Lodge Results for Sunday 09/24/06 - Week 7

Better results this week, I was able to make it past the first break without winning a single hand. Best hand I had all evening was ATo which completly missed the flop. I would get marginal hands and limp in and catch a small piece, but always folded to a big bet and would have ended up losing anyway. Finally decided to go elsewhere and called a raise with J4s, catch a 4 and call the all in against pocket tens and go out. Ended up finishing 2nd at Scooters so I believe my cards are warming up again.

Lodge Results for Sunday 09/17/06 - Week 6

For the first time in my almost 2 years of playing poker, I went out on the first hand of a tournament. I am sitting behind the button and wake up to AA with 4 callers in front of me. The blinds are 1-2 and I raise to 6 and get 6 callers total. Flop is Q53 and BB bets 100, one other person calls and I go all in. Both players call and BB shows Q5o and the other caller shows 35s. I do not get any help and am out. I realized after that I should have raised to at least 20 and perhaps that would have gotten those other players out.

Lodge Results for Sunday 09/10/06 - Week 5

Better performance this week, actually won more than two pots. Started out a bit slow, I was at a pretty aggressive table and was not going to call preflop raises with T4, J6 or Q2. I finally get AA and the pot is raised to me, I reraise to 70 with the blinds at 4-8 and a raise to 24. There were two callers before me and amazingly everybody folds to my reraise. A few hands later I wake up to JJ UTG and call expecting a raise. Button raises and I call everybody else folds. Flop is Q7x and we both check. Turn is a blank and button bets 25 and I call. River is a K and I feel he is trying to buy the pot so I call his 25 bet and he turns over AJo and I take it down. Two hands later I get KK in the BB. UTG raises to 30 and there are two callers. I made a mistake now that I look at it in hindsight and I reraise to 60 which UTG and the button calls. Flop is 789 two hearts and I bet 125 to a 220 pot and both opponents call. Turn is a T and I know I am doomed so I check, UTG checks and button moves all in for 350 which has me covered. I put him on either AJ, KJ or JJ and I decide to fold. UTG folds showing a 9 and the button flips over A6 of hearts!!! I am not sure even if I would have bumped it to 150 or 180 preflop that the button would have folded a suited ace.

After the break I go card dead for awhile and then win a few pots here and there to keep me at about 250. Blinds are now 25-50 and I steal a few blinds by going all in. Go card dead again and now the blinds are at 75-150 and I am in the BB and go all in blind. Small blind is the only caller and he flips up 66. After the board is out I turn over K4o pairing only my 4 and I am out in 12th place.

An interesting side note, there was a petition going around before the tourney approved by the directors to change the starting chip and blind structure to be just like a WSOP event. They are suggesting starting with 5000 in chips and using the blind and ante structure of the actual event. I happily signed it and saw later on that more than half of the players signed it.

Lodge Results for Sunday 09/03/06 - Week 4

Tourney was run better this Sunday, blinds were still 20 minutes long and the only change from last week was the omission of the 15-30 blind. The directors managed the balancing of the tables much better so it seems that the tourney will be run well, but its still not Dan....

As far as my performance, if you can remember the two hands that you won with in a two and a half hour period, then your cards must be bad. Most of my hands were 82, 74, J2o, K4o and since there were a couple aggresive players raising the BB almost every hand I didn't even call BB unless I had something good. Finally get 77 UTG, I call expecting a raise but get 5 callers. Flop is A75 rainbow. SB bets the pot BB and I call, everyone else folds. Turn is a 6, SB bets 25 and BB folds, I raise to 75 and SB thinks for awhile and exposes a 4 and I win the pot. I get AK twice and raise each time 3x the blinds, get callers and the flop completely misses me so I fold to any bet. There is a player on the table that is calling practically any raise and this gave me a decent stack with the blinds at 20-40, I push all in for 200 with AA and he immediately calls with JJ. I flop another A and I win the pot. For the next few orbits I don't get a hand until the blinds are 30-60 and I have 190 chips left and wake up to 44. I push all in and get called by another player who has been winning on the river even after being way behind until then. He flips up ATo and catches his ten high straight on the river and I am out.