Live Poker Update

None of us has managed to post much lately so I thought I would give as short update on our last home game. Several of the regulars weren't able to make it, but we did get two newcomers at the table. They both had poker experience and seemed like good guys. Thus, I hope they will make the transition from being guests to being regulars... We had only 6 players, but it was a good evening with one regular tourney and one turbo shove fest afterward. NOR69 played smart aggressive poker and got good cards resulting in his winning both events! Congrats on your first live win(s) - well played!

I was pretty much card dead all evening except for a few pocket pairs, including 3 AAs - LOL! They didn't help as much as one would think though. I shoved my first AA on a K104 rainbow flop. TL had flopped a well timed set of 10s and stacked me 5 minutes after the one hour rebuy period had ended- ouch! Luckily all the players convinced me to extend the rebuy period for another 30 minutes. I don't like breaking my own rules, but this did allow me to rebuy back into the game. two more rebuys from other players, including MrSmith, follwed shortly thereafter. By the time we were ITM, NOR69 had most of the chips in play. While MrSmith and I with our short stacks ended up slugging it out for 2nd place. I won the cointoss vs MrSmith but lost the cointoss vs NOR69.
(Tourney Results: 1st NOR69, 2nd Roland, 3rd MrSmith)

The turbo tourney (no rebuys, top 2 payout) was crazy with the 10 minute blinds quickly making everyone short stacked. By the time we were on the bubble, all three players were blinded out with the btn forced to shove ATC pretty much every hand. Not much skill was involved, but it was a lot of fun. The results were a repeat of the first tourney.

On a side note, I can happily report that the number of visitors to our site is higher than I expected! I have had to expand the number of countries shown in the counter three times now. If any of you unknowns are reading this, then feel free to drop a comment. Furthermore, feel free to play in our next Private game over at PokerStars.

Speaking of Private Games, we are due for our May installment. It is a bit short notice to run it this Sunday, so I'll set it up for sunday 23 May. I'll post the details later tonight :)

Roland