Overall was a very successful month...I started the month with $2770.24 in my UB account and $443.21 in my PS account. On UB I won a feed for a 100+9 ticket and used those TD's towards other tournies. I also finished 6th in a 20$ tourney for 132$. On PS I won the 3$r early on for 4416$, and also won a seat to the Sunday Million via DS. I played in the SM and came very close to the money but did not cash. I played a bunch of other tournies on both sites with little results. This is where the majority of the money i lost this month was, MTTs.
SNG wise, i didnt play too many. I was down about 100$ in SNGs on PS and up about 50$ on UB. I spent the majority of my time playing cash games this month. I came into the month playing 50nl only on UB (way over rolled) and no cash games on Stars. Now i am 4 tabling both but have been on a horrible run of late. I still finished up on the month about 250$ in cash games across both sites. I did take a few shots at 200nl (I have the roll but want to beat 100nl first) and dropped 300$ there over 1k hands. I managed to play 29,800 hands overall this month and I am very pleased with this. Although my results struggled due to the negative end of variance, i hope to come back strong next month. Overall I am very pleased with my start to 2007 and I am well on my way to my goal of 25,000.
Total Overall: $7117.74
Change: +$3904.29
Goal: $17882.26
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Ugh...terrible downswing...
The last week has been absolutely horrible. I could be on the losing end of every hand i play no matter what. The suckouts have been horrendous and the coolers are out of control. I have dropped a good amount on both PS and UB but hopefully its just variance...i played a short session of 100nl on PS after workouts today and did alright, finishing up about 1.5 buyins. I played another session tonight and dropped about 1/2 a buyin on a gay hand (will post)...
I played a bunch of tournies and got donked out of most of them tonight. I started with the 1$ turbo on UB. Had a top 20 stack with 90 left (70 paid) and a shorty goes all in for like 3xbb and the other bigstack at my table just calls. I reraise all in with ATo from the BB. He thinks forever and calls with AK haha, oh well...I also played the 20$ 2500grntd on UB. I doubled very early when i turned a flush against AA. I picked up some pots here and there and quickly we were down to about 26 players when an interesting hand came up...
9 Players, Blinds 200/400 ante 50?, about 7800 stack
5 folds, Bigstack raises to 1400, Hero calls with AJo, SB/BB fold
Flop: KhKcTs
Bigstack Checks, Hero checks.
Turn Qs
Bigstack bets 400, Hero reraises 2000 to 2400, Bigstack calls
River Qc
Bigstack bets 400, Hero calls
Bigstack shows AQ
Hero mucks
Very gay 4 outer that would have put me in the top 4. I end up going out 21st with 20 paying. I also played a double shootout to the million on stars, lost that, the 10$ 15kg, and the 10$ 1 R/a tourney.....overall i felt i played well in the UB tourney but what can you do...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?781951
-Once he smooth calls the C/R i really feel like im beat but can't fold in the heat of the moment...even if i check the turn and he pushes i think i'd have to call getting about 3:1 with TPTK...oh well
I played a bunch of tournies and got donked out of most of them tonight. I started with the 1$ turbo on UB. Had a top 20 stack with 90 left (70 paid) and a shorty goes all in for like 3xbb and the other bigstack at my table just calls. I reraise all in with ATo from the BB. He thinks forever and calls with AK haha, oh well...I also played the 20$ 2500grntd on UB. I doubled very early when i turned a flush against AA. I picked up some pots here and there and quickly we were down to about 26 players when an interesting hand came up...
9 Players, Blinds 200/400 ante 50?, about 7800 stack
5 folds, Bigstack raises to 1400, Hero calls with AJo, SB/BB fold
Flop: KhKcTs
Bigstack Checks, Hero checks.
