Finished in 40 something.

Out of 91 or so. Not bad but I am not aggressive enough in these live tournies with the blinds. Especially when they go to 15 mins. So I found myself short stacked and had to push with sub par. Or well. Keep learning. :)

Update

The first hour of the tournament (rebuy period) is over. Still in. Best hand I had was AK and won a bit. Had 88 but got pushed off. Also had pocket 2s. You could not protect ur hand and everyone went to the river and rebought. Lol. Total gong show. When we get back I will have about 2700 in chips with blinds at 25-50.

Well here goes

About to start the charity Crohns tourny. 84 players or so. TSN is here lol. Could be a blast.

Hot Ringette Action

Here is a live action shot of hoops and bitches.

And here is another set!!!

Aynsley decided to put them out there :)

Alicia

Thinking about how she can have sex with the millionaire. :)

2 pitchers In

And she is rocking it hard!!! Good job

Yay. Aynsley

So ok. Now it is me and 4 girls. Things are looking up.

Another Thursday, another Haaaaaaaaamered

Ok. Here we go again. Looks like this is becoming a crazy tradition. :)it is go time. And this time we brought Alicia. Woo hoo.

So MAYBE things are working

I was on my way to Steinbach today...(little hung over) when it hit me. For the first time in FOREVER I don't think I have any measurable symptoms of Crohns disease. Like at all. I don't know if it is just the remicade, the exercise, eating better or just random chance but WOW, I mean as I sit here and type this, and listen to my body, I don't think that it is saying anything. (Except that my left calf muscle is thinking about going on strike about all this running).

I say think because you get soo used to feeling bad that you become an expert at ignoring the bad feelings....but I am serious. I don't think I can feel any bloating, pain, no issues at all.

Just gonna sit here for a while and enjoy it. :)

Canadian Wildlife

Proof that there are polar bears here in Canada

LOL. Too much to eat I guess...

Looks like I am fat. 191 before I go to bed. Really?? I mean I weighed myself today and was 184 or so. Can you eat 7 pounds in a day. I don't think I have pooped since then. Hmmm.

Hello!

These are Schmatty's LOL. Gloser than most guys will ever get I guess.

Love her!

Wow.

Dirty Girl!

Hungry?

And she wants to be governor general.

Woo hoo

Partying harder!!!!

Party time!

Lol. This is how the evening starts!!
Karl Copp
Field Consultant
7-11 Canada.

Drinking with Schmatty

So I am off for drinks. Lol. With Schmatty here. :). More poker to come I am sure. I wonder if these pictures upload.

Getting infusion

So I sit here while I am getting mt 2nd infusion of Remicade for Crohns. Sort of boring but a break from the week I guess. Been busy. Have the Crohns charity tourny coming up on the 22nd.

Today there was another person here getting infused. Been doing it for over a year. She just slept through the whole thing.

Picture is of me just sittin here bored. Gotta go for blood work now.

Maybe I should read my own Blog.

I mean what was this...a pissing contest. First time I allowed myself to feel like I was getting pushed around...and then this happens??

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3270106


And then a little less bad play on my part....and I thought it was the river that hurt me. LOL.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3270134

Just have to not be stupid

In regards to a lot of things really. In poker I am referring to the fact that I think in lower stakes on line if you just want to play "ABC" poker and not try to be too fancy you will be profitable. Maybe not to the degree or at the speed you want, but you will. Time and time again I prove that to myself by only losing money or getting involved in hands that when I step back and look at I would really have no reason in being involved. Here is a prime example....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3269971

I mean really, did I think I was winning? Honestly I was thinking maybe I was hosed on with the flush, but if he was ready to commit that much to that scary of a board...what did he have that i could beat? AK? I doubt it.

That is an example of Bad poker. Even with that hand I managed to finished (barely) up for the night, but those are the hands I need to stay away from. That is just trying too hard.

