We're like them little bitches on the chess board.

[Xaston]

[MecosKing]

[Xaston]

And one more lost to round out the day

Played an hour and a half of 2 tables of $20/$40 stud on partypoker. WOW. There is some REAL foul play there.

***** Hand History for Game 2884349191 *****
$20/$40 7 Card Stud - Sunday, October 16, 02:17:35 EDT 2005
Table Table 64819 (Real Money)
Seat 0 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: str8jacket ( $746.50 )
Seat 2: Xaston ( $499 )
Seat 3: dd69tg ( $852.50 )
Seat 6: shark1111333 ( $1569.50 )
Seat 8: P_viva_P ( $684 )
Seat 1: abkkp1959 ( $245 )
abkkp1959 posts ante [$2].
Xaston posts ante [$2].
str8jacket posts ante [$2].
shark1111333 posts ante [$2].
P_viva_P posts ante [$2].
** Dealing **
Dealt to Xaston [ 9c Ad 2h ]
Xaston opens.
Xaston bring-ins [$5].
str8jacket calls [$5].
shark1111333 folds.
P_viva_P folds.
abkkp1959 folds.
** Dealing Fourth street **
Dealt to Xaston [ Ac ]
Xaston opens.
Xaston checks.
str8jacket bets [$20].
Xaston calls [$20].
** Dealing Fifth street **
Dealt to Xaston [ Th ]
Xaston opens.
Xaston checks.
str8jacket bets [$40].
Xaston raises [$80].
str8jacket calls [$40].
** Dealing Sixth street **
Dealt to Xaston [ 4c ]
str8jacket opens.
str8jacket bets [$40].
Xaston calls [$40].
** Dealing River **
Dealt to Xaston [ 6s ]
str8jacket opens.
str8jacket bets [$40].
Xaston calls [$40].
str8jacket shows [ 2d, 4s, 7c, 8c, Jh, 7s, 7h ] three of a kind, sevens.
Xaston doesn't show [ 9c, Ad, 2h, Ac, Th, 4c, 6s ] a pair of aces.
str8jacket wins $378 from the main pot with three of a kind, sevens.

HUH!? You realize you just called my check raise where LITERALLY 0 cards will give you the best hand on 6th? Nice hand sir.

I took various beats but I try very hard not to just make this journal into a bunch of bad beats so I'll just let you use your imagination to explain my $1292 loss .

First day back with a solid internet connection: -$1919. ::sigh::

[Nortonesque]

[kennyg]

That hand history sucked because they didn't show his cards as being dealt. They need to work on that. Tough break on the hand. it was well played. I probably would have reraised after his first bet, but that's just semantics.

[piersmajestyk]

Hey bro,

I am going to cancel out our match tonight. Hope you don't mind. I am in a serious poker funk and I need to work this shit out before I continue with some of these matches. Going to take the rest of the night off probably and just watch a movie. I can't win a hand for shit.

[Xaston]

Yea thats fine. The last thing you wanna do when you're in a funk is play a phenom like myself

Poll:

Which has a higher EV of the following:
A) Staying on Partypoker and raping the fish.
B) Going to Absolute and clearing chaotic amounts of bonus, with less raping. Probably more a slow grinding down of weak tights.

[Kuso]

Xas, at your levels, i'm guessing fish at party.

i barely find the bonuses worthwhile at $25 plo8 tables... certainly not at the $50s or $100s.

[Xaston]

So I asked a bunch of people and I decided that I am going to give Absolute Poker a try. Unfortunately $600 with firepay is the max deposit so it'll take a while before I have a decent amount of money on there. For tonight's session I picked 2 $10/$20 (6 max) on partypoker, 1 on stars, and 1 on absolute. I was doing pretty good but then Party started doing its thing. The straw that broke the camels back was AT vs. A9 on a AK6 flop with 3 clubs (I have ten of clubs he has no clubs) and he nails a 9 of hearts on the river. I decided to call it a session after that. A wise man once told me "Son, you are a mizor's mizor." Here is some evidence to how true that is.

