Warning - A little long, but isn't too long to read since it is all hand history.
I am back at playing $4.40s and other MTTs after grinding $25NL cash for pretty much 2-3 weeks. It was okay, I really started getting annoyed with barely making any money. I couldn't really get anything going, even though I was in a good rhythm to 8-10 table it but ended up after those 3 weeks up around 6-8 buy ins or so - so back to $4.40s it is which was really boosting my roll in the first place and I missed the excitement of tournys.
This blog is gonna be about my most recent win tonight. I just feel like going through all the hands since I never have before and just to show how well I ran near the end of the tournament. I ran bad all day, I played 25 of them all consecutively and at one point had 17 going at once but didn't get anything going at all. Anyways, feedback is welcome and appreciated, enjoy!
I won’t go through every single hand that I was involved in, I will just go through the ones that were relevant to keep this as short as possible.
Hand #2
We can argue here that I can put in a raise preflop, but I think it's more 50-50 or preference I guess. In 4.40s, especially at the first blind level, you will get so many callers that I just choose not to play this hand out of position against 19 other players. Again sometimes I raise, I just chose not to here.
PokerStars Game #23935308283: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/01/15 17:16:14 ET
Table '134247458 12' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: bio12 (2510 in chips)
Seat 2: majstro28 (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: Firaldo87 (1480 in chips)
Seat 4: SENGAG (560 in chips)
Seat 5: fbtmof05 (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: SupCuzz1 (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: biggjayy123 (1460 in chips)
Seat 8: SNOKESTAR (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: oneace1 (1500 in chips)
Firaldo87: posts small blind 10
SENGAG: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Ac Qd]
fbtmof05: folds
Hand #19
I decided to open to 4x here from UTG+1, again like the previous hand, I sometimes fold here. I usually 4-5x at the 10/20 and 15/30 level until 25/50 and up where it is a standard 3x until the antes kick in and I 2.5x. I get action, and make a standard C-bet. A lot of the time I will bet again on the turn here adding more draws but I wanted to see what he was up to and decided I was gonna check raise. I think I got max, but it looks like shoving was too much even though I would normally make it 500 or something, but that basically commits me so I just shoved.
PokerStars Game #23935976514: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2009/01/15 17:38:31 ET
Table '134247458 12' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: bio12 (5245 in chips)
Seat 2: majstro28 (845 in chips)
Seat 3: Firaldo87 (3795 in chips)
Seat 4: Cacowboy45 (1600 in chips)
Seat 5: fbtmof05 (1365 in chips)
Seat 6: SupCuzz1 (1620 in chips)
Seat 8: SNOKESTAR (1305 in chips)
Seat 9: Fipse22 (2425 in chips)
majstro28: posts small blind 15
Firaldo87: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Ah Qd]
Cacowboy45: folds
fbtmof05: raises 90 to 120
SupCuzz1: folds
SNOKESTAR: folds
Fipse22: folds
bio12: calls 120
majstro28: folds
Firaldo87: folds
*** FLOP *** [3h 9d Qc]
fbtmof05: bets 180
bio12: calls 180
*** TURN *** [3h 9d Qc] [5d]
fbtmof05: checks
bio12: bets 180
fbtmof05: raises 885 to 1065 and is all-in
bio12: folds
Hand #69
Hadn’t played a hand in 50 hands. I was actually sitting out for I think hand 43 to hand 60. Must have happened while 16 tabling which sucks. Anyways, standard shove no explanation here.
PokerStars Game #23937506277: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/01/15 18:30:03 ET
Table '134247458 11' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Jnecco01 (1455 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: slyfox25 (1083 in chips)
Seat 3: Sir Striker (2605 in chips)
Seat 4: Fumanchu70 (3950 in chips)
Seat 5: theozone (4667 in chips)
Seat 6: chriswgsx (5375 in chips)
Seat 7: Sensei Shu (2678 in chips)
Seat 8: trademarke (4570 in chips)
Seat 9: fbtmof05 (1145 in chips)
chriswgsx: posts small blind 75
Sensei Shu: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Ah Ad]
trademarke: folds
fbtmof05: raises 995 to 1145 and is all-in
Jnecco01: folds
slyfox25: folds
Sir Striker: folds
Fumanchu70: folds
theozone: folds
chriswgsx: folds
Sensei Shu: calls 995
*** FLOP *** [8s 3d 6d]
*** TURN *** [8s 3d 6d] *** RIVER *** [8s 3d 6d Td] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sensei Shu: shows [7d Ac] (high card Ace)
fbtmof05: shows [Ah Ad] (a pair of Aces)
Hand #77
Might take some heat for this one. At this point I know nothing about anybody because of all the tables I am playing. Standard raise with this stack (not sure why 2.5 – misclick perhaps) great flop for me. Not sure why I didn’t play this more standard. We are both deep for the blinds and he is betting almost pot. I wanted to flat to see what he does on the turn, see if he slows down. Obviously he didn’t and I made a very bad call, I even knew before I saw his hand that I should fold. I think what made me call was seeing a lot of bad players at the 4.40 level always leading with bad hands and always check raising with strong ones – that is my only excuse for this hand, I admit, terrible call.
PokerStars Game #23937776165: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/01/15 18:38:38 ET
Table '134247458 11' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Jnecco01 (1230 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: slyfox25 (458 in chips)
Seat 4: Fumanchu70 (3750 in chips)
Seat 5: theozone (4467 in chips)
Seat 6: chriswgsx (5650 in chips)
Seat 7: Sensei Shu (1708 in chips)
Seat 8: trademarke (4945 in chips)
Seat 9: fbtmof05 (5320 in chips)
chriswgsx: posts small blind 100
Sensei Shu: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [7d 7c]
trademarke: folds
fbtmof05: raises 300 to 500
Jnecco01: folds
slyfox25: folds
Fumanchu70: folds
theozone: folds
chriswgsx: calls 400
Sensei Shu: folds
*** FLOP *** [4c 2h 3s]
Sensei Shu said, "got aces again?"
chriswgsx: bets 800
fbtmof05: calls 800
*** TURN *** [4c 2h 3s] [8c]
chriswgsx: bets 4350 and is all-in
fbtmof05: calls 4020 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (330) returned to chriswgsx
*** RIVER *** [4c 2h 3s 8c] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chriswgsx: shows [Tc Td] (a pair of Tens)
fbtmof05: shows [7d 7c] (three of a kind, Sevens)
Hand #98
23 BB stack raising UTG – seemed to be a fairly tight player, a whiner. I was noticing more things as I was busting from tournys. I like flat calling here against him with his stack and how tight he seems to be, see a cheap flop and can easily throw it away if it’s a bad flop and still have a very nice stack. I get a decent flop, the 9 doesn’t scare me, and he leads out just above half the pot on a draw heavy flop. I thought he would bet a little more with an over pair so I stuck it in and obviously was wrong again. Picked up a ton of outs on the turn and blanked. Again, bad read, but felt he had AK which a lot of the time he could have. Took a big hit, back to nit mode.
PokerStars Game #23938370091: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2009/01/15 18:57:21 ET
Table '134247458 11' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Jnecco01 (105 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: slyfox25 (2797 in chips)
Seat 3: Trotsche84 (440 in chips)
Seat 4: lancien06 (2580 in chips)
Seat 5: theozone (5634 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (15962 in chips)
Seat 8: trademarke (7720 in chips)
Seat 9: fbtmof05 (10015 in chips)
Jnecco01: posts the ante 25
slyfox25: posts the ante 25
Trotsche84: posts the ante 25
lancien06: posts the ante 25
theozone: posts the ante 25
XanderK: posts the ante 25
trademarke: posts the ante 25
fbtmof05: posts the ante 25
Trotsche84: posts small blind 125
lancien06: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [8c 8s]
theozone: raises 500 to 750
XanderK: folds
trademarke: folds
fbtmof05: calls 750
Jnecco01: folds
slyfox25: folds
Trotsche84: folds
lancien06: folds
*** FLOP *** [2c 9h 6c]
theozone: bets 1250
fbtmof05: raises 5250 to 6500
theozone: calls 3609 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1641) returned to fbtmof05
*** TURN *** [2c 9h 6c] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [2c 9h 6c 7c] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
theozone: shows [Kd Ks] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
fbtmof05: shows [8c 8s] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
Hand #108
The blinds are starting to eat at me and the BB in this hand was a really tight player so I just decided to shove it in and wow another ambush. So much for this being a good hand history review showing how well I play. I wanted to steal and come to think of it, if he’s that tight, he’ll fold to a 3x 90% of the time and shove the other 10%, so why not just risk losing 900 10% of the time rather than risking my whole stack, so bad judgment there. Should just 3x fold every time against a tight player. I get lucky again and get a sick stack.
