Ha ha, I actually started cracking up as I wrote that title, which is probably a good thing as I'm absolutely steaming at the moment. I've played 6 sit and go's so far tonight and failed to cash in one. Lost 2 out of 2 coin flips, both on the bubble when I've been the shortest stack, lost with AQ vs KJ in another for basically all my chips to bubble again and ran AJ into AA in one straight after in a pot I should never have got involved in. In the other two I just never got going and got to the stage where I had to push at every opportunity and unfortunately ran into bigger hands.
I'm in 4 more at the moment so need to make $110 just to break even from them.
Oh dear God! Just as I wrote that this happened:
***** Hand History for Game 6735170227 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny: 38128445 Level: 4 Blinds(100/200) - Tuesday, January 29, 15:09:28 ET 2008
Table Table 131082 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: MikeyMatusow ( 1,560 )
Seat 2: shons82 ( 4,070 )
Seat 1: ben_w_2004 ( 2,390 )
Seat 8: Lex040180 ( 4,310 )
Seat 4: gerraldv ( 5,170 )
Seat 7: Sorrowfully ( 2,500 )
Trny: 38128445 Level: 4
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Kh Kd ]
ben_w_2004 raises [600]
shons82 folds.
gerraldv folds.
MikeyMatusow folds.
Sorrowfully folds.
Lex040180 calls [400]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 4s, 5c ]
Lex040180 checks.
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
Lex040180 calls [1,790]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
Lex040180 shows [ 2d, 7h ]a straight Three to Seven.
ben_w_2004 shows [ Kh, Kd ]two pairs, Kings and Sixes.
Lex040180 wins 4,880 chips from the main pot with a straight, Three to Seven.
ben_w_2004 finished in 6 place.
>You have options at Table 130836 Table!.
And no your eyes do not deceive you that is seven-deuce that he not only called my pre-flop raise with, but called my all-in for over the size of the pot with for a open ender straight draw. As if he could miss. WOW.
And here is the up-side of having complete and utter muppets playing at your table:
***** Hand History for Game 6735126165 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny: 38128800 Level: 1 Blinds(20/40) - Tuesday, January 29, 14:56:48 ET 2008
Table Table 130836 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 6: Doenhardt75 ( 2,000 )
Seat 4: ben_w_2004 ( 2,080 )
Seat 2: chasmcgill ( 1,520 )
Seat 1: faqutoo ( 1,540 )
Seat 8: mariodb ( 1,900 )
Seat 7: GBod81 ( 2,780 )
Seat 3: Hagbardius ( 1,940 )
Seat 5: liverpool049 ( 2,400 )
Seat 9: hadum ( 1,900 )
Seat 10: borqblow ( 1,940 )
Trny: 38128800 Level: 1
Blinds(20/40)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Ah As ]
>You have options at Table 131066 Table!.
GBod81 raises [200]
mariodb raises [440]
hadum folds
borqblow folds
faqutoo folds
chasmcgill folds
Hagbardius folds
ben_w_2004 raises [980]
liverpool049 folds
Doenhardt75 folds
GBod81 calls [780]
mariodb is all-In [1,460]
ben_w_2004 is all-In [1,100]
GBod81 calls [1,100]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 8d, Ad ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
>You have options at Table 131066 Table!.
ben_w_2004 shows [ Ah, As ]four of a kind, Aces.
GBod81 shows [ Jc, Jd ]two pairs, Aces and Jacks.
mariodb shows [ Kd, Kh ]two pairs, Aces and Kings.
ben_w_2004 wins 360 chips from side pot #1 with four of a kind, Aces.
ben_w_2004 wins 5,760 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, Aces.
mariodb finished in 10 place.
Now the guy with Kings I can understand, but the guy with Jacks? How on earth does he get his money in in this pot? Surely he can't expect to be winning here after the pot has been raised 5 times and 2 people are already all-in. Oh well, always nice to hit quads...
How are things going in your 3 remaining games I hear you cry! Well I can tell you I'm out of one, you guessed it, lost another 50/50. BUT stop the press, I've won 2 other coinflips in one game to double up twice with 5 left iand I'm in good shape in the final one (the one where I hit quads) still with 6 left though.
Hello Mr Boomswitch...just won one and finished second in the other. The second place was fairly standard, but my god the win was awesome, I think I now know how the Cannon feels 95% of the time. Lets pick up from where I left off, having one 2 coinflips in close succession, unheard of in itself I then knocked the two short-stacked players in one fowl swoop makin a sick call from the big blind. I use sick not in the good sense, but in the way it was probably a bad call, I just didn't have time to work out odds etc. and saw the opportunity to get in the money without making too much of a dent in my own stack, see what you think:
***** Hand History for Game 6735238348 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny: 38128584 Level: 5 Blinds(200/400) - Tuesday, January 29, 15:27:26 ET 2008
Table Table 131066 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: Bidness632 ( 1,360 )
Seat 3: funkypayz ( 1,460 )
Seat 8: wazzzz111 ( 4,400 )
Seat 10: ben_w_2004 ( 7,400 )
Seat 9: hoodwink49 ( 5,380 )
Trny: 38128584 Level: 5
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Th 9d ]
Bidness632 is all-In.
funkypayz is all-In.
wazzzz111 folds.
hoodwink49 folds.
ben_w_2004 calls [1,060]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 2h, Qh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
Bidness632 shows [ Jc, Kd ]two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
funkypayz shows [ Ad, 8c ]high card Ace.
ben_w_2004 shows [ Th, 9d ]a straight Nine to King.
ben_w_2004 wins 200 chips from side pot #1 with a straight, Nine to King.
ben_w_2004 wins 4,280 chips from the main pot with a straight, Nine to King.
Bidness632 finished in 5 place.
funkypayz finished in 4 place.
The game was then over in two hands as I found KQ against KJ and then to finish it off I managed to suck out with K7 versus AK...BOOM...
So only $30 down for the night now and on a roll I hope. I was going to stop for the night but may as well play the rush and I've fired up 4 more tables.
Maybe the title wasn't so relevant after all...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Good weekend...and Q6 SOOTED!!!
Had a cracking time up in London on Friday night at Cannon and Big Tone's pad. But before I give the details what is it about people calling my all-ins with 67off when I have queens? Obviously they win...
Game #5180021813: Thunder £2 (ID6368033) £2+£0.25 - Hold'em NL (25/50) - 2008/01/27 - 13:18:03 (EST)
Table "6368033 - 9" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Cjwins (1260 in chips)
Seat 2: Sgt_bash (1435 in chips)
Seat 4: Phil55 (3275 in chips)
Seat 5: Colle1910 (755 in chips)
Seat 6: Tetleyimp (930 in chips)
Seat 7: Odin13 (4130 in chips)
Seat 8: Jonletaxi (4380 in chips)
Seat 9: Gandl112 (1790 in chips)
Seat 10: Joanne10 (1440 in chips)
Tetleyimp: posts small blind 25
Odin13: posts big blind 50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Joanne10 [Qh Qc]
Jonletaxi: raises to 100
Gandl112: folds
Joanne10: raises to 1440 and is all-in
Cjwins: folds
Sgt_bash: folds
Phil55: folds
Colle1910: folds
Tetleyimp: folds
Odin13: folds
Jonletaxi: calls 1340
----- FLOP ----- [8h 6c Ac]
----- TURN ----- [8h 6c Ac][6h]
----- RIVER ----- [8h 6c Ac 6h][8s]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Joanne10: shows [Qh Qc] (Two Pairs, Queens and Eights, Ace high)
Jonletaxi: shows [7c 6d] (A Full House, Sixes full of Eights)
Jonletaxi collected 2955 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 2955 Main pot 2955 Rake 0
Board [8h 6c Ac 6h 8s]
Seat 1: Cjwins folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Sgt_bash folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Phil55 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Colle1910 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Tetleyimp (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Odin13 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Jonletaxi showed [7c 6d] and won (2955) with A Full House, Sixes full of Eights
Seat 9: Gandl112 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: Joanne10 showed [Qh Qc] and lost with Two Pairs, Queens and Eights, Ace high
I just don't understand this play. Firstly raising under the gun with 6 7, then calling the 30 big blind shove? Oh well.
