MOTOWN POKER

Blogger Championship!

2006-06-01T09:41:00.000-04:00

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: 6461828

WSOP SEAT!!

2006-05-10T09:42:00.000-04:00

Won my W.S.O.P Main Event seat on Party Poker last night.

Played a step 6, Single table Tournament.

Got Short Stacked early when Ak failed to defeat AQ, however I dominated the rest of the way and I am on my way to the circus.

See you at the Lottery!

March Update.

2006-03-01T09:38:00.000-05:00

No more tourneys for me... been mostly playing cash on Party Poker.

5/10 and 10/20 6 Max. Running hotter than I have ever ran before, and learning that cash games is where it is at. No more coinflips, and allin bad beats.

I am loving it.

February Touch in

2006-02-01T09:29:00.000-05:00

Hey just a quick post.

The Carribean Adventure turned out to be a huge let down. Don't get me wrong.. The Atlantis was beautiful, however the rooms they put us in were in an old section of the resort and just plain sucked. Otherwise, PokerStars put on a first class event.

My tournament went downhill fast. On the fifth hand of the tounament, YES the fifth hand 25/50 Blinds. I raised UTG+1 to 200 with black Aces, Marco Traniello (Jen Harmons Husband) seated to my immediate left re-raised me to 700 straight... rather than just call, I wanted to elinate any bad beats so I re-re-raised to 2000 straight. He just called. When he did that I put him on KK. There is no other hand he could have.

Flop comes Q 66. rainbow.

and I bet 4000 into the 4000 chip pot, he tanks then finally annouces he is all in.

I just committed 2/3 s of my stack so folding was out of the question.

I call he shows 2 red kings. I am in a great spot to double up early... however a black king on the turn sealed my fate.

Oh well, I got to enjoy the rest of the trip in paradise with my family.

Check back later.

Peace.

Pokerstars Carribean Adventure!

2006-01-03T12:50:00.000-05:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Have not been posting here for a while.. Foxwoods went well for Marco, he finished 35th out of 900 entrants, and took home $15,400 in cash.. we exchanged 20% swaps of each other so after taxes 30% I got a whopping $2000 back. He actually had a chance to win the tournament as he was third in chips with only 45 to go. He made 1 mistake, that may or may not of cost him the tournament.. he called an all in raise of a re-raise, with AK off suit with zero of his own chips in the pot at the time.

I have some other good news, I finally broke through and won a $175 double shoot out and won my seat to the PCA.

I am packing my bags as we speak because we're leaving tomorrow!

First prize is likely going to be in the Million Dollar Range, so again I have zero expectations of taking the Million home, Im going to go there play my best game, have some fun and "HOPE" I get lucky.

Its at the beautiful Altlantis Resort at Paradise Island in the Bahamas, not a bad spot to be if you bust out early and my father and mother in-law have decided to join Darcie, and my 9 month old son for the trip so it promises to be alot of fun no matter what.

If I am still in after the first day (Flight B-- Firday) .. I'll post some entries on this blog.

Wish me Luck!

Day #1 Foxwoods

2005-11-14T10:59:00.000-05:00

Well its 11:00 right now, and Im getting ready to go down and play my first day in Foxwoods World Poker Finals.

They split the first day into two flights, Flight A started yesterday (Sunday) and Flight B starts today. I am in Flight B.

The chip leader is Lyle Berman owner of the World Poker Tour (sounds like a conflict of interest doesn't it) with about $150,000 tournament chips.

We start with $10,000 chips and $25, $50 Blinds.

Ill be posting updates on Marco and My Chip Counts on each Break.

You can also check the Cardplayer.com site here :

Going to Foxwoods..

2005-11-11T19:42:00.000-05:00

I am leaving tomorrow to head to Foxwoods to participate in the World Poker Finals.

I will be posting on my Blog regularly to keep every updated on what's going on.

Wish Me Luck!

Peter

Near Misses for seat 2 Foxwoods..

2005-10-18T05:56:00.000-04:00

At the start of the weekend, I have been playing sit and go's on Stars, mainly in the 6 mans. However my luck has changed. I have been running very bad. I won't go into great detail, but I have been losing when I'm ahead, like with AA vs KK and TT vs 99 (he made quads), I have been losing 75% of the hands I am supposed to be 50-50 on. When that happens, there is just nothing you can do. The best strategy is just to take a break.

Since Marco and I have the one Foxwoods seat locked up, we decided to make a go of it in the big Sunday Tourney on Paradise to try and win the second one. There was 45 entrys and the Tournament pay out was 1st to 4th got $11,500 packages. 5th Place paid $2500, 6th Place paid $2000, and 7th place paid $1500.

