News keeps a flowin

I opened my Junk Email folder at work today, and what do I see? An email from the former Minister of Entertainment. Mr. Iven himself. Early word is that the MPT event in St. Louis will be held March\April of '06.

I say we put Big n Rich on repeat for the championship night? Any takers?

Muskyboy reels 'em in in Cheese Land

I'm copying an email from Muskyboy with little editing. I'm not sure if fellow MPTers should be worried that he's got his game back or releived that he got his annual win. Regardless, Musky won a 70 person tourney at a bar in Wisconsin last week:

Something like 67 people. Reg finished 12th. Down to two tables I got moved to the table with the chip leader. He was going nuts screaming and yelling when he won pots etc. Anyways I was about average stack at the time. Then in the BB I had Q 5. The chip leader called I checked and flop was J 7 5. I went all in.

He thought for about 3-4 minutes, asking me all types of questions and then folded showing a 7. I didn't show my hand. He then starts telling everybody he is going to bust me and that he is out to get me. Two hands later I get AA. He raised to 4K (blinds were 1/2), I went all in with my remaining 14K. He called with 78 suited and I doubled up.

When we got to the final table I was approximately even with him as chip leaders. He still keep telling everybody at the table that he was going to bust me. Final table was 8 players. He kept talking. So I told him that I was going to take out all the short stacks and then bust his ass. At this point I had probably 80K + in chips he had about 65K and the rest of the table was between 20-40, with the exception of one guy who had like 4k. Any hand I played at that point other than the blinds I made a raise of at least 20K. I ended up in races with 3 of the short stacks and my hands held up each time. Down to three, me some lady who had not played much and the loud mouth.

I think I have about 120K in chips or so and had the other two players doubled. I had A 3 in the small blind and raised my normal 20K. BB called (loud mouth guy). Flop was A 3 7. I check he went all in with a 7. I doubled up the other person and let her back in the game and at one point she had come back to have about 40% of the chips, but she was a very obvious player. If she had top pair she raised or bet if she had hit the board she called.

I started raising every hand and she folded most of them. Then the guy who was dealing made a comment something like, "He is running you over, That will work until you hit your hand". Then I got the Iven in the BB she just called and I checked. The board was 2 4 9. I bet out about 2/3 her stack and she came over the top all in. I called and she had Q 10. Nothing hit and I won.

Year End Championship Approaches

The MPT year end championship is fast approaching. Due to the hassles of scheduling the game, preliminarily we have December 17th on the schedule. As usual we will be playing two games with the second being the Championship event. I will be securing the 2005 Championship bracelent from the dollar store in the near future.

As a reminder last years championship was won by the Muskyboy, who immediately went on a year long slump. Is it the curse of the bracelet? I will be sending out the email shortly.

Favorites for this event have to be the Sausage King and Doc who have run over the MPT in the last half of the year. Lucky PP has the confidence to win this event but has not lived up to his own hype over the back half of the year after taking the tour by storm the first few events he played. Khyle probably won't attend as he is "bored" with hold'em. Although, most of us read that to mean he is sick of losing and it is too big a blow to his ego. Regulator will probably get sucked out early and whine about it for the rest of the evening. As for the rest, Flipper, Curious Kitty, Numbnutz, Muskyboy, Squeaky, Dead Money/Prancer, Beginners Luck, Half Man Half Amazing, Tabitha, Legal Beagle, Undercover Brother, and whom ever I have forgotten hope you will all be there.

Need a pimp

We got another offer to whore out for some cash. I'm not going to do this one. You know (cough cough) journalistic integrity and all that.

The one thing that's obvious to me is that the on-line poker room arena is getting very crowded. Our good friends at Poker Blue are going to even further lengths to get more players. They have a somewhat unintuitive promotion. You can compete to play 'for' a college team. Like Michigan or whatever. What college sports rivalries have to do with poker, I'm not sure.

I guess they're going after the young crowd. They're probably a better demographic than old, lazy lower middle class guys with families and mortgages and wives who know 'better.' Fine. Whatever.

Sooner or later, the lake is going to dry up. The fish won't be as numerous (unless you come to an MPT event). What's going to keep people playing after they realize that their: ego + bank account Poker Blue. However, most of the signups have not played a hand yet. So whomever you are, get off your ass and win some money. They're throwing it at you over there.