Nothing too much to report today. I've been playing over at bet365 the last couple days. I cleared 350 raked hands this weekend for Octobers Bonus bonanza. Lost about $20, but should get $70 or so in bonus. Then I'll continue and do the same bonus for November. 500 raked hands for $100 bucks.

Not too many SNGs lately. Two Turbo $6's. Took 3rd and 4th. The 4th place, I lost a coinflip with AK against 44. he just barely had me covered, and I raised into him! I can't believe people call all their chips away with low pocket pairs at the end of SNGs. Either you are way behind to a higher pair, or you got a coinflip. I can see raising with them in an attempt to steal the blinds, but uggg, I hate low pocket pairs at short tables.

And then I took 2nd in a $10 SNG. Villain and I had right around same chipstack, with him having just a little bit more. We get it all in with my AT against his KT. Can you say domination? Oops, guess what comes on the river?

I've been running pretty good at SNGs the last couple days. Crap in everything else. I am really starting to hate limit poker. There is a post in the bad beat/Low Content Forum about some nasty ones I took at bet365 1/2 limit.

I was tearing up the NL tables at Absolute last week, but have done nothing at the NL tables at Pokerstars this week. Lost a set over set for most of my stack this morning.

Thankfully my SNG games have been offsetting my losses at the ring games.

I've played:
2 $15 Turbos, and placed 2nd in both
2 $10 regulars, and placed 2nd in both
2 $6 Turbos, 3rd place, 9th place
1 $6 Turbo 2 table, 11th place

For a nice profit of $72.30 and a ROI of 98%

The crazy think is all of those 2nd place finishes, I was a little bit better than a coin flip on the last hand, and lost them all. Oh well.

Also of note, I hit my 1st straight Flush ever this morning. too bad I didn't get paid off. Man, I wish he had the . I woulda stacked him


PokerStars Game #2961555082: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2005/11/03 - 08:27:06 (ET)
Table 'Gansu' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: JACKSINHOLE ($26.85 in chips)
Seat 2: Mardagg ($28.45 in chips)
Seat 3: ShmygaPower ($23.60 in chips)
Seat 4: ToughGuy_TJ ($28.25 in chips)
Seat 5: Tchicky ($29.65 in chips)
Seat 6: LongRider ($7.35 in chips)
Seat 7: yagaz1 ($10.95 in chips)
Seat 8: princess_dee ($4.90 in chips)
Seat 9: LuparFiend ($20.25 in chips)
JACKSINHOLE: posts small blind $0.10
Mardagg: posts big blind $0.25

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to LuparFiend

ShmygaPower: calls $0.25
ToughGuy_TJ: folds
Tchicky: folds
LongRider: folds
yagaz1: calls $0.25
princess_dee: folds
LuparFiend: calls $0.25
JACKSINHOLE: folds
Mardagg: checks

*** FLOP ***

Mardagg: checks
ShmygaPower: bets $1
yagaz1: folds
LuparFiend: calls $1
Mardagg: folds

*** TURN ***

ShmygaPower: checks
LuparFiend: checks

*** RIVER ***

ShmygaPower: bets $0.75
LuparFiend: raises $1.50 to $2.25
ShmygaPower: folds
LuparFiend collected $4.40 from pot
LuparFiend: shows (a straight flush, Eight to Queen)

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $4.60 | Rake $0.20

Board [Jc Qc Ah 8c 6c]

Seat 1: JACKSINHOLE (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Mardagg (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: ShmygaPower folded on the River
Seat 4: ToughGuy_TJ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Tchicky folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: LongRider folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: yagaz1 folded on the Flop
Seat 8: princess_dee folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: LuparFiend (button) collected ($4.40)

Holy cow! I'm running good in these $15 Turbo SNGs

SNGs played since last post:

$15 Turbo: 1st
$15 Turbo: 1st
$6 Turbo: 2nd
$10: 6th
$6 Turbo 2 tbl: 8th
$15 Turbo: 2nd
$15 Turbo: 1st


A nice little profit of $188.70

Of course the limit poker I played over at bet365 was terrible. 30 minutes, lost $30. man, I hate that site.

