I decided to play the 12.30 $1 freezeout on Ladbrokes today and it turned out to be eventful but for the wrong reasons and i ended up out in 60th out of 148 in less than an hour.
I missed the first hand as I was getting a drink which was KJ and was not happy to see the flop of AQT which was probably an omen for the rest of the game lol
I doubled up with this hand when I made a good call on the river with 2 pair when there was a possible straight on the board.
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (10)
> jimmy175 posted big blind (20)
> Game # 896,592,770 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(6s 4c )
> rickman folded
> snowee called for 20
> dansebaren called for 20
> stoller folded
> will1984 folded
> monk_holyman folded
> Shakey69 folded
> richmagpies1 called for 10
> jimmy175 checked
> Dealing the Flop(4d 10c 6h )
> richmagpies1 bet for 80
> jimmy175 called for 80
> snowee folded
> dansebaren called for 80
> Dealing the turn(5c )
> richmagpies1 bet for 320
> jimmy175 folded
> dansebaren called for 320
> Dealing the river(2s )
> richmagpies1 bet for 480
> dansebaren went all-in for 1,690
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 1,060
> Extra chips returned to dansebaren, 150
> dansebaren shows One Pair, Tens, with kicker card Queen
(10d 10c Qc 6h 5c )
> richmagpies1 wins 4,040 with Two Pair, Sixes over Fours
I then blew the 2k after running 88 into QQ and then was almost to the felt when 88 again was no match for AT with a rivered T.
I had 388 chps left and pushed with JT and quadrupled up 1.5k with TT
> steve_mcc posted small blind (75)
> trout666 posted big blind (150)
> Game # 896,609,377 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Jd 10s )
> get_in_there, you have 10 seconds to respond
> get_in_there folded
> BigJohnnyWin called for 150
> lunker folded
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 388.75
> 19lisa19 called for 388.75
> boomer797 folded
> RapidVII raised for 1,882.50
> steve_mcc folded
> trout666 folded
> BigJohnnyWin folded
> 19lisa19 went all-in for 1,711.25
> RapidVII called for 217.50
> Dealing the Flop(10d 2c 4h )
> Dealing the turn(7h )
> Dealing the river(Qh )
> richmagpies1 wins 1,541.25 with One Pair, Tens
> RapidVII wins 3,422.50 with One Pair, Sevens
I then thought things might be going my way and a comeback was on the cards when I had QQ....this is ladbrokes though so it was obvious that a donkey big stack would call my 1.3k all in with J8 clubs and hit runner runner for a flush. But even worse was the other guy who called with 76 when he had a nice healthy stack of 6k and then went all in after the flop with middle pair and went out. Man that was donkey play lol!....sigh.
** Game ID 896610729 starting - 2007-12-24 13:23:27
** $1 NLHE Freezeout[1579011]:Table 15 [Hold 'em] (200.00|400.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- get_in_there sitting in seat 2 with $6282.50
- BigJohnnyWin sitting in seat 3 with $13797.96 [Dealer]
- lunker sitting in seat 4 with $4650.62
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 5 with $1341.25
- boomer797 sitting in seat 7 with $3367.50 [Sitting out]
- RapidVII sitting in seat 8 with $6397.35
- steve_mcc sitting in seat 9 with $6100.62
- trout666 sitting in seat 10 with $677.50
lunker posted the small blind - $100.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $200.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Queen of Spades, Queen of Clubs
boomer797 folded
RapidVII called - $200.00
steve_mcc folded
trout666 folded
get_in_there folded
BigJohnnyWin called - $200.00
lunker called - $200.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $1341.25
RapidVII called - $1541.25
BigJohnnyWin called - $1541.25
lunker folded
** Dealing the flop: 5 of Clubs, 7 of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds
RapidVII went all-in - $4856.10
BigJohnnyWin called - $4856.10
BigJohnnyWin shows: 8 of Clubs, Jack of Clubs
RapidVII shows: 6 of Hearts, 7 of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: 2 of Clubs
** Dealing the river: 3 of Clubs
BigJohnnyWin wins $4823.75 from the main pot
BigJohnnyWin wins $14535.95 from side pot 1
End of game 896610729
It really does make you wonder how people like that get big stacks....oh yes, I forgot its down to dumb luck and not even considering what the other players have. Ok lets have a look at this play in a bit more detail. I'm not sure which of the 2 plays was the worse:
The guy with 76 flat called pre flop in utg+1 with 6 players still to act - I mean that's piss poor play for a start. Did he think about what is he gonna do if raised, call with 76 out of position? Well we know he did which says it all really. A the end of the day he could have folded preflop and been still in the tourney with above average chips.
The big stack with J8 on the button called preflop for 200 as well - ok he might want to have seen a cheap flop as he had position and had about 14k chips so fair enough. But in my mind its just leaking chips if me or the small blind raise and he folds.
The small blind calls which is fair enough.
I'm the table short stack so I could go with anything and I push for 6x bb with QQ. Nothing wrong with that!
Now back to the fool with 76 - he can't seriously think he is ahead, can he when he makes the call for a quarter of his chips? What did he think I had that could he be beating? 54? lol And he was prepared to risk a quarter of his stack when he was likely to be a 3-1 dog at best. And let's not forget that the big chip leader is still to act who would surely be beating him too?
Ok so the big stack has seen my all in and a call and he has J8 and makes the call for 10% of his chips....hmmmm I 'm not sure its the best call in the world but he proably saw a face card and they were suited and his fold button was probably broken....
The small blind shows some sense and folds!
Ok the flop comes J75 with 2 diamonds.
Mr 76 hits second pair and as we all know the correct move is shove and pray...not! Ok I know its always better to be the aggressor rathet than the caller but I would not be putting my tourney life on the line with second pair when their is still the big stack left to act. How about a bet of a third of the pot to see where you are and maybe take it to just heads up with me? Lets face it his kicker is pretty poor to so he could be pretty dead to the big stack if he has another 7 or J. I'm afraid this is a typical move oneline and one that if you made in a live situation, you would have been laughed out of the card club with...and rightly so!
Now its big stacks turn to act and he has flopped top pair but is facing a bet of almost 5k or nearly 50% of his remaining stack. Of course he insta-calls and obviously gave no thought to what Mr 76 had. He would be dead to AJ, QJ, KJ, but this doesnt seem to cross peoples minds when they shove in blindly and hope for the best.
As too often happens the awful play was rewarded with runner runner and he not only took chips of Mr 76 (who lets face it deserved to lose them all) but also the 5k side pot off me (who didnt) lol.
Bank roll is now $115.69
Monday 24 December 2007
Sunday 23 December 2007
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I played another laddies high stack today but never really got going and came 5th.
I could tell it was going to be one of those days when I folded T8 under the gun and the flop came J97 lol. In level 3 I got QQ under the gun and my raise of 300 got folded round which was a shame. I raised3 00 with AK and my continuation bet on a A86 (2 clubs) took the pot. Whilst some may think that I could have won more if I had checked, I've seen too many flush chasers hit to give free cards when all I have is top pair! In level 5 I got AJd on the button and raised 800. The big chip leader called and we checked the KQ5 flop, and K turn. I called his 400 bet on the river 5 and he turned over the Q for a better 2 pair.
I was now the short stack and so pushed all in with K3 and 99 and won the blinds both times. The blinds were 200/400 and with just 2.2k left my A9 on the button looked good enough to push with. Unfortunately the small blind had AQ and the big blind 88 and the AQ flopped a diamond flush and i was gone.
Whilst these games with 3k chips appear not to be as 'crap shooty' as the usual stts with 1.5k chips, I think the fact that they are 10 hand blinds as opposed to 10 minute blinds makes a big difference in the later stages - 10 hand levels with only 4 or 5 players means the blinds can go up very quickly - much quicker than 10 minute blinds. I just hope laddies bring back the super deepstack stts which allow good poker quickly!
I dont know if I am gonna be bale to play many games over Christmas as we are either visiting friends/family or have friends over most days so I may not update for a week or so. In the meantime
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (at the tables!)
The bank roll is now at $116.79
I could tell it was going to be one of those days when I folded T8 under the gun and the flop came J97 lol. In level 3 I got QQ under the gun and my raise of 300 got folded round which was a shame. I raised3 00 with AK and my continuation bet on a A86 (2 clubs) took the pot. Whilst some may think that I could have won more if I had checked, I've seen too many flush chasers hit to give free cards when all I have is top pair! In level 5 I got AJd on the button and raised 800. The big chip leader called and we checked the KQ5 flop, and K turn. I called his 400 bet on the river 5 and he turned over the Q for a better 2 pair.
I was now the short stack and so pushed all in with K3 and 99 and won the blinds both times. The blinds were 200/400 and with just 2.2k left my A9 on the button looked good enough to push with. Unfortunately the small blind had AQ and the big blind 88 and the AQ flopped a diamond flush and i was gone.
Whilst these games with 3k chips appear not to be as 'crap shooty' as the usual stts with 1.5k chips, I think the fact that they are 10 hand blinds as opposed to 10 minute blinds makes a big difference in the later stages - 10 hand levels with only 4 or 5 players means the blinds can go up very quickly - much quicker than 10 minute blinds. I just hope laddies bring back the super deepstack stts which allow good poker quickly!
I dont know if I am gonna be bale to play many games over Christmas as we are either visiting friends/family or have friends over most days so I may not update for a week or so. In the meantime
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (at the tables!)
The bank roll is now at $116.79
Saturday 22 December 2007
STT win
It seems like Ladbrokes are re-vamping their STTs as they will be having a leaderboard and various other new things which is good news as their rewards for STT players are frankly rubbish! What this means though is that at the moment they dont have their full range of STTs available at the moment and one of the games that is missing is the super deepstack games which I mainly play. However, they have told me that these will be brought back which is good.
So i had to play a different game and to be fair laddies did have another high stack game which was 3k chips and 10 hand blinds.
I got off to a very slow start and didn't pick up a hand until level 3 when a preflop raise and a continuation bet with AK was enough to win the pot of 700. The first big pot was in level 4 when I flat called with 88 hoping to hit a set and the flop was a pretty good A82 with 2 diamonds. I re-raised on both the flop and turn and the caller called my 600 river bet on the 7 which gave me a full house, a 3.7k pot and second place.
Hands were few and far between and at level 7 the blinds were 400/800. I checked with K4 in the big blind and bet out 1.6k on the KQ7 flop which was enough for 3.2k. I won another 2.2k with KQ as I knocked out the short stack
At level 8 the blinds stop at 500/1000 so it is pretty much all in preflop and I did this 3 times in about 8 hands with 44, 22 and TT and won the hand each time. With the blinds this big compared to the stack sizes it is a crap shoot and if you go a couple of rounds without a hand then you are pretty much screwed. Hands in the big blind like 53 when you are allowed to see a flop of A42 for free and flop a straight are just the kind of luck you need! This enabled me to get to HU as a 3-1 chip dog.
I then won a big pot with AQ when I hit top pair and my bets were called all the way. But as I said before it only takes a few rounds and you can be right back down again which happened to us both as we both had hands which we played strongly after hitting the flop. I managed to get all in with 33 vs QJ and I was back up to 16k.
The key hand was this:
> Dragonologis posted small blind (500)
> richmagpies1 posted big blind (1,000)
> Game # 895,363,632 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(8s 2s )
> Dragonologis called for 500
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the Flop(9c 10s Ks )
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dragonologis bet for 1,000
> richmagpies1 called for 1,000
> Dealing the turn(Js )
> richmagpies1 bet for 1,000
> Dragonologis raised for 2,000
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,500
> Dragonologis raised for 7,000
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 6,327.70
> Dragonologis called for 2,827.70
> Dealing the river(Ah )
> richmagpies1 wins 27,655.40 with a Flush, Spades
After that he had about 2.5k. I just raised him and unbelievably he folded to leave himself with less than 1000 chips - bizarre! Anyhow when he did go all in his J5 was dominated by my JT and that was that.
