It's going to be a long night...

Full Tilt Poker Game #536087783: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (3500952), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:38:12 ET - 2006/03/31
Seat 1: mybignips (1,485)
Seat 2: 33trips (1,455)
Seat 3: carp1260 (1,740)
Seat 4: KappaMan (1,500)
Seat 5: Adam Rousseau (1,320)
Seat 6: mullspen (1,500)
Seat 7: Magical Aces (1,500)
Seat 8: chirl31 (1,500)
Seat 9: bjunks (1,500)
carp1260 posts the small blind of 15
KappaMan posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [Qh Qs]
Adam Rousseau folds
mullspen folds
Magical Aces folds
chirl31 folds
bjunks raises to 90
Magical Aces: shoulda played my 7 2
mybignips folds
33trips folds
carp1260 folds
mybignips: i had 1 2
mybignips: lol
KappaMan raises to 300
bjunks raises to 1,500, and is all in
KappaMan has 15 seconds left to act
KappaMan calls 1,200, and is all in
bjunks shows [Td Th]
KappaMan shows [Qh Qs]
*** FLOP *** [6d 3c 3d]
*** TURN *** [6d 3c 3d] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [6d 3c 3d Ad] [5d]
bjunks shows a flush, Ace high
KappaMan shows two pair, Queens and Threes
bjunks wins the pot (3,015) with a flush, Ace high
bjunks: haha
KappaMan stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,015 | Rake 0
Board: [6d 3c 3d Ad 5d]
Seat 1: mybignips didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: 33trips (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: carp1260 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: KappaMan (big blind) showed [Qh Qs] and lost with two pair, Queens and Threes
Seat 5: Adam Rousseau didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: mullspen didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: Magical Aces didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: chirl31 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: bjunks showed [Td Th] and won (3,015) with a flush, Ace high

Once again, AQ is cursed!!!!!!!!

AQ is so cursed for me that it makes no sense. I can't win with it and I can't win against it. The later was the case for me tonight as my AK couldnt even beat AQ with me all-in for about $11,000T.

Tonight, I played the 9pm $10+$1 Double Stack Tourney (NLHE) on Full Tilt Poker. Once again, I played some darn good poker. I'm actually proud of the way I played tonight. No, I didn't win the damn thing. But I did finish ITM (In The Money) at 41st place out of 484 Playeres entered. Top 45 players got paid.

If Only my AK could have beat the Tournament chip leader's AQ, I'm golden. NOT!

Oh, well. Its bed time. Here is the hand history for you to feast on:

Full Tilt Poker Game #534835762: Double Stack $10 + $1 (3385495), Table 43 - 800/1600 Ante 200 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:07:53 ET - 2006/03/31
Seat 1: KappaMan (11,978)
Seat 2: Shannon_Butler (68,335)
Seat 3: Smiley q-_-p (43,823)
Seat 4: MADMAN70 (34,130)
Seat 5: THE RIFLEMAN (22,020)
Seat 6: tlude (34,778)
Seat 7: danielburke (27,074)
Seat 8: onmyown (18,822)
Seat 9: 3 rack (32,445)
KappaMan antes 200
Shannon_Butler antes 200
Smiley q-_-p antes 200
MADMAN70 antes 200
THE RIFLEMAN antes 200
tlude antes 200
danielburke antes 200
onmyown antes 200
3 rack antes 200
KappaMan posts the small blind of 800
Shannon_Butler posts the big blind of 1,600
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [As Kh]
KappaMan: nice
Smiley q-_-p folds
tlude: ty
MADMAN70 folds
THE RIFLEMAN folds
tlude calls 1,600
danielburke calls 1,600
onmyown folds
3 rack folds
KappaMan raises to 11,778, and is all in
Shannon_Butler calls 10,178
tlude folds
danielburke folds
KappaMan shows [As Kh]
Shannon_Butler shows [Ac Qh]
*** FLOP *** [Ts 3s Qd]
*** TURN *** [Ts 3s Qd] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 3s Qd 2c] [5c]
KappaMan shows Ace King high
Shannon_Butler shows a pair of Queens
Shannon_Butler wins the pot (28,556) with a pair of Queens
KappaMan stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 28,556 | Rake 0
Board: [Ts 3s Qd 2c 5c]
Seat 1: KappaMan (small blind) showed [As Kh] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 2: Shannon_Butler (big blind) showed [Ac Qh] and won (28,556) with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: Smiley q-_-p folded before the Flop
Seat 4: MADMAN70 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: THE RIFLEMAN folded before the Flop
Seat 6: tlude folded before the Flop
Seat 7: danielburke folded before the Flop
Seat 8: onmyown folded before the Flop
Seat 9: 3 rack (button) folded before the Flop

