Ok – so today – playing a $20 45 runner sng - $380 for 1st place. First hand – there’s been a raise and a call so I opt to set mine with TT in the SB – flop a set and manage to get TPTK to get it all-in and someone with a gutshot – a few hands later I run QQ into AK and AK and I’m now sitting on 7k (starting 1.5). Manage to make it to the final two when I lose 3 hands, 1) KK runs into AA, then QQ into KK, then QQ into A8 lol.
So decide to leave the hold’em for a bit and try 2-7 triple draw $1-$2. Start of playing well, however then get dealt 10 low – bet it all the way (and standing pat obv) against someone who draws 2 cards on the final draw! So obvious bet out – he then re-raises me with 8-6 low! Now, not being a good low-ball player and also tilting I manage to run 8-7 low into 8-6 low about 3 times and piss my last few $s.
So after a break – time for hold’em to get even again. 1st bocking is that PTY crashed as soon as I got on to it. So FT and sun poker – as per usual, the boring, action repelling fuckers combine with my constant lack of cards and I make a small loss on sun poker. On FT things go a little better or so I thought! After taking down a few pots I’m on a bit of a roll and at exactly the same time these two hands occur...
Okies – I am able to insta-call this guy knowing 100% that I’m ahead coz I re-popped him on the last three hands tbh I expect him to turn over AK/AQ here.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1620705
and as i get outdrawn there i look up to see this stack shooting off aswell
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1620758
Wtf – closed every table straight away after that – what a joke
How do you beat FT?
Tuesday 23 October 2007
Wednesday 17 October 2007
This is why bluescouse beats Crypto!
Alright – Firstly I don’t want to be seen to be moaning – I’m running real good on PTY and am playing it pretty good as well – However – Crypto is the biggest bok ever – it has to be rigged!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599037 – rigged!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599041 – rigged!!
Ok – so sometimes I get my money in behind – but how am I meant to play this hand differently? – he’s playing 45/9 – lol - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599018
This guy’s playing 75/20 - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599030 – rigged!!!
And there’s been a load more but my poker tracker has somehow lost them - lmao
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599037 – rigged!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599041 – rigged!!
Ok – so sometimes I get my money in behind – but how am I meant to play this hand differently? – he’s playing 45/9 – lol - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599018
This guy’s playing 75/20 - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1599030 – rigged!!!
And there’s been a load more but my poker tracker has somehow lost them - lmao
Tuesday 16 October 2007
midweek mid-stakes, and ssnl donkaments
Okies – little UB spin-up update. Basically – my AQ turned in to TPTK and I lost the roll to KK $285 pot (the biggest one I’ve ever lost). Can’t wait to have the roll for $1/$2 – there are some real donks out there and they’re worth so much more – lmao.
Just when I thought everyone played ABC poker and rather poorly on Party I got into this hand. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1595610 – I loved saying “so sick” in the chat-box – made me feel like Daniel Negreanu in High Stakes poker before donking off another $200,000. And they don’t need a flush-draw to get fruity – a gutshot is just as good...isn’t it? http://www.pokerhand.org/?1595619.
However – my session isn’t all brags. On sun poker I dropped 3 buy-ins. QQ vs AK all-in on the flop – he called with no-pair-no-draw. AA vs 67s – flop a set, get it all-in and lose to a flush, KK vs 97s – flop a set again! And get it all-in on the flop and you guessed it matey.
Anyways – just wanted to keep that short and sweet.
Ty for reading, gl at the tables
Just when I thought everyone played ABC poker and rather poorly on Party I got into this hand. http://www.pokerhand.org/?1595610 – I loved saying “so sick” in the chat-box – made me feel like Daniel Negreanu in High Stakes poker before donking off another $200,000. And they don’t need a flush-draw to get fruity – a gutshot is just as good...isn’t it? http://www.pokerhand.org/?1595619.
However – my session isn’t all brags. On sun poker I dropped 3 buy-ins. QQ vs AK all-in on the flop – he called with no-pair-no-draw. AA vs 67s – flop a set, get it all-in and lose to a flush, KK vs 97s – flop a set again! And get it all-in on the flop and you guessed it matey.
Anyways – just wanted to keep that short and sweet.
Ty for reading, gl at the tables
Monday 15 October 2007
Monday blogaments
Basically – I wouldn’t be on a downswing if it wasn’t for FT – I have lost about $700 on FT since I started playing poker after the summer. All-in-all however, I’m only down $330. My thoughts in brief are: FT is almost certainly rigged, PTY is still awesome (and who cares if I won’t be making $100 a month in rakeback or able to get a FT T-shirt for every 3million raked hands) and that Sun Poker (Crypto ntwk) has to be the most passive poker site I have ever played on – when I get a hand or two I might actually be able to make a buck or two – lol.
Me getting dicked on – FT:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1589667 – I know, a fairly standard hand that I think I played fairly badly – only thing that made me get it all-in was the amount that went in pre-flop which made me feel rather committed to the pot – villain playing 30/13. All-in-all think it’s pretty obv what he’s got when he puts in the check raise – should I got broke here tho...?