The bankroll is now at $119.19
So i had to play a different game and to be fair laddies did have another high stack game which was 3k chips and 10 hand blinds.
I got off to a very slow start and didn't pick up a hand until level 3 when a preflop raise and a continuation bet with AK was enough to win the pot of 700. The first big pot was in level 4 when I flat called with 88 hoping to hit a set and the flop was a pretty good A82 with 2 diamonds. I re-raised on both the flop and turn and the caller called my 600 river bet on the 7 which gave me a full house, a 3.7k pot and second place.
Hands were few and far between and at level 7 the blinds were 400/800. I checked with K4 in the big blind and bet out 1.6k on the KQ7 flop which was enough for 3.2k. I won another 2.2k with KQ as I knocked out the short stack
At level 8 the blinds stop at 500/1000 so it is pretty much all in preflop and I did this 3 times in about 8 hands with 44, 22 and TT and won the hand each time. With the blinds this big compared to the stack sizes it is a crap shoot and if you go a couple of rounds without a hand then you are pretty much screwed. Hands in the big blind like 53 when you are allowed to see a flop of A42 for free and flop a straight are just the kind of luck you need! This enabled me to get to HU as a 3-1 chip dog.
I then won a big pot with AQ when I hit top pair and my bets were called all the way. But as I said before it only takes a few rounds and you can be right back down again which happened to us both as we both had hands which we played strongly after hitting the flop. I managed to get all in with 33 vs QJ and I was back up to 16k.
The key hand was this:
> Dragonologis posted small blind (500)
> richmagpies1 posted big blind (1,000)
> Game # 895,363,632 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(8s 2s )
> Dragonologis called for 500
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the Flop(9c 10s Ks )
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dragonologis bet for 1,000
> richmagpies1 called for 1,000
> Dealing the turn(Js )
> richmagpies1 bet for 1,000
> Dragonologis raised for 2,000
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,500
> Dragonologis raised for 7,000
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 6,327.70
> Dragonologis called for 2,827.70
> Dealing the river(Ah )
> richmagpies1 wins 27,655.40 with a Flush, Spades
After that he had about 2.5k. I just raised him and unbelievably he folded to leave himself with less than 1000 chips - bizarre! Anyhow when he did go all in his J5 was dominated by my JT and that was that.
The bankroll is now at $119.19
Saturday 15 December 2007
Played another stt today and managed a 3rd.
The game was memorable for a total donkey going all in and betting 5k in the first level with rubbish, getting called but outdrawing 4 players in the first level to get up to 25k! Such a lucky fish! After 10 mins there were only 5 players left!
I sat back as there was no point getting involved with the idiot until you had a hand. In level 2 my moment arrived as I picked up JJ. I raised 180 and no surprise to see the muppet re-raise 4.5k. I called and he flipped over K4 loooool so just K to avoid and the board came 8AA66 and i doubled up to 8k.
Myself and the other 2 players were more than happy to let him have our 15 and 30 chips in the blinds to his 5k pre-flop raises. It didnt take long for the idiot to drop from 25k all the way back down to 12k with a series of ridiculous plays with absolutely nothing. Did he not realise that we were all just waiting for a hand to play back at him with? And given the blinds structure there was no rush!
It was just a matter of time before the fool bubbled and we all had a laugh as it was to a bad beat when his AK was outdrawn by AT with the T coming on the river hahahaha. There was no sympathy for him whatsoever as he didnt deserve anything but mocking laughter!
I was the short stack now with 6k vs 33k vs 9k. I wasn't getting any cards but at last we could play poker without an idiot involved and it was quite a good game for a level or 2. My demise in 3rd place was unlucky as I flopped a set but he flopped the straight and made an even better straight on the turn. I still had outs a paired board would give me a full boat but alas it wasn't to be!
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (100)
> bridger posted big blind (200)
> Game # 890,812,834 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(6d 6h )
bridger> nh
> AngelfaceC called for 200
> richmagpies1 called for 100
> bridger checked
> Dealing the Flop(4c 8s 6s )
AngelfaceC> ty
> richmagpies1 bet for 200
> bridger raised for 800
> AngelfaceC folded
> richmagpies1 raised for 2,800
> bridger went all-in for 10,985
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 1,110
> Extra chips returned to bridger, 7,675
> Dealing the turn(9h )
> Dealing the river(Js )
> bridger wins 8,820 with a Straight, Nine high
> richmagpies1 has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
The bank roll is now $111.39 which is the highest so far.
The game was memorable for a total donkey going all in and betting 5k in the first level with rubbish, getting called but outdrawing 4 players in the first level to get up to 25k! Such a lucky fish! After 10 mins there were only 5 players left!
I sat back as there was no point getting involved with the idiot until you had a hand. In level 2 my moment arrived as I picked up JJ. I raised 180 and no surprise to see the muppet re-raise 4.5k. I called and he flipped over K4 loooool so just K to avoid and the board came 8AA66 and i doubled up to 8k.
Myself and the other 2 players were more than happy to let him have our 15 and 30 chips in the blinds to his 5k pre-flop raises. It didnt take long for the idiot to drop from 25k all the way back down to 12k with a series of ridiculous plays with absolutely nothing. Did he not realise that we were all just waiting for a hand to play back at him with? And given the blinds structure there was no rush!
It was just a matter of time before the fool bubbled and we all had a laugh as it was to a bad beat when his AK was outdrawn by AT with the T coming on the river hahahaha. There was no sympathy for him whatsoever as he didnt deserve anything but mocking laughter!
I was the short stack now with 6k vs 33k vs 9k. I wasn't getting any cards but at last we could play poker without an idiot involved and it was quite a good game for a level or 2. My demise in 3rd place was unlucky as I flopped a set but he flopped the straight and made an even better straight on the turn. I still had outs a paired board would give me a full boat but alas it wasn't to be!
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (100)
> bridger posted big blind (200)
> Game # 890,812,834 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(6d 6h )
bridger> nh
> AngelfaceC called for 200
> richmagpies1 called for 100
> bridger checked
> Dealing the Flop(4c 8s 6s )
AngelfaceC> ty
> richmagpies1 bet for 200
> bridger raised for 800
> AngelfaceC folded
> richmagpies1 raised for 2,800
> bridger went all-in for 10,985
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 1,110
> Extra chips returned to bridger, 7,675
> Dealing the turn(9h )
> Dealing the river(Js )
> bridger wins 8,820 with a Straight, Nine high
> richmagpies1 has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
The bank roll is now $111.39 which is the highest so far.
Friday 14 December 2007
Back to winning ways!
I managed to play my first game for about a week tonight and glad that I managed to get back to winning ways again with a 1st after not cashing my last 3 stts.
I had no hands early on until Level 2 when I flopped the nut straight with AJ after limping gunder the gun. I managed to avoid the flush draw and' picked up 1.5k as someone couldnt put down their 2nd pair.
Nothing to report in level 2 and 3 and I picked up a couple of pots with AQ and 94 in the big blind. My first big hand was in level 4 when I had AK in the cut off. I rasied to 400 and got 2 callers in the blinds. The flop was A95 and as they checked I bet out 450. I got 1 caller. The turn was T and I bet 1.3k. I was re-raised to 3.8k and I thought about it for a bit as he could have had 99 or 55 for a flopped set as there was no obvious straight or flush ...I called and was pleased to see he had AJ, he didnt hit his J and I doubled up to 10.3k and sent him to the rail.
Things then quietened down and I won a few smallish pots with 66 and AJ. I then pick up KK and I re-raise to 900, and the chip leader re-raises me all in. I insta call and he flips over QQ. The board is 632 with 3 hearts but thankfully I have the K hearts to his Q hearts so am only dead to the Q. The turn and river are bricks for him and I win 20k and am now chip leader! I then pick up QQ and manage to get back a few chips I lost with AK a few hands before.
We were now on the bubble. I had 21k and the others had roughly 10k, 12k, 6k so sitting pretty and then this cool hand, well for me anyway. I wasnt involved as I folded my 93 preflop lol
> ambler posted small blind (100)
> PeterEllis posted big blind (200)
> Game # 890,460,590 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(3c 9c )
> BUBESI raised for 400
> richmagpies1 folded
> ambler raised for 1,500
> PeterEllis went all-in for 13,800 Ac, Kc
> BUBESI went all-in for 8,986.24 9d, 9h
> ambler went all-in for 4,603.76 Jd, Jc
> Extra chips returned to PeterEllis, 4,613.76
> Dealing the Flop(10d 7c Kd )
> Dealing the turn(6h )
> Dealing the river(7s )
> PeterEllis wins 24,976.24 with Two Pair, Kings over Sevens and kicker card Ace
> ambler has left the tournament in 4th place
> BUBESI has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
You are guaranteed a Prize !
I guess the AK got lucky to flop his top pair and knock out the other 2 and so I went from chip leader with 4 left to a slight chip dog (28k - 21k) and guaranteed 2nd place in one hand lol!
I'm determined to win this game and I try to be aggressive and we both lose a few k and then get it back. I then pick up JJ....
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (150)
> PeterEllis posted big blind (300)
> Game # 890,465,493 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Js Jh )
> richmagpies1 raised for 900
> PeterEllis called for 750
> Dealing the Flop(4d 9h Qs )
> PeterEllis checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the turn(Jc )
> PeterEllis bet for 1,050
> richmagpies1 called for 1,050
> Dealing the river(6h )
> PeterEllis went all-in for 26,290
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 19,510
> Extra chips returned to PeterEllis, 6,780
> PeterEllis shows One Pair, Queens
(Qh Qs Jc 9h 8c )
> richmagpies1 wins 43,220 with Three of a Kind, Jacks
Looking at this hand I guess I was lucky to hit the set on the turn but then again he shouldn't have given me a free card. If he bets hard on the flop am i gonna lay down JJ? Possibly but after the turn he is gonna get smashed as there is no way he is gonna lay down top pair and I'm going nowhere with my set! When he goes all in I cant get my chips in fast enough! I think it was a bad play by him because if I have nothing or second pair or worse, I'm laying down to such a big bet and if I call he is probably losing as he doesn't have a great kicker in his hand with Q8 and I did raise preflop so I could have AQ, KQ, QJ and he is in real bad shape!
I'm now totally dominant with 43k and he then starts going all in a lot preflop and gets to about 10k. I'm just waiting for a hand to call him with. I pick up QJ and call 600. The J96 flop gives me top pair and I decide to put him to the test...he calls with A5 and the turn and river are 8, 3 and I win.
Nice to get back to winning ways the first time playing in a week!
The bankroll is now at $109.59
I had no hands early on until Level 2 when I flopped the nut straight with AJ after limping gunder the gun. I managed to avoid the flush draw and' picked up 1.5k as someone couldnt put down their 2nd pair.
Nothing to report in level 2 and 3 and I picked up a couple of pots with AQ and 94 in the big blind. My first big hand was in level 4 when I had AK in the cut off. I rasied to 400 and got 2 callers in the blinds. The flop was A95 and as they checked I bet out 450. I got 1 caller. The turn was T and I bet 1.3k. I was re-raised to 3.8k and I thought about it for a bit as he could have had 99 or 55 for a flopped set as there was no obvious straight or flush ...I called and was pleased to see he had AJ, he didnt hit his J and I doubled up to 10.3k and sent him to the rail.
