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November 8, 2007, 1AM: Played 1 hour, 18 minutes, Lost $1.00 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In HORSE Tournament (101st out of 561 Players)
 Think i am playing ok for horse and probably almost for sure better than everyone at the table with the exception of maybe one player but i can't get my big hands to hold up....and the nut low counterfeited in a huge pot and ended up losing a little there.....missed in razz with A235...and lost a pot with AA in holdem...i guess i should be glad i am still in but i don't even really know how to evaluate how i am playing cuz i am just not very good at these games.
3-outted...i'm starting to get sick now
Last Update: November 8, 2007, 12:21AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 7, 2007, 11PM: Played 40 minutes, Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (55th out of 141 Players)
Wow. I limp on the button after about 3 limps in front of me with KQ. Flop comes 9TJ two spades. SB bets min and they ALL call and I decided to raise a little to juice the pot before shoving if the turn comes a blank. They all call and the turn comes an offsuit 7...best card in the deck i just gotta hope someone has an 8. SB leads out, I shove he calls with 89 spades and I can't fade a spade...when he called i had to wait for the others to fold before seeing his hand but its sick how sure i was that he had 8x of spades and that the spade would hit. oh well two tourneys tonight where i played well but just ran into the nuts
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 11:47PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 7, 2007, 10PM: Played 15 minutes, Lost $24.00 at Full Tilt
$22 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (9th out of 9 Players)
 Full Tilt Poker Game #4104047852: $22 + $2 Sit & Go (Turbo) (31178769), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:23:31 ET - 2007/11/07
Seat 1: ekinnehs18 (1,470)
Seat 2: krammark3 (1,835)
Seat 3: Busta Yarbell (1,440)
Seat 4: max_em87 (1,450)
Seat 5: ossurvivor (3,140)
Seat 6: Cbigdog (895)
Seat 7: Juicyplay (270)
Seat 8: rubytide (1,500)
Seat 9: GIMEE_SHELTER (1,500)
Juicyplay posts the small blind of 25
rubytide posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to rubytide [Qs Ah]
GIMEE_SHELTER folds
ekinnehs18 folds
krammark3 raises to 135
Busta Yarbell calls 135
max_em87 folds
ossurvivor folds
Cbigdog folds
Juicyplay folds
rubytide calls 85
*** FLOP *** [7c 3c Qh]
rubytide checks
krammark3 bets 200
ossurvivor has been disconnected
max_em87 has been disconnected
Busta Yarbell calls 200
rubytide raises to 1,365, and is all in
max_em87: budd dwyer
max_em87 has reconnected
ossurvivor has reconnected
krammark3 has 15 seconds left to act
krammark3 folds
Busta Yarbell calls 1,105, and is all in
rubytide shows [Qs Ah]
Busta Yarbell shows [Jc Js]
Uncalled bet of 60 returned to rubytide
*** TURN *** [7c 3c Qh] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [7c 3c Qh 5h] [Jd]
rubytide shows a pair of Queens
Busta Yarbell shows three of a kind, Jacks
Busta Yarbell wins the pot (3,240) with three of a kind, Jacks
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,240 | Rake 0
Board: [7c 3c Qh 5h Jd]
Seat 1: ekinnehs18 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: krammark3 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: Busta Yarbell showed [Jc Js] and won (3,240) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 4: max_em87 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: ossurvivor didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Cbigdog (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: Juicyplay (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: rubytide (big blind) showed [Qs Ah] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 9: GIMEE_SHELTER didn't bet (folded)
guess he thought i was bluffing
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 8:35PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 7, 2007, 6PM: Played 24 minutes, Lost $12.00 at Poker Stars
$3 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (25th out of 108 Players)
 Forgot to take the add-on like a donkey.
1-15th get paid, 1st gets a $650 seat. I am done for the night after this.
