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      <title>Back in Los Angeles, time for a little Commerce action</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So I came down to LA this past weekend to see a few friends.  At first I didn't think we would be able to fit in any poker because we were pretty busy, but we I decided to push back my return to Sunday night, so we headed over to the Commerce around 11am on Sunday.  Boy was it busy.  We waited about 45 minutes for a 5/10 table.  The game plays a little lower than most 5/10 games I've played in before given that it has a 400 maximum buy-in.  This limits the game to 40 BB which is pretty low IMHO.  There are plenty of rooms that have NO cap at the 2/5 level which play much higher than this game.

So on the first orbit I'm dealt AA from early position and make it 35 to go.  I get 4 callers!  No respect, oh well.  The flop comes t[h] j[h] k[c].  Not exactly a great flop for me with 5 people in the pot.  I raise to 120 and a guy with 600 behind pushes.  Another player calls and I have to give up my hand.  Guess what the other players had.  One guy had 56[h] and the other guy had AK[h]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 07 10:51:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Losing Session, but came away impressed with room</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A buddy and I headed over to the Crystal Park casino.  We were supposed to play in a home game, but only 3 of us showed, so we decided to move the game over to a real room.  I never played there before but my two friends like it so I went along for the ride.

We played in the $200 game with 1/2 blinds.  Things started off great for me when I flopped trip 7's and a guy flopped a flush.  Doesn't sound like I had the winning hand, does it?  Well the board paired on the river and I stacked the guy.  We didn't get all of our money in until I had the best of it on the river, so I didn't feel overly lucky.  I would not allowed myself to get stacked with the flush on board unless I hit my boat.

So now I'm up to $400 after only 10 minutes and feeling pretty frisky.  My two friends are pretty good players, but the other people all seemed fairly green.  I opened things up a bit and called a raise from the button with T7 of hearts.  The flop came with two hearts and the original raiser bet. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 07 14:47:50 -0400</pubDate>
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