Stuff that happened at the felt

I walked by her many times in Caesar's lobby.

Hmmmm where to start? I got to Caesar's earlier than I thought. When I sat down the blinds were still 25-25 so I didn't miss much. We started with 10K in chips but the WSOP tourneys are slow! 30 min blinds....25/25, 25/50, 50/75 so things progress slowly. I wasn't able to find Hoy for the longest time, as there were so many people, plus I was playing a freaking poker tournament so I was focusing on that.

As an aside, even though Hoy and I played in all three of the same tournaments I spent very little time with him (and no Waffles, I didn't sleep with him) as we were busy playing at other tables. The only time we actually spent together is when we played some black jack after one of the tourneys. I must say it was a ball. I don't quite remember ever having that much fun losing $100. If I lose $100 in poker, I'm pissed but we were having a ball laughing and high fiving. Ooooo and stuffy lawyerly Hoy called an old asian dealer THE C WORD. Yep, he did! It was awesome! LOL Also, he taught me his strategy for betting black jack which is AWESOME and even though I'd sworn off playing black jack because it's too much of a gamble, I will try this strategy again.

Also, we were both playing in Saturday night's $200 tournament and after about an hour or so, he showed up at my table, clutching his chips. Awesome. I always enjoy a chance to kick his ass play poker with Hoy, alas when he arrived I was a short stack. In the first hour of this tournament I got pocket jacks 3 times and they held up twice. The third time is what got me short. I put a ton of chips in the pot preflop and at every street because I had an over pair. until the river, which was an ace, and good ole A-J stuck around. Doh! I dunno who was more upset, me or this little old bald Greek guy. He was at my same table at the noon event so when I saw him again I was all "Paisan! Long time no see!" After I lost the hand he started coaching me on how to play. OMFG this guy was a total calling station and he was giving me unsolicited advice...but I was nice. When we went on break he came up to me to ask if Hoy was my BF. Erm, no. Then he wanted to know if I was Greek like him. Again, no. Hmmm "You not even half Greek?" Heh. 100% Sicilian! He was like that's it - almost Greek, we are neighbors. And then he tells me he and his friend are going out for dinner after the tournament and he wants me to go to. Yeah, I'm def going out to dinner with 2 strange guys....NOT. I just nod and say thank you. I later got knocked out because I got tooo short and jammed all in with A-J. I prolly had 6 BB left and had to do something. A-Q calls me and I was busted. I get up and he's like "What about dinner? Where you go? I find you." Ugh. I told him I was hitting the cash game, which I did. I kept expecting to see there but it was not to be.

Speaking of cash.....here's a pic from Friday night....

Those are 2 full rows of red, although you cannot see the back row well. $200 of that was my buyin and the rest profit.

Here's Sunday - this was playing for about 2 hours....this session deserves it's own post because I won over 1K in 2 hours...

There were some awesome laydowns and awesome calls that happened in that session, so next post will be about my cash play.

Anyway back to the tourneys. I know I'm bouncing around, bear with me. It's fairly early in the re-entry tournament and the guy to my left is a total ass. Every time he loses a hand (because he played it badly) he cries and cries and complains and complains. He actually called the clock on a guy who took less than 2 minutes to make a big decision. And just talked and talked about everyones play at the table. Rude! There WERE some really bad players in this tourney - some of the worst I've ever seen and baby, I've seen a lot. The guy to my right, who stunk of weed, bet 80% if his stack on a bluff within the first half hour of this tournament and get this, the guy who called him and beat him? He called him WITH A PAIR OF TWOS. If I didn't see it myself I wouldn't have believed it...both the stupid bluff and the incredible call.

Anyway, I hadn't been playing many hands because the cards were shiat and then I got the mighty 2-4. Now IF I want to play the 2-4 I go in raising. I don't want to be up against other low cards. What I'm looking for is that low flop and it's only good if my fishponents have high cards....so I go in raising. So I raise it up in 2 off the button to 3 times the BB...betting 300. One guy reraises me to 800, 500 on top. Fawk. Everyone folds and fuck it I call. Either I hit the flop or I don't. Bingo! Flop is 2-4-10. I check, he bets, I raise. Turn is a jack. I bet and he calls. River is an ace and I'm not loving this anymore so I check and he checks behind me. He flips over 9-9 and my 2 pair wins. Yay, right? Except the whiner, who wasn't even in the hand, just cannot get over what happened. He just goes on and on about how I called the raise preflop with that hand. I ignore him for a while, but he literally goes on for over 5 minutes about it. Finally I explain that I had 300 in there and 500 wasn't enough to make me fold. He says he didn't realize that I was the original raiser. Okay, whatev. If you're going to bitch and moan you should really pay attention to what you're moaning about. And then the biatch says "You probably didn't even know you were playing a famous hand. (!)

