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April 20, 2008, 1AM: Played 30 minutes, Made $2.28 at PokerStars
Texas Hold'em
 Decided to 2-table 1cent-2cent 6handed cash tables while listening to PokerRoadRadio (highly entertaining)...was kind of messing around a little bit and was amazed at how tight you could play until making a hand then just jam 5x pot into the middle and they call with mid. pair. I was having more fun playing this then I have been playing tourneys lately so maybe I will fire up 4-5 tables of this tomorrow instead of playing tourneys. Maybe I can make a few bucks and more importantly enjoy it again.
Last Update: April 20, 2008, 1:46AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 14, 2008, 5PM: Played 40 minutes, Made $75.00 at Full Tilt Poker
$22 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 10 Players)
 I hate FT. I think it is a Vista problem, but I never know if my HH will be saved. The history was saved for the private tourney yesterday, but not for this gem today. And here I took notes about hands I wanted to discuss :(.
Oh well, I built a big stack and pushed everyone around for a while. Then they got aggro so I backed off, but not for long. Then things start going my way. I take down a pot on the river with a one-card flush (4h), the guy did not even call. Then I play aggro with 78 and hit 2pr on the flop. And it gets better from there.
A guy tries to steal all in preflop with 59s? He runs into my A5s in SB. I'm thinking it's bad to try that when big stack is one of the blinds?
Once four handed, things started REALLY going my way. I knocked out 4th, 3rd, and 2nd on suckouts. JAs rivered an Ace to beat some other pair. I beat the next guy all in pre with 74 vs JK, and finally, to show just how well-aligned the stars are, I beat the last guy all in pre with 5J vs AJ.
I hate winning as much as I hate losing, cuz when I win it feels like dumb-ass luck.
Last Update: April 19, 2008, 9:30PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 19, 2008, 9PM: Played 30 minutes, Lost $24.00 at Full Tilt Poker
$22 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 10 Players)
Bubble boy. Played only like four hands. Got a good stack and then had an average stack. Picked up 27o in BB and raised a SB who was limping. He calls and flop is 236. He bets into me and I go over the top all in. He thinks and calls with 7Ko. Turn is 7, river is 3 to pair the board :(. We both make two pair and his King holds up. I guess that's what happens in donkey-vs-donkey. I ran the numbers, and was 85% on the flop and "only" 80% on the turn. Can't really feel sorry for myself on that one getting aggro with 27o, but maybe I should, since I knew the guy was weak the whole way (playing the player, not my cards).
I shoved preflop next hand with TQd cuz I'm pissed and get beat by A5s.
Last Update: April 19, 2008, 9:30PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 19, 2008, 1PM: Played 7 hours, 30 minutes, Made $621.00 at Poker Stars
$5 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (5th out of 2760 Players)
 PokerStars Game #16852390235: Tournament #84460425, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (25000/50000) - 2008/04/19 - 20:24:34 (ET)
Table '84460425 176' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: sgam63 (2757253 in chips)
Seat 4: rodas76 (2237437 in chips)
Seat 6: hustlingpimp (572978 in chips)
Seat 7: JZarse (995948 in chips)
Seat 8: NIUE1 (1716384 in chips)
sgam63: posts the ante 5000
rodas76: posts the ante 5000
hustlingpimp: posts the ante 5000
JZarse: posts the ante 5000
NIUE1: posts the ante 5000
rodas76: posts small blind 25000
hustlingpimp: posts big blind 50000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hustlingpimp [As 6s]
JZarse: folds
NIUE1: folds
sgam63: folds
rodas76: raises 100000 to 150000
hustlingpimp: raises 417978 to 567978 and is all-in
rodas76: calls 417978
*** FLOP *** [Jc 8s Th]
*** TURN *** [Jc 8s Th] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [Jc 8s Th 9d] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rodas76: shows [Qc Ks] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
hustlingpimp: shows [As 6s] (a pair of Aces)
rodas76 collected 1160956 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1160956 | Rake 0
Board [Jc 8s Th 9d Ac]
Seat 2: sgam63 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: rodas76 (small blind) showed [Qc Ks] and won (1160956) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 6: hustlingpimp (big blind) showed [As 6s] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 7: JZarse folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: NIUE1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
You guys be the judge! please comment on final hand
Last Update: April 19, 2008, 5:29PM | Permalink (3 Comments)
April 19, 2008, 11AM: Played 1 hour, 15 minutes, Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (60th out of 190 Players)
This might just be a day full of poker. Hopefully if I don't take a real bad beat or two I will keep playing good and play all day. If I take a beat I may have to quick due to frustration though.
