Team Never Tilt

So Friday November 14, 2008 we had our 3rd game of the year. We had 41 players and this was the most we’ve ever had since Game 1 of last year (40). We started ON TIME and I for one was impressed with everyone putting an effort to showing up a little before to register…well done.

Another LPT lady took home her 1st LPT title. Melanie Maillet won beating out 40 other players. Denis Bourgeois had a well deserved 2nd place finish. Newcomer Drew Lapointe finished 3rd while Ghislain Godin got 4th. Notable mention for Dan S for bubbling…always have to be one big fella. Well done to all and congrats once again Mel for the win, a great start to the season she is having, keep it up.

Next Tournament : December 5th, 2008 (Game #4)

Stats:

lpt-season4.xls
all-time-stats.xls

Pictures:

Unknown as I didn’t take any, i’ll check the camera this week.

After Josh took down the Bad Boys tourney last week, then Mel took down the LPT this weekend, they followed that up with playing heads up for this weeks Bad Boys tournament with Josh coming out with the win.

Now that boys and girls, is a Heater. Mel’s 2-2-1 in the first 4 lpt’s is the best start to a season yet. Great job to a follow Royal Crown member!

Woo!

So it’s time to start thinking on this event. This tournament is on JANUARY 30TH, 2009. As everyone would agree, it went really well last year and was a huge success. With having a pretty big field already starting our 4th season, Jeff has mentionned of increasing the field of players for this event. So instead of teams of 3, he suggested teams of 4 with a max of 32 players. That would mean playing tournaments on 4 tables. It was fun last year having everyone downstairs, but this year, if we go that route, it will either be 2 up and 2 down or 1 up and 3 downstairs.

I for one agree with Jeff’s idea to increasing the teams. Does everyone else agree? Also, if anyone can remember the blind structure we used, let jeff know…hehe

So if that’s the decision, start thinking of your team as soon as possible as this will probably be a first come first serve basis.

he’s a hell of an actor!

Just returned from Scott’s play, and another great job done! Well done buddy, proud of ya!

Last night was another PSO game on pokerstars. There werer 31 players, and top 5 pays. You also get points for where you finish, 100 for first, 99 for second, and so on, and these points go toward a final prize. Where the top player gets $250 worth of PSO points and a Sunday million ticket on Pokerstars ($215 value).

In this particular Tournament, the prizes are as follows.
1 - $65 plus 4000 PSO points ($40 value)
2 - $37 plus 2000 PSO points
3 - $25 plus 1000 PSO points
4 - $17 plus 1000 PSO points
5 - $15.

There are also three bounties out there worth 2000 PSO points each ($20 value)
The bounties are the top 2 finishers for the last tourney, plus Kugr84 who runs the tournament.

The hand below takes place with 19 runners left.

Blinds are 75/150
Kugr84 is SB, but did not show up for the tournament, so had been sitting out the whole time and has been blinded out, he only has 75 chips left. This actually happens a lot, but the bounty is still available for whoever takes him out.

SkillzdatKillz (BB) 6100 chips (current chip leader)
Forget his name (UTG) 5200 chips - Raises to 450
Everyone folds to me
Dangofett (Button) 2700 chips (A9) - Fold
Kugr (SB) is all-in.
Skillz (BB) pushes all his chips.
Forget his name calls.

Cards turn over
Skills has 10 2
Forget his name has K7

2 on the flop and the turn seals the win for SKillz, and Forget his name goes from second in chips to out in 17th place.

Now this is not a “crazy” tournament, the only reason these two “pros” did what they did was to win the 2000 PSO point bounty.
So basically, risk $67 + $40 in PSO points + 100 Tourney points for a chance to win $20 with either 10 2 or K 7.

These were the two chips leaders at the time.

Who would you call the biggest Bonehead on this play?
Skillz or Forget his name?
Would you have done the same if you were in their seat?

On a final note, you’ll be glad to hear that TNT was well represented at this PSO tourney again with Onemnblitz getting 3rd and Dangofett getting 1st in a 45 minute heads up battle where I overcame a 2 to 1 chips disadvantage.

Hey Guys, just to provide a status on our weight loss bet… I weighed in yesterday which was the exact half way point for the 10 weeks and was at a shade under 194. So that makes me at -18 pounds. So 12 pounds left in 5 weeks. I think it’s going to be awfully close…. I will keep you posted!!! (PS, if some of you want to opt out of the bets you confirmed, let me know, we might be able to come to a compromise).

I had a really strange roller coaster deal going with Online poker. I went on a 2-3 month stretch where I played/studied/posted/read poker at a pace that I had never reached before. For the first time ever, I was truly on poker burnout. The annoying part about all this is, it was also one of the must lucrative stretches of online poker for me.

I think I am ready to got back into the thick of things. It’s been a couple of month’s since I have played but I think it’s time to dive in again.

