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Friday, 12 December 2008
Bloggers can fuck off
Who gives a fuck who’s playing the Blogger championship or whatever? I get all excited because people who haven’t posted in ages finally post and it’s just to tell me that they’re playing some shitty tournament. Lovely, don’t give a shit.
The problem, I’ve found, with not working is that money doesn’t just magically appear in your bank account. It was for this reason I was going to have to reluctantly withdraw some of my O8 BR. That was until I shipped a Million seat in some 500fpp Sat. Ptevey forced me to play. Cheers mate. He was nice enough to buy the T$ off me at face value as well so I’ve cashed that out to keep me going until the month is over instead of taking a step back in the challenge. I run good.
I started today’s session with a BR of just over $900 and decided that I wasn’t going to stop until I’d reached the magical $1k figure. That was the only aim for today. If it took half an hour, brilliant, I could call it a day and go back to sleep.
Did it take half an hour? What do you think?
Two thousand one hundred and sixty six hands (six and a half hours) later, my BR finally reached the $1k mark. So, relieved and exhausted, I said bye to my friends and sat out at all tables, before realising that the last hands I played on all tables dropped me slightly below the $1k. Sigh. I ran really well in the session, it has to be said, I think it’s the first session I’ve had at the $25 level where I feel happy about the way the cards fell.
Ran well, but played shit.
I tilted off $80 in back to back hands to the same player mid way through, and that was the main reason it took me so long to reach my target today. I’m so embarrassed about the hands, I’m not even going to show them. The $25 regulars’ll be lolling about them for weeks though, that's for sure. It really pissed me off but what pleased me was the fact that, straight afterwards, I was able to sit-out for ten minutes to calm down before starting the grind back up, instead of just carrying on and picking some other undeserving cunt to bankroll for life. Wish I’d done it after the first hand though… Fucking hell, such a knob.
Sitting out when I start feeling a bit tilty is something I need to start doing. It shouldn’t take a three buy-in downswing in two hands (at a rate of -8000ptbb/100) for me to realise I’m a twat and need a quick break. A little bit of tilt multiplied by 9 tables equals a potential disaster.
My $25 stats are getting less impressive by the session. It’s probably because I’m 9-tabling as standard now, but it’s a challenge I’m enjoying so fuck it. Also, knowingly tilting away at least four buy-ins in the last few days doesn’t help anyone’s numbers. Well, maybe theirs.
10c/25c full ring
11731 hands
34hrs 30mins
(340 hands ph)
$597.45 profit
10.7 ptbb/100
$17.32 ph
$600 profit from these tables is 24 buy-ins, I’d say that this evidence enough to show that I am a winner at the $25 level. Do we need a bigger sample to safely determine this, I don’t know? Probably, but unless I fuck up now, I was never destined to be at this level for long enough to put in a ‘significant’ sample anyway, so I suppose it doesn’t matter.
O8 cash
21066 hands
72hrs 30mins
(291 hands ph)
$799.32 profit
$11.03 ph
BR: $999.32
So, the question is, now that I’m ‘rolled’, should I move up to $50?
In context of the challenge, I don’t think I necessarily need to move up. I’ve made $600 in five days at $25 so, with 19 days left of the challenge, I should cruise to the further $1700 I need to succeed. But I think this whole thing will be a lot prettier to look back on if I continue to work my way through the levels.
I do have a couple of reservations though.
The major worry I have with moving up is that the aggressive nature of my O8 game might cause a downswing that seriously fucks up the challenge. If, after a bad couple of sessions of $50, I had to move back down, I might not recover in time. I haven’t been completely comfortable with a couple of down swings I’ve had at $25, which, I expect, are fairly standard playing the way I do.
Hands like this, for example:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3575309
I occasionally get snapped and quartered but often take all of a pot that most people settle for half of (or none of). Plus EV or not, it’s what I’ve been doing. I think it’s good play (I might be wrong because literally no other fucker's doing it), but with aggression like this comes high variance and a worryingly up-and-down BR.
It's important that I feel happy enough to play my natural game at whatever stakes I'm at, so, to ensure this at the $50 level, I plan to go into it with a $250 ‘bluffer buffer’.
So, I’ll move up to the $50 level when/if (never fuck with fate) my BR reaches $1250. And the sooner that happens, the better, some of the whiney bad losers at $25 are really starting to annoy me.
The problem, I’ve found, with not working is that money doesn’t just magically appear in your bank account. It was for this reason I was going to have to reluctantly withdraw some of my O8 BR. That was until I shipped a Million seat in some 500fpp Sat. Ptevey forced me to play. Cheers mate. He was nice enough to buy the T$ off me at face value as well so I’ve cashed that out to keep me going until the month is over instead of taking a step back in the challenge. I run good.
I started today’s session with a BR of just over $900 and decided that I wasn’t going to stop until I’d reached the magical $1k figure. That was the only aim for today. If it took half an hour, brilliant, I could call it a day and go back to sleep.
Did it take half an hour? What do you think?
Two thousand one hundred and sixty six hands (six and a half hours) later, my BR finally reached the $1k mark. So, relieved and exhausted, I said bye to my friends and sat out at all tables, before realising that the last hands I played on all tables dropped me slightly below the $1k. Sigh. I ran really well in the session, it has to be said, I think it’s the first session I’ve had at the $25 level where I feel happy about the way the cards fell.
Ran well, but played shit.
I tilted off $80 in back to back hands to the same player mid way through, and that was the main reason it took me so long to reach my target today. I’m so embarrassed about the hands, I’m not even going to show them. The $25 regulars’ll be lolling about them for weeks though, that's for sure. It really pissed me off but what pleased me was the fact that, straight afterwards, I was able to sit-out for ten minutes to calm down before starting the grind back up, instead of just carrying on and picking some other undeserving cunt to bankroll for life. Wish I’d done it after the first hand though… Fucking hell, such a knob.
Sitting out when I start feeling a bit tilty is something I need to start doing. It shouldn’t take a three buy-in downswing in two hands (at a rate of -8000ptbb/100) for me to realise I’m a twat and need a quick break. A little bit of tilt multiplied by 9 tables equals a potential disaster.
My $25 stats are getting less impressive by the session. It’s probably because I’m 9-tabling as standard now, but it’s a challenge I’m enjoying so fuck it. Also, knowingly tilting away at least four buy-ins in the last few days doesn’t help anyone’s numbers. Well, maybe theirs.
10c/25c full ring
11731 hands
34hrs 30mins
(340 hands ph)
$597.45 profit
10.7 ptbb/100
$17.32 ph
$600 profit from these tables is 24 buy-ins, I’d say that this evidence enough to show that I am a winner at the $25 level. Do we need a bigger sample to safely determine this, I don’t know? Probably, but unless I fuck up now, I was never destined to be at this level for long enough to put in a ‘significant’ sample anyway, so I suppose it doesn’t matter.
O8 cash
21066 hands
72hrs 30mins
(291 hands ph)
$799.32 profit
$11.03 ph
BR: $999.32
So, the question is, now that I’m ‘rolled’, should I move up to $50?
In context of the challenge, I don’t think I necessarily need to move up. I’ve made $600 in five days at $25 so, with 19 days left of the challenge, I should cruise to the further $1700 I need to succeed. But I think this whole thing will be a lot prettier to look back on if I continue to work my way through the levels.
I do have a couple of reservations though.
The major worry I have with moving up is that the aggressive nature of my O8 game might cause a downswing that seriously fucks up the challenge. If, after a bad couple of sessions of $50, I had to move back down, I might not recover in time. I haven’t been completely comfortable with a couple of down swings I’ve had at $25, which, I expect, are fairly standard playing the way I do.
Hands like this, for example:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3575309
I occasionally get snapped and quartered but often take all of a pot that most people settle for half of (or none of). Plus EV or not, it’s what I’ve been doing. I think it’s good play (I might be wrong because literally no other fucker's doing it), but with aggression like this comes high variance and a worryingly up-and-down BR.
It's important that I feel happy enough to play my natural game at whatever stakes I'm at, so, to ensure this at the $50 level, I plan to go into it with a $250 ‘bluffer buffer’.
So, I’ll move up to the $50 level when/if (never fuck with fate) my BR reaches $1250. And the sooner that happens, the better, some of the whiney bad losers at $25 are really starting to annoy me.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Up and down like a Nun’s yo-yo
There were a lot of full ring $25 tables running today for some reason so I decided I was going to try a bit of 9-tabling. It lasted one hand.
By the end of the first hand on each table I was stuck $30, just bluffing like a twat, not concentrating at all. So I closed three of the tables and decided to 6-table until I felt sensible again. It took a long time to get to break even again and as soon as I did, I suddenly found myself $60 up for the session. I sat down at three more tables, sat out, and made myself a congratulatory cup of tea. Tasted good.
Within ten minutes of the restart, I was $10 down for the session again.
The first two stackings were standard but here’s the third all in I lost. Complete tilt:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3564949
I’m glad I lost, I deserved to. Pillock.
I sat out after that and made myself another cup of tea. It didn’t taste anywhere near as nice as the last one. (And I’m not being metaphorical, tasted like shit.)
I felt good when I came back though and was able to keep a good enough eye on things to open up a few more tables. I 7/8/9-tabled for a good few hours after that second cup of tea and came through the session with a nice profit again.
The promising stat, imo, is that I played 2024 hands in just over 6hrs, which is an average of 325 hands per hour, 50 hands more than my current overall average, whilst still maintaining my ‘30% of hands played’ stat.
10c/25c full ring stats after last night’s session:
4686 hands
16hrs 45mins
(280 hands ph)
$350.39 profit
15 ptbb/100
$20.92 ph
The nice part about these figures, when compared to the same ones yesterday, is that my win rate has gone down while my hourly rate has gone up. This is exactly what playing more tables at a time (more hands per hour) is meant to achieve. But, I know now, only to play as many tables as I’m comfortable with. The way I play, nine tables is often going to be too many for me.
Overall O8 cash in December:
14,021 hands
54hrs 45mins
(256 hands ph)
$552.26 profit
$10.09 ph
I’ll finish this dull, statsy post with a pleasing hand I played vs one of the ‘regulars’. He played it badly and it’s an important lesson for anyone trying to learn O8:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3565429
It’s one of the main reasons why PLO8 is so hard. He’s getting freerolled ALL of the time when faced with that turn bet from me so he should have folded the nuts on the turn. IMO. And how good do I run, btw?!
BR is up to $752.26 now, so if I can avoid the massive downswing that I’m certainly capable of, I’ll move onto the $50 tables soon.
By the end of the first hand on each table I was stuck $30, just bluffing like a twat, not concentrating at all. So I closed three of the tables and decided to 6-table until I felt sensible again. It took a long time to get to break even again and as soon as I did, I suddenly found myself $60 up for the session. I sat down at three more tables, sat out, and made myself a congratulatory cup of tea. Tasted good.
Within ten minutes of the restart, I was $10 down for the session again.
The first two stackings were standard but here’s the third all in I lost. Complete tilt:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3564949
I’m glad I lost, I deserved to. Pillock.
I sat out after that and made myself another cup of tea. It didn’t taste anywhere near as nice as the last one. (And I’m not being metaphorical, tasted like shit.)
I felt good when I came back though and was able to keep a good enough eye on things to open up a few more tables. I 7/8/9-tabled for a good few hours after that second cup of tea and came through the session with a nice profit again.
The promising stat, imo, is that I played 2024 hands in just over 6hrs, which is an average of 325 hands per hour, 50 hands more than my current overall average, whilst still maintaining my ‘30% of hands played’ stat.
