Saturday, April 22, 2006
Bon Voyage!
I'm off to enjoy a 7 night southern caribbean cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean "Adventure of the Seas". Been a few years since my last vacation so this will be a much need break. Boarding out of Puerto Rico, then stopping off in Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, and St. Maarten. Unfortunately the World Poker Showdown happens in St. Maarten a couple days after I arrive there. Will check out the casino there though. Best of luck with your online gambling this week!
Monday, April 17, 2006
Losing Concentration / Needing to make a move
Played in the Poker Stars million dollar guaranteed yesterday. 4500 players so there was some overlay. Played pretty solid, up until towards the 2nd break. Had 4500 chips, average was about 6k, but was at my table average. One guy put all his chips in with A3, and doubled up off of AT. Then stole the blinds for the next 3 until it got to me. Holding A8s, I pushed back all in, but to my surprise he woke up with AK. Two hearts on the flop, but none of my remaining 12 outs appeared and I was out.
So I wasted 2 hours of solid play on a play that I didn't necessarily need to make. Would a stop and go have been better? Possibly, especially on that flop. I'm pretty sure I could have easily made the money staying at this table as I had most players figured out. Though as always, I'll play to win. Usually I'll have another table open to keep me from playing too much, but my other tourney ended early when somebody thought QTs was worth calling over half your stack off preflop.
So I wasted 2 hours of solid play on a play that I didn't necessarily need to make. Would a stop and go have been better? Possibly, especially on that flop. I'm pretty sure I could have easily made the money staying at this table as I had most players figured out. Though as always, I'll play to win. Usually I'll have another table open to keep me from playing too much, but my other tourney ended early when somebody thought QTs was worth calling over half your stack off preflop.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Finally a good MTT result
Played the Blogger Poker tour match today on Blogger Poker Tour - Poker.com. Ended up finishing 2nd.
Started hot early, with a made straight on the turn and got all my chips in. Stayed top 5 for a while, and then got hit hard. KK vs TT. Other guy puts all his chips in on the Q high flop, and I called. Low and behold he already made his set. Rest of the tourney played pretty much All-in or nothing.
When I made the final table, one hand that propelled me was pocket 4s. Min raised, BB called. Set on the flop. He went all in with AJ (TPTK), and I quickly called. Never looked back on the chip lead.
Top 4 made it to the Finals. Buddy Lifesagrind made it to the final 4 as well. Had a scary moment vs him with the dreaded JJ, but luckily they held up vs his Ax. Heads up was me vs DamRiver who played a very solid game. I tried bullying him, but overcommitted on 2nd pair when he held top pair. Congrats and good luck in the final. I eventually went allin with K9 vs 76. Flopped 7 and thats all she wrote.
Not much $ difference between 1st and 2nd ($125 vs $100), but would probably have boosted my confidence a little bit more. Oh well at least I'm through now!
Started hot early, with a made straight on the turn and got all my chips in. Stayed top 5 for a while, and then got hit hard. KK vs TT. Other guy puts all his chips in on the Q high flop, and I called. Low and behold he already made his set. Rest of the tourney played pretty much All-in or nothing.
When I made the final table, one hand that propelled me was pocket 4s. Min raised, BB called. Set on the flop. He went all in with AJ (TPTK), and I quickly called. Never looked back on the chip lead.
Top 4 made it to the Finals. Buddy Lifesagrind made it to the final 4 as well. Had a scary moment vs him with the dreaded JJ, but luckily they held up vs his Ax. Heads up was me vs DamRiver who played a very solid game. I tried bullying him, but overcommitted on 2nd pair when he held top pair. Congrats and good luck in the final. I eventually went allin with K9 vs 76. Flopped 7 and thats all she wrote.
Not much $ difference between 1st and 2nd ($125 vs $100), but would probably have boosted my confidence a little bit more. Oh well at least I'm through now!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
lol at bots
There have been recent discussion in several poker forums lately about possible bots playing $22 sitngos on Party Poker. The list of bot names are
1 ragra
2 frnchrev
3 lvstrg
4 thathy
5 hnglos
6 sanroad
7 micmonn
8 k1muller
9 trvndrm
10 remick2
11 mdwlrk
12 bmpcch
13 iluvaks
14 rswhlr
15 dabsop
16 josamart
17 cufutbl
18 pbnsub
Now I checked my recent hand history, and in fact have played with 3 of these things, 4 times in total. Their best result was a 5th. Thats a nice 0 for 4. Characteristics are that they play tight, and when they do bet they go "allmost allin" late in the sng.
So if you ever see these guys playing, go signup for the room. These bots stink. A combination of party maniacs with sucky bots, equals easy money. No wonder why my $20 Party ITM/ROI is so good.
1 ragra
2 frnchrev
3 lvstrg
4 thathy
5 hnglos
6 sanroad
7 micmonn
8 k1muller
9 trvndrm
10 remick2
11 mdwlrk
12 bmpcch
13 iluvaks
14 rswhlr
15 dabsop
16 josamart
17 cufutbl
18 pbnsub
Now I checked my recent hand history, and in fact have played with 3 of these things, 4 times in total. Their best result was a 5th. Thats a nice 0 for 4. Characteristics are that they play tight, and when they do bet they go "allmost allin" late in the sng.
So if you ever see these guys playing, go signup for the room. These bots stink. A combination of party maniacs with sucky bots, equals easy money. No wonder why my $20 Party ITM/ROI is so good.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
So close to $2million, what a tease.
Finished my InterCasino wr at $300 for a profit of $200, so as customary I play some slots to give some $ back. The millionaire jackpot is over $2 million now. You get this jackpot by getting 3 of those Club symbols and then play some bonus game. 4 levels of play, you advance to each level by hitting the down arrow on your roulette type of spin. I made it to the last level, and then hits the $100. If you make it to that last level, I'm not sure on the exact odds, but I think its 1in7 to the jackpot. I feel like puking, so close. My dreams will have to wait.
edit:
meh, must be easier than I thought to make it to the final ring. Just did it again. Oh well, now I have $100 left to go for the gold. The third time better be the charm.
edit again:
ok finally got a screenshot of this thing, after making it to the final round again!
