Lucky Number Dos!!

You know, I want to first start out by saying, I'm sorry to Jim and Stacey for spilling my drink all over there PRECIOUS wood floor. No seriously, feel bad. But hey, at least I gave Jim a new idea, no carpet Jim!!

Secondly I'd like to speak on the tournament. February 23rd was the last tournament to be held at Jim and Stacey's downstairs, oh I'm gonna miss being right by the kitchen, but oh well. There were a repeated 17 of us, 2 players I haven't had the pleasure of playing with all that much, especially Ian, whom I'm never even met before, however, I ended up going heads up with both of these guys, three handed anyway. As everyone may already know, I guess one could say I was lucky for getting called with nothing but you know, its poker. Here's how the last hand went down.... I was on the BB so last to act three handed. The other Mike was first to act and Ian was SB. I was dealt pocket Queens. I raised, Ian called and the BB Mike went all-in. I smoothed called, as did Ian. The flop was all unders, I left not wanting to see the last 2 cards even though Ian and Mike had each others outs. Mike had AQ offsuite and Ian had A9 suited, I moved all-in after the flop and Ian called with Ace high, interesting. Guess he thought I was bluffing ; )....but I wasnt. No ace on turn or river.......tourny number 2 taken down, can I go for three, hell, no way, not this donkey!!


I will see everybody at Mookie's on Friday, have a good week guys!

The Most RiDONKulous Tournament I've ever played in!


So it all started yesterday at about 7:10. Shuffle up and deal.....I'm sitting at a table with a couple of guys who I have only played with once, you can look at the Mookie's blog to find out the names. However, I'm not here to complain just to ponder what in the hell some of these players are thinkin with the cards their holding. I have compiled a list of hands that went down last night, yes I said LIST. Here they are as follows:

1.) KK verse J8 off suite(believe it or not in this hand I told the table I was moving all-in after looking at only one card, that card was a King, had no idea I had cowboys) I was called with J8 off......guess the jack was high enough huh.

2.) A4 off suite, I limp in and its me, the BB and the SB and my other favorite player at the table who of course puts a nice little beat on me.........the flop is 8 4 2 all off suite, I bet 1600(blinds were 400/800) small blind and BB folds, but wait....who calls me, yes its the guy. I have no clue. The turn is a 5, I now have 3rd pair on board, I check, he then checks, the river 3. I check, he then bets 800, I call just because of the pot size, he flips over 10 6 suited. I had a 1600 raise called by NOTHING but on the turn and river was made into a straight.

3.) AA is beat by Melissa's 6 9 off suite that also turned into a straight. And yes, I did raise pre-flop, I'm assuming she put me on AK.

4.) Yet again, I announce to the table that I am moving all-in after looking at one card, again, a King. I am called by Clara who had A6 suited, good call, I had no chips whatsoever, I think 1000 more than the Big Blind. I had a King and of course a 2. I hit my 2 on the turn, but wonderful little Clara had to take away any little glimmer of hope I had by hitting a 6 on the river.

WOOOOOHOOOOOO, wonderful game yesterday night. Clara, Melissa, and especially Mondo, just wait until I get a photo of each one of you, its getting photo shopped from hell.

I was in for 60 dollars yesterday including my buy-in for Megan, who got second, nice job btw, I'm impressed. She was nice enough to give me my ten back after finishing second for around 160 bucks.

Despite some extremely questionable plays that would have given Phil Helmuth a heart attack, it was a fun time at the Big O. That's all for now.

No more fast food, especially Whataburger

Me, like everybody else, craves the good ole fast food we drive by everyday. The beautiful orange and white stripes, the golden arches, the red-head with pigtails, which one is it going to be? On December 31st of last year, my list of resolutions included no fast food whatsoever. Unfortunately, our family had a gift exchange for Christmas, my gift, 50 bucks in whataburger gift certificates, unbelievable. So I must say, as of February 14th of 2007, I have officially run out of the free food vouchers, good thing. Even though the double meet whataburger with cheese is so delicious, my happy little smile when thinking about my favorite fast food chain has come to an end. Look at these ridiculous statistics Ive been consuming for 2 solid years now.

http://www.whataburger.com/browse_nutritional_info.php


Makes you think twice doesn't it.......

Despite ruining my health with this garbage, I do try to run 2 miles a day. That doesn't always work out, however, on average, in around 2 miles, the body usually works off around 200 calories give or take the circumstances. My source....the treadmills at YMCA show a loss of 200 calories at the 2 mile marker, for me anyway, I would assume its the same for most. Enough talk about working out and bad foods, I need to get some sleep, 6 o'clock in the morning comes quite fast.

Back Again......the return of Billy the Kid's Blog
-only 10 months later!!!!


I started blogging the earlier half of 2006. I drifted away from it but am going to try and update more and more. I hope to get some feedback on my blogs, I'm new at it, so for those of you who have been blogging awhile, DON'T LAUGH. But on a serious note, I do seriously like feedback, so whoever reads this, I'll always reply.

For an update.........its now around the middle of February 2007, the past year I have spent playing mostly live tournaments at the Big O and also tournaments at the Winter estate(Jim and Stacy's) . I'd say this last year has been up and down, i'm up a little, a little is better than down as far as internet play is concerned. Trust me, there's more and more donks as the days go on. For the most part, as of February 9th, ive stopped internet play because of the difficulties of simply funding my accounts and also receiving funds. I HAD A CHECK BOUNCE FROM AN ONLINE CASINO. And yes I know, in an earlier blog last year I had announced stopping online caisno play for real money, however, I received an email saying that the casino would give 500 bucks of play money and anything you made within an hour on top of the 500 you got to keep, so I took 500 to 670, yeah......170 bucks real money in my account, HAH, I cashed out a total of 70 bucks including a 20 dollar deposit I had made. I got the check in the mail 15 days later and BAM..the check bounced, Wells Fargo rejected it. So to make a long story short......DON'T PLAY ON ANY ONLINE CASINOS. For all I know poker sites could have the same problem getting funds to their customers.

February 10th, 2007....The second tourny this year for me at Jimbo's house. 17 players, tournament lasted 6 hours.....wow, lot of poker huh. Well, I happened to get a little lucky and take down the tournament for a 199 dollar payout including a 10 dollar buy-in with a 5 dollar add-on. I'd say its a good nights work, especially for a poor guy without his degree....yet : ) Next weekend is at the Mookie's Casa, hope to see you all there! Good luck!


This is for you Mondo, just to make it easy......here's another photo you won't have to photoshop. Why does this always happen naturally.......why can't my pictures be photoshopped.