I didn't get many premium starting hands, however I was able to play my table image and didn't have to show down very many hands take a short stack to the final table. I had about 4500 chips, however just winning the blinds at this point in the tourney we're worth about 2000 chips. I picked up JJ on my third hand and pushed all in, and everyone folded and now had about 6500 chips. Two players had dropped out when Sheetsworld (Eric Haber) made an all in move from the button to try and steal the blinds when he had about 9000 chips. He was instacalled by the small blind who also had around 9000 chips... the Small Blind turned up AQ, and Sheets turned up 75o. The Ace on the turn sealed Sheet's fate. I don't think Sheet's play was bad there, if he wins just the blinds in the antes, he probably has a seat locked up. Also he was pushing into 2 players with about average stacks, meaning they didn't have to take any unnecessary chances at this stage of the tournament. The small blind made the call without thinking, it just sucks when you make a move like that and the people that your playing against don't even think about their decisions. So now were down to 7. I didn't play a hand in the next orbit, so I was down to about 5100 in chips when it was folded around to me in the small blind, I held K3o.. this was no great hand but since I was low in chips I jammed and was insta called by the same player who called Sheets, with Q10d. Again he didn't need to take any risk's but he chose to again. We'll a Q hit the turn and I was out in 7th, the $2000 prize eased my pain but that's Poker.. I got a situation when I needed a make a move, put my chips in with the best hand, but lost.

I also played in the $200 Foxwoods Satellite Tournament on Paradise Monday Night. I was chip leader or close to the chip lead the entire tournament. With about 15 players to go (top 2 won seats) I had about T$35000, the next player had about T$25,000 so I was in really good shape. But in No Limit Texas Holdem anything can happen, and it did.

With 15 players to go it was 6 handed blinds at 400-800 +100 ante, when it was folded around to me on the Button and I look down at AQ. I make it 3500 to go. The small blind smooth calls the raise. He had about $18,000 in chips. The range of hands I put him on here is a medium pocket pair 88 through TT, KQ, A9, AT, AJ.

The Flop Came Qs Js 3d.

Which I felt was good for my hand, I felt I was best here but the texture could give my opponent a draw. The small blind checked the flop and the pot at this point contained about $10,000 in chips. I really didnt want to fool around with this kind of flop so I pushed all in. My opponent instacalled me with KK. (WOW). He probably put me on a steal when I made my button raise and decided to slow roll with the kings. Too bad I wasn't stealing, and actually hit my hand giving me Top Pair Top Kicker. OUCH.

I was now down to T$8,000 and two hands later pushed with 77 from the cutoff. The same guy calls me with KK again on the button and I go from the chip leader to out in 2 hands.

I don't regret any of my decisions, I just got very unlucky.

Im going to take a little break from poker for the rest of the week, and hopefully this will pass.

Win Your WPT Seat Online

2005-10-16T08:03:00.001-04:00

Here is a helpful resource if you are trying to win a seat to a World Poker Tour Event or a World Series of Poker Event.

Here is a list of Online Card Rooms that are offering Satellites:

Party Poker is currently offering satellites. Qualify now to be onboard the world-famous PartyPoker.com Million cruise, part of the World Poker Tour. The MS Westerdam sets sail from Fort Lauderdale on March 12, 2006, docking in Mexico and the Cayman Islands before returning on March 19, 2006.
As always, PartyPoker.com™ Million V is going to be a LIMIT Hold'em tournament.
Don't miss out on the hottest poker action under the Caribbean sun

You can win your entry into their $150, and $675 satellites (Sunday's) for as little as $5.

UltimateBet is currently offering satellites to the FOXWOODS World Poker Finals. in Monday September 19th kicked off the start of our Foxwoods' World Poker Finals super satellites!
Join in at the tables every Monday at 9:30pm ET in our $100+9 Foxwoods' World Poker Finals supers and play to win a Foxwoods' World Poker Finals prize package.
Each Monday at LEAST one Foxwoods' prize package is guaranteed to pay out. For every additional 112 entries, an additional package pays out. Each package includes a $10,200 paid buy-in to the World Poker Finals and $1000 credit for travel expenses. The main event will be held at Foxwoods' Casino Nov 13-18th, 2005. UltimateBet Tournament Schedule

Full Tilt Poker - For your chance to win a $12,000 WPT prize package, including a $10,000 + $200 tournament buy-in, dinner with Full Tilt's pros, and $1,800 in spending money, just play in one of theirFoxwoods World Poker Finals qualifier tournaments.
Held Saturday's at 3PM ET between September 17th and November 5th, registration for these tournaments is just $200 + $16. In addition, you can satellite your way into these weekly events for as little as $4 + $.40.
Register now and join the World Poker Tour on November 13th

BoDog -Are you the next TV superstar? Earning your way onto the World Poker Tour & World Series of Poker is easy at Bodog.com and can cost as little as a buck. Make your way through the qualifiers or buy directly into the Semifinal for your shot at a World Poker Tour prize package.
Each prize package consists of the buy-in and a travel allowance.
The buy-in for each tournament can be made with Tournament Credits or Real Money.Bodog Poker WPT Season 4 2005, and WSOP 2005 Season. Bodog is really big into the Satellites however they dont start the actual satellite tournaments to win your seat until 2 weeks before each event. You can win your way into these satellites at any time for very little money on Bodog.

