UltimateBet's new tournament schedule

UltimateBet was my first site. I have been playing tournaments there for almost four years. I played there before the software change drove away a ton of business and have stayed there while the customer support and management have, at times, seemed to have been trying to get rid of the rest.

UltimateBet recently decided to let Poker Pro Annie Duke revise the tournament schedule for the site. One of the most attractive features of the site, and often cited as the attractive feature of the site, is the tournament structure. I will give credit to UB for not messing with the structure. What I can't understand is how the tournaments which had been attracting a steady increase in players on a nightly basis can just be moved. If you want to add new ones fine, but keep the ones that were drawing well. It appears that the lower buy-in bounty tournaments have been elminated, moved to a different time, or will be offered on a less than nightly basis. It makes no sense. When I first started at UB almost 4 years ago, there wer always between 400-700 players in a nightly $5 tournament without a guarantee that ran around 9:00 pm EST. During a previous tournament schedule change, this tourney was moved to an earlier time. After the software "update", these tournaments were lucky to get 200 entrants.
Before the most recent update, there as a $5.50 tournament which started around the same time as a $6.50 bounty tournament. There were always 300-400 more players in the bounty tournament.
I will have more on this later as I try to find tournaments at my level on a place I have long considered to be my home site and I have always continued to play there in spite of the pleading of many friends who play online. Now I'm beginning to think that they may have been right all along. Peace.

Blogger University and Great Pics of Puppies

My interests in bloggin has increased lately and I have been trying to teach myself as much as possible about the ins and outs of running a blog. I found this site on blogger and believe it is a nice one. Since I can't be the only one interested in blogging, I wanted to post the link.
The site's name is Blogger University.

Another site you check out is this one. great pics of Golden Retriever puppies

Hope you enjoy the sites.

Have a great evening everyone.



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Friends of the blog storm the final tables!

Your humble author cashed for the first time in what seems like a decade yesterday, but the big story was the friends of the blog slicing through tourneys all across the internet last night/early this morning.

MATHCLUBNZ had a couple of final tables on Absolute Poker. The first was in the $9K Guaranteed SuperStack where he won $1080.00 for finishing 3rd out of 83. The second was in $6500 Guaranteed where beating out 260 other players for a 3rd place was worth $721.50.

Finally, playing under his screenname of jakehekejnr, MathClub made the final table in PokerStars Tournament 86176132. Once again he finished 3rd, this time out of 396, and won $1318.68.

iLLNuGWichee final tabled the PokerStars $109 NLHE [$25,000 guaranteed!] winning $7815.00 for finishing 2nd out of 521.

To learn more about nuggy, visit his pokerpages profile here:PokerPages.com Profile

Great job guys!

Wretchy WSOP ME event bound!

Congrats to Wretchy for turning his $630 satellite entry fee into an $11,000 main event package on PokerStars yesterday. When he final tables that bad boy the ROI will be through the roof. GL sir.

TheWacoKidd's WPT Final Table on tonight!

TheWacoKidd will be on the Game Show Network tonight(Channel 309 on DirectTV). Waco had a great run in the tourney and it will definitely be good viewing.
Congrats again to Waco.

Congrats to Louiemdj

Congrats to final table resident and good dude Louiemdj and Mrs. Louie on the birth of their baby girl this week. Momma and baby are healthy which is great.

Congrats and all the best to the Louies.

Final Tables for Wein

Poker fiend and pocketfives.com star Wein made two final tables last night (04-25-2008). First off, he made the final table of the $25K guarantee $109 NLHE MTT on PokerStars. For his fine effort, Wein was rewarded $1165.00 for finishing 8th out of 466 players.

On FulltiltPoker under his screenname ChasingIdiot, he finished 7th of 399 in the $150 $65K guarantee MTT for a cash of $2,112. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Congrats Wein! Fantastic effort in a couple of tough tournaments.

Wein has a really good blog that you can read here: Wein's Blog

The Power of the Blog

A UC-Berkeley graduate student who was in Egypt to monitor anti-government protests was able to use the remote posting function of his blog to alert his family and friends of his arrest with a one word post. His blog allowed them to quickly obtain him with a lawyer who was able to secrue his release.

It's a great example of how blogs have become a part of the way we communicate and receive news, plus it's an interesting story.
To read the complete tale, visit CNN here:
One word blog gets student out of jail

Pacman Jones

I'm sure that many won't be surprised to find that I am a Pacman Jones fan. He was such a big part of the Mountaineer's success and didn't have the major off-field issues while at WVU. So also being a Dallas Cowboys fan made me pay attention when the matter of a possible trade between Tennessee and Dallas first came up. Mostly I hope that Pacman is able to straighten up his life. If it goes through, ESPN is reporting that the trade has not yet been finalized, this trade has the potential for being huge for the Cowboys. Pacman's on the field ability is impressive and he would really solidify the defensive back position and would be a threat as a kick returner. If acquired, the Cowboys could then use the extra first round pick they have this year from the trade with Cleveland during last year's draft which the Browns used to select Brady Quinn, to add depth to the offense at the skill positions or for help on either line. I have to say I hope that the trade goes through.

