I’ve been seriously considering making the leap to online poker, and wanted to ask you (yes, you–you personally) what sites do you recommend?

Things I’m interested in knowing about the sites are:

• Game availability/waits & Range of limits
• Data mining policies
• Ease of use, appeal of GUI
• Bonus programs
• Tournament availability & structures
• Any intangibles you can think of

Leave your thoughts/recommendations/advice in the comments.

And yes, I realize that there are a number of sites that review internet poker sites, but A) I can’t access many of those from work (Damn you WebSense!), and B) I don’t want their opinions–they’ve already been bought and paid for–I want your opinions.

Posted by Beck as Poker at 1:36 PM PDT

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I took a three day trip to Atlantic City a few days back, and explored the entertaining and always exciting world of bank roll volatility. I foolishly only brought $1000 with me, and had to hit the cash machine at one point. The first session I went down $450 while playing $1-$2 no-limit (pretty much all of it lost on two key hands where I made bad calls). The next day, I was playing $10-$20 limit, and was down an additional $800 before finally staging a comeback. And what a comeback it was. I sat down in the game at around 11 AM, didn’t start my turn around until perhaps 5 PM, and got up from the game at 5 AM. I got up with $1477, leaving me with a tidy $27 profit on the trip.

A lot of poker neophytes are under the impression that middle limit games ($10-$20 up to perhaps $40-$80) are vastly tougher than the low stakes games they’re used to (basically anything under $10-$20, and some people might well consider $10-$20 to be low limit). They’re not entirely wrong, but they’re certainly mistaken about how great the difference is. I know when I began playing (first $3-$6, later $6-$12), I assumed that anything over $6-$12 would be almost exclusively populated by people who more-or-less knew what they were doing. Sure, they might play too many hands, or not be good at putting people on hands or reading people, but they would still have the fundamentals down.

Wrong.

You do see increasingly talented players the higher up you go, and you do see the average level of play increase as you move up through the levels, but the worst players seem somehow to be equally bad no matter how high up you go. Some need to be continually prompted that the action is to them (and then corrected when they announce that they check after its been bet, raised, and re-raised in front of them). Some need to have it explained to them why they only get half the pot with their A-5 over someone else’s A-4 when the board is A-K-K-Q-7. Some play every single hand and never seem to figure out that there’s a reason why the guy with half the chips at the table folds 80% of the time.

Still, you do see generally better play, and generally tighter action. But the table I played this Wednesday (and into Thursday) at the Taj Mahal featured some of the worst play I’ve ever witnessed. When I first began moving up in limits, it was with trepidation, so to help relieve some potential trepidation from aspiring rookies out there, allow me to simply give you some brief descriptions of some of the players I faced on this fateful day.

Seat 1: Yours truly.

Seat 2: A Korean man named Jay was seated immediately on my left. He didn’t speak much English, but was friendly and having fun. He lost roughly $2500 over the course of 12 hours or so. He was, as the saying goes, throwing a party. He would play any two cards. He would raise when people bet into him. He would bet at any pot that checked around to him. He tightened up a bit once he got down to his last thousand dollars or so, but really only by decreasing his aggression–not by playing fewer hands. He actually visibly and noticeably improved over the course of this session, but he was still doomed to lose all of his money.

Seat 3: Another Asian player. This one only lost perhaps $800, but he was only in the game for 3-4 hours. His play was almost as bad as Jay’s, and followed the same patterns. He hit a few lucky draws to keep alive, but that was far too little far too late.

Amusingly, I wound up being the banker for the two Asians, as they both had brought only green $25 chips with them. Periodically, I’d sell them stacks of red $5 chips so they’d have change.

Seat 4: For a while a lawyer was sitting here. He had been a poker dealer in college, and was pretty decent–especially at reading players. Still, he’d play some weird hands and make strange plays at odd times. He had a classic case of, “Well, I lost with Q-Q, so I’ll raise with 10-8 and see what happens.” Later, a woman took his seat who was more or less a calling station. She at least had some inclination of when she was beaten and when she had a strong hand, so she would raise moderately often and fold moderately often, but she still played way too many hands, and took them too far. I cracked her K-K with A-Q one hand, and it was painfully obvious what had happened, but she just couldn’t lay down her big pair & called me down the whole way.

Seat 5: A woman named Stephanie from NYC sat here. She was, in my opinion, the best player at the table other than myself. Until her husband sat down in Seat 6 at any rate. She would perhaps have thought I was the second best player at the table after her. Still, she had trouble making laydowns in some spots, and wasn’t good at admitting to herself that she had yet again been drawn out on by a calling station with some sucker draw. She also had some of the worst luck I’ve seen in a long time, getting drawn out on time and again by inferior cards. The worst was when the UTG player limped with 2-7 offsuit (limped, not bluff-raised, limped!), then called two raises cold before the flop, along with a bet and raise cold after the flop with only an inside straight draw. The flop was 3-4-5, and the turn was a 6. She had A-A.

Seat 6: Stephanie’s husband Matt only played at our table for a couple hours, taking a seat when it opened mostly so that he could play with his wife. He had been in the $15-$30 game before, and was a fantastic player—easily better than me, he was one of the most dangerous limit players I’ve gone up against.

Seat 7: A large black dude sat here, and gradually fell asleep. He had to be often prompted when to act, and he would sleepily look at his cards as though he were seeing them for the first time. I’d seen him at the Taj before, and I knew he wasn’t bad ordinarily, but he was so tired that he could hardly think straight. His play seemed to be almost at random, and never involved raising. Eventually, he fell asleep entirely, and the dealer dealt him out. A floorman brought security over, and they couldn’t wake him up. Eventually they just left him there (great job there Management). Later he woke up and began playing again, but was still pretty much just on sub-conscious auto-pilot.

Seats 8-9: You always hope to find that magical player, the Calling Station, seated in your game. They can be elusive, especially when you move out of the low limits. This game had two of them. And while it completely removed bluffing as a viable tool, it meant that every pot had an extra $60-$120 in it, donated by the two kindly gentlemen who didn’t know the first freaking thing about playing poker. One of them had such bad eyesight he could barely see the board. He misread his hand several times, thinking he had a straight when really he had nine-high or some such. Without these two gentlemen (and to a lesser extent the two Asians) contributing to every pot, I never would have made the comeback that I did.

Seat 10: Three or four different people occupied this seat over the course of the night, and every single one seemed to be the same damn player. The 10 seat wound up being where the players you ordinarily expect to see in a $10-$20 game wound up sitting. This was the player who had good starting hand selection, good board reading skills, and some degree of hand reading, but no sophistication. This was the straightforward tight player with moderate aggression and decent fundamentals. Usually you find yourself against 6 or 7 guys like this. Tonight, just the one. Plus, he was to my right, so with his straightforward play, he was no threat at all.

See you at the tables.

Posted by Beck as Poker at 12:48 PM PDT

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I haven’t been playing much poker lately. I decided to do some reading based on some of Beck’s suggestions, and work on some of my basic skills. But, I am going to play in the Austin Poker Bloggers tournament over Labor Day weekend. I am looking foward to that.

In other news, let me know if you’d like to play some free fantasy football on Yahoo! I have room for more.

Posted by Jaxia as Poker at 6:23 PM PDT

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No great lesson or grand wisdom here, just a story about a goofy hand I played recently. Well, no one else has written anything lately, so why not?

There’s nothing quite so worthless as a backdoor draw (a draw in which you need two running cards after the flop to make your hand). One of the biggest mistakes fish make is sticking around for a bet on the flop to see if they can pick up the first of the two cards they need to make a backdoor draw. They start a hand with two clubs, one club comes on the flop, and now they’ll be damned if they’re going to fold, regardless of the action. Every once in a while one of these people makes a mammoth suck-out and a lot of money, but for the most part, they’re just donating their money to the pot.

Of course, that’s not to say backdoor draws are completely worthless. According to David Sklansky, a backdoor flush draw is worth roughly one & a half outs, and a backdoor straight draw is worth anywhere from half an out to one & a half outs (depending on the number of gaps in your backdoor draw). These extra outs can add enough value to turn a marginal fold into a marginal call, and shouldn’t be ignored. Still, by themselves, it takes some pretty massive pot-odds to justify calling with them.

So anyway, I was playing in a $1-$2 no-limit game in Atlantic City early in the morning when a strange hand came up. The player to my right was raising pre-flop with any ace, any two cards 10 or higher, any pair, any connector, and most suited hands. He was raising a lot. What’s more, if no one had raised before him, he would limp with any two cards. He actually said at one point, “Hell, I figure any two cards are worth two dollars. You might catch trips.”

