Balance and Finishes

Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts

Monday, June 7, 2010

Tournament #42

Notes:


Place: 3rd, after leading going into the money. We played a long time -- maybe I got impatient.

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

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Tournament #41

Notes: I'm starting to pick up repeat customers more and more. 2 this time!

we are at bb50 and less than 400 chips separates 3rd from 8th. time to play a little more hands

Yep. Raised from mid position and watched everybody fold. This might not work if the big stacks are in position (although -- the top 2 only have 1.2k more than last place

I'm doing well but I'm also getting hands. Don't think I could be doing this without getting hands. Duh, I know.


listentomebomb calls from mid stack with a/q, my k/10 suited hits on the river

I am getting much respect

2nd after long heads up w/hughcumber who played well







Place: 2nd

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

Tournament #40

Notes:

shaquille all in after his 7 hits on the flop. 7!

1emptychair shows garbage after bluffing out on letastama

lunamargot in 1st at money

1 empty chair likes to play garbage bluffs but sometimes he also has cards



Place: 3rd after all in pre with a/10 off. chair calls with j/q off, hits his q on first card

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

Friday, June 4, 2010

Tournament #38

Notes:
cearamor_br could be a cool customer -- small raise pre w/k/k...then all in after flop...

nobody playing really extremely well or poorly




in the money after a silly push from jgorrell with k/10!

Place: 3rd after a probably even sillier push w/8/10 suited.


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

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Tournament #36

Notes:
Nothing really sticking out here. Sugarcain calmly slapping everybody around from behind the big stack.
Repeat customer tucksy -- who I didn't keep any notes on -- calmly watching his stack dwindle


Place: 2nd after a disastrous 3rd place all in loss for kntfall with a jack that hit when I was on tiny stack -- cain calmly took him out with a j 9 2 pr.

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

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Notes:

huuhong plays a lot of hands -- i think he's played every one and we're 7 or 8 hands in.

played the calling station -- didn't want him to call but huuhong calls my all in pre from short stack, i double up with a quick flush

playing aggressively from the bubble has helped me steal quite a few blinds -- went from a distant 4th to 2nd and there are still 4 players

1st place with a looong and very well played heads up with ... huuhong.







Place: 1st

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

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Tournament #??

Notes:

lol almightybullet bluffs the first three hands, ends up all in with nothing and out

 hawkth limps with 68 suited, doesn't bet anything thru the river and my high card beats him hmm



ruff_diamonds and hawkth play lots of hands

Place: 2nd after a hard heads up with spacecowboy.

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

Monday, May 31, 2010

Tournament #32 or so

Notes:

No real dogs in this tourney. Everybody played well. I was amazed to be itm after some of the hands (and chips) I had to drop

Place: 2nd

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

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Tournament #??

Notes:

From Short stacked in the money to 1st place.

Played slow and smart, kept my head, didn't play every hand like it was the last one I would ever see...

Place: 1st

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

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Tournament #??

Notes:


Place: 3rd

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

Friday, May 28, 2010

Tournament #24

Notes:

ted the mechani started out playing like a calling station and i just doubled up using his tokies

pokerdragon7 plays the check raise w/ace on the board -- he had pocket qq

ncraig slow plays the flopped 2pr like an idiot and wins 520 tokies from 4 players! Hee!

pokerdragon all in w/trip k's on the river -- with 4 spades on the board! (Not a single spade in his own hand)

pioppa pushes from short stack with suited king and gets running clubs on 4th and 5th to double up on cheeto

but wild play causes stack to dwindle almost immediately. calling station?

cheeto seems a bit of a puss

ncraig  callin all the way with pocket 9's -- my trip 5's take him waaay down

Totally played good heads up against ncraig who was not easy and took 1st. Avoided several tempting all ins and nailed him with a small pair after the flop...

Place:

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

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Tournament #20

Notes:

bambino83, waianae, and mattoso all in w/pocket pairs first hand! We're down to 7 and I haven't lost a token

jodyerikbill playin hard from behind a few "extra" chips

and firelguy knocks out jodkyerikbill with quad aces!

I play my pocket 8's -- xunino trying to knock me off the whole time with his NOTHING...

xunino & I both go all in and take out bicho -- we both had pocket kings!

took out the uncontested pot from bb

never limping works for me because i must define the hand to myself much more rigorously before i play.


In the money and playing loose -- and losing. Gonna tighten up to the extent possible  --

well belay that, all in with open ended flush draw from micro stack and I take another 3rd place.