Happy Birthday to Chipper Jones

Today is the 36th birthday of Atlanta Braves Third Baseman Chipper Jones. The future Hall of Famer started his night off with a single in the bottom of the first in Atlanta's game vs the Florida Marlins and hit his seventh home run of the season to center in the second inning. The Braves are currently batting in the bottom of the third inning and have the lead 6-2. Edit: Chipper finished the game 3-3 with one walk as the Braves beat the Marlins 7-4.
Chipper's had a fantastic start and hopefully he will have a healthy season this year.

Brink's backs the truck up to Wretchy's house

Wretchy es en fuego.
He showed yet again last night why I predict that he will be wearing an expensive bracelet courtesy of Harrah's after the World Series of Poker, as he steamrolled the field and made the final table in the PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em. While he never got his A game going heads up, the reward for finishing 2nd out of 270 entrants was a nice piece of consolation. He will have to let the cash prize of $20107.50 and several hot co-eds lift his spirits for not taking down the title. I think he'll be ok.

Obviously, the rail was incomplete last night or victory would have been in the bag.

Very well done sir. It's starting to smell a little like a triple crown in Oregon.

Congrats to John Smoltz

Smoltzie surpassed the 3,000 career strikeout milestone in tonight's game against the Washington Nationals. He struck out Felipe Lopez in the top of the third for number 3,000. John struck out ten in seven strong innings of work. He only gave up one run but left with the Braves trailing 1-0. Hopefully the Braves will rally to win this game.



ESPN story about Smoltz

Atlanta Journal Constitution Story about Smoltz

CNN story about Smoltz

Wretchy rolls to another big Final Table!

After taking some rough beats that kept him from final tabling the $33r (out in 10th) and after cashing in the FullTilt $1k buy-in, Wretchy made the final table in the $109 (1r & 1a)$13,500 Guarantee at FullTiltPoker. Another horrible river card knocked Wretchy out in 3rd place (of 147).
He turned his $300 investment into $5031.00!

Another great job by the Wretched one!

Milestone on the horizon for Smoltz

John Smoltz is scheduled to start tomorrow night for the Atlanta Braves when they host the Washington Nationals. Is should be a historic night for the Braves righthander. Smoltz, already the only player in baseball history to win 200 or more games and have 150 or more saves, is only four strikeouts away from 3,000 for his career. He will be only the 16th pitcher in major league history to accomplish this feat.

While Smoltz has been battling a sore shoulder this year, he has gotten off to a fantastic start. He is 3-0 in three starts, with 21 strikeouts in only 16 innings pitched. His era is 0.56. Good luck John and Go Braves!

Another Final Table for Wretchy

In a tournament which only finished moments ago, Wretchy again displayed the ability that will make him a player to be reckoned with for years to come. He finished 2nd in the $55+r Pot Limit Omaha MTT on Pokerstars. Wretchy beat out 196 other entrants to get headsup and fought well against his opponent, but his wrap around straight draw didn't hit and he lost the heads-up battle. Still, a great showing and a prize of $7,122.26 for the Wretched One.


That's Wretchy on the right btw.

Calzaghe v Hopkins

Very good story about the fight on espn.com.

Check it out here: Championship Boxing like it used to be

A new comedy blog was launched tonight as part of the family of blogs.

When you get a chance, check it out here: Clowns

Wretchy Rolls

Wretchy started out the final table of the $50+5 (1r +1a) NLHE MTT on FullTiltPoker tonight with one of the smaller stacks. But ability can overcome many of the adversities that life throws at us and he used solid play to build his stack, eventually getting to heads-up action.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6113089168: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696)
Table 22 - 4000/8000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:26:28 ET - 2008/04/20

Seat 2: brehmer (423,252)
Seat 3: Ninorta47 (171,755)
Seat 5: Wretchy (83,074)
Seat 6: XXFlopQuadsXX (120,842)
Seat 9: PearlJammed (169,577)

ante 1,000

XXFlopQuadsXX posts the small blind of 4,000
PearlJammed posts the big blind of 8,000
The button is in seat #5

brehmer folds
Ninorta47 folds
Wretchy raises to 82,074, and is all in
XXFlopQuadsXX has 15 seconds left to act
XXFlopQuadsXX raises to 119,842, and is all in
PearlJammed folds
XXFlopQuadsXX shows [Ac Ad]
Wretchy shows [7s As]
Uncalled bet of 37,768 returned to XXFlopQuadsXX

