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August 21, 2010, 12PM:
Played 9 hours,
Lost $1,100.00
at Crown - Melbourne
$500 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (67th out of 388 Players)
 if you bust out on day1 flight1, you can come back on day1 flight2 and play again. so in flight1, i played really well, built up my stack then ran so so bad. every time i put chips in the middle someone had a monster hand. it was so sick. i had to lay down JJ twice preflop. and i was right both times but somehow that doesnt make me feel any better. so i getting low near the end of the day. 4 passive players limp for 800. i have A8s on the button and shove 9100. thats a pretty good spot imo. the first limper nearly jumps out of his seat to call for 80% of his stack. normally when someone does this they have limped with a monster like aces or kings. not this tard. 77. i lose.
the next day come back and try again. i get exactly zero hands to play. this is how bad i run. one guy limps for 200, he had been limping with anything, total trash. it folds to me in the bb and i raise for value against this guy to 650 with KQs. flop is Q33. i bet 800, he calls. turn is a king. i bet 1500, he min raises to 3000. i call, alarm bells ringing, annoyance growing. river 7. i check, he betting a paltry 2000, i call. he shows me 34o. noce limp utg +1. get moved to a new table. no hands, so it sit back and watch these 2 overagro young guys raising and reraising everybody with garbage and folding to 4 bets. so i get JJ utg and raise to 1200, the first youngguy calls. it folds to the 2nd youngguy and he 3bets to 3500. against another player i would probably fold, but he had been doing this about every other hand, so i jam for 7800 total. he thinks, asks for a count and then calls with KK. i of course dont suck out. then the table admonishes him for slowrolling me. he looks confused, so on my way out i explain to him that when you know you have the best hand, and you know that you're going to call, it is improper etiquette to act slowly, giving the other player false hope. he doesnt seem to really grasp what we are telling him and now forever will be labeled an imbecile asshole by me...but how shitty is it that the only time he has the goods is against me. god i run so bad.
and another rant. i've been watching alot of poker being played in front of me while i sit and fold the past couple of weeks, and it i've noticed that the players that are winners, in tournies and cash, just run better than everyone else. i am almost never impressed by any of these guys. they just always have better hand. people who run like me sit around and wait for good hand, and when it comes, the people who run like them have a better one. consistently. for example this young kid named brandon rubie. nice kid, not an asshole. has won some tournies over here for good chunck o change. i watched him at my table the other day, and he always had the goods. in back2back hands he flopped the nut flsh vs a smaller flopped flush, then got AA vs AK and stacked them both. that never happens for me. sure i might flop a flush every so often, but nobody else has smaller one to pay me off. and i get aces about as much as anyone else. like yesterday i had them 3 times and kings 3 times, and on 5 of those 6 hands, i didnt even get any callers preflop and the other time i made like $50. no action for me. they say that in a lifetime, everyone is as lucky as everyone else; that it all evens out over time. but i dont think this is correct. in my observation, some people just run a little better than average and some a little worse over a lifetime. and thats how things become even. theres only so much luck to go around, so some people just get the short end of the stick.
Last Update: September 8, 2010, 1:52AM
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September 8, 2010, 1AM:
Played 1 hour, 38 minutes,
Made $1.66
at full tilt rush
$0.10 Pot-Limit Omaha
 was stuck about 30 for a while, not sure what I was doing, playing a ton of pots and getting into spots I didn't need to be. finally tightened up and got on track, hit a pretty lucky pot to get close to even, I have AKJ6 double suited, flop nut flush draw and wrap on Q 10 x flop, turn is K, I check raise guy and he shoves...shows a monster as well A J 10 10, but I find the club to drag it. Then I flop middle set against this total ramming moron, guy had check raised me a few hands earlier all in, I had naked A on flushed board and couldn't call him, this time he calls my flop raise with no draw, only top pair top kicker, turn gives him open ender and he shoves it in and I dodge to get my monster win here.
