ONLINE POKER RANT PART 1 (of a million or so)

When I first started writing this post this past Monday (Not that I call what I do "writing" mind you) I wanted to put the images (screen shots from my poker play on FULLTILTPOKER) in
special places - and add comments as I went on - but with doing that - this post would never have gone up, it would take too long -

SO! Read all of this RANT if you want to.. (I suggest NEWBIES READ THE WHOLE DARN THING) It's a RANT I'll admit it. I really think players out there should consider what it is that I'm telling all of you here -

If not! Best of luck to you - YOU WILL NEED IT! I hope you enjoy.

***I'll come back and add comments over each of the hands (images).. when I get time.

THERE is NOT ENOUGH time in the DAY to EXPOSE the BULL SHIT I see online. It would take like full time jobs for 100 players (players of quality that would care to speak the truth.. and who would put their necks out there on the line...)

Yeah! I'm a dreamer.


IF we would all just report these odd happenings (bad beats) IN MASS numbers - and STICK TOGETHER - maybe some day - players ONLINE will actually get a TRUE RNG system..

What we have today is ANYTHING but RANDOM.

As far as all of the images in today's post goes (I have no time to put them in place with individual comments) - I'm hoping many of you PLAYERS that are advanced can see without explanation the sick shit that happens when I play online.

OF course - as always - Players without years of live poker play are EXPECTED to tell me how wrong I am - so let me save all of you and me some time - PISS OFF! You know nothing about how boring some nights of real poker can be.. Hours without major action.. It's not the MORE hands per hour that happen online BULL SHIT either - so spare us... OK. Really - Go piss up a rope already.

THIS POST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.. and will be part of a string of posts.. I hope many of the REAL PLAYERS out there that agree with me about ONLINE POKER will GET ACTIVE and COME ABOARD with in exposing online for what it is... a SLOT MACHINE. A Scam.

Here you go - Good luck and sorry in advance - it's a long read written by a NON WRITER with weak "writing" skills at best... I think the points I'm trying to make still make it across.


MY STATS at 54 hands..






















A rare hand - High card wins.. I guess the ALL IN figured "live cards" or just wanted to go to sleep. OR he's just figuring SHORT STACK - just SB and BB - he'd go for it... however - he ran into a hand. GOT TO HAVE ACTION ONLINE.






















Wow! POCKET K'S - WAIT! LOOK AT THIS SICK ACTION!!! (Always happens too - YOU get a hand like this online and you face TABLES looking like this one) CRAZY! It happens live too! Just not as often.

MY THOUGHTS PLAYING THIS HAND ONLINE.... Live I "might" go for it here.. Online - I know between ALL the action AND the insane outcomes - poor cards winning - I lay this hand down EASY! My goal is to WIN the tourney - NOT impress people by PLAYING KK - when I have AA and many draws out there to beat me - I'll wait till another battle and just chock a hand like this UP TO ONLINE insanity.

Key word above! "MIGHT" - There is a good chance I might FOLD them live too.























Now HERE in this hand - the BETTING was WILD pre flop - With raise and re-raise action.. LOOK WHO TAKES IT DOWN... Again, hands like this happen too much online. The better hands are beat way to much (You have to take my word on this)

Just silly... NOT THAT HANDS LIKE THIS HAPPEN... Just that they HAPPEN too much. I seen it ALL live - ANYTHING can happen -

Online - Sick "ANYTHINGS" happen every other hand.





















The cards we see online - A Joke.

THEY ARE ALL FAKE AND SET UP. SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE PEOPLE.... JUST OPEN YOUR EYES! Picture after picture (Are the pictures showing bad beats? LONG SHOTS BEING PAID OFF... What is a BAD BEAT anyways?)

Online - BAD BEATS are what I term EXPECTED BEATS! THEY ARE COMING you know. (The cards that will beat you) and YOU KNOW IT! ***Cmon - You DO know it**** JUST SAY IT OUT LOUD - YOU WILL FEEL BETTER. It matters not TO WHO these beats are givin to - no no. - "It" - "The program" WILL get everyone of us in time..



