Well poker world, this is my first blog ever, may as well start blogging about poker. First...a little about myself. My name is Michael, I am 20 years old and attending Austin community College. I have been playing poker for about two years now and have been pretty successful. Here's a small and sweat account of my poker history. In January of 2005, I played in a 20+2 dollar 6,000 guaranteed rebuy tournament. 180 total people played in this tourny, the biggest real money tournament I had played at that time. About an hour into it, yes, I took a bad beat and decided to rebuy one time! That is it, my bankroll was healthy enough to loose another rebuy so I figured what the heck. Playing for about 5 hours I actually made it to the final table...unbelievable! I couldn't believe it, but I had to remain calm and play my game. At that point, I was satisfied even if that meant getting knocked out first at the final table, it still payed like 250 or something. Well I had a decent size stack, pushed at the right times, took down some pots and got into heads up play, after about 7 or 8 minutes...I get the scary Ace King offsuite. What to do?? My opponent was small blind and raised a significant amount, so I said what the heck, he may have a small pair, but I'll gamble...so I pushed all-in hoping that he had AQ or AJ. Well, he had me beat pre-flop with 55...I called it..small pair. I was fortunate to hit top two pair off the flop, Aces and Kings. I'm yelling....no five on turn or river and was able to achieve the biggest victory for me personally.
In 2005, Royal Vegas was my first choice playing online, I still managed to visit Pokerstars and Pokerroom from time to time. My account history on Royal Vegas shows that I have deposited around 1200 but have withdrawn over 3500, so the bad beats have been kept to a minimum, lucky me!! As far as online casinos go, I recommend people to stay away as far as possibleJustin introduced me to Pacific Poker's online caisno......Casino-On-Net From what he told me, they had a promotion going where they would match your deposit of up to 200 dollars. I took him up on it, he reffered me, and from there I played a little while. I told myself I was only going to play with their money, which I did. The strange thing is, as soon as you make your first deposit, and they match it, you can withdraw your deposit immidietly...must be a glitch in their software. Good for me but shitty for them. : ) I played a couple of days and took 200 to 2,200 dollars. Are you kidding me?? Did this really happen? Hell yes it did. I played two casino games mainly, Carribean Poker and Blackjack. As crazy as it sounds, I won around 1500 on Carriben poker and around 3 or 4 hundred on blackjack and was placing 100 dollar blackjack bets online...I won 2 of the 3 bets. Still awesome. However, it takes a week to process withdraws to your neteller acountfrom the online casinos...oh shit! you know what that means. I ended up playing more, and yes, I suffered the consequences. I lost about 1400 because of tilt play. I put 300 dollars down on one hand of blackjack..of course...drew an 18...dealer shows an eight and draws an ace....assholes. I was down to 700. I decided to withdraw it and in a week it went into my neteller account. so i made an extra 500 off of my original 200, can't complain. I haven't played in an online casino for about 10 months now and don't plan on it!
Twenty has been a tuff year for me, can't experience Vegas, or at least the real Vegas. In September, I will be going to Shreveport to the Binion's Horeshoe with my dad's side of the family, can't complain...a new experience. Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Michigan are the only states I have gambled in. i was not successful at any of them, go figure. I felt like I was playing poker with my little brothers in these poker rooms, especially in Michigan. I think the Big O needs to take a group up and perfom a one week lesson on how to play the true game of Texas Holdem. I don't want to get into detail about the play at Chipin Islands(the casino at harris, MI), it only makes me angry. However, the play at Winstar(the casino just an hour north of dallas) was pretty decent playing 1/2 no limit holdem. I played with around 200 and was getting absolutly nothing all day. At the table for around 5 hours, I would get so bored and call 5 dollar raises with jack nine offsuite, yes i know, something i would normally never do, but you know, I said screw it and played some medium hands. And no, I didn't catch anything all day. I pushed all in with a pair of 2's pre flop and had 2 callers. Both checked all the way down, but unfortunetly for me, one guy hit a jack on the river. oh well, at least i know how the play is now.
Most live tournies happen at the Big O...which is where I have been playing for 2 years now. My first year at the Block House location was crappy, only chopping first a couple of times and taking second like once. Other than that, I lost a little because of my unexperienced play. The second year, at the new Big O, I climbed my way up to 10th on the money list, a large improvement from the first year. We are now at our 3rd season, where I am currently second on the money list. We will see what happens but I am confident enough to hopefully finish strong this year, we'll see.
This is my first entry and am now going to be frequently posting blogs, so keep on reading....tty later guys : )
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