Turn Qs
Bigstack bets 400, Hero reraises 2000 to 2400, Bigstack calls
River Qc
Bigstack bets 400, Hero calls
Bigstack shows AQ
Hero mucks
Very gay 4 outer that would have put me in the top 4. I end up going out 21st with 20 paying. I also played a double shootout to the million on stars, lost that, the 10$ 15kg, and the 10$ 1 R/a tourney.....overall i felt i played well in the UB tourney but what can you do...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?781951
-Once he smooth calls the C/R i really feel like im beat but can't fold in the heat of the moment...even if i check the turn and he pushes i think i'd have to call getting about 3:1 with TPTK...oh well
Monday, January 22, 2007
Better run today...
I was gone over the weekend and didnt play much but i dropped 2.5 buyins right before i left. I also dropped 2.5 buyins last night on stars and was really running horrible...today i only had a half day of school due to exams and decided to play some tournies and cash mixed. I opened up 4 $100nl to start and played there for about an hour and a half. I ran alright and worked up about a buyin. I then decided to play in the 20HU tourney on stars and got a bye the first round and played an awful guy in the second round. He ended up calling out one of my few bluffs on a KQJTx board with K5...i played a 20$ hu on ub and won that...i then played a 20$ turbo 10 seat SNG on ub and ended up getting donked of that in 3rd...around 330 a friend asked if i wanted to throw a 5$ LL bet on the ub 2k gntd 20$ at 3:30 so i signed up...i played very tight and had about 3k at the 75/150 level and from there ran very well...i ended up coming to the FT with the CL and soon after had 2:1 over anyone else with about 8 left...i lost a few big hands and was back down around everyone else when this hand came up:
6 players, blinds 800/1600, i have 27k
2 Folds
Hero(27k) raises to 4600 w/ AhJc
1 Fold
Villian(24k) calls 4600
BB Folds
Flop: Jh8h3c
Villian Checks
Hero bet 6900
Villian RR all in for 12,500 more
Hero Calls
Villian shows KsQc
Turn: 5s
River: Kc
This all but ended my run and i went out in 6th place for 132$. This was really disappointing because i knew the players at the FT were horrible and i would have a legitimate shot at winning with the stack i had built...i made a few questionable calls i.e. short stack pushes 10bbs from button and i call with 77 for about 1/5 of my stack from the SB....
I ran well tonight on UB also and managed to win 3.5 buyins...
Hand #1:http://www.pokerhand.org/?760511
-This hand is from last night and pretty much ruined my session...i have a note on the guy that says "cant fold overpair" because he sucked out on my flopped set once before when we got all in on the flop and he turned his 2 outer...
Hand #2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?760514
-This player is 28/20 over 350 hands. When he lead into me on the flop i really felt like he had 55 or a flush draw. The turned K was a good card if he was on the FD and i still felt like a call was the right play and i would reevaluate his river bet. When he bet 30$ i really felt like he missed his flush or perhaps J10. 30$ just seemed like too much if he had 55 because he vbets his strong hands quite a lot...i really felt like a made a good call here...
(Note: I transferred 100$ to a friend on PS and he sent it to me on UB)
Goal: $25,000
PS:$4,783.87
UB: $3,437.79
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Total:$8,221.66
Change: +147.30
Distance to Goal:$16,783.34
6 players, blinds 800/1600, i have 27k
2 Folds
Hero(27k) raises to 4600 w/ AhJc
1 Fold
Villian(24k) calls 4600
BB Folds
Flop: Jh8h3c
Villian Checks
Hero bet 6900
Villian RR all in for 12,500 more
Hero Calls
Villian shows KsQc
Turn: 5s
River: Kc
This all but ended my run and i went out in 6th place for 132$. This was really disappointing because i knew the players at the FT were horrible and i would have a legitimate shot at winning with the stack i had built...i made a few questionable calls i.e. short stack pushes 10bbs from button and i call with 77 for about 1/5 of my stack from the SB....
I ran well tonight on UB also and managed to win 3.5 buyins...
Hand #1:http://www.pokerhand.org/?760511
-This hand is from last night and pretty much ruined my session...i have a note on the guy that says "cant fold overpair" because he sucked out on my flopped set once before when we got all in on the flop and he turned his 2 outer...
