Happy New Year! Go Ravens. They looked really good yesterday and basically dominated the Dolphins as I suspected they would. This team looks and feels a lot like the 2000 team though I am not sure this defense is quite as good as that one which was arguably one of the all time greatest. This weekend is the key. I think if we beat the Titans we will get to the Super Bowl. I just think the Steelers are not going to beat us three times this year (in fact the Ravens probably "should" have won both of the previous meetings this year). I also don't think all of the Chargers hype is warranted. They won a dreadful division mostly because the Broncos suck and totally collapsed. If the Ravens get up early on the Titans Saturday it should be a good day.
So last time I posted I was planning on playing a ton of tournaments last Sunday including the big majors and a few others. I did in fact play most of them but had no real cashes of significance. One cash for $100 and three other cashes in the $50 range. All in all, however, it was a profitable day as I had won 3 seats to the Sunday Million on Stars and my seat to the Tilt 750k. This covered all my buy-ins and a little extra though nothing great.
I also played some tournaments last week and made it fairly deep in the Stars 10k guarantee ($11 tournament at 9:15 p.m.) 2x but crapped out both times in 65th and 13th for smallish scores.
But Saturday night was a good night. I actually wasn't going to play but at 9:30 or so I decided to play a bunch of the 10 p.m. tournaments. Here are the tournaments I played:
Tilt
9:30 Fifty-Fifty (50+5) $50,000 guarantee
10:00 Big Double A (60+6)
10:00 Big Double B (60+6)
Stars
9:30 $70,000 Guarantee (50+5)
10:00 $16.50 NLHE
I also played a few satellites and sit and gos while all of this was going on.
The Big Double is an event similar to the Daily Double that if you cash in both you get a bonus (usually an extra $350 or so) with that bonus escalating if you make final tables in both and huge if you win both.
Anyway I chipped up well in all of the events. I lost coinflips for big pots in both the Stars 70k and the Tilt 50-50 eventually busting reasonably close to the money. But the Big Double and the 16.50 I had chips the whole way. Unfortunately I lost in the Big Double A with abt 40 left (18 cashed) when I flopped 2nd pair and checkraised all in. He called with an up and down str8 draw and hit. Blah! But the other two were pretty interesting.
Big Double B
I played very solid throughout and just chipped up. I got paid off and doubled up with KK when a guy reshoved on me with 66 after I had opened with a raise. This was with about 40 left and 18 got paid (started with ~180). I made a nice laydown on the turn with about 30 left. I had AJ on the button on a J246 board when the SB had made a str8 and the other player in the hand stacked off with J8. Then I kept playing solid and we were down to the final 11 or so when this came up and I FINALLY had a hand hold up in a key spot:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3672441
That hand obviously was totally standard from my perspective. His reshove with A6 is pretty bad.
The next hand to show you is a suckout by yours truly. I usually complain about bad beats so I have to balance that with the occassional bad beats I get to lay on others. To put this hand in perspective, this guy had 3 bet me probably 5 times in the last 15-20 orbits. Every time I opened the pot with a raise he would reraise me and I had to fold. So here I decided to 4 bet shove and unfortunately this time he had a monster:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3672446
This created a bit of back and forth as he was none to pleased with me. Oh well.
Finally we got to the final table and I was the big stack. I played very solid and still had the chip lead with 4 left. I chopped a pot when I got it all in with me holding AQ vs. opponents AT and the board ran JJAKx for a chopper.
Finally we were heads up and pretty close in chips. The difference in payouts was over $1,000 so closing this out was important. We both played pretty aggressively with a lot of raising and 3 betting. Finally about 20 hands in the final hand came down as follows:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3672436
I probably could have folded to his 4 bet and still had t130,000 in chips but oh well. Middle pair with an up and down str8 draw is pretty strong heads up but not strong enough to stack off 50BB. Sucks but a little less than $2k for the effort.
Stars $16.50
This tournament was pretty uneventful really as I played very solid and chipped up nicely. I did have a hand that generated a lot of noise from the rail and the others at the table. Villian in this hand is hyper aggressive and trying to run over the table when this happens:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3672448
I call with 9To on the button as his opening range is huge and if I hit I think he is spewy and will double me up. Flop comes and I make a pair. He bets I raise and he shoves. His line is very transparent and really just terribly spewy. I know he has nothing so I snap call and double up. He then went on a tirade about how bad I was, BLAH BLAH BLAH. But this shows you the value of playing the man and not just the cards. He was raising and reraising every hand and I was just waiting for a pair to double up. A lot of people can accumulate chips but have no idea how to play when they get a big stack.
Anyway I got to the final table but unfortunately went out 6th for ~$300 when the big stack raised and I shoved 9 BB with 88. He snap called with QQ and I was done.
I probably won't play a lot of tournaments now that the holidays are over and work is getting busy again. Being up that late is a little tough the next days. I will play some cash games as I have been playing and running pretty well playing NLHE cash.