He was bluffing a lot as well. Basically, he would bet at any flop, so long as no one bet it before him. Fascinatingly, he was actually up on the session. He had won a few critical big pots, and people were backing down to his frequent bluffs. Given his bluffing success rate, he was actually playing more or less correctly. I would look him up when I could, but hadn’t caught many cards. Besides, I wasn’t interested in playing table sheriff. With $1-$2, the initial pots are typically too small to be worth defending anyway.

So here’s the hand: one player limped, and the bluffer limped as well. I was on the button with J-9 suited and decided to limp as well. This is a very marginal hand, but the blinds were passive, and it can be a very effective hand when it hits a flop hard. What’s more, I have no problem with getting away from this hand if I catch a single pair. The small blind called, and the big blind checked.

The flop came 3 - 5- 10. So I had an overcard (value of maybe 2 outs–see Sklansky’s discussion of partial outs in Small Stakes Hold ‘Em), a 9 which might well be worthless, and a backdoor straight draw–with no gaps, worth roughly 1 1/2 outs. My hand, all told, was worth maybe 4 outs. With only $10 in the pot. I was done with this hand, and planned to fold to any aggression.

The action checked around to the bluffer, who went for his chips. I scooped up my cards, clamped them between index and middle fingers, and cocked my hand back to fire them into the muck. Then the bluffer bet. $2. I literally stopped in mid-fold. “Wait… $2?” This was out of character for the guy–he knew to bet more for a bluff. I figured he must actually have something big and be hoping to milk the pot a little. Inasmuch as I could easily expect everyone else to call, I was getting 9 to 1 pot odds, plus much bigger implied odds.

“Two dollars? Two dollars? I can’t fold for two dollars. I call.” That got a bit of a chuckle.

Everyone else called, and the dealer burned and turned over… a king. Well, my outs to a 10 or 9 were even more worthless now, but I had an inside straight draw, again worth 4 outs. The first card for my backdoor had fallen into place.

Still, 4 outs is pretty worthless, and I was going to fold to any aggression. The action checked around to the bluffer who now bet out…

“Two dollars.”

At this point, I think he was just having fun. It was late, everyone was tired, and he was getting chuckles out of this bizarre action. I dutifully tossed my two bucks into the pot, fully expecting that this marginal hand had now somehow managed to cost me $6 instead of $2. Everyone else called.

The river was a queen. With no flush possible, I had the second nuts. Only an A-J had me beat, and I was pretty darn sure no one was playing that. The action checked around to the bluffer, who suddenly came awake and decided to bet $6 into this $30 pot. I raised to $30, and everyone folded.

And for what I’m pretty sure is the first time in my poker career, I called down with basically nothing but a backdoor draw, hit my draw, and deserved every bit of it.

Posted by Beck as Poker at 12:39 AM PDT

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Since writing my initial post reviewing poker books I’ve read, I thought of a few more which I inadvertently left out of the original post. Also, the original post received some solid comments, one of which I wanted to promote to the front page.

Mike observes:

Small Stakes Hold’em is awesome, but when you say “every player new to the game should read” it, I think you take it one step too far. By the authors’ own admission, it’s not a beginners’ book. It took all the knowledge I accumulated through months of both winning and losing to understand the concepts presented in SSHE.

For people who’ve never played Hold’em, I’d suggest Winners’ Guide To Texas Hold’em Poker by Ken Warren, then Winning Low-Limit Hold’em by Lee Jones. Both books provide the basic ideas which I only really understood when I read SSHE. This is because Sklansky and Malmuth are superior writers, but also because their analyses are more detailed.

For example, Warren’s book is more reactionary. It tells how other people will play you, and how to survive them, but virtually nothing on how to play the attacking 2+2 style. One theme Warren repeats is that “anyone who raises to make you call one bet then another wants you to stay in the pot; if they make you call two cold, they want you to fold.”

It took SSHE for me to learn that I should be the one forcing people out of pots to increase my chances of winning it.

He makes a very good point about SSHE not being a true beginners book. It just so happened that it was the first poker book I’d ever read, and it was tough going at first figuring out and understanding all of the terminology. It’s doable for a beginner to start with it, but it’s certainly not necessarily the ideal way to go about learning beginning Texas hold ‘em.

