tilted behaviour

Although my online MTT career was barely a few months old, I was looking forward to making 2011 a big year in climbing up the ranks of the Australian online poker community.

Playing the primarily on PokerStars, things have been going allright since I took a hiatus from cash games. My first 50 cashes came from 252 games at an in-the-money rate of 20%, but I was still break-even and slightly down on Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker – although I’ve only played a handful of tournaments on the latter two rooms. Consequently my goal for this year is to turn some of these min-cashes into deep runs and big dinks so I can see my bankroll climb skywards – even if my ITM rate takes a slight dive.

Welcoming in the new poker year at the bright and early time of 7am (for me that is), I loaded up PokerStars and Absolute and began my hopefully long grind from my desk.

I felt that I wasn’t running or playing that good at the start of my session and consequently decided to stop registering early then I normally would. I managed to go 1/4 on Absolute and 5/16 on PokerStars for the day registering my first profitable Monday since taking up the MTT-grind, but although the bankroll boost was enjoyable, it could have been so much more if a few things went my way.

In one of the $3 Rebuys with forty players left and me well-placed in tenth, I accidently misclicked and potentially threw away a US$3,500 payday! Being dealt 9♥ 2♣ on the button and having two short-stacks in the blinds, my plan was to move all in if it folded to me. Once the action was on me, I followed through with my plan by shipping it, and once the blinds passed, instead of the pot being pushed to me, there was a pause in play. It was then I noticed that the player in the one seat at the top of the table – the only player that had me covered too – opened from under the gun . . . and since I had nine tables open at the time, I didn’t even notice that he had raised. He made the call holding A♦ K♣ and it was then I called upon my one time for the day! the 4♥ A♥ 9♦ flop kept me alive as the 10♥ on the turn gave me thirteen outs . . . but alas it wasn’t meant to be as the 10♠ bundled me out.

I fell just a few places shy of a final table berth in the $3.30 NLH when I busted in 14th place from the 4,243 starters, but it would be the $11 NLH Rebuy that would hurt the most. With 5,000 starters and 140-odd players remaining guaranteed a $213.90 payday, I copped one of the most sickening beats of my short MTT career (situational based mostly).

Seat 1: STALINGRAD70 (49139 in chips)
Seat 2: sabbatage1 (541623 in chips)
Seat 3: lrounderl (266754 in chips)
Seat 4: warrior1203 (119224 in chips)
Seat 5: Ticiz (193185 in chips)
Seat 6: JackBluff666 (63400 in chips)
Seat 7: Blazed3x1 (162886 in chips)
Seat 8: tRaMSt0p (133668 in chips)
Seat 9: jimpou69 (262142 in chips)
Everyone posts the ante 1600
Blazed3x1: posts small blind 5000
tRaMSt0p: posts big blind 10000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to tRaMSt0p A♦ A♥

jimpou69: folds
STALINGRAD70: raises 37539 to 47539 and is all-in
sabbatage1: folds
lrounderl: calls 47539
warrior1203: folds
Ticiz: folds
JackBluff666: folds
Blazed3x1: folds
tRaMSt0p: raises 84529 to 132068 and is all-in
lrounderl: calls 84529
*** FLOP *** 4♠ 2♣ 8♦

*** TURN *** 4♠ 2♣ 8♦ 2♠

*** RIVER *** 4♠ 2♣ 8♦ 2♠ K♥

*** SHOW DOWN ***
tRaMSt0p: shows A♦ A♥

lrounderl: shows K♠ K♦

lrounderl collected 169058 from side pot
STALINGRAD70: shows K♣ 4♥

lrounderl collected 162017 from main pot

If my hand holds in that pot, I climb into the top forty in chips giving myself I great chance at having a crack at the US$21,000 first prize!

As it has been said millions (if not gazillions) of times before . . . oh well, shit happens . . . time to move onto the next tournament!

I couldn’t really be bothered playing online today, but Donnie was back in his grinding shoes . . . and it paid dividends!

He managed to finish 3rd/2,451 in the Full Tilt Poker $9,500 GTD Rush Rebuy. The buy-in was only $2.20 and he re-bought nine times, but walked away with $2,200 for his third place . . . nice run sir.

With Lynn heading to the gym and me and GG doing nothing, he happily(?) drove me to this place called Too Hotties to get my hair cut. As you walk in there were maybe six or seven hairdressers who were stunningly gorgeous and all young. There was a pool table, flatscreen TVs, massage chair, PS3 and XBox 360 all for the patrons or guests to enjoy.

