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March 15, 2008, 11PM: Played 4 hours, 15 minutes, Made $801.64 at FT
$24 Buy-In Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament (2nd out of 209 Players)
I AM GREEN!!!!
Decided to take a stab at this tourney even though my FT bankroll said no. I have been playing PLO very well lately.
My first table was way more aggressive than I would like it to be, but I made a few hands hold and was in the top of the field most of the tourney.
I made a few mistakes along the way, but held my composure and recovered well. Had to watch tables to make the final table, but stayed patient and picked up a few hands along the way. After making the final table in 9th, I was gunning for 4th, as it would have been enough to put my log into the green.
There were 2 big stacks at the final table and I avoided them when necessary and used them to double through a few times. Watched the others fall one by one and found myself heads up. I was about a 9:1 chip dog but held up well for a bit and took a few chips off him. He ended up flopping trip sixes when I had AA, with a majority of my chips in. pre flop.
Last Update: March 15, 2008, 10:51PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 15, 2008, 1PM: Played 8 hours, 33 minutes, Lost $356.00 at Poker Stars
$7.50 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 10 Players)
 These are all my Step Tournaments for Stars I will consolidate the entry for simplicity.
Played in 56 Step 1's so for.
16 1st and 2nds out of 9
5 3rd out of 9
7 4th out of 9
6 5th out of 9
5 6th out of 9
5 7th out of 9
9 8th out of 9
3 9th out of 9
Played 3 Step 2's
1 3rd out of 9
1 6th out of 9
1 8th out of 9
I have;
8 EPT Step 2's
6 APPT Step 2's
1 PCA Step 2's
2 WSOP Steps 2's
0 SAPT Steps
*playing one of them at a time yeilds best results*
Will update this regularly.
Last Update: March 15, 2008, 1:21PM | Permalink (1 Comment)
1872 Hands Attached to this Entry | View Hands
Played with 312 players (# of hands): BongBob (145), Texas Joe (116), TOM 15301 (97), tonidiam (97), Mike Tomczyk (78), Skippykobus (78), killaherni (78), wader225 (78), m@tze (73), Yukao (73) | View Hands to see all 312 players.
March 14, 2008, 9PM: Played 4 hours at Cascades Casino (Langley)
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
 Got drawn out a couple of times and lost my origional $200 buy-in. One with QQ..I stratled...6 callers then on me. I knew knowone was really strong so I put out $100 expecting to win it right now. However, young guy to my right, 19 and 1st night in a casino calls all in for $85 with As5c. Of course flops an A. Next hand, K10 off in the BB with 5 callers I check it. Flop comes down 10 high rainbow. SB (young guy) checks and I bet $15. Folds around to the SB who calls. I basically put him on J10. Turn was a blank and he checks again. I figure with the flush draw coming and him calling I should put out a good bet to either win it now, or make him pay and get the 100 he took off me earlier. I bet out $50 leaving myself with about $45. He calls and the river is a J, he say's "I'll put you all in" I know I'm beat but feel that I had to call. Yup....J10....had him all the way and he would have called no matter what.
Then came back to $375 on a weird hand. In middle position, I'm playing pretty tight the last 15-20 hands, raise $15 with Jh5h. Everyone but the BB folds. The flop comes down Qh 7h 5d. BB leads out and bets $40, I reraise to $80 trying to represent a big hand now. He then pushes all in, then....flips over his cards to reveal Ah8h. $125 to call...I decided to call even it was 50.45% in my favour. Ended up making 2 pair on the turn and the river was a brick.
Last Update: March 15, 2008, 10:56AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 15, 2008, 9AM:
Hand Histrory Improvements
 Just made the first improvements to the hand histories in a while. I'm always afraid of pushing stuff like this out there since I have a hard time making sure I'm chopping up all the hands properly (for each game/site combination), so please be nice if/when you notice bugs...
