Just had my cash session to get to the Gold iron man level. Ran pretty poorly. Spent most of my time losing small pots. I would have had a small profit, but had a blind battle hand... AA v KK, I 4bet preflop, then shoved the Qxx flop, he calls, spikes the K on the river. So ended up 663 hands, -$163. Oh well... writing up the month recap later tonight...
-Boooom
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
School/Laziness
I haven't been playing much at all the last few days. I've had alot of school work, but mostly because I've been lazy and unmotivated to grind cash tables. I need one more day of 200ftps to get the next iron man level. So I will do that either today or tomorrow. I think the newly introduced superturbos have made me less patient. I need to a good cash game grinding schedule going for next month. Lately with my free time I just sit around and don't do much, maybe NBA playoffs has been consuming my time.
Might be playing a huge tournament up in LA this weekend. $335 buyin, with 400k guaranteed. I heard from a friend that they had 1800 players last year. The structure isn't that great, but I might give it a shot. I'll have a month recap in the next few days, with graphs and all that junk included.
If cash tables keep going well I'm considering taking a short shot at 1/2. Only thing is obviously I wouldn't have good stats on the players or know who the regulars are. So I would want to scout it out first (watch a bunch of tables, search everyone and mark who's playing 8+ tables). Maybe I'll do that in the next few days in the lazy time I've been wasting instead of grinding cash tables. I'm not really thinking about jumping to 1/2 fulltime, but maybe just going for a couple session shot over a couple thousand hands. Definitely cut it off if I lose like 5 buyins. I might not take the shot, but I've been considering keeping a larger bankroll online to allow for me to do this from time to time. I might just wait until I hit a big tournament cash that pushes my online bankroll up to over 6k or so.
My intramural bball team won two playoff games Monday night, so now we're in the finals. Last year we lost in the finals so this year we are going to take it down. It was also sweet revenge, because in the semis we beat the same team that we played in the finals last year. That's all for now, month recap coming soon.
-Boooom
Might be playing a huge tournament up in LA this weekend. $335 buyin, with 400k guaranteed. I heard from a friend that they had 1800 players last year. The structure isn't that great, but I might give it a shot. I'll have a month recap in the next few days, with graphs and all that junk included.
If cash tables keep going well I'm considering taking a short shot at 1/2. Only thing is obviously I wouldn't have good stats on the players or know who the regulars are. So I would want to scout it out first (watch a bunch of tables, search everyone and mark who's playing 8+ tables). Maybe I'll do that in the next few days in the lazy time I've been wasting instead of grinding cash tables. I'm not really thinking about jumping to 1/2 fulltime, but maybe just going for a couple session shot over a couple thousand hands. Definitely cut it off if I lose like 5 buyins. I might not take the shot, but I've been considering keeping a larger bankroll online to allow for me to do this from time to time. I might just wait until I hit a big tournament cash that pushes my online bankroll up to over 6k or so.
My intramural bball team won two playoff games Monday night, so now we're in the finals. Last year we lost in the finals so this year we are going to take it down. It was also sweet revenge, because in the semis we beat the same team that we played in the finals last year. That's all for now, month recap coming soon.
-Boooom
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Glad I turned on the luckbox...
Uhh, It's after 2 and I'm really tired. But here it is...
I'll write up details tomorrow on how stupid good I ran. I think this evens out my tourny losses for the month.
*****DETAILS*****
Approx 30 people left 27 make money, 34k chips (very healthy stack), AQ v AA, down to 3833 chips.... woe is me.
Blind go through, bubble bursts, 1233 chips on button A9>55: 4699chips
A2>KJ: 10598chips
KQ>55: 22396 chips
TT>22: 51992 chips
Blind battle T7
AK>QJ: 41326 chips
TT>99: 56334 chips
11 left… K9>A9: 76962 chips
Final Table bubble... AQ
KQ> AT and KJ: 91961 chips
Other table… QQ v TT v 99, TT pwns all and we go 8handed to final table
Fold for a while… then go bonkers
Down to 74961 chips… c/o raises, I reshove, BB wakes up with TT…
A3> TT and KJ: 177829 chips
Steal 3 of next 5 blinds… 201829 chips
Call button raise from SB A6c, check shove on Axx flop, he folds: 263829 chips
TT>A9: 352904 chips
Raise T8 from SB, bet JTx flop, take it down: 372904 chips, next hand…
JJ > AT 467688 chips, next hand…
A5>99 (3handed) 571088 chips
4th hand of HU… JJ > AK board 885KJ ship it
Took down a little over $1300, but from 1233 chips, to pwning the final table was ridiculous. I'm not sure if I've ever ran that hot... it wasn't even fair. Obviously I sure wish I would have had this sweet rush deep in a big tournament with 5k+ first place prize. But this was a nice treat at the end of the month to make up for the crappy tournament month I had. I normally wouldn't have been in this tournament, but they made it a turbo because they were doing site maintenance a bit later.
-Boooom
I'll write up details tomorrow on how stupid good I ran. I think this evens out my tourny losses for the month.
*****DETAILS*****
Approx 30 people left 27 make money, 34k chips (very healthy stack), AQ v AA, down to 3833 chips.... woe is me.
Blind go through, bubble bursts, 1233 chips on button A9>55: 4699chips
A2>KJ: 10598chips
KQ>55: 22396 chips
TT>22: 51992 chips
Blind battle T7
AK>QJ: 41326 chips
TT>99: 56334 chips
11 left… K9>A9: 76962 chips
Final Table bubble... AQ
KQ> AT and KJ: 91961 chips
Other table… QQ v TT v 99, TT pwns all and we go 8handed to final table
Fold for a while… then go bonkers
Down to 74961 chips… c/o raises, I reshove, BB wakes up with TT…
A3> TT and KJ: 177829 chips
Steal 3 of next 5 blinds… 201829 chips
Call button raise from SB A6c, check shove on Axx flop, he folds: 263829 chips
TT>A9: 352904 chips
Raise T8 from SB, bet JTx flop, take it down: 372904 chips, next hand…
JJ > AT 467688 chips, next hand…
A5>99 (3handed) 571088 chips
4th hand of HU… JJ > AK board 885KJ ship it
Took down a little over $1300, but from 1233 chips, to pwning the final table was ridiculous. I'm not sure if I've ever ran that hot... it wasn't even fair. Obviously I sure wish I would have had this sweet rush deep in a big tournament with 5k+ first place prize. But this was a nice treat at the end of the month to make up for the crappy tournament month I had. I normally wouldn't have been in this tournament, but they made it a turbo because they were doing site maintenance a bit later.
-Boooom
Friday, April 24, 2009
Late Night Gift
So I have been running not so good. But I have also been very lazy when it comes to putting in hands on the cash tables. Lately I've been sitting down and playing 1-2 26/90s, or a surerturbo, or w/e... and that's it. I usually do it while watching basketball or something. The couple times I have gotten cash games up, I quit them after only about 30 minutes, because I take some bad beat in a tournament that gets me steaming. So things have been slow yesterday and today, had AA cracked twice in one superturbo today. That's hard to do, cause usually one bad beat in a superturbo knocks you out... but I survived... but went out right before the money. Lame cause I woulda had a nice stack if I won the AA v QJo v JJ. Flop AQx, so I'm golden, right? Until running diamonds come to give QJo the win. Oh well, that happens.
Tonight got done watching Polly make a deep run in the 6max KO. She did a great job at surviving forever on a short stack. Ran into a sick flop, and took 10th. After that I found this guy to play HU on .5/1. I could tell right away that he was super aggro. I took a pot off him early, next hand he open shoved. About 30 hands in these three hands happened... all in a row...
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845510471: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:17:33 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($281.60)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($110.90)
BoooomBaby7 posts the small blind of $0.50
swool posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Kc Ad]
BoooomBaby7 raises to $3
swool raises to $12
BoooomBaby7 raises to $45
swool raises to $281.60, and is all in
BoooomBaby7 calls $65.90, and is all in
swool shows [Ac Qc]
BoooomBaby7 shows [Kc Ad]
Uncalled bet of $170.70 returned to swool
*** FLOP *** [5c Th 6d]
*** TURN *** [5c Th 6d] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5c Th 6d Ah] [Jc]
swool shows a pair of Aces
BoooomBaby7 shows a pair of Aces
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($221.30) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $221.80 | Rake $0.50
Board: [5c Th 6d Ah Jc]
Seat 1: swool (big blind) showed [Ac Qc] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (small blind) showed [Kc Ad] and won ($221.30) with a pair of Aces
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845513654: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:18:02 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($170.70)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($221.30)
swool posts the small blind of $0.50
BoooomBaby7 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Ac Qc]
swool raises to $3
BoooomBaby7 calls $2
*** FLOP *** [8d Qh 6s]
BoooomBaby7 checks
swool bets $4
BoooomBaby7 raises to $15
swool calls $11
*** TURN *** [8d Qh 6s] [7s]
BoooomBaby7 bets $24
swool raises to $54
BoooomBaby7 raises to $203.30, and is all in
swool has 15 seconds left to act
swool has requested TIME
swool adds $1.30
swool folds
Uncalled bet of $149.30 returned to BoooomBaby7
BoooomBaby7 mucks
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($143.50)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $144 | Rake $0.50
Board: [8d Qh 6s 7s]
Seat 1: swool (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (big blind) collected ($143.50), mucked
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845519154: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:18:52 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($100)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($292.80)
BoooomBaby7 posts the small blind of $0.50
swool posts the big blind of $1
BoooomBaby7: oops
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Kc As]
BoooomBaby7 raises to $3
swool raises to $11
BoooomBaby7 raises to $292.80, and is all in
swool calls $89, and is all in
BoooomBaby7 shows [Kc As]
swool shows [8h Kh]
Uncalled bet of $192.80 returned to BoooomBaby7
*** FLOP *** [Ah 3s 6s]
*** TURN *** [Ah 3s 6s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [Ah 3s 6s 6d] [7d]
BoooomBaby7 shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
swool shows a pair of Sixes
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($199.50) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
swool adds $100
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $200 | Rake $0.50
Board: [Ah 3s 6s 6d 7d]
Seat 1: swool (big blind) showed [8h Kh] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (small blind) showed [Kc As] and won ($199.50) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Weeeeeeeeeee, quick $300 gift. I'll take it. But I need to get back to grinding the cash tables soon. I think playing all these super turbos has made me more impatient as a player... I need to fix that or I won't make any deep tourny runs, and my cash play will probably suffer as well.
-Boooom
Tonight got done watching Polly make a deep run in the 6max KO. She did a great job at surviving forever on a short stack. Ran into a sick flop, and took 10th. After that I found this guy to play HU on .5/1. I could tell right away that he was super aggro. I took a pot off him early, next hand he open shoved. About 30 hands in these three hands happened... all in a row...
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845510471: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:17:33 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($281.60)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($110.90)
BoooomBaby7 posts the small blind of $0.50
swool posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Kc Ad]
BoooomBaby7 raises to $3
swool raises to $12
BoooomBaby7 raises to $45
swool raises to $281.60, and is all in
BoooomBaby7 calls $65.90, and is all in
swool shows [Ac Qc]
BoooomBaby7 shows [Kc Ad]
Uncalled bet of $170.70 returned to swool
*** FLOP *** [5c Th 6d]
*** TURN *** [5c Th 6d] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [5c Th 6d Ah] [Jc]
swool shows a pair of Aces
BoooomBaby7 shows a pair of Aces
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($221.30) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $221.80 | Rake $0.50
Board: [5c Th 6d Ah Jc]
Seat 1: swool (big blind) showed [Ac Qc] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (small blind) showed [Kc Ad] and won ($221.30) with a pair of Aces
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845513654: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:18:02 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($170.70)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($221.30)
swool posts the small blind of $0.50
BoooomBaby7 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Ac Qc]
swool raises to $3
BoooomBaby7 calls $2
*** FLOP *** [8d Qh 6s]
BoooomBaby7 checks
swool bets $4
BoooomBaby7 raises to $15
swool calls $11
*** TURN *** [8d Qh 6s] [7s]
BoooomBaby7 bets $24
swool raises to $54
BoooomBaby7 raises to $203.30, and is all in
swool has 15 seconds left to act
swool has requested TIME
swool adds $1.30
swool folds
Uncalled bet of $149.30 returned to BoooomBaby7
BoooomBaby7 mucks
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($143.50)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $144 | Rake $0.50
Board: [8d Qh 6s 7s]
Seat 1: swool (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (big blind) collected ($143.50), mucked
Full Tilt Poker Game #11845519154: Table Guru (heads up) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:18:52 ET - 2009/04/24
Seat 1: swool ($100)
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 ($292.80)
BoooomBaby7 posts the small blind of $0.50
swool posts the big blind of $1
BoooomBaby7: oops
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [Kc As]
BoooomBaby7 raises to $3
swool raises to $11
BoooomBaby7 raises to $292.80, and is all in
swool calls $89, and is all in
BoooomBaby7 shows [Kc As]
swool shows [8h Kh]
Uncalled bet of $192.80 returned to BoooomBaby7
*** FLOP *** [Ah 3s 6s]
*** TURN *** [Ah 3s 6s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [Ah 3s 6s 6d] [7d]
BoooomBaby7 shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
swool shows a pair of Sixes
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($199.50) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
swool adds $100
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $200 | Rake $0.50
Board: [Ah 3s 6s 6d 7d]
Seat 1: swool (big blind) showed [8h Kh] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: BoooomBaby7 (small blind) showed [Kc As] and won ($199.50) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Weeeeeeeeeee, quick $300 gift. I'll take it. But I need to get back to grinding the cash tables soon. I think playing all these super turbos has made me more impatient as a player... I need to fix that or I won't make any deep tourny runs, and my cash play will probably suffer as well.
-Boooom
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Let's try to run better!
Things have turned around a bit. Last night I had a break even cash session, also got pwned in some tournaments. However I did finish the night off winning a 26$token and won a 6player 1800ftp 55$ seat to some other satelite which I withdrew from for the tournament dollars. Today after class I used my 26$token on a 26/90 and made a good run. My tables were tight at the end and I was running them over picking up chips. I lost HU, which was lame, this is the 3rd one in a row I have lost once getting to HU. This guy was tight, and I just didn't win the races. Also the blinds were the biggest I've ever seen them because the tourny progressed slow (8k/16k when we finished). But second was still good because I have been in a drought in those sngs. However I would really like to start winning HU so I can take down that extra $225.
As I was playing HU I also reached the final table of the 22$ turbo (only 150 entrants). Lost half my chips on the bubble when the SB raised, and I reshoved with A6, and they called with AT. First hand at FT, I get 88, utg limps, I shove, they call AK board runs out 9TJQx and I lose. That was too bad the 800$ for first would have been nice.
Gotta do a bunch of school work and a tutoring job the rest of the night, so I might be back on for a late night session.
-Boooom
As I was playing HU I also reached the final table of the 22$ turbo (only 150 entrants). Lost half my chips on the bubble when the SB raised, and I reshoved with A6, and they called with AT. First hand at FT, I get 88, utg limps, I shove, they call AK board runs out 9TJQx and I lose. That was too bad the 800$ for first would have been nice.
Gotta do a bunch of school work and a tutoring job the rest of the night, so I might be back on for a late night session.
-Boooom
Monday, April 20, 2009
Need to play better...
Got punked last night in the turbo fiddy after having huge stack the whole way... didn't even cash. I'm not gonna rant about tournaments right now, but I am going to cut way back on them and probably play 1 a day, max.
Had a good session of cash games earlier. Good because I had good results, not because I played particularly great. Super coolered one guy who flopped a full house with 55, on KK5 flop, but I turned an 8 for the nutz with my K8. Hand was played slowly, but I overshoved the river ($100+ into a 25$ pot) and he called. Had a super donk who donated to me at another table. Was winning alot of nice pots, but I paid off a guy QQ v KK that I'm really upset about cause it was obvious he had it. Also tried one big bluff that didn't pan out well. So my +$258 session could have been more like 400. I can't complain too much about the results, I'm just frustrated with my play at times. Fulltilt was hooking me up today, but I didn't turn it into max profit.
Got a busy night tonight with a dinner and a playoff bball game (sprained thumb, and sore ankle... so see how that goes). Might play some stuff late tonight. Want to get in alot of cash game hands and play a bit better... see if I can get a nice heater going.
-Boooom
Had a good session of cash games earlier. Good because I had good results, not because I played particularly great. Super coolered one guy who flopped a full house with 55, on KK5 flop, but I turned an 8 for the nutz with my K8. Hand was played slowly, but I overshoved the river ($100+ into a 25$ pot) and he called. Had a super donk who donated to me at another table. Was winning alot of nice pots, but I paid off a guy QQ v KK that I'm really upset about cause it was obvious he had it. Also tried one big bluff that didn't pan out well. So my +$258 session could have been more like 400. I can't complain too much about the results, I'm just frustrated with my play at times. Fulltilt was hooking me up today, but I didn't turn it into max profit.
Got a busy night tonight with a dinner and a playoff bball game (sprained thumb, and sore ankle... so see how that goes). Might play some stuff late tonight. Want to get in alot of cash game hands and play a bit better... see if I can get a nice heater going.
-Boooom
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sad Weekend
Basically Thurs-Saturday just been getting owned in tournaments. Yesterday was a brick of a day. Been having marginal success on the cash tables. Although late last night I played a session where I got a little bit pwned. Before going to bed I play some HU against a superdonk, and I had him down 50$ in 3 hands. He only had 24$ left and I was about to sit out, then I lost a race against him (A9 v KT). Then he got hot and was up as much as 60$ on me. Then I came back, and when I got back to even he left. Went and found another donk, and just ran like crap... lost $100. Played 6 HU sngs against the same guy after that, he was terrible, but coolered me a few times. He won 2 of the first 3, then I won 3 and a row and he quit. Then I decided to try some CAP NL. Got a few tables up. One table I had a 4 way allin (cap is 30$), my KK v QQ v 22 v Q9d. Of course the flop comes QJJ. Another table I pwned a donk and I think I finished out about even on the CAP NL.
Tournaments sucked yesterday, and I think I came to the conclusion that I have been playing so many tournaments, that I haven't been playing as well as I'd like. You just play so many that you don't place enough value on each one. So I am going to cut back on the tournaments, so I can focus and play better in the ones I do. Going to try to play more hand at the cash tables.
This morning I played a cash game session that went pretty crappy. However while watching the Lakers, I found some super soft 1/2 6max tables and ran really good. The first one I sat down and won a big pot where I ultimately had to suck out, but there wasn't much way for me to get away from it. UTG raised, then two people called, I put in a huge 3bet with JJ from the BB. One caller, and another guy was allin. flop T8x, I bet the utg shoves for a little bit more, so I call, and he has TT obv, But I went running 79 and took it down. Then pwned a short stack on KJx flop with KQ vs his KT. The next table I was about even, then I was playing my last hand before going to my soccer game. I raise JTh utg, the BB 3bets me, so I call to see a flop. Q9x 2 hearts, and I get it in on the flop vs AA, and it comes running T8 and I take it down. Altogether I won about $400 on the 1/2 tables, which definitely helped make up for part of the crappy weekend.
Right now I just started the 40k, which has a big turn out, so hopefully I run well, go deep, take it down, etc. Might play the 35k as well, and gonna hit up the cash games. I'll report later about results.
-Boooom
Tournaments sucked yesterday, and I think I came to the conclusion that I have been playing so many tournaments, that I haven't been playing as well as I'd like. You just play so many that you don't place enough value on each one. So I am going to cut back on the tournaments, so I can focus and play better in the ones I do. Going to try to play more hand at the cash tables.
This morning I played a cash game session that went pretty crappy. However while watching the Lakers, I found some super soft 1/2 6max tables and ran really good. The first one I sat down and won a big pot where I ultimately had to suck out, but there wasn't much way for me to get away from it. UTG raised, then two people called, I put in a huge 3bet with JJ from the BB. One caller, and another guy was allin. flop T8x, I bet the utg shoves for a little bit more, so I call, and he has TT obv, But I went running 79 and took it down. Then pwned a short stack on KJx flop with KQ vs his KT. The next table I was about even, then I was playing my last hand before going to my soccer game. I raise JTh utg, the BB 3bets me, so I call to see a flop. Q9x 2 hearts, and I get it in on the flop vs AA, and it comes running T8 and I take it down. Altogether I won about $400 on the 1/2 tables, which definitely helped make up for part of the crappy weekend.
Right now I just started the 40k, which has a big turn out, so hopefully I run well, go deep, take it down, etc. Might play the 35k as well, and gonna hit up the cash games. I'll report later about results.
-Boooom
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