Me not Good @ Poker

I've realized that it's probably more profitable for me to make money in my other talents and back the people that play better poker then I. Now my problem lies with finding good poker players that have no money...lol

P.S Go WP...Make that paper!

Jose

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Decisions

My first post of 2006, ok I’ll admit it I’m scared. I really enjoy writing about my experience with poker and how it’s growing as time passes. Although recently I’ve been in a terrible slump not able to build any type of roll. I’ve basically restricted myself from investing any serious money in online poker. Why? Well it really comes down to one thing; I don’t have much flow to gamble with right now. Not that I consider poker gambling……. I do still play though live games that is. These games are with some friends, and usually 2-3 unknowns. I have to say though I certain that I’ve pretty much broke even or shown a small profit in my live tournament/SnG play. My good friend rikkidee, has now proven to me that poker can be a profitable endeavor. It’s also safe so say that he’s dominated the multi SnG play, showing numerous accounts of reasonable profits. I’m not surprised at all though by the consistent winning. Its variance and rikki has enough roll to counter it. He also has great discipline and good bank roll management. Me on the other hand very little bank roll management and I can’t with strong confidence put any serious amount of my hard earned money into online poker. But I watch rikki and other big names play all the time on stars. I can’t possibly grind it out for years and years to make modest money. I want big money, and I want it now (this is not an attitude of a sound poker player). From what I can piece together is the actual gamble in the game. I have watched many big tourneys and it seems that to win you need some obscene amount of luck. From what I’ve learned in college, and university you can’t improve luck. The risks that players take are scary and would be very hard for a young amateur like myself to make.
Example:
6th hand of a 6 person SNG
Blinds 25/50
3 players
Dealer, SB, BB
Flop: 9d,Jh,Qc
SB checks
BB checks
Button checks
Turn: 8s
SB bets 500 for a massive over bet
BB calls
Button re raises all-in
SB says does trips beat a straight….lol (he basically knows he’s beat here with a straight, but he has outs and calls)
BB also calls the all-in (three way all-in)
Button and BB have a 10 for a straight
SB turns over 88
River 9h
SB wins with a boat and triples up.

That is a serious fucking call with one player behind you. But again it just reaffirms the fact that you need to take big gambles with lots of chips in the pot. The SB went on to dominate that SnG which is not surprising tripling up on the 6th hand. There are some things that you can control that I think will improve your play. It may sound dumb or completing ludicrous but I’m going to state it anyway. Karma, but not karma in the sense of doing nice things for people, or donating to charity, I mean clarity of mind. You need to make some decisions with your gut, some with math, and others with observations. The only way to decipher which to use in each situation is a clear mind. If you have played any type of poker you know what I mean. You can put people on hands, make good laydowns, and get all your chips in with good odds. I would have to say any serious pro would have this ability honed very well. Right now for me it’s trying to develop it. When faced with a decision in poker, first thing that hits you in your gut. This one is easy to follow because it’s pure impulse. Next for me is my observations, how has this player played against me before, in other hands, in similar positions. Then its math, do I have the correct odds to get involved. Then it’s a three way battle in my brain to see who will make the choice. Refining this decision making process will in my mind make poker that much more elevated for the fishes out there. This is an extremely difficult task and developing it will be an adventure.

Gone Fishin

2005 review and 2006 goals

I started playing online poker seriously in the summer of 2005. Quickly realizing that “Is it possible that I’m not as good as I think I am?” I decided to take a trip to Poker capital of North America Vegas. I played low limits (1/2) and made some nice profit everyