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Blog Moving, Husng.com Opening

2009-02-11T19:21:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the long delay in posting, but husng.com is finally up and running (well, will be by the time most of you read this) and I've moved my blog over there.

If everybody that has my blog linked on their own could please update the link, I would appreciate it. We're working on adding blog links.

Also, if you're interested in blogging on husng.com, we will more than likely be open for non member/non friend blogs in the near future. Drop me a line here or email me on husng.com.

Right now we have two non members set to blog soon, but we're working on a blogging system for anybody that would like to.

Enjoy the site, and feel free to offer any feedback that you wish.

Husng.com

2009-01-11T08:21:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the lack of posting, I've been waiting on husng.com to transfer my blog (as well as other's blogs).

Here's the current state of the site:

Right now we have the videos we need to launch the site. The site is functional in most ways. There are a few kinks we're working out now and we're basically testing the membership and video download functions to make sure they work seamlessly before we finalize a launch date.

Some Q and A

How much will a membership cost?

This is TBA.

How many videos will you have?

Four instructors will have 5 videos each for the launch (20 videos total) and we will release at least one new video per week per instructor as well as the occasional guest video.

Who are the instructors?

There are four full time instructors making videos for the site. Here they are with a brief description of each player:

Croixdawg: Robert Ford plays high stakes husngs on PokerStars under the alias Croixdawg. He generally plays the 500 level husngs and is one of the biggest husng winners on the site. He's had experience at every level of the game and is a well rounded player.

Psimalive: Known as Skates on the 2p2 forums, psimalive is a high volume player. His style and philosphy is unique and centers around a high confidence and background in mathematics. He's whethered some very tough downswings to go along with some of the biggest upswings in his husng career. He attained supernova elite on pokerstars in his very first year of playing and regularly plays the 220-1100 level husngs on Pokerstars. He also has experience in other games, including STTs and PLO.

RyPac13: Me, if you read this blog you know a little bit about me, but I'm primarily a 110-220 level husng player. I started in the 5 dollar husngs with 150 dollars 2 years ago.

xSCWx: Plays on FTP under the name big tuna JKo. Also runs a very successful coaching business on 2p2 (username xSCWx) with a great history of successful students as well as videos. You can usually find him on FTP playing the 220 level husngs and beyond with great success.

What will the videos focus on?

We will be focusing exlusively on husngs, first of all. Beyond that, the majority of the content will be aimed at players struggling to beat the low to mid stakes, but we will have plenty of content aimed at higher stakes players or successful low-mid stakes players attempting to move up the ladder. Most videos will be of an instructor playing a husng and recording audio with his thought process and mindset throughout the game. Other videos may focus on powerpoint presentations, HH reviews, sweats of other players or instructor vs instructor type videos. The videos won't be limited to those options, however, they are just some examples of what we will be rolling out regularly.

How long will the videos be?

Videos will range anywhere from 20-45 minutes on average, not shorter than 20 minutes but sometimes longer than 45 minutes. We aim to keep videos at a 20-30 minute range because we've found a vast majority of video subscribers from other sites only watch 20-30 minutes at a time or find they can only focus on a video for 20-30 minutes.

Instead of making our videos 60+ minutes and forcing downloads/streams to be much longer and less efficient, we've decided to keep the videos to a more managable time.

Will there be any free content?

Each instructor, as well as a few other top husng players will maintain blogs on the site that everybody can view. There will also be free tools and applications such as a variance calcutor, risk of ruin application and husng-tooled hand history reviewer.

As far as free videos go, there will be some sort of free video or free video preview on the website for users to view prior to subscribing.

What else will be going on with the website?

Other services offered on the website will be a coaching service. Coaches retain 100% of all coaching proceeds, the site takes nothing, so you can rest assured you are paying no vig for any coaching services you purchase on the site.

Aside from that, we will work with rakeback providers to offer you the absolute best deal on rakeback for husngs. We understand that husng grinders pay some of highest total rake on poker sites, as such it is important to find the best deposit bonuses and rakeback offers for everybody.

There will be a forum, specifically a forum for membership to ask questions, offer advice and work closer with our instructors.

Many other things are set to happen on husng.com and I'll keep you updated as other offers/aspects of the site develop.

How will I be able to pay for a subscription?

You will be able to use your credit/debit card or other method of payment via paypal to purchase subscriptions. P2P transfers for subscriptions are also a possibility, but likely only for bulk subscriptions.

Who will be making guest videos?

You're going to have to wait for that one. Rest assured the players making guest videos will be very skilled and successful players, many of which you'are already familiar with.

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That's all I have for now, I'll keep you updated as we test the site and near a launch date. If you have any questions after reading my little FAQ, drop me a comment or email me.

To the handful of people who emailed, commented or PMed me about adding your blog link to my links list: I am having trouble adding new links right now, I think the format for links has changed since I put up my original links on the right side, I may have to redo all of them if I can't figure out how to add additional links in the old format, so please be patient. I'll have you added soon.

Frustration

2008-11-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

I haven't been able to play many games in the last 10 days or so, my internet connection has been brutal.

The last month or so my connection has been extremely laggy, to say the least. I'll click an action and it'll take 5-50 seconds to go through. I managed to get in about 8k vpps worth of games in the first 12 days of the month, but since then it's just been too bad to play.

Comcast (my ISP) has been out here 4-5x now, they sent their head tech the other day. He climbed up on the pole and saw that squirrels had chewed through the line, so he replaced that. He also replaced our TV box (that had been laggy as well) and all signs pointed towards the problems being fixed. That was Thursday.

I played a game Thursday and the connection wasn't the best, but I only lagged briefly 3-4x and hadn't disconnected at all from any messanger programs nor had I experienced slow browser page loads.

Yesterday, I tried playing a few games and the bad lag was back. I made it through about 5 games between the regular speed regulars and I fighting for games, but that was about it.

Today I was hoping the connection would've improved somewhat, but it's worse as ever. I'm being disconnected from trillian (basically AIM) a few times an hour on average, web pages are loading very slowly and most importantly the Pokerstars connection is being lost every couple of minutes.

I previously had a Sprint Broadband card that broke a few months ago, I forgot about it but got a free month of service and a free replacement card from Sprint, so I went to load it up yesterday on my girlfriend's laptop and it wasn't connecting. Today, I tried to install and load it on my PC and for some reason it won't install the drivers nor will it update automatically. So that is my second internet option and it is also not working. I'm going to have to bring it into the Sprint store on Monday.

My other option of internet I ordered Monday, DSL from ATT. It arrived Wednesday, though they told me it wouldn't arrive until the following Monday. It cannot be activated until Monday, however, so that is another option down the drain.

Another option is a friend of mine that lives nearby. He has DSL, but he is out of town at the moment.

Needless to say, I am beyond frustrated at this point. I've been mirred in a downswing for the last few hundred games, and it's really upsetting me that I can't get some games in to work my way out of it. It also sucks to not really be making any money (besides a little staking and coaching income, I'm not really bringing money in at the moment, husng.com isn't up yet and my business is done until the spring). Luckily I have some money in the bank and on a few poker sites, so I'm not starving or anything, but gaps in play/profit always hurt even if the impact isn't immediately felt.

One other thing that has bothered me lately was that I received a ticket last week on my work truck, which I park on the street in front of our house. I have kind of a makeshift bumper (it's a work truck obviously) so I put my front license plate in the window of my truck. I got a 50 dollar parking ticket for no displayed license plate last week! I've lived here since August 1st and had the truck parked here a majority of the time since then, and not a warning, citation or ticket up until now. I didn't even realize it was illegal, I've been pulled over twice (just random, no tickets or anything) in the few years I've owned this truck and not once has the officer said a damn thing about this. Needless to say, I don't see much I can do about the ticket except pay it. I'm thinking about filing a complaint to the town's police department, but what does that accomplish besides pissing off a bunch of cops? Next thing I know I'll be fined for having a piece of litter on my lawn or something even more silly. If I were wealthier I would probably hire a lawyer for a few hundred dollars just to piss off the police and get out of the ticket, but I can't afford to be a jerk and it's almost certainly the better life choice to not do that, but in all honesty I can see myself doing that.

So, besides all of that bull, life has been ok. Our first 3 beers seem to have come out great (the last two beers aren't finished but I am highly confident that they will turn out good at the very least) and there's a noticable forward progression in them from the prior beers we made. We were both a little worried that we might take a step back from the 3+ month layoff of brewing, but it seems we've continued to progress. I've also been reading more about some smaller breweries run by former homebrewers like myself, in which they use very small batch sizes when brewing beer (very similar to the sizes we use). This is a very good sign to me, because if we end up able to make award winning beer (homebrew competition) I would be very confident that I could start and operate a profitable brewpub. I'm getting a little ahead of myself in that regard, but it's in the back of my mind as we continue to brew. Up next on the brewing list is a holiday beer, an oatmeal cookie beer. We're using a Southern English Brown ale base and adding some oats and spices to create what hopes to be an oatmeal cookie type taste and aroma in the beer. I've read up on this one a little bit, but it doesn't seem to have been done too extensively. I'll be eagerly awaiting this one. We are also going to brew a big barleywine with our other two buddies that brew, a collaberation brew if you will. We will be doing our first 10 gallon batch on the new system for this one, and splitting up the batch 5 gallons each, fermenting and serving the beer at our respective places. We may even use 2 different kinds of yeasts and hops for dryhopping, to give each beer a unique taste.

I guess that is all for now, I feel a little better after unloading my depressing start to the month, but I just need to be a little more confident and less lazy and I'm sure things will start to pickup around here.

Online Poker In Jeapordy

2008-11-10T12:05:00.000-08:00

The Bush Administration appears to be attempting to pass new regulations for the UIGEA legislation as one of the "midnight" acts that most presidents do shortly before leaving office. This is troublesome, to say the least.

I've made a sticky on the 2p2 HU forum alerting users about the legislation and I urge all readers of my blog to at the very least call the #s in the following thread and/or email relevant parties.

Here is the link: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/57/poker-legislation/lets-all-call-fed-tell-them-hold-off-uigea-regs-340261/

Also, if you have a blog, please post about this and link to that post. We need all the support we can get.

Results

2008-11-05T20:34:00.000-08:00

Election Prediction Results:

1) Obama wins by a pretty good margin

Obama won by 7% or so and won over 2-1 in the electoral college. This was a very safe bet though, as a lot of betting sites had Obama at 1:12 or even better prior to the election.

2) Obama wins Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, PA, New Hampshire and the rest of the NE states (WV is the only state north of VA and east of IN that McCain wins).

I was right on all of these predictions, but I left out NC (likely Obama) and Indiana (Obama won narrowly).

3) I think McCain will squeek out North Carolina.

I was wrong here, looks like Obama squeeked it out, 50-49, or by less than 14k votes out of more than 4.2 million votes in the state.

4) I want to say McCain will win Florida by a hair as well, but I'm going to predict Obama wins Florida by less than 2 points.

Obama won Florida by 2 pts. I thought the anti gay marriage initiative would give McCain more support than it did, or maybe the Gore/Clinton campaigning combined with the advertising advantage Obama had just really counteracted that and then some.

I recall Hillary Clinton making the claim that Obama had no chance in Florida if he would be the nominee vs McCain and most pundits agreed. Turns out about 99% of the arguments the Clinton campaign made in the primaries were bullshit. Obama crushed PA, OH, won FL by 2 and was very competitive in western states Hillary could not dream of competing in.

5) Obama loses Indiana by less than 3 pts, comes within 5 pts of taking Arizona, McCain's home state.

Obama actually wins Indiana by 26k votes, or less than 1% I believe. Mccain wins Arizona by 9 points. Very surpising to me that Obama takes Indiana and gets trounced in AZ, he was pushing ads in AZ up to the election day and the demographics of the state have improved mightily for Democrats in recent years. Yes, I realize Indiana is Obama's neighboring state, and the organization was crazy huge in the Gary/Northwest Indiana areas, and that McCain is from AZ, but the former I still didn't think would be enough for Obama and the latter I thought the ads and polls were a sure sign Obama was competitive (not to mention NV and NM went Obama pretty solidly).

6) Election is called after Obama wins Virginia and Pennslyvannia (I'm not sure on this one, some polls may close before others, like if Obama won Virginia, Florida and OH and PA wasn't announced yet, most people would likely call it for Obama).

I think it was after Virginia, though the networks could've called it after Ohio/PA were called earlier. I think I was right on this one, but I'm not positive.

Conclusion: I think I did a good job of predicting the results. I didn't nail them on the head and I don't give myself a ton of credit bc I think this was a very very predictive election according to the polls (I've been following the polls on many sites, especially fivethirtyeight.com, though also realclearpolitics and pollster.com).

I'm not going to get into my personal views on the election or anything, I'm sure a lot of people are tired of hearing how everyone feels about this, but I am happy Obama won. I definitely preferred him over Hillary and most other democratic challengers, and while I liked McCain more than any other GOP candidate and some democratic ones, campaigning has never been his forte, and neither has leading or working with large groups of people. He seems to be good at micromanaging one or two reform things at a time and getting shit done that way, I also respect him for his ability to stand up to the traditional right wing of his party throughout his career in the Senate.

Meh, I guess I did share some of my views.

Election and Pics

2008-11-03T20:29:00.001-08:00

First off, since election day is tomorrow, I'd like to make a few predictions:

1) Obama wins by a pretty good margin

2) Obama wins Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, PA, New Hampshire and the rest of the NE states (WV is the only state north of VA and east of IN that McCain wins).

3) I think McCain will squeek out North Carolina.

4) I want to say McCain will win Florida by a hair as well, but I'm going to predict Obama wins Florida by less than 2 points.

5) Obama loses Indiana by less than 3 pts, comes within 5 pts of taking Arizona, McCain's home state.

6) Election is called after Obama wins Virginia and Pennslyvannia (I'm not sure on this one, some polls may close before others, like if Obama won Virginia, Florida and OH and PA wasn't announced yet, most people would likely call it for Obama).

7) Chicago will be nuts, I'm staying in.

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Now, to non election stuff.

Our brewing setup is functional. We've brewed 2 beers, one on each of the last 2 Wednesdays. The first was a hoppy red ale, or hoppy amber ale. This recipe was based on one I found from a very respected brewer known as Jamil. We used a similar grain bill (basically you can seperate a beer recipe into malt or grain, hops and yeast) to what he used, but changed the hop profile and yeast. It is going to be kegged Wednesday, and should be ready to taste in about a week. Initial partially fermented-non carbonated tastes have been very promising.

The other beer we did was a pumpkin beer. I know, Halloween was Friday and it won't be ready for a few weeks, but I've always wanted to brew one of these and so did my friend, so we did it.

I have some pics of this beer and the brewery below, but we basically took a light amber ale recipe, tuned it up into a stronger alcohol/sweeter beer and added 5 lbs of organic pumpkins doused in dark brown sugar and some spices (cinnomin, ginger root and nutmeg). It was really fun to brew and I think it will taste delicious.

Most importantly, we've hit all of our targets during the brewing process, meaning our brewing setup is very efficient. This was one of our major concerns when building it, that we would not be very efficient and would spend a lot of time and effort trying to calculate and offset recipes so that we could duplicate them or get the taste we want in our beers. Fortunately, it seems we will have very little adjusting to do.

We have also encountered no major problems with the setup. While we have figured out a few improvements that we would like to make, there is nothing pressing that is required.

Here are some pictures of the pumpkin beer and brewery.

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Above is a picture of the pumpkins being prepared. The night before we had to slice, skin and gut the pumpkins, douse them in dark brown sugar and put them in the oven for about two hours until they softened. We then refrigerated them overnight.

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Above is a pic of our setup. It's not a great picture, I realize I'm going to have to take more now, but on the top we just to the left of the fan you can see a pot sticking out (better viewed in the next picture). That is the water pot, where water is heated up to a certain temperature. It is then dropped into the converted keg-pot below the fan, called the mash ton. The water is added to the grain there. Some time later (for all your brew savvy people out there, I know I'm leaving a lot out) the result of this, the wort, is transferred into the boil pot (the yellow striped pot in the bottom back end of the picture). After we're done boiling and adding hops or whatever else we're going to add for a particular recipe, we'll transfer the wort into a 6 gallon plastic fermenter (picture a plastic bucket). All of this transferring is done via copper or stainless steel pipes, meaning we don't have to lift a damn thing during the brewing process. Not lifting 13 gallon pots with 5-10 gallons of 210 degree water in them is very +EV.

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The above is the side view of our brewery setup. You can see the water pot I referred to in the last post a bit better (the top pot), as well as the mash tun (the middle pot) and the boil pot (the bottom right pot with the blue stripe in this picture). You can also see the fire on the water pot, our setup is powered by propane and there is a burner under each pot.

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This is a picture of our removable sparge arm. Basically, after the water is added to the grain in the mash tun, it sits for about an hour, soaking up the sugars from the grain (this is called the mash). After this, you drain most of the water from the mash tun into the boil pot. But there are still sugars left in the grain, so you add some more water and drain it into the boil pot. This is called the sparge. You want a gentle flow of hot water going into the mash tun during the sparge, thus we took some copper, put a T on it and made small slits into it, giving the water a wide, yet soft flow into the mash tun.

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Above is a picture of one of us adding the chopped up pumpkin into the boil pot. The copper tube is connected to the mash tun, we put a stainless steel, flexible hose on the end of it so that the wort from the mash tun transfers into the boil pot with minimal oxidation (I think that's the correct term off the top of my head). Basically, you don't want the wort falling into the pot and splashing around, you want minimal contact with air.

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Above is a picture of the pumpkins in the boil.

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Our final picture is of the boil, after the hops are added. I'm sure most people think this looks disgusting. Normally the hops are put in a hop bag, so they aren't just floating around, mainly this makes for easier filtration from the boil pot to the fermenter, but our brewing supply store was out of hop bags, so we had to add them directly in the boil. It was a pain in the ass to filter them out afterwards, but it won't be a regular problem because we will have hop bags in the future.

I'll get some better pics up soon, but this should give you an idea of what I'm always talking about.

If anyone is in the Chicagoland area in 2-6 weeks, feel free to shoot me an email or message here if you'd like to try one of our brews.

Until then, have a good November.

Ship!

2008-10-01T00:06:00.000-07:00

Sox in the playoffs, going to game 4 if we don't sweep em in 3.

Finished around +3k on the month, including wcoop cash and fpps. Not sure how I ran, I'd like to say bad but it's all moot, everyone always thinks they run bad. I was down 2kish at one point, so obviously could've been an ugly one, but I feel I fought through some swings. 6% ROi in 110s in 2 mans I played, rest were 4 man 220-330s with a few 2 mans mixed in at both those limits.

May add to the total, as my buddy is 14/18 in the nightly 70k and I have half the action.

Looking forward to next month's games, should be a fairly busy month with a wedding, the sox game, possibly a bear's game and we're also planning to have a little Halloween party.

Golfed shitty last Sunday, looks like I probably won't break 100 this year. I think I have a 25% shot at breaking 100 for the rest of the year outdoors, as I think I'll be lucky to get 4 more rounds in.

More updates soon, brewery maybe done tomorrow? Waiting on someone finish cutting and welding the kegs we're converting into 15 gallon brew pots.

Some thoughts as we leave summer..

2008-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

Having some ups and downs lately, mainly just keep swinging within a 1500 dollar amount back and forth, but I feel like I haven't been playing great solo and my partner keeps running like absolute shit in the 4 mans I've done, so no worries.

I golfed a 105 Sunday, despite starting out the round terribly. I ended with a 3, 4, 4, 6, 5 I believe, on 2 par 3s and 3 par 4s, so that was a solid finish.

I have these two golf lesson vouchers at the local golf store, but they fired their trainer a few months ago and had not hired a new one last I checked.

I would really like to golf 2-3x a week next year, I have a lot of fun on the course and that should really motivate me to work hard this winter.

As my work season closes, I've had a few ideas for next year:

1) I've been thinking about some reinvestment in my company. Some new equipment that would allow me to expand my customer base and probably make some more sense long term, value wise.

2) Perhaps hiring somebody to work the business for me. All I would need is one dedicated person and then an employee to work with them. I could take care of all the phone calls, some of the estimates and the paperwork very easily and efficiently and stay a few steps ahead of the game. I don't like "grinding the trenches" of the business, per say. It's really tedious to go out there and do jobs every day, I don't want it to be my life and I don't want to drive around doing jobs all day. This would be a good opportunity to train somebody that wants to learn how to run a business, and make them a few bucks during the summer. At the same time, I could stay focused on hopefully another business by spring....

3) I've kicked around a few ideas for another small business. I've had some fuzzy plans with a few people on a few things, but nothing has been definitive yet. I hope to have some sort of new business/interest by spring. If I can get up my volume poker wise, I could probably just start something solely on my own and justify taking any risk involved, but I don't think I'll have to take many risks if I invest in something. When I started my current business, I spent a few grand on an old pickup truck and bought the cheapest equipment I could do top quality jobs with. I spent 2-3x as long on some jobs bc my equipment was so limiting, but I got the job done with an initial investment of only a few thousand dollars, compared to 10-20k minimum that the "veterans" will tell you is needed. So in the case of my first "real" business, I didn't take on much risk.

So those are a few of the ideas I've been thinking about lately, and will continue to think about and hopefully shape into a plan soon.

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Husng.com is being finished. I have a webmaster who is updating me along the way. I don't want to give a definitive date, but the plan is 3 weeks now. You will know when it is up, believe me. I've had a few people ask about making videos on the site or helping in any way they can, and you can email or PM me on 2p2 your info if you are interested.

I know I've talked to a few people about it in the past, and I don't want to make any concrete plans about who's involved and what is giong on until the site is actually done (I've done that too many times and have finally learned my lesson). Just know, if I've talked to you before I'm still interested in having you on board.

Collin Moshman's HU book just came out. I got my copy yesterday, but haven't read it yet. I, along with a few other forum members are in the acknowledgments. I just want to say that myself and at least one other prominent person in there didn't have very much to do with this book (as far as we know). I personally helped Collin with a very brief thing in the book, so the book is basically 100% his ideas, thoughts and knowledge, though I am sure he was influenced and aided by the 2p2 HU forum in many ways (and he also thanks the whole forum). I am going to lead a discussion and review on the book in the HU forum as early as today.

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I'm kind of disappointed I didn't get into betting on this election cycle. I've watched a friend of mine making tremendous amounts of money off of this year's primaries and main election, and while I don't have the skills to take the positions and make the money he does, I'm sure I could have profited off of this in a decent way. I also enjoy politics, so a lot of the backwork is fun for me. Reading polls and crunching numbers in the political world is something I really don't mind doing and sometimes really enjoy. I think it's a little late for me to do much, it takes too long to get money on the sites I'd like to put money on, and there are only 40ish days left until the election, making my risk go up a great deal. Previously, if I take a few bad positions I can presumably counter those with good positions over time, but if I make a few mistakes this late in the game, I may not recover from them at all, there just may not be the ups and downs and inaccurate odds to take avantage of towards the end (I really think Obama will keep a firm lead in the last monthish. It's not hard to guage this, even on a non involved level, you will see candidates getting really desperate if they are too far back in the last few weeks. I think Palin was the first big gamble he had to take b/c he was down, and I still think it'll bite him. It seems the Palin bounce is about neutral now, she gave Mccain a huge boost coming out of hte convention, but her negatives have shot through the roof since then and Obama has taken back at least every bit of lead he had pre convention, according to all objective analysis.)

In the world of husng news.... other than Moshman's book coming out... Hokie and Primo both got dogs... Primo has moved to southern France... Bpmst2 (bcm's brother) has been moving up pretty steadily and seems to be doing well... xSCWx took 5th in the Sunday $215 hu mtt... Hokie has struck a deal with another player so that he plays the 300 regular speed games now... Whaassuuppp, a 200-500 regular, has created a blog (link on side)... Stevesbets seems to be back in the 5k games after winning the 25k Wcoop HU event... I'm sure everyone knows by now, but Livb has been playing the Stars 5k husngs under the name Adonis112 and has done fairly well by all accounts... Skilled_sox and Bcm11 seem to show no signs of letting up their domination in the 550-1100 buyin range, sharkscope has them each up near 30 thousand dollars in the last month...

That's all for now, good luck at the tables.

(Pics still to come, our brewery isn't done yet, sigh)

Update

2008-09-05T10:38:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the lack of updates.

Moving was stressful and stuff, but worked out nicely. I'm so much happier in my new place.

Dboy and a few buddies stayed over for like 3-4 days during the move, making things more hectic but it was a good time.

I didn't get to play any games from like August 1st-14th, so I missed out on a lot of potential profit (fuck you Comcast) but I'm doing ok now.

I'll definitely put up pics, but I'm holding off until I get a new couch to replace our old 2nd couch we gave away, and until we finish our brewing setup. So probably by the end of the month.

I'll get to other things in the coming days, and will be updating much more frequently.

Short update

2008-07-26T14:00:00.000-07:00

Been super busy, I'm in the process of moving to a new place.

Between that, 1.5x vpps and an increase in student interest, I haven't had a ton of free time.

I'll give a better update in the next week, and I promise pics of this place (I always promise pics then never come through, sorry).

Profit wise this month has sucked, everytime I start to break through on a heater variance seems to rear its ugly head.

Today started out OK, but then I lost 5 all ins without being dominated or against a PP and a 6th all in where I was dominated. I didn't win a single all in in that game, and at the low point in the 50-100 the guy had less than 200 chips after folding to a shove. That kind of stuff sucks, but I really really need to play so much more, I just haven't had the time it seems or been in the right state of mind when I have.

Stars Promotion For Husng Players

2008-07-08T12:01:00.000-07:00

Hello Ryan,

I am pleased to be able to write to you with news regarding the HU S&G
portion of the 2X promotion.

For Weeks 3 & 4 of PokerStars 2X, we will be following your suggestion of
increasing the VPP awarded to 1.5x the normal amount. By doing this for 2
weeks, our HU S&G regulars will still get 2X the normal VPP they would
have earned for 2 weeks of non-bonus play.

Thanks very much for the suggestion! I hope that you enjoy the bonus for
heads-up players in weeks 3 & 4 of the PokerStars 2X promotion.

All the best,

Bryan S.
Tournaments Administrator
PokerStars Poker Room Management Team

Omgwtfnoway deserves credit for telling me "Man, I'd take 1.5 or even 1.25x vpps, ANYTHING."

Short Update

2008-07-05T18:14:00.000-07:00

First off, I had a positive email exchange with somebody from Stars management.

I'm told that Stars will do something for us husng players during JULY. What it is has not been determined yet (as of a day or two ago), but several options have been discussed and are possible (check the thread I made on 2p2 for those options).

I've resumed play on stars. I had decided not to play until Stars resolved or promised that they would resolve this to me/us. I didn't really try to get anybody to boycott Stars, they area great site and I've had little to no beef with them in the past, and I was truly upset that they decided not to include us in this promotion. There had been talk of 2x vpp week for a month or two and I was really looking forward to it.

I will be sure to post any further updates if/when I receive word from them.

I've played a few 6 man STTs the last few days, mainly lower levels, 27-39s or what have you. I've ran pretty ugly but there is a small chance I could end up supplementing my hu play with these in the future. Likely not if they aren't soft enough at the 78-100ish levels, but that remains to be seen.

I've also done about a half dozen 200 regular speeds, I think I split them yesterday. I'll probably make that my regular game throughout July, playing some 110 turbos when I'm not feeling patient enough or disciplined enough and some 220 turbos if I'm playing well and we get a good husng promotion.

On the beer front, we just kegged a 9.5% double IPA. It's not fully carbonated, it should take up to 2 weeks to fully mature, but it's tasting delicious already. We also have a 10% or so imperial stout in the 2nd fermenter. We may have to repitch some yeast to get the final gravity down to an acceptable level, it's kind of on the high side now and may be a little too sweet. It could finish well over 12% abv. We put giant oranges in the boil and lactose as well. We'll also add some coffee before kegging, so it's going to be dubbed our "Dessert Stout." Quite a hefty dessert if I may say so myself.

Gotta cut this short bc I have to run, but I now have a coaching thread on the 2p2 forum. I'll link to it later on, but if anybody has any questions about coaching, you can read that thread first, otherwise PM or email me.

GL July.

Stars Promotion Discludes Husng Players

2008-07-01T09:52:00.000-07:00

You can find more information here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=239054

Send an email if you get a chance and/or post in that thread. Hopefully Stars can give us a response this time and a positive one at that.

I'll have some more updates soon.

Traveling and Update

2008-06-25T11:43:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, been a hectic week.

First off, my girlfriend's dad had a stroke Saturday night/Sunday morning. He seems to be doing ok, we visited him on Sunday.

Poker has been ok this month. I started out doing pretty well the first two weeks in terms of volume of games, falling slightly short of my 150 game goals. The third week was a waste, I was too stressed out and had too much going on to really play much.

Tonight I'm going on a little brewery tour with two of my friends, Tom and Clay.

We're leaving from Chicago this evening and heading to Holland, Michigan to New Holland brewery. We'll then be in Grand Rapids tonight for Founders, and stay the night there. My old 6 max buddy JJ will be meeting up with us for the first leg of the tour.

Tomorrow we'll head to Battle Creek/Kalamazoo/somewhere else I forgot, to go to Arcadia, Bell's and Dark Horse breweries before heading to Cleveland to hit Great Lakes and Willoughby before staying in Cleveland. I'm trying to have a drink with bcm and his brother bpmst that night, but I know he's moving into his new house so it may not happen.

Friday we'll head to Pittsburgh and to "Church Works Brew" or something similar to that for lunch. It's a brewery in a former church, the pics online looked really cool.

From there we'll head through DC to Delaware to DogfishHead brewery and spend the night there.

Saturday we'll head to downtown Philly and to Monk's Cafe, one of, if not the best Belgian beer bar in the US. We'll try to hit an Iron Horse brewery on the way out in the suburbs before getting to Selinsgrove Brewery in middle PA for early evening brews. We'll likely spend the night in Pittsburgh or Cleveland on Saturday and then head home on Sunday.

I'll have pics and beer reviews in the 2p2 beer thread (located in the lounge) and I'll throw up anything decent on here when I return.

I bought a Sprint broadband card for the trip with the laptop, so I may get a few games in, but not likely many, if any.

If by any chance you are in one of the cities I mentioned above and would like to grab a drink, feel free to leave a message on the board here and I'll contact you. Or PM me on 2p2 (ChicagoRy is my username), I'm not sure if I'll be able to get into my email on the road.
Until then, gl with the games.

Beer Tasting and Power Outage

2008-06-08T23:00:00.001-07:00

Last Wednesday we had a beer tasting. Myself and my friend Clay had 4 of our beers on hand at my place, and our friends Tom and Steve brought over 3 of their own. We even bought a few cheeses to go with the different styles of beer, and grilled some hot dogs and burgers as well.

It went over really well, I was pretty impressed with their beers. They have been brewing for about 6 months (probably a year for Clay and I). They've had some struggles and almost quit a few times, but I really enjoyed their beers. Their stout was very flavorful and chocolaty. Their grapefruit ale tasted like it should have, and though I don't enjoy grapefruit, I did enjoy this beer. And finally, their maple syrup golden ale didn't really turn out as good as expected. They had some carbonating problems that hurt this beer, and despite 3 separate injections of maple syrup, it had no maple syrup flavor evident at all.

On our end of the tasting, we served our "dark witbier." It's kind of a new thing going on in Montreal/Quebec right now, based on some old recipes. We looked at a base recipe for this Belgian beer in a magazine and boosted the abv to 6.5%, changed the amount of coriander, dried licorice root and star anise as well as the time we added it to the boil. We also added our own little touch, using honey tangerine peels in the boil. This really made the beer, it is so refreshing and has a great Belgian yeast taste. The small amount of hops we used are just for balance. Very happy with how it turned out.

Our second beer was our hoppy red ale, or "Indiana Red Ale" IRA. Kind of a long story about the naming of that beer, so I'll skip it for now. This is a pretty solid red ale, very flowery aromas and pungent, almost smooth hopping, though it is very hoppy. Really good, off hand I think it's 6% abv.

