The $102 Bounty in Mookie

Bayne: I waited until 1st place in Mookie was over $198.15 to register

Bayne: now will take you out

sirfwalgman: lmao

sirfwalgman: did I post the amount I need to win?

Bayne: I looked at Mookie standings

sirfwalgman: im like 192 behind or something

sirfwalgman: 190 something

Bayne: 198.15

sirfwalgman: lol

sirfwalgman: ok

sirfwalgman: i feel good about tonight brb

sirfwalgman: say something hatefull

Bayne: LJ will win

Bayne: I had to unregister

sirfwalgman: lol i see you

sirfwalgman: you didnt unreg early enough

Bayne: it dipped down then went back over

sirfwalgman: LMAO

Bayne: when it switch to paid 7 1st was 199.10 so I exited

1st place went back over $200 so I registered late.

Bayne: that was like $102 bounty

All I heard was crickets.

Seat 1: bayne_s (2,865)
Seat 2: TheSlinger (2,830)
Seat 3: RaisingCayne (3,810)
Seat 4: Joshuacarlsen (5,235)
Seat 5: ugly chimp (4,125)
Seat 6: irongirl01 (4,160)
Seat 7: Loretta8 (3,405)
Seat 8: SirFWALGMan (1,075)
Seat 9: BuddyDank (2,995)
TheSlinger posts the small blind of 30
RaisingCayne posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kd Ks]
Joshuacarlsen folds
ugly chimp folds
irongirl01 folds
Loretta8 folds
SirFWALGMan calls 60
BuddyDank folds
bayne_s raises to 270
TheSlinger folds
RaisingCayne folds
SirFWALGMan raises to 1,075, and is all in
bayne_s calls 805
SirFWALGMan shows [Qh 4h]
bayne_s shows [Kd Ks]
*** FLOP *** [9s 7s 8d]
*** TURN *** [9s 7s 8d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [9s 7s 8d Qs] [Ah]
SirFWALGMan shows a pair of Queens
bayne_s shows a pair of Kings
bayne_s wins the pot (2,240) with a pair of Kings
SirFWALGMan: lol gg
SirFWALGMan stands up

Bankroll Managment when running bad

I woke up at the brink of kickoff.  Went 0 for 6 in Brawl Chippies including a beautiful loss in 3rd one where I jammed KK and was called by A3, AQ and AQ and the case Ace flopped.  This may have made me tilty enough to continue until time and bankroll ran low.

What picture below fails to capture is I had already accumulated 7 bounties in KO.  I was down to a wafflesque $2 after registering for KO.

Another important reminder:  If cell phone has features leading to greater use, (ie camera) odds of daughter losing it increase.  She managed to maintain possession 3 days, back to old phone she hates for her.

Goverment at it's finest

In August wife's doctor sent forms to DMV as requested due the 22nd.  On Sept 12 wife recieved a letter from DMV informing her effective Sept 15 her driving privelege's were suspended due to seizure condition.

Paperwork did inform that if there is no re-occurence and doctor is willing to vouch that medication will continue to prevent (as was already stated in original paperwork) suspension can be lifted. There is also a requirment that 90 days have elapsed since condition was contained.

My reaction is I am off the hook for driving my wife around this weekend!  The goverment in it's wisdom has decided that although she is "unfit to drive for medical reasons" the condition does not apply yet.

Means I should be free to play Saturday's with DrP.

An important reminder for fathers

No poker content:

If batteries lasted forever I would still have a Sprint Q-Phone.  It was a fine flip phone that could take a beating.  The Motorola Star-Tac phone I had was lost in a cab in Las Vegas and I had multiple battery packs for it as it was a very popular phone amongst a few former co-workers and I had collected battery packs when they upgraded.  My Sanyo SCP-7300 had gotten to the point where charge would only last 6 hours (powered up no calls), California made hands free a requirement for drivers and as kid's chauffeur my driving had tripled.

This is a picture of my new phone:

Obvious problem is teenage daughter has Sanyo SCP-7300 which was my wife's phone.  Wife has SCP-3100,  which is also flip phone (but with camera in pink).  Reason daughter has the old beat up phone is she had phone and purse stolen so needed to learn consequences of not being protective of stuff.

Wife and daughter were both all over my case as neither saw the need for me to have the phone with most features (I did not play the who pays the bills card) as to quote them I barely use my cell.  They have obviously overlooked amount of texting done with the serial drunk texter! 

