Let's see what's happened in the past couple weeks.
Mag has come in 3rd in the UBOC, wins the Stars $100, the next day wins the Stars $55 rebuy, then the next day wins the $100 rebuy. Hate to see the guy leave the cash game arena to be a tourney donk, but you can't argue with all of that money. Sick stuff.
A few days after all this, lucko21 wins the very next $100 rebuy for $25k! Mag went pretty deep, coming in about twentieth.
Then, the very NEXT $100 rebuy, sprstoner makes the final table.
AND on UB, mag and tdizz made the very same final table in the $30 rebuy, finishing fourth and second, respectively. Sick, sick stuff. It makes me want to start playing tourneys again. Maybe once I get a new laptop (soon... soon...)
Also congrats to gleeful for winning the TPOAPC main event, and vman and aces (julio the fat mexican queer) for being the player of the year point leaders. I went a long way down from where I was after the first two tourneys (first) but I think I played well in most of the tourneys. I missed HORSE and the main event (I thought it was tonight, not this afternoon), and got pretty unlucky in razz. But I played fucking god-awful in the stud high and in the second no limit event.
Mathematics of Poker continues to be an incredible book. I'd recommend it (or an attempt at it) to anyone who plays this game even remotely seriously.
No real non-poker news. Arielle comes home soon, that's about it.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
TPOAPC
Three tourneys in the plus one annual poker championships.
First one I skilled my way into an early chip lead when my AKo beat Troys AKo. Lost some of it back to him when my JJ lost the coinflip to his JTo (pokerstars...).
Came into the FT with a great stack, with cbal in second. I was playing pretty fast, but chris had recently reraised a couple raises of mine. So I went to steal with 69o and he flat called,w hich really confused me. I put him on something like KQ or AT. The flop came 762 and we both checked. The turn paired the deuce and he led out for 1K. I jammed for somethin like 5 or 6k more and he called with his T7s. He made an awesome call there and I had no idea where he was in the hand. He took those chips and ended up winning the tourney, leaving me in a weak sixth.
Next day we played omaha hilo. I had to be one of the worst omaha split players in the field. So naturally I came in third after semi-cold decking lucko for a huge pot and scooping a couple big pots early on. I really played like shit in the middle rounds though.
After this tourney, i was the +1 POTY points leader with 13, one more than drome (who wont he O8 tourney) and chris.
Last night was stud high, easily my worst game. I was lost the entire night and finished 13th for no more points. I'm still in second to drome who picked up another four points. Lucko finally got some points by winning the fucker.
Tonight is razz, a game I think I play decently. Hopefully I can finish this one off and get myself a win.
First one I skilled my way into an early chip lead when my AKo beat Troys AKo. Lost some of it back to him when my JJ lost the coinflip to his JTo (pokerstars...).
Came into the FT with a great stack, with cbal in second. I was playing pretty fast, but chris had recently reraised a couple raises of mine. So I went to steal with 69o and he flat called,w hich really confused me. I put him on something like KQ or AT. The flop came 762 and we both checked. The turn paired the deuce and he led out for 1K. I jammed for somethin like 5 or 6k more and he called with his T7s. He made an awesome call there and I had no idea where he was in the hand. He took those chips and ended up winning the tourney, leaving me in a weak sixth.
Next day we played omaha hilo. I had to be one of the worst omaha split players in the field. So naturally I came in third after semi-cold decking lucko for a huge pot and scooping a couple big pots early on. I really played like shit in the middle rounds though.
After this tourney, i was the +1 POTY points leader with 13, one more than drome (who wont he O8 tourney) and chris.
Last night was stud high, easily my worst game. I was lost the entire night and finished 13th for no more points. I'm still in second to drome who picked up another four points. Lucko finally got some points by winning the fucker.
Tonight is razz, a game I think I play decently. Hopefully I can finish this one off and get myself a win.
Monday, December 04, 2006
random poker shit
First, congrats to Kevin (lucko21) who took down the $50 rebuy on Stars for just shy of nine dimes. Jesus.
I didn't play too much online this week, but am showing a decent profit considering all of the mistakes I think I've been making (overplaying big pairs, playing too often OOP).
Live has gone well, although it's been for smaller stakes. Turned t120 (down from t200) into about ten times that within an hour and a half in a 7-man rebuy. We ended up chopping when heads up because I had to work the next morning, which sucked because I'd have crushed him.
