Radii's Poker Dynasty, take 2 - Page 2

Chappy · 05-21-2004, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Radii

Right now it's $1/$2 6 man tables.

That explains where all my money is going.

Radii · 05-22-2004, 05:52 PM

I have been working towards a bonus on ultimatebet.com. I'm over halfway there now. They double your bonus points if you start a new table, so I find blank 6 man tables, sit down an wait for an opponent.

Today I'm at a 2/4 table. After a short while, kjo1333 jonis and we go heads up. He seems a terribly straight forward player early on. I lose AT vs his J2 when I flop middle pair and he flops two pair. That takes a decent chunk out of me and I have $80 (out of my original $100) after some back and forth.

Scratch that, I ahve $66, after kjo rivers a flush against my top pair.

After 17 hands we end up 3 handed, CalvinsAKQJ10 joins, I'm taking a bad beating though, my solid A-high hands are not hitting or losing to rivered flushes.

20 hands in we are four handed.

Hand #20: I have AK suited UTG, I raise and only kjo calls. The flop c omes QJ5 and he bets out. I have yet to see him bluff... I call his flop bet but fold on the turn when I get no help. This is a serious beating, down $50 after 20 hands.

25 hands in, we're 5 handed.

CalvinsAKQJ10, kb78, kjo1333, empty seat, and Kyman in order.

Hand #25: I get AQo, and just check in my BB. I flop two pair, bet out and its folded to me.

Hand #26: kb78 raises, I call with QJs in the SB, but fold on a flop bet that just gives me an inside straight. kb had A9o.

Hand #29: AKo UTG, I raise and get 3 callers. The flop comes J49, all hearts(I have no heart). I throw out a single bet to see if I can take the pot, Kyman calls. The turn makes a 4-flush. We both check. The river puts a flush on the board. We both check again and split a $19 pot, $9.50 for me. I'm holding steady at $50.

Nixons Twin joins in the empty seat, 6 handed 33 hands in.

Hand #35: UTG again, with AQo this time. I raise and only Kyman calls me. Flop comes 678, I bet, he calls. The turn brings a king, and I go ahead and fold when he bets.

Hand #48: I finally have a playable hand, QJs, and I get a free flop with it along wit kj and kyman. Flop comes TT4, two clubs(no clubs in my hand). We check, turn is the ace of clubs, and I'm out to a bet. I'm down to $33, bleeding out after an early beating and now a cold run of starting cards.

Some changes. To my left: Empty seat, ChuckLuck76, kjo1333, Nixons Twin, and kyman.

kyman and kjo limp into virtually every pot if its unraised. Nixons is agressive when he's got good cards, and I'd love to get good enough cards to punish these guys. kjo is calling down ace high pretty consistantly, nixons tearing him up w/ 2nd pair, things like that.

mudcat18 joins to my left. mudcat's opening play, calling a raise w/ 63o, satying in on an inside straight draw, seems a bit questionable. His second play of limping 56o seems questionable too. Course, he's up $33 after those two hands, so hey, how bad can it be?

My cards have totally gone to crap. I haven't played a hand outside my big blind since hand 35, 22 hands ago.

mudcat just isn't folding pre-flop, T7s pre-flop for a raise? no problem. He's catching like a madman though, flushes on the river to beat a higher pocket pair.

Hand #60: I limp with 9To in the SB, with 3 opponents. Flop comes JT4. I bet out, and get heads up with ChuckLuck. Turn brings an 8, open straight draw for me, I bet, he calls. I check/call the river(a king) and lose to JT, flopped two pair, and I am now down to $16, down about 21 BB.

Hand #66: I catch AA in the SB. Nixons raises pre-flop, I re-raise, he calls. Flop comes king high. I bet out, he calls. The turn is a non-scare card, I bet, he raises me all in, and I call, of course. Nixons had KQ and I double up to $29. I let myself fall a bit short there, I need to keep more on the table than $15, that is a big mistake on my part. Always have enough money that you can come out firing and win big when you have the nuts.

Nixons and Kayman leave the game. lineup is: monarchos1, ChuckLuck, kjo1333, and flyfisherak, and an empty seat.

I flop top two pair with A9 from the big blind but get no action, $28.75.

Timglas joins in the empty seat.

flyfisherak opens up pretty agressively, but hasn't shown down anything, so who knows if he has a hand or not.

monarchos goes nuts capping bottom full house on a board that has two pair. Top full house gladly caps with him and monarchose is down to ~$12.

Hand #79: I have KJo in the SB. folded to me, I raise, monarchos re-raises and i call. Flop is all low cards, and I decide to call him down(He only has $6 left at this point anyway), he has pocket 8s and I never catch my pair. I fall back down to $16.

Hand #81: I raise pre-flop with ATo and flyfisherAK calls. I take a small pot when I flop an ace and he folds.

I buy back up to $100.

I lose a few blinds and fall down to $92 by hand #100

Hand #100: KJo in the cutoff. I raise pre-flop(I've been so tight, will I get respect?) Q86 flop, kjo is my only caller. I have position. I bet, he calls. The turn is a blank, so is the river, and we check it down. I see his 37s, my king high takes $13.50 and I'm back up to $99

If thee is a positive to this session its that I'm working off my bonus money like crazy, the pots between everyone else is getting larger and larger.

Hand #106: Reading people and paying attention pays off: I have QQ. I raise, only kjo calls me. Flop comes AA4. I bet, he calls all the way down, and I take down $27.75 with my solid hand.

Hand #107: 55 UTG+1. I raise and get two callers. I fold to a lot of overcards and a bet on the flop.

Hand #108: AJo UTG. I raise, both blinds call me. The flop comes down ten high, and I call a bet from flyfisherak. A blank on the turn, and we check, and I fold to a river bet.

Back to $95 after that nice win followed by two quick losses.

Hand #116: I have A7s on the button. A couple of limpers before me and I also limp. Chuck raises behind, the entire table is in. Flop comes KQ5, two spades. I easily have the odds to chase the flush, and call flop and turn bets. Chuck ends up all in and there is no river bet. The flush never hits but I hit a pair of 7s on the river. Chuck's pocket 9s take a $38 pot and I'm down to $80.

Hand #120: A4s in the BB. I check when timglas(SB) limps into me, bet the ace on the flop and take down $4.

Hand #121: Pocket 7s. I raise out of the SB and monarchos(BB) and kjo(limper) call Flop has one overcard, I bet, and both call. Turn pairs the overcard, I bet and only monarchos calls. The river is an ace. I check/call, monarchos had J5, trip jacks. I am down to $66 after dropping $14 on that hand.

Hand #128: I have QTs on the button, and raise it. monnarchos and chuckluck both call me. The flop is almost perfect, AJx, all my suit, I flop a flush. Chuckluck comes out betting, and I just call on the flop. I raise him on the turn, and monarchose is still in. I bet the river, he calls and I take down $44.50, back to $90, nice to get a solid win on that one.

Hand #135: Can AA hold up again? I raise, buy the button, and get two callers. I flop an ace, a totally non scary board. The turn pairs bottom pair on the board after I bet and get one caller, I only lose to presto at this point(A855 on the board), I bet and melech folds, I take down $17.25. A good case to slowplay there, perhaps I should have.

New lineup, btw:

monarchos, Chuckluck, melech, flyfisherak, and timglas.

I have 78s in the BB, limped to me, melech and timglas in so far. I check. Flop comes AKx, two clubs. I call a bet. The turn is a blank, and its checked around. I hit my flush on the river, timglas bets, I raise, he calls and I take the pot.

I am back to $110 at this point.

Hand #141: presto UTG. I raise and chuckluck and timglas call. I bet into the flop of A83, chuck is gone but timglas is still in. I keep control with a turn bet when a 4 comes down, and the river is checked. timglas called the turn bet with a pair of 4s. Presto wins(presto is 55 btw).

I am back up to $124 with that win.

I drop two hands against a short stacked timglas

Hand #150: I raise on the button with KJs and get 3 callers. Flop comes Kxx. I bet, new player Clodius re-raises, and I decide to call him down. He has KQ to outkick me. I am back to $96.75 losing that $38 pot.

Hand #153: K9s in the small blind. 2 others in the pot after I limp. I bet the flop, which has two of my suit. OR DOES IT. Turn is the two of clubs, third of my suit, and I realize that sometimes I have to double-take at the black suits to tell the difference between spades and clubs. There was only one club on the flop, one spade. Oops. I bet out anyway and take the pot. Back up to $103.

First time I have made that mistake.

4 handed around hand #165: clodius, akdadof2, and melech, followed by two emtpy seats.

Hand #165: I limp on the button with J9 suited. Flop comes QT2 rainbow. With three opponents I have the odds ont he flop for a call. I don't on the turn, but I make it anyway. Implied odds probably made it close. $14 in the pot, $4 for me to call. Ok maybe not. 3.5:1 when i'm about 5:1 is a bad call. My mistake.

MickYank777 joins the table. I'm down to $84.25 again.

Hand #177: Down to $78, I get AQo in the BB. MickYank raises out of the SB, I re-raise and he calls. The flop is all around me, KT9, but it missed. I bet out and he folds. Back to $85 with that small win.

TIM I joins to my right and we are full again.

Hand #183: I get a free flop with J8s. I end up getting raised on the flop by MickYank when J53 flops. I call him down to see J9, outkicking me for the pot.

Hand #185: JJ on the button. TIM raises before me, and I re-raise. The flop comes AQx, and I decide to fold to a bet here. I am down to $66 again.

Hand #187: 88 UTG + 1. I raise, both blinds call me. The flop comes King high, and I bet into it. I bet into the 9 on the turn, only Melech left, and we check the river. I beat his A8 for a $23 pot and am back to $80.

Hand #195: AQo on the button. I raise and MickYank limp/calls me. Flop comes down AKx. I bet and he calls. Turn is a jack. I bet, he raises, and I callh im down. He has KJ and hit two pair. I am down to $60. Just not going well at all.

Hand #199: AQo again on the button. I win with a raise this time pre-flop. $63.75!

We're 4 handed right now, Clodius, Dakota Jack, MickYank77.

Hand #202: KTs in the SB. I limp, flop top two pair, and both my opponents fold to my bet. $65.50! Clawing my way back.

akdadof2 is bac, he had been sittingout.

We go 4 handed again. akdadof2, dakota jack, and mickyank77.

A small win with a pair of aces puts me back up over $60 after getting blinded out for awhile.

Hand #222: I raise pre-flop with A7 suited. Only dakota calls. He is in a large number of pots. Flop comes 984, Dakota bets, I raise, and he calls. The turn is a king, I bet and he calls again. We check the river, ad I lose to his 34s, flopped bottom pair.

That hand knocks me down to $40 or so. I get back up to $70 with a couple of nice wins over MickYank, 2nd pair short handed, and a hand where I raise pre-flop with an ace and hit it and get called a bit.

Back to 6 handed now, lineup in a sec.

Hand #230: I have AKs and raise pre-flop. akdadof2 re-raises and I cap it. Flop comes KJ4. He bets, I raise, he re-raises and I just clal. From that point forward I just call him down, and see his JJ, he takes a large pot off of me and I am down to $45 after losing the $43 pot.

Full table again: pttrpro, akdadof2, dakotajack, mickyank77, and evildrummer.

I lose one last huge hand here. I have T8s in the SB and its folded ot me. I raise and pttrpro calls. The flop comes T87. I bet, he calls. Turn is a blank but puts the flush out. I bet, he calls. River is the 4th heart. I bet, he raises, I call and I lose to A9, one heart. I get crushed again and am down to $14.50.

Bah.

I leave the table, I never felt my play went to shit, so I wasn't disappointed to stay, and I always felt I was better than my opponents, but, I was pushing at the wrong time and watching the worst possible cards hit all day.

NET: -$160

The one positive is that I worked off about half of my remaining bonus. The negative, of course, is that I am now up at ultimate bet less than my bonus :P I deposited $500 for a $100 bonus. I have released $79 of that bonus so far, and am up $66.75 at the site, basically breaking even and picking up the bonus.

That's it for today, but I am trying my hardest to work of this bonus ASAP b/c party has a random bonus good until about Wednseday if I can get this money out and moved back over soon enough.

Radii · 05-22-2004, 05:54 PM

Radii · 05-22-2004, 05:55 PM

Strange. I couldn't see page 2 until just now when I posted my test update.

Thanks for reading chappy

I assure you I've been back and forth lately, as shown by my losses today on UB,making me even basically there while grinding out my bonus.

Radii · 05-23-2004, 12:14 PM

I start out at a 2/4 table headsw up against ubet713 at a $2/$4 table.

I need 160 "ultimate points" to finish earning my bonus here. I'm also essentially even at this site(I'm ahead by the amount of the bonus I've earned), and would love to finish with a profit at this site.

ubet713 limps every hand, he'll call my raises sometimes too.

One big hand, I have 77 preflop and raise, ubet re-raises and I cap it. Flop has a king, I bet, he raises and I call him down from there. He was bluffing w/ queen high and I take down a nice pot.

a couple of bad hands drop me way down. His AT vs my , he catches two pair, and I bet an open-ended straight draw after he already had a made straight.

UGH, my top pair just got beat by ubet's runner runner flush after I bet it all the way, I am down to $47 and getting beat pretty hard here.

I push back over $50 w/ trip 8s, but this guy is rock like, absolutely is not calling without some sort of hand. I catch a couple of lucky hands(runner runner types) to push back ahead of $60. I miss out on a $26 pot, ubet pushes AKs after my Q7 hit top pair, the board makes a straight and my pair is worthless.

a 3rd person finally joins, floptdanutz is to my left. I have $68.

ubet has been so passive, it'll be interesting with a 3rd person here now.

I take a $19.50 pot slowplaying trip 3s against ubet, but give it right back to floptdanuts after I flop an open ended straight flush draw that doesn't hit.

Soon after I catch floptdanutz, I hit top pair on the turn w/ QT, so did he, with a weaker kicker, and he raised me when I bet. I get back to $89 with that win.

We jump quickly to 6 handed, here's the table:

floptdanutz, shnovel, ubet713, Bri5150, and Lazy Jim. I have $88, and we are 72 hands in.

Hand #79: I have 79s in the SB and limp along with the entire table. I bet into the 752 flop and get 3 callers. A ten hits the turn and i decide between the overcard, my kicker, and 3 opponents, that i have no interest in this pot. ubet713 caught the tens(another ten on the river) to win it with QT.

I have $80 after 80 hands.

Hand #82: I raise pre-flop with A7s, the flop sucks, king high with none of my suit ?I bet the flop, check the turn/river w/ one caller, and see pocket 5s to lose the pot.

Hand #83: A\K suited UTG. I raise and only Bri5150 calls(the pocket 5s guy) I push push push into the crap on the board and am rewarded with a king on the river, winning a $28 pot and putting me back to $87.

Hand #89: I make a loosae limp with 47s in the SB. 2 opponents. Flop comes 46K and we check it around. I bet the turn, another 4, and iwn a small pot, back to $87.50.

Hand #93: AK suited in the small blind. I raise pre-flop and get two callers. I bet into the 557 flop and both call. I bet the turn(another 7) and fold when I get raised.

Hand #96: I have pocket 7s in the big blind. belizejules(SB) limps to me, and I raise to take contorl of this one. He calls and folds when I bet the flop.

Hand #97: pocket 10s, belizejules raises, I re-raise behind him and we are heads up. He check/calls me on the flop(9 high) and turn (another low card) and bets out when the ace hits the river. I go ahead and call, and he has A2, flopped bottom pair, rivered top pair. I am down to $66 with that loss.

Hand #99: I have AQo in the BB. I just check with two limpers. Flop comes QJ4, I call a bet, then raise the turn when another blank comes. My slowplay pays off this time, I take the $30+ pot and am back up to $84.

Hand #105: I limp in the BB with A7o with 3 others. I bet into the T74 flop and all call. The turn is a 2 and I bet out again. Only belize calls. I check the 9 on the river, he checks and my middle pair on the flop takes down $23. I am back to $95, almost back to where I started.

The table is full again: BigAl1021, 54Woody, ubet713, Bri5150, and belizejules in order. I have $93.75.

Hand #110: I have A8o and limp in the SB. This looks familier, Q84 flop, middle pair. I bet, bigal and bri5150 call. The turn makes it easy, an ace. I bet, only bri calls. I bet the blank on the river and bri calls. The $26.75 pot puts me up to $108, up 2 BB on the session!

Hand #127: After taking a break to make lunch and blinding down a bit to under $100. I get AJo here in the SB, with a new player posting out of turn. I raise from the SB and new guy(Willys52) and Doormat825(a limper) call. Flop comes AQx. I bet and both call. Both again call my turn bet. The river is a king, , I bet and get called again by both. I beat A2 and KJ(inside straight on the flop) to win a big pot and push up to $133.

Hand #129: I raise and push a little bith with KQo heads up vs Bigal. I never hit anything and he beats me iwth Q5.

Hand #137: I check my big blind with AJs with 4 others in the pot. I bet when I flop top pair with the jack, and get two callers. The turn is an overcard, a queen, I bet and bigal folds, leaving me heads up with willys52, who calls. The river is a blank, I bet and he folds and the $22 pot pushes me up to $134.

I sit out a couple more hands, and we're 4 handed when 'i come back. Bigal, doormat825, and belizejules. b elize only has $3 left and goes all in on the first hand back though.

belize rebuys for $16.75.

I win a $23 pot with A6o, raising on the button, betting a crappy flop, checking the turn and catching my ace on the river to get up to $145.

Oh, bad hand. #148: I have QJs in the SB. belize raises, and I have no respect fo rhim at all.. I call. Flop comes KQ4. I bet, belize calls. Turn is an 8, I bet, he raises, I call. I call him on the river and he shows pcoket 8s for the set. Back down to $122.

Hand #154: KT in the big blind, free flop. AQJ, bingo! there were two callers and 2 spades on the flop. I get one caller on the flop but folds on the turn, and I take down $10.

I have to head out, engagement pictures today, but I'm almost done with my bonus, hopefully I can finish it up tonight before bed and get this money back over to party/empire for more free money.

NET: +$32

That's enough to put me ahead at ultimate bet while earning my bonus, by a whole $27 (+ my bonus of $100, so no complaints here).

Radii · 05-23-2004, 09:43 PM

I start a $2/$4 table to finish up my bonus. Hutchy Kid joins, first hand I have Q9 suited vs his A7 suited. Top pair on the flop, he hits bottom pair, but turns trips w/ his bottom pair.

We're up to 4 handed almost immediately. I win a small pot when KQ hits top pair. Ok, back to 3 handed.

THE IT, PeteM are my opponents, hutchy took $20 off me and left.

I have $80.75.

Hand #9: AA UTG. I raise, get re-raised by PeteM, and I just call. I call ont he flop, and raise on the turn. PeteM folds when I raise him on the turn.

Hand #11: AQ on the button. I raise and both call. I flop an ace, A57. One caller on the flop, folded on the turn.

Hand #12: AK in the BB, I hit an ace, win a small pot and am up to $98 again.

Hand #13: KT in the SB. I raise, get re-raised and fold to a flop bet.

Hand #14: AK on the button. I raise, two callers. I bet the flop, check the turn, fold the river when it misses and no one goes away. I am sitting at $85.75 now.

Nice run of cards, but I'm still stuck at $85.

Hand #17: A8 on the button. I raise, BB calls, folds to a flop bet.

Hand #18: 77 UTG (4 handeD). I just limp, a mistake. I fold to J94 flop when there's a bet and a raise before me.

Up to 5 handed now. THE IT, illiquid, 244, PeteM, and myself.

Hand #25: KJs in the BB. THE IT raises UTG. I call. Flop has just one of my suit, a queen. THEIT has been raising too much, I decide to take control here, and bet out. He calls. Turn gives me the flush draw, I bet/he calls. I river the top pair, a king. Bet/fold, and I take down $20 and am up to $91.50. The bonus points are flying in at this table. I'll finish up my bonus in about 30 more minutes at this rate. I'd love to finish it with a profit though.

Hand #29: AKs in the cutoff. I raise, two callers(both blinds, one is Monarchos, a guy I played w/ earlier.) The flop of 899 scares me off. We check it allll the way down, I take the pot as everyone else missed totally, and I have $99 now.

THE IT appears to play any two suited cards. Playing a lot of total junk.

I call a raise from him in the BB w/ 57 suited, but fold when I miss. NExt hand I raise w/ A4s in the SB and take a small pot on the flop.

Very next hand(#34) AKs on the button. I raise on the button, illiquid calls. Flop has a pair, 9 high, I bet, illiquid calls. I give it up after that, checking the turn/folding the river. $92.75.

Hand #40: AK for the 19th time. I bet and get two callers. This time I flop a king, bet out, THEIT folds, monarchos... thinks... thinks... calls. K26 flop, 8i on the turn, thinks, folds. $15.25 pot and I once again have $99.

Hand #42: JJ in the BB. 3 limpers to me. I make a mistake here. I check. Flop comes QTT. I bet, only a new guy, kb78(very familier name) calls me. Turn is a 7, I bet again, and take down the pot. Whew. I'm not happy w/ the flop check. I have $106.50

Hand #47: 99 UTG. I raise, THEIT and mo]narchos call(see a pattern here). I hate the flop, KT4. I bet and no one goes away. These guys will call me all the way down with a top hand, I decide its not worth it with two overcards and two opponents. I check the turn and fold to a bet after an ace hits the river.

Hand #54: I have A3o in the BB. There's a limp, a raise, and 3 calls before me. I figure I have the odds to call one bet to try to hit something huge here. The flop is good, 3 hearts, my ace is the heart. I call a bet on the flop, the turn gets checked around. I miss the flquid, kb78 and myself all call. I flop a four flush, and call a bet(with 3 opponents should I consider a raise here?) The turn gets checked around. The river hits my flush. illiquid bets, kb78 calls, I raise and both call. The $49.50 pot is a nice one. I am up to $124.

Hand #68: I raise on the button with KJo, ... nm, won the blinds.

Hand #71: I have 86 in the big blind. kb78 raises pre-flop, I have the odds to call again w/ all the opponents in. (I'm suited!) I flop top two pair, 864 flop. I bet out, THEIT re-raises, I re-raise, and theit and kb call. The turn is a 2, 2 clubs now. I bet, and both call. The river is the 9 of clubs. I bet, kb78 raises, I call, and the $61 pot goes to the jack-high flush, kb78 raised pre-flop and then called w/ J6 clubs. That hurts real real bad.

A push with AJo on the button drops me down to $90.

New lineup at the table: THEIT, empty seat, Hutchy Kid, Bucky1, PeteM.

I've earned my bonus, but I like this table still and decide to stay awhile longer.

Hand #84: 77 UTG. I raise and a new player, Leo Jr, and PeteM call. I hate the flop, 89Q. I bet out anyway, Leo calls, pete is gone. I bet a blank on the turn, leo calls again. I give up on the river, and check. Leo checks, and I win the hand.

After a dumb call chasing a straight with T9 I have $89.75.

Hand #96: back to my roots, AKo, in the big blind, I just limp with 3 others though. I decide to lead out betting on the ragged flop. Bucky1 is my only caller. The turn hits my king and bucky folds when I bet. Back to $85 (took a couple of small losses in the last 12 hands or so).

Hand #106: 4 handed now, I raise with K9s and only peteM calls. I bet the flop which has two of my suit, pete raises, I call. The turn makes my flush. I re-raise when pete bets, and he calls me down, I take down a nice sized pot and am back to $103.

I drop a pretty bad hand with 88 vs KK, then win two decent sized pots, AJs and 33(AJ hit hard on the flop and gave me a $15 pot, 33 I raised and pushed on the flop and leo folded). I sit with $98.25.

Leo beats me up on a steal attempt and I have $80 (J9s, flop had an ace, so did leo).

LeoJr1158 is a very good agressive player it appears. I hope to find a good spot to use his agression against him.

I win the blinds with KK against PeteM, slowplayed as much as I could, he just didn't want to be in the hand.

I get a big hand against PeteM, AJs, I raise and he callspre-flop. I flop a four flush, queen high. I bet, pete raises, I re-raise and he calls. I catch the flush on the turn and he calls me down, I take down $35 or so and am at $104.

KK again, I raise, since Leo defends his blinds hard when he has a little something. He folds.

a new player, tbag3d joins in between Leo and PeteM.

I have $95, 149 hands in.

Hand #151: A very familier hand. AKo. Pete raises, I re-raise, and tbag and pete both call. I fold when pete bets the flop, not sure about that one, but, tbag caught a flush anyway.

Hand #152: UGH. I raise A9s, leo calls, tbag re-raises, we both call. Flop is rags and leo bets, tbag raises... I'm out. tbag did have AJ, leo 66.

ARGH. two hands later I catch top pair with QJ, tbag destroys me when he calls me down with A4(bottom pair) and hits the ace on the river.

Whew. Ok, that was fast. I fell down to $50, won two very quick, but small hands to get me back to $60, then took a $48.75 pot fro LeoJr with AT that hit two pair.

AJo, I raise pre flop and 3 call. Flop comes A23. I bet and mabel(new guy) and tbag call. Turn is a jack. I bet and tbag calls. Rier is a king, tbag bets out and I just call. 45o. FOUR-FIVE OFFSUIT. I'm back down to $70.

tabg is not a bad player(seems like a pretty good one even) but motherfucker is he catching cards right now. I've had a few nasty suckouts at this table and am pretty pissed off that I don't have $140 or more and instead am down $30.

Hand #177: KK in the SB. I raise and get two callers, Mabel and tbag. Flop comes Q99. I bet and both call. Turn is a blank, I bet and both call. River is a king, I've got the 2nd nuts(99 beats me). I bet, mabel folds, tbag raises, I re-raise, tbag caps, and I call. My kings full of 9s win the $59 pot over tbag's JT straight. That pot brings me back to $96.75, and I immediately leave the table. Yeah I could go on a roll here, but I know I'm damn close to tilting here and am not playing with a clear enough head.

NET: -$3.25

Radii · 05-23-2004, 09:47 PM

Well, I bought in for $500 at ultimate bet, and cashed out $624.70 after about 5 days. Not a bad return, but I can't say I'm totally thrilled with the result, that means I was just up $24 in actual play over that period.

Hopefully that cashout goes through in time for me to take advantage of a bonus opportunity at party and/or empire, I'll check the details of those and power through those hands in the next couple of days.

Radii · 05-25-2004, 09:01 PM

Bought in for $624 to partypoker, and cashed out for $654, after a $100 bonus. I was trying to power through the hands and hopefully not lose much(if any at all), but I lost about $70 leaving me just ahead $30.

The reason for doing that is that the Partypoker Bonus was only good through last night, so I got that cleared, but there is an empire bonus that's only good through Thursday, so now I've got that clear too and don't have to rush anything anymore.

Next up, working off a $100 bonus at empire, that's an easy task though, 450 raked hands, and I will not worry at all about the bonus, just about winning.

Radii · 05-25-2004, 10:32 PM

I sit down at a 1/2 6 man table on empire. My oppoenents opening up are MRClean415, COBBERS, empty seat, chipjh, and davpat, in order to my left.

davpat and chipjh both look somewhat agressive, capping the river against each other(AQ vs A9, both hit two pair).

mrclean pushes A5s hard, raising out of the SB and pushing all the way after hitting a pair.

Hand #9: My first action, A7o on the button, folded to me and I raise. Both blinds call and the flop comes KQ9. I go ahead and get out of the way when they start betting.

boltu43 joins in the empty seat.

we're getting a lot of pots that are 3 and 4 handed going to the turn and river, and a lot of $15-$20 or more pots. Just saw chipjh and mrclean go at each other w/ AA vs KK for a $21 pot. I am staying out of the way so far. I have played AJ very passively and haven't played anything else at all, gotten a couple of crappy aces out of position through 18 hands is it.

Hand #19: I hate this hand. A2o in the BB. I get a free flop with 4 opponents, and I hit an ace, AJ4. I bet out and 3 call. I bet the turn(a queen) and 3 call. The river pairs the 4, I bet, chipjh raises, and yup, 34o, 3 of a kind on the river. COBBERS was in the whole way too and had AT. I need good hands here.

hand #21: KQo on the button, chipjh is the only one in with me after I raise(Ihe limped early). I bet the T28 flop, check the 9 on the turn, and call a river bet when a queen gives me top pair(but 4 to a straight on the board). chip has The Charlie again(34), no piece of anything anywhere, and I take down $11.

next hand chip calls down 45o, calling a river bet with ... 45o(nothing) with two pair on the board. I need to isolate this guy any time I have any sort of hand if possible. I am two to his left. He is in every hand. He does play agressively when he hits.

Hand #26: sometimes it just works out when it shouldn't. I have T9s in the small blind. only chip is in so far. I raise, trying to isolate(if I hit at all I can push against chip, but w/ the BB in I dunno)... but, the BB calls. I flop a gutshot draw, 776 flop. I bet, mrclean folds, and chipjh calls. The turn is my miracle card, an 8, I've got the straight. I bet, chip raises, I re-raise and he calls. The river is a jack, and I bet, he raises, I re-raise, and he caps. Perhaps a bad/dumb/dangerous move with a pair on the board, but it pays off, a $35 pot comes my way and I'm up to $55.

There's the strategy. If I have any chance to isolate chipjh with any sort of hand, raise. If I don't hit, its not worth it b/c he won't fold, if I do hit, get as much out of him as I can.

Hand #34: I raise w/ AJo UTG, chip and davpat call. I flop top pair, J52 flop, I bet after its checked around and davpat folds. Turn is a 3, making a couple of weird straights possible. I bet and chip calls. River is a king, checked to me, normally I check, but I get bold and bet out knowing chip has any 2. He folds and the $13.25 pot is mine, up to $58.75.

chip is still in every hand but he's making a lot of river folds now.

Hand #45: My best hand of the night so far, JJ. boltu raises pre-flop, and 3 of us call(I don't see the point in a raise there, it won't thin the field and if overcards hit they aren't going anywhere). I hate the flop, AA9. All four check it around. The turn is a queen, I bet and only boltu calls. The river is a 7, I check, boltu bets I call, and he turns over 99 for the flopped boat. I am down to $49.75.

Hand #50: K9s in the BB, 4 limpers and I check. Flop comes AKQ, all hearts(not my suit). Its checked around and chip bets. I have the chance to raise to try to isolate, something tells me I'm not ahead though, and there's just too many to act behind me, so I fold. That's a mistake, chip had T4, got called by Q7 and ended up losing.

chipjh is now sitting out.

Hand #53: I raise UTG + 1 with KJ diamonds. mrclean calls. Flop comes T75, two diamonds. I bet and mrclean calls. Turn is my jack, I bet and mrclean calls all in. I win the $10'ish pot and am back to $52.97.

back to 5 handed now, valmaha, COBBERS, boltu, chipjh(sitting out now, not counted in the 5), davpat, and myself.

oh oh chipjh is back.

Hand #57: I have 89s on the butotn, I limp and we are 5-way. I miss totally and get out on the first opportunity. COBBERs tries to bluff chip w/ King high and chip has bottom pair, calls. some people don't learn.

Hand #58: davpat raises pre-flop, I call as does chip. The flop isn't pretty, KQ5, I'm last to act though and bet out when the raiser checks, ready to let it go to a check-raise. There is none though. Turn is another blank, this time we check it down. River is a 9, chip bets out and I go ahead and call. He had KJ and beats me w/ top pair.

Hand #67: Well that was easy. K8 in the big blind. chipjh is now directly to my right with an empty seat between us. I flop top pair, turn two pair, and river a full house. chip calls it down all the way. I have $47.25 after the win + a small giveaway next hand.

full table again: MikeQQQ, COBBERS, anna67, chipjh, and sthief09 in order

Hand #78: AA UTG. I raise, and two new players call. Flop comes 935, I bet out, MikeQQQ raises, sthief folds and I just call(hoping to start a raising war on the turn). The turn is a ten and I bet out, and mike just calls me down. I wasn't going to give a free card but some people will just keep raising anyway. The $17.75 pot puts me back up to $53.97, slightly ahead.

chip just went nuts woith top pair against sthief09. Board of A65T6, capped turn, capped river. chip has AK. thief? 66. $45 1/2 pot w/ quads.

HAnd #95: I raise early with TT and get 3 callers. flop comes J98 rainbow. I bet, anna raises. chip and I call. Turn is a blank but puts two hearts out there. anna bets and we both call. River makes the straight w/ a 7, I bet ,anna raises, I call. anna shows down T4, we both rivered chip(he had J5), and we take down $15 each.

Hand #96: AA in the BB. anna raises, it's just me so far, and I re-raise. The flop is 976, two hearts. I bet, anna calls. She folds the turn, and I am up to $59.

Hand #104: I raise in the SB with QTo to isolate chip, but mikeQQQ calls too. flop comes King high and I get out of there.

we are 4 handed, mikeQQQ, chipjh and sthief.

mikeQQQ doesn't get it either, betbetbet with a busted draw, chpi calls w/ king high and wins.

Hand #108: I have ATo in the BB. chip and sthief limp to me, I just check. Flop comes Txx, all spades. My ace is a spade, and I have top pair. I bet out, chip calls, sthief is gone. Turn is an ace, two pair, I bet, chip calls. River is a jack, I bet, chip calls, and I take down $12.25 to push up to $62.

you know, chip is winning. When he hits a hand, he gets all kinds of action. chip bets hard when he hits, he's very easy to play(I'm not getting great cards and taking a lot of money, but I am playing him well I believe). When he has a hand, you know it and you get out of the way. I think too many of his opponents see him play every hand and call too much and refuse to believe it when he has something good. He just took down $37 w/ trip 5s.

Deeznts007 just busted out after about 10 hands.

Hand #115: 9T in the BB. chip and sthief are in this with me. Flop comes T42. I bet, chpi calls/thief folds. Turn is another low card, I bet/chip calls. River an ace, I bet/chip calls. He flopped 2nd pair w/ Q6o and I take down a $12.25 pot, I'm up to $67.97.

Hand #121: KTs UTG, I raise it and chip calls. I flop a 4 flush,I bet it, chip calls. Turn gives me top pair with a king, I bet and chpi calls. River is an 8. Chip bets out... haven't seen that in awhile, but I see it for the one bet. He shows a T9 bluff and I take down $14.25.

Hand #124: A6s in the SB. I limp with chip and mikeQQQ. Flop misses me, we check it around. Turn is an ace, I bet and chip calls. River brings 3 to a flush, and 4 to a straight on the board(A245, a 3 makes it), so I just check this one... chip doesn't even try a bluff this time and I take it with my pair.

I am up to $76.72 now.

I've taken about $25 off of chip myself to put myself up $25(have I won a pot against anyone else? ... I won a couple against annysomething but that's it), yet chip is still ahead $40 himself he has $90.

MikeQQQ flops a flush w/ K9 to destroy chipjh's pocket rockets for a $30 pot, chip's down to $80

I leave the table after 138 hands when the big blind hits me, and I am ahead $25.22.

I also was messing around with some .5/1 omaha hi, and was up $2.50 there :P

NET: +$27.72

Its no massive 5/10 win, but it's a nice solid profit for 1/2, 12.5 BB in 2 hours.

I am somewhat stuck in a quagmire. I don't want to keep a bankroll big enough to play 5/10(once I build it up to that level at least) and be able to not worry at all bout the swings. I need more than the bare minimum bankroll suggested to be comfortable. But there aren't short tables on party at 2/4 or 3/6. I have some money in pokerstars and have been winning there at 1/2 shorts with a lot of consistancy as well. The play at Stars is generally much much tougher though an dI don't know if I want to do that, so I have been thinking about that.... it's still a week or two before I have all bonuses I plan on going after, by then I will have enough to go to 2/4 or 3/6 if I want(assuming no massive losses at 1/2 here) and I'll have to decide where to play, and if I want to continue the short tables or try to grind it out at the fulls.

Radii · 05-26-2004, 07:05 PM

I sit down at a full 1/2 short table.

To my left: lorno8, DaggerLee, Srkelley, bauser, kanattack.

bauser has only $15 but everyone else is between $40 and $60. I haven't ever seen any of them before.

before i really do anything, bauser and kanattack leave. 4 handed for now.

Hand #10: My first playable hand really. ATo in the BB, I check w/ two others, flop comes A7x, two clubs. I bet, Srkelley calls. Turn is a blank, I bet and win the pot.

Hand #12: I limp with KJo and fold when an ace flops and people start betting.

Quickly back to 6 handed: lorno, daggerlee, Srkelley, treymaggie, and Froff.

I'm at $47.50 after 15 hands, only the AT hand worth mentioning so far.

Hand #18: a dangerous one, I limp in the SB with KTo along with 3 others. Flop comes JT4, two spades, my ten is a spade. I bet out and only DaggerLee calls. The turn brings 3 to the flush and I bet and DAgger folds, back to $49.50 after that one.

After 20 hands I've played 50% of them, which is sort of insane considering that my cards are so bad. The big blinds have been free and the small blinds have been playable, the Kj in hand 12 is my only non-blind hand I've played so far, haven't found a hand to raise yet. The table is obviously pretty passive pre-flop.

I have A4s in the big blind. 3 limp, Froff raises from the SB... I don't like my chances with that and I fold pre-flop.

Hand #23: AJs in the SB, I raise pre-flop after one limper, the BB and dscolen(a new guy) call. Flop is AJx, I bet and dscolen is my only opponent. he calls the flop and turn, folds the river and I'm up to $54.75 with the win.

Dinner break, might time out and need a new table.

By the time I get back I've time out of the table, so that's it here:

NET: +$4.75

Radii · 05-27-2004, 06:22 PM

I join a full 6-top, hoping to finish off my bonus today(but moreso hoping to post a nice win).

At my table: Robbr25, SSW335, MWarman, young_gun, and maddog5858.

Hand #1: 46o in the BB. i flop an open ender, K35 on teh flop. I call a bet from young_gun, maddog also calls. The turn pairs the king and we check it aroudn. The river is a 2, I hit my straight. maddog bets, I raise, he re-raises and, fearing the boat, I just call. maddog shows A4 for the low straight and the $18.25 pot is mine, I'm up to $59.75 on hand one.

