Played the CC buy-in on UB.
I got HU.
Then I got crabs:
Feh!
So I worked my way back...
Oh well. Draw-city on the flop.
I didn't come back after than and finished in 2nd. Oh well, that's the game.
The $47 payout was nice, and puts me at $130-something on UB. (I won a bit in rings today). Not bad considering I started with $10 a couple weeks ago.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Blah blah blah
I decided to tinker around with my small bankroll on FT.
I was dominating $10NL on UB... then bad stuff started happening.
Every time I went up against a short stack he'd murder the flop. I didn't hit a set all night. None of my OESD's hit. And flushes... phooey! I hit one, and I'll talk about it later.
I remember one hand where I had 7/7 told the screen "Okay 'm due for a set already!" Two others were in the pot with a Q/2/3 rainbow flop and the shorty checked, the big stack made a tiny raise, I called, and the shorty shoved (doh!). The shorty had Q/x and the big stack had A/Q. Of course, the turn and river were 7/7.
Anyway, I lost $16 at one table and won $8 at the other despite having my K/K and Q/Q folded to in the BB. Oh, and this...
Anyway, I went back a little later, played one table, won $12 really quick (thanks to a flush *finally* hitting). The dude called me with Ace/rag too, when he paired his Ace. I think he thought I was bluffing. Everyone else on UB calls down my bluffs, so it was nice to experience that behavior when I actually hit. :)
I played two tournaments on Full Tilt earlier today, and didn't do so well. I lost the CC tournament when someone limped UTG, I raised on the button with A/Q and he shoved on me. He had K/K. Typically that move means a small poket pair. I didn't expect the UTG limp with K/K in a CC game (the guy was an unknown).
Now, in the OFC game something similiar happened. A *tight* player limped UTG, I made heft raised on the button with K/Q, and he min-raised me back.
I folded that fast! I guarantee he had A/A.
Anyway, not the most successful of days.
I was dominating $10NL on UB... then bad stuff started happening.
Every time I went up against a short stack he'd murder the flop. I didn't hit a set all night. None of my OESD's hit. And flushes... phooey! I hit one, and I'll talk about it later.
I remember one hand where I had 7/7 told the screen "Okay 'm due for a set already!" Two others were in the pot with a Q/2/3 rainbow flop and the shorty checked, the big stack made a tiny raise, I called, and the shorty shoved (doh!). The shorty had Q/x and the big stack had A/Q. Of course, the turn and river were 7/7.
Anyway, I lost $16 at one table and won $8 at the other despite having my K/K and Q/Q folded to in the BB. Oh, and this...
Anyway, I went back a little later, played one table, won $12 really quick (thanks to a flush *finally* hitting). The dude called me with Ace/rag too, when he paired his Ace. I think he thought I was bluffing. Everyone else on UB calls down my bluffs, so it was nice to experience that behavior when I actually hit. :)
I played two tournaments on Full Tilt earlier today, and didn't do so well. I lost the CC tournament when someone limped UTG, I raised on the button with A/Q and he shoved on me. He had K/K. Typically that move means a small poket pair. I didn't expect the UTG limp with K/K in a CC game (the guy was an unknown).
Now, in the OFC game something similiar happened. A *tight* player limped UTG, I made heft raised on the button with K/Q, and he min-raised me back.
I folded that fast! I guarantee he had A/A.
Anyway, not the most successful of days.
Randon stuff
Things go good:
I'm still tinkering at $25NL when I do play rings. I'd been pretty aggressive, and folded my three bet in the same position the previous round. Action begets action.
Things go *really* good:
Runner runner FTW!
Cripes! I was only calling for an Ace so we could tie.
Rigged!
Just kidding about the rigged. :) But man, that was a dazzling bad beat.
The worst part about that game was that I thought I was joining a regular $10 tournament, but it was a rebuy. When I realized my mistake it was too late to unregister. And since I was playing I did the instant $10 rebuy. I did not rebuy after this loss though.
Has I won that hand I'd have been the early chip leader, but oh well. At least I didn't bubble.
I'm still tinkering at $25NL when I do play rings. I'd been pretty aggressive, and folded my three bet in the same position the previous round. Action begets action.
Things go *really* good:
Runner runner FTW!
Cripes! I was only calling for an Ace so we could tie.
Rigged!
Just kidding about the rigged. :) But man, that was a dazzling bad beat.
The worst part about that game was that I thought I was joining a regular $10 tournament, but it was a rebuy. When I realized my mistake it was too late to unregister. And since I was playing I did the instant $10 rebuy. I did not rebuy after this loss though.
Has I won that hand I'd have been the early chip leader, but oh well. At least I didn't bubble.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
SP the FRW
PokerTracker ring trouble, so no rings lately. Well, I played some $2NL. I made $2 really quick, then finished the session down $1.
I was only in to play with a friend, so no big deal.
Played about 7 $1 S&G's, purposely playing bad to be funny in a video. I don't think I was that funny.
Played some for real, and got brutalized. I was in a $16 S&G, make trips in a BB vs SB scenario, and his small pocket pair turns into a full house to KO me first. Feh.
Today I played a freeroll on UltimateBet. Well, let's start at the beginning...
I tried to deposit on UB but it didn't work. They gave me $10.
I turned that into $12 in the rings.
I played a big $5.50 tournament and cashed to bring my bankroll up to $28, *and* a side bonus was that I finished in the top 25 so I won a $27 satellite ticket where the winner gets a trip to Aruba.
Then today I played a freeroll, and won it for $45 more. So, now I have $70-something which is not bad for three days worth of play.