Hand #2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?760514
-This player is 28/20 over 350 hands. When he lead into me on the flop i really felt like he had 55 or a flush draw. The turned K was a good card if he was on the FD and i still felt like a call was the right play and i would reevaluate his river bet. When he bet 30$ i really felt like he missed his flush or perhaps J10. 30$ just seemed like too much if he had 55 because he vbets his strong hands quite a lot...i really felt like a made a good call here...
(Note: I transferred 100$ to a friend on PS and he sent it to me on UB)
Goal: $25,000
PS:$4,783.87
UB: $3,437.79
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Total:$8,221.66
Change: +147.30
Distance to Goal:$16,783.34
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Day 8...
I played 2 sessions of 100nl on PS last night...ended up winning in both but only made a small profit in the first...to begin my first session i ran horrible...within 30 mins i was stuck about a buyin but was able to finish with 2 big hands before dinner for a small profit...the 2nd session went well and i should have been up even more barring a few suckouts...i also played a guy 3 times for a 20$ hu sng...the first one i beat him in about 15 mins, the second one i got all in with an opsfd against a made baby flush and lost, and the third one he sucked out on (AQ vs T7 on AT8 board all in)....
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?746910
This was a very awkwardly played hand on the villains part...he went up in flames after the hand and told me i was stupid for not folding to his turn bet...haha....pretty standard actually and i did not put him on a set of Qs at all....flop tptk and bet it, smooth call a bet on the turn, and rr a few more $ on the river when the straight hits...
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,244.12
UB: $2,830.24
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Total:$8074.36
Change: +$131.05
Distance to Goal:$17,056.69
Fuck all the haters...if you dont like me i guarantee i don't like you...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?746910
This was a very awkwardly played hand on the villains part...he went up in flames after the hand and told me i was stupid for not folding to his turn bet...haha....pretty standard actually and i did not put him on a set of Qs at all....flop tptk and bet it, smooth call a bet on the turn, and rr a few more $ on the river when the straight hits...
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,244.12
UB: $2,830.24
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Total:$8074.36
Change: +$131.05
Distance to Goal:$17,056.69
Fuck all the haters...if you dont like me i guarantee i don't like you...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Up and down...poker's a rollercoaster
So the past week has really been a rollercoaster for me playing poker. Ill drop 4 buyins, win 5, drop 3, win a few, and basically stay about even. I played the Sunday Millions on PS this sunday for my first time after winning a DS into it ($11.70)...I didnt win a hand for the first hour and was down to about 6k but two double ups put me right back up there...i finally built a 2xavg stack but slowly dwindled...with about 1250 left (1080 paid) i had about 11XBB...i was dealt AJo in the BB and it folded to the SB who raised 3x and i came OTT all in...he calls with 10's and i blank out, about 125ish away from the $....would have been nice but no regrets on my play really...
The guy who won did sit to my left and i did make one play i look back on now....A crappy donk min raises to 4800 in the CO, i smooth call in the SB with 77...the massive stack in the BB (went on to win the tourney) raised to 16k and the OR folded...i had about 65k and felt like i had just enough to make him fold a hand, but wasnt quite sure bc he seemed like a good player and was fairly quiet...i folded and he said he had AQ but who knows....
I played some yesterday and started off horribly in the morning on UB...I dropped 240$. I came back on stars and was up 435$ there in my first session but came back and dropped 215$. On the day i lost 28$ but i had several ridiculous hands...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?744398
I play with this guy a lot and he's very capable of floating a flop like this as he knows i like to raise and cbet with strong aces. On the flop i flopped an oesd and a bdfd and make a standard Cbet. On the turn i thought about checking but i picked up my flush draw, and i felt like if i checked he would definitely bet any 2 and i would have no FE, so i lead again. Once he comes ott i know he's got 2pr or better but im getting ridiculous odds. I call with 8 outs for the straight and 6 outs for the the flush(2 gone with straight cards and the 7c gives him a boat)...dont hit..gg me...
