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February 1, 2010, 10AM: Played 30 minutes, Made $1.80 at PokerStars.com
$1.20 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 9 Players)
No big surprise, another 3rd place finish with a total gain of sixty-cents. Big Deal! Still I rather be up .60 then down 1.20, so no reason to dwell on the negative. Last night I logged another 20 "wins" to complete the total games I've won since playing under the name 1st-Degree12, or at least 98% of them are now accounted for, not including MTTs just SNGs. Happy New Month everybody! and Patrick still waiting for round 2 of 3, hope you did not forget, let me know when you feel froggy! hehehe c-u
Funny! Dario Minieri interview
Last Update: February 1, 2010, 9:54AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 31, 2010, 10AM: Played 45 minutes, Made $1.80 at PokerStars.com
$1.20 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 9 Players)
Again I end in Last ITM position, And again I held first place 3/4 of the time, after playing my first hand AA was min-raised with one caller I pushed, raiser called, caller folded, I won to his pocket Jacks. Then final hand pocket Js, one pre-flop raise, I reraise, get called flop comes 10 6 3, and another raise, I push remaining chips in pot hoping my over pair would hold up. Show down opponent has Q/10 turn comes Q - River was no help and my game ended. You see I play tighter than anyone; folding everything but AA KK AK QQ and may consider JJ and 10s. If not one of these 4 possibly 6 hands I insta-fold. If I do flop a premium hand I will call or push depending on the situation, if I dont hit or improve on flop and get raised, (raised meaning bluffed) I will fold. Until ITM. by then I'm hanging by a thread with about 3 chips :) which I push on anything better than 7/2 or 9/3, I either hit or miss. This time I did hit but still missed at the turn. It's just gotta get better than these weak finishes. A f-ing joke!
Las Vegas Nevada a.k.a "Sin City"
Last Update: January 31, 2010, 9:40AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 30, 2010, 9PM: Played 6 hours, 45 minutes, Made $121.00 at Rama
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Overall a very bad session, despite the win. I went up huge early, and basically got blinded away over the next 4+ hours. The last hour or so I was very tired, and I'm sure I was an obvious read to anyone trying to.
78s on button. utg raises to 10, 6 ppl see the flop including me. Flop: J56 rainbow. OR checks, and a mp bets 10(ridiculously small bet with ~$60 in the pot, so it's either an attempt to buy the pot right there, or its a small jack or 6, trying to feel where he is.) 1 caller between raiser and me, I call, and utg calls. Turn: Yatzee! a 5. no chance of a flush. MP bets only 20, I call trying to look like I'm still on my draw, everyone else folds. river: 4. UTG bets $60 into a $140 pot. I push for my last $110, knowing I'm getting a call, and about to get shipped a huge pot. He snap calls, and shows 67 for 7 high straight, but my 8 high straight takes it, as i more than double up to $330
All in all, this was a very bad session for me. In the first hour or so, I had some good hands(and really good hands, see above), won a number of pots, without much wrong happening to me. The worst was when I called a shortie's all in on the flop with bottom set, to see he was open ended, and hit it on the river.
At 1 point I was up to just over $400(I'd bought in for $100), but I went utterly and completely card dead. For the next 2 hours, I did not see a hand that was worth committing more than a $2 limp. Often when I did limp, I'd get raised off anyway, or I'd raise with a speculative hand like 9s, or A10s, then when it gets raised and re-raised I'd have to dump it.
I tried a few plays in the last hour+, trying to make up some of my profit that I had lost...but I either tried to bluff the wrong person, or chose the wrong hand, or gave off some kind of tell, cause nothing I tried worked very well at all.
The only play I was able to make successfully after the first 2 hours was in my last orbit. I was UTG+1 with K10s. utg limped, and I raised to $11. Got 2 callers including UTG. pot was Q high, with 2 babies, 2 diamonds. UTG checked, I bet out $25, just UTG called. Turn was a blank, utg checked, and I decided to stop and look confused with the hand. UTG was looking right at me(he was sitting right next to me), so I started to look right back at him. I then put my small stack of red chips ontop of my $100 stack of red chips(I was sitting with about $148 or so at this point), the took my white chips off my cards and put them on top of the big red stack. I made it look like I was really agonizing, and then I checked. River was another blank, but didn't complete a flush. And there are no obvious straights out there. UTG checked, and I thought about checking it down and giving up, but instead i pushed that big stack in, almost right away. He started to agonize, saying why so much(there was less than $80 in the pot at this point) He showed me a king of diamonds, I can only assume he had a pair and a flush draw on the flop. He eventually folded, but he knew I was stealing that pot, and he vowed next time he wouldn't fold.