Place:

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

Tournament #19

Notes:
Pikester bets a lot, at least if the first 3 hands are any indication. Don't go up against him without cards

Yep. Pikester down to 1000 chips after just a few rounds

pikester doubles up on me, calls my pre flop raise w/4 7 suited, calls all in w/flush draw, hits flush

Pikester: calling station

DivaD calls all the way to river after i make my trips, tries to bluff me on the river HA she had nothing

And bovious plays the calling station to double up w/trip 10's -- takes the lead w/8 players remaining

Short stacked after pikester calls my all in from button w/44 -- he had kk and that was that

Pikester is the only person playing at this table, it seems. I raised a/AK pre, he called, I bet on flop and he folded

on the  bubble with pikester to my left -- i think he'll find his fold button

pikester tries to bluff diva who's got like almost 10 times as many chips as he -- no go and he's

This was a strategic bubble play on my part. When Anti pushed after pikester, I realized that I felt really good about my cards and if I lost and pikester lost I would be in 3rd.

Full Tilt Poker Game #21147139901: $1 + $0.20 Sit & Go (162947820), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:19:59 ET - 2010/05/26
Seat 2: Anti818181 (3,180)
Seat 5: bovious (1,045)
Seat 6: pikester5 (470)
Seat 9: DivaD1946 (8,805)
Anti818181 posts the small blind of 100
bovious posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bovious [Qs Ac]
pikester5 raises to 470, and is all in
DivaD1946 folds
Anti818181 raises to 3,180, and is all in
bovious has 15 seconds left to act
bovious calls 845, and is all in
Anti818181 shows [3h Kh]
bovious shows [Qs Ac]
pikester5 shows [Jd Ks]
Uncalled bet of 2,135 returned to Anti818181
*** FLOP *** [3c 5s 8c]
*** TURN *** [3c 5s 8c] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [3c 5s 8c 9c] [Qd]
Anti818181 shows a pair of Threes
bovious shows a pair of Queens
bovious wins the side pot (1,150) with a pair of Queens
pikester5 shows King Queen high
bovious wins the main pot (1,410) with a pair of Queens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,560 Main pot 1,410. Side pot 1,150. | Rake 0
Board: [3c 5s 8c 9c Qd]
Seat 2: Anti818181 (small blind) showed [3h Kh] and lost with a pair of Threes
Seat 5: bovious (big blind) showed [Qs Ac] and won (2,560) with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: pikester5 showed [Jd Ks] and lost with King Queen high
Seat 9: DivaD1946 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Place: 3rd

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

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tournament #18

Notes:

ACK! I disconnected. Apologized upon reconnect.

Just murdered Foxx who raised pre with ace-rag -- took most of his stack, calling all the way after his rag hit!

10 a 10 k 10 on board, i shot with nothing and everybody folded lol

Playing tight / aggressive and doing well. Table image is rational / plays strong hands. Raising 5 sb's if first voluntary

phatcaesar pretty nerveless watch him

in the money

3rd after playing really hard ITM. 







Place:

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

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Tournament #12

Notes: Do not tilt. Chained off of #11. I think the takeaway is: the best smartest player in poker can and will lose on any hand, any bet. IT IS GAMBLING.

(Duh.)

Not that I'm the best smartest player but those were the optimal plays I lost on. Or at least not "blunders"

Oh my pechuma calls all in w/pocket 5's after flop -- no trips, over cards on the board...kayten takes her stack

cashew3 calls through 4th w/ace high, w/2 q's on the board

skycanvas calls all in after hitting his 10, falls to kayten who pushed w/ flush draw

watch for flush draws -- these people will not fold them, it seems.

playing so as to induce the other player to fold is death in these games. it presumes rational behavior on their part.

called kayten's bullying push on 4th after she hit A on flop -- I hit A Q on 4th. She had A 5 no flush draw. I did not see the flush draw on the board but i was pot committed even if i had

Possible strategy: stay super tight until 5th or 4th place is open. Then there might be more rational players remaining.

In the money after cashew goes all in after hitting a 9

Think I got pot committed too soon -- kayten slow plays trip 3's and takes most of my stack

kayten is a calling station

kayten finally shows me some respect -- folds after i reraise

10 bb's in 3rd place -- if I can watch these two kill each other I could live to 2nd

Was ready to go all in blind but pushed from bb after hitting my 9. kayten had held off after hitting flush.

kayten is an upside down player.






Place: 3rd

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

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tournament #7

Tournament Number: WHO CARES???

(I'm not gonna bother keeping the tournament number any more)

Notes:

I'm playing a 2nd in the same day because I played well even though I lost. Let's see what happens.

Hopefully I don't go on cumulative tilt.

supermagrao with the opening hand check raise

annabellerose calls my preflop raise with -- 9 8 off? Then keeps calling while Ace and others show on board...gut shot calls...

annabelle rose calling station out the door

3rd place @ 100

I have got to get out of the habit of randomly raising to "keep people on their toes." They're walking around on their toes with my chips.