We then went with our Imperial Stout. This was 8% abv, boosted by a little late sugar addition bc we weren't efficient enough with our grains. Vanilla lactose and coffee were added, the former at the flameout, the latter after the second ferment right before kegging. It's a very good beer, the coffee amount was very key this time. We added a little less lactose than our last stout, at the same time as the coffee. It wasn't very evident in the beer, however. I was pretty happy with our latest stout, I think we're only one or two batches away from our "ideal" stout. I think we're going to boost the chocolate malt, lactose and alcohol in the next batch and add some orange peels to make a little "orange chocolate dessert stout." 11% ABV sounds about right for a nightwarmer.

Our last beer was our previous "milk/coffee stout" that was 6%. It's very roasty and the coffee is really evident. There are strong hints of vanilla and perhaps some sort of dark fruit in it. Good beer, but more of a specialty beer for us rather than our "holy grail stout."

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So as you might recall, I have a 150 games a week requirement for myself.

Well, I had 10 games in by early Saturday afternoon, then went to pick up my mom's car at the auto shop and bring to her house. Turns out a huge line of storms were hitting and I ended up staying there for like 3-4 hours. An F1-F2 tornado swept through the area, damaging a lot of neighboring towns along the path, also knocking out the power in my town. We saw the huge funnel pass right over my mom's neighborhood, I was out back watching it with my brother. Leaves were falling from the sky, as well as the occasional stick.

The point is, I fell a little short with my games. I ended up at about 130 I believe, and would've had my goal if I wasn't screwed by our power problem. My town wasn't even hit with high winds or really much lightning, our power just goes out way too much.

I ended up spending the night on our deck. We picked up some firestarters and put them in our little tiny grill and made a fire. My buddy and I got a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label and just bullshitted out there all night. Two guys from a few houses away that I know from high school came by as well to hang out for a bit. All in all the night was somewhat salvaged.

Our power was restored sometime between 3-5am, but went out this afternoon again for a few hours. We didn't even have storms today.

I went golfing this afternoon after a little bit of a rain delay, and on the 6th hole about 30 minutes south/west of my house we could see huge damage from the tornado. It touched down about 100 yards from the golf course, leveling a house, a barn, power lines and trees. It was pretty crazy.

I shot a rough 111, but this is a much harder course than we usually play. Still, I think I had 3 drives over 150 yards, I was just all over the place with my drives today. Nubbed a few, got under a few others and popped em up, just couldn't get it right until the last 3 holes. On the last hole I cracked the ball about 230-240 down the middle through a choke in the fairway. I always manage to hit a good drive on this hole, but this one was probably my best drive of the year. I've been using a 3 wood to drive the last few times out, my driver is messed up and I need to get a new driver head.

I also sunk an 80 foot or so putt from the fringe today, if it weren't for the fact that I was on the fringe and the ball hit the pin and went in I'd of probably been off the green. My speed was just way too fast but my line was pretty good for the speed. That saved me a bogie, ha.

Back to poker, I'm going to try to add the games that I missed due to the storm to the rest of my 3 weeks of the month. I realize I've only accounted for 28 days in my "150 per 7 days" goal for June, so I should also have a few extra days of play. Topping 600 games would be huge for me.

I'll have some other stuff coming up to talk about soon as well.

June Goals and Updates

2008-06-02T22:59:00.000-07:00

I'll begin with poker and the last month, etc.

I did ok in May, though I feel I ran below expectation. I didn't really take many 220 shots, I ended up going 0-3 in the 220s and 3-0 in the 200s, but the way things were going I didn't really want to risk a big run of variance wiping out any monthly gains, so I just didn't take any meaningful shots. I also seemed to run the worst when I was playing my best AND wanting to take the 220 shots, so it just didn't work out. I'm not too worried though. I shouldn't have to really cash out any more this summer unless I want to, so my online br should be more than enough to not worry about -2k or worse days every now and then.

I played a ton more at the end of May and for once it didn't feel like work, I actually did not mind it at all.

I'm going to continue with that motivation and mindset into June and as per Bcm's suggestion I'm going to make a few goals.

First, I want to play a minimum of 150 110s a week. There's no reason why I can't do this, especially considering the swings are really not bothering me much at all anymore, despite my lack of putting in games (which basically equates to downswings lasting longer than a week sometimes compared to 1-3 days if I played regularly, much less stressful).

I'm not really going to be worried about a monetary goal at the moment, but after I get to +2500 this month I'm going to take a prolonged shot at the 220s and hopefully run decent/continue to play well in them. I may loosen my games/week once I get into the 220s, but not by much, mainly b/c of the whole "longer downswing if you don't play much" theory.

I am, however, cutting myself off of the Dark Lord beer (previously mentioned in the blog) until I book a 10k month. I'll include all forms of poker for that goal, as I have played a little hu cash lately and will continue to work on playing more. This will no doubt provide some motivation for me to play a lot more at a higher level and take smart, focused shots. It will also probably provide me with Dark Lord until my birthday in November (I have 10 22oz bottles of it left, I drank one and gave one to my good friend for his graduation from college).

I also will set a minimum of 3 days to be stuck on the same number (in thousands) of vpps for the month. Basically, this means if I had 0 vpps on June 1st I would have until the end of June 3rd to have over 1k vpps. If I got to 1k vpps on June 2nd I would have until the 5th to break 2k vpps, etc. This means I'm playing a minimum of 40 games every 3 days, and usually more. It should ease the burden of making up to the 150 games goal every 7th day.

In other poker news, bcm's blog is shutdown again, croixdawg is starting his up again. Primo is in vegas chilling with cwar, hokie is in AC and I'm sure a lot of people are heading to the WSOP. Good luck to everyone in the series, especially those of you in the HU event.

I started work on redoing the 2p2 HU forum sticky thread, I reorganized and added some new husng links, so check them out if you haven't already. There's some good info in there.

In non poker news, my business has been picking up finally. The weather is finally getting good so I can work when I need to and people are wanting work. Things are getting low stress finally and I'm almost at the point where the work is 100% routine, but still a few kinks I'm working out.

A few weeks ago I weighed myself and I was about 35 lbs heavier from the last time I had checked my weight (In the hospital in January, so perhaps I had lost 5-10 lbs?). I attribute most of this from quitting smoking, also perhaps an increase in the calories of the beer we've brewed, but we don't measure the calories in our beer so I can't be sure (we have made much heavier, stronger beers, so I'd assume they are going up in calories).

I'm not too worried about it but I'd like to lose some of that, I felt I was an ideal weight in January. Since that last weighing I've checked myself once since then and was 10 lbs lighter, so who knows. I've been walking a lot at night and trying to bring the girlfriend along as well. I've also passed out a lot of flyers for my business, so that has helped increase my exercise.

I'm thinking ahead to some longer term options, and might buy my brother and I a membership at the health club near him this fall/winter. I used to play racquetball with my dad and brother when I was younger and it was fun, but mainly to play basketball. I love basketball and despite being really out of shape in terms of endurance I am still pretty solid. A rec league or something similar would be really fun. I know of a really competitive one in the city, but that would be longer term, as I would have to really be on the top of my game/in shape to play with those guys.

I'm going to have to cut this short, but I'll update more frequently this month.

Good luck to you all and expect another Q and A post very soon.

June Goals Coming Soon

2008-05-31T21:07:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, I really want that rematch button so I figured I'd leave that post up for longer than usual. Hopefully that ends up happening soon.

Went to the horse track tonight for my buddy's graduation party. He's graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago. It was a blast, he won like 100 bucks on the second to last race, and my other buddy who I brew with won 180 on the last race, after being down about 100.

I ended up making like 3-5 bucks after being up 20, not really very dramatic. I know a guy who's sister works at the track so I was trying to get tips and get some sort of an edge or less of a -EV spot on the races. I feel I bet pretty well in the end, but wasn't super interested. It was just a good time to get out and drink a bunch of beer with my buddies on a great night.

The month ended up ok, I ran below expectation in 110s and only ended up playing 4 220s. I lost all 4 but won all 4 200 regular speeds I played, so 4-4 in 220/200s this month. I made like 2200 overall playing 110s this month and had to flip 5 550s w Skates to get my 10k vpps. I played so little in the early part of the month I had to play like 90+ games in the last 3 days of play to get near my 10k vpps.

Despite running kind of trashy in the last 3 days, I still felt I played pretty well and didn't really get too stressed playing more games in one day than I ever have before (45). Hopefully I can build on this and put in a very good month for June. Correction, I will put in a much better month. I've kind of sifted below potential for way too long with my work ethic in poker, so it's about time I actually put in a quality month. June should be that month.

I'm gong to outline a list of goals for June tomorrow night or Monday. This will include husngs and hu cash goals. I'll factor in a few hrs a week of coaching plus my business hours, but even with that if I work hard I SHOULD put in more hours playing than I have since I started about 17 months ago.

Speaking of my business, things are starting to pick up. The weather has been shit so I haven't been working as much as expected, but today it finally passed 80 degrees, so it's only a matter of time before every day is 80+ and the lows stop dipping below 50 (I can't work if the low is below 50).

I'll update with goals and such in the next day or two, I also will have a strategy post or two coming very soon and maybe even a surprise or two in June.

If anybody wants to send any poker questions to me, feel free to email me. My email is listed in previous posts.

Wanted: Rematch Button on Pokerstars

2008-05-04T20:36:00.000-07:00

I think it would be a very good thing for everybody if Stars implemented a "rematch" button in their husngs, similar to what Full Tilt and Ultimate Bet have.

I've started a thread in the HU forum on 2+2. It is basically a semi-organized effort to make this happen.

I'd like to ask the readers of this blog to please fire off an email to Stars. For an email ALREADY WRITTEN for you and 3 email addresses to send it to, please check out this thread HERE .

If you have any questions about the rematch button and/or the effects of it, please drop me a message here or PM me on 2+2.

Thanks for your help.

I Am Now A Moderator...

2008-04-28T09:33:00.000-07:00

....On 2+2's Heads Up (NL) forum.

Cwar IMed me last week talking about the forum traffic going up since the HU forum moved under the NL title. He mentioned that if it got any busier he'd put in a request for another mod and asked me if I'd be interested.

Basically I just tag posts that aren't tagged and lock/delete really off topic-vague/general stuff and send a PM to the people that did this. Nothing sexy, nothing tough.

The end of week/weekend went pretty well. I got 12 bottles of the infamous Dark Lord.

I haven't had one yet, I'm going to wait until I finish this month (motivation lol).

I heard that in mid May Stars is doing a double VPP promotion. As far as I know this is not official or announced, so I wouldn't mark your calenders or anything (Hokie actually told me, so he can take the credit for it being right/wrong).

In other news, I have a few other stakes/investments in the poker world that are going so so right now. One is going pretty well and the other is kind of just going average. Neither are going bad or terrible or stressing me out, so that is key.

This week looks to be very shitty weather, haven't started working for my business yet (though I've set up some work) and probably won't til at least this weekend now. You'd think by early May the overnight low would stay to over 50 F.

Not much other news, I still want to get a strat post up and if by some miracle I finish my monthly games early I'll definitely post one.

Links Update

2008-04-24T14:44:00.001-07:00

I updated my links list.

I prefer to have players that primarily play husngs on the list (as of now Andrew Ferguson is the only non husng-majority player on the list, though I met him in a 55 husng and he is the founder of PS money).

I've added some notable higher stakes husng players, people like Croixdawg, NoFear, PrimordialAA and MaxV2. Primo is really the only one updating his blog (though it's new), but hopefully some of these other guys will start doing it.

And maybe Bcm can open a new blog (cough cough).

May you suck out on many rivers until my next post.

April Hate

2008-04-22T22:22:00.000-07:00

I've only played 33 games in the last 7, compared to like 200 in the first 14 days of April.

I'm still down in April, but only because of my bad 50 game run at the 220s.

Stress level has been up this month as I'm prepping my business for the season (probably start first job Sunday). There has also been a lot of beer events and band events going on (Two different bands I know are made up of friends of mine that took a hiatus for the last 6 months decided to start playing again this month). So yea, pretty busy and I haven't handled my 220 downswing coupled with a standard 110 downswing very well. Thus, I've limited my playing time which has kind of frustrated me more, but I can't really force myself to play b/c I know it's a bad decision.

I'll have to figure out how I'm going to get to 10k vpps again this month, I had over 6k at the halfway point of the month despite some bad variance and now I only have 7k.

My upcoming schedule looks something like this:

Wednesday: Ready some equipment for the business, prepare business flyers, finalize opening month budget.

Thursday: Pass out flyers, attend tapping of new beer at brewery for mug club.

Friday: More flyers, attend pre DLD festivities later at night at the brewery.

Saturday: AM: Attend Dark Lord Day at Three Floyd's Brewery. It's a once a year festivity where the brewery sells (6 per person) 22oz bottles of their famous "Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout." It's generally rated as one of the top 1-3 beers in the world (I think it was 1-2 on most big lists this year).

Not sure how long this will last, but if I'm out of there at a reasonable time I'd imagine I'll be doing job estimates Saturday evening.

Sunday: At a minimum do 2 jobs, training my little brother b/c he wants to be my main worker this summer (he's 17 going to be a SR. in HS next year). Attempt to schedule them so we can make a late afternoon round of golf with my father and grandpa.

There's also some sort of 7 course dinner with 7 beers at the brewery later next week. I forget when.

So yes, busy schedule, kind of a stressful and frustrating month, hopefully I can just focus and have good results and go on some sort of a grinding tear in my downtime.

I'll try to get another big strat post done before May but no promises.

Facing a limp

2008-04-13T23:14:00.000-07:00

(Or why you should resist the temptation of raising limps over and over and over again)

You probably get what I'm going to advocate in this post.

First, the following is a response to another question from Spacko about "when you should raise limpers." It's a very general question but I notice that even good players often have a general problem with how they approach this area of the game.

Lets begin by looking at reasons why people raise limps.

**We'll assume that effective stacks are a relatively deep 40-75bb, unless otherwise noted.

1. Our hand is better than the range of hands villain will call with.
2. We think villain will fold a tremendous amount of time and we will raise for the fold equity. You could call this a bluff-raise.
3. We have a great read on villain and have found an exploit in their game (fairly rare early on). For example, a player that calls almost ATC preflop but is very weak/tight postflop. You would want to get chips in the pot preflop to steal postflop.

There are no doubt other reasons you can raise a limp, but the most common will be similar to the 3 above.

We'll start with raising for pure hand value. A common reply to "why did you raise his limp with that hand (we'll say a hand like QTo)?" is "he'll call with worse hands." That is probably true, a lot of villains will limp and then call a 3-5x raise with a lot of worse hands. But unfortunately, many people don't consider other factors of the hand besides the hand values.

The first factor of the hand that a lot of people ignore is position. You're out of position, so you're at a disadvantage (the deeper you are the more this is true). This will weaken your holding/value somewhat.

Another factor is postflop play. How does your opponent play postflop? What is his calling range? What is his limping range? If you're having trouble answering any of those questions, raising a medium-strong hand like QTo OOP for around 4x the bb is probably not going to put you in good spots postflop.

As an example of how crucial it is to know most if not all of these things about your opponent, I'll point you to a recent thread in 2+2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=177357

In this thread, Skates (a 220-550 regular) raised Heir Apparent's (a very solid 200/220 regular) limp with what you could call a "medium-strong" hand. He assumed that Heir would raise any ace preflop, so therefore an ace could not be in his calling range. Based on that assumption, it would be a pretty easy call based on Heir's line (call, c/c, c/bet). However, Skates even admitted that he was pretty confused about the hand/line and it turns out Heir had a weak ace. Throw aces into Heir's range and it would be a pretty clear fold on this river.

Moving on, the other big reason people will give when raising a limp is "he's only limping weak hands, he'll probably fold."

While this is fine reasoning, this is generally not worth doing until effective stacks (in bbs) are pretty small (think like < 30bbs deep). Most players will adjust after you raise their limps a few times, so you're not going to want to pick up their 20 or 30 chips once or twice when you have 1500 chips and then have to figure out how they are adjusting later on. Knowing they are limping weak and/or folding often is going to be much more valuable when you can pick up 50-100 chips each time or more appropriately, 5-15% of their stack a pop.

I'll touch on one other point about limp raising before I conclude, and that would be to think about what it means to face a limp. Are you really worried about a player limping his button when stacks are deep? You shouldn't be. Most players are losing value by constantly limping their button when stacks are deep, so why should you abuse that leak early on and force them to raise more often in position and generally play more aggressively throughout the game? It is my belief that you should not.

Now lets quickly touch on when you should raise limps.

-The blinds are a big % of the effective stacks. 5-15% is probably a good rule of thumb for when you really want to be paying attention and looking for spot to raise limps for fold equity.

-You really have a good grasp on this villain and his calling range as well as his postflop play.

-Your hand is very strong. I would never suggest checking a hand like 99 or AK in the big blind when a player limps. With a hand like this, your hand is just too strong to not want to build a pot, position or not, good reads or not.

Building off of that, my default raising range for low-mid stakes husngs would be 55+, A9s, ATo+, KJs+, KQo+.

That range would change as effective stacks, game flow and reads developed and changed, but on the first hand of a 22 dollar husng that would be my suggest raising range facing a limp from a random player.

To conclude, in general I would suggest letting players limp early but especially paying attention to limp ranges, reactions to aggression and postflop play of villains so that you can take advantage of poor play as effective big blinds get shallow and leaks grow tremendously. A good way to gain this information is to mainly only raise strong hands early on when facing a limp, and to deviate from that strategy as the conditions above warrant.

I hope you enjoyed this post, if you have any questions or comments about this post or about anything having to do with husngs in general you can leave them here or email me (ryan.ryryp13(insert the @ symbol bc of spammers) gmail.com).

Hero call of the night....

2008-04-12T20:46:00.001-07:00

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1110 in chips)
Seat 2: Goyal810 (1890 in chips)
Goyal810: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2d 4h]
Goyal810: calls 50
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [2c 5d Ac]
RyPac13: bets 125
Goyal810: calls 125
*** TURN *** [2c 5d Ac] [Qs]
RyPac13: checks
Goyal810: checks
*** RIVER *** [2c 5d Ac Qs] [9s]
RyPac13: checks
Goyal810: bets 1665 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 885 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Goyal810: shows [Kd Jc] (high card Ace)
RyPac13: shows [2d 4h] (a pair of Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2220 from pot

I'm so beat right now, but I won this one and shipped another vs a decent regular. 5-1 tonight, 5-0 vs regulars. Saturday night should be fish central but not tonight so I'm done. Update soon, I've just been so busy lately.

Quick Update

2008-04-05T01:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'll have a full update with a new question answered in the next few days.

Been playing 220s and the 110 4 mans w Hokie, that's about it for April so far. Off to a decent start.

March ended like +3500, I think I made like 4k in the last week or 2. I SHOULD have no trouble surpassing that in April, provided I keep playing well. I also should surpass that if I put in like 15 hrs a week (I finished just below that for March), as I'm in the 220s for good now.

I'm going golfing tomorrow, but other than that am busy as hell in the next week setting up my business for the spring-fall season and doing taxes for last year.

I'm also looking for a new place. The investment stuff with my buddy has kind of hit the skids as tax season rolls around, so who knows what's going on with that in the short term.

My brother decided he doesn't want to play football for his senior year. He would be the starting qb, so I'm kind of not happy about his decision but not nearly as upset as my dad and especially grandpa will be (maybe he'll tell them while we're golfing tomorrow?).

I'll probably make a post this month to wrap up personal stuff in the blog for good and only give personal updates for major events in my life and/or little tid bits of something I'm doing that might interest some readers. I'll start to attempt to post MORE STRATEGY since people seem to enjoy poker stuff on a poker blog (orly?).

Until then, make money.

Questions

2008-03-25T13:50:00.000-07:00

The feedback from the first question was pretty positive, so I'm going to continue to answer questions for now. Send in as many as you'd like. ryan.ryryp13@gmail.com

That's it for now. Just been playing 110s for the last half of the month, I seem to be running pretty well in those and not very good in the 100-200 regulars (or 220 turbos for that matter).

I think I've finally improved my game enough to where I am truly a solid 110 winner. Over my last 850ish games I'm a 6-7% ROI. Considering over 1k+ samples the highest winner I can find is 10% at that level, I'm fairly content with that. Obviously I'm still learning a lot, always, but I feel my days at the 110s are finally numbered, despite many half shots, short periods of higher play, etc.

Here's to a good rest of March.

Q and A Update

2008-03-19T15:56:00.000-07:00

The first question in the Q and A is from Marchy in Germany. His blog can be found at www.maerchy.blogspot.com (Germany only). Perhaps he can also recommend some good German beers to us as well.

Question: How do you handle players who minbet (1/4 to 1/3 of the pot about) 90% of the flops?
At the moment i play the 33s on FullTilt and there are lots of these guys. I just cant stand
them because i really dont know what the best strategy is against them.

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This is a very good question. This is something I struggled with early on in my husng progression and I'm sure many others have or do struggle with as well.

There are a few things I like to keep in mind when dealing with min bettors:

1) We're usually dealing with a very wide range of hands, so we should not try to narrow their hand range down based on actions that do not warrant it.

2) Our odds of calling a min bet on the flop are much greater than on the turn, therefore we'll probably be calling a lot more often on the flop and we shouldn't be worried about folding turns.

3) We want to be careful about getting overzealous about raising them too often in small pots and folding to the min bet too often in bigger pots.

Keeping those points in mind, here are a few things I like to do against min bettors:

- Figuring out if they will min bet 3 streets with strong hands (top pairs+), good draws (flush draws, OESDs, weaker pair combo draws), weak draws (low flush draws, gutshot straights, overcards) and outright "bluffs" (weak hands that need runner runner to beat most hands that will play a big pot).

If they are not following the same betting pattern with all of these hands, then I want to try to find out which hands that they are deviating from their min bet strategy with and what they are doing instead.

- I want to also figure out how they react to a raise. I generally want to raise a stronger hand first, because most min bettors are going to be too loose and call with a lot of hands they should not on the flop, at least in the early portion of our match. If I notice a fold I'll try again, perhaps with an outright bluff or semi bluff, if they fold again I start to see they are weak and will throw in a good amount of bluff raises along with semi bluff and strong hands and wait until they adjust.

While I may not always get action on my strong hands, the raises are most likely going to frustrate the player.

- It might not be too difficult to win when you are hitting cards/boards vs these players, but what about when you are card dead and the boards just aren't hitting your starting hands?

In these cases, you really have to pay attention to how you are playing your high cards, how often you are chasing without the correct odds and other decisions you make in marginal/close spots.

If a player is going to min bet every street with any hand, it's going to be correct to call down with a hand like A high. If you notice he is starting to check hands that are really weak or that have no showdown value, you're going to want to adjust and starting folding high cards to his bets.

A few things you'll want to avoid are bluffing off a lot of chips because "I haven't bet big in awhile, he has to respect me here" or "he bets every street, he can't call a few raises from me."

Be careful on taking raises too far. If you bluff raise his min bet on the flop and he calls, be weary about following through on the turn. Don't blindly spew chips against these players, that is how they are going to win because they usually don't get enough value out of their bigger hands and end up letting you build pots when you want with stronger hands.

A few other lesser points that I want to make about playing min bettors:

- Don't over or under raise them. For example, if they bet 30 into a 200 pot on the turn, raising your weak top pair to 400 is going to be an over raise. On the flip side, raising 3x to 90 is going to probably be an under raise. Often times against constant min bettors, I almost "ignore" their small bet and just raise them to what I would bet if they had checked. In this case it would be a 130-160 type turn bet (raise) that I would make.

- Like I said earlier, be aware of the odds you are being offered compared to their presumably very wide range of hands. You also want to be aware of the odds you are offering them. If their drawing hands are 20-25% likely to hit the river, you don't want to "keep them in the pot" with an under raise that offers them the correct odds to draw. They will likely make the mistake of calling without odds, so don't be too worried about pushing them out of the pot with a 4-5x raise. In fact, your raises will often be over 4x the bet against min bettors.

In conclusion, since this is a player and situations you're probably not dealing with on a regular basis, you might have to think a little longer/harder when facing the min bettor. While I gave a lot of general advice, you should find enough above to effectively combat the min bettor and to get you thinking in the right direction against almost all of them.

I'd say above all, awareness is key against these players, and the most common mistake is a lack of discipline and emotional control when dealing with these players. The same can go for the opposite end of the spectrum, the aggro-maniacs, though it is not just a simple "take this advice but apply it in the opposite direction." That, however, is another day and another blog post.

Let me know if this helped you or if you agree/disagree with my advice. Also, feel free to send more questions to me, ryan.ryryp13@gmail.com

Busy

2008-03-10T01:09:00.001-07:00

I have a few questions, I'm working on answering them for the blog, I've just been pretty busy, sorry.

March starting off "meh" just like most of February was. I'm up very little over about 20 hrs played.

I'm helping run my Uncle's autobody shop Mon-Wed bc he's on vacation, so I'll try to have a post up by Thursday with at least one question answered.

Keep sending questions though if you have anything to ask about husngs (or anything else I suppose you think I'm qualified to answer).

Q and A

2008-03-03T17:12:00.000-08:00

So I want to try something on the blog.

I have no idea what you guys want me to post as far as strategy goes. In the past I've done a few "big pots played today" posts where I briefly go through each major hand I played and post some thoughts on them.

Some people seem to enjoy this, others say I should post less hands and go into more detail about them.

So... I think I want to try a question and answer thing for awhile, and see how that goes.

First, I want to make it clear that I am by no means correct on every/any decision or opinion I make in regards to husngs. But by answering your questions, I think I can help a lot of newer/lower level players and perhaps even inspire some good discussion or thoughts from the players at or above my level of play/thinking.

So send questions to ryan.ryryp13@gmail.com (Please title them "HU Q" and you can leave an attribution or request anonymity if I decide to post it here)

As far as what your questions are to be about... anything involving husngs. I'll try to pick out the most common questions or most interesting ones and answer them (assuming I get any emails).

Just try not to give me like 3 full hand histories and say "based on the reads in these games..." or something crazy like that.

Until then, run good.

Quick Update

2008-03-01T01:42:00.001-08:00

I was told to post this.

15% or so winner in the regular speeds, this PF play wasn't indicative of his game as a whole, but he wasn't THAT great. Again, not someone I'd want to play all the time, but he must have ran well over his sample (I think maybe 500 games?).

Seat 1: wangerjerk (1530 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1470 in chips)
wangerjerk: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ks Ad]
wangerjerk: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 210 to 300
wangerjerk: calls 210
*** FLOP *** [5s 7s Js]
RyPac13: checks
wangerjerk: bets 270
RyPac13: raises 900 to 1170 and is all-in
wangerjerk: calls 900
*** TURN *** [5s 7s Js] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [5s 7s Js 4c] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ks Ad] (a pair of Fours)
wangerjerk: shows [3s Qs] (a flush, Queen high)
wangerjerk collected 2940 from pot
wangerjerk [observer]: put that in your blog

Your welcome.

Properties, Variance and Beer

2008-02-25T16:41:00.001-08:00

Moving closer to making an offer on a piece of investment property. I wouldn't say it's even near certain that we can negotiate with them, the property we're interested in is owned by a former realtor.

Been looking at a few other properties, but nothing terrific.

Have encountered a lot of variance this month, I'm working on adjusting my play to minimize these periods of struggle. I think I've been a little too loose with certain hands, but I feel I'm hitting a lot of the strong part of people's ranges. Time will tell.

I've moved to regular speeds to close out the month, my hourly is probably higher in these and the variance lower (though you wouldn't tell from my first 40 in the last 2 days). I can play a lot more games at these levels too, something I may go into in more depth in the future (see 2+2/hu forum thread about regular vs turbos). I'm down like 500 on the month actually, not counting a few hundred in FPP bonuses.

I ended up like +150 in the turbos this month and hit a wall of variance in the regular speeds from the get go. I was hoping I'd be up in the 200s again soon, but until I'm at least around +500 for the month that probably won't happen.

I also cleared the 100k fpp 1500 dollar bonus I bought in late January, so I have a little br boost.

In other poker news, I've added two new students, one is a personal friend and long term project that I am pretty excited about. I'll talk more about this in the future.

On the beer front, we have an Imperial Stout in the fermenter. We're very excited about this beer, it should end up 8-10% ABV, and will have lactose, vanilla extract and some really really tasty German chocolate coffee in it. Should be ready in 3 weeks at the earliest.

We'll be making a new beer Wednesday, we're not sure what kind yet. Probably a nut brown ale or another IPA since our last IPA turned out so great. Not quite sure yet, will figure that out tomorrow. We also have some extra hops, so we'll probably do a 2.5 gallon batch as well, and maybe do some crazy type of beer for that one.

I actually kept the yeast from our last beer, they say the 2nd or 3rd time you use the yeast is when it is at its best, so we'll experiment with our 2.5 gallon batch there (usual batches are 5 gallons for us).

I'll post some strategy soon, until then, take care.

Grinding Back

2008-02-13T00:11:00.000-08:00

Had a great day yesterday, made back a little under 900 of this month's 1600-1700 in losses in like 20 games.

Made another 150ish today, so I'm within a good day or two of getting back in the black.

I can't wait to get back to the 200-220s, I'm thinking about playing some 200 regular speeds again, 2-3 tabling them. This latest downswing has really made me realize the amount of variance in the turbos, even for the top players (not saying me, but looking at the top ppl's stats/ROIs).

It's not that I'm afraid of the variance, it's that I don't play enough games to completely disregard it. If I could play 25-30 games a day, 6 days a week, I think I'd handle the variance fine. I can't or don't do that, at least not at this point.

Another thing that favors going a lower variance route is my business. I'll be starting up in about a month and a half, so I'll be playing a lot less in April, but probably will be playing just slightly less than now once things fall into a groove.

I just really don't want to have like 5 losing days in a row, that shit is really annoying, especially when you feel like you're playing well. The only solutions I can see is to play more games or play lower variance games. The lower variance games are probably better for my hourly/money anyways right now, so there's no reason not to do those. I might try to do like 10-15 regular speed 200s a day, then 5 220s as well. I'm not really sure yet, I need to make some of this loss back from this month first.

It's been really cold out, I've been in a fairly crabby mood the last few days. I'd really like to walk a mile or two a day, especially since I quit smoking, it can really suck just sitting around all day in a fairly small place.

My girlfriend got her new car, her dad finally gave her the money he was supposed to in early January. It's an 04 Concorde, we got it from my uncle who owns an autobody shop. Much better than my Cavalier she's been driving for the last year and a half. When I say driving, I mean tearing apart. That thing is lucky if it can last another 5k miles.

Today we realized the full extent of our landlord's stupidity. It's tough to call him a landlord, he lives about 45 minutes away, owns a ton of real estate properties, and manages none of them. He owns a very successful sports equipment/clothing store that supplies a lot of Chicagoland with that stuff. I've never met him, he was supposed to come out here like a dozen times since June, but no dice. He never calls people back, it's really hard to get him on the phone.

Anyways, yesterday we got a message from the realtor lady that found the place for us. She said that our landlord wanted to evict us, but we could pay our rent or else or something along those lines. A real bitchy message. Well we paid our January rent, our February was due the 6th I guess, but we were supposed to be called about concerns we had with the place, mainly that we cannot use about 60% of what we are alloted bc a drug addict steals stuff from the storage. That and we are missing like 6 storm windows, are owed for a water bill from before we lived here and a few other little things. The realtor lady was supposed to call us back about that stuff because the landlord never did.

Long story short, we talk to the landlord today on the phone, he never got the January check. After digging around in his store, he found it. That is what this problem was about. We paid the rent January 6th, and he never fucking called us when he didn't receive it. We told him we were dropping it off, but nothing for a whole month about it, just a bitchy call from someone else.

So he SAYS he is going to call us in the next few days to address our concerns. This is yet to be seen. In the meantime, I am getting free lessons on how not to manage a rental property.

