~~ Bridgie's Daily Poker Rant 08/11/07 ~~

Today's Daily F**king Poker Blog takes us to the murky waters of No Limit Hold'em.

I played in two No Limit Hold'em tournaments and in the first one played 30 hands and won none of them. One dude terrorized me twice. First I made two pairs and put a substantial bet out there that he called with just one pair and it was the f**king MIDDLE pair. Then of course he makes another pair on the river and his two pair beat my two pair. Then the same dude calls my last ditch pre-flop all in with K-fuggin'-10. I had A-Q suited and of course the flop is K-10-3 giving him two pair. Lucky sonofabitch!

Of course with that quick exit I had to play another one to see if I could at least win a hand! And I did (yay!). In fact, even though my cards sucked for most of the time, I deftly dodged idiotic plays like I described above (well there was one idiotic play that I BENEFITED from but that's another story) and made it all the way to the second break at which point there were 93 peeps left. I was doing fine until a player named "Myboobys25" showed up and kept distracting me. She was in seat 10 and I was in Seat 9 so I had that 45 degree angle view that us menz like so much.

Right after the second break however, my computer decides to lock up big time on me. Among other things, during the process of trying to get back to the tournament, a popup window comes up that says:

"You don't have PartyGammon software on your computer. Download it now? Yes__ No__.

I'm thinking, Damn it!!! Why isn't the "No" choice "F**kkkkkkkk No"????

Anyway, I was locked out of the tournament long enough to where right when I got back I had been blinded to nothing and I was all in with something like 624 chips. I lost, but I was toast anyway with that few chips. I finished 43rd out of 3,910 so all things considered, not bad. It just would have been nice to have had a chance to pick a spot to go all in before my last f**king 624 chips.

OK here's the idiotic story referenced above. I have A-2 and I'm in the big blind and there are no pre-flop raises so I play it. The flop is A-2-7 so I've flopped 2 pair and I'm first to act. There are 5 or so people in the hand so I bet the minimum which should tell everyone still in the hand that I at least have an Ace or I can beat a pair of Aces. The idiot, who has a weak Ace (A-6) then decides to go all in. I figured he had a strong Ace otherwise that just isn't smart considering I had already bet. Of course I called him and didn't he feel stupid when the case Ace came out giving him a set, but me a full house. He had a spanish handle so I politely told him "adios" after his graceful exit from the festivities.

~~Bridgie