Things then quietened down and I won a few smallish pots with 66 and AJ. I then pick up KK and I re-raise to 900, and the chip leader re-raises me all in. I insta call and he flips over QQ. The board is 632 with 3 hearts but thankfully I have the K hearts to his Q hearts so am only dead to the Q. The turn and river are bricks for him and I win 20k and am now chip leader! I then pick up QQ and manage to get back a few chips I lost with AK a few hands before.
We were now on the bubble. I had 21k and the others had roughly 10k, 12k, 6k so sitting pretty and then this cool hand, well for me anyway. I wasnt involved as I folded my 93 preflop lol
> ambler posted small blind (100)
> PeterEllis posted big blind (200)
> Game # 890,460,590 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(3c 9c )
> BUBESI raised for 400
> richmagpies1 folded
> ambler raised for 1,500
> PeterEllis went all-in for 13,800 Ac, Kc
> BUBESI went all-in for 8,986.24 9d, 9h
> ambler went all-in for 4,603.76 Jd, Jc
> Extra chips returned to PeterEllis, 4,613.76
> Dealing the Flop(10d 7c Kd )
> Dealing the turn(6h )
> Dealing the river(7s )
> PeterEllis wins 24,976.24 with Two Pair, Kings over Sevens and kicker card Ace
> ambler has left the tournament in 4th place
> BUBESI has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
You are guaranteed a Prize !
I guess the AK got lucky to flop his top pair and knock out the other 2 and so I went from chip leader with 4 left to a slight chip dog (28k - 21k) and guaranteed 2nd place in one hand lol!
I'm determined to win this game and I try to be aggressive and we both lose a few k and then get it back. I then pick up JJ....
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (150)
> PeterEllis posted big blind (300)
> Game # 890,465,493 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Js Jh )
> richmagpies1 raised for 900
> PeterEllis called for 750
> Dealing the Flop(4d 9h Qs )
> PeterEllis checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the turn(Jc )
> PeterEllis bet for 1,050
> richmagpies1 called for 1,050
> Dealing the river(6h )
> PeterEllis went all-in for 26,290
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 19,510
> Extra chips returned to PeterEllis, 6,780
> PeterEllis shows One Pair, Queens
(Qh Qs Jc 9h 8c )
> richmagpies1 wins 43,220 with Three of a Kind, Jacks
Looking at this hand I guess I was lucky to hit the set on the turn but then again he shouldn't have given me a free card. If he bets hard on the flop am i gonna lay down JJ? Possibly but after the turn he is gonna get smashed as there is no way he is gonna lay down top pair and I'm going nowhere with my set! When he goes all in I cant get my chips in fast enough! I think it was a bad play by him because if I have nothing or second pair or worse, I'm laying down to such a big bet and if I call he is probably losing as he doesn't have a great kicker in his hand with Q8 and I did raise preflop so I could have AQ, KQ, QJ and he is in real bad shape!
I'm now totally dominant with 43k and he then starts going all in a lot preflop and gets to about 10k. I'm just waiting for a hand to call him with. I pick up QJ and call 600. The J96 flop gives me top pair and I decide to put him to the test...he calls with A5 and the turn and river are 8, 3 and I win.
Nice to get back to winning ways the first time playing in a week!
The bankroll is now at $109.59
Thursday 6 December 2007
ARRRRGGHHH muppet alert
Well as I said below I would play an STT and would not call preflop, either raise or fold (I allowed myself to check on my own big blind). I guess it helps if you do have some cards worth raising with (in position) and a table who have an idea of how to play the game rather than a table of muppets who will call anything with any 2 cards!
I never got any cards and was probably more card dead than yesterday which is an achievement. In the first 5 levels I got JJ, AK, 99, AJ - the rest were K2, 94, 83 A5 etc just pure rubbish not even worth limping in the small blind with never mind raising! I stuck to my guns though and tried to raise in position but its tough as you know that the other players are only thinking about their own two cards and don't really care what you have or or trying to represent! I never got above 6k for ages. To give an example these are the hole cards I got when blinds were 200/400 K8, K2,44, J5, JT, 84, K7, Q5, Q2, 32, K9, 73, T9, J4, J2, 63, 97, J2, 52, 76, 76, 96, 94, 63 - not a single raiseable hand and not even a single A! I know its not always about the cards that you play the players too, but at this level its so difficult to bluff a calling station if they have top or middle pair because as I said before they don't even give a seconds thought to what cards their opponents may have.
Anyway this carried on until I checked in the big blind with 62
** Game ID 885201417 starting - 2007-12-06 21:38:17
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (400.00|800.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $4627.50
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $23990.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $9820.00 [Dealer]
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $10962.50 [Sitting out]
strukcha posted the small blind - $200.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $400.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 6 of Diamonds, 2 of Spades
Jammyfish folded
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $400.00
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the flop: 5 of Diamonds, Jack of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the turn: 7 of Diamonds
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the river: 3 of Diamonds
strukcha bet - $800.00
richmagpies1 raised - $3200.00
strukcha called - $3200.00
richmagpies1 shows: 6 of Diamonds, 2 of Spades
strukcha mucks:
richmagpies1 wins $7200.00 from the main pot
End of game 885201417
A straight flush is always nice!
However, normal service was resumed and I was leaking chips and although I was winning hands pre-flop, I really needed to hit a flop hard and get paid off if I was to have any chance. The table idiot did give me some hope with this hand
** Game ID 885213415 starting - 2007-12-06 21:50:18
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (600.00|1200.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $3477.50
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $20090.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $16540.00 [Dealer]
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $8992.50
strukcha posted the small blind - $300.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $600.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Ace of Spades, Jack of Clubs
Jammyfish folded
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $600.00
richmagpies1 bet - $1800.00
strukcha called - $1800.00
** Dealing the flop: 7 of Spades, 3 of Hearts, 2 of Spades
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 went all-in - $2277.50
strukcha called - $2277.50
strukcha shows: 8 of Spades, Queen of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: Ace of Diamonds
** Dealing the river: 7 of Clubs
richmagpies1 wins $8155.00 from the main pot
End of game 885213415
I'm not sure why he called my preflop raise with Q8 and then 2.8k with no draw or no hand....maybe its because he's an idiot? My summing up of him as a moron was duly confirmed by the hand that practically knocked me out.....you guessed it with my first big pair of the whole game, KK!
** Game ID 885216204 starting - 2007-12-06 21:53:23
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (600.00|1200.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $6055.00
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $16790.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $20440.00
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $5815.00 [Dealer]
richmagpies1 posted the small blind - $300.00
Jammyfish posted the big blind - $600.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: King of Spades, King of Clubs
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $600.00
richmagpies1 raised - $2100.00
Jammyfish folded
strukcha called - $2100.00
** Dealing the flop: Queen of Clubs, 6 of Hearts, 3 of Hearts
richmagpies1 went all-in - $4255.00
strukcha went all-in - $3715.00
strukcha shows: 5 of Spades, 4 of Diamonds
** Dealing the turn: 2 of Clubs
** Dealing the river: 7 of Hearts
strukcha wins $12230.00 from the main pot
End of game 885216204
If his limp under the gun with 54 was not bad enough, how the fuck can he then call my preflop raise with 54! What did he think he was beating, 32? Complete and utter moron and of course he is rewarded with an open ended straight draw and the twat can't call my all in quick enough with his draw with his tourney life on the line....i really wonder about these people! And he will continue to play like a twat when his donkey play is rewarded!
Anyway, looking at my stats, my aggression factor is way up on what it normally is as a result of not calling preflop. I raised 10% preflop which is not a huge amount higher than my usual which is almost 7%. I guess it may have been higher if I got any cards at all that I could raise with! My saw flop % was lower as I wasn't calling preflop.
Overall, it was interesting and something I will try again. Frustrating though when normally you may have limped and hit the flop big time which happened a couple of times! If it wasn't for the bad beat I would have cashed and then with a decent stack might have been able to put pressure on the other 2 players. I think that if you can get a few good hands early on and maybe double up it makes it a hell of a lot easier especially playing against people who ha vent got a clue. But then it would wouldn't it! lol
Well after 3 losing STTs the bank roll is $101.79
I never got any cards and was probably more card dead than yesterday which is an achievement. In the first 5 levels I got JJ, AK, 99, AJ - the rest were K2, 94, 83 A5 etc just pure rubbish not even worth limping in the small blind with never mind raising! I stuck to my guns though and tried to raise in position but its tough as you know that the other players are only thinking about their own two cards and don't really care what you have or or trying to represent! I never got above 6k for ages. To give an example these are the hole cards I got when blinds were 200/400 K8, K2,44, J5, JT, 84, K7, Q5, Q2, 32, K9, 73, T9, J4, J2, 63, 97, J2, 52, 76, 76, 96, 94, 63 - not a single raiseable hand and not even a single A! I know its not always about the cards that you play the players too, but at this level its so difficult to bluff a calling station if they have top or middle pair because as I said before they don't even give a seconds thought to what cards their opponents may have.
Anyway this carried on until I checked in the big blind with 62
** Game ID 885201417 starting - 2007-12-06 21:38:17
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (400.00|800.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $4627.50
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $23990.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $9820.00 [Dealer]
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $10962.50 [Sitting out]
strukcha posted the small blind - $200.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $400.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 6 of Diamonds, 2 of Spades
Jammyfish folded
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $400.00
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the flop: 5 of Diamonds, Jack of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the turn: 7 of Diamonds
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 checked
** Dealing the river: 3 of Diamonds
strukcha bet - $800.00
richmagpies1 raised - $3200.00
strukcha called - $3200.00
richmagpies1 shows: 6 of Diamonds, 2 of Spades
strukcha mucks:
richmagpies1 wins $7200.00 from the main pot
End of game 885201417
A straight flush is always nice!
However, normal service was resumed and I was leaking chips and although I was winning hands pre-flop, I really needed to hit a flop hard and get paid off if I was to have any chance. The table idiot did give me some hope with this hand
** Game ID 885213415 starting - 2007-12-06 21:50:18
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (600.00|1200.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $3477.50
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $20090.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $16540.00 [Dealer]
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $8992.50
strukcha posted the small blind - $300.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $600.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Ace of Spades, Jack of Clubs
Jammyfish folded
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $600.00
richmagpies1 bet - $1800.00
strukcha called - $1800.00
** Dealing the flop: 7 of Spades, 3 of Hearts, 2 of Spades
strukcha checked
richmagpies1 went all-in - $2277.50
strukcha called - $2277.50
strukcha shows: 8 of Spades, Queen of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: Ace of Diamonds
** Dealing the river: 7 of Clubs
richmagpies1 wins $8155.00 from the main pot
End of game 885213415
I'm not sure why he called my preflop raise with Q8 and then 2.8k with no draw or no hand....maybe its because he's an idiot? My summing up of him as a moron was duly confirmed by the hand that practically knocked me out.....you guessed it with my first big pair of the whole game, KK!