The players there seen really good. Do yo uthink it is because it is the beginning of the month, and the only people playing the 1/2 tables are bonus whores who are good at Limit? The tables were so tight aggressive, its scary. Every single hand there is someone that raises. If it folds to the button or CO, like it usually does, they always raise. The only nice pots I've won is where I defended my Blinds aggresively.

Oh man, what a wacky wacky poker weekend.

On Friday I withdrew some money from PokerStars, and deposited $650 at BoDog. They have a 10% bonus, which isn't that great, but I really like thier site. The graphics and speed are awesome, and the play there is really fishy. I've done well in the past there playing in the SNGs.

I made that deposit anticipating a good night of Poker for Saturday night. I don't get to play long sessions at night time too often, but Saturday would be one of those nights. Baby #2 is due any day now, and I figured this would be the last oppurtunity in a while to get a nice long session in.

My plan:
[list=]Play in PokerStars crazy $10 rebuy guarenteed $45,000 MTT
Play in BoDogs $10 MTT guarenteed $7,500 MTT
Play lots of SNGs[/list]

The BoDog won didn't go well. I never got any good cards, and was down to about 700 from the 1000 starting chip stack. Blinds were 50/100, and I look down and see pocket rockets. I raise it up 4X BB from MP. I get one caller. The table chip leader who has about 5000 chips. Flop comes all rags, but with 2 diamonds. I push the rest of my measly chip stack in, and he flips over . Of course another diamond comes on the turn, and I go home now. He called my 4x bet with Q4s?!?!?!

The PS Rebuy was crazy. And not just the poker play. I took the rebuy right away, so I started at 3000 chips. Lots of crazy pushing insued at my table, but I did not partake in any of that. I was getting crap hands. The only hand I played in the first half hour was where I hit top pair with ok kicker, and dropped down to below 1500 when someone had TPTK. I rebought to get back up to 3000. About 45 mins in. I get pocket 10s. I raise, get re-rasied all-in, i call, as does another person. One has JJ, other has 88, and JJ holds up. Double rebuy again. First hour ends, and I am not involved in any other hands. So, for the first hour, I won ZERO hands. I take the add-on, so I get up to 500 chips, where average stack is 8000.

Hour two was great though! Without the crazy pushing/rebuying going on, I was able to win some nice pots. I doubled up with JJ against a big stacks QT. Won some other nice pots. At the end of hour two, I am up to about 25000 chips. I believe i was in the top 40.

That is when it happened. It was about midnight. In preperation for the new baby, we moved our computer desk from a bedroom upstairs to the living room on the main floor about a month ago. So I can see the front door, and anyone out on the street can see lights on and can tell that someone is awake in there. So at about midnight, I hear a tapping on our front door. At first I ignore it, but again it taps. I go and look out by the front door, and there is someone there. It is our neighbors Mom. She's at least 75, cambodian, doesn't speak english, and has Alzheimers. She holding a blanket and a pillow. I live in Minnesota, so its cold out. probably about 40 or so. I open the door, and she is jabbering away. Of course I can't understand her. This has happened before. About a year and half ago, she came to our house, and it turned out that she was locked out of her house. The police have also picked her up walking on the highway. So I go get the phone so i can call over to thier house. While I am doing this, she comes right on in, and plops down in the entry way. Of course, no one is picking up the phone.

So i go wake up the wife, and have her watch the old lady, and I run over to their house. I ring the doorbell, bang on the door. Nothing. I then check the door, and it is unlocked!! So I go get grandma andbring her back to her house. But she is acting kind of wierd and kept trying to get back out. So now I am having visions of late night TV and there was mass murder there or something, and she is scared to go in there. But I get her to stay, and I decide I better go back home and call the cops.

I get back home, and we call the police. As I am doing this I look out and I see her walking out of the house again! i get off the phone with the cops, and they are going to send someone over. I look back outside, and I can't see her. I have no idea where she went. Maybe out to the highway again? So the police show up and we find her at our other neighbors house sitting on thier porch with her blanket and pillow. We go in the house and the police lady searches the house, and finds no one home!! Except that there are two locked doors upstairs. She then decided she was going to "open" the door upstairs. She gets one of them open, and the ladies 13 yewar old grand daughter is in there sleeping. She didn't wake up through any of this! not the door bell. Not my pounding. Not the police ladies shouts or pounding. It turns out the Mom and Dad were out, and she was supposed to keep an eye on her grandma!!

