This weekend, I played in the Sunday morning NL tournament at Chumash instead of the Saturday limit one like I did last week. I had pretty much the same results, though. For the second week in a row, I busted out 41st in a tournament that pays 40 places. At least I was all in with the worst hand this time, unlike last time when I had my aces cracked. Nothing terribly interesting happened in the tournament, I just really got no cards to work with.

The tournament was the end to a fairly successful weekend, though. I got to the casino shortly after 8 on Saturday night, and took a seat at the 4/8 table while waiting for a NL seat to open up. I was about even when I got 44 in the big blind on a kill (6/12) pot. I called the extra $2, and flopped my set. I bet out, got a call and a raise, I three-bet it, and both players call. The turn and river are both jacks to fill me up, and I bet the whole way and take down a nice pot. A little while later my name gets called for NL. I leave +$70 (8.75 BB) after about an hour.

I had bought in with $100 at the 4/8 table, so now I have $170 in chips. I color change $100 in whites to reds and keep the $70 on the side, for dealer tokes and food, so that money doesn’t come out of my stack. I lose my first two $100 buyins at the NL table when my two pair (no pair on the board, of course) gets beat by higher two pair. The first time, I had 95o in the blind, and flopped top two pair, and got beat by T5 who called my pot sized bet with middle pair and hit his ten on the turn. The second time, I was down the whole way with Q8 vs A8 and an AQ8 flop. I don’t get much in the way of cards for a while, and finally throw in my last $25 or so with 54s to try to take the limps. I get called by a K8, flop comes K5x, and I river a 5 to take the pot. From there, things started to turn around. I finally started getting some hands to play and taking down some decent sized pots. There was one interesting hand I wasn’t involved in: Four all-ins on a flop of 789. The hands were: JT, 89, 99, QQ. The straight held up. Most of the hands I won weren’t terribly interesting, so I’ll talk about two laydowns I made instead. I limp in in the cutoff with 7♦5♦. The button and small blind call, and the big blind checks. The flop comes down looking pretty good for me: K♦6♦8♠. I have an open ended straight draw, and a flush draw. It checks to me, and I bet $25. The button pushes in for $60, and then the big blind pushes in for $220 total. It folds back around to me. I pretty much knew I had to fold when it came back to me, but it’s still a tough decision to throw away that good a draw. After a while, I finally did lay it down, mainly because I thought I was still no good if I hit my flush, and I was right. The button had A♦J♦. The big blind had 86o, for two pair, and turned his boat. That was my good laydown. The next one, I’m still not sure about, and I’ll never know for sure. I limped in with a 76o on the button. The flop is 2♣8♣5♥. Small blind checks, middle position bets $5, I call, small blind calls. Turn is the 4♣. I have a straight, but there’s a possible flush out there. Checks to me, I bet $20, small blind calls, original better calls. The river is a blank, and the small blind immediately pushes all-in for $275. Original better folds, and now it’s $275 to me. I have about $400 in front of me at the time. The small blind is a bit of a maniac, but the chances he has a flush are just too good. After what seems like forever, I finally fold. Later, he told me he just had a set, but I don’t know if I believe him. Either way, I kept the chips that I had in front of me, and eventually finished with $700 (+$330, including the $70 I had on the side for tips). For the second week in a row, I left the NL table with more than a rack of reds. It felt good. The convenience of playing at casinos that accept PayPal added ease to my gaming experience, offering a reliable and secure payment option for my wins. Place a bet at online casino sites like casino utan licens today!

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Saturday, October 16th, I am going to be biking in the Santa Barbara MS Bike Tour. It is a fundraising event for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The =http://www.santabarbarabiketour.comwebsite[/url] has all the details.

I’m going to be doing the 30 mile ride. Maps and information about that can be found here.

