Surprise, Surprise
 

I keep very detailed records. I think it's safe to say that at any given time, I know how much I have in each of my online accounts, not to the penny, but within $20 or so.

So this morning I'm playing for a half hour before leaving for work, and I open up Pokerroom, and my balance looks very wrong, but wrong in the right direction. I start playing, open up my online poker diary to make sure I didn't just forget a winning session or two, but no, my memory was correct, there's about $200 more in my account than my records say should be there.

So I play a while more and open up my aol mail and to see if I cleared some unknown bonus, and there's the e-mail from Pokerroom. Seems one day last week I won a hand with a Royal, and Pokerroom pays $200 for a Royal. Who knew?

I'll bet the jacket they give you at Foxwoods isn't worth $200.

Not bad, now if only I could catch a royal.

I've been playing regularly online for more than 3 years and didn't catch one until a few weeks ago. This makes 2 in less than 2 months. I think I need to go out on the links and see if I can catch a hole-in-one. :p

I've caught a few queen and king highs, and this is playing O8, where the odds are probably a bit higher, but am still seeking my first royal.

I went a year and a half of regular online play without hitting a royal. I was at a home game, saying how I had never hit one, etc. The next day, I hit my first. three days later, another... meaning at the home game the next week, I had hit two since our Royal Flush conversation one week earlier.

Haven't hit once since.

Apparently PokerRoom is where you want to catch them though. :)

Sweet surprise indeed!

I just hit another RF. :)

***** Hand History for Game 2210245968 *****
$2/$4 Hold'em - Wednesday, June 15, 09:14:07 EDT 2005
Table Chocolate fudge (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 3: cocoBware333 ( $69.25 )
Seat 5: wallkill ( $74 )
Seat 6: ChipFish ( $93 )
ChipFish posts small blind [$1].
cocoBware333 posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ChipFish [ Th 6h ]
wallkill folds.
ChipFish raises [$3].
cocoBware333 calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, Ah, Qh ]
ChipFish checks.
>You have options at Table 24985 Table!.
>You have options at Table 37309 (6 max) Table!.
cocoBware333 checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
ChipFish checks.
cocoBware333 bets [$4].
ChipFish raises [$8].
cocoBware333 calls [$4].
** Dealing River ** [ 6d ]
ChipFish bets [$4].
cocoBware333 calls [$4].
ChipFish shows [ Th, 6h ] Royal Flush.
cocoBware333 shows [ 7h, 9c ] a flush, ace high.
ChipFish wins $31 from the main pot with Royal Flush.
>You have options at Table 37309 (6 max) Table!.

Chipper, which site?

Oh, and noticed you had a hard time waking up Sunday ;) .

Empire

And yes...
I was a tad sleepy Sunday morning.

And a word of advice:
Do NOT play Heidi heads-up with Peter as the dealer after 20+ beers

20+ beers?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!!?!?!?!?!!!!


Pussy.

Shabi, if you are going to talk big, bring your ass up to Canada and drink some real beer.

I am in the prime of my life with respect to drinking, so anytime, anyplace, anyone is in Toronto, bring a tidy sum of money and loser pays the tab.

Edited to add: I am 6 foot, 160 lbs., so when you see me, you'll be like "This guy isn't serious". However, I am convinced I can drink more litres per body weight than anyone on this continent :D.

6'2 168 over here.

To translate for our American friends.
20+ Canadian beers = Approx. 83 American Tall cans. :p

I remember going to a Bills game 2 years ago, getting wasted on Molson Canadian on the bus ride, then arriving in Barfalo and buying 2 40s of King Cobra and sobering up. I was not a happy camper.

Some skinny bastards.

Not quite a Royal but......
 

***** Hand History for Game 2210575087 *****
$2/$4 Hold'em - Wednesday, June 15, 11:58:00 EDT 2005
Table Table 31964 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: nGodWeTrust ( $59.5 )
Seat 6: ChipFish ( $154 )
Seat 8: remmy401 ( $44.7 )
Seat 3: xCASEx ( $82 )
Seat 9: Dowbt ( $80 )
Seat 5: crazy_nuts2 ( $101.7 )
Seat 10: jcislrd ( $73.8 )
Seat 2: MrCyclopede ( $105 )
Seat 4: Madriani ( $100 )
remmy401 posts small blind [$1].
Dowbt posts big blind [$2].
>You have options at Table 24985 Table!.
>You have options at Table 24985 Table!.
Madriani posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ChipFish [ Ah 7h ]
jcislrd calls [$2].
nGodWeTrust raises [$4].
MrCyclopede calls [$4].
xCASEx folds.
Madriani folds.
crazy_nuts2 folds.
ChipFish calls [$4].
remmy401 folds.
Dowbt folds.
jcislrd calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, Ac, As ]
jcislrd checks.
nGodWeTrust bets [$2].
MrCyclopede calls [$2].
ChipFish calls [$2].
jcislrd calls [$2].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
jcislrd checks.
nGodWeTrust bets [$4].
MrCyclopede calls [$4].
ChipFish raises [$8].
jcislrd folds.
nGodWeTrust calls [$4].
MrCyclopede calls [$4].
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
nGodWeTrust checks.
MrCyclopede checks.
ChipFish bets [$4].
>You have options at Table 24985 Table!.
nGodWeTrust calls [$4].
MrCyclopede calls [$4].
ChipFish shows [ Ah, 7h ] four of a kind, aces.
nGodWeTrust doesn't show [ Ts, Td ] a full house, Aces full of tens.
MrCyclopede doesn't show [ Jd, Js ] a full house, Aces full of jacks.
ChipFish wins $62 from the main pot with four of a kind, aces.

I'm 5' 11", 245, old enough to be your father, out of my prime drinking years and get way too filled up by beer.

However, next time I make it to Toronto, I'll go head-to-head with you with hard liquor. You even get to choose what kind.

:cool:

Do Broken Down Golfcarts count as Hard liquour? :o

LMAO, hard liquor has always been a shade of grey with me. Drink it on a full stomach, pay for it, drink it on an empty stomach, end up sleeping in the bathtub.

Sounds like fun Kurn ;) .

no joke. im 6'1'' and 190ish.

jeezus....160? i weigh 160 and im 5'10" (and im not fat by any means)... put some meat on dem bones! how do you not get a beer gut man?

Ok.

I will come to Toronto and we will go out drinking. I'll lose if I try to outdrink you (I'll be a game time decision, depending on how sick I feel like getting), but it will still be fun.

I used to be a skinny bastard like the rest of you. I'm 6'5", 215 now.

You are big, but I can drink LOL.

As for the beer gut, I ain't complaining, I drink at least a 24 a week (factoring in pints and whatnot). I know it is coming soon, but in the mean time I ain't complaining, my metabolism is working overtime.

I hope when one of you guys actually come to Toronto, I am actually living in the city (whisper=you'll have a place to crash). Right now I am in the outskirts, but if the plan goes well (I have an exam to pass) I will be living in the city by late fall/early winter. It will be good times.

thats way too far.

MY turn
 

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Top Hand of the Day - June 17, 2005

Player: BTstorm
Game code: 96198551 Name: .5/1 LIMITTURBO
Room: "TURBO" Pleasanton (6 max) Royal Flush
A-K-Q-J-10 Spades

Player: toddl1
Game code: 95624601 Name: 1c/2c NL
Room: Ascot Royal Flush
A-K-Q-J-10 Spades

Player: SkyRacer
Game code: 95592281 Name: 5c/10c No Limit
Room: Newmarket Royal Flush
A-K-Q-J-10 Diamonds