All I had to do was get the middle to arrows to match, and the jackpot was mine. Looks like it was a 1/12 chance. Well since I've already done it 3 times, maybe in 9 more times I'll hit it! Oh well at least I have $175 left to go for this now.
edit 4/13....
lots of bonus spins, only made it down to the final 1 time. So thats 4 times in total, only 8 more times now :) Down to $100 though.
edit 4/17
My dream is finally over ... until next month. Finally busted. Got to the middle a couple more times, but nothing. Hope its still around in May!
edit:
meh, must be easier than I thought to make it to the final ring. Just did it again. Oh well, now I have $100 left to go for the gold. The third time better be the charm.
edit again:
ok finally got a screenshot of this thing, after making it to the final round again!
All I had to do was get the middle to arrows to match, and the jackpot was mine. Looks like it was a 1/12 chance. Well since I've already done it 3 times, maybe in 9 more times I'll hit it! Oh well at least I have $175 left to go for this now.
edit 4/13....
lots of bonus spins, only made it down to the final 1 time. So thats 4 times in total, only 8 more times now :) Down to $100 though.
edit 4/17
My dream is finally over ... until next month. Finally busted. Got to the middle a couple more times, but nothing. Hope its still around in May!
Friday, March 31, 2006
STT vs MTT, I finally win a MTT, well sort of.
Lately I've been trying to improve my currently struggling MTT game. My STT game has been awesome, so I have been puzzled by my lack of results. R1verrun has offerered me some advice, he is the current leader in the PSO League. Thanks.
Last night I played 3 MTTs. Bluff Poker Tour on VIP Poker, I went out 60ish out of 200, when my 88 did not hold up against an AJ. J on the turn. Poker Stars $1million qualifier. 120 people top 20 qualify, I go out 28th. Doh! WSOP Double Shootout qualifier, 70 players. I win my first table pretty easily. Final table, I build my stack nicely, especially on a flopped straight, and an opponnent flopped 2 pair. Played a nice aggressive game. End up heads up, and the guy wants to chop. I agreed even though I'm sure I could have taken him. He had a 2:1 chip lead on me after busting the 3rd place guy. So we split W$650 and $72.
So does this count as an MTT win or a SnG win?
Hmmm, just by writing this post I just thought of something. Maybe I'm trying to make moves against players where I have no information about (because of constant table changes). Something to think about.
Last night I played 3 MTTs. Bluff Poker Tour on VIP Poker, I went out 60ish out of 200, when my 88 did not hold up against an AJ. J on the turn. Poker Stars $1million qualifier. 120 people top 20 qualify, I go out 28th. Doh! WSOP Double Shootout qualifier, 70 players. I win my first table pretty easily. Final table, I build my stack nicely, especially on a flopped straight, and an opponnent flopped 2 pair. Played a nice aggressive game. End up heads up, and the guy wants to chop. I agreed even though I'm sure I could have taken him. He had a 2:1 chip lead on me after busting the 3rd place guy. So we split W$650 and $72.
So does this count as an MTT win or a SnG win?
Hmmm, just by writing this post I just thought of something. Maybe I'm trying to make moves against players where I have no information about (because of constant table changes). Something to think about.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Weekend Tourney Results - I'm nobody's prodige.
Got a chance to play a bunch of tourneys on Fri and Sun night, most of them on Stars, and all of them with disappointing results.
Friday
Stars 180sng - Bubbled out. Top 10 in chips most of the tourney, couldn't hit my flops later in the tourney, and was being reraised pretty often. There should have been 1 hand where I could have done a re-reraise bluff.
Stars Turbo Shootout $1mil qualifier - Had no problem with my 1st table, had everybody read perfectly, and played headsup pretty good. A suckout kept opponent alive longer than he should have been. Sucked out on the final table, bunch of limpers, pushed on the BB with AQ. Called by ATs. Hits their flush, and I'm out.
Party turbo $20sng - played 2. 2nd in one, lost the other. These are pretty easy and fun. Should have won both, but sucked out 3 hands in a row in my losing one, and outkicked on my 2nd place won over an inferior opponent.
Titan Rio Won that one pretty easily.
Sunday
Stars 180sng - Bubbled out 23rd. Played well up until the end. 1 play that I remember now that I folded where I think now I should have called. 2 limpers, KK on the button. BB at 200, I raised to 1k. 20% of my stack. 1 EP caller. Flop = Axx, EP goes allin. I barely have him covered. If he hit his set, would probably have check raised. If he had an A, would he make that play? Now that I think about it I think he was on a draw.
$1mil qualifier - Made it headsup on my 1st table. I don't think I've ever played that bad headsup. Not too sure how you play an opponent that only calls or checks preflop. Hard to judge his holding. He ended up winning by slow playing pocket Ks when I hit top pair (Js) on the flop.
PSO League - I suck so bad on this league. I would have to come 1st on the next 5, and I still wouldn't be guaranteed a winner. This time I lost out on AJ vs 77. TPTK on the flop, etoss hit his set.
Daniel's Prodige - 36 man final qualifier, winner gets the live table seat. I play solid poker, make the final table with avg stack. Lost a few key pots, and I think I'm eliminated Ax vs QJ. Now that I think about it, I lost a lot of pots vs QJ, wtf.
That is all, I suck, but I know where I have to improve. I should read my MTT books, but just no time. Still haven't finished HOHvol2 yet, on the headsup section. Just got my Kill Phil book which looks interesting. On a side note, finally busted out of 888. Lost on BJ, then put the last $25 on the Millionaire Genie. Never hit. Was fun while it lasted!
Friday
Stars 180sng - Bubbled out. Top 10 in chips most of the tourney, couldn't hit my flops later in the tourney, and was being reraised pretty often. There should have been 1 hand where I could have done a re-reraise bluff.