Back to Friday night then, turned up at the Cannon and Big Tone's pad at 8-ish and was straight into the gambling, winning 3 games of Pro Evo for a total of £15. The others then arrived and we got down to poker at just after 9. I bought in for £40, with the £15 from Pro Evo added from the others to give me a starting stack of £55, playing classic 10p/20p blinds. There were 7 of us in the end and I was in a fairly good position on the table being on Ed's left. To my left was Big Tone, then N-Dog, Cashy P, Blubs, and Simon. I can't remember who bought in for what but roughly Ed £100, Cashy £190, N-dog £50-60?, Big Tone £100, Blubs £100 and Si £50.
So the action started and Cashy was as usual raising pretty much raising every hand and soon found himself up about £100, mainly at Big Tone's expense, showing a mixture of big bluffs and made hands. It was my first time playing with Blubs and he made a pretty outrageous 3-barrelled bluff early on betting into Si's trip aces so I wasn't too sure how he was going to play. I made a couple of well-timed bluffs, versus him to win small pots but the action was pretty much passing me by. Then I pick up 7 2 off on the button and pop it up after it's folded to me (we were playing the 7-2 game to win a pound of everyone else if you won a hand with that hand) I then proceeded to pump it up on all 3 occasions when it was checked to me after Big Tone had called from the small blind and luckily the 3rd got through for a pot of around £15 and the £6 from everyone. I kept on grinding away, not playing many pots until my first real playable hand of the night popped up. Queens. I was effectively UTG as Cannon had put the straddle on and flat called hoping either Cashy or the Cannnon would pop it up. Big Tone limps behind me and Cashy duly obliges to make it £2.80 to go. It folds round to me and I pop it up to about £12, Big Tone calls this pretty quickly which was fairly worrying. Flop comes 522 and I check it with the aim of check-raising any bet I face. Big Tone fires out £15 and I think a little and raise to £40, Big Tone then announces all-in and I go into the tank. We worked out that we had pretty similar stacks at about £55 and I say to Big Tone "shall we just play for £20 more" not the whole £35. He deliberates for a while and says ok and so I make the call and he of course turns over pocket 5's for the house. Bam!!! Queen on the river and I ship a very lucky, and healthy pot. I give Big Tone back his £20 extra he put in out of kindness and probably because I knew that, as Cannon later pointed out, I probably wouldn't have called had it been for my whole stack.
Very next hand and I call a CashyP raise from the big blind with 89 sooted to see a flop of A89. I check it, short-stacked Simon puts £2 in and I raise it to £7, he calls pretty quick and I set him all-in on an innocuos looking 3 turn card only for him to call with A3, and I'm back to about £130.
So we get to about 6:30am and I am very tired and haven't won a pot for a while and spot a nice duvet in the corner which I want to curl up and go to sleep on. I'm UTG and I figure I'll just play this hand and then sit out for a while and sleep. I look down at Q6 SOOTED and pump it up to 80p. The Cannon in the small blind repops to about £2.50 and I, knowing that he knows I don't make moves preflop (he had told everyone me earlier in the night)pop it up again hoping to take the pot down there and then. The Cannon being a gigantic fish announces "I know you have Kings" but still makes the call.
Flop comes a fairly friendly JJ4 and he checks hoping to entice a bet from me (and now knowing his hand why wouldn't he) and I make a typically Cheese-like weak check behind. So we go to the turn, an Ace. He fires £10. I think to myself "what would I do if I had aces here" and I make the call. The river comes and it's a King. Action to Ed and he bets out £25, I pop it up around £40 and he insta-passes AJ to fold Jacks full of Aces. WOW!!! I turn over Q6 SOOTED and I think I saw a bit of vomit come up in his mouth. Ed then tries to explain his laydown but is met by a barrage of abuse and proceeds to tilt off the rest of his stack. He then reloads for £200 and manages to tilt that off in about half an hour, all to Big Tone who until then had been the big loser for the night! Things were getting pretty ridiculous, there was over a grand on the table playing 10p/20p for christ's sake! That's 5000 big blinds. So at about 8:30am we call it a day for poker, and after an 11 hour session I cash out for £155 for £100 poker profit. Cashy I think had £2 profit in the end (that's a steady 18p an hour income), Ed was the big loser for over £300, and the rest had smallish profits I think, including N-dog who had been playing terribly and had been reluctant to rebuy having lost his stack coming back nicely.
Then Ed and Ant played a £100 pro evo game with the rules being that they were the same team and Ed got to choose the team. Bayern Munich of course. Ant took it down 6-3 and Ed was stuck £100 more!
So having not slept since 7am friday morning we went down the local cafe for a fry-up and on the way back stopped off at the bookies for a couple of quick bets from the others. (Cannon how did your £40 bet go? I saw Walsall and Middlesborough won but who was the other team?)
We got back to the flat and as I was playing football and had to leave at 12 I decided it probably wasn't a good idea to try and get some sleep so we had a Pro Evo fivers in tourney, 5 minute matches and 2 groups of 3 (Big Tone had gone to sleep by then) followed by semi's and then a final. My group was a fairly easy looking N-dog and Blubs but I fell 1-0 as my Pompy side were no match for his Bolton. He then drew with N-dog meaning that I had to beat N-dog to stay in the competition. I duly did and was through to face Cashy in the semi's with Si taking on Blubs in the other having knocked out the Cannon in one of the shocks of Pro Evo history (sarcastic?).
The Point was duly dispatched and I came up against surprise package Blubs in the final. Four goals later and I was picking up another £20 from Pro Evo to take my total profit to £135. Whilst this was happening the Cannon managed to win back what he'd lost playing with us by going online playing $2/$4.
I went to football at 12 thinking it was probably a bad idea not to have slept at all but played okay in a 3-1 win and even managed to smash the bar from 25 yards with about my 2nd touch! The match served to wake me up a bit and I didnt really feel tired as I left the ground and went to pick the missus up from Bluewater. We had a nice dinner and then went and watched Superbad in bed. Was an absolute cracker and I'm sure would have been even better if I hadn't of been struggling to keep my eyes open! I finally fell asleep at 8pm after 37 hours awake and managed to sleep for 14 hours which I haven't done for a while. Went to see the missus's brother and his wife and kids today and watched Spurs lose to United but all in all has been a quality weekend and has in a way reminded me of the quality Uni days we used to have and made me look forward to the Reading Series of Poker even more.
Game #5180021813: Thunder £2 (ID6368033) £2+£0.25 - Hold'em NL (25/50) - 2008/01/27 - 13:18:03 (EST)
Table "6368033 - 9" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Cjwins (1260 in chips)
Seat 2: Sgt_bash (1435 in chips)
Seat 4: Phil55 (3275 in chips)
Seat 5: Colle1910 (755 in chips)
Seat 6: Tetleyimp (930 in chips)
Seat 7: Odin13 (4130 in chips)
Seat 8: Jonletaxi (4380 in chips)
Seat 9: Gandl112 (1790 in chips)
Seat 10: Joanne10 (1440 in chips)
Tetleyimp: posts small blind 25
Odin13: posts big blind 50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Joanne10 [Qh Qc]
Jonletaxi: raises to 100
Gandl112: folds
Joanne10: raises to 1440 and is all-in
Cjwins: folds
Sgt_bash: folds
Phil55: folds
Colle1910: folds
Tetleyimp: folds
Odin13: folds
Jonletaxi: calls 1340
----- FLOP ----- [8h 6c Ac]
----- TURN ----- [8h 6c Ac][6h]
----- RIVER ----- [8h 6c Ac 6h][8s]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Joanne10: shows [Qh Qc] (Two Pairs, Queens and Eights, Ace high)
Jonletaxi: shows [7c 6d] (A Full House, Sixes full of Eights)
Jonletaxi collected 2955 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 2955 Main pot 2955 Rake 0
Board [8h 6c Ac 6h 8s]
Seat 1: Cjwins folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Sgt_bash folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Phil55 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Colle1910 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Tetleyimp (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Odin13 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Jonletaxi showed [7c 6d] and won (2955) with A Full House, Sixes full of Eights
Seat 9: Gandl112 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: Joanne10 showed [Qh Qc] and lost with Two Pairs, Queens and Eights, Ace high
I just don't understand this play. Firstly raising under the gun with 6 7, then calling the 30 big blind shove? Oh well.