I was aware there might be an issue and reason I had selected this phone had an even greater problem.  Sprint is currently running a buy 1 get 1 free special on the Rumor.  Net cost is $50 for 2 phones but the hidden land mine for me was due to newness of wife's phone the 2 for 1 special could only be applied to my number and daughter's.

I quickly gauged the situation at home and set a trap for kid, I offered to let her swap phone numbers with her mom so she could have 'pink phone' and secure agreement before wife got too hot and handed wife 2nd Rumor in green.

Daughter feels duped but still benefits with phone upgrade and failed in her effort to take green phone to school this morning.

I should have learned with the Christmas ipod incident that "cool gadgets" should be kept at parity with wife and daughter for household peace but I am a slow learner.

Other fathers need to learn from my example to avoid the stressful decisions on later streets.

Mook / Back to school night

LJ mentioned she got 300 POINTS for filling out a customer satisfaction survey on pokerstars.  The desire to fill out survey was too great so I signed on to pokerstars and no survey was offered :(  For grins I tried to play NL O8 for play chips but ban is enforced there too.

Mookie is tonight but I have to go to kid's back to school night.  I hate missing waffle's futile quest but wife likes to meet all of kid's teachers.

Running Bad

No one raised pre-flop so that didn't cost me anything.

No one bet flop, (I am not betting wrap on paired board especially when it also makes low).

That free turn card sure was costly.

I also lost a step 4 when other 3k stack with 7 left decided that 66 he raised from CO was monster when I re-raised from BB with JJ. My reraise was only to 2700 so Raise button illuminated and he might have thought 300 raise represented fold equity.  Of course 6 flopped .

I opted out another 24 hours from Stars.

But Tilt is next for this under straight flush abuse.

Sunday's on Pokerstars

Step 4:

I reraised KK, SB called off 1/3 of stack pre with 66, initial raiser called off 1/4 of stack pre with 99.

678 flop they both got all in K turn, T river.

4 WCOOP sats

33 jams I call with KK, 3 on flop, IGHN.

KJo jams I call with QQ.  Q and 2 baby flop, turn 9 river T, IGHN.

I raise pre, 55 jams, I have KK and call, 5 on river IGHN.

Near bubble of supersat to $320 ME sat A8o minraises, I jam TT, dude getting 3:2 on money calls and flops 2p, turns Aces over boat river is worthless T.  I suppose he had to call as I might make move with lesser A (it is Sunday on Stars).

$200k, I raise pre with 77, AQ calls and goes Broadway on river.

I make appropriate response.

Dear bayne_s  You have requested to partake in PokerStars Responsible Gaming  Self-Exclusion. Your exclusion period will start once you exit all  tables.  Your ability to make deposits and participate in any PokerStars  gaming activity has now been closed for 1 days. You will be able to  regain access after 2008/09/08 16:23 ET.  During this period of exclusion you will be able to login and perform  all normal functions except participate in games, make deposits or  use transfer of funds. It's also important to note that PokerStars is  unable to reverse Self Exclusions within the specified time. If you  have questions about the self-exclusion program, please send them to  wecare@pokerstars.com.  If you are registered for any online tournaments during your  exclusion period, you will be unregistered, and your buy-in will be  refunded.  Any other funds remaining in your account will remain  there until such time you decide to cashout. Those funds will be  available to you if you choose to play at the end of your exclusion  period.  In case you are interested, we are providing two links of  organizations that offer free counseling and advice on responsible  and problem gaming: www.gamcare.co.uk and  http://www.gamblersanonymous.org  Regards PokerStars Responsible Gaming Team

So kind of them to suggest counseling AFTER an opt out.  I could have just shut down but somehow felt opting out sent a statement that I was not pleased with how poorly the laws of probability had held on Stars for the day.

Gawd I want play to always be that bad on Sundays.  No one seems to fold Ace rag or any pp preflop. I just want to have some hands hold up.

Targeted marketing

I blame Al.

Communication is Key

This morning I was prepared to begin chauffeur duties well ahead of schedule so opted to check email.  All of a sudden teenage daughter is screaming at my wife and wife is getting louder as well as they argue.  Apparently one of teachers was going to do a "supply check" and daughter could not find a ruler.

to paraphrase argument:

1. Daughter "I told you I needed ruler"

2. Wife "you did not"

3. Go to step 1

I believe I managed to intervene with "why don't we go to school early today" about 15 iterations into above.  I think they will make up this afternoon after school.  

