A Wee Bit of Guinness

I stopped by Sligo for lunch on Friday afternoon and ended up staying until 10pm! The Guinness was going down way too smooth, as were the Jameson's and the Irish Car Bombs! There was a steady stream of friends arriving and leaving throughout the day including Ted, CNN and even MoC! Of course, this put quite a damper on my actual St. Patrick's Day celebration as I wasn't able to get out of bed until about 3pm Saturday. I managed to rally and when I heard that CNN's flight to Florida was "canceled" I ended up picking her up at the airport and we went and met Chuck down in Olde City. It was a zoo down in the city and once you actually managed to squeeze your way into bar there was barely enough room to stand and lift your beer to your lips. All in all it was a fun weekend from what I can remember!

More Poker

I played at Borgata yesterday. Same game, No Limit Hold Em. The table had a few strange players so I played very carefully early on. I also managed to get some great cards and showed some big hands which enabled me to take down some pots with nothing a few times. After being up for a while I lost alot of chips on a big hand when I played my pocket kings strong after the flop and ran into a gambler who stayed in against me with rags and got lucky to catch two pair. It hurt and while I don't usually let hands get to me, this one was for alot of money and I had to get up and go for a walk to cool down. I had $20 in free slot dollars courtesy of the Borgata, so I sat at a Wheel of Fortune slot machine and loaded in the free money. I have never hit the "spin" reel so many times before. I was up over $100 in no time. I cashed out with my new found $100 and feeling a little better, headed back to the poker room to rejoin the game. A pivotal hand that actually meant the difference between me going home loser or winner came up later that night. . The hand was raised by the player on my immediate right, I reraised and he went all in and I quickly called. I was the one who needed to get lucky this time and did so by catching a queen on the river to make trip queens against the monster pair of kings my opponent held. Winning a hand as a 4-1 dog feels a hell of alot better than losing one as a 20-1 favorite! That hand sent that player for a long walk, too!
Dinner was delicious as always. I had grilled lamb chops and an Oreo parfait for dessert.
I didn't get home until almost 1 am. I am headed back down tomorrow, as well.

High Steaks Poker

Last night I was back in AC at the Borgata. My intention was to enter the 7 PM tourney so when I arrived at 5:30 I sat in a no-limit cash game to pass the time until the start of the event. By 7pm I was up a couple hundred so I decided to bag the tourney as I had a better expected profit in the cash game. The table was full and there were maybe 3 or 4 decent players with the rest of the field pretty weak in their play. One memorable hand I played from the Big Blind with hole cards of 10 and 2. There were several players in the pot and no raises so I checked and we saw the flop. 10-2-2. What a beautiful sight. I slow-played and checked and sure enough had players betting into the pot. I merely called and then checked the turn, as well. A player bet and it was folded to me. I re-raised him and he called. On the river I bet out and he called. I turned over my full house and scooped a nice pot.
I played until about 8 pm when I decided it was time for dinner. I was still up a few hundred and hadn't eaten at the Old Homestead in a while so I headed there. I walked past the long line at the entry and was seated immediately. I ordered the Gotham Steak, their signature 36 ounce rib eye and a glass of Bacchus cabernet. The steak was awesome and I even saved room for a little dessert: creme brulee. The dinner ate up half my profit for the night, but it was worth it.

I got back to the table around 9:30 and immediately went on a card rush. The second hand I played after sitting back down was an A-Q. I raised and had one caller. The flop came with an Ace and a King, but I didn't put him on A-K since he had only called my raise. I bet out and he raised me big. I thought about it for a minute and called. On the turn I checked and he moved all in. Now I had a big decision to make. I was looking at a nearly $600 pot and I didn't have the nuts, but I did feel in my gut that he didn't have A-K. He was sitting there solid as a rock and I couldn't really get any tells from him, but I just wasn't buying what he was trying to sell me. I called and when he hesitated to turn over his hand I knew I had him. My A-Q had trumped his A-J! The dealer pushed a huge pile of chips to me and the other players commented on how great a call I had made. One player even said, "that was the best call I've ever seen." I don't know about that, but it was pretty good!
It got even better after that. A few hands later I was dealt pocket fours and the flop came Q-4-J with two hearts. I bet out to try to keep out anyone chasing the hearts and was immediately raised. The next player moved all-in, but he didn't have alot of chips. There was no way the guy had pocket queens or jacks, so the best he could have was two pair or the flush draw. I said, "all-in" and he went into the tank. I really didn't want him to call at that point as if he did have the heart flush draw I would have to sweat nine outs with two cards to come. I told him it was going to cost him to try to suck out on me and he put it together pretty quickly that I had flopped a set. He thought about it some more, but finally folded. The other player turned over Q-J and my set held up. Turns out the player who folded had the same hand, Q-J, so in hindsight that was the best possibility for me and I wished he had called afterall. My chips were growing into towers now and I had at least 4 times as much money as the next player at the table. The very next hand I looked down at pocket tens and raised. Another player moved all in and I called. He turned over A-K and my hand held up again. I now had a three-story tower of chips that had to be intimidating as hell to the rest of the table. I used my table image and chip stack to take down several more pots with bets and raises that no-one dared to call. I started to rack my chips and left the table about 10:30 with one of the best profits I've ever made in an hour of play and cashed out with a four-figure win!
The World Series of Poker Circuit is coming to Caesars on March 5 so I'd like to get a few more sessions in before the tournament starts. My confidence is high and I can't wait.