Statistics for 1263 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 370 29%
Turn 205 16%
River 139 11%
Showdown 97 8%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 19 2% 2%
Flop 36 10% 3%
Turn 16 8% 1%
River 15 11% 1%
Showdown 52 54% 4%
Last Update: September 8, 2010, 1:42AM
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September 7, 2010, 2AM:
Played 1 hour, 22 minutes,
Made $15.79
at full tilt rush
$0.10 Pot-Limit Omaha
was basically treading water most of the session...did take another shitty beat early in the session...in bb folded to sb who raises, I have AQJJ, flop is J 10 4, check to me I pot he calls, turn 4 he checks I pot he calls, river K, he insta pots, I type in KK? it's that or stone cold garbage, I call the 5.40 and he has KK86. Then I finally hit a big pot, I have QQxx in position and call a raise, one of the blinds comes with...flop is Q J 4 with diamond draw, preflop raiser pots, I raise, the guy in blind shoves for 10, the other guy shoves for about 15, well tough to fold the current nuts..the blind has K1087 with 3 diamonds, the other guy has QJ109 for top two open ender, turn brick 5 and river is a 4 for 41.59 pot. I was up another 6 or 7 bucks, but I had a hand I just didn't want to gamble in, I have A998, it's raised pre and I call in position, my stack at that table is about 50, guy in hand with me has 45, flop is A 9 8, he pots out I raise and he repops to 11. I am figuring he has the case A's or something like Q J 10, I decided to hold onto my win instead of gambling up, would hate to dump 45 in one pot.
Statistics for 982 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 287 29%
Turn 170 17%
River 118 12%
Showdown 73 7%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 17 2% 2%
Flop 19 7% 2%
Turn 17 10% 2%
River 24 20% 2%
Showdown 40 55% 4%
Last Update: September 7, 2010, 2:15AM
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September 5, 2010, 10AM:
Played 8 hours
at Rama
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
33 in HJ. 2 limpers, I limp, co limps, blinds comp and check. Flop: 346 two spades. Checked to me, I check cause I see co sizing a bet. He bets 10, 1 caller, I raise to 25. I raised him intentionally because I check raised him twice off his handin the last 1.5 orbits, and I want him to be tired of it and re-raise me light. But co calls, and we're heads up. Turn 5o. I bet 25, co min raises to $50. I smooth call, quitely begging for the board to pair. River: Ko. When I called turn raise I decided I'm gonna check fold any non board pairing card. But I think for a min, and decide to make a blocking bet because he doesn't have a lot of money left(about 85) and I want him to know I'm pot committed. I make it $35, and he stacks his chips up and shoves. I think for a bit, but I know he's a very tight player, and he can't think I'm folding any big hand. I eventually muck, but the dealer accidentally exposes my set. Grrr!
I have AJ 4 times in first 2 hours, and flop at least an ace(if not aj or trips) all 4 times. Every time, I bet it all the way, and get sucked out on the river. FML. down $400 early
J♥10♣ in MP, a few limpers before and after me. 8 see a flop. Flop QJ10 2 hearts. Ep bets out 12, 1 caller, I raise to 45 trying to define my hand and get any flush draws with no money in the pot to fold. Original ep pushes to 79, orig caller calls, I shove to 160ish. He calls. I'm up against KQ and QJ. It comes runner runner hearts, and I win a pot I had no business in winning.
QQ in BB. 6 limpers to me, and I raise to 16, get 4 callers. Flop Q109 2 diamonds. I bet out 30, get 2 callers. Turn Ao. I bet out 60, get raised all in to 120ish. I call, she shows a9 of diamonds, and doesn't improve.
A♣2♣ utg. I decide to mix it up and raise to 11. Get 4 callers. Flop: K22 2 diamonds. I bet out 35, get 1 caller. Turn 6o, I bet 65, utg+1 pushes for 100, and I snap call he shows k5 and doesn't improve.
I know all these hands I end up winning...but I don't remember the specs of the hands where I got out drawn, or when I 3 barreled into a monster. All in all my reads weren't too good on this day, and luck wasn't on my side too often. Perhaps its because I haven't played in 2 weeks.
Last Update: September 6, 2010, 5:29PM
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September 5, 2010, 11PM:
Played 4 hours, 30 minutes
at Planet Hollywood
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Fun fun night playing at a table full of drunk tourists. The first hour I burned through 4 buyins. I need to remember how weak all in can look against a reg. I knew he was weak but he called me light. Then switched tables and found the drunk table. Got luckboxed a few more times but stuck it out because the table was so awesome... Started experimenting with using psychology to say the right things to make people fold/call. I've been pretty successful so far. There was a hand where i had Q9c and the flop came Q96 w/ one club two spades. Check in front of me, I bet big, close to the pot, and he calls. I narrow his range down to slowplaying a set, flush draw, or open ended. Turn is a blank club, I bet about 1/3 the pot and this time he min raises. I now think he has a set. RIver comes another club making my weak 9 high flush. He leads out with close to the size of the pot and it just doesn't make sense. There is no way he would have continued this far without having hit the flop hard which meant there was no way he could have any clubs in his hand. I called TID. I was happy for thinking through the hand and not just being scared of how weak my flush was.