I for ONE - say BAhhhhhhhh! Playing POKER "online" is not even in the same BALL PARK as live poker. It's nothing close to fair ball. The people running these sites KNOW ALL THIS too... They follow the almighty BUCK! PROFIT! They are ripping players off.

IF YOU CARE ABOUT KEEPING THIS GAME PURE AND REAL... DO SOMETHING - Write a letter - LIVE UP IN A TREE... Chain yourself to a GAS pump.. Riot! I dunno - DO SOMETHING for PETE'S sake!

ONLINE, the INSANE Action you see hand after hand brings FASTER completion to games... BIGGER POTS FASTER - or - FASTER RAKE/FEES. This in turn keeps the fish coming back for more - more - more for the online companies... The FISH you see are HANDED good outcomes for good reason..... It keeps the poor players alive longer and in a SEAT (game).. GOTTA KEEP THAT RAKE MOVING FAST BOYS! BILLIONS of DOLLARS are on the LINE. - (Letting REAL LIFE "losing players" or players that make bad choices all night "LEAVE" is a no no! It aint good for business... I think the "online companies" figure this... let's HELP the poor BAD players out a little - Keep them online. GIVE THEM ACTION! (Even I can say this - action every hand or every other hand keeps you on your toes)

Players playing longer YES SIR! But... with one catch (Not one of them is taking in the BIG payday.. Not even from time to time... Ever actually. This is what my crew reports. THIS IS MY REPORT. You will get to play... that's about it. (As if playing with no chance at winning is really the game PEOPLE! Wake the FUCK UP! WAITE! Am I wrong? ) Tell me HOW I'm wrong...

YOU PLAY POKER (I HOPE) IN ORDER TO WIN CASH - YOU ARE PLAYING TO TAKE other players CHIPS - If we allow systems to FEED us BS cards - THAT NEVER ALLOW US TO GET AHEAD... ***"WTF" *** What is the POINT? You and I have a better chance at FLIPPING A COIN for a fair outcome - The ODDS suck - yes! But WE STILL HAVE a real chance.

50/50 is better than online poker. SKILL will get you next to no where online.

Online poker is a coin toss game where the HOUSE - (The poker site itself) has both sides of the coin covered. PLAYERS ONLINE are so not going to win.

Go ahead .. send me an e-mail or make a comment - TELL US OF YOUR LIVING OFF ONLINE POKER - then WAKE up! SMELL THE COFFEE - You and me and all the others - we are all being HAD - BAD!- It's just the WAY IT IS...

(I'll come and watch a player too - just give me your screen name and THEN.. show me YOU winning by playing QUALITY poker.) I want to see this! I'm sure thousands of players want to see this...

Like my last post from here just the other day read, It's the only game in your living room going on 24/7 IT'S ALL YOU GOT BABY! (All sites are the same) They play the same racket.



I'm sure MANY of you here will file my BLOG today under the UFO sighting section. NOT ME. I play a lot of poker. If you know me - you know this. You do what you have to do - but when you figure it all out - come back and say hey! Fat Tom was right again.... That's right - I said AGAIN.

Today I found another pattern and it's yet another thing about playing online that disturbs me. Makes me sick actually. (I'll share some thoughts from some of my readers as well in the coming days.. They got some great TELLS they are seeing as well...)


Many of you know that I think you have to PLAY the SYSTEM when playing on ANY online site - It takes more than BASIC or ADVANCED quality poker play even..(This is a shame) but it's our REALITY while online. The sites are in PLAIN old fashioned talk.. BULL SHIT people. You have to FOLLOW what it does - REALLY watch what's happening (the system that is.. what it's dealing out) and it's not even hard to do with basic skills - but get this - You still will not WIN BIG. EVEN SEEING THE PATTERNS you are screwed...

When you get big pocket pairs - everyone will FOLD, when you play crap cards - FORGET IT! Hmmm - let me guess - you HIT two pair OR - you ALWAYS hit the LOW on the board. ha ha ha ha! If you choose to play a wild starting hand "by choice and from late pos" JUST TO SEE.... NO GOOD! You will be beat by a player that gets struck by that 1 or 2% chance.

To tell the truth...

