Let me do a little blog spamming...

Spamming my own blog...I've reached a new low. =]

Attention poker/casino affiliates (especially all you PAW members), a good friend of mine now runs a Digital Gaming Network skin (same network as FCP) and wants to pay you lots and lots of commissions for player referrals. In fact, it's 100% rev share until september.

So if you like money (as opposed to hating it like me), go over to PokerDealer and sign up. You can tell her Jay sent you and be nice cause she's a sweetheart.



Oh, almost forgot! I set up an email address specifically for the blog...FCUKMONEY at gmail.com. So if you want to tell me, or 3up, or Vox or briz to go F ourselves or request more bad beat posts or something, you now have that option. Also, if you're an attractive female between the ages of 18 and 25, feel free to e-mail us your pictures.

J

The future is Omaha?

Then the future is now. Omaha, at least @ the low limits, is crazy soft. Like Hold`em used to be a couple years ago when 5/10NL was a monster game. It's not as popular yet but I am not too good @ but over a decent sample size my winrate is way better then in hold`em where I actually know what I'm doing. Why aren't more people moving over to greener pastures? It's most popular in pot limit form and there's a lot more action then in hold`em so I think once hold`em dies down this will be the next big game for degenerates to get in on.

Side note: Who plays full ring limit games? They almost never run but god damn are they soft. I guess if you play on every site you could find enough in mid-limit hold`em but that's about it. The 30/60 O8 on Stars runs a fair amount and is crazy soft as well. I'm pretty bad @ O8 and am a loser in the game if it's shorthanded but when it gets full I crush and I suck. It's a shame the games are more boring then watching paint dry since you can't huff the fumes.

Poker is just ridiculous.

Only in poker can someone be on a huge high one minute and on a huge low the next. You really have to be a little (or a lot) sick in the head to do this day in and day out.

As my previous post said, I haven't been playing much online lately but when I have it's been 4 tabling HU games...and for the most part I've been crushing them. I mean, except when I'm getting totally annihilated.

I was up 8 buyins from this morning and just gave back 11 in under 60 minutes. How's that for a swing? And I didn't even play that bad...well not bad enough to drop 11.

Somehow I ended up with really aggressive opponents on all 4 tables and if the pot was raised and reraised, we played for stacks nearly every time - which I'm okay with usually, but it was cooler after cooler and beat after beat...which eventually leads to tilt and even more tilt.

Example: I make a ridiculous call with 3rd pair on a 3bet flop in a reraised pot for 800BB. No problem. He peals the 6 outer on the turn. I actually got kind of excited when I made the call and was right...kind of a downer when you make an incredible call and then get f'd for it.

Made another ridiculous 800bb call with 2nd pair on a 3bet flop, in a reraised pot. Villian had habbit of 3bet shoving 2 overs oop in reraised pots. This one was even sicker (the beat, not the call)as I had one of his overs..aka drawing to 3. Q Ball on the turn, no problem.

Then just pure coolers. River gives us both 2nd pair, his being higher with me betting all the way and I managed to not stack off (yay?). 3bet pot, he c/r's me all in on a Jhigh board with JT. I make the call with J9. River T, ship him 600BB. This one may have been questionable but I don't think I can lay it down with previous action.

Made an idiotic/genius call with Ahigh on a river where villian overbet pot all in. It was either pure air or the absolute nuts...unfortunately villian had latter. Then just tilted off another 3buyins or so that could have been avoided.

HU games are just sick in variance...especially when opponents are aggressive and have a lot of gamble.

Unfortunate, I may have to abuse lower stakes players for a bit as I just cashed out stripper money.

Off to sulk in my own misery.

Only me

Who's the idiot who came up with live poker? Honestly, the reason why I've been MIA is cause I've been playing the oh so sexy pace of 30hands an hour while surrounded by a bunch of blithering retards.

And while I have some funny stories, I'm too tired to write them up so I'll just whine about how rigged to all hell live poker is. Only I can find a way to get it in with AK vs Aces and Kings pf for a buyin, then get it in Aces w/ nut ace vs Qhigh flush draw for 2 buyins, and flop the idiot straight on a steal from LP vs the nut straight and top 2.

SHIP IT TO THE RNG OBV

Clearly all huge setups for me to lose. F LIVE POKER. F 3UP for sleeping, F PHREEZENET for not blogging, oh and F FTP for forcing me to change my new nick.

If I get 5 people to e-mail me and tell me I'm the greatest, I'll post some funny stories about trapping old people with ace high.

Not much to say

Would be nice if someone else could make an update once in a while =] Ummm played from like 1-9am today and ended up down 1300 being down as much as 2400 @ one point. Didn't play too well and got myself in situations where I was getting pot odds to stack off with shitty draws and blanked them all. Not very happy about it obviously.

Once I got done with that I played softball for about 8 hours. Practice for different teams and then a game. Mixed league got killed as usual like 21-1 with me scoring the only run. Really need to hit the batting cages though. Went to dinner with a few of the competitive guys from the team afterwards and talked about how to improve and bullshitted for a while.

Came up and am currently playing the FTP HORSE tourney. A very weak blog entry if I do say so myself but I'm absolutely exhausted and playing like shit but running well so still in the tourney. I'll make up for it on Monday with a good post. Sorry.

:RungoodtowinHORSEagainwouldmakemetheillest?

The reason someone else should update once in a while

Jay is MIA and I think he might be dead but I'm too lazy to call him and find out so I'll just assume the worst. Played a decent (length wise) couple of sessions today though I didn't feel I played very well in the second sesh. I think I might make more money off the regulars in the games @ 1/2 then the donks. This is not the case @ 2/4 but pretty sure it may be true @ 1/2 and I'm curious to look around PT later and confirm this. Hands like this are the reason why. I believe that AEJones proposed the theorum that AK is the nuts in any situation. Just more evidence. Villain then I think got a little upset since after hand the text is missing but he said something along the lines of "instacalling with A high?". As if it wasn't evident that I was value-check calling the nuts there.

Regulars buy-in full and adjust to your play and think logically so it's easier to get reads on there play and adjust accordingly and adjust to how they're going to adjust to you etc. Many of the regulars @ 2/4 play much better to begin with and are also better @ adjusting/re-adjusting but @ 1/2 they're typically even easier to play against then average half-buyin donk.

:jitterbugavenueQjukeboxheronazi

Townsend wouldn't let me be his protege/man slave...

but he did give me a free month to cardrunners. Aba was slumming with the likes of me recording a CR video but didn't stay for long so I don't think the video was making the cut. I did get to fleece him for $30.30 before he left though including one heads-up hand. I'm clearly going to be in the 300/600NL game any week now. I guess I should start looking for him since it would kick ass to be able to play him HU @ low stakes and then watch the video of what he was holding against me. At first I wasn't a cardrunners fan but after watching enough videos I did pick up a couple little things which then obviously paid for the subscription and now that sbrugby and Schneids have joined up I would go so far as to actually reccomend it. i'm hoping Schneids improves my SHLHE game since it needs a lot of work and I'd like to play the midstakes HORSE games regularly in the future but my LHE definetly needs a lot of work. Pretty weak lineup in the 1k/2k HORSE last night for a little while where Razz and Stud8 hands got played pretty poorly that I saw.

In other news the weather here is actually beautiful but I feel like absolute shit. Playing well and expect my invite to the Ship It Holla Balls anyday now (jopke)

:I'mthegreatesteverandabashouldnotmakelowstakevideosbecausethey'res
ofarfromwhatheplaysandit'sfarmoreinterestingtowatchhimanalyze10/20

Such a sicko

Fell asleep watching some Family Guy after the first six hours of yesterdays session. Rolled straight off the couch and back in front of the computer. Typing this makes me realize that I'm ven geekier then I normally picture myself. Grinded for 4 hours and ended up finishing the day -47.60 for the day which isn't bad since the first half of the day is the kind of run of cards you only see when you play hundreds of thousands of hands.

Made a big hero call which I actually feel was correct still despite not getting the result I was hoping for. The big mistake I made is after making an excellent all-in call I leveled myself a few hands later against the same player figuring he was giving me more credit and would be thinking on the 3rd level when he was only on the 2nd. That's the one hand I'm really upset with myself about.

Dropped a few bucks bowling tonight after I finished up my session becaus ethe only time I bowl decent my friend bowls his best game ever. Got softball practice later today but hopefully will be able to log some hours today still since I've caught the bug a little bit.

:crushsilly

Running disgustingly well

Played 6 hours this morning and ended up dropping a little more then 4.5 buy-ins. Just sick how far ahead I was and how often I was able to do it that this result is just ridiculous. Playing LAG is the nuts. I made a few mistakes but that's too be expected in any sample of hands over 5k and none of them were major or just flat out horrible plays with no justification behind them. Didn't tilt and stayed focus for a long period of time and was pretty satisfied overall with my performance.

Started off by immediately misplaying a couple big pots which again were bad but not horrible. From then it was some sick sick beats. This was about the fifth one and while I'm not big on posting beats I use this solely because I thought this one was going to tilt me but I continued to play for several hours and take several more beats like this without tilting. Since I play low limits and don't ball out like Jay and Phreeze it's important that I actually establish the ability to do this and grind since I clearly am going to need to play more then a few hours a week to achieve anything close to ballerdom.

The reason I'll never work

The reason I'm not stuck 2500 from this session

Last 8500 hands I'm currently losing money with AA, AK, JJ which is pretty sick. No, I'm not a losing player who can't play AK or JJ properly it's just variance. Skipped a party to keep grinding since I got instastuck but if I ever leave the house again I'll be sure to drop some of that on the blog as well.

:JayisabitchImarakebackproandturningalbinoasItypethis

Daily Updates Starting Now

That's right our loyal degens, updates all over your faces every single day in May. It's a shame no one has anything interesting to ever say though so you're going to be stuck listening to me rant about the lack of committment on my softball team and how bad I suck @ poker and other random shit.

For instance, according to the internet I'm 26% gay. I'm positive I have considerably more gay tendancies then that based on the fact not two hours ago I had a discussion about why if you're going to wear underwear it should be silk and who makes the best designer jean. Total fagaloid.

Pokerstars which I almost never play on refused to give me a discount on 13 3/4 length baseball shirts and caps from the FPP store to outfit my softball team because it compromises the intregrity of their FPP program. Who the hell cares if someone gets a discount on 13 of those shitty shirts - who else is purchasing them? Fuckers don't even have rakeback.

On the pokerfront I will be absolutely crushing this month and might break even after rakeback. All skill. Jay was complaining that he didn't make enough off of to cover his denim shopping spree I played something like 20 hours in April and I could kind of use cash so I'll be logging hours. So far I've played 3hrs45mins which is almost halfway to a full workday!! Some people scoff @ this but they're jealous because I have a more charming personality then they do.

:FuckthehatersLivethedream

FTP has the dumbest railbirds on the net.

And it's not debatable. They sure are funny, though.

Also someone should write something interesting in this blog. Sure as hell won't be me though.

Phil Ivey? A fish? Surely I jest?

How sick is it that Phil Ivey was the fish in a 200-400 NL game last night on FTP? I booted ftp last night to see the following scenario:

Aba sits alone at several 6max 200-400 and one 300-600 HU table. Phil Ivey joins him at the 3/6 HU and at the 200-400 6max. Several players who were previously playing 100-200 join phil and aba at the 2/4. Phil leaves a buyin on the table and quits. Immediately after, the previously mentioned 100-200 players either leave or sit out with aba alone willing to play.

This just reinforces that Aba is currently the best NLHE player in the world. It's just sick how he's become so good so quickly.

Holla @ the UK one time.

My friends from the UK Bullitpete & FoxyUK move on to Day 2 of the WPT Bellagio Championship event with 42.5k and 47k in chips respectively.

Play resumes monday.

Best of luck to Pete & Stu. Take it down fellas.

Bleh. Meh. Puke. I suck. Etc, etc.

I should not play HU tables when I'm tired and 8 tabling. Booked a small loser($1200ish) today because I lost 6-7 buyins playing HU to someone who I've already lost 4 to previously. Yeah, I'm getting killed and the worst part is that it's mostly my fault.

At first glance I thought villian was nitty donk. Over a few hundred hands my opinion changed to reasonable but beatable. So today I booted up a HU on pcom alongside 5 cash and 2 tournaments - bad idea.

Bled chips left and right and basically just got abused hard. I ran ridiculously cold, rarely making a pair, forget anything that beats one. Didn't help that villain ran like fire. Set? Set when I have TP? Another set? Turn a set when I make TP + Fdraw? Flopped straight to my OP? More please? Can I win a coin flip? (Just kidding, you know I can't win a coin flip.)

Okay. Forget the whining and coolers. I was going to lose regardless, that's just how the cards came...but I should have lost a lot less. I've been sort of deviating from my standard HU game and trying some trappy with moderates - it's been working well on FTP (maybe I'm just hitting more) against more sophisticated opponents but has put me into a blood bath on pcom.

...

[I almost wrote a whole bunch of strategy (don't worry it would have been bad strategy since I'm down like 10K playing hU) and my thought process involving some situations based on analysis, but then I realized that this blog is getting somewhat popular and I don't know who's reading it so I'm going to be vague instead.]

I imported 20k or so Pcom hands into PT just to analyse whether or not I had an edge in aforementioned HU games. I do, but I haven't been exploiting it. I'm down about 10k total to 3 different opponents. One clearly has game and I don't think I could have played more than 5 hands differently. It wouldn't have made a big difference anyway.

The two others are transparent (and donks - always go with the first read!). I'm giving credit for plays they're incapable of. Both appear to have major (but different) leaks that I haven't been exploiting as much as I'd have liked. And some of the calls that are instant and standard vs a lot of opponents I've played lately are probably folds against their ranges.

All this means that I've been doing a piss poor job of adjusting to weaker opponents. Or that I suck. I'm pretty sure it's just me sucking. Doesn't help that I've been cold either. When you haven't made a pair in 75 hands and you suddenly see top pair no kicker, it starts looking like a straight flush. (Villain obv rivers 2 pair FTW!)

I may also need to implement a stop a loss. I would have been much less disgusted with myself than I currently am if I had lost the same amount over more sessions. It's clear that after some point my game descends into the third level of retardation and I start ignoring the captain obvious tells coming from their computers.

Meh. I should be down only 50% of what I've actually lost.

I think I may purposely start playing HU only (like 4 tables and only when I'm fresh for periods no longer than 3 hours) for the rest of the month. That should improve my ability to adjust to various opponents. Heads up is all about adjusting to your opponent, going with your read, and seeing who can tilt who first. And if I lose another 10k, I think I just won't play it anymore.

Welcome new readers!

I'd like to welcome our new readers from PAW. Make sure you bookmark us and tell all your friends. Kick back, spread the word, and leave lots of comments - we're here to amuse you. Also, I'd like to extend a personal thank you to one Jeremy Enke of PAW - thank you for linking the blog. We appreciate the free traffic.

Oh, almost forgot. A very special thank you to NewPokerGirl/Nicole79xx of PAW. Thanks for being so incredibly stupid - I couldn't have done it without you baby.

If it's wrong to love stupid people, I don't want to be right!

Stay tuned - I promise to go on drunken tilt and lose thousands of dollars really soon. REDPILL888 WHO?!!

Jay

P.s. Jeremy, thanks for not being a judgemental prick who jumps to conclusions without knowing all the details...oh wait. My mistake.

What the hell am I doing?

Is what I've been asking myself a lot lately. I've been booting up sessions and totally neglecting to actually pay attention to the actual games. No it's not the robot multitabling lack of attention, it's the what the hell am I doing playing this hand like a complete freaking idiot lack of attention. And the bad thing, I've been doing it over and over and over. Let me explain:

I've been sick. Really sick. Really sick to the point that I now look like a zombie, haven't left the house for several days and have been on a steady concoction of tylenol, advil and vodka for god knows how long.

And I think I've coughed up a lung last night.

So because I've been sick and stuck inside the house, I literally had nothing to do but sleep and play poker. And I've logged a ton of hours during this time - a ton of LOSING hours.

Let's go back to March. I had a half decent March other than the drunken tilt I went on (chronicled a few posts below). In fact, on the last day of March I was quite a few thousand away from my target and you know what? No problem - a few hours at the tables come April 1st I was over set goal. Nice. I am good. (Not really)

So, since I think I'm so good at this game, I decide to cashout a sizeable chunk of my roll...I have bills to pay and stripprs to buy. Besides, I'm good at poker.(No, I am not.)

The reason why I had a good March (other than playing lousy 1-2 for most of the month) was because I was "in the zone". It's not like I ran super well - I didn't, I was just in a great mental state pokerwise and I think I can attribute that to playing only about 30K hands the entire month, with the last 10k during the last couple of days. That's pretty much peanuts to any serious multitabler. For comparison, Threeup plays 30k hands in a week.

Now I'm not sure exactly how to maintain being "in the zone" (maybe I should take up meditation or something) but I know how to get out of the zone very quickly (yeah, big surprise).

Burnout - it's worse than tilt, baby. So what's burnout and how do you know you have it? Well, it's a weird state. It's when you hate poker with a passion and don't want to play it but do so anyway. It's when you have 5-6 tables open and can't help but browse some site or watch tv instead of paying attention to the action. It's when all your decisions are automatic, idiotic and without thought. You're not thinking about what you're doing, you're going through the motions and your motivation isn't to play your best possible game but to just "win a few grand and be done for the day."

It's a kind of emotionless and thoughtless state - which is why it differs from tilt. When you're on tilt, you're experiencing some sort of emotion from soemthing (a beat, a bad play on your part, whatever) but on burnout, you're watching numbers change on a screen and not caring.

It's what I've been going through lately. It's from playing lots of hours while I was sick and at the end of last month to meet expectations. I guess the fact that I was on a combination of meds and vodka didn't help either. I can't stand poker right now. In fact, to be honest, I don't enjoy it anymore and I haven't for a long time. The last time I can remember when I actually enjoyed playing was when I was playing strong, very creative opponents Heads up at higher stakes than my norm. It's been "just for the money" for so long now...no wonder I get burned out so quickly after playing only a few extra hours. Gone are the days where I could log 8 hours a day for a week and still want action on monday.

Over the past week, I've busted two of my accounts, and crippled another. It's a really good thing I got this cold or I could actually claim to win money at this game. God forbid.

FCUK Colds
FCUK Burnout
FCUK POker

P.s. Aba is the best NL player in the world right now. Step aside, Ivey. How sick is it that he was playing 400NL last year?

If it Wasn't For Big Pockets, I could Make money at this game

We've all heard, or bitched ourselves that "aces never hold up for me".... Well they dont hold up for me either, but more so, i was reviewing my Stats using my favorite stat keeping program, and i'm right where i want to be as far as VPIP, AF and WSD.. SemiLoose Aggressive baby!!!

However, I'm only up very little for the past 10k in hands, with how good i've been playing lately i should be averaging way more BB/100..

After a quick review i've found my biggest losing hands for the past 10k have been AA and KK, hell 22 has made more for me, and i'm even for playing J4o so thats doing better for me than AA or KK...

I reviewed my play on these hands and discovered that AA, can not beat 95s (especially when 95s pushes from the Button and you're in the BB with AA) A set of AA can not beat KJo especially so it is especially bad to keep betting the pot all the way to the river when that T hits..

My KK will not beat someone elses AA but if I have AA and someone has KK, I might as well just burn my money and use it to light my cigarettes with...

My AA and KK are looking at about a 10% win ratio right now, and they're getting all in preflop the vast majority of the time...

I cant complain too hard, I am currently up, Thank God for flushes...

P u k e

(heads up) - $3/$6 - No Limit Hold'em - 2007/03/30
Seat 1: Hero ($1457)
Seat 2: Villain ($614)
Hero posts the small blind of $3
Villain posts the big blind of $6
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [9h 9s]
Hero raises to $21
NotePad calls $15
*** FLOP *** [8d 9d 8s]
Hero bets $36
Villain Raises to $72
Hero Calls $36
*** TURN *** [8d 9d 8s] [6d]
Hero bets $90
Villaine Raises to $180
Hero raises to $1364 and is all in
Villain Calls $341 and is all in
Hero Shows [9h 9s]
Villain Shows [Td 7d]
*** River *** [8d 9d 8s 6d] [4c]
Villain wins pot ($1227.50) with Ten high Straight flush

I played it kind of badly but villain dictated. =[

The 1-2 experiment, legendary tilt and epic stars meltdowns.

March 1st, 2007 - As usual, Threeup up and I are insulting each other on AIM when then all of a sudden the following comes up: In all his stripper wisdom, the kid decides to bet me that I couldn't drop down in limits and stay there for an extended period of time.

Me? Not be able to do something? Is this guy kidding? You know it's on.

Now, normally, it's true that I wouldn't be able to play a month of 1-2. As per my usual poker degenercy and the reason for this blogs existance, I would be jumping around from 3-6 to 5-10 to 25-50 depending on my mood or how much I was stuck on the day...but when a guy lays down a dare you gotta take it. (I know, I know, cheesy 80's movie reference, sorry I couldn't help it.)

Fast forward to today, and after 20,000 hands of playing 1-2 exclusively I am up somewhere around 10grand. That is, uhh, until this morning.

Let's back track a bit to around 11pm when I decided to get ridiculously drunk with a friend I haven't seen in a while. Many many shots later, I come home in the early hours of the morning very very drunk and very very broke. Good thing I have the ATM of online poker at my disposal. After all, after about 44-45 hours of playing (6 tables @ 75hands/hr), I'm averaging ~222$ per 60minutes. (Imagine if I didn't suck?!)

It's cashout time baby!

So naturally I head on over to my pokerstars account, click cashier, and what's this? If I cashout my account balance will have an imperfection in it. It will be uneven. This simply won't do. Heading over to the 10-20LHE tables immediately.

10minutes later I'm down 40 bets. Is it even possible to lose 40 bets in 10minutes? Seriously. Time for 30-60. The beats don't stop. I'm down several thousand and I haven't even broken a sweat. I'm not playing well, I'm not sober. I refuse to quit. Time for 5000NL.

Now we're here, it's 8am and a buyin later I'm still broke, slightly more sober, and am writing this blog for your entertainment.

Normally, I wouldn't be so mad because, well hey, I do stupid stuff like this to amuse myself on a daily basis but this time there's a problem - I may have just been proven wrong by Threeup! I mean, does drunken idiocy count? I suppose it should? Furthermore, I was planning on going out tonight and spending an obscene amount of money on alchohol and personal entertainment...but now I don't have any.

Hey Threeup, double or nothing on April? I'll 20 table the hell out of 1-2!

Jay is sad.

lil donkaments

First off wtf is lil? I can't come up with something it stands for so I'm guessing it's more leetspeak that can get destroyed by the masses. (Sup Jay) Also pwn is still pronunced own jackasses, Everytime I hear some bitch say powned I want to slap them. That said I felt lil is approriate when addressing tournaments because I fcuking hate them as well. So what did I do today? Well a nice relaxing days away from grinding on the tables because I think I'll boot up some tournies for the day.

So Let's Breakdown How Bad I Suck:

PokerStars:

10+1 PLO - WTF?? Why did I join this? The prizepool is barely over a grand so I decide I'd rather stare @ my genitials for a bit instead. Instadonkdown.

50+5 NLHE - Started off pretty standard not doing much playing a little LAG early on but not getting involved still. Fast forward a little bit I c/r all-in with an OESD he calls with an overpair which was also 2 of my outs. I spike, he gets pissed, bad play is rewarded again, I buckle down. Fast forward a little more I start playing very well and getting involved in tons of pots. I'm constantly flipping shortstacks getting insane pot odds and winnings more then I'm losing while never putting a significant portion of my stack in jeopardy. I'm stealing left and right and flipping a lot and gaining a lot of chips without making any big hands. We're approaching the money and I'm about 30ish of 110 (90 pay). We make the money, I make a few hands and get near the chip lead continuing to do the same thing. Pow! We had started with 798 and now we're down to 9. As much as I hate tournies I do final table them like it's my job!?! A lot of swings prior to coming I had lost a couple hands and am now in 5th going into the final table.

People are getting KOd much slower then I would like as I was hoping to move up a couple spots before I was forced to gamble. Life's tough I still raise dueces UTG 8 handed after folding for a couple rounds. Yeah, I'm that donktastic and still better then you. Shortstack has AQ and just calls flop KJx so I push because that's an A+ flop for dueces. He calls and hits I am again crippled by two overs and a gutshot as it is the reason I am in 5th instead of 1st. Lots of up and downs people are dropping surprisngly slow based on how much action had gone on in the first round @ the final table. I make some hands but more importantly am playing excellent. Go through a stretch were I'm stealing a lot only to lose them in the races. Shit evens out and I get a big chiplead. I only expand on it until we get 3 handed. I raise A6o on the button and the SB who has shown some streaks of aggressiveness but has been largely passive pushes all-in. I don't remember the exact #s but had decided it was insanely marginal either way and made the fold. Couple rounds later I again make the same raise with 78s and he pushes in again. He pushed in with strength and based on my willingness to call I should have again laid this down but instead I called like a jackass. I regret this play almost as much as my OESD from earlier. He shows 88 I flop the OESD but come up short and he's back in it. We end up getting HU and he has about a 5:3 chip lead but I feel confident. Blinds 10k/20k he raises to 80k and I have A2s. I make it 160k. This was a mistake. I thought he had made it 60k and debated just pushing but decided I was just a tad bit too deep to make that play. Had I seen it was 80k I would have pushed. He toiled and called. Flop came AQQ and I checked since I'm obviously commited to this hand and if he has me I figure it's with a weak Ace so the odds are we're chopping up anyways and hopefully if he has a small pair he'll stab @ it anyways. In hindsight, I could have probably got Ax off by leading out and had considered it but had hoped to get a small pair to bet a few more chips because I'm a jackass. He bets and I push though his bet basically set me in anyways. He rolls A6 turn and river are 2 and 3 respectively and I lose 4k to a 6 kicker. Those are the 3 hands I regret how I played and have nothing to do with the results. For my lackluster performance I get to add another $5,413 to the coffers @ the cost of hating myself the rest of the day.

50+5R NLHE - I hate rebuys as accordingly they are much more expensive then the base price and for whatever reason I've never liked that. I also just don't have a good grasp of the strategy & can't afford to try to learn the start open pushing early on to get a lot of chips in play @ your table strategy that a lot of the really good players use. Being as these same players make the rebuys some of the toughest regular fields on the net from what I've heard (specifically the 100Rs) there's obviously something to it. That said all the extra chips in play do add a lot more play after the rebuy period ends which I am in favor of.

I started off rebuying so I started with 3000 and then did much of nothing for some time. Eventually I made a couple of sizable bluffs which I was almost positive would work and with really no risk since I could rebuy and caught a couple hands right before break putting me to a little above 7000 chips and then adding-on for 2 more. This had me in pretty good chip position and I was quite happy especially since my table had no one open shoving from the start and was infact pretty nitty. I had opened up Annette_15s table @ the beginning since she's apparently been tearing it up to see how she plays and 3 people were all-in the first hand and a lot of chips got into play. I was about 40th of 200ish players left @ the break so all things considered I was loving my position.

Almost immediately after the break however I got AA in the SB and UTG+1 made a raise and got a caller followed by an all-in from a shortstack. I pushed in to isolate and was against 77 for about a 7k-8k pot if memory serves me correctly but he spiked on a 7 on the river. This did not leave me in such a great position with only about 6k left but I certainly was not out of it but a hand or two later I picked up 44 and called a raise in position. I flopped midset on a flushdraw board and I got check minraised by the PFR. I figured I might scare him away by pushing and decided to get it on the turn regardless of what came off and he would surely lead any turn though he could have a decent range it certainly wasn't air. Turn came a K which didn't complete the flush and he lead out I moved in he called and rolled KK. GG me. Played fantastic and went donkdown early. Tournies are cruel.

100+9 PLO8 - I honestly have no business in this game. I suck @ PLO8 and I especially suck @ PLO8 tournies. Long story short PBDrunks made a big rebluff @ me which I couldn't call. I then got myself stuck in a bad situation with a shitty hand I couldn't fold. PBDrunks owns me. Respect to his game. I'm donkdown almost instantly. I need to stop playing these.

30+3 HORSE - Not going to cover a lot since it was a 30 dollar 48 player tournament and I play SnGs with more excitement then this but basically I started off playing a little sloppy but then thanks to mistakes of opponents and some super thin value bets which make me the HORSE stud I am I got the chip lead with aroud 12 remaining (6 paid). In Stud8 I picked up rolled up dueces. Played a massive pot and got smacked by a river flush the didn't go away when he should have and missed value when he made it. This crippled me. We got to hold`em and I made a set of 7s against a set of 8s. GG me not to interesting but shitty hands to go out on.

Full Tilt:

150+13 NLHE 28k Gauranteed - I make another massive donkey call with 6s on a low flop against Js pretty early on. I river a 6 and get chips I don't deserve. That's what tourney poker is all about. I then play well as I choose good spots to steal and make some hands when I need them and get in good shape. I played one interesting hand which I think was bad but I'm not sure how bad exactly. On the bubble (outlast one person make the money) The button who had been kind of nitty with a 20k stack made it 4k with 500/1k blinds and a 125 ante. The was like the 3rd or 4th smallest stack. The 4k raise made me suspicious because it was much bigger then the rest of the bets that had been made. I had about 30k which was enough to lose 20k and still make the money so I pushed over the top with Q5o. He instacalled with AJo which surprised me. Granted AJ is @ the top of his range so I expect a call from it the speed with which he called (I viewed him as a pretty big nit) surprised me. I lost and monied but couldn't make anything happen and went out shortly after. $200.70 woo-hoo. I found the hand interesting and am going to run ICM and PokerStove later on to figure out exactly how bad it was (if it was) since it's been a long time since I did any study into tournament hands.

24+2 PLHE 3k Gauranteed - I have no idea why I played this either. I think I just wanted another table open. I have no idea what happened in it other then it was uninteresting and I went out early.


Now with the recap of the day out of the way let me get back to why I hate tournaments so much aside from the fact it's barely even poker and the skill involved is much less (which explains why I do so good in them). The real reason is I always feel like shit. I go in with the mentality that I'm going to win when I sit down so when I win it's like a job well done but 2nd-Last is always a big bummer and I toil on hands played much longer then I do over hands in ring. I've also become really sloppy in the beginning of tournaments and outside the Sunday HORSEs rarely seem to buckle down until the mid stages. Until next time I have something to bitch about....later.