PokerStars Game #12335526254: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2007/09/29 - 09:45:11 (ET)
Table 'Mauritia' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Loeffel71 ($3.40 in chips)
Seat 2: Captain Tom ($9.90 in chips)
Seat 3: Tiny Monkey ($13.15 in chips)
Seat 4: Knightsridge ($19.45 in chips)
Seat 5: bad boy win ($13.60 in chips)
Seat 6: jeremylin ($9.35 in chips)
Seat 7: brewzter ($4.70 in chips)
Seat 8: Mr Mitt ($12.45 in chips)
Seat 9: nicole1507 ($5.65 in chips)
Captain Tom: posts small blind $0.05
Tiny Monkey: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [2h 2s]
Knightsridge: calls $0.10
bad boy win: calls $0.10
jeremylin: folds
brewzter: folds
Mr Mitt: raises $0.30 to $0.40
nicole1507: calls $0.40
Loeffel71: calls $0.40
Captain Tom: folds
Tiny Monkey: raises $0.70 to $1.10
Knightsridge: calls $1
bad boy win: calls $1
Mr Mitt: calls $0.70
nicole1507: folds
Loeffel71: calls $0.70
*** FLOP *** [2d 6c Th]
Tiny Monkey: checks
Knightsridge: bets $3.60
bad boy win: folds
Mr Mitt: calls $3.60
Loeffel71: folds
Tiny Monkey said, "so much for protecting my hand agianst dumb luckers"
Tiny Monkey: folds
*** TURN *** [2d 6c Th] [7c]
Knightsridge: bets $14.75 and is all-in
Mr Mitt: calls $7.75 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2d 6c Th 7c] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [2h 2s] (three of a kind, Deuces)
Mr Mitt: shows [Qd Qs] (three of a kind, Queens)
Mr Mitt collected $27.25 from pot
Sigh...
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Who wants 4th?
Started playing ring on Stars again. AA no good v KK all in pre for $20. JJ no good v 97 on a 762 flop. Get TT all in on a flop of 2TQ, up against QQ. So I quickly left the cash tables as I didnt have enough to keep losing like tha
t. Ended up playing a bunch of $3 6 man turbos. Did well, made some money so I am going to keep playing them for now.
Been playing in freerolls on Will Hill the last few nights. Two tourneys each night, top 50 go through to final tourney next Saturday for a chance to win an EPT seat (10K euro). Last night there was 1345 runners, with a £1000 added prizepool. First place gets a laptop. So naturally I get 4th. urggggg. Still good for £60 and yes thats good when it cost me nothing to play, but still, I really wanted the laptop for the fiancee. 5 handed I went card dead. Pushed A6 into KK and became shortstacked, then pushed 24s into big blinds A8. No help. I did have some fold equity and without a hand he does not call ther so I am happy with the move. Just wished I could have pulled the trigger.
The fiancee goes home to Ireland this weekend and I am off school Friday and Monday for some weird UK holiday thing. Im cool with it. So lots of poker in the next few days.
I will try and keep this blog updated.
t. Ended up playing a bunch of $3 6 man turbos. Did well, made some money so I am going to keep playing them for now.Been playing in freerolls on Will Hill the last few nights. Two tourneys each night, top 50 go through to final tourney next Saturday for a chance to win an EPT seat (10K euro). Last night there was 1345 runners, with a £1000 added prizepool. First place gets a laptop. So naturally I get 4th. urggggg. Still good for £60 and yes thats good when it cost me nothing to play, but still, I really wanted the laptop for the fiancee. 5 handed I went card dead. Pushed A6 into KK and became shortstacked, then pushed 24s into big blinds A8. No help. I did have some fold equity and without a hand he does not call ther so I am happy with the move. Just wished I could have pulled the trigger.
The fiancee goes home to Ireland this weekend and I am off school Friday and Monday for some weird UK holiday thing. Im cool with it. So lots of poker in the next few days.
I will try and keep this blog updated.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Update on Cash Games
I bought Poker Tracker and Poker Ace recently since I started playing cash games. They are both pretty good programs. I have played about 9000 hands of 5cent 10cent blinds and I am up about $110. I know it is a lot of hands for $110, but I have to start somewhere.
Something that is totally new to me is playing cash games within my roll lol! I am used to being euphoric or miserable after a session as the money involved was more than I could afford. This is much better. I had KK within 3 hands a few days ago and got stacked twice. Once against TT and TJ all in preflop. (yes 1 out) and the other was all in on a flop of 9h6h2h. I put him all in for his stack and he called with QcTh. Yes, he called with a 10 high flush draw. lol. I literally laughed and rebought. It didnt matter to me as I knew I played both hands well and I was unlucky. If I had lost $100 or $200 I would have been devastated.
I hope to update better in the future (I hope to jump to $25 NL as soon as I hit $500) but my school recently updated the internet restrictions and blogspot.com is no longer accessible. So that sucks, but I will make a better effort from home.
All in all. I am liking cash games.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Rakeback
So I signed up for rakeback through rakebreak.com for Full Tilt. Playing on Stars though fun, was not getting me any rakeback so I was losing out quite a bit.
That being said, last night I 6 tabled the 5cent 10cent tables and I got hammered. Twice I had set under set, I got it all in with KK v QQ on a 26Q flop, and I lost a big pot with AJ v J9 on a J82 flop. Not cool. I also fell in love with top pair on a Q high board and I kept calling. I dunno why. I was obviously behind a set of Q's
All in all, a loss of $28. And considering the new account I started had only $100 on it, I am not happy.
I had no hands stay ahead throughout the session and I had TT, JJ, QQ, and KK about 15 times in the last 1/2 hour of the session and I received multiple callers each time (even when raising it ridiculous) and each time an ace flopped. It was uncanny. I also only had AA twice the entire session, both times winning the blinds.
Yuck. Definitely a session to forget.
I have yet to import the hands into poker tracker, but I am curious to see the results.
PS My new name on Full Tilt is Cabot Cove. A direct homage to that wonderful detective Jessica Fletcher in the timeless show, Murder She Wrote. Cabot Cove was where the show took place. And even though someone was murdered there every week, people still lived there.
That being said, last night I 6 tabled the 5cent 10cent tables and I got hammered. Twice I had set under set, I got it all in with KK v QQ on a 26Q flop, and I lost a big pot with AJ v J9 on a J82 flop. Not cool. I also fell in love with top pair on a Q high board and I kept calling. I dunno why. I was obviously behind a set of Q's
All in all, a loss of $28. And considering the new account I started had only $100 on it, I am not happy.
