Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I fucking hate my life

All tonight. Fuck you WORLD

Seat 3: nn243712 ( $265 USD )
Seat 5: tcyr19 ( $245.10 USD )
Seat 6: manny654 ( $148.80 USD )
Seat 4: tokenblak ( $211.25 USD )
Seat 1: Liberty3BSpec ( $229.65 USD )
Seat 2: GERA2000 ( $40.80 USD )
tcyr19 posts small blind [$1 USD].
manny654 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tokenblak [ 7d 9d ]
Liberty3BSpec folds.
GERA2000 folds.
nn243712 raises [$7 USD]
tokenblak raises [$24 USD]
tcyr19 folds.
manny654 folds.
nn243712 calls [$17 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, Td, 8c ]
nn243712 checks.
tokenblak bets [$38 USD]
nn243712 raises [$111 USD]
tokenblak raises [$146 USD]
nn243712 is all-In.
tokenblak is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
tokenblak shows [ 7d, 9d ]a pair of Sevens.
nn243712 shows [ Ah, Jd ]a straight Ten to Ace.
nn243712 wins $53.75 USD from side pot #1 with a straight, Ten to Ace.
nn243712 wins $422.50 USD from the main pot with a straight, Ten to Ace.


Seat 2: yatnod_rm ( $510.45 USD )
Seat 3: dannyboysnow ( $202.36 USD )
Seat 5: tokenblak ( $397.50 USD )
Seat 6: kmwin ( $201.75 USD )
dannyboysnow posts small blind [$1 USD].
tokenblak posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tokenblak [ 9d Kd ]
kmwin calls [$2 USD]
yatnod_rm folds.
dannyboysnow calls [$1 USD]
tokenblak checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, Qc, Js ]
dannyboysnow bets [$2 USD]
tokenblak raises [$8 USD]
kmwin calls [$8 USD]
dannyboysnow folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
tokenblak bets [$22 USD]
kmwin calls [$22 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 4d ]
tokenblak bets [$50 USD]
kmwin raises [$100 USD]
tokenblak raises [$262 USD]
kmwin is all-In.
tokenblak shows [ 9d, Kd ]a straight Nine to King.
kmwin shows [ Kh, As ]a straight Ten to Ace.
tokenblak wins $142.25 USD from side pot #1 with a straight, Nine to King.
kmwin wins $405.50 USD from the main pot with a straight, Ten to Ace.


Seat 1: Maverick4646 ( $287.57 USD )
Seat 4: GoBears67 ( $199.45 USD )
Seat 6: nluckygmblr ( $170.71 USD )
Seat 3: tokenblak ( $160 USD )
Seat 5: azromii ( $253.50 USD )
Seat 2: Max_Power112 ( $157.65 USD )
nluckygmblr posts small blind [$1 USD].
Maverick4646 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tokenblak [ As Qd ]
Max_Power112 folds.
tokenblak raises [$8 USD]
GoBears67 folds.
azromii folds.
nluckygmblr folds.
Maverick4646 calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Qh, 8c ]
Maverick4646 checks.
tokenblak bets [$12 USD]
Maverick4646 calls [$12 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
Maverick4646 checks.
tokenblak bets [$34 USD]
Maverick4646 calls [$34 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 9d ]
Maverick4646 checks.
tokenblak is all-In.
Maverick4646 calls [$106 USD]
Maverick4646 shows [ 5d, 7s ]a straight Five to Nine.
tokenblak doesn't show [ As, Qd ]a pair of Queens.
The time at which hand ended:Sep 27 2007 01:51 ET
Maverick4646 wins $317.50 USD from the main pot with a straight, Five to Nine.


