Reed Poker Online Event #42 Results

As usual only three players. It was a short night for OutlawJesco (3 min) Outlaw made a pot bet on the flop and was called by carguy who then hit a flush on the turn leaving Outlaw dead in the water. Outlaw called the allin thinking carguy was bluffing only to lose and sent to the rail.

The game continued heads up. Hands of interest was on the river when Carguy bluffed Allinreed off a hand with a board of 3Ax39. Reed held an Ace but folded to Carguys large bet. He showed 7-2. Another was not a big pot but still funny. Carguy shows his J2 with a board of J2XJ2. After 30 min AllinReed was able to take the lead from carguy. Carguy took it back and was able to win when he called AllinReed(Kx) vs Carguys (J8) when the board was xJAK and then Carguy caught the "8" on the river. Carguy takes the $15 win and keeps his RPL Online Points lead.

3rd - OutlawJesco
2nd - All in Reed
Champion - Car_guy_67

Bracelet Winner McKinney Arrestedin Kingsport Gambling Raid

As reported on PokerNews

2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors Event winner William Paul "Cigar" McKinney was arrested last week along with 15 others during a gambling raid in Kingsport, Tennessee. Police were informed about the alleged operation via a citizen's tip and raided the building around 9:30 p.m. Friday night, only to find the men sitting around a table playing cards.

According to a report by the Kingsport Times-News, police seized $19,900 in cash, several decks of playing cards, poker chips and betting slips for both college and professional football games, labeled with the names of the people wagering and the amounts of their bets.

Police have determined that Donnie Godsey, part owner of the Hog Wild Saloon, was the game's proprietor. Godsey faces aggravated gambling promotion charges, as does McKinney, who allegedly ran a bookmaking operation from inside the makeshift poker room and is alleged to be one of the game's organizers. McKinney, 82, had an undisclosed number of pills on his person at the time of the raid and also faces one charge of possession of schedule III narcotics.

McKinney's arrest marks the second time in three months that a bracelet winner from the 2005 WSOP has been arrested during a poker raid. Back in September, Maciek "Michael" Gracz was arrested on gambling-related charges after a group of officers from the Alcohol Law Enforcement agency raided a single-story building in Benson, NC.

Don't Miss Wednesday Nights RPL Online

Don't forget Wednesday night at 9pm is the night for our weekly online game on Full Tilt. This week we will be playing Hold'em. Last weeks winner was OutlawJesco. Is he the horse to bet on again this week? We shall see. Good luck and I will see you on the felt.

Queens, party of Four

PokerStars Game #13065866388: Tournament #66049204, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2007/11/05 - 20:57:13 (ET)
Table '66049204 160' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: punishment (2600 in chips)
Seat 2: gmguy (9545 in chips)
Seat 9: ReedMoney (4450 in chips)
NeroEinstein: posts small blind 50
ReedMoney: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ReedMoney [Qs Qc]
punishment: raises 2500 to 2600 and is all-in
gmguy: calls 2600
ReedMoney: raises 1850 to 4450 and is all-in
gmguy: calls 1850
*** FLOP *** [Qh Qd Th]
*** TURN *** [Qh Qd Th] [5c]
ReedMoney said, "damn"
*** RIVER *** [Qh Qd Th 5c] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ReedMoney: shows [Qs Qc] (four of a kind, Queens)
gmguy: shows [8c 8s] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
ReedMoney collected 3700 from side pot
punishment: shows [Kd Kh] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
ReedMoney collected 7850 from main pot
NeroEinstein said, "wow"
solid_corp said, "very nice hand buddy"
punishment re-buys and receives 1500 chips for $3.00
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11550 Main pot 7850. Side pot 3700. | Rake 0
Board [Qh Qd Th 5c 4d]
Seat 1: punishment showed [Kd Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Queens
Seat 2: gmguy showed [8c 8s] and lost with two pair, Queens and Eights
Seat 9: ReedMoney (big blind) showed [Qs Qc] and won (11550) with four of a kind, Queens

Poker Wingman: To Have (or Have Not)

In a recent copy of Bluff Magazine, I saw an ad for Poker Wingman (a poker odds calculator). After looking over the website I decided to give it a try just to see what it was like and to see if it was worth using. As far as odds calculators go it was a good program. I had very few problems. The upside is it would automatically detect your hole cards and the flop etc.It was just as the site promised.

"...It automatically reads your cards, calculates your odds, and gives specific advice on how to play each hand. The free poker odds calculator works with play-money or real-money sites, and you don’t have to deposit funds in a poker room."

In the end the only real use I found for it was that it remembered my hole cards after I folded (since PokerStars does not show them). Would pay $40 for the pro version? Um No. Although I did try to find a hack for it to no avail. The advantage to the pro version would be to see the pot odds calculated and to control the "style of play". Mainly out of curiousity.

This may be a good program for a beginner and as a "what were my hole cards" assistant, otherwise I would not waste the time. You really have to play the player more than you play the cards. All my playing decisions were made on my knowledge with no assistance from the poker wingman. So what's the point?

Therefore my opinion is Have Not.

Blogger's Note: I plan to try to start including more poker information on the blog beyond just the league, whether it is a review of a book, program, website or just poker news of interest so please feel free to email me your personal reviews, news or big wins and I will be glad to post them.

Reed Poker Event # 11 Set for November 8th

Just a reminder that we'll be playing our last regular event of the year next Thursday, November 8th @ 7pm (Sean's House). This event will be a $40 buy-in w/ an optional $5 add-on.

Going into next Thursday, Adam, Sean and Trinity all have a mathematical chance of beating Brian for "Player of the Year"...but it'll be an uphill climb.

We will also discuss plans for next year and firm up time for Saturday, December 8th Main Event.

Please let me know if you can make it next Thursday as we have 4-5 firm commitments for next week right now.

Donnie, Steve and Andre need to play this event to qualify for the Main Event!

Can't Stop This HORSE

With the usual suspects in attendance the game started as usual. Brian took the lead after hitting Sean pretty hard. After about 40 minutes though we were all back to about even. Sean went on a run in the Stud portion of the game and managed to take a large lead. Brian was busted by Sean in the last hand of Stud H/L. This gave Sean about a 4.5-to-1 chip lead over Trinity who got pocket KK on the first hand heads up in the Limit Hold'em round. From that hand Trinity did not look back and Sean was card dead. Trinity was catching great cards and managed to take the lead from Sean. The rush for Trinity continued and the game ended after just over an hour.
HORSE winner - Trinity $9.75
2nd - Sean $5.25
3rd - Brian