PokerRoom- Bellagio Five-Diamond World Poker Classic II- Qualify for the World Poker Tour event held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas December 12 to 16! A seat in the tournament and a spot in Team PokerRoom.com (valued at a total of $18,500) could be yours for as little as $6.

PokerStars -Currently running Satellites to Foxwoods World Poker Finals, these satellites are held only on Sundays, $150 double shootouts, and $33 Rebuy Tournaments.

PokerStars is also running satellites to their PokerStars Carribean Adventure at Atlantis in the Bahamas. You can win a prize package worth $11,500, which inlcudes your buy in, hotel & meals, and $1,000 cash for travel expenses. They have $150 double shootouts and rebuy tournaments daily which offer guaranteed seats.

Paradise Poker - Currently running Satellites to Foxwoods World Poker Finals, they have $200 Buy In guaranteed seat tournaments on Monday & Thursday, and $1,000 buy in guaranteed seat tournaments on Sunday's.

Also running Satellites to the WPT Championship Prize Package includes:
$25,000 (plus $500 entry fee) World Poker Tour Championship seat in the Bellagio main event, Las Vegas, April 18th–24th 2006
$1500 cash to your Paradise Poker account to cover airfare, hotel and travel expenses
On the last Saturday of every month you can join 'WPT Champ' online in Paradise. Tournaments kick off at 5 PM EST (New York), 2 pm PST (Los Angeles), 10 pm BST (London), 9 pm GMT. We Guarantee at least one prize package will be awarded per tournament.
You can jump directly into the WPT Champ main event for $500 or you can win your way there via a satellite. Multi table tournaments will start as low as $7 and offer R&A and straight buy–in options.

Ablsolute Poker -WSOP Satellite Main Event This $100 +8 tournament runs every Sunday at 20:30 ET. For every 110 entrants in this tournament, one $11K WSOP 2006 entry package will be awarded. Entrants can win their way into this event, or may buy in directly.

WPT Foxwoods Friday SatelliteThis $100 +8 tournament runs every Friday at 20:30 ET. For every 110 entrants in this tournament, one $11K WPT Foxwoods Main Event entry package will be awarded. Entrants can win their way into this event, or may buy in directly. The WPT Foxwoods Main Event takes places November 13-16th (final table November 18th) at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
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Going to Foxwoods!

2005-10-14T06:56:00.000-04:00

Well one way or another I am Foxwoods Bound...

I played only 2 Satellites last night. One was the $200.00 Thursday Night Foxwoods Satellite, on Paradise. A friend of mine Marco, who is a very good player was also playing, and since we we're planning on going down to Foxwoods together, he asked me if I wanted to chop with him in the Satellite. I agreed, which meant that if either of us won our spot, we would share the prize package 50-50 with the other. I busted out early of the tourney.. but Marco had some better luck. He ammassed a big stack early.. stayed agressive, and took it down.

Top 3 spots won a $11,500 Pacakage including the $10,200 buy in to the Championship Event. 4th place would win $2500, 5th $2000, and 6th about $1,000.

I was watching him play the final table his screen name is RIVERYOURASS.. I almost died laughing when I heard it too.. he does have a knack for making interesting screen names. On Pokerstars his name is JustShipIt, and on Party Poker its KeepPayingMe.

When it got down to four handed, which was the bubble for the big prize package. A player called an all in raise with 23o. We couldnt believe what we were seeing.. I have never seen anyone play like that. Surely Paradise players couldn't be that be. As it turned out, the player was from the UK and ways saying that his Passport was expired.. and just wanted the 4th place cash. That was a good feeling as Marco was 3 in chips at that point and anything thing could happen. The UK player dumped off the rest of his stack and the prize package was ours.

So now either we have to put $5,100 each for another seat, or win another Satellite.
So were going for sure, which is great because the Foxwoods Event is one of the best events on the WPT.

I also played in a Stars double shootout for the PCA WPT seat... and won my first table... however I made a mistake at the final table mis playing JJ, and I was done. Here's the hand if your interested in what not to do with JJ. Looking back I should of raised to T$150 rather than T$200, and let them go when the player made the little raise.. I didnt know the opponent, and best case scenario was that he had AK, as any other hand that justifys him playing it like that has me in big trouble.. QQ, KK, AA. etc. Turns out he had the Aces and I became short stacked. I made some moves and got it back to T$1100.. but I came over the top of a raise with AKs, and got called by a TT.. when I didnt improve my Carribean Dreams came to an end.

But Im going to FOXWOODS, see you there!!

Here is what NOT to do with JACKS!! Such dumb mistake...