Big Syd and BigFella from MD-Poker.com

 
Here is a picture of myself with BigFella from MD-Poker.com. We met through MD-Poker and discovered we were Fraternity Brothers as well as PokerBuddies. Good to find one of my brothers on the felt. Yo! 

Tom Speaks...

 
Here is Tom McEvoy, Guest Speaker at the PokerStars Dinner held during ATLARGE. He delivered a nice Question and Answer session. 

PokerStars.com Ice Sculpture

 
Here is the PokerStars ice sculpture that was on display at the PokerStars Dinner during ATLarge. 

Tom MCEvoy and Big Syd

 
Had the opportunity and pleasure to meet Tom McEvoy not too long ago in Atlantic City. Tom co-authored one of the first Tournament Poker books I ever read and is a WSOP Bracelet wearer. He is currently a spokeperson for PokerStars. He was the special guest speaker this yeat at the PokerStars dinner during ATLarge.

-Big Syd 

Poker Playing Wednesday (3/29/06)

Decided to run home and play some poker after work. Got home just in time to play the Full Tilt Poker $50+$5 NLHE Tourney at 7pm. Unfortunately, I didn't make the money. The hand that killed me was AKsuited. Thing is, I know I overplayed it. 125 players and I'msent to the rail in 121st place. How sickening is that. Lost a race to 77.

After that, I decided to play some sit-n-gos on Full Tilt. Played an $11+$1 and busted on the bubble in 4th. Played another immediately afterwards and placed in 3rd Place for a small profit.

After those, I decided to play a $5+.50 SnG. At the start, I run to the bathroom and as I come back, I see I have pocket rockets (aces). However, I'm unable to click "I'm Back" in time to play them and they are folded. So, I play this table for a while and I'm dealt AA again. Yep. Probably less than 10 hands later, I'm dealt AA again. Unfortunately, I wish I wasn't there to play them. I raise. I'm re-raised. I put him on Kings. I decided to push the rest in. If he has Kings, he is gonna call. Right on cue, he calls my all-in with Cowboys (Pocket Kings). Flop comes King-blank-blank. My hand doesn't improve on the turn nor the river. To the rail I go.

So, now, I think I'll finish watching the WPT or perhaps I'll finish listneing to Card Player's The Circuit radio show.

Anyway, tonight was not a good night.

-Big Syd

This hand bothered me all day today...

I didn't play any poker this evening. However, I am about to post a hand that I played yesterday in the Full Tilt Poker $50+$5 NLHE Tournament. This hand stayed on my mind all day today because I can not believe this guy called me down all the way to the river on a flush draw. Granted, I had nothing but Ace high. However, I raised from EP preflop and I made pot sized bets on the Flop and the Turn. I felt I had established a tight enough table image that this guy should have read me as strong. But I guess if you have a large stack like he had accumulated in a very short time, you can call a guy down to the river with AKs and hope to luck up and hit it. And yes, I know I could have bailed out on the Flop and the Turn.


