PokerStars Blogger PLO8 rambling

While there's a lull in the PokerStars Blogger Tournament (PLO8) I thought I'd throw in a quick post. Of the 396 who signed up, there are 239 of us left, at the 1 hour break. I'm currently in 22nd place, but know full well that this thing is far from over. Seems that so many players are forgetting the low end hands, and fail to capitalize on them.

I wanted to mention that I've tried to do some housekeeping on the listing of Blogs that I read regularly, over there on the right-hand side of the page. Mainly added some that I should have added a long time ago! But the time never presented itself. Then you start "hanging" with the bloggers and begin to feel like you should be doing a better job of things. If you don't see your blog listed and think it should be... drop me a line and say so.

***Wow, I should have raised there, although I made enough on that hand to put me in 12th place! Flopped a set of 7's, and got lucky when the board paired and gave me a boat, 7's full of Kings. Guess I need to up the aggression a bit. : ) ***

Well before I donk off this session, I'm going to stop typing now!

EDIT: Now just over 2-hours in, and the field is down to 112, with the top 72 getting their seats to the Blogger Final, Top 45 for some additional PokerStars goodies. I am currently in 27th place... we shall see...

EDIT part deux: cheer_dad crashes and burns! Greed apparently go the better of me last night, hoping to climb higher and into one of the extra special packages. With a mere 76 players left (4 away from a ticket to the final) I put my foot down when the guy 3 seats to my left decided to buy the pot. He had been muscling the pot for a while and the tactic was becoming obvious. I called his preflop raise easily when I looked down at AdAsQh2d. I liked the hand up and down in PL08. The flop came J-10-3 or something like that, and he bet out, but not big. I called and the turn was another low card. Now, I'm trying to piece this all back together in my head since it was so late, but here was what I think happened. The aggressor bets out pot, which is now steep, I look to see what I have behind, and opt to shove with still my pair of Aces, with great draws to the nut high and nut low, and if I'm not crazy I think I might have had the nut diamond draw as well. He called with a smaller pair than my Aces. But the river filled in a straight for him when he hit a black 9. This unfortunate incident sent me to the rail just prior to 1:00am EST, licking my wounds... and without a seat in the final. I was too tired to do a screenshot, I was too tired to post, so I just went to bed and attempted to console my ego and cry my silent tears... : ) I'll paraphrase Worm this time: "...how come all your moves are so noble (when speaking to Mike) and I'm always the worthless piece of shit?!" Maybe not entirely accurate but that was the gist of it.

Regards,

cheer_dad

Blogger Tourney Exit

...and with that our "hero" takes his leave of the NLHE Qualifier of the Blogger Tournament being hosted this week by the fine folks at PokerStars. No blame to be assessed here. I raised from first position with the best hand I'd seen in several rounds, and was reraised. It wasn't even a matter of pot odds or ego. It just was. I got it all in with a great holding and it just happened to be second best. It's like 'Worm' said, "...hey I took my shot and I missed, it happens!" I went out in 152nd place out of the initial 559 who signed up. It would have been nice to score a seat to the Blogger Final, but I wouldn't change anything I did. I played a solid game. I'd like to say I should have loosened up, but honestly can't convince even myself of that. I stole a few hands, but just never really got chipped up to any comfortable level. Of all the tables that I could have been moved to, whadaya know, "wvwolfie" was sitting right across the table from me. Small world. Also BWOP (the black widow of poker) stopped by to say hey from the rail, and I thought that was really nice. Hey everyone likes to get noticed from time-to-time. : ) I had a really good time and it was nice to play amongst a few kindred blogger spirits, although I believe there were a few posers amongst the ranks! Up tomorrow in the Blogger Series is the PLO8 Qualifier at 22:00 EST. I'm hoping to make this one too! But you just never know how the day will shape up. Along these same lines, I really want to start trying to play in some of the Poker Blogger Sponsored tournaments. Very likely first on the list will be on Bodog, as I still have the bulk of my online cash there. But I have a few extra bills burning a hole in the wallet so I may migrate and branch out to a couple of other sites as well.

Have a good night folks...

Regards,

cheer_dad

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Regards,

cheer_dad

Knocked out in 130th...

Did it to myself. SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! Needed to make something happen. Getting low on chips again...mid position I go all in with A6, in hopes of a steal. Of course the guy to my left, looks down at Friggin' Cowboys. No Ace in sight! Bye Bye cheer_dad.

Yes, I do hate this game. Unfortunately, I do it to myself don't I. Did it last night at JR's game too, against Frank. My AQ vs his Q5s. I just couldn't let it go...and he boated my ass with it. There Frank...I blogged it! : ) Again, cheer_dad hits the rail. Cash game didn't get any better. I'm off it, just can't get my "shtuff" together.

Then again, today's finish 130th out of 1337, I guess, ain't terrible. Still nothing to show for several hours of work.

Regards,

cheer_dad

This one was EVEN BETTER!!!

