tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313238352024-03-08T02:28:49.838+00:00Milton's Occasional Poker Blogseanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-2423999428501016472012-01-02T22:00:00.002+00:002012-01-02T22:15:27.094+00:00Has it really been 6 months since my last update?It is 6 months, guess all my readers must be the google search bot.<br /><br />Despite the live result I posted in June, that was the last time I went out to play live apart from a home game or two. Otherwise it has all been online. 2011 was a bit of a wash, down about $350 over the year and only turning a profit in 4 months out of 12.<br /><br />On reflection, I played too many games that I was not very good at, especially after the US fishes were blocked by Black Friday and FTP closed it's doors. Towards the end of the year I nearly turned it round by qualifying for the world record tournament on Stars, twice. Seems my Holdem game is well suited to the satellite mindset, but not so great when playing the main events. Also learned that although the hyper turbo satellites on Stars are fun, it's so swingy I can't play them profitably, unlike the PLO hyper SNGs.<br /><br />Did manage to book a win in a $% PLO/PLH MTT on Stars, but not for much.<br /><br />Focus for 2012:<br />- PLO & NLO MTTs<br />- PLO hyper SNGs<br />- 50 PLO cash<br />- NLH satellites<br /><br />Good start coming 2nd in a $22 NLO MTT on 1/1. Spewed a chunk trying to play some higher buy-in MTTs already, so back to the $22 level or below for now.<br /><br />Will be interesting to see if the cash games on Stars are improved by the move from dealt to weighted contribution. I have played on a couple of 6 max tables so far and although I have no evidence (other than a profit and knowing I played well), the tables did feel a bit looser/easier than they did the last time I played. Maybe the Stars ban hammer for the sit out nits has made it easier to find the fish, until they let them all back on.<br /><br />Hope you all have a good 2012.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-78321909214140060502011-06-13T22:43:00.002+01:002011-06-13T23:15:30.180+01:00Live DonkamentsPLO8 SNGs have been getting steadily harder on both Full Tilt and Pokerstars, both harder to win at and harder to find. Seems like the US players really were the biggest source of dead money in this game at least. As a result I have switched game back to PLO with a few HORSE and 8-game thrown in to mix it up a bit. Not quite easy money, but definitely more dead money than in the PLO8s.<br /><br />After going to Fox Poker club a few months ago and cashing, I decided to go back last Saturday for an afternoon PLO MTT. Plan was to play that then see if I could still register for the deepstack holdem start at 7:00pm. Sat down at 3:00pm, with 2 tables, late registrations took us up to 21 runners in total with 4 places played. I didn't need to get too creative to comfortably make the final table and managed to chip up to about 30k approaching the bubble, which was a medium sized stack. On the bubble itself, I shut down and just waited for unopened position with a good starting hand to steal a few blinds. To be honest though, I didn't get that many good hands.<br /><br />However, once the bubble burst I decided I was going for the win. KKT4 on the button was enough for me to 3 bet the woman to my right. Once she had re-raised me again I knew she had Aces, but decided it was worth shoving all in for the race and we were all in pre-flop. I hit my K on the flop, sweet. Turn Ace, bah. River K, QUAADDSSS!!!! That put me up to 80k and into the lead. A few hands later I get AA66, get all in against the 2nd place who asked if I had Ks again. Can't remember what he had, but an Ace on the flop was enough and the player left behind instantly suggested a deal which was £30 off the £370 first prize, which I snap called. Nice<br /><br />Late registered for the Deep stack Holdem and sat down at the table I had just left with 6 new players, which eventually filled up to the full 10 with other late arrivals. Had 3 friends playing in it as well, and all off us almost made it through to midnight, which was when the first one went out in about 33/106. By this time my stack was starting to look like fresh air, down to 20BBs, then down to 10, then as we went to 27 players and 3 tables, I dropped to 5BB and was moved to a new table with big stacks everywhere, straight into the big blind. A9 suited, I shoved over the table CLs raise and owned his A8. 2 hands later I get K9 on the button, it was unopened so I shoved. BB called with AJ, flop KK2. Didn't get back down to 10BBs until the final table.<br /><br />2nd friend busted in 16th, making a bad shove with A9 into the KK of the player to my right. Despite flopping his Ace, player X managed to river a straight and took him out.<br /><br />Final table, 2 of us still going. I was back down to 15-20 BBs again, my mate was probably 2nd. Short stack goes all in preflop, 2nd short stack shoves over the top, player X, chip leader, goes all in and my mate calls. Q7s, KQs, KK and AA respectively. Player X scooped the lot with a turned K. One outerments. After that I ended up getting down to 5BBs at 8-16k, but a couple of preflop shoves saw me up to 95k when I get dealt AA in the SB. Folded round to me, I shoved, player X insta-called with TT. He turned a straight to send me to the rail with another £220. To be fair to him, he stood up and came round to shake my hand.<br /><br />I had used a lot of run good earlier on the table and in winning the PLO earlier, so I am not complaining, just one time and I could have been seriously looking at back to back live wins on the same day. As it is, I think I am straight into the top 10 for their monthly MTT leaderboard.<br /><br />2 visits, 3 MTTs, 1 win and cashed in 4th and 5th places. Life is good.<br /><br />N29 on the way home was special. We reach the next to last stop.<br /><br />Drunk 1: "Get up, we have to get off here"<br />Drunk 2: "Why?"<br />Drunk 1: "We missed our stop"<br />Drunk 2: "What, again?"<br /><br />They had barely been on the bus more than 5 minutes.<br /><br />I also forgot my door key, so had to ring my wife to get her to let me in when I eventually got home. She was in a surprisingly good mood considering it was 4:30am and getting light.