GPT Event 2 - Sunday November 4, Hank's House, Ace-to-Five Triple Draw

A couple of reminders:

It's at Hank's house. If you need directions reply-to-all and he'll get your e-mail.

If you show up at my house whatever you're playing won't be ace-to-five.

Daylight savings time ends Saturday night. That means 'tis the season of our discontent, and if you don't set your clock back you will be waiting an hour at Hank's house for the tourney to start.

My First Royal -- Ever

... in Stud of all games.

I was playing a HORSE cash game when it happened. Started with K-6-K, and hit four runners to the royal. Crazy. Only 7 more to catch up to Hank...

Transcript for game #12171262122 requested by baklava724
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PokerStars Game #12171262122:
HORSE (7 Card Stud Limit, $1/$2) - 2007/09/20 - 17:55:48 (ET)
Table 'Verbiest II' 8-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: TDandH ($27.70 in chips)
Seat 2: feebe ($39.60 in chips)
Seat 3: Geppetto43 ($48.95 in chips)
Seat 4: oreoc1943 ($33.85 in chips)
Seat 5: PLO_OLP ($49.30 in chips)
Seat 6: baklava724 ($103.05 in chips)
Seat 7: ragmuppet ($27.80 in chips)
Seat 8: mv_drive ($79.20 in chips)

*** SHOW DOWN ***
baklava724: shows [Kd 6s Kc Jd Ad Qd Td] (a Royal Flush)
feebe: mucks hand
baklava724 collected $20.30 from pot
ragmuppet said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $21.30 Rake $1
Seat 1: TDandH folded on the 4th Street
Seat 2: feebe mucked [7c 8c 6d 6c 2c Qh 3c]
Seat 3: Geppetto43 (button) folded on the 4th Street
Seat 4: oreoc1943 folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 5: PLO_OLP folded on the 3rd Street (didn't bet)
Seat 6: baklava724 showed [Kd 6s Kc Jd Ad Qd Td]
and won ($20.30) with a Royal Flush
Seat 7: ragmuppet folded on the 5th Street
Seat 8: mv_drive folded on the 3rd Street

GPT 2008 Kicks Off - New Season, Same Result...

The 2008 Season of the GPT kicked off with a nice turnout of 15, which comfortably fit on the Main table in the renovated Poker Room and one satellite in the study. It would be easy to credit Bak’s win with his starting table, which included all the newbies, but he came to the Final Table short-stacked and was all-in several times. For those keeping score, this is the GPT’s fourth season, and Bak has won the opening Hold’em tournament three times.



The final table was a familiar affair and save for one hit-out, the cash would have included all top finishers from the last three seasons. Still, the cash table was an all-star line-up of Bak, Hank, Sean, and T-Bone (that’s the alphabetical order as well as the actual finish). On the final hand Hank limped on the button and Bak raised, Hank moved in and was insta-called by Bak - who was holding aces – “Aces! Who get’s Aces heads-up!?!”


Sean continued his killing ways taking out three players in his quest to repeat as GPT Hitman, and he finished in third. Bak’s first place finish was good for five total kills, and Hank continues to knock out the minimum relative to high finishes with one kill in hold’em.

Jim continued his Ricky Bobby approach to poker, and his name now adorns the inaugural Turkey Trophy. The first out in each of the next seven events will have his or her name on a tail feather. Jim already has threatened to take more spaces.

A quick note on the standings – they are updated but need to be edited and I have not done that yet. Right now the points are not reflected on the page but will be updated eventually, it’s just a pain. Again, points will be an issue if Bak wins another event (or someone else wins two).

We do not have a date for the next tournament but it will be at Hank’s house, and it’s not likely to be a flop game. We used to put HE and Omaha together in part to keep newbies coming back, but our more regular crowd and leisurely pace means we can spread the games out. Again, the schedule is still not final but it will include a variety of flop, draw, and stud games.

Poker is More Than Hold’em.

GPT Event 1 - Hold'em

You know you wanna win this...

HE Tune-up

GPT 2008 - Event 1 - Sunday - 1pm

GPT 2008 - Event 1 - Sunday September 30 - 1pm - Bearded Mike's house

No Limit Hold'em - $25 buy-in - No Rebuys

Here is an outline for the season with some notable changes to the GPT format.

