Poker Champ

Playing to Pro (Bracelet Time LOL!)

2006-06-02T08:03:00.000-07:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

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Play Like a Champion Today

Twenty Questions

2006-05-19T10:10:00.000-07:00

1. What is the biggest mistake people make at a NL table?

Sitting at the same table as me.

2. What is the biggest mistake people make at a Limit table?

Only pussies play Limit.

3. Why do you play poker?

Because I’m good at it, and I love money. It’s also a good way to let people know how good I am at something win I hit it big.

4. If you weren't playing poker, what would you be doing?

Drinking Buds and playing Cricket.

5. What is your favorite poker book and why?

Hellmuth.

6. Who is your favorite poker player and why?

Hellmuth because he can read his opponents well. I also like Raymer and Hachem and Ivey. I really think Ivey is the Tiger Woods of poker.

7. Which poker player do you dislike the most and why?

I just hate tourists and fish that stick around til the river and keep hitting LOL!

8. Do your coworkers know about your blog?

Yeah, most of them think its pretty cool and they like to read my tips and strategy.

9. What is the most you have won in a cash game or MTT (both live and online)?

I can’t remember too many Buds LOL! Seriously it was a lot one night where I got going really good and pretty much dominated the table. I’d say maybe $1000 at a NLHE$50 table.

10. What is the most you have lost in a cash game or in one day total (both live and online)?

Some tourist hit a miracle and took about a $100 from me once. Of course I got it back when he didn’t believe me when I had the goods. Don’t bluff a bluffer is what my grandpa always said. That and Son I’m gonna go fuck your grandma a good one.

11. Who was your first poker blog read?

Dutch Boyd and YosoyVeneno. I also like reading Miss Maudie.

12. What satisfies you more, your aces holding up for a big pot or a bluff working for a big pot?

Well, since I NEVERBLUFF LOLLOL!! I guess it would be aces. I’m just sick of all the trout catching rivers on my big hands so I would love it when my aces held up.

13. Why do you blog?

Because it’s a journey. And I think to go pro we all need to help each other and share the things we’ve learned. It’s helped me focus just to see all the others focused, and if we’re their for each other then good things will happen. I like sharing my tips and strategy that I’ve learned, and I really think the ship will come home one day and I’ll be on the beach drinking umbrella drinks showing off my shiny bracelet to ladies and living the life of a world champion.

14. Do you read blogs from an RSS reader like bloglines or do you visit each blog?

I don’t know what RSS is, but I do like to visit blogs. I like it when people comment on my blog too except for the hate. Like I said we all need to stay focused and its hard when there are haters bringing down our journey to pro. My two favorite blogs are Jordan and StruggleBogey LOL!!

15. Would you rather play poker for a living than do what you currently do for a living?

Of course. And its only a matter of time. My goal is to play at the NL$1000 table by December. That way if I ONLY win half of my stack I’m up $500. 500 x 300 is $150000 which I can live off of easy. The other 65 days a year I’ll probaby be spending all my winnings on a beach LOL!!

16. Do you wear a tin foil hat on occasion?

No, but Tommy has an old fishing hat with hooks and lures on it that we make fun of him for wearing to the poker table. He says its lucky and that he can tell if someone is bluffing him if they get all caught up staring at his 1957 Wall-Eyed Jibbler.

17. If you had to pin it down to one specific trait, what does a great poker player have (or do) that separates them from an average player?

You just have to be the champion you want to be. Some people are born with it, some people aren’t. I was lucky to be born with it and last time I was home I really thanked my parents for that. I keep telling my dad that it is all one big session and the only way to get there is to keep on going with what I know. And that is Poker.

18. Is Drizz the coolest person on the planet for naming his baby Vegas?

I thought about doing that too, and I probably thought about it a long time before Drizz did LOL! But that’s cool. I liked Cody for the boy, and we went with Jessup as the middle name. I told Crystal he could go by CJ that way if he wanted to but I think he likes Cody. I think its good to give kids options so they don’t get all worked up and go off and do crank or kill someone.

19. What is your primary poker goal and are you close to accomplishing it?

To be a World Champion. Yes I think I’m very close. I’m only one tourney away from it LOL!!

20. What is your primary online site and why?

Doyle’s. So many fish there it should be illegal. There are so many fish that play there it makes me wonder if they stocked the pond LOLLOL!!

21. What site do you dislike and why?

www.cnn.com Let’s face it, they say what they want even if it isn’t the truth. Of course the President isn’t going to tell us EVERYTHING LOL!!! What good would our insiders and spies and FBI be if everyone knew what they did? I know what I know about poker and life, and if it gets me to the final table with all the flashing lights then that’s all I want. All this stuff about politics is just stupid anyway. Tommy told me once that if I kept my eye on the prize, and stayed focused that my one big long session would finally pay off. I believe him and you should too. Remember that.

The Tourist

2006-04-04T08:25:00.000-07:00

Seven full hours of playing perfect poker and what do I have to show for it?
Nothing. At every single point in the tourney I knew that I was easily the best player at the table.

Fucking tourists.

It's all one long session you have to keep telling yourself.
Blah, blah, blah, fucking blah.

Nope, it's true. In the end, it is I who is The Tourist.
I'm just passing through folks. Don't mind me one bit.

It all started about four months ago. I guess you could say I was bored. Bored with poker, bored with poker blogs, bored with life, and bored with being bored. That's when I decided to jump into character and create good ole NeverBluff. That's right. Everything sure seemed normal in my daily walk, but one day reality slapped me around something good. My best friend was diagnosed with lung cancer, and started chemotherapy treatments immediately thereafter. This was fucking real. Something so completely real in a world that I had populated with reading blogs, playing poker, chatting online, reading books, and whatever else it was that I was doing to keep me distracted from actual living.

The news was powerful, and so close to home that the only way I could deal with it was to completely ignore it. I played more poker, and read more books, and subscribed to more blogs, and then one day finally decided to start up the blog that you're reading now. It was simply to serve as an outlet. One that I could tap into for my daily fix of simple childish poke-fun laughter and your standard dark, deprived, and debaucherous humor.

I always thought that a blog would surface one day and all of our fears would be realized. The internet had finally reached that guy. He's out there, folks, and I think that's where NeverBluff garnered a lot of his legitimacy. People know people like him. A complex parody combining every obnoxious personality trait that you could imagine. Couple this with an easily accessible medium, and voila!

The 21st century has given anyone and everyone a soapbox.

I've wanted to cut Champ off at the pass more than once, but was deterred by friends and readers who still liked tuning in to his madness every day. Everyone had their reasons for stopping by. I think some people came by because although his style was rough around the edges, he was still amusing and entertaining. I'm sure some came by to readily disagree with the most recent off color topic du jour. Some may have even checked in to feel good about their own lives comparatively using NeverBluff as a benchmark for "pathetic and utterly hopeless."

I like a good prank as much as anyone, but on my end, it was getting a bit old. Continued correspondence with very good people while pretending to be some backwoods dumbshit is a bit silly anyway. There never really was a "road map" for Poker Champ. I breathed a little life into him, and he just kinda took off.

Last week we got the good news that the chemotherapy had worked. My friend is in the clear for the time being, but still requires monthly exams for the next six months to make sure the beast doesn't return. He's smoked for the better part of his life and still remains a high risk candidate for the disease.

The real world is a motherfucker sometimes.

NeverBluff may serve to some as a reminder to not take anything too seriously. If some feathers were ruffled or panties bunched in the process, so be it. No harm was truly intended, and hopefully those that found themselves in Champ's crosshairs can appreciate some good old fashioned dark humor.

If you still want to hate, I've got a big blue veiner you can gag on. LOL!!

So, the next time a blog surfaces that's "too fat and juicy" to be true, it probably is. Well, maybe not the next time, because that will be me too, but the time after that for sure.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Thanks

2006-04-03T15:49:00.000-07:00

I got some emails from players that have been where I've been and I got a special email from one of my favorite bloggers Iggy from Guinness and Poker asking me to play in the blogger tourney for the world series. I've played in a blogger tourney before and they are fun to play with some of the best. Some of the worst too LOL!! Ask Jordan about sucking out on me in the headsup!! LOL!! Anyway, it feels good to know that the real professional poker bloggers who take it seriously think that I've got what it takes. Tonight I'm going to show everyone I've got what it takes and that this will be my first step to that bracelet.

Play Like a Champion Tonight LOL!!

Week

2006-04-03T08:30:00.000-07:00

Has it been a full week already since I last put up a post?
Let's just say it has been tough.

I am SICK AND TIRED of tourists catching their river. I have had more bad beats in the past 2 weeks that it is making me looney. I just have to keep telling myself it is one big session, but that is hard. Fish and tourists who have no business keep making hands when I'm way ahead. It furiates me to no end, and it really is just like the real world sometimes. I don't have much time to talk because poker has taken a backseat to the real world. Me and Kelly are officially over. I kept calling her but she never answered. Finally Tommy got through to her by talking to her friend who he still bangs and I got to talk to her on the phone for five minutes. It basically ended with me telling her she was a stupid bitch like all the rest of them. All the same. There are more fish in the sea, and I definitely don't have time for one bad apple to ruin my whole bunch. Also, Cody had a bad run-in with the fireplace yesterday. Tripped and hit face first into the base of it and knocked out 5 of his top teeth. Cracked them all off, and they had to cap them and he's not real happy about it. He got 6 stitches in his lip too, and he really looks like a mess. Just imagine that kid when he starts drinking beer if he can't even keep on his feet sober LOL!!! Anyway, he's going to be fine, and I think if it doesn't kill you it only makes you stronger anyway. So it should be good for him in the long run. Crystal says that's why I don't get him but once every two weeks, but that bitch is so stupid she doesn't know anyway. He could play Playstation at my house or play with Pete's boys, or I guess he could just sit around at Crystals with her and her man and see how much crank they can all do. I am fed up with all of them, and it really does go all the way back to Eve and the apple LOL!!

I took a gash when I was 16 in my leg that had 47 stitches once from hopping a barbwire in a field. Caught me on the backside and opened it right up. I bled like a stuck pig for the whole ride to the hospital and passed out on the way. My friend Eric was driving me in his truck and never did get the bloodstains out. I couldn't walk on it for about a week but it ended up making me stronger in the end.

With all this shit that's going on I really think it makes us stronger without killing us like the saying goes. I guess you could say that poker is like that since you get to bounce back after all the beats. It sometimes doesn't seem like it because you get so pissed when they go runner-runner, but those are the people you want to play. They will pay you off in the long run, and they are the building blocks to go pro. It is tough to keep telling yourself that, believe me, I know. I bet I've taken more bad beats in the last month than pretty much anyone out there. At least at Doyle's and Stars. You got to take a break for a few minutes. Go for a walk, or just take a minute off the game. I'll take it out on the heavy bag for a few minutes, and that with a good walk usually gets me toned down pretty good. Anything that can relieve the stress that bad beats cause is good. It is a LONG haul, and if you go off the deep end you'll never be able to reach shore. I have been swimming in the poker waters for a year almost the deep end could have easily sucked me under just like those fish keep sucking me out with river catches.

If it doesn't kill you IT WILL MAKE YOU STRONGER. I promise.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Ups and Downs

2006-03-27T09:06:00.000-08:00

I guess you could say I had an up and down weekend. Lots of shit went down, and it's really hard for me to put it alltogether. Of course I can't write about it all, but let's just say that I won my cricket tourney, and that I finished third in the poker tourney. We had 8 players and of course I got sucked out on. It never gets old LOL!

Also, I guess me and Kelly may be finished too. We got together Friday night and I took everyones advise and told her about Cody. It caught her pretty good by surprise, and get this, she also didn't know how old I was!! She said that I told her I was only 30 at the concert. I don't remember doing that but it could've happened because me and Tommy drank all day long. So, she was pissed about that, and kept on saying "If you lied about your age and waited to tell me about the boy that she would never know if I was lying or had something else to hide." I was pretty sad about the whole thing, but then realized that they're all the same. It would've ended sometime anyway soon because she just wasn't getting it. What do I have to hide I asked her? I told her I didn't want to hide anything because that's why I told her about Cody. I tried to keep dodging the subject of my age because I'm almost 40 and I told her I was 30. I probably thought I'd get away with it since at first I just thought she was a stupid chick who would believe me.

Anyway, so at least I still got poker !! LOL!! Like Tommy said too that there are other fish in the sea. We're just in Louisville and think about how many other girls are out there. We can pretty much go out and pick up chicks whenever we want and if we run out in Louisville we could always move LOL!! That's right. I asked her if she could ever see me again and she just said she didn't know for sure. I thought about it alot and I'd like to see her again, but if I don't it won't ruin me. She was hot, and she liked to party, and she was cool, but if it wasn't meant to be then that's that. If something is meant to be it will happen. That's just the way things work and I can't go and change them. We were at BW3 when we talked and my last words to her were "Well, if you see me winning a bracelet and a millon dollars on TV don't even try to come running back." I said it as kind of a joke, but not really. She just walked away. I always thought that having cool last words really means a lot. If it's with your dad, or your wife, or if you're dying I think that its important to have cool last words that mean something. I believe 100% in reincarnation, but that you live one life at a time. And your last words are like the last chapter in a book. It can't end perfectly unless you end them with perfect words.

The whole Kelly thing got me thinking the rest of the week, but it obviously didn't bum me out too bad because I won the cricket tourney and should have won the poker tourney. Poker really is like relationships because she was a hand that I called a raise with, but my river didn't help me. There was another big raise and I had to fold. Think about it. I've still got chips in front of me and I got plenty more hands to play. I also got plenty more girls to be with before its all said and done with. Life is a journey, and like I tell everyone It is one big session. You have to treat it like that or you'll go broke. What happens then? That's right. You got to move on to another game, or give up the game for good. I always try to keep chips on the table and make sure I have outs to get the nuts. You will always get paid off, but you can't get paid off if your broke and can't play the hand. Remember that.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Kicking Ass.

2006-03-23T09:16:00.000-08:00

Yup, that's been me lately.
So, I decided to take a day to myself yesterday so I cracked open some Buds and broke out the dartboard. We've got our first big cricket tourney here this weekend and I wanted to make sure I was practiced up.

So, what's your record for most bulls in a row?

Mine is now nine. And when I finally missed I hit three more in a row LOL!!

If I wasn't kicking so much ass playing poker I'd really think about trying to go pro playing cricket. The pay isn't as good though, and the players aren't nearly as famous. I just found out from my boss that our group (the one I'm the head of) is doing so good that we may branch out and start up in either Cincinnati or St. Louis. I would get a choice to go to either, but I'm not sure if I will. It's not for sure yet, and when it is for sure it won't happen for 6 months. I'd hate to leave all the guys even though it's not that far away. I also get a bonus if I decide to take the job in the other cities. That would be cool, but I'm really starting to fall in love with Louisville. I'm thinking some of that has to do with Kelly. I'm thinking about telling her about Cody this weekend when I give her the necklace. Part of me wants to tell her everything but I'm also scared she may leave if she finds out I have a kid. That's probably why I won't tell her. The way I figure it what she doesn't know won't kill her. Besides she'll find out one day down the road sooner or later I think I'd just rather have her more in love with me when she does. I can not lose this woman. She is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, and I would give up cricket and football and poker and everything to be with her. Okay, maybe not poker LOL!! Just kidding.

I played in 2 sitandgos last night on Doyle's. I was going to play another 45 person for Jordan's but didn't know how much time I had for sure, and it turned out I had enough time but didn't know it.

Do you ever have the choice to make like I did yesterday with cricket or poker? You really want to be the best at both and you feel that if you play one to practice to be the best your not giving your best at the other since your not playing it? That's the way I feel sometimes. I really want to be great at both, but sometimes I feel like I need to choose one if I want to become a master of it. That's why I chose poker months ago. Don't get me wrong I still love to play cricket and I'm still the best out of our group, and pretty much the best I've seen out of everyone who plays at our bar, but poker is really my thing. I've known this since I played my first hand. If it's special and meant to be you will just know it. I still remember when Kelly turned around to meet me at the Kid Rock concert and I talked to her. She completely blew me away with her smile and body. Without a doubt I know she is my soul mate.

And you can guarantee that when I win that bracelet and the cameras show me running into the crowd she'll be the one there cheering me on. I just know it.

Life couldn't get any better right now because my poker game is as good as it's ever been and I really feel like I'm one of the best out there not just at Doyles but wherever I play. Like I said you really have to act and play like a true champion if you want to be a champion. I know one thing and that's I wouldn't want to play me in poker LOL! Unless your scared of poker chips because I will take them from you and make things right !! Thanks for everyone who isn't hating in the comments, I really feel like if we're all serious about going pro its going to take help from each other. It's a long journey, but if we stay focused I know we will make it.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Winning Streak

2006-03-22T06:13:00.000-08:00

I guess you could say that I'm a winning streak.
I'm starting to build up a pretty good relationship with Kelly and we're going on our third date this weekend, and get this, she said for our fourth date she'd go to Ceaser's with me. That's right.