In car daughter was trying to convince me she told her (daughter and I both have tendency to not like to repeat self say something once and have it register).  This is made worse as wife and daughter both have tendency to forget anything that is trivial or deemed stupid.  I have found introducing profanity ("I was fucking serious about") gets around wife's trivial filter but would not be right to teach this technique to daughter.

Daughter and I stopped at grocery store on way to school and got ruler so that de-stressed her a little .  I also asked if she had reminded her mother about ruler while they were in that very store yesterday afternoon (she had not) to take some of blame from the wife.

I think they will make up this afternoon after school. 

My misread of Chad's football bets has left me +$20 on year, I might as well post now as this is probably high water mark.

COngrats to Evy on her big score at Borgata!

Your Quest is Futile

Today the troll's hopes to win Mookie prop bet should finally be crushed!

Daughter was telling me her vocabulary words for week as I chauffeuerd her home. She asked for my help in explaining the difference between empathy and sympathy. I thought my answer was outstanding, "I have sympathy for your pain as you go through your period but mommy can have empathy because she also understands what you are going through." Child's response was "you don't have sympathy either (further ranting tuned out)" Another vocabulary word for the week is democrat. Although we live in Northern California I felt the need to ask "Was republican a vocabulary word this week?" Answer as suspected was "no".

I discovered my lame check request from Bodog did not take as they "did not have address documentation". Decided I will join Chad on his Degenerate Gambler challenge during regular season.

Before the layoffs I had placed a $30 bet on the Rams to win NFC @ 30:1, and $70 on Rams to win Super Bowl @75:1. These were part of a hedge plan discussed with my sports betting sensei and I will merely require Rams to make playoffs to turn profit.

I have also followed Chad's lead this week and will win $20 each on Dallas under, Giants and Lions. I also placed a small parlay bet on all 3. I will be profitable at 2/3 correct. Bets are placed and I have most doubt about the under, Chad is correct that execution is generally poor the 1st week of season but defensive breakdowns lead to points, offensive breakdowns lead to turnovers which also lead to points.

Draft Results

Labor Day Weekend means Fantasy Football Drafts. Three are complete, two to go.

Keepers were Westbrook, Calvin Johnson and Michael Turner. It is 10 team league that starts TWO quarterbacks last year I took the approach that I would take 3 mediocre quarterbacks and shuffle them depending on matchups except for bye weeks. Last year I drafted Trent Green, Jake Delhomme and 3rd QB also injured by week 3.

This year I have 4 QBs (3 with week 7 bye doh) and too many young players. But expect team to do better regardless as last year's injuries made competing impossible.

1 other team in league has any FFL experience beyond last season. Last year team that drafted Tomlinson, Moss and Brady was tearing up league 8-2 (2 losses to moi)

he made some bogus trade week 10 where he and another team were providing 1 week loaner to cover bye weeks. I was so pissed over this I convinced him to trade Brady and RB for Hasselbeck and Bush. "Weather in New England will turn and Hasselbeck always improves 2nd half" was clincher.

I took kid to orthodontist and ended up with this roster from draft autopick of yahoo default rankings. Still anticipaye making playoffs.

MiamiDon invited me into this league last season. Got 1st pick which means Tomlinson and pray at RB. Romo being available at pick 20 forces me to deal with being a Romosexual this season. WR are decent but one of my pupu platter running backs need to emerge.

Booooooooooooooooooooooom

Waffles and LJ returned to normal form in Mookie last night. It was BEAUTIFUL from a prop bet standpoint!

1st RaisingCayne trapped waffles TWICE then LJ demonstrated all aspects of her game (suckoutistry, aggression, cardrackery) leaving a string of kills not seen since the governator in Commando on her way to victory.

Mad props to LJ for showing waffles how not to be the final loser in a tourney.

Talent

Demon daughter (nickname coined by IT) wanted to watch America's Got Talent. Seeing Derrick Barry perform in school girl outfit was a bit over the top IMHO.

Wife walked into room and commented "she sounds good and is cuter than Britney", to convey information quickly I responded "he's cuter than Britney". Demon daughter was left confused by this and a long (and amusing discussion ensued between wife and daughter).