10c/25c full ring stats after last night’s session:
4686 hands
16hrs 45mins
(280 hands ph)
$350.39 profit
15 ptbb/100
$20.92 ph
The nice part about these figures, when compared to the same ones yesterday, is that my win rate has gone down while my hourly rate has gone up. This is exactly what playing more tables at a time (more hands per hour) is meant to achieve. But, I know now, only to play as many tables as I’m comfortable with. The way I play, nine tables is often going to be too many for me.
Overall O8 cash in December:
14,021 hands
54hrs 45mins
(256 hands ph)
$552.26 profit
$10.09 ph
I’ll finish this dull, statsy post with a pleasing hand I played vs one of the ‘regulars’. He played it badly and it’s an important lesson for anyone trying to learn O8:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3565429
It’s one of the main reasons why PLO8 is so hard. He’s getting freerolled ALL of the time when faced with that turn bet from me so he should have folded the nuts on the turn. IMO. And how good do I run, btw?!
BR is up to $752.26 now, so if I can avoid the massive downswing that I’m certainly capable of, I’ll move onto the $50 tables soon.
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!
Literally the last hand of today's session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3559858
Fucking no limit. Could have been an expensive misclick. I wasn't in awful shape as it happens (it's effectively my KQ vs his AT), though I was unlucky not to scoop imo! I said, 'ffs, ridiculous turn' as a joke in the chat afterwards but all I got was abuse. It was standard, lads, get over it.
It was another fairly smooth 1k hands or so at 10c/25c, added to yesterday's figures:
10c/25c full ring overall
2662 hands
10hrs 30mins
(254 hands ph)
$211.75 profit
16 ptbb/100
$20.17 ph
So, my December stats now read:
O8 cash
11997 hands
48hrs 30mins
(247 hands ph)
$413.62 profit
$8.53 ph
If I continue to 6-table, running at 16pt at 10c/25c, this $2.5k challenge will only take another 100hrs. 16 is probably unsustainable at this level though, so I might be moving up again soon.
So...
Cue the downswing.
EDIT: I'm actually favourite in the hand at the top of the post... 54/46 to me! (The odds shown on Pokerhand are for Ohi for some reason.) Well, I never. If he has any low card in his hand (8 or lower) to go with his aces, however, he's back to being favourite. So I will try not to make this misclick in future as this shove ALWAYS means acesxx. Peace.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3559858
Fucking no limit. Could have been an expensive misclick. I wasn't in awful shape as it happens (it's effectively my KQ vs his AT), though I was unlucky not to scoop imo! I said, 'ffs, ridiculous turn' as a joke in the chat afterwards but all I got was abuse. It was standard, lads, get over it.
It was another fairly smooth 1k hands or so at 10c/25c, added to yesterday's figures:
10c/25c full ring overall
2662 hands
10hrs 30mins
(254 hands ph)
$211.75 profit
16 ptbb/100
$20.17 ph
So, my December stats now read:
O8 cash
11997 hands
48hrs 30mins
(247 hands ph)
$413.62 profit
$8.53 ph
If I continue to 6-table, running at 16pt at 10c/25c, this $2.5k challenge will only take another 100hrs. 16 is probably unsustainable at this level though, so I might be moving up again soon.
So...
Cue the downswing.
EDIT: I'm actually favourite in the hand at the top of the post... 54/46 to me! (The odds shown on Pokerhand are for Ohi for some reason.) Well, I never. If he has any low card in his hand (8 or lower) to go with his aces, however, he's back to being favourite. So I will try not to make this misclick in future as this shove ALWAYS means acesxx. Peace.
Monday, 8 December 2008
Moving on up
‘Bryan Duncan, singer, born in 1953, started his career in 1973 with the Jesus music band…’
Well, if I’d known that before I’d gone to the charity shop the other day, I wouldn’t have bought three of his fucking albums. I listened to one of them and just had to give them back. Let some other poor fucker make that mistake.
I also bought an S Club 7 album, which I was quite looking forward to bobbing my head along to until I opened the case to find a Blue album in there instead. Sigh. Still, could be worse… I could be that unfortunate Blue fan who’s just opened his case to find S Club 7 staring him straight in the mush. Unlucky, son!
The other disappointment was an ABBA greatest hits that is NOT performed by ABBA at all, but by some tribute band called Abbaration. It doesn’t even have Waterloo on it ffs. So, that’s another album I might have to give back. Or maybe I could give it to C man for Christmas…
Daft Punk, Discovery, is probably the only album I’ve bought this week that I’m at all happy with. It’s even still got the membership card in it that the early editions of the album had. It’s probably worth millions now, this antique. 50p. Value. Imo.
Poker.
I took a practice shot at 10c/25c last night. Bankroll-wise, it was a little bit earlier than I’d planned given that, at the start of play, I was only just over $400 but I feel like I’ve grown out of 2c/5c now and it’s just a boring grind (a break even grind at that atm). So I took a shot with the intention of coming back down should I fall below $350. I told myself not to bluff too much, just to take it easy and play some chilled out, low-risk stuff… but that’s just boring.
After this bluff got snapped off:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3555550
…I was lucky this one wasn’t looked up as well:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3555552
Lol, the hand plays itself imo. Way to take it easy, son. As I was telling 147 at the time, if that bet gets snapped by some AA4x, which I was worried about, or just any A2 that is also likely beating my ‘high’, I would have been forced to move back down. Too much in there not to bluff it though even if it was a matter of life and death. I got lucky and was able to stay at 10c/25c for the rest of the night. I was 6-tabling full ring for the most part, which felt comfortable.
10c/25c full ring
1510 hands
5hrs 30mins
$86.80 profit
11.5ptbb/100
$15.78 ph
Not a bad start. This leaves my overall figures for the first week looking like this:
O8 cash
10845 hands
43hrs 30mins
(249 hands ph)
$288.67 profit
$6.64 ph
Hopefully I won’t have to move down to 2c/5c again now (I’ve said it before but what a ridiculous jump between levels… $5 to $25), but I mustn’t get ahead of myself just yet because, as we all know, poker can be a right cunt sometimes.
Well, I’m off to listen to some Blue. All raise…
Well, if I’d known that before I’d gone to the charity shop the other day, I wouldn’t have bought three of his fucking albums. I listened to one of them and just had to give them back. Let some other poor fucker make that mistake.
I also bought an S Club 7 album, which I was quite looking forward to bobbing my head along to until I opened the case to find a Blue album in there instead. Sigh. Still, could be worse… I could be that unfortunate Blue fan who’s just opened his case to find S Club 7 staring him straight in the mush. Unlucky, son!
The other disappointment was an ABBA greatest hits that is NOT performed by ABBA at all, but by some tribute band called Abbaration. It doesn’t even have Waterloo on it ffs. So, that’s another album I might have to give back. Or maybe I could give it to C man for Christmas…
Daft Punk, Discovery, is probably the only album I’ve bought this week that I’m at all happy with. It’s even still got the membership card in it that the early editions of the album had. It’s probably worth millions now, this antique. 50p. Value. Imo.
Poker.
I took a practice shot at 10c/25c last night. Bankroll-wise, it was a little bit earlier than I’d planned given that, at the start of play, I was only just over $400 but I feel like I’ve grown out of 2c/5c now and it’s just a boring grind (a break even grind at that atm). So I took a shot with the intention of coming back down should I fall below $350. I told myself not to bluff too much, just to take it easy and play some chilled out, low-risk stuff… but that’s just boring.
After this bluff got snapped off:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3555550
…I was lucky this one wasn’t looked up as well:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3555552
Lol, the hand plays itself imo. Way to take it easy, son. As I was telling 147 at the time, if that bet gets snapped by some AA4x, which I was worried about, or just any A2 that is also likely beating my ‘high’, I would have been forced to move back down. Too much in there not to bluff it though even if it was a matter of life and death. I got lucky and was able to stay at 10c/25c for the rest of the night. I was 6-tabling full ring for the most part, which felt comfortable.
10c/25c full ring
1510 hands
5hrs 30mins
$86.80 profit
11.5ptbb/100
$15.78 ph
Not a bad start. This leaves my overall figures for the first week looking like this:
O8 cash
10845 hands
43hrs 30mins
(249 hands ph)
$288.67 profit
$6.64 ph
Hopefully I won’t have to move down to 2c/5c again now (I’ve said it before but what a ridiculous jump between levels… $5 to $25), but I mustn’t get ahead of myself just yet because, as we all know, poker can be a right cunt sometimes.
Well, I’m off to listen to some Blue. All raise…
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Vanessa's atomic modern love... Corrr!
Yo.
Got a feeling that this is going to turn into a bit of a boring mathsy (sp?) post, a post full of maths, so let me apologise for that in advance.
Soz.
Well, I’m slowly getting there. While you were all out having fun last night, I had a cosy night in with my new friends at the 2c/5c tables. The tea was flowing and we had a Wales of a thymes. There are some characters at these tables to be fair, my favourite being a lad who says ‘thanks’ in the chat after every pot he wins. What a twat. He even said it when he split one heads up once?? Yeah, ship it, son. I’ve taken a few pots off him and said nothing but I might have to deliberately outdraw him one day just so the ‘thanks’ I give him feels that little bit sweeter and hopefully hurts him that little bit more.
Was nice to take a little break the other day. Can’t remember which day it was but I met up with Ptevey and C for a couple of hours before they headed off to Nottingham to do their bollocks. Thursday daytime, I think. Yeah, ate into my sleep time a treat, you unnocturnal weirdos. (Had a bit of a problem spelling ‘weirdos’ then…whatever happened to ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’?).
I met them down the bowling place where we shooted some pool, and followed that with a couple of games of bowling. The standard between us was seriously Laugh Out Loud-able but I banged home a 151 in the second game of bowling, which I only mention because it happens to be exactly the same as my highest break in snooker. 147star? I’ve made bigger breaks… Full stop.
In more depressing news, I’m officially a losing player at 2c/5c 6-max PLO8:
6-max 2c/5c
1460 hands
$9.13 loss
2hrs 45mins
-6 ptbbs/100
-$3.32 ph
Yeah, I know…ouch!
I felt the need to tilt after an ‘orrendous runner runner at one of those tables so I took it out on the 1c/2c tables! 9-tabling 6-max 1c/2c, I somehow played 91% of hands. It was such a nightmare to follow but great fun as ever. Potting most hands and not giving a shit what happened really sorted out my tilt as well.
6-max 1c/2c
952 hands
$14.27 profit
2hrs 15mins
37 ptbbs/100
$6.34 ph
Yeah, eat that, 6-max.
Luckily, my full ring is okay.
Full ring 2c/5c
6082 hands
$200.15 profit
29hrs
33 ptbbs/100
$6.90 ph
Cheers for all your comments in my last post but I still can’t find anything that automatically tops up when you fall below a full buyin. I’m guessing there isn’t one. That kind of thing might actually be considered ‘irresponsible’ of Pokerstars, though, so maybe that’s why the option isn’t there. Or perhaps I’m the only person in the world who sees the need for it. So, until Pokerstars loses it’s conscience or gambling law relaxes, or some genius in one of their offices actually takes a moment to consider troubled topupperers like myself, I guess I’ll just have to live without.
I’m five days through my challenge (December) now and my O8 bankroll is up to $405.29
O8 cash overall in December
8494 hands
$205.29 profit
34hrs
$6.04 ph
Using the old ‘20 buyins per level’ rule I’m planning on moving up to 10c/25c when I reach $500. Hopefully, I can run good and be there by the end of Sunday’s session.
Well, I was going to give you some figures as to what I need to achieve when I move up but I think it’s probably better left ‘til my $500 is reached. Well, isn’t that something to look forward to?
Bought four new albums the other day, by the way. Three of them are to be avoided:
The Corrs - Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Vanessa Hudgens (who??)
Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night (Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING?)