Hand#2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?744404
This is from my 2nd session on PS and pretty much sums up the entire session...He posts OOP and i raise to isolate him which i successfully do. He checks, i bet my trips he flat calls. He check calls a bet on the turn and i really have no idea what he has now. He then leads for 10$ on the river which seemed very fishy. I just called expecting him to flip JT or 33, but instead he flips 97o and called all the way down...brilliant!
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,090.07
UB: $2,853.24
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Total:$7,943.31
Change: -$583.10
Distance to Goal:$17,056.69
(DOH! Obv. over a few days and includes 200$ PS and some bad variance)
The guy who won did sit to my left and i did make one play i look back on now....A crappy donk min raises to 4800 in the CO, i smooth call in the SB with 77...the massive stack in the BB (went on to win the tourney) raised to 16k and the OR folded...i had about 65k and felt like i had just enough to make him fold a hand, but wasnt quite sure bc he seemed like a good player and was fairly quiet...i folded and he said he had AQ but who knows....
I played some yesterday and started off horribly in the morning on UB...I dropped 240$. I came back on stars and was up 435$ there in my first session but came back and dropped 215$. On the day i lost 28$ but i had several ridiculous hands...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?744398
I play with this guy a lot and he's very capable of floating a flop like this as he knows i like to raise and cbet with strong aces. On the flop i flopped an oesd and a bdfd and make a standard Cbet. On the turn i thought about checking but i picked up my flush draw, and i felt like if i checked he would definitely bet any 2 and i would have no FE, so i lead again. Once he comes ott i know he's got 2pr or better but im getting ridiculous odds. I call with 8 outs for the straight and 6 outs for the the flush(2 gone with straight cards and the 7c gives him a boat)...dont hit..gg me...
Hand#2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?744404
This is from my 2nd session on PS and pretty much sums up the entire session...He posts OOP and i raise to isolate him which i successfully do. He checks, i bet my trips he flat calls. He check calls a bet on the turn and i really have no idea what he has now. He then leads for 10$ on the river which seemed very fishy. I just called expecting him to flip JT or 33, but instead he flips 97o and called all the way down...brilliant!
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,090.07
UB: $2,853.24
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Total:$7,943.31
Change: -$583.10
Distance to Goal:$17,056.69
(DOH! Obv. over a few days and includes 200$ PS and some bad variance)
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Day 6...
I came home from school yesterday and played a few tournies on UB and PS. Didn't do much on and UB tournies but i did win a double shootout on stars to get into the 1mil sunday....not sure if i'm going to play it yet, depends on what my schedule looks like....played some this morning...donked out of several tournies and lost one to a flopped 1 outer (AA vs QQ vs Q8)...also played 4 tables of 100nl on ub this morning...wow people suck...
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?735805
This guy (IG00) was playing at 54/32 over 100 hands and was pissing money away. I probably should have RR pre to get all the money in bc greatone probably would have called regardless...ofcourse the donator sucks out...
Hand #2 (Revenge): http://www.pokerhand.org/?735809
Thought i was kidding? Check out his A8, i was very surprised no A or running clubs came...
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,552.62
UB: $2,973.59
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Total:$8,526.41
Change: -$61.30
Distance to Goal:$16,473.59
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?735805
This guy (IG00) was playing at 54/32 over 100 hands and was pissing money away. I probably should have RR pre to get all the money in bc greatone probably would have called regardless...ofcourse the donator sucks out...
Hand #2 (Revenge): http://www.pokerhand.org/?735809
Thought i was kidding? Check out his A8, i was very surprised no A or running clubs came...
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,552.62
UB: $2,973.59
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Total:$8,526.41
Change: -$61.30
Distance to Goal:$16,473.59
Friday, January 12, 2007
Day 5...
I played a 20$HU and a 5$Turbo Sng before work and won both. I wasn't going to play any last night after work but i was feeling very awake and ready to play when i got home...i decided to 2 table 200nl on PS...early on there wasnt much action and i won a few hands by bluffing and finally got going towards the end of the session...