Mountain Getaway

This weekend was the much anticipated Pocono Mountain Getaway. It's been a year since the last trip and there was a record turnout this time, with 10 people making the trek to Lake Wallenpaupack. Not even a raging fondue party in Media could keep the likes of Granger, Dibs or the infamous Maxwell from attending this year.
There were no special stops on the way up this time (except for a quick beer at the Totem Pole Inn near the cabin) so the early crew (Myself, Paul, Ted and Granger) arrived at the cabin around 4pm to begin digging out the driveway from the almost 2 feet of snow. Guthrie and Maxwell were the second string and they arrived around 7pm. The six of us headed out to Crazy Fingers for dinner since the others wouldn't be arriving until even later. This was probably the last time we will ever eat at that establishment in our lifetimes. The first round of drinks were pathetic margaritas served in tiny martini glasses! They got the pitchers of beer OK, but not enough glasses! They finally switched the margaritas to larger glasses, but we were so focused on drinking that we didn't even realize we had no food in front of us until at least an hour after we ordered. When it finally came it was either cold, overcooked or undercooked, depending on what you may have ordered. I even had to send a drink back it was so weak! The bill was nearly $200 which added more insult to injury.
but we did manage to get Ray's meal taken off the bill ( he ordered a steak "rare" and it arrived so charred that it crumbled into ash when he tried to cut into it) and he got a token for a free drink on his next visit.
The Third string crew, consisting of Krotow, Huey and Dibs, were getting close, so we gave them directions to the nearest beer distributor and headed back to the cabin to meet them.
Weist wouldn't make it up until Saturday morning so the nine of us partied until the wee hours, except for Granger who went to bed about 10:30. The bottle of Cabo Wabo was gone in the first hour, but we had at least three cases of beer in reserve. Everyone had a great time.

We all seemed to miraculously awake at 8 am and Guthrie got us jump-started with some spicy Bloody Marys. Then we headed to Hawley for breakfast at the diner. We took a scenic route through the woods and stopped to admire a frozen waterfall. Breakfast was a hilarious scene as we took over the back room of the diner. The waitress seemed to remember us, but I'm sure the locals were wondering just who in the hell this boisterous group of drunken out-of-towners was.
I don't know what it is about the mountains, but I always seem to have a heartier appetite when I am up there. My breakfast consisted of 2 eggs over-easy, scrapple, hash browns, corned-beef hash, toast, creamed sausage gravy over a large country biscuit and a Belgian waffle. I figured it would be a good base for the day of drinking ahead of us. After teasing the waitresses and hassling a local man sporting a NY Jets jacket, we headed across the street to Pat's Bar. It was only 10:45 and while the place was open for business, we were the only customers at the time. We drank, played pool, domineered the juke-box and probably made the bartender's day with our jokes, jeers and healthy tab of drinks.
Weist finally made it up and actually met us at the bar where we enjoyed a few rounds with him before heading back to the cabin. We stopped at the beer distributor (we only had a few beers left from the night before) and the market, where we stocked up on steaks and snacks.
Three more cases of beer, 2 large bottles of vodka and a few bottles of wine would be available for consumption on this second evening on the lake.
We kept a good drinking pace going throughout the rest of the day and after watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the third or fourth time in a row, we had dinner. Steaks done on the grill, mashed potatos and ring-dings for dessert. Everything always tastes better in the mountains.
Another great night and we partied into the early morning hours again. We didn't linger long in the morning as many of the attendees had families to get back to, but we stopped at another diner on the drive home, in Hamlin this time, and we had a great breakfast. My stomach still hurts, not from the food or the alcohol, but from all the laughing. It was just non-stop the whole trip and that is what makes it such a great time. I think everyone caught equal amounts of heat throughout the weekend, although I think Guthrie's truck getting stuck in the snow gave us enough material for a long time to come.