Any other hand posts I could stick up from FT this week would be bad beat stories – so not much else to say – just seems it’s hard to get them to get any chips in without a big hand (normally bigger than mine – lol) – so no more FT for a while then.
PTY donkamentation
1) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1589641 –“ imbluffable” stands by his name and plays 67/17
2) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1589650 – Quite happy with the outcome of this hand obv. – not sure what others would say about the way I played it – due to the amount they called pre I hoped there would be another big pair out there that would call my insta-push and also did not want to get anymore cards out on the board. Odds are my 57% to his 42% so not a bad call on his part – slightly –ev call pre though... lol
3) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1589689 – I’m not posting this hand as a brag coz it played itself – but more to ask the question, if you have been check-raised (esp by the pre-flop raiser) and you have a nutty draw that’ll get there 1/3 of the time – is it +ev to push? – my feeling was this guy has very little fold equity here. Also – on this table I’m playing 14/10 L.
4) http://www.pokerhand.org/?1589700- how the hell do I get value here?
So – total roll across all accounts stands at $2216 – looking to make $800 before I take a 5 buy-in shot at 50/1 – and fook me if it doesn’t happen soon I’m going to top myself I think – lol. Only other note I should add is that I’m planning on reducing the number of tables I play and try to really crush them – I find it dull but I’m going to need to improve my winrate asap.
Also – the bankroll management has become a bit of a bore – I know it’s the only way to have long-term results etc etc – but I needed a bit of fun so I’ve opened a UB account with $50 for a spin-up. The start – Will convinced me that the best way to start was to play BJ – so $50 on the spot, I get 16 vs an A – a bad spot – so hit surrender. After a few wins and losses my account still stands at $50, but I now have 4.2 UB points – think that translates to 0.49c or summin’ sick.
Take the $50 to 50/1 – have a bit of luck and get up to $75 – time for $1/$2 – get it all-in pre against a short stack with AA against his AK - $100 pot – after that I managed to push up to $200+ before descending to $125, getting board and quitting. – spin-ups aren’t as fun as I imagined.
The plan now is to get to $225-$250 on $1/$2 before taking a half buy-in shot at $2/$4. I am planning to get my edge through good table selection and holding a string of Rosary beads to warn away the bad beats. I think religion is an important part of poker – as proven by this year’s WSOP ME winner. God bless his little spiritual self.
Anyways – will let you know how the spin up goes. And will keep you updated with the real roll building as well.
TY for reading, GL at the tables
Tuesday 9 October 2007
10,000 hands later - $60 down
Okies – so a few weeks on and just shy of 10,000 hands from the last post and how’s my roll looking – well it’s at -$285 - $61 worse than the last update – lol.
Basically, I managed to go on a downswing of nearly 10 buy-ins, reduced it to three and now back to 5.5 – so it’s been fun... I’m now playing across 5 accounts. My big losses however have all been confined to FT where I’m stuck $422 for the last 30 days. I’m finding that the site is getting increasingly hard to play on – the players are often very tight and of many different standards making it a bit of a nightmare for multitabling.
For example:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570037 – have no stats on the villain... wasn’t expecting to be behind when that river was checked to me. Lol
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570051 – and then you get hands like this where you’re just shocked at how poor some of them play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570058 – basically this is the only way to stack them ( I didn’t raise pre because villain was playing 10/5 – so was pretty sure that the hand only had set value)
But then again, there’s still a few players who can’t seem to fold TPTK – this pot is worth a lot to me coz it’s against Sbrugby’s nemesis. - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570105
.....lol donkaments mixmastered
Overall I’ve found that there are a heap of different styles on FT, and as I like to multi table, I’m finding it very hard to beat these guys. It seems that there’s some that’ll call with pretty much any two vaguely pretty cards pre flop and will call (or check min-raise) all C-bets and make crying calls to the river, there’s others who’ll refuse to put any money in with out the nuts, but most significantly there’s very few absolute donkeys. So many of the players are break-even regs who live off the rakeback deals etc. So, all-in-all after a rather shitty month I’m gonna give it a break for a while.
When things get shitty on FT I always go back to the happy place that is Party – even without it’s rakeback this Mecca for the sort of gamblers who find it hard to choose between craps or poker and play both games in much the same way.
I’ve been running nicely on PTY – making a half stack an hour average.
I found a great table earlier tonight (which helped me to climb near to the surface of my FT hole for the night)-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570128 – villain is playing 35/3 – but my thoughts were that if he did have a set he’d have probably chosen to 3-bet the flop and therefore, my JJ must be good enough.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570131 – a few hands later I came up against this donk playing 79/25 – (the main reason I didn’t raise pre due to the way the table had been playing) – if I can call, make a hand, and get paid – why take risks?
Ok for some less donkish hands - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570156 – an interesting way to play TPTK I know – and I have to give Jack the credit as it was to his choosing – based on the opponents’ stats of 50/0 with an agro factor of 2.5!