Hand #15: KJs in the SB. I limp and we are 5-way. Flop comes 57Q, one of my suit. with 3 callers and the chance to kill the betting, I call a bet on the flop. The turn is the best possible card for me I think, the ten of clubs, giving me a straight and a flush draw. I again call a bet. The turn gives me my flush, but it paired the top card... robbr25 bets, SSSW335 raises, I re-raise, and both of them call. Robb has Q8 for 3 of a kind, and SSW has 96 clubs for a lower flush. I take down a $32 pot and am up to $78.75.

Hand #25: I raise UTG with KQo. The entire table calls. GOOD STUFF. Flop comes jack high-3 spades. I have the queen, and bet out, 3 call. turn is a blank, and we check it around. The river is a king. I'm 2nd to act. 1 before me/2 behind me. Do you bet? I didn't, I checked, and we checked it around. My kings were good and I take down $15.25.

Hand #26: T9o in the big blind. I get a free flop and flop an open-ended straight(78x). I call a bet on flop/turn and never hit, and give it up on the river.

Hand #30: I have KJs in the BB. SSW335 raises pre-flop and 3 of us call. Flop comes jack high, rainbow. SSW is right after me and I decide this is a good spot to check-raise, I'll find out if SSW has an overpair probably. SSW bets, both others call, and I raise. all just call. I bet the turn(blank) and SSW drops out, the other two stay in. The river is a queen and we check it down, I take down the pot w/ my pair of jacks.

Hand #33: QJo in mid-position. I limp and there are 4 of us. I flop top pair, Qxx two clubs. SSW bets out, and I just cal. I dunno why. I'm dumb I think. Turn brings a club, but I still have top pair. Again I just call. River is a 4th club. I call since my jack is a club. I lose to A7, SSW had flopped middle pair and his ace is a club. I absolutely hate how I played that. I talked myself out of raising on the flop and the turn. I probably wasn't winning the hand anyway but dang.

Hand #40: 67s on the button, with 2 limpers, I limp too. Flop misses totally and I'm ready to fold but we check it around. Turn is a 6. I have middle pair(flp was J34). I go ahead and bet out when its checked around again. Two people call. The river is another 6, I bet and win the pot right there.

Hand #41: I raise with AQo after one limper, SSW re-raises all in, maddog calls and I call. I didn't notice SSW was all in until we check the flop(T22) and SSW has no action. Whoops. The turn is a queen, I bet and maddog calls. River a blank, I bet and maddog folds. SSW had pocket 3s, I take the enitre pot.

In that flurry(talking to the fiancee, those 15 hands feel like a flurry), I am up to $102.25, I've doubled my buyin.

SSW is gone.

Hand #57: I have A2s in the cutoff. I raise and only the BB MWarman calls. Flop comes AJ9. MWarman bets, I raise and he calls. Turn is another ace... I'm not as worried about my kicker now, I bet and he calls. the river is a 7 and I go ahead and check, I win $11.25 over JT, I am up to $105 after some blinding down.

Hand #61: Tons of limpers, I limp w/ KQo on the button, the BB jiggins raises and all 4 of us call. The flop comes K76. jiggins bets, maddog calls, I raise, and jiggins calls. The turn pairs the 6, checked to me, I bet and jiggins folds, maddog calls. I bet the jack on the river and maddog folds. The $20 pot puts me up to $116.75.

Hand #63: I lmp with KTs, 5 players again. Flop comes Q32, two spades. I call a bet along with 3 others. Turn makes my flush, I raise when maddog bets, and he's my only caller. River is a king, he calls my bet and my flush beats his Q5 top pair on the flop. I am up to $127.25.

Hand #75: KK early, luckily there weren't any tough decisions on this one, as I was talkign w/ my fiancee during the hand. bet/raise at every opportunity. The decent sized pot takes me up to $132.

Hand #83: I open-raise on the button with A8s. Both blinds call me. Flop comes T93, I bet and only pokersize, the BB, calls me. Turn brings antoher ten, and we check. River is a 7, poekrsize bets out. I don't know anythign about him, and many will automatically bet after the checked turn. I call him down to see his 89s, he has middle pair to win the pot.

Hand #85: I raise UTG with A9s, and win the pot right there.

Hand #87: I limp w/ 67o in the SB with 3 opponents. Flop comes Q62, and I check, robbr25 bets and pfxy raises, I am not cold-calling 2 with that, I fold.

Hand #94: I limp w/ JTo in the cutoff, the button raises, and me and pfxy call. Flop comes T94, I have top pair. For some reason I check/call the flop. 2nd time I've knowingly made a weak decision with a good hand. I bet out on the turn and river, he calls me down and I beat AJ to win the hand. Wish a jack had come

The $16.75 pot takes me up again to $135.

Hand #103: I limp ont he button with QJo. 3 opponents, including both blinds. Flop comes jack-high, checked to me and I bet, only pokersize calls. I bet the turn, then check a king on the river. Pokersize shows ATo and I take down $10 to keep me up at $135.

I'm checking down a lot of rivers tonight. At full tables that's often a good idea(I've been reading Sklansky!) but I think at a short I need to keep betting out. I've won every single hand that got checked down that way, I dont' think I'm up against many check-raisers here.

HAnd #110: I have QJo in the BB. 2 limp to me and I check. Flop coems AQ9. I bet out and only landman calls. The turn brings 3 to a flush, I have the queen of clubs and I bet out, landman calls again. River makes 4 to a flush, I bet, landman raises and I just call. He shows KJ with the king of clubs.

The table falls down to heads up, me and robbr25, I ahve $128 at the start of heads up play.

I clean out robbr quickly(he only had $10). I'm up to $138 when he leaves, but a couple others join.

shock09009 and tlindy at the table.

I bust out shock09009 in one hand. I have KK and slowplay the hell out of them. in the end there is a flush and two queens on the board. There's also a king

shock had trip queens and I move up to $148 after we 3-bet the river.

Back up to 6 handed.

Hand #135: I raise AQs UTG. sayimage and keamdo call. Flop comes 776. I bet out and sayimage is my only caller. Turn is a 9, I bet and he calls. I'm ready to give this one up on the river until a queen falls. I bet out again, sayimage calls and I rivered his pocket deuces. The $15.75 pot pushes me up over $150.

Hand #138: AKo UTG. I raise and two call. Flop comes 457 and I bet out, both call. Turn is an ace, keamdo bets, I raise, tburd and keamdo call. River is a 6, 4 to a straight on the board. We check it down and tburd has 47 for 2 pair on the flop. Very passive, I note that.

Table is: sayimage, tburd28, landman11, keamdo, tlindy(sitting out for now)

I don't have a read on anyone and have some stuff to do so this is a good time to leave the table.

A great session, nearly tripled up over 141 hands.

NET: +$93.13.

Radii · 05-28-2004, 10:37 AM

In my biggest success yet, I completed my bonus at Empire and cashed out last night. I bought in for $654, and cashed out for $878, a net gain of $224.

There is another bonus at UBet I can get. My last bonus was an 'initial buyin' bonus, as I apparently had created an account last year sometime but never made a deposit. So I should still be eligible for the general bonus they have going on right now. I plan to deposit the minimum required to earn that bonus(I believe that will be $500), and will be playing 2/4 shorts at UB to work off the bonus.

After getting destroyed down to about $600 total(in large part thanks to a giant tilt during a losing streak, something I have *hopefully* learned a big lesson about and can prevent from happening again), this bonus bouncing has helped me build my bankroll back up a bit, it's currently at ~$1050 between the money I just cashed out of Empire and the money I have on pokerstars(that's a small amount).

I have found the bonuses to be a very very nice cushion to help me break out of what was a very bad spell. Dropping in limits, and playign with the cushion of bonus money behind me has helped me regain my confidence.

Radii · 06-12-2004, 02:45 PM

I haven't written up anything in awhile... I played two 3 table SNG's last night and placed 5th in one(11th in the other, terrible cards and 2 misplayed hands left me a short stack early).

I like these, blinds increase every 10 minutes, the two I played last night both dropped to the final table by the end of an hour, so it is looking like a ~2 hour committment.

I look to play ultra-tight early, playing only the most premium of hands, trying to be the agressor whenever possible, rarely if ever cold calling any sort of raise.

Oh, and this is no limit.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

Starting chips are 1000 for all.

I'm raised out of A3o in my big blind on the first hand. Q9o in the second hand, I get a flop for 5 chips, but fold when it misses.

5 minutes in no one has busted out, this is a marked difference from the two I played last night where 3 or 4 people would bust out in the first 10 minute level.

Our first all in comes on hand #9, post-flop, a very loose tx54 goes all in on a J72 flop that has 5 people in it. Only vghorton calls. It's 22 vs KJ, and tx54 dobules up to 1480 to take the early chip lead at our table.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

I start level 2 with 970 chips, but the blinds hitting on the next hand. All 30 players are still in.

Big hand on my BB, but not for me, I've got 94o. tex54 raises, heinekendark calls, vghorton goes all-in behidn them both. tex54 calls. tex54 shows KK, vghorton 55. The flop? 567. PRESTO. Note that these are the same two from the previous all-in hands.

3-5 people are seeing most flops, but this just doesn't matter to me as I need hands beter than 94o to play, and I'm not getting them.

THBeginner goes out on table 1 15 minuets in, our first casualty. I'm on table 2.

I resist the urge to limp T8s in late position. 5 people see the flop, but a flop bet takes it(I thought that one was going to get interesting).

The next hand 6 people limp, UTG, UTG+1, UTG+2, UTG+3, and the blinds.... I have 6-high and am in middle position, it's not worth it.

Table 1 loses another, and we're down to 28.

The last few hands there's been 5 or 6 in the flop, sometimes for the min raise, sometimes limping, a big bet on the flop and all fold.

I get JTo UTG+2 but can't play it(shouldnt anyway) after UTG raises.

A8o UTG+1, the cards are improving, but we'er not quite there yet.

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

I have 940 in chips, with the blinds coming up in 2 hands. 28 people are still left. All 10 still left at my table, chipleader has 1425, short stack 695.

We drop to 27 players and los the first casualty from table 3.

One player is moved and we are 9 handed. The player that was moved was the SB for the next hand. I'll pay my BB and skip the SB, woot, it's like making 15 chips!

I get a free flop with 85o, but it goes nowhere. It does lead to heinekenDark doubling up off of Grellex w/ top pair vs a flush draw that never hit. Grellex is left w/ 65 chips and goes all in on the next hand. He gets 4 callers. He wins with AJ and is still alive for now.

Hand #29: I have Q2s in the big blind... raise to 100, multiple callers already, bleh. A9/QT on an ATx flop end up all in and BluesKid has 1970 chips, and TAWH1265 is out 27th.

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

I am down to 855 chips and have only seen two flops. There remain 26 players in the tournament after 30 minutes. After 10 more minutes the blinds jump to 50/100 and we'll start to see some attrition there(myself included if I don't start getting some cards or something in some position so I can do something).

Hand #38: I get a free flop with J7o with 3 opponents. I flop two pair, J97. All clubs. Scary board. I bet the pot(200) and HeinekenDark goes all in over me for 370 additional chips. If I call I'm down to 200ish chips. But I think at this point its a call that I have to make. The pot is too big and if I am behind, I do have outs. I make the call. I'm up against Q5 of clubs, ouch. The turn and river come though, and my miracle 7 falls on the river, I knock out HeinekenDark.

Hand #41: PRESTO. I'm in the cutoff and there's 1 limper before me. I raise 3x the blind to 150, and all fold, including the limper. I'm up to 1675.

Level 5 - 50/100 blinds

I have 1675 chips. 23 players remain, and I'm a bit above the average chip count. There are 7 players at my table. I expect lots of attrition this level, the magic 100 big blind will start to scare a lot of those in the 400-800 range of chips.

Hand #45: I have J9o in the big blind. k7jdw, the big stack at the table, limps and we are heads up. The flop comes 578, two clubs, I have a double bellybuster straight draw, the ten or the 6 make my straight. I lead out for 200 chips(into the 250 pot). k7jdw calls. The turn is a ten, and I've hit my straight. I bet 400 into the 650 pot, and win it there.

Hand #47: I have 88 on the button, folded to me, I raise 3x the BB to 300. MBold goes all in for 700 more in the SB, and k7jdw calls. No way I can call there, I fold and it's MBold's AQ vs A9. It looks like MBold is out when KJ9 hit the flop, but the turn jack and river king nullify the pair of 9s, it's a split pot. I'm down to 1675.

On hand 49 we merge to 2 tables, down to 20, and during the merge mbold and vghorton go all in against each other, K9s(vghorton) vs 88, vghorton hits his flush to knock out mbold.

5 minutes left in this level and we're down to 19.

84s in my next big blind, still at the 50/100 level, the blinds are going to go through me before the increase. I fold to a crazy big stack all in.

Hand #55: BluesKid raises to 200, I have QQ in the SB. I re-raise to 500, and blueskid calls. The flop comes A99. I don't have position. I hate my hand. Can I get away from this? I have ~1000 chips and there's ~1000 in the pot. I can't make a small bet here. I let the time run a long way down before finally checking. I expect BluesKid to go all in, and I'll fold. BluesKid bets 200 chips. 200?! Ok if he's suckering me in, well it worked. I come over the top of him all in. He folds immediately, and I am up to 2375 chips. His terribly weak bet let me out of a hand I had practically given up on, though I'm not sure it wasn't an awful mistake not to go all in on the flop regardless.

Level 6 - 75/150

We're already 3 minutes in by the time I finish that writeup.

Only 14 players remain out of the original 30, we still have a shot at hitting the final table before the break. I have 2375 chips, 2nd at the table, AcesWerk has 3960, and 3 of us are in the 2000-2300 range(myself, k7jdw, and vghorton). There are two with more than my chipcount at the other table, making me 4th but not in any sort of commanding position at all really, just in a safe spot.

AcesWerk plays the big stack very well. I have seen his name in a very very large number of multi-table tournaments and I assume he has some signifigant experience in them. He has more than a 2:1 chiplead over most of the field and he has made a couple of bluff all-ins that have gotten called, but done it against short stacks, and he's also made a couple of legit all-ins and knocked out a few people. He appears to play very well and I intend to stay out of his way.

Hand #62: I have K3o in the big blind. Studta limps to me and I get a free flop heads up vs the small blind. Flop comes 843, bottom pair for me. We check it. The turn pairs the 8 on the board, stud checks, I bet the pot, and I take it.

Hand #66: I raise to 3x the BB UTG with pocket 7s. Steal the blinds, woo.

The hand goes fast enough that I hit my BB before the level goes up too(under a minute to go). A pre-flop all in gets me to the SB before the break too, which won't matter if we don't drop to 1 table, but if we do could give me a bunch of extra hands.

And in fact we do fall to 10 people on the last hand before the break.

Level 7 - 100/200 blinds

10 left.

holdem2000 - 5535 chips
AcesWerk - 5060 chips
BluesKid - 4889 chips
BigSlim0518 - 2555 chips
radii - 2450 chips
vghorton - 2238 chips
kidsneedcash - 2118
k7jdw - 1940
studta - 1665
crazyneub - 1550

Top 5 get paid. I'm in 5th but a lot will change very very fast at the final table I am sure.

The table opens up very tight. The blinds go through me about halfway through the first orbit and my 2150 chips is a middle stack.

Hand #76: A big change at the table, AcesWerk goes all in with a straight draw and is called by top pair. He is down to 2342 chips with the rest of us mortals. He's out on the next hand... no wiat, down to 245 chips, bluffing all in representing a queen on a QQx flop, only to be called by the actual queen.

1 time around the table I remain 5th in chips.

AcesWerk goes out 9th on hand 78. BluesKid takes the rest of his stack and the two big stacks are now directly to my right.

I hit my big blind on the final hand before the level goes up. Small victories. Unfortunately it's 35o and I'm raised off it.

studta goes out on the last hand of the level.

Level 8 - 150/300 blinds

Down to 8 of us. I'm still in 5th but with only 1800 chips. the top 4 all have over 5000 chips and the bottom 4 are all between 1000-2000.

k7jdw takes a small pot to push up to 2200.

Hand #86: crazyneub(shortest stack, 650) goes all in, bigslim0518 re-raises to limit the field, but blueskid also calls. There's 3200 in the pot(2550 in the main pot for crazyneub). neub has 66, bigslim QQ. a 6 hits the flop but a four flush hits for slim! crazyneub is out and there are 7 left.

vghorton, k7jdw, and myself are all short stacked, but one of us has to make the money, and if I can get a spot to double up here, I can still do a lot better than 5th, but I know I need a lot of luck right now.

87o in my big blind. free flop 3-handed. I flop middle pair but decide to fold to an all in with the ace on the board. Maybe I'm just too scared of aces.

I'm down to 1350 chips, and thinking I made a mistake by not calling that all in. We'll see.

BluesKid, a former big stack, has AA, but he just limped, and he paid. The BB flopped two pair with 25o and knocked him out. We're down to 6, next spot pays. The blinds hit me first and I have 1350 chips, vghorton has 1219.

It's obvious I'm playing to make the money right now, and not really playing to win. I have to work on this.

Hand #98: AJo in the SB. I'm ready to go all in until the big stack raises, and a shortish stack calls. I would have gotten destroyed, and now there's two other short stacks.

holdem2000 is playing his big stack very well, raising pre-flop nearly every hand and building up nicely. Everyone is afraid of being the next one out.

Level 9 - 200/400 blinds

I have 900 chips. vghorton has 769. k7jdw has 867.

I am UTG with AJo. I'm all in for 900 chips. The short stack thinks... thinks... thinks(vghorton, 769, I actually have him covered :P)... I win the blinds. I'm up to 1500 chips.

Next hand I'm in the BB with J8s. vghorton goes all in. It's only 370 more for me to call. I'm under 1K if I lose. But for less than a SB, I have to call. I do, and I suck out on A6s, and I have made the money!

Hand #105: AA on the button. The two big stacks are behind me, so I go ahead and make a modest raise to 1000 chips. the chipleader, holdem2000 goes all in over me. I call of course, and I see his A7s. My aces are good, and I am all of a sudden in great shape, I am 3rd in chips with 4738!!

Hand #106: holdem goes all in in the SB over the short stack, j7jdw. Deja Vu all over again... Holdem has A3s this time, k7jdw has pocket aces. The two short stacks double up with aces in two hands.

holdem makes another stand, this time against kidsneedcash, all in pre-flop. holdem has pocket deuces, kidsneedcash has A7s. The flush comes, and another double up off the big stack.

Hand #112: I make it 1100 to go with pocket 6s UTG. I steal the blinds.

bigslim knocks out kidsneedcash, kids raises pre-flop with A7 and gets called by slim, he goes all in on the QQx flop, only to see bigslim actually have the queen. I'm 3rd in chips out of 4 left. slim and holdem have dominant chipleads.

bigslim and holdem go at a pot together, at the end 4 to a flush are on the board, bigslim goes all in and says "fold, holdem" and then shows the nut flush when hodlem folds... that's a bit fishy to me.

k7jdw goes all in over a holdem2000 steal attempt and takes a nice pot, I'm the short stack now.

Hand #119: I raise to 1000 chips on the button with K9s, bigslim calls me. Flop comes K46, I bet 1500 into the 2500 pot and I win the hand.

Hand #120: I have KJs UTG and raise to 1100. holdem2000 goes over the top all in. I still have 3500 chips, I will get a better spot, I fold.

Level 10 - 300/600 blinds

Hand #123: I have A8s on the button. I raise to 1500 and holdem2000 calls me. I end up folding to a large bet on the turn when the flop misses me totally, I just wasn't ready to bluff all-in there. I probably should have, I'm pretty short now, 2200 with 300/600 blinds hitting.

Hand #125: This could be it. AQo in the BB. holdem goes all in. I call. He shows J9o. I hit an ace, he hits an open-ender but I hold up to double up+300. I am back up to 4500 chips.

Hand #127: k7jdw goes all in with K6s, bigslim calls with KJo, neither improve and I'm in the final 3!

bigslim has 17,000 chips, holdem2000 8000, I have 4500.

Blind are 300/600 for 6 more minutes, then up to 400/800.

Hand #131: I call the min raise out of the BB with 87s from bigslim. The flop is about as nice as I coudl hope for, 843. I immediately go all in, he calls. He shows AJs, and never hits, I double up to 8900 chips!

BigSlim has 12300, holdem and I are essentially even with 8500ish.

Hand #144: I have pocket 7s. holdem2000 raises pre-flop top 2000, I go over the top all in for about 5500(I'd been blindign down, not stealing any, something I need to work on in that position clearly). holdem thinks a second, and calls. He had a pretty easy decision there, he has pocket tens and my miracle 7 doesn't hit this time. I bust out 3rd.

I pay $33 to enter, and take out $180, a very nice win in about 2 hours time.

that's 3 of these 3 tables, I've spent $99 entering, and won $270 in prize pool money(a 3rd and a 5th place finish).

Radii · 06-12-2004, 03:00 PM

To update, once I got every bonus I could, I returned to partypoker and started playing .5/1 full tables to get in the swing of full table action. It has taken quite awhile. I now have a pokertracker database dedicated to these full games.

I play 2 tables at a time, I seem to play noticibly worse when I try 3 tables.

I've got 3481 hands in tracker at .5/1 and am only up $60.79. But I was dead even after about 3000 hands so I've finally started making some headway. I'm just over 1 BB/hr per table, or 2.40 BB/real hour. At .5/1 this is not an acceptable win rate. I plan on playing at least a few thousand more hands at .5/1, and will definitely not try to jump up in full table games until I can get myself up to 2 BB/hr/table for a signifigant period of time. I don't expect this to be difficult, I just have to tone down the agression that is sometimes very profitable at short tables, realizing that I have to show down the best hand to win.

Also to update my bankroll, since this is to track my total poker progress. If you remember from an earlier post, I was up well over $3000 for a short time and playing games slightly over my head. I went on a losing streak, didn't drop down in levels fast enough, and dropped all the way down to $600. After that, I finally got ahold of myself, took a small break and started bonus hunting to help build myself back up a bit.

I am very very pleased to report that my current poker bankroll has recovered quite a bit and is now back up to $1850. Certainly enough to play at a higher level than .5/1, but I won't move up until I prove to myself I can consistantly win full games again. It is a little hard playing so far under my bankroll like that sometimes, and these fun 3-table tourneys are a big help when I get a little bored.

Radii · 06-12-2004, 10:39 PM

I enter another 3 table $30+$3 NL tourney, lets see how this works out the 4th time around.

I start out at table #3.

There are a few more early all-in's here, we've lost 2 in the first 5 minutes.

At my table, BillieOcean and greekjimbo, sitting next to each other, each appear to be very very loose and very chasey, if that's a word. Well, I'm sure its not, but it should get the point across

Hand #6: I call the min raise with T9o, with 4 opponents I figure I have the odds to try to flop a big hand. I miss, and I fold.

sinjin69 goes out w/ JJ vs greekjimbo's KK.

Hand #9: 2 limpers to me on the button, and I raise 3x the BB with A9s, both limpers call. The flop has a king and misses me, I bet out 100 chips, and get one caller... I guess I time out on the turn and check, establishing connction... then I see the turn and river. There was an ace on the turn, and I call a 100 bet, and lose to KK that flopped trip kings. Very strange. I overplayed this hand pre-flop and on the flop, I liked my position but shouldn't have tried to push the flop w/ 2 callers, it is too early to try that.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

5 people busted out in the first round, we're down to 25, and down to 8 at my table.

Hand #12: I steal the blinds with a pre-flop raise w/ AJs.

I have 740 chips, down a bit after my unfortunate A9s hand.

Hand #17: QQ on the button. buzmeg(KK earlier) raises the min raise, one calls, and I re-raise to 150. gusto1128 calls out of the blind, as do both early players. The flop comes K86, and gusto1128 bets 350 into the pot. I have to all-in or fold. Calling isn't an option.

I make one last bad decision, and I make the all-in. I also had a runner-runner flush draw possible. gusto calls, shows K7s(glad he respected my raise), and I am out 23rd after two very poor decisions, one to knock me down a little early with A9s, and one to knock me out with QQ.

I am out 23rd, and that was fast enough that I have time to enter one more of these, hopefully with better results.

Radii · 06-12-2004, 11:11 PM

I enter another $30+$3 multi-table. I am at table 2.

One guy busts out on hand one at another table. Hooray.

AQ vs QQ all in knocks out the 2nd person on hand 3, this one at my table.

Level 2 - 10/20 Blinds

I've yet to play a hand. Blinds through me once, I have 975 chips. 26/30 are still left.

Hand #14: I get Q9s in the big blind. Free flop with many opponents, the flop comes 78T with two diamonds(I have spades). I call a 40 chip bet on the flop, but fold on the turn when the board pairs, no need to chase a straight now.

Hand #15: JJ in the SB. The button limps, and I raise it up to 50. blind/dealer both call. a king flops, and I make a 100 chip bet. The button calls. The board pairs the middle card, an 8, and I try to represent it with a 250 chip bet. I get called, and the river is checked down and I lose to KTs. Any idea how to play that? Do I just have to give it up when an overcard flops?

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

22/30 remain, many have fallen through the first two rounds. I am down to 480 chips after the blinds go through me once more. It's not looking pretty.

Early in level 3 2 more go out and we're down to 2 tables.

The blinds have hit me once and I'm down to about 430 chips.

Hand #35: This is it if I get callers. AKs in mid position, I raise to 3x the BB and get two callers. The flop comes 79T rainbow. It's not a great flop but with my stack I really don't have any choice here, I push all in, and am called by Q7. I never hit my ace or king and that's it, I'm out 17th.

My early luck seems to have disappeared, but I think I've severely misplayed a few hands in these last two tournaments, looking forward to comments, as I know my NL game needs work. Hand #15 here espicially, I'm curious what others might do there.

SirFozzie · 06-13-2004, 01:44 AM

with your pairs with an overcard.. you're playing them too aggressively. Especially JJ with K on the board. Odds are pretty good that if there's a couple people in the hand, that one of em has a K in the hole

Radii · 06-13-2004, 09:15 AM

thanks foz, that makes sense, seems a difference from limit ring games to no limit tourneys, i'll have to work on that.

Radii · 06-17-2004, 08:52 PM

I join a $30+$3 NL Multi-table, hoping to better the results i've gotten in my last few tourneys.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

Three people go out in the first level. I lose my blinds and a limp w/ 33 that goes nowhere. I'm at 955.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

27 people left at the start of the level.

Q9o in my big blind goes nowhere.

In my SB I get AKo. It's folded to the blinds, and I raise to 3x the blind(60). The BB calls. The flop is rags, two clubs, I bet out 90 and get called. I give it up on the turn, that hand was going to risk breaking me if I took it any further. The BB bets the pot and I fold. I have 785 chips left, still more than enough to be dangerous.

Iveysprotege to my left, and bend123 two to my right have taken the chip lead at my table, bend123 with 2325 chips, iveysprotege 1615. The two chpleaders end up all in on a T54 flop w/ two diamonds. bend had T8, iveys AT... no diamonds for either. iveys doubles up to 3330 and bend590 is down under 600.

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

Still 27 left, no one out in the last 10 minutes.

JMBrown takes out Phil71 with AK vs J8, all in on a Jack high flop... the king hit the river.

Q2 in my big blind goes nowhere. Same with T5o in my small blind.

I fold 56s and 44 to small fields, my stack isn't in good shape but I can still stay away from trouble hands.

Another BB runs through, this one giving me 82s. I get a free 5-way flop that cxomes J77. Bleh.

The SB gives me AJo. I get iveyprotege in the BB and folded to me. I raise into the big stack pre-flop and take the pot.

Level 4 - 25/50 Blinds

Still 26 left, 8 at my table. I have 740 chips, a bit low but not desparate. Iveysprotege is a dominant chipleader. Someone at table 3 has 2400 chpis, iveys has 3280 after a 400 chip loss.

Unfortunately, at table 1, he's not going anywhere.

K6s goes all in for 500 chips pre-flop and, of course, beats AQs by hitting two pair.

iveysprotege takes out mcdavid with 66 vs AK, he's up to 3800 chips and we're down to 25.

TT vs AT vs AK all in and giacoloco triples up to 2575 chips, and another man is gone at my table. 24 left.

BB is junk and I'm out on the flop. The SB is A2o and I fold to a raise bhy klizzyklein, a new player moved due to the attrition here.

We're down to 21, the tourney page isn't updateing well.

I raise with KTs in the cutoff, the blinds are hitting fast now and I have to loosen up some. iveysprotege and JMBrown call. Flop is KQ5, I have to go all in here. iveysprotege calls immediately with QJ, 2nd pair. I am well ahead. Of course, iveys hits one of his 5 outs on the river, and I am gone. Dammit. I am out 21st.

I got my money in as an 80% favorite, I can't ask for much more than that.

Radii · 06-17-2004, 09:48 PM

I go ahead and get into one more $30+$3 NL 3-table.

I sit on table #2, in the same seat I sat last tourney.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

On the 2nd hand I get QQ UTG+1. I raise to 50 and pokerinrear4, directly to my left, calls. The flop comes AA6. I make a bet of 90 chips into the 125 pot, and he comes back over me for 225. I think for awhile, and leave myself a bit short right away, I have to fold here. Amazing, i cannot remember the last time I have had more than 1000 chips in one of these tournaments, this after placing in 3 of my first 5.

T5o in the big blind. I get a free flop and we are 7-way. I flop bottom pair, 965 flop, and fold to a pot sized bet.

KQo in my small blind. I call the min raise from the button and we are 5 handed. The flop comes AKQ. What do I do here? ldem020368 bets 100 from mid position, the raiser folds, and I check-raise it up to 300. ldem calls. The worst possible card hits the turn. An ace. I check, but Idem checks too. We check tghe river and I see idem was betting with a flush + inside straight draw, he had J7 of hearts, two hearts on that flop.

I have more than 1000 chips (1265 to be exact)

Suggestions on that hand? from the cold-call of the min raise pre-flop to the check-raise on the flop to the checking it down on the pair of aces on the board.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

No one got knocked out that level. I have 1265 chips, I am actualyl the chip leader at the table by a small amount.

We're moving very slowly, 12 hands in the first 15 minutes here. Two people bust out at table 1, we're down to 28 now. Looks like one person busted both in some fashion, the chip leader has 3330 chips right now.

I just call a min raise with AK in the big blind, 3 handed, and fold to a large bet on a QTT flop. Deciding how to play this hand in these tourneys has clearly been giving me problems.

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

I limp with A5s 6 handed but fold on the flop.

Here comes a big one. I have KK. lelandy(a big stack) raises the minimum. I re-raise up to 150. The flop comes Qxx, two diamonds. I do have a diamond. lelandy checks, I bet the pot(a little over 300 at this point) and he folds. A relatively small win for KK, but a win is a win. I'm up to 1380 chips.

5 minutes left in this level, we have 24 players left, 8 at each table.

lelandy takes out a player with KQ, the other guy flopped a straight with 8T(9JQ flop), but a ten makes the higher straight for KQ. lelandy is up to 3300 in chips.

I get a free 5-way flop with KJo. It misses, but no one bets. A free turn brings another 9. I'm not bluffing here out of position, sorry.

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

I have 1335 chips, right around the average count. There are still 23 of us left.

I get KK in my big blind. Two limp to me and I just check. The flop comes 89J, two diamonds. lelandy bets 50, I raise to 250, and he calls. The turn makes a flush possible, but also gives me trip kings. I bet big, 700 into the 650 flop, and the pot is mine.

In the SB I get AKo, and just limp with 4 way action. The flop comes A46, two diamonds. I have the ace of diamonds. I bet the pot, 250 chips. guppy82 raises me all in for about 80 more chips. I call, and he shows A6, two pair. The board pairs 4s but is no help to me. I am still ok, 1320 chips. But a win there would have made me a big stack with well over 2000 chips. Ah well.

We drop to two tables after that hand.

Guppy loses JTo to AA and is out 20th. Why couldn't I have those chips instead!

Level 5 - 50/100 Blinds

I have to fold in both of my blinds, with that I'm down to 1170 here, a bit below average(average is 1666).

We lose another soon after and are down to 18 people.

Clemson_fan has 4700 chips at my table, lelandy 3380, no one else over 2000, but I am 5th out of 9 at this table.

I get 99 UTG. I hate this hand but i think I have to raise. This is where I need to learn a lot more about multi-table strategy. I'm out of position and it's a near full table, but the blinds are getting big, so I think I have to loosen up some. pokerinrear4 calls, lelandy goes all in from the big blind. I fold, pokerinrear4 says "small pair" and ends up calling. they go all in, and it's QQ vs 66. A 6 on the turn, and then a queen on the river! damn.

I get a free flop 4 way with 97s. The flop comes 985, rainbow, one of my suit. I have 770, there's 400 in the pot. checked to me, how do you play this? You can't check fold. Do you all in? I bet the pot, 400. I'm committed, but I have been reading about not pushing all in so hard and fast, giving the hand a chance to play out.

lelandy goes all in(a check-raise) and I call. Well, I have him dominated. He only has 67. Of course, that's the nuts. I need a 6 to give me a split, and I can't win without a running full house. Of course none of that happens.

I am out 16th. I think I played that ok. I needed more action on my KKs but they weren't flops I could really slowplay I don't think(thoughts?)

Radii · 06-18-2004, 11:57 PM

I said in an earlier post that my poker bankroll was up to $1850. I've been winning a bit, and now I can only find $1803. I wonder if I have a poker account that I am forgetting right now. Whoops!

Of course it is 1am(I'm not playing just goofing around in IRC w/ friends), a more thorough search of all my various poker accounts is in order.

For awhile party/empire were down a lot. Because of that I have money in pokerstars. I also have money in two different neteller accounts for a couple of reasons, waiting for re-up bonuses. So I need to better inventory everything and get an accurate count here. Perhaps my initial count was off.

Anyway, my current count as of this second is(and this is as much for my tracking purposes as anything else, but this dynasty is kida turning into "how radii goes about trying to turn a profit in poker" instead of a detailed hand analysis thing so it fits):

Partypoker: $824
Pokerstars: $168
Neteller #1: $481
Neteller #2: $330

That adds up to $1803. I believe that is an ACCURATE accounting of where I am now. Perhaps I'll try to update this on a weekly basis for a general overview of where I stand in the poker world.

If I am having a brain fart aboutan account somewhere I'll update this tomorrow.

Radii · 06-19-2004, 09:19 AM

The information above is correct. I think I simply added wrong in my earlier post and was at 1750, not 1850. Anyway, now that I have everything "itemized" as to where it is, I should be able to more accurately keep up with that.

I'm jumping up to 1/2 today, 2 or 3 tables simultaneously. I've stayed near $3/hr going into about 4500 hands at .5/1 and am confidant that I'm not making any more 'transitional mistakes' going back to full games from short games.

Of coruse with $1800, I'm still playing well under my bankroll at 1/2, and if I absolutely roll over this level over a couple thousand hands i'll make a quick jump up to 2/4.

Radii · 06-20-2004, 10:43 PM

I hate laptops. Espicially laptops with batteries that don't work so when you shift on the couch the power cord comes out and you lose the tournament writeup you were doing.

Well, long story short, I entered a $30+$3 single table on party, was hanging around w/ a little more than the starting chips with 6 left. The biggest stack had 2000 chips, to my right. I had AQs in the small blind, and he made a 250 raise pre-flop. I sensed a steal, and pushed all in over him, expecting to win it right there. Well, even better, he called with A8o!

Code:

radii@dread:~$ pokenum -h Ah 8c - As Js
Holdem Hi: 1712304 enumerated boards
cards     win   %win      lose  %lose       tie   %tie        EV
8c Ah  380813  22.24   1204027  70.32    127464   7.44     0.260
As Js 1204027  70.32    380813  22.24    127464   7.44     0.740

Of course, a four flush hits on the river, hearts, I am gone, and out $33.

Weekend bankroll update. I haven't loaded all my hands into pokertracker yet, but at 1/2 I'm going at a win rate of about $15/hr early on, I'm playing well, and of course my opponents are playing terrible, my good hands have been holding up. I did just lose $33 entering that tourney, so I'm only up about $50 over the weekend.

Partypoker: $876 (was $824)
Pokerstars: $168
Neteller #1: $481
Neteller #2: $330

TOTAL: $1855

I don't intend this to become me posting my bankroll every few days :P I intend at least to play a tournament every few days to continue to work on my tournament play, and may occasionaly single-table it at limit to write up a session here and there. I'm really annoyed at the stupid laptop, had a couple of interesting folds that I wanted to post about, but without the context of the rest of the tournament probably aren't nearly as interesting.

Radii · 06-21-2004, 10:45 PM

After dealing with some heavy lag issues, I get into a 3 table $30+$3 tourney, ready to end my crappy streak in them.

I start at table 2, in the big blind on hand 1.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

BB - raised out of K3s.
SB - raised out of J4s.

Someone goes out on table 1 on hand 1.

Hand #6: I limp with A7s from mid position, looking for a big flop or gone. I flop the flush draw, KT3, two diamonds, and I bet the pot(70 chips) and win it right there.

Hand #8: QQ vs JT with a ten-high flop ends up all in and Bturner2367 is gone, RIVER_GHOST to my direct left now has 2195 chips and we are down to 28 with 2 minutes left in the level.

warriorwayne goes all in vs eman1000, a made hand vs an open-striaght draw(that never hit). eman1000 has 10 chips left.

Hand #12: My BB hits before the level goes up. I have 35o and flop middle pair + inside straight draw, not enough to acll a 150 bet into a 70 pot. eman1000 is gone on this hand. We are down to 27.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

coosaw joins 2 to my right. I have exactly 1000 chips, slightly below average with a few gone.

table 3 loses another and we're down to 26, 12 minutes in.

We'er losing a lot here compared to other 3-table's I've been in, we're down to 25 14 minutes in.