** Game ID 885216204 starting - 2007-12-06 21:53:23
** $2 Super High Stack[1567587]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (600.00|1200.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 1 with $6055.00
- Jammyfish sitting in seat 2 with $16790.00
- zilky02 sitting in seat 4 with $20440.00
- strukcha sitting in seat 6 with $5815.00 [Dealer]
richmagpies1 posted the small blind - $300.00
Jammyfish posted the big blind - $600.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: King of Spades, King of Clubs
zilky02 folded
strukcha called - $600.00
richmagpies1 raised - $2100.00
Jammyfish folded
strukcha called - $2100.00
** Dealing the flop: Queen of Clubs, 6 of Hearts, 3 of Hearts
richmagpies1 went all-in - $4255.00
strukcha went all-in - $3715.00
strukcha shows: 5 of Spades, 4 of Diamonds
** Dealing the turn: 2 of Clubs
** Dealing the river: 7 of Hearts
strukcha wins $12230.00 from the main pot
End of game 885216204
If his limp under the gun with 54 was not bad enough, how the fuck can he then call my preflop raise with 54! What did he think he was beating, 32? Complete and utter moron and of course he is rewarded with an open ended straight draw and the twat can't call my all in quick enough with his draw with his tourney life on the line....i really wonder about these people! And he will continue to play like a twat when his donkey play is rewarded!
Anyway, looking at my stats, my aggression factor is way up on what it normally is as a result of not calling preflop. I raised 10% preflop which is not a huge amount higher than my usual which is almost 7%. I guess it may have been higher if I got any cards at all that I could raise with! My saw flop % was lower as I wasn't calling preflop.
Overall, it was interesting and something I will try again. Frustrating though when normally you may have limped and hit the flop big time which happened a couple of times! If it wasn't for the bad beat I would have cashed and then with a decent stack might have been able to put pressure on the other 2 players. I think that if you can get a few good hands early on and maybe double up it makes it a hell of a lot easier especially playing against people who ha vent got a clue. But then it would wouldn't it! lol
Well after 3 losing STTs the bank roll is $101.79
Something different
Hopefully I will get a chance to play another STT tonight as I doubt I'll get much time over the weekend.
I intend to try something slightly different and do something that Chris Ferguson once advised...'only ever raise or fold preflop, never call.' I think that this is pretty good advice as limp calling preflop doesn't give you much idea of where you are in a hand relative to any other hands. And if a hand is good enough to call with then it should be good enough to raise with otherwise its a marginal hand and not worth playing!
I think that a raise where you would normally call is quite easy to stick to early in a game when blinds are small and a raise will not take up much of your stack. It gets harder later on as the blinds get bigger and a raise will be a bigger chunk of your stack. However, I guess this is where it will help me to be more aggressive with a wider range of hands than I would normally be. Then again I'm sure we have all loved it when we have limped preflop with rubbish to mix it up a bit and flopped a boat or straight and won huge pot against someone slow playing a big pair!
I'm sure we all know that aggression is what usually counts in no limit hold 'em - well controlled aggression, not maniac play so we will see! I will post my Poker Tracker stats after the game.....lol I'l probably be out in the first level!
I intend to try something slightly different and do something that Chris Ferguson once advised...'only ever raise or fold preflop, never call.' I think that this is pretty good advice as limp calling preflop doesn't give you much idea of where you are in a hand relative to any other hands. And if a hand is good enough to call with then it should be good enough to raise with otherwise its a marginal hand and not worth playing!
I think that a raise where you would normally call is quite easy to stick to early in a game when blinds are small and a raise will not take up much of your stack. It gets harder later on as the blinds get bigger and a raise will be a bigger chunk of your stack. However, I guess this is where it will help me to be more aggressive with a wider range of hands than I would normally be. Then again I'm sure we have all loved it when we have limped preflop with rubbish to mix it up a bit and flopped a boat or straight and won huge pot against someone slow playing a big pair!
I'm sure we all know that aggression is what usually counts in no limit hold 'em - well controlled aggression, not maniac play so we will see! I will post my Poker Tracker stats after the game.....lol I'l probably be out in the first level!
Wednesday 5 December 2007
Bubble boy this time
I played another stt tonight but it was oneof those games when you are just totally card dead and A rag in the small blind starts looking playable! The best hand I had pre-flop was JJ. And then hand after hand of rubbish. I never had a hand to defend my blinds with and whenever I folded the crap like 92 the flop would give me trips or a straight on the turn and the retards calling each others bets to the river with bottom pair would win a pot. I'm sure we've all been there before - and when I raise with AQ in position I miss and then have to fold to a big bet on the rags board. ...sigh It was pretty piss poor poker all round with some awful calls out of position with nothing the norm!
Despite all this I still managed to get down to the last 4 and pushed with AT suited with about 8 big blinds left. I didnt think the call from the guy in early position with 22 was a great play on his part for 3/4 of his stack! However, it was a winning play as the board were bricks for me.
The game can be so frustrating some times!
Bank roll is now $103.99
Despite all this I still managed to get down to the last 4 and pushed with AT suited with about 8 big blinds left. I didnt think the call from the guy in early position with 22 was a great play on his part for 3/4 of his stack! However, it was a winning play as the board were bricks for me.
The game can be so frustrating some times!
Bank roll is now $103.99
Saturday 1 December 2007
Well, the run had to come to an end and it was frankly no surprise that it was to a retard when I was holding AA. It was level 2 of a laddies super deep stack stt. I hadn't played a hand so far and picked up AA in early position. I raised to 180 and got a caller on the button. The flop came 863 (2 diamonds) and I bet out 405. The button re-raised all in and I called. They turned over the mighty 54 hearts for an open ended straight draw. The turn was 4 and the river was predictably 2 to give the moron their straight. I have seen some poor play in my time but calling a 180 raise with 54 even on the button is pretty piss poor. If you're gonna play 54 at least raise and try and push me off the pot as you have got to know you are either way behind or at best have no idea where you are with 54 if you just call! And then getting a lucky flop and going all in with just a straight draw....sigh! Anyway give me that position again and I will take it every single time as a 4-1 favourite pre-flop and a 2-1 favourite after the flop! I watched a bit of the game after that and saw bad play after bad play as chips were thrown away chasing gut-shots strights and flush draws.
Anyhow that's it for today as I'm off to a friends birthday which should be a really good night!
The bankroll is now at $106.19
Anyhow that's it for today as I'm off to a friends birthday which should be a really good night!
The bankroll is now at $106.19
Sunday 25 November 2007
Flushed out
Another STT, another cash in 3rd place. It was a pretty dull game and most played a pretty solid game with none of the usual all in madness in level 1.
I hand no big hands and in fact the biggest pair was TT but lots of AJ, AQ, AK, KJ, KQ and a few small pairs. I never won a big pot, the biggest was 4K and was only up to about 9k at best. The last hand I was the short stack with about 6k vs 30k vs 14k and had AQ. I bet 1.2k pre-flop and the 2nd in chips called. The flop came A53 (3 hearts), and I had already made the decision to push if he checked. In fact he went all in and my suspicions that he was on a flush draw was confirmed. The turn was an A to give me trips but the river gave him his flush and that was that.
Bankroll is now $108.39
I hand no big hands and in fact the biggest pair was TT but lots of AJ, AQ, AK, KJ, KQ and a few small pairs. I never won a big pot, the biggest was 4K and was only up to about 9k at best. The last hand I was the short stack with about 6k vs 30k vs 14k and had AQ. I bet 1.2k pre-flop and the 2nd in chips called. The flop came A53 (3 hearts), and I had already made the decision to push if he checked. In fact he went all in and my suspicions that he was on a flush draw was confirmed. The turn was an A to give me trips but the river gave him his flush and that was that.
Bankroll is now $108.39
Saturday 24 November 2007
Stats update
I think that keeping accurate and up-to-date records is the key to good bankroll management and similarly analysing your game and stats, as well as watching better players, is the best way to improve your game. I must also say that doing this blog is also a great motivator to playing your best as it feels good to post another positive report!
As I've said before I've been on a sick run in STTs and in the 23 I have played since starting the challenge I've had the following results:
Played - 23
Cashed - 17
Ist - 6
2nd - 6
3rd -5
4th - 4
ROI - %155.56
% in the money - 78.26%
Profit - $84
It's a shame I've only been able to play a few tourneys a week as I need to take advantage of this hot streak before it inevitably ends! It's great sitting down at the start of a tourney confident that you will cash and that if you are patient the hands will come and will stand up!
When I reach $150 profit I will move up to $5 stts as I will have 30 buy-ins which I feel is comfortable at this level. I played a couple of $5 stts on mansion a couple of weeks ago with $10 free money they gave me and finished 1st and 4th and from what I see I don't think that there is any big step up. I would move up now but I'm determined to be disciplined as I said at the start of the challenge!
Good luck at the tables!
As I've said before I've been on a sick run in STTs and in the 23 I have played since starting the challenge I've had the following results:
Played - 23
Cashed - 17
Ist - 6
2nd - 6
3rd -5
4th - 4
ROI - %155.56
% in the money - 78.26%
Profit - $84
It's a shame I've only been able to play a few tourneys a week as I need to take advantage of this hot streak before it inevitably ends! It's great sitting down at the start of a tourney confident that you will cash and that if you are patient the hands will come and will stand up!
When I reach $150 profit I will move up to $5 stts as I will have 30 buy-ins which I feel is comfortable at this level. I played a couple of $5 stts on mansion a couple of weeks ago with $10 free money they gave me and finished 1st and 4th and from what I see I don't think that there is any big step up. I would move up now but I'm determined to be disciplined as I said at the start of the challenge!
Good luck at the tables!
Another STT cash
Today is the first chance I have had to sit down and play a game since last weekend and I'm pleased to say that the good run continues as I managed a 2nd place in a laddies super deep stack stt.
I managed to get a hand in the first level for a change when I had KK and found a short stack willing to gamble with A4 and when he missed his 3 outs after going all in preflop I won 2.9k. In level 2 I had AK twice and my preflop raises got no respect each time as I got 4 callers! The ragged flops were no help to me and my third of the pot size continuation bets were re-raised each time which holding just A high was an easy fold. Further into the level my raises with 33 and 88 got respect so I am assuming no one had an A otherwise they would have called and I won the blinds.
the next hand worth mentioning was in level 5 when I re-raised pf to 3k. The short stack re-raised for his last 1k and turned over AQ. I was exepcting an A but the J6268 had 8k shipped to me.
We were shortly down to the last 3 and i had 8k vs 14k vs 28k. The blinds were still small so there was no need for rahs moves just yet! My patience was rewarded when I had JT spades on the button. I called 400 and we all saw the AKQ flop with 2 spades gave me the nut straight and nut flush draw. The only hand I really feared was 2 spades with them holding the Queen. The first to act checked, there was a raise which I called and then the chip leader raised to 2k. I re-raised to 4.2k and was then put all in. I couldn't get my chips in quick enough and he turned over KQ. He didn't have the Q spades thankfully but still had 4 outs for the full house. The turn and river were J, 3 and and I won 18k.
I was now chip leader and we were soon heads up as the previous big chip leader donked his chips off to give my opponent a handy 17k vs 33k chip lead. I never got any cards heads up apart from winning 10k when I flopped 2 pair with J6 and bet out. I then immediately gave them back chasing the nut flush which was a mistake lol. My opponent seemed to hit every flop which is demonstrated by the last hand. I had AQ and bet. He called and we saw a AJ2 flop. I went all in and of course he called with AJ lol and there was no Q to save me!
The bankroll is now at $106.59
I managed to get a hand in the first level for a change when I had KK and found a short stack willing to gamble with A4 and when he missed his 3 outs after going all in preflop I won 2.9k. In level 2 I had AK twice and my preflop raises got no respect each time as I got 4 callers! The ragged flops were no help to me and my third of the pot size continuation bets were re-raised each time which holding just A high was an easy fold. Further into the level my raises with 33 and 88 got respect so I am assuming no one had an A otherwise they would have called and I won the blinds.
the next hand worth mentioning was in level 5 when I re-raised pf to 3k. The short stack re-raised for his last 1k and turned over AQ. I was exepcting an A but the J6268 had 8k shipped to me.