So in the meantime, i am getting blinded away. I had almost 30000 chips, and was in the top40-50 for the longest time. I get back, and I am down to about 20000 or so and below average. I ended up losing on a coinflip with JJ against AKs. I also lost the two SNGs I was playing during all of this.

Have you ever heard of the poker gods going to such great length to screw someone over? Well, it was good thing that I was awake. Who knows what would have happened if i wasn't down there playing poker.

So on Sunday, a more powerful God must have had a talking to the poker gods, cause I had awesome results! I played RingNL at BoDog and made over $170!!

On one $25 table, I was up to $160!! In just an hour or so of playing. have you ever heard of someone being more than 6 times the buy-in at a $25 Ring table?

Also won another $15Turbo this morning too. So I think I may have cracked the $1000 mark.

Cheers!

Not much poker this week. I'm back at work, so no poker during the day, and I've been so tired at night, I just don't geel like playing.

I've played four $15 turbo SNGs, and was 3rd, 1st, 5th, and 3rd.

Dispite those decent results, I am losing a lot of my coinflips lately. I'm also losing a lot of All-in hands when I am ahead 70/30. I think I've lost my last 3 or 4 hands where I have a dominting hand (AQ vs A5 or something like that). It sucks.

I just had to post this hand from a $15 SNG that just happened

PokerStars Game #3115938330: Tournament #15407013, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2005/11/21 - 00:56:37 (ET)
Table '15407013 1' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: sergv (535 in chips)
Seat 2: Qjags (3210 in chips)
Seat 3: LuparFiend (1720 in chips)
Seat 6: bigdh1 (3025 in chips)
Seat 7: maximim66 (4145 in chips)
Seat 9: Drjoe21074 (865 in chips)
LuparFiend: posts small blind 100
bigdh1: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuparFiend
maximim66: raises 200 to 400
Drjoe21074: folds
sergv: folds
Qjags: folds
LuparFiend: raises 1320 to 1720 and is all-in
bigdh1: folds
maximim66: calls 1320
*** FLOP ***
sergv said, "OUCH"
*** TURN *** [Kd 6c Ks]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 6c Ks 5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LuparFiend: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
maximim66: shows (four of a kind, Kings)
maximim66 said, "wow"
maximim66 collected 3640 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3640 | Rake 0
Board [Kd 6c Ks 5s 9h]
Seat 1: sergv folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Qjags (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: LuparFiend (small blind) showed [As Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 6: bigdh1 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: maximim66 showed [Kh Kc] and won (3640) with four of a kind, Kings
Seat 9: Drjoe21074 folded before Flop (didn't bet)



*is shocked*

And another brilliant move by someone this morning.


PokerStars Game #3117450421: Tournament #15415687, Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2005/11/21 - 08:33:40 (ET)
Table '15415687 1' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 3: 7studchamp (1665 in chips)
Seat 4: MrMoet (1950 in chips)
Seat 5: littlebus (1275 in chips)
Seat 6: billy mack11 (3900 in chips)
Seat 7: rickatw72 (1175 in chips)
Seat 8: LuparFiend (2275 in chips)
Seat 9: el burger (1260 in chips)
littlebus: posts small blind 50
billy mack11: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LuparFiend
rickatw72: raises 200 to 300
LuparFiend: raises 400 to 700
el burger: folds
7studchamp: folds
MrMoet: calls 700
littlebus: folds
billy mack11: folds
rickatw72: folds
*** FLOP ***
LuparFiend: bets 600
MrMoet: raises 600 to 1200
LuparFiend: raises 375 to 1575 and is all-in
MrMoet: calls 50 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Qd 5c Kd]
*** RIVER *** [Qd 5c Kd Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LuparFiend: shows (a pair of Aces)
MrMoet: shows (a flush, King high)
MrMoet collected 4350 from pot
LuparFiend said, "wow"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4350 | Rake 0
Board [Qd 5c Kd Th 7d]
Seat 3: 7studchamp folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: MrMoet (button) showed [2d 5d] and won (4350) with a flush, King high
Seat 5: littlebus (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: billy mack11 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: rickatw72 folded before Flop
Seat 8: LuparFiend showed [Ac As] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 9: el burger folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Yes, 2 raisers in front of him, and he calls with 52s.