Full Tilt Poker Game #527676352: Double Stack $50 + $5 (3340033), Table 6 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:36:58 ET - 2006/03/27
Seat 1: rodmir29 (3,525)
Seat 2: JE23 (9,170)
Seat 3: mtbrat (4,555)
Seat 4: Todays Not It (3,010)
Seat 5: MonkeyTrap (3,795)
Seat 6: KappaMan (3,300)
Seat 7: tommypoly (3,625)
Seat 8: clogged (9,780)
Seat 9: jojo17333 (2,895)
mtbrat posts the small blind of 30
Todays Not It posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [Qd Ah]
MonkeyTrap folds
KappaMan raises to 240
tommypoly folds
clogged calls 240
jojo17333 folds
rodmir29 folds
JE23 folds
mtbrat folds
JE23 is sitting out
Todays Not It folds
*** FLOP *** [Jc 9c 7h]
JE23 has returned
KappaMan bets 570
clogged calls 570
*** TURN *** [Jc 9c 7h] [6h]
KappaMan bets 1,710
clogged calls 1,710
*** RIVER *** [Jc 9c 7h 6h] [4c]
KappaMan bets 780, and is all in
clogged calls 780
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KappaMan shows [Qd Ah] (Ace Queen high)
clogged shows [Ac Kc] (a flush, Ace high)
clogged wins the pot (6,690) with a flush, Ace high
KappaMan stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,690 | Rake 0
Board: [Jc 9c 7h 6h 4c]
Seat 1: rodmir29 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: JE23 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: mtbrat (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Todays Not It (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: MonkeyTrap didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: KappaMan showed [Qd Ah] and lost with Ace Queen high
Seat 7: tommypoly didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: clogged showed [Ac Kc] and won (6,690) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: jojo17333 didn't bet (folded)

Nothing else to report...

 
 
I didn't do too well on the rest of my off-day from work. I played a few more tourneys and took some sick beats. I did play the Full Tilt Poker $50+$5 DoubleStack tourney yesterday. Did very well in it until some guy with AK took out my AQ. Called me all the way down to the river against my pot size bets on each street. Unbelievable. It was as if he knew I didn't make my hand. No way he could have put me on AQ.

Oh well, I thought I'd post these screen shots from a Charity Tournament I played in on Full Tilt Poker. It was called Suckout on Leukemia. I didn't make it ITM. However, I did have fun playing with Rafe Furst and Jennifer Harmon. I actually busted out Rafe Furst and for that they gave me my buy-in back as well as a t-shirt.

-Big Syd 

Engine Engine Number Nine...

 

Still playing solid poker. Didn't play much yesterday after taking down 2nd Place. I played the 12:30pm satellite yesterday to the $200K Guarantee. Didn't make the money. Decided to call it a day as for poker and do some other things with my Sunday.

Today, it took me a minute to get going but I finally primed the pump and got the train going. I'm 100% sure I could have gone deeper at this final table. However, I have to go pick my daughter up from school. This prompted me to make a post-flop play at the pot, knowing I was beat. But I had to go.

I'll be back though. I'm already registered for the 2pm $6000 Guarantee Double Stack tourney.

-Big Syd 

The Early Bird gets The Worm

 

After falling to sleep early last night, while watching Tivo'd episodes of Hustle which airs on BRAVO, I woke up at about 5am and could not go back to sleep. I had just missed the 5am $20 Buy-In Tournament. So, I decided I would stay up and play the 6am $10 +$1 Buy-in Tourney.

I feel like I gave it my B+ game and by the time were were down to about 20 or so players remaining, I had developed my stack into what became the tournament chip leader. It wasn't just any old chip lead either. I had about a 2to1 or 3to1 chip lead on my closest competitor. It remained this way til we were down to about 3 or 4 players as I continued to make moves and pick my spots to maintain the lead all the way in to heads-up play.

I'm not gonna lie, there were times during this tournament where I felt like I was in the zone. I was playing some excellent poker. Mixing up my play when I need to. Making steals when I needed to. No, making steals when I wanted to. With the stack that I had, players realized that if they wanted to see a flop with me, their entire stack would be in jeapordy. lol I just played some good solid poker with no TV on or anything to interrupt me. OK, I will admit, I had XM Radio Online piped into my ears and I was listening to one of of the Old School Hip Hop Stations. I was feeling it.

Unfortunately, as you can see if you've been readin my blog from the bottom to the top (Look at the post before this one), I found myself in a race situation and I lost the race. I was severely crippled after losing that hand. We jockeyed a few hands back and forth but eventually, my train ran out of steam.

The end result? 2nd Place for $193.50

Not a big hit, in my book. But as my poker buddy PDoggie always reminds me, Thats one helluva positive ROI (Return on Investment). About 17x or 18x my initial buy-in. I gotta admit, I was really playing for 1st Place in this tourney. Not at one time did I play just to get ITM (In The Money). There really wasn't much to be made until you hit the final 3, as always.

