I went to a wedding last Saturday night, and had a wonderful time, and have to say the pictures will be postponed for the next post since I’m dragging ass tonight and want to write about my extended family (the Patterson boys) with a clear thought.

Other exciting times are wrapped around online poker playing. The Full Tilt Poker Battle of the Bloggers 2nd free roll event happened on Sunday, the 25th.  There were 108 of us that ponied up…our time since it was free…to see if we could be one of the last two standing to win a seat in the 24-player Tournament of Champions that will be held on May 27th…damn I want to play in that.  Along the way of trying to finish 1st or 2nd, we got real money, yeah $$$$ – not just a chintzy seat in another tournament.  The final 18 received the cash.  I made it to 3rd place and received $220.  E-X-T-R-E-M-E-L-Y NICE!

Along the way to the final 3, I made some hands that actually stood up for a change…and I stole a few pots too.  *Tee hee* I play on my desktop and work on the laptop, for some reason the hand histories I’d like to find on the desktop seem to be irretrievable.  I don’t care to dwell on them but one hand put me into some pretty big bucks and I don’t even know who I beat but his comment has stayed in my thoughts and I’m wondering how he could make the statement.  Here’s how it came down:

I stayed at the same table from the beginning until we got to the final table (which is quite unusual) and the players on each side of me were sitting out from the beginning.  At Full Tilt you don’t know they are in ‘sit out’ unless you check the last hand and then you can see the ‘sit out’ note on them.  When it was my BB, more than once, the Button put in a raise.  I didn’t fight back for quite some time.  I don’t even know what the blinds were but I think possibly 25-50 or 50-100 and I had around 4K in chips when the Button raised my BB one more time.  I believe it went to $450.  I called with J-6Spades.  I can’t even tell you what the board came but I flopped a flush.  I never slow played the hand and I ended up all-in.  I won.  He had J-J.

The comment: I put you on J-6 but not that. (perhaps he didn’t say ‘not that’ but it was something close).

I replied:  I put you on a steal since the SB is setting out.

If he put me on J-6, he is fucking magic and should be playing with Tom Durrrr Dwan and Phil Ivey.  I’m sorry kids, but how do you put someone on J-6 in online poker?  Especially when they snap call your raise?

Then at another point I got extremely lucky – I got disconnected.  Fuck!  I completely closed the Full Tilt Poker client and when I was back at my table, I was in the BB (no one had raised it) and held 4-4…the flop was out – something like J-9-4.  I won a big pot on that baby too.  Yeeeee-haaaawwww!  I had chips but I never got crazy with them.  I just played a sensible game, stealing a few here and there, and picked up Aces twice and never got a call on my pre-flop raise (yeah baby…I’m OK with that).  I got one blogger to give me all of his chips when I bet the Ace high four flush (two in my hand) on the flop, checked it when I made it on the turn, and pushed all my chips on the river when an Ace hit, he called me and went busto.  Now that’s what I call a hot time in the green felt online dance.

At three-handed, I finally picked up 5-5 (pretty card dead for quite some time) and pushed all-in for around 50K, got the momentary ‘time’ from the other player in the pot with me and he called with K-Q off.  The flop was 7-7-6 and I thought I had a chance until the 6 fell on the turn, a 4 on the river.  I was very happy to finish where I did and Alcanthang was our host and Spaceman was sweating us too.  Thanks guys!

Fortunately for the PokerWorks Family Tourney, Al announced it in the chat in the BBT just a few minutes before it started and we had 13 players.  thanks again Al. And thanks everyone for playing the PokerWorks Family Donkey fest.  I love you for it.  I wish I could link up your blogs but I’m sorry I don’t know who goes to what.  If you send me a comment with your url here, I will gladly do it.  The tournament went down like this:

1 desertblade (me)
2 djhomeschool
3 clearspine
4 pushmonkey72
5 DontKnow
6 NumbBono
7 VinNay
8 Muhctim
9 R J Squirrel 40
10 Joanne111
11 sk1126
12 maigrey
13 iaatg6296

When we got down to four-handed, we bumped each other around a bit and I managed a draw-out on Clearspine (not that he didn’t get me on one too) but he typed: you really are a donkey.

I admit it, I picked up A-Q and it was holdem and I had already decided to bet myself broke on the hand.  I raised pre-flop and he raised me, I called.  It came all little and I fired it up, he raised me, I called.  The turn was little and I bet, he called, I rivered a beautiful Queen.  I bet, he called.  *Ears flapping*

I had the majority of the chips but the lead can change so fast at the limit we were at that it’s hardly worth mentioning a lead.  Clearspine had to leave, and my eyes were bleeding from looking at poker hands for the last five hours…a chop mentioned was welcome to me.  We chopped on a percentage and it was over.

Thanks everyone for playing, and it was definitely a win-win poker day for me.