Hand #21: I have A9o in my big blind. The two big stacks plus another are in for 75 chips. Can I call 55 here with A9o? I fold, the flop comes 9 high and there is an all-in on the flop(for 1500 chips, these are 3 stacks bigger than mine going at it). Oof. JJ vs A9. JJ was the bigger stack, that is an exit for warriorwayne. RiVER_GHOST now has 3270 chips.

Hane #22: AQo in the SB. judster limps, I raise to 60, and RIVER_GHOST and Judster fold and I take the small, small pot. I am up to 1020 chips.

Hand #24: in the cutoff, I again have AQo. two limpers, and I raise to 60, only CooSaw calls. The flop coems ATx, 3 hearts. I haev top pair/queen kicker, and my queen is a heart. Coosaw checks, I bet 100 into the 150 pot, and I win it there. I have crept up to 1110 chips.

Hand #27: KQs UTG+1. I limp in after CooSaw also limps. I fold to a 250 raise from the BB.

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

23 people left, my 1090 chips is a 250 below average.

Hand #29: ATo in the big blind. There's a raise to 80, seems like a dealer steal. But do I play back here? I think I should have. I just called, and check/folded to a bad flop. Markhutch had bet-pot clicked.

Hand #31: It doesn't get much better than this, I have AA on the button. One limper, I raise to 75 chips and only the limper, CooSaw calls. The flop comes A87, two diamonds. CooSaw checks, I underbet a bit here, I'm probably giving the flush draw odds to call, 70 into a 180'ish pot. But CooSaw folds. How would people play this? I have position, trip aces, and the ace for the flush, A87, 87 diamonds on the flop. There are too many cards that can come out that will scare me, so I don't think I can give a free card here. Thoughts?

Hand #37: Q8s in the BB. three limp(including BB) and I check. The flop comes 357, two diamonds. I bet 85 into the 120 flop and CooSaw calls. The turn is a blank, the river an 8. I debate a small bet but that's just asking for a check-raise. I check it down and win the pot against J6(inside straight).

CooSaw bluffs all-in on AJ against AQ(pair of queens vs ace-high) and he is out, markhutch has 2400 chips now, big stacks to my right(markhutch/2210 chips) and left(River_ghost 3530 chips).

Hand #43: UTG with AQs, raise to 3xthe blind(to 90) and I steal the blinds.

Raised out of my blind(K2o).

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

21 left going into the 2nd half-hour.

Hand #50: RIVER_GHOST knocks out the 21st player, we're down to 2 tables. I have 1200 chips after the blinds pass, RIVER_GHOST has 3960 to my left, the THREE players to my right all have 2300+ chips. Oof.

Hand #51: A5s in the SB. markhutch has 2500 chips, and raises to 250 on the button. He's probably stealing, but can you play back with A5s there? If I think he's stealing don't I have to go over the top of him all in? He's got double my stack... how do others play this? I folded.

Hand #52: RIVER_GHOST goes allin for 2900 on the turn into a 2000 pot, T424 on the board, hicagojoec folds, river_ghost just made a great 1000 chip pickup. chicagojoe is down to 1600 chips and says he had a pocket pair(doesn't say how high).

Hand #54: JTs in the cutoff, I open-raise for 150 chips(3x BB). AABulletsAA calls me. The flop comes JT7, all hearts. I of course, have no hearts, I have top-two. AABullets bets 100, the pot is now 400 chips. These good hands don't come often enough... if he has me beat I have outs, and if I'm ahead I have great odds to win. I push all in over him. He calls with A7, one heart. We're 50/50, a lot worse than I hoped for. The 4th heart hits the river and I never fill up. I'm down to 465 chips and in trouble. Another one of those "hwo do you guys play this? blinds going up to 50/100 very soon.

Level 5 - 50/100 blinds

17 left. I am the short stack at the table, 2nd shortest in the tourney. My blind is hitting soon, I'm going to need a couple of double-ups to stay alive.

52o UTG. I'll take my chances in the blinds.

76o in my BB. please please please free flop. whee. 3-handed. 235 on the flop, two clubs. inside straight draw. Bleh. I don't have enough to pick up the pot, I'll get claled. I decide to just check, we actually check all the way to the river and I never hit anything and fold to a bet on the river.

The SB is 72o and I again fold.

on the button I have KQo. Now I have about 6 hands to see what happens, but this is the best it gets I assume. two limpes before me and I go all in for 315. Both limpers call. Flop comes A67 and I am sure I'm gone. One of them has an ace.

NOPE!! hart7 goes all in on the flop, scares out anan12. hart has 65o. A queen hits the turn, I'M ALIVE.

I now have 1095 chips.

I'm still very low but I'm breathing.

Hand #68: T2o in the BB. folded to the SB who limps, I'm ready to push all in if I hit a ten here, but I don't, total miss and I fold to a bet.

I fold 62s in the SB.

3-way all in, 67s, 77 and AJ pre-flop. 89TJ give 67/77 a split of chicagojoec's money to hart7/southsidesox. chicagojoe had a heavy chiplead over the other two and stays alive though.

Level 6 - 75/150 blinds

Hand #73: Ugh. We are 8 handed. I have 945 chips. Avg is up to about 2000, 75/150 blinds coming fast. I'm in mid-position. I have pocket 7s. Shit what to do. I open-raise to 3x the BB, 450. I win the blinds. Woo. I'm up to 1170 chips.

Hand #74: hart7 keeps doubling up. A7 vs anan12's 33. Ace on the river. hart7 has come back from less than what I had to 1150 chips.

Anan doubles up on the next had, TT vs A3 all in.

Hand #76: Q4s in the big blind. Two others limp and I get a free flop. I can't call a bet on the AT7 flop though.

K4o in the SB doesn't help me any, back to 945.

We're down to 13 people after a few all-ins in the last few hands(one out at my table, two at the other).

hart7 is the luckiest MF in the world. KJo all in vs TT after the turn, KJ was two overcards+inside straight, TT was trip tens. the inside straight hits the river. hart7 is a big'ish 2400 stack, while Anan12 is now down under me at 1800.

Blinds coming

Q4o UTG, bleh.

BB: J9o. There's a raise to 300. Two call. I'm getting 7:1 to call another 150, but if I miss I'm way down. I go ahead and fold. AT9 flop, 3 spades. I had no spade. I would have had no chance here.

SB: J3o, I fold to a big raise.

I'm down to 720 chips.

blinds go up in 2 minutes, I'm going to catch them again at 100/200. 32o UTG + 2. 74o UTG+1. Southsidesox is gone. 12 of us left.

AQ UTG. All-in. How many will call? UGH. Two. Holy crap Icould not be up against worse possibilities. I am so dominated it is silly.

Code:

radii@dread:~$ pokenum -h Ac Qd - Kc Kd - Ah Ks
Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards
cards     win   %win      lose  %lose       tie   %tie        EV
Ac Qd  115974   8.46   1234849  90.09     19931   1.45     0.091
Kc Kd  991154  72.31    370987  27.06      8613   0.63     0.726
Ks Ah  240501  17.55   1107128  80.77     23125   1.69     0.183

OOF. I am out 12th. Thoughts on any of the hands above?

I'll probably get the chance to document some ring-game action soon because UltimateBet is offering a 33% bonus up to $500. I am definitely taking that, and at UB I like starting short tables for the double points.

dixieflatline · 06-22-2004, 10:15 AM

I don't have any tourney experience so take this with a grain of salt. I did want to respond though as I love your documentation of the hands. Keep posting we(I) will keep reading.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radii

Hand #31: It doesn't get much better than this, I have AA on the button. One limper, I raise to 75 chips and only the limper, CooSaw calls. The flop comes A87, two diamonds. CooSaw checks, I underbet a bit here, I'm probably giving the flush draw odds to call, 70 into a 180'ish pot. But CooSaw folds. How would people play this? I have position, trip aces, and the ace for the flush, A87, 87 diamonds on the flop. There are too many cards that can come out that will scare me, so I don't think I can give a free card here. Thoughts?

I might have pushed a bit harder. He could have a straight or a flush draw and you don't want to get your aces cracked because you didn't bet enough on the flop/turn. If the 87 either weren't suited or weren't connecting I might have tried a slowplay but not in this situation.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radii

Hand #51: A5s in the SB. markhutch has 2500 chips, and raises to 250 on the button. He's probably stealing, but can you play back with A5s there? If I think he's stealing don't I have to go over the top of him all in? He's got double my stack... how do others play this? I folded.

It does smell like a steal but you are out of position and there are a lot of hands where you would be a big dog to if he wasn't stealing. Middle pair even and you're in trouble. Blinds are still low and you're not that short stacked at this point. I would have folded as well

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radii

Hand #54: JTs in the cutoff, I open-raise for 150 chips(3x BB). AABulletsAA calls me. The flop comes JT7, all hearts. I of course, have no hearts, I have top-two. AABullets bets 100, the pot is now 400 chips. These good hands don't come often enough... if he has me beat I have outs, and if I'm ahead I have great odds to win. I push all in over him. He calls with A7, one heart. We're 50/50, a lot worse than I hoped for. The 4th heart hits the river and I never fill up. I'm down to 465 chips and in trouble. Another one of those "hwo do you guys play this? blinds going up to 50/100 very soon.

Again I think you did the right thing. You only had 4 outs if he had the flush already but probably the only other hands that he calls with is the Ah which he had or maybe a set(which seems unlikely as he probably would have reraised preflop with a wired pair). You had the bigger stack and the pot was decent enough for you to want to take it down there. Was he in the SB or BB? Seems like his preflop call was maybe a bit lose but maybe he thought you were stealing.

SirFozzie · 06-22-2004, 11:33 AM

Your betting pattern indicates that your betting is... less then optimal in that it's not agressive enough. In my view, you have to win 5-10 times as many hands by forcing/bullying the other player off his hand as there is in showing down hands.

It's led to something I call normal/agressive play. You play a lot of calls with marginal hands (the suited connectors, the Kojack, Ace-middle cards).. but if you HAVE a hand, you get agressive, and bet them right out of the pot.

Reasoning: It only takes one-two hands to establish a "rep" in these tournies as a player who will make you PAY for drawing hands and, for example, less then top pair with high kicker at the flop. (say, AJ5 flop.. I want them thinking I have at LEAST a AQ.. even though I might have rags.. because in the first few hands.. I've played it agressive right in their face with a great hand.)

That helps in the being a bully part in the tourney.

If you're in the middle or top levels of the chip count.. you HAVE to make them fear playing you. Especially in the double shootout's first table.. I was fourth about the 25/50 level.. but I had enough chips that for all but one player.. if I decided to push, I was going to make them decide their fate in the tourney on this one hand.

For example, when normally I would have raised the mininum, I raised it four-five times the BB. That usually would nab me the blinds. Yes, it's less then optimal at that point.. but when you get a couple of those, mixed in with one or two bluffs (where you fold if you don't hit, or just try to collect with a bet, but get forced out to a re-raise, or whatever..)

But then comes the hand where you have a huge advantage and you get one (or two) players that say "That bastard's gotta be stealing.." and re-raises you.. thinking he's going to force you out.. and then his jaw drops as they see you go all-in. Most of the time, they are upset with you for trying to disrupt their wonderful, knowing play, and they end up at the rail and wondering what the hell went wrong.

Basically.. the best time to be agressive is pre-flop.. because unless he has AK, AA, KK, or QQ.. he will be looking for ways OUT of the pot rather then into the pot. It's just a matter of varying play so you don't get predictable

Radii · 06-22-2004, 01:21 PM

The single-table I was writing up a couple of days ago, I was listing every hand I folded and my position as I was going.

I think the next tourney I play I will try to do that again, and see how many "nono you could have played that"'s I get.

I appreciate the advice from all, I really want to improve my tournament game, I know it's a weakness.

Foz, can you elaborate on how you'd recommend playing the first couple of times around the table? I have always read to play "super tight" very early on but that obviously doesn't seem to get me anywhere. It sounds to me like what you're describing is a strategy where you try to play a lot of hands early, get out when you miss, but when you do catch something to overbet the pot pretty big.

One of the problems I face is that Party's tournament structure is a lot worse than PokerStars. pokerstars gives you 1500 chips and 15 minute levels, party gives you 1000 chips and 10 minute levels. I always feel like one moderate mistake cripples me(maybe I just shouldn't play tournaments on party, huh?).

Anyway, I do appreciate all of the advice. Back to the ring games exclusively for a little while to work off my bonus on UB.

Edit: I can spell, I just choose not to sometimes.

SirFozzie · 06-22-2004, 02:02 PM

In a WSOP type event, yes, it is best to be super tight. However, in the 1-3 table tournaments (like the ones I play, and your 3 table SnG).. you have the same crew for the whole tournament most of the time. It's a matter of table image. Especially in the single tables.. where you WON'T get any new blood.. you have to make others think that you will take them to the wall if they want a go. 3 table.. you probably have MOST of the same crew, so it does remain the same unless you get moved.

Take a chance with marginal hands, get out if you don't hit, but bet agressive. Either you'll take it down if they fold, or you'll take down a big pot if they suspect you're stealing. The first couple rounds, you don't steal at all. You want others to think that you are no poker artist.. you use the hammer school of NL Hold Em.

The Hammer School of Poker, you may ask?

It's simple. Any problem.. hit it with a hammer (a bet). If it doesn't work.. hit it with a bigger hammer. (a bigger bet).

That sets your table image as a player who will beat them big if they call his bet.

You will bust out early more (bad beats and people with the nuts), but it will lead to more high finishes (money finishes) because once your table image is set, you will have established yourself as someone you don't get cute with.

Pokerstars is 1500/10 BTW, for SnG.

Radii · 06-22-2004, 10:05 PM

I deposit $500 into Ultimate Bet and earn a $165 bonus as a result.

I buy in for $100 to a 2/4 6-max table, I start the table, so I'll earn double points. I need to earn 1650 points to clear up my entire bonus. I'm not going to put myself in a bad situation to earn the bonus but I am confidant enough in my heads up and short play in general to make sure I start every table to get the bonus points.

after a few minutes ifrk325 sits to my right.

5 hands in Bucketsman joins to the left.

These guys both seem real weak/tight for 3 handed. I quickly go up about $10, pots are staying small so that's saying something, all the wins are on flop bets or pre-flop raises

Burger77 joins to my immediate left

I flop top pair out of the big blind on Burger's first hand(he posted out of turn) with J7s and bet all the way down, I end up winning a $25 pot.

A small loss trying to take a pot from a passive ifrk325 drops me a little.

Another $26 pot comes very soon after, I raise/bet with AK all the way heads up against bucketman, hitting an inside straight on the turn.

We go 6 handed 16 hands in. I am up $26.25 at this point.

To my left: Burger77, blue1929, bucketsman, robertob7, and ifrk325.

robertob raises w/ KTo on his second hand, worth noting.

Hand #19: I raise out of the SB with TT, 3 people call me(wto limpers and the BB). The flop has a king, I bet and then call a raise. The turn is a queen and I'm out. I'm down to $114.25 after that one.

Hand #22: I raise UTG+1 with KQo. 3 people call. I love my QQ4 flop. I bet the flop, and burger77 raises me. The other two fold, and I just call, intended to check-raise the turn(refusing to believe there's any way I'm behind here). I do check-raise the turn, and bet the river, both are called and I win a $48 pot.

Hand #24: blue1929 raises pre-flop and I call with AQo out of the big blind. The flop comes A99 and I bet out. Blue just calls. The turn is a king, I bet again, blue folds.

25 hands in, I'm up $48.25, and have earned 21 "ultimate points" Of course, I need 1650 of them, but I love seeing them come in so fast when I'm getting double points for starting a table.

Hand #28: I raise with A9s, only blue1929 calls me. The flop comes 567, the turn a blank. I push on both streets, buth check fold when I don't improve by the river.

I sit out two hands to teach a 6 year old how to raise and lower blinds. When I come back there is a new table lineup:

to my left: Burger77, blue1929, Bucketsman, empty seat, Warrf.

Hand #40: I get a free flop with Q9o. I bet the 9 high flop(954 I believe), and get re-raised by burger77. With A9 I'd re-raise but with Q9 I think I'll just acll here. I call al the way down when running 8's hit the board, and see that I beat pocket 7's for a pot about $20.

Hand #43: I raise from UTG+1 with JJ. I get 3 callers. The dreaded ace flops. I bet it all the way down, getting two callers on teh flop and the turn. Surely an ace would re-raise me? Well of course not, but we've seen burger bet when checked to with nothing so I don't think I have much of a choice unless I'm giving up the hand. I bet it all the way down, burger/blue call the flop turn, blue calls the river after burger folds, my JJ is good for a $45 pot.

At present I'm 45 hands in, up $62 with 50.5 points.

The way ultimate bet works is that every 10 points releses a dollar. Actually, every point releases 10 cents... of your bonus, and after you leave the table that portion of your bonus that you've earned is given to you immediately. Kinda nice really, though I still like PartyPoker's "sit here for 500 hands and you get $100 free" system the best.

Hand #50: Burger has really gotten agressive, raising a lot pre-flop. He raises UTG and I just call after 3 others with JJ. The flop comes 9 high and I know Burger is betting, so I go for the check-raise here. Everyone calls. The turn is a blank low card, I bet out and all call. The river is another blank, I bet and burger and warrf call me. My jacks are good and I win a $50 pot, I'm up to $192 at the table. Burger showed pocket 7s.

Burger busts out soon after, dumping his last $19 on the next two hands. He pushed waay too hard with his middle pocket pairs, something I have been guilty of so I know the feeling, but it just seemed like he couldn't fold them.

New table lineup 55 hands in:

eclipsegsx302, blue1929, Bucketsman, DickieTheWorm, Warrf, and me.

Hand #57: one limper to me, I've got the button and raise with 88, 3 callesr. Flop comes JJ2. Eclipse bets out and I decide to raise, only bucketsman and dickietheworm call. A blank hits the turn and bucketsman check-raises me. I know my call here sucks, but I make it anyway. The river is a 9 and I fold to a bet there.

Hand #62: free flop with QTo. Flop comes Q8x, warrf checks, I bet, warrf calls. Turn is a jack, check/bet/call. I'm erady to check down this river, as there's a flush on the board now(a blank 3rd heart), but warrf bets. People bluff the flush too often here, I feel I have to clal. I am beaten by a straight, not a flush, warrf shows 9T for the win.

Those two quick losses knock me down to $160.

Hand #69: I have AKo. I raise early, bucketsman calls, dickietheworm re-raises and I cap it. 3 way action, I am last to act. The flop comes 877, checked to me, I bet and both call. The turn is a jack, I take a free card here, assuming I'm up against some sort of pocket pair from dickie, and the river, another 8, putting two pair on the board. We check it down, and if either of them had a pocket pair, it was lower than 7s. My ace kicker on the 2 pair on the board wins the $28 hand.

I give a litte back soon after betting 2nd pair into bucketsman. He pushes me harder than i'm willing to go with my T7s(JTx flop) when a second jack hits the turn, and I let him have it.

74 hands in, up $66/94.5 points.

Hand #83: I get a free flop with 64o, 3 handed. It's a beauty. 235. I bet the flop, both call. The turn is another 5. I bet, dickietheworm raises, warrf folds, and I re-raise(low pockets/53/52 beat me here, no backing down that easy). I bet the jack on the river, and i take down a $42 pot with my straight.

Hand #89: Eclipse raises UTG, I have AQo on the BB. warrf and I both call, leaving me in mid-position this hand. Flop comes KJx. I check/call a bet with my inside straight draw, and fold on the turn. I don't like how I played that handat all.

100 hands in, I am up $69 and have 126.50 points.

Table: eclipsegsx302, MagicMartyy, Bucketsman(who has come back to $87 from about $25 recently), DickieTheWorm, and an empty seat.

DickieTheWorm takes a bad beat and leaves as well, 4 handed for now.

I win a small pot with KTs betting a draw on a scary board(2 dimaonds/straight draw for me), $5.75 pot.

G_G has joined to my right.

MagicMartyy busts out. down to 4 again.

Hand #116: QQ on the button. GG limps, I raise, bucketsman/GG call. The flop comes T94. checked to me, I bet they both call. Turn is a 3. I bet/both call. the river pairs the top card, another ten. I decide to check here with two opponents, and I win a $29.50 pot with my queens and tens.

Hand #122: I call a raise out of the BB with 97s. A little loose I suppose but eh. Flop comes QT8, two of my suit. Even if my opponent has QQ I have tons of ways to win here. I bet out, and we end up capping the flop. I call a turn bet, and fold on the river when everything misses. A ten hit the river and bucketsman had QQ for the top boat.

I was still a 60/40 dog to a set there:

Code:

Holdem Hi: 990 enumerated boards containing Qc Tc 8h
cards     win   %win      lose  %lose       tie   %tie        EV
Qd Qh     591  59.70       390  39.39         9   0.91     0.602
9c 7c     390  39.39       591  59.70         9   0.91     0.398

But, give my opponent two pair, and we're 50/50(ifh e has QT). Give him AA and I'm a 55/45 favorite. I am pleased w/ my flop cap.

Hand #135: I raise UTG with pocket 7s, G_G calls. Flop comes AK4. G_G check-raises me when I bet(he was BB) and I immediately fold.

These losses have knocked me down to $158(up $58.25).

After a 10-15 minute break I sit back in for one round and blind out a bit and play one hand that goes nowhee, and after another short break I'm back for awhile here.

143 hands in, I have $147.25 and 156 bonus points. Table layout: empty seat, punkyd, infallible, Glen-Bo, and Cariola212. A totally new lineup here.

Hand #144: My first hand back, A5o in the BB. Free flop 3-way, flop an ace, win $5.75 by betting it.

Hand #152: I have KK UTG. I raise and two call. Flop comes 943. cariola bets out before me, i raise and both call. Turn is a jack, I bet and both call. River a queen. I bet, punky raises, and I call. Pretty straightforward, Q9o for two pair. I am down to $134 on that loss.

Hand #159: I limp from the SB with pocket 5s, 4-way action. flop comes 895. I bet out, two call. Turn is a blank, but puts a heart draw on the board. cha59 calls my bet. The river is a 7, a 6 makes a straight and ther's a flush on the board. I bet, cha raises, an dI call to see JTo for the nut straight. I am down to $116 after those two very bad drawouts against me.

Hand #167: We're back to 6 handed here, and I raise in the cutoff with KTs, I get 3 callers and fold to a bet on the flop when it doesn't even give me runner runner possibilities.

I'm now down to $107, but I don't think I'm tilting at all, so it's still all good.

Hand #170: Q4s on the BB, free flop 3-way I catch top pair and bet the flop, both opponents call me. The turn makes a straight and a flush, I don't like my kicker and I've got too many hands that i'm drawing dead against, I check/fold it here.

Hand #178: I raise on the button with AQo, only the BB calls. rave, the BB/new player, check-raises me on the flop of JT5. I call, I think he's done this before already and taken down the pot, I end up catching a flush draw on the turn but don't improve on the river. rave shows me J3o, top pair, shitty kicker, but, it's good enough to beat me. I file that one away.

Hand #183: folded to me on the SB, I raise with JJ, bet the flop and win a $7.75 pot.

I am hurtin a bit though, down to $78.75 here.

Hand #187: down to 4-way again, I steal the blinds w/ a raise w/ 55 UTG.

ARGH. Now I have to be careful of tilting.

KTs in the BB. Glen-bo limps to me. Flop comes K-rag-rag. He bets, I raise, he calls. He check-raises me on the turn and I decide to call him down... a slowplayed AA.

Now I am down to $57.75 and hurting quite a bit.

Hand #196: err. I hit a flush on the turn with KTs again but rave hits a full house on the river to CRUSH me. $44.75.

About 50 hands not written up b/c of talking to oliegirl who just got home. I bleed just a bit down to $45.

Hand #245: rave and I cap pre-flop, heads up against each other. I have QQ. Flop has an ace. I decide to call him down, knowing he's agressive with a lot less than an ace there. He ends up showing me JJ as I take down a $32 pot to move back up to $62.25.

This table has gotten really agressive I blind down to $54, there are pre-flop raises, and bluffs galore. 66 vs AJ, neither improve but the pot ends up over $30.

Hand #268: I get a free flop with 35 spades. Flop comes 247 of spades. SOCLOSE. I bet the flop and get two callers. On the turn a 4th spade comes... I go ahead and bet, seen that happen just too often, but fold to a raise.

Hand #271: I raise in the cutoff with AJs. Three call and I fold to a 456 all clubs flop(I had spades)

I may well bust out here, but I feel like if I can catch a couple of hands I can get back up to my buyin real fast too... top pair vs bottom pair just brought us a $60 pot.

I won't rebuy but I'll play this all th way down to bust if I have to to try to turn it around.

Tampa Bay represent. Lou Pinella has joined the table.

Tampa Bay represent. Lou Pinella shows down quad queens. Capped on the turn and river as redskin2 tries to bluff with 5 high and refuses to give up.

Hand #293: I steal the blinds with a cutoff raise with AJs.

About to bust out after I raise with KJs. I flop a flush draw and inside straight draw and push push push and end up winning a $22 pot to a fold.

Hand #305: I double up finally, T8 suited. I flop a ten and the flush draw and push push push, i hit the flush on the turn and end up getting put all in, I win $42.50 with my flush.

We're 3 handed here so the swings could get real big real fast...

never mind, we're 5 handed now and I have $36.50.

Ok so we're 4 handed.

I raise with QJs and get two callers, I flop a queen. YOU ARE ****** ******* ME(adjusted for the youngins here). wired jacks caps the flop, bets the turn and river. Q42 flop. T turn, 9 river, runner runner to make 4 clubs. He shows 43o to take the pot with a ten high flush draw(clearly I have no clubs here). That pot was $51.50 and my only mistake was not capping the turn. That would have put me soooo far back up.

I win two hands again that are virtually all-ins, KT hit hard and 99 flopped a full house, that brings me right back up to $38.

I don't like playing short stacked at a limit table like this, but I don't want to lose more than my buyin here either.

6 handed, I raise with AQs, one caller, and I flop a flush draw against tirepoker(new player). I bet the flop and turn, check the river, and I beat 95o. I am back to $47.25.

I call a raise with T7s in the BB with 4 opponents. I flop a flush, KJ2. I cap the betting on the flop with the raiser, call a bet on the turn when the board pairs the jack on the turn, and check down the river when the 2 paisr also. My flush is good though and I am up to $72!

I raise with 99 UTG, wiredjacks calls, so does captaininsano. I bet, wiredjacks raises, I re-raise, he caps. With all the bluffs I've seen him run I just absolutely do not believe him. I bet the turn, and call his raise. I finally call down the river, and see 67o. The $66 pot just kills me.

I make it back up pretty soon after. I flop top pair with A9o and cap it with wiredjacks. I bet the turn/he calls with a flush on the board, and the river makes a four flush with my 9. I bet anyway, he calls, and shows me 62o, he had middle pair on the flop and never improved.

I lose about $15 with AJ vs a dominated QJ. both a queen and an ace flop but my opponent runner-runner flushes me.

I am right back down to $33 here. This is kinda insane.

I've tailed off a bit here b/c of AFI's top 100 movie songs.

After blinding back down to about $40(after going up to $50'ish again), I get AA, raise pre-flop and get 4 callers. I flop the ace but there's a flush draw as well. I bet out of first position and everyone folds. WTF! Well, the $19 pot gets me back up to $56.

YES. I hit a flush on the turn in a 5-handed pot, I am almost certain there was a made straight and possibly a set going there, I take down a $53 pot and I am back to $85.25!

I steal the blinds with AKs to stay at that $85.

I end up falling back to $66, and earning an astounding 587 points. I'm not sure what to say about my session, quite a marathon, I don't think I could have quit when I was up $80 really, my play stayed solid throughout, minus some goofy play when I was about to bust out, thought I could beat these guys but wasn't willing to risk more than a buyin...

anyway, I now have $524.70 in my money account and $106.30 remaining of my bonus to earn.

I will definitely be a little disappointed if I end up only taking $660 out of this site or less, but hey, stuff happens.

Radii · 06-22-2004, 10:06 PM

Thanks for the additional post Foz, when I am back on party/pokerstars(I still have a couple hundred lingering there) and want to try out some tournaments again, I will re-read your posts and see how I can make some adjustments.

Radii · 06-25-2004, 06:28 PM

I start up a 2/4 short table on UB, hoping to do better than my last two sittings(the mammoth one I recorded and another loser that I didn't).

It takes awhile before anyone else joins, about 10 minutes, but now, mrcrozan has joined me.

No one else joins, and after 13 hands, Microzan leaves. I played him well and am up $17.75. So now I wait some more, with $117.75 and 6 "ultimate points" at the table.

No big big hands worth mentioning, we rarely went to the river. I won a few $20 pots and didn't lose any big ones. I won a nice hand with 23o which hit two pair on the turn, and AJ with an ace on the board.

lion9 joins as my next challenge.

I score big here, on our first 3 hands I win pots of $23.50/$19.50/$15.50 with a striaght/top pair/bottom pair.

A 3rd player, wambamkam joins. I have $140 when he joins and we go 3 handed.

There's little pre-flop raising from the other two here, they sem to be pretty straight forward. I lose my first $20 pot betting bottom pair with a 2 kicker(92o) into 97o. I'm outkicked and down to $125.

27 hands in, lion9 raises out of the BB, the first sign of major agression from either... too bad there wasn't a showdown.

I lose another pot wtih A2 and then another with pocket 7s, raising pre-flop witht hem only to fall to a pair of 9s made on the turn.

Ok, 36 hands in, we are now 6 handed. I'm down to $93 all of a sudden, as I flop top two pair vs toothpicker(the 4th at the table) but he rivers a flush.

The lineup:

wambamkam, OKslim, lion9, _Slacker_, empty chair(toothpicker leaves before I finish typing this up).

All four of the others are involved in a $79 pot, massive at 2/4. ace/good kicker vs A5 two pair vs a flush draw vs a fish who had no business in the pot.

Hand #42: I check with AKs on the BB(mistake...), we are 3 handed. The flop comes 666. slacker bets, I raise, lion folds, slacker calls. I bet the turn and check the river when they're blanks. My ace high beats K5o, neither of us paired up for the boat.

Hand #43: I push with KQs from the SB, betting the flop and turn, probably very mistakenly when the ace hit the flop. I give wambam a $30 pot.

Hand #46: I raise with KK and win the blinds. Splendid.

sanjaysr2k joins to my right in the final empty seat.

Hand #48: Free flop with J5o, 3 handed. I bet it when it comes J33. Only Slacker calls me. I bet the turn when another 3 hits, giving me the boat. Slacker folds on the river and I'm up to $103.

Hand #50: I limp on the button with 76s. 3 handed with lion and OKslim. The flop comes 773. lion bets and I just call. The turn is a queen, lion bets, I raise, he calls. The river boats me up with a 6, I bet/he calls and I take down a $33.25 pot with my full house, up to $120.

Hand #52: I raise UTG with AQo. wambam calls, OKslim re-raises, lion calls, and me and wambam also both call. The flop comes 337 and 4-handed I don't like my overcards, I go ahead and fold to a bet.

lion9 has gotten very agresive all of a sudden.

slacker has just taken two $40+ pots in a row, one off okslim with a J6 boat and one off of lion9, dunno what with.

and lion takes a $40 pot right back off of slacker, KQ vs KT.

Hand #70: I raise UTG with ATs. wambam comes over me with a re-raise and I call. I bet the flop when it comes A97. I bet the king on the turn, and just call a raise, and check/call the river, which is a second king. wambam shows pocket jacks, for some very curious betting there. Wonder if I should have raised the turn.

Yet another raise/re-raise pre-flop between lion and slacker. OKSlim stays in this time and takes the lead on the flop. lion9 shows AT for a rivered inside straight. OKSlim had KT, and slacker had AQ. Good to see what they're pushing so hard with on occasion.

wambam tilts out totally and busts out. New table lineup after he leaves and one joins:

Empty seat, OKSlim, Lion9, _Slacker_, and JJ66(brand new, bought in for only $40)

Hand #84: I play A2 from the small blind with one limper, and win $5.75 when an ace flops and no one calls me.

h20fam joins to my left and we're full again.

Hand #90: I limp on the button with JTs, KQ of my suit flops and I bet it, winning a small pot.

There's another $50 pot, OKslim has his aces cracked by lion9's K5, two kings hit...

I take yet another $6 pot betting J6o, free flop, free turn and I turned a straight draw with 457 on the board... no one else seemed to want it.

Hand #97: I have T9o in the SB. We are 6 handed, I limp and see QJx flop, I am ready to call a bet here, but slacker bets and JJ66 raises... I can't cold-call two. In the end, I would have hit my straight and won about $60. But I think I made the right fold nonetheless.

slacker leaves, which is a bad thing, you could take a loto f money off of him when you had a hand. eriksen joins in his place.

lion9 also leaves. He played pretty well but was easy to read.

lineup: h20fam, OKslim, empty seat, eriksen, JJ66... I have $99.50 after the BB that hit while I wrote this.

Hand #106: I think I played this terribly. OKslim raises pre-flop, I call out of the BB with 87s. We're heads up on the flop. I flop a straight draw, 699 flop. I bet out, OKslim raises, and I'm out of position and just unhappy here. I basically give it up, but at the same time, so did OKslim..I probably could have bet him out of it, he had A3o.

Hand #109: I raise with pocket 5s, get one caller, and get pushed at hard on the flop which has 3 overcards. I fold and after those two hands I'm down to $80.

Hand #112: I raise with ATs, only eriksen calls. Flop comes AJ9. He bets, I raise, he calls. Turn is a ten, I bet/he calls. The river is an 8... any 7/queen makes a straight. He bets, I have to call this though, I do and I lose a $32 pot to Q9. Three bad hands in a row(though one I think I played fine) and I'm down to $65 and cursing Ultimate Bet.

Hand #121: I have JJ in the big blind. I just limp here, with two opponents, hoping for a good flop. The flop comes T86, not terrible, but it's all clubs. I do have a club, jj66 bets, I raise, hangnman(new player) and JJ66 calls. The turn puts 4 to a straight out with a 7, I bet otu and only hangnman calls. The river is an ace, I bet, and both fold... the $25 pot puts me back up to $75.50.

Hand #134: I get a free flop with J9o, flop a straight draw, and win the $5.75 right there.

Hand #135: I have TT on the button and raise. OKslim and hangnman call. Flop comes 7-high with two spades. hangnman bets, I raise, OKslim calls. The turn is a 3rd spade but tens are still high... hangnman bets again, and I call him down, the river brings a 4th spade, I have a spade and call, I lose to K8s.

Hand #139: I make some of that back when I flop a queen out of the blind with Q4, I get a few callers on the flop and folds on the turn, I'm at $69.

Hand #143: I win another pot of about $12 with 66, flop 442, turn 3.

I lose two very very bad hands in a row. One one I open-raise from the cutoff wit A5s. h20fam re-raises and I just call. I flop an inside straight draw and a flush draw. We cap the flop. The turn pairs my 5, I bet/he raises and I call. We both check the river and my pair of 5s loses to pocket queens.

The very next hand I raise with AQs. h20fam calls and OKslim re-raises. we both call. The flop comes Q87 rainbow. OKslim and I cap the betting. On the turn I check/call and on the river h20fam bets/OKslim raises... I still have top pair but I have to be beaten... I fold. OKSlim has AQs. h20fam has 77, trips. He takes down $90.

I am down to $40 after those two crushing losses.

At this second that would put me down $80 at UB even after the bonus money I've released so far, with about $80 in bonus money to go.

Hand #160: I raise UTG with AKo. hangnman and indychild call. The flop comes jack-high, I bet, indychild check-raises all in for .50 more. I bet the turn which is a blank, and check/fold the river when hangnman bets out. AK losing to AJ. Ergh.

At this point oliegirl needs the computer for a bit and I end up logging out.

I log out iwth about $28(I actually timed out while AFK)

I have $425.35 in my UB account with $85.65 in bonus money to go. that's disheartening but I still hope to turn a profit here...

Radii · 06-25-2004, 10:13 PM

I join another 2/4 short table, hoping to reverse my fortunes here.

I start out playing against jbrennan17

Immediately we jump to 4 handed(after only 1 hand)

lineup: empty, empty, 619luckster, bucketsman, jbrennan17

Hand #5: AA UTG. I raise, buckets calls, jbrennan raises, I cap, buckets folds. Flop is queen high, I bet/jbrennan calls. Turn is another queen, I bet/he folds, I take the $23 pot.

hangnman joins to my left, he was at my table earlier when I got demolished. rjmoney joins in the final seat.

Hand #12: I have Q4s in the BB. free flop heads up with rjmoney. Flop comes KQ7. I bet out, rj calls. Turn gives me a flush draw plus my 2nd pair. I bet out, rj calls. River is a blank, I bet, he raises... nothign scary came out, and rjmoney just sat down, I go ahead and call there for the information. K3o, had me beat the whole way, dunno why he chose to raise it at the end there.

Hand #17: I limp with KTs. Flop comes AJ7, checked around(3 way). Turn makes my inside straight with a queen, I bet and all fold, $5.75 is mine.

Hand #20: I open-raise in the SB with AQo. hangnman calls. Flp comes king high(ugh). I bet out and he calls. Turn is a blank, I don't have any draws here... I check/call a bet(why call? I dunno). I check/fold the river.

Antoher open raise wit 77 fails, KQs raise takes me nowhere, and then a bad bad hand with JTs. i raise it on the button, flop top pair and bet it hard, only to lose to 89s that rivered a straight. I am down a quick $40.

I push again with AK, raise early, get re-raised and call, we are 4-way. Flop comes 555, I bet out, turn is a lower card than a 5, river an 8, there's a bet/raise from the two blinsd before me and I get out. Dammit. Another killer knocking me down to $40.

I only manage to win a $13 pot with KK and have $50.

This is all going fast... that's right we're only on hand #37.

Hand #37: I raise with JJ, and 3 people call. I go ahead and fold when an ace flops and there's a bet and a call before me, with 3 opponents, no way I have outs.

Hand #42: Free flop with A2o, ace flops and I win $6.75 with my bet.

I am winning $6-$10 on my big hands and all my good hands pre-flop that don't improve are costing me that much or more.

Hand #45: JJ again. I raise and 3 peopel call me. The flop has a king. I bet it and get one caller. I bet the turn and check the river, and I beat AQ for a $26.75 pot(finally! and I think I made a mistake not bettnig the river there). I am back to $60.

HAnd #49: AKs. I raise and get 3 callers again. Flop is Q88. checked to me(I'm on the button), I bet and only rjmoney calls. He check-raises me on the turn and I fold.

I am right back to $47.50.

Hand #61: KK, I raise, rjmoney calls, bucketsman calls. QQ5 flop. I bet/rjmoney calls. Turn is a blank, I bet/get checkraised. This time I've got a hand, I re-raise, and he just calls. We check the river and the fucker has AA. He plays every hand that way if he has anything at all. He's in almost every hand, he folds when he has nothing at all on the turn, and raises if he's got anything... He's up like $200.

I am down $80. I am getting absolutely slaughtered, I'm down almost $225 in just 4 shorthanded sessions here(before bonus money starts coming in)...

I push back up to $30 winning a $17 pot by betting a straight flush draw hard with JTs(these thinngs NEVER hit do they?). I win the pot on the turn.

rjmoney is now only up $90. he is a horrible horrible player(who is taking all my money).

WTF:

Pre-flop:

Bucketsman folds. Bujinin folds. radii folds.
LRN1968 calls. rjmoney calls. KG604 checks.

Flop (board: Jc 6h 6c):

rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks.

Turn (board: Jc 6h 6c Qc):

rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks.

River (board: Jc 6h 6c Qc 6d):

rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks.

Showdown:

rjmoney shows 6s 2d.
rjmoney has 6s 6h 6c Qc 6d: four sixes.
KG604 mucks cards.
(KG604 has 4c 3s.)
LRN1968 mucks cards.
(LRN1968 has 2s As.)

Hand #1853679-4273 Summary:

$.25 is raked from a pot of $6.
rjmoney wins $5.75 with four sixes.
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On the river don't you HAVe to at least try to bet??

Back to our regularily scheduled losing.

WOOEEE RUSH:

Hand #1: KJo in the BB. 2 opponents, flop a king. Bucketsman calls me til the river then folds. I take $17.25 unopposed.
Hand #2: 4-way action for a raise, I have A7s. I flop a four flush, all four of us call a bet(bucketman leads out). The turn is an ace. bucketsman bets, I raise and everyone including buckets folds. $27 pot is mine.
Hand #3: Limp with 65s. Flop is 667. buckets bets out again. I just call the flop bet. Turn is a king, I bet out, he raises, I re-raise and he calls. He calls my river bet and my 6s are good for a $49 pot!

In those 3 hands I move back up to $72.

Hand #119: AA. I raise, bucketman re-raises. I cap it. Flop comes J22. he checks/calls me on the flop. The turn is a ten. he bets, I raise, he re-raises I cap it. The river is a queen. I just call his bet and he shows me JJ. He takes a monster $59 pot that knocks me all the way back down to $43.

Soon after, 45s flops a straight and wins me a $39 pot.

About two hands after that, AKs gets capped 3-way pre-flop. I'm up against KQ and QJ, a nice little chain of domination there. The board comes 8 high, and I win another $40 pot.

After 145 hands, I am at $89.

A steal with QQ puts me at $91 as we are 4-handed at the moment.

acligirl, empty seat, KG604(sitting out), bucketsman, and bujinin.

Another small pot, this one with 77 puts me at $93 briefly.

NETELLER joins in the empty seat, and KG604 leaves leaving another empty seat.

A good $17 pot with 99 unimproved pushes me up to $99!

aaaannnd a loss with AK vs bucketsman's 55 drops me to $81.

we go 3 handed but for a brief moment during the back and forth and up and down I have gone over $100 and have $103.25!

And bujinin takes the cake at the end. I get up to $120 before we go heads up. We play for about 15 hands. My cards were much better than his, but he was trying his hardest to make a stand against me. It just worked out that I was folding at all the right times. I made two boats with JJ in those 15 hands, and won $40+ pots each time. AFter the heads up play, I am up to $170 at the table. I go ahead and log off, thrilled at the result.

I now have $517.85 in my UB account with $66.40 remaining in my bonus. That means in actual play i'm down about $80 still. After the last few sessions though I'm thrilled with where I stand.

Radii · 06-26-2004, 01:09 PM

I start up a 2/4 short handed table.

dragon2524 joins right after I do. On the very first hand, I have pocket 4s, I raise and he calls. Flop comes T84, two diamonds. I bet out and he calls. The turn is an ace, diamond, flush it out there. I bet, he calls. The river is a queen, I bet, he raises, I re-raise and he calls me. He turns over QJ for the runner runner straight, and I am down $30 after the very first hand.

I work my way back pretty quickly, not really much memorable, but I play very agressively and get him to fold a lot, have a couple ace-high's hold up and hit a pair a couple of times that he raised me... by the time we go 3 handed, about 10 hands in, I am up about $2.

Early in 3-handed play(JBD1 has joined), I have 45 hearts on the button. I just limp and we're 3-way. Flop comes QT6, the 6 is a heart. We all check. the turn is the 3 of hearts, dragon bets out and I just call with my draws. The river is the 2 of hearts, and I have a rare straight flush! Unfortunatley, dragon checks, buthe does call me when I bet, and I win with the nuts.

4paws joins to my right and we're 4-way, 19 hands in. I have $108.75 so I'm up a little. Rick345 and parrotheadcub join, and JBD1 leaves, so actually we are now 5 handed.

Lineup: parrotheadcub, empty seat, dragon2524, Rick345, 4paws.

Hand #22: I raise UTG with AKs. parrot/rick/4paws all call me. Flop comes 883, I bet out when checked to me and only one calls. The turn is a 3rd 8 and I bet again. Rick345 must not have a pocket pair, and he lets me have the $19 pot.

dragon2524 leaves, but barkbbdog2 and hjumper join to fill the table up, 6 handed for now.

Finishing up my bonus is in sight, but it isn't likely to happen today as there is a wedding that I will be attending tonight. I need about 660 more points, I hope to get 100-200 in this session though, while of course hopefully posting a positive session as well.

Hand #36: JTs, I limp, flop top pair and end up calling someone else all the way down... I lose to KTo, and am vvery unhappy with how I played that hand.

Hand #37: I raise with AQo. bark and HC(new guy) call me. Flop comes J93, I have the button here, and I bet out, both call. The turn is a queen, now I've got top pair. I bet again and both call. The river is a ten, 4 to the straight on the board. bark bets out, HC calls and I can't imagine neither of them have me beat... yup, K6 and K9, two straights. Saved myself a bet there.

I am down $4.50 at the moment.

Hand #41: hjumper limps, I raise on the button with AJ, and bark calls, as does hjumper. I don't have a read on hjumper yet but bark is way too loose. Flop comes AKx, I bet and only hjumper calls. Turn is another blank, I bet/he calls, the river is a king and we check it down, his AQ beats my AJ and I am down to $82.50 at the moment.

Hand #45: I get a free flop with 47o with bark and HC. we check all the way to the river, where a 7 hits the board. bark bets/HC folds. After having seen ark blindly bet the river twice already like this, I go ahead and call. He turns over a 6-high and my rivered pair of 7s is good for a $15 pot.

Hand #48: AQs in the cutoff. I raise and only black calls. The flop is 983. I bet/he calls. Turn is my queen, I bet/he calls. river is my ace. He bets out, I raise and he calls. He has 87o for middle pair ont he flop. The $30+ pot is mine.

bark appears to bet EVERY SINGLE RIVER if he's first in the pot, no matter what anyone else has done the rest of the hand, if he's still in it. People haven't caught on(or are betting to the river with absolutely nothing) because this seems to be working really well for him.

I only play two hands in the next 20. J2s in the big blind. I flop top pair and stupidly call down bark with someone else also calling. I lose to QJ.

I limp on the button with J9s, parrotheadcub raises behind me and a ton call. I flop a flush draw and call it down, never hitting. I'm down to $77.50.

Hand #69: I get Q8s in the big blind. I limp with 4 others. Flop is a beauty, Q83. I bet out, bark calls, hjumper raises, and I re-raise. Both call. The turn pairs the 3, I bet out and both call. The river is a jack, I bet and both call again. hjumper had QTo. bark had JT. I take down $47.50 and am back up to $108.

Hand #73: I limp with T8s early. The flop comes ten-high. I click to bet, but mistakenly raise HC... I dunno what I would have done if I wasn't opening the bet. Well, I raised. I continue the agression on the turn and HC folds to me. I now have $117.75.

Hand #77: I open-raise with 66. 4 callers. Oof. I go ahead and bet into the J32 flop but everyone calls again. i give it up on the turn when another overcard + the flush hit.

Hand #86: T3 in the big blind. Free flop and I flop a ten. T67 flop. I go ahead and bet out and both my opponents(HC and bark) call. The turn pairs the 6 and only HC is still in. We check the river and HC had me beat the whole way, T9. He rivered a straight(and didn't bet it, check-raise maybe?)

I again sit wit $99.75, right back where I started.

Hand #92: Red flags galore, I call a raise from the BB with JT. The flop comes jack high. luckily a bet and a raise before me let me get out. Oya. hjumper, the raiser, had JJ for trips.

That hand + blinding down a bit has me back down to $83.75 105 hands in.

Hand #114: I limp with Q9s. We are 4-way. Flop comes AJ5, with the ace and jack of hearts. I bet out and only HC calls. The turn is a queen. I bet and HC check-raises me... I go ahead and call, hoping for the flush. The river is another queen. HC checks again, I figure him for an ace and bet out. He check-raises me AGAIN. I call, and he has KT for the straight. Why the check-raise on the river??

As I'm typing it up I win two quick hands back.. I was down to abuot $55. I win a $25 pot off of bark with JT when I hit two pair, and I win a $42 pot with aces full of queens with my pocket aces.

So in a 5 hand stretch I fall from $80 to $50, and get back to $90.

Terribly cold cards in the next 20 hands see me drop to $76.75 by hand 140.

I hit two pair with 76s in the big blind and win a nice pot to push me back up to $91. Some solid agression with KQo in the small blind the very next hand pushes me back over $100, at a rousing $101.

Hand #151: I get A6o in the SB. I limp and we're 3-way. The flop has an ace and I bet/barkbbdog is the only caller. The turn is another ace and I bet/he calls. He calls again on the river and I take down a $24.75 pot.

Soon after I pick up the top end of a straight draw out of the small blind(56x flop and I have 78), I bet it down and get called all the way, I luck into a 7 on the river and my top pair wins the hand for me.

After 170 hands, I've pushed up to $133.75.

parrotheadcub just won a $76 pot from bark and HC with quad sixes... 66x6T board, bark adn HC capped it with tens, parrot had the 6.

Hand #177: I raise early with JJ. HC and bark call me, and the flop comes queen high. I bet it and get one caller, bark. The turn is my jack, I bet/he calls. The river brings a flush, I bet/he folds and I take down a nice pot.

Hand #180: I have J2s on the BB. the flop coems 89T, and bark bets, I call. The turn is a jack, he checks/I bet/he calls. The river is another jack, I bet/he calls and I win the pot.

That puts me up to $153, and bark goes broke after that. I decide to go ahead and leave with a profit here after my best friend leaves.

I earn 250 points also.

UB account: $575.60. Bonus money left, $41.40.

Radii · 07-01-2004, 11:34 AM

To update here:

UB account: $575.60. Bonus money left, $41.40.

I finished down $35 while earning the rest of my bonus here. I deposit $500, earn a $160 bonus, and cash out $580. BLEH.

I also followed cthomer's advice from another thread and looked up InterCasinoPoker. The site sucks. It is TERRIBLE. 3 tables nearly crash my computer. Two slow it down a lot. But the play of my opponents is worse than the site.

I deposited $100 into intercasino. It doesn't mention a poker bonus, but after 300 hands, $50 magically showed up into my account.

What does show up, is $90 that can be used in their non-holdem casino. I'll come back to that.

I played 300 hands at 6-man 1/2 tables against some of the worst poker players I've ever seen. I deposited $100, and after just 300 hands and a $50 bonus, I'll be cashing out $272.

CURRENT BANKROLL STATUS:

Partypoker: $856
PokerStars: $168
InterCasino: $272
Neteller: $782

TOTAL: $2078

Net Change since 6/20: + $223

I haven't played as much in the last two weeks, there have been 3 or 4 days where I didn't get any poker in at all, but Ihave played more than my share of poker, and basically been slightly ahead since a lot of that was bonus money.

JULY 1: $2078

Now, back to intercasino. I deposited $100, they gave me $50 free after 300 hands. That's poker money.

They also gave me $90 to use in their casino. That $90(and whatever I do with it, even if I run it up to $200 before I bet enough) is untouchable until I wager 25x$90, or $2250. If I still have any money left after I've wagered $2250 on their casino site, I can cash it out.

I played about an hour of blackjack last night. $5/hand, and I have $90 left still of my bonus money. I broke exactly even. At the advice of cthomer, I'm going to play 3 $2 blackjack tables instead, that should lower my variance i think. I'm reading up on basic strategy today(I have only played blackjack a few times) and hope to cash out some money from this soon, but if I lose the $90, eh, it was all free to begin with.

InterCasino does this once a month apparently. Every month you can deposit $100, and get $50 free for playing 300 hands, and get $90 to use in their casino. Terrible site aside, that is worth doing every month.

But I have decided, none of the other bonuses are. Ultimate Bet and PokerStars limit players are so much better than PartyPoker players, and the bonuses take so long to earn, that it's just not worth it to me to go get them I don't believe. When I had $500 or $600 it was worth it, but over $2000, I'm not sure that it is, if I can average a solid win rate a partypoker that i can't or don't elsewhere.

And thank you for reading a boring bankroll update, after this fit of blackjack at intercasino, I'll be back to partypoker.

Radii · 07-01-2004, 05:51 PM

I'm done with Intercasino now, I won about $70 playing the rest of my blackjack hands, using a basic stragery guide I foudn on the net. So the intercasino value is way up now that I can actually cash out that bonus money.

Partypoker: $856
PokerStars: $168
InterCasino: $439
Neteller: $782

TOTAL: $2245

Woohoo!

I still have to wait to get my PIN snail-mailed to me before I can cash it out, but that's no worry.

Radii · 07-04-2004, 05:13 PM

I've been playing well lately and am back up quite a fair amount, I figure its time to go try another tournament or two.

I enter another 3 table $30+$3 tourney.

I read over Fozzie's advice from before and hope to either bust out real early or win the damn thing, not much in between

So here's a hand by hand analysis, every fold documented, lets see how many hands I mispaly here.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

63o cutoff - 2, FOLD
56s MP, limp/fold to a crap flop

AKo MP - an early raise to 30(min raise) and a call. I make it 90, a call behind me and the original 2 call.

Flop, K88. I bet out 300 chips(pot was 385) and I win it right there.

I fold two crap hands while kiddo is talkign to em. There's a preflop all in between KK/JJ/A9. A9 wins of course.

83o UTG, FOLD
72o BB, folded to a raise.

75o SB, I limp in(I'll play any two for 5 chips). Flop comes 776. There's 65 in the pot, I bet 50 and get one caller(Hoffsome, the A9 all-in guy earlier). Turn is an ace, I bet 150, he raises to 300 and I call. River is a 2, I check/he bets 500... I debate, and I am in some trouble if I fold here, I decide I have a good hand that I'm not going to risk being bluffed off of, if he has me outkicked I lose. I call the 500, and he shows me pocket 5s. I win the huge pot and am up to 2175.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

26 players remain, I am 2nd in chips at the moment. The chipleader, TimArm, is also at my table.

Since the big 75o hand i've folded everything preflop..

7To, 95o, T8o, K8o, J6o, and J3o. I just got a free flop with T5o and folded that after the flop missed.

A3s, SB. I make a small move with this, the button is short stacked and limps, I raise it to 50, and only the short stack calls. I bet 100 chips into the flop and win the pot right there, ready to fold to a raise.

KTs button, I fold to a large pre-flop raise(which ended up all in, it was made with KTo by kaynip).
84o cutoff, folded
86o cutoff - 1, folded
A9o MP, folded(too tight?)
92o UTG+1, folded

kaynip goes out, AT vs AK.

62o, UTG folded
A4o, BB, folded after the flop misses to a 100 bet
63o, SB, folded

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

6 players are gone, I have stayed steady at 2190 chips.

69o, button, folded
A3o, cutoff, I open-raise to 80 and steal the blinds
T5s, cutoff-1, folded
KQo, MP, folded to a raise from UTG. I thought I probably had the best hand, but he was a larger stack, I'll open-raise KQ from anywhere now I think but I don't want to go calling raises with it.
K4s UTG, folded

66 BB, free flop 5-way. Flop comes 553, two spades, I bet the pot(150) and get called only by the big stack at the table. The turn is a queen, I slightly underbet the pot(325) and win it there. I am now up to 2490 in chips.

TT button. I hate this hand. Hoffsome raises to 85, I re-raise to 200, he calls. He goes all in for 1500 on the flop, and I have to fold when it doesn't have a ten.

A9o cutoff, folded to a large raise pre-flop
K8o cutoff-1, folded
Q7o UTG+1, folded
Q5o UTG, folded

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

J2s, BB. Free flop for me, it coems Q96, and I bet the pot(200 with 3 limpers) and win the pot right thre.
crap, SB, folded.

chipleader TimArm goes all in with QQ and gets called by BrentPearson's AJ. ace wins.

AKo, button. jlddpv raises to 100, he only has 400 chips left after that, I re-raise to 400. I win the pot right there. Up to 2590 chips.

84o, cutoff, folded.
65s, cutoff - 1, folded
K2s, MP, folded

There are still 24 ppl left, by the way.

K5o, UTG + 1, folded
54o, UTG, folded
Q7s, BB - free flop against sslon. Flop comes KQQ. He bets out 100, and I call. Turn is a jack, he bets 150 and I call. I go ahead and bet out on the river(a mistake probably, but I figure he was getting ready to check ti down if he had nothing), and I win the pot there. I am up to 2865 in chips.
JTo, SB - folded to a raise
Q6o, button, folded

Key hand #1
AQo, cutoff, hoffsome raises to 100, I just call his raise, as do two others. Flop comes QQx, two hearts. I have no heart. hoffsome bets only 50, I raise to 150, and he is the only caller. The pot is 750 by now. The turn is a 3rd heart. I bet out 800, he goes all in for 2100. He goes all in a lot. At the drop of pretty much anything. I honestly feel I'm in the lead ehre. I call. He turns over JJ, but the jack is a heart. A 4th heart hits the river and I am down to 500 chips, with the blinds going up.

How poorly did I play that hand? hoffsome goes all in a ton, that's why I called pre-flop, I knew if I pushed at him I couldn't call an all-in. On the flop perhaps I should have bet more... or perhaps I played ok and just got drawn out on, I'm not sure.

Level 5 - blinds 50/100

I steal the blinds once, then go through the blinds and stay at exactly 500 chips, when we drop to 20 players, and merge tables.

9 men at the table after the merge(19 left total)

J3o cutoff - 1, fold
T7o, MP, fold
T4s, UTG+2, fold
32o, UTG+1, fold

16 left, they started dropping like flies. I need at least two double-ups to have a prayer though.

J3o, UTG, fold

Key Hand #2
96s, BB, two small stacks go all in(but I'm small two). They have 179 and 396 chips total. My hand isn't so good, but their hands aren't likely to dominate mine considering the stack sizes... I let the time run out and figure this is my best shot to triple up. I call. I see 44, and A5s. A 6 hits the flop, and another 6 hits the turn. I am up to 1075 chips after my SB passes, and still alive.

There are 13 players left after that.

I fold some junk to get around to my BB:

A4s. sslon limps from the SB, I check. Flop is all hearts, I fold to a bet.

Level 6 - 75/150 blinds

73o, SB, folded

13 left, I am now down to 900 chips, and this table is 6 handed.

64o, button, folded

A7s, cutoff, sslon limps, I raise to 300, sslon cals. The flop misses me, sslon checks, I go all in for my last 600, and he folds. I have 1425.

very next hand.

JJ, I steal the blinds with a 3x blind raise. 1650 chips now.

T5o, UTG, folds

K7o, BB, folded to a large pre-flop raise.

FINAL TABLE

69o, SB, folded
53s, button, folded

SomCallMeTim is our chipleader at 7086, Hoffsome has 6256. Two guys have 3500ish, and its downhill from there.

I am currently 8th in chips.

SomCallMeTim raises pre-flop 3 straight hands. On the 3rd one he shows 72o after the table folds.

I get total crap and keep folding.

SomCallMeTmi raises again next hand, MrKanish goes all in, Tim calls, kanish has KJ, Tim K9, KJ holds up.

Blinds hit 100/200 in 3 minuets, I hope they run through me first.

Tim is gone. He pushes again, A4o, hoffsome plays wit QJ and hits on the flop. Tim goes all in, hoffs calls. Hoffsome has 11,403 chips now, a mortal lock for the money.

Tim going out allows me to skip the big blind. I dump by SB of K2o to a pre-flop raise and have 1350 chips left.

9 of us left, hoffs has 11,000+, two guys in the high 3800s, one guy right at 3000, one at 2900, the rest of us wallowing near 1000 chips.

J6s, button, folded.
Q6s, cutoff, folded.

Level 8 - 100/200 blinds - hour break

9 of us are left.

Hoffsome - 11253
flavorpacket - 4047
Bobsub - 3750
visionsgus - 3005
MrKanish - 2906
sslon - 1431
Me - 1350
clambake - 1173
TimArm 1085

A5o, cutoff-1, folded (AK/KT end up all in) - Clambake doubles up off of flavorpacket.
A4o, MP, folded
K9o, UTG+2, folded to a big raise from hoffsome - hoffsome/timarm go all in, hoffs' AT beats tim's 88, and we're down to 8.
K7s, UTG+1, folded

surely I am too tight here, but bigger hands than mine have turned up each time too, so I can't complain

96s, UTG, folded

Big Hand #3
79o, BB, sslon raises the min out of the SB, and I call. Flop hits my 9, and I go all in on the flop. I am up to 1850 when he folds.

78s, SB. folded to me, I raise and bobsub says "Q2" and folds.

I am up to 2100. I believe I've more than made up for my potentially weak play with aces by pushing my shit hard and winning.

AJo, cutoff-1, I open-raise to 400. I win the blinds again.

A3o, cutoff-2, folds.
T2s, MP, folds

I am now 5th out of 8 people left. We are all jumbled up though.

MrKanish goes all in with KQ spades on a flop w/ 1 spade/2 clubs. BobSub calls with KJ clubs. A club hits and bobsub knocks out kanish.

We are down to 7.

bobsub immediately gives a ton back to visionsguy, top pair vs trips, ouch.

5 places pay:

Hoffsome - 13,000
VisionsGuy - 6800
bobsub - 2751
flavorpacket - 2374
Me - 2150
clambake - 1946
sslon 1000

sslon goes all in, I have KQo behidn him... I fold. I think that is pretty weak but if he's on an ace or a pair I'm 50/50 at best.

I open-raise to 400 with JTs. visionsguy calls me. Flop comes J33, I bet the pot(committing me but not all-in yet)... he folds.

I'm up to 2650, bobsub and I are basically tied for 3rd in chips.

On the last hand at this level, clambake goes all in, sslon calls. JJ vs AQ, JJ holds up and sslon is out 7th.

Level 8 - 150/300 blinds

next place pays. I got to avoid the blinds with that stroke of luck.

hoffs and visions guy are in barring a monster mistake. clambake has pushed up to 4000 chips. I have 2650/bobsub 2500/flavorpacket 1725, one of us are decidedly most likely to go out.

It turns into blidn stealing from here, I make a couple of folds in the blinds that I don't like but with hands I don't want to risk it all with.

bobsub goes all in for 2051 with 99, and doubles up off of hoffs who calls with A6 and doesn't hit the ace.

flavorpacket and I are the two weak stacks now, 2200/1874. I've been folding everything, flavor has played a couple of hands.

UTG+1, I raise with A9o. I steal the blinds to keep up with flavorpacket who just finished stealing a sec ago.

A2o in my big blind, ugh. I left hoffs steal when he puts me all in pre-flop.

clambake and flavorpacket go all in, clambake has him covered. UGH. flavor has AKs, clam AQo. 89TJ on the board and if that suckout didn't win me $90 I'd feel bad.

In the Money

I steal right away with AJo. I then give up a bit with 76s, calling a min raise and folding when the flop misses me.

I am *very* short stacked here.

bobsub and hoffsome go at it, a 3000+ pot. bobsub takes the chiplead when hoffs makes a big bluff that bob has the balls to call.

I raise with A9o on the button, bobsub calls. I go all in when undercards flop. Bob folds, I creep back up to 2200. I am still less than half of the next stack.

I fold J6o in my BB to a raise, AJ6 flops, argh. bobsub and hoffsome go at it again. hoffs goes all in on the flop, these are the two giant stacks. bobsub says he has a hand but it isn't worth that, and folds.

Level 9 - 200/400 blinds

clambake goes at hoffsome and is down to 4000 chips, 2nd smallest to my 1700.

clambake goes all in with KK vs bobsub's 77, a huge pot, too bad for me, that could have knocked one out.

I have A9 UTG. I raise, hoffsome re-raises me the min. I call. I go all in on the flop which is rags but I am pot committed now. hoffsome has 44, and I have a ton of outs. The board pairs the turn and gives me a flush draw. I have 6 outs to pair the board, 8 to flush me(he has the 4 of diamonds, stealing an out), any 9 or any ace. TONS of outs. 19 I think.

I miss. Game over, man.

I net $90 for my 5th place finish, which in additon to my solid play lately at party, puts me over $1000 there. (I was $850 in my last bankroll update).

Not bad, I am curious about what people think of some of the key hand,s espicially the AQ hand.

Radii · 07-04-2004, 05:18 PM

Partypoker: $1013
PokerStars: $168
InterCasino: $439
Neteller: $782

TOTAL: $2402

*very* pleased with this, my slow and steady climb has brought me back up almost to my baseline of $2500. That's the level that oliegirl and I have agreed is my starting point every month for poker. Anything I win during the month over that comes out to pay down debt/pay up savings. This is where I want to be. If I don't get greedy and don't try to jump too much, I should be back to where I was when this dynasty started, just playing more steadily at multiple 1/2 or 2/4 tables instead of 1 5/10 table.

Speaking of that, I've played 37 1/2 sessions, won in 23 of them(62%), I've one $155, for a win rate of 2.17 per table hour.

Playing multiple tables at a time that puts me at $11.88/hr in real time. A rate I'm quite pleased with for 1/2. I've played 2250 hands at 1/2. I plan on playing 4000 or 5000 hands and if I'm still winning at a solid($10/hr or more real time) rate I will then make the jump to 3 2/4 tables and see how I do. I'm sure I will do fine, but I am being extra conservative here and allowing myself to continue the slow buildup.

MJ4H · 07-04-2004, 06:42 PM

Radii, do you keep any statistics on the sit and gos you enter? I play stars $5+.50 sit and gos exclusively and keep track of my statistics, such as how many times I finish in each place, what my in the money% is, and my return on investment%. I find its a good way to measure skill and progress. I only started doing this recently so I dont have a good sample size yet, but my stats are:

1st - 3
2nd - 3
3rd - 8

Total - 23
ITM% - 60.87%
Winnings - $180
Profit - $53.50
ROI% - 42.29%

the ROI is pretty important. When I look at my stats and see 8 3rd place finishes, I am pretty disappointed. However, many sources report that a 40%+ ROI is about as good as you can expect in sit and gos (most say greater that 45% is "unsustainable). Granted my sample size is very small (by all accounts, you need probably 200 tournaments) but seeing these numbers really helps my confidence, especially when they are still good after I bust out of a few in a row.

EDIT - btw, I have a spreadsheet that does this automatically, if anyone is interested.

Radii · 07-04-2004, 09:19 PM

I haven't been for these 3 tables. I spent a signifigant amount of time before the start of this dynasty playing $50+$5 SnG's and I was tracking it then.

I should start trackign the 3-tables that I play for sure. They don't e-mail hand histories for them so I can't load the results into pokertracker like I did for the 1-table ones when I played them a lot.

Radii · 07-04-2004, 11:52 PM

I take another shot at $30+$3 NL 3-table tourney, lets see how I can do in this one.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

63o UTG, fold
72o BB, fold to a 100 raise pre-flop

Key Hand #1
Q7o SB, I limp for 5 chips. Flop comes Q49. I bet the pot(60 chips) and get three callers behind. Ick. The turn is an ace. I check, so does everyone else. The river is a 7, I've got two pair now... I bet out 250 chips. A rare board w/ no straights or flushes possible. pdalton calls me. HE WAS THE BUTTON. Why did he check AK on the river when we all checked to him? My Q7 beats his AK and I have 1475 chips.

J4s button, folds
T5o cutoff, folds
44 cutoff-1, limp with 6 others. fold to a bad flop.
QJo MP, folds
T3o MP, folds
82o MP, folds
J8o UTG+1, folds

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

Still 29 left. My 1460 chips is good for 3rd overall, not much separation yet.

64s, UTG, folds
87o, BB, fold to 145 raise from EP short stack all-in.

Key hand #2

AA, SB. short stack won last hand, goes all in again for 320. DINGDINGDING I think. one person calls. That's 620 in the pot. I raise it up to 700. The one caller who has chips left thinks for quite awhile and calls. I go all in on the flop and he folds. I almost went all-in pre-flop. Glad I didn't, I got an extra 400 chips out of him. The all in player had KK, neither of us hit. I am up to 2480.

For now I am the tourney chipleader

6xo, button, folds.
J3o, cutoff, folds.
64o, cutoff-1, folds - a large 3-way pot builds up here, with BBMASTA taking down about 900.
J3o, MP, folds - down to 8 left, the guy that called my big pre-flop raise has been raising every ahnd and finally goes out.
K2s, UTG+1, folds

Level 3 - 15/30 blinds

WE are down to 24. I am still 2nd or 3rd in chips with 2480. 2nd at my table is 1725.

T2o UTG, folds
92s, BB, free flop, folds when it missed.

Key hand #3
98o, SB, I limp into 4-way action. flop is good, T74 rainbow. I check and call a 50 chip bet. The turn is a 9. I call a 100 chip bet, I assume I'm best if I hit, and my implied odds are enormous. The river misses me, I check, so does everyone else, and I see pocket 3s, and A4o... I win! That's a shocker. I am up to 2840 there.

J5o, button, folds
J8o, cutoff, folds.
85s, MP, folds
J8s, MP, folds (I considered an open-raise here but didn't)
A8s, UTG+1, I raise to 75, and the BB calls. An ace flops, I bet the pot and I win it.
K3s, UTG, folds

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

22 players remain.

T3o, BB, free flop with only the SB. Flop comes Q55, he checks, I bet the pot(100) and he calls. He leads out on the turn and I fold.
Q8o, SB, folds
Q3o, button, folds

Key Hand #4

KK, Cutoff. wto limpers to me, I raise to 4x the BB, up to 200. eddystone calls out of the SB(he is #2 in chips at the table). Iketowin also calls me as does pdalton. FLop comes QJ6 rainbow. Checked to me. What do you do? two I have heavily covered, eddy I only have covered by 800.I bet big. All in, decide now. I want AQ to call and I don't want an ace calling for cheap. eddy thinks for a long time and call.s WOW, the one I didn't really want action from. Welllll, he shows me Q7s. No 7 hits. At table 3 Apestyles has run himself up to 5500 chips. I now have 4955. 3rd is 2100.

CRAP.

We merge to 2 tables, 19 left. apestyles sits two to my left. I hate that.

85o, UTG, folds

WOO, BB goes all in and loses. I get to skip my SB.

K4o, BB, folds to a large pre-flop raise.
T9s, button - this is tough b/c apes is in the BB when I'm on the button. folded to me, I raise to 150. apes calls. I dont' want this. KT6 flop, I bet 250 into it, prepared to slow down if he stays in, but apes folds. I am over 5000 chips, 5080.
crap, cutoff, folds.

Level 5, 50/100 blinds

We still have 18 left.

KJs, MP, large raise before me and I'm out.
86o, MP, folds
Q7o, UTG+1, folds

Key Hand
K2o, BB. Free flop with three others. flop comes KT3, tow hearts. I have th backdoor heart draw and top pair. I bet out 400, brian8065 goes all in for 667, 267 more to me. Everyone else folds, so of course I call. He has AK, with the ace of hearts. Bleh. The turn pairs the board's 10, so when I pair my 2 on the river its irrelevant. I'm down to 4263, but sitll a dominant second.

84o, SB, folds. QQ vs TT knocks out someone here at my table.
83s, button.
J4o, cutoff

Level 6, 75/150 blinds

We're down to 15 now.

QJs, MP. Two limp before me, I limp and we see a 5 way flop with me being last to act. I fold to a large all in though. Shoulda raised there if I wanted to play.

Down to 14 now.

42o, UTG+1, folds.
K5o, UTG, folds

Key Hand
T2o, BB. I get a free flop. Flop comes T52, all clubs. I bet the pot and (I'm writing this up way in the past now) dude to my left goes all in for about 1200 more. I think for awhile and call, if he's got the made flush I'm just in trouble. He has JJ with the jack of clubs, so he has tons of outs. He never hits them though and I am up to about 5900.

xx
53o, button , folds
T5o, UTG. I might have missed a hand here, or some nasty attrition knocked us down, but now we're down to 10 final table action baby!
... few hands go by
KTo, SB. one limper and I raise the minimum. heads up on the flop. Flop has two aces. I bet into the pot about 500, if he has an ace he'll push me, if he doesn't I'll win. I win.

Level 7, 100/200 blinds - hour break

Ten Left:

apestyles__ - 8016
Me - 6118
robert_graf - 3500
rnasello - 2928
usafruct - 2255
BOOTCASTER - 1808
LION_KING - 1775
mpettitt01 - 1575
BBMASTA - 1405
chnyaman - 620

apes and myself are in great positions. Either of us could fold our way into the money now, though I'm not sure that's really waht I want to do, I do want to win this thing.

A3o, button, folds
35o, cutoff, folds
T5s, cutoff-1, folds
96o, cutoff-2, folds (flop 766, arr)
T6s, MP, folds
J7o, UTG+2, folds - apes busts out two in one hand and jumps up to 9711 chips - down to 8 left
63o, UTG, folds
Q4s, BB, fold to a 1000 raise.
J9s, SB, I raise to steal the blind(folded to me). rnasello calls, but folds to my flop bluff(bluffed 700 into the 800 pot there, a big risk but I would have still been 2nd by a lot).
58o, button, folds
K8o, cutoff, folds
Q2o, cutoff-1, folds
59o, UTG+2, folds
54o, UTG+1, folds
A6s, UTG, folds - maybe should try to steal here, but I'm better off playign position I think
35s, BB, fold post flop to a bet

Level 8, 150/300 blinds

8 remain still.

apestyles still has the dominant chip lead at 9711 chips. I am still solidly in 2nd with 6118. Robert_Graf has 4400, no one else is over 3000, still in great shape to make the money and be a force.

83o, SB, folds - a raise to 800 gets called by 1, then rnasello goes all in, apestyles calls. AA vs 88, apes had no chance.

apes has 7580 now, I have 5968(after SB), rnasello has 5050, robert_graf 4400...

A3s, button, folds to a large raise.
22, cutoff, folds BBMASTA is down to his last 150 chips
A8s, cutoff-2, I open-raise to 800, rnasello calls me(he's the #3 stack, bleh), so does mr 150 chips. we end up checking it all the way down, the board 2-pairs and we split the pot with my A8 and his AQ. We're now down to 7.
AQo, MP, I call the min raise made by robert_graf, rnasello goes all in behind us, and graf and I fold. rna shows AA.

6 left, apes has 7500, rna 6850, me 5660, robert_graf 3500, usafruct 3100, bootcaster 1900, mpettit 825.

I fold my UTG hand, it sucked.

K7o, BB, graf limps, I check. Flop AK2. Graf bets 300, I raise it to 800. He folds and I push back up over 6000, and the top 3 are again totally dominant, I'm 3rd and I double the #4 stack.
J8s, button, folds to an 800 raise. rnasello's AKs flushes to beat mpettit's pocket 6s.

Level 9, 200/400 blinds

I'm 3rd out of 6. rnasello now leads with 9100 chips now. apes 2nd with 6900. I'm 3rd with 6100. 4th is 2900.

J2s, UTG+1, folds

rnasello is stealing a ton, but every time he wins a hand w/o a flop he shows... AA, AK, A7, AK his last 4.

AJo, UTG, I raise the min to 800. BOOTCASTER goes all in for 1558. It's up to me, and I call. He has QQ. 789 flop, x turn, T river. my straight puts us inthe money!

In the Money

apes and I are basiclaly tied for 2nd.

apes steals the first two hands in the money with raises to 1100.

I raise to 1000 with A8o on the button. Good steal.

I fold a weak ace(A3o) UTG. too weak 5 handed probably.

I let apes steal my BB with Q5o.

next time around i have 42o, apes steals again.

I raise with KJo on the button. good steal, staying around 7500.

Level 10, 300/600

usafruct and rovbert_graf are hanging on with 2900/1300 respectivley. apes/rnasello aren't pulling far away.

I get AQo in my first big blind. all fold to me.

T9o in my BB, I try a steal raise and rnasello gives it to me. For the moment, I'm in 2nd with 8376.

usafruct is down to 760 on his BB, he folds to an open raise by apes anyway. usa down to 460 through his blind, and robert graf is down to 1100 on his(folding to me in my BB, another free round).

I limp with pocket deuces on the button. I hope RNA has the sense to check it down with me to knock out usa fruct. He does, and his Q5 wins when the board has two pair.

