Short Session

Quick session of .02/.05 tonight on Stars (5 tables). Not much of anything happened I did pay off a couple hands when I had 2 pair vs. a big river bet. I kept having to lay hands down on the river when I had top pair top kicker or a decent pair with a draw to shoves which were probably call bluffs, but I wasn’t going to call $5 into a 7$ pot all night. So, I was down a couple bucks over the course of about 250 hands. It appears everyone loves the call bluff or representing the call bluff. Sometimes they have it, sometimes they don’t. Example:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.05 BB (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)

Hero ($6.86)
CO ($11.18)
Button ($5.81)
SB ($2.30)
BB ($1.50)
UTG ($10.30)
UTG+1 ($20.68)
MP1 ($9.56)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with As, Qc.
1 fold, UTG calls $0.05, UTG+1 calls $0.05, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.05, CO calls $0.05, Button calls $0.05, 1 fold, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.30) 5c, Qd, 8s (5 players)

chipstar1 checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, MPB bets $0.2, CO folds, Button folds, chipstar1 folds, UTG calls $0.20, UTG+1 folds.
*** TURN *** [5c Qd 8s] [7s]
UTG checks, MPB bets $0.4, UTG calls $0.40.
*** RIVER *** [5c Qd 8s 7s] [Jc]
UTG bets $9.65 (All-In), Hero folds.

Final Pot: $11.15

Results in white below:

No showdown. UTG wins $11.15.
Results below:
No showdown. UTG wins $11.15.

I probably had 10 hands like that.

Not really sure how I ended up 5 tabling instead of 4 tabling.

PS – 130.06
UB – no change

Sorta Held

I got down to heads up, played tough poker. This was the problem hand:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t2000 (3 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

Hero (t23761)
SB (t42450)
BB (t1289)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Kc, 5h.
Hero calls t2000, SB completes.

Flop: (t3300) 6d, Kh, Js (3 players)
SB bets t2000, Hero calls t2000.

Turn: (t7300) Qc (3 players)
SB bets t2000, Hero calls t2000.

River: (t11300) 5s (3 players)
SB bets t2000, Hero calls t2000.

Final Pot: t15300

Results below:
SB has Ks Jh (two pair, kings and jacks).
BB has 9s 7c (high card, king).
Hero has Kc 5h (two pair, kings and fives).
Outcome: SB wins t15300.

They had just had a confrontation the previous hand and were about even stacked – I was the chipleader pretty much until that point. I didn’t know if I was ahead as the hand progressed, but I planned to check it down – the old principal of not pushing anyone out when you’ve got the shortstack guy on the ropes. When my second pair hit, I had to see the river. I figured the guy didn’t know about checking down against the shortstack, it’s the only reason I was in the hand to begin with.

Anyway, I was super-happy with my performance. I got a nice stack of chips early from a nice run of cards and stacking someone with a set of 9s. I was card dead through the middle of the tourney, but I was able to use my stack to slowly build some chips. Toward the end I lost a couple of confrontations where I was ahead (TT vs 99, AK vs rags), but had enough chips to survive.

So, heads up I was really short. I fought back to this point:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t2000 (2 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

Hero (t15661)
Button (t51839)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Qs, Kh.
Button raises to t6000, Hero raises to t15561, Button calls t9561.

Flop: (t31122) 4h, As, Js (2 players)

Turn: (t31122) 7s (2 players)

River: (t31122) 6d (2 players)

Final Pot: t31122

Results below:
Hero has Qs Kh (high card, ace).
Button has Jc 5h (one pair, jacks).
Outcome: Button wins t31122.

It’s an easy shove for me because I’m short. IF I double, I’m good to go. Oh well.

PokerStars Tournament #55129110, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $225.00
Tournament started – 2007/07/10 – 21:19:07 (ET)

Dear Me,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $48.38 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 81.59 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

$69 for first would have been nice, but $48 is solid.

Strong showing at the .02/.05 tables despite my previous posts about the Kings.

UB $148.70
PS $134.25

LOL

Span of 4 hands, same table:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.05 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

MP3 ($9.45)
CO ($14.73)
Button ($6.50)
Hero ($6.84)
BB ($10.66)
UTG ($4.74)
UTG+1 ($11.02)
MP1 ($7.65)
MP2 ($7.54)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Kc, Kh.
UTG calls $0.05, 2 folds, MP2 calls $0.05, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.2, 1 fold, UTG calls $0.15, MP2 calls $0.15.

Flop: ($0.65) 7d, Ah, Ks (3 players)
Hero bets $0.55, UTG folds, MP2 calls $0.55.

Turn: ($1.75) 4s (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $1, Hero raises to $6.09, MP2 calls $5.09.

River: ($13.93) Jh (2 players)

Final Pot: $13.93

Results below:
Hero has Kc Kh (three of a kind, kings).
MP2 has 9s As (one pair, aces).
Outcome: Hero wins $13.93.

3 hands later:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.05 BB (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

UTG ($18.12)
UTG+1 ($10)
MP1 ($6.67)
Hero ($13.28)
CO ($10.59)
Button ($4.47)
SB ($10.82)
BB ($7.65)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Kc, Ks.
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.2, CO calls $0.20, 3 folds.

Flop: ($0.47) Ah, 8h, 8c (2 players)
Hero bets $0.3, CO calls $0.30.

Turn: ($1.07) Kd (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.

River: ($1.07) 6c (2 players)
Hero bets $1, CO raises to $6, Hero raises to $12.78, CO calls $4.09 (All-In).

Final Pot: $23.94

Results below:
Hero has Kc Ks (full house, kings full of eights).
CO has 8s 8d (four of a kind, eights).
Outcome: CO wins $21.25. Hero wins $2.69.

I’m like OMG, I’m going to pull the exact same move 2x in 4 hands. Oh well, it’s quads. What can you do.

I’m A Bad Boy, Again…

I was bad tonight – I couldn’t find any .05/.10 tables, so I went to a juicy .10/.25 table and bought in for $8, about 5% of my UB roll. I was there for a round when this hand happened:

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold’em, $.25 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

BB ($24.40)
UTG ($22.88)
UTG+1 ($19.40)
MP1 ($16.49)
Hero ($7.81)
MP3 ($13)
CO ($4.22)
Button ($24.65)
SB ($4.75)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Ks, Kc.
UTG calls $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.35, 5 folds, UTG calls $1.10, UTG+1 folds.

Flop: ($3.30) 5s, 4c, Kd (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.5, UTG raises to $6.5, Hero raises to $8.

Turn: ($17.80) Qs (2 players)

River: ($17.80) Ad (2 players)

Final Pot: $17.80

Results below:
UTG has Ac Qh (two pair, aces and queens).
Hero has Ks Kc (three of a kind, kings).
Outcome: Hero wins $17.80.

I knew this guy was pretty aggressive, and probably had a decent hand to play UTG, because he’s fairly tight. I’ve seen him at .05/.10 before, so I was pretty familiar with his style. I figured I could make a weak looking bet on the flop as if it were a CBet, and he’d raise it, but if I checked it, he’d bet the turn, I’d call, and he’d check fold the river. Sure enough, he did raise my CBet, I just pushed the rest. I hoped he had AK and was stuck, but it didn’t matter, he called with AQ. I was really happy with this play, and I think it worked well because I knew my opponent.

I thought about staying at my .10/.25 table, but my better judgment told me to get up, so I did. Hit and run – some .05/.10 opened up so I went back down. I was up a bit more for the night, but nothing special.

Played in some Stars tourneys, no cards, got caught stealing after being blinded down – not worth mentioning really.

Side note – I sent some emails to support at UB and FT – I’m trying to get them to allow me to use a rakeback affiliate even though I already have accounts on both. It can’t hurt to ask. We’ll see what they say.

UB – 171.10
PS – 79.55 (Yay $250)

Deep

Cashed in two micro tourneys on Stars, got pretty deep in the .25 nightly -

PokerStars Tournament #xxxxx, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $0.25
3092 players
$100.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $873.00
Tournament started – 2007/07/06 – 22:00:00 (ET)

Dear Me

You finished the tournament in 114th place.
A $1.14 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 36.40 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at

The two hands below pretty much did me in. I’m not posting for sympathy, I’m looking for comments:

PokerStars Game #108xxxxxxx: Tournament #xxxxx, $0.25+$0.00 Hold’em No Limit – Level XI (500/1000) – 2007/07/07 – 00:20:55 (ET)
Table ‘54105312 50′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: me (30056 in chips)
Seat 3: ThoseIrishIs (38148 in chips)
Seat 4: ZIG0T0 (8524 in chips)
Seat 5: The Cabbie (20090 in chips)
Seat 6: holdemrick (8476 in chips)
Seat 7: shiznits75 (39507 in chips)
Seat 8: MommaBecky (19954 in chips)
Seat 9: CliveW (30454 in chips)
me: posts the ante 100
ThoseIrishIs: posts the ante 100
ZIG0T0: posts the ante 100
The Cabbie: posts the ante 100
holdemrick: posts the ante 100
shiznits75: posts the ante 100
MommaBecky: posts the ante 100
CliveW: posts the ante 100
ThoseIrishIs: posts small blind 500
ZIG0T0: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to me [Ac As]
The Cabbie: folds
shiznits75 said, “bad beat gg”
holdemrick: calls 1000
shiznits75: folds
MommaBecky: folds
CliveW: folds
me: raises 2500 to 3500
ThoseIrishIs: folds
ZIG0T0: calls 2500
holdemrick: calls 2500
*** FLOP *** [Jc 9s Qd]
ZIG0T0: bets 4924 and is all-in
holdemrick: calls 4876 and is all-in
me: calls 4924
*** TURN *** [Jc 9s Qd] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [Jc 9s Qd 6h] [8c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ZIG0T0: shows [Tc Jd] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
me: shows [Ac As] (a pair of Aces)
ZIG0T0 collected 96 from side pot
holdemrick: shows [Td Kh] (a straight, Nine to King)
holdemrick collected 26428 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 26524 Main pot 26428. Side pot 96. | Rake 0
Board [Jc 9s Qd 6h 8c]
Seat 2: me (button) showed [Ac As] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: ThoseIrishIs (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: ZIG0T0 (big blind) showed [Tc Jd] and won (96) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 5: The Cabbie folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: holdemrick showed [Td Kh] and won (26428) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 7: shiznits75 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: MommaBecky folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: CliveW folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

PokerStars Game #108086xxxxx: Tournament #5410xxxx, $0.25+$0.00 Hold’em No Limit – Level XI (500/1000) – 2007/07/07 – 00:24:41 (ET)
Table ‘54105312 50′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: little34 (37299 in chips)
Seat 2: me (21132 in chips)
Seat 3: ThoseIrishIs (39448 in chips)
Seat 4: Andre300 (6565 in chips)
Seat 5: The Cabbie (21386 in chips)
Seat 6: holdemrick (25528 in chips)
Seat 7: shiznits75 (49307 in chips)
Seat 8: MommaBecky (39908 in chips)
little34: posts the ante 100
me: posts the ante 100
ThoseIrishIs: posts the ante 100
Andre300: posts the ante 100
The Cabbie: posts the ante 100
holdemrick: posts the ante 100
shiznits75: posts the ante 100
MommaBecky: posts the ante 100
little34: posts small blind 500
me: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to me [Js 5s]
MommaBecky said, “i really figured he had AA with his 5k raise”
ThoseIrishIs: folds
Andre300: folds
The Cabbie: folds
MommaBecky said, “and i’d go out”
holdemrick: folds
shiznits75: folds
MommaBecky: folds
little34: calls 500
me: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ts 6s Tc]
little34: bets 1000
me: calls 1000
*** TURN *** [Ts 6s Tc] [2c]
lukey333333 is connected
shiznits75 said, “thats how it goes”
little34: bets 3000
me: calls 3000
*** RIVER *** [Ts 6s Tc 2c] [Ac]
little34: checks
me: bets 6000
little34: calls 6000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
me: shows [Js 5s] (a pair of Tens)
little34: shows [Kd 2h] (two pair, Tens and Deuces)
little34 collected 22800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 22800 | Rake 0
Board [Ts 6s Tc 2c Ac]
Seat 1: little34 (small blind) showed [Kd 2h] and won (22800) with two pair, Tens and Deuces
Seat 2: me (big blind) showed [Js 5s] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 3: ThoseIrishIs folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: Andre300 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: The Cabbie folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: holdemrick folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: shiznits75 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: MommaBecky (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

I thought it was a very credible bluff – it looks like I’m slowplaying a T and then valuebetting it on the end. I’m positive he doesn’t flop a pair, and the 2 on the turn doesn’t look like it helps, and if it does, I’d hope he can lay it down.

My big question is – did I not bet enough on either hand? The 2nd one is the bigger concern.

UB – 160.12
PS – 81.00

Note To Self

Repeat after me. They are unaware. 90% of these players are unaware. Your fold equity does not exist. It is not worth it to push small edges at these stakes without a large bankroll. Go with your gut.

