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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
WCOOP wrap up
Well, the WCOOPs finished last night.
I wound up playing in 3 events. I played the 1k nlhe 2million guarantee, and finished around 1000 with 500 getting paid. Made a bluff river shove on a 34569 board with 810, and bb snap called with AA. Theres a lot more to the hand then that, but I'm not in the mood to relive that melt down.
I also played the 320 Horse Event. I busted around 3rd hour of this tourney playing razz, when my A2346 lost to the wheel of my opponent. My hand was (hole cards in bold) A246233. Thought I was in good shape. Villain had 3547AJ2. Puke.
Finally, last night I played the 2500 Main Event. I didn't get much going, but got my way up to 25k at a high point (starting with 20k). Finally, I lost a 7k pot when I had 15k at 100/200 25. I raised AQcc UTG +3 to 850 with one limper UTG+2. Limper called. Flop 7c9c9x. Check I bet 2200. Call. Turn Kd. Check, I bet 4400. He tank calls. River 9. He shoves. I fold. I obviously dont like how this hand turned out, but I'm not sure what I should do differently. Do I give up on the turn and hope to hit my free card? Or do I just limp? Blah
Anyway, busted a half hour later when I raised AQss, and an active player put me all in. He had 50k and I thought his range was large enough that I have to gamble my last 7k with AQss here. His AK looked good though. GG me.
I also played the WCOOP 2nd chance 500 buy in yesterday. I faired better in that, making the money and finishing 73rd. Good for 1300. Still down for the day and for WCOOPS, but not gonna complain about a cash. Atleast it stops the bleeding for a bit.
I'm gonna get back into the nightly 20r, 109, 100k, etc etc, so hopefully I'll start winning some small mtts again.
TTYL
I wound up playing in 3 events. I played the 1k nlhe 2million guarantee, and finished around 1000 with 500 getting paid. Made a bluff river shove on a 34569 board with 810, and bb snap called with AA. Theres a lot more to the hand then that, but I'm not in the mood to relive that melt down.
I also played the 320 Horse Event. I busted around 3rd hour of this tourney playing razz, when my A2346 lost to the wheel of my opponent. My hand was (hole cards in bold) A246233. Thought I was in good shape. Villain had 3547AJ2. Puke.
Finally, last night I played the 2500 Main Event. I didn't get much going, but got my way up to 25k at a high point (starting with 20k). Finally, I lost a 7k pot when I had 15k at 100/200 25. I raised AQcc UTG +3 to 850 with one limper UTG+2. Limper called. Flop 7c9c9x. Check I bet 2200. Call. Turn Kd. Check, I bet 4400. He tank calls. River 9. He shoves. I fold. I obviously dont like how this hand turned out, but I'm not sure what I should do differently. Do I give up on the turn and hope to hit my free card? Or do I just limp? Blah
Anyway, busted a half hour later when I raised AQss, and an active player put me all in. He had 50k and I thought his range was large enough that I have to gamble my last 7k with AQss here. His AK looked good though. GG me.
I also played the WCOOP 2nd chance 500 buy in yesterday. I faired better in that, making the money and finishing 73rd. Good for 1300. Still down for the day and for WCOOPS, but not gonna complain about a cash. Atleast it stops the bleeding for a bit.
I'm gonna get back into the nightly 20r, 109, 100k, etc etc, so hopefully I'll start winning some small mtts again.
TTYL
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Back to Playing
Hi Guys,
Sorry for the couple weeks of between posts. I took some time off from poker because I was just not feeling it. I was so burnt out that I was spewing money, so I needed a break. Couple that with the start of football season and some hectic things around the house, and I just forgot about poker for a while.
Anyway, I played last night. Heres the recap:
I played poker last night for the first time in a week. realllly wasn't feeling it, shit away some sngs on full tilt to start, and thought that the break needed to continue.
Then fired up stars, played the 11pm 30 freezeout (1500 chips), the 11pm 100 freezeout (3000 chips), and a 2000fpp rebuy to wcoop 14.
11pm 30 freeze i entered midnight break with 4600, then lost on first hand after break. utg limps, I 4x AA in mid pos. UTG calls. Flop Q46, he leads out 400, I shove, he calls AQ, finds a Q on the turn.
11pm 100 freeze i entered midnight break with 4200. around 12:45 i'm sitting on 5700 and i limp utg with AA. 4 callers @ 100 200, gets to button who makes it 800. BB calls (stack of 7500), I reraised to 2200. folds to button, he folds, BB calls. Flop KQJhhh, I have Ah. He checks, I shove, he calls. Kx10h for him. Turns a 9 gg.
So fish that I lose two tourneys in a row with AA. It's like the reverse bluechip corollary.
Guess I should explain that- the bluechip corollary is when you'find an opponents AA to lose greater than 50% of your tournaments over a given sample size.
11:15pm 2000 fpps rebuy turbo wcoop sat. I have 20,000 fpps by the way. I rebuy for 4000 to start. It plays really tight, and we start with 1k chips. I stack a guy with 33 on a 348 flop vs his JJ to double. Then 1 min before break, I find KK utg. I open shove at 100 200 for 4600. 4 callers. Peal a K to quad up. I addon at the last second of break to try to get the total seats up to 3 (didn't get there). After break I nit around and make it to final two tables. Blinds are now obscene, 500/1000 avg stack 8000. I get to final table short. I somehow survive to final 6. We play 6 way for on unheard of 1 hour with avg stacks ~12000 and 1500/3000 blinds. Then we lose 2 on one hand when JJ open shoves, AK calls button, A10 suited calls bb as big stack and sees a board of A24410 to ellim two. 4 way big stack is horribly bad, he is my small blind and folds the blinds to me each time without ever challenging. Occasionally he limp folds to my shove. We get three way and me and other guy both have 17000, big stack has 40000. We play 3 way for 30 minutes. My position is amazing- big stack keeps folding to me, and the bb is so tight that I can steal his blind fairly quickly. Other short stack finally shoves on big stack. QK < A9, so I won the seat. OMFG I can't believe I won a tournament. Too bad it was a zero buy in, but hey still got the seat. Now here's the bankroll management question: what to do with the $1040 W dollars. I can exchange them at cashmanbrian.com for $832, and try to build my roll on stars back from $1000. Conversely, I can play the 1000 buy in wcoop event. I'm leaning towards playing the event and possibly cashing, maybe even ft'ing, and slight chance of winning. I think I gotta go for it now. Also, I might try to win this same tournament every night this week, since it is so fish. If I win it a 2nd time I'm deffinetly playing.
Alright that is all for today. I'm back to the blog scene so keep reading, tell all your college friends who are learning poker about the site, and if you live in new england and have a live game going post it in the comments section.
Pat
Sorry for the couple weeks of between posts. I took some time off from poker because I was just not feeling it. I was so burnt out that I was spewing money, so I needed a break. Couple that with the start of football season and some hectic things around the house, and I just forgot about poker for a while.
Anyway, I played last night. Heres the recap:
I played poker last night for the first time in a week. realllly wasn't feeling it, shit away some sngs on full tilt to start, and thought that the break needed to continue.
Then fired up stars, played the 11pm 30 freezeout (1500 chips), the 11pm 100 freezeout (3000 chips), and a 2000fpp rebuy to wcoop 14.
11pm 30 freeze i entered midnight break with 4600, then lost on first hand after break. utg limps, I 4x AA in mid pos. UTG calls. Flop Q46, he leads out 400, I shove, he calls AQ, finds a Q on the turn.
11pm 100 freeze i entered midnight break with 4200. around 12:45 i'm sitting on 5700 and i limp utg with AA. 4 callers @ 100 200, gets to button who makes it 800. BB calls (stack of 7500), I reraised to 2200. folds to button, he folds, BB calls. Flop KQJhhh, I have Ah. He checks, I shove, he calls. Kx10h for him. Turns a 9 gg.
So fish that I lose two tourneys in a row with AA. It's like the reverse bluechip corollary.
Guess I should explain that- the bluechip corollary is when you'find an opponents AA to lose greater than 50% of your tournaments over a given sample size.
11:15pm 2000 fpps rebuy turbo wcoop sat. I have 20,000 fpps by the way. I rebuy for 4000 to start. It plays really tight, and we start with 1k chips. I stack a guy with 33 on a 348 flop vs his JJ to double. Then 1 min before break, I find KK utg. I open shove at 100 200 for 4600. 4 callers. Peal a K to quad up. I addon at the last second of break to try to get the total seats up to 3 (didn't get there). After break I nit around and make it to final two tables. Blinds are now obscene, 500/1000 avg stack 8000. I get to final table short. I somehow survive to final 6. We play 6 way for on unheard of 1 hour with avg stacks ~12000 and 1500/3000 blinds. Then we lose 2 on one hand when JJ open shoves, AK calls button, A10 suited calls bb as big stack and sees a board of A24410 to ellim two. 4 way big stack is horribly bad, he is my small blind and folds the blinds to me each time without ever challenging. Occasionally he limp folds to my shove. We get three way and me and other guy both have 17000, big stack has 40000. We play 3 way for 30 minutes. My position is amazing- big stack keeps folding to me, and the bb is so tight that I can steal his blind fairly quickly. Other short stack finally shoves on big stack. QK < A9, so I won the seat. OMFG I can't believe I won a tournament. Too bad it was a zero buy in, but hey still got the seat. Now here's the bankroll management question: what to do with the $1040 W dollars. I can exchange them at cashmanbrian.com for $832, and try to build my roll on stars back from $1000. Conversely, I can play the 1000 buy in wcoop event. I'm leaning towards playing the event and possibly cashing, maybe even ft'ing, and slight chance of winning. I think I gotta go for it now. Also, I might try to win this same tournament every night this week, since it is so fish. If I win it a 2nd time I'm deffinetly playing.
Alright that is all for today. I'm back to the blog scene so keep reading, tell all your college friends who are learning poker about the site, and if you live in new england and have a live game going post it in the comments section.
Pat
Monday, August 27, 2007
Weekend Wrapup (8/27)
Hi Guys,
Kind of a shitty last couple days for poker. Last thursday I won a 75mtt for a seat in the 1k Aussie Million satty. Played that and lost on hand 6 with AA. Details- utg 3x, I 10x, he calls, flop 3h4cJh, he checks, I pot he shoves. I thought his range was JJ+, AKhh on this shove. I call- he shows 44. Super light call pre, but I guess his set mining worked. GG me.
Friday night was a joke too. I played all the normal tournaments, and had good runs in a bunch of them. In the FTP 30 rebuy with 28 ppl left I had 60k, avg ~35k, and I got it all in for my remaining 35k on the turn with 8s8c on a 10s6s7h9d board. I was INSTA called by QJo when I craised the turn for 35k into a 50k pot. INSTA. river 8 (only two of them left in the deck I think?) sends me to the rail.
55k on full tilt I lost a couple crucial coinflips in a row and wound up finding the rail. Ditto for the 25k. In the 20 rebuy on stars, I was 10 off the money and short, so I decided to nit it up and make the money or bust with a premium hand. I wound up making the money and busting on the first hand ITM when I shoved A10 and bb had JJ. GG.
Saturday I only played two tournaments, the 320 on stars and the 320 Turks and Caicos WPT satty on full tilt. Lost the stars 320 in hour 1 when utg bad player limps, along with two others, I 8x it with KsKc, utg calls. Flop is Kh4h2h. He checks I quickly pot it he insta calls. Hmm, I'm hoping for a board pair now but also thing he could have AhXx. Turn Qd. He checks, now I know that if he was on AhXx, its either AK or AQ, so hes calling a shove. He could also have an underset or a flopped flush. I ship it in, he instacalls Qh9h. Another speculative preflop call gets me, gg. I guess my opening raise with an utg raiser has to go to 15x? LOL
Sunday I went to nemostars22's house to play the warmup and the 1pm 109 on stars. I figured I'd win one of these. I got lucky and doubled early in the warmup when I reshoved a flush draw and guy had KK but I got there, which put me at 18k. This guy proceeded to flame me for about 5 minutes when I picked up AQcc. I limped knowing he would shove on me if he had anything marginal. True to form he shoved I called he shows AJo I turned a flush to end the drama. GG sir sorry I sucked out but ty for stacking off your other 15k to me!! This put me at a high of 33k. I get moved to a new table with Moorman1, a solid nitty player. Moorman has about 10k and is playing tight when the following hand comes up. Moorman raises to 2.5x at 300/600 to 1350. I call on BB with 22, we see a flop headsup. 2h7h9s flop. Wee please have an overpair. I checked because I felt that if I lead out he folds AK AQ etc, but a check raise has more value. Also if he has an overpair the best way to get all the money in is to checkraise him huge on the flop. He checks behind me though. Turn is Qc. I decide to check again, thinking that he must have hit his raising range at this point. He checks behind, river is 10d. I lead out for 3500 into ~4k pot. He pauses a moment and shoves. ashgasdkdfgkasda1eds. What hand does he shove here that I have beat?!!! Honestly my best hope is a terribly played AQ, AK bluff, or wierd two pair like 910ss. So unlikely though. I can't put him on a set on the flop because he doesnt check the turn as well. I can put him on QQ because he bets the flop, nor 1010 for the same reason. As my time bank runs down and I just cant put him on a hand he plays like this, I call and he shows Kjo for the 9-K straight. This sucks, but that's what I get for checking a set to the river. I hang around 23k now for a bit, lose 4k in blinds and antes etc, when I get JJ on the sb with 18k. Cutoff open shoves 16k at 500/1000. Hmm I have JJ I call. He shows QKoff one club. Flop 91010 two clubs, turn 2 clubs, river J clubs. I fill to win the pot. Up to 34k again. Then my most interesting hand comes up. Blinds are now 600/1200 ante ~100? And I have 24k in the BB. Folds around to cutoff who makes it 4800, standard open. Button short stack, fairly quiet, shoves 12k. SB INSTA shoves 80k stack. SB has been very aggressive, huge fluctuation in his stack etc. I look down at pocket 10s. Hmm. Normally this is a fold, but I see all this dead money in the pot, and I felt like SB shove is AQ/AK 90% of the time. Other 10% of the time it is 99-JJ. note I discount QQ-AA, AJ, and lower pairs because he instashoved, and most of these hands would require some thought before making the decision. I look and see the 4800 original raise + 2600 in blinds and antes = 7400 in dead money in the pot. Button's reshove raise on an lp raiser is Any pair, A10+, KQ+ with his short stack. I decide to call. Button shows JJ :( . SB shows AKo which is what I expected. The main pot had 42000. Side pot between me and SB had 24k, so if I win my flip I stay where I was in chips, if I get lucky I'll be at 76k with avg of 35k, so a great spot. Flop comes Kxx though and I find the rail. GG me. I'm okay with my play here because I thought through the hand and was dead on with my read of the SB. You're going to have to flip at some point, and this was a big pot.
Next up is the Sunday Million. 530 buy in this week. Doubled up around the end of the first hour with QQ on a JJ9 board when I led out and button caller reshoved 810 and missed his 4 outer. At my next table I picked up a few pots, nothing big, when I found AK in lp. mp limps, I riase to 2600. Folds back to mp who shoves for 12k. I don't like this spot, but the mp limper was a wierd player and I def thought he was capable of reshoving 88+, AQ+ so I called. He had AA, which was in his range lol. I short stack ninja'ed for a bit then lost 1010 < JJ to end it.
At this point I left nemos and went home to play the FTP night stuff- 750k, Mulligan, 25K, 55K.
Pulled a big 0fer here. First, 25k nothing special just lost a flip. 55K, raised AQss, button calls, flop is 10JQ 2 spades, we get it in he has AA and I brick out. GG. Mulligan lost a flip 3 hours in, AK to QQ. 750k, two hours in i'm in good shape with 13.5k when avg is 7k. Then I just shit the bed. First I raise K10dd to 400 at 75/150. BB calls, flop 6c7d9d. Check I bet 1k. He calls. Turn 9x. Villain leads all in for 6k. I fold, down to 11.9k. I raise AQ to 450, one caller, I cbet flop for 800 and villain shoves. down to 9k. Then I had an unsuccessful squeeze knocking me down to 6.5k. blinds are now 250/500 and I find A10hh on button. MP raises to 1k, cutoff calls, I shove in 6500 with A10hh. SB COLD CALLS. Other two fold. SB (10k stack) shows AJo, I brick out. WTF thats a risky cold call I think. ohh well.
Hopefully tonight goes better- I've got a backer now, but there have been some issues transferring funds to me, but hopefully I get them tonight so that I can play the 100mtts sats the monday 1k on full tilt. For some reason I really think I'm going to win that mtt- I always have a good stack, I've just been getting fcked lately in big pots. We'll see.
1 last thing- I've moved up to 8th on the pocketfives rankings for Massachusetts. Win the 1k and I should crack the top 5. Will post a screenshot for those of you who don't know how to find the rankings later. TYVM
Pat
Kind of a shitty last couple days for poker. Last thursday I won a 75mtt for a seat in the 1k Aussie Million satty. Played that and lost on hand 6 with AA. Details- utg 3x, I 10x, he calls, flop 3h4cJh, he checks, I pot he shoves. I thought his range was JJ+, AKhh on this shove. I call- he shows 44. Super light call pre, but I guess his set mining worked. GG me.
Friday night was a joke too. I played all the normal tournaments, and had good runs in a bunch of them. In the FTP 30 rebuy with 28 ppl left I had 60k, avg ~35k, and I got it all in for my remaining 35k on the turn with 8s8c on a 10s6s7h9d board. I was INSTA called by QJo when I craised the turn for 35k into a 50k pot. INSTA. river 8 (only two of them left in the deck I think?) sends me to the rail.
55k on full tilt I lost a couple crucial coinflips in a row and wound up finding the rail. Ditto for the 25k. In the 20 rebuy on stars, I was 10 off the money and short, so I decided to nit it up and make the money or bust with a premium hand. I wound up making the money and busting on the first hand ITM when I shoved A10 and bb had JJ. GG.
Saturday I only played two tournaments, the 320 on stars and the 320 Turks and Caicos WPT satty on full tilt. Lost the stars 320 in hour 1 when utg bad player limps, along with two others, I 8x it with KsKc, utg calls. Flop is Kh4h2h. He checks I quickly pot it he insta calls. Hmm, I'm hoping for a board pair now but also thing he could have AhXx. Turn Qd. He checks, now I know that if he was on AhXx, its either AK or AQ, so hes calling a shove. He could also have an underset or a flopped flush. I ship it in, he instacalls Qh9h. Another speculative preflop call gets me, gg. I guess my opening raise with an utg raiser has to go to 15x? LOL
Sunday I went to nemostars22's house to play the warmup and the 1pm 109 on stars. I figured I'd win one of these. I got lucky and doubled early in the warmup when I reshoved a flush draw and guy had KK but I got there, which put me at 18k. This guy proceeded to flame me for about 5 minutes when I picked up AQcc. I limped knowing he would shove on me if he had anything marginal. True to form he shoved I called he shows AJo I turned a flush to end the drama. GG sir sorry I sucked out but ty for stacking off your other 15k to me!! This put me at a high of 33k. I get moved to a new table with Moorman1, a solid nitty player. Moorman has about 10k and is playing tight when the following hand comes up. Moorman raises to 2.5x at 300/600 to 1350. I call on BB with 22, we see a flop headsup. 2h7h9s flop. Wee please have an overpair. I checked because I felt that if I lead out he folds AK AQ etc, but a check raise has more value. Also if he has an overpair the best way to get all the money in is to checkraise him huge on the flop. He checks behind me though. Turn is Qc. I decide to check again, thinking that he must have hit his raising range at this point. He checks behind, river is 10d. I lead out for 3500 into ~4k pot. He pauses a moment and shoves. ashgasdkdfgkasda1eds. What hand does he shove here that I have beat?!!! Honestly my best hope is a terribly played AQ, AK bluff, or wierd two pair like 910ss. So unlikely though. I can't put him on a set on the flop because he doesnt check the turn as well. I can put him on QQ because he bets the flop, nor 1010 for the same reason. As my time bank runs down and I just cant put him on a hand he plays like this, I call and he shows Kjo for the 9-K straight. This sucks, but that's what I get for checking a set to the river. I hang around 23k now for a bit, lose 4k in blinds and antes etc, when I get JJ on the sb with 18k. Cutoff open shoves 16k at 500/1000. Hmm I have JJ I call. He shows QKoff one club. Flop 91010 two clubs, turn 2 clubs, river J clubs. I fill to win the pot. Up to 34k again. Then my most interesting hand comes up. Blinds are now 600/1200 ante ~100? And I have 24k in the BB. Folds around to cutoff who makes it 4800, standard open. Button short stack, fairly quiet, shoves 12k. SB INSTA shoves 80k stack. SB has been very aggressive, huge fluctuation in his stack etc. I look down at pocket 10s. Hmm. Normally this is a fold, but I see all this dead money in the pot, and I felt like SB shove is AQ/AK 90% of the time. Other 10% of the time it is 99-JJ. note I discount QQ-AA, AJ, and lower pairs because he instashoved, and most of these hands would require some thought before making the decision. I look and see the 4800 original raise + 2600 in blinds and antes = 7400 in dead money in the pot. Button's reshove raise on an lp raiser is Any pair, A10+, KQ+ with his short stack. I decide to call. Button shows JJ :( . SB shows AKo which is what I expected. The main pot had 42000. Side pot between me and SB had 24k, so if I win my flip I stay where I was in chips, if I get lucky I'll be at 76k with avg of 35k, so a great spot. Flop comes Kxx though and I find the rail. GG me. I'm okay with my play here because I thought through the hand and was dead on with my read of the SB. You're going to have to flip at some point, and this was a big pot.
Next up is the Sunday Million. 530 buy in this week. Doubled up around the end of the first hour with QQ on a JJ9 board when I led out and button caller reshoved 810 and missed his 4 outer. At my next table I picked up a few pots, nothing big, when I found AK in lp. mp limps, I riase to 2600. Folds back to mp who shoves for 12k. I don't like this spot, but the mp limper was a wierd player and I def thought he was capable of reshoving 88+, AQ+ so I called. He had AA, which was in his range lol. I short stack ninja'ed for a bit then lost 1010 < JJ to end it.
At this point I left nemos and went home to play the FTP night stuff- 750k, Mulligan, 25K, 55K.
Pulled a big 0fer here. First, 25k nothing special just lost a flip. 55K, raised AQss, button calls, flop is 10JQ 2 spades, we get it in he has AA and I brick out. GG. Mulligan lost a flip 3 hours in, AK to QQ. 750k, two hours in i'm in good shape with 13.5k when avg is 7k. Then I just shit the bed. First I raise K10dd to 400 at 75/150. BB calls, flop 6c7d9d. Check I bet 1k. He calls. Turn 9x. Villain leads all in for 6k. I fold, down to 11.9k. I raise AQ to 450, one caller, I cbet flop for 800 and villain shoves. down to 9k. Then I had an unsuccessful squeeze knocking me down to 6.5k. blinds are now 250/500 and I find A10hh on button. MP raises to 1k, cutoff calls, I shove in 6500 with A10hh. SB COLD CALLS. Other two fold. SB (10k stack) shows AJo, I brick out. WTF thats a risky cold call I think. ohh well.
Hopefully tonight goes better- I've got a backer now, but there have been some issues transferring funds to me, but hopefully I get them tonight so that I can play the 100mtts sats the monday 1k on full tilt. For some reason I really think I'm going to win that mtt- I always have a good stack, I've just been getting fcked lately in big pots. We'll see.
1 last thing- I've moved up to 8th on the pocketfives rankings for Massachusetts. Win the 1k and I should crack the top 5. Will post a screenshot for those of you who don't know how to find the rankings later. TYVM
Pat
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
A Couple good runs last night.. win 1 time?
Last night I played a bunch of tourneys. I'm going to give you a recap of how the night went in a running diary view. here goes:
Tourneys I played: 7pm 25k FTP, 8pm 27.5 PS, 55K FTP, 8:30 30rFTP, 9pm 100k PS, 20r PS
7:01 pm 25k - lost 500 chips in 25K bluffing into the nuts.
7:59 pm 25k - entered the break with 2200 hands- did not win a pot all hour.
8:08 pm 55k - Doubled with a set of 3's on a Q3kA6 board. Villain check raised me ai on the river after leading all streets. I nearly folded but I'm a call station. He showed QJo.
9:01 pm 100k - Lost on first hand. Folds around to sb who min raises. I call with A2ss. Flop A27. Villain checks. I bet pot. Villain shoves all in? I call he shows AQ. River Q fucks me.
Alright running diary is too anoying back to regular typing.
I ended break of 20r with 12k. I stack a fish with AdQx on a AxXdXdXd board ai on the turn when he was drawing dead with KdJx. 20k. I hang around until 100 ppl left then lose on a flip. GG.
I ended break of 30r with 10k. I stack off with KQ v AQ off Horryclutch when I 4x utg he calls and flop comes Q high. I felt like his reshove on flop was a bluff so I called. I don't think it was afterall. GG.
27.5 on PS, I made a nice deep run with a good stack. Then aggro player at my table raises 3x to 2400. I have 20k behind and decide to call on bb with 910ss. Flop is 8JK. I know he is aggro so he will bet if I check. I decide to lead out for 3/4 the pot, he promptly shoves. I call with my open ended because the pot was too juicy. He shows AA I don't get there. GG.
Down to two tourneys left, my two favorite FTP tourneys. 55K I am near the money bubble with 33k, good for 10/63. I raise 3x with 88 to 3k. Player to my left shoves 10k. I hem and haw and eventually make the call grudgingly, hoping for AK. It's JJ I don't suck out. 23k. After blinds hit me and a raise that gets reshoved, I have 16k. ~60 ppl left, money is at 54, I 3x AKdd utg + 2. Button is XtraceyX, she ships it in, having me slightly covered. I think about folding (jk I never fold AKdd short!!!!) I insta call, she shows 1010 , I lose the flip. GG money bubble.
25K on FTP I'm just sorta hanging around not doing much, when the following hand comes up. I'd appreciate if people would post their thoughts on this hand in the comments section, I think it's pretty strange. Anyway I have 6200 chips on the button. Blinds are 400/800 small ante I believe. MP player limps. He's been limping alot this doesn't concern me. Cutoff limps as well, a lag player. Blinds + ante pot is ~3200. I raise to 3200 on button with A8o. I do this because I think the money in the pot is mine for the taking because I've been tight and they've been passive. Blinds fold, mp folds, button waits a good amount of time and then calls. Here's where things get dicey. The pot is now 3200 + 3200 + 3200 = 9600. I'm pretty much pot committed on the flop now with 3k behind me. Furthermore, I can elliminate the following hands from cutoff's range, because she just wouldn't limp with them, and certainly wouldn't just call here, she would reshove- A9ss+, AQ+, 88+. I'm putting her on a hand such as 22-77, two broadway, suited connectors, suited Ace. Flop comes 6KK. Cutoff waits half her time bank and shoves all in, putting me all in. Once she shoves I can elliminate some more hands from her range- she would certainly check a K or 66 knowing I will shove and not afraid of a drawout. So her range is 22-55,77, an Ace or a Bluff (QJ/Q10 types). I call. She shows 55 v my A8. Turn x river A, I double. Villain begins berating me for this call obv, and some of her friends at the table agree. I'd like you all to think about the call and decide if my reasoning makes sense or if I'm just an idiot? TY.