I have crap in my BB but a short robert_graf folds ot me anyway.

robert_graf doubles up to 1900 with TT.

apes and rnasello go at each other for the first time in a long time, a 3000 pot pre-flop, this could drastically change things. 5000 pot on the turn. if apes wins this rna is hurt(still easily 3rd but way behind me). apes bets 2000 on the turn, AKQ7 board w/ 2 hearts. rna goes all in!! 2100 more for apes to call. Apes is a moron. AK vs KJ. rna iis now a massive chipleader with 13,250. apes has 7600, I have 6100 after I fold my BB to a 5000 raise by rnasello....

robert_graf goes all in for his last 1000, I have 83o on the button. apes calls the 400 left. graf doubles up again, apes had shit(but had to call)

Level 11, 400/800 blinds

apes forces rober_graf all in on the first hand. GRR. apes has J9, rober T7. rober doublesu p to 4200.

I'm still second but its a lot closer now, anyone could go out at any minute but rnasello.

I raise to 1600 with A2s, steal the blinds, up to 8000.

Key Hand
32o in my big blind, bleh. apes limps and I get a free one. UHOH. This could be big. 622 flop. I check/call a 1000 bet. turn is a 3! FULL HOUSE. apes goes all in, I call. Apes shows KK. No king hits and my 2s full of 3s wins the day.

I am chipleader, by about 3000 chips.

A steal of RNAsello's BB puts me up quite a bit.

a weird hand with robert_graf cripples him. I have J6, call a min raise from him, we check to the river, I hit a 6 on the river, he bets 800, I call it, and he had nothing but thought I'd fold.

graf all in against rnasello(oh lord he's thinking... it's 400 chips man). K4 vs 64, doh. two kings on the flop. graf is back up to 2800 and stayin alive.

I win a 6000 pot 3-way for 2000 each, graf's all in. HEADS UO.

I have a 2:1 chip lead, about 20,000 to 10,000

He takes 4800 pot with AT vs my A6.

Next hand I have AT, flop top pair after raising to 2000. 78T fllop. I bet 3000 into the 4000 pot. I win it. Back to 2:1 lead.

Level 12 - 500/1000 blinds

a few steals back and forth.

I raise with A6s, he calls. A55 flop. I bet half the pot, he folds.

23,000:7000 chip count.

free flop with 78. flop is 862. I bet 2000, he calls. Checks on the turn, and I had him misread. I thought he had top pair on me. He had a flush draw that he hit on the river. Terrible play by me.

19,000:11000

I raise with T9s and he comes over the top of me, I fold.

16,000:13,000

I win two straight hands then have a big one where i have K8 and raise, he calls and flop is 3 low spades. I keep the pressure on and win it.

79o, free flop, TT9 flop. I lead out for 2000. He goes all in. Does he have it? I've been raising hard. I gotta think he has it. If not this is a very good steal.

rna finall calls me down, I have A8 and an ace hits the turn, he calls when I bet the river and I beat him and we're bakc to ~20,000:10,000

Level 12 - Blilnds 750/1500

We're at our second break.

I have 19,018 chips, rna has 10,982.

First hand after the BB I have the rockets. AA. I limp. K63, two diamonds flop. I bet the min, 1500. He folds.

Key Hand

free flop with QT. Flop is QT8, two spades. I check and then call a 1500 bet. Turn is a blank, rna bets out 1500 again, he's down to about 3500 chips after this, I figure he's committed and if he's on a flush draw I'm not letting him see the last card for anything less than all his chips. I re-raise all in. He calls.

QT83 board. I have QT, rnasello shows J8. He has 6 outs. None of them come.

I finish in 1st place and have $270 to show for my $33 entry fee!!!!!

SirFozzie · 07-05-2004, 09:43 AM

Suh WEET!

Grats, man. some iffy plays in there, but in general, solid

Radii · 07-05-2004, 02:00 PM

I'm on a roll, so lets see if I can keep it going.

Another $30+$3 NL 3-table tourney here.

I get seated at table 1, so there's not likely to be any moving around for me.

Level 1 - 10/15 blinds

86o, button, folds - the first pot ends up being a 1000 chip pot, with a straight draw and a crappy pocket pair betting hard

Key Hand #1
AQo, cutoff - I raise to 45 and get heads up with rjlacha, the pocket pair from the last hand. Flop comes AKT, two hearts. He bets 15 chips and I just call. Dumb move there, I figure I have him beat but I have to raise, and after his calling last hand I figure he'll call me down no matter what I do. He bets 15 again on the blank on the turn and raise him up to 75 chips total. He calls. The river brings the flush, rjlacha bets 15 chips again. I debate raising, I think I'm likely best, but he could well be trying to sucker me into raising... perhaps I outthought myself here. He has pocket 9s, and I win the pot. Up to 1175. I could have gotten a lot more out of that.

Q7o, cutoff-1, folds - rjlacha busts out rustler1 with a full house made from J9o. our first casualty and the guy that plays every hand has 2800 chips early.
84o, MP, folds
A2o, MP, folds
22, UTG+1, folds - rjlacha has AA and wins another 700 chips. 15 chip bets into a 150+ pot on the flopand turn, then a pot sized bet on the river
T9o, UTG, folds - another casualty, this time fibonacci goes all win with QQ and gets called by AJs on a bad flop
KTs, BB - free flop 3-handed. Flop comes K75, two hearts(I have spades. I bet the pot(45) and dwcbroker calls. Turn pairs the 5, I bet the pot again(135 this time) and dwc folds.

Level 2 - 10/20 blinds

I have 1240 chips after winning two small pots on the first round. Two people are gone, both from my table.

xx SB, folds
T8s, button, limp w/ 3 others, the BB raises to 170, and we all fold
83o, cutoff, fold
99, cutoff-1, dwcbroker raises to 40 before me, I just call. I don't want to get terribly involved in this pot without a good flop for me, and I expect more callers to come. I'm the only caller, and the flop is 3 overcards, I fold. I don't like how I played that but I'm really not sure what I could have done differently that doesn't put a ton of chips on the line with a marginal pair.
83o, MP, folds
94o, UTG+1, folds

someone is moved to our table, Gengar, with 1730 chips. 27 left.

T6o, UTG, folds
86o, BB, fold pre-flop to a 3x blind raise.
A2o, SB, limp into 5 way action, fold on a bad flop
Q5o, button, folds
Q9o, cutoff, folds

Key Hand #2
AQo, cutoff-1, rjlacha limps to me, I raise to 60(3x the blind), the SB and rjlacha both call. T92 flop. I bet the pot, 200 chips. rjlacha calls me. HE goes into his "bet 20 chips" mode ont eh turn and river, which I'll call down... he has AK. I am down to 840 chips on that one.

Key Hand #3
AA, cutoff-2, I raise to 60. A short'ish stack, ketsul, raises to 220. I re-raise him all in, he had 420 total going into the hand. Ketsul calls me, he has AJs, my aces hold up. Right back up to 1290

KTo, MP, folds
A8o, UTG+1, folds

Level 3 - blinds 15/30

crap UTG, folds

There's 24 people left, I'm still in fine shape for this level.

J3o, BB. Free flop, I hit top pair on a J97 board. I bet the pot, 90 chips, but fold when seahawk pushes it up to 300.
T8o, SB, folds
QJo, button - tough hand for me. Made easier by an open-raise before me. folds
58o, cutoff, folds
A8o, cutoff-1, folded to me and the table has been very tight... I open-raise. BB gengar calls, I bet the pot ont he flop regardless of what it was, and I win the pot.
xx, MP, folds
KK, UTG+1, raise to 90, win the pot. OUCH.

Key Hand #4
AKo, UTG, raise to 90. all folds to the BB, dwcbroker raises to 220, and I just call. The flop comes down AT7. dwc bets 250, and I raise to 700. He folds.

T5o, BB, folds

Key Hand #5

A6s, SB. The button(dwcbroker) limps, I raise to 90, and he calls. The flop comes KJ3, and for some reason I become a pussy. I check/call it down. Checing the flop and calling 30 bets on the turn and river to see dwc catch a pair on the river with his Q8s. I have no idea why I did that, and I have to play more agressively than that to keep going here. Dumb.

a few hansd folds while I'm writing it up.

Level 4 - 25/50 blinds

T9o, UTG+1, folds

some hands undocumented b/c of talking to the fiancee. I win a small pot with A7o out of the big blind when I hit an ace, and I steal the blinds with an open-raise with QJo in the cutoff.

We're down to 19 left, there's 9 at my table now, some new faces. I have 1785 in chips and continue to slowly build and remain just above averrage. I'm 5th out of the 9 at my table in chips, but 2nd is only 400 above me and 8th is only 350 below me... someone needs to break out here, hopefully me.

Q5o, UTG+1, folds
42o, UTG, folds
76o, BB, dwcbroker limps, and we check down a bunch of suited high cards and he wins with a king.
24o, SB, folds

Level 5 - 50/100 blinds

J4o, button, folds
AJo, cutoff, I call the min raise made by dwcbroker(200 bet). seahawk goes all in behind me, and dwc goes all in over him, I fold. dwc has QQ vs seahawk's A8. QQ holds up and we're down to 18.

I have 1510 chips at this poitn, a little below average but 7th out of 9 at my table. The toher table has a lot of short stacks, I'd be 4th out of 9 there.

xx, folded in MP
T5o, UTG+2, folds
A6o, UTG+1, folds
QTo, UTG, folds

The short stacks at the other table go fast, we're down to 16. I get to skip my BB thanks to party's player moving system.

Key Hand #6
A8o, SB. folded to me, I raise to steal the blinds. carrie27 thinks hard before caling. Flop comes A63. I bet the pot, 400, which carrie calls. The turn is another ace. Pot size is 1200 now, we're both under 1000. i go all in. I have the better hand pre-flop... but she caught 2 pair. A8 vs A6. Carrie's A6 full house vs my simple trip aces crushes me.

I am crippled with 310 chips.

Key Hand #7

AJs, very next hand, button. I go all in, Two others are in the hand. They dont' check it down... one of them bluffs with king-high to get heads up with me. His KJ vs my AJ. An ace hits the turn and I'm still alive with 1080 chips.

xx, MP, folds
xx, UTG+2, folds
94s, UTG+1, folds
73o, UTG, folds - gengar goes all in with QQ, ERACHustler calls with TT preflop. A ten on the river and gengar is gone.
Q9o, BB, 4-way free flop, KJ4, I fold to a bet on the flop.

Level 6 - 75/150 blinds

QTo, SB, folds to a large raise pre-flop

There are 15 left, I am 2nd shortest stack in the game, shortest at my table.

Key Hand #8

What's the cure for short stacks? AA, button. dwcbroker raises to 300. I consider a re-raise but I need to get a big score here. I just call. The blinds both fold(would anyone else just call here? Or is an all-in for 900 the better move? I'm going all in regardless of what flops). The flop comes 345, all diamonds. dwc bets, I raise all in, he calls. UGH. QJ diamonds. I need a diamond. The turn gives me a straight, a deuce, no help. The river, a ten of diamonds! My flush wins!

...

a few folds during the writeup

Key Hand #9
I raise to 425 with AKo UTG. fibonacci goes all in behind me for 2200. We're about even in chips, this is a legit all-in. I think down to about 4 seconds left, and fold. Does anyone call here? I still have 1600 in chips, short, but alive.

Everyone folds to my BB.
K8o, SB, fold to a pre-flop raise.

At this point I have 1610 chips left. There are 14 people left. The average stack is 2100, there's a 1000 stack at each table being short.

97o, button, folds.

blinds will be 100/200 next time they hit me.

KJs, cutoff - a limp + an all in for 1000 by dwcbroker and I fold this one
43o, cutoff-1, folds
T6o, UTG+1, folds - dwcbroker all in for 1330 pre-flop, he's trying to build by stealing the blinds I assume. It works again
Q6o, UTG, folds

Level 7 - 100/200 blinds - hour break

14 left, more than the last couple of times I've made it to the break. I expect massive attrition during the next level as the blinds catch up with a lot of us, myself could be included with just 1610 chips. I'm BB on the first hand back, so 2 hands in I'll be down to 1310 if I don't win a hand.

94o, BB, fold to a raise
T7o, SB, folds

That leaves me with 1310 chips, there are 3 of us right around 1000-1400 that are the short ones at this table.

Key Hand #10
68s, button. I make the worst decision in history. I decide I'm going to steal here. Why is that so bad? The two biggest stacks at the table are in my blinds. I raise, ERACHustler calls. Well, I love the flop, open ended straight draw + flush draw, QT9, a 7 or a J give me a straight, two spades ont ehf lop. I go all in for 900 and win the pot. Back to 1810

crap, cutoff, folds - the other two short stacks go all in against each other. 98s vs KQ. 98s wins, and dwcbroker is down to 200 chips, rvest is up to 2100.
crap, next hand, folds
95o, UTG+1, folds - dwcbroker is all in here for his last 220. He goes out 14th.

Q3o, BB, folded to me, YAY
52o, SB, folds

Still at 1810.

K7s, button, I open-raise to 500 chips, I hate this w/ two giant stacks behind but I have to steal sometime. ERAC calls again. A king flops, and I go all in. ERAC calls. He has KT. UGH. but I'm saved! There's a queen on the board, and the board pairs. Our kickers dont' come into play, and we split the money from the SB.

KQo, cutoff, folds to a 1000 chip raise before me(should I play here? I'm basically committed at this point if I do)
xx, UTG+1, folds
73o, UTG, folds

12 left now and we're 6 handed at both tables. I'd love to make a move before we go to one table.

64o, BB, folded to me, WHEE again.
Q5o, SB, folds

Key Hand #11
AKs, button. My 3rd straight steal attempt on the button. Well... this time there are two limpers before me. That's 700 in the pot. I make it 1000 to go. rjlacha calls me. I go all in for my last 800 on the flop, 744. HE FOLDS. w0w0w0w.

I now have 3360 in chips. Holy crap.

xx, cutoff, folds.
K2s, cutoff-1, folds
T6s, UTG, folds
52o, BB, free flop 3-way, AQ5 flop and I fold to a 600 bet.

Level 8 - blinds 150/300

Q2, SB, folds

There is no big chipleader here. There are 5 people with 3000-4000 chips, I have 3010 after my blinds here. This is still anyone's ball game big time.

K8s, button. I make the min raise, ERAC has had enough of me stealing I think. I almost folded b/c I've been stealing so much from this position. He goes all in behind me, and I fold. Down to 2410.
K8o, cutoff, folds.

11 people left. Someone has 375 chips at the other table, final table any second.

Q3o, cutoff-1, folds. On the other table the 375 triples up to 900. On my table rjlacha doubles up to 1540, holding off the final table for another moment.
59o, UTG, folds
72o, BB, folds
64o, SB, folds

We're down to 10 now. I have 1960 in chips, and I am on the button for hand one of full table action.

J6o, button.

Big stack has 4580, 2nd has 3925, 4 total in the 3000's, 3 in the 2000's, and 2 of us under 2000, me and rjlacha.

ATo, cutoff. A big stack raises all in before me. I fold. rjlacha calls. TT vs AQ. rjlacha hits a queen and doubles up to 3080.
69o, cutoff-1, folds

rusty has 1970 now, i have 1960.

J3o, cutoff-2, folds, rjlacha wins a 2100 pot to become the table's chipleader
K2o, MP, folds
72o, UTG+2, folds - rustysea limps UTG. Interested to see what he does that with. Carrie raises to 1200, rusty all in, carrie calls. 66 for rusty, aK for carrie. trip 6s for rusty, carrie is crippled, down to 500 chips. Rusty is new chipleader with 5590
83s, UTG+1, folds
44 UTG, I don't have rusty's balls I guess. Fold. Blinds are big, I gotta loosen up, but this is still UTG at a full table.
73s, BB, free flop, it misses, I fold to a bet
K7o, SB, carrie is down to 200 chips. I'm all in if it's folde to me. NOPE. rvest goes all in, rustysea calls. carrie folds. 88 vs QQ, QQ holdsup and rvest is out tenth.

Level 9 - 200/400 blinds

Carrie goes out on the first hand at this level. 8 let, I'm the shortest stack.

Key Hand #11
A9o, button. rusty limps, I go all in for 1500. rusty calls with KJ. Flop QQJ. Turn 4. River ACE. IM ALIVE.

I go from the short stack to right in the middle. 5th with 3620.
xx, cutoff, folds - fibonacci all in with AK. called by ERACHustler's KK. two aces on the board. ERAC is short stack of the momen with 1830.
62o, cutoff-1, folds
xx, MP, folds. - AK vs AK all in, two giant stacks against each other. This is dangerous. Just bam, all in pre-flop.
A4o, UTG+1, folds
84o, UTG, folds

Key hand #12
K9s, BB. ERAC raises to 1000. I call the 600 to see the flop. Flop misses me and I fold when he goes all in. Questionable? Probably so. I am down to 2420 after the SB passes through me and I have nothing there either.

two hands folded.
K2o, cutoff, folds to large raise
K3o, cutoff-1, folds - 88 vs A8, 88 holds up and rjlacha is over 5000 chips, and keemo is out 8th.
T7o, MP, folds
58o, UTG, folds

two more until the money, but I am short stacked. Tons of us in the 2000-3500 range though, anything could happen.

82o, BB, I have to fold to a raise here. rusty raises to 2000 on the button, shows 77.
J9o, SB. again fold to a large pre-flop raise.
56o, button, folds

1820, short stack by 900 or so now.

73o, cutoff, folds
79o, MP, folds
AJo, UTG+1. All in pre flop, I steal the blinds, up to 2420.
99 UTG. I raise to 1200. I steal again. Up to 3000.
J8o, BB, paco_II raises big before me, I fold.
Q3o, SB, folds - BB short stack calls a raise by rusty, but folds to 800 bet on the flop

Level 10 - 300/600 blinds

I'm on the button. ERAC has 1730, isuquinndo 2580, me 2420. PACO 3145. The other 3have more than 4500 in chips.

J3o, button, folds

Key Hand #13
A6o, cutoff - rjlacha calls my min raise. WOO. A86 flop!!!! Two pair. I go all in for my last 1200. rjlacha calls me. He shows pocket tens. He's got two outs. I hit a 6 on the turn, no ten comes, and I'm in graet shape!!!

I am now 2nd biggest stack with 5400

AKo, UTG, min raise steals the blinds.
79s, BB, ERAC goes all in for 1700. I'm not calling 1100 there.
AA, SB. folded to me, I raise the minimum. I hope I'll get action, ERAC defends his blind hard. Nope, he folds. I win the big blind only.
xx, button, folds. rjlacha out 6th, AQ vs A9, but a 9 hit the board.

6 left, next one out puts us int he money. ERAC has 1730, isuquinndog has 1080. The rest of us are at or over 5000.

a few crap hand folds.

Two key hands #14/#15
82o, BB. isuquinndog goes all-in. It is only 400 more for me to call, I htink I have to. I call he has A8 and he doubles up.
AKs SB. I call the min raise by rustyseas. The flop misses me totally and he bets big. He's the chip leader, and we're very clos to the money. I don't think I can put my tournament life at stake against the big stack here. I fold.

ERAC goes all in for 1730 and no one calls. All of a sudden any of us but rusty is in danger. I have 4060, short stack has 2630. I'm still in 2nd.

I fold crap UTG. rusty/isuquinn go at it, ISU gose all in for 1860 on the flop, rusty says "nut flush draw" and calls. He's up against JJ, and isuquinndog has gone from 1000 chips to 7000.

WOO. paco busts out ERAC with 99 vs A6, and we're in the money.

In the Money

A8s, SB, I steal the BB with a raise.

It's wide open. RustySea 8990, isuquinndog 8500, paco_II 5100, me 4060, fibonacci 3200

Level 11 - 400/800 blinds

3 handed action, the two chipleaders and the short stack for the minimum. The short stack wins it.

KQs UTG. I raise the min to 1600. I steal the blinds.
J8o BB, paco steals right back.
47s SB, folds to a raise
Q6o button, folds

table got tight all of a sudden

42s MP, folds
K8o UTG, folds
KJo BB. Free flop w/ paco. I flop middle pair, QJx. paco bets 800, I raise to 2600, he folds. paco is short w/ 2700 now. everyone else over 5K
xx SB, folded to large raise.
63s button folded.

A8s, MP, steals the blinds w/ min raise.
97o, UTG, folds - paco down to 1940 losing BB to rusty
89o, BB. paco folds to me, yay. Didn't want to have to decide that.
T2o, SB, folds
87o, button, folds to all in from paco. paco vs rusty. KJ/K9. paco has KJ and doublesup+ the blinds.

big stack - 6680. Small stack - 4400. I have 6460.

76o UTG folds
Q5o BB. folds to me, yay
AJ SB. folded to me, I raise the min, steal blinds. I'm 2nd by a fair amount now.
Q4s, button, steal blinds. I'm chipleader for a moment.
Q4s, cutoff, folds - paco raises to 2000, isuqinn calls. paco all in on the flop, ISU very short if he folds. isu says "got the queen(top pair)" I assume he's on a smaller pocket pair. isu folds.

paco and I have near 9000, rusty 6850. fibonacci and isu 2800/1700.

ISU doubles up next hand, A4 vs K9, two aces hit.

64s BB. ryusty raises all in, doh. rusty shows AJo.
QT SB. I raise, isuquinn thinks a lot. HE goes all in. 2240 more for me to call. I fold. big differnce in 6460 and 4000. I fold. Rusty says "you do that move too much, Olie" (I'm playing on my OlieGirl acct).
T8o UTG, folds.

fibonacci is gone. isuquinn all in with JJ, fibonacci TT. JJ wins.

66,BB. rustysea raises min. i go all in for 6500. He folds.

Level 12 - blinds 500/1000

paco 9100, me 8060, isuquinn 7030, rustysea 5750.

23s, BB. fold to a steal.

K7s, SB. steal blinds.

isuquinn down to 5000. Rusty tells us "I go all in or fold on all small pairs" after showing 33 after an all-in raise. Thanks for the info.

isu wins a big pot going all in. We're all tied basically. all of us between 6500-8000

Rusty going all in a lot. Shows KJs this time. He seems to go all in or fold on anything.

I lose a little limping with 87s from SB after button limped too. folded on the flop.

Rusty all in 7250. paco thinking hard. folds

rusty AKs shown.

I have to fold 62o in my BB to a raise and I'm down to 5000 chips. 4500 after 32o in SB.

I am decidedly short now.

Key Hand #16
fold J2o. Raise KTo UTG. isuquinn re-raises me just 1000. I call and there is 7000 in the pot, I have 1500. I go all in on pretty much anything here. ISU calls when the flop is all undercards. He has AQ. I am out.

I had 4500 chips left, the blinds hit the next hand and would have drained me to 3000 if I didn't get anything. That seemed like the right place to make a move, 4 handed I'm decent to have the best hand I think.

I take $135 home for my efforts, a profit of $102.

That's 3 straight 3-table's in the money, I've very pleased with these results.

SirFozzie · 07-05-2004, 04:54 PM

Key Hand #8

What's the cure for short stacks? AA, button. dwcbroker raises to 300. I consider a re-raise but I need to get a big score here. I just call.

I think you need to re-raise all in here, personally. you want him to PAY for his drawing hands (and face it, any hand is drawing vs AA).. Smack him upside the head for raising you, and make him decide.

Radii · 07-05-2004, 05:01 PM

On a roll, I'll play these until I lose one at least.

$30+$3 NL 3-table tourney.

... This one we join in progress, I had some laundry folding to do so I wasn't able to write up the earliest stages.

We're 1/2 hour into this one. In the first 30 minutes there were 3 hands worth noting. I made a big steal with TT, blulffing hard into a king high flop with 3 opponents who had called a raise pre-flop. Another steal later with AQ on a king high flop after one person had called my raise.

I had 1200 at that point. I had QQ, I raised to 100 pre-flop(15/30 blinds at the time), a giant stack went all in, he had been making huge plays constantly, no way could Iput him on AA/AK/KK... I call quickly, and I am at ~2500 after I double upa gainst his pocket 7s.

[b]Level 4 - 25/50 blinds[b]

24 people remain, 33 minutes into the tourney.

After i fold my BB to a large raise, I have 2460 chips.

Big Hand #1
A8o, SB, I limp into a 4-way pot. J99 flop. Checked around. An 8 on the turn, I bet the pot(200), one calls and one goes all in behind me for 600. I fold and suprisingly the guy that called me also folded. I drop to 2210 after that one.

xx, button, folded
32o, cutoff, folded
Q7, MP, folded

7 people at my table, 21 left overall. dpark has 2300 chips, I have 2210, we are dominant chip leaders over the rest of the table right now. dpark is 2 to my right.

ATo, UTG+1. I fold it. The table has been too loose for me to push real hard from this position(like i did in my SB). Indeed, 4 people saw the flop for a raise, not many flops I'd like to see there.
9xo UTG, folds - 3 short stacks are all in. AA/JJ/99. JJ hits trips and isn't such a short stack anymore.

Down to two tables now, 17 left after some big attrition. I move to table 1 and see a lot of new opponents. dpark is directly to my right now. there are two very large stacks here, 3920(rhino2112, two to my right) and jynx_ur_hand(3300, about midway across from me).

73s, cutoff-1, folded

couple more crap hands folded

Level 5 - 50/100 blinds

82o, BB - I fold to a steal from rhino.
A3o, SB - I make a weak limp, it looks like this is getting checked around, I make a bet on the turn and take the pot.

I have 2310 chips, above average and more than enough to pressure a few of the guys at my table.

A5s, button. I fold this after the two giant stacks raise/call a raise.

Key Hand #2
ATo, cutoff. a short stack limps, I raise to 300. The short stack has about 450 left, if he calls me we're going all in on the flop I'm sure. Everyone else folds and he calls. He has 190 chips left and the pot is 700. The flop comes 992. he checks, I bet 200, he calls all in. DOH. Q9o. Queen on the turn and I'm dead to that.

Down to 1820 after that unfortunate flop.

K7o, cutoff-1, folded
97s, MP, folded
K2o, UTG+1, folds
72o, UTG, folds

92o, BB, free flop 4-handed. hard to get a good flop with 92o though and I fold on the flop.
J9o, SB. jynx_ur_hand has played his big stack well and is up over 5000 chips. He raises here and I fold. - TheFar goes all in, jynx calls, QQ vs A8s. TheFar doubles up.
J8s, button. Folded to a 300 raise from rhino.

Level 6 - 75/150 blinds

14 are left. TheFar gets moved and there's 7 at my table now.

My 1670 stack is now below average, the couple of hands I've tried to play haven't worked out well for me at all.

Down to 13 after 58o goes all in on a AK5 flop. 6 at my table.

94o, cutoff, folded. Down to 12, QQ vs 77.

Rhino one both of those all in's, he's up over 5000 chips now, wile jynx has fallen to 4100.

K5s, button(thanks to the all ins and people getting moved.. weird huh?), folded to a large raise from rhino.
37o, cutoff-1(guy that got mvoed got skipped for his button), folded

Key Hand #3
A8o UTG - I raise to 300. I have been silent hopefully I'll get respect. Wellnow. ROOKIE33 all in for 1366, rhino all in over the top of him. I fold. rookie has KK, rhino AA. king on the flop and rookie is looking good.

86o, BB. Folded to a 900 all in raise.
K8o SB, there's an all in before me, I fold, its called. rookie wins another big hand and dpark is gone.

We merge to 1 table during that, dpark is out tenth.

9 are left, unfortunately, I am the short stack here. TheFar, Juneyur and myself are under 1500. one guy as 2500, one has 3100, the rest are over 4K. Chip leader has 6300. I need a big hand to double up here. The blinds will likely be 100/200 when they hit me, I'd have 850 left if I fold through them, and the next time around would be decision time for me.

63s, UTG, folded - 4 people limp early, the button raises to 350, 2 call... 1600 pot pre-flop. jynx gets crippled going all in with KQ, 2nd pair, vs A8, top pair + flush draw. jynx is down to 1500 on the loss.

Level 6 - 100/200 blinds - hour break

bdc17 has 7568 chips
burk2828 - 5611
rookie33 - 4662
rhino2112 - 4284
wildd1 - 3063
jynx - 1502
juneyur - 1205
Me - 1145
TheFar - 960

blinds go through me right after we start back up. I certainly don't like my position but with a full table I feel I am very patient and play a short stack well.

hm, well. So much for having to play a short stack well, just go all in and hope to get lucky.

Key Hand #4
QQ, BB. rookie limps, rhino folds. Do I just go all in here or see a flop? I check to see the flop, afraid he'll just fold if I go all in from the BB. Flop comes 78T. I go all in on the flop and he calls. He has A9o. No ace, no cards to complete his straight. I double up+ a little to 2390. Comments on the pre-flop check?

crap, SB, folds.

I am 6th in chips now. Still short, and still need to improve to make the money, but I have life now.

53o, button, folds
42o, cutoff, folds
Q6o, cutoff-1, folds
32s, MP, folds - very limpy table, 3 ppl see the flop for the blind bet. two short stacks are in this one. and juneyur is gone, AT vs AQ, QTx flop.

Key Hand #5
KK, UTG+1. I raise to 500. wiilldd1 calls. CRAP. A87 flop. Does he have an ace? Can I NOT go all in here? please please comments here... I check. He chekcs. Turn pairs the 7 on the board. I check. He bets 500, into the 1300 flop. I think for a long time and re-raise him all in. He folds.

KTo, UTG, folds
K4o, BB, folds to a large raise.
Q3o, SB, folds

After that big hand I have 3290 chips, still below average, but in much much much better shape, I now expect to make the money unless a break goes against me.

I fold crap on the button and the cutoff. We lose wiilldd1 and are down to 7. Only two stacks are shorter than me. So maybe I'm ont in the great position where I can "expect ot make the money"

a few folds... then

Level 8 - 150/300 blinds

A3o, BB. rhino limps and I check. The flop is all hearts. My 3 is a heart, but that's it. We check to the river, rhino overbets the pot, and I fold. He shows a flopped flush.
75o, SB, folded. - TheFar wins a big pot and I'm the 2nd smallest stack now.

xx button, folded - Jynx (the short stack) goes all in for his last 900. J9 vs 33 when bdc17 calls him. jynx hits a straight with his J9 to double up.

K5o, cutoff, folded
J3o, MP, folded
T4o, UTG+1, folded - TheFar and jynx get involved in a 4 way pot. neither of them give up much though, and our positoins remain the sam.e
52o, UTG, folds. - jynx and thefar both limp again, 4 way pot with two big stacks and them to. jynx goes all in for 1404. Rhino calls. jynx has a straight draw. Rhino has a pair + the same draw. jynx is out.
T7s, BB - limped and checked down against a big stack, I lose to Q7.
J9o, SB, folded to raise.

right now its me and TheFar in the most trouble on the bubble. 2770 for him, 2390 for me. No one else is under 4000.

KJo, cutoff, folded to big raise, TheFar steals the blinds.
Kto, MP, folds
94s, UTG, folds - burk raises, thefar calls the pre-flop raise. TheFar gives it up on the flop though.
76o, BB. TheFar raises to 1000 pre-flop, I have to fold.
32o, SB, folds.
97o, button, folds - 4 limpers, not TheFar though
56o, cutoff, folds - 3 limp to see the flop again, but quick folds post flop

Level 9 - 200/400 blinds

I'm down to 1940. TheFar is at 2770, he's stolen much better than me.

T2s, MP, folds
Q9o UTG, I conisder playing but don't. TheFar has 2170 after blinds pass him.

K6o, BB. TheFar raises, rhino calls and I get outof the way. Rhino check-raises on the flop and TheFar is hurt bad, 970 chips.
J6s, SB, folds to big raise.

looking back up the list I regret not playing that KJ up there, now I'm just hoping to make the money any way I can

34o, button, folds
37o, cutoff, folds
77, MP. TheFar's big blind. I could fold and hope he blinds out, or I can play hard. I go all in. I steal the blinds.
KQo, UTG, I raise pre flop and steal the blinds again.

TheFar has 370 chips, I have 2140.

KK, BB. noooo come on, just give me crap until I make the money. burk2828 raises pre-flop. I call the min raise.

The flop comes JTx. What do I do? 1700 pot, I have 1800 left. I go all in. I'm really very torn here but I just cannot see myself folding in this spot. I go all in. burk calls. He has KQ, straight draw and backdoor flush draw. An ace on the turn gives him the straight and I bust out on the bubble, no money for me.

Thoughts? I almost certainly could have folded into the money after those two steals of the blinds, but I'd have been crippled. With KK I could have put myself in a position to win.

Radii · 07-05-2004, 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Key Hand #8

What's the cure for short stacks? AA, button. dwcbroker raises to 300. I consider a re-raise but I need to get a big score here. I just call.

I think you need to re-raise all in here, personally. you want him to PAY for his drawing hands (and face it, any hand is drawing vs AA).. Smack him upside the head for raising you, and make him decide.

I was 50/50 on that decision. I can most definitely see your reasoning there, and it is very possibly what I should have done. At that point, my idea was "My chips are going into the middle no matter what happens here. What's the best way to get his in too." But I can see your point there for sure.

SirFozzie · 07-05-2004, 05:12 PM

Key Hand #4
QQ, BB. rookie limps, rhino folds. Do I just go all in here or see a flop? I check to see the flop, afraid he'll just fold if I go all in from the BB. Flop comes 78T. I go all in on the flop and he calls. He has A9o. No ace, no cards to complete his straight. I double up+ a little to 2390. Comments on the pre-flop check?

Giuhhhhhhhhh.. I don't like this play, myself, not from a mechanical standpoint but because I get so snake bit on these. The amount of A-rag K-Rag hands that you'll see will beat your poor Q's when the A or K comes down (which it usually does) I would raise half your remaining chips (of course you are pot committed, but this is not a "information gathering" raise, it's a "here little fishyyy" type thing) I find that people assume you're stealing with that raise (since you didn't all-in, and have chips left), so they'll be more willing to bite

RPI-Fan · 07-05-2004, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Key Hand #4
QQ, BB. rookie limps, rhino folds. Do I just go all in here or see a flop? I check to see the flop, afraid he'll just fold if I go all in from the BB. Flop comes 78T. I go all in on the flop and he calls. He has A9o. No ace, no cards to complete his straight. I double up+ a little to 2390. Comments on the pre-flop check?

Giuhhhhhhhhh.. I don't like this play, myself, not from a mechanical standpoint but because I get so snake bit on these. The amount of A-rag K-Rag hands that you'll see will beat your poor Q's when the A or K comes down (which it usually does) I would raise half your remaining chips (of course you are pot committed, but this is not a "information gathering" raise, it's a "here little fishyyy" type thing) I find that people assume you're stealing with that raise (since you didn't all-in, and have chips left), so they'll be more willing to bite

I agree with The Foz.

There are very few flops that help you, here... Only AQx, or KQx, really...

So what that means is, you get a crap flop of AKx or something where you're in a tough spot, or the flop is xxx and he has nothing to call you with. Might as well get all the chips in before the hand; you aren't usually going to lure him into anything extra on the flop.

RPI-Fan · 07-05-2004, 05:47 PM

Quote:

KK, BB. noooo come on, just give me crap until I make the money. burk2828 raises pre-flop. I call the min raise.

The flop comes JTx. What do I do? 1700 pot, I have 1800 left. I go all in. I'm really very torn here but I just cannot see myself folding in this spot. I go all in. burk calls. He has KQ, straight draw and backdoor flush draw. An ace on the turn gives him the straight and I bust out on the bubble, no money for me.

No all-in preflop?? Kind of surprised you didn't do that; you make it seem like you knew you were committed to the pot anyways - why not just get it in preflop when there's a chance you steal the blinds?

Radii · 07-05-2004, 06:21 PM

Good points on the QQ hand. I think youre right, the check there was rather weak.

On the KK hand, I am definitely happy with how I played it pre-flop. On the flop, I'm not as sure but I don't think I did too much wrong here.

Here's my reasoning on the KK hand. This is one of the rare spots where I could lay down KK even though I'm a short stack late in a tourney. If the flop comes straight-flush possible or there's an ace, I can lay my hand down and just play for the money. But with any kind of a decent flop for me, I can go all in and be pretty certain I'm going to have the best hand.

I'm definitely curious about this, I was ready to lay the KK down to an ace flop, but, perhaps there was a better way to play it.

Thanks for all the comments so far.

Radii · 07-06-2004, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPI-Fan

No all-in preflop?? Kind of surprised you didn't do that; you make it seem like you knew you were committed to the pot anyways - why not just get it in preflop when there's a chance you steal the blinds?

I posted about this on another poker board I read (over at fool.com, there is an "On Tilt" board, it's not free though, I just love the site in general so I pay for it), and there were a good 10 replies or so... and I've totally reversed my thinking here. All-in or fold, and a fold is pretty weak given that on the bubble of a tournament bigger stacks are going to be willing to steal with a ton of hands, but may not be willing to risk a signifigant amount of chips with very many at all.

I should have gone all-in pre-flop, or maybe, *maybe* considered folding if I really really wanted to make the money more than anything.