I had no hands stay ahead throughout the session and I had TT, JJ, QQ, and KK about 15 times in the last 1/2 hour of the session and I received multiple callers each time (even when raising it ridiculous) and each time an ace flopped. It was uncanny. I also only had AA twice the entire session, both times winning the blinds.
Yuck. Definitely a session to forget.
I have yet to import the hands into poker tracker, but I am curious to see the results.
PS My new name on Full Tilt is Cabot Cove. A direct homage to that wonderful detective Jessica Fletcher in the timeless show, Murder She Wrote. Cabot Cove was where the show took place. And even though someone was murdered there every week, people still lived there.
Beautiful Girls
The movie I referenced yesterday, Beautiful Girls, was in fact a movie owned by Mike my roommate from college. I watched it one day at the end of 3rd year and loved it.
So credit must go to Mike as he saw it first.
So credit must go to Mike as he saw it first.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Blog Changes
I just updated my blog with recent templates and such. I also figured out how to put a picture at the top of my blog which I wanted to do when I first started blogging my poker exploits.
The picture is of the cast from my favorite movie called Beautiful Girls. It is the same pic I have as my Stars avatar.
The movie is set in a place called Knightsridge, hence the name I chose for poker.
The picture is of the cast from my favorite movie called Beautiful Girls. It is the same pic I have as my Stars avatar.
The movie is set in a place called Knightsridge, hence the name I chose for poker.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Knightsridge the Grinder
I just referred to myself in the first person. Fantastic. Yet another first for the blog.
I played again last night on the $10 max buyin on Stars. I played six tables, then tried eight, but went back to six. Eight was not too tough, but there was considerable overlap so I went back to six.
I made $28 in about two hours so 140 BB an hour. This is quite good as I was down about $14 at one point. (my KK v QQ all in on the flop of 57T, Q on turn)
By playing six tables for that amount of time I encountered some very interesting hands:
One hand I had KK and raised with one caller. I hit quads on the flop and checked. Turn is a Q check check. River a J he bets $.50, I make it $1.50 and he calls with AA. Strange strange hand. Cannot believe he had AA.
Another hand that I am still debating is I am UTG with KK and make it $.30 to play. The small blind then re-raises me, making it $.75 to go. The BB then calls. I should have re-raised but I didnt, and I called. Flop came QT7 which is just a massive board of draws and possible sets. The small blind leads out for $1.50 and the BB insta calls. I really didnt know where I stood. I was sure either AA or a set was lurking so I folded. The turn came a 4 and they both checked. DAMNIT. As soon as they both checked I knew I would have been in front. The river was a 6, making the board QT746 and the small blind went all in and the small blind insta called again. Their hands? The small blind who had re-raised an UTG raiser out of position had AQ of course and the insta caller BB, 88. That was a $20 pot which is a big pot for those stakes. I couldnt believe he had re-raised me with AQ. I gave him way too much credit. Would have bumped my profit big time if I had stayed in the hand. But to be fair I went with my read and I am cool with that.
I am trying to get used to playing cash games and some hands are played much differently than sngs. Small pocket pairs play very well with set mining big on my list. I flat call any pocket pair anywhere on the table for just the BB, but fold lower ones to a raise. (this may be wrong but I am still learning how the games go) I am also trying to see cheap flops with Ax suited. I hit a few flushes and was paid off on them. As far as bluffing goes, I do very little. I will do a continuation bet with AK but if it is called I shut down as players will call down with very little.
Odds and Ends:
I signed up for Full Tilt last night on a new account to get some rakeback. It is technically the fiancee's account which I am hoping she will play, but Im not too sure. I am getting rakeback on the account so I may start playing there instead of Stars. It could mean as much as $60-$100 a month which at those stakes, is massive. I am just waiting for confirmation from rakebreak.com to say the account is good to go.
I am going to buy pokertracker today. I need some software to track my stats and profits playing cash games (and most importantly the hands costing me the most money) just so I can plug some leaks.
I have given some thought as to when I should move up to $25 NL (10 cent - 25 cent blinds) and I figure 20 buyins should be ok. I would move back down if I went below 15 buyins. So 20 buyins of $25 is $500. (That is shocking as I was playing $50 and $100 with less than that and $200 NL with $600-$700 last year. Bankroll Management has never been my strong suit, but I am trying to change that)
I always thought Stars hand histories had to be emailed to me, which was not cool as it only gives you the most recent 200 hands. Which is quite useless after 6 tabling for two hours. This is not the case as today I found I can automatcally save my hand histories directly onto my computer the same as on Full Tilt.
My thoughts on cash were always quite bleak. I enjoyed the winning of sngs and always thought you cant 'win' cash games. Well I must say, when sitting at a table and you stack a player...it feels pretty damn good. Especially when they reload and go out of their way to play pots with me. This is quite funny though as I play only solid hands.
Hopefully I will get some more playing in tonight.
I played again last night on the $10 max buyin on Stars. I played six tables, then tried eight, but went back to six. Eight was not too tough, but there was considerable overlap so I went back to six.
I made $28 in about two hours so 140 BB an hour. This is quite good as I was down about $14 at one point. (my KK v QQ all in on the flop of 57T, Q on turn)
By playing six tables for that amount of time I encountered some very interesting hands:
One hand I had KK and raised with one caller. I hit quads on the flop and checked. Turn is a Q check check. River a J he bets $.50, I make it $1.50 and he calls with AA. Strange strange hand. Cannot believe he had AA.
Another hand that I am still debating is I am UTG with KK and make it $.30 to play. The small blind then re-raises me, making it $.75 to go. The BB then calls. I should have re-raised but I didnt, and I called. Flop came QT7 which is just a massive board of draws and possible sets. The small blind leads out for $1.50 and the BB insta calls. I really didnt know where I stood. I was sure either AA or a set was lurking so I folded. The turn came a 4 and they both checked. DAMNIT. As soon as they both checked I knew I would have been in front. The river was a 6, making the board QT746 and the small blind went all in and the small blind insta called again. Their hands? The small blind who had re-raised an UTG raiser out of position had AQ of course and the insta caller BB, 88. That was a $20 pot which is a big pot for those stakes. I couldnt believe he had re-raised me with AQ. I gave him way too much credit. Would have bumped my profit big time if I had stayed in the hand. But to be fair I went with my read and I am cool with that.