Anyway, from there I turn it on. Stack a short stack, get up to 18k when I get QQ utg. 3 away from money. I 3x, utg+1 shoves 15k. I call after short thought he shows 88 I double to 30k. Once we hit the money I take out a 12k stack with JJ to 55. I start picking up small pots etc and reach final two tables with ~40k. Avg here is 70k. I survive stealing once per orbit. With 40k on the bb at 3k 6k 500 ante, I get 1010. MP raises to 16k. I know he is calling my shove so I decide to stop and go. Flop comes 9QA rainbow. I put on the breaks and check fold it- that flop just hits his range so hard, as he is deffinetly calling me with a Q. Back to 28k, I shove fold around with 16 ppl left with 99, The D Ry is bb, he folds so I'm back to 40k. Then 4 hands later UTG+1 I shove 1010 for 60k after two successful steals. D Ry calls with 66, I hold, 120k. Nice. I lose ~ 20k in blinds over the next few orbits and we hit the break w 12 ppl left. At my table now are The D Ry, Amak 316, Omaholic, in that order to my left. between me and Omaholic are 2 unknowns. D ry stacks one unknown first hand, now our table is 5 way. Amak raises to 16500, Omaholic instashoves 90k on button, I instacall BB with QQ, Amak folds, Omaholic shows 83o, I win and have 200k. Good shit. 3 hands later, after I raised each of the past 3 hands, unknown to my right raises to 40k at 5k/10k. I ship it all in with JJ, he calls his last 55k with A10o. No A for you sir, I have 300k. I take down a few more pots and enter final table ~400k. Final table I take someone out 3rd hand when they shove a fold around with A2 I call A9 turn 9 gg. 455k. Now I'm 2nd in chips with one other guy to my left having 500k, everyone else is short. We get down to 5 way with me raising alot of pots. Then one guy busts to the guy to my right, so we have CL at 500k, me at 485k, guy to my right 300k, guy to my right +1 85k. I raise K7ss utg to 3x. BB calls. Flop k86 hh. He checks i bet 60k, he min raises me. I've been so aggressive that I think he craises me with A6 / A8, flush draw, as well as K. I put him to the test he calls KJ, I brick out. Down to 180k, kinda sucks. Few hands later SS shoves 50k on button, sb calls, I call aswell with K7. This is fish I should reshove to iso here. oops. flop A22, turn 2, river 7, I win. We get 3 way I have 300k, Left of me is 450k, right of me is 520k. I steal some blinds etc and it is 400k for me, 400k to my left, 470k to my right. The other two guys get it all in KK to AJ. KK holds and the guy to my right is crippled to 70k. He survives a few orbits because the idiot bigstack gives him two walks. This is killing me though because whenever I raise big stack is reshoving on me (good strat obv). I get AK with 320k behind. I raise to 60k on button, big stack shoves all in, small stack folds. I call to find AQ. Same story though Qxxxx board and I'm done in 3rd for $4300. As I lose I get roughly 5 of the following ims "hey you suck at AK to AQ" "Everytime you lose with AK or KK" and my personal favorite "you suck at flipping AK v AQ". LOL ty rail support. I can't complain at all about this tournament though, as I most likely kill this guy HU if I win this flip since he wasn't very good. Oh well I'll just try to win it tonight instead.
That is all, ttyl gg.
Tourneys I played: 7pm 25k FTP, 8pm 27.5 PS, 55K FTP, 8:30 30rFTP, 9pm 100k PS, 20r PS
7:01 pm 25k - lost 500 chips in 25K bluffing into the nuts.
7:59 pm 25k - entered the break with 2200 hands- did not win a pot all hour.
8:08 pm 55k - Doubled with a set of 3's on a Q3kA6 board. Villain check raised me ai on the river after leading all streets. I nearly folded but I'm a call station. He showed QJo.
9:01 pm 100k - Lost on first hand. Folds around to sb who min raises. I call with A2ss. Flop A27. Villain checks. I bet pot. Villain shoves all in? I call he shows AQ. River Q fucks me.
Alright running diary is too anoying back to regular typing.
I ended break of 20r with 12k. I stack a fish with AdQx on a AxXdXdXd board ai on the turn when he was drawing dead with KdJx. 20k. I hang around until 100 ppl left then lose on a flip. GG.
I ended break of 30r with 10k. I stack off with KQ v AQ off Horryclutch when I 4x utg he calls and flop comes Q high. I felt like his reshove on flop was a bluff so I called. I don't think it was afterall. GG.
27.5 on PS, I made a nice deep run with a good stack. Then aggro player at my table raises 3x to 2400. I have 20k behind and decide to call on bb with 910ss. Flop is 8JK. I know he is aggro so he will bet if I check. I decide to lead out for 3/4 the pot, he promptly shoves. I call with my open ended because the pot was too juicy. He shows AA I don't get there. GG.
Down to two tourneys left, my two favorite FTP tourneys. 55K I am near the money bubble with 33k, good for 10/63. I raise 3x with 88 to 3k. Player to my left shoves 10k. I hem and haw and eventually make the call grudgingly, hoping for AK. It's JJ I don't suck out. 23k. After blinds hit me and a raise that gets reshoved, I have 16k. ~60 ppl left, money is at 54, I 3x AKdd utg + 2. Button is XtraceyX, she ships it in, having me slightly covered. I think about folding (jk I never fold AKdd short!!!!) I insta call, she shows 1010 , I lose the flip. GG money bubble.
25K on FTP I'm just sorta hanging around not doing much, when the following hand comes up. I'd appreciate if people would post their thoughts on this hand in the comments section, I think it's pretty strange. Anyway I have 6200 chips on the button. Blinds are 400/800 small ante I believe. MP player limps. He's been limping alot this doesn't concern me. Cutoff limps as well, a lag player. Blinds + ante pot is ~3200. I raise to 3200 on button with A8o. I do this because I think the money in the pot is mine for the taking because I've been tight and they've been passive. Blinds fold, mp folds, button waits a good amount of time and then calls. Here's where things get dicey. The pot is now 3200 + 3200 + 3200 = 9600. I'm pretty much pot committed on the flop now with 3k behind me. Furthermore, I can elliminate the following hands from cutoff's range, because she just wouldn't limp with them, and certainly wouldn't just call here, she would reshove- A9ss+, AQ+, 88+. I'm putting her on a hand such as 22-77, two broadway, suited connectors, suited Ace. Flop comes 6KK. Cutoff waits half her time bank and shoves all in, putting me all in. Once she shoves I can elliminate some more hands from her range- she would certainly check a K or 66 knowing I will shove and not afraid of a drawout. So her range is 22-55,77, an Ace or a Bluff (QJ/Q10 types). I call. She shows 55 v my A8. Turn x river A, I double. Villain begins berating me for this call obv, and some of her friends at the table agree. I'd like you all to think about the call and decide if my reasoning makes sense or if I'm just an idiot? TY.
Anyway, from there I turn it on. Stack a short stack, get up to 18k when I get QQ utg. 3 away from money. I 3x, utg+1 shoves 15k. I call after short thought he shows 88 I double to 30k. Once we hit the money I take out a 12k stack with JJ to 55. I start picking up small pots etc and reach final two tables with ~40k. Avg here is 70k. I survive stealing once per orbit. With 40k on the bb at 3k 6k 500 ante, I get 1010. MP raises to 16k. I know he is calling my shove so I decide to stop and go. Flop comes 9QA rainbow. I put on the breaks and check fold it- that flop just hits his range so hard, as he is deffinetly calling me with a Q. Back to 28k, I shove fold around with 16 ppl left with 99, The D Ry is bb, he folds so I'm back to 40k. Then 4 hands later UTG+1 I shove 1010 for 60k after two successful steals. D Ry calls with 66, I hold, 120k. Nice. I lose ~ 20k in blinds over the next few orbits and we hit the break w 12 ppl left. At my table now are The D Ry, Amak 316, Omaholic, in that order to my left. between me and Omaholic are 2 unknowns. D ry stacks one unknown first hand, now our table is 5 way. Amak raises to 16500, Omaholic instashoves 90k on button, I instacall BB with QQ, Amak folds, Omaholic shows 83o, I win and have 200k. Good shit. 3 hands later, after I raised each of the past 3 hands, unknown to my right raises to 40k at 5k/10k. I ship it all in with JJ, he calls his last 55k with A10o. No A for you sir, I have 300k. I take down a few more pots and enter final table ~400k. Final table I take someone out 3rd hand when they shove a fold around with A2 I call A9 turn 9 gg. 455k. Now I'm 2nd in chips with one other guy to my left having 500k, everyone else is short. We get down to 5 way with me raising alot of pots. Then one guy busts to the guy to my right, so we have CL at 500k, me at 485k, guy to my right 300k, guy to my right +1 85k. I raise K7ss utg to 3x. BB calls. Flop k86 hh. He checks i bet 60k, he min raises me. I've been so aggressive that I think he craises me with A6 / A8, flush draw, as well as K. I put him to the test he calls KJ, I brick out. Down to 180k, kinda sucks. Few hands later SS shoves 50k on button, sb calls, I call aswell with K7. This is fish I should reshove to iso here. oops. flop A22, turn 2, river 7, I win. We get 3 way I have 300k, Left of me is 450k, right of me is 520k. I steal some blinds etc and it is 400k for me, 400k to my left, 470k to my right. The other two guys get it all in KK to AJ. KK holds and the guy to my right is crippled to 70k. He survives a few orbits because the idiot bigstack gives him two walks. This is killing me though because whenever I raise big stack is reshoving on me (good strat obv). I get AK with 320k behind. I raise to 60k on button, big stack shoves all in, small stack folds. I call to find AQ. Same story though Qxxxx board and I'm done in 3rd for $4300. As I lose I get roughly 5 of the following ims "hey you suck at AK to AQ" "Everytime you lose with AK or KK" and my personal favorite "you suck at flipping AK v AQ". LOL ty rail support. I can't complain at all about this tournament though, as I most likely kill this guy HU if I win this flip since he wasn't very good. Oh well I'll just try to win it tonight instead.
That is all, ttyl gg.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Weekend Wrapup
Hi Guys,
This weekend was very frustrating. The notable tournaments I played were the 2500 Ftop, the 500 Ftop ME, and the Sundays.
2500 Ftop. Started with 5k chips. I somehow knew nobody except Imsolucky0 (Jordan Morgan) at my table. Likely suspects: high stakes cash players, high stakes sng players, live pros, multiaccounters. I got a good feel for my table and left there after 1.5 hours with 8500. Felt pretty good considering we didn't lose a player, so chips were hard to come by. At my 2nd table, there were again no known players. Between 2+2, p5s, and general results scanning, I have a pretty good feel for top mtt players, so this was really unusual. 4 or 5 orbits in, I hadn't really dont much, sitting around 9200 after taking down 1 pot with AA where utg 3x it to 150, 4 callers, I made it 1k and lost all action. Following hand takes place:
Pato: sb KdKh. Folds around to cutoff, semi aggro player who just lost 2k pot. He has 6800 chips. He raises to 225 on the fold around at 25/50. I reraise to 775, bb folds. Action back on the cutoff. Player runs his time bank down to 4 then ships all in for 6800 chips. Woah. My first thought is a pit in my stomach- am I going to be making a post later today on 2+2 about why I couldn't fold KK preflop here to a shove of 130bb's? After considering his aggro play, coupled with the big pot he just lost, I decided that his shove range here is probably 1010+. I'm a new TAG player at the table, and I probably need KK+ to call. Even then, I might fold KK. I decide to call. He shows JsJh. Flop Ad4d3h, turn Jd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grose, now I need to hit one of my 12 outs please? No go. This pot pulls me down to 2400. Such a sick hand because at the time there were only 4 ppl with over 10k in the tournament. In a tournament this deep, having 16000 chips at 25 50 would be unreal. 320bb's!!
I'm pretty heated by this, but try to not busto my computer. Next orbit 4 limpers I find QJhh on button. I 4x to 200, bb calls, mp calls. we see a flop of Q104 rainbow with 1 heart. BB leads out for 500. I call, planning to reevaluate on the turn. Turn comes 8h. BB leads for 1k. I have ~2k behind at this point (stole a couple pots after my KK bust). I'm thinking his most likely holding here is 2 pair, very likely top 2, or KQ/AQ. Also outside chance of 44 / 1010, but I would imagine he'd check the flop with those types. If he has top 2, I'm drawing to 9 hearts, + 3 other 9's, + 3 J's = 15 outs. top 2 and AQ/KQ are all essentially the same here. I ship it in, and he calls showing AdAc. Actually more outs then I thought- 15 outs + 2 Qs = 17 outs. Brick the river though, gg me. Bright side of this tourney was that I once again saw how bad ppl will play in a big buy in deep tourney, and also make ~ 1500 in the qualifiers to the event.
Next up is the FTOPS ME. Played semi Laggy at first to build an image (nemostars idea) ,and it worked as I doubled on a J34 board with JJ v 66 when we both had starting stacks of 5k. I'm sitting on 9500 when the following hand comes up. MP villain, semi well known player, 3.5x it to around 280. 3 callers, I find KK on sb.. I reraise to 1590. MP calls, other fold. Flop comes 8 9 10. I bet out the pot, MP reshoves. I call his reshove, he shows J8. Turns the nut 7 and gg. Lost 6500 on this hand. Why doesnt KK hold anymore? Lost this tourney a little later on a standard flip when I was coasting around 2k. GG.
Other sunday stuff went shitty. Busted a big stack in the million when I had 99 on a 249 board all spades. I was the sb, button had raised, I reraised, he called. I led out all in for ~3x the pot, villain tanked and called with As Jx. Spades the turn for a go fuck yourself Pat. Mulligan on FTP I made a bad call v Hixx with JJ after I raised pre to 1000 at 150 300, he called button. We both had ~ 6000. Flop is 4x4s8s. I lead out for 1300, he min raises me, I somehow ship it in and he tank calls me with QQ. I guess this is a tough spot but I could have found the fold but didn't. Finally, sunday night horse, I was chipleader for 2 hours and then bubbled when we got to limit holdem and I lost 7 straight huge pots. Each one was 4 bet preflop against short stacks. Most devestating was first hand. I 4 bet AhQh against utg raiser. I have 24k, he has 15k. Flop QQs4s. Pot flop. Turn 6s. Pot turn- I just don't put him on a flush draw on the flop. River Xs. Check call he shows KsJh. WTF? Then next hand I have AA run into KK and he hits a K, this gets me down to 7k. Lose AA to QQ on a 4 straight board down to 3k. AcQc < 22 on a 1010cJc flop where I brick out hardcore sends me to the rail. grose.
