It’s up and I’m in. I have nothing to say for last quarter’s results, since I only made the last game, but I don’t think you need to apologize for anything!
Thanks Aholibah. I can’t beleive what an awesome group of regulars we have here. This whole thing turned out better than I ever thought it could. I hate to make excuses, but my life has been super hectic and things are much better now. I’ll be on top of posting the ratings regularly from now on. You guys deserve it!
fubbleskag, in case you’re reading this and not your e-mail, I still need you to send me your PT acct. #.
done!
I’m fine with dropping that one game, even though it might hurt me in the long run.
I’m getting a much larger update than usual, but I’m in.
1 Yeti
2 Ahol
3 Nanook
4 CapnPitt
5 Dead Guy
6 MissTake
7 Duck of Suck
8 Fubble
9 xray
Missed my royal flush by THIS much. Damn you Yeti.
I played in the Boke and got a really bad beat that basically took me out (4 twos against my three Kings). What time do you guys usually start?
The game is set to start 10pm each week
GO, 7pm PDT…same time as the Bicycle tournament. If you want, you could play both at the same time…I did it before. I could AIM a message to you a few minutes before to remind you next time.
Let me just say that the MAB was the Elixir of Monster Hands tonight…hope your asses weren’t too red tonight. 
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times…Damn you Yeti…Damn you right to heck
Congrats to Nesta! The Official 2nd quarter champ.
Here are the results for the 2nd quarter:
- nesta 71.25%
- Nanook of the North Shore 69.47%
- Kyyrewyyoae 60.61%
- Duke of Rat 57.09%
- x-ray vision 55.05%
- Yeticus Rex 54.43%
- asterion 53.17%
- Capn Pitt 45.72%
- Only Mostly Dead 40.43%
Results for 3rd quarter rankings so far won’t get posted until next week ( since we haven’t played three games yet).
Self-destructed courtesy of stupid play in today’s noon 99cent limit tourney.
The first hour, I played impeccable poker. Went aggressive when I could win, a little wimpy when it was close and caught some luck, stayed out of probably 70% of the hands dealt after no more than the flop. I’d bled a little early on, but by the break, I was in the top 3 of the remaining 70 or so players.
Then, for absolutely no reason at all, I changed my style. I got aggressive. I think the strength going into the game after the break made me cocky. I started playing ugly hands (78off, heck they’re linked, why not?), and with hands that I would have wimpy limped along to the reveal, I bet heavy to try and force other players out. And it failed, so very very miserably.
In the space of 15 or 20 minutes, I went from 5000 chips and top of the board to out.
I should have played the smart slow game of the first hour, I would have at least gotten to the final table, I’m sure of it.
Tough break OMD, you had the right style in the first hour, but the aggressive style is sooooooo tempting every time I play…I succumb to it every so often and usually go out in a few hands or get crippled to the point of being blinded out or going all in with a measly hand before the blinds come and take the rest away.
The last two times on our SDMB tourney, I started playing pretty conservatively. At the beginning of the game, anything K8o or below, I folded. Also would toss anything below a JTs too. Next thing I knew, after surviving so many trash hands, I started having cards that were worth betting on…and in most cases, won with.
But the temptation to play crappier hands was with me the whole way…
Q6s
K5o
So many J3o, I had to use Duke’s webbed toes to count with.
ETC.
ETC.
ETC.
I finished 4th in last nights 9pm 99-cent tournament. Go me!!
I was top of the board with about 26K chips for a good while after the second break, then nearly bankrupted myself with KK when an A hit the board – whammo, down to 6500. But a mixture of discipline, luck and very aggressive betting built my stack back up and got me to the final table. I had about 34K chips in the big blind (blinds at 4K-8K) when I got AJo. The only caller was small blind (big stack with about 280K in chips) who limped at me, I went all-in, he had 44 and they held up.
Not a very big payout for almost 4 hours of work, but still a good return on the $1, and my best large tournament finish ever.
Congrats Aholibah! We don’t call you the Black Widow for nuthin’ ya know. 
Those damn small pairs’ll get ya every time.
Congrats, Aholibah! I was considering joining the tournament with you, but we hadn’t eaten dinner yet and I had some other things to tend to afterwards, but I did go back on to PT to see how you did…and you got 4th! ($21.52!!!)
You give the rest of us Dopers a glimmer of hope to do well against the rest of the players on PT.
Good job Aholibah! I haven’t been to a final table in so long in the .99 center. I had a string of four in a row! (though I never won). Lately the only thing that keeps me hanging around past the first hour is my cards are so bad I can’t even lose my chips.
Oh, BTW…did anyone survive 36+ hours of 2003 & 2004 WSOP coverage on ESPN Classics? I think I saw about half of it since I was doing a lot of take-home work.
Yeti I caught several hours of it at a buddy’s house yesterday (he’s got air conditioning, I don’t).
Things I learned:
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I still really hate Josh Arieh. A jerk who got soooo lucky going in on soooo many draws. Kind of reminds me of me (except for the lucky part)
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Raymer seems like a genuinely nice guy, but those glasses would have infuriated me if I was at the table with him (and yes I realize that’s part of their purpose).
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Hi Opal!
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Al Krux is a great name.