Speaking of which, still haven't found our first investment. I've probably seen about a thousand properties online, of which maybe half were liveable areas, and about 2% of those have met the minimum requirements to make some decent money. It's pretty ridiculous around here, what newbies/ignorant people will pay for rental properties. People are actually willing to operate at a loss in order to have a "cheap long term investment." Like a high risk, low reward retirement account, lol.

Anyways, that's about all from the Diary.

One step forward, three steps back.

2008-02-08T23:36:00.000-08:00

Fairly rough day.

Lost 6 buyins, should be down like 4 or 5, but I made some key mistakes in read dependent situations.

I had finally gotten within reach of this month's negative losses, but now it's back to like -1200 or so. I'm going to be playing more, bc I really need to get back to the 220s by the end of this month. I'm not going to play enough 110s to get my 10k vpps this month, and I think I only got like 4k last month bc I was sick 3/4+ of the month.

I also looked at a 2 unit house with a third unit coach house today. It had a little bit more updating needed than would be ideal, as we already need to cut the price down a fair amount to make the deal work for us. So this unit is pretty unlikely to happen. We will see though, but I'm looking forward to finding our first deal that works and getting the hell out of my current place.

Bcm closed his blog down, I think for good this time. It's a shame, but I understand where he's coming from with it, so good luck to him as he continues to beat the 550-1100s.

Phenom seems to have closed his blog too, I haven't talked to him so I don't know why, but again, kind of sucks.

I added a counter to my blog because I'm curious as to how many people actually read/view it. It counts unique views, so each number should represent a different person/pc.

I'm going to update my links after I make sure Phenom's blog is done for good, I have a few of you to add that left comments in my blog and also Tnixon from 2+2 has just created his 2nd blog (his first got shut down due to some spam filter problem).

I'm going to take a few people's advice and post a little less hands, and try to find a little more in depth situations to post about. When I do please let me know how you feel about doing that opposed to a more "post every big hand of the day with quick summary comments."

Updates

2008-02-05T01:35:00.000-08:00

Running pretty bad in February, overall playing pretty well though I've lost focus a few times and took lines I shouldn't have (a few more times than usual, I by no means always take the best lines lol).

I'll get to all the links to other blogs tomorrow (I'm about to sleep now), thanks for linking me for all those that have.

So I'm down a bit over a grand this month, but I actually made about a grand last month despite only playing 18 games (I made a few hundred through a stake). I'm not too worried about the downswing, after the last few days in December, I can really handle anything that is thrown at me and am not too worried about tilting in the near future.

Quitting smoking is kind of weird too. I've definitely had a few urges but it's really more of a joke when I think about it, it's not like I'm going to go buy a cigarette and smoke it, that's ridiculous.

I do notice it's harder for me to sleep, but the emotional swings of poker haven't been there like they used to, smoking probably actually contributed to some of that.

I've also noticeably improved my game since probably mid to late December. The mental aspect more so in late December, but my actual game has gotten a lot better I think in the last month, despite the lack of games played.

I don't really have time for a hand by hand analysis, but here's some big hands of today, including suckouts of both players and probably a few good and bad calls by me.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1740 in chips)
Seat 2: hurrycane22 (1260 in chips)
hurrycane22: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd As]
hurrycane22: raises 80 to 100
RyPac13: raises 300 to 400
hurrycane22: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [Ts Qs 5c]
RyPac13: bets 1340 and is all-in
hurrycane22: calls 860 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ts Qs 5c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Qs 5c Jh] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kd As] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
hurrycane22: shows [Jc Qh] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
RyPac13 said, "gg"
RyPac13 collected 2520 from pot

Seat 1: Marnixvdb (1580 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1420 in chips)
Marnixvdb: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qs Qh]
Marnixvdb: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 210 to 300
Marnixvdb: raises 1280 to 1580 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 1120 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7c 7d Js]
*** TURN *** [7c 7d Js] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [7c 7d Js 3s] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qs Qh] (two pair, Queens and Sevens)
Marnixvdb: shows [Tc Ts] (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
RyPac13 collected 2840 from pot

Seat 1: phicampete (1555 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1445 in chips)
phicampete: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9c Kd]
phicampete: calls 15
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [4c 9s 3h]
RyPac13: bets 45
phicampete: calls 45
*** TURN *** [4c 9s 3h] [5h]
RyPac13: checks
phicampete: checks
*** RIVER *** [4c 9s 3h 5h] [Ac]
RyPac13: bets 90
phicampete: raises 90 to 180
RyPac13: calls 90
*** SHOW DOWN ***
phicampete: shows [Ah 3s] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
RyPac13: mucks hand

I should've probably gotten away from that lol.

Seat 1: phicampete (1685 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1315 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
phicampete: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh 8c]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
phicampete: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [8d Qd 5c]
phicampete: checks
RyPac13: bets 125
phicampete: calls 125
*** TURN *** [8d Qd 5c] [4h]
phicampete: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [8d Qd 5c 4h] [Ts]
phicampete: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
phicampete: shows [Jh Tc] (a pair of Tens)
RyPac13: mucks hand

Seat 1: phicampete (1710 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1290 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
phicampete: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Jc]
RyPac13: raises 100 to 200
phicampete: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9h 2s 4d]
phicampete: bets 100
RyPac13: raises 200 to 300
phicampete: calls 200
*** TURN *** [9h 2s 4d] [5h]
phicampete: checks
RyPac13: bets 790 and is all-in
phicampete: folds
RyPac13 collected 1000 from pot
RyPac13: doesn't show hand

Seat 1: phicampete (1060 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1940 in chips)
phicampete: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h As]
phicampete: calls 50
RyPac13: raises 1840 to 1940 and is all-in
phicampete: calls 960 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [2d 9s 2s]
*** TURN *** [2d 9s 2s] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [2d 9s 2s 4d] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [6h As] (two pair, Sixes and Deuces)
phicampete: shows [Ac 8d] (a pair of Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2120 from pot

I'd shoved like 3 of the last 4 buttons he limped, but luck out here.

Seat 1: Churchill83 (1720 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1280 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Churchill83: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4h Ad]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Churchill83: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [8s 6d 2h]
Churchill83: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [8s 6d 2h] [6h]
Churchill83: bets 60
RyPac13: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [8s 6d 2h 6h] [8d]
Churchill83: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Churchill83: shows [Qd 9h] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
RyPac13: shows [4h Ad] (two pair, Eights and Sixes - Ace kicker)
RyPac13 collected 440 from pot

Seat 1: Churchill83 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Churchill83: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [8d As]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Churchill83: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Qs Qc 4h]
Churchill83: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Qs Qc 4h] [Th]
Churchill83: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [Qs Qc 4h Th] [6d]
Churchill83: bets 80
RyPac13: calls 80
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Churchill83: shows [7s 8c] (a pair of Queens)
RyPac13: shows [8d As] (a pair of Queens - Ace kicker)
RyPac13 collected 280 from pot

This guy is turning me into a station.

Seat 1: Churchill83 (1330 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1670 in chips)
Churchill83: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5s 2h]
Churchill83: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [3d 9c Ad]
RyPac13: checks
Churchill83: bets 20
RyPac13: calls 20
*** TURN *** [3d 9c Ad] [6d]
RyPac13: bets 50
Churchill83: calls 50
*** RIVER *** [3d 9c Ad 6d] [Td]
RyPac13: bets 120
Churchill83: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [5s 2h] (high card Ace)
Churchill83: shows [3s Qd] (a flush, Ace high)
Churchill83 collected 420 from pot

That was an ugly hand, ill advised especially considering he seems to be a station up until this point when I've been on the offensive.

Seat 1: Churchill83 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
Churchill83: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah Ks]
Churchill83: raises 60 to 80
RyPac13: raises 160 to 240
Churchill83: calls 160
*** FLOP *** [2h 5h 6s]
RyPac13: bets 300
Churchill83: raises 980 to 1280 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 940 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [2h 5h 6s] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [2h 5h 6s 5d] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ah Ks] (a pair of Fives)
Churchill83: shows [7c 7s] (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
Churchill83 collected 2960 from pot

I know I was thinking "he hasn't been very aggressive so I think bet/call is better than check/raise all in." I definitely didn't think I could fold this flop, and didn't really put him on a PP like that. I figure there's some PPs I factor into his range but at this point I'm guessing he either calls with a few PPs or calls with none PF here.

I suppose his 77 call is good if I play strong aces like this, but I'm outflopping him with my PPs way too often on these 3-bets I think, and I have 6 outs when I miss compared to his 2 (he also folds the better hand whereas I never do with my 3-bet range here).

So, in this case it worked out for him, but it probably does not after looking at my range vs this stationy type of player (aka I'm 3-betting for value 95% of the time vs him, not fold equity pre or post flop).

I expected some sort of draw, maybe a pair or over cards here most often, and the pot justifies the call I believe here. Post some thoughts if you disagree, I'm open to hearing any of them.

Seat 1: DANger18 (2085 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (915 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
DANger18: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4d Ad]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
DANger18: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [8s 6h 3c]
DANger18: bets 90
RyPac13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [8s 6h 3c] [Ah]
DANger18: bets 240
RyPac13: calls 240
*** RIVER *** [8s 6h 3c Ah] [Qh]
DANger18: bets 330
RyPac13: calls 330
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DANger18: shows [4h 5s] (high card Ace)
RyPac13: shows [4d Ad] (a pair of Aces)
RyPac13 collected 1440 from pot

Maybe I'm just a station in general.

Seat 1: DANger18 (1595 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1405 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
DANger18: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac 9d]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
DANger18: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [2s 3h Ks]
DANger18: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [2s 3h Ks] [Kc]
DANger18: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [2s 3h Ks Kc] [Jc]
DANger18: bets 300
RyPac13: folds
DANger18 collected 400 from pot

Maybe not so stationy, he felt really strong here though I recall and timing probably had a good amount to do with it this late in the game.

Seat 1: DANger18 (1620 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1380 in chips)
DANger18: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As 6c]
DANger18: calls 50
RyPac13: raises 1280 to 1380 and is all-in
DANger18: calls 1280
*** FLOP *** [2h 6s 2s]
*** TURN *** [2h 6s 2s] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [2h 6s 2s Js] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [As 6c] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
DANger18: shows [Qs Ah] (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2760 from pot

At this point you're probably like "damn Ryan, you run like god." But we'll call up to this point, "Part 1." Get ready for a more action packed Part 2. I'm up like 3 buyins or so at this point, clawing my way back from a bad February start.

It was a cold February night in Chicago.....

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1560 in chips)
Seat 2: Sankronizer (1440 in chips)
Sankronizer: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qh Ts]
Sankronizer: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Tc 7s 4c]
RyPac13: checks
Sankronizer: checks
*** TURN *** [Tc 7s 4c] [Kc]
RyPac13: bets 60
Sankronizer: raises 120 to 180
RyPac13: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [Tc 7s 4c Kc] [9s]
RyPac13: checks
Sankronizer: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qh Ts] (a pair of Tens)
Sankronizer: shows [Kd 6s] (a pair of Kings)
Sankronizer collected 480 from pot

I know it looks questionable, but my thought process here is this player is a very solid and tight winner (he sat like instantly after me, so probably a "sit at same time" thing) and I know he thinks I'm bluffing here very often. I know I can also respect further strength from him bc he doesn't seem to bluff in these spots, but he also won't be value betting some hands that beat me (like K6). So while I lost the hand, I don't think I regret the way I played this.

Leading here would be nice vs a less disciplined player, but I really like to lead monsters and air on dry boards when I lead, which I don't do often enough in raised pots (I think there's tons of value in it but you can really lose a lot of value if you don't do it well).

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1265 in chips)
Seat 2: Sankronizer (1735 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Sankronizer: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h 6c]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
Sankronizer: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [Ah 7s Jc]
Sankronizer: checks
RyPac13: bets 60
Sankronizer: calls 60
*** TURN *** [Ah 7s Jc] [Ks]
Sankronizer: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [Ah 7s Jc Ks] [Qs]
Sankronizer: bets 90
RyPac13: raises 270 to 360
Sankronizer: folds
RyPac13 collected 420 from pot
RyPac13: doesn't show hand

I started min raising deeper than usual in the 15-30 against him because he wasn't calling ANYTHING OOP all game. It's rare that I'm calling more OOP than my opponents, but this was the case. So I tried to 3-bet more with air, call with strong hands and really stay TAG OOP. The minraising was to encourage him to call more and to able me to widen my raising range on the button to practically any two cards.

In regards to this hand, I think he has a flush almost never here, and a straight very rarely. I highly doubt he calls even with trips on this river and believe my raise offers the right odds for the amount of times he folds, making it a fairly profitable play for myself. Keep in mind he's a very tight and disciplined player (and pretty solid winner, 7% in 110 turbos over big samples).

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1235 in chips)
Seat 2: Sankronizer (1765 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
Sankronizer: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2c 5c]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
Sankronizer: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [5d Jd Ac]
Sankronizer: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [5d Jd Ac] [As]
Sankronizer: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [5d Jd Ac As] [9c]
Sankronizer: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sankronizer: shows [6s 6c] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
RyPac13: mucks hand
Sankronizer collected 600 from pot

This was a weird hand. I thought I was good 20% of the time on the river here, but if he's betting 66 here (which I have no clue why, even if I call with Kx it's a losing bet) then I'm probably not winning 20% of the time. This is a misread, but he might have been kind of getting annoyed/frustrated with the game. I'd been shoving over his raises a bit, but who knows.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1010 in chips)
Seat 2: Sankronizer (1990 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
Sankronizer: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9c 9d]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
Sankronizer: raises 1890 to 1990 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 910 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ac 7c 4c]
*** TURN *** [Ac 7c 4c] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 7c 4c 2d] [4s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Sankronizer: shows [Ad 9s] (two pair, Aces and Fours)
RyPac13: shows [9c 9d] (two pair, Nines and Fours)
RyPac13 said, "gg"
Sankronizer collected 2020 from pot

I think this is a pretty bad play on his part, I'm definitely not calling any lighter than what he shoves here, even if I was calling with a few more aces I'm fairly well ahead of his range, and he's only stealing 200 when he steals off me. He does have a lot of fold equity here, but I still don't think it's a very good play (though he doesn't know my calling range and is used to the same opponents I am, ppl that open up from the sb PF a lot often call light too).

Anyways, I felt I played well in this game. I've played him before and I'm sure I'll play him again.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1530 in chips)
Seat 2: flaviano (1470 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
flaviano: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4h 3d]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
flaviano: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [Jc 7d 4s]
flaviano: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Jc 7d 4s] [Js]
flaviano: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [Jc 7d 4s Js] [8d]
flaviano: bets 360
RyPac13: calls 360
*** SHOW DOWN ***
flaviano: shows [Jd Tc] (three of a kind, Jacks)
RyPac13: mucks hand
flaviano collected 1080 from pot

This call looked worse and worse as the game went on, Sakronizer was on the other table at the time, and I think it made flaviano look a little more loose and aggressive than he really was.

Later I did adjust better to how he was playing I recall.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1015 in chips)
Seat 2: flaviano (1985 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
flaviano: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9h Qd]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
flaviano: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [Tc Js 8c]
flaviano: bets 1885 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 915 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Tc Js 8c] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [Tc Js 8c Kh] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
flaviano: shows [Kd Jh] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
RyPac13: shows [9h Qd] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
RyPac13 collected 2030 from pot

This was a nice gift from flav. Not that he gets away from it either way, but wtf is that flop shove?

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1905 in chips)
Seat 2: flaviano (1095 in chips)
flaviano: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jc Js]
flaviano: raises 200 to 300
RyPac13: raises 1605 to 1905 and is all-in
flaviano: calls 795 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [6s Kd Ac]
*** TURN *** [6s Kd Ac] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [6s Kd Ac 6h] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jc Js] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
flaviano: shows [Th Qc] (a pair of Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 2190 from pot

Actually I think this match started after Sakronizer's but ended before, so I should've really posted this first and then said "part 2" but whatever. I'd shoved over his PF raises so many times at this point, I'm sure he just said "fuck it he can't have it every time." His preflop raise is pretty inexcusable though.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1600 in chips)
Seat 2: AAbleCane (1400 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
AAbleCane: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac Ts]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
AAbleCane: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3d 8s 7s]
AAbleCane: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [3d 8s 7s] [Td]
AAbleCane: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
AAbleCane: raises 140 to 220
RyPac13: calls 140
*** RIVER *** [3d 8s 7s Td] [4h]
AAbleCane: bets 380
RyPac13: calls 380
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AAbleCane: shows [9h Jd] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
RyPac13: mucks hand
AAbleCane collected 1320 from pot

God, I really have no respect for anybody when they show strength, do I? I'm about 33% serious with that last statement.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1060 in chips)
Seat 2: AAbleCane (1940 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
AAbleCane: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qh Jh]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
AAbleCane: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [9h 6h Kd]
AAbleCane: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
AAbleCane: raises 140 to 220
RyPac13: calls 140
*** TURN *** [9h 6h Kd] [9d]
AAbleCane: bets 1660 and is all-in
RyPac13: folds

One of my "lost focus" hands of the day. He'd done this a few times, this should've been an easy shove.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (825 in chips)
Seat 2: AAbleCane (2175 in chips)
AAbleCane: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah 7h]
AAbleCane: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 210 to 300
AAbleCane: calls 210
*** FLOP *** [8d 6s 9h]
RyPac13: checks
AAbleCane: checks
*** TURN *** [8d 6s 9h] [Th]
RyPac13: bets 525 and is all-in
AAbleCane: folds
RyPac13 collected 600 from pot

Here's hand #2, I really fucked up this game. I think this was the hand that made me take a break, I really think he bluffs this turn way way way too often for me to think about checking.

I don't have solid reads bc I didn't read all the little hands and I don't recall them for this game, but I know I was upset about this line. PF I'm pretty sure was fine based on game flow or reads or whatever, or I don't think I'd of done it (or would remember being upset about that too).

This is the kind of stuff that actually hurts winrates though and makes downswings worse.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (990 in chips)
Seat 2: AAbleCane (2010 in chips)
AAbleCane: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah Jh]
AAbleCane: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 270 to 360
AAbleCane: calls 270
*** FLOP *** [5s Qh 7h]
RyPac13: bets 630 and is all-in
AAbleCane: calls 630
*** TURN *** [5s Qh 7h] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [5s Qh 7h 6s] [4s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ah Jh] (high card Ace)
AAbleCane: shows [9h 8h] (a straight, Five to Nine)
AAbleCane collected 1980 from pot

This hand I played like I wanted to. His flop hands he was very passive on, and I didn't want to scare him off or kill my equity by waiting for a turn to let him bluff. If I had played the last hand correctly I might have been even stacked. I suppose that wouldn't make a difference, he'd of just folded the worse hand here. The previous hand still upsets me though.

Seat 1: APLANOS (1720 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1280 in chips)
APLANOS: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4s Kc]
APLANOS: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [6h 3d 2h]
RyPac13: checks
APLANOS: checks
*** TURN *** [6h 3d 2h] [5d]
RyPac13: bets 30
APLANOS: calls 30
*** RIVER *** [6h 3d 2h 5d] [Jc]
RyPac13: bets 75
APLANOS: raises 345 to 420
RyPac13: calls 345
*** SHOW DOWN ***
APLANOS: shows [6d 6s] (three of a kind, Sixes)
RyPac13: shows [4s Kc] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
RyPac13 collected 940 from pot

This was going on at the same time as the last game, I remember reading this board like 4x to make sure the flushes didn't hit (Another sign of losing focus). His raise was ridiculous, if you're going to raise you can't raise over 5x.

After this hand he shoved EVERY SINGLE HAND for literally 10 hands in a row. My best hands were JT and Q4, marginal even if I got them at hands 9 and 10, but they came on his first two hands of shoving, so there was no way I even entertained a call. Unfortunate I couldn't get something to call here, but oh well. He stopped shoving when he evened up with me (great strategy).

Seat 1: APLANOS (1795 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1205 in chips)
APLANOS: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Js]
APLANOS: calls 15
RyPac13: raises 90 to 120
APLANOS: raises 180 to 300
RyPac13: raises 905 to 1205 and is all-in
APLANOS: calls 905
*** FLOP *** [6s 9c 3d]
*** TURN *** [6s 9c 3d] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [6s 9c 3d Ad] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jd Js] (two pair, Jacks and Threes)
APLANOS: shows [Ah Jh] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
APLANOS collected 2410 from pot

Once again, pretty horrible stuff. He'd limped throughout the game (except during his shoving period) and I'd raised his limps about zero times so far. What am I shoving with that he is ahead of? This is good proof for "people don't think about your hand, only their own." I always say this on 2+2 to newer players at lower levels, but this is even true at the 110s (hard for some to imagine, but this isn't really "rare").

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1490 in chips)
Seat 2: diegoluana (1510 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
diegoluana: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9h 6d]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
diegoluana: raises 60 to 120
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Ah 6c 4h]
diegoluana: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Ah 6c 4h] [8s]
diegoluana: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [Ah 6c 4h 8s] [Qs]
diegoluana: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
diegoluana: shows [Kd As] (a pair of Aces)
RyPac13: mucks hand
diegoluana collected 720 from pot

I suppose I can fold the river, but what kind of bet sizing is going on here? He's just strangling his value, starting with the preflop raise that I'm never folding to.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1380 in chips)
Seat 2: diegoluana (1620 in chips)
diegoluana: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [8c 3c]
diegoluana: calls 15
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [9c Kc 3h]
RyPac13: checks
diegoluana: checks
*** TURN *** [9c Kc 3h] [7h]
RyPac13: bets 45
diegoluana: raises 105 to 150
RyPac13: calls 105
*** RIVER *** [9c Kc 3h 7h] [Tc]
RyPac13: bets 240
diegoluana: calls 240
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [8c 3c] (a flush, King high)
diegoluana: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 840 from pot
Seat 2: diegoluana (button) (small blind) mucked [Ah Kh]

This is a bad hand on my part, mainly because of how weak he played AK last time. Why do I not respect his turn raise? I tread a thin line between being a spewy station and being a solid bluff catcher, and this hand is fairly spewy for me.

This might also be a spot where 2 tabling hurts me. I should've snap folded this turn as played, no reason at all to think he's bluffing based on how the game has gone so far (I'm almost positive, I didn't check out and don't recall EVERY hand up until this point, so everything above can be wrong, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say this play was pretty bad on my part). But anyways, I think if I'm single tabling here I focus a lot more and make snap reads a lot more often.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2180 in chips)
Seat 2: diegoluana (820 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
diegoluana: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ts 6c]
RyPac13: raises 2080 to 2180 and is all-in
diegoluana: calls 720 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [9d 2s Kc]
*** TURN *** [9d 2s Kc] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [9d 2s Kc Qc] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
diegoluana: shows [Ad 9s] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
RyPac13: shows [Ts 6c] (high card Ace)
diegoluana collected 1640 from pot

Standard shove, he was folding like everything, he actually took some time on this call I remember.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1710 in chips)
Seat 2: diegoluana (1290 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 75
diegoluana: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7d Kc]
RyPac13: raises 1560 to 1710 and is all-in
diegoluana: calls 1140 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [9s Ks 8c]
*** TURN *** [9s Ks 8c] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [9s Ks 8c Jc] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
diegoluana: shows [Ah 7s] (high card Ace)
RyPac13: shows [7d Kc] (a pair of Kings)
RyPac13 collected 2580 from pot

I kept grinding him down bc he'd fold way too often, but damn I ran pretty good against this guy.

Seat 1: dinkk59 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1500 in chips)
dinkk59: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [3d Ts]
dinkk59: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [3s Tc 3c]
RyPac13: checks
dinkk59: bets 60
RyPac13: raises 120 to 180
dinkk59: calls 120
*** TURN *** [3s Tc 3c] [7c]
RyPac13: bets 200
dinkk59: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [3s Tc 3c 7c] [Ah]
RyPac13: bets 600
dinkk59: raises 500 to 1100 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 500 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dinkk59: shows [As Ad] (a full house, Aces full of Threes)
RyPac13: shows [3d Ts] (a full house, Threes full of Tens)
dinkk59 collected 3000 from pot

First hand of the next game, fun times. I think 500 on the river is better, but I had no reads so betting 100 could've been the best line for all I know, I just think 500 up until this point is the best (worse hands shove, hands that are likely to not bet will find a call sometimes).

I got a rematch, but he refused to do two tables.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1350 in chips)
Seat 2: dinkk59 (1650 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
dinkk59: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Kc]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
dinkk59: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [Ks Kh 9d]
dinkk59: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Ks Kh 9d] [2h]
dinkk59: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
dinkk59: calls 90
*** RIVER *** [Ks Kh 9d 2h] [4h]
dinkk59: checks
RyPac13: bets 200
dinkk59 said, "have 2"
dinkk59 said, "is good??"
dinkk59: calls 200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kd Kc] (four of a kind, Kings)
dinkk59: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 730 from pot
dinkk59 said, "WOW"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 730 | Rake 0
Board [Ks Kh 9d 2h 4h]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Kd Kc] and won (730) with four of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: dinkk59 (big blind) mucked [4d 2d]

Look at that value, lol (FWIW I never reply to people that say shit when contemplating calls).

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2000 in chips)
Seat 2: dinkk59 (1000 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
dinkk59: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [8h Th]
RyPac13: raises 1900 to 2000 and is all-in
dinkk59: calls 900 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kh 5h Qd]
*** TURN *** [Kh 5h Qd] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Kh 5h Qd 4h] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dinkk59: shows [As Ac] (a pair of Aces)
RyPac13: shows [8h Th] (a flush, King high)
RyPac13 collected 2000 from pot

One of my first shoves, I'm 99% sure his range is way too tight for calls, but whatever serves him right for that last game's AA ;)

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1300 in chips)
Seat 2: Rigboz (1700 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Rigboz: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6c 9h]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Rigboz: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [6h 4h 8s]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
Rigboz: calls 80
*** TURN *** [6h 4h 8s] [Ah]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [6h 4h 8s Ah] [7h]
Rigboz: bets 220
RyPac13: calls 220
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rigboz: shows [Kc 4d] (a pair of Fours)
RyPac13: shows [6c 9h] (a flush, Ace high)
RyPac13 collected 720 from pot

I had notes on this guy "bad." He's nuts, turns showdown hands into bluffs, and will call with any single hand on any street and turn it into a bluff later when he feels like it.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1610 in chips)
Seat 2: Rigboz (1390 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Rigboz: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h Th]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Rigboz: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Ts Ah Kd]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Ts Ah Kd] [6s]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
Rigboz: raises 140 to 220
RyPac13: raises 480 to 700
Rigboz: calls 480
*** RIVER *** [Ts Ah Kd 6s] [Kh]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rigboz: shows [8c Ad] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
RyPac13: mucks hand
Rigboz collected 1520 from pot

I felt this was kind of bullshit, I was faced with a kind of mediocre turn decision, because this player makes it a 3-bet, though not a very fun one.

You take the good with the bad though against this player, I just hated having to reraise the turn against him for value here.

I actually said "lol" in the chat after this hand, very rare for me after a bad beat, I really dislike instigating chat when I lose pots.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (880 in chips)
Seat 2: Rigboz (2120 in chips)
Rigboz: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9h Ts]
Rigboz: raises 20 to 40
RyPac13: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5s 2d 8h]
RyPac13: checks
Rigboz: checks
*** TURN *** [5s 2d 8h] [9s]
RyPac13: bets 60
Rigboz: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [5s 2d 8h 9s] [2h]
RyPac13: bets 120
Rigboz: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [9h Ts] (two pair, Nines and Deuces)
Rigboz: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 440 from pot
Seat 2: Rigboz (button) (small blind) mucked [Qc As]

Grinding back.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1160 in chips)
Seat 2: Rigboz (1840 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Rigboz: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9c Kd]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
Rigboz: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [5d 8h 7d]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
Rigboz: raises 270 to 360
RyPac13: raises 725 to 1085 and is all-in
Rigboz: calls 725
*** TURN *** [5d 8h 7d] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [5d 8h 7d 9h] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rigboz: shows [8s Qh] (a straight, Five to Nine)
RyPac13: shows [9c Kd] (a straight, Five to Nine)
Rigboz collected 1160 from pot
RyPac13 collected 1160 from pot

Now this was tough, because while the raise sizing indicates I have very little fold equity here compared to usual, this guy just bluffs way too often.

I think he has a straight almost never here.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1160 in chips)
Seat 2: Rigboz (1840 in chips)
Rigboz: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qc 9s]
Rigboz: raises 30 to 60
RyPac13: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [8c 2h Qh]
RyPac13: checks
Rigboz: bets 120
RyPac13: raises 240 to 360
Rigboz: raises 1420 to 1780 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 740 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [8c 2h Qh] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [8c 2h Qh 4h] [4c]
Rigboz said, "you play with a swede"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qc 9s] (two pair, Queens and Fours)
Rigboz: shows [8h Jh] (a flush, Queen high)
Rigboz collected 2320 from pot

This is what it is, OK vs most people, but no smile on your face when you get it in, but easily fine vs this guy.

I got my rematch request granted.

I had this match going on at the same time as my first one vs Rigboz though, and through part of the 2nd I believe.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1460 in chips)
Seat 2: Inforaquicky (1540 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Inforaquicky: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ks Kd]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
Inforaquicky: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [5h 5c 9d]
Inforaquicky: checks
RyPac13: bets 60
Inforaquicky: calls 60
*** TURN *** [5h 5c 9d] [7d]
Inforaquicky: checks
RyPac13: bets 150
Inforaquicky: calls 150
*** RIVER *** [5h 5c 9d 7d] [Qs]
Inforaquicky: checks
RyPac13: bets 325
Inforaquicky: calls 325
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ks Kd] (two pair, Kings and Fives)
Inforaquicky: shows [5s 6s] (three of a kind, Fives)
Inforaquicky collected 1190 from pot

KK gets killed.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (835 in chips)
Seat 2: Inforaquicky (2165 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Inforaquicky: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qd Qc]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
Inforaquicky: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [Kh 7s 5c]
Inforaquicky: checks
RyPac13: bets 60
Inforaquicky: raises 360 to 420
RyPac13: calls 360
*** TURN *** [Kh 7s 5c] [Tc]
Inforaquicky: bets 900
RyPac13 said, "prolly got me, but no idea why the huge Kx raise, sigh"
RyPac13: calls 355 and is all-in
RyPac13 said, "lol"
*** RIVER *** [Kh 7s 5c Tc] [7h]
RyPac13 said, "gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Inforaquicky: shows [Ks Th] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
RyPac13: shows [Qd Qc] (two pair, Queens and Sevens)
Inforaquicky collected 1670 from pot

And QQ gets killed. What I said in game on the turn was what I was thinking on the flop. Very weird, especially considering his play in previous hands (like the KK one). If he raises to like 200 I probably would have folded, I know sounds weird. That's what I was thinking at the time, and I think it's too late to rethink that right now.

Seat 1: Rigboz (1530 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1470 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Rigboz: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Js Ad]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Rigboz: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [As Ks 4d]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
Rigboz: calls 80
*** TURN *** [As Ks 4d] [Qc]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 180
Rigboz: calls 180
*** RIVER *** [As Ks 4d Qc] [5d]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 400
Rigboz: folds
RyPac13 collected 640 from pot

Rematch time, I suppose he hangs around with his flush draw here. Luckily I have one of his outs.

Seat 1: Rigboz (1230 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1770 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Rigboz: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5s 6d]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Rigboz: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [7h Ac 8c]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
Rigboz: calls 80
*** TURN *** [7h Ac 8c] [6h]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [7h Ac 8c 6h] [Ah]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rigboz: shows [As Ad] (four of a kind, Aces)
RyPac13: mucks hand
Rigboz collected 280 from pot

He didn't value town his quads like I did.

Seat 1: Rigboz (1515 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1485 in chips)
Rigboz: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Ts]
Rigboz: raises 30 to 60
RyPac13: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [8s 9d Js]
RyPac13: checks
Rigboz: bets 90
RyPac13: raises 160 to 250
Rigboz: calls 160
*** TURN *** [8s 9d Js] [3s]
RyPac13: checks
Rigboz: checks
*** RIVER *** [8s 9d Js 3s] [Kh]
RyPac13: checks
Rigboz: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jd Ts] (a pair of Jacks)
Rigboz: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 620 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 620 | Rake 0
Board [8s 9d Js 3s Kh]
Seat 1: Rigboz (button) (small blind) mucked [7d 9s]

I'm not sure why the flop raise was sizes at 250, I forgot my thinking at the time, if any.

