Yee-Haw!
March 17, 2007
I am slowly getting back into ‘it’ again…Having been talked into a SNG during the week, by (you guessed it) the Dog.
At the time we were four-way on Skype audio with Ash and Lippy, both in a tournament, though Dog wasn’t in the game, so we hit a SNG together. I have to admit I wasn’t really up for it, but well we all know about Dog and his silver-tongue whispering.
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| Five minutes into the game Dog’s seat is empty, sheesh..The game plods along, I am doing ok-ish.Then six handed under the gun I pick up AJ spades and make a moderate raise.The table Calling-Station came with me, no surprises there. | |
| The rest of the table folds and the flop comes Qs 9d Ks.Interesting flop, I call down the mic I got a ‘nice’ flush draw and I bet my drawing hand with umpteen outs, only to have the table calling station go all-in!Aw heck, it’s late, Dog’s out of the game, bit of a no-brainer, click call… | |
| And the turn comes 10s..and holy crap the calling station had pocket rockets, his first decent playable hand in the game.Click the picture for full size image. | |
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| It got kinda noisy right then, the earphones were rattling on my head, as virtual high fives went around the Skype crew with lots of yee-haws and whooping. My first ever Royal Flush! Yee-haw again! And it was spades! It just don’t get better!
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I actually think Dog missed the ‘live’ hand he was off grabbing a beer, but if he did miss it ‘live’ it didn’t stop him joining in the noise making. lol |
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| I just didn’t have the plain ol’ normal horseshoe that night, nope not any old horseshoe for me. |  |
| I had the extra special ‘holy’ golden horseshoe of poker, well and truly wedged up my rear end that evening and man let me tell yah it felt snug and at home. It is welcome to nestle there any time it wants. | |
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| Went on to take the game down which was the cherry on top! Seems the horseshoe was still firmly clutched between my butt cheeks. It wouldn’t have been disastrous to not win the game, but after hitting a Royal Flush , how could I not win?Man what a buzz
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| Sat down last night and played an MTT with Dog, Lippy, SvcMgr, where aside from Lippy who got a run for his money, the rest of us couldn’t hit a single decent hand between us.It was a $9k rebuy and the first hour was a monkey fest all-in bonanza, and three of us bowed out leaving Lippy to venture on alone.He was still in when I headed for my bed, so I have no idea how he did. I expect if he had won it I would have found a message waiting for me this morning, from someone? | |
| Yet another new blog hit the stands recently, Dave’s or SvcMgr has started a blog, which has been added to the growing list of Poker blogs linked on the top right of the page here.I look forward to reading Dave’s blog as I know he is a very analytical player who questions the/his game constantly.Just a few more blogs would be awesome, it would hopefully mean that there would something new to read each day without everyone having to write something on a daily basis. | |
| Still working on the graphics blog not quite ready yet, been a bit busy knocking up images for all the new bloggers.. Oh, full marks to those who realised who Kozick was in the last blog entry. | |
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Till the next time, stack em high and play em hard..
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WOOOOOW! WTG hon, congrats to both the Royal, the winning and a real warm welcome back to the table.
If anyone deserved that Royal it surely is you!
Congrats Paulie!
Considering your level of play, I don’t think you need Royal Flushes to win, but it is COOL
A very sick hand. Nothing like a royal flush to boost your spirits.
Yes it was a rare treat to see that Royal. Especially when it happens to a friend. I have been on both ends of a Royal. Once getting my AAA44 clobbered by one which knocked me out of the game. And once actually getting the “KING” of all poker hands.
I thought I had saved mine in photobucket, but it ain’t there now : ( Now I gotta search my entire PC to see if I stuck it somewhere. I think I even posted it in the old pokercards forum which by now would probably be bouncing around in cyberspace. Oh well…
The best part was seeing ya get it and all the hollerin and resulting cheers .
As far as the tournament you mention, I ended up in 134 place.
With over 700 entrants and over 1800 rebuys by those bingofest donkeys, I will consider myself well disiplined in the art of “Patience in Poker”..because that is exactly what it took to get that far in that game. Especially with the rags I had to habitually toss.
Unfortunately, I never could build a comparable stack to the other players and ended up getting nothing but trash for the remainder of the game. With the blinds eventually picking me clean, my last stand effort was with poket pair of 2’s and I can’t even match the big blind ..lol. I got knocked out.
So..I’ll call that game a lesson in patience, which I believe I passed with flying colors, and a lesson in futility which I also recieved the highest possible marks in….sigh : (
Lippy, 134th place without a re-buy? That is excellent. You were almost out at one point too. I would consider that a victory.
If you remember, after about the 3rd hand, there was already someone with 17K in chips.
I play re-buys with my own mental challenge of seeing how far I can get WITHOUT re-buying. Getting into the money would be icing on the cake but learning to play in a rebuy tourny (which is a lot different than a freeze out) is my ultimate goal. Higher placings will follow as we all get better.
Great Job.
Its always great when you hit a Royal – I’ve been lucky enough to have had a 3 or 4 in my playing career (2 in NLHE) and it definately gives you a boost psychologically. And WTG on winning the game too mate!