PokerStars Game #2799022700: Tournament #13528499, Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level III (25/50) - 2005/10/14 - 00:00:58 (ET)
Table '13528499 9' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: MisterMOTOWN (1745 in chips)
Seat 2: solid808 (1550 in chips)
Seat 3: Malti_Mignun (1830 in chips)
Seat 4: ScootDoggy (1050 in chips)
Seat 5: stevejpa (1255 in chips)
Seat 6: Hurricane42 (995 in chips)
Seat 7: fatalbert187 (1295 in chips)
Seat 8: x_Pack_x (2495 in chips)
Seat 9: Grasshopper1 (1285 in chips)
Hurricane42: posts small blind 25
fatalbert187: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MisterMOTOWN [Jc Jd]
x_Pack_x: folds
Grasshopper1: folds
MisterMOTOWN: raises 150 to 200
solid808: folds
Malti_Mignun: folds
ScootDoggy: raises 300 to 500
stevejpa: folds
Hurricane42: folds
fatalbert187: folds
MisterMOTOWN: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [8d 9s 8s]
MisterMOTOWN: checks
ScootDoggy: bets 550 and is all-in
MisterMOTOWN: calls 550
*** TURN *** [8d 9s 8s] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9s 8s Qd] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MisterMOTOWN: shows [Jc Jd] (two pair, Jacks and Eights)
ScootDoggy: shows [As Ah] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
ScootDoggy collected 2175 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2175 | Rake 0
Board [8d 9s 8s Qd 4h]
Seat 1: MisterMOTOWN showed [Jc Jd] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Eights
Seat 2: solid808 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Malti_Mignun folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ScootDoggy showed [As Ah] and won (2175) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 5: stevejpa (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Hurricane42 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: fatalbert187 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: x_Pack_x folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Grasshopper1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

PokerStars Professional and Well Known Poker Players List

2005-10-13T19:07:00.000-04:00

Here's a list of Professional Poker Players and other well known POKERSTARS Players Screen Names.. so If you want to know if your playing a pro, bookmark this page and consult my list.

-A-
Alshamn, Albert - steyr_aug
Andersson, Davin - dabest247
Ankenman, Jerrod - jerrod
Arias, Jorge - twin-caracas
Arieh, Josh - razorbax
Ashby, Richard - CHUFTY

-B-
Bartley, Aaron - GambleAB
Benyamine, David - magicpitch
Berg, Anders - Donald
Berman, Lyle - buckskin (on UB)
Berkowtiz, Jordan - Panella86
Billirikas, Steve - MrSmokey1
Blanda, Art - nibluck
Bobba, Dan - BobbaD, NeverheebX
Boeken, Noah - Exclusive / Who is next?
Bonomo, Justin - ZeeJustin
Boyd, Dutch - KidDutch
Boxall, Leo - The Wombat
Bush, Chris - Bushman

-C-
Cassidy, Joe - Butch Acidy
Campbell, Ray - KidBlaast
Carroll, Cory - HALIPIMP
Chen, William - wchen
Cloutier, T.J. - J9 of clubs
Cooper, Alexander - Axabaxa
Cordi, Joseph - DeOhGee
Corkins, Hoyt - EasyH
Cowely, Steve - Rabscuttle
Cunningham, Alan - wallfly
Curzio, Patrick - curzdog

-D-
D’Agostino, John - jdags21
Darden, Paul - D-Rockkk
Day, Steve - ackbleh
Debora, Greg - ChosenKid
Dean, Matt - mattpackage
Dicken, Darrell "Gigabet" - darrell77
Duthie, John - Blessed

-F-
Fithian, Eric - HoldEmPhil
Field, Josh - JJProdigy
Flack, Layne - reloadthis
Fradet, Nicholas - Darth Maul
Friedman, Prahlad - Prefontaine (Mahatma, Spirit Rock on UB)
Fischman, Scott - emptyseat88
Forrest, Ted - theprofess (shared)

-G-
G, Tony - wraptduck
Gale, John - gizzimow
Garza, Jeff - Action Jeff
Gazes, Bill - PICKLED EGG
Gerasimov, Kirill - kirillG
Giordano, Pete - TheBeat
Girdwood, Iain - TiLLerMan
Grosspellier, Bertrand - ElkY
Greenstein, Barry - (* see Tran, Mimi)
Griffin, Gavin - wsop2005
Grijalva, Richard - gotmilk

-H-
Halling, Oren - H@££ingol
Haber, Eric - sheets
Hang, Tam "Tommy" - minatmms
Hansen, Gus - broksi
Harper, John - ICfishies
Hawking, Patrick - TheHawk
Hawkins, Keith - The Camel
Hellmuth, Phil - #1_Lucky_One
Heimiller, Dan - lenny
Henry, Jeff - The Shrike
Hollink, Rob - batoelrob

-I-
Ivey, Phil - joe buttons / eurogon

-J-
Jacob, Alex - yahtzem
Jacobs, Steven - stevesbets
Jackson, Patrick - PMJackson21
Jensen, William - Brett Favre
Jett, Chip - capncoke
Josephy, Cliff - JohnnyBax
Jones, Gary - p10ker
Juanda, John - luckbox
Jungblut, Brett - gank

-K-
Katz, Aaron - Tidle Wave
Keating, Robert - Thorpedo
Keller, Shawn - chickenlittl
Keller, Thomas - bigglesworth on PS, thunderkeller and newpollution on UB
Keikoon, Matt - schnizeltoe
Kruel, Christian - C.K.
Kwon, James - neverlose