This hand is very much up for suggestions: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570172 – villain is playing 30/20 which I found priced me into calling him down - just couldn’t work out why he chose to play the hand so fast, and then slow down so much...
Played a couple of hands against this opponent, obv. Mr Townsend’s (less talented) cousin. The first one played itself, the second – well I chose to play that in accordance to my opponent’s style...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570167
As is often the case with party – when I review my hand histories they seem very standard and simple – very little requires and discussion. I made money because people stacked off to me. I lost money on FT coz people refused to stack off to me – lol – what does this say about me as a poker player!
Plans for the next few weeks are to try to $800 so that I’ll have 30 buy-ins for 50/1. I’m going to stick to Party, but maybe integrate a few FT tables if they look fishy. I’m also going to try to build a bit of a roll in Sun Poker (crypto ntwk) because their rake back and monthly bonus deals are rather fruity – and the play is almost softer than party – but they’re not so quick to shove in their stacks...shame.
Also invested a few quid in a new monitor – Dell 27” which works well with my 17” laptop screen – I think I can 16 table FT quite nicely – perhaps this is the key to beating the nits. Hopefully it’ll pay for itself...
Anyways – at least I can look forward to the rake back that FT will be giving me on the 15th – it’s the only time of the month I can say yum yum on that site.
Cheers for reading – please comment on any of the hands
Gl at the tables.
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Basically, I managed to go on a downswing of nearly 10 buy-ins, reduced it to three and now back to 5.5 – so it’s been fun... I’m now playing across 5 accounts. My big losses however have all been confined to FT where I’m stuck $422 for the last 30 days. I’m finding that the site is getting increasingly hard to play on – the players are often very tight and of many different standards making it a bit of a nightmare for multitabling.
For example:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570037 – have no stats on the villain... wasn’t expecting to be behind when that river was checked to me. Lol
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570051 – and then you get hands like this where you’re just shocked at how poor some of them play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570058 – basically this is the only way to stack them ( I didn’t raise pre because villain was playing 10/5 – so was pretty sure that the hand only had set value)
But then again, there’s still a few players who can’t seem to fold TPTK – this pot is worth a lot to me coz it’s against Sbrugby’s nemesis. - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570105
.....lol donkaments mixmastered
Overall I’ve found that there are a heap of different styles on FT, and as I like to multi table, I’m finding it very hard to beat these guys. It seems that there’s some that’ll call with pretty much any two vaguely pretty cards pre flop and will call (or check min-raise) all C-bets and make crying calls to the river, there’s others who’ll refuse to put any money in with out the nuts, but most significantly there’s very few absolute donkeys. So many of the players are break-even regs who live off the rakeback deals etc. So, all-in-all after a rather shitty month I’m gonna give it a break for a while.
When things get shitty on FT I always go back to the happy place that is Party – even without it’s rakeback this Mecca for the sort of gamblers who find it hard to choose between craps or poker and play both games in much the same way.
I’ve been running nicely on PTY – making a half stack an hour average.
I found a great table earlier tonight (which helped me to climb near to the surface of my FT hole for the night)-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570128 – villain is playing 35/3 – but my thoughts were that if he did have a set he’d have probably chosen to 3-bet the flop and therefore, my JJ must be good enough.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570131 – a few hands later I came up against this donk playing 79/25 – (the main reason I didn’t raise pre due to the way the table had been playing) – if I can call, make a hand, and get paid – why take risks?
Ok for some less donkish hands - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570156 – an interesting way to play TPTK I know – and I have to give Jack the credit as it was to his choosing – based on the opponents’ stats of 50/0 with an agro factor of 2.5!
This hand is very much up for suggestions: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570172 – villain is playing 30/20 which I found priced me into calling him down - just couldn’t work out why he chose to play the hand so fast, and then slow down so much...
Played a couple of hands against this opponent, obv. Mr Townsend’s (less talented) cousin. The first one played itself, the second – well I chose to play that in accordance to my opponent’s style...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570167
As is often the case with party – when I review my hand histories they seem very standard and simple – very little requires and discussion. I made money because people stacked off to me. I lost money on FT coz people refused to stack off to me – lol – what does this say about me as a poker player!
Plans for the next few weeks are to try to $800 so that I’ll have 30 buy-ins for 50/1. I’m going to stick to Party, but maybe integrate a few FT tables if they look fishy. I’m also going to try to build a bit of a roll in Sun Poker (crypto ntwk) because their rake back and monthly bonus deals are rather fruity – and the play is almost softer than party – but they’re not so quick to shove in their stacks...shame.
Also invested a few quid in a new monitor – Dell 27” which works well with my 17” laptop screen – I think I can 16 table FT quite nicely – perhaps this is the key to beating the nits. Hopefully it’ll pay for itself...
Anyways – at least I can look forward to the rake back that FT will be giving me on the 15th – it’s the only time of the month I can say yum yum on that site.
Cheers for reading – please comment on any of the hands
Gl at the tables.
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