So if you guys don't know, we have been cooking at home a lot for the past couple of months. We have saved a TON of money by staying at home and cooking instead of getting take out. We have been watching Food Network and playing around on foodnetwork.com quite a bit searching for recipes that sound tasty. Our favorites include Rachael Ray, Paula Dean, Emril, and my personal favorite is Malto Mario. Let me tell you something... cooking with Kim has been a blast!!! I didn't realize how much fun it is to cook with her. We have gone out and bought new kitchen gadgets, utensils, and especially knives. I bought her a really expensive chopping knife a couple of Christmas' ago because the set that we had was junk. It has been her knife until now. We found a set of two Rachael Ray knives on the Internet for $100 that she liked. It's the ones that Rachael uses on her shows. We found the same set plus a knife sharpening tool at Costco for $79. I picked that set up for Kim and now those are her knives and I inherited her old one. We have found and tried a bunch of recipes and let me tell ya, we have made some AWESOME meals. I definitely recommend cooking with your significant other. Have fun with it. We crank up the music which has lately been The Brian Setzer Orchestra "The Dirty Boogie"and Def Leppard "Hysteria". We even have some recipes that the kids can help with. We bought a food processor and both kids like helping us slice veggies, mince garlic, shred cheese, and pretty much anything that can go through the processor.
As far as poker goes, I have been playing on the Internet, but the ole' bankroll is dwindling. I played in the $2500 guaranteed tourney on UB on Saturday. Started out really well and tripled my starting stack within about 15 minutes. Then the Qwest guy came to check out some problems that we were having. Anytime it rains, our cable, phone, and Internet start having issues. We have had them out several times in the past couple of weeks with no resolution. By the time they get to the house, the rain is done and everything is working just fine. Well this tech decided to actually trouble shoot every system....including Internet. I am in the middle of the tourney and he shuts it down. DOH!!! After about 15 minutes he gets in his truck and leaves to go check some central box on Hayden Road leaving us without service!!! By this time I am going on tilt because I am in the middle of the tourney and getting blinded off. Lucky for me I have a laptop, so I go over to the neighbors house and plug into their Internet. When I finally get back online at their house, I had missed about 30 hands and lost about 800 in chips. It must have been an action table because when I see my first hand there were only 2 people that were at the table when my service went down to when I logged back on. Ugh!!! After that I really couldn't get anything going. Made a couple of moves and had a couple of hands, but they were all small pots. I finally get back to my house and get pocket K's UTG+3 and raise 4x the big blind. I get two callers and see a flop of A-7-4 rainbow. I bet half the pot to find out if one of the other guys has an ace and the guy immediately to my left re raises all in. Bingo, found the Ace. The other guy insta calls and I have to fold. The hands get turned up.... the first guy that called my raise pre flop shows 7-4o (now mind you he had NO money in the pot before my raise), and the other guy showed A-2o!!! WOW!!! Good fold by me for getting away from my Kings, but 7-4 and A-2? Now I am down to about 2850 in chips and the blinds are 300-600. A few hands later I see AQo and push all in for my 2850 and a guy with 5600 chips calls me. He flips over A6o and I think I am in good shape until the 6 hits the board an no Q to help me and I get knocked out. UGH!!! Damn cable guy screwed up my mojo. I signed up for the Pokerstars Pokercast tourney on Sunday, but CJ started running a fever on Friday after school and the tylenol only gave temporary relief, we decided to take him to the urgent care on sunday. We left the house an hour and 45 minutes before the tourney was to start. After spending 3 hours in the urgent care, we got home after we had gotten blinded out of the tourney. Oh well, CJ got his meds and is feeling better today after staying home from school today and that is all that matters. After we got home and got CJ his meds I went down to the darkhorse for the Sunday poker game. I think I am going to stop playing down there. The new owner told me she and her fiance were going to get involved with the game, but after 4 weeks they haven't been around at all. She was at the bar when I got there, but after our first break an hour into the game, she was already gone. I agreed to run that game because my cousin Ron was the owner of the bar and he would at least say thank you to me for running it and sometimes throw me a few bucks towards my tab. The new owner has been really difficult to deal with when it comes to getting the nightly prizes and it just isn't worth my time to drive all the way down there for a possible $400 Visa gift card 11 weeks from now. I might as well take that money to the casino on Friday and play in a real tourney. So that is what I am going to do.