Back to Friday night then, turned up at the Cannon and Big Tone's pad at 8-ish and was straight into the gambling, winning 3 games of Pro Evo for a total of £15. The others then arrived and we got down to poker at just after 9. I bought in for £40, with the £15 from Pro Evo added from the others to give me a starting stack of £55, playing classic 10p/20p blinds. There were 7 of us in the end and I was in a fairly good position on the table being on Ed's left. To my left was Big Tone, then N-Dog, Cashy P, Blubs, and Simon. I can't remember who bought in for what but roughly Ed £100, Cashy £190, N-dog £50-60?, Big Tone £100, Blubs £100 and Si £50.
So the action started and Cashy was as usual raising pretty much raising every hand and soon found himself up about £100, mainly at Big Tone's expense, showing a mixture of big bluffs and made hands. It was my first time playing with Blubs and he made a pretty outrageous 3-barrelled bluff early on betting into Si's trip aces so I wasn't too sure how he was going to play. I made a couple of well-timed bluffs, versus him to win small pots but the action was pretty much passing me by. Then I pick up 7 2 off on the button and pop it up after it's folded to me (we were playing the 7-2 game to win a pound of everyone else if you won a hand with that hand) I then proceeded to pump it up on all 3 occasions when it was checked to me after Big Tone had called from the small blind and luckily the 3rd got through for a pot of around £15 and the £6 from everyone. I kept on grinding away, not playing many pots until my first real playable hand of the night popped up. Queens. I was effectively UTG as Cannon had put the straddle on and flat called hoping either Cashy or the Cannnon would pop it up. Big Tone limps behind me and Cashy duly obliges to make it £2.80 to go. It folds round to me and I pop it up to about £12, Big Tone calls this pretty quickly which was fairly worrying. Flop comes 522 and I check it with the aim of check-raising any bet I face. Big Tone fires out £15 and I think a little and raise to £40, Big Tone then announces all-in and I go into the tank. We worked out that we had pretty similar stacks at about £55 and I say to Big Tone "shall we just play for £20 more" not the whole £35. He deliberates for a while and says ok and so I make the call and he of course turns over pocket 5's for the house. Bam!!! Queen on the river and I ship a very lucky, and healthy pot. I give Big Tone back his £20 extra he put in out of kindness and probably because I knew that, as Cannon later pointed out, I probably wouldn't have called had it been for my whole stack.
Very next hand and I call a CashyP raise from the big blind with 89 sooted to see a flop of A89. I check it, short-stacked Simon puts £2 in and I raise it to £7, he calls pretty quick and I set him all-in on an innocuos looking 3 turn card only for him to call with A3, and I'm back to about £130.
So we get to about 6:30am and I am very tired and haven't won a pot for a while and spot a nice duvet in the corner which I want to curl up and go to sleep on. I'm UTG and I figure I'll just play this hand and then sit out for a while and sleep. I look down at Q6 SOOTED and pump it up to 80p. The Cannon in the small blind repops to about £2.50 and I, knowing that he knows I don't make moves preflop (he had told everyone me earlier in the night)pop it up again hoping to take the pot down there and then. The Cannon being a gigantic fish announces "I know you have Kings" but still makes the call.
Flop comes a fairly friendly JJ4 and he checks hoping to entice a bet from me (and now knowing his hand why wouldn't he) and I make a typically Cheese-like weak check behind. So we go to the turn, an Ace. He fires £10. I think to myself "what would I do if I had aces here" and I make the call. The river comes and it's a King. Action to Ed and he bets out £25, I pop it up around £40 and he insta-passes AJ to fold Jacks full of Aces. WOW!!! I turn over Q6 SOOTED and I think I saw a bit of vomit come up in his mouth. Ed then tries to explain his laydown but is met by a barrage of abuse and proceeds to tilt off the rest of his stack. He then reloads for £200 and manages to tilt that off in about half an hour, all to Big Tone who until then had been the big loser for the night! Things were getting pretty ridiculous, there was over a grand on the table playing 10p/20p for christ's sake! That's 5000 big blinds. So at about 8:30am we call it a day for poker, and after an 11 hour session I cash out for £155 for £100 poker profit. Cashy I think had £2 profit in the end (that's a steady 18p an hour income), Ed was the big loser for over £300, and the rest had smallish profits I think, including N-dog who had been playing terribly and had been reluctant to rebuy having lost his stack coming back nicely.
Then Ed and Ant played a £100 pro evo game with the rules being that they were the same team and Ed got to choose the team. Bayern Munich of course. Ant took it down 6-3 and Ed was stuck £100 more!
So having not slept since 7am friday morning we went down the local cafe for a fry-up and on the way back stopped off at the bookies for a couple of quick bets from the others. (Cannon how did your £40 bet go? I saw Walsall and Middlesborough won but who was the other team?)
We got back to the flat and as I was playing football and had to leave at 12 I decided it probably wasn't a good idea to try and get some sleep so we had a Pro Evo fivers in tourney, 5 minute matches and 2 groups of 3 (Big Tone had gone to sleep by then) followed by semi's and then a final. My group was a fairly easy looking N-dog and Blubs but I fell 1-0 as my Pompy side were no match for his Bolton. He then drew with N-dog meaning that I had to beat N-dog to stay in the competition. I duly did and was through to face Cashy in the semi's with Si taking on Blubs in the other having knocked out the Cannon in one of the shocks of Pro Evo history (sarcastic?).
The Point was duly dispatched and I came up against surprise package Blubs in the final. Four goals later and I was picking up another £20 from Pro Evo to take my total profit to £135. Whilst this was happening the Cannon managed to win back what he'd lost playing with us by going online playing $2/$4.
I went to football at 12 thinking it was probably a bad idea not to have slept at all but played okay in a 3-1 win and even managed to smash the bar from 25 yards with about my 2nd touch! The match served to wake me up a bit and I didnt really feel tired as I left the ground and went to pick the missus up from Bluewater. We had a nice dinner and then went and watched Superbad in bed. Was an absolute cracker and I'm sure would have been even better if I hadn't of been struggling to keep my eyes open! I finally fell asleep at 8pm after 37 hours awake and managed to sleep for 14 hours which I haven't done for a while. Went to see the missus's brother and his wife and kids today and watched Spurs lose to United but all in all has been a quality weekend and has in a way reminded me of the quality Uni days we used to have and made me look forward to the Reading Series of Poker even more.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
In summary of tonight...
Dropped $26 on Stars and $33 on Party. Twice managed to get flushes flopped against me in pots I'd raised to get stacked. But to sum up the night this happened:
***** Hand History for Game 6715995665 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny: 38016588 Level: 3 Blinds(50/100) - Wednesday, January 23, 15:34:11 ET 2008
Table Table 127798 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: GorgarXL ( 2,440 )
Seat 3: mattydubb ( 3,660 )
Seat 5: JimmyK13 ( 2,570 )
Seat 8: edietheeagle ( 1,620 )
Seat 6: crazychick13 ( 1,570 )
Seat 4: ben_w_2004 ( 1,910 )
Seat 9: the_peasant ( 1,970 )
Seat 10: greob ( 1,380 )
Seat 2: stex22 ( 2,880 )
Trny: 38016588 Level: 3
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Qh Qs ]
crazychick13 folds.
edietheeagle folds.
the_peasant did not respond in time
the_peasant folds.
greob folds.