I am trying to get used to playing cash games and some hands are played much differently than sngs. Small pocket pairs play very well with set mining big on my list. I flat call any pocket pair anywhere on the table for just the BB, but fold lower ones to a raise. (this may be wrong but I am still learning how the games go) I am also trying to see cheap flops with Ax suited. I hit a few flushes and was paid off on them. As far as bluffing goes, I do very little. I will do a continuation bet with AK but if it is called I shut down as players will call down with very little.
Odds and Ends:
I signed up for Full Tilt last night on a new account to get some rakeback. It is technically the fiancee's account which I am hoping she will play, but Im not too sure. I am getting rakeback on the account so I may start playing there instead of Stars. It could mean as much as $60-$100 a month which at those stakes, is massive. I am just waiting for confirmation from rakebreak.com to say the account is good to go.
I am going to buy pokertracker today. I need some software to track my stats and profits playing cash games (and most importantly the hands costing me the most money) just so I can plug some leaks.
I have given some thought as to when I should move up to $25 NL (10 cent - 25 cent blinds) and I figure 20 buyins should be ok. I would move back down if I went below 15 buyins. So 20 buyins of $25 is $500. (That is shocking as I was playing $50 and $100 with less than that and $200 NL with $600-$700 last year. Bankroll Management has never been my strong suit, but I am trying to change that)
I always thought Stars hand histories had to be emailed to me, which was not cool as it only gives you the most recent 200 hands. Which is quite useless after 6 tabling for two hours. This is not the case as today I found I can automatcally save my hand histories directly onto my computer the same as on Full Tilt.
My thoughts on cash were always quite bleak. I enjoyed the winning of sngs and always thought you cant 'win' cash games. Well I must say, when sitting at a table and you stack a player...it feels pretty damn good. Especially when they reload and go out of their way to play pots with me. This is quite funny though as I play only solid hands.
Hopefully I will get some more playing in tonight.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Weekend Poker
I played quite a bit this weekend.
On Saturday I played 45 heads up games. Yes I know, a lot of them. The fiancee's sister and friend were over this weekend so they were off shopping, talking about our upcoming wedding and the details that are endless (dress, food, hymns in the church, who is/isnt going) all of which is important, but I personally could not care less about. I would get married in a barn wearing a garbage bag while some dog barks in the distance, but it makes the fiancee happy so its cool with me. So of the 45 I won 27, which is a 60% success rate. The rake hurts over that many games, but I did ok.
On Sunday I went over to the 'house of poker' where a few guys a know live. I had beent here before but with scheduling and my laziness I had not been back. Anyways, I walk in and I see three guys all playing poker in various positions in the room on reclining leather couches wacthing the Villa Chelsea game on a massive tv. So after some careful planning and thought, I am moving in there tomorrow. Kidding. Anyways, I lug out my laptop and open some games. I played a 5$ Stars tourney where QQ ran into KK and I also played a £12 sat to the 40K on Will Hill. The sat went well. I had my hands hold and I didnt do anything stupid. From 120 people with 12 getting a seat, I coasted in with no real drama. So now I had a seat into a tourney that costs £110, while in my account I had $105. Yes, this tourney was over twice what I had in my account. So I tried to unregister for the 40K but for some reason Will Hill does not allow sat winners to unregister. I called Will Hill customer service and they said that poker support was not in and that I should call back Monday morning when they are in. I then informed her that the tournament started in 15 minutes and by that time a refund would be impossible. Her response? 'Yes that is correct sir'. Ok then, thanks for nothing.
So I end up playing the 40K and as tournaments go, this one was highly uneventful. The best hand I played was the first of the tourney. AdQd on the button, it was raised with three callers. I call. Flop comes T high with 2 diamonds. Raiser bets same amount as his preflop raise. Two callers. I pump it up 3/4 of the pot, all fold. Yes, it was downhill from there. TT raised, called on a Q high board. Check raised I fold. AQ raised, KJ3 flop. Raise and a reraise in front of me, I fold. Then I go card dead for two levels before I get AK. With 1400 behind and 600 in the pot I push and lose a race to TT. Ho hum, as I said, uneneventful. Mark and George were still alive though and George had a nice stack. I had to leave at 10:30 as I needed to be up for work in the morning and I didnt want to bother with a cab at midnight so I called the fiancee and she came and picked me up.
I got home and fired up Will Hill to see how George and Mark were getting on and then debated over what to play. I didnt want to play a HU game as I was kind of tired and I wasnt in the mood to be involved in a long drawn out game. So based on Mark's and George's success on cash I decided to play some myself. My history in cash games is not exactly a merry one. I have consistently played in games above my head (sometimes way above my head) and I always get my fingers burnt. I know I am capable of playing a solid cash game, but because the figures involved usually represent a high % of my roll, I can never remove emotion from my thinking. AKA I feel terrible about losses and inevitably end up chasing lost money. It is a bad habit and one I have never removed from my cash game play. So I decided to swallow my pride and begin at the bottom rung of the ladder. I started playing 5cent 10 cent tables. I promised myself I would play tight and not get fancy with plays people at that level would never fold to. And because I intended on playing tight, I knew I would be playing few hands, so I sat down at 6 tables. Yes, 6. It was actually a lot of fun. I ended up only winning $25, but that is 250 BB in 1.5 hours so I was ok with that. (It would have been a lot more but I had to fold two sets when the flush came and two people were betting and raising into a sizeable pot for those stakes. I also lost a $20 pot when I flopped two pair with 73o in the BB. The money went in after genuis slow played his aces preflop only to hit his set on the river.) If either board pairs when the flush came, or that A does not come on the river, my profit would have been around $40-$60 which would have been pretty good.
I must say that I enjoyed playing cash quite a bit, and knowing the amount of money I had on the table was a small % of my roll, bad beats and bad cards rolled off me. (except that 73 hand, that pissed me off). I am going to continue playing cash and attempt to slowly move up the ladder. After thinking a lot of where my game is and where I would like it to go, I think cash is the logical area. Though my past is quite jaded in cash games, I think if I build from the ground levels up, I can do well.
PS I was watching Mark and George play until there was about 15 left or so in the 40K. George I think finished 14th or so but Mark had a big stack and was definitely in a good position to do some damage. Hope you took it down Mark.
PPS Mark, you are going to have to show me how to use Poker Tracker. I tried this morning and it confused the hell out of me.