*** FLOP *** [6s Ah 4d]
*** TURN *** [6s Ah 4d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [6s Ah 4d Qs] [Ks]
XXFlopQuadsXX shows three of a kind, Aces
Wretchy shows a flush, Ace high
Wretchy wins the pot (177,148) with a flush, Ace high
Wretchy: yeah GFY IMO

Karma bites XXflopQuadsXX in the ass ^ here.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6113268625: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696),
Table 22 - 5000/10000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:41:01 ET - 2008/04/20
Seat 2: brehmer (481,652)
Seat 3: Ninorta47 (111,987)
Seat 5: Wretchy (164,248)
Seat 9: PearlJammed (210,613)

ante 1,000

Ninorta47 posts the small blind of 5,000
Wretchy posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #2

PearlJammed folds
brehmer folds
Ninorta47 has 15 seconds left to act
Ninorta47 raises to 110,987, and is all in
Wretchy calls 100,987
Ninorta47 shows [2s Ad]
Wretchy shows [Ac 5h]
*** FLOP *** [5d 2c 7s]
*** TURN *** [5d 2c 7s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [5d 2c 7s Jc] [Kh]

Ninorta47 shows a pair of Twos
Wretchy shows a pair of Fives
Wretchy wins the pot (225,974) with a pair of Fives
Ninorta47 stands up

Unfortunately he was at a 3 to 1 chip deficit then and his opponent made friends with the river twice to take down the tourney.


Full Tilt Poker Game #6113389838: $13,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (45823696),
Table 22 - 6000/12000 Ante 1500 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:50:47 ET - 2008/04/20
Seat 2: brehmer (853,065)
Seat 5: Wretchy (115,435)

ante 1,500

brehmer posts the small blind of 6,000
Wretchy posts the big blind of 12,000

The button is in seat #2

brehmer raises to 39,000
Wretchy raises to 113,935, and is all in
brehmer calls 74,935

Wretchy shows [Ac Jc]
brehmer shows [Qd 3d]

*** FLOP *** [8c Th 5s]
*** TURN *** [8c Th 5s] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [8c Th 5s 2d] [Qc]

brehmer wins the pot (230,870) with a pair of Queens

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 230,870 | Rake 0
Board: [8c Th 5s 2d Qc]
Seat 2: brehmer (small blind) showed [Qd 3d] and won (230,870) with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Ac Jc] and lost with Ace Queen high

Still it was a great job by Wretchy to outlast 242 players and take down almost 5K for second place. Excellent job sir!

Danica Patrick takes Indy 300 in Japan

Congrats to Danica Patrick for getting a big weight off her shoulders by winning the IRL race in Japan. She seems pretty nice and has taken an awful lot of crap just because she's a lady. Now she won't have to listen to a lot of the old questions over and over again. Helio Castroneves finished second in the race.

To read more about, visit ESPN.COM here: Congrats Danica

Another Huge night for Chipper and the Braves!

For the second consecutive night Chipper Jones hit 2 home runs to lead the Braves to victory as the Braves beat the Dodgers 6-1 Friday Night. Chipper hit a three-run homer off Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe in the fifth inning and added a solo shot off of Chan Ho Park in the seventh. He ended the evening 3 for 5 and raised his average to a National League best .455 and has a National League best 18 RBIs too.



Jeff Francoeur accounted for the Braves' other run with an RBI single in the 2nd inning. Great to see the Braves' bats come to life and always great to have Chipper pounding the ball to all fields.

Friday's USAToday reported that Chipper is leading the Majors in hitting since the start of the 2006 season for all players with 700 or more at bats. Since then, Chipper is hitting .336 overall; .356 with 43 home runs and 145 RBI hitting left-handed and .294 with 14 homers and 54 RBI batting right-handed.

Are you kidding me?

I know that the price of gas has been ridiculously high for awhile now, but I just put $71.37 worth of gas in my ride. WTF? How long are we going to have to put up with this crap? Thanks for nothing Mr President.
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Mathclub makes it look sooooo easy!

Mathclub, under his pokerstars alias jakehekejnr, got it down to heads-up action in the $30k guarantee PokerStars $109 NLHE MTT last night. For making the final table and finishing second he scored $5300.10. Mathclub beat out 349 others in the tourney and once again showed that he is a monster player and a final table machine.
He also bubbled the $33 $5K NLHE MTT, finishing 10th of 605 for $199.00.

Big night for Chipper, Smoltz, and the Braves

Following a closed door meeting before tonight's game, Chipper Jones went 4-for-4 with a double and two homers, and John Smoltz recorded 10 strikeouts in five dominating innings, to lead the Atlanta Braves to a much needed 8-0 victory over the Florida Marlins at Dolphin Stadium Thursday Night. Chipper, Mark Texiera and Brian McCann hit back to back to back homers in the top of the fifth to put the game out of reach. It was the first time the Braves hit three consecutive home runs since May, 2003, when Rafael Furcal, Mark DeRosa and Gary Sheffield performed the feat.
Chipper is now leading the National League in hitting with a .443 average. This was the 37th multi-homer game in his career.