I probably miss a thin value bet on the river here but I wanted to get it in on the flop, surprised he didn't looking at his hand here.

Seat 1: Rigboz (1250 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1750 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Rigboz: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qd Qs]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
Rigboz: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [5c 8d 8h]
Rigboz: checks
RyPac13: bets 75
Rigboz: raises 135 to 210
RyPac13: calls 135
*** TURN *** [5c 8d 8h] [Ah]
Rigboz: bets 965 and is all-in
Rigboz said, ";)"
RyPac13: calls 965
*** RIVER *** [5c 8d 8h Ah] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rigboz: shows [5h Qh] (two pair, Eights and Fives)
RyPac13: shows [Qd Qs] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
RyPac13 collected 2500 from pot

Too sick, good way to end the night. Station4life.

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I guess I put a little more detail into these than I was planning on, so hopefully some of you read it and maybe even one or two of you actually learn something (other than me making some bad plays and being a station).

Hopefully I can focus a little more and hit a nice heater.

In hindsight I seemed to actually run good today, but it's super late, I'm kind of delirious and still upset about that fucking turn shove with Ah7h or whatever above. So I'm not so optimistic.

Anyways, I'll update the links and stuff next time I update.

I'm Back

2008-01-28T21:31:00.001-08:00

So I'm probably about 80-90% now. Almost completely done with the medicine, my rash is almost gone and my sore throat has been gone for about two days now.

Basically in the last few days we found out that my girlfriend probably got mono and that's why she was in the hospital originally on Christmas. She had never had it and her sister did, so I guess there was a slight chance she could get it from the kidney transplant, and her kidney adviser/surgeon thinks that is probably the case.

Then I got it from her, and since I've already had it before I had a pretty harsh case of it. That combined with the fact that I was misdiagnosed originally, made things pretty bad.

Funny thing is, I'm not really weak or out of breath like I was when I had mono in high school. I remember walking about 100 feet then having to rest for a minute or two because I was exhausted.

Quitting smoking is going fine overall. I bought some of those nicotine free quest cigarettes, just so I have something to "smoke" from time to time when I get that habitual urge. Those are working out fine when I'm in the car, until I can break that wanting feeling. Other than that I've been a little more irritable than normal I've noticed, but nothing I can't handle. It's been at least 3 weeks since I've had a cigarette (or a beer for that matter, geesh) and I plan to keep it that way. Going back would be too depressing now.

On the real estate front, things are actually progressing fairly well with my friend and I. I think we've secured the funding we would need to purchase a place, and we have one good prospect right now. I checked out a property a few weeks ago before I was in the hospital, but it turned out to not fit our criteria. This new one looks pretty good though, and we're both hoping we can get it well below asking price in this market. I'll keep you posted.

I played 4 games yesterday to get back into the fray. I split them 2-2, and didn't really feel like playing. I just played 2 more tonight, went 2-0 and feel pretty good about my play. I'm going to review the major hands below and talk a little bit about some of my plays.

I played these both at the same time, they finished pretty near the same time, and I had notes previously on this first player. Both games are 110 turbos on Stars. I'll probably move back to the 220s I was getting into within the next week or two.

Second hand.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
jawir3ft: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6d 6s]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
jawir3ft: raises 120 to 180
RyPac13: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [Kh 4h 3h]
jawir3ft: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Kh 4h 3h] [4s]
jawir3ft: bets 220
RyPac13: calls 220
*** RIVER *** [Kh 4h 3h 4s] [4c]
jawir3ft: bets 400
RyPac13: calls 400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jawir3ft: shows [Jd Ac] (three of a kind, Fours)
RyPac13: shows [6d 6s] (a full house, Fours full of Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 1600 from pot

My notes on him are "very lag, very bluffy." My line should probably explain itself, I would've probably been tempted to raise/shove the turn if I had better reads on him and if he bet more. It's a bold move but under the circumstanced I like my line best. I don't feel he has anything after a flop check and fairly weak turn bet (which is standard among my opponents for my actions). I don't really have any other way to play this hand imo, so I won't go into too much detail, but I'm not raising the river because a bit of his range is better PPs and I suppose there is an outside chance he has a K. After all, this is the second hand and I have notes that could be up to 4 months old.

Here's the next major pot.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (820 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2180 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
jawir3ft: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Td]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
jawir3ft: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3s 5s]
jawir3ft: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
jawir3ft: raises 80 to 160
RyPac13: raises 240 to 400
jawir3ft: folds
RyPac13 collected 440 from pot

I think this is an interesting hand. This is something I used to do more in the lower level games, with the laggier and more manical players in the 11-33 turbos. It's something I steered away from as I moved up to the 55s and 110s and really improved my fundamentals. I think being able to make this kind of move is really indicative of the difference in my game right now compared to 3 months ago.

As to the hand, I feel he has an ace almost never the way he minraised, I don't think he'd minraise an ace here, and despite the horrible stack sizes and my horrible hand, I make the move on him. He's lag and bluffy and I'm confident in making my own moves from time to time if I feel they are warranted.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (715 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2285 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
jawir3ft: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h Qh]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
jawir3ft: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [3d Ac 5s]
jawir3ft: checks
RyPac13: bets 60
jawir3ft: folds
RyPac13 collected 120 from pot

Now perhaps because I made that move on him earlier, he folds here pretty quickly. I half pot because it's a dry board and he's either going to play the hand or not, there's not much guessing as to his hand if he raises or calls and 60-90 chips is not really a big difference here. Stacks are also short and I'd do this with Ax as well, especially without past history on that previous hand, expecting a raise. I might bet a little more here on this dry board against certain players with certain game flow, but here I felt 60 appropriate.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (655 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2345 in chips)
jawir3ft: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4d 5s]
jawir3ft: calls 15
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ad 3s 5c]
RyPac13: checks
jawir3ft: bets 90
RyPac13: raises 210 to 300
jawir3ft: folds
RyPac13 collected 240 from pot

I don't really know how I feel about this hand.

I should probably be check calling here and leading the turn. I just feel my hand is ahead but vulnerable here, but when you break it down I'm either ahead by a fair amount or behind with like 35-40% equity. So the correct play is to probably check call here, even if he's weak so often here because he's not going to play ball here with a weaker hand.

At the time I was almost happy to sacrifice possible value on later streets because I knew the turn and river would get ugly/thin so very often, but that's not the correct way to play. You can't be afraid to get a little dirty in these hands, but I probably was here and made the defensive raise.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (550 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2450 in chips)
jawir3ft: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah Ad]
jawir3ft: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [As 7h 3h]
RyPac13: checks
jawir3ft: bets 150
RyPac13: raises 720 to 870
jawir3ft: folds
RyPac13 collected 480 from pot

This was a very weird hand. I really hate to see that Ax flop, and it kind of threw me off because I know how I'm playing every single other flop in this deck except for this Ax flop. He has 300 behind, I guess check calling is fine here, I have trips but he either has a draw or doesn't I guess. I'd imagine at this point he'd felt 7x and any PP 88-KK.

Kind of a ridiculous hand I guess, I just hit the flop like no other, so I don't really have feelings on the hand. PF I don't really ever call OOP anywhere near these stack sizes, but AA against an aggro player who raises a fair amount PF and probably folds a reasonable amount of hands, I think a call was in order here. Especially with his cbet % and amount being pretty high.

Here's the last hand, standard obviously. A tiny bit of fold equity + 10bb deep = shove here for me vs his range.

Seat 1: jawir3ft (280 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2720 in chips)
jawir3ft: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qh Tc]
jawir3ft: raises 90 to 120
RyPac13: raises 2600 to 2720 and is all-in
jawir3ft: calls 160 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [6h 2d Jh]
*** TURN *** [6h 2d Jh] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [6h 2d Jh 4h] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qh Tc] (a flush, Queen high)
jawir3ft: shows [As 7c] (high card Ace)
RyPac13 said, "gg"
RyPac13 collected 560 from pot

Onto the second match.

This player was a slight winner, though his average stake was something like 40 for husng turbos. I didn't have any history with him that I knew of.

5th hand.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1470 in chips)
Seat 2: tuck64 (1530 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
tuck64: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7h Kc]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
tuck64: raises 1470 to 1530 and is all-in
RyPac13: folds

I'm kind of getting an idea of how he's playing and why he's playing so much higher than his average stake.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1410 in chips)
Seat 2: tuck64 (1590 in chips)
tuck64: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7c 5h]
tuck64: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [5d 5s 2c]
RyPac13: checks
tuck64: checks
*** TURN *** [5d 5s 2c] [6s]
RyPac13: bets 30
tuck64: raises 50 to 80
RyPac13: calls 50
*** RIVER *** [5d 5s 2c 6s] [7s]
RyPac13: checks
tuck64: bets 180
RyPac13: raises 470 to 650
tuck64: raises 840 to 1490 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 660 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
tuck64: shows [Qs 4s] (a flush, Queen high)
RyPac13: shows [7c 5h] (a full house, Fives full of Sevens)
RyPac13 collected 2820 from pot

I figure he has to bet everything on this river, including bluffs, so I check without too much thought, and raise a little under 4x, pretty sure I'm pricing in a flush, straight, trips and probably even two pair from this kind of player. If I thought he'd only call with a flush I'd obviously raise a lot higher than this. As it turns out he comes over the top with the third nut flush (minus the straight flushes lol) which is a little overzealous for a 110, even against a mediocre player.

I didn't realize this game was so short, I guess it started a minute or two after the other and he must've taken awhile to act because the other game didn't finish too much longer after this one.

The game ended about 15-20 hands later when he was blinded down to under 100 and called my Ax shove with 67s and I held. I suppose that's why it took so long.

Anyways, I know these were pretty short, but hopefully there was a hand or two that interested everybody out there. If you have any questions about my play in these hands, go ahead and reply to this blog post.

I'll be doing more of these at least semi regularly, now that I appear to be getting healthy again and will be playing again.

I have a 1500 bonus I'm clearing on PS right now, I'm about 25% done with clearing that. I'll probably be buying these every other month if the VPP situation works out like it should, if not more often (if I move up/play more).

I have some goals I want to achieve, mainly playing 500 games a month, mixing in some PS regular speeds (200s) and WINNING ON FULL TILT. Over 600+ games I'm breakeven on FTP (not including rakeback and bonus). This is pretty sad, especially considering I've played mostly 55s there. I feel I've ran pretty crappy there, but it's hard to blame anything on variance and learning curve (I'm sure it took me 100-200 games to get a decent feel for the structure and speed) when you haven't had prolonged success in a game. I'm usually an optimistic person, but I also try to base assertions on facts, and it's tough for me to claim to be a solid winner on FTP at this moment. I'd like to change that, and plan to do so.

I'll also get into hu cash and probably some shorthanded cash games later on this year (short handed cash at bodog likely bc it's so super soft).

Some Hard Earned Answers etc.

2008-01-23T11:21:00.000-08:00

So I went a doctor on Saturday.

I told them I'd been taking amoxicillin without perscription, they told me how that isn't a good idea, etc. etc. and prescribed me two other medicines.

A few hours after taking them I notice I have some red dots forming on my stomach and chest.

I stop taking medicine and call the doctor Sunday morning, they say to go to emergency room.

I get to emergency room Sunday at noon and eventually am admitted into the hospital, getting a bed around 5pm. I just got out today, I actually look a lot worse than I did when I came in (I'm covered ankles to shoulders in red dots AND splotches) but I feel a lot better.

It turns out I had mono, or a certain version (I'll update later with details). This skin reaction that they thought was an allergic reaction to medicine turned out to just have to do with the mono.

Also, the original doctors apparently gave me the wrong medicine, so going there was a pure waste (I should've just went with the Maker's).

Either way, I'm feeling OK right now, my throat is in fragile but decent shape, and that is the main problem I've had for the last week and a half.

Oh and I haven't had a cigarette in like 2 weeks, so I guess I'm quitting. Haven't really had many urges or anything, considering I couldn't even swallow half the time I was in the hospital, this is no surprise.

I'll update with more details later, for now I'm going to relax and enjoy a normal bed/couch/tv/life.

Plague

2008-01-17T20:52:00.000-08:00

Such bs.

I'm still sick. Something similar to what my girlfriend had in the hospital.

I haven't played in like 7-10 days, I don't even know. I've had one cigarette in the last 6-7 days, and I can hardly swallow food without my throat practically closing in pain. Life sucks.

Hopefully I'll be as good as new within 2 days and a late month heater will follow.

I'm considering buying a bottle of Maker's and just having a night with it. I know it works with nasty colds, but for something like this it might do more harm than good. I'm running out of options though.

Ugh

2008-01-11T22:42:00.001-08:00

Been sick last few days, thought I was over it until today. Haven't done much of anything last few days and likely won't for the next few.

So pics/hands/etc. delayed.

New Year Updates

2008-01-06T14:27:00.000-08:00

My girlfriend and mother got out of the hospital on new year's eve, actually at about the same time.

Both are doing pretty well, and keeping me very busy. Thanks to everybody who messaged me here and on AIM, I appreciate it.

Other than that, my girlfriend and I are working on cleaning up the place all day today. It's 61 degrees, so I just cleaned out my disgustingly dirty truck. I was sealcoating until the end of the season, and figured I'd get to it about a week or two after I finished up, but cold weather and then like a month of ice/snow really took care of that.

I'm also moving my desk/PC setup into the second bedroom of our place. Right now it's in the master bedroom, which is pretty long (like 20ish feet) but since the second bedroom and bed is hardly every used these days, I finally won the battle of making it an office of sorts.

We're hoping to move either in a few weeks or few months, our lease is kind of weird. It expired last month, but the owner never called us back after reneging on the promise that the drug addict next door would be gone. Supposedly he'll be gone the 23rd of this month, but I'm not signing/doing anything in regards to this place or a new place until he's gone (or I find something I truly can't pass up).

I'd like to purchase a house, the market is so great for buying right now. The only problem is I'm probably a little short if I push it for a down payment, but that would be with good credit. Mine isn't really good right now, or established enough to be worth much. Doing some research, it would take me 8-10 months I believe to get it to where it needs to be.

So my other option if I can get a house, would be an investor/partner/personal loan. I'd much rather go the route of the first two, it would put me in a much more comfortable spot with less of my money tied up in the present and near future. This is all still a fairly long shot, I haven't had the time in the last two years to really keep up with a lot of my friends/contacts in the city that had money for this type of thing, so it really only leaves a few people that I know well enough that might be interested in doing something like this.

The most likely route is my girlfriend and I moving closer to my mom's house (for a lot of reasons besides her MS diagnosis) and signing a 6 month lease. By then I should have the money to put down on a house and hopefully good enough credit to get a decent loan.

Until I figure out what's going on, I'll keep reading up as much as possible about real estate and talking to as many people as I know who are involved in the business.

I'll upload pics of my new setup tonight or tomorrow with my new digital camera my mom got me for Christmas.

Rough day

2007-12-27T23:21:00.000-08:00

They transferred my gf to the hospital she had her transplant at. Still don't know what's going on, they think maybe some kind of flu or sinus infection or something. Her kidneys are working fine though, so hopefully it's not that.

My mom got her test results back, and she has a form of MS. Not the worst kind (my aunt had that) so hopefully she's ok. She's going into the hospital tomorrow for 3 days.

A little over 9k vpps to go for supernova, obviously the most important thing going on now (har har).

Ugh

2007-12-26T22:54:00.001-08:00

Girlfriend's fever got up to 103 on Christmas evening. Had to bring her to the hospital, she has some kind of infection. They're going to transfer her to another hospital tomorrow to try to figure out what's going on. Her kidneys are ok as far as we've been told so far, so that looks good. She's had a nasty little cold for a few days so hopefully it's just a bug she's having trouble fighting off.

Mom gets her test results back tomorrow. I've been driving her in and out of the hospital for testing for the last week or so, the right side of her body has been numb and she can't work/drive/move faster than a turtle.

So yea, that and supernova, life is fun. Luckily I "have a little help from my friend." Still need like 10k vpps in 4 days, hoho.

Christmas Grind

2007-12-20T16:52:00.000-08:00

Really dug myself into a hole here with supernova, but considering I didn't reach 50k vpps until late October and didn't play in November, it shouldn't have been easy ;).

I still plan on getting it, but my mom has been in and out of the hospital getting tests done and I've had to drive her for this stuff the last few days.

Between that and christmas shopping, I've hardly had a chance to play.

Our 4th stout and first all grain beer turned out worse than we expected. The ABV is only like 3%, our grain bill was pretty off. It's still carbonating, but I think I'm going to throw this batch out. If my brother (16) drank like I did when I was his age, I'd just give it to him and his friends, but it's probably a good thing that he doesn't.

So we made a new stout last night, it should hit over 6% abv and it should be pretty hoppy. If anybody drinks Dogfish Head beers out there, we used a similar hop process as they do for a lot of their beers. It's called continuous hopping. Stouts aren't known for their hoppy character, but I personally have enjoyed the few hoppy stouts that I've had. I'm really looking forward to this beer.

Finishing up the beer front, our IPA (similar to Dogfish Head 60 minute) is almost ready to keg. It should be ready for christmas eve and I'll probably bring some over to the party on my dad's side. I was hoping the stout would turn out for that, as most of my family drinks darker beers.

Our "special" barleywine is still second fermenting. Will probably bottle this one in a week or so and age it until early February before we try it. This one might actually finish over 10% abv, the IPA should be around 7-8%.

Back to poker, I plan on playing as much as I can tonight and tomorrow after I drive my mom to the doctor's. The night of the 26th I'll probably make a decision as to whether or not it is possible for me to get supernova or not. Regardless, I need to get the games in (xmas is expensive) so I'll be playing hard until then.

My girlfriend's birthday is the 23rd, so it's made my holiday a little busier than I should expect. More on her gifts in a few days.

Oh, and after my post the other day reviewing all of those games, I finished the day up about 25 bucks over 17 games, so I went something like 6-2 on the day. I was pretty drained from playing 17 games and reviewing and posting and talking about 9 of them, but I felt it's something I'll be making a habit of in the near future.

I think playing 15-20 550s a day and reviewing every HH would be a nice, profitable and satisfying "job" in the near future. I bought a few books to educate me on some other business ventures I plan on getting involved with in the next few years. More on that in the upcoming weeks/months.

A day in the life of the 110s

2007-12-17T11:40:00.000-08:00

I've had a semi-bad start to the day. I'm reviewing my HHs so far to see how good/bad I've played. I'll highlight most of the major hands, and offer some strategical thoughts where they apply.

First up is Woltas. I saw him register at one or two 110s, so I figure he's done regging.

I sit, he sits. I sit again, he sits. So I'm two tabling a 6%+ winner with an average stake of 300+.

Still, he's never seemed very good to me, I have no idea how his ROI is that high. My notes on him are "calls 3-bets light, over 3-bets light." I've played him a little bit in the past. I haven't ran well vs him, but I recall a 4x+ 3-bet first level with A4o from him. This is the kind of stuff I can expect.

First major hand besides me 3-betting JJ and flopping trips, he folds to my turn bet. This hand is standard, but seems to be a sign of things to come.

Seat 1: woltas (1045 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1955 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
woltas: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Tc As]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
woltas: raises 945 to 1045 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 945
*** FLOP *** [9d Qd Kd]
*** TURN *** [9d Qd Kd] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [9d Qd Kd Qh] [Td]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
woltas: shows [Ks Js] (a straight, Nine to King)
RyPac13: shows [Tc As] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
woltas collected 2090 from pot

I actually won A8 > 88, then lost K5 < J8, both under 10bbs.

Seat 1: woltas (1860 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1140 in chips)
woltas: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh Qc]
woltas: raises 1760 to 1860 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 1040 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Th Td 2h]
*** TURN *** [Th Td 2h] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [Th Td 2h 4d] [6c]
RyPac13 said, "!!!"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kh Qc] (a pair of Tens)
woltas: shows [Kd 6h] (two pair, Tens and Sixes)
RyPac13 said, "gg"
woltas collected 2280 from pot

Quality stuff, but overall just a little bit of a downer game.

Lets take a look at how the other table vs woltas is doing.

Standard match, only one pot over 400. I lose 33 to ATs with 1400 stacks in 50-100.

Overall not a bad start in terms of play. I've been a little card dead and lost some flips.

Moving on..

First hand vs a pretty horrible player. I played this like an idiot. Once I call the turn I call the river. I did that right, but then I second guessed myself and convinced myself I was calling the turn out of frustration/spew. Silly me.

Seat 1: trader13 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1500 in chips)
trader13: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac Kc]
trader13: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: raises 140 to 200
trader13: calls 140
*** FLOP *** [5d 8h 5s]
RyPac13: bets 275
trader13: calls 275
*** TURN *** [5d 8h 5s] [Qs]
RyPac13: checks
trader13: bets 240
RyPac13: calls 240
*** RIVER *** [5d 8h 5s Qs] [2h]
RyPac13: checks
trader13: bets 560
RyPac13: folds
trader13 collected 1430 from pot
trader13: shows [7d Ah] (a pair of Fives)

Oh well, I would come back to see more life in this match.

Here's the next major hand. I had pulled a little "go and go" vs him earlier with KQ and he folded. This hand here is pretty standard. I opted to raise to 90 for two reasons. 1) He hadn't limped hardly ever in this match, he was fairly crazy/bluffy and had balls so I wouldn't be surprised to see a LRR shove here, which I could not call profitably. 2) Stacks were small and he is pretty aggro. He's going to bluff big when he bluffs and I'd rather not commit myself to pots I don't have to. 90 was best here imo.

Seat 1: trader13 (1985 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1015 in chips)
trader13: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Qh]
trader13: calls 15
RyPac13: raises 60 to 90
trader13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Td 4h Ks]
RyPac13: bets 120
trader13: calls 120
*** TURN *** [Td 4h Ks] [Qc]
RyPac13: checks
trader13: bets 210
RyPac13: raises 595 to 805 and is all-in
trader13: folds
RyPac13 collected 840 from pot

I'm more worried about a check behind (which I play for pot control and check call his river bluff/straight) than a bet really. He should stack off with a K or Q, maybe a T and perhaps some sort of T9 94 type combo draw (yea 94 is definitely in his range, especially suited). Plus I get the fold equity from his bluff here. I doubt he's firing 2 and a lot of rivers scare the crap out of me.

The next hand I'm not sure about. I probably should be firing 2 here. At the same time he's bluffing a ton of rivers so it might be more profitable to play a smaller, higher equity pot. I opted for the latter option and it paid off. After this hand I figured him for an idiot. He must watch too many of those "call to take it away later" poker shows on tv. Lol.

Seat 1: trader13 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
trader13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As Jd]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
trader13: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [6c Js 7d]
trader13: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
trader13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [6c Js 7d] [7s]
trader13: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [6c Js 7d 7s] [5s]
trader13: bets 240
RyPac13 said, "bah"
RyPac13: calls 240
*** SHOW DOWN ***
trader13: shows [Td Ks] (a pair of Sevens)
RyPac13: shows [As Jd] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
RyPac13 collected 810 from pot

Here I start to realize this my be a bad day.

Seat 1: trader13 (965 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2035 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
trader13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As Qd]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
trader13: raises 90 to 150
RyPac13: raises 1885 to 2035 and is all-in
trader13: calls 815 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [4d Ac 6c]
*** TURN *** [4d Ac 6c] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [4d Ac 6c Td] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
trader13: shows [Tc Ad] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
RyPac13: shows [As Qd] (a pair of Aces)
trader13 collected 1930 from pot

Then I think there is still hope.

Seat 1: trader13 (1930 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1070 in chips)
trader13: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qc Jh]
trader13: calls 25
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [9d 3c Th]
RyPac13: checks
trader13: bets 100
RyPac13: raises 300 to 400
trader13: raises 1480 to 1880 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 620 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [9d 3c Th] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [9d 3c Th Js] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qc Jh] (three of a kind, Jacks)
trader13: shows [9c Ts] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
RyPac13 collected 2140 from pot

I wasn't happy about this hand, mainly because I know he's probably bluffing some % of the time here. It was only my 2-3rd LR however, and I don't think I can profitably call here.

Seat 1: trader13 (1210 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1790 in chips)
trader13: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Qc]
trader13: calls 25
RyPac13: raises 100 to 150
trader13: raises 1060 to 1210 and is all-in
RyPac13: folds

Then I made a few hero calls with weak pairs and lost most of my chips. Doubled up via folds in SAGE area, then evened up when I won Q8 over A5. Match is starting to even out a bit.

We split this, which I thought was horrible on all levels from him (except the call b/c he's obviously committed by then).

Seat 1: trader13 (1740 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1260 in chips)
trader13: posts small blind 75
RyPac13: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [8h 7s]
trader13: calls 75
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ts 5s 7c]
RyPac13: checks
trader13: bets 300
RyPac13: raises 810 to 1110 and is all-in
trader13: calls 810
*** TURN *** [Ts 5s 7c] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 5s 7c 9h] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [8h 7s] (a pair of Sevens)
trader13: shows [7d 8s] (a pair of Sevens)
RyPac13 collected 1260 from pot
trader13 collected 1260 from pot

After that my next big hand is K4s which I call his PF shove and run into AK. He holds. 0-3, but nothing atrocious yet. I'm doing ok, not tilting or anything. Lets see how the game I was playing on the other table went.

Good start. I raise the river so big because most of his calling range is Ax and he should call this raise with Ax. He can probably get away from an 8 or a 6 (though I would expect some players to call with that) because the backdoor hit the river and the J might scare him a bit. Keep in mind this is not a good player.

Here's an example of him being a "not good" player.

Seat 1: PAYMEFISH (900 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2100 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
PAYMEFISH: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6c 7h]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
PAYMEFISH: raises 30 to 90
RyPac13: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [6h 9s Ks]
PAYMEFISH: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [6h 9s Ks] [Jd]
PAYMEFISH: bets 30
RyPac13: calls 30
*** RIVER *** [6h 9s Ks Jd] [5d]
PAYMEFISH: bets 30
RyPac13: calls 30
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PAYMEFISH: shows [4h 4c] (a pair of Fours)
RyPac13: shows [6c 7h] (a pair of Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 300 from pot

Here's a rough little hand.

Seat 1: PAYMEFISH (500 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2500 in chips)
PAYMEFISH: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jc Ah]
PAYMEFISH: raises 50 to 100
RyPac13: raises 2400 to 2500 and is all-in
PAYMEFISH: calls 400 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jd 5d 3d]
*** TURN *** [Jd 5d 3d] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 5d 3d 2h] [4s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jc Ah] (a straight, Ace to Five)
PAYMEFISH: shows [Ac 6d] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
PAYMEFISH collected 1000 from pot

I don't know if I should call this river, but I felt he'd bet the turn if he had anything there.

Seat 1: PAYMEFISH (745 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2255 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
PAYMEFISH: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As 8h]
RyPac13: raises 50 to 100
PAYMEFISH: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ks 2h]
PAYMEFISH: checks
RyPac13: bets 125
PAYMEFISH: calls 125
*** TURN *** [Kd Ks 2h] [7s]
PAYMEFISH: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [Kd Ks 2h 7s] [Qd]
PAYMEFISH: bets 200
RyPac13: calls 200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PAYMEFISH: shows [Jc Qs] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
RyPac13: mucks hand
PAYMEFISH collected 850 from pot

By this time the other match was over. I was 0-3, not feeling too happy about this match, already taking a break after this game finished, I did not open up another game.

I'm not sure how I feel about the following hand. I wouldn't say I was tilting, but I wasn't in a good mood either and was stopping my session for a 15-20 minute break.

The minraise thing he'd been doing about half the time I limped (which wasn't a lot) in the last dozen or so buttons. That, combined with him stabbing out pretty aggressively made me feel like I had a lot of fold equity here. And I do still have some outs if I'm behind. Not many though, and this is probably not a profitable play. I'm not sure, it's hard to tell because of the holding I saw here. But I went with my read and made a move, if only I had done the same in that AK hand.

Seat 1: PAYMEFISH (1270 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1730 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
PAYMEFISH: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9s Jd]
RyPac13: calls 50
PAYMEFISH: raises 100 to 200
RyPac13: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [Qs Ks Qd]
PAYMEFISH: bets 300
RyPac13: raises 1230 to 1530 and is all-in
PAYMEFISH: calls 770 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Qs Ks Qd] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [Qs Ks Qd 9d] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PAYMEFISH: shows [Ad As] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
RyPac13: shows [9s Jd] (a full house, Nines full of Queens)
RyPac13 collected 2540 from pot

So I'm 1-3, and I need a break. I come back 30 minutes later, feeling refreshed and ready to go.

Obviously woltas sits with me right away. Redemption, perhaps? I think I've lost my last 3 against him, and while I feel I have a clear edge in the match, I have a bigger edge against other players. I just feel I know where he is strong and where he is weak.

Here I think I miss a river bet. If I did miss it, it is super thin, but I think I can get some value here out of Woltas. He doesn't have a Q or T ever here and I can respect a raise from him, he's not laggy or spewy/bluffy, but he will look me up with a 7 imo.

Normally I play as nitty OOP as woltas does against me. This means I'm 3-betting more than I am calling, and I'm not calling very often here. He's calling 3-bets pretty light so most of my strong hands and every PP is being 3-bet for value.

So when I call T9o OOP, I need to make these kinds of river value bets if I want to be profitable with this PF call. I fail to do so.

Seat 1: woltas (1530 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1470 in chips)
woltas: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Td 9c]
woltas: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Qh 2c Th]
RyPac13: checks
woltas: checks
*** TURN *** [Qh 2c Th] [7d]
RyPac13: bets 80
woltas: calls 80
*** RIVER *** [Qh 2c Th 7d] [8h]
RyPac13: checks
woltas: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Td 9c] (a pair of Tens)
woltas: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 280 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 280 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 2c Th 7d 8h]
Seat 1: woltas (button) (small blind) mucked [Ad 7s]

I don't know what's going on here, he's always 3-bet me 4x+. I don't really know what kind of hand he has here, but obviously I'm 4-betting.

Seat 1: woltas (1300 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1700 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
woltas: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh Kc]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
woltas: raises 100 to 160
RyPac13: raises 340 to 500
woltas: folds

This is a nice flop against somebody who calls 3-bets light but isn't going to look me up with Q high here like a lot of loose stations I've played.

Seat 1: woltas (1140 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1860 in chips)
woltas: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2s 2d]
woltas: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: raises 140 to 200
woltas: calls 140
*** FLOP *** [Ah 4d Ac]
RyPac13: bets 300
woltas: folds
RyPac13 collected 400 from pot

The final hand of the match, a clear example of the sort of edge I feel I have against him.

Seat 1: woltas (900 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2100 in chips)
woltas: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ad Jc]
woltas: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 270 to 360
woltas: calls 270
*** FLOP *** [Jh 9h 7s]
RyPac13: bets 1740 and is all-in
woltas: calls 540 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Jh 9h 7s] [8s]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 9h 7s 8s] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ad Jc] (a pair of Jacks)
woltas: shows [Qh Jd] (a pair of Jacks - lower kicker)
RyPac13 collected 1800 from pot

I don't think he's ever said a word to me. I've displayed my lack of enthusiasm about playing him in our first few matches (a few months ago), I've also made some friendly comments here or there, but he's never said a word in the chat. Oh well, I'll be fine playing him when he sits with me.

Lets see how I'm doing on the other table (if you notice throughout this, I'm 2 tabling these 110 turbos at all times).

This hand is tough. At the time I didn't have the reads to get away from this, but I feel I should almost be thinking the opposite, I should have a read to call here. He wasn't just donking OOP every raised flop or anything. Tough hand, could be avoided if I had folded the flop. This is the kind of trouble I can get into when I take a marginal read and put myself in a very tough spot. I've really cut back on it over the last 500 or so games, and I definitely see a big improvement in my game, but I have to continue to do this.