On Saturday I played 45 heads up games. Yes I know, a lot of them. The fiancee's sister and friend were over this weekend so they were off shopping, talking about our upcoming wedding and the details that are endless (dress, food, hymns in the church, who is/isnt going) all of which is important, but I personally could not care less about. I would get married in a barn wearing a garbage bag while some dog barks in the distance, but it makes the fiancee happy so its cool with me. So of the 45 I won 27, which is a 60% success rate. The rake hurts over that many games, but I did ok.
On Sunday I went over to the 'house of poker' where a few guys a know live. I had beent here before but with scheduling and my laziness I had not been back. Anyways, I walk in and I see three guys all playing poker in various positions in the room on reclining leather couches wacthing the Villa Chelsea game on a massive tv. So after some careful planning and thought, I am moving in there tomorrow. Kidding. Anyways, I lug out my laptop and open some games. I played a 5$ Stars tourney where QQ ran into KK and I also played a £12 sat to the 40K on Will Hill. The sat went well. I had my hands hold and I didnt do anything stupid. From 120 people with 12 getting a seat, I coasted in with no real drama. So now I had a seat into a tourney that costs £110, while in my account I had $105. Yes, this tourney was over twice what I had in my account. So I tried to unregister for the 40K but for some reason Will Hill does not allow sat winners to unregister. I called Will Hill customer service and they said that poker support was not in and that I should call back Monday morning when they are in. I then informed her that the tournament started in 15 minutes and by that time a refund would be impossible. Her response? 'Yes that is correct sir'. Ok then, thanks for nothing.
So I end up playing the 40K and as tournaments go, this one was highly uneventful. The best hand I played was the first of the tourney. AdQd on the button, it was raised with three callers. I call. Flop comes T high with 2 diamonds. Raiser bets same amount as his preflop raise. Two callers. I pump it up 3/4 of the pot, all fold. Yes, it was downhill from there. TT raised, called on a Q high board. Check raised I fold. AQ raised, KJ3 flop. Raise and a reraise in front of me, I fold. Then I go card dead for two levels before I get AK. With 1400 behind and 600 in the pot I push and lose a race to TT. Ho hum, as I said, uneneventful. Mark and George were still alive though and George had a nice stack. I had to leave at 10:30 as I needed to be up for work in the morning and I didnt want to bother with a cab at midnight so I called the fiancee and she came and picked me up.
I got home and fired up Will Hill to see how George and Mark were getting on and then debated over what to play. I didnt want to play a HU game as I was kind of tired and I wasnt in the mood to be involved in a long drawn out game. So based on Mark's and George's success on cash I decided to play some myself. My history in cash games is not exactly a merry one. I have consistently played in games above my head (sometimes way above my head) and I always get my fingers burnt. I know I am capable of playing a solid cash game, but because the figures involved usually represent a high % of my roll, I can never remove emotion from my thinking. AKA I feel terrible about losses and inevitably end up chasing lost money. It is a bad habit and one I have never removed from my cash game play. So I decided to swallow my pride and begin at the bottom rung of the ladder. I started playing 5cent 10 cent tables. I promised myself I would play tight and not get fancy with plays people at that level would never fold to. And because I intended on playing tight, I knew I would be playing few hands, so I sat down at 6 tables. Yes, 6. It was actually a lot of fun. I ended up only winning $25, but that is 250 BB in 1.5 hours so I was ok with that. (It would have been a lot more but I had to fold two sets when the flush came and two people were betting and raising into a sizeable pot for those stakes. I also lost a $20 pot when I flopped two pair with 73o in the BB. The money went in after genuis slow played his aces preflop only to hit his set on the river.) If either board pairs when the flush came, or that A does not come on the river, my profit would have been around $40-$60 which would have been pretty good.
I must say that I enjoyed playing cash quite a bit, and knowing the amount of money I had on the table was a small % of my roll, bad beats and bad cards rolled off me. (except that 73 hand, that pissed me off). I am going to continue playing cash and attempt to slowly move up the ladder. After thinking a lot of where my game is and where I would like it to go, I think cash is the logical area. Though my past is quite jaded in cash games, I think if I build from the ground levels up, I can do well.
PS I was watching Mark and George play until there was about 15 left or so in the 40K. George I think finished 14th or so but Mark had a big stack and was definitely in a good position to do some damage. Hope you took it down Mark.
PPS Mark, you are going to have to show me how to use Poker Tracker. I tried this morning and it confused the hell out of me.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Maybe changing sites is a good idea...NOPE
Table "5413917 - 1" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Emmap0611 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: danger5 (1500 in chips)
Emmap0611: posts small blind 7
danger5: posts big blind 15
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Emmap0611 [Kc Kh]
Emmap0611: raises to 45
danger5: raises to 1500 and is all-in
Emmap0611: calls 1455 and is all-in
----- FLOP ----- [9h Jc Qs]
----- TURN ----- [9h Jc Qs][Qd]
----- RIVER ----- [9h Jc Qs Qd][3c]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
danger5: shows [9c 9s] (A Full House, Nines full of Queens)
Emmap0611: shows [Kc Kh] (Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high)
danger5 collected 3000 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 3000 Main pot 3000 Rake 0
Board [9h Jc Qs Qd 3c]
Seat 1: Emmap0611 (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and lost with Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high
Seat 2: danger5 (big blind) showed [9c 9s] and won (3000) with A Full House, Nines full of Queens
Seat 1: Emmap0611 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: danger5 (1500 in chips)
Emmap0611: posts small blind 7
danger5: posts big blind 15
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Emmap0611 [Kc Kh]
Emmap0611: raises to 45
danger5: raises to 1500 and is all-in
Emmap0611: calls 1455 and is all-in
----- FLOP ----- [9h Jc Qs]
----- TURN ----- [9h Jc Qs][Qd]
----- RIVER ----- [9h Jc Qs Qd][3c]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
danger5: shows [9c 9s] (A Full House, Nines full of Queens)
Emmap0611: shows [Kc Kh] (Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high)
danger5 collected 3000 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 3000 Main pot 3000 Rake 0
Board [9h Jc Qs Qd 3c]
Seat 1: Emmap0611 (small blind) showed [Kc Kh] and lost with Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high
Seat 2: danger5 (big blind) showed [9c 9s] and won (3000) with A Full House, Nines full of Queens
Bad Beats
Sorry for all the bad beats recently.
I am enduring the worst run of luck I have ever had playing poker.
I cannot believe what is happening in front of me.
I hope it ends soon.