I am going to the Borgata Winter Series next week and will play 2 events I think:
$500 NLHE
$350 PLO
Will let you know how that goes.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Friday, December 26, 2008
A Couple Deep Runs
In the last week I made a few deep runs in tournaments but again came up short of any meaningful takedowns. It was kind of odd; I played 6 tournaments last Sat night (20th) and 6 tournaments this past Monday night (22nd) and cashed in three each night. Not that interesting except last Saturday I cashed in all three of my Full Tilt events and whiffed in my 3 PokerStars events but Monday I cashed in all three of my PokerStars events and none of the 3 I played on Full Tilt. Here is a quick rundown of my cashes:
Saturday
4k Guarantee (PLO 24+2) Min cashed for like $40. 27 cashed and with 40ish left I had a big stack (top 5 or so) when this happened:
Full Tilt Poker Game #9602264632: $4,000 Guarantee (73091365), Table 17 - 150/300 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 23:05:23 ET - 2008/12/20
Seat 1: Kiajessie (17,307)
Seat 2: AWPTMoneyMan (10,234)
Seat 3: squeakmidge (4,122)
Seat 4: FkePlasticTrees (12,240)
Seat 5: gdgenius (2,190)
Seat 6: groove31 (9,172), is sitting out
Seat 7: lfunk11 (4,635)
Seat 8: dtrecord (6,775)
Seat 9: Madflash (7,267)
AWPTMoneyMan posts the small blind of 150
squeakmidge posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FkePlasticTrees [As 3h Ac Qh]
FkePlasticTrees calls 300
gdgenius folds
groove31 folds
lfunk11 folds
dtrecord folds
Madflash folds
Kiajessie calls 300
AWPTMoneyMan folds
squeakmidge checks
*** FLOP ***
[7s 4h Ad]
squeakmidge checks
FkePlasticTrees bets 1,050
Kiajessie folds
squeakmidge has 15 seconds left to act
squeakmidge raises to 3,822, and is all in
FkePlasticTrees calls 2,772
squeakmidge shows [5s 8s Jd 6c]
FkePlasticTrees shows [As 3h Ac Qh]
*** TURN ***
[7s 4h Ad] [Ks]
*** RIVER ***
[7s 4h Ad Ks] [8d]
squeakmidge shows a straight, Eight high
FkePlasticTrees shows three of a kind, Aces
squeakmidge wins the pot (8,694) with a straight, Eight high
I could have, of course, played this more aggressively and raised preflop but I like to occassionally play it this way to disguise my hand. After the flop the hand played out totally standard and unfortunately he hit.
Still had good chip stack after this but then never really hit any hands and just slowly lost chips until I got it in with 2 pair on the flop and lost to a flopped set.
Daily Double A&B (NLHE 10+2) Cashed for $50 and $25 respectively plus bonus
Cashed in both of these which gets you a bonus based on the size of the fields. This night the double cash bonus was abt $50. Bonuses get bigger if you double final table (like 3-4k) but the fields are pretty big (abt 1,000 each) so that rarely happens. I was pretty healthy stack in DDB when I reraised a button raiser all-in with 99 from the BB and he snap called with AK and spiked a K on the river. Win that and I am top 3 in chips. DDA I pretty much just min cashed.
I did fold KK preflop in DDB for maybe the second time I can remember. We were down to abt 125-150 or so and I was in late position. Table was pretty aggressive and 3x raises were pretty std. I was probably top 25-30 in chips. UTG calls which was odd because he was very active and aggressive. 2nd to act raised the minimum. Again seemed strange. Folded to me and I thought about this a long time. Finally I came to the conclusion that one of them had AA. Had to. So I folded. They started raising each other and turned out that UTG had AA and UTG+1 had the other KK hand. SO good fold by me.
Monday night
Had 2 min cashes; one in $10 Pot-Limit Omaha High Low rebuy for about $80 and the other in a $22 NLHE tournament for a min cash of abt $45.
Bigger cash came in the 9:15 p.m. $11 NLHE for abt $100. I finished 12th out of about 1250. Was a big stack for quite awhile when someone reraised my AA all in with their 77 and I doubled up. Then we were down to 2 tables and the chip leader was at my table just killing us. He was literally raising every hand. So I decided when I got a pretty hand I was shipping it in. I had ~110,000. Blinds were 6,000/12,000/1,500 and he raised to 30k which was his standard. Fold in front of me and I have JT suited. Pretty enough for me and I ship it in. This is obv not a great hand but I have a few things going my way:
1) He can't have a hand every time and he has not seen me get out of line or be very active at all so he may well fold and I pick up blinds, anted and his 30k bet.
2) Even if he does have a hand like 77-99, AQ, or AK I have live cards and in the case of small/medium pairs I am racing for a double up.
Well the next guy folds and suddenly the BB time banks and decides to call. Not good. Then the active raiser snap calls and I am dead. Raiser has KK, BB had JJ then I come in third with JTdd. Oh well have to make some plays like that at times. This time it didn't work. So sucks and I am out for ~$100 when first paid over $2,400.