This being said, I logged into stoxpoker earlier today and saw some interesting things.

1- The “signup for a site and get 6/12 months of free stox promotion is ending on Nov. 23rd. I don’t think I have any sites that I qualify at anymore, but for anyone else looking to get into stox, now is the time to do it!

2- Full Tilt poker has added Stox memberships to they’re FPP store. Cool to know for anyone playing at or looking to change sites.

3- Stox has a really cool promotion going on with Full Tilt Poker. For each month that you attain get a certain amount of FPP’s, they will give you a free month of Stox or/and Cardrunners. This is awesome and it might entice me to transfer some of my roll to Full Tilt and start playing some there.

Before I personally jump on the cardrunners opportunity, I wanna see if I can start getting into the Stox videos again. As you can see in our gaming blog, I have decided to start doing a bit more gaming. This might sound like it’s conflicting with my “poker time”, but in reality, I think it will just help me. I am hoping that introducing a bit of gaming will introduce a way for me to “stress free relaxation”. A stress free, no pressure type of hobby is something I am lacking lately and I hope I can find a few games that will fill the void…

Anyhow, let me know if you are interested in getting into cardrunners or stoxpoker accounts through these promo’s. They really are great learning tools and IMO a must have for anyone that wants to learn more about this crazy game we chose to play!!!

I was not satisfied with my play at the last LPT, and would really love a change to replay certain hands that I know now that I played horribly.

I’m sure I am not alone on this either.

We should set up a Halloween Poker game this friday

Hey gang, I have an interesting question for you concerning a poker rule that seems trivial but I know is often misunderstood. The question is: “At what point during a hand do you have to be present at the table to be able to play your hand?”

The reason I ask this is I have been put in a very awkward position a few times in our 3+ season LPT history and I wonder what your thoughts are:

The Scenario:

I am sitting on the button, the blinds are fairly high, everyone folds to me and the Big Blind is not at the table (he is out for a smoke/pee break… whatever). I glance over at the small blind and feel they won’t contest the current pot if I put in a raise without a very strong hand. So I raise 3x the BB or so, during the time the Small Blind acts, the Big Blind races in, sticks his head in the room and yells out “im here, im here” and gets to see his hand. The small blind folds, the Big Blind has a fairly trivial call or shove because they are short stacked. There is no way that I make the same play that I did If I know the Big Blind is going to have a live hand as I was clearly trying to steal with my 2-3 suited. At what point during a hand does someone have to be sitting at the table to be eligible to play his 2 hole cards?

My 2 cents worth:

This is tricky spot. I know as far as the LPT goes, we go by the friendliest rules as possible. It would really suck to tell someone that is racing in to play his hand “no sorry you weren’t sitting in time to play it”. But honestly in my humble opinion, it’s everybody at the table’s right to know who is playing the current hand dealt. It certainly affects strategy. I am pretty sure that all the “official rules” floating around require for you to be seated before your turn to act to be eligible to play a hand and it’ because of this exact reason. It is my opinion that everyone should be seated at the table for the first action on the hand (under the gun calls/raises or folds). Anyone not seated and ready to play to witness what under the gun does should not get to see his hand.

This is not even a thread intended to get a rule added to our book I am just curious to see what everyone’s opinion is on this. Even if this was a rule, would you call it on someone?

We had our 2nd game of the season Friday night. This season has already proven that its gonna be a big one and with a field of 35 runners, were consistently getting our numbers. Once again, starting 10 min can be avoided if people show up 15 min before gametime. I counted the people at 7:50 and we had 13 players. Other then that hiccup, everything ran fairly smoothly. The tournament ended at 2:30am…A little late for our standards.

So the hottest player on the tour is Chris Fournier. He won his 3rd LPT title Friday and has won 3 out of the last 4 tournaments. He also edged a little closer to the all time money list being $155 back from 1st all time. Congrats to you buddy. Peter finished 2nd with his impressive 2 final table in 2 attempts. Annie had a strong finish once again and its just a matter of time before she wins another. Newcommer Louis rounded off the top 4 podium.

I would normally talk more about tournament talk but me being the 1st one out of the tournament, don’t have much to say…hehe. Those of you on my table know how tough this one was to swallow on the hand that I lost on. That being said, I played some cash game, and had to lie down for 1-2 hours as my head was way too dizzy. After coming back on the table, I sat with Shane and some of the boys. Shane was making an appearance from his wedding he had that night. It was good to see him, even all dressed up in a tux. Of course he had to suffer another one of his famous bad beats before the night was done losing to his nemesis Scott on an all in 30-40$ pot losing to Scott’s straight flush with 9-4 diamonds. Not much more I can remember at this point. Until next month.

Next tournament: November 14, 2008 (Game 3)

Stats:

lpt-season4.xls
all-time-stats.xls

Pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/teamnevertilt