Hand#1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?734419
Standard raise with A9s 4 handed. Flop the flush draw and back door straight draw so i Cbet as usual. Poket had just sat down and called. The turn brought the jack giving me an OESD and NFD. He checked, and i once again bet at it. He pretty much min raised me which is usually a strong hand C/minR the turn...i knew i had atleast 9 hearts, 3 Q's, and 3 7's for 15 outs, and i thought the A might also be live for 3 more outs. There's no way im folding to the raise and he only had 44$ behind. With atleast 15 outs and maybe 18, i was going to the felt with this hand. I hit, gg him. He berated me for atleast 10 mins after for how stupid i was haha...gotta love that..
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,392.32
UB: $3,195.39
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Total:$8,587.71
Change: +$267.75
Distance to Goal:$16,412.29
Hand#1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?734419
Standard raise with A9s 4 handed. Flop the flush draw and back door straight draw so i Cbet as usual. Poket had just sat down and called. The turn brought the jack giving me an OESD and NFD. He checked, and i once again bet at it. He pretty much min raised me which is usually a strong hand C/minR the turn...i knew i had atleast 9 hearts, 3 Q's, and 3 7's for 15 outs, and i thought the A might also be live for 3 more outs. There's no way im folding to the raise and he only had 44$ behind. With atleast 15 outs and maybe 18, i was going to the felt with this hand. I hit, gg him. He berated me for atleast 10 mins after for how stupid i was haha...gotta love that..
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,392.32
UB: $3,195.39
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Total:$8,587.71
Change: +$267.75
Distance to Goal:$16,412.29
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Day 4...
Didn't do much yesterday...After school i went to my girlfriends and hung out with her for awhile...went and got some dinner and came home about 10...had to do an entire project for my world geography class when i got home but i was done at about 11....I then played a 45 minute session of 100nl on PS...played well i thought and won a buy-in...Not really any interesting hands just basic poker...
Tonight i have to work which is very bad...i hate work....i work at a local Chick-Fil-A (kind of "high class" fast food) as a cook...i work for about 5.5 hours making $6.50 an hour...i really hate working when i know i could be sitting at home playing poker and making a lot more money...my mom makes me do it though because i need to for a future resume and "to learn responsibility." Oh well. Many people think im a slacker at work bc i have no motivation....a lot of people think im a slacker in general but actually im not...Im 9th in my senior class of 462 and have only made 1 B in high school...f the haters..
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,148.32
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$8,269.96
Change: +$105.80
Distance to Goal:$16,730.04
Tonight i have to work which is very bad...i hate work....i work at a local Chick-Fil-A (kind of "high class" fast food) as a cook...i work for about 5.5 hours making $6.50 an hour...i really hate working when i know i could be sitting at home playing poker and making a lot more money...my mom makes me do it though because i need to for a future resume and "to learn responsibility." Oh well. Many people think im a slacker at work bc i have no motivation....a lot of people think im a slacker in general but actually im not...Im 9th in my senior class of 462 and have only made 1 B in high school...f the haters..
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,148.32
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$8,269.96
Change: +$105.80
Distance to Goal:$16,730.04
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Day 3...
So i signed up for PokerXFactor yesterday. Not because i don't like CR, CR is still my main training site but i wanted to broaden my horizons and would love to be a big name MTT player. But for now i'm sticking to cash games. I've watched two series, the first was a Stars Sunday by JohnnyBax and the other was a 500$ SNG by Sheets...these videos seem very informative and helpful...i played two sessions last night. The first was about 2 hours and the second was about an hour. I played well overall i thought and ended up winning $295.75. I played 1,264 hands at 20.5/16 with a BB/100 of 11.58. I wish all my sessions could be this productive!
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?729197
This was one of the first few hands for this player at the table. When he lead out for some reason i felt he was strong but didn't know how strong. I felt like he might have QJ, KJs, 910s, or some other kind of draw. I really didn't feel like he had J10 when he pushed over the top...even if he did i would have 7 outs on the turn and 10 on the river if i missed so i went for it....he flips J10 gg me...