Last Update: September 6, 2010, 4:09PM
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September 6, 2010, 2AM:
Played 1 hour, 48 minutes,
Made $1.52
at full tilt rush
$0.10 Pot-Limit Omaha
had been running pretty smooth til this one...took 3 hideous beats all 20 or more in the pots...all 3 times I am WAY ahead when it gets in...one time I have 78910, raised pre, couple callers, 8 8 3 flop, I check raise original raiser he shoves on me with AA and spikes one on the turn...next one same deal, I have QQ, flop is Q J 3, guy gets it in with KKJ8, turn J river K. Last one wasn't quite as bad, somewhat legit I guess, I have AA and limp to a button raise in the blind, I also have 5 9 of spades, flop comes down A Q 4 with A of spades and one of the others as well, I fire pot at it get raised and shove...he has K Q 10 10 nut spades gutshot and the spade peels of the turn. I really felt like I was playing well to overcome all that bullshit and somehow make a little bit. Did have one sweet hand, I was ahead the whole way, but the guy thought he caught a river card, I have KKQQ double suited on button and pot it pre, bb calls, flop is 9 10 J with J 10 of one of my suits, I pot whole way and catch a 9 of clubs on river to str. flush up, he checks to me on river I pot and he raises the little bit we both had and shows 10 10.
Statistics for 1376 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 385 28%
Turn 226 16%
River 156 11%
Showdown 112 8%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 37 3% 3%
Flop 34 9% 2%
Turn 25 11% 2%
River 16 10% 1%
Showdown 67 60% 5%
Last Update: September 6, 2010, 2:40AM
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September 5, 2010, 9AM:
Played 1 hour, 9 minutes,
Made $18.55
at full tilt rush
$0.10 Pot-Limit Omaha
had another 10 or so up, got in this hand against a button raiser, flop came all raggedy and I assumed they had an overpair, for some reason I decided I was gonna make them lay it down and tried a check raise flop then turn and river bet bluff with absolutely no hand and no draw...called all 3 including about 3 bucks on the river with KK. After that I went on a little run of playing too many hands, so I was happy to get to my points goal and quit. Was still pretty tired this morning. Started out great, won a 20 buck pot right away to get winner, then got stupid lucky but it's not a hand I could've ever folded, but I certainly didn't need to get in behind...I have A6JJ nut hearts, flop is K J x with 2 hearts, sb pots I repot he calls, turn is brick, he pots it out at me I jam it up and he gets in with me for about 15 total...AAKK in his hand, whoops, but the 3 of hearts bails me out on the river.
Statistics for 1020 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 244 24%
Turn 147 14%
River 110 11%
Showdown 68 7%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 17 2% 2%
Flop 24 10% 2%
Turn 9 6% 1%
River 17 15% 2%
Showdown 37 54% 4%
Last Update: September 5, 2010, 10:02AM
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September 4, 2010, 11PM:
Played 2 hours
at Mirage
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
interesting hand... I limp UTG, guy to my left raises to 10, two callers, I pop to 40. original raiser hesitates then calls, his remaining stack is about equivalent to the pot... i decide to push no matter what the flop is. flop comes QQT, as I'm reaching for my chips slowly, he puts his chips in first and says you were going to put me all in anyway. Wow what a good move, he like mad jacked my initiative. I didn't know the rule if I were to go all in if he would be obligated to call at that point. I had 7 high so I could only push if there was fold equity. I checked and he maintained his bet and I mucked. He showed AK. After that I was on tilt for a while and donked off 1.5 buyins. Ended up for the session, barely.
Last Update: September 5, 2010, 4:56AM
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September 4, 2010, 2AM:
Played 1 hour, 15 minutes,
Made $23.28
at full tilt rush
$0.10 Pot-Limit Omaha
just kinda rollin right now, key hand tonight I get very lucky but not sure I was capable of folding the hand...I have AA37 nut clubs in middle position, I limp...sb raises pot I call...flop is 4 5 K with two clubs, he pots I call, turn is A, he checks, I am praying he has KK here so I pot, he insta pots to 9, I have 14 and change left and shove it on in there...he rolls over the 2 3 5 6 , but before the puke gets all the way to the top of my mouth the 5 peels off to fill me up. had it up about 8 more bucks, but took a beat very last hand of the session where I flop nut str. with a wrap to a bigger str. with str. flush draw and get run down by bottom set, I made a big bet on turn that he had no business calling, river hit and he only had .46 left so despite my strong desire to throw it away I made sure to look at the garbage, oh well.