I'm going to start focusing on ACT 3s at foxwoods soon, trying to get a seat for the WPF main event. TY for reading sorry it's just bad beats and no wins this week, hopefully I'll have some good news soon.
TTYL GG NH GFKY
Pato
This weekend was very frustrating. The notable tournaments I played were the 2500 Ftop, the 500 Ftop ME, and the Sundays.
2500 Ftop. Started with 5k chips. I somehow knew nobody except Imsolucky0 (Jordan Morgan) at my table. Likely suspects: high stakes cash players, high stakes sng players, live pros, multiaccounters. I got a good feel for my table and left there after 1.5 hours with 8500. Felt pretty good considering we didn't lose a player, so chips were hard to come by. At my 2nd table, there were again no known players. Between 2+2, p5s, and general results scanning, I have a pretty good feel for top mtt players, so this was really unusual. 4 or 5 orbits in, I hadn't really dont much, sitting around 9200 after taking down 1 pot with AA where utg 3x it to 150, 4 callers, I made it 1k and lost all action. Following hand takes place:
Pato: sb KdKh. Folds around to cutoff, semi aggro player who just lost 2k pot. He has 6800 chips. He raises to 225 on the fold around at 25/50. I reraise to 775, bb folds. Action back on the cutoff. Player runs his time bank down to 4 then ships all in for 6800 chips. Woah. My first thought is a pit in my stomach- am I going to be making a post later today on 2+2 about why I couldn't fold KK preflop here to a shove of 130bb's? After considering his aggro play, coupled with the big pot he just lost, I decided that his shove range here is probably 1010+. I'm a new TAG player at the table, and I probably need KK+ to call. Even then, I might fold KK. I decide to call. He shows JsJh. Flop Ad4d3h, turn Jd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grose, now I need to hit one of my 12 outs please? No go. This pot pulls me down to 2400. Such a sick hand because at the time there were only 4 ppl with over 10k in the tournament. In a tournament this deep, having 16000 chips at 25 50 would be unreal. 320bb's!!
I'm pretty heated by this, but try to not busto my computer. Next orbit 4 limpers I find QJhh on button. I 4x to 200, bb calls, mp calls. we see a flop of Q104 rainbow with 1 heart. BB leads out for 500. I call, planning to reevaluate on the turn. Turn comes 8h. BB leads for 1k. I have ~2k behind at this point (stole a couple pots after my KK bust). I'm thinking his most likely holding here is 2 pair, very likely top 2, or KQ/AQ. Also outside chance of 44 / 1010, but I would imagine he'd check the flop with those types. If he has top 2, I'm drawing to 9 hearts, + 3 other 9's, + 3 J's = 15 outs. top 2 and AQ/KQ are all essentially the same here. I ship it in, and he calls showing AdAc. Actually more outs then I thought- 15 outs + 2 Qs = 17 outs. Brick the river though, gg me. Bright side of this tourney was that I once again saw how bad ppl will play in a big buy in deep tourney, and also make ~ 1500 in the qualifiers to the event.
Next up is the FTOPS ME. Played semi Laggy at first to build an image (nemostars idea) ,and it worked as I doubled on a J34 board with JJ v 66 when we both had starting stacks of 5k. I'm sitting on 9500 when the following hand comes up. MP villain, semi well known player, 3.5x it to around 280. 3 callers, I find KK on sb.. I reraise to 1590. MP calls, other fold. Flop comes 8 9 10. I bet out the pot, MP reshoves. I call his reshove, he shows J8. Turns the nut 7 and gg. Lost 6500 on this hand. Why doesnt KK hold anymore? Lost this tourney a little later on a standard flip when I was coasting around 2k. GG.
Other sunday stuff went shitty. Busted a big stack in the million when I had 99 on a 249 board all spades. I was the sb, button had raised, I reraised, he called. I led out all in for ~3x the pot, villain tanked and called with As Jx. Spades the turn for a go fuck yourself Pat. Mulligan on FTP I made a bad call v Hixx with JJ after I raised pre to 1000 at 150 300, he called button. We both had ~ 6000. Flop is 4x4s8s. I lead out for 1300, he min raises me, I somehow ship it in and he tank calls me with QQ. I guess this is a tough spot but I could have found the fold but didn't. Finally, sunday night horse, I was chipleader for 2 hours and then bubbled when we got to limit holdem and I lost 7 straight huge pots. Each one was 4 bet preflop against short stacks. Most devestating was first hand. I 4 bet AhQh against utg raiser. I have 24k, he has 15k. Flop QQs4s. Pot flop. Turn 6s. Pot turn- I just don't put him on a flush draw on the flop. River Xs. Check call he shows KsJh. WTF? Then next hand I have AA run into KK and he hits a K, this gets me down to 7k. Lose AA to QQ on a 4 straight board down to 3k. AcQc < 22 on a 1010cJc flop where I brick out hardcore sends me to the rail. grose.
I'm going to start focusing on ACT 3s at foxwoods soon, trying to get a seat for the WPF main event. TY for reading sorry it's just bad beats and no wins this week, hopefully I'll have some good news soon.
TTYL GG NH GFKY
Pato
Friday, August 17, 2007
Weekly Wrapup - FT 55K, etc. etc.
Hi Guys,
Sorry for the delay in posts, I know its been a week.
This has been a exciting week of poker. Sunday, my buddy nemostars22 final tabled the sunday warmup on stars. He finished 4th for ~24k. Sick run kid, sucks when AQ < A4 on last hand. Can't complain too much about a 24k cash though.
As for my play, Saturday night I took 2nd place in the FTP winner choice mtt. I was pissed I didn't win. First place was a seat to any wpt event, package worth 12k, 2nd place was 2k. I lost with JJ to KQ when we were even stacked. Villain had been firing at every flop with a pot bet. He raised 3x pre, I repopped him to 12x, he called. Flop is 89K, he leads out pot, 8, i ship it in and he calls. I'm not too upset with my play because my JJ crushes his lead out range of any two he calls a reraise with but doesnt 3 bet me with, so 22-JJ, A4ss+, JQ+. OH well.
Then this week I sucked it up at mtts, until wednesday night when I ft'ed the FTP 55k. Came into final table 2nd in chips, then got down to ~ 180k after lossing a flip when utg+1 made it 26k at 4/8. I find AQhh in the cutoff, i made it 78k. Villain thinks roughly 2 seconds then ships it in. I fold fairly quickly- I thought this player was raising light in EP since that is the new button, but he shoved so quickly when he had 150k to start that I'm probably looking at a range of QQ+, AK. Meh. 2 hands later I get 88 in EP and 3x it, mp insta min reraises to 62k. I can either shove and pray for AK or fold, so I fold. This sucks though because I lost half my stack without seeing a flop on these two hands. Ugh I suck. One orbit later utg 3xs it and I shove JJ for 100k. UTG instacalls AA, I can't find a J and finish in 8th for 2k. GG blowing a good chance at big money.
So that was the gist of my week- two cashes for 2k, nothing more, blowing a chance at big money.
On the bright side, I cracked the top 10 on P5's sliding plb for Massachusetts. I hear that P5's is interviewing the top 10 from each state so that will be pretty cool, I just have to keep a hold of my spot here. Here is the top 15:
As you can see, some good names here. 5th on the list is my buddy bluechip, would be cool to get that big score this weekend to put me up there wit blue, so we can put some pressure on each other. For now i'm happy to crack the top 10, since when the rankings started I was 15th.
This weekend I'm already in the FTOPS main event, 500 buy in superstack, so that should be sweet. Also trying to win my way into the 2500, since I don't really want to buy directly into it. between those and the sunday mill hopefully I'll have something good to write about next week.
I've also joined AbsolutePoker. Apparently I created an account there long ago, because PAto610 was already taken, so my name is 016otaP. Get it? I deposited 400 and I'm playing .50/1 nl to build it up. So fish but boring to play small stakes, needs to be done though since I don't want to pull a lot off full tilt for the sake of AP.
Alright that's all I got this week, ttyl gg nh etc.
Pato
Sorry for the delay in posts, I know its been a week.
This has been a exciting week of poker. Sunday, my buddy nemostars22 final tabled the sunday warmup on stars. He finished 4th for ~24k. Sick run kid, sucks when AQ < A4 on last hand. Can't complain too much about a 24k cash though.
As for my play, Saturday night I took 2nd place in the FTP winner choice mtt. I was pissed I didn't win. First place was a seat to any wpt event, package worth 12k, 2nd place was 2k. I lost with JJ to KQ when we were even stacked. Villain had been firing at every flop with a pot bet. He raised 3x pre, I repopped him to 12x, he called. Flop is 89K, he leads out pot, 8, i ship it in and he calls. I'm not too upset with my play because my JJ crushes his lead out range of any two he calls a reraise with but doesnt 3 bet me with, so 22-JJ, A4ss+, JQ+. OH well.
Then this week I sucked it up at mtts, until wednesday night when I ft'ed the FTP 55k. Came into final table 2nd in chips, then got down to ~ 180k after lossing a flip when utg+1 made it 26k at 4/8. I find AQhh in the cutoff, i made it 78k. Villain thinks roughly 2 seconds then ships it in. I fold fairly quickly- I thought this player was raising light in EP since that is the new button, but he shoved so quickly when he had 150k to start that I'm probably looking at a range of QQ+, AK. Meh. 2 hands later I get 88 in EP and 3x it, mp insta min reraises to 62k. I can either shove and pray for AK or fold, so I fold. This sucks though because I lost half my stack without seeing a flop on these two hands. Ugh I suck. One orbit later utg 3xs it and I shove JJ for 100k. UTG instacalls AA, I can't find a J and finish in 8th for 2k. GG blowing a good chance at big money.
So that was the gist of my week- two cashes for 2k, nothing more, blowing a chance at big money.
On the bright side, I cracked the top 10 on P5's sliding plb for Massachusetts. I hear that P5's is interviewing the top 10 from each state so that will be pretty cool, I just have to keep a hold of my spot here. Here is the top 15:
As you can see, some good names here. 5th on the list is my buddy bluechip, would be cool to get that big score this weekend to put me up there wit blue, so we can put some pressure on each other. For now i'm happy to crack the top 10, since when the rankings started I was 15th.
This weekend I'm already in the FTOPS main event, 500 buy in superstack, so that should be sweet. Also trying to win my way into the 2500, since I don't really want to buy directly into it. between those and the sunday mill hopefully I'll have something good to write about next week.
I've also joined AbsolutePoker. Apparently I created an account there long ago, because PAto610 was already taken, so my name is 016otaP. Get it? I deposited 400 and I'm playing .50/1 nl to build it up. So fish but boring to play small stakes, needs to be done though since I don't want to pull a lot off full tilt for the sake of AP.
Alright that's all I got this week, ttyl gg nh etc.
Pato
Friday, August 10, 2007
FTOPS have begun / Week of running like SH!T
Sorry everyone for the lack of updates (all 4 of you who read this blog).
Since the last post I've been on a sick cooler run, and writing down the results would have just tilted me before now. Last Sunday I made a couple nice runs but wound up down a bit for the night. The ..er lowlight of the day came around 1am when I was top 5 in the FTP mulligan with 50 left, and Top 3 in the 109 on stars with 16 ppl left. I was feeling good and playing well, when In the mulligan an aggro player shoved 55 on the button. I had 99 on the sb and reshoved. The BB, who had just moved to the table and had me slightly covered, tanked and made the overcall with JJ :(. Didn't really matter because board came 5xxxx and the button shover stacked up. GG mulligan.
The 109 really kicked me in the balls. I'm sitting on a top 3 stack when I find kk utg. I 3x it with 100k behind me and blinds ~2k 4k. LP reshoves 65k, I call, he shows JJ. Board brings me no worries until river J. AHHHHH. Crippled? I double through with 1010 to 55 and then run a big bluff though and am back to 100k with 14 left, and an aggrotard reshoves an lp raiser for 85k. Dude is so loose I can't find the fold and look him up w AQ. he shows A10. Board 269 turn 6 river 9 ahhh I hate poker. He gets the chop split. I steal some blinds get up to 125k, 4th in chips, with big stack of 300k on the bb to my left. I find KK on the button. UTG shoves in for 100k at 5k10k. I reship KK. BB uses his whole time bank, I start getting a hard on at the thought of the tripple up, etc. when boom- he calls showing AA- WTF slowrolled on final table bubble by chipleader? AHHHHHHHHHHH I dont hit gg me.
So that sucked.
Fast Forward to Monday. Win two seats to the FTP 1k off of 1000 invested in sattys so was happy about that. Top 45 paid, 48 ppl left, I have 18k, avg ~22k. UTG I get AKhh. Blinds are 400/800. I make it 2400. Utg +2, shitty player, reraises to 8k. I put him on 22+, A9s+, KJs+, A10+ here. No joke. I reshove, he calls with AQ. Thats cool. Q22 flop kicks me to the curb. GG.
Almost instantaneously in the 30r on FTP, 28 ppl left, top 27 paid. I have 55k, good for 8th. Folds around to UTG who limps, I'm BB with A10ss. I shove in on him (unnecessary mistake) he instas AK. I flop the 10, but J Q runs down to give him straight. I'm down to 25k, bottom 10 stack. Same guy opens for 3x, I shove huge overshove, he calls AQ. Finds a Q and I'm done. Two bubbles at the same time where AK < AQ will tilt you sometimes.
Tuesday night had a softball game so only played some sngs.
Wednesday night played FTOPS 1 and Stars 320 150k. FTOPS I lost early getting it all in with super draw on 2h3h4xKx board with AKhh v 88, 8 on the river non heart crippled me. 1 outers happen though. Stars 320 I made the money and then bled some chips away and lost in 46th or so when my A10 < 99. Cashd for ~650.
