I went on to win this one.. much to thier dismay...
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Stage #99921394: Holdem Single Tournament No Limit $300 [2005-03-26 08:14:34]
Seat 4 - SLAYRE $2570 in chips
Seat 6 - LAWOOD $5230 in chips
Seat 7 - JEFF1961 $5700 in chips
*** BLIND [dealer 6] ***
JEFF1961 - Post small blind $300
SLAYRE - Post big blind $600
SLAYRE - Pocket [9s,3s]
LAWOOD - Folds
JEFF1961 - Calls $300
SLAYRE - Checks
*** FLOP [9d,9c,9h] ***
JEFF1961 - Bets $600
SLAYRE - Calls $600
*** TURN [9d,9c,9h,5s] ***
JEFF1961 - Bets $600
SLAYRE - Calls $600
*** RIVER [9d,9c,9h,5s,6c] ***
JEFF1961 - Bets $600
SLAYRE - All-In(Raise) $600 to $770
JEFF1961 - Calls $170
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SLAYRE - Show cards [9s,3s]
JEFF1961 - Show cards [5h,Qc]
*** RESULT ***
Total Pot($5140)
Board [9d,9c,9h,5s,6c]
SLAYRE - Total ($5140) All-In HI:($5140)Four of a kind, nines [9s,3s - P:9s,B:9h,B:9d,B:9c,B:6c]
LAWOOD - Folded on the POCKET CARDS
JEFF1961 - HI:Full house, nines full of fives [5h,Qc - B:9h,B:9d,B:9c,B:5s,P:5h
Still have not got a str8 flush nor royal flush yet....
Watched Sklansky(sp) get pocket aces 5 times on Poker Stars II last night... that was pretty amazing... I believe that session the rockets showed up 7 times......
They replayed or have been replaying Bad Boys of Poker tourney... the one where the sweepstakes winner made 3rd place... the one where Gus Hanson called Antonio's pair of 7's with 10 8 suited..... everyone thought that he was crazy.... but, I got to thinking... Antonio took so long to consider his move, after Gus's re raise, Gus prolly figured him for a mid to low pair..... putting him with 1 or maybe 2 overs, plus a possible str8 and possible flush... and he would still have chips if he lost.... Or, he is just crazy....
Monday, March 28, 2005
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Punch me in the stomach
.. that would feel bettre than going out 265th in the Pacific Poker 1mil Blitz tourney... when 250 places pay..... JJ, made a move cuz short stack.. time was way agaisnt me, blinds and all... ran right into AA... ugh..... I took notes thru most of the tourney, but, unconciously, me thinks posting them was contingent upon winning some money.... 265th outta 1619 people... good? I don't know, going out at 1500 might have hurt alot less... oh, 4 hours of play..... maybe Ill post the notes latre this week...
I up to 22 bucks on Absolute, you know, that sight I love so much... and I am also up on UB, no longer playing with scared money there.... might be playing stupid and getting lucky, but, no longer timid..... prolly cuz the Pacific thing is over....
Weather here got chilly.... I bet April is not entirely happy about that... rain, wind, cold.... brrrrr....
Current in a MTT on UB, bettre get back to that...
I up to 22 bucks on Absolute, you know, that sight I love so much... and I am also up on UB, no longer playing with scared money there.... might be playing stupid and getting lucky, but, no longer timid..... prolly cuz the Pacific thing is over....
Weather here got chilly.... I bet April is not entirely happy about that... rain, wind, cold.... brrrrr....
Current in a MTT on UB, bettre get back to that...
Friday, March 25, 2005
Omaha 8 Hi/Lo
Im in the middle of a Omaha 8 Hi/Lo freeroll on Noble right now.. set up by Scurvydog, from Sound of a Suckout.., thanks S-Dog... anyway, I have no clue what I am doing but am some how in the top ten and i can prolly fold my way to the money... maybe... heh.. lots of fun...
currently 16 players left, im number 6... top 10 pay.....
now im 3rd with 15 left..