Last Update: January 31, 2010, 7:43AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 31, 2010, 4AM: Played 3 hours, 8 minutes, Lost $72.92 at full tilt rush
$0.25 Pot-Limit Omaha
 not even sure where to start, this was a brutal session.
I have AAxx reraise preflop to 3 something, 3 way action, flop is J 5 5 rainbow, I have a 5, I pot it, get shoved over the top by K K 3 4, turn K.
I have AAxx raise it pre, flop is A J 9, pot it and get raised by A K 9 8, turn Q river 10.
one of my favorites...I have AAxx raise it preflop, get called by sb, flop is A 8 4, we get it in on the river when a 4 hits, yes he has 4 4.
have KKxx, flop is K 9 7, I pot it for 7 something get called, turn 4, pot it for 22, guy shoves on me with J 10 8 x and hits the Q, such a bad play after the turn, he was begging to give me money there.
call a raised and reraised pot pre with 8 7 6 5, flop comes J 5 6, I raise the pot bet by preflop reraiser and we get all in heads up, he of course has naked AA, turn J.
I have AA double suited, raise pre, get repopped, come back over and get shoved all in by QQ double suited, flop is Q high all black, both my suits were red.
I flop a wrap with K Q J 7 double suited vs. preflop raiser, comes down 10 9 4, turn Q, pot over the bet on the turn, he calls like 14 bucks with AAJx and finds the 3 out K on the river.
I guess the site hates me again. Just brutal the beats. I fully expect the miracle puker to hit them, doesn't even phase me anymore.
well, was stuck about 220 at max, went on a nice heater, including a sweet 3 way pot where I have AA and it holds for about 100. I had a shot at getting very close to even, one of last hands I play is a huge kick in the balls. I have 8 9 x x, flop is J 10 6, I am prepared to fold but it's checked around and the 7 turns bringing me the nuts...the sb leads at it, I pot it, she repops and has about 12 total, I put her in, she rolls over 8 5 4 3 for the wrap DRAW to the ignorant end and an 8 high flush draw that of course hits for the moron. Yeah, I hate poker.
Last Update: January 31, 2010, 6:32AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 31, 2010, 6AM: Played 1 hour, 15 minutes, Made $1.80 at PokerStars.com
$1.20 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (4th out of 18 Players)
Man, this game SUCKED so entirely bad, in every friggin' way possible. Bluff fck to my left, blind thief to my left, all in every hand to my right, and me chip leader in the middle. needless to say I rather win the tourney than the hand which is a bad way of playing, and why i can fold suited AK JJ 99 88 66 KQ, yeah, i folded all them in order to hold on to my life and not die to any punk-ass-pussy-bitch. BTW FUH-Q Treasure3. I've played ur loser ass 3 other times you never survive, and in response to your come get me girl "threat" I wouldn't "come and get you" - if I was your mother. Good Luck losing!
I really should watch my language and be nicer when posting these entries. I just need to vent. I'm still happy to be ITM all 60 cents of it! :/
Goodbye and
Good Riddance to Bad Luck
Last Update: January 31, 2010, 5:46AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 30, 2010, 11PM: Played 1 hour, 15 minutes, Made $0.20 at PokerStars.com
$0.10 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (35th out of 360 Players)
Had to at least try to make-up for the minimal leader board points that I'm way lacking this week, due to the small number of people in each SNG. The points do absolutely nothing for me other than allow me to measure my own progress, and when I see 25 I get scared. :| Considering I range about 250-400 a week, I guess its from playing these 360 ppl. Also according to stats I win more than lose (not games but $) at these 10 cent tourns. Yippeee! Biggest Loss By far are ALL/ANY 45 player SNG. So maybe I shouldnt play anything else. yikes!
Never, never overplay King/Jack!