In improving his record to 3-0 this year, Smoltzie lowered his ERA to a miniscule 0.56. This start has been in spite him having to battle tightness in his shoulder. John is now 4 strikeouts away from 3,000 in his career. ESPN reported that Smoltz was the first pitcher since 1900 (that is not a typo) to pitch exactly five shutout innings with ten strikeouts in a win.

FLB

There is a band with a couple of great guys who also happen to play some pretty mean poker. The guys are Greg aka sicktight311, the guitarist, and Ian aka Flb-punker on the mic.
Check them out here: www.myspace.com/flbmusic
You'll be glad you did.
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Final Table for Griff

Agriffrod made the final table in the PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em on 04-16-2008.  He won $3140.00 for finishing 6th out of 171. 
Congrats for the fine performance.

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Wednesday and Im feeling blue

Slow night for the friends of the blog, as Mathclub was the only one to make a final table. Playing as ktpie on FullTiltPoker, he finihsed 4th of 217 in the $11,000 Guarantee (Rebuy). That is another great performance by the Pride of New Zealand.

Well done sir.

Yada Yada Yada

So yesterday some of my friends were playing poker. yada yada yada They won some money.


Wretchy made the final table in the $129 $25K guarantee tourney on FullTilt. He beat out 255 people and finished in 8th place. He won $723.25 for the tourney. Great job sir. iLLNuGwichee was also deep in the money in this tourney and was at Wretchy's table when the action was down to two tables. Nuggy, like Wretchy, caught some bad breaks and finished the tourney in 14th place. Well played sir.



Mathclub was only able to make 3 final tables yesterday.

In the $9k guarantee SS MTT, he beat out 80 players to finish in 9th place and win $315.00. Playing as ktpie at FullTiltPoker, Mathclub finished in 4th place in the $11,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) and won $1267.50 for beating out 213 other players. Finally, he cashed in the UltimateBet $3000 Guaranteed Rebuy, bringing in $480.00 for finishing 2nd out of 166. Another great night for New Zealand's finest. Well played gentlemen.

Congrats Wretchy

Wretchy took down the $20+2 rebuy on Stars a few minutes ago. He played very well, obv, and below are some of the key hands from late in the tournament. Very well done sir!

PokerStars Game #16716479184: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2008/04/14 - 01:13:28 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: thedylan1 (44530 in chips)
Seat 4: roblivion (61897 in chips)
Seat 5: AgentSSE (189275 in chips)
Seat 6: payupnowx (58751 in chips)
Seat 7: AcesFall (98677 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (44389 in chips)
Seat 9: gabe2323 (156972 in chips)

Wretchy: posts the ante 300

AcesFall: posts small blind 1500
Wretchy: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
gabe2323: raises 4899 to 7899
thedylan1: folds
roblivion: folds
AgentSSE: folds
payupnowx: folds
AcesFall: folds
Wretchy: raises 36190 to 44089 and is all-in
gabe2323: calls 36190
*** FLOP *** [Kd 9d Kh]
*** TURN *** [Kd 9d Kh] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 9d Kh 5h] [As]
thedylan1 said, "zomg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Ac Kc] (a full house, Kings full of Aces)
gabe2323: shows [Ah Qh] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
thedylan1 said, "what a hold"
Wretchy collected 91778 from pot
gabe2323 said, "nh wretchy"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 91778 | Rake 0
Board [Kd 9d Kh 5h As]

Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Ac Kc] and won (91778) with a full house, Kings full of Aces
Seat 9: gabe2323 showed [Ah Qh] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings


PokerStars Game #16717256397: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XX (3500/7000) - 2008/04/14 - 02:19:44 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: thedylan1 (153499 in chips)
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (435972 in chips)
Seat 3: keiron (178491 in chips)
Seat 4: (22)nilsen (248702 in chips)
Seat 5: Fluff_N_Puff (166633 in chips)
Seat 6: Bonds252525 (118732 in chips)
Seat 7: AcesFall (255891 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (156080 in chips)
thedylan1: posts the ante 700

