Random Thoughts and Distorted Views.

Soooo I got a little ingenious yesterday and figured out I could fit my blog address into my hometown on pokerstars. While its not truely my hometown, it is "my internet home", as gay as that sounds. But whateva, any publicity is good publicity. So if you made your way here from seeing this on pokerstars (and were smart enough to understand it was mrniphty.blogspot.com, and not mrniphty.blogspotcom), please, take off your shoes, relax, and enjoy the writing. Make this site a bookmark, or better yet, your homepage. :)

Right now Im trying to make another run in the 3r. I would love to final table it again today, and better yet win it. Ive been rollercoastering, going from 100k to 180k to 70k to 130k to 100k to 140k to 100k as I type this.

I just had to eat some words after this hand happened in the 10r:

PokerStars Game #12003821199: Tournament #60482909, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2007/09/11 - 18:37:45 (ET)
Table '60482909 40' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: sebroberto (8475 in chips)
Seat 2: horryclutch (29043 in chips)
Seat 3: luisfran (25330 in chips)
Seat 4: MisterTB (23615 in chips)
Seat 5: HhHowie (11495 in chips)
Seat 6: MrNiphty (19725 in chips)
Seat 7: btvedt (22995 in chips)
Seat 8: getricha (12460 in chips)
Seat 9: BaLaGaNoFf (30417 in chips)
sebroberto: posts the ante 75
horryclutch: posts the ante 75
luisfran: posts the ante 75
MisterTB: posts the ante 75
HhHowie: posts the ante 75
MrNiphty: posts the ante 75
btvedt: posts the ante 75
getricha: posts the ante 75
BaLaGaNoFf: posts the ante 75
HhHowie: posts small blind 400
MrNiphty: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MrNiphty [4h 4d]
btvedt: folds
getricha: raises 1600 to 2400
BaLaGaNoFf: folds
sebroberto: folds
horryclutch: folds
luisfran: folds
MisterTB: folds
HhHowie: folds
MrNiphty: calls 1600
*** FLOP *** [9s Td 5h]
MrNiphty: checks
getricha: bets 3200
MrNiphty: raises 14050 to 17250 and is all-in
getricha: calls 6785 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [9s Td 5h] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [9s Td 5h Ad] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrNiphty: shows [4h 4d] (a pair of Fours)
getricha: shows [Ah Qh] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
MrNiphty said, "wow well played"
getricha collected 25845 from pot
MrNiphty said, "very well played"
btvedt said, "sick"

He delayed on the call and i knew he had two overs, and felt sick when he called. Just one of those times when u have a bad feeling about a hand. Even though I was a 3-1 fav, I thought he was gonna hit, and he did, 2x.

So I started talking trash about european players, then missed a freeroll when I flopped a four flush with AsKs against AxKx, although obviously my hand failed to materialize. Of course the very next hand I get it in against the one dude who took pity on me, who was also european, and while I always would play this hand the same in this spot, I still felt bad:

PokerStars Game #12003874796: Tournament #60482909, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2007/09/11 - 18:40:49 (ET)
Table '60482909 40' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: sebroberto (8250 in chips)
Seat 2: horryclutch (26418 in chips)
Seat 3: luisfran (25105 in chips)
Seat 4: MisterTB (23390 in chips)
Seat 5: HhHowie (11808 in chips)
Seat 6: MrNiphty (7652 in chips)
Seat 7: btvedt (21570 in chips)
Seat 8: getricha (24895 in chips)
Seat 9: BaLaGaNoFf (34467 in chips)
sebroberto: posts the ante 75
horryclutch: posts the ante 75
luisfran: posts the ante 75
MisterTB: posts the ante 75
HhHowie: posts the ante 75
MrNiphty: posts the ante 75
btvedt: posts the ante 75
getricha: posts the ante 75
BaLaGaNoFf: posts the ante 75
getricha: posts small blind 400
BaLaGaNoFf: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MrNiphty [Kh Ts]
sebroberto: folds
horryclutch: folds
luisfran: folds
MisterTB: folds
HhHowie: folds
MrNiphty: raises 6777 to 7577 and is all-in
btvedt: calls 7577
getricha: folds
BaLaGaNoFf: folds
MrNiphty said, "nh gg gla"
*** FLOP *** [5c 3h 7c]
*** TURN *** [5c 3h 7c] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [5c 3h 7c Qc] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MrNiphty: shows [Kh Ts] (a pair of Kings)
btvedt: shows [Ad 9h] (high card Ace)
MrNiphty collected 17029 from pot
MrNiphty said, "ul dude"

Thats it though, ima post later, but it wont be about poker unless I make another final table. I really want to write about something else, as well as diversify this blog as its been nearly all poker.

Cheers,
Chris