You've Been DEMORALIZED!

Had a fun night.

2008-03-04T08:27:00.004-05:00

I would like to start out by thaking everyone for leaving comments about the hands i've posted. I really appreciate all the help and advice that people have offered.... oh wait, Nobody has said a bloody thing, you wankers!

I feel like this when you guys don't post comments :(

Well I'm going to keep posting hands until i start getting so much feed back that I become the best cash player alive and then i'll just post hands to brag about how good I am.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206405 - This hand I missed alot of value on the river because he was probably calling. Unfortunately the session was still new enough I didn't completely grasp how ridiculous this guy was. He played 81/9/0.3 over 300 hands. How sick is that? haha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206566 - Again the same guy, and I know not to bet because he calls with any pair and he doens't fold so no point trying to push the biggest station off any hand. Just wait till I hit then punish away. Voila.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206567 - The min raise was strictly out of boredom. I have just had some sick table selection lately :) I get a bit tricky followed by a big lucky. No clue how this guy called 3 barrels of strength.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206633 - No joke this is how good this guy plays :) Atta boy. Get all that money in there when you're ahead.... hahah LMFAO.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206647 - Same donk as usual. Me punishing him yet again. I was a bit worried I built too big of a pot with a marginal hand, but then I realized i'm playing Corkey from Life Goes On.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206653 - How should I be playing this hand. Checking the flop & Leading the turn? Check Raising the flop?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206721 - Well looks like I got lucky here. The problem with playing this guy is he almost never raises any hands (including flopped sets) on any street no matter what. It's really like you just play your own hand strength and have no read on him what so ever. Not that you need a read when someone is this bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2206945 - Was a bit confused about what to do here. For the most part if I shove I only get called by better hands. I think there is a good chance he has a FD on the turn but also I can't rule out a set. When he checks the river it's likely i'm ahead but for some reason i got it in my head that he could easily have had a Flush draw with a queen. I dunno. I'm dumb. This hand was just wierd.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2207146 - Sick call. I'm never full out bluffing here. At worst I have an 8 out draw or a J. I almost never bet /3 bet shove with less then top pair or a strong draw. Bad call by him? Or maybe i'm just that transparent.

IMPORTANT HAND. MUST GET ADVICE OR DIE!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2207217 - Does anyone ever triple barrel bluff on this board? If they do they are effing insane and deserve the pot. Villain took along time on the river to bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2207282 - This my friends was my favourite snap call of the night.

And that is all for hands.

I would request that people who read hand histories let me know if they prefer the HTML versions posted in the blog, or the poker hand link versions? I'm going to keep asking this question (Like I have 5 times before) until I get an answer. :)

Overall it was a very swingy session until i got settled. I bluffed too much early and lost 2.5 buy ins before making a strong come back and finishing up about a buy in.

Played 500ish hands of 2 tables only. Long night of pokering.

Tonight i'm going to try to get some chores done around the house before I do anything else. We'll see if i can stick to that.

A quick poker update.

2008-03-03T10:43:00.003-05:00

I made another small deposit (300$) on Party last night.

I really want to get back into making some good money like i was 2 or 3 months ago. (good money as in a nice side income of 500-1000$/month, that goes towards paying off school debt and stuff.

I started playing 50max (4 tables). That didn't go well because I played poorly for awhile. Then got a bit annoyed and sat with 100$ at 2/4NL with a bunch of other shorties, played well for awhile then make a poor call when a guy kepts betting 12$ on all streets when i had 2nd pair and a gutter ball. I knew i was beat on the river but 12$ into an almost 90$ pot I am forced to call.

I think got it all in with QQ and lost to KK so that was a bit demoralizing but I didn't sweat it too much. I sat at some 25max tables and lost a bit. I had about 85$ left and sat with 50$ at one 100NL 6max table. I concentrated extremely well and got a feel for all the opponents. I also got lucky in choosing the best table on party probably. A few 30-35 VPIP players and one guy who was playing 70/20 with an AF of 0.9. He limp called almost all the time and I had position on him being 2 to his left. The best part was a really solid player sat in between us so I was able to abuse him alot as well. Alot of hands went down like the following. The bad player limps, The good player raised and i'd call with a wider range then normal due to the fact that the bad player was calling for sure. The bad player would check, the good player would check if he missed and i'd fire most of the time and pick up the pot. I usually only fired a bet on the flop if i hit though because the bad player called with any pair, any high cards(even if he missed) any draw, including gutter balls and back door gutter balls haha. I was fortunately to be patient enough to wait for solid hands and all but 1 or 2 hands i maximized my expectation vs the bad player. I also was fortunate enough to have the donk winning a ton off the rest of the table allowing me to win alot from him. The AA hand was vs him and I was pretty worried about getting drawn out on for a monster pot so i made a bit larget bet then I probably should have on the turn.

I ended up with about 420$ on the table when I quit. It was a very fun session and I hope I can find this guy in the future. I am probably only going to play 1 table for awhile now (maybe 2) because I am really enjoying focusing in on the opponents and trying to pick up their specific patterns and abusing them. Multi tabling isn't very enjoyable right now so i'm just not gonna do it.

I'm gonna keep playing 100NL 6max and hope I can play well and get a nice roll together again. I have found I focus the best at this level.

Wish me luck you degenerates.

Over my last 10k hands im @ just over 4.5 PT BB/100. Which is fairly nice.

How do I play this.

2008-03-02T20:47:00.003-05:00

Villain 1 (Min Raiser) is 70/20/100 0.9AF. He is beyond horrible. What line is most optimal here?

Party Poker, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

UTG: $102.25
MP: $163.43
CO: $96.48
Hero (BTN): $200.56
SB: $110.01
BB: $109.18

Pre-Flop: A A dealt to Hero (BTN)

UTG folds, MP raises to $2, CO folds, Hero raises to $7, SB calls $6.50, BB folds, MP calls $5

Flop: ($22) K 7 T (3 Players)
SB bets $14, MP calls $14, Hero raises to $45, SB folds, MP calls $31

Turn: ($126) 6 (2 Players)
MP checks, Hero bets $75, MP folds

Results: $126 Pot
Hero mucked A A and WON $198 (+$146 NET)

Here are a couple hands.

2008-03-01T20:12:00.004-05:00

I hate my turn shove. I get called by a few hands i beat but definitely by a hell of alot more hands that beat me. Just flat out bad.

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $118.40
SB: $128.60

Pre-Flop: J J dealt to Hero (BB)
SB raises to $3, Hero raises to $10.10, SB calls $7.10

Flop: ($20.20) 3 7 2 (2 Players)
Hero bets $14.40, SB raises to $28.80, Hero calls $14.40

Turn: ($77.80) 8 (2 Players)

Hero checks, SB bets $17, Hero raises to $79.50 and is All-In, SB calls $62.50

River: ($236.80) 3 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $236.80 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
Hero showed J J (two pair, Jacks and Threes) and LOST (-$118.40 NET)
SB showed 7 7 (a full house, Sevens full of Threes) and WON $236.30 (+$117.90 NET)

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Here is a hand that I don't think it is possible for the Villain to play it worse then he did.

Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $49
Hero (SB): $53.65

Pre-Flop: 8 5 dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3) Q A 7 (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2

Turn: ($7) 2 (2 Players)
BB bets $3, Hero raises to $9, BB calls $6

River: ($25) 5 (2 Players)
BB bets $2.50, Hero raises to $19.50, BB raises to $36.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $17

Results: $98 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BB showed A 3 (a pair of Aces) and LOST (-$49 NET)
Hero showed 8 5 (a flush, Ace high) and WON $97.50 (+$48.50 NET)

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I think i played this hand optimally. I really wanted to raise the turn but figured if he was bluffing it's a dumb move cause I want him to keep bluffing, and if he's not he's calling a shove because he hasn't folded much with even weak hands.

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (SB): $108.70

BB: $125.50

Pre-Flop: 7 K dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $3, BB calls $2

Flop: ($6) 7 Q 4 (2 Players)

BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB raises to $12, Hero calls $8

Turn: ($30) 2 (2 Players)
BB bets $20, Hero calls $20

River: ($70) A (2 Players)

BB checks, Hero bets $73.70 and is All-In, BB folds

Results: $70 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
Hero mucked 7 K and WON $69.50 (+$34.50 NET)

I PLAYED POKER LAST NIGHT!

2008-03-01T12:46:00.003-05:00

Woo hoo :)

Played a few hundred hands of HU 50max and 100 max with a 100$ deposit I made.

I got it down to 20$ at one point but I was playing really well, being very patient and making a really good # of 3 bets and making excellent decisions on the Turn which is a very important thing to do play HU well. Although I think in HU poker the River is where the most important decisions are made. Where a 6-9 handed table the turn is definitely the most important.

I ended up busting my small deposit when i had JJ. I was starting to write up the hand cause I thought it was pretty intersting however I have some of the details wrong so I'll wait and post it from PT later today.

It's got a few things in it that I need to work on. Plus I think I played the hand pretty badly in my final decision. I played on Stars and was actually pretty suprised at how dumb the 50 max HU players are. Not that they are bad players, but they sit with 200-400$ on a 50$ max buy in table. Unless you know you are a nice favourite too them your not almost ever going to get alot of action on these tables because people are so often going to be "scared" and you're probably only more likely to draw competition from people that are better then you. You also are risking all of those buy ins to win 1 buy from an opponent while giving him a shot at winning 5-6 buy ins from you. Which to me is idiotic.

I have some other good hands to post. It felt good to play. I stayed very calm throughout my session and would love to get playing the HU tables on FTP again. Lets home Gravastar got his funds online so I can get my stake on :)

WARNINIG: POKER CONTENT!

2008-02-29T07:24:00.004-05:00

Just not me playing it :)

Battle of the Blogger Tournaments 3

I have been a blogger for almost 3 years i'd say, under various blog links however I have never once played in a blogger tournament since it's inception.

That is all about to change. I will be doing my darndest to play in as many blogger events for the BBT as humanly possible. I will also probably be taking down several first places as well as a live package or two :) So you amatures best beware (Yes the first time i spelled this Be wear) haha. When my donkament game is on point i'm pretty fierce. The difficulty is getting me motivated. :) I'm a big proponent of competition and having a website that tracks everyone and is updated every tournament will be just the thing to get my blood flowing.

Here is a link with all the info for you fish care of Al Cant Hang.

I'm reading Freakonomics right now, and at some point this weekend i'm going to do my best to write up a post about how frustrated I am with people that are not willing to show two sides of a story when writing books, as well as not giving me any hard evidence to back up their statments.

So stay tuned for that.

Didn't make it out bowling last night with a few friends because well, everyone bailed because people have been working a sick amount. A few of my friends at work have put in over 70 hours from Sunday to Thurdsday and they havn't had a day off in weeks. It's pretty disgusting. My company just grinds people into the ground. Not out of desire to ruin their lives but mostly out of need due to our lack of engineering staff. I've slid through with normal hours this week but i'm going to have to pick that up come today and tommorow and start working some big hours to help my boys out.

D$

Skipping ahead to day 6. - Updated

2008-02-25T08:16:00.003-05:00

Day 6 Trip Report.

Days 4-5 were fiarly uneventful besides me pwning my friend at tennis so we can skip right ahead to the most intersting day of our trip.

We booked our Jungle Jeep Safari for the Wednesday. We were asked to be ready by 9:30am to leave. The Jeep Safari basically consists of being driven around to several different locations out in the countryside as well as a few more remote cool spots with lunch included as well as all you can drink on the Jeep/Bus.

We arrived close to 9:15 and sat around waiting for awhile until all the Bus showed up. The "Jeeps" hold about 18 people on them. They are basically open bed medium side buses with a roll cage in the back with semi comfy bench seats. Ours finally arrived and we were off closer to 10am which was a bit meh, but still no biggie.

There was one very cool thing about our specific tour and a few really annoying things about our tour. Our guide spoke perfect english with minimal accent. He was pretty awesome to have. Very clever, witty and charming individual. We was an excellent story teller. He had done a Foreign Exchange at University of Wisconsin(or Missouri) for a year.

He made the trip very entertaining for everyone. I wish I could say the same about the rest of folks on our trip. We basically got stuck in the "old timers" bus. So its 5 mid to late twenties people and about 10 people 50 and over (a few in their 70s) and 2 people in their later 30s. I have always found something odd when observing "old people" drinking. They become so useless and fucking annoying that I can barely stand to be in the same room as them. Or in this case bus.

Our friend Krys is fairly well know through out the world for getting pretty bombed and being by far the most annoying person around when intoxicated. The scary part about this trip is he was the 6th most annoying person on the bus. (Yes we counted). At one point one of the old men decided it would be a good idea to stick his finger in some kids face and push his forehead while we were stopped somewhere. There were about Ten 12 year old kids, and maybe 6 or 7 Dominican adults. I thought for sure this was going to provoke someone and it did a few of the kids but I think the rest of the kids kept them from retaliating and taking this situation even further. Having the kid not react to this old fucker only encouraged him to keep doing it to the kid. All in all he acted like a fucking 6 year old and I really wanted to smack him in the fucking face.

Anyways, If i keep going on about this i'll be typing all day. Lets just say that the 5 really annoying people on our bus were beyond annoying and always had "hilarious" comments that made no sense and were fairly degrading to dominican people in general and we had to listen to this for almsot 8 hours. BOooo..

Luckily for them we still had a great time otherwise I would have been flipping out on them.

So back to the trip.

We started off going through the city of San Juan pretty breifly. it was neat to see it in the day light because on our way to the resort we went through it at night. After that we went up into the country side and made our first stop at the top of a big hill with a really nice view of the country side and the ocean. Here we were met by a group of children that knew the bus stopped here and there would be candy given out for them. We walked from there up to their little run down village where there was an obviously out of place table setup that had tons of school supplies and candy on it. Seeing something new(Table and supplies) in the midst of such deploring living conditions just seemed strange. Also the woman selling them had a fat stack of American 20s in her hand. haha. And these people were just sitting around in their door ways with garbage everywhere and pretty much living in squallor.

We moved on from here to a Local school house where we were given 5 minutes to go in and visit with the kids and give them some school supplies and candy. Some of the kinds were pretty cute. A few that wern't in school were rather greedy/grabby and I didn't really enjoying giving them anymore stuff so we saved it for the kids that were pleasant and appreciative.

So after a few pics in the one room school house we were off again and walked down the street to a local residents house where we were given a tour and then got some fresh fruit snacks. Apparently nobody heeds the warnings about eating pre cut fruits and raw veggies in because pretty much everyone (except me) mowed down the foods. oh well. I guess they don't mind a little Hepatitis in their diet :P.

The house had a few very cute little puppies running around that we got to play with a bit as well. It was here that we got some more info about the farmers and their employees way of life and how things work out in the country. (very different from the city)

Finished later. I need to work right now...

Heres the rest:

After this we treked down to a building that was built by what appears to be the tour company as a lunch spot. It's a pretty nice thatch roofed building where they were selling all the uselss crap you see everywhere all over the caribean including the 2 million paintings that are always for sale.

lunch was very good, consisting of some rice veggie mix, carrots, delicious chicken, probably the best pasta i had all trip and a few other things. It was really quite excellent.

From lunch we went to a nice beach (unsure of the name). We stayed for about an hour and swam in the really nice warm ocean. The wind was pretty crazy bowling sand against your legs as you walked on the beach. It actually felt like someone was pricking you with really fine pins the whole time. The pic of this spot was of me with krys over my shoulder about to body slam him into the ocean.

This TR gets less and less detailed the longer i wait to finish it. haha. Soon it will consist of. Day 1 thru 8, went to Dominican. END.

Anways, after the ocean we went to the fresh water lagoo. 90% fresh, 10% salt water. It was really awesome. Thats the pic of me jumping off the cliff. You can see sooo far down into the water. It was really cool. Except when I got stabbed by a rusty metal wire while climbing out. I hope I don't get Tetnis. :) haha. that would suck. I don't enjoy dying a slow and painful death.

Their was also a rope for swining off of and dropping into the water. It was semi dangerous to even grab onto the rope as you had to climb up some stairs and then climb up onto the railing just to grab it. I obv did so and did a crappy drop into the water.

This was our 2nd last stop on the tour. Our last stop was the Waterfall where local kids jump into 10ft of water from about 50 feet. They only jumped for about 5 minutes while we all took pics and stuff and then they come around after asking for tips. This was a cool way to end the trip cause it was pretty crazy, some of the kinds were doing cool maneuvers in the air.

From here we had a very long annoying ride home having to listen to all of the previously mentioned "drunk old people". At this point almost all of them are belligerent and just completely sauced. They won't shut up, they complain about everything, and they all think they are hilarious. Maybe infact they were funny and just us 5 "young folk" were the ones that had it all backwards.....then again, maybe not. :D

We all went for dinner that night then went out to party it up, we ended up having a great night (best of the trip) and really just got bombed and had fun at the bar.

Last day: We got up did the breakfast thing, then went horse back riding on the beach. it turns out dominicans don't take care of their animals very well and we had too all ride undersized, under nourished donkey looking animals. They were infact horses but really not quite the sizes we are used to in North America. The first half of the ride was horrible. 5 horses on a 6ft wide trail with barbed wire on one side and a cliff on the other adn they are all jockying for position. A few times the horses would bite another horses neck. Once we made our turn to come back we moved onto the beach and all the horses split up and went at their own pace which made the ride back considerably more enjoyable and relaxing. (especially with a minor hang over).

After this we showered and checked out of our rooms by 12pm, then went and chilled by the pool all day. Well thats what everyone else did. I went and played beach volleyball for probably 4 hours. It was really fun, met some cool people. We did that for most of the rest of the day. About 5:00 we all got showered at the comminity showers and get preped for our bus ride to the air port.

i won't go into too much detail about our trip home because it will just be me complaining for a few paragraphs :)

We ended up getting back to London about 5am, Unfortunately for me I woke up at 8am and was bored out of my mind for pretty much the next 3 days.

Today (Monday Feb 26th) is the first day i've really felt good coming back to work and actually getting something accomplished.

Thats good for now.

Poker will be starting back up in 3-4 days I believe. I'm goign to start back at the 25NL and 50NL levels and try to grind for a month and see where i'm at after that.

Peace

Don't worry you heathens.

2008-02-23T12:45:00.002-05:00

Poker contect coming soon. And if I stop being such a lazy degenerate I'll finish my trip report from the Dominican....If your lucky.

OH SNAP

2008-02-21T10:42:00.002-05:00

I was riding to my mothers house on the bus since my car is being worked on, listening to music and not paying attention to anything. As we were stopping at one of the bus stops, a girl in the back started screaming. I looked back and saw her pointing out the window, and I followed her stare. Out in an unfenced cul-de-sac were 3 guys. Two of them standing, one of them was on the ground bloody. The taller of the two men had a baseball bat and was about ready to smash it into his head again, when they realized a whole busload of of people staring at them. The other man, who hadnt been doing anything, took a pistol out of his pocket and shot the guy in the head. At this point the whole bus was in shock and glued to the morbid scene. The two men got into a car and sped off.When I got to my moms I was visibly shaken. I told her what I had just seen. Then my mom got scared, she said "You´re moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought "Nah, forget it, Yo homes, to Bel-Air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby, "Yo homes, smell ya later!" I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air. ........You've been Bel-Aired. The new Rick Rolld.

More Pics

2008-02-20T19:39:00.005-05:00

Cool scene pics while horseback riding.

Cool scene pics while horseback riding.

The girls and the guide on the beach behind us.

another cool scene pics while horseback riding.

Krys looking like a 5 year old with a beard drinking rum from a coconut.

Our Jeep Jungle Safari Crew. Was a pretty cool day trip.

Some douche who thought he was the hulk.....turns out he's just really fat.

Drunk us. No i'm not gay, the verdict is still out on krys though, (thats his g/f in front of me)

Me getting prepped from some drunken late night swimming. Just be happy I kept the underwear on. :)

Krys gets the donkey sized horse. How suiting.

ahhhh, Drunk much?

Ahhhh, I think i fell. this is about 30 drinks deep. At one point we were drinking 3/4 cup of vodka and 1/4 cup of fanta. And considering I don't drink very often, wow. haha.

Dood making cigars at the resort.

Sarah, Me, Matt on Jeep Safari.

Pigs we saw on our tour through the countryside. They are red because they eat the clay dirt. Not because they roll around in it. Yuck.

Day 2 - fairly boring till i get pics posted for it.

2008-02-20T11:56:00.005-05:00

Oh ya, first things first: Poker content. As of March 1st i'm going to start playing again. I'll probably be playing on FTP cause of rakeback and im gonna 4 table the small stakes. I'm gonna get staked by my boy Gravastar on CardRunners. He's a solid dood that i met about a year ago playing small stakes on Party. He's a good discipined player.

Day 2 (Feb 9th 2008)Me and a friend get up for our orientation and get the pertinent info as the wife, and the other couple wern't able to attend due to some lazyness and some time change issues that we forgot about ;).

We get back to our rooms about 10am and everyone is ready for breakfast.

We hit up the buffet which has the best bacon i've ever had. Over the next 7 days i eat probably 10 lbs of it. mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

They had an excellent idea that no other resorts have had that i've been too. You Must use hand sanatizer before you enter the buffet or restaurants. This is a great way to help stop the spread of stupid ass virus' like the one i got last time i was in the dominican. (Norovirus).

Well, this is where things start to blur together. I can't remember if it was the first day we were there that it rained or the second so day 2 and 3 will blend in together since there really isn't much of interst that happend.

It was raining in the AM pretty hard so we grabbed a table by a bar, bought a deck of cards, and decided we were going to drink and play games till it got nice. Turns out we all got bombed and we drank until about 4pm. I was completely destroyed. (intersting pics to follow).

I am told later on that night once i sobered up that i fell off the bed, fell outside several times and was all around messy. (Didn't not get sick however). I had made a comment earlier in the day that i could probably drink 40 of those vodka/Fanta drinks and not get drunk...turns out i was wrong. It ended up getting nicer out that day but i don't remeber much.

I had passed out while waiting for the wife to get ready. Felt extremely sick and everyone else went for dinner without me. I was brought back bread and sausages and god damn they were good. I was unable to get up off the floor (which i somehow ended up on) so i ate on the floor. After food i felt much better so we went out but it was pretty boring and i wasn't exactly in a peppy mood.

Nothing of great interst happend that night.

Day 3 was pretty low key, I got up and worked out. 8am it opens. i get there and within 20 minutes there is probably 12 people in a 25x25ft gym. It was ridiculous. I left so after and get food with everyone and just lounge around and do nothing for the day.

im actually gonna talk to my friend and go over what we did over the next few days before i post it so i can get it all sorted out in my head :)

here is some pics to tide you over till i get trip report done

2008-02-19T18:25:00.012-05:00

these pics are in no particular order.

Cows all over the highway (took about 15 min to pass)

Me powerbombing my friend into the ocean.

Me jumping off about a 40 foot cliff into a fresh water lagoon. Scary as shit and damn it hurt when i hit the water.

Different waterfall where local kids jump into 10 foot deep water then climb up the side of the waterfall, crazy shit.

Me and my wife on valentines day.

Our crew from left to right (Me, Ali, Krys, Matt, Sarah (My wife)

Nice view from the country side of the ocean.

My kicking my friends ass at Tennis.

Me and Krys on the 4th hole of mini putt. I won the skins game of golf as well. I'm too damn good. Winner got to pick who got drinks for everyone all night.

Big ass pool we chilled at most days.

Being born in Poland -53$
Going to the Domincan 1030$
Having your friend post a pic of you wearing the gayest sunglasses of all time? Priceless.

Me and Krys playing some Beach Vball with a few doods from Paris France.

If you want to see more pics post a comment

Back from the Dominican!

2008-02-19T08:46:00.005-05:00

It was by far the best trip I've ever had.

Perfect weather,
Great people we went down with,
Resort was awesome,
Food was amazing,

The only thing that wasn't superb were the rooms and mostly just the bathrooms. They weren't as opulent as other resorts i've been too but they def got the job done so i'm happy.

So i'm sitting at work on Tuesday (the day after our new Ontario holiday, Family Day. Gayest holiday name EVER). I'm thinking about how I want to write this trip report. If i write it the way I normally write it will be close to 600 pages long. If i write it in short form alot will be lost in translation. I'll do it the normal way I think however i'll try to keep the useless details out.

Good luck to all who read this. :)

Day 1 (Feb 8th 2008)

We Picked up our friends at 10:30am and we're on the road by 11am from London to Toronto's Pearson International Airport. I was driving because we borrowed our Inlaws minivan. After some drama that is back seat driving we found our parking lot and got to the Terminal. Checked in without incident and got some grub. Got on the plane and we were off after about an hour delay. 5:30pm. The flight there kind of sucked because as someone who is 6'4" planes just arn't made for people like me.

We touch down in Puerto Plata at about 10pm. By the time we get to our resort it's about 12am. We get checked into our room on the bus which was awesome so we didn't have to wait in the lobby when we got there. We went and grabbed some disgustingly over cooked hamburgs hotdogs and fries at the after hours food place by the bars. (I made a vow I wouldn't eat their again on the trip. I stuck to my guns, not everone else did).

BED!

Day 2 (Feb 9th 2008)

Me and a friend get up for our orientation and get the pertinent info as the wife, and the other couple wern't able to attend due to some lazyness and some time change issues that we forgot about ;).

Will continue post later this afternoon.

OMG OMG OMG

2008-02-07T07:32:00.001-05:00

I leave tommorow for the Caribbean. I'm soooo effing pumped today.

I have spent the last few days cleaning and packing.

My brother in law is house sitting for us so we've had to do a complete clean job of our mess of a bedroom. it's spotless now and ready for others use. I think he's brining his new girlfriend who is pretty damn hot so that leads to some intersting possibilities :D

I should take a picture of my suitcase (inside & out). I have never been so neat in packing before. I ironed every single article of clothing sans socks and folded them all properly. I'm pretty pleased. Everything fits in my one suitcase and i still have a carry on to fill up as well. Lots of room for all my shoes :D I'm semi neurotic when it comes to travelling and bringing lots of shit. I think the following is a very close approximation of what i'm brining.

9 pairs of shorts
10 T Shirts
2 Basketball Jerseys (Toronto Raptors, Detroit Pistons)
8 Golf Shirts
10 pairs of socks
12 pairs of underwear
3 pairs of pants. 2 x Jeans and 1 x parachute pants.
3 hats (DC Shoe co, NC State, and a Military style one)
7 pairs of shoes (White Rebok (puma style), Black Nike Shox, Black American Eagle (puma style), Black Sandals (first pair of gay sandals ever, not pleased) Black Tommy Hilfiger sport sandals, Brown dress shoes, Adidas Tennis shoes).

Sports Equipment I am brining.

2 Tennis raquets (why do you ask 2? Becuase between the 3 of us that are going that play we often break strings and that can be a big bummer if you break your strings and do not have a back up.
Volleyball.

Other sports crap my friends are bringing.

Basketball,
Football,
Frisbee,
Ping Pong balls (and paddles hopefully)

Well i'm just so excited I can't stop thinking about it.

I got to work today at 7am so that I can get a few more hours in before I leave.

I have a bunch of fixturing I want to get the design complete on so I can get one of my buds here to detail it all and get it manufactured.

Some very expensive 1/2" aluminum plate fixtures each weighing about 100lbs and their is 5 of them.

I played pokes the other day. Took my 150$ in rakeback and put it on FTP, was crushign some dood before he decided to have kings when I make a play w/ AJ on the ole 8 high flop. DAMN IT. he got me down to 20$ and i battled back to over 80$ again before busting it with TPGK vs his Top and bottom pair. DOH! :D

HU is fun, i miss it but know that it is still the devil :D

Peace folks.

I'll def be posting some pics of our trip when I get back. I hope ya'll are ready for em.

Not a good night.

2008-02-05T09:53:00.000-05:00

I had an ok day yesterday at work.

I purchased Hydroxycut Hardcore yesterday. Reason being, to deal with about 10 lbs of “spare tire” I have around my waist that I can’t get rid of by using my current eating healthy, eating small portions, and excersing. It’s just not going anywhere.

I’m 80-90% where I want to be and this stuff will hopefully help me get to my goal.

So I have a bit of an incident after I purchase it. I read the entire label which looks something akin to the bible. Loooong and in small script. Then there is a corner of the label that says peel here for further instructions. I peel it (with much effort mind you) and as peeling the inner label rips. Obviously the part that rips is the dosage. It says Days 1-3 day (Torn….) then later in the dosage instructions it says take 3 pills 2 times daily. So I’m like ahh ok. I take 3. as the day goes on I’m have some hard anxiety issues which is a standard side effect. They say 1 pill is equivalent of drinking 1 cup of coffee. So just chuck 3 cups of coffee and voila, jumpy as a mother fucker. I check the internet and find the dosage instructions later and see days 1-3 youre supposed to take 1 pill 2 x daily. DOH!

I take 1 more pill later before I go home. I’m dealing ok with the anxiety and stuff. Then I decide on my way to the gym to have a scoop of this booster mix that youre supposed to take right before you work out, with a lot of shit in it to help you have a very intense work out. A friend from work gave me ½ of a bottle that he no longer used. I probably should have held off on this one until after I’m done the hydroxycut but digress. I have an ok work out which was cut short as my friend was late and we had tennis at 9:30. We get to tennis and I work my ass off and get a great cardio work out in for 2 hours. Get home, shower, finish watching American gangster, get to bed about 12:30 and proceed to sleep sporadically for less then 2 hours the rest of the night. F@#$O(*)% that sucked.

I’m beyond exhausted today. I can’t really think straight so this post is probably horrendous and all over the place.

Just so everyone can harass me I’ll give a list of shit I’m taking.

Prescription Meds:
Strattera (for ADHD)

Non Prescription Supplements:
OMEGA 3,6,9 Fatty Acid (Pills)
Tribulus (Promotes testosterone production) (Pills)
Whey Protein (Powder)
Glutamine (Powder)
Hydroxycut Hardcore (Pills)
Some Workout intensifier (Powder)

Flame away. :) And no I’m not some juice monkey douche bag……I don’t think so at least.

Live poker at Fallsview Casino.

2008-02-04T08:27:00.000-05:00

I had mentioned in my last blog that I wasn't going to play any poker until i was feeling it. Well that apparently didn't apply to live poker.

I woke up and jumped on my computer and I had a message from my friend saying Gambling? I took that as him asking if I wanted to go. I of course say yes. I talk to him and he actually was asking me if I was gambling at that moment which he often does and which I often am :) Well since I asked him now he says yes and we are off to Niagara Falls shortly after.

We get there and the tables are full, they open a new game for us because they know we run the place. j/k.

The table is full off a lot of tight bad players. First hand I limp call with K9o after a few limpers and flop trip kings and win without showdown vs a good player. But after this I pick up no real hands for a long time. I manufacture some pots with steals etc. I missed every flush draw, I hit 1 straight a few top pair hands, flopped top and bottom in an unraised pot on monotone board and had to fold river, some ladyfish calls the doods 3rd barrel for almost pot with 1 pair after I fold and he shows his T6hh for the scoop.

I played pretty badly overall and was for some reason kind of playing way too passive compared to my normal style. I picked up AKo 2 times during the day and didn’t 3 bet it either time, I proceeded to lose a 450$ pot the second time and win a 40$ pot the first time….hmmm.

The 2nd one UTG raises and he has shown down good hands only, I call UTG+1 (I would normally 3 bet the fish cause they won’t fold but he was semi ok and didn’t want everyone to just fold so I could pick up one raise. 3 or 4 callers. Flop KcTc8s. Pre flop raiser cbets 15$, I call, old dood who has been super aggressive (about 75 years old) to 50$, I’m kinda confused, He probably doesn’t have a set but 2 pair is possibility and with his aggressiveness I can see him having a Flush draw or straight draw in some spots. I shove for 180$ more or something like that, he thinks for a second and calls with K8. DOH. 1 person says they folded an ace, another a T, I’m drawing slim and lose a big pot.

A couple hands later I play a pot vs the same old guy. I have about 220$ left after the last pot.

I have T8o and limp after a limper. Old agro guy is in late pos and limps. Flop comes J87r. I bet 7$ with my 2nd pair and gutter ball and get called in 2 spots. 1 to my right and the old guy. Turn is a 9. Checked to me and I fire after a few seconds of thought about 23$. Old guy calls quickly and guy to my right folds. River is a 4d so I have the second nuts still. I think again for maybe 2 seconds and quickly fire out 65$ and put my head down and pull my hat over my face and start to act very nervous, he calls after a few seconds and says “lets see what you go” I show my straight and scoop.

One other hand I played very badly was one of my last hands.

I have 22 and limp UTG 10 handed. I have about 300$ behind. Good player 4 to my left raises to 7$ and gets 5 callers. Flop comes QJ2. BINGO. Good player to my direct right donk leads 20$, I’m thinking he must have QJ in this spot cause I can’t picture him firing anything else. I call hoping to get a raise from the good preflop raiser then the guy to my right will hopefully shove and I can make the easy call. He screws me and calls instead. That kind of worries me about a set. Turn is a 10. DAMN IT. Now the pre flop raiser would definitely have called there with AK and he has position. This is bad. Guy to my right leads again for 20$ again, now I’m very sure he had QJ (top 2). I don’t want to make a raise at this point and get pushed off my hand by a big shove by the preflop raiser. He confuses me again and just calls. WTF can he have now? Cuase I know it isn’t broadway. River is a blank and guy to my right checks, I check hoping preflop raiser will fire with AQ or something and get a call from the guy to my right and I can raise at that point. He checks behind and screws me yet again. I think I played this pretty badly from start to finish. I could have got the donk bettors whole stack on the flop had I raised. Although he had just flat called a turn bet by me before with the nuts and missed out on my whole stack in an earlier hand so he’s kind of a proponent for slow playing bigger hands before the river.

Oh well. It was a roller coaster of a day (4 hrs) and I finished up 55$. Not very good. I could have been 500+ had I played better.

Such is life.

SuperBowl XLII was pretty great last night.

I got to watch the second half after our dodgeball games. I was cheering for NY Giants because I always root for the underdog.

Dominican in 4 days you filthy wankers. :D Jealous much?

Poker seems to be incredibly boring.

2008-02-01T08:14:00.000-05:00

Recap of my last week or so.

Get up
Go to work.
Come home.
Go to gym.
Go tanning so as not to get burned (hopefully) on vacation next week.
Come home.
Eat Food.
Watch TV.
Sleep.
Rinse.
Repeat.

I have watched all the Band of Brothers series and it was incredible. I have seen a few episodes in the past but never a full one start to finish. I always knew i would enjoy them becuase I am fascinated by WWI & II. It was one of my favourite shows I have ever watched. a very well written, casted and directed 10 hour movie. It is quite a touching story about the men of the 101st airborne division of the Paratroopers in WWII. If you havn't seen it, I highly recommend it.

I also have been watching American Idol. I'm not a huge fan of the show when it gets past hollywood into the actual competition but the initial picking phases are beyond hilarious.

One of my all time favourites is my friend James Lewis.

People make me laugh. Thats about all I can say inregards to that.

I have spent a small fortune recently getting all our shit bought for the trip. My inlaws usually let us use their luggage when we go away so there has never really been any need for us to buy our own. However this year they are using their luggage at the same time as we are going away. As i'm sure many of you have experienced as well as I have that in airports there are 2 things that you have to pay attention to. Which bag is yours, and keeping an eye out some downssyndrome baby doesn't walk away with your bag. This is especially frustrating when you have a black bag like 80% of the bloody population. Given that, I decided my luggage would be one of a kind. I'm fairly certain nobody else has purchased stuff that is the same ugly ass colour as the stuff I bought.

THIS COLOUR

I played poker last night and didn't enjoy 1 second of it.

I played some HU cash and a bunch of SnGs. I was chip leader 1/2 way through most of them then busting on the bubble in some sick ways so I was semi frustrated. I ended up cashing in 1 out of 8 SnGs and busted on the HU cash that i was playing. Pretty terrible start after my week long hiatus. I didn't even want to play poker i was just so bored. Fack. I'm not playing again until i really want to which who knows how long that may be.

I can't wait for Domincan Republic. Some jeep safari, some horse back riding, some snorkelling. Damn i'm gonna have fun.

Back to work now kiddies.

Have a good weekend.

I know I will. My wife is working until sunday night so i'm a free man for the next 3 days.

Here is my updated chart for tacking my work outs. The last 2 weeks i've just killed it and my body is paying the price. Sore and tired everywhere.

I am very SMRT, I mean SMART

2008-01-25T07:44:00.001-05:00

I have always prided myself on my ability to read people in pretty much all situations. I've been very good at perceiving slight oddities in people during day to day activities.

This is just another proof of how smrt i am. I mean smarrrrrrt.

Fake Smile vs Real Smile Can you tell the difference?

I always find it very odd that most people don't detect alot of what to me is considered blatantly obvious, fake/foney people and attitudes.

I scored 16/20 here and yes it is 50/50 so even guessing it's not that tough to score well. However i actually thought i got 100% and would have wagered bunches of money on it.

What are your scores? I highly doubt and of you fish can score higher then 12 :P But it's gonna be tough to tell since you're all a bunch of scamming chaters anyways.

On to more interesting things....for me at least.

I'm not sure if I have mentioned this in this humble POS I call a blog but myself, my wife, and 3 friends are doing a work out challenge to help us all get ready for our Dominican trip.

Because there are guys and girls involved we had to figure out a way to make it fair for all. We didn't want to use a time based system because the guys work out considerably longer then the girls. What we eventually agreed upon was that if you work out for a minumum of 30 min in a day you get to check that day off.

We started on December 17th, and are going until Feb 3rd. Everyone throws in 10$ and the winner gets the money to buy a new swim suit.

I started out taking a huge lead by 6 or 7 days after the first 2 weeks but then my friends girlfriend was able to claw her way back to being tied at one point and then down one for most of the last 2 weeks.

This has been a great challenge for me motivationally. I can't remember the last time I went to the gym so often. Here is a pic of my progress thus far. Green obv means i went that day.

She was unable to work out last night due to a bit of lazyness and i also most likely wasn't going to be able to due to a going away party for a friend who just quit at work. I got home about 9pm and decided I had to make up that extra day cushion on her so i dragged my tired ass to the gym and did cardio for exactly 30 min :) After my friend told me his g/f wasn't working out, I told him that I wouldn't be that day either but knew deep down i was going. I'm so devious.

Anyways it's looking good for me to take it down because Sunday night our Dodgeball league starts and Monday night I have my Tennis traning.

anyways i'm sure all you hosers are bored reading this so i'll sign off now.

D$

Online busto.

2008-01-22T22:22:00.000-05:00

I cashed out a bunch of money for our vacation to the Dominican last week then decided i was bored and took a big shot at 5/10NL.

First hand at table i win 40bb when i turn Top 2 and shove to a donk lead.

Next hand of note, i pick up AA and we get it all in preflop(he was only 30bb deep). I flop a set of aces and he turned a wheel with the ole 23o :) haha lol. Made me chuckle.

Then the very last hand i'm playing before i go to hockey i open KK from UTG and am up against AA and he flops a set. GG 1500 :)

I'm gonna take a few weeks off of online pokerings and when I get back from my vacation i'll get my rakeback on a site and start to play alot again.

Until then i'll just be posing life stuff. So deal with it.

It's Flyday and i'm oh so Fly.

2008-01-18T09:03:00.000-05:00

Had a great night all things considered.

A few issues cropped up here and there but nothing that really put a damper on the activities.

I played probably 50 hands of poker from when I got home till when I left for the gym stuck 70$.

The wifey was working last night so I got home about 5pm and my friend picked me up and we headed to the gym to get huge-ish. So I’m doing shoulders last night just working away on my own and then my friend comes over and says 5 minutes. (Mind you this is 50ish minutes into the work out) I’m like WTF? It’s a short work out tonight? Ugh. Woulda been nice to know that ealier so I coulda rushed instead of taking my sweet ass time. BOOOOO. Oh well. I get my whole routine in and we are off.

I get home. Grab some grub, get setup in front of the TV and I’m ready for more pokerings.

It wasn’t a great night in terms of luck but I feel I played an A- game overall which is definitely good enough to destroy the 100NL games on Party Poker. I lost a lot of pots that I was a big favourite in but such is poker & life.

I got stuck a bit over 3 buy ins at my low point and then fluctuated back and forth between -150 and -250 for pretty much most of the remaining. Everytime I’d almost get on the + I’d take a 2 or 3 outter and have to keep grinding. I was ok with continuing to play because I was in a great mind state and was playing really well and not letting the results effect me last night.

I think the following epitomizes why I’m a long term winning player and most of these players are pretty big losers in the short and long run.

Oh crap, I didn’t put the first hand into Pokerhand. Shit. Oh well, I’ll go through it in text version then.

So villain is an unknown with no real stats on him so no read.

Effective stacks are 130BB. Villain1 open shoves for 3$ or so from CO. I call on the Button w/ 66, villain2 calls from SB. Flop comes Q64r. Villain2 insta checks, I can tell he’s weak so I check behind not wanting him to fold and me winning a super small pot, and with no draws on the board I’m ok with this. Turn is Th putting a Flush draw and a possible straight draw on the board. Villain2 insta checks again, I still think he’s weak but not real point letting him have more free cards so I bet 7$ and quickly calls. River is an off suit Ace. He donk leads 15$ into a 21$ pot. I really want to call but he can so easily have made Aces up here that I feel like raising is +EV cause I’d be sick if I just called and he shows A4 or AT and would have called a nice raise. I raise to 38$ hoping to get called by worse and 100% expecting that he will pretty much only shove with a straight. He shoves and I fold pretty quickly. I feel that this is a good spot to Raise/Fold because I’m semi protected because of the all in player. Villain2 rakes the pot with KJo that got there. I obviously didn’t lose the minimum that a lot of people would have, however given my pretty aggressive style I think I lost the minimum for me.

Now onto the other hand that shows the opposite of this.

100BB effective.

Villain min raises from UTG. I call from the Button w/ 89hh. Flop comes Js6c3c. He checks, I check behind. Turn is a Th. He checks again, so I’m firing here 100% of the time when I pick up draws with 8 or more outs. He calls my 5$ bet. River is Gin with the 7d. Now Villain donk leads into me for 14.61$. I count my time down and shove for 90$. He snap calls me with JJ for flopped top set.

This hand shows the difference between what I consider a good player (me. Arrogant? Maybe) And a typical low limit fish.

I hit a few sets near the end of my session to get 70$ winner on the night.

And the leafs won in a shoot out. I do believe that’s only their second shoot out win this year. Pretty crazy. 2 game winning streak after the disgusting 5 game loser they were on.

One thing I found out yesterday that made me very happy was that Point Edward Charity Casino is getting 1/2NL instead of only limit poker….FINALLY.

The issue was that before their was a 300$ max bet limit on any hand for charity casinos although they were actually authorized for anything over 100$ bet / hand so the gaming commission kept rejecting their requests to instate a NL game. After several years of trying they were finally granted permission. I’m pretty excited. Hopefully this increases the # of players they have coming to play cash games because right now its a lot of people playing when they have 2 tables running. And they are only ever 5/10 Limit.

The reason this is so good for me is because its only a 50ish minute drive from my house where Windsor & Niagara are both 2 hours. It does make a big difference after 12 hours of playing. :D

That’s all from me. Here are a few other hands from last night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1955087
What I thought was a really good bluff attempt but I def didn’t think he had a J. I wanted to raise flop but decided against it. I guess I shoulda went with first instincts.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1955121
Big laydown? He def could have have JT but still. I probably lost 11$ more then I should have in the hand. Should have just layed it down to the flop raise. Villain was a mediocre Tag.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1955183
Lost another big one. Villain seems pretty bad although he has one thing going for him. He plays every pot against me in position. Position is the reason I lose my stack here. On the turn I don’t know what the fuck to do. I can’t check fold cause he limp calls EVERYTHING and could have anything from no pair and a weak flush draw to 2 pair to a set to a made flush. I really don’t know why I over bet shoved the turn other then I didn’t think he had the flush and hoped he hit the Jack. I make some bad plays sometimes. Although this one can go either way in my opinion.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1955699
Villain2 is a very aggressive player who got super lucky against me to hit a 2 outter on the river for a big pot which is what got him to 170$ Villain 1 isn’t very good either but it probably an avg player.

Normally I 3 bet AJo+ but given Villain2 was in the BB and he 3 bets me often, I felt that it was best to just try to play a smaller pot in position with a good hand that I didn’t want to get pushed off of by a big 4 bet. Flop is pretty good for my hand. I rairely raise top pair hands on the flop although vs this type of opponent it is probably warranted. I like to let them keep trying to push me off my hand when they have worse. Turn is a beautiful card giving me the Nut Flush draw to go with my Top pair Top Kicker. It also gives me a wheel draw so I have a ton of outs if I’m behind (which is unlikely) but it’s tough to put villain on a hand at this point. His line isn’t very consistent with any hand I can think of. I guess AA or KK but the likely hood is slim that he has that because he has min 3 bet often with trashy hands. I think this is a great spot to min raise him because I’m way ahead of his range hoping he pushes so I can make an easy call. He calls instead and the river is a great card for me and a terrible card all at the same time. If I was ahead then it’s a huge scare card for him. He immediately donk leads huge into me. 65$. I let my time count down and shove for about 38$ more. He thinks for all his time and calls. Wow. Just terrible. I love poker. :D

My second last hand of the night.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1955711
WOW. No comment other then WOW.

Hump day complete

2008-01-17T08:22:00.000-05:00

Had a very nice night last night pokerwise.

Worked late. Got home and decided I wanted to play a skosh of poker.

Sit at 4 – 100NL tables and proceed to bluff off a bit of money in bad spots. Get some hands and win some mooolah. Then a super agro player Open raises from the CO (His stats are 30/26/7 or close to it) I decided since he has opened a lot of pots that it’s time I got a bit tricky with him. I 3 bet the button with 9To. Flop comes as good as anyone could ever hope w/ 9To. TTT. Unfortunately I might have been able to double off him 150bb deep if I hadn’t raised. He calls my 3 bet and checks to my on the TTT flop. I check behind (I’m an idiot). Turn is 3d. He check calls my 15$ bet. River is a Q and he check folds to my bet.

Actually the more I think about it the more it looks like a medium pair he has and my hand looks more like AA. I should never have checked the flop. Gosh golly I’m an imbecile. I should have fired flop and got a call from a medium pair and checked behind on turn and then fire again on river because he’ll think AK is most likely hand I have and probably call or maybe even raise.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1949813

The following is a hand I’m not 100% sure about. I open raise from CO w/ Q9cc. I get 3 bet from SB and I think he’s a bad player and we are 130bb deep effective so I decide I want to call and play this pot in position. Normally this is a fold but give the factors of him being back, us being deep and me being in position I like to do it occasionally.

The flop is pretty good for my hand as long as he doesn’t have a bigger flush draw(in which case he’s a 4-1 favourite. Against his range I have almost 50% equity in the hand. He bets the flop very strong. That encourages me to peel a card here and not raise like I would a lot of the time, because he probably isn’t folding. Turn is another decent card for me giving me an Open ended straight draw to go with my Flush draw. Now vs his range I’m probably a 2-1 dog. When he bets 40$ on the turn even though it’s a big bet I’m still getting a good enough price to call. I’m never shoving here because there is less then a 5% chance he’s folding for another 65$. Although when I do hit I get his extra 65$ close to 95% of the time and when I miss I lose no more money in the hand because I fold so calling is the correct play I think. I hit on the river, he shoves like he’s supposed to and I call and am pretty surprised at how well he played a funky hand like that. It’s pretty tough for him to put me on a hand like I have. He’s gotta think I have QQ or something.

So I scoop a nice 260$ pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1949853

Can someone please do the calcs on this to ensure I’m right in calling the turn? I think I’m getting 2.3:1 on the call and I’m around a 2-1 dog. His range is all big pairs, set of jacks or Tens, AJo+, AQcc, AKcc, 99, and a few other weird hands like JT, J9, QJ etc. does that seem like a standard range in this spot on the turn vs a 25/17/4.0 player???

Final hand.

This is truly why aggression is so key in NLH.

What fucking hands do these mouth breathers bet and call 9$ with on Flop that they fold to a shove when they are both about 50$ deep. Ridiculous.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1950511

That’s all for today. I scooped about 4.25 buy ins last night. Was a good one :)

Also, we booked our Vacation to Bahia Principe San Juan in the Dominican. I’m pretty pumped. Leaving Feb 8th from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Anyone want the gate # and fight time to wish us goodbye before we leave?

It would be pretty nice of u pricks :D

WTF? Now my sidebar is back.

2008-01-16T08:10:00.001-05:00

Can anyone please send me a link on the Belagio Jay bathroom prop bet? For the video I mean. The one I have isnt working.

WTF happend to my sidebar? It's gone

2008-01-16T08:08:00.000-05:00

Its still in my archive blogs but not on my main page. UGH. anyone? Poker sucked, I lost 1 buy in in 6 hands i played (The very last one) I pick up a medium big pair raise 4 callers and lose to a flopped set. I was only playing one lap so i pushed the action when I knew i was beat so thats why I didn't lay it down. BOoo

PT Update

2008-01-14T20:09:00.001-05:00

Weekend trip report....Long.

2008-01-14T13:23:00.000-05:00

Great first week of poker to start the year.

I was playing really well, winning a lot, then playing badly when I got tired, giving a lot of the earnings back and then playing well again and winning it all back.

Rollercoaster of a weekend. I’ve been playing 100max all last week. I was up 10 buy ins at this limit at one point yesterday before losing 4 buy ins back.

I ended the week up about 1000$.

I have a ton of pretty good hands to post which I’ll do at the end of the blog.
I cashed out 1000$ yesterday for a trip to the Dominican which will be in 3 weeks. After this I decided I was bored and wanted to take a shot at 5/10NL with a min buy. Sat with 200$ at a table with all short stacks which is a huge advantage for me because a) they are much less agro then your standard 5/10 Regular and also because they are just flat out bad usually.

The absolute craziest thing occurs on this table. A psycho with 200$ in front of him is min 3 betting every hand and calling shoves and or shoving for his stack with any hand. K4o, 95ss, etc etc. I see several people get it in vs him as a 2:1 favourite and he just keeps raking pots. Then he looses ½ his stack. Rinse repeat. It’s only a matter of time before he loses all his $. I want to get some for myself. His stats were 87 VP$IP and 75 PFR. Infinite aggression. The first hand we played (before I realized he was a nut job) I hit QJo on flop and he fires, I shove for 2x his bet and he calls with K4o on 8J2 board. I win but I was down a bit so im only up to about 280$. He doubles off someone else with Q7o vs AKcc all in pre for about 300$ each and board comes Q727A and he scoops. I get it in for about 280$ shortly after with AQcc and he calls my 3 bet shove with A6o and board comes 6c5c3sXxXx. UGH. so sick. I rebuy, keep playing with another short buy, float around 300$ and he leaves after hes up to about 500$. He joins another table, I watch the table for an open seat, it becomes available but unfortunately its directly to his right. Oh well, It’s still a huge spot to even just sit at his table so I sit. Buy in for about 300$ when such a juicy spot comes up. My stack is just shy of 400$, Psycho is 210$ deep and villain 2 is a full stack. Villain 2 raises to 35$ from MP, I call with QQ from the Button. My initial reaction is to 3 bet because that’s my standard line, however I obv realize that Psycho is 3 betting no matter what so I call and like clock work he 3 bets to 55$. (This guy must have just caught his wife cheating on him or something. My actual thoughts are, he’s a drunk dood from England and his footy team just lost a big match and he’s drunk and depressed). Villain 2 insta shoves, I insta call and Psycho makes his standard call. My heart sinks as the King of spades rolls off as the window card. Flop comes Ks8sJd. I’m pretty upset because I’m beat now by 90% of villain 2s range. Turn is the Deuce of spades and river is Jack of hearts. Wow, so Now I beat nothing. This is so sick. Hands are turned over and the 1k pot is shopped to me. HUH? Villain 2 shows TT and psycho shows A9o. WOOOOOW. Talk about sick. I loved it. So my shot worked out again. That’s 3 short buy shots at 5/10 that have worked out very well for me as I’m up about 1500$. It’s a rarity that you find someone so willing to light their money on fire as this fellow was. It was pretty crazy. The thing I also found weird was there was 0 waiting list to play on the table. People must suck at table selection.

I played 3k hands yesterday finished up around 500$ on the day. I’ll try to post my graph and PT Db tonight if I get a chance.

Other then poker stuff, I worked 60 hours last week which is why I only got to put in 6k hands for the week. Got a ton accomplished but still. It was effing loooong.

Friday night myself and my wife went to Micheals on the Thames for dinner. (a supposed high class establishment which I wasn’t exactly impressed with. The one plus which was also a minus was their menu is surprisingly large for an upscale place. They had 5 pages (2 for entrees). It made it a bit tougher to pick. I was really stuck between a Rib Eye Steak, or Chicken Asiago. I decided on the chicken.

It was a Chicken breat stuffed with asparagus and asiago cheese with what tasted like a Roasted Red Pepper cream sauce on top. It was served with sweet mashed potatoes. It was mediocre. Very large portion but still def not worth the price. I wish I had have gotten the steak. I had a Black Opal Chardonnay to drink which I had no clue if I would like or not because I don’t really know a lot about the differences in wines. I know white and red and I know if I enjoy the taste or do not. It was actually very delicious. I had 2 glasses for probably more then you pay to buy a whole case of the shit in the liquor store. :)

The wife decided to wear the pants on our date and ordered Filet Mignon. Unfortunately she likes her red meet well done, or as I like to call it, Grey. It basically ruins all of the quality properties that the meat ever contained. She asks for it well done and I’m not going to lie, the waitress wouldn’t let her order it cooked that way. She was like ahhhhhh, medium well? Hahah lol. I replied with, pardon? She says, medium well would be good probably. My wife says “As long as there is no blood.” The waitress assures her their will be no blood but just a little pink in the centre. I chuckled and know their will be blood and my wife won’t like it.

We get our food which funnily enough the couple next to us ordered the exact same things (Chicken for man, Filet Mignon for woman). We start to eat, the wife cuts into her steak. Blood? OBV. She eats it anyways. It was soooo effing good. Mmmmmmm jealous says I.

She has a glass of Fetzer White Zinfandel to drink which pretty much tasted like ass. When Fuel reads this he will have just rolled his eyes after having read my elegant description of the flavours of her wine. It was basically off the charts on sugar content. Not my thing. All in all the meal was mediocre.

My scoring for Micheal’s on the Thames.

Atmosphere: 6/10. Median age was close to 86.
Staff: 6/10. – She wouldn’t let my wife order food cooked the way she wanted. In the waitress’ defence I hate that my wife hates blood so that alone keeps her above a 5/10.

Food: 7/10 – Good but I probably wouldn’t go back.

Overall rating 6.25/10. Not Recommended.

Went out and partied Saturday night for a guys birthday after I finished another long ass day at the office. Had an ok time and spent too much money. A funny thing happened on my cab ride home. We are at my friends place when I decided I didn’t want to sleep on his couch so I got him to call a cab. It gets there quickly. During the drive we are chatting and I tell him I might be going to swisserland for work soon. He says he is from Europe (it is obvious from his accent). I ask where. He says “Yugoslavia”. I say what part? Cabbie “Bosnia”. Me. “I have a very close friend that is from Bosnia”. Cabbie” What is his name”. Me”Zoran A_____” His full name isn’t necessary. Cabbie” You are joking. I am also good friends with him” We discuss him a bit and have a good laugh at how small the world is. :)

I wake up feeling kinda crappy Sunday and sit around playing poker all day.

The End.

Coles notes. I did stuff, Stuff was ok. Win Money. End.

Hands from the weekend without comments. Look at them if you like to see how much better I am then you. At sucking out. :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1934754

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930923

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933055

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933773

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933783

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933838

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1933894

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1934254

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1934584

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1934754

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1935891

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1936135

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1936242

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1936362

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1936484

What happend to An Amature Contemplates?

2008-01-10T20:19:00.000-05:00

intendere.blogspot.com/

He took his blog down about 2 weeks ago unexpectedly. Anyone have any clue? He was moving to U.A.E. but he said he was going to keep posting about life stuff etc on there. Then one day it was just gone.

I need to know folks.

Poker going pretty well.

2008-01-10T13:54:00.000-05:00

Played horrible 2 nights ago and was up 1-1/2 buy ins at one point and finished down 1-1/2 total. UGH. I played horrible. I 5 tabled 100NL 6max.

Here are a couple hands from my bad session. I quit before I got stuck too much so that was pretty solid.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1913674
Double Gutter, gotta peel one here. BLINK

Last night I left work “early”. By early I mean at 7:30pm. Another long day. Got home and was pretty tired, did some chores, dishes etc. and hit the Tarbs. Started out playing 4 x 100NL 6max tables and soon enough bumped it up to 8. I was able to play 8 pretty easily on one 19” monitor. (I havn’t got a dual monitor video card yet). The thing that makes 8+ tabling so diffuclt for me apparently is the fact that I have to swivel my head so much. I get kind of tunnel vision and having to move my head 20 degrees or whatever to see the other monitor isn’t good for my focus. I ended up 300 winner or so. I also got a sick number of big pairs and it seemed like 50% of my small pairs hit sets. It was pretty amazing again. 2 out of 3 days like that, yikes. :)

I doubt I’ll get to play much tonight. I also plan on going to the gym so meh. Who knows when I’ll get out of work.