Wretchy: posts the ante 700
Wretchy: posts small blind 3500
thedylan1: posts big blind 7000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: folds
keiron: calls 7000
(22)nilsen: folds
Fluff_N_Puff: folds
Bonds252525 said, "only if Wretchy agrees with that deal"
Bonds252525: folds
AcesFall: folds
Wretchy said, "k"
thedylan1 said, "lol"
Wretchy: raises 20777 to 27777
thedylan1: folds
keiron: calls 20777
*** FLOP *** [3c 2c Kc]
thedylan1 said, "sluggerrrrrrrr"
thedylan1 said, "change thread name imo"
Wretchy: bets 49000
keiron: raises 101014 to 150014 and is all-in
Wretchy: calls 78603 and is all-in
thedylan1 said, "HOLD"
*** TURN *** [3c 2c Kc] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [3c 2c Kc Ah] [Ac]
thedylan1 said, "WOWOW"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Ad As] (four of a kind, Aces)
keiron: shows [6h 6c] (a flush, Ace high)
Bonds252525 said, "bink"
dudeoflife21 said, "wowowow"
Wretchy collected 323360 from pot
dudeoflife21 said, "sick"
thedylan1 said, "hey budddyyyyyyyyyyy"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 323360 | Rake 0
Board [3c 2c Kc Ah Ac]

Seat 3: keiron showed [6h 6c] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 8: Wretchy (small blind) showed [Ad As] and won (323360) with four of a kind, Aces

PokerStars Game #16717394987: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (4000/8000) - 2008/04/14 - 02:33:43 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: thedylan1 (104021 in chips)
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (506372 in chips)
Seat 4: (22)nilsen (217691 in chips)
Seat 5: Fluff_N_Puff (36302 in chips)
Seat 6: Bonds252525 (282162 in chips)
Seat 7: AcesFall (210691 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (356761 in chips)

Wretchy: posts the ante 800
Wretchy: posts small blind 4000
thedylan1: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: folds
(22)nilsen: folds
Fluff_N_Puff: raises 27502 to 35502 and is all-in
Bonds252525: folds
AcesFall: folds
Wretchy: calls 31502
thedylan1: folds
*** FLOP *** [6h Jh 7h]
*** TURN *** [6h Jh 7h] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [6h Jh 7h 2d] [Jd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [5s 5h] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
Fluff_N_Puff: shows [Ah Ks] (a pair of Jacks)
Wretchy collected 84604 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 84604 | Rake 0
Board [6h Jh 7h 2d Jd]

Seat 5: Fluff_N_Puff showed [Ah Ks] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 8: Wretchy (small blind) showed [5s 5h] and won (84604) with two pair, Jacks and Fives

PokerStars Game #16717499853: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (4000/8000) - 2008/04/14 - 02:44:47 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: thedylan1 (80421 in chips)
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (559972 in chips)
Seat 4: (22)nilsen (356182 in chips)
Seat 6: Bonds252525 (302162 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (415263 in chips)

Wretchy: posts the ante 800

Bonds252525: posts small blind 4000
Wretchy: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
thedylan1: raises 71621 to 79621 and is all-in
dudeoflife21: folds
(22)nilsen: folds
Bonds252525: folds
Wretchy: calls 71621
*** FLOP *** [6d Ks 6c]
*** TURN *** [6d Ks 6c] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [6d Ks 6c 4d] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Ah 4s] (two pair, Sixes and Fours)
thedylan1: shows [Qs Tc] (a pair of Sixes)
thedylan1 said, "nh gg"
Wretchy said, "gg"
Wretchy collected 167242 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 167242 | Rake 0
Board [6d Ks 6c 4d 2s]
Seat 1: thedylan1 showed [Qs Tc] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Ah 4s] and won (167242) with two pair, Sixes and Fours


PokerStars Game #16717639371: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (5000/10000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:00:28 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (669104 in chips)
Seat 4: (22)nilsen (513388 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (531508 in chips)

Wretchy: posts the ante 1000

(22)nilsen: posts small blind 5000
Wretchy: posts big blind 10000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: raises 20000 to 30000
(22)nilsen: folds
Wretchy: calls 20000
*** FLOP *** [Qd 8c 4s]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: bets 40000
Wretchy: calls 40000
*** TURN *** [Qd 8c 4s] [2h]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: bets 80000
Wretchy: raises 150000 to 230000
dudeoflife21: raises 368104 to 598104 and is all-in
Wretchy: calls 230508 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Qd 8c 4s 2h] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Qc Kc] (a pair of Queens)
dudeoflife21: shows [Kh Qs] (a pair of Queens)
Wretchy collected 534508 from pot
dudeoflife21 collected 534508 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1069016 | Rake 0
Board [Qd 8c 4s 2h 7s]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) showed [Kh Qs] and won (534508) with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Qc Kc] and won (534508) with a pair of Queens