Hand #2: http://www.pokerhand.org/?729209
This was another big hand. I posted on P5's and it seems the laydown was correct. I really don't see myself ahead of any hands, because he's already got a made hand or drawing very strong. Tough fold but gotta do it...oh well
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,042.52
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$7,871.41
Change: +$292.75
Distance to Goal:$16,835.84
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?729197
This was one of the first few hands for this player at the table. When he lead out for some reason i felt he was strong but didn't know how strong. I felt like he might have QJ, KJs, 910s, or some other kind of draw. I really didn't feel like he had J10 when he pushed over the top...even if he did i would have 7 outs on the turn and 10 on the river if i missed so i went for it....he flips J10 gg me...
Hand #2: http://www.pokerhand.org/?729209
This was another big hand. I posted on P5's and it seems the laydown was correct. I really don't see myself ahead of any hands, because he's already got a made hand or drawing very strong. Tough fold but gotta do it...oh well
Goal: $25,000
PS:$5,042.52
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$7,871.41
Change: +$292.75
Distance to Goal:$16,835.84
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Bad run..
I've ran really poorly the past few days on stars. I have played 2,185 hands of 100$NL at 21.51/16.98 and lost 623.65$. I feel like i've been playing well but i haven't seen the results. Obviously a little variance and no biggie. I had to cut my sessions short the past 2 nights because i really felt signs of TILT coming on and i started playing really poorly. Tonight i hope to get in some 100NL on PS and try and get these stats back up!
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?726725
Ok i posted this hand on CR's and have gotten mixed reviews. Several people think that the Ah will fold and im only getting called by 88, but i disagree. At these stakes people look at their cards and say "Ive got the nut flush! He doesnt have a FH" and thats if their even smart enough to realize the FH potential. I really feel like the Ah and possibly the Kh are paying me off here. Ofcourse the other bigstack calls with 88. I honestly don't know what he was planning on doing here with 88? I really didnt see this one coming but oh well...2 buyins gone!
Hand #2: http://www.pokerhand.org/?726734
Ok so i pick up AK in the sb and make a standard raise. The player in the BB hadn't got too outta hand and i'd been playing fairly aggro. I felt like the RR because he had not RR anyone the entire session. I elect to call and see a flop. Even though i didn't hit the flop its a very good one, so i check with the intentions of C/R fairly large. I check and he way overpushes. At first glance i was going to fold the hand but i felt like i had 15 solid outs. I was right and was a 55% favorite on the flop, but failed to hit....doh!
Hand #3:http://www.pokerhand.org/?726746
I had a note on the guy that said he couldn't fold an overpair so i decided to set mine. This was a perfect flop minus the flush draw. I raised in order to get the 3 players behind out if they were on a FD. When he RR i know he has an overpair and happily throw the rest of my $ in. Sweet 2 outer.....hell yea
Goal: $25,000
PS:$4,749.77
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$7,871.41
Distance to Goal:$17,128.59
Hand #1: http://www.pokerhand.org/?726725
Ok i posted this hand on CR's and have gotten mixed reviews. Several people think that the Ah will fold and im only getting called by 88, but i disagree. At these stakes people look at their cards and say "Ive got the nut flush! He doesnt have a FH" and thats if their even smart enough to realize the FH potential. I really feel like the Ah and possibly the Kh are paying me off here. Ofcourse the other bigstack calls with 88. I honestly don't know what he was planning on doing here with 88? I really didnt see this one coming but oh well...2 buyins gone!
Hand #2: http://www.pokerhand.org/?726734
Ok so i pick up AK in the sb and make a standard raise. The player in the BB hadn't got too outta hand and i'd been playing fairly aggro. I felt like the RR because he had not RR anyone the entire session. I elect to call and see a flop. Even though i didn't hit the flop its a very good one, so i check with the intentions of C/R fairly large. I check and he way overpushes. At first glance i was going to fold the hand but i felt like i had 15 solid outs. I was right and was a 55% favorite on the flop, but failed to hit....doh!