I'm just having fun KEEPING my head above water (knowing I really can't win!) and SEEING all these sick outcomes and ACTION "hand after hand" flops! I never see cards on the turn that are BLANKS! BLANK TURNS and RIVERS - ARE YOU INSANE MAN!!! They always have to ADD to the THRILL - a ST draw - a Flush draw OR both.

I'm sick - what can I say - I actually STUDY this crap - Watch all the hands (Even the ones "caugh" that I'm not playing in) I watch as they go down... pre flop betting, the flop, the betting, the turn, the betting, the RIVER, the betting.. THEN I watch the POT - get pushed to some ass that should not have even been in the hand... CRAZY ABOUT POKER I TELL YOU!

(C'mon - you see it too!) Just admit it!

So today following those lines I found yet another ODDITY that happens too much while players are in a game (It just hit me today) IT SMELLS - I was in a hand where I flopped TWO PAIR - into me comes a small MIN raise.. I re-raise to more than cover the MIN and to push others out.. - THE PLAYER AHEAD OF ME PUSHES ALL IN and after him a CALLER! It the ALWAYS going to be there - hands yet to act that also have action hands. (too many calls online - no one ever folds it seems, right?) that coupled with the fact that HANDS (all of our hands hit!!) - it's just the GAME of who will hit the best right?

IS THIS REALLY POKER peeOOOpppLLLEEEEE... C'mon?




So anyways - I hit my Two pair and bet it (quality bet) and get a major re-rasie... I can take this LIKE NO PROBLEM in a live game - but ONLINE it's always after a min raise (from a player one or two seats before me.. that I of course just smooth called... IN OTHER WORDS.. "I'm talking THIS IS SET UP ACTION - IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME SCENARIO"

online if the PLAYER after me - MAKES A SICK ALL IN (no way they should fold to a raise and re-raise prior to their move) with a small hand say "44" OR JUST ANY HAND FOR THAT MATTER... "THEY WILL HIT THEIR SET.." The QUALITY HAND WILL FALL! LOSE. No no they will hit their set on the flop and WHAMMO! QUADS on river.... CMON! (Too many times - people are getting the SET up hands) - The CARDS ARE SET IN PLACE for sick action!!! YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT?? RIGHT? I am! - YOU SEE THESE PATTERNS ALL THE TIME - MANY TIMES in ONE GAME... ALL of us see it everyday. It SMELLS and it's wrong.

Well - that's not the NEWEST ODD HAPPENING to me ... What is odd - Is every time someone makes a catch that is out of this world - I get moved to another table.. (I'm told it happens to some of you as well..) HUH?

GUESS WHAT happens when this little online trick goes down... You and I can NO LONGER see the last hand.... Huh? They catch a 1-2 outer and I can't shoot an image of it for my blog.. (you got to be fast! TRY TO SNAP A SHOT after you get a sick beat) BOOM! They take you away from the TABLE from hell... and you are left sitting there AT A NEW ASSIGNED table saying to yourself... NO MUMMBLING to yourself... WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?

You got screwed - that's what happened. Can't spell it out any clearer that that boys and girls -

Anyways - having had enough of that sorta sick shit for my many hours of online play - I figured F it - and guess what ! I hit! I had only 2 outs - and BAM! It was my turn to GET SMASHED by the INSANE OUTCOMES that happen hand after freaking hand. The poor bastard I beat hit a set (and AGAIN not always a LOCK right?) but in many cases it's a winning hand... NOT FOR HIM that hand - not FOR MANY OF US - We always run into a WALL on turn (flush) or ST - OR IN MY SICK LUCK A FULL HOUSE.


IT HAPPENS TOO MUCH PEOPLE! It's like every third hand shit like this goes down... TRY DOING THAT LIVE - with a deck of cards at your kitchen table... Good luck.



OK - In this hand with the BLINDS so high - I'm just taking a stab at the blinds with a raise here - if I get action - I play it cautious - BUT WAIT! LOOK AT THIS SICK ACTION? So much for IF I get action... I don't mind that I get action really - I just have to ASK - Why is ALWAYS "sick , sick, sick" action...

I fold. (lol)


















STRIKES LIKE THIS ARE TO BE RARE - and should be FREAKISH TO SEE! "LIVE" ANDDDDDDDDDDD "ONLINE" TOO" YET ONLINE WE SEE OUTCOMES LIKE THIS DAY IN DAY OUT - MIN AFTER MIN ALL DAY LONG.