-L-
Lane, Jon - G6Dragon
Lent, Gary - Tryangle
Longoria, Dennis - Acey-Deucy
Lieu, Liz - TWINKIE
Lindgren, Eric - EDOGN
Lindholt, Jarl - Virus1975
Lund, Hans - luckysucker

-M-
Ma, Tony - Tigerma
Matros, Matt - jacksup
Matusow, Mike - mrpokejoke
Martin, Jesse - MazeOrBowie
McEvoy, Tom - TomMcEvoy
Meehan, Jim - actiondonkey
Mercier, Isabelle - NoMercy
Minter, Jake - sorerichard
Misiti, Jim - Spyder44
Mizrachi, Michael - TheGrinder
Mizrachi, Robert - who's bad
Moneymaker, Chris - Money800
Moncada, Edward - ebolivia
Mortensen, Carlos - Jacques_xxx ???

-N-
Negreanu, Daniel - doublesuited and cheapthief (on party)
Ng, Evelyn - Evybabee

-O-
O'Malley, Mike - rzitup

-P-
Park, Theodore - Veganboy
Parker, Brock - t soprano
Paterson, Stuart - thedonator
Patry, Guillaume - TheGrrrr...
Phillips, Paul - extempore
Pino, Mike - ninewins
Prock, Andrew - Quackers

-R-
Rao, Gautam - TheCount1729
Raymer, Greg - Fossilman
Rheem, David - Chino23
Reed, Michael - reggiman
Rice, Shawn - WestTexasMan
Rosario, Shirley - Siren

-S-
Sagstrom, Erik - Erik123
Saunders, Cory - texdaddy
Sebok, Joe - fidallio
Seif, Mark - Buster Love
Schlien, Josh - SDouble
Schleger, Shane - Shaniac
Shiu, Millie - Poker Snoopy
Shulman, Nick - TheTakeover
Skjervold, Edgar - Ragde
Smith, Gavin - birdguts
Smith, Matthew - SamENole
Strasser, Jason - strassa2
Spake, Tim - Slambam2

-T-
Thorn, Raymi - DingDingDing
Thorson, William - William
Tran, Mimi - crazyplayr (Greenstein's account)
Trumper, Simon "Aces" - PateK

-W-
Williams, David - RugDoctor
Witteles, Todd - Dan Druff
Wolfe, Paul - DOUBLEDUCE (apparently banned)
Woolf, Dustin - neverwin

-Y-
Yamron, Bruce - bulletproof

PokerStars Blogger Championship

2005-10-13T12:10:00.000-04:00

I Have Registered to play in the Blogger Championship !

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

This event is powered by PokerStars.

Registration code: 1417552

Double Shootout's are Killing Me!!!

2005-10-13T10:44:00.000-04:00

First off... I want to explain to you what a double shootout is, and how it works. Basically it is a 2, Single Table Tournaments. A number of people sign up, get drawn to a table of 9 or 10 players and the winner of each of the first single table tournaments play another single table tournament for the prizes.

In the PokerStars WPT Double Shootouts, you dont get anything for coming in second in your first table.. and only if you win your table will you advance to the final table of 9 players. The PokerStars tournaments have 81 players (9 at each table) who paid $175.00 for a chance to win a prize package worth $12,000.00 which includes your buy in to the PokerStars WPT event in the Bahamas, your accomdations including meals at the luxiourous Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island and $1,000 for your travel. If you get second place or third place you win $650... So you NEED to win the whole thing to make it worth your while.

I like the shootouts becuase I feel I have the biggest edge in the single table tournaments, as my specialty is single table tournaments. However.. I have been having some horrible luck. I have played in about 8 so far, and have made the final table only once. However I have been heads up for a spot at the final table 3 other times, and have lost coin flips or hands that I had been ahead when all the money went in only to have the other guy suck out on my to win the hand

Its just tough when you feel your outplaying your opponents, and you have nothing to show for it.

PokerStars have just begun offering $110.00 6 Man Sit and Go Turbos. I played in 5 of them yesterday and won 4. They only pay out for first and second place.. but becuase they are 6 mans I think that if you get 2 or 3 bad players your edge is huge because that amounts to 33% to 50% of the field. Not bad a $900 profit.

If you like Sit and Gos, Pokerstars is the place you want to play them.. their rake is low and the structure is great and the play is bad enough that you can make a living just playing them... definetly check out these new $110 6 man turbos..

Spinning my Frustrations Away!

2005-10-11T18:28:00.000-04:00

Well I played in 2 more satellites yesterday.. A $200 on Paradise Poker for Foxwoods and a doubleshoootout on Pokerstars for the PCA..

The Paradise satellite had around 120 players, and I was still in it with 27 left a shorter than average stack, and the blinds had just been raised to $300-$600, I had about T$4800. I got dealt AQ on the button, the UTG player had called and I decided to push all in, he went into the tank for about 30 seconds and finally called with A4s.. I was a 65-35 favorite unitil the 4 hit the flop and my tourney was over. Good call buddy!