Waffles rubs one out after watching clip is 8:5.

Poker sucked last night.

Changes

Tomorrow for the 1st time in 2 years I have to wake up at 7:00 am!!

I am sure a lot of you are not sympathetic but I have grown quite accustomed to waking up later and rolling into work at 9ish. Worst part is that my wife may grow accustomed to me dropping the kid off and want this to continue when she is allowed to drive again.

This means no more DS PLO at 0045, no more Turbo Fiddy at 0100 on a school night.

Mr Bodog seems to have given up on Bodog, that was enough for me to request a check.

My deepest run in a tourney this weekend was in a WCOOP ME sat. Top 19 got seats, 20-32 got $320, 33rd got $240. Had 3 hours of solid play sitting with 30th of 40 stacks.

I was playing a step 1 where 3 handed I call a shove from BB with AA, Sb had 50 more chips than I and A6s and rivered a flush. I reacted by shoving 11 BBs with KQo UTG + 1 in ME sat and lost to the AKo that naturally called from MP. I took the 77 limp calling a shove and cracking my KK much better 12 hands prior in ME sat because I at least had satisfaction of watching that donkey get AA cracked after limping pre a little later.

Waffles has posted a few strategic snippets from his future post "Breaking Even at Poker", this is a can't miss read,

Poker Free Post

or

I was thinking as I watched two wet women embracing as they rolled around in sand will Kerri or Misty be this generation's version of Ginger or MarAnne?

The I ran across this hilarious article that brought tears to my eyes.

My apologies to my blog reader's that are offended that I have contributed to Satan's work.

Folding AA

Being the engineer I am I had to break down Sunday's hand a little further to examine the case for folding AA.


1st I look at actual odds of hands and see

QsQd 18 %
JdJh 16.3 %
AcKd 4.62 %
AsAh 60 %


folding means

QsQd 54%
JdJh 18%
AcKd 27%


I also looked for worse holdings to be up against and found replace AK with KK and AA drops to 54% and worst % I found was AsAh is 45% against KsKh, 5c6c, 9dTd. (Best was 93% against AKo, AKo and KK)


Telefonkiosk folds leaving him 3635 chips.

Scenarios:
1) Jorj wins (18%)
SEAT

2) bayne_s wins (54%)
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4050 in chips)
Seat 5: bayne_s (13940 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (3635 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (5375 in chips)


This will leave telefonkiosk as shorty, if we assume from chip counts he is 50% to outlast xxxx_kev then assign 27% SEAT.

3) TheLeeder wins, bayne_s 2nd (27 %)
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4050 in chips)
Seat 5: bayne_s (3250 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (3635 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (5375 in chips)
Seat 9: TheLeeder (11850 in chips)

This is ugly estimate but will for sake of math assign 33% chance of emerging in top 3 given 4th of 5 and 3 real short stacks. .33 x .27 = 9% SEAT.

4) TheLeeder wins, Jorj95 2nd (requires AKKJx board) 1%
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4050 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (3635 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (8425 in chips)
Seat 9: TheLeeder (11850 in chips)

If this happens almost certain seat.


Conclusion folding leads to seat 55% of time.

Telefonkiosk calls (35%)
1) Jorj or bayne_s wins or TheLeeder wins, bayne_s 2nd or Jorj95 2nd

NO SEAT

2) TheLeeder wins, Telefonkiosk 2nd, bayne_s 3rd (5%) requires KK on board
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4050 in chips)
Seat 5: bayne_s (1180 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (5725 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (5375 in chips)
Seat 9: TheLeeder (11850 in chips)

For purposes of estimate I am dead man Tefonkiosk 60% for seat

2% SEAT

3) Telefonkiosk wins, bayne_s wins side from Jorj (57%)
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4050 in chips)
Seat 5: bayne_s (1180 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (16395 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (5375 in chips)

almost certain seat

56% SEAT

3) Telefonkiosk wins, bayne_s loses side to Jorj (3%) (requires A and J no Q)
SEAT


Calling leads to Seat 61% of time.


Conclusion knowing the hands is that calling with AA is slightly better decision than folding AA.


Leading up to this hand Jorj95 is shoving a lot (which is his right as big stack), jorj having 2 random little cards inproves math for folding slightly and for calling slightly, jorj having KK improves math for folding significantly.