Poker has been very nice to me lately. The games at Doyles are a gold mine and I've already moved up to NL$100. Last night I played at a 100NL table and was only there for 30 minutes when I hit pockets 88 and tripped them up on the flop. The guy caught his king and bet the pot. There were two hearts and I didn't want him to suck out so I raised all-in. He called and I got his entire stack. Not less than 5 minutes later I get pocket rockets, that's right, and this guy raises before the flop. I don't want him going anywhere so I just reraise the minimum. The flop comes with a King, and without thinking he just goes all in. If you read my post yesterday I said he could've hit his trips and if he would have I would go broke. I called with my AA and he had Ace-King and went broke again. He said in the chat that I was a lucky SOB, but that's the thing you get lucky sometimes. I didn't suck out on him, but getting pockets that hold up can be lucky. I had $392 when I got up and that my friends is a good session for less than one hour of work LOL!

If you want to really know where luck comes into play you have to do what I've been saying and that's to treat each session as part of the BIG session. The day you finally take up poker that's the beginning of your long session. You will get sucked out on, because that just happens when you play with the tourists at Doyles and Stars. But, getting sucked out on will get canceled out by all the times your pockets hold up like my AA did. When that cancels out all you have left is pure poker playing. And that's where you decide the winners and losers. It really does seem simple to put it that way but it's the truth. All the greats have suckouts, and all the greats get lucky sometimes when their hands hold up. But what makes them great? That's right, everything in between. And they are focused.

If you want to watch a real tournament player in action come see me at Stars. I won't post my name because I don't want the entire world taking notes, but you can find it if you go to Jordan's 45 SNG page. People there are more fish at Stars than in the entire ocean. Once Doyle's dries up that's where I'll be heading for most of my poker.

Poker tournament Saturday in the garage, and our first ever Cricket tourney right after. I don't like to make predictions, but everyone knows I'm the favorite to win both. I'm making my uncle's chili, and Tommy is bringing over 100 wings from BW3. One hundred!! That's right, that's how we do it.

Friday night is just me and my girl. I picked her up a necklace at the mall jewrly store yesterday after work and I plan to give it to her at dinner Friday. I'm also thinking about writing something maybe a poem, but I'll admit I'm kind of nervous about that. Anyway, I think she'll like the necklace, or at least I hope she does. You should see this girl smile. I get tears in my eyes when she smiles it is so beautiful.

Don't forget about the tits either because this girl is LOADED. LOL!!! I may be a softie at heart, but when it comes to the bedroom it's all fireworks. What's right is right and when I'm on my game let me tell you something, they always come back for more. So yeah, I'm pretty much looking forward to this weekend. Kelly, poker, darts, BW3 wings, and more March Madness. Now tell me that prayers don't get answered LOL!

I hope all your wings are fat and juicy like mine LOL!
I hope all your bullseyes are open and clean like mine LOL!
I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine too!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Making it Right

2006-03-21T08:07:00.000-08:00

Okay so I haven't been on here for a little while, but that's because some serious shit went down last weekend. It's not something at all that you could blog about either so I won't. Let's just say it got really ugly around here, and it involved one visit to the police station and two visits to the hospital. Lucky for me I was mostly just a spectator, but Cody got to see some shit that could end up with a scar on his brain forever.

And that's what you get folks when you mix dumb bitches with alcohol. Bottom line, you get a dumb ass bitch around alcohol and all hell will break loose. I'm sick of it already, and I've said it more than once. Especially when that dumb ass bitch is nuttier than squirrel shit like Jess.

Enough of that, let's just say it ruined a weekend that should've been great. Anyway, I did get to watch a lot of basketball, and I'll tell you who I like right now is Wichita State. I would put them up agains anybody.

And also, has anyone been keeping up with my 45 person sitandgo challenge Jordan put together? I'm in 2nd place, but I've played 3 less than the leader. I started out just playing the $5 to see what was going on, and I was right. Full of tourists. So, I got a bit nosey, and decided to step it up and play a $10. Guess what? Yup, same old tourists. I got third place but only after another suckout. It was cold here last night and all I had on was my sweatpants and hooded jacket but I was so pissed I walked around outside for 15 minutes. I worked off some anger on the bag in the garage too, and that usually settles me down. It would've been an easy victory, and I overcame it by once again telling myself it's just one long session. You think Phil Ivey or Hellmuth or Joe Hachem never got sucked out? The answer is to do whatever it takes to keep your mind off of it, and then get back to the table. A lot of people probably don't realize that the movie Rocky was based on a true person, and if you watch every time Rocky gets knocked down, he starts to think about what got him there. That's the key. If you think about just the moment, then you will stay on tilt and go broke. You have to think about what got you there and where you play to go. Rocky always got up and finished off his opponent, and that's what you have to do at poker.

I still have the same strategies at the 45 sitandgo, and they are pretty simple. People, you may think these are silly tips, but follow them and watch your wallet grow. The proof is in the pudding, and go look at Jordan's site. He makes you email him when you start and also take a printscreen when you finish. The numbers don't lie, and it's easy to see I know what I'm doing.

1. Start slow. There is no reason to bet all of your chips early on no matter what. Of course if I have aces or flop trips I'll get my chips in there and if I get sucked out well that just happens. But there is no reason to bet your chips especially if you get raised. Chances are he's got aces or he just flopped trips.

2. Build up with the blinds. The blinds keep going up, so you need to make sure your stack does the same. If you notice someone who doesn't play their blinds I will raise them and steal their chips. Don't believe me? Come watch me play, a lot of people only play good hands, and if they don't have them in there blinds they will give you there chips.

3. Slow back down when you get near the end. Only 7 places pay, and only 7 spots count on Jordan's challenge. If there are only 11-12 people left there is no reason to make a mistake here and go broke. There are still tourists left in the tourney and they will go broke in front of you.

4. Cash and build up. Once you get the money or make the points in a challenge like Jordan's you can build back up. This will give you the chips to make a run for the championship.

5. Dodge suckouts! LOL!! Just kidding, but it helps.

Anyway, you can see these tips, and they work. The numbers don't lie, and you'll all be kicking yourself in a couple years when you see me with the bracelet on tv. Keep on hating and leaving comments with no names and talking about me not being Christian, and how I'm a bad father.

I DO NOT CARE.

This is a poker journal blog, and I'm a winning poker player building my way towards pro, and also working on a dream to be the World Champion. Either shut up, or catch the next train to Louisville. I'd be happy to break you down like a shotgun and feed you full of blue vein. Keep all women away from Jack Daniels too LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Weekend Fireworks

2006-03-16T07:02:00.000-08:00

That's right. Big weekend here for all of us. And the best part of it all is that my weekend starts TODAY! lOL! I'm leaving work along with Derrick, Lance, Michelle, and Troy to go to BW3 to start watching March Madness. And to top it off we got March Madness tomorrow then we are going out for Saint Patricks.

Oh, and if you're not keeping up with Jordan's 45man SNG challenge I'm 3 for 3. That's right. The players at Pokerstars are finding out why they call me Neverbluff, and I'm in the money every single time. So far I got a 2nd, 6th, 6th. People need to recognize that I'm where I need to be and that my game is as good as anyone's out there. Anyway, if you like free money the 45 sng are free money.

Here's the main reasons this is one of the top weekends of the year.

1. March Madness
2. Saint Patricks
3. I get Cody this weekend
4. March Madness LOL!
5. 45 sng free money
6. Poker tourney saturday
7. Kelly

I think Kelly is coming out with Jennifer (Tommy's chick) to meet us Friday for St. Patricks. This is going to get fun. Believe me. Tommy wants to do a 2-on-2 with the girls but I told him that normally that'd be sweet, but I'm really liking Kelly and she may be the one. So yeah, she means that much to me right now. But you got to start small, and then build up. You also have to stay focused and keep your eye on the prize. Sound familiar? Yup LOL!! I told you it was just like poker.

Anyway this weekend is going to be great with all the hoops. But we will be missing our Cardinals, but I know we'll be there next year. We have bracket tourneys at work and I've got Uconn beating Duke in the finals. I also have Pittsburgh (my home team) and Oklahoma in the final 4. Bracket tourneys are the best, and I'm usually one of the top finishers every year.

I'm going to play one more 45sng then off to BW3!! I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine !!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Sometimes you just got it.

2006-03-14T06:38:00.000-08:00

Yup, that's the way I've felt for the past week now.
I didn't win the DADI last night mostly because I don't play 6 handed much, and also because I was on the phone most of the night with guess who? That's right. Kelly. My goodness this girl has the goods.

It also felt good to just get knocked out of the tourney regular, and not be sucked out on like usual. I can't remember the guy but I had a short stack and had to move all in with Ace-Queen and he had pockets KK.

It was fun, I got to play with Joe Speaker who is one of my favorites. He's pretty good at poker, and he had a big stack all night. I doubt he reads here, but anyway, it was fun to play with him. Got to chat with some fans of my blog who really like the strategy and tips I've been putting up, and then there were the regular haters. Mostly Struggle Bogey, the joke. How pathetic are you when you bust out of a tourney and then you go give shit to someone still in it? Fucking loser, and I think it goes back to his homelife. He's probably depressed, or something LOL! Anyway, maybe if you spend more time playing poker and not stupid comic strips then you'd be able to play above penny limit. And don't come on my comments challenging me like every other Nickel Nancy, because I'd really hate for you to take out that fourth mortgage on your trailer LOL! And do yourself a favor, go feed that blue vein to your wife. She's starving for some. If you don't, I will and then it's all over, bud.

Anyway, people that hate drive me nuts. Don't say I'm not a Christian or that I'm a bad father because you don't even know. Come to my house and see. I've got a bible on my table, and I've got a cross with my Savior on it right next to my wood stove. Why don't you take up Morman or some other stupid shit.

So yeah, it's good to have someone like Kelly really getting into NeverBluff. And let me tell you, she's GOT THE GOODS. I don't plan on washing my pillow because I can still smell her on it and it smells like Magic. This may be the one folks. And she loves Texas Holdem !! LOL! Talk about that, we could be living together in Vegas one day taking tourist money and building our nest egg to sit on a beach somewhere. That's what I was talking about when I said that you have to stay focused and build up. Poker is just like relationships. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and if you keep your eye on the prize your ship will come in. I promise. I've been there and I've seen it happen.

Anyway we're going out with Derrick and two of his friends. One of them came out with us on Derrick's birthday and we gave him a rash of shit all night long because he kept drinking Fosters beer on ice ! LOL!! We called him the Iceman, but it wasn't meant to be cool. He's kind of a hard ass I think, but he likes Dale Jr. and the Louisville Cardinals so I can't hate on him too much. It really made me think back to when I first got to Louisville, and I knew a guy I worked with who drank beer with ice in it. Like only 6 months later he got arrested for child molesting two boys in his kid's boy scout group. I think he's still in jail, but I'm not sure. He should be, and everytime I see some tourist drinking ice beer I think of that dumbass. So, if you ever see soemone with ice in his beer it may be a good idea to run LOL!

It feels good to be back on top of the world. People can hate all they want, but if you lived my life you wouldn't worry much. The gameroom is almost set up, the Steelers are champs, I am working my way to pro, and now I've got Kelly. What's right is right and this is the day that the Lord has made! LOL

I've got some things I'm going to put together for a no limit hold em post. This will not be tourney poker, but regular. I've been playing the $100NL at Doyle's and if it keeps up I'll be able to send Cody to Harvard if he wants LOL!

Play Like a Champion Today.

The Weekend

2006-03-13T07:30:00.000-08:00

Let me tell you something, there couldn't have been more Buds drank LOL!!
I think me and Tommy figured it at almost 4 cases total.

And yes, I got laid.

About damn time too! LOL! This girl has the goods, and she's all about NeverBluff. And it worked out just like I thought it would. Tommy got the ass too, but that's no surprise.

We taught them how to play no limit texas hold'em the right way. Like I always say What's right is right. And that's how it is. We had a tourney at Pete's yesterday for the March Madness selection party. Our boys didn't get in, but we can always root against Kentucky! Go UAB LOL!!

Anyway, of course I ended up winning the tourney. I got down to headsup with Keith again. I think that's the last two times now. I finished him when my pockets 33 made trips and he hit his King high flop. Sometimes you just got it, and this last weekend goes down as one of the best ever. My new girl's name is Kelly and she is HOT! We're set up for another date Thursday, and I think I'm gonna take her out for some hot wings at our local wing place, BW3 and we'll watch some tourney basketball.

So, I guess I could've came on here and talked about all the haters leaving comments. Even Duggle came back for some more. You'd think he would've learned after I smacked him down a little bit, but it doesn't surprise me that he didn't. Go get stuffed DuggleFogey, and take Donna's fat ass with you. You can hate all you want, but when it comes down to it, NeverBluff will always win. That's why they all call me NeverBluff, because I've always got the goods. I had the goods all weekend long, and it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon.

If you want to keep hating, send me an email. I'll see if I can work you into my busy schedule and let you gag on my blue veiner. I've got more than plenty to go around, and I love to share LOL!!

Until then, why not read some of my tips to build to a pro player. You may actually learn something.

I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine! (Thank you, Kelly!)

Play Like a Champion Today.

Tips for Building to Pro

2006-03-10T06:08:00.000-08:00

Okay, it's been awhile, and after some comments and things I think it's time to get back to our bread and butter. Poker tips and strategy. This time I'm not going to talk about playing hands, but I'd like to discuss the things I've put down as my personal tips on how to climb up the poker ladder and one day make pro.

I don't think our headsup with Jordan is going to end up happening since he's been so busy lately, but I decided to join his 45 person tourney challenge. I only recognized two of the players so I think I should probably be one of the top favorites.

Anyway, of course, I've got the goods. As usual.

1. Start small. This may seem obvious, but if you ask Hellmuth or Ivey or Raymer they will all tell you that they started small. Think about it. If you start big by playing $10,000 no limit, then why would you even want to go pro? LOL! I started with $200 in my pokerstars account. I put about $150 into Doyle's and Full Tilt. Right now Doyle's is really my favorite because it is just full of tourists. And that's where you want to play. If there are fish everywhere, you can start small, and build up.

2. Build up. Be careful not to spend all of your stash on one tourney, or to play at a table where if you lose your stack you'll go broke. I started out playing NL$25, and have moved up to NL$50 and NL$100. My goal is to be playing the $200 and higher games by early summer. This would put me at my final goal of playing $1000 and higher by next winter. Even if you only make half your stack at these tables that's $500. And if you multiply $500 by 300 you get $150,000. That's right, the big bucks. And notice I only multiplied it by 300, so that means I get 65 days off. Can you say vacation?

3. Stay strong. Do NOT lower your guard at any level. Even if you lose a bit at the higher levels and have to go back down, you have to stay strong. When I first went up to $50 I lost for a week straight and almost went broke. I got down to $75 left and went back to $25NL and stayed strong. I built it back up and moved up again. Sometimes you have to take one step back if you want to take more forward. I'm marching forward stronger than ever right now. It's also important I think to take some losses. Now, don't go out and lose on purpose, but if you know what it's like to lose, it will teach you how to deal with it. I've talked about it before but this is all one session, and if you want to be a champion you can't get too high or too low.

4. Stay focused. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and you have to stay focused. Every person has a different light, and mine is to win a bracelet. Most people is to get rich, and the way I look at it, if I win a bracelet I will be rich too! So, I guess you can say I'm going to get the best of both worlds. The goal is to be on a beach sipping umbrella drinks while your gold World Champion bracelet shines in the sun. Not everyone will get there. It takes focus more than anything. That and determination.

5. Never Give Up. The second you give up your journey is over. Think about all the drills you had to do in high school. Wind sprints, suicides, tackle drills, death valleys, and all the stuff that would practically kill you. We all know now it only makes you better. Like the saying if it doesn't kill you it will only make you stronger. Same thing with poker. Play more hands, win some and lose some, and learn. Once you give up it's over. Remember that.

Those are my main five tips that I have on my desk. Before I sit down to play I read them over one at a time.
1. Start Small.
2. Build Up.
3. Stay Strong.
4. Stay Focused.
5. Never Give Up.

It's funny because if you read what I've been talkign about lately you can use these points for almost anything. When I read these I could also use them for relationships. Just think about it. You want to start small with getting to know someone. Then you want to build up your foundation with them. You need to stay strong to show them your character. Stay focused on where you want the relationship to go, and NEVER GIVE UP. That Step 5 is the most important. I can't stress it enough.

If you have anything about your poker steps to becoming a big time player, you can share them with me. I shared these because I think they will help, and it also doesn't actually tell anyone what hands I play or how I play them so they can't use that against me LOL! Anyway, if you'd like to share that's cool. If not that's okay too, I just think that's how we'll all grow together. Who knows there may be a few of us drinking those umbrella drinks with our bracelets LOL!

I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Faith

2006-03-09T09:04:00.000-08:00

After reading a really good comment from Bloody P yesterday about poker and relationships I started to really think about poker. And you know what? Poker is like a lot of things in life, and it is a lot like life itself. You have to have faith, and I think anyone who doesn't have faith, especially in the Lord is walking down the wrong path. You may be forgiven if you look unto Him, but if it's what you're trying to do by not having faith, then is just forgiveness all you really want?

Having faith that the river card will give you a flush so you can win a big pot can be helpful. Especially if it's for the World Championship LOL and 5 million dollars LOL! But, not everyone will make their river flush. Some people will miss it, and then they'll try to bluff at it, and get called and lose the pot. That's the way life is too. Sometimes you have to bluff, but you will get caught and then you'll have to pay the piper. I talked with Tommy and Keith about this last week, and Tommy came over last night to try out the new dartboard and we talked. Life isn't all about trying to bluff, or having faith that the river will give you a flush. Life is one long session, and if you play it like a poker game you will have ups and downs for sure, but in the end if you can't get forgiveness for your bluffs then is it all worth it? Tommy made a real good point about life being like poker especially when you're feeling low and down and out. That's when you don't have a lot of chips and your looking to double up. Sometimes you do, and sometimes you don't. The thing is, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and if you stay focused you will get there. This applies to our Cardinals and Rick Pitino this year. I have prayed for him, and I know he has faith. He is probably the best NCAA coach right now, and a lot of it is because he treats each game as a poker tournament, and the season is a session. His whole coaching career is the big long session, and that's why it's important for him to not get so high or not get so low. That's why the greats are world champs. Can you name a time Raymer or Joe Hachem got low in the last two tourneys? That's right, you can't. And it's not because they didn't, it's just because of how they adjusted to deal with it. They stayed focused on the task at hand, and now they're both millionares and world champions. I have what it takes too, and it also helps to have faith.

Family is important, and my last trip to Pittsburgh proved that. I tried to tell my dad who is 74 that life is all one big session, and I could tell deep down inside that he believed me. He's seen a lot more than I have, but for a 38 year old, I think I've seen as much as anyone. I've seen the birth of my son, and I've seen God himself. I don't usually talk about it, but I've spoken to Him directly. He exists, and that gets me back to the point about people asking for forgiveness. Life is full of going all in, or bluffing when your river card doesn't come, because sometimes that's what you have to do if you want to win the pot. People don't call me NeverBluff for nothing, but I have bluffed before. In life, in relationships, in darts, in poker. That's just how it goes. At night I'll pray and ask for forgiveness, and I will get it. Because I believe. And it's just not believing in God or believing in Rick Pitino or Denny Crum, or Phil Ivey or believing that Tommy is really getting those girls to meet us Friday LOLLOL!!! YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. If you don't, you won't have what it takes. And you won't be a true champion in the end.

And if you're not trying your best to be a true champion then what the hell are you doing? To be a champion you have to act like one, and you have to play like one. Having faith will get you there, but it's also faith in yourself.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Good Night

2006-03-08T08:49:00.000-08:00

Funny how almost always a good night will follow up bad night isn't it?
It wasn't a good poker night because I didn't play any but everything else fell right into place.

I got to the bar, and got a great surprise. Pete was out with the boys. Now if you don't know already ever since Pete got together with Jess he hasn't done much. He hosts poker games alright, but let's just say he doesn't get out much anymore. Well, according to Pete him and Jess are officially over. He threw her stuff out in the yard while she was at work and the best part was that it rained all day. So, get this, all of her clothes are soaked, and just covered in mud. He said he was after the bar going home and going to piss all over them too, but I don't know if he did (Pete answer your phone LOL!!!!)

Anyway, so Pete says it's an occasion and we order some Jim Beam to go with the Buds. A match made in heaven if you ask me. Of course some hot wings and some burgers would be nice too, but hey we aren't greedy LOL!

Tommy had his cell phone out all night calling the girls from Kid Rock, and it looks like we're meeting them both out Friday night. The one that I'm supposed to get is only 23!!! So, yeah, I'm pretty excited about that. I told Tommy we should try to teach them poker so that we could show off a little, and maybe play some cricket. Yup, that's right. I got the board yesterday. I'm putting it up tonight, and having the guys over for the first ever NeverBluff Cricket Open tomorrow night. I'm the favorite to win it, and I don't plan to take it easy. Nobody likes losing on there own turf. We talked about women most of the night. Pete seemed to really be living it up, but the rest of us have seen him like this before. They break up about once a month and it's always for good they say. I do know that everytime they break up Pete gets good and drunk. He tries to hit on everyone too. The waitress that Tommy got pissed at us was working last night. She's not mad at us anymore, mostly because of Tommy's charm. You just can't stay mad at that guy. He's been like this since I moved here.

I won all three tourneys. The last one Tommy was only out of me by 50 points, and he had the 16s tapped before I did. He just kept hitting them. Of course anytime he got close I'd just hit a couple bulls. I can hit them on command pretty much, and that's my main strategy. Darts are a lot like poker too. Once you know your oppenent, and you know how he plays you can use that to your advantage. It's not one big session with darts though. It's a bunch of small sessions and each game is its own small session. There's a lot less luck in darts too, so if you've got the goods you can pretty much take are of business. That's why I'm so tough to beat at cricket. Keith said I should start a journal called Cricket Champ, and everyone laughed. I know they were just kidding but I could. There's less strategy to cricket, but once you know the game and your opponents you can really do some damage.

We kept making poker jokes all night last night about Pete. Telling him he should bluff or call or raise with Jess. The best part of the night was when he said that he put her all in and he put her clothes all OUT !!! LOLOLOL!! I tell you what I damn near pissed myself on that one. That's the thing about relationships that's just like poker. If you know the other person's game you can play to it. Relationships can be one big session too, and you have to keep telling yourself that. Sometimes there are bad beats too, but if you can find the light at the end of the tunnel, and you have the stomach to deal with the good and the bad, then your ship will come in. I know because I've been there. If you let your guard down then they will find out your weaknesses and take advantage of them. This is the time when dedication and hard work will prove whether or not you are a champion. The true champions will move on to fight another day, and the ones who aren't cut out to play, well they get to go home. It's a tough game, and as long as you know it's one session and that you can't get too high or too low, I think your ship will come in, and you can take that final step to becoming a true champion. It's a long journey, and you have to be willing to work long hours at it, but it's worth it. Believe me.

Okay, so that's how poker and relationships can be seen the same. I've lost some hands in the past, but I still have chips.

I have a world championship trophy too, and that's my boy. Cody is the world to me, and he always will be. The Lord blessed me with the best kid any father could ever ask for and I've promised Him I will raise my boy to the best of my abilities.

This also takes hard work, but it's a journey and my ship will sail.

The best part is that all of it will be paid for with poker. That's the beauty of this wonderful game, and I can't get over it. I smile everytime I think about becoming a World Champion, and I've already got a spot on my left wrist reserved for that bracelet LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today. (Whether it's darts, relationships, or poker)

Bad Night

2006-03-07T08:50:00.000-08:00

Yeah, it was one of those nights.

It's one of the nights where the most important thing is that you have to keep telling yourself that it's all one big session. Life is just one big long session as well, and I think that if we all take it to heart we'll be better people in the long run. Some things can be brought to light if you look hard enough, and if you do find what it is that you were looking for then it was worth it to know that it's all one big session. Poker is the exact same way LOL!

I took some horrible beats last night form people playing tourist hands like queen-ten and king-seven. Let's just say that I had Ace-King against the guy and he hit his seven on the river. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't pissed off. I clinched my fists so hard that if anything would've been in it I would've have crushed it down to the molecule. My right knuckles are skinned to the bone and I can hardly type right now because I took out my aggression on the heavy bag without ANY gloves. I just had to remind myself that it's all one session, and how you recover from tourist bad beats is what will make you a champion. People get pissed and that's just human nature. Look at Hellmuth and Matusaow. They get pissed but it's how they recover so easily is what makes them great.

After those beats I decided to play a sit and go. I stepped up to a $50 +5 which is one or two levels higher than I played but I wanted to test my recovery. Sure enough I get a real hand with ace-queen and the flop comes Q88. I raised it 3 big blinds preflop so it was tough for me to think anyone would stay on an eight. I had two guys in the pot, and one of them bet into me. I called and the other guy folded. The turn was a Jack, and the guy checked. I checked, adn the river was a two or a three. I can't remember. The guy checks and I bet, and he goes all in. Can he have an 8 and play it this way? I don't believe him and I call. He doesn't have the 8 but he has nine-ten and got his straight. I got like 100 chips left and push it on the next hand with pockets 33. The guy hits an ace and I'm done. Not five minutes after that guess who calls me? Yup Crystal.

I know some people don't like me talking about my personal life and that their here for the poker strategy. So, I won't get deep. Let's just say that the real life sucks. And this isn't Real Life Champ this is Poker Champ website LOL!!

Anyway Crystal's "man" left her and said he wasn't coming back so she calls ME to cry about it. I can't stand the woman, and the only time I talk to her is about Cody so I'm not sure why she called me. Why not call her mom and sister like she always did when we were engaged? Fucking half baked cunt, I told her to get fucked and that if my kid was in trouble to let me know. He's not, so I told her to get fucked. I'm sick of it! She needs help. Big time, and I told her that. She can't be forgiven until she forgives herself, and if she doesn't want help, she won't get it.

Anyway, like I said this isn't Real Life Champ LOL! So, the poker took a dive last night, and that usually means a big win is around the corner. Cricket tonight, and I'm going to drink the place out of Budweiser!! When your down and out nothing tastes better than a cold beer. Maybe I can talk them all into a poker game too!

May all your pots be fat and juicy like mine!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

WhoooooWheeeee!!!

2006-03-06T06:06:00.000-08:00

What a weekend!!
I was going to post on Saturday, but we picked up right where we left off and started hitting the Budweiser before noon. The weather was nice so Tommy and Pete came over and we started to work on the garage. The dartboard is due in any day now, so we wanted to be ready. I still have a lot of work to do as far as cleaning, but that's mostly because we were drunk by dinner! LOL!

Only thing I got to say about Friday night is WOW! If you ever get a chance to see Kid Rock DO IT! Like I said Tommy was a big fan and he's the one who brought me along to win that poker tourney which I did quite easily. Now, I'm a big fan too. The guy is simply amazing. I would definitely say he is one of the best performers living today. I won't go into too much detail either, but let's just say that Tommy ended up making a couple female friends at the show too. I told you he was a lady's man. He got a phone number, and we're supposed to go out sometime this week or this coming weekend. The brown headed one which is the one I'll get is hot too! My guess is that she's probably 25 years old, but man did she have a set of tits. WOW! Anyway, I'm hoping that turns out good. Tommy told her that everyone called me NeverBluff which was pretty cool too. I had to explain to her that I was a poker player, and that one day soon I'll be playing for a living. She thought that was really cool, and said that her brother taught her to play. I think that may be my next move. Show her the tips and really let her know what I know about the game. Chicks love it when you know something they don't. I could see this becoming really big, so please pray for me if you can. Poker Pays AGAIN!!

I spent all day yesterday working on my house and garage. I ran another phone line to the garage so that I could play poker there if I wanted while we were playing cricket. Should be pretty cool. I also wired up some extra lights in the garage so we'll be able to play at night with no worries. Man, I still can't get over how good that concert was. Nickelback is coming March 25th and we're all planning to go. Tommy thought it would be a great idea to take the girls we met at Kid Rock, and I think that would be great idea.

I played a little last night at Doyle's because my FullTilt was messed up for some reason. Doyle's is FULL of tourists just willing to give money away. This may be my new main site for awhile. I played a hand last night that still makes me wonder. I had $80 at a No Limit (of course) and I raised it with Ace-Queen both hearts. I got two callers and the flop came all hearts. One guy bet to me and I called (didn't want to run him off) and the last guy raises!! LOL! The first guy folds and I go all-in. He calls and he has nine of hearts and ten of clubs. He had a flush draw, and a straight draw both but it didn't matter. I had the goods. So, I left Doyle's after only playing 45 minutes up about 100.

One thing you should know about me is that I don't like fighting if I don't have to. Sometimes you just have to, but if it's not the case then don't. If you go back a few postings of mine and read comments, and especially the last posting you can see our good friend C.L. Russo. Bottom line, he made a bet with me and lost. Instead of paying it, he challenges me to a five cent poker game which is limit even! LOL!! I asked him to pay up, and he says I'm a coward. Ummm, okay. That's why I'm playing Jordan in a headsup? Ummm, that's why I played against the females, all of them are ten times better than you? Get ahold of yourself. I'm not going to waste my time playing nickel poker with you because it's just not worth it. When I drop a nickel on the ground I don't even bend over to pick it up. It's just not worth my time. I'm not going to fight anymore on comments with you because you're just plain stupid. I'm not sure how someone like you can actually pride yourself on being a coward and a penny player, but you are. I feel sorry for your parents and your kids. Grow up. And, please for the love of God Himself, go away.

There are people out there than can help you CL Russo.
I will pray for you, and I will ask others to do so as well. You can keep reading here if you want, and I think you should. Learn from me, and you will move up in limits. Maybe someday when people look at you they will see a champion too!! LOL!!

I also ask for people to look above to ask for help for my Rick Pitino and our beloved Cardinals. It's a tough time right now for them but I think we can be okay if we continue to work towards perfection. Basketball is just like poker. You have to be dedicated, and you have to carry yourself like a champion at all times. You also have to know your opponent.

I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine!!

Oh, and guess what? I'm going to Florida next week for a conference, and work is paying for it!!! That's right, sometimes you just got it.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Short and Sweet

2006-03-03T06:33:00.000-08:00

Just a few things as I inch my day closer to rocking out Freedom Hall with Kid Rock tonight. ROCK !!

First of all thinking over the Chicks vs. Champ poker tourney and the things I've read. It really shows how stupid most bloggers are when they say I'm a dumbass for getting sucked out as a 90% favorite. The hate can obviously be explained as jealousy. Tired of dealing with your kids or your mouthy ass wife? Is your job busting your balls a bit too much? Whatever, some tourist hits a miracle on me and you want to tell me I don't know shit about poker. That's fine. It makes about as much sense as it does for you dumbshits to keep playing with real money online.

I work hard on my game. If I don't get sucked out by miracles, I win. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. I respect Maudie's game, and she was one of the first poker blogs that I started reading. I have her linked up too. So, there, you can stick that in your asses. You think I don't like women? That's totally untrue. All I've said, and all I'll ever say is that sometimes they get to running their traps and they need shut up. If it takes popping them one, then so be it. This is NO DIFFERENT than what I'd say about a man. If he has a lip problem and likes to disrespect, then he's gonna get popped too. It's called equality. Women want to fight wars and they wanted the right to vote out of EQUALITY. Where I'm from this is called a double-standard. Bottom line, if some drunk ass bitch is running her shit because she thinks she can't get put in her place, we'll she's going to be wrong sometimes. What's right is right.

Some guy came in my comments and said he's pay me $10 if I even showed up. C.L. Russo, I showed up and I still don't have your money. Nothing like being a welcher you fucking twit. For ten bucks? I got curious and went to his blog from his comments link. He plays 2cent-4cent poker. He can't even afford to bet $10. This is the first sign of someone having a true problem. Grow up, shithead. I don't even want your money. I wipe my ass with ten dollar bills.

Someone could do a pscological study on mob mentality with the online poker bloggers. I recognized some names, but I'll assume that all the haters were bloggers. Filled with hate. I've still got a big blue veiner for each of you. Drop me an email, and I'll stick you in my schedule. I've got plenty of blue vein for each of you pricks. You don't like how someone blogs and you gang up on him and try to run him out of town.

I got news for all of you.
I'm not going anywhere.

My game gets better every single night. And it will continue too. I take poker seriously, and I will be successful. That's just how it is. Some people have it in their genes, and it's those people who take it upon themselves to pursue it even further. Poker is a special game, and it isn't for everybody. There are other games out there, and I suggest that all you haters save your money and take up backgammon LOL!!

ROCK!!!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Stick one in it!

2006-03-01T20:31:00.000-08:00

That's right.

There were a ton of people at the tourney, too bad most of them were haters.
I knew what would happen, and it did. Either I win it, or I get sucked out on. I don't have the hand history, but there were plenty there to see me trap Miss Maudie, and watch her push in her chips needing runner runner. She got it and that's cool. I like Miss Maudie, I read her, and I've got her link up at Poker Perspectives. I left afterwards because I was kind of pissed again. As usual. I finished my beer, went out and hit the heavy bag for about 15 minutes, and then grabbed another beer.

I was supposed to play Jordan tomorrow night, but something came up.

Let's stick a big blue veiner in cancer tomorrow night. I got this email. Cancer has become a big part in my life, and I would like to knock the shit out of it.

Site: Noble Poker
Date: Thursday March 2nd, 2006
Buy-in: $10 + 1
Time: 7:30pm ET
Password: charity

Coupon code to use when registering (if you need to register an account): help4leah

A little about Leah, from Chad:

This tournament is being held to raise funds to help out my good friend Leah. On Tuesday February 7, 2006, Leah was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a very rare form of bone cancer. Medically, Ewing’s Sarcoma is best summed up as a cancerous tumor that attaches itself to a bone and destroys it. As I could not find Canadian statistics on this I will use USA stats. In the USA, there are only 150 new cases reported in a year. Of those 150 cases, only 9% affect Leah’s age group of 20 to 30 which is the oldest age group affected. Treatment of Ewing’s Sarcoma includes chemo, radiation and surgery to remove the tumor.

On a more devastating note, this form of cancer can result in amputation of limbs or even death.

Leah is a vibrant, confident, caring, beautiful woman who would do anything for anyone of her friends. She is the exact type of person who does not deserve to be going through this. Leah lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and because of this, she needs to travel to Calgary, Alberta for treatment. Her boyfriend Barry will be going with her standing beside her through every thing. The costs of both of them being away from work and living in hotels in a completely different province will be substantial at best.

I couldn’t think of two more deserving and devoted friends who need our help. I want to personally thank you for joining this fundraising tournament to help my friend Leah through this difficult time. She really needs to focus on getting healthy and should not have to worry about the financial burden this will cause.

Play Like a Champion Today.

CHALLENGE!!

2006-03-01T07:24:00.000-08:00

It was weird because last night Tommy was buying my Buds (thanks Tommy!) and he looked at me and said "How long do you think you'll keep the journal?" Of course he was talking about this blog and we talked about what good it has done. First, it allows me to see where I've been. I've only been doing this for a few weeks, but I can already see how much I've grown. Also, look what I'm doing tonight. I'm playing with female players. I don't recognize the names, and I'm not sure if they're pros or just bloggers or just readers of mine. It doesn't matter, people are coming out to play with me. If I learn one thing each day my progress will grow into what I finally want it to be. And that's a professional poker player. All the greats start small. Was Phil Ivey born rich? Do you think he was born the best poker player in the world? I do believe that certain people are born with certain things, and you have to have a killer instinct to be able to be a pro, but it also takes hard work and dedication. I have all of these. Ask anyone. Ask anyone how I got the name Neverbluff. I wasn't born with it! LOL!!

If you want to be a champion at anything you have to play like one and you have to act like one. When people see me they see a champion. I'm not a world champion at poker yet, but I am definitely one in the making. When that happens I think I'll owe a lot of it to the blog, and I'll owe a lot of it to drinking with Tommy and Keith and talking about the game itself (You guys may laugh, but it's true!) The more I think about the game, and the more I write about it, and the more I talk to people about it, it brings up things. Then I'll think about those things and they will come to light. Poker is deep. It's more than just a card game, you have to know your opponent and what they will do in certain situations. I've also had a lot of great comments from people, and most of them have blogs too. I read them and see that they go through the same things that I go through. It's just like Antonio and Ivey and Hellmuth when they play together. When they're done they will sit and talk about hands, and that's how they learn so much. It's a community project, and everyone will get better. Not everyone will end up a pro, because that's what I was talking about that you are born with. The Killer instinct. You also have to be determined. Most people aren't, and I can tell who is just by reading their blogs. Most bloggers aren't determined. You can ask anyone, I am. That's how I know.

Anyway, that talk with Tommy really got me thinking about growing as a card player. It's fun. It's a journey, and sometimes it takes going back to read how far you've grown as a poker player to let you know that you can grow some more. I'm not sure if Annie Duke reads poker blogs, but my guess is that she does. I doubt she reads this one, but if you do I am challenging you.

Annie Duke this is a challenge. Tonight at Pokerstars at 9pm you can play me if you want. It's only $10, and I know you have it. LOL!! My question is do you have what it takes to play someone that is determined? Do you have what it takes to play someone with a killer instinct? And if you're reading this and you know Annie, please tell her to come read. If she's so good, I don't see any reason why she wouldn't play me.

I challenge ANNIE DUKE TONIGHT!
Come out if your not scared! LOL!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Poker Pays AGAIN!!!

2006-02-28T07:55:00.000-08:00

Wow!
One of the best things in my entire life happened to me last night. First I'm at work and Tommy calls me. He says meet me at BW3(our local hot wing place) at 6pm. This is my favorite restaraunt, and the place where we all go for Monday Night Football. So, I'm thinking, its Monday Night, but Football season is over!! LOL!! Anyway, knowing Tommy I figure he's got something up his sleeve. I tried to talk Derrick into going, but he had shit to do, but I did get a hold of Keith and he decided to meet me there.

I get there and there it is on the sign on the front. Monday Night Poker. I knew right then what Tommy was up to. I went to the bar and found Tommy sitting at a table. I grabbed a Bud, and Tommy picked us up two trivia boxes. This was weird because we never play trivia (the questions there are just stupid shit) but he says that you can play poker on them. So, the manager comes out to the bar area and has everyone who's in the poker tourney sign up on a form. Me and Tommy signed up, and we got another box and signed Keith up too. He was on his way and the manager said he could play. It was one big tourney with a free buy-in!! Guess what the winner got? Yup, 2 tickets to Kid Rock at Freedom Hall this Friday. I like Kid Rock, but not nearly as much as Tommy. That's why he brought me along. I would win the tourney, and we would both go to Kid Rock on Friday. I told you Tommy always has something up his sleeve. Anyway, there were only 20 people in the tourney. You start with 2000 chips and you can only see your cards on your box. Alot of people sat together and the manager made sure by walking around that nobody was cheating. Keith was the first one out! LOL! I told him it was because he wasn't wearing his sunglasses LOLLOL!!! There was a break after the hour but it was only 5 minutes. I had to piss, but so did everyone else. The line was huge because they only have two pissers, and I missed a hand or two when I got back. I won a huge pot with pockets 88 when I hit trips on the flop. TWO GUYS went all-in before me and of course I called. After that I was first in chips, and decided not to play much more. The entire bar really didn't have a clue how to play poker. It wasn't fair I told Tommy. Tommy got put out in 7th place and before we even got to the 2nd break we were down to 3 players. The manager came out, and asked if we all wanted to sit together at a corner table that way he could call it the final table. At first I said no, but he said that we could have free beer til the end of the tourney. SIGN ME UP!! LOL!! When we sat down is when he told us that not only did first win 2 tickets, but he had 4 total, so that 2nd won two tickets too. And third got $25 gift certificate to the bar. It was cool because one of the guys said he couldn't go to the concert so that if he won 2nd he'd trade the tickets for the gift certificate.

I walked right over to Tommy and said, "Guess what we're doing Friday night?" Tommy was like "NO SHIT!!" So we didn't really take the final table serious, but I told the other two guys we should play for a bit so we could drink at least another free beer! When it comes to beer I got a knack for things. Anyway, the guy with the gift certificate had to go so he went all in with 8-6 and busted. He took the certificate and left. Me and the other guy got our Kid Rock tickets. The cool part is that he sat with Me, Tommy, and Keith and drank with us for another hour or so, and he'll be sitting next to us at Kid Rock. He also said that if his girlfriend has to work, and his brother has to work that Keith could have his extra and that we'd all meet up to go together. I'm not sure if that will happen but if it does SHIT!

So, we drank Buds til almost 10pm and I was pretty buzzed. I'll say it again, it feels good knowing that something you work extremely hard at will pay off in the long run. Poker is a fun game, but it will reward the skilled players in the end. You just have to keep telling yourself its one big session, and that the odds will pay you off over time. This right now is the best I've felt in a long time. I've always been good at the things I try really hard at. Football in high school, I was all conference my senior year, and would've been my junior year too if I didn't blow out my knee. Darts, I'm probably the best in our group at cricket and have been for years now. And now poker. Which is probably my best of them all. It feels really good to outplay your the guy every night. And it felt really good last night at BW3 when I kept hearing people who looked up at the TVs say "Who is Neverbluff?" or "I wonder which guy is Neverbluff" Yeah, that felt great.

Busy week as hell this week now. I told Tommy that since I have the Chicks vs. Champ tourney Wednesday (Tommy bet $20 on the chicks! Thanks, dick! LOL!) and I think I'm playing Jordan Thursday night, and now KID ROCK friday night. We're gonna play darts tonight since it's the only free night, and Tommy said since I won the Kid Rock he's going to pay for the Buds tonight.

Life is good.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Poker Pays

2006-02-27T08:17:00.000-08:00

So, what's a champ to do with an extra $500?
Well, for starters I ordered the CricketPro 800. I've had my eye on this for a long time now, and finally had the extra money to go get it. Thank you, fish! LOL!

Anyway, now all I have to do is clear a spot in the garage. Not only do I need a place on my back wall, but the path to the board will need to be cleared. My garage is a mess, and I meant to get to cleaning it this weekend, but I didn't. My heavy bag hangs in one corner, and I've got a work bench that runs all down that wall. And up against the work bench is Pete's scooter. It's not really a scooter, but that's what he calls his motorcycle. He's rebuilding the engine now, and I told him I'd help with the body work. I don't have a bike, but I like to work on them. I had a bad accident right after I moved here, and haven't been on one since. Maybe some day. Anyway, I think I'm gonna put the board up by the corner of the other wall. Only problem there is that the door is in that corner. If we got boozed up and someone walked through the door he could take a dart in the face. They are plastic tipped with the CricketPro 800 so I don't think it would hurt too bad. Plus we could always lock the door when we are playing and make the person go through the front garage door. I got tons of scrap wood out here too that we plan on using to make a really nice poker table soon. That project is scheduled for spring when it warms up. If Pete gets his bike out of here, we'll probably just keep the table here while it's warm out.

I've got bills to pay. Gotta eat ya know? Also paying child support isn't cheap. If Crystal ever marries that guy who she's got shacking up there, and he ends up adopting Cody then I won't have to pay anymore which would be nice. Hell, if that's ever the case who knows what I'll end up buying LOL!!

I signed up for the Chicks vs. Champ poker tourney on Pokerstars this Wednesday. I doubt any pros show up, but it'd be cool if Annie Duke did. I'm not sure if it's just going to be all women against me or what, but if it is that'll be pretty cool. The guy who set it up, Wes posted the password on here, so I'm not sure if that'll end up keeping people out or not. I don't really care as long as I bring my best game. If I end up with my best game, and I can keep from getting sucked out on, I like my chances. I've got more tips to share with everyone, but I'm thinking about waiting until this tourney is over and my headsup with Jordan. He backed out of playing yesterday, but I guess he was busy. I don't have any reason to not believe him, but I know that I wouldn't want to play me! LOLLOL!!

So the dartboard says it should be here within 6-8 business days. I plan to host a Cricket party when it comes in. Maybe have everyone throw in $20 or so and get a nice tourney going. Of course we'll play poker too. After all it's poker that got me the board! It feels good knowing that something you work really hard at to be good at can pay off, and help you buy things. Everytime I play on that board it will remind me of my hard work.

I hope all of your pots are fat and juicy like mine!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Play Like a Champion Today

2006-02-26T06:59:00.000-08:00

If you want to be a champion, you have to play like one. And that's exactly what I did yesterday. Most of the players were at Pete's first tourney, and I used the information I gathered to my advantage. The game started at 1pm, and by the time I won the last pot it was only 5pm. Guess what that means? Yup, another tourney. Guess who won? Yup. Do you ever have those days where you just know how every single hand is going to turn out? That was me and yesterday. I could tell that people were bluffing, and when they had the goods. I only got sucked out on once, and the guy only had 20 chips left so it didn't even hurt me any.

Funny thing reading my comments Wes set up a tourney called Champ and the Chicks. It is Wednesday which is when I usually play cricket, but I think I'm going to play. I'm a believer in that the more hands you play the better you'll be in the long run. I think he thinks that since I've said things about Jess and Crystal that I'm always a dick to women which isn't true. I get along with Jess, but she just isn't right for Pete. She's got a mouth on her, and when she gets on a roll she just needs jacked. Doesn't matter that she's a woman, I'd say that about a man too. Now don't get me wrong, that's not my girl so I don't mess with it. That's Pete's business, and that's how it should be. And just because I said that I use a woman's name on my poker sites, and I use pictures of women or women characters doesn't mean anything bad. In fact I really figured more people did it. It's a known fact that most poker players are men. Just tune into a poker event on TV. What does that tell you? If I can get someone to bluff at me because they think I'm a woman player then that works for me strategically. If people don't like it then tough. But, if they want to set up Chicks versus Champ poker tourney then that's fine too. I should be able to play Wednesday and I think it will be fun. But you better know that just because I'm playing against women I WILL NOT be taking it easy on them. Poker is war, and it doesn't matter your sex, your age, or your race. If you sit down with me you better be ready to go to battle. That's just how I play, and that's how I've always played.

Anyway, we had 17 players at Pete's and I won the tourney. The best part was that I played Keith headsup at the final table, and the last four hands I played blind. I told everyone too, I won't even look at my cards. Keith was getting pissed a little bit, because everytime he raised I would just say, "You don't have it." And then I would raise, and everyone there was going completely nuts because I hadn't even looked at my cards yet. Like I said earlier it was just one of those days. I won $300 at that tourney, and we had 9 people that wanted to play again, so we played another $30 tourney. This time it got down to headsup with Pete's cousin. I didn't play any hands blind because I was starting to get a buzz, and he had as many chips as I did so I played him serious. Even after drinking beer all day I knew what he had every single time. I won $175 there. So that's almost $500 in one day playing poker.

Maybe this going pro is going to happen sooner than I thought.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Short and Sweet

2006-02-24T08:24:00.000-08:00

I don't normally go off on someone like I did Faggle, but sometimes you got to stick up for what's right. What's right is fucking right. I'll cut you some slack, but if you go too far then you're gonna get burned buddy. And heres news for you too, once you cash in your NeverBluff card you ain't never gonna get it back. And you can bet your ass I'm not bluffing here either, Neverbluff goes for the poker table, and real life.

So, we got that out of the way. No poker last night because I had to catch up on laundry. No kid this weekend, so it's gonna be full of Buds and knowing Pete bourbon too. My goal in Pete's tourney is to build a stack early and go from there. I think it's important to have tourney strategy before it starts. You really need to be able to tell what types of game each player is going to play. Some plays will work against some players that won't work against others. We got another shindig planned tonight at our bar. Tomorrow is Keith's girlfriend's birthday, and we're having a thing for her tonight at the bar. She doesn't know it, so the surprise will be cool. Keith invited some of her friends too which will be good because she's got some hot ass friends. A little booze. Some cricket. And finish the night off with some stove hot pussy! LOL!! That's right. Not a thing wrong with that.

So, I will be back Sunday to tell you about the tourney. I'm also going to try to get a few things lined up so that I can play Jordan Sunday too. I hope all of your pots are fat and juicy like mine!! Wish me luck in the tourney, hey, even someone like me could use a suckout every once in awhile LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Get Out Your Shinebox

2006-02-23T17:50:00.000-08:00

I got no respect for people who talk out of their ass about shit they don't know shit about, and what little I had left for Faggle Bogey is flat out gone now.

I know I said I wasn't going to head back to the worst poker blog on the internet but my boy Derrick whose been watching all this shit and even was watching when Jordan sucked out on me in the heads up tournament went over there and saw what Faggle Bogey had to say about me and told me I should go take a look. I had him email me that shit instead and he did.

Faggle Bogey don't know jack about shit. 1st of all that's not even my picture - I've said that before. You read everything else so carefully I'm surprised you missed it. Derrick helped me set this shit up thought it was funny to show some douche as the picture and I thought it was funny too. Then again I think I know why your coming around here and reading so much Faggle is you can't take your eyes off a piece of beefcake in leather LOL! Maybe I should have Derrick find me a pretty boy in chaps on the internet and we'll put that up with your name on it. LOL! It's OK if you don't like the little boys I'm sure the big ones love you too.

Nice comic strip too. Are those guys supposed to be retarded or did you hire some second graders to draw that for you? LOLOL! Maybe the comic wouldn't be so sad if you weren't trying to sell us something after everyone of those. These guys who make money dishonestly off the internet really piss me off. I'm supposed to sign up for some program where they take my money and I end up getting a $20 gift certificate to amazon or some shit? Yeah Faggle, no thanks. I hope you get shut down by the better business bureau for this crap. No one should have to pay MORE money to play poker unless they keep calling my flop bets LOL!

Another thing that's pathetic is when he says my poker advice is horrenndous. I haven't even been giving that much of the kickass strategy away for free Faggle! If you think I'm going to give you the cow for free instead of paying for the milk your stupid! LOL! I make money playing poker. Let me say that again if you weren't listening when I said it the first time. I MAKE MONEY PLAYING POKER. If I was such a donkey Id be dropping dollars faster than your biological parents dropped you off at the orphanage when you were born LOL! I already got one of my call center chumps buying me cokes all day so I'll teach him poker at lunch - AND HE WON HIS FIRST PLAY MONEY TOURNAMENT LAST NIGHT! What does that tell you dipshit? You inbred rednecks in Okalahoma wouldn't know nothing about putting your dick on the line when you got a shot at grabbing the nuts at the end would you? I play this shit to win and I play this shit hard and fast and if you got a better way than me I don't see you getting your book published anytime soon but I didn't even have to check Barnes and Nobles to know that now did I? LOLOL! So unless you got money flowing out your ass from playing poker (not taking peoples money through those scams you're selling) you got nowhere to talk.

Third you don't know anything about my life so shut up about it already. I play as a woman on my poker sites because its a well known fact that there aren't only a few women who can play poker at all so I make even more money than if they saw me as some sort of hardass thistledick from Tulsa or something. I'm saying that we all know women have their place and I know two places they don't belong and that's at the poker table, or all up in my shit. You got an ex-wife (or husband) Faggle? You have a bitter ass bitch constantly up in your business because you had the good sense to send her ass packing before she totally lost her shit and made your life hell in that apartment? No? I didn't think so. I wish I had good sense like Pete to own that shit like he does with Jess. Well, I do now! LOL! I think Pete has all that set up just right. When Jess acts up she knows she's got consequenses and Pete might have to knock her around a little bit to do it but she ain't gonna get it unless she deserves it. That's EXACtLY how you have to keep some women in place is by letting them know whats going to happen if they keep whining. Not all women, I dated this girl just out of UL on my team for a little while last year and she was cool but didn't get along with Tommy and Keith and its always been possee over pussy as far as I'm concerned. Chris Rock said once that there's always a reason to kick someone's ass but usually you shouldn't kick that ass (I'm NOT a racist, I think Chris Rock is funny and me and Rico at work get along real good among other things). So I ain't saying I'm gonna knock a bitch around but I'm not saying I ain't gonna knock a bitch around either you know what I mean? If she knows its out there then she's more likely to listen the first time and that's the key to happiness. She doesn't have to agree with me all the time, but she better know to pick her battles because I know how to pick mine LOL!

And what's so sad about hanging with your buddies, drinking Bud and shooting darts? Nothing else to do around here and I'm not tied to the goddamn computer all day neither. By the way nice artwork on those banners. The embossed letters look especiailly fruity if you ask me (not that I'd know about fruity LOLOL!). It's pretty sad when all you want to do is talk about poker and you've got a douchebag like Faggle hanging around wanting to take a piss on your party. I'm not here for you Faggle, you weren't my problem but you are until I finish tearing you one up here. then I'll never speak of you again I promise. Even if its just Derrick right now that's reading you, I don't even want him going your way anyways. The difference between me and you obviously is that your living your life on that computer of yours with fat guys and dorks all trying to tell each other how cool you are. At least me and Tommy and Keith and everyone are out there in the REAL WORLD living. I'm single, I got money, I'm a winning poker player, and I get laid. So fucking what if you don't like how I'm living Faggle it isn't your life anyways.

I got nothing against Jordan or Tripjax or anyone else whos trying to be friendly. I'm a good guy. People like me and I got lots of friends. I don't think I've got to be a dick just because I can hide behind my computer. Everything I put down here is true and it happens in the real world where I'm only Neverbluff in my own head and no one knows what goes on at the poker tables. I ain't hiding there and the people who I talk about here know that I'm talking about them too. If they got no problem with this I don't see why you've got to have a problem. It ain't your business and if you don't want to read what I've got to say then you don't have to come here and read it at all. You're the sad pathetic one for trying to pass judgment on someone you don't even know. People who live in glass houses Faggle.

If I had a twelve pack in me right now I'd keep going but I'm already getting bored tearing you a new one. Let this be the last time I say the name Faggle Bogey, you ain't shit to me. Dick.

Good luck at the tables, and may all your pots be fat and juicy. Except for that guy I'm not going to ever fucking mention again. May his pots be as limp as his girly cock.

Play Like A Champion Today.

Tough time

2006-02-23T06:54:00.000-08:00

Yeah this is a tough time of the year to watch TV. My Louisville Cardinals aren't playing like their used to, the winter olympics suck, and baseball season is getting ready to start and I hate baseball. I'd rather watch paint dry. LOL! Seriously, the only good thing about baseball is drinking beer and having some dogs. Our company goes to at least 2 games a year at Slugger Field, and we usually get drunk as skunks and yell at the outfielders. I don't watch the NBA much anymore after Jordan retired, and there aren't many Cardinals that are in the NBA right now to cheer on. Garcia is with Sacramento but they suck and I never see them on TV. Oh well, I'm just venting because it's a tough time of year for a sports nut like me. I guess that's what I get for having my Steelers (greatest team in NFL history) win the big one this year. So I shouldn't complain. Pete was talking the other day about the WNBA, and we both couldn't figure out how it still exists. On Sportscenter when you see the highlights (Yeah, I know! LOL!!) there isn't anyone in the stands. I will never go to a WNBA game, and I can guarantee that my son won't get near one either. The only people who go to games are lezbos, people with free tickets who like to watch shit, and complete idiots.

I don't know, I guess to each their own. I got some guys at work that make fun of me for watching professional wrestling, but I don't care. It's a soap opera for adults I tell them, and you HAVE to respect the athletic ability of the wrestlers. They are some of the top athletes on the planet, and I have no doubt that if any of them wanted to play professional football, basketball, or baseball the could. They just don't want to. And why should they? Anyway, to each their own I guess. I'm just hoping Louisville makes the NCAA this year. If that happens then we got as good a shot at any team with Pitino. Look waht we did last year when nobody picked us.

I didn't play any poker last night for the first time in awhile. Tommy came over after he got off work and I cooked us up a couple burgers. We talked about poker and women mostly. I taught him a little about both. (Sorry Tommy! LOL!!) Anyway, I don't got much to say today, because like I said I didn't play any cards last night, and if you're here reading this it's because you want to read about poker. I've been jotting down some good tips lately, and I may share them with you. Jordan reads here and we got a big headsup best of seven tourney coming up, so I may not post my strategy til it's over. I don't want him using my own stuff to beat me! LOL!! Two days away from a big tourney at Pete's. If I can keep from getting sucked out I should win it. I know that's a big if against fish, but you can only get your money in with the best of it and hope! Speaking of hope, I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Big Night

2006-02-22T09:27:00.000-08:00

Had another big night at the tables last night. I put $50 into my Full Tilt account about 3 months ago, now I have $400. There are so many tourists that play there it's really not even funny. Last night I bought in at the $100NL and played for about 2 hours. When I got up I had $211. Not bad. LOL! That's $55 per hour. If I could keep that up I could retire sooner than I had planned. Of course that's a good night at the tables, but the beauty is that you don't have to win as many hands if you move up in limits. $55 per hour is nothing at the big limit tables. Maybe win one hand an hour or so. That's the key to turning pro. Take your time. If you rush it you'll only end up in the gutter. Patience is the key to being a successful player. Ask any pro. I don't have much to say about last night, but I did win one big hand where I had QQ, and the guy had AK. The flop came all hearts Jack high. The guy went all in for about $70 and I called. He had the Ace of hearts, and another one didn't come. It was funny because he questioned my call, and said that he would never call off all his chips on that flop. I guess I'm different.

After reading my comments it's obvious that some people think I made a horrendous play against Jordan in the headsup. I DO NOT CARE. My game has paid for my Budweiser for almost 6 full months now. It will continue to pay for it, and it will probably pay for at least a trip to Vegas, and a Steelers game too. That's the beauty of playing at the level I play at. All you have to be is better than half the people at the table to be a winning poker player. Of course dodging suckouts is big too. Besides, I still don't think it was that bad. I read what you had to say, even though some said more than others, and went back over the hand. I would play it the exact same way tomorrow. Anyway, that's the beauty of poker. There are several ways to play hands, some better than others. But, when that river card comes and it doesn't like you sometimes you'll go broke.

I didn't get the name NeverBluff from sucking at poker. I didn't win almost every single poker tourney at Pete's from sucking at poker. I don't win almost every single night online from sucking. People look up to me, and there's a reason for it.

I plan to play Jordan headsup sometime soon. We decided on a best of 7 series which should be a lot of fun. I don't play many headsup matches unless it's at the end of a SNG and by then I usually have so many chips it doesn't matter what the cards are so this should be good experience. I have confidence in my game even if nobody else does, and like my main man Denny Crum used to say "Bring it on!"

Play Like a Champion Today

Home Again.

2006-02-21T08:10:00.000-08:00

Whew, it sure is good to be back home. I enjoy visiting my family as much as the next guy, but this past weekend really wore me out. Maybe it was the three cases of Budweiser me and my uncle pounded! Little Cody had a blast too. Except I think he ate too much chili. Damn kid shit his pants three times!! LOL!! One time I was too drunk to mess with him, so I had to wake my mother up to tend to him. She was not happy at all.

Anyway, it's about time to get back to taking all the tourist money at the poker tables!! I read my comments (I knew there would be some) and it looks like Jordan wants to play heads-up. Anytime, man! We can play at Stars if you want, and I can play almost any night unless we're playing a live tourney or playing cricket at the bar. I read your blog, and you think I'm a chump, that's fine! I'm ready to prove to you that my game is for real and that this is just another step on my way to becoming a World Champion. Tripjax also commented asking for the hand history, but if you go to Jordan's blog he already has it posted. Duggle Bogey also said I played it poorly on every street. I thought that was interested, because I definitely believe I did not. I played a trap play, and Jordan hit a river. He was betting it hard all the way, and I knew if a diamond didn't hit he would make another play at it. That's poker, Duggle. So, I went to his blog (I've never been before) and started reading it, and it doesn't surprise me with his comment now. What a joke. It will be the last time I go there because it's probably the worst poker blog I've read. Maybe you should spend more time learning this beautiful game than drawing up shitty cartoons!! LOL!! Doesn't surprise me at all that some dipshit from Oklahmoma doesn't think I played it right. In fact, if a dumbshit like him doesn't like my play, I'll take it as a compliment. And don't comment here unless you have something good to say. Tripjax and Jordan are both respected players, and they are welcome here anytime. Even though I doubt Jordan comes back after I humiliate him in front of all of his friends! LOL!

My question is, JOrdan? If you think I'm such a horrible poker player, what are you going to do when I beat you? LOL!!

Anyway, we've got a tourney scheduled for this weekend at Pete's. I got my uncle's chili recipe (I've been asking for it for years), so I'm bringing chili again. Pete says he wouldn't be surprised if we had 15 players which would be cool. I hope Keith wears his sunglasses again so we can all poke fun! lOL!!

I hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Off to Pittsburgh

2006-02-18T06:24:00.000-08:00

Off to the motherland.
I played in the blogger tourney last night.
Not much to say other than I got sucked out on. Of course.

I played Jordan from High On Poker. I like his blog, but last night proved my theory that most bloggers are even fish. I'm sure he'll write it up different, but it is what it is. I think you can tell by reading a blog whether or not the blogger is a tourist, and most of them are. They just like to write and pretend they're good. That's okay too.

I'll keep grinding away, and I'm sure Jordan the Fish will stop by here and take a few potshots in my comments while I'm gone. That's okay. I've got the hand history saved on my computer. He bet 200 into a 200 pot, I raised him to 600. He calls and hits a miracle on the river. And then he starts talking trash. I know he had a contest because I read about it in his blog, but he's still not very good at poker. He can say whatever he wants about that, but the fact that his game sucks shit isn't up for debate.

It's cold here, and I'm picking Cody up in a half hour. We've got a long President's Day weekend ahead of us. Lots of chili, and board games. And Budweiser LOL!!

Good luck at the tables, and may all your pots be fat and juicy.

Play Like a Champion Today.

You called me with that? Fucking Tourists.

2006-02-17T08:32:00.000-08:00

Last night was HORRIBLE! The fish got their way, and the tourists hit all their draws. You know how some hands have names like AA is American Airlines? Here's a list, some of them are from Doyle's Super System, and some are from Vince Van Patton on WPT.

AA = American Airlines
KK = Cowboys
QQ = The Hilton Sisters
72 = Hammer (it is the worst starting hand in holdem because you will need 4 cards on the board to make a straight.)

Anyway, so the hand that struck me again last night was Ace-Seven. I thought this hand was familiar and sure enough if you read my first or second post you'll see that this was the hand that sucked out on me be some dumbass tourist. So, from now on in all my live games and everywhere else I'm going to call Ace-Seven THE TOURIST.
Of course only if it's not suited because I'll even play it if its suited if the price is right.

Anyway, here's the hand. I'm playing at a $100 table, no limit of course. I get JJ in the big blind, and it folds all the way to the small blind who raises me. Well, I decide to raise him back. He goes all-in, and I know he's bluffing so I call (He also only has $40). Flop comes out with an ace. I typed in "nh, tourist" He says are you talking to me? I said no I'm talking to the other dumbass who likes to play A7 for all of his chips. He starts saying stuff about stacking my chips, and how poker is what it is.

BULLSHIT! The guy had 3 outs, and hits a miracle.

I play for about another 30 minutes, and win another pot so my stack is about $85. I'm on the button and only one guy calls to me and I see pockets AA. American Airlines. I raise it, and the big blind calls, and the other guy folds. The flop comes K77. The guy checks, I bet about the pot, and he goes all in. I type in "I have to call because no way you called a raise with a 7. If you have Kings, nh." I call, and guess what he has? Yup. A7!!! LOL!! Are you fucking kidding me? These tourists who normally pay for my Budweiser are hitting everything on me now!! LOL!! I got pissed off when that happened. When I get pissed off I like to take out my anger on my heavy bag. Of course its 40 degrees or so, and my heavybag is in the garage, but I was so pissed I walked out there with just sweatpants on. No shoes, no socks, nothing. I started beating that bag and screaming at the top of my lungs. Hell, I probably woke all the neighbors up, but I didn't care. The fucking tourists are pissing me off, and they keep doing it with Ace-Seven. I'm starting to think that there's something up with that hand because it ALWAYS HITS. I got started to thinking that maybe there's a computer glitch where it always makes that hand to hit, and so I thought I'd fight fire with fire. I went back in and started playing and I told myself I was gonna play until I got A7 and I was going to call no matter what to see if I hit. I must've played 2 more hours and never got it. It was close to midnight and I just gave up. I don't think we are leaving tonight, so I might end up playing in the tourney that the bloggers are having. It will be my first one, so wish me luck.

And beware. If I get A7 I will play it hard and shove it up a tourist's ass! LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Inpromtu Game

2006-02-16T06:49:00.000-08:00

That's right. Out of nowhere. Pete calls me up and says that Jess is being a filthy cunt (as usual) and that he kicked her out again, so he wants to play poker and get drunk.

Hmmm, let's see, twist my arm a bit LOL!!!

He said his cousin Rick was already there, and that Tommy was on his way. I said I'd be there in 15 minutes, and before I knew it, I was icing down the cooler full of Buds and was on my way. Now I don't normally drink much on a work night, maybe 10 at the most if I have to drive, and I usually try to cut myself off by midnight, since 6am comes pretty early around here but this was a special occasion.

Kicking that dumb ass bitch out.

And yes Pete had the bourbon out again. Every shot was dedicated to kicking the shit out of that dumb ass bitch. You'd think someone with a fresh scar for a reminder would learn to walk the line, but that stupid bitch is so dumb it takes her four hours to watch 60 Minutes LOL!! Of course, I end up going to the bar afterwards with Tommy, but that's another story. And yes, my head is still pounding today. LOL!

We only had 5 players, and had to wait about another hour for Keith to show up. He shows up and he's wearing a visor and sunglasses. I had to laugh. Keith, you just started playing poker, what's the deal? He said if sunglasses were legal in the real game that he should be able to wear them. I don't wear sunglasses, but I can see why people do. And who knows, maybe one day I'll wear some. Right now I don't have any tells, so why should I be worried? I also think it helps to be able to look right into someone's eyes, eye to eye. If you're bluffing I can usually tell just by getting you in a good stare. Don't believe me? Let's play.

Any way, after about 5 shots and a tourney (believe it or not, Keith won) I figured it was time to go. Not Tommy. Tommy wanted to play some cricket, so I told him I'd go for one game. Well, guess who was there? Yep, that dumb ass waitress bitch who bitched about Tommy last weekend. We walk up to the bar to order a beer and she and the owner are working the bar. Tommy says give us 2 Buds. That fucking bitch ignored us. Tommy said, no she didn't just turn her back. She came back down and served another guy, and Tommy said again, Give us 2 Buds. She acted like we weren't even there. Tommy started to get really pissed, and he was pretty drunk by this time too, so I don't blame him. He slammed his fist down on the table, and the 2 guys next to us their beers spilt a little bit. Tommy said, CUNT! if you don't serve me I'm gonna wear that ass out! I liked this because he twisted it on her. She either serves us, or he gets to set that shit up on a rail. Tommy isn't no dummy, and he knows his way with women. She comes down with two mugs of Budweiser and says Listen if you want more service you need to quit acting like an asshole. Tommy just laughed. Then he said, What time you get off tonight? She didn't answer, but we were both laughing like drunken fools by then.

We ended up playing 4 games of cricket. I won 3. As we were leaving we walked by the pool table and there were two gals playing pool. Tommy started to talk to the blond while she was getting ready to shoot, and she stood up and said, Excuse me? He bent over her and grabbed the stick and tried to show her how to line up the shot. She thought it was cute, and he got to rub up against her ass. He always does things for a reason. Anyway, when we were leaving he got her phone number, so I think we may be playing pool next weekend.

Off to Pittsburgh this weekend. I may play in the poker tourney tomorrow night if I can. I also may try to update the weekend since my uncle has internet at his place.

I also may try to teach everyone this great game of Hold'em Poker. LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Big Night

2006-02-15T09:09:00.000-08:00

I wish I would've had a night like last night back when I was trying to build for the Hellmuth Camp.