• $25 buy-ins, no re-buys
• Starting chip stacks of $3,000 (vs. $2k previously)
• More varied locations - primarily my house but also Hank's
• This season will be known as the 2008 Season, and will stretch to May. There will not be a Fall/Spring.
• There will be eight (8) "Sanctioned" Tournaments - the winner of each tournament will secure a seat in the Tournament of Champions. So, all you Hold'em and Omaha specialists will have a chance to play me and Hank in Dealer's Choice without showing up every week, or necessarily being good at anything else...
• If, as usual, Hank wins more than one event there WILL be alternate seats. The previous POTY point system will be used for both Player of the Year and to determine alternate TOC players if someone wins multiple events. For example, if Baklava wins both Hold'em and Omaha, the player with the highest point total who did not win a Sanctioned Tournament will get a TOC seat. Note, we may add another Sanctioned Tournament if someone wins multiple tournaments during the fall. However, a 9th event would only be a hold'em event (either six-handed or a heads-up tournament).
• We have stretched the season so that the pace is not overwhelming, and everyone has a reasonable chance to play and win a TOC seat, regardless of their schedules/responsibilities.
• Because the season has been lengthened it may include "unsanctioned" events. These will look and play like our normal tournaments, and will count for POTY points, but will not be for TOC seats. We simply have to limit TOC seats to 8, but we don't have to limit how many tournaments we play if the football and basketball seasons allow it.
• This is a tentative list of sanctioned events for the 2008 season, and all but the flop games are subject to change. Note, O/8 is not on the list because last year it was our single worst attended tournament of the year (and Lance doesn't live here anymore). If there is legitimate demand it may be added back.
  o Flop games: NL Hold'em, PL Omaha.
  o Draw games: Limit 2-7 triple draw, PL A-5 triple draw, NL KCL/5-Card Draw rotation.
  o Stud games: Stud, Stud Hi/Lo 8, Razz.

Sunday Sunday Sunday, playaplaya. Shipit. Holla.

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Royal Flush #7

I am good at hitting royals, it's what I do...

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Pros and Cons for Royals

Pro - being on the toilet at the time.

Con - playing in limit.

PokerStars Game #11542335078: Tournament #58559556, $10+$1 Hold'em Limit - Level V (150/300) - 2007/08/17 - 18:55:24 (ET)
Table '58559556 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: zizijoon (3125 in chips)
Seat 2: F1Fan40 (1930 in chips)
Seat 3: parmen (1775 in chips)
Seat 4: cardpro (3655 in chips)
Seat 8: Knekk (1085 in chips)
Seat 9: millencolin7 (1930 in chips)
Knekk: posts small blind 75
millencolin7: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to millencolin7 [Ah Qh]
zizijoon: folds
F1Fan40: folds
parmen: folds
cardpro: raises 150 to 300
Knekk: folds
millencolin7: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [Kh Th 7c]
millencolin7: checks
cardpro: bets 150
millencolin7: calls 150
*** TURN *** [Kh Th 7c] [6s]
millencolin7: checks
cardpro: checks
*** RIVER *** [Kh Th 7c 6s] [Jh]
millencolin7: bets 300
cardpro: folds
millencolin7 collected 975 from pot
millencolin7: shows [Ah Qh] (a Royal Flush)
millencolin7 said, "royal #7"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 975 | Rake 0
Board [Kh Th 7c 6s Jh]
Seat 1: zizijoon folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: F1Fan40 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: parmen folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: cardpro (button) folded on the River
Seat 8: Knekk (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: millencolin7 (big blind) collected (975)

Oh by the way, Hank Won

BNE (Best Name Ever)

Owner Name:

"Not Today"

Winning first hand back from break - 600 chips
Standing on an 85 and getting raised - 2,000 chips
Talking shit to a World Champion - Priceless


*** THIRD DRAW ***
millencolin7: stands pat
FossilMan: discards 1 card
millencolin7: bets 300
FossilMan: raises 300 to 600
millencolin7 said, "hit out?"
millencolin7: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FossilMan: shows [8c 5c 2d 6h 4s] (Lo: 8,6,5,4,2)
millencolin7: shows [5d 2h 4d 3d 8h] (Lo: 8,5,4,3,2)
millencolin7 collected 3450 from pot
millencolin7 said, "not today"

Well, He's Less of a Douche Than Jamie Gold

And ironically, he cleared more money even though top prize was down $3.5 mm this year...

I Can Dodge Bullets, Baby - But Not Posts

http://www.rawvegas.tv/watch.php?vID=555ae79aad35a05fa9f17ab0d0ca91

My First WSOP (Part 1 of 2)

The overall summary is 0 for 2 – two events, no cashes. I’m already making plans for next year.