This would seem to be a pick your poison case and question of whether you believe you can win seat against xxxx_kev would swing decision. If I am Telefonkiosk I think decision this time is fold.

Baby Steps

I started my $W quest with an $10.50 expenditure in a $5.50 rebuy to a WCOOP 6 satellite.
I used the $W won to start playing WCOOP steps and have been taking the step 4 branch and playing the WCOOP 6 SNG that awards 3 seats and 2 $200 prizes, but on Sunday I initally opted for the 18 player PLO seat route. It just would not fill so I played a step 4 and received:

Dear bayne_s,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.You have won an admission ticket to 'WCOOP Step 5'

So I continued into step 5.

And this hand is how step 6 ended:

This may be sickest final hand stars has this year for seat (top 3 get seat):

Table '102727750 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: xxxx kev (4100 in chips)
Seat 5: bayne_s (4875 in chips)
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (4285 in chips)
Seat 8: Jorj95 (10790 in chips)
Seat 9: TheLeeder (2950 in chips)
xxxx kev: posts the ante 50
bayne_s: posts the ante 50
Telefonkiosk: posts the ante 50
Jorj95: posts the ante 50
TheLeeder: posts the ante 50
bayne_s: posts small blind 300
Telefonkiosk: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Qs Qd]
Jorj95: raises 9600 to 10200
TheLeeder: calls 2900 and is all-in
xxxx kev: folds
bayne_s: calls 4525 and is all-in
Telefonkiosk: calls 3635 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (5375) returned to Jorj95
*** FLOP *** [7s 5c 7c]
*** TURN *** [7s 5c 7c] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [7s 5c 7c Jc] [7h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bayne_s: shows [Qs Qd] (a full house, Sevens full of Queens)
Jorj95: shows [Jd Jh] (a full house, Jacks full of Sevens)
Jorj95 collected 1180 from side pot-2
Telefonkiosk: shows [Ah As] (a full house, Sevens full of Aces)
Jorj95 collected 4005 from side pot-1
TheLeeder: shows [Ac Kd] (three of a kind, Sevens)
Jorj95 collected 11850 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 17035 Main pot 11850. Side pot-1 4005. Side pot-2 1180. Rake 0
Board [7s 5c 7c Jc 7h]
Seat 2: xxxx kev (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: bayne_s (small blind) showed [Qs Qd] and lost with a full house, Sevens full of Queens
Seat 6: Telefonkiosk (big blind) showed [Ah As] and lost with a full house, Sevens full of Aces
Seat 8: Jorj95 showed [Jd Jh] and won (17035) with a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
Seat 9: TheLeeder showed [Ac Kd] and lost with three of a kind, Sevens

Late Night poker winding down.

I probably only have another week of late night poker as I will be daughter's School "Bus" driver starting in week. I was busy playing 2 WCOOP Step 1s, and signed up for 0045 PLO since I saw Lee Watkinson was playing so knew it would be big turnout. When IM popped up:

LJ : no turbo fiddy?
Bayne: 10% swap?
LJ: ok
LJ: wait r u in it?
Bayne: not yet
LJ: i will not swap 10% of 0
Bayne: yet was key word
Bayne: 10% swap?
LJ: r u in?
Bayne: yes
LJ: ok



I was 3rd chip stack at break which obviously inhibits my roach game. Lost a couple of flips because blinds can't ever fold blackjack 20s and then jammed presto from CO into QQ to exit.
Thanks LJ for talking me into playing, no I was really not trying to angleshoot on swap :)



75 entrants in 0045 breaks previous high mark I've seen of 67. I doubled up early, was top 4 stack at break but with 15 left (9 paid) I assumed Dank position.

Had new omatard Piratelawyer on rail for most of tourney and he got to witness some fine suckoutistry from VanVoten. (VanVoten did show as being from Sweden so you can make whatever assumptions you want to make of play as long as you remember PROFILING IS WRONG)

