Congratulations to Irongirl01 for winning her first Mookie title.  Here is her profile…

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Champion: Irongirl01

Blog: Irongirl

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Q: What is the background of your online name…Irongirl01?

IG: Irongirl comes from triathloning which I started doing to give my body a break after too many running injuries. When I picked a name most versions of runner girl were taken. I am not a steelworker and I dont have an ironing fetish. I’ve been asked both in chat at tables. I regret not picking something more gender neutral.

Q: How did you get into poker?

IG: Its Ben Afflecks fault!!! During his Bennifer years it was always talked about his love of poker. He was supposed to be on Celebrity Poker Showdown and I wanted to see how good he was. I missed his show but thought  these people are bad, I could play better then that. Then of course I caught ESPN and Moneymaker’s win over Farha and was hooked. I  bought a bunch of books and taught myself to play and cashed in the first online tourney I ever played on Party Poker (new player $1 buyin)

Q: Do you have any poker related goals and if so what are they?

IG: I believe you have to have goals.  My current goals are to money in a large field live MTT (400-500 players) with that would hopefully come a high 4 figure or 5 figure cash. I’ve cashed for over 1k before and Ive finished deep in live fields up to 200 players but not for over 5k. Online Ill take what I can get :). And I need to really focus on becoming a cash game player.

Q: What are key improvements that you’ve seen in your game over the last six months, and what is one priority you have for improving? (Submitted by CC)

IG: I am playing my position so much better then I used too and I’m getting alot more value out of my hands. I am playing people more then cards especially live. Ive been able to acquire a lot more chips early on which has helped me in my end game play.

Q: How would you describe your poker style?

IG: Online– i verge from weak tight tendencies lol to tight aggressive. Part of that is a confidence factor because I always expect the bad beats to come. Live Is where I excel and I would say cross between tag and lag and back I adapt to situations well live.

Q: What would be your first piece of advice for someone wanting to learn to play poker? (Submitted by Maudie)

IG: Play a style of poker that suits your personality and Play Play Play.

Q: What level of static do you get over your poker habit? (Submitted by Drewspop)

IG: None, I’m Single!!!  My parents (who are not together)  don’t get poker at all. I do get from my mother “you spent how much on a tourney and didn’t win”  and ” you were playing poker on a beautiful day inside!!!”

Q: What was the first poker blog you read?

IG: MissT74, I knew Tanya thru a women’s forum. I actually encouraged her to start her blog. That led me to Felicia Lee’s blog and from there I followed the path to  Tao of Poker and Guinness & Poker.

Q: Who would be at your 6-handed SNG?

IG: Jennifer Harman, Daniel Negreanu,  Andy Bloch, Allen Cunningham and Erick Lindgren.

Q: Between Nihilism and Masochism, which do you think better describes why you play poker? (Submitted by Iakaris)

IG: Definitely Not nihilism because I don’t think my playing is pointless  so I guess its masochism.  Anyone who has watched  me be bitch slapped by the Full Tilt RNG would agree.

Q: What’s the last book you have read?

IG: The Moscow Vector by Robert Ludlum/Patrick Larkin.

Q: Tell us a little known fact about yourself.

IG: I really am looking forward to turning 50 and being able to play seniors tourneys in 2 yrs and 2 months!!!  What woman looks forward to aging?

Q: Whereas Daniel Negranu has 10-7, Doyle Brunson has 10-2 and Robert Varkonyi has Q-10… What is YOUR hand?

IG: The IG is  99 regardless of what Phil Hellmuth says. I secretly love 45 suited though!!!

IG’s question for the next champ…

Q: Do you ever entertain ideas or have aspirations of playing professionally?

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Congrats again to Irongirl and thanks for participating in this profile.

A big thanks to everyone who made it out for The Mookie last night on Full Tilt.  We had a big crowd of 59 players including the defending champ Irongirl01. I’m way behind on getting stuff posted on here, but I should have her Champion Profile up here later today.

Not much has changed lately, I’m still not playing any other online poker tournaments except for The Mookie and random Brit Blogger or Donkament tourneys here and there.  We did host a home game at the Big O this past Friday night.  Before the tourney we had the 3 and 5 year old at the poker table.  We tried to teach them how to match up a pair and the other poker hand ranks.

I ended up being the bubble boy in the home game but at least Mrs. Mookie cashed.  You can read the full recap here.  For those of you who have visited the Big O before, I posted videos of Justin singing a few songs on Rock Band.