“Do you guys want a drink?” asked the receptionist.

“I’ll grab a beer!” and extremely excited GG added.

As GG sipped on his Bud Light while getting a chair massage, a petite brunette named Lacey began on my hair. We exchanged normal haircut banter of work etc, and I found out that even though she is only 20-years old, she has never been out of the country! This shocked me, because at the same age I already had been to eight different countries with nearly twenty trips to Asia to holiday or visit family.

Ending the haircut with an awkward but enjoyable face massage, I was extremely pleased with the result, as nothing beats your personal hairdresser back home . . . and for $23 it felt like a bargain!

With GG and I a little hungry, we ventured next door to Firehouse Subs where I bought us some late lunch / early dinner before picking up Lynn on the way home.

We decided a few days ago that we were all going to play the Green Valley Ranch weekly $45 HORSE tournament, and tonight was the night for us to check-raise some senior citizens and have some fun!

Lynn didn’t really want to play due to her lack of knowledge in the games, but that still didn’t stop Donnie, GG, Jane and I donating our money as the $45 entry got us a 2,500 starting bank. Unfortunately the Tournament Director was a bit of an idiot – and although there were four tables in operation – they still managed to seat Donnie, me and GG in the one, two and three seats respectively on the same table. Throw in the fact that we were nine-handed and played each game for a fifteen minute level instead of eight hands, really underlined the quality we expected.

“So what order does the games go in?”

“What exactly is hi-lo . . . razz . . . or stud?”

These were just a handful of the comments that we heard in the first few minutes of the tournament as we all just gave each a look of Oh My GOD!

I chipped up pretty easily in the Holdem orbit, but then played a terrible Razz hand where my made 8-7 perfect was rivered by a guy after I bet every street in a mult-way pot. I managed to pick up some chips though, and finished the first break with 4,600.

With the blinds climbing every game, I tried to play tight in the stud games, but when we returned to Holdem I won about nine pots to get my stack up to 6,500 and then 11,000 by the Razz orbit.

Reaching the final table of eight with 11,200, I was sitting third in chips (chip leader had 33,500) with Stud being the game with an ante of 100 and betting limits of 500-1,000. My stack slipped a little as we lost just one player before I managed to win a hand in Stud Hi-Lo with two-pair against two lows; one of which was the losing hand of Donnie’s.

With only five people getting paid, once we lost seventh, we made a deal for the bubble boy and chuck in $10 each so that he would at least make some profit. Once he exited, I had 14,500 during the Omaha Hi-Lo orbit with blinds 500-1,000 and was sitting on the button.

The remaining four players then started talking deals of chopping the prizepool five-ways for $220 each. The player on my left only had 8,500 and Donnie 6,500 in the big blind, while the two players on my right had 25,000 and 18,000. I felt that I had a great enough skill edge to keep playing, and running ICM equities saw that I should earning a little more. I obviously was beaten into submission and took the deal as we made our way home.

Not having played online all day, I decided to load up a couple of tourneys on Full Tilt Poker to fill in some time before doing some work.

I busted a Rush tourney quite early, but was also playing a $3 PLO Six-Max Rebuy tournament. Although I was in for five rebuys, I had a better than average stack after the rebuy period was over with Donnie also still in. We ended up being seated on the same table for quite a while which was pretty funny as I held the chip lead with 45 players remaining of the starting 77. Once there were about 29 players left, I lost a couple of big pots here and there and slipped back to around fifth only to see Donnie exit when I guy – that I proceeded to berate afterwards – called off a pot raise preflop and then a pot-sized shove on the flop for 80% of his stack with just a straight draw for the wheel.

With only eight players cashing, I doubled a couple of short-stacks up when we were twelve-handed, and consequently had to grind the short-stack on the bubble. I then managed to find two massive double ups after flopping the nut full twice against two players and doubling in the first before eliminating the guy that busted Donnie in the second to take the chip lead into the final table with 40% of the chips in play.

Unfortunately after losing one, I played a massive pot holding K♥ K♠ 9♥ 4♦ against A♥ A♠ J♣ 8♠ after I raised, he potted, and I put him all in. The board ran out 6♥ 9♦ 9♣ Q♠ 10♠ to see the suck, re-suck cost me a chip stack of well over half the chips in play.

