Ok, got a couple hours in this weekend...

I picked up two sheets of 4'x8' ply from the Home Depot and had them rip it down to 44" x 90". I then cut the corners to make the table oval. The first sheet I cut out a 2" track. The inner section of this piece will be the playing surface. The 2" track will be the bottom the rail. The second sheet I cut out a 5" track, this will be the top of the rail and the inner oval will be the underside of the table.

Normally that would be it and I would put on the foam, attach the playing surface, and glue on the rail foam then staple the vinyl onto the rail. But no, I had to try and raise the rail!!?? The foam, speed cloth and vinyl should be coming in today.

Poker Table Project...

Made this poker table a couple years ago and going start on another one for Shoe this weekend.

The new table is going to have a raised rail, but no "race track". Picked up all the supplies (foam, cloth) from YAT's. Not sure how long it's going to take. I'll post pics and updates as I progress...

Here's what I got from YAT's:
Royal Blue Casino Cloth - 3 Yards @ $16.95 x 3 = $50.85
Whisper Rail Vinyl - $44.80
1/4 Closed Cell Foam - $23.85
Rail Foam 60lb - $46.95
Cup Holders - $39.50
Spray Glue - $6.00

Total Cost - $211.95
Shipping: $35.00 approx
About $250.00

Picking up the Plywood today at the local HomeDepot:
2 sheets from 3/4" plywood

Wish me luck!

Why we play...

Happy Valentine's Day...

Well, the FTOPs #3 event started off great. I doubled up on the 7th hand of the tourney and was in 4th. I was able to chip up over 10k by the first break and I was sitting around 125th place with over 2k left. Before the 2nd break it started going south... It all started when I flopped a set of Js with JT sooted. All the money got in on the turn and it looked great when the other guy flipped up AA. Guess what came on the river, yup an Ace... I then lost a couple races and had a big pair run into another big pair. Blahblahblah... I was out soon after that. Next time...

I'm going to try and post on regular basis here.... It's Valentines Day and thought I would share a recent pic of my little Angel, Anna. She's almost 6 months old now and just getting bigger everyday!

Extra 2 Millions Chips in the 06' WSOP

...well, some of them were. The Nevada Gaming Commission released a report and this is what the found. This is all from the story on PokerNews, you can see the entire story here: Extra 2 millions chips. Looks like Kevin O'Donnell, the bar owner from AZ, received 1 million extra chips after a color up. Ok, I go on break and come back, I have an extra million chips. Do I notice that??? Not calling he guy a lier, but if I had an extra million in chips, hell ya I'm going to notice. Am I going to say anything, No.

From the card player report it looks like he has 3.45 last report before the break... The first hand he played, reported by CardPlayer after the break he gets in a big hand. He calls a raise preflop (250k) and then a check raises after the flop (1Million), and then goes all in for 2.95 million. Rough math, that's 750 extra, if you take the 30k/60k 10k antes into count, you can easly see an extra million chips in there...

Now if he had 10/12million before the break and I can see him not noticing, but 3.45 million and poof you have now 4.5... Hmmmm... I guess if he went deeper, we would really hear more about this. But what about Allen C, the one ended up with the extra million chips????

Time line, Looked back to see his counts and this is what I found on CardPlayer:

Tue Aug 08 12:39:00 PDT 2006 O'Donnell Takes Another Pot After this hand, O'Donnell now has $2,920,000.

Tue Aug 08 12:54:00 PDT 2006 O'Donnell on a Roll chip count to $3,450,000.

Tue Aug 08 13:36:00 PDT 2006 Players On Break $5,000 chips being raced off.

Next hand that is reported by card player on O'Donnell, 45 min after the color up:

Tue Aug 08 14:23:00 PDT 2006 Magill Lays It Down John Magill raises to $250,000 and Kevin O'Donnell calls in the small blind. O'Donnell checks the A109 flop and Magill bets $500,000. O'Donnell rases to $1,000,000 and Magill calls. O'Donnell moves all-in on the 5 turn for $2,950,000. Magill thinks for nearly five minutes before showing AQ and folding. O'Donnell now has $5,750,000 and Magill drops to $2,950,000.

When you do the math, there are the extra chips.

From the story on PokerNews:

Kevin O'Donnell was one of the players to receive extra chips. He was incorrectly colored-up and received 1 million extra chips. Our chip stack analysis shows good data for Kevin shortly before the color-up break and shortly after; there is a 1.05 million chip increase that is not accounted for. We spoke to Kevin, he and all the other players were away from the table during the color-up. He had no idea that he could have been one of the stacks incorrectly colored-up and was shocked that he might have been. Kevin busted out of the tournament in 21st place to Allen Cunningham less that 30 minutes after the mistake was made. We have several independent sources that agree Kevin O'Donnell was one of two players given extra chips. Every piece of evidence points to Kevin having absolutely no knowledge of the events and no idea this had even occurred.

FTOPS EVENT #3 - $750k Guarantee

Sunday afternoon and decided play a little FT. Played a $22 S&G and was out first. Seems like I go out first or find a way to go deep, no middle ground. I ended up playing in another, steaming off the two bad beats I took in the first one. I ended up winning that one, up $51 on day ($99 win less the 2 $22 +$2 buy-ins). Next I noticed a satellite for the FTOPS event #3, a $300 +$22 tourney with a $750k prize pool. First prize gets a min of $138k.

The Sat started at 12:45 it started, 51 entrants at $75 each ($69 +$6, that’s $6 for the house). With all the money $69 x 51 = $3519, the top 13 got paid, the top 10 places got a seat and 11-13 got cash, $149, $89 and $59 respectively. We were about down to 19 and I was sitting with a nice stack in 6^th place. Had a couple hands in the Big Blind when a short stacked pushed and it only cost another few hundred to call. I played 3 hands like that and ended up finally winning the 3^rd one KO’ing a stack. When we got down to 14 we played hand for hand, there were two tables at this point. When 14 got KO’d, play resumed and we finally got down to the bubble. I was in good position with a below avg stack and watched a couple short stacks push at my table. The first time the short stack was able to double up, still below me in chips. At this point I was in 9^th with one more for the seat. I got a walk on my BB and two hands later the bubble busted and I was in.

On to FTOPS #3. Let’s hope I can go deep and don’t go out the first 15min! More to come…

FullTilt's Daily Double....

Full Tilt's running a new promo, the Daily Double Jackpot. There are two tourney's that start at the same time and if you play in both and cash in both you get 3% of the Jackpot (shared equally) plus your tournament winnings. If your the best double finisher, you get an additional 2% of the JP. If you double final table you get 20% and if you double win, you get 75% of the JP. The progressive jackpot is up to 26k. You can see more about it here: Daily-Double

I played last night for the first time and cashed in one, won something like $35... So I decided to try again tonight and played in both. I was doing well in both early. I doubled up early in one and then won a pretty big pot when I flopped a set of 7s and the guy bet into me. I raised a fair amount and he shoved. I of course called and he was drawing pretty thin with KK. I ended up just missing cashing in the other, but I did manage to make the final table in the first and took home 5th for $410... First prize was a little over $1600, which would have been nice! There's always next time.