Now that the kiddos have started school my whole schedule has changed.  I have to get up each morning at 6:30am and take my Freshman to volleyball practice.  Next stop for the Mookie taxi is elementary for my K-5 and 3rd grader at 7:15am.  After getting home I shower and get ready and then drop my 6th grader off on the way to work.

It is taking awhile to get used to all this and last night I needed toothpicks to keep my eyes open.  I found myself dozing off numerous times and I apologize to my table mates for the delays.

The pre-launch show for the new BuddyDank Radio website was last night during The Mookie.  The new site looks great and there were numerous guests on air.

Waffles couldn’t move up the money list after finding the rail early.  He flopped sets two hands in a row only to get runner, runner flushed by RaisingCayne.  He has 3 more chances to make his way to the top and as you’ll see below, it just got alot tougher.

I pretty much folded the night away in between mini-snoozes and picking up pots every now and then.  After the first break I rarely played any hands outside of the blinds.  Too tired to try and play real poker.  Eventually the blinds climbed high enough for me to just shove or fold.  That worked for awhile and I got my stack to above average with just 3 tables left.

Unfortunately I ran JJ into AA in a battle of blinds vs. DaBag.  That crippled me and I was out a couple hands later in 22nd place.

LJ had amassed a decent stack and when they were down to two tables she couldn’t be stopped.  After MiamiDon was eliminated in 10th place the final table was set and LJ had almost half the chips in play.

The top 7 places made the money and here is how they finished:

9th Place - Blinders

8th Place - Mattazuma

7th Place - RaisingCayne

6th Place - Julius_Goat

5th Place - Joshuacarlsen

4th Place - BanNYRambler aka Loretta8

3rd Place - Breeze81

2nd Place - Columbo

1st Place - Pvanharibo

Congrats to LJ on her 3rd Mookie title, this definitely livens up the Waffles prop bet.  Thanks again to everyone who played last night, see you next week.

No time for a proper post.  Big news at the ol’ workplace has me preoccupied.

This starts in 20 minutes…

One of my favorite non-poker blogs to read is the FAIL blog.  We were grocery shopping this weekend and found this on sale…

After a bad day at the office I made it home and decided to work out my frustrations by playing some Rock Band.  I lost track of time and missed the start of The Mookie.  Luckily I didn’t miss much.

As has been the case the last few weeks, I managed to double up early when I flopped a set of 3’s which bested Peaker’s JJ.  That along with some timely stealing kept me ahead of the average.

I made it down to the final two tables but couldn’t get much going.  I let myself get way too short and ended up running into the Royal Mook.  Out in 13th place compliments of Hoy.

I was getting pretty sleepy and fought hard to keep the eyelids open.  I won the battle for awhile as the remaining 9 made their way to the final table.

The top 6 spots made the money and as you’ll below, I finally lost the war against my eyelids.

9th Place - Bayne

8th Place - chitwood

7th Place - Qwackers

6th Place - Hoyazo

5th Place - Schaubs

4th Place - NumbBono

3rd Place - ossuuu754

2nd Place - SirFWALGMan

1st Place - Irongirl01

Congratulations to IG on the big win and her first Mookie title.  With the 2nd place finish Waffles moves closer to the top spot on the leaderboard.  Thanks to everyone who made it out last night.  See you next week.

Over the last week the only poker I’ve played was a live SNG at work and the Donkament on Friday.  At home my laptop hasn’t left the bag over the last 5-6 nights.  If history repeats itself, I’ll be back at the online tables on a regular basis this fall.  Work and life have kept me super busy thus far.

I still keep my Wednesday nights open for The Mookie and I’m looking forward to playing tonight.  Last week NYRambler took down his first title and will be defending his crown tonight.

The usual prop bets are still in place.  While Hoy and I try to win an elusive Mookie title, Waffles will be trying to at least cash or win the tourney and move up the leaderboard.  Including tonight’s tourney, he has 5 chances left.

BuddyDank is still a traveling man so more than likely NumbBono and Joanne will be hosting BDR tonight.  It’s doubtful I’ll be able to live blog tonight.  We’ll see.

Everyone is welcome so come join us tonight on Full Tilt at 9PM CT.  The password is vegas1.  Don’t forget to play The Dookie as well.  Good luck!

Congratulations to NYRambler on winning his first Mookie title.  Here is his profile…

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Champion: NYRambler

Blog: Rambler’s Poker Blog

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Q: What is the background of your online name…NYRambler?