The fish were schooling and I had my skillet over the open flame frying them up. I read some Doyle Super System yesterday at work. I brought it in to give to Derrick since he seemed to take a liking to our conversations last Friday. But, Derrick called in sick, so I just looked over the No Limit section at lunch. When I got home I decided to play some real poker. I said to myself, Quit letting these fucking tourists win pots off you. I decided to step up and play for bigger stakes. I sat at the NL$400 table, and after 3 hours I had over $1100 in my stack. I was getting hungry and cooked up some burgers to go with my fried fish. LOL! Anyway, this hand was probably the best, and it really put some guy on tilt. I'm in the big blind and I'm dealt pockets 88. Some guy raised it to $15, and the guy on the button called. I called to hopefully hit trips, or maybe a straight draw. The flop comes King - Queen - Eight. If you read my post about playing sets fast against more than one player you probably know what I did. Yep, I bet the pot. I bet $50 and I had about 400 left. The first guy just calls, and the next guy goes all-in? I thought about it for awhile, and figured that the only hands that had me beat were pockets KK QQ. And I thought that if they had those they might have raised. I also thought that if they had them it was just bad luck. I called and the other guy thought forever and folded. The guy had KQ, and my hand held up. But get this, the guy that folded, he was the one who raised. He said he had pockets AA, and started calling us both fish. LOL!! I just told him to get stuffed, and that if he wanted to deal with me we could play at a thousand dollar table, or he could come to Louisville to dance. He just got up and left. That's what makes a tourist a tourist. First they know nothing at all about poker, second they mouth off like a drunk bitch who just found out her man was banging someone else LOL!!

Anyway, It felt good to win over 700 last night. It lets me know that when I'm serious and on top of my game that I'm one of the best out there. It also lets me know that I'm only a couple steps away from playing full time. I am thinking like a champion, and I am playing like a champion. Poker isn't for everybody, and certain people are born to be professionals. Over the past few months I've realized that I am one of the chosen ones. I can feel it in my blood that I was born to play poker. I have dreams about it every night. Dreams about becoming the world champion. That's how I know. All it takes is hard work, because I know I have what it takes up top to break people down at the tables. You may never think I'm bluffing, but that's the beauty of it. When you think I'm not I am. And when you think I am, well guess what? Yep, you go broke cause I'll have the goods.

How many others out there are serious about this?
Or is it just a hobby like darts or pool?
For me its serious, and I can taste it. It tastes like fish.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Tips and Pointers

2006-02-14T11:26:00.000-08:00

Okay, I got a comment from Axeman the other day asking about strategy.
That's why I started this blog, and so that's what you're going to get.
Sometimes I get sidetracked, and talk about other stuff, but my guess is that if your one of the very few that come here your probably here for the good tips.

I call it my kick-ass strategy.
Named after my uncle's kick-ass chili. Hopefully he'll have some fixed up for us this weekend when I take the boy to the folks.
Anyway, I'm still not sure if we're leaving Friday or Saturday. I really want to play in Highonpoker's tourney, so I may talk Crystal into watching him Friday night while I sit around with a case of Budweiser taking all the tourist money.

Also, I don't feel bad about talking about partying with Keith, Pete, Tommy, and all the other party animals because most of the other poker blogs do it to sometimes. Hell anymore that's all they talk about is shit that ain't poker. That's why I started this blog up. To give out the helpful tips. You can read the blogs I like, there are more then I have up, but Derrick didn't enter them all in when he put this together. He said he'd do it later, or at least show me how. We'll see.

TIPS:

Never start a tourney unless you have enough time to finish it. I give SNGs 90 minutes for 6 player and 2 hours for 10 player. If I don't have the time, I don't even sit. If it's a big tourney, I usually give one hour for every hundred people. If it's a 500 person tourney, I need 5 hours. I don't play many of these right now, because of time mostly. But they are fun and that's the payday.

Never call an all-in in a SNG unless you have pockets AA or KK. I don't think there needs to be any explanation here. If you have KK and the all-in has AA then you are just unlucky. Like my uncle Danny say, Dems da breaks. He also says, Well shit and fall back in it, but I don't know if that applies. Here's my reasoning: If you have QQ or JJ or any pair smaller, and you call an all-in, then you may be down to 2 cards if they have AA or KK. If they have AK you are a coinflip. How many other hands do people go all-in with? If the coinflip is your best chance then why even play the tourney? Also, never call an all-in with AK or AQ because even if the other guy has something as shit as pockets 22, you are still only a coinflip. If your happy with coinflips go play roulette.

If you read Super System Doyle says to play sets (three of a kind) fast. I agree with this a little bit and I disagree with it a little bit. If I'm playing against one player, I like to play them slow. Unless the board is all of one suit. Then you play fast, and if he flopped it you're unlucky. Dems da breaks. If I hit trips against 2 or 3 players, I will play it fast. I will also make them call an all-in if I have to. I will push a lot of chips in and make them pay to beat me. Also, if you don't bet they can't fold. Some people get too greedy. Beleive me, I know. I used to get greedy and slowplay it. Fish will hit draws. Go back and read my old strategy posts. Fish will always stick around for low bets, and they will hit draws like you've never seen.

Okay, enough for now. I can't give you all my tips on one post or you'll never come back. This is for Axeman, and whoever else likes to talk strategy. I believe that the journey to becoming a pro works best with the help of others. One of the guys I work with, Barry, thinks I'm crazy for thinking I can be a pro. Where do you think pros come from? That's right, they start small and build up. You have to have a plan, and you have to practice. To be a champion you have to think like a champion.

Play Like a Champion Today.

The Weekend

2006-02-13T07:31:00.000-08:00

What a crazy weekend I had.
It started out by taking Derrick out Friday night.
Our crew had me, Derrick, Tommy, Pete, Barry from work, John from work, and Darrell(D-Money) who is one of Derrick's coworkers.
Oh, and Keith joined us out around Midnight.

We started at one of the bars by where I live. I've talked about it before because it's where we go to play cricket and pool. I wanted to take Derrick there because he had never been, and always hears us talking about it. Tommy was in rare form too. One of the waitress/bartender-lady slapped him and asked him to leave after he dropped an icecube down the front of her shirt right between her tits. The owner of the bar calmed her down quite a bit, and didn't make Tommy or us leave. It's good to know people. Oh, and grow up you little floozy. If you're going to strut around showing your tits off to every customer like you're hot shit Marilyn Monroe, then you better be ready to take a little shit like an ice cube. I swear, some women are just fucking stupid as shit. Anyway, we were doing shots of bourbon, and ole Derrick ended up puking at the bar. We made the dumb bitch waitress clean it up and then left. She didn't even get a tip! LOL! Serves her right though. I had about 8 beers, and maybe 5 shots so I was almost at my driving limit so I decided to go ahead and drive us downtown. Keith met us out after a date he was on. I asked to smell his finger and we all got a good laugh out of that. "NeverBluff, you're the funniest sonofabitch I know." Keith said. I was class clown too, which doesn't usually go to a football player. Hey, what can I say, I like to be the life of the party. And I usually am.

Anyway, we got downtown, and D-Money and Derrick wanted to try to get some pussy, so we went to a club. I don't like clubs much, but figured I'd go for Derrick. He was so drunk, but we were all proud of him for bouncing back after he puked. Tommy was hilarious at the club. He kept asking girls if he could go down on them. Most of the girls were probably 15 years younger than us, but he didn't care. The funniest was a girl who was walking by us at the bar, and she was holding hands with her man and Tommy goes "Hey, give me five minutes in your box, and you'll never talk to him again!" LOLLOL!!! The guy got pissy, but me and Keith stepped up and told him if he knew what was good for him, he'd go ahead and leave. Tommy is a riot sometimes.

Anyway, we stayed til about 2am and I had about 4 more beers and maybe 4 more shots. That put me at about my driving limit, so I figured if I was gonna drive us home we should go. We laughed the whole way home at the shit Tommy got into.

Saturday I had the guys over for a poker tourney. We only had 6 (Me, Pete, Tommy, Keith, John from work, and Pete's cousin Rick) and we played a 30$ tourney. If you went broke in the first hour you could reload for $30. Tommy went broke 4 times, and he kept reloading. He spent $120 and didn't even get paid. We paid the top two, and it ended up being Rick versus Pete. I got sucked out on of course. It never gets old. The hand I got beat on, I had pockets 99. I raised up the blind, and the flop comes Ten, Eight, Four. I checked, and Rick checked. The turn was a 2. I checked again, and Rick checked. I thought I probably had him here, and decided to make my move on the river. The River was a 5, and I bet. Rick raised me, and I went all in. I KNEW he didn't have a ten, but guess what. He had 5-4 and hit his two pair on the river. It wasn't in the first hour so I coudn't reload. I just sat there and drank my Budweiser making fun of Rick for being such a tourist. I told him it was people like him online that pay for my cold beer. LOL!!

Anyway, Sunday was pretty dull. No football sucks, and it was cold as hell. I went to the store and got some burgers. I cooked them up and drank Budweiser and watched some movies. I watched Boiler Room again, and Keith gave me Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I never seen it, but he loves it. I thought it was pretty cool even though it was all in Chinese or Japanese. Keith said he liked it even though its all gooks, because of the fight scenes. I agree.

Back to work, and back to taking all the tourist money online this week. Off to Pittsburgh this weekend with the boy.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Happy 23rd

2006-02-10T06:03:00.000-08:00

Today is my good buddy, Derrick's 23rd birthday.
He's one of the very few that read this blog, so I don't feel bad wishing him well on the internet. In fact, after work today me and some of the guys are gonna take him out and get him wasted.

Aren't we, Derrick? LOL!

Anyway, a little background about D. He's the IT guy in our building. We call him the computer guru because he can fix damn near anything. He works for more than just my company too. He's that good. Anyway, he's had a blog about computer technology and things for a couple years I think. And he was the one who talked me into starting this one up. Hell, he pretty much put this one together for me. He set it all up for me and filled out the settings, and entered in some of my favorite bands, and books, and hobbies and stuff. He even found the picture of the guy with the do-rag that I use. (You didn't think that was really me did you?) LOL!! Anyway, D, set this up for me, and showed me how to run it. It's pretty easy for those of you out there thinking about putting one together.

Hell, if you look at my last post you'll see that I've been invited to play in a headsup tourney by HighonPoker and Tripjax. Thanks guys! This is how it all starts. This is exactly how Ivey and Hellmuth got there feet wet. They played with folks they knew, and started to perfect there games. I read HighonPoker, and just started reading Tripjax. These are two of the best poker blogs out there. Trust me. These guys know the game, and how to play it. The tourney is next Friday which is when I was planning to leave for Pittsburgh to see my family, but I may just wait until Saturday so I can play in this. It's only $11, and will probably be good experience for me.

Back to Derrick. This guy knows his computers. He doesn't play poker though, but I think after a few hours drinking beers tonight we may change his mind. LOL! His younger brother is in Iraq with the marines right now so I know that bothers him some. I am sick and tired about Iraq. There is only ONE solution to that place, and that is to level the whole thing. We've got enough ammo and bombs to just flatten that whole shithole. This way we don't endanger any more American lives, and we can just get rid of a bunch of worthless ragheads at the same time. Pete says we should turn it all into a big parking lot and build a Disneyworld there! LOLLOL!! I couldn't agree more. Anyway, I know Derrick needs a good night on the town, and we're gonna give it to him.

And if he wakes up tomorrow morning a new poker player don't blame me! LOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Strategy to Pro

2006-02-08T07:38:00.000-08:00

After talking to Keith again yesterday after work, he seems like he really wants to start getting serious about poker like I am. He was asking me all kinds of questions, but the one that really made me think was: Why do you think you're so much better than everyone else?

This did make me think. He said that the books I have, anybody can get and read. And the places I play at, anyone can play at too. The thing I told him was that some people are just naturals at things. Muhammad Ali was a natural boxer. Denny Crum and Rick Pitino are naturals when it comes to coaching basketball. I think that I'm a natural poker player. I was born to be a card player. When I sit down to play against people I know that the only way I'm not going to be winning the whole thing is if some fish sucks out on me. But that's fine. Fish and tourists suckout, but in the long run if I play right I WILL WIN. I tried to explain to him that if you're serious about poker you have to treat it like one big session. That's what pros do, and if you want to play as good as a pro you have to start acting like they do. Pros have to start somewhere. Do you think Phil Hellmuth or Phil Ivey just woke up one day and walked into the casino and started winning millions? Of course not. They started out playing games against their friends, and then they went to the local casinos, and they played online. When they got good enough and built up a bankroll big enough they moved to Vegas and started taking money from all the tourists. Then their bankrolls got so big they could start playing all the $10,000 tourneys. And, people, all it takes is to win one of those, and you're set.

There is a strategy to becoming a pro. There is a strategy and tons of tips and pointers that you can learn to help your game, but there is also a strategy to becoming a pro. I think I have a pretty good idea of what it is. Me and Keith talked about this for almost five hours! LOL!! I think I've got him hooked now too. We went to the bookstore on the way home, and he picked up Phil's book, and Super System 2. I told him that's the best start you could get.

After I got home I logged onto Poker Stars and played at the NL$100 table. I bought in for $100 (Tip: Always buy in for the most). I like buying in for the most, but I also like to sit at the table where there is already one or two guys with a lot more than the $100. This way there is already someone there to double you up when you get a hand. What good is it to get a hand if the guy in the pot with you only has a $20 stack? I played for about an hour and was only down $10 before the ex called. I told her that I was going to change my number, and get it unlisted if she didn't stop calling me to bitch. I cannot stand listening to women bitch. Me and Tommy swore off women last summer, because we finally figured out that they're not good for anything except bitching like a deep fried whore. Hell, if you can cook burgers and beans who needs em anyway. Don't get me wrong, I still like to get laid at the bars, so don't think I'm turning queer. LOL!!

We're still pretty proud of our Steelers. Crystal told me that Cody wore his Bettis jersey to school Monday AND Tuesday. LOL!! That's my boy!! I'm gonna try to get us tickets to at least one Pittsburgh game this season. We'll probably try to get tickets to the game when they come to Cincy too since that's close.

I don't know if anyone is reading this, but I don't care. It's a good place for me to vent, and its also a good place to track my journey to becoming a pro one day.

May all your pots be fat and juicy like mine!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Prayers Answered

2006-02-06T09:55:00.000-08:00

Yes, there is a God.
Not that I ever doubted it, but yesterday ranks as the #2 day in the history of my life. Behind the birth of my son.
The other Steeler championships were great as well, but I wasn't old enough to enjoy them to there fullest.

You may think it's cheesy, but yes I did pray to God for a title. And it worked. Guess what too? Yup, I won the first ever Super Bowl poker tourney at Pete's. Was there any doubt? LOL!!!

The best part of the poker tourney was when it got down to the final two I played against a Seahawks fan and kicked his ass so bad!! I didn't even know there were gonna be any Seahawks fans there, but one of the guys Pete works with brought his brother who says he's a big fan. We got really drunk because we started dedicating shots to all the Steelers, and about every third one was dedicted to either Bettis or Cowher. Except I kept dedicating mine to the man Hines Ward. Every time. Every single time it was my turn to dedicate the shot, it went to Hines Ward. And guess who got Super Bowl MVP? Yep! LOL!! I had the jersey on too. Now tell my my prayers are a joke?!! Haha! Seriously, I was talking to the guys after the game, and this may be the best team in history. Here's why. They have a top 3 coach in the history. NUFF SAID. I don't think you can even argue that. Bettis is a top 5 RB. Big Ben will go down as a top 3 Quarterback in history when it's all said and done. Mark my words. Guaranteed. Hines Ward is the best WR in the game right now. You can say TO or Moss, but where are they? Exactly. Sitting at home on their black asses. Troy Palomalu is the best defender in the NFL. Ask Payton Manning. And let's not even forget about Fast Willie Parker and Antwan Randle El. I'd put this team up against any ever.

We had 14 players in the tourney, and we settled on $30 buy-in. Pete wanted winner take all, but I got it so that top 2 paid. I wish I would've let Pete have his way now LOLLOL!!! Anyway, it kinda sucked because Pete and Tommy kept telling all the others that I was some kind of pro because I had studied and I play poker almost every single day. This is not good, and I told them about it before we started. At the table if you're a good player, you want everyone to think your bad. If people think I'm a bad player, which I guarantee that I am not, they will call me when they think I don't have much but I'll have the goods.

The best hand of the night was when we got down to the final 4. The Seahawks fan (Chris), Me, Pete's cousin Rick, and Pete's nieghbor also named Rick. Niegnbor Rick had like 10 chips left so he went all in without even looking, I think he was on tilt because I just won a big pot off of him when the river gave me a flush. Anyway, the other Rick looks at his cards and calls. Chris looks down and goes all in. Guess what I had? Yup. Pocket Rockets. American Airlines (Thanks, Vince!) Of course I go all in too. Rick has to call and here's what we had.

Me: AA
Rick: 88
Chris: AJ
Rick: 62 - remember, he didn't even look.

The flop had a jack, so I started to get a little worried. Nothing else came, and I won a big pot. And 2 guys got knocked out. After we counted it up, Chris only had 40 chips left and the blinds were 20-40, so he barely had enough to cover it. I got him on the second hand after we got headsup. People started calling me a pro and stuff, and that felt pretty cool. I told them that I'm not a pro now, but one day I really plan to be. All it takes is hard work and a nack for the game. I have both of those going for me. It was also kind of cool because Tommy was rooting for me and kept calling me Never Bluff. People asked why he called me that and I told them why. It feels good to be respected at something you really love to do. And are pretty damn good at! LOL!!

So, I'm gonna get the CricketPro 800 and put it up in the garage which I'm going to convert to a gameroom when it gets warmer. Me and Keith are going to build a really nice poker table too. He's already got felt from his days as a pool table repair guy, and I've got a ton of scrap wood just laying around.

