Wise Hand Poker

I am going to set up an e-mail account on my home computer for YOU the readers to send me your bad beat stories or advice you may have in the Poker World. Complaints gripes,(about Poker please)that you need to get off your chest.

I think people should listen to bad beat stories more often as you can learn from them. I know there are a lot of great Poker minds out there that read my blogs and do not have the forum to discuss certain situations, so I will truly enjoy any and all input.

Any really good topic I will forward to Gary and maybe he will use it on his Rounders Radio Show. Although I am not popular enough to be on his Show....I am sure Gary will use anything good in the Poker Community.

I will set up the account this evening and will post here. Hope all of you have a great weekend....Be safe...Take care...

ok any questions gripes or bad beats....pkrwisehand@sbcglobal.net

In 1968, in his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man, Dives, and the poor man, Lazarus, and reminded us that, "a man went to hell because he didn't see the poor."

"And this could happen to America, the richest nation in the world," he warned.

"There is nothing new about poverty," he said. "What is new is that we now have the means and the know-how to lift every child out of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will!"

So as we mark another anniversary of Dr. King's death, we should also remember how fortunate each and everyone of us is.

2008 marks the 40th anniversary of his Poor People's Campaign.

The Poor People's Campaign challenged our nation to end the poverty afflicting millions of Americans of all races and confront the entrenched triple evils of racism, excessive materialism (poverty) and militarism that threaten our nation and world.

In this rich nation of ours, in 2008, there are 36.5 million Americans still living in poverty, including nearly 13 million children. There are 47 million people in America who have no health coverage, and 9.4 million of those are children.

Last night I went back to the Hustler Casino to give the $340.00 NL Holdem event a shot. I thought about going to Hollywood Park and playing there $340.00 event but I decided the Hustler would have more players and when you compare the two venues,Hustler wins hands down.

There were 180 entrants last night at the Hustler and I am sure Hollywood Park had about half that much. The guarantee at the Hustler was $45,000.

I do not want to knock Hollywood Park, because a good friend of mine, Jay is the tournament director at Hollywood Park. On a scale from 1-10 the Hustler is a 10 and the room we play in at Hollywood Park is a 1...

The GOOD news is I didn't get any bad beats last night..The BAD news is...I didn't have any cards to get bad beat with.

I had 88 the first hand and lost only 75 chips..I had 44 a few hands later and lost 100 chips I then had AA with 6 limpers when the blinds were 150-75 so I just moved all in as I was the button. One guy at the table told me not to do that again so I showed him the Aces before mucking.. The table had a good laugh at him and this hand allowed me to steal some small pots later. After this I had pocket 7's in level 4 and I did not have a pocket pair the rest of the night as I busted 45th with my last 3900 chips with K-9 spades against AQ off. I hit a 9 on the flop but my opponent also hit his Ace.

I was so very patient last night. I played to level 9 with garbage. Picking up the small pots just to stay alive. I was becoming frustrated, but I took a deep breath and closed my eyes to get back focusing on winning. When you keep getting 2-7 2-4 3-7 all night it begins to wear on you. I did the best with what I had last night and in Poker there are nights like this. I am just waiting for the night I have a mad rush early and late to get me that win I have been so close too lately.

There are no big events until May here in Southern california, The Bike has a small buy in event starting April 10th, Stars and Stripes. However heavenly Holdem starts in May at the Commerce and I am going to save up and play those events. In the mean time I will be getting my spring chores done around the house and I promised my girls to take them to the River to go boating.

Thanks for reading and please be SAFE..Take care.

As I told you a few weeks ago when I made the final table at the Winning of the Green Event I was beat by the small blind who was holding pocket ACES when I pushed with pocket Kings from the cutoff and I finished sixth out of 277 people.

Last Wednesday while playing in the $345.00 NL event at the Hustlers Spring Fever Tournament my pocket ACES were cracked by a straight on the turn after a flop of A-10-7. I had hit my set but my opponent who had gone all in pre-flop with KJ turned a Queen and after playing very solid I was sent home around 50th in a field of 300.

Sunday Night I played at Hollywood Park casino in the $125.00 NL unlimited re-buy event. I did not re-buy and when we were down to 54 players I only had 7,000 in chips. We started with only a 1000 but it was a tough evening and every time I had a hand it was in a small pot. I pushed with KK again when 3 limpers came in when the blinds were 600-300. The guy to my left thought for about 3 minutes and finally called me with AQ and of course an ACE on the flop and ACE on the turn. Oh that drive to Fontana of 65 miles was longer!!!

Last night I played in the Larry Flynt's Spring Fever $255.00 NL tournament with 283 entrants. As I said last week I really enjoy playing in this card room. The staff is SUPER friendly, the food is good and the decor is outstanding. It's by far the nicest place top play here in Southern California for Tournaments.

We were getting close to the money and the blinds jumped from 3000-1500-500 to 5000-2500-1000. A very steep jump. I had just one a hand with my KK against AJ in an all in against this women who had miss played her big stack the hand before with QQ. I even spiked a third King on the river and I now had 32k in chips. I was still one of the short stacks though. I started out strong again in this tournament and had several levels of being card dead but I never got the rush I needed to build a stack where I could raise people of their blinds.

There were mostly all in calls at my table and as we hit 28 instead of going hand for hand everyone agreed to pay the 28th spot. I had only 17,000 chips and I look down at QQ and push it all in. AGAIN!!!!!! the Big Blind has ACES!!!!!! and the board was all low and I along with another player busted at the same time. So after 61/2 hours of play I was paid $375.00 for a 120.00 profit. However I played very good again,won one race caught a hand 2 times to keep me alive and I truly see things starting to change for me at the tables. It seems to always be just one hand near the end that gets me. But with QQ and short stacked I had no choice but to put them all in the middle and hope no one had KK or AA. Soon it will be my turn to have the best hand near the end of one of these events and I will be able to say FINALLY instead of driving the 65 miles home and wondering why this constantly happens to me in almost every event I go deep. But I am "Keeping things in their proper Perspective"

I am going to rest and do some Honey DO's around the House this week. So I hope all of you have a great week and take care and be safe!!

I was fortunate enough to make a trip with the Image Masters crew to Biloxi, MS to document how this amazing community outreach program has made such an impact in post-Katrina Mississippi.

They help low-income and homeless families with ANYTHING they need, often employees were using their personal monies. I saw a woman come by to see if they could help her pay her $34 electic bill because she didn't have the means to pay it, a deaf man that stops by to pick up newly donated clothes because people keep breaking in to his FEMA trailer and stealing things at night since they know he's deaf, a woman so grateful to have her own dishes again in an apartment that they found for her.

So if you have a roof over your head, peel a few off the bankroll and donate to this worthy cause.

Even better, if you find yourself playing one of the Biloxi Casino's events, call and ask if they need a volunteer for a day - very humbling to see what these people do every day.

www.backbaymission.com
Email: backbay@datasync.com

Back Bay Mission is located at
1012 Division St
Biloxi, MS 39530