PokerStars Game #23938659818: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2009/01/15 19:06:22 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (5256 in chips)
Seat 3: tosho1 (5935 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (10090 in chips)
Seat 5: Danihugo (5007 in chips)
Seat 6: SPATIANER (15825 in chips)
Seat 7: sharksight (7505 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: WillPod (4485 in chips)
Seat 9: kuhln (8545 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 25
tosho1: posts the ante 25
Ricman88: posts the ante 25
Danihugo: posts the ante 25
SPATIANER: posts the ante 25
sharksight: posts the ante 25
WillPod: posts the ante 25
kuhln: posts the ante 25
fbtmof05: posts small blind 150
tosho1: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [8h 6s]
Ricman88: folds
Danihugo: folds
SPATIANER: folds
sharksight: folds
WillPod: folds
kuhln: folds
fbtmof05: raises 4931 to 5231 and is all-in
tosho1: calls 4931
*** FLOP *** [9h 4s 7h]
*** TURN *** [9h 4s 7h] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [9h 4s 7h 6d] [8c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fbtmof05: shows [8h 6s] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
tosho1: shows [Kh Ks] (a pair of Kings)
Hand #155
Haven’t played a hand in a while, called a raise pre and missed, and the rest was blinding down to 20 bb. Knew nothing about this player until he called, sick call I guess. More from him later.
PokerStars Game #23939933513: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (300/600) - 2009/01/15 19:47:35 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: ralmerk (7806 in chips)
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (6220 in chips)
Seat 3: WAG51 (42523 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (19641 in chips)
Seat 5: Frölunda 666 (15166 in chips)
Seat 6: rednuts (13880 in chips)
Seat 8: WillPod (7579 in chips)
Seat 9: kuhln (8196 in chips)
ralmerk: posts the ante 50
fbtmof05: posts the ante 50
WAG51: posts the ante 50
Ricman88: posts the ante 50
Frölunda 666: posts the ante 50
rednuts: posts the ante 50
WillPod: posts the ante 50
kuhln: posts the ante 50
Ricman88: posts small blind 300
Frölunda 666: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [As Js]
rednuts: folds
WillPod: folds
kuhln: folds
ralmerk: folds
fbtmof05: raises 5570 to 6170 and is all-in
WAG51: folds
Ricman88: folds
Frölunda 666: calls 5570
*** FLOP *** [8d 4h Ks]
*** TURN *** [8d 4h Ks] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [8d 4h Ks 5c] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Frölunda 666: shows [Qs Td] (high card King)
fbtmof05: shows [As Js] (high card Ace)
Hand #169
Short handed and we are on the FT bubble. I have 11k at 400/800 and just shove it in here knowing I pick up the blinds so much or could get a really loose call from my friend Frolunda and give me a nice stack for the FT.
PokerStars Game #23940316310: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (400/800) - 2009/01/15 20:00:20 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (11015 in chips)
Seat 3: WAG51 (43748 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (12916 in chips)
Seat 5: Frölunda 666 (29311 in chips)
Seat 6: rednuts (8205 in chips)
Seat 8: WillPod (5004 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 75
WAG51: posts the ante 75
Ricman88: posts the ante 75
Frölunda 666: posts the ante 75
rednuts: posts the ante 75
WillPod: posts the ante 75
Frölunda 666: posts small blind 400
rednuts: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [9s Qs]
WillPod: folds
fbtmof05: raises 10140 to 10940 and is all-in
WAG51: folds
Ricman88: folds
Frölunda 666: calls 10540
rednuts: folds
*** FLOP *** [9h Ad 4s]
*** TURN *** [9h Ad 4s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [9h Ad 4s Jc] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Frölunda 666: shows [9d 6h] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
fbtmof05: shows [9s Qs] (two pair, Aces and Nines - Queen kicker)
Hand #174
Standard raise pre on the bubble, but it is tough having frolunda behind me in this position. I am just looking to steal the blinds or get 2 callers and flop middle set. I lead out this flop 3 handed simply because a K is in these players range for sure and because of how loose and terrible Frolunda is. Frolunda can easily raise here with anything. Also, draw heavy flop with 2 other players in the hand. On the turn, I decide to shove. I have about the same amount as the pot, WAG has a big stack and could call off here with a draw and with a K. I think usually a K raises the flop, but who knows in these 4.40s. I could have bet like 8k, but again, I am committing myself so I just shoved and hoped he would call.
PokerStars Game #23940416177: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (400/800) - 2009/01/15 20:03:31 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (22030 in chips)
Seat 3: WAG51 (49023 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (10541 in chips)
Seat 5: Frölunda 666 (22375 in chips)
Seat 6: rednuts (6230 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 75
WAG51: posts the ante 75
Ricman88: posts the ante 75
Frölunda 666: posts the ante 75
rednuts: posts the ante 75
Frölunda 666: posts small blind 400
rednuts: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [5h 5c]
fbtmof05: raises 1200 to 2000
WAG51: calls 2000
Ricman88: folds
Frölunda 666: calls 1600
rednuts: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ks 5s 7c]
Frölunda 666: checks
fbtmof05: bets 4550
WAG51: calls 4550
Frölunda 666: folds
*** TURN *** [Ks 5s 7c] [6d]
fbtmof05: bets 15405 and is all-in
WAG51: calls 15405
*** RIVER *** [Ks 5s 7c 6d] [3s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fbtmof05: shows [5h 5c] (three of a kind, Fives)
WAG51: shows [Jd Kh] (a pair of Kings)
The FT started 3 or 4 hands later. I started the FT 2nd in chips to a huge stack (83k). I was just going to play tight and pick my spots in position and get a feel for how these guys are playing, I didn’t have reads on any of them except Frolunda. However he busted 4 hands in. I just played a very standard TAG while 8 handed. Actually I played tight the whole FT – extremely tight 3 handed.
Hand #197
At this level of play, squeezing is tough to do. However I looked up the buttons stats and see that he was a winning player with a small chunk of profit from micro stakes and realize he can raise here with a huge range. So I squeezed and it worked out
PokerStars Game #23941002061: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (500/1000) - 2009/01/15 20:22:18 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: 33racing (39588 in chips)
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (47785 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (13532 in chips)
Seat 6: rednuts (4590 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (116781 in chips)
Seat 8: chrhtn (47724 in chips)
33racing: posts the ante 100
fbtmof05: posts the ante 100
Ricman88: posts the ante 100
rednuts: posts the ante 100
XanderK: posts the ante 100
chrhtn: posts the ante 100
33racing: posts small blind 500
fbtmof05: posts big blind 1000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [8h 4c]
Ricman88: folds
rednuts: folds
XanderK: folds
chrhtn: raises 2000 to 3000
33racing: calls 2500
fbtmof05: raises 9000 to 12000
chrhtn: folds
33racing: folds
Hand #212
I could have 3 bet pre, but I had squeezed him with the 84 and had literally just re popped less than an orbit ago with KK, so I think he might have 4 bet me light here, so I just wanted to see a flop and we were fairly deep stacked. I decide to peel off on the turn to see if he does have the ace, however his range again is fairly wide and I decide to lead and hope to induce a raise.
PokerStars Game #23941441509: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (600/1200) - 2009/01/15 20:36:18 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: 33racing (23863 in chips)
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (52335 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (24484 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (136569 in chips)
Seat 8: chrhtn (32749 in chips)
33racing: posts the ante 125
fbtmof05: posts the ante 125
Ricman88: posts the ante 125
XanderK: posts the ante 125
chrhtn: posts the ante 125
33racing: posts small blind 600
fbtmof05: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [5d 5s]
Ricman88: folds
XanderK: folds
chrhtn: raises 2400 to 3600
33racing: folds
fbtmof05: calls 2400
*** FLOP *** [4h 2h Ad]
fbtmof05: checks
chrhtn: bets 4800
fbtmof05: calls 4800
*** TURN *** [4h 2h Ad] [3c]
fbtmof05: bets 8500
chrhtn: folds
We got down to 3 handed and it was a 140k stack vs. 55k and 66k so I was just playing pretty tight. The two other guys were getting involved in a lot of pots and there was quite a bit of 3 betting pre so I was just sitting back and picking up spots where I thought they were weak. XanderK was raising almost every hand so I found it tough to 3 bet him a lot since I felt he could 4 bet me light a lot too. So knowing I am much better than these players I’d rather play small ball and just chip up slowly especially this deep stacked.
