Four is the new Six

Superdave likes to let everyone know that he loves a six, any six. Well this past Wednesday he dissed the sixes for some balls-to-the-wall plays with a four in his hand.

His first demonstration of the power of the four was when there was four people to the flop for $10. Blue flat-banged his remaining $85 stack into the $40 pot when the flop came 356, two hearts. Dave pondered. Wondered if he had six outs, ten, or was drawing to a chop. He called, as Dave likes to do.

Lo and behold, he straightened out on the river and Blue's 65 top-two on the flop was no good. E bust out laughing. He was loving it. He got on Blue's case in a big way for running his mouth at E all night until it was Blue's chips that were dwindling and disappearing.

Blue rebought, and not two minutes later, Haga took him to kicker school when the flop came out A99. AK vs AQ got ugly, and E bust out laughing some more.

We gave Blue some ice cream to appease him. It all worked out in the end.

We had thirty pots of $100 or more, putting the Bad Beat Jackpot up to $2,310. I quiver every time there's a ton of action and the board shows a possibility.

We ended up playing some $2/$4 dealer's choice into the wee hours of the morning after the $1/$2 NL game broke. A good time was had by all.

We'll be back at it again next Wednesday. Cards in the air at 7PM. Holler at me to lock up a seat.

But no... spend just five days in AC...

Nelly and I headed up to Atlantic City on Fri 16 Jun. We got back to the apartment a solid 220 minutes before our game was supposed to start. Imagine our surprise when our unadvertised game didn't accrue any players.

Times have changed. But that's OK, we can roll with it. We're not leaving town this time, and we'll even do you one better. We're gonna throw a $60 Free-roll this coming Wednesday. Gimme a holler to lock up your free-roll seat. Cards in the air at 1900 whether you're here or not. Once the free-roll is over, seats are first come, first served.

The Bad Beat Jackpot is up to $2,280 now. Give someone a heart attack when you beat their AAAJJ with both players using two hole cards, and the best hand gets 25% of the jackpot. Player that loses with AAAJJ (or better) gets 50% of the jackpot, the remaining 25% is divided up amongst all other players dealt into the hand. Any pot that hits $100, you'll hear the dealer say "Bad Beat gets a dollar." If Gypsy Pete is in attendance, you'll hear him say "That asshole."

For those that don't know, the game is $1/$2 NL Hold 'Em. Standard buy-in of $60-$300. We allow a double-the-blind live straddle, and it's even encouraged in most cases through a "rock."

Nelly cooks a damned good meal and there's always plenty of HoHos and Oatmeal Cream Pies to go around. If you've got any questions, hit me up on AIM (Edna Jones) or leave a comment on here.

Let's throw a party!

You don't know what free money is until you've either played with Alex, or sat at a $1/$2 NL game with a tilted $5/$10 NL player. JesseY was playing the $5/$10 NL at Chairman's in Bethesda and dropped several thousand dollars after a few short hours. He didn't want to head straight home, so he stopped by our game to blow off some steam.

He got $200 in chips and told the table "I'm not folding pre-flop for the first orbit." There was some raiseing pre-flop, and after the flop came out like nine-high, all clubs, and a seemingly innocuous card came on the turn, Jefferson got it all in with two red Queens. JesseY called and said "You don't have a flush do you? 'Cause I've got 63o" (no club, for a gut-shot straight.)

Now this is not the part where he gives away the money.

He randomly would make it a $1/$2/$20 game and after everyone would fold behind him he'd turn over a raggedy one-pair like AA, KK, or QQ. No bull shit, kid was getting cards, but no action.

He somehow got brutalized down to $137, and banged it all-in in the dark. Keenan woke up to QQ and also went all-in and double through JesseY.

JesseY rebought another $200, didn't take him more than 40 minutes to lose that. So he went over to the computer, opened up Party Poker, and decided to four-table some NLHE online.

