All I have time for right now is a quick post. In a few short hours, I'll be on my way to Florence, Italy. From there, it's off to Venice and Rome (for a friend's wedding). So there likely won't be to many posts until after Thanksgiving. Unless I find a nice Italian gal to do a guest posting. My goal, and this is just for you, my dear reader(s), is to take several photos of womenz maneuvering their tongues around servings of gelato. I'll try my damnedest to make this happen.

Trump

I spent a portion of Saturday at Trump Casino Indiana. Sounds like over the span of 48 hours, Shelly, Baz, and The Princess were there as well. One of these days I'll run into you guys.

When I got there, they hadn't opened any 6/12 tables yet. So despite my vow to never sit at 3/6, well, I sat at 3/6. While in line to get chips, I heard a gal being explained the rules by her friend. Her friend said, "Odds don't matter. Just play the person. I once bluffed a guy holding only jack high." It was the gal's first time playing, and I prayed that the dynamic duo would be sitting at my table.

For the first hour, I saw the newbie scoop pot after pot. She stayed in hands til the river with amazingly bad cards and kept calling bets until she caught miracle straight, flushes, and full houses. She said, "I don't know what hand beats what, or what they're named. But I know what hands look good."

My head almost exploded.

She was up about $100 while I still hadn't won a pot. The one hand I almost played was KQs from late position. This is normally a hand I'll play with enough people in the pot, even to a raise. But the raiser in this case was the newbie. So I folded. And watched everyone give the money to the poker virgin, as she flipped over her pocket aces.

I finally got a hand in. QJo from MP. I called, and it went around to the newbie in the big blind. She raised! Three of us called the raise. And the flop came queen high. I bet, and newbie was the only caller. I thought there was a chance I was beat, but bet the turn when it was a blank. The river brought a J. So I had top two. Which cracked her pocket kings. Oops!

Oh, and there's newbie's friend. Ms Jack high had to reload. Twice!

I played very few hands the entire time - I think I won only six hands during my three hours there. Aces held up, and people for the most part everyone stayed out of my way if I raised. I went home +7BB's, a stomach full of White Castle, and cheaper Indiana gas. How's that for +EV?

Full Tilt Fun

As much as it pains me, I have to agree with the Commish that the SnG's at Full Tilt can be very profitable. They're structured well - the blinds move slowly, especially relative to Party Poker. You can afford to be patient, and it pays off. Because there can be some atrocious play there - occasionally by me. I'm not going to abandon ring games completely, but will probably continue to spend a little more time in the SnG's.

While folding in a SnG the other night, I found Phil Ivey playing heads up against David Oppenheim. Oppenheim had the grand balance of ZERO dollars under his name. It looked like Ivey just busted him. Oppenheim then reloaded.



What I gather from the conversation is that he wanted a loan from Ivey so that they could continue their heads up battle. And when Ivey declined, the namecalling began...

Check it:




OK, maybe this post wasn't as short as I thought it would be.

Ciao!