Doing great, 4 times the average. Had solid stack. Then get outran bad. Guy on right raise, I just call with JJ, flop is xxx all hearts below an 8. I have heart. I know he has Ax or a smaller pair so I let him bluff off his stack. On flop he bets, I just call, turn is another x, he bets again.. now I push him in or wait.. raise now. He calls with TT no heart. Drawing dead to ONE FUCKING ten left in the deck. It is found. I have 364 chips left.
I grind that up to 5K somehow! Then.. same shit, move in and get stomped by A-x cracking my KK.
I'm trying really trying not to be a whining complaining baby but.. it is becoming very difficult :)
Part of the game, deal with it, move on, keep my head up.
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 6:52PM | Permalink (2 Comments)
November 7, 2007, 6PM: Played 1 hour, 6 minutes, Made $24.00 at Poker Stars
$3 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 107 Players)
I'm fucking furious beyond beief. Top two get $650 seat packages, 3rd gets a whole fucking $33 or some shit.
Get down to final table and I am top 3, get down to 5 handed and I am chip leader.
Get down to 4 handed, still chip leader.
Then the agro fuck head on my right goes crazy, going all in whenever he plays a hand. Chips at this point are about, me 250K, agro 50K, rock 200K, other rock 200K.
So total of 700K
After we bust the 3rd player we are now sitting at, me 200K, rock 200K and all-in agro 300K.
Everyone tried busting him a few times but he just slipped away, no matter what the fuck he had or what the flop was. It was unbelievable. I was going out of my mind, like one hand, QQK flop, he has K4 or some crap and against AQ, they go all in and he spikes a King.
Anyways, once we are 3 handed I have the agro on my right. Someone has to give right? The rock ALWAYS folded his SB to the rocks BB. So no matter what work I do on him he gains the blinds and SB, he can sit there all fucking night like this. So I figure.. go after the rock. Well, I can only do this from my SB and his BB, so now I am out of position but can chip away. The problem is my BB.. either the rock raised 4xs the BB if not the agro would just go all in from the SB more than half the time. So no one is leaning on the agro.. leaving me in horrible position with the rock. Especially since the agro is coming after me in my BB.
It sucked, the agro could keep parlaying his gain at me from the Rock folding his SB to him. I tried playing that same game, folding my SB to the BB so the chips would just circulate. But that was impossible and I would lose them fast as the agro would attack me more from his SB. After about 15 minutes of playing like this I obviously figured out I was their target to bust. They both rarely got into hands together. It was just auto folding. I purposely folded my button like 5 times in a row to see if they would battle. Rock in SB folded every fucking time! My button was tough as well. Half the time if I played it agro would fire back all in and I'd lose my raise. A few times SB would call, then I'd continuation bet flop and he would play back more than half the time. I felt like I was just sticking my neck out too much for them.
I was at a loss. Play out of position against rock, or call one of agro's all-in's for my tourney life. Those were my chioces.
Card-wise.. didn't matter. Never had a hand until my last which was TT from the button. Rock in SB calls my pretty much all-in raise with KQ and I go broke.
Looking back.. I don't know how I could have played better. Maybe taking my chances more from the button would have done it. It seem impossible though when the other two players take it easy on eachother and gun for you. I'm at a loss, usually of shorthanded I'm excellent at 3 players.
Another question, how do you combat an all-in agro asshole donkey? I mean, if you raise from button and his BB he would go all-in, when just blind vs blind, he in small, he would go all-in way way too much. He barely had me covered at 1st then had double my stack eventually.
Guess whomever is all-in 1st wins the pot unless the other has AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, AK, AQ??
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 6:44PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 6, 2007, 9PM: Played 4 hours, Made $125.00 at Princess Casino, Port de Plaisance
$25 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 21 Players)
 Tough tournament where I learned that patience does pay off every now and then. Before the break I played very few hands and I won just three, but I sat with a reasonable stack. After the break I went more or less card dead and I struggled to make the final table. I let it bleed down to 4,000 in chips; then I had to move, and my suited K-3 ran into AK! Cracked that monster when a 3 hit the turn. When I was in the money, in fourth place, I gambled with pocket threes against the same player and this time it was bye-bye, coz he held pocket Jacks. Went home a happy camper.