Here are some hands from last night.

UH OH. - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1918187 DQB
I like my turn check.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1918227
How bad are these guys. Seriously. Lets be honest here. Just gross.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1918288
I honestly have 0 recollection of this hand. WOW, fuckin weird. Oh wait, the only thing I remember is I bet nothing but a bluff. Good fold? Probably long run it’s solid. He’s got 2 pair, a better Ace, or a set pretty often here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1918310
Well this hand was kind of awesome. Talk about cooler for him. I know this guy is a huge donk but his stack size is weird cause I don’t really want to get it all in on the Flop vs a FD but he’s bad enough to probably do so but at the same time I need to ensure that I get get enough money in on the flop that later in the hand I can shove. Probably not a bad spot to MR vs a bad player. Especially when he gets coolered ;). His hand range is QQ+, 88 or AQdd+.

This was definitely a strange hand/spot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1918330
I Min raise the river for value but get 3 bet and am flat out confused. It’s tough for him to put me on a 7 so there is a possibility he has a set and thinks I’m bluffing. That’s the only reason I hate my line because I’m reopening the betting. But its still quite likely donks call my river Min raise with 2 pair+.

Bluff or Value Shove?

2008-01-08T22:47:00.001-05:00

Party Poker, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $99
Hero (BB): $95.85
UTG: $100
CO: $107.61
BTN: $122.74

Pre-Flop: T T dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG folds, CO raises to $4, 2 folds, Hero calls $3

Flop: ($8.50) Q 5 6 (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $6, Hero calls $6

Turn: ($20.50) 7 (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($20.50) J (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $13.50, Hero raises to $85.85 and is All-In, CO folds

Results: $47.50 Pot

Hero mucked T T and WON $117.85 (+$94.35 NET)

Chewsday.

2008-01-08T11:13:00.001-05:00

I have been busting my ass at work trying to get this project complete. Working 12-14 hours a day.

Deadline is this Friday to have all the design complete & have it manufactured and assembled. This deadline is insane. I think we’d have to work 24 hours a day for the rest of the week to even get close. But we’re trying out best.

I got home last night pretty late and played a bit of poker. I got a ton of big pairs and big Aces. Hit a lot, was up a 2-3 buy ins but kept calling off a lot after an hour or so with good connected cards trying to hit but kept missing and having to fold. I hit 5 or 6 sets last night and got paid off on probably 4 of them which was awesome. But then I also lost about 125bb to Queens when I had Kings all in pre.

Finished pretty strong though with a 2 buy in win on the night. I was playing 4 tables of 100NL 6max.

Here are the only 2 hands I saved from last night session. I’m still trying to get my new code for Poker Tracker so I can’t use it yet which sucks.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1909302
First off, I don’t remember my reasoning for raising so much preflop. I rarely raise that much. At low limits my standard raise is 4x the BB, and at higher limits I raise 3.5x usually.

I hit gin on the flop. I c-bet hoping he has an Ace and check raises me. His call doesn’t seem like an ace but I’m not about to give him a cheap card to draw if he’s got a straight draw or flush draw so I fire an almost pot sized bet on turn. He calls again, now I’m baffled at what he could have.

River is a terrible card for my hand, however it is a great card for anyone on a flush draw to bluff at. If he was on straight draw then such is life. I felt like I should really be raising this river. I don’t know why I wanted to, it just felt right, but then I thought about the range that calls me and I’m pretty much crushed by anything that calls a river raise.

I am still unsure about the river though. Thoughts?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1909370
Here is one where I felt like I should be folding the river. My bet size on river is terrible imo. Checking behind is plausible as well. I just didn’t think he could be calling a raise on the turn with just a flush draw. His stack size makes this hand exceptionally difficult to play I think. I’m thinking I should bet about 6 or 7 $ on river and fold to a shove.

Windows Vista was running like greased lightning last night. I guess windows just needed to do all it’s updates and shit. I’m pretty happy at this point. Except for the new video card I still need.

Probably working late tonight so I don’t know if I’ll get to play at all. I really want to go to the gym though. Ugh. we’ll see.

Someone has a case of the Mondays!

2008-01-07T12:47:00.000-05:00

I gots my ass a new computer last night and all I can say is….WINDOWS VISTA SUCKS GONADS!

Got an HP. Dual Core 2.2ghz or some such. 2gb Ram, 350gig HD, standard 1 port video card so I went to put in my old AGP 256mb card and voila, apparently AGP is too old school and they only have PCI E ports so now I also have to go buy a new effin video card so I can have dual monitors again.

I did play some poker last night. Even though the preparation to play took a few hours. Download speed on vista was like 2kb/sec which is slower then effing dial up. It took me forever to download party and my other software. I am getting a crack to supposedly disable a lot of the stupid security features that slows vista down so I hope that helps.

I played 4 tables of 100NL 6 Max last night. Things started out very poorly as I made one horrible bluff for a stack. After that I got sick lucky w/ AKdd on an A76r board 3 way. I raise preflop UTG, MP calls, Button calls. Flop comes A76r and I bet 10$ into 13$ pot, MP raises quickly to 35$ which seems very strange too me, Button folds, I think that he’s got a weaker ace, AQ or AJ with a possibility of 67, A7 or A6 because his raise size is fairly large that he seems a bit scared. I can’t see someone raising that board with a set with someone still to act behind him. Doesn’t make any sense so I can rule that out. It is possible he has something like 89 sooted and it trying to steal from me as well.

I decide that I think the times he has a smaller ace then me is large enough that I can profitably push here. I shove for 100$ he snap calls me. Turn is gin with a K, Now I just hope I hold. River is another K but I wasn’t too concerned about it because I was 99% sure I was already ahead after the turn. I scoop a nice pot and check his hand to see he has 777. WOOOOOOOW so sick. I couldn’t believe it, he totally out played my ass and got unlucky as hell.

After this I went on a nice heater winning about 4 more buy ins, lot of big pairs and big aces and winning often. It was a nice session.

I love getting lucky. I’ll def post the HH for the bad beat I layed just to prove how good at sucking out on people I am.

All in all a good first session after a week or so of not playing.

I’m going to start a new PT Db on the new computer and I’ll post regular screen shot updates for the 100k challenge.

Still no computer which means no pokers.

2008-01-04T14:55:00.000-05:00

I am still on the look out for a new computer. I’m looking for something dual core under 500$. Best buy and Future Shop both had amazing boxing week sales on but every god damn mother fucking computer was sold out. EVERYTHING! Online and in-stores. How ridiculous.

If anyone knows anywhere (Preferably in Canada) that has any good deals please let me know.

When I get a new computer I’m going to spend some time moving my Poker Tracker & PA HUD shit over and then start a challenge for me.

Nothing to do with limits or dollars, but just strictly hands. I’m going to have a 100k hand challenge. I was thinking about doing something a lot more daring (Like 500k) but I just realized that all that would do was make me play more tables at once and most likely make me play poorly. 100k is enough. I would like to get this done in 2-3 months and reevaluate my game from there. Strictly cash games.

This is my tentative plan, nothing is carved in stone.

I am pretty happy I havn’t been playing a ton of poker lately. I’ve had lots of time to hit the gym. I’ve gone 10 out of the last 14 days.
Also I have been working 10-15 hours a day this week which is kinda gross but awesome things might come from this. I might be getting sent to Swisserland for work. That would be amazing.

That’s about it for now.

Thanks for no comments and basically not reading…. ;)

RIP COMPUTER

2008-01-02T13:47:00.001-05:00

My computer at home apparently decided it was time to pack it in. It looks like it was a power surge of some kind cause my Video card & Motherboard are toast.

I'm looking at new computers tonight before I go to see National Treasure 2 with some of the boys from work.

Won 500 or so on the weekend online as well.

I met a pretty cool dood online named Wheelster when i was playing some 2/4 NL on party.

We were chatting it up about pokerings.

Thats all for now. Work is really busy and ill probably be working late all week so not alot of time for gym and poker.

BOOOOO

p.s. I won't be writing a resolution post becuase I think new years resolutions are useless and idiotic.

If you want to change something why do you have to wait till the end of a year to do so. Change now or you'll never really change.

lolupdataments + bad laydowns. I'm the fish Amatay is always talking about.

2007-12-31T08:19:00.000-05:00

Well, a lot has been going on in the past week or two.

I have been winning on party a decent amount. Christmas was good but nothing really special or crazy. Since we bought a new car we decided to just forgo getting each other presents.

I went out and partied a bit on Christmas night with my friends which kind of sucked because we left a good bar to go to a rather shitty one that had probably a 10:1 male to female ratio. It was not exactly entertaining.

Myself and a friend went to play at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls on Saturday. I got seated in the 2-5NL game which honestly is the highest I’ve ever played live. I was pretty nervous as always to start the session. Played 2 hands in 10 min, and everyone at the table appeared competent and or very solid so I quickly bounced when a seat at the 1/2NL game became available. My friend hand at the 2/5 table was, I pick up 55, and there is a limp directly to my right, I raise it from the CO and we are short handed (6 ppl). The Button calls and the limper calls. Flop is K92r. Limp/caller checks, I check, Button checks, turn is a T and we check again, river is blank and it’s checked around again, Limp/caller turns over T8o, Btn shows 76ss. The reason I didn’t fire like I was supposed to on the Flop was because I was scared because it’s new stakes for me. I immediately realized this was bad for me, so I got up quickly after and moved.

On to the 1/2 table. It was a pretty big donk fest as usual. I got stuck 400ish pretty quickly by two 3 outters and one 2 outter. Then the cards started holding up and I was back on the upswing.

I was literally even before the last hand of the day (6 hours of play).

The hand happened like this.

I get pocket deuces in late position. 3 limpers in front of me, I limp, Button limps. 5 way action. Window card is a deuce. 2d,Kc,Qs. It’s checked to me, I lead pot 10$. Button calls me. He is a competent player but has been not hitting much today and it seems out of frustration has made a few bad decisions with top pair hands (ex A7o on 753 board, gets it all in vs the PFR who has AA obv). Stuff like that, but we had been avoiding each other all day and I know he knows I’m a good thinking player. He def doesn’t think on the same level as me but he’s still decent.

So the turn brings 9h. I lead 20$ again, he pretty quickly raises to 60$. He seems very confident. I don’t think he will make a move against me. I think to myself, what hands call flop that then raise turn. My very first instinct is that he would call the flop with JTo, and would have raised any K. He would have raised KQ pre, and I have a set of deuces so K2 or Q2 is highly unlikey, which really narrows his range down to Q9, or JT. I think JT calling flop is far more likely then Q9. So I’m weighting his hands to like 70% TJ, and 30% Q9. I think to myself I would really like to fill up, however if he has Q9 I’m drawing super slim to do so (3 kings) and if he has Q9 and I hit a K or the case deuce that I won’t get the rest of his money because he is counterfeited. Since I really felt that he was super strong and I had weighted his hand range more so to JT I decided to call and hope to fill up. Turn was 7d. I check, he bets 60$ again. I went with my read and I pretty quickly mucked my hand face up. The dealer quirked his eye at me and just gave me a bit of a weird look. The guy to my left just mucked his cards and kinda looked at me out of the corner of his eye. I tell the guy he had JT or Q9, and he looks at me apologetically and says Q9 and how he never put me on a set. I immediately get a hot tingly face and picked up all my chips and left. I wasn’t angry at him or anything like that kind of steamed. Just steamed I played the hand so bloody poorly (on the river). I think all other streets are fine. Especially afterwards when I calculate the odds I was getting.

So the pot was 10 + 10 + 10 + 60 + 60 +60 = 210$ I have to call $60 to win $210. 3.5:1. UGH. I didn’t put enough thought into this hand on the river and calculate my odds. I’m such a fucking idiot. I lost a big pot because of it. Serves me right.

Please people. Tell me what you think about this hand and my thought process. Just writing this out has gotten me steamed again.

I can’t finish this blog now. I’ll write another one later about the rest of my weekend.

Oh ya, I forgot about the Rat.

2007-12-21T08:24:00.000-05:00

So we have a Rat living in our Water Jet room at work. Someone spotted it a few weeks ago and proceeded to pelt it with the hose when it was in a corner, but never ended up finishing it off. I'm not a big proponant of torturing animals but I hate Rats and Mice so i just want them dead.

We decide to set some mouse traps last week and we end up catching about 8 of these little fuckers. They are always into all food left out etc. We walk in the lunchroom and one climbs out of the toaster oven and shit. UGH. So the Owners assistant hears about our problem and brings in a couple Rat traps (Just huge mouse traps). We set them for a few days and they are all triggered but have nothing in them..................until yesterday.

We come into work and look at the trap. It is upside down and has been triggered obv. 2 feet away is a dead rat and there is blood splattered in a 3ft radius. This mother effer asploded real good. It was kinda gross.

Man 1 - Rats 0.

It was a pretty nasty site. Someone decided to play with the damn thing and it was stiff as a board. Using my skills I have picked up from watching CSI.... I have determined it was dead for 8-12 hours from the Rigor that had set in. Thank you TV.

I'm bored.... can you tell?

I have to work Next monday and then get Tues and Wed off then have to work Thurs and Fri, then I get the following Tuesday off. How brutal is that? Last year we got all week off, but maybe because the way the holidays fall this year it is just not feasible. BOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I get my bonus today, I hope its like 15k. That would be sick. I'm gonna hit up the casino next week sometime I think to do some pokerings.

Oh ya, I have turned that 1.67$ into 100$ this week. That has been entertaining. I'm gonna just keep buyin in short 10$ at the 25max tables and hope to get 2-300 then go play a bit of 50max and hope I play well and win lots and get some semblence of a bankroll online again.

Peace.

Cash outs and dead Rats.

2007-12-20T08:17:00.000-05:00

Cashed out most of my online roll late last week to help pay for some of my new car. No more Audi :( boooooooo. Although alot of components are starting to die on it so over the next 6 months I would have needed a new Transmission-3k, Radiator-700, Rotors-500, Heater Core-1k. So all in all i'm happy to be rid of it. I traded it in and bought a Mazda 3. Another huge thing is gas will probably be 1/2 the price. I would get 440km / 60 L of gas. You Americans can do the conversion urself :) I think 3.3L = 1 Gal (I THINK). Anyways, that is pretty horendous milelage. The All Wheel Drive really killed gas in the city, plus it was a bigger engine not even including the fact that it needed premium fuel (92+ Ocatant) which is way more expensive. Enough complaining since it ain't my problem anymore :)

My car basically looks like this but is a metalic blue colour. Thus far im pleased with it. And heat is amazing in the winter :) haha.

I left 1.6$ online and bought into a micro limit game. Rolled that up to $2.20, Just enough to min buy into the .05/.10 NL game. It plays pretty big. Probably around a .06/.12 cent game really. Which is pretty massive. ;) Anyways, I ran that up to 5$ and sat with the min at 25max table where I won a bit more.

So now my online roll is a massive 20$ or so. Lets hope i can spin this up to 1k again and be back in the game.

Here are some hands from before I cashed out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1817967

I was 99% sure I'm ahead on all streets. I guess i don't read well. If I was him, i'd be raising the Turn 100% of the time with such a weak made hand. So many cards hurt you on the river by either killing your hand or killing your action. Pretty brutal for him to call the river raise. I have been trying to check raise the river alot more because people just don't fold any pair to a river raise. They always think its a bluff.

SICK
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1817987

This hand was super sick. I win the hand if I call flop and have him check to me on turn probably. HUGE POT.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1818418
YIPPY :)

Talk about bad flop over shove :) only 10x pot. Although I guess it's not SOOO bad because most aces will fold and only a flush or set probably calls. So maybe it's not as bad as first thought but still probably terrible.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1818739
To be honest, I was getting all my money in on the Flop. Luckily he's a giant vageeen :) Saved me a stack. Kinda a weird hand though. Lets just say I knew I was beat all the way ;) cause i read so well. haha lol Psych.

Here is one where I either got really lucky by playing it slow and having the heart come on river or got really unlucky that heart came cause they both had hearts. the over caller had a heart draw that got there according to him. 8 high or something, and the bettor must have had KQhh or AQhh. I could see a complete donk playing a set like that and shoving out of frustration when heart go there, but doubtful.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1819028
I think I played this hand perfectly. I was worried about Kings until he checks turn but I don't want to get check raised and have a really tough decision so I didn't want to lead turn and the heart isn't a horrible card for me.

Thats all for now kids.

I'm trying to update the look of this here blog.

2007-12-14T09:33:00.000-05:00

Over the next week or two I will be trying some different logos and such just as a change. If anyone likes something let me know.

If someone has any graphic design skills and want to create me a Logo for this blog that would be awesome. a 25$ transfer could be made to a poker account belonging to said person. But only if I actually use it. :) I don't want people ms painting me a piece of crap (although using ms paint is not out of the question) just make it funny/good and if i like it ull get the funds.

Be creative damn it.

I played a bit of poker last night, didn't have a ton of interesting hands. I cashed out 300$.

The only real hand I found intersting was this one.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1807843
Can anyone give me a range of his hands? I wanted to check behind on river but figured I should probably value bet because it's unlikely he's checking a flush on T and R. He pumps it up and now i'm pretty confused about his hand. No read on villain other then stats that tell me he's really REALLY loose and very passive... VPIP of 60 and PFR of 0 and his aggro factor on all streets were below 1 over about 50 hands. Which is why I folded.

One thing I noticed is that If I blog regularly I get far far less hits then if I blog once a week. This seems very strange to me because I prefer reading blogs that update daily or every other day. I despise it when people go 2 weeks without updating.

Do you guys ever try blog x times / week? or just whenever you feel like it?

Got winner again last night. This is getting scary.

2007-12-13T08:50:00.001-05:00

I really wanted to post yesterday about some nice big hands I made but got hella busy at work.

2 Nights ago things went pretty well and I won about 265$ in 600 - 700 hands.

Here are a few of the big ones. I really can’t comprehend how I am not a very wealthy man when I see some of the play on Party.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1798324
DQB? It would seem so. Good read sir.

VILLAIN BAD BEAT 1:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1799350
How on earth can this guy make this call? His small turn bet into 2 people made it look like he had a T and was trying to get raised, ummm ok, I raise!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1799357
How do people go broke here? Honestly, he beats a bluff, that is it.

So those were 3 nice hands from Tuesday night. I have noticed when I have a short bankroll I play exceedingly well. When I get a comfortable bankroll I play pretty terrible, ie. Calling too much out of position especially. I’m thinking I need to start moving up aggressively again but at the same time trying to focus on playing really solid poker. I have been playing 3 tables of 50max and 1 table of 100max but on a 50BB buy in which has gone really well, I love playing deep stacked but I’m especially good at playing short stacked, and I find it fairly easy to get over 100bb stack to play with. This make it easier to play higher while at the same time not risking too large a percentage of my bankroll. It might not make sense to a “normal” person but it does to me so fack off ya wankers.

I played a pretty quick session last night, probably only 500 hands. Same idea (3x 50NL 6max , 1x 100NL 6max 50bb deep) It went well but was a lot more of a roller coaster being stuck at the beginning of the session, getting nicely unstuck then finish slight winner on the night.

Here are some tastey treats from last night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1803420
He limps 3 handed so he’s probably got a sub par hand, I pump it up, he calls, I flop gin. He never has AK here and obv a flush is possible but I just can’t lay this down vs a weak limper 3 handed. I make my standard Cbet on flop, he thinks for a few seconds and min raises me. I decide to call and let a safe peel off before getting it in. I make my turn bet look weak in hopes that he raises me, because he is def raising a flush but I want him to try to push me off with a 1 pair hand or a bluff. It works nicely although I was pretty shocked to see how strong his hand was. Thanks for holding :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1803441
This hand I’m not really sure about, I think I played it pretty well given stack sizes and flop texture. He should have shoved flop, but oh well, I can’t fold Turn with 25$ behind into a 37$ pot, Maybe I should have but you throw in his 1 pair hands that he “bluffs” with when the 4 straight gets there and I check to him, I think I have to call. Not really sure though, I would love some feed back here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1803599
Here is another one where I’m left scratching my head. I def over bet the flop to make it look like I was trying to steal. I guess I really sold it well :)

So on a 5 or 6 day winning streak, turned 140$ in party points into 750$ this week which is nice. Lets hope I can keep playing well and winning. My confidence is definitely back so that’s always a +.

If you have not been watching High Stakes Poker this season you are missing out on some of the best nose bleed cash games around. It’s extremely entertaining.

Had a good night + Life update. - LONG

2007-12-11T07:58:00.000-05:00

So here is a run down of my day yesterday.

Got up to freezing cold temperatures and snow/ice everywhere. Decided I wanted to ride my bike to work. :D You heard me haha. I get out of the house by 7:30am and make it to work about 7:50am. Only had the tail kick out on me one time which I was able to recover from. It was pretty fun riding in the snow. It's close to trail riding in the sand. Very similar but hurts more when you fall.

At work I've been working on external Armour for a Canadian DND project and i'm about 50% done. Can't get into specifics otherwise i'll probably get fired or CSIS will come after me.((Canadian Security Intelligence Agency) It's equivalent to CIA for the most part)

So After a long days work, I get home and our house is a disaster.

FLASH BACK: - Insert Dream Sequence Here

My Wife and I had 6 of our friends over on Saturday for an X-Mas dinner. Everyone brought something. I cooked my first ever Turkey. We had a slight problem however. About 2am Friday night (Sat morning) I wake up and realize, oh shit, Sarah never bought a Turkey and it will take easily 24hrs to defrost (I know this because my mom always defrosted it for days in the fridge or at least 1 day in water in the sink. So i go back to sleep get up, tell the Mrs, she goes to the grocery store and buys a Turkey. My Wife comes home with a 10kg Turkey? WTF? (22lbs for the lay folk here) and she thought she could defrost it and have it cooked in 8 hours hahaha lol. I forgot to mention, when we woke up and I told her about the need for defrosting she actually got angry at me that I didn’t wake up her up at 2am and tell her to go buy one then. If you knew my wife you’d know how hilarious that is. It’s difficult to get her up after 15 hours of sleep let alone after 4.

But I digress, I returned the Turkey and bought a cook from frozen turkey, luckily these are available or we woulda been eating Ham. I ended up getting a 7kg Turkey (15lbs) which was perfect size for us and we had minimal left overs. The other food was broccoli and colliflower in cheese sauce. Mashed potatoes with some kind of cream cheese in them. Stuffing MMMMM really good (compliments of me). Candied Yams. I was pretty shocked to hear that only myself, my sister and my wife had ever had these before. (Yams are either the same as or very similar to sweet potatoes. The method for cooking them is in the oven with a bunch of butter and brown sugar. They become very soft and sweet. MMMMMmmmmm SOOOOOOOOOO GOOD. You have to try them. For desert my friend made the nastiest looking pumpkin spice cake with vanilla icing on it. It looked abysmal and considering I hate things of the pumpkin persuasion I was not looking forward to it. I had a piece and hot damn, it was awesome. Good job Matty.

So after dinner we sat around and played some fun ass games, 90s Trivial Pursuit, and then Taboo. Both really fun games. We quit TP before anyone one but the guys got OWNED again at Taboo. We always do Guys vs Girls and we are 0 for 3 at the moment haha. I’m pretty competitive so this is unacceptable. Maybe me and my friends need to start training.

I’m not a big drinking anymore and have never drank more then 5 or 6 glasses of wine in one night before. Well somehow I managed to drink 3 liters of Red wine over the course of the night (For Fuels sake I’ll post the types of wine as I can’t recall the spelling of the names. They were both Italian and 2006 I think. Not expensive wine but one was chosen as the best wine when we had our wine and cheese tasting party. (My pick or course.)

So I end up drunk as shit but not realizing it until I go to bed. I drink about 5 liters of water and hit the sheets about 12:30am

END FLASH BACK:

Ok, so I clean my house….. That’s the jist of it.

In between different chores I play some pokers and win 158$ which was not to shabby, I played some 100max and 200max short (50bb). I played very patiently and stuck to my game plan. If I could constantly stick to my plan I could win at almost any mid stakes level up to 5/10NL I think. Just need to get to it now.

I won a step to the next level for the Party Poker Million Cruise.

I had 0 interesting hands last night.I also watched the Leafs game. They played very well and I was really happy to see them take it to the Lightning. Toscala is playing really well finally and he’s started the last 10 games I think. Soooo glad Raycroft finally got the bench. Vesa is pretty sick when it comes cruch time which is when the Leafs really need a goalie. Razor just wasn’t there when needed.

Final score Leafs 6 Tampa 1.

WOW this is one long ass post.

Tommorow night should be a big night. We are going to buy a new car. This will be my first new car purchase ever. I currently have an Audi A4. I would like to keep it but its really starting to cost me a fortune. Parts are probably on average 3-4 x more expensive then a non luxury car, and gas is unbelievable. It is def the sickest car I’ve ever owned and I love it. It handles like a race car and the AWD is unparalleled. We are going to get an Mazda 3 GS w/ Sport package (which is the Sunroof and 16” rims) It’s a fairly nice looking car for a decent price (about 22k) and financing is 2.9% so that’s pretty good. Still undecided on 3 colours, White, Carbon Grey/Black or Metallic Blue. It’s a stick so I’ll probably get sick of driving it pretty quickly but it’s gonna be mostly for my wife so it’s not really a factor at the moment.

Well this is brutally long. I wonder if anyone actually made It this far.

Sorry for not a lot of poker content but it’s been awhile so I figured id catch up my reader on what’s been happening in my life.

D$

Back playing again.

2007-12-10T08:50:00.000-05:00

But things are going only mediocre. I'm back on Party because I just really can't stand the GotFocus programming on FTP. 27% rakeback is gold, as well as HU but at the same time HU is a sick disease that I need to stay away from. For me to really benefiet from 27% rakeback id have to play 6max cash games and FTPs setup is really difficult to see when i have them tiled on my monitors. Also PTracker does not work for more then 5 minutes at a time with FTP.

Given all of this B.S. I'm going back to Party (Plus the games are softer) and just keeping my 12.5% + Party Points.

So I'm playing 25max Thru 100max at the moment on party. I hope I can go on a sick heater and win a bunch of buy ins. I need to focus on my previously posted goals to keep a good winrate and winning attitude.

One thing I have noticed recently is that I don't have any fanboys :)

I read about 20-30 poker blogs regularly and for the most part everyone has all these small stakes players that are always posting comments etc kissing ass etc. I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering why I get a decent number of hits (for a small stakes mediocre blogger) yet don't get any comments really. It must becuase of the small stakes part. Nobody wants to look DOWN to a small stakes player. lol. People want to look UP damn it.

I post regularly, but maybe i'm not interactive enough. Maybe I need to offer some sort of prize for something or other :)

Maybe that will get me the fan boys I so desperately want. haha.

That's all for now.

POKER SUCKS

2007-12-06T13:51:00.003-05:00

I'm officially on Hiatus.

Actually i've been so for about a week now. It's very nice.

WOO HOO - Long post. It's my blog and i'll cry if I want to.

2007-11-28T08:34:00.000-05:00

blogger has been unblocked for some reason.

Unfortunately it's all bad news I have to pass on.

I have been playing 100NL HU for the past 25k hands. Boy has it been a bad stretch lately. This game is seriously sick. HU Poker has the sickest variance of anything on earth :D

OK. Here is the run down on my past 25k hands, With graphs coming tonight or tommorow.

First 8k hands, up 20 buy ins, just playing sick well, getting lucky when I need to and not sucking out, then the first of 4 15 buy in downswings occur.

I come back from that, and win 10 buy ins back. This is about 10-13k hands in.

Then the next 15 buy in downswing occurs again. (all of my -15 buy in swings and +10 swings were in single sessions.) Ex. I drop 15 buy ins, quit, come back, win 10, quick, come back win 5, quit come back lose 15.

The past few days I have literally become a complete degenerate. I can't stop playing when someone comes over, I'm making up excuses to my friend why I can't go to the gym. My wife comes home from work and its already 12am and I still can't go to bed so I play till 2am, go to bed mad, get up at 6am for work (Or try) and play poker for an hour before i leave for work which makes me late.

So all in all, im still up a bit over the 25k hand stretch. Not pretty. The swings have gotten to me emotionally and I keep going on insane hot/tingley faced tilt at least once a session which is never good for results.

I ran PokerEV (which Is becoming my friend) and I am running 9 buy ins below expectation right now in all in situations. That isn't ever fun. So i'm still getting money in ahead but just keep losing. Last night was brutal because I played 2 terrible players, was crushing them both, then they both decided they would hit ever river they could to destroy me. One of them i got unstuck on and actually finished winner when he quit me, then the other guy who was literally one of the worst players i've played, but very aggro, kept making hands vs me almost every time.

Although I did get sick lucky in this hand. :D
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1747655

This post is going to be a bit of venting because without it, I may actually kill someone....or worse yet, myself :D haha.