The other album, though, is an absolute peach. Bill Withers - Lovely Day, is the first track. I snapped it up based on that alone, obviously, but, hilariously, it’s also got the original ‘If you don’t know me by now’ on it. I’ve listened to it a few times now and can’t help cracking up thinking of David Brent’s version. Fuck, I’m gonna Youtube that right now.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DN41XutK61Y
HAHA, Genius.
Also, couldn't help but watch this one for the first time in ages, amazing.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9JitDWQI9qc&feature=related
Modern Love Collection is the name of the album. (almost certainly) At a charity shop near you, if that’s your thang.
'thanks'
Got a feeling that this is going to turn into a bit of a boring mathsy (sp?) post, a post full of maths, so let me apologise for that in advance.
Soz.
Well, I’m slowly getting there. While you were all out having fun last night, I had a cosy night in with my new friends at the 2c/5c tables. The tea was flowing and we had a Wales of a thymes. There are some characters at these tables to be fair, my favourite being a lad who says ‘thanks’ in the chat after every pot he wins. What a twat. He even said it when he split one heads up once?? Yeah, ship it, son. I’ve taken a few pots off him and said nothing but I might have to deliberately outdraw him one day just so the ‘thanks’ I give him feels that little bit sweeter and hopefully hurts him that little bit more.
Was nice to take a little break the other day. Can’t remember which day it was but I met up with Ptevey and C for a couple of hours before they headed off to Nottingham to do their bollocks. Thursday daytime, I think. Yeah, ate into my sleep time a treat, you unnocturnal weirdos. (Had a bit of a problem spelling ‘weirdos’ then…whatever happened to ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’?).
I met them down the bowling place where we shooted some pool, and followed that with a couple of games of bowling. The standard between us was seriously Laugh Out Loud-able but I banged home a 151 in the second game of bowling, which I only mention because it happens to be exactly the same as my highest break in snooker. 147star? I’ve made bigger breaks… Full stop.
In more depressing news, I’m officially a losing player at 2c/5c 6-max PLO8:
6-max 2c/5c
1460 hands
$9.13 loss
2hrs 45mins
-6 ptbbs/100
-$3.32 ph
Yeah, I know…ouch!
I felt the need to tilt after an ‘orrendous runner runner at one of those tables so I took it out on the 1c/2c tables! 9-tabling 6-max 1c/2c, I somehow played 91% of hands. It was such a nightmare to follow but great fun as ever. Potting most hands and not giving a shit what happened really sorted out my tilt as well.
6-max 1c/2c
952 hands
$14.27 profit
2hrs 15mins
37 ptbbs/100
$6.34 ph
Yeah, eat that, 6-max.
Luckily, my full ring is okay.
Full ring 2c/5c
6082 hands
$200.15 profit
29hrs
33 ptbbs/100
$6.90 ph
Cheers for all your comments in my last post but I still can’t find anything that automatically tops up when you fall below a full buyin. I’m guessing there isn’t one. That kind of thing might actually be considered ‘irresponsible’ of Pokerstars, though, so maybe that’s why the option isn’t there. Or perhaps I’m the only person in the world who sees the need for it. So, until Pokerstars loses it’s conscience or gambling law relaxes, or some genius in one of their offices actually takes a moment to consider troubled topupperers like myself, I guess I’ll just have to live without.
I’m five days through my challenge (December) now and my O8 bankroll is up to $405.29
O8 cash overall in December
8494 hands
$205.29 profit
34hrs
$6.04 ph
Using the old ‘20 buyins per level’ rule I’m planning on moving up to 10c/25c when I reach $500. Hopefully, I can run good and be there by the end of Sunday’s session.
Well, I was going to give you some figures as to what I need to achieve when I move up but I think it’s probably better left ‘til my $500 is reached. Well, isn’t that something to look forward to?
Bought four new albums the other day, by the way. Three of them are to be avoided:
The Corrs - Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Vanessa Hudgens (who??)
Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night (Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING?)
The other album, though, is an absolute peach. Bill Withers - Lovely Day, is the first track. I snapped it up based on that alone, obviously, but, hilariously, it’s also got the original ‘If you don’t know me by now’ on it. I’ve listened to it a few times now and can’t help cracking up thinking of David Brent’s version. Fuck, I’m gonna Youtube that right now.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DN41XutK61Y
HAHA, Genius.
Also, couldn't help but watch this one for the first time in ages, amazing.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9JitDWQI9qc&feature=related
Modern Love Collection is the name of the album. (almost certainly) At a charity shop near you, if that’s your thang.
'thanks'
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Before you roll those dice, baby think twice
Celine and Enya really are doing the trick at the moment so I'm just off out to do some charity shop shopping with eyes only for them pair..
But a quick post before I go.
This challenge is only three days in and it is already brought up a couple of problems. The first worry is my posture. I have been sitting at my desk crouched over my laptop for 23 hours over the three days and it is not doing wonders for my back. My posture's so bad at the moment, I'm practically kneeing myself in the head when I walk. My desk is slightly too low for me. Maybe I should get a new chair. Ah, fuck, just as I was writing that I checked the chair and it wasn't all the way to the bottom. Retard. That's better. Let's just hope the damage caused in the last three days isn't permanent.
Okay, so problem one solved ffs. Only 23hrs too late.
The second thing that's starting to become a problem is I seem to have developed a bit of an OCD. I don't know if any of you other cash game players have this but at the moment I literally CAN NOT be sitting at a table with less than a full buy in. It's getting quite annoying to be honest as, especially at the start of a session, I obviously spend a lot of time with exactly a buy in. So when I play a hand that I don't win I have to top up again instantly. The first hand of the session earlier, I folded on all six tables and had to go round insta-topping up on all of them from $9.95 back up to $10. It's kind of distracting and someone even commented on it at one of my tables earlier. Arrggghhh. Please let me know if I'm not alone in this.
Anyways, enough of that.
Felt like I played really well today. 6-tabling and 4-tabling for the most part I banged in another lengthy, back-breaking session.
Overall stats after December 3rd session:
2c/5c
5551 hands
$141.50 profit
23hrs
25 ptbbs/100
$6.15 ph
I lost four of my five biggest pots today so the stats aren't too flattering again really, sigh. Hourly rate, wasting my life ffs... Three outdraws and a big cooler were the ones I lost, though the one I won was a really sick outdraw I put on someone when I was on tilt which calmed me down for the rest of the session.
A couple more days of this and I'm taking a shot at 10c/25c.
Babies, think twice
But a quick post before I go.
This challenge is only three days in and it is already brought up a couple of problems. The first worry is my posture. I have been sitting at my desk crouched over my laptop for 23 hours over the three days and it is not doing wonders for my back. My posture's so bad at the moment, I'm practically kneeing myself in the head when I walk. My desk is slightly too low for me. Maybe I should get a new chair. Ah, fuck, just as I was writing that I checked the chair and it wasn't all the way to the bottom. Retard. That's better. Let's just hope the damage caused in the last three days isn't permanent.
Okay, so problem one solved ffs. Only 23hrs too late.
The second thing that's starting to become a problem is I seem to have developed a bit of an OCD. I don't know if any of you other cash game players have this but at the moment I literally CAN NOT be sitting at a table with less than a full buy in. It's getting quite annoying to be honest as, especially at the start of a session, I obviously spend a lot of time with exactly a buy in. So when I play a hand that I don't win I have to top up again instantly. The first hand of the session earlier, I folded on all six tables and had to go round insta-topping up on all of them from $9.95 back up to $10. It's kind of distracting and someone even commented on it at one of my tables earlier. Arrggghhh. Please let me know if I'm not alone in this.
Anyways, enough of that.
Felt like I played really well today. 6-tabling and 4-tabling for the most part I banged in another lengthy, back-breaking session.
Overall stats after December 3rd session:
2c/5c
5551 hands
$141.50 profit
23hrs
25 ptbbs/100
$6.15 ph
I lost four of my five biggest pots today so the stats aren't too flattering again really, sigh. Hourly rate, wasting my life ffs... Three outdraws and a big cooler were the ones I lost, though the one I won was a really sick outdraw I put on someone when I was on tilt which calmed me down for the rest of the session.
A couple more days of this and I'm taking a shot at 10c/25c.
Babies, think twice
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
CUNT
Yeah, so, I've been 12-tabling 6-max. Obviously.
Unfortunately, I didn't quite beat it as well as I'd have liked..
6-max 2c/5c
1188 hands
$0.85 profit
2hrs
0.72 ptbbs/100
$0.43 ph
Even the old 'rounding up the hourly rate' trick fails to make these stats look any prettier.
It was a tough session. I timed out a lot early on because (I didn't realise until it was too late) I still don't know how to play the fucking game very well. Every decision is so important post flop and I had an absolute mare thinking about a billion tables at the same time. Making the move from 4-tabling full ring to 12-tabling 6-max is just the kind of childish thing that pgchips should have grown out of by now. But still, live and learn. Hahaha, I wish.
As with ALL of my other 12-tabling exploits I feel like I was unlucky not to show a decent profit. Ran bad imo (but, as 12-tabling has never shown good results, I'm probably wrong and I must just play badly when I have too many tables going).
Might not be doing that again for a while.
Luckily, I calmed down after the annoyance of yet another 12-tabling disaster and banged in a nice, calm, bankroll-building, spell of 4-tabling full ring.
Not only is 4-tabling seemingly (I'll judge it when I finally have a 12-tabling session that isn't hundreds of $$ below expectation!) more profitable, I also enjoy myself a lot more than when I'm playing 8 or 12. It's nice to be able to actually think about a decision for more than a tenth of a second before another table pops up, and see patterns in people's play to adjust to, and, more importantly, I can talk to friends and/or watch the telly at the same time.
Overall full ring stats:
2c/5c
2483 hands
$90.31 profit
12hrs 30mins
36 ptbbs/100
$7.22 ph
So, including the 6-max, my overall December stats are:
2c/5c O8 (6-max and full ring)
3671 hands
$91.16 profit
14hrs 30mins
25 ptbbs/100
$6.29 ph
As I ran badly yesterday (imo), hopefully my win rates are set to improve. Though this obviously depends on whether I can control my greedy urge to 12-table.
Anyways, hopefully I'll be back tomorrow, relaxing with four tables open, and conversations going on MSN as I successfully follow some kind of visual media.
147's tar.
Unfortunately, I didn't quite beat it as well as I'd have liked..
6-max 2c/5c
1188 hands
$0.85 profit
2hrs
0.72 ptbbs/100
$0.43 ph
Even the old 'rounding up the hourly rate' trick fails to make these stats look any prettier.
It was a tough session. I timed out a lot early on because (I didn't realise until it was too late) I still don't know how to play the fucking game very well. Every decision is so important post flop and I had an absolute mare thinking about a billion tables at the same time. Making the move from 4-tabling full ring to 12-tabling 6-max is just the kind of childish thing that pgchips should have grown out of by now. But still, live and learn. Hahaha, I wish.
As with ALL of my other 12-tabling exploits I feel like I was unlucky not to show a decent profit. Ran bad imo (but, as 12-tabling has never shown good results, I'm probably wrong and I must just play badly when I have too many tables going).
Might not be doing that again for a while.
Luckily, I calmed down after the annoyance of yet another 12-tabling disaster and banged in a nice, calm, bankroll-building, spell of 4-tabling full ring.
Not only is 4-tabling seemingly (I'll judge it when I finally have a 12-tabling session that isn't hundreds of $$ below expectation!) more profitable, I also enjoy myself a lot more than when I'm playing 8 or 12. It's nice to be able to actually think about a decision for more than a tenth of a second before another table pops up, and see patterns in people's play to adjust to, and, more importantly, I can talk to friends and/or watch the telly at the same time.
