Chris Halverson’s Blog

The holidays at the Halverson compound went fairly smooth. We hosted the Christmas meal on Saturday and had the clan over for a good meal and just an all around good get together. Everything went off without a hitch and Mrs. H was definitely the hostess with the mostess. Christmas eve, when we open presents, went fine too with the exception of the Vikings choking yet again. I got some nice gifts, nothing poker related (which is probably good), and all was well.

I’ve continued my streak for December where every hand of poker played is counting toward a bonus. So far this month I’ve cleared $800 worth of bonuses. Wow! I wish I didn’t suck so that I could actually make money on top of the bonuses. I’ve still got over $200 at TGC to clear, but I’m a little pissed that they changed their requirements on that too. Now you can only clear x amount at any given limit. I think I’m low enough that I can clear all my remaining at 1/2, which would be fine if they would open up more than 4 games. I’m going to keep the streak alive though, only a couple more days becuase Thursday is out (Mrs. H’s birthday) as is Tuesday (see below), and Friday may be out too (New Year’s Eve), so that only leaves tonight and Wednesday. No problem.

For you locals, I’ll be heading down to Canterbury again on Tuesday (2004-12-28) sometime mid-afternoon into the early evening. I plan on going to have “fun”. I will be drinking. Not a lot, but some. I may even end up playing at 2/4. My friend Jason and I are heading down, so look for the black Ferrari cap at a 2/4 or 3/6 table.

If you’re interested in some of the trip reports from last week’s 2+2 Canterbury trip and don’t want to wade through the rest of the 2+2 stuff, here are some quotes from gonores:

I announce my intentions of busting everyone at the table and begin to employ the Praying Mantis style of betting. Frank, the dealer, informs me that he will not tolerate my antics, especially my yelling, as he has a headache. I do try to comply with his request, but my desire to be the center of attention outplayed my desire to straighten up and fly right. A few hands into Frank’s down, I drag a pretty-good sized-pot, maybe $100-$120. Frank shoves me the pot and shove maybe $15 back at Frank. Upon acceptance of said tip, Frank informs me I am welcome to scream and yell all I want. Is that how much your self-respect costs, Frank? $15? How much for your dignity? Somewhere in my alcohol-soaked brain, I make the connection that big tips = permissive staff.

New guy sits down and comments on Schneider’s stack. He responds by promptly adding a couple more racks to his stack. I find this unacceptable, and the arms race is on. Over the next hour, Schneids got his stack up to around $1400, I got mine up to $1200, and finally the floor steps in to inform us we can’t buy any more racks, as they are running out of blue chips.

His replacement is THE quintessential 3/6 all-star. It’s some young kid (too young to drink) with his posse following him around. Mr. vpip25/pfr5. I’m fairly certain he has a poster of The Crew in his room. The second you start watching him, you just know that he’s played online and he uses the following phrases quite liberally:

LOL
WTF
R U KIDDING ME?
UR A FUKKING MORON

As he is waiting for the blinds to come around, he watches to kid in the 3-seat with a huge pyramid of chips go 4bets preflop with the kid in the 5 seat, only to see the 3-seat’s 6x lose to the 5-seat’s 72o on a 76xxx board. He delivers this news to his posse and makes general commentary to the growing crowd behind us.

I am so pissed at myself for missing the extra $6 preflop that when the dealer starts pushing me the pot, I tell him I don’t want it. Keep it, Richard. This pushes 3/6 all-star off the edge. The look on his face will forever be etched in my memory, you could just see him trying to calculate how many ramen noodle meals that $21 could buy.

There is some good stuff here, you should go read it just for the fun factor. The relevant links are:

gonores trip report

Milo’s trip report

There are replies from the other participants within those threads.

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