GorgarXL folds.
stex22 folds.
mattydubb raises [500]
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
JimmyK13 folds.
mattydubb calls [1,410]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 2c, 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
mattydubb shows [ 6c, 7s ]a straight Four to Eight.
ben_w_2004 shows [ Qh, Qs ]a pair of Queens.
mattydubb wins 3,920 chips from the main pot with a straight, Four to Eight.
ben_w_2004 finished in 9 place.
The conversation afterwards was a bit of a crack up, shame I couldn't get involved as I was out:
JimmyK13: "LOL nice hand"
mattydubb: "Lol thanks, I was priced in"
JimmyK13: "What do you mean?"
mattydubb: "I mean once I had raised I pretty much had to call"
JimmyK13: "Oh I see, you mean once you had put 500 in and only had to call 1400 more?"
mattydubb: "Exactly, I had the odds to call"
JimmyK13: "Does it not depend on what the other player has though?"
mattydubb: "I suppose so, it depends on the range I put him on."
GorgarXL: "Are you guys being serious? What "range" did you put him on then matt?"
mattydubb: "I thought he might have pocket 2's or 3's or something like that"
GorgarXL: "Well at least you got it quite close"
***** Hand History for Game 6715995665 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny: 38016588 Level: 3 Blinds(50/100) - Wednesday, January 23, 15:34:11 ET 2008
Table Table 127798 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: GorgarXL ( 2,440 )
Seat 3: mattydubb ( 3,660 )
Seat 5: JimmyK13 ( 2,570 )
Seat 8: edietheeagle ( 1,620 )
Seat 6: crazychick13 ( 1,570 )
Seat 4: ben_w_2004 ( 1,910 )
Seat 9: the_peasant ( 1,970 )
Seat 10: greob ( 1,380 )
Seat 2: stex22 ( 2,880 )
Trny: 38016588 Level: 3
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ben_w_2004 [ Qh Qs ]
crazychick13 folds.
edietheeagle folds.
the_peasant did not respond in time
the_peasant folds.
greob folds.
GorgarXL folds.
stex22 folds.
mattydubb raises [500]
ben_w_2004 is all-In.
JimmyK13 folds.
mattydubb calls [1,410]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 2c, 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
mattydubb shows [ 6c, 7s ]a straight Four to Eight.
ben_w_2004 shows [ Qh, Qs ]a pair of Queens.
mattydubb wins 3,920 chips from the main pot with a straight, Four to Eight.
ben_w_2004 finished in 9 place.
The conversation afterwards was a bit of a crack up, shame I couldn't get involved as I was out:
JimmyK13: "LOL nice hand"
mattydubb: "Lol thanks, I was priced in"
JimmyK13: "What do you mean?"
mattydubb: "I mean once I had raised I pretty much had to call"
JimmyK13: "Oh I see, you mean once you had put 500 in and only had to call 1400 more?"
mattydubb: "Exactly, I had the odds to call"
JimmyK13: "Does it not depend on what the other player has though?"
mattydubb: "I suppose so, it depends on the range I put him on."
GorgarXL: "Are you guys being serious? What "range" did you put him on then matt?"
mattydubb: "I thought he might have pocket 2's or 3's or something like that"
GorgarXL: "Well at least you got it quite close"
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Satellites and the big score...
I was reading SG's blog the other day (see link to right) and he was talking about how he grinds away in STT's and cash games and looks to give a big boost to his bankroll by finishing well in a MTT. Now this is basically what I have been doing for the last couple of years, playing $5/$10 MTT's on the side looking for that big win. However, what SG looks to do is satellite into bigger buy-in tournies which makes alot of sense.
So I enter a $4 rebuy turbo satellite to a $55 13k guarenteed tourney and lo and behold qualify comfortably! When I play rebuys online I usually limit myself to an immediate rebuy if there's one available and an add-on at the end of the rebuy period. In this particular satellite I have an outlay of $8 max and therefore only have to qualify once in 7 attempts to make it profitable.
So to the $55 tourney and it was a story of making the big hands pay. The big hands being aces, which I got 3 times in the first 2 hours, doubling up each time I had them. The other playable hands I had were AK, which I had 5 times in the first hour! I broke even on these AK's, winning 3 small pots, losing a small one and losing a medium one when I ran into aces luckily on a scary board. After the second break however the cards just dried up, I had about 25bb's at one stage but this was whittled down to 10bb's, with stealing and restealing opportunities very limited in what was a very aggressive tournament. Then UTG pumps it to 3xbb, I look at QQ in late position and push over the top and get called by the UTG player who had AQ and spiked an Ace on the turn to send me packing in 41st out of 220 with 30 getting paid. A shame as I think winning that hand would have pretty much guarenteed a cash at my first attempt in this level of tournament. One thing I noticed when playing this tournament was the number of bad, and I mean very bad, players. I'm talking about things like min-raising from the button when there have been 3 limpers in front, calling pot-sized all-ins on the turn with bare flush draws it was almost embarassing at times. I was paying full attention to this tournament and making notes on each player categorising them into "bad/rubbish/solid/tricky" and then making notes of how they played particular hands, something I would definately recommend doing, especially at this sort of level and below when it is very rare that someone will mix up their game meaning that you can pretty much guess their hand by looking back at betting patterns. Obviously this is a very simplistic view with rising blind levels greatly changing the dynamics of play but it certainly helped me and also made sure I kept concentrating.
Anyway on my first table I made notes on all the players and I categorised just one as "solid", one as "tricky" and the rest were either "rubbish" or "bad" and I was loving it. Unfortunately I got moved from this table to one with a slightly better standard but still nothing special and my first impressions are certainly that I can make this a profitable tournament for myself, especially if I can keep qualifying for so little. I tried qualifying from the same rebuy on Friday night and finished 9th with the top 8 getting seats having seen 4 short stacks be all-in before me with the worst hand and suck out, it was sickening to watch as I knew what was coming...
ps. Get in there Tottenham...5-1...Spurs are on their way to Wembley, Tottenham's gonnna do it again...(The Cannon will appreciate that I'm sure).
So I enter a $4 rebuy turbo satellite to a $55 13k guarenteed tourney and lo and behold qualify comfortably! When I play rebuys online I usually limit myself to an immediate rebuy if there's one available and an add-on at the end of the rebuy period. In this particular satellite I have an outlay of $8 max and therefore only have to qualify once in 7 attempts to make it profitable.
So to the $55 tourney and it was a story of making the big hands pay. The big hands being aces, which I got 3 times in the first 2 hours, doubling up each time I had them. The other playable hands I had were AK, which I had 5 times in the first hour! I broke even on these AK's, winning 3 small pots, losing a small one and losing a medium one when I ran into aces luckily on a scary board. After the second break however the cards just dried up, I had about 25bb's at one stage but this was whittled down to 10bb's, with stealing and restealing opportunities very limited in what was a very aggressive tournament. Then UTG pumps it to 3xbb, I look at QQ in late position and push over the top and get called by the UTG player who had AQ and spiked an Ace on the turn to send me packing in 41st out of 220 with 30 getting paid. A shame as I think winning that hand would have pretty much guarenteed a cash at my first attempt in this level of tournament. One thing I noticed when playing this tournament was the number of bad, and I mean very bad, players. I'm talking about things like min-raising from the button when there have been 3 limpers in front, calling pot-sized all-ins on the turn with bare flush draws it was almost embarassing at times. I was paying full attention to this tournament and making notes on each player categorising them into "bad/rubbish/solid/tricky" and then making notes of how they played particular hands, something I would definately recommend doing, especially at this sort of level and below when it is very rare that someone will mix up their game meaning that you can pretty much guess their hand by looking back at betting patterns. Obviously this is a very simplistic view with rising blind levels greatly changing the dynamics of play but it certainly helped me and also made sure I kept concentrating.