Here is a great IMAGE I found (snake and bird) - it shows what a BAD BEAT looks like.
THIS BIRD IS ABOUT TO GET A BAD BEAT!!!

YOU SHOULD NOT SEE OUTCOMES LIKE THIS ONLINE - every other freaking hand. Yet we do - along with never ending FEAR CARDS on the turn and river.

Just like the BIRD in this photo - many online players do not see it coming! Oh the pain. (At least the bird gets to die!) ONLINE PLAYERS must live with online as if they were in HELL. NEVER ENDING PAIN.




If POKER is the DEVIL... What is ONLINE POKER?














ALL THIS AND I STILL HIT THE FINAL TABLE.. go figure. Lucky me! Really - LUCKY ME MAN - I have hand after hand stolen from me with insane turns and rivers and I still make it to the money... Wtf.

DOES THIS SOUND ANYTHING LIKE YOUR ONLINE STORY?


BIG BLIND - No way you see a flop ONLINE... Someone will always get a hand to go nuts with!
















IN WITH THE BEST HERE.... YEAH - THAT'S GOING TO BE A bigTIME LOSER.... Of course - I'm OUT of the game to the BB holding Kw/WEAK KICKER... THE BEST PART! Of course I'm SMOKED on the RIVER! EXCITING! Always EXCITING!























THE PLAYER WITH A2 here in this hand thought he was good for a STEAL - but NOT ONLINE! NO no no!!!! - THIS IS A STANDARD SET UP HAND. If it's not the BB - A player making a move from this late a position will RUN smack into a WALL with a SB or BB holding a BIG hand or a SMALL HAND that hits HUGE.




















CHECK OUT THIS RIVER - ***WHO DID NOT SEE THIS COMING*** I'M TELLING YOU! ONLINE DOES NOT DELIVER BLANKS! YOU ARE GOING TO GET ACTION EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU! (Math people - chime in)






























NOT much to SAY HERE on this guys LAST hand.. - I really try NOT to move with A2 - but here in this hand the BUTTON thinks he good runs SMACK INTO the HAND! THE RIVER! Well - That is something you will SEE all the time online (THREE OF A KIND) WE got to have an EXCITING ending! (poor A2) Thought A high - heads up was a GOOD HAND. Too bad the SYSTEM










TOO BAD THE SYSTEM HAD HIM SMOKED! HAL DOES IT TO THOUSANDS A DAY WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT.


So - to RE-CAP! ONLINE POKER is COMPLETE BULL SHIT!



GO ahead and PLAY AWAY! I do. Just be sure to PLAY THE SYSTEM. Some day - Maybe all of us will get a lucky break and HAL2000 will die a slow death.

Of course - you will find me PLAYING the SYSTEM on FULLTILTPOKER today and EVERYDAY!

Come sign up and see how right I am... hit this link and get to it...

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SCREEN SHOTS of a couple games/hands in last week or so

It's WSOP time and I'm sitting here in SUNNY and WARM Pennsylvaina - At least I have my FullTilt.




The image here is from the game I won onFULLTILTPOKER late last week. In this hand I tried to slow play after the flop(don't ask me why? You can't slow play EVER and win a hand on FT) - Yes - I did raise PRE FLOP and got a few to many callers in my opinion - but this always happens in these games..

Anyways - the River card came and guess what BOTH these two players were holding?





You guessed it! K. Yeppers! - They always have IT - No matter what "IT" is..

K? what you ask?

Turned out the guy late pos had an OK "K" (strong) but the one in early pos had a K with crap.. "3" I think... something lame like that.

Me? what did I do with my "still LOOKING like a pretty good hand on the river"(three Q's) I folded of course - it's the easy and smart move.

Hands like this make me say that ONLINE hands are contrived... and anything but random... MANY SAY I'M WRONG... Plain and simple. We have to agree to disagree.


