Name: MFC: Chips and Salsa Bar
When: Oct 31th, 12 am ET (or Oct 30th 9pm PT)
Game: NLHE
Buy-In: $10+1
Password: gotdonk

Ooooh a Halloween version of MFC… Congrats to LaParka for taking down the last MFC.

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Name: MFC: Price of Fuel Skyrocket’s
When: Oct 24th, 12 am ET (or Oct 23th 9pm PT)
Game: NLHE - Double Stack
Buy-In: $10+1
Password: gotdonk

This week, FT setup up the MFC as a double stack, so you get more bang for your buck (or more chips to donk.. how ever you look at it..) And as a reminder, win the MFC, you name the next tournament. I’m still thinking of a fitting bounty.. Maybe an entry to a freeroll tournament of people who kicked me out? Dunno..

On a side note, we did not have to evacuate last night, and it seems like most of the fuel for other fires are now gone, but all it will take is a shift in the wind, or another arson fire and all bets are off.

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You can totally hear the strong winds that were blowing. It’s very haunting hearing the trees moan when the sky is a dark orange.

So far we do not have to evacuate. The fire above is no longer an issue, but we are probably 50% surrounded by fires or areas that have already burned. If this keeps up, I don’t know if we will be home tonight.

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The first MFC we had enough for a 6 handed SnG. Last week we had a full table. So, come one come all it’s…

Name: MFC: Gordogg’s Fish Buffet
When: Oct 17th, 12 am ET (or Oct 16th 9pm PT)
Game: NLHE
Buy-In: $10+1
Password: gotdonk

The video of last weeks final table (or the whole tournament) was captured successfully. I just need to find a way to speed up the video and then off to YouTube it does..

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Welp.. I should have owned tonight’s MATH, but I didn’t do any thinking on a major hand. Congrats to swimmom95. My only excuse is, they were soooted *. I got lucky a few times, won some races and played better than I have played in a very long time. I applied the GAP concept a few times, folded 99 and AJs to a raise - re-raise, where a week ago I would have called. Funny, after watching Phil Gordon’s Expert Insight - Final Table Poker DVD that I got a few WPBT gatherings ago, I’ve improved my game a bit. (That was not an ad, I actually watched the DVD yesterday on my iPod. Just for good measure, I’m going to do it again today.) I’m still very weak in the middle and end sections of tournaments, but when you are getting crap for hands, it’s hard to push or make a bet. I know I’m the only one that knows my hand is weak, but it’s that mental block that I need to overcome.

Earlier in the game, I was UTG+1 and folded another crap hand and told myself, “Self, next hand it doesn’t matter what you have, you are making a 3xbb bet.” When the hand was finished, I was dealt two cards and bet out 3xbb. It was folded around and I took the blinds. I was extremely proud of myself for sticking with the game plan for that hand. I had another one of the crap hands that I would have folded.

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and the finish…

That’s two final tables since I started up the MFC tournaments. Well.. three if you count the first MFC that was a six-handed event.. lol. Oooh.. speaking of MFC….

Name: MFC: Mookie99’s Fish Hooks
When: Oct 10th, 12 am ET (9pm PT)
Game: NLHE
Buy-In: $10+1
Password: gotdonk

Come one.. come all!

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Over the past weekend ( a few weekends ago.. ) the in-laws came down for a visit. Normally, most people cringe when they hear that the in-laws are coming for a visit, or at least that’s what Hollywood wants you to think. For me, it’s excitement. I love my in-laws and my in-laws like to play poker. Added bonus, my mother in-laws brother, loves to play poker and lives 10 minutes from The Bike. Guess how I spent my Saturday night?

After some lovely food from Chris and Pitts, my first stop at The Bike was the restroom. After that, it was to the welcome center to get me a new fangled players club card. Mine is nice and shiny, while my uncle’s is tattered and torn. My uncle, who is called Uncle_Columbo by the rest of the family because he looks like Uncle_Columbo (Peter Falk kind and not WPBT Columbo), has been playing poker for over 40 years. My mother in-law has never played at a casino before and I wasn’t bankrolled to play too high, so Uncle_Columbo slummed it up a bit and we all signed up for the $1/$2 limit tables. Eventually the list got big enough to open a new table, so all 9 players names were called and we all took our seats, with 4 of the 9 players being family. I took the #4 seat, my mother in-law took seat #5, Uncle_Columbo took seat #6 and R took seat #3. Let the games begin.

