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April 25, 2009, 4PM: Played 4 hours, 30 minutes, Lost $515.00 at Wild Horses - Pendelton
$515 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (170th out of 354 Players)
 Grinding machine.
Started off slow and rough. Found my groove. Started attacking players and their weaknesses, got my table afraid of me and was in control.
Then my damn table broke!
New table, came in firing then went card dead and position dead. Two agressive players on right, 3 calling stations on the left.. bad combo.
Grind and grinded to keep my stack from widdling away. Picking and choosing my spots.
Pick up AK mid position, UTG donk raises.. my insticts tells me he has AJ(my nemessis hand). I decide to shove all in. I need chips. He most likely should fold but a small chance he will call. I shove my stack in one fluid motion in one tower to entice a call. (If I announce raise, play out the call and cut out the raise he will have a chance to count the chips and think about folding). Having all the chips in one stack he will auto call or muck. He thinks... body tells him to fold but, as a donk does, calls. Spikes two jack not just one, bye bye Jesse. I even told him his hand before he called. I said, "You are going to call me with AJ?" Fucking AJ.. I hate Ace Jack Donkeys when they get there, which is every fucking time I am all in with them.
Regardless of the outcome I played fucking fantastic. I have been playing awesome poker the past few months. We also had a great time at the table, talking shit, being friendly, telling jokes and picking on eachother, you can't beat that.
Last Update: May 4, 2009, 4:26PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 26, 2009, 11PM: Played 2 hours, 49 minutes, Made $0.70 at Full Tilt Poker
$0.25/0.50 Texas Hold'em
Hands Played: 206
Played well in the morning against the Euro donks. They raise pre-flop with pretty much anything. A guarenteed profit if you stick to your game and they are not catching every card. Was able to take down some nice pots early and then held steady for the rest of the session. Things did not go so great in the evening. Was card dead a majority of the session. My big losses for the evening were KK lost to A-rag with a A on the flop, and top two pair lost on a 4-flush board. Online poker is rigged in my opinion. :-P
I need to make up 71 minutes sometime this week.
Last Update: April 29, 2009, 8:14PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 25, 2009, 3PM: Played 3 hours at Hard Rock Hotel
$1/2 Texas Hold'em
got my ass handed to me... didn't win any big pots... made a mistake and didn't raise my AQ preflop and this fat bastard has K5 and ends up winning, don't remember what he had but chances are he wouldn't have been in the pot if i raised. then worked up my rebuy up to where i was only down 140, then this regular Andrew Scott shows up and i get all in preflop TT v. his AK, he wins the coin flip and i'm stuck very short stack and fighting for dignity. i think i should start a new rule and only do 1 buy in and quit if i lose it.
Last Update: April 25, 2009, 6:30PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 24, 2009, 11PM: Played 2 hours, 13 minutes, Lost $8.10 at Full Tilt Poker
$0.25/0.50 Texas Hold'em
Hands Played: 137
Things started out well. Took down two $4 pots with AK in the first orbit. Then things went down hill. Was pretty card dead for a while. When I did get decent cards, I got crushed by a donkey and Full Tilt. At least twice I had pocket pairs, flopped a set with the flop all the same suit. River would bring the forth suited card on the board and my set would lose to a donkey holding a 3 for the flush.
I seem to play real well against donkeys when they do not have their luckbox with them.
Last Update: April 25, 2009, 9:56AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 24, 2009, 7PM: Played 4 hours, 30 minutes, Made $264.65 at FT
$10 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 298 Players)
 Best tourney I had played start to finish.
Started slow ands laid down KK on 4th hand in sb when an A flopped with 4 others.
Other big hand was when I had about 15xbb vs aggro and got 33 in middle position and pushed. It held against his KJ.
Played solid and worked my way through the tourney. My position was anywhere from 1st to last after we hit 27 players. I was playeing for top 3, so didn't worry about the early money steps.
Last hand I hand I have ATc in sb and folded to me. We are all within 4bb of each other and I push. BB picks up AJs and flops a flush.
Overall I don't believe I played more than 3 hands badly in the entire tourney. I would do the same thing again on the last hand as the bb would have had less than the blinds when they came around to him again if he would have not had a premium hand. It would have moved me from 4th to 2nd in chips.
Shit happens. Good tourney for me.
Last Update: April 24, 2009, 11:25PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 14, 2009, 5AM: Played 1 hour, 15 minutes, Made $6.75 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 10 Players)
First place...The most rewarding first place since I started keeping track.