Stars Turbo Shootout $1mil qualifier - Had no problem with my 1st table, had everybody read perfectly, and played headsup pretty good. A suckout kept opponent alive longer than he should have been. Sucked out on the final table, bunch of limpers, pushed on the BB with AQ. Called by ATs. Hits their flush, and I'm out.
Party turbo $20sng - played 2. 2nd in one, lost the other. These are pretty easy and fun. Should have won both, but sucked out 3 hands in a row in my losing one, and outkicked on my 2nd place won over an inferior opponent.
Titan Rio Won that one pretty easily.
Sunday
Stars 180sng - Bubbled out 23rd. Played well up until the end. 1 play that I remember now that I folded where I think now I should have called. 2 limpers, KK on the button. BB at 200, I raised to 1k. 20% of my stack. 1 EP caller. Flop = Axx, EP goes allin. I barely have him covered. If he hit his set, would probably have check raised. If he had an A, would he make that play? Now that I think about it I think he was on a draw.
$1mil qualifier - Made it headsup on my 1st table. I don't think I've ever played that bad headsup. Not too sure how you play an opponent that only calls or checks preflop. Hard to judge his holding. He ended up winning by slow playing pocket Ks when I hit top pair (Js) on the flop.
PSO League - I suck so bad on this league. I would have to come 1st on the next 5, and I still wouldn't be guaranteed a winner. This time I lost out on AJ vs 77. TPTK on the flop, etoss hit his set.
Daniel's Prodige - 36 man final qualifier, winner gets the live table seat. I play solid poker, make the final table with avg stack. Lost a few key pots, and I think I'm eliminated Ax vs QJ. Now that I think about it, I lost a lot of pots vs QJ, wtf.
That is all, I suck, but I know where I have to improve. I should read my MTT books, but just no time. Still haven't finished HOHvol2 yet, on the headsup section. Just got my Kill Phil book which looks interesting. On a side note, finally busted out of 888. Lost on BJ, then put the last $25 on the Millionaire Genie. Never hit. Was fun while it lasted!
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Win, Lose, Sucky, Lucky
Title says it all, and that has pretty much been my gambling play as of late.
MTT = Sucky
PSO Leage event #4. Decided to change my gameplay to being aggressive early. Worked for a while, but then I just couldn't lay down KK preflop and lost most of my chips. Ended up going out with 88 vs QQ.
STT = Win/Lose
Played some Titan and Party sitngos the past couple of days. Titan won 1/3. My 2 losses were river flush suckouts. I think most of these players still think they only need 2 to 1 to see the river. Party won 1.5 / 3. Won a $20 speed sng, lost a $10, and came 3rd in a wsop step 1 (have to play step 1 again). My play was pretty good in the $20 one, except maybe one hand which I misplayed a scary flop (by being scared). The step tourney I should have won, 2 big suckouts. Both times my opponent thought I was stealing their blinds. 1st time I had AQ and they pushed with J2. Q and J on the flop, J on the turn. 2nd time I had KT vs K8. Flopped an 8, and I was done. I was surprised though, the level of play was pretty high in this sng.
Casino = Win/Lucky
888 I continue to win off of my $150 sitting in there from Refer a Friends. Pretty sure I'm up over $600 now. Been betting $25 a hand, 3 handed. If my balance reaches $250 I would withdraw. I even told myself if I lost that bet I would take the $75 and throw it into the Millionaire Genie slot. I guess I'm lucky it hasn't happened yet.
Starluck I got pretty lucky. A refer a friend netted me $50 to play with. Threw it in a slot and got this my 2nd spin.
Too bad I reduced my bet to $2.25 from $4.50. After the wr, I ended up only cashing out $350 though. Thanks Nardo, a 2x ownage bonus for the next casino you do through me!
MTT = Sucky
PSO Leage event #4. Decided to change my gameplay to being aggressive early. Worked for a while, but then I just couldn't lay down KK preflop and lost most of my chips. Ended up going out with 88 vs QQ.
STT = Win/Lose
Played some Titan and Party sitngos the past couple of days. Titan won 1/3. My 2 losses were river flush suckouts. I think most of these players still think they only need 2 to 1 to see the river. Party won 1.5 / 3. Won a $20 speed sng, lost a $10, and came 3rd in a wsop step 1 (have to play step 1 again). My play was pretty good in the $20 one, except maybe one hand which I misplayed a scary flop (by being scared). The step tourney I should have won, 2 big suckouts. Both times my opponent thought I was stealing their blinds. 1st time I had AQ and they pushed with J2. Q and J on the flop, J on the turn. 2nd time I had KT vs K8. Flopped an 8, and I was done. I was surprised though, the level of play was pretty high in this sng.
Casino = Win/Lucky
888 I continue to win off of my $150 sitting in there from Refer a Friends. Pretty sure I'm up over $600 now. Been betting $25 a hand, 3 handed. If my balance reaches $250 I would withdraw. I even told myself if I lost that bet I would take the $75 and throw it into the Millionaire Genie slot. I guess I'm lucky it hasn't happened yet.
Starluck I got pretty lucky. A refer a friend netted me $50 to play with. Threw it in a slot and got this my 2nd spin.
Too bad I reduced my bet to $2.25 from $4.50. After the wr, I ended up only cashing out $350 though. Thanks Nardo, a 2x ownage bonus for the next casino you do through me!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Weekend blah blah
Went away this weekend to the nations capital, well actually the neighbouring city in Quebec, but Ottawa is easier to say. Actually got to hit a casino, but unfortunately in Quebec poker is illegal, and all the other table games were pretty much packed. Resorted to playing some slots and entered a $10 slots tournament. Its the funniest thing in the world watching clueless middle age ladies hammer on the spin button as fast as they can. "Hello, hitting the spin button while the reels are spinning won't activate your next spin!!!" These women were just going crazy, was pretty funny to watch. Of course I didn't win, winner had double what I did, so I pretty much wasted $10 ($60 in total) pressing buttons.
Played some online when I got home after watching Sopranos. Pretty good episode, strange turn of events. March has not been a good gambling month for me. Ups and downs, pretty much just spinning my wheels. On Riverbelle I keep getting the 2nd best hand. Set over Set, outkicked, split pots on monsters, KK vs AA, JJ vs QQ. After I finish up my bonus, I think thats it for ring games for the month, March stinks.
Played some online when I got home after watching Sopranos. Pretty good episode, strange turn of events. March has not been a good gambling month for me. Ups and downs, pretty much just spinning my wheels. On Riverbelle I keep getting the 2nd best hand. Set over Set, outkicked, split pots on monsters, KK vs AA, JJ vs QQ. After I finish up my bonus, I think thats it for ring games for the month, March stinks.
Monday, February 27, 2006
MTT Filled Weekend: 1out of 4 aint too bad, is it?
Sunday Feb 26 was a big MTT weekend for me.
3pm - Full Contact Poker: Daniel's Prodige. $30+3 Top 3 advance.
- 30 players entered this one. I pretty much stayed average stack the whole mtt. Whenever I got low I would use my allin to get back in. Once it got down to the final table, i was about 8/10. Top 4 paid $, top 3 advance to the 36man final qualifier. Winner moves to the Live table in Vancouver to become Daniel Negreanu's prodige. Play solid poker and people started dropping one by one. When it got down to the final 4, there were 2 huge stacks and myself and another with puny stacks (I had a slight advantage acting after though having less than 1sb than him. He luckily tripled up and I was on the verge of being blinded out next orbit. Then a strange thing happened. That guy raised preflop the next hand, one of the big stacks reraised allin, and dude called. He flipped over 22???? Big stack flipped over AQ, and flop came an A and it was over. Nobody at the table understood the play, maybe he didn't understand what was at risk. Oh well good for me, I get 3rd place $ (I think $150 or so) and move on. I think the tourney is end of Mar.
5pm - Bluff Magazine Fantasy Poker Challenge.
- 85 players, top 5 advance to final SnG (WSOP seat). Another top 5 of some advanced scoring formula based on how you did in this mtt and the regular FPC season, advance as well. I finished 50th in the regular challenge so i pretty much had to score top 5. Had some success early on, until I lost a coin flip QQ vs AK. Dwindled down and then got back up 88 vs Q7? I would have let him have it if he won, that was half his stack, no need to call. Stupid play of the tourney for me. I limped in with AJs UTG. SB called, BB checked. I end up allin with TPTK, SB wins with a straight with his 92o. I pretty much got nothing the rest of the tourney. Was thinking of pushing with a QJs one time but didn't, and that cost me a triple up. Ended up 23rd, highly doubt it was good enough.
6pm - Full Tilt - $200k guaranteed.
- 1100+ players, I qualified by winning a $24 SnG. This one pissed me off. 45mins into the tourney, was down to 1500+ from 2000 starting. In the BB with 33. 3 limpers and I check. Flop comed 537 rainbow. I check, UTG bets 1/2 pot, fold, SB goes allin, I go allin, UTG calls. UTG 99, SB 87, and me with my set. Turn comes a 9. Mother Fuc*er!!! Can't hit my 1 outer and I'm out. I would have been in great position with 4500 chips.
9pm - Poker Source Online Leage
- 130 players or so. At this point my head is not in the game. Let a few hands go early after being raised. Got all of it back +more when somehow I still win with my KQ with a board of KJ10xx. Then came the hand which normally I can let go, but not last night. QQ, standard raise in MP. Button calls. Garbage flop, I bet, raise 3x my bet, me allin, quick call, shows AA. I'm left with 20 chips, and out next hand when my 65o can't win!
I'm impressed with those guys who can keep focus playing online poker all day, all week, and x games going at once. Its draining sitting down in front of your computer for that long, and the mind fcking that goes on calculating and remembering every move. I don't think I have another Sunday like this.... yet!
3pm - Full Contact Poker: Daniel's Prodige. $30+3 Top 3 advance.
- 30 players entered this one. I pretty much stayed average stack the whole mtt. Whenever I got low I would use my allin to get back in. Once it got down to the final table, i was about 8/10. Top 4 paid $, top 3 advance to the 36man final qualifier. Winner moves to the Live table in Vancouver to become Daniel Negreanu's prodige. Play solid poker and people started dropping one by one. When it got down to the final 4, there were 2 huge stacks and myself and another with puny stacks (I had a slight advantage acting after though having less than 1sb than him. He luckily tripled up and I was on the verge of being blinded out next orbit. Then a strange thing happened. That guy raised preflop the next hand, one of the big stacks reraised allin, and dude called. He flipped over 22???? Big stack flipped over AQ, and flop came an A and it was over. Nobody at the table understood the play, maybe he didn't understand what was at risk. Oh well good for me, I get 3rd place $ (I think $150 or so) and move on. I think the tourney is end of Mar.
5pm - Bluff Magazine Fantasy Poker Challenge.
- 85 players, top 5 advance to final SnG (WSOP seat). Another top 5 of some advanced scoring formula based on how you did in this mtt and the regular FPC season, advance as well. I finished 50th in the regular challenge so i pretty much had to score top 5. Had some success early on, until I lost a coin flip QQ vs AK. Dwindled down and then got back up 88 vs Q7? I would have let him have it if he won, that was half his stack, no need to call. Stupid play of the tourney for me. I limped in with AJs UTG. SB called, BB checked. I end up allin with TPTK, SB wins with a straight with his 92o. I pretty much got nothing the rest of the tourney. Was thinking of pushing with a QJs one time but didn't, and that cost me a triple up. Ended up 23rd, highly doubt it was good enough.
6pm - Full Tilt - $200k guaranteed.
- 1100+ players, I qualified by winning a $24 SnG. This one pissed me off. 45mins into the tourney, was down to 1500+ from 2000 starting. In the BB with 33. 3 limpers and I check. Flop comed 537 rainbow. I check, UTG bets 1/2 pot, fold, SB goes allin, I go allin, UTG calls. UTG 99, SB 87, and me with my set. Turn comes a 9. Mother Fuc*er!!! Can't hit my 1 outer and I'm out. I would have been in great position with 4500 chips.
9pm - Poker Source Online Leage
- 130 players or so. At this point my head is not in the game. Let a few hands go early after being raised. Got all of it back +more when somehow I still win with my KQ with a board of KJ10xx. Then came the hand which normally I can let go, but not last night. QQ, standard raise in MP. Button calls. Garbage flop, I bet, raise 3x my bet, me allin, quick call, shows AA. I'm left with 20 chips, and out next hand when my 65o can't win!
I'm impressed with those guys who can keep focus playing online poker all day, all week, and x games going at once. Its draining sitting down in front of your computer for that long, and the mind fcking that goes on calculating and remembering every move. I don't think I have another Sunday like this.... yet!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Super Casino Tilt, Ace Club now rigged?
I'm usually pretty good at not tilting during my Blackjack play. Last night was a big exception. After enduring several beats while playing on Wild Jack poker, I closed off one of my poker tables and put on Ace Club. Now I was already on tilt from Ace Club having gone from $650 to $400 already. I proceeded to lose the last $400 in about 5 mins! I hate complainers about rigged software etc, but this was just unbelievable. The justification that I have that this is now "un-normal" is because Ace Club finally figured out the glitch they had in their system. Surrendering used to return 3/4 of your bet back! This would equate to an actual player advantage! Now that they fixed it, i guess they have to make their money back. Hopefully now that Party owns this thing, they'll just get rid of it.
edit: This is what I just got in my email
Congratulations! You are a winner at AceClub Casino
You have won $50 in our fantastic Valentine's Day $2,000 Cash Giveaway promotion.
...
Thanks you son of a bitches!!!!
edit: This is what I just got in my email
Congratulations! You are a winner at AceClub Casino
You have won $50 in our fantastic Valentine's Day $2,000 Cash Giveaway promotion.
...
Thanks you son of a bitches!!!!
Monday, February 13, 2006
Qualify Qualify Qualify
All I can do is qualify for big events, but can't win the big one. WTF is wrong with my game? Do I choke in the big ones, do I play too passive? I'm pretty sure I play better when I can set the tone earlier, which is not so necessary in the qualifity tournies. My MTT qualifying winning % has to be pretty up there, but I have absolute zero results to show for it. Kinda frustrating, all these hours for nothing more than experience. I guess I have to keep plugging away.
BTW, Rakeback Poker is sweet. I'm playing 5/10 6max there, and 40% rakeback adds up quickly! Its tracked right in the system how much rake you've earned, and you can redeem at any time. I think I have my new non bonus hunting site.
BTW, Rakeback Poker is sweet. I'm playing 5/10 6max there, and 40% rakeback adds up quickly! Its tracked right in the system how much rake you've earned, and you can redeem at any time. I think I have my new non bonus hunting site.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Poker Pet Peeves
Last night we, Team PSO, played our 4th team tournament at Pokerroom.com We are currently 3-0 and playing pretty good pokah. Especially last week, we clinched after the 3rd match!
I have a couple poker pet peeves that absolutely bug the hell out of me. Both happened last night, and both were committed by the same player.
1) Raising post flop with 3 people in the pot and 1 player already allin preflop. Now its one thing if you flop a straight and you want to protect that hand, its another if you have pretty much nothing and you raise and chase the other active player out. Memo ... Your Bet does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! If this is early in a tournament, fine, but this was during the final table where position is key compared to a few extra chips that you might not even get.
2) Big stack pansy play. Last night the chip leader as the SB folded to the short stack BB at least 3 orbits in a row. BB had an M between 3 and 4. Are you kidding me? Raise the damn blind, do not give him free $, if you commit yourself to an allin raise your still in good shape.
The weird thing is this player played a good game other than those two issues of mine, unless he was just getting lucky and I thought he played a good game. I ended up finishing 3rd/16 this round, and we ended up 2nd overall. 4 more rounds to go. JJ was the magical hand for me. Got it 4 times, won all 4 times including 2 doubleups. One was a set over set match. One of these double ups was also my comeback hand, after I was down to about 3M. JJ vs 1010, then next hand JJ vs 33. Put me right back up there.
This unfortunately ended our leading streak, the first time in 15 rounds we have never held the overall lead. Cocky but true, tonight we won't disappoint.
I have a couple poker pet peeves that absolutely bug the hell out of me. Both happened last night, and both were committed by the same player.
1) Raising post flop with 3 people in the pot and 1 player already allin preflop. Now its one thing if you flop a straight and you want to protect that hand, its another if you have pretty much nothing and you raise and chase the other active player out. Memo ... Your Bet does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! If this is early in a tournament, fine, but this was during the final table where position is key compared to a few extra chips that you might not even get.
2) Big stack pansy play. Last night the chip leader as the SB folded to the short stack BB at least 3 orbits in a row. BB had an M between 3 and 4. Are you kidding me? Raise the damn blind, do not give him free $, if you commit yourself to an allin raise your still in good shape.
The weird thing is this player played a good game other than those two issues of mine, unless he was just getting lucky and I thought he played a good game. I ended up finishing 3rd/16 this round, and we ended up 2nd overall. 4 more rounds to go. JJ was the magical hand for me. Got it 4 times, won all 4 times including 2 doubleups. One was a set over set match. One of these double ups was also my comeback hand, after I was down to about 3M. JJ vs 1010, then next hand JJ vs 33. Put me right back up there.
This unfortunately ended our leading streak, the first time in 15 rounds we have never held the overall lead. Cocky but true, tonight we won't disappoint.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Year of the Dog ... doo doo
1st of all, Happy New Year to all those who celebrated it on the weekend!
I played my Poker.com WSOP qualifier last night. Top 2 go to the wsop:me, next 11 replay again next month. 1st hand KK, sweet. Next hand, AQ, sweet! Then barely played a hand for the next 1.5 hours. Got to about 4M and found AA. Doubled up. Few hands later found AKs in ep. utg limp, 4x raise, folded to the BB which had 1.5x my stack, they called, utg folded. 6-6-8 flop. BB goes allin, I call. AK vs QT. Turn 9, River J. I'm done.
During the long period of limited activity I was able to observe all the other players carefully. I became pretty accurate in guess who had what each hand, and had their playing patterns nailed down. Thus my call on that final hand. Sucks, did all that work for no reason. Oh well, I have another $80+8 coupon to try to get in Feb's qualifier.
The other MTT I played in on the weekend, was a quick Turbo $3r&a on Titan. Though I didn't even know it was an R&A until somebody rebought. Weak competition, lots of bad beats, came in 15th for a whopping $17. Had my KK lose to an AQ which crippled me late, and final hand was A8 vs A10 with my 1.5M left.
On the cash game front, doing an Expekt reload. 100% max $100, 200points required. Going slower than I thought, up and down on that site, reminds me of Martin's. Made some more $ on Paradise though.
On the Casino front, did the Casino Europa sticky bonus, 100% max $100, 8xD+B, + extra $20 bonus. Put it all down the first hand. Me 19, dealer 2. Hole card 7, next card A. Doh! Also did At the Races Casino 100% max £50. 10xD, get bonus, 1xB. Busted my 1st £50. Deposited another £50. Got it up to £88 and got my bonus to make it £138. 10 hands to go at £5 a hand. Lost 8/10, pushed 1, won the other. Don't like this place, but still a good bonus. Others have made $ from here.
Year of the Cock was good for dick's like me, hope the year of the Dog doesn't bite back!
I played my Poker.com WSOP qualifier last night. Top 2 go to the wsop:me, next 11 replay again next month. 1st hand KK, sweet. Next hand, AQ, sweet! Then barely played a hand for the next 1.5 hours. Got to about 4M and found AA. Doubled up. Few hands later found AKs in ep. utg limp, 4x raise, folded to the BB which had 1.5x my stack, they called, utg folded. 6-6-8 flop. BB goes allin, I call. AK vs QT. Turn 9, River J. I'm done.
During the long period of limited activity I was able to observe all the other players carefully. I became pretty accurate in guess who had what each hand, and had their playing patterns nailed down. Thus my call on that final hand. Sucks, did all that work for no reason. Oh well, I have another $80+8 coupon to try to get in Feb's qualifier.
The other MTT I played in on the weekend, was a quick Turbo $3r&a on Titan. Though I didn't even know it was an R&A until somebody rebought. Weak competition, lots of bad beats, came in 15th for a whopping $17. Had my KK lose to an AQ which crippled me late, and final hand was A8 vs A10 with my 1.5M left.
On the cash game front, doing an Expekt reload. 100% max $100, 200points required. Going slower than I thought, up and down on that site, reminds me of Martin's. Made some more $ on Paradise though.
On the Casino front, did the Casino Europa sticky bonus, 100% max $100, 8xD+B, + extra $20 bonus. Put it all down the first hand. Me 19, dealer 2. Hole card 7, next card A. Doh! Also did At the Races Casino 100% max £50. 10xD, get bonus, 1xB. Busted my 1st £50. Deposited another £50. Got it up to £88 and got my bonus to make it £138. 10 hands to go at £5 a hand. Lost 8/10, pushed 1, won the other. Don't like this place, but still a good bonus. Others have made $ from here.
Year of the Cock was good for dick's like me, hope the year of the Dog doesn't bite back!
Monday, January 23, 2006
Weekend Play
Didn't get as much poker playing done as I thought I would, but I got some. My ring game play was good, destroyed the Paradise Poker and Bet365 tables for a few hundred each. Played a few hands at Martin's, not much going on.
On the tourney front only played 3 mtts and a few sngs. 2/4 on sitngos on Titan. 1 win, 1 2nd. On the MTT front all 3 were played sunday night.
Paradise Million qualifier freeroll - Busted out 500ish. Not real poker here, people going allin with A high, a lot of suckouts, didn't really pay attention here.
Titan PSO Freeroll - Shortstacked myself early when dude calls by big bet, me holding AJs vs QTs. Hits a runner runner flush with me holding TPTK. Stayed around and bubbled out with my 99 vs AK, with another runner runner flush. Though I was low stack I probably could have tried hanging around until the $, but I felt like winning and going for gold instead.
Party $500k Qualifier - 350+ players, top 14 qualify for the $500k. Finished in 36. Was running ok, then completely card dead after the 2nd break. Couldn't hit a single flop while others did, was completely useless. Ended up putting up my 3M on the BB with KJs when 2 others went in in front. Up against AK and JJ, so I was pretty much dead unless a Spade board happened. It didn't happen, so in other words wasted 2+ hrs of my time.
This week I think were going to start our Pokerroom Team play again. We should kick ass again. Plus 24 is on, so its all good!
On the tourney front only played 3 mtts and a few sngs. 2/4 on sitngos on Titan. 1 win, 1 2nd. On the MTT front all 3 were played sunday night.
Paradise Million qualifier freeroll - Busted out 500ish. Not real poker here, people going allin with A high, a lot of suckouts, didn't really pay attention here.
Titan PSO Freeroll - Shortstacked myself early when dude calls by big bet, me holding AJs vs QTs. Hits a runner runner flush with me holding TPTK. Stayed around and bubbled out with my 99 vs AK, with another runner runner flush. Though I was low stack I probably could have tried hanging around until the $, but I felt like winning and going for gold instead.
Party $500k Qualifier - 350+ players, top 14 qualify for the $500k. Finished in 36. Was running ok, then completely card dead after the 2nd break. Couldn't hit a single flop while others did, was completely useless. Ended up putting up my 3M on the BB with KJs when 2 others went in in front. Up against AK and JJ, so I was pretty much dead unless a Spade board happened. It didn't happen, so in other words wasted 2+ hrs of my time.
This week I think were going to start our Pokerroom Team play again. We should kick ass again. Plus 24 is on, so its all good!
Monday, January 09, 2006
Bad Tourney day
Sunday was supposed to be a big tourney day from me. I played 4 tournies, supposed to be 5 but 1 got cancelled. All Freerolls but they all had some +EV to them. Bet365 $30k, Titan $10k, Eurobet $20k, PSO-Titan $2.5k, PSO-UB $2.5k. The only one I monied in was the one I didn't care about.
Bet365 I lasted till about 260ish out of 3600ish. I don't like the prima tourneys, after the 1st break they're just alliins or nothing.
Titan I got knocked out about 1/2 way out of 360ish. Hit my set of 5s. but the other guy had 4s and an OE straight draw. He hit and I was left with just about nothing.
Eurobet was the Killer. $20k freeroll with only 65 players!!! 10th place guaranteed $600. Disappointed in myself. One key play was getting reraised allin with me holding AK and with about 7M left. I couldn't pull the trigger and still question my decision. I eventually lost when my AQ lost to A7 all action preflop. Cutoff limped in, me on SB with about 5M pushed, BB folded. Limper had me covered so called. Stupid 7 on the turn. I guess this is why I hate freerolls. If you're going to call that bet, if you were the first one in the pot wouldn't it make sense to try to steal the blinds instead? Hope that donkey didn't $.
Titan PSO was postponed for a couple weeks. Too bad only 27 people registered for that one.
UB PSO freeroll was funny. I think 2100 were preregistered. 1st hand, a bunch of autofolds, button raises, and I go allin with QQ. Dude must have thought I was just a maniac, and called with K10. Bye bye, I double up. The funny thing is nobody else on the table is active! So I steal their blinds until they're kicked off after the 1st round. Ends up being 120 players left, and all in the $!! With no real interest in this I end up 50ish making $6! Woohoo!
On the casino side, it was up and down. Doing the monthly/reload for InterCasino, Littlewoods, Eurobet, VIP, 32red, and Super Vegas. Inter I'm up some, littlewoods I finished up big, Eurobet up some, VIP doing 2 months worth - was up huge, but now only up a little with 25% through the wr, Super Vegas up some. 32Red finally did one of these with a profit, though a small one of £14. They increased the bonus to max £50 with a 1500wr. Still an awesome deal especially with autoplay. I can't get lucky on this one though.
On the backgammon side, I finished my wr for Gammon Empire $20 bonus. Lost $7 prebonus, but am getting better at that game. This game gets more frustrating than poker, not because of bad players, but some crazy rolls.
Today is my 1st wsop satellite through UB, I better step up my game!
Bet365 I lasted till about 260ish out of 3600ish. I don't like the prima tourneys, after the 1st break they're just alliins or nothing.
Titan I got knocked out about 1/2 way out of 360ish. Hit my set of 5s. but the other guy had 4s and an OE straight draw. He hit and I was left with just about nothing.
Eurobet was the Killer. $20k freeroll with only 65 players!!! 10th place guaranteed $600. Disappointed in myself. One key play was getting reraised allin with me holding AK and with about 7M left. I couldn't pull the trigger and still question my decision. I eventually lost when my AQ lost to A7 all action preflop. Cutoff limped in, me on SB with about 5M pushed, BB folded. Limper had me covered so called. Stupid 7 on the turn. I guess this is why I hate freerolls. If you're going to call that bet, if you were the first one in the pot wouldn't it make sense to try to steal the blinds instead? Hope that donkey didn't $.
Titan PSO was postponed for a couple weeks. Too bad only 27 people registered for that one.
UB PSO freeroll was funny. I think 2100 were preregistered. 1st hand, a bunch of autofolds, button raises, and I go allin with QQ. Dude must have thought I was just a maniac, and called with K10. Bye bye, I double up. The funny thing is nobody else on the table is active! So I steal their blinds until they're kicked off after the 1st round. Ends up being 120 players left, and all in the $!! With no real interest in this I end up 50ish making $6! Woohoo!
On the casino side, it was up and down. Doing the monthly/reload for InterCasino, Littlewoods, Eurobet, VIP, 32red, and Super Vegas. Inter I'm up some, littlewoods I finished up big, Eurobet up some, VIP doing 2 months worth - was up huge, but now only up a little with 25% through the wr, Super Vegas up some. 32Red finally did one of these with a profit, though a small one of £14. They increased the bonus to max £50 with a 1500wr. Still an awesome deal especially with autoplay. I can't get lucky on this one though.
On the backgammon side, I finished my wr for Gammon Empire $20 bonus. Lost $7 prebonus, but am getting better at that game. This game gets more frustrating than poker, not because of bad players, but some crazy rolls.
Today is my 1st wsop satellite through UB, I better step up my game!
Friday, January 06, 2006
My journey to the WSOP: ME
My goal #2 of 2006 is to participate in the World Series Of Poker Main Event 2006. So I guess a lot of my time the first 1/2 of the year might be allocated to playing a bunch of satellite tournies. $10k is still to rich for my blood to buy direct. So far I'm in 3 direct qualifiers this month.
1) PokerRoom via the Fantasy Poker Challenge. Takes place end of the month and I'll be starting off with the 50th most chips out of 1000 or less. 6:1 over the bottom, 2:1 less than the chip leader.
2) Ultimate Bet. Qualifier on Monday Jan 9th. Qualified with a $5 satellite where top 25 advance. Top 3 out of 1500 are flown to Vegas to play in a live event sitngo where winner gets the seat. Pretty easy play here, I think about 125 people entered so 1/5 go through. Played a nice solid game and got through no problem. Stupid big stack still kept on stealing everyone's blinds during the bubble period even though every player on our table was pretty safe. Buddy just let us see some flops and play for fun, boring folding every hand until the end. Nobody here was going to do something stupid, especially with a handfull of players at the other tables with less than 2M.