What?

He says "I follow this guy on Twitter. Poker Grump! He's amazing...blah blah blah. He plays that hand you know?"

LOL I tell him that YES I've heard of Poker Grump too. And then he waxes on about how amazing his blog is. I suppose there's no accounting for taste Yes, I did agree with him. Then I'm like....so you read Poker Grump regularly? And he says that yes he does. He says that the poker world on the internet is a small one and everyone reads Poker Grump.

Hmmmm I was tempted to say something like, did you read about this girl Very Josie....Poker Grump made her his bitch? It was right on the tip of my tongue, but what point would it serve other than to point out I was Poker Grump's bitch. Is that a good thing? I think not.

Speaking of which....you may have noticed that The Very Josie isn't playing tonight. I am so frustrated with BCP I was tempted to not give them any more bidness, but I have a score to settle, so how bout we settle it NEXT MONDAY NIGHT? BCP 2nd Monday of the month - for this one. I need to get my revenge on Poker Grump and I will NOT be denied. Please join me next week for the carnage. It ain't gonna be pretty. Not only did he pick the wording to my bitch post, he then TAUNTED me in chat, knowing I couldn't respond. Time for payback. I'm carefully wording what I want HIS post to say next week, when I kick his ass. You may wanna stick around for that.

Back to AC (yes I know I'm bouncing around - shut up! this is like stream of consciousness or something) Anyway, I took this pic in the bathroom mirror in my hotel room...and it's kind of cool.

That is my new poker uniform! It's a Jennifer Lopez designer top. Look at all the sparkly gold! How could I NOT get it? Evan was like "Um, Mom....isn't Jennifer Lopez younger than you?" And that's how he got the black eye! (lol jk but he DID say that)

Play smart....like that famous guy, Poker Grump!

Josie

No Tournament TONIGHT

What a heart breaker.

The Very Josie is not on BCP tonight. I don't know why, but it's not. Originally I gave them a list of the dates I wanted to run it but someone has obviously dropped the ball. I'm very very sorry to be effing with your time.

That is all.

The good news is instead of playing The Very Josie I'll be typing up a recap post. Also, I see I missed Hooker Week here in Bloggerdom. When I was 29 years old I went to Las Vegas for the first time with my then brother-in-law John and his friend. This was so long ago it was before I started playing poker. I mean I've been playing poker since I was 10 yrs old but I hadn't played in a casino at that point. I spent my time exclusively on black jack.

Anyway, I had a hooker encounter on that first visit, thanks to my bro-in-law's drunk friend....so I wanna be part of hooker week too! Stay tuned....

Josie

Not Sure About BCP Tourney Tonight!

Hello my peeps!

I just just just got home, logged onto BCP to register for my tourney AND IT'S NOT FUCKING THERE. I dunno how that could be when I set it up for the first Monday of the month till the end of the year, but it's not. Grrrrr

I just emailed them to see if they'll set it up so please stay tuned. If it is set up, it'll be at 10PM Eastern time. $11 entry, and 2 of that is a knock out bounty. Password is poker baby.

I'll do a real post later on, once i get a response from FUCKING BCP. (can you tell I am not pleased?)

Since I'm here, and finally typing on a keyboard and not a kindle screen, let me give you some bottom lines of how I did.

I played 3 big tournaments and did NOT cash in any. Very disheartening and I am reconsidering playing a wsop event in June in Vegas. I am starting to wonder about me and tournaments. I went quite deep in the second day of the reentry, but with 600 peeps, not nearly deep enough.

The thing is I absolutely KILLED the cash game in AC. Killed it. Won thousands and didn't play for that many hours, so at the end of it all I'm ahead....BUT I spent $345+$345+$200 on the three tournaments. That's Nine HUNDRED smackaroos that would've been in my purse had I not played them. Then again, I never would've gone to AC had it not been to play in circuit events. Hmmmmm

And the OTHER thing is I LOVE tournament play. Love the longevity of it, even though I'm an inpatient person at heart. Love evertyhing about it. I do NOT love playing cash, but I don't hate it. I felt so bad about taking this young kid's money last night that finally the man next to me said "Are you a mother?"

"Erm, yes".

