I'm a poker moron

I got my poker feathers all fluffed up and thought I was the poker god. So I decided to enter in a hold em tournament. I suppose that you may be able to tell that it didn't go to well.

48 people entered, each started with $1000 in chips. Blinds started at $10/$20 and raised every 1/2 hour.

I got pretty much crap for cards the entire day. I made it past the fourth round and then the wheels fell off. One stupid hand takes pretty much everyting. Two pair beat by a straight.

Anyway, it was fun. I wish the cards would have come though.

A New Beginning

I think I'm going to move my poker blog to google. I'm having a hard time getting to the old one. The response seems to be lagging.

I'll move it here this weekend and see what happens.

B

Tweener

A little quicky

The President's day game didn't go to bad. Seems like AJ's hot and Jeff's not.

AJ picked up the pot again, I got a sloppy second. I didn't feel like I got to many good cards, enough though I shouldn't complain. I just have to stop going all in heads up witth a Q 7 offsuit, witht a K on the board.

We played the entire game with the new Copag cards and I think they worked out fine. They are different than the KEM's but at 1/2 the price and more available, they worked out fine. I just need to get a jumbo index set so Kevin can play and not see and 8 when it was a 9, or was it 9 when it was an 8.

Anyway, there were seven at the table and it was one of the quickest games I've been in. I think that it took at the most 2 1/2 hours. The blinds weren't raised on a time schedule but as people dropped, it stil went pretty quickly.

I reallly didn't get my poker fix though. I guess I'll have to see what March will bring, althought it doesn't look to good. I'll be able to make the "monthy" game on the 16th, but my anniversary is the 18 so that weekend is out

Game Two Complete

points add up

Game two is in the books. We had a light crowd, five people, but the game was good.

We tested out the new table covering, no more fuzzies. The black velveteen worked out pretty good. Along with the padding it was a pretty good surface. Next up is a rail. Let's hope I get it done by the next one.

Maybe the warmer weather will bring out a few more players.

A bounty system was introduced tonight, to add a litte extra to the game. It works like this:
The winner from the previous round has a three point bounty on their head. The person who takes out the last winner gets a three point bonus for the night. If more than one person is in the pot it is the one who either calls the all in or puts the person in. If the person doesn't show, no bounty applies.

The bounty tonight was on AJ


On to the results:

1. Brian* 10 + 3
2. AJ* 7
3. Mike 5
4. Kevin* 3
5. Dick 1

-------------- Totals ----------------------
Finish:
AJ* 17
Brian* 16
Kevin* 10
Jeff 5
Mike 5
Adena 1
Dave 1
Bobby 1
Dick 1


* Seat at final table, 10 chips per point

Poker Night 2/16

Game Two

Poker night is coming up.

Wednesday February 16, 2005 at 7:00 at my place. Let me know if you can make it.

Todd could you please let Gerren know.

You can either email me or respond to this blog (let's see how that works, hopefully we won't get any extraneous entries here).

I'd like a count by Saturday. I'm in so that makes one.

Brian

Poker Night 1/19

Game One

Our first poker night of 2005. We had seven players tonight.

Finish:
1. AJ 10
2. Kevin 7
3. Jeff 5
4. Brian 3
5. Adena 1
6. Dave 1
7. Bobby 1

So that sets two at the final table, hopefully they can make it.

Keeping Track

something i'm not very good at

Well I'm going to try and keep the Poker happenings up to date here. We'll see how long that lasts!

I'm going to keep track of our monthly game so anyone can take a look at the point totals and who's in for the final tournament.

FYI
**********************************************************
Buy in - 20
Depending on response we'll pay the top 2 (60%ish, 40%ish)
Blind Structure:
Players Small Big
6 1 2
5 2 4
4 3 6
3 4 8
2 5 10
Heads up blinds double every 1/2 hour (button is small blind)

5 rake for house
5 rake for annual pot (upto 20 then the rest to the nightly pot)
10 pts. 1st
7 pts. 2nd
5 pts. 3rd
3 pts. 4th
1 pt. the rest

Annual tourney will be top 2 finishers for each tourney, each player starts with 10 chips per point accumulated.