8th with 14 left... did a boo boo..
looks grim now
5th w/10 left I made the money!!!! woo hoo...
we on break now... im in 6th... with 7 of us left... 10,9,8,7 pay $1.25 6th is $2.50 and then it goes up from there.. $15.00 for first....
** This is my first Omaha tourney that I actually stayed thru.. usually on Absolute, when I accidently get signed up for one, I only last for 2 or 3 hands before I get confused.. Im sure I won't win this one... but outta 97 people, to make final table... I feel pretty good about it.... course, prolly half those people weren't even there... i.e., sit out's for the whole tourney.. blinded down.... but you know what, that's not my fault.... ok, break almost over.... gotta concentrate, try for 5th... that pays..$3.75... :)
well, i finished in 7th..... if I knew what I figured out by the final table, i prolly would of finished in 4th or 5th... heh...
currently 16 players left, im number 6... top 10 pay.....
now im 3rd with 15 left..
8th with 14 left... did a boo boo..
looks grim now
5th w/10 left I made the money!!!! woo hoo...
we on break now... im in 6th... with 7 of us left... 10,9,8,7 pay $1.25 6th is $2.50 and then it goes up from there.. $15.00 for first....
** This is my first Omaha tourney that I actually stayed thru.. usually on Absolute, when I accidently get signed up for one, I only last for 2 or 3 hands before I get confused.. Im sure I won't win this one... but outta 97 people, to make final table... I feel pretty good about it.... course, prolly half those people weren't even there... i.e., sit out's for the whole tourney.. blinded down.... but you know what, that's not my fault.... ok, break almost over.... gotta concentrate, try for 5th... that pays..$3.75... :)
well, i finished in 7th..... if I knew what I figured out by the final table, i prolly would of finished in 4th or 5th... heh...
breaking even
I was off work today... yesterday.. on Absolute, at about 4pm, when I got home from work, I had $9.05 in my account.. and I proceeded to play $2+.20 SNG's... by the end of my session, I was at $13.55.. maybe 8 tourneys... went to bed, woke up at some odd hour... played some more SNG's, and by 10 am, was at $9.05. Did some laundry, watched some t.v, then started playing again, couple hours ago.. played about 10 SNG's... right now, I have $9.05 in my Absolute account..... lots of learning for very lil cost.... that is how I choose to look at it..
In the meantime, I went ahead and started a ring game on UB, played about 30 minutes... was 6 dollars up, so quit.... Im still scared money on UB.. not sure why...... its frustrating tho...
Ah well.. big tourny on Pacific tomorrow... Omaha freeroll on noble tonight... time for another nap.... prolly should not have opened this Big Red.
In the meantime, I went ahead and started a ring game on UB, played about 30 minutes... was 6 dollars up, so quit.... Im still scared money on UB.. not sure why...... its frustrating tho...
Ah well.. big tourny on Pacific tomorrow... Omaha freeroll on noble tonight... time for another nap.... prolly should not have opened this Big Red.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Live Tourneys
Played in a couple live tourneys last night... it had been awhile since I had ventured away from my computer to play poker... I had gotten to miss the feel of the felt, the sound of the chips, and the cards in my hands... I didn't go expecting to win, or even do well.. just to stay long enuff to get my fix of live action....
One thing that I noticed, almost immediately it seemed.. was how easy it was to read the other players... perhaps not read them, but associate them with the various different types of players....
At the first tourney.. every one of the other 6 players were loose/stupid/lucky.... I'm not sure if that is an actual named type of player, if not, well, then I'll coin it.... time after time, they would call bottom pair to the river... raise with Ax preflop, fold when they can check, call with a straight with 4 to a flush on the board... during all this, most of this, I was never in a hand... opting to fold my meager hands and just watch... knowing I would survive long enuff so that when the blinds got to be a factor, I could easily make my way to the final table...... this is where the '/lucky' comes in...