Just so you know, I took a bit of preventative measures last night by telling my friend to change my password. I actually go up and was 5 min late for leaving for work and was about to click (Forgot Password) to change it back when i realized, WTF am I doing. I'm turning into BlueScouce. How sick is that.

So anyways, If you don't like me ranting right now, STOP READING NOW!.

If you don't mind hearing one because I so rarely do (I humbly Opine) :D haha

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734274
I think I was beat the whole way here. I was proud of my laydown (even if he was bluffing)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734303
Sometimes I literally can't figure out what people are thinking. He beats a bluff right now, that is literally it. Weird.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734359
This one felt nice.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734418
Is it even possible to play a hand this badly? It sure as hell is, and I did it :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734455
I could have swong I was Value betting here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1734479
I played this pretty bad as well, Who the fuck Min raises this flop? I do apparently (because I suck) haha :D It's all about getting it all in way behind.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1737635
Seriously, Deuce Tre? That hurts man :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1742452
I was pretty shocked when he showed his hand.

Good Ole IanMac. - Worst HU player on FTP.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1742731
I make a good call vs the player I've won the most against. He asked me later how I run so well against him. Ahh I dunno, You SUCK? haha.. Although I did crack his aces. ;)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1742736
Value Town - Population: Some gay guy on FTP named IanMac.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1742783
Again value town.....oh wait, my bad, I guess I need to suck out :) Like i'm ever folding this flop EVER. WTF does he want me to do. haha He complained after.

WARNING

WORST PLAYED HAND OF ALL TIME - Not for the faint of heart....and It wasn't me for a change.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1743059
I 100% was valuetowning this clown. This is the guy I mentioned in my last blog who was 60vpip and 0 PFR over 150 hands HU. So sick. This was one of the gems. The best part is, I have 0 clue where I am in the hand so I just keep betting because he'd play it the same wiht the nutz, or 1 pair.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1743507
Another gem dropped on your dome piece.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744068
I like when I win. I figured my draws were big enough to rep a huge hand here, Luckily I get there and he can't fold a small pair. Thanks for not getting me there with the 6 poker jebuz.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1744172
I believe they call this a transparent bluff by villain. I was calling even without the Q.

p.s. There was lots of bluffing and rebluffing going on at this point OBV :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1746743
A slow played hand I played well....for a change :D I rarely slow play my big hands, but lately i've been raising alot pre and checking flops when I miss (especially in pos) and figured I had to do the same when I hit.

Ok so there were a lot more beats and coolers but when i'm playing and i have Pokerhand open, I try not to post any of them so that I don't think about them as much. Sometimes I jsut can't help it but mostly, I try not to.

You should see my graph...hahahhaha seriously. It looks like the Rocky Mountains.

I have about 900$ left on FTP which considering i was at 3k a couple days ago, is not very good.

I know i'm playing under rolled for 100NL HU but got on such a nice little heater of not getting sucked out on that I thought I could build an actual roll. I would say a confortable roll for this game is 7500-10,000$. Which is pretty sick.

another note: I normally never let Hit N Run artists bother me, because I know they are terrible and thats how you make alot of money at poker is from these same bad players. The only thing is, I got hit n run close to 100 times in the past week. Not exaggerated. I would say 30 times last night, people hit n run me, and 4 times was the same guy :) Even though he got it in terrible, (A2ss vs QQ) i told myself I wouldn't play him anymore. Probably irrational but give as soon as he gets to 35$ (He sits with 25$) he quits everytime and opens a new talbe with 25.

What else is going on in my life.....

Lets see.

The Leafs are pretty brutal. They can't win a game if they bribed the other team. I don't think they have won a game in a shoot out this season which is pretty pathetic.

Sundin scored his 500th career goal with 17.4 seconds to go in the 3rd to tie it up and send it into overtime, which is pretty awesome. And as usual, he is the only one who scores in the shoot out.

I got a set of Turn Tables and a mixer last weekend, unfortunately the guy forgot to give me the Power as well, so now i have to go find an AC 9v adapter with the proper connection. It is turning out to be alot more difficult then I had anticipated. They should be fun to just mess around on, I used to scratch when I started college a bit, but lost interest, I'm sure i'll lose interest this time as well :D

Work has been going ok lately, excpet for me wanting to leave early all the time. I wish i made 2x as much money and only had to work 1/2 the time. That would be pretty awesome. I'm always enthusiatic to work in the am but after lunch, everything goes to hell.

Maybe i'll update this later, but I better get back to work now.

I could use some advice on what I should do, I know I shouldn't play anymore HU but I'm defeinitely a winning player at the game, I just need to get some neutral luck going so I can win some damn monies back. I just don't know. Another reason I like HU is because i can only play 2 tables at one time so I can maximize each table on a monitor (I have 2 Obv). But when I play 6max on FTP i have to tile the tables and it makes them really tough to see because FTP sucks balls.

But i digress.

Im out.

Peace.

Back on the upswing....following a big down swong.

2007-11-26T16:59:00.000-05:00

Played a butt load of poker since my last update.

after my last update, i won another 4 buy ins at 100NL HU, and my BR was at its all time peak. Then the down swongs began. Dropped like 10-15 buy ins or something rediculous like that. It wasn't pretty.

I played terrible for alot of the weekend. And worse then that I had terrible table selection. I sat with alot of good players and it eventually wore me down and i busted all of of funds. I actually became addicted to 3 betting :) I would say at one point i was 3 betting 50% of my hands..... and not on tilt, just thinking it was a good idea at the time. haha. I'd say the loss breaks down to this (50% Suck Outs) (25% Tilt) (25% Bad Play)

Here are my FTP stats thus far. Remember this is not all the hands, i'm missing about 6k probably from when my old Db decided to die.

I just wrote all of this and then played some donk and he CRUSHED me.
he had 60ish VPIP and 0 PFR% so sick. jsut got there everytime no matter what.

had a 600$ stack when he left then a few others decided to crush me as well, ex, QQ vs A3o on 389 board. he donk leads, i raise to 50$ he has 76$ and shoves :) 3 on river.

i was super steamed, but went to do some housework and im ok now

if im bored later ill still post my updated stats. Ugh
sosick

Poker Is Fun, For Everyone, Except My Opponents!

2007-11-22T20:53:00.000-05:00

They shoulda practiced avoidance.
VILLAIN BAD BEAT OF THE MONTH!

Full Tilt Poker, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (SB): $111.85
BB: $451.05

Pre-Flop: K K dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $4, BB raises to $12, Hero raises to $29, BB raises to $46, Hero raises to $111.85 and is All-In, BB calls $65.85

Flop: ($223.70) 9 4 6 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($223.70) 3 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($223.70) K (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $223.70 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
Hero showed K K (three of a kind, Kings) and WON $223.20 (+$111.35 NET)
BB showed A A (a pair of Aces) and LOST (-$111.85 NET)

On another table right after this happend I turned a flush and over raised to make it look like I was bluffing, i get called by QQ (Turn was Qd giving him top set) and he rivered a boat. So I kinda gave it right back but it still felt glorious cracking those aces :)

It was a perfect setup if he had any other hand other then aces. I had just lost a big pot to him the hand before where he had A2dd i had 99. I played it up at the end of the hand that i was super pissed and tilting and when he raised me on this hand i was getting excited in the pants. Turns out I was playing myself. :)

Here is a graph of my pokerings today on FTP

Ill do a 25k hand update once I get my PT database all fixed up nicely.

EDIT:

Finished the night up 902$ :) sweet. 9 buy ins. I love HU POKER. You get to 100% focus on the fishies and not have to worry about all the other TAGs.

Here are some hands from tongiht to show how bad these guys really are.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1729403
He only beats a bluff.

The ultimate hand right now. MUST READ
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1729742 - Nice call for 150bb with the ole 4 high :) haha i thought we split when he called but then saw him reload, i was like HUH?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1729745
As soon as i checked the river i knew it was a mistake beause any counterfeited 2 pair would check behind which was his most likely holding given the way the hand played out. The reason I did check was so I could get him to bluff off his last chips, I played this badly on Turn and the River in my opinion.

Thats it for tonight. L8r ya'll.

2 hands - and a solid night at the tables.

2007-11-21T20:59:00.000-05:00

I played very well tonight. Made a few sick calls, although I did feel like I was creepping back into the old habit of trying to make hero calls so as soon as i noticed that I stopped making them.

I finished the night up 4 buy ins at 100NL HU. FTP is starting to get used to me playing on it's site and i'm starting to get used to it's ugliness and terrible design. haha

Here is a hand that I thought villain played exceptionally bad. Mainly because it's so obvious he has a Full House or air. Not the best spot to bluff a good player (ME) hahaha. No seriously, I think I'm pretty good. This guy ended up bluffing off about 2 buy ins to me by bluffing every chance he got. Any time I had Top pair I would Bet flop, check turn and he would fire pot river over and over :) I like opponents like that.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4252697102: Table Skin (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:10:46 ET - 2007/11/21
Seat 1: Phair111 ($100)
Seat 2: ikon33 ($140.40)
Phair111 posts the small blind of $0.50
ikon33 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #1

Holecards:
Dealt to Phair111 [ ]
Phair111 raises to $4
ikon33 raises to $12
Phair111 calls $8

Flop:
[ ]
ikon33 has 15 seconds left to act
ikon33 checks
Phair111 checks

Turn :
[ ] [ ]
ikon33 has 15 seconds left to act
ikon33 bets $15
Phair111 calls $15

River :
[ ] [ ]
ikon33 has 15 seconds left to act
ikon33 bets $42
Phair111 calls $42

Showdown :
ikon33 shows [ ] two pair Aces and Fours
Phair111 shows [ ] two pair Aces and Queens
Phair111 wins the pot ($137 .50) with two pair Aces and Queens

SUMMARY:
Total pot $138 | Rake $0 .50
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: Phair111 (small blind) showed [ ] and won ($137.50) with two pair Aces and Queens
Seat 2: ikon33 (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with two pair Aces and Fours

As I'm writing this I am watching BoostedJ and TimeServed play HU 25/50NL and saw this happen. I thought 100% that TimeServed was bluffing, although they have to think so many levels above me. I do like the way he played it to c/c and then c/r river knowing Boosted will be Value betting thin and is capable of calling him thin on the river.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4253808873: Table Manor (heads up) - $25/$50 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:02:19 ET - 2007/11/21
Seat 1: TimeServed ($17 304.25)
Seat 2: Boosted J ($17 091)
Boosted J posts the small blind of $25
TimeServed posts the big blind of $50
The button is in seat #2

Holecards:
IDONTPLAYSHTY (Observer): thats who TimeServed is
Boosted J raises to $150
TimeServed raises to $450
Boosted J calls $300

Flop:
[ ]
TimeServed checks
Boosted J checks

Turn:
[ ] [ ]
TimeServed checks
Boosted J bets $900
TimeServed calls $900

River:
[ ] [ ]
TimeServed checks
Boosted J has 15 seconds left to act
Boosted J bets $1 350
TimeServed has 15 seconds left to act
TimeServed raises to $3 400
Boosted J has 15 seconds left to act
Boosted J has requested TIME
Boosted J : you got a good hand?
Boosted J: or like T8?
Boosted J calls $2,050

Showdown:
TimeServed shows [ ] a straight Seven high
Boosted J mucks
TimeServed wins the pot ($9 499 .50) with a straight Seven high

SUMMARY:
Total pot $9 500 | Rake $0 .50
Board:
[ ]
Seat 1: TimeServed (big blind) collected ($9 499.50)
Seat 2: Boosted J (small blind) mucked

Issues and Issues

2007-11-20T20:27:00.000-05:00

Well, my first issue is that I seem to have an incredible ability to get UNstuck from a session. The only problem is I should never be bluffing so much at the beginning of the sessions to get myself stuck in the first place.

My other issue is that my poker tracker has decided to shit it's preverbial pants and not work at all anymore. I've lost close to 10k hands now and it's becoming exceedingly annoying.

I won't be able to post quite as often as my work blocked Blogger.com. Not blogspot.com so I can still read everyones, but am unable to post. Boooo.

There is a well known mid stakes player that is looking for people to stake. I've thrown my name in the ring to be Staked/Coached. I have already looked into 3-bet.net for coaching and am considering going that route, but then I saw him post the staking proposition and figured it would be worth it's weight in gold just for the coaching alone. If i could get up to medium stakes (2/4-3/6NL) and be even a small winner it will make what I earn at 50NL - 100NL look like pocket change....which in fact it is :D.

I kinda hope he contacts me so that we can at least discuss it and I can get a better feel for the pros and cons in my specific situation.

Well. Wish me luck. I was a small winner tonight while watching the leafs game. Didn't want to push it because most of my focus was on the hockey game.

L8r.

7000 hands today OMG

2007-11-19T01:07:00.000-05:00

Had a bohemuth session that culminated in me getting stuck like 4 buy ins at 100max HU in 2 or 3 minutes. i spent the next 4 hours battling back to win 100 :) Here are some of the big hands i won.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1715142 - First big pot I won. About 2 hours in :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1715191
This was a sick read villain made. I often would raise turn in this spot, but villain had almost never double barrlled me even when he had good hands so when he did this I was pretty confused. My river bet was a bit small I think but I'm sure he was still calling. I rarely try to bluff with big bets, i try to keep them small and make them look like I want to be called. BACKFIRE :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1715210
This hand was one of the very few mistakes villain made the entire session. He played pretty well, but he really can't check behind on the river. He has to fire river if he calls. actually the more i think about it the wierder this hand is and the harder it is to play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1715250
BIG POPPY. Thats all i'm gonna say :)

Sick call.

2007-11-18T20:52:00.001-05:00

I'm good.
Full Tilt Poker, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players

LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $187.70
SB: $102.70

Pre-Flop: 5 4 dealt to Hero (BB)
SB raises to $3, Hero raises to $9, SB calls $6

Flop: ($18) 2 4 3 (2 Players)
Hero bets $14, SB calls $14

Turn: ($46) 2 (2 Players)
Hero checks, SB checks

River: ($46) K (2 Players)
Hero checks, SB bets $79.70 and is All-In, Hero calls $79.70

Results: $205.40 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
Hero showed 5 4 (two pair, Fours and Twos) and WON $204.90 (+$102.20 NET)
SB showed 6 8 (a pair of Twos) and LOST (-$102.70 NET)

Look out Middle East. I AM YOU'RE NEW LEADER!

2007-11-18T10:46:00.000-05:00

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Poker related: had a pretty sick HU match last night as well as another this morning.

Last nights match was probably the most boring i've played in a long time. Just like 5-10bb pots over and over and over. I ground him down after 2 hours or so after initially giving him a bunch right off the bat. Then I said to myself, I'm bored i'm gonna go crazy....then I caught myself and realized I just thought it because I was very tired. I told myself i was going to keep battling as hard as I could. I ended up telling him in the chat window that he was the most boring person I had ever played HU against and then he said, ok ill raise every hand. After this I destroyed him :) He ended up CALLING my shove on the turn a bit later when i had 99 on QJxx board for a pot sized bet w/ KT. That was pretty shocking. then I got another stack a bit later when he called my turn shove I had AQo on KdTs5c7d w/ A6dd haha. i was shocked again. I won both luckily and finished around even on the night.

Todays session was pretty crazy.

I played 4x 50NL 6max and 2x 100NL HU tables. One HU table. I sit and the first hand he raises his button, I 3 bet pot, he 4 bets pot, i 5 bet shove. MY hand Q8o. I had never played this guy before but very often people will think you're bull shitting when u 3 bet on the first hand HU. His raises didn't feel very strong so I decided shove was good because he probably folds and also if he calls Its probably going to pay off later for me cause he'll think i'm on tilt. He folded instantly.

Next hand i get AA and raise button. He folds DAMN IT. that would have been a perfect setup.

Next hand he raises, i 3 bet, he 4 bets i shove w/ KQo and he folds again.

2 hands later, He raises, I 3 bet, he 4 bets, I shove, he snap calls w/ TT, gg me. Oh wait, I have KK. nevermind I WIN. hahah

All within 2 minutes. We played for awhile longer but i decided to go back to my normal style after the KK hand. Nothing really happend after that.

So that's all. I'm up about 100$ the last 2 days...booooo haha. Probably up 300$ in rakeback though so thats nice.

I'm going to go clean my car now and then i'm off the the Knights game this afternoon.

Restults are in

2007-11-17T15:57:00.000-05:00

And i'm playing great poker. Luckily my results are showing as well.

Had a good week but havn't been able to play as much as i'd like....maybe thats why I'm playing well.

I really want to thank CMitch for shipping me his PAHUD setup for FTP. it's awesome. NEver knew about COMBINED stats until i opened it up haha. SWEET

Ive made some slight adjustments and tweaks and im loving it.

My wife is working until Monday night so I may consider hitting up Windsor Casino or Fallsview sunday. Havn't played live in awhile. I'm jonsing for a big cash game day.

Ill post some graphs or hands n shtuff later.

im trying to play now.

Well, I guess I'm getting on the FTP is rigged boat :)

2007-11-13T22:04:00.000-05:00

Full Tilt Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker Hand History Converter

UTG: $73.80
MP: $23.10
CO: $86.10
BTN: $16
Hero (SB): $49
BB: $36.75

Pre-Flop: T 8 dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG folds, MP raises to $1.75, CO calls $1.75, BTN folds, Hero calls $1.50, BB folds

Flop: ($5.75) 5 8 8 (3 Players)
Hero checks, MP checks, CO checks

Turn: ($5.75) 5 (3 Players)
Hero checks, MP bets $4, CO calls $4, Hero raises to $11, MP calls $7, CO calls $7

River: ($38.75) 2 (3 Players)
Hero bets $20, MP calls $10.35 and is All-In, CO raises to $40, Hero calls $16.25 and is All-In

Results: $121.60 Pot ($3 Rake)
MP mucked Q A (two pair, Eights and Fives) and LOST (-$23.10 NET)
CO showed 5 5 (four of a kind, Fives) and WON $118.60 (+$69.60 NET)
Hero mucked T 8 (a full house, Eights full of Fives) and LOST (-$49 NET)

It was not a pretty night :)
I cashed out 1000$ from party cause it was going so badly.

FTP also not great.

Full Tilt can lick my shweaty testicle.

2007-11-13T08:21:00.000-05:00

I hate FTP. The interface is so hard on the eyes when multi tabling. I played 3 talbes of 50NL 6max tables. 1 table of 100NL HU on FTP, and 4 tables of 50NL 6max on Party. Party is light years ahead of FTP for "viewability". Not only that but FTP is incredibly slow. It lags my computer to have 4 tables going with PAHUD and PT running at the same time. I can have 8 tables on party going and it all works fine. I also hate the "Got Focus" on FTP. When i'm trying to type in notes it keeps bringing the focus away from there to another table. It's getting pretty frustrating. My eyes hurt after a few minutes of the session. This would all still be a problem even if i was actually winning hahah. I keep getting killed on FTP :)
The following is not (Completely me telling a bad beat).

2 limps, I make Standard raise w/ QhJh from the BB. flop is AQJr. I cbet 6$ he calls. Turn is a 6. I bet 15$ he shoves, I calland he shows J6o. I litearlly think, "Awesome, he's drawing dea....." As I say the word dead the 6 peels on the river :) hahah. Ship it the wrong way. I had to laugh about that one :)

So anywhoore. I am starting to sound like a complainer......Which is not what I'm into. But i had to vent just a tad ;)

I did however spew about a buy in last night, but that was right at the beginning of the session. I always do that when getting accustomed to new software. I was also spending hours trying to get my PAHUD setup properly with FTP. I was stuck 7 buy ins at one point. Battled till very late in the night and finished down 4. Finished up on party so that is good. The play is so much worse at party also, well maybe not worse but just alot more passive which is very condusive to my style so I can easily abuse the players . FTP still has alot of bad play, but the players are alot more TAG.

Ok i have an "ethics" question while playing HU.

I know from playing alot of HU cash games that when someone sits with a strange amount (Non full buy in) that they are a) Playing with their whole Bankroll, and b) are most likely a huge fish.

I've been trying to exploit this thinking lately when I play HU Cash by buying in for around 1/2 - 2/3 of a buy in...and change. Like $47.49. I will play for a few minutes like this and then either add a bit to my stack every few hands or just reload full. I think it gives me an advantage because first impressions do mean alot and most people (Myself included) think that the .49 cents means i'm a fish. Last night playing 100max HU I do this, I lose a medium sized pot on one of the first hands when villain rivers a boat (He flopped a set) I had Ace high and made a hero call on the river thinking my hand was good from the way he played it. He tricked me good and now his image of me being a huge fish in 100% reinforced. This is not a normal thing I do bit I really wanted to push my fish image. The very next hand I pick up QQ, Unfortunately I only have 35$ left because I didn't have time to reload full. Unfortuantely because it cost me money but oh well. I raise Btn to 4$, he calls. Flop is QhTd5d. Now I think to myself, this guy thinks i'm a pretty massive fish at this point so what would a fish do in this spot after raising 4x bb preflop. I know, they'd bet 1$. I fire 1$ into the ole 8$ pot with the nutz. He raises me pot. I don't want to scare him so I call. He checks turn, now I'm like ok, he probably has a piece so how can I continue my fishiness. I know, I'll bet 1$ again. NOTE: I don't think id have the stones to do this 100bb deep because of the suck out factor and me being unable to laydown top set if i get outdrawn. This time he calls. River is a T. Now I think to myself........ WAIT, he open shoves. Umm ok. I call. He shows ATo. and says wow, you outplayed me. haha i laugh and say thats unlikely. I reload shortly after this and we play for 5 min, then he sits out and says "You buy in for a weird amount then reload? WTF?" I say, I had money on antoher table that I closed. He doesn't buy it. I ask him to give me table then he says no and he's not playing me anymore. I sit out and say ok, I ain't leavin either though. After 5 min I say lets just play. He agrees and I go on to scoop another half a buy in off of him without playing any big hands. Just grinding him down. I quit at 1am and sleep cause im exhausted.

Was this a shiester move for me to pull? I think it's funny and or +EV.

Here are some hands from last night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1691932
How terrible am I :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1691854
This my friends is a sick read. I really did put him on the exact hand he had. And if he had AJ, i had striaght outs and an over card, if he had a set (Unlikely) I had the straight and flush outs etc. But i was fairly certain he held his exact hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1692827
Wow, this guy had a sick read on me :) - Luckily for me I'm a 65% favourite on the flop :)

So those are all for the night really. I'll keep the shitty beats to myself (or better yet i'll forget all about them).

This post went from me literally just wanting to say Party good, Full Tilt bad to the monstrosity that you have just read.

I'm out.

L8r.

Weekend in review + a bit of poker.

2007-11-12T10:10:00.000-05:00

This weekend was fairly low key.

Friday night I went flying with my friend Chris that just got his Pilots licence. I had never been in a sesna before so I was a tad nervous. I’m not afraid of heights by any means, nor am I afraid of flying. I am just slightly worried when I put my life in someone else’ hands and especially when that person is still fairly new to whatever dangerous thing we happen to be doing at the time.

I enjoy thrill seeking so I was still pretty excited. We signed in, did the walk around etc, and got onto the runway for take off. We were flying a Sesna 172. It is a 4 seater prop plane.

Take off: Piece of cake. The plane got up to speed surprisingly fast. Take off was a breeze. I was most worried right after take off when we are relatively close to the ground so that is something went wrong we a) don’t have enough air speed to really do anything or b) not enough altitude to dive into a glide.

Once we reached about 2500 feet I was fine. I did have some compression problems in the ole noggin, but I was able to cope fine with them. It got a little uncomfortable when we did some more aggressive banking but I was ok.

One thing I was not expecting was the zeroes my friend pulled (without warning me first). This was actually the most fun part of the flight even though I nearly shat myself. It made the flight seem like your own personal roller coaster. The first time he did it I literally just held my breath the entire time. Then the next time he did something semi scary and unexpected I realized I can just look at his or our other friends face to see if they looked freaked out and if they didn’t I knew it was “normal”. :) That actually worked out well for me.

Then came the really scary part. He let me fly. He only explained briefly about the wheel going left or right and using your foot pedals for yaw. The problem was he never really explained the pushing forward or pulling out part. I learned that as we started climbing a little to quickly because I wasn’t sure wtf I was doing. Having 0 experience flying and taking the stick was pretty frightening. If I had been in a plane a few times and had an idea of what is normal and what not I probably would have been ok. Either way it was effing fun :) That’s C.G.

After flying my one friend came over, we rented a movie (Invisible) which was ok. Nothing special. Then we just played some 360 for a bit then I shipped his ass home cause I had to get up for work on Saturday.

I came into work because we had to bond some Spall Liner into one of the prototype LAVs. Engineers were doing it because we are lacking in manpower that knows how to install it as well as time constraints so we just did it ourselves. Not that I am a pro at it, but I picked it up quickly and it was a decent day. Hot as hell in the vehicle but still got a lot done. Plus it was a nice change of pace from sitting in front of my computer designing and watching SolidWorks crash 124 times a day.

Just baby sat my Nephew the rest of the night Saturday. He’s the cutest damn kid ever. Way cuter then JJoks kids.

Sunday the wife and I met up with a few friends for breakfast at “Next Door” a pretty classy spot. Had an awesome breakfast and 6 of us chatted about our thoughts on where we all want to go for a vacation. We are doing the group thing with 7 or 8 of us. We spent most of the afternoon looking through books and on the internet at a friends place for spots to go. Anyone have any thoughts on cruise or resorts? Anyone been to Costa Rica? I could use some advice on places to go.

Poker related:

Played for about an hour on Saturday. Had a few people over shove when I had flopped a set when they had Top pair medium kickers which was awesome.

Won 2 buy ins on Saturday.

Sunday played for another hour or so but this time I used my rake back account on Full Tilt and made a deposit so I could get there 600$ bonus. Ended up about 2 buy ins there as well. The play seemed a lot different on FTP then on PP. People raised flops a lot more often and played back at you a lot more. It could be the tables I was on so I’m not sure. I have no data mined hands from the site so my table selection is non existent right now.

Does anyone know how to data mine FTP? Just open tables and voila???

Here are some hands from the weekend.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1683262
Haven’t had this happen in so long I can’t even remember.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1683327
Nice hand sir. :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1683343
Another nice one. I remember when I would tilt a bit and never really used pot control, I used to do this same thing and just be like, fuck him if he has a set. Just so everyone knows, that is NOT a winning strategy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1688708
This guy had just lost a big pot the hand previous and I was fairly certain he didn’t have a hand. Turns out he did have a monster. Oh wait, 83o not a monster? Oh my bad. I like my play even if I miss I still shove and I doubt he calls although maybe he was on monkey tilt and would have called anyways, Either way I’m a genius right? Again and again they always forget if I don’t have it when I raise I just get there by the river.

I would have to say I’m probably one of the luckiest people in poker. I honestly believe that. I don’t know what it is. I’m not just lucky in poker, I’m also lucky in life. It’s weird. Things are just always going my way. Life is Good. What can I say other then that.

What a sick night of poker.

2007-11-09T10:58:00.000-05:00

Played about 1000 hands last night.

Spewed a little bit but for the most part got a large majority of the money in as a big favourite and lost on the turn alot.

Hero has 100$
Villain has 35$
Example, TT, vs AJo. He raises to 3$. I 3 bet to 7$. He calls, flop comes 998. I cbet 13$. he calls and turns a J. I shove for our last 15$ into the 40$ pot and he obv wins.

That happend quite a bit last night, or situations similar.

I ended up losing a shit load of money. had 500$ in my one account, got it down to 80.85$ and was pretty annoyed. Said fuck it and jumped on a 2/4NL table. It was such a juicy table. I just waited for any kind of decent hand and shoved over a raiser and caller. 3 of the 6 players had VPIP over 35 so they were all pretty terrible. 2 tough spots.

My first all in I got really lucky. UTG opens to 14$. i shove for 90$ complete donk insta calls, UTG folds. Donk shows AQo so that is ok. Flops a Q. i turn a 9 and praise the gods :)

Needless to say I ended the night up $140. Which is pretty awesome considering. So i scooped 500$ at 2/4NL.