Seat 1: RoyaleCay1 ( $305.54 USD )
Seat 2: spinner1972 ( $329.95 USD )
Seat 3: Baaba112 ( $225.10 USD )
Seat 4: Logoped83 ( $170.50 USD )
Seat 5: tcyr19 ( $247.40 USD )
Seat 6: tokenblak ( $200 USD )
spinner1972 posts small blind [$1 USD].
Baaba112 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tokenblak [ As Qd ]
tcyr19 folds.
tokenblak raises [$8 USD]
RoyaleCay1 folds.
spinner1972 calls [$7 USD]
Baaba112 calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, 6c, Th ]
spinner1972 checks.
Baaba112 checks.
tokenblak bets [$17 USD]
spinner1972 calls [$17 USD]
Baaba112 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
spinner1972 bets [$10 USD]
tokenblak raises [$50 USD]
spinner1972 calls [$40 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
spinner1972 checks.
tokenblak checks.
spinner1972 shows [ Ts, 6s ]two pairs, Tens and Sixes.
tokenblak doesn't show [ As, Qd ]a pair of Aces.
spinner1972 wins $156 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Tens and Sixes.


Seat 5: tcyr19 ( $292 USD )
Seat 6: manny654 ( $244.15 USD )
Seat 4: tokenblak ( $313.80 USD )
Seat 1: Liberty3BSpec ( $224 USD )
Seat 2: ProudMom1997 ( $197 USD )
Seat 3: GERA2000 ( $35 USD )
GERA2000 posts small blind [$1 USD].
tokenblak posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tokenblak [ Kh Kd ]
tcyr19 folds.
manny654 folds.
Liberty3BSpec folds.
ProudMom1997 raises [$7 USD]
GERA2000 folds.
tokenblak raises [$25 USD]
ProudMom1997 calls [$20 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, Th, As ]
tokenblak bets [$40 USD]
ProudMom1997 is all-In.
tokenblak folds.
ProudMom1997 shows [ 7d, 8d ]high card Ace.
ProudMom1997 wins $262 USD from the main pot with high card, Ace.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

1st bragworthy post in months

Played some hands tonight, here are the results:














Yay 10 buyins, woopdy fucking shit. But at this point I will fucking take it. Good god this month has been hell. Just need a few more of these sessions and maybe I'll be able to put gas in the car again.

God this job sucks sometimes (read: every fucking day). But days like today always remind you that god put dumb people on the earth for your profit.

And heres a pretty awesome video for no reason.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Tapped out

For those that have been furiously refreshing their homepages (this blog) awaiting updates this past week, I apologize.

And to those who lazily check updates with a RSS reader, fuck you. Show some loyalty.

But seriously, sorry for the lack of updates. I just have nothing to write about. I've still been playing poker, and living my hilarious life, but honestly nothing has happened in a week worth telling even myself about in my daily self-reflection recap in front of the mirror.

I started the month off in serious fashion, putting in serious amounts of hours for not so serious amounts of money. Somewhere along the line I started to get bent over and I backed off on the serious play, regressing to the usual 1 hour workday. While the 1 hour workday (patent pending) is easy, breezy and beautiful, its not really the ideal way to make mortgage payments.

I think the reason for my lack of play last week was due to the earlier losses in the month. Obvious I know, but its a pattern that I'm trying to correct. You see for every anal raping loss I take, it takes me literally days of stitches and ice for my ass to heal. I can't play straight until it does, because I'm a fucking pussy who lets his emotions affect his game (and his ass pain affect his comfort).

Even though I've been playing poker "full time" for almost 2 years now, losses still get to me. The long run, one long game, +EV, these are all just meaningless words to me when I lose. Something must be done. I need to get my hand out of my ass (wtf?) and just fucking play play play.

Fuck the man and his results.

Oh and has anyone been watching the New England Patriots play? It looks like they are playing on All-Madden level against their "Pro" level opponents. I've watched each game of theirs this season and I can't wipe the perma-smile off my face. To quote some retarded monday night football commentator (maybe Joe Thiesman?): "If you don't like watching the New England Patriots play right now, you don't like NFL football".

Next weeks game in Cinci should be a massacre. Take the over.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Snap Call