Anyway on my first table I made notes on all the players and I categorised just one as "solid", one as "tricky" and the rest were either "rubbish" or "bad" and I was loving it. Unfortunately I got moved from this table to one with a slightly better standard but still nothing special and my first impressions are certainly that I can make this a profitable tournament for myself, especially if I can keep qualifying for so little. I tried qualifying from the same rebuy on Friday night and finished 9th with the top 8 getting seats having seen 4 short stacks be all-in before me with the worst hand and suck out, it was sickening to watch as I knew what was coming...
ps. Get in there Tottenham...5-1...Spurs are on their way to Wembley, Tottenham's gonnna do it again...(The Cannon will appreciate that I'm sure).
Monday, January 21, 2008
A week of Cashy...
Played quite a few interesting sessions since my last post and doubt I'll be able to cover it all in one go. Items on the agenda are:
1. Satellites and SG
2. "Lucky $13k" tourney from Wednesday.
3. Wednesday night cash game feat. CashyP
4. Friday night cash game feat. CashyP
5. Sunday night cash game feat. CashyP...and the man that runs hotter than the sun....the CANNNNNNNON....
6. Future live poker events - Cannon's and Big Tone's home game / RSOP / maybe WaSOP.
In actual fact I have no time to blog about these now, but I will hopefully get round to it sometime this week. Something the people (all two of you) who read this to look forward to...
1. Satellites and SG
2. "Lucky $13k" tourney from Wednesday.
3. Wednesday night cash game feat. CashyP
4. Friday night cash game feat. CashyP
5. Sunday night cash game feat. CashyP...and the man that runs hotter than the sun....the CANNNNNNNON....
6. Future live poker events - Cannon's and Big Tone's home game / RSOP / maybe WaSOP.
In actual fact I have no time to blog about these now, but I will hopefully get round to it sometime this week. Something the people (all two of you) who read this to look forward to...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Neither the bridesmaid or the bride...
i.e. not in the top 2.
I managed to finshed 3rd in 3 consecutive SnG's last night, two on Party and one on Stars. While this may suggest that I'm just limping into the money all the time that was not the case and all 3 bubbles played out differently. Firstly on Stars one big stack had about 9k in chips with the other 3 of us having around 1.5k eack at the 100/200 blind level and it took a while for the big stack to knock someone out as the was little flop playing and it just took for 2 reasonable hands to be up against each other. The big stack then raised pretty much every hand and when I took a stand with AJ that was no match for his JT.
In the first Party game 4-way had a lot of play in it as all 4 players were between 4k and 6k at 200/400 blinds. Eventually I picked up KK and knocked out someone who held 8's and then I was the big stack and putting pressure on the other two. Then lost a 50/50 and ran my 9's into 10's and I was out in 3rd. The other Party game was crazy and we were 3-way at the beginning of the 100/200 level and I literally hadn't played a pot and was on about 1500 and first hand I play was AQ, all-in pre called by deuces and obviously they hold up.
So tonight I fire up another $11 table on Stars hoping for a fourth consecutive cash. Build my stack with a flopped Q high flush from the BB in the third level then lose a 50/50 with AK to a short-stack's 10's with blinds still at 50/100 to leave me on 10BB's. It continues to amaze me how slowly people go out of these tournies on Stars and tonight was no different as only 1 person had exited before I lose my second 50/50 of the night with KQ against JJ, even hitting 2-pair was no good versus his set. But over the two nights I'm up $14 despite winning 0/4 of the 50/50's I got in. If only I ran like the Cannon in 50/50's, I believe his record is something like 2,408 won and 13 lost. I know 2,421 is only a small sample size and I'm sure these figures will even themselves out in his lifetime but it's still pretty ridiculous...
I managed to finshed 3rd in 3 consecutive SnG's last night, two on Party and one on Stars. While this may suggest that I'm just limping into the money all the time that was not the case and all 3 bubbles played out differently. Firstly on Stars one big stack had about 9k in chips with the other 3 of us having around 1.5k eack at the 100/200 blind level and it took a while for the big stack to knock someone out as the was little flop playing and it just took for 2 reasonable hands to be up against each other. The big stack then raised pretty much every hand and when I took a stand with AJ that was no match for his JT.
In the first Party game 4-way had a lot of play in it as all 4 players were between 4k and 6k at 200/400 blinds. Eventually I picked up KK and knocked out someone who held 8's and then I was the big stack and putting pressure on the other two. Then lost a 50/50 and ran my 9's into 10's and I was out in 3rd. The other Party game was crazy and we were 3-way at the beginning of the 100/200 level and I literally hadn't played a pot and was on about 1500 and first hand I play was AQ, all-in pre called by deuces and obviously they hold up.
So tonight I fire up another $11 table on Stars hoping for a fourth consecutive cash. Build my stack with a flopped Q high flush from the BB in the third level then lose a 50/50 with AK to a short-stack's 10's with blinds still at 50/100 to leave me on 10BB's. It continues to amaze me how slowly people go out of these tournies on Stars and tonight was no different as only 1 person had exited before I lose my second 50/50 of the night with KQ against JJ, even hitting 2-pair was no good versus his set. But over the two nights I'm up $14 despite winning 0/4 of the 50/50's I got in. If only I ran like the Cannon in 50/50's, I believe his record is something like 2,408 won and 13 lost. I know 2,421 is only a small sample size and I'm sure these figures will even themselves out in his lifetime but it's still pretty ridiculous...
Monday, January 14, 2008
New High for Party Poker
Party Account: £443.18
This is the peak thus far of my Party career. Went to the Party Points Store to see what I could do with my 4,500 points and found out I could use them to get tourney tickets at 100 points per dollar. So I "bought" an $11 STT ticket and won it for $50 in style. So I've got 3 "freeroll" STT's left so hopefully will be able to get at least $30 from them which will take the value of my points to almost $2 per 100 points.
Played a few $5.50 STT's on my Stars account, finished 2nd, 4th and 5th for a $3 loss. The one thing I noticed was that these tournies seem to go on a lot longer than the Party ones and it's hard to have under 10bb's even after about 40-50 minutes. Patience is therefore a much bigger factor in these games and hopefully that will suit my style although I don't know how much I'll play on Stars as I prefer my roll status on Party and think generally the standard of play is poorer, especially at the $11 level from what I have grasped so far.
The main reason that I will play on Stars is to try to clear the $50 bonus by getting 500FPP's. I signed up with Pokerlistings.com as well and they had a deposit code that doubles the bonus although I've had no confirmation that the added bonus is going to work, but potentially there's a free $100 to unlock.
To do this however I'd have to play 100 $11 STT's or 160 $5.50 STT's. That means my total outlay will be between $1100 and $880.
So if I continue with the smaller games, assuming an average cash of $15 I'd need to cash in 59 of the 160 to break even which is around 37%. Cashing in 50% of games I play will produce a $300 profit but considering that the games take about 75 minutes to complete and I will probably start playing 4 at a time it will take 50 hours of play to clear the bonus! Now this does not sound too good so I may take the $11 route to match the levels I'm playing on Party.
With these games I assume the average cash to be $30 and again to just break-even I'd have to cash in around 37% of games with cashes in 50% yielding a $400 profit. This will just over 30 hours to complete but is much more reliant on a good start to boost the bankroll as a 8game losing streak to begin with will end the roll before it even had a chance.
So I'll weigh up these options and see what the best course of action is. I'm thinking play a few $11's to start with but if the roll goes below $50 then switch to the $5.50's until I either bust or have enough to move back up.
As for my plans this week I've got football tonight so won't be able to play but Tuesday and Wednesday should fit in a couple of hours so will update then.
Wow, I didnt realise how long this post was getting with me just rambling on...should really get back to work...
This is the peak thus far of my Party career. Went to the Party Points Store to see what I could do with my 4,500 points and found out I could use them to get tourney tickets at 100 points per dollar. So I "bought" an $11 STT ticket and won it for $50 in style. So I've got 3 "freeroll" STT's left so hopefully will be able to get at least $30 from them which will take the value of my points to almost $2 per 100 points.