OK, I think I'm going to hit the bed now. Too late to go to church. I think I'll take a nap until the $200K Guarantee Qualifier at Noon.

Good Night. I mean, Good Day!

-Big Syd 

I still say AQ (suited or unsuited) is CURSED!!!!!!

 

Here is the hand that swung the tournament from my favor to his. As you see, I need AQsuited to win a race. But of course, AQ is still cursed for me. For those of you that haven't been following my blog, It seems like I can't win with AQ and I get beat by it as well. I've seen it happen to many times. How ironic is it that I was listening to Kurtis Blow sing "These are The Breaks"? lol Here is the Hand History:

Full Tilt Poker Game #524410960: $10 + $1 Tournament (3318222), Table 2 - 1000/2000 Ante 250 - No Limit Hold'em - 9:17:36 ET - 2006/03/26
Seat 1: KappaMan (87,636)
Seat 8: hoocares (60,864)
KappaMan antes 250
hoocares antes 250
KappaMan posts the small blind of 1,000
hoocares posts the big blind of 2,000
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KappaMan [Qd Ad]
hoocares: gg, man
KappaMan raises to 8,000
KappaMan: gg
hoocares raises to 24,000
KappaMan raises to 87,386, and is all in
hoocares calls 36,614, and is all in
KappaMan shows [Qd Ad]
hoocares shows [Th Tc]
Uncalled bet of 26,772 returned to KappaMan
*** FLOP *** [Js 9s 3d]
*** TURN *** [Js 9s 3d] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Js 9s 3d Jh] [4h]
KappaMan shows a pair of Jacks
hoocares shows two pair, Jacks and Tens
hoocares wins the pot (121,728) with two pair, Jacks and Tens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 121,728 | Rake 0
Board: [Js 9s 3d Jh 4h]
Seat 1: KappaMan (small blind) showed [Qd Ad] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 8: hoocares (big blind) showed [Th Tc] and won (121,728) with two pair, Jacks and Tens 

And then there were 2 (two)...

 

After playing excellent poker since 6am, I finally made it to heads-up play. At this point, its all about timing, luck, skill, and some more stuff. It feels so good to be in this postion once again. If only this were the WPT or WSOP and those cameras were really rolling for a real broadcast. lol 

But you have to know how to use it when you get it...

 
I'm in the 6am $10+$1 Buy-In NL Holdem Tournament. We started with 99 Players. We are not down to the final table as you can see. I've been the tournament chip leader now since we were down to about 20 players remaining. We've come a long way. 

They say Big is Always Better!

 
Man, it sure does feel good to build a stack when playing poker tournament. I feel like I'm sitting on top of the world! lol 

Big Syd, where are you?

I didn't play any poker on Monday because my Internet was still down. Comcast was suppose to show between 5 and 8. However, 8pm comes around and no Comcast. I call them and I'm told they made a mistake and nobody would be coming out tonight. I'm heated. We schedule for Tuesday between 5 and 8 and I get some credits on my account. Perfect opportunity to relax and get caught up on Tivo.

Tuesday rolls around and Comcast shows up at about 5:25pm and fixes my Internet. However, I somehow came down with a cold and I really felt too weak to play poker. I decided to take the night off and try to recover from the cold.

This brings us to today. I'm feeling a lot better and I'm actually anxious to play some poker. Its been since Friday that I havent played. Its time.

See you on the felt tonight.

-Big Syd

The Ultimate Satellite at The Borgata

For those wondering about The Ultimate Satellite at The Borgata, it started at 11am with 419 players. The Payout will be 6 packages and 7th place will get $9,000.

Unfortunately, I'll be hitting the highway headed back home shortly. More details on this weekend when I get home

-Big Syd

Qualifier to The Ultimate Satellite...

I got up at about 4:30am and hit the road about 5:20am. The Nav System is programmed for The Borgata Hotel, Casino, and Spa (As if I dont know my way. lol). I throw on some Biggie and I make it to A.C. in record breaking time. About 2 hours and 37 minutes I belive it was.