Hand #3:http://www.pokerhand.org/?726746
I had a note on the guy that said he couldn't fold an overpair so i decided to set mine. This was a perfect flop minus the flush draw. I raised in order to get the 3 players behind out if they were on a FD. When he RR i know he has an overpair and happily throw the rest of my $ in. Sweet 2 outer.....hell yea
Goal: $25,000
PS:$4,749.77
UB: $3,131.64
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Total:$7,871.41
Distance to Goal:$17,128.59
Monday, January 8, 2007
In the beginning...
Im just starting this blog and I'm going to try and update it on a regular basis...i want to describe my life as a high school senior and poker player....first let me describe myself...
My name is Kirk and i live in North Carolina. I just turned 18 in December and was finllay legal to play poker as i pleased. I have been playing poker for about a year and a half (only 1 month legally) and have had decent results. I started with 25$ on UB and played 5$ sngs. As you might have guessed i was busto within a month and rebought for another 25$. Im not exactly sure how i got up but somehow i got up to around 100$ and saw an advertisement for a freeroll to get into the UB SCNII( Stone Cold Nuts 2). I was determined to get in this freeroll by obtaining enough UB points so i would 2 table 50$NL on UB with my entire roll. Fortunately i earned enough points before i went broke and was qualified for the freeroll.
The tournament started with 1200+ players and only top 10 got seats, the rest went home empty. About 6 hours later the tourney finally ended and i had my 500$ seat into the tourney (this was before UB had TD's and i was forced to play, otherwise i probably would have unregistered). The big day finally arrived and it was time to play. Hour after hour went bye as i got deeper and deeper into the tourney. All of my friends were railing and saying stupid stuff in the chat because they were all jealous of my success (not to sound cocky), but they later admited that they were rooting against me. Finally around 1am, i got donked out in 32nd place for 3400$. (HH- guy min raises in the hijack, i RR 3x with JJ, he calls. Flop comes 953. Villain checks, i raise 3/4pot, he RR all-in, i call. He flips A8 and ofcourse rivers the A. If i wont that hand i would have been top 5 in the tourney even though i was a donk back then and didnt really know what was going on).
Two days before this big tourney my car had died on the way back from a ski trip with some friends. My parents forced me to cash out some of the money to pay towards a new car so i cashed all but 1k$, and proceeded to buy a 1990 BMW 525i (pictures to come). About two months later in april i think, I entered the old 30$ 2am tourney on UB. I proceeded to come in second in this tourney for around 800$. The next night in the exact same tourney i went on to win for another $1200. I cashed out about $800 of this and transferred a lot to friends. I donked a lot of this money off in MTTs and Cash games but then i saw an offer on P5's from some poker company offering 50$ to get started on PP and with success, future backing opportunities. I took the guy up on the opportunity and started with the 50$ on PP. Within 3 months, i worked the 50$ into 3k just playing cash games. Unfortunately, PP closed and i had to cash all of it out (under 18 at the time so no way to transfer to another site), so i was left with about 1500 on UB. I transferred 300$ to a friend on UB and he sent me 300 on PS. I played some sngs and mtts there with breakeven success for about a month. Then i got 5th in a 5$ MTT for about 500$, and had about 700$ on PS.
I proceeded to donk most of that money off back to my original roll of 300$ but was having great success on UB. I had started playing 50NL and worked my roll up to about 1.5k. Within the last month my results have exploded. I won a 15$ tournament on UB for 530$ and got second in the 6$ bounty tourney for 651$. I then had the roll to play 100nl which i've been experimenting with of late. January 4th, i decided to play some tournies on UB and Stars. With my small roll on stars i decided just to play in the 3$r and some other tournies on UB up to 20$. I busted out of all the UB tournies early but built a healthy stack in the 3$r after the rebuy period (about 25k). 8 hours later i chopped the tourney 4 handed for 4416$(i was in first).