At any rate, when you upload hand histories, it will now attempt to extract all players' cards so that the hand history shows a summary of what was dealt to each player (whose cards are known) and what the board was. Here are some examples:
Hold'em
Omaha
HORSE
That last one shows that Stud games work (as well as they can). I just hope it works for each site.
As a reminder, we can parse hand histories for Full Tilt, PokerStars, and PartyPoker right now. Obviously we'd like to get other sites' HH working, but someone would have to express desire to upload hand histories from another site first.
I hope you can see where we're going with this. Now that the system cn extract the cards, we can head towards telling you what the odds were, wht a given player's tendencies are, what your own tendencies are, and so on. We just need to link up the odds application with the hand histories...this was one of the main ideas of this site in the beginning. Maybe sometime in the next 5 years it will be as awesome as we all want it to be.
Thanks for being patient, and thanks for using my little toy.
Last Update: March 15, 2008, 9:25AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 13, 2008, 10PM: Played 6 hours, Made $185.00 at Horseshoe
$3 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
 Back to the 1/3 grind I decided...if I had a bad sess I was gonna take a month off this was it. Almost happened.
First big hand raise AJ suited in BB after 4 limps. 2 calls. Flop A84 with 2 hearts. I decide to check since there's a tricky player behind me who might bet for me. Other guy checks, tricky bets 25. I call, other guy folds. I check planning to check raise turn since I'm pretty certain I'm away ahead. Tricky bets 60 on a blank hmmmm...I decide to call and see what he does next. River pretty bad card another 4 that brings third heart. He shoves after my check...I think for few minutes and just think he hasn't represented anything so I make the call it's good.
Flopped J9 top two on a donk with AJ and stacked him off. Bluffed a tight guy next to me when my 2 pair got counterfeited on the river after I called his turn check raise and the top card paired.
Then downhill happened...reraised a dude with AQ and stupidly stacked off on QJ5 all spade flop when he had JJ. Idiotic and lost me 200. Only poorly played pot of the night.
Massively bad hand with KK after a 14 raise and 3 calls. I make it 54, 2 call wow... I shove on JcTd5c flop. Dude calls with KcQc simply amazing that he called off a third of his stack preflop with that and of course is rewarded by turning a disgusting 9. God....Then a donk donked into me for a third of the pot when I raised AT and he called on an Ad8s6s flop. I raised it to 60 and he shoved with KsTs. I called, he rivers flush.
Final big hand my KK held on all unders board vs TT. I really feel good about this session overall. I feel like I played extremely well but got very unlucky in those two huge pots. I think my confidence is baaaack........
Last Update: March 14, 2008, 4:01AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 12, 2008, 9PM: Lost $5.00 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (195th out of 392 Players)
 Blinds 80-160. UTG raises to 480. 4 calls and I am in the SB with JJ. I decide to just call and hope to flop a set. I am getting good enough odds to set-mine, and to try and get the pot heads up preflop would have required a raise to about 3k (1/3 of my stack) which imo is not the best way to go about playing JJ here....especially out of position, and especially with no guarantee that you are getting heads up or not getting 4-bet all in. Flop is 972, two diamonds. I check (in hindsight i could have led and folded to a reraise but i think that i get blown off my hand too many times if i do that to make it profitable) and the orig. raiser also checks which allows me to put him on a big A and for sure not a big pair. checks to a guy in MP who shoves for 9k (into a 3k pot), folds back to me and i think for a decent amount of time before calling. Reasons for calling: i don't think he has a set here and makes that bet...a flush draw is very possible and if thats the case i have to call....also i have seen A9 do this here too often to exclude it from an unknown player's range. other players fold and the all in dude shows A7! weee i am an 81% favorite to more than double to 23k (at 80-160 blinds!) but instead the A peels off on the turn.
I am obv really frustrated right now with the way I have come out in some key pots in tourneys, but I feel like I have played well and if I continue to get in these situations I will have these big stacks more often than not. I have certainly shot myself in the foot a few times, but I am pretty confident that in most of these tourneys i am still seeing everything and making strong, +EV moves so I will keep playin and hopefully a breakthrough is right around the corner.
