Productive Night

Played again at Sportsbook last night. I first played in a free roll for the WSOP main event qualifier and was busted out in 12th place (1402 total entries) when my AJh went up against pocket 3's. Flop was As Jd 2c and all of my money went in. When I was called and saw pocket 3's, I was estatic. Turn was 6h. And was rivered with a 3d to make my opponent the set. Needed to be top 5 to qualify for the main tourney but thought I played well.
I then played four consecutive sit-n-go's winning three of them. The only one I lost was when pocket 8's sucked out on my pocket A's and I finished fourth. The best tournament I played, I was down almost 3 to 1 in chips when heads up play started and won the whole thing 3 hands later. The person I beat was steaming. Saw them later in another tournament and they were still on tilt.
I finished up the night with a little low limit (1/2 NL) cash game and made $160 in about an hour before shutting down the computer and calling it a night.
If you are not playing online, you should be. There are still a few places that take US players. Check one of them out. You can usually try them out in play money games without having to make a deposit. See how you like the software and the action at the tables. Decide on one or more. Put your money up and play like hell!

Now Playing at Sportsbook.com

There's a great place for American players to play at online.
Sportsbook.com welcomes American players, when so many others have locked us out. And if poker is not your game,
you can play other casino games or bet on sports. Go ahead and follow the link. No, I am not getting paid for this
promo. I used to play at Full Tilt, but have enjoyed sportsbook much
more since joining. They have tournaments each Sunday for a seat at the World Series of Poker main event and you
can even qualify for the Sunday tournament through daily free rolls. What a place. Been having fun there. Hope to
see you soon. E-mail me when you sign up and we'll exchange user names to look for each other.

The Three B's of Poker Threatened

Some of the BS put up by the directors of poker tournaments is getting out of hand. They are trying to take
the "three B's" (banter, bluffing and bullshit) out of poker tournaments.

Daniel Negreanu went off in his blog on the rules brokers and I don't blame him. The crap that these guys
are putting out as rules takes alot of the fun and strategy out of the game.

I just finished reviewing the rules for an area tournament with WSOP implications that had the rule that you
could not talk to any spectators during the hand. Who hasn't been in a situation where you want to talk to a
friend, supporter or heckler during the hand that is sitting on the rail. Maybe instead of talking, someone
could pull a Griffey and throw the spectator his jock strap. The rule makes no sense and takes the entertainment
value down for the spectators. What's next, You cannot stare directly at your opponent?

The crap rules have to be stopped. Boycott tournaments that have dumb-ass rules made by some dumb-ass who
gets frustrated at the table by the three b's. Tournament directors are just poker players who can not stand
up under the pressures of normal poker playing so they become directors to try and fix the things they think are
wrong with poker. Tournament directors have to allow the game to be poker, with all of the
banter, bluffing and bullshit that goes along it and stop trying to turn it into tiddly winks.