I play most of my MTTs on Stars.. and now I have been playing Paradise for these Foxwoods qualifiers, I have to say that Paradise Players are certainly significantly weaker. So if your plan is to play tournamnents, try out Paradise Poker. Use this link and bonus code FIRST25 for a 25% bonus up to $5o.00 on your first deposit.

I busted out of the double-shootout, early I had a big stack until I got it all in with AKs and got called by AA.. oh well..

A friend of mine has turned me onto Spinning, which is basically like a aerobics class except everyone is on a spin bike (a modified excersice cycle)... the class I was in lasted an hour and man did our teacher bust our asses for the hour. When I left the class I was drenched in sweat, it was certainly the toughest workout I have had in a while. Im going to try to make it a habit at least twice a week.

If you get the chance, give it a try... if your going to be working out, you may as well go all the way!!

Well I'm firing it up for another PokerStars PCA double shootout tonight.. hopefully I'll have some exciting news tomorrow.

Tuff Beat in the Stars $109 Rebuy

2005-10-10T18:13:00.000-04:00

Since it's Thanksgiving day today here in Canada, and the office is closed... I decided to suck up my last defeat and fire the computer up and play the Pokerstar's mid day $109 rebuy.

This tournament which runs daily at 2:15 PM EST, has the toughest field of players on the net hands down. It is jammed with online pro's.. there are hardly any fish to make it a +EV tourney.. but for some reason I have had great success in this tournament. I have played it about 8 times, and I have won it twice already.

Well my strategy was different than last nights $33 rebuy.. I only had about $220 cash in my account, as I just had made a deal to pick up a bunch of $W to play in the satellites. W$ are stars money that can be used only for Satellite tourneys.. you can't use them for other tourneys.

So basically all I had was 1 buy in and a add on. Since it is a rebuy, people tend to play like maniacs prior to the end of the add on period. I have seen some top pros spend up to $1K plus to get a stack. I was lucky I had a calmer first table, and only one player pushing all in like a maniac. I did get lucky when I got it allin pre-flop with AK and took down CK's (Christian Kruel's) QQ, when a A hit the turn.

In this tourney since the players are alot better and you have to earn your chips, I had to out play my oppenents. Here was a key hand... I called the mini raise because of the huge odds the pot was offering me. I knew from watching Oscar in previous pots that he had missed, took a chance that lauraj didnt have a Q, but if he/she didn't he/she couldn't call my raise.
PokerStars Game #2771605182: Tournament #13543336, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/10/10 - 16:15:25 (ET)
Table '13543336 12' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: t soprano (28680 in chips)
Seat 2: SamENole (4635 in chips)
Seat 3: gboro780 (11630 in chips)
Seat 4: The_Flute (8853 in chips)
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (13143 in chips)
Seat 6: raisinu (12377 in chips)
Seat 7: Oscar Z (6858 in chips)
Seat 8: lauraj (7785 in chips)
Seat 9: sd_nightowl (9122 in chips)
t soprano: posts the ante 25
SamENole: posts the ante 25
gboro780: posts the ante 25
The_Flute: posts the ante 25
MisterMOTOWN: posts the ante 25
raisinu: posts the ante 25
Oscar Z: posts the ante 25
lauraj: posts the ante 25
sd_nightowl: posts the ante 25
The_Flute: posts small blind 200
MisterMOTOWN: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MisterMOTOWN [Td 4s]
raisinu: folds
Oscar Z: raises 400 to 800
lauraj: calls 800
sd_nightowl: folds
t soprano: folds
SamENole: folds
gboro780: folds
The_Flute: folds
MisterMOTOWN: calls 400
*** FLOP *** [8d Qs Qh]
MisterMOTOWN: checks
Oscar Z: bets 400
lauraj: calls 400
MisterMOTOWN: raises 1200 to 1600
Oscar Z: folds
lauraj: folds
MisterMOTOWN collected 4025 from pot
MisterMOTOWN: shows [Td 4s] (a pair of Queens)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4025 | Rake 0
Board [8d Qs Qh]
Seat 1: t soprano folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: SamENole folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: gboro780 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: The_Flute (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (big blind) collected (4025)
Seat 6: raisinu folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Oscar Z folded on the Flop
Seat 8: lauraj folded on the Flop
Seat 9: sd_nightowl folded before Flop (didn't bet