I immediately head to The Borgata to register for the Qualifier. Registration stats at 8am. I've alreayd talked to my poker buddy Alex and he is there already and is standing in line to hold me a spot. I dart into The Borgata and valet the whip and then shoot straight for the pokerroom. The line is all the way back to the high limit room. Thank God, Alex is towards the fron of the the line. I go to the desk to get a duplicate My Rewards card and then shoot straight to the front of the line where Alex is and I register.

Registration is complete and the tournament starts at 11am. We have time to burn. Alex is a Black Label My Rewards Card Holder. He invites me to have breakfast. Because the Black Label Club Restaraunt is being redecorated, they allow Black Card holders to dine in the Borgata Buffet for free of charge. So, we go and have a nice breakfast before tourney time. I'm stuffed. Now, I have a very weak stomach. So, I know I'm going to have to do something about the food before start time. So, I handle my business. I play a little video poker to burn some time. I wanted to play some low-limit poker while waiting but they didnt open up any tables. So, I grab a poker magazine, read some, try to do an early check-in, and then prepare for the tourney.

The tourney started just about on time. I had a nice table to start off with. Played there for a few levels and developed one helluva table image. Everybody respected my play after I conducted a few lessons and showed down some very good cards. I thnk I ran my stack of $10,000T up to about 13000 or 14000. Then, they broke my table.

I drew a table where the cards went totally cold for me. I mean, it was like a nightmare. The blinds were getting heavy and it came time for me to make a move. Long story short, I busted out with 14 tables left in the tournament. Unfortunately, the Qualifier only payed 73 seats into the Sunday Ultimate Satellite. So, I blew that one. I really felt bad about that because I was playing some very good cards.

Anyway, I have the urge to avenge my loss. So, Alex and I head over to The Hilton to play there supposedly NO-Rake tournament. We get there and they tell us they have changed the policy and the tournament is now $100+$20. If you ask me. $20 is kind of high for a $100 tournament. But we decide to play anyway.

Tournament starts with 4 tables (about 40 players). I play real good cards as I sit an choose my spots wisely. Before I know it, I'm at the final table. This tourney was very soft when it came to players. A lot of people on vacation and deciding to play since they saw it on tv. Anyway, the first hand after break at the final table, I'm dealt QQ in LP. UTG, raises and it folds to me and I push all-in since my stack is low. He calls. and turns over pocket 8's. Oh hell, Here comes the beat. The flop hits with an 8. No Q on the turn. No Q on the River. Out I go in 10th place. 6 places away from the money.

By now, I'm heated. I go downstairs. I blow $200 in Craps like its nothing. Thats it. No more gambling for the weekend. I decide to just cool off and tell myself to have a good time. Afterall, I am going to the James "Lights Out" Toney vs. Hasim Rahman fight on Saturday night. So, I chill for the rest of the weekend and just relax.

I'll report on the fight in my next post.

-Big Syd

Last Night's Results (3/15/06)

Unfortunately, thanks to Comcast Internet, I dont have much to say about last night. You see, I got home from work on Wednesday evening only to find my Internet connection dead as a door knob. Yep, no Internet Access.

Of course I call Comcast and the earliers they can get someone out is on Friday between 1 and 5 (I'm headed to Atlantic City to play a qualifier for The Ultimate Satellite at The Borgata).

This means, no poker on Wednesday and no poker on Thursday since I will be packing and getting some rest for the trip up on Friday.

So, thanks to Comcast, No Money made and No Poker played!

-Big Syd

Last Night's Results (3/14/06)

Played some more poker on BoDog last night. WSOP QuarterFinal started at 9:30 with about 24 players. I busted out immediately after the 1st break (The first hand to be exact), or was it the second break, in 14th Place. AQ ran into AA and it was history for me. I'm still feeling good about my game again. I mean, I feel like I'm playing true BigSyd Poker (I like to call it that).

After Playing that, I played a littl $5+$.50 Single Table and donked off the chipe lead to finish in 4th Place on the the bubble. What a frikking night.

You live and you learn.

I then proceeded to blow through some loot by playing craps and then playing some video poker. I'm just starting to play Video Poker. Give me a minute and I'll have the hang of it.