Here are a few intesrting hands from all sessions.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679074
This is one of my first hands. I think he has to have KsQx alot here. Not easy fold but I'll make it most of the time when i'm playing well.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679123
At first I thought I should have probably check called the turn because he's pretty aggro but there are alot of scare cards that can come and with 2 flush draws out on the turn I think a shove is probably best imo.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679152
Villain seems decent but we havn't tangled in any hands or significance. My image is solid I think. Another big laydown by me. For some reason I felt like when he called my 3 bet pre He has Aces. His flop call is pretty strong and then his turn bet is also. We are both semi deep so I am not very happy about this, and now i've built a big pot oop with what feels like the worst hand on a great board for my hand. UGH. Fold seemed safest.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679173
Here is a strange hand. My river raise was actually for value partially and as a bluff partially. Not 100% either. Which is weird. I really felt like I had the best hand but didn't want to call to see him show up with a small pocket pair so I decided to raise thinking i'm most likely good + if i'm not he really can't call with the hand I put him on.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679418
I have no idea If i played this hand well or poorly. I wanted to raise flop, I guess I should have. then fired turn again. I probably pick up the pot that way. I think he played his hand well. Fooled the shit out of me. I was 100% I had best hand on the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679633
Here is one of the few big pots I played at 2/4NL. I was kinda stuck on what to do with his min raise. I really wanted to shove because he's a complete moron. (Ex. He has min 3 bet pre, then 2x pot bet flop and when called, min bets turn, gets min raised, and calls, board is AQ35. Bets river for like 20$ into a huge pot, gets min raised and calls with 77, buddy shows TT. hahah honestly, that is how fuckin insane this table is. But I digress. He insta min raises as he does almost all the time with any hand, I decided to peel knowing my K and T are good, plus I still might have best hand with K high showdown value. Anyways, I hit and double. Either way, i'm a huge luck sack. It's nice to get unlucky at micro and get very lucky at medium limits haha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1679657
Here is a standard hand by me, not so standard by anyone else. Are you serious? did this guy just shove? My friend says while sweating me "3 way chop" I said, no way, I guarantee 1 of them doesn't have an Ace. Turns out nobody does. What hand does the guy in last position have? Not KQ surely. Maybe QJ? whatever he had i'm sure glad he didn't bet turn. :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1680177
Found this fish giving money away on tilt right before I went to bed. Thanks sir. 90% sure this guy doesn't check any 5 on the turn and 100% that he doesn't on the river. I call pretty quickly.

So all in all an fucking roller coaster of a night. Felt amazing to get unstuck. I really wish I just had a huge bankroll one day and could start playing the 2/4NL games. That would be pretty nice. I'm really being greedy with that last statment. I should jsut be happy i still have a mediocre Bankroll for playing 50max. Only floating around 1300$ or so. I have stats showing + results for my past 300k hands, at limits that I'm bankrolled for and then having weak mental discipline occasionally and all my hard work goes to shit. I'm gonna play 2 tables for awhile and see if i can focus a bit more.

I think I would like to get into playing tournaments and sit n goes again like the old days but it's really just way to mentally disabling and makes me go on bloody life tilt with how badly so many people play. It's just so much easier to abuse bad play at cash games then in tournaments. It's a totally different animal.

I need to get something going though. I'm on about a 25k break even stretch I think. Not healthy.

Small loss. + Politics are making me angry.

2007-11-08T12:24:00.000-05:00

Here are a few hands of interest from last night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675763
The cold caller is an absolutely horrible player who will commit large sums of money with shitty draws and even air sometimes. I think this is a perfect spot to take advantage of the 3 bettor who seems decent so I put him on a smallish range of hands (TT+, AJo+ and occasionally some Suited Connectors) I am unsure how obvservant or strong he is given how bad the BB is, he may want to call and let him come along cause he is the most likely to stack off with a marginal hand. That is if he had AA or KK. This to me is the best spot I could find to squeeze. BB is terrible so he obviously doesn't have a very good hand and the 3 bettor needs AA or KK to shove on me which I don't think he has.

BB is bad and obviously hits :) gg stack.

VILLAIN BAD BEAT OF THE DAY
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675930
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)

When he shoves i'm really worried about a big flush but I don't fold sets ever....... :) Thanks Doyle. haha When there is a flush or a straight out just pretend you don't see it right? haha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1676032
Wow, I really fuckin blew this one. I was pretty sure he was bluffing but fuckin choked on the 4 bet on the flop. I decided I wanted him to bluff at it again. I c/r ai and he unfortunately had hit his 5 outter. Shtanky. As soon as I called his flop 3 bet I knew i made a mistake. Then on turn I don't think it's as big of a mistake as the flop was. Ugh.

I just found out my friend at work is quitting. We are shooting the shit and I don't feel like typing up alot of crap about politics right now. Maybe i'll do it tonight when I get home.

Peace.

WTF do I do here? Pitch it on flop?

2007-11-07T18:04:00.000-05:00

Party Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players

Hero (UTG): $71.60
MP: $25.18
CO: $72.80
BTN: $135.27
SB: $49.25
BB: $48.75

Pre-Flop: A K dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $2, MP folds, CO calls $2, BTN folds, SB calls $1.75, BB folds

Flop: ($6.50) A 4 5 (3 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $7, CO raises to $17, SB calls $17, Hero calls $10

Turn: ($57.50) 6 (3 Players)
SB checks, Hero checks, CO checks

River: ($57.50) J (3 Players)
SB checks, Hero checks, CO bets $53.80 and is All-In, 2 folds

Results: $57.50 Pot

CO mucked and WON $108.43 (+$89.43 NET)

Updateaments

2007-11-07T09:40:00.001-05:00

Played for an hour or so before dinner last night. My wife made me my favourite (Chicken Parmasean) and it was actually hands down the best chicken parm i've ever had. Which is saying alot. Well done missy, well done.

Well I won about 15$ before dinner. Went and watched the leafs game after dinner and once it hit 4-1 I decided I should probably go upstairs and play poker which would be more productive then crying on my couch while watching the Leafs get demolished by the Sens. FACK.

So I scooped about 2 buy ins in my session last night. Played pretty well. I cashed out 600$ and put it in moneybookers and opened a new FTP account in my wifes name using rakereduction.com which I have no idea if I will like this site or not. It does allow you to cash out your rake whenever you want to so that is always a positive thing. 27% rakeback will be sick. I get a wopping 12.5% on my normal site (Which ur not allowed to get rakeback on) right now. So at least it's something. FTP games will probably be a bit tougher without as many Euro drunks but I'll give it a shot and hopefully things go well. I always seem to have trouble getting PAHUD to work properly with sites other then party so hopefully it goes smoothly. Also I can get the 100% bunus up to 600$ although it will take like a year to get it haha.

Just hope I can be a 5PT bb/100 winner on FTP as I have been on PP.

No intersting hands from last night. Although one hilarious one. I open 2$ UTG w/ AA, CO shoves for 30$ i call, flops a Q turns a Q, river is T. I have a bad feeling I lose and he rolls KQo :) NEWMANIUM. haha.

Kenny MacLeod Great blog I just started reading.

Wow, HSP. i completely forgot to talk about that yesterday.

Quick one since this is long already.

How sick would that have been if Guy lost w/ Nutz over Nutz. haha so gross :) Especially vs David B. This 500k buy in is going to be sooo gross. I love it. It was a very exciting entertaining show and it shows the difficultly of playing ultra deep stacked poker when Doyle folds his T high flush vs Jamie. If they were 200k deep he wins all his money. 500k deep, quite a different story. Jamie Gold has improved alot but you can see why he is still a huge fish/amature. He exuded strength on a hand he was beat. Any rational/decent player would be quite worried about a bigger flush but not Jamie. He's like, I have a 9 high flush, I have the nutz.

Anyways, can't wait for next Monday.

Peace.

Calm after the storm.....

2007-11-06T08:37:00.000-05:00

Well after my disaterous decisions on stars to play 2/4HU NL full stacked and keep reloading....

I have put together a respectable showing since.

I drop 1200 on stars, only to pick up 700ish playing smaller on Party. lol upswingaments.

I am back to playing my 50max game regularly. I am having trouble staying past the 10 buy in win at this level. I keep fluctuating my last 15k hands or so. I need to reevalute my game and get my goals restated and my leaks shorn up.

It is my birthday today and i'm 28 years old. Wow, in the online world i'm bloody ancient. Luckily I'm still a God though.

The weekend was filled with alot of birthday related stuff which i'm not feeling like getting into at the moment. One thing I am excited about though is my purchase of Indiana Jones Trilogy on DVD. I used to have it on Tape haha. I love those movies. I went to purchase Guitar Hero III but they didn't have any wireless ones so i say ixney to that.

Last night I played a 1000 hand session and finished +9.60$ haha. i won quite a few big pots but lost a bunch, some to beats, some to spew. I took beats in a few big ass pots and I feel i spewed a ton in small to medium pots all session. I need to evaluate and figure how to stop doing that.

I definitely think i'm trying to hard to win every pot I play again. I need to relax and just let it flow. Not try to force it so much.

Here are a few hands, for better or for worse :) Check em out if you like. Leave feedback for any you think I played badly.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668105
I played this hand a bit weird. I chose to check flop since I have a piece but don't want to get pushed off the best hand. When I pick up my flush draw I decided I easily could have the best hand but if not it would be very tough for him to continue if I shove. My hand looks like a set.
Position is a beautiful thing.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668108
I'm not posting this cause it was a "bad beat" I'm posting it asking if I played it to get the most information out of my opponents before committing alot of chips. The big stack to my left I have to worry about, If i check, he probably checks no matter what and lets the PFR fire a Cbet, then i'm stuck in the middle and must committ alot of chips without knowing where I am in the hand. I donk lead here to see if he calls and if he does I fold to the Preflop raisers shove (His shove is inevitable).

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668199
This is a very intersting hand...oh wait, not it's not. It's just funny :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668207
Here I thought it would be a great card to bluff at and am beyond shocked that this guy is such a huge Vageen and can't shove on the river. Given my hand he obviously got the max, but I could easily have AK in this spot, or AJ, AQ and still bet the river for value after he checks behind on turn. Weird / Bad way to play a set?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668372
This one made me feel good.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668376
Big bluff gone right. I really did think I knew exactly where he was in the hand. No pair but with the Ace of spades. I would do the same thing If i was him although I'd shove river after I missed haha. I had a good read on this guy and was willing to go with it. I could honestly have the best hand at this point anyways. I couldn't take that chance incase he had As5x or something so I had to shove river, he insta mucked so I think he just had lone Ace of spades. Flame away gents.

Ok this hand was pretty insane.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1668478 Villain is 12/12/37 over 390 hands. Thats right I said 37 Total Aggression factor. How sick is that. I think we see now why. :) Nice hand sir.

So thats all for intersting shit.

Holler.

I should start killing the games again Wednesday night after I go flying with my friend.

He is taking his written test for his Pilots licence today. We wanted to go tonight but it's windy and supposed to snow. Hopefully tommorow we can get a flight in. I havn't ever been in a small plane before. I'm actually kind of scared. I heard it's very rough.

-1200 on stars today. OMG PUKE hahaha

2007-11-03T15:16:00.000-04:00

It was bound to catch up to me.

Up 700ish on party though. So it's not a complete write off.

Here is my Updated PT stats @ 75k hands

2007-11-03T00:56:00.000-04:00

I added the HU i've been playing on stars. 12 levels is all shown, 22 levels is all shown + a bunch of other random stuff, like limit etc which i'm apparently incredible at breaking even at.

Here are a few hands from tonights HU session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657726
Standard. i don't think he calls a 4 bet w/ AJo. Thank you no ace.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657811
I think I played this hand very well but got coolered by the 9 on the river. The only card I go broke with. Eww. I would really like some thoughts from you guys about how I played this hand. It's a fairly standard play by me on the turn to check raise with a pair and a straight draw there.

What do you think of donk lead turn and when he raises shoving? I don't think that can be that horrible.

Ok these were funny hands. Within 2 minutes i went from 1 buy in at the table to 5 :) woo hoo.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657827
This may seem a little extreme but remember it's HU. haha. It felt right, thats all I can say. I hit as always :) and he loses his mind.

One minute later this hand comes up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657831
All i can say is, thank you Jebuz.

Here is a pretty interesting hand. It made me kinda wanna puke.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657914
Id have to say it was a pretty amaizing read by him. As you can see from previous hands i raise flops with all kinds of flush draws and bet when I hit so he could be doing this drawing 100% dead.

Here is a really weird hand. I'll just throw it in here because its 95hh :)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1657985

I played this hand so well that i got way more then I ever should have.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1658015
My turn bet was so strange I really wanted it to look super weak and have him raise me, however he smooth calls and I immediately decide to time down a bunch and bet pot to make it look like I missed my draw and am bluffing. Works like a charm.

I was stuck alot a few times today but kept grinding the HU tables and winning it all back +. Thats a great feeling but I need to start using better game selection. And also sit with short stacks because they are oh so bad. It's frustrating when you sit with an unknown with full stacks and it turns out he's a really great HU Player. You can't tell for 15-20 hands or so and by that time i'm usually stuck a bit and want to stay till i can bet back to even. bad idea i know.

I took my whole family + out for dinner at my favourite Chinese food restaurant tonight. It was awesome. 11 people and I paid. And it's my own damn bday :) I like taking my family out for dinner on my bday. I don't know why. It makes me feel good to buy a big dinner for everyone I love and that has helped me out so much in the past. It was many hundreds of dollars but worth every penny.

Tommorow night me and my crew (12 of us) are going to Tony Romas for a delicious Rib dinner then out to party for my bday. I'm the big Deuce Eight.

My actual bday isn't till next Tuesday but i'll accept $ transfers any time up to and including that day as presents. Actually i'll accept them after as well.

FUCK, why do my blog entrys end up being so long, you degenerates don't want to read about my boring ass life haha.

My eyes are burning. Peace.

A few hands from last nights session

2007-11-02T08:19:00.003-04:00

Finished up a few hundred.

Played on stars 2 tables of HU 100max. Started out vs an opponent who was possibly one of the worst most predictable people I have ever played in my life. Obviously he won a bunch of me hahaha. He started with 20$ left wiht 80 or something. I had him up to 100$ and down to 20$ again about 5 times. I never got a hand vs him. One time I had OESD vs his T2o on Th9c4h board. he called my flop c/rai and i bricked. Literally every time he'd miss he checks, i bet anything he folds. Any time he hits he bets 2x pot. So brutal. All i needed was AT+ vs his A anything and he was done but alas, it wasn't to happen.

Here are a couple other hands from my HU session on stars.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1653299
I had just stacked villain one of two hands previous w/ AK vs his TT all in pre. He was a fairly standard opponent. Not over aggro but not passive either. His turn lead 100% tells me he's on a draw and possibly tilting because of getting stacked by a cooler. I think i have a bunch of outs plus a ton of steal cards to win the pot. I get extra lucky and he bets nice and big because he obviously missed his draw so I make an easy call with a rivered top pair.

First VILLAIN BAD BEAT post in awhile.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1653310
Villain seems good and has been raising a decent amount. I think he is good enough that he can lay down any one pair hand here below JJ probably. Turns out i read people terribly and he's got a monster. Woops, I guess I have to go runner runner to beat you. He honestly should have known.

A few things about my over shove on the flop here. I will do the same with a FD, NFD over pairs and sets. I will do this with sets on this board becuase he will very often have hearts or JT and be drawing. I was pretty shocked to see Top 2. I really did think I was up against a draw or vs just a one pair hand that he could fold.

I also played a bit of 50max HU and won a quick buy in there as well.

Quick Visual Update

2007-11-01T19:53:00.000-04:00

EDIT: I just noticed i'm missing my stars 50max HU and 100max HU stats. That should add a vew hundo to the total, Ill update the screen shot tonight and repost. Probably add something like 250-300$
Ok. hopefully this isn't TOO jumbled and confusing.

Top Graph is the past 3 days which the first day was brutal as you can see and the second and third days were excellent. One thing to note. The first day i played for almost 7 hours straight and played over 4k hands that night with horrendous results.

The stats from PT are my total stats for the past 3 months. Full Disclosure right? haha. I've had some tilt issues but long term have dealt with them semi well.

and below are my stats for AJ which Fuel55 thinks I should stop playing. I think that would be disastrous for my game. I almost always 3 bet AJ becuase it completely opens up the range of hands i 3 bet with for when I have Big Pairs and AK, and occasionally AQ. This makes people feel that it is correct to shove with weak aces and small pairs on me. once they've seen me show down AJo in a 3 bet pot. Also i rarely ever get to showdown with AJo because a vast marjority of the time we both miss the flop when my 3 bet is called and i win with a Cbet. Over all its a nice winning hand for me. I'm sure a rebutal to my comments will be, but what happens in the case when you both hit your ace and he has a better kicker. Advertising sir :) Advertising. I have no problem stacking off with AJ in a 3 bet pot to a better kicker because they are much more likely to stack off with weak aces after that. Plus I can also hit my Jack to beat them out of the pot. :)

Why stop playing a hand when
A) It pays off long term for Big Pairs
B) I can make money with it by itself.

I think thats sheer lunacy.

Plus i'm not sure if Fuel55 is a Full Ring cash player or not. Short handed it def makes a big BIG difference.

I honestly think before I played AJo It was a huge leak in my game. Certain hands arn't always for immediate benefiet but future.

A few quick hand posts.

2007-11-01T15:57:00.000-04:00

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1649824
Very first hand i played so no read. I was considering calling his raise but due to the fact that there was a few people still left to act behind me and also that nobody ever believes you have a hand when you post and raise that it would be a good spot to do so. Works out perfectly. He obv has no pair and is bluffing. I let him continue.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1650053
I wanted to raise river but kinda thought the hand through and got a bit suspicious by then so just called. How badly did this putz play his hand. Wow. He checks, i make my standard Cbet (which if he used PAHUD and had my CBet % on it he would know i do 80-90% of the time. He then donks turn again. He should definitly try to feign weak by checking here imo as I will often fire turn because my AQ is probably good. River is bad too. My most likely holdings are an ace and there is no way i'm checking through an ace but if i don't have one i'm def folding on the river to any kind of decent bet so he should let me bet and he c/r me. God he's bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1650071
We had tangled in alot of pots 3 betting etc pre w/ all kinds of hands and he has always shows alot of aggression when he flopps good hands. That helped me to figure out he had JJ-KK by the turn and is why I checked behind so that I would get him to call my river bet (or have him possibly bluff the river) thinking i don't have an Ace once I check turn. Unforunately I def was worried about the K on the river but he did make it cheap enough that I don't ever fold at this level to that bet.

Had a solid night of poker.

2007-11-01T11:10:00.000-04:00

Played about 1000 hands. Was up 4 buyins really quickly while playing very solid.

Lost a bunch of sick hands. AK vs A2 on AK2 board :) things like that. It was weird, a whole lot of people have been calling my 3 bets with AJo and crap like that which seems pretty strange. Oh well, When i 3 bet i'm usually ahead so I want them to keep calling.

I made one sick lay down with KK vs an ultra aggro donk that I had already stacked a few times. He made a pretty sick bluff w/ JTcc. He raises late pos. I 3 bet from BB w/ KK. He calls. Flop comes AQx. I cbet. he calls. turn i check and he insta shoves. (He had insta pots and shoves AQo on A high board previously when i had a set. Although i really knew that if he had an ace he would have shoved flop. I was sooo sure, but really didn't want to give back any profits to this complete donk incase he has A5 or some shit. So i muck. he shows JTcc. I really want to find him to play him again. I feel good that i was pretty sure of my read but feel bad because I didn't go with it. Although I think it's not that horrible because he stacks off with any TP hand so it is super easy to abuse him in future.

I played on stars for the first time in a few weeks as well. play one very tough 50max table while 4 tabling on party, left that table break evenish and joined a 100max table with a couple fish (one having a 450$ stack) so i sat to his left, decided i wanted to play short buy so bought for 50$. flopped a flush vs his top 2 and doubled, then had KK vs a donks 99 on 8 high board and won more. Finished up a buy in there.

So all in all won about 130$ which is ok. but not exceptional. At least i'm recovering from my disaster the other day. ( I won't go into to much detail but i lost about $500) it wasn't pretty. I believe they call it a Blood Bath.

Some guy put me on monkey tilt by telling someone else in a hand when i shoved to call becuase he thinks im bluffing. Buddy calls with 3rd pair and i lose. That made me go crazy. Normally it wouldn't but i think i was suceptible to tilt that night because me and the wife got in an argument earlier in the day putting me on semi life tilt :D

Just to prove to you pigmies that i'm not a troll :)

2007-10-31T20:18:00.001-04:00

I'm in the middle. Stop drooling damn it. (Over the girl i mean).

Poker was going awesome then disastrous. Making a slow recovery.

That is all.

Another Graph + EV style

2007-10-30T08:24:00.000-04:00

So basically I have always thought that Poker EV grapher was a P.O.S. and was only used by people who really wanted to complain about how unlucky they are.

Well, I have been taught otherwise.

I decided last week to download EV Grapher and check it out. I had no idea it has such awesome advanced filters for 100% disection of your game. I want to really get accustomed to it and see what types of hands are paying off for me and which i'm spewing with. I had a very detailed Advanced Filter in it.

Here is my graph for the pask 70k hands.

I honestly thought when I first looked at my graph that I had a huge fundamental gap in my game and that I was just getting very lucky. It's true I am running above expectation however, apparently I am very good at winning without showdown as well as the fact that several people have told me it is very rare to get The Green line above the other 2 and I have it above about 5 times. I'm pretty excited about this but now I just have to ensure it doesn't bloat my poker ego and make me think that I'm better then I am.

One intersting thing is for the first 50k hands I played an extremely LAG style (30/20/2.0). From about 60k hands on I have tightened up by about 5% and have begun the 50 buy ins at 50max countdown challenge with a much more TAG style. Apparently the way I'm playing now is really sick :)

I just need to keep re reading my goal and the ways that I'm going to get there to stay on track.

I have really found having a routine helps a lot with playing a solid session. It’s like any sport I guess. In golf you need a routine before you hit the ball each time. It helps your mind focus on what needs to be done and not on outside circumstances.

I have never been as in tune then I am lately as to how I’m playing. I can pin point every mistake as soon as I make it (even before opponents act). Now I need to focus on not making said mistakes (Ex. Bluffing against someone who obviously has top pair or second pair and won’t fold).

I won 3.5 buy-ins last night in a great session. Played solid and made back most of what I dumped the night before.

Hand Histories Below for those that want to read them.
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http://www.pokerhand.org/?1636917
I think I played this sick well, I knew he had a big ace and was willing to let him hit his 3 outter to beat me becuase I knew i'd get max value if the Ace hit.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1637082
Needless to say we both played this so bad I played myself out of a stack :) God i'm terrible. haha. Being tricky sucks when the other person is trying to be tricky too. Maybe he thought something was up because I limped.... Very strange.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1642075
It really couldn't have come more perfect on the turn and river for me :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1642104
This hand may seem trivial to readers however i think it is one of the most misplayed spots in poker (myself included.) When there is a high probability he is checking behind on the river you have to put out a kind of value / blocking bet to get called by worse hands and not let him get a free showdown. The hardest part is figuring out who to bet against in this spot and who to let bluff. I sometimes forget my goal is to extract the absolute max out of each hand. I think i did that in this hand.

My Halloween costume.

2007-10-29T22:18:00.000-04:00

If you don't think that movie was based on me you are crazy. They stole my look damn it.

Weekend in review.

2007-10-29T14:23:00.000-04:00

Had a work 10 year anniversary party which was pretty amazing. Great food, tons of free drinks. My engineering manager brings 35 beers on a tray to my table and gives us each 5 or 6 :) That got the night started nicely.

Saturday, played poker in the AM. won a bunch, and then just relaxed.

Went to a Halloween party at my friends (costume) I will post a pic of my costume tonight. Party was not to bad. Some good costumes.

Sunday, played poker for a few hours in the morning and won another 5 or 6 buy ins. Overall I was up 10-15 buy ins Since Friday night although later last night I played again, and spewed alot. Lost 4 buy ins to medium pot suck outs and then spewing a couple buy ins. I knew I shouldn't be playing because I was really tired so I'm pretty happy I quit at 4 buy ins.

I 8 tables most of the weekend which isn't normal for me. I had a bit of a downswing in the middle of the weekend because when I 8 table I get in the train of thought, TPGK is the nuts and stack off with it far too often. I forget there is a fold button. So i need to work on that alot when playing so many tables. I also throw pot control out the window.

I'm going to listen to Discipline after work and play 4 tables of solid TAG poker. I am going to reread my list of things that will get me to the next level.

Hockey: The leafs have been playing pretty solid lately, Mcabe is out injured and Racroft has been sitting on his fat ass which is amazing. These have contributed to the 2 game winning streak we are on. Another big game tonight.

Watched the movie Mr. Brooks last night w/ Kevin Costner. It was excellent. Very wierd. Not quite true to life for a psychopath or Sociopath (Unsure if he was even either). I'd recommend it.

Prison break isn't on tonight. Heroes Is. So is high stakes poker. But leafs game should take most of my attention.

Four +

2007-10-25T07:52:00.000-04:00

Quick 20 min session last night. Scooped 1.5 buy ins in a nice fashion. I didn't lose one single showdown.

Here is another over shove that I 100% knew i was good yet again. Obviously this is a better situation because their is alot more money in the pot then the previous QJ hand but it's the same principal. I win far more then 50% of the time.

This hand has a bit more history to it but not much. The previous hand I had 34cc in SB and villain min raises. I call. flop is 4h6s8d. So if he's got a monster i'm hoping to hit 2 pair or trips but min raises at this level usually mean just an ace of some sort or JTo. Stuff like that. I may have best hand so i check / call his cbet hoping to improve or get to showdown for cheaply. He pots turn. At this point I think he has AA or nothing but leaning towards nothing. He's pretty terrible and I know he will double barrel in this spot with air. I call. River is Q, and it goes check check. I win. he shows A2o.

As soon as he cold calls my 3 bet from the button i know he's steaming. Before he even acted I thought to myself, i would be alot of money this guy is calling or raising my 3 bet. and Voila, he calls.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1623817

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Four Jobs I've Held

1. Composites Engineer
2. Mechanical Designer
3. Roof Truss Builder
4. Landscaper

Four Films I Could Watch Over and Over

1. The Matrix (Only the first one)
2. Oceans 11 (The new one)
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Four TV Shows I Watch

1. Prison Break
2. Heroes
3. High Stakes Poker
4. Survivor

Four Places I've Lived

1. Toronto, ON
2. Burlington, ON
3. Oakville, ON
4. London, ON

Four Favorite Foods

1. Pizza
2. Veal Chop
3. Chinese Food
4. All Dressed Potatoe Chips

Four Websites I Visit Daily

1. http://www.twoplustwo.com/
2. http://www.bloglines.com/ - My work just blocked it today :(
3. http://www.cnn.com/
4. http://www.digg.com/

Four Favorite Colors

1. Navy Blue
2. Pearl White
3. Canary Yellow
4. Military Green

Four Places I'd Love To Be Right Now

1. Las Vegas, NV
2. New York City, NY
3. Anywhere in Europe (Never been)
4. At home playing poker...degen.

Four Names I Like But Wouldn't Name My Children

1. Val/Valery
2. Spencer
3. Shatiqua
4. Bob

Four Favorite Books

1. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
2. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
3. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

No poker playing

2007-10-24T14:03:00.000-04:00

I have played 0 hands of poker in the past 2 days. Which for me is pretty sick. I honestly have no recollection of ever doing that when their is money in my account :)

It's been a nice past couple days. Went out with my wife and a bunch of our friends for dinner then drinks on Monday night. Our friend is home for a week from England. (Hemhamelstead) or some such hick ass city in England.

Tuesday consisted of finishing work at 5ish, going to get 2 new tires thrown on my car. Then ordering some new Brake Pads and Rotors. I got them at ecstuning.com. This is a pretty good website for Audis. Great prices on parts and lost of them. For around 500 i got all slotted and cross drilled rotors plus high performance pads. Buying the same in London would cost me close to 1k I think.

After tires, we went and got some costumes for Halloween. I got a Napoleon Dynamite wig/glasses and a scary white mask think that can pump red ink throw it and looks like your face is bleeding all over it. Reason I got ND stuff was because its over and now nobody else will be it. I hate doing things that people only do when it's "popular" I'll bring back all kinds of throw back stuff once everyone else thinks it's gay.

But I digress.

One thing I have noticed lately when reading peoples blogs is that they think having 2-3 buy in "downswings" is dramatic and makes them take days off. This is really quite strange to me. I don't even bat an eye at losing until I hit 8 buy ins or so. Then I start to think ok, maybe take a break? haha. Maybe I play alot more high variance style then these people but still. Maybe they just don't play alot of poker.

Watched Prison Break and Heroes last night and they both sucked.

High stakes poker was mediocre. I think I just wasn't in the mood for any of it last night (Withdrawls from poker maybe?) haha.

K im out

Have a great week kids.

Plan for rest of week.

Tongiht, dinner and bowling with work friends.
Tommorow, dinner with my dad, hopefully poker but probably replacing the carpet on my stairs.
Friday, get off work at 12pm so we can get ready for our companies 10 year anniversary party. Should be pretty sweet. I plan on getting bombed :) UH OH.

p.p.p.p.s. I got a new bike last night as well. Miele. Standard mountain bike. Nothing fancy. It'll do the trick for now. At least I can hit the trails again.

Goals - The right way.