Thursday night I played some sngs late and some 5/10nl. Did fairly well: Played 4 Sngs, all turbos: 60, 75, 119, 236 Results: Win in 60 (+190), 7th in 75, (-75), Win in 119 (+376), 2nd in 236 (+358). In 5/10nl, I bought in short for 400, won some pots up to 520, then virtually doubled with AJ on J3457 board v A8 bluffer. Left table with 1020, (+620). Haven't had a day like that in a while so was nice. Up ~1500.
Huge weekend up ahead for me - Tonight I'm giong to play the regular shit, plus possibly the FTOP event. Tomorrow I have the ironman freeroll, plus the 320 on stars, and maybe the afternoon 100r on FTP (this might be the FTOP not sure). Sunday, FTOP 3 is 320 buy in replacing the 500k, so that should have a million prize pool, plus I have FTP monthly TLB freeroll, and the other sunday shit. Hopefully I'll win enough this weekend to buy a new condo.
GG GL NH TTYL
Pat0
Since the last post I've been on a sick cooler run, and writing down the results would have just tilted me before now. Last Sunday I made a couple nice runs but wound up down a bit for the night. The ..er lowlight of the day came around 1am when I was top 5 in the FTP mulligan with 50 left, and Top 3 in the 109 on stars with 16 ppl left. I was feeling good and playing well, when In the mulligan an aggro player shoved 55 on the button. I had 99 on the sb and reshoved. The BB, who had just moved to the table and had me slightly covered, tanked and made the overcall with JJ :(. Didn't really matter because board came 5xxxx and the button shover stacked up. GG mulligan.
The 109 really kicked me in the balls. I'm sitting on a top 3 stack when I find kk utg. I 3x it with 100k behind me and blinds ~2k 4k. LP reshoves 65k, I call, he shows JJ. Board brings me no worries until river J. AHHHHH. Crippled? I double through with 1010 to 55 and then run a big bluff though and am back to 100k with 14 left, and an aggrotard reshoves an lp raiser for 85k. Dude is so loose I can't find the fold and look him up w AQ. he shows A10. Board 269 turn 6 river 9 ahhh I hate poker. He gets the chop split. I steal some blinds get up to 125k, 4th in chips, with big stack of 300k on the bb to my left. I find KK on the button. UTG shoves in for 100k at 5k10k. I reship KK. BB uses his whole time bank, I start getting a hard on at the thought of the tripple up, etc. when boom- he calls showing AA- WTF slowrolled on final table bubble by chipleader? AHHHHHHHHHHH I dont hit gg me.
So that sucked.
Fast Forward to Monday. Win two seats to the FTP 1k off of 1000 invested in sattys so was happy about that. Top 45 paid, 48 ppl left, I have 18k, avg ~22k. UTG I get AKhh. Blinds are 400/800. I make it 2400. Utg +2, shitty player, reraises to 8k. I put him on 22+, A9s+, KJs+, A10+ here. No joke. I reshove, he calls with AQ. Thats cool. Q22 flop kicks me to the curb. GG.
Almost instantaneously in the 30r on FTP, 28 ppl left, top 27 paid. I have 55k, good for 8th. Folds around to UTG who limps, I'm BB with A10ss. I shove in on him (unnecessary mistake) he instas AK. I flop the 10, but J Q runs down to give him straight. I'm down to 25k, bottom 10 stack. Same guy opens for 3x, I shove huge overshove, he calls AQ. Finds a Q and I'm done. Two bubbles at the same time where AK < AQ will tilt you sometimes.
Tuesday night had a softball game so only played some sngs.
Wednesday night played FTOPS 1 and Stars 320 150k. FTOPS I lost early getting it all in with super draw on 2h3h4xKx board with AKhh v 88, 8 on the river non heart crippled me. 1 outers happen though. Stars 320 I made the money and then bled some chips away and lost in 46th or so when my A10 < 99. Cashd for ~650.
Thursday night I played some sngs late and some 5/10nl. Did fairly well: Played 4 Sngs, all turbos: 60, 75, 119, 236 Results: Win in 60 (+190), 7th in 75, (-75), Win in 119 (+376), 2nd in 236 (+358). In 5/10nl, I bought in short for 400, won some pots up to 520, then virtually doubled with AJ on J3457 board v A8 bluffer. Left table with 1020, (+620). Haven't had a day like that in a while so was nice. Up ~1500.
Huge weekend up ahead for me - Tonight I'm giong to play the regular shit, plus possibly the FTOP event. Tomorrow I have the ironman freeroll, plus the 320 on stars, and maybe the afternoon 100r on FTP (this might be the FTOP not sure). Sunday, FTOP 3 is 320 buy in replacing the 500k, so that should have a million prize pool, plus I have FTP monthly TLB freeroll, and the other sunday shit. Hopefully I'll win enough this weekend to buy a new condo.
GG GL NH TTYL
Pat0
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Weekend Results
So this weekend I played a lot of poker. I lost a lot of money playing all this poker, because I only made two final tables. On sunday I ft'ed the afternoon 20r on FTP, finishing 6th, when I called an all in with 88 as the short stack, only to have shaundeeb reshove behind me with KK!. Original all in guy had A5ss, and made a runner runner flush, so I came in 3rd in the hand. Cashed for like 1200 for this. Later that night, I ft'ed the 30r on FTP. Took 8th for ~600 when my AQ < QJ. GG. I'm on a decent downswing the last week, about 4k total, but that's to be expected, since I was up 20k the previous week, these things will happen. My new focus has been winning small MTTs, mostly sattys to FTOPS, as roll builders / confidence boosters. I've won 3 seats to FTOPS6, the 300+22 buy in, and the satellitte challenge leader for this event has won 5 seats. I might take this seriously and try to win this challenge, just because it will give me something to shoot for.
Speaking of FTOPs, so far I've won seats in events 1 (NL 216), 3 (PL 216), 6 (NL 322), 8?(7stud 216), ME (530). I've invested about 600 in FTOPS qualifiers, so this puts me way ahead, considering the cash from the 2 other Event 6 seats covers all my buyins.
Another point of interest is I achieved Iron Man status for the month on FTP, and silver VIP status for the month on Stars. Iron man is the top level of FTP, so I'll play in a 30k freeroll without a lot of people. Maybe I'll win? Silver vip on stars is level 2 of their 6 levels or so, so not that big of a deal, but you gotta start somewhere.
I plan to play tonight, so I'll try to get a good update in for tomorrow.
GG
Pato
Speaking of FTOPs, so far I've won seats in events 1 (NL 216), 3 (PL 216), 6 (NL 322), 8?(7stud 216), ME (530). I've invested about 600 in FTOPS qualifiers, so this puts me way ahead, considering the cash from the 2 other Event 6 seats covers all my buyins.
Another point of interest is I achieved Iron Man status for the month on FTP, and silver VIP status for the month on Stars. Iron man is the top level of FTP, so I'll play in a 30k freeroll without a lot of people. Maybe I'll win? Silver vip on stars is level 2 of their 6 levels or so, so not that big of a deal, but you gotta start somewhere.
I plan to play tonight, so I'll try to get a good update in for tomorrow.
GG
Pato
Friday, July 27, 2007
Thursday's Results = 1000.00
I didn't get a chance to start the Hendon Mob shootout 1 until 2:45, so I missed a good portion of the first hour. I never really got much going and busted on a wierd hand. I have QKdd, villain raises 3x in mp. I call on button. Flop is 9s10dAd. He leads out for 300 into ~500. I call. Turn brick, He leads out 1200, I raise him to 3200. He waits and calls. River 9h, he checks, I ship in my last 2500 on a prayer, he calls with 89dd. GG, sucks that 5 outer on the river or else he is deffinetly folding. If not, why wouldnt he just get it all in on the turn? Oh well.
I also lost a 60 sng, 36 sng, and 26 mtt during this time span. Then I played some Omaha hi lo. I played 5/10 and 3/6, walked away after an hour with ~200 profit. Down 100 for the afternoon, I can deal. I went out on this boat cruise at night, and came home moderately drunk. I decided to play 6 max 5/10 no limit. I know what you're thinking- bye bye bankroll. I actually watched the game for 20 minutes before joining though, so I had a good feel for the game. I bought in short for 500 at two tables. First hand of one table I pick up A10cc. UTG raises to 35, I call. Flop is 2c10sJc. He bets 60, I call. Turn is Js. He bets 150- I thought this was a scared bet, so I decided to ship it. Good read, he insa calls J8 and I brick out. I reload for 500 at this table. On the other table, I take down a couple pots, and am sitting with 600. I get KK on the sb, utg raises to 35, utg+1 calls, co calls, button calls, I raise to 150 and take it down. 150 pot gets me to 750. Then I flop a set of 4s and win 40 bucks, flop a set of 7s on the bb v sb and win 50 bucks, I have about 825 in front of me when I get 99. UTG whose been active raises to 50, I call. Flop is 772, check check. Turn 4, check check. River 2, I value bet pot ~135, he calls with AK. I should deffinetly bet the turn there, but I'm a nit. I left this table the next orbit up 460.
Back to my other table. After rebuying I started playing more aggro, and built up to 600 when following hand came up. MP raises to 35, i call on button with AJ, sb makes it 120. I look him up, flop is kqj. He bets 80, I call. Turn J. He shoves in, I call. He has KQ, AJ for me wins. 1200 stack now. I hung out another orbit or so and then let here, leaving myself up a little over a grand at 5/10 for the night. This isn't something I plan to do regularly, but I thought the game looked weak and went with it. GG.
I'm going to foxwoods in a few hours, I'll post results etc tomorrow.
Pato
I also lost a 60 sng, 36 sng, and 26 mtt during this time span. Then I played some Omaha hi lo. I played 5/10 and 3/6, walked away after an hour with ~200 profit. Down 100 for the afternoon, I can deal. I went out on this boat cruise at night, and came home moderately drunk. I decided to play 6 max 5/10 no limit. I know what you're thinking- bye bye bankroll. I actually watched the game for 20 minutes before joining though, so I had a good feel for the game. I bought in short for 500 at two tables. First hand of one table I pick up A10cc. UTG raises to 35, I call. Flop is 2c10sJc. He bets 60, I call. Turn is Js. He bets 150- I thought this was a scared bet, so I decided to ship it. Good read, he insa calls J8 and I brick out. I reload for 500 at this table. On the other table, I take down a couple pots, and am sitting with 600. I get KK on the sb, utg raises to 35, utg+1 calls, co calls, button calls, I raise to 150 and take it down. 150 pot gets me to 750. Then I flop a set of 4s and win 40 bucks, flop a set of 7s on the bb v sb and win 50 bucks, I have about 825 in front of me when I get 99. UTG whose been active raises to 50, I call. Flop is 772, check check. Turn 4, check check. River 2, I value bet pot ~135, he calls with AK. I should deffinetly bet the turn there, but I'm a nit. I left this table the next orbit up 460.
Back to my other table. After rebuying I started playing more aggro, and built up to 600 when following hand came up. MP raises to 35, i call on button with AJ, sb makes it 120. I look him up, flop is kqj. He bets 80, I call. Turn J. He shoves in, I call. He has KQ, AJ for me wins. 1200 stack now. I hung out another orbit or so and then let here, leaving myself up a little over a grand at 5/10 for the night. This isn't something I plan to do regularly, but I thought the game looked weak and went with it. GG.
I'm going to foxwoods in a few hours, I'll post results etc tomorrow.
Pato
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday's Results = ??????
Die Full Tilt. Full Tilt's server decided to crash for the ~10th time this year last night, right around 10:30pm. Such a shitty time for a crash, as this was when all the big tourneys are going on. Per their tournament cancellation policy, I guess I'll get my buy in plus a bit back, weee. What really sucks is that I was in the 6max 100r on FTP, really short, and lost two hands before the disconnect. Would have been nice if I outlasted that to recoup some of the 1000 I donated to that tournament. I hate that the 100r on FTP is 6 max, I'm going to stop playing it. 9 way rebuys are much better IMO. Do I have results to support this? Stay tuned...
So I was down ~1200 in buy ins on FTP, but I'll probably get ~ 250 back for the 30 rebuy (I was top 10 stack when FTP went busto). Down 1k on FTP for the night sucks though, esp because the 30 rebuy field is so weak and First was ~6k last night.
On the PokerStars front, their website didn't crash, because they have good servers! So I played the 320 buy in weekly tournament last night, and the following came up:
I'm on button with AJs (2500 chips), MP 3x raise to 90, lag cutoff smooth calls, I call, sb folds, BB raises to 500. Original raiser folds, and lagtard calls. Maybe this is my first mistake, but I call, and here is why- BB's huge reraise screams 99-QQ to me here, and I don't think the CO has AQ or AK, because he would have reraised the MP player. So anyway I call, we see a flop of 99A. Flop can be so much trouble for me, because if my read is off, and there is a better Ace out there, I'm gonna lose some money. BB and CO both check to me, and I decide to take the free card- not a whole lot of cards that kill me here if I'm putting them on lower pairs, and if they're checking an ace i'm behind. Turn falls a magical J. BB checks, and CO bets 600. Pot now has 2200 in, and I have 2000 chips. I decide to shove, with my thought being that if I was wrong and he has Ak or Aq I get called, and with the J he might call with Ax because the J kicker plays. Folds around to cutoff who hollywoods me for whole timebank, then calls with 89. WTF?! I thought a 9 was out of his range once the BB made it 500 to go at 15/30, bad read I guess. GG 320.
Also played the stars 20 rebuy, which you might remember I took 2nd in Friday night. I decided I didn't want to spew tons of money in the rebuy period if possible, because my game has been leaking in this regard lately. One guy at my table is shoving every hand though. 5 hands in I get 77, limp, full table of limpers, aggro guy shoves 3k. I say fck it and call, and so does button. They show AJ and 55. Flop 447, turn 5, no one outer on river and I'm up to 9k. Weeee. I decide at this point to see flops cheap and only get it in pre with solid (read 99+,AK) holdings. We hit the break and I have 13k after the rebuy. Wait, I only spent 60 bucks on the 20rebuy?! That's amazing!!