I won a couple pots early, with the only couple good hands I had... so, I was one of the chip leaders.... in the SB, BB is shortstack, and she goes all in, everyone folds, I look at AK suited... call with half my stack.... she flips 84o and gets two 8's on the flop..... so be it... few hands latre, I get AKs again, dude before me raises the BB to 400, I make it 1000 to play, and he goes all in... I fold this time... he had JJ...... who knows... now i am the short stack, get K9s, first to act, I go all in, get called by this lady who was getting remarkably lucky, hitting few outters on the river to take huge pots..... calling me was only a third of her stack... she flips AA... to kick me while I am down, flop is AAK..... go figure..
So, I went to another location, and did the same thing... just sorta folded and watched......this time, only 1 player really knew what and how to play... poor fellow, he got his Q's cracked by a dude chasing a straight, then got KK beat by same guy chasing an 8 for a set... was horrible.... and the chaser comments, 'you can't mess with me, I'm a pro'.. yeah.. well, ok......... then a lil latre, an argument of sorts ensued when a guy wouldn't show his cards after winning a pot... he said that no one paid to see his cards.. in actuality, the chaser had paid, and checked on the river, to which the winner also checked.. chased dumped his cards after winner showed him his, and only showed him... we asked, what did you have, and he didn't want to show.. it really was not a big deal, until he told me, 'shut up, I'm beating you'.. Hmm, ok, well, you have more chips than I do, but, I haven't been playing... but, now I am.... So, I just raised every single time he was in the pot, and when everyone folded and he called, I would just go all in.... soon, I had all his chips, plus the chasers... and he was just watching...... I never did shut up... They also thought I was strange due to the following hand....
player 1 has 10 10
player 2 has A 6
p1 raises pf from 200 to 500.
p2 calls
flop is J J J
p1 bets 500
p2 calls
turn is J J J (10)
p1 bets 500
p2 calls
river is J J J 10 (A)
p1 checks
p2 is all in with about 480
p1 goes to tank, then he folds. shows his cards.. gets berated for folding with so much committed to the pot....never fold when your pot committed.. you dummmy... oh my god, i would have won that pot... all kinds of mean things..... I, when the din hushed, simply said, Good Lay Down.. saved yourself 500 chips... then they got on to me about how wrong I was.... I countered with.. his mistake was not when he folded, his mistake was not going all in on the turn. to which the winner, P2, stated, I would not have called in all in on the flop, but I would have seriously thought about calling on the turn...
I went out in third place, at my table... ( top two went to final ), with 10 8 offsuit... heh, lot and battling back and forth between the 3 of us.. blinds at 800 and 1600, and we had about the same in chips pretty much.... I went all in on the button......SB folded.... about 7200 in the pot, 3500 more for BB to call... he tanks for a very long time, and finally calls... shit.... flipped A3s...... I never improved... said he had to call due to pot odds... this confused me, cuz, I bet all in to take away pot odds, I thought...... he was getting 2 to 1, right.. is that not, not good pot odds.... ? Don't you want to call 3500 into a 21k pot...? Isn't that bettre pot odds? Pay 1 to get 7, bettre than pay 1 to get 2, right???? Anyway, he was the other 'good' player... and while we were playing, he was telling me how his gf made him a nice poker table top, and i said, heck, have a cash game, invite me too... he said no no no... the idea is to invite those that aren't any good.... i stopped.... asked him, did you just compliment me? He said yes, that i was the only one he was worried about at the table the whole time.... cool... my first live play compliment.. I'm moving up in the world... :)
One thing that I noticed, almost immediately it seemed.. was how easy it was to read the other players... perhaps not read them, but associate them with the various different types of players....