Overall full ring stats:
2c/5c
2483 hands
$90.31 profit
12hrs 30mins
36 ptbbs/100
$7.22 ph
So, including the 6-max, my overall December stats are:
2c/5c O8 (6-max and full ring)
3671 hands
$91.16 profit
14hrs 30mins
25 ptbbs/100
$6.29 ph
As I ran badly yesterday (imo), hopefully my win rates are set to improve. Though this obviously depends on whether I can control my greedy urge to 12-table.
Anyways, hopefully I'll be back tomorrow, relaxing with four tables open, and conversations going on MSN as I successfully follow some kind of visual media.
147's tar.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Suicidal in December?
Not yet, but I will be if I put in anywhere near the volume required to succeed in my new challenge. I'll come onto that in a bit.
When I was reading through my blog the other morning I was reminded of how much I used to enjoy one particular form of poker.
PLO8.
I don't even know why I stopped playing it, I used to absolutely lap it up (33 posts in June/July is some volume!). I can't think of another form of the game that I'd be willing to play 10k hands of at 1c/2c in less than a week! Certainly not Holdem.
Holdem is for cunts, by the way, and I don't care how many readers that offends, you Holdem playing cunts.
Anyway, as I say, I started playing O8 cash with the start of that 10k hand experiment at 1c/2c at the end of May and, luckily enough, I failed it profitably enough to steadily build my roll to a point where I was pratting about 12-tabling the 6-max 10c/25c tables in June and July, lol. The last time I mentioned O8 cash, though, was in the depressing 'tannigreythompson' post on 7th August.
And that was it, O8 gone... what a prick I am sometimes.
The fact is, that spell of poker in June and July was probably the most enjoyable and profitable time I've had since starting this blog. And I think that showed in the amount I played and the volume of blogging I got through. 33 O8 posts in June and July was followed by a sorry 2-post August where I got in a right strop after running slightly badly (well, a $350 downswing at 10c/25c was pretty annoying to be fair), ending in me inexplicably knocking O8 on the head.
I've only posted 20 times in the four months I've spent away from O8, so, to save this blog, and hopefully to start enjoying poker again, I've decided to set myself another O8 cash challenge:
Starting with a bankroll of $200, my aim is to make $2500 profit playing O8 cash in the month of December.
Yeah, that should keep me busy playing and writing in December.
I realise this sounds like a lot to make from that small starting bankroll, but given that I'm not planning on working at all in December, I should be able to get some serious volume in.
It's been a long time since I played the game so I'm going to grind the rust away with some 2c/5c full ring to start with. My plan is, when I feel comfortable with the game again, to move to the 6-max 2c/5c.
To get anywhere near the targeted $2500 I'd imagine I'm going to have to move up at some point but as it seems that I'm capable of a 14 buyin downswing at 10c/25c, I'm going to grind 2c/5c until I feel happy. You never know, I may even beat 2c/5c well enough not to have to move up...!
Started last night with a lengthy 4-tabling session just to get my O8 game back. Was sitting at one of the 2c/5c tables with $68 at one point which was fun, though that table was the only reason I made profit last night.
So, figures so far:
Game... Full ring PLO8
Stakes... 2c/5c
Hands... 1616
Time... 7hrs 30mins (ffs, I'm wasting my life)
Profit... $49.21
@... 30ptbbs/100 and $6.56 ph
Went through a horrible stage of tilt in there on other tables and I don't think I'm anywhere near my best so, though my hr is soooooooo slow doing it, I'm going to carry on 4-tabling full ring for the time being. (How many times have I said that, by the way... No doubt my next post, entitled 'CUNT', will be talking about the break-even six hour 24-tabling session of 10c/25c I've just had!)
Not at all happy with my current hourly rate so hopefully by the time I post next I'll be happy enough with my game to make the move to 6-max, or at least to open up a few more tables.
Will post again later.
Hope you're happy... Frodo!
When I was reading through my blog the other morning I was reminded of how much I used to enjoy one particular form of poker.
PLO8.
I don't even know why I stopped playing it, I used to absolutely lap it up (33 posts in June/July is some volume!). I can't think of another form of the game that I'd be willing to play 10k hands of at 1c/2c in less than a week! Certainly not Holdem.
Holdem is for cunts, by the way, and I don't care how many readers that offends, you Holdem playing cunts.
Anyway, as I say, I started playing O8 cash with the start of that 10k hand experiment at 1c/2c at the end of May and, luckily enough, I failed it profitably enough to steadily build my roll to a point where I was pratting about 12-tabling the 6-max 10c/25c tables in June and July, lol. The last time I mentioned O8 cash, though, was in the depressing 'tannigreythompson' post on 7th August.
And that was it, O8 gone... what a prick I am sometimes.
The fact is, that spell of poker in June and July was probably the most enjoyable and profitable time I've had since starting this blog. And I think that showed in the amount I played and the volume of blogging I got through. 33 O8 posts in June and July was followed by a sorry 2-post August where I got in a right strop after running slightly badly (well, a $350 downswing at 10c/25c was pretty annoying to be fair), ending in me inexplicably knocking O8 on the head.
I've only posted 20 times in the four months I've spent away from O8, so, to save this blog, and hopefully to start enjoying poker again, I've decided to set myself another O8 cash challenge:
Starting with a bankroll of $200, my aim is to make $2500 profit playing O8 cash in the month of December.
Yeah, that should keep me busy playing and writing in December.
I realise this sounds like a lot to make from that small starting bankroll, but given that I'm not planning on working at all in December, I should be able to get some serious volume in.
It's been a long time since I played the game so I'm going to grind the rust away with some 2c/5c full ring to start with. My plan is, when I feel comfortable with the game again, to move to the 6-max 2c/5c.
To get anywhere near the targeted $2500 I'd imagine I'm going to have to move up at some point but as it seems that I'm capable of a 14 buyin downswing at 10c/25c, I'm going to grind 2c/5c until I feel happy. You never know, I may even beat 2c/5c well enough not to have to move up...!
Started last night with a lengthy 4-tabling session just to get my O8 game back. Was sitting at one of the 2c/5c tables with $68 at one point which was fun, though that table was the only reason I made profit last night.
So, figures so far:
Game... Full ring PLO8
Stakes... 2c/5c
Hands... 1616
Time... 7hrs 30mins (ffs, I'm wasting my life)
Profit... $49.21
@... 30ptbbs/100 and $6.56 ph
Went through a horrible stage of tilt in there on other tables and I don't think I'm anywhere near my best so, though my hr is soooooooo slow doing it, I'm going to carry on 4-tabling full ring for the time being. (How many times have I said that, by the way... No doubt my next post, entitled 'CUNT', will be talking about the break-even six hour 24-tabling session of 10c/25c I've just had!)
Not at all happy with my current hourly rate so hopefully by the time I post next I'll be happy enough with my game to make the move to 6-max, or at least to open up a few more tables.
Will post again later.
Hope you're happy... Frodo!
Friday, 28 November 2008
Khaled Hosseini
I don't know much about novelists but, taking Catherine Cookson out of the equation, obviously, this guy is definitely my favourite at the moment. I read 'The Kite Runner' last summer when I spent a fun, if hugely unproductive, time living in Norwich with Dickie - good times - and I've spent the last two days reading the follow up, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', which, in my opinion, is equally brilliant.
So choosing last night (and most of this morning) to reread my blog IN FULL was only going to end in tears... What a fucking awful read. It ended in tears.
Even my early 'Poker... it's just not cricket' post, which, pre-Hosseini, I felt was the most perfectly crafted literary thing to come from words since Kensie from Blazing Squad's spellbindingly unputdownable autobiography, failed to bring a sm1le to the mush.
And the blog has gone downhill from there.
Spent the other half of last night watching Lady Sovereign videos on Youtube. Very productive night. Keysie, seriously, Youtube her, 'Hoodie', '9 to 5', 'Those were the days', and 'Random' will no doubt be classics when she's shot dead on the streets in a couple of years. She's just like Dizzee Rascal mate, you'll love her. Except she's white. And female. Yeah, she's nothing like him but check out 'the Rascal' being grilled by 'the Paxman' here, haha. The cheeky sm1le stretching from 0:08 to 0:10 is hilarious, the big wally:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1XrVVVBAk
Ah, there was gonna be a point to this post but I really need some sleep. I think you get the message though, this blog's on it's way out.
So choosing last night (and most of this morning) to reread my blog IN FULL was only going to end in tears... What a fucking awful read. It ended in tears.
Even my early 'Poker... it's just not cricket' post, which, pre-Hosseini, I felt was the most perfectly crafted literary thing to come from words since Kensie from Blazing Squad's spellbindingly unputdownable autobiography, failed to bring a sm1le to the mush.
And the blog has gone downhill from there.
Spent the other half of last night watching Lady Sovereign videos on Youtube. Very productive night. Keysie, seriously, Youtube her, 'Hoodie', '9 to 5', 'Those were the days', and 'Random' will no doubt be classics when she's shot dead on the streets in a couple of years. She's just like Dizzee Rascal mate, you'll love her. Except she's white. And female. Yeah, she's nothing like him but check out 'the Rascal' being grilled by 'the Paxman' here, haha. The cheeky sm1le stretching from 0:08 to 0:10 is hilarious, the big wally:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1XrVVVBAk
Ah, there was gonna be a point to this post but I really need some sleep. I think you get the message though, this blog's on it's way out.
Thursday, 6 November 2008
I got 99 outs but the river ain't one
Yep, I've been playing Omaha whilst listening to Jay-Z!
When registering for the $3k guaranteed NLHE multi at the last minute earlier tonight, I first accidentally registered for a $1 FL Omaha multi.
FFS.
Lost half my stack in the holdem calling an all in pre with Q7 because I thought I was good. I lost to Q8, which got a couple of 'lols'. I was nearly right, you cunts. I then went out in a big four-way all in with JTo. A fairly standard demise really. Don’t think my heart was quite in it somehow.
The Omaha was a 252 runner affair and it soon became clear that the $49.15 first prize wasn’t going to be reward enough to endure the tilt that playing FL Omaha with complete retards seemed to drive me to almost instantly. But, five incredibly stressful hours later, I was heads up Vs one of the nice guys so all was well:
*** RIVER *** [2c Kh Th Jh] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
markhrm: shows [6d 4c Ac Kc] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
pgchips: shows [6h 2d 6c 3h] (a flush, King high)
markhrm: gg
Dealer: Game #21795333073: pgchips wins pot (50768) with a flush, King high
Dealer: markhrm finished the tournament in 2nd place
Dealer: pgchips wins the tournament - congratulations!
pgchips [observer]: very well played
pgchips [observer]: gg
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty
markhrm [observer]: gl
pgchips [observer]: gl, take care
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty, laters
markhrm [observer]: bye
Fucking hell, he didn't say a word through the whole 5hr 20min tournament and suddenly, come bedtime, he fancies a natter. What's up with that? I lied by the way, it wasn’t ‘very well played’. At all. By anyone.
Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall. Niggaz.
When registering for the $3k guaranteed NLHE multi at the last minute earlier tonight, I first accidentally registered for a $1 FL Omaha multi.
FFS.
Lost half my stack in the holdem calling an all in pre with Q7 because I thought I was good. I lost to Q8, which got a couple of 'lols'. I was nearly right, you cunts. I then went out in a big four-way all in with JTo. A fairly standard demise really. Don’t think my heart was quite in it somehow.