This Sunday I am planning on playing a full load of tournaments on both sites. My best guess is that I will play the following:
Stars
3:00 $50+5 Sunday $125k guarantee (will satellite into this)
3:30 $10+1 $500k guarantee (going for the largest online poker tournament ever)
4:00 $10 rebuy $70,000 guarantee
4:30 $200+15 Sunday Million (actually this week $2.5M guarantee; already satellited in to this event for $50)
Tilt
3:15 Holiday $100k freeroll
4:00 $69+6 $22,500 Guarantee
4:15 $24+2 PLO Bounty $3,500 guarantee
4:35 $22 "Double Duece" $100k guarantee
4:45 $69+6 PLO $6,000 guarantee
6:00 $200+16 Sunday $750,000 guarantee (will satellite into)
6:00 $24+2 PL Split $3,000 guarantee
All are NLHE unless stated otherwise. I may add or delete events but these are the ones I am interested in playing. I usually only like to play 6 or 7 tables at a time so it could get to be too many. Haven't had a Sunday schedule like this in a long time and with school being out, etc it just works as a good time to give it a run. Hopefully will have something good to write about early next week.
Saturday
4k Guarantee (PLO 24+2) Min cashed for like $40. 27 cashed and with 40ish left I had a big stack (top 5 or so) when this happened:
Full Tilt Poker Game #9602264632: $4,000 Guarantee (73091365), Table 17 - 150/300 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 23:05:23 ET - 2008/12/20
Seat 1: Kiajessie (17,307)
Seat 2: AWPTMoneyMan (10,234)
Seat 3: squeakmidge (4,122)
Seat 4: FkePlasticTrees (12,240)
Seat 5: gdgenius (2,190)
Seat 6: groove31 (9,172), is sitting out
Seat 7: lfunk11 (4,635)
Seat 8: dtrecord (6,775)
Seat 9: Madflash (7,267)
AWPTMoneyMan posts the small blind of 150
squeakmidge posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FkePlasticTrees [As 3h Ac Qh]
FkePlasticTrees calls 300
gdgenius folds
groove31 folds
lfunk11 folds
dtrecord folds
Madflash folds
Kiajessie calls 300
AWPTMoneyMan folds
squeakmidge checks
*** FLOP ***
[7s 4h Ad]
squeakmidge checks
FkePlasticTrees bets 1,050
Kiajessie folds
squeakmidge has 15 seconds left to act
squeakmidge raises to 3,822, and is all in
FkePlasticTrees calls 2,772
squeakmidge shows [5s 8s Jd 6c]
FkePlasticTrees shows [As 3h Ac Qh]
*** TURN ***
[7s 4h Ad] [Ks]
*** RIVER ***
[7s 4h Ad Ks] [8d]
squeakmidge shows a straight, Eight high
FkePlasticTrees shows three of a kind, Aces
squeakmidge wins the pot (8,694) with a straight, Eight high
I could have, of course, played this more aggressively and raised preflop but I like to occassionally play it this way to disguise my hand. After the flop the hand played out totally standard and unfortunately he hit.
Still had good chip stack after this but then never really hit any hands and just slowly lost chips until I got it in with 2 pair on the flop and lost to a flopped set.
Daily Double A&B (NLHE 10+2) Cashed for $50 and $25 respectively plus bonus
Cashed in both of these which gets you a bonus based on the size of the fields. This night the double cash bonus was abt $50. Bonuses get bigger if you double final table (like 3-4k) but the fields are pretty big (abt 1,000 each) so that rarely happens. I was pretty healthy stack in DDB when I reraised a button raiser all-in with 99 from the BB and he snap called with AK and spiked a K on the river. Win that and I am top 3 in chips. DDA I pretty much just min cashed.
I did fold KK preflop in DDB for maybe the second time I can remember. We were down to abt 125-150 or so and I was in late position. Table was pretty aggressive and 3x raises were pretty std. I was probably top 25-30 in chips. UTG calls which was odd because he was very active and aggressive. 2nd to act raised the minimum. Again seemed strange. Folded to me and I thought about this a long time. Finally I came to the conclusion that one of them had AA. Had to. So I folded. They started raising each other and turned out that UTG had AA and UTG+1 had the other KK hand. SO good fold by me.
Monday night
Had 2 min cashes; one in $10 Pot-Limit Omaha High Low rebuy for about $80 and the other in a $22 NLHE tournament for a min cash of abt $45.
Bigger cash came in the 9:15 p.m. $11 NLHE for abt $100. I finished 12th out of about 1250. Was a big stack for quite awhile when someone reraised my AA all in with their 77 and I doubled up. Then we were down to 2 tables and the chip leader was at my table just killing us. He was literally raising every hand. So I decided when I got a pretty hand I was shipping it in. I had ~110,000. Blinds were 6,000/12,000/1,500 and he raised to 30k which was his standard. Fold in front of me and I have JT suited. Pretty enough for me and I ship it in. This is obv not a great hand but I have a few things going my way:
1) He can't have a hand every time and he has not seen me get out of line or be very active at all so he may well fold and I pick up blinds, anted and his 30k bet.
2) Even if he does have a hand like 77-99, AQ, or AK I have live cards and in the case of small/medium pairs I am racing for a double up.
Well the next guy folds and suddenly the BB time banks and decides to call. Not good. Then the active raiser snap calls and I am dead. Raiser has KK, BB had JJ then I come in third with JTdd. Oh well have to make some plays like that at times. This time it didn't work. So sucks and I am out for ~$100 when first paid over $2,400.