In this next shot - I'm in the small blind and call a small raise.. The player has position on me but for some reason... bets super small amounts - like 200-300 so I just keep calling - On river.... same player makes a bit larger bet and something told me I had him - Some people LIVE and DIE by the hand "AK" - "AQ"























Don't be afraid to get some money in there... GET PAID if they did not hit draw or hold a weak A...








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And here is the shot of the LAST hand from that $10 game. - Wish I had the betting info for you - but lets just say - this guy thought he was ALL THAT on the turn... but we HAD HIM already... Sucks to be him on this hand...

I forgot to mention that I had to finish this game from the parking lot of our Elks lodge (car) since the bar shut down early - I stuck around to keep the SIGNAL for Internet... It was my first ever win while sitting in my car at 1:30 am.

How about that... lol


You want some of my action! Hit this link..
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280 players - 7 players were "poof" gone fast...

Let's see what we can do here... My goal - to win.

21 hands into tourney and I'm moved to a new table...(263) left in action.

28 hands into game (249) left.. I have 4,200 in chips. AVERAGE is.. 3,375

POKER PRO ROY WINSTON IS IN THIS GAME.

In the FIRST IMAGE - I HIT AA - but "NO ACTION" - NO CHIPS FOR ME.. In the 2nd image - I GET PAID.. and in the THIRD IMAGE - YIKES! I'm OUTTA HERE - Look at all that action... I'd lay down KK in many spots like this one..



I got to stay calm - no biggie, long way to go. Hands on this new table are weak at best. 40 hands played and 240 players still going for the 7,000.00 + payday.
At hand 48 I take a stab at action - call small raise with 79 from the small blind.
(Flop gives me BOTTOM pair, it always seems to do this to me - as if to punish me for playing sub par hands) Many other players that I respect - report this same sorta thing online. WHO KNOWS?

Average now is 3800 and I have 3900 - 218 players left in action. Blinds are 20/40.

81 hands in - I'm slipping a bit lower than average but its no biggie.. I have 4, 385.. the average is 4700 - BUT WAITE! Pocket AA! I standard raise and get re-raised.. SWEET! I re-raise him he calls WITH AK suited.. (IMAGE HERE - I GET PAID WITH AA)















Now I sit with - 8,800 with only 90 hands in (165) players left in action - ROY WINSTON HAS 2,670 in chips. I am in 14th place - so far so good. I am starting to play a little more- raise with ?? - lets just say the hands are hands that have potential - I bet no matter what and they are letting me take a good amount of chips.. THIS IS GOOD - NOTE - I'm almost always doing this from super late position..

106 hands or so - and I make a move with A10 - I get CRAZY action after me and I choose to pick another fight. NOTE the CHAT! lol.


















Things start to speed up and blinds are coming up as well - I slip to 30 pos - doing NOTHING but folding poor starting hands... Average 6,000 in chips - I hold 8,320 - ALL is ok. 137 players left. We need to HIT money in this one - I need a good score and cash tonight. 36 players will CASH in this one - but we all know - to get the REAL score - we must place in top 5 or better.

At this point - I feel - that I need to dodge the COOLER that might come - Seems to happen - as it programmed.. We will see. FULLTILTPOKER


134 players left at 115 hands.


At 117 hands blinds are 50/100

my stats this deep Statistics for 121 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 25 21%
Turn 12 10%
River 8 7%
Showdown 5 4%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 4 3% 3%
Flop 8 32% 7%
Turn 1 8% 1%
River 1 13% 1%
Showdown 4 80% 3%


The hands are BACK to WEAK at BEST - so I'll just lay low and chill

I play a BB hand to a guy that LIMPS with AK (NOTE to my readers - WATCH OT FOR LIMPERS under the gun) A RED FLAG - to see some players make this move... Just be careful if you see a player do this.. Especially later in a tourney.. like this one.



125 Players left. Whooo Hooo! Average is 6829 - I sit with 8640 - but again - game will pick up speed and the BLINDS will pick up.. ADD to it that I'm now at a table with a LARGE stack playing HARD... Lets see if I can HIT him hard - I limp with suited cards and hit a st draw - he checks, I bet and he folds...

OK 60/120 BLINDS 133 hands in...

I smash some chips around and hit little wins hitting trips on turn.. nothing major - I'm just trying to stay in the action - but keeping the action low - I GET OUT - if it's ugly.. period.

