MadJax: Beyond Thirtydome
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Well the birthday has come on gone and I must say, it feels good to be 30. When it was creeping near, I thought I might have some reservations, but it's all good. I did purposely take a few days away from blogging and playing, so if you left a comment or an email, I'll be getting to them soon. Not that I get many comments. Thanks to MTW for giving me the idea for my title. There's no mad in me, but I still like the title.
I'd like to note that I really wanted to write a long (but good) post regarding the stink thats been going around the blogosphere lately about content thievery, but I think there have been plenty of good retorts from the likes of Up For Poker (and those who left comments on his post) as well as a nice post by The Fat Guy. Moving on...
I played in the Noble Poker freeroll sponsored by Poker Prof last night at 9pm and actually played pretty damn well. I feel like I played tight aggressive and it seemed to work. I had the right things happen at the right time, both early and late, to keep me truckin. In the end I finished 5th out of over 190+ players which was nice. I only took home $10 for the effort, but I wasn't expecting much with it being a freeroll. More importantly, I wanted to get some MTT time in before tonights WPBT WSoP Satellite to event # 2. And I feel I accomplished that task as I was in it til the very end. When I went out there were 3 remaining and that only lasted about 10 minutes so I got to experience the bulk of the action.
I'd like to add it was extremely cool to have Dr. Pauly sweating us from the virtual rail. His comments and support most definitely helped...both making me feel better and easing the tension that can arise from tournament play (freeroll or not). At one point he asked another player who was a blogger what their URL was and another player chimed in with "I don't even know what a blogger is." Doc proceeded to explain that a blogger is another term for an ex-marine. It was great. Thanks again Doc and Prof for spending your time watching some freerollers.
Though I didn't see very many poker bloggers playing, I did come across a few at the tables I played or when checking out the player list. To note just a couple, On_THG showed up at my table about 10 - 15 minutes into the tourney, and about 5 seconds after I knocked out someone when my pocket rockets turned into a full house when the flop came A 3 3. Unfortunately for the guy I was up against, he was chasing a flush draw that never panned out, nor would have done him any good had he hit it. That took my stack to about 3200 when the average was probably around 1800. Perfect timing for a fellow blogger to join the table.
BigSlickNuts was the other poker blogger I ended up playing with and he ended things well. Though he didn't take down 1st place, he did play a very nice heads up battle against the big stack, but ended up coming in 2nd. If there is anyone else I should have mentioned, but didn't, drop me a comment so I can link you up. I'll link THG and BSN today. Enjoyed playing with those guys.
Well, that's it for me. Thanks for reading and go sign up for the tournament tonight using the link below. It's Iggy's link and he damn sure deserves it. After the things he's done for us, he deserves every single solitary bit of support we can offer him.
Readers are invited to this one.
Noble Poker
Wednesday, May 11th, 9pm
30+3 NL
Password: dahammer
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