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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Vomitous Home Game Poker Antics
Friday, July 11th, 2008 by Phil
Here is an entertaining hand from my home game. It was a friendly buy-in, but that’s not to say that there was no blood on the table. As the cards were being dealt, I realized I had left my phone outside in my car. Since I had a second before the action would be on me, I ran outside to grab it before I got my cards. As I was outside someone yelled out, “It’s raised to 150, you want in?”
Although I hadn’t seen my cards yet, I was in a mood to give some action so I told them to throw my chips in for me. They shouted out that the flop had come down; 10-9-7 with 2 clubs, and the action was on me. I thought this sounded like a pretty good flop, the kind I would be likely to have a piece of. So…I thought it would be worth making a feeler bet to see what everyone had. Not to my surprise, the whole table called me. Perhaps this was because I hadn’t even been inside the house since the cards were dealt, let alone seen what my two cards were.
When they told me that the board paired with another 7, I thought that I had better check to make sure that I was not hopelessly bluffing into someone with the nuts. The player directly to the left of my seat made a pot-sized bet and was called by 2 other players. I thought that this might be a good time to come inside and look at my cards. After looking, I quickly threw in the chips to call the bet and used a quote from my favorite Australian Poker player; Tony G “What do you think this is?”
I checked the river and once again there was a bet and 2 callers. I wasn’t sure what to think of the table at this point. Likewise, they had no idea what to think of me. After all, I had put a good portion of my stack into the pot without even looking at my hole cards.
Of all the things that the table thought might happen, they probably didn’t think I would check raise them for the rest of my chips on the river. After the first two players folded, the last guy was sitting and wondering what in the world just happened. Personally, I was impressed that the first 2 guys folded. I thought I had made it pretty clear that I was out of control with no brakes. Unfortunately for the last guy, he was smart enough to realize this… for some unknown reason I had just decided to go crazy in this hand.
What he didn’t know was that I had also flopped top set and made a full house on the turn. While I didn’t actually suck-out on anyone, that’s a pretty bad beat if you ask me. If I ever lose to someone who was playing their cards from outside the house without even looking, I’ll probably have some choice words to describe their playing style. But I must admit that it felt pretty good to put all those chips in blind and then look down to see a full house.