The Omaha was a 252 runner affair and it soon became clear that the $49.15 first prize wasn’t going to be reward enough to endure the tilt that playing FL Omaha with complete retards seemed to drive me to almost instantly. But, five incredibly stressful hours later, I was heads up Vs one of the nice guys so all was well:
*** RIVER *** [2c Kh Th Jh] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
markhrm: shows [6d 4c Ac Kc] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
pgchips: shows [6h 2d 6c 3h] (a flush, King high)
markhrm: gg
Dealer: Game #21795333073: pgchips wins pot (50768) with a flush, King high
Dealer: markhrm finished the tournament in 2nd place
Dealer: pgchips wins the tournament - congratulations!
pgchips [observer]: very well played
pgchips [observer]: gg
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty
markhrm [observer]: gl
pgchips [observer]: gl, take care
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty, laters
markhrm [observer]: bye
Fucking hell, he didn't say a word through the whole 5hr 20min tournament and suddenly, come bedtime, he fancies a natter. What's up with that? I lied by the way, it wasn’t ‘very well played’. At all. By anyone.
Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall. Niggaz.
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Barak, the builder, can we fix it? Barak, the builder, 'YES WE CAN'.
Finally, a good result to report in this blog.
Peace.
Peace.
Monday, 3 November 2008
Another bash...
Hands in a blog can be very boring so I'd advise against reading on.
Got past 2c/5c easily this time, only taking 370 hands for a $20.92 profit (57 ptBBs/100) and set about crushing my previous stumbling level of 5c/10c.
Ran good and got up to $80+ of the $100 needed for 10c/25c when it all went wrong again...
Can't get the pokerhand site working but:
PokerStars Game #21734357606: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 17:00:51 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.25 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($5.75 in chips)
Seat 4: Luis Frigo ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($13.05 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($17.80 in chips)
LJ777: posts small blind $0.05
vinbig: posts big blind $0.10
Puszek88: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ac As]
Luis Frigo: raises $0.40 to $0.50
pgchips: raises $12.55 to $13.05 and is all-in
bxP*: calls $13.05
LJ777: folds
vinbig: folds
Luis Frigo: calls $9.55 and is all-in
vinbig leaves the table
*** FLOP *** [8d 2h 9c]
*** TURN *** [8d 2h 9c] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [8d 2h 9c Kh] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ac As] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
bxP*: shows [Kc Kd] (a full house, Kings full of Nines)
bxP* collected $5.70 from side pot
Luis Frigo: mucks hand
Luis Frigo leaves the table
bxP* collected $28.80 from main pot
bxP* said, "sorry, bro."
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $36.30 Main pot $28.80. Side pot $5.70. | Rake $1.80
Board [8d 2h 9c Kh 9s]
Seat 1: LJ777 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: vinbig (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Luis Frigo mucked [Qh Qs]
Seat 5: pgchips showed [Ac As] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 6: bxP* (button) showed [Kc Kd] and won ($34.50) with a full house, Kings full of Nines
PokerStars Game #21732001892: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:38:36 ET
Table 'Niobe V' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: PedritoRico ($11.60 in chips)
Seat 2: SEB194 ($1.85 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Maximoff ($9.10 in chips)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ ($6.30 in chips)
Seat 6: mareilein ($5.05 in chips)
SEB194: posts small blind $0.05
pgchips: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jd Jc]
Maximoff: folds
$m0kin' @ce$: folds
mareilein: folds
PedritoRico: calls $0.10
SEB194: calls $0.05
pgchips: raises $0.30 to $0.40
PedritoRico: raises $0.30 to $0.70
SEB194: folds
pgchips: raises $11.30 to $12
PedritoRico: calls $10.90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.40) returned to pgchips
*** FLOP *** [8h Qd 7c]
*** TURN *** [8h Qd 7c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [8h Qd 7c 7d] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
PedritoRico: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
PedritoRico collected $22.15 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $23.30 | Rake $1.15
Board [8h Qd 7c 7d Kd]
Seat 1: PedritoRico (button) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($22.15) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 2: SEB194 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: pgchips (big blind) showed [Jd Jc] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 4: Maximoff folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mareilein folded before Flop (didn't bet)
PokerStars Game #21733840532: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:42:28 ET
Table 'Tomita II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Anjun4 ($10.55 in chips)
Seat 2: allergieker ($13.70 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($9.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Swiss777 ($19.15 in chips)
Seat 5: z_raver ($10.90 in chips)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont ($13.90 in chips)
JusteBelmont: posts small blind $0.05
Anjun4: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Js]
allergieker: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
Swiss777: folds
z_raver: folds
JusteBelmont: folds
Anjun4: raises $0.80 to $1.10
pgchips: raises $8.50 to $9.60 and is all-in
Anjun4: calls $8.50
*** FLOP *** [Qc 4h 8h]
*** TURN *** [Qc 4h 8h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 4h 8h 8d] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Anjun4: shows [Ac Ad] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
pgchips: mucks hand
Anjun4 collected $18.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.25 | Rake $0.95
Board [Qc 4h 8h 8d 3d]
Seat 1: Anjun4 (big blind) showed [Ac Ad] and won ($18.30) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 2: allergieker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips mucked [Jh Js]
Seat 4: Swiss777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: z_raver (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 1: rjfisher ($2.20 in chips)
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.35 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.35 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($7.95 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($4.80 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Qd Qh]
rjfisher: raises $0.15 to $0.25
Franciflo: raises $0.15 to $0.40
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $7.55 to $7.95 and is all-in
ocram72: folds
rjfisher: calls $1.95 and is all-in
Franciflo: calls $7.55
*** FLOP *** [4d 8c Td]
SeltoDurka joins the table at seat #5
*** TURN *** [4d 8c Td] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [4d 8c Td Ks] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Qd Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Franciflo: shows [Ac Ah] (a pair of Aces)
Franciflo collected $10.90 from side pot
rjfisher: mucks hand
Franciflo collected $6.40 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.20 Main pot $6.40. Side pot $10.90. | Rake $0.90
Board [4d 8c Td Ks 3c]
Seat 1: rjfisher mucked [Js Ad]
Seat 2: Franciflo showed [Ac Ah] and won ($17.30) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: frouf (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (small blind) showed [Qd Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #21733501430: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:30:22 ET
Table 'Sun IV' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.50 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.50 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($16.40 in chips)
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 ($10.60 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($7.75 in chips)
DuckMySick88: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
rjfisher: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Ah]
Franciflo: folds
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
DuckMySick88: folds
ocram72: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [4h Th 4c]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.40
ocram72: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [4h Th 4c] [3h]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.60
ocram72: calls $0.60
*** RIVER *** [4h Th 4c 3h] [Kd]
ocram72: bets $2.30
pgchips: raises $4.70 to $7
ocram72: calls $4.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.55) returned to pgchips
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jh Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
ocram72: shows [Td Ts] (a full house, Tens full of Fours)
ocram72 collected $14.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $15.55 | Rake $0.75
Board [4h Th 4c 3h Kd]
Seat 2: Franciflo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: frouf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (button) showed [Jh Ah] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) showed [Td Ts] and won ($14.80) with a full house, Tens full of Fours
And I realise that some of those shoves are proper tilty but I was getting fucked all over the place so no need to analyse.
All these took me down to $31 of the $40 I started the level with after 881 hands.
Speaking of tilt (just before the AA vs KK vs QQ hand):
PokerStars Game #21734284947: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:58:17 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.15 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($6 in chips)
Seat 3: langer79 ($18.80 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($9.30 in chips)
Luis Frigo will be allowed to play after the button
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
bxP*: posts big blind $0.10
vinbig: posts small & big blinds $0.15
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [8d 8h]
LJ777: folds
vinbig: checks
langer79: folds
pgchips: raises $5.90 to $6
langer79 leaves the table
bxP*: raises $3.30 to $9.30 and is all-in
vinbig: folds
pgchips: calls $3.30
*** FLOP *** [4s 3d Ad]
Puszek88 joins the table at seat #3
*** TURN *** [4s 3d Ad] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4s 3d Ad Jh] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [8d 8h] (two pair, Eights and Fours)
bxP*: shows [Ah Ac] (a full house, Aces full of Fours)
bxP* collected $17.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.75 | Rake $0.90
Board [4s 3d Ad Jh 4c]
Seat 1: LJ777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: vinbig folded before Flop
Seat 3: langer79 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pgchips (small blind) showed [8d 8h] and lost with two pair, Eights and Fours
Seat 6: bxP* (big blind) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($17.85) with a full house, Aces full of Fours
and
PokerStars Game #21732363121: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:51:07 ET
Table 'Zachia' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DeAad ($12 in chips)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R ($3 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($27.65 in chips)
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR ($3.65 in chips)
Seat 5: HokusPokusss ($4.05 in chips)
Seat 6: animalis ($12.45 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
Taqtiq$MJR: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Th Ks]
HokusPokusss: folds
animalis: raises $0.30 to $0.40
DeAad: folds
ESCROB@R: folds
pgchips: raises $0.70 to $1.10
Taqtiq$MJR: folds
animalis: calls $0.70
*** FLOP *** [8s 8h 8c]
pgchips: bets $1.30
animalis: calls $1.30
*** TURN *** [8s 8h 8c] [Qh]
pgchips: bets $3.80
animalis: calls $3.80
*** RIVER *** [8s 8h 8c Qh] [Tc]
pgchips: bets $4
animalis: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Th Ks] (a full house, Eights full of Tens)
animalis: shows [Qd Ad] (a full house, Eights full of Queens)
animalis collected $19.55 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.50 | Rake $0.95
Board [8s 8h 8c Qh Tc]
Seat 1: DeAad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips (small blind) showed [Th Ks] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Tens
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: HokusPokusss folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: animalis showed [Qd Ad] and won ($19.55) with a full house, Eights full of Queens
How's he got AQ there btw?
Soo bad from me.
Okay, will play on at 5c/10c with my $31 but if I drop below $20 for the second time, the challenge is over and I'm 16-tabling 2c/5c for life. Waste of fucking time.
Got past 2c/5c easily this time, only taking 370 hands for a $20.92 profit (57 ptBBs/100) and set about crushing my previous stumbling level of 5c/10c.
Ran good and got up to $80+ of the $100 needed for 10c/25c when it all went wrong again...
Can't get the pokerhand site working but:
PokerStars Game #21734357606: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 17:00:51 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.25 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($5.75 in chips)
Seat 4: Luis Frigo ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($13.05 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($17.80 in chips)
LJ777: posts small blind $0.05
vinbig: posts big blind $0.10
Puszek88: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ac As]
Luis Frigo: raises $0.40 to $0.50
pgchips: raises $12.55 to $13.05 and is all-in
bxP*: calls $13.05
LJ777: folds
vinbig: folds
Luis Frigo: calls $9.55 and is all-in
vinbig leaves the table
*** FLOP *** [8d 2h 9c]
*** TURN *** [8d 2h 9c] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [8d 2h 9c Kh] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ac As] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
bxP*: shows [Kc Kd] (a full house, Kings full of Nines)
bxP* collected $5.70 from side pot
Luis Frigo: mucks hand
Luis Frigo leaves the table
bxP* collected $28.80 from main pot
bxP* said, "sorry, bro."