This Sunday I am planning on playing a full load of tournaments on both sites. My best guess is that I will play the following:
Stars
3:00 $50+5 Sunday $125k guarantee (will satellite into this)
3:30 $10+1 $500k guarantee (going for the largest online poker tournament ever)
4:00 $10 rebuy $70,000 guarantee
4:30 $200+15 Sunday Million (actually this week $2.5M guarantee; already satellited in to this event for $50)
Tilt
3:15 Holiday $100k freeroll
4:00 $69+6 $22,500 Guarantee
4:15 $24+2 PLO Bounty $3,500 guarantee
4:35 $22 "Double Duece" $100k guarantee
4:45 $69+6 PLO $6,000 guarantee
6:00 $200+16 Sunday $750,000 guarantee (will satellite into)
6:00 $24+2 PL Split $3,000 guarantee
All are NLHE unless stated otherwise. I may add or delete events but these are the ones I am interested in playing. I usually only like to play 6 or 7 tables at a time so it could get to be too many. Haven't had a Sunday schedule like this in a long time and with school being out, etc it just works as a good time to give it a run. Hopefully will have something good to write about early next week.
Monday, December 15, 2008
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Sunday Win
Played a bunch of tournaments yesterday and was having no success. Busted out of two Full Tilt events ($69 PLO, 24NLHE) fairly deep but before the cash bubble. Two more events I went out pretty early ($24 NLHE and $22 NLHE), one with bad play by me and the other getting sucked out on.
I also played two tournaments on Stars (including the 1.5M guarantee) and did nothing. In the Sunday Million I was actually going along fairly well in the third hour when i made a terrible river call for 90% of my chips. Don't mind how I played the hand just hate that I called off without really thinking it through.
I also went out in the third hour of the Full Tilt 750k. I was not really getting anything going and had 5k or so in chips. The blinds were 140/280/25. I raised to 780 from 2nd position with KK. Button calls. Flop comes 3 rags with 2 hearts. I bet 1300 into the ~2200 pot and he calls. Now at this point his range is an overpair(like TT or 99), a flush draw or a flopped set (think the board was 7, 5, 2). If he has the set nothing I can do. Turn is an offsuit 4. This is unlikely to help him unless he has A3 of hearts. So I fire my remaining ~3k into the pot and he snap calls showing AThh. Obv the river is a heart and I am out. His play here is pretty bad. He put ~5k of his 8k in the pot with really only the flush draw (though the A is live to he is clearly only counting the hearts). Would have put me up around 10k in chips and in good position to go pretty deep.
So I was pretty disappointed with how the day was going and only had one additional tournament, the 3k guarantee which is a $24 Pot Limit HA event (1/2 PL Holdem and 1/2 PLO). I was crusing along not really doing much in this then with about 40 to go I sucked out on a guy with runner runner hearts to make a flush. Then I had some chips and was able to chip up. 18 players cashed and when I got to this point I was 10th in chips. Then I got a fortunate run of cards:
Doubled up with KK in the Holdem portion vs AK suited
Busted a medium stack player with AAxx in PLO when he had KKxx
Flopped boat on a 663 board when I held 3456
Finally with 6 to go I had 100k more in chips then any other players. I then went card dead and played pretty tight until we got 3 handed. I busted the shortstack with AJ vs. his A6. Once we were heads up I had a a huge chip lead which he actually came back and took from me at one point. Then the key hand of the tournament came up in PLO when I rivered 7-J str8. He had made a 9 high str8 on the turn and only bet 1/2 the pot (6k). I called because I had a wrap to the bigger str8 with any 8,9 or T. Well an 8 fell and I led at the pot. He raised me. I checked the board and made sure I had the nuts. I reshipped and amazingly he called with the lower str8. That doubled me up and gave me a 450k to 30k chip advantage. Couple hands later it was over.
So one tournament took what was a really, really bad day and made it a pretty good day. I also won a few hundred playing PLO cash games so overall a pretty good Sunday.
I also played two tournaments on Stars (including the 1.5M guarantee) and did nothing. In the Sunday Million I was actually going along fairly well in the third hour when i made a terrible river call for 90% of my chips. Don't mind how I played the hand just hate that I called off without really thinking it through.
I also went out in the third hour of the Full Tilt 750k. I was not really getting anything going and had 5k or so in chips. The blinds were 140/280/25. I raised to 780 from 2nd position with KK. Button calls. Flop comes 3 rags with 2 hearts. I bet 1300 into the ~2200 pot and he calls. Now at this point his range is an overpair(like TT or 99), a flush draw or a flopped set (think the board was 7, 5, 2). If he has the set nothing I can do. Turn is an offsuit 4. This is unlikely to help him unless he has A3 of hearts. So I fire my remaining ~3k into the pot and he snap calls showing AThh. Obv the river is a heart and I am out. His play here is pretty bad. He put ~5k of his 8k in the pot with really only the flush draw (though the A is live to he is clearly only counting the hearts). Would have put me up around 10k in chips and in good position to go pretty deep.
So I was pretty disappointed with how the day was going and only had one additional tournament, the 3k guarantee which is a $24 Pot Limit HA event (1/2 PL Holdem and 1/2 PLO). I was crusing along not really doing much in this then with about 40 to go I sucked out on a guy with runner runner hearts to make a flush. Then I had some chips and was able to chip up. 18 players cashed and when I got to this point I was 10th in chips. Then I got a fortunate run of cards:
Doubled up with KK in the Holdem portion vs AK suited
Busted a medium stack player with AAxx in PLO when he had KKxx
Flopped boat on a 663 board when I held 3456
Finally with 6 to go I had 100k more in chips then any other players. I then went card dead and played pretty tight until we got 3 handed. I busted the shortstack with AJ vs. his A6. Once we were heads up I had a a huge chip lead which he actually came back and took from me at one point. Then the key hand of the tournament came up in PLO when I rivered 7-J str8. He had made a 9 high str8 on the turn and only bet 1/2 the pot (6k). I called because I had a wrap to the bigger str8 with any 8,9 or T. Well an 8 fell and I led at the pot. He raised me. I checked the board and made sure I had the nuts. I reshipped and amazingly he called with the lower str8. That doubled me up and gave me a 450k to 30k chip advantage. Couple hands later it was over.
So one tournament took what was a really, really bad day and made it a pretty good day. I also won a few hundred playing PLO cash games so overall a pretty good Sunday.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Cash PLO
I got sick last Wednesday and basically today (Tues) is the first day I feel pretty close to normal. It really kicked my rear end and I had no patience to play FTOPS or tournaments in general. I had planned on playing 3 or 4 additional FTOPS events (PLO Hi/Lo, PL Split Holdem/Omaha, Sunday Bounty and FTOPS Main Event) but just couldn't sit still that long and had no desire to grind out hours of tournaments.
But I did play a lot of satellites and started to run well (or at least more normal). I won a bunch of seats to the PLO Split, PLO Hi-Lo and a few others. Nice thing is you are able to unregister from the tournament you qualify and take the cash so that worked out well. Felt like my satellite play was really, really good and that is important because satellite play is very unique. Basically it is a survival test and a lot of players are really weak in satellites, particularly on the bubble. I haven't completely figured it all out but I think last week I was about +$600 in satellites which equates to abt a 15-20% ROI. Will figure out more exactly later.
I also have gotten back to playing $1/$2 PLO. This is my best game and the most fun. I was up ~$2.5k last week which was the best week I have had in quite some time. I have actually been playing the Cap Limit on Full Tilt which essentially caps the hand betting at $80. This means that you are never exposed for more than that cap amount on any one hand. I sort of like this and it actually makes the game play bigger than without a cap. For example, if I am in the BB with AAxx and there is a pot raise and 2 callers in front of me, I can re-pot to $32. This is 40% of the cap and I am typically happy to do this pre-flop. In a non-capped game I would be a little more reluctant to do this as it really tells the whole table what I have. And if I am playing with $300 stack I obv don't want the table to know what I have. Playing for $80 though and getting a large percentage of it in pre-flop this is less of a concern. Generally the play is worse with the Cap Limit game and the players are very exploitable.
Anyway I think I am going to stick with cash for a while just because of the reduced time commitment, etc.
But I did play a lot of satellites and started to run well (or at least more normal). I won a bunch of seats to the PLO Split, PLO Hi-Lo and a few others. Nice thing is you are able to unregister from the tournament you qualify and take the cash so that worked out well. Felt like my satellite play was really, really good and that is important because satellite play is very unique. Basically it is a survival test and a lot of players are really weak in satellites, particularly on the bubble. I haven't completely figured it all out but I think last week I was about +$600 in satellites which equates to abt a 15-20% ROI. Will figure out more exactly later.
I also have gotten back to playing $1/$2 PLO. This is my best game and the most fun. I was up ~$2.5k last week which was the best week I have had in quite some time. I have actually been playing the Cap Limit on Full Tilt which essentially caps the hand betting at $80. This means that you are never exposed for more than that cap amount on any one hand. I sort of like this and it actually makes the game play bigger than without a cap. For example, if I am in the BB with AAxx and there is a pot raise and 2 callers in front of me, I can re-pot to $32. This is 40% of the cap and I am typically happy to do this pre-flop. In a non-capped game I would be a little more reluctant to do this as it really tells the whole table what I have. And if I am playing with $300 stack I obv don't want the table to know what I have. Playing for $80 though and getting a large percentage of it in pre-flop this is less of a concern. Generally the play is worse with the Cap Limit game and the players are very exploitable.
Anyway I think I am going to stick with cash for a while just because of the reduced time commitment, etc.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
FTOPS and few other random tournaments
Still running pretty bad in general. I have played a few of the FTOPS on Full Tilt and a bunch of the satellites. I have not cashed in either of the 2 FTOPS I played so far but am still +$$ due to winning a bunch of seats and getting the cash for the extra seats I have won through satellites. Here is a run down of the two tournaments and a few other gems thrown in as well.
FTOPS #1 Wednesday, Nov 5
This was a $200 No-Limit Hold-Em 6 max tournament. I got in through a $24+2 satellite. I almost didn't play since it started at 9 p.m. on a Wed and there were 5,000+ players but WTF. We start with 5,ooo chips and I didn't really do much for the first hour but grew my stack to ~7k. Then a big hand came up:
ME (BB) AQhh (~9000 chips)
Villian (SB) ?? (~7800 chips)
He completes (blinds 60/120) and I raise to 480 and he calls.
Flop came T high 3 hearts. BOOM. He checks I bet 500 into the 960 pot. He calls.
Turn was a rag. He checks I bet 800 into the 1920 pot. He calls. So now he has to have a set, 2 pair or nothing with the Kh. So I will be cautious if the board pairs.
River is a 9h. This is perfect if he has the Kh. He checks. He has about 5800 left and if he has Kh he may call a big bet. If he has a set or 2 pr he will likely not call any bets. So I decide to look weak by shoving and overbetting the pot. He tanks for a while and I am screaming for him to call. Finally he does and shows KhTx.
That puts me up to 17k. I then win a bunch of small pots up to around 22k and then almost double up when I have TT. Guy raises pre and I call on the button with TT. Flop Txx he bets, I raise, he reraises and I just call. Turn small rag. He bets 1/2 his stack and I ship it in. he tables AA and I am up to 45k or so. Got as high as 50k and in top 50 in chips. Then I kept getting into some really tough spots:
Full Tilt Poker Game #8841332247: FTOPS Event #2 (62633246), Table 38 - 100/200 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 15:56:02 ET - 2008/11/06
Seat 1: FkePlasticTrees (1,705)
Seat 2: fortunatouk4 (4,760)
Seat 3: sleaterx (7,820)
Seat 4: Malleichkomme (15,054)
Seat 5: OnDaComeUp (6,255)
Seat 6: Oetzi (13,869)
Seat 7: LEADBOOTS (18,668)
Seat 8: Allin_Benve (3,986)
Seat 9: Kinda Lazy (17,760)
fortunatouk4 posts the small blind of 100
sleaterx posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FkePlasticTrees [Ah Ad Tc 4c]
Malleichkomme folds
OnDaComeUp folds
Oetzi folds
LEADBOOTS raises to 550
Allin_Benve folds
Kinda Lazy folds
FkePlasticTrees raises to 1,705, and is all in
fortunatouk4 folds
sleaterx folds
LEADBOOTS calls 1,155
FkePlasticTrees shows [Ah Ad Tc 4c]
LEADBOOTS shows [Td Kd Kh 3c]
*** FLOP *** [6c 2h Ks]
*** TURN *** [6c 2h Ks] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [6c 2h Ks 9d] [7s]
FkePlasticTrees shows a pair of Aces
LEADBOOTS shows three of a kind, Kings
LEADBOOTS wins the pot (3,710) with three of a kind, Kings
FkePlasticTrees stands up
The blinds are now 120/240
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,710 | Rake 0
Board: [6c 2h Ks 9d 7s]
Seat 1: FkePlasticTrees (button) showed [Ah Ad Tc 4c] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: fortunatouk4 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: sleaterx (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Malleichkomme didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: OnDaComeUp didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Oetzi didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: LEADBOOTS showed [Td Kd Kh 3c] and won (3,710) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 8: Allin_Benve didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Kinda Lazy didn't bet (folded)
So I'm out. Sucks but hand played out standard preflop.
While I was playing this tournament I played a bunch of other smaller tournaments as well:
FTP $10 PLO Rebuy Finished 11th for like $100. I was in for the minimum ($30) and had a ton of chips. Was big stack almost from the start but lost a few pots around the cash bubble (18 cashed) and then lost a pot when I got it all in on the flop with a 13 card wrap vs top set.
Stars 2k guarantee PLO ($15+1.50) The king of kings of all of my bad beats. We are inside the money when this pops up:
Will write soon if anything good happens between now and then.
FTOPS #1 Wednesday, Nov 5
This was a $200 No-Limit Hold-Em 6 max tournament. I got in through a $24+2 satellite. I almost didn't play since it started at 9 p.m. on a Wed and there were 5,000+ players but WTF. We start with 5,ooo chips and I didn't really do much for the first hour but grew my stack to ~7k. Then a big hand came up:
ME (BB) AQhh (~9000 chips)
Villian (SB) ?? (~7800 chips)
He completes (blinds 60/120) and I raise to 480 and he calls.
Flop came T high 3 hearts. BOOM. He checks I bet 500 into the 960 pot. He calls.
Turn was a rag. He checks I bet 800 into the 1920 pot. He calls. So now he has to have a set, 2 pair or nothing with the Kh. So I will be cautious if the board pairs.
River is a 9h. This is perfect if he has the Kh. He checks. He has about 5800 left and if he has Kh he may call a big bet. If he has a set or 2 pr he will likely not call any bets. So I decide to look weak by shoving and overbetting the pot. He tanks for a while and I am screaming for him to call. Finally he does and shows KhTx.
That puts me up to 17k. I then win a bunch of small pots up to around 22k and then almost double up when I have TT. Guy raises pre and I call on the button with TT. Flop Txx he bets, I raise, he reraises and I just call. Turn small rag. He bets 1/2 his stack and I ship it in. he tables AA and I am up to 45k or so. Got as high as 50k and in top 50 in chips. Then I kept getting into some really tough spots:
Raised button to 675 at 140/280/30 with 55. Short stack shoves from BB with only like 3200. I call he has 66.
I raise JJ and agro on my left reraises me. I call. Flop AKx and give it up.
Then screwed this hand up I think. Raise 3.5x from SB with TT. Same agro donk on left flats. Flop KKJ 2 spades. I bet ½ pot. He calls. Turn rag. I bet ½ pot again, he calls. River blank again. I check he bets 80% of pot which is like ¾ of his stack and I tank and fold. I don’t think he has a K on that drawy flop. He raises at least by the turn. And I don’t think he is value betting a J on the river. Then his river bet looks like a bluff in hindsight. If by some surprise he has a K wouldn’t he bet a little smaller? Tough hand.