Shortly after break ends, I play Aces badly and dont get all of some fish's chips when he has QQ on a 22673 board. I have 16k when Apestyles moves to my direct right. At this point he has 25k, top 10 stack. He is raising a lot of fold arounds, so I start floating him, but not hitting any flops. I take down a pot off a short fish and I'm at 18k, Ape has 24k, when the following comes up. I'm BB he is SB. I have QTo. Ape 4x the fold around at 200/400, and I defend. Flop is 358, two diamonds. He leads for 3200, I float. Turn is 7, he checks, I bet 4400, he calls. River comes an Ace. He waits and checks. For some reason I think the Ace put him in check call mode, like maybe he had an A high diamond draw or something. I decide to shove in my last 10k. He waits out his whole time bank and folds. Success! I'm up to 28k and he has 14k. I float him next hand with KT0 on his fold around 4x, and BB reraises to 4800. Ape calls, and I do to. Flop is 4KT rainbow (Luckbox = me). BB checks, Ape bets 4800, I min raise to 9600, BB folds, Ape min raises to 14400, I wait and call. I thought to get it all in here, but I didn't want to lose him. Turn is a 7 of hearts, putting a heart draw on the board. He checks, I bet 5200, he folds. GG up to ~50k, chipleader. Micon gets moved to our table at this point and has my button. Ape is elliminated in a few hands, and I stay around 50k until we get down to 90 ppl left (45 pay). I 3x to 2400 utg with AKdd, tight player shoves in for 15k. I call he shows TT, he flops a 10 and I'm down to 39k. Now the table has tightened up, and Micon starts raising my BB. He raises and I repop once and take it down with A5o. Next orbit he raises 3x, I reraise to 10x with 55 on the sb. He shoves in for 25k, I wait a few seconds then decide to call- I figure with my repop last time his range is wide enough here that there is a 75% chance we're flipping, so its a call. He shows AK, and bricks out. I pull in here with 68k. I get moved now to a new table, get repopped my first hand and am down to 50k. This table was a rollercoaster for me, I was up and down the whole time. Get as high as 95k, as low as 25k. With 60 ppl left JohnnyBax comes to my table, as do all the railbird fags. Around this time I get JJ, at 2500/5000, I make it 15k with 60k total. BB reraises to 40k, I shove he calls with AKss. I take down another flip and have 140k. Crazy thing is that at this point I am 8th in chips, but 4th at my table. Makes it hard to abuse the bubble needless to say. With 47 ppl left, UTG limps, I have TT on the button and make it 20k. TAG player on SB calls, as does utg. 70k in the pot preflop here, big time. Flop AdJxTd. Both players check to me, I bet 30k, sb calls, utg, who only has 27k left, tanks and folds. Turn is 7h. Check, I bet 40k, he shoves. I'm like ughhh QK? I call he shows AJ brick out and I have ~300k. BTW, small stack claims to have folded AK. Fish.
I'm chip leader here and decide to keep it tight. 10 hands later I get TT utg. 3x to 18k. SB and BB call. Flop Ac4c10x. SB checks, I bet 30k, he raises to 60k, I shove, he calls (started hand with 180k) with AQo. no runner runner and I have 550k. Time for me to really tighten up now. I tighted till we get to two tables left, and my stack gets kind of low after a few tough hands. I raise 3x to 24k on button with KT spades. BB calls, flop AsJs4x, and he open shoves 120k. Pokerstove his range as any ace rag, and we're a coinflip. I call he shows A3o, turn K, giving me 14 outs to the river, I brick out and am down to 400k. Next hand its 5k/10k, Shorty shoves 98k, I call with 99 on the SB and his A5 gets there to knock me down to 300k. I get reshoved on a button raise and am down to 270k. We're down to 12 ppl left, and my table is letting me get away with a lot of raises, and I work my way up to 450k when we finally get to final table. GB2005 and some Norway kid Bjullo or something are only players I recognize at final table. GB is short though and busts in 9th. I go down to 210k on a couple raises reshoved on and a hand I played like shit, when we get 6 way. I start raising and reshoving and fight my way back into the tournament. 4 way arrives and it is Bjullo 1.1mm to my right, TAG two to my right 1.4mm, weak tight to my left 250k, me 450k. Bjullo decided to double up weak tighty with k7 vs his A8, so now the two smalls are even and the two bigs are even. Bjullo is playing like shit and running like god, when following comes up. 10k/20k, I'm button. Bjullo utg min raise to 40k. I see TT, which has been my hand this tourney. I ship 480k into the pot. As I told Bluechip on the phone, I'm value shoving because he will call me so light. Sure enough, he commits another 440k with A7o LOL ROFLMAO. Flop is 552, two hearts, turn A of hearts!!!!, and I don't hit my river heart or 10, and I'm out in 4th. 3001 dollars paid, but would have been nice to hold there- I double and I can take it down. Oh well, can't complain about another 4 figure final table score, and final tabling this tourney twice in a weeks time is impressive. GG me. Pending my FTP reimbursements, I spent ~1500 on buyins for a profit of +1500 for the night. GG.
Hendon Mob shootouts start today, which I won seats in by beating Bluechip heads up in a MTT satty two weeks ago (brag post). Hopefully I'll win and he will get 2nd.
GG GL TTYL TYVM GFKY.
Pato
oh by the way I posted an article yesterday that has disappeared- I'm still new to this blog thing, but basically lost 400 bucks playing sngs.
So I was down ~1200 in buy ins on FTP, but I'll probably get ~ 250 back for the 30 rebuy (I was top 10 stack when FTP went busto). Down 1k on FTP for the night sucks though, esp because the 30 rebuy field is so weak and First was ~6k last night.
On the PokerStars front, their website didn't crash, because they have good servers! So I played the 320 buy in weekly tournament last night, and the following came up:
I'm on button with AJs (2500 chips), MP 3x raise to 90, lag cutoff smooth calls, I call, sb folds, BB raises to 500. Original raiser folds, and lagtard calls. Maybe this is my first mistake, but I call, and here is why- BB's huge reraise screams 99-QQ to me here, and I don't think the CO has AQ or AK, because he would have reraised the MP player. So anyway I call, we see a flop of 99A. Flop can be so much trouble for me, because if my read is off, and there is a better Ace out there, I'm gonna lose some money. BB and CO both check to me, and I decide to take the free card- not a whole lot of cards that kill me here if I'm putting them on lower pairs, and if they're checking an ace i'm behind. Turn falls a magical J. BB checks, and CO bets 600. Pot now has 2200 in, and I have 2000 chips. I decide to shove, with my thought being that if I was wrong and he has Ak or Aq I get called, and with the J he might call with Ax because the J kicker plays. Folds around to cutoff who hollywoods me for whole timebank, then calls with 89. WTF?! I thought a 9 was out of his range once the BB made it 500 to go at 15/30, bad read I guess. GG 320.
Also played the stars 20 rebuy, which you might remember I took 2nd in Friday night. I decided I didn't want to spew tons of money in the rebuy period if possible, because my game has been leaking in this regard lately. One guy at my table is shoving every hand though. 5 hands in I get 77, limp, full table of limpers, aggro guy shoves 3k. I say fck it and call, and so does button. They show AJ and 55. Flop 447, turn 5, no one outer on river and I'm up to 9k. Weeee. I decide at this point to see flops cheap and only get it in pre with solid (read 99+,AK) holdings. We hit the break and I have 13k after the rebuy. Wait, I only spent 60 bucks on the 20rebuy?! That's amazing!!
Shortly after break ends, I play Aces badly and dont get all of some fish's chips when he has QQ on a 22673 board. I have 16k when Apestyles moves to my direct right. At this point he has 25k, top 10 stack. He is raising a lot of fold arounds, so I start floating him, but not hitting any flops. I take down a pot off a short fish and I'm at 18k, Ape has 24k, when the following comes up. I'm BB he is SB. I have QTo. Ape 4x the fold around at 200/400, and I defend. Flop is 358, two diamonds. He leads for 3200, I float. Turn is 7, he checks, I bet 4400, he calls. River comes an Ace. He waits and checks. For some reason I think the Ace put him in check call mode, like maybe he had an A high diamond draw or something. I decide to shove in my last 10k. He waits out his whole time bank and folds. Success! I'm up to 28k and he has 14k. I float him next hand with KT0 on his fold around 4x, and BB reraises to 4800. Ape calls, and I do to. Flop is 4KT rainbow (Luckbox = me). BB checks, Ape bets 4800, I min raise to 9600, BB folds, Ape min raises to 14400, I wait and call. I thought to get it all in here, but I didn't want to lose him. Turn is a 7 of hearts, putting a heart draw on the board. He checks, I bet 5200, he folds. GG up to ~50k, chipleader. Micon gets moved to our table at this point and has my button. Ape is elliminated in a few hands, and I stay around 50k until we get down to 90 ppl left (45 pay). I 3x to 2400 utg with AKdd, tight player shoves in for 15k. I call he shows TT, he flops a 10 and I'm down to 39k. Now the table has tightened up, and Micon starts raising my BB. He raises and I repop once and take it down with A5o. Next orbit he raises 3x, I reraise to 10x with 55 on the sb. He shoves in for 25k, I wait a few seconds then decide to call- I figure with my repop last time his range is wide enough here that there is a 75% chance we're flipping, so its a call. He shows AK, and bricks out. I pull in here with 68k. I get moved now to a new table, get repopped my first hand and am down to 50k. This table was a rollercoaster for me, I was up and down the whole time. Get as high as 95k, as low as 25k. With 60 ppl left JohnnyBax comes to my table, as do all the railbird fags. Around this time I get JJ, at 2500/5000, I make it 15k with 60k total. BB reraises to 40k, I shove he calls with AKss. I take down another flip and have 140k. Crazy thing is that at this point I am 8th in chips, but 4th at my table. Makes it hard to abuse the bubble needless to say. With 47 ppl left, UTG limps, I have TT on the button and make it 20k. TAG player on SB calls, as does utg. 70k in the pot preflop here, big time. Flop AdJxTd. Both players check to me, I bet 30k, sb calls, utg, who only has 27k left, tanks and folds. Turn is 7h. Check, I bet 40k, he shoves. I'm like ughhh QK? I call he shows AJ brick out and I have ~300k. BTW, small stack claims to have folded AK. Fish.
I'm chip leader here and decide to keep it tight. 10 hands later I get TT utg. 3x to 18k. SB and BB call. Flop Ac4c10x. SB checks, I bet 30k, he raises to 60k, I shove, he calls (started hand with 180k) with AQo. no runner runner and I have 550k. Time for me to really tighten up now. I tighted till we get to two tables left, and my stack gets kind of low after a few tough hands. I raise 3x to 24k on button with KT spades. BB calls, flop AsJs4x, and he open shoves 120k. Pokerstove his range as any ace rag, and we're a coinflip. I call he shows A3o, turn K, giving me 14 outs to the river, I brick out and am down to 400k. Next hand its 5k/10k, Shorty shoves 98k, I call with 99 on the SB and his A5 gets there to knock me down to 300k. I get reshoved on a button raise and am down to 270k. We're down to 12 ppl left, and my table is letting me get away with a lot of raises, and I work my way up to 450k when we finally get to final table. GB2005 and some Norway kid Bjullo or something are only players I recognize at final table. GB is short though and busts in 9th. I go down to 210k on a couple raises reshoved on and a hand I played like shit, when we get 6 way. I start raising and reshoving and fight my way back into the tournament. 4 way arrives and it is Bjullo 1.1mm to my right, TAG two to my right 1.4mm, weak tight to my left 250k, me 450k. Bjullo decided to double up weak tighty with k7 vs his A8, so now the two smalls are even and the two bigs are even. Bjullo is playing like shit and running like god, when following comes up. 10k/20k, I'm button. Bjullo utg min raise to 40k. I see TT, which has been my hand this tourney. I ship 480k into the pot. As I told Bluechip on the phone, I'm value shoving because he will call me so light. Sure enough, he commits another 440k with A7o LOL ROFLMAO. Flop is 552, two hearts, turn A of hearts!!!!, and I don't hit my river heart or 10, and I'm out in 4th. 3001 dollars paid, but would have been nice to hold there- I double and I can take it down. Oh well, can't complain about another 4 figure final table score, and final tabling this tourney twice in a weeks time is impressive. GG me. Pending my FTP reimbursements, I spent ~1500 on buyins for a profit of +1500 for the night. GG.
Hendon Mob shootouts start today, which I won seats in by beating Bluechip heads up in a MTT satty two weeks ago (brag post). Hopefully I'll win and he will get 2nd.
GG GL TTYL TYVM GFKY.
Pato
oh by the way I posted an article yesterday that has disappeared- I'm still new to this blog thing, but basically lost 400 bucks playing sngs.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Tuesday's Results = ~(400.00)
OK so I'm a fish. I made a spreadsheet of my sng grinding last night, but neglected to mark down whether each sng was a 119 turbo or 60 turbo. Accordingly, the spreadsheet is screwed for the night and I don't know my exact results. I'm fairly confident I was down a couple hundo though... gg bankroll management not knowing what you're results are at the end of the night. Anyway though the spreadsheet got screwed because of my tilt. I was 8 tabling sngs, 4 119 turbos on my left monitor, 4 60 turbos on the right monitor. After I made it to the top 5 of all 8, only to take an astonishing 3 5ths and 5 4ths, I fired up a new set of 8. When I went to tile the tables, however, the 60's and 119's got mixed up (ie didnt stay on their respective monitors). I didn't realize this on the next set, so as I would busto from one on the right I assumed it was a 60, and a 119 for the left, which was wrong. I didn't realize my mistake till the end of my 3rd session, when I won two 60 sngs only to realize they were both 119s. Wee that was good, but I'm pissed that I screwed up the spreadsheet. Oh well, will have to be more careful next time.
Tonight I don't have anything to do, except put the new rims on my car (ty full tilt), so I'll run all the multi tables. Schedule tentatively:
7pm 75 FTP, 109 PS
8pm 163 FTP, 26 FTP
8:30 33rebuy FTP
9pm 162 PS, 22rebuy PS
Hopefully I can keep the spreadsheet together for these results.