We were shortly down to the last 3 and i had 8k vs 14k vs 28k. The blinds were still small so there was no need for rahs moves just yet! My patience was rewarded when I had JT spades on the button. I called 400 and we all saw the AKQ flop with 2 spades gave me the nut straight and nut flush draw. The only hand I really feared was 2 spades with them holding the Queen. The first to act checked, there was a raise which I called and then the chip leader raised to 2k. I re-raised to 4.2k and was then put all in. I couldn't get my chips in quick enough and he turned over KQ. He didn't have the Q spades thankfully but still had 4 outs for the full house. The turn and river were J, 3 and and I won 18k.
I was now chip leader and we were soon heads up as the previous big chip leader donked his chips off to give my opponent a handy 17k vs 33k chip lead. I never got any cards heads up apart from winning 10k when I flopped 2 pair with J6 and bet out. I then immediately gave them back chasing the nut flush which was a mistake lol. My opponent seemed to hit every flop which is demonstrated by the last hand. I had AQ and bet. He called and we saw a AJ2 flop. I went all in and of course he called with AJ lol and there was no Q to save me!
The bankroll is now at $106.59
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Poker Stars World Blogger game prize arrives!
Not played since Sunday but the 80 GB Ipod I won for 36th place in the Poker Stars World Blogger Championship game last month has arrived - see 15th October post. And its a great bit of kit too! Watching free downloads of High Stakes Poker on the train certainly helps the daily commute fly by!
Sunday 18 November 2007
Broken the $100 barrier!
I played another laddies super deep stack STT today and boy was it a long game 367 hands and 2hrs 30 mins! However, its all good when you manage to win it!
As is the usual way I had no cards for ages and the only hands I won in the first 4 levels were where everyone folded to my pre-flop raise with AQ and a pot of 720 when my 75 in the big blind flopped an open ended straight draw which hit on turn.
I sat tight and finally hit some cards. I had AA and re-raised to 900. Excellent I thought as I was re-raised all in and called instantly. They had QQ and the JT954 meant I doubled up to 8k. A few hands later I looked down at QQ in the big blind. I insta-called a 3.5k all in as well as the short stacks all in. They turned over 33 and the short stack had A8 so I wasn't too worried. The board came 9978J and i won 7.6k and knocked out 2 players. A few hands later I had TT and won 4.2k when I hit a set on the turn and got a caller for my bets. I was now sitting pretty and had no need to get involved in huge pots but just played small pots and picked up more chips with AK pre-flop, with 22 and with Q4 in the big blind on a AQQ46 board. I had gone from short stack to chip leader in less than 10 minutes.
I then got some good cards and manged to win with AA, AK, A9, AK, QQ,KQ, 77. There were no massive pots but I didn't lose big with any of these either which is half the battle!
The bubble took a while to burst and I went from chip leaderl to being about level pegging as the cards dried up and I couldn't hit a flop. I am nothing if not patient and just waited and waited and waited lol. I managed to double up when I pushed with KQ and found a caller willing to call 10k with KJ and the board of A8966 doubled me up to 20k.
I then won a pot of 16k with AQd when I bet out and called a 3k re-raise on an A82 (2d) board. The turn brought me a flush and his 33 was no good and to rub it in he hit a set on the river and was knocked out. Strange move with 33 on such a dangerous board though I thought.
Heads up and I was 28k-22k chip leader. It was a long long battle which lasted 115 hands and we were both chip leaders at one stage or another. As usual a couple of big hands decided it as there were not many flops seen as almost every hand was raised pre-flop. I guess I got lucky as I had K9 and raised2.4k. I was re-raised all in and my insta-call was not the best move when he turned over AQ! But the poker gods were smiling on me as the K364Q flop made me a massive chip leader. He came back really well and we were almost even at the last hand which was as follows:
** Game ID 872812015 starting - 2007-11-18 16:36:28
** $2 Super High Stack[1540634]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (800.00|1600.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 7 with $25708.12
- Pokermad2 sitting in seat 8 with $23091.88 [Dealer]
Pokermad2 posted the small blind - $400.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $800.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 9 of Hearts, Ace of Clubs
Pokermad2 raised - $1600.00
richmagpies1 called - $1600.00
** Dealing the flop: Ace of Hearts, 8 of Diamonds, 6 of Hearts
richmagpies1 went all-in - $24908.12
Pokermad2 went all-in - $21891.88
Pokermad2 shows: 2 of Hearts, 3 of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: 7 of Spades
** Dealing the river: Ace of Diamonds
richmagpies1 wins $46983.76 from the main pot
End of game 872812015
He missed his flush draw and that was that! The great run continues!
The bankroll has broken the $100 barrier which is great and stands at $102.79
As is the usual way I had no cards for ages and the only hands I won in the first 4 levels were where everyone folded to my pre-flop raise with AQ and a pot of 720 when my 75 in the big blind flopped an open ended straight draw which hit on turn.
I sat tight and finally hit some cards. I had AA and re-raised to 900. Excellent I thought as I was re-raised all in and called instantly. They had QQ and the JT954 meant I doubled up to 8k. A few hands later I looked down at QQ in the big blind. I insta-called a 3.5k all in as well as the short stacks all in. They turned over 33 and the short stack had A8 so I wasn't too worried. The board came 9978J and i won 7.6k and knocked out 2 players. A few hands later I had TT and won 4.2k when I hit a set on the turn and got a caller for my bets. I was now sitting pretty and had no need to get involved in huge pots but just played small pots and picked up more chips with AK pre-flop, with 22 and with Q4 in the big blind on a AQQ46 board. I had gone from short stack to chip leader in less than 10 minutes.
I then got some good cards and manged to win with AA, AK, A9, AK, QQ,KQ, 77. There were no massive pots but I didn't lose big with any of these either which is half the battle!
The bubble took a while to burst and I went from chip leaderl to being about level pegging as the cards dried up and I couldn't hit a flop. I am nothing if not patient and just waited and waited and waited lol. I managed to double up when I pushed with KQ and found a caller willing to call 10k with KJ and the board of A8966 doubled me up to 20k.
I then won a pot of 16k with AQd when I bet out and called a 3k re-raise on an A82 (2d) board. The turn brought me a flush and his 33 was no good and to rub it in he hit a set on the river and was knocked out. Strange move with 33 on such a dangerous board though I thought.
Heads up and I was 28k-22k chip leader. It was a long long battle which lasted 115 hands and we were both chip leaders at one stage or another. As usual a couple of big hands decided it as there were not many flops seen as almost every hand was raised pre-flop. I guess I got lucky as I had K9 and raised2.4k. I was re-raised all in and my insta-call was not the best move when he turned over AQ! But the poker gods were smiling on me as the K364Q flop made me a massive chip leader. He came back really well and we were almost even at the last hand which was as follows:
** Game ID 872812015 starting - 2007-11-18 16:36:28
** $2 Super High Stack[1540634]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (800.00|1600.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 7 with $25708.12
- Pokermad2 sitting in seat 8 with $23091.88 [Dealer]
Pokermad2 posted the small blind - $400.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $800.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 9 of Hearts, Ace of Clubs
Pokermad2 raised - $1600.00
richmagpies1 called - $1600.00
** Dealing the flop: Ace of Hearts, 8 of Diamonds, 6 of Hearts
richmagpies1 went all-in - $24908.12
Pokermad2 went all-in - $21891.88
Pokermad2 shows: 2 of Hearts, 3 of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: 7 of Spades
** Dealing the river: Ace of Diamonds
richmagpies1 wins $46983.76 from the main pot
End of game 872812015
He missed his flush draw and that was that! The great run continues!
The bankroll has broken the $100 barrier which is great and stands at $102.79
Saturday 17 November 2007
First game for over a week
I've not had time to play a game since last week but it was back to the super deep stack stts on laddies today and the good form continues with a 2nd.
Again playing tight was the right way to go especially early on. Level 2 and I had AK under the gun. I raised but with 2 callers and then a 3k all in, I folded.
Now you don't get quads very often....
** Game ID 872072119 starting - 2007-11-17 14:42:18
** $2 Super High Stack[1538835]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (30.00|60.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- PokerMcb sitting in seat 1 with $4938.87
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 2 with $4395.00
- PeterEllis sitting in seat 3 with $6111.25
- Prezomatic sitting in seat 4 with $5468.90 [Dealer]
- Scarrface sitting in seat 6 with $4590.00
- KenHarley sitting in seat 8 with $5680.13
- Mowbz sitting in seat 9 with $1790.37
- Merovingian sitting in seat 10 with $16980.48
Scarrface posted the small blind - $15.00
KenHarley posted the big blind - $30.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 4 of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
Mowbz called - $30.00
Merovingian called - $30.00
PokerMcb called - $30.00
richmagpies1 called - $30.00
PeterEllis raised - $60.00
Prezomatic raised - $125.38
Scarrface folded
KenHarley folded
Mowbz folded
Merovingian called - $125.38
PokerMcb called - $125.38
richmagpies1 called - $125.38
PeterEllis called - $125.38
** Dealing the flop: 3 of Diamonds, 4 of Clubs, 7 of Clubs
Merovingian checked
PokerMcb checked
richmagpies1 bet - $701.90
PeterEllis folded
Prezomatic called - $701.90
Merovingian folded
PokerMcb folded
** Dealing the turn: 4 of Spades
richmagpies1 checked
Prezomatic bet - $1213.24
richmagpies1 called - $1213.24
** Dealing the river: 9 of Diamonds
richmagpies1 checked
Prezomatic checked
richmagpies1 shows: 4 of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
Prezomatic mucks:
richmagpies1 wins $4532.18 from the main pot
End of game 872072119
Maybe I should have bet on the river to try and milk some more chips but I guess he may have missed his draw and my flat call on the turn may have scared him. But still a decent size pot
Shortly afterwards I picked up QQ in the big blind and raised to 450. I was re-raised to 750 and I flat called. The flop was a very nice looking KQ8 and unless he had KK I was way ahead. I check raised all in for 6k and he called with KQ and is dead to the case K. Turn and river are 4and 3 and I won 6.9k. The cards dried up and I just kept things ticking over raising in position with 33, A6 etc to take the blinds and let others knock themselves out.
We finally got into the money and it was always gonna be a struggle on 8k with the chip leader sitting on a 33k stack! Again the cards deserted me and the chip leader was raising every hand as I expected so I just sat tight and hope to pick up something to go back over the top of him. The other short stack was thinking the same thing and was unlucky as he called the chip leaders all in with AT on a A95 flop only to see the chip leader with T9 hit a 9 on the river for trips to knock him out.
Heads up and and I managed to double up to 15k after I hit my flush draw on the river but I was still a big chip dog. That was about the only hand I got heads up as I just missed flop after flop and even when we checked it down the river would bring my opponent a 2 or a 7 to beat my A high or other crap.
The last hand about summed it up when I hit one of my outs on the turn only for the river to give him his set lol
** Game ID 872127092 starting - 2007-11-17 16:01:07
** $2 Super High Stack[1538835]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (400.00|800.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 2 with $3940.16
- Merovingian sitting in seat 10 with $45459.84 [Dealer]
Merovingian posted the small blind - $200.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $400.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Jack of Spades, King of Diamonds
Merovingian raised - $1400.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $3940.16
Merovingian called - $4340.16
Merovingian shows: 8 of Diamonds, 8 of Clubs
** Dealing the flop: 2 of Hearts, 9 of Clubs, 6 of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: King of Hearts
** Dealing the river: 8 of Hearts
Merovingian wins $8680.32 from the main pot
End of game 872127092
Bank roll is now $94.99
Again playing tight was the right way to go especially early on. Level 2 and I had AK under the gun. I raised but with 2 callers and then a 3k all in, I folded.
