Spanked

Lessons Learned
In the previous post I discussed two hands I got to play with Captain Tom and Mark Wilds. I was fortunate enough to eliminate them and also granted an opportunity to learn another poker lesson from them both.This kind of ties into a pet peeve of mine. I hate it when players bitch about the stakes of the tournament they are in. You might hear, "I can't take it seriously this is only a $300 or $500 buy-in," and while I understand where they are coming from I think it's bad form and hurts their game. They are basically assuring themselves of pissing away $500.The same is true in cash, I notice a lot of 2-5 players will sit down at a 1-2 table and play like the stake

A couple other combatants
Wanted to wrap up my thoughts on some of the folks I played with. Got to mix it up with two of the bigger names on the coast and was lucky enough to knock them out. This will be a two part post, in this one I'll discuss those hands and in the next post, I'll give you the lessons I learned from playing them.Captain Tom Franklin who has almost 30 cashes at the WSOP, 2.6 million in earnings and a bracelet also had a pretty decent stack when we were down to about four or five tables. He joined our table and played an orbit or so. In late position I looked down at KQ o/s. There was a raise from early position fr

Begleiter "It's okay I'm wealthy."
Saw this thread on 2+2 apparently after November Niner Steve Begleiter got knocked out he said the above. Really doesn't bother me, but there was some controversy and hate forcused at him. I started to join the fray and stopped myself deciding to post it here. Why? I'm not going to remember to get on there to follow up to any responses this might have gotten.This post provoked me...[QUOTE=tcash777;14409289]Does that me he is NOT wealthy. Okay, you are right, he should have said, "this sucks, life is so unfair, I only have a few million in the bank, Im so poor."[B]He is wealthy, it's a fact, not a brag[/B]. He was saying despite being suc

400 Posts
Wow. Just saw that I have 400 posts under the belt, that's a lot of posts. Unfortunately, I rate maybe 5 to 10% as entertaining, I'll try and do better. Too many hands, too much minutia, and that kind of stuff. I want to enliven the blog a bit, so will work to better dedicate myself to getting creative in presentation at least. I know I can but too often I get, well, lazy. Of course another of the goals of this blog which is to chronicle my mistakes and to learn and grow from them. I also want to track what works for me, that I'm trying out, and put some post-play thought to my blog.What an wide range of 400 posts it's been. Maybe I'll sift through them, perhaps in time

The kid...
You know who he is. He plays with a scowl, he's fearless and not afraid to mix it up with anybody. He's relentless, aggressively betting into any and everybody on the table no matter their position but never getting his head in too deep. I bet he kills the tables when he plays online poker.For much of the tournament he was at my table with a stack size comparable to mine. I also watched him with the resilency to rebuild his stack after a couple of bad beats back to a chip leading stack in no time. Man what an attribute. Get beaten down, and not only dust yourself off, but just not stop being controlled aggressive. He pounced