Don't get me wrong, I'm flatting or raising this donk bet against a lot of players, but I didn't have a specific read here.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1400 in chips)
Seat 2: rizn00 (1600 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
rizn00: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Tc]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
rizn00: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [8c 5c 5h]
rizn00: bets 90
RyPac13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [8c 5c 5h] [6c]
rizn00: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [8c 5c 5h 6c] [Ks]
rizn00: bets 240
RyPac13: calls 240
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rizn00: shows [Ac 4c] (a flush, Ace high)
RyPac13: mucks hand
rizn00 collected 810 from pot

Not much else happens in this game. He's overbet raised a few of my limps. I limp 44, he checks J7. Flops a 7, I lose a flop bet, nothing major. Been running into a lot of those lately (where they do something a few times, I get a hand to exploit it and they fail to continue the pattern), just variance.

The last two hands fall slightly out of my favor.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (455 in chips)
Seat 2: rizn00 (2545 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
rizn00: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5h As]
RyPac13: raises 355 to 455 and is all-in
rizn00: calls 355
*** FLOP *** [Qd Jh Ts]
*** TURN *** [Qd Jh Ts] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Jh Ts Ks] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rizn00: shows [8h Kd] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
RyPac13: shows [5h As] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
rizn00 collected 455 from pot
RyPac13 collected 455 from pot

Seat 1: RyPac13 (455 in chips)
Seat 2: rizn00 (2545 in chips)
rizn00: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9s Kh]
rizn00: raises 2445 to 2545 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 355 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7c 7s 5h]
*** TURN *** [7c 7s 5h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [7c 7s 5h 8d] [4c]
RyPac13 said, "where's my split"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [9s Kh] (a pair of Sevens)
rizn00: shows [5s Ac] (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
rizn00 collected 910 from pot

Overall, as most of my games so far have gone, this game had very few "medium" pots, and one big hand pretty much made the difference when we were medium-deep stacked.

I'm 2-4 now, and playing 2 more.

First hand on my new game. This is an example of "wishful thinking." I can't believe I call here but don't call the AK hand earlier. As you can see, I've mentioned this a few times and it obviously bothers me and I won't go against my reads/feelings mid hand in the near future :)

Dealt to RyPac13 [8h 9d]
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [As 5d 6h]
RyPac13: bets 30
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 30
*** TURN *** [As 5d 6h] [8c]
RyPac13: bets 65
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 65
*** RIVER *** [As 5d 6h 8c] [Ac]
RyPac13: bets 150
FOOTBALLEUR: raises 230 to 380
RyPac13: calls 230
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [7d 4h] (a straight, Four to Eight)
RyPac13: mucks hand
FOOTBALLEUR collected 990 from pot

I think the river bet is fine, but there's no way he's minraising a 5 or 6 here on the first hand. Silly to not fold the river.

The next hand I make some money back, he calls a 3x raise with 85o, so now I know what I'm up against after he proceeds to chase a gutshot and miss.

Some reenforcement of hand one being a clear river fold.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (1875 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1125 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7h 3d]
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [7s Ad 3h]
RyPac13: bets 30
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 30
*** TURN *** [7s Ad 3h] [5d]
RyPac13: bets 70
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 70
*** RIVER *** [7s Ad 3h 5d] [9d]
RyPac13: bets 150
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 150
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [7h 3d] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
FOOTBALLEUR: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 540 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 540 | Rake 0
Board [7s Ad 3h 5d 9d]
Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (button) (small blind) mucked [Qs Qh]

He's now value betting for me.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (1605 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1395 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
FOOTBALLEUR: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qc 9c]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3h Qh 5d]
FOOTBALLEUR: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 80
*** TURN *** [3h Qh 5d] [3d]
FOOTBALLEUR: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [3h Qh 5d 3d] [7s]
FOOTBALLEUR: bets 80
RyPac13: calls 80
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [6c 7c] (two pair, Sevens and Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Qc 9c] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
RyPac13 collected 640 from pot

I make an A high call to win a pot. He starts "tilting" I suppose.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (815 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2185 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7s 2h]
FOOTBALLEUR: raises 785 to 815 and is all-in
RyPac13: folds

The next button of his. This hand kind of frustrated me because my calling range here absolutely crushes his holding. I don't think this had any effects on future games, but it sure sucks.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (860 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2140 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ad Kd]
FOOTBALLEUR: raises 830 to 860 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 830
*** FLOP *** [Kc 2d 3c]
*** TURN *** [Kc 2d 3c] [Tc]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 2d 3c Tc] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ad Kd] (a pair of Kings)
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [3s 3d] (three of a kind, Threes)
FOOTBALLEUR collected 1720 from pot

I'm normally not as comfortable as I was in the past just blindly leading bottom pair on wet flops in limped pots, I generally mix up my play in these areas. This guy was clearly calling super super light, so I think any piece of a flop should be bet for value, including A high.

The turn is very nice, and he's been getting more aggressive. This was not a solid "he's going to bet" read or anything, but I felt if he bets here normally at all, at this point in the match he's leading out with a wider range. Luckily he did, unfortunately he didn't look me up light, but I'll take the extra 250 chips from his K high draw.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (1570 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1430 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ad 4s]
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 25
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [4d Qs 5h]
RyPac13: bets 60
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 60
*** TURN *** [4d Qs 5h] [Ah]
RyPac13: checks
FOOTBALLEUR: bets 250
RyPac13: raises 500 to 750
FOOTBALLEUR: folds
RyPac13 collected 720 from pot

I miss a flop lead and a river value bet in between this hand. I wasn't as clear with my reads during the game as I am reviewing this, and I definitely need to focus a little better in some of these games.

Then this hand hits, and it's obviously just a standard beat.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (1000 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2000 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Js Jh]
FOOTBALLEUR: raises 900 to 1000 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 900
*** FLOP *** [6h 8h 2d]
*** TURN *** [6h 8h 2d] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [6h 8h 2d 9h] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Js Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [Kh Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
FOOTBALLEUR collected 2000 from pot

This is a fairly ridiculous hand. I don't think he does this with a combo draw to be honest. I figured, overpair or straight/straight draw, overcards most of the time. I don't really know, he's done some strange stuff during the course of the match, showing some marginal looking aggression at times.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (2100 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (900 in chips)
FOOTBALLEUR: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6c 9s]
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 50
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ts 6s 7s]
RyPac13: checks
FOOTBALLEUR: bets 2000 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 800 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Ts 6s 7s] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 6s 7s 4s] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [6c 9s] (a flush, Ten high)
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [9d 8d] (a straight, Six to Ten)
RyPac13 collected 1800 from pot

I'm going to take another look at this hand after this blog post. I remember thinking "clear fold" right away, but then I thought about it for a little bit and ended up calling. I'm not sure how I really stack up against his range here.

Final hand, pretty standard.

Seat 1: FOOTBALLEUR (1200 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1800 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
FOOTBALLEUR: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac Td]
RyPac13: raises 1700 to 1800 and is all-in
FOOTBALLEUR: calls 1100 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3d Tc 3s]
*** TURN *** [3d Tc 3s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [3d Tc 3s Jc] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FOOTBALLEUR: shows [4s Ad] (two pair, Jacks and Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Ac Td] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
RyPac13 collected 2400 from pot

Yea, 12bbs, but I'm ahead of his calling range + FE = profit.

Onto the other table.

Shahin86 sits with me. He's a marginal winner but I'd much rather play somebody like woltas. Shahin86 is a very laggy player and I think he spews in a lot of spots, but makes up for some if not all of that by putting me in some tough spots where I (presumably) make poor decisions. I felt I played the match fine (prior to reviewing this). I made a remark about how he should be playing Camel when he sat with me (he refused to not sit with Camel and Camel apparently took offense to this a few months ago).

About 6 hands in. This is an example of "spewy" Shahin. While I haven't played him before, I know somewhat how he plays and have no problem playing this so aggressively. It should help in future hands/games as well.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1330 in chips)
Seat 2: Shahin86 (1670 in chips)
Shahin86: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9h Ac]
Shahin86: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3h Ah Ad]
RyPac13: checks
Shahin86: bets 80
RyPac13: raises 160 to 240
Shahin86: calls 160
*** TURN *** [3h Ah Ad] [2d]
RyPac13: bets 400
Shahin86: raises 970 to 1370 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 630 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [3h Ah Ad 2d] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [9h Ac] (three of a kind, Aces)
Shahin86: shows [Qd 2h] (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2660 from pot

Double up.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2590 in chips)
Seat 2: Shahin86 (410 in chips)
Shahin86: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah 4s]
Shahin86: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: raises 2530 to 2590 and is all-in
Shahin86: calls 350 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [4h 7h Qs]
*** TURN *** [4h 7h Qs] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [4h 7h Qs Td] [5d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ah 4s] (a pair of Fours)
Shahin86: shows [Ks Tc] (a pair of Tens)
Shahin86 collected 820 from pot

One thing I notice already in this game. Twice in raised pots in position I cbet him on semi dry boards. Twice he floated with Ax and I failed to fire 2 or bluff a river. He's not tricky enough to where I shouldn't be able to recognize and fire multiple times in these spots.

Here's a semi-strange hand. I can't see a ton of value in the river here, I doubt he's hero calling K high for much value, maybe a PP or 3? I'm not sure if he's bluff raising me with anything here either, but I can see him check raising the river for value.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1960 in chips)
Seat 2: Shahin86 (1040 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Shahin86: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jc Js]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Shahin86: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [As 5d 3d]
Shahin86: bets 40
RyPac13: calls 40
*** TURN *** [As 5d 3d] [6h]
Shahin86: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [As 5d 3d 6h] [5s]
Shahin86: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Shahin86: shows [3s Qs] (two pair, Fives and Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Jc Js] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
RyPac13 collected 200 from pot

This hand just sucks. I should have bet more on the turn, but I have to call this river. An interesting note is the 490. I've picked up on some players in the past betting a little less than the "100,200,300" marks when they want a call and a little more when they're bluffing.

Not to say this is what is going on here, just a related note.

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2240 in chips)
Seat 2: Shahin86 (760 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
Shahin86: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6s 6c]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
Shahin86: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [4c Ts Qd]
Shahin86: bets 60
RyPac13: calls 60
*** TURN *** [4c Ts Qd] [6d]
Shahin86: checks
RyPac13: bets 150
Shahin86: calls 150
*** RIVER *** [4c Ts Qd 6d] [9d]
Shahin86: bets 490 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 490
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Shahin86: shows [Jd Td] (a flush, Queen high)
RyPac13: shows [6s 6c] (three of a kind, Sixes)
Shahin86 collected 1520 from pot

After this I win a flip to take a big lead but then his 33 holds against my A2.

Not much is going on besides these hands. He's calling me light OOP when I raise, I'm picking up a lot of pots uncontested, he's made a few floats and big river bets, etc.

Last hand.

In hindsight, maybe I should raise a little more here preflop or shove. He's going to call my shove with a weaker range. He's just calling so often OOP and is being so laggy I think I get value out of 99 here. Regardless, I can see arguments for shoving, LRR and raising here against Shahin. Other than that, I think the hand played itself (I should have bet 250ish here because I was calling a shove).

Seat 1: RyPac13 (1340 in chips)
Seat 2: Shahin86 (1660 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
Shahin86: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9c 9h]
RyPac13: raises 100 to 200
Shahin86: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [Kh 8d 6h]
Shahin86: checks
RyPac13: bets 200
Shahin86: calls 200
*** TURN *** [Kh 8d 6h] [9d]
Shahin86: bets 300
RyPac13: raises 640 to 940 and is all-in
Shahin86: calls 640
*** RIVER *** [Kh 8d 6h 9d] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Shahin86: shows [Th 7d] (a straight, Six to Ten)
RyPac13: shows [9c 9h] (three of a kind, Nines)
Shahin86 collected 2680 from pot

Ok, well 3-5 going into my final match of the "early" part of my session today.

This match was pretty boring overall. He was limping hands like AKo early on and I lost a few pots on thin calls. I fought back a bit, lost some, etc. and this was the final hand.

Seat 1: ppthebandit (2070 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (930 in chips)
ppthebandit: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2c Ad]
ppthebandit: raises 100 to 150
RyPac13: raises 780 to 930 and is all-in
ppthebandit: calls 780
*** FLOP *** [9c Qc 7s]
*** TURN *** [9c Qc 7s] [Kd]
*** RIVER *** [9c Qc 7s Kd] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [2c Ad] (high card Ace)
ppthebandit: shows [Kh Td] (a pair of Kings)
ppthebandit collected 1860 from pot

3-6 day so far.

Reviewing all of my hands so far today was definitely cumbersome/time consuming but I felt I was playing too poorly to put it off any longer.

I need to mainly focus a little more in these matches so I can exploit the reads I pick up more often. I obviously didn't run well in these big pots today so far, but I've also spewed enough to cause myself at least one buyin today.

I didn't want to spend so much time and energy reviewing hands because I'm really trying for Supernova and way way behind right now, but I just really needed it.

Hope you enjoy the hands and comments, I'll do another one towards the end of this month or in early January (unless I go robusto and hit Nova early).

Hands of the Day (yesterday)

2007-12-13T16:18:00.000-08:00

All games 110s Turbos on Stars.

Seat 1: villain (1330 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1670 in chips)
villain: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Jd]
villain: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: raises 210 to 300
villain: raises 900 to 1200
RyPac13: raises 470 to 1670 and is all-in
villain: calls 130 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [8d 6s 9h]
*** TURN *** [8d 6s 9h] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [8d 6s 9h 4h] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kd Jd] (high card King)
villain: shows [5h 8s] (a straight, Five to Nine)
villain collected 2660 from pot
RyPac13 said, "wanna do another?"
villain said, "lol, im not usually that bad"
villain said, "no ty, i like your blog tho"

Apparently I should post more strat.

Seat 1: razenec (1680 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1320 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
razenec: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh Qc]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
razenec: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [8h 8c 4h]
razenec: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
razenec: calls 90
*** TURN *** [8h 8c 4h] [Jc]
razenec: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [8h 8c 4h Jc] [4c]
razenec: bets 210
RyPac13: calls 210
*** SHOW DOWN ***
razenec: shows [Tc Qd] (two pair, Eights and Fours)
RyPac13: shows [Kh Qc] (two pair, Eights and Fours - King kicker)
RyPac13 collected 750 from pot

Seat 1: razenec (1200 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1800 in chips)
razenec: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Js Td]
razenec: calls 25
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [5c Th 6d]
RyPac13: bets 70
razenec: calls 70
*** TURN *** [5c Th 6d] [Jh]
RyPac13: bets 175
razenec: raises 175 to 350
RyPac13: raises 1330 to 1680 and is all-in
razenec is disconnected
razenec is connected
razenec: calls 730 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [5c Th 6d Jh] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Js Td] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
razenec: shows [Qs Ks] (high card King)

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The first hand made sense at the time. I thought given the flow of the game and his hand ranges that the 3-bet was solid and he was not calling/4-bet shoving small aces or crap. He must have had a feeling I was weak/bluffing because villain is a fairly decent winner. I just love when other winning players sit with me. I played quite a few yesterday. I ran into this bizarre guy that was one of the biggest winners in the 110s I'd seen statistically, but he was flatting my raises OOP with stuff like 85o and 26o. He turned trip 2s with 72s OOP vs my top pair and that finished that game.

I'm working on a "tilt control" article. I'll probably finish it tonight or tomorrow sometime, it's over halfway done. I'll post it on here when I am finished.

My buddy almost has the "basic" site halfway done. We'll be transferring my blog over to husng.com when this happens. Probably will have Hokie and BCM blogging there, and maybe a few others.

I'm going to start to write some more articles, but my main goal right now is to make money and get supernova. The month started out well, I was 2-3 tabling the 100 regular speeds on PS, made 1500+ in a very short amount of time, but had to start playing turbos because of 'nova. I've had a little 5 buyin downswing since doing that, but hopefully I can bounce back. I think supernova will make me at least 3k in extra money next year, so I really think it's worth going for. I need another 16-17k vpps this month to hit it.

Update

2007-12-02T20:21:00.001-08:00

Hokie has started updating his blog again, check it out when you have a chance.

I also traded links with Andrew, who runs PSmoney.com among other websites/business ventures. He just started his blog and is a pretty cool guy, so check out his blog if you get a chance.

I'll update more tomorrow probably.

Also, a friend of mine is going to be putting up the basic parts for the website (husng.com). I'll be transferring my blog there and hopefully he'll also put up some of the cool poker tools that Poker Curious (from 2+2) designed. These are all free, btw.

Probably won't have the video and other loaded content sections up for at least another month. I want to finance this thing 100% on my own, for the most part, and I don't have the money to invest in a fully functional site at the moment. If you know anybody who wants to invest in the site, have them ship me an email (ryan.ryryp13@gmail.com) or post here. But to be clear, I'm looking for a decent investment (not like 500 bucks) rather than a bunch of small investors or small deals. Otherwise, I'll be going ahead with my plan to open the site in stages.

I found some great website guys (finally) that I plan on using down the line when I have some more money to put into the more complicated parts of the site. Their name is ClearlyMosaic (http://www.clearlymosaic.com/) and Collin Moshman (author of the 2+2 SNG/STT book) recommended them to me.

Speaking of Collin, he is working on a husng book. It should be out sometime in the late spring (I think) and I will and you should be looking forward to it.

More on that, the website and some goals/plans in future updates.

Birthday

2007-11-29T13:08:00.000-08:00

Last night was pretty crazy.

We went to this sandwich and craft beer place. It actually turned out to be an upscale little bar/lounge type place.

The beer was insane. They have something like over 200 beers from small microbreweries in the US and Canada. Every type of beer imaginable, they have at least a few choices to choose from.

I started out with a 9% abv breakfast stout. Then a 10% strong ale, then a 15% barleywine, you see where this is going.

We got there around 830pm and left around 12-1 (?). They actually close at 1030, but they were staying to do holiday decorating and we had a party of like 8, so the bartender (my gf hated her) stayed and we kept drinking.

There was an ill-timed whiskey shot somewhere around midnight, I don't really remember the exact time, but I finished my second helping of some other super strong, super tasty beer. That was it for me and a little while later we stumbled into my buddy JJ's Expedition. My girlfriend drove (as she can't drink bc of the kidney transplant) and we headed home.

The next 4-5 hours consisted of me drinking a lot of water and watching Ocean's 13 with JJ. Solid movie, nothing fancy, doesn't try to WOW you, but it's a very well put together movie IMO. Better than 12, at least in the same discussion as 11.

Anyways, going out with the girlfriend tonight to celebrate my birthday. We're probably going to go to this nice Hawaiian place 30ish minutes away when she's out of class tonight.

I'll have a website update tomorrow or Saturday and find a little graph to post as well.

Birthday

2007-11-28T13:02:00.000-08:00

My birthday is tomorrow. Me, my girlfriend and a few of my friends are going downtown to this pretty sweet sandwich place that serves some of the best beer from around the country. Looking forward to a few beers in particular.

I'm super busy so I'll post more soon, including my monthly graph and some news about the site.

Until then, enjoy the games.

Turkey Day

2007-11-22T23:50:00.001-08:00

Had a good meal with my girlfriend, mother and brother today.

Beat brother in Stratego and beat all 3 of them in Monopoly and Scrabble, for the clean 3-0 sweep.

Only got in 13 games tonight but I played extremely well and the results showed. 10-3 at the FTP 55s.

Going to be moving up again soon on FTP to finish off the last stretch of my bonus before I (probably) head back to PS.

I've improved a lot or some of my improvement started to show lately, I've felt a lot better about many spots and I'm finding more/better spots to exploit players.

I think I've ran pretty bad the last month or so, so this "sudden improvement" will probably look a lot bigger than it really is on the stat sheet, but either way I'm happy.

I wanted to play a lot more today but I've been detained with some stuff related to brewing for the last hour or so (my buddy got online).

We're doing a lot of stuff that should bring our beers to the next level. A lot of things are improving at once and we're near a "regular" stout (regular as in something we'd regularly brew without changes).

We also have a keg and wine fridge so we'll be drinking beers on tap now with better heads. The fridge will also allow us to second ferment a wider/better range of beers.

We have a very special beer planned in the next week, it should be ready by new year's and it's going to be insane. I'll talk more about that in the future, but I'm really excited about it.

I bought one of Anthony Bourdain's books from Border's the other day. For those of you who are not familiar with Bourdain, he hosts travel channel's "No Reservations." He's a pretty bad ass chef who travels around the world trying out food and experiencing the culture. I recommend the show to anybody really, and the book is great so far. He has a very Hunter S. Thompson esque writing/narrating style, that's probably the best way to describe him.

Anyways, going to read the book for awhile and get some sleep. I'm way behind on my 600 game goal this month, I'll be lucky if I end up at 500.

Oh, and I posted a hand in the 2+2 HU forum tonight. I don't normally post hands due to like a bunch of factors. Here's the link, I found the hand to be very interesting and it's not more of a question of what I should do, I felt very definitive in my decision in this hand and probably still will tomorrow. http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13080219&an=0&page=0#Post13080219

I'm sick

2007-11-12T18:12:00.000-08:00

Been getting sick since like Friday. Had a few beers last night when my buddy came over to watch Dexter and Always Sunny in Philadelphia (awesome show) and that was probably a mistake.

Had to cancel on going to the brewery tonight to try this new Porter that everybody has been raving about. It's in limited supply and was aged in oak barrels and I can't wait to try it.

Speaking of Friday night, my brother's HS football team had their final 8 state playoff game. It was in the third quarter and they were up by 3, my girlfriend got a phone call and started running from the bleachers. We ran about a mile to the car when I found out her dad had passed out at a restaurant and was being taken to the hospital.

By the time we reached the hospital he had just gotten in and was fine. His heart had stopped for a few minutes they said, but he was his usual stubborn self. Within 45 minutes he was convinced that all the tests they wanted to run were just to "make money" because they "are a business." Needless to say, him and his girlfriend got a ride from us to his hotel after the hospital and my girlfriend was very upset. He wouldn't heed the doctor, my girlfriend or my advice on staying in the hospital, at least to see some test results. He seemed a little out of it since then, but he went back up to the far north suburbs yesterday where he lives with my gf's sister, brother in law and their 2 year old baby. He said he'll go get some tests done this week at a doctor up there, but I wouldn't trust a word he says. Hopefully he's actually ok, but he's very unhealthy.

On the poker front, Collin Moshman may have helped me out a ton with the website. He recommended and introduced me to a web developer and designer with a very good reputation. I'm awaiting a reply back from them about the site. The previous webmaster is MIA and I'm in the process of taking some minor legal steps to get the work he's done for the site. I had a few other options after the previous guy went MIA, but nothing has panned out so far. Hopefully this works out well.

As far as games go, I finally caught a little heater 2 tabling 33s on FTP and moved up to the 55s. Things went well for a day or two, then Saturday night I ended on a horrible downswing. I was only like -100 for the day overall, but I was up a few hundred so it was a drastic swing for the day.

Yesterday was even worse, I went 5-15 and saw some of the sickest beats I can remember.

Today I've moved back to 2 tabling 33s for a few days (hopefully) and I'm 5-5 as of writing this. I'll do another 10 games at least, but probably not much more unless I start feeling a lot better (health wise not mentally).

I plan to print up and review a few HHs tonight, a 2+2er made me a real cool HH reviewer that is printer friendly (think 8-10 hands per page). It's super easy to use and read and I can print it out and review at night in bed or on the road if I wish. This is a tool that will be featured on the website (for free) as soon as I straighten out the webmaster situation. There are also a few other tools in development which will be free.

On the beer brewing front, our coffee stout is bottled and carbonating. We tried one of the 2 test bottles last night but it was still very flat (the beer is at least 4 days away from being ready). Another possible problem was it basically exploded upon opening. I'm not quite sure what that means, but my buddy has had this problem in the past and he said it is severely lessened by cold storage (after it is carbonated) so I'm not too worried. Besides the flatness, the beer has excellent potential and I really think we added the right amount of coffee, not too overpowering but it's there, especially in the aftertaste.

Our other beer, a little lighter, less hoppy stout with different grains is in 2nd ferment. We are going to prime with some molasses Wednesday or Saturday to add some initial flavor/sweetness to the beer. What is probably one of my 2-3 favorite beers, The Pullman Nut Brown Ale, uses a bit of molasses in it and it sure completes the beer. I honestly could drink that beer for the rest of my life and not be upset.

Anyways, I'll end this and hopefully have some more to post soon. Looking to be better by Friday because my brother's team won and is in the final 4 for state.

I also had 2 half cigarettes today, a good thing. I also had about 12 pints of water, another good thing. Here's to better health.

Update

2007-11-07T00:08:00.001-08:00

Not a hell of a lot to say right now. Just grinding away and working on website stuff.

Going to try and do 20-30 a day in November on FTP. So far I have a little over 20 a day. Results have been pretty blah, but I'm adjusting to the faster structure. Players are crazy random, and it's kind of weird playing people with wider ranges. People show up with such random stuff.

I 4-bet shoved a guy like 40bb deep today with JJ, he called with 93s. This was in the middle of a game, not like first hand or anything. I held.

I have platinum on Stars already, thanks to my 6 maxxing buddy. Took a bit of a downswing, but we'll both ride through the variance.

Here's to a good November, lord knows I need it.

Unmotivated

2007-11-02T23:41:00.000-07:00

Really don't have much to say, but haven't posted in awhile.

Comcast stable, our box on the outside of the house looked tampered, but our connection wasn't compromised during inspection. Dude next door being evicted, has 2 weeks or a month or something to move out.

Not winning much at all lately, depressing. Really seem to be running like shit. Just going to keep playing when I feel like playing. Just 2 tabling the FTP 33s still, getting in 20-25 a day on average when I play.

I'll post a happier post soon. Hopefully.

Comcast Sucks

2007-10-26T23:35:00.000-07:00

Called them early afternoon, they said they would be there in 90 min. Call back 2.5 hrs later they say we're rescheduled for Monday. Thank god I don't have a job or anything.

Made 200 bucks 2 tabling 33s on FTP today again. Going to start doing 55s really soon, fun games/times.

Connection stable today, go figure.

FTP BR 980+

PS BR 7k+

Neighbor Story and Other Updates

2007-10-25T13:40:00.000-07:00

My girlfriend and I live in an old business storefront right near the downtown area of the town. There are two other units in the building, one that is the same size as ours right next door, and a very small one room studio above that. The guy that owns the building owns a ton of real estate and a pretty big sports store that supplies a good amount of the Chicagoland area with team shirts.

When we moved in, we met the guy next door, Jack. He worked for the landlord, maintaining a few of his properties. In exchange for this, he lived next door for free and received 400 dollars a week.

We noticed right away that Jack did not seem to do much work. He's a 55 year old former everything, construction/carpenter/pipe/etc. worker. Sometime in August we called the landlord because the screens Jack was supposed to put up in our place were not up. We found out Jack was fired and would be moving out shortly. Then Jack disappeared for a few weeks. Apparently Jack went on a coke binge and sold all of his stuff and was now in rehab.

A few weeks later he was back and has been back since. The landlord won't return calls and Jack keeps saying he's suing him because he did a lot more work for him than he should have. Whatever.

So last week I see Jack outside, by the unfinished basement that is used for storage for the units. It's about4 decently sized rooms filled with this and that. We don't store much down there.

He tells me he's getting DSL and he's fixing his phone line so he doesn't have to pay extra installation charges. He says Wednesday (yesterday) that ATT is coming to set up his DSL.

He also tells me he's cleaned up some of the random junk that was in the basement (appears to be true).

That night (the tilt night) I lost connection during those last 2 games. The connection has randomly come in and out since then, and I cannot play poker. I looked at our connection wires downstairs, there are 4, 3 on one side of a splitter, 1 on another. 2 of the wires go into our place, the other 2 disappear towards his place. One of these goes towards our electrical box (I'm guessing that's the main connection, I couldn't get all the way back there because I couldn't find the light) and the other goes right up to the side of his place and disappears into the wall. This is right where he "cleaned up" the basement the other night.

So I refrained from questioning a drug addict about this, and we called Comcast, our cable service provider. They said our connection was not stable and they would come out Friday, in between 8am-8pm. Nice window.

My girlfriend also called the real estate business owner who helped us find the place (she set us up with this lady that does rentals for her, nice people). She got in touch with the owner of our place and said that he was very surprised that Jack still lived here and he was going to be getting the police to throw him out soon. This remains to be seen, the guy that lives above Jack is a very nice man, owns a sign business, he talked to the owner of our units off and on in the last month and made him aware that Jack still lives here.

The point of all this bs is that none of this had much to do with me until the internet fiasco. Now it affects me. I'm staying away from that side of the property until Comcast comes tomorrow and I hope that it's just some connection trouble that is easily fixed, and not him stealing our internet. If it is, he owes me 69 dollars, as per those two disconnection losses in the 33s the other night. I'll let him off the hook for me not being able to play for 2 days, I'm a nice guy like that.

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The website guy is MIA again. Just when I email him a proposition, how convenient. I really don't want to have to drive an hour each way to find this guy, but I may have to soon. It's pissing me off more and more each day, a total lack of respect/professionalism on his part. I've called, emailed and waited for his AIM sn to be online, but nothing is doing.

I didn't get to do my daily walking yesterday, but the two days before I walked 2-3 miles each day. I'm going to keep doing this and probably increase it to 4-5 miles soon.

Yesterday my buddy and I made another beer. We didn't start until 1030-11 so we were up until around 3am with it. We changed some ingredients and are going to add a little coffee to the beer in 3-4 days when we start our 2nd ferment.

We're also going to brew another beer Saturday or Sunday and probably use some molasses in it. We have to be careful not to use too much, but one of our favorite beers uses a bit of molasses and tastes delicious. Both of our beers are dark beers, the second being a little lighter in all regards, but nonetheless is also a very solid stout. If we improve upon the last beer we will be very happy, as that beer was very good.

I'm going to go for a walk now, hopefully try to play a few games on Pokerstars later (their disconnection policy favors shitty connections) when one of 2 people I trust on my account are on and can take over for me if I disconnect. The last 24 hours it seems I disconnect about once every 2-3 hours, so it should be ok if somebody is on to take over for me (on Pokerstars though, FTP kills you too quickly).

BR Same

Possible Problems

2007-10-24T14:03:00.001-07:00

Neighbor might have split our cable so he could get it for free.

Some interesting "coincidences." More on this later, Comcast coming out Friday because our connection is not consistent. Kind of running out the door, but I'll post tonight/tomorrow.

BRs same

Tilt

2007-10-23T23:59:00.001-07:00

So I'm playing FTP, things are going great, start off like 9-0 2 tabling the 33s.

Run into some variance, no big deal, run AKs into AA and a few other beats.

Then I open up two more, flop top boat and disconnect.

I rarely disconnect, 2 times have I lost a game in like 2k games on PS due to disconnection. Fucking Comcast, I could shoot them.

So now I'm up 2 buyins tonight and I can't risk playing anymore. I'd of been up 4 buyins and been able to keep on rolling.

One good thing, I love this structure. It's super fast, I can't really get angry or upset over bad beats because I'm not attached to these games whatsoever. I made one bad river bet that kind of upset me, but other than that this was all fun and games until those disconnections. Ended up playing 27 games, must've went 15-12. Sigh.

PS BR 7k

FTP BR 729 (From 600 deposited)

Changes

2007-10-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

So my goal has always been to continuously move up in the game as my bankroll grew and my game improved.

Funny thing happened, once I knew I was a winning player in the 11 turbos, I move up to the 22s, I may more money. Then I move up to the 33s and make even more money per game. Then I move up to the 55s/110s and... I haven't made more money per game.

I'm kind of torn as to what I need to do, but I feel I have to make a decision soon. I've played over 700 110 turbos, I feel I've ran below expectation for over half of these and close to 75% of these games.

So on one hand I feel as if I should keep playing these, it's not like I'm losing money at them, just not making very much at all. On the other hand, I don't know if I can continue to play more than 5-10 of these a day without positive results. I've been on a downswing/break even swing for like 200-300 games now, and I feel I've played pretty good poker overall.