Now you don't get quads very often....
** Game ID 872072119 starting - 2007-11-17 14:42:18
** $2 Super High Stack[1538835]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (30.00|60.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- PokerMcb sitting in seat 1 with $4938.87
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 2 with $4395.00
- PeterEllis sitting in seat 3 with $6111.25
- Prezomatic sitting in seat 4 with $5468.90 [Dealer]
- Scarrface sitting in seat 6 with $4590.00
- KenHarley sitting in seat 8 with $5680.13
- Mowbz sitting in seat 9 with $1790.37
- Merovingian sitting in seat 10 with $16980.48
Scarrface posted the small blind - $15.00
KenHarley posted the big blind - $30.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: 4 of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
Mowbz called - $30.00
Merovingian called - $30.00
PokerMcb called - $30.00
richmagpies1 called - $30.00
PeterEllis raised - $60.00
Prezomatic raised - $125.38
Scarrface folded
KenHarley folded
Mowbz folded
Merovingian called - $125.38
PokerMcb called - $125.38
richmagpies1 called - $125.38
PeterEllis called - $125.38
** Dealing the flop: 3 of Diamonds, 4 of Clubs, 7 of Clubs
Merovingian checked
PokerMcb checked
richmagpies1 bet - $701.90
PeterEllis folded
Prezomatic called - $701.90
Merovingian folded
PokerMcb folded
** Dealing the turn: 4 of Spades
richmagpies1 checked
Prezomatic bet - $1213.24
richmagpies1 called - $1213.24
** Dealing the river: 9 of Diamonds
richmagpies1 checked
Prezomatic checked
richmagpies1 shows: 4 of Hearts, 4 of Diamonds
Prezomatic mucks:
richmagpies1 wins $4532.18 from the main pot
End of game 872072119
Maybe I should have bet on the river to try and milk some more chips but I guess he may have missed his draw and my flat call on the turn may have scared him. But still a decent size pot
Shortly afterwards I picked up QQ in the big blind and raised to 450. I was re-raised to 750 and I flat called. The flop was a very nice looking KQ8 and unless he had KK I was way ahead. I check raised all in for 6k and he called with KQ and is dead to the case K. Turn and river are 4and 3 and I won 6.9k. The cards dried up and I just kept things ticking over raising in position with 33, A6 etc to take the blinds and let others knock themselves out.
We finally got into the money and it was always gonna be a struggle on 8k with the chip leader sitting on a 33k stack! Again the cards deserted me and the chip leader was raising every hand as I expected so I just sat tight and hope to pick up something to go back over the top of him. The other short stack was thinking the same thing and was unlucky as he called the chip leaders all in with AT on a A95 flop only to see the chip leader with T9 hit a 9 on the river for trips to knock him out.
Heads up and and I managed to double up to 15k after I hit my flush draw on the river but I was still a big chip dog. That was about the only hand I got heads up as I just missed flop after flop and even when we checked it down the river would bring my opponent a 2 or a 7 to beat my A high or other crap.
The last hand about summed it up when I hit one of my outs on the turn only for the river to give him his set lol
** Game ID 872127092 starting - 2007-11-17 16:01:07
** $2 Super High Stack[1538835]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (400.00|800.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 2 with $3940.16
- Merovingian sitting in seat 10 with $45459.84 [Dealer]
Merovingian posted the small blind - $200.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $400.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Jack of Spades, King of Diamonds
Merovingian raised - $1400.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $3940.16
Merovingian called - $4340.16
Merovingian shows: 8 of Diamonds, 8 of Clubs
** Dealing the flop: 2 of Hearts, 9 of Clubs, 6 of Hearts
** Dealing the turn: King of Hearts
** Dealing the river: 8 of Hearts
Merovingian wins $8680.32 from the main pot
End of game 872127092
Bank roll is now $94.99
Friday 9 November 2007
Another STT win
I played another ladbrokes super deep stack stt on Wednesday evening and it was probably the longest stt I've ever played lasting 10 minutes shy of 3 hours - lots of play for your money!
I got no cards early on so sat tight and it wasn't until level 4 when I won with 88 that I got over the 5k starting stack. The card drought continued until level 6 when I won 1.2k with A9 in the big blind. The first big hand was in level 7 when I had AA in the small blind and forced a fold on a dangerous looking KQT (2d) board to win 3.75k
It was a pretty tight game for a change and there were still 6 players in at level 7. I won chips pre-flop with AK and then with T9 in the big blind when I flopped 2 pair after being allowed to limp in. The feature of this table was it was soooooo passive preflop but I was getting dealt rubbish and there was no need to risk raising big and running into a decent hand. In level 8 I picked up QQ in the small blind and called the short stacks 1.2k all in. He had KJ and the K52 (3c) board was not good but gave me hope of a flush and it duly arrived on the turn for a 2.5k pot to knock him out.
Level 9 and a classic example of why you shouldn't give free cards. I checked with T5 in the big blind and a 764 gave me an open ended straight draw. It was duly checked and the turn was a 7, checked again and the river 8, had me betting 600 to win a 3.1k pot.
When we were at the bubble I decided to play more aggressively and take advantage of the passive play. I called a short stacks all in with AK and was pleased to be up against his KJ and the chip leader's call with KQ. We checked it down but the river J means I'm now the short stack! I then managed to steal the blinds and win a double up with AJ vs A7 and was back up to about 16k. The big pot of the game was when I picked up AA and managed at last to get some action!
** Game ID 865726019 starting - 2007-11-07 22:53:53
** $2 Super High Stack[1525683]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (1000.00|2000.00 No Limit - STT) Real Money
- durhamlass sitting in seat 1 with $7755.00
- seanj007 sitting in seat 2 with $24185.00
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 7 with $16560.00 [Dealer]
durhamlass posted the small blind - $500.00
seanj007 posted the big blind - $1000.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Ace of Spades, Ace of Hearts
richmagpies1 raised - $4000.00
durhamlass folded
seanj007 called - $4000.00
** Dealing the flop: 7 of Diamonds, 5 of Hearts, King of Clubs
seanj007 bet - $1000.00
richmagpies1 raised - $5750.00
seanj007 called - $5750.00
** Dealing the turn: 10 of Clubs
seanj007 bet - $1000.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $6810.00
seanj007 called - $6810.00
seanj007 shows: Jack of Clubs, King of Spades
** Dealing the river: 4 of Diamonds
richmagpies1 wins $33620.00 from the main pot
End of game 865726019
That hand put me totally in control and I never looked back! The play was still passive and durhamlass did not raise once pre-flop the whole game! Even more unbelievable is that I've just looked at her stats on Poker Tracker and I have played her in 3 STTs and in a total of 485 she has never raised pre-flop once! Does she not have a bet/raise button lol! You are never gonna win anything playing like that!
The end game play was very predictable and if they had something they would call and if they had nothing would fold so easy to play against really! The last hand I pushed with a flush draw and he called with KJ on a 752 board for his 13k which was bizarre given his passive play all game! I hit and it was all over! I would have been annoyed if I had not managed to win the game given the standard and weakness of play on display!
The bank roll now stands at $91.19. I have cashed in 16 out of the last 22 stts/mtts I have played - this run has got to come to an end soon but lets hope not too soon!
I got no cards early on so sat tight and it wasn't until level 4 when I won with 88 that I got over the 5k starting stack. The card drought continued until level 6 when I won 1.2k with A9 in the big blind. The first big hand was in level 7 when I had AA in the small blind and forced a fold on a dangerous looking KQT (2d) board to win 3.75k
It was a pretty tight game for a change and there were still 6 players in at level 7. I won chips pre-flop with AK and then with T9 in the big blind when I flopped 2 pair after being allowed to limp in. The feature of this table was it was soooooo passive preflop but I was getting dealt rubbish and there was no need to risk raising big and running into a decent hand. In level 8 I picked up QQ in the small blind and called the short stacks 1.2k all in. He had KJ and the K52 (3c) board was not good but gave me hope of a flush and it duly arrived on the turn for a 2.5k pot to knock him out.
Level 9 and a classic example of why you shouldn't give free cards. I checked with T5 in the big blind and a 764 gave me an open ended straight draw. It was duly checked and the turn was a 7, checked again and the river 8, had me betting 600 to win a 3.1k pot.
When we were at the bubble I decided to play more aggressively and take advantage of the passive play. I called a short stacks all in with AK and was pleased to be up against his KJ and the chip leader's call with KQ. We checked it down but the river J means I'm now the short stack! I then managed to steal the blinds and win a double up with AJ vs A7 and was back up to about 16k. The big pot of the game was when I picked up AA and managed at last to get some action!
** Game ID 865726019 starting - 2007-11-07 22:53:53
** $2 Super High Stack[1525683]:Table 1 [Hold 'em] (1000.00|2000.00 No Limit - STT) Real Money
- durhamlass sitting in seat 1 with $7755.00
- seanj007 sitting in seat 2 with $24185.00
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 7 with $16560.00 [Dealer]
durhamlass posted the small blind - $500.00
seanj007 posted the big blind - $1000.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Ace of Spades, Ace of Hearts
richmagpies1 raised - $4000.00
durhamlass folded
seanj007 called - $4000.00
** Dealing the flop: 7 of Diamonds, 5 of Hearts, King of Clubs
seanj007 bet - $1000.00
richmagpies1 raised - $5750.00
seanj007 called - $5750.00
** Dealing the turn: 10 of Clubs
seanj007 bet - $1000.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $6810.00
seanj007 called - $6810.00
seanj007 shows: Jack of Clubs, King of Spades
** Dealing the river: 4 of Diamonds
richmagpies1 wins $33620.00 from the main pot
End of game 865726019
That hand put me totally in control and I never looked back! The play was still passive and durhamlass did not raise once pre-flop the whole game! Even more unbelievable is that I've just looked at her stats on Poker Tracker and I have played her in 3 STTs and in a total of 485 she has never raised pre-flop once! Does she not have a bet/raise button lol! You are never gonna win anything playing like that!
The end game play was very predictable and if they had something they would call and if they had nothing would fold so easy to play against really! The last hand I pushed with a flush draw and he called with KJ on a 752 board for his 13k which was bizarre given his passive play all game! I hit and it was all over! I would have been annoyed if I had not managed to win the game given the standard and weakness of play on display!
The bank roll now stands at $91.19. I have cashed in 16 out of the last 22 stts/mtts I have played - this run has got to come to an end soon but lets hope not too soon!
Tuesday 6 November 2007
I played 1 laddies super deep stack stt and managed 3rd.
I had no cards at all till Level 4 so as usual just sat tight and waited and waited and waited....lol. I won a couple fo hands with AJ when I hit top pair on turn and then with J7 when hit a full house on KK77 board but my minimum bet on the turn just made everybody fold which was frustrating. These were the only 2 hands i played before we were at the bubble towards the end of level 4 and I had about 5k in front of me.
I loosened up a bit which was due to picking up a few cards in level 5 and won with QQ, AK, A9, AA, A8, AQ but no really big pots as people were passive and playing to get in the money. We had a big cl with about 29k, i had 6k and others had 10k and 5k each. The bubble burst when the 5k stack ran his medium pair into KK.
Down to the last 3 and the cards deserted me again and I was down to less than 4k when the blinds reached 150/300. I had to start playing some weaker cards and hope for a double up s otherwise I was just going to get blinded out. I won a few hands raising pre-flop with K8, K6 and similar junk but the amount of 92, 84, J3, T6 etc I was getting in the bb meant that I was fighting a losing battle and leaking chips every round!
