Blogger Poker Tour S2 Game 5

It was a packed house with 116 people sitting around the smokey tables in the "House Of Blues" Tourney, hosted by Skinski, (our Target for the Day)... we were induced into the laid back style of poker "Blues Style".

Shorthanded Poker..

At my table was
Seat 1 Bardiya
2 tomonbass
3 cazwil
4 myself
5 Wade79
6 empty seat

And sitting with the Target were..
Seat 1 astinaguy
2 skinski
3 mortguns
4 cashline
5 ATheGuruK
6 mimi2mik
and 20 other tables ready to go.

At 1500 it was Shuffle up and deal with the Final Table on all our minds.

6 hands into the tourney we already have 3 out and a clear leader with over $4k. (Crazylegs1984) and our 3 casualties are, redeyed030, CawtBluffin, and pinyo08.

Meanwhile our target skin's is up with solid hands but only in the Black by $120.


Lightening36 next to go and helped move TheBigSurprise into 2nd place with CentFootball59 just holding last with $65.

My own personal hands have been ok to start with but nothing to where I can make a larger bet to start on a stack... but lots of game to go yet.

Ok my description of the tourney is now over... AQ UTG just called in called Turn the Q and have cazwil go over the top with 2 pair sooted Q2... 2 weeks of waiting and bust out with monster hands ... out in 109th... looks like it may have to be BPT S3 b4 I have any chance of winning anything... The Blues are now playing in my house....

The link below is the final result link. Good Luck to everyone.. I am going back to get some more sleep as I had Forum Leage at 6am this morning.

http://www.poker.com/results/index.html?id=4199170-1


Moved back to the Tour to check in on the Final Table to see The Target Man still sitting there low stacked.. with iytoni and JayNYC the other remaining players.

Skin is ultra low stack and gets lucky heads up with his A5 vs A7 and K10 to AK.

The main money is going back and forward between Jay and iytoni until Jay moves all in with A7 spades and lost to iytoni's A6o.

Final 2 players Skin and iytoni.... with Skin at 48k and iytoni just over 200k.

Skin doubles up and stays alive catching the straight with his K8 vs Q9.
Totals now skinski 60k iytoni 160k.

Skin moves in with a reraise holding A5 running up against iytoni's AK. The King hits the flop and skinski is out in 2nd with iytoni recieving the win and the scalp of skinski, and skinski himself picking up 2nd place points and the host bonus...

check out the updated leaderboard at the link below... Congrats to the winners and commiseration to us losers.

http://www.bloggerpokertour.com/leaderboard.html

BPT Season 2 Event 5

The House of Blues, is the Blogger Host.. go check out the site and get that password.

Here is the Link Shane put on the p.com Forum... http://forum.poker.com/showthread.php?t=9635

And a direct link to our Host... The one and Only Skinski.......
http://the-house-of-blues.blogspot.com/

So if you don't have a Blog as yet... then get your self moving and checkout the Tour it is a great time for all and you never know.... you may even win.

Good Luck everyone see you at the Tables.... Earl... watchout your mine.

My Bad

I suppose that I should really have mentioned our safe arrival back in NZ...

The continuation of the Kiwi Returns Home was briefly as follows.

After Getting up and having a quick breakfast we went down to the Front desk for Timings of the Metro and Buses into Downtown LA.

After finding that the closest one was about 1 minle south of us I decided it was such a nice day with nothing but time on our hands we could walk...

Brandy deciding that she didn't like the fact that I was in control of the Directions, decided to ask a Police Officer who was finishing a report regarding an accident that occured on the road in front of the Hotel.. Before I knew what had happened. We were all bundled into the Police car and driven down to the Metro Station.

We go into Downtown Hollywood for the Typical sightseeing and have our meal and phots around the place including several hundred of the Pavement with those Stars, before we saw a big commotion across the Street in front of the New complex that was built since my last visit there a couple of years earlier.

With the Kids in tow I tried to get them across the road so that they could see the Cameras and Boom Microphones used in Television etc, and just as we were about to cross the road, they started to come to us.

Apparantly it was a series of a Fairly new show where New Bands are challenged to get passers-by to go on video with them singing their new Song and they would get points for each person who does it. So The kids and myself all agreed to do it, we wondered over the road and were promptly handed some percussion instruments to strike as the Band sang the song for the Video camera with about 36 others...

The show airs on MTV2 so keep an eye out for the Singing and Rocking Kiwi and family.

We were delayed with this filming so much that even the final 50 yards to the Manns Theatre was too much time and we had to hurry back to the Metro to get back to the Hotel to catch the Valet Service to the Airport for our trip to Auckland...