A few options for me would be:

Move down to the 55s: Positives. Easier level to beat, less variance. Negatives: I never found the 55s that different from the 110s, potentially less profit/vpps.

Play 100 dollar regular speed games. Positives: Higher ROI than turbos, easier overall. Negatives: Much slower speed, I can't stand regular speed games lately, I won't play one unless it's at the $200 stake.

2 table 33 dollar turbos. Positives: Easy level for me, higher ROI, potentially more profit. Negatives: FPP/VPPs, sense of failure if I don't meet my goals and keep my ROI at 20% or higher (I'm 25% single tabling these). Different and weaker opponents means my game won't improve as quickly without attention to study.

Move to FTP. Positives: Probably fishier players, faster games means 50-75% more games per hour which means potentially more profit. Negatives: Haven't had a ton of experience with the structure, possibly higher variance because of faster speeds.

Combo solution:

Grind FTP games starting with 2 tabling 33s, working up my 600 FTP br from there. Game select PS games, 100-200 regular speeds, possibly 500 regular speeds selling 200 of my action.

Positives: Change, possibly more profit, better ROI on PS, more games on FTP. Negatives: Change, playing on 2 sites, possibly improving less as I'm playing different structures.

So there are the feasible options in my mind. I don't want to play another form of poker, I feel I've learned so much about HUSNG already it would be wasteful to learn a new game at this point. When I'm solidly making 75-100 an hour in HUSNG I plan to learn other forms of poker, probably HU varities. Maybe shorthanded cash, I don't know or really care at this point.

I'd like to make a decision by the end of the week. I would like to take a day and try each of these options, but I know I'll end up leaning towards the day that I run the best, it's too hard to stay objective if I try each of these options out for one day.

Now, moving on. Some things in my life I need to change that will help me play more games and keep an even temper. During this recently stretch I had done very well in playing a lot of games, playing through or getting around anger, but the last week or so I haven't really played much. It feels like I ran out of patience. I'd like to change some things in my life to avoid this in the future, or to reduce it.

Sleep

I haven't been sleeping great, basically in the last 2 years. But I can sleep OK if I'm tired. I feel good when I wake up 6-9am. This should be the ideal time for me to get in 60-75% of my games each day. Lately I've been going to sleep at 3-5am and waking up at 12-3pm. This needs to stop, I feel like shit too much of the day when I do this. More on how to change this in other sections.

Health

I'm fairly unhealthy. I smoke a half pack of cigarettes a day, I eat too many fattening foods and I don't exercise enough. Luckily I have a good metabolism and I'm tall. I'm certain a good amount of other people in this world would be very overweight and even worse out of shape if they had the same habits as I do.

Some ways to change this include walking for at least an hour everyday. I'll try to develop some sort of plan, walk x amount of minutes/hours for every x amount of games, have a smoke after x amount of games, slowly reducing cigarettes and slowly increasing walking/games.

Lifting some weights wouldn't be a bad idea, but it is relatively unimportant at the moment. I'm not weak and I'm not big on "toning." Lifting weight is a good way to reduce stress, but I don't have room in the place to put any equipment and I don't want to join a gym at the moment.

Anyways, doing the above should help keep me "tired" at night and going to bed by midnight most of the time.

Productivity

This kind of ties in with the other stuff, but I've been fairly unproductive lately. I find myself very bored when I'm not playing poker, and when I don't feel like playing (aka last week) it's just a shitty feeling.

I need to start planning and doing things outside of poker. Basically the only thing I do now besides play poker is brew/drink beer and watch movies/shows with my girlfriend. Part of the reason I don't really feel like doing other things is because I hardly ever play the amount of games I feel I should be playing. This all goes back with the "50-65% of games in morning" thing, if I have a daily goal and complete it by the evening, I'll almost certainly be in a much better mood, meaning I'll actually want to do other stuff.

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So that's what's been on my mind the last few days. There's some other random stuff I'm sure I forgot, but when I have figured things out a bit more clearly I'll post about it.

As to the website, husng.com, my old roomate finally got in touch with me. He's how I met the webmaster who may or may not be working on the site still. He gave me some advice as to dealing with the situation and I should have an answer within the next few days.

Some other stuff is developing that may or may not be bad for my site, I'm not quite sure yet. Regardless, the site needs to be mostly functional very soon.

br 7100ish

Etc.

2007-10-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

Obligatory update, nothing specific to report on.

Ended the day on this hand, down like 150 today:

Seat 1: RyPac13 (2415 in chips)
Seat 2: ! LitlGirl (585 in chips)
! LitlGirl: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kc Ah]
! LitlGirl: raises 90 to 120
RyPac13: raises 2295 to 2415 and is all-in
! LitlGirl: calls 465 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kd Ac Ks]
RyPac13 said, "damn"
RyPac13 said, "gg"

I didn't play enough today, nor have I for the last 5 days or so. Got into a big fight with the g/f yesterday so I hardly played at all.

The stout my buddy and I have been brewing will be ready tonight, he's coming over soon and we're going to try it out. If it is as good as we think we're going to be experimenting with adding coffee and molasses to another two batches. We'll also continue to brew this one and probably mess around with another recipe or two (we're shooting for 5, 5-gallon batches this time, instead of 1, 5-gallon batch.)

Our goal is to brew enough beer so we don't have to purchase beer at all. This probably means we need about 30-50 gallons of beer a month (the process is about a month long). A later goal is to make a "beer meal." This would consist of an appetizing beer, something light, then some sort of nut brown ale or other darker but not super dark beer, then a really good stout for the third beer. The last beer would be the "dessert" beer and probably include a lot of chocolate malt, maybe with coffee or molasses, depending on the third beer's ingredients. Let me know if any of you has any ideas.

Back to poker, if anybody reading this blog hasn't heard, a higher up executive or former executive from Absolute Poker was found to be using that "super user" account. If you haven't even heard about that, basically that means he had access to the hole cards of every player at the table. Yikes. Here's a link with a great summary of what has happened so far: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...part=1&vc=1

That's about it for now, will update soon.

BR 6875

Falling Behind

2007-10-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

On VPPs. I'm probably not playing tonight, so I'm back about 700-800 vpps from my 500 a day goal throughout the month. My 6 max buddy was supposed to play this weekend but he's been offline for the last day or two (extremely surprising, our sn's are never offline).

I won a few hundred yesterday, played great and ran good overall, though I got sucked out multiple times in the games I lost. Went like 7-2 in 110s and 0-1 in 200 regulars.

I can't not sit in a 200 regular if I see a fish sitting, it's just too big of an edge to pass up in my opinion, but it does suck to lose those. It should even out and I'm more optimistic about my near future as far as results go. I think I've improved my game and am getting very comfortable with some overall strategy changes I made to my game a week or two ago. I've still ran like shit over the last 7-10 days, but that should change soon. My ROI in 110s and 220s is horrible right now, I'm hardly a winner in the 110s now I think (maybe like 2.5% roi now, so bad) but a little heater should bring that back up to around 5%. My goal for the 220s is going to be higher than my 110s, but I think I'm a much better player than when I started playing 110s. I also only had 250ish 33s and less than 75 55s under my belt when I moved up to 110s, now I have over 600 110s played, so I should be a solid winner in the 220s a lot sooner than when I started playing like a solid winner in the 110s.

Hokie and I might do a little challenge type thing in the 220s soon, more on that if we run decent in the next week.

BR is just above 7k.

Poo Bah

2007-10-07T23:35:00.000-07:00

Finally posted: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=12406612&an=0&page=0#Post12406612

Enjoy.

Kind of a day off, 3-4 in 110s, 2 games I got pretty horrible string of beats in. 1-1 in 200 regular speeds vs a semi-fish.

Gonna get up early and grind w Hokie.

Br $7291

Tired, Agitated

2007-10-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

I slept like shit last night, could've seen that coming. I don't think I'd been as upset about poker as I was last night. I read for about an hour and then went to bed at like 4-5am, woke up around noon, did a bunch of errand stuff I had to do. I ended up splitting 4 games against a fish I 2 tabled in 220s late last night, he sucked out a nice 85s he minraised-call shove to my QT or I'd of had him real good, oh well.

Started out today 2-0, won a 100 and 200 regular against two extremely weak, minbet-type opponents. I was super card dead like all game, then sucked out in the 25-50 with a few shoves over raises. Also stacked one on KQ vs Q3o (yea, that's how bad people are, they call PF raises 20bb deep w Q3o).

GF's dad is in town, came in town earlier today. I can't stand the bastard. His girlfriend's birthday is today, she's some drunk bar fly he met down here, lives a few blocks away or something. We're going to a real nice restaurant, yippie. I'd rather eat at a diner in the ghetto with friends, honestly.

Anyways, more games tonight and hopefully a big upswing.

BR 7420

HokieGreg is a bastard (or bill chen)

2007-10-05T00:54:00.000-07:00

Blah, keep losing. Started out 5-0 today, then lost 7 in a row. I've never lost 7 in a row, or if I did it was at the 5s or 11s. Pretty shitty. Overall went like 6-7 110s today and 0-2 200s. Pretty crappy day, pretty crappy week/month so far. Hopefully I can rebound soon. Also lost another 115 from a Hokie 220. I seem cursed lately.

BR 7160

Downswing

2007-10-03T23:28:00.000-07:00

First of all... my Poo Bah post. I've gone through like over a half a dozen edits. I think it's finally done, but now I'm not happy with the video. I've been altering my 25-50 play a little bit, mainly keeping pots smaller and more manageable, but I haven't gotten a full handle on it.

I made a 25-50 only video tonight. I recorded one match, so that's 5 minutes, then I 2 tabled a guy in the 110s and recorded 2 25-50s at once with comments. Camtasia froze when I stopped the recording and I probably lost the video. I'll try to do a few more tomorrow to try to go along with my article.

As far as the post title goes, been experiencing some bad variance lately. Today I kind of got out of it on my own, went 4-0 in 200s and 0-1 in 220s with like 75% of my action, but I lost like 200 bucks taking Hokie's action on 2 200s. He's been doing bad when I buy action off of him, that bastard.

I played 28 games yesterday and like 18-20 today, something seems up with Sharkscope, it's only recording like 75% max of my games and sometimes won't even record them unless I filter specifically for turbos, who knows.

I have 2 jobs or more to do tomorrow for my business, might be the last day of the season, I'm not really pushing any last minute flyers or leads, I'd rather play 20-30 games a day and try to hit a little heater.

Bankroll 7750ish

My first 500

2007-09-29T23:03:00.000-07:00

PokerStars Game #12350014370: Tournament #62673275, $500+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/09/30 - 00:46:56 (ET)
Table '62673275 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1330 in chips)
Seat 2: brodys1 (1670 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
brodys1: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [4s 2s]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
brodys1: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Tc 4h Js]
brodys1: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Tc 4h Js] [2c]
brodys1: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
brodys1: raises 220 to 300
RyPac13: raises 970 to 1270 and is all-in
brodys1: calls 970
*** RIVER *** [Tc 4h Js 2c] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
brodys1: shows [Jh Qs] (a pair of Jacks)
RyPac13: shows [4s 2s] (two pair, Fours and Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2660 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2660 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 4h Js 2c 5s]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [4s 2s] and won (2660) with two pair, Fours and Deuces
Seat 2: brodys1 (big blind) showed [Jh Qs] and lost with a pair of Jacks

PokerStars Game #12350154801: Tournament #62673275, $500+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/09/30 - 00:57:55 (ET)
Table '62673275 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2450 in chips)
Seat 2: brodys1 (550 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
brodys1: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Tc Qc]
RyPac13: raises 2400 to 2450 and is all-in
brodys1: calls 500 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Qd Jh 9d]
*** TURN *** [Qd Jh 9d] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Jh 9d Ks] [4d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
brodys1: shows [Kc Td] (a straight, Nine to King)
RyPac13: shows [Tc Qc] (a straight, Nine to King)
brodys1 collected 550 from pot
RyPac13 collected 550 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1100 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Jh 9d Ks 4d]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Tc Qc] and won (550) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 2: brodys1 (big blind) showed [Kc Td] and won (550) with a straight, Nine to King

PokerStars Game #12350185347: Tournament #62673275, $500+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/09/30 - 01:00:21 (ET)
Table '62673275 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2400 in chips)
Seat 2: brodys1 (600 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
brodys1: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac 9c]
RyPac13: raises 2350 to 2400 and is all-in
brodys1: calls 550 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ad 3s Jh]
*** TURN *** [Ad 3s Jh] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Ad 3s Jh 8d] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
brodys1: shows [3h 3c] (three of a kind, Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Ac 9c] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
brodys1 collected 1200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1200 | Rake 0
Board [Ad 3s Jh 8d 9d]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac 9c] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: brodys1 (big blind) showed [3h 3c] and won (1200) with three of a kind, Threes

PokerStars Game #12350256201: Tournament #62673275, $500+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/09/30 - 01:06:00 (ET)
Table '62673275 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1725 in chips)
Seat 2: brodys1 (1275 in chips)
brodys1: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd Ah]
brodys1: raises 50 to 100
RyPac13: raises 400 to 500
brodys1: raises 775 to 1275 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 775
*** FLOP *** [4c Th 6d]
*** TURN *** [4c Th 6d] [Tc]
*** RIVER *** [4c Th 6d Tc] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kd Ah] (two pair, Tens and Sixes)
brodys1: shows [Ac Qd] (two pair, Tens and Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 1275 from pot
brodys1 collected 1275 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2550 | Rake 0
Board [4c Th 6d Tc 6c]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Kd Ah] and won (1275) with two pair, Tens and Sixes
Seat 2: brodys1 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac Qd] and won (1275) with two pair, Tens and Sixes

PokerStars Game #12350296049: Tournament #62673275, $500+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/09/30 - 01:09:12 (ET)
Table '62673275 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1300 in chips)
Seat 2: brodys1 (1700 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 50
brodys1: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Td Ts]
RyPac13: raises 100 to 200
brodys1: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [8h Kc Kh]
brodys1: checks
RyPac13: bets 225
brodys1: raises 1275 to 1500 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 875 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [8h Kc Kh] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [8h Kc Kh Jd] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
brodys1: shows [4c 8c] (a full house, Eights full of Kings)
RyPac13: shows [Td Ts] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
brodys1 collected 2600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2600 | Rake 0
Board [8h Kc Kh Jd 8s]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Td Ts] and lost with two pair, Kings and Tens
Seat 2: brodys1 (big blind) showed [4c 8c] and won (2600) with a full house, Eights full of Kings

Fun :)

BR 8350

Poo Bah

2007-09-29T15:56:00.001-07:00

So my original article I wrote last week wasn't up to par. I think I tried to explain too much stuff in one article and my hand examples were way too read dependent. I've been working on a new article and am waiting a few players reviews of it before I post it. The article subject is an introduction to 25-50 blind play.

Thanks to Kalledrengen for his suggestions as well as a few other players. I will also be posting a 15 minute video I made a few weeks or a month ago.

Been playing well overall, working on improving some stuff with my game. I've been game selecting 200s and 220s and selling bits of action in some of them, mainly to Hokiegreg. The fish Bcm, Hokie and myself took for like 4k has been doing fpp satellites into the 10 dollar Sunday MTT, so it looks like he's busto for now.

Other than that, not too much to say as of now.

Bankroll $8800ish

Getting platinum tonight.

Dub Coop

2007-09-18T14:36:00.000-07:00

The WCOOP Event 10: Heads Up is coming up Friday at 3ET. I'm going to try to satellite into this today (I'm 0-2 so far) once or twice and if I don't make it I'm going to buy into it directly. I'll be selling some action of myself and buying a little bit of other players. Overall I plan on spending in between 400-500 on the event.

Last night was a pretty good night. If you read BCM's blog you can hear about it all in detail, but a martingale fish I've been tracking extensively was on again. I previously made something like 300 dollars from my own games against him and action of BCM's in higher games.

I found this player sometime last week when taking shots at the 200/220s. Hokie was buying 33% of my action and I saw a fish sit in a 200 regular. I sharkscoped him, sat and then looked at his SS more extensively. It said Tilt or Super Tilt. When looking at it closely it appeared this was a 5 dollar player that when losing a game he played a 10, 30, 100, etc. until he finally won a game. It seems the first time I played him that he had done this a few times and the highest he ever got until winning was a 1k. He played all regular speeds.

The first night of this I beat him in the 200, missed registering in the 500, then BCM beat him in the 1k. He then beat a fish in the 2k and said "THANK YOU" and left. A few days later he was back and I had him down to 100-200 chips in the 200 regular and he came back. I made a fairly sick call IMO on a river in which he shoved. I had 333 for a set but it was definitely a spot where I have no problem laying it down given certain reads. I won the hand and he was down and we were planning the 500 for BCM. Then I ran QT into AA in SAGE area. Then I ran A6 into AA. Then he beat my K8 with Q6. Then he won a flip and then he finished me off shoving QTs and I called with AKs and did not hold. It was rough but I think Hokie and BCM took it harder than I did, lol. I knew he would be back and we would bust him.

Last night I saw him in a 10, he got to a 30 where Hokie was going to play him but Hokie was 2 tabling some 50s and missed him. He won that and went back to 5s. Then he lost, moved to a 10 where Joe (TheOpenDoor) took him out in one hand. He played a 50 and Hokie sat. Hokie won fairly easily, then I was waiting to get him in a 100 but another fish registered literally 2 secs before our fish sat and we were forced to watch what was probably a 50-50 match.

Our fish lost. I sat in the 200 and won. BCM sat in the 500 and won, I took 75 dollars of that action. Then BCM sat in a 1k, I took 200 of that. He won. Towards the middle of the game BCM said he might be interested in doing a 2k, to see how much action I could sell for him. I sold 700 (including 200 of mine) and he sat with the fish. BCM won and the fish was gone for the night. Good games to all for this, BCM, myself, Hokie, Joe, Dboy and OMG all made money from this guy (in order of how much we made). We'll see if he ever shows up again.

Moving on, I've had a few coaching requests lately. To anybody that reads this and might be interested, I'm charging 50/hour for now for coaching, at least until the site is up, maybe for longer. I'll also make custom videos for the same rate or review HHs (rates vary). That is all.

There's a few things holding up the site, but the forums are up, www.husng.com/forums . Feel free to sign up and post in the general discussion forum if you'd like. I don't plan on it becoming a huge forum, but if it does I would be happy, just not a necessity to making this site a success for everybody involved (including customers).

That's about it for now, I've done a little bit of work with my business, the season is almost over and I have a few more busy days on the horizon. I'm golfing with my grandpa tomorrow, last time I golfed I broke 100 and beat my goal for this season (my first season in 6 years golfing). I was very happy with the 97 I shot, but the course was a Par 68. I could've shaved a few strokes off but the greens were incredibly fast, my grandpa was even having trouble sticking chips and putting with precise speed. He shot a "forgiving" 84 (he shaves strokes once in awhile, free drops, hasn't hit out of a sand trap since the 80s I'm guessing), not too bad for a man with two artificial knees pushing 300 lbs at 6 foot.

One last thing... I have to make a Poo-Bah post on the 2+2 HU forum soon. I don't actually "have to" but at 1600 posts players kind of give back to the community by making a post that should help others learn what they know. I haven't decided totally what I want to do for this post, but I figure an article and a video or 3 should be good, it'll all be available for free and I'll post a link on my blog when I post. I have like 1580 posts so this might happen within the next 3-4 days. If anybody has any suggestions for the post please don't hesitate to leave a comment on this post. I notice nobody seems to comment on this blog anymore, I didn't install a ticker like Hokie did so I'm not sure how many, if any, read my blog these days. I know he doesn't get too many comments but has around two dozen unique readers a day (I think). Hopefully at least a handful read this blog.

Bankroll $7500

Had a good week overall

2007-09-17T01:57:00.001-07:00

I'll post more, tired for now.

br 6750

Back in action

2007-09-08T00:43:00.000-07:00

I think my PC is safe now. Played 16 games tonight, went 10-6. BR finally about up to the point it was when me and my buddy dropped 2500ish in 2 nights. Hopefully I keep playing well and not running bad and take some 220 shots very very soon.

Bankroll 5650

Out of Comission

2007-09-04T17:28:00.001-07:00

Been hit with some viruses on my computer the last few days, making sure everything is taken care of before I play at all or upload videos to the website (which I might just throw up tonight without videos or anything just so I can show everybody the site).

This weekend my sportsbetting buddy came out from California and took me to the Notre Dame game. I'd never been, it ended badly but I was impressed with the stadium. If you don't know, ND got crushed.

We headed to the new Four Winds Casino right over the border in Michigan afterwards and met up with my g/f and buddy (the one that plays on my account sometimes). They have all electronic tables at Four Winds, rake is 3 dollars max (10% I believe). They also have HUSNG and HU cash tables. I sat for about 2 hours waiting for somebody to play a 50 + 5 or 100 + 10 HUSNG or maybe 1-2 HU cash, but nobody wanted to play those games. Eventually I joined a 1-2 table and played for a few hours. I got stacked getting like 80% of my stack in on the turn as a 75-80% favorite and he hit the river. Oh well. My two buddies did not fare well, -200 and -300 I believe each. I'm not a huge fan of live play but the electronic tables are better than the even slower and more expensive dealer tables. I basically treat live play as entertainment as I could be much more efficient online. Plus I don't play FR or have the bankroll to play at stakes that could give me the same hourly as I have online.

I also am fighting some sort of real life virus, I've been taking a bunch of cold medicine and trying to clear up my chest, so it's been a good start to September.

Bankroll 4500ish

I apologize

2007-08-26T23:15:00.000-07:00

For the lack of posting. Last week was miserable, after I completed half of that job it rained like all week. A few tornadoes in the area, tons of rain, big storms, etc. Not a ton of poker, but some.

Website is still not up (obviously if you know what I'm talking about you probably know this). The webmaster is finalizing the logo(s) I paid 20 bucks for (ty somethingawful), other than that the complicated stuff on the site seems done. There's a lot of little things that require stuff you wouldn't normally need with, say a website like my sealcoating website (preciseseal.com fyi).

As far as videos for the site go, things are looking pretty good. I have 3 top husng players with videos done in some form, at least two have one solid video for the site already.

The free videos from the coaches and myself are coming along slowly but surely. The first 6 dollar video I made my power went out like 30 seconds into the match. I came back and recorded a 4 hand victory. I did another 6 dollar video the other day in which I won on the first hand (I seem to run a ton better in these 6s, but it helps that people get it in oh so light) and opened another game during the video. The goal is to try to get 20 minutes out of the free videos, 30 for most of the "sale" videos.

I also made a few 110 videos the other night when I came home, pretty trashed. I played the same guy 3x. The second match I really felt I played so great, but somehow Camtasia froze during the "saving" process and everytime I open it asks me if I want to recover the file, but stays at 0% recovered forever when I click "yes." Frustrating. I'll have to watch the first match and see if it's up to par, I'll either post it on 2+2 or here for free if it's good, as I'm not planning on making drunks videos of my play (no matter how well I seem to play drunk) for profit.

I finally finished that big job for my business today. Yesterday we did like 75% of the second half and a small part to finish the first half, today was 3 hours to finish it. Got a nice big check for the job and it is easily my most profitable job of the season, almost 30 buyins in my normal game.

Other than that not a whole hell of a lot has been going on. Two of my buddies came over for dinner tonight, my girlfriend cooked her favorite meal, chicken rice.

One of the buddies that came over is in a training program for a monestary in Hawaii. He should be leaving for the island in 2 months, having previously been there for 6-8 months. If he continues with this program he'll be a monk in like a year and a half. He's been working for me the last month and was the original person that got me into sealcoating (I invested 500 bucks in his original business and worked with him like 5 months after, started my business the next year after seeing how much money there was to be made/witnessing terrible management by many business owners in this line of work).

My other friend just split with his girlfriend of 2.5 years. I've been friends with her since before they dated, but I've been friends with him for much longer. He's been kind of down, but I saw his band play a show the other night (they play like every weekend all over the city and suburbs) and we decided to get together before he starts school Thursday. We haven't hung out a ton this summer, he was busy working 40 hr weeks 9-5 at a printing shop, I've been running my business and messing with poker. He also lives bout 45 minutes away, so it's not like he's a hop and a skip down the road.

Back to the poker side of things, Hokiegreg just sent me his free video for the website. He showed me some hands in it and my hopes are fairly high that this will be up to the quality he is capable of delivering. There was one hand he may have not played perfectly, but it turned out ok and his reasoning was not bad for why he played it his way.

That's all for now, I'll be watching the video when I receive it in 45 min or maybe tomorrow if I fall asleep.

br 3800ish

I blame Jman

2007-08-19T15:45:00.000-07:00

Been raining all day, ugly. Looks like a good chance it will rain all week, I finished about 90% of the big job yesterday (1/2 of complex yesterday, 1/2 was supposed to be today) and have no clue when I can finish the next half. The next nice day. Everything went perfect with it, it held under the showers that fell 4 hours earlier than the weather channel predicted.

I'm 2-2 today and don't really feel like playing more. I haven't felt like playing much lately, probably because I'm not making any money. I don't know how to get myself out of the never ending streak of breakeven. I swear I've ran bad, but the longer it lasts the more unlikely it is.

Anyways, website supposed to be at least functional tomorrow, so hopefully that is one piece of good news that happens. I need to make a video for the site (the 3 other coaches are each making one) but I haven't felt up to it lately. We're going to each have a free video available to anybody that registers for the site with buyins from 6-33. I know at least 2 other coaches have worked on their videos so far.

I really feel like golfing, went to the range after the job yesterday and started hitting the driver well after I worked up from the short irons. I hit the last two dozen balls in the pouring rain, but it felt good to actually hit the driver well.

I need to figure out how to get out of the funk that is HUSNG and make some money, I've been toying around with playing on FTP, supposedly players are a hell of a lot fishier and crazier, but the variance is also going to be higher. If I'm truly just running bad right now I can only imagine how I'm going to handle it if I got off to a bad streak on FTP. We'll see.

More to come soon.

Bankroll same as last post minus 10 bucks.

Cool

2007-08-17T21:42:00.001-07:00

Went 1-2 today, all against the same player. Here's the main hands from each of the games.

Game 1

PokerStars Game #11547201458: Tournament #58590327, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/17 - 23:51:41 (ET)
Table '58590327 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (1935 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1065 in chips)
MIKE D 2U: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [8c 8s]
MIKE D 2U: calls 10
RyPac13: raises 70 to 90
MIKE D 2U: calls 70
*** FLOP *** [7d 2h 6c]
RyPac13: bets 130
MIKE D 2U: calls 130
*** TURN *** [7d 2h 6c] [Th]
RyPac13: checks
MIKE D 2U: checks
*** RIVER *** [7d 2h 6c Th] [4h]
RyPac13: bets 300
MIKE D 2U: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [8c 8s] (a pair of Eights)
MIKE D 2U: shows [5c 3h] (a straight, Three to Seven)
MIKE D 2U collected 1040 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1040 | Rake 0
Board [7d 2h 6c Th 4h]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (button) (small blind) showed [5c 3h] and won (1040) with a straight, Three to Seven
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [8c 8s] and lost with a pair of Eights

PokerStars Game #11547257285: Tournament #58590327, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/17 - 23:55:27 (ET)
Table '58590327 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (2495 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (505 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7s 7d]
RyPac13: raises 30 to 60
MIKE D 2U: raises 90 to 150
RyPac13: calls 90
*** FLOP *** [5c 3s 2d]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: bets 250
MIKE D 2U: raises 250 to 500
RyPac13: calls 105 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5c 3s 2d] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [5c 3s 2d 9c] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MIKE D 2U: shows [9d Ad] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
RyPac13: shows [7s 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
MIKE D 2U collected 1010 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1010 | Rake 0
Board [5c 3s 2d 9c As]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) showed [9d Ad] and won (1010) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [7s 7d] and lost with a pair of Sevens

Game 2

PokerStars Game #11547431393: Tournament #58591047, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/18 - 00:07:32 (ET)
Table '58591047 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (1000 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2000 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Th 6c]
RyPac13: calls 15
MIKE D 2U: checks
*** FLOP *** [2s 2c 6h]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: bets 45
MIKE D 2U: raises 45 to 90
RyPac13: calls 45
*** TURN *** [2s 2c 6h] [Td]
MIKE D 2U: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [2s 2c 6h Td] [Js]
MIKE D 2U: bets 150
RyPac13: calls 150
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MIKE D 2U: shows [Qs Kd] (a pair of Deuces)
RyPac13: shows [Th 6c] (two pair, Tens and Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 780 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 780 | Rake 0
Board [2s 2c 6h Td Js]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) showed [Qs Kd] and lost with a pair of Deuces
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Th 6c] and won (780) with two pair, Tens and Sixes

PokerStars Game #11547438876: Tournament #58591047, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/08/18 - 00:08:04 (ET)
Table '58591047 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (610 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2390 in chips)
MIKE D 2U: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5d 5c]
MIKE D 2U: raises 100 to 150
RyPac13: raises 2240 to 2390 and is all-in
MIKE D 2U: calls 460 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ad 3d Ks]
*** TURN *** [Ad 3d Ks] [9d]
*** RIVER *** [Ad 3d Ks 9d] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [5d 5c] (a pair of Fives)
MIKE D 2U: shows [Jc As] (a pair of Aces)
MIKE D 2U collected 1220 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1220 | Rake 0
Board [Ad 3d Ks 9d 7c]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (button) (small blind) showed [Jc As] and won (1220) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [5d 5c] and lost with a pair of Fives

PokerStars Game #11547447554: Tournament #58591047, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/08/18 - 00:08:40 (ET)
Table '58591047 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1680 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jh As]
RyPac13: raises 75 to 125
MIKE D 2U: raises 325 to 450
RyPac13: raises 1230 to 1680 and is all-in
MIKE D 2U: calls 870 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [6s 9d 4s]
*** TURN *** [6s 9d 4s] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [6s 9d 4s 7d] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MIKE D 2U: shows [Ac Td] (high card Ace)
RyPac13: shows [Jh As] (high card Ace - Queen+Jack kicker)
RyPac13 collected 2640 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2640 | Rake 0
Board [6s 9d 4s 7d Qs]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) showed [Ac Td] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Jh As] and won (2640) with high card Ace

Game 3

PokerStars Game #11547679630: Tournament #58592696, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/18 - 00:25:32 (ET)
Table '58592696 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (1435 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1565 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6c Ah]
RyPac13: raises 60 to 90
MIKE D 2U: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [3d 5h 7c]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [3d 5h 7c] [8h]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: bets 120
MIKE D 2U: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [3d 5h 7c 8h] [9s]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: bets 300
MIKE D 2U: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [6c Ah] (a straight, Five to Nine)
MIKE D 2U: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 1020 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1020 | Rake 0
Board [3d 5h 7c 8h 9s]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) mucked [3c As]
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [6c Ah] and won (1020) with a straight, Five to Nine

PokerStars Game #11547696487: Tournament #58592696, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/08/18 - 00:26:48 (ET)
Table '58592696 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (970 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2030 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jc 5c]
RyPac13: calls 15
MIKE D 2U: checks
*** FLOP *** [5s 7h 7s]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: bets 45
MIKE D 2U: raises 45 to 90
RyPac13: calls 45
*** TURN *** [5s 7h 7s] [Ks]
MIKE D 2U: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [5s 7h 7s Ks] [5d]
MIKE D 2U: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MIKE D 2U: shows [7c 5h] (a full house, Sevens full of Fives)
RyPac13: mucks hand
MIKE D 2U collected 480 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 480 | Rake 0
Board [5s 7h 7s Ks 5d]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) showed [7c 5h] and won (480) with a full house, Sevens full of Fives
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) mucked [Jc 5c]

PokerStars Game #11547745768: Tournament #58592696, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/08/18 - 00:30:30 (ET)
Table '58592696 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (790 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2210 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
MIKE D 2U: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As Js]
RyPac13: raises 75 to 125
MIKE D 2U: raises 665 to 790 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 665
*** FLOP *** [7d Qh Tc]
RyPac13 said, "nh"
*** TURN *** [7d Qh Tc] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [7d Qh Tc Qs] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
MIKE D 2U: shows [Th Qc] (a full house, Queens full of Tens)
RyPac13: shows [As Js] (two pair, Queens and Jacks)
MIKE D 2U collected 1580 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1580 | Rake 0
Board [7d Qh Tc Qs Jc]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (big blind) showed [Th Qc] and won (1580) with a full house, Queens full of Tens
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [As Js] and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks

He started minraising almost every hand in the 50-100. I lost a few pots early on in the level and we went back and forth, he'd fold to pretty much every shove. He'd also raise to 300 and folded to 2 of my shoves there. Then came this beauty.