The last 3 hands I pushed all in pre-flop with AT and AJ and all folded so I picked up the blinds. The third hand was 99 which was pretty good as I was sure someone, probably the chip leader, would call the third time because he had over 35k. Sure enough he called with K6 clubs and I was a 3-1 favourite to double up to about 8k and be back in with a shout. However 2 clubs on the flop followed by a third on the river put paid to any thoughts of a glorious come back and I was out!
The bank roll now stands at $83.39
Some other stats for the challenge that might be if interest are:
Number of cash/ tourney sessions - 45
Overall ROI - 84.60%
Tournament ROI - 129.72%
Tournament in the money - 76%
These are pretty good but impossible to maintain for any length of time and are skewed by the low number of sessions! But better to have them skewed this way than the other way lol! If I can keep in the money in stts over 50% of the time and make sure the 1st and 2nds out number the 3rds I will be pretty pleased and will show a profit.
I had no cards at all till Level 4 so as usual just sat tight and waited and waited and waited....lol. I won a couple fo hands with AJ when I hit top pair on turn and then with J7 when hit a full house on KK77 board but my minimum bet on the turn just made everybody fold which was frustrating. These were the only 2 hands i played before we were at the bubble towards the end of level 4 and I had about 5k in front of me.
I loosened up a bit which was due to picking up a few cards in level 5 and won with QQ, AK, A9, AA, A8, AQ but no really big pots as people were passive and playing to get in the money. We had a big cl with about 29k, i had 6k and others had 10k and 5k each. The bubble burst when the 5k stack ran his medium pair into KK.
Down to the last 3 and the cards deserted me again and I was down to less than 4k when the blinds reached 150/300. I had to start playing some weaker cards and hope for a double up s otherwise I was just going to get blinded out. I won a few hands raising pre-flop with K8, K6 and similar junk but the amount of 92, 84, J3, T6 etc I was getting in the bb meant that I was fighting a losing battle and leaking chips every round!
The last 3 hands I pushed all in pre-flop with AT and AJ and all folded so I picked up the blinds. The third hand was 99 which was pretty good as I was sure someone, probably the chip leader, would call the third time because he had over 35k. Sure enough he called with K6 clubs and I was a 3-1 favourite to double up to about 8k and be back in with a shout. However 2 clubs on the flop followed by a third on the river put paid to any thoughts of a glorious come back and I was out!
The bank roll now stands at $83.39Some other stats for the challenge that might be if interest are:
Number of cash/ tourney sessions - 45
Overall ROI - 84.60%
Tournament ROI - 129.72%
Tournament in the money - 76%
These are pretty good but impossible to maintain for any length of time and are skewed by the low number of sessions! But better to have them skewed this way than the other way lol! If I can keep in the money in stts over 50% of the time and make sure the 1st and 2nds out number the 3rds I will be pretty pleased and will show a profit.
Saturday 3 November 2007
Free money!
I have an account with Mansion but rarely play there as it was usually dead and the games were rubbish! However, I had an email from them today telling me they had put $10 in my account and that it had to be used by Tuesday. So I decided to take them up on their generosity and play a couple of $5 stts. You get 1500 chips with 8 min blinds so not that great a structure.
The first tourney I played I had no cards apart from AK with which I doubled up to 2k against JJ. I managed to get to the last 4 and had QQ. I re-raised the chip leader all in for my last 1.8k and he called with A5 and of course the river was an A. But never mind its not like it had cost me anything!
I registered for the 2nd game straight away and am pleased to say that I won the game so made a clear $25 profit!
It was a long game and I managed to get a few chips early on when I flopped 2 pair with QJ and AK was also kind as the K came on the turn. I then had a bit of luck with 22. I flat called and was hoping to hit a set. The flop was 872 with 2 diamonds. I called the short stacks all in for 350 and he had a flush draw which was a fair enough play. The turn was the Td but the Th on the river made my full house and I won 1.3k and he was out. The bubble lasted for an absolute age with all 4 of us in danger of going out at least once. We all played too passively as the blinds were quite high and picking these up along with a double up and you were right back in it. The river hurt all of us and saved all of us before it finally burst. It didn't take as long to get to heads up and the scenario we had on the bubble was repeated with us both being almost to the felt before coming back to be chip leader. The final hand saw my KT hold up against his Q9 when we both hit our top pairs on the flop and the chips went in the middle and I managed to sneak home for the win.
For some reason I can't find the tourney summaries on Mansion and when you click on tourney details it directs you to their website so this is the best I can do. Ho hum!
The bankroll now stands at a healthy $81.59!
The first tourney I played I had no cards apart from AK with which I doubled up to 2k against JJ. I managed to get to the last 4 and had QQ. I re-raised the chip leader all in for my last 1.8k and he called with A5 and of course the river was an A. But never mind its not like it had cost me anything!
I registered for the 2nd game straight away and am pleased to say that I won the game so made a clear $25 profit!
It was a long game and I managed to get a few chips early on when I flopped 2 pair with QJ and AK was also kind as the K came on the turn. I then had a bit of luck with 22. I flat called and was hoping to hit a set. The flop was 872 with 2 diamonds. I called the short stacks all in for 350 and he had a flush draw which was a fair enough play. The turn was the Td but the Th on the river made my full house and I won 1.3k and he was out. The bubble lasted for an absolute age with all 4 of us in danger of going out at least once. We all played too passively as the blinds were quite high and picking these up along with a double up and you were right back in it. The river hurt all of us and saved all of us before it finally burst. It didn't take as long to get to heads up and the scenario we had on the bubble was repeated with us both being almost to the felt before coming back to be chip leader. The final hand saw my KT hold up against his Q9 when we both hit our top pairs on the flop and the chips went in the middle and I managed to sneak home for the win.
For some reason I can't find the tourney summaries on Mansion and when you click on tourney details it directs you to their website so this is the best I can do. Ho hum!
The bankroll now stands at a healthy $81.59!
Friday 2 November 2007
Another STT win
I played 2 laddies super deep stack stts today. The less said about the first the better as I finished 9th and donked off my chips appalingly tilting after losing about 1.5k to a rivered flush. I completely overplayed KQ on a QT8 (2 spades) board, I bet 500 and was raised. The alarm bells should have rung but I re-raised all in and had to laugh as he flipped over AA and I'm dead to another K or Q. No help and I'm gone! I was annoyed as I try really hard not to tilt and throw away chips so i should just consign this game to the bin and make sure that I don't do it again lol!
Anyway I played another game which was slightly more successful as I managed to win it. It was a long long game, 2 hrs 15 mins and 261 hands! It was a good game too and and not full of muppets going all in at the start like yesterday!
I had no cards at all till level 3 when I flat called 100 with 88. I then folded to the short stacks 900 all in which was a good fold as he hit 2 pair with AQ to double up. Level 3 I raised with QQ to 650 and had 1 caller. The A54 flop looked dangerous and it was checked all the way with a T and then a river 9 and I won 1.5k. Level 4 and I bet 200 with 77 under the gun and get 2 callers. The flop is 743 and I get i caller to my 350 bet. The turn us a Q and all fold to my bet of 650 and I win 1.9k .
I get very lucky in this hand but it makes a nice change! Level 6 and I look down at KK in the small blind. I re-raise to 2.6k and the button re-raises me all in. I call as I'm only beat by AA but oooops he has AA! The board comes KJ5Q3 and I hit my 2 outer and double up to 15.6k and am now the chip leader. No one ever said you dont need a bit of luck to win tourneys!
I win a couple more pots when I get AK twice in a row and all fold to my pre-flop raises. Level 7 and I win 3k with AT after I hit top pair on the flop and 88 calls my bets all the way to the river.
We get down to the last 4 and there was one player sitting out as he'd gone to pick his wife up from work lol! The player to my right was raising every hand to steal and I was getting pissed off as I was getting junk but I had 14k and so waited for a hand to get paid off with when I played back at him. It came surprisingly when I picked up K2h in the big blind and called a 600 bet. The QJ7 (2h) flop brought me the second nut flush draw and I called his 400 bet. The turn was the Jd and he checked giving me a free card which was a mistake as the river was the 3h and I called his 900 bet and won 5.4k with a better flush.
Not content with that hand I won a huge pot when I flopped a full house against the same player who continued to try and steal every single hand......see below.....soooooooo sweet!
> Stellard posted small blind (300)
> richmagpies1 posted big blind (600)
> Game # 862,129,694 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Qs 6s )
> phily206 folded
> Stellard raised for 900
> richmagpies1 called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(Qh 6d Qd )
> Stellard bet for 1,200
> richmagpies1 called for 1,200
> Dealing the turn(2c )
> Stellard bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 called for 2,400
> Dealing the river(7c )
> Stellard bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,800
> Stellard called for 2,400
> richmagpies1 shows a Full House, Queens full of Sixes
(Qs Qh Qd 6s 6d )
> Stellard mucked
> richmagpies1 wins 19,200 with a Full House, Queens full of Sixes
Shortly after I applied the coup de grace and knocked out the serial raiser hitting runner runner straight to crack his KK lol
> Dealing Hole Cards(10d Kc )
> richmagpies1 raised for 1,200
> phily206 folded
> Stellard called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(9s 2h 7c )
> Stellard checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the turn(8c )
> Stellard bet for 600
> richmagpies1 called for 600
> Dealing the river(6h )
> Stellard checked
> richmagpies1 bet for 975
> Stellard raised for 6,825
> richmagpies1 raised for 11,700
> Stellard went all-in for 2,872.70
> Extra chips returned to richmagpies1, 2,977.30
> Stellard shows One Pair, Kings
(Kd Kh 9s 8c 7c )
> richmagpies1 wins 23,295.40 with a Straight, Ten high
> Stellard has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
We are now heads up and I'm the chip leader but it does go even once as he is quite aggressive and I think the HU curse I seem to be under is gonna strike. I therefore make a conscious decision to be more aggresive when I have the button, raising and re-raising with any A or K. The 42nd and last hand I had a 27-22k chip lead....
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (300)
> phily206 posted big blind (600)
> Game # 862,139,229 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Ks 3d )
> richmagpies1 raised for 900
> phily206 called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(7c 9h 10d )
> phily206 checked
> richmagpies1 bet for 600
> phily206 called for 600
> Dealing the turn(3c )
> phily206 checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the river(Kh )
> phily206 bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,800
> phily206 went all-in for 18,522.30
> richmagpies1 called for 16,122.30
> phily206 shows Two Pair, Tens over Sevens
(10s 10d 7s 7c Kh )
> richmagpies1 wins 45,444.60 with Two Pair, Kings over Threes
> phily206 has left the tournament in 2nd place, winning $6
> richmagpies1 has left the tournament in 1st place, winning $10
So for once I had a bit of luck heads up to hit the better 2 pair on the river but maybe he shouldn't have checked the turn as I may have folded to a decent bet even though I had just hit bottom pair and had no draw after he has called my continuation bet on the flop!
I also played in the laddies $500 freeroll and came 109th /4284for $0.73 lol
The bankroll now stands at $56.59
Anyway I played another game which was slightly more successful as I managed to win it. It was a long long game, 2 hrs 15 mins and 261 hands! It was a good game too and and not full of muppets going all in at the start like yesterday!
I had no cards at all till level 3 when I flat called 100 with 88. I then folded to the short stacks 900 all in which was a good fold as he hit 2 pair with AQ to double up. Level 3 I raised with QQ to 650 and had 1 caller. The A54 flop looked dangerous and it was checked all the way with a T and then a river 9 and I won 1.5k. Level 4 and I bet 200 with 77 under the gun and get 2 callers. The flop is 743 and I get i caller to my 350 bet. The turn us a Q and all fold to my bet of 650 and I win 1.9k .
I get very lucky in this hand but it makes a nice change! Level 6 and I look down at KK in the small blind. I re-raise to 2.6k and the button re-raises me all in. I call as I'm only beat by AA but oooops he has AA! The board comes KJ5Q3 and I hit my 2 outer and double up to 15.6k and am now the chip leader. No one ever said you dont need a bit of luck to win tourneys!
I win a couple more pots when I get AK twice in a row and all fold to my pre-flop raises. Level 7 and I win 3k with AT after I hit top pair on the flop and 88 calls my bets all the way to the river.
We get down to the last 4 and there was one player sitting out as he'd gone to pick his wife up from work lol! The player to my right was raising every hand to steal and I was getting pissed off as I was getting junk but I had 14k and so waited for a hand to get paid off with when I played back at him. It came surprisingly when I picked up K2h in the big blind and called a 600 bet. The QJ7 (2h) flop brought me the second nut flush draw and I called his 400 bet. The turn was the Jd and he checked giving me a free card which was a mistake as the river was the 3h and I called his 900 bet and won 5.4k with a better flush.
Not content with that hand I won a huge pot when I flopped a full house against the same player who continued to try and steal every single hand......see below.....soooooooo sweet!
> Stellard posted small blind (300)
> richmagpies1 posted big blind (600)
> Game # 862,129,694 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Qs 6s )
> phily206 folded
> Stellard raised for 900
> richmagpies1 called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(Qh 6d Qd )
> Stellard bet for 1,200
> richmagpies1 called for 1,200
> Dealing the turn(2c )
> Stellard bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 called for 2,400
> Dealing the river(7c )
> Stellard bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,800
> Stellard called for 2,400
> richmagpies1 shows a Full House, Queens full of Sixes
(Qs Qh Qd 6s 6d )
> Stellard mucked
> richmagpies1 wins 19,200 with a Full House, Queens full of Sixes
Shortly after I applied the coup de grace and knocked out the serial raiser hitting runner runner straight to crack his KK lol
> Dealing Hole Cards(10d Kc )
> richmagpies1 raised for 1,200
> phily206 folded
> Stellard called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(9s 2h 7c )
> Stellard checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the turn(8c )
> Stellard bet for 600
> richmagpies1 called for 600
> Dealing the river(6h )
> Stellard checked
> richmagpies1 bet for 975
> Stellard raised for 6,825
> richmagpies1 raised for 11,700
> Stellard went all-in for 2,872.70
> Extra chips returned to richmagpies1, 2,977.30
> Stellard shows One Pair, Kings
(Kd Kh 9s 8c 7c )
> richmagpies1 wins 23,295.40 with a Straight, Ten high
> Stellard has left the tournament in 3rd place, winning $4
We are now heads up and I'm the chip leader but it does go even once as he is quite aggressive and I think the HU curse I seem to be under is gonna strike. I therefore make a conscious decision to be more aggresive when I have the button, raising and re-raising with any A or K. The 42nd and last hand I had a 27-22k chip lead....
> richmagpies1 posted small blind (300)
> phily206 posted big blind (600)
> Game # 862,139,229 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Ks 3d )
> richmagpies1 raised for 900
> phily206 called for 600
> Dealing the Flop(7c 9h 10d )
> phily206 checked
> richmagpies1 bet for 600
> phily206 called for 600
> Dealing the turn(3c )
> phily206 checked
> richmagpies1 checked
> Dealing the river(Kh )
> phily206 bet for 2,400
> richmagpies1 raised for 4,800
> phily206 went all-in for 18,522.30
> richmagpies1 called for 16,122.30
> phily206 shows Two Pair, Tens over Sevens
(10s 10d 7s 7c Kh )
> richmagpies1 wins 45,444.60 with Two Pair, Kings over Threes
> phily206 has left the tournament in 2nd place, winning $6
> richmagpies1 has left the tournament in 1st place, winning $10
So for once I had a bit of luck heads up to hit the better 2 pair on the river but maybe he shouldn't have checked the turn as I may have folded to a decent bet even though I had just hit bottom pair and had no draw after he has called my continuation bet on the flop!
I also played in the laddies $500 freeroll and came 109th /4284for $0.73 lol
The bankroll now stands at $56.59
Poker Stars turbo multi table STTs
I normally don't play turbos as I don't think they suit my style and in my opinion are more of a lottery than a test of skill but one of the guys on the forum, rivher, offered to stake a few players $13 to play 4 x45 seat $3.25 turbo stts. When you win you are able to move up a level using a max of 25% of the bankroll and once you get to$113 or more you send him $63 ($50 profit plus the original $13) and keep any other profit yourself. Sounds like a good deal!
Anyway I played 4 and didn't cash in any of them, finishing 11th, 18th, 25th and 29th. In the 11th finish I managed to get all my chips in pre-flop with AA against KQ only for the board to come 2T8JA to give him a runner runner straight lol. If I'd won that pot I would have been chip leader and almost certain for a decent cash! In two others I also got my chips in when ahead and lost the race both times.
I don't know how people can play these regularly as the bad beats seem to come every other hand and they would do my head in. Fair play to those that do though! I'll stick to deep stacks thank you very much!
Anyway I played 4 and didn't cash in any of them, finishing 11th, 18th, 25th and 29th. In the 11th finish I managed to get all my chips in pre-flop with AA against KQ only for the board to come 2T8JA to give him a runner runner straight lol. If I'd won that pot I would have been chip leader and almost certain for a decent cash! In two others I also got my chips in when ahead and lost the race both times.
I don't know how people can play these regularly as the bad beats seem to come every other hand and they would do my head in. Fair play to those that do though! I'll stick to deep stacks thank you very much!
Thursday 1 November 2007
Maniacs in STTs
I played a laddies super deep stack again today and it was eventful to say the least!
It was a table full of maniacs right from the get-go! By hand 3 there was a chip leader with 16k, 2 had already been knocked out and 2 others were down to 2k & 3k respectively. By hand 5 there were 2 big chip leaders with 14k and 15k and 4 players had been knocked out! 10 mins into level 1 and were on the bubble. come on guys, its 5000 chips and 15 minute blinds ....just crazy really.
I could see that the only way to play this was errrrrr.... to not play any hands apart from monsters which would get paid off as no one was able to lay down even bottom pair to a bet. In one hand they were calling bets to the river with Q high and J high!
The first decent hand I picked up was KK in the big blind in level 2. I raised a pre-flop bet to 420, and as expected I was re-raised to 1.2k. HURRAH! I then re-re raised to 2.5k. He called as expected and the flop was K82 with 2 spades. I didn't want to give free card as he probably had 72 spades and I bet all in for my remaining 2.5k and amazingly he folded and I was up to 8.2k.
Unsurprisingly the bubble burst very shortly afterwards and I had 8.5k to the others 27k and 14k. I wasn't worried as the blinds were still 25/50so I had plenty of time to wait for cards and let the other 2 play it like it was limit and just bet and call each other to the river all the time! Level 4 and I have 86 in the big blind which I check. the flop is J86 and I can feel a big pile of chips coming my way! I raised his min bet to 250, and he lazily re-raised me all in by just pressing his all in button for about 20k. I call and he has J5 lol and I double up to 12.5k.
I win a few hands with AQ, QJ, T2 in the big blind. I then pick up KJ and raise to 300 pre-flop. The flop is AAK and I call bets of 225, 150, and 825 on a turn of 5 and river 9 and win 3.3k with a better 2 pair. The big hand 3 handed was when I had JT in the small blind. I flat called and loved the JT6 flop with 2 diamonds. I bet 300 and was raised to 600. Could he be on a flush draw? Probably but I wasn't going to lay this down based on what I had seen before. I re-raised to 2.1k and he went all in. Hmmmmm but I was pretty committed by now and called. He flipped over KK so I just need to avoid the Kings and the board pairing and I'm home. Well the turn J and river T were sweet and I doubled up to 23k and was now chip leader.
The guy then donked the remainder of his chips off with T8 and at the start of heads up I was a 28-21k chip dog.
The chip lead went back and forth but I was probably in second place most of the time. In the last hand we managed to get them all in on a A23 board. I had AQ, he had T5 and yes the turn was 4 and he won lol.
Looking at my stats I finish 2nd far too many times so need to work on my heads up play a bit to try and convert places into wins. However, when I look back at the actual hands, the amount of times I lose with the best hand is either worrying because I'm just very unlucky or good because I'm getting my chips in as favourite. I haven't decided which yet lol
Woo hoo! The bankroll has passed the $50 barrier and now stands at $50.26
It was a table full of maniacs right from the get-go! By hand 3 there was a chip leader with 16k, 2 had already been knocked out and 2 others were down to 2k & 3k respectively. By hand 5 there were 2 big chip leaders with 14k and 15k and 4 players had been knocked out! 10 mins into level 1 and were on the bubble. come on guys, its 5000 chips and 15 minute blinds ....just crazy really.
I could see that the only way to play this was errrrrr.... to not play any hands apart from monsters which would get paid off as no one was able to lay down even bottom pair to a bet. In one hand they were calling bets to the river with Q high and J high!
The first decent hand I picked up was KK in the big blind in level 2. I raised a pre-flop bet to 420, and as expected I was re-raised to 1.2k. HURRAH! I then re-re raised to 2.5k. He called as expected and the flop was K82 with 2 spades. I didn't want to give free card as he probably had 72 spades and I bet all in for my remaining 2.5k and amazingly he folded and I was up to 8.2k.
Unsurprisingly the bubble burst very shortly afterwards and I had 8.5k to the others 27k and 14k. I wasn't worried as the blinds were still 25/50so I had plenty of time to wait for cards and let the other 2 play it like it was limit and just bet and call each other to the river all the time! Level 4 and I have 86 in the big blind which I check. the flop is J86 and I can feel a big pile of chips coming my way! I raised his min bet to 250, and he lazily re-raised me all in by just pressing his all in button for about 20k. I call and he has J5 lol and I double up to 12.5k.
I win a few hands with AQ, QJ, T2 in the big blind. I then pick up KJ and raise to 300 pre-flop. The flop is AAK and I call bets of 225, 150, and 825 on a turn of 5 and river 9 and win 3.3k with a better 2 pair. The big hand 3 handed was when I had JT in the small blind. I flat called and loved the JT6 flop with 2 diamonds. I bet 300 and was raised to 600. Could he be on a flush draw? Probably but I wasn't going to lay this down based on what I had seen before. I re-raised to 2.1k and he went all in. Hmmmmm but I was pretty committed by now and called. He flipped over KK so I just need to avoid the Kings and the board pairing and I'm home. Well the turn J and river T were sweet and I doubled up to 23k and was now chip leader.
The guy then donked the remainder of his chips off with T8 and at the start of heads up I was a 28-21k chip dog.
The chip lead went back and forth but I was probably in second place most of the time. In the last hand we managed to get them all in on a A23 board. I had AQ, he had T5 and yes the turn was 4 and he won lol.
Looking at my stats I finish 2nd far too many times so need to work on my heads up play a bit to try and convert places into wins. However, when I look back at the actual hands, the amount of times I lose with the best hand is either worrying because I'm just very unlucky or good because I'm getting my chips in as favourite. I haven't decided which yet lol
Woo hoo! The bankroll has passed the $50 barrier and now stands at $50.26
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