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How's it goin' out there? I've been a little lax in posting but hey lots of things to do, so little time. I have managed to play a little poker lately, teeny-tiny stakes and a couple of promising freerolls. The small stakes game over at JR's, with some of his family and their friends. I remember now what it was like when I FIRST started playing. Horrid...but action driven. Frank and I both went, and lasted only briefly. Frank was knocked out when his pocket Kings were bested by pocket 9's, when the 9's flopped a set. It was all over then. I had to let go of a hand at one point, when the board had obviously out done me, but that cost me a bit of the stack. Then, I went out when I had pocket 8's pushed from late position, and got one caller, after the flop of 6 high, rainbow, I auto shoved, wanting to avoid any more action. My opponent told me that he "had nothing, but I'm gonna call." He was truthful, and had nothing but a good starting hand. But Big Slick treated him well that evening...and he hit his King on the River. Bye Bye cheer_dad. No sour grapes though, I actually kind of enjoyed it, it was relaxing. And it gave me time to observe players I don't always play with. I was getting some VERY GOOD reads on people and I hope that I am honing this skill. The freerolls I played...yesterday on Bodog a WildCard set up in conjunction with CardPlayer.com. 540 players total. Top 27 were going to be paid $109 each, which is like a tournament entry chip. I made it through the first break, with it middlin' chipstack, although I'd been playing well early on, blind escalation was at a premium, and no cards to speak of. I went out in 140th position, when I made the "incorrect" assumption that the late position raise from my opponent was a move on me. I pushed it all in to fight back at a table bully. Unfortunately, his pocket 9's were good. Now, I went out, and made a bad move there, BUT I learned a lot in this game. I was able to run my table for quite some time early on. I wasn't catching cards (except for one big hand) but I was playing position. That and the table composition was a lot of meek players. The big hand was my pocket 2's, turning into Huey, Dewey, and Louie on the flop and absolutely rockin' the world of the guy who limped with his pocket ACES!!! That'll learn him. Today, at Frank's urging I played the Pokerspace.com UB Weekly Freeroll. I got crippled early on with AKs vs KQos. The flop gave me the nut flush draw, which never materialized. The River brought me a King (giving me Kings and 6's, Ace kicker) but cost me, since his King's and QUEEN'S were better. Friggin' Big Slick! : ) I finally went out against that same guy, since there were so few players at the table. My pocket 6's were no match for his pocket Q's, especially when he flopped another lovely lady! But this game at my table anyway was an all-in-a-fest from the get go. I was foolishly hopeful that the Pokerspace.com games wouldn't necessarily be a testament to the donk players of the world. As usual, I was wrong. Sigh...

Regards,

cheer_dad