WELLLLLLLL, all did not go as planned... the metro had Mechanical problems delaying the second train we had to catch, and a little panic started to strike Brandy, I just shrugged shoulders and said oh well not much we can do now except wait. About 20mins later along came the Metro that took us all the way back without another single hitch.

Bags into Bus and off to the Airport to go back into Security Lines for Baggage checks before Ticketing, and then onto the Ticketing Counter... where I then found out we didnt have a direct flight, it was with a 2 hour layover in Tahiti, a nice place to visit with Time on your hands, AND DAYLIGHT, we arrived at 11pm local time and had to remain in the Airport... at least this airport allowed smoking... so that was a welcome and timely relief for me if nothing else.

Then onto NZ and arrival around 6am and then slight Custom Delays before being met by my brother with his medium sized car, and knowledge that we all 4 had 2 suitcases, 1 personal and 1 carry one bag each... so it was into the Airport Shuttle service and $100 later we got to his house for a well deserved relaxing 4 days until our move to Tauranga.

And her is where we are to this date...

So sorry about the delay in this.. but as the say better late then never.

Blogger Tour Event 4

Saturday Nov 4th 1500.

97 players were seated and rearing to go in the Irongirls Omaha Hi, 8 seat tourney.

Players at my table:
newfie25
stuarthomegame
DamRiver
bolcs5
KiwiWiz
lifesagrind
gohabs1234
thepurdle

The players with Irongirl as their target and at their table were...
Goliath2180
SweBlackbird
skinski
Chatuba
Kugr84
biggestron
abstratto
and of course Irongirl

Even before the Blinds had been raised the first time the field had found its first casualty... z0ot64 and the leaders had also put a little distance on the rest of the field.

Enortore 2nd casualty of the tourney, and EgonOlsen rasing to a 4,320 1st place position and still the blinds havn't been raised.

Irongirl is still secure mid field only posting blinds and sitting near the starting chip count.
Just in time to see the first Blind Raise the Field loses 2 more players and Egon Moves further ahead...

My luck so far has been having KKQQ (2 suited) raising that and seeing 3 cards to another suit hit the board... Flopping a set of Ks only to lose to running straights,(and the wheel at that to make it worse). I am hoping I can at least have a strong hand hold for once, as my return back to p.com since the move back to NZ has been very bad, every dominating hand has lost and every set beaten on the river by the Fish....

Anyway back to the game....

20 hands into the tourney... The top 2 players have over 5k already and we have lost 8 from the starting field of 97.
I am well down the field in 72nd place with 1740... njust ahead of Irongirl our Target (and host of this tourney).

Over the next 10 hands, my luck didn't change raising AAK10 to see 995 hit the board, in yet again the suit I don't have covered...

10 more players out, and the spread of Chips still going to the same players.... Hi stack TOMASO2 with 6500 and low stack has a meagre 540.


Irongirl is still midfield with 1,630 in chips and I am not even sure if she is seated 35 hands dealt 1 win and lots of close but bad luck hands... I am back in 70 of 75 with 1415 in chips, meanwhile TOMASO2 has doubled his stack to over 11k..

My Table is down to 6 with thepurdle taking both the other players out and moving his stack onto 8235.

Managed to double up through flopping 2 pair from BB and having it Boat on the Turn for me.. now in 36th of 75.. Irongirl is losing her chips and is now down to 1130, 68 of 75.. I hope we break tables and I have a chance at those chips.

50th hand just dealt, TOMASO2 has again lept up in the chip count to a 2-1 lead over 2nd place thepurdle, low stack is currently Rahaboss with 540, and I am sitting in 36th with 1765. Irongirl is still holding in there with 930 after posting her BB. And we have 73 remaining.

BB raised I have am 2 suited with A10 my top cards call and see yet again.. the Other suit dominate the flop, maybe I should just throw money on anything and hope like some of the Omaha players.

The first of the table changes due to the field size has occured and I am still sitting on my and am now joined by, tomonbass and mick5453 both of which are sitting around the same chip stack as myself... TOMASO2 has joined irongirlll with his 15k in chips.

Hand 60 on my table and 52 on Irongirls... she has 630 left and just posting blinds next hand... I think, she is close to giving someone her points


Her bb she goes all in over the top of TOMASO2 and loses.... so Chip leader increases his lead and takes the Hosts scalp.

57 remaining average chip count 3403, Chip Leader 15115, low stack, 415 I am holding firm at 38th with 1390.

And on we go to the break....

Current Standings...

Chip Leader Goliath2180 , since skinski took 6k in chips off TOMASO2 on the hand before the break...