I am enduring the worst run of luck I have ever had playing poker.
I cannot believe what is happening in front of me.
I hope it ends soon.
Ummmm, Question.....WTF?
Table '59568850 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1560 in chips)
Seat 2: Xunomaha68X (1440 in chips)
Knightsridge: posts small blind 10
Xunomaha68X: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Kc Js]
Knightsridge: raises 40 to 60
Xunomaha68X: raises 120 to 180
Knightsridge: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [5d Kd 3s]
Xunomaha68X: bets 360
Knightsridge: calls 360
*** TURN *** [5d Kd 3s] [2c]
Xunomaha68X: bets 900 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 900
*** RIVER *** [5d Kd 3s 2c] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Xunomaha68X: shows [6h 6s] (three of a kind, Sixes)
Knightsridge: shows [Kc Js] (a pair of Kings)
Xunomaha68X collected 2880 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2880 | Rake 0
Board [5d Kd 3s 2c 6d]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (button) (small blind) showed [Kc Js] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Xunomaha68X (big blind) showed [6h 6s] and won (2880) with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1560 in chips)
Seat 2: Xunomaha68X (1440 in chips)
Knightsridge: posts small blind 10
Xunomaha68X: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Kc Js]
Knightsridge: raises 40 to 60
Xunomaha68X: raises 120 to 180
Knightsridge: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [5d Kd 3s]
Xunomaha68X: bets 360
Knightsridge: calls 360
*** TURN *** [5d Kd 3s] [2c]
Xunomaha68X: bets 900 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 900
*** RIVER *** [5d Kd 3s 2c] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Xunomaha68X: shows [6h 6s] (three of a kind, Sixes)
Knightsridge: shows [Kc Js] (a pair of Kings)
Xunomaha68X collected 2880 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2880 | Rake 0
Board [5d Kd 3s 2c 6d]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (button) (small blind) showed [Kc Js] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Xunomaha68X (big blind) showed [6h 6s] and won (2880) with three of a kind, Sixes
Monday, August 27, 2007
Jesus...
Table '59488343 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1680 in chips)
Seat 2: gonzokovac (1320 in chips)
Knightsridge: posts small blind 10
gonzokovac: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [As Ac]
Knightsridge: raises 40 to 60
gonzokovac: raises 1260 to 1320 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 1260
*** FLOP *** [3h 8s 9c]
*** TURN *** [3h 8s 9c] [Jc]
Knightsridge said, "jesus"
*** RIVER *** [3h 8s 9c Jc] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gonzokovac: shows [8h 8d] (three of a kind, Eights)
Knightsridge: shows [As Ac] (a pair of Aces)
gonzokovac collected 2640 from pot
gonzokovac said, "sry"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2640 | Rake 0
Board [3h 8s 9c Jc 6d]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (button) (small blind) showed [As Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: gonzokovac (big blind) showed [8h 8d] and won (2640) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1680 in chips)
Seat 2: gonzokovac (1320 in chips)
Knightsridge: posts small blind 10
gonzokovac: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [As Ac]
Knightsridge: raises 40 to 60
gonzokovac: raises 1260 to 1320 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 1260
*** FLOP *** [3h 8s 9c]
*** TURN *** [3h 8s 9c] [Jc]
Knightsridge said, "jesus"
*** RIVER *** [3h 8s 9c Jc] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gonzokovac: shows [8h 8d] (three of a kind, Eights)
Knightsridge: shows [As Ac] (a pair of Aces)
gonzokovac collected 2640 from pot
gonzokovac said, "sry"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2640 | Rake 0
Board [3h 8s 9c Jc 6d]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (button) (small blind) showed [As Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: gonzokovac (big blind) showed [8h 8d] and won (2640) with three of a kind, Eights
Seriously?
These are all the same game.
Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/27 - 12:06:28 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (1080 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (1920 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 10
Knightsridge: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [8s 8c]
billiejoe77: raises 140 to 160
Knightsridge: raises 1760 to 1920 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 920 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3c 3d 4d]
*** TURN *** [3c 3d 4d] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [3c 3d 4d Jc] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [8s 8c] (two pair, Eights and Threes)
billiejoe77: shows [6c Ks] (two pair, Kings and Threes)
billiejoe77 collected 2160 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2160 | Rake 0
Board [3c 3d 4d Jc Kc]
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (button) (small blind) showed [6c Ks] and won (2160) with two pair, Kings and Threes
Seat 2: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [8s 8c] and lost with two pair, Eights and Threes
Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/27 - 12:08:44 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (1300 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (1700 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 10
Knightsridge: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Th Ah]
billiejoe77: raises 20 to 40
Knightsridge: raises 1660 to 1700 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 1260 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [8d 3d 5d]
*** TURN *** [8d 3d 5d] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [8d 3d 5d 9s] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [Th Ah] (high card Ace)
billiejoe77: shows [Ts Kh] (a pair of Kings)
billiejoe77 collected 2600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2600 | Rake 0
Board [8d 3d 5d 9s Kd]
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (button) (small blind) showed [Ts Kh] and won (2600) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [Th Ah] and lost with high card Ace]
Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/27 - 12:09:41 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (2580 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (420 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 15
Knightsridge: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Ks 6s]
billiejoe77: raises 60 to 90
Knightsridge: raises 330 to 420 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 330
*** FLOP *** [6h Ac Td]
*** TURN *** [6h Ac Td] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [6h Ac Td Qc] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [Ks 6s] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/27 - 12:06:28 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (1080 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (1920 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 10
Knightsridge: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [8s 8c]
billiejoe77: raises 140 to 160
Knightsridge: raises 1760 to 1920 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 920 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3c 3d 4d]
*** TURN *** [3c 3d 4d] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [3c 3d 4d Jc] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [8s 8c] (two pair, Eights and Threes)
billiejoe77: shows [6c Ks] (two pair, Kings and Threes)
billiejoe77 collected 2160 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2160 | Rake 0
Board [3c 3d 4d Jc Kc]
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (button) (small blind) showed [6c Ks] and won (2160) with two pair, Kings and Threes
Seat 2: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [8s 8c] and lost with two pair, Eights and Threes
Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/27 - 12:08:44 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (1300 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (1700 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 10
Knightsridge: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Th Ah]
billiejoe77: raises 20 to 40
Knightsridge: raises 1660 to 1700 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 1260 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [8d 3d 5d]
*** TURN *** [8d 3d 5d] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [8d 3d 5d 9s] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [Th Ah] (high card Ace)
billiejoe77: shows [Ts Kh] (a pair of Kings)
billiejoe77 collected 2600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2600 | Rake 0
Board [8d 3d 5d 9s Kd]
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (button) (small blind) showed [Ts Kh] and won (2600) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [Th Ah] and lost with high card Ace]
Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/27 - 12:09:41 (ET)
Table '59471289 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: billiejoe77 (2580 in chips)
Seat 2: Knightsridge (420 in chips)
billiejoe77: posts small blind 15
Knightsridge: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [Ks 6s]
billiejoe77: raises 60 to 90
Knightsridge: raises 330 to 420 and is all-in
billiejoe77: calls 330
*** FLOP *** [6h Ac Td]
*** TURN *** [6h Ac Td] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [6h Ac Td Qc] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [Ks 6s] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
This has been happening a lot lately...