PokerStars Game #16717704256: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (6000/12000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:07:48 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (1160292 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (553708 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts the ante 1200
dudeoflife21: posts small blind 6000
Wretchy: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: raises 24000 to 36000
Wretchy: raises 84000 to 120000
dudeoflife21: raises 1039092 to 1159092 and is all-in
Wretchy: calls 432508 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jh Ah 8s]
*** TURN *** [Jh Ah 8s] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Jh Ah 8s 4h] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [As Jc] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
dudeoflife21: shows [9c Ts] (high card Ace)
dudeoflife21 said, "nh"
Wretchy collected 1107416 from pot
Wretchy said, "ty"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1107416 | Rake 0
Board [Jh Ah 8s 4h 6d]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) (small blind) showed [9c Ts] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [As Jc] and won (1107416) with two pair, Aces and Jacks

PokerStars Game #16717708973: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (6000/12000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:08:20 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (606584 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (1107416 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts small blind 6000
dudeoflife21: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Wretchy: raises 24000 to 36000
dudeoflife21: raises 48000 to 84000
Wretchy: raises 696000 to 780000
dudeoflife21: calls 521384 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7h 4d 3h]
*** TURN *** [7h 4d 3h] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [7h 4d 3h 6s] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dudeoflife21: shows [9s 9h] (a pair of Nines)
Wretchy: shows [Jh Kc] (high card Ace)
dudeoflife21 collected 1213168 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1213168 | Rake 0
Board [7h 4d 3h 6s Ac]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (big blind) showed [9s 9h] and won (1213168) with a pair of Nines
Seat 8: Wretchy (button) (small blind) showed [Jh Kc] and lost with high card Ace

PokerStars Game #16717736207: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (6000/12000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:11:24 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (1092769 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (621231 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts small blind 6000
dudeoflife21: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Wretchy: raises 24000 to 36000
dudeoflife21: calls 24000
*** FLOP *** [9s Js 8c]
dudeoflife21: checks
Wretchy: bets 48000
dudeoflife21: raises 192000 to 240000
Wretchy: raises 344031 to 584031 and is all-in
dudeoflife21: calls 344031
*** TURN *** [9s Js 8c] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [9s Js 8c Ts] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dudeoflife21: shows [Kd Td] (a pair of Tens)
Wretchy: shows [Jd 7s] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Wretchy collected 1242462 from pot
Wretchy said, "ty"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1242462 | Rake 0
Board [9s Js 8c Ts 3h]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (big blind) showed [Kd Td] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 8: Wretchy (button) (small blind) showed [Jd 7s] and won (1242462) with a straight, Seven to Jack

PokerStars Game #16717749788: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIII (6000/12000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:12:57 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (469138 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (1244862 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1200
Wretchy: posts the ante 1200
dudeoflife21: posts small blind 6000
Wretchy: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: raises 24000 to 36000
Wretchy: calls 24000
*** FLOP *** [9s 7s 2d]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: bets 36000
Wretchy: raises 96000 to 132000
dudeoflife21: calls 96000
*** TURN *** [9s 7s 2d] [3s]
Wretchy: bets 312000
dudeoflife21: calls 299938 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [9s 7s 2d 3s] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Jh Tc] (high card Ace)
dudeoflife21: shows [2h 2c] (three of a kind, Deuces)
dudeoflife21 collected 938276 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 938276 | Rake 0
Board [9s 7s 2d 3s As]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) (small blind) showed [2h 2c] and won (938276) with three of a kind, Deuces
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Jh Tc] and lost with high card Ace

PokerStars Game #16717780157: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIV (8000/16000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:16:26 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (982676 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (731324 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1600
Wretchy: posts the ante 1600
dudeoflife21: posts small blind 8000
Wretchy: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Wretchy said, "chop??"
dudeoflife21: raises 32000 to 48000
Wretchy: calls 32000
*** FLOP *** [3h Tc 4s]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: bets 64000
Wretchy: calls 64000
*** TURN *** [3h Tc 4s] [5c]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: checks
*** RIVER *** [3h Tc 4s 5c] [5s]
Wretchy: checks
dudeoflife21: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Th 7h] (two pair, Tens and Fives)
dudeoflife21: mucks hand
Wretchy collected 227200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 227200 | Rake 0
Board [3h Tc 4s 5c 5s]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) (small blind) mucked
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Th 7h] and won (227200) with two pair, Tens and Fives



PokerStars Game #16717890705: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIV (8000/16000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:29:29 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (493076 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (1220924 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1600
Wretchy: posts the ante 1600
dudeoflife21: posts small blind 8000
Wretchy: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: raises 475476 to 491476 and is all-in
Wretchy: calls 475476
*** FLOP *** [7s Qc Jh]
*** TURN *** [7s Qc Jh] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [7s Qc Jh Kc] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [Ah Tc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
dudeoflife21: shows [Ac 3c] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Wretchy collected 493076 from pot
dudeoflife21 collected 493076 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 986152 | Rake 0
Board [7s Qc Jh Kc Ts]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac 3c] and won (493076) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [Ah Tc] and won (493076) with a straight, Ten to Ace

