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Saturday, May 28, 2005 

So close...yet so far away...

I played my other $26 satellite token that I won for $4.40. NL Hold'em with 207 entered.
The prize pool consisted of places 1 and 2 win a $1500 seat to an early World Series of Poker event +$500 cash. places 3 to 7 won cash.

I started out playing like poop. On Full Tilt you start with 1500 chips and i managed to get down to 263 chips left and was 128 of 128 left. Then the poker gods looked down upon me. I doubled up about 4 times in 20 minutes and after the first hour at 9pm I was 5th in chips of 97 with 8000 chips.

And here's how it went from there (sorry if this is hard to read...these are my actual notes as I played):

9:16pm UTG raises, 4 callers i have 99 on button flop comes A95 2 diamonds, SB goes all in, UTG reraises all in i call 999 holds up

rank 1 of 88 13006 chips - 2nd has less than 10k

9:30: 4 of 67

KK loses to 22 2 hits flop - 9148 chips

K6 wins 6800 chip pot from SB

9:40 4 of 59 : 12648 chips

bought blinds with KK
9:50 7 of 42 : 12258 chips

10:00 7 of 32: 12133 chips

2nd break 10:05: 13 of 28: 11033 chips left

10:20 20 of 26: 7583 chips
10:40 17 of 18: 5983 chips 400/800 blinds 100 ante
caught 88, 55 then 66 to get up to 18632 chips: 8 of 17

10:50 9 of 13: 16057 chips 500/1000 blinds 125 ante

all in with 33 called by A4 hit my set on flop
10:55 6 of 12: 20489 chips

11:00 7 of 11: 19889 chips

all in AKo against TJo hit K on flop

11:10 8 of 10: 19736 chips

11:15 7 of 10 19136 chips - second break

11:20 7 of 9: 15386 chips

11:30 6 of 7: 18386 chips - In The Money - guaranteed $87 cash

JJ against A5 hit my set
11:35 5 of 6: 36319 chips

11:40 5 of 5: 29719 chips - 1500/3000 ante 400

5th place had 2600 chips...i had 2400 in big blind out...had to call 200 chips with 82 and i made a straight yay

11:50 4 of 4: 31000 (chip leader has 130k chips)

went all in with 22 got called by A3o he hit A on river. Nothing I could do but feel the sting.

I finished in 4th place and got paid $222.64 though :)

My best finish and biggest win so far ...sucks being so close to winning that WSOP seat though.

Thursday, May 26, 2005 

Must reach WSOP...

I've been playing more tournaments the last few days. I'm trying to win low buyin satellite tournaments to get into the larger cost ones.

This week I have won a $39 seat and two $26 seats. My $39 one was a bust...got knocked out 7th. I played a $26 tournament tonight on full tilt which first place wins a buyin into a $1500 event at the WSOP. I played well and got knocked out in 44th of 150 or so when i pushed QQ and got called by KK. oh well what can you do.

So I still have one more $26 token left to use. Might wait til next week to use it.

Monday 5/23/05 - thursday 5/26
.5/1: +29.16
.5/1 kill: +21.40

Monday, May 23, 2005 

Sideways

Sideways - the story of my poker playing the last few days and also the name of a movie we saw yesterday. I know many people liked this movie and it won awards. All I can ask is "why?". Ugh I was bored after 15 minutes...bored after 30 minutes...bored after 45...you get the point. It had a couple of funny scenes but overall I was just like "how was this made into a movie?". Not my type of movie I guess.

The last few days at the tables have been up and down. For some reason I still have a problem at 2/4. I don't understand why I am sucking when I can crush .5/1. Granted I have lost with AA both times i've seen it but man I seem to get sucked out on all the time too. i'll have to go back through my stats.

Wednesday 5/17/05 - Sunday 5/22/05
.5/1: +42.50
.5/1 kill: +22.90
1/2: -10
1/2 kill: +5.50
2/4: -61.25

Friday, May 20, 2005 

Almost there...