PokerStars Game #11719843142: Tournament #59469879, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/27 - 11:48:22 (ET)
Table '59469879 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1160 in chips)
Seat 2: PLAAYJ (1840 in chips)
PLAAYJ: posts small blind 15
Knightsridge: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [3s 2d]
PLAAYJ: calls 15
Knightsridge: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h 3d 2h]
Knightsridge: checks
PLAAYJ: bets 90
Knightsridge: raises 150 to 240
PLAAYJ: raises 1570 to 1810 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 890 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [8h 3d 2h] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [8h 3d 2h 5d] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [3s 2d] (two pair, Threes and Deuces)
PLAAYJ: shows [6d 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
Knightsridge said, "lol"
PLAAYJ collected 2320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2320 | Rake 0
Board [8h 3d 2h 5d Qs]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [3s 2d] and lost with two pair, Threes and Deuces
Seat 2: PLAAYJ (button) (small blind) showed [6d 4h] and won (2320) with a straight, Deuce to Six
Honestly...who are these people?
Table '59469879 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Knightsridge (1160 in chips)
Seat 2: PLAAYJ (1840 in chips)
PLAAYJ: posts small blind 15
Knightsridge: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Knightsridge [3s 2d]
PLAAYJ: calls 15
Knightsridge: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h 3d 2h]
Knightsridge: checks
PLAAYJ: bets 90
Knightsridge: raises 150 to 240
PLAAYJ: raises 1570 to 1810 and is all-in
Knightsridge: calls 890 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [8h 3d 2h] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [8h 3d 2h 5d] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knightsridge: shows [3s 2d] (two pair, Threes and Deuces)
PLAAYJ: shows [6d 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
Knightsridge said, "lol"
PLAAYJ collected 2320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2320 | Rake 0
Board [8h 3d 2h 5d Qs]
Seat 1: Knightsridge (big blind) showed [3s 2d] and lost with two pair, Threes and Deuces
Seat 2: PLAAYJ (button) (small blind) showed [6d 4h] and won (2320) with a straight, Deuce to Six
Honestly...who are these people?
Weekend Recap
Well, first things first.
Thanks to my good friend Mike who came to visit me in Scotland this past weekend. He is heading back to Canada this week and is going to be away from his girlfriend until Christmas. But being the degenerate poker player that he is, he came over to see me for a couple days. Good to see you.
Mike came Thursday night and we played some online and ordered Chinese food, of which I ate too much. Poker wise I lost three heads up games in a row for the first time ever after endurring some ridiculous outdraws. (3 times in a row I got my money in as a 66% or higher fav and lost) While Mike destroyed the 6 handed $13 sngs. Mike stayed up till 4am playing as I had work the next day and he would be bored so he was hopnig to sleep for most of it.
I go to work, and then come home Friday afternoon to find Mike sitting at the computer, not showered, not having eaten all day and the first words out of his mouth as I walk in the room are 'so many bad beats today, this is disgusting, you have no idea'. God I miss talking poker all day. So we talk about his online day which was quite bad, and then I play a few heads up matches and run alright. So we get cleaned up and call a taxi. Taxi arrives and takes us to Argyle Street where we walk to KFC. (Point of interest, cab driver was a New England Patriots fan and a BoSox fan. Kindred spirit if there ever was one) We eat some KFC and head to the Cincin club for a 25£ freeze. As we are walking I realise I have lost my glasses and sunglasses which were both in my pouch on my hoodie. Damn. (I dont wear sunglasses, but I bring them to form a little box on the table to protect my cards from my neighbors.) So we go back to KFC, no luck, head to the club and call the cab company to check the cab, no luck. So I lost a nice pair of sunglasses and a pair of prescription glasses. Damnit. Anyways.
The tourney is highly ineventful for both me and Mike. I start with 10K and never get above 13K. I lose some on a bad steal with QT and get raised all in by shortie. I call as I am getting odds until I find he has AA and I dont hit. Then I push 99 into JJ and I am done. Mike pushed AQ into AK after losing a big hand with Ax against J9 all in pre. So we left the club frustrated and went to the Counting House (just off George Square) for a pint. I had a pint of Carling, Mike had Magners, and we spent about 5£ playing a video touch screen game. One game was called 'Losers Win' where there were questions and to get it right you had to answer wrong. You would think this is easy, but trust me, its not.
We then walk to Buchanan and grab a chips cheese and curry sauce (dont knock it till you try it) which is absolutely delicious. And we talk about University days while we eat in the middle of the street. We then grab a cab and head back to my flat. We get in, and the fiancee is just leaving to go dancing with friends while Mike and I get ready for an eveing of online poker. Is life not perfect when everyone is happy? We both play the $22 six handed deep stack tourney and the 100K garunteed $10 both on Stars. I also play a $6.50 bounty tourney on UB and a $10 tourney on Will Hill. The UB goes down in flames when I push with TPTK against a flopped straight, but the WH tourney goes well but I lose some crucial hands on the Final Table for 7th of 90 and $20 profit. The deepstack is going well and both Mike and I are getting some chips. As time goes on, we actually get moved to the same table and I freak out. I sit out and contact stars to make sure it is ok that we are both playing in the same room and we are on the same table. I sit out for 20 mins waiting for confirmation. (when we were seated at the same table and I was sitting out Mike and I never discussed the hands I folded until he was out of the hand) Stars finally emailed me to say it was ok, so I began playing again. It didnt help Mike though, as soon after, he had QQ and raised 3x bb and was called in two spots. Flop comes 9T3. It ends up that all three players are all in with JJ, QQ and JQ (JQ called two all ins, worst play ever) So obviously, the turn is an 8 and Miek goes down in flames when the river is no help. He was bummed. He actually got QQ again shortstacked and I raised with AJs. He pushed and I called. I hit an ace and he was gone. Unlucky Mike, that QJ call was awful. So anyways, I am playing well and when the bubble bursts (340 started) I am 14th of 30. $1600 for first, yes, I want to win badly. Then comes this hand.