After a week in London I came back to Gainesville for three days before leaving again for Vegas for the WSOP and Cancun the week after. My plan when I went was to play Event 46 Stud/8 with a small Stud/8 at Binion’s the day before ($100 buy-in – since I had actually never played a live Stud/8 tourney outside of the GPT), and the Venetian Deep Stack on Friday. I wound up adding a second WSOP event.


So, I fly 3,000 miles and guess who is at my starting table for Stud/8 – the only other GPT player in the whole thing, Jim. Showing up and seeing him there was a surreal event, but also soothing as you can well imagine. I was in the seven seat and Jim was in the two seat and I had visions of us getting into a four-way hand and chopping the pot between us, taking two donkeys to the river. Sadly, that never happened. I had pondered pitching a small last-longer bet for fun, and by the dinner break I was glad I hadn’t. I finished level 1 with 1,700 chips (down from 2k – all tourneys this year started with chips 2x the buy-in), but was down to 800 by the end of level 2 – about half Jim’s stack.

I met my wife and a friend at Voodoo for a quick bite (and by "quick bite" I mean…). I had one of the huge Witchdoctor drinks because I figured at that point I didn’t need to exactly stay sharp – I’d double up or be out pretty soon when I got back, and probably the latter. The guy in the three seat had been a veritable Jamie Fucking Gold – hit in the face with the deck. After seeing him hit two well-hidden boats and get paid off I made the mistake of getting into a hand with him late in level 2. I had started with a low that developed into a hidden two pair in a three way pot. JFG and another player both looked low so I went to the river, only to find JFG with another hidden boat, and the third player with a busted low. Never get in the way of a player on a rush – no matter how many times I remind myself of this I still do it.

Jamie/Ramer/Matusow

I got back a little before the end of the dinner break and chatted with Jim for a few and smoked a quick cigarillo before they let us back in. We were in an annex in the back of the convention center, not even in the Amazon room – fucking Hold’em. When I came back in Negreanu was at his table two tables away from us reading. I had seen him bothered countless times during the first two hours and of course never approached him because I am not “that guy.” But with a few minutes left before play resumed I politely asked him for an autograph and he said “get fucked, man, I’m working here.” No, not really – he was as gracious as you would imagine. He signed his Razor card, I thanked him trying not to sound like a star-struck Japanese teenage girl, and he said “respect.” I’m so glad he wasn’t a dick because it would have ruined my whole trip.

So goal one was making it to the dinner break which I had done. The next goals were 2) outlast Jim (no offense, Jim), 3) outlast Negreanu, 4) make it to day two, and finally 5) cash. This no doubt appears modest to some. Had I been Hank my list of goals would have looked like this: 1) Win bracelet, 2) tell everyone at the final table if they had named the game after me it would have been called “Stud/9,” 3) get a picture of my balls on the railing of a WSOP table. But, this was my first WSOP and I had my own ideas. (Incidentally, Dan’s goals would have looked like this: 1) get a picture of my balls on the railing of a WSOP table, 2) get a picture with Jennifer Tilly and Shannon Elizabeth…with my balls out).

My first hand back I was dealt rolled-up fours – who’s Jamie Fucking Gold now, ya luckbag? The case 4 was folded right after the bring-in and I feared no one in the hand actually saw it so they wouldn’t factor that in later. I limped – had the 4 been behind me I certainly would have raised because the case 4 would have been noticed for sure then, but I was looking to disguise my hand somewhat, and looking to three-bet it if someone raised – especially Golden Boy (as a further irony, the guy actually resembled Greg Raymer, more in girth than anything else, and in fact when he won his first hand 20 minutes or so into the tourney he raised his arms in the “yes” fashion of Raymer when he won the main event in 2005. In addition, he flashed his belly, ala Mike Matusow – who does this guy NOT remind me of?).

Fortunately I caught low on fourth and fifth and bricked off sixth, further disguising my hand. I never improved from third street, but it was enough to win the high half. On the very next hand I started with A32 and was the bring-in, and once again limped. I made my low on fifth and never caught an ace. I think my high was like a pair of fours and I chopped with the low hand, and was back at 2,100 chips five minutes into level three.

The guy in the four seat was the most insufferable windbag with whom I’ve ever had the displeasure to play poker. Our first dealer was a poor schmuck who had never dealt stud and had been dealing all hold’em – he literally stopped dealing the first hand after two cards and did that a couple more times before getting into the groove. How I pitied that poor man, sitting directly across from the Rules Nazi. Had the guy in the four seat yelled “No Soup for you!” at the dealer I would have been Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

Rules Nazi/Mall Cop

And when I say Rules Nazi I don’t mean substantive things – I mean things like berating the dealer for cutting the cards before pulling the antes in. This is done in ante games to prevent cheating of course and to ensure the pot is right before the deal starts. Last year, with 1k in starting chips, the button anted 5 and no one else anted. This year with twice the chips everyone anted, so that means what? It means the potential cheating was for five fucking dollars – thanks Nazi, for “protecting” the game.