Also, I may be going to foxwoods friday night, so I'm going to have to think about how to keep accurate results from my live session, since I'll likely be getting very drunk once I'm done poker. GG TTYL
Pato
Tonight I don't have anything to do, except put the new rims on my car (ty full tilt), so I'll run all the multi tables. Schedule tentatively:
7pm 75 FTP, 109 PS
8pm 163 FTP, 26 FTP
8:30 33rebuy FTP
9pm 162 PS, 22rebuy PS
Hopefully I can keep the spreadsheet together for these results.
Also, I may be going to foxwoods friday night, so I'm going to have to think about how to keep accurate results from my live session, since I'll likely be getting very drunk once I'm done poker. GG TTYL
Pato
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday's Results = (2460.00)
I started the night off with my normal schedule, plus I fired up 3 109 turbo mtts and 2 265 sng qualifiers to the monday $1k. I lost 7 straight flips and didnt win one of the qualifiers. I decided to buy right in to the $1k, where I finished around 80th of 350 with 36 places paid. I was absolutely card dead, it was comical- I do think this tournament is +EV, because a lot of the people who qualify are just too weak to ever have success in this field. Regardless though, that cost me ~2000 between the buy in and the qualifiers. I plan on only playing it if I qualify in the future, but since I was up alot last week I decided to take a shot. BTW, first place in this tourney was 80k- it's just sick to think of a field of less then 400 people paying out that much money.
Nothing too exciting to report on the mtt's in my normal schedule - I bubbled the 109 on stars on a stupid bluff, and lost the 55k on full tilt when my JJ ran into KK on the big blind.
I won't get to play my normal mtt's tonight because I have a softball game, so it will be sngs for me. I'll post a chart tomorrow of how I do.
Pato
Nothing too exciting to report on the mtt's in my normal schedule - I bubbled the 109 on stars on a stupid bluff, and lost the 55k on full tilt when my JJ ran into KK on the big blind.
I won't get to play my normal mtt's tonight because I have a softball game, so it will be sngs for me. I'll post a chart tomorrow of how I do.
Pato
Monday, July 23, 2007
Sunday's Results = (2005.00)
Shitty fcking Sunday in progress. I'm out of everything, all I have left if 10% equity in Bluechip in the 200 horse on FTP.
Basic rundown of the day- I played every major on FTP and PStars and did not cash in one mtt. Not one - lol @ running bad. I also played the two 100 rebuys on PStars. I played them very tag, not wanting to donk off too much money in them. I lost the first 100r when my AK < AQ from Intervntion. Sweet. Lost the second one with KQ to AQ. Down ~1500 on stars for the night.
On to FTP- got jacked up in the MTT's, the only legit run I made was in the Mulligan, where I made the 3rd hour. Never got a whole lot going on, and got my money in with 8k behind and AJ vs 88. Flopped the J, turn an 8, gg. Also just ended my night getting 3rd in a qualifier to the 1k monday where it paid a seat for top 2- did get 440 for 3rd though, helps stop the bleeding a bit. Down ~500
No Graphs today since I was on a different computer- back to normal tomorrow.
Pato
Basic rundown of the day- I played every major on FTP and PStars and did not cash in one mtt. Not one - lol @ running bad. I also played the two 100 rebuys on PStars. I played them very tag, not wanting to donk off too much money in them. I lost the first 100r when my AK < AQ from Intervntion. Sweet. Lost the second one with KQ to AQ. Down ~1500 on stars for the night.
On to FTP- got jacked up in the MTT's, the only legit run I made was in the Mulligan, where I made the 3rd hour. Never got a whole lot going on, and got my money in with 8k behind and AJ vs 88. Flopped the J, turn an 8, gg. Also just ended my night getting 3rd in a qualifier to the 1k monday where it paid a seat for top 2- did get 440 for 3rd though, helps stop the bleeding a bit. Down ~500
No Graphs today since I was on a different computer- back to normal tomorrow.
Pato
Saturday's Results = (426.30)
Not Much to say about Saturday- only big tourney I played was the 320 afternoon mtt on Stars. Stayed around average until 2nd hour when I chipped up to 11k, a top 10 stack, with 99 v AQ hh when I called an all in from a known 100r player on a 10x2x2h4h turn. I dodged 15 outs on the river and was in good shape. A very loose player raised my bb and I called with 89. Flop came 249, I check called his half pot bet. He 3/4 the turn, I pushed in and he showed KK on the button :( . Just unlucky to see an aggro player wake up with KK on your button and then hit top pair no draw on the flop. Oh well GG.
I'll give you my sunday info later. Peace.
Pato
I'll give you my sunday info later. Peace.
Pato
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Friday's Results = 4137.00
Played a shitload of tourneys today- sucked it up on FTP, only worthwhile result was winning my seat for the $500k tommorow- not even that big of a deal either because it is a 216 this week. Didn't run poorly, just made some bad plays- only shitty loss was trip jacks to flush in the $55k, but that'll happen.
PStars was looking poorly too. I invested an unheard of $300 in the 20 rebuy, and came to the break with 5k in chips (for those of you scoring at home,that means a double rebuy and addon only). Bluechip was making a run in the $55k, so I was railing him and treating the 20r as an afterthought. 20 off the bubble, my KK ran into QQ aipf, and the turn and river were both Qs, moving my stack down below 5k. Somehow I short stack ninja'd back into the game, and was sitting on 30k on bubble. I 4x 55 in cutoff and bb shoves all in- i look him up and he has AQ, I hold to 60k. Now its time for me to abuse bubble. I raise a shitload and finally play a pot where i get it aipf with A5 to 1010. I turn the wheel though and am up to 100k. I hang around till we're down to ~ 30 ppl left when I get moved to a table with GBoro and some fish. Following hand comes up that set me up for an FT run:
PokerStars Game #11049816181: Tournament #55434171, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (2500/5000) - 2007/07/21 - 01:25:27 (ET)
Table '55434171 37' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: profontaine (49558 in chips)
Seat 2: sugweed (42918 in chips)
Seat 3: gouths (233116 in chips)
Seat 4: buck2348 (49424 in chips)
Seat 5: pato610 (213120 in chips)
Seat 6: Nick147 (37064 in chips)
Seat 7: gboro780 (76070 in chips)
Seat 8: WOODY3033 (110070 in chips)
Seat 9: jimeny999 (36785 in chips)
profontaine: posts the ante 500
sugweed: posts the ante 500
gouths: posts the ante 500
buck2348: posts the ante 500
pato610: posts the ante 500
Nick147: posts the ante 500
gboro780: posts the ante 500
WOODY3033: posts the ante 500
jimeny999: posts the ante 500
WOODY3033: posts small blind 2500
jimeny999: posts big blind 5000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pato610 [Kd As]
profontaine: folds
sugweed: folds
gouths: raises 5000 to 10000
buck2348: folds
pato610: raises 30000 to 40000
Nick147: calls 36564 and is all-in
gboro780: folds
WOODY3033: folds
jimeny999: folds
gouths: calls 30000
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3s 4h]
gouths: bets 30000
pato610: raises 30000 to 60000
gouths: raises 132616 to 192616 and is all-in
pato610: calls 112620 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ac 3s 4h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 3s 4h 2h] [Td]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gouths: shows [Qh Ad] (a pair of Aces)
pato610: shows [Kd As] (a pair of Aces - King kicker)
pato610 collected 352112 from side pot
Nick147: shows [7h 7s] (a pair of Sevens)
pato610 collected 121692 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 473804 Main pot 121692. Side pot 352112. | Rake 0
Board [Ac 3s 4h 2h Td]
Seat 1: profontaine folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: sugweed folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: gouths showed [Qh Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 4: buck2348 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pato610 showed [Kd As] and won (473804) with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: Nick147 showed [7h 7s] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 7: gboro780 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: WOODY3033 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: jimeny999 (big blind) folded before Flop
When a donk cant muck AQ there, I win. weeeeee.
So at this point I abused the bubble all the way to FT bubble, where I got ahead of myself and doubled up a guy. So final table I'm 2nd in chips. After putting a nasty beat on GBoro A9 v 1010 on a 92543 board, I had a massive chip lead 3 way.
We got to heads up and i was 3 to 1 chip leader. I got it all in with the guy on a 6c7cks flop, me holding Q7, him 9c10c. River 8 gets us back to even. Then I lose 1 million chips with JJ on a KQ board, and I am short stacked. I run a bluff into 2 pair and take 2nd. Sucks because I should have won, but I had such a donk image that I couldn't take down any pots pre or post flop vs the guy, he was looking me up everytime. Oh well, ~6k win is still cool. BTW the deal I have with Bluechip is that we take 10% of each others 4 figure + wins when we both play in the tourney, as a way to reduce variance. We're looking forward to a big Sunday, so hopefully I'll be shipping him some loots.
Here is last night's Excel:
PStars was looking poorly too. I invested an unheard of $300 in the 20 rebuy, and came to the break with 5k in chips (for those of you scoring at home,that means a double rebuy and addon only). Bluechip was making a run in the $55k, so I was railing him and treating the 20r as an afterthought. 20 off the bubble, my KK ran into QQ aipf, and the turn and river were both Qs, moving my stack down below 5k. Somehow I short stack ninja'd back into the game, and was sitting on 30k on bubble. I 4x 55 in cutoff and bb shoves all in- i look him up and he has AQ, I hold to 60k. Now its time for me to abuse bubble. I raise a shitload and finally play a pot where i get it aipf with A5 to 1010. I turn the wheel though and am up to 100k. I hang around till we're down to ~ 30 ppl left when I get moved to a table with GBoro and some fish. Following hand comes up that set me up for an FT run:
PokerStars Game #11049816181: Tournament #55434171, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (2500/5000) - 2007/07/21 - 01:25:27 (ET)
Table '55434171 37' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: profontaine (49558 in chips)
Seat 2: sugweed (42918 in chips)
Seat 3: gouths (233116 in chips)
Seat 4: buck2348 (49424 in chips)
Seat 5: pato610 (213120 in chips)
Seat 6: Nick147 (37064 in chips)
Seat 7: gboro780 (76070 in chips)
Seat 8: WOODY3033 (110070 in chips)
Seat 9: jimeny999 (36785 in chips)
profontaine: posts the ante 500
sugweed: posts the ante 500
gouths: posts the ante 500
buck2348: posts the ante 500
pato610: posts the ante 500
Nick147: posts the ante 500
gboro780: posts the ante 500
WOODY3033: posts the ante 500
jimeny999: posts the ante 500
WOODY3033: posts small blind 2500
jimeny999: posts big blind 5000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pato610 [Kd As]
profontaine: folds
sugweed: folds
gouths: raises 5000 to 10000
buck2348: folds
pato610: raises 30000 to 40000
Nick147: calls 36564 and is all-in
gboro780: folds
WOODY3033: folds
jimeny999: folds
gouths: calls 30000
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3s 4h]
gouths: bets 30000
pato610: raises 30000 to 60000
gouths: raises 132616 to 192616 and is all-in
pato610: calls 112620 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ac 3s 4h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 3s 4h 2h] [Td]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gouths: shows [Qh Ad] (a pair of Aces)
pato610: shows [Kd As] (a pair of Aces - King kicker)
pato610 collected 352112 from side pot
Nick147: shows [7h 7s] (a pair of Sevens)
pato610 collected 121692 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 473804 Main pot 121692. Side pot 352112. | Rake 0
Board [Ac 3s 4h 2h Td]
Seat 1: profontaine folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: sugweed folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: gouths showed [Qh Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 4: buck2348 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pato610 showed [Kd As] and won (473804) with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: Nick147 showed [7h 7s] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 7: gboro780 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: WOODY3033 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: jimeny999 (big blind) folded before Flop
When a donk cant muck AQ there, I win. weeeeee.
So at this point I abused the bubble all the way to FT bubble, where I got ahead of myself and doubled up a guy. So final table I'm 2nd in chips. After putting a nasty beat on GBoro A9 v 1010 on a 92543 board, I had a massive chip lead 3 way.
We got to heads up and i was 3 to 1 chip leader. I got it all in with the guy on a 6c7cks flop, me holding Q7, him 9c10c. River 8 gets us back to even. Then I lose 1 million chips with JJ on a KQ board, and I am short stacked. I run a bluff into 2 pair and take 2nd. Sucks because I should have won, but I had such a donk image that I couldn't take down any pots pre or post flop vs the guy, he was looking me up everytime. Oh well, ~6k win is still cool. BTW the deal I have with Bluechip is that we take 10% of each others 4 figure + wins when we both play in the tourney, as a way to reduce variance. We're looking forward to a big Sunday, so hopefully I'll be shipping him some loots.
Here is last night's Excel:
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday's Results = 8390.13
Good night of poker last night.
Came home and played an MTT satty into the FTOPS Main Event. Took it down for the $535 buy in, so a good start to the night. I also played a MTT satty for the hendon mob shootout, but lost 3 way vs USCphido.
Fired up the 7pm tournaments, and felt in control the whole time. Huge hand in the 7pm 100 on stars- i have 15k, chiplead, and i open to 3x utg with JsJd at 100 / 200 / 25. Folds to lp lagtard who shoves 6k in. I'm deffinetly calling him, because his range is 77-JJ, AQ+ with this open shove. BB decides to call too for his last 4.5k, making my decision a bit tougher. I wait it out for almost all my time bank and decide to call, because I think that BB is calling with 99+, AQ+. So I'm thinking I'm a favorite to take the 1.5k off the lagtard on the side at a minimum, meaning that IF BB has a monster, my net loss would only be 1.5k, plus I could be flipping, and the pot is 15k- so I called. lagtard shows other two Jacks, bb shows AK. Flop comes 2 spades all rags, turn is a spade, river is a spade- weeeee SCOOOOP. Its so nice to run good! This gives me a big chiplead. As the blinds get up, and PS goes aggrotard, my stack moves closer to the average. I wind up being a shorty with 3 tables left, but I manage to steal blinds to keep me afloat until we get down to 12 ppl left. I have 55k, avg = 80k. blinds 3k/6k forget the ante- shorty with 28k shoves button, I have 1010 and call. Jerk shows JJ!! I get my 10, but it is after an 89Q board, so he makes a straight and I don't pair the river. I shove short for a bit then take the FT bubble at 12th. Cashed for ~600, GG.
