Life and Times of a Poker Addict

Played a little loose in an Omaha 8 session on PokerStars as it had been a little while for me in the game, but managed to come back and ended up the session down 15bb's when I whiffed on a monster double draw with trips versus a flopped straight. Had a loss in the family in the middle of the week, so I didn't get a whole lot of poker in. Unfortunately, that also means the SNG challenge might have to be put off as with all the travelling I'm doing this month, I don't see how I'm going to get in 100 SNGs.

Saturday night I ended up blowing off a little steam by going over to Jag's place and catching the De La Hoya fight, which was pretty much fantastic. Mayorga got his pride slapped all over that ring before the Golden Boy knocked him out in the 6th. And as much as De La Hoya's manager doesn't want the fight to happen, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that this leads to Mayweather-De La Hoya, I think that could be a pretty amazing fight.

After the fight, we decided to play a little $10 tourney with one rebuy, but most of the guys were novices. I'm overall a fairly aggressive player, though I have been playing really tight the last couple months (shhh, don't tell the guys, they don't seem to have figured it out yet). However about an hour into the tourney I had to confirm with Footloose that I had in fact not open-raised a single pot to that point. Somehow I managed to make some hands anyways and stay afloat until the wackiest hand I've played in some time cropped up. I hadn't played a hand for about 15 minutes when I picked up J10 offsuit on the button. I limp in, as had the whole table, and Jag raises 25 from the big bling to try and curb the field. Everyone called... so I had to.

The flop came J 10 6, and the pot was already 217. Small blind led out for 30 and the whole table called again. WTF??!?! I moved in on the button for 208 more into the now T400 pot. Small blind calls off his last 93, Jag mucks, MP mucks, the next two are shortstacks and move in about 75 apiece which gets us to Footloose, who in typical fashion decides there is too much in the pot and calls my all-in as he had the whole table stacked. So now we've got 4 people all-in, in a 5-way pot for T1000 and everyone starts turning hands over. Small blind has KQ, Jag mucked AK, Shortstack1 had AK, shortstack2 had AQ and Footloose had K9d. And the other guy had folded an Ace. All the Aces and Kings are dead, so now I only had to worry about 3 nines and two queens until Footloose picked up a diamond draw on the turn. I survived the river, though if a diamond had fallen I may have puked all over the table.

That was bizarre, from beginning to end. I ended up taking down the win and heading home with a little spending money for Sunday. Tonight is the usual two table tourney and I've been running real well, so I hope that continues. I head out to San Francisco on Friday for a friend's wedding and I'm hoping that I may have some time to head out to the Bay 101 and play some poker while I'm there. I promise that a site update is in fact coming, but probably not till the end of May now due to family issues and travel. Thanks for bearing with me.