Played a few $5.50 STT's on my Stars account, finished 2nd, 4th and 5th for a $3 loss. The one thing I noticed was that these tournies seem to go on a lot longer than the Party ones and it's hard to have under 10bb's even after about 40-50 minutes. Patience is therefore a much bigger factor in these games and hopefully that will suit my style although I don't know how much I'll play on Stars as I prefer my roll status on Party and think generally the standard of play is poorer, especially at the $11 level from what I have grasped so far.
The main reason that I will play on Stars is to try to clear the $50 bonus by getting 500FPP's. I signed up with Pokerlistings.com as well and they had a deposit code that doubles the bonus although I've had no confirmation that the added bonus is going to work, but potentially there's a free $100 to unlock.
To do this however I'd have to play 100 $11 STT's or 160 $5.50 STT's. That means my total outlay will be between $1100 and $880.
So if I continue with the smaller games, assuming an average cash of $15 I'd need to cash in 59 of the 160 to break even which is around 37%. Cashing in 50% of games I play will produce a $300 profit but considering that the games take about 75 minutes to complete and I will probably start playing 4 at a time it will take 50 hours of play to clear the bonus! Now this does not sound too good so I may take the $11 route to match the levels I'm playing on Party.
With these games I assume the average cash to be $30 and again to just break-even I'd have to cash in around 37% of games with cashes in 50% yielding a $400 profit. This will just over 30 hours to complete but is much more reliant on a good start to boost the bankroll as a 8game losing streak to begin with will end the roll before it even had a chance.
So I'll weigh up these options and see what the best course of action is. I'm thinking play a few $11's to start with but if the roll goes below $50 then switch to the $5.50's until I either bust or have enough to move back up.
As for my plans this week I've got football tonight so won't be able to play but Tuesday and Wednesday should fit in a couple of hours so will update then.
Wow, I didnt realise how long this post was getting with me just rambling on...should really get back to work...
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Luck at key times...
Tonight has been a case of getting bad luck just at times when things are setting up quite nicely in a tournament.
First of all was deep into a $5k 500 runner tourney with about 75 left and 60 getting paid and I was chip leader on the table. Then in the space of 5 hands I'm out to 3 hands I get all-in pre-flop with. Firstly KK vs 99, secondly AA vs QT and finally AK vs A5.
It doesn't help that I only won 1 out of 5 coinflips tonight in the 7 tournies I played. I even managed to avoid a lot of coinflips and got my money in way ahead only to get outdrawn.
The main reason for the blog title was the way I went out of the last tourney I was in, a £2 freezeout on Sun with about 220 runners and £144 for 1st. I got to the final table in great shape, 3rd in chips with over 30BB's and then a few hands in this happens:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1931424
My reason for shoving preflop was that I'd played with the 2 big stacks throughout the tournament and had constantly seen them showdown mediocre hands so knew my AK was good and was happy to just take down the 15k in the pot and show a good hand against the all-in short-stack. Then to my surprise the cold-calling big stack makes the call for over half his chips...with Queen Ten. WOW! Obviously the Ten hits the turn and instead of having 113k and being chip leader and well on my way to a nice finish ,I'm picking up a tenner for finishing 9th. Painful.
In other poker related news I've set up an account on Pokerstars. I found £45 in my Neteller account so thought I may as well put it to use so we'll see how far that roll can grow, or probably shrink. Played an $8 MTT on it this evening but didn't fare too well and most players seem very passive pre flop making it hard to get big hands paid.
In non-poker related news it's mine and Jo's 4 year anniversary together which is quite an achievement, just thought I'd let the couple of people that read this blog know!
First of all was deep into a $5k 500 runner tourney with about 75 left and 60 getting paid and I was chip leader on the table. Then in the space of 5 hands I'm out to 3 hands I get all-in pre-flop with. Firstly KK vs 99, secondly AA vs QT and finally AK vs A5.
It doesn't help that I only won 1 out of 5 coinflips tonight in the 7 tournies I played. I even managed to avoid a lot of coinflips and got my money in way ahead only to get outdrawn.
The main reason for the blog title was the way I went out of the last tourney I was in, a £2 freezeout on Sun with about 220 runners and £144 for 1st. I got to the final table in great shape, 3rd in chips with over 30BB's and then a few hands in this happens:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1931424
My reason for shoving preflop was that I'd played with the 2 big stacks throughout the tournament and had constantly seen them showdown mediocre hands so knew my AK was good and was happy to just take down the 15k in the pot and show a good hand against the all-in short-stack. Then to my surprise the cold-calling big stack makes the call for over half his chips...with Queen Ten. WOW! Obviously the Ten hits the turn and instead of having 113k and being chip leader and well on my way to a nice finish ,I'm picking up a tenner for finishing 9th. Painful.
In other poker related news I've set up an account on Pokerstars. I found £45 in my Neteller account so thought I may as well put it to use so we'll see how far that roll can grow, or probably shrink. Played an $8 MTT on it this evening but didn't fare too well and most players seem very passive pre flop making it hard to get big hands paid.
In non-poker related news it's mine and Jo's 4 year anniversary together which is quite an achievement, just thought I'd let the couple of people that read this blog know!
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Lately...
Back at work so not much time for pokering. Plus the fact that I played Call of Duty 4 on the xbox 360 and am now hooked on it and would rather play that than poker at the moment. I'm sure the novelty will wear off soon though, but it is an absolutely amazing game. I haven't been a huge fan of COD or Medal of Honour games in the past but I think this one appeals to me because it is set in the present day rather than WWI or 2 like the others.
Pokerwise I did manage to fit in a couple of STT's at the weekend, finishing 5th and 3rd to just get my money back. I might start tallying my STT results so I can see how I'm doing in them. Currently I think I've made about $5 profit!
Pokerwise I did manage to fit in a couple of STT's at the weekend, finishing 5th and 3rd to just get my money back. I might start tallying my STT results so I can see how I'm doing in them. Currently I think I've made about $5 profit!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Busted in 4th
Couple went out quickly after last post but then we played six handed for about 35 minutes with nothing really happening, I was on the right side of a couple of coolers for once when first my JJ beat TT then my QQ beat JJ, both time doubled through off the big stacks. But they were to my right and bullying my blinds so I rarely got a walk or to see a flop with bad cards so just got ground down permanently. The big stack took out the 2nd place to get a monster and get 5 way but the cards were still pretty dry and nothing much was happening for me.
Then there was a massive 3-way pot where the button pushed all-in with AQ, SB called with QQ and had him covered and the BB called with AJ and also had him covered. K high flop and SB checks and BB pushed all-in - what a muppet. SB makes a great call only for BB muppet to hit runner runner to a four flush.
So down to four and I find KQ in SB and push my 7BB in the middle to get called by A2 in the BB, KQ on the flop looks good until J and T fall to complete broadway and I'm out in 4th for $212 and missing out on my target of a top 3 finish by one position.
Oh well, ended up just under $100 up so that tourney rescued my night as I was stuck $100 before it. Feels good to get a decent score under my belt, hopefully the start of things to come!
ps. Cashy, I am off work still but feeling a bit better. Hopefully be back on Monday.
pps. Jo - looking forward to joining you in a minute, I wonder if we will have banter.
Then there was a massive 3-way pot where the button pushed all-in with AQ, SB called with QQ and had him covered and the BB called with AJ and also had him covered. K high flop and SB checks and BB pushed all-in - what a muppet. SB makes a great call only for BB muppet to hit runner runner to a four flush.
So down to four and I find KQ in SB and push my 7BB in the middle to get called by A2 in the BB, KQ on the flop looks good until J and T fall to complete broadway and I'm out in 4th for $212 and missing out on my target of a top 3 finish by one position.
Oh well, ended up just under $100 up so that tourney rescued my night as I was stuck $100 before it. Feels good to get a decent score under my belt, hopefully the start of things to come!
ps. Cashy, I am off work still but feeling a bit better. Hopefully be back on Monday.
pps. Jo - looking forward to joining you in a minute, I wonder if we will have banter.
Not what I was hoping for...
The title says it all really I only cashed in 2 of the 12 multi's I played, the first was not very substantial and the 2nd I am still in but short stacked with about 30 left and will probably be out by the time I finish this post.
