night when I sweated my poker buddy, Russ Harriman, from Clarkston over the internet as he played at the final table of the $1500 pot limit holdem World Series bracelet event in Las Vegas.
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updates.asp?tid=4897&grid=411
Exciting chit! Go Russ!
Only problem, is that I made a 50/50 deal with a friend that I went with. He lost $300, so not such a good night after all.
My table was really really juiced up when this drunk, greek chick sat down and started really donking it up. She won 6 hands in a row. When you win 2 in a row at this game, the stakes double. $3/$6 becomes $6/$12. It's really important to win the hands you play at the higher stakes if you want to have a productive session. She accumlated about $400 in profit within the first 20 minutes.
On one hand, we were 6 handed. It is a kill pot. I raise from the button with Q-9 suited. I have 4 callers. The flop comes 7-8-9. It's checked to me. I bet. Just the drunk chick calls. The turn is a 4. Check-bet-call. The river is a 2. Bet-call. She shows 4-2 for a running 2 pair. Wow!
I get my revenge though as I personally remove about 2/3rds of her stack.
But I got to tell ya, the most exciting poker action happened this Wed night when I sweated my poker buddy, Russ Harriman, from Clarkston over the internet as he played at the final table of the $1500 pot limit holdem World Series bracelet event in Las Vegas.
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updates.asp?tid=4897&grid=411
Exciting chit! Go Russ!