2007-10-23T08:58:00.000-04:00

I am making a goal with detailed ways to ensure I reach that goal.

GOAL:
-To be a regular at 100max with a 30 Buy In Bankroll to start.

HOW:
-Not playing KJ or AT from Early Position.
-Not drawing when I do not have the correct Pot odds or Implied odds.
-Folding hands that I know are beat.
-Only playing Suited Connectors from late position and only occasionally.
-3 Betting Suited Connectors occasionally.
-By completing the count down to 50 buy ins challenge @ 50max.

I feel like this is an achievable goal. I think I can accomplish this by the Jan 1 2008.

I Did it again. Long post with HHs.

2007-10-22T11:21:00.000-04:00

I have turned 20$ into almost 1000$ 2x in the past 2 weeks.

I Had 20$ in my moneybookers account and put it on Stars to mess around with. I played a short buy at $1NL and tripled it, then sat at $2NLHU and scooped there. Then lost some and moved back down to 1NL then won enough for another short buy at 2NLHU and sat, ran that up to a couple hundred. Moved up to sit with 50bb at 4NLHU, won a couple hundred there. Then quit up to 400$ish.

Wasn’t sure if I should cash out the gambol $ from stars or not. I didn’t and decided to play some more 2NL HU on Sunday. Sat with 120$ and got up right away then I got stacked and rebought for the 120 I had left in my account (I was playing a 2/4 6max table with 200$) at the same time. Got fortunate with my last 120$ to double. I can’t remember the hand. A few hands later I pick this up to help me finish off the session strong.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613090
He has 3 bet me quite often from his button when I open. I think he only does it with monsters or weak hands like SC and such. We havn’t gone to showdown a lot but when he has showdown a strong hand he has just called my raises. I flop gin. When he raises me I’m fairly confident he has a decent ace so I shove so that I don’t lose value incase a scare card comes. He snap calls and I scoop. He insta left the table after this.

Here are some other hands from my gambooling.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1608673
When I get snap called I am pretty upset that he hit the king :( Turns out I was value bluffing? Haha. I do see people slightly over shove flops like this with no pair hands all the time so I’m going to try to incorporate that into my game (with top pair hands) usually. But only HU probably and only versus good players who know this is most likely a bluff with big cards or vs really terrible players who can’t fold :) although for them I should probably just play it normal cause they aren’t good enough to realize what’s going on anyways..

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1608656
I really played this hand horribly. I could not have played it worse I think.
The check on the turn is….barely mediocre I think, and the river bet is just terrible. Probably the worst “value” bet of all time. I only get called by splits or hands that beat me. I wouldn’t have hated it if I had no pair. Then it is probably worth while.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1608608
Woops. Bad read :) haha

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1608308
I made my hand look far too much like a value bet on the river. Maybe check behind on turn and get him to bet his K or A and I can raise? Hmmm looking at it again he probably just had a Flush Draw so not much to do. I think I played it fine.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1608297
What on earth does this guy have? Must be a small pair and doesn’t think I hit the T. Quite strange. If he has a T he’s probably raising me on turn because I’m short and showing lots of strength. The king saves me, I was really hoping he would call the river but he musta put me on AK. If he did he definitely should have been shoving turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613638
I decided to run a big bluff here. Vs a Decent Regular. I am sure he’s capable of laying hands down that he thinks are beat so I feel comfortable in trying to outplay him on this hand with position. Normally I’d just fold the 44 preflop but there were a couple factors in me calling. We were 150bb deep effective. Plus his raise was fairly small for being out of position and 3 betting with a raiser and a caller already. If I flopped a set I might be able to win his stack. If I didn’t flop a set I still might be able to steal the pot if he shows weakness.

On the flop I miss my set but I think the K is the best card in the deck for me other then a 4. His range of hands is something like JJ-AA and AQ+. Given his small 3 bet pre, I doubt he has AK. So that helps a lot in reducing the amount of hands that are beating a King here. So I decide on the flop to float him and if he has JJ-QQ he is checking to me 90% of the time worried I have AK and I can fire and try to pick it up. If he Double barrels me I’m folding probably. My flop call is what I do almost always when someone has the lead in the hand and I’m fairly confident I have the best hand (usually TPGK), I want to let them bluff off more chips with under pairs or weaker top pairs then mine. Plus his bet feels like a probing/standard Cbet to see If I hit the king and if I didn’t he wants to pick up the pot right now.

So I smooth call and get a bit more info when he checks the turn to me. I don’t see him checking AA on this turn so I can take that out of his range. So now his most likely holdings in my mind are JJ-QQ or AQ. When I float him I have to fire a decent sized bet here. If he shoves I have to fold which sucks but I’m fairly confident in my read and bet ¾ pot making it look like a value bet. He folds and I am such a nice guy, I show the bluff :) Although it might not have been a bluff, I really think JJ-QQ is far more likely then AQ.

Does anyone like my train of thought in this hand? I make this play pretty rarely but when I do I think I choose good spots for it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613073
Here is a nice 4$NL hand. I actually sat hoping to play Gambler2K4 HU but the table filled quickly once I sat down…. Big surprise eh? Haha.

I semi bluff flop because he probably missed. Then he calls. I don’t really know enough about him to give him a range that calls the flop here that won’t just shove vs a short stack. Maybe he had a worse Flush Draw? Maybe he had AXcc Or 88 possibly? Turn is money for me. At my normal limits 50max when you raise flop and someone calls they will almost always check behind when you check the turn but at this limit I know people are far more agro so I decide to check to him when I hit my king looking like I was on a Flush draw and missed the turn. I c/rai and he insta mucks. Musta been 88 or something. I think he thinks longer with a flush draw.

I honestly believe I could destroy Stars 1/2$ and 2/4$ NL HU tables. The players are so bad, and all you need to do is be patient and they will eventually give you all their monies.

Here is a sick hand at 50max. 400BB pot. This guy is absolutely brutal and min 3 bets me every time I open. He does it with Q8o, 5Jss as well as AQ etc. So he has no value of hands, he just hopes to get lucky which he has been doing. I have won a lot off him because of his lack of intelligence/lack of ability to click fold.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613662
He’s super deep, I’m fairly deep and 3rd player gives me lots of extra money in pot. Against a rational normal person I probably fold here, but given he’s so bad I know I double off him if I hit and he’s got almost any pair. I call and hit my gin card. I bet, he calls, I shove river, he calls obv and I’m pretty shocked to see the hand he has. This just goes to show you my read is right in that he pays off with anything. I fold turn if I have AA here. His real mistake was raising an amount that didn’t allow him to 4 bet on the flop I think. If he raises less and lets the short stack shove and then I call, then he can put in another raise to make it a mistake for me to call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613674
This is a few hands later. Just a confirmation of how bad he is. Although his turn raise made me a bit worried about a straight. I was calling any bet on the river he made. Maybe I should have bet 10-15$ on river.

Sorry for the long post and the bunches of hand histories but I really think these are interesting hands. And even if people don’t look at them I still like putting them in because it helps me analyze my play a bit more.

I won’t be playing any poker today/tonight.

One thing you may notice is I have xxxx bank roll now. I am going for winner of 50 buy ins at 50max. 45 to go. Then I move up to 100max. and do the same thing.

Quick 60k Hand update.

2007-10-20T09:50:00.000-04:00

All hands shown at all levels.

I didn't enjoy the 21k break even stretch :) Looking at this graph makes me proud :D

I am not going to worry about my Bankroll for awhile right now. I'm going to try to win 50 buy ins at 50max and then reevaluate what I want to do. I still need to cash out 100$ per week so this should be a slow steady climb if I keep my discipline like I have been doing.

EDIT: I also had 20$ sitting in money bookers at took it and put it on Stars for some gambool.

Sat at 100 max, tripled, moved up to 200 max HU lost a bit and the guy quit me. back to 1$NL and won a bit, then back up to 1/2NL HU and took a guy for 150. then he quit me. So now I have to decide if I should cash out this money and just blow it on something or possibly keep it and try to build a stars roll.

Disciplined Poker is going well.

2007-10-19T09:34:00.000-04:00

I have a new regime to start my sessions. I open party, Poker Track and PAHUD and then Itunes. I open 4 tables, sit directly to the left of the big stack at the table. Then Turn on Discipline by Gangstarr. I have done this for 3 days now with very positive results.

The first day I played I put in close to 1000 hands. Turned a tidey 18$ profit haha. Played very well, made one bad call that I knew I should have folded. I raise w/ AKo. Flop comes AhKh5s. I bet 3/4 pot. he calls. Turn is a Jd. I bet 3/4 pot (probably should have potted it full) he calls. River is an 8h. He bets just under half pot. I know i'm beat here alot by a flush but given the turn card I felt I had to call because he could have KJ or AJ. I call and lost to JThh.

Yesterday I played exceptionally well for a super long session. 2 hands. Won $0.50. Pretty strong showing. If I could keep up that win rate I'd be a rich man.

This morning before work I played a very short session and booked a strong 2.5 buyin win in a couple hundred hands.

I just had some realizations about a couple huge leaks in my game.

2007-10-17T08:57:00.000-04:00

When i was winning consistently at whatever limits I was playing at the time I didn't raise Suited connectors everytime i got them or call with thme hoping to hit big.

Another good thing I used to do was occasionally 3 betting with suited connectors to help mix up my play.

I need to get back to playing TAG poker and winning.

Played last night, lost 5 or 6 buy ins. spewed 2 of them. Played higher this morning, played really well (except for one hand) and won half a buy in. On the hand I played badly I was really dissapointed I made the incorrect decision.

(1/2NL)
I had AKo on the button. UTG(155$) opens to 8$ , I 3 bet to 27, BB (60$)cold calls, UTG insta shoves for 155$ or so. In these situations I need to just put myself at my "normal" limits, 50max usually, convert the amounts to that limit and ask myself if I would call in this situation at those limits. The answer being HELLZ yes. All day long. I think because the SBs cold call it's less likely UTG is doing this with a weak ace or a medium pair so he's got JJ-AA or AK. Just off the top of my head that seems like i'm about a 5-10% underdog here. I guess that means with my $ invest and the overlay of the BB Its a clear call.

BB wins unimproved w/ AQcc. I was pretty dissapointed in myself here. SB shows Q3dd. If UTG has 100BB i can justify a fold alot more. given he was 75bb deep, I made a bad play.

Pokerhand wasn't working for awhile but it is now. Here is the hand in that format. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1597000

My goal is to reduce my variance. Over the past 75k hands i'm about 3.5 PT BB/100 at all limits.

Had another hand that I think i played optimally. Villain is fairly new to table. (1/2NL) 200$ effective stacks.

one or 2 hands before this hand he was able to push me off a decent hand with betting all streets strongly. I folded river. (He had done the same 1 or 2 hands previously vs others.

This hand I pickup AA on the button. He opens to 6$, I know he likes to fire lots of streets with not necessarily great hands. I decide to call. Everyone else folds. Flop is bad for me. Ah3s4s. He first 12$, i think for awhile and call. The ace is a bad card for me cause so many hands I want to trap him with will fold if I show aggression. There still is a small chance he has an ace. The fact that I have As makes me not as worried about putting in a raise here. If he does have a Flush draw and gets there on turn I'll have 2 redraws then. Turn is another not fantastic card. It does improve my hand vs his range but it also scares him as well. So now I if i raised flop he probably folds, if i raise turn he can easily fold given the A and 3 spades out. He fires 25$ again. I have a good feeling he's bluffing at this point and he knows it. Slight chance he has a set. I decide to call. Reasons being, If he does have a flush he's for sure getting it all in no matter what, If he doesn't he will fold to any aggression and i Lose out on him bluffing his pair on the river. I think for about 1/2 my time and call. Just like the hand he pushed me off of previously. River is a good card. Td. He fires 40$ now. I think about calling here but vs his range i'm far ahead so i can't just lose that much value incase he has a set or a weird 2 pair. or a big ace. I shove and he insta folds. I think I played this hand exceptionally well vs this type of aggro opponent.

Here is the hand. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1597057

All in all I think I am thinking about the hands well most of the time.

Here is another really strange one. He is obv a huge tilting donk.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1597047

I just need to tighten up and be a little more selective in my aggression.

I did put it all in 2 times today and yesterday with AK unimproved on the Flop or Turn when i knew they had over pairs. I knew they would call too. I just kept telling msyelf, they will fold it, they will fold it. Obviously they won't. Especially when i'm running like 30/20/3 at the table.

Here is a hand that some may find intersting. Villiain is pretty tight. We had folded the previous 15 hands or so preflop with no raise.

This hasn't happend to me in awhile :)

2007-10-16T20:24:00.000-04:00

Party Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter
UTG: $89.84
Hero (MP): $47.25
CO: $23.42
BTN: $53.93
SB: $30.66
BB: $49.50

Pre-Flop: Q J dealt to Hero (MP)
UTG folds, Hero raises to $2, 3 folds, BB calls $1.50

Flop: ($4.25) 6 J 4 (2 Players)
BB bets $47.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $45.25 and is All-In
Turn: ($94.75) 9 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)
River: ($94.75) 6 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $94.75 Pot ($5.25 Rake)
Hero mucked Q J (two pairs, Jacks and Sixes) and LOST (-$47.25 NET)
BB showed A 6 (three of a kind, Sixes) and WON $89.50 (+$42.25 NET)

It was officially gambling night.

2007-10-16T08:08:00.000-04:00

I played a couple tables of 100max last night, lost some, then jumped onto a terrible 400max table short. Lost there with kicker problems ;) haha.

Opened my other account, was in such a gambling mood sat with 225 at a 5/10NL table HU and scooped around a buy in. :) It felt nice to play some 5/10 and get winner.

a few hands before I had sucked out pretty hard on another short stack. He raises to 30$ i call on button w/ 7s9c. Flop comes 8c8s9s. He Cbets, i shove for my stack which had him covered by a bit. He calls w/ A9o. Turn 6s, River Ts. You put the cards together :D God I suck :) I wonder if he threw or broke anything after that.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1591590
Here we have a nice hand where I can't really put him on a 9 the way he played it because he probably raises flop. He played this hand just really strangely. No line made much sense. I suppose he could flat call a 9 cause i have no read on him, but I figure his hand is too vulnerable to overcards if he does have one so a raise on flop makes sense vs a short stack like me. I guess a really slow played AA or KK is possible, who on earth doesn't raise flop with those 2 hands. I don't see why he shoves turn unless he thinks i may have KQhh? I normally shove turn when i play over my head because I used to be scared of getting sucked out, but I pulled the reins back and just kept pretending I was playing with a full stack so I could maximize my chances of getting paid off. If I shove he folds most likely.

The very next hand this comes up. I think the previous hand helped me pick up this pot cause I'm sure villain saw I had JJ in previous hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1591594

VILLAIN BAD BEAT.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1591995
This hand was a bit weird in that I forgot if he was PFR or I was while the hand was playing out. This definitely hurt me in figuring out what hand he had. I really was leaning towards I was the pre flop raiser so I thought he definiltely could have a set of 4s. Queens less likely, but then I start second guessing myself thinking he could have been the raiser and Three queens are a possibility as well. His flop min 3 bet kinda freaked me out a bit. I am confused so want to see what he does on the turn to get some more info. His weak bet on turn makes me more confident he just has a big queen so i pump it up and he shoves. Oh, you had AA :) I see now. hahah

So I'm sitting on 1k on my roll now. Not bad from 20$ :)

Tele:

Prison break wasn't on last night. Talk about dissapointing. Heroes was on but i was unable to watch it due to The Laughs game...woops, I mean the Leafs game. I also watched High Stakes Poker last night. What a good episode. Sammy is honestly a fuckin machine. That dood LOOOOOVES to gamble. He definitely has the disease. Phil Helmuth can honestly be such a great poker player and such a terrible one all at the same time. It's bloody hilarious. He folds 66 in a double straddled riased pot. What a fuckin idiot. Especially after one person has already called. You know Eli is paying you off if you hit cause he's stuck pretty good. Maybe he just didn't want to get involved cause he's afraid to play with Daniel. Phil G. (aka JMan, aka OMGClayAiken) got on last nights episode. 2nd hand in dealt QQ. raises it up, flop comes King high 3 diamonds. He checks it gets checked around. Sammy fires on turn everyone folds. What a tough spot to come into a game where it's super wild and you have no idea about he game dynamics yet. Guanranteed if he had seen sammy play a couple pots before this he's either a) firing on flop or b) calling Sammys turn bet.

Onto hockey. The leafs. All i'm going to say is....Does anyone have a new team I can cheer for? Prefereably one in my time zone (Eastern Standard Time). The leafs are a joke. Or their Defenese and Goaltending at least. Their offensive game was pretty impressive last night.

Raycroft is so brutal. Buffalo his 6 or 7 posts over the night. He is such a Siv. B. Gets a break away and Hescht misses the net. Raycroft is terrible. I can't say this enough. I want to win a bloody cup not struggle to make the playoffs, Get rid of him and Brian Mcabe immedialtely. Mcabe obviously scored on his own net with a nice shot off the post with 3 seconds remaining in O/T. JOKE!!!!!. Leafs up 2-0 with just over 5 min to go, 2 goals by Buffallo quick to tie. Leafs score to take the lead, Buffallo scores to tie it, leafs score AGAIN to take the leaf, buffallo scores again to tie it. OMG heart attack time.

I can't even talk about this anymore. It's too frustrating.

3 posts in one day. Another shorty.

2007-10-15T16:02:00.000-04:00

I hope whoever created this doesn't mind me posting it.

I want to show this picture to everyone that feels like life is over when they get dumped.

PostSecret

Now this is one funny ass story.

2007-10-15T14:05:00.001-04:00

From the Original BBV Anonymous Thread 1.

" You know how I know this one's real? It didn't involve a poker player

Quote:

This happened to a friend of mine, but it's a hilarious story that seems in the right mood, and since the whole thing is an anonymous exercise, who cares?So J is in high school, where he is currently dating K, and has been for a couple of months. He's out on a date with her, having an early dinner, enjoying himself, and then is driving her back to her house. When he arrives back at her house, her mother is waiting for them and looks unhappy. Apparently, earlier in the day somebody had called to tell K that she had seen J having sex with another girl, S, at a party the previous night. Since K was out on the date, her little sister took the message. J sees the message when he gets to the house to drop his date off, because her mom is standing at the door holding a paper plate that says, written in sharpie, "K - J [censored] S last night." This is the entire message.J is completely taken aback by this; of course he didn't do it. So, he says to pacify mom and date, "Okay, I'll tell you what. I have her number on my cell phone. I'll call her right now, and talk to her, and we'll straighten this all out." So, he calls up S, and his side of the conversation proceeds as follows: "Hey, S, how's it going? . . . Yes, it WAS some party last night. Actually, that's what I wanted to call you about. Apparently somebody told K that I had sex with you last night, and I thought you could tell them that we didn't . . . oh . . . wait, really? . . . man, I don't remember that at all. Um, okay, thanks." He then hangs up, stands around for a second or two, and then says "Well, I guess I'll be on my way." and just turns around and leaves. "

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=9749890&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1

WBCOOP & Some Villain Bad Beats

2007-10-15T08:26:00.000-04:00

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1582989
So Seeeek.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1583713
This wasn't a beat i laid but it was sure a sweet read :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1586336
I really need some advice on this hand. I think I played this optimally given the situation.

My thought process is this.

Villain open raises small in position. He is short stacked so I have no reason to 3 bet alot to reduce his implied odds because he has none. I 3 bet a standard amount vs a shorty. Flop is crap but not garbage enough to make me check fold. I figure if I cbet here and he shoves i'm obviously toast the vast majority of the time but still committed to the hand, however it allows him to fold out all worse hands and only get it in with the best hand. If i check I allow him to fire off a bluff in hopes that he can pick up the pot and he may feel pot committed with a smaller pair or any 2 random cards when i raise so I think I lose the same all the times i'm behind, but I win more when I'm ahead.

Does this make sense to anyone? Is there anyone way to play this hand? There is no way i'm check folding here.

And here is the infamous WBCOOP hand "I" played.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1587160
I say "I" because I was at the Knights game (OHL) until a bit after 4 and let my friend play for me until I got home. Unfortunately he busted before I could get there. I don't hate that he got it in here although I kind of don't like the way he did it. 2 limpers then he raises about 3x blind? thats kind of bad. Oh well, then donk wakes up with a 3 bet that was pretty small in itself, my friend shoves and voila. I'm out.

Roll is sitting around 460. I've been taking lots of shots at higher games, getting knocked down alot, building back up. playing alot of 100 max. I would love to play really well, get some sick results at 100max one of these days to help build my roll exponentially. Like I did when I started playign 50 max and went on a 35-40 buy in upswing. I'm fairly certain that over my life time i'm winner online. I have a one Db on PT that had me losing 2500, i am sure ive lost another 3k ish before I even got PT but now i have 2 or 3 dif Dbs that have me winner of 2kish in each. I should probably be playing small and trying to build slowly but i've been in such a gambling mood lately by playing with only a few buy ins.

There are just so many terrible players at 100max and 400max. 200max is def alot tighter with alot more regulars there.

WBCOOP is here. And i'm going to win

2007-10-14T10:07:00.000-04:00

Stars screen name is m0rr1s

holler if you see me at the table.

P.s. when i win this, i won't forget you little people.

rolled that 20$ i had into 450ish online now. so no need to redposit.

All you can eat Sushi....Glorious Sushi.

2007-10-11T10:13:00.000-04:00

After work I went and played an hour and a half of tennis. Played pretty well. My serve is coming back into top form. My new raquet is excellent. It's an Head LiquidMetal L3 (Control Raquet).

I got it 50% off due to my sisters friend being incredibly nice. She gives me 25% off anything and occasionally 50% off certain things. This has helped to increase the quality & quantity of my sporting equipment.

After tennis i rushed home, hoped in the shower and got ready for the main event. ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHI.

And it was even better then the first time I had it. I was more confident that I would enjoy it this time which seemed to make it even more delicious then last time. Seriously. Sushi is amazing when prepared correctly. Crab Pizza....MMMmmmmmm. Can't say enough about this stuff.

I played about 10 hands of poker and got bored so quickly, I just quit. Didn't play a single hand of poker for the rest of the night. I was pretty proud of myself.

I have recently aquired about 6 or 7 xbox 360 games from my friend for 10$ a piece. This is a pretty awesome deal because i would never really buy any games for full price and even half price still seems excessive.

I picked up the following,

NBA2k7
NHL2K7
Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 2
Tiger Woods 2k7
Call of Duty 3
Transfromers

All for 10$ a piece except Transformers was 5$. This is a significant discount from retail price and my friend has only played them for probably 10-20 hours a piece. He says EB Games only give him $2-$5 / game so he is making more money by selling them to be at 10$ a piece and i'm saving tons of money by not having to buy them in the store. Pretty good setup for both of us cause he buys a couple new games a week and this way ill just get them a month or 2 later for 10$ :D

I payed for my HDMI cable today on Ebay so hopefully it will be here by monday.

Leafs game @ home tonight. HD i hope. Maurice is bringing up Gamache which is cool. I really like how he played in preseason.

On to something personal. I have gained 10 lbs in teh past month or so. I'm pretty disgusted at my lazyness and have been back on track the past 2 days with eating and excersising. I am possibly buying a Cannondale F600 mountain bike used this weekend from a guy in Windsor for 500$. Retail 1200$ new but he says its in mint condition. I hope he goes for it and then i'll be out trail riding the rest of the fall before the snow hits. That would be money. I could also ride to the gym again which is always handy.

Thats all.

Sorry if this was boring. I don't live the most glamrous life. :D

More thoughts.

2007-10-10T14:52:00.001-04:00

Does anyone else see poker in everything. Like day to day crap?

Someone writes 1/2 (as in half) on their blog and all i see is a poker limit. It took me close to 20 seconds to realize that they meant it as a quantitative descriptor.

I have a problem.

2007-10-10T11:26:00.000-04:00

And it's not gambling....well not just gambling.

Ever week or two, I find something new that I convince myself that I need. And I tell myself, and often my wife that if I just buy this next thing, I won't need to buy anything else for a long time cause i'll have this to use. This never ends. If it isn't a new golf club (Putter) or hockey stick, or Bike, or TV, or whatever. It's a never ending thing in my life. I need to get this under control and learn to be content with what I have now. And not focus on things that I want or think that I need.

Does anyone else ever have this problem?

Won 2 buy ins at poker last night. Yaaay

Leafs got fucking owned 7-1. Boooo.

Thanksgiving weekend was good.

2007-10-09T08:06:00.000-04:00

Lets do the recap of the weekend.

Friday night I just stayed in with my wife and ....... I can't honestly remember what we did. I think we just watched TV.

Saturday my wife got up and was off to work from Saturday at 8am to Monday at 9:00am That is a pretty sick stretch. She works at a few group homes so Saturday all day at one In Stratford, then she did an over night there (She is allowed to sleep on overnights here). Sunday she worked all day there until 11pm, when she came back to London and went to another group home here and worked an awake overnight. I felt bad for her but such is her career choice :)

So i pretty much had a free weekend. Went with my boy ScottyB to Sarnia to play in the Omaha tournament. It's a NLO tourny so it's a bit weird, but honestly, it's a heck of alot easier then PLO cause most people can't add so it took a hell of alot less time this way. Suprisingly, people were'nt complete retards playing this game. I thought for sure they would be.

ScottyB and I do a last longer, only 38 entrants cause it's the Long weekend. I obv win because he doesn't know how to play AAAJJ. God he's terrible. Very first hand he's dealt AAxx Unsure of the other 2 cards. Flop comes two flushed and 2 straight J high. The donk bets really small Scotty calls w/ a Flush draw and a wrap. Turn is an ace giving him the nutz. unsure how betting went on the turn. River is a Jack. buddy bets 300 into a 1500 pot or so, and Scott thinks (Starting stacks are 3k) and told me he was really confused by the small bet but was like, umm ok, I raise, all in. and the guy obv calls with JJJJA. How bad could Scotty play this hand. seriously. you have to fold the AAAJJ to the 300 river bet. He obv has the nutz. Terrible. hahah. so i won the entire 10$ last longer.

The first hand at my talbe i win with a flopped set w/ set of 7s on a very scary 4 straight 3 flush board haha. getting called by one pair and other guy had 2nd pair. Umm ok.

Next hand i get KK and raise, get 5 or 6 callers and fold on flop. Then i realize no raising and just abuse them on flops. The next 3 hands i play in about 5 min i flop sets and knock people out. Then I flop a set on a 2c3x5c board w/ 55. UTG 1/2 pot, MP calls, i am def worried about A4 or 46 and call hoping to fill up. turn is a K. Now UTG bets same amount as last time and this seems super strange, i'm thinking, does he have a flush draw he wants to draw cheaply too or does he have straight and wants me to raise, MP calls again. I call because after MP calls i'm pretty sure he's got A4 for the baby straight and is afraid of the bigger straight with a bettor before and a caller after him. River is gin for me. 3c. Filling me up and completing the flush. Dood open shoves all in, and MP thinks ands folds. i call and roll my hand. Dood turns over KKXX. Now that was not very fun haha. Oh well, luckily I already have about 13k at this point avg being 3200 or so seeing as how only 4 ppl have been knocked out.

The long as short of it is I bubbled due to an absolute horrible call by me.

I'm dealt KcKdJd4s. I raise UTG at 500/1000. 9 left. folded 2 spots to older guy who had just doubled w/ AAxx when he limped with them and flopped a set. He shoves for 10.5k more. some other terrible guy calls for like 6k or so. I'm sick but know he has Aces. Top 5 spots pay. nobody shoves here without aces. i think for awhile which was dumb cause i should have just mucked and moved on. I look back at Scotty and he's says, Just suck out hahaha. so i'm like. fuck it, ill still have some chips if i lose. i call, obv he rolls aces and wins. Damn i'm dumb haha. I often blow up when i get to the final table of tournaments by making one horrifically dumb play. This was that one. I played really well besides this hand and was overall very pleased. Oh well.

I would have made alot of enemies had I made the money because they all ended up chopping it 5 ways evenly for 400 a piece haha. 5th paid 180 normally. They didn't even do a chip chop. Just prize pool divided by 5. Wow.

Me and Scotty went out to a bar in Sarnia after to watch the leafs beat Montreal so that was pretty awesome. - then home to sleep.

So i played poker for a few hours Sunday morning. Lost about 350$ and decided I really need a break from online so I cashed out my online roll. Around 1k. I had 20$ in my other Party account which i obv couldnt jsut leave so i played it and rolled it to 100$. DAMN IT hahahah. Now i have money. I actually really enjoy playing 25max when I buy in for 10$. It's really easy to win. I'm just going to keep buying in short for awhile to try to get some monies online again and hopefully I won't have to deposit again.

So much for a break hahhaah.