Not letting it deter me, I still continued to open fairly regularly to pick up the blinds while also making some sneaky check-raises in blind-on-blind battles with the virtual nuts. I still managed to lose some crucial pots to prevent me returning to my once powerful stack, and consequently when I reached heads-up play, I was nearly a three-to-one underdog in chips.

I managed to take a few dints out of his stack, but he pushed back a couple of times to see me slip back to a three-to-one underdog before this final hand occurred.

Seat 1: tRaMSt0p (90,516)
Seat 3: molchun17 (305,984)
tRaMSt0p posts the small blind of 5,000
molchun17 posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #1
Dealt to tRaMSt0p 8♥ J♥ 7♣ 7♥

tRaMSt0p raises to 22,500
molchun17 calls 12,500
*** FLOP *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠

molchun17 checks
tRaMSt0p checks
*** TURN *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠ 4♠

molchun17 bets 22,500
tRaMSt0p raises to 68,016, and is all in
molchun17 calls 45,516
tRaMSt0p shows 8♥ J♥ 7♣ 7♥

molchun17 shows 9♣ 7♠ 5♠ 4♥

*** RIVER *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠ 4♠ 9♥

tRaMSt0p shows a full house, Sevens full of Nines
molchun17 shows a full house, Nines full of Sevens
molchun17 wins the pot (181,032) with a full house, Nines full of Sevens

With the final hand occurring around 5:30am, I was fairly disappointed not to take it down and top off a good day, but will take the $159 for 2nd/77 players.

As I mentioned in my last post, I would hopefully have something interesting to post here related to poker . . . and now I do!

I recently made a deposit on Absolute Poker to take advantage of 30% rakeback and supposedly soft players. With a fair chunk of money on PKR, it sucks because I can’t play on that site while I’m still over in Las Vegas – and not wanting to play on PokerStars or Full Tilt – I decided to choose Absolute Poker for some low-stakes cash game grinding.

Starting at just 10NL and 25NL to get use to the software and the players, I’ve noticed that the players are incredibly weak-passive, with the majority of them being terrible short-stack players. The one adjustment I have made in my game is opening my range when entering the pot with a raise, because it is so easy to pick up the blind, and if you eventually get some action, you can easily outplay them on the flop or turn. As for the short-stackers, I’ve noticed that they will often call off a good percentage of their stack preflop and simply check-fold to the majority of c-bets. When they shove over your open however, it is normally the nuts!

With Donnie playing a heavy MTT schedule, and GG moving over to sit-n-gos, they both managed to lure me back to the tournament grind also. I had back-to-back cashes in the Absolute nightly Sniper 3k GTD KO, where I finished 61st yesterday and 40th/667 tonight when I shoved my Aces from the small blind for 12k (at 500-1,000) over the under the gun’s open of 2,275 with J♠ 10♠. He called it off (el oh el) and flopped a straight draw, turned a pair then rivered two-pair. First was $800-ish, so it was pretty disappointing to bust for a virtual min-cash.

Donnie, Me and GG grinding online . . . degens we are!

I ran deep in a PLO rebuy, but got bounced a few levels from the money when my A-A-Q-J was all in on the flop of 10-9-3 against Q-J-10-7 and K-Q-J-2. The turn landed an Ace and the river a 7 to send me crashing out in a pot that was for the chip lead! There is a $11 Rush 135-player tournament that we’ve all been mucking round with, and I final tabled one of them the other day; but was denied a win when my 7♦7s couldn’t hold against Ace-10. However it was the $10+1 $9,500 KO GTD today that really broke my spirits!

After winning a huge pot when my A♠ K♠ made a flush against Kings, I began playing a Carter Phillips-esque poker of raising nearly every hand to build a stack, before taking down this pot.

Then a few hands later, I made a straight on the turn, but my opponent bet-folded from the blinds before this hand went down a few hands after that.

As we approached the money (189 of the 1,875), I was looking to improve my already top-ten chip stack so I could have a good crack at the $3k-plus first prize. Unfortunately, I would play this pot out – which if I won – would have lauched me to the chip lead with a five-time average stack!

I did manage to sneak into the money and eventually bust in 81st place for a $32 payday (courtesy of a few KOs) after my 6♥ 2♥ went down to 10♠ 6♠ on a 6♣ K♠ 6♦ 10♥ 8♦ in a blind-on-blind battle after all the money went in on the turn.