07-04-2004, 06:42 PM	#88
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07-05-2004, 09:43 AM	#91
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05-22-2004, 05:52 PM	#52
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I have been working towards a bonus on ultimatebet.com. I'm over halfway there now. They double your bonus points if you start a new table, so I find blank 6 man tables, sit down an wait for an opponent. Today I'm at a 2/4 table. After a short while, kjo1333 jonis and we go heads up. He seems a terribly straight forward player early on. I lose AT vs his J2 when I flop middle pair and he flops two pair. That takes a decent chunk out of me and I have $80 (out of my original $100) after some back and forth. Scratch that, I ahve $66, after kjo rivers a flush against my top pair. After 17 hands we end up 3 handed, CalvinsAKQJ10 joins, I'm taking a bad beating though, my solid A-high hands are not hitting or losing to rivered flushes. 20 hands in we are four handed. Hand #20: I have AK suited UTG, I raise and only kjo calls. The flop c omes QJ5 and he bets out. I have yet to see him bluff... I call his flop bet but fold on the turn when I get no help. This is a serious beating, down $50 after 20 hands. 25 hands in, we're 5 handed. CalvinsAKQJ10, kb78, kjo1333, empty seat, and Kyman in order. Hand #25: I get AQo, and just check in my BB. I flop two pair, bet out and its folded to me. Hand #26: kb78 raises, I call with QJs in the SB, but fold on a flop bet that just gives me an inside straight. kb had A9o. Hand #29: AKo UTG, I raise and get 3 callers. The flop comes J49, all hearts(I have no heart). I throw out a single bet to see if I can take the pot, Kyman calls. The turn makes a 4-flush. We both check. The river puts a flush on the board. We both check again and split a $19 pot, $9.50 for me. I'm holding steady at $50. Nixons Twin joins in the empty seat, 6 handed 33 hands in. Hand #35: UTG again, with AQo this time. I raise and only Kyman calls me. Flop comes 678, I bet, he calls. The turn brings a king, and I go ahead and fold when he bets. Hand #48: I finally have a playable hand, QJs, and I get a free flop with it along wit kj and kyman. Flop comes TT4, two clubs(no clubs in my hand). We check, turn is the ace of clubs, and I'm out to a bet. I'm down to $33, bleeding out after an early beating and now a cold run of starting cards. Some changes. To my left: Empty seat, ChuckLuck76, kjo1333, Nixons Twin, and kyman. kyman and kjo limp into virtually every pot if its unraised. Nixons is agressive when he's got good cards, and I'd love to get good enough cards to punish these guys. kjo is calling down ace high pretty consistantly, nixons tearing him up w/ 2nd pair, things like that. mudcat18 joins to my left. mudcat's opening play, calling a raise w/ 63o, satying in on an inside straight draw, seems a bit questionable. His second play of limping 56o seems questionable too. Course, he's up $33 after those two hands, so hey, how bad can it be? My cards have totally gone to crap. I haven't played a hand outside my big blind since hand 35, 22 hands ago. mudcat just isn't folding pre-flop, T7s pre-flop for a raise? no problem. He's catching like a madman though, flushes on the river to beat a higher pocket pair. Hand #60: I limp with 9To in the SB, with 3 opponents. Flop comes JT4. I bet out, and get heads up with ChuckLuck. Turn brings an 8, open straight draw for me, I bet, he calls. I check/call the river(a king) and lose to JT, flopped two pair, and I am now down to $16, down about 21 BB. Hand #66: I catch AA in the SB. Nixons raises pre-flop, I re-raise, he calls. Flop comes king high. I bet out, he calls. The turn is a non-scare card, I bet, he raises me all in, and I call, of course. Nixons had KQ and I double up to $29. I let myself fall a bit short there, I need to keep more on the table than $15, that is a big mistake on my part. Always have enough money that you can come out firing and win big when you have the nuts. Nixons and Kayman leave the game. lineup is: monarchos1, ChuckLuck, kjo1333, and flyfisherak, and an empty seat. I flop top two pair with A9 from the big blind but get no action, $28.75. Timglas joins in the empty seat. flyfisherak opens up pretty agressively, but hasn't shown down anything, so who knows if he has a hand or not. monarchos goes nuts capping bottom full house on a board that has two pair. Top full house gladly caps with him and monarchose is down to ~$12. Hand #79: I have KJo in the SB. folded to me, I raise, monarchos re-raises and i call. Flop is all low cards, and I decide to call him down(He only has $6 left at this point anyway), he has pocket 8s and I never catch my pair. I fall back down to $16. Hand #81: I raise pre-flop with ATo and flyfisherAK calls. I take a small pot when I flop an ace and he folds. I buy back up to $100. I lose a few blinds and fall down to $92 by hand #100 Hand #100: KJo in the cutoff. I raise pre-flop(I've been so tight, will I get respect?) Q86 flop, kjo is my only caller. I have position. I bet, he calls. The turn is a blank, so is the river, and we check it down. I see his 37s, my king high takes $13.50 and I'm back up to $99 If thee is a positive to this session its that I'm working off my bonus money like crazy, the pots between everyone else is getting larger and larger. Hand #106: Reading people and paying attention pays off: I have QQ. I raise, only kjo calls me. Flop comes AA4. I bet, he calls all the way down, and I take down $27.75 with my solid hand. Hand #107: 55 UTG+1. I raise and get two callers. I fold to a lot of overcards and a bet on the flop. Hand #108: AJo UTG. I raise, both blinds call me. The flop comes down ten high, and I call a bet from flyfisherak. A blank on the turn, and we check, and I fold to a river bet. Back to $95 after that nice win followed by two quick losses. Hand #116: I have A7s on the button. A couple of limpers before me and I also limp. Chuck raises behind, the entire table is in. Flop comes KQ5, two spades. I easily have the odds to chase the flush, and call flop and turn bets. Chuck ends up all in and there is no river bet. The flush never hits but I hit a pair of 7s on the river. Chuck's pocket 9s take a $38 pot and I'm down to $80. Hand #120: A4s in the BB. I check when timglas(SB) limps into me, bet the ace on the flop and take down $4. Hand #121: Pocket 7s. I raise out of the SB and monarchos(BB) and kjo(limper) call Flop has one overcard, I bet, and both call. Turn pairs the overcard, I bet and only monarchos calls. The river is an ace. I check/call, monarchos had J5, trip jacks. I am down to $66 after dropping $14 on that hand. Hand #128: I have QTs on the button, and raise it. monnarchos and chuckluck both call me. The flop is almost perfect, AJx, all my suit, I flop a flush. Chuckluck comes out betting, and I just call on the flop. I raise him on the turn, and monarchose is still in. I bet the river, he calls and I take down $44.50, back to $90, nice to get a solid win on that one. Hand #135: Can AA hold up again? I raise, buy the button, and get two callers. I flop an ace, a totally non scary board. The turn pairs bottom pair on the board after I bet and get one caller, I only lose to presto at this point(A855 on the board), I bet and melech folds, I take down $17.25. A good case to slowplay there, perhaps I should have. New lineup, btw: monarchos, Chuckluck, melech, flyfisherak, and timglas. I have 78s in the BB, limped to me, melech and timglas in so far. I check. Flop comes AKx, two clubs. I call a bet. The turn is a blank, and its checked around. I hit my flush on the river, timglas bets, I raise, he calls and I take the pot. I am back to $110 at this point. Hand #141: presto UTG. I raise and chuckluck and timglas call. I bet into the flop of A83, chuck is gone but timglas is still in. I keep control with a turn bet when a 4 comes down, and the river is checked. timglas called the turn bet with a pair of 4s. Presto wins(presto is 55 btw). I am back up to $124 with that win. I drop two hands against a short stacked timglas Hand #150: I raise on the button with KJs and get 3 callers. Flop comes Kxx. I bet, new player Clodius re-raises, and I decide to call him down. He has KQ to outkick me. I am back to $96.75 losing that $38 pot. Hand #153: K9s in the small blind. 2 others in the pot after I limp. I bet the flop, which has two of my suit. OR DOES IT. Turn is the two of clubs, third of my suit, and I realize that sometimes I have to double-take at the black suits to tell the difference between spades and clubs. There was only one club on the flop, one spade. Oops. I bet out anyway and take the pot. Back up to $103. First time I have made that mistake. 4 handed around hand #165: clodius, akdadof2, and melech, followed by two emtpy seats. Hand #165: I limp on the button with J9 suited. Flop comes QT2 rainbow. With three opponents I have the odds ont he flop for a call. I don't on the turn, but I make it anyway. Implied odds probably made it close. $14 in the pot, $4 for me to call. Ok maybe not. 3.5:1 when i'm about 5:1 is a bad call. My mistake. MickYank777 joins the table. I'm down to $84.25 again. Hand #177: Down to $78, I get AQo in the BB. MickYank raises out of the SB, I re-raise and he calls. The flop is all around me, KT9, but it missed. I bet out and he folds. Back to $85 with that small win. TIM I joins to my right and we are full again. Hand #183: I get a free flop with J8s. I end up getting raised on the flop by MickYank when J53 flops. I call him down to see J9, outkicking me for the pot. Hand #185: JJ on the button. TIM raises before me, and I re-raise. The flop comes AQx, and I decide to fold to a bet here. I am down to $66 again. Hand #187: 88 UTG + 1. I raise, both blinds call me. The flop comes King high, and I bet into it. I bet into the 9 on the turn, only Melech left, and we check the river. I beat his A8 for a $23 pot and am back to $80. Hand #195: AQo on the button. I raise and MickYank limp/calls me. Flop comes down AKx. I bet and he calls. Turn is a jack. I bet, he raises, and I callh im down. He has KJ and hit two pair. I am down to $60. Just not going well at all. Hand #199: AQo again on the button. I win with a raise this time pre-flop. $63.75! We're 4 handed right now, Clodius, Dakota Jack, MickYank77. Hand #202: KTs in the SB. I limp, flop top two pair, and both my opponents fold to my bet. $65.50! Clawing my way back. akdadof2 is bac, he had been sittingout. We go 4 handed again. akdadof2, dakota jack, and mickyank77. A small win with a pair of aces puts me back up over $60 after getting blinded out for awhile. Hand #222: I raise pre-flop with A7 suited. Only dakota calls. He is in a large number of pots. Flop comes 984, Dakota bets, I raise, and he calls. The turn is a king, I bet and he calls again. We check the river, ad I lose to his 34s, flopped bottom pair. That hand knocks me down to $40 or so. I get back up to $70 with a couple of nice wins over MickYank, 2nd pair short handed, and a hand where I raise pre-flop with an ace and hit it and get called a bit. Back to 6 handed now, lineup in a sec. Hand #230: I have AKs and raise pre-flop. akdadof2 re-raises and I cap it. Flop comes KJ4. He bets, I raise, he re-raises and I just clal. From that point forward I just call him down, and see his JJ, he takes a large pot off of me and I am down to $45 after losing the $43 pot. Full table again: pttrpro, akdadof2, dakotajack, mickyank77, and evildrummer. I lose one last huge hand here. I have T8s in the SB and its folded ot me. I raise and pttrpro calls. The flop comes T87. I bet, he calls. Turn is a blank but puts the flush out. I bet, he calls. River is the 4th heart. I bet, he raises, I call and I lose to A9, one heart. I get crushed again and am down to $14.50. Bah. I leave the table, I never felt my play went to shit, so I wasn't disappointed to stay, and I always felt I was better than my opponents, but, I was pushing at the wrong time and watching the worst possible cards hit all day. NET: -$160 The one positive is that I worked off about half of my remaining bonus. The negative, of course, is that I am now up at ultimate bet less than my bonus :P I deposited $500 for a $100 bonus. I have released $79 of that bonus so far, and am up $66.75 at the site, basically breaking even and picking up the bonus. That's it for today, but I am trying my hardest to work of this bonus ASAP b/c party has a random bonus good until about Wednseday if I can get this money out and moved back over soon enough.

05-22-2004, 05:54 PM	#53
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	test

05-22-2004, 05:55 PM	#54
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	Strange. I couldn't see page 2 until just now when I posted my test update. Thanks for reading chappy I assure you I've been back and forth lately, as shown by my losses today on UB,making me even basically there while grinding out my bonus.

05-23-2004, 12:14 PM	#55
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I start out at a 2/4 table headsw up against ubet713 at a $2/$4 table. I need 160 "ultimate points" to finish earning my bonus here. I'm also essentially even at this site(I'm ahead by the amount of the bonus I've earned), and would love to finish with a profit at this site. ubet713 limps every hand, he'll call my raises sometimes too. One big hand, I have 77 preflop and raise, ubet re-raises and I cap it. Flop has a king, I bet, he raises and I call him down from there. He was bluffing w/ queen high and I take down a nice pot. a couple of bad hands drop me way down. His AT vs my , he catches two pair, and I bet an open-ended straight draw after he already had a made straight. UGH, my top pair just got beat by ubet's runner runner flush after I bet it all the way, I am down to $47 and getting beat pretty hard here. I push back over $50 w/ trip 8s, but this guy is rock like, absolutely is not calling without some sort of hand. I catch a couple of lucky hands(runner runner types) to push back ahead of $60. I miss out on a $26 pot, ubet pushes AKs after my Q7 hit top pair, the board makes a straight and my pair is worthless. a 3rd person finally joins, floptdanutz is to my left. I have $68. ubet has been so passive, it'll be interesting with a 3rd person here now. I take a $19.50 pot slowplaying trip 3s against ubet, but give it right back to floptdanuts after I flop an open ended straight flush draw that doesn't hit. Soon after I catch floptdanutz, I hit top pair on the turn w/ QT, so did he, with a weaker kicker, and he raised me when I bet. I get back to $89 with that win. We jump quickly to 6 handed, here's the table: floptdanutz, shnovel, ubet713, Bri5150, and Lazy Jim. I have $88, and we are 72 hands in. Hand #79: I have 79s in the SB and limp along with the entire table. I bet into the 752 flop and get 3 callers. A ten hits the turn and i decide between the overcard, my kicker, and 3 opponents, that i have no interest in this pot. ubet713 caught the tens(another ten on the river) to win it with QT. I have $80 after 80 hands. Hand #82: I raise pre-flop with A7s, the flop sucks, king high with none of my suit ?I bet the flop, check the turn/river w/ one caller, and see pocket 5s to lose the pot. Hand #83: A\K suited UTG. I raise and only Bri5150 calls(the pocket 5s guy) I push push push into the crap on the board and am rewarded with a king on the river, winning a $28 pot and putting me back to $87. Hand #89: I make a loosae limp with 47s in the SB. 2 opponents. Flop comes 46K and we check it around. I bet the turn, another 4, and iwn a small pot, back to $87.50. Hand #93: AK suited in the small blind. I raise pre-flop and get two callers. I bet into the 557 flop and both call. I bet the turn(another 7) and fold when I get raised. Hand #96: I have pocket 7s in the big blind. belizejules(SB) limps to me, and I raise to take contorl of this one. He calls and folds when I bet the flop. Hand #97: pocket 10s, belizejules raises, I re-raise behind him and we are heads up. He check/calls me on the flop(9 high) and turn (another low card) and bets out when the ace hits the river. I go ahead and call, and he has A2, flopped bottom pair, rivered top pair. I am down to $66 with that loss. Hand #99: I have AQo in the BB. I just check with two limpers. Flop comes QJ4, I call a bet, then raise the turn when another blank comes. My slowplay pays off this time, I take the $30+ pot and am back up to $84. Hand #105: I limp in the BB with A7o with 3 others. I bet into the T74 flop and all call. The turn is a 2 and I bet out again. Only belize calls. I check the 9 on the river, he checks and my middle pair on the flop takes down $23. I am back to $95, almost back to where I started. The table is full again: BigAl1021, 54Woody, ubet713, Bri5150, and belizejules in order. I have $93.75. Hand #110: I have A8o and limp in the SB. This looks familier, Q84 flop, middle pair. I bet, bigal and bri5150 call. The turn makes it easy, an ace. I bet, only bri calls. I bet the blank on the river and bri calls. The $26.75 pot puts me up to $108, up 2 BB on the session! Hand #127: After taking a break to make lunch and blinding down a bit to under $100. I get AJo here in the SB, with a new player posting out of turn. I raise from the SB and new guy(Willys52) and Doormat825(a limper) call. Flop comes AQx. I bet and both call. Both again call my turn bet. The river is a king, , I bet and get called again by both. I beat A2 and KJ(inside straight on the flop) to win a big pot and push up to $133. Hand #129: I raise and push a little bith with KQo heads up vs Bigal. I never hit anything and he beats me iwth Q5. Hand #137: I check my big blind with AJs with 4 others in the pot. I bet when I flop top pair with the jack, and get two callers. The turn is an overcard, a queen, I bet and bigal folds, leaving me heads up with willys52, who calls. The river is a blank, I bet and he folds and the $22 pot pushes me up to $134. I sit out a couple more hands, and we're 4 handed when 'i come back. Bigal, doormat825, and belizejules. b elize only has $3 left and goes all in on the first hand back though. belize rebuys for $16.75. I win a $23 pot with A6o, raising on the button, betting a crappy flop, checking the turn and catching my ace on the river to get up to $145. Oh, bad hand. #148: I have QJs in the SB. belize raises, and I have no respect fo rhim at all.. I call. Flop comes KQ4. I bet, belize calls. Turn is an 8, I bet, he raises, I call. I call him on the river and he shows pcoket 8s for the set. Back down to $122. Hand #154: KT in the big blind, free flop. AQJ, bingo! there were two callers and 2 spades on the flop. I get one caller on the flop but folds on the turn, and I take down $10. I have to head out, engagement pictures today, but I'm almost done with my bonus, hopefully I can finish it up tonight before bed and get this money back over to party/empire for more free money. NET: +$32 That's enough to put me ahead at ultimate bet while earning my bonus, by a whole $27 (+ my bonus of $100, so no complaints here).

05-23-2004, 09:43 PM	#56
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I start a $2/$4 table to finish up my bonus. Hutchy Kid joins, first hand I have Q9 suited vs his A7 suited. Top pair on the flop, he hits bottom pair, but turns trips w/ his bottom pair. We're up to 4 handed almost immediately. I win a small pot when KQ hits top pair. Ok, back to 3 handed. THE IT, PeteM are my opponents, hutchy took $20 off me and left. I have $80.75. Hand #9: AA UTG. I raise, get re-raised by PeteM, and I just call. I call ont he flop, and raise on the turn. PeteM folds when I raise him on the turn. Hand #11: AQ on the button. I raise and both call. I flop an ace, A57. One caller on the flop, folded on the turn. Hand #12: AK in the BB, I hit an ace, win a small pot and am up to $98 again. Hand #13: KT in the SB. I raise, get re-raised and fold to a flop bet. Hand #14: AK on the button. I raise, two callers. I bet the flop, check the turn, fold the river when it misses and no one goes away. I am sitting at $85.75 now. Nice run of cards, but I'm still stuck at $85. Hand #17: A8 on the button. I raise, BB calls, folds to a flop bet. Hand #18: 77 UTG (4 handeD). I just limp, a mistake. I fold to J94 flop when there's a bet and a raise before me. Up to 5 handed now. THE IT, illiquid, 244, PeteM, and myself. Hand #25: KJs in the BB. THE IT raises UTG. I call. Flop has just one of my suit, a queen. THEIT has been raising too much, I decide to take control here, and bet out. He calls. Turn gives me the flush draw, I bet/he calls. I river the top pair, a king. Bet/fold, and I take down $20 and am up to $91.50. The bonus points are flying in at this table. I'll finish up my bonus in about 30 more minutes at this rate. I'd love to finish it with a profit though. Hand #29: AKs in the cutoff. I raise, two callers(both blinds, one is Monarchos, a guy I played w/ earlier.) The flop of 899 scares me off. We check it allll the way down, I take the pot as everyone else missed totally, and I have $99 now. THE IT appears to play any two suited cards. Playing a lot of total junk. I call a raise from him in the BB w/ 57 suited, but fold when I miss. NExt hand I raise w/ A4s in the SB and take a small pot on the flop. Very next hand(#34) AKs on the button. I raise on the button, illiquid calls. Flop has a pair, 9 high, I bet, illiquid calls. I give it up after that, checking the turn/folding the river. $92.75. Hand #40: AK for the 19th time. I bet and get two callers. This time I flop a king, bet out, THEIT folds, monarchos... thinks... thinks... calls. K26 flop, 8i on the turn, thinks, folds. $15.25 pot and I once again have $99. Hand #42: JJ in the BB. 3 limpers to me. I make a mistake here. I check. Flop comes QTT. I bet, only a new guy, kb78(very familier name) calls me. Turn is a 7, I bet again, and take down the pot. Whew. I'm not happy w/ the flop check. I have $106.50 Hand #47: 99 UTG. I raise, THEIT and mo]narchos call(see a pattern here). I hate the flop, KT4. I bet and no one goes away. These guys will call me all the way down with a top hand, I decide its not worth it with two overcards and two opponents. I check the turn and fold to a bet after an ace hits the river. Hand #54: I have A3o in the BB. There's a limp, a raise, and 3 calls before me. I figure I have the odds to call one bet to try to hit something huge here. The flop is good, 3 hearts, my ace is the heart. I call a bet on the flop, the turn gets checked around. I miss the flquid, kb78 and myself all call. I flop a four flush, and call a bet(with 3 opponents should I consider a raise here?) The turn gets checked around. The river hits my flush. illiquid bets, kb78 calls, I raise and both call. The $49.50 pot is a nice one. I am up to $124. Hand #68: I raise on the button with KJo, ... nm, won the blinds. Hand #71: I have 86 in the big blind. kb78 raises pre-flop, I have the odds to call again w/ all the opponents in. (I'm suited!) I flop top two pair, 864 flop. I bet out, THEIT re-raises, I re-raise, and theit and kb call. The turn is a 2, 2 clubs now. I bet, and both call. The river is the 9 of clubs. I bet, kb78 raises, I call, and the $61 pot goes to the jack-high flush, kb78 raised pre-flop and then called w/ J6 clubs. That hurts real real bad. A push with AJo on the button drops me down to $90. New lineup at the table: THEIT, empty seat, Hutchy Kid, Bucky1, PeteM. I've earned my bonus, but I like this table still and decide to stay awhile longer. Hand #84: 77 UTG. I raise and a new player, Leo Jr, and PeteM call. I hate the flop, 89Q. I bet out anyway, Leo calls, pete is gone. I bet a blank on the turn, leo calls again. I give up on the river, and check. Leo checks, and I win the hand. After a dumb call chasing a straight with T9 I have $89.75. Hand #96: back to my roots, AKo, in the big blind, I just limp with 3 others though. I decide to lead out betting on the ragged flop. Bucky1 is my only caller. The turn hits my king and bucky folds when I bet. Back to $85 (took a couple of small losses in the last 12 hands or so). Hand #106: 4 handed now, I raise with K9s and only peteM calls. I bet the flop which has two of my suit, pete raises, I call. The turn makes my flush. I re-raise when pete bets, and he calls me down, I take down a nice sized pot and am back to $103. I drop a pretty bad hand with 88 vs KK, then win two decent sized pots, AJs and 33(AJ hit hard on the flop and gave me a $15 pot, 33 I raised and pushed on the flop and leo folded). I sit with $98.25. Leo beats me up on a steal attempt and I have $80 (J9s, flop had an ace, so did leo). LeoJr1158 is a very good agressive player it appears. I hope to find a good spot to use his agression against him. I win the blinds with KK against PeteM, slowplayed as much as I could, he just didn't want to be in the hand. I get a big hand against PeteM, AJs, I raise and he callspre-flop. I flop a four flush, queen high. I bet, pete raises, I re-raise and he calls. I catch the flush on the turn and he calls me down, I take down $35 or so and am at $104. KK again, I raise, since Leo defends his blinds hard when he has a little something. He folds. a new player, tbag3d joins in between Leo and PeteM. I have $95, 149 hands in. Hand #151: A very familier hand. AKo. Pete raises, I re-raise, and tbag and pete both call. I fold when pete bets the flop, not sure about that one, but, tbag caught a flush anyway. Hand #152: UGH. I raise A9s, leo calls, tbag re-raises, we both call. Flop is rags and leo bets, tbag raises... I'm out. tbag did have AJ, leo 66. ARGH. two hands later I catch top pair with QJ, tbag destroys me when he calls me down with A4(bottom pair) and hits the ace on the river. Whew. Ok, that was fast. I fell down to $50, won two very quick, but small hands to get me back to $60, then took a $48.75 pot fro LeoJr with AT that hit two pair. AJo, I raise pre flop and 3 call. Flop comes A23. I bet and mabel(new guy) and tbag call. Turn is a jack. I bet and tbag calls. Rier is a king, tbag bets out and I just call. 45o. FOUR-FIVE OFFSUIT. I'm back down to $70. tabg is not a bad player(seems like a pretty good one even) but motherfucker is he catching cards right now. I've had a few nasty suckouts at this table and am pretty pissed off that I don't have $140 or more and instead am down $30. Hand #177: KK in the SB. I raise and get two callers, Mabel and tbag. Flop comes Q99. I bet and both call. Turn is a blank, I bet and both call. River is a king, I've got the 2nd nuts(99 beats me). I bet, mabel folds, tbag raises, I re-raise, tbag caps, and I call. My kings full of 9s win the $59 pot over tbag's JT straight. That pot brings me back to $96.75, and I immediately leave the table. Yeah I could go on a roll here, but I know I'm damn close to tilting here and am not playing with a clear enough head. NET: -$3.25

05-23-2004, 09:47 PM	#57
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	Well, I bought in for $500 at ultimate bet, and cashed out $624.70 after about 5 days. Not a bad return, but I can't say I'm totally thrilled with the result, that means I was just up $24 in actual play over that period. Hopefully that cashout goes through in time for me to take advantage of a bonus opportunity at party and/or empire, I'll check the details of those and power through those hands in the next couple of days.

05-25-2004, 09:01 PM	#58
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	Bought in for $624 to partypoker, and cashed out for $654, after a $100 bonus. I was trying to power through the hands and hopefully not lose much(if any at all), but I lost about $70 leaving me just ahead $30. The reason for doing that is that the Partypoker Bonus was only good through last night, so I got that cleared, but there is an empire bonus that's only good through Thursday, so now I've got that clear too and don't have to rush anything anymore. Next up, working off a $100 bonus at empire, that's an easy task though, 450 raked hands, and I will not worry at all about the bonus, just about winning.

05-25-2004, 10:32 PM	#59
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I sit down at a 1/2 6 man table on empire. My oppoenents opening up are MRClean415, COBBERS, empty seat, chipjh, and davpat, in order to my left. davpat and chipjh both look somewhat agressive, capping the river against each other(AQ vs A9, both hit two pair). mrclean pushes A5s hard, raising out of the SB and pushing all the way after hitting a pair. Hand #9: My first action, A7o on the button, folded to me and I raise. Both blinds call and the flop comes KQ9. I go ahead and get out of the way when they start betting. boltu43 joins in the empty seat. we're getting a lot of pots that are 3 and 4 handed going to the turn and river, and a lot of $15-$20 or more pots. Just saw chipjh and mrclean go at each other w/ AA vs KK for a $21 pot. I am staying out of the way so far. I have played AJ very passively and haven't played anything else at all, gotten a couple of crappy aces out of position through 18 hands is it. Hand #19: I hate this hand. A2o in the BB. I get a free flop with 4 opponents, and I hit an ace, AJ4. I bet out and 3 call. I bet the turn(a queen) and 3 call. The river pairs the 4, I bet, chipjh raises, and yup, 34o, 3 of a kind on the river. COBBERS was in the whole way too and had AT. I need good hands here. hand #21: KQo on the button, chipjh is the only one in with me after I raise(Ihe limped early). I bet the T28 flop, check the 9 on the turn, and call a river bet when a queen gives me top pair(but 4 to a straight on the board). chip has The Charlie again(34), no piece of anything anywhere, and I take down $11. next hand chip calls down 45o, calling a river bet with ... 45o(nothing) with two pair on the board. I need to isolate this guy any time I have any sort of hand if possible. I am two to his left. He is in every hand. He does play agressively when he hits. Hand #26: sometimes it just works out when it shouldn't. I have T9s in the small blind. only chip is in so far. I raise, trying to isolate(if I hit at all I can push against chip, but w/ the BB in I dunno)... but, the BB calls. I flop a gutshot draw, 776 flop. I bet, mrclean folds, and chipjh calls. The turn is my miracle card, an 8, I've got the straight. I bet, chip raises, I re-raise and he calls. The river is a jack, and I bet, he raises, I re-raise, and he caps. Perhaps a bad/dumb/dangerous move with a pair on the board, but it pays off, a $35 pot comes my way and I'm up to $55. There's the strategy. If I have any chance to isolate chipjh with any sort of hand, raise. If I don't hit, its not worth it b/c he won't fold, if I do hit, get as much out of him as I can. Hand #34: I raise w/ AJo UTG, chip and davpat call. I flop top pair, J52 flop, I bet after its checked around and davpat folds. Turn is a 3, making a couple of weird straights possible. I bet and chip calls. River is a king, checked to me, normally I check, but I get bold and bet out knowing chip has any 2. He folds and the $13.25 pot is mine, up to $58.75. chip is still in every hand but he's making a lot of river folds now. Hand #45: My best hand of the night so far, JJ. boltu raises pre-flop, and 3 of us call(I don't see the point in a raise there, it won't thin the field and if overcards hit they aren't going anywhere). I hate the flop, AA9. All four check it around. The turn is a queen, I bet and only boltu calls. The river is a 7, I check, boltu bets I call, and he turns over 99 for the flopped boat. I am down to $49.75. Hand #50: K9s in the BB, 4 limpers and I check. Flop comes AKQ, all hearts(not my suit). Its checked around and chip bets. I have the chance to raise to try to isolate, something tells me I'm not ahead though, and there's just too many to act behind me, so I fold. That's a mistake, chip had T4, got called by Q7 and ended up losing. chipjh is now sitting out. Hand #53: I raise UTG + 1 with KJ diamonds. mrclean calls. Flop comes T75, two diamonds. I bet and mrclean calls. Turn is my jack, I bet and mrclean calls all in. I win the $10'ish pot and am back to $52.97. back to 5 handed now, valmaha, COBBERS, boltu, chipjh(sitting out now, not counted in the 5), davpat, and myself. oh oh chipjh is back. Hand #57: I have 89s on the butotn, I limp and we are 5-way. I miss totally and get out on the first opportunity. COBBERs tries to bluff chip w/ King high and chip has bottom pair, calls. some people don't learn. Hand #58: davpat raises pre-flop, I call as does chip. The flop isn't pretty, KQ5, I'm last to act though and bet out when the raiser checks, ready to let it go to a check-raise. There is none though. Turn is another blank, this time we check it down. River is a 9, chip bets out and I go ahead and call. He had KJ and beats me w/ top pair. Hand #67: Well that was easy. K8 in the big blind. chipjh is now directly to my right with an empty seat between us. I flop top pair, turn two pair, and river a full house. chip calls it down all the way. I have $47.25 after the win + a small giveaway next hand. full table again: MikeQQQ, COBBERS, anna67, chipjh, and sthief09 in order Hand #78: AA UTG. I raise, and two new players call. Flop comes 935, I bet out, MikeQQQ raises, sthief folds and I just call(hoping to start a raising war on the turn). The turn is a ten and I bet out, and mike just calls me down. I wasn't going to give a free card but some people will just keep raising anyway. The $17.75 pot puts me back up to $53.97, slightly ahead. chip just went nuts woith top pair against sthief09. Board of A65T6, capped turn, capped river. chip has AK. thief? 66. $45 1/2 pot w/ quads. HAnd #95: I raise early with TT and get 3 callers. flop comes J98 rainbow. I bet, anna raises. chip and I call. Turn is a blank but puts two hearts out there. anna bets and we both call. River makes the straight w/ a 7, I bet ,anna raises, I call. anna shows down T4, we both rivered chip(he had J5), and we take down $15 each. Hand #96: AA in the BB. anna raises, it's just me so far, and I re-raise. The flop is 976, two hearts. I bet, anna calls. She folds the turn, and I am up to $59. Hand #104: I raise in the SB with QTo to isolate chip, but mikeQQQ calls too. flop comes King high and I get out of there. we are 4 handed, mikeQQQ, chipjh and sthief. mikeQQQ doesn't get it either, betbetbet with a busted draw, chpi calls w/ king high and wins. Hand #108: I have ATo in the BB. chip and sthief limp to me, I just check. Flop comes Txx, all spades. My ace is a spade, and I have top pair. I bet out, chip calls, sthief is gone. Turn is an ace, two pair, I bet, chip calls. River is a jack, I bet, chip calls, and I take down $12.25 to push up to $62. you know, chip is winning. When he hits a hand, he gets all kinds of action. chip bets hard when he hits, he's very easy to play(I'm not getting great cards and taking a lot of money, but I am playing him well I believe). When he has a hand, you know it and you get out of the way. I think too many of his opponents see him play every hand and call too much and refuse to believe it when he has something good. He just took down $37 w/ trip 5s. Deeznts007 just busted out after about 10 hands. Hand #115: 9T in the BB. chip and sthief are in this with me. Flop comes T42. I bet, chpi calls/thief folds. Turn is another low card, I bet/chip calls. River an ace, I bet/chip calls. He flopped 2nd pair w/ Q6o and I take down a $12.25 pot, I'm up to $67.97. Hand #121: KTs UTG, I raise it and chip calls. I flop a 4 flush,I bet it, chip calls. Turn gives me top pair with a king, I bet and chpi calls. River is an 8. Chip bets out... haven't seen that in awhile, but I see it for the one bet. He shows a T9 bluff and I take down $14.25. Hand #124: A6s in the SB. I limp with chip and mikeQQQ. Flop misses me, we check it around. Turn is an ace, I bet and chip calls. River brings 3 to a flush, and 4 to a straight on the board(A245, a 3 makes it), so I just check this one... chip doesn't even try a bluff this time and I take it with my pair. I am up to $76.72 now. I've taken about $25 off of chip myself to put myself up $25(have I won a pot against anyone else? ... I won a couple against annysomething but that's it), yet chip is still ahead $40 himself he has $90. MikeQQQ flops a flush w/ K9 to destroy chipjh's pocket rockets for a $30 pot, chip's down to $80 I leave the table after 138 hands when the big blind hits me, and I am ahead $25.22. I also was messing around with some .5/1 omaha hi, and was up $2.50 there :P NET: +$27.72 Its no massive 5/10 win, but it's a nice solid profit for 1/2, 12.5 BB in 2 hours. I am somewhat stuck in a quagmire. I don't want to keep a bankroll big enough to play 5/10(once I build it up to that level at least) and be able to not worry at all bout the swings. I need more than the bare minimum bankroll suggested to be comfortable. But there aren't short tables on party at 2/4 or 3/6. I have some money in pokerstars and have been winning there at 1/2 shorts with a lot of consistancy as well. The play at Stars is generally much much tougher though an dI don't know if I want to do that, so I have been thinking about that.... it's still a week or two before I have all bonuses I plan on going after, by then I will have enough to go to 2/4 or 3/6 if I want(assuming no massive losses at 1/2 here) and I'll have to decide where to play, and if I want to continue the short tables or try to grind it out at the fulls.

