Think your dating life is bad? Try this.

Alright, this is completely unrelated to poker, but it's hilarious. Read this blog post about Steeler's dating adventures:

steeler247: a blog about nothing: Ok. I'm back

Google Toolbar Installed

Google Toolbar Installed

Just testing out the new blogging feature for the the Google toolbar. Not bad.

September Bronze Freeroll

Finished 126th, not very good. I flopped a OESD to the nut straight and a flush draw (one gap straight flush draw), BB checked, pf raiser bet with a lower OESD, I pushed, the BB called with two pair (7 5o) and the pf raiser called with A6 for the OESD. Two pair held up.

More sadly than all of that is that I didn't outlast "carla and linda." That's the genius who became chipleader by sucking out on IF with Q7 v. AK all in preflop. NH.

Omaha with Perry

So I was ready to go to bed tonight, but then Vintage00 convinced me to try some 1/2 PL Omaha. I've played Omaha twice, both times in $1 HORSE SNGs. Very negative EV for me. Took out 1/3 of my $500+ profit from 1/2 NLHE tonight. Anyway, Perry shows up in an almost empty limit room so we join that table too, then he takes a seat at our PL table. He's quite funny, but this was such a bad idea on so many levels.

FTP 1/2: Playing Aces

I've been playing aces and kings a little differently lately. There's only so many ways you can raise preflop and disguise your hand, and I have the capability of laying them down. I was a little surpised when I saw his hand, but I thought it was 70/30 that I had him beat, but I didn't really decide that untl the turn. I've played about 400 hands with this guy and haven't ever seen him out of line in a big pot.

Full Tilt Poker Game #973241161: Table Summit Grove - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:34:28 ET - 2006/09/06
Seat 1: swangkee ($211.45)
Seat 2: Blackat ($43.75)
Seat 3: Sixteensonfire ($113.15)
Seat 4: Virge ($441.95)
Seat 5: Thompkins ($121.15)
Seat 6: PoketQueens90 ($153.70)
Seat 7: seaoharewhy ($395.20)
Seat 8: agent007 ($202.60)
Seat 9: Fentanyl ($226.80)
Blackat posts the small blind of $1
Sixteensonfire posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Virge [Ah Ac]
Virge calls $2
Thompkins folds
PoketQueens90 folds
seaoharewhy folds
agent007 calls $2
Fentanyl raises to $11
swangkee folds
Blackat folds
Sixteensonfire folds
Virge calls $9
agent007 folds
*** FLOP *** [Jd Qh 6c]
Virge bets $20
Fentanyl raises to $58
Virge calls $38
*** TURN *** [Jd Qh 6c] [9s]
Virge checks
Fentanyl bets $157.80, and is all in
Virge: trips? (yeah, yeah, wrong term)
Virge has 15 seconds left to act
Virge calls $157.80
Fentanyl shows [6s 4s]
Virge shows [Ah Ac]
*** RIVER *** [Jd Qh 6c 9s] [Qd]
Fentanyl shows two pair, Queens and Sixes
Virge shows two pair, Aces and Queens
Virge wins the pot ($455.60) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Fentanyl is sitting out

Gadgets: Logitech MX Revolution

I saw the MX Revolution reviewed on Engadget (the review) and, being the geek that I am, had to buy it the day it went up on Logitech's website. The innovative part is the scroll wheel. It's a heavy alloy ridged wheel that can either spin freely on its axis or move one click at a time. The software autmatically decides which depending on what you're doing, but you can also switch modes by clicking the wheel.

The other nice feature, especially for multitabling or other multitasking, is the second scroll wheel on the side. Clicking on that brings up a list of open windows that you can scroll up and down to switch to. It's a lot better than using Alt-Tab or trying to find your windows on the task bar. Unfortunately, it seems to slow down a bit if I have several tables up and PokerTracker running at the same time, but my computer is a little out of whack at the moment anyway.

EV++

By the way, Engadget also has a nice dissection of the mouse posted.

FTP $1/$2: Dropping the Hammer

I didn't really mean for this to be a permanent blog post. I just posted it so a friend could see and it was too big to send over IM, but since y'all have commented I'll leave it. The sad thing is, I was actually pretty sure I was ahead in this hand the whole way after the flop.


Full Tilt Poker Game #966585981: Table Stonewater - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:19:53 ET - 2006/09/04
Seat 1: Virge ($536.55)
Seat 6: ssgbook ($68.95)
ssgbook posts the small blind of $1
WALSHY2000 posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Virge [7c 2c]
chall936: damn
jaylenray folds
phil7734 folds
Virge raises to $6
chall936 folds
Jack10Suited folds
psu2007 folds
ELLWOODTHFC folds
ssgbook calls $5
WALSHY2000 calls $4
*** FLOP *** [4d 2d Ks]
ssgbook checks
WALSHY2000 checks
Virge bets $14
ssgbook calls $14
WALSHY2000 folds
*** TURN *** [4d 2d Ks] [9s]
ssgbook checks
Virge bets $31
ssgbook calls $31
*** RIVER *** [4d 2d Ks 9s] [Kd]
ssgbook bets $2
Virge has 15 seconds left to act
Virge raises to $485.55, and is all in
ssgbook calls $15.95, and is all in