& a few more... 3rd - FTR Bwin, 1st CC Intertops, 4th- CC Carbon

And a few more cashes... 1st - Cardschat Intertops buyin for $58.50 4th - Cardschat Carbon buyin for $19.50 3rd - FTR Bwin buyin for $39.36 BubbleBoy in BlueLizard Intertops > QQ < A3s 2 off Bubble in PokerSpace on Colt AQ < 88 One funny hand, 'BB Special'.. EP SS limped in with 6bb's, folded to me in BB holding 93s. Flop Q-9-3 I check with intentions of CRAI (villain has often limped then overshoved flops instead of shoving allin preflop). Dream hand.. he overshoves flop with AIR.. I snapcall w bottom 2pr., lol Rest was pretty standard stuff... played pretty patiently today & had it payoff.

1st GFN Omaha H/L Cake

1st of 14entrants GFN PL Omaha H/L on Cake. $26.50 Hmm... maybe this decision to play more of these cheapo priv. tourneys on Cake is a good one?

2nd HPC Cake, 6th CC BCP freeroll

I usually skip these private tourneys on CakePoker but after cashing in yesterday's & looking over past results in them I figured I had to play it. Tonight's was HoldemPokerChat $3 buyin $25-added. 19entrants took 2nd for $24.60 HeadsUp vs. a HUGE donk, got them allin pre AQ < KJo flopped the Ace.. they hit their J.. then turned another 'J' for the win.. sigh. ez game though. Cardschat BlackChipPoker $100freeroll 6th of 49 for $6.00 Had close to zero on BlackChip the other day & now have ~$60. Enough to keep in private buyins for awhile. One fun hand in the Freeroll vs. a player who I have pegged with a gazillion notes, waiting to make use of them. They raise UTG & it's folded to BTN who calls & I call in SB with a speculative JTs.. BB BTN 'calling' prompted my call there. Flop A-9-6 c/c/c Turn '7'.. I turn a gutterball & check.. they 'minbet' BTN calls, I call (If BTN fold I prob fold too... but it was too tempting with extra chips in the pot & felt that if I hit miracle card I would get paid off AND that if I shoved river it'd look like B.S. River.. '8' my miracle card, lol. I overpot Shove... UTG snapcalls & shows 77 for a turned set (where they chose to minbet 1/6th pot, lol). That one felt good.

3rd HPC on Cake & funny HH (+ev priv games!)

Went out in 7th in CC Bodog game. LOTS of shortstacks nearing bubble, I open-shove 11bb eMP & run into AA. Made a couple of really big laydowns earlier on but was pretty certain they were good. Here's a funny, yet typical hand illustrating why some of these micro buyin private tourneys are soooo +ev. The priv. games on Cake are just FILLED with weak/bad players (guessing a bunch are from Railbirds). I withdrew most of my $'s off of Cake just last week & have only made min. deposits on 4 Cake sites, having now probably withdrawn ~$750 & rarely play on the sites (left only ~$5-$20 on each site, just enough to play a few of the priv. tourneys. Regular tourneys are super soft on there too & am thinking I should leave ~$100 on Intertops & start playing some of them again (will definitely do this with a better computer as right now the Cake network seems to take a fair bit of power to run). Here's the HH.... villain raise POT w AJo in Utg... I just 'call' w AK n eMP, CO (a HUGE station) calls. Flop K-J-4cc Utg bets 1/2 pot,... I call & CS folds. Turn 'A' Utg shoves over 3x pot?!?!?! What? ez call w AK.. he shows AJ (wonder what he figured would call there that he could beat?) More likely he's afraid of me drawing to flush so he shoves? Way too funny! Got AK in vs AJ a couple times in this same tourney, losing a HUGE pot in one... from a TERRIBLE call by villain (would've brought me to 11k in chips with next biggest sitting at <3k with 12 left). Not worth showing but just another example of why these games are soooooooooo +ev (just need to have stuff hold occassionally, lol).

41st in Bodog$100K for $500; 3rd in RTR Stud on WPT, 3rd CC BCP

A few cashes today helped. (nothing on Stars though... go figure?? lol) Played off one of my 3 100K bodog tickets today (it was expiring today). Took 41st of 563 entrants for $500 Not too shabby for a $5 investment! Finally pulled off a cash in the RTR series on WPT. Today's was 3rd of 77 in Stud, $2 buyin with $500added. Won $81.25 & picked up some decent pts. for the monthly leaderboard :) A 3rd in Cardschat BlackChipPoker buyin (only 16entrants) for $22.50 And last but not least, after bubbling (11th) the pokerORG $150freeroll SpringWeekendSeries on Carbon yesterday, today I managed to get 8th of 77 for $6 (hopefully helped to get my team some pts. for a change too!). Hers's some screenies as per usual. Going to start posting some decent HH's instead of just results as I'm thinkin' it'd be a bit more interesting to read. Today's cashes help to get the yearly goal more on track... now only ~$500 behind target at this point but with LOTS of time to go to hit the magic $10K for 2012. OH6CIoaFz60/T96adInkxII/AAAAAAAAAkM/dUbM33ZbbbM/s1600/Jun.17%2BCC%2BBCP%2B3rd%2Bof%2B16%2B%2528%252422.50%2529.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em">

Behind schedule, not playing enough...

Between not playing enough volume of priv. donkaments, not running that well & no significant cashes in the past couple mos., I'm a big behind the projected goal for 2012. Currently sitting at Total Cashes: $3,484.46 (117 cashes) Here's some pics. of the results.

June 2 O.F.C. 2,000euro freeroll CircleLine

Pretty much a day off work & a day off from poker too (resting up for Sunday as I'm planning on playing a few bigger buyin tourneys, ie. Bodog100K, TheBigger55 on Stars, $109 - $100K guar. on Colt & the $109 SundayBlast $200K guar. on Titan). Stuck to a few private freerolls today. Couple of min. cashes in two on Bwin. Donked out in CC Intertops (KQo 3bai called by 86o & lost, lol) & then deep in OFC Freeroll on CircleLine. 5hrs. into it I had to go to the drugstore & 7/11. Went from sitting in good shape just ITM with 40bb's to sitting with only 10bb's. Stuck around & made final table, ended up going out in 6th for 36.10 euros ($46.73). ~$40 on the day. If I could avg. $50/day playin' part-time recreationally it'd be a nice little supplemental income to help cover living expenses (or.. maybe to even try saving it up again). Had a rough week this past week, discovering my Moneybookers account & email account had been hacked & a big chunk of change taken from Moneybookers. So much for 4yrs. of hard work, saving & scrimping with good BRM (nevermind covering the $5k+ in transfers I've made... not to mention the $1,100 I got dinged for on Carbon back in 2010). Hoping to get a good run tomorrow. Sure could turn things around for the better. Hmm... now what would I do if I were to win say 5-figures tomorrow? A new computer, monitor & headphones would be on the list.... as would some vehicle repairs & some kind of vacation (rent a cabin & boat on the lake?.... rent Donny's boat while renting a cabin?). Damn! Now I need a 6-figure win cuz I've already got $10k spent in less than 1min., lol.