Shortstack Results

Started out bad right off the bat. Really didn’t see any hands on any of my 4 tables for about the first 30 hands. Then I caught AQ in the BB, went for a fairly big reraise, only caller is UTG, who is fairly tight. I figure he has a medium pair or AK. Needless to say, the flop had an A, we got it all in, and sure enough, AK. -4. A few hands later, a loose raiser raised, I raised all in with my $2.90 (was getting blinded), UTG calls with 66, no A, no Q. -4 more. Playing deep stacked, I’m probably not going to lose that bad with either hand, but I chose to go that route. Not good. Cards were awful for the most part. Played less than 10% at all my tables.

Well, the next two hands happened in about 5 minutes time on the same table, both against the same guy, and that was pretty much it for the night.

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold’em, $.10 BB (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

BB ($5.02)
UTG ($7.25)
UTG+1 ($4.87)
UTG+2 ($5.82)
MP1 ($2.20)
MP2 ($26.29)
MP3 ($10.55)
CO ($22.55)
Hero ($4.98)
SB ($8.09)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Qs, Qc.
2 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.10, MP1 calls $0.10, 1 fold, MP3 calls $0.10, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.8, 2 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP3 calls $0.70.

Flop: ($1.95) 7s, 9c, 6d (2 players)
MP3 checks, Hero bets $1.95, MP3 calls $1.95.

Turn: ($5.85) Js (2 players)
MP3 checks, Hero bets $2.23 (All-In), MP3 calls $2.23.

River: ($10.31) 7c (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $10.31

Results below:
Hero has Qs Qc (two pair, queens and sevens).
MP3 has 8h 3h (one pair, sevens).
Outcome: Hero wins $10.31.

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold’em, $.10 BB (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from http://www.flopturnriver.comFlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Plain Text)

MP2 ($3.62)
MP3 ($7.10)
CO ($4.57)
Button ($5.85)
SB ($2)
BB ($29.70)
UTG ($8.90)
UTG+1 ($22.55)
Hero ($9.80)
MP1 ($7.45)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with As, Ah.
UTG calls $0.10, UTG+1 calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.55, 7 folds, UTG calls $0.45, UTG+1 folds.

Flop: ($1.35) 5d, Qs, 4c (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.35, UTG calls $1.35.

Turn: ($4.05) Ad (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks.

River: ($4.05) 4h (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $2.5, UTG bets $2.5, Hero calls $0.

Final Pot: $9.05

Results below:
UTG has 7c 4s (three of a kind, fours).
Hero has As Ah (full house, aces full of fours).
Outcome: Hero wins $9.05.

Put that guy in my UB Buddy list.

So, started out crappy, ended pretty well. Final results, I was up a little over 2 buyins for the night ~$9.

UB – $89.98/12.72
FT – $15.75
PS – $80.10

Free Money and Diversified Funds

There’s nothing better than free money, especially when it ends up in your online poker account. Ulitmate Bet must be getting desperate, because they put $10 in my account to get me to try the site again.

Now, I’m not a major fan of UB. Why? Because when I first started my online poker adventure, they were the first site I tried, at the request of a friend of mine. The first thing I noticed was the customer service was terrible. They were going through some kind of upgrade mishap, and I had a terrible time depositing any money there, or getting anyone to help me out. So, I said forget it and opened an acocunt on Pokerstars.

Well, that friend of mine continued to beg me to deposit some money there so we could play some SNGs together, so I finally did – $80. One nice thing about it was I got a matching deposit bonus, something Pokerstars never does. The SNG experiment didn’t go so well. I just didn’t have enough of a bankroll to handle the swings of $5 and $10 SNGs. I got down to $.07 and I never redeposited.

Three nice things about this tiny $10 in my UB account:
1) I know a lot more about BR management than I did when I started playing online.
2) I have $45 of uncleared bonus from my original deposit.
3) It appears it’s easier to clear your bonus than it used to be (I’m going to examine this in another post).

So, with those 3 things in mind, I’m on a new quest – clearing my bonus on UB at the .01/.02 tables. As long as I play a solid game, I don’t see any reason why I can’t do it. I was able to turn my last $3 on Pokerstars into usable money without a bonus, so I’m thinking this should be easy.