The night started off ok, fired up a couple of $11 sit and go's on Party to get me in the mood and finished 2nd in one and 5th in the other for a nice $8 profit start to the night.
Then started up the first few multi's for the night and will take you through each site.
Noble
By far my worst site of the night, dropped $55 in the 6 tournaments I played and failed to cash in any.
Went out early in the $35k guarenteed $11 rebuy in the rebuy period when my AJ of spades failed to hit one of my 17 outs on the Ks9s9x board versus 88 all in on the flop.(Finished:1310/1419)
In the $6 rebuy I finished 451st of 1059. Got a little short stacked and pushed from button with 99 and the BB calls for basically his whole stack...with J7, which is obviously good for the pot.
So to the freezeouts and I lose with AA vs Ak all in pre in the early $6 to finish 1103rd of 1622 runners and in the later $6 finish 337th out of 880 in sick fashion just before the hour break. I pick up AK and pop it up 3.5xBB (my stack is 35BB), UTG+1 pushes allin for another 3 or 4 BB and it folds to the BB who thinks for ages and then flat calls. So it's back to me and I insta-shove for the rest of my stack, he has about 50BB's and times right down before making the call...with J5. No that is not a misprint he really did call with Jack Five! Flop gives short stack a set of 2's but it's the side pot of about 50BB's I'm looking at and the sickening Jack on the river means it's moving towards the chump in the BB.
Played a couple of $11 freezeouts as well was doing ok in the early one which had 1212 runners but busted when I ran 33 into 77 in the blinds, pretty unavoidable considering stack sizes/positions so not too upset and finished 263. The later one I was absolutely card dead for the first hour and had played just one hand to pick up a little pot to end on starting stack. Doubled up quickly after that and again soon after and trod water for a little while and was looking for spots with just 10BB's and 80 odd left of the 502 starters when I pick up AQ on the button. Gets folded to the cutoff who shoves for 15BB's and I almost folded but didnt thin I would be in too bad shape thinking he probably had a small to medium pocket pair, Jacks at most, and I didnt mind racing. So imagine my suprise when he turns over A2off! And imagine my anger when the deuce hits the river to send me out in 83rd.
So that was fucking Noble Poker...
Onto Sun Poker and things started well in the $2.5k guarenteed headhunter tourney when I pretty much trebled up in one hand without knocking anyone out when my AQ kept on improving to turn from pair to trips to boat from flop to turn to river. Always nice when that happens! Got pretty deep without really doing much then picked up QQ, standard raise got 1 caller, 9 high flop perfect for the push, insta-call from caller with wired 9's. Ouch, out in 124th of 655.
Played a few £2 tournies that attracted between 240 and 290 runners finishing 95th and 96th in the first 2. Pushed KJ into KQ when short in one and in the other made the only play that I was unhappy with afterwards all night. 5 people limped to me in the SB and I have 15BB's and pocket 6's and decided to shove. Unfortunately the BB woke up with Aces and that was that but when I thought about my play I just don't think it was the right thing to do as I'm going to be 50/50 at best if I get called and more often than not someone will have limped with 7's to J's and I'm in very bad shape.
So onto my first cash of the night (ps I'm doing ok in the tourney I'm still in and should just limp to the final table, 12 left) and it came in the 3rd £2 tourney I played finishing 12th out of 240 for a mighty £4.80! The manner that I went out in annoyed me, not so much because my Q9 didnt hold up against his J8 as I'm used to losing 60/40's on a regular basis, but because he flat called after it was folded to the SB so I push for 8BB's which was half his stack and he calls with little deliberation. I just don't like his play there and think he either needs to push first or fold in that spot to give himself another way of winning the hand, calling with J8 just isnt a very good play.
And finally my old nemesis Party Poker.
I only played 2 multi's on Party the $10k guarenteed $6 rebuy (which is producing prizepools of around $15k again nowadays). I went out in 211th of 818 when the button raised and I pushed for 18BB's with AJ, he had AK and the QJT flop left me with little hope and I was gone when I didnt improve. Shame really as I was doing alright and there are so many chumps with big stacks in the tourney.
I am still in the other tourney I played and am 7th out of 8 on the fnal table of the $6 freezeout that attracted 709 players. I'm guarenteed $70 but need 7th place to break even for the night and could really do with getting the $850 for first!
Will let you know how I got on next time...
The night started off ok, fired up a couple of $11 sit and go's on Party to get me in the mood and finished 2nd in one and 5th in the other for a nice $8 profit start to the night.
Then started up the first few multi's for the night and will take you through each site.
Noble
By far my worst site of the night, dropped $55 in the 6 tournaments I played and failed to cash in any.
Went out early in the $35k guarenteed $11 rebuy in the rebuy period when my AJ of spades failed to hit one of my 17 outs on the Ks9s9x board versus 88 all in on the flop.(Finished:1310/1419)
In the $6 rebuy I finished 451st of 1059. Got a little short stacked and pushed from button with 99 and the BB calls for basically his whole stack...with J7, which is obviously good for the pot.
So to the freezeouts and I lose with AA vs Ak all in pre in the early $6 to finish 1103rd of 1622 runners and in the later $6 finish 337th out of 880 in sick fashion just before the hour break. I pick up AK and pop it up 3.5xBB (my stack is 35BB), UTG+1 pushes allin for another 3 or 4 BB and it folds to the BB who thinks for ages and then flat calls. So it's back to me and I insta-shove for the rest of my stack, he has about 50BB's and times right down before making the call...with J5. No that is not a misprint he really did call with Jack Five! Flop gives short stack a set of 2's but it's the side pot of about 50BB's I'm looking at and the sickening Jack on the river means it's moving towards the chump in the BB.
Played a couple of $11 freezeouts as well was doing ok in the early one which had 1212 runners but busted when I ran 33 into 77 in the blinds, pretty unavoidable considering stack sizes/positions so not too upset and finished 263. The later one I was absolutely card dead for the first hour and had played just one hand to pick up a little pot to end on starting stack. Doubled up quickly after that and again soon after and trod water for a little while and was looking for spots with just 10BB's and 80 odd left of the 502 starters when I pick up AQ on the button. Gets folded to the cutoff who shoves for 15BB's and I almost folded but didnt thin I would be in too bad shape thinking he probably had a small to medium pocket pair, Jacks at most, and I didnt mind racing. So imagine my suprise when he turns over A2off! And imagine my anger when the deuce hits the river to send me out in 83rd.
So that was fucking Noble Poker...
Onto Sun Poker and things started well in the $2.5k guarenteed headhunter tourney when I pretty much trebled up in one hand without knocking anyone out when my AQ kept on improving to turn from pair to trips to boat from flop to turn to river. Always nice when that happens! Got pretty deep without really doing much then picked up QQ, standard raise got 1 caller, 9 high flop perfect for the push, insta-call from caller with wired 9's. Ouch, out in 124th of 655.
Played a few £2 tournies that attracted between 240 and 290 runners finishing 95th and 96th in the first 2. Pushed KJ into KQ when short in one and in the other made the only play that I was unhappy with afterwards all night. 5 people limped to me in the SB and I have 15BB's and pocket 6's and decided to shove. Unfortunately the BB woke up with Aces and that was that but when I thought about my play I just don't think it was the right thing to do as I'm going to be 50/50 at best if I get called and more often than not someone will have limped with 7's to J's and I'm in very bad shape.
So onto my first cash of the night (ps I'm doing ok in the tourney I'm still in and should just limp to the final table, 12 left) and it came in the 3rd £2 tourney I played finishing 12th out of 240 for a mighty £4.80! The manner that I went out in annoyed me, not so much because my Q9 didnt hold up against his J8 as I'm used to losing 60/40's on a regular basis, but because he flat called after it was folded to the SB so I push for 8BB's which was half his stack and he calls with little deliberation. I just don't like his play there and think he either needs to push first or fold in that spot to give himself another way of winning the hand, calling with J8 just isnt a very good play.