-Big Syd

Last Night's Results (3/13/06)

Last night, I played at BoDog Pokerroom. I didn't get started until the the 9:30pm WSOP Quaterfinal Event. There were about 46 players entered. I played pretty good and finised in 10th Place. Unfortunately, Only the top 4 finishers got seats into the BoDog WSOP Semi-Finals event and 5th place got some cash.

I also played a $10+$1 Single Table Tournament on BoDog afterwards. I felt like I had to do something to feel better after my 10th place finish. After being down to about a stack of 200 in chips, I launched a comeback towards the end to finish in 2nd Place. I would have finished in 1st Place had my heads-up opponent not called my all-in, which I had a pair of eights, with his hearts flush draw and hit. Oh well, I can't do anything about the luck part.

I'll probably be back on BoDog tonight since I dont have anything in my Full Tilt Account. Had to make a withdrawal to cover my upcoming A.C. trip this weekend.

Talk to you later.

-Big Syd

BoDog $100,000 Guarantee Tournament (3/12/06)

BoDog $100,000 Guarantee Tournament (3/12/06)

Today, I decided to play the $100+$9 Buy-In $100K Guarantee on BoDog. It is a very good tournament that carries an overlay just about every week. By overlay, I meam the site has to cover the money out of their pockets to meet the $100,000 Prize Pool when enough players dont sign-up to cover it by buy-ins. TOday, there were 759 players. Which meant BoDog had to kick in about $26,000 to the Prize Pool.

I must say, I played pretty good today. I finished in 85th Place. Unfortunately, it was not good enough to make any money since only the top 63 places payed money. If there is anyone that knows that close doesnt pay, its me.

I must admit, I was heated at myself for the way I busted out. Let me see if I can sum it up for you:

Blinds are 400/800 with a 100 ante. I'm sitting with about T14000 in chips. It is getting kinda hected at my table. The big stacks are raising pre-flop just about every hand. Nobody is seeing a flop without at least calling a raise.

I looked down at KhJd and decided to play. UTG min raises to 1600. Kinda fishy but its the table chip leader who is sitting on about 76000 in chips. So, I call from UTG+2. It folds all the way back around and we see a flop with the pot sitting at 5300.

The flop comes As 7h Js and he leads out with a bet of 800 into a pot of 5300. Does he have an A? That A on the board scares me. If I call, I dont learn anything. So, I raise to 1600 and he calls. What the fawk. Is he calling with a flush draw? I know he has a massive stack but dayum. He is hanging in there on my tail and I can't shake him. Pot is now 8500.

The turn is a Jc. I'm now doing an endzone dance. Money card, I think to myself. If he has an Ace, it is no longer any good. I now have trips. Time to walk the dog. I'm fully committed at this time. Its Do or Die, Baby! He checks. Yeah, Baby! Who's your MoFo Daddy? I check trying to disguise my hand. On to the River.

The River brings Qs. Holy Cow Batman! Did I just let the joker River his flush? He bets out for 1000 into a 8500 pot. Is he probing to see if I hit my flush? I just finished doing the "Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens" dance. I pump it up to 2000. He comes over the top and makes it 4000. Does this Bama have pocket sevens. Aw Hellz to the Nawh. Know way he stayed in with 77. DOes he have 2 pair. Did he play AJ? J7? J7? I refuse to give him credit for these hands. And if he hung around with a Flush draw and caught it, So be it. I push all-in for 9370. He calls.

Showdown!

He has the AdAc.

I now feel like I'm owned. Like I'm somebody's B*tch. He had me hook line and sinker.

Out in 85th Place.

Lesson Learned:

First of all, dump that KJ. Second, I know hindsight is 20/20 but I did have the opportunity to drop out on the flop. However, being close to move-In point, I figured those two cards would be live. Granted, the chip leader was not the person to move in on. When you look at it afterward, even if I got my money in pre-flop, He calls with his monster stack and his Rockets.

I played very good poker in this tourney. I just have to work on staying focussed when its crunch time. pick my spots a bit better. Pay a little more attention the way the story is playing out. On the outside looking in, I can see I was beat. But during the heat of the battle, I thought I was good. I was too GunHo.

There is always next time.