PokerStars Game #16717902429: Tournament #84448869, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIV (8000/16000) - 2008/04/14 - 03:30:53 (ET)
Table '84448869 33' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (483476 in chips)
Seat 8: Wretchy (1230524 in chips)
dudeoflife21: posts the ante 1600
Wretchy: posts the ante 1600
dudeoflife21: posts small blind 8000
Wretchy: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
dudeoflife21: raises 32000 to 48000
Wretchy: raises 1180924 to 1228924 and is all-in
dudeoflife21: calls 433876 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jc Th Kh]
*** TURN *** [Jc Th Kh] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [Jc Th Kh Ks] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Wretchy: shows [6h 6s] (a full house, Sixes full of Kings)
dudeoflife21: shows [7h Ad] (a pair of Kings)
Wretchy collected 966952 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 966952 | Rake 0
Board [Jc Th Kh Ks 6d]
Seat 2: dudeoflife21 (button) (small blind) showed [7h Ad] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 8: Wretchy (big blind) showed [6h 6s] and won (966952) with a full house, Sixes full of Kings

Nuggy wins yet again! No it's not a repost.

iLLNuGWichee won the $12 Bodog $4K Guaranteed (rebuy) on 04-12-2008. For beating 143 other players Nuggy won $1411.20. Another great job. I'm running out of things to say about the daily tournaments he wins.



So, how about that Trevor Immelman winning the Masters? What a great job of hanging in there down the stretch. He saved us from a bunch of talk about the Grand Slam which was annoying at this point in the year in my opinion.

Congrats Nuggy and Congrats Trevor.

Big Night for Jeff Francoeur

Jeff Francoeur hit two home runs and drove in a career high seven runs on three hits to lead the Braves to a 10-2 win in Washington tonight over the Nationals.



John Smoltz won his second outing of the year and gave up a single run in six innings of work. He struck out five and is only 14 away from 3,000 strikeouts. His win was the 209th of his career. Great to see John get off to a good, healthy start. Also great to see the Braves' bats come to life.

Nuggy wins another one!

iLLNuGWichee won the UltimateBet $9K Guaranteed on 04-11-2008, cashing for $2565.00 and beating out 75 other players. Great job by the Indianapolis Colts number one fan.

To learn more about iLLNuGWichee you can vies his profile on pokerpages here:Profile

Friends continue to roll thriough tourneys

Big night last night and early this morning for a couple friends of the blog.

Mathclub, playing under his Pokerstars screenname jakehekejnr, beat out 1530 opponents, including overcoming a 5 to 1 chip deficit heads up, and won the PokerStars $25,000 guaranteed, $27.50 NLHE MTT. He won a cool $6717.27. Great job sir. I expect to see you on tv at least once at the final table during the world series of poker this year.

As if that wasn't enouhg, mathclub made the final table in the UltimateBet 6K guarantee BOUNTY MTT where he won $330.00 for finishing 6th out of 256. Another fine performance obv.



iLLNuGWichee must have been sleepy after the NCAA tourney the night before because he was only able to make 4 final tables last night/erly this morning. He finihsed 4th of 117 in the PokerStars $55 NL Hold'em [1 Rebuy - 1 Add-on] bringing in $1044.

iLLNuGWichee also final tabled the UltimateBet $18K Guaranteed Rebuy. He won $2070.00 for finishing 3rd out of 161.

iLLNuGWichee survived the final table but not much longer in the UltimateBet $20,000Guaranteed Bounty. He won $600.00 for finishing 9th out of 170.

Finally,Nuggy got heads up in the Bodog $20K Guaranteed (DS). He finihsed second of 252 and won $3500.00. Great job Nuggy. i expect to see you on tv at a final table as soon as you are old enough. Continued success guys.

AA is supposed to be a good hand, right?

Was frustrated last night to get knocked out of the $7 bodog mtt 7 away from the money when I got my AA in pre-flop vs AKs. Of course, the flop gave my opponent a flush and I was gone out of the money instead of having a decent stack to make a run at the final table.

Of course tonight finds me w AA and two callers to my raise pre-flop. Here, see for yourself:

Getting Hand History Information...
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Hand #52393429-110 at 9:30PM-004 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Started at 08/Apr/08 23:24:54

sildog is at seat 0 with 8405.
vinnieaces is at seat 1 with 10200.
tamrus is at seat 2 with 4500.
BigWheel32 is at seat 3 with 10245.
rinaldij is at seat 4 with 7680.
HoosierK is at seat 5 with 9930.
PEANUT ROCKS is at seat 6 with 12840.
pdpoker is at seat 7 with 4620.
SluggerWV is at seat 8 with 3620.
bmw528 is at seat 9 with 3750.
The button is at seat 3.

rinaldij posts the small blind of 150.
HoosierK posts the big blind of 300.