That said, I thought of three more poker/poker-related books I’ve read. The first is Mastering No-Limit Hold ‘Em. It’s the only book I’ve read intended for low-stakes no-limit ring game play. Its recommendations are for rather tight play, and it will definitely get you the money at low stakes games. I haven’t heard any reviews on other no-limit ring game guides, and haven’t read any myself, so I can’t say how well this compares. Still, the book was helpful to me, and you can trust this book to get the job done if you’re looking to improve your no-limit cash game play.

The next book I have for you is The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King. This book details the highest stakes cash game of all time, as contested by some of the world’s best professional poker players on one side, and an amateur poker playing banker named Andy Beal on the other side. They played heads-up at limits which, at times, reached $100,000 - $200,000. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and it gives a very interesting look inside the world of top professional poker players & the lives they lead.

Finally, One of a Kind, the biography of Stu Unger, one of the greatest poker players who ever lived. I highly recommend this book. Stu Unger lived the kind of life most people never imagine even exists. He won millions of dollars over the course of his life, lost most of it, and snorted the rest of it up his nose. The wild roller coaster of Stu’s life makes for the kind of reading which you would consider unrealistic were it to appear in fiction. Very well written, and well worth the time to read.

Again, comments are most welcome, along with reviews of any books you may have read which I haven’t mentioned.

Posted by Beck as Books, Poker at 11:24 AM PDT

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I heard the best quote while watching poker on TV the other day:

Lord, don’t tease me unless you’re going to get me there.

Isn’t that the greatest?
(Somewhere, I wrote down who said it, but for the life of me I cannot find it.)

**edit**
Aha! I found it! It was Lonnie Alexander during one of the 2005 WSOP circuit final tables!

Posted by Jaxia as Poker, Quotes, WSOP at 10:06 PM PDT

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Here, briefly, are some comments, suggestions, and observations regarding poker related books I’ve read.

Small Stakes Hold ‘Em: Winning Big With Expert Play by Sklansky, Malmuth, and Miller.

This is an excellent book which every player new to the game should read. It’s the end-all, be-all guide to low-stakes limit poker. More importantly, perhaps, it includes substantial sections on pot-odds, implied-odds, and counting outs. What’s more, it’s the only book I’ve yet seen which thoroughly addresses the concepts of partial outs and how to count outs for backdoor draws. I’ve seen numerous advanced books which refer back to this book just for those topics.

Once you’ve got this book down, it’s time to move on to Sklansky and Malmuth’s Hold ‘Em Poker for Advanced Players: 21st Century Edition. This is basically the graduate course on limit hold ‘em. You’ll often find poker writers referring to the standard Sklansky starting hand groupings. This is the book where those groupings are introduced, analyzed, and discussed. I still occasionally re-read sections of this book just to keep my game sharp.

The Theory of Poker, again by David Sklansky (no Mason Malmuth on this one) is the Ph.D. book of poker. Especially interesting to me was the discussion of proper bluffing frequency, and proper defensive strategies against someone who utilizes proper bluffing strategy (hint: there’s not much you can do). This book draws its examples from all forms of poker, but for the most part the lessons are applicable to all forms of poker. I highly recommend this book for those truly serious about taking their poker game to the highest levels.

The last of the Sklansky books I’ve read is Tournament Poker for Advanced Players. I was disappointed in this book. For one thing, it’s the briefest of Sklansky’s books. For another, he devotes much of the time to developing a pet theory of his that no-limit tournaments could be won using a very routine, mechanical system, and then rambling about his system (basically go all-in with monsters pre-flop). While there are some valuable ideas presented here–especially the Gap Theory (which other authors have borrowed from significantly). If you’re serious about tournament play, you should go ahead and buy & read this book, but don’t expect it to blow your mind.

Doyle Brunson’s Super/System 2. The original Super/System is considered the bible of poker. I haven’t read it. I have read Super/System 2, and I found it disappointing. Jen Harmon writes the section on Limit Poker, and while her advice is solid, there’s nothing especially new presented there. Brunson’s section on No-Limit hold ‘em is even worse. He spends most of his time discussing how he would play hands which you’re not too likely to come across very often. It’s more of a rambling disorganized discourse from a poker legend who has seen it all than a methodical guide to playing poker. The best thing about S/S 2 is the non hold-em sections. If you ever wanted to learn how to play Omaha High-Low 8 or better or Triple Draw Lowball, S/S 2 has got you covered.

