Major runs through the tournaments again for Wretchy, Illnugwichee and Agriffrod last night.

Wretchy final tabled the Wretchy Open Rebuy, aka the PokerStars $22+R NL Hold'em, on 03-11-2008. He finished in 6th place (out of 369) scoring $1367.10. To avoid being redundant, I may have to only post about his results in this tourney when he wins it.

Great job Again Sir

ILLNuGWichee took home $2070.00 from PokerStars for winning a $100+9 90 player sng.

Agriffrod won the PokerStars $109 NLHE [$25,000 guaranteed] on 03-11-2008. Griff won $12126.00 for beating out 563 opponents. Very impressive Griff!

It's good to be a friend of SluggerWV apparently. My online friends are making daily runs deep in tourneys which more often than not find them at the final table it seems. I take no credit for that by the way.


Congrats to Mathclub for taking down the $20+2 tourney on PartyPoker last night my time (he's in new zealand so i guess it was today his time). He scored a nice $1200 for the win, made a final table at AbsolutePoker where he finished 4th of 673, and also made the final table at Bodog where he took down 3rd place because AK<AJ and A8<A3 obv. Great job Mathclub; very Well done.


Also major Congrats to Wretchy for his work in the $22rebuy on PokerStars yesterday. Wretchy finished 2nd of 387 and won $5300+./ Another great run for the Wretched one. He's on fire and about to make major waves in the online Poker world. Very good job Wretchy.

Good luck at the tables everyone.

Happy Birthday to a great player and even better dude Jared "TheWacoKidd" Hamby. I hope it is a great day for Waco and I imagine that there will be at least one social event with hot women present today. It certainly was a good evening last night for Waco as he made the final table at the Bodog Poker Open main event and took down 3rd place. While it was not the least bit surprising, it was impressive nonetheless. Well done sir.


Congrats to Sicktight311 for making the final table of the $11 0300 tourney on PokerStars this morning. It was a great effort for Sick to overcome not only the opponents on the felt, but a terrible disconnect problem with Stars. Very good job sir. To read more about his adventures, please visit his blog here: http://sicktight311.blogspot.com/. Also remember to visit his band's site here: www.myspace.com/flbmusic.

Finally, Congrats to Agriffrod for winning the $22rebuy on PokerStars yesterday to the tune of $6425. Awesome job sir. You ca read his blog at www.agriffrod.blogspot.com.

Good luck at the tables everyone. Let's be careful out there.

Congrats to Dan "Wretchy" Martin for making the final table of the $100+9rebuy on FullTiltPoker last night after having taken down second place in the $320 tourney on PokerStars earlier in the day for $15,550.
Starting the final table 8th of 9 players, Wretchy worked his way into the chiplead until his AQ lost to JJ and was eliminated in 5th place when his AT ran into AJ. Great job and a nice little cash of about $5,400.

Wretchy has already had a great 2008. He took down the Sunday $25k guaranteed on PokerStars on March 2, the $30r on FullTiltPoker.com on February 26, and the $20rebuy on FullTiltPoker on February 15.

He's a great player who can truly dominate a tourney, a great guy and a true friend.

I play a lot of the lower buy in bounty tournaments on UltimateBet.com (UB). Last night's tourney was the first in awhile where I was able to play well and have a chance to get deep in the tourney.

I was the early benificary of a great hand which tripled me up when my KK ended up all in pre-flop vs JJ, AQ and AT. When that held, I won a bounty and went from approximately 1400 chips to 4900 chips. A short time later I believe my failure to act aggressively, combined with some bad luck, combined to prevent me from having a monster stack.

In the first of these two hands, I was dealt 99 in middle position and the action was folded around to me. Blinds were 50/100 so I raised to 300. Given that my table image is usually tight, I was surprised when I got 3 callers.
The flop came 2c 5c Kh. I checked. This was a mistake in hindsight. The pot had 1850. The player to my left went all in for 905. It was folded around to me and I called. I thought it was a move by the short stack in response to my check. He turned over 66 and I was happy until a 6 came on the turn.

Had I bet the flop I believe the player would have likely folded as he couldn't have got me to lay down my hand and I would have avoided the bad beat.

The problem rolled over into the next hand as I was dealt TT. Believing that the table would feel that I was on tilt, I decided to limp. I felt that I wouldn't get anyone to fold overcards and might set myself up for a quick exit from a tourney I had been playing well in. Two players called my limp and the button, who had me covered, went all-in. The blinds folded and I was faced with a decision made more difficult because of my failure to raise initially, there were two players to still act behind me. I felt that I couldn't be any better than a coin flip with the one all in and if another called I would likely be dominated. I folded. The next player folded but the last called. The caller had QcJs. The all in had 88. I had folded the best hand. By trying to keep from making a mistake, I had made two. A J came on the flop but so did a T so I missed a chance to triple up.

I did end up finishing 17 0f 337. I always shoot for the final tables at UB because there is decent money in a run that deep, but I was disappointed that I didn't final table during this tourney.

I continue to try to play more aggressively when I don't have a great hand but am hamstrung by my fear of making a stupid play. I will continue to improve my game by plugging this leak. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables.