Friday, June 29, 2007

Cake 10K gntd

Decided to play the $30 + 3 10K gntd last night on Cake bc it started the same time as the CT tourney. I was pretty card dead and when I did get good cards I'd seemingly just pick up the blinds or take it down on the flop with a c-bet. I really didn't play many hands so I probably looked like a super nit. Once the blinds started getting bigger I started stealing more and no one really put up a fight. It helped that I didn't move table during the first hour and a half. The whole tourney I was right in the middle of the pack. I didn't move up any until a hand where I was OTB with around 18xx chips. I'm the second shortest stack at the table. Blinds were at 75-150 and theres 3 limpers so I raise it up to 700 hoping to pick up the dead money from the limpers. Blinds both fold, original limper folds, next calls(damn), next folds. Well at least it HU going to the flop. Flop comes 8,7,6. I'm thinking sweet a set and I can't wait to see that guy flip 9 10s. He checked and I thought for awhile and pushed figuring I had outs if called and needed the chips if I wanted any shot at making the money. He thought for awhile and called and showed............you ready................Q10o. WTF sweet thanks for that call. No miracle 9 for him and I double up. Nothing really major happend after that, just kept chipping up taking the blinds, or taking it down on the flop. Once we got down to 25 it was a total crap shoot for everyone except the two big stacks. The average stack was 8BB's. The hand I got knocked out on guy UTG min-raised(he had raised the last 3 orbits UTG) all fold to a 3BB stack OTB who pushes and I look at JJ. I push over the top my 9BB's hoping to get it HU against the button. UTG calls. I'm hoping for 2 AX type hands. I got one UTG had QQ, Button had AK. No help and I'm gone. I'm pretty sure it was the right play as the only real money was in the top three and if I take that down I have a real good shot. So another deep finish with not much to show for it. O well next time.
Congratulations,

Out of 355 players in Tournament 501700, you came in 22nd and have won
$74.55.

You've also been awarded 21 Cake Points for participating in the
tournament.

Best wishes,
The CakePoker Team

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Online poker is rigged lol

At least it seems like it today. I get it in KK vs JJ lose to a J on the flop. I have JJ push get called by KK no help. I lost AQ vs A10, AK vs A3, 1010 vs 77. You see how today went. Then there's this gem.

PokerStars Game #10606566438: Tournament #53727662, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2007/06/24 - 23:33:11 (ET)
Table '53727662 4' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: couple1010 (5355 in chips)
Seat 3: AJAX1509 (2585 in chips)
Seat 4: sdge66 (6360 in chips)
Seat 5: littlebu (2075 in chips)
Seat 6: JakMax (4125 in chips)
Seat 7: mavic_mavic (4555 in chips)
Seat 8: rc07st (3945 in chips)
Seat 9: rublish (2700 in chips)
couple1010: posts the ante 25
AJAX1509: posts the ante 25
sdge66: posts the ante 25
littlebu: posts the ante 25
JakMax: posts the ante 25
mavic_mavic: posts the ante 25
rc07st: posts the ante 25
rublish: posts the ante 25
sdge66: posts small blind 200
littlebu: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to littlebu [Ah Ac]
JakMax: folds
mavic_mavic: folds
rc07st: folds
rublish: raises 2275 to 2675 and is all-in
couple1010: calls 2675
AJAX1509: folds
sdge66: folds
littlebu: calls 1650 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [9h Jh Js]
*** TURN *** [9h Jh Js] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [9h Jh Js Qd] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rublish: shows [3h 3d] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
couple1010: shows [Jc As] (a full house, Jacks full of Nines)
couple1010 collected 1250 from side pot
littlebu: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
couple1010 collected 6550 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7800 Main pot 6550. Side pot 1250. | Rake 0
Board [9h Jh Js Qd 9d]
Seat 1: couple1010 showed [Jc As] and won (7800) with a full house, Jacks full of Nines
Seat 3: AJAX1509 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: sdge66 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: littlebu (big blind) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks
Seat 6: JakMax folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: mavic_mavic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: rc07st folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: rublish showed [3h 3d] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Nines



WWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE that was fun lets do it again. Sorry bad day and everyone loves some bad beat stories.

Friday, June 22, 2007

20+2 P*'s tourney

Today I played a $22 tourney on P*'s. The cool thing was that we started with 3000 chips intstead of the usual 1500 so it was much better than a regular P*'s tourney. Nothing really interesting happend the entire tourney. It only took a little over 3hrs to break the money bubble at 135 people remaining. I lost half my stack to a shorter stack and doubled him up. My bust out hand in CO I shoved 88 with around 15BB's, button overshoved with 99 no help for me and I'm done. Kinda disappointing to play for 3.5hrs and only profit 5.xx.

PokerStars Tournament #52923963, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
925 players
Total Prize Pool: $18500.00
Tournament started - 2007/06/22 - 12:00:00 (ET)

Dear littlebu,

You finished the tournament in 107th place.
A $27.75 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 67.81 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Final tabled 4.40 180 man on P*'s

and the very first hand I go from second to ninth. AK < AQ. Battled back from 4,000 chips to take fifth. I got knocked out when I pushed from the Button with QQ and got called be the chipleaders AA. GG him. This is the hand that set me up with a huge stack early on. BB special.
*********** # 65 **************
PokerStars Game #10528264379: Tournament #53331455, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em
No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2007/06/20 - 09:52:57 (ET)
Table '53331455 6' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: CptTomMantel (9535 in chips)
Seat 2: specal_k (4500 in chips)
Seat 3: sprtsluvr (2690 in chips)
Seat 4: Kevin2K5 (1800 in chips)
Seat 5: Gillamenace (1870 in chips)
Seat 6: stayindraws (3850 in chips)
Seat 8: caliman00 (4135 in chips)
Seat 9: littlebu (8545 in chips)
caliman00: posts small blind 50
littlebu: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to littlebu [Jc 8c]
CptTomMantel: calls 100
specal_k: raises 100 to 200
sprtsluvr: folds
Kevin2K5: calls 200
Gillamenace: folds
stayindraws: folds
caliman00: folds
littlebu: calls 100
CptTomMantel: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9d Tc 7s]
littlebu: checks
CptTomMantel: checks
specal_k: bets 2000
Kevin2K5: folds
littlebu: raises 2000 to 4000
CptTomMantel: raises 5335 to 9335 and is all-in
specal_k: calls 2300 and is all-in
littlebu: calls 4345 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [9d Tc 7s] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [9d Tc 7s 2h] [Js]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
littlebu: shows [Jc 8c] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
CptTomMantel: shows [Th Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
littlebu collected 8090 from side pot
specal_k: shows [5s Ah] (high card Ace)
littlebu collected 13750 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 21840 Main pot 13750. Side pot 8090. | Rake 0
Board [9d Tc 7s 2h Js]
Seat 1: CptTomMantel showed [Th Td] and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 2: specal_k showed [5s Ah] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 3: sprtsluvr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Kevin2K5 folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Gillamenace folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: stayindraws (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: caliman00 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: littlebu (big blind) showed [Jc 8c] and won (21840) with a
straight, Seven to Jack


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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

A good end to a bad start 2K gntd on Cake

After a pretty bad start at FTP I decided to play the the 10+1 2k gntd on Cake. There were 241 runners at the start. Ended up making the FT as a "big" stack sitting 3/10. The chip leader had about 2x as many chips at the start of the FT. He proceeded to donk them all of though and finished his night early. When it got down to four players I was sitting second behind one large stack of about 170K me with 70K and two 40K stacks. Then something strange happend. One of the players disconnected and the big stack took advantage. The other 40K stack seemed to decide he didn't want to get involved and get knocked out before the disconnected player. The big stack and I butted heads a few times trying for the dead money. HU started with the big stack at approx. 230K, me at approx. 90k. I built up to around 105K then lost around 30k on a hand that I plain screwed up and let him push me off of. Down to 70K and this hand occurred. I was BB he was button. Stacks 75K and 245K. Blinds were 2/4K I think maybe 3/6k w an ante I forget what it was now I'll have to see if I can get the HH. He completes his sb I check in the BB with 72. Flop comes Q 8 2 r I lead out for 8k he calls. Turn 5 I check he checks River 2 I lead out for around Half the pot he shoves I call and show trip 2's. He shows KK. The power of the hammer lol. This hand put him on crazy tilt and I ended up taking it down. A good end to a bad start. I think the one thing that stands out about this tournament was, I was never actually all-in until HU. I had the opponent covered everyother time. That kinda stood out about this tourney. A +$602.50 payday. Not bad for 3.5hrs.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Not poker related

Don't really feel like writing anything poker related as there's nothing really going on. Bubbled a couple 45 mans on FTP, I'm in second in that 3.25 45 challenge on CT right now. I just spent the last hour or so going through what to do in the Bahama's on our honeymoon in 3 weeks. Scuba diving is definately in. We are also going to swim with dolphins at our hotel since they have a private dolphin pool. To my suprise there are numerous scuba trips involving swimming with sharks. I really would love to do that. All of the pics are beautiful. The Bahama's seems like such a marvelous place. I can't wait to go and spend the week there. I promised to only hit the casino for one day and only a few hours. I guess no poker. Maybe some blackjack or a couple other games like 3 card etc. I hate slots. Also for my bachelors party we're going to go go-kart racing for 3hrs then to a horse racing track. There's going to be 20 or so of us and we're all going to through $20 down on a 10-1 or 20-1 shot. If we hit that would be $16,000(on the 20-1 shot) to blow at the strip club after) that would be amazing. Anything I should know about picking horses? I have until the 30th to figue out what to look for. Well if we hit it will make for a great post on here lol.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Chipper

My push on that flop was a psb. I think it was actually 100 less than psb.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I think it's time for me to quit the 3.25 challenge

I'm really getting sick of these. The turbo aspect is really getting to me, and so is major tilt from hands like these.


PokerStars Game #10398940865: Tournament #52685159, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2007/06/12 - 12:34:02 (ET)
Table '52685159 3' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Jonnyjee01 (3885 in chips)
Seat 2: Gianni85 (3280 in chips)
Seat 3: Hoeba (695 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: bassin101 (1075 in chips)
Seat 5: ice of texas (1280 in chips)
Seat 6: Maverick_afi (1870 in chips)
Seat 7: littlebu (1405 in chips)
Seat 8: Mini-Mani (2580 in chips)
Seat 9: dong88 (1465 in chips)
littlebu: posts small blind 25
Mini-Mani: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to littlebu [Qs Qh]
dong88: folds
Jonnyjee01: folds
Gianni85: calls 50
Hoeba: folds
bassin101: calls 50
ice of texas: folds
Maverick_afi: folds
littlebu: raises 300 to 350
Mini-Mani: folds
Gianni85: calls 300
bassin101: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [7s 5c 9d]
littlebu: bets 1055 and is all-in
Gianni85: calls 1055
bassin101: calls 725 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [7s 5c 9d] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [7s 5c 9d 6s] [Jd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
littlebu: shows [Qs Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Gianni85: shows [8h 6h] (a straight, Five to Nine)
Gianni85 collected 660 from side pot
bassin101: shows [Ac 7d] (a pair of Sevens)
bassin101 is sitting out
littlebu said, "86??"
Gianni85 collected 3275 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3935 Main pot 3275. Side pot 660. | Rake 0
Board [7s 5c 9d 6s Jd]
Seat 1: Jonnyjee01 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Gianni85 showed [8h 6h] and won (3935) with a straight, Five to Nine
Seat 3: Hoeba folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: bassin101 showed [Ac 7d] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 5: ice of texas folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Maverick_afi (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: littlebu (small blind) showed [Qs Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: Mini-Mani (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: dong88 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

3.25 CT challenge, randomness

So a couple people decided to make a challenge out of the 3.25 turbo 45 mans on Stars. These things are crazy. You have all month and your best 10 finishes count. For some reason I decided to play. I'm currently in fourth out of I think 8 people. The turbo part is taking some getting used to and I think I'm finally starting to adjust.

On Sun. I was a little late to the private tourney for my CT team because I was down at the end of my street watching the sunset with my fiance. Good times. I snapped this pic on my phone of the sunset. Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us
I'm really glad we live 6 houses away from this scenery. Only three weeks away from our wedding/honeymoon. I can't wait to have it all over with and be sitting in the Bahamma's.

Friday, June 08, 2007

24+2 5k Gntd on FTP WON WOOT

This tourney was something else. At the 50/100 level I was up to 43xx chips. Picked up AA and got it in preflop against AKo stack 36xx. Lost to a flush and was down to 615 in chips. Started pushing and the big stacks let me take the blinds 3 times that orbit and I finally got called but I had a hand and doubled up to 22xx right before break. Then the FT I was so short compared to everyone I was just looking for spots to try and get some chips to try and move up the payout ladder, then the big stacks started attacking eachother and I'm like cool moving on up. Next thing I know it's down to 3 and one 334,xxx stack, and me at 40,xxx, and the other at 50,xxx. Then HU started me down 110,xxx to 33x,xxx got lucky to double up KK against AQ on a x Q K flop then got lucky over playing AKs HU and won.

WOOT WOOT

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