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 6:39AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 2, 2007, 2PM: Played 3 hours, 30 minutes, Lost $100.00 at Rouge et Noir, Philipsburg
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Tough session, where I hovered for hours around my starting stack, then I finally picked up some pots, only to blow it all on two hands. First I get Kh-9h out of position and I limp. Board comes all diamonds with K-9. I push my two pair and get called by one player who later turns out to be holding... pocket sevens. He hits a set on the turn and tops it off with a flush on the river. Then I go down with pocket tens against a player who hits a Queen on the flop. Shouldn't have pushed this one, but there you go. No fool like an old fool, lol.
Last Update: November 7, 2007, 6:34AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 6, 2007, 10PM: Played 7 hours, 30 minutes at Napa Valley Casino
$3 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
 Started off real slow short handed but once I got to the main game I started to pick up hands.
4 hours into the game I get into a big hand against Brett. There was a raise from his friend in early position for $17, I call with QJs along with 5 other callers. The flop came QJ5. Brett bet in the small blind for $80, Jason (droopy) calls, the initial raiser folds, and I raise to $280. Brett folds and Jason goes allin on his supposed flush draw. He misses and I scoop but come to find out Brett laid down the best hand with 55. He told me he remembered many times before that I limp with QQ and JJ in early position, I just didn't do it this time.
Last hand I pick up AJs on the button and there were 7 limpers so I decided to raise big to $28, I get 4 callers. The flop is KQ2 two hearts and I was hold AJ of hearts. It gets checked to me so I decide to check (I believed if I bet I would have gotten raised and I might have to muck). The turn came a T (cha-ching). Gino bets $110 into me, every folds, and I flat call [BIG MISTAKE ON MY PART: I SHOULD HAVE RAISED FOR VALUE]. An ace hits the river which completely killed my action [ANOTHER REASON WHY I SHOULD NEVER SLOWPLAY]. I bet $200 and Gino mucks KQ (top 2 pair on the flop). Oh well.
Last Update: November 6, 2007, 11:09PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 6, 2007, 9AM: Played 3 hours, Lost $6.00 at Full Tilt
$0.5/1 Texas Hold'em
 looks like a loss... but i consider it a triumph... had the worst variance all day
lost 3 from the money in a razz tourney with my 9 high going against 10 high that this girl cahcsed with from 4th... hit her 8 high
lost in a 10 dollar + knockout bounty... well, got crippled... when my AQ raised and called an all in from 10-9 off that hit a 9
final table of a 45 sng... in 4th of the last 6, but top 4 are all pretty tight... raise with aces, get called by the big stack who limped in first position
flop 10d-4d-4 he insta shoves, i call... he turns over J-5 diamonds... rivers his 5th diamond
only played a few multi sngs and tourneys... got crushed on the .50/1 tables... was down like 50+... got online late, played for an hour and went on a super rush for the first 30 minutes or so and got a huge chunk of it back
Last Update: November 6, 2007, 9:10PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
November 6, 2007, 5PM: Played 4 hours, 9 minutes, Made $16.00 at Pstars
$2.20 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (34th out of 2289 Players)
--Right now im in 10th with about 19k.....with 485 people left. First place gets a little over $1,100 so its giving me some motivation...
--2nd break and im at 30k.... 6 of 350 ... Making good calls and good decisions thus far.
--Near 3rd break and just took a big hit....my 77 vs AK and he caught an Ace......owy... 40k down to 15k....
--3rd break im 68 of 103 ... Got 17k ... Trying to get my cards and pick my spots and I'm just going to start going for it. Blinds are very high at this point in time.
--Near 4th break went in with KJ maybe to catch something and didnt. So hear i sit in 34th spot.. played 4 hours for 16 dollars.... when in turn i played 3 16 turbo SNG's and made $113 within the hour... so sick.
Last Update: November 6, 2007, 6:15PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
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