Long post with some pictures.
I played some of FTP's 50ftp Sat to $750k satellite. Only the top first place (54 entrants) advances into next week's 2500ftp satellite into the 750K event on Sunday.
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I went pretty deep. As in all the way. Here is the final hand.
Basically, I have 62k to his 18k. Blinds are 1k/2k.
I limped, he checked and we saw that flop.
We both checked the flop.
He bets the pot (4k). I figure him trying to just take it and call planning on taking it on the river. I hit my gin card on the river. He pretty much pushes all in and I take it down.
Then, I tried another one and lost. I only had 5oftp points left so I decided to try again. Figure if I get two, I'd get 2500 in points. I was decently stacked around 4000 w/ blinds @ 40/80, when these 3 hands came up in a row.
I had the guy covered, so I only lost about 1k.
Next Hand:
Again, had the guy covered, so I wasn't out (at least this was a race).
Then, the very next hand I'm dealt AA. How to play it... Let's make it look like I'm tilting. I have 2500 left. I push it all in the middle. Did my ruse work?
I'd say so. Got my stack up to 7500.
Then three hands later, I get AJ in the small blind. It folds around to me and I raise it to 300. One3ballin re-raises to 755. I think he's on a resteal in the blind vs blind. He started with only 6k. So I make a STUPID play. I push all-in. I want this now. He insta-calls with TT. Yikes. I stepped in it.
I hit my river (granted it was a 50-50 the entire time, but I could have been in huge trouble. AJ is not the nuts). The guy goes NUTS. Hates me, hates my play, hopes I finish 2nd... (since only first place gets anything). I tell him I don't care since I'm already in the satellite. He leaves.
I take the chip lead and never look back. Here's the final table.
Nice chip lead... eh?
A few hands later, 2 people are gone. Check this out now!
60k with 2nd place having 7k. WOO HOO!
Then... I'm committed to a lot of pots and I get a lot of dominated hands. A8 vs AT, AT vs AJ. Things like that. I give a bunch of courtesy double ups. I miss a lot of races. Blinds are HIGH.
I do make it to heads up with a chiplead of 47k to 33k.
Blinds are 1500/3000.
He raises to 6000
I have A6, I call.
Flop is T9T.
We get it all in, he has J8, but turns a Q.
From there it all goes down hill and ... as one3ballin predicted, I finished in 2nd for nothing. OH well. It was a fun ride! And I'm hoping to finish, next Saturday night, in the top 108 out of a max 5000. That will get me into next Sunday's 750k and it will be my first big Sunday event.
Wish me luck!
A Good Night At the.. FREE Tables.
My Weak Play
My Weak Play:
Here is a perfect example of my weak passive play. It’s a demonstration of how bad I play sometimes… a lot of the time.
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Full Tilt Poker Game #3691133076: AIPS II Event #9 (25837404), Table 6 - 50/100 - Limit Hold'em - 21:21:02 ET - 2007/09/27
Seat 1: TiltGolf (785)
Seat 2: OhCaptain (2,375)
Seat 3: wendywendy (1,350), is sitting out
Seat 4: sixama (2,260)
Seat 5: AussieHoldem (1,340)
Seat 6: Unimpressed (1,465)
Seat 7: ElSnarfGrande (1,740)
Seat 8: gybbie (675)
Seat 9: Shannohakkinen (1,510)
TiltGolf posts the small blind of 25
OhCaptain posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Unimpressed [Ad Ah]
wendywendy folds
sixama folds
AussieHoldem folds
Unimpressed raises to 100
ElSnarfGrande folds
PokerBrian322 (Observer): heh i guess
gybbie calls 100
Shannohakkinen calls 100
TiltGolf folds
OhCaptain calls 50
*** FLOP *** [Kc 9h 2s]
OhCaptain checks
Unimpressed bets 50
gybbie has 15 seconds left to act
gybbie folds
Shannohakkinen raises to 100
OhCaptain folds
Unimpressed calls 50
*** TURN *** [Kc 9h 2s] [4c]
Unimpressed checks
Shannohakkinen bets 100
Unimpressed calls 100
*** RIVER *** [Kc 9h 2s 4c] [7s]
Unimpressed bets 100
Shannohakkinen calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Unimpressed shows [Ad Ah] a pair of Aces
Shannohakkinen mucks
Unimpressed wins the pot (1,025) with a pair of Aces
I think I could have gotten only one or two more bets, since I don’t think he’d get into a raising war with Kings w/ a Jack kicker, but I didn’t even give him a chance to. I, for whatever reason, automatically thought K9. I didn’t want to lose too much money with just an overpair.
This is the same guy I would later mis-click and fold top pair w/ top kicker.
When It Rains, It Pours
The title has nothing to do with my experiences at the poker tables, but just the frequency of my posts. 3 in 2 days. Yikes.
Anyway, I didn't do much in AIPS. I recovered from my Misclick-Tilt and got a few good hands. Then I just petered out.
I did update the blog with a re-org of my blog rolls. I know, exciting stuff.
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AIPS II Event 9 - Limit Hold Em
I haven't played many of the Ante Up Nation's AIPS tournaments, but wanted to play this one. So I borrowed $10 bucks from Slappy. I bought in to the tournament and donked off the rest in a cash game. Truly horrible play. ***** BUTTON MIS-CLICK *****
OK, now for the tournament. Started off OK. But then got a little loose. I couldn't seem to let go of small pairs. But was ready to refocus. Then this hand occurs.
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Full Tilt Poker Game #3691218292: AIPS II Event #9 (25837404), Table 6 - 50/100 - Limit Hold'em - 21:29:40 ET - 2007/09/27
Seat 1: TiltGolf (1,310)
Seat 2: OhCaptain (2,550)
Seat 3: wendywendy (1,225)
Seat 4: sixama (1,510)
Seat 5: AussieHoldem (1,615)
Seat 6: Unimpressed (1,565)
Seat 7: ElSnarfGrande (1,640)
Seat 8: gybbie (1,000)
Seat 9: Shannohakkinen (1,085)
wendywendy posts the small blind of 25
sixama posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Unimpressed [Ah Kc]
AussieHoldem folds
Unimpressed raises to 100
ElSnarfGrande folds
gybbie folds
Shannohakkinen calls 100
TiltGolf has 15 seconds left to act
TiltGolf folds
OhCaptain folds
wendywendy calls 75
sixama folds
*** FLOP *** [Th 3h As]
wendywendy checks
Unimpressed bets 50
Shannohakkinen raises to 100
wendywendy folds
Unimpressed raises to 150
Shannohakkinen raises to 200
Unimpressed folds
I got down to about 300 in chips and have worked it back up to 1100 with the help of AA and KK.
Maybe some more later.
Wii Tilt!
That’s right. I haven’t played much poker, except freerolls. I do really well about halfway through, then get bored and figure, crap, 2+ hours is not worth it. Shoulda seen me donk it all of in an NL Omaha H/L last night. It was a thing of pure donkness.
So, I’ve recently picked up Mario Party 8. And to unlock other maps and characters, you have to beat the Star Battle mode (the single player mode), in which you compete against one computer player on each board. Most of the boards are fine. Sure there’s luck involved, but I think one boards RNG was created by Full Tilt.
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King Boo's Haunted Mansion. King Boo is in a random room and your goal is to find him twice and get two stars. Well, as I’m not a computer, when there are forks in the road, I have to pick one. It’s pretty much a coin flip. However, apparently the computer player knows EXACTLY where to go. Now, in their defense, they did put some randomness to it. Like one out of ever 8 or 9 times through the maze, they’ll pick a wrong direction.
Last night I stormed to bed at 11:30 after four unsuccessful atttempts at beating Toaddette declaring I was on Wii Tilt! The final straw was when we each had one star, I was about to get to a room that could have King Boo in it (as Toaddette went a different direction, it was unlikely, but she still had a LONG way to go), when she uses her thrice dice and rolled a 24, came across 3 different crossroads, made the correct choice each time and surprisingly, 24 was the EXACT # of spaces she had to travel.
I was already steaming that they don't have Donkey Kong as a playable character!
WII TILT!!!!
Poker on TV.
Well, for various reasons I won't get into, I no longer have cable (or at least, VERY few channels). I know what you're thinking. NO MORE POKER TV! How wrong you are! I have yet to fully grasp and work bittorrent sites. But I don't have to. PokerTube is hitting the nation! I LOVE it. I watch more poker on TV than before. The downside is that it's me sitting at my computer to watch TV, which is somewhat annoying (I need to see if this will work on my Wii). I've caught the last week of WSOP and High Stakes Poker. Plus a cash game from the Aussie Millions. And so much more!
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A New Drug
Well I played in a new home game this past weekend. It’s the home game of JLBSox and Blazman from the Ante Up Nation. It was a fun home game. And despite being a BIG loser I plan on attending again. The rules are easy. Tourney first. $10 buyin, with unlimited $10 rebuys for the first 3 levels (first 45 mins).
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And crap did I use it. There were 9 players and they split it up between 2 tables. I drew the Kitchen with PokerBrian322 (aka Slappy), who I brought with me, and 2 other people. The skill level of the players was mixed, and one person at my table knew very little about the game. Well early on, this player but was having some neck pain so they wanted to quit. They started moving in with anything hoping to get callers. And it worked. The problem is that they were getting extremely lucky and busted the other 3 at the table at least once. In the end Slappy re-bought once (total $20). Neck Injury only had their original buy-in. The 4th person at our table AND myself, bought in a total of four times ($40). The final hand before the last rebuy, I had KJs. And flopped a flush draw and gutshot (and straight flush draw). I got all my chips in (slightly less than the rebuy amount) against Neck Pain and Slappy. My draw didn’t get there, and Slappy won the pot and finally relieved Neck Pain of all their chips. So I rebought the final time and moved to the main table (Neck Pain didn’t rebuy). Of course, Slappy had to make 3 trips (or was it 4?) to move all his chips (a total of 11 buy-ins worth of chips). I felt so bad for him… all that walking.. poor baby.. HA!
Slappy had a huge chipstack going in. I managed to double up, and outlast two or 3 more people. But in the end, top two got paid, and I ended up busting. I think I had QJ on the button. It folded around, I pushed (had less than 5 BB). Both SB and BB call. Both had an Ace. And I didn’t improve.
In the end, Blazman went heads up against Slappy. I don’t know the chipstacks at various times, as I was in the cash game. But Slappy ended up taking the whole thing down. With all the re-buys it was a nice pot.
The cash game is a nice touch. Something I wanted to add to Slappy’s home game for quite some time, but no one else was really interested. .25/.50 blinds, NLHE. Max Buy-in of $20. You can’t reload unless you’re felted. After a set time, the game switches to dealers choice; NLHE, Omaha, Stud, Razz, Pineapple and Crazy Pineapple (no hi/lo though- which is fine by me). Apparently this was only their second time adding the mixed games, so there are still some quirks to work out. We ended up playing NLHE, Omaha, Pineapple and Stud. I ended up reloading 1 ½ times (after my 1st reload, I only had $10 left). I played one Omaha hand pretty bad. QQT9 in the BB. Two limpers. I raise it up and both players call. The flop comes T high. I think, “Yes, two pair. Not great, but probably best right now.” I bet at it. As soon as the first guy calls I realize my mistake. CRAP. Only have one pair, and it’s more than likely beat. 2nd Player raises, and I have to let go, losing an additional $5 bucks that (which at that point was about 1/3 of my stack). I would have checked and folded had I realized my T did not play with my 2 Queens.
I did play another Omaha hand well. Forgot what I had, but they were all related straight cards (sorry I don’t know my Omaha lingo, might have been 89TJ or something). I flop two pair and a straight draw. Get my remaining $10 in and get one caller. My opponent is behind and stays that way. In the end, I lost about $15 total in the cash game.
It was a lot of fun and I plan on being at the next one. I like Slappy’s home game because I’m friends with most of them, but Slappy’s game ends up being an all-day thing and pretty much kills half a weekend (time I can’t spend w/ my family or working around the house). I’ll still play his occasionally, but as long as I continue to get invited to JLBSox’s game, I’ll probably play that one more.
Anyway, that’s it for now. I’ve played very little online; only when I get some affiliate cash, which is about $15.00 a month. This month I blew most of it on bluffs. Then when I had 4 bucks left, I quit caring.
Right now I’m checking out Navarro’s Read ‘Em and Reap. VERY GOOD book. I’ll probably read it twice.