Here are stats up to now..

Statistics for 147 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 30 20%
Turn 16 11%
River 11 7%
Showdown 8 5%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 6 4% 4%
Flop 9 30% 6%
Turn 1 6% 1%
River 1 9% 1%
Showdown 6 75% 4%


Need a hand - and have it hold up - I still must look out for the COOLER hand... The AVERAGE chips is 8,076 - I hold 8,040. 102 players left. I get MOVED to new table. Time to focus now - I need to hit and have the hand HOLD up.

100 to go - 560 seems to be the raise pre flop here.. I take note of that. I hit AK call a raise - then BET out when the board hits Q77 - I bet 2/3rd - player folds - Of course we love this...

Few hands later I hit 66 in the BB but get no action..

164 hands in - I hold 8,120 in chips Average is.. 9230 SIDE NOTE - This sorta thing seems to happen to me later in higher buy in games - As the blinds climb - the action gets nuts when I'm holding poor cards.. I might not have enough games at these higher buy ins to have a real picture of things -- but this is the short term results.. HOPEFULLY we will turn this around - last hand I hold 73 off in BB - 100/200 blinds - it's raised and I must fold..

AS I said - things get ugly - I take a shot from SB - but I play it poor - I hit the turn and check.. HE CRUSHES ME holding JJ - he hits j on river




It gets worse - I get into action holding 2nd on board - Player bets hard - I call - no help - he holds high card - OF COURSE WE BOTH HIT.. ONLINE - players in action ALWAYS hit.. (got to have action)

Man - I need to HIT and HOLD...

2920 - I must breath and relax. 81 left - 3,000 in chips - table is short. Average is 10,000 - So much for keeping up - I need to double or tripple up.



The dreaded hands like 63 - 72...

Add to this - I got to CHOP hands like this - GOD FORBID this guy just let his AJ go when I raise PRE FLOP... It's like they can SEE my hole cards..



















Then.. I hit AQ right before break - I make it 750 to go.. and get called...

k310 off.. He checks I bet 800 - he folds.

Got a few back - 3780 in chips - Still must double up.

nothing changes after break - 24 off, etc.. (chin up!)

Statistics for 195 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 38 19%
Turn 21 11%
River 14 7%
Showdown 10 5%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 11 6% 6%
Flop 11 29% 6%
Turn 1 5% 1%
River 1 7% 1%
Showdown 6 60% 3%

I can not win a RACE on FULLTILTPOKER
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I feel like the DRIVER guy that BLOWS UP in the final laps of the DAYTONA 500 lately - Every time.. on TILT when it counts for the BIGGER pays..? I love tilt too - I make my move with a higher pocket pair - I lose - THE DOGS always HIT that A on ME...

NOTE - When I call with hands like this guy did however - THIS LATE IN A TOURNEY - I always lose... A 100 buy in tourney and THEY can NOT let go of the AQ or AJ hands...

WTF? What do I have to do - to win one of these bigger buy in games?


ROY WINSTON finished - 115












I FINISH # 69.

got cocky in end and well - 2nd place finish

Seems I'm the master of 90 player $10 games - but as to the $24 + games - well - NO GOOD as of yet... low 300's out of 1200+ is best I can get.

I just came in 2nd on a $10 game (90 player)

I took many screen shots - and I'm putting them up as the images tell the story best. In this FIRST SCREEN shot - you will see HOW we want our AA hands to work out... lol I knew I was in the HOT seat when I knocked out so many so early in game...




huh?? How about that one... That will get your POKER heart pumping!

Lets see the next big hand... A GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME WENT BY WITH ME FOLDING.. It did not happen for some time... Check it out.. Next major action at "27 player" to go mark...(Big part of the game - folding)











Ok - pretty cool huh - but, looks like I somehow missed one or two major hands that took me down to just about 13,000 and to tell the truth had me in a weak chip stack for first time in game - I thought FOR HOW GOOD I HAD IT GOING EARLY... Maybe I would be in trouble with the bubble being 10 players.. - I also missed the SCREEN SHOT of a hand that got me a good few chips BACK.. and that put me back in the game - HOWEVER, in this image - 27 to go at the BREAK mark.. I'm back in it... SITTING A. O . K . (funny what a good few hands can do - when you just stay CALM)

**Note the "FTOPS" guy at my table.. SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THAT MEANS??? (plays 23 hours a day is my guess) If you know - Let me know in my comments.

