Unbelievable strategy.

I'm on a sick run online, I've won my last 9 sit'n'goes and it's all thanks to this guy's strategy. It's very advanced so you may not understand it at first but I'm really winning big with this guy's incredible advice.

It's all happening, yes, yes, yes it is.

Major update in Hatland, campers. We have two new members in our exclusive poker crew, who after a long trial period have proved that they can ball like the best gangstas. Jarron Miranda (known online as "Jarron M" -- yes, original -- on Full Tilt) and Kyle "fakedante" Minett have both been inducted into the Five Hats poker crew.

In other news, Jarron and I drove to Lithgow the other night to play the $10 APL (shudder) freezeout. As we got to the club, the lady said, "You do know that poker isn't on tonight?"

This did not bode well.

So we decided, far be it from us to waste a perfectly good 1.5 hours of our lives, and we decided to drive to Star City in Sydney, picking up Sarah and Matty P from Bilpin on the way.

Matty and Jarron jumped on 80NL and I sat down (foolishly) at the softest $5/$10 fixed limit table. I realised early on that these people weren't playing poker, really, just no fold'em hold'em, so I decided to knuckle down and wait for cards. It was boring as fuck. It went like this:

Call preflop with ridiculous odds with a hand like 9sTs. (I'm in late, 6 people have called already, pot $30, pot odds 6:1..)

Miss flop. Fold.

Repeat.

Repeat again, only this time, HIT flop. Bet. Called by 6 people. Turn isn't scary. Bet. Called by 5 people. River is somewhat scary. Check it down, call bet from donk on end of table. Top pair is good. (Donk's bluff, not so good). $130 pot.

After having a few two pairs drawn out on etc. I had my once-proud stack looking short. When my flopped BB 2 pair 8s3s on a board of 8c3d6h flop ended up being outdrawn by 5s2h catching a gutshot I should have left the table with my pride intact, buuuuut... I didn't, and lost most of my $150 buyin. Damn luck wins again.

We even made a movie on my phone to show the contrast between the start of the night and the end of the night. The sync between the audio and video went a bit out of whack at the end... but an enjoyable video nonetheless.

Keep tuned for more Five Hats and Shit updates!

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.