Statistics for 968 Hands
Street Saw Saw/Total
Flop 277 29%
Turn 156 16%
River 109 11%
Showdown 71 7%
Street Won Won/Saw Won/Total
Pre-flop 25 3% 3%
Flop 31 11% 3%
Turn 12 8% 1%
River 16 15% 2%
Showdown 43 61% 4%
Last Update: September 4, 2010, 2:06AM
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September 1, 2010, 12AM:
Played 3 hours,
Broke Even
at Unabomber Poker
Free-Roll No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (7th out of 91 Players)
 WON 50 GOLD CHIPS
UNABOMBER BOUNTY FREEROLL : What an amazing expieriance I played with Phil"Unabomber"Laak tonight he sat next to me for more than two and a half hours we traded blows a few times , I shoved with KK and then AA , I caught a set of tens all in for 17k that put me in 3rd at the final table, 10 ppl left and so I was anxious to get Phil in a hand , He was at 7k in 7th place , The very next hand I was UTG blinds were 1000/2000 I think , I had JT off easy fold its a tight game and I dont want to lose chips , Right behind me Phil shoves, Im like damn it ! I would had like to seen a flop at least against him. The big stack at the table called with K8 ,Phil Laak had A5 , Flop came all trash to make a long story short I would had won the hand with a pair of tens and taken him out myself , Unabomber Laak was taken out by chip leader in 10th place , I was in awe for a few hours I will be back Phil Laak and we will get that head up I have been dreaming about. Bucket list !
Just weeks removed from a high-profile ATV mishap, Phil Laak and his online poker site, Unabomber Poker, will host a special Unabomber Bounty Freeroll on August 31st. As its name implies, the player who knocks out Laak from his very own tournament takes home a prize, an autographed Unabomber hoodie.
Laak has been preoccupied with recouping from his accident that occurred on August 5th in the wilds of Oregon. He Tweeted on Wednesday to his 11,000-plus followers, “Today I figured out a way to lay on my stomach. Divine. Manana getting new cast to isolate the wrist smash deal. PT on elbow then begins.” Laak posted a multitude of images of the accident and added via Twitter, “Jennifer is the best. Cuddling with her is better for the pain then even my Percocet pain medicine.” Cute.
Despite the swag up for grabs, text found in an e-mail distributed to the media last week cautioned, “The receipt of the sweatshirt might be somewhat delayed due to the fact that Laak also broke his writing hand.” The top seven finishers on the Unabomber Bounty Freeroll will receive Gold Chips as an added bonus for playing, with the amount ranging from 50 Gold Chips for seventh to 300 for first. Registration for the Unabomber Bounty Freeroll will open 60 minutes prior to its 8:00pm ET start time.
Laak broke down his injury in the same press release and then found time to talk smack about the August 31st bounty tournament on Unabomber Poker: “I easily could have lost my eye or had soup for brains. I got lucky and only have seven broken bones in my arm and 34 stitches around my eye. With Nurse Jennifer taking care of me well, I now have plenty of time now for online poker. While I am definitely battered and bruised physically, my brain is razor sharp. Just try and take me down on August 31st.”
Laak is fresh off setting the world record for longest continuous poker session at 115 hours in June at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. His lively personality and propensity for prop betting has landed him airtime on several of the industry’s staple television shows, including NBC’s “Poker After Dark” and GSN’s “High Stakes Poker.”
Laak won the Season 2 World Poker Tour (WPT) Invitational at the Commerce Casino for $100,000, one of three WPT final tables for “The Unabomber.” He’s made one final table during his World Series of Poker (WSOP) career, lodging a second place finish in a $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em event five years ago for $156,000. He won the 2009 PartyPoker World Open for $250,000 and has two victories in “Poker After Dark” tournaments.
Unabomber Poker is a card-carrying member of the Cake Poker Network, whose roster of sites includes Cake Poker, DoylesRoom, and Power Poker. The Network is the 16th largest worldwide in terms of real money ring game traffic, boasting a seven-day running average of 850 cash game players according to PokerScout.com. The Network’s sites gladly accept players from the United States.
Laak and Victory Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari Tweeted throughout the ATV ordeal, keeping their jovial spirits despite the circumstances. Numerous pictures were submitted via Twitter, including several memorable ones of Laak lying battered, bruised, and shirtless in a hospital bed.
Visit Unabomber Poker for more information. All of us here at Poker News Daily wish Laak a speedy road to recovery.
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Last Update: September 3, 2010, 4:51AM
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