2nd skinski 10210
3rd EgonOlsen 10142

Low Stack
DaMatrix 145

I am currently in 36th position with 1390 and blinds only 2 hands away at 200/100


Still my luck is running dry... AAKQ 3 suited. Only to see KQ10H hit the flop... Im dead yet again.

The field is now down to 50 with Hi Stack astinaguy with 14255 and low stack zowieZ with 60, average stack is now 4127 and I am back in 30th with 1915.
I have not seen the positive side of the chips (2000) since the start of the game...

WQith the blinds now at 150/300 I have just about no option but to push really hard on mext bet to try and make up some ground.

88th Hand 40 left and the chip spread is $16155 to $25 and average stack @ 4850.
I am currently nestled away in 24th place.


Ok My last 5 BBS raised all in by people I make a stand with AQQ10 against higher stack... He has AA26... and calls my reraise all in.

Flop A enough for me to go out in 30th place and yet again to a marginal hand.. sure AA is good but to hit the Case Ace really hurts...

Stack amounts at the moment are.

Hi Stack 31,120 astinaguy
14,292 EgonOlsen 2nd

Low stack in 28th place crazylegs1984 with 50.

Slowly the field is reduced :
Egon has moved into 1st with 39392
while flushedhand is low stack in 16th with 2443. The average stack is 12125 with only 4 players above that

Final table time...

1st freeroll26 46607
2nd astinaguy 38072
egonOlsonn 31963
MTLdon 30930
imjusthereforthebeer
kufolem
stenenslb
Rahaboss

A little too and frowing and the final 5 are set with freeroll in 1st Egon in 2nd
and MTLdon in 5th the chip range is 84133 to 26052.

Final 3... freeroll, Egon and Imjusthereforthebeer..

Chip stacks 80k 57k 56k.. freeroll started to take control of the final 3 moving into a comanding 110k chip stack to the other stacks of 41 and 26k.

Egon out in 3rd with freeroll increasing his lead to nearly a 2 - 1 chip lead over imjusthereforthebeer.


Next handbeer raises AA and is reraised by freeroll holding Kqq... turn 5 river a 9 to complete freerolls straight and give him the win...

Congrats to freeroll, and all who played...

see ya at the next one.
Flop JTK setting freeroll up for the straight.

Off To NZ I Go

Well, after hoping to have a nice Big Final shot at an MTT (Blogger Poker Tour Event 3) Yesterday, We (My wife, Brandy, and the Kids) all go ready for our big move back to NZ, to Help out Mom and Dad, with Moms illness.

We had an early start having to be at the Airport (DTE) at 4:15 to report in for our 6:15 flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. via Altanta with a 2 hour wait there..

Arriving in LA at approximately 1pm local time we had to firstly wait for nearly 40 mins for our Hotel Shuttle to arrive and then all Hell broke loose... The hotel we were booked into was a Complete and Utter Dive... It would have been lucky to get 1 star on a cloudless night.. Broken Walls, Dirty Carpets.. TV that had 1 channel only, and the list goes on....

So with Brandy making the reservations through Travel Agent Friends she was back onto the phone, and with in 1 hour we had the Ramada Courtesy Coach picking us up from the Flea Bag Hotel and delivering us here.. to a nice Hotel with Pool, AC and walls that actually looked and worked like walls...

We got the Kids fed at the Local Denny's about 200 yards down the road, and then back to the Hotel where they fell asleep nearly instantly... Due to the 3 hour time diffence... they know it is only 8 local and can't work out why they are so tired...

Tomorrow it is Up early, check baggage into Valet downstairs and then into LA to sightsee until around 2, when it is back to the Hotel and onto the Airport to check in and be ready for out 13 hour flight back to NZ....

So far so good.... 1 day down ... only 1 to go

Blogger Poker Tour Event 3

Saturday, Oct 21st 1500 hours (1600 local time) Event 3 shuffled up and was dealt.

A total of 96 players entered and were ready to partake in battle once more for the Honour of Representing P.Com at the Aussie Millions Tournament in Melbourne, Aussie. (Land of the Tinny and Thong).

When all of a sudden up comes the message.... Blogger Poker Tour Event 3.. Shutdown....

hmmmm.... And I was so looking forward to winning this one..

Good Day at the Tables

Well yesterday was one of my better days at the tables..

I entered 3 tourney, 2 Omaha PL, the Forum Individual and the 1k Freeroll.

After being rivered out of the 1st Omaha, I flopped a Boat and 4 callers bet before me I pushed the max bet, 1 person called, he caught his bigger boat on the river to take me out.. I then moved onto the Forum Individual MTT.