SluggerWV: Ac Ad

Pre-flop:

PEANUT ROCKS folds. pdpoker folds. SluggerWV raises
to 850. bmw528 folds. sildog folds. vinnieaces
folds. tamrus folds. BigWheel32 calls. rinaldij
calls. HoosierK folds.

Flop (board: Qs 4d Jc):

rinaldij checks. SluggerWV goes all-in for 2770.
BigWheel32 calls. rinaldij folds.

Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:

BigWheel32 shows Qc Ks.
SluggerWV shows Ac Ad.

Turn (board: Qs 4d Jc Qh):

(no action in this round)

River (board: Qs 4d Jc Qh Js):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:

BigWheel32 has Qc Qs Jc Qh Js: full house, queens full of jacks.
SluggerWV has Ac Ad Qs Jc Qh: two pair, aces and queens.


Hand #52393429-110 Summary:

BigWheel32 wins 8390 with full house, queens full of jacks.
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I do hate the bad beats. Oh, well.

Congrats to Mathclub for making a couple of final tables yesterday, including a 2nd of 334 in the $3rebuy at UB, and as Jakehekejnr on PokerStars, another 2nd our of 498entrants winning him $1394.41.

Congrats to iLLNuGWichee for finishing 3rd of 156 in the UltimateBet $19K Guaranteed Rebuy for $2185.00.




Good luck at the tables everyone.

Stud MTT Final Table at UltimateBet

It was a great weekend at the tables. Even though it was a small field, I was happy to make the final table in the $5.50 Stud MTT at UltimateBet. After making a final table yesterday, I was really excited to make another run deep into a tourney today. It's been a really long time since that has happened for me.



I made it to the final three tables in a no limit hold em bounty tourney at UB tonight too. I didn't cash for much and only got one and a half bounty, the half bounty resulting from a hand where my AA and another guys AA knocked out a guy with KK who then proceeded to whine about losing the hand, but it was nice to have another solid tourney today to go with the final table.

John Smoltz pitched five scoreless innings today against the Mets and picked up the win for the Braves. Great to see and I hope he is able to stay healthy this year. He's a great pitcher.


Good luck at the tables.

RIP Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was a great actor and a man committed to his beliefs. I was sorry to hear about his death this morning. He had some great movies which I really enjoyed, Touch of Evil, Ten Commandments and The Planet of the Apes. He also did a great dvd tour of the Holy Land with Biblical excerpts which was really good. He lived a great life. RIP Sir


American actor and Oscar winner Charlton Heston joins civil rights protesters picketing a whites-only restaurant in Oklahoma City, Okl., on May 27, 1961. Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, died Saturday April 5, 2008 according to a statement from the actor's family. He was 84. (AP Photo, FILE)

iLLNuGWichee is a final table machine

On Friday, April 4, 2008, iLLNuGWichee had a day at the tables that few dare dream about. He made 5 final tables at 4 different sites.

He finished 2nd of 62 in a Bodog 10K guarantee for $2000.
He finished 2nd of 486 in the $109 buy in $25,000 guarantee at PokerStars for $7290.
He finished 5th of 113 in the $20k guarantee at UltimateBet for $1400.
He finished 3rd of 188 in a Bodog 10K guarantee for $1190.
Finally, he finished 5th of 245 in the $22k guarantee rebuy at FullTiltPoker for $1644.90.

A fantastic effort by a great guy. Very well done sir.


^ The Machine

Final Table at PokerStars

I haven't been able to play much the past week and the two tourneys that I did get to play saw my KK chased down by two outers on UB. I had a few hours to play Saturday and decided to try out PokerStars since I could play longer if I went deep. Well an A6 suited thought it wise to call me twice with nothing and hit an ace on the turn to crack my aces in the hold em tourney I entered so I wasn't feeling terribly optimistic. But I joined a PL Omaha tourney after busting out of the hold em tourney. I like playing PL Omaha Hi Lo but haven't played many PL Omaha Hi tourneys and have had little success. But I got off to a good start in this tourney and, after what seemed like a day and a half when we got down to ten players, I was able to make the final table. It was my first final table at PokerStars in a long time. I was able to finish 5th after starting the final table in 6th place.

One hand helped me when the big blind decided to defend and only served to double me up when the big blind's draw missed after the flop. I personally try to avoid recklessly doubling up the short stacks late in a tourney. The chips I might win never seem to be worth the risk of throwing away chips to the ss.

I was too aggressive with my last hand and pot committed myself with a pair of jacks and a suited ace. Of course someone behind me had aces so I was done. It was great to get to the final table but I wish that pocketfives.com hadn't been down. I was only able to talk to a couple of friends via AIM while the tourney was going on. I really like talking to people while playing. I guess I shouldn't but it seems like ti actually helps me play better. It's also nice to let people know that I play a little too.



Good Luck at the tables everyone. I'll see ya soon.