I am in the BB and get 94o. The button flat calls, the small blind completes and I check. Flop comes 959. SB checks, I check, button leads out. Small Blind raises and I reraise thinking the small blind is trying to steal. Button folds, small blind calls. I think he is on a flush draw. Turn is an offsuit K. he checks I push, he calls with A9, river is a brick and I am gone. God Damnit. Pissed me off so much. I had like 50K at 400-800 blinds and I lose on one hand. I should never have gone broke there, but I should have lost a lot. Tough to get away from, but I should not have pushed. I was sure he was drawing though. C'est la vie. Great tourney though, ridiculous amounts of play.
The next morning, Mike and I talk some more about poker and whatnot, and play a little, then the fiancee and I drive Miek to the airport. On the way we agree that he and I as well as a few poker playing friends should plana trip to Vegas at some point. Sounds good to me.
I end up watching Go with teh fiancee that afternoon after getting some Greggs sandwiches and crisps, then watching X-Factor (whatever, its not that bad a show) and we then go see The Bourne Ultimatum which is just awesome. Sunday our water heater breaks and we stay in bed till like 3pm hoping it will fix itself and letting the water run. It didnt. We watched Batman Begins waiting for the repair guy to come, but he takes to long so we cancel and we will get a local guy who is much cheaper today. We head to Asda for groceries, and then when I get home I play some more heads up games. I got sucked out big time the first two games, but then I ran good and actually ended up sucking out on some other guy so it was ok. I am currently at 32-15 with my heads up 100 game quest. Not as good as I would like to be, but 68% is apparently pretty sound. I think I should be able to go on a run and hit 73-75% by the time I finish. I would have to go 4 wins of 5 games for the remainder but I am confident it can be done.
Anways, I should be playing more tonight.
Thanks to my good friend Mike who came to visit me in Scotland this past weekend. He is heading back to Canada this week and is going to be away from his girlfriend until Christmas. But being the degenerate poker player that he is, he came over to see me for a couple days. Good to see you.
Mike came Thursday night and we played some online and ordered Chinese food, of which I ate too much. Poker wise I lost three heads up games in a row for the first time ever after endurring some ridiculous outdraws. (3 times in a row I got my money in as a 66% or higher fav and lost) While Mike destroyed the 6 handed $13 sngs. Mike stayed up till 4am playing as I had work the next day and he would be bored so he was hopnig to sleep for most of it.
I go to work, and then come home Friday afternoon to find Mike sitting at the computer, not showered, not having eaten all day and the first words out of his mouth as I walk in the room are 'so many bad beats today, this is disgusting, you have no idea'. God I miss talking poker all day. So we talk about his online day which was quite bad, and then I play a few heads up matches and run alright. So we get cleaned up and call a taxi. Taxi arrives and takes us to Argyle Street where we walk to KFC. (Point of interest, cab driver was a New England Patriots fan and a BoSox fan. Kindred spirit if there ever was one) We eat some KFC and head to the Cincin club for a 25£ freeze. As we are walking I realise I have lost my glasses and sunglasses which were both in my pouch on my hoodie. Damn. (I dont wear sunglasses, but I bring them to form a little box on the table to protect my cards from my neighbors.) So we go back to KFC, no luck, head to the club and call the cab company to check the cab, no luck. So I lost a nice pair of sunglasses and a pair of prescription glasses. Damnit. Anyways.
The tourney is highly ineventful for both me and Mike. I start with 10K and never get above 13K. I lose some on a bad steal with QT and get raised all in by shortie. I call as I am getting odds until I find he has AA and I dont hit. Then I push 99 into JJ and I am done. Mike pushed AQ into AK after losing a big hand with Ax against J9 all in pre. So we left the club frustrated and went to the Counting House (just off George Square) for a pint. I had a pint of Carling, Mike had Magners, and we spent about 5£ playing a video touch screen game. One game was called 'Losers Win' where there were questions and to get it right you had to answer wrong. You would think this is easy, but trust me, its not.
We then walk to Buchanan and grab a chips cheese and curry sauce (dont knock it till you try it) which is absolutely delicious. And we talk about University days while we eat in the middle of the street. We then grab a cab and head back to my flat. We get in, and the fiancee is just leaving to go dancing with friends while Mike and I get ready for an eveing of online poker. Is life not perfect when everyone is happy? We both play the $22 six handed deep stack tourney and the 100K garunteed $10 both on Stars. I also play a $6.50 bounty tourney on UB and a $10 tourney on Will Hill. The UB goes down in flames when I push with TPTK against a flopped straight, but the WH tourney goes well but I lose some crucial hands on the Final Table for 7th of 90 and $20 profit. The deepstack is going well and both Mike and I are getting some chips. As time goes on, we actually get moved to the same table and I freak out. I sit out and contact stars to make sure it is ok that we are both playing in the same room and we are on the same table. I sit out for 20 mins waiting for confirmation. (when we were seated at the same table and I was sitting out Mike and I never discussed the hands I folded until he was out of the hand) Stars finally emailed me to say it was ok, so I began playing again. It didnt help Mike though, as soon after, he had QQ and raised 3x bb and was called in two spots. Flop comes 9T3. It ends up that all three players are all in with JJ, QQ and JQ (JQ called two all ins, worst play ever) So obviously, the turn is an 8 and Miek goes down in flames when the river is no help. He was bummed. He actually got QQ again shortstacked and I raised with AJs. He pushed and I called. I hit an ace and he was gone. Unlucky Mike, that QJ call was awful. So anyways, I am playing well and when the bubble bursts (340 started) I am 14th of 30. $1600 for first, yes, I want to win badly. Then comes this hand.
I am in the BB and get 94o. The button flat calls, the small blind completes and I check. Flop comes 959. SB checks, I check, button leads out. Small Blind raises and I reraise thinking the small blind is trying to steal. Button folds, small blind calls. I think he is on a flush draw. Turn is an offsuit K. he checks I push, he calls with A9, river is a brick and I am gone. God Damnit. Pissed me off so much. I had like 50K at 400-800 blinds and I lose on one hand. I should never have gone broke there, but I should have lost a lot. Tough to get away from, but I should not have pushed. I was sure he was drawing though. C'est la vie. Great tourney though, ridiculous amounts of play.