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-49320684274086665422011-05-02T23:10:00.004+01:002011-05-02T23:35:38.112+01:00America, LOLHard to believe that within 2 weeks of near-criminalizing people playing online poker with their own money, the same country sends a swat team to a foreign country on an assassination mission. World is so fucked up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBccipr3JQqPIYHGoNTYsr5_M6qhv9TGCBgmFfUHjiCUHm75wRkEbqT66LjQ-qZy7clm4UmeDtwDlWOcM9FfrudBRTtMar6wkcPAUB20jZ0YXOtj5aO4VMd7DXmNcf0aW8Nz_/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-05-01+at+01.32.42.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBccipr3JQqPIYHGoNTYsr5_M6qhv9TGCBgmFfUHjiCUHm75wRkEbqT66LjQ-qZy7clm4UmeDtwDlWOcM9FfrudBRTtMar6wkcPAUB20jZ0YXOtj5aO4VMd7DXmNcf0aW8Nz_/s320/Screen+shot+2011-05-01+at+01.32.42.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602249509209757154" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKca4wYiGz8w5t1J4kIbSfMeyWDS6JFyB-H7BOcaZLSAn-edsw4UpcTe0BmJn6u0s-41l-Eu9YdGzGxHDGUn_140CFtpHj0nLey6OwabuGEgqQL0nE1Vd-zW6hSyzgGulLacQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-04-17+at+01.53.53.png"><img style="float:right; margin: 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKca4wYiGz8w5t1J4kIbSfMeyWDS6JFyB-H7BOcaZLSAn-edsw4UpcTe0BmJn6u0s-41l-Eu9YdGzGxHDGUn_140CFtpHj0nLey6OwabuGEgqQL0nE1Vd-zW6hSyzgGulLacQ/s320/Screen+shot+2011-04-17+at+01.53.53.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602249739308244242" /></a>"Black Friday" has made an extremely obvious change to my poker, in that the PLO8 SNGs are not very busy. So much so that I managed to switch back to playing PLO MTTs again. Reality is I forgot how profitable these were for me. Again used my last FPPs on Full Tilt to buy a $26 ticket, turned that into $49 followed by a win in a 109 runner $17 super turbo. This kind of rescued April as far as poker goes for me, after March showed a $14 loss overall. But I did manage to donk some of it off playing Rush poker again. Even without the Americans I can't beat it. Switched to Pokerstars for a couple of early evening MTTs and OMG how bad are some of the players at sub-$10 level. Finished April off with a real nice touch, 1st of 421 in the $3 PLO rebuy for $823 on the last day of the month, sweet.<br /><br />Back to America, while people have the ability to express themselves like this, there is still hope. Have seen this posted a number of times already, but it cannot be said often enough.<br /><br />"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy."<br />Martin Luther King, Jrseanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-53935791831147300782011-01-29T03:21:00.011+00:002011-01-29T11:31:05.908+00:00WBCOOP - Blogging in RunningFinally managed to get home in time for a qualifier, which was the 8 game tonight. Interesting just how much advantage I have in the Omaha games and the Stud hilo, but most of all I am rubbish at 2-7 triple draw. I crippled myself multiple times before the bubble and we only played 2 rounds of it. As I type yet another 2k chips have gone west with a 23458 beating my 23468... now 15/92, was very short until the last round of PLO when I went from 6-21k courtesy of 2 flush draws coming in against the same opponent.<br /><br />Anyway, qualified for the final, now aiming for a final table to get a decent scoop ticket. Just thankful only have to play 2-7 once per cycle.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Updates</span>:<br />7 hours in: 16/44, having been as low as 55/60 after a -20k stud round, recovered on stud hilo and omaha. Just realized I have been awake for 24 hrs as I woke up at this time yesterday (5:00am)<br /><br />8 hours in: 16/29, which is hiding the fact that I was down to 16k chips and up in 3rd place with 60k at one stage, 25 hours awake<br /><br />9 hours in: 6/14, good last 20 minutes in PLO again, 26 hours awake<br /><br />10 hours in: 7/10, poor last 10 minutes, gone from 120k to 70k unnecessarily<br /><br />11 hours: 3/4, bit tired<br /><br />3rd in the end, $215 SCOOP ticket for my troublesseanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-87416418175227978072011-01-19T22:07:00.001+00:002011-01-19T22:07:37.813+00:00Bloggaments<div style="height:200px;width:100%;"><a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/"><img src="http://www.pokerstars.com/images/wbcoop/200x200.gif" alt="Online Poker" align="left" style="margin-right:10px;" border="0"></a><p>I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/">WBCOOP</a> to play.</p> <p>Registration code: XXXXXX 942676 </p></div>seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-28099961688169812592011-01-19T21:53:00.002+00:002011-01-19T22:00:10.171+00:00January is as tough as everNever had a strong January, even last year when I binked a tourney in the first week I didn't really add to it from then on. This year is looking pretty much back to the same, with my online balances currently down about $140 for the month. Still not pushed my FT balance on yet, currently $76 and just bouncing around. Bubbling too often at the moment, and all too frequently it is the river that gets me.<br /><br />Bah. Roll on the daylight and warmer weather.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-2237394932080260042011-01-01T16:53:00.002+00:002011-01-01T17:33:17.428+00:00Short Review of 2010Turns out 2010 was a very up and down year for me. Net online profit for the year $435. This after I was $1,100 up at the end of January. As is a familiar theme to long term readers of this blog, I blew all of it playing cash, but not any old cash, Rush O8 on Full Tilt. Looking at my results, I went negative from April-July, all the while paying huge amounts in rake. In fact, the total I paid in rake equalled the amount that went out from my Full Tilt account in the same period. So, I can't beat the rake at O8 cash.<br /><br />As a consequence, I started to play badly during the summer, which eventually led to me completely emptying my Full Tilt account, apart from about 26k in FPPs. Not wanting to redeposit, I switched to Pokerstars late in the year and started to build my balance on there playing STTs mostly. After running it up to $500 I had a couple of goes at the nightly PLO8 $109, eventually cashing twice in 4 attempts. Having been chip leader on one final table I think I have a few more in me if I can get going early.