So, tourney number 1: 6 handed MTT. Had AQ and AK on the first two hands and lost both so I was a little short right off the bat. Little later I raised Q9s from the CO. Flop came 876 and the SB who was the only guy to call led for the size of the pot (about 200). I shoved for 960...he called with 74 and I hit a 9 to get to 2k early on.
Just lost a big race: QQ v AK preflop, coulda had a huge stack. I have 2250 now at 50-100 so still able to make a run.
Squeezed with J8s, called by 77, lost.
Last Update: April 19, 2008, 12:40PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 17, 2008, 11PM: Played 3 hours, 57 minutes, Made $53.64 at Full Tilt
$3.30 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 146 Players)
 Wow, a decent finish ;)
Grinded down to 3 handed... was picking on the player on my left from the SB.. just limping and outplaying him post.
Then on my button I'd auto muck and let the weak player(SB) be at a disadvantage vs he BB big stack. Then while in the BB the SB big stack would give me a pass most of the time and about 1/5 times raise.
We had a nice system going here to bleed the guy on my right down.. which is what was happening. Until he starting limping on the button and raising from the BB.. he hit his "oh shit" stack size and woke up.
He doubles up off the big stack with AA and now becomes very aggressive. Blinds are high and I limp on the button with KJs.. he raises from the SB with AK and we see 244 with two spades fall, he bets half my stack and I commit to the hand. Even if 50/50 I don't mind. I can't fold now once the pot has 30K in it from pre action.
Last Update: April 18, 2008, 9:38AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
391 Hands Attached to this Entry | View Hands
Played with 27 players (# of hands): craftycrook (363), trancer6 (152), sennsational1 (151), montahg (148), maopreta (123), Hockeyblader (111), tomhill7944 (68), db__db (48), AUtigerrick (40), 7thgradecrush (40) | View Hands to see all 27 players.
April 18, 2008, 9AM: Played 14 hours, 29 minutes, Lost $735.00 at Poker Stars
$7.50 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 10 Players)
These are all my Step Tournaments for Stars I will consolidate the entry for simplicity.
Played in 133 Step 1's so for.
Top 2 - 32
3rd's - 16
4th's - 21
5th's - 22
6th's - 13
7th's - 10
8th's - 13
9th's - 8
I have;
5 EPT Step 2's
6 APPT Step 2's
0 PCA Step 2's
4 WSOP Steps 2's
0 LAPT Steps 2's
Played 22 Step 2's
Top 2 - 4
3/4th - 3
5th's - 6
6th's - 3
7th's - 2
8th's - 3
9th's - 1
Played 0 Step 3's
I have;
3 WSOP Step 3
1 EPT St3p 3
1 LAPT Step 3
*playing one of them at a time yeilds best results*
*Turbos suck ass and turns into a crap shoot but I have perfected them :)
Done with step 1's for now.. will play down my step 2's and will only return to step 1's if I start placing low in 2's. Will spend a max of 1k on the step system for now.
STEP 2's
I'm finding step twos more difficult.. they still are turbos but people don't bust out as quickly. So I can't fold down to 3-5 players and then "turn it on". They also are more aggressive. Also, to stay on track with money invested I will need 9 step 3's and it is looking like that may not happen :(
Last Update: April 18, 2008, 7:54AM | Permalink (4 Comments)
6881 Hands Attached to this Entry | View Hands
Played with 1139 players (# of hands): BongBob (247), hickl (171), jbrother2 (144), ddasmike (125), kaiser420 (123), Texas Joe (116), la talpa (110), butch1942 (109), bowcatboy (102), Juliana8888 (101) | View Hands to see all 1139 players.