Went golfing yesterday at a course called Tamarak Ridge. It's a privately owned public course.
It's not a terrible track but definitley way to easy for me to ever play there again. I shot 75 (par 71) and i had a trip and a double bogey. I had a 20 foot put for eagle on a par 4 which i drove the green. Multiple holes were under 300 yards making it a fun course to play cause I got to drive alot of greens but still not very challenging. My putting was much MUCH improved over my last performance so that was a pleasant suprise. I'm trying to grip down on my new putter hoping to counteract it's weight as much as possible.

Ok I have 4 hands from the weekends play.

You're not going to feel as sick as I did but damn, do I wish I played the bad beat tables now. :S

Here are a couple others first.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1560450
I can't see any hand he shoves on me that I beat. Turned a set? or turned 2 pair. Thats about all I see him doing this with. Maybe flopped 2 pair.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1560476
This was fun, no payoff.

Now to the fun / painful stuff.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1562322
All i'll say is 5 min after this hand someone else wont he jackpot, UGH. i suck. I was pretty suprised when he riased river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1562336
The very next hand i play at this table after people are all shitting their pants about he previous hand. Ew. So i lost back all profit from the previous hand the very next hand later.

Ok thats it for poker. my online roll is a solid 100$ right now hahahha. It'll be 10k soon enough, don't worry.

Hmm what else. Oh ya, Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter is one sick game. I'm not a huge gaming guy since about 5-7 years ago when I used to play PC games alot, but damn my 360 + GRAWF2 is beyond amazing. Very realistic...for a game and the graphics are unbelievable. Played that for a bunch of hours this weekend. Yesterday I rented Apocolypto which was actually really good. I enjoyed it alot. Mel Gibson. What can you say about him. He's a Jew hater, He's a drunk, he's a bigot, but damn can he make a great movie. :) haha.

This is one long blog. I think I should win the award (now that iggy is gone) for writing the longest blogs on the internet. Maybe I would win it even if he still blogged because most of his is cited. Mine is just jibberish straight from the dome.

Speaking of jibberish. I should start adding random words to my blog ala Amatay. Gaff and Rooompage, BOLLOCKS. You get the picture :) haha. I think it makes his blog so much more down to earth. I have seen in movies (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells) where people talk like that but never seen anyone actually write like that. haha. It's pretty entertaining to read.

I hope he doesn't get killed by Lucy' ex b/f. From the sounds of it, he's a high ranking fucking murderer in the mob or something hahah. Or at least one bat shit crazy mother fucker. Either way g/l Amatay. :D

I read Fuel55s blog this weekend about him being a wine enthusiast. He spoke like a true Sommelier. I was pretty suprised. Then it hit me, I read alot about alot of these people on their blogs but don't really know jack about most of them. I don't even know what they do for a living. (Fuel included). I think he's either A) Homeless so he's got alot of time on his hands. B) Independently wealthy from the dot com craze where he started his own porn websit and sold it for millions. or C) Being the most likely, his wife has a really good job and he stays home to clean the house. :)

C) Is definitly the most plausible given he posts multiple times during the day, and plays poker pretty much all day long from what I can tell. Plus if you have ever read his blog you would know that he doesn't seem like the smartest guy in the world and would have trouble holding down any kind of normal job.

This is obviously all jokes and he seems like a very intelligent person and i'm just having a laugh with him so you can take your finger off the kill switch already fuel :)

Ok that's pretty much the longest post in Internet history. I'm done.

I'm playing so you better watch out.

2007-10-09T07:55:00.000-04:00

This is pretty awesome of PokerStars to do this.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3853881

Very Interesting hands included in post.

2007-10-05T09:04:00.001-04:00

Last night was less then optimal on the results end. I’m pretty happy with my play. I won 3 buy ins in my first session and then after dinner I played another session but came out loser 3.5 buy ins. Unfortunately the +3 was at 50max and the -3.5 was at 100max :) I played really well in both sessions but got bent over in a lot of hands.

Here is a hand from my first session. Gotta love this. SO seeeeek.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1551339
I’ve been trying to call 3 bets w/ AA and KK lately instead of 4 betting and them folding. Although I don’t do it all the time. I try to only do it in position vs certain types of opponents. Works, although It was going to work either way. I just want to make it tougher for people to lay down TT – QQ pre flop to me.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1551695
When he raised flop I was actually kind of worried about a set, but I figured it’s a lot more likely he has Clubs or a small over pair.

This is where things get VERY interesting.

I played an opponent HU for awhile at 100max….but lost 3 buy ins to him.

(Very Interesting Hands below)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552251
This hand put him on insanity tilt. He had 3 bet me a lot the last 4 or 5 hands I raised so figured he doesn’t necessarily have a hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552263
This hand turns the tide for him. Pretty gross :D I was actually not that upset because I knew I got it in as a monster favourite. Still stinks though.

The very next hand I think this comes up.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552275
I feel that he may still be on tilt so I make a questionable call. I think it’s 50/50 wether he has the Q or not after seeing the last hand. I wasn’t too disappointed in it given the situation. He outplayed me there and figured correctly that I had an Ace and I would think he was tilting still. Cutos to him.

The very next hand this hand occurs.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552277
Again not much I can do here. I get bent over by the turn. BOOOOOO. The dynamics of the match at this point make me feel like I have to call, because I think he’s observant enough to bluff at this pot after the previous hand him over shoving the nuts on the river. He could be trying to bluff at it w/ KQ, QT Type hand or a worse Ace (although he’d think he’s not bluffing w/ an Ace). I’m really not folding it to this maniac though.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552471
Here is a hand I wasn’t sure what to do on. Villain had 3 bet me big (4x my raise) and he had position on me. He has done this 4-5 times in the past 10 minutes so it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s got a monster, although The only time I’ve seen him showdown a 3 bet hand was AKhh. His check on flop felt weak, I take a stab and bet turn, I think he either had QQ or JJ though and slow played the Queens full, or Rivered the Jacks full cause he thought I was stealing on turn. If he actually did have AK as well calling hoping for a chop is so bad imo.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1552597
This is a hand I really fucked up. I didn’t notice I hadn’t reloaded yet. It’s unlikely He shoves on me w/ 100bb, so I end up winning this hand a lot after 3 betting. I cbet flop and he mucks quite often here. Damn my not paying attention. Flops about as good as I could have hoped for.

So I busted my Handsomedee account last night. Not to happy about that.

Played this morning and won 250$. So I’m back to being over $1100 again. I should cash out $100 tonight. And start concentrating on 50max again. I’m still killing that limit so I should stick to it. 6.2PT bb/100 over almost 30k hands.

Hockey: The leafs.....UGH. What can I say. They played pretty well again last night, I was pleased with Toscala' performance. Moves well, doesn't give up as brutal rebounds as Raycroft. Looks like Toscala will get the start next game I think.

Tonight i'm just going to hang out with the wife and relax.

Tommorow is the big day. Point Edward Charity Casinos Saturday 65$ tourny....But wait you say, It's only a 65$ tourny, Who cares. Ah ha. It's the first Saturday of the month so it's a NL Omaha tourny. haha yes, i said NL Omaha. This is going to be insane. I've heard it's O8 so that should be even more ridiculous. I'm pretty excited mainly cause i've never played Omaha live before. The problem is, if it's O8 the dealers are going to take months chopping up pots etc. Plus being NL it's going to make it even crazier. Plus people that play in the NL Holdem tourny are basically people with below 40 IQ (IQ of 40 and below Denotes Downs Syndrome) so having them playing O8 is going to be even more ridiculous for them.

I'm really excited about this. I will probably play some 5/10 After. Maybe some 3 card poker.....UH OH hahaha. By by monies.. Come on Trips :) pay 25:1 ya baby.

Thats all for now.

T.G.I.F.

In 4 days I should have a case of the Mondays although it will be Tuesday.

A Good night but my HDTV looks like shit now :(

2007-10-04T07:48:00.000-04:00

TV:

In non Poker news. I got an HDPVR last night and it officially made normal cable look like complete shat. Just terrible picture. HD looks mediocre. Maybe it's the cheap component cables that came with the PVR. I just bought an HDMI cable off Ebay so hopefully that will improve the picture. My standard def PVR looked 50% better on normal cable then this HD one. I hope that's not the case because there are alot of channels i still want to watch that are not in HD. Luckily all the main ones are in HD though.

Hockey:

The leafs...... What can I say. Raycroft....What can I say..... Hmmm. I have decided I am going to become a raging alcoholic and abuse my wife regularly. This should help to temper the rage I feel when I watch leafs games from now on. They played an overall great game. Outplayed Ottawa for 80% of the game and still lost. Razer is a fucking joke....that's all I can say. He had one good season out of 7 and his save % is below .900 on his career in the NHL where he played any decent amount of games. He has had 2 seasons above .900 and only 1 of them significantly so. All the rest below. He makes me want to cheer for Ottawa this season...and for all that know me know that that is as close to sacrilege as I can get. I sure hope Toscila (Sp?) plays well tonight in Ottawa so we can keep Raycroft on the bench.

Poker:

I decided since my roll was at around 1k i'd take a shot of 2 buy ins at 100max. Again, 25max has been owning me for the past 2 months, I'm down almost 4 buy ins after 22k hands, and i have been killing 50max at 5.7 PT bb/100 over 26k hands. I have dabbled a little in higher limits as well, winner in all but 400max. 100max is a pretty easy game to beat as long as your table selection is excellent. I ran into a couple tables where i had the same guy on them both, baltzar_man. He was very aggro and seemed to be 3 betting me every single hand i played very light. I floated him a few times and stole the pot. He slowed down after I showed him that i wasn't gonna take his B.S. Either that or maybe he was just getting hands every time i did. Then he won a decent one from me. He flopped set of 8s on 78Jss board, He didn't raise flop, turn Ts, I wanted to c/r him w/ AKo but he checked behind. I fired a K river for 2/3 pot he thought forever and called. I decided after losing a bunch on those tables that i had to get up, luckily i had to go make dinner so that made it all the more easy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1547609
Here is the first hand I played all in. Villain seemed Standard good. I'm unsure how good my shove is here. He's played the hand like a monster with a very small fishy 4 bet wanting action or a really horrible bluff attempt. have outs no matter what so I kind of feel like I should be shoving here, although he's never folding a hand that beats me, excep maybe AK. but even then probably not. I'm 30% to win vs a set so it can't be that bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1547635
Villain is 28/2.8/1 over 35 hands -
This hand was weird and I think i made a bet sizing mistake. I think i should have made a 2/3 pot bet on turn to make it look like i had a hand so that he wouldn't raise w/ a smaller pair or AK. My 1/2 pot bet just seemed really weak to me. I'm going to post this hand on 2+2 to see what people think. I'm just noticing he is short also so maybe this was really terrible. But i think he could have AA, KK, QQ quite often here given his passive nature and his cold call of the 3 bet.

This was by far the funniest hand of the night.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1547743
Villain2(Shenny888) is on button. Villain1(IFlopGoot) is terrible. The very hand before I had bluffed a missed draw on river only to be picked off by villain2, so he thinks im a habitual bluffer as well as possibly on tilt. I wasn't able to reload in time...thankfully, becuase this hand might not have played out the same had I had 100bb.

There is no way villain1 checks flush with only 1 person left to act. When Villain 2 bets I am hoping both have a Jack and shove. Villain1 calls after a few seconds and villain 2 calls as well. Wow. how can V2 call after getting called in 1 spot. Werid. I guess he was playing his rush. p.s. You have to love flush over flush when the nutz is a 6 high flush :) hahaha. Too funny. reminds me of the hand Phil Helmuth and Mike B? played on high stakes poker, where Mike had 6d7d high flush and Phil had the ole 53dd high flush. Something along those lines.

VILLAIN BAD BEAT 1 because villain plays bad.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1547753
Tee hee.

VILLAIN BAD BEAT 2
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1548357
Here is a weird hand. I kind of wanted to raise flop, but felt like he might be a bit to strong to play it like that, so i tried to take a stronger line and smooth call his pot bet on flop. Turn is a money card for me giving me 3 more outs. Now i can rep the huge hand. He fires 16 into a 26$ pot, i shove repping my monster. He takes all his time (SLOW ROLL) to call with the nuts. I get some VINDICATION ONE TIME with the 7 ball on the river to scoop.

VILLAIN BAD BEAT 3

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1548359
And to finish it off, I bet he has swinging from the rafters after this one :) He has to have a very vulnerable hand here or i'm way ahead. He's a pretty huge donk. I figure i'm ahead of his hilarious over pushing range so i call and gamble. :) I have 14 outs twice. WOO HOO. And was there ever any doubt I was going to get there? Pfft.

So I think i am going to track the Bad Beats I lay on people. It's definitely the most enjoyable part of playing poker. I try not not worry about the beats people lay on me, I try to focus my energy on the beats I lay on other people. It works two fold because when I take beats I think to myself, well it's far less painful then the beat i put on ... so an so the other day :) It helps fend off tilt.

I played 520 hands last night and won 157$ or so. The roll is up over 1k again. I should be getting my 350$ from rake back any day now. Unsure exactly what I'm going to do with it. Possibly buy some things off EBay. Then pay some more debt off. That should please the wife.

My friend from work is doing his Flight test today. All that will remain after this is the written portion which he should be doing within the month. That means by my birthday we should be renting a plane and taking a trip to Montreal for a weekend. Should be awesome. I hope I don't die.

Another night of barely medicore play.

2007-10-03T08:26:00.000-04:00

I went home sick yesterday around 11am. I rented a couple movies and just played poker and video games all day. I would have loved to sleep however I'm not a day sleeper.

Rented The Conndemed w/ Steve Austin. It's about 10 death row inmates from around the world. They are purchased from 3rd world country prisons and are put on an island to compete to the death. The last one alive wins and gets set free. A bunch of Americans have setup cameras all over the small island somewhere in Indonesia i believe and sell the show as Reality TV over the Internet. It's a pretty entertaining guy movie.

The other movie was NEXT. Nicholas Cage. Really good movie. Entertaining and Jessica Biel isn't ugly. :) Id recomment both to people who like to watch.....stuff.

On to poker. Had a bad -5 buy in session early in the day. Played well for the first 3/4 but kept taking beats and went on a bit of tilt but cut my losses at 5 buy ins. Came back after a movie and lost some more, then jumped it up and won it all back plus a bit :) Running good at higher limits is fun.

I wish i had like 5k cause i could play 2/4NL and only play all the donks thats sit with 80-200$. They are so terrible and are just there to gamble. It's so easy to take their money. They'll get it in with really terrible hands.

Anyways.

I obviously suck lately at discipline. I need to work on that.

Here is a very weird hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1543578

I really blew this hand, although I think it was inevitable that one of the too would have called me. I should have bet pot on turn. I think I bet smaller because I wanted them to call. Hmm. I guess I didn't want them to call haha.

The reason i raised river was becuase I can't put the caller on a flush because he just called, I had a feeling the River bettor had a flush but i wanted to try to extract most out of caller since I didn't think he calls w/ flush. Honestly the best part of this hand was the caller (Neuro1) started berating me saying "You're always trying to bluff, you can't win every hand" hahaha lmao. i had a good chuckle at that.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1543612
Talk about playing bad hhaha. If I want to bluff I need to raise turn. Not call and bet river. I'm getting called by any king no matter what.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1543674
Ummmm ok, give me your money, See if I care.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1543751
This hand was intersting because villain had earlier asked me. Hey, can you give me your stack please. I said, just play every pot i play and one of us will have it eventually. So after that we played big pots cause he kept 3 betting me everytime i'd raise. I got the best of it up to this point. I shoved turn because a) I thought if he had weaker Ace and would pay me off, AJ, AT etc. b) I didn't want a very difficult decision really deep if a heart came on river. c) If i was beat i still had outs w/ the NFD.

This hand was more psychology then anything and he got the best of it. I was outplayed. The only hand I thought i was behind too was AQ. Never in all my years expected to see AA. Meh. Vs an opp that didn't have this wierd history with i would probably call turn and check behind on river when hearts get there cause he would probably check as well. Although if he made a decent bet id fold and be angry i let him suckout when in reality i was behind the whole time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1544560
Here is another hand that was very intersting and crazy. Villain 1 is a complete donk. No clue what he is doing. Q3o is the nuts to him....NOT lying. I have seen him show down in huge pots w/ Qx multiple times on Q high 3 flush and 3 straight boards. Villain 2 is a weird bad player.

I think i'm ahead on turn even though villain 2 riased flop. I didn't give him a ton of credit. His raise was a terrible size and it did nothing. So unless he has the nuts i don't think he's got a monster. On the turn donk1 makes his standard idiot bet, and villain 2 calls my 3/4 pot raise. Now i'm worried he had NFD and hit an Ace. And donk1 calls. I'm clueless as to what he has other then a weak queen so i think i'm still ahead of his. River is a brick and it gets checked down. I'd have a hard time calling a push from villain 2 on river as the hand played out unfortunately i may have to make it given pot size and how much we all have left. Luckily he didn't bet so i didn't have to make a tough call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1544569

Here is some of my short stacking donkery. :) Enjoy haha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1544576
Wow, Not a good spot to bluff. It's obv I have FD.

I had moved back down at this point.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1544583
Here is one insane hand. Same villains as the QTo hand. Pretty crazy. Now that is one big ass pot. I'm very happy fs012 guy didn't riase turn cause he might have scared out 77 hand. haha. Gotta love putting stacks in drawing dead. :) Luckily river didn't fill him up.

That's all for now. I'm back at work so that kind of sucks. I wish I Had have taken today off too. Oh well. I should concentrate on work today.

Quick post.

2007-10-02T07:40:00.001-04:00

Here are my stats for my most recent unbrokeness. 25 max has made me it's bitch but luckily i have made 50max my bitch so that's a much better scenario then the other way around.

Villain bad beat of the night. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1540971
Unfortunately he was very short but that's all i have at the moment. Oh wait, I have one more.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1540932
I was pretty suprised when he showed up with Kings. I can't remember what his stats were but all I remember is they are the reason i was suprised. Oh well, how many times do i have to tell these fish that If I don't currently have the best hand, I sure as hell will by the river.

Lady Luck is my bitch.

Weekend shinnanigans.

2007-10-01T09:29:00.001-04:00

Weekend was excellent. Lots of shtuff going on.

Quick recap.

Friday night. Went to my friends place just out of town with a few other doods and played some video games on his projector. Was a good time Played Halo3 online and it was a pretty fun game. I sure wish I had a keyboard and mouse to use instead of a controller. I’m about 1000x better playing games that way. Oh well. Played some guitar hero in 85” HD. That didn’t suck either haha. Everyone was pretty tired because we had all worked long weeks. My friend Roche (the guy whos place we were at) had worked 78 hours by Friday and still worked 9 hours on Saturday for the grand total of 87 hours. PUKE. This man is a sick individual as you can already tell.

So Saturday, I woke up early as usual and hit the gym. Had a great work out, then hung out with my wife all day and did some shopping and stuff. Rented a movie and a 360 game Skate. I had noticed Friday that a guy I used to be friends with and skateboard with a few years ago is in the game. How sick is that. Just out of the blue my friend is playing as Chris Haslam. I’m like NO FUCKING WAY. I quickly check online and find a wiki page of his that does indeed confirm that it is one and the same. Pretty crazy. He and his brother and family had moved out west and we all pretty much lost contact with him about 5 or 6 years ago. I’m still kind of shocked. Not that he is a big name pro now because everyone pretty much saw that coming, but about the way I found out about it. This guy had just 100% natural talent. So fluid and could do just the sickest tricks around. He was the first skater in London to be able to pull a Kick flip backside tail slide. I came a close second :( Booooo. No shame coming second to someone this good though. ha ha but i digress. So the wifey and I stayed in Saturday night and watched Zodiac. It was ok but damn Long. This movie wasn’t a big hit and the only reason I can figure is because they never caught the person who did it (Officially).

Sunday got up and took the wife out for breakfast. Then took the dog to the park which wasn’t pleasant. She’s become ultra aggressive towards pretty much all other dogs. I’m assuming it is because she was never socialized because she was abandonded when she was 3 or 4 weeks old so she never had time to get used to other puppies around a lot. Shes 3 now so it’s kinda strange that its only come out in the past 1-1/2 years. So after that we just went home and chilled…oh wait. The big news. My wife then took me to Best Buy and bought me a new 42” LCD TV. How sick is that? Pretty amazing. Shes basically the best woman ever….next to my Mom of course. :P It was on sale for 1200 from 1600 I believe. It’s 720p which is more then I’ll ever need (until I need a new one) haha. It’s pretty awesome. Skate looks unbelievable on it. So that sums up my weekend.

Poker related.

Played some more on Saturday night and then on Sunday morning and evening. Won all sessions but one. Won 2 buy ins at 50max on a short roll Saturday evening. Then won another 2 Sunday morning. Came back an hour later and played a random dood HU 25max for a couple hundred hands. Lost 5 buy ins. Not much I could do. I think I played well and if the cards fall my way I win a lot. He was a good opponent though. Strong 3 bets and 4 bets. We battled pretty good. Definitely not a standard 25max HU battle haha. Felt more like 2/4NL cause of our aggression. First hand I got pretty unlucky in I lost KK to A4s in a 3 bet pot. He flops 3 fours. Qs4x4s. Not much to do there. Others he out flopped me and I just lost. One hand I think I played well but just made a bad read, he 3 bet flop all in after he 3 bet pre w/ KTo I had 88 and called all in on Td9x3d. I thought he could easily be doing this with a FD or just 2 overs. Oh well. So I quit him after the last hand when we get it all in pre w/ AQdd vs his AA. Oh well. I won’t play him again. He said he was a 2/4NL and 3/6NL player but had cashed out all his money due to a big downswing.

So I was pretty disappointed about that loss but nothing to do but get back to it. Sunday night I played again before bed and won almost 3 buy ins at 25max. Roll is slowly increasing again which is good. I’m gonna keep playing 25max unless I see some of my “Buddies” at 50max. Just gotta keep focused and keep my discipline.

Here are 2 hands from the weekend session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1535658
This hand was vs villain that was very passive. I actually really wanted to lay it down and thing over the long run it’s probably correct to do so vs him. Although I think he might think I’m trying to bluff cheap cause of my ½ pot bet on the turn. I rarely bet that small and he might have picked up on that since we have played about 1500 hands together. There really isn’t much I beat that a passive opponent who I have never seen bluff will show up with here. I think I got lucky that he happened to have suck a weak hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1535707
All I can say is, What’s up bluff gone wrong…then gets lucky so it went right :)

One other thing is now I don’t have to worry about saving up my rakeback to buy a new TV. It should be about 350$ for this month WOOT WOOT.

That’s all for now.

Poker OBV!

2007-09-29T09:43:00.000-04:00

Played a quick session last night. Won't $32.79 in 379 hands at 25 max. It felt good to book even a minute win. Played a bit too laggy but that's probably becuase it was short session and i usually join tables HU or start my own so often 50 hands or so are HU.

Played for 200 hands this morning. and booked a $120.45 win. I played extremely laggy because 50% of it was HU on 3 tables vs the same guy. I think i'm going to play 3 tables for awhile instead of my normal 4 to get that extra focus in on players. I played 38.5/23.5/1.83. The opponent i played is pretty easily exploitable. His stats are like 28/8/1.5 over 1100 hands so he limps a ton and loves to play HU. I started out raising alot but then i could see him getting frustrated after i made some hands on him and he started 3 betting so i just started limping alot and abusing him that way. I have never once seen him bluff so basically every time he calls or bets he has a hand. Pretty easy to play against someone like that. My PF agression was 1.34, Flop was 3.57 which is good for me and turn is 1.33. i usually play turn cautiously especially HU cause i bluff alot on flops :) river usually gets me there and thats where i take advantage. my River AF is 5.

Anyways, thats probably enough for now. This is the last hand i played. I'm sure he thinks i hit n ran him but i had already unchecked post blind. Sucks to be him.

SB: $50.19
BB: $34.19
Hero (UTG): $112.51
CO: $38.72
BTN: $48.87

Preflop: Hero is dealt 8 7 (5 Players)
Hero calls $0.50, 3 folds, BB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.00

Flop: ($3.25) K 7 7 (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3.25) 2 (2 Players)
BB bets $1.00, Hero raises to $5.00, BB calls $4.00

River: ($13.25) 9 (2 Players)
BB bets $4.00, Hero raises all-in to $106.01, BB calls all-in for $23.69

Uncalled bet of $78.32 returned to Hero
Pot Size: $68.63 ($2 Rake)

BB had A A (two pairs, Aces and Sevens) and LOST (-$34.19)
Hero had 8 7 (three of a kind, Sevens) and WON (+$32.44)

Improving my productivity one website at a time.

2007-09-28T13:25:00.001-04:00

Bloglines.com *

I just signed up yesterday and i've found it saves me probably close to an hour every morning. I don't have to go check every blog i read daily to see if their is updates or not. If you read alot of blogs and don't have it your a nut job and should be committed immediately.

Quickly what it does it check and alert you to whenever the blogs you put in your feed are updated.

This is probably old news for most but I didn't know about it until yesterday and i'm a fairly internet savy individual. Go figure.

Holler :) put me in your feed damn it.

More pain. Oh no, I'm starting to sound like the other complainers on the internet.

2007-09-28T07:28:00.000-04:00

Another disasterous night. Cashed out 200 more to ensure i don't kill myself. I would have to say having my BR split between 2 accounts is going to be a saviour.

I really need to take some time off and get my head straight. I always seem to play better after some time off.

I started out playing great and got bent over 4 or 5 times pretty quickly. AK losing to J3o in SB vs BB battle. on AT38J board :) haha. good times.

QQ losing to J8o all in pre w/ the old J8A flop to seal it. haha. I wish I had some villain bad beats to post to uplift the spirit of this blog. Maybe thats why I havn't been winning lately. I Havn't been posting the beats i lay on other people.

Here is one. Me and buddy have battled continuously for about an hour. I have position on him 1 to his left. He opens relentlessly from CO and Button when folded to him so i repop him every single time almost to a standard raise of 6.66 in pos or 7$ if i'm oop. This hand i try to confuse the shit out of him. We are both 240bb deep. He opens again from CO, i 3 bet minimum just for shits and giggles with a shitty hand. J8o. He min 4 bets me. Hmm ok he's got a hand. I call. Flop is 79Tr. Wow, talk about horse shoe up my ass. He leads, i raise pot, he shoves for a huge bet. I snap call w/ the nuts and hold vs his QQ? hahah wow. that was intersting. What a terrible shove w/ QQ. I could easily have AA after a very strange min 3 bet i made. I got lucky he was willing to go with it. 240$ pot

I lost one that was pretty gross imo. We were almost 200bb deep. Villain doesn't SEEM horrible until this hand.

He raises from UTG, i 3 bet from SB to 7$ w/88. We have tangled a few times. He's kind of a calling station but nothing to crazy. He calls. Flop comes 8dJsQs. I bet 3/4 pot so around 11$. He calls quickly. Fairly certain he doesn't have a set cause he's aggressive enough to raise flop with a set after all my aggression. Turn is a blank. I fire 29$ into a 36$ pot. He calls. river T. Not a great card for me but after his turn call his range is narrowed prettly closely to KK or AA imo. Not much else he just calls 2 streets with other then maybe a flush draw but thats fairly unlikely he called that big turn bet w/ just a flush draw. Possibly a flush draw and a straight draw but again i think he'd have raised flop with that. I shove for 45$ into a 95ish $ pot. he insta calls w/ AKo. OMG i was stunned. I have no clue if I played this badly. A little advice would be much appreciated. I'm 95% sure that the turn wasn't a spade cause buddy ended up showing up with the Ks i think so that might explain whey he called turn if it was a spade. I'll have to double check.

Either way it's kinda sickening. That was a big hand.

I have to bet turn and i also have to shove river i think. I can't check river and let him get a free showdown w/ AA or KK but i can't put him on AK or a 9 and c/f river. Did i make a mistake by betting turn or possibly betting so muhc? Maybe fire 1/2 pot on turn and c/c or c/f river if it's a real scare card?

That's all for now. I need a break. Shouldn't be playing at all tongiht, or much at all this weekend so that should work for me. I'm back to playing 25max and need to think of 3 things while playing.

Play TAG. Don't call bets in marginal situations where you probably won't get paid off. And DO NOT BLUFF!

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2007-09-27T09:49:00.001-04:00

I'm tryign to get bloglines to work but can't get it to show me an updated blog. o

So gay.

Also, i just found out a blogger that had really inspried me and someone I looked up too had basically quit bloggin because of a really bad run he's been having.

An Amature Contemplates. Check him out in the sidebar if you want to see what happend.