I have recently started 4 tabling 100$NL on PS with great success. (i tilted off some $ last night after running into a few coolers though). I have found PS much softer than UB, with more tables and less regulars.
Well thats my background and where I am now...will post more later. On break between morning and afternoon classes at high school lol
Hope to see you around...
PS-papabigbaler
UB-papabigballer
My 3$r Win:
My name is Kirk and i live in North Carolina. I just turned 18 in December and was finllay legal to play poker as i pleased. I have been playing poker for about a year and a half (only 1 month legally) and have had decent results. I started with 25$ on UB and played 5$ sngs. As you might have guessed i was busto within a month and rebought for another 25$. Im not exactly sure how i got up but somehow i got up to around 100$ and saw an advertisement for a freeroll to get into the UB SCNII( Stone Cold Nuts 2). I was determined to get in this freeroll by obtaining enough UB points so i would 2 table 50$NL on UB with my entire roll. Fortunately i earned enough points before i went broke and was qualified for the freeroll.
The tournament started with 1200+ players and only top 10 got seats, the rest went home empty. About 6 hours later the tourney finally ended and i had my 500$ seat into the tourney (this was before UB had TD's and i was forced to play, otherwise i probably would have unregistered). The big day finally arrived and it was time to play. Hour after hour went bye as i got deeper and deeper into the tourney. All of my friends were railing and saying stupid stuff in the chat because they were all jealous of my success (not to sound cocky), but they later admited that they were rooting against me. Finally around 1am, i got donked out in 32nd place for 3400$. (HH- guy min raises in the hijack, i RR 3x with JJ, he calls. Flop comes 953. Villain checks, i raise 3/4pot, he RR all-in, i call. He flips A8 and ofcourse rivers the A. If i wont that hand i would have been top 5 in the tourney even though i was a donk back then and didnt really know what was going on).
Two days before this big tourney my car had died on the way back from a ski trip with some friends. My parents forced me to cash out some of the money to pay towards a new car so i cashed all but 1k$, and proceeded to buy a 1990 BMW 525i (pictures to come). About two months later in april i think, I entered the old 30$ 2am tourney on UB. I proceeded to come in second in this tourney for around 800$. The next night in the exact same tourney i went on to win for another $1200. I cashed out about $800 of this and transferred a lot to friends. I donked a lot of this money off in MTTs and Cash games but then i saw an offer on P5's from some poker company offering 50$ to get started on PP and with success, future backing opportunities. I took the guy up on the opportunity and started with the 50$ on PP. Within 3 months, i worked the 50$ into 3k just playing cash games. Unfortunately, PP closed and i had to cash all of it out (under 18 at the time so no way to transfer to another site), so i was left with about 1500 on UB. I transferred 300$ to a friend on UB and he sent me 300 on PS. I played some sngs and mtts there with breakeven success for about a month. Then i got 5th in a 5$ MTT for about 500$, and had about 700$ on PS.
I proceeded to donk most of that money off back to my original roll of 300$ but was having great success on UB. I had started playing 50NL and worked my roll up to about 1.5k. Within the last month my results have exploded. I won a 15$ tournament on UB for 530$ and got second in the 6$ bounty tourney for 651$. I then had the roll to play 100nl which i've been experimenting with of late. January 4th, i decided to play some tournies on UB and Stars. With my small roll on stars i decided just to play in the 3$r and some other tournies on UB up to 20$. I busted out of all the UB tournies early but built a healthy stack in the 3$r after the rebuy period (about 25k). 8 hours later i chopped the tourney 4 handed for 4416$(i was in first).
I have recently started 4 tabling 100$NL on PS with great success. (i tilted off some $ last night after running into a few coolers though). I have found PS much softer than UB, with more tables and less regulars.
Well thats my background and where I am now...will post more later. On break between morning and afternoon classes at high school lol
Hope to see you around...
PS-papabigbaler
UB-papabigballer
My 3$r Win:
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