Hand #37040519-65534 at Edmond (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 08/Jan/07 23:44:51
red hook is at seat 0 with $50.
OneEye_Jacks is at seat 1 with $18.50.
bunacon is at seat 2 with $86.40.
CarazyOne is at seat 3 with $46.30.
stevep52 is at seat 4 with $48.55.
mcash2 is at seat 5 with $45.
dehdoh is at seat 6 with $32.20.
delrey28 is at seat 7 with $25.85.
soapstar is at seat 8 with $93.40.
LILIMEI is at seat 9 with $69.95.
The button is at seat 1.
bunacon posts the small blind of $.25.
CarazyOne posts the big blind of $.50.
red hook: -- --
OneEye_Jacks: -- --
bunacon: -- --
CarazyOne: -- --
stevep52: -- --
mcash2: Js Jd
dehdoh: -- --
delrey28: -- --
soapstar: -- --
LILIMEI: -- --
Pre-flop:
stevep52 folds. mcash2 raises to $1.75. dehdoh
folds. delrey28 folds. soapstar folds. LILIMEI
folds. red hook folds. OneEye_Jacks calls.
bunacon folds. CarazyOne folds.
Flop (board: Jh Kd 7c):
mcash2 checks. OneEye_Jacks bets $4.25. mcash2
calls.
Turn (board: Jh Kd 7c Ac):
mcash2 checks. OneEye_Jacks goes all-in for $12.50.
mcash2 calls.
River (board: Jh Kd 7c Ac 7s):
(no action in this round)
Showdown:
OneEye_Jacks shows 7h 7d.
OneEye_Jacks has 7h 7d 7c Ac 7s: four sevens.
mcash2 mucks cards.
(mcash2 has Js Jd.)
Hand #37040519-65534 Summary:
$1.85 is raked from a pot of $37.75.
OneEye_Jacks wins $35.90 with four sevens.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
Ash's Thoughts: Maniacs
The biggest advice I can give against a maniac is to not tilt. He usually will have the table on edge and is usually running the show. Don't get caughtup in the flashy show, just realize that it is his style and play accordingly.
Play tight and play your hand hard when you hit. Slow-play your monsters. Let him do the betting. Depending on position decide to show power on turn or river. If he has position - you should go for the reraise on the turn not the river. If you check to him on the river he will likely just check behind you. If you have position you can wait until the river to raise him.
Another tip - a maniac is usually succeptable (did I spell that right, ahh who cares) afraid of the reraise. the maniac is looking for easy money with scare tactics, and when you stand up to the bully, he thinks you mean business. He will usually fold. But if you get reraised, he usually hit his junk hard, so be ready to fold anything that isn't a monster.
Also be willing to call him down once or twice (as long as it isn't too expensive) with 2nd pr or TPWK (top pr weak kicker). Hopefully you win these hands but either way you have shown him that you don't really respect his bets for strong holdings. This image will make you money now if you hit a strong hand within an hr. He will be more apt to call a monster or strong hand of yours, that you have waited cautiously for, with weaker holdings because of that image.
Just keep rope-a-doping him with these plays (but mostly waiting for the slow-played, smooth-calling monsters) and you will take the bully's money.
Play tight and play your hand hard when you hit. Slow-play your monsters. Let him do the betting. Depending on position decide to show power on turn or river. If he has position - you should go for the reraise on the turn not the river. If you check to him on the river he will likely just check behind you. If you have position you can wait until the river to raise him.
Another tip - a maniac is usually succeptable (did I spell that right, ahh who cares) afraid of the reraise. the maniac is looking for easy money with scare tactics, and when you stand up to the bully, he thinks you mean business. He will usually fold. But if you get reraised, he usually hit his junk hard, so be ready to fold anything that isn't a monster.
Also be willing to call him down once or twice (as long as it isn't too expensive) with 2nd pr or TPWK (top pr weak kicker). Hopefully you win these hands but either way you have shown him that you don't really respect his bets for strong holdings. This image will make you money now if you hit a strong hand within an hr. He will be more apt to call a monster or strong hand of yours, that you have waited cautiously for, with weaker holdings because of that image.
Just keep rope-a-doping him with these plays (but mostly waiting for the slow-played, smooth-calling monsters) and you will take the bully's money.
HEE-HAW
Boy oh boy. I took an ass-whippin' Sat. I lost $150 or so. I took a few bad beats, but that wasn't the real problem; I was playing like total crap. I was chasing bad all day and going for coin-flips. Sadly I didn't hit my share of these hands. But I can't really complain too much because often I was the one going in with the worst of it. I played about 2000 hands total. That's a lot of hands. Oh yea I ran my KK into AA twice for 2 of those buyins. I'm not just saying that I was playing badly because I ended down; no, I was truly gambling too much. An example of my bad play you say? No problem. I am just happy that this dude was on a chase-bluff or I'd have been down $200 for the session. He called me every name you can think after the hand. He probably added me to his buddy list also. LOL.
Hand #37040550-53284 at Coleraine (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 06/Jan/07 18:22:39
rbj is at seat 0 with $25.
Don Fenuci is at seat 1 with $25.
Parlay420 is at seat 2 with $50.40.
DeuceCal is at seat 3 with $21.50.
permits1 is at seat 4 with $76.55.
GarthBrooks is at seat 5 with $183.10.
Ghotiman is at seat 6 with $50.
Jeremy11785 is at seat 7 with $7.50.
Cannonfodderr is at seat 8 with $102.25.
mcash2 is at seat 9 with $47.15.
The button is at seat 2.
DeuceCal posts the small blind of $.25.
permits1 posts the big blind of $.50.
Don Fenuci posts out of turn for $.50.
Don Fenuci: -- --
Parlay420: -- --
DeuceCal: -- --
permits1: -- --
GarthBrooks: -- --
Jeremy11785: -- --
Cannonfodderr: -- --
mcash2: Ad 4d
Pre-flop:
GarthBrooks raises to $2.25. Jeremy11785 folds.
Cannonfodderr folds. mcash2 calls. Don Fenuci
folds. Parlay420 folds. DeuceCal folds. permits1
folds.
Flop (board: 7d 3h 9d):
GarthBrooks checks. mcash2 bets $4.50. GarthBrooks
raises to $19.25. mcash2 calls.
Turn (board: 7d 3h 9d 8s):
GarthBrooks bets $44.25. mcash2 goes all-in for
$25.65. GarthBrooks is returned $18.60 (uncalled).
River (board: 7d 3h 9d 8s 2c):
(no action in this round)
Showdown:
GarthBrooks shows Jd Qd.
GarthBrooks has Jd Qd 7d 9d 8s: queen high.
mcash2 shows Ad 4d.
mcash2 has Ad 4d 7d 9d 8s: ace high.
Hand #37040550-53284 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $95.55.
mcash2 wins $92.55 with ace high.
Hand #37040550-53284 at Coleraine (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 06/Jan/07 18:22:39
rbj is at seat 0 with $25.
Don Fenuci is at seat 1 with $25.
Parlay420 is at seat 2 with $50.40.
DeuceCal is at seat 3 with $21.50.
permits1 is at seat 4 with $76.55.
GarthBrooks is at seat 5 with $183.10.
Ghotiman is at seat 6 with $50.
Jeremy11785 is at seat 7 with $7.50.
Cannonfodderr is at seat 8 with $102.25.
mcash2 is at seat 9 with $47.15.
The button is at seat 2.
DeuceCal posts the small blind of $.25.
permits1 posts the big blind of $.50.
Don Fenuci posts out of turn for $.50.
Don Fenuci: -- --
Parlay420: -- --
DeuceCal: -- --
permits1: -- --
GarthBrooks: -- --
Jeremy11785: -- --
Cannonfodderr: -- --
mcash2: Ad 4d
Pre-flop:
GarthBrooks raises to $2.25. Jeremy11785 folds.
Cannonfodderr folds. mcash2 calls. Don Fenuci
folds. Parlay420 folds. DeuceCal folds. permits1
folds.
Flop (board: 7d 3h 9d):
GarthBrooks checks. mcash2 bets $4.50. GarthBrooks
raises to $19.25. mcash2 calls.
Turn (board: 7d 3h 9d 8s):
GarthBrooks bets $44.25. mcash2 goes all-in for
$25.65. GarthBrooks is returned $18.60 (uncalled).
River (board: 7d 3h 9d 8s 2c):
(no action in this round)
Showdown:
GarthBrooks shows Jd Qd.
GarthBrooks has Jd Qd 7d 9d 8s: queen high.
mcash2 shows Ad 4d.
mcash2 has Ad 4d 7d 9d 8s: ace high.
Hand #37040550-53284 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $95.55.
mcash2 wins $92.55 with ace high.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Another Good Day or Weeeeee
I played for a few hrs after work again. I did well. I made around $60. The big problem was finding a table. Only 1 $50 was open and 2 $25’s. So I pulled up all 3. (See previous post) The reason that I multi-tabled at different stakes is because it was only 3 tables and I am also comfortable playing for these stakes. If it had be 1 $50 and 2 $100 tables, I would have just dropped the $50 table and dealt with my impatience. Things were pretty uneventful. No monster hands; I just ground out a bunch of small victories and ended up a bit for the session.
I also put in my first live game of the year today. I played a short, small game with the work troupe. I slapped them around as usual, but not for as much as usual. I got caught in a nasty bluff and it really put a dent in my profit. He called my complete bluff with 2nd pair on a paired board. Plus there was a straight and flush possibility. His call was horrible, but hey, maybe he knew I was full of shit. Naaaaa, his call sucked. Normally it would have put money in my pocket when I really did have the goods and he called my raises with shit. Fun time though. A few are getting better at the game and a few aren’t. It’s fun to watch some of their plays. I won $13. Not bad for a start.
I am now off of work for 12 days straight and I play to put in a ton of hands. If I remember, I will try to keep tabs on just how many. My goal is to reason $1000 by the time I go back to work. If Lady Variance leaves me be most of the time, and I actually get rewarded for going in with the best hand, I think that I can surpass this goal. Wish me luck.
I also put in my first live game of the year today. I played a short, small game with the work troupe. I slapped them around as usual, but not for as much as usual. I got caught in a nasty bluff and it really put a dent in my profit. He called my complete bluff with 2nd pair on a paired board. Plus there was a straight and flush possibility. His call was horrible, but hey, maybe he knew I was full of shit. Naaaaa, his call sucked. Normally it would have put money in my pocket when I really did have the goods and he called my raises with shit. Fun time though. A few are getting better at the game and a few aren’t. It’s fun to watch some of their plays. I won $13. Not bad for a start.
I am now off of work for 12 days straight and I play to put in a ton of hands. If I remember, I will try to keep tabs on just how many. My goal is to reason $1000 by the time I go back to work. If Lady Variance leaves me be most of the time, and I actually get rewarded for going in with the best hand, I think that I can surpass this goal. Wish me luck.
MULTI-TABLING TIPS
1 - Playing multiple tables at different stakes. I don’t advise doing this for most people. When you multi-table you are making more decisions with less information exponentially for every table that you add. So you want to keep it as simple as possible. When you add different stakes to the mix, you have to think about betting and calculating different amounts on different tables. That’s just one more thing that can add confusion to your play. And the whole reason to play multi-tables is to add to your profit margin by increasing your hands per hr. Confusion by making too many decisions at once defeats the whole purpose of what you are trying to accomplish. Missteps cost you money and time.
2 - Anyone that has ever multi-tabled has accidentally done this because the screens kept popping up faster than you could keep up: folded a great hand because you ran out of time. As for running out of time you only have one option and that is to gain more time. One way to accomplish having the necessary time when you need it is to constantly scroll through all your tables and make easy decisions and then move on to the next. Don’t just sit and wait for the screens to pop up for you. If you see a premium starting hand quickly check your other tables, see if there are some decisions that you can make right then, and hopefully free up some time for you to concentrate on the big hand. Another reason you are running out of time is that you are quite likely playing too many tables at once. Back down one table and see how that works out.
3 – Another issue that has plagued multi-tablers is accidentally hitting the wrong button and either folding a monster or going allin with nothing. This problem hits you right in the pockets by missing out on potential profits or wasting profits. Another ill effect of this issue is a lowered positive mental state, which can lower confidence and possibly can induce tilt. The best way to alleviate this issue is to reconfigure the way your tables appear on the screen. You can raise your resolution, thus making your tables smaller, and move them to different areas of the screen. For the guys that like their tables bigger on the screen and don’t want to raise the resolution, they can just stagger their tables so that the buttons do not line up with buttons on the other tables. The trick here is to make sure that one table’s buttons don’t overlap another table’s buttons at all. You wouldn’t want to accidentally place your bet button over an adjacent table’s fold button for instance. I know I am starting a pattern here, but once again, you might have too many tables running at once.
4 - Multi-tabling SnG’s (Sit and Go). This creates a whole new problem for time conservation. The farther you make it into the tournament, as more players drop out, the more hands you play in the same amount of time. If you get down to the final three on a few different tables, you are truly pressed for time. And obviously if you are Heads-up on more than one table your decisions will be coming exceedingly quick. So to alleviate this problem a nice trick for the multi-table SnG player is to stagger the times that you enter a game. Wait a few rounds and then throw your name on the sign-up list. It is truly up to the discretion of the player and their abilities.
5 - The biggest thing about multi-tabling is finding out just how many tables you can concentrate on and still play profitable poker. If you are multi-tabling and you start finding your decisions are being overly rushed and it is affecting your game or ability to make normal moves and plays, you need to drop one table. You will likely find that you can actually make more profits with fewer hands per hour in most cases. You really just need to find that happy median. And don’t let your ego get in the way; you are there to make money, not see how many things you can juggle at once.
2 - Anyone that has ever multi-tabled has accidentally done this because the screens kept popping up faster than you could keep up: folded a great hand because you ran out of time. As for running out of time you only have one option and that is to gain more time. One way to accomplish having the necessary time when you need it is to constantly scroll through all your tables and make easy decisions and then move on to the next. Don’t just sit and wait for the screens to pop up for you. If you see a premium starting hand quickly check your other tables, see if there are some decisions that you can make right then, and hopefully free up some time for you to concentrate on the big hand. Another reason you are running out of time is that you are quite likely playing too many tables at once. Back down one table and see how that works out.
3 – Another issue that has plagued multi-tablers is accidentally hitting the wrong button and either folding a monster or going allin with nothing. This problem hits you right in the pockets by missing out on potential profits or wasting profits. Another ill effect of this issue is a lowered positive mental state, which can lower confidence and possibly can induce tilt. The best way to alleviate this issue is to reconfigure the way your tables appear on the screen. You can raise your resolution, thus making your tables smaller, and move them to different areas of the screen. For the guys that like their tables bigger on the screen and don’t want to raise the resolution, they can just stagger their tables so that the buttons do not line up with buttons on the other tables. The trick here is to make sure that one table’s buttons don’t overlap another table’s buttons at all. You wouldn’t want to accidentally place your bet button over an adjacent table’s fold button for instance. I know I am starting a pattern here, but once again, you might have too many tables running at once.
4 - Multi-tabling SnG’s (Sit and Go). This creates a whole new problem for time conservation. The farther you make it into the tournament, as more players drop out, the more hands you play in the same amount of time. If you get down to the final three on a few different tables, you are truly pressed for time. And obviously if you are Heads-up on more than one table your decisions will be coming exceedingly quick. So to alleviate this problem a nice trick for the multi-table SnG player is to stagger the times that you enter a game. Wait a few rounds and then throw your name on the sign-up list. It is truly up to the discretion of the player and their abilities.
5 - The biggest thing about multi-tabling is finding out just how many tables you can concentrate on and still play profitable poker. If you are multi-tabling and you start finding your decisions are being overly rushed and it is affecting your game or ability to make normal moves and plays, you need to drop one table. You will likely find that you can actually make more profits with fewer hands per hour in most cases. You really just need to find that happy median. And don’t let your ego get in the way; you are there to make money, not see how many things you can juggle at once.
Friday, January 05, 2007
The Last Two Days or Small Wins Are Good Wins In My Book
The last 2 days I’ve put in around a total of 3 hrs. I am currently on night shift and get off my 12 hr shift at 7 am. I get as many 50 NL tables as are running at that time of the morning – usually 3 to 4. Both days I hit a few nice hands early on. 1st morning my SC’c hit their flush on the turn and the reraise brought me $25 or so. This morning I got a little action with a couple of high pairs PF where the players just had unsuited high cards and were willing to go for it. I also got lucky and turned my semi-bluff small pair into trips on the river and took out a higher pocket pair that just kept smooth calling my raises on every street. This morning when I won these 3 nice hands my opponents didn’t have much of a stack when we tangled. This probably had a lot to due with their original willingness to mix it up with marginal holdings in the first place. It might be coincidence but there seems to be a lot of guys playing this style in the mornings. They just keep reloading the minimum or ½ max and are willing to battle with marginal hands. Often playing fairly aggressively with multiple over-cards to their pairs on the board. Weird. They seem to want to gamble and see how their luck is going to run for the day. But hey if I keep seeing these ATM’s, I might just have to start getting up in the morning.
The biggest hand in the last 2 days has me wondering a little. I think I over-valued my hand and lost a buyin, but if I had won, I wouldn’t be thinking that way. I have QQ. The pot is opened PF before me for $2 or so. I make it $5. He calls. Here I played it solid. If he had pushed here I would have folded my Q’s. I think that would have been the prudent play it that case – no reason to get $45 more dollars when he is telling me that I’m behind. OK, he doesn’t – he calls. He could easily have checked here with AA, KK, or AK, which 2 of those have me crushed. Me? I reraise with AA or KK PF and put players to the decision right off the bat before they get a look at the flop. AK I fold 30% of the time and check the other 70%. Some guys are more agro and reraise with AK, but that’s not me. He could also be playing mid to small pairs hoping to see the flop fairly cheap after his PF raise was upped. J96 flops. He bets $6; I raise to $12. He then puts another $6 on top of my raise. Here is where most people would slow down and go into the think tank. He is obviously portraying AA, KK, or a spiked set. But I have seen plenty of people at these stakes play AJ strong here. But would he have played the way he did PF with AJs or AJ? Not likely, but I’ve seen it more than once. So basically here is where I think I made my mistake for going any farther with the hand. Am I being weak? I then push for my last $30 or so. He insta-calls and at showdown scoops the pot and my pride and good zone mood with it. Bad push? I think so and not because I lost, but really there was pretty much of nothing that I beat here by the way he had played the thus far. Only a bluff or semi-bluff are really all I have beat here. I should have just let it go. $50 on this hand in this situation – I lose more than I gain. Damn it, lost profits again. I really must plug these leaks. I couldn’t have save $20 of it here, but the other $30 I just gave away.
So with that big hand lost, I still made $30 or so a day. That equates to $20 an hr, and I can live with that
The biggest hand in the last 2 days has me wondering a little. I think I over-valued my hand and lost a buyin, but if I had won, I wouldn’t be thinking that way. I have QQ. The pot is opened PF before me for $2 or so. I make it $5. He calls. Here I played it solid. If he had pushed here I would have folded my Q’s. I think that would have been the prudent play it that case – no reason to get $45 more dollars when he is telling me that I’m behind. OK, he doesn’t – he calls. He could easily have checked here with AA, KK, or AK, which 2 of those have me crushed. Me? I reraise with AA or KK PF and put players to the decision right off the bat before they get a look at the flop. AK I fold 30% of the time and check the other 70%. Some guys are more agro and reraise with AK, but that’s not me. He could also be playing mid to small pairs hoping to see the flop fairly cheap after his PF raise was upped. J96 flops. He bets $6; I raise to $12. He then puts another $6 on top of my raise. Here is where most people would slow down and go into the think tank. He is obviously portraying AA, KK, or a spiked set. But I have seen plenty of people at these stakes play AJ strong here. But would he have played the way he did PF with AJs or AJ? Not likely, but I’ve seen it more than once. So basically here is where I think I made my mistake for going any farther with the hand. Am I being weak? I then push for my last $30 or so. He insta-calls and at showdown scoops the pot and my pride and good zone mood with it. Bad push? I think so and not because I lost, but really there was pretty much of nothing that I beat here by the way he had played the thus far. Only a bluff or semi-bluff are really all I have beat here. I should have just let it go. $50 on this hand in this situation – I lose more than I gain. Damn it, lost profits again. I really must plug these leaks. I couldn’t have save $20 of it here, but the other $30 I just gave away.
So with that big hand lost, I still made $30 or so a day. That equates to $20 an hr, and I can live with that
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
2006 earnings* and 2007 Supposition**
DISCLAIMER: What you are about to read in regard to one’s yearly earnings is only gratuitous nonsensical fiction only stated to make one seem validated and vindicated in one’s time spent playing poker. No real money was earned. All amounts of play money are approximations and likely stated well above one’s actual earnings of play money. All play money is worthless as US legal tender and thus holds no real monetary value.
I had a great year. And here is the run-down. I started the year with $180 in my online accounts. Throughout the year I cashed out $4740 in earnings. At year’s end I have a $507 online bankroll. So that sums-up to $5067 for 2006. That is a far cry for what I started the year with. I am truly satisfied with my online cash game.
I also did a little Live action over 2006. Most were local home games with my friends from work. I also played a few times with the Family in low buyin tourneys. And I put a little time in at the casino. I made a grand total of $767 at live action play last year.
Breakdown:
Casino – lost $139.00 – 3 wins/2 losses.
Local home games – earned $821.00 – 18 wins/3 losses.
Fam Games – earned $85 – 4 wins/0 losses.
My monetary goal for this year is to double last year’s earnings. Online will be tough, but it is attainable. I started last year at the $10 tables and was hyper-conservative and anal about moving up stakes. Often I had more than 35 max buyins before I made the move because I wanted to crush the level before moving up stakes. I waited until I could consistently make money and know that level’s plays and moves. I don’t need to learn how to beat these stakes again because I already can. Plus I am starting the year at $500 and am playing the $50NL tables. I am willing to take greater risks this year, but I will move down if a downswing comes by. So $10,000. Man that’s a lot of money. Only $9,500 to go. Hopefully the government and sites leave us US players alone long enough for me to beat this goal.
*Earnings: Figurative monetary units.
**Supposition: Estimate of future earnings*.
I had a great year. And here is the run-down. I started the year with $180 in my online accounts. Throughout the year I cashed out $4740 in earnings. At year’s end I have a $507 online bankroll. So that sums-up to $5067 for 2006. That is a far cry for what I started the year with. I am truly satisfied with my online cash game.
I also did a little Live action over 2006. Most were local home games with my friends from work. I also played a few times with the Family in low buyin tourneys. And I put a little time in at the casino. I made a grand total of $767 at live action play last year.
Breakdown:
Casino – lost $139.00 – 3 wins/2 losses.
Local home games – earned $821.00 – 18 wins/3 losses.
Fam Games – earned $85 – 4 wins/0 losses.
My monetary goal for this year is to double last year’s earnings. Online will be tough, but it is attainable. I started last year at the $10 tables and was hyper-conservative and anal about moving up stakes. Often I had more than 35 max buyins before I made the move because I wanted to crush the level before moving up stakes. I waited until I could consistently make money and know that level’s plays and moves. I don’t need to learn how to beat these stakes again because I already can. Plus I am starting the year at $500 and am playing the $50NL tables. I am willing to take greater risks this year, but I will move down if a downswing comes by. So $10,000. Man that’s a lot of money. Only $9,500 to go. Hopefully the government and sites leave us US players alone long enough for me to beat this goal.
*Earnings: Figurative monetary units.
**Supposition: Estimate of future earnings*.
An Old Year in Retrospect and A New Year’s Goals
I learned a lot this year. I also achieved a lot. I am very happy and proud of how the year went. The biggest improvement in my game started early this year when I began read poker books and articles and discussing poker with other players at poker forums. I soon learned some new tricks with the guidance from these sources. I have made a lot of changes to my game last year and hopeful make a lot more.
I now buyin for the max at the table to give me the optimum opportunity to earn the maximum from my opponents’ mistakes. I started the year playing super-tight push-monkey poker while buying in for the minimum. Don’t get me wrong here, you can make money this way as I learned early on, but you are not growing as a player; you’re not gain levels in your poker knowledge. I wasn’t really using my head; I was just waiting for a great starting hand and then pushing with it. I was making money slowly, but I wasn’t gaining any new skills. One positive was that I was getting lots of hands in, gradually letting me see how others were playing hands and gaining experience that only comes from sitting at the table.
I truly learned the value of aggression. This one advancement in my poker arsenal has added expected value to every session. I started the year weak and envisioning monsters under every bed, often folding strong holdings to others’ aggression. I hated to put money in the middle without an almost certain guaranty of returned compensation. I realize now through much trial and error and castigation from peers, that in certain situations it is lucrative in the long-term to bet even with marginal holdings. Continuation bets are a must. It took a lot for my conservative psyche to turn these tricks. I still have a long way to go, yet I am on the path.
I also have learned a bit about position over the year. I started out only playing certain hands and betting those hands the same at a full ring game no matter where I was in the hand. I have begun to be more aggressive with lesser holdings the better my position. It has increased my profits and also wins a lot of hands that I wouldn’t stand a chance with at showdown. The fewer people in the hand the less likely someone hit their hand and when they do how hard they hit. Another bet from position on a later street is quite likely to make them drop their holdings. I still have a long way to go here with my overall game.
I have begun to not only play with the hand I’m holding but also think about my opponents’ holdings and play accordingly. I’m starting to get an elementary grasp of possible holdings due to the way they play the hand. What are their betting patterns showing or portraying about their holdings? At the beginning of this year this was basically a nonexistent skill for me. But if you would have asked me if I thought about what they were holding, I would have ignorantly said of course I do. Yea, I half-ass guessed what they had, but without the depth of thinking currently involved. Once again I have plenty to learn here.
I have lowered my starting hand requirements. I started the year playing hyper-tight poker. I was playing top 15-25 hands solely. As aforementioned, I usually pushed my purposely-intentioned short-stack when I found those hands. It took a while for my mind to comprehend that loosening up didn’t mean going all willy-nilly and just throwing your money in with anything for any reason. I now play lots of combinations of starting hands in an array of situations and positions lucratively, by knowing exactly what and how I expect to hit those hands before investing anymore time or money into the hand. This is an ongoing and I’m guessing ever-changing part of my future game.
I have stopped adhering to my-believed finite rules of play. I have begun to play the player and/or situation. I don’t robotically make the moves that so easily defined what I held. I have begun to portray what I want them to think I hold or don’t hold. I exploit others mistakes with move and counter-move. I have begun to use pinpoint bluffing. It’s not hard to push in your chips and hope for the best. What’s hard is to know or make an educated guess as to when they will fold. I have begun to raise early in the hand for no other reason than to gain information as to their holds and how strong they are. I truly have lots to learn here and would fair to guess always will continue to always learn more and refine.
All of the aforementioned aspects and areas of my game that I have grown and embellished upon this past year, I hope and expect to continue educating myself further this next year. I look forward to it actually. I will keep an open-mind to new concepts and strategies, even if they seem far-fetched at first. I will continue to listen, discuss, and analyze every aspect that I can. Just like the psychology I am studying with fervor and I feel, an inherent love, I also feel for poker. There is nothing that makes a person thrive at something more than a love for it. Numerically I hope to double my earnings from last year. It is obtainable. Am I up to the task? Who knows, but you can bet your ass I will try. Onward I will grow and hopefully hit that unlikely plateau that, we all that love poker surreptitiously hope for, breaking the confines of the harnessed and controlled yoke of corporate society, to become a thriving Pro that lives doing what he loves.
I now buyin for the max at the table to give me the optimum opportunity to earn the maximum from my opponents’ mistakes. I started the year playing super-tight push-monkey poker while buying in for the minimum. Don’t get me wrong here, you can make money this way as I learned early on, but you are not growing as a player; you’re not gain levels in your poker knowledge. I wasn’t really using my head; I was just waiting for a great starting hand and then pushing with it. I was making money slowly, but I wasn’t gaining any new skills. One positive was that I was getting lots of hands in, gradually letting me see how others were playing hands and gaining experience that only comes from sitting at the table.
I truly learned the value of aggression. This one advancement in my poker arsenal has added expected value to every session. I started the year weak and envisioning monsters under every bed, often folding strong holdings to others’ aggression. I hated to put money in the middle without an almost certain guaranty of returned compensation. I realize now through much trial and error and castigation from peers, that in certain situations it is lucrative in the long-term to bet even with marginal holdings. Continuation bets are a must. It took a lot for my conservative psyche to turn these tricks. I still have a long way to go, yet I am on the path.
I also have learned a bit about position over the year. I started out only playing certain hands and betting those hands the same at a full ring game no matter where I was in the hand. I have begun to be more aggressive with lesser holdings the better my position. It has increased my profits and also wins a lot of hands that I wouldn’t stand a chance with at showdown. The fewer people in the hand the less likely someone hit their hand and when they do how hard they hit. Another bet from position on a later street is quite likely to make them drop their holdings. I still have a long way to go here with my overall game.
I have begun to not only play with the hand I’m holding but also think about my opponents’ holdings and play accordingly. I’m starting to get an elementary grasp of possible holdings due to the way they play the hand. What are their betting patterns showing or portraying about their holdings? At the beginning of this year this was basically a nonexistent skill for me. But if you would have asked me if I thought about what they were holding, I would have ignorantly said of course I do. Yea, I half-ass guessed what they had, but without the depth of thinking currently involved. Once again I have plenty to learn here.
I have lowered my starting hand requirements. I started the year playing hyper-tight poker. I was playing top 15-25 hands solely. As aforementioned, I usually pushed my purposely-intentioned short-stack when I found those hands. It took a while for my mind to comprehend that loosening up didn’t mean going all willy-nilly and just throwing your money in with anything for any reason. I now play lots of combinations of starting hands in an array of situations and positions lucratively, by knowing exactly what and how I expect to hit those hands before investing anymore time or money into the hand. This is an ongoing and I’m guessing ever-changing part of my future game.
I have stopped adhering to my-believed finite rules of play. I have begun to play the player and/or situation. I don’t robotically make the moves that so easily defined what I held. I have begun to portray what I want them to think I hold or don’t hold. I exploit others mistakes with move and counter-move. I have begun to use pinpoint bluffing. It’s not hard to push in your chips and hope for the best. What’s hard is to know or make an educated guess as to when they will fold. I have begun to raise early in the hand for no other reason than to gain information as to their holds and how strong they are. I truly have lots to learn here and would fair to guess always will continue to always learn more and refine.
All of the aforementioned aspects and areas of my game that I have grown and embellished upon this past year, I hope and expect to continue educating myself further this next year. I look forward to it actually. I will keep an open-mind to new concepts and strategies, even if they seem far-fetched at first. I will continue to listen, discuss, and analyze every aspect that I can. Just like the psychology I am studying with fervor and I feel, an inherent love, I also feel for poker. There is nothing that makes a person thrive at something more than a love for it. Numerically I hope to double my earnings from last year. It is obtainable. Am I up to the task? Who knows, but you can bet your ass I will try. Onward I will grow and hopefully hit that unlikely plateau that, we all that love poker surreptitiously hope for, breaking the confines of the harnessed and controlled yoke of corporate society, to become a thriving Pro that lives doing what he loves.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
I put in an all-nighter at the tables while most were out partying like it was 1999… er, I mean 2007. I did have one eye on the TV as the ball dropped. I was a very long night. As seen on my 12/31 quickie post, I was down $75 right out the gate and had to take a break in the early evening. Well when I got back on after my cooldown session I decided to move down and play on the $25 tables. I got 5 of those going and started grinding. I recouped my losses and ended the day’s overall session up $6. I was happy with that. I will post a year’s review soon.
Now to go through my big hands of the night. I forgot to grab one hand. I played that one horridly. I have a half-ass excuse, but I am pissed at my oversight. I was in another big hand and the tables kept popping back and forth on me. I was trying to concentrate on both but didn’t notice the suits on the board, just the overall figures. I don’t even remember what I had just that the river brought the 4-flush on the board, I went allin, and I didn’t have a card of that suit. It cost me a buyin. It would have put me on tilt likely if it would have been higher stakes.
For those that don’t like to go through hands, go ahead and start skipping the hands by not reading the numbered items from now on. I have decided to start going through these hands again to see what I can learn from my big or key hands. These are the hands that will make or break your sessions. You can grind all night all with small pots slowly, methodically inching forward and in one fell swoop drop everything you have spent all night long earning. I feel that this is one of my leaks and I will start to reflect on these key pots to see if I can improve in any way or if mostly the losses or under-paid pots are due to variance. I’m guessing I have a lot to learn and gain here. We will see.
1 – QQ. Raise $1.35 in front. I reraise to $3.75. It is then reraised to 6.35. I call. J66 – flop. He bets $3 and I call. 2 – turn. He bets $3 again and I just call. River – K. He bets $5 and I call. He turns over AKo and takes down a nice pot.
Looking back I played this hand like a chump. My problem here was that I thought he had AA or KK when I called the PF reraise. The problem with this is that I passively called down this pot and was out-drawn. I had absolutely no info as to what he had. If I was willing to keep putting small amounts of money in I should have raised to see where I was at in the hand. The $3 raise was very weak. The pot at that point had $13 or so into it. $3 is pretty much a ¼ pot bet and is very weak. I need to put him to the decision right then and there. AA or KK would likely bet pot he to protect the hand and to get extra value. Maybe JJ bets this way instead of checking because a check would be fishy. But ¼ pot bet is pretty damn fishy. Maybe AA or KK hoping for me to raise so he could push. I just plain played this hand bad. I usually fold PF in this situation. Meaning if it is raised PF and I then reraise only to get reraised right back that usually means AA or KK. But here I called $3 to see $10 pot hoping to hit my set. The problem was his weird bet. I am totally unhappy here with my play. Enough incoherent rambling; on to the next hand.
2 – KQo. Limp-limp-limp-limp-SB, I call-check. QK7 rainbow. We all check – me hoping for a check-raise here. K – turn. Checks till button, who makes it $1.50. I bump to $3. Him allin with last $4. I obviously call, wishing that he had more money. He has AK. A on the River.
Nothing thing to learn here; I just whining. He hit a 4 outer. Almost 12 to 1 odds.
3 – AA vs KK allin PF. A 4-flush hits the board and I drop another buyin.
I’m whining again. But this was a big key hand, which hurt my bottom-line for the night, so I added it in.
4 – 6d5d. $.75 to me and I call. J43. $.75 to me and I call. 7 boom. $3 and I call. A on River. $3 and I raise it to $6. He calls. He has K7o.
??? Real weird hand all around. Normally I don’t play suited-connectors below 98s. I pulled this one out of the Greb book of tricks. He threw out the BS PF raise hoping to buy the pot and then followed with a ½ pot CB. Raised with his gay 7. But I don’t really see ever calling that river-raise of mine. Especially with 2 overs and an Ace on the river. Way too many people hold on to those A-rag hands to call that raise.
5 – JcTc. Limp, limp, I limp and the BB min-raises. I call the other $.25. Flop – AAQ. Checky-check around. K on Turn. BB min-bets. Call-call. I raise to $1.75, BB calls, and the other 2 drop. 4 – river. Check, Me - $4.80, allin for $20, and I call. AQ and I drop another buyin.
At first when I looked at this hand I just figured bad luck on my part with 2 big hands butting heads, but now I feel otherwise. At first I thought that you pretty much have to value-bet this river, thinking that in the long-run you make more money. I should have checked this river. I actually set myself up for the river check by being the aggressor. There are way more hands that beat be here than I cared to think about. AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ, and 44. That’s a lot of hands. This is one of my leaks that I need to work on: Not fully looking at the board and seeing what his me beat. I just knew that I had the nut straight. I knew it wasn’t the overall nuts, but figured I was good here. Another aspect of the hand that I totally missed and didn’t take into account – He min-raised PF. What hands would BB min-raise with PF, with 3 limpers left to act, and have me beat with this board? AA, KK, QQ, AK – no I don’t think so usually. You have to figure that all 3 limpers would call the extra quarter and that is too many people in the hand to get cute with your premium hands. So that leaves AQ and 44, hell I even throw AK back in the mix also because so many people play it weak. Yes many people min-raise with all these 3 hands in this situation. I totally missed this raise. Also some people limp with these same hands – the AQ and 44 the most often. I should have checked this river and tried to win a small pot than risk losing a big one. I paid for it this time. Hopefully I don’t try to value bet here again opening myself up to the big reraise where I don’t hold the nuts.
6 – ThTd. I limp from MP. Cutoff min-raises. BB and I both call. JcTs7d – rainbow flop. BB and I check. Cutoff opens for $1.60. I raise to $4.50. BB fold and bettor calls. As on Turn. Me - $8.50 and he calls. Qs river. I push for $13.25. He calls and shows down Js9s for all my money.
In retrospect I played this one with my gut instead of my head. You just shouldn’t lose with a spiked set, right? Well tonight you should. First off most of you more aggressive players would say that the PF raise would likely solve the whole problem. That just isn’t how I play right now. I don’t raise with AQ or TT PF that often – occasionally in LP. I’ll keep my eye on how these type hands work out any who knows maybe I will in the future. Now for a play that I probably should have done here – I could have reraised his PF min-raise. Min-raise could be any junk hand and possibly a few good ones. So I really should have bumped him $.50 raise up to around $2.50 or $3. This would have likely taken the hands PF or if he called, my CB would maybe take it on the flop if he was smart – TPSK (Top Pair Shit Kicker) doesn’t mean much in a reraised PF pot. OK, next up. He could have flopped a straight. I thought about that but decided to try to make some money here. So there is a small straight draw, nut straight draw, and an already possible straight right on the flop. So another mistake that I made was not betting out here. Better to win a small pot than lose a big one, I’ve heard tell. But like I said I figured I’d try the check-raise. I did and he really should have folded here to it, so I can’t fix stupid luck. He really can’t think his J9s is good here. Ace of spades hits the Turn. I fire again to a deaf ear - $8.50. So now he has TPSK and a straight draw. He once again he has to think he is behind here. He should think that he needs the flush to win here but lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say he knows exactly where he is at. He needs 3.4 to 1 to call with 14 outs and he is only getting 2.3 to 1. So that makes his call bad here, but hey, for all I know I might need the boat to beat a straight at this point also. River Qs. I am pretty much dead in the water here. That Q of spades just put tons more hands above mine here. A King kills me here, as does all the other hands that have me crushed, so my push here is really a hope and a prayer, and overall a horrible move. I guess I was hoping he didn’t have the nuts and maybe would fold. But seeing as how he called he all the way through the hand I should have been seeing monsters.
So what do I gain here. 6 hands were huge where at least $20 of my money went in. 1 was a small whine hand where I wanted to show their 4-outer. 1 was the 4-flush hand that I didn’t watch the board. So 6 huge hands that decide how your session is going to go. I lost 5 of them. 1 of those is the AA vs KK bad beat so that is just variance. The other 4, as you have read, I could have saved a lot of money in these hands. I’m not saying that I always should win or drop when I’m beat; I’m just saying that I should minimize the amount that I lose in some hands. All in all, I think conservatively that I save $40 in these hands if I play them better. And that equates to an $80 swing to my bottom-line. Early in the night I lost 2 huge hands and was down $75. This post is about when I got back and dropped down stakes and played the $25 tables. I won $6 total for the day, so that means that I won $81 in this later session. In a great world without my missteps you add in the other possible $80. That’s $161 for the night at the $25NL tables! Now we are talkin’ some money. I will get better by finding and filling these leaks. If you agree, disagree, or have something to add, I would be grateful to hear your thoughts. The more we think, discuss, and talk about poker the better we will all become. Plus a different perspective always adds more insight.
Now to go through my big hands of the night. I forgot to grab one hand. I played that one horridly. I have a half-ass excuse, but I am pissed at my oversight. I was in another big hand and the tables kept popping back and forth on me. I was trying to concentrate on both but didn’t notice the suits on the board, just the overall figures. I don’t even remember what I had just that the river brought the 4-flush on the board, I went allin, and I didn’t have a card of that suit. It cost me a buyin. It would have put me on tilt likely if it would have been higher stakes.
For those that don’t like to go through hands, go ahead and start skipping the hands by not reading the numbered items from now on. I have decided to start going through these hands again to see what I can learn from my big or key hands. These are the hands that will make or break your sessions. You can grind all night all with small pots slowly, methodically inching forward and in one fell swoop drop everything you have spent all night long earning. I feel that this is one of my leaks and I will start to reflect on these key pots to see if I can improve in any way or if mostly the losses or under-paid pots are due to variance. I’m guessing I have a lot to learn and gain here. We will see.
1 – QQ. Raise $1.35 in front. I reraise to $3.75. It is then reraised to 6.35. I call. J66 – flop. He bets $3 and I call. 2 – turn. He bets $3 again and I just call. River – K. He bets $5 and I call. He turns over AKo and takes down a nice pot.
Looking back I played this hand like a chump. My problem here was that I thought he had AA or KK when I called the PF reraise. The problem with this is that I passively called down this pot and was out-drawn. I had absolutely no info as to what he had. If I was willing to keep putting small amounts of money in I should have raised to see where I was at in the hand. The $3 raise was very weak. The pot at that point had $13 or so into it. $3 is pretty much a ¼ pot bet and is very weak. I need to put him to the decision right then and there. AA or KK would likely bet pot he to protect the hand and to get extra value. Maybe JJ bets this way instead of checking because a check would be fishy. But ¼ pot bet is pretty damn fishy. Maybe AA or KK hoping for me to raise so he could push. I just plain played this hand bad. I usually fold PF in this situation. Meaning if it is raised PF and I then reraise only to get reraised right back that usually means AA or KK. But here I called $3 to see $10 pot hoping to hit my set. The problem was his weird bet. I am totally unhappy here with my play. Enough incoherent rambling; on to the next hand.
2 – KQo. Limp-limp-limp-limp-SB, I call-check. QK7 rainbow. We all check – me hoping for a check-raise here. K – turn. Checks till button, who makes it $1.50. I bump to $3. Him allin with last $4. I obviously call, wishing that he had more money. He has AK. A on the River.
Nothing thing to learn here; I just whining. He hit a 4 outer. Almost 12 to 1 odds.
3 – AA vs KK allin PF. A 4-flush hits the board and I drop another buyin.
I’m whining again. But this was a big key hand, which hurt my bottom-line for the night, so I added it in.
4 – 6d5d. $.75 to me and I call. J43. $.75 to me and I call. 7 boom. $3 and I call. A on River. $3 and I raise it to $6. He calls. He has K7o.
??? Real weird hand all around. Normally I don’t play suited-connectors below 98s. I pulled this one out of the Greb book of tricks. He threw out the BS PF raise hoping to buy the pot and then followed with a ½ pot CB. Raised with his gay 7. But I don’t really see ever calling that river-raise of mine. Especially with 2 overs and an Ace on the river. Way too many people hold on to those A-rag hands to call that raise.
5 – JcTc. Limp, limp, I limp and the BB min-raises. I call the other $.25. Flop – AAQ. Checky-check around. K on Turn. BB min-bets. Call-call. I raise to $1.75, BB calls, and the other 2 drop. 4 – river. Check, Me - $4.80, allin for $20, and I call. AQ and I drop another buyin.
At first when I looked at this hand I just figured bad luck on my part with 2 big hands butting heads, but now I feel otherwise. At first I thought that you pretty much have to value-bet this river, thinking that in the long-run you make more money. I should have checked this river. I actually set myself up for the river check by being the aggressor. There are way more hands that beat be here than I cared to think about. AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ, and 44. That’s a lot of hands. This is one of my leaks that I need to work on: Not fully looking at the board and seeing what his me beat. I just knew that I had the nut straight. I knew it wasn’t the overall nuts, but figured I was good here. Another aspect of the hand that I totally missed and didn’t take into account – He min-raised PF. What hands would BB min-raise with PF, with 3 limpers left to act, and have me beat with this board? AA, KK, QQ, AK – no I don’t think so usually. You have to figure that all 3 limpers would call the extra quarter and that is too many people in the hand to get cute with your premium hands. So that leaves AQ and 44, hell I even throw AK back in the mix also because so many people play it weak. Yes many people min-raise with all these 3 hands in this situation. I totally missed this raise. Also some people limp with these same hands – the AQ and 44 the most often. I should have checked this river and tried to win a small pot than risk losing a big one. I paid for it this time. Hopefully I don’t try to value bet here again opening myself up to the big reraise where I don’t hold the nuts.
6 – ThTd. I limp from MP. Cutoff min-raises. BB and I both call. JcTs7d – rainbow flop. BB and I check. Cutoff opens for $1.60. I raise to $4.50. BB fold and bettor calls. As on Turn. Me - $8.50 and he calls. Qs river. I push for $13.25. He calls and shows down Js9s for all my money.
In retrospect I played this one with my gut instead of my head. You just shouldn’t lose with a spiked set, right? Well tonight you should. First off most of you more aggressive players would say that the PF raise would likely solve the whole problem. That just isn’t how I play right now. I don’t raise with AQ or TT PF that often – occasionally in LP. I’ll keep my eye on how these type hands work out any who knows maybe I will in the future. Now for a play that I probably should have done here – I could have reraised his PF min-raise. Min-raise could be any junk hand and possibly a few good ones. So I really should have bumped him $.50 raise up to around $2.50 or $3. This would have likely taken the hands PF or if he called, my CB would maybe take it on the flop if he was smart – TPSK (Top Pair Shit Kicker) doesn’t mean much in a reraised PF pot. OK, next up. He could have flopped a straight. I thought about that but decided to try to make some money here. So there is a small straight draw, nut straight draw, and an already possible straight right on the flop. So another mistake that I made was not betting out here. Better to win a small pot than lose a big one, I’ve heard tell. But like I said I figured I’d try the check-raise. I did and he really should have folded here to it, so I can’t fix stupid luck. He really can’t think his J9s is good here. Ace of spades hits the Turn. I fire again to a deaf ear - $8.50. So now he has TPSK and a straight draw. He once again he has to think he is behind here. He should think that he needs the flush to win here but lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say he knows exactly where he is at. He needs 3.4 to 1 to call with 14 outs and he is only getting 2.3 to 1. So that makes his call bad here, but hey, for all I know I might need the boat to beat a straight at this point also. River Qs. I am pretty much dead in the water here. That Q of spades just put tons more hands above mine here. A King kills me here, as does all the other hands that have me crushed, so my push here is really a hope and a prayer, and overall a horrible move. I guess I was hoping he didn’t have the nuts and maybe would fold. But seeing as how he called he all the way through the hand I should have been seeing monsters.
So what do I gain here. 6 hands were huge where at least $20 of my money went in. 1 was a small whine hand where I wanted to show their 4-outer. 1 was the 4-flush hand that I didn’t watch the board. So 6 huge hands that decide how your session is going to go. I lost 5 of them. 1 of those is the AA vs KK bad beat so that is just variance. The other 4, as you have read, I could have saved a lot of money in these hands. I’m not saying that I always should win or drop when I’m beat; I’m just saying that I should minimize the amount that I lose in some hands. All in all, I think conservatively that I save $40 in these hands if I play them better. And that equates to an $80 swing to my bottom-line. Early in the night I lost 2 huge hands and was down $75. This post is about when I got back and dropped down stakes and played the $25 tables. I won $6 total for the day, so that means that I won $81 in this later session. In a great world without my missteps you add in the other possible $80. That’s $161 for the night at the $25NL tables! Now we are talkin’ some money. I will get better by finding and filling these leaks. If you agree, disagree, or have something to add, I would be grateful to hear your thoughts. The more we think, discuss, and talk about poker the better we will all become. Plus a different perspective always adds more insight.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
New Year Is Already Looking Good or For Those That Don't Like Hand Histories Just Read The Bold Print
Hand #37040519-54455 at Edmond (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 02/Jan/07 01:32:37
futbol2109 is at seat 0 with $32.65.
Mayweed is at seat 1 with $52.75.
montecarlox is at seat 2 with $46.
scoop25785 is at seat 3 with $15.80.
mcash2 is at seat 4 with $43.40.
Mozambee is at seat 5 with $50.05.
Michilito is at seat 6 with $54.30.
MCHoops is at seat 7 with $51.65 (sitting out).
zboss is at seat 8 with $56.80.
digbyrodent is at seat 9 with $24.25.
The button is at seat 2.
scoop25785 posts the small blind of $.25.
mcash2 posts the big blind of $.50.
futbol2109: -- --
Mayweed: -- --
montecarlox: -- --
scoop25785: -- --
mcash2: Ah Kh
Mozambee: -- --
Michilito: -- --
zboss: -- --
digbyrodent: -- --
Pre-flop:
Mozambee folds. Michilito folds. zboss raises to
$1.75. digbyrodent folds. futbol2109 folds.
Mayweed folds. montecarlox folds. scoop25785 folds.
mcash2 calls.
Flop (board: 6s Jh Kd):
mcash2 checks. zboss checks.
Turn (board: 6s Jh Kd Th):
mcash2 bets $3.75. zboss calls.
River (board: 6s Jh Kd Th Qh):
mcash2 bets $11.25. zboss raises to $45. mcash2
goes all-in for $37.90. zboss is returned $7.10
(uncalled).
Showdown:
zboss shows Ad Tc.
zboss has Ad Tc Jh Kd Qh: straight, ace high.
mcash2 shows Ah Kh.
mcash2 has Ah Kh Jh Th Qh: royal flush.
Hand #37040519-54455 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $87.05.
mcash2 wins $84.05 with royal flush.
Hand #37040550-46386 at Coleraine (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 02/Jan/07 02:36:32
mcash2 is at seat 0 with $48.65.
atzbeach is at seat 1 with $11.
Doom Jedi is at seat 2 with $27.40.
Blind Ninja is at seat 3 with $84.10.
MCHoops is at seat 4 with $49.15 (sitting out).
blanted is at seat 6 with $65.35 (sitting out).
666satan666 is at seat 7 with $50.15.
OkIWilPayUOff is at seat 8 with $65.60.
betman88 is at seat 9 with $42.50.
The button is at seat 9.
mcash2 posts the small blind of $.25.
atzbeach posts the big blind of $.50.
mcash2: Ah As
atzbeach: -- --
Doom Jedi: -- --
Blind Ninja: -- --
666satan666: -- --
OkIWilPayUOff: -- --
betman88: -- --
Pre-flop:
Doom Jedi calls. Blind Ninja folds. 666satan666
raises to $2.25. OkIWilPayUOff folds. betman88
folds. mcash2 re-raises to $5.25. atzbeach folds.
Doom Jedi folds. 666satan666 calls.
Flop (board: 3c 9s Ad):
mcash2 checks. 666satan666 checks.
Turn (board: 3c 9s Ad Ac):
mcash2 bets $2.50. 666satan666 calls.
River (board: 3c 9s Ad Ac 2c):
mcash2 bets $6.50. 666satan666 folds. mcash2 is
returned $6.50 (uncalled).
Hand #37040550-46386 Summary:
$.80 is raked from a pot of $16.50.
mcash2 wins $15.70.
Started at 02/Jan/07 01:32:37
futbol2109 is at seat 0 with $32.65.
Mayweed is at seat 1 with $52.75.
montecarlox is at seat 2 with $46.
scoop25785 is at seat 3 with $15.80.
mcash2 is at seat 4 with $43.40.
Mozambee is at seat 5 with $50.05.
Michilito is at seat 6 with $54.30.
MCHoops is at seat 7 with $51.65 (sitting out).
zboss is at seat 8 with $56.80.
digbyrodent is at seat 9 with $24.25.
The button is at seat 2.
scoop25785 posts the small blind of $.25.
mcash2 posts the big blind of $.50.
futbol2109: -- --
Mayweed: -- --
montecarlox: -- --
scoop25785: -- --
mcash2: Ah Kh
Mozambee: -- --
Michilito: -- --
zboss: -- --
digbyrodent: -- --
Pre-flop:
Mozambee folds. Michilito folds. zboss raises to
$1.75. digbyrodent folds. futbol2109 folds.
Mayweed folds. montecarlox folds. scoop25785 folds.
mcash2 calls.
Flop (board: 6s Jh Kd):
mcash2 checks. zboss checks.
Turn (board: 6s Jh Kd Th):
mcash2 bets $3.75. zboss calls.
River (board: 6s Jh Kd Th Qh):
mcash2 bets $11.25. zboss raises to $45. mcash2
goes all-in for $37.90. zboss is returned $7.10
(uncalled).
Showdown:
zboss shows Ad Tc.
zboss has Ad Tc Jh Kd Qh: straight, ace high.
mcash2 shows Ah Kh.
mcash2 has Ah Kh Jh Th Qh: royal flush.
Hand #37040519-54455 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $87.05.
mcash2 wins $84.05 with royal flush.
Hand #37040550-46386 at Coleraine (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 02/Jan/07 02:36:32
mcash2 is at seat 0 with $48.65.
atzbeach is at seat 1 with $11.
Doom Jedi is at seat 2 with $27.40.
Blind Ninja is at seat 3 with $84.10.
MCHoops is at seat 4 with $49.15 (sitting out).
blanted is at seat 6 with $65.35 (sitting out).
666satan666 is at seat 7 with $50.15.
OkIWilPayUOff is at seat 8 with $65.60.
betman88 is at seat 9 with $42.50.
The button is at seat 9.
mcash2 posts the small blind of $.25.
atzbeach posts the big blind of $.50.
mcash2: Ah As
atzbeach: -- --
Doom Jedi: -- --
Blind Ninja: -- --
666satan666: -- --
OkIWilPayUOff: -- --
betman88: -- --
Pre-flop:
Doom Jedi calls. Blind Ninja folds. 666satan666
raises to $2.25. OkIWilPayUOff folds. betman88
folds. mcash2 re-raises to $5.25. atzbeach folds.
Doom Jedi folds. 666satan666 calls.
Flop (board: 3c 9s Ad):
mcash2 checks. 666satan666 checks.
Turn (board: 3c 9s Ad Ac):
mcash2 bets $2.50. 666satan666 calls.
River (board: 3c 9s Ad Ac 2c):
mcash2 bets $6.50. 666satan666 folds. mcash2 is
returned $6.50 (uncalled).
Hand #37040550-46386 Summary:
$.80 is raked from a pot of $16.50.
mcash2 wins $15.70.
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