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Posts Tagged ‘prop bets’

Red Bull gives you wings

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Bring on the sexy stews!

Bring on the sexy stews!

I bet you were expecting a picture of a can of Red Bull or something.

Suck it biatches!

I have lately become a fairly big fan of this delightful beverage, mostly due to working very late into the night, pulling double shifts and having to go 10+ hours without eating anything of substance. You can only drink so much coffee and well, the taste of it kinda grows on you after a while.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that it goes well with vodka, and as the delightful young lady who was buying me beverages the other night made me aware, can even mix with Champagne.

I know, I know,  mixing Champagne with Red Bull is probably a mortal sin, but it wasn’t vintage champagne, and well, she was buying them for me so it would be rude of me not to drink them.

What the hell are you talking about bro?

Nothing, other than I started the night with a couple Red Bulls and I think they are a good poker drink.

On with the show this is it!

The game is at the Captains despite the later start and earlier curfew we seem to be getting into.

The Rapper, J6, Captain, Woody, Alejando and Nice Guy Eddie get it started.

Ace is off on the European tour, Ontario is coming late and the Mouth still has problems sitting after the last couple prison rapes he has suffered at the table.

Props in play for suits.

Alejandro jams up the game early by bluffing the Captain out of a hand and showing the 72 to get things started. That pretty much put him on tilt for the rest of the night I think.

Hands and stacks go back and forth, up and down with the exception of J6 who can’t seem to ever have a hand hold up and gets sucked out on hand after hand after hand until finally he says “no mas” and hits the road.

That’s pretty much when Ontario arrives to take his place and then the game gets going.

“Props?” says the Rapper?

“Sure” replies Ontario

Ontario picks up the suit from J6 and adds Red/Black, over under paired flops and double and triple on combos.

This alone ships almost a full buyin at least back and forth between the Rapper and Ontario and gives two action junkies something to keep the game fresh.

It’s late in the game when the real prop comes in though.

The players throw on the Seven Deuce Bounty for the last half hour

Big stacks Woody and Nice Guy Eddie get into it with a big raise from Woody in position.

K74 comes the flop. Bet from Eddie and a call from Woody.

T on the turn. Nice Guy Eddie pushes all in and gets called from Woody.

Nice Guy Eddie turns over KQ for a massive lead and Woody says “you win you win I just have 72, I thought you were bluffing”

That would have been good had the 2 not hit on the river.

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Nice Guy Eddie is felted, Woody is chipped up and everyone throws up a little in their mouth.

Nice hand.

Poker After Dark-The Cash Game

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

The second best poker show on TV.

The first you ask?

High Stakes Poker of course.

But this is a pretty close second and with the line  up pretty stacked now with Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonious, Tom Dwan, Eli Elizra, Ilari Sahamies and Howard Lederer its good to watch.

The game has moved from $300/$600 all the way up to $500/$1000 with a $200 ante and more than that there is a huge amount of prop bets going on.

Ivey and Ziggy are playing $50,000 a hand red-black and there are numerous other bets going on with a bunch of the players, tens and fifties of thousands are changing hand all over the place and it is really strating to affect the way the guys play the hands too.

Example:

Ivey has taken Red in the props with Ziggy and looks down at two Diamonds, now with the blinds $500-$1000 there is $2,700 in the pot to start, however the prop with Ziggy is for $50,000 a flop, almost 20 times that and with Phil holding 2 red cards he knows there is less of a chance that the flop will be red, which means he doesn’t want anyone to see a flop and potentially save himself $50k in props.

Ziggy also knows this, and so do all the other players at the table, so now they are not only potentially rasing people with good and or bad hands, but with two red or two black cards just to keep people away from flops.

Makes for an interesting dynamic.