Last Update: March 12, 2008, 10:01PM | Permalink (1 Comment)
March 12, 2008, 11AM:
Weekend Goals
 Goals for the weekend...
Saturday 3/12:
1100:$69+6 KO
1200:$100+9
330:$50+5
400:$69+6
600:$100+9
700:$69+6
800:$150+13
If I could get into half of these I would be extremely happy. I'm starting with 2 $24 tokens so that is a start. Anyone want to join me? Unfortunately I cannot play Sunday because my group thinks it's a good idea to plan meetings in the middle of the day. I could do my work and give it to them but I don't really trust them. Also, this summer I am going to have all of May off regardless so I should be able to play quite a bit.
Is anyone else besides EightFive, NatePringle, and me interested in the mini-stakes competition? If so, Let's try to plan a date so we can actually get this done.
Love,
King Raj
Last Update: March 12, 2008, 11:36AM | Permalink (5 Comments)
March 12, 2008, 2AM: Played 3 hours, 24 minutes, Made $1,089.90 at Full Tilt Poker
$69 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 45 Players)
 i really won 1179.90 from the small tourney but minus the fee to join and i bought in to a 33 tourney which i got out on AK TO POCKET 88. My running bad came to a stop although i played solid till the money about 5 spots left i was in 3rd got lucky towards the end and won some coin tosses and took the tourney home. I finally ran good.
Hand i won sit n go with
Full Tilt Poker Game #5602774990: $69 + $6 Sit & Go (42637813), Table 1 - 1000/2000 - No Limit Hold'em - 5:22:26 ET - 2008/03/12
Seat 6: kanaman28 (4,472)
Seat 9: The Good Life11 (63,028)
The Good Life11 posts the small blind of 1,000
kanaman28 posts the big blind of 2,000
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to The Good Life11 [8h 6h]
The Good Life11 raises to 6,000
kanaman28 calls 2,472, and is all in
The Good Life11 shows [8h 6h]
kanaman28 shows [Ac 8s]
Uncalled bet of 1,528 returned to The Good Life11
*** FLOP *** [4h 3c 6c]
*** TURN *** [4h 3c 6c] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [4h 3c 6c Jd] [5d]
The Good Life11 shows a pair of Sixes
kanaman28 shows Ace Jack high
The Good Life11 wins the pot (8,944) with a pair of Sixes
kanaman28 stands up
The Good Life11 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8,944 | Rake 0
Board: [4h 3c 6c Jd 5d]
Seat 6: kanaman28 (big blind) showed [Ac 8s] and lost with Ace Jack high
Seat 9: The Good Life11 (small blind) showed [8h 6h] and won (8,944) with a pair of Sixes
Here is how i got out of the 33+3 how i get out of alot of tourneys AK all in pre flop i must stop this nonsense
Full Tilt Poker Game #5602034308: $30 + $3 Tournament (42535371), Table 11 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:08:45 ET - 2008/03/12
Seat 1: Rorio (12,920)
Seat 2: The Good Life11 (2,120)
Seat 3: lucas4king (2,080)
Seat 4: mowser66 (2,650)
Seat 5: dflo43 (2,585)
Seat 6: jonnymanboobs (2,975)
Seat 7: WilliamLeeIII (2,510)
Seat 8: tilt thisAA (5,590)
Seat 9: robt6072 (3,845)
mowser66 posts the small blind of 30
dflo43 posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to The Good Life11 [Kc Ah]
jonnymanboobs calls 60
WilliamLeeIII folds
tilt thisAA folds
robt6072 folds
Rorio calls 60
The Good Life11 raises to 240
lucas4king calls 240
mowser66 folds
dflo43 folds
jonnymanboobs folds
Rorio has 15 seconds left to act
Rorio raises to 7,380
The Good Life11 calls 1,880, and is all in
lucas4king has 15 seconds left to act
lucas4king folds
Rorio shows [8h 8d]
The Good Life11 shows [Kc Ah]
Uncalled bet of 5,260 returned to Rorio
*** FLOP *** [8c 5s 7h]
*** TURN *** [8c 5s 7h] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [8c 5s 7h Js] [5c]
Rorio shows a full house, Eights full of Fives
The Good Life11 shows a pair of Fives
Rorio wins the pot (4,630) with a full house, Eights full of Fives
The Good Life11 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Last Update: March 12, 2008, 4:07AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 11, 2008, 1AM: Played 4 hours, Lost $380.00 at Full Tilt Poker
Texas Hold'em
After taking a couple days off from poker just been running terrible so i decided to get into big tourneys and i ran worse then bad worse than terrible i lost 100 + 9 turbo then a 69 +6 then 50 with rebuys which i rebough and add in do a lost of 165 and a 33 dollar tourney all went south im fed up with this rigged softwear im so pissed at the set up hands and the runner runner bad beats.....