05-26-2004, 07:05 PM	#60
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I sit down at a full 1/2 short table. To my left: lorno8, DaggerLee, Srkelley, bauser, kanattack. bauser has only $15 but everyone else is between $40 and $60. I haven't ever seen any of them before. before i really do anything, bauser and kanattack leave. 4 handed for now. Hand #10: My first playable hand really. ATo in the BB, I check w/ two others, flop comes A7x, two clubs. I bet, Srkelley calls. Turn is a blank, I bet and win the pot. Hand #12: I limp with KJo and fold when an ace flops and people start betting. Quickly back to 6 handed: lorno, daggerlee, Srkelley, treymaggie, and Froff. I'm at $47.50 after 15 hands, only the AT hand worth mentioning so far. Hand #18: a dangerous one, I limp in the SB with KTo along with 3 others. Flop comes JT4, two spades, my ten is a spade. I bet out and only DaggerLee calls. The turn brings 3 to the flush and I bet and DAgger folds, back to $49.50 after that one. After 20 hands I've played 50% of them, which is sort of insane considering that my cards are so bad. The big blinds have been free and the small blinds have been playable, the Kj in hand 12 is my only non-blind hand I've played so far, haven't found a hand to raise yet. The table is obviously pretty passive pre-flop. I have A4s in the big blind. 3 limp, Froff raises from the SB... I don't like my chances with that and I fold pre-flop. Hand #23: AJs in the SB, I raise pre-flop after one limper, the BB and dscolen(a new guy) call. Flop is AJx, I bet and dscolen is my only opponent. he calls the flop and turn, folds the river and I'm up to $54.75 with the win. Dinner break, might time out and need a new table. By the time I get back I've time out of the table, so that's it here: NET: +$4.75

05-27-2004, 06:22 PM	#61
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I join a full 6-top, hoping to finish off my bonus today(but moreso hoping to post a nice win). At my table: Robbr25, SSW335, MWarman, young_gun, and maddog5858. Hand #1: 46o in the BB. i flop an open ender, K35 on teh flop. I call a bet from young_gun, maddog also calls. The turn pairs the king and we check it aroudn. The river is a 2, I hit my straight. maddog bets, I raise, he re-raises and, fearing the boat, I just call. maddog shows A4 for the low straight and the $18.25 pot is mine, I'm up to $59.75 on hand one. Hand #15: KJs in the SB. I limp and we are 5-way. Flop comes 57Q, one of my suit. with 3 callers and the chance to kill the betting, I call a bet on the flop. The turn is the best possible card for me I think, the ten of clubs, giving me a straight and a flush draw. I again call a bet. The turn gives me my flush, but it paired the top card... robbr25 bets, SSSW335 raises, I re-raise, and both of them call. Robb has Q8 for 3 of a kind, and SSW has 96 clubs for a lower flush. I take down a $32 pot and am up to $78.75. Hand #25: I raise UTG with KQo. The entire table calls. GOOD STUFF. Flop comes jack high-3 spades. I have the queen, and bet out, 3 call. turn is a blank, and we check it around. The river is a king. I'm 2nd to act. 1 before me/2 behind me. Do you bet? I didn't, I checked, and we checked it around. My kings were good and I take down $15.25. Hand #26: T9o in the big blind. I get a free flop and flop an open-ended straight(78x). I call a bet on flop/turn and never hit, and give it up on the river. Hand #30: I have KJs in the BB. SSW335 raises pre-flop and 3 of us call. Flop comes jack high, rainbow. SSW is right after me and I decide this is a good spot to check-raise, I'll find out if SSW has an overpair probably. SSW bets, both others call, and I raise. all just call. I bet the turn(blank) and SSW drops out, the other two stay in. The river is a queen and we check it down, I take down the pot w/ my pair of jacks. Hand #33: QJo in mid-position. I limp and there are 4 of us. I flop top pair, Qxx two clubs. SSW bets out, and I just cal. I dunno why. I'm dumb I think. Turn brings a club, but I still have top pair. Again I just call. River is a 4th club. I call since my jack is a club. I lose to A7, SSW had flopped middle pair and his ace is a club. I absolutely hate how I played that. I talked myself out of raising on the flop and the turn. I probably wasn't winning the hand anyway but dang. Hand #40: 67s on the button, with 2 limpers, I limp too. Flop misses totally and I'm ready to fold but we check it around. Turn is a 6. I have middle pair(flp was J34). I go ahead and bet out when its checked around again. Two people call. The river is another 6, I bet and win the pot right there. Hand #41: I raise with AQo after one limper, SSW re-raises all in, maddog calls and I call. I didn't notice SSW was all in until we check the flop(T22) and SSW has no action. Whoops. The turn is a queen, I bet and maddog calls. River a blank, I bet and maddog folds. SSW had pocket 3s, I take the enitre pot. In that flurry(talking to the fiancee, those 15 hands feel like a flurry), I am up to $102.25, I've doubled my buyin. SSW is gone. Hand #57: I have A2s in the cutoff. I raise and only the BB MWarman calls. Flop comes AJ9. MWarman bets, I raise and he calls. Turn is another ace... I'm not as worried about my kicker now, I bet and he calls. the river is a 7 and I go ahead and check, I win $11.25 over JT, I am up to $105 after some blinding down. Hand #61: Tons of limpers, I limp w/ KQo on the button, the BB jiggins raises and all 4 of us call. The flop comes K76. jiggins bets, maddog calls, I raise, and jiggins calls. The turn pairs the 6, checked to me, I bet and jiggins folds, maddog calls. I bet the jack on the river and maddog folds. The $20 pot puts me up to $116.75. Hand #63: I lmp with KTs, 5 players again. Flop comes Q32, two spades. I call a bet along with 3 others. Turn makes my flush, I raise when maddog bets, and he's my only caller. River is a king, he calls my bet and my flush beats his Q5 top pair on the flop. I am up to $127.25. Hand #75: KK early, luckily there weren't any tough decisions on this one, as I was talkign w/ my fiancee during the hand. bet/raise at every opportunity. The decent sized pot takes me up to $132. Hand #83: I open-raise on the button with A8s. Both blinds call me. Flop comes T93, I bet and only pokersize, the BB, calls me. Turn brings antoher ten, and we check. River is a 7, poekrsize bets out. I don't know anythign about him, and many will automatically bet after the checked turn. I call him down to see his 89s, he has middle pair to win the pot. Hand #85: I raise UTG with A9s, and win the pot right there. Hand #87: I limp w/ 67o in the SB with 3 opponents. Flop comes Q62, and I check, robbr25 bets and pfxy raises, I am not cold-calling 2 with that, I fold. Hand #94: I limp w/ JTo in the cutoff, the button raises, and me and pfxy call. Flop comes T94, I have top pair. For some reason I check/call the flop. 2nd time I've knowingly made a weak decision with a good hand. I bet out on the turn and river, he calls me down and I beat AJ to win the hand. Wish a jack had come The $16.75 pot takes me up again to $135. Hand #103: I limp ont he button with QJo. 3 opponents, including both blinds. Flop comes jack-high, checked to me and I bet, only pokersize calls. I bet the turn, then check a king on the river. Pokersize shows ATo and I take down $10 to keep me up at $135. I'm checking down a lot of rivers tonight. At full tables that's often a good idea(I've been reading Sklansky!) but I think at a short I need to keep betting out. I've won every single hand that got checked down that way, I dont' think I'm up against many check-raisers here. HAnd #110: I have QJo in the BB. 2 limp to me and I check. Flop coems AQ9. I bet out and only landman calls. The turn brings 3 to a flush, I have the queen of clubs and I bet out, landman calls again. River makes 4 to a flush, I bet, landman raises and I just call. He shows KJ with the king of clubs. The table falls down to heads up, me and robbr25, I ahve $128 at the start of heads up play. I clean out robbr quickly(he only had $10). I'm up to $138 when he leaves, but a couple others join. shock09009 and tlindy at the table. I bust out shock09009 in one hand. I have KK and slowplay the hell out of them. in the end there is a flush and two queens on the board. There's also a king shock had trip queens and I move up to $148 after we 3-bet the river. Back up to 6 handed. Hand #135: I raise AQs UTG. sayimage and keamdo call. Flop comes 776. I bet out and sayimage is my only caller. Turn is a 9, I bet and he calls. I'm ready to give this one up on the river until a queen falls. I bet out again, sayimage calls and I rivered his pocket deuces. The $15.75 pot pushes me up over $150. Hand #138: AKo UTG. I raise and two call. Flop comes 457 and I bet out, both call. Turn is an ace, keamdo bets, I raise, tburd and keamdo call. River is a 6, 4 to a straight on the board. We check it down and tburd has 47 for 2 pair on the flop. Very passive, I note that. Table is: sayimage, tburd28, landman11, keamdo, tlindy(sitting out for now) I don't have a read on anyone and have some stuff to do so this is a good time to leave the table. A great session, nearly tripled up over 141 hands. NET: +$93.13.

05-28-2004, 10:37 AM	#62
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	In my biggest success yet, I completed my bonus at Empire and cashed out last night. I bought in for $654, and cashed out for $878, a net gain of $224. There is another bonus at UBet I can get. My last bonus was an 'initial buyin' bonus, as I apparently had created an account last year sometime but never made a deposit. So I should still be eligible for the general bonus they have going on right now. I plan to deposit the minimum required to earn that bonus(I believe that will be $500), and will be playing 2/4 shorts at UB to work off the bonus. After getting destroyed down to about $600 total(in large part thanks to a giant tilt during a losing streak, something I have hopefully learned a big lesson about and can prevent from happening again), this bonus bouncing has helped me build my bankroll back up a bit, it's currently at ~$1050 between the money I just cashed out of Empire and the money I have on pokerstars(that's a small amount). I have found the bonuses to be a very very nice cushion to help me break out of what was a very bad spell. Dropping in limits, and playign with the cushion of bonus money behind me has helped me regain my confidence.

06-12-2004, 02:45 PM	#63
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I haven't written up anything in awhile... I played two 3 table SNG's last night and placed 5th in one(11th in the other, terrible cards and 2 misplayed hands left me a short stack early). I like these, blinds increase every 10 minutes, the two I played last night both dropped to the final table by the end of an hour, so it is looking like a ~2 hour committment. I look to play ultra-tight early, playing only the most premium of hands, trying to be the agressor whenever possible, rarely if ever cold calling any sort of raise. Oh, and this is no limit. Level 1 - 10/15 blinds Starting chips are 1000 for all. I'm raised out of A3o in my big blind on the first hand. Q9o in the second hand, I get a flop for 5 chips, but fold when it misses. 5 minutes in no one has busted out, this is a marked difference from the two I played last night where 3 or 4 people would bust out in the first 10 minute level. Our first all in comes on hand #9, post-flop, a very loose tx54 goes all in on a J72 flop that has 5 people in it. Only vghorton calls. It's 22 vs KJ, and tx54 dobules up to 1480 to take the early chip lead at our table. Level 2 - 10/20 blinds I start level 2 with 970 chips, but the blinds hitting on the next hand. All 30 players are still in. Big hand on my BB, but not for me, I've got 94o. tex54 raises, heinekendark calls, vghorton goes all-in behidn them both. tex54 calls. tex54 shows KK, vghorton 55. The flop? 567. PRESTO. Note that these are the same two from the previous all-in hands. 3-5 people are seeing most flops, but this just doesn't matter to me as I need hands beter than 94o to play, and I'm not getting them. THBeginner goes out on table 1 15 minuets in, our first casualty. I'm on table 2. I resist the urge to limp T8s in late position. 5 people see the flop, but a flop bet takes it(I thought that one was going to get interesting). The next hand 6 people limp, UTG, UTG+1, UTG+2, UTG+3, and the blinds.... I have 6-high and am in middle position, it's not worth it. Table 1 loses another, and we're down to 28. The last few hands there's been 5 or 6 in the flop, sometimes for the min raise, sometimes limping, a big bet on the flop and all fold. I get JTo UTG+2 but can't play it(shouldnt anyway) after UTG raises. A8o UTG+1, the cards are improving, but we'er not quite there yet. Level 3 - 15/30 blinds I have 940 in chips, with the blinds coming up in 2 hands. 28 people are still left. All 10 still left at my table, chipleader has 1425, short stack 695. We drop to 27 players and los the first casualty from table 3. One player is moved and we are 9 handed. The player that was moved was the SB for the next hand. I'll pay my BB and skip the SB, woot, it's like making 15 chips! I get a free flop with 85o, but it goes nowhere. It does lead to heinekenDark doubling up off of Grellex w/ top pair vs a flush draw that never hit. Grellex is left w/ 65 chips and goes all in on the next hand. He gets 4 callers. He wins with AJ and is still alive for now. Hand #29: I have Q2s in the big blind... raise to 100, multiple callers already, bleh. A9/QT on an ATx flop end up all in and BluesKid has 1970 chips, and TAWH1265 is out 27th. Level 4 - 25/50 blinds I am down to 855 chips and have only seen two flops. There remain 26 players in the tournament after 30 minutes. After 10 more minutes the blinds jump to 50/100 and we'll start to see some attrition there(myself included if I don't start getting some cards or something in some position so I can do something). Hand #38: I get a free flop with J7o with 3 opponents. I flop two pair, J97. All clubs. Scary board. I bet the pot(200) and HeinekenDark goes all in over me for 370 additional chips. If I call I'm down to 200ish chips. But I think at this point its a call that I have to make. The pot is too big and if I am behind, I do have outs. I make the call. I'm up against Q5 of clubs, ouch. The turn and river come though, and my miracle 7 falls on the river, I knock out HeinekenDark. Hand #41: PRESTO. I'm in the cutoff and there's 1 limper before me. I raise 3x the blind to 150, and all fold, including the limper. I'm up to 1675. Level 5 - 50/100 blinds I have 1675 chips. 23 players remain, and I'm a bit above the average chip count. There are 7 players at my table. I expect lots of attrition this level, the magic 100 big blind will start to scare a lot of those in the 400-800 range of chips. Hand #45: I have J9o in the big blind. k7jdw, the big stack at the table, limps and we are heads up. The flop comes 578, two clubs, I have a double bellybuster straight draw, the ten or the 6 make my straight. I lead out for 200 chips(into the 250 pot). k7jdw calls. The turn is a ten, and I've hit my straight. I bet 400 into the 650 pot, and win it there. Hand #47: I have 88 on the button, folded to me, I raise 3x the BB to 300. MBold goes all in for 700 more in the SB, and k7jdw calls. No way I can call there, I fold and it's MBold's AQ vs A9. It looks like MBold is out when KJ9 hit the flop, but the turn jack and river king nullify the pair of 9s, it's a split pot. I'm down to 1675. On hand 49 we merge to 2 tables, down to 20, and during the merge mbold and vghorton go all in against each other, K9s(vghorton) vs 88, vghorton hits his flush to knock out mbold. 5 minutes left in this level and we're down to 19. 84s in my next big blind, still at the 50/100 level, the blinds are going to go through me before the increase. I fold to a crazy big stack all in. Hand #55: BluesKid raises to 200, I have QQ in the SB. I re-raise to 500, and blueskid calls. The flop comes A99. I don't have position. I hate my hand. Can I get away from this? I have ~1000 chips and there's ~1000 in the pot. I can't make a small bet here. I let the time run a long way down before finally checking. I expect BluesKid to go all in, and I'll fold. BluesKid bets 200 chips. 200?! Ok if he's suckering me in, well it worked. I come over the top of him all in. He folds immediately, and I am up to 2375 chips. His terribly weak bet let me out of a hand I had practically given up on, though I'm not sure it wasn't an awful mistake not to go all in on the flop regardless. Level 6 - 75/150 We're already 3 minutes in by the time I finish that writeup. Only 14 players remain out of the original 30, we still have a shot at hitting the final table before the break. I have 2375 chips, 2nd at the table, AcesWerk has 3960, and 3 of us are in the 2000-2300 range(myself, k7jdw, and vghorton). There are two with more than my chipcount at the other table, making me 4th but not in any sort of commanding position at all really, just in a safe spot. AcesWerk plays the big stack very well. I have seen his name in a very very large number of multi-table tournaments and I assume he has some signifigant experience in them. He has more than a 2:1 chiplead over most of the field and he has made a couple of bluff all-ins that have gotten called, but done it against short stacks, and he's also made a couple of legit all-ins and knocked out a few people. He appears to play very well and I intend to stay out of his way. Hand #62: I have K3o in the big blind. Studta limps to me and I get a free flop heads up vs the small blind. Flop comes 843, bottom pair for me. We check it. The turn pairs the 8 on the board, stud checks, I bet the pot, and I take it. Hand #66: I raise to 3x the BB UTG with pocket 7s. Steal the blinds, woo. The hand goes fast enough that I hit my BB before the level goes up too(under a minute to go). A pre-flop all in gets me to the SB before the break too, which won't matter if we don't drop to 1 table, but if we do could give me a bunch of extra hands. And in fact we do fall to 10 people on the last hand before the break. Level 7 - 100/200 blinds 10 left. holdem2000 - 5535 chips AcesWerk - 5060 chips BluesKid - 4889 chips BigSlim0518 - 2555 chips radii - 2450 chips vghorton - 2238 chips kidsneedcash - 2118 k7jdw - 1940 studta - 1665 crazyneub - 1550 Top 5 get paid. I'm in 5th but a lot will change very very fast at the final table I am sure. The table opens up very tight. The blinds go through me about halfway through the first orbit and my 2150 chips is a middle stack. Hand #76: A big change at the table, AcesWerk goes all in with a straight draw and is called by top pair. He is down to 2342 chips with the rest of us mortals. He's out on the next hand... no wiat, down to 245 chips, bluffing all in representing a queen on a QQx flop, only to be called by the actual queen. 1 time around the table I remain 5th in chips. AcesWerk goes out 9th on hand 78. BluesKid takes the rest of his stack and the two big stacks are now directly to my right. I hit my big blind on the final hand before the level goes up. Small victories. Unfortunately it's 35o and I'm raised off it. studta goes out on the last hand of the level. Level 8 - 150/300 blinds Down to 8 of us. I'm still in 5th but with only 1800 chips. the top 4 all have over 5000 chips and the bottom 4 are all between 1000-2000. k7jdw takes a small pot to push up to 2200. Hand #86: crazyneub(shortest stack, 650) goes all in, bigslim0518 re-raises to limit the field, but blueskid also calls. There's 3200 in the pot(2550 in the main pot for crazyneub). neub has 66, bigslim QQ. a 6 hits the flop but a four flush hits for slim! crazyneub is out and there are 7 left. vghorton, k7jdw, and myself are all short stacked, but one of us has to make the money, and if I can get a spot to double up here, I can still do a lot better than 5th, but I know I need a lot of luck right now. 87o in my big blind. free flop 3-handed. I flop middle pair but decide to fold to an all in with the ace on the board. Maybe I'm just too scared of aces. I'm down to 1350 chips, and thinking I made a mistake by not calling that all in. We'll see. BluesKid, a former big stack, has AA, but he just limped, and he paid. The BB flopped two pair with 25o and knocked him out. We're down to 6, next spot pays. The blinds hit me first and I have 1350 chips, vghorton has 1219. It's obvious I'm playing to make the money right now, and not really playing to win. I have to work on this. Hand #98: AJo in the SB. I'm ready to go all in until the big stack raises, and a shortish stack calls. I would have gotten destroyed, and now there's two other short stacks. holdem2000 is playing his big stack very well, raising pre-flop nearly every hand and building up nicely. Everyone is afraid of being the next one out. Level 9 - 200/400 blinds I have 900 chips. vghorton has 769. k7jdw has 867. I am UTG with AJo. I'm all in for 900 chips. The short stack thinks... thinks... thinks(vghorton, 769, I actually have him covered :P)... I win the blinds. I'm up to 1500 chips. Next hand I'm in the BB with J8s. vghorton goes all in. It's only 370 more for me to call. I'm under 1K if I lose. But for less than a SB, I have to call. I do, and I suck out on A6s, and I have made the money! Hand #105: AA on the button. The two big stacks are behind me, so I go ahead and make a modest raise to 1000 chips. the chipleader, holdem2000 goes all in over me. I call of course, and I see his A7s. My aces are good, and I am all of a sudden in great shape, I am 3rd in chips with 4738!! Hand #106: holdem goes all in in the SB over the short stack, j7jdw. Deja Vu all over again... Holdem has A3s this time, k7jdw has pocket aces. The two short stacks double up with aces in two hands. holdem makes another stand, this time against kidsneedcash, all in pre-flop. holdem has pocket deuces, kidsneedcash has A7s. The flush comes, and another double up off the big stack. Hand #112: I make it 1100 to go with pocket 6s UTG. I steal the blinds. bigslim knocks out kidsneedcash, kids raises pre-flop with A7 and gets called by slim, he goes all in on the QQx flop, only to see bigslim actually have the queen. I'm 3rd in chips out of 4 left. slim and holdem have dominant chipleads. bigslim and holdem go at a pot together, at the end 4 to a flush are on the board, bigslim goes all in and says "fold, holdem" and then shows the nut flush when hodlem folds... that's a bit fishy to me. k7jdw goes all in over a holdem2000 steal attempt and takes a nice pot, I'm the short stack now. Hand #119: I raise to 1000 chips on the button with K9s, bigslim calls me. Flop comes K46, I bet 1500 into the 2500 pot and I win the hand. Hand #120: I have KJs UTG and raise to 1100. holdem2000 goes over the top all in. I still have 3500 chips, I will get a better spot, I fold. Level 10 - 300/600 blinds Hand #123: I have A8s on the button. I raise to 1500 and holdem2000 calls me. I end up folding to a large bet on the turn when the flop misses me totally, I just wasn't ready to bluff all-in there. I probably should have, I'm pretty short now, 2200 with 300/600 blinds hitting. Hand #125: This could be it. AQo in the BB. holdem goes all in. I call. He shows J9o. I hit an ace, he hits an open-ender but I hold up to double up+300. I am back up to 4500 chips. Hand #127: k7jdw goes all in with K6s, bigslim calls with KJo, neither improve and I'm in the final 3! bigslim has 17,000 chips, holdem2000 8000, I have 4500. Blind are 300/600 for 6 more minutes, then up to 400/800. Hand #131: I call the min raise out of the BB with 87s from bigslim. The flop is about as nice as I coudl hope for, 843. I immediately go all in, he calls. He shows AJs, and never hits, I double up to 8900 chips! BigSlim has 12300, holdem and I are essentially even with 8500ish. Hand #144: I have pocket 7s. holdem2000 raises pre-flop top 2000, I go over the top all in for about 5500(I'd been blindign down, not stealing any, something I need to work on in that position clearly). holdem thinks a second, and calls. He had a pretty easy decision there, he has pocket tens and my miracle 7 doesn't hit this time. I bust out 3rd. I pay $33 to enter, and take out $180, a very nice win in about 2 hours time. that's 3 of these 3 tables, I've spent $99 entering, and won $270 in prize pool money(a 3rd and a 5th place finish).

06-12-2004, 03:00 PM	#64
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	To update, once I got every bonus I could, I returned to partypoker and started playing .5/1 full tables to get in the swing of full table action. It has taken quite awhile. I now have a pokertracker database dedicated to these full games. I play 2 tables at a time, I seem to play noticibly worse when I try 3 tables. I've got 3481 hands in tracker at .5/1 and am only up $60.79. But I was dead even after about 3000 hands so I've finally started making some headway. I'm just over 1 BB/hr per table, or 2.40 BB/real hour. At .5/1 this is not an acceptable win rate. I plan on playing at least a few thousand more hands at .5/1, and will definitely not try to jump up in full table games until I can get myself up to 2 BB/hr/table for a signifigant period of time. I don't expect this to be difficult, I just have to tone down the agression that is sometimes very profitable at short tables, realizing that I have to show down the best hand to win. Also to update my bankroll, since this is to track my total poker progress. If you remember from an earlier post, I was up well over $3000 for a short time and playing games slightly over my head. I went on a losing streak, didn't drop down in levels fast enough, and dropped all the way down to $600. After that, I finally got ahold of myself, took a small break and started bonus hunting to help build myself back up a bit. I am very very pleased to report that my current poker bankroll has recovered quite a bit and is now back up to $1850. Certainly enough to play at a higher level than .5/1, but I won't move up until I prove to myself I can consistantly win full games again. It is a little hard playing so far under my bankroll like that sometimes, and these fun 3-table tourneys are a big help when I get a little bored.

06-12-2004, 10:39 PM	#65
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I enter another 3 table $30+$3 NL tourney, lets see how this works out the 4th time around. I start out at table #3. There are a few more early all-in's here, we've lost 2 in the first 5 minutes. At my table, BillieOcean and greekjimbo, sitting next to each other, each appear to be very very loose and very chasey, if that's a word. Well, I'm sure its not, but it should get the point across Hand #6: I call the min raise with T9o, with 4 opponents I figure I have the odds to try to flop a big hand. I miss, and I fold. sinjin69 goes out w/ JJ vs greekjimbo's KK. Hand #9: 2 limpers to me on the button, and I raise 3x the BB with A9s, both limpers call. The flop has a king and misses me, I bet out 100 chips, and get one caller... I guess I time out on the turn and check, establishing connction... then I see the turn and river. There was an ace on the turn, and I call a 100 bet, and lose to KK that flopped trip kings. Very strange. I overplayed this hand pre-flop and on the flop, I liked my position but shouldn't have tried to push the flop w/ 2 callers, it is too early to try that. Level 2 - 10/20 blinds 5 people busted out in the first round, we're down to 25, and down to 8 at my table. Hand #12: I steal the blinds with a pre-flop raise w/ AJs. I have 740 chips, down a bit after my unfortunate A9s hand. Hand #17: QQ on the button. buzmeg(KK earlier) raises the min raise, one calls, and I re-raise to 150. gusto1128 calls out of the blind, as do both early players. The flop comes K86, and gusto1128 bets 350 into the pot. I have to all-in or fold. Calling isn't an option. I make one last bad decision, and I make the all-in. I also had a runner-runner flush draw possible. gusto calls, shows K7s(glad he respected my raise), and I am out 23rd after two very poor decisions, one to knock me down a little early with A9s, and one to knock me out with QQ. I am out 23rd, and that was fast enough that I have time to enter one more of these, hopefully with better results.

06-12-2004, 11:11 PM	#66
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I enter another $30+$3 multi-table. I am at table 2. One guy busts out on hand one at another table. Hooray. AQ vs QQ all in knocks out the 2nd person on hand 3, this one at my table. Level 2 - 10/20 Blinds I've yet to play a hand. Blinds through me once, I have 975 chips. 26/30 are still left. Hand #14: I get Q9s in the big blind. Free flop with many opponents, the flop comes 78T with two diamonds(I have spades). I call a 40 chip bet on the flop, but fold on the turn when the board pairs, no need to chase a straight now. Hand #15: JJ in the SB. The button limps, and I raise it up to 50. blind/dealer both call. a king flops, and I make a 100 chip bet. The button calls. The board pairs the middle card, an 8, and I try to represent it with a 250 chip bet. I get called, and the river is checked down and I lose to KTs. Any idea how to play that? Do I just have to give it up when an overcard flops? Level 3 - 15/30 blinds 22/30 remain, many have fallen through the first two rounds. I am down to 480 chips after the blinds go through me once more. It's not looking pretty. Early in level 3 2 more go out and we're down to 2 tables. The blinds have hit me once and I'm down to about 430 chips. Hand #35: This is it if I get callers. AKs in mid position, I raise to 3x the BB and get two callers. The flop comes 79T rainbow. It's not a great flop but with my stack I really don't have any choice here, I push all in, and am called by Q7. I never hit my ace or king and that's it, I'm out 17th. My early luck seems to have disappeared, but I think I've severely misplayed a few hands in these last two tournaments, looking forward to comments, as I know my NL game needs work. Hand #15 here espicially, I'm curious what others might do there.

06-13-2004, 01:44 AM	#67
SirFozzie Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The State of Insanity	with your pairs with an overcard.. you're playing them too aggressively. Especially JJ with K on the board. Odds are pretty good that if there's a couple people in the hand, that one of em has a K in the hole __________________ Check out Foz's New Video Game Site, An 8-bit Mind in an 8GB world! http://an8bitmind.com

06-13-2004, 09:15 AM	#68
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	thanks foz, that makes sense, seems a difference from limit ring games to no limit tourneys, i'll have to work on that.

06-17-2004, 08:52 PM	#69
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I join a $30+$3 NL Multi-table, hoping to better the results i've gotten in my last few tourneys. Level 1 - 10/15 blinds Three people go out in the first level. I lose my blinds and a limp w/ 33 that goes nowhere. I'm at 955. Level 2 - 10/20 blinds 27 people left at the start of the level. Q9o in my big blind goes nowhere. In my SB I get AKo. It's folded to the blinds, and I raise to 3x the blind(60). The BB calls. The flop is rags, two clubs, I bet out 90 and get called. I give it up on the turn, that hand was going to risk breaking me if I took it any further. The BB bets the pot and I fold. I have 785 chips left, still more than enough to be dangerous. Iveysprotege to my left, and bend123 two to my right have taken the chip lead at my table, bend123 with 2325 chips, iveysprotege 1615. The two chpleaders end up all in on a T54 flop w/ two diamonds. bend had T8, iveys AT... no diamonds for either. iveys doubles up to 3330 and bend590 is down under 600. Level 3 - 15/30 blinds Still 27 left, no one out in the last 10 minutes. JMBrown takes out Phil71 with AK vs J8, all in on a Jack high flop... the king hit the river. Q2 in my big blind goes nowhere. Same with T5o in my small blind. I fold 56s and 44 to small fields, my stack isn't in good shape but I can still stay away from trouble hands. Another BB runs through, this one giving me 82s. I get a free 5-way flop that cxomes J77. Bleh. The SB gives me AJo. I get iveyprotege in the BB and folded to me. I raise into the big stack pre-flop and take the pot. Level 4 - 25/50 Blinds Still 26 left, 8 at my table. I have 740 chips, a bit low but not desparate. Iveysprotege is a dominant chipleader. Someone at table 3 has 2400 chpis, iveys has 3280 after a 400 chip loss. Unfortunately, at table 1, he's not going anywhere. K6s goes all in for 500 chips pre-flop and, of course, beats AQs by hitting two pair. iveysprotege takes out mcdavid with 66 vs AK, he's up to 3800 chips and we're down to 25. TT vs AT vs AK all in and giacoloco triples up to 2575 chips, and another man is gone at my table. 24 left. BB is junk and I'm out on the flop. The SB is A2o and I fold to a raise bhy klizzyklein, a new player moved due to the attrition here. We're down to 21, the tourney page isn't updateing well. I raise with KTs in the cutoff, the blinds are hitting fast now and I have to loosen up some. iveysprotege and JMBrown call. Flop is KQ5, I have to go all in here. iveysprotege calls immediately with QJ, 2nd pair. I am well ahead. Of course, iveys hits one of his 5 outs on the river, and I am gone. Dammit. I am out 21st. I got my money in as an 80% favorite, I can't ask for much more than that.

06-17-2004, 09:48 PM	#70
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I go ahead and get into one more $30+$3 NL 3-table. I sit on table #2, in the same seat I sat last tourney. Level 1 - 10/15 blinds On the 2nd hand I get QQ UTG+1. I raise to 50 and pokerinrear4, directly to my left, calls. The flop comes AA6. I make a bet of 90 chips into the 125 pot, and he comes back over me for 225. I think for awhile, and leave myself a bit short right away, I have to fold here. Amazing, i cannot remember the last time I have had more than 1000 chips in one of these tournaments, this after placing in 3 of my first 5. T5o in the big blind. I get a free flop and we are 7-way. I flop bottom pair, 965 flop, and fold to a pot sized bet. KQo in my small blind. I call the min raise from the button and we are 5 handed. The flop comes AKQ. What do I do here? ldem020368 bets 100 from mid position, the raiser folds, and I check-raise it up to 300. ldem calls. The worst possible card hits the turn. An ace. I check, but Idem checks too. We check tghe river and I see idem was betting with a flush + inside straight draw, he had J7 of hearts, two hearts on that flop. I have more than 1000 chips (1265 to be exact) Suggestions on that hand? from the cold-call of the min raise pre-flop to the check-raise on the flop to the checking it down on the pair of aces on the board. Level 2 - 10/20 blinds No one got knocked out that level. I have 1265 chips, I am actualyl the chip leader at the table by a small amount. We're moving very slowly, 12 hands in the first 15 minutes here. Two people bust out at table 1, we're down to 28 now. Looks like one person busted both in some fashion, the chip leader has 3330 chips right now. I just call a min raise with AK in the big blind, 3 handed, and fold to a large bet on a QTT flop. Deciding how to play this hand in these tourneys has clearly been giving me problems. Level 3 - 15/30 blinds I limp with A5s 6 handed but fold on the flop. Here comes a big one. I have KK. lelandy(a big stack) raises the minimum. I re-raise up to 150. The flop comes Qxx, two diamonds. I do have a diamond. lelandy checks, I bet the pot(a little over 300 at this point) and he folds. A relatively small win for KK, but a win is a win. I'm up to 1380 chips. 5 minutes left in this level, we have 24 players left, 8 at each table. lelandy takes out a player with KQ, the other guy flopped a straight with 8T(9JQ flop), but a ten makes the higher straight for KQ. lelandy is up to 3300 in chips. I get a free 5-way flop with KJo. It misses, but no one bets. A free turn brings another 9. I'm not bluffing here out of position, sorry. Level 4 - 25/50 blinds I have 1335 chips, right around the average count. There are still 23 of us left. I get KK in my big blind. Two limp to me and I just check. The flop comes 89J, two diamonds. lelandy bets 50, I raise to 250, and he calls. The turn makes a flush possible, but also gives me trip kings. I bet big, 700 into the 650 flop, and the pot is mine. In the SB I get AKo, and just limp with 4 way action. The flop comes A46, two diamonds. I have the ace of diamonds. I bet the pot, 250 chips. guppy82 raises me all in for about 80 more chips. I call, and he shows A6, two pair. The board pairs 4s but is no help to me. I am still ok, 1320 chips. But a win there would have made me a big stack with well over 2000 chips. Ah well. We drop to two tables after that hand. Guppy loses JTo to AA and is out 20th. Why couldn't I have those chips instead! Level 5 - 50/100 Blinds I have to fold in both of my blinds, with that I'm down to 1170 here, a bit below average(average is 1666). We lose another soon after and are down to 18 people. Clemson_fan has 4700 chips at my table, lelandy 3380, no one else over 2000, but I am 5th out of 9 at this table. I get 99 UTG. I hate this hand but i think I have to raise. This is where I need to learn a lot more about multi-table strategy. I'm out of position and it's a near full table, but the blinds are getting big, so I think I have to loosen up some. pokerinrear4 calls, lelandy goes all in from the big blind. I fold, pokerinrear4 says "small pair" and ends up calling. they go all in, and it's QQ vs 66. A 6 on the turn, and then a queen on the river! damn. I get a free flop 4 way with 97s. The flop comes 985, rainbow, one of my suit. I have 770, there's 400 in the pot. checked to me, how do you play this? You can't check fold. Do you all in? I bet the pot, 400. I'm committed, but I have been reading about not pushing all in so hard and fast, giving the hand a chance to play out. lelandy goes all in(a check-raise) and I call. Well, I have him dominated. He only has 67. Of course, that's the nuts. I need a 6 to give me a split, and I can't win without a running full house. Of course none of that happens. I am out 16th. I think I played that ok. I needed more action on my KKs but they weren't flops I could really slowplay I don't think(thoughts?)

06-18-2004, 11:57 PM	#71
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I said in an earlier post that my poker bankroll was up to $1850. I've been winning a bit, and now I can only find $1803. I wonder if I have a poker account that I am forgetting right now. Whoops! Of course it is 1am(I'm not playing just goofing around in IRC w/ friends), a more thorough search of all my various poker accounts is in order. For awhile party/empire were down a lot. Because of that I have money in pokerstars. I also have money in two different neteller accounts for a couple of reasons, waiting for re-up bonuses. So I need to better inventory everything and get an accurate count here. Perhaps my initial count was off. Anyway, my current count as of this second is(and this is as much for my tracking purposes as anything else, but this dynasty is kida turning into "how radii goes about trying to turn a profit in poker" instead of a detailed hand analysis thing so it fits): Partypoker: $824 Pokerstars: $168 Neteller #1: $481 Neteller #2: $330 That adds up to $1803. I believe that is an ACCURATE accounting of where I am now. Perhaps I'll try to update this on a weekly basis for a general overview of where I stand in the poker world. If I am having a brain fart aboutan account somewhere I'll update this tomorrow.

06-19-2004, 09:19 AM	#72
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	The information above is correct. I think I simply added wrong in my earlier post and was at 1750, not 1850. Anyway, now that I have everything "itemized" as to where it is, I should be able to more accurately keep up with that. I'm jumping up to 1/2 today, 2 or 3 tables simultaneously. I've stayed near $3/hr going into about 4500 hands at .5/1 and am confidant that I'm not making any more 'transitional mistakes' going back to full games from short games. Of coruse with $1800, I'm still playing well under my bankroll at 1/2, and if I absolutely roll over this level over a couple thousand hands i'll make a quick jump up to 2/4.

06-20-2004, 10:43 PM	#73
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I hate laptops. Espicially laptops with batteries that don't work so when you shift on the couch the power cord comes out and you lose the tournament writeup you were doing. Well, long story short, I entered a $30+$3 single table on party, was hanging around w/ a little more than the starting chips with 6 left. The biggest stack had 2000 chips, to my right. I had AQs in the small blind, and he made a 250 raise pre-flop. I sensed a steal, and pushed all in over him, expecting to win it right there. Well, even better, he called with A8o! Code: radii@dread:~$ pokenum -h Ah 8c - As Js Holdem Hi: 1712304 enumerated boards cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV 8c Ah 380813 22.24 1204027 70.32 127464 7.44 0.260 As Js 1204027 70.32 380813 22.24 127464 7.44 0.740 Of course, a four flush hits on the river, hearts, I am gone, and out $33. Weekend bankroll update. I haven't loaded all my hands into pokertracker yet, but at 1/2 I'm going at a win rate of about $15/hr early on, I'm playing well, and of course my opponents are playing terrible, my good hands have been holding up. I did just lose $33 entering that tourney, so I'm only up about $50 over the weekend. Partypoker: $876 (was $824) Pokerstars: $168 Neteller #1: $481 Neteller #2: $330 TOTAL: $1855 I don't intend this to become me posting my bankroll every few days :P I intend at least to play a tournament every few days to continue to work on my tournament play, and may occasionaly single-table it at limit to write up a session here and there. I'm really annoyed at the stupid laptop, had a couple of interesting folds that I wanted to post about, but without the context of the rest of the tournament probably aren't nearly as interesting.

