Tao of Poker

Hide the kids!!! Pauly's on Partypoker!

Yes, it's true. Despite the pleas from Grubby that I should not play online... I finally took the leap. Like a crackhead slowly pulling the crackpipe to his lips... or a sullen alkie unscrewing the top of his bottle of scotch... I pulled up a chair and downloaded Partypoker. When I told Iggy he was pumped!!!

The main reason I joined Partypoker was so I could play with my fellow poker bloggers. I'm not a fan of online play, but I knew that online was the only chance I'll get to play with some of my favorite poker players and bloggers out there, whom are separated by long distances. I think it's cool that I can play at home in NYC with London Froggy in England and even HDouble in LA. Very cool. Poker is bringing us all together and I did not want to miss out on Iggy's brilliant idea to get a blogger table at Partypoker going! I hope we can make this a weekly game or something!!

I played a couple of hands with "free money" to test it out. I had only played on Ultimatebet.com before, so I was not familiar with Partypoker. I like it especially the detailed hand history stuff.

Here's one of the first hands I won...

Dealer: Game #50260397683 starts.
Dealer: algebraist posts small blind [2].
Dealer: nica633 posts big blind [5].
Dealer: dpd_2002 posts big blind [5].
Dealer: ** Dealing down cards **

I got J-9 offsuit

Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp calls [5].
Dealer: vakesOX calls [5].
Dealer: Schlomo4 calls [5].
Dealer: dpd_2002 checks.
Dealer: harley95 folds.
Dealer: AZUMPIRE calls [5].
Dealer: jrocka calls [5].
Dealer: algebraist calls [3].
Dealer: nica633 checks.
Dealer: ** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, 5d, Qc ]
Dealer: algebraist checks.
Dealer: nica633 checks.
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp checks.
Dealer: vakesOX checks.
Dealer: Schlomo4 bets [5].
Dealer: dpd_2002 folds.
Dealer: AZUMPIRE calls [5].
Dealer: jrocka calls [5].
Dealer: algebraist folds.
Dealer: nica633 calls [5].
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp calls [5].
Dealer: vakesOX calls [5].
Dealer: ** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]

On the turn I caught the straight!! Time to check raise.

Dealer: nica633 checks.
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp checks.
Dealer: vakesOX checks.
Dealer: Schlomo4 checks.
Dealer: AZUMPIRE bets [10].
Dealer: jrocka calls [10].
Dealer: nica633 calls [10].
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp raises [20].
Dealer: vakesOX folds.
Dealer: Schlomo4 folds.
Dealer: AZUMPIRE calls [10].
Dealer: jrocka calls [10].
Dealer: nica633 calls [10].

Dealer: ** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
Dealer: nica633 checks.
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp bets [10].
Dealer: AZUMPIRE folds.
Dealer: jrocka calls all-In.
Dealer: russb79ri has joined the table.
Dealer: nica633 calls [14].
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp calls [4].
Dealer: PaulyMcGrupp shows a straight, eight to queen.
Dealer: jrocka shows two pairs, queens and eights.
Dealer: nica633 doesn't show.

#50260397683: PaulyMcGrupp wins 189 play chips from the main pot with
a straight, eight to queen.

I sent my hand history to Iggy and this is what he sent me: "Nice hand, lol. Love the check raise!"