Full Tilt Poker Game #7654375356: $50 + $5 Tournament (58116126), Table 7 - 200/400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 3:19:22 ET - 2008/08/15
Seat 2: bayne_s (7,843)
Seat 3: GaijinB (18,854)
Seat 4: RJK1027 (13,358)
Seat 5: Eidestine (24,311)
Seat 7: vickisriver (8,293)
Seat 8: VanVoten (23,494)
vickisriver posts the small blind of 200
VanVoten posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [9h 5s 5d Qd]
bayne_s folds
GaijinB raises to 1,400
RJK1027 calls 1,400
Eidestine folds
vickisriver folds
VanVoten raises to 5,800
GaijinB calls 4,400
RJK1027 folds
*** FLOP *** [3d Qs 9d]
VanVoten bets 13,200
GaijinB calls 13,054, and is all in
VanVoten shows [3c Tc 2h 4h]
GaijinB shows [Ad Ks 6d 2s]
Uncalled bet of 146 returned to VanVoten
*** TURN *** [3d Qs 9d] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [3d Qs 9d 3s] [2d]
VanVoten shows a full house, Threes full of Twos
GaijinB shows a flush, Ace high
VanVoten wins the pot (39,308) with a full house, Threes full of Twos
GaijinB stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 39,308 Rake 0
Board: [3d Qs 9d 3s 2d]
Seat 2: bayne_s didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: GaijinB showed [Ad Ks 6d 2s] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: RJK1027 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Eidestine (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: vickisriver (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: VanVoten (big blind) showed [3c Tc 2h 4h] and won (39,308) with a full house, Threes full of Twos

400th post

A rough summary estimate:

5 posts correcting Hoy hand histories.

40 lame brags (sadly bragging about fewer than 40 tournies)

240 bad beat stories.

4 advertising posts.

10 with strategic poker ideas.

15 family stories.

60 tournament pimps.

20 links to things I found amusing.

0 chronicling my sexual exploits (MiamiDon and Waffles) should remain source for those.

I took the Event 6 exit from the Poker Stars WCOOP Steps last night. I am 2/2 cashing in Step 4 tickets for Event 6 seats. 2/12 converting Step 3 tickets to Step 4 tickets (but 7/12 at keeping step 3 tickets). My success rate gets progressively worse in Step 2s and Step 1s as play is worse but higher variance is introduced.

Edit: had to include chat from lunchtime step 1
amelhem [observer]: nice call preflop idiot
Yes it was questionable but he flopped nut flush draw and oesd with 2 overs with A8s and amelhem raised jammed AQo unimproved on flop. There is so much poker wisdom shared in chat at a Step 1 that they should be played for educational value.

While in Las Vegas I did place a $50 bet on Rams to win Super Bowl for me and $20 bet on Jets to win Super Bowl for VP (yes he is cheesehead). I will try hedging strategy that has been suggested by a known sports bettor if Rams make playoffs.

Discussion of Rams hedge did lead me to hedge a craps Fire Bet this weekend. I had made a wtf $3 Firebet and Dan had already hit 4 unique points for 25:1 payoff. Once he rolled a 4 which was 5th unique point rather than backing up passline bet with odds I did $200 "lay" of 4. I was hammered so did not get hedge correct but if he hits 4 I collect ($750-$200) vs if he misses I get $100. A $500 lay would have guaranteed $250 profit and possibly a chance to hedge 6th number.

Mookie Night

I have no idea why I entered this. No way in hell I want to play Razz FTOPS.

I am still tired from weekend and now too tilted to sleep.

The incident from this weekend's trip that will be remembered longest occurred surprisingly enough at a craps table. A Las Vegas rookie was on the trip and played craps for 1st time. 1st time he rolled he scored me 8 place bets on 8 and 7 place bets on 6. But he has read the wizard and knows that don't pass is a slightly more favorable bet than pass and chose to bet Don't Pass when it was my turn to roll. I was a bit offended and reacted by making the UT "Hook em Horns" gesture at him and teling him "Mess with the Bull, get the Horns".

My 1st roll was a 7.

He bet Don't pass again.

He heard "Mess with the Bull, get the Horns" and saw gesture again.

I rolled a 7.

He doubled his bet on Don't Pass.

He heard "Mess with the Bull, get the Horns" and saw gesture again. Strangers at table were laughing and telling him to keep making me mad.

I rolled a 7.

He bet Don't pass again and got whiny about me trying to break him when I made so much money off him.

Mess with the Bull, get the Horns" and saw gesture again.

I rolled an 11.

He switched to Pass.

Sadly I rolled a 3.

He did not bet.

I rolled a 7.

He bet pass again.

I rolled a 3.

He bet his last $3 in chips on don't pass.

Sadly I hit a bunch of numbers but failed in my quest to make the point and get last $3.

Mookie is tonight, I anticipate an early waffles exit.