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $36.30 Main pot $28.80. Side pot $5.70. | Rake $1.80
Board [8d 2h 9c Kh 9s]
Seat 1: LJ777 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: vinbig (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Luis Frigo mucked [Qh Qs]
Seat 5: pgchips showed [Ac As] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 6: bxP* (button) showed [Kc Kd] and won ($34.50) with a full house, Kings full of Nines
PokerStars Game #21732001892: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:38:36 ET
Table 'Niobe V' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: PedritoRico ($11.60 in chips)
Seat 2: SEB194 ($1.85 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Maximoff ($9.10 in chips)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ ($6.30 in chips)
Seat 6: mareilein ($5.05 in chips)
SEB194: posts small blind $0.05
pgchips: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jd Jc]
Maximoff: folds
$m0kin' @ce$: folds
mareilein: folds
PedritoRico: calls $0.10
SEB194: calls $0.05
pgchips: raises $0.30 to $0.40
PedritoRico: raises $0.30 to $0.70
SEB194: folds
pgchips: raises $11.30 to $12
PedritoRico: calls $10.90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.40) returned to pgchips
*** FLOP *** [8h Qd 7c]
*** TURN *** [8h Qd 7c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [8h Qd 7c 7d] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
PedritoRico: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
PedritoRico collected $22.15 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $23.30 | Rake $1.15
Board [8h Qd 7c 7d Kd]
Seat 1: PedritoRico (button) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($22.15) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 2: SEB194 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: pgchips (big blind) showed [Jd Jc] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 4: Maximoff folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mareilein folded before Flop (didn't bet)
PokerStars Game #21733840532: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:42:28 ET
Table 'Tomita II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Anjun4 ($10.55 in chips)
Seat 2: allergieker ($13.70 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($9.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Swiss777 ($19.15 in chips)
Seat 5: z_raver ($10.90 in chips)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont ($13.90 in chips)
JusteBelmont: posts small blind $0.05
Anjun4: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Js]
allergieker: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
Swiss777: folds
z_raver: folds
JusteBelmont: folds
Anjun4: raises $0.80 to $1.10
pgchips: raises $8.50 to $9.60 and is all-in
Anjun4: calls $8.50
*** FLOP *** [Qc 4h 8h]
*** TURN *** [Qc 4h 8h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 4h 8h 8d] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Anjun4: shows [Ac Ad] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
pgchips: mucks hand
Anjun4 collected $18.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.25 | Rake $0.95
Board [Qc 4h 8h 8d 3d]
Seat 1: Anjun4 (big blind) showed [Ac Ad] and won ($18.30) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 2: allergieker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips mucked [Jh Js]
Seat 4: Swiss777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: z_raver (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 1: rjfisher ($2.20 in chips)
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.35 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.35 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($7.95 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($4.80 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Qd Qh]
rjfisher: raises $0.15 to $0.25
Franciflo: raises $0.15 to $0.40
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $7.55 to $7.95 and is all-in
ocram72: folds
rjfisher: calls $1.95 and is all-in
Franciflo: calls $7.55
*** FLOP *** [4d 8c Td]
SeltoDurka joins the table at seat #5
*** TURN *** [4d 8c Td] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [4d 8c Td Ks] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Qd Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Franciflo: shows [Ac Ah] (a pair of Aces)
Franciflo collected $10.90 from side pot
rjfisher: mucks hand
Franciflo collected $6.40 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.20 Main pot $6.40. Side pot $10.90. | Rake $0.90
Board [4d 8c Td Ks 3c]
Seat 1: rjfisher mucked [Js Ad]
Seat 2: Franciflo showed [Ac Ah] and won ($17.30) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: frouf (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (small blind) showed [Qd Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #21733501430: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:30:22 ET
Table 'Sun IV' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.50 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.50 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($16.40 in chips)
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 ($10.60 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($7.75 in chips)
DuckMySick88: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
rjfisher: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Ah]
Franciflo: folds
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
DuckMySick88: folds
ocram72: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [4h Th 4c]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.40
ocram72: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [4h Th 4c] [3h]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.60
ocram72: calls $0.60
*** RIVER *** [4h Th 4c 3h] [Kd]
ocram72: bets $2.30
pgchips: raises $4.70 to $7
ocram72: calls $4.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.55) returned to pgchips
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jh Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
ocram72: shows [Td Ts] (a full house, Tens full of Fours)
ocram72 collected $14.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $15.55 | Rake $0.75
Board [4h Th 4c 3h Kd]
Seat 2: Franciflo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: frouf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (button) showed [Jh Ah] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) showed [Td Ts] and won ($14.80) with a full house, Tens full of Fours
And I realise that some of those shoves are proper tilty but I was getting fucked all over the place so no need to analyse.
All these took me down to $31 of the $40 I started the level with after 881 hands.
Speaking of tilt (just before the AA vs KK vs QQ hand):
PokerStars Game #21734284947: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:58:17 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.15 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($6 in chips)
Seat 3: langer79 ($18.80 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($9.30 in chips)
Luis Frigo will be allowed to play after the button
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
bxP*: posts big blind $0.10
vinbig: posts small & big blinds $0.15
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [8d 8h]
LJ777: folds
vinbig: checks
langer79: folds
pgchips: raises $5.90 to $6
langer79 leaves the table
bxP*: raises $3.30 to $9.30 and is all-in
vinbig: folds
pgchips: calls $3.30
*** FLOP *** [4s 3d Ad]
Puszek88 joins the table at seat #3
*** TURN *** [4s 3d Ad] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4s 3d Ad Jh] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [8d 8h] (two pair, Eights and Fours)
bxP*: shows [Ah Ac] (a full house, Aces full of Fours)
bxP* collected $17.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.75 | Rake $0.90
Board [4s 3d Ad Jh 4c]
Seat 1: LJ777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: vinbig folded before Flop
Seat 3: langer79 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pgchips (small blind) showed [8d 8h] and lost with two pair, Eights and Fours
Seat 6: bxP* (big blind) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($17.85) with a full house, Aces full of Fours
and
PokerStars Game #21732363121: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:51:07 ET
Table 'Zachia' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DeAad ($12 in chips)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R ($3 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($27.65 in chips)
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR ($3.65 in chips)
Seat 5: HokusPokusss ($4.05 in chips)
Seat 6: animalis ($12.45 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
Taqtiq$MJR: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Th Ks]
HokusPokusss: folds
animalis: raises $0.30 to $0.40
DeAad: folds
ESCROB@R: folds
pgchips: raises $0.70 to $1.10
Taqtiq$MJR: folds
animalis: calls $0.70
*** FLOP *** [8s 8h 8c]
pgchips: bets $1.30
animalis: calls $1.30
*** TURN *** [8s 8h 8c] [Qh]
pgchips: bets $3.80
animalis: calls $3.80
*** RIVER *** [8s 8h 8c Qh] [Tc]
pgchips: bets $4
animalis: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Th Ks] (a full house, Eights full of Tens)
animalis: shows [Qd Ad] (a full house, Eights full of Queens)
animalis collected $19.55 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.50 | Rake $0.95
Board [8s 8h 8c Qh Tc]
Seat 1: DeAad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips (small blind) showed [Th Ks] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Tens
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: HokusPokusss folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: animalis showed [Qd Ad] and won ($19.55) with a full house, Eights full of Queens
How's he got AQ there btw?
Soo bad from me.
Okay, will play on at 5c/10c with my $31 but if I drop below $20 for the second time, the challenge is over and I'm 16-tabling 2c/5c for life. Waste of fucking time.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Perfect, perfect.... but not in the good way!
This hand led to many a 'lol' in the chat at one of my tables earlier:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3387553
and, as it was 2c/5c, I couldn't help but join in (even at 5c/10c I probably chip in with a few 'ffs's). Ain't no way either of us are getting away from that flop though... standard cooler imo.
Lizard2412 said, "even had the feeling ur on aces". Hilarious.
All started well for the challenge in that I made it past the first level... I got stacked twice early on, though, when QQ < KK in an $8 pot and folded to me otb TT < BB's AA in a $15 pot. Did I need to be all in pre for 150 BBs with tens? Possibly not...
This left me with chips on only two tables, which made progress feel ridiculously slow (and is actually another unforseen problem that this challenge has thrown up). But I kept plugging away and when I'd built a stack on one of the tables, three different people suggested I stand up and open more tables. I was sitting on $31.50 and $3.40 at the time and really felt like carrying on to sit with the full 800bbs on the one table. But time was dragging, and when I finally stood up and got four tables going again, I reached my $40 target within ten minutes.
It took a lot longer than I'd hoped though... 2hrs 40mins. Obviously due to the fact that I was only two tabling for most of it. Running like a twat never helps, mind.
648 hands
$21.61 profit
33ptBBs/100
$8.10 p/h
Erm, suppose it's okay, looking at it.
This was the hand that sealed my place at 5c/10c:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3386407
'Well, that's what happens when you call with jacks'. Gold.
So, onto 5c/10c...
It took me only 1hr 40 mins to lose my two buy in buffer.
$0 p/h, through 4hrs 20mins.
So I'm back down to 2c/5c.
KK < JJ aip ($17 pot) and A6dd < 44 ai on TJ4Qdd board in what felt like a good squeezing opportunity three handed on the turn for another (in terms of the challenge) massive pot. A two buy in downswing buffer isn't very much when you're an absolute maniac.
Will probably try again over the weekend. I'm not prepared to scrap the idea just yet.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3387553
and, as it was 2c/5c, I couldn't help but join in (even at 5c/10c I probably chip in with a few 'ffs's). Ain't no way either of us are getting away from that flop though... standard cooler imo.
Lizard2412 said, "even had the feeling ur on aces". Hilarious.
All started well for the challenge in that I made it past the first level... I got stacked twice early on, though, when QQ < KK in an $8 pot and folded to me otb TT < BB's AA in a $15 pot. Did I need to be all in pre for 150 BBs with tens? Possibly not...
This left me with chips on only two tables, which made progress feel ridiculously slow (and is actually another unforseen problem that this challenge has thrown up). But I kept plugging away and when I'd built a stack on one of the tables, three different people suggested I stand up and open more tables. I was sitting on $31.50 and $3.40 at the time and really felt like carrying on to sit with the full 800bbs on the one table. But time was dragging, and when I finally stood up and got four tables going again, I reached my $40 target within ten minutes.
It took a lot longer than I'd hoped though... 2hrs 40mins. Obviously due to the fact that I was only two tabling for most of it. Running like a twat never helps, mind.
648 hands
$21.61 profit
33ptBBs/100
$8.10 p/h
Erm, suppose it's okay, looking at it.
This was the hand that sealed my place at 5c/10c:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3386407
'Well, that's what happens when you call with jacks'. Gold.
So, onto 5c/10c...
It took me only 1hr 40 mins to lose my two buy in buffer.
$0 p/h, through 4hrs 20mins.
So I'm back down to 2c/5c.
KK < JJ aip ($17 pot) and A6dd < 44 ai on TJ4Qdd board in what felt like a good squeezing opportunity three handed on the turn for another (in terms of the challenge) massive pot. A two buy in downswing buffer isn't very much when you're an absolute maniac.
Will probably try again over the weekend. I'm not prepared to scrap the idea just yet.
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Verybored
Fucking hate Full Tilt. Took ten days to clear my $20 bonus, hate the software.
Managed to lose $25 in a mad rush to clear the final $2 of it 8-tabling on HUGE tilt (you know it’s bad when you get ‘lol’s at your play on three tables at the same time). Pg, you stupid fuck, just leave the $2 behind… Despite that, I cleared the bonus for a $346 profit, none of which I have left on FT.
Bit bored of poker at the moment so, to a new challenge…
Spoke to Keysie briefly last night (well, I spoke briefly, he nattered on in great length… standard) about short term swings playing cash poker and a bit about bankroll building so I have devised a mini-bankroll-build challenge for fun. Feel free to join in to see how far you can get.
The idea is to four table cash, starting with four buy-ins at the chosen level, and move up once four buy-ins at the next level is reached and drop back down should you drop under four buy-ins at the previous level.
My aim is to show that extreme bankroll nits are cunts.
My prediction is that I won’t.
For a winning player, this can only be a winner as you’re unlikely to lose four buy-ins at every level you’re forced to move down to, and the general move in stakes should be up.
And it can be applied to any starting bankroll. Obviously, you could start with $8 at $0.01/$0.02 and move up to $0.02/$0.05 when the mini-br reaches $20 (though this leaves nowhere to move down to should you fall at the first). Or start with $1600 at $2.00/$4.00 if you must, Ptevey, then up to $3.00/$6.00 with $2400… etc.
