Big Syd's Poker Night....Online!!!!

Yes, I did somthing different this week. Most of you know I host a live poker tournament every Tuesday. Its called Big Syd's Poker Night. It rotates to a different location each week between Greenbelt, Severn, and Mitchellville Maryland. This week it was suppose to be in Severn. However, the Severn host was unable to do it this week. So, I decided to try something new.

For the first time, I took Big Syd's Poker Night online. Yes, We held a priavate tournament on Full Tilt Poker. I invited everyone from my weekly game list as well as players from md-poker.com, pocketfives.com, ftpfan.com, and RGP (rec.gambling.poker newsgroup).

Attendance was good with 26 players entered. Another 3 players would have been in had they gotten their player transfers in time to registers. The final table consisted of 5 players from RGP, 2 players from MD-Poker.com, 1 player from PocketFives.com, and 1 Player from FTPfan.com

The tournament payed 3 places with 1st Place getting $260, 2nd Place getting $156, and 3rd Place getting $104. The buy-in was $20 + $2. The winners were as follows:

1st - VeeRob (RGP)
2nd - NotAComputr (RGP)
3rd - RobBobGolf (MD-Poker)

Also, I added 2 Bounties to the Prize Pool. A $10 bounty on misst74 (RGP) and a $10 bounty on myself, KappaMan. Congrats to blackeye27 for win the misst74 bounty and il Lupo5 for winning the bounty on me.

Also, 5 of us participated in a last long bet which was won by sik_wit_iit (PocketFives) who finished in 6th Place.

I must say, there was some very good poker played last night. I'm pleased with the turnout. I will definitely hold another one of these sometime in the near future. Thanks again to all that played.

-Big Syd

Not a bad showing for 1473 players...

Had a good time playing in the Inaugural Pokerstars Blogger Championship. 1473 Players were entered.

After fighting and clawing through that massive field, my run came to an end as I busted in 284th Place. Of course I got rivered. I'll post the hand and let you read for yourself.

Anyway, it was a pleasure to be a part of that event. Somehow, I ended up at the tabel with one of my fellow RGP'er, XaQMorphy. He played very well also and made it to the point where you get a hat and shirt. lol. Also got to see another fellow RGP'er make it to the iPod level. Tuscaloosa John. Good Job fellas.

Oh, here's my final hand.

Big Syd aka KappaMan

PokerStars Game #2875603929: Tournament #13081516, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/10/23 - 18:03:31 (ET)
Table '13081516 81' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: performify (2915 in chips)
Seat 2: The_Venetian (13125 in chips)
Seat 3: KappaMan (3705 in chips)
Seat 4: Ray_Powers (16722 in chips)
Seat 5: XaQ Morphy (18506 in chips)
Seat 6: Andy_Ivey (7067 in chips)
Seat 7: deut23-10 (16992 in chips)
Seat 8: lachiep (11563 in chips)
Seat 9: livingsign (6185 in chips)
performify: posts the ante 25
The_Venetian: posts the ante 25
KappaMan: posts the ante 25
Ray_Powers: posts the ante 25
XaQ Morphy: posts the ante 25
Andy_Ivey: posts the ante 25
deut23-10: posts the ante 25
lachiep: posts the ante 25
livingsign: posts the ante 25
livingsign: posts small blind 200
performify: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [Qc Qs]
Ray_Powers said, "actually xbox is the onlything I dont want"
KappaMan said, "they can have the xBox"
The_Venetian: folds
KappaMan: raises 1200 to 1600
Ray_Powers: folds
XaQ Morphy: folds
Andy_Ivey: calls 1600
deut23-10: folds
lachiep: folds
XaQ Morphy said, "I want an ipod, and a shirt, lol"
livingsign: folds
performify: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jh 2h Td]
Ray_Powers said, "Like I need another thing to waste my time. :P"
KappaMan: bets 2080 and is all-in
Andy_Ivey: calls 2080
Andy_Ivey said, "wow, i really saw queens"
*** TURN *** [Jh 2h Td][2s]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 2h Td 2s][Jc]
Andy_Ivey said, "wow"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KappaMan: shows [Qc Qs] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
Andy_Ivey: shows [As Jd] (a full house, Jacks full of Deuces)
lachiep said, "nice"
XaQ Morphy said, "oh man"
KappaMan said, "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Andy_Ivey collected 8185 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8185 | Rake 0
Board [Jh 2h Td 2s Jc]
Seat 1: performify (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: The_Venetian folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: KappaMan showed [Qc Qs] and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 4: Ray_Powers folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: XaQ Morphy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Andy_Ivey showed [As Jd] and won (8185) with a full house, Jacks full of Deuces
Seat 7: deut23-10 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: lachiep (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: livingsign (small blind) folded before Flop

Hurry-Up Offense...

Well, its been about a week since I've been in with an update. Let me hit you with the hurry-up offense and the 2minute-drill since I'm watching my Washington Redskins devour the San Francisco 49'ers.

Tuesday, I hosted Big Syd's Poker Night. Took a few bad beats and busted out.

Wednesday - Played in PocketFives.com special satellite for the BoDog 100K Tourney on Sunday. P5 added 30 seats to the satellite. Top 66 players got seats. I came in 67th Place.

Saturday and Sunday, I failed at satelliting into the FTP $200K game today. A bit dissapointed about that.

Sunday - Today, I play the Pokerstarts Blogger Championship. Maybe luck will be with me on another site.

Big Syd

I'm Registered. Pokerstars Online Poker Blogger Championship.

As you can see from the ad, I'm playing in the Inaugural PokerStars Online Poker Blogger Championship. This is a FreeRoll for all Bloggers out there with some very sweet prizes. Everything from Apple iPod Nanos to Dell Flatscreen monitors to a WPT Event Package.

Althought I hate large fields (1270 players entered last I checked), I think it would be cool to walk away with some of the prizes being awarded.

It all goes down next Sunday. Wish me luck.

Big Syd

P.S. - I see some of my fellow MD-POker.com players are registered as well. Good Luck to you all.

I'm Back. Lets Get This Party Started!

I bet you thought I was gone. Nope. Never that. I just took a break from blogging for a couple weeks. You didn't miss much though.

Lets see. I played 2 events at The U.S. Poker Championship, I didn't make them money in neither. The first event ($300+$40 Buy-In NLHE) had about 700 something entrants. I finished in 200th Place. The second event I played ($500+$50 NLHE) I ran my stack up pretty early in the first blind level only to watch it dissappear before the 2nd blind level. Complete blowup. Oh Well.

Since then, I've played my Tuesday night Game once. Made the final table. Only to see my stack dwindle on a hand where I flopped trip Aces and Alex, who is holding pocket Kings, rivers a King for a boat. Man, it sure sucked to be me that night.

Also, the past two Thursdays, I've played a tournament put on by EHonda over in Riverdale. Not bad for a $50+10. Havent cashed yet there. But I will. Its just a matter of time.

I've been hit and miss lately on the online poker. I took this weekend off for the most part and I did the same last weekend. I've been playing some limit holdem and I think that slowed me down on the tournament grind. Well, this week, I return.

Oh, on Friday NIght, I returned to Party Poker. Yep, I played some SNGs on Party Poker after they gave me a free $100 to play on their site. I still hate the site. But it was free money. I'm happy to report, after losing about half of it, I turned things around, got back to even and then called it a night.

Well, thats about it for now. regular reports will return this week. Be on the lookout.

BiG Syd's Poker Night returns as well, this Tuesday. Yours Truly will be hosting.

Big Syd