If you think its just coincidence that I won the tourney, the Steelers won the big game, and Hines won the MVP then you're wrong. Some people think its selfish to pray for sports, but I don't think so. Yesterday was a special day for the city of Pittsburgh and millions of fans around the world. It was a great day to spend with my son, and he also got to see his dad in action winning a poker tourney. I'm proud to say that I have faith both in the big man above, and also in Bill Cowher.

Now it's time to get back to playing online to keep practicing. Practice makes perfect. I don't have Cody this weekend, so I'm gonna have the guys over for a tourney Saturday I think. I plan to keep the winning streak alive.

Play Like a Champion Today

Fucking BULLSHIT !!!!

2006-02-03T15:44:00.000-08:00

Check this out.

I'm playing online yesterday after work and I've got $65 at the NL$50 table. And I get pockets QQ. I raise it up to $2. I get 2 people to call and guess what the flop is?

Q 6 6

Bingo! The best part is the first guy bets, and the second guy goes ALL IN!!! LOL !!! I call, of course. The turn is a 6 and I know I'm beat. Sure enough he has the 4th 6 in his hand. But, the worst part was that he had a 3 with it and it wasn't even the same suit!!! These fucking TOURISTS piss me off so bad sometimes. He had $40 so instead of being over $110 I'm down to $20, and fucking pissed off. Poker can be such BULLSHIT sometimes. Seriously, I get QQ and flop a full house. Flopped it!! and, some dickhead tourist who plays 6-3 strikes gold and hits four of a kind.

BS!!!!

One of the guys, Keith, is the one who thinks poker is all luck. Or mostly luck. I've been trying to tell him that there is luck in poker, but it's mostly skill. Hitting four of a kind with 6-3 is all luck don't get me wrong, but he'll go broke. That's the thing about tourists, they all end up broke. Keep playing like fish, boys and I'm gonna fry you up in my skillet. We got a big SuperBowl poker game this Sunday, and there's a chance we may play one tomorrow night. I already promised myself that when (there's no ifs in my vocabulary LOL!!!) the tourney, I'm gonna get the CricketPro 800 dartboard. I think I can talk the guy at the gamestore down to $250 which is well worth it.

I keep telling myself its all one big session, but its hard to when stupid fish make their hands. That guy had one out!! Well, sometimes they'll hit. I read where Jennifer Harmen said that the good players are the ones who can handle the beats. Well, I've kicked ass in pretty much everything I've done, and its true that the best shine when times are tough. I don't see any reason why I can't keep making good money playing poker.

Steelers are SBXL champs in 2 days.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Greed Is Good but Fish Taste Better

2006-01-31T15:15:00.000-08:00

The best thing ol' bitch ever bought me for Christmas was a plaque for my desk that had my favorite quote on it - GREED IS GOOD. I still got it on my desk actually, but it's not my favorite quote anymore. Wall Street was good but Boiler Room kicked ass! I still use some of that shit around the office, especially with the rookies. New guy yesterday went two straight hours never getting to page two on the script, so I walk over and ask him "when was the last time you closed something? You couldn't close a window!" I can't say the real quote or they'd sue me and fire me - LOLLOL!

No, but my favorite quote from that movie is this one - "I'm 46 years old, I have 22 years market experience. I know this business. So pick up your skirt, grab your balls and let's go make some money!" We got a whole bunch of new blood starting out next Monday, and they're going to get my DON'T FIRE MY ASS FOR TELLING THE TRUTH version of that speech! LOL! It's the same shit at the tables. I'm kicking so much ass this week I should be charging admission - oh wait - maybe that's just what I'm doing! LOL! I got sick and fucking tired of tourists playing crap-ass hands all the way to the river that I decided to fight fire with fire for once. I got down $20 playing NL and after the third filthy fucking suckout to my DOMINATING preflop hands, I went down to the NL$25 table and decided I'd just play any suited cards and any hand with a face! LOL! Do I even need to tell you what happened next?

I fucked around for about an hour doing this and was up $40! LOL! Two pair with 92 of clubs? I win. Call a few small bets to make my gutshot on the river? Hell yeah, why not? It's only money! I was on FIRE! Maybe I should have changed my name from NEVERBLUFF to ALWAYSCALL for a night! LOL!

What I can't stand are those godamn tourists that want to tell you what a fish you are. You know who you are - if you can't take losing don't play poker! And don't bring that weak shit to me - I know you only had King high or something and didn't catch shit when I did. If I'm betting, I GOT THAT SHIT BITCH! I'm not going to show you down without a good hand, even if it didn't start out that way - LOL! On that hand where I had 92 of clubs and caught my two pair I busted some guy with TT. That's MY favorite hand, it's supposed to lose for everyone else. Anyways I get top pair on the flop and there's already $2 in the pot so I bet a dollar. Mr. TT pushes all-in for something like $12 and you know I'm calling that with top pair - guy hadn't shown he could play a good hand yet! I call and get my two on the turn and the tourist shoots his load. He starts talking shit like "Nice hand fish" and "You can call me all day with #$@# 29" and I'm all "Keep talking monkey, I'll keep taking your $$." He was pissed off and bought another $10 and busted to some other dude in like fifteen minutes! LOL! He bought probably two more times and proved my thinking about tourists - they're always willing to spend bad money to see good cards.

Unless you think this is some sort of new strategy for me or something, that's bullshit. I just wanted to see how it felt to swim like a fish but you know I ain't swimming with 'em, I'm trying to hook 'em and reel 'em in! I hope that guy from last night tries to hunt me down today too. I'm going to move back to NL$50 and not play like an idiot moron dipshit tonight, and I know that guy is mad enough to chase his money and I hope he'll be donating to my beer fund! LOL!

Time to get off the Internet and back to squeezing money out of unsuspecting dumbass tourists! LOL!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Tommy Martin Likes To Smoke Pole

2006-01-28T18:17:00.000-08:00

Tommy can choke on my big veiny horse cock. And now it's true because it's on the internet! LOL!

All right boy, I'm just kidding! I ain't mad at-cha! I'm just tired of giving this guy ten dollar bills like it's my job the last two days! LOL! Tommy bet me again on Friday at the bar on the best two out of three playing cricket again and I don't know what happened but I think he fucked with my darts when I wasn't looking or something because I was missing but not by a lot while he just hit every fucking spot he needed to all night long. That was ten bucks and I NEVER lose to Tommy playing darts. Then it was Golden Tee, which I can't play for shit anyways but I was mad from the cricket where I always kick his ass, and I had a couple of Jager bombs before we played.

Fuck golf anyway, that's for old white dudes who work in an office managing people anyway - ok, old RICH white dudes that work in an office and manage people anyway - LOLLOL! Even video games where I kick Tommy's ass all the time suck when they're about golf. You know a game sucks when the main character is wearing pleated pants! LOL!

That was another ten bucks, but Tommy's a lot better with balls in his hands than I am so fuck em, right? I told him his luck was going to run right the hell out, so he'd better take what he could from me now before we sat down at the poker table again but he wanted to be a dick about it. Right before we left the bar last night he said he wanted to press his luck and said he'd take Rutgers today against Louisville on the road, even though the Cards were favored! He didn't even want points?!?! Tommy's a UK guy which is bad enough, but Rutgers? Straight up!

How the fuck did Rutgers win by 9? It's Tommy's fucking luck in the last two days, that's what. Or my stupid luck in the last two days. Something like that. I can't beat Tommy in Cricket Friday when I normally smoke him, Louisville loses because Tommy's Golden Ass has ten bucks riding on it, and I can't catch a fucking break playing poker either. I'm at PokerStars slumming down playing in a tournament and get pocket Kings. I'm under the gun and I make it something like 240 which was three times the bet all day. FOUR callers! I KNOW someone's going to dig the golden horseshoe out of their ass and catch something here so I'm already pissed off before the flop. But it comes out: K 8 7 rainbow so I know I'm good. Big blind checks and I check too and can't wait to check-raise if someone gets uppity - and tries to bet into THE NUTS. But everyone checks and a 6 comes on the turn. The big blind checks and I want to bet now and there's a lot of money in the pot so I bet 800 which leaves me 200 left. Everyone folds to the big blind and he pushes all-in! I call and the fish turns over 9T of hearts! He didn't even have a flush draw on the flop! LOL!

How can you compete with fish like this sometimes? You get good fucking hands and hit a flop hard and some tourist decides to call a RAISE pre-flop with ten high! LOL! And it was one of those douchebags who puts a picture of their kid up as their picture too. I hate those guys. Am I not supposed to call you're all-in because you're gambling out of little Billy's college fund? Sorry fish, NO PITY. I'd tell you what my picture is on there, but then I'd have to kill you! LOL!

One week to the Steeler's win baby! Like JB said at the pep rally yesterday WIN ONE FOR THE THUMB! We're going to rip the Seahawks a new one, and it's going to be good to have Cody their to see a Superbowl win with his old man. If Crystal tries to take this shit away from me like she did with that trip to Six Flags I had planned for the boy last summer, well I'm libel to be a lot madder about this one than that one. Big Ben, The Bus, Hines Ward and me and my boy are going to be popping corks next Sunday night damnit!

Cricket Champion

2006-01-27T06:43:00.000-08:00

That's what they used to call me anyway.
Long before we used to play poker all the time it was Darts.

Not sure if anyone knows what cricket is, but its a dart game where you have to close out 15,16,17,18,19,20, and bulls while you have the high score then you win. I had a dart board when I was a kid and me and my dad used to play in the garage so I guess you could say I had an unfair advantage over the fellas here. Didn't stop me from taking their money though! LOL! And yes, there are fish at darts too! LOLLOL!!!

We played last night just cause we knew we had a poker game this weekend, and the BIG game on SuperSunday. Of course I won. We didn't play for big money, instead the loser had to buy two rounds (Keith), and second place (Tommy), had to put 5 bucks in the jukebox and play my choices of music. It wasn't hard since we all like the same stuff mostly, so I just told him to play at least 3 KISS songs, and everything would be cool.

I'm writing this for Pete mostly so he can find out how much fun we had last night while he stayed at home with Jess. They probably fought all night too knowing that loud ass bitch. Pete, next time you just gotta leave and come hang with the boys! LOL!

Anyways, I had my bulls closed first (I can hit a bullseye pretty much on command), and would go after triples to close out my numbers, and every once in awhile I'd hit a bulls just to build my score. Dickhead Tommy kept scoring on 15's like an idiot. I told you there were fish in darts too!!! Of course I finally finished him off, and won again.

Keith told me he was sick of me winning everything, so he challenged me to a game of pool. He beat me 2 out of 3, but I don't really count that as a win cause that pool table sucked so bad. It leaned to the left so bad that you had to hit the shot so hard otherwise the balls would veer off. I tried to start a conversation up about playing poker, because this bar we go to is planning to start up weekly tourneys. It's gonna be $20 to get in, but the bartender wants it to be winner-take-all. I think that's cool because the pot will be bigger for the winner, and I have a feeling most of the players would be tourists, but it would suck to play forever and get sucked out in the end and not get anything. I think I talked the guy into paying out the top 2 places. He's got 4 tables off to the side by the dartboards that he's going to used, and thinks we can get 30 players so the prize pool will be pretty nice. I told him he could count on me to be there! LOL!!!

If there's a pond full of fish, I'm gonna be there!! And I'm gonna have my skillet ready to fry em up! LOLLOL!!!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Superbowl

2006-01-26T06:45:00.000-08:00

Ha! So Barry now wants to go double or nothing on the $50 he bet on the Broncos. Why not? It's not like the Seahawks stand a chance anyway. Has anyone been watching my Steelers the last 3 weeks? LOL!

Pete's already said he expects maybe 20 people at the Superbowl party. And you know what that means right? Poker. I'm trying to talk them into a $100 buyin, but I doubt I get many takers. The guys I play with regular know that I'd probably win, but I told them not to tell the other people. Still a hundred may be too much. I think if I say Hey let's do a hundred, and everyone says no, then I can say let's do 50. It won't seem like that much then, and people will probably do it. I'm not sure if any of the other people even play poker which would be nice. Especially since everyone will be drinking at the party, and I'm the only one whose game actually gets better the more I drink.

Crystal called me up again last night and I guess Cody, our son, got into more trouble at school. I told her already don't expect me to keep after him if I only get to see him once ever two weeks. And what about the guy she lives with? He gets to live there, have her cook his meals, and he don't even work. And when Cody gets in trouble, do you think she goes to him? Noooooo.

I said if I got to see him when I wanted then I'd help out more. It's all fucking Bullshit! Of course I get to see him on the Superbowl which is going to be nice again. His favorite player is Jerome Bettis and that's whose jersey he wears. I got it for him for Christmas, and I got the away jersey of Hines Ward (my favorite Steeler). Anyway, he'll get to run around with all the boys at Pete's again, and they'll play Xbox. Crystal said she won't come get him this time and that if I brought him home after I'd be drinking she'd have the cops waiting on me. Pete told me I ought to pop her a good one, and when her man stood up to pop his ass one too! LOL!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Poker Bitches and Tricks of the Trade

2006-01-24T05:47:00.000-08:00

That's right.
It never occurred to me to bring it up, but since Tommy was over last night watching me play some online poker he asked why my Full Tilt poker player was a woman.

I said cause people think women don't know how to play poker, and that I'd get some bad calls, and that some people would try to bluff me more.

In less than 10 minutes I had proved him right. Some tourist tried to come over the top of me when I flopped trips, and sure enough he didn't have anything. I play big at women players too, but they don't expect a bluff because they think I'm a woman player. It works out perfectly. Just a trick of the trade I told Tommy. I've got millions of them.

It's true though. Think about it. How many women poker players can YOU name? That's right, maybe Annie Duke. My guess is that if she wasn't Howard's sister you'd never have heard of her. The closest any woman has gotten to being a World Champion was that stupid ass black chick this year. And everyone even the commentors on ESPN knew she had no business being there. Just goes to show that even dumbass tourists get lucky in tourneys sometimes.

Tommy thought it was funny but true after I explained it to him. Then I logged onto Pokerstars just to show him my player there. Yup, another woman. My name there has Tequila in it too. I told him, "Do you know any creature living dumber than a dumb ass bitch on tequila?"!!!! LOL!!!
You should see all the people that try to bluff me there. Bluffing me DOES NOT WORK, people.
Jeesh.

Another one of my tricks of the trade. I could go on all day giving out my tips, but I'll save them for later. It's not like anyone reads this anyway. Except for Pete, and he's a fish! (Sorry, Pete!) LOL!!!

Maybe one day a woman will somehow suckout enough to become a World Champion. I highly doubt it, but if it happens, I'll eat a deck of cards. I can tell you one thing, it won't be that bitch from the WSOP this year. And it probably won't be Duke either.

So, I booked a win with Tommy watching me. I just played $NL50, but hitting those trips won me a $20 pot. I let Tommy borrow Phil's book, and I also made copies of my tipsheet at work yesterday for him. He thinks he wants to get serious like I am about poker. Why not? There's tourists out there just ready to give money away, all you have to do is sit down with them.

Life is good.

Play Like a Champion Today.

STEEEEELERS !!!!

2006-01-23T08:13:00.000-08:00

That's right.
Everyone told me Denver would win, and just like usual I ended up being right.

I had my son this weekend which was pretty cool. He really likes football, and I got him a bunch of Steeler stuff for Christmas this year. We both put on our jerseys and headed to Pete's for the game. Pete has two boys, and Keith brought his son. They all played during the day while we all ate chili(my dad's from Pittsburgh recipe, kicks ass), watched our Steelers whup up on the pussy Broncos, and play poker.

We played a 5-person tournament. $30 buy in gets 1000 chips. I went out in third when Keith sucked out on me. Go figure. I tried to tell him he was an idiot for calling me with a pair of tens on a flop of: K T 4. I had KJ and bit it BIG. He called and the turn gave him 2-pair. I called his all-in and I didkn't get another king or jack. I tried to explain to him that it was one of the dumbest plays ever, but he coudn't see why. He's a fish, but still a good friend.

The best part of the night didn't have anything to do with poker, even though we were playing. Of course all of us had been drinking Buds and eating chili and nacho dip all day long. We were playing poker when Tommy says to hold on cause he's gonna rip a big one. We all get quiet and he lifts his leg up to let it rattle, and then it doesn't make a sound at all. He made a really embarrassed face too, and that's when we all realized that he shit himself. Tommy's face turned beet red. We were all laughing too hard. My stomach started cramping up and I had to take a break from the beer for thirty minutes. Pete asked him if he needed some shorts to wear and sure enough Tommy said yes. He got up from the table and walked backwards into the garage so we couldn't see where he shit. Pete got him some sweatpants since it was kind of cold. Too Funny! LOL.. When a forty year old guy shits his pants you can't help but to laugh.

I had Crystal come by to pick up the boy so I didn't have to drive him anywhere drunk. Last time I did it Crys made a big fuss, and threatened to call the cops. I wasn't even drunk really, but she said she could smell it.

Anyway, my Steelers are gonna whup those pussy ass Seahawks in the SuperBowl. We're going back to Pete's of course since they keep winning while we're at his house and we don't want to jinx them.

Barry, the guy I bet $50, paid me this morning. I told him double or nothing on the SuperBowl and he said no. Figures, I'd be scared of my Steelers too! LOL!!