Perhaps, with only a two buy-in buffer and the swingy nature of cash, this form of bankroll building may involve too much moving down in stakes to make this +EV for the long term player. Take, for example, someone who is conventionally ‘rolled’ for $0.50/$1.00. If they decided to take this experiment on with a $1600 'mini-bankroll' at $2.00/$4.00, and started off with two drop downs (two buy-in downswings at $2.00/$4.00 and another two at $1.00/$2.00), which is very possible, it would see them back at their ‘rolled’ level with a serious dent to their ‘actual bankroll'. So, thinking about it, maybe my experiment would only be good for a quick bankroll ‘spin-up’ with some spare money (after an exceptionally profitable month, for example).
There must be something wrong with it because no one’s doing it. Except maybe Dickie.
To test the waters on something I could be horribly wrong about, I’m going to start at $0.02/$0.05 with $20 ($5 on each table) until the mini-bankroll reaches $40. Then, four table $0.05/$0.10 until $100 is reached… And so on… This is a slightly dangerous choice of starting stakes, I guess, as I only have one level to fall back on! The level is very, very weak though so it shouldn’t come to that.
I would be interested to hear any thoughts on this type of bankroll build from any ct grinders out there. Isaac, Gambon? Even Cheesio?
I have no work tomorrow (Thursday) and nothing to do so I’ll be starting the new experiment at 2pm our time on Stars, if anyone fancies joining, railing or sabotaging!
Managed to lose $25 in a mad rush to clear the final $2 of it 8-tabling on HUGE tilt (you know it’s bad when you get ‘lol’s at your play on three tables at the same time). Pg, you stupid fuck, just leave the $2 behind… Despite that, I cleared the bonus for a $346 profit, none of which I have left on FT.
Bit bored of poker at the moment so, to a new challenge…
Spoke to Keysie briefly last night (well, I spoke briefly, he nattered on in great length… standard) about short term swings playing cash poker and a bit about bankroll building so I have devised a mini-bankroll-build challenge for fun. Feel free to join in to see how far you can get.
The idea is to four table cash, starting with four buy-ins at the chosen level, and move up once four buy-ins at the next level is reached and drop back down should you drop under four buy-ins at the previous level.
My aim is to show that extreme bankroll nits are cunts.
My prediction is that I won’t.
For a winning player, this can only be a winner as you’re unlikely to lose four buy-ins at every level you’re forced to move down to, and the general move in stakes should be up.
And it can be applied to any starting bankroll. Obviously, you could start with $8 at $0.01/$0.02 and move up to $0.02/$0.05 when the mini-br reaches $20 (though this leaves nowhere to move down to should you fall at the first). Or start with $1600 at $2.00/$4.00 if you must, Ptevey, then up to $3.00/$6.00 with $2400… etc.
Perhaps, with only a two buy-in buffer and the swingy nature of cash, this form of bankroll building may involve too much moving down in stakes to make this +EV for the long term player. Take, for example, someone who is conventionally ‘rolled’ for $0.50/$1.00. If they decided to take this experiment on with a $1600 'mini-bankroll' at $2.00/$4.00, and started off with two drop downs (two buy-in downswings at $2.00/$4.00 and another two at $1.00/$2.00), which is very possible, it would see them back at their ‘rolled’ level with a serious dent to their ‘actual bankroll'. So, thinking about it, maybe my experiment would only be good for a quick bankroll ‘spin-up’ with some spare money (after an exceptionally profitable month, for example).
There must be something wrong with it because no one’s doing it. Except maybe Dickie.
To test the waters on something I could be horribly wrong about, I’m going to start at $0.02/$0.05 with $20 ($5 on each table) until the mini-bankroll reaches $40. Then, four table $0.05/$0.10 until $100 is reached… And so on… This is a slightly dangerous choice of starting stakes, I guess, as I only have one level to fall back on! The level is very, very weak though so it shouldn’t come to that.
I would be interested to hear any thoughts on this type of bankroll build from any ct grinders out there. Isaac, Gambon? Even Cheesio?
I have no work tomorrow (Thursday) and nothing to do so I’ll be starting the new experiment at 2pm our time on Stars, if anyone fancies joining, railing or sabotaging!
Saturday, 18 October 2008
147, I've made bigger bets in the $3 rebuy
Ptevey, quite amusingly, challenged me to include the numbers 1, 4 and 7 in every raise I made in the $3r on Stars the other night. Looking back, that is the only thing funny about this hand for about the chip lead:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3327966
I think Dthestudentj, Sm1le and 147_star were railing, which explains the turn card. This was to come 266/3276 for $36. Villain in the hand went on to come 4th for $2.1k. The night before, I had AKhh < KK late on in the same tourn to come 29/3537 for $76. Skolsuper was railing this, obviously. Villain in that hand also went on to come 4th for $2.1k. I played shit to come 29th to be fair but well imo in the one I came 266th in and ran well to get where I did in both. But I really need to stop running badly late on in that tourn. Seriously, I'd rather the cooler happened first hand of the freezeout for zero money than this close to some real money.
I haven't played on Full Tilt for ages, not since I was staked to play a bunch of tourns a while back when I was playing shit. Deposited $50 the other day to clear the $20 bonus playing omaha h/l cash. Lost $25 in the second hand with $0 of my bonus cleared. WP Tilt.
But I grobbled through it and my Full Tilt bankroll is now up to $425 after some good 5c/10c o8 and a couple of tournament wins. $10 of the bonus cleared.
Work seems to be getting in the way of poker at the moment. Only played 35 tourns this month and a bit of cash (albeit for a $600 profit) compared to over 500 tourns in August and September. It's a shame not to be playing much when I seem to be playing well.
It's very hard to turn down work when I'm offered it but I'm seriously thinking about taking a couple of weeks off to make some money!
We'll see.
Peace,
PG.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3327966
I think Dthestudentj, Sm1le and 147_star were railing, which explains the turn card. This was to come 266/3276 for $36. Villain in the hand went on to come 4th for $2.1k. The night before, I had AKhh < KK late on in the same tourn to come 29/3537 for $76. Skolsuper was railing this, obviously. Villain in that hand also went on to come 4th for $2.1k. I played shit to come 29th to be fair but well imo in the one I came 266th in and ran well to get where I did in both. But I really need to stop running badly late on in that tourn. Seriously, I'd rather the cooler happened first hand of the freezeout for zero money than this close to some real money.
I haven't played on Full Tilt for ages, not since I was staked to play a bunch of tourns a while back when I was playing shit. Deposited $50 the other day to clear the $20 bonus playing omaha h/l cash. Lost $25 in the second hand with $0 of my bonus cleared. WP Tilt.
But I grobbled through it and my Full Tilt bankroll is now up to $425 after some good 5c/10c o8 and a couple of tournament wins. $10 of the bonus cleared.
Work seems to be getting in the way of poker at the moment. Only played 35 tourns this month and a bit of cash (albeit for a $600 profit) compared to over 500 tourns in August and September. It's a shame not to be playing much when I seem to be playing well.
It's very hard to turn down work when I'm offered it but I'm seriously thinking about taking a couple of weeks off to make some money!
We'll see.
Peace,
PG.
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Putting in the hours
At the fucking NEC...
The only good thing about working a 16 hour shift is that it makes the 12 hour ones seem short.
T’was a busy week, last week, for us agency staff as the NEC hosted the ‘Horse of the year’ show. Was booked for a deadly total of 84 hours from Monday to Sunday, which included a horribly illegal 29 hr spell over a 39 hour period on Tuesday/Wednesday. If there was ever a time to ‘accidentally’ fall and break my neck, or get ran over by an ‘orse, or get hurt by something in some way, 'illegal Wednesday' was the day. The NEC is sooo rich, I would have absolutely fleeced them. A bone-break of any kind would have absolutely slipped down, but, obviously I run bad, and the only things I broke that day was an expensive case of NEC crockery and the world record for most times caught sleeping at work without getting the sack. Some lovely big horses knocking about, there were.
FFS, the cunts. Bought a mug from some cheap shitty shop for a pound when I was on Bearwood high street about an hour ago, and the cunting handle’s just fallen off. Half a mug of coffee all over the laptop FFS. The cunts. I bet they did that deliberately the cunts. It’s still working, so all’s well. I should probably check all the letters though.
Have had two attempts at the $11 double shootouts to the million recently, failing in both. I’ve realised that I’m too immature to be playing shootouts atm. Losing heads up, as I have done in a couple, tilts me so bad. I challenge you to tell me of anything more annoying than losing heads up in a shootout. Not going to play one for a while now, may try again if I grow up ever.
Qwertyuiop[]
ASDFGHJKL;’#ZXCVBNM,./`1234567890-
Yep, running good.
Actually, maybe being the bubble boy in two multi table rebuy sats in a row was more annoying. Yeah, won’t be playing any of those for a while either.
Cheers to Fran for thinking about the AQ hand...more than I did at the time! It is a tough one pre with 15bbs or whatever. I think it's still a raise, just got to avoid getting all in on the flop drawing vvvvv slim in future...
I have another full week of work this week, including two days at Cheltenham race course on Friday and Saturday, which makes a nice change. Was supposed to be at the NEC at 8am this morning but given that I was still drinking Sambuca at 5, I figured that texting in sick was the +EV, though unprofitable, thing to do.
Not much to report on the poker front as I’ve been too tired/pissed after work to play. I have enjoyed railing for a couple of hours though before sleeping some nights. If it’s not 147_fish shipping some sat, it’s the $100r or the $50r I watch, or just whatever’s deep at the time. Reassuringly for the ‘poker isn’t all about luck’ crew, the same names are regularly cropping up late on in a lot of these.
Something wrong with my eyes I think, which is worrying me atm, probably should get that checked out. Then sue the NEC imo. Would love to see their faces if I did… though I suppose I probably couldn’t as that would mean I’m going fucking blind.
I might play something on Stars today and/or tonight as I have nothing to do. Bit bored of grinding the lower stakes but fuck it, I might as well. Wish I’d gone to work actually.
Well, this post has dwindled out as always… ah, saw a nice bit of vandalism earlier. If you can call it vandalism. Above the entrance to the foreign language centre in town is a big sign saying ‘Language Centre’, and some funny fucker’s nicked the ‘C’: ‘Language entre’. I do hope that this is the doing of a clever French vandal but, knowing Birmingham, it’s probably some chav looking to get started on graffitiing the word ‘Cunt’ elsewhere.
The only good thing about working a 16 hour shift is that it makes the 12 hour ones seem short.
T’was a busy week, last week, for us agency staff as the NEC hosted the ‘Horse of the year’ show. Was booked for a deadly total of 84 hours from Monday to Sunday, which included a horribly illegal 29 hr spell over a 39 hour period on Tuesday/Wednesday. If there was ever a time to ‘accidentally’ fall and break my neck, or get ran over by an ‘orse, or get hurt by something in some way, 'illegal Wednesday' was the day. The NEC is sooo rich, I would have absolutely fleeced them. A bone-break of any kind would have absolutely slipped down, but, obviously I run bad, and the only things I broke that day was an expensive case of NEC crockery and the world record for most times caught sleeping at work without getting the sack. Some lovely big horses knocking about, there were.
FFS, the cunts. Bought a mug from some cheap shitty shop for a pound when I was on Bearwood high street about an hour ago, and the cunting handle’s just fallen off. Half a mug of coffee all over the laptop FFS. The cunts. I bet they did that deliberately the cunts. It’s still working, so all’s well. I should probably check all the letters though.
Have had two attempts at the $11 double shootouts to the million recently, failing in both. I’ve realised that I’m too immature to be playing shootouts atm. Losing heads up, as I have done in a couple, tilts me so bad. I challenge you to tell me of anything more annoying than losing heads up in a shootout. Not going to play one for a while now, may try again if I grow up ever.
