Deader Money

Hello my friend(s)...it's been a while mainly due to not playing, matter of fact completely due to not playing. Didn't play for a few months and just been working and pretty much blew whatever little bank roll I was working on over the holidays. Christmas is nice but sure does run ya broke. I had a good one, was pretty busy but bought my last gift Christmas Eve around 2:00. The new years was rather uneventful. Started out with plans to stay in the city and maybe go meet my brother and sister and hang out with some friends in the area but they left town and the girl and I decided to venture to Houma and bring in the new year with some friends from there. Not a whole lot to brag about. Watched the guy jump at Paris, Las Vegas...is it wrong for me to have wished for something cooler to happen than the guy slice his hand open?? I wasn't hoping for any bodily harm or death or anything but if you were watching the ESPN coverage and saw all the computer graphics of if he hit the ramp to late or gased it too much and it showed him getting crushed by the bike or landing on his neck. Which I think is messed up more than me wishing for something interesting to happen. All in all that was the prolly the most excitement I had new years eve. Hopefully yours was better.


Well now on to some poker, kinda. Thanks to Gene and Bill for arranging a dead money satillite in Houma at Dinger's place. It wasn't too great for me and they only had 10 players which was nice b/c I only had to beat 9 people. Well it could've been some of the most boring poker I have ever played. I was obviously rusty and timid and hit NO groove whatsoever. Got caught up in one hand early and that pretty much ended any chance of doing anything b/c naturally I went card dead after losing a quarter of my chips chasing a flush. I played the hand pretty badly and I knew it as I was playing the hand but of course I couldn't control myself and momentarily justified the play. It was against Gene and I had 10c8c and flopped a flush draw in a $250 to go pot 4 ways at 50/100 and Gene bet out on an Ace high flop and I called $600 thinking that Gene had less left than what he did and we went heads up to the turn and I missed on the turn and he moved in for about $1300 which put $3500 and I called knowing that if I missed I would be 1k less than the starting stack but figured it was a good chance to be able to put pressure if I got lucky on the hand or I still had chips to play with if I missed. Well I shoulda folded on the flop and been done with it b/c of course I missed and never got anything going after that. Went into a shell and played HORRIBLE. I knew I was playing scared but it was almost as though I forgot how to get in there and make a play. The action wasn't out of control but I kept telling myself I was gonna open up after I won a good sized pot or caught a couple raising hands w/in a 15 minute span. Well neither happened and I was forced to nurse a short stack and pick spots to reraise certain players preflop and take down pots. It worked and kept me treading water but I was never comfortable.


I did however get to see Summerral and that's always interesting b/c he's fun to mess with and it's pretty easy to get into his head but always in good fun. I also got to witness Davey play a lot a hands and not win any of them. He had that night where you look down at your cards and say to yourself "do I really have to put in chips again?" Personally I wish I woulda had that problem b/c after not playing for a while I would have enjoyed being involved in a lot of pots. And I play better than Davey so I would have prolly won more of those pots...haha (it's been a while since I got to take a cheap shot on here)...but he really did run some big hands into some bigger hands and managed to survive and not get totally flustered by it. I on the other hand had very little opportunities to do that. I didn't have much to work with after the hand with Gene and a few people got knocked out and I think blinds were 200/400 when the next hand came up. I was in the BB and it was opened for 1k and one caller and I look down at JJ and I'm really not sure what to do here...my first thought when I it was to reraise no matter what but based on the person who raised and the person who called I had a feeling it would be really difficult to push one of them away and damn near impossible to make both of fold. I decide to reraise 2600 more and leave myself with about 2500. That was horrible raise and I have no idea why I did it...based on the other two people I think I should have called or moved in. I wasn't exactly splashing around a lot and "SHOULD" have had enough credit to only do that with a big hand but not all of these guys notice that stuff or even care. Well both call and the flop came A,K,x and I pretty much shut it down and check as well as both behind me. The turn was Q and just getting a bit retarded. I check and then it's bet call. River is another A and a bet and call and there was a straight for the winner and three aces for second place. That was maybe the only excitement I had. I continue to hang in there thinking that the cards have to eventually level out and it wouldn't be a bad time to start when we're 5 handed.


Well I moved in a couple times and picked up some uncontested pots but never got a good hand to get a double up or anything. I busted on a hand that I was somewhat slowrolled by the dealer. I was in the blind and it was limped all the way around and we take the flop 5 handed and I have 8c,6c and flop is K high two clubs. This is as good of a time as any. I move all in for not a whole lot but enough to push out marginal hands. Well Dinger calls, and if I had to put money on anyone calling it woulda been him. He had K,9 for top pair and he was also the dealer. He turns the card up and looks at it before he puts it on the table and gives a big sigh and an "awh man" and I'm thinking that there's no freaking way I got lucky. I don't run that good!....well he tables the card and it was a 6!..to give me a pair, he was flustered by the 5 outs that I picked up. Well I missed on the river and that was all she wrote. I know Dinger did not realize that what he did was kinda shitty for me, it was harmless and I was done. The guy Dave that won played pretty well, he was definitely catching some hands which will make anyone play with more confidence. He did however use his stack accordingly and make position raises and didn't get called down to often. He was a benefactor of Davey's second best hands. Weather he was actually picking up better hands or outflopping Davey it definitely seemed as though the board made it virtually impossible for Davey to play a hand down to the river.


This post is pretty delayed considering the table was played a few weeks back but I started it and never finished it b/c of lack of time with the holiday madness. Congrats to Matt for his 1st place finish last weekend and Davey for his 3rd place in the 70k gtd. the other night. Not sure if I'll be able to make a trip out to the Beau over the next couple weeks, I will have to just wait and see. I did however get to play the day of the Sugar Bowl. My friend Hunter and I went to the game and made a quick stop in at grandma's house and picked up a couple dollars before watching the Tide get rolled! (i'm not a die hard LSU but I do dislike Saban, even when he was in Baton Rouge). I know Bill was waiting for me to start posting again before he added me to GCP so I'm not sure when that will happen. I finally had something to write about and I also have my sugar bowl session and maybe some more poker next weekend. Good luck to anyone going to the Beau.
Till next time,
Keep it real homies.