I'm tied near the bottom but no need to panic we're all in a clump down here

az devils 444 will push in a heartbeat don't play him unless you're ready to push too

i cultivated a bs table image in order to rake in when i got some hands. then i never got any hands

i took az's play away from him -- pushed before he could he called me and i doubled up

cincykid on tilt pushes and finishes 4th I AM ITM

pushed with 7's, tj calls with k 8 (no reason not to) he pulls a straight on the river and I finish 3rd

Maybe pushing wasn't the play there, but I was really short stacked. Probably could have called I don't think tj would have raised.


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

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Tournament #2

Tournament Number: 160553894

Notes: Feeling ok. Slept ok.
PLAY TIGHT IN THE BEGINNING

All in after hitting K with K A (called 270 pre flop) -- called by kaisten who hit his flush draw and I'm sucking hind teat (also called by jp_enriquez who had raised pre flop with qq)

xxvaldurxx goes out with all in call from button AJ suited -- he missed

jp_enriquez is playing hot -- reraised me pre flop from no position -- think he's just stealing cause he knows I won't go all in

d3lirio all in and out with with 2 2 after 888 on board called by kaisten who had a higher pp

I double up with all in play on 88 -- 250 and kaisten didn't call! Alla did and I doubled up

Jp_enriquez tightened up and is playing well

Omegaanasian seems to be playing loose and paying although he did double up on me

kaisten still not calling me




mrbiggz01 seems to be waiting for monster hand -- haven't seen much out of him

tripled up with pp hockey sticks! Had to call a preflop raise from kaisten -- was tempted to go all in right there -- however I think waiting is what dragged jp_enriquez in with me

kaisten is a calling station candidate, i think. he called my all in push with hitting nothing...

and he just called mauninho  all in with NOTHING and won by pure chance which means i am in the money

by the way i just remembered barefoot (from last night) is a calling station not an atm

and i played the calling station effect to perfection -- he called my all in with nothing and i double up

And to top it off heads up he calls me all in WITH NOTHING and I take 1st place!

Lesson learned: Lots of times in there where I would've given an aw hell all-in push in my lesser playing days. Not saying I'm great but...1st place after being down to <4 bb's...I'll take it, yeah.

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

Friday, May 14, 2010

Tournament #1

Tournament Number: 160439970

Notes:

Feeling ok, a little headache-y. Listening to The National, "Boxer."

KAHN1864 all in first hand after rags on flop (nobody followed)

Playing tight first part of tournament--totally goes against my instincts (play hands while they're cheap!) but I read that advice today so I'm trying it.

Psychodad on an ok slow play of ace hit

Folded hockey sticks after 6 9 10 flop. Wound up with straight on the board -- nobody had the jack but I would have overplayed that almost for certain

In over my head with open-ended str8 draw, but stopped playing. I don't think I was going to knock psychodad off of his k a and thank heavens i didn't get one of the bad str8s (my str8 might have hit his cards too)

Psychodad1986 seems not to be one to fold

810 at 50 bb -- i don't know what to do. Table image is shit bc I've played and then petered out on too many hands. I have got myself into a position where I have to wait for a big hand.

I am so playing like a pussy. Took a shot at ANOTHER pot, got called all the way around -- got beat by queen high after I stopped playing.

Psychodad all in with junk pre flop and knocked out -- made a move from low position -- stupid move

Barefoot suddenly takes the lead -- off my left hand. Commanding lead, of the only play monsters variety for me. He just called another player's 240 chip all in with 6 2 off

These people are playing crazy -- I'm <10 bb but I think these folks are going before me

7th pl., <5 BB

MKLM99 all in on a flush draw, called by Barefoot with his queen he hit

Kahn calls my all in preflop with king high -- my ace hit and I doubled up

Barefoot called my all in when I hit j 9 2 pr from BB -- he had a jack but no 2pr and I double up again.

Kahn all in pre with AJ -- Barefoot called OF COURSE with not much and Kahn doubles up


Still playing a lot tighter than these guys -- and stealing every now and then to boot.

Barefoot = ATM

Got into a bit of a rough patch -- overplayed AQ off -- BF hit with his KJ off -- I'm down to 4th place but these guys are still playing wild...

BF all in with K3 suited and no outs. Total all-in bluff and -- I'm in the money

All in from 3rd place with 9 10 suited when I realized I was forgetting to play fast. My caller had the ace. He hit but he didn't need it. I wound up with a flush draw but ...

Place: 3rd.

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

UPDATE: Barefootskiierxx is a calling station not an atm. Got my terms mixed up