There are some differences between .01/.02 at PS and UB. Notably the buyin on UB – it’s a max of $2. This is good and bad. The good is that stack sizes will be relative to mine with the smaller buyin (although it’s a huge percentage still – I’m buying in for 20% of my BR, usually not recommended). When I started working my way back up on Stars, I was buying in for $1 with everyone else buying in for $5. People were less inclinded to let me draw. I was forced to play top pair very aggressively. The bad is that it’s that you’re buying in for a shorter stack – your implied odds are lower (which means my PTBB/100 will be lower). That means tightening up. Junk hands aren’t going to be profitable without all that money behind. PS allows a buyin of up to $5 (250BB) vs the $2 (100BB) on UB. 100BB isn’t exactly shortstack poker, but with most of the stacks between .80 and 2.00, there will be a lot of cases where playing small pairs after a raise probably just won’t be worth it, and that’s where a large portion of my profit comes from – stacking someone with a small set against a high pocket pair. If your opponent doesn’t have 10 times his preflop raise left in his stack (it’s really 8, but you have the rake and the times you will lose set over set to consider, so I like the overlay), it really isn’t worth it, especially in early position.

So, with all that it mind, I played my first 4 table session last night. I was a little brazen, and bought in for $2.00 on 4 tables – 80% of my new BR in play. I should have bought in for 4x$1. How did I do? Within the first 5 hands I was stacked – flopped a nut straight against a set, and the river paired giving the guy a boat (just bad luck, I would have played the hand the same way he did – he played it correctly). 5 hands later, I lost with KK vs. TT to a rivered T (I got it in on the flop). Down almost $4 dollars. I put the rest of my money on the table, and then came this hand:

Hand #42331xxxxx at Abdouramane (No Limit Hold’em)Started at 10/May/07 22:42:50
unknown is at seat 0 with $1.91.
ringaling is at seat 1 with $3.62.
unknown2 is at seat 2 with $2.02.
calling station is at seat 3 with $2.37.
crazy is at seat 4 with $8.58.
quiet is at seat 5 with $1.84.
me is at seat 6 with $2.33.
unknown3 is at seat 7 with $1.02.
justsatdown is at seat 8 with $2.
loose is at seat 9 with $1.91.
The button is at seat 5.
me posts the small blind of $.01.
unknown3 posts the big blind of $.02.

Pre-flop:
loose folds.
unknown folds.
ringaling calls.
unknown2 calls.
calling station calls.
crazy calls.
quiet folds.
me calls.
unknown3
checks.
Flop (board: 6c 5d Jc):
me checks.
unknown3 bets $.02.
ringaling calls.
unknown2 calls.
calling station calls.
crazy calls.
me calls. (loose call for me)
Turn (board: 6c 5d Jc 7s):
me checks.
unknown3 bets $.24.
ringaling folds.
unknown2 folds.
calling station folds.
crazy raises to $.96.
me goes all-in for $2.29. (Gotcha!)
unknown3 goes all-in for $.98.
crazy calls.
River (board: 6c 5d Jc 7s Js): (no action in this round)

Showdown:
me shows 7d 7h.
me has 7d 7h Jc 7s Js: full house, sevens full of jacks.
unknown3 shows 4c 5c.
unknown3 has 5c 5d Jc 7s Js: two pair, jacks and fives.
crazy mucks cards. (crazy has 6d 7c.)
Summary:
$.57 is raked from a total pot of $5.80. (yikes that’s a lot of rake – 10%)
$.31 is raked from the main pot of $3.18.
$.26 is raked from side pot #1 of $2.62.
me wins the main pot $2.87 with full house, sevens full of jacks.
me wins the side pot $2.36 with full house, sevens full of jacks.

I normally don’t make that flop call, but because everyone had called in front, my call ends the betting, and the board doesn’t look like it helped anyone, I may be able to take it away, or I may get lucky and catch a card for .02. I know I can get paid by crazy if I hit something – he was playing 85%/25%/8 and getting lucky. I hit the money card on the turn. I wasn’t afraid of a set of jacks, because the table was pretty crazy. If someone had JJ preflop, there would have been a raise. I was slightly afraid of a straight, but I had boat outs if I was behind.

I was up and down after fighting my way back at my other tables, but overall up 35% for the session. I think if I can just maintain my tight steady game that I have at Stars, I should be able to clear that bonus on UB. I’ll probably stop all play at Stars and FT until I clear it or bust out, whichever comes first.

BR
UB 13.53 (45.29 in pending bonus)
PS 77.47 (had another nasty session)
FT 28.75

More FT News

I played three doublestack 90 man $1.25 tourneys on Friday night. In two of the three tourneys I made it to the low 20s, and probably could have coasted to the money, but pressed my good hands and got busted.

