Well I'm off to Atlantic City tomorrow to play in a satellite into the $10k buy-in Borgata Poker Open. What the hell is he talking about you might ask? Well it's a cheap mans' way of making a ton of money if you play right and get a little lucky as well. I'm playing in a $50 tourney. Win that and I get an entry into a $500 tourney. Win that and I'm in the big dance with a chance to win over $1 mil!

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Good luck.

Have fun playing pokeher.

Good luck! Be usure to give lots of false signs so that your oppenents cant read you
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woohoo the next Moneymaker!

got a pair of those reptile glasses :p

Good Luck!!!

Good luck man:D

Good Luck!
My Dad plays in the tourneys and it's something I'm starting to pick up as well.

lots of luck bro

Well the thourny didn't go as planned. About 120 entries and I busted out around 50th or so. The top 8 were getting the vouchers for the bigger one. Other trip notes:

*The Borgata card room is NICE!!! However, it's also very popular. Had to wait for an hour after the tournament for a seat and that was at 12:30pm on a weekday.

*I broke my own rule and decided to play some blackjack while I waited for a seat. I love blackjack and play well, but i like to limit myself to one type of vice a day normally. So scratch $200 there. Bankroll now down to $235 out of my original $500 due to the tournament entry fee and that.

*Got in a 3-6 limit game with name on list for 1-2 no-limit. Made about $20 in 15 minutes then got my other seat. Bankroll $255.

*Not a bad table over at 1-2 NL. Bluffed a girl with a J high hand after I could tell by her face she was on a draw after I bet $40 after the flop. Bet $40 on turn again and she really didn't want to call but did. So i bet $50 on river and she folded. I LOVE NL POKER!!!! A few other decent hands came up but was getting hungry around 3pm. So I cashed out and my bankroll stood at $455, almost back even.

*Went to the Taj Mahal to play. Got in a 1-2 NL game right away. For about 4 hours I kept bumping up and down in $100 swings, but left the game with $570 after I bluffed a guy with pocket 8's. I had raised to $10 pre-flop. Standard raise for that table. He was the only caller. Flop came down 10 7 6, all clubs. Guy bets $25 to me. I didn't have a club, but wanted to see where I was, especially since I had a gutshot and thought I could buy the pot right there. I raised to $75. He takes awhile to call. At this point I figured if a blank came on the next card I could get him to fold. He was an old guy and had been making money the whole time I had been there. BUT he never played big pots and always showed down excellent hands. So I figured he was probably there playing every day supplementing his retirment income since he was pretty old. Didn't want to take risks. So I bet out $100 and he folded. Told me he threw away pocket jacks and even had a club so he had a chance at the flush. My read was correct though and I made him throw down the better hand.

*Left that game and joined another 1-2 NL table. Got my stack up to about $460 in 3 hours. (BTW when you switch games you are limited to buying in for $300 max at 1-2 NL at the Taj) It's 2:30am and I'm feeling good. My cards were hitting and I was still wide awake thanks to the copious amounts of free redbull I was drinking. The it happened. This hand is why NL is so great and also why a lot of people don't have the stomach for it. I limp in with 8-9 diamonds along with 5 others into the pot. Flop comes 6-8-9 with two spades. So I have top two pair. I had already decided to not fool around with flush draws and make a big bet, but the first guy to act bets $50! Now there's only $12 in the pot right now so his bet is a bit odd. I wasn't going to bet that much even with my hand. Now with that flop there's only 5 possible hands that are ahead of me. 5-7, 7-T, trip 6, trip 8, trip 9. With me holding the 8 and 9 i'm fairly certain he doesn't have those and frankly I'm not worried at this point. To see if he was serious about the pot or maybe pick it up right there I raised to $200. He takes about 2 seconds and pushes the rest of his stack in. Now at this point I honestly didn't hesitate hardly at all either and called. I still thought I was probably ahead, maybe he had an overpair or was semi-bluffing to win with a flush draw. He turns over two 6's for trips. I'm disappointed at this but wasn't dead yet. Still 4 cards in the deck where I win, any 8 or 9. Turn and flop are both spades, neither an 8 or 9, and I lose $370 in a single hand of poker. Still not mad or really all that upset. With that flop I had an incredibly powerful hand and you can't be afraid when you've got a monster to put your money in. So I'm down to $90 on the table.

*I buy $100 more chips as in NL you don't want to only have a small stack if you have the nuts baby! Over the next hour though I get good hands but can't hit a flop to save my life and bleed those out as well. So I take my leave of the casino at 3:30am with $400 less than what I went in with but had a great time and can't wait to do it again. I mean, if I play as well as I did, most of the time I'll be on the top end of that big hand and be up $500 or so for the day. Thats just poker baby and I love it!

hehe cool, you don't strike me as the poker face type, you probably get all giddy like a school girl when you get a good deal :D

Well I was playing some $50 buyin .25-.50 NL today on pokerstars. In 3 hours made about $130 so I'm feeling better about myself again.... :)

So when you lose do you yell like when your on TS? :)

Sounds like ya had fun, even though you lost 400 bucks. Fun is all that matters though :)

No Stang, that's poker... i can control myself because i WANT people to play badly. Yes they'll get lucky sometimes but more often they pay me off :)

Oh and now up about to hit the sack and I'm up almost $200 for the day... w00t!

good luck man