I got lucky with one hand then bust down rebuilt myself and then it happened, I hit it big calling into a raised bet with 44 against the top 2 stacks, I flop a 4 and they miss their sets for their pps AA KK, I check and let them bet moved all in with a Check raise and got called by both. I move to Hi stack and basically stay there until the end... Finished with a HU with one of my Forum Team Buddies... and took the win.

Onto the 1k, moved into 4th place early in the tourney and stayed in the top 20 basically for the first hour.. after the break, nothing, cards were colder a penguins privates in a whiteout. I managed to pick up 1 hand and made it to the next hour break..

Thinking this would be the time to start seeing cards again, but little did I know, the cards got even colder.... While all this was happening the next Omaha Tourney started.
So I was playing Omaha and the 1k at the same time. switching tables back and forth, I trippled up in Omaha to take 1st early with flopping the Nuts, and slow playing it all the way and pushing what Ihoped looked like a steal on the river when a deuce hit.... 2 players called my bet and I took them out.. Meanwhile my 1k cards remained cold for the next hour and I was starting to panic in there as I was rapidly losing all my chips to the blinds...

Back to the Omaha again to see, another good hand hold me in 1st for the next 30 mins, while the next break in the 1k was nearing I moved in with AQo and AK called I hit 2 pair on the flop pushed a large bet was raised so went all in.... He showed AK, no K hit the board and I doubled up to mid field. But still a long way to go to make any money.

The omaha moved progressively towards the final table with me moving back and forth from 1st and 5th... Until The Final table was formed I was sitting in 9th and only 5 being paid...

The 1k was on its 2nd break and I was just outside the money and realy worried...

As the players dissapeared off the final table in the OH, I didnt improve my chip count and was close to being put out in around 6th when my luck changed... 3rd stack raised , called by 4th stack and hi stack went over the top putting them all in if they called, they did and Hi stack took out 2 leaving 6 of us with the new low stack only haning 800 and blinds at 1k... my own stack was 6k.... I could breath eassier as I knew I could get money back... but I started to catch some hands and between myself and Hi stack we moved everyone off leaving me a maassive underdog with 12k to Hi stacks 48k... but I finished 2nd... so I was really happy with that result...

Now I could concentrate back on the 1k, which was now down to 40 with me sitting at 36 and only 30 paid.... the third break was coming up and still no real cards since the first 1 hour session...

Just after the 3rd break I started to catch a couple of hands that moved me up the chips a little moving into mid 20s as the bubble position was burst... Then a couple of strategic ALL INS from mid or late position let me steal some blinds (2/4k) so that I was able to move into the mid teen positons and finally into the Final Table...

Mid stacked I pushed every pp and every Good Ace, eg AJ thru I was briefly into 1st but dropped quickly when chach trippledup into the 300k chip count, I was 2nd with around 120 and 3 others around the 100...

I started to catch a couple of hands and pushed hard got into a couple of HUs and then had my Big break with blinds at 10/20k... I had posted chach raised 1xbb called by 1 other I had 55 so called.. flop was 3 4 6.. I moved all in with my remaining chips, they folded I showed to let them see I had pair and also drawfor straight... and not straight bluff or steal (I do this occasionally so that I can bluff or steal later.. one of my techniques) They both missed their flops and had AK AJ I moved into the 240k and 1st again...

Down to final 4, Chach pused a raise on my bb again I reraised all in with a pp he called and missed his AJ while my 88 stood up... I had 500k 2nd had 240 and low stack 110 approximately.... low stack took out mid leaving the 2 of us close and I just got lucky with a couple of hands... pushing hard with my 2face valued cards hard and just 2x raising my single cards from K up... until I was dominating in chips approx 700k to 100k....

I had K2 in sb raised to 80k low stack pushed all in... I thought about it and felt since I had that much in I called... they had A6... I hit a K on flop and it stood up... I won and took out the 1k and received the 1k Cup trophy on my name tag now... giving me the 1k, 500 ribbon and 200 ribbon to decorate my name...

So to sum it up 2nd in Oh, 1st in Forum and 1st in 1k...

Lets see if this luck can stay.... only twice did my lower cards beat out a higher cards... AQ to AK and the final K2 vs A6.. all the other times my hand were the leading cards at the time I put in the money... and it is such a nice feeling to see the lead hand win.

Blogger Tour Game 2

As stated before when The link was available for the results I would post it..

Here is the link for the Final 10 and the links to the overall Standings Table...
http://www.bloggerpokertour.com/s2e2-royals-bluff-till-you-drop.htm

Colour Changes

Poker.com has undergone another transformation, as a result of theoutcry from alot of the players with regard to their newer Darker Colours..

As A result they have changed everything again with regard to the Table colour and Floor colour, as well as changing the sounds..

Find below a quick look at the new tourney tables...