PokerStars Game #11547863428: Tournament #58592696, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/08/18 - 00:39:03 (ET)
Table '58592696 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (2010 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (990 in chips)
MIKE D 2U: posts small blind 50
RyPac13: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ad Qd]
MIKE D 2U: raises 100 to 200
RyPac13: raises 790 to 990 and is all-in
MIKE D 2U: calls 790
*** FLOP *** [Qh 5h 3s]
*** TURN *** [Qh 5h 3s] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 5h 3s 2d] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ad Qd] (two pair, Queens and Deuces)
MIKE D 2U: shows [2s Ah] (three of a kind, Deuces)
MIKE D 2U collected 1980 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1980 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 5h 3s 2d 2c]
Seat 1: MIKE D 2U (button) (small blind) showed [2s Ah] and won (1980) with three of a kind, Deuces
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Ad Qd] and lost with two pair, Queens and Deuces

He didn't sit again after the third match. He would call super light all the way, he'd raise random hands it appeared and he'd shove nut type hands on the river (or so I read, never called one of the few). He also 3-bet almost any ace. All in all he was a pretty terrible player. Not a word during any of the 3 matches, must've had chat off or something.

Anyways, I've got a big job to do tomorrow and Sunday, so not much play probably. If I manage to bring in it ahead of schedule and I'm not beat I'll probably play a ton (or if it rains I'll have to reschedule).

Bankroll $3490.72

Short Update

2007-08-15T17:04:00.000-07:00

Went on vacation for 1.5 days or so, haven't played much lately, been getting business in order for my two biggest days of the year (Saturday and Sunday). I have a 4k+ job to do on those days and they're forecasting rain, ugh.

Site is slowly but surely making progress, I'm trying to get a good collection of videos ready for the opening of the site. Again, slowly but surely.

More updates soon.

Bankroll $3,550

Setback

2007-08-10T23:34:00.000-07:00

Played about as good as I may have ever played today, overall. Went 7-12 though.

This has had to be the worst day of variance I have ever encountered, but I'm more or less feeling fine after it. I also do not know if I have been floated this much ever before with junk hands. KT on A85 flop with no FD (raised pot he was OOP) 55 on a T87 flop. Turn 9 river 6. There were loads of hands like this, it was ugly. I also won some very fast games. Plowking sat with me again, I won that one very fast. I don't think I mind him sitting at all anymore, I generally prefer the bigger winners do not sit with me but I really have no idea how he has a 12% ROI in the 110s.

I'm not going to bore you with the all in preflop beats, but those were definitely there tonight. What really tore me apart though was losing a bunch of flips. That really seemed to do me in tonight, even with all the beats I think I'd of ended up down 100-200 max if I had won half my flips.

Another thing I did tonight is 2 tabled once. I really felt in the zone and got a guy to do 2 at once (which I try with about 95% of people that sit). He was a loser on Sharkscope but played pretty solid, I lost the first when he floated AT on a KJ6 flop to my 66 in a 3-bet pot. Hit his Q on the river. Second one I won though. So I opened up two the next round and split vs two different people. I may try more of this soon, but it's such a tough thing to do when I'm down 600 dollars. I'm not a big fan of every playing higher or playing more tables when down, but I wasn't tilting and felt I was at the very top of my game.

Going to try to get back near 4k again tomorrow, my goal is going to be tough.

Bankroll $3,138.57

Goal by the 19th, $6100.

Update

2007-08-09T23:38:00.001-07:00

Played really bad the last few days, but ended up ok. Started playing badly today but I really got back in the zone in the last 110 against RiceStud. He won 2 virtual flips to end up winning the game, but I feel I dominated the match in every way and was playing my A game.

I played a 4 man 3300 FPP sat to the Sunday Mil. Wow is that a value, I ended up losing the second match but the competition was ridiculously bad. Here are the two major hands from my experience in this.

PokerStars Game #11406670827: Tournament #57867313, 3375FPP Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/10 - 02:19:13 (ET)
Table '57867313 2' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Floofy (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
Floofy: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As 2c]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
Floofy: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [8h Ad Ac]
Floofy: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
Floofy: raises 120 to 200
RyPac13: calls 120
*** TURN *** [8h Ad Ac] [Ks]
Floofy: checks
RyPac13: bets 300
Floofy: calls 300
*** RIVER *** [8h Ad Ac Ks] [Jh]
Floofy: checks
RyPac13: bets 920 and is all-in
Floofy: calls 920
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [As 2c] (three of a kind, Aces)
Floofy: shows [4d Kd] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
Floofy is sitting out
RyPac13 collected 2960 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2960 | Rake 0
Board [8h Ad Ac Ks Jh]
Seat 1: Floofy (big blind) showed [4d Kd] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [As 2c] and won (2960) with three of a kind, Aces

After this the guy let me blind him out for 2 hands or whatever, and the two games ended up going 11 hands total (including the 2 "sitting out" hands). Not bad timewise, just horrible players that love to gamble in these. If you decide to play these after reading my blog, please do not sit with me in them, I would prefer to keep playing these kind of guys.

Here's the hand I lost on, this guy was pretty horrible and was donk-overbetting flops often from what I saw (I caught the 20ish hand match he played against the player before) with weak hands. Definitely think I'm ahead of his range as it is mostly made up of 2-3rd pairs and overcards.

PokerStars Game #11406728152: Tournament #57867313, 3375FPP Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/10 - 02:25:45 (ET)
Table '57867313 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: txcatch (1760 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1240 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
txcatch: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qd 6d]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
txcatch: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [2d 6s 7d]
txcatch: bets 200
RyPac13: raises 600 to 800
txcatch: calls 600
*** TURN *** [2d 6s 7d] [3s]
txcatch: checks
RyPac13: bets 380 and is all-in
txcatch: calls 380
*** RIVER *** [2d 6s 7d 3s] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
txcatch: shows [6c Ad] (two pair, Sixes and Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Qd 6d] (two pair, Sixes and Threes - lower kicker)
txcatch collected 2480 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2480 | Rake 0
Board [2d 6s 7d 3s 3c]
Seat 1: txcatch (big blind) showed [6c Ad] and won (2480) with two pair, Sixes and Threes
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Qd 6d] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Threes

So I will continue to play these to help boost my bankroll and my "rakeback" from these vpps. Definitely happy they are here.

Gf's dad is back in town, so playing will be rough the next few days. Usually it takes a few days for him to really annoy me (us), but he's only staying until Sunday morning so I should be fine.

Saw the new Showtime show Californiacation the other day. Great potential, David Ducheveny or whatever from X-Files is the main actor and I really enjoyed the premiere. Some other shows I've been watching lately are Flight of the Concords and a staple since season 1, Entourage. A lot of people seem to think Entourage has gone downhill, but I disagree for the most part. I really love season 1 of Entourage, and I disliked the whole Mandy Moore thing in season 2. Season 3 was average, but so far I think Season 4 has been better than 3. I could probably summarize those last 4 sentences in like 5 words, but basically I do not think it is any worse than it was the last two seasons, it might even be better.

Last but certainly not least, the husng.com coaching site is nearing completion and almost ready to open. Lots of good stuff to go along with that, I'm currently messing around with the test server that the site is on and organizing video creators so that we have a good collection of videos for the opening. Registration is free for the site and we're going to kick it off with a few free videos for players that register with the site. Also going to do a freeroll for a free month membership. More on that later.

Bankroll $3,783.57
Goal by the 19th = $6100

Goal

2007-08-05T16:06:00.000-07:00

Ok, the Goal is to make 3k in 2 weeks. That'd be a high for me. I'm currently at 3100 thanks to a few more losses and those stakes.

PokerStars Game #11329215516: Tournament #57485667, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/05 - 19:03:47 (ET)
Table '57485667 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1225 in chips)
Seat 2: Casinoshawn (1775 in chips)
Casinoshawn: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Ad]
Casinoshawn: calls 10
RyPac13: raises 80 to 100
Casinoshawn: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [Ts 3h Ac]
RyPac13: bets 150
Casinoshawn: calls 150
*** TURN *** [Ts 3h Ac] [9c]
RyPac13: bets 300
Casinoshawn: calls 300
*** RIVER *** [Ts 3h Ac 9c] [Kc]
RyPac13: bets 675 and is all-in
Casinoshawn: calls 675
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jd Ad] (a pair of Aces)
Casinoshawn: shows [3c 7c] (a flush, Ace high)
Casinoshawn collected 2450 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2450 | Rake 0
Board [Ts 3h Ac 9c Kc]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Jd Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: Casinoshawn (button) (small blind) showed [3c 7c] and won (2450) with a flush, Ace high

This guy was a very bad station who would call down with a naked 3 here a lot. The river was close and I should've bet a bit more on the turn. Obviously QJ and a flush both hit the river. I can't check call profitably because he will check behind a lot of misses (I assume because he checked behind third pair and a missed flush in 3-bet pots previously). 375 on the turn is my mistake in this hand, in my opinion. I'm shoving every river profitably against his range (I think).

Here's another pretty hand from earlier today...

PokerStars Game #11328812875: Tournament #57483793, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/05 - 18:40:31 (ET)
Table '57483793 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: indio1 (700 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2300 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
indio1: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7d 7h]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
indio1: raises 640 to 700 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 640
*** FLOP *** [Qs Ah Kc]
*** TURN *** [Qs Ah Kc] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs Ah Kc 5h] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
indio1: shows [5d 6h] (three of a kind, Fives)
RyPac13: shows [7d 7h] (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
indio1 collected 1400 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1400 | Rake 0
Board [Qs Ah Kc 5h 5s]
Seat 1: indio1 (big blind) showed [5d 6h] and won (1400) with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [7d 7h] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Fives

I ended up losing that game, he flat called a 3x raise when I had 12bb left with QTo. Beat my KTo, on a Q high flop. GG me.

Going to eat dinner w my gf at my mom's house. Might hit the driving range tonight, but unlikely. Have to watch entourage at some point and I'm going to just keep playing tonight. Might be a long one. We'll see.

Bankroll $3,278

Out

2007-08-05T15:34:00.000-07:00

PokerStars Game #11328595446: Tournament #56614756, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level III (25/50) - 2007/08/05 - 18:28:07 (ET)
Table '56614756 54' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BCM11 (1765 in chips)
Seat 2: roo_400 (1235 in chips)
roo_400: posts small blind 25
BCM11: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
roo_400: calls 25
BCM11: raises 150 to 200
roo_400: raises 1035 to 1235 and is all-in
BCM11: calls 1035
*** FLOP *** [6h Js 3d]
*** TURN *** [6h Js 3d] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [6h Js 3d Jc] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BCM11: shows [Ac Kh] (a pair of Jacks)
roo_400: shows [Jd As] (three of a kind, Jacks)
roo_400 collected 2470 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2470 | Rake 0
Board [6h Js 3d Jc 7c]
Seat 1: BCM11 (big blind) showed [Ac Kh] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 2: roo_400 (button) (small blind) showed [Jd As] and won (2470) with three of a kind, Jacks

PokerStars Game #11328669300: Tournament #56614756, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/08/05 - 18:32:14 (ET)
Table '56614756 54' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: BCM11 (810 in chips)
Seat 2: roo_400 (2190 in chips)
roo_400: posts small blind 50
BCM11: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
roo_400: raises 2090 to 2190 and is all-in
BCM11: calls 710 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [2s 4d 5c]
*** TURN *** [2s 4d 5c] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [2s 4d 5c Jh] [2h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BCM11: shows [6c 6h] (two pair, Sixes and Deuces)
roo_400: shows [Qs Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Deuces)
BCM11 said, " its about right"
roo_400 collected 1620 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1620 | Rake 0
Board [2s 4d 5c Jh 2h]
Seat 1: BCM11 (big blind) showed [6c 6h] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Deuces
Seat 2: roo_400 (button) (small blind) showed [Qs Jc] and won (1620) with two pair, Jacks and Deuces

Out in 2nd round. I tried to buy action from Yellowsub and Camel but was too late. They exited in round 1 and 2. Even the people I try to buy action from are running bad :(

Great

2007-08-05T14:22:00.001-07:00

PokerStars Game #11327346385: Tournament #56614756, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/08/05 - 17:18:25 (ET)
Table '56614756 59' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: raconteur (1609 in chips)
Seat 2: cROUNDER33 (1391 in chips)
cROUNDER33: posts small blind 10
raconteur: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
cROUNDER33: raises 40 to 60
raconteur: raises 83 to 143
cROUNDER33: calls 83
*** FLOP *** [3c Ac 8s]
raconteur: checks
cROUNDER33: bets 180
raconteur: raises 180 to 360
cROUNDER33: raises 888 to 1248 and is all-in
raconteur: calls 888
*** TURN *** [3c Ac 8s] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [3c Ac 8s 6d] [Td]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
raconteur: shows [Js Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
cROUNDER33: shows [9c 8c] (a pair of Eights)
raconteur collected 2782 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2782 | Rake 0
Board [3c Ac 8s 6d Td]
Seat 1: raconteur (big blind) showed [Js Jd] and won (2782) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 2: cROUNDER33 (button) (small blind) showed [9c 8c] and lost with a pair of Eights

One out first round, One advances.

Busto! Goals...

2007-08-05T14:17:00.000-07:00

Buddy lost 1200 on my name last night HU cash, I'm down about 900 the last few days in 110s.

I bought 25% of 2 player's action in the 200 + 15 dollar HU MTT on stars, it just started.

Goal of 3k in 2 weeks, more on that later.

Bankroll 3500-3600

Rough Day

2007-08-03T21:37:00.000-07:00

Started out 0-5. Won one then lost one. I don't know what it was today but it seemed like I was out thinking myself at times and just getting myself into terrible spots I think. I can usually be objective and know what I am doing wrong or if I'm just running bad or some combination, but today I have no idea. Going to have to review the hand histories, but I'm not really feeling like it now.

The meeting with the website guy went very well. The site should be up within 2 weeks. I did a rough draft of the text for the website today and a site map for him. Looking forward to this as it progresses. I hope all the players that expressed interest in making videos are actually going to come through. That is my biggest concern about this site, I have confidence that there will be plenty of customers for it and the coaches that are working with the members will do very well.

Bankroll at 5300-5400

Some Stuff

2007-08-02T14:58:00.000-07:00

PokerStars added 50NL - 1k NL HU cash tables. I played a bit of 200NL HU cash today, ended up down 18 over like 10 minutes. Just wanted to try it out a bit. I might play some 100NL full stack or a shorter stack of 200NL HU soon. But I want to mainly keep playing 110s HUSNG.

Meeting with the website guy for the HUSNG coaching site tonight. Gotta drive downtown for it, going to talk over a few drinks and finalize pricing and what he has to do as well as timeframe. I'll post about that tonight or tomorrow.

Played a French player today for 5 games. He won the first 2 in the 110s, then I won 3 straight. He was a pretty big fish and sucked out on me a few times. It was fun. I tried to get him to play 2 tables or to play a 220 with me, but he didn't understand English very well and he had to go after game 5. It was a success just to get him to keep playing.

Just noticed I did not post this. Going to meet website guy.

Bankroll $5800-5900

August Goals and Stuff

2007-07-31T21:30:00.000-07:00

Tonight Hokie needed to make Platinum. He needed to do about 475 VPPs in like 3 hours so I took half his action on the 110s and railed his games. We also discussed hands and reads over mics. He ended up making 505 bucks going 7-2 and another 52.50 in a 55. He was still about 150 short with 5 minutes to go (he ran into a ton of passive fish) so we did a 500 + 20 and a 200 + 10 and he paid my rake. I lost the flip on the 500 so now my sharkscope took a dive, but I got the 200.

All in all I made over 275 on Hokie's run, and another buyin or so from my games earlier.

Now to August goals:

Make platinum in 3 weeks.

Satellite into a seat for the WCOOP HU event (I'm 0-2 so far).

Play the 220 HU MTT on Sunday at least once (I'll probably sell some action on it and buy some up from another HUer).

Get my bankroll to 10k.

Get the HU Coaching site up and running by third week of August. Have at least 10 subscribers in the first month, 15-20 by month 2.

Take shots at higher games.

As for the last one, I feel I'm playing really well as of late and that I can take some shots at the 220s. I've been challenging almost every single player that sits with me to play 2 tables with me. One player has accepted out of like 30-40 so far. I don't mean to say this as a brag, I think this just highlights the kind of people that play outside of their bankroll in the 110s. I routinely play nutty players that have an average stake of 10 dollars and have played only a few 110s.

So I will be taking some shots soon (almost certainly) and I will blog about these and probably end up writing a little article on taking shots, a guide perhaps? I have some strong opinions about shot taking and efficiency with bankroll and the mental condition(s) in relation to shot taking.

I have some jobs to do with my business tomorrow so I'm going to cut this short. I had some other stuff I wanted to talk about that I can't seem to remember now.

Entries to come more frequently.

Bankroll 5600+

Goal Review

2007-07-28T23:13:00.000-07:00

About 400 vpps away from Platinum Star.

About 6-10 buyins away from doubling bankroll from end of June/early July when I made my goals.

I haven't learned HU cash yet, mainly because I haven't had the time to get my feet wet with it.

All in all I've done ok with my goals.

And a golf update, I forgot to update how I did at the best ball memorial outing. I did pretty well, the course we played was pretty damn good and I hit the pin about 60 yards out on the 2nd hole for my first ball used. I then sunk the 6 foot putt for #2 ball used. I also had a ball used on a 160 yard par 3 and some other chips and short irons used.

I played 27 holes today, did ok, started kinda crappy but ended well. I'm probably averaging about a 105 now on a par 72 6300 length course. Maybe a 110 average. Considering I haven't played in like 6 years this is pretty good. My goal is to break 100 consistently and shoot a low 90s score by the end of this year. I'm still taking a 3 iron off the tee, as I can't hit the woods worth a shit consistently.

I'm gonna try to play at least 16 games tomorrow and another 20 or so Monday. I also want to satellite into the WCOOP $320 HU event. So far late at night when I want to enter the sats nobody is registered.

Coaching site is moving along, more info as soon as I get the basics setup.

Bankroll 55-5600

Grinding Away

2007-07-26T19:16:00.000-07:00

I keep having these boring days in the 110s. I'll play 10-15 games, sometimes a little more and I'm either down 200 or up 200, nothing more and nothing less. Kind of ugly variance it seems lately, my ROI at the 110s is 6.5% right now I believe (over 250ish games). I'm at least 10 buyins away from my goal for the month but I am on pace for platinum star.

Hopefully things can heat up soon, I'm really comfortable playing these and feel I'm playing pretty well overall. I've made some mistakes but I'm playing extremely solid overall and feel I should be enjoying a little bit more of an edge in these compared to what I am seeing in the competition.

A few "regular" players are still sitting with me once in awhile, namely plowking22 and scottybcash. This is annoying because these guys seem to just want to stick it in preflop throughout the whole match, especially scottybcash. I'm 2-1 vs plowking and 1-1 vs scottybcash, but it is so boring and dumb to play them when they sit 2nd with me. I tell them both each time, sit first or sharkscope who you're sitting with. Plowking seems to honestly forget or at least humors me, Scottybcash seems like an idiot.

In other news, Hokiegreg mentioned on his blog about a HU coaching site. I had an idea for a type of site that will cater mainly to lower level players, but will also offer some stuff for higher level players. I'm still in the organizing stage and will update when I've moved along a little further on this project. Dboy and Hokie are going to be helping me out with this. Omgwtfnoway will probably be helping as well and I have interest from several higher stakes HUSNG players. That's about all I will say for now, look for updates in the near future.

Bankroll still within 50 either way of 5k, not sure exactly right now.

:(

2007-07-20T00:21:00.001-07:00

I just got done reading Jman's blog. It's depressing because his blog is so good.

That's all.

Playing well (I think) running pretty bad (I think).

Bankroll $5k+ (also about 350ish in stakes/transfers, so I guess I'm up like 7 buyins since last post, eh).

On track for Platinum Star after a lot of games the last two days.

Doing better

2007-07-11T00:31:00.000-07:00

Had a good last two days, as did my buddy who plays 6 max on my account.

Made some good money today from my business, about 50 an hour if not a little more for 4 hours.

I got pulled over on the way home in between a semi shitty town and a ghetto by a white cop. He freaked out on me, but in the end just said to get the fuck out of town. Not sure why he pulled me over but he made up all this bullshit about my truck and trailer not being safe, I think a tall, young white guy really threw him off as most people in my business are generally kind of redneck, old or both if they are white. The rest are generally mexicans that do sealcoating. Either way, good not to get some bullshit ticket or get my trailer impounded (which he said he should do).

If anybody is interested in doing a group stake type deal thing, email or leave a message here.

Hokiegreg and I were talking about doing something with 3 other players, so 5 in total, where we each ante up 110 and somebody plays a 550. Equal action obviously on this. We could do it where we play this a few times a week, once a week, or a lot more often, I don't care. I'm definitely fine playing some fish or breakeven in a 550 as I'm sure a few others are. I think it'd be a fun +EV thing to do with semi-low variance (I mean what doesn't involve variance at 110s+?).

That's about all, more updates and pictures (finally I have a digital camera, the old one got lost in the move) soon. And I'm just behind the pace for Platinum through 10 days so far.

Bankroll $4,634.32

Question of the Day

2007-07-08T21:53:00.001-07:00

A person with deep pockets says he will stake you a % of a buyin for a 5500 + 100 HUSNG. You have to shove every hand though. You will keep all profits if you win. What is the highest % of the 5600 buyin that you would be willing to put up for this offer?

Without thinking too deep, I would probably put up 1700 max. That would leave me with 2k if I lost. I haven't thought that hard about it though.

Been running fairly bad and playing not so great. Moved down to 55s for a little bit to work on some stuff and have played much better in the last 20 games or so. Going to be at 110s really soon provided I don't run into trouble the next day or two. A little behind but still close to being on track for Platinum Star. It will happen. Updates soon.

Bankroll $3708.12

The "Meh" Side of Variance

2007-06-28T21:56:00.000-07:00

Feeling really good today, been kind of in a rut lately and feeling a little down on my game. I fixed a few things I felt were bothering my overall play (outside of stress) and I think I played great tonight.

Unfortunately I hit some variance and ended up down about 170ish for the night.

I also played a guy yesterday 4x in a row. I went 3-1 and felt like I was really tuning into his game and habits even though he went in and out of tilting and playing really weak-tight to really aggro.

Today I went 1-2 against him and ran like shit in those games. Lost AA to TT preflop all in, and hit a few of his stronger cards in bigger blind-fold equity situations. Oh well.

Anyways, I should send this guy some money or something because I've felt a lot better since playing him, something just clicked and I've been playing a lot better ever since. Just need to avoid losing 200 bucks a night.

I have a few things having to do with HUSNG on the horizon. I'll elaborate on those in the future as they do or don't happen.

I lost to Aaron Been 2-1 in our HUL a few nights ago too. I played so bad in my first game, I really was just not focusing or thinking correctly. The second game I played a lot better and in the third one I just really ran bad. So I'm 1-3 in HUL and out of the playoffs already. Next season I'll do a lot better, I'm positive. Hopefully I can crush my last opponent and have a bit of redemption.

I'll probably host a HU MTT on stars early next week, if anybody is interested just comment here or go on 2+2 HU forum.

Bankroll $3,742.72

And I got GoldStar again, hopefully Platinum next month.

Frustration

2007-06-23T22:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry, been awhile since I've updated.

Yesterday I had my biggest loss as of yet. -675 or so. Considering I went 2-4 at 100/110s and 0-2 in 200s, it's not really a huge variance loss, and I'll certainly hit a lot worse than that as time goes on. I didn't tilt at all though either, so that's a good thing. A couple of beats here and there, but mostly just ugly situations brought on by opponent's ranges versus my hands and a bunch of ugly turns and rivers. This stuff happens though.

Today I felt I was experiencing the same variance, though I went 5-1 in 100s and 110s. When I hit a heater I should really be doing good. I'm about 66% in the 110s so far, but have only played a little more than 50. Obviously not a big enough sample size.

The main thing that is frustrating me, at least tonight, is Heads Up League. I lost 2-0 again to another player I should have beaten. Don't get me wrong, these guys aren't like horrible or anything, they are other 2+2ers, but they play a lower buyin than me and I should be more advanced and enjoy some sort of an edge over them. I've made some bad plays, been put in some tough spots and hit a bad part of variance in these. That's what I attribute it to. I can tell when I am outplayed. I am rarely wrong in judging that part. I can tell when variance is bad, I am rarely wrong in that as well mostly because statistically I have built up confidence in knowing what is variance and what is tilt. That and game experience.

So anyways, I am 0-2 in the HUL, 0-4 in the individual games, meaning I have to win my next 3 best of 3 matches, one of which will be played against Aaron Been who is in my bracket. If I manage to do that it will be on the good side of variance, as I am nowhere near a favorite to win 3 best of 3s in a row vs 2 players I might have a little edge over and Aaron Been who has an edge over me.

I'll post some hands over the next few days, regardless of how I run.

I can feel myself nearing a breaking out point where I'm making a lot of money. My goal for the last few months has been to reach 10k by the time I'm done working with my business this year, end of September basically. I plan to reach that goal still, but I feel I can surpass it, almost that I should.

The main things that are holding me back as of now, not that I'm struggling or anything, I've done very well in all sets of 100 for the last 500 or so games (basically since I moved out of the lower games) is playing too few games per day. In order to achieve a higher rate of games I will have to organize the things that keep me away from playing as well as increase my efficiency online. I also have another thing that will be helping me play more games in the upcoming week (hopefully), more on that another day.

That's all for now, I'll be trying to play a lot more in the next week (though it's gonna be a busy week) and post a lot more too.

** My buddy took like 400th out of 4k+ people in that 20k FR for me today while I was out, for a whopping 12 bucks. I didn't realize how bad this thing paid out, so from now on we only are going to do the sats for the Supernova 50k FR, and play in that. 800 people and top 130 or so pay out, so that's a FR worth playing.

Bankroll $3,875.33

Good Night

2007-06-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

Felt really focused and played really well today.

Here's some hands:

PokerStars Game #10520837143: Tournament #53295178, $100+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/19 - 20:51:57 (ET)
Table '53295178 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: JSeltz29 (1080 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1920 in chips)
JSeltz29: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [3h Qh]
JSeltz29: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [7d 3c Ks]
RyPac13: checks
JSeltz29: bets 90
RyPac13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [7d 3c Ks] [8h]
RyPac13: checks
JSeltz29: bets 120
RyPac13: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [7d 3c Ks 8h] [Jc]
RyPac13: checks
JSeltz29: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [3h Qh] (a pair of Threes)
JSeltz29: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 600 | Rake 0
Board [7d 3c Ks 8h Jc]
Seat 1: JSeltz29 (button) (small blind) mucked [Tc 6h]
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [3h Qh] and won (600) with a pair of Threes

PokerStars Game #10520843407: Tournament #53295178, $100+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/19 - 20:52:21 (ET)
Table '53295178 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: JSeltz29 (780 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2220 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
JSeltz29: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [9c Jd]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
JSeltz29: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [7d 6h Js]
JSeltz29: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
JSeltz29: raises 615 to 705 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 615
*** TURN *** [7d 6h Js] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [7d 6h Js 5h] [7s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
JSeltz29: shows [Kc Qh] (a pair of Sevens)
RyPac13: shows [9c Jd] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
RyPac13 collected 1560 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1560 | Rake 0
Board [7d 6h Js 5h 7s]
Seat 1: JSeltz29 (big blind) showed [Kc Qh] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [9c Jd] and won (1560) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens

Those two were back to back.

PokerStars Game #10522118297: Tournament #53303533, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/19 - 22:12:37 (ET)
Table '53303533 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: DSWANNYD (1560 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1440 in chips)
DSWANNYD: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh Qd]
DSWANNYD: calls 10
RyPac13: raises 51 to 71
DSWANNYD: calls 51
*** FLOP *** [Jc Td 9d]
RyPac13: bets 80
DSWANNYD: raises 80 to 160
RyPac13: raises 240 to 400
DSWANNYD: raises 320 to 720
RyPac13: raises 649 to 1369 and is all-in
DSWANNYD: calls 649
*** TURN *** [Jc Td 9d] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Jc Td 9d Qs] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kh Qd] (a straight, Nine to King)
DSWANNYD: shows [4c Ah] (a pair of Fours)
RyPac13 collected 2880 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2880 | Rake 0
Board [Jc Td 9d Qs 4h]
Seat 1: DSWANNYD (button) (small blind) showed [4c Ah] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Kh Qd] and won (2880) with a straight, Nine to King

PokerStars Game #10522556712: Tournament #53304089, $100+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/19 - 22:39:32 (ET)
Table '53304089 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2707 in chips)
Seat 2: TonyTwoTouch (293 in chips)
TonyTwoTouch: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h Ac]
TonyTwoTouch: calls 15
RyPac13: raises 2677 to 2707 and is all-in
TonyTwoTouch: calls 263 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [6s 2h Qd]
*** TURN *** [6s 2h Qd] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [6s 2h Qd 5h] [6d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [6h Ac] (three of a kind, Sixes)
TonyTwoTouch: shows [4c 3h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
TonyTwoTouch collected 586 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 586 | Rake 0
Board [6s 2h Qd 5h 6d]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [6h Ac] and lost with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 2: TonyTwoTouch (button) (small blind) showed [4c 3h] and won (586) with a straight, Deuce to Six

PokerStars Game #10522627613: Tournament #53304089, $100+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/19 - 22:43:44 (ET)
Table '53304089 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1873 in chips)
Seat 2: TonyTwoTouch (1127 in chips)
TonyTwoTouch: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jd Jc]
TonyTwoTouch: raises 120 to 150
RyPac13: raises 1723 to 1873 and is all-in
TonyTwoTouch: calls 977 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7h 6s 9d]
*** TURN *** [7h 6s 9d] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [7h 6s 9d 6h] [Td]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
TonyTwoTouch: shows [5s Ah] (a pair of Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 2254 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2254 | Rake 0
Board [7h 6s 9d 6h Td]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Jd Jc] and won (2254) with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 2: TonyTwoTouch (button) (small blind) showed [5s Ah] and lost with a pair of Sixes

Went 3-1 in 110/100s and 1-0 in a 200. Tough to play a lot, g/f has been sleeping the whole night about fifteen feet from me.

Also played a 180 man with Hokiegreg, OMG and Dboy, blogger's bash??? I lost in 5 hands to two suckouts, well 1.5 suckouts.

In other news, here's a little story last night to kind of show how insecure my girlfriend's dad is and so you guys kind of get a picture as to what I'm dealing with.

About 3 months ago he had started coughing in her old apartment. She owns two rabbits and had just gotten a second one about a week prior. One night we could tell he wanted to go out with some woman, as he always gets extra antsy. Well I went home, and my girlfriend didn't feel too well, so he started coughing uncontrollably. He said he had allergies and made her drive him to a hotel late at night. From then on he stayed in a hotel.

Recently my friend took that rabbit that he claimed he was allergic to over to his mom's house. She's going to watch the rabbit for an indefinite amount of time due to my girlfriend's kidney recovery. Her dad had told her prior to this that he really wasn't allergic to the rabbit, that he just hated it. He kept the lie going for weeks for no reason.

