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December 2008 Log Entries

December 22, 2008, 7PM: Played 6 hours, 36 minutes at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em

Played Stellar.
 
I had my game pretty mixed up for most of the night.  One Bad situation that I ran into, I have QQ, and there is a raise to 7 right before me and I make it 27, there is a caller.  The previous raiser maxes it out the pot at 300, I almost layed it down as I kinda thought he might have a KK or AA.  But then I thought for the other caller was going to call the rest also costing me only 72 more, I would get close to the odds to draw to the 2 outter, and then again he might have JJ or TT.  I was wrong all around, the other guy mucked his hand to the raise and the raiser had AA.  Oops.
 
To see if im right, I needed to be at least a 24% favorite (underdog) to win the hand to call the 72.  Being wrong I needed to be a least a 36% favorite (underdog) to get the right odds.  At best scenario (2 live flush draws) Im a 19% underdog to win the hand, take in 5% that I might have the best hand I get my 24%. Odds of AA vs QQ mixed suits
 
Most of the time I let hands that like rattle me, It had me rattled for a round or two, in which I didnt even play a hand, sat out a little bit to go smoke.  I came back focused again, peeled off a couple chips and then proceeded to pick up another 300 to my win.
 
One key to my win was being focused, trying to avoid situations of big pots, which become crap shoots with the 300 pot limit.  Continually played for small pots.  Played confident, a flaw (not playing confident) that has been contributing to my losing sessions lately.  I didnt set a win goal.  Seems like every time I set a mark to try and win, I will lose at least twice that much.

Last Update: December 23, 2008, 2:58PM | Permalink

December 16, 2008, 2PM: Played 45 minutes at Poker Stars
$24 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 9 Players)

Ran into the idiot with qto

Last Update: December 16, 2008, 3:00PM | Permalink

December 16, 2008, 2PM: Played 45 minutes at Poker Stars
$11 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (43rd out of 72 Players)

Im a donk

Last Update: December 16, 2008, 2:52PM | Permalink

December 16, 2008, 1PM: Played 1 hour, 30 minutes at Poker Stars
$11 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 99 Players)

$11 + $10 + $10 For the tournament.
 
Satellite for Sun Million....Taking the $215 in tournament $ to parlay.
 
Paid 14 Holes

Last Update: December 16, 2008, 1:40PM | Permalink
77 Hands Attached to this Entry

December 15, 2008, 8PM: Played 4 hours, 45 minutes at Poker Stars
$11 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (83rd out of 2187 Players)

Busted in the typical scenario.  QQ vs AK........vs AK,
Click here for odds
Click here for the Hand History of that hand
 
Winning that pot puts me about 10th in chips, which is an excellent position for me to go on and win the thing.
 
Shitty to lose when im roughly a 60% Favorite to triple up.

Last Update: December 16, 2008, 1:54PM | Permalink
286 Hands Attached to this Entry

December 2, 2008, 4AM
Posting Again

I took a sabatical from posting, and I have to say that it was the worst thing for my poker play, I realize that if I review my session again after the night is through it helps my play....
 
I stopped posting cause I was running bad....then all of a sudden running bad started to turn into playing bad....
 
Now that we have the new year approaching, I wanna get back to getting my stats right and getting in the habit of posting again....

Last Update: December 2, 2008, 4:58AM | Permalink

December 2, 2008, 2AM: Played 1 hour, 36 minutes at Lucky Lil's - Butte
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em

A decent win, helps the ego....game was a rammer jammer, after I watched it slow down I decided to take my win and leave.

Last Update: December 2, 2008, 4:53AM | Permalink

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