April 17, 2008, 6PM: Played 1 hour
$3 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
 Only played for an hour while on shift and was able to pick up about 320. Call check folded for a bit was down to about 240 then I get 66, guy UTG raises to 6 I call gets reraised to 17 I call most of the table did too and flop comes 86J with 2 hearts. One guy leads out for 35 another calls get to me and I say "I can't fuck around with this hand I am all in" everyone folds to the guy who made it 35 he goes all in for another 5o or so and the gal behind him calls my 225 all in. I am praying no Heart I put them both on draws, no heart comes and I scoop......... gotta love a 300 an hour wage lol...............back to work
Last Update: April 17, 2008, 11:37PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 17, 2008, 11PM: Played 3 hours, Made $3.18 at PokerStars
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (104th out of 1790 Players)
I have 17,500 at 600-1200 blinds. Folds to me in the CO with 99. I raised to 2999 (This was the standard raise at the table and people were actually probably folding a lot more than they should to it). Button calls, and BB calls, and the flop comes 763, two hearts. BB just shoves for 22k into the 7000 pot. I think for about 30 seconds and call. Button folds and the BB rolls over A5 hearts.
He was actually a 54/46 favorite, but obviously I am getting 1.5:1 so its still correct to call (call 14,500 to win 21,500)...brick on the turn but rivered a heart.
No worries, I think I played well and I won the couple times I was all in as a 70/30 favorite so that always helps.
Last Update: April 17, 2008, 11:36PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 16, 2008, 8PM: Played 2 hours, 37 minutes, Lost $22.00 at Poker Stars
$22 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (491st out of 1314 Players)
This type of play makes me angry...
Blinds 125/250 with a 25 ante..
My stack is 3675 and donks stack is 4885.
Donk limps +1 UTG with 66 and the SB limps..
I'm in the BB with KK and make a standard raise to 1250.. 1K more with a pot of 950 in it.. that is fair.
The agro donk shoves in for his stack now with 66! Wonderful up until he makes a str8 and busts me.
I don't know how else to play this hand and would never change it.
Just frustrated that every tournament ends this same exact way and the player that makes mistake after mistake gets my chips.
My number one rule in NLH tournaments is do not go all in. How can you go broke if you have chips and play smart?
The thing is they guys "force" me to do so in horrible EV situations on their part and "get lucky".
Will it ever end?
PokerStars Game #16773217099: Tournament #84460408, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2008/04/16 - 13:37:06 (ET)
Table '84460408 69' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Gracie85 (20918 in chips)
Seat 2: mykul925 (1966 in chips)
Seat 3: DeiYuo (3675 in chips)
Seat 4: HhCMotU (4330 in chips)
Seat 5: acesupAA88 (4885 in chips)
Seat 6: yaboystu (5975 in chips)
Seat 7: Goodspring (5050 in chips)
Seat 8: CartmanLSK (580 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: duce_seven27 (3890 in chips)
Gracie85: posts the ante 25
mykul925: posts the ante 25
DeiYuo: posts the ante 25
HhCMotU: posts the ante 25
acesupAA88: posts the ante 25
yaboystu: posts the ante 25
Goodspring: posts the ante 25
CartmanLSK: posts the ante 25
duce_seven27: posts the ante 25
mykul925: posts small blind 125
DeiYuo: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DeiYuo [Ks Kc]
HhCMotU: folds
acesupAA88: calls 250
yaboystu: folds
Goodspring: folds
CartmanLSK: folds
duce_seven27: folds
Gracie85: folds
mykul925: calls 125
DeiYuo: raises 1000 to 1250
acesupAA88: raises 3610 to 4860 and is all-in
mykul925: folds
DeiYuo: calls 2400 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [8h 3d 9s]
*** TURN *** [8h 3d 9s] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [8h 3d 9s 7s] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DeiYuo: shows [Ks Kc] (a pair of Kings)
acesupAA88: shows [6s 6c] (a straight, Six to Ten
Last Update: April 17, 2008, 12:46PM | Permalink (5 Comments)
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