<br /><br />Although I do OK on PokerStars, I really prefer playing on Full Tilt. In December I used my FPPs to buy into 3x$26 PLO and the $33 Rush PLO8 Mini FTOPs. The Rush PLO8 was the last and only one I cashed in, but it gave me $90 to start with again and as I write I have doubled this to $180. In a couple of weeks I might even start getting rake back, once I have cleared what I "spent" through buying the tickets.<br /><br />Vegas was a good experience, I enjoyed playing the $1500 PLO8 tournament, even though I never really got going. Does not look like I will make it this year, but I suppose anything could happen between now and June to enable me to fund the trip. Don't think I will be going on my own next time either.<br /><br />Anyway, simple goals for 2011:<br />- Profit (any at all).<br />- Get a full house on Sharkscope with 8/8 cashes. Have come close to this a few times, but the spectre of 0/8 is ever present...<br /><br />Good luck in your games for 2011.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-70840816946473437332010-10-15T21:15:00.002+01:002010-10-15T21:24:13.056+01:00NLO8 HandSample hand from an NLO8 STT with bounties. I shoved pre with AA thinking I was going to see maybe 1 caller, not 2. Great to run good for 2 bounties.<br /><br />Poker Stars $10.00+$2.50+$1.00 No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 6 players - <a href=http://www.handconverter.com/hands/983118>View hand 983118</a><br /><br /><a href=http://www.deucescracked.com/?referrer=converter_html>DeucesCracked Poker Videos</a> <a href=http://www.handconverter.com>Hand History Converter</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Hero (CO): t1920 19.20 BBs</strong><br /><br />BTN: t2167 21.67 BBs<br /><br /><strong>SB: t1905 19.05 BBs</strong><br /><br />BB: t1838 18.38 BBs<br /><br /><strong>UTG: t1470 14.70 BBs</strong><br /><br />MP: t4200 42 BBs<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Pre Flop:</strong> (t150) Hero is CO with A<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/spade.png" alt=" of spades" /> 7<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/club.png" alt=" of clubs" /> 8<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/diamond.png" alt=" of diamonds" /> A<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/diamond.png" alt=" of diamonds" /><br /><br />UTG calls t100, <span style="font-style: italic;">1 fold</span>, <span style="color: red;">Hero raises to t1920 all in</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">1 fold</span>, SB calls t1855 all in, <span style="font-style: italic;">1 fold</span>, UTG calls t1370 all in<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Flop:</strong> (t5380) J<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/heart.png" alt=" of hearts" /> 6<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/heart.png" alt=" of hearts" /> 9<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/spade.png" alt=" of spades" /> <span style="color: blue;">(3 players - 3 are all in)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Turn:</strong> (t5380) T<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/spade.png" alt=" of spades" /> <span style="color: blue;">(3 players - 3 are all in)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>River:</strong> (t5380) 3<img src="http://images.deucescracked.com/suits/club.png" alt=" of clubs" /> <span style="color: blue;">(3 players - 3 are all in)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>Final Pot:</strong> t5380<br /><br />Hero shows As 7c 8d Ad (HI: a straight, Seven to Jack)<br /><br />SB shows 5h Ah Js 9c (HI: two pair, Jacks and Nines)<br /><br />UTG shows Qd 6s 3h Qs (HI: two pair, Sixes and Threes)<br /><br />Hero wins t870<br /><br />Hero wins t4510<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-91886087033572977072010-10-14T20:57:00.008+01:002010-10-15T21:15:19.502+01:00NLO8 and WBCOOPSo, WBCOOP time is coming round again, first up is the end of October, then should be another in January.<br /><br />Have also been playing a few of the NLO8 STTs on Stars. Starting at the $6 level with the NLO8, regular speed with knockouts, I have and ROI of about 47%. Have now played 6 of the $13s and have cashed in 5, winning 2 and with an unfeasible ROI of 127%. Not sure why this is, other than running like god, I don't think the other players are that terribad, even at the $6 level.<br /><br />Profit in September was $183 overall, currently up $455 in October, having managed 5th place in another $109 O8 tourney on Stars. Out after I had AALL busted 3 times on the final table, having been 7/7 and 1/5 at various stages.<br /><br />[edited out logo, screwed up the layout of the menus]seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-30007278510342317532010-09-16T22:28:00.002+01:002010-09-16T23:01:40.230+01:00Thank god for MTTsSo I eventually managed to arrest the slide in my online bankrolls in August, where I made a total profit of about $73. That brought to an end the 4 month run of red end of month numbers. September was heading for another small down month, until yesterday. I had briefly watched a couple of the daily $109 O8 MTTs on PokerStars and to be honest, did not think the standard was very high. I got home too late to even consider the WCOOP O8, but the 2+2 thread about it inspired me to have a look and see if it was running. I registered with 4 minutes to spare and soon found myself on the chip leaders table with my 20BB. 15 minute blinds are quite different to the turbo STTs I normally play and I was able to wait for a semi decent opportunity with AKKT to limp from the button. A K on the flop with 2 hi cards and I was 3 way, the turn 8 was just about the best card in the pack for me as both my opponents had an 8 each for 2 pair, and I went on to treble up to about 9th spot.