Most Recent Two Cash Games -- 4 Handed Action

Hey Guys --

I've been delinquent but I wanted to get the last two games up here on the blog.

On the 30th of July, no big winners and losers during the cash game, but Greg and Sprite stayed afterwards to play a heads up match for $100, which Greg took home in record time. The Results:

Greg: ($10.37) in the cash Game, up $100 in the heads up match
Sprite: $75.40 cash, ($100) in the heads up match
Jer: ($89.31)
BP: $22.18

Another cash game on August 8th, with a bunch of coolers and suckouts:
Sprite: ($161.42)
BP: $729.25
Greg: ($321.06)
Jer: ($247.27)

11 June 2007 -- 4 Handed Cash Game (again)

Hey Guys -- Still trying to increase participation in the games here, we need a good solid 6 handed game at some point. Anyway, welcome back to Hal, who's been gone for about 4 months, hopefully he's back in the fold. The results for Monday evening:

Burdick: ($36.35)
Porter: $46.04
Jer: ($286.26)
Schuldt: $276.57

5 June 2007 -- 4 Handed Cash Game

Our first cash game in 6 weeks -- painful!!! I got some good luck and made some monster hands with crappy cards to get lucky. Let's run the game back again soon.

Schuldt: (67.92)
Jer: (88.93)
Greg: (505.73)
Porter: 662.58

The software oddly now also created a "rake" but it's raking play money, and it's easy to add back into the player totals at the end of the night. Strange.

BP

18 April 2007 -- Kick Porter's Ass Cash Game

A complete ass kicking, administered by Greg and ERic toward Porter. Jer even got in the act late making a flush to negate my straight. The totals:

Porter: (321.29)
Jer: (320.39)
Sprite: 406.63
Greg: 235.15

9 April 2007 -- 5 Handed Cash Game

Hey Guys --

Results of the 5 handed cash game we played last night -- Porter took a beating, couple of big hands against Schuldt and a great call by Greg. Dave and Jeremy came out the big winners, so congrats to both.

Porter: ($176.69)
Suh: $86.22
Jer: $163.33
Greg: ($92.30)
Sprite: $19.48

6 April 2007 Cash Game

Sprite and the Marios played a cash game hosted down at Figure 8 -- Looks like Greg and Sprite had a good night. We welcomed a new player to the game -- Dr. Mario, welcome aboard!

Greg Mario: 164.75
Sprite: 254.50
DrMario: (246.50)
JerMario: (172.75)

25 March 2007 -- First 6 Handed Cash Game

Hey All -- An excellent bigger cash game last night -- we got up to 6 handed as Suh and Burdick made their first appearances at the cash game -- Suh recovered from an early deficit and played really well down the stretch, made some good moves (including one that got picked off by Jer).

All in all great games. The final tallies:

Suh: (59.76)
Burdick: (25.00)
Greg: (184.49)
Porter: 554.34
Schuldt: 18.21
Jer: (303.30)

24 March 2007 -- Cash Game

Another excellent Cash game -- 4 handed play. Sprite took another tough one, screwed on a bunch of tough hands. Jer got brutalized flopping a straight when I flopped a higher one. The final tallies:

Schuldt: (245.24)
Porter: 246.79
Jer: (108.91)
Greg: 107.36

21 March 2007 -- Cash Game

Hey Guys --

Another excellent cash game. We played 4 handed for a few hours -- Jeremy and Barry were the big winners, Eric bore the brunt of the losses.

Jeremy: +177.56
Barry: +43.75
Porter: -23.54
Schuldt: -196.25

Next game hopefully we can push it to 5-6 handed

1st Tourney Results

Well, we finished our first tourney this afternoon and it went really well. We had 5 players for a $25 buy in, and Hal emerged as champion ($90), with Schuldt coming in second ($35). We used the 2005 WSOP Circuit blind structure, with blinds increasing every 10 minutes. The tourney wrapped up in just over an hour, so in terms of timing it was great (didn't take forever, but also the blinds did not race up so quickly as to prevent us from playing some real poker).

Looking forward to a tourney with a few more guys -- maybe we can get 7 or so for the next one.

BP

Another Great Cash Game

Another great cash game on Wednesday night -- we expanded to 4 players and played for about 2.5 hours or so -- but we got in around 250 hands, which is awesome. Eric won a couple big pots, Greg Mario took a BRUTAL beat (all in with the straight and a flush draw against Jer's set of Kings, but river paired the board), so the final tallies:

Schuldt +148
JerMario +92
BP +5
Greg -245

Just FYI guys -- the cash game structure is really working well, probably as good or better than tourneys. Very small blinds ($0.50/$1) and you can come and go as you please, and you can buy into the game for as little as $20, so it's a pretty good time.

We'll try to play more cash games, as well as set up our inaugural tourney.

BP

Inaugural Cash Game a Huge Success

Well our initial cash game on the Poker Academy Site was a great success. Sprite, Jermario and I played a cash game -- buy in $40-$100 (max $100), blinds were $0.50/$1 and played for about 2 hours. As with anything, there are probably tweaks that could be made to the software, but all in all it was great. You play tons of hands b/c it's automated (no shuffling etc), and the chats come up on the table as well as in a separate window (though it bleeps out swearing -- I don't know if we can change that).

I've opened "accounts" in a master spreadsheet, so the first entries will be:

Mario: +$4
Sprite: -$38.50
Porter: +$34.50

Looking forward to the next game guys -- the blinds are small enough you don't need to risk a lot of your cash to get in the game

BP

Welcome to the Durham Pals Poker Blog!!!

Greetings All -- Welcome to the Durham Pals Poker Blog. Here we'll keep track of the results of our group's online play via Poker Academy -- as well as razz players that we've just beaten. A few initial rules:

Each player, when joining the group, will establish an initial bankroll. Being a gentleman's game, we will assume that all players are good for their debts. All banking records to be kept on a master spreadsheet by Bill Porter, and posted after each game.

The minimum payout shall be $250. To execute a request, email must be sent to Bill Porter (bill.porter@skylakedevelopment.com), who will monitor requests, determine who is responsible for payout, etc, and will forward a CONFIRMED REQUEST to the PAYOR. If a player requests a payout, the player with the lowest bankroll (or, in other words, the greatest amount of losses) will be required to cut a check in the payout amount. This check MUST BE CUT WITHIN 48 HOURS OF A CONFIRMED REQUEST. In no event shall a player be required to cut a check that will require his balance to exceed his initial bankroll -- in the event that the Confirmed Request would result in an overflow, two players may be required to cut checks.

To be included as a Durham Pals Poker Blog, play must have occurred online and results must be reported within 1 day to Bill Porter.

Payout structures for tournaments are as follows:

2 to 6	70% to 1st, 30% to 2nd
7 to 10	50% to 1st, 30% to 2nd, 20% to 1st
11 to 20	50% to 1st, 25% to 2nd, 15% to 3rd, 10% to 4th
20+	45% to 1st, 25% to 2nd, 18% to 3rd, 12% to 4th