In the 7pm Full Tilt $25K, I had a big stack pretty early after some good flops and a donk who decided to double me to 12k with his 6k stack on a AQ4 board with his AK v my AA. I'm sorry but when you have 6k, the bb is 50, you don't lose your stack with top top IMO. Whatever though i'll take the double up. Near the bubble I have 40k stack and get to a table with theHebrewHammer and some other ppl. The guy to my right has 55k, and I take all his money over the course of two hands. first, my JJ vs his 88 that I played horribly and would have folded to a river bet, but it went check check luckily. That made it 60k to 35k. The I get AA on the button, he 3x it to 1800 in the cutoff. I smooth, flop is Q high, he bets pot, I call. Turn is 10, he bets pot, I shove, he calls shows AQ. No 2 outer on the river and I have 95k. I ride this stack into the money, building it as high as 135k when we are 10 handed. Terrible player to my right, short stack, shoves in for 55k at 2k/4k. I have 100k behind and AK, I call. A4Q board no help turn and river and I'm short stack. I find a double up and go to final table with 80k, 2nd shortest. Thehebrewhammer is to my right, and he has been AGGRESSIVE. Folds to him on button, he 3xs to 18k. I'm sb with KcJc. I call with the intention of check raising all in any paired board, or leading all in at a good draw. flop comes 910Q, hmm guess I'll check. The hammer shoves all in, I call he has K4. No J to chop and I have 185k. We get to 5 way after about an hour, and blinds are 10k/20k. UTG shoves 68k in after losing a huge hand. I look him up w K2 spades, he has KJ off. OOPS. I spike a 2 like its my job and he's done, we're 4way. 4 way was wierd- all 3 players were terrible, so it was like walking through a mine field. At any moment they might decide to shove it in. I'm built up to 300k, big stack to my left has 600k, two to my left has 240k, guy to my right has 180k. I've been raising a ton and they're obviously sick of it. I open utg with A8hh to 70k. Sb with 240k waits forever and shoves in. I tank it here- I'm thinking fold initially, but I play back some of his previous shoves- when he showed down AQ on a shove it was an instashove, and he had been playing desperate the past few levels. I decide that he is shoving any pair, any two broadway, any ace. Vs. this range, needing to call 170k to win 540k pot, I call. He has KcJc, flop two clubs, he doesnt get any of his 15 outs and my A high wins. 3way, big stack is reshoving on me periodically, so I start limping to mix it up. I take maybe 50k off him in 3way, when I bust the short stack. folds around to him, he shoves 160k at 15k/30k. I call with 33, spike a 3 to get to heads up. Heads up he has a slight cl, we go back and forth a few hands, then I get QsJs. I 3x to 90k. He calls. Flop Kc9s2c. He checks and I check behind, because he has been repopping me all in a ton. Turn 6c, he bets 30k into 200k. I call with my gutshot, not sure what his bet means here- I think it is weak but I want to keep this pot small since we just started HU. River is 10s. He leads out for 100k, around half the pot. I shove, he calls after a bit with Q10?!!!!?!!?! Hmmmm. I have 1.4mm to his 90k now. Two hands later I end it shoving KJ and he calls K8, no 8. GG me for 8690. Me and bluechip had swapped 10% for the night in tournaments we played together, so I shipped him 870 (10 dollar bonus for rail support at FT). Seriously though a shoutout to blue, he had some good words of wisdom for me HU. I also cashed in a few other MTTs for the night, nothing big. Good night overall though. Always nice to finish the deal and win an MTT- top 3 is the goal in any MTT, but the wins are what build a bankroll.
Here is the excel for the night:
Came home and played an MTT satty into the FTOPS Main Event. Took it down for the $535 buy in, so a good start to the night. I also played a MTT satty for the hendon mob shootout, but lost 3 way vs USCphido.
Fired up the 7pm tournaments, and felt in control the whole time. Huge hand in the 7pm 100 on stars- i have 15k, chiplead, and i open to 3x utg with JsJd at 100 / 200 / 25. Folds to lp lagtard who shoves 6k in. I'm deffinetly calling him, because his range is 77-JJ, AQ+ with this open shove. BB decides to call too for his last 4.5k, making my decision a bit tougher. I wait it out for almost all my time bank and decide to call, because I think that BB is calling with 99+, AQ+. So I'm thinking I'm a favorite to take the 1.5k off the lagtard on the side at a minimum, meaning that IF BB has a monster, my net loss would only be 1.5k, plus I could be flipping, and the pot is 15k- so I called. lagtard shows other two Jacks, bb shows AK. Flop comes 2 spades all rags, turn is a spade, river is a spade- weeeee SCOOOOP. Its so nice to run good! This gives me a big chiplead. As the blinds get up, and PS goes aggrotard, my stack moves closer to the average. I wind up being a shorty with 3 tables left, but I manage to steal blinds to keep me afloat until we get down to 12 ppl left. I have 55k, avg = 80k. blinds 3k/6k forget the ante- shorty with 28k shoves button, I have 1010 and call. Jerk shows JJ!! I get my 10, but it is after an 89Q board, so he makes a straight and I don't pair the river. I shove short for a bit then take the FT bubble at 12th. Cashed for ~600, GG.
In the 7pm Full Tilt $25K, I had a big stack pretty early after some good flops and a donk who decided to double me to 12k with his 6k stack on a AQ4 board with his AK v my AA. I'm sorry but when you have 6k, the bb is 50, you don't lose your stack with top top IMO. Whatever though i'll take the double up. Near the bubble I have 40k stack and get to a table with theHebrewHammer and some other ppl. The guy to my right has 55k, and I take all his money over the course of two hands. first, my JJ vs his 88 that I played horribly and would have folded to a river bet, but it went check check luckily. That made it 60k to 35k. The I get AA on the button, he 3x it to 1800 in the cutoff. I smooth, flop is Q high, he bets pot, I call. Turn is 10, he bets pot, I shove, he calls shows AQ. No 2 outer on the river and I have 95k. I ride this stack into the money, building it as high as 135k when we are 10 handed. Terrible player to my right, short stack, shoves in for 55k at 2k/4k. I have 100k behind and AK, I call. A4Q board no help turn and river and I'm short stack. I find a double up and go to final table with 80k, 2nd shortest. Thehebrewhammer is to my right, and he has been AGGRESSIVE. Folds to him on button, he 3xs to 18k. I'm sb with KcJc. I call with the intention of check raising all in any paired board, or leading all in at a good draw. flop comes 910Q, hmm guess I'll check. The hammer shoves all in, I call he has K4. No J to chop and I have 185k. We get to 5 way after about an hour, and blinds are 10k/20k. UTG shoves 68k in after losing a huge hand. I look him up w K2 spades, he has KJ off. OOPS. I spike a 2 like its my job and he's done, we're 4way. 4 way was wierd- all 3 players were terrible, so it was like walking through a mine field. At any moment they might decide to shove it in. I'm built up to 300k, big stack to my left has 600k, two to my left has 240k, guy to my right has 180k. I've been raising a ton and they're obviously sick of it. I open utg with A8hh to 70k. Sb with 240k waits forever and shoves in. I tank it here- I'm thinking fold initially, but I play back some of his previous shoves- when he showed down AQ on a shove it was an instashove, and he had been playing desperate the past few levels. I decide that he is shoving any pair, any two broadway, any ace. Vs. this range, needing to call 170k to win 540k pot, I call. He has KcJc, flop two clubs, he doesnt get any of his 15 outs and my A high wins. 3way, big stack is reshoving on me periodically, so I start limping to mix it up. I take maybe 50k off him in 3way, when I bust the short stack. folds around to him, he shoves 160k at 15k/30k. I call with 33, spike a 3 to get to heads up. Heads up he has a slight cl, we go back and forth a few hands, then I get QsJs. I 3x to 90k. He calls. Flop Kc9s2c. He checks and I check behind, because he has been repopping me all in a ton. Turn 6c, he bets 30k into 200k. I call with my gutshot, not sure what his bet means here- I think it is weak but I want to keep this pot small since we just started HU. River is 10s. He leads out for 100k, around half the pot. I shove, he calls after a bit with Q10?!!!!?!!?! Hmmmm. I have 1.4mm to his 90k now. Two hands later I end it shoving KJ and he calls K8, no 8. GG me for 8690. Me and bluechip had swapped 10% for the night in tournaments we played together, so I shipped him 870 (10 dollar bonus for rail support at FT). Seriously though a shoutout to blue, he had some good words of wisdom for me HU. I also cashed in a few other MTTs for the night, nothing big. Good night overall though. Always nice to finish the deal and win an MTT- top 3 is the goal in any MTT, but the wins are what build a bankroll.
Here is the excel for the night:
Pato
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Tuesday's Results = (283.50)
So the first night of poker with the new blog was very meh.
I went out to dinner with my GF, so by the time I got home it was 9:30, meaning I missed all the good FTP tourneys (55k, 25k, 16k,50k). Luckily, Bluechip registered me for the 100k on stars and the 20 rebuy, so I had something to play.
1st hand of 100k I find AdAh on the button. I'm worried I'll get no action, since I've been away and this is literally the first hand I've played, but wait- it's PokerStars!! I 3x on the button to 90, sb insta calls, BB reraised to 420 with 1750 behind. Too often this is AJ, so if I shove pre I lose him, so I call with position. Flop is Qxx 2 hearts, he leads out for 600. I wait .2 seconds and ship it, he insta calls shows KdKh. Weeeee running good. WAIT K on the turn ugh. Down to 200 chips at 25/50 after playing 1 hand. Fun. Very next hand get dealt AA again, I limp for 50 with 200 behind, willing to risk playing it 6 way because I'm so low. Button limps, sb (same guy as last hand) reraises 3x. I go all in, button calls, sb reshoves, button folds, sb shows QQ. My AA holds here, back to 600. 1 orbit later utg limps for 50 (very weak player limping alot) so i ship in 550 or so with 88. folds around to utg who instas with 55. I hold and am back to 1600. Maybe I can play this tourney after all? Take down some blinds, etc. and at start of 2nd hour have 2200. at 50/100 button raises a fold around to 300. Standard raise, I find QQ on bb. I over shove all in, thinking this is the best way to get a call from A10+, 55+. He calls with JJ. xJx flop, gg. Tourneys are so fun when you're 50% in your 80/20's!!!
20 rebuy was standard tourney, I made break with 7k, forgot to addon like a donk, then lost on a JK4 board when my JJ was no good vs KK.
Here are my total results for the night- winning 119 sngs really helps even out a losing night of mtts!
I went out to dinner with my GF, so by the time I got home it was 9:30, meaning I missed all the good FTP tourneys (55k, 25k, 16k,50k). Luckily, Bluechip registered me for the 100k on stars and the 20 rebuy, so I had something to play.
1st hand of 100k I find AdAh on the button. I'm worried I'll get no action, since I've been away and this is literally the first hand I've played, but wait- it's PokerStars!! I 3x on the button to 90, sb insta calls, BB reraised to 420 with 1750 behind. Too often this is AJ, so if I shove pre I lose him, so I call with position. Flop is Qxx 2 hearts, he leads out for 600. I wait .2 seconds and ship it, he insta calls shows KdKh. Weeeee running good. WAIT K on the turn ugh. Down to 200 chips at 25/50 after playing 1 hand. Fun. Very next hand get dealt AA again, I limp for 50 with 200 behind, willing to risk playing it 6 way because I'm so low. Button limps, sb (same guy as last hand) reraises 3x. I go all in, button calls, sb reshoves, button folds, sb shows QQ. My AA holds here, back to 600. 1 orbit later utg limps for 50 (very weak player limping alot) so i ship in 550 or so with 88. folds around to utg who instas with 55. I hold and am back to 1600. Maybe I can play this tourney after all? Take down some blinds, etc. and at start of 2nd hour have 2200. at 50/100 button raises a fold around to 300. Standard raise, I find QQ on bb. I over shove all in, thinking this is the best way to get a call from A10+, 55+. He calls with JJ. xJx flop, gg. Tourneys are so fun when you're 50% in your 80/20's!!!
20 rebuy was standard tourney, I made break with 7k, forgot to addon like a donk, then lost on a JK4 board when my JJ was no good vs KK.
Here are my total results for the night- winning 119 sngs really helps even out a losing night of mtts!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Hello and welcome to my blog- how the fck did you find this thing?!
I'll be using this space to give periodic updates on my poker performance. Basically, I'm writing this today with a $10,000 poker bankroll. My goal is to play my best game and turn this 10k into a whole lot more.
There are several reasons I started a blog.
1. many successful online players have blogs- maybe they're on to something?
2. It will force me to honestly re-examine my play more frequently. Writing a post about how i fcked up the 30 rebuy with 12 left will make me a better player. I think.
3. it will be fun to post hand histories when i'm running good, and funny for people to read hand histories when I'm running bad- so HH's = Fun!
4. Maybe this blog can help some new players develop their game.
I will try to put an update in after every decent session I play- at very least, I will give an update after every $200 + live mtt I play or every Sunday.
Well thats it for the first post- thanks for stopping by. A poker update will come later today.
Pato
I'll be using this space to give periodic updates on my poker performance. Basically, I'm writing this today with a $10,000 poker bankroll. My goal is to play my best game and turn this 10k into a whole lot more.
There are several reasons I started a blog.
1. many successful online players have blogs- maybe they're on to something?
2. It will force me to honestly re-examine my play more frequently. Writing a post about how i fcked up the 30 rebuy with 12 left will make me a better player. I think.
3. it will be fun to post hand histories when i'm running good, and funny for people to read hand histories when I'm running bad- so HH's = Fun!
4. Maybe this blog can help some new players develop their game.
I will try to put an update in after every decent session I play- at very least, I will give an update after every $200 + live mtt I play or every Sunday.
Well thats it for the first post- thanks for stopping by. A poker update will come later today.
Pato
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