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"... a half-dozen recent Stanford graduates and their friends, whose escapades, fueled by Rusty Nail and Green Apple cocktails, would delight Dean Martin." Smithsonian Magazine "For a few good belly laughs, read these true tales.... Amidst their PG-13-rated stories of ribaldry in Las Vegas, there is a surprising amount of intelligent discussion of poker." New York Times "... they dress in women's clothes and go to poker rooms. They think this is of great interest to other poker players. This strikes me as a rather pathetic, or at least sophomoric, attempt to get attention." rec.gambling.poker

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Friday, March 24, 2006

josh :: A Fine Tiltboy Moment

I was in Vegas for the National Fantasy Baseball Championships (NFBC) last weekend. I brought two copies of Tales From The Tiltboys to give to a couple of friends in the industry. I had already autographed one for Jason Grey of Mastersball.com. The other was still in its original shipping package from our publisher for Perry Van Hook, with whom I bought into a $1250 entry league.

At dinner on last Friday night in a party of eight, I thought I would give Van Hook his copy. I got out the package and asked him if he'd like an autographed copy of Tales From The Tiltboys. He was quite enthusiastic. Others at the table are expressing curiosity.

I opened the package, got out the book, and the next question I had for Perry was, "OK, scratch that. How would you like a copy of Tales From The Miami Hurricanes Sideline by Jim Martz?"

If I wanted to order books based on form factor, it would have been a perfect substitute. Alas.

If you, dear reader, would like a copy of Tales From The Miami Hurricanes Sideline by Jim Martz, autographed by me, let me know by responding to this post. Leave email address so I can contact you. I'll even throw in the shipping. Hell, I might as well squeeze every bit of tilt out of this that I can. First response gets the book.

  

Lennie :: WRGPT15

For those who care about such things, I'm in 18th place right now in WRGPT15, having just nearly tripled up going all-in before the flop with AK suited (against AQ suited and 77) - the flop had an A, the turn made the AQ suited guy two pairs, but the river brought a Ten that made me a straight. That was the hand immediately after I layed down AJ suited before the flop against a couple of all-in raisers with smaller stacks than me (in which I would have lost to AK, and would have had only about $20k instead of $60k going in to the tripleupagus hand).

Out of 1286 players starting the tournament, 103 remain. Here's the top 30 - I went 30 deep since Michael Maurer, a FOTTB, is 30th.

Lennie


Subject: Tournament Standings
Score file generated Mar 24 10:30:31
103 players left
Average bankroll = $111847.57
Standard deviation = $82537.39
Rank Table:Player $Current $High $Low
----- ------------ -------- ------ -----
1 e15:jkroadma 492000 511500 750 Keene Roadman
2 e8:bartonfi 340625 340625 9625 Barton Finchley
3 e9:kenander 325975 346475 6925 Ken Anderson
4 e2:lesnyder 308725 310225 5550 Lonnie Snyder
5 e9:idlehand 293100 293100 10000 Action Roger
6 e14:henry 285275 285275 6150 Roland Henry
7 e7:daveirwi 268825 320200 5025 David Irwin
8 e4:adamek 268500 272500 8325 Mustard Lover
9 e9:datphatm 241450 284600 10000 Mojo <27/m/seattle>
10 e9:kevinoc8 234500 249500 9475 kevinoc85
11 e7:wrgpt 223225 238725 9375 Longines
12 e5:edd 216650 230650 6525 Matt Edd
13 e14:arge 195600 201600 9250 Kold Call
14 e1:tom 191400 191400 10000 Tom Daley
15 e13:heyrocke 188350 188350 10000 Greg Dunlap
16 e8:thompson 185500 187500 9875 Chuck Thompson
17 e5:qqchuck 182250 241050 10000 Prime Chuck
18 e4:bananfis 171700 171700 9950 Lennie Augustine
19 e11:gregjp99 171425 172925 10000 Greg Pietrykiewicz
20 e6:hwang 169825 171325 9600 Robert Hwang
21 e1:lof 165600 184500 7950 Jas39Gripen
22 e5:byers 162900 162900 9900 John Byers
23 e2:darse 160500 164500 9875 Darse Billings
24 e5:psagzz 147150 162100 9750 Paul Sagers
25 e2:nagypabl 142975 168050 1850 Badfish
26 e7:ejh 141225 229200 9225 ADB Jaeger
27 e8:craigvdf 140875 203875 9850 craigvdf
28 e13:bkilbane 139525 141525 6300 Suicide King
29 e15:amerasia 139275 181275 9925 AmerAsian
30 e9:mjmaurer 135300 136300 2425 Michael Maurer

  

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

diceboy :: Oops AND Presto Magnifico!

(Steve, please skip the 1st paragraph.)

So I had been very busy at work and hadn’t played a hand of on-line poker in over 9 months. Then, Steve told me the other day how he was up over $10k at the no-limit games at one of the online sites in the past month and I thought to myself, “Hey, if a fish like Steve can kill the game, it must be pretty good.”

So on Sunday night I sit down and hop into three different 5-10 no-limit games at the same time. After about 30 minutes I realize that it is not quite enough action, so I join one of the hi-low pot-limit Omaha games as well. To be safe, I drop down to 3-6 blinds at pot-limit Omaha because I hardly ever play it. On the first hand, I flop the nut low and then turned two middle pairs. I go all-in and get called by a fish with no low and two lower pairs. Cha-ching! Up $600 just like that. I win three more pots over the next 10 minutes where I have the nut low and everyone folds after my big bet. Then, I get dealt 2345. The flop comes A 3 5 and I have the nut low again. It is obvious that another player has also flopped a wheel, so I don’t raise too much on the flop to keep other players in. The turn comes 5, and now I also have a full house! I go all-in thinking that I have other guy with the wheel three quartered. River comes blank, and the hands flip over. It turns out that the other guy did flop the wheel too. But wait!!! The entire pot gets pushed to me. He doesn’t even get a quarter of it. On top of that, the other guy isn’t even complaining. Then I have one of those “Ahhhhhhhhh” moments and realize that I accidentally sat down at a hi-only game, not a hi-low like I had thought. I was playing the wrong game, but had still managed to triple up my buy-in. I hadn’t noticed because I was playing three other 5-10 hold-em games at the same time! I decide to keep playing the pot-limit hi game and cash out a couple hours later with $3,800 in chips. Pretty good for a table with a $600 max buy in! And, I also win at the 5-10 holdem tables. Nice introduction back into the game.

So last night (the next day) I am about to go to bed when I think to myself, “what’s the harm in a quick no-limit session?” I sit down at the computer and hop right into two no-limit holdem games. After a few minutes I get dealt pocket 5s at one table. I manage to flop set-under-set and I slow play the guy with the higher set to the turn. We both go all-in and then the river comes 5! Cha-Ching. I scoop a nice $1800 pot. Computer off, and straight to bed.

--Dice

  

Monday, March 13, 2006

rafe :: Calling all Former World Champion Roshamboists....

It's not the Big One, but still worth entering:

Casino to Hold Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament

  

Saturday, March 11, 2006

josh :: Oldie but Goodie

It can be very good to review The Greatest Science Paper Ever Written.

  

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

rafe :: Wikipedia: Tiltboys

I stumbled across this entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gordon

No idea who set it up, but it's fairly accurate. Maybe someone will make an entry for the Tiltboys...