NYR: It’s a play off of my old nickname when I was growing up, which was “Rambling Magic Kid”; I played Magic: The Gathering, Talked a lot, and was a Kid (around 12 or 13)… When I first started playing Online Poker, I signed on Party, Stars and FTP to play Play Chips using NYRambler (I was around 17 or 18), and it has stuck with me since then.

Q: How did you get into poker?

NYR: My family used to play Dealer’s Choice for Pennies… My first exposure to Hold ‘em was in 2002 watching fellow Brooklynite Robert Varkonyi win the World Series.

Q: Do you have any poker related goals and if so what are they?

NYR: Just Short Term: Win the tournament, Win the Pot… If i make Lucko-type money, I’ll set long-term goals.

Q: What are key improvements that you’ve seen in your game over the last six months, and what is one priority you have for improving? (Submitted by CC)

NYR: My re-steals.  I used to always fold to a non-shove re-raise… Now If i sense they are on a steal or that it is a coin flip even if they call, I’ll be the aggressor and re-ship it back in.  I really need to improve my Online NL Cash play.

Q: How would you describe your poker style?

NYR: Depends on the Situation, a lot like John Juanda.  If there are maniacs at the table, I’ll go tight; whereas if there are nits at the table, I’ll go Gus Hansen/Sammy Farha on them.

Q: What would be your first piece of advice for someone wanting to learn to play poker? (Submitted by Maudie)

NYR: Make sure you know what you are doing, and to never play over your roll.

Q: What level of static do you get over your poker habit? (Submitted by Drewspop)

NYR: If by static you mean like… ‘high’, well it’s fairly good.

Q: What was the first poker blog you read?

NYR: Either Nik Santi’s or Loretta8’s… they always post on the CP forums, and when I first joined up at the CP forums, it was their blogs I read.

Q: Who would be at your 6-handed SNG?

NYR: Erica Shoenberg, Beth Shak, Evelyn Ng, Jennifer Tilly and Clonie Gowen.  I’m not stupid.  :-D

Q: Between Nihilism and Masochism, which do you think better describes why you play poker? (Submitted by Iakaris)

NYR: Like Champ, I had to look those words up… but definitely Nihilism.

Q: What’s the last book you have read?

NYR: Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen.

Q: Tell us a little known fact about yourself.

NYR: I have bowled a 300 game, March 31, 2008.  I posted in the blog, but no one reads my blog, so it is still little known :)

Q: What kind of music do you listen to (band examples) while playing on Full Tilt, or do you prefer solitude in a cold dark corner? (Submitted by  J Haze)

NYR: Usually Rock… Metallica, Bon Jovi.  Or Country, Carrie Underwood and Garth Brooks.  And during the Mookie, whatever I request on BuddyDank Radio (Including the ever popular Rickroll)

NYRambler’s question for the next champ…

Q: Whereas Daniel Negranu has 10-7, Doyle Brunson has 10-2 and Robert Varkonyi has Q-10… What is YOUR hand?

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Congrats again to NYRambler and thanks for participating in this profile.

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We had another solid turnout for a summer time Mookie tournament last night.  52 runners were on hand for the double stacked NLHE knockout event.  The defending champ, Drewspop, was unable to make it but it was good to see some new players along with many of the usual suspects.

I claimed my first and only bounty of the night early on with KK vs. Irongirl’s JJ.  I was able to stay ahead of the average through the first break and much of the 2nd hour.  Unfortunately I played a little too tight during the 2nd hour and didn’t much action on my big hands.  As time wore on my M dropped into single digits and I moved into push-n-pray mode.

My chips found the middle with TT and Julkeus made the call with AKo.  The race ended quickly when an Ace appeared on the flop.  No miracle Ten and I was out in 19th place.

Waffles managed to stay alive and tried to make a deep run to another cash but fell short in 13th place.  He’s still about $150 back on the leaderboard and has 5 more tries.

After OMGitsPokerFool bowed out in 10th place, the final table was set…

The top 6 spots made the money.  Here is how the final table played out…

9th Place - Mclarich

8th Place - SuiteAPlayer

7th Place - DrewFours

6th Place - Corron10

5th Place - PirateLawyer

4th Place - Julkeus

3rd Place - KngofKngs

2nd Place - Mike_Maloney

1st Place - NYRambler

Congratulations to NYRambler on winning his first Mookie title.  He’s one of the rare players who has come to the final table with the chiplead and pulled off the win.

Thanks to everyone who made it out last night, see you next week!