Raised JJ again later got three bet again and folded pre. Out of position and stack sizes were weird. Couldn’t 4 bet without pot committing.
Then completed out of SB with K8. Aggro checks. Flop AAK. I check he bets ½ I call. Turn K. I check he checks. River 6. I check he bets, 2/3 of pot and I call. He has A9 and I lose the minimum. Played that hand well I think.
Then lose another flip AQ<99.
Finally the beauty, shove 10 bb with A2ss; BB snaps with A2cc and flop comes all clubs. I run good.
So out 1100/5400 for no cash. Oh well.
FTOPS 2 PLO Bounty, Thursday Nov 11
Came home early to play this. Started at 2 p.m. last Thursday. Standard PLO tournament except in addition to the prize pool each person has a $40 bounty attached to them that goes to the person who eliminates them. I actually cross booked my action with my boys Mr Chow and Diamond King 2 swapping 10% each of our action. One of us is bound to cash right? No sir.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8841332247: FTOPS Event #2 (62633246), Table 38 - 100/200 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 15:56:02 ET - 2008/11/06
Seat 1: FkePlasticTrees (1,705)
Seat 2: fortunatouk4 (4,760)
Seat 3: sleaterx (7,820)
Seat 4: Malleichkomme (15,054)
Seat 5: OnDaComeUp (6,255)
Seat 6: Oetzi (13,869)
Seat 7: LEADBOOTS (18,668)
Seat 8: Allin_Benve (3,986)
Seat 9: Kinda Lazy (17,760)
fortunatouk4 posts the small blind of 100
sleaterx posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FkePlasticTrees [Ah Ad Tc 4c]
Malleichkomme folds
OnDaComeUp folds
Oetzi folds
LEADBOOTS raises to 550
Allin_Benve folds
Kinda Lazy folds
FkePlasticTrees raises to 1,705, and is all in
fortunatouk4 folds
sleaterx folds
LEADBOOTS calls 1,155
FkePlasticTrees shows [Ah Ad Tc 4c]
LEADBOOTS shows [Td Kd Kh 3c]
*** FLOP *** [6c 2h Ks]
*** TURN *** [6c 2h Ks] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [6c 2h Ks 9d] [7s]
FkePlasticTrees shows a pair of Aces
LEADBOOTS shows three of a kind, Kings
LEADBOOTS wins the pot (3,710) with three of a kind, Kings
FkePlasticTrees stands up
The blinds are now 120/240
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,710 | Rake 0
Board: [6c 2h Ks 9d 7s]
Seat 1: FkePlasticTrees (button) showed [Ah Ad Tc 4c] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: fortunatouk4 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: sleaterx (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Malleichkomme didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: OnDaComeUp didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Oetzi didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: LEADBOOTS showed [Td Kd Kh 3c] and won (3,710) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 8: Allin_Benve didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Kinda Lazy didn't bet (folded)
So I'm out. Sucks but hand played out standard preflop.
While I was playing this tournament I played a bunch of other smaller tournaments as well:
FTP $10 PLO Rebuy Finished 11th for like $100. I was in for the minimum ($30) and had a ton of chips. Was big stack almost from the start but lost a few pots around the cash bubble (18 cashed) and then lost a pot when I got it all in on the flop with a 13 card wrap vs top set.
Stars 2k guarantee PLO ($15+1.50) The king of kings of all of my bad beats. We are inside the money when this pops up:
PokerStars Game #21811333037: Tournament #117601430, $15.00+$1.50 Omaha Pot Limit - Level XII (500/1000) - 2008/11/06 15:37:33 ET
Table '117601430 9' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: MinRdetails (27860 in chips)
Seat 3: bwslim69 (27448 in chips)
Seat 4: `penguan (16798 in chips)
Seat 5: IeAtFisHeS (39010 in chips)
Seat 6: IIbarcodeII (75570 in chips)
Seat 7: willydurango (37971 in chips)
Seat 9: Splurg7 (22126 in chips)
IeAtFisHeS: posts small blind 500
IIbarcodeII: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bwslim69 [5c Qs Ah Ac]
willydurango: calls 1000
Splurg7: folds
MinRdetails: folds
bwslim69: calls 1000
`penguan: calls 1000
IeAtFisHeS: calls 500
IIbarcodeII: checks
*** FLOP *** [Kc 4c Ad] Top set with nut flush draw
IeAtFisHeS: checks
IIbarcodeII: checks
willydurango: bets 3000
bwslim69: raises 8000 to 11000
`penguan: folds
IeAtFisHeS: folds
IIbarcodeII: folds
willydurango: raises 25971 to 36971 and is all-in
bwslim69: calls 15448 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (10523) returned to willydurango
*** TURN *** [Kc 4c Ad] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 4c Ad 2s] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
willydurango: shows [Kh 2c 7c Ks] (four of a kind, Kings)
bwslim69: shows [5c Qs Ah Ac] (a full house, Aces full of Kings)
willydurango collected 57896 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 57896 | Rake 0
Board [Kc 4c Ad 2s Kd]
Nothing like the old one outer….