Although I’ve been wanting to focus on cash, playing tournaments with the boys have got me back into the grind that so many people seem to love.

I’m not sure if I’ll continue with it on a full scale effect, but probably will dabble a little when the cash games are running on the low side . . . don’t worry, I’ll keep you updated on all the bad beats I deliver and am delivered in return!

I didn’t blog about it, but the other day during the PokerNews Cup I busted my whole Full Tilt Poker account.

It wasn’t that much – just a few hundred dollars that had been owed to me a while back – that I had been using to play cash games and the occasional sit-n-go. However the night I went busto it was like a DOOMSWITCH had been flicked.

I was completely bored and decided to open up a Matrix tourney (four sit-n-go’s at once with points being allocated on finishing place on each table with a piece of the prizepool being paid out to the top three finishers) and proceeded to bust on all four on the first hand. It was just unbelievable – I wasn’t just shipping any old hand, but was actually dealt hands; Ace-King on one, Queens on another, straight and flush draw on another and two pair on the final one. GG Matrix!

Not really on tilt, but just surprised, I attempted to sit down at a HORSE or 7-game ring game but nothing was running. Instead I found a $2-4 HORSE heads-up table with a guy sitting down with just $60, and consequently decided to join him . . . BAD MOVE!

I proceeded to lose every pot against him. In Holdem I would have him dominated Ace-Queen to Queen Jack on a Queen-high flop, but somehow a Jack would fall everytime! I would brick every nut low draw in Omaha Hi-Lo, and all my high hands would be run down somehow. In Razz I would have an six-five and he would hit a runner-runner six-four to scoop, and this continued in the Stud orbits too.

After donating somewhere near $150 to him, I just headed to a No Limit Holdem table and proceeded to move all in every hand hoping to get lucky and double, or just bust my account and end the night . . . result . . . busted account!

Consequently with no desire to deposit on Full Tilt I’ve just been playing the Australian Poker Hero freerolls until recently discovering the FTP’s tournaments and sit-n-go’s.

With seats into the $750k Guaranteed being given away for as little as 40 FTP, I decided that it would be a good test to see if I could not only win one of these FTP satellites but also cash in the tournament to start rebuilding my bankroll.

After numerous final tables in both the freerolls and FTP satellites, I eventually reaped some reward when I finished runner-up in a 50 FTP satellite, before winning a 40 FTP SupTurbo Satellite to see me win a seat into the $250,000 GTD in a week where first prize is at least US$26,250.

Hopefully I can turn just 40FTP into some nice and welcomed MOOLAH after besting an 1135-player field in the 300-starting bank super turbo!

Another day in Macau and another glorious sleep in!

Today we all checked into the Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16, but before I did, I decided to have a shower in the six-headed master bedroom shower.

Once I finished, Van returned to the room on a serious case of tilt! After losing in the cash games, he dumped a shit load on Baccarat and consequently loaded up four PLO tables on Full Tilt.

After getting changed I walked over to sweat him, but he asked me to leave as he doesn’t like people sweating him when he plays really high – obviously due to the fact that he was a little tilted.

A few minutes went by before he called me back into his room to check out a hand. Van held 10♠ 8♠ 8♥ 2♥ on a flop of 8♦ 5♠ 2♠ and got his whole stack in against TREX313 or Urindanger (can’t remember) with him drawing to just one out holding red Kings.

Van vacated his chair and started pacing the room waiting for the outcome.

”Tell me what happens Timmy . . . one time hold up!”

As I sat staring at the screen, the cards lagged before it went brick brick to see Van ship the 100k pot to be unstuck for the day . . . and have me in awe!

I checked into room 1135 at the Sofitel and everyone, minus Lynn and Craig as they were doing some preliminary filming, all met in my room to discuss what our plans were. With happy hour being free for GG, Heath and Kirsty due to their booking, we decided to head upstairs to chat about the hot topic at the moment – the transformations at PokerNews.

Basically we came to an agreement that I would be taking over next year, but I thought it would be better if I sat at the bottom of the hierarchy, and basically turned it down.

GG, Heath and I decided we needed to scratch our gambling itch and found a three card Baccarat game where it plays the same as normal, but instead you receive three cards and there is no draw. Also there is no tie, with the high card winning, and everyone that plays a box gets a hand.

I sat out (wisely) as GG and Heath lost HK$1,000 each before heading to a real Baccarat table.