The worst part was the Nazi stopped the game to get the floor over to complain that we were supposed to have more than 10 five-dollar chips to start so it wouldn’t slow down the game with players passing chips and the dealer having to chop 25s for antes. See the irony here? We stopped play so we could talk about ways to speed up the game. There were roughly 78 tables, and everyone had the same stack of chips. This was of course an elaborate power trip and an opportunity for him to announce to everyone that he had been at the rules committee meeting the night before and so-and-so personally told him we would have $100 in fives to start.

And in case anyone missed it, he mentioned it about a half dozen more times. Now, if you’ve ever played stud you know that the nature of the game is the fives (or whatever low ante chips) go from one end of the table to the other – that’s just stud, and of course I gently mentioned this, to no betterment of the situation. Then he chastised the dealer some more for telling him initially that the floor wasn’t going to do anything about it – even though the dealer had called the floor as requested the first time. Besides being a fatuous prick he was just a sad case. I’m convinced that he didn’t pay enough attention to the actual players that he could identify things like which players always raise with an ace in the door, or how often some players complete with a low door card, or who the players are who call third street bets but fold on fourth when they brick, or who will re-raise when they have two low cards up on fourth in a multi-way pot. But, he could describe every dealer we had and what mistakes they make and don’t make.

He actually made the ludicrous statement at one point that he doesn’t play as many tournaments anymore because “of all the bad rulings.” Hey fuckstick, pay attention to the game the way you do the dealers, and spend less time announcing how important you are, and you might have some modicum of success. At that point I couldn’t take it and I told a story loudly to the guy next to me about a friend who is a huge Duke basketball fan, but anytime a crucial call costs them the game he always says “we shouldn’t have allowed the game to get close enough where a call will matter, so I never blame the refs.” It had no effect. The only comeuppance for our Mall Cop was one dealer who announced on the first heads-up hand he dealt that he pulls all the bets into the pot (it’s customary in a split-pot game to leave the bets in front of each player when it’s heads-up since it speeds up the game) because he had lost a job once over someone pulling back a bet, and if anyone didn’t like it that was too bad. YES – I said that’s right Bunkie, take control of the game! The Nazi said not a word.

Jim went out late in level 4. I’m sorry to say I don’t remember the hand but I think he was three-way with a high and lost, probably to JFG. Goal 2 accomplished. As I nursed my short stack during level 5 at 100-200 I kept looking over at Negreanu’s table. I could see he had about 600 and I had about five big bets. I had a hand where I started with wired queens and raised and a new player in the one seat, who had been playing very fast (but had a nice stack) ever since he got to our table re-raised. Another player called and I called. He caught an Ace on fourth and I immediately went away. The winning high hand in that pot was a pair of 8s – doh! I got two queens again a couple of hands later and wound up chopping with the high.

With about four big bets and Negreanu at 400 or 500 (he had no purples left either) I was the bring-in with a deuce up and wired kings, and I brought it in for a raise. My thinking was I really wanted to get the chips in as early as possible and take seven cards. In effect, I was taking the Sklanskyesque approach of pricing myself into the pot. When I thought about it later the other alternative seemed better – limp, hope that it was raised so I could three-bet and isolate. If it wasn’t raised, and the boards came scary I could get away from two little kings. I think folding queens to eights earlier probably had a lot to do with deciding to play it fast. Plus, we had only about 15 minutes left in the level and with the ante at 25 and holding four big bets, which would soon be two big bets, I couldn’t wait forever.

The hand went three way and both boards fortunately for me looked low. In fact, the six seat hit a nine on sixth which looked like a great development for me. It was not. The six seat was a nice old guy – Friday (the next day) was his birthday, and the day his wife was retiring as president of a community college in North Carolina. So, he had enough things going for him, did he really need to hit against me? On sixth I caught my fourth spade and wound up hitting runner-runner for a flush. I was almost proud on the end when I announced “King-high flush” only to hear Six announce “full house.” He had started with a pair of nines and board that looked like a pair of sevens and a busted low draw actually was nines-full. And Negreanu was still in.