YIKES

2007-09-27T08:52:00.000-04:00

Disaster strikes. Bankroll takes a 30% hit and I’m left holding my balls in my hand. Here is a quick summary of how the night went. Although even after the first hand I was still up 2 buy ins after about 75% of the session or 2000 hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1523778
This was literally the first hand I was dealt as you can see by my posting. Not a great way to start :D haha. I laughed for probably close to 1 minute. The only card in the deck that makes me go broke. Obv.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1524989
This is pretty much how it ended as well. That kinda sums up the few sessions I played last night. Notice the stakes 2 :S haha. Had to bump it up a bit right? Haha. Continue to suck at poker and lose. Not the best idea. Still, I lost all the money at 50max, I actually won a few buy ins at 100max. The play is still super terrible but much more aggressive. I still think I could clean up there though.

Here are a few other hands. I made some good lay downs too.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1523879
Hmm 98% he’s got a Jack? Everyone says they don’t like my flop raise and say it’s too small. But in reality, what kind of hand is cold calling any 3 bet even slightly less then pot without a Jack or better. His lead is a great play as well except I’m less likely to call that then if he checks, lets me check behind and he fires a Value bet on the river. I’d be much more inclined to call that then a Turn lead.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1523961
Another standard laydown? I wanted to get as much money in as I could but then he over shoves. His stats are horribly LAG. I have his stats and notes no him at the top of the hand. Not much he does this week like 200bb deep that I can beat.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1523982
Wow, I lost a lot of value but his calls didn’t seem weak. His stats are at the top of the PH.org hand again and he literally could have almost any 2.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1524773
This guy was actually up 5 buy ins really quickly after this too. He seemed very terrible. Couldn’t fold any pair ever. I kept getting called down by 2nd pair weak kicker by him for like 50-100BB pots. Weird.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1524863
I guess he really does have Aces hahah.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1524869
I 3 bet this guy 3 hands before this one and won the pot on the flop. He apparently got very angry about that and 3 bet the next 3 hands in a row that I raised and I kept missing with decent hands but then I figure I’m good here a large % of the time. I suppose I should go for it. If he shoved I probably fold. But I can’t say for sure.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1523829
This hand was weird because I honestly forgot who raised the pot etc. I was in a hand on another table and wasn’t 100% concentrating on this table. Turns out I raised it haha. Woops. I played it kind of bad but got lucky that he had a monster 2. Who loves the donk raising. Hahha. It’s so damn useful at these low limits.

So all the hands are out of the way. Basically I went berserk and lost a ton, was down 60% of my BR at one point but some quick thinking and some ninja short stacking at 5/10NL vs other terrible short stackers won me a bunch back. God I’m an idiot. I don’t feel like I’m playing terrible but I still feel for my bankrolls sake I need to take a break. It’s probably unlikely though haha. I’m gonna try to grind the 25max for a while to build the roll back to 1500 before moving up again. Ugh, 20 buy ins. Gross. Not looking forward to it but hey, shit happens. I fucked up and need to deal with the consequences now. I still need to cash out 100$/ week so I better play well and not fuck around anymore.

That’s all.

I hang my head in shame right now but I feel that I should put all of this in here because I need to feel accountable for my actions.

I am VERY VERY happy I still have a decent BR to play 25max with. 42 buy ins should be good. I think if I hit 1100$ ill cash out the 100$ now for this week so that I don’t have to worry about it if I go insane again.

One quick addition.

2007-09-26T12:41:00.000-04:00

[Rant] Don't get mad...but seriously, I can't stand reading about people complaining about online MTTs. It's pretty much the only thing that makes me click X in the upper right corner immediately. If I start to read a new blog and they have HHs and stuff from MTTs or SnGs i pretty much won't read any further and just close it.

I don't know why.

It's weird. If i already read the persons blog and they write about it i'm completely ok with it. I think almost all the blogs i read though are cash game players (primarily). Maybe thats why.

Either way, it's bloody annoying.

[/End Rant]

A quick session gone right.

2007-09-26T09:26:00.000-04:00

Had another really good session. This time results showed. Picked up 2 buy ins. I played for only about an hour or so before having to make dinner for the wife.

This is how you know you're playing the best poker of your life.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1519813
This hand was pretty sick. Talk about the most disgusting read ever.

ORRRR it's possible i misclicked. I'll let you decide :) hahaha

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1519869
One problem i have sometimes is extracting the most out of villains in situations where they have weak hands like this. I usually feel like a huge donk when i min 3 bet but it's often a good way to extract more money from opponents. If i min 4 bet here he probably calls but only gets it in when he hits his flush or Wheel draw. I could use some advice.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1519875
Ok i played this hand kinda badly, cause pretty much any Queen is calling here as well. I don't know why I did this. I think it was an attemped bluff/block. Really unsure. I think this would be a better bet if i had KK. It ended up paying off casue this is the ver next hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1519883
Next hand vs Same villain. Jackpot flop. I think on turn he has a K or a T but unsure which. Very slight chance he has a 7. His min raise on turn is to try to find out if i have a 7. I like my call cause i'm pretty sure he thinks i have one if i raise there. I call and check to him on river trying to make it look like i have a pair but a weak pair and want to see a show down. He fires small again and now i try to figure out how to get money out of him and i figure, after the last hand he thinks i bluff ALOT so i just shove it in as a huge over bet and hope he thinks i'm steamed and bluffing again. Works perfectly.

Being a donk sometimes pay sometimes.

So i played a bit this morning to.

Very first hand i pick up KQss playing HU 50max on button. Buddy riases 2$ i 3 bet to 6.66$. he calls, flop 6s2s9h. He checks, i fire 2/3 pot, he 2.5x raises, i shove for 50$ he snap calls w/ 66. I'm thinking thats a pretty bad call pre with 0 reads and 100BB deep. a) I don't think he's getting the right price and b) he has to be basically guaranteed to get all my money when he hits which is not even close to true. He just got lucky i flopped some sort of hand.

Anyone agree / disagree?

Actually maybe he is getting the right price but only if he gets my stack everytime. I have forgotten what the correct #s are for trying to flop sets and making it +EV in 3 bet pots. I just kinda stopped trying to do unless there is multiple callers already or we are like 150bb deep or more.

The wife is working tonight so i'm going to go home, play some poker, do some chores and play some more poker. I would really like to work my BR back up to 2k like i had it last week. Just more solid play required.

I really feel good about my game and am in a great frame of mind. The best thing a mediocre player (which i probably am) can do is two things. Good Bankroll Managment as well as Excellent game selection. You can beat almost any game for a sick amount of money by just finding games where several players are 30+ VPIP. It doesn't really matter what their PFR or Aggression levels are becuase as long as they put too much money in the pot consistently you will beat them. The tigheter their PFR standards are the better. A hell of a lot easier to play them. It's basically like having their cards face up.

I have been really focusing on table selection lately.

I really need to get a new bike so i can get back to the gym regularly when my wife takes the car. Plus i should buy another car soon since winter is coming. I want something w/ AWD but most AWD vehicles only come in V6. I want a 4 banger for gas consumption purposes. The wife drives a few hundred clicks every day so that will help her save money. I'll be keeping my A4. Foreign cars only please.
Any suggestions?

Work time.

Results are in...and they suck.

2007-09-25T08:07:00.001-04:00

Well it is a good thing that results mean nothing in poker because I played the most flawless poker that I have in quite some time. I played around 2000 hands last night. I feel I played 9.7456/10. I ended up down 2 buy ins but that means little to me. Played extremely well and got very unlucky in 10-15 pots for 50 to 100bb each. AK losing to 66 on A9A board, they call flop turn 6, etc etc. You know how it goes sometimes. Only one person actually flopped a set on me vs my TPTK, the other handful were all turned sets hahha. DAMN. I tilted 0% of the session which was good. I was just in a great frame of mind. Every beat I took I just started laughing and kept on playing. It didn’t effect me.

Prison break was on last night. Another great episode. Only complaint is that a dood has been in a sewer living for like 2 weeks and comes out looking like a model with a little bit of dirt on his shirt? Hmmm that’s interesting haha.

Heroes started out well. Not as great as the first season but still has some interesting plot lines going on. Claire is 10x hotter then last season. Shes 18 right? :)

Leafs lost….again. In over time vs Ottawa. I didn’t get to watch the game because of all the other shows. Oh well, I’ll try to watch Wednesdays game (if I don’t decide to go to class) If I don’t make it to class this Wednesday, I guess I won’t be signing up. I should really go though.

****
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1516116
This hand I really need some comments on. I Open limp button which is super strange for me. I really almost never do it but felt since we are all so deep and these guys are so agro I want to play this pot in pos and don’t want to get 3 bet pre and have to muck. (Normally I’d raise this when folded to me on Btn). Anyways, so the turn is my jackpot card. At this point I make a nice sized raise on the turn and he calls pretty quickly. I really am hoping the board doesn’t pair because he could easily have a set here, although most people will shove a set on this board, but since I’m a limp caller I’m thinking maybe he’s scared of my exact hand which kinda sucks because if I raised pre instead of calling we get all the money in on the turn. River is the worst card in the deck for me. He insta checks which I should know is super weak but I’m a huge vageen and think for all my time wondering if he has Tens Full. Obv this is such a horrible check behind by me, I Lost so much value. I literally sat and stared at this hand in Pokerhand.org for 10 minutes just thinking about how much of a pussy I was and how disappointed I am in myself. 98.77% of the time I get his stack on river. It was still a significant bet 40$ into 47$ for him to call but still. I think he makes that call often enough. And I’m obv so far ahead of his range. Range im beating, JJ,QQ,KK,AA, AT. Range I’m losing to. TT, 99. If that doesn’t show how bad I am I don’t know what does.

I’m going to display for the first time on here a couple beats, but don’t worry, I want 0 sympathy because they aren’t technically bad beats because it happens to everyone and we all run the same. I’ve put a lot sicker beats on other people and damn it I love it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515797
Nice Fold Equity sir. :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515819
Well, I played this hand pretty amazingly in my most humble opinion. Hahah. If he has an Ace he’s firing, if he doesn’t it sure looks like I don’t have one. I push river hoping he thinks we may chop. That’s an extra 20$ I earned there. Very proud.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515834
I kinda wanted to shove river but wasn’t sure his hand was strong enough to call. Looks like it was, darn. Thanks for the pot control brov.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515919
I have been getting into this spot a lot lately. And it keeps feeling like they miss their flush but hit their TP on the river. I need to figure out if I should be raising turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515956
A little history with villain in this session. I had “stolen” a couple pots from him w/ what I believe were the best hands but am not 100% sure. He was a bit steamed up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1515966
This was kinda crappy. Villain was pretty tight. I shouldn’t have done this. But he had just caught me bluffing (semi bluffing) in the last hand so I really thought he might be going crazy w/ a weak hand cause he thought I was tilting. He actually thought about it before calling so who knows.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1516314
I really wasn’t 100% committed to my hand on turn but then realized that both of their play is sooooo weak. I had to raise them. The original bettor is betting weak small and buddy is obv drawing to something.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1516438
My weak turn raise was the size it was because if he had an ace I didn’t want to scare him off because he was a pretty passive player. I really thought he had a much weaker ace then that by the way he played it. If you are going to play AQ super passive you mine as well muck it pre.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1516456
This sure felt nice nice :) I wasn’t super confident in my hand but I def played it pretty passively so he could easily have , 89, 9T, J9, or a bluff. Even A7 isn’t out of the question. Villain is a Super Loose Passive donk.

I guess I didn’t save any real beats so that’s probably a good thing. Nobody, including me gives 2 shits. Should be playing more tonight. Sorry for no Villain bad beats. I wish I had some. Well I suppose the 78o hand was a beat but not really.

I should get to work.

Amatay, if you’re reading this…..no link yet. Don’t make me resort to violence. I know you’re British and pretty good at being a hooligan but I’m a pretty big kid. Hahah.

Golf, Drinking, Poker and Poker. And some TV.

2007-09-24T08:47:00.001-04:00

This weekend was pretty busy until Sunday.

Saturday golf was horrendous. I drove the ball better then I probably ever have. Just crushed my drives. I hit a couple 330+ one was close to 350 which I nutted. It was sick. I love the precept balls I’m playing. The laddie xtremes are awesome too except I couldn’t find them to buy before the round. I ended up putting incredibly bad. I four putted multiple holes. 3 putted most of the rest hahah. I just bought a new putter a month ago and fucking hate it. It’s far to heavy for me. It breaks my wrist in the backswing and the forward swing. I either need to a) machine it to take some weight off or b) buy a new putter. I’m pretty pissed. On the 16th hole (par 3) I landed about 6” from the cup. That would have definitely made up for my poor putting if I hadda drained that hahah.

Got kinda tipsy after the round in the club house, went home, got ready and headed out for dinner, which was really good but the line up for food was brutal. It’s a buffet TYPE restaurant except they have a huge metal grill thing that they cook ur noodles, meat and veggies and whatever oils sauces and seasonings you put on it right there while you wait. About 50 people in line at a time which sucked. I have never had to wait so long there before. Bloody Saturday nights.

So after dinner we went back to my friends place, people came over (about 10) had a little party and stuff. Was a decent time until my friend started bashing me and a few others joined in (don’t get me wrong) I like to harass people probably more then the next guy but I try to do it joking and in a funny manner so that everyone knows it’s just good times but he got really mean and personal and was literally doing it to a) either embarrass me or b) to make me feel like a piece of trash. People apparently thought it was really entertaining so I just grabbed my shoes after about 30 min and bailed and went downtown with my boy Scottyb aka scottyJugs on party. We hit up Barneys patio then Robinson Hall. Was pretty fun. He finished 14th in that tourney I was talking about that I took 50% of him in, top 5 or so paid. Booo.

Sunday I felt like a pile of garbage so I just sat around and played poker, won some monies and watched a lot of poker on TV. A few episodes of Poker After Dark with a lineup of, WPT winners, Danny, Erick, Gus, Grinder, Tuan Le, and 1 other I cant remember. It’s a very entertaining lineup. The hand where Danny has AA and Gus has A8 on 278 board is excellent. It was a pretty sick lay down for Gus cause he loves to call. He was super steamed after too, really funny. I also watched a lot of LA Poker Scene which is Live at the Bike. Decent show although I can’t stand the hosts. The players that play on this game are typical live fish. Id say that the 5000NL (50/100NL) game that I watched was softer then the 50NL games I play regularly.

Tonight is going to be an awesome night. The wife is working till 7 or 8 though which sucks so I probably won’t make the gym….AGAIN. Prison break, Heroes (season premiere) Leaf game, and High Stakes poker is on tonight. WOOT WOOT. I bought GSN and Leafs TV again this year. Should be interesting when the wife sees the bill haha GULP :)

So I’ll probably play a bit of poker tonight as well. I played pretty well and have had back to back winning days after 3 or 4 losing days in a row. It feels good, Cashed out another 100$ and got my roll back to 30 buy ins for my game so I feel good. Just gotta play well and keep getting hands in. One thing I’m especially proud of is that when I went on a few day losing stretch in the past I would have gone broke immediately by tilting away rest of money at higher limits and woulda feltshit. I’ve had 2 losing streaks since I’ve been back playing again and I have recovered nicely from both with minimal stupid decisions about limits. I’m very pleased with my discipline (for the most part) A couple times I could have made better decisions based on limits etc but what can you do. I’m still Robusto….remember, its all relative. Haha I’ve never had more then 2200 online EVER. So I just want to keep playing well and increasing my roll.

Here are a ton of hands from the weekend. If you don’t like it, tough bananas folks.

From Friday night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1506140
I 100% knew villain was going to fire 10$ on turn as a bluff. I still think I have best hand or if I don’t he has such a weak hand he can’t stand a raise. He was pretty bad.

Saturday.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507853
I kinda fumbled this one. I wanted to raise the Flop but then I decided I wanted to take a stronger line with it and wait till turn to pump it up. Backfire :) As far as results go I should have raised flop like I do normally. He most likely folds but it also prevents him from picking up any backdoor draws with broad way cards etc that make him stick around.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507911
Musta been a pair and a straight draw. This is my standard way to play. Very agro. I actually got a few comments from people I stacked later, I have AQ they have AJ get it all in over the course of the hand and buddy is almost crying cause he says I’m always raising how can I have a better hand. Hahah I reply, I always have a better hand.

I had just lost my mind a little bit before this and was playing 100max :(
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507930
I know this might be a bit weak but honestly, what hands does he shove over my 3 bet. I really felt I was beat and am pretty proud of this laydown. It’s more likely he has 22 or 33 vs A2, A3, or AT

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507935
This one I really thought he had TT or JJ, I think I should have fired river, not that he wouldn’t probably call me, even if he does it helps with my value town when I do have AK or KQ here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507961
Tee hee. That’s pretty much all I can say at this point :) TEE FUCKING HEE folks.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1510822
It didn’t feel like a bluff. Musta had 9T or a FD that hit the J. Nutz. I fold.
Anyone like a raise on the river?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1510860
Ok I only vaguely remember this hand. Apparently I lost my mind haha. If I recall correctly villain was pretty LAGGY, and being oop in a 3 bet pot can be pretty handy cause you are first to act. When he calls the flop I really think he’s got an over pair but like 88-TT. The King is a great card for me to bluff at again because id play AK the exact same. So my range for 3 betting since I’m fairly unknown to him is AK- TT+ probably. So he’s way behind that range after the turn. And since the K didn’t appear to scare me I probably hold AA, AK or KK. I probably shouldn’t do this especially when I’m playing way over my head :) I won’t be playing that high again for along time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511245
Another well played hand by villain. Haha. God I run like him…..God that is.
I don’t think KK could play this hand worse. It’s fine till he calls the turn, he MUST raise this turn every time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511859
This is one of those hands where I’m really confused how to play. It could probably go either way but I should probably be bet folding turn yes no? I think I’ll run this one by AK87, I used to chat with him a bit and he’d go over hands for me and give me some advice but I havn’t chatted with him in a long time. Maybe ill fire up AIM and see if he’s on tonight.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511893
Well needless to say I get out played regularly :) He played this hand really well, I thought it was very likely he was bluffing on river. Oh well, bad read. Moving on.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512250
This hand was kind of interesting. I normally check/call river here but I am trying to change that part of my game in that bet folding is a lot better option in this spot. If he has a king my river bet looks like I could have a K and if he has an 8 or 99-QQ then he will still probably call. If he has a K he probably raises in which case I can fold, very unlikely he is bluffing in that spot. I’m really surprised he only called. I gain value from non king paired hands and lose value from K. I think it’s the best line to take. I’m gonna post this on 2+2.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512344
This hand had me effing baffled. I couldn’t figure out what the 2 opps ranges even were. There was a ton in the pot and I had no clue where I was. The min raise by me is probably pretty bad but I really didn’t think id get maxes to come along without a big hand. No worries about short stack but I was def confused about maxes and what he could have. Honestly I can’t think of any hands they are calling a turn shove with I beat. If the turn wasn’t a K and was a blank id be much more likely to shove. I was completely lost. Back to the min raise. I guess I should have raised a normal amount to kind of help define maxes hand more. I played this hand as bad as I possibly could have I think.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512385
Normally I’d probably fold to a villain like this (super nitty) when oop but I figured if I could hit a big hand id get paid off in full. I checked turn to help disguise my hand because I thought a villain like this is capable of folding even AK on the turn. I check river because he probably has an ace and it’s very likely now that he has 2 pair or AK which after my checks on 2 streets reps huge weakness, so he fires and I check raise, he thinks I bluff and calls. I like how I played this hand. I was pretty sure villain had a big ace or aces up and would bet river. I made a big c/r which I normally wouldn’t do but maybe I should do it more often when NOT bluffing :) it never works when I bluff so it should work nicely if I’m not bluffing hahaha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512493
Just a little presto for my man Feul55 :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512508
Outplayed again. I thought his river bet was strong but was confused as to what hand he could be betting that was actually strong. Nuts to me. Surprised he didn’t raise turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512585
Outplayed yet again haha. Was pretty surprised to see the set. Thought he might have an over pair or A8 or AT or something.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512594
I’m trying to use this play more often when I don’t have top pair or often ANY pair and I think villain missed or has a pair under the top card so the minraise has been very effective to get them to fold for cheap if they don’t have shit and if they call or raise I can fold.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512669
This one was sweet, villain had been super aggressive for a couple hundred hands this session. You can see how crazy he is when I raise flop, and fire a second barrel on turn that’s fairly substantial. I laughed when I saw his hand.

Have i mentioned how annoying it is that people never update their blogs. ARG

Golf, Drinking, Poker and Poker. And some TV.

2007-09-24T08:47:00.000-04:00

This weekend was pretty busy until Sunday.

Saturday golf was horrendous. I drove the ball better then I probably ever have. Just crushed my drives. I hit a couple 330+ one was close to 350 which I nutted. It was sick. I love the precept balls I’m playing. The ladies are awesome too except I couldn’t find them to buy before the round. I ended up putting incredibly bad. I four putted multiple holes. 3 putted most of the rest hahah. I just bought a new putter a month ago and fucking hate it. It’s far to heavy for me. It breaks my wrist in the backswing and the forward swing. I either need to a) machine it to take some weight off or b) buy a new putter. I’m pretty pissed. On the 16th hole (par 3) I landed about 6” from the cup. That would have definitely made up for my poor putting if I hadda drained that hahah.

Got kinda tipsy after the round in the club house, went home, got ready and headed out for dinner, which was really good but the line up for food was brutal. It’s a buffet TYPE restaurant except they have a huge metal grill thing that they cook ur noodles, meat and veggies and whatever oils sauces and seasonings you put on it right there while you wait. About 50 people in line at a time which sucked. I have never had to wait so long there before. Bloody Saturday nights.

So after dinner we went back to my friends place, people came over (about 10) had a little party and stuff. Was a decent time until my friend started bashing me and a few others joined in (don’t get me wrong) I like to harass people probably more then the next guy but I try to do it joking and in a funny manner so that everyone knows it’s just good times but he got really mean and personal and was literally doing it to a) either embarrass me or b) to make me feel like a piece of trash. People apparently thought it was really entertaining so I just grabbed my shoes after about 30 min and bailed and went downtown with my boy Scottyb aka scottyJugs on party. We hit up Barneys patio then Robinson Hall. Was pretty fun. He finished 14th in that tourney I was talking about that I took 50% of him in, top 5 or so paid. Booo.

Sunday I felt like a pile of garbage so I just sat around and played poker, won some monies and watched a lot of poker on TV. A few episodes of Poker After Dark with a lineup of, WPT winners, Danny, Erick, Gus, Grinder, Tuan Le, and 1 other I cant remember. It’s a very entertaining lineup. The hand where Danny has AA and Gus has A8 on 278 board is excellent. It was a pretty sick lay down for Gus cause he loves to call. He was super steamed after too, really funny. I also watched a lot of LA Poker Scene which is Live at the Bike. Decent show although I can’t stand the hosts. The players that play on this game are typical live fish. Id say that the 5000NL (50/100NL) game that I watched was softer then the 50NL games I play regularly.

Tonight is going to be an awesome night. The wife is working till 7 or 8 though which sucks so I probably won’t make the gym….AGAIN. Prison break, Heroes (season premiere) Leaf game, and High Stakes poker is on tonight. WOOT WOOT. I bought GSN and Leafs TV again this year. Should be interesting when the wife sees the bill haha GULP :)

So I’ll probably play a bit of poker tonight as well. I played pretty week and have had back to back winning days after 3 or 4 losing days in a row. It feels good, Cashed out another 100$ and got my roll back to 30 buy ins for my game so I feel good. Just gotta play well and keep getting hands in. One thing I’m especially proud of is that when I went on a few day losing stretch in the past I woulda gone broke immediately and just felt like this. I’ve had 2 losing streaks since I’ve been back playing again and I have recovered nicely from both. I’m very pleased with my discipline (for the most part) A couple times I could have made better decisions based on limits etc but what can you do. I’m still Robusto….remember, its all relative. Haha I’ve never had more then 2200 online EVER. So I just want to keep playing well and increasing my roll.

Here are a ton of hands from the weekend. If you don’t like it, tough bananas folks.

From Friday night.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1506140
I 100% knew villain was going to fire 10$ on turn as a bluff. I still think I have best hand or if I don’t he has such a weak hand he can’t stand a raise. He was pretty bad.

Saturday.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507853
I kinda fumbled this one. I wanted to raise the Flop but then I decided I wanted to take a stronger line with it and wait till turn to pump it up. Backfire :) As far as results go I should have raised flop like I do normally. He most likely folds but it also prevents him from picking up any backdoor draws with broad way cards etc that make him stick around.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507911
Musta been a pair and a straight draw. This is my standard way to play. Very agro. I actually got a few comments from people I stacked later, I have AQ they have AJ get it all in over the course of the hand and buddy is almost crying cause he says I’m always raising how can I have a better hand. Hahah I reply, I always have a better hand.

I had just lost my mind a little bit before this and was playing 100max :(
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507930
I know this might be a bit weak but honestly, what hands does he shove over my 3 bet. I really felt I was beat and am pretty proud of this laydown. It’s more likely he has 22 or 33 vs A2, A3, or AT

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507935
This one I really thought he had TT or JJ, I think I should have fired river, not that he wouldn’t probably call me, even if he does it helps with my value town when I do have AK or KQ here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1507961
Tee hee. That’s pretty much all I can say at this point :) TEE FUCKING HEE folks.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1510822
It didn’t feel like a bluff. Musta had 9T or a FD that hit the J. Nutz. I fold.
Anyone like a raise on the river?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1510860
Ok I only vaguely remember this hand. Apparently I lost my mind haha. If I recall correctly villain was pretty LAGGY, and being oop in a 3 bet pot can be pretty handy cause you are first to act. When he calls the flop I really think he’s got an over pair but like 88-TT. The King is a great card for me to bluff at again because id play AK the exact same. So my range for 3 betting since I’m fairly unknown to him is AK- TT+ probably. So he’s way behind that range after the turn. And since the K didn’t appear to scare me I probably hold AA, AK or KK. I probably shouldn’t do this especially when I’m playing way over my head :) I won’t be playing that high again for along time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511245
Another well played hand by villain. Haha. God I run like him…..God that is.
I don’t think KK could play this hand worse. It’s fine till he calls the turn, he MUST raise this turn every time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511859
This is one of those hands where I’m really confused how to play. It could probably go either way but I should probably be bet folding turn yes no? I think I’ll run this one by AK87, I used to chat with him a bit and he’d go over hands for me and give me some advice but I havn’t chatted with him in a long time. Maybe ill fire up AIM and see if he’s on tonight.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1511893
Well needless to say I get out played regularly :) He played this hand really well, I thought it was very likely he was bluffing on river. Oh well, bad read. Moving on.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512250
This hand was kind of interesting. I normally check/call river here but I am trying to change that part of my game in that bet folding is a lot better option in this spot. If he has a king my river bet looks like I could have a K and if he has an 8 or 99-QQ then he will still probably call. If he has a K he probably raises in which case I can fold, very unlikely he is bluffing in that spot. I’m really surprised he only called. I gain value from non king paired hands and lose value from K. I think it’s the best line to take. I’m gonna post this on 2+2.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512344
This hand had me effing baffled. I couldn’t figure out what the 2 opps ranges even were. There was a ton in the pot and I had no clue where I was. The min raise by me is probably pretty bad but I really didn’t think id get maxes to come along without a big hand. No worries about short stack but I was def confused about maxes and what he could have. Honestly I can’t think of any hands they are calling a turn shove with I beat. If the turn wasn’t a K and was a blank id be much more likely to shove. I was completely lost. Back to the min raise. I guess I should have raised a normal amount to kind of help define maxes hand more. I played this hand as bad as I possibly could have I think.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512385
Normally I’d probably fold to a villain like this (super nitty) when oop but I figured if I could hit a big hand id get paid off in full. I checked turn to help disguise my hand because I thought a villain like this is capable of folding even AK on the turn. I check river because he probably has an ace and it’s very likely now that he has 2 pair or AK which after my checks on 2 streets reps huge weakness, so he fires and I check raise, he thinks I bluff and calls. I like how I played this hand. I was pretty sure villain had a big ace or aces up and would bet river. I made a big c/r which I normally wouldn’t do but maybe I should do it more often when NOT bluffing :) it never works when I bluff so it should work nicely if I’m not bluffing hahaha.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512493
Just a little presto for my man Feul55 :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512508
Outplayed again. I thought his river bet was strong but was confused as to what hand he could be betting that was actually strong. Nuts to me. Surprised he didn’t raise turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512585
Outplayed yet again haha. Was pretty surprised to see the set. Thought he might have an over pair or A8 or AT or something.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512594
I’m trying to use this play more often when I don’t have top pair or often ANY pair and I think villain missed or has a pair under the top card so the minraise has been very effective to get them to fold for cheap if they don’t have shit and if they call or raise I can fold.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1512669
This one was sweet, villain had been super aggressive for a couple hundred hands this session. You can see how crazy he is when I raise flop, and fire a second barrel on turn that’s fairly substantial. I laughed when I saw his hand.

Have i mentioned how annoying it is that people never update their blogs. ARG