Will write soon if anything good happens between now and then.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Running really, really...really bad
So I have been running insanely bad of late. Playing a few multi table tournaments (MTT) and SNG each night and have just been getting frustrated. One night last week I lost the following all in a span of about 20 mins in 4 different tournaments:
Full Tilt Daily Double A: Guy shoves 2k at 100/200 and I call with AA and lose to AT when he turns a str8
Full Tilt Daily Double B: Guy open raises with AK and I call with QQ. Flop comes AQ9. He bets I raise, he reraises all in, I call...turn 9 river A and I lose to bigger house
Full Tilt $24k guarantee: I am on the button with KK. Blinds 40/80 and there are 4 limpers in front of me for a pot of 440. I raise to 750 (leaving me with only 1400 or so behind) and folds around to last limper who only calls the additional 670. Flop comes Q99. He checks I bet 1000 into the pot of 1860 and he puts me all in for an add'l 400. I call obv and he tables JT offsuit and turns 8. Guy called 1/3 of my stack with JT. Genius.
Full Tilt $4k guarantee (PLO): Early position raiser makes pot bet at 50/100 and three callers before me (Pot 1200). I am on the button with AAQT doubles suited and abt 3k in chips. I repot to 1750. One caller and flop comes JJJ. The way I am running I know he has a J but I ain't folding here with 4k+ in the pot. Ship and he tables QJTx. Nice call sir. If you are going to call may as well stick it all in preflop?
This is to say nothing of the innumerable hands where I have an overpair only to have my opponent flop a set. Happened too many times for me to count.
In my Tuesday night home game I have lost the following in our tournaments the last 2 weeks:
Me Opponent
Two weeks ago
KK vs AT suited; Turned flush-All chips in preflop
QQ vs AT suited; Rivered flush-All chips in preflop (against same player)
AK suited vs 84 offsuit; rivered full house (I only had 3BB after the previous 2 hands and he had to call with Any two I think)
Last week
AA vs QQ; flopped a Q-All chips in preflop
To be fair I did run pretty well in the cash game we play after the tournament when I flopped bottom 2 pr against an opponents AK (with an A flop) and a big suckout in a monster PLO pot where I turned a bigger boat after the money went in on the flop.
I did go deep in a small buy in tournament last night for a measly cash (40th out of ~1100). Deep in this tournament I got short when I lost AQ suited vs. KK all in preflop. Survived for a while then pushed all in for abt 12.5k (blinds 1000/2000/150) with AK suited and got called by AT. Board ran out 74784 for a chop pot. That would have given mes some breathing room but no sir. Then a little later at 1200/2400/200 I shoved 13k with AK again and lost to QJ. Fun stuff.
I guess all I can do is tighten up a bit and allow time for the variance of MTT poker to swing my way.
Full Tilt Daily Double A: Guy shoves 2k at 100/200 and I call with AA and lose to AT when he turns a str8
Full Tilt Daily Double B: Guy open raises with AK and I call with QQ. Flop comes AQ9. He bets I raise, he reraises all in, I call...turn 9 river A and I lose to bigger house
Full Tilt $24k guarantee: I am on the button with KK. Blinds 40/80 and there are 4 limpers in front of me for a pot of 440. I raise to 750 (leaving me with only 1400 or so behind) and folds around to last limper who only calls the additional 670. Flop comes Q99. He checks I bet 1000 into the pot of 1860 and he puts me all in for an add'l 400. I call obv and he tables JT offsuit and turns 8. Guy called 1/3 of my stack with JT. Genius.
Full Tilt $4k guarantee (PLO): Early position raiser makes pot bet at 50/100 and three callers before me (Pot 1200). I am on the button with AAQT doubles suited and abt 3k in chips. I repot to 1750. One caller and flop comes JJJ. The way I am running I know he has a J but I ain't folding here with 4k+ in the pot. Ship and he tables QJTx. Nice call sir. If you are going to call may as well stick it all in preflop?
This is to say nothing of the innumerable hands where I have an overpair only to have my opponent flop a set. Happened too many times for me to count.
In my Tuesday night home game I have lost the following in our tournaments the last 2 weeks:
Me Opponent
Two weeks ago
KK vs AT suited; Turned flush-All chips in preflop
QQ vs AT suited; Rivered flush-All chips in preflop (against same player)
AK suited vs 84 offsuit; rivered full house (I only had 3BB after the previous 2 hands and he had to call with Any two I think)
Last week
AA vs QQ; flopped a Q-All chips in preflop
To be fair I did run pretty well in the cash game we play after the tournament when I flopped bottom 2 pr against an opponents AK (with an A flop) and a big suckout in a monster PLO pot where I turned a bigger boat after the money went in on the flop.
I did go deep in a small buy in tournament last night for a measly cash (40th out of ~1100). Deep in this tournament I got short when I lost AQ suited vs. KK all in preflop. Survived for a while then pushed all in for abt 12.5k (blinds 1000/2000/150) with AK suited and got called by AT. Board ran out 74784 for a chop pot. That would have given mes some breathing room but no sir. Then a little later at 1200/2400/200 I shoved 13k with AK again and lost to QJ. Fun stuff.
I guess all I can do is tighten up a bit and allow time for the variance of MTT poker to swing my way.
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