I hope we can do it again next year!

Interesting Bet

Phil Ivey, one of the best poker players in the world and often referred to as "The Tiger Woods of Poker" has challenged none other than the "Phil Ivey of Golf" to a heads up match. Phil has actually challenged Tiger Woods to a heads up match at Shadow Creek golf course in Las Vegas, one of the most beautiful courses in the world, for the sum of $5 million!

Here's the details of the challenge:

Ivey will tee off from the ladie's tees, Tiger from the tips.

They will play a match-play format, dead even, no handicaps.

Tiger may not use a putter, he must use his driver to putt.

Iv'e seen Phil play golf and he is way in over his head on this bet.

Night at the Borgata

I just switched to the new version of Blogger and while I don't see anything really different from my viewpoint I'm sure it was for the best and this is my first post under the new version.
I stayed at the Borgata Thursday night. Played in their regular Thursday night tourney with a $120 buy-in. There were about 150 players and I felt that I played well, but missed the money by a few seats. I was knocked out in 26th place with 18 seats getting paid. The last two events I played I realized in retrospect that I had been playing a bit "scared", concentrating more on surviving than trying to win. I went into this event with a different mindset. I have been dominating the cash games lately and I planned on using the same style of play that was working for me in the ring games. It worked. I had built my chips up to almost $20k in the first few hours and really only made one big mistake when I lost 1/3 of my chips on a hand. I had King-Ten and the flop came 10-Jack-7 with two hearts. There were three players in the pot including me and the first player went all-in with his last $3200. I still had a player behind me and I put the first player on a heart draw. I thought about it and called, as I didn't want to totally commit to the hand with the player still to act behind me. I could tell he was torn about his decision and he respected my play, laying down a pocket pair in an earlier hand to me pre-flop when I made a large bet. He reluctantly called and I actually put him on a straight draw at that point. The ace on the river gave the winning hand to the first player, who had been on a heart draw with the ace of hearts and made top pair on the last card. I lost the hand but had a good read on the players.
The other mistake I made was in miscalculating the number of players left in the event when I moved all-in. I thought there were 4 tables left when there were actually only three. The "fourth" table I saw was a separate single table tournament and had I known how close I was to the money I might have waited for a better spot. I was in the hand with Queen-Ten and the flop came with a ten high. I bet out, everyone folded but one player who moved all-in. At best I put him on a ten but with a lower kicker, or a lower pair. This hand would give me a substantial amount of chips to make the final table so I called his bet and he turned over Ten-Seven. I was a 4 to 1 favorite with two more cards to come. He caught a seven on the turn to make two pair and I got no help on the river and was knocked out. Disappointing, but I was still happy with my play and my decisions were right the majority of the time.
I enjoyed a nice dinner and went to the room to chill. Friday morning I slept in until about 10am and then played in a cash game from noon until about 3pm. I made about $200 profit and checked out and headed back to Media. I ended up playing Friday night in Media and won a bit more.
While I didn't cash in the event I did get a confidence boost from my play and will try to keep the momentum going while I prepare for the World Series of Poker Circuit event which is coming to Caesars Atlantic City next month.

Why It's Important to Smile in Pictures!

