WSOP, bad beats, great hands

do you play online, malmo? if so, where?

My worst (best) poker experience came a few yr's ago playing draw and 5-card-stud in a friends house. We started at 10pm drunk and finished at 10am sober and tired. We were forced to stop as one friend starting shaking so much he couldn't hold his cards. That, and his hands went purple. Our stakes were high enough with £100 pots and £400 swings typical. At the end of this epic session we all (4) ended up exactly where we started. This kinda felt pointless (at the time) so I suggested we all put £200 in the pot and play highest card wins just so the time wasn't wasted. Can't remember if I won or lost. Great memories!

More Oreo's please.

My four kings lost to four aces once in Texas Hold Em. I've had straight flushes dealt to me (no draw) twice also. Never pulled the royal without wild cards involved. I was involved in a five-card draw hand once where the sixth-best hand at the table was three 6s! My full house was only good enough for third. Good stuff, let's hear more stories.

Best deal I've ever seen at a table (I wasn't involved in the hand). Holdem Limit: (hands in order of table position) Aces-up got beat by Kings full, got beat by quad Queens, got beat by the Royal. The Queens got paid because the Royal was all-in after the flop.

During my first month of full-time poker, last hand of the night I was dealt wired 6s and flopped 6s full of 3s against one the most experienced locals (who flopped quad 3s). Being last hand, we already hit three raises pre-flop w/ five callers. Raised the limit on the turn w/ 4 players. At the river I hit the 6, I raised, he re-raised, I capped it. Turn them over, he threw a fit, "well you didn't have to re-raise me!" Even as a rookie I knew better. I said, "Hey, next time don't raise me, if you don't want me to raise back!" And he threw the cards on the table and stormed off into the night with a bright red face and veins bulging on is neck.

The guy sitting between us had the open-ended straight flush draw that never came home.

This weekend on PartyPoker, I drew A 8 and told the table during the opening betting that I needed to flop A A 8 (it was my last hand of the night). Sure enough, it came up A A 8. Not surprisingly, everyone immediately folded. Sometimes it's smarter to keep your mouth shut.

Malmo, are you ever on PartyPoker? If so, I'll look out for you.

Here is a story about a game of stud between a man named Gold and a man named Mudd:

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The wicked king of clubs awoke

it was to his queen turned

his lips were laughing as they spoke

his eyes like bullets burned

the sun's upon a gambling day

his queen smiled low and blissfully

let's make some wretched fool to play

plain it was she did agree

He send his deuce down into diamond

his four to heart, and his tres to spade

three kings with their legions come

preparations soon where made

they voted club the days commander

gave him an army, face, and number

all but the outlaw jack of diamonds

and the aces in the sky

He give his seven's first instructions

spirit me a game of stud

stakes unscarred by limitation

'tween a man named Gold and man named Mudd

Club filled Gold with greedy vapors

'til his long, green eyes did glow

Mudd was left with the sighs and trembles

watching his hard earned money go

Flushes fell on Gold like water

tens they paired and paired again

but the aces only flew through heaven

and the diamond jack called no man friend

The diamond queen saw Mudd's ordeal

began to think of her long lost son

fell to her knees with a mother's mercy

prayed to the angels every one

The diamond queen, she prayed and prayed

and the diamond angel filled Mudd's hole

the wicked king of clubs himself

fell in face down in front of Gold

now three kings come to Club's command

but the angels from the sky did ride

three kings up on the streets of Gold

three fireballs on the Muddy side

The club queen heard her husband's call

but Lord that queen of diamond's joy

when the outlaw in the heavenly hall

turned out to be a wandering boy

Now Mudd he checked and Gold bet all

and Mudd he raised and Gold did call

and the smile just melted off his face

when Mudd turned over that diamond ace

Now here's what this story's told

if you feel like Mudd you'll end up Gold

if you feel like lost, you'll end up found

so amigo, lay them raises down

Worst beat I ever saw was in 7-card stud (back before we switched to playing Omaha and hold-em almost exclusively). Four eights got beat by four kings, with three of the kings being down. I was glad I wasn't on the wrong end of that one (but neither was I on the right end).

C'mon out to Portland sometime, Malmo. Then we'll see who can really play. :)

Chris Moneymaker is out of the WSOP already ...

Tryon Creek. I was taught by pros and played professionally. Where do you play, La Center, WA?

Carnivore 69 wrote:

Chris Moneymaker is out of the WSOP already ...

Lightning doesn't strike twice.

Carnivore 69 wrote:

Malmo, are you ever on PartyPoker? If so, I'll look out for you.

