Chris Halverson’s Blog

Sunday

Instead of being hungover, dead tired and potentially broke while sitting on a plane from Las Vegas to MSP, I spent 8 hours driving through 60 MPH winds in rural Iowa and Minnesota. I know, all you bloggers that went to Vegas are jealous, but sorry, only I was lucky enough to participate in this activity. Anyway, the Christmas get together with my family went well. We had some good food, watched some of the Vikes game on my Uncle’s new 50″ TV (don’t get me started about the Vikes) and then headed back through the wind storm.

I got home and fired up a little Interpoker (foregoing watching the end of Survivor since it sucked this time). I no sooner sat down at a 1/2 table when I saw, “Uh oh, another 2+2′er, hi chris”. Yikes. First off, I would have thought that I would have been outted earlier for my blog. I never thought I’d be outted due to my postings on 2+2. I guess I’ve posted enough there (mainly in the Zoo, but in a bunch of other ones too, don’t look for strategy posts from me though), and in particular about some of the Crypto issues, that I’m becoming more recognizable. Not sure that’s a good thing

It was a night of cold cards and I left after an hour of getting virtually nothing. I got pocket aces twice, raised both pre-flop, and had everybody (including blinds) fold around both times. Unreal. I was down on both tables, but not much because I never got any cards to get involved in a hand. It was mostly an hour of paying blinds. The upside was that things were moving fast and I got almost another 100 raked hands done.

Monday

Monday brought us InterPoker’s first bonus. Funny thing was that nobody could claim it. It was a 20% bonus to $50 ($250 deposit, play 500 raked hands). The bonus code did not work in the InterPoker software. Nice. Evidently a few people could get it, but most couldn’t. For the first time in my poker history, I called tech support. They laughed and knew exactly what I was talking about. Evidently this promo is bringing them a lot of deposits because they had it down rote. Basically they said that it will be credited automatically after I clear the hands. They had to put something into the “system” by hand due to the problems.

After the call, I played a while at InterPoker to work off the December bonus. At my first table in the first 5 hands I got KK, JJ, AA, AK. I got some action because I was new to the table. I basically doubled up and then got nothing for the next 90 minutes. On my other table I was down a little bit during the same time.

I then watched the SciFi channel movie “EarthSea” (damnit, it’s a miniseries and I’ll have to watch it tonight too) with Mrs. H, and then she went to bed and I fired up InterPoker again. I got noticed by another 2+2′er right away (ironically he’s from MN and I sent him a Gmail invite a while back when he asked on 2+2, BTW, I’ve still got a couple if you want one). Table 1 had me down 2BB at the end of the 90 minute session. The second table was going to hell quickly. I was down to about half my buyin (-9BB) and decided to play out my orbit and pack it in.

I’m in MP and look to see pocket Jacks. Great, let’s just blow the rest of my buyin with 2 hands left. I raise and SB is the only one who comes along. I’m just waiting for the ace to come on the flop when instead it comes down Jh9c4d. Score! SB checks, I bet out and he raises. That threw me a bit, but decided to succumb to a little FPS and just call hoping to get more on the bigger rounds to follow. Turn is the Ah and I like it even more hoping it hit him, maybe making him two pair. He checks, I bet, raise, raise, raise and then I start thinking something is weird so I just call. Not sure what I was thinking that could beat me other than a set of aces. Two raises (including a check raise) is a little more than betting for value, so I didn’t put him on the flush. The river brings the 2c and he leads out. I raise, he raises, I raise again and he finally just calls. My set of jacks win and I pull down a 20BB pot and rescue the session (he mucked and Crypto doesn’t record mucked hands even if they go to showdown).

I’m virtually done with my December bonus hands, then it’s time to work off the PEARTREE bonus and to play during the pocket queens promo tonight. I’ve also got to start on my final paper for my class. If I get it turned in by the 20th I get extra credit (gotta love getting extra credit in grad school). Wedensday is a lame (IMHO) promo (10x prop payments), so maybe I’ll play tonight and jam on the paper on Wednesday and Thursday (tourney fees refunded promo) and get ready for pocket kings on Friday.

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