I'll talk to you later. I'm off to read Poker for Dummies.

-Big Syd aka KappaMan

THE ULTIMATE SUPER SATELLITE TOURNAMENT

This coming week, The Borgata is hosting THE ULTIMATE SUPER SATELLITE TOURNAMENT! I plan to participate by playing the qualifier on Friday and hopefully winning my seat into the even on Sunday. Here are the details:



THE ULTIMATE SUPER SATELLITE TOURNAMENT

Friday, March 17 & Sunday, March 19, 2006

SUPER SATELLITE QUALIFIER
MARCH 17, 2006 - 11 AM
Location: Poker Room

Sign up begins in the Borgata Poker Room at 8 AM and lasts till the end of the second level.

One out of every 5 players will advance to the Ultimate WPT Super Satellite on Sunday, March 19, 2006.
Tournament Details >>>

SUPER SATELLITE TOURNAMENT
MARCH 19, 2006 - 11 AM
Location: Event Center - Salon D

Online registration is temporarily not available. However, you may register for the Ultimate Super Satellite Tournament in person at Borgata casino cashier. Sign up at the Main Casino Floor Cage from 8 AM until the end of the second level.

One winner for every sixty entrants will walk away with the ultimate grand prize package totaling $60,000. Prize consists of the following:

· Foxwoods Poker Classic - $10,000
April 6-9, 2006

· Championship at Bellagio - $25,500
April 18-24, 2006

· Borgata Poker Open - $10,000
Sept.15-19, 2006

· WSOP Championship Main Event at Rio - $10,000 - July 28 - August 10, 2006

· $4,500 for Hotel and Travel Expenses

Full Tilt Poker Commercials...

As many of you know by now (I guess you can tell from allof the ads on my blog), I really like playing on Full Tilt Poker. I am an affiliate and I really believe that the more players that play on there, the better of an experience for me. So, this is my solicitation blog post to give them some shine and hopefully encourage you to start playing on their site.

If you should decide to play on Full Tilt Poker, please click on one of the links on my site so I will get some credit for the referral.

All of this being said, I'll leave you with 3 of the newest commercials that Full Tilt Poker is running on TV these days. They really do do a good job with their marketing efforts.

-Big Syd

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If you do not have the Windows Media Player, you can download the latest from here:

Baby, I'm Back!!!

Guess, who's back? Well, Me, of course! LOL

Yep, I decided to return to blogging my poker life. As many of you know, I took a break in November. In order to devote more time to family and actually live a life again (Ok, maybe I just wanted to get caught up on Tivo), I had to slow down on the poker. I stopped Big Syd's Poker Night (The Tuesday night game that I hosted for over a year). I also slowed down on playin poker online. This much needed break also gave me time to really enjoy the holidays.

Well, the prodigal son has returned. Baby, I'm back. I'm back to studying the game. Finally got caught up on reading my Card Player magazines. Those of you that subscribe to Card Player know that it can be a task trying to keep up with those. They come every two weeks. I am usually 1 or 2 behing by the time the next one comes in. I'm also reading Phil Gordon's Little Green Book. It really is a nice read. Hopefully, it will do a lot better for my poker game than Harvey Pennick's Litte Green Book did for my golf game. lol

I'm back to playing live poker on a regular basis as well. Just last week, I participated in ATLARGE 2006 (http://www.atlargepoker.com/) and had a grea time although finishing in 89th Place in the NLHE event. I did get to meet Tom McEvoy, who co-authored one of the first poker books I read when I started playing poker almost 2 years ago. I'll post a picture later. I've also been playing the Thursday night Annapolis game on a semi-consistent basis. And I still make the occasional trip Atlantic City to get some live play in as well.

The last thing I want to mention in this message is that I have started my run to play in the main event at this year's World Series of Poker. I have begun playing satellites on BoDog to try to make it there. I really like my chances against the fields I have been up against thus far. Just this past Friday night I was 9 players away from winning a package. If first you dont succees, try and try again. Thatsmy plan.

Well, thats enough for now for my Baby, I'm back post. I have a few other things I want to bring you abreast about. I'll post those in separate posts.

I look forward to seeing you on the Felt soon.

-Big Syd aka KappaMan (online poker name)