At the first tourney.. every one of the other 6 players were loose/stupid/lucky.... I'm not sure if that is an actual named type of player, if not, well, then I'll coin it.... time after time, they would call bottom pair to the river... raise with Ax preflop, fold when they can check, call with a straight with 4 to a flush on the board... during all this, most of this, I was never in a hand... opting to fold my meager hands and just watch... knowing I would survive long enuff so that when the blinds got to be a factor, I could easily make my way to the final table...... this is where the '/lucky' comes in...
I won a couple pots early, with the only couple good hands I had... so, I was one of the chip leaders.... in the SB, BB is shortstack, and she goes all in, everyone folds, I look at AK suited... call with half my stack.... she flips 84o and gets two 8's on the flop..... so be it... few hands latre, I get AKs again, dude before me raises the BB to 400, I make it 1000 to play, and he goes all in... I fold this time... he had JJ...... who knows... now i am the short stack, get K9s, first to act, I go all in, get called by this lady who was getting remarkably lucky, hitting few outters on the river to take huge pots..... calling me was only a third of her stack... she flips AA... to kick me while I am down, flop is AAK..... go figure..
So, I went to another location, and did the same thing... just sorta folded and watched......this time, only 1 player really knew what and how to play... poor fellow, he got his Q's cracked by a dude chasing a straight, then got KK beat by same guy chasing an 8 for a set... was horrible.... and the chaser comments, 'you can't mess with me, I'm a pro'.. yeah.. well, ok......... then a lil latre, an argument of sorts ensued when a guy wouldn't show his cards after winning a pot... he said that no one paid to see his cards.. in actuality, the chaser had paid, and checked on the river, to which the winner also checked.. chased dumped his cards after winner showed him his, and only showed him... we asked, what did you have, and he didn't want to show.. it really was not a big deal, until he told me, 'shut up, I'm beating you'.. Hmm, ok, well, you have more chips than I do, but, I haven't been playing... but, now I am.... So, I just raised every single time he was in the pot, and when everyone folded and he called, I would just go all in.... soon, I had all his chips, plus the chasers... and he was just watching...... I never did shut up... They also thought I was strange due to the following hand....
player 1 has 10 10
player 2 has A 6
p1 raises pf from 200 to 500.
p2 calls
flop is J J J
p1 bets 500
p2 calls
turn is J J J (10)
p1 bets 500
p2 calls
river is J J J 10 (A)
p1 checks
p2 is all in with about 480
p1 goes to tank, then he folds. shows his cards.. gets berated for folding with so much committed to the pot....never fold when your pot committed.. you dummmy... oh my god, i would have won that pot... all kinds of mean things..... I, when the din hushed, simply said, Good Lay Down.. saved yourself 500 chips... then they got on to me about how wrong I was.... I countered with.. his mistake was not when he folded, his mistake was not going all in on the turn. to which the winner, P2, stated, I would not have called in all in on the flop, but I would have seriously thought about calling on the turn...
I went out in third place, at my table... ( top two went to final ), with 10 8 offsuit... heh, lot and battling back and forth between the 3 of us.. blinds at 800 and 1600, and we had about the same in chips pretty much.... I went all in on the button......SB folded.... about 7200 in the pot, 3500 more for BB to call... he tanks for a very long time, and finally calls... shit.... flipped A3s...... I never improved... said he had to call due to pot odds... this confused me, cuz, I bet all in to take away pot odds, I thought...... he was getting 2 to 1, right.. is that not, not good pot odds.... ? Don't you want to call 3500 into a 21k pot...? Isn't that bettre pot odds? Pay 1 to get 7, bettre than pay 1 to get 2, right???? Anyway, he was the other 'good' player... and while we were playing, he was telling me how his gf made him a nice poker table top, and i said, heck, have a cash game, invite me too... he said no no no... the idea is to invite those that aren't any good.... i stopped.... asked him, did you just compliment me? He said yes, that i was the only one he was worried about at the table the whole time.... cool... my first live play compliment.. I'm moving up in the world... :)
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