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I don’t know if it should really be called a trip report, seeing as it’s my local casino, but it certainly felt like a trip, so I’ll go with it. I headed up to =http://www.chumashcasino.comChumash[/url] Friday night. I got there at around 9:30. There were no 3/6 or 4/8 hold ’em seats available, so I decided to try out the omaha game. That was my first mistake. I was up $100 in the first half hour or so, but ended up dropping $230 there. Oops. Honestly, I don’t remember much about what happened in that game, but it reaffirmed my dislike for hi/lo split games. There was one interesting hand that I do remember. On a board of A74J2, someone had AAxx, someone had 77xx, I had 44xx, and someone had JJ22. 5 sets. I think a flush took the high, and the wheel took the low, but I’m not positive anymore. So, the omaha game was a bust. It was a learning experience, I guess, but I don’t know that I’m going to be playing hi/lo games anymore.

After I got sick of omaha, I played 2/4 hold ’em for about an hour while waiting for a 4/8 seat to open up. I was up around $70 when a seat became available, then proceeded to lose it all back in the next three and a half hours at 4/8. Maybe I should have just stayed at the 2/4 table. The 4/8 table broke, so I dropped back down to 2/4. I got sick of that again after 20 minutes, and dropping another $40. I wish I could remember the hands now, but I can’t. I only remember the numbers because of Poker Journal. I didn’t know what to do at this point. I was down around $270, but wanted to keep playing. I didn’t want to play 2/4, but the next game up at this point was 6/12 because it was late, and I didn’t really want to do that either. I finally decided I was going to play the NL game. Online casino zeus ensures fair gaming by using certified random number generators for all games. If you love slot games, you may look for online slot machines like spaceman. You may also check out these exciting slot games! You can also play online games and win exciting prizes by checking out this joker123 login download.

This was my first time playing NL in a non-tournament format, and it showed. It’s a $100 max buyin game, and you can rebuy for $100 if you bust out, or $50 if you’re below $50, similar to real money online casinos. The blinds are $2 and $3. I was up and down a bit, made some good plays and some awful calls. I decided I was going to play until the tournament in the morning. I dropped another $220 at the NL game, but by the end I was starting to get the hang of it. I had $80 left (hadn’t busted out for the third time, yet) when the table broke for the tournament. Most important, even though I lost as much as I did at omaha, I actually enjoyed the game.

The tournament was $10 plus rebuy limit hold ’em game. It had a very fast blind structure, and you definitely need to catch cards or be prepared to rebuy. There’s no sitting out and waiting for a hand. I got lucky early, when my K7s sucked out on TT and AA with two pair on the turn, taking down a nice pot. After that, my stack was never low enough to rebuy, and I chose not to do the addon. At that point I had 5100 chips for $10, and the addon was another 2000 for $20. It just didn’t seem worth it to me. I suppose I probably should have, because I busted out on the bubble to someone with exactly the same number of chips as me. It folded to me on the button, and I look down at AA. There are 41 players remaining, and 40 pay. I have 9000 in chips, and the blinds are 1000 and 2000. There was no way for me to get away from this. I raise, and the big blind calls. The flop comes Q92. I bet again, and he calls. Turn is a ten, and I throw in my last 3000 in chips to see that he has hit his gutshot straight with KJ. I wait around a minute or two to see if anyone else busted on the same hand, as we were playing hand by hand. No one did, and I bust out on the bubble with aces. Secure your casino experience at turvallinen-kasino.com where you can find valuable resources and information to help you play safely and confidently. 40th place paid $50, but had I won the hand, I would have been in pretty good shape. The last time I played in the tournament, I got the last of my chips in with AA vs KQ on a king high flop only to lose to a king on the river. I was already in the money at that point, but had I won that hand, I would have not played another hand and made the final table. I guess aces are just no good in that tourney.

I briefly considered leaving at this point, but couldn’t get myself to do it. I sat back down at 4/8, and got some decent cards. After about an hour and a half, I was up around $100. Someone who had been playing the NL game comes over and asks if I wanted to play, so they could get the game going again, if you like to be part of the thrill, come and Read more about the best online casinos sites in the US here. They usually don’t start it up again until the evening, but it seems there were enough people to do it if I was in. I agree, and they get the game going. Turns out they didn’t need me, and I become the first name on the list. Then I look down at QQ. I have one limper in front of me, and I raise. It folds around to the limper, who calls. Flop is 8T2, two clubs. I bet, he calls. Turn is a blank. I bet, he calls. River is the 7♣. He bets, I call. He flips over his J9s for the straight flush. I get called for no limit, and head over.