Played in the $2500 qualifier today and played in two hands. The first one was my AKo in the big blind. 5 limpers so I raised the pot and one guy called. Flop came K-2-7 with two hearts. I bet pot and the other guy goes all in for a couple hundred more so I called. He had J-8 of hearts for the flush draw and hit his flush on the river. Takes me down to about 600 chips. Next hand I was in the big blind with Q-8o and 4 people called. I checked. Flop was Q-Q-9 rainbow. Checks around and the turn is an 8s putting two spades on the board. I bet pot and one guy re raises to put me all in. I call with my full house hoping that the person was on the flush draw and just wanted to isolate me. Nope, he had Q-9 for a flopped bigger boat. DOH!!! Nothing I could do there. Next I played in the bounty and just couldn't get anything going. Went out just before the first break. Oh well. I am going to play in the first $2500 qualifier at 10:30 tomorrow morning so hopefully I will do better tomorrow.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Online play for Tuesday night
I played a few tourney's on Tuesday night. Couple of free rolls on UB and the $2 bounty also. We made a new Rachael Ray dish called "Christmas Pasta" last night and it turned out really good. We also had the homemade GARLIC cheese bread. When I say GARLIC, I mean GARLIC!!! YUM!!! We all ate WAY too much. Had good food, good wine, and good company (for the most part, the kids started to get on each others nerves). After we cleaned up the kitchen I got CJ in the tub and the girls went to study buddy, turned on American Idol and started some poker. The first free roll was un-eventful especially because I had so many other things going on. I felt pretty good so I decided to play in the bounty. I knocked out 4 people and finished in the money. Stayed up a little too late so I will probably skip playing tonight, but we will see. Going to look for some ebay stuff right now.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Poker Weekend Update
Kim had Friday off and we decided to go to Casino Arizona and play around a bit. I played in the tourney and she hit the slots. First hand of the tourney went like this. I am in the small blind with J8 hearts. Three people limp before me, I complete the big blind and the big blind checks. 250 chips in the pot and the flop comes KK9 two hearts. I am first to act and bet 100 and one person calls. I just found out who has the K. I put him on KJ or KQ. Turn is a off suit 3, I bet 200 and he calls. Now I know he has a K…..slim possibility he has a 9, but I still have him on a KQ or KJ. River is a 10 of hearts. BINGO!!! Hit my flush. I bet 400, he raises to 1000 and I insta call. I show my flush thinking I just started my tourney off nicely, he flips over the K with the other card directly under it. I am thinking that he is embarrassed about playing his set badly, and he slow rolled the 9 under the K. Doh!!! Kind of pissed that he slow rolled me, but what can you do. After that hand I lost over half of my stack. Played a couple of hands for cheap but missed all. After the break, I got pocket 7’s in the big blind. Blinds at this point were 150/300 and I had 500 behind. Under the gun went all in for 1100 or so, everyone else folded to me. I told the guy I should just call blind since I was so short stacked, but I ended up looking anyways, found my 77 and went with it. He had A6 off suit and guess what happened??? You are correct….. the A came on the river to knock me out. Oh well.
Now that takes me to last night. I got up to the Fort at about 5:30. Got into the $3/$6 cash game. Took $100 to the table which is pretty much the standard buy in. I didn’t play the first couple of hands then looked down at AJ of hearts. It was a kill pot which means all the blinds are doubled to $6/$12. A guy on my right raised to $12 and I re raised to $18. The guy three positions to my left called the 3 bets cold (meaning he didn’t have any money in the pot before he called the $18). The original raiser called and we saw a flop. The flop was 10-8-7 with two hearts. Original raiser checked, I bet $6 and both guys called. Turn was a J, original raiser checked, I bet $12, the next guy called and the original raiser folded. River was an A. Now I have top two pair, missed my flush and my straight, but I am feeling pretty good about my top two. I bet $12 and the guy calls. Now this guy was playing the Humberto Brenes roll to the T. We flip over our cards and he shows 7/9 diamonds for the straight. He called a raise and re raise cold in a kill pot with 7/9 suited. How sick is that. So right off the bat I am down $40+. The only other memorable hand I had from that session was I had K7 of spades in the cut off and called the $3 so we went to the flop with 6 people to the flop. Flop came K-3-7 rainbow. Someone bet, I raised the button called and one other called. Turn was some junk, one guy bet, I raised, the button called. River was junk the guy checked I bet $12, the button raised, the other guy folded, I re raised and he called. We both had the same hand. DOH!!! Everyone at the table thought I had a set, except for the guy that went with me. Oh well. The tournament started and was playing pretty well. I did get stuck once and had to rebuy once, but then built up the stack pretty good. Made it to the first break and found that Kris had chipped up again really big. He has no clue how reckless he is playing, but it works for him. Between the first and second breaks is bounty time. During this hour of play, anyone you knock out is worth $20. I did get one bounty and close to two more, but the others folded. Bummer. After the second break I lasted a total of 2 hands. The first hand I had AQo and a guy that I played in the cash game with pushed all in and I called. He had KJo and I thought I was golden until the K hit on the flop. I lost 60% of my chips on that hand. The next hand I was under the gun with pocket Queens. I went all in for 6 big blinds and everyone folded except the big blind with AKo. Of course an Ace on the flop sealed the deal for me and I got knocked out in about 55th place. Kris was still in the tourney so I went back to the cash game. The second session was even worse than the first. I would flop top pair top kicker, someone would flop bottom pair and chase down the two pair to beat me. I would flop a straight and someone would hit runner runner for the flush. It was so sick. The most memorable hand was one I didn’t play in. It was a kill pot and I was under the gun with 3/5 of hearts. Of course I fold because I can’t play that for $6 and if someone raises, put any more money in the pot. Three people see the flop of 2-4-6 of hearts!!! I would have flopped the straight flush!!! I leaned over to the dealer (because I was in the 1 seat) and asked for my cards back. He asked me why? Did I fold a flush? I said no, I folded the straight flush!!! He didn’t believe me so while the other people were betting and raising each other he found my cards and groaned. Of course the pot grew pretty big and after it was all over I asked the dealer to tell the other players what I folded, and he flipped my cards over and showed the table. DOH!!! I could have won a ton of money. If it wasn’t a kill pot, I probably would have limped in with them since I wasn’t doing very well with my good cards that I was getting. Oh well. It was the right fold. I lost my entire buy in and left the Fort about 12:30. Kris got knocked out in about 25th place and left right away. Oh well. Next time I am going to bring enough to play in the $5-$150 game and forget about the $3-$6 game all together. Brian and I played online pretty much all day today. Not a very good day for either of us. I am going to play in the bounty tourney in about 25 minutes so wish me luck.
Watched the Daytona 500 today. NASCAR IS BACK!!! BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY, LET’S GO RACIN’ BOYS!!!! Great race, great finish, Jr. finished 9th and Smoke almost took it down for Toyota, but I am happy for Ryan. It has been a long time between wins and Kurt pushed him to victory. Gotta go get the kids ready for bed and get ready for the bounty tourney.
I hope all your big hands hold up after the river.
Now that takes me to last night. I got up to the Fort at about 5:30. Got into the $3/$6 cash game. Took $100 to the table which is pretty much the standard buy in. I didn’t play the first couple of hands then looked down at AJ of hearts. It was a kill pot which means all the blinds are doubled to $6/$12. A guy on my right raised to $12 and I re raised to $18. The guy three positions to my left called the 3 bets cold (meaning he didn’t have any money in the pot before he called the $18). The original raiser called and we saw a flop. The flop was 10-8-7 with two hearts. Original raiser checked, I bet $6 and both guys called. Turn was a J, original raiser checked, I bet $12, the next guy called and the original raiser folded. River was an A. Now I have top two pair, missed my flush and my straight, but I am feeling pretty good about my top two. I bet $12 and the guy calls. Now this guy was playing the Humberto Brenes roll to the T. We flip over our cards and he shows 7/9 diamonds for the straight. He called a raise and re raise cold in a kill pot with 7/9 suited. How sick is that. So right off the bat I am down $40+. The only other memorable hand I had from that session was I had K7 of spades in the cut off and called the $3 so we went to the flop with 6 people to the flop. Flop came K-3-7 rainbow. Someone bet, I raised the button called and one other called. Turn was some junk, one guy bet, I raised, the button called. River was junk the guy checked I bet $12, the button raised, the other guy folded, I re raised and he called. We both had the same hand. DOH!!! Everyone at the table thought I had a set, except for the guy that went with me. Oh well. The tournament started and was playing pretty well. I did get stuck once and had to rebuy once, but then built up the stack pretty good. Made it to the first break and found that Kris had chipped up again really big. He has no clue how reckless he is playing, but it works for him. Between the first and second breaks is bounty time. During this hour of play, anyone you knock out is worth $20. I did get one bounty and close to two more, but the others folded. Bummer. After the second break I lasted a total of 2 hands. The first hand I had AQo and a guy that I played in the cash game with pushed all in and I called. He had KJo and I thought I was golden until the K hit on the flop. I lost 60% of my chips on that hand. The next hand I was under the gun with pocket Queens. I went all in for 6 big blinds and everyone folded except the big blind with AKo. Of course an Ace on the flop sealed the deal for me and I got knocked out in about 55th place. Kris was still in the tourney so I went back to the cash game. The second session was even worse than the first. I would flop top pair top kicker, someone would flop bottom pair and chase down the two pair to beat me. I would flop a straight and someone would hit runner runner for the flush. It was so sick. The most memorable hand was one I didn’t play in. It was a kill pot and I was under the gun with 3/5 of hearts. Of course I fold because I can’t play that for $6 and if someone raises, put any more money in the pot. Three people see the flop of 2-4-6 of hearts!!! I would have flopped the straight flush!!! I leaned over to the dealer (because I was in the 1 seat) and asked for my cards back. He asked me why? Did I fold a flush? I said no, I folded the straight flush!!! He didn’t believe me so while the other people were betting and raising each other he found my cards and groaned. Of course the pot grew pretty big and after it was all over I asked the dealer to tell the other players what I folded, and he flipped my cards over and showed the table. DOH!!! I could have won a ton of money. If it wasn’t a kill pot, I probably would have limped in with them since I wasn’t doing very well with my good cards that I was getting. Oh well. It was the right fold. I lost my entire buy in and left the Fort about 12:30. Kris got knocked out in about 25th place and left right away. Oh well. Next time I am going to bring enough to play in the $5-$150 game and forget about the $3-$6 game all together. Brian and I played online pretty much all day today. Not a very good day for either of us. I am going to play in the bounty tourney in about 25 minutes so wish me luck.
Watched the Daytona 500 today. NASCAR IS BACK!!! BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY, LET’S GO RACIN’ BOYS!!!! Great race, great finish, Jr. finished 9th and Smoke almost took it down for Toyota, but I am happy for Ryan. It has been a long time between wins and Kurt pushed him to victory. Gotta go get the kids ready for bed and get ready for the bounty tourney.
I hope all your big hands hold up after the river.
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