Crohns wise just bagged all the time. I mean no really "symptoms" to speak of, but just tired a lot. I go for my second remicade infusion next Wednesday, and I wonder if I will have the same 24 hours of symptoms I had last time. It felt like my head was rushing and felt a little like I was on speed.

Anyhow, tonight I am going to try my hand at the new Norther Poker Tour even being held at the legion close to my place. I expect a poor turnout, so I aim for the final table. LOL. And I also registered for the charity Crohns Fundraiser tourny on October 22nd. Sounds like the first hour of it is a gong show but it should be interesting.

Lol

So yep officially back in the swing. Finished up about $100 dollars (about 7.5% of my bank roll) which is great, and I have bankrolled Felter for $200, which is standard. Lol. So all in all almost to $1500

Will post some hands when I get back to the computer.

So no game tonight at HU's

Lack of sausage at the sausage fest, so I am going to try my hand at FT. So far already down $11 on on table of a buy in of $100 and think I am still playing too soft. We shall see what the rest of the night brings.

So I am on this drug called Remicade that is supposed to help with my "fistulating crohns disease". I wont explain, look it up.

Interesting drug. You can only take it via IV, so I had my first "infusion" last week. Then I go in 2 week, then in 4 weeks, then every 8 weeks after that. There are supposed to be some side effects. The first time the only think I noticed was a "rushing" feeling in my head all night and a little bit of a headache the night after. And MAYBE some joint or muscle pain as the week went on. Will be interested to see how I feel after the next one. It is next Wednesday (the 7th?) at 1.
It takes like 4 hours to take anyhow.....

On the plus side it costs like $4300 an infusion, insurance pays, but i get the Airmiles, so that is nice. Will have a lot of Airmiles within the next year or so. LOL

Not much happening on the poker side right now. Just folding a lot. The AK hand that I lost money on bugs me. I think I am slow playing.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3262495

Not that anyone will look at this as no one reads this....lol..

Out of retirement

Yep its true. Slurpee Dude is back from his self imposed exile. Essentially took most of the spring and all of the summer off from poker. Biggest reason is that I had 2 Crohns related surgeries that messed me up and kicked my ass. Because of that though I am going to include some Crohns info and ramblings on this blog. Sorry for those that don't care. More for me than you I guess.

Anyhow, played a bit of cash only and was up a bit, then entered a PCH tourny online for $33 and lost by playing like shit, but at least I could see it. Tonight returning to the"Hus on first" game. Will see how that goes. Anyhow, will type more when I have a real keyboard in front of me.

Still at .50

And still coasting a bit. I can pretty much put it on auto pilot now and play ABC poker and SLOWLY grind up, as long as I don't hit any coolers. Case in point I just played 1.5 hours 2 tabling and ground up like 16 dollars. But if I try to get fancier I either do much better, or more than likely just piss away more money. So bah.

I will admit though that it is easier and easier to stay out of trouble and dodge the sticky situations.

Anyhow, going to take a break and hopefully play some more later.

Not dead

Just not been feeling well lately (Crohns, look it up).

Anyhow, went to Regina casino the other night and learnt a lot about my game. One I can get bored and start to chase too much. In the end I turned 200 into 315 but it should have been much closer if not over 400. And I would have liked more time as because I was there for work I only stayed from 9:30 to midnight. But whatever, it was nice to leave up.

And online still sitting around 1430. Playing right now and up a little, and trying to play tighter than lately. Gave away 50 dollars the last time I played once getting cracked and once or some being an idiot.

But the quest for 1500 is back on, gotta do it just for Felter. Will update after this session.

Sorry for the last post

Honestly forgot about it. (Although I am sure if I had won I would have remembered). It was a bounty tourny, and I did take out a celeb, so I now have $25 at HP again. LOL. But I went out when I ended up flopping open ended and four flushed and missed. Just could not get away from that juicy of a draw.

Time for a Tourny attempt

Logged into Hollywood poker because I knew I had a few poker points left there. So exchanged most of them to try Canada Hollywood Poker Night tonight. 114 people entered and it just started.....