PokerStars Game #12628574689: Tournament #63028692,
Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (1000/2000) - 2007/10/14 - 18:10:07 (ET)
Table '63028692 55' 9-max
Seat #8 is the buttonSeat 1: Roger1960 (25900 in chips)
Seat 2: ridick.de (27550 in chips)
Seat 3: IAMB67 (2568 in chips)
Seat 4: Buffffy (97959 in chips)
Seat 5: cheer_dad_21 (24400 in chips)
Seat 6: tibokart (49502 in chips)
Seat 7: bighair83 (68372 in chips)
Seat 8: xxkatchyxx (111583 in chips)
Seat 9: betoabba (28886 in chips)
Roger1960: posts the ante 200
ridick.de: posts the ante 200
IAMB67: posts the ante 200
Buffffy: posts the ante 200
cheer_dad_21: posts the ante 200
tibokart: posts the ante 200
bighair83: posts the ante 200
xxkatchyxx: posts the ante 200
betoabba: posts the ante 200
betoabba: posts small blind 1000
Roger1960: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cheer_dad_21 [9s 9d]
ridick.de: folds
IAMB67: folds
Buffffy: folds
cheer_dad_21: raises 2000 to 4000
tibokart: folds
bighair83: folds
xxkatchyxx: folds
betoabba: calls 3000
Roger1960: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ah Jd 9c]
betoabba: bets 4000
cheer_dad_21: raises 4000 to 8000
betoabba: calls 4000
*** TURN *** [Ah Jd 9c] [3h]
betoabba: bets 6000
cheer_dad_21: raises 6200 to 12200 and is all-in
betoabba: calls 6200
*** RIVER *** [Ah Jd 9c 3h] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***betoabba: shows [4s Ad] (a pair of Aces)
cheer_dad_21: shows [9s 9d] (three of a kind, Nines)
cheer_dad_21 collected 52200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 52200
Board [Ah Jd 9c 3h 6h]

Currently on break AGAIN...and here's where I'm at:

Your current position is 119 out of 188...
Can I at least hold out to 81st, and claim one of the friggin' duffel bags!?

Regards,

cheer_dad

I celebrated this hand!!!

PokerStars Game #12628499520: Tournament #63028692,
Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (1000/2000) - 2007/10/14 - 18:06:14 (ET)
Table '63028692 55' 9-max
Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Roger1960 (26500 in chips)
Seat 2: ridick.de (28150 in chips)
Seat 3: IAMB67 (3168 in chips)
Seat 4: Buffffy (98559 in chips)
Seat 5: cheer_dad_21 (11200 in chips)
Seat 6: tibokart (51102 in chips)
Seat 7: bighair83 (85972 in chips)
Seat 8: xxkatchyxx (90583 in chips)
Seat 9: betoabba (41486 in chips)
Roger1960: posts the ante 200
ridick.de: posts the ante 200
IAMB67: posts the ante 200
Buffffy: posts the ante 200
cheer_dad_21: posts the ante 200
tibokart: posts the ante 200
bighair83: posts the ante 200
xxkatchyxx: posts the ante 200
betoabba: posts the ante 200
tibokart: posts small blind 1000
bighair83: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cheer_dad_21 [Qd Qc]
xxkatchyxx: folds
betoabba: folds
Roger1960: folds
ridick.de: folds
IAMB67: folds
Buffffy: folds
cheer_dad_21: raises 9000 to 11000 and is all-in
tibokart: folds
bighair83: calls 9000
*** FLOP *** [2c 5d Ad]
*** TURN *** [2c 5d Ad] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [2c 5d Ad 5h] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bighair83: shows [Ts Ah] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
cheer_dad_21: shows [Qd Qc] (a full house, Queens full of Fives)
cheer_dad_21 collected 24800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 24800
Board [2c 5d Ad 5h Qs]

WAHOO!!!

This helped, my quickly dwindling stack

PokerStars Game #12627937953: Tournament #63028692, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level X (600/1200) - 2007/10/14 - 17:37:00 (ET)
Table '63028692 55' 9-max
Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Roger1960 (25200 in chips)
Seat 2: biobakje (25425 in chips)
Seat 3: IAMB67 (50418 in chips)
Seat 4: Buffffy (63526 in chips)
Seat 5: cheer_dad_21 (10400 in chips)
Seat 6: bbmart60 (79141 in chips)
Seat 7: bighair83 (17686 in chips)
Seat 8: Catalina_Day (24076 in chips)
Seat 9: betoabba (47086 in chips)
Roger1960: posts the ante 100
biobakje: posts the ante 100
IAMB67: posts the ante 100
Buffffy: posts the ante 100
cheer_dad_21: posts the ante 100
bbmart60: posts the ante 100
bighair83: posts the ante 100
Catalina_Day: posts the ante 100
betoabba: posts the ante 100
bighair83: posts small blind 600
Catalina_Day: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cheer_dad_21 [Ad Qc]
betoabba: folds
Roger1960: folds
biobakje: folds
IAMB67: folds
Buffffy: folds
cheer_dad_21: raises 9100 to 10300 and is all-in
bbmart60: folds
bighair83: folds Catalina_Day: calls 9100
*** FLOP *** [2d 5c 6d]
*** TURN *** [2d 5c 6d] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [2d 5c 6d Js] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Catalina_Day: shows [Ts As] (high card Ace)
cheer_dad_21: shows [Ad Qc] (high card Ace - Queen kicker)
cheer_dad_21 collected 22100 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 22100
Board [2d 5c 6d Js 8d]

Whew!!!

Regards,

cheer_dad

Moved up then back down, cards have cooled.

Still in but I'm going to have to make something happen soon, or I'll never make it. Here's where I'm at:

We'll see what happens. On another note...who are these guys from "railbirds.com" Have to check out their little online community. Tourney's starting back up, blinds $500/$1,000 , $75 ante...ugh.

Regards,

cheer_dad

Still in it...

The 2007 World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is underway...currently on break, and here's how things look at the moment:

I'll try to keep updating for awhile, hopefully for a LONG WHILE!!! 1,337 entries...only 81 total prizes to be awarded. I could hopefully be in for a long haul.

Regards,

cheer_dad

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