06-21-2004, 10:45 PM	#74
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	After dealing with some heavy lag issues, I get into a 3 table $30+$3 tourney, ready to end my crappy streak in them. I start at table 2, in the big blind on hand 1. Level 1 - 10/15 blinds BB - raised out of K3s. SB - raised out of J4s. Someone goes out on table 1 on hand 1. Hand #6: I limp with A7s from mid position, looking for a big flop or gone. I flop the flush draw, KT3, two diamonds, and I bet the pot(70 chips) and win it right there. Hand #8: QQ vs JT with a ten-high flop ends up all in and Bturner2367 is gone, RIVER_GHOST to my direct left now has 2195 chips and we are down to 28 with 2 minutes left in the level. warriorwayne goes all in vs eman1000, a made hand vs an open-striaght draw(that never hit). eman1000 has 10 chips left. Hand #12: My BB hits before the level goes up. I have 35o and flop middle pair + inside straight draw, not enough to acll a 150 bet into a 70 pot. eman1000 is gone on this hand. We are down to 27. Level 2 - 10/20 blinds coosaw joins 2 to my right. I have exactly 1000 chips, slightly below average with a few gone. table 3 loses another and we're down to 26, 12 minutes in. We'er losing a lot here compared to other 3-table's I've been in, we're down to 25 14 minutes in. Hand #21: I have A9o in my big blind. The two big stacks plus another are in for 75 chips. Can I call 55 here with A9o? I fold, the flop comes 9 high and there is an all-in on the flop(for 1500 chips, these are 3 stacks bigger than mine going at it). Oof. JJ vs A9. JJ was the bigger stack, that is an exit for warriorwayne. RiVER_GHOST now has 3270 chips. Hane #22: AQo in the SB. judster limps, I raise to 60, and RIVER_GHOST and Judster fold and I take the small, small pot. I am up to 1020 chips. Hand #24: in the cutoff, I again have AQo. two limpers, and I raise to 60, only CooSaw calls. The flop coems ATx, 3 hearts. I haev top pair/queen kicker, and my queen is a heart. Coosaw checks, I bet 100 into the 150 pot, and I win it there. I have crept up to 1110 chips. Hand #27: KQs UTG+1. I limp in after CooSaw also limps. I fold to a 250 raise from the BB. Level 3 - 15/30 blinds 23 people left, my 1090 chips is a 250 below average. Hand #29: ATo in the big blind. There's a raise to 80, seems like a dealer steal. But do I play back here? I think I should have. I just called, and check/folded to a bad flop. Markhutch had bet-pot clicked. Hand #31: It doesn't get much better than this, I have AA on the button. One limper, I raise to 75 chips and only the limper, CooSaw calls. The flop comes A87, two diamonds. CooSaw checks, I underbet a bit here, I'm probably giving the flush draw odds to call, 70 into a 180'ish pot. But CooSaw folds. How would people play this? I have position, trip aces, and the ace for the flush, A87, 87 diamonds on the flop. There are too many cards that can come out that will scare me, so I don't think I can give a free card here. Thoughts? Hand #37: Q8s in the BB. three limp(including BB) and I check. The flop comes 357, two diamonds. I bet 85 into the 120 flop and CooSaw calls. The turn is a blank, the river an 8. I debate a small bet but that's just asking for a check-raise. I check it down and win the pot against J6(inside straight). CooSaw bluffs all-in on AJ against AQ(pair of queens vs ace-high) and he is out, markhutch has 2400 chips now, big stacks to my right(markhutch/2210 chips) and left(River_ghost 3530 chips). Hand #43: UTG with AQs, raise to 3xthe blind(to 90) and I steal the blinds. Raised out of my blind(K2o). Level 4 - 25/50 blinds 21 left going into the 2nd half-hour. Hand #50: RIVER_GHOST knocks out the 21st player, we're down to 2 tables. I have 1200 chips after the blinds pass, RIVER_GHOST has 3960 to my left, the THREE players to my right all have 2300+ chips. Oof. Hand #51: A5s in the SB. markhutch has 2500 chips, and raises to 250 on the button. He's probably stealing, but can you play back with A5s there? If I think he's stealing don't I have to go over the top of him all in? He's got double my stack... how do others play this? I folded. Hand #52: RIVER_GHOST goes allin for 2900 on the turn into a 2000 pot, T424 on the board, hicagojoec folds, river_ghost just made a great 1000 chip pickup. chicagojoe is down to 1600 chips and says he had a pocket pair(doesn't say how high). Hand #54: JTs in the cutoff, I open-raise for 150 chips(3x BB). AABulletsAA calls me. The flop comes JT7, all hearts. I of course, have no hearts, I have top-two. AABullets bets 100, the pot is now 400 chips. These good hands don't come often enough... if he has me beat I have outs, and if I'm ahead I have great odds to win. I push all in over him. He calls with A7, one heart. We're 50/50, a lot worse than I hoped for. The 4th heart hits the river and I never fill up. I'm down to 465 chips and in trouble. Another one of those "hwo do you guys play this? blinds going up to 50/100 very soon. Level 5 - 50/100 blinds 17 left. I am the short stack at the table, 2nd shortest in the tourney. My blind is hitting soon, I'm going to need a couple of double-ups to stay alive. 52o UTG. I'll take my chances in the blinds. 76o in my BB. please please please free flop. whee. 3-handed. 235 on the flop, two clubs. inside straight draw. Bleh. I don't have enough to pick up the pot, I'll get claled. I decide to just check, we actually check all the way to the river and I never hit anything and fold to a bet on the river. The SB is 72o and I again fold. on the button I have KQo. Now I have about 6 hands to see what happens, but this is the best it gets I assume. two limpes before me and I go all in for 315. Both limpers call. Flop comes A67 and I am sure I'm gone. One of them has an ace. NOPE!! hart7 goes all in on the flop, scares out anan12. hart has 65o. A queen hits the turn, I'M ALIVE. I now have 1095 chips. I'm still very low but I'm breathing. Hand #68: T2o in the BB. folded to the SB who limps, I'm ready to push all in if I hit a ten here, but I don't, total miss and I fold to a bet. I fold 62s in the SB. 3-way all in, 67s, 77 and AJ pre-flop. 89TJ give 67/77 a split of chicagojoec's money to hart7/southsidesox. chicagojoe had a heavy chiplead over the other two and stays alive though. Level 6 - 75/150 blinds Hand #73: Ugh. We are 8 handed. I have 945 chips. Avg is up to about 2000, 75/150 blinds coming fast. I'm in mid-position. I have pocket 7s. Shit what to do. I open-raise to 3x the BB, 450. I win the blinds. Woo. I'm up to 1170 chips. Hand #74: hart7 keeps doubling up. A7 vs anan12's 33. Ace on the river. hart7 has come back from less than what I had to 1150 chips. Anan doubles up on the next had, TT vs A3 all in. Hand #76: Q4s in the big blind. Two others limp and I get a free flop. I can't call a bet on the AT7 flop though. K4o in the SB doesn't help me any, back to 945. We're down to 13 people after a few all-ins in the last few hands(one out at my table, two at the other). hart7 is the luckiest MF in the world. KJo all in vs TT after the turn, KJ was two overcards+inside straight, TT was trip tens. the inside straight hits the river. hart7 is a big'ish 2400 stack, while Anan12 is now down under me at 1800. Blinds coming Q4o UTG, bleh. BB: J9o. There's a raise to 300. Two call. I'm getting 7:1 to call another 150, but if I miss I'm way down. I go ahead and fold. AT9 flop, 3 spades. I had no spade. I would have had no chance here. SB: J3o, I fold to a big raise. I'm down to 720 chips. blinds go up in 2 minutes, I'm going to catch them again at 100/200. 32o UTG + 2. 74o UTG+1. Southsidesox is gone. 12 of us left. AQ UTG. All-in. How many will call? UGH. Two. Holy crap Icould not be up against worse possibilities. I am so dominated it is silly. Code: radii@dread:~$ pokenum -h Ac Qd - Kc Kd - Ah Ks Holdem Hi: 1370754 enumerated boards cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV Ac Qd 115974 8.46 1234849 90.09 19931 1.45 0.091 Kc Kd 991154 72.31 370987 27.06 8613 0.63 0.726 Ks Ah 240501 17.55 1107128 80.77 23125 1.69 0.183 OOF. I am out 12th. Thoughts on any of the hands above? I'll probably get the chance to document some ring-game action soon because UltimateBet is offering a 33% bonus up to $500. I am definitely taking that, and at UB I like starting short tables for the double points.

06-22-2004, 11:33 AM	#76
SirFozzie Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The State of Insanity	Your betting pattern indicates that your betting is... less then optimal in that it's not agressive enough. In my view, you have to win 5-10 times as many hands by forcing/bullying the other player off his hand as there is in showing down hands. It's led to something I call normal/agressive play. You play a lot of calls with marginal hands (the suited connectors, the Kojack, Ace-middle cards).. but if you HAVE a hand, you get agressive, and bet them right out of the pot. Reasoning: It only takes one-two hands to establish a "rep" in these tournies as a player who will make you PAY for drawing hands and, for example, less then top pair with high kicker at the flop. (say, AJ5 flop.. I want them thinking I have at LEAST a AQ.. even though I might have rags.. because in the first few hands.. I've played it agressive right in their face with a great hand.) That helps in the being a bully part in the tourney. If you're in the middle or top levels of the chip count.. you HAVE to make them fear playing you. Especially in the double shootout's first table.. I was fourth about the 25/50 level.. but I had enough chips that for all but one player.. if I decided to push, I was going to make them decide their fate in the tourney on this one hand. For example, when normally I would have raised the mininum, I raised it four-five times the BB. That usually would nab me the blinds. Yes, it's less then optimal at that point.. but when you get a couple of those, mixed in with one or two bluffs (where you fold if you don't hit, or just try to collect with a bet, but get forced out to a re-raise, or whatever..) But then comes the hand where you have a huge advantage and you get one (or two) players that say "That bastard's gotta be stealing.." and re-raises you.. thinking he's going to force you out.. and then his jaw drops as they see you go all-in. Most of the time, they are upset with you for trying to disrupt their wonderful, knowing play, and they end up at the rail and wondering what the hell went wrong. Basically.. the best time to be agressive is pre-flop.. because unless he has AK, AA, KK, or QQ.. he will be looking for ways OUT of the pot rather then into the pot. It's just a matter of varying play so you don't get predictable __________________ Check out Foz's New Video Game Site, An 8-bit Mind in an 8GB world! http://an8bitmind.com

06-22-2004, 01:21 PM	#77
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	The single-table I was writing up a couple of days ago, I was listing every hand I folded and my position as I was going. I think the next tourney I play I will try to do that again, and see how many "nono you could have played that"'s I get. I appreciate the advice from all, I really want to improve my tournament game, I know it's a weakness. Foz, can you elaborate on how you'd recommend playing the first couple of times around the table? I have always read to play "super tight" very early on but that obviously doesn't seem to get me anywhere. It sounds to me like what you're describing is a strategy where you try to play a lot of hands early, get out when you miss, but when you do catch something to overbet the pot pretty big. One of the problems I face is that Party's tournament structure is a lot worse than PokerStars. pokerstars gives you 1500 chips and 15 minute levels, party gives you 1000 chips and 10 minute levels. I always feel like one moderate mistake cripples me(maybe I just shouldn't play tournaments on party, huh?). Anyway, I do appreciate all of the advice. Back to the ring games exclusively for a little while to work off my bonus on UB. Edit: I can spell, I just choose not to sometimes. Last edited by Radii : 06-22-2004 at 01:22 PM.

06-22-2004, 02:02 PM	#78
SirFozzie Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The State of Insanity	In a WSOP type event, yes, it is best to be super tight. However, in the 1-3 table tournaments (like the ones I play, and your 3 table SnG).. you have the same crew for the whole tournament most of the time. It's a matter of table image. Especially in the single tables.. where you WON'T get any new blood.. you have to make others think that you will take them to the wall if they want a go. 3 table.. you probably have MOST of the same crew, so it does remain the same unless you get moved. Take a chance with marginal hands, get out if you don't hit, but bet agressive. Either you'll take it down if they fold, or you'll take down a big pot if they suspect you're stealing. The first couple rounds, you don't steal at all. You want others to think that you are no poker artist.. you use the hammer school of NL Hold Em. The Hammer School of Poker, you may ask? It's simple. Any problem.. hit it with a hammer (a bet). If it doesn't work.. hit it with a bigger hammer. (a bigger bet). That sets your table image as a player who will beat them big if they call his bet. You will bust out early more (bad beats and people with the nuts), but it will lead to more high finishes (money finishes) because once your table image is set, you will have established yourself as someone you don't get cute with. Pokerstars is 1500/10 BTW, for SnG. __________________ Check out Foz's New Video Game Site, An 8-bit Mind in an 8GB world! http://an8bitmind.com Last edited by SirFozzie : 06-22-2004 at 02:04 PM.

06-22-2004, 10:05 PM	#79
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I deposit $500 into Ultimate Bet and earn a $165 bonus as a result. I buy in for $100 to a 2/4 6-max table, I start the table, so I'll earn double points. I need to earn 1650 points to clear up my entire bonus. I'm not going to put myself in a bad situation to earn the bonus but I am confidant enough in my heads up and short play in general to make sure I start every table to get the bonus points. after a few minutes ifrk325 sits to my right. 5 hands in Bucketsman joins to the left. These guys both seem real weak/tight for 3 handed. I quickly go up about $10, pots are staying small so that's saying something, all the wins are on flop bets or pre-flop raises Burger77 joins to my immediate left I flop top pair out of the big blind on Burger's first hand(he posted out of turn) with J7s and bet all the way down, I end up winning a $25 pot. A small loss trying to take a pot from a passive ifrk325 drops me a little. Another $26 pot comes very soon after, I raise/bet with AK all the way heads up against bucketman, hitting an inside straight on the turn. We go 6 handed 16 hands in. I am up $26.25 at this point. To my left: Burger77, blue1929, bucketsman, robertob7, and ifrk325. robertob raises w/ KTo on his second hand, worth noting. Hand #19: I raise out of the SB with TT, 3 people call me(wto limpers and the BB). The flop has a king, I bet and then call a raise. The turn is a queen and I'm out. I'm down to $114.25 after that one. Hand #22: I raise UTG+1 with KQo. 3 people call. I love my QQ4 flop. I bet the flop, and burger77 raises me. The other two fold, and I just call, intended to check-raise the turn(refusing to believe there's any way I'm behind here). I do check-raise the turn, and bet the river, both are called and I win a $48 pot. Hand #24: blue1929 raises pre-flop and I call with AQo out of the big blind. The flop comes A99 and I bet out. Blue just calls. The turn is a king, I bet again, blue folds. 25 hands in, I'm up $48.25, and have earned 21 "ultimate points" Of course, I need 1650 of them, but I love seeing them come in so fast when I'm getting double points for starting a table. Hand #28: I raise with A9s, only blue1929 calls me. The flop comes 567, the turn a blank. I push on both streets, buth check fold when I don't improve by the river. I sit out two hands to teach a 6 year old how to raise and lower blinds. When I come back there is a new table lineup: to my left: Burger77, blue1929, Bucketsman, empty seat, Warrf. Hand #40: I get a free flop with Q9o. I bet the 9 high flop(954 I believe), and get re-raised by burger77. With A9 I'd re-raise but with Q9 I think I'll just acll here. I call al the way down when running 8's hit the board, and see that I beat pocket 7's for a pot about $20. Hand #43: I raise from UTG+1 with JJ. I get 3 callers. The dreaded ace flops. I bet it all the way down, getting two callers on teh flop and the turn. Surely an ace would re-raise me? Well of course not, but we've seen burger bet when checked to with nothing so I don't think I have much of a choice unless I'm giving up the hand. I bet it all the way down, burger/blue call the flop turn, blue calls the river after burger folds, my JJ is good for a $45 pot. At present I'm 45 hands in, up $62 with 50.5 points. The way ultimate bet works is that every 10 points releses a dollar. Actually, every point releases 10 cents... of your bonus, and after you leave the table that portion of your bonus that you've earned is given to you immediately. Kinda nice really, though I still like PartyPoker's "sit here for 500 hands and you get $100 free" system the best. Hand #50: Burger has really gotten agressive, raising a lot pre-flop. He raises UTG and I just call after 3 others with JJ. The flop comes 9 high and I know Burger is betting, so I go for the check-raise here. Everyone calls. The turn is a blank low card, I bet out and all call. The river is another blank, I bet and burger and warrf call me. My jacks are good and I win a $50 pot, I'm up to $192 at the table. Burger showed pocket 7s. Burger busts out soon after, dumping his last $19 on the next two hands. He pushed waay too hard with his middle pocket pairs, something I have been guilty of so I know the feeling, but it just seemed like he couldn't fold them. New table lineup 55 hands in: eclipsegsx302, blue1929, Bucketsman, DickieTheWorm, Warrf, and me. Hand #57: one limper to me, I've got the button and raise with 88, 3 callesr. Flop comes JJ2. Eclipse bets out and I decide to raise, only bucketsman and dickietheworm call. A blank hits the turn and bucketsman check-raises me. I know my call here sucks, but I make it anyway. The river is a 9 and I fold to a bet there. Hand #62: free flop with QTo. Flop comes Q8x, warrf checks, I bet, warrf calls. Turn is a jack, check/bet/call. I'm erady to check down this river, as there's a flush on the board now(a blank 3rd heart), but warrf bets. People bluff the flush too often here, I feel I have to clal. I am beaten by a straight, not a flush, warrf shows 9T for the win. Those two quick losses knock me down to $160. Hand #69: I have AKo. I raise early, bucketsman calls, dickietheworm re-raises and I cap it. 3 way action, I am last to act. The flop comes 877, checked to me, I bet and both call. The turn is a jack, I take a free card here, assuming I'm up against some sort of pocket pair from dickie, and the river, another 8, putting two pair on the board. We check it down, and if either of them had a pocket pair, it was lower than 7s. My ace kicker on the 2 pair on the board wins the $28 hand. I give a litte back soon after betting 2nd pair into bucketsman. He pushes me harder than i'm willing to go with my T7s(JTx flop) when a second jack hits the turn, and I let him have it. 74 hands in, up $66/94.5 points. Hand #83: I get a free flop with 64o, 3 handed. It's a beauty. 235. I bet the flop, both call. The turn is another 5. I bet, dickietheworm raises, warrf folds, and I re-raise(low pockets/53/52 beat me here, no backing down that easy). I bet the jack on the river, and i take down a $42 pot with my straight. Hand #89: Eclipse raises UTG, I have AQo on the BB. warrf and I both call, leaving me in mid-position this hand. Flop comes KJx. I check/call a bet with my inside straight draw, and fold on the turn. I don't like how I played that handat all. 100 hands in, I am up $69 and have 126.50 points. Table: eclipsegsx302, MagicMartyy, Bucketsman(who has come back to $87 from about $25 recently), DickieTheWorm, and an empty seat. DickieTheWorm takes a bad beat and leaves as well, 4 handed for now. I win a small pot with KTs betting a draw on a scary board(2 dimaonds/straight draw for me), $5.75 pot. G_G has joined to my right. MagicMartyy busts out. down to 4 again. Hand #116: QQ on the button. GG limps, I raise, bucketsman/GG call. The flop comes T94. checked to me, I bet they both call. Turn is a 3. I bet/both call. the river pairs the top card, another ten. I decide to check here with two opponents, and I win a $29.50 pot with my queens and tens. Hand #122: I call a raise out of the BB with 97s. A little loose I suppose but eh. Flop comes QT8, two of my suit. Even if my opponent has QQ I have tons of ways to win here. I bet out, and we end up capping the flop. I call a turn bet, and fold on the river when everything misses. A ten hit the river and bucketsman had QQ for the top boat. I was still a 60/40 dog to a set there: Code: Holdem Hi: 990 enumerated boards containing Qc Tc 8h cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV Qd Qh 591 59.70 390 39.39 9 0.91 0.602 9c 7c 390 39.39 591 59.70 9 0.91 0.398 But, give my opponent two pair, and we're 50/50(ifh e has QT). Give him AA and I'm a 55/45 favorite. I am pleased w/ my flop cap. Hand #135: I raise UTG with pocket 7s, G_G calls. Flop comes AK4. G_G check-raises me when I bet(he was BB) and I immediately fold. These losses have knocked me down to $158(up $58.25). After a 10-15 minute break I sit back in for one round and blind out a bit and play one hand that goes nowhee, and after another short break I'm back for awhile here. 143 hands in, I have $147.25 and 156 bonus points. Table layout: empty seat, punkyd, infallible, Glen-Bo, and Cariola212. A totally new lineup here. Hand #144: My first hand back, A5o in the BB. Free flop 3-way, flop an ace, win $5.75 by betting it. Hand #152: I have KK UTG. I raise and two call. Flop comes 943. cariola bets out before me, i raise and both call. Turn is a jack, I bet and both call. River a queen. I bet, punky raises, and I call. Pretty straightforward, Q9o for two pair. I am down to $134 on that loss. Hand #159: I limp from the SB with pocket 5s, 4-way action. flop comes 895. I bet out, two call. Turn is a blank, but puts a heart draw on the board. cha59 calls my bet. The river is a 7, a 6 makes a straight and ther's a flush on the board. I bet, cha raises, an dI call to see JTo for the nut straight. I am down to $116 after those two very bad drawouts against me. Hand #167: We're back to 6 handed here, and I raise in the cutoff with KTs, I get 3 callers and fold to a bet on the flop when it doesn't even give me runner runner possibilities. I'm now down to $107, but I don't think I'm tilting at all, so it's still all good. Hand #170: Q4s on the BB, free flop 3-way I catch top pair and bet the flop, both opponents call me. The turn makes a straight and a flush, I don't like my kicker and I've got too many hands that i'm drawing dead against, I check/fold it here. Hand #178: I raise on the button with AQo, only the BB calls. rave, the BB/new player, check-raises me on the flop of JT5. I call, I think he's done this before already and taken down the pot, I end up catching a flush draw on the turn but don't improve on the river. rave shows me J3o, top pair, shitty kicker, but, it's good enough to beat me. I file that one away. Hand #183: folded to me on the SB, I raise with JJ, bet the flop and win a $7.75 pot. I am hurtin a bit though, down to $78.75 here. Hand #187: down to 4-way again, I steal the blinds w/ a raise w/ 55 UTG. ARGH. Now I have to be careful of tilting. KTs in the BB. Glen-bo limps to me. Flop comes K-rag-rag. He bets, I raise, he calls. He check-raises me on the turn and I decide to call him down... a slowplayed AA. Now I am down to $57.75 and hurting quite a bit. Hand #196: err. I hit a flush on the turn with KTs again but rave hits a full house on the river to CRUSH me. $44.75. About 50 hands not written up b/c of talking to oliegirl who just got home. I bleed just a bit down to $45. Hand #245: rave and I cap pre-flop, heads up against each other. I have QQ. Flop has an ace. I decide to call him down, knowing he's agressive with a lot less than an ace there. He ends up showing me JJ as I take down a $32 pot to move back up to $62.25. This table has gotten really agressive I blind down to $54, there are pre-flop raises, and bluffs galore. 66 vs AJ, neither improve but the pot ends up over $30. Hand #268: I get a free flop with 35 spades. Flop comes 247 of spades. SOCLOSE. I bet the flop and get two callers. On the turn a 4th spade comes... I go ahead and bet, seen that happen just too often, but fold to a raise. Hand #271: I raise in the cutoff with AJs. Three call and I fold to a 456 all clubs flop(I had spades) I may well bust out here, but I feel like if I can catch a couple of hands I can get back up to my buyin real fast too... top pair vs bottom pair just brought us a $60 pot. I won't rebuy but I'll play this all th way down to bust if I have to to try to turn it around. Tampa Bay represent. Lou Pinella has joined the table. Tampa Bay represent. Lou Pinella shows down quad queens. Capped on the turn and river as redskin2 tries to bluff with 5 high and refuses to give up. Hand #293: I steal the blinds with a cutoff raise with AJs. About to bust out after I raise with KJs. I flop a flush draw and inside straight draw and push push push and end up winning a $22 pot to a fold. Hand #305: I double up finally, T8 suited. I flop a ten and the flush draw and push push push, i hit the flush on the turn and end up getting put all in, I win $42.50 with my flush. We're 3 handed here so the swings could get real big real fast... never mind, we're 5 handed now and I have $36.50. Ok so we're 4 handed. I raise with QJs and get two callers, I flop a queen. YOU ARE **** ***** ME(adjusted for the youngins here). wired jacks caps the flop, bets the turn and river. Q42 flop. T turn, 9 river, runner runner to make 4 clubs. He shows 43o to take the pot with a ten high flush draw(clearly I have no clubs here). That pot was $51.50 and my only mistake was not capping the turn. That would have put me soooo far back up. I win two hands again that are virtually all-ins, KT hit hard and 99 flopped a full house, that brings me right back up to $38. I don't like playing short stacked at a limit table like this, but I don't want to lose more than my buyin here either. 6 handed, I raise with AQs, one caller, and I flop a flush draw against tirepoker(new player). I bet the flop and turn, check the river, and I beat 95o. I am back to $47.25. I call a raise with T7s in the BB with 4 opponents. I flop a flush, KJ2. I cap the betting on the flop with the raiser, call a bet on the turn when the board pairs the jack on the turn, and check down the river when the 2 paisr also. My flush is good though and I am up to $72! I raise with 99 UTG, wiredjacks calls, so does captaininsano. I bet, wiredjacks raises, I re-raise, he caps. With all the bluffs I've seen him run I just absolutely do not believe him. I bet the turn, and call his raise. I finally call down the river, and see 67o. The $66 pot just kills me. I make it back up pretty soon after. I flop top pair with A9o and cap it with wiredjacks. I bet the turn/he calls with a flush on the board, and the river makes a four flush with my 9. I bet anyway, he calls, and shows me 62o, he had middle pair on the flop and never improved. I lose about $15 with AJ vs a dominated QJ. both a queen and an ace flop but my opponent runner-runner flushes me. I am right back down to $33 here. This is kinda insane. I've tailed off a bit here b/c of AFI's top 100 movie songs. After blinding back down to about $40(after going up to $50'ish again), I get AA, raise pre-flop and get 4 callers. I flop the ace but there's a flush draw as well. I bet out of first position and everyone folds. WTF! Well, the $19 pot gets me back up to $56. YES. I hit a flush on the turn in a 5-handed pot, I am almost certain there was a made straight and possibly a set going there, I take down a $53 pot and I am back to $85.25! I steal the blinds with AKs to stay at that $85. I end up falling back to $66, and earning an astounding 587 points. I'm not sure what to say about my session, quite a marathon, I don't think I could have quit when I was up $80 really, my play stayed solid throughout, minus some goofy play when I was about to bust out, thought I could beat these guys but wasn't willing to risk more than a buyin... anyway, I now have $524.70 in my money account and $106.30 remaining of my bonus to earn. I will definitely be a little disappointed if I end up only taking $660 out of this site or less, but hey, stuff happens.

06-22-2004, 10:06 PM	#80
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	Thanks for the additional post Foz, when I am back on party/pokerstars(I still have a couple hundred lingering there) and want to try out some tournaments again, I will re-read your posts and see how I can make some adjustments.

06-25-2004, 06:28 PM	#81
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I start up a 2/4 short table on UB, hoping to do better than my last two sittings(the mammoth one I recorded and another loser that I didn't). It takes awhile before anyone else joins, about 10 minutes, but now, mrcrozan has joined me. No one else joins, and after 13 hands, Microzan leaves. I played him well and am up $17.75. So now I wait some more, with $117.75 and 6 "ultimate points" at the table. No big big hands worth mentioning, we rarely went to the river. I won a few $20 pots and didn't lose any big ones. I won a nice hand with 23o which hit two pair on the turn, and AJ with an ace on the board. lion9 joins as my next challenge. I score big here, on our first 3 hands I win pots of $23.50/$19.50/$15.50 with a striaght/top pair/bottom pair. A 3rd player, wambamkam joins. I have $140 when he joins and we go 3 handed. There's little pre-flop raising from the other two here, they sem to be pretty straight forward. I lose my first $20 pot betting bottom pair with a 2 kicker(92o) into 97o. I'm outkicked and down to $125. 27 hands in, lion9 raises out of the BB, the first sign of major agression from either... too bad there wasn't a showdown. I lose another pot wtih A2 and then another with pocket 7s, raising pre-flop witht hem only to fall to a pair of 9s made on the turn. Ok, 36 hands in, we are now 6 handed. I'm down to $93 all of a sudden, as I flop top two pair vs toothpicker(the 4th at the table) but he rivers a flush. The lineup: wambamkam, OKslim, lion9, _Slacker_, empty chair(toothpicker leaves before I finish typing this up). All four of the others are involved in a $79 pot, massive at 2/4. ace/good kicker vs A5 two pair vs a flush draw vs a fish who had no business in the pot. Hand #42: I check with AKs on the BB(mistake...), we are 3 handed. The flop comes 666. slacker bets, I raise, lion folds, slacker calls. I bet the turn and check the river when they're blanks. My ace high beats K5o, neither of us paired up for the boat. Hand #43: I push with KQs from the SB, betting the flop and turn, probably very mistakenly when the ace hit the flop. I give wambam a $30 pot. Hand #46: I raise with KK and win the blinds. Splendid. sanjaysr2k joins to my right in the final empty seat. Hand #48: Free flop with J5o, 3 handed. I bet it when it comes J33. Only Slacker calls me. I bet the turn when another 3 hits, giving me the boat. Slacker folds on the river and I'm up to $103. Hand #50: I limp on the button with 76s. 3 handed with lion and OKslim. The flop comes 773. lion bets and I just call. The turn is a queen, lion bets, I raise, he calls. The river boats me up with a 6, I bet/he calls and I take down a $33.25 pot with my full house, up to $120. Hand #52: I raise UTG with AQo. wambam calls, OKslim re-raises, lion calls, and me and wambam also both call. The flop comes 337 and 4-handed I don't like my overcards, I go ahead and fold to a bet. lion9 has gotten very agresive all of a sudden. slacker has just taken two $40+ pots in a row, one off okslim with a J6 boat and one off of lion9, dunno what with. and lion takes a $40 pot right back off of slacker, KQ vs KT. Hand #70: I raise UTG with ATs. wambam comes over me with a re-raise and I call. I bet the flop when it comes A97. I bet the king on the turn, and just call a raise, and check/call the river, which is a second king. wambam shows pocket jacks, for some very curious betting there. Wonder if I should have raised the turn. Yet another raise/re-raise pre-flop between lion and slacker. OKSlim stays in this time and takes the lead on the flop. lion9 shows AT for a rivered inside straight. OKSlim had KT, and slacker had AQ. Good to see what they're pushing so hard with on occasion. wambam tilts out totally and busts out. New table lineup after he leaves and one joins: Empty seat, OKSlim, Lion9, _Slacker_, and JJ66(brand new, bought in for only $40) Hand #84: I play A2 from the small blind with one limper, and win $5.75 when an ace flops and no one calls me. h20fam joins to my left and we're full again. Hand #90: I limp on the button with JTs, KQ of my suit flops and I bet it, winning a small pot. There's another $50 pot, OKslim has his aces cracked by lion9's K5, two kings hit... I take yet another $6 pot betting J6o, free flop, free turn and I turned a straight draw with 457 on the board... no one else seemed to want it. Hand #97: I have T9o in the SB. We are 6 handed, I limp and see QJx flop, I am ready to call a bet here, but slacker bets and JJ66 raises... I can't cold-call two. In the end, I would have hit my straight and won about $60. But I think I made the right fold nonetheless. slacker leaves, which is a bad thing, you could take a loto f money off of him when you had a hand. eriksen joins in his place. lion9 also leaves. He played pretty well but was easy to read. lineup: h20fam, OKslim, empty seat, eriksen, JJ66... I have $99.50 after the BB that hit while I wrote this. Hand #106: I think I played this terribly. OKslim raises pre-flop, I call out of the BB with 87s. We're heads up on the flop. I flop a straight draw, 699 flop. I bet out, OKslim raises, and I'm out of position and just unhappy here. I basically give it up, but at the same time, so did OKslim..I probably could have bet him out of it, he had A3o. Hand #109: I raise with pocket 5s, get one caller, and get pushed at hard on the flop which has 3 overcards. I fold and after those two hands I'm down to $80. Hand #112: I raise with ATs, only eriksen calls. Flop comes AJ9. He bets, I raise, he calls. Turn is a ten, I bet/he calls. The river is an 8... any 7/queen makes a straight. He bets, I have to call this though, I do and I lose a $32 pot to Q9. Three bad hands in a row(though one I think I played fine) and I'm down to $65 and cursing Ultimate Bet. Hand #121: I have JJ in the big blind. I just limp here, with two opponents, hoping for a good flop. The flop comes T86, not terrible, but it's all clubs. I do have a club, jj66 bets, I raise, hangnman(new player) and JJ66 calls. The turn puts 4 to a straight out with a 7, I bet otu and only hangnman calls. The river is an ace, I bet, and both fold... the $25 pot puts me back up to $75.50. Hand #134: I get a free flop with J9o, flop a straight draw, and win the $5.75 right there. Hand #135: I have TT on the button and raise. OKslim and hangnman call. Flop comes 7-high with two spades. hangnman bets, I raise, OKslim calls. The turn is a 3rd spade but tens are still high... hangnman bets again, and I call him down, the river brings a 4th spade, I have a spade and call, I lose to K8s. Hand #139: I make some of that back when I flop a queen out of the blind with Q4, I get a few callers on the flop and folds on the turn, I'm at $69. Hand #143: I win another pot of about $12 with 66, flop 442, turn 3. I lose two very very bad hands in a row. One one I open-raise from the cutoff wit A5s. h20fam re-raises and I just call. I flop an inside straight draw and a flush draw. We cap the flop. The turn pairs my 5, I bet/he raises and I call. We both check the river and my pair of 5s loses to pocket queens. The very next hand I raise with AQs. h20fam calls and OKslim re-raises. we both call. The flop comes Q87 rainbow. OKslim and I cap the betting. On the turn I check/call and on the river h20fam bets/OKslim raises... I still have top pair but I have to be beaten... I fold. OKSlim has AQs. h20fam has 77, trips. He takes down $90. I am down to $40 after those two crushing losses. At this second that would put me down $80 at UB even after the bonus money I've released so far, with about $80 in bonus money to go. Hand #160: I raise UTG with AKo. hangnman and indychild call. The flop comes jack-high, I bet, indychild check-raises all in for .50 more. I bet the turn which is a blank, and check/fold the river when hangnman bets out. AK losing to AJ. Ergh. At this point oliegirl needs the computer for a bit and I end up logging out. I log out iwth about $28(I actually timed out while AFK) I have $425.35 in my UB account with $85.65 in bonus money to go. that's disheartening but I still hope to turn a profit here...

06-25-2004, 10:13 PM	#82
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I join another 2/4 short table, hoping to reverse my fortunes here. I start out playing against jbrennan17 Immediately we jump to 4 handed(after only 1 hand) lineup: empty, empty, 619luckster, bucketsman, jbrennan17 Hand #5: AA UTG. I raise, buckets calls, jbrennan raises, I cap, buckets folds. Flop is queen high, I bet/jbrennan calls. Turn is another queen, I bet/he folds, I take the $23 pot. hangnman joins to my left, he was at my table earlier when I got demolished. rjmoney joins in the final seat. Hand #12: I have Q4s in the BB. free flop heads up with rjmoney. Flop comes KQ7. I bet out, rj calls. Turn gives me a flush draw plus my 2nd pair. I bet out, rj calls. River is a blank, I bet, he raises... nothign scary came out, and rjmoney just sat down, I go ahead and call there for the information. K3o, had me beat the whole way, dunno why he chose to raise it at the end there. Hand #17: I limp with KTs. Flop comes AJ7, checked around(3 way). Turn makes my inside straight with a queen, I bet and all fold, $5.75 is mine. Hand #20: I open-raise in the SB with AQo. hangnman calls. Flp comes king high(ugh). I bet out and he calls. Turn is a blank, I don't have any draws here... I check/call a bet(why call? I dunno). I check/fold the river. Antoher open raise wit 77 fails, KQs raise takes me nowhere, and then a bad bad hand with JTs. i raise it on the button, flop top pair and bet it hard, only to lose to 89s that rivered a straight. I am down a quick $40. I push again with AK, raise early, get re-raised and call, we are 4-way. Flop comes 555, I bet out, turn is a lower card than a 5, river an 8, there's a bet/raise from the two blinsd before me and I get out. Dammit. Another killer knocking me down to $40. I only manage to win a $13 pot with KK and have $50. This is all going fast... that's right we're only on hand #37. Hand #37: I raise with JJ, and 3 people call. I go ahead and fold when an ace flops and there's a bet and a call before me, with 3 opponents, no way I have outs. Hand #42: Free flop with A2o, ace flops and I win $6.75 with my bet. I am winning $6-$10 on my big hands and all my good hands pre-flop that don't improve are costing me that much or more. Hand #45: JJ again. I raise and 3 peopel call me. The flop has a king. I bet it and get one caller. I bet the turn and check the river, and I beat AQ for a $26.75 pot(finally! and I think I made a mistake not bettnig the river there). I am back to $60. HAnd #49: AKs. I raise and get 3 callers again. Flop is Q88. checked to me(I'm on the button), I bet and only rjmoney calls. He check-raises me on the turn and I fold. I am right back to $47.50. Hand #61: KK, I raise, rjmoney calls, bucketsman calls. QQ5 flop. I bet/rjmoney calls. Turn is a blank, I bet/get checkraised. This time I've got a hand, I re-raise, and he just calls. We check the river and the fucker has AA. He plays every hand that way if he has anything at all. He's in almost every hand, he folds when he has nothing at all on the turn, and raises if he's got anything... He's up like $200. I am down $80. I am getting absolutely slaughtered, I'm down almost $225 in just 4 shorthanded sessions here(before bonus money starts coming in)... I push back up to $30 winning a $17 pot by betting a straight flush draw hard with JTs(these thinngs NEVER hit do they?). I win the pot on the turn. rjmoney is now only up $90. he is a horrible horrible player(who is taking all my money). WTF: Pre-flop: Bucketsman folds. Bujinin folds. radii folds. LRN1968 calls. rjmoney calls. KG604 checks. Flop (board: Jc 6h 6c): rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks. Turn (board: Jc 6h 6c Qc): rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks. River (board: Jc 6h 6c Qc 6d): rjmoney checks. KG604 checks. LRN1968 checks. Showdown: rjmoney shows 6s 2d. rjmoney has 6s 6h 6c Qc 6d: four sixes. KG604 mucks cards. (KG604 has 4c 3s.) LRN1968 mucks cards. (LRN1968 has 2s As.) Hand #1853679-4273 Summary: $.25 is raked from a pot of $6. rjmoney wins $5.75 with four sixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------- On the river don't you HAVe to at least try to bet?? Back to our regularily scheduled losing. WOOEEE RUSH: Hand #1: KJo in the BB. 2 opponents, flop a king. Bucketsman calls me til the river then folds. I take $17.25 unopposed. Hand #2: 4-way action for a raise, I have A7s. I flop a four flush, all four of us call a bet(bucketman leads out). The turn is an ace. bucketsman bets, I raise and everyone including buckets folds. $27 pot is mine. Hand #3: Limp with 65s. Flop is 667. buckets bets out again. I just call the flop bet. Turn is a king, I bet out, he raises, I re-raise and he calls. He calls my river bet and my 6s are good for a $49 pot! In those 3 hands I move back up to $72. Hand #119: AA. I raise, bucketman re-raises. I cap it. Flop comes J22. he checks/calls me on the flop. The turn is a ten. he bets, I raise, he re-raises I cap it. The river is a queen. I just call his bet and he shows me JJ. He takes a monster $59 pot that knocks me all the way back down to $43. Soon after, 45s flops a straight and wins me a $39 pot. About two hands after that, AKs gets capped 3-way pre-flop. I'm up against KQ and QJ, a nice little chain of domination there. The board comes 8 high, and I win another $40 pot. After 145 hands, I am at $89. A steal with QQ puts me at $91 as we are 4-handed at the moment. acligirl, empty seat, KG604(sitting out), bucketsman, and bujinin. Another small pot, this one with 77 puts me at $93 briefly. NETELLER joins in the empty seat, and KG604 leaves leaving another empty seat. A good $17 pot with 99 unimproved pushes me up to $99! aaaannnd a loss with AK vs bucketsman's 55 drops me to $81. we go 3 handed but for a brief moment during the back and forth and up and down I have gone over $100 and have $103.25! And bujinin takes the cake at the end. I get up to $120 before we go heads up. We play for about 15 hands. My cards were much better than his, but he was trying his hardest to make a stand against me. It just worked out that I was folding at all the right times. I made two boats with JJ in those 15 hands, and won $40+ pots each time. AFter the heads up play, I am up to $170 at the table. I go ahead and log off, thrilled at the result. I now have $517.85 in my UB account with $66.40 remaining in my bonus. That means in actual play i'm down about $80 still. After the last few sessions though I'm thrilled with where I stand.