Carrera

To make it short, we won 5-4 and move up to first league next year. YAY.

We were ahead 4-2 after the 6 singles matches.  I played and won.  So we just had to win one doubles match to win overall.  I was selected again for the doubles with the same partner as last time.  Our first doubles pair was a fairly strong one that often play together.  I was in the second pairing, and our third one was a weaker team, but was made to allow everyone to play (we were 10 people)….  Our other two teams lose, and I’m in the third set with my partner.  We won the first 6-4, and lost the second 1-6.  We take a commanding lead of 5-2 in the third, and my partner is up to serve.  He can’t close the deal, and I get my chance to serve leading 5-4 in the final set.  I put in a solid game, and we win it.  I felt like quite the hero

In the poker world, I’ve been playing a bunch of Omaha Hi lately.  When I remember not to pay off the river with just the 2nd nuts, it’s a good source of money.

After getting rained out on Saturday, my InterClub tennis match took place on Sunday.  There are 6 singles, and 3 doubles.  We are now in a playoff format, so first to 5 wins.  I was selected for the singles and won.  We were tied 3-3 after the singles, so the doubles would decide the winner.

I played again in the doubles, and had a pretty easy victory.  One of the other doubles was a tight game, and my partner and I thought we were losing the third one, but it turned out they were not putting the score up properly!  We won 5-4 overall, and advance to the next round which is scheduled for next Sunday.  If we win that one, we’ll move up a league for next year.

In other good news, McPoker bonus was cleared on Friday night

My brother came to visit for a week, and house cleanup for a visit by a potential buyer meant not much poker lately.

Fun things done while he was here include:

 - Him coming to watch my tennis team play, and me winning both my singles and doubles matches.  My team won 8-1 overall, and that landed us in second place, so we play this Saturday to try to move up a league.

- Walking up and down the Saleve mountain (a trip he likes to make every time he comes).  Last time he was here, we took a wrong trail, and ended up having to turn back without making it to the top.  This time we made it, and had a drink at the top and admired the view.  We got separated on the way down somehow, but did meet up at the bottom.

- Had dinner out at the steak place

- Went to the Ecolint kermesse

- Generally had fun watching movies and playing games.

One of my last basketball games of the season coming up tonight.  We are playing the team in first place, and somehow we are in last place :)  Not much suspense on who the winner will be, but hopefully will be fun.

On Sunday, I have the second round of the interclub tennis matches.  We are in a group of 4 teams that all play each other (6 singles, and 3 doubles).  1 point for each win, and top 2 teams go through to play for a chance to move up to the next level.  Off to a bad start as 2 weeks ago, we lost 8-1 even though there were several 3 set matches.

McPoker bonus is just 8985 FPP away now.  Way ahead of schedule there

I hit GoldStar on PokerStars for the first time; with one day to spare ;)  Now I have to build up some FPP again to go for some bonuses.

It was a rough session otherwise.  All my big pairs lost, and none of my draws came in.  They must have thought I was Johnny.

A good session at McPoker partially made up for that.  Played a bit of 1/2 6-max NL.  Really racked up the FPP at that table.  Now need 16906 to clear the bonus.

Waiting for some extra memory to arrive for my notebook.  Tomorrow is a day off; maybe I can work on the video project then.

This is rare enough that I decided to include it here. Most of the time, it’s hard to win money on this hand too. Didn’t get much, but as least it was paid off to the river.

Seat 1: lvrookie ($241.50)
Seat 2: Holdenpot ($110)
Seat 3: Phatcrndwg ($157) -
Seat 4: Fish_Light ($103) -
Seat 5: Ironklad ($448) -
Seat 6: Sandy1117 ($110)
Seat 7: Jerzy__Jim ($130.50)
Seat 8: Carrera911 ($149)
Seat 9: badactuary ($154)
Seat 10: GaijinBlue ($289)

PRE-FLOP:

Fish_Light posts small blind $1
Ironklad posts BIG blind $3
Dealt To: Carrera911

FOLD Sandy1117
FOLD Jerzy__Jim
RAISE Carrera911 ($6)
FOLD badactuary
FOLD GaijinBlue
CALL lvrookie ($6)
FOLD Holdenpot
FOLD Phatcrndwg
FOLD Fish_Light
FOLD Ironklad

FLOP:

Pot: $16
   

BET Carrera911 ($3)
CALL lvrookie ($3)

TURN:

Pot: $22
     

BET Carrera911 ($6)
CALL lvrookie ($6)

RIVER:

Pot: $34
      

BET Carrera911 ($6)
CALL lvrookie ($6)

SHOWDOWN:
Carrera911:

MUCK lvrookie

Carrera911 collected $44 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $46 Rake: $2

Final Board:
     

Seat 1: lvrookie mucked [Js Ah] - Net Gain/Loss: ($-21)
  
Seat 8: Carrera911 showed [Jd Kd] and won 44 with a Royal Flush - Net Gain/Loss: ($23)

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I’m off to play a second round tennis match at my local club.

I’ve been playing a lot of LHE this month.  I guess I started it to clear the PS bonus.  Then I realized I could actually use my FPP to buy more bonuses!  I settled on 3/6 because that is a limit I used to play a lot (mostly on Absolute).  I’ve been doing really well.  PT tells me i’ve been running at 4.3 BB/100 month to date.  I’ll try to make GoldStar for the first time.  I’ve usually spread my play on so many sites, that it’s hard to rack up a lot of play on a single site.

I had such a good session on  Saturday, that i decided to try 5/10.  I don’t think I played differently, but I got totally destroyed :)  I remember that I never did well at 5/10 in the past either.  oh well, I’ll have to study up on that one.  Admittedly, I didn’t hit any flops, and it was just one session, but it seemed quite different.  Maybe the time of day was a factor too;  it was later than I usually play.

There is talk of making videos for the site, and if I do one, it would probably be at 3/6 limit.  I think it would be fun.

McPoker Bonus update: 19078 FPP to go, so I almost doubled the weekly requirement.  That’s good, because there will for sure be days when I won’t be able to play.

Good luck at the tables!

Back in February, this site had a 500% bonus up to 1000 EUR.  This site is quite soft, so I took advantage of the offer.  It required 30000 of their FPPs to clear, and clears in one lump sum.

As of this morning, I have 21378 FPP to go.  I have until the 9th of August to clear it.  That’s about 180 FPP per day every day.

That may seem like a lot, but you can earn up to 15 FPP per hand!  You get 1 for each 20 cents rake.  I’ve had ups and downs, but I got my roll up to a reasonable size again where I can play 0.5/1 NL, and the points just roll in at that level.  At one point I was down to playing .05/0.1 NL!

This is a German site, and has mostly German players on it.  It attracted a lot of gamers with different promotions.  It is quite common to see people sitting with 5+ buy ins at the NL tables.  There are only 500+ people connected at a time, so not great game selection.  Just lots of free money

I’ll keep you posted.

I was always fascinated by the idea of playing poker.  I liked to see it in old westerns.  I remember a time when we all played at a big family gathering (just for fun, but with chips) many many years ago.  However, I was always reluctant to play for real money.

Several years ago, there was a friend who would sometimes play in a local dealer’s choice home game.  I went to watch once, but I noticed that they mostly played strange variations with lots of wild cards (I now know that those are the games the fish at the table like).  It was not for me.  This friend and his wife also watched some poker shows on TV, and told me about those.  Around that same time, they played a bit online too.

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