I am ok...but just not that good.

As I sit here I think I have reached one of my goals...I think that long term I am a profitable poker player!! Wish that means that I would be rich someday, but baring some unlikely score in a tourny that will never happen.

I make this outlandish statement as I think I have proven to myself that I am capable of managing my bank roll (a definite strength of mine) but I am just not that good at opening up my game.
I mean I can play the 10 best hands with the best of them.
I am understanding position
I have standardized my bets and can hide some hand strength
And I have developed some aggression.

And I know...all great things....so where is the problem??


I HAVE NO BALLS WHEN IT COMES TO STARTING HANDS.

And I know this is what is the biggest road block in my ever having a huge night or my bank roll taking off. But until I am able to open up with 78 suited, and bet that flop then I am just not going to get there. I know it sounds like I want to play like a donkey, but I don't. Just don't want to have the image all the time of a straightforward ABC player. But unless I am playing at joker small stakes I just cant. Maybe with growing my bank roll I will be able too.

Anyhow, on that note grew things a bit more tonight. Getting close to $1400 so that is nice. At this rate I will be soon playing $1 NL again.....I did used to do well at that game back at Hollywood.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2167401 Pretty sure this was a good fold.....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2167407 And this was nice but I should have slowed down on the turn and bet like 1/3 of pot or something to get someone else to come a bit farther.

So have found some more time

And got a nice session in today. A couple interesting hands where patience really pays and over time some people just want to give you their money. Felter was watching for a bit and saw at least one of the donations.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144601 I really like this hand. Not because I won, but because I was able to put him on a hand, and went with it. I did not feel he had a J, and thought maybe AK or KQ. Turns out it was the later. Tuff river for him I guess.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144612 Free money!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2144623 And on this one I am glad I went back and looked at the hand. I thought I had dirtied him, and he lied about it...Nasty river card for him. Nice to see it goes both ways sometimes.

So that was the session in a nutshell. Took me north of 1350 and within distance of my stated "Step up" limit of $1500. That is where I will at least temporarily try my luck at $1.

G'night!

What goes away comes back....

Just a quick post. Lost $50 last week, and won it back last night. LOL

Back from Texas

Not a lot of poker played because stupid me I left my laptop while I was in Dallas for a week for work. But got back Friday night and was able to just put my first session in now. Had an hour to kill and it amazes me that I was able to even keep that profitable. Not going to post the good hands, here are the ones that are crap. If I just stopped trying to make fancy "moves" and push people off pots, I would be a god!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085725 In this hand I just did not really have any reason not to believe him. More importantly, he did not believe me, and I was holding air.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085729 Jesus. Just now I went over this hand and re-reading it I STILL dont know what i was thinking. I guess I thought he could be weak and it was a BB steak attempt, but I mean...really?? I sux.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2085761 Screw you Kesh.


So yeah. After all that I did manage to pull together a small profit, and am damn near 1300. But honestly I could be there if I could find a hoover damn to blug the leaks in my game.

Tale of 2 tables.

Put in about 90 minutes and it really was interesting how you can play the same game at 2 different tables...and have 2 different results.

Table A) Had trouble getting things going. I think I ended up with more of a donkish image that I was looking for. I think this helped create a situation where I did not get rid of this guy...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2023106

Also took the wrong side of 2 pair to the river. I gotta stop believing in the BB special. LOL.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2023108

So those were the hands of note from that table. Finished down $50 or so there.

Table B) Here I had an entirely different image. I was able to establish some aggresion with 3 and 4 betting, and then got my big hands paid off...after that I could pretty much take down any pot I wanted. Here are some of note...

Thank you Kesh...for once you were right. http://www.pokerhand.org/?2023120

Only time when I love people pusing at my nuts http://www.pokerhand.org/?2023135

And here is a great example of money that I would not have won even 3 months ago. In honor of Travis I floated him and them made him believe. http://www.pokerhand.org/?2023143

So all in all this table finished up over $120 dollars. So not bad and a nice continuation. Hope I can keep this roll going.