"Do you have a son?"

"Yes...."

"Is he that kid's age?"

The kid was 21 yrs old. OMFG I look old, I thought. Then realized I suppose I COULD have a child who was 21. Fuck me.

Anyway, I responded that no, my son was 13 yrs old. And the guy said, well that mother thing is kicking in and you have to shut it off. (this poor kid was very very drunk and bleeding money - this wasn't even poker, this was robbery) I sort of agree that mother instincts had no place at the felt. He gave me this lecture after HE felted the kid, the kid reloaded for $300 and then I felted him.

He reloaded 4 times and each time complained that he could only get $300 max at the 1-2 table. He dropped hundy bills all over the table and the floor. it was all I could do to NOT get up and tuck the money into his pants pockets for him but I didn't.

Actually, a couple of minutes after I felted him he said "Why are there no girls playing poker?"

One of the guys at the table said "A girl just felted you, you know."

And in his drunken state he says to me "Not to insult you, but you're not my age are you?"

lol

"No, I'm def not" I told him. Then I told him to go to a bar/club in the casino where there would be girls and he'd have more fun with his money there than he would here just giving it away at such a rapid rate. He didn't listen, which made the other guys at the table happy.

Anyway, I took pics of my stacks of chips at the poker table - so all that's to come once I download them and once I figure out WTF is going on with The Very Josie tonight. Had I been hope I would've had this cleared up a few days ago. Grrr I never had to remind Full Tilt to run my tourney once it was scheduled.

Play smart.

Josie

atlantic city baby!

This is on kindle so there will be typos.

I busted out of tourney fairly early. Mebbe after 3&1/2 hrs. Never got any cards worth playing. It sucked. All I did was gold and get blinded out. Started with 10k. Lost a lot when I flopped 2pair. Finally! I thought. I bet hard all the way with one caller. A lot of money in the pot. 3rd heart fell on the river and villain bets out. I paid him off knowing he hit hisflush.

Anyway I might have played a couple of other hands at most. Was getting blinded down when I jammed w Ak. Got called by pocket 8s and lost.

Then.......played 2/5nl. Boom! Started with $420 and left over 1k. I took a pic of all the chips but cant post itfrom Herr.

Reentry tourney starts at noon. Hot. Mojo and I r all playing.
Oh I finally met mojo! What a cutie pie! I was about80% sure it was him so iwalked up behind him, started rubbing his back and said"I hope your name is mojo ". Hey. It was.

Today I go deep! (That's what he said)

I need to play smart.

Josie.

Ps plenty of stories to come.

At Myrtle Beach

It'S not quite 8am and I'm here in SC till 10:30. Oh and this is my first post from my kindle. What a PIA! I will be tweeting during the tourney, hopefully with good news. Gonna go get some coffee and read the new books on my kindley poo. Omfg that reminds me. Evan is reading the good earth (pearl buck) on his honors Eng class. One of my favorite books but wtf. Hes 13 and there are concubines in this book...with loads of details. Hmphhhh.


Play smart!

Josie

Tick, Tick!

Almost time for me to make like a baby and head out!

Ironically, I'm taking 2 days off during what seems to be my busiest time every here in work.  Regardless of how much I have yet to do, bottom line is I'll be in AC tomorrow!

Couple of items of note:

1.  Both Hoyazo and Memphis Mojo will be playing in my tournament, and they are the enemy!  Both are super awesome tournament players so I have to somehow figure out a way to last longer than them.  Nothing makes me perform great like stiff competition does.  (ooo that sounds dirty.  Hmmmm)  Actually, I kinda feel like Hoy might be the last man standing from our little group, unless I take the bastard out at the knees.

2. When I fly back on Monday night, it'll be time for The Very Josie on BCP.  The password is pokerbaby. I'm not offering a monetary incentive/bounty because well, because BCP sucks.  However Im still putting a bounty on POKER GRUMP'S head.  Whoever knocks out poker grump gets something nice from me.  I just don't know what yet.  Maybe a souvenir from AC! Or perhaps a photo.  Stay tuned - bottom line is Poker Grump is your target.

3. I just set up my phone for internet access so I will be attempting to tweet updates from AC.

4. I am soooo not limping into small pots early hoping to hit a flop hard.  Fuck that shiat.  I'm playing super tight but coming out swinging when I have the cards.  Why?  Because I will get called by all the guys who think it'll be fun to do so.  And then I'll have their chips. :)

Play smart.

Josie

The Reason I'll Be Winning In AC