<br /><br />After that I played solid, but aggressively and stayed in the the top 10 until about 20 left, when I slipped back into the pack after raising too much out of position pre and having to fold a missed flop. Not to worry, getting all in preflop with A3xx vs AA2x meant I doubled up with a scoop flush and back into contention. Approaching the bubble I was bouncing around on 10-15BBs for ages in the bottom 3 chip stacks. But, I sneaked through the final table bubble and with a full ring I was able to pick my spots to race carefully. Eventually I managed to get up to 3rd with 6 left and with A235 on a 34JQ board decided to race against the 2nd place stack for the chip lead. The river Q gave him his Q4 full house and I was out pocketing $520 for my 6th place. Against the same opponent I would probably make the call again, since I read him correctly for hi only draw and I still had a 35% chance of taking the hi as well as 50% of getting the lo.<br /><br />Overall thought that the standard improved towards the FT, but I was more aggressive than anyone else on the final table. I guess that was what did for me in the end, but if I had won that race I would have been CL by a good margin and would have been confident of making it to heads up quite easily.<br /><br />If I could, I suppose I should play MTTs full time, but they just take too long to fit in around work and family. Anyway, back in a few months for another update.<br /><br />September results: +$374 so far.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-47942689221795499072010-06-28T02:26:00.002+01:002010-06-28T03:00:34.885+01:00Vegas WSOP Trip 2010Brief summary of my trip.<br /><br />Flew BA from Heathrow where I eventually recognised John Tabatabai in the queue for the extra security checks at the gate, but only when the security guard tried to pronounce his name. Checked in to the Rio and went to bed, but slept quite bad, like I did for the whole week. No fault of the Rio, room was fine, clean, bed was great, just on the wrong timezone.<br /><br />Got up next day and registered for the $1500 PLO8 along with 850 or so other players. My first table was quitean interesting, mixture of players, all of whom seemed to know at least the basics of the split pot game. I was in seat 2, Brandon Cantu was 2 to my right in seat 10, guy on my immediate right was a $2-4 PLO8 cash grinder who plays on Stars.<br /><br />Early action saw a lag in seat 6 get felted a couple of times, he tilted quite bad when Stars grinder rivered quad 9s to scoop a pot. This led to my first competitive hand, when I called his ep raise with A26K and got all in on a Q8x flop. He had A29K, which was exactly the kind of hand I was expecting to see. I had better lo draw and a backdoor flush, which duly came in on the river for my first 1k+ pot. Got some more chips from seat 3 on my button when I turned a set of 9s and no lo came in. Eventually worked my stack up to about 4k or so and felt comfortable.<br /><br />Critical hand for my whole tournament happened about 1/2 hour from end of Level 4, I raised pot pre from cut off with AA56, small blind called with 9TJQ. Flop was 38J rainbow and we got all in with my expectation about .61. Turn 3 improved this to .68 but the river 10 gave him his straight and the scoop. Hit that and I would have been approaching a 10k stack. As it was I was down to 3k having not used any of my rebuy chips at all.<br /><br />Table dynamic immediately changed, previously I had raised UTG and seen the whole table fold to me. Tried it was A246 later and got called 5 times. This was lucky as I got quartered for the lo and still only saw my stack go from 3.5k to 3k. Took out the Stars grinder just before the table broke with another rivered flush and moved with about 7k stack. This was not enough on 150-300 blinds, especially when you are card dead and moved to 2 tables with player who had mega stacks and raised every hand. <br /><br />Looking back at the second table, I can't think of a better hand than A48J , but to stay in with it would have meant calling 20% of my stack. Third table I was dealt and raised A234 from the button, but the flop was 2 hi and that was the last hand that would have potentially given me any returns. Of the better players, there were no hands that stood out that I thought I would have played differently to the way they did.<br /><br />Also played a couple of $200 hold em tournaments, less said about these the better. I have completely forgotten how to play hold em tournaments and might as well have tried some $1-3 or $5-5 cash with the buy-ins I dropped.<br /><br />Anyway, back in the UK for 24 hours before I fly out to New York on business on Tuesday. Then I will start focusing on building up my bankroll so I can go back next year.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-85831980657290913862010-06-28T02:10:00.003+01:002010-06-28T02:25:41.350+01:00The Devilfish Wears Prada<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFwI802X6J2xbRRBB6WdGDe_YPsKIkb5gQUHyd49kU7hfJmwLs2GC69f_7rT0j8EGSANZSTATxka40t07mdZKhJhrbu1WOpZXN_d2KFBP_RF6eiEBoHkYUF9J95BGRUu4h68n/s1600/IMG_0779.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFwI802X6J2xbRRBB6WdGDe_YPsKIkb5gQUHyd49kU7hfJmwLs2GC69f_7rT0j8EGSANZSTATxka40t07mdZKhJhrbu1WOpZXN_d2KFBP_RF6eiEBoHkYUF9J95BGRUu4h68n/s400/IMG_0779.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487627815136923682" /></a>Well, actually maybe he doesn't but he did make me laugh when I was railing the $5k PLO8 on my last day in Vegas. Check out the photo to the right, he has removed a curtain from one of the trolleys and wrapped himself up in it like a toga. At the time my initial thoughts were, "wtf, he is wearing curtains, what a c**t". However, it was only me being a bit of a twat and I soon warmed to the funny side of it, especially when he tried to wave it around like a matador's cape as he moved tables. Not long after I took the picture he left early for the break and returned sporting a shiny new hoodie. He was also more than happy to pose for photos with anyone who asked with a smile and some banter.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-70884317952204730002010-06-20T21:20:00.003+01:002010-06-20T21:25:20.110+01:00Have Macbook will travelAll packed apart from my toothbrush, will be on my way to Vegas tomorrow.<br /><br />Managed to turn round my form a lot, balance on Full Tilt is now in the $300 region, with my Pokerstars account almost at the same level (from under $100). As ever, the problems started with a move to cash - this time Rush Poker - which unbalanced my tournament game and as a result played bad until I remembered how to play SNGs.<br /><br />Hopefully will be able to post some updates, either here or on Twitter as electricchair99.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-70221974143144540762010-06-01T21:45:00.003+01:002010-06-01T23:08:31.838+01:00May Wrap UpAs the regular reader will know, I hate posting during a downswing. As I had second my most losing month ever in May ($450 down), I guess posting the end of month round up means I think it has turned. My worst ever month was May 2009 ($465), which was followed by going on a massive heater in June. I suppose I can hope the same happens in 2010. The thought has occurred to me that it is because the pros who inhabit the O8 games I played might have gone to the WSOP. I expect I will know pretty soon anyway.<br /><br />Speaking of WSOP, I have everything crossed hoping that the BA strikes don't impact my flights. If I had been flying this week or last I would have been OK and I think the timing means that the union would have to run a new ballot (and get it past the BA lawyers) before they announce any more strikes. All I need now is for the $ to weaken a couple of points in the next week before I buy some.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-38668510687810979782010-04-29T23:36:00.002+01:002010-04-29T23:46:11.212+01:00Unlucky for SomeIt's all gone a bit pear shaped in the last week. I can almost track it to a single hand during the O8 FTOPS, when I tilted a lot after playing well for about 2 1/2 hours, and losing a pot against a short stack for about 4k, out of a 14k stack. Since that time I have not cashed in 13 STTs, as well as dropping $150+ on O8 rush tables. Bit frustrating all round really, including my out hand in the last STT.<br /><br />In the BB with 1700 chips and A356, button has 475, chip leader is SB with 6k+. Folds round to SB who bets 1k, so I push He turns over KKJ10 and the board gives me no help at all and I am gone. I could have tried foldingd into the money, but that would have meant I had less chance of winning overall.<br /><br />Ah well, time for bed and will be back again tomorrow.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-91130048073641489672010-04-01T22:35:00.002+01:002010-04-01T22:42:56.296+01:00End of March Round-upNot much to report since the last update, apart from a welcome continued upward trend in my gross rake and profit for the month. Overall profit about $380, despite a complete failure yesterday when I dumped $80 in pretty short order. Now in profit on the Rush O8, but it has changed my game so that I can no longer hit a barn door on the STTs. Managed to earn a total of $115 rake back for the month, which is like 4 months of normal payments. This cash game could become addictive.<br /><br />Hotel booked for my Vegas WSOP trip, decided to stay in the Rio so I can fall out of bed and roll down the stairs to the games.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-74946838260649629622010-03-24T23:03:00.005+00:002010-03-24T23:57:42.498+00:00Alan Green is a DickheadI know why of course, just not sure why I feel compelled to this as the heading on my blog update. Actually, if anything I think that is a bit light and I could have used any of the extra strong swearwords instead. What triggered it was Radio 5, probably commentary on the Man Utd- Liverpool game on Sunday. Such an apologist for Liverpool, so much so that he makes Lord Haw Haw look like Mary, Mungo and Midge. He's also the most negative commentator, "like ever". Even if the referee is having a bad day, or the game is not the greatest show on earth, there's no need to moan about it so much you forget to describe the action.<br /><br />Anyway, back on topic, the pokerrrzz.<br /><br />February turned out to be a complete washout, at one stage I was $500 down for the month, almost exclusively playing SNGs but with some PLO Rush poker losses too. As usual, not sure what was driving it, but if I could have won what felt like a share of my races against pimpdaddydolla and pena82 the position would have been very different, final score $245 loss.<br /><br />March started with what was supposed to be a week's poker break, with a trip to Boston for work. Flew in on the Saturday as the flight cost was £400 instead of £1200. This meant I had the whole of Sunday evening to myself, and as the devil makes work for idle hands, I was soon installing Full Tilt on my work laptop and taking on the US time zone players. I noticed a difference in quality straight away and over the course of a couple of evenings bumped my balance on Full Tilt up from $850 to $1,100, just playing a few $11/22 hilo turbo STTs.<br /><br />I continued reasonably well when I got back to the UK and Full Tilt opened up O8 Rush poker. My first few attempts were a bit hit or miss, which I eventually worked out was because I was getting too wrapped up in the "rush" effect. Am down $40 overall, which is one buy-in at the only O8 stakes in play, entirely the result of a tilted bust yesterday. But, I feel comfortable enough to play more than one buy-in at a time and it certainly turbo-charges the rakeback. Currently I am on target to easily have my biggest ever month of rake generated, approaching $200, which means over $50 back already, compared to my normal average of $30. Am also starting to recognize the regular players, just need to work out the best way to deal with the aggressive ones that raise out of position pre-flop and then bet flop turn and river - I know they don't have it every single hand.<br /><br />Also, slight strategy change, I have decided not to play Rush and STTs concurrently. They each require a different approach, which I am OK with individually, but just tilts me stupid when I try and play them at the same time.<br /><br />March profit to date $310.<br />2010 running total $1213.<br />Sharkscope SNG lifetime Profit $2,499 - looks like a generally consistently upwards slope on the graph too.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLaMWMQMaQxsDvHzRjNiFro_NN3BuRuJANTz7mhkVFQYR0t8oVEJzOdzk7VQbWCt7AtnakfC-gTJOVdCPXO8DYjYaYL7fi-ixBquIvw-dcqHL-q8Vd8_4Fc05YOzQfajlJO8b/s1600/Electric+to+100324.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihLaMWMQMaQxsDvHzRjNiFro_NN3BuRuJANTz7mhkVFQYR0t8oVEJzOdzk7VQbWCt7AtnakfC-gTJOVdCPXO8DYjYaYL7fi-ixBquIvw-dcqHL-q8Vd8_4Fc05YOzQfajlJO8b/s400/Electric+to+100324.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452352152552879570" /></a><br /><br />Silver Star disappeared yesterday, have not played many PLO STTs this month as was focusing on the lower variance game to get back on track. Here's what it looked like back at the beginning on February.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5laDXEHVaBRvzKncbk4DTKw-ArI_3ag-HE-4W_BLohGxYcdaLzfByVh0aRv154xm3KjetLToiIrdPhHhsouqw1hUIPT0vZ79nYjpmN1PyGtU9GMEk_KTAryK2qvPXDLLQ_7r-/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-02-02+at+20.35.15.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 79px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5laDXEHVaBRvzKncbk4DTKw-ArI_3ag-HE-4W_BLohGxYcdaLzfByVh0aRv154xm3KjetLToiIrdPhHhsouqw1hUIPT0vZ79nYjpmN1PyGtU9GMEk_KTAryK2qvPXDLLQ_7r-/s400/Screen+shot+2010-02-02+at+20.35.15.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452353519298019714" /></a>seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-83174745026043451782010-02-01T21:40:00.002+00:002010-02-01T22:04:42.878+00:00Against the GrainQuick round up for January.<br /><br />Given how poor my results were in January 2008 and 2009, I was prepared for a downswing in 2010. I will be honest, I did my best to allow history to repeat itself. Rush Poker on Full Tilt is just that, a faster way to lose at cash. Down about $250 and I won't likely be back again in the near future.<br /><br />Looking at my Sharkscope stats, I managed to add a total of $19 profit on SNGs in the month, up on the PLO super turbos, down on the HILO games. So much up on the PLO games that I managed to make the $5-15 leaderboard and picked up a star. Might not last long so will have to remember to take a screenshot while it is still there.<br /><br />Where I did make a lot of profit and was not able to play enough games was in the Sunday night HILO MTTs. One first place (see earlier post) was followed up by a 4th place (which could have been higher but I lost a flip to cripple myself). Total MTT profit for the month about $1300.<br /><br />Net overall profit $1,150, which makes it my best month since I started keeping records. All I need to do now is keep it up in February and find the time to play a few more of the Sunday night rebuys.<br /><br />Only remembered to play in two of the WBCOOP tourneys, managed to get 36th place in the 8 Game for a $33 SCOOP ticket. Never played 8 Game before, but I did find that I was much better at most of the players on the Omaha, O8 and Stud Hilo (even though the number of times I have played Stud Hilo I can count on the fingers of one hand). Did struggle a bit with Razz and 2-7 triple draw, but all in all, did not feel I was out of my depth. The other game was NLH. Lot's of sit outs and there were effectively only 4 players active including me at the table I finished on. One of the players was particularly loose, raising, jamming and generally splashing his chips all over. Managed a nice pot when I raised 64 and flopped 2 pr, maybe a value bet on the river would have cleaned him out but the board was 4567K and he had the K. This tilted him a lot and a few hands later I raised pre with Ks9s and checked a KJ9 flop. One re-raise later and he shoved, so I called to see him flip over K10. Turn J, river blank, GG me.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-33897808401787780912010-01-10T22:07:00.002+00:002010-01-10T22:16:03.669+00:00Vegas BabyFinally. Flights now booked for Vegas in June, leaving Heathrow on 21st, coming back from Vegas on 26th. Flying BA because it is only costing me £220 using my airmiles. Aim is to play the $1500 Omaha Hilo Pot Limit and win a fortune. As I have not been so good at hitting my targets recently, I guess just this one time will do. :)<br /><br />No hotels yet, waiting to see if my mate can come out as well. He will know in 3 weeks when the local planning committee will let him know if he can start rebuilding his house.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-37022925903330827022010-01-08T20:31:00.001+00:002010-01-08T20:31:31.512+00:00WBCOOP<div style="height:125px;width:100%;"><a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/"><img src="http://www.pokerstars.com/images/wbcoop/125x125.gif" alt="Online Poker" align="left" style="margin-right:10px;" border="0"></a><p>I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/">Poker</a> tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on <a href="http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/">WBCOOP</a> to play.</p><p>Registration code: 103327 </p></div>seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-67562678482531406142010-01-03T01:13:00.003+00:002010-01-03T01:21:28.288+00:00A Couple of Firsts!Just won my first MTT of the 2010, $5 O8 rebuy on Full Tilt, 281 runners.<br />First time I can remember having more than 1m chips during any Omaha game.<br />First time I have won over $1k for 1st place.<br />First time someone has asked for more than the chip stacks said we should get when we discussed a deal.<br />First time I turned down a deal.<br /><br />I did make it difficult for myself after that by doubling him with KK vs AA, but I rode my luck and took him out with flopped 2 pair Q10 when he had A10 straight draw that missed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2ITW_o9d03ZOFqrOW5PQg2JSYGvyoBNdDegk04yIKc3v-9bVPc_10ltAEeMQhxg5UsZ9tZhTvtgy2CSjvVcxrxw8RJ1tsHF04sTBK0lhdMlYW_FsDCufT_HmtGf-wPLA91MK/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2010-01-03+at+01.09.57.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2ITW_o9d03ZOFqrOW5PQg2JSYGvyoBNdDegk04yIKc3v-9bVPc_10ltAEeMQhxg5UsZ9tZhTvtgy2CSjvVcxrxw8RJ1tsHF04sTBK0lhdMlYW_FsDCufT_HmtGf-wPLA91MK/s400/Screen+shot+2010-01-03+at+01.09.57.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422317133203148402" /></a>seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-53356466268785835602009-12-31T19:33:00.003+00:002009-12-31T20:18:26.493+00:00That's a wrap for 2009Tis the season for end of year reflections, first a quick recap of my two goals for the year:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">One is to buy a new number plate for my car, cost about £1k. </span><br /><br />FAIL. Simple fact was I never quite made enough money to warrant buying the thing.