3) Poker.com. Qualified last night. Started off playing 2 satellites, a $20 and a $5 last week. Won both. Last night played in the advancing $80 and the $20. Won both and now have a $250 direct and another $80. My $80 one was scary. Was in good chip position until my pocket Js. 4x preflop, called. Bet the A high flop, was reraised, had to drop it. That took a lot of my chips. I was always bottom 3 during the hand for hand time until I tripled up on A2s when I hit my flush. Lost a bunch more chips when shortest stack went allin, folded around to me on the BB and I had to call the 1 more bet with AQ. His 10s held up with a 10 on the turn after the flop had paired my Q. Stuggled again and had to push with JJ. Big stack called with JJ. Well at least I didn't loose! I was down to less than 1 BB on the bubble, but luckily one player was in worse position than I was with less than 1M and the blinds approaching. On the BB he had BB which he folded. On the SB he didn't have much better, but that hand gave me a heart attack. The 2 big stacks were in, and one decides to bet the turn with middle pair, forcing the other guy out. WTF you dumbass!!!! That bet does nothing, the extra few hundred chips does nothing, I would have beat his ass if he lost. Luckily his pair held up and I went through in 11th, just enough to advance.
My $20 game was rather easy. Didn't really pay attention to the beginning as I was playing my other game, and poker.com only allows one window. Became the chip leader after 20 mins and never looked back. Cruised my way through that one using some monster 7-3s and 10-6s to knock guys out. This is my backup if I don't make it through my main one.
Wish me luck!
1) PokerRoom via the Fantasy Poker Challenge. Takes place end of the month and I'll be starting off with the 50th most chips out of 1000 or less. 6:1 over the bottom, 2:1 less than the chip leader.
2) Ultimate Bet. Qualifier on Monday Jan 9th. Qualified with a $5 satellite where top 25 advance. Top 3 out of 1500 are flown to Vegas to play in a live event sitngo where winner gets the seat. Pretty easy play here, I think about 125 people entered so 1/5 go through. Played a nice solid game and got through no problem. Stupid big stack still kept on stealing everyone's blinds during the bubble period even though every player on our table was pretty safe. Buddy just let us see some flops and play for fun, boring folding every hand until the end. Nobody here was going to do something stupid, especially with a handfull of players at the other tables with less than 2M.
3) Poker.com. Qualified last night. Started off playing 2 satellites, a $20 and a $5 last week. Won both. Last night played in the advancing $80 and the $20. Won both and now have a $250 direct and another $80. My $80 one was scary. Was in good chip position until my pocket Js. 4x preflop, called. Bet the A high flop, was reraised, had to drop it. That took a lot of my chips. I was always bottom 3 during the hand for hand time until I tripled up on A2s when I hit my flush. Lost a bunch more chips when shortest stack went allin, folded around to me on the BB and I had to call the 1 more bet with AQ. His 10s held up with a 10 on the turn after the flop had paired my Q. Stuggled again and had to push with JJ. Big stack called with JJ. Well at least I didn't loose! I was down to less than 1 BB on the bubble, but luckily one player was in worse position than I was with less than 1M and the blinds approaching. On the BB he had BB which he folded. On the SB he didn't have much better, but that hand gave me a heart attack. The 2 big stacks were in, and one decides to bet the turn with middle pair, forcing the other guy out. WTF you dumbass!!!! That bet does nothing, the extra few hundred chips does nothing, I would have beat his ass if he lost. Luckily his pair held up and I went through in 11th, just enough to advance.
My $20 game was rather easy. Didn't really pay attention to the beginning as I was playing my other game, and poker.com only allows one window. Became the chip leader after 20 mins and never looked back. Cruised my way through that one using some monster 7-3s and 10-6s to knock guys out. This is my backup if I don't make it through my main one.
Wish me luck!
Sunday, January 01, 2006
New Years Resolution
1st of all hope everybody had a nice holidays. So far mine has been great, but unfortunately good things must come to an end. 2005 has been pretty good for me gambling wise. Haven't crunched my numbers fully yet but I believe I hit the $20k mark for the year +/- 200. Some nice little income to satisfy my spending habbits. Therefore I'm going to set myself some pretty hefty goals for 2006.
2006 Goals
1) Average $2.5k per month (poker/casino) = $30k for the year
2) Qualify for the WSOP Main Event
3) Qualify for a WPT tourney or another major event
4) Win a tourney with a min payout of $2k.
* Will add more or change goals as the year progresses.
I think I can do it, actually hope I can do it.
2006 Goals
1) Average $2.5k per month (poker/casino) = $30k for the year
2) Qualify for the WSOP Main Event
3) Qualify for a WPT tourney or another major event
4) Win a tourney with a min payout of $2k.
* Will add more or change goals as the year progresses.
I think I can do it, actually hope I can do it.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Martin is killing me!!!
Wow trying to do the bonus at Martin's Poker. 100% max 600 Euro. 3000rh. 100% max 200 Euro x 2 - 600 rh. All clear concurrently.
Already down almost 200euro, I'm just getting bad beated and unlucky like crazy, been playing on tilt for the last part. Stuff like flopping broadway, and buddy hitting runner runner full house. Or AcJc vs Q5. Flop was AKc5c. All my chips in there, and buddy gets a 5 on the river without me improving? Man I gotta turn around my luck soon!
Already down almost 200euro, I'm just getting bad beated and unlucky like crazy, been playing on tilt for the last part. Stuff like flopping broadway, and buddy hitting runner runner full house. Or AcJc vs Q5. Flop was AKc5c. All my chips in there, and buddy gets a 5 on the river without me improving? Man I gotta turn around my luck soon!
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