Oh Party Poker, How I love Thee

Things are going well for me on Party these days.  Monday my account was at $185 on Party and today before cashing out some, it sat at $740, well $940 if you count the $200 transfer someone sent me.  All of those winnings occurred in about 3-4 hours of play, so things are going rather well right now.

I wish I could attribute it to good play, but I can't really.  I have been getting some good cards and people are making big second best hands against me, so that always helps.

Last night I sat down at a $200 NL 6 max table and I flopped a set of Kings and bet out, got raised, I re-raised and he pushed, then I scooped.  He had made bottom set and I beat him set over set.  Things like that don't happen all that often, but when they do it sure is nice.

Omaha 

I mentioned that I was going to start playing Omaha on a regular basis a while back.  I started out very good by winning 3 buy ins at the $25 pot limit game.  I realized I really didn't have much of a clue as to what was going on, so I stopped and purchased 3 books from Amazon.  I have been reading those books the past week or so, and I am anxious to try out what I have learned.  Maybe this weekend I will sit down and play some.  If not, next week for sure.

Anybody looking for a good O8 book should check out Winning Omaha/8 Poker by Mark Tenner and Lou Krieger.  I have found it to be the best out of the three I purchased and I am learning a lot from it.  Well written and very easy to understand.  Highly recommended.

I bout TJ's book as well, and well not as good, it does have a great chapter where he tells stories from his old days of rounding in Texas.  This chapter alone was worth the price to me, as there are some great stories in it.

One he tells is about Doyle.  TJ is sitting next to Doyle in a tournament at Ceasers and they go on dinner break.  Instead of eating Doyle heads off to play some high limit hold'em.  Doyle comes back from the dinner break and sits down and says, "Well, if I win this $51,000 first prize, I will only be down $14,000 for the dinner break".  Classic stuff.