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Second is to try and get out to Vegas for a $1500 PLO or O8 event in the WSOP.</span><br /><br />FAIL. This time with a but, for the second year running, I started off badly, even worse than 2008 in fact. However, I have now banked $2k and with BA flying direct to Vegas I have enough air miles to get a flight for the $1500 PLO starting on 10th June. If anyone wants a prop bet for me to play in an Elvis cat suit.... :)<br /><br />Anyway, summary for the year.<br /><br />Played bad from January to March, ended up nearly $700 down. Turned it all round in April with my first ever $1k month. As with 2008, the longer the year went on, the better my results looked, apart from December. This is still profitable month, but I played in 3 Mini FTOPs (one of which I forgot I had registered for) and one night I managed to bubble in a $22 sat for the $15k O8 on Full Tilt.<br /><br />Over the various sites:<br />- Betfair - down $150, stopped playing there completely since June as have no reason to play there and dislike their customer relationship model<br />- Blue Square - down $210, hardly played anything since August<br />- Sun - down $250, really dislike the skin and even with 30% rakeback I can't bring myself to learn to deposit on a site I don't get on with very well<br />- PokerStars - up $7, deposited and have been playing a few of the $16 18-man O8 SNGs, with mixed results<br />- Everest - up $32, again almost not played there since August<br />- Full Tilt - up $3,180 - including about $350 rakeback<br /><br />Highlights from Full Tilt:<br />- 25% ROI on 278 9 seat 300 chip super turbo PLO SNGs<br />- 20% ROI on 123 $22 O8 SNGs<br />- 33% ROI on 133 rebuy MTTs, incuding 3 wins<br /><br />Lows:<br />- Cash, again, though this year I have stayed away from it pretty much and latterly, playing low stakes I have finished some sessions in profit<br /><br />Interestingly, last year I thought I was OK pre-flop and better post-flop. Having thought about it, especially in light of the results from the 300 chip SNGs, I wonder if it really is the reverse. I am much better than average at assessing hands pre, but not that great post. Maybe in 2010 I will find some time to watch some training videos, or maybe not since I still cleared $2.5k from a hobby.<br /><br />Might post some goals early in January, but really the main one is to stay in profit... good luck at the tables.<br /><br />Lastly, here's my lifetime Sharkscope results for Full Tilt, which I think is quite respectable.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCzfdAihboCELze-btw0RDYy9wGaz3U7iUjP-gy2hduE9qAXXGAdpLdooAm2CEtKx6OMyuFtnjtHvPcg6o26T2AgSICCQsm8DeFB0tnhNC6hRcqWtljb5j8gAFc9C-pHecV6Q/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2009-12-31+at+18.58.57.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCzfdAihboCELze-btw0RDYy9wGaz3U7iUjP-gy2hduE9qAXXGAdpLdooAm2CEtKx6OMyuFtnjtHvPcg6o26T2AgSICCQsm8DeFB0tnhNC6hRcqWtljb5j8gAFc9C-pHecV6Q/s400/Screen+shot+2009-12-31+at+18.58.57.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421497066468289970" /></a>seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-52355695744784546722009-12-11T20:30:00.002+00:002009-12-11T20:40:59.382+00:00You don't see a Royal flush for ages......then two come along in the space of about 10 minutes.<br /><br />First this, I flopped the flush and turned the Royal, but managed to keep my oppo in calling down for his lo draw that did not come in.<br /><br />Full Tilt Poker Game #16695306682: $11 + $1 Sit & Go (Turbo) (124090100), Table 1 - 25/50 - Pot Limit Omaha H/L - 17:47:20 ET - 2009/12/10<br />Seat 1: TJ Ungar (911)<br />Seat 2: citybrewedmind (1,315)<br />Seat 3: RNI66 (2,280)<br />Seat 4: fifty_pesos (389)<br />Seat 5: First Count 3 (1,135)<br />Seat 6: XHEAD HUNTERX (1,460)<br />Seat 7: misshaj (1,110)<br />Seat 8: Tribuconi (1,500)<br />Seat 9: electric chair (3,400)<br />XHEAD HUNTERX posts the small blind of 25<br />misshaj posts the big blind of 50<br />The button is in seat #5<br />*** HOLE CARDS ***<br />Dealt to electric chair [9h Kc Jc 8c]<br />Tribuconi folds<br />electric chair calls 50<br />TJ Ungar calls 50<br />citybrewedmind folds<br />RNI66 folds<br />fifty_pesos calls 50<br />First Count 3 folds<br />XHEAD HUNTERX folds<br />misshaj checks<br />*** FLOP *** [2c Ac Tc]<br />misshaj checks<br />electric chair has 15 seconds left to act<br />electric chair bets 112<br />TJ Ungar folds<br />fifty_pesos calls 112<br />misshaj folds<br />*** TURN *** [2c Ac Tc] [Qc]<br />electric chair bets 224<br />fifty_pesos calls 224<br />*** RIVER *** [2c Ac Tc Qc] [9s]<br />electric chair bets 50<br />fifty_pesos calls 3, and is all in<br />Uncalled bet of 47 returned to electric chair<br />*** SHOW DOWN ***<br />electric chair shows [9h Kc Jc 8c] a Royal Flush, for high<br />fifty_pesos mucks<br />electric chair wins the pot (903) with a Royal Flush<br />No low hand qualified<br />*** SUMMARY ***<br />Total pot 903 | Rake 0<br />Board: [2c Ac Tc Qc 9s]<br />Seat 4: fifty_pesos mucked [3h 4d 7h Ad] - HI: a pair of Aces<br /><br />And then this, where I walked into it and I know I could have got away from it on the turn, but had been slightly tilted by $15 plo super turbo when I went out first hand to 2236 all in preflop.<br /><br />Full Tilt Poker Game #16695563352: Table Rio Canyon (6 max, ante, deep) - $0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 17:58:05 ET - 2009/12/10<br />Seat 1: mgg888 ($28.65)<br />Seat 2: semper_fi76 ($20.36)<br />Seat 3: iceball12 ($40.10)<br />Seat 5: jwc529 ($51.71)<br />Seat 6: electric chair ($42.95)<br />iceball12 antes $0.05<br />electric chair antes $0.05<br />semper_fi76 antes $0.05<br />jwc529 antes $0.05<br />mgg888 antes $0.05<br />iceball12 posts the small blind of $0.10<br />jwc529 posts the big blind of $0.25<br />The button is in seat #2<br />*** HOLE CARDS ***<br />Dealt to electric chair [Jh 7d Kc Kh]<br />electric chair has 15 seconds left to act<br />electric chair raises to $1.10<br />mgg888 folds<br />semper_fi76 raises to $3.90<br />iceball12 folds<br />jwc529 folds<br />electric chair calls $2.80<br />*** FLOP *** [Jd Qd Kd]<br />electric chair has 15 seconds left to act<br />electric chair bets $4.20<br />semper_fi76 has 15 seconds left to act<br />semper_fi76 calls $4.20<br />*** TURN *** [Jd Qd Kd] [4s]<br />lowskipper sits down<br />electric chair bets $16.80<br />semper_fi76 calls $12.21, and is all in<br />electric chair shows [Jh 7d Kc Kh]<br />semper_fi76 shows [Td 8s 9s Ad]<br />lowskipper adds $50<br />Uncalled bet of $4.59 returned to electric chair<br />*** RIVER *** [Jd Qd Kd 4s] [Qh]<br />electric chair shows a full house, Kings full of Queens<br />semper_fi76 shows a Royal Flush<br />semper_fi76 wins the pot ($39.16) with a Royal Flush<br />semper_fi76: lol<br />*** SUMMARY ***<br />Total pot $41.22 | Rake $2.06<br />Board: [Jd Qd Kd 4s Qh]<br />Seat 1: mgg888 folded before the Flop<br />Seat 2: semper_fi76 (button) showed [Td 8s 9s Ad] and won ($39.16) with a Royal Flush<br /><br />End of November was an absolute heater, total up for the month over $850, first third of December has been very up and down, with a $30 loss to show for it so far.