One problem is that you can't do observer chat if you have not deposited, so as soon as I am knocked out of the tournament I can't say "GG" or anything like that.
So when I won the freeroll today, I couldn't talk afterward.
I'd get a 111% deposit bonus *and* rakeback if I deposit, so depositing would be nice.
I was only in to play with a friend, so no big deal.
Played about 7 $1 S&G's, purposely playing bad to be funny in a video. I don't think I was that funny.
Played some for real, and got brutalized. I was in a $16 S&G, make trips in a BB vs SB scenario, and his small pocket pair turns into a full house to KO me first. Feh.
Today I played a freeroll on UltimateBet. Well, let's start at the beginning...
I tried to deposit on UB but it didn't work. They gave me $10.
I turned that into $12 in the rings.
I played a big $5.50 tournament and cashed to bring my bankroll up to $28, *and* a side bonus was that I finished in the top 25 so I won a $27 satellite ticket where the winner gets a trip to Aruba.
Then today I played a freeroll, and won it for $45 more. So, now I have $70-something which is not bad for three days worth of play.
One problem is that you can't do observer chat if you have not deposited, so as soon as I am knocked out of the tournament I can't say "GG" or anything like that.
So when I won the freeroll today, I couldn't talk afterward.
I'd get a 111% deposit bonus *and* rakeback if I deposit, so depositing would be nice.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
...played more.
I went back and played some more.
I got pummeled.
Pummeled.
I'm down $28 for the day now.
Bummer. Not much I can do there.
I'm 2:1 or so, all-in pre-flop.
I lost $16 in a hand with A/Q where a guy turn/rivered quad 10's.
He check/shoved the river and I folded. Then he turned over the pocket T's. Whew.
This one is interesting:
A short stacker pops in and posts a blind out of turn. I'd been pretty aggressive and pop it up from the small blind. The smart-player 3-bets me which I think he'd do with a pretty wide range so I'm willing to stack against him.
The evil short-stacker shoves, which doesn't mean much.
I'm happy getting it in vs what is probably A/K with the BB, so I limp, figuring I can bail if one of those two cards hits the flop.
I get shoved on, so I call.
I probably played it bad, but it was a weird situation.
Anyway... finished the night on a bummer.
I got pummeled.
Pummeled.
I'm down $28 for the day now.
Bummer. Not much I can do there.
I'm 2:1 or so, all-in pre-flop.
I lost $16 in a hand with A/Q where a guy turn/rivered quad 10's.
He check/shoved the river and I folded. Then he turned over the pocket T's. Whew.
This one is interesting:
A short stacker pops in and posts a blind out of turn. I'd been pretty aggressive and pop it up from the small blind. The smart-player 3-bets me which I think he'd do with a pretty wide range so I'm willing to stack against him.
The evil short-stacker shoves, which doesn't mean much.
I'm happy getting it in vs what is probably A/K with the BB, so I limp, figuring I can bail if one of those two cards hits the flop.
I get shoved on, so I call.
I probably played it bad, but it was a weird situation.
Anyway... finished the night on a bummer.
'Nother night
Hit the ring games again. I felt I played a little smarter.
I coax a majority of the evil short stacker's chips in and he rivers his gut shot. I don't know what he was doing in the hand so long... or at all.
That was my second A/A. The previous one I slow played pre-flop, made a set on an all-diamond flop, and took it down when I bet-pot. Feh.
My favorite hand of the night:
Hurray for him not rivering his gut shot!
This was definitely a play based on the player, not the strength of my own hand.
This was nice too:
I fold this a lot of the time, but I didn't buy that I was much of a dog. With the limp-a-holic in he pot the button is probably stealing there a ton.
If I had more info on the button I'd have three-bet him (a lot of buttons can't let go of Ace/rag and K/J and such pre-flop because they don't believe the blinds can have a real hand), but it worked out well.
With the other losses I finished up $33 for the night, with a 34bb/100 win rate.
It was nice to win some.
I coax a majority of the evil short stacker's chips in and he rivers his gut shot. I don't know what he was doing in the hand so long... or at all.
That was my second A/A. The previous one I slow played pre-flop, made a set on an all-diamond flop, and took it down when I bet-pot. Feh.
My favorite hand of the night:
Hurray for him not rivering his gut shot!
This was definitely a play based on the player, not the strength of my own hand.
This was nice too:
I fold this a lot of the time, but I didn't buy that I was much of a dog. With the limp-a-holic in he pot the button is probably stealing there a ton.
If I had more info on the button I'd have three-bet him (a lot of buttons can't let go of Ace/rag and K/J and such pre-flop because they don't believe the blinds can have a real hand), but it worked out well.
With the other losses I finished up $33 for the night, with a 34bb/100 win rate.
It was nice to win some.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Ptttt!
A/A twice, and both times I lose stacks.
K/K once, and I took the blinds.
All in, and the dude rivers his flush.
All but one bluff called.
Down around $120 for the day.
Feh.
K/K once, and I took the blinds.
All in, and the dude rivers his flush.
All but one bluff called.
Down around $120 for the day.
Feh.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Hooks
I 4 tabled some $25NL today. I felt like actually building my bankroll instead of playing for fun.
Anyway, I meant to type in $.80 for this bet, but accidentally put in $8.
As soon as I did I hoped that everyone would just fold to me.
As you can see, my bet was only the second stupidest play that hand.
Anyway, I meant to type in $.80 for this bet, but accidentally put in $8.
As soon as I did I hoped that everyone would just fold to me.
As you can see, my bet was only the second stupidest play that hand.
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