POKERSTARS GAME #11983285325: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/09/10 - 16:55:11 (ET)
Table 'Shao' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: TwistedEcho ($332.05 in chips)
Seat 2: djj6835 ($398 in chips)
Seat 3: dest- ($348.60 in chips)
Seat 4: billyzzz ($547.70 in chips)
Seat 5: RikkiDee ($196 in chips)
Seat 6: TheLife ($422.70 in chips)
TheLife: posts small blind $1
TwistedEcho: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RikkiDee [Ac Kc]
djj6835: folds
dest-: folds
billyzzz: calls $2
RikkiDee: raises $8 to $10
TheLife: folds
TwistedEcho: folds
billyzzz: calls $8
*** FLOP *** [Qh Jd Qd]
billyzzz: checks
RikkiDee: checks
*** TURN *** [Qh Jd Qd] [8c]
billyzzz: bets $14
RikkiDee: calls $14
*** RIVER *** [Qh Jd Qd 8c] [2c]
billyzzz: bets $246
RikkiDee: calls $172 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
billyzzz: shows [Kd 4c] (a pair of Queens)
RikkiDee: shows [Ac Kc] (a pair of Queens - Ace kicker)
RikkiDee collected $392 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $395 | Rake $3
Board [Qh Jd Qd 8c 2c]
Seat 1: TwistedEcho (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: djj6835 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: dest- folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: billyzzz showed [Kd 4c] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: RikkiDee (button) showed [Ac Kc] and won ($392) with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: TheLife (small blind) folded before Flop

Been too busy and lazy to blog lately. Yes you can be too busy AND lazy to do something, dumbass. Trust me.

I have actually been playing a shitload of hands this month. I've played something like 30k hands already this month which is like twice as much as I played in all of August. Granted, most of it has been like 10 tabling 50NL just for practice / fun on Stars, but still, lots of hands. Not so much profit though.

I think I'll be playing on Stars for a while. I miss it a lot. The software is at least 98% better than Party's. And for some reason I can put in marathon sessions way easier. I think its because Party lags my comp so much that after a few hours its virtually unplayable. Besides, Party stopped giving me rakeback so fuck them in principle.

It was fun building up a bankroll on stars (because I'm obviously too lazy to actually move funds from one site to another). I started with the last $30 I had on Stars, and just grinded my ass off. I started with a few $6 SNG's for a while, then when I got up to about $100 I 4 tabled 25NL, and just went from there. Took me about a week of play to get up to $1k. My goal was to build my roll up so I could play 200NL with 20 buyins, but I then thought, what the fuck am I doing wasting all my time trying to build a roll when I already have one?

But it is a neat experiment to do. Its comforting knowing that even if I went completely busto I would be able to come back playing at least 8 tables of 50NL within a week.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Live poker is easy

Took a day off the online grind yesterday and went down to Niagara Falls for the day with my friend Wpalango for an afternoon/evening/early morning of live action. I hadn't played live in about a year so I was actually pretty excited even though the last time I played live I went busto and wanted to murder every live player in existence.

As soon as I sat down, I immediately felt much more comfortable with my game than I did before. When I went before, the majority of my poker experience was in SNG's and MTT's and I realize now how much that affected my cash game. I was the walking (sitting?) definition of a tourney donk and was probably only a break even player even against the terrible competition that is live poker.

My plan was to just play super solid and tight for an hour or so, get a read on the table and then start opening up. I pretty much stuck to this plan to my surprise, and didn't get bored or restless at all. It's a pretty strange thing. When playing online, if I don't play the maximum number of tables that I can process I start getting bored and all fancy play syndromey, trying to make too many moves on people and ultimately tilting because they never work. But live, for some reason I was able to curb my boredom and not start playing every hand and trying to win every pot even though we are playing about 10 hands per hour.

I was basically very surprised that I remained patient. Take this hand for example. I had folded probably every hand preflop for over an hour, after getting dealt J5 and T3 repeatedly. I finally get AK, raise it up with a few limpers, obviously get 4 callers despite my obvious tightness, hit an ace on the flop and bet / fold to a check raise. Obviously I "had a read" but I honestly couldn't believe I went with it. I mean, here I am having not won a pot in 1.5 hours and I finally hit a huge hand and I fold.

But the thing is, live players, especially the shitty ones at my table, are so fucking passive that any sign of strength like this can be taken to the bank as the nuts. If any man over 50 check raises you, and you don't have the nuts, you fold. Its quite simple - old men suck at poker. They have no aggression left in their body and probably don't feel that semi-bluffing and the like are the "right" way to play poker. This theory is supported by the fact that every time a "stupid young kid" takes down a pot showing a marginal hand and a lot of strength, old men at the table let out a collective eye-rolling and sighing to show their disdain for their lack of respect for the game. So they continue to wait for the nuts, "knowing" that when they hit they will get paid off by these over-aggressive young kids, disregarding the fact that anyone paying attention will insta fold to any bet they make.