Qwertyuiop[]
ASDFGHJKL;’#ZXCVBNM,./`1234567890-
Yep, running good.
Actually, maybe being the bubble boy in two multi table rebuy sats in a row was more annoying. Yeah, won’t be playing any of those for a while either.
Cheers to Fran for thinking about the AQ hand...more than I did at the time! It is a tough one pre with 15bbs or whatever. I think it's still a raise, just got to avoid getting all in on the flop drawing vvvvv slim in future...
I have another full week of work this week, including two days at Cheltenham race course on Friday and Saturday, which makes a nice change. Was supposed to be at the NEC at 8am this morning but given that I was still drinking Sambuca at 5, I figured that texting in sick was the +EV, though unprofitable, thing to do.
Not much to report on the poker front as I’ve been too tired/pissed after work to play. I have enjoyed railing for a couple of hours though before sleeping some nights. If it’s not 147_fish shipping some sat, it’s the $100r or the $50r I watch, or just whatever’s deep at the time. Reassuringly for the ‘poker isn’t all about luck’ crew, the same names are regularly cropping up late on in a lot of these.
Something wrong with my eyes I think, which is worrying me atm, probably should get that checked out. Then sue the NEC imo. Would love to see their faces if I did… though I suppose I probably couldn’t as that would mean I’m going fucking blind.
I might play something on Stars today and/or tonight as I have nothing to do. Bit bored of grinding the lower stakes but fuck it, I might as well. Wish I’d gone to work actually.
Well, this post has dwindled out as always… ah, saw a nice bit of vandalism earlier. If you can call it vandalism. Above the entrance to the foreign language centre in town is a big sign saying ‘Language Centre’, and some funny fucker’s nicked the ‘C’: ‘Language entre’. I do hope that this is the doing of a clever French vandal but, knowing Birmingham, it’s probably some chav looking to get started on graffitiing the word ‘Cunt’ elsewhere.
Monday, 6 October 2008
25k with ace high, nh
PokerStars Game #20964631980: Tournament #110966654, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (800/1600) - 2008/10/05 23:42:32 ETTable '110966654 157' 9-max
Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DWyobuzz (7965 in chips)
Seat 2: M.FUERTES (8332 in chips)
Seat 3: Parck (2330 in chips)
Seat 4: colts2129 (43569 in chips)
Seat 5: Bürobursche (14633 in chips)
Seat 6: pgchips (25851 in chips)
Seat 7: tcryder (62471 in chips)
Seat 8: powerchoke (38105 in chips)
Seat 9: SikaTrx (53369 in chips)
DWyobuzz: posts the ante 150
M.FUERTES: posts the ante 150
Parck: posts the ante 150
colts2129: posts the ante 150
Bürobursche: posts the ante 150
pgchips: posts the ante 150
tcryder: posts the ante 150
powerchoke: posts the ante 150
SikaTrx: posts the ante 150
Parck: posts small blind 800
colts2129: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ah Qd]
Bürobursche: folds
pgchips: raises 2475 to 4075
tcryder: calls 4075
powerchoke: folds
SikaTrx: folds
DWyobuzz: folds
M.FUERTES: folds
Parck: folds
colts2129: folds
*** FLOP *** [8d 4d 9s]
pgchips: checks
tcryder: bets 1600
pgchips: raises 20026 to 21626 and is all-in
tcryder: calls 20026
*** TURN *** [8d 4d 9s] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [8d 4d 9s 7s] [Ad]
***SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ah Qd] (a pair of Aces)
tcryder: shows [4h 4c] (three of a kind, Fours)
tcryder collected 55152 from pot
My embarrassing exit just in the money of the $3 rebuy above. Not sure what I should do with that flop having already put 20% of my stack in pre, figured a cr would be the only way to get any fold equity, don't know if I should just give up on the pot completely... betting the flop might give me a price to call... Looking back, I much prefer trying to get it in pre with some kind of fold equity from hands like 88/99. A limp pre seems a bit odd but I think a limp/shove pre might be the play as an open fold surely isn't an option and making it 4/5k to go leaves an awkward amount back. Limping pre may also invite AT/AJ to go mad. Or do I have to raise here? Opinions on every street welcome.
Either way, another annoying $3r to go with these recent ones (might as well get the negativity out in one post):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3165048
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145219
AA runs bad for me at the moment as this was another beauty from today approaching the bubble of the $30k gteed with average stack:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3283893
Okay, bad beats are boring in a blog so I promise there'll be no more for a while. Working later so I'd better sleep, just thought I'd post the hand while it was fresh. Feel free to rip me to shreds.
Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DWyobuzz (7965 in chips)
Seat 2: M.FUERTES (8332 in chips)
Seat 3: Parck (2330 in chips)
Seat 4: colts2129 (43569 in chips)
Seat 5: Bürobursche (14633 in chips)
Seat 6: pgchips (25851 in chips)
Seat 7: tcryder (62471 in chips)
Seat 8: powerchoke (38105 in chips)
Seat 9: SikaTrx (53369 in chips)
DWyobuzz: posts the ante 150
M.FUERTES: posts the ante 150
Parck: posts the ante 150
colts2129: posts the ante 150
Bürobursche: posts the ante 150
pgchips: posts the ante 150
tcryder: posts the ante 150
powerchoke: posts the ante 150
SikaTrx: posts the ante 150
Parck: posts small blind 800
colts2129: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ah Qd]
Bürobursche: folds
pgchips: raises 2475 to 4075
tcryder: calls 4075
powerchoke: folds
SikaTrx: folds
DWyobuzz: folds
M.FUERTES: folds
Parck: folds
colts2129: folds
*** FLOP *** [8d 4d 9s]
pgchips: checks
tcryder: bets 1600
pgchips: raises 20026 to 21626 and is all-in
tcryder: calls 20026
*** TURN *** [8d 4d 9s] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [8d 4d 9s 7s] [Ad]
***SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ah Qd] (a pair of Aces)
tcryder: shows [4h 4c] (three of a kind, Fours)
tcryder collected 55152 from pot
My embarrassing exit just in the money of the $3 rebuy above. Not sure what I should do with that flop having already put 20% of my stack in pre, figured a cr would be the only way to get any fold equity, don't know if I should just give up on the pot completely... betting the flop might give me a price to call... Looking back, I much prefer trying to get it in pre with some kind of fold equity from hands like 88/99. A limp pre seems a bit odd but I think a limp/shove pre might be the play as an open fold surely isn't an option and making it 4/5k to go leaves an awkward amount back. Limping pre may also invite AT/AJ to go mad. Or do I have to raise here? Opinions on every street welcome.
Either way, another annoying $3r to go with these recent ones (might as well get the negativity out in one post):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3165048
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145219
AA runs bad for me at the moment as this was another beauty from today approaching the bubble of the $30k gteed with average stack:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3283893
Okay, bad beats are boring in a blog so I promise there'll be no more for a while. Working later so I'd better sleep, just thought I'd post the hand while it was fresh. Feel free to rip me to shreds.
Friday, 3 October 2008
Gotta love Kenny Rogers
Just stumbled across the lyrics for his song 'The Gambler':
On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
'Til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, "Son, I've made my life out of readin' people's faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice."
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.
Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
When he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
Tune imo.
On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
'Til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, "Son, I've made my life out of readin' people's faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice."
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.
Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."
When he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo
Tune imo.
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Another FT failure
I have won only one of my last twenty four final tables in multis and it's starting to get a bit annoying. 3rd in an $8 PLO8 tourn is my latest for $147 (loving that Paul...).
Standard race for my exit hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267145
Think I'm a slight favourite actually but not by much. Fairly standard I think. Shame.
Also played a 4-handed shootout which threw up this hilarious hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3266271
Wonder what he put me on and why he called the turn? And folded the river?
I lost to him in the funniest heads up of all time.
My '100% flop' challenge continues to draw comments, some absolute knobheads sitting at the 1c/2c tables saying things like 'playing every hand, look at this fish, I'm gonna take his money'. It's 1c/2c, who gives a fuck who ends up with the money? And why you being such a cunt at these stakes anyway. It's making me quite sad actually being around these kinds of people. Not only at the poker table, at work and home too.
Hands: 1774
Profit: $20.69 @ 29ptBBs/100
Won without showdown: 496/1774 (28%)
Doing the work that I do, in the city I live, I happen to work with a lot of foreign people. The patience they have with and the understanding they show to some of the ignorant cunts that give them endless abuse wherever they go, no matter how hard they work is something to admire.
I sat during my dinner break today opposite a Polish guy and an Iranian girl, who I saw were forced to sit together as there were no other seats. Listening to two people from completely different backgrounds, meeting for the first time, talking happily and respectfully, in English, about England was not only inspiring but also something I found deeply moving. Especially after the shit they had to put up with during the shift. The UK has a lot to be proud of imo and the people (not just Brits) who try to ruin this, and the fuckers who look at me and smile, expecting me to smile back when they're dishing out their abusive jokes based on nothing but nationality, deserve a fucking good slap.
Shit, soz, dunno where that came from but some cunts just piss me off sometimes. I'm starting to sound like Travis in Taxi Driver ffs... if you know any young prostitutes I could help, just send 'em my way, I'll buy them some jam on toast or something.
By the way, steer clear of Spiceworld at all costs. It's real bad, man.
Peace, pimpshoota (my next poker name for sure).
EDIT: Very nearly deleted the second half of this post as it really isn't what this 'poker' blog is supposed to be about. It's what happens when you work an eleven hour shift with likable foreigners and English cunts. But, fuck it, I'll leave it there - might be funny to look back on some day.
Standard race for my exit hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267145
Think I'm a slight favourite actually but not by much. Fairly standard I think. Shame.
Also played a 4-handed shootout which threw up this hilarious hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3266271
Wonder what he put me on and why he called the turn? And folded the river?
I lost to him in the funniest heads up of all time.
My '100% flop' challenge continues to draw comments, some absolute knobheads sitting at the 1c/2c tables saying things like 'playing every hand, look at this fish, I'm gonna take his money'. It's 1c/2c, who gives a fuck who ends up with the money? And why you being such a cunt at these stakes anyway. It's making me quite sad actually being around these kinds of people. Not only at the poker table, at work and home too.
Hands: 1774
Profit: $20.69 @ 29ptBBs/100
Won without showdown: 496/1774 (28%)
Doing the work that I do, in the city I live, I happen to work with a lot of foreign people. The patience they have with and the understanding they show to some of the ignorant cunts that give them endless abuse wherever they go, no matter how hard they work is something to admire.
I sat during my dinner break today opposite a Polish guy and an Iranian girl, who I saw were forced to sit together as there were no other seats. Listening to two people from completely different backgrounds, meeting for the first time, talking happily and respectfully, in English, about England was not only inspiring but also something I found deeply moving. Especially after the shit they had to put up with during the shift. The UK has a lot to be proud of imo and the people (not just Brits) who try to ruin this, and the fuckers who look at me and smile, expecting me to smile back when they're dishing out their abusive jokes based on nothing but nationality, deserve a fucking good slap.
Shit, soz, dunno where that came from but some cunts just piss me off sometimes. I'm starting to sound like Travis in Taxi Driver ffs... if you know any young prostitutes I could help, just send 'em my way, I'll buy them some jam on toast or something.
By the way, steer clear of Spiceworld at all costs. It's real bad, man.
Peace, pimpshoota (my next poker name for sure).
EDIT: Very nearly deleted the second half of this post as it really isn't what this 'poker' blog is supposed to be about. It's what happens when you work an eleven hour shift with likable foreigners and English cunts. But, fuck it, I'll leave it there - might be funny to look back on some day.
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