Last Update: January 30, 2010, 10:38PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 26, 2010, 2PM: Played 11 hours, Lost $167.00 at Crown - Melbourne
$3 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
 this is like 4 sessions rolled together. really bad sick hand: i have about $350 starting the hand. some joker blind raises to $10 utg. its not a straddle, just a blind raise, so he has no option. 5 people flat call $10. i have 34d in the sb and make it $55, knowing that i'll probably get one caller at least but just trying to get all the shit hands out like the people that play any 2 suited cards. 2 people call, the bb who is a tight very solid player and some old guy donkey who overvalues his hands and doesnt know how to lay down anything he hits. $185 pot, flop 2d4s5d. i flop middle pair with an openended strt flush draw. and nobody can put me on this hand. beautiful. as i'm thinking about check raising here, i notice the bb next to me immediately begins looking at his stack and for some reason, i just know he has a set of 5s. i dont really want to get it in vs a hand that strong here, so i decide that if i lead out as a blocking bet, he will slow play and i can see a turn card. so i bet $80, he calls, other guy folds. $345 in the pot, turn is Ac. wonderful. i made my straight. time to get the money in. he slightly has me covered. most people would instacall if i shoved here for $220, but this guy was as tight as they come and i'd seen him make big lay downs. i dont wanna run him out, so i bet $105. to my surprise, he puts me allin and i cant call fast enough. i show my cards, everyone is surprised. blah blah blah. river pairs the 2. he shows 55 for a full house, i lose. i feel like my only mistake in this hand was taking a risk from the sb with 34d, but i feel as though i played the rest of the hand pretty much perfectly.
Last Update: January 29, 2010, 2:31PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 28, 2010, 5PM: Played 58 minutes, Lost $112.47 at full tilt rush
$0.25 Pot-Limit Omaha
wow, this was a quick kick in the teeth. I wake up with 4 huge flops in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the session, get all in 4 times ahead and lose all 4. One time I have no clue what the guy was thinking, I have AA57 and flop 3 4 6, he has A Q Q 5, obviously putting me on a hand I can't call with and it comes running spades for him. The other 3 were typical set or straight vs. draw hands that I couldn't make stand up. Then I capped off the session getting all in preflop with AAxx vs. 2 players...this one is sick, one has 6 7 8 9, the other has 3 4 5 6 flop is K K 6 and it comes running 9 9. That would've got me halfway even. Just not my night.
Last Update: January 28, 2010, 5:51PM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 26, 2010, 7PM: Played 6 hours, 15 minutes, Lost $10.00 at Rama
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
dealt KK in BB. after 4 limpers, SB raises to $25. i call, everyone else folds. Flop: 1064 rainbow. SB bets $30, in insta call. Turn: 5, SB makes a speach about how i sucker'd him in, and he shoves for ~100. I think for a bit, and something doesn't seem right, so I fold, and he shows me queens.
AQs SB(right after previos KK hand in BB) EP raises to $11, 6 people call, including myself. Flop: AJ5. MP bets $25, 3 callers, and I call. EP check raises $40 more. 3 callers call, so I do too. Turn is a Queen, checked around to button, who shoves, I call my last $75, and cut off calls as well. River is a blank, and I lose to set of Js(button) and set of 5s(CO). PLAY BEHIND!
AK in MP, UTG, who is very short goes all in for $6. 2 callers, and I call. everyone is calling, until it gets to SB(who's steaming from a pot 2 hands ago that made him re-buy for $160; which is his stack size right now) who raises to $50. it's fold around to me(except for all in player), and I have no interest in folding. I put this steamer on a mid pair, and he wanted to eat up some of the dead money out there, so I put 2 $100 stacks into the middle to cover him. He calls, and shows QQ. Flop J104 rainbow. Turn: Q making 2 diamonds, giving SB top set, and me a broadway straight. river 2 making 3 diamonds. I win large side pot, almost breaking even, and UTG shortie wins pot with K6 of diamonds for flush.
Last Update: January 28, 2010, 10:52AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
January 23, 2010, 11PM: Played 3 hours, 30 minutes, Made $135.00 at Rama
$2 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Dan busted out after 2 hours, so I left earlier than I wanted to. Also was very buzzed when I first sat down, so I was playing super rock tight, and staying out of trouble
Big had. On my last orbit, I limped from utg+2 with QQ, utg+3 raised to $11. 2 callers, then i re-raise to $30. Only utg+3 called. He wasn't paying attention to me, so when I saw the window card(before it was flipped face up) was a J, I checked "in dark", he then bet out $35, and i check raised him all in for $51 more. He thought about it for a bit, before he called with AJ. He didn;t improve, and I more than doubled up. I left 3 hands later. He blamed my dark check for the reason for his call.
Last Update: January 28, 2010, 10:32AM | Permalink (0 Comments)
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