Thats how i got out of the Turbo Hundo i basically went broke when i put my money in with a set to runner runner jack to give the guy a full house.
Full Tilt Poker Game #5588992190: Turbo Hundo (41815295), Table 6 - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:29:01 ET - 2008/03/11
Seat 1: Nealio20 (2,830)
Seat 2: The Good Life11 (3,845)
Seat 4: BingNJ (1,750)
Seat 5: wildjoker321 (2,510)
Seat 6: x Shades (2,740)
Seat 7: chudo-yudo (5,760)
Seat 8: The 53rd card (1,245)
Seat 9: FullTiltCheeky (1,365)
The Good Life11 posts the small blind of 50
BingNJ posts the big blind of 100
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to The Good Life11 [Td Th]
wildjoker321 folds
x Shades raises to 250
chudo-yudo folds
The 53rd card calls 250
FullTiltCheeky folds
Nealio20 folds
The Good Life11 raises to 800
BingNJ folds
x Shades calls 550
The 53rd card raises to 1,245, and is all in
The Good Life11 calls 445
x Shades calls 445
*** FLOP *** [Kc Ts Ah]
The Good Life11 checks
x Shades bets 1,495, and is all in
The Good Life11 calls 1,495
x Shades shows [Jd Ad]
The 53rd card shows [Qs Ac]
The Good Life11 shows [Td Th]
*** TURN *** [Kc Ts Ah] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Kc Ts Ah Jh] [Js]
x Shades shows a full house, Jacks full of Aces
The Good Life11 shows a full house, Tens full of Jacks
x Shades wins the side pot (2,990) with a full house, Jacks full of Aces
The 53rd card shows a straight, Ace high
x Shades wins the main pot (3,835) with a full house, Jacks full of Aces
The 53rd card stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,825 Main pot 3,835. Side pot 2,990. | Rake 0
Board: [Kc Ts Ah Jh Js]
Seat 1: Nealio20 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: The Good Life11 (small blind) showed [Td Th] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Jacks
Seat 4: BingNJ (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: wildjoker321 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: x Shades showed [Jd Ad] and won (6,825) with a full house, Jacks full of Aces
Seat 7: chudo-yudo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: The 53rd card showed [Qs Ac] and lost with a straight, Ace high
Seat 9: FullTiltCheeky didn't bet (folded)
THIS IS HOW BAD I WAS RUNNING YESTURDAY here is a guy raiseing on the button blinds mid i had about 25 times the blind after i re raised 1/3 my stack i had to call not once did i think i was up against AA
Full Tilt Poker Game #5589065866: $18,000 Guarantee (41811858), Table 2 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:40:37 ET - 2008/03/11
Seat 1: cut777 (6,149)
Seat 2: The Good Life11 (3,505)
Seat 3: Rorio (3,441)
Seat 4: THEUBRTIKO (6,291)
Seat 5: partychicken (4,471)
Seat 6: nofoldem516 (5,839)
Seat 7: castellimich (6,584)
Seat 8: leguito (7,171)
Seat 9: djay1981 (7,584)
leguito posts the small blind of 60
djay1981 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to The Good Life11 [Qs Qh]
cut777 folds
The Good Life11 calls 120
Rorio folds
THEUBRTIKO has 15 seconds left to act
THEUBRTIKO folds
partychicken folds
nofoldem516 folds
castellimich raises to 480
leguito folds
djay1981 folds
The Good Life11 has 15 seconds left to act