GG began an epic battle with an old Asian guy by betting the opposite to whatever he would. GG started on a losing streak before betting player and squeezing out a natural eight and slamming it down. The Asian guy slowly squeezed out his cards before looking up at GG and saying, “bye bye” and rolling over natural nine.

It would be an understatement to say that GG was mad!

Eventually GG would be in for HK$6,000 on this HK$100 table, but after finding some run-good he would break even and retire to the room along with Heath. I quickly lost my HK$3,000 in a matter of three hands and joined Heath for an intense heads-up match . . . at least I won that!

As most of you know, I won my seat to the 2009 Melbourne Poker Championships Main Event via a $50+5 satellite . . . and today is D-DAY!

After being hooked up with a swag of Full Tilt gear, I geared up, stuck some patches on my Tilted Behaviour jumper and made my way downstairs to tackle the felt. Once at my table, I was seated with a fellow online qualifier, as well as Eugene Poudel, Joe Cabret and ‘Carwash’ George Cotaidis along with fellow PokerNetworker’s Luke ‘Eddy’ Edwards and John ‘JCSydney’ Caridad (on my right and left respectively).

With a 20,000-chip starting bank and 40-minute levels and an expected 800-plus field I was always going to try and chip up and give myself the best chance of collecting a payout just that little bigger then Heath’s from the other day! However things didn’t get off to a good start when I made it 175 after a limper holding A♣ K♦. Joe Cabret bumped it to 475 from the small blind, and once the limper passed I made it 1,350 to go. Cabret then pushed it further to 3,750 total and I was put to a decision. My thinking was that if I six-bet to say 8,000 I can probably make Jacks and worst fold; however due to the Repechage nature of the tournament Cabret may gamble.

I eventually mucked and received a tap on the back (from myself) as Cabret later said he had Kings. Near the end of the level I missed a straight draw with two over’s in a raised pot and finished the first level with 17,425.

I opened the first pot of the 50-100 level with 5♣ 5♠ and folded on the flop, however next hand I was dealt 9♥ 9♣ and continued my typically laggy approach opening to 250. Cabret was my only caller on the button and when the 9♠ 3♠ 2♥ flop fell he called by 325-chip bet. When the 5♦ fell on the turn I didn’t give him too much credit for a straight, but knew he was capable of making a play if he sensed weakness. Consequently I lead out for around half pot to 600, and was near immediately raised to 2,600. I wanted to get as much money in the pot as possible from Cabret if he was bluffing, and unless I filled up I wasn’t planning on raising. I splashed the pot with my call and when the K♥ came on the river I quickly checked before Cabret made it 3,000 to go. I called and raked in the pot to push over 23,000 when Cabret tabled his losing K♦ Q♦.

I played Jacks out of the big blind really bad when an all diamond Ace-high flop fell, and let the preflop raiser take the pot holding a smaller pair with a straight-draw and position. In the next level I took down a nice pot when I flatted Cabret on the button with K♠ K♣ with Caridad also coming along from the small blind. The flop of K♦ Q♦ 9♣ was checked to me to see my bet of 1,100 only called by Caridad. I think I may have missed some (to a lot) of value here when we both checked the 3♥ on the turn to see the 5♠ land on the river. I was soft so I just called his 3,500-chip bet on the river to see him table A♦ 8♦ for a busted flush draw.

Now up to 30,000 I was dealt A♣ J♦ on the final hand before the break and opened to 500 finding two callers including ‘Carwash’ George Cotaidis. The flop fell down A♠ 8♠ J♥ and my 1,200 bet was called just by Cotaidis, and when the 6♥ fell on the turn he also called by 3,500-chip bet. The river landed the 3♠ and I checked, as did Cotaidis. Now thinking I was definitely good I rolled my cards only to be shocked to see Cotaidis table a set of eights as I slipped to 23,000.

The next level I barely played a hand until the final one when I limped behind three other limpers holding Q♥ 10♥ in the cutoff. Caridad bumped it up to 1,600, and once everyone passed, I made the call. The flop fell down A♦ 8♥ 9♦ and I checked to Caridad who fired for 3,000. Yeah yeah I understand all I have is a gutshot, but I really felt I was ahead in the hand and decided to call and float, while also planning on taking the pot away from him on the turn. I really didn’t like the K♣ on the turn and checked to Caridad who moved all in for around 9,000. I tanked for over four minutes debating to call with just Queen-high . . . and let me say for the record that I was not Hollywooding! Eventually I mucked after my kahuna’s shrunk up into my stomach . . . and they kept going when Caridad tabled J♦ 10♦ for just Jack-high (but with a massive combo-draw)!