What's New & Stuff

OK, last Wednesday's tournament at Borgata: I thought my Ace-Ten was good when I moved all-in after two more tens came on the flop. Actually, I bet out, was raised and then moved all-in, but regardless, I was called by an inferior hand (Queen-Ten) and the bastard got lucky on the river and I was sent packing. End of story on that one. John "Johnny World" Hennigan, the former Philadelphia pool shark, once from Brigantine and now hailing from Las Vegas, won the main event and the $1.6 million first prize Tuesday night.
Saturday morning I awoke with a craving for Dim Sum and since CNN hasn't posted about it yet, I am going to now.
As I said, I awoke with a craving, a hankering if you will, for some Chinese Dim Sum. And as we all know the best place for Dim Sum in Philadelphia is the Imperial Inn in ChinaTown, I headed there with CNN (after much hemming and hawing about her not being ready yet) and another friend who does not like to be mentioned in these blogs but often is, Bill G. (is that anonymous enough for you Mr. Granger?)
Anyway, we head downtown and go directly to the Imperial Inn. We are quickly seated and the room is abuzz with late-morning/early afternoon diners. The Dim Sum carts came around quickly and within minutes we had several small plates of assorted delicacies in front of us. My favorite was the steamed barbeque pork buns. Bill and CNN liked the fried dumplings. I was forced to try the chicken feet and found no enjoyment in them at all. We sampled spare ribs with black beans, curry chicken, taro and shrimp, crab claw and numerous other goodies. The coconut pudding was excellent, too! So after the food and a few Tsing Tao beers, we were on our way.
While I thought we were headed home, we decided to hit Olde City and have another drink. We started at The Plough & Stars, then hit the historic City Tavern, then Sugar Mom's and then back to the Plough & Stars where we now found our buddy Randy behind the bar!
By this point I was ready to go as the quick trip for food had turned into a five hour pub crawl, plus I was the designated driver and really couldn't drink anymore. So back to Media we went.
All in all in it was a fun day and I'd like to do it again with Jojo next time and maybe we can stop by the Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute or the Auto Show. Who's game? Please RSVP in the comments section.

Borgata Cheap Seat Tournament Tonite

I'm heading back to the Borgata this afternoon for a 5 pm event (#34). It is a cheap seat satellite tournament where we will be playing in a two tier structure for a seat in the $10,000 buy-in main event. Tonight's winners come back Thursday and play for the $10k seats (1 seat for every 10 entrants). I'm taking it easy on the food today, so far I've only consumed a Carnation Instant Breakfast drink!
I'll give you an update (good or bad) tomorrow!

Disney's Gone Too Far!

The Winter Poker Open at Borgata

Sunday I entered the $500 Buy-in Limit Hold 'Em tournament at the Borgata. It was event # 6 in the Winter Poker Open series which is now part of The World Poker Tour. I drove down early and registered around 9:30 am. Then I headed off for breakfast to kill an hour before the tournament started. For breakfast I had eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits with sausage gravy, melon and cantalope, a banana, a belgian waffle with banana's foster and a hunk of beef brisket.
Then I waddled into to the tournament area and looked for my table. I started off well and stuck to my tight strategy for the first few hours, letting the weaker plyers drop out and watching the thinning field. I had started at table #16 seat #3 (out of 26 total tables) and played there right up until the dinner break at about 5 pm when they broke the table and redistributed the players to other tables left in the room (there were about 14 tables now). This wasn't a good thing because over the last 6 hours I had learned how the other players at my table acted and I felt I had a pretty good read on them. Now I was seated with new players who I had no idea how they played. I played one hand at the new table (table #3 seat #4) before we broke for dinner.
For dinner I had a nice steak, some lamb with mint jelly, shrimp, pasta and chicken. I went back to the table feeling a little stuffed and a little tired. It had been a long day so far considering I drove down to AC at 8 am.
For the next two and a half hours I didn't play a single hand. Every hand was raised pre-flop and I just wasn't getting any cards. My chips started to dwindle as the aggressive play at the table effectively locked me out of getting involved in any hands. When I finally made a move with a suited Ace-Jack I was called by a big stack player who held an inferior Queen-Nine. He caught a straight and I was soon retrieving my car from the valet and headed home.
I will be back down there Wednesday for another event and then will take a shot at winning a seat in the $10,000 buy-in main event which will be televised for the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour later this year.

Happy New Year

May peace break into your house and
May thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and
May laughter assault your lips!
May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and
May happiness slap you across the face and
May your tears be that of joy.
In simple words ............

May 2007 be the best year of your life!!!

Merry Xmas, Happy New Year and all that other crap!

Christmas is now a not-so-distant memory and we are all looking forward to New Year's Eve with great anticipation (at least I am anyway) even though I have no plans as of yet. I'm still hoping someone will call with last minute news of a killer party being held somewhere in the area. The big day was relaxed and enjoyable and at this stage in life it is all about the kids anymore. We get to re-live all the joys of Christmas' past vicariously through our children, or in my case, my seven nieces and nephews. Maybe its just me, but it just doesn't feel like the same holiday it used to be anymore, although the cookies still taste the same as they always did! I spent Xmas with my mom and my sister's family out in bucolic Oxford, PA, where you can still hear the romantic clip clop of horse-drawn Amish buggies on the road and you can gently awake to the nauseating stench of manure from the nearby mushroom farms. Oh yes, give me the country life!
In another wonderous Christmas miracle, Granger and his Easy Money team racked up the points exactly when they needed them to come from behind and win so Kro and I finished in 4th place in Fantasy Football this season! We still feel good about making the playoffs in our team's inaugural season, but the pain of having to listen to Granger brag about his miracle victory for the next 12 months is a little too much to bear right now.
I plan to just take it easy for the next few days and gear up for the new year. I'll give some thought to some resolutions I may or may not make and set some goals for 2007, as well.
If anyone knows of a rocking New Year's Eve Party you know how to reach me!

