Good Thing I'm Almost Broke, and an Update

Haha...my streak of non-cashes in tourneys is now up to 32 in a row (or at least something very close)**. The latest was a $12+1 180-man turbo on JokerStars, where on a T74 flop, and me holding QQ, I bet out 70% of the pot, and the button overshoves. Of course, I call. Oh yeah, almost forget, I had 3-bet preflop, and he called. He showed JT offsuit. LOL, really? He called a 3-bet and a call preflop with JTo. Naturally, the J fell on the turn, and I was out.

Oh yeah, and having TPTK go down to a naked flush draw that hit on the river. (Naturally, the donk overshoved on the turn with no pair, but 4 to a flush.)

The Skillz game truly sucked for me. I went out the last hand before break. At least 6-7 times, I had three wheel cards by 3rd street, and 4 low cards by 4th street, only to catch high cards on 5th, 6th, and 7th streets. If it seemed like I saw too many 4th and 5th streets (and I did, nearly 50%), it's only because I really did have some strong low draws. My two biggest lost pots, though, were having two pair go down to baby trips, and losing to a boat.

So my roll's down to about 1/3 of it's previous high, and I'm going broke. So my online poker career may be over in a few weeks, because I'm simply not interested in re-depositing in an environment where retarded poker play wins as often as it does.

After all, the live limits are going up soon in Colorado, and clearly, if I can go 9 days without playing a single hand, poker's taken a back seat anyway.


UPDATE: Why the asterisks? Well, after still taking a ton of abuse all over the place in any $12, $20, etc., buyins, I actually managed to take down an 18 player No Limit O8 SNG, and cash in one of those new fangled $7.70/180s. Of course, the tourney I win is a $1.50 buy-in, with a 1st prize of...drumroll...$10.80. But hell, I can't recall the last time I ever actually won anything, so it feels good.

Tuesday Bodog Bloggerment Pimpage

Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhh Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzzz!

Does that read more like a really bad rapper, or did I hit the Randy "Macho Man" Savage just right?

It's Tuesday, and you know what that means! Come join us for another edition in the
Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series. There's only a few weeks left, but still plenty of time to run deep and jump into the top 18!

The winner of the final tournament will receive a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a $12,000 WSOP* prize package and be a part of Team Bodog 2008.

Join up and challenge other Poker Bloggers each Tuesday in our Bodog Poker Room and live to tell about it. Earn points and work your way up the Tournament Leader Board for a spot in the final tournament for your chance to win a $12,000 World Series of Poker* prize package and be a part of Team Bodog 2008.

How to Participate
This tournament is open to poker bloggers worldwide. Players must have a Bodog Member Player Account to register.
If you are new to Bodog, please sign up at http://poker.bodoglife.com/

Players are then required to go to http://www.bodoglife.com/promotions/poker/blogger-tournament/ and sign in with their Bodog account information in the upper right hand corner. Once this is completed, they must then click on "REGISTER NOW" to register themselves into the tournament series. Bloggers will each have to do this once in order to play in the series. Once this is done, they then need to find the "Online Poker Blogger Tournament" in the software and register as they normally would each and every week.

Players are encouraged to register early. If you need assistance with signing up for the tournament or with starting a Bodog member player account, please call Bodog's Poker Customer Service at 1-866-909-2237 or contact us prior to start time at http://www.bodogbloggertournament.com/contact

Tournament prizes, leader board and tournament schedule available at http://www.bodoglife.com/promotions/poker/blogger-tournament/

Seriously, with an extra T$600 up for grabs every night, how can you go wrong?



While you're at it, Chad's continues with another week of his Blogger Skillz Series -- known to be equally maddening yet entertaining, and probably nutritious, as well. He's hosting Stud 8 tonight. I haven't yet decided whether or not to jump into that particular pool. Stud 8 is pretty much my worst game, yet last time through the rotations, I came rolled up K versus rolled up 9 away from a final table stake, so we'll see...but there's BBT3 points at stake, and you can't let this guy into a club that you're not in too, right?



Besides, he'll be there, I'm sure of it.

Money Deader Than Most - Come Git Some

Today is Tuesday, which means it's time for two of the neated blogger tourneys out there. Of course, I'm sure you're already well familier with the juiced up Bodog Blogger Tourney Series:



If you haven't yet heard of it, you obviously aren't reading this blog, or are living under a rock. Here's the highlights"

The Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series is composed of a series of 18 qualifying tournaments that run weekly beginning Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 to Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008. The top 30% of finishers in each qualifying tournament will earn points based on their finish. These points will be used to rank players over 4 months of qualifying. At the end of the qualifying series, the top 18 players on the Tournament Leader Board will play in the Final Tournament on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 with the first place finisher winning a $12,000 WSOP* prize package!

Prizes
Weekly Tournaments
Buy-in: $10 + $1
Prize Pool will be distributed as per Bodog's standard multi-table payout table. In addition, the top 5 players each week will also win T$109 to be used to buy-in to the $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament held every Sunday at 4:00 PM ET. The top 5 bubble players each week will win a free buy-in to next week's Weekly Tournament. (T$11 will be credited to these players' Bodog account within 24 hours after the completion of the tournament)

Final Tournament
Buy-in: $0 + $0 (must finish in the Top 18 on the TLB to be invited)
Grand Prize: $12,000 WSOP* Prize Package with Team Bodog
2nd place: T$540 to be used to buy-in to (2) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal
3rd place: T$379 to be used to buy-in to (1) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal and (1) $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament
4th: T$270 to be used to buy-in to (1) World Series or Players Choice Semifinal
5th: T$109 to be used to buy-in to (1) $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament

So how can I play? That's easy:

How To Register
To register for the Bodog Poker Blogger Tournament Series, poker bloggers must first go to http://www.bodoglife.com/promotions/poker/blogger-tournament/ and sign in with their Bodog account information in the upper right hand corner. Once this is completed, they then must click on "REGISTER NOW" to register themselves into the tournament series. Bloggers will each have to do this once in order to play in the series. Once this is done, they then need to find the "Online Poker Blogger Tournament" in the software and register as they normally would each and every week.

Tonight is also my favorite non No Limit Hold'Em blogger tournament, King of Donk's Blogger Skillz Series over at FullTilt:



Doublestacks and Knockout Bounties? How can you miss this one? Tonight, we're playing Limit Stud Hi/Low, and the chips will fly like there's no tomorrow.

Two doublestack bloggerments, and I'm gonna need the huge stacks in both. Why, do you ask? Because I'm strictly dead money for the first hour or so in both. (And thank goodness for Bodog's structure!) Today is Thoooper Tuesday, and Colorado is caucasing, which means the House of Mondo is caucasing. As this is the first presidential election year where I've ever lived in a caucus state, it actually means a lot to see the process for the first time.

The Good Doctor Mondo is caucusing, and I'm there to watch. As a registered independent, no tickie, no votie for me, but I'm trying to nudge the good half to try to become a county delegate. She's a big Clinton supporter, and stridency gets you far at the county level, I suppose. I'm hoping I have the chance to vote for Obama in November, but it's important to me to not tie myself to a party, where my vote will be taken for granted.

The pertinent thing here is, I've got dead money walking for probably the first 75 minutes of the Bodonkey, and the first 45 minutes or so of the Skillz game, so ya'll should really register and get some of my free money. I actually thought of not signing up for the Skillz, since it is about 8% of my BR in an ante game where I'll miss 40 hands, but fuck it, I'm two for two cashing in this bloggerment, and I will obviously quadruple up within four hands on my return when I luckbox Bayne's normal pockets. Here's to hoping I'm only anted to about 2500 by the time I return...