Unfortunately for me Ice had to go run and hide before I could take the rest back =) There is no other explanation than he had to be scared, seeing as how he hosted the game, announced it 2 weeks in advance, yet managed to bail in under 2 hours =)

but I got to squeak out a nice $1,500 win, when can we do it again? :p (If its soon I've got to stop revealing all my secrets on other threads)

Finally, a calling station?????? I had top pair top kicker..... I never fold top pair top kicker. And it was AK too! AK never loses! Although I didn't even see the heart possibility on that hand, I just thought I was milking you with a stronger ace the whole time. At the end something just seemed amiss instinctually. That and I'm a calling station.

Did you really win $1500? From who? There wasnt enough people there to lose that much combined.

I know you wont fold TPTK. You wont even fold middle pair bad kicker with 3 diamonds on the flop.....lol

I wasnt scared. I had to go eat and my wife gave me a death look when I mentioned playing some more. I hate short handed play anyway. I really was expecting a full table plus a waiting list.

When I started sweating the $100 table palman was heads up with TW and had $700 in his stack. Elite, droqqa, and piers all showed up briefly at various points. 3 or 4 hours later when they called it quits palman had $1300.

Fun to watch (and a bit painful watching TW slide from $400 to $0).

"I know you wont fold TPTK. You wont even fold middle pair bad kicker with 3 diamonds on the flop.....lol "

Of course not, someone could simply have a high diamond!

Yeah, but how many stacks did he lose before that? I know he lost about 4 or 5 before he started winning. Then he built up to $250 or so and lost that with set over set.

I dont think he couldve won $1500 unless he really pounded them after I left.


Palman...in that hand, I had raised preflop to $9. The way the hand was played, I had to have AA or KK with a diamond or AK or diamonds (which i had of course). How you thought you could possibly be ahead or even have odds to continue is beyond me.

I think your play there was as bad as my bluff on your AK hand.

I don't remember the hand you're referring to, unless you are talking about the hand you had AKd, of which I don't even think I had middle pair. Plus in that hand I thought you made your flush on the turn.

Ice - I doubled up early on the $100 table (in the first 5 hands), gave $100 back, then busted. So I was only net -$100. ( I may have bought in once more, but that's it. I didn't come close to buying in 4 or 5 times, it wasn't more than 3, meaning I was never down more than $200-250) I bought in again, got up to $250, lost set over set back to $100, then got back to $300 after my AK hand with you.

On the $50 NL table, I only bought in once, got up to around $300 fairly quickly, had the chiplead the entire time, and had $350 at the end.

I think at the end of the $100 NL table I had around $1350. I ended up between $1375-$1400 for the night to be exact.

I know you weren't scared, I was just messin with ya.

And I don't know how anyone can hate shorthanded. Full ring is so incredibly boring I'd rather be at the dentist. In most situations, you can only have about 5-10 possible holdings and so can your opponnent. In shorthanded that number moves to 30-50. What fun is it playing 10% of the hands, and only playing a total only a select few type of hands. I can understand someone not being good at it, it is incredibly difficult and takes a lot of losses before you hopefully come around and get it. But to be a serious player and not love the challenge of constantly being put in marginal situations, I don't get. As far as enetertainment goes, shorthanded is king.