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From the Poker Blog for TheWerm

May 21, 2008, 2AM: Played 3 hours, 30 minutes, Made $57.00 at Big Daddy's Casino
$3/6 Texas Hold'em

decided to go play some late night limit with the regulars. It was great there were two call stations at the table which made like 70% of all the pots pretty big because of there call downs. I floped like 3 sets and once i was out seted big a bigger one. Like every 4 hands i had a huge draw either open ended or flush draw. I wish i didn't have some many because i was in a lot of pots tonight. But i can't complain because i made some bucks. The call stations were horrible to the rest of the table, some new players got destroyed by some runner runner bad play and were so confused why AK didn't win. It was a crazy night.

Last Update: May 21, 2008, 1:59AM | Permalink (7 Comments)

From the Poker Blog for DeDobber

May 20, 2008, 8PM:
Poker Bots

Here is a comprehensive article about writing poker bots.  Basically, a rules-based bot can break even at the tables and earn $80k in a year on rakebacks and player points.
 
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working-online-poker-bot-2
 
If you had 10 of these going, that's $800k/year, and you don't even have to make money at the tables.
 
I'm assuming most people know more about this than me, but I really like the "collusion server".  Then again, it seems like the best thing for the bots to do is break even for as long as they can, which is good for the humans.  It is unlikely that anyone with a winning bot would actually *want* to win...except to be able to prove that they can do it.  I'm guessing that latter motivation may keep people from doing the smart thing, which probably means I'm getting my brains beat out by non-humans.

Last Update: May 20, 2008, 8:20PM | Permalink (1 Comment)

From the Poker Blog for EightFive

May 17, 2008, 9PM: Played 2 hours, Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (41st out of 268 Players)

Picked up a lot of big hands early and jumped to 7k in chips in the first 20 minutes.  Obviously preceeded to go card dead for about an hour and sat on my nice chip stack.
 
The blinds and average stack soon caugh up and the following hand took place.  MP raises 2.3xBB, LP big stack calls and I call with 66 in the BB basically for set value.  I had the stack to call and each other player had me covered to give me the implied odds I needed.
 
The flop came 985 two spades.  It checked around, and I immediately gave the MP raiser over cards and LP something similar/weak.  The turn was the Kc putting two spades and two clubs on the board.  I checked ready to muck my cards but they both checked as well.  The river was a off suit 2.  I checked and MP bet about 60% of the pot, LP folded.
 
I eliminated an overpair to the flop with the flush draw and two players in the hand I thought he would bet.  I had a hard time putting him on a K because once again I don't know why he wouldn't protect his hand with two players and now two flush draws.  I really felt like this was AQ or AJ and almost timed out before calling.  He had the KJ so I was just plain wrong but don't hate my call.  I had a strong read/feeling nearing the bubble and I wasn't afraid to follow it.  However I also called off half my stack in a less than favorable spot.  O-well.
 
I easily could fold preflop but if I don't I really should have just stuck to my plan to call for set value only.  Anyways, next hand picked up TT and shipped it for 14x the BB (there was a MP limp) and was called by the BB who found AK and hit the flop or I would have been right back in the tourney.

Last Update: May 17, 2008, 9:16PM | Permalink (3 Comments)

From the Poker Blog for eyehatepoker

May 15, 2008, 12PM: Played 1 hour, 52 minutes, Made $5.00 at Big Daddy's
$20 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (5th out of 23 Players)

Took the Camry in for a oil change across the street from Big Daddy's, played in the toughest tourney in town, and did alright.  Good people at Big D's, fun time.

Last Update: May 15, 2008, 4:54PM | Permalink (1 Comment)

From the Poker Blog for DeiYuo

May 17, 2008, 6PM: Played 28 minutes, Lost $4.40 at Full Tilt
$4.40 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (46th out of 81 Players)

Shootout.

Last Update: May 21, 2008, 6:01PM | Permalink (2 Comments)
44 Hands Attached to this Entry | View Hands
Played with 8 players (# of hands): cubsfan83 (44), BARNEYCAT (44), xMilesTegx (44), SPACESASA (44), CroDalma (44), theEan (37), kidonc3000 (11), urflamingo (8)

From the Poker Blog for NateDawg

May 16, 2008, 6PM: Played 6 hours, Made $4,500.00 at Tachi Palace
$5 No-Limit Texas Hold'em

lol, I was drunk as hell due to some crazy ass drinks a friend of mine made for me, which isn't the best combination when Natedawg heads to the Tachi Palace. All the Star Wars games were taken so I headed upstairs to see how the games were going. The limit games were 20 people deep on the list and every table was bumping. This one no-limit game was huge with each player holding an average of $1,500 to $2,000 in chips. I jump in with $1,700 and start pissing people off with my plays and comments in general. Fuck, I'm just having fun with the money I made from another juicy game a few days prior and had nothing to lose. Well that's what I thought last night...lol. I was down a shitload at one point having to rebuy several times but managed to dig my way out once I started putting some reads on people and focusing on a player or two's chip stack and going after them very aggressively. Either way, I just rammed the hell out of each pot, often playing in the blind and took a substantial green. I'd go into further details but aside from my drunk ass calling and hitting everything and playing like a fool, I basically got lucky with the cards tonight.
 
Please Note: No skill was involved in this session!!! $4,500 of my winnings goes to that damn Umpa (whole other story). Shit!

Last Update: May 17, 2008, 2:04PM | Permalink (3 Comments)

From the Poker Blog for mtcarddealer (private)

December 8, 2008, 10PM
Log Update

Donk---->
 
Dont forget to update your log....
 
You still need to log:
Vegas Trip
Tilt Loss
Poker Stars Step Tournys

Last Update: March 29, 2008, 2:50PM | Permalink (5 Comments)

From the Poker Blog for NatePringle

May 17, 2008, 8AM: Played 1 hour, 20 minutes, Lost $12.95 at Full Tilt Poker
$3.30 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament

Played 4 3.30 turbo DS KO 90 person tournies and lost all of them....placed 24, 42, 27, and 36 with one bounty...

Last Update: May 17, 2008, 8:49AM | Permalink (2 Comments)

From the Poker Blog for EightFive

May 16, 2008, 10PM: Played 3 hours, Made $49.50 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (3rd out of 207 Players)

Played good up to the money bubble (27th) and then won a 30/70 and then a race to get a final table stack.
 
After that I couldn't really get anything going, and played well just to make top three but got there with 25k in chips and the two leaders had 160k and 140k.

Last Update: May 16, 2008, 10:46PM | Permalink (1 Comment)

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