Tournament of Champions

This guy's Cunningham impression cracked me up. :D

RIP Chip Reese

One of the Greatest High-Stakes Cash Game Players Passes On

David “Chip” Reese, the three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, longtime cash-game star, and member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.

Card Player has learned that Reese went to the hospital last night and was then sent home later that night and passed away in his sleep. Card Player's original information reported that he had died at the hospital.

Reese, the Ohio native who learned to play poker while attending Dartmouth, was a regular in the biggest cash games and was considered the best seven-card stud player in the world. Doyle Brunson held Reese’s play in such high regard that he pegged him to pen the chapter on stud for his book “Super System.”

He affirmed his position as one of the world’s best all-around players in 2006 when he won the $50,000 WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event ($1.8 million). He also won bracelets in 1982 and 1978 ($5,000 limit stud and $1,000 stud split).

Source: Cardplayer.com

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A true legend of the game. RIP Mr. Reese.

Bull. Doze. Zer.

Finally a big cash. I also qualified into the Aussie Millions $109 supersatellite for just $4. It'll be really impressive when I say that I won $2 million from just $4.

WHEN I win, note I said. Not if. Hats don't have room for if.

Playin' Huck Seed

I saw former World Champion of Poker and multi-bracelet winner in Razz Huckleberry Seed at the HORSE tables last night playing $2/$4. So I sat down with $40 and played him heads up for a little while. I was up to $70 at one point, but being that he's a world class player and I'm a pleb, he took most of my buy in. He was real nice though and chatted to me about strategy and stuff. Thanks Huck, enjoy my $30 :p



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Another Omaha H/L Final Table.

This time on Full Tilt. I was looking good to win for a while but one big pot sent me from chipleader to like 5th. I ended up busting out 6th which I'm still happy with.

Omahahahahaha...

I've been playing a lot of Omaha online lately. Just a change from the NL sit'n'goes. I used to just multi-table 4 $3.40 Stars/Tilt sit'n'goes but that gets boring. Though still fun. I came 6th in a 154 person tourney last night online, after one monster pot sent me from chipleader to like 2nd last on the final table. I don't have the Hand History, so take my word for it.

My hand: AQJ2
Opponents hand: ????

I call a 2-bet from the button and the blinds fold.

Flop is J7J. I bet the flop, he raises, I reraise and he caps it. By capping it, I figured he had another J or 77xx in his hand. I call the cap.

Turn card is an ostensible gem. Ace for my JJJAA boat.

River is a nice, but unnecessary, Q, for a lower boat that I don't need. I'd capped the turn BTW. We capped the river, and at no point did I think I had the worst hand. I put the guy on 77xx; and couldn't let go of his hand.

I was right. Unfortunately, XX equated to be AA, and his AA77 made a better boat than mine and lost me a 50k chip pot when the blinds were only 700/1400 and the average stack was like, 20k.

And just like 20 minutes ago I played in a $5.50 Pot Limit Omaha HiLo tourney and came 2nd. The final 3 were all Aussies. Represent! Now, it is my duty, to build this roll up to one worthy of the 2008 Aussie Millions. AWW yeah.

Stylez OUT.
PEACE

Stylez' Sydney Shenanigans

On the weekend I made my way down to Sydney with Jarron and Tamim, just to sit at the Star City tables for a while, make a quick buck, and head home.

While it was a fairly lucrative night at the casino (I made a few greenbacks), we didn't end up going home particularly early. On no sleep, we decided to wander around the city and look for a game at the Jade Tavern or Pokerdome. The Jade was dead quiet so we went to Newtown to play a Sit'n'Go there. I got told there was a big Pokerdome jackpot tourney that night and no less than three people offered a bootleg ticket into the event.

I heard people asking for $330, $180 and $150 respectively, and though I was cashed up from Star City, I still talked one guy down to $100.

So, having been awake for around 28 hours, I mapquested my way to Coogee in Sydney to play the event. Jarron and Tamim by this time were sleeping in the car, but I was running on pure Red Bull.

I thought the best approach to the tourney would be to build a tight image... which was the easiest thing to do when I didn't see ONE premium hand for over 7 blind structures. I padded my stack with a few blindsteals and lost a few when I tried to bluff a guy who pretty much hit the 4c5s6c flop as hard as one CAN hit that flop (with the 3c5c). So I nursed my poor chipstack through so many blinds, grinding it down before I picked up Jd8d in the BB, called a min raise, and flopped a flush with a board of 9dTd3d. I pushed after a small bet from the other player, he called, tabling the KhQd. I had to dodge a diamond on the river.

Of course, it dropped.

THE SEVEN OF DIAMONDS FOR MY MOTHERFUCKIN STRAIGHTFLUSH.

So that was a morale booster. I continued to fold fold fold, stole one round of blinds and antes with Ace 9 (which at the time was my best opening hand for the night), was moved to another table and was on the brink of being blinded out to the crazy 500/1000/ ante 50 blinds; picked up AKs and pushed, won a race against 4s, padded my stack up to 7 odd thousand, in the SB next hand it was folded to the button who made a hefty 3500 raise, I instapushed with QQ, and lost the race to his AK. All in all I think I played the game ok; if a little tighter than I originally intended.

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