Here's one where Tsoprano a very, very agressive player was doing all the raising around bubble time, but because my table image had be generally solid... I was able to wrestle this one from him :
PokerStars Game #2771893477: Tournament #13543336, Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2005/10/10 - 16:52:23 (ET)
Table '13543336 12' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: t soprano (17072 in chips)
Seat 2: maciste (1068 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 3: basictax (19336 in chips)
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (11328 in chips)
Seat 6: raisinu (17029 in chips)
Seat 7: Oscar Z (14201 in chips)
Seat 8: raconteur (42828 in chips)
Seat 9: sd_nightowl (17132 in chips)
t soprano: posts the ante 50
maciste: posts the ante 50
basictax: posts the ante 50
MisterMOTOWN: posts the ante 50
raisinu: posts the ante 50
Oscar Z: posts the ante 50
raconteur: posts the ante 50
sd_nightowl: posts the ante 50
raisinu: posts small blind 400
Oscar Z: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MisterMOTOWN [Js Ks]
raconteur: folds
sd_nightowl: folds
t soprano: raises 1600 to 2400
maciste: folds
basictax: folds
MisterMOTOWN: calls 2400
raisinu: folds
Oscar Z: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c Qh 4d]
t soprano: checks
MisterMOTOWN: bets 3200
t soprano: folds
MisterMOTOWN collected 6400 from pot
MisterMOTOWN: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6400 | Rake 0
Board [7c Qh 4d]
Seat 1: t soprano folded on the Flop
Seat 2: maciste folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: basictax folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (button) collected (6400)
Seat 6: raisinu (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Oscar Z (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: raconteur folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: sd_nightowl folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Anyways I played great poker all the way through.. we were now in the money which paid $400.00 and 1st place was $10,000. I was tied for the chip lead with the button (Thrasymachus) the only player at the table (and in the tourney for that matter) that had me coveredc in chips. I feel I played the hand well except for the check raise on the flop... had I known he had the flush draw, I would of check raised him all in.. giving him a decision to call off all of his chips on a draw... I was 55-45 to win the hand a gain a major strangle hold of most of the chips in the tourney however the Qc hitting the turn ended my tournament in another tough defeat.

PokerStars Game #2772057949: Tournament #13543336, Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (800/1600) - 2005/10/10 - 17:13:38 (ET)
Table '13543336 12' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: richwalter (22717 in chips)
Seat 2: Thrasymachus (78995 in chips)
Seat 3: basictax (13786 in chips)
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (72216 in chips)
Seat 6: klask (51348 in chips)
Seat 7: Oscar Z (29577 in chips)
Seat 8: raconteur (13365 in chips)
richwalter: posts the ante 75
Thrasymachus: posts the ante 75
basictax: posts the ante 75
MisterMOTOWN: posts the ante 75
klask: posts the ante 75
Oscar Z: posts the ante 75
raconteur: posts the ante 75
basictax: posts small blind 800
MisterMOTOWN: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MisterMOTOWN [Kd Qd]
klask: folds
Oscar Z: folds
raconteur: folds
richwalter: folds
Thrasymachus: raises 3200 to 4800
basictax: folds
MisterMOTOWN: calls 3200
*** FLOP *** [Jc 6d Kc]
MisterMOTOWN: checks
Thrasymachus: bets 8000
MisterMOTOWN: raises 9600 to 17600
Thrasymachus: raises 56520 to 74120 and is all-in
MisterMOTOWN: calls 49741 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Jc 6d Kc] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Jc 6d Kc 2h] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MisterMOTOWN: shows [Kd Qd] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
Thrasymachus: shows [Ac 6c] (a flush, Ace high)
richwalter said, "oh no"
richwalter said, "wow"
Thrasymachus collected 145607 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 145607 | Rake 0
Board [Jc 6d Kc 2h Qc]
Seat 1: richwalter folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Thrasymachus (button) showed [Ac 6c] and won (145607) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: basictax (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: MisterMOTOWN (big blind) showed [Kd Qd] and lost with two pair, Kings and Queens
Seat 6: klask folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Oscar Z folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: raconteur folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I did some more work on the website today, and it's definetly going to happen. I going to be investing a good amount of money in design..but im the type of person who goes full out at anything I do, and want to be proud of the result.

Im going to be playing 2 Foxwoods satellites tonight, plus a couple Pokerstars Carribean Adventure sattelites.. so Ill post my results tomorrow.

Foxwoods Satellite Bonanza

2005-10-10T10:21:00.000-04:00

Well yesterday I played in 3 satellites to the Foxwoods World Poker Finals.. the satellites paid full entry to the tournament ($10,200) and also included about $1000 for travel expenses.

I played in :

$150 Double Shoot Out On PokerStars
$33 Rebuy on Pokerstars

and

$1000 Buy In No limit Tournament on Paradise Poker.

Nothing Really Interesting happened in the $150 Double ShootOut.. got short stacked went all in lost blah, blah, blah...

The $33 Rebuy was a different story... I used the play like a maniac early strategy and tried to get a big stack. I lost 4 coin flips in a row, rebought and added on each time and was now into the tourney for $250 +.. ugh

I changed my strategy and stopped throwing my money away when this hand came up.. obv I don't usually play JJ like this but since it was a rebuy I mixed it up and it payed off big time:
http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=144591

I doubled up 3 more times, and by the time the rebuy period was over, I was 2nd in chips! Well I played just basic solid poker, and most of the players were very weak, and every time I got a big hand was able to get all my chips in ahead, and didn't get very unlucky.