Ok moving on... Just before the final table I hit AJ and decide to LIMP - run into a RAISE FIGURE IT'S TIME TO GAMBLE..and get it in with my AJ vs 44 - I hit (whoo hooo) and take it down... (NOTE - I never play small pairs like this guy did - and because of the change - I do better and finish higher in tourneys these days ...
















FINAL TABLE TIME - Nice load of chippies... Let's go to work. (GOGGLES ON!!!)
























Now - This is a hand that I liked - I always feel the TRAP is set not by the players as much but by the SYSTEM... So I limp - ONLINE - I use the logic (good or bad) that I want to see something before I go nuts with AK... I used to LIVE AND DIE by THE AK hand in POKER.. NO MORE. In this hand.. I HIT the "A" on flop and BOOM.. I DROP THE HAMMER... I GO NUTS! WAR! BABY! WAR. Note - the guy can not cripple me no matter what anyway.. It was nice to see him not hit the third "J".. It happens so much to me... BUT - here - tonight, it did not, My pair of A's made it happen... How nice. :)




















THIS NEXT ONE IS A GREAT HAND! (from my side of the action)

If you play much poker... YOU GOT TO KNOW that the Player holding the AQ in this hand was a bit pissed at me... I slow roll my KK and hit my "3" of a kind.. AGAIN! I told you I drew the LUCKY SEAT... ***NOTE - the scare cards - CLUBS. This just goes to show HOW the system keeps it exciting.. Makes him feel his AQ is MORE POWER FULL AGAINST MY TRIPS and of course keeps me on edge through the TURN AND RIVER... (sorry - but it's how I feel about ONLINE) ONLINE - it's rare to see players that are IN ACTION on line "not hitting" major DRAW cards with their TOP pair - I think LIVE offers MANY more boring hands.. But that's me - that's my take and I'm sticking with it...

In a NUT SHELL THOUGH.. - THE LUCK TRAIN IS HITTING ME IN THIS GAME... I CAN NOT LOSE IT SEEMS. and guess what! I'm cool with this... I'm so due! NOW ITS TIME TO HIT A BIG SCORE.. TO HELL WITH THIS $10 level BS.





















Ok then... THIS NEXT HAND... **This is MY kind of hand** ("Owning" a player on the turn) I see more of this sorta thing happen live...(Me and other players I talk to anyways.. QUALITY PLAYERS.)




















TIME TO TAKE A HIT... My lucky streak hit a bit of a WALL when... I was hit by a "COOLER" hand. (A COOLER hand is a POKER HAND that does not go all that well..and takes a nice load of chips off a player) A great example of a cooler would be - AA being beat by say 34 clubs.. with the player hitting trip 3's on river. Here MY JJ with so few players is a GREAT HAND.. but not great enough.























OK - Well, I wish you were watching this game - because I feel this player (HEADS UP) was a little scared of me.. HIS only move it seemed was ALL IN - ALL IN.. He was pushing - pushing.. (to be fair - I was pushing too.. lol) and finally in this hand - I thought - He's on a move... Well.. I figured wrong. He had a POCKET PAIR. I was not dead.. but it was not a good flop - turn or river..

I could have picked a better SPOT... It's a mistake that cost me ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS... period. But - I have to go with my gut and I thought he was raising with junk. Who knows.. maybe he was better than I give him credit for.. Actually - that's not fair.. HE WAS A VERY GOOD PLAYER. The weak ones just GIVE UP.

He might come on here and READ ALL THIS and LET US KNOW HIS TAKE on the GAME.. That is... if we are lucky. I invited him.




I'm typing all this VERY LATE - SO there might be a few errors.. I'll check it all tomorrow.. Until then - you have the pictures at least..


















And here it is.. THE FIRST LOSER.. "2nd" place. $140.00 winner. I'll put that in my ROLL for the $24.00 games. Any thoughts or comments - GO AHEAD.. I can take it..