Championship Hold ‘Em by T. J. Cloutier and Tom McEvoy is an average guide to playing limit hold ‘em. I read through most of it and found nothing new that hadn’t already been covered by Sklansky. Plus, it’s not as well organized, and some of their advice doesn’t translate well into the looser, more passive games that you find at lower stakes.

For those intent on playing no-limit hold ‘em tournaments, whether online or live, high stakes or low, multi-table or single-table, you absolutely positively must read Harrington on Hold ‘Em, both Volume 1 and Volume 2. Whereas Sklansky had a hard time filling 200 pages with a book on poker tournaments in general, Harrington fills 2 large volumes (each over 400 pages) just on the topic of no-limit hold ‘em tournaments. These books are fantastic, must-reads. Really. They’re that good.

Non-Guide Poker Books

My favorite book in this category is by far James McManus’ Positively Fifth Street. In it, the author details his trip to Las Vegas to cover the 2000 WSOP, along with the murder trial surrounding the mysterious death of Ted Binion. Naturally, the author winds up entering a satellite for the main event. And the rest, as they say, is history.

My least favorite book in this category is Richard Sparks Diary of a Mad Poker Player. Essentially, he writes a repeat of McManus’ book, only a few years later, and with the subject of internet poker taking the place of the Ted Binion murder trial. He fails all around to produce an interesting or particularly readable book. Definitely give this book a miss.

Bad Beats and Lucky Draws by Phil Helmuth I bought more or less on a whim. It’s essentially just an amusing collection of poker anecdotes, and it’s not bad. It’s definitely light reading material, but it’s good way to pass some time.

Poker Wisdom of a Champion by Doyle Brunson is a great read. It’s full of stories from the life of Doyle Brunson, and while you won’t learn much about playing poker, you’ll learn a lot about the fascinating and rough life Brunson has lived. Life as a poker player was not always the pleasant, easy lifestyle it seems today.

Falling into the same category is Amarillo Slim’s autobiography: Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, apart from having a great title, is also an excellent read. His book is primarily a series of anecdotes, one leading to the next across the progression of his life. Particularly interesting is the number of times Slim came far closer to death than any are likely to imagine, and the insanely outrageous proposition bets he has taken in his lifetime. Great read.

And that’s it. Anyone who has read books other than these, I definitely welcome your reviews. Either leave them in the comments, fire me an email, or post them to a blog of your own and email me the link!

Posted by Beck as Books, Poker, Reviews at 3:54 PM PDT

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. . . getting good cards.

Seriously.

It’s tough to win otherwise.

This afternoon, I was in yet another satellite to the WPT Borgata Poker Open. At least, I thought I was. In reality, I spent two hours playing “Texas Fold’em.” Aside from the occasional blind steal, I won just two hands all tourney: once when I tried to steal with Kd/3d, flopped two pair with 5/5/3, went all-in and wound up winning with a backdoor flush; and another when I won a coin flip holding pocket fours.

I busted out after I misread another player who went all-in preflop. I held Ad/Jd and figured I had a coin flip; he had A/K instead. If that weren’t bad enough, another player holding A/J joined the party, so I was dead to two outs. After I lost that pot, I had less than the big blind and was pretty much toast. (I was officially busted out by another A/K. Man, what is it with that hand??)

I still finished in 58th place out of 246 players.

I wonder how well I could have done if I had a decent hand or two.

Posted by Mike as Poker at 10:30 AM PDT

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I’ve been meaning to write about a very interesting hand I played in a $1-$2 no-limit game at the Showboat in Atlantic City a several weeks back.

The table had turned into something of a sharkfest, with the only real live-one at the table being a solid player who had been awake for 30 hours and ceased making good decisions. I was second to act, and the under-the-gun player–a solid player who usually plays much higher stakes at the Taj (he plays there enough that he has a safe deposit box there) who was just checking out the new casino–raised to $15.

I looked down to see two black Kings in my hand. Ordinarily, this is an automatic re-raise for me, but I decided to change up my play here (What was it Emerson said? Consistency is the hobgoblin of losing poker players? Something like that). It folded around to the button, who raised to $50, and the small blind also called. The big blind (my poker mentor Pat) folded, the UTG raiser called, and I called.