And finally my old nemesis Party Poker.
I only played 2 multi's on Party the $10k guarenteed $6 rebuy (which is producing prizepools of around $15k again nowadays). I went out in 211th of 818 when the button raised and I pushed for 18BB's with AJ, he had AK and the QJT flop left me with little hope and I was gone when I didnt improve. Shame really as I was doing alright and there are so many chumps with big stacks in the tourney.
I am still in the other tourney I played and am 7th out of 8 on the fnal table of the $6 freezeout that attracted 709 players. I'm guarenteed $70 but need 7th place to break even for the night and could really do with getting the $850 for first!
Will let you know how I got on next time...
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Self Assessment...and tonight's goal...
Was just wondering how my bankroll has changed since I started this blog so looked back to a previous post which informed me how much I had in my 3 main accounts to start with:
Party: £200
Noble: £720
Sun: $890
So about £1350 in total.
Now I withdrew £400 from Noble so realistically my Noble roll was £320 and total roll £950.
And here are my current account sizes:
Party: £310
Noble: £225
Sun: $715
Which is about £875 total for a £75 loss over about 6 months. I think the reason for this is that my best game is multi-table tournies, and obviously they require substantial time to play, but since I've been working I've had no time to play for long periods and so played cash games which I tend to grind out a small win in but nothing substantial and then lose a lot in a quick period which puts me back to break-even or worse. I know myself that cash games do ot really suit my game and so I'm going to try and avoid playing them and hopefully play more sit and go's and, time allowing, multi's.
Basically in what I'd call my "heyday" of poker I'd grind out small wins playing sng's whilst waiting for the big scores in the multi's which generally came at least once or twice a month. When I say big score I'm talking $300-$700 for a top 3 place in a $5 or $10 tourney. Obviously I was playing a lot more then and it feels like years since I had a big cash like that and I want another one. So tonight I am dedicating myself to finding that win and have targeted a number of tourneys ranging from £2 freezeout to $10 freezeouts on Sun, $5-$10 rebuys and freezeouts on Noble and the $6 rebuy on Party for old times sake even though Party tournies and I do not get on.
So hopeful my next blog will be detailing my achievement of finishing in the top 3 in one of these tournies. I'll be happy with a final table appearance the way my luck has been recently though...COME ON!!!!
Party: £200
Noble: £720
Sun: $890
So about £1350 in total.
Now I withdrew £400 from Noble so realistically my Noble roll was £320 and total roll £950.
And here are my current account sizes:
Party: £310
Noble: £225
Sun: $715
Which is about £875 total for a £75 loss over about 6 months. I think the reason for this is that my best game is multi-table tournies, and obviously they require substantial time to play, but since I've been working I've had no time to play for long periods and so played cash games which I tend to grind out a small win in but nothing substantial and then lose a lot in a quick period which puts me back to break-even or worse. I know myself that cash games do ot really suit my game and so I'm going to try and avoid playing them and hopefully play more sit and go's and, time allowing, multi's.
Basically in what I'd call my "heyday" of poker I'd grind out small wins playing sng's whilst waiting for the big scores in the multi's which generally came at least once or twice a month. When I say big score I'm talking $300-$700 for a top 3 place in a $5 or $10 tourney. Obviously I was playing a lot more then and it feels like years since I had a big cash like that and I want another one. So tonight I am dedicating myself to finding that win and have targeted a number of tourneys ranging from £2 freezeout to $10 freezeouts on Sun, $5-$10 rebuys and freezeouts on Noble and the $6 rebuy on Party for old times sake even though Party tournies and I do not get on.
So hopeful my next blog will be detailing my achievement of finishing in the top 3 in one of these tournies. I'll be happy with a final table appearance the way my luck has been recently though...COME ON!!!!
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
5 months on...
Finally found the password to this blog again...
How life has changed since my last post...some things never change though, most notably my luck at poker. It has literally been unreal tonight, first time I have played since before christmas and I only loaded up a few multi table tourneys just while watching the football (Bolton-Derby) and just sat there for about half an hour absolutely card dead then whammy:
I lose JJ vs TT all in pre, AK vs AT all in pre and then KK vs 66 vs 33 again ALL IN PRE. All these within about 2 minutes of each other and I'm out of those tourneys and feeling robbed especially the last one where I should have tripled up and would have been 3rd in chips in the $3.5k guarenteed (still long way to go I know but still!)
So I then sit down at a $0.02/0.04 table on Party just looking to muff about and this happens:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1885578
Hit the trips and apply the check trap method which works 99 times out of 100 a this level and of course it works a charm...until the miracle river brings him his 2-outer and with it the pot. I run so bad that I don't even think I could beat this level at the moment...so sick.
To make matters worse I've got gastro-enteritis, and have had the whole of the christmas period. This involved me being at home along on christmas day and boxing day in bed feeling like shit when I wasn't with my head down the toilet throwing up or throwing up at the other end if you get what I mean. Basically a christmas to forget and it doesn't even feel like I've had one to be honest. Ah well... life goes on...
Since my last post I've settled in nicely to my job as a Transport Planner...still don't know what I do really although I am enjoying it. Am off work obviously at the moment.
Played a "live" poker tournament for the first time in AGES in early december. I use inverted commas because it was hosted by my house and had 20 runners for a £10 freezeout. I took it down (why else would I mention it) in some style, came to the final table of 8 with probably over half the chips in play having busted the Cannon with my Kings against his Queens and then one of the first hands of the final table Big Tone ran his Jacks into my Queens before I won a race against the Point to basically knock the only experienced players out with only Alpy not feeling my wrath out of my mates, he got knocked out by a couple of girls. Kudos to my missus's little brother Mick who came 4th to double his money in his first ever game of poker for money!
Wonder how long it will be before anyone actually checks to see that I've updated?
The Point will be the first without doubt...he has nothing better to do at work. "Got to account for every 6 minutes" my arse...
How life has changed since my last post...some things never change though, most notably my luck at poker. It has literally been unreal tonight, first time I have played since before christmas and I only loaded up a few multi table tourneys just while watching the football (Bolton-Derby) and just sat there for about half an hour absolutely card dead then whammy:
I lose JJ vs TT all in pre, AK vs AT all in pre and then KK vs 66 vs 33 again ALL IN PRE. All these within about 2 minutes of each other and I'm out of those tourneys and feeling robbed especially the last one where I should have tripled up and would have been 3rd in chips in the $3.5k guarenteed (still long way to go I know but still!)
So I then sit down at a $0.02/0.04 table on Party just looking to muff about and this happens:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1885578
Hit the trips and apply the check trap method which works 99 times out of 100 a this level and of course it works a charm...until the miracle river brings him his 2-outer and with it the pot. I run so bad that I don't even think I could beat this level at the moment...so sick.
To make matters worse I've got gastro-enteritis, and have had the whole of the christmas period. This involved me being at home along on christmas day and boxing day in bed feeling like shit when I wasn't with my head down the toilet throwing up or throwing up at the other end if you get what I mean. Basically a christmas to forget and it doesn't even feel like I've had one to be honest. Ah well... life goes on...
Since my last post I've settled in nicely to my job as a Transport Planner...still don't know what I do really although I am enjoying it. Am off work obviously at the moment.
Played a "live" poker tournament for the first time in AGES in early december. I use inverted commas because it was hosted by my house and had 20 runners for a £10 freezeout. I took it down (why else would I mention it) in some style, came to the final table of 8 with probably over half the chips in play having busted the Cannon with my Kings against his Queens and then one of the first hands of the final table Big Tone ran his Jacks into my Queens before I won a race against the Point to basically knock the only experienced players out with only Alpy not feeling my wrath out of my mates, he got knocked out by a couple of girls. Kudos to my missus's little brother Mick who came 4th to double his money in his first ever game of poker for money!
Wonder how long it will be before anyone actually checks to see that I've updated?
The Point will be the first without doubt...he has nothing better to do at work. "Got to account for every 6 minutes" my arse...
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