Stage #206554350: Holdem Normal $10/$20 - 2005-10-16 21:34:01 (ET)
Table: DIAMOND BAR (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - NONER ($931.50 in chips)
Seat 6 - XASTON ($844 in chips)
Seat 7 - AUDREYISHOT ($863.09 in chips)
Seat 8 - FREDRIK96 ($265.50 in chips)
Seat 3 - OBSID1AN ($706 in chips)
Seat 4 - OLIVERWISE ($237 in chips)
XASTON - Posts small blind $5
AUDREYISHOT - Posts big blind $10
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to XASTON [4s 7h]
FREDRIK96 - Folds
OBSID1AN - Folds
OLIVERWISE - Calls $10
NONER - Calls $10
XASTON - Calls $5
AUDREYISHOT - Checks
*** FLOP *** [8s 5d 5c]
XASTON - Checks
AUDREYISHOT - Checks
OLIVERWISE - Checks
NONER - Bets $10
XASTON - Raises $20 to $20
AUDREYISHOT - Folds
OLIVERWISE - Folds
NONER - Calls $10
*** TURN *** [8s 5d 5c]
XASTON - Bets $20
NONER - Calls $20
*** RIVER *** [8s 5d 5c 9h]
XASTON - Bets $20
NONER - Folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XASTON - Does not show
XASTON Collects $137 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($140) | Rake ($3)
Board [8s 5d 5c 9h Ah]
Seat 3: OBSID1AN Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 4: OLIVERWISE Folded on the FLOP
Seat 5: NONER (dealer) Folded on the RIVER
Seat 6: XASTON (small blind) collected Total ($137) HI:-($137) [Does not show]
Seat 7: AUDREYISHOT (big blind) Folded on the FLOP
Seat 8: FREDRIK96 Folded on the POCKET CARDS

SHIP IT!

+$679.50 on Stars
+$517 on Absolute
-$633.50 on Party

+$563 total.

Oh yea, I killed on the football games this weekend.

$50 on Penn State at +4
$75 on Bengals at -3
$25 on Falcons at -4.5
$50 on Chiefs at -5.5
$100 on Chargers at -2
$50 on Chargers at -1.5

In order to make up for such a shitty yesterday and lack of hours last week I really wanna strive for a 30 hour week this week.

[piersmajestyk]

[Xaston]

Just put in a 2 hour and 20 minute session. I played a $15/$30 table on pokerstars (varied from 4-8 handed through the session), 2 $10/$20 (6 max) tables on party, and 1 on absolute. Started off REAL badly and lost the whole $600 I brought to the $15/$30 and most of the $400 I brought to the absolute table. I battled back and all of the sudden was up about $1400 but then I started losing to 3 outters and gutshots like it was going out of style. Still booked a fairly solid win.

+182 at Party
+138.50 at Absolute
+520 at Stars

$840 total.

At Party I ran into one of Piers and I's favorite $10/$20 (6 max) nutcases. He was a little more sedated than my last two sessions with him. He is in second place on the all time lost money to Xaston in $10/$20 (6 max) list. I have 861 hands with him and he is down $546.50 total. He is down $714 to me .

Piers, 8 sounds good.

[MecosKing]

[Xaston]

No sir it doesn't. Absolute so far has been pretty good. They haven't heard of the infamous Xaston yet so when I three bet them with junk they fold on the flop to me much more often than those partypoker cats that are on to me! The reason I went there is cause they have reloads constantly, and I love free money. There's not exactly a lot of good games running though. I'd say its not a bad spot to have some of your bankroll, but if you multitable it's not a good place to have your whole roll.

[Xaston]

[Xaston]

Another solid session.

Played a little over 2 hours. $15/$30 full table on Interpoker. $10/$20 (6 max) on Interpoker. And 2 $10/$20 (6 max) on Absolute.

+$884.75 Interpoker $15/$30
+136 Absolute $10/$20
-$278.50 Interpoker $10/$20
+$10 Absolute Bonus!

Total: $752.25

Absolute is very interesting. You see the same people over and over and over. I think a very large percentage of them are props and they know each other pretty well. I don't see how I can keep beating them without pokertracker figuring out how they play for me, and me not figuring it out cause I'm playing 4 tables at a time.

I'm fairly uncertain about where I am going to be going with poker in the coming months. My plan was to play primarily $10/$20 and skip $15/$30 and $20/$40 more or less, and then plop myself down at $30/$60 once I hit $36,000 (I'm still a nice chunk off of this so this is purely speculation). I figured I'd stay there for a year or so. However I've been reading a bit of 2+2 forums lately and it seems as though $30/$60 is more or less a bunch of multi-tabling TAGs, half of which are paying their bills with this game. Even so, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to beat them if I really try. Also if I put maybe $4,800 on about 5 sites like Pacific, Stars, Party, Interpoker, and Absolute I'd really have a lot of tables to choose from. I certainly don't want to stay at $10/$20 for all of eternity, but if my hourly rate will be higher crushing these guys (although what I've been doing in $10/$20 the last week or so is hardly crushing) than it would be chopping up one fishes money with the rest of the TAGs at $30/$60 it would be silly to play the $30/$60 game right? On the flip side if I stay at $10/$20 I'll never be able to beat $50/$100 and $100/$200. Mecos, you're in a similar boat bankroll wise, and we play the same game (although I dabble in other games and I don't know whether or not you do), what are your plans? And if you say go to the commerce and play the live games where $30/$60 is still packed with morons I'll cockslap you.