Its bad beat Monday here at "A Fool and his $100"


Ring game at Absolute

Stage #230295301: Holdem No Limit $0.10 - 2005-11-21 08:46:35 (ET)
Table: CHICO (Real Money) Seat #4 is the dealer
Seat 4 - HALFCIGARET ($10.10 in chips)
Seat 5 - WILDDERR ($21.09 in chips)
Seat 7 - BENKNACKAN ($13.45 in chips)
Seat 8 - DAWKAR ($14.90 in chips)
Seat 9 - AYOITSBOW ($10.20 in chips)
Seat 1 - HEMEIZHU ($8.67 in chips)
Seat 2 - STUEY_UNGAR ($78.05 in chips)
Seat 3 - THEGARDENER ($48.10 in chips)
WILDDERR - Posts small blind $0.10
BENKNACKAN - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to THEGARDENER
DAWKAR - Raises $1 to $1
AYOITSBOW - Folds
HEMEIZHU - Calls $1
STUEY_UNGAR - Folds
THEGARDENER - Calls $1
HALFCIGARET - Folds
WILDDERR - Folds
BENKNACKAN - Folds
*** FLOP ***
DAWKAR - Bets $2
HEMEIZHU - Calls $2
THEGARDENER - Raises $7 to $7
DAWKAR - All-In(Raise) $11.90 to $13.90
HEMEIZHU - All-In $5.67
THEGARDENER - Calls $6.90
*** TURN *** [Qs 5c 9h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 5c 9h 5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HEMEIZHU - Shows (Two Pairs, queens and fives)
THEGARDENER - Shows (Full house, nines full of fives)
DAWKAR - Shows (Full house, aces full of fives)
DAWKAR Collects $11.86 from side pot-1
DAWKAR Collects $25.06 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($38.82:$26.36,$12.46) | Rake ($1.90:$1.30,$0.60)
Board [Qs 5c 9h 5s As]
Seat 1: HEMEIZHU HI:lost with Two Pairs, queens and fives [Qc Ks - B:Qs,P:Qc,B:5s,B:5c,B:As]
Seat 2: STUEY_UNGAR Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: THEGARDENER HI:lost with Full house, nines full of fives [9d 9c - B:9h,P:9d,P:9c,B:5s,B:5c]
Seat 4: HALFCIGARET (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 5: WILDDERR (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 7: BENKNACKAN (big blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 8: DAWKAR won Total ($36.92) All-In HI:($36.92) with Full house, aces full of fives [Ad Ah - B:As,P:Ah,P:Ad,B:5s,B:5c]
Seat 9: AYOITSBOW Folded on the POCKET CARDS

I'm in a funk. In my last 12 or so $15 T SNGs, I have only three 1sts, and one 3rd. Lots of 4ths. Lots. Some 5ths. I'm still showing a small profit, but my ROI in these last SNGs are probably only 5-10%. Not good.

I just can't win any coinflips. And hands where I am dominating never win either. There have been so many hands where I am ahead with AQ vs A7 and a 7 comes on the river. There was one today where I had a dominating hand with KJ vs JT and the fricking board gives us a full house for a split pot. I've probably only won 10% of the hands where I am ahead 70/30 PF in the last week.

Plus, I am not doing so hot at ring games over at Absolute. Lots of 2nd best hands for me.

here are the hands I've gone out on in my last couple SNGs:



AA VS KK, he flopped quads

Q3 vs AT (300/600) im SB and M = 2

K9s vs 22 (200/400) im SB and M = 1.8. he flopped trips

A7 vs JQ; Q on river

A9 vs 82; me = short stack

66 vs K4; 2 left. I flop trips, 4th club on river

AQ vs 77

A3 vs Q3; Q on river (100/200) Im BB, he sb and calls, I re-raise all-in (prolly 6x BB) and he calls

66 vs JT (I was short stack again. he went all-in UTG with JT and I called)

AK vs 88 ( he min-raised, I pushed. I was 3rd in chips with 4 left, but short stack had an M of 1, so I should have waited until he was gone to be pushin. bad play by me)

A7 vs QJ ( 4 people left and I was short stack)