Now this just wasn't your run-of the mill $0.10/$0.25 blinds, $100 at stake between four tables. No, the kid has got over $30,000 on Party Poker. He doesn't always play as bad as he did this past Wednesday. We look over and see him four-tabling, ask him what he's playing, he says "$10/$20 NL."

Just whip out a $2K buy-in PER TABLE and have some fun, right? What's that, got it all-in for $1600 on the turn drawing dead, re-load another $2K.

At one point J said he had more in-play than he had behind it in the acct. He managed to play well and get lucky, and finished the night off up only $2,500.

So next time you're looking to liven up a $1/$2NL game, be sure to invite the folx that are upset to pull a little under three thou in one session.

Patiently waiting for that 84 suited

Helluva game on Wednesday. Approaching 0300 on Thursday morning, and we were still eight-handed. We had a couple of late-comers in Ankur and Ayu, along with Nelly's long-lost-friend Huey.

Huey is a $30/$60 Online LHE Pro, he came to hang out and watch the donkdom, not so much to make money. He folded his first two orbits, maybe three, didn't even limp a pot, let alone call a raise.

Somewhere around orbit three or four, Huey's in the pot and the flop is Q56r, no betting. The turn card brings Q56 7, two spades on board, and fireworks ensue. Blue bet out $10, Jeff called, as did another player, Huey "dropped" five blue checkers into the pot for a $40 raise. Comes back to blue, and he puts $80 into the pot after I drag all the $10 bets in. Jeff looks at the board, his cards, and the pot, and cold-calls the $80. Huey just calls. Pot is now roughly $295.

River brings Q56 7 3, no flush. Checks around to Huey, he shrugs and says "Well, I'm all in." I thought I heard Blue say fold, but appearantly the rest of the table heard him say call. Jeff was uber bitter, mucked his flopped top set face up. Huey had something like $153 left in his stack, and before I counted it I pushed up the 567 in the middle of the board, positive Huey had the nut straight, waited for a non-board-pair / non-flushy river before getting it all out there.

I was half right. He turned over the monster that is 8s4s, 2nd nut straight. Blue shows his 43o, small straight on the turn, and pays him.

That was pretty much the biggest pot of the night, but believe you me - there were other big ones. We had 58 pots of $100 or more, putting the Bad Beat Jackpot at $2,176 going into next Wednesday. Game broke around 0430, so I guess that means over nine hours or so... we once again had something close to a $100 pot every ten minutes.

Not exactly a rock garden, now is it?

Anne never did make it out this week. I got a message/excuse from her, something about a lifetime $0.50/drink discount at a bar in Philly for explaining the concept of "pot odds" to a bartender.

Gypsy Pete also found himself stranded in the outskirts up PA, he was unable to attend.

We had a few surprises to take their place, all the same. The new Jeff brought a friend with him and the two of them each stayed until game break, nearly nine hours later. Jefferson from the Fish Tank was in attendance, and he didn't lose his mind until long after 0200. I think when Keenan raised the monster that is 9s5s and then called a re-raise from Jefferson's KK, and Keenan proceeded to frop a frush... Jefferson's tolerance for donkdom declined.

Zappafan was a welcomed last-minute addition, and he showed these donkeys that generally playing tight and right can be profitable.

Pops... played like pops does. Early on, he flopped a baby flush and put E on a bigger diamond draw. Problem was that E was a boat draw, and when the board paired on the turn pops was left with a lone out for the straight frush. Oddly enough, the one-outer didn't come, and the tilt began.

E let the deck hit him over the head early on, then lost some big pots when he was forced to fold some big overpairs against Blue either out-flopping him or out-playing him. He decided to play some Heinz Poker around 0245 and got back a good $4 of his original buy-in.

Ankur showed up on the late shift and ran his $80 short-buy into a $200 profit in a relatively short amount of time.

All-in-all, everyone had a good time. Blue managed to consume the last of my birthday ice-cream cake from the freezer. All that sugar wired him up, I guess. He's usally pretty talkative but he just would not shut the fuck up on Wednesday.

Hope you all can make it back next Wednesday, cards will be in the air at 1900!