This hand came up when we were deep into the tourney..I flat called the UTG raise here with TT, my reasoning was that the UTG was a good solid player so I put him on a PP 99 and above, AK, AQ. So I figured if low cards came on the flop I was going to check raise him allin, and if and A K Q flopped I would let it go.. I would of won the hand but the BB going over the top with AJ is just a bad move but it pushed me out of the hand. Actually you'll see that if I called I would of been the favorite to win the hand, but I could not justify calling here TT doens't do well against 3 opponents especially when we are going to see all the cards.. We did get information on a player that were going to use later in the tourney.

http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=144606

We got down to 12 players (6 handed at my table) and I was tied for the chip lead when this hand came up... http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=view&hand=144614 the small blind is the same player who made the move with AJ in the previous hand which made this an easy call with AK. Unfortunatly he woke up with KK and my tourney was over. I don't regret the decision to call here in the least, I had to win all the chips to win my Foxwoods Seat and you just cant laydown big hands when your most likely going to be a favorite or a coin flip.. just unlucky that the bad player woke up with a hand... after winning this hand he was the monster chip leader, but did not win the tourney (he finished 3rd)

I won back $175 of my $250 buy in..

Nothing really to note in the Paradise Tourney, my KK got cracked by AQ which pushed me to a short stack, and I made a push with Ten Jack with T$1400 chips at the $100-$200 blind level and got called by the big blind with QQ.

My total buy in cost for Foxwoods is now $1375.. Ill keep you posted.

Ariba ARUBA..

2005-10-04T13:09:00.000-04:00

Just finished playing in the Ultimate Bet WPT event in Aruba.

Basically nothing to report on the main event.. I was totally card dead.. My best hands for 5 hours of play were AK (twice) AJ, 99, and 22 UTG (which I had to fold).. I didnt even have any suited connecters to play.

I busted with at the 150 - 300 blind level.. I had 6000 chips and made it 1000 to go from the cutoff with AKo, it was folded to the big blind who re-raised me to 3000. I could of folded here and played the short stack.. however I felf my AK was good enough to make a stand, and hopefully try and double up. So I re-raise all in and he instacalled me, with AA..

GG me..

I did play in 3 of UBs daily tourneys.. 2 $1000 buy ins, and one of their $500 buy ins.

I went deep in the $500, got down to the final 3 tables from about 200 players.. first prize was about $25K.. however got crushed on a hand blind against blind we both flopped sets.. and he had me out kicked.

It was a good trip.. a beautiful island and alot of fun. I played in the cash games one night, not my specialty but a couple of really bad players were giving away money and I was able to make $3500.. playing 5-10 No limit. Payed for my spending money and my buyins for the other tourneys....

Welcome to My Poker blog

2005-08-03T08:33:00.000-04:00

Thank you for visiting, my poker blog... here I will share with you some of my experiences in the world of poker and online poker.

About me.. my name is Peter to the Online Poker world I am known as Mr. Motown (or MisterMOTOWN on PokerStars) ..

In real life, my name is Peter.. I am a Real Estate Developer, and Real Estate Broker. Poker is just a hobby for me.. I am newly married to a beautiful woman who I love and we have a wonderful new son named Gianni who is 6 months old (as of this post)

On the internet I play mostly high stakes Sit and Go Tournaments against the best players around on Pokerstars. I consistently beat these games, however my goal online is to qualify for live tournament events for The World Poker Tour and The World Series of Poker.

So far I won online satellite tournaments qualifying to play in 3 live championship events;

2005 Mirage Poker Showdown ( a World Poker Tour Event )
2005 World Series of Poker (Main Event)
2005 Ultimatebet Aruba (a World Poker Tour Event)

In these live tournaments, I have had the pleasure of playing against the best players in the world. I have played poker with Daniel Negreneau, Johnny Chan (he ate half my sandwich), David Williams, David Oppenhiem, Antonio Esfendiari (I knocked him from the WPT Mirage), David Grey, Phil Laak (the Unabomber), Huck Seed, Miami John Cernuto, Paul Phillips (I bluffed him out of a huge pot,read here http://extempore.livejournal.com/2005/05/25/ ) Sam Grizzle, Jean Robert (Bobby) Bellande and Toby McGuire (not a poker star, but kind of famous ;) )

here's a picture from the Bellaggio in Las Vegas, Toby and I sat next together for 3 hours in a $1,000 tourney, and he actually knocked me from the tournament when his AQ found a Q on the river to beat my JJ.. I am the good looking one on the left.,

My best finish in a WPT event.. is 45th at the WPT Mirage (read about my bust out etc.. here http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result10993.htm )

Sorry I don't have a picture, but I met Clonie Gowen while checking into the Radisson Hotel in Aruba for the Ultimate Bet Tournament, she actually struck up a conversation with my wife about her kids and our son, she was really interesting to talk to, and a great poker player (and she's not hard on the eyes either) I chose her as my marketing strategy for FullTilt Poker.

Right now I am working qualifying for the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods (WPT) and The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (WPT)

I also have a exciting new poker website in the works... I won't go into detail right now.. but its a totally unique concept that will totally free to all poker lovers... and I promise will have hands down the most exciting poker content anywhere on the net. I don't want to give the idea away.. but stayed tuned!!

I hope you enjoy the blog!

Peter.