Hand #256
Standard 3 bet pre, I hadn’t done it much, I think only once before so I figured I get away with it a lot of the time here. Kind of a scary flop since he could easily have 68, 97, 55, 77+, draws etc. I have to C bet this as much as I don’t want to since I am going to be betting a big chunk of my stack. I only bet about half the pot just cause these players aren’t smart enough to pick up on the betting patterns that I am weak here a lot. Also, if he’s going to call or raise anyways, what’s the point of risking more chips since 15k is a good amount of chips anyways. 15k is the same as 20 or 22k here.
PokerStars Game #23942054501: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (800/1600) - 2009/01/15 20:57:00 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (54285 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (47633 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (168082 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 150
Ricman88: posts the ante 150
XanderK: posts the ante 150
XanderK: posts small blind 800
fbtmof05: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [5h Qh]
Ricman88: folds
XanderK: raises 3200 to 4800
fbtmof05: raises 9600 to 14400
XanderK: calls 9600
*** FLOP *** [7s 5d 9d]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: bets 15500
XanderK: folds
Hand #268
See a cheap flop with a good hand, don’t want to get crazy preflop with my stack and a crazy lag tard. Easy check on the flop, I could have taken a small stab at it and probably taken it down. 6k in the pot and he bets 4k on the turn. I have a gutshot, a flush draw and an over. To me I have plenty of outs and he could also be taking a stab at this pot too. At this point I didn’t put him on much, 34 suited, K5 suited, something like that. On the river he bets out 8k. I think he bets a 7 on the flop, but to me he seemed to have something like KJ, QJ, KT from his limp pre. He had usually raised his button but had been 3 bet a few times, so maybe he was afraid of being 3 bet while holding a paint hand. I also don’t think he bets a 5 or a hand like 33, or a 4x on the river there, and he definitely doesn’t have a 2 (from the preflop limp). I was just sure I had the best hand and did.
PokerStars Game #23942210752: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:02:33 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (43735 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (31483 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (194782 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
Ricman88: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts small blind 1000
fbtmof05: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [4c Ac]
Ricman88: calls 2000
XanderK: calls 1000
fbtmof05: checks
*** FLOP *** [7c 2d 5s]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: checks
Ricman88: checks
*** TURN *** [7c 2d 5s] [2c]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: checks
Ricman88: bets 4000
XanderK: folds
fbtmof05: calls 4000
*** RIVER *** [7c 2d 5s 2c] [4s]
fbtmof05: checks
Ricman88: bets 8000
fbtmof05: calls 8000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ricman88: shows [Tc 9c] (a pair of Deuces)
fbtmof05: shows [4c Ac] (two pair, Fours and Deuces)
Hand #274
Here I could 3 bet pre, we are deep stacked and he’s raising a ton of hands. I didn’t want to 3 bet and have him fold so much of his range especially being out of position, so I just saw a flop and went from there. Great flop for me. Again, I think his range is so big here that he’s folding so many hands if I raise so I don’t want to scare him away. Same with the turn, the 9 scares me a little bit, but I still think I’m ahead here 100% of the time. The river pairs the board, and he checks, I am still a bit scared of the 9, he could have a 2, but being so positive I’m ahead here he’s never calling here unless I’m beat.
PokerStars Game #23942280044: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:05:03 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (61735 in chips)
Seat 4: Ricman88 (17483 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (190782 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
Ricman88: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts small blind 1000
fbtmof05: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [8s 8h]
Ricman88: folds
XanderK: raises 4000 to 6000
fbtmof05: calls 4000
*** FLOP *** [2s 2d 7c]
XanderK: bets 8000
fbtmof05: calls 8000
*** TURN *** [2s 2d 7c] [9c]
XanderK: bets 16000
fbtmof05: calls 16000
*** RIVER *** [2s 2d 7c 9c] [7d]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XanderK: shows [8c Kd] (two pair, Sevens and Deuces)
fbtmof05: shows [8s 8h] (two pair, Eights and Sevens)
We got heads up after the next hand, and XanderK stacked Ricman88 and got a much larger stack. We went heads up him 180k and me having 90k. I had a lot of work to do since our stacks were so deep at 1k/2k. I never chop so that didn’t cross my mind, I just knew I was a better player than him and was just going to play small ball and chip away or hope to get lucky and get into a huge pot way ahead.
Hand #278
Scary turn card but I am willing to get all in and have to bet this turn I think every time. I am probably ahead a lot here too, but oh well. Standard bet I think
PokerStars Game #23942350617: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:07:36 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (76535 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (193465 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
fbtmof05: posts small blind 1000
XanderK: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Kd Ks]
fbtmof05: raises 2000 to 4000
XanderK: calls 2000
*** FLOP *** [6h Jc 4h]
XanderK: bets 6000
fbtmof05: raises 12000 to 18000
XanderK: calls 12000
*** TURN *** [6h Jc 4h] [Kh]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: bets 30000
XanderK: folds
Hand #279
Very next hand, I run so well…
PokerStars Game #23942384310: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:08:48 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (98735 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (171265 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts small blind 1000
fbtmof05: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Ac Ad]
XanderK: calls 1000
fbtmof05: raises 6000 to 8000
XanderK: folds
Hand #280
Wow I run really well… Standard raise pre by me. I had been re popping his flop bets a lot so I figured this was a perfect spot to do it since he can never put me on a ten here ever. This is his chance to get back at me hoping I am bluffing since he is probably getting sick of his bets being raised.
PokerStars Game #23942392084: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:09:05 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (100935 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (169065 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
fbtmof05: posts small blind 1000
XanderK: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Tc Ks]
fbtmof05: raises 2000 to 4000
XanderK: calls 2000
*** FLOP *** [5d Td Ts]
XanderK: bets 6000
fbtmof05: raises 12000 to 18000
XanderK: raises 146865 to 164865 and is all-in
fbtmof05: calls 78735 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (68130) returned to XanderK
*** TURN *** [5d Td Ts] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [5d Td Ts 5h] [Qh]
fishbones11 [observer] said, "nh wp"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XanderK: shows [6s Qc] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
fbtmof05: shows [Tc Ks] (a full house, Tens full of Fives)
Hand #298
To be honest, he had been leading out at me so much and he was weak every single time, I just thought I had the best hand the whole way. I thought he had air or a 5.
PokerStars Game #23942583635: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (1000/2000) - 2009/01/15 21:15:57 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (194870 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (75130 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 200
XanderK: posts the ante 200
fbtmof05: posts small blind 1000
XanderK: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [7h 8d]
fbtmof05: raises 2000 to 4000
XanderK: calls 2000
*** FLOP *** [9h 7d 5c]
XanderK: bets 6000
fbtmof05: calls 6000
*** TURN *** [9h 7d 5c] [3d]
XanderK: bets 10000
fbtmof05: calls 10000
*** RIVER *** [9h 7d 5c 3d] [3s]
XanderK: bets 14000
fbtmof05: calls 14000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XanderK: shows [7c Th] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
Hand #302
Hand plays itself I think. WP by him.
PokerStars Game #23942646053: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2009/01/15 21:18:13 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (167870 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (102130 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 300
XanderK: posts the ante 300
fbtmof05: posts small blind 1500
XanderK: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [5s 7d]
fbtmof05: raises 3000 to 6000
XanderK: calls 3000
*** FLOP *** [5c 5h 2d]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: checks
*** TURN *** [5c 5h 2d] [8s]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: bets 7500
XanderK: calls 7500
*** RIVER *** [5c 5h 2d 8s] [Ah]
XanderK: bets 9000
fbtmof05: raises 18000 to 27000
XanderK: raises 61330 to 88330 and is all-in
fbtmof05: calls 61330
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XanderK: shows [Kd 5d] (three of a kind, Fives)
fbtmof05: shows [5s 7d] (three of a kind, Fives - lower kicker)
Back to a huge chip disadvantage, 200k to 60k
Hand #315
Just decided to shove with this stack it seems huge, but I think if I 3bet to 27k it’s committing me anyways so he’s either shoving over the 27k or folding, and if I shove he’s either calling or folding, so same difference. Huge fade, back in it!