Now down to 17,000 I missed my nut flush draw against a 10-high flush draw; however he rivered a pair to take the pot. On the final hand of the level I folded top pair when a player put me all in for tournament life, and after getting called time on me I folded for him to show me an over-pair of kings. During the 200-400 (25) level I stole a few blinds and ante’s to see me sneak my 12,000-chip stack into the 300-600 (50) level. Five hands in Cotaidis min-raised in middle position and was met with one call before Edwards made it 5,200 out of the small blind. I looked down at A♣ A♦ in the big blind, stacked my chips, checked them once more and slid my stack in. Cotaidis and the caller folded as Edwards stated, “I have to call” and tabled Q♠ Q♥. The flop of course brought a queen and I headed to the rail!

Melbourne Poker Championships – Main Event Chip Stack Graph

Overall I was fairly happy with the way I played. I got unlucky in the end, but that’s just poker for you, and it didn’t bother me too much.

I think that keeping a live hand history, although time consuming, is still a benefit and aid to improving my game as I have an avenue of review. I can see which levels I may be leaking chips and which I need to pick things up. Hopefully one day it may be a several day hand history that includes a final table, a tournament win and a nice WSOP bracelet.

Make sure to keep checking Tilted Behaviour as we wrap up the Melbourne Championships with the conclusion of the Main Event as well as my Eight Steps of Enlightenment and near-daily recaps from the 2009 World Series of Poker!

Around 11 months or so ago Full Tilt decided to close my online account due to alleged multi-accounting because my backer logged in from Malaysia while I was in the middle of five tournaments! We got the money back, but the timing couldn’t have been worse as I was just finding my groove online with two consecutive 750k guarantee cashes and three locked up FTOPS seats.

My backer and I moved on, but haven’t played online since with any real purpose (with an occasional $50 deposit here and there chasing bonuses and promotions). With The Race To 10k heating up and my increased involved in ChipMeUp I decided that I needed to get some money online to dabble back in the 12-tabling of old!

With US$1,000 on Full Tilt and people snapping up my stakes on ChipMeUp, a steady stream of deposits came trickling into my accounts. Consequently I decided to try and get most of them into my PokerStars account after reading an article in the recent Bluff USA edition about satelliting to the WSOP via the PokerStars Step Satellites. These Step Satellites are basically a series of SNG’s starting as cheap as $7.50, where the first / final prize is a package to a desired tournament; and in this case the 2009 World Series of Poker.

So far I’ve been somewhat successful cashing at a rate of 55% reaching a single Step 3 (sigh – busted early when I ran second nut flush into full house and then A♠ K♠ into Kings and eventually pushed with A-9 and lost a flip), along with a handful of Step 2′s after 18 games.

PokerStars Step Satellites Lobby

People say that playing online can be a real grind and I definitely agree. Accordingly I’m only loading a few tables at once and only playing when I feel in a good mood. I have to admit that I’m playing these SNG’s (disregarding how easy people say the first few steps are) really well, making very few, if any, mistakes so far. Hopefully in the coming weeks I can start to pick things up and make that $2,100 Step 6 and take down an entry into my second WSOP!

I decided to sit down and watch a movie the other night and settled on Step Up 2: The Streets from the limited collection Foxtel was able to provide to me at 3am. Basically its a sequel to Step Up about some kids that dance in crews and basically bust some cool moves.

I’m not going to bore you with the plot and how the two main characters fall in love in the final scene, but instead show you the coolest part of the movie (in my opinion). Adam Sevani plays Robert “Moose” Alexander III, and for his portrayal was praised by The New York Times as being “the baddest nerd in movie history”. In the following scene he busts out a freestyle dance to one of my favourite songs on the steps of his school – whether you think its lame or not, for us old-timers some classic Michael Jackson at the end blows the scene up!

Moose Stair Dance

I think nearly everyone that will at one point read a word on this site probably can’t dance (just like me), but you have to admit that there is some appreciation for these hip-hop / crank / RnB / freestyle dancers that can just pull moves whenever they want to put us non-dancing robots to shame!

Yeah, your eyes are probably rolling at how lame you think it is that I like a ‘dance’ movie but don’t worry the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series starts on Sunday, so it will be back to poker from here on in!