Fantasy Football Playoffs

Well, for the second year in a row, and that constitutes my entire history playing fantasy football, my team has made it into the playoffs and has a shot at the big cash prize! ( we finished in 3rd place last year and did a bit better than break even!) Kro and I pulled it off in grand style with a complete rout of our opponent in the final "must-win" game of the regular season! Special thanks go out to Drew Brees for his 384 yards and FIVE touchdown passes! Both Granger brothers' teams made it and the infamous Mr. Wigs, as well. So this weekend is another do or die game and we have to win! I know you will all be rooting for us!

Trump Classic

So I am back in Media with my tail between my legs. I failed to cash in either of the two events I played (I slept in Tuesday, missing that day's event, but that will be an entirely new post in itself) and had mixed results in the side games (cash games). I got down to the Borgata Sunday afternoon and mostly relaxed and stuffed my face with free food (primarily a rib eye steak, baked potatoe, onion rings with a horseradish dipping sauce, green beens, 2 glasses of wine, and a spicy bloody mary, all topped off with a slice of coconut custard pie and 2 cups of coffee). I sat in a no-limit game that was so aggressive that I mostly just folded, played very few hands and managed to win a few pots when the time seemed right to strike. The last hand of my night I was in the Big Blind and had a pair of aces in the hole and was raised pre-flop. I re-rasied, more than tripling the bet. He called me with all but his last $200 which I bet out blind before the flop even came. He called that with no help on the flop and turned over Ace-King of diamonds. Of course he hit his diamond flush on the river and I took that as my sign to head back to my room and get some sleep. I gave back most of my winnings on that hand, but my main focus was on Monday's event at the Taj.
Monday morning I awoke, had a nice breakfast and checked out of the Borgata. I headed over to the Taj for the 11 am start of the No-Limit Tag Team event. My partner and I decided that I would start us off and the event was set up so that the blinds went up every 40 minutes and each partner had to play 20 minutes of each level. There were 280 entries with 18 places receiving cash prizes. We started with $3000 in chips and blinds of $25 and $50. We built our chip stack up to about $10,000 but were knocked out in 30th place with blinds of $500 and $1000. 12 seats out of the money!
You're always a little down after getting knocked out of a tournament so I headed over to my new room at Bally's and gorged myself on another comped steak dinner. I played in a small cash game and won about $400 in just under 2 hours. I went to my room and watched Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was funny and got my mind off the tournament. Tuesday I slept in, as I said before, had breakfast in bed and then checked out the shops at the new Pier at Caesars. Then I actually walked to the Taj on the boardwalk, with no coat on, and had a late lunch. I taxied back to Bally's, played a little more in their tiny poker room and lost a $200+ pot when some donkey called my raise with nothing and got lucky on me. My pocket queens went down in flames.
Wednesday I was at the Taj about an hour before the start time and the line was already fairly long. They would easily have over 300 players (still very weak compared to last year) and I talked with a few familiar faces while we waited for the starting bell. It was a slow start and I had a few early setbacks but managed to rebuild my stack just in time to donk it off with my pocket nines to another player and his pocket aces! I could have gotten away from the hand, I should have folded, it was just a stupid move at the wrong time. I was out after about 4 hours and headed home to Media.
There are more Trump Classic events next week leading to the main event and the World Series of Poker Circuit events start at Harrah's on Monday, so I will chill this weekend and decide what to do next.

