Thursday Sept 28, 2006

Day - Zero
Total Cash - 15,000
Eric's play - EVEN
Shirley's play - EVEN

We leave in the morning!!! I'm ready to go... Well my brain is ready to go, I haven't finished packing or anything but I want to leave already. I still have to finish packing, I have a good chunk of it done but there are still some clothes that have to be cleaned, the computer has to be packed up, I have to set-up a ring of keys for my brother and Shirleys sister the dishes have to be put away and... Hold on I'm sure this is boring you all so I'll change the topic.

I have spent quite a few hours playing online over the last 4 days and I'm down $20.14. What a waste of time!! LOL for those of you wondering I did not cash in last weeks Party Poker Millions. Kind of embarrassed on how I went out and really don't wanna tell ya about my bad play, but I'm going to try to be as honest as possible on here. So it is hour and 45 minutes into the tourney and there are still a ton of people left. I have 10,200 chips and the Avg stack is 9,000. I'm at a fairly good table, a couple rocks, a couple Fishes and some just Avg. players. Anyway I'm in the small blind and everyone folds to me. The blinds are 200/400 and I have Kc9h, I decide to take the flop and call the 200 (I know I know). Anyway the big blind (10,400 chips) raises 1100. This guy was pretty aggressive player and I thought that he did not have a very strong hand. So I call. The Flop comes 6c 4d Kh. I check he bets 2225, I think and push all-in. He calls and shows Ks Jc. Turn 8s river 3c. I lose. and am out, the guy has me covered by 200 chips. Anyway I don't really want to discuss this hand any further but needless to say I wasn't happy with my play!

On Tuesday night I had about 70 bucks in my party poker account and my brother show up at my house after he was done work around 1:00am. I was kinda bummed; remember how I told you guys that Shirley's car needed to go into the shop cause her clutch was not working, well I got the bill. It cost $1900. I hate cars! Anyway, I told Rob (my brother) that we were going to run that 70 bucks up to 1500USD to pay for the clutch! So I sit at a 6-handed 1-2 table and make it to 100, so we move up to 2/4 , make it to 150, so we move up to 3/6 and make it to 250! I was on fire. We get the account to 500 and move to 10/20 short, then we climb to 750 and goto 15/30 short. I was at 928, one pot away from 20/40 short, when disaster strikes. I'll quickly write out some of the beats I take!

I flop 2 pair with A8. Board comes A89 I lose to KT turn J, river Q

I flop 2 pair with 87. Board comes 875 I lose to AT turn J, river 9 (that was my favorite)

I have AK vs K8. I was out played badly on this hand. I was only winning Pre-flop

I flop 2 pair with Q9. Board comes Q94. I lost to JT. turn K

All if this crazyness occured in 40 hands or so! It was like 30 minutes of play! Rob was here he can back my story! When you are playing 15/30 short those hands cost you lots! The only good thing about the whole story was that I got up after it occurred and saved my 190 bucks! I went to bed trying not to think of what happened. As my brother said, "Easy come, Easy go" My brother is a carefree kind of guy!

Well this is going to end quickly. This is the 3rd time I have tried to post this BLOG and everytime I try it screws-up and I'm forced to re-write it.

Well, I will try to update it tomorrow or saturday so you'll know how we are doing but if it takes me this long to write these things I can see me not wanting to continue.

-Later Eric