Probably gonna play some poker this week. I got some bad beats out of the way the last few weeks, so I should have a big win coming soon. I wonder if these dickhead fish know how much Budweiser they've bought me? I doubt it! LOLLOL!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

P vs. T.

2006-01-21T11:03:00.000-08:00

And, NO, that's not Pete versus Tommy.

Pros versus Tourists.

I didn't play any poker last night for the first time in probably a year LOL!

I had to stay late at work because some dickhead kept screwing up. Then I came home and Pete calls my cell on the way home. I guess he's not doing good (I checked with him, and he says its cool if I write about him. HAHA) with his girlfriend. So I told him to come on over and we can have some Buds. It was cold last night, but we sat on the porch anyway. Talking about our Steelers mostly. Be ready Denver!! He thinks he's serious about leaving Jess. I told him all women are dumb as fuck and mostly rude as hell anyway LOL! Plus I told him that would give him more time for poker!!! Anyway, I need to get to poker. I want to really talk about why I like playing with good players more than these fish online.

I think I would make more money playing against pros than tourists. You may think that's dumb, but I can tell you why it isn't.

1) Pros know when to lay down hands.
2) You can bluff a pro.
3) Fish always chase idiot draws. AND THEY HIT!
4) If I want a pro to fold I can make him think I actually have a hand.
5) Pros only play good hands, so you can put them on big cards usually.

And don't think cause you see the pros on TV playing bad hands that's because they don't show them all LOL. Do you really think the WSOP lasts only two hours?

Okay, I told Pete I'd bring chili if Tommy rogered up to bring deer jerky, and Keith is bringing the nacho dip. So, I got to go the store to get the fixins. A guy that works for me bet me $50 on the Broncos. So, I'm gonna get rich too! And I'm going to take all there money too! LOLLOL!!

May all your pots be fat and juicy!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Camp Update 2

2006-01-20T09:11:00.000-08:00

Well, folks I hate to say this but last night didn't go nearly as good as the first night.
I basically got sucked out on so many times I lost count.

I played the NL$50 table first, and lost all $50 after two horrendous beats. I ask you a question: CAN A FISH EVER LAY DOWN A HAND?

I don't even remember the hand it was so bad. Of course in the middle of the game, Crystal (the-EX) calls me and says that our son got sent home from school and that she'd like to talk about it. What do you want me to do about it I told her? He doesn't live with me, and see's more of that dickhead living with you than even me. It's all fucking bullshit. I get to see him once every two weeks, and when he gets in trouble Crystal comes running for my help. Some shit just ain't right.

Anyway, so that phonecall pissed me off even more. I'm down $50 already and so now I got to win $250 to keep up my pace. I decided to go to a NL$200 table and I picked one where there was two big stacks ($300 & $450) so that there would be someone to pay me off through a double-up. I was there less than 15 minutes when I get Ace-Jack. I raise it up to $5, and the girl in the big blind reraises it to $15. I thought about going all in here, but figured that she may have pockets, so I just call it. The flop comes out Ace-and two low cards. She checks, so I'm pretty sure I've got her. I'm guessing that she had QQ,JJ,KK, or whatever. Anyway, I bet the size of the pot which was about $40. She goes ALL-IN?? LOL??! What kind of tourist does this? I call TIME and get it down to about a few seconds left and decide that she has to be bluffing. Turns out she has Ace-King, and now I got $0 at the table. I'm really pissed now, cause I worked pretty hard to win that much the night before.

I keep trying to say its one big session, but sometimes these fish just piss me off.

I think work is going to get in the way from Camp Helmuth anyway, so I'll probably just try to go next year. This is probably good news anyway since i don't like being cramped for time. I'm layed back, and easy going. Give me the outdoors, a deck of cards, some buddies, and some cold Budweiser and I'm good.

I'll be returning soon with some more strategy on how to win big in the Sit and Gos. I also noticed that I got some comments from a couple people. Thanks, guys. I like to hear what other poker players are thinking. You may not agree with what I say, but someday you will when you see me winning a bracelet on TV. Now all I got to do is get Crystal off my ass and start focusing on this great game of poker!! LOL!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Camp Hellmuth Update #1

2006-01-19T05:56:00.000-08:00

Well, it was a pretty good night here last night. And you know why?
Cause I stuck to my guns.
That's right. I did exactly what I said I was gonna do, and it turned out perfectly.

First off, I sat at the NL$50 table (25cent/50cent blinds for you that don't know), and in less than half hour I had my stack at $103. So....What's a Poker Champ to do? That's right, stick to his guns and climp up a ladder to take down the tourists at the NL$100.

First hand at NL$100 I get pockets. Seven-Seven.
Flop comes: A J 7. I just KNEW one of these dickhead fish were gonna play at this pot. I mean if there's three in the pot already and I'm holding pockets one of them has to have an ace right? Maybe both? Sure enough, I bet the size of the pot, and this guy we'll call "Superfish" LOL!!! comes back at me. He pushes me all in. I call and he's got AJ. No help for him and I'm at $208.

People!!!! This is less than 45 minutes after I first sat down at my computer. If I didn't love what I do for a living I could easily get by doing this online thing. Hell, these fish are already paying my way to Ceaser's and Camp Hellmuth. (BTW, it is Feb 9-11) You better act quick because this will definitely sell out. Read my last post if you'd like some strategy on how to build your stack in order to make this a FREE trip.

Okay, so back to the tables. The guy, Superfish, types in the box "nh" and I type back "thanks fish" He starts to get all riled up, and then finally leaves. I don't remember what else he said cause I was busy getting my reads down on the rest of the table. Probably less than 30 minutes after my big hand I'm on the big blind and I get Six-Four. There were no raises so I get a free check, and the flop comes Q 6 6. Seriously, any of the dumb fish raise even the minimum and I don't stick around for that flop. So, I check. That's what's beautiful. Earlier when I had trips, I bet, this time I check. That's why it's SO TOUGH TO READ NEVERBLUFF! LOL !!! anyway, some guy bets at the pot. I call him. The turn is a Jack I think. (I had about six Buds by this time) and I decide to bet. Well, guess what? This guy raises me his whole stack which was about $20 more. Of course I call. Guess what he has?? Yup. Queen-Jack. Um, sir...There are already 2 sixes on the board!!! LOL!!!

Believe me, I wanted to stick around cause my stack was already at $260, but I promised myself to stick to my guns. I got up from the table, grabbed another Bud and called Tommy.

This is where it gets weird cause Tommy and Pete are my only two friends that get online, and I told them about this site. So, T and P, WHAT's up? Kinda neat ain't it?
The plan is to do the exact same thing tonight. And tomorrow night. And every night for the next couple weeks. Then I'm off to Vegas to play with the big boys, Phil, Fishman, The Magician, and TJ Cloutier.

Hope all your pots are fat and juicy like mine.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Camp Hellmuth

2006-01-18T06:32:00.000-08:00

I know I've posted about how I think Phil Hellmuth is the best poker pro today. Well, I just got an email inviting me to 2006 Camp Hellmuth. It's less than a month away, so I don't know if I'll be able to swing it, but I'm going to try my ass off.

It's at Caeser's Place from February 9-11. I'm starting my own little Camp Hellmuth Competition tonight. I figure if I set up a structure and stick to it properly, all of the fish will pay my way to the fantasy camp. Can't beat a free trip, right? The price of the Camp is $1,999, and Ceasers is offering $555 room rates for the trip. I will round this up to $2,600, and figure that I have 2 weeks to do this. So, $1,300 a week is what I need to make, which is about $200 a day.

Here's my plan:
1) Play 50$ No Limit until I get my stack to $100.
2) Play 100$ No Limit until I get my stack to $250. This is only 1.5x my buy-in which is pretty easy to do considering all the tourists that play at these levels.
3) Quit for the day. I was thinking about running my stack up as high as I could, but every time I do this some fish usually draws out on me for a big pot. Go back a couple posts and read about that dickhead tourist who cracked my pocket Cowboys with Ace-Seven if you don't believe me. A-7 !!! LOL !!! So, the plan is to quit and book the win.

I will do this plan, and I promise to stick to it, every night starting tonight for the next two weeks. When it's all said and done, $220 x 14 days = $2800. This will cover my entry fee to Camp Hellmuth AND my room at Ceasers Palice. The extra money will go to my flight. But, I'm assuming I can use a free ticket I've had saved for awhile. So, that extra $200 will most definitely go to the booze fund!!!

Here's the best part: Not only is Phil Hellmuth going to be there (obviously, it's his camp) but two of my other favorite poker players are going to be there helping as well. Scott Fishman and Antinio "The Magician" Esfandiari. These guys are some of the best in the world. Fishman won two bracelets last year, and he's only 25. TJ Cloutier is also going to be there. He's won about 5 bracelets, so that's pretty sweet too.

I plan to update my progress each day. And, I also plan to keep bringing you The Poker Champ's kick-ass stategy as well. I may come back with more Sit And Go strategy tips, or I may switch over to ring game tips. That's probably what I'll do so in case someone who is reading this doesn't play Sit And Go's, that they'll get some good tips to help them start making the BIG money too.

Pete Update - I talked to him last night. I guess the cops never came over. Which is good. Him and Jess are still together too. Doesn't suprise me. They've probably been in over 100 fights since I've known him, and they never break up for more than a night. LOL!! Jess did have to get nine stiches in her lip though. That should teach her!! LOL!! Going back over there this weekend for to watch our STEEEEELERS!!!! They were gonna come over here to watch it then play poker but we watched the last two games at Pete's and we don't want to jinx them by doing something stupid.

Get ready Broncos fans. Bill Cowher is coming after YOU!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Sit and Go Strategy Post

2006-01-17T10:19:00.000-08:00

Okay, I know I promised you strategy, so here it is.

I was trying to think of a way I could charge for this, because it WILL make you money, but I couldn't come up with anything. I figured if poker "experts" can sell books with strategy then I should be able to sell my strategy on the internet somehow.

I thought about not posting every single detail since that may help some of the fish (people that buy my BUDWEISER) get good at poker. Then I realized that fish are too dumb to learn. Go read my last post about that fucking TOURIST!!!! that played Ace-Seven and hit his miracle 3-outer on the flop to bust my pocket Cowboys. Fish piss me off sometimes.

I just have to keep telling myself it is one big session.

Sit And Go: Stratgey Volume One:
Only raise if you have an ace and a face card, and it helps if they're suited.
I don't raise with small pocket pairs because it won't get any of the fish out, and they're likely going to call you with a tourist hand like Ace-Seven.
I also don't like to raise with big pairs because I don't want to chase any of the action out.

I will also call with any two suited cards if there hasn't been a raise. I may not do this later on in the SNG when the blind bets get bigger, but early on it is worth it to try to hit a flush. If I do hit my flush I will NOT raise it up. I don't want the fish to think I hit my flush, and they may try to steal it with a big bet on the river. That is when I make them go broke.

I took this next part from Phil Hellmuth: It is much better to push all in than it is to call all in. If I get low in chips I will push all in if I have big cards. If someone puts me all in, I usually don't call unless I have a HUGE hand. Like a pair or an Ace-Face card.

Remember: Fish like to stick around and hit their draws. If you have Ace-Jack and the flop comes out with an Ace and two cards of the same suit. I guarantee someone will call a bet to try to hit their flush. If they want to do that they will have to pay their entire stack because I will bet BIG here.

I like to force people to gamble. I am an action player, and I usually almost always only show down big hands that are winners. That's why the boys call me NeverBluff.

The ONLY time that I bluff in a Sit And Go is when I KNOW they're going to fold. I can usually tell by feel if someone will fold to a bluff if I've been playing with them for a few minutes.

Some fish are just that easy to read.

I have a notebook that I keep right here by my computer, and everytime I think of a new strategy tip I write it down. I probably have 100 tips or more. I will share these with you a few at a time. I probably don't have many readers right now, but I figure if I keep giving out kick-ass strategy and it helps one person win money he may tell one more person, and so on.

I love poker. And, I love winning other people's money.
There are so many fish out there just trying to give their money away.
I think we should give them a hand and help them do just that.

Play Like a Champion Today.

P.S. If you're reading this and like my strategy, and it helps you make money, you can leave me a comment if you like. Or, if you're in the Louisville area maybe we can play some cards. Me and the boys play every week, and we like to hit up Caeser's too. WARNING: Just because you comment here and we play cards, I will not take it easy on you. Poker is WAR!!
LOL!!!!!

Fucking Bullshit!

2006-01-16T15:24:00.001-08:00

This day has been a big pile of SHIT!!! LOL !!!

First off, of course I have to work.
Most of America gets Marting King Day off.

Is it a Holiday or not?
Fucking Bullshit!

Where's our Ronald Reagan Day?
He was a true AMERICAN!

Seems they should be celebrating President's Day more since Abe Lincoln helped them out so much.

Of course, I then come home and play in a $100NL Cash game at Full Tilt.
After five minutes I can tell I'm the ONLY one that has a clue how to play poker.

Guess what ???

I got sucked out on!!!

I get KK and someone bets the blind amount in front of me. I raise him the minimum cause I don't want him going anywhere. Flop comes Ace-Jack-5. He checks, and of course I bet. I bet the pot and he pushes all in for $110. I call and he has Ace-7.

What kind of fucking TOURIST plays A7???????? LOL???

Poker is funny sometimes.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Fucking Bullshit!

2006-01-16T15:24:00.000-08:00

Steeeeelers!!

2006-01-15T19:20:00.000-08:00

How bout them Steelers?!?

Crazy as shit day at Pete's. We're hootin' and hollerin' cause our boys in Black n' Gold kicked those INdy pussies asses, and we're playing poker (of course) and Pete's girlfriend comes in and starts running her trap.

Now I ain't about hitting ladies, but this bitch had it comin'. Pete told her to ShutUP twice, and she kept coming back in. So, he popped her one! BAM! Busted her lip up, and she threatened to call the cops, so we all got the fuck out. It's only a twenty minute drive for me, but I had about 20 Buds, so I decided to scoot before the piggies got there.

Not sure what I liked seeing better, Mike Vanderjack missing the FG or old Pete poppin' that loud ass bitch.

Time for some poker.

Play Like a Champion Today.

Donkey Poker 101

2006-01-15T07:42:00.000-08:00

Warning: When you sit with donkeys at a poker table they will ALWAYS draw out on you.

I've forgotten more about the lovely game of poker than any of these dickheads will ever know. How are they all not broke by now?

That's the most frustrating part about poker. The best player doesn't always win. If that was the case I'd be living on a beach somewhere sipping umbrella drinks from a lawn chair.

I'm playing in a $30 sng at PokerStars and I get Ace-Jack two from the big blind.
Of course I raise it up $100 when the blinds are 20/40. The flop hits the board and it looks like J T 7. I bet another $100, and some guy pushes all in. Of course I call and he has three tens.

Every goddamn time I have a hand someone has one better. This NEVER happens in our home games. Fucking joke. This guy either hits his three tens or goes broke within the next five minutes. That's how bad these online players are. The guy probably voted for John Kerry too! LOL!!!

Well, I'm gonna watch my Steelers whuuup up on the Colts today, and we're gonna have a homegame with the fellers too. I got a case of Budweiser already on ice and ready to go.

Donkeys always seem to make their hands on the river. People think it's silly to rather play with good players, but I most definitely would. They know when to LAY DOWN A HAND !!! LOL!!

GO STEELERS!!!

Play Like a Champion Today.

Hey, Look at me. I'm a Blogger!

2006-01-14T17:08:00.000-08:00

Well, after months of reading blogs about poker, I decided to start one myself.

Hopefully starting this blog will help chronicle my poker journey.

I currently play at Party Poker, PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Doyle's Room.
My favorite game is Texas Hold 'em, and one day I hope to be the World Champion of Poker.
Me and my friends play once a week, and once a month I host the game.
Most of my friends are fish, but I have no problems taking their money.

Poker is WAR. When you sit at the table with me, my only plan is to make you go broke.
And, believe me, most people do go broke when they play with me.

My friends started calling me "NeverBluff" because I only show down good hands. What they don't know is that the hands that I don't show down are usually perfectly timed bluffs.

My favorite hand is pocket tens. I won a big tourney on Thanksgiving weekend at a friend's house in Cincinnati, and my final hand was pocket tens. Since that tournament my game has been pretty much unstoppable. I've read Super System 2 and Phil Hellmuth's Play Poker Like the Pros. I didn't like SS2 that much, but I thought PPLtP was pretty good. Phil Hellmuth is one of my favorite pros, so that's probably why. Most people don't like Phil because they say he whines too much, but he's a world class professional. He can read anyone at anytime. I would say that my game is pretty similar to Phil Hellmuth's.

I've been reading blogs for almost a year now. The blogs I like to read are Daniel Negreanu, Dutch Boyd, Tao of Poker, BadBlood on Poker, Guinness and Poker, Up for Poker, and Poker Perspectives. I plan to link all of these blogs up once I learn how to. Most of these blogs are good and funny sometimes, but there isn't a whole lot of poker talk anymore. That's what I'm hoping to contribute to the blog scene. I bring a pretty kick-ass strategy to the table, and I plan to share it with you.

Enough writing already, Time to go play some poker !!!

Play Like a Champion Today.