Class Reunion

Last Friday was my high school reunion and it was great to see some of the people I hadn't seen in almost ten years. Of course there was the cast of usual suspects that I still keep in contact with and all in all it was a great time. I expect to keep in touch with a few more people now, as well. We started at the Town House and ended up at Brodeur's where we kept the late night action going until almost 3 am! Saturday and Sunday night we continued the celebration with a few of us getting together on our own in Media. A week ago I was a little apprehensive about the whole affair, but now I am very happy to have been a part of it all. (even if did mean missing the Chili Festival, which I know Ted and CNN attended!)
On the Fantasy Football front Kro and I are now firmly ensconced in 3rd place after having our solid victory of two weeks ago "adjusted" to a tie due to the fact that the NFL ruled that Reggie Brown fumbled that catch and McNabb got the points for the pass completion...FIVE DAYS after the friggin' game!!!!! We have to win this week to make the playoffs and its our toughest competition of the season (although we did beat this team in our first match up with, they have become quite stronger as the season has progressed.)
I leave for Atlantic City on Sunday night and will be getting up bright and early Monday to register for and enter the "No Limit Tag Team" event of the Trump Classic, the first of its kind in AC. I'll be down there through Wednesday and will see how I am doing at that point before I decide how long I will be staying.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday!

Friday Night and Beyond

Tonight I am off to AC with my friend Randy (Yes, that Randy for those of you from Penncrest) and the plan is to play some poker at the Showboat/House of Blues, then check out the Live concert (Live being the name of the band) and then hit the Foundation Room for some VIP bottle service!
This Sunday is week 11 for my Fantasy League and Kro and I are currently in second place with an excellent chance of making the playoffs if we can post another win this weekend. We had to sweat it out Monday night with our opponent ( Mr. Wigs) still having two players in the Monday Night game and we were sitting with a thin 28-point margin of victory going into the game. We pulled it off and now we face the second-worst team in the league this weekend! We need this victory and it would be ideal if the two players tied for first place both had losses to go with our win!
I'll let you know what happens!

Trump Classic

This month brings the return of the Trump Classic poker tournament at the Taj in AC running from November 27 to December 17 with 24 events scheduled . I didn't play in this one last year, but the year before I had some good results with two satellite wins and a 20th place (in the money) finish in the No-Limit Hold-em event which had a starting field of 245. The numbers this year will be much higher with closer to 1000 entries likely in some events. If the structure of the tournament is good, I plan to play the Limit event (#1) that kicks off the series on November 27. I booked my complimentary room today and I am going to follow in Ted's steps and commit in this public forum to play in the following events (so far). December 4th is the No-Limit Hold-em Tag Team event (#11). This is the first time I have seen this format and it should be interesting. You enter the event with a partner and each player takes turns playing the same stack of chips, swapping seats every thirty minutes or so. December 5th is the No-Limit Hold-em Six Handed event (#12) where instead of starting with ten players to a table, there will only be 6 players to a table, including the final table. This requires a slightly different strategy to full table play as the rising blind structure forces more action faster with less players at the table. December 7th is a regular No-Limit Hold-em event (#13). In between these events are some seven card stud and Omaha events as well as the Ladies Only and Seniors events (I have heard of guys dressing up as girls to get into the ladies event, but I don't even want to think about playing in a senior's event just yet, especially with my 20 year high school reunion this month already reminding me of the passing years!).
After these events I will see how things go and may play in more events as we approach the Championship event on December 16, which is a two-day event with a $5000 buy-in.
So now I am committed to playing those events and reporting the results, good or bad, for everyone to see.

Weekend Update

Not much to report from this weekend, no "fake" costume party invites, but did manage to get a few poker sessions in and was winner in both. Also, looks like another victory in Fantasy Football, unfortunately the losing party this weekend was none other than State Street (aka Tedman)! Actually, he still has a chance to pull from behind tonight, that is if Tom Brady can score about 75 points for him in Monday Night Football against the Vikings!
I've been putting in more hours playing online lately, trying to keep a regular schedule of Tuesday and Thursday night play. I won my first 9 player, single table Omaha Hi/Lo tournament online last week, too! The $320 buy-in paid $1350 for 1st place. Omaha is played like Hold-em, but you get four hole cards (instead of two) and you must play two and only two of your hole cards and three and only three of the five community cards, add in the Hi/Lo variance and now you are talking about high hand winning half the pot and low hand winning half the pot, but you have to have five cards lower than an 8 without making a flush or straight to have a low. It requires a lot more thinking and is considered by many to be a tougher game, but I still prefer No Limit Hold-em!
Next month is the Trump Classic at the Taj and I will be staying in a Rock Star Suite next door at the House of Blues. I think we should set up a night on the town with some fellow bloggers like CNN, Tedman, AKJN and Chuck if he is allowed in AC!

Happy Halloween to All!

Let me be the first to wish you all a Happy Halloween!