Over the next couple of weeks there may be some interruption in service for this web site. I am changing web hosts so there will be a day or two without being able to access scottwire.com

In the next couple of weeks also will be some announcements of business news for us. Stay tuned...

As for the tables, haven't really played a whole lot the last couple of days. There is a new PartyPoker reload bonus so I'll be playing a bunch the next few days. Going to see how I do at 2/4 again.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005 

The week that was

Lots going on in the last week. Still doing freelance work and trying to fit in our own sites at the same time. I'm still hoping to get my new site up by the end of the month. Guess we'll see.

Been playing a bunch more satellites to get into some WSOP events. Nothing doing yet. Trying and failing :( Still have a few weeks though.

I also started on a new site, Paradise Poker. Played well and made $100 bonus money on top of what I won. Nice site. Plays like Party Poker and the games were good.

I'll make it easy on the eyes for the past week's poker playing:

5/11/05 - 5/16/05
.5/1: +50.15
.5/1 kill: +14.50
1/2: +16.63

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 

still busy...

Playing a little here and there...mostly at night. Not much to report. Still doing work for PSO and trying to get my own projects done in the mean time.

Tuesday
.05/.10NL : +12.55
.5/1: +13.60
.5/1 kill: +22.75

Monday
.5/1 kill: -12.50
1/2 kill: -1.75

Sunday
.5/1: +10.05
.5/1 kill: -2
1/2: +4

Saturday
.5/1: +0.55
.5/1 kill: +12.75
1/2: +27.50
1/2 kill: +9.50

Saturday, May 07, 2005 

Today is 5/7/5 HAIKU DAY

I must post my all time favorite haiku from back in the day when I worked tech support:

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Thank goodness Windows XP is sooooooooo much more stable than windows 95. A much nicer user experience.

I played the mini step 3 tournament and played like crap and finished 9th the other day to win a whole $2 woohoo. Now I have to start over and try to win a step 1 again.

Been playing well on UltimateBet lately. I'm really liking their kill games.

Friday 5/6/2005
Ring Games:
.5/1: +9.40
.5/1 kill: +$4.65

Thursday 5/5/2005
.5/1: -5.95
.5/1 Kill: +13.45
1/2: +40.50

Thursday, May 05, 2005 

Thank goodness for reload bonuses

For the last week or so I've been playing the 1400 raked hands required to get a $200 bonus. Thank goodness for that because in those 1400 hands I managed to lose about $90 :( Not a great start for the month of May. But at least the deposit puts me in the black :)

Wednesday 5/4
Ring Games:
.5/1: -12.24
.5/1 Kill: +4.30
1/2 Kill: +23.75

Single Table tournament:
mini step 2: finished 2nd...won buyin to step 3

Tuesday 5/3
Ring Games:
.5/1: -43.98

Tuesday, May 03, 2005 

The week that was

Been really busy doing web work. Freelancing and trying to get my own business started. Lots to do ...been playing some here and there but nowhere near the usual amount. I'm not going to post day by day but I'll put up the summary for the week. My best accomplishment this week was a Sunday night PSO tournament which I finished 9th :)

Week 4/28 - 5/2
Ring Games:
.5/1: +37.95
.5/1 Kill: -13.70
1/2: -3
1/2 Kill: +1

Tournaments:
PSO $5.50 NL tourney: 9 of 53 won $9.28


  • NL = No Limit Holdem
  • PLO = Pot Limit Omaha
  • CP = Crazy Pineapple
  • TD = Triple Draw
  • UTG = Under the Gun (first to act)
  • MP = Middle Position
  • LP = Late Position
  • CO = CutOff (one before the button)

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  • From NJ
  • Hi there. I started this blog mainly to keep track of how I'm doing playing poker as well as to vent, share my thoughts and feelings, and allow friends and family to follow along. Thanks to everyone following along whether I know you or not. About me - I am currently a web developer who is trying to become a successful Entrepreneur with my wife. We love to travel and are trying to become successful enough to do that as we please :) That's us in a nutshell.
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