Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:52:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Phillips To: barge@barge.org Subject: [BARGE] paulp's mini-report BARGE central is out for me until it moves, but I had some fun on the fringes. A decent crowd of people came over on thursday and we played pokerstars 3-6 on the projector television. Presto the second hand flops AA5, this sort of thing goes on and on, proving once again that online poker is rigged, at least until Kevin Un takes over the computer, at which point it's rigged against us. The thursday pot limit game was super fun. I couldn't lose for a while, then crossbooked andy bloch (and gave him 10-9 odds) and immediately lost two $1K+ pots. Fortunately I won all that back when the hand of the night broke out with my K8 against K2 on a final board of KKQ82, and ended up a $17 winner on the crossbook and the big winner in the game. How lucky is Dave Orr: I get my only big starting hand of the entire night (KK) and three of us see a flop with a lot of money in it (there must have been nearly $200 but I can't figure out how it got that big.) I bet the pot on the 743 flop and he raises all-in. The third guy immediately moves all-in as well. I would have beaten Dave into the pot but realize I must be beat and fold my KK. The all-in flips up 56. Turn 7, river 9. Dave now turns up 99. Sweet 30-1 shot action. Another way to look at this one is "how lucky is paulp" since if I'd called him the cards "would have" tortured me... I buy that kind of sweet hand overplaying with my playing style but it's not always a pleasure by the river. Ran into maverick sunday night in the palms poker room. What are the odds! Fortunately he had birthday presents for me so I could fade his presence like the wonderful person I am. He always makes me want to "go gay" again, but he left before the brainwash was complete. -- Paul Phillips | The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly In Theory | the way a bowling ball wouldn't. Empiricist | pal, i pill push |----------* http://www.improving.org/paulp/ *---------- ________ Thanks to PokerStars, Paradise Poker, and Quiotix Technologies for their generous sponsorship of BARGE 2003.