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-50185009580502074412009-11-29T16:32:00.002+00:002009-11-29T16:40:37.472+00:00Oops, I did it againAnother $5 plo rebuy last night, another donking out for me. This hand meant I min cashed instead of making the final table. Little bit of patience required at the right time, whereas last night I convinced myself we had the same two pair on the flop. Almost criminal to blow 60BBs here really.<br /><br />Full Tilt Poker Game #16380424391: $5 + $0.50 Rebuy (120835685), Table 8 - 1000/2000 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 19:10:43 ET - 2009/11/28<br />Seat 2: Markt37 (80,777)<br />Seat 4: Deset (16,786)<br />Seat 5: electric chair (60,208)<br />Seat 6: Shamanilixir (79,602)<br />Seat 7: Ilu1 (60,216)<br />Seat 8: baxterb123 (3,190), is sitting out<br />Seat 9: 00Bert00 (27,824), is sitting out<br />Markt37 posts the small blind of 1,000<br />Deset posts the big blind of 2,000<br />The button is in seat #9<br />*** HOLE CARDS ***<br />Dealt to electric chair [Jd As 9d 7d]<br />hipsych sits down<br />hipsych adds 42,613<br />Jesse_Arellano sits down<br />Jesse_Arellano adds 52,358<br />electric chair has 15 seconds left to act<br />electric chair calls 2,000<br />Shamanilixir folds<br />Ilu1 folds<br />baxterb123 folds<br />00Bert00 folds<br />Markt37 raises to 8,000<br />Deset folds<br />electric chair calls 6,000<br />*** FLOP *** [Jh 6s Ad]<br />Markt37 checks<br />electric chair bets 9,000<br />Markt37 raises to 20,000<br />electric chair calls 11,000<br />*** TURN *** [Jh 6s Ad] [Qs]<br />Markt37 bets 52,777, and is all in<br />electric chair calls 32,208, and is all in<br />Markt37 shows [Th Ah Ac Jc]<br />electric chair shows [Jd As 9d 7d]<br />Uncalled bet of 20,569 returned to Markt37<br />*** RIVER *** [Jh 6s Ad Qs] [Ks]<br />Markt37 shows a straight, Ace high<br />electric chair shows two pair, Aces and Jacks<br /><br />Still, I was very lucky to be there, having hit a 1 outer earlier after getting all in with a flopped set 10s, vs a flopped set As. I had to wait until the river to get my quads, but the result was never in doubt as far as I was concerned :)<br /><br />Results looking good for November overall, up $725 so far and cashed in 4 of last 8 MTTs and 6 or last 8 STTs I have played.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31323835.post-68863538037984746612009-11-23T01:23:00.006+00:002009-11-25T20:40:47.234+00:00Second Time AroundSo, I played the $5 PLO rebuy on Full Tilt again tonight. This time, there was no blow up on the final table, this was the hand that gave me the stack I needed to take control of the table, after which memoly proceeded to explain to me how it had been a "donky" play on my part. <br /><br />Full Tilt Poker Game #16229448401: $5 + $0.50 Rebuy (119370163), Table 13 - 2500/5000 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 20:02:26 ET - 2009/11/22<br />Seat 2: electric chair (174,658)<br />Seat 3: superruik (282,134)<br />Seat 4: memoly (108,774)<br />Seat 5: muelling87 (97,094)<br />Seat 8: comeon69 (73,340)<br />muelling87 posts the small blind of 2,500<br />comeon69 posts the big blind of 5,000<br />The button is in seat #4<br />*** HOLE CARDS ***<br />Dealt to electric chair [7s 6s 7d 8s]<br />electric chair raises to 10,000<br />superruik calls 10,000<br />memoly calls 10,000<br />muelling87 calls 7,500<br />comeon69 folds<br />*** FLOP *** [Qh 6d 9s]<br />muelling87 checks<br />comeon69: allin -lol<br />electric chair bets 45,000<br />superruik folds<br />memoly has 15 seconds left to act<br />memoly has requested TIME<br />memoly calls 45,000<br />muelling87 has 15 seconds left to act<br />muelling87 has requested TIME<br />comeon69: do it<br />muelling87 folds<br />*** TURN *** [Qh 6d 9s] [3d]<br />electric chair has 15 seconds left to act<br />electric chair bets 55,000<br />memoly has been disconnected<br />memoly has 15 seconds left to act<br />memoly has 90 seconds to reconnect<br />superruik: :S<br />comeon69: its a fold<br />memoly has reconnected<br />memoly has 15 seconds left to act<br />memoly calls 53,774, and is all in<br />electric chair shows [7s 6s 7d 8s]<br />memoly shows [Qs 8c Kc Td]<br />Uncalled bet of 1,226 returned to electric chair<br />*** RIVER *** [Qh 6d 9s 3d] [Th]<br />electric chair shows a straight, Ten high<br />memoly shows two pair, Queens and Tens<br />electric chair wins the pot (242,548) with a straight, Ten high<br /><br />Chopped when we were 3 handed and I had 420k chips, so the numbers changed a little from what is shown here. This makes it twice in 3 weeks I have won this now.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80dxMxYNXn7IGqTfl7pnWbYu0v3fEuLvNoHiwXIMfe3lkoFhW7wYFLkD76N6GlE98O6mdSKTS5CIC25_fqxF0vMC2_lVMCkt9XSpQ6DcjnymmAReY05EqI5UZVHYo2_3UUt1W/s1600/PLOR+091122.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80dxMxYNXn7IGqTfl7pnWbYu0v3fEuLvNoHiwXIMfe3lkoFhW7wYFLkD76N6GlE98O6mdSKTS5CIC25_fqxF0vMC2_lVMCkt9XSpQ6DcjnymmAReY05EqI5UZVHYo2_3UUt1W/s400/PLOR+091122.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408143717581705010" /></a><br /><br />[25-Nov - edit, posted the wrong screenshot last time, this is the right one]<br /><br />Check out the Call of the Wildcat blog link well, he has won it a couple of times recently too.seanbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10669167996763510228noreply@blogger.com0