The Good Life11 raises to 1,200
castellimich raises to 6,584, and is all in
The Good Life11 calls 2,305, and is all in
castellimich shows [Ad As]
The Good Life11 shows [Qs Qh]
Uncalled bet of 3,079 returned to castellimich
*** FLOP *** [4c Js 8c]
*** TURN *** [4c Js 8c] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [4c Js 8c 9s] [8h]
castellimich shows two pair, Aces and Eights
The Good Life11 shows two pair, Queens and Eights
castellimich wins the pot (7,190) with two pair, Aces and Eights
The Good Life11 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
hERE WAS THE FRUSTRATION PUSH AFTER I LOST A BIG HAND ON ANOTHER TABLE N I WAS SHORT STACKIN NOT WELL TIMED AGRESSION
Full Tilt Poker Game #5589142682: $12,500 Guarantee (1r+1a) (41809937), Table 7 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:53:17 ET - 2008/03/11
Seat 1: The Good Life11 (3,045)
Seat 3: I R Teh Donk (14,009)
Seat 4: clockwood05 (8,525)
Seat 5: wazdadealie (13,300)
Seat 6: fulster3 (8,840)
Seat 7: Coug MJ (2,895)
Seat 8: tenmile (22,775)
Seat 9: TheMarbler (5,440)
The Good Life11 antes 25
I R Teh Donk antes 25
clockwood05 antes 25
wazdadealie antes 25
fulster3 antes 25
Coug MJ antes 25
tenmile antes 25
TheMarbler antes 25
fulster3 posts the small blind of 120
Coug MJ posts the big blind of 240
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to The Good Life11 [Ks 3s]
tenmile folds
TheMarbler folds
The Good Life11 raises to 720
I R Teh Donk folds
clockwood05 folds
wazdadealie folds
fulster3 folds
Coug MJ has 15 seconds left to act
Coug MJ raises to 2,870, and is all in
The Good Life11 calls 2,150
Coug MJ shows [As Qh]
The Good Life11 shows [Ks 3s]
*** FLOP *** [3c 2s 6h]
*** TURN *** [3c 2s 6h] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [3c 2s 6h Ad] [Jc]
Coug MJ shows a pair of Aces
The Good Life11 shows a pair of Threes
Coug MJ wins the pot (6,060) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,060 | Rake 0
Last Update: March 12, 2008, 3:57AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 12, 2008, 1AM: Played 3 hours, Made $3.03 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (35th out of 959 Players)
WOW...played solid, didn't get unlucky or particularly lucky in any situation just smoothly built my stack until this hand came up:
I have 36k at 800-1600 blinds. I am on the button with AT and there is one limp in MP. The next guy shoves for 8k after losing an allin where he went crazy so i knew he could have just about any two cards. it folds to me on the button and I am not too worried about the blinds (just unlucky if they wake up with a monster) and the only thing i am worried about with the limper is that he may have limped to call what was prolly gonna be a shove from the boy on tilt. with 14k in the pot and a great shot at going HU with the best hand i decided to shove to iso though and i am happy with the play despite the limper snap calling my 36 (he only had 41) with AJo....so sick...he really musta had me pegged? I can easily just fold my AT but i like my shove here given the situation...
Last Update: March 12, 2008, 1:50AM | Permalink (1 Comment)
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