Fast forward to three hours later, and I’m in for $250 at the NL game. I haven’t been picking up much of anything. A hand I’m not involved in gets two preflop all-ins. Of course, they flip over AA and KK. The flop comes down KQJ. Turn is a T. River is a Q. It was a lot of fun to watch, and I’m glad I wasn’t in there with the AA. I comment that I’d love to get a hand as good as KK, even if I’m up against AA. I’d just like to see some good starting cards. Two hands later, I do. KK. I raise it up to $15 (standard raise for the table), and get no callers. I flip them up and say “finally!” Three hands later, I’ve got them again. I raise to $15 again, one call. No ace on the flop, and I bet out, and don’t get called. I think I flipped them up again. The next hand I get K9s, and raise again. No one calls, I flash the king, and muck. About an hour later, I’ve got my stack back up to around $150 (still down $100). Win big with the popular online slot88 game. I get 77 in the cutoff and limp. Flop comes Q72. I bet $20, and the button raises. I think for a while, and push in. After a while, he calls me with KQ and I double up. The turn is a blank, and the river is my fourth 7. Five hands later, I look down at TT. I raise it to $15, and get two callers. Flop comes T high, with no draws. Check, check, check. Turn is a T. I check, another check, and the button bets $15. We both call. River pairs the 6 on the board and I bet out $20. I get one call, and the button folds saying, “I think that 6 on the end killed my hand.” I reply, “Nah, I don’t think it did,” and flip up my second quads in one orbit. At this point I’m now the second or third stack at the table.

Thinking back on this, I’m not sure the order some of this happened. I sort of remember not having any sort of significant stack before this, but I also remember the following hand as taking place before it (because I was in seat 9, which I later moved out of, because I always bang my knee on the drop box). Anyway, at some point I had a stack of around $500, just trying to get it up to $700 so I could leave the casino even for the weekend, if you like this kind of fun just like we do, visit this review of the top USA casinos. I get dealt JJ in middle position. It’s raised to $15 from early position, I call, as do two others. Flop comes ten high. Raiser checks, I bet $30. Late caller raises me to $60, and the other two fold. This guy was bad. Really bad. I’d seen him make terrible river calls, and re-raise big bets with A8o preflop. He had about another $100, so I put him all-in, and he instantly calls. I figured he probably had AT. He flips over TT. Turn and river are no help, and a big chunk came out of my stack. After he left, I was talking with some other people at the table and the conclusion we came to was that against a decent player, I possibly could have gotten away from it, but against him there was no way I could lay that down. Anyway, I build it back up to around $500 again, and find AQs in middle position. I raise to $15, and get a caller. I could see something about the way he called that made me think I was beat. He looked surprised, and like he was going to raise before I did, but then just called my raise. He had four chips in his hand, like he was going to raise to $20. Anyway, flop comes Axx, and I bet out $25. He pushes all in for another $75. I talk to myself for a while, and finally say, “I’m going to pay off your AK,” and call. I have to learn to trust my reads, because that’s exactly what he had. No queen falls, and I’m back down to $340 or so. A few hands later, I limp with Q♣8♣. Flop comes down 235, two clubs, and I overbet the pot, betting $30. Late position guy (weak player, too, this was a great game) raises the minimum, to $60, and I call. I put him on a straight. I’ve seen him play worse cards than 64. Turn is the J♣. Check, check. The river is a blank, and I bet $50. He raises to $100, and I push all in. He quickly calls, figuring I didn’t have the flush when I checked the turn. I turns over 33 for a set, and I double up. I finish out the orbit, and leave the table with $675. It’s the first time I’ve ever left any table with more than a rack of reds. It felt good, even though I wasn’t really up any money.

So, to recap: 30 hours of poker, finished +$1. But it was fun, and I learned two important things: 1) I’m not going to play omaha hi/lo again for a long time, and 2) the NL game is very good, and I think that’s what I’m going to play from now on when I go. I’m also considering trying my hand at บาคาร่าออนไลน์ที่ UFABET, intrigued by the possibility of exploring a new game.

