A thread to talk about poker

[phattymatty]

played in the midnight tournament at the taj mahal on thursday night.  176 players, 6K prize pool.  made it to about the last 7-8 tables.  this girl, who had AA about 4 times in the last 30 hands had a huge chip stack.  was knockin out dudes left and right.  anyway, she was high stack at the table, i was 2nd.  blinds were 400-800.  had pocket Ks.  she bet 3000.  i just called.  flop comes K-10-6.  i flopped the best hand possible.  she bets another 3K.  i raise to 15 K.  she calls.  turn comes A.  i go all-in.  she calls and shows me her J-Q for the straight.  lucky whore, called a huge raise with a straight draw. 

i killed the borgata in blackjack though.

[SunMo]

Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from Temecula, Calif., won the $10,000 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker and its $8.25 million top prize.

[ice grillin you]

nice spoiler alert dick

[Father Demon]

Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from Temecula, Calif., won the $10,000 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker and its $8.25 million top prize.

He was playing crazy.  Doing all kinds of non-standard plays, and it worked out for him.  Very unconventional player that at times seemed intent on giving away his money.  I was watching the illegal internet feed yesterday of the PPV action.

[rjs246]

I just won $20 in free bar money in a free tournament against terrible players. Bow down, bitches.

[phattymatty]

i came in 17th out of 5,000 in a bodog tournament last night.  didn't go to bed until about 4.

[rjs246]

Don't try to upstage me, dude. My accomplishment is far more impressive.

[phattymatty]

it was a freeroll, so i won $7.50.  for about 6 hours of poker.  thats almost $1.50 an hour. 


the winner got over $250.

[Father Demon]

I'm going to have to quit my poker group.  Monthly games, not big money.  Mostly just an excuse to get out of the house, drink beer, and shoot the shtein.

Last night, one tool's wife calls to gossip about a teacher that another guy is going out on a blind date night.  20 freaking minutes of this dude's wife, on speaker phone, talking about god damned elementary school yearbook photos.  I guess it doesn't help that I hate this dude's wife to begin with.  I should have left, but I had more beer to drink.

I think I'm retiring from neighborhood poker games.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The WSOP isn't televised on ESPN for at least a month after the tournament's over.  The information is readily available on multiple card player websites, including cardplayer.com.  It's not much of a spoiler, really, and it's certainly no worse than you spoiling the ending to "The Departed".

[rjs246]

Use the quote function retard. No one knows what you're talking about.

[NGM]

The WSOP isn't televised on ESPN for at least a month after the tournament's over.  The information is readily available on multiple card player websites, including cardplayer.com.  It's not much of a spoiler, really, and it's certainly no worse than you spoiling the ending to "The Departed".

Dude they post it in ESPN.com.  If you have even a passing interest in poker you would have to go into a hermetically sealed bubble to avoid it. 

[Wingspan]

I can't wait to see Demon's home game on ESPN next month.

[phattymatty]

technically, they've already been playing the WSOP for about 2 or 3 weeks on ESPN.  they just won't show the main event for another month or so, maybe even later.

[ice grillin you]

hey douche staley i was joking...like i give a flying farg about the poker championships