The table was quite loose pre flop with 6.5 players seeing each flop. Cold calling a raise and re-raise was the norm. The loose table tightened up a bit after the flop. Then there ware Newman. This guy hit on my wife while she was looking for her Dad and when a new tabled opened up that we all were to be seated at, he slithered his way onto the table, most likely seeing fresh meat since half of the table have never played at the Bike before. Newman was an over-actor. He would always call bets to the river, with the nuts and only raising on the river. He would wait to see what you had and then he would pout, cry say “What do you have as a kicker? Awe man.. I HAVE THIS!” I saw him do this twice before we got into a pot together.. I was holding AJs and with a J high rainbow flop, bet out and he called, same with the turn and river, where he raised. Now, there wasn’t a flush and a possibility of a straight, but I had top pair to I called and flipped over AJ for a pair of Jacks, Ace high. Newman stands up and asks, “What’s your kicker? Ace.. awe man. I have ACES!” As soon as he started his act, I knew I was beat. Newman was also a prick. Not once, but three times he threw his cards at the dealer when a bad card came on the turn or river. Instead of mucking and moving on, he just treats his cards as bullets and tries to shoot the messenger. Prick.

Uncle_Columbo didn’t like slumming at the 1/2 limit tables and moved to the 1/2 No limit tables and did rather well after a roller coaster ride he left up a few buyins. I opted to stay at the limit tables to enjoy a game of cards with my mother in law. She loves the game, but non of her neighbors like to play and doesn’t really want to visit the nearby casino’s, so this was a real treat for her and myself. While neither of us left on a positive note, we had a lot of fun. My mother in law lasted the longest out of all of us playing for 3.5 hours on the same buyin and leaving with 1/3 of her buyin. I left with 1/5 my initial buyin.

One point to note, after I played a hand with a lady who was uber tight where I made a bet on the river with Ace high, she thought for a bit and folded. Two hands later, she leaned over and asked, “What did you have that hand that I folded?” I told her that I had Ace high and she frowned. I assume she had me beat. She told the dealer that she wanted to sit out for a while and watch me. Holy shit. I do not claim to be a good player, but this lady wanted to devote her full attention to watch and study my actions. That shocked me, but I continued to play as normal and an orbit and a half she started to play again, but never took a pot from me. I do not think I played very well, cashing a lot oh hands that never hit by the turn and folded most of my buyin away. I plan on hitting up the Bike again, but I think I’ll donk it up at the no limit tables.

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Last time we had enough for a 6 handed SnG, I’m shooting for a full 9 handed SnG this time. Come one come all it’s…

Name: MFC: Mookie99’s Fish Hooks
When: Oct 10th, 12 am ET (9pm PT)
Game: NLHE
Buy-In: $10+1
Password: gotdonk

What’s MFC? Mother Flippin Cards (re: bdiddie)? Mookie Folds Clubs? Microsoft Foundation Class? Monkey F’n a Coconut? Mind F’n Control? Most Folds Challenge? Heh.. I’ll tell some other time..

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Wow… I’m super glad I played in The Mookie tonight. I believe this was my first cash in The Mookie! [update] searching my own blog, (duh) I finished second almost a year ago. At one point I had the chip lead..

So far this has been a good week of poker for myself. I’ve almost tripled up my last deposit, getting ever so close to Columbo’s donkey challenge from last year, which I never completed.
I hope my ‘rush’ continues!

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 5628890

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First off I would like to thank all of the players who took part in the inaugural MFC tournament: Host of The Mookie: mookie99, Host of Mondays at the Hoy: hoyazo, buddydank, stonesthroen, LaParka! It was a short handed SnG, but I think fun was had by all.

Highlights of the tournament include:

hoyazo bluffed stonesthroen with the hammer, TWICE

mookie bluffed LaParka off a hand with the hammer

LaParka took out BuddyDank when BuddyDank’s pocket 4’s failed to improve against LaParka’s pocket Q’s, to which BuddyDank proclaimed:
BuddyDank (Observer): but I WAS THE GILGI AT THE VERY FIRST MFG BABY!!!!

Gotta love that comment!

I made a donk call to laparka who turned a straight.

I got sent to the rail with ATh against LaParka’s TT and Stonesthroen’s 44. Oops. Most of the table felt that Laparka was holding the Hammer, great move to laparka.. representing the hammer by playing an inferior hand like TT..

Stones got sent to the rail against mookie99’s AK turned an ace and rivered an insulting K against stones QQ.

LaPArka busted hoyazo with his AQo vs JTd.

Mookie and Laparka get back to back to back hammers with each player with the hammer winning the pot! This tournament shold have been called Hammerpallooza!

The final hand Laparka holds AA vs Mookie99’s JJ, mookie flops an open ended straight draw, Laparka turns a set and Mookie rivers an Ace high straight to make history as the MFC: The Beginning Champion!

The tournament lobby:

Next weeks MCF will be in honor of Mookie, MFC: Mookie99’s Fish Hooks.

Note: the final table video was b0rk3d after 10 minutes it showed the same table image for the rest of the game. Maybe next week it will work properly.

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