History Part III - The Resurrection

It was about a year and a half until I was active again. Meek had been concerned about playing over dial up, over connectivity issues and the such. This was one reason for my long dormancy. Luckily for me, Meek decided to try on line poker out again once the house was built. While I was gone, Meek read a few books. I had seen Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players, and Caro's Book of Poker Tells. Here we go again, I was thinking. This guy was reading about tells, but he is an internet player. At least he was showing interest in the game. And what was this book for 'Advanced Players'? Didn't he realize he is playing itty bitty limits? Just because he knew the terms and how to trap, he thought he was ready for Advanced. *sigh* Let's see how long this run would last.

Meek and I went down the same path, $100 into Party, build it up a bit through SnGs, withdraw the $100. He had me built up above $100 again, and he had a breakthrough. He found a blog about poker. This is what he had been looking for the first time around. Before, he was experiencing on line poker by himself. He had friends that played in a home game every month, but no one to talk over Poker respectably, with an informed opinion. It was all caused by a news piece, the death of Hunter S. Thompson. Meek read about this some where and saw Thompson's tie in with poker. A search on the topic pulled up this article on Mean Gene's website. Meek downloaded the archives and read through them. After he had read all of those up to date, he then moved on to another and another. Meek now had a blueprint on internet poker play, and a community to help fan the flames of his poker interest.
(To be continued)

History Part II - The Death

Off we went, into the SnGs. Meek did okay in these. I was soon a good fraction larger. Nothing to brag about, but I felt Meek could continue to make me bigger. Oddly enough, the bonus didn't start to clear. The juice from the SnGs wasn't enough to get it going. Meek realized this, and tried some limit hold'em. He held his own, and then dropped some of me to other players. He couldn't get people to fold like he could in no limit. They would call their draws and get paid off. Obviously Meek was better suited for no limit, even though he wasn't great at that. He understood the play better there. By the time he realized this, I was injured. Not critically, but I noticed it.

After some more of this Meek had built me up a bit. Not much, but about 50% over my start. I don't think the bonus was ever cleared and PartyPoker took it back. Meek decided he wanted the seed money back, and pulled it back to his credit card. Something about wanting to play on the houses money only. Bastard. Cut me down low. Meek's not that good of a player. He tried to research on the internet, but all he found to read was shill sites with no content.

After some time hanging around this level, Meek got the bright idea of putting me all into a no limit cash game, waiting for a good hand and doubling me up - as he did time and time again with his play money poker bank roll. If I recall, he decided to go along with this plan. He found a game on PartyPoker where the average stack was as big as I was. That was intimidating for me, but Meek didn't care. I was as big as their buy in. I, in my entirety, was sitting on a no limit table. I tried not to let the other bankrolls notice this. They probably did not, as it was just a little part of them there. Meek played a few rounds waiting to spring the trap. Each round was skimming off a good 2 percentage of me! Hopefully, this would happen quick Either double up or die, no grinding slow death. After four rounds, I think Meek realized this. He h! adn't got any pocket pairs at this point. Meek got an AJo. I think he realized he had to get something to play soon or his double up would end up getting him back to where we started. Meek was able to limp with the AJo and see the flop with two others. The flop was ragged, but with a Jack high! Just what Meek was waiting for I hope. He bet and was raised. A third of me is in the table, mixed with the bets from other bank rolls. This is what Meek was waiting for so he pushed. There I am in the middle of the table, in purgatory. I am no longer Meek's PBR. I do not belong to anyone until the end of the hand. Yes, Meek has a 'ownership share' of me and the other chips out here, but until the last card is dealt, Meek has no PBR and I belong to all the players. Odd feeling really, I didn't get time to flesh this out as it was overwhelming. Maybe I can revisit this later to describe it better, but! it was so quick. I didn't get the chance to feel it before as I was never 'All in'. It was only portions of me speculatively trying to bring back more chips. Anyway, back to the play. Meek was called by a higher pocket pair. I was gone, at 0. I was gone for about a year. Meek moved to the country, lost his broadband connection, switched to dial up, and started building a house. There was no Poker Bank Roll.
(To be continued)

Blog Start - History Part I - The Creation

Here it is, another bandwagon poker blog. I will start with my history. Later I will get to my current state, and what I intend to do with this blog.

I am Meek's Poker Bank Roll (PBR). I was created about three years ago. As I recall, I started with a credit card deposit into Party Poker. As many others, I believe I was inspired into creation by Moneymaker and the WSOP. Meek (my daddy/creator/owner/player/etc...) saw the advertisements and thought he'd give it a go. Meek liked playing the no limit hold'em, since he had seen this on TV, and understood the rules. He played me into the SnGs, so he'd get more go for his dough. From what I could see from the pc laptop screen, he had started reading about poker. I saw Super System with a library sticker on the back of it. His bookmark seemed to be in the hold em sections. I don't think he hit any of the other sections.

I talked to another bank roll Meek had, a play money poker bank roll. I don't think this PBR has started it's own blog yet, and has fallen dormant since I've been around. The play money PBR said Meek played a lot of no limit poker and had built him up hugely, to a million credits. This was good news. Maybe Meek could do the same with me. I soon realized that the play money PBR lived in a different world where it was easy to build a bank roll, since it was play money. Players in that world are just action junkies and want to gamble it up, as there is no penalty. In my world, it's not as easy to get back up off the felt and reload, get back in a game for which you are under bank rolled, and go all in on the next hand.

I was created with an odd deformity I didn't quite understand. I had a 'bonus' appendage about a quarter as big as I was. From what I see in the internet browser windows, it can be lucrative to have a good sized bonus appendage. People will want to take a lot of pictures of you with pretty, naked women, and then charge others to look at them. Anyway, as I am a poker bank roll, and not a porn star, this was a different kind of bonus. PartyPoker called it a deposit bonus. Apparently, it would be released to me once Meek had played so many hands at the site. I think Meek was frustrated with this as he hadn't seen the fine print and thought it would be a part of me from the beginning. For now it was just sitting there, limp and numb. It needed 'juice' from action to be made live. So we played some poker.
(Too be continued)