So last night he starts coughing uncontrollably, I had seen him on the phone, trashed as hell (he drinks 11am-bed) outside. He came in and was ridiculous, saying that the original rabbit is now causing him to cough and such. He said he'd call a cab for a hotel. I ended up taking him at about 930pm to a hotel. Usually when he stays at a hotel he'll stay at a budget one, not like motel-budget, but a normal hotel. He needed to go to the nice Holiday Inn last night for some odd reason. This was the case the other time as well, he needed a nice hotel.

The extra odd thing, at least to an outsider, is that he will say if he is going out with a woman or whatever usually. He has no reason to lie about shit. But that's just the way he is, he gets into a weird mood and starts lying for no reason and just keeps going.

Anyways, hopefully I hit up some more games tomorrow.

Bankroll $4,108.48

Stressing Lately

2007-06-18T22:05:00.000-07:00

I think everything has been taking a toll on me. I've felt tilt come on after 3 games yesterday, so I quit. Then today after two of my HUL matches, which I lost, I was fairly upset again.

Nothing major, but this is the complete opposite of what I am in these matches.

I tried to attribute it to running bad (I've ran into quads in a stretch of 2 out of 3 games), but I've ran plenty worse (I'm actually even over the last two days I believe) in the last two months and actually been in a good mood after longer sessions.

I don't know what I need to do, I think my gf's father is a big part of this, he is staying with us for an undetermined amount of time. He's one of the most outrageous people I've ever met, and it's like babysitting two people (one is my girlfriend, but she's recovering so it's not a bad thing when i say babysit). I'm also trying to run my business and play some games, but the shit isn't working too well right now.

I don't really have a solution for this that is sane, ignoring him only goes so far, telling him off just builds tension and forces him to make decisions (which he is terrible at) plus my girlfriend doesn't need any of this stress right now.

Anyways, I forgot to make a post on here about it, but I started a NL Heads Up League (SNG) on the 2+2 forums. We have 24 players in it and tonight was the first night of matches. I broke people down into brackets of 6, and everyone has a little over a month to play their 5 other people in a best of 3 match. The buyin is 5 dollars as a default, but if two players agree they can raise it. I played mine for 30 tonight, at the request of a 20-30 dollar player (I believe). The first match I think he ran ridiculously good, the second match was pretty damn long (50-100 level in a regular speed game) and the swings of the match were pretty crazy. I dominated the first 10-15 minutes, but then I raised a draw on the turn with a card that he likely hit for top pair was there, so the fold equity against his range was a lot smaller than it should've been. Plus he didn't seem to want to fold in most spots, which turned out to be good with the kind of stuff I was getting tonight.

I stacked him on a hand after this, it went something like this:

I limped 99, ready to reraise him, he checked. Flop was Q92, no suits. He lead out, I called. Turn was another queen, making two diamonds on the board. He half potted, I raised 3x, he called. River is a non diamond 7. He checks and I shove for about 1.5x the pot. He takes a little time and calls with 8d7d.

I was pretty happy with that hand, but that's about the only good situation I caught him in correctly for a lot of chips. My bluffing % was a lot higher than normal because he is fairly spewy and I was not hitting much at all, so I tried to catch him in bad spots with weaker cards than usual, and I just kept hitting the top part of his range.

My buddy Automatic/TheOpenDoor lost his HU match to a guy I beat once in a 33 from the forum. I didn't really see the match but I remember a fairly rough hand for my buddy.

Back to the league, after the 4-5 weeks of the "regular season," anybody with a winning record will participate in the playoffs. These will be best of 3 for the first round, and best of 5 every round thereafter. I will also be hosting private HU tourneys during this whole thing, so if there is any interest in these post on 2+2 or here, anybody is welcome to play as these are just for the fun of playing (and the little bit of money these buyins will be for).

Anyways, enough ranting, hopefully I'm in a much better mood tomorrow and can grind out some games.

Also, I'm done with the degen challenge, at least for now. I was at like 900 and just decided I would rather grind 110s vs fish and play a worse range of fish in the 220s for now. This may be coinciding with my stress lately, as I would've thought the idea of stopping this challenge was crazy last week. I guess that's the difference on my mental state/happiness.

Bankroll $3,742.88

Playing.. a little

2007-06-17T20:07:00.000-07:00

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I kind of just want to play fish in the 110s and 220s. Maybe I'll take a shot at the 550s but I'd rather not do it along the lines of the challenge and wait until I have 10k to play any 550s. I could probably start mixing them in sooner versus big fish when I am playing very well. We shall see.

Here's a pretty hand, second match I've played in the last like 6 days (not including 6s when I was trashed).

PokerStars Game #10488865786: Tournament #53137271, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level V (75/150) - 2007/06/17 - 22:01:42 (ET)
Table '53137271 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: SlimsChicken (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1500 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 75
SlimsChicken: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ks Kd]
RyPac13: calls 75
SlimsChicken: raises 294 to 444
RyPac13: raises 1056 to 1500 and is all-in
SlimsChicken: calls 1056 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Th 9h Ah]
*** TURN *** [Th 9h Ah] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [Th 9h Ah 9s] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
SlimsChicken: shows [Qh 8h] (a flush, Ace high)
RyPac13: shows [Ks Kd] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
SlimsChicken collected 3000 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3000 | Rake 0
Board [Th 9h Ah 9s 3d]
Seat 1: SlimsChicken (big blind) showed [Qh 8h] and won (3000) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Ks Kd] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines

2007-06-15T19:34:00.000-07:00

Couple of things:

Apparently I went 5-10 last night at those 6s, not that it matters at all.

I read over the hands again, I'm going to leave them up because I think some of them are funny.

And another thing about playing while drunk, normally I can play perfectly fine when drunk and I have actually made a lot of money playing drunk (in relation to winrate, not actual "OMG I made 200 bucks drunk over 25 days"). Last night I understood I was trashed beyond my normal level of trashed, so I was smart and fucked around at the 6s. I think I actually ran pretty bad as well, but I was definitely messing around and having a good time.

Back to real poker, I'm going to try to get back in the swing of things today by playing a 2+2er. After a game or two I'm going to probably try to get up a buyin in the 110s before playing more 220s, only because I haven't played much in the last 3-4 days.

I'll update after some games.

Bankroll $3,753.88

Degen $800ish (I keep losing count on what to add and subtract out of total br to determine degen br b/c I keep giving out and receiving money, or playing 6s drunk as hell. This should be +/- ten bucks now tho).

fuck

2007-06-14T20:22:00.000-07:00

drunk as hell, p;laying 6 dollar games... for your tentertainment her's some hands....btw gf doing very well....

PokerStars Game #10440767163: Tournament #52894212, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/14 - 23:19:54 (ET)
Table '52894212 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: PFLion (1590 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1410 in chips)
PFLion: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qc As]
PFLion: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13: raises 140 to 200
PFLion: calls 140
*** FLOP *** [4h 3s 7h]
RyPac13: checks
PFLion: bets 200
RyPac13: calls 200
*** TURN *** [4h 3s 7h] [4c]
RyPac13: checks
PFLion: bets 375
RyPac13: raises 635 to 1010 and is all-in
PFLion: calls 635
*** RIVER *** [4h 3s 7h 4c] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qc As] (two pair, Fours and Threes)
PFLion: shows [7d Kh] (two pair, Sevens and Fours)
PFLion collected 2820 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2820 | Rake 0
Board [4h 3s 7h 4c 3c]
Seat 1: PFLion (button) (small blind) showed [7d Kh] and won (2820) with two pair, Sevens and Fours
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Qc As] and lost with two pair, Fours and Threes

Wow, and actualy beat...

PokerStars Game #10440838151: Tournament #52894556, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/14 - 23:24:52 (ET)
Table '52894556 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: oneciphe (1550 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1450 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
oneciphe: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qd Qs]
RyPac13: calls 10
oneciphe is disconnected
oneciphe is connected
oneciphe: checks
*** FLOP *** [Kh 9d Qc]
oneciphe: bets 20
RyPac13: calls 20
*** TURN *** [Kh 9d Qc] [2c]
oneciphe: bets 100
RyPac13: raises 220 to 320
oneciphe: calls 220
*** RIVER *** [Kh 9d Qc 2c] [5h]
oneciphe: bets 520
RyPac13: raises 570 to 1090 and is all-in
oneciphe: calls 570
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Qd Qs] (three of a kind, Queens)
oneciphe: shows [Th Jd] (a straight, Nine to King)
oneciphe collected 2900 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2900 | Rake 0
Board [Kh 9d Qc 2c 5h]
Seat 1: oneciphe (big blind) showed [Th Jd] and won (2900) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Qd Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Queens

good to see i can't beat the 6s...

PokerStars Game #10440896710: Tournament #52894898, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/14 - 23:29:02 (ET)
Table '52894898 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: speedtracers (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
speedtracers: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ac 6s]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
speedtracers: raises 40 to 100
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [4c Qc 9d]
speedtracers: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [4c Qc 9d] [4s]
speedtracers: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [4c Qc 9d 4s] [9c]
speedtracers: checks
RyPac13: bets 340
speedtracers: calls 340
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ac 6s] (two pair, Nines and Fours)
speedtracers: shows [Ah Qh] (two pair, Queens and Nines)
speedtracers collected 1080 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1080 | Rake 0
Board [4c Qc 9d 4s 9c]
Seat 1: speedtracers (big blind) showed [Ah Qh] and won (1080) with two pair, Queens and Nines
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Ac 6s] and lost with two pair, Nines and Fours

I ob v los that one too

PokerStars Game #10441109547: Tournament #52895518, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/14 - 23:44:45 (ET)
Table '52895518 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: manosolo (1400 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1600 in chips)
manosolo: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2c 4h]
manosolo: calls 15
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [5c 6s 9h]
RyPac13: checks
manosolo: checks
*** TURN *** [5c 6s 9h] [3h]
RyPac13: checks
manosolo: bets 60
RyPac13: raises 120 to 180
manosolo: raises 1190 to 1370 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 1190
*** RIVER *** [5c 6s 9h 3h] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [2c 4h] (a straight, Deuce to Six)
manosolo: shows [8d 7s] (a straight, Five to Nine)
manosolo collected 2800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2800 | Rake 0
Board [5c 6s 9h 3h 6h]
Seat 1: manosolo (button) (small blind) showed [8d 7s] and won (2800) with a straight, Five to Nine
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [2c 4h] and lost with a straight, Deuce to Six

This one I may have p;layed the sme way if sober.. not sure... this is fun, 0-3 or 4 not sure..

And the next few,,,, obv i'm a fucking idiot.. lol, luckily these are 6s, i don'tthink i can lose enough to equal one buyin..

PokerStars Game #10441311675: Tournament #52896376, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:00:10 (ET)
Table '52896376 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1385 in chips)
Seat 2: KCSmoker (1615 in chips)
KCSmoker: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5c 5s]
KCSmoker: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [4s 2h Ac]
RyPac13: checks
KCSmoker: bets 90
RyPac13: raises 180 to 270
KCSmoker: calls 180
*** TURN *** [4s 2h Ac] [7s]
RyPac13: checks
KCSmoker: bets 300
RyPac13: calls 300
*** RIVER *** [4s 2h Ac 7s] [Kc]
RyPac13: checks
KCSmoker: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [5c 5s] (a pair of Fives)
KCSmoker: shows [Ad Tc] (a pair of Aces)
KCSmoker collected 1320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1320 | Rake 0
Board [4s 2h Ac 7s Kc]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [5c 5s] and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 2: KCSmoker (button) (small blind) showed [Ad Tc] and won (1320) with a pair of Aces

PokerStars Game #10441376498: Tournament #52896376, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/06/15 - 00:05:15 (ET)
Table '52896376 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1115 in chips)
Seat 2: KCSmoker (1885 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 25
KCSmoker: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [3d 8c]
RyPac13: calls 25
KCSmoker: checks
*** FLOP *** [Tc 7c Ac]
KCSmoker: checks
RyPac13: bets 50
KCSmoker: calls 50
*** TURN *** [Tc 7c Ac] [8d]
KCSmoker: checks
RyPac13: bets 100
KCSmoker: raises 200 to 300
RyPac13: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [Tc 7c Ac 8d] [2d]
KCSmoker: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
KCSmoker: shows [Kh 6d] (high card Ace)
RyPac13: shows [3d 8c] (a pair of Eights)
RyPac13 collected 800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***

guess the last one was good but i have no clu to what i am doing... the reads ar very fucking fuzzy and i keep calling and shit way too mcuh..

PokerStars Game #10441492942: Tournament #52897789, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 00:14:36 (ET)
Table '52897789 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Rodrigobessa (1460 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1540 in chips)
Rodrigobessa: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kc Th]
Rodrigobessa: calls 10
RyPac13: raises 60 to 80
Rodrigobessa: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Qd Qc 7c]
RyPac13: bets 100
Rodrigobessa: calls 100
*** TURN *** [Qd Qc 7c] [Ah]
RyPac13: checks
Rodrigobessa: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [Qd Qc 7c Ah] [Js]
RyPac13: checks
Rodrigobessa: bets 100
RyPac13: raises 1160 to 1260 and is all-in
Rodrigobessa: calls 1080 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Kc Th] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Rodrigobessa: shows [9c Qs] (three of a kind, Queens)
RyPac13 collected 2920 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2920 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Qc 7c Ah Js]
Seat 1: Rodrigobessa (button) (small blind) showed [9c Qs] and lost with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Kc Th] and won (2920) with a straight, Ten to Ace

that last hand is why nobody is 0% winners in HUSNG.. tho i have been very profitable drfunk in 22s-55s, tonight has been real drunk and obviuslyu i can't beat 6s... more to come

PokerStars Game #10441603431: Tournament #52898037, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:23:39 (ET)
Table '52898037 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1540 in chips)
Seat 2: WSULeifJ (1460 in chips)
WSULeifJ: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Ah 7h]
WSULeifJ: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Qs 9s As]
RyPac13: checks
WSULeifJ: bets 1370 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 1370
*** TURN *** [Qs 9s As] [3c]
RyPac13 said, "nh, gg"
*** RIVER *** [Qs 9s As 3c] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Ah 7h] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
WSULeifJ: shows [Qc Ad] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
WSULeifJ collected 2920 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2920 | Rake 0
Board [Qs 9s As 3c 3h]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Ah 7h] and lost with two pair, Aces and Threes
Seat 2: WSULeifJ (button) (small blind) showed [Qc Ad] and won (2920) with two pair, Aces and Queens

luckily i'm playing 6s, or this would be bad, horrid play by me obv, not that i'm running well but still... ughhh lol i promise on good game before i crash

PokerStars Game #10441663059: Tournament #52898636, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 00:28:36 (ET)
Table '52898636 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: fazz22 (1000 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2000 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
fazz22: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [5c 2h]
RyPac13: calls 10
fazz22: raises 60 to 80
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [5s 4c As]
fazz22: checks
RyPac13: bets 140
fazz22: raises 780 to 920 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 780
*** TURN *** [5s 4c As] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [5s 4c As 2c] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fazz22: shows [Ah 7h] (a pair of Aces)
RyPac13: shows [5c 2h] (two pair, Fives and Deuces)
RyPac13 collected 2000 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2000 | Rake 0
Board [5s 4c As 2c 6s]
Seat 1: fazz22 (big blind) showed [Ah 7h] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [5c 2h] and won (2000) with two pair, Fives and Deuces

hheh, that last one was good... that's why i'm not playing PLO... i have no idea my equity or what is outrageous i nPLO... but in NLHE HUSNG i know what is a silly play and what is correct... mor fun that way than random playing...

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i apologize for a few hands from one session, but i found it funny...

PokerStars Game #10441777002: Tournament #52898887, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:37:50 (ET)
Table '52898887 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1075 in chips)
Seat 2: murphies law (1925 in chips)
murphies law: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh Ac]
murphies law: calls 15
RyPac13: raises 1045 to 1075 and is all-in
murphies law: folds
RyPac13 collected 60 from pot
RyPac13: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 60 | Rake 0
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) collected (60)
Seat 2: murphies law (button) (small blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #10441780177: Tournament #52898887, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:38:05 (ET)
Table '52898887 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1105 in chips)
Seat 2: murphies law (1895 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
murphies law: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qs Qd]
RyPac13: raises 1075 to 1105 and is all-in
murphies law: calls 1075
*** FLOP *** [8h 3c Ah]
*** TURN *** [8h 3c Ah] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [8h 3c Ah 3s] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
murphies law: shows [5c 5s] (two pair, Fives and Threes)
RyPac13: shows [Qs Qd] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
RyPac13 collected 2210 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2210 | Rake 0
Board [8h 3c Ah 3s 9s]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Qs Qd] and won (2210) with two pair, Queens and Threes
Seat 2: murphies law (big blind) showed [5c 5s] and lost with two pair, Fives and Threes

PokerStars Game #10441796010: Tournament #52898887, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:39:22 (ET)
Table '52898887 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2195 in chips)
Seat 2: murphies law (805 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
murphies law: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kh 9c]
RyPac13: calls 15
murphies law: raises 60 to 90
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [7s Jh Qd]
murphies law: bets 90
RyPac13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [7s Jh Qd] [Tc]
murphies law: bets 210
RyPac13: calls 210
*** RIVER *** [7s Jh Qd Tc] [Qh]
murphies law: bets 415 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 415
*** SHOW DOWN ***
murphies law: shows [Ks Ad] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
RyPac13: shows [Kh 9c] (a straight, Nine to King)
murphies law collected 1610 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1610 | Rake 0
Board [7s Jh Qd Tc Qh]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Kh 9c] and lost with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 2: murphies law (big blind) showed [Ks Ad] and won (1610) with a straight, Ten to Ace

PokerStars Game #10441808591: Tournament #52898887, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:40:22 (ET)
Table '52898887 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1390 in chips)
Seat 2: murphies law (1610 in chips)
murphies law: posts small blind 15
RyPac13: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Js 5d]
murphies law: raises 30 to 60
RyPac13: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [6s 6h 5c]
RyPac13: checks
murphies law: bets 90
RyPac13: raises 300 to 390
murphies law: raises 300 to 690
RyPac13: calls 300
*** TURN *** [6s 6h 5c] [Th]
RyPac13: checks
murphies law: bets 860 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 640 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [6s 6h 5c Th] [7d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Js 5d] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
murphies law: shows [Qh Jh] (a pair of Sixes)
RyPac13 collected 2780 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2780 | Rake 0
Board [6s 6h 5c Th 7d]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Js 5d] and won (2780) with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 2: murphies law (button) (small blind) showed [Qh Jh] and lost with a pair of Sixes

PokerStars Game #10441815786: Tournament #52898887, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 00:40:56 (ET)
Table '52898887 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2780 in chips)
Seat 2: murphies law (220 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
murphies law: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As Ad]
RyPac13: calls 15
murphies law: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ks Qc 9h]
murphies law: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [Ks Qc 9h] [Qh]
murphies law: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [Ks Qc 9h Qh] [Kh]
murphies law: checks
RyPac13: bets 2750 and is all-in
murphies law: calls 190 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [As Ad] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
murphies law: shows [Th 5d] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
RyPac13 collected 440 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 440 | Rake 0
Board [Ks Qc 9h Qh Kh]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [As Ad] and won (440) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 2: murphies law (big blind) showed [Th 5d] and lost with two pair, Kings and Queens

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end of stupidity, not counting the stupidty already going on..

PokerStars Game #10442079342: Tournament #52900448, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 01:03:00 (ET)
Table '52900448 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DW-deadwood (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (1680 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
DW-deadwood: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Th 8s]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
DW-deadwood: raises 40 to 100
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Td Qd Jh]
DW-deadwood: bets 20
RyPac13: calls 20
*** TURN *** [Td Qd Jh] [6s]
DW-deadwood: bets 60
RyPac13: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [Td Qd Jh 6s] [4c]
DW-deadwood: bets 100
RyPac13: calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DW-deadwood: shows [Kc 7d] (high card King)
RyPac13: shows [Th 8s] (a pair of Tens)
RyPac13 collected 560 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 560 | Rake 0
Board [Td Qd Jh 6s 4c]
Seat 1: DW-deadwood (big blind) showed [Kc 7d] and lost with high card King
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Th 8s] and won (560) with a pair of Tens

PokerStars Game #10442112422: Tournament #52900448, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 01:05:53 (ET)
Table '52900448 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DW-deadwood (480 in chips)
Seat 2: RyPac13 (2520 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
DW-deadwood: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Kd 6h]
RyPac13: raises 60 to 90
DW-deadwood: raises 60 to 150
RyPac13: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [Ks Td Jd]
DW-deadwood: bets 90
RyPac13: calls 90
*** TURN *** [Ks Td Jd] [5c]
DW-deadwood: bets 150
RyPac13: raises 150 to 300
DW-deadwood: calls 90 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Ks Td Jd 5c] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DW-deadwood: shows [Jh Ah] (a pair of Jacks)
RyPac13: shows [Kd 6h] (a pair of Kings)
RyPac13 collected 960 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 960 | Rake 0
Board [Ks Td Jd 5c 2c]
Seat 1: DW-deadwood (big blind) showed [Jh Ah] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 2: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Kd 6h] and won (960) with a pair of Kings

lol, i love this shit....

PokerStars Game #10442163891: Tournament #52900960, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 01:10:27 (ET)
Table '52900960 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (1520 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
lunkermsn22: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7c Ad]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
lunkermsn22: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [4d Ac 2d]
lunkermsn22: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [4d Ac 2d] [Tc]
lunkermsn22: bets 60
RyPac13: raises 140 to 200
lunkermsn22: calls 140
*** RIVER *** [4d Ac 2d Tc] [5s]
lunkermsn22: checks
RyPac13: bets 300
lunkermsn22: calls 300
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [7c Ad] (a pair of Aces)
lunkermsn22: mucks hand
RyPac13 collected 1120 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1120 | Rake 0
Board [4d Ac 2d Tc 5s]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [7c Ad] and won (1120) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (big blind) mucked [Ts Jc]

these games are getting crazy ugly...

PokerStars Game #10442211057: Tournament #52900960, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 01:14:44 (ET)
Table '52900960 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1960 in chips)
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (1040 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
lunkermsn22: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As 5h]
RyPac13: raises 60 to 90
lunkermsn22: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [8c 4d 8s]
lunkermsn22: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** TURN *** [8c 4d 8s] [Ac]
lunkermsn22: bets 30
RyPac13: calls 30
*** RIVER *** [8c 4d 8s Ac] [5c]
lunkermsn22: bets 420
RyPac13: calls 420
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lunkermsn22: shows [9s 8h] (three of a kind, Eights)
RyPac13: mucks hand
lunkermsn22 collected 1080 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1080 | Rake 0
Board [8c 4d 8s Ac 5c]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) mucked [As 5h]
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (big blind) showed [9s 8h] and won (1080) with three of a kind, Eights

PokerStars Game #10442248559: Tournament #52900960, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/15 - 01:18:11 (ET)
Table '52900960 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1960 in chips)
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (1040 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
lunkermsn22: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Js 8d]
RyPac13: raises 60 to 90
lunkermsn22: raises 950 to 1040 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 950
*** FLOP *** [4c Ah Kd]
*** TURN *** [4c Ah Kd] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [4c Ah Kd 6h] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lunkermsn22: shows [5c 5d] (a pair of Fives)
RyPac13: shows [Js 8d] (high card Ace)
lunkermsn22 collected 2080 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2080 | Rake 0
Board [4c Ah Kd 6h 7c]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Js 8d] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: lunkermsn22 (big blind) showed [5c 5d] and won (2080) with a pair of Fives

PokerStars Game #10442361583: Tournament #52901695, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 01:28:57 (ET)
Table '52901695 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (680 in chips)
Seat 2: TMonty24 (2320 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
TMonty24: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [2c 3s]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
TMonty24: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [6s 4d 2d]
TMonty24: checks
RyPac13: bets 60
TMonty24: calls 60
*** TURN *** [6s 4d 2d] [6c]
TMonty24: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [6s 4d 2d 6c] [Kh]
TMonty24: bets 140
RyPac13: calls 140
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TMonty24: shows [Qd Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
RyPac13: mucks hand
TMonty24 collected 520 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 520 | Rake 0
Board [6s 4d 2d 6c Kh]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) mucked [2c 3s]
Seat 2: TMonty24 (big blind) showed [Qd Kc] and won (520) with two pair, Kings and Sixes

I think I'm only down 2-3 buyins at these, not bad.

Anywys, I'm raising every single button FYI, and I do not stand by any of the lines I have taken in these games, so don't comment about them being wrong, lol.

This guy was just a nut, I made a nice hero call or two on him tha I didn't copy paste, but here's the final hadn in which i look like a donk obv

PokerStars Game #10442432618: Tournament #52902172, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/15 - 01:36:04 (ET)
Table '52902172 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1680 in chips)
Seat 2: emmamv (1320 in chips)
emmamv: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [3c Ad]
emmamv: raises 40 to 60
RyPac13 said, "i won't stop"
RyPac13: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [8d 9c 3s]
RyPac13 said, "never, ever ever"
RyPac13: checks
emmamv: bets 1260 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 1260
*** TURN *** [8d 9c 3s] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [8d 9c 3s Js] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [3c Ad] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
emmamv: shows [8c Qh] (a pair of Eights)
RyPac13 collected 2640 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2640 | Rake 0
Board [8d 9c 3s Js Ac]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [3c Ad] and won (2640) with two pair, Aces and Threes
Seat 2: emmamv (button) (small blind) showed [8c Qh] and lost with a pair of Eights

i lost the next one but there were no goodhands to post... boring match...

and I lost my last one to a guy that folded to 90% of my PF raises. Starting to sober up so this is getting boring, will make a post tomorrow, should have time to play a few regular level games.

BR somewhere around 3750, so degen is 750ish, I'll figure otu what I lost tonight, could've of bee nmore than twenty bucks.

Enjoy.

Good News

2007-06-14T14:15:00.000-07:00

She came out of surgery, everything went perfect so far. It'll be at least 24 hrs until we know for sure how well the body accepts the kidney, but all indications are like 100% so far.

Going to drink since I can't see her for awhile, if at all tonight.

Hospital

2007-06-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

At Loyola Medical Center in Chicago burbs, waiting on word about my girlfriend. She's in surgery right now, it kind of hit me hard this morning when she was being taken away, I wasn't like a wreck or anything but my body just felt like shit for a few hours. Her sister who is donating the kidney came out fine and is recovering in a normal room now, so the first part went well. Obviously the second part is the much riskier part, if the kidney will take, as well as a million other bad things that have small chances of happening. If it was a straight money bet it would be the surest thing in the world, but it's a life so it's actually a scary thing.

Anyways, I truly think everything will be ok, but there's always those thoughts in the back of your mind. I should know how it went within the next 2-3 hours.

I won a couple 110s 2-3 days ago, so the degen br is at like 7 something. Haven't played since then, was contemplating playing some 5 dollar PLO HUSNGs to get my mind off of this, but forum browsing and the occasional IM convo has kept me about as normal as I could feel now.

End of Day

2007-06-12T00:58:00.001-07:00

So after repeatedly losing fish to people regging faster than I, I finally found a fish at like 230am.

I felt I played about as good as I could, ran into some beats and lost. I'd be just a hair below 1k if I had won this one.

Here's some hands, fwiw I feel very good about this challenge and my prospects if I keep playing the way I am.

PokerStars Game #10394898980: Tournament #52664466, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/12 - 03:41:39 (ET)
Table '52664466 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1520 in chips)
Seat 2: squackattack (1480 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 10
squackattack: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [As 5d]
RyPac13: raises 40 to 60
squackattack: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Ad 2h 8d]
squackattack: checks
RyPac13: bets 80
squackattack: calls 80
*** TURN *** [Ad 2h 8d] [3c]
squackattack: checks
RyPac13: bets 160
squackattack: calls 160
*** RIVER *** [Ad 2h 8d 3c] [3s]
squackattack: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
squackattack: shows [Kd Qd] (a pair of Threes)
RyPac13: shows [As 5d] (two pair, Aces and Threes)
RyPac13 collected 600 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 600 | Rake 0
Board [Ad 2h 8d 3c 3s]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [As 5d] and won (600) with two pair, Aces and Threes
Seat 2: squackattack (big blind) showed [Kd Qd] and lost with a pair of Threes

PokerStars Game #10394917476: Tournament #52664466, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2007/06/12 - 03:44:43 (ET)
Table '52664466 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1780 in chips)
Seat 2: squackattack (1220 in chips)
squackattack: posts small blind 10
RyPac13: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [7h 8c]
squackattack: calls 10
RyPac13: checks
*** FLOP *** [Js 6s 9h]
RyPac13: checks
squackattack: bets 80
RyPac13: calls 80
*** TURN *** [Js 6s 9h] [6h]
RyPac13: checks
squackattack: checks
*** RIVER *** [Js 6s 9h 6h] [Ks]
RyPac13: bets 100
squackattack: calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [7h 8c] (a pair of Sixes)
squackattack: shows [Kh Jc] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)
squackattack collected 400 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 400 | Rake 0
Board [Js 6s 9h 6h Ks]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [7h 8c] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: squackattack (button) (small blind) showed [Kh Jc] and won (400) with two pair, Kings and Jacks

PokerStars Game #10394936573: Tournament #52664466, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/12 - 03:47:57 (ET)
Table '52664466 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (1620 in chips)
Seat 2: squackattack (1380 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
squackattack: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [6h 9h]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
squackattack: calls 45
*** FLOP *** [As Ah 9d]
squackattack: checks
RyPac13: bets 90
squackattack: calls 90
*** TURN *** [As Ah 9d] [8s]
squackattack: checks
RyPac13: checks
*** RIVER *** [As Ah 9d 8s] [7h]
squackattack: bets 420
RyPac13: calls 420
*** SHOW DOWN ***
squackattack: shows [5c 3s] (a pair of Aces)
RyPac13: shows [6h 9h] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
RyPac13 collected 1170 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1170 | Rake 0
Board [As Ah 9d 8s 7h]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [6h 9h] and won (1170) with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: squackattack (big blind) showed [5c 3s] and lost with a pair of Aces

That one took a bit to go through and call because of his overbet.

PokerStars Game #10394945879: Tournament #52664466, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2007/06/12 - 03:49:32 (ET)
Table '52664466 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (2025 in chips)
Seat 2: squackattack (975 in chips)
RyPac13: posts small blind 15
squackattack: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Qc Qd]
RyPac13: raises 45 to 75
squackattack: raises 900 to 975 and is all-in
RyPac13: calls 900
*** FLOP *** [7d 9h 3h]
*** TURN *** [7d 9h 3h] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [7d 9h 3h Qh] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
squackattack: shows [Ad Th] (a flush, Queen high)
RyPac13: shows [Qc Qd] (three of a kind, Queens)
squackattack collected 1950 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1950 | Rake 0
Board [7d 9h 3h Qh Jh]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (button) (small blind) showed [Qc Qd] and lost with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: squackattack (big blind) showed [Ad Th] and won (1950) with a flush, Queen high

After this he went on a pretty nice run while I was very card dead. Probably a bit of spew and a bit of running well, but I survived to make one last stand.

PokerStars Game #10394973663: Tournament #52664466, $220+$10 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2007/06/12 - 03:54:16 (ET)
Table '52664466 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: RyPac13 (680 in chips)
Seat 2: squackattack (2320 in chips)
squackattack: posts small blind 25
RyPac13: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RyPac13 [Jh Ac]
squackattack: calls 25
RyPac13: raises 630 to 680 and is all-in
squackattack: calls 630
*** FLOP *** [Ah 8c Jc]
*** TURN *** [Ah 8c Jc] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Ah 8c Jc Qc] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RyPac13: shows [Jh Ac] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
squackattack: shows [Kc Tc] (a flush, King high)
squackattack collected 1360 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1360 | Rake 0
Board [Ah 8c Jc Qc Qs]
Seat 1: RyPac13 (big blind) showed [Jh Ac] and lost with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 2: squackattack (button) (small blind) showed [Kc Tc] and won (1360) with a flush, King high

Ah well, I'll get 'em tomorrow.

Bankroll $3,472.63

Degen $487.63

Note that is is much tougher in this challenge to play up and lose your first game, compared to going 1-1 and playing down for one more game.