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Folks say two outta three ain't bad. I'll take it in most instances. When It comes to poker, I'll take those odds any day. The Magic Moe's shirt is the shizzle my nizzle. Perhaps the players are distracted by the swirling array of color or maybe a few suffer 60's flashbacks in the midst of tie dye anything. Who knows.

Let's begin by saying that I didn't win the main event, just the measly 5 man losers table. Awinzawin I always say. We started with only 11 players on this Friday evening so we were paying out only 1st place. I was at table one with Nice Guy Eddie on my left and Bosey on my right. Rounding up Table 2 were the likes of Action Tommy, Food Lion , and "All In" who told everyone that he joined up with Uncle Sam to take on the Axis of Evil. That's right, Tim "All In" is gonna be Tim "G.I. Joe" soon enough. He joined the Army. Good luck Timmy and don't forget to duck.

Having said that. FU Tim. LOL.

Tim chose tonight as the night to "ChaseNCatch" on ChaseNFold it seems. He called every raise I made and contested almost every pot I entered. $100 raise........Call. $150 raise.......Call. I flopped two pair twice only to have him call each of my big bets and catch not one, but two gutshot straights on the river to eat my stack down to the low man in no time. And everyone cheered when Jimmy the Man busted out in 10th place and promptly exited the building which elicited and equal number of cheers and relieved sighs. Jimmy is always dangerous and nobody wants to see him with a big stack because he turns into a bully in a flash. I think maybe Jimmy went outside to look for his shoes but I can't be certain.

I kicked and scratched my way back to the original buy in once by getting aggressive preflop with the myriad of Ace rag hand I kept getting dealt all night. I never once had so much as A 10 all night. My best hole cards were 99 all night. TJ "Food Lion" got down close to the felt and pushed with A8 only to have our resident suckout expert Tim call him with A7. Tim made a FH with the seven to complete yet another come from behind to send TJ to the rail.

We lost enough players to merge into a final table just as the blinds had been raised and I had the beautiful shiny button in front of me. Rats. We move our chips and draw cards to place the button and I pull a black Queen. Some guy I had never seen before tonight ended up with the button a few seats to my left. TJ told me that his name was Tony and that he had played in the game long before I ever did but that he had been too busy to show up for the last few months since I had joined the game. The first hand is dealt and I peer between my knuckles at 77. And after the night I've had it looks like AA to me so I push. I have about 800 in chips and the big stacks have 4000 or so. I get called by the Tony on the button and he flips over the Hilton Sisters . I don't improve and the night is over. Short and sweet. See more Interesting " nicknames for hands here.

Heads up it came down to Tony and Toby.

FNG Tony went on to win the main table and we only paid out first place so the first loser this week was Toby. First last week and 2nd this week. Toby is on a tear rivaled only by Dan Harrington's back to back WSOP final table appearances.


I waited around for a few more players to get bumped out so we could start a losers game. Finally there were 5 of us so we each threw in $20 more and sat down. Low and behold, what am I dealt on the first hand but the Hilton Sisters. How divine. The flop come Jack high and I slowplay the sisters and end up taking half of Ronnies stack. Good start.

On the second hand we had an interesting turn of events when the board read 677 Q A and everyone played their kickers. The four people in the hand including myself all had a King high and we had a 4 way chop pot. Very odd. I had a nice run of cards for awhile and I bluffed alot of pots with big drawing hands. I got to be the big stack really quick and I was feeling great. I got lucky againt Ronnie when he was short stacked and he went all in with 78c and I called with 37 off suit and ended up chopping another pot. I had a good Chuckle at Ronnie's expense. It came down to me and TJ again. We once played heads up for nearly two hours before I bluffed off my money to him. I was determined to take him out on this occasion and I did exactly that. I can't even remember any of the hands we played heads up but I was in the zone and I was calling his bluffs and making moves. It didn't take too long. It felt nice. So I ended up +$60 on the night. Not too shabby.
We got a shot of us after the final hand was over. I tripped my pocket 3s and sent him packing in the end. It really wasn't very exciting but the end result is the same. My second win and the respect of millions. What more could a guy ask for ?


I found out that some of the guys at the game had finally taken the time to check out my blog and web page with all the pics on it. Everyone seemed to like it and had nice things to say. Jimmy took offense to me calling him Lucky @$$ so I pulled that down. Sorry Jimmy, but you're still the luckiest guy I know besides Dudley Snider. Nevermind, just trust me. Toby said I missed my calling after he looked at my Blog and that was a compliment I guess, since I won't be making a living at poker in this life.



A few Show notes.

For those who care to know, I missed last week and I came to find last night that indeed Toby brought home the bacon for the 5th time. This puts Toby in an elite group with the likes of Barry Greenstein and Stu Ungar.