Only one semi-interesting hand happened. We were playing NL Omaha High, 3 handed with 1/2 blinds. I was the button and open-limped. The SB (Justin) called with ~250 behind and the BB checked with ~450 behind. I have them both covered. I had 77xx (AsTs if I remember right). Flop comes 7h9h3c. Justin leads for 10, BB flat calls and I raise to 45 total. They both call. Turn is a 2s (I think) and they check to me. I bet out 100 and Justin thinks for about three minutes and jams for ~100 more. BB mucks and I call. Justin shows 6hThxx and bricks off, busting out.
I think that given his hand (gutshot straight flush draw), Justin shoulda reraised all in on the flop. A few reasons for this:
1) He knows I don't want to play against him as much as I do the BB, who was far more live.
2) If he bricks off on turn, he's gonna be put in a tough spot to either jam right away or be forced to call if I give him a good price.
3) Even if he knows I very likely have a set, he's not a big dog.
4) None of his outs are nut outs.
Of course, given my hand, I'd have called him anyway so in a results oriented way of thinking it didn't make a difference.
We played Friday at a frat house. .25/.50 game with a $10 buy in (I bought in for $20, which got me weird looks) but when we got there, most people had busted enough times that stacks were deep enough for a little bit of play.
One of the worst games I've ever seen. I could play in that game for a living, but the people there annoyed the fuck out of me, including 1) ugly, trashy drunk girls and 2) dudes trying to fight me for telling them 311 sucked.
I played like a rock, making only one bluff in about 3 hours, and it was versus Justin. No one else was even remotely bluffable. Playing tight (ugh, I hate it so much) resulted in very few hands that were even the slighest bit interesting. It was mostly one person overplaying top pair, but being fortunate that their opponents would be overplaying bottom pair or second pair or some shit like that. Boring, but easy money.
TPOAPC starts tonight. Probably gonna play, but may not if the laptop fucks up on me.
I didn't play too much online this week, but am showing a decent profit considering all of the mistakes I think I've been making (overplaying big pairs, playing too often OOP).
Live has gone well, although it's been for smaller stakes. Turned t120 (down from t200) into about ten times that within an hour and a half in a 7-man rebuy. We ended up chopping when heads up because I had to work the next morning, which sucked because I'd have crushed him.
Only one semi-interesting hand happened. We were playing NL Omaha High, 3 handed with 1/2 blinds. I was the button and open-limped. The SB (Justin) called with ~250 behind and the BB checked with ~450 behind. I have them both covered. I had 77xx (AsTs if I remember right). Flop comes 7h9h3c. Justin leads for 10, BB flat calls and I raise to 45 total. They both call. Turn is a 2s (I think) and they check to me. I bet out 100 and Justin thinks for about three minutes and jams for ~100 more. BB mucks and I call. Justin shows 6hThxx and bricks off, busting out.
I think that given his hand (gutshot straight flush draw), Justin shoulda reraised all in on the flop. A few reasons for this:
1) He knows I don't want to play against him as much as I do the BB, who was far more live.
2) If he bricks off on turn, he's gonna be put in a tough spot to either jam right away or be forced to call if I give him a good price.
3) Even if he knows I very likely have a set, he's not a big dog.
4) None of his outs are nut outs.
Of course, given my hand, I'd have called him anyway so in a results oriented way of thinking it didn't make a difference.
We played Friday at a frat house. .25/.50 game with a $10 buy in (I bought in for $20, which got me weird looks) but when we got there, most people had busted enough times that stacks were deep enough for a little bit of play.
One of the worst games I've ever seen. I could play in that game for a living, but the people there annoyed the fuck out of me, including 1) ugly, trashy drunk girls and 2) dudes trying to fight me for telling them 311 sucked.
I played like a rock, making only one bluff in about 3 hours, and it was versus Justin. No one else was even remotely bluffable. Playing tight (ugh, I hate it so much) resulted in very few hands that were even the slighest bit interesting. It was mostly one person overplaying top pair, but being fortunate that their opponents would be overplaying bottom pair or second pair or some shit like that. Boring, but easy money.
TPOAPC starts tonight. Probably gonna play, but may not if the laptop fucks up on me.
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