Anyways, my table was about 80% of this type yesterday. So it was pretty easy for me to lag it up a bit and take a lot of pots off them. And even despite my aggression they would still make ridiculous laydowns to me and show. For example, I raise a few limpers with T8s and get 2 callers. Flop comes T high and its checked to me, and I obviously bet. Old passive dude is last to act and folds his QQ face up, saying "well you either have tens, jacks, queens, kings or aces, and I only beat one of those". I mean get a fucking clue dude. I've raised every limped pot in position for the past 5 hours and you are still putting me on a monster? He even made a comment to me on one J high flop that the only way I hit that flop is if I had JJ because otherwise I would *never* raise preflop with any hand that had a jack in it. Uh, ok. Keep giving me that respect plz.

I would later bust him.

Nothing super spectacular happened in the 12~ hours I was there. I didn't really bother to make any crazy bluffs, since it was hard to put these passive dudes on hands that they would fold once they've check/called the flop, so usually I would just give up and take the free cards they offered.

My first big hand came when I had doubled my stack to around $1000 (oh btw I was playing 5/5 NL with $500 buyin). I had JJ on the button and raised a few limpers up to $50 preflop (lol 10xbb raises). 2 players obviously call and the flop comes 747 with 2 spades. It's checked to me and I have to bet, so I $110 into the middle. A young kid, younger than me in the blinds calls me fairly quickly as does the old passive dude. At this point I'm already done with the hand. Before the turn is dealt I'm thinking in my head, "without a jack hitting I'm not putting another $1 into the pot". Well who do you think stops by on the turn? Oh yes, a fucking beautiful jack. Again they check to me and I bet $200 because no one can read bet sizes live and the young kid in the blinds goes all in for $800 more and then the passive dude calls. I obviously call. The kid shows 67 and the other guy has the ace high flush draw. No 7 on the river and I take down a sick pot over $2k. Definitely my biggest pot ever since I don't even play 2/4 online.

After that I go on a crazy rush. I have jacks again in early position facing an UTG limper. I raise it to $35 and everyone folds to the limper who then mini raises me to $80. He has like $700 behind so I call because he is old and obviously has aces. I obviously hit a jack on the flop and I insta push over his continuation bet. He actually thinks for a good 2-3 minutes before calling, flips over kings and I win. The best thing about live poker is people don't seem to consider bet sizes at all. They just decide if they have the best hand or not and call any bet. After the hand hes all, "OFMG how do u call my raise preflop??". I can't help but laugh at his ignorance, but I don't say anything but sorry. I did feel kind of bad for the guy because he had obviously waited all night to "trap" me and then that happens. But hey, try not sucking at poker?

2 hands later I'm UTG with 54s and I figure since my image right now is pretty sick after showing down the nuts 2 hands for massive pots I decide to raise for fun. 4 callers see the flop which is obviously 236 rainbow. I can't help but laugh at this point. The same guy I stacked with the kings 2 hands ago had rebought and leads out into me for $125. I smooth call his bet, not wanting to raise yet because there are 3 players yet to act. One other player calls and the turn brings a T. Old passive dude checks, I bet $300 and both fold, with the old passive guy showing 36. I'm like WTF?? I ask him what he put me on and he says "Aces, but I know you'll draw out". I LOL again and scoop another sizable pot.

It was getting fairly late at this point and I tired and hungry so I decided to cash out and leave. The total damage was +$2500 which was a nice end to a mediocre August for me. As I was cashing out one of the old dudes takes me aside and says to me "now don't do what most young guys do after their first big win and blow it thinking that its always this easy". Yes sir I will keep your advice in my heart for all my future poker playing days. Good thing he was there to keep me grounded.

The funny thing is I probably played maybe like 300 hands in my 12 hours live, which is just a ridiculous winrate. If I had stayed home and played for 12 hours I would have probably played about 5k hands, maybe more. So while live is fun and a nice change of pace to the online grind, its still way way below the expectation of income that online poker provides, even considering the ridiculously horrible players that play live. So I will probably go back eventually but it won't be a regular occurrence.