Tournament #37

Notes:

hawkth played  like a calling station last time I saw him. Weak player, out early. See if you can take his chips

I'm surrounded by folks playing lots of hands. Might be smart to lay low / play tight for awhile

hawkth is talking like he has to leave, gonna be reckless, etc. I didn't tell the table, he was reckless last time I played him too and out before too many hands.

I'm surrounded by...maniacs

nisya pushing nearly every hand he plays

7th place after not having barely any cards I could even bring myself to play. One or two hands I played would have had to push to win...


Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Notes:

Repeate customer in listentomebomb!

No notes on him, however.

drunknboxer makes a classic uncontested pot play early on.

wadlle's playing loose aggressive. domenvi acting a bit like a calling station. wadlle played for k's on the board when i had folded a king. wonder if he's bluffing?

casteel in the lead is plkaying like a calling station.

domenvi has found his fold button

It's good to have casteel on my left.  Do not make any plays that involve hoping this joker folds.

listentomebomb with the classic calling station play doubles up or nearly so via casteel

pushed, maybe too soon, w/pocket 6's. idjit casteel calls me with pocket 8's and i'm out at 7th.

(For the record, that was one of casteel's few good plays)

Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #??

Notes:

Already tired starting out. Play hard, play to win. Since you're in it already.

d5327xh7 reraises me pre flop, I go ahead and fold.




Next hand,  d5327xh7 raises pre flop with 4 5 suited, calls with -- nothing? Str8 draw

calling station d5327xh7


definite calling station. just pushed with str8 draw. made str8 -- be ready to take the stack

called all in w/pocket 10's. 9's on the board, simply couldn't believe somebody had a 9. Of course they had a 9. That's what comes of playing tired.

Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #23

Notes:
Somebody shoot me if I go all in pre

and lose :)

Laydplyr plays hard. Or at least that's how she took 500 of my chips...


all in pre from short stack w/qk suited. Dominated wreck's pocket 9's.

all in pre from microstack, got paired out by somebody else

Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #16

Notes:
Started out by pushing the wrong button, raising to 10 sb instead of 5. OK, everybody folded but I'm going to revert to 5.

I'm going to play any ace

Try to think in terms of what could this person have that would have him in this hand at this point -- assuming he's rational. BUT include tilts and bluffs in my reckoning.

Practice counting outs

Got called all in by a guy holding a flush draw which came.

All in from short stack w/2 players (no hope of them folding)



Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #11

Notes:
Wow, I'm having a reality check. I must not have been doing as well as I thought before.

Or maybe I'm misusing some advice I got (Phil Gordon, I'm looking at you.)

Anyway, I'm waiting for Tasha to get her hair done and listening to B98.5. I'm sitting in Cafe Aroma and itching to get a win under my belt.

Luxedo all in after hitting ace. Sheva takes it with slow played flush (I folded flopped str8 after sheva raised me)

First 3 hands I phantom flopped str8, str8, and set of 3's -- 2 of them would have won

Allisson with slow play of pocket rockets wipes out kathybarrett

I need to stop mucking around pre flop is the thing

flop 2pr, rivered again, this time by pokerjoker who calls all in w/pocket k's tripped on the river

I hate to think like this, but I wonder if this is partly the donk effect of $1 tournaments. Pokerjoker should not have been there for that river. I'm not gonna play the hellmuth game and lecture him or get all bent out of shape but I need to recognize that this shit will happen playing at this level. I read an article about good players adjusting their play due to the presence of lucky maniacs, but I'm not good enough to know what to adjust.

Unbelievable. All in from 150 chip stack w/k 10. Flop k's; 10 on 4th. 4th club on the river and I'm out in 7th.

I know I'm playing right.

That was sort of inevitable -- with a 150 chip stack all in, nobody really had any strong reason to fold.

Place: 7th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tournament #9

Notes: Almost didn't open this window but thought the notes might help. It's what I'm here for, after all.




Everybody's playing really loose -- means I play tight, right?

sens6527 calls (small) push from ivan with k 8 off and ivan finishes 8th

sens plays hard

I'm getting used to the "not limping in" concept. I do follow limpers when I have something. I'm going to stay out of the habit of "raising in" with no cards. That's no way to play marginal cards.


all in pre vs. the sens -- his qq's held up to my k a

Poker is such a fucked up game. Observe: I push w/qq in tournament #8 and lose to caller w/k a. In tournament #9 I push w/k a and lose to caller w/...qq.

I'm not sure that either of those plays were true blunders. Well -- one of them probably was.

Or both. Maybe the blunder is pushing. Obviously, I need to reconsider pushing so early in the game. I knew sens would call, so I was putting myself at the mercy of fate. Not a good place to be, apparently, for me.

Place: 7

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)