Well, so much for hoping that there would be another Karate Kid sequel. Mr. Miyagi will be missed.

So after making it to the final table in my first three Titan Poker tournaments, I completely flopped the other night on two in a row. I know exactly why it happened too. There was a point 30 minutes into the tournaments where I made the transition from a decent poker player to a gambooler. Terrible. I started to let the bad play of others affect mine. K8s in early position? Call with bottom pair? Yeah buddy. I also might have had problems because I was playing three tournaments and a cash game at the same time. Maybe.

After busting out of my two Titan tournaments, I started playing the .25/.50 NL 6 handed game and lost some more money. Luckily for me, I was still in a Party Poker tournament because while playing that I decided to go to 5/10 limit where I hit a straight flush against a full house and then trips against 2-pair AK. I made back all my tournament buyins, rebuys, and even the money I lost a NL, and I made $20. Not awesome, but not terrible either. It was a good ending to a bad night.

I still have a lot to work on when it comes to consistency. I just need to stop paying so much attention other people’s play and play my game. And I need to work on it fast, lest I embarass myself at the WPBT.

And in other news, this is why I’m going to open a Poker Stars account. Their commercials drive me fucking crazy, but these guys are going out of their way to support the poker blogger community and that’s something I can get behind.

Kat and I hosted a baby shower. For those of you that know us, you know this is a highly irregular occurence. It’s like hearing that we went to church. We really just provided the location and MerriSu organized everything, including inviting everyone and bringing all the food/drinks. I was anxious about the whole thing since babies themselves creep me out, but it really turned out to be a good time. Lots of drinking, a nice drunk poker game (even though I lost), and best of all: fireballs.

Brian

Matt

Overheard when walking into the men’s room at Henry Hundson’s in Mustang, OK.

Guy #1: “Naaawww, man. That’s statutory rape.”
Guy #2: “Even in Oklahoma?”

The conversation goes on, but it doesn’t get any better than this. I love this place.

It’s voting day (in Texas at least). Don’t forget to vote, they’ll even give you an “I Voted” sticker.

After doing a ton of traveling and other non-poker related business, I finally got around to playing some. Started it off with the April’s Poker Princess Invitational where I started off awesome, but ended up both busting out as the bubble and dealing Kat’s losing hand. You can read all about it from CJ’s report on Up For Poker. The only thing I really remember is that I busted out in 4th place and once again had to live the lonely life as a bubble boy. I was really happy with my play, but when it came down to it, I just didn’t have the cards (or possibly the skill to win. I might have been lacking there too).

Feeling good about my tournament play, I played a couple multi-table tournaments on Full Tilt. The quality of play was definitely better at the Poker Princess Invitational than it is online, so I should do better, right? Wrong. Bubble again. Now it was time for something different. After reading a bazillion Titan Poker posts from Scott, I decided to give them a shot. Tonight’s results were favorable.

Not bad for a $7 investment.

After the first hour of the $1000 turbo, I was pretty sure I’d be playing for a while. So I decided I should play the $20 Freezeout. That worked pretty well too.

It’s been a good night for poker. The really amazing thing about the $3 turbo is that I started the final table with less than two big blinds and at no point in the final table did I get over five times the big blind. I should really be thanking DJJACKS because he did a phenomenal job as the chip lead busting everyone out before me. I was really trying to hold out for jcash to lose, but it was pretty much over for me when he whipped out the hammer on a blind all-in for two pair.

This is definitely more fun than playing Trivial Pursuit.

Oh yeah, and Kat and I are officially booked for Las Vegas in December. We aren’t taking any time off work though, so it’ll be a bit of a short trip for us. We’ll find a way to make it work.

Arrive Las Vegas 9pm on Friday, Dec. 9th
Depart Las Vegas 6:45pm on Sunday, Dec. 11th