I played another on Saturday, I think I played really well. I didn’t get outstanding cards, but I trusted my reads. I did take a chance on a preflop race (my 88 vs. a super-lag’s AQ), where the call wasn’t really necessary, but I figured I was the chipleader at the time, if I caught, I’d win the tourney. Well, he caught a straight on the river and put me pretty low in chips. However, I managed to stick around for a bit with some solid play. This was the last hand of the tourney for me.

Full Tilt Poker Game #231274xxxx: $1 + $0.25 Sit & Go (1743xxxx), Table 6 – 2500/5000 Ante 600 – No Limit Hold’em – 2:29:36 ET – 2007/04/29
Seat 2: me (188,680)
Seat 6: solid but changed gears (81,320)
me antes 600
solid but changed gears antes 600
solid but changed gears posts the small blind of 2,500
me posts the big blind of 5,000
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to me[5h 5s]
solid but changed gears calls 2,500
me raises to 188,080, and is all in
solid but changed gears calls 75,720, and is all in
me shows [5h 5s]
solid but changed gears shows [2h 8c]
Uncalled bet of 107,360 returned to me
*** FLOP *** [2d Kc 6c]
*** TURN *** [2d Kc 6c] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [2d Kc 6c Ah] [7c]
me shows a pair of Fives
solid but changed gears shows a pair of Twos
me wins the pot (162,640) with a pair of Fives
solid but changed gears stands up
me stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 162,640 | Rake 0
Board: [2d Kc 6c Ah 7c]
Seat 2: me (big blind) showed [5h 5s] and won (162,640) with a pair of Fives
Seat 6: solid but changed gears(small blind) showed [2h 8c] and lost with a pair of Twos

Yay – a victory! The guy got tired. He started playing really dumb hands at the end, and even said ‘I’m sick of playing’. He had shown a push with 24o previously, so a push with 55 was an easy decision heads up. He could have folded and waited for something better to call with than 8 high to CALL with, but he just wanted to go to bed I guess.

I’m not sure how many of these I’m going to play. While I like the doublestacks and the amount of play (I think it gives better players a chance to win), I just can’t sit down for 4.5 hours to win one very often.

BR – FT 30.00
– PS 72.71

Great start on FT

After running my JJ into KK for most of my stack in my first tourney on Full Tilt, I had this hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #2303xxxx: $1 + $0.25 Sit & Go (1737xxxx), Table 8 – 20/40 – No Limit Hold’em – 22:45:16 ET – 2007/04/27
Seat 1: mouthy (3,515)
Seat 2: guy(3,935)
Seat 3: original(2,010)
Seat 4: villain (6,480)
Seat 5: guy(1,085)
Seat 6: another guy(2,770)
Seat 7: me(890)
Seat 9: loose(2,550)
meposts the small blind of 20
looseposts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to me[7c 7d]
mouthy: im gonna fold again
mouthy has 15 seconds left to act
mouthy: waiting
mouthy folds
guyfolds
originalfolds
villain calls 40
guyfolds
mouthy: you guys blow big ones.
another guyhas 15 seconds left to act
another guycalls 40
mouthy: horriblr play.
mecalls 20
loosechecks
*** FLOP *** [3d 7h 3s]
mouthy: bad call
mebets 40
mouthy: youre all going to lose
loosefolds
mouthy: stop
villain raises to 6,440, and is all in
mouthy: fold
another guyfolds
mouthy: fold
mecalls 810, and is all in
villain shows [Ah As]
meshows [7c 7d]
Uncalled bet of 5,590 returned to villain
*** TURN *** [3d 7h 3s] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [3d 7h 3s Ad] [3h]
villain shows a full house, Aces full of Threes
meshows a full house, Sevens full of Threes
villain wins the pot (1,860) with a full house, Aces full of Threes
mestands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,860 | Rake 0
Board: [3d 7h 3s Ad 3h]
Seat 1: mouthy didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 2: guydidn’t bet (folded)
Seat 3: originaldidn’t bet (folded)
Seat 4: villain showed [Ah As] and won (1,860) with a full house, Aces full of Threes
Seat 5: guydidn’t bet (folded)
Seat 6: another guy(button) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: me(small blind) showed [7c 7d] and lost with a full house, Sevens full of Threes
Seat 9: loose(big blind) folded on the Flop

Go me.