When there were 5 left, I picked up aces bet the standard 3x bb to go. Picked up a caller flop was 67x, GREAT flop right? WRONG!!!
I push all in. Caller, who was also the chip leader insta calls. Flips over 67. I...turned....an....ace. Few minutes later he starts giving someone hell about making two pot sized calls with 10s...Who makes TWO pot sized calls with pocket tens he asks. I couldn't help myself. I said who calls 3x bb with a 67?
The name calling was on...so I look him up on one of the status websites. Over the last 90 days this guy is down over 300 bucks.
So, I tighten up ready to win this thing.....he starts telling the table his hole cards. I have 4 5, I have 3 9. UGH...anyhow, I notice wow, he's not lying. I pick up A Q, he says I have 9Q. I think well, he hasn't lied so far....smooth call preflop, and flop a queeenxx, no nine. I have him covered I push all in after he bets 2x the pot. He insta calls and rivers a straight. Now, I'm down to 1k. Now, he's REALLY talking shit, like he actually made a good call.
In the end, we're heads up...I pick up Q5 suited. I figure he's pushing ATC so I push and have him covered he's got AJ.
I flop X55. MY nine bucks....hahaha
Last Update: April 14, 2009, 6:07AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 13, 2009, 9PM: Played 55 minutes, Made $6.75
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1st out of 9 Players)
A first...I love winning.
Ok guys...for anyone who might be reading this...Patience is the key to these things....these things being regular speed SnGs.
You can get down to 100 chips with blinds at 20/40 and if you can win that ONE hand, you can come back and win it all...it didn't happen that way this time...I was never WAY behind...I was only at starting chips tho with 5 people left....I came in with AJ to a guy who was seeing every flop.
I flopped a jack, pushed him all in..the hand after he took a beat. He called with J9. My AJ stood up...and he left saying, and I quote "!###" this game. From there it went just like i hoped that it would.
Last Update: April 13, 2009, 9:45PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 13, 2009, 12PM: Played 56 minutes, Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 9 Players)
Another bad bad run....This one was interesting tho....In that, one of the players before the tourney even started said....ALL IN
I was 3rd or 4th to act, and he was on the button. Had a min raise in front of me, I had AQ, I called, there was another caller, then it was his turn. He waited a few seconds and said ALL IN..and sure enough, he pushed. Initial raiser called, I called and the other guy also called everyone had OK hands, but, I was best preflop. My best held up.....I won the hand....had over 6k...and still...finished 4th...LOL
Last Update: April 13, 2009, 12:20PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
April 3, 2009, 10AM: Played 4 hours, Made $280.00 at Limelight
$5 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
AK suited, just called in second position after first person raises to $20. Button, who's a crazy, aggressive player, raises to $130 after four others limped in. I put him on a bluff, so I reraise to $280. He thinks about it for 2-3 minutes, says all in. I had $400 in front of me, I already had $280 in, no question I had to call. Flop, turn, river come up blank for me, he shows AJ, non suited. Harlon is a crazy guy!
I ended up losing a couple of hundred after that, one on a bluff with AK. Player had 44s, he called $40 and then $75 on turn.
Last Update: April 6, 2009, 11:07AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
March 30, 2009, 4PM: Played 1 hour, 30 minutes, Lost $124.00 at Limelight
$3 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
AA, no raiser, on the button raise to $15, 4 callers. Flop comes KJ2, rainbow. First position bets $15, two fold, and I raise to $75. Player goes all in for $115 more. He tells me he has it and I believe him. I fold, he shows KJ. It'll cost me that every time, I couldn't do it any other way. Maybe raise $20 on button?
I call $12 more to me with 45 diamonds. Flop comes 2, 6 diamonds with black A. Player bets $32 all in, I raise to $75. Raiser behind me intends to go all in, but only calls. I would have had to call at that point, since I only had $72 more. Player asks me to check it down, I say let me see the turn. Turn comes blank, I check, he checks. River comes blank, we both check. He had AK and later says I shouldn't have protected the all in bet. It was an interesting play on my part. I was hoping the initial raiser had KK or QQ and would have to fold, so that I could see two cards. He held AK and I STILL got to see two cards. I turned out to be a good move on my part, just wish I could have hit.
Limelight has a totally different feel now, bigger, more room and definitely more people - at least this day. Wish I could have played longer.
Last Update: March 31, 2009, 4:34PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
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