A question of karma

Another no limit session with the bloggers last night. Biggest, and possibly only pot I won went as follows:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold’em, $0.5 BB (10 handed) converter

Pauly ($27.25)
Helixx ($32.5)
UTG+2 ($28.2)
MP1 ($33.45)
MP2 ($40.94)
MP3 ($8.3)
SirFWALGMan ($40.3)
Hero ($15)
Iggy ($35.4)
BB ($28.7)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7c, 2h.
Pauly raises to $3, Helixx calls $3, 5 folds, Hero calls $3, 1 fold, BB raises to $5.5, Pauly calls $2.50, Helixx calls $2.50, Hero raises to $15 (All-In), BB calls $9.50, Pauly folds, Helixx calls $9.50.

Flop: ($50.75) 7d, 8c, 4c (3 players, 1 all-in)
BB bets $13.7 (All-In), Helixx folds.

Turn: ($64.45) Td (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($64.45) 4h (2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $64.45
Main Pot: $50.75, won by Hero.
Pot 2: $13.70, returned to BB.

BB has Qs As (one pair, fours).
Hero has 7c 2h (two pair, sevens and fours).

Well if you believe in karma, I lost most of these winnings to Iggy, who went all in with a board pair on the flop (two sevens, wouldn’t you know?) and counterfeited/beat my two pair on the river. Oh, the humanity.

I then proceeded to lose big pots to Pauly and SirFWALGMan and paid off a number of other bloggers with better hands.

I think I ended the night down five buy-ins. Karma’s a bitch. I might also want to reconsider drinking lots of whiskey while playing no limit. Nah.

Big bet poker with the bloggers

A word of advice: unless you want to give Maudie your money, don’t get tangled up in a hand with her. Can I say now after the fact that I meant it when I said it was a donation? Yeah, I don’t believe me either.

Had another three hour session of $25 NL ring with the bloggers again tonight. In attendance were Pauly, Maudie, NegativeEV, UWannaBet, and Pauly’s friend Hank. Never figured out who the guy in the 4 seat was, but he was there, too. After giving most of my stack to Maudie (respect her preflop raises!), I rebought and ended the night quadrupled.

I’ve appreciated all the great trip reports to come out of last weekend’s Vegas trip, but man, I’ve really missed the nightly NL sessions. When you’re sitting at a table by yourself, it gets boring really quickly. In these NL sessions, half the time I’m paying attention to the hand I’m playing and the other half I’m paying attention to the chat. It’s also good to have a cheering squad when you win, and people to commiserate when you get sucked out by a maroon.
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The Millau bridge

Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s tallest road bridge:

Wow.

The BBC has the full story and some more photos.

Some crazy .nl guy has some photos of the bridge as well as some other things he saw on his motorcycle trip through the mountains over the summer. Like an explosion!

And a Malaysian has posted a photo of it on his blog as well. This photo shows the old route at the bottom of the valley. Hmm.

To whore or not to whore, that is not the question…

The question is whether to reload at Empire or reload at Party. Empire has a 15% bonus up to $100, but Party has a 20% bonus up to $200. But where’s the rub, you ask? Here it is: Party requires you to log 7x the bonus in raked hands in 7 days. To get the full bonus, you’ll need to get 1400 hands in.

I’m going for the 20%. And the 15%

If everything goes as planned, I should be able to start clearing that Party bonus on Monday and then the Empire bonus the following Monday. There’ll be some hardcore online poker sessions in the coming weeks…