This wasn’t the easiest call in the world here. The button and the small blind were both solid players, and thus either had big pairs or big aces. Still, I decided to see the flop, and evaluate how to play after that. Regardless, a sleepy 1-2 game suddenly had a $200 pre-flop pot.

The flop came Ten high with two diamonds. The UTG player (who had taken a bad-beat the hand before, and consequently only had about $80 in his stack at this point) went all-in. The primary question on my mind was, “Which one of these three guys has pocket aces?” I had to think about this for a long time. I wasn’t concerned that the player to my right had aces–if he did, he almost certainly would have gone all-in pre-flop after it was re-raised to $50.

I began working through all the hands these guys could have, and the likelihood that they had them. I even apologized to the table for taking so long, but added that, “I’m basically making a decision for all my chips here.” I had roughly $220 in front of me. The guy on my right was acting strangely hyper, and bizarrely informed me that, “All I have is kings.” I could tell he was being perfectly sincere as well. You could just tell from the sound of his voice. That actually made the decision even harder.

You see, now I knew I was just playing for a split pot. So if I called, either I was going to win $50, or I was going to lose $220. I was a huge favorite to win that $50 unless someone had aces or some random set. I dismissed the chances that anyone had a set, though, as the only even remotely probable set was if someone had a pair of tens, but the button was too good to re-raise with tens with 4 solid players yet to act and the initial raiser being the UTG player, and the small blind certainly wasn’t cold-calling $50 with just tens. I didn’t have any tells on the two players yet to act either.

Finally, I made up my mind. I was going to play the hand. I was going to go with my kings and hope for a chopped pot. Here comes the most important lesson of this post: I raised all-in. As my friend Pat later observed, “It was the right move at the right time.”

There was roughly $280 in the pot before my move. Had I just called, there would have been $360, and any future callers would have been getting 4.5 to 1–more than good enough odds to draw to a wide range of hands. I decided to play my hand because I had concluded that I had the best hand (well, tied for the best hand, but you get my point). But it was a vulnerable hand. Potential straight and flush draws were out, and at least one of my opponents likely had big aces, making my hand very vulnerable to any ace on the turn or river.

I had to protect my hand here, and the only way was to go all-in. Going all-in dropped the pot odds from 4.5 to 1 down to just over 2 to 1, and that’s not good enough to draw with just a flush draw (keep in mind that a flush draw only had 8 outs, as the king of diamonds was out of play).

The story has an anti-climactic ending I’m afraid. The button and the small blind both folded. Neither of them had to think about it very long. Sure enough, they both had big aces, and neither was on a flush draw. The UTG player had kings, as promised, and I flipped over mine, took my all-in bet back, and we made $50 each.

Posted by Beck as Poker at 1:26 AM PDT

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Is anybody around tonight? If so, stop by and say hello. I’m playing in the dollar buyin on Ultimate Bet. 929 entered, and the top 100 get paid. As of the first break, my stack of 16k was good for first place out of 418 remaining. The average stack was 3k. You might want to make it snappy - Historically, I run up a good stack and then blow it on a dumb move.

– Update –
As of the second break, I’m in 10th place out of 162. I have 21k, and the average stack is 8600. The last hand before the break, I saw a crazy suckout! Guy wound up taking first place in chips, knocking out two players and crippling the second place stack when he hit his straight on the river for a 42k pot.

– Update –
Save yourself the trouble. Things aren’t looking so good. Told you I’d mess it up.

– Update –
Well, oddly enough, I’m still hanging in there as of the third break. 30 players still in it. I’m in 8th place with 60k, and the average stack is 46k.

With my stack at 2205, and the 1k/2k blinds hitting me in the next hand, I push with QJo. I’m called in 4 places. The flop comes A-9-8 rainbow. The turn is a beautiful 10. A 9 on the river worried me a little bit, but when the cards were flipped, my straight was good. The very next hand, I’m dealt QQ in the BB. The hilton sisters never hold up for me, but I still pushed. A miracle - they beat down ATo and I doubled up.

– Update –
Well, I finished in 18th place when my queens ran into aces. IGHN (actually, I go to bed now).

Posted by Jaxia as Poker at 10:03 PM PDT

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