PokerStars Game #23942795196: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2009/01/15 21:23:30 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (81940 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (188060 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 300
XanderK: posts the ante 300
XanderK: posts small blind 1500
fbtmof05: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [Qd Ah]
XanderK: raises 6000 to 9000
fbtmof05: raises 72640 to 81640 and is all-in
XanderK: calls 72640
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3s 5s]
*** TURN *** [Ac 3s 5s] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 3s 5s 5d] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fbtmof05: shows [Qd Ah] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
XanderK: shows [As Js] (two pair, Aces and Fives - lower kicker)
Hand #318
Standard raise pre, again another lead from him which was always weak, so I raised again hoping for another 3 bet shove against my huge drawing hand. I was happy with the flat and the turn, put him on a J or a T or a baby flush draw since he probably shoves on me on the flop with any K or any Q or any huge combo draw. We get it in here on the turn, and I think it’s a really bad shove by him since I’m almost never folding, so not sure what he was thinking. Even if he did slow play KQ for some reason, I still have 13 outs so, almost 30% to win with one card to come. And that was the last hand, thanks for reading!
PokerStars Game #23942834538: Tournament #134247458, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2009/01/15 21:24:55 ET
Table '134247458 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: fbtmof05 (151880 in chips)
Seat 7: XanderK (118120 in chips)
fbtmof05: posts the ante 300
XanderK: posts the ante 300
fbtmof05: posts small blind 1500
XanderK: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fbtmof05 [5h Th]
fbtmof05: raises 3000 to 6000
XanderK: calls 3000
*** FLOP *** [Kh Tc Qh]
XanderK: bets 6000
fbtmof05: raises 12000 to 18000
XanderK: calls 12000
*** TURN *** [Kh Tc Qh] [5d]
XanderK: checks
fbtmof05: bets 28500
XanderK: raises 65320 to 93820 and is all-in
fbtmof05: calls 65320
*** RIVER *** [Kh Tc Qh 5d] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
XanderK: shows [3c Jh] (a pair of Queens)
fbtmof05: shows [5h Th] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, December 15, 2008
$4.40s, Turningstone, $25NL
This is gonna be quick. As previously stated in a few posts ago, I had finally turned things around and built my roll back up and made some profit from the $4.40s. Well, I finally have won a few since then and have just been dominating. I haven't been playing them as much as I was in the fall, but I'll be back at it soon - I have just been playing other MTT's and lots of cash games. I have probably made around $1200 in $4.40s since my MTT experience.
Turningstone was sick, I finally was able to go. I played the Friday deepstacks and got nothing going, it sucked. Sick structure though, like unreal, I loved it. 16,500 starting stack and blinds start at 25/50 with 40 minute levels. Saturday's tourny was the same except a $350 buy in. I managed to get to the final two tables before busting 20th for a measily $424 - felt like the biggest waste of time in my life. We started at 11:00am and I busted at 2:00am - 13 hours of horseshit. Although I must say it felt incredibly good to get that far for not hitting many hands. Honestly, I hit 2 sets, BOTH at the 50/100 level. The first hand: MP limper, CO (fairly lag in position) makes it 300, I call on the button with 44, the SB makes it 1100, folds to me I call. Flop Q 4 7 rainbow, we get it in and I hold against AA. Boom, up to roughly 30k after that, then flopped a set with 22 after raising pre and got no action on the flop. After that, I just got nothing going, I made a sick shove on a K 7 4 flop with QT after calling a 3 bet preflop in position and shoved his flop bet. Most of my chips were accumulated preflop. At the 600/1200 level I chipped up from 32k to 75k no showdown.
As for cash games, I'm 8 tabling $0.10/$0.25 on stars to give it a try. I usually do it after busting from tournys or when I don't feel like playing MTTs. So far, I have played for 6 days and I'm up around 9 buy ins, it's pretty cool. Played around 7,000 hands. That's all for now...
Turningstone was sick, I finally was able to go. I played the Friday deepstacks and got nothing going, it sucked. Sick structure though, like unreal, I loved it. 16,500 starting stack and blinds start at 25/50 with 40 minute levels. Saturday's tourny was the same except a $350 buy in. I managed to get to the final two tables before busting 20th for a measily $424 - felt like the biggest waste of time in my life. We started at 11:00am and I busted at 2:00am - 13 hours of horseshit. Although I must say it felt incredibly good to get that far for not hitting many hands. Honestly, I hit 2 sets, BOTH at the 50/100 level. The first hand: MP limper, CO (fairly lag in position) makes it 300, I call on the button with 44, the SB makes it 1100, folds to me I call. Flop Q 4 7 rainbow, we get it in and I hold against AA. Boom, up to roughly 30k after that, then flopped a set with 22 after raising pre and got no action on the flop. After that, I just got nothing going, I made a sick shove on a K 7 4 flop with QT after calling a 3 bet preflop in position and shoved his flop bet. Most of my chips were accumulated preflop. At the 600/1200 level I chipped up from 32k to 75k no showdown.
As for cash games, I'm 8 tabling $0.10/$0.25 on stars to give it a try. I usually do it after busting from tournys or when I don't feel like playing MTTs. So far, I have played for 6 days and I'm up around 9 buy ins, it's pretty cool. Played around 7,000 hands. That's all for now...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Lac Leamy Update
It has been a long time since going to Lac Leamy. I came "out of retirement" last Monday and went back. I haven't gone because it's such a long drive and there isn't much action... well I was wrong. Other than the really annoying drive, the action is still awesome. I went last Monday, yesterday (Sunday) and tonight (Monday).
Last Monday I cashed out ~$200 profit. Made my money on one hand basically. Called a preflop raise of $8 with AK in the SB. The original raiser was the button and a terrible player. Stacks off extremely light, so cold called pre in hopes of hitting a K or A and hoping he had any piece and would bust. 4 handed, flop was K Q 7, checks around to the button who bets $30 into $32, which was his standard betting line if he had a piece. I shoved for just over $200 and he called with K8.
On Sunday I cashed out ~$120 profit. I was there for just over 4 hours and had never folded so many hands preflop in my life, I don't even know how I got over a $300 stack. I won like 2 $50 pots and won big pot with Ad Jd. I limped UTG with Ad Jd, 3 more limpers, flop is 10d 8d 5x, I lead out $8 into $12 insane crazy asian player who is a regular and will play any hand makes it $30 with like $100 behind. I re shove knowing he's calling but putting him on a weak 10 or even a weak pair. Assuming I have 9 outs to the flush and 6 over cards, I was happy with my play. He ended up having A T and I hit a flush - that was the end for that night, folded forever after that hand.
Tonight was by far my best session at the casino since I have gone. I was running really hot, it was awesome. Having Le Canadien sit at the 1/2 table for fun made it that much better. It was a really fun table.
I had a few big hands which I will talk about.
I limp with AJ in MP after 1 limper, 1 limper after me, button makes it $5, all the limpers call. The button raiser was a younger player who stacks off really light - I mean extremely light. He called off his whole stack ($50) on a limped pot pre, with A2 on a 2 8 Q flop. Doubled up by hitting an A, so it was obviously a stack that was ready to be dumped all over the place - The flop came Jh Th 5x, I led out for $15 into $20, he called. The turn was a Jh Th 5x Ax, I bet $30 this time, he thought for a few seconds and really looked like he was gonna raise which I wanted, but he flat called. The river brought J T 5 A A and I bet $50 into $90 and he shoved for $50 or something and he had KQ.
I'm in the BB with AcXx, I'm pretty sure the action was checked around til the river and I bet $25 into $50 (totally forget how the pot got this big). The board was Kc Qc Tc 8c 5x and I bet $25, the player re shoves for $17 more I call, he has Kx2c, wp.
This hand I get involved with Le Canadien. I raise preflop UTG+1 with QcTc to $10, it folds to him on the button and he calls, the blinds fold. This limit is really low for him, and he was playing like a lagtard all night, so if you hit well, you are like 90% getting action. The flop was Ac 6c 7x, I bet $12 into $23, he makes it $30, I call with my flush draw. Turn was a Ac 6c 7x 9x. I check and he bet $75 into $83. I thought for sure the pot was bigger for him to bet $75 cause I don't think I call $75 into $83, the odds are awful, however, he had over $400 to start the hand and so did I so the implied odds were in my favour, unless he puts me on a flush draw. Anyways, I thought for a few seconds and then called assuming I have 12 outs. If I had the naked flush draw, I would probably fold. I put him on AQ, AJ, AT, A6, A7, A9 - and he will hopefully pay me on the river. The river was a disguisable 8 for my gutterball and I just shoved instantly hoping he puts me on a busted flush draw and he called with 66. I had now over $700.
I called a $10 raise from Le Canadien with 55 after one other caller in front of me, one more caller behind me. Flop was J T 5, Le Canadien bets $25, I make it $80, he calls. Turn was a 3 and he checked, at this point, I put him on AJ, KJ, KQ since he probably re-shoves the flop with AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, JT. After writing this out, I realized I made a really dumb shove on the turn. With $190 or so in the pot, I could have bet $125 or something for a value bet, but I think that makes my hand look to strong. I think shoving here really makes my hand look like a bluff and it doesn't look like a set. Usually a set wants to value bet here. Against any other player at the table, I go to value town big time, but since it was against Le Canadien, he calls off light here. He thought for a few minutes and said he folded KK - 2 minutes later he said he had QJ, so who knows what he had. I just wish I value bet him instead, oh well.
I had put him on some major tilt after the Q T hand and I took that into consideration on the previous hand where I flopped a set. This hand was similar but I obviously took it way too far against him. I limped UTG with 33, he had around $340 again - he was a roller coaster up and down all night, as is a crazy LAG player - and he made it $25 on the button. $25 was his standard raise once he started tilting. I called with awesome implied odds and with a stack of like $800 and hoping to flop a set and get paid. Flop was A 8 3, I checked, he bet $50 into $53, I shoved and he thought forever and folded. I really thought he was calling here, he said he had AK, I believe him, therefore my move was retardedly dumb. I could have cold called here and gotten so much more out of him. But raising here gets more money in the pot and more value for me so I should have made it $125 or something like that.
Ugh, after writing all that, it seems I made 2 really stupid moves against him, and it's pissing me off cause I played really stupid. Hopefully next time I think before I just instantly shove in with a monster. It just sucks cause he's the only player I would do that against since he was just calling his stack off every single time with top pair weak kicker or draws etc. Fuck I'm dumb... whatever $1,000 at the casino in a week, I'll take it. I'm playing well, running well and always do well at the casino, so hopefully the steak continues. Thanks for reading...
Last Monday I cashed out ~$200 profit. Made my money on one hand basically. Called a preflop raise of $8 with AK in the SB. The original raiser was the button and a terrible player. Stacks off extremely light, so cold called pre in hopes of hitting a K or A and hoping he had any piece and would bust. 4 handed, flop was K Q 7, checks around to the button who bets $30 into $32, which was his standard betting line if he had a piece. I shoved for just over $200 and he called with K8.
On Sunday I cashed out ~$120 profit. I was there for just over 4 hours and had never folded so many hands preflop in my life, I don't even know how I got over a $300 stack. I won like 2 $50 pots and won big pot with Ad Jd. I limped UTG with Ad Jd, 3 more limpers, flop is 10d 8d 5x, I lead out $8 into $12 insane crazy asian player who is a regular and will play any hand makes it $30 with like $100 behind. I re shove knowing he's calling but putting him on a weak 10 or even a weak pair. Assuming I have 9 outs to the flush and 6 over cards, I was happy with my play. He ended up having A T and I hit a flush - that was the end for that night, folded forever after that hand.
Tonight was by far my best session at the casino since I have gone. I was running really hot, it was awesome. Having Le Canadien sit at the 1/2 table for fun made it that much better. It was a really fun table.
I had a few big hands which I will talk about.
I limp with AJ in MP after 1 limper, 1 limper after me, button makes it $5, all the limpers call. The button raiser was a younger player who stacks off really light - I mean extremely light. He called off his whole stack ($50) on a limped pot pre, with A2 on a 2 8 Q flop. Doubled up by hitting an A, so it was obviously a stack that was ready to be dumped all over the place - The flop came Jh Th 5x, I led out for $15 into $20, he called. The turn was a Jh Th 5x Ax, I bet $30 this time, he thought for a few seconds and really looked like he was gonna raise which I wanted, but he flat called. The river brought J T 5 A A and I bet $50 into $90 and he shoved for $50 or something and he had KQ.
I'm in the BB with AcXx, I'm pretty sure the action was checked around til the river and I bet $25 into $50 (totally forget how the pot got this big). The board was Kc Qc Tc 8c 5x and I bet $25, the player re shoves for $17 more I call, he has Kx2c, wp.
This hand I get involved with Le Canadien. I raise preflop UTG+1 with QcTc to $10, it folds to him on the button and he calls, the blinds fold. This limit is really low for him, and he was playing like a lagtard all night, so if you hit well, you are like 90% getting action. The flop was Ac 6c 7x, I bet $12 into $23, he makes it $30, I call with my flush draw. Turn was a Ac 6c 7x 9x. I check and he bet $75 into $83. I thought for sure the pot was bigger for him to bet $75 cause I don't think I call $75 into $83, the odds are awful, however, he had over $400 to start the hand and so did I so the implied odds were in my favour, unless he puts me on a flush draw. Anyways, I thought for a few seconds and then called assuming I have 12 outs. If I had the naked flush draw, I would probably fold. I put him on AQ, AJ, AT, A6, A7, A9 - and he will hopefully pay me on the river. The river was a disguisable 8 for my gutterball and I just shoved instantly hoping he puts me on a busted flush draw and he called with 66. I had now over $700.
I called a $10 raise from Le Canadien with 55 after one other caller in front of me, one more caller behind me. Flop was J T 5, Le Canadien bets $25, I make it $80, he calls. Turn was a 3 and he checked, at this point, I put him on AJ, KJ, KQ since he probably re-shoves the flop with AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, JT. After writing this out, I realized I made a really dumb shove on the turn. With $190 or so in the pot, I could have bet $125 or something for a value bet, but I think that makes my hand look to strong. I think shoving here really makes my hand look like a bluff and it doesn't look like a set. Usually a set wants to value bet here. Against any other player at the table, I go to value town big time, but since it was against Le Canadien, he calls off light here. He thought for a few minutes and said he folded KK - 2 minutes later he said he had QJ, so who knows what he had. I just wish I value bet him instead, oh well.
I had put him on some major tilt after the Q T hand and I took that into consideration on the previous hand where I flopped a set. This hand was similar but I obviously took it way too far against him. I limped UTG with 33, he had around $340 again - he was a roller coaster up and down all night, as is a crazy LAG player - and he made it $25 on the button. $25 was his standard raise once he started tilting. I called with awesome implied odds and with a stack of like $800 and hoping to flop a set and get paid. Flop was A 8 3, I checked, he bet $50 into $53, I shoved and he thought forever and folded. I really thought he was calling here, he said he had AK, I believe him, therefore my move was retardedly dumb. I could have cold called here and gotten so much more out of him. But raising here gets more money in the pot and more value for me so I should have made it $125 or something like that.
Ugh, after writing all that, it seems I made 2 really stupid moves against him, and it's pissing me off cause I played really stupid. Hopefully next time I think before I just instantly shove in with a monster. It just sucks cause he's the only player I would do that against since he was just calling his stack off every single time with top pair weak kicker or draws etc. Fuck I'm dumb... whatever $1,000 at the casino in a week, I'll take it. I'm playing well, running well and always do well at the casino, so hopefully the steak continues. Thanks for reading...
Monday, October 20, 2008
In Niagara Falls Ontario...
...Marine Land is the place to go. Whoever came up with that jingle must have made a fortune since it will be embedded in my brain forever after not hearing it for like 10 years.
Anyways, so I made the trip to Niagara falls to watch Marc at the WPT final table taping. I went down with Adam, Marco, and Frank on Thursday morning to catch the FT at 4. We checked into the hotel at like 3 and Marc met us there and we headed over to Fallsview to catch the action. Oh and by the way, $199 a night for a family suite with a view of the falls - 2 queen beds, a king and jacuzzi - sounds like a sick deal. Except... $11 for internet PER laptop, cheap cost there.
The atmosphere was amazing there. So much going on when we got there, we insta hit up the bar. No drinks were allowed in the showroom, so we downed as many as we could before the final table started to get us riled up - which obv worked. We were screaming so hard for that Q to come it was unreal, hopefully you'll hear it on tv. Marc got 5th as we all know, that was disappointing, but a huge congratulations to you, Marc, for such a sick finish yet again. Your win will seriously come any time now.
We all went out for drinks and dinner after and hung out at the Keg, it was nice. Then Adam, Marco, Frank and I went to the LCBO and got a 40 of absolut, 26er of Grey Goose, 12 tall cans of Heineken and a partridge in a pear tree. We had a great night in the Hotel room, Adam was crushing the $77 6-max MTT at midnight and got really fucked with 12 left like the dumbest hand ever but I can't remember it exactly... I think it was a 3 outer AK vs A9 all in on the flop or 7 4 2. A9 played that hand really well. Adam and I got to bed at 4am, Marco and Frank decided to go for breakfast with kevvybrown then and no clue when they got back. Got some extra time to sleep so we didn't have to check out at 11:30 we were able to check out at 12:30 so we did that and headed home.
I have some pictures on my blackberry but can't find my USB cable to upload them on here, hopefully next time I'll have it around.
Anyways, so I made the trip to Niagara falls to watch Marc at the WPT final table taping. I went down with Adam, Marco, and Frank on Thursday morning to catch the FT at 4. We checked into the hotel at like 3 and Marc met us there and we headed over to Fallsview to catch the action. Oh and by the way, $199 a night for a family suite with a view of the falls - 2 queen beds, a king and jacuzzi - sounds like a sick deal. Except... $11 for internet PER laptop, cheap cost there.
The atmosphere was amazing there. So much going on when we got there, we insta hit up the bar. No drinks were allowed in the showroom, so we downed as many as we could before the final table started to get us riled up - which obv worked. We were screaming so hard for that Q to come it was unreal, hopefully you'll hear it on tv. Marc got 5th as we all know, that was disappointing, but a huge congratulations to you, Marc, for such a sick finish yet again. Your win will seriously come any time now.
We all went out for drinks and dinner after and hung out at the Keg, it was nice. Then Adam, Marco, Frank and I went to the LCBO and got a 40 of absolut, 26er of Grey Goose, 12 tall cans of Heineken and a partridge in a pear tree. We had a great night in the Hotel room, Adam was crushing the $77 6-max MTT at midnight and got really fucked with 12 left like the dumbest hand ever but I can't remember it exactly... I think it was a 3 outer AK vs A9 all in on the flop or 7 4 2. A9 played that hand really well. Adam and I got to bed at 4am, Marco and Frank decided to go for breakfast with kevvybrown then and no clue when they got back. Got some extra time to sleep so we didn't have to check out at 11:30 we were able to check out at 12:30 so we did that and headed home.
I have some pictures on my blackberry but can't find my USB cable to upload them on here, hopefully next time I'll have it around.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Overdue Update
I haven't made a post since April which is way too long. I haven't made any posts mainly because I didn't play at all this summer because of work. The long dreadful days at the golf course 6am-3pm or later Monday to Friday and 6am-10am on weekends everyday until August 31st. My girlfriend was also home from Maine for the summer so I was working everyday and spending all my evenings with her, so I didn't have any time to play poker which was fine. She went back to school in the first week of August but work was still hectic, so I just figured I would wait until the busy season is over until I start playing again because I don't want to play for like a half hour then go to bed.
School has started again and I am finishing up my BEng Degree this fall at Carleton which is awesome, I can't wait. Work has slowed down, I am working 3 days a week now to make some extra money to pay for rent. I finally moved out and live in Stonebridge with 2 guys I work with. It feels so good to be out on my own rather than living at home and doing so many chores all the time, freedom is nice.
I also took up golf this summer which is sweet. I took advantage of working at a golf course having free rounds so whynot play. I have always played but only once or twice a year, so I am obviously terrible. I work at Cedarhill so it's a nice course to learn on since it's short and not hard. At the beginning of the year I was shooting in the low 100's and I am the sort of guy to get angry when I shoot a bad shot and I shouldn't be mad because I never play the game. But it started to get frustrating when I was playing 4-5 times a week, however I did improve playing that much and that felt awesome. I ended up buying new clubs since I was getting a crazy deal from the Asst. pro in the Pro Shop and he offered me a brand new set of Callaway X-20 Tour irons for $800 which I thought was a pretty sick deal, so I bought those. I don't play with a driver, 3 or 5 wood, strictly irons because I can't hit a driver worth my life and I haven't learnt yet, so I was always using my 3-iron off the tee which is fine since I hit it well, but I lose so much distance at longer courses like the Marshes or Stonebridge. Long story short, I am consistently shooting mid 80s now and hopefully I will be hitting a driver next spring. My best round of the year was an 81 at Stonebridge from the blues which is approx. 6400 yards, so pretty sweet.
On to poker. I wanted to try playing MTTs to see how that would fair. I have always been a great cash game player so I figured trying out MTT's as something new would be cool. I have played a few before and have won some $4.40s so I couldn't be that bad of a beginner. Anyways, I took $300 and played strictly $4.40s and the occasional $11 MTT and I found myself down to $45. I was just on a really bad run of cards and couldn't catch a single break whenever it got deep. My confidence was so low I didn't want to play anymore. I would talk to Adam about it and he would just tell me to keep playing and that I wasn't doing anything wrong, just in standard MTT variance which I was not accustom too. I'll tell you right now, I am totally used to it and it's great. I've been running much better lately. I made 4 or 5 final tables and took 9th, 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd. The second place finish was annoying, but it was nice to build the roll back up. I had 170k to 110k and got it all in PREFLOP with AQ against 9 2... I made it 6k, he made it 21k, I shoved and he called with 9 2. Board ran out 9 5 4 A 2. Happy to say that I have made some profit since starting the MTT experience. So far it's been a fun switch to try something new than the awesome fun grind of cash games.
To top it off, my live game doesn't seem to be rusty either. I ended up chopping heads up in a $80 deepstack tourny at a local game for $520. I will be posting about that tourny in my next blog, which will be soon.
School has started again and I am finishing up my BEng Degree this fall at Carleton which is awesome, I can't wait. Work has slowed down, I am working 3 days a week now to make some extra money to pay for rent. I finally moved out and live in Stonebridge with 2 guys I work with. It feels so good to be out on my own rather than living at home and doing so many chores all the time, freedom is nice.
I also took up golf this summer which is sweet. I took advantage of working at a golf course having free rounds so whynot play. I have always played but only once or twice a year, so I am obviously terrible. I work at Cedarhill so it's a nice course to learn on since it's short and not hard. At the beginning of the year I was shooting in the low 100's and I am the sort of guy to get angry when I shoot a bad shot and I shouldn't be mad because I never play the game. But it started to get frustrating when I was playing 4-5 times a week, however I did improve playing that much and that felt awesome. I ended up buying new clubs since I was getting a crazy deal from the Asst. pro in the Pro Shop and he offered me a brand new set of Callaway X-20 Tour irons for $800 which I thought was a pretty sick deal, so I bought those. I don't play with a driver, 3 or 5 wood, strictly irons because I can't hit a driver worth my life and I haven't learnt yet, so I was always using my 3-iron off the tee which is fine since I hit it well, but I lose so much distance at longer courses like the Marshes or Stonebridge. Long story short, I am consistently shooting mid 80s now and hopefully I will be hitting a driver next spring. My best round of the year was an 81 at Stonebridge from the blues which is approx. 6400 yards, so pretty sweet.
On to poker. I wanted to try playing MTTs to see how that would fair. I have always been a great cash game player so I figured trying out MTT's as something new would be cool. I have played a few before and have won some $4.40s so I couldn't be that bad of a beginner. Anyways, I took $300 and played strictly $4.40s and the occasional $11 MTT and I found myself down to $45. I was just on a really bad run of cards and couldn't catch a single break whenever it got deep. My confidence was so low I didn't want to play anymore. I would talk to Adam about it and he would just tell me to keep playing and that I wasn't doing anything wrong, just in standard MTT variance which I was not accustom too. I'll tell you right now, I am totally used to it and it's great. I've been running much better lately. I made 4 or 5 final tables and took 9th, 5th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd. The second place finish was annoying, but it was nice to build the roll back up. I had 170k to 110k and got it all in PREFLOP with AQ against 9 2... I made it 6k, he made it 21k, I shoved and he called with 9 2. Board ran out 9 5 4 A 2. Happy to say that I have made some profit since starting the MTT experience. So far it's been a fun switch to try something new than the awesome fun grind of cash games.
To top it off, my live game doesn't seem to be rusty either. I ended up chopping heads up in a $80 deepstack tourny at a local game for $520. I will be posting about that tourny in my next blog, which will be soon.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Another Good Session
After my session on Monday, I went back on Thursday and played from around 8-close. It was the last day the casino would be closing, which is cool to have 24/7 poker during the week. This session was a bit of a grind, but it didn't feel I was there for 8 hours. I did make one huge mistake where I lost so much value on the last hand of the night. I'll recap some hands, I think there were only 3 or 4.
I was down $60 to start (including this hand), and then started winning some pots.
UTG made it $11 (solid player, was getting PAID every single time he had the nuts, people just kept bluffing him, it was so stupid.) Folds to MP who shoves for $34 total, he was really tight and just blinded down, he bought in for $50 I think. I get QQ on the button and flat call. I wanted UTG in the hand, but in case he had AA or KK, he would re pop here 100%, so I figure if he doesn't, he has AK, AQ, JJ or lower. Flop is A J J, UTG and I check it down and he has 1010, the shover has KJ and takes the pot down, he left immediately, which seems to be a growing trend at the casino every time I go. So many hit and runs.
New player at the table MP, $100 behind maybe a bit less, makes it $8, folds to me, I call with 7h8h in the cut off, EP limper calls. $27 in the pot, flop us 5x 6h 10h, EP checks, raiser bets $15, i make it $40, EP folds, guy shoves for like $60 more, I call, he has JJ. I hit a 9 on the turn to take it down.
Two decent players limp EP, their range is big since they are limping, tight player makes it $7 with $100 behind, I call in the SB with Ah 3h knowing the limpers are calling and if I hit a big flop I can hopefully stack the tight player and anyone else. The tight players range here is AA - JJ, and AK, AQ. Flop is 3 3 K. Checks to the tight player who bets $15, I make it $35 folds back to him and he shoves, I hope he doesn't have KK, if he does whatever I'm paying him anyways. I call quickly and he has AA and misses his one outer.
This is the hand I played so stupidly and bad and I hate myself for it. I missed so much value I think, but maybe not. Please help me...
We are 4 handed, and this is the last hand of the night. First position opens for $7, he had been raising every second hand since a full table so his range is extremely wide here. To make things interesting, I had just had AA and KK back to back hands, and right as he raises to $7 he says be careful, I have the rockets. I said "do you seriously have aces right now?" and he said yes, and I called with 8d 9d. SB and BB call as well. The flop was 7 10 3 rainbow. Mr. I have aces bets $15 into $28. I call getting 3:1 which is fairly good odds to draw too and we both have deep stacks. I have $500 or so, he has around $700. SB and BB fold and there is $53 in the pot (after rake). Turn is a J. He bets $20, this is where I got stupid and funny just to have fun on the last hand of the night. I min raised which is a play I never used ever in poker and hate it when anyone else does it, I just think it's the stupidest play for NLHE. I make it $40 and he calls, and I asked him one more time if he has AA, and he kept saying he did. So this is where I think it was okay for what I did on the river. The river was a Q making AK the nuts and my hand the 3rd nuts. He leads out for $50 into $133. I asked him again, do you really have AA? and he said yes one more time, so I made it $125 and he called with AA getting insane odds. I think I lost alot of value on the turn by just min raising. I should have made it around $60 so I could get more on the river, but in turn, he knows I know he has AA and could easily have him beat with Q 10, J 10, a set, etc. So maybe he would figure that out and wouldn't call a big bet on the river. Oh well, I am still kicking myself for making that dumb play cause I hate min raising so much aksudhaskjdhaskdhakdsa asljdhaksdha123yu2ihqwadjkasd.
I profited $430 for the night.
I was down $60 to start (including this hand), and then started winning some pots.
UTG made it $11 (solid player, was getting PAID every single time he had the nuts, people just kept bluffing him, it was so stupid.) Folds to MP who shoves for $34 total, he was really tight and just blinded down, he bought in for $50 I think. I get QQ on the button and flat call. I wanted UTG in the hand, but in case he had AA or KK, he would re pop here 100%, so I figure if he doesn't, he has AK, AQ, JJ or lower. Flop is A J J, UTG and I check it down and he has 1010, the shover has KJ and takes the pot down, he left immediately, which seems to be a growing trend at the casino every time I go. So many hit and runs.
New player at the table MP, $100 behind maybe a bit less, makes it $8, folds to me, I call with 7h8h in the cut off, EP limper calls. $27 in the pot, flop us 5x 6h 10h, EP checks, raiser bets $15, i make it $40, EP folds, guy shoves for like $60 more, I call, he has JJ. I hit a 9 on the turn to take it down.
Two decent players limp EP, their range is big since they are limping, tight player makes it $7 with $100 behind, I call in the SB with Ah 3h knowing the limpers are calling and if I hit a big flop I can hopefully stack the tight player and anyone else. The tight players range here is AA - JJ, and AK, AQ. Flop is 3 3 K. Checks to the tight player who bets $15, I make it $35 folds back to him and he shoves, I hope he doesn't have KK, if he does whatever I'm paying him anyways. I call quickly and he has AA and misses his one outer.
This is the hand I played so stupidly and bad and I hate myself for it. I missed so much value I think, but maybe not. Please help me...
We are 4 handed, and this is the last hand of the night. First position opens for $7, he had been raising every second hand since a full table so his range is extremely wide here. To make things interesting, I had just had AA and KK back to back hands, and right as he raises to $7 he says be careful, I have the rockets. I said "do you seriously have aces right now?" and he said yes, and I called with 8d 9d. SB and BB call as well. The flop was 7 10 3 rainbow. Mr. I have aces bets $15 into $28. I call getting 3:1 which is fairly good odds to draw too and we both have deep stacks. I have $500 or so, he has around $700. SB and BB fold and there is $53 in the pot (after rake). Turn is a J. He bets $20, this is where I got stupid and funny just to have fun on the last hand of the night. I min raised which is a play I never used ever in poker and hate it when anyone else does it, I just think it's the stupidest play for NLHE. I make it $40 and he calls, and I asked him one more time if he has AA, and he kept saying he did. So this is where I think it was okay for what I did on the river. The river was a Q making AK the nuts and my hand the 3rd nuts. He leads out for $50 into $133. I asked him again, do you really have AA? and he said yes one more time, so I made it $125 and he called with AA getting insane odds. I think I lost alot of value on the turn by just min raising. I should have made it around $60 so I could get more on the river, but in turn, he knows I know he has AA and could easily have him beat with Q 10, J 10, a set, etc. So maybe he would figure that out and wouldn't call a big bet on the river. Oh well, I am still kicking myself for making that dumb play cause I hate min raising so much aksudhaskjdhaskdhakdsa asljdhaksdha123yu2ihqwadjkasd.
I profited $430 for the night.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Feels Nice To Run Well
I haven't posted in a while, mainly because I stopped going to the casino regularly because I am graduating in a month and needed to focus on finishing up important assignments, labs, etc.
Since the last time at the casino, I had been running bad and I had a bad month for February. January was awesome, was up almost 3k, and I was down just over $400 for February, and I went a few times in March here and there and broke even each time.
I went to the casino last night (Monday) refreshed and ready to go, I was excited to get back to playing it had been so long. I will recap as many hands as I can that were important to my session. This could get long, so bare with me if you are interested.
Bought in for the max. as usual and was sitting at an awesome table. There was one extremely terrible player who limped every hand and hit every single river it was unreal how well he was running. He did start to realize how well he did run, and would sit out every 5 or 6 hands and walk around for 5-10 minutes at a time. He would then come back and play really tight which sucked, he had $1600 in front of him, $300 was mine, $350 was my friends. We were dying to take all of it from him. Anyways, other than him, it was your typical casino players, a couple short buy in players, and then best of all, the writer (Derrick) of The Tom Green Show, Tom Green's sidekick - Glen, and another man who was on/part of the show named Phil were sitting at my table.
I had a good time at my table and having those guys there made it that much better, they were drinking, having fun, they were loud, and it just made for a good atmosphere and hopefully easy money. Anyways, onto the hands I played.
My first big hand was with the insane terrible player. He raised preflop to $10, SB called and I called with 55. The flop was 7 6 3 which I was feeling good about. I checked to raise him and just take the pot down here, or slow down with resistance. He checked, which was odd, so I knew for sure he blanked. Turn was a J, I checked again hoping to induce a bet, which he did do. He bet $12 into $30, which I felt was weak, the SB folded and I called hoping to check call a river bet and look like a hero. Anyways, the river was a Q which sucked, but I was hoping to pick up a betting pattern off him to figure out if I had the best hand. He bet $50 into $57, and started taking a sip of his water, and playing with his chips and all this crap, I thought forever and really thought he was trying to buy this pot since I had looked weak the whole way. I had seen him do this a few times tonight and show complete air, so I made the crying call and he flipped up Q 8. Bad read, I suck, I was angry. Well played by him.
I am down to my last $130 total at this point after some other hands. So now, I'm just waiting to get in a hand with this complete donk get my money back. I had $400 on my card and was sitting with $130 which I hate, because I like having a full stack. This usually does not happen to me, hence the $400, but I guess it wasn't enough for tonight. I lost like $70 on the hand with the donk when I called with 55, and lost some more against him after he rivered a higher flush with Jc 2c vs. my 7c 8c on a 10c 6c 3x 7x Kc board.
Anyways, so I'm sitting with $130, I make it $11 with Ah Kh UTG+1, Glen calls, donk calls. Flop is 10h 8h 4x. I lead for $20, Glen shoves for his last bit of change I think $60 total, donk reshoves and says "for protection" so I know he has a stupid hand like Q10 K10, but should realize I am probably not folding since I lead into that flop for 2/3 the pot OOP, but he isn't smart enough to know that which is good. I call. Glen has K 10, donk has A 10. I stand up and say one time, please just one time put a heart out there, blank turn, heart on the river, woo. Felt amazing to win that pot and get up to $320 and be stuck $80 at that point. The night was not over. It was around 1am and I had grinded back up to $377 and my table broke.
I change tables, buy in for $200, we are 6 handed most of the time. I played pretty aggro. for the first bit until I doubled up. I make it $8 with As 7s preflop. Guy who JUST got stacked for $200 just sat down and reloaded and called. Flop was Ks Qs 5x, he checks, I bet $12, he makes it $25, I call. Turn was a Js, he checked, I bet $40 into $60, my thinking was, he's a station and I lose value on the river if I check here. He shoves and I call, he has KQ, I hold. Up to $380 at my new table.
This hand, I think I made my second mistake of the night. A regular at the casino, good player, made it $7, I have AK off and I cold called. From my read on him, his range is fairly wide preflop, and hopefully I can get paid off with a huge flop if he does have a hand. Also, I like to mix it up and I hadn't re-raised any hands tonight, so it gives away the strength of my hand. There is one other caller, flop is A A 6. It checks to me, I bet $12, making it look like a steal. He min raised me because he knows I hate min raises (I was telling him earlier how I think it's a dumb play for 100% of the situations at the casino or any cash game and like 99% of situations online) anyways, he says "min raises put you on tilt right?" so he makes it $25, and I know he isn't bluffing or trying to tilt me. He talks alot to his opponents to sucker them in, thing is, I'm suckering him in. I figure if I raise here, it gives away my and and he might throw away a weaker A, he knows I am not bluffing if I 3 bet. Anyways, I flat call hoping he puts me on 77 or 88. The turn was a Q, he bets $25, I smooth call again, this is where I play the hand bad, but I have a reason for flatting here. I know he has an ace, and I doubt he is raising with A10 or lower OOP preflop. So I am worried about AQ of course. River was a 10, he bets $35 leaving himself $41. I cold called and he had A J, so my read was right, but he didn't have a boat, and even if he did, I still should have shoved his last $41 on the river, oh well. He told me nice hand and didn't suspect AK there at all.
I'm hovering around $450 at this point, I made another $50 off a guy who 3 bet shoved pre with 9h 7h and I had KK. Made another $50 with AJ on a A K 10 8 4 board. I can't remember any other big pots that I played, but I got my stack up to $640 I think maybe $670, but this blog is long enough. So I did end up getting out of the red and made a profit of $450 last night. Great night. Will be going again soon.
Since the last time at the casino, I had been running bad and I had a bad month for February. January was awesome, was up almost 3k, and I was down just over $400 for February, and I went a few times in March here and there and broke even each time.
I went to the casino last night (Monday) refreshed and ready to go, I was excited to get back to playing it had been so long. I will recap as many hands as I can that were important to my session. This could get long, so bare with me if you are interested.
Bought in for the max. as usual and was sitting at an awesome table. There was one extremely terrible player who limped every hand and hit every single river it was unreal how well he was running. He did start to realize how well he did run, and would sit out every 5 or 6 hands and walk around for 5-10 minutes at a time. He would then come back and play really tight which sucked, he had $1600 in front of him, $300 was mine, $350 was my friends. We were dying to take all of it from him. Anyways, other than him, it was your typical casino players, a couple short buy in players, and then best of all, the writer (Derrick) of The Tom Green Show, Tom Green's sidekick - Glen, and another man who was on/part of the show named Phil were sitting at my table.
I had a good time at my table and having those guys there made it that much better, they were drinking, having fun, they were loud, and it just made for a good atmosphere and hopefully easy money. Anyways, onto the hands I played.
My first big hand was with the insane terrible player. He raised preflop to $10, SB called and I called with 55. The flop was 7 6 3 which I was feeling good about. I checked to raise him and just take the pot down here, or slow down with resistance. He checked, which was odd, so I knew for sure he blanked. Turn was a J, I checked again hoping to induce a bet, which he did do. He bet $12 into $30, which I felt was weak, the SB folded and I called hoping to check call a river bet and look like a hero. Anyways, the river was a Q which sucked, but I was hoping to pick up a betting pattern off him to figure out if I had the best hand. He bet $50 into $57, and started taking a sip of his water, and playing with his chips and all this crap, I thought forever and really thought he was trying to buy this pot since I had looked weak the whole way. I had seen him do this a few times tonight and show complete air, so I made the crying call and he flipped up Q 8. Bad read, I suck, I was angry. Well played by him.
I am down to my last $130 total at this point after some other hands. So now, I'm just waiting to get in a hand with this complete donk get my money back. I had $400 on my card and was sitting with $130 which I hate, because I like having a full stack. This usually does not happen to me, hence the $400, but I guess it wasn't enough for tonight. I lost like $70 on the hand with the donk when I called with 55, and lost some more against him after he rivered a higher flush with Jc 2c vs. my 7c 8c on a 10c 6c 3x 7x Kc board.
Anyways, so I'm sitting with $130, I make it $11 with Ah Kh UTG+1, Glen calls, donk calls. Flop is 10h 8h 4x. I lead for $20, Glen shoves for his last bit of change I think $60 total, donk reshoves and says "for protection" so I know he has a stupid hand like Q10 K10, but should realize I am probably not folding since I lead into that flop for 2/3 the pot OOP, but he isn't smart enough to know that which is good. I call. Glen has K 10, donk has A 10. I stand up and say one time, please just one time put a heart out there, blank turn, heart on the river, woo. Felt amazing to win that pot and get up to $320 and be stuck $80 at that point. The night was not over. It was around 1am and I had grinded back up to $377 and my table broke.
I change tables, buy in for $200, we are 6 handed most of the time. I played pretty aggro. for the first bit until I doubled up. I make it $8 with As 7s preflop. Guy who JUST got stacked for $200 just sat down and reloaded and called. Flop was Ks Qs 5x, he checks, I bet $12, he makes it $25, I call. Turn was a Js, he checked, I bet $40 into $60, my thinking was, he's a station and I lose value on the river if I check here. He shoves and I call, he has KQ, I hold. Up to $380 at my new table.
This hand, I think I made my second mistake of the night. A regular at the casino, good player, made it $7, I have AK off and I cold called. From my read on him, his range is fairly wide preflop, and hopefully I can get paid off with a huge flop if he does have a hand. Also, I like to mix it up and I hadn't re-raised any hands tonight, so it gives away the strength of my hand. There is one other caller, flop is A A 6. It checks to me, I bet $12, making it look like a steal. He min raised me because he knows I hate min raises (I was telling him earlier how I think it's a dumb play for 100% of the situations at the casino or any cash game and like 99% of situations online) anyways, he says "min raises put you on tilt right?" so he makes it $25, and I know he isn't bluffing or trying to tilt me. He talks alot to his opponents to sucker them in, thing is, I'm suckering him in. I figure if I raise here, it gives away my and and he might throw away a weaker A, he knows I am not bluffing if I 3 bet. Anyways, I flat call hoping he puts me on 77 or 88. The turn was a Q, he bets $25, I smooth call again, this is where I play the hand bad, but I have a reason for flatting here. I know he has an ace, and I doubt he is raising with A10 or lower OOP preflop. So I am worried about AQ of course. River was a 10, he bets $35 leaving himself $41. I cold called and he had A J, so my read was right, but he didn't have a boat, and even if he did, I still should have shoved his last $41 on the river, oh well. He told me nice hand and didn't suspect AK there at all.
I'm hovering around $450 at this point, I made another $50 off a guy who 3 bet shoved pre with 9h 7h and I had KK. Made another $50 with AJ on a A K 10 8 4 board. I can't remember any other big pots that I played, but I got my stack up to $640 I think maybe $670, but this blog is long enough. So I did end up getting out of the red and made a profit of $450 last night. Great night. Will be going again soon.
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