So all ready to go.

Well it took a while but I finally am all ready to go. What do I mean by that? Well I mean in order to be serious I thought I had to get a few things done.

1) Get an ok understanding of Poker Tracker and get it going.
2) Get Rake Back at a site where I am going to play (A must)
3) Get all my money on the same site...no fractured bankroll

And it is all done. Felter paid back an old stake that I am sooo impressed he managed to do. He took .10 and ran it up to over $400. Wow...wish I could do that!!

And lately I have been playing ok. Going over hands it seems that most of my losses are bad attempts at bluffs or moves. When I play straight up poker...I seem to win. So lets try that.

Now that I have over $1100 hundred dollars someone asked me when I would step up (I am playing .50 NL). But what I have decided that I will need 15x BB. So before I go up to $1 NL I am waiting untill I have $1500 dollars.

Lets give it a try!!

Nothing exciting but up another 38%

Just a short little post. Played for just over an hour and GROUND up a 38% profit. (That sounds so much better than like 18 dollars). But whatever...I really have to contribute this to more pre-flop aggresion and some 3 bet aggression to defend blinds.

No hands of note really but I will check again later.

Good Session

Sat down for just over an hour with a couple of tables and finished up nicely (like 200 BB or so). It was especially nice as I was down 20 dollars fairly quickly but realized somewhere along the line that one of my assets is patience...so I just waited. And my increased aggression really helped. I just need to work on my timing more and open up I think a little more, and I will be on the way. Even tried a little 3 betting tonight, which worked...but I think I might have been doing it at the wrong time and may have shut a few pots down earlier than needed.

But hey...aggression is never the complete wrong answer...right??

Hands.

#1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1986678 First the bad...not sure what I was even doing in this hand anyhow?? I mean if the turn gave me a flush draw then ok. But he did take time and waited till the last second. So nice call by him.

#2) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1986691 Classic race. I put him on AK and I was right.

#3) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1986698 Here I changed up my timing and it really helped. Of course quads are good.

#4) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1986703 Here I thought that if a scare card came on the river I could take it down.....it worked.

#5) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1986716 And here I question his call on the flop, but I thought he might as he had hung onto AK a couple of time. SEND IT BY BOAT!!

So all in all. Almost up to $900 for the first time..and when I get my money from Felts I will be damn near $1200. Woo hoo!!

Queens are not my friend :)

So if i never got deal QQ I would be an amazing poker player. LOL. Just 2 tables it for a little over and hour and ran positive. Got back some of the losses from the QQ hand below. But gave some back with QQ again. Here are the hands of note and my comments.

#1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981038

In my mind this hand plays itself. I made little money from an early position speculative hand and paid just enough on the turn. Was pretty sure I was not getty any more money on the river and I was right.

#2) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981048

I think I played this hand Marginally better then the hand in the post below....I dont know. I really dont think I paid all that much to get to the river on an over pair. I was pretty sure that that D helped on the river, but I think it as a cheap enough call..... ?

#3) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981052

This hand I like. I like my read. And even though the pot odds pretty much dictated I make the call anyways, my read immediately was I was good...and he does not get there with a hand that is beating me except for a set of queens, and I discounted that with my Q. Maybe AQ but once again I had a Q so I was ok.

So those were the 3 major or most interesting hands. There was also a lot of small pots taken down preflop by my increased preflop aggression and bet size depending on number of limpers. I also am looking at position more. With tier 2 speculative hands like A-10s I am limping early rather than betting out with the intention of seeing a cheap flop. And it has helped...especially limiting those big losses where I get caught and committed to a hand with a less than a premium hand.

Thats all for now!

Ouch.

Starting a session here and this is how you do NOT want to play a hand.

I had thought AJ or AK miss, but even soo, no reason to get it all in. I need to take time here, use some bets to get info, and find out what hands he might be going with.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1979875

LOL, well I hope this is to get all the bad karma out of the way...but wow, I way over value Q's and I always have.

