The Dookie, however, treated me better this week, as did a shootout

I finished second in the Dookie, which was a turbo stud high game this week.

Really had a fun time, was unlucky not to win (doubled up my opponent headsup when he hit a longshot hand against me); as when the final hand played out I was determined to take to the felt as I started with A24, all clubs, on the button against my opponent who was showing an ace (I was showing the 4). 4th street gave me the 5c so I had a wheel draw and four flush. I made aces up but my opponent was showing had picked up two consecutive eights on board, so I knew I was likely behind. Sure enough I miss all my straight and flush outs and go home to a better two pair hand, as he did indeed have split aces.

Fun times were had by all.

[Edit] I also managed to "win" one of the crazy 50 FTP shootouts where all the bloggers have a prop bet going where you shove every hand and pay $11 each to the blogger who is the last man standing. That was me, and so far 6 of you have promptly paid up. Yay.

I suppose a few more will trickle in over the next day or so if people remember to pay up c/o my FTP ID, PirateLawyer.

Out early in the Mookie

Out before the first break. Some truly awful poker was on display.

My bustout hand was classic. I open-raised to 4x the blinds with AT in middle position; both blinds called. I flopped TPTK on a T87 rainbow board and I put my opponent to the test for nearly all of his stack after he led out from the SB with a large fishy bet (the BB folded). He called my allin with ... K9 for an open-ended straight draw, and promptly hit his six on the turn.

Outstanding gamble for him to take so early (he was a 40% underdog). Button mashing at its finest.

[Edit] Unsurprisingly this fine poker player spewed away all of his 10K in chips in 5 minutes or less like they were going out of style and didn't reach the final table. Colour me surprised.

No luck in MATH, but ...

Fuel55 took it down. I flamed out relatively early and then took some headache medicine because I was definitely feeling some pain after helping some friends move yesterday. I regrouped and railed Fuel for a while and then jumped in when I heard about a blogger cash game starting.

And boy was it a wild one! We all sat at a deepstack cash game table with .40/.80 blinds and I endured a lot of re-raising light and sick bluffs by lucko but eventually I got whole through a combination of making big hands/winning races and accumulated a nice stack for a good cash session up 2 buy-ins by the end of the night.

I even got AA a couple of times and took down some nice pots without them being cracked.

Streak continues?

We'll see if I can burst this irksome bubble at the donkey club tonight with this spewmonkey.

Should be fun, come what may.

PLTC set

I get to take my Bar exams in October after a month of classes in September. Nice to get that confirmed and set in stone so I can plan around it.

Another stab at the Mookie

I will attempt to live blog the Mookie tonight. Will the bubble streak burst tonight (in a good way)?

Advance warning: I'll be coming home to play after drinking a fair amount of beer in a rare mid-week outing to a local pub with my dad and my brother-in-law. Should be fun times!

If I don't make it back in time to play, I'll show up to drunkenly rail the usual suspects.

Omaha Hi-Lo Insanity

Yet more bubbling out of the money ... this is getting awfully tiring, especially when some horrific play cost me a huge amount of chips at the final table through no fault of my own. I gave waaaaay too much credit to some of these players actually having the goods.



I think I earned all of 1.5 bounties -- yes, even the $2 KO bounties got split in this horrific event put on by Chad's supposed "skill" series.

I also hate running into an unimproved AA and missing a ton of outs when I finally got a hand at the final table that I wasn't premptively raised off of:

For what I meant by that previous statement, check out this doozy of a play (whom I'm sure is a nice guy, but holy crap was this an awful play or what!?) by dino_burger:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PirateLawyer [5h 5c Ad Jd]
lifesagrind folds
Mondogarage raises to 3,000
dino_burger raises to 4,500
Rake Feeder folds
jimdniacc folds
pvanharibo folds
PirateLawyer folds - I reluctantly fold; I just can't invest so much of my stack preflop by calling three bets cold. I mjust be up against a big hand, right?
Mondogarage calls 1,500
*** FLOP *** [4s Js 9d]
Mondogarage bets 1,500
dino_burger raises to 3,000
Mondogarage calls 216, and is all in
dino_burger shows [Ac 7h 4c 3h] -- how do you isolate with this shit?!
Mondogarage shows [Td As Ts 2c]
Uncalled bet of 1,284 returned to dino_burger
*** TURN *** [4s Js 9d] [5d] -- fawking presto is gold
*** RIVER *** [4s Js 9d 5d] [Qh]
dino_burger shows a pair of Fours, for high
Mondogarage shows a pair of Tens, for high
PirateLawyer: fawk
Mondogarage wins the pot (14,682) with a pair of Tens
No low hand qualified
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 14,682 | Rake 0
Board: [4s Js 9d 5d Qh]
Seat 1: pvanharibo (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: PirateLawyer (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: lifesagrind didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Mondogarage showed [Td As Ts 2c] and won (14,682) with HI: a pair of Tens
Seat 5: dino_burger showed [Ac 7h 4c 3h] and lost with HI: a pair of Fours
Seat 7: Rake Feeder didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: jimdniacc (button) didn't bet (folded)

I take down that pot, I cruise to a high finish in the money. Ah well. This bubble streak has to end soon, right? Right!?