The next morning, Mike and I talk some more about poker and whatnot, and play a little, then the fiancee and I drive Miek to the airport. On the way we agree that he and I as well as a few poker playing friends should plana trip to Vegas at some point. Sounds good to me.
I end up watching Go with teh fiancee that afternoon after getting some Greggs sandwiches and crisps, then watching X-Factor (whatever, its not that bad a show) and we then go see The Bourne Ultimatum which is just awesome. Sunday our water heater breaks and we stay in bed till like 3pm hoping it will fix itself and letting the water run. It didnt. We watched Batman Begins waiting for the repair guy to come, but he takes to long so we cancel and we will get a local guy who is much cheaper today. We head to Asda for groceries, and then when I get home I play some more heads up games. I got sucked out big time the first two games, but then I ran good and actually ended up sucking out on some other guy so it was ok. I am currently at 32-15 with my heads up 100 game quest. Not as good as I would like to be, but 68% is apparently pretty sound. I think I should be able to go on a run and hit 73-75% by the time I finish. I would have to go 4 wins of 5 games for the remainder but I am confident it can be done.
Anways, I should be playing more tonight.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Heads Up Challenge Continued
So I tempted fate last night by playing a sixth game after having won five in a row. I was upset with that decision because even though winning five in a row has no bearing on the sixth, in my mind I knew it would be tough to win. So rather than not play, I played, and lost. So I walked away from my computer upset with myself and went in to watch some tv (the fiancee was off visiting a friend) Then as I was watching CSI Miami, I wanted to play some more, so I grabbed the computer and came back into the bedroom.
Side note - I have wireless in my flat but I forgot the password to connect to it, so when I bought my Mac I couldnt connect. (I am sure some computer guru could have found the password somewhere, but alas, I am no guru) So anyways, after arriving home from New York, I was unpacking and moved some books onto the bookshelf. A piece of paper fell out and on it was the password. BINGO. So to make a long story short I know have wireless.
So after my rant post last night about tempting fate I played another five games and I went 5 for 5. Which made me feel much better and brought my total to 10 wins, 1 loss.
C'mon 80 wins!
Mike arrives tomorrow. We have decided to stay in tomrrow night and give the Wabash a miss. We will order some chinese, play online, and watch a dvd or two. Does it get any better than that?
Side note - I have wireless in my flat but I forgot the password to connect to it, so when I bought my Mac I couldnt connect. (I am sure some computer guru could have found the password somewhere, but alas, I am no guru) So anyways, after arriving home from New York, I was unpacking and moved some books onto the bookshelf. A piece of paper fell out and on it was the password. BINGO. So to make a long story short I know have wireless.
So after my rant post last night about tempting fate I played another five games and I went 5 for 5. Which made me feel much better and brought my total to 10 wins, 1 loss.
C'mon 80 wins!
Mike arrives tomorrow. We have decided to stay in tomrrow night and give the Wabash a miss. We will order some chinese, play online, and watch a dvd or two. Does it get any better than that?
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
God Damnit
Consider fate tempted. Just lost. AT I raise big and he puts me all in with KJ. Flop comes K high.
5-1
5-1
Rolling
Played a little last night.
Played a $6 18 man turbo, got nowhere and pushed A4 into QQ. Yawn. Then played a 12 man $13 six handed sng. I got third for $28, when I should have won it. I was at 10K to 4K and 3K and got third. I was too aggressive with QT on an ace high flop and then lost a coin flip to exit. Really disappointed with that result as it was $72 for first and I had it. 10K of 18K chips in play and I lost it. Damn.
Anyways. I was at work today and at lunch time I was looking on the 2+2 forum and saw a heads up section. Since Stars put heads up cash games, heads up has exploded, and 2+2 made a forum. (not sure if heads up forum is a direct result of Stars new tables as the forum I think came first, but from reading some posts, it definitely increased the traffic on there) Anyways, I really enjoyed reading some of the posts and there are definitely some players on there who post that I could learn a lot from. Anyways. As I was on the train home I got an idea. Instead of bouncing around, I am going to try and play 100 heads up matches at the $6 turbo level. I figure I should win around 80 of them as I usually win around 80% or so, give or take.
So if I play 100 games, that is $650. If I win 80 of them, that is $960. A profit of $310. Not a bad payday if I can manage that level of success.
So far I have played five since I got home and I am 5-0. Not a bad way to start. This is usually where I go unhinged though, (game number 6), so I may not tempt fate tonight and just wait till tomorrow. I'll see.
Mike comes Thursday from Canada, pretty pumped to see him and to talk poker. I truly believe that if Mike and I lived close to one another (ie same city or town) we would both be making solid money online. As it stands, we play small stakes sngs lol.
Some day...
Played a $6 18 man turbo, got nowhere and pushed A4 into QQ. Yawn. Then played a 12 man $13 six handed sng. I got third for $28, when I should have won it. I was at 10K to 4K and 3K and got third. I was too aggressive with QT on an ace high flop and then lost a coin flip to exit. Really disappointed with that result as it was $72 for first and I had it. 10K of 18K chips in play and I lost it. Damn.
Anyways. I was at work today and at lunch time I was looking on the 2+2 forum and saw a heads up section. Since Stars put heads up cash games, heads up has exploded, and 2+2 made a forum. (not sure if heads up forum is a direct result of Stars new tables as the forum I think came first, but from reading some posts, it definitely increased the traffic on there) Anyways, I really enjoyed reading some of the posts and there are definitely some players on there who post that I could learn a lot from. Anyways. As I was on the train home I got an idea. Instead of bouncing around, I am going to try and play 100 heads up matches at the $6 turbo level. I figure I should win around 80 of them as I usually win around 80% or so, give or take.
So if I play 100 games, that is $650. If I win 80 of them, that is $960. A profit of $310. Not a bad payday if I can manage that level of success.
So far I have played five since I got home and I am 5-0. Not a bad way to start. This is usually where I go unhinged though, (game number 6), so I may not tempt fate tonight and just wait till tomorrow. I'll see.
Mike comes Thursday from Canada, pretty pumped to see him and to talk poker. I truly believe that if Mike and I lived close to one another (ie same city or town) we would both be making solid money online. As it stands, we play small stakes sngs lol.
Some day...
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