Finally

Just finally got around to doing something that is a no brainer that should have been done a LONG time ago.

I am setup for Rake Back at Full Tilt. That has got to help. If I got 27% of the rake that I had paid back before I would be in better shape obviously. I wish I did not need the amount but hell, I will take it.!!

Just had a good session

First off Props to Big Felter who just torune .10 into over 400 dollars. Woo hoo I am getting my cash back!! Gotta love it.

Just finished a .50NL session. Thing went ok. Finished up like 47 dollars, and so have to be happy with that. But there was defiantely more money on the table but I did not leave as much as I normally do. And I did get out of the way of some good hands..... here are some hands of note:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1970085
This was a good dodge on my part. I mean ok not exactly rocket science butI know that in the past I would have lost more money here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1970088
This was the biggest losing hand for me of the night. Do I get away from this?? With the stack that he had I do not think so. I was sure he did not have aces and I was right...although can I really even be sure of that??

This guy here demonstrates again why you do not limp or slow play. What did he think I had??
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1970092

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1970097
This was a hand where I end up winning but I played poorly. How do I not raise here on the flop....turn...or river. Especially the river when I dodged those spades. Very poor play on my part.

So those were the hands that were of interest. Not a lot but whatever. And I am positive in my Poker Tracker Restart...so that is nice too.

Trying something different.

Loading up 4 different $5 sit-n-gos. Lets see what happens....

Ok, 8th in the first one...and I have to say I played poorly. I will review the hands.

Bubble with a bad beat. Flop Nut Flush...he has pocket pair. Turn pairs the board, river is his full boat.

Another bubble. Bah. Total misread on my part and risked way too many chips on a bad steal defend?? I called what he was going to do, but I was wrong on why he did it.

And fourth. Of course. And I tried to play too smart. I was in second when I went out. I am sure that if I played straight up I would do better.....could not do much worse.

Bah

Finished 7th...

Out of like 29. So not that good (was really hoping for top 5) but I just did not have enough chips at the final table. I lost too many hands like my AK to an AJ. You need to have a HUGE stack as the blinds take off when they start doubling. Oh well. Any mybe I pushed too soon with 10-3 of hearts (16k in chips blinds 2-4k coming up to me)...but hey, at least I was winning till the river. (Damn flush!)

Awesome hand just now.

Just won a great hand. Got all in for 6k or so with QQ (me) vs AK suited.
Flop comes A Q x with 2 diamonds.

Turn and river blank. Wow. What a hand.
Karl Copp
Field Consultant
7-11 Canada.

Bah

Just lost AK (me) to AJ. Bah.
Karl Copp
Field Consultant
7-11 Canada.

Trying another live charity "Bingo" tournament.

So tonight Felter and I are at the Silver Heights tonight to try their charity "bingo" tourny. And I use tourny loosely as there MIGHT be 20 people. I guess I gotta only be happy with top 5. Will see how it goes. Just have to be prepared to run up the aggresion as there are a lot of regulars.

Wish me luck!!

So what levels do I play at?

Well I think I have decided I will stay at .50 NL unless I go under $700 or untill I get over $1500.

So I might as well get comfortable at this limit. Going to be here for a while.

Hey, if ANYONE wanted to leave a comment here to let me know that ANYONE has read this, the props would be appreciated.

Will see how things go here

Going to play 2 .50 cent tables and wanted to try a small tourny, so in a 45 man $5 sitngo.

Ok, the tourny went ok. Made one dumb move but then the rest was all just being outflopped.

There was

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1894929
and
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1894935

So yeah, that was the tourny. There was one hand earlier I should have played differently (ok, not played) for 800 chips, but other than that I am ok.

Cash was just not my day either. I will post some hands in a bit but it was the deadly combo of bad play and no cards. I am not good there!!

Ok. Here are the bad hands.

