The Poker Beard

To simply denounce tournaments, ahem, I mean donkaments as lottery games, you pays your money and you takes your chances, to secure first places ? (Although my previous advice is still worth a £ or 2 of anyones money. Maybe.)

After all my “Gah, tournaments are’nt real poker.” & “I prefer cash games to buying lottery tickets.” comments, I took down the last APAT league game of the season last night in spectacular fashion as my infamous hand, 5-4 off despatched my HU opponent and a couple of others along the way.  Due to my somewhat, er, esoteric choice of hands I was in first position pretty much all the way -

While I was busting players with some less than premium holdings, it is nice to see the best hand holding up when it counts -

This was actually so well timed as the two opponents both had just over 30K while I had shy over 50K, thus they were the real dangers to me so a swift, surgical removal of them was just what the Dr ordered.

Nottingham have now promoted themselves to the top division in the league and it is rightly deserved as out of 10 matches, 6 were won by a Nottingham player.

Ah, lovely, enticing Rushpoker.  Considered the “Crack” of the poker world and I do like to unwind by playing the PLO games, which lead to this -

Full Tilt Poker $0.05/$0.10 Pot Limit Omaha Hi – 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP: $25.18
CO: $16.67
Hero (BTN): $9.20
SB: $11.81
BB: $19.39
UTG: $3.43

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BTN with 9h Td 9d Ah
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.35, SB calls $0.30, BB calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.05) Kd Qd Kh (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($1.05) Jc (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $0.65, SB calls $0.65, BB folds

River: ($2.35) Jd (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2.35, SB raises to $9.40, Hero calls $5.85 all in

Final Pot: $18.75
Hero shows 9h Td 9d Ah (a straight flush, King high)
SB shows Kc Ks 7c As (four of a kind, Kings)
Hero wins $17.50
(Rake: $1.25)

Brilliant, now, if only I could have the same luck with the Euromillions….

I had just taken my seat at a 7 card Stud cash game and on my first hand, this happens -
The Official DeucesCracked.com

Hand History Converter

3rd Street: (1.25 SB)

Seat 4: xx xx J____Seat 4 folds

Hero: 8 K 7___Hero

brings in

Seat 6: xx xx 8____Seat 6 folds

Seat 7: xx xx T____Seat 7 folds

Seat 8: xx xx J____Seat 8 folds

Final Pot: 0.625 BB

Hero mucks 8 K 7

Hero wins 0.625 BB

Deliciously odd but turned out to be a sign of a good session, as the Omaha session did too.  A nice little reminder of the place fortune has in our favourite game.