Six/Bearded Mike Buster

I took my leave and wished everyone luck except for the Nazi, and wondered over to Negreanu’s table. He was all-in and it looked like he would outlast me by a couple of minutes. The guy next to him obviously had been giving him shit and Negreanu was in his patented chatter mode. He had started with two queens and decided to get it in early (sound familiar). The kid giving him the business revealed his trip-sevens as Negreanu’s last card came down. Everyone knew that a queen had already been folded so he squeezed it out “it’s paint….it’s red….it’s a QUEEN! Yeah, uh, how ya like me now!” I’m not making that part up. He yelled over to someone at another table “hey (something) I just hit a one-outer!” And then he broke into some Lil John – “Yaaaya, Whhhhat. Yaaaya, Whhhhhat.” It was fucking priceless.

And with that I went up to the Voodoo Lounge where our friend had gotten a VIP table and had two bottles of champagne and a huge bottle of Grey Goose (my only concession to Le French, other than Phil). She had been drinking since about 11 am non-stop and was a real trouper to stick around, especially since when I left dinner I said “see you in about 20 minutes.” She left shortly after and for the life of me I don’t know why I didn’t think to call Jason who’s number I had. But, he was probably resting for Event 47 since it was a noon start.

In addition to Jim and Jason I saw Fish and Andrew Dykeman, neither of whom are GPT players but both people I know from cash games in Gainesville. When I saw Andrew he looked to be in a 5/10 NL game with a couple thou in front of him. They ran cash games in the Amazon room as low as 1/2. That’s right – 1/2 cash game players for hold’em got tables in the Amazon room while the Stud/8 players got the tent outside. Fucking hold’em.

I spent so much energy on the Nazi I’m too tired to detail how I wound up in another event but I’ll add that later. The Rio was awesome – a lot of room for the price, although after staying in a shoebox in London for a week any normal room looks like a suite. They gave me $200 off the room with my buy-in card so it was like the tournament cost me $800. Next year I’m going to try to put together a “poker compound” during the WSOP. For any GPT players interested I’m going to get a condo/house, probably for a couple of weeks, and the per-person price will be very reasonable. Just something to keep in mind.

Peace!

GPT at WSOP - Event 22

Congratulations to Jason who not only cashed, but only missed the final table by a few spots!

Heads-Up is Coming in July...

$25 buy-in, double elimination.

You Must Pre-Register for this Tournament. There wil be no registrations allowed the day of.

More details will follow.

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My 6th Royal Flush - Unreal...

Of course it was in holdem although I never play holdem I am millencolin7 PokerStars Game #9609879452: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2007/04/25 - 23:10:16 (ET)
Table 'Titan II' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Shylove ($49.25 in chips)
Seat 2: deadriver77 ($28.50 in chips)
Seat 3: A-10Warthog2 ($49.50 in chips)
Seat 4: i got the 6 ($85.20 in chips)
Seat 5: AlZeiMeR ($28.45 in chips)
Seat 6: MrNyNe ($48.75 in chips)
Seat 7: ironglove ($83.10 in chips)
Seat 8: bubba2244 ($24.45 in chips)
Seat 9: millencolin7 ($48.75 in chips)
A-10Warthog2: posts small blind $0.25
i got the 6: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to millencolin7 [Td Jd]
AlZeiMeR: folds
ironglove said, "thank you"
MrNyNe: folds
ironglove: folds
bubba2244: calls $0.50
millencolin7: calls $0.50
Shylove: folds
deadriver77: calls $0.50
A-10Warthog2: folds
i got the 6: checks
*** FLOP *** [Kd 3c 4d]
ironglove said, "GWB should be dealt with"
i got the 6: bets $1.50
bubba2244: calls $1.50
millencolin7: calls $1.50
deadriver77: folds
*** TURN *** [Kd 3c 4d] [Qd]
i got the 6: bets $3.50
ironglove said, "he represents "oilocracy""
bubba2244: calls $3.50
millencolin7: raises $7 to $10.50
i got the 6: calls $7
bubba2244: folds
*** RIVER *** [Kd 3c 4d Qd] [Ad]
i got the 6: checks
ironglove is sitting out
millencolin7: bets $7
i got the 6: calls $7
*** SHOW DOWN ***
millencolin7: shows [Td Jd] (a Royal Flush)
i got the 6: mucks hand
millencolin7 collected $43.10 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $45.25 Rake $2.15
Board [Kd 3c 4d Qd Ad]
Seat 1: Shylove folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: deadriver77 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: A-10Warthog2 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: i got the 6 (big blind) mucked [8d 3d]
Seat 5: AlZeiMeR folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: MrNyNe folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: ironglove folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: bubba2244 folded on the Turn
Seat 9: millencolin7 showed [Td Jd] and won ($43.10) with a Royal Flush