This one was impressive in its badness. How do I make this river call??
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1895122

With this river bet I had to put him on AK but if someone wants to say bad fold I will agree!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1895131

I am sure I have played this poker game before
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1895143

And ok. Here I get rivered but I could have taken it on the turn. Bad bad play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1895168

So in the end over the 2 tables I finish like $26 down. Could have been worse (maybe) but should have been a lot better as I made a few comebacks, but GAVE it away!

Here we go. 2 tables this time

Ok, going to play a couple of .50 tables tonight. On a side note had a good conversation with Felter (dave) on just how bad you would have to run to burn through a bankroll with good money management.


Ok, first hand....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1891996

I put him on no Ace, and it was great to be right.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1892020

Here is a hand where I wimped out and should have bet out on the turn. That is the level of aggression I am not at yet. I am sure (i think) that if I hit the turn with a pot sized bet he folds.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1892136

Here is a hand that i am not really sure where I stood. A well connnected flop like that. Maybe he was just open ended?? But I think he also touched that A a little harder than I did. What do you think??

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1892147

So the session was positive, and have grown things up to within a sniff of 800. Will see if I can keep this slow and steady thing going.

Another short session tonight

Let's See how this goes?? .50 NL 1 table just killing some time.

How far am I supposed to take this hand. Do I bet stronger on the flop? Do I even make that call on the raise??

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1887020

Ok, so that hand took me down whatever it was. I know I got down to like 42 dollars (down 8).

Well I have been able to grind back up to flat with that increase in aggression just by taking down blinds, or taking the hand down on the flop. And because I am raising more on the flop there is a little pot there to take.

Here is one example, and I did not even increase my pre-flop bet here like I should.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1887113

And here again where I did bump up my bet with the one limper

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1887122

And so I finished down 3.25, so all in all I am pretty happy. Might start multi-tabling the .50 tables.

Just played a little 1 hour session

Maybe not even. Just got back from picking my brother up at the airport though and was not tired yet. So I played 1 table of .50 NL. These are the high and low lights.

Ok. Highlight. This was the only real hand of value that I won (but I am winning more small pots and I know that is HUGE for my game.)

Hey, it is nice to get that river ever once in a while. Glad he paid off a little but I definately needed to bet more than pot. Left money there.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1882428

Bad - this is one those situations where in blind vs blind I figured the only hand that is beating me is if he was completing with pure junk that caught.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1882438

And here I think I just have to learn that if the suit does not come, that A on the flop is not good, and a weak kicker will kill you. (Wow, that sounds so simple just to type, must be an idiot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1882447

So ended up almost 10 percent of a my buyin anyhow, but left money out there I think. And gave a little away. But that increased aggression and increasing my Raise based on the # of limper's is definitely paying the bills right now in terms of winning enough uncontested small pots. These are pots that I would never have even played for before and just checked away, or worse let someone get in cheap and kill me.

Well small gains will get me there.

Just had a small session. Worked hard on maintaining the aggression, and it worked marginally but still coming up impotent on small hands.

Had one hand that pissed me off is when I get a hand like this, and a flop like this.

Do you hit it harder?? Or call like I did hoping for the board to pair?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1881632

Another hand that I did not like. Do I drop it sooner or pound it harder??

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1881646

Sometimes things go well though...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1881658

And considering his hole cards I guess this was a bad bluff (too little too late??) Was surprised he was not stronger...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1881668

I am still leaving money on the table though....

Happy New Year

Well I hope that everyone had a good new years and holiday break. Except for one cash game I did not really play much over the holidays.

Hope to find more time in the next little while. The wife has a lot of Ringette this month, so I should have more time to kill.

Going to play for an hour and a bit here while I have some time. Let's try 2 .25NL tables. Stay tight and aggressive and see what happens.

Oh, in the last session I did lose a buy in due to impatience and stupidity as I was concentrating more on setting up Poker Tracker and HUD then actually playing. Should be all good now.

Running out of excuses...need to start winning soon or admit I suck!