Party Poker, Paradise Poker and Empire Poker. I used to play four tables at once, but I got bored of it. Plus, it would be easy to cheat, made me nervous. Just sit down at the same table with a friend and IM each other.

Recently looked at the tourney prize structure, which is very fair (payout to 10% and up to 20% of the players), so I may try to put in 10 tourneys a month. Especially since pokers gotten so damn popular and there's now an unlimited supply of dead money.

The problem with the tourneys that I want to play is they seem to start about 11:00 pm EDT. A five to five-and-a-half hour tourney on a weekday can be a bitch.

What games do you play at Party Poker? When? Your handle? I'm "Henry Rono."

I've only been playing poker (NL hold'em mostly) for a few years but I think I have a good bad beat story.

I was playing in a NL tournament with around 1250 people. I started with 1000 chips and after about 5 hours I had 40,000. I had been watching this maniac at my table for a while because he had 50k in chips and I planned to double up off of him. It was going to be pretty easy because he liked to call huge preflop bets with hands like 57o.

Soon enough I get dealt AKo. I put it to 10k and the maniac calls. The flop comes JQ2. Now normally I shut down right here with the J and Q out, but this guy is so readable that I decide to bet another 10k. If he had a draw or a pair or better he would go all in (maybe call with a set) or if he had nothing (which he probably does) he would fold. I had been watching him go all in with every pair he hit for about an hour so I knew him pretty well. So the guy thinks for a while and then does the wierdest thing; he raises it to 20k. I think for a while and remember that he's capable of bluffing. I decide my AK is still good (very unlike me) and move all in for an additional 12k. He thinks long and hard and then finally calls...with ATo. He needs a king to win and I have one of them. Instead of a king an 8 and a 9 come on the turn and river and I lose to a ridiculous straight and bust out of the tournament.

Had I won i would have had 80k in chips and been in a solid 3rd place (1st at 100k, 2nd at 85k, 4th at 60k and avg stack at 20k). with 1250 entrants i was looking at some serious cash, but instead walked away with a few hundred and tried to sleep.

The good part is that the man in 3rd place took my spot and ten minutes later he took out the maniac. The moron decided to slow play AA and then call all-in on a rag flop to the BB (the dude in 3rd place). I guess he thought AA was invincible...ha.

Malmo,

That bad beat I had was in a partypoker tourney. I've never seen you around, so you must mostly play limit. My handle is XChamp2k.

The multi-tables can get very exciting (and profitable) once you hit the final table but it's a bitch to get there. I think the rounds are too short (15 minutes for the tournaments with $100 buy-in or less) so I mostly play the big ones which have 20 minute rounds. They also tend to start at reasonable times (9pm EST for the Super Monday NL Hold'em tourney...I'll be there tonight)

Remember, you're only gonna be playing for 5+ hours if your deep into the money. For example, it's easy for me to rationalize staying up until 3am tonight if I walk away with $1000+.

Malmo, I just play in two high quality social games here in Portland. Each group gets together once a month. Several of the participants do the La Center or casino thing regularly. I won't go to La Center though because (1) I can't take the smoke; and (2) I know it would get habit-forming and I want to stay married.

XChamp wrote:

Malmo,

That bad beat I had was in a partypoker tourney. I've never seen you around, so you must mostly play limit. My handle is XChamp2k.

Exactly. I prefer to play in front of real humans, been playing in local games during the winter. Every week I tell myself, "next week I'll be disciplined and start entering online tourneys." Next week never seems to come. Talk about procrastination!

How long did the 1200 player tourney last? Did it pay cash (my guesstimate $60k) or WSOP seats?

I'll stop by the rail and watch tonight. Can you post here or email me the table # you're at?

malmoDOTGOESHEREemailATGOESHEREverizonDOTGOESHEREnet

I use a few different handles, but you can find me as "Carnivore 69" more often than not.

I play NL 2000 Hold Em, mostly after 9:00 EST.

Tryon Creek wrote:

Malmo, I just play in two high quality social games here in Portland. Each group gets together once a month. Several of the participants do the La Center or casino thing regularly. I won't go to La Center though because (1) I can't take the smoke; and (2) I know it would get habit-forming and I want to stay married.

The smoke was what killed me. I walked out of the card room at night, take a breath of fresh air and go into a coughing fit for the next half hour. When I got home I immediatly stripped down, took a shower and threw my smoke infested clothes into the hamper. Plus, to play for a living requires one to be in contact daily with the most compulsive and sad cases of humanity you wouldn't normally meet in real life. Taking money from frat boys was fun. Taking rent money from the desperate was not.