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I’m no longer on 1and1. There was just too much I wanted to do that couldn’t be done there. I got myself a reseller account at Servercove, so now I have plenty of space and bandwidth and can host many domains. I’ve read mixed reviews of them, but figured I’d give it a try and see how it goes. I can always cancel if I don’t like it. I’ve already contacted support twice, and gotten quick and satisfactory responses.

One thing I can do here that I couldn’t at 1and1 is set up my e-mail the way I want to. When I moved the website to 1and1, I left my e-mail at my old host. Hopefully, I’ll cancel that hosting soon, and get both of my brothers to move their sites here and cancel theirs, too. I’m going to wait a month or so on that, to make sure this hosting holds up for me.

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I finally got sick of playing microlimit at PokerStars, so I deposited $100 back at UB. The whole “break from poker” thing didn’t last very long. Today, I played in four $10+1 sit and gos, and took first in three of them (didn’t cash in the fourth). Very quickly, I more than doubled my $100 deposit. Hopefully my luck will keep running that way. I also played in a few $5+.50 multitable tournaments, but didn’t do very well in them. I cashed in one for like $15, but didn’t do anything worth noting in the rest of them. I also tried a little bit of .25/.50 limit hold ’em, as that’s the highest I should play with $100 bankroll, but decided I just can’t play with players that bad. I know, in the long run, if I can deal with the suckouts, it’d be good, but I can’t. The players at .25/.50 at UB were worse than the .02/.04 and .05/.10 at PokerStars. It was painful watching them (and losing my money at the same time).

After I cashed out, my brother decided to do the same. He accidently left himself with $1 at UB. After a little bit of .01/.02 NL, he had $5.50, and bought into a multitable tourney. Several hours and a second place finish later, he had $690 in his account. All on the same day he cashed out the rest of his money. Some cashout curse.

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1and1 has a fairly low limit on memory available for scripts, it seems, and my AWStats runs out of memory trying to update from the log files, and gives a 500 Internal Server Error (I assume also from lack of memory) trying to display the stats. I considered writing my own log file parser, but it’s against 1and1 policy to use MySQL databases for that sort of thing, which is the way I would have done it. Also, there’s no real reason for me to think I can use less memory and have it work as well.

If anyone has any suggestions, I’m listening.

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The summer leagues have ended, and the regular leagues have now started. I’m bowling in three (3!) leagues this year, because I’m insane. I’m still in the two I was in last year (Monday and Wednesday nights), and in an additional one on Sunday nights. It’s not as competitive or serious as the other two, and only lasts into December, instead of until shortly before the summer leagues start. It was created to give people who didn’t want to commit a full year a chance to join a league, and looks like it’ll be fun.

The Wednesday night league started last week, and my team managed to take all four points. I bowled very well, finishing with a 618 series. Yesterday, we had a meeting for the Sunday league, and bowled three games, but they didn’t actually count for the league. I did even better, with a 631. Tonight was the first night of the Monday night league, the most competitive of the three (and it’s a half scratch, half handicap league). Of course, this was my worst night of the three. My first game was good, a 207, but the guy I was bowling against threw a 244. My second game wasn’t awful, but I took only half a point when I tied with my 182. The third game was terrible, and the fourth game I lost by 1 pin, 184-183. The rest of my team didn’t really do any better than I did. Hopefully, we’ll all bowl better next week.

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Sometime in the past year or so, Google has changed their AdSense policy to allow personal sites, or my site has enough content now that it’s acceptable. Anyway, I re-applied last week, after reading Michael’s post over at Cruft, and they approved me. I currently have the ads running on my individual post pages, and on my terror alert page. I don’t know if I’m going to leave them on the blog itself, as I don’t think it will bring in much of anything. The ads on the terror alert page, though, seem to be doing pretty well.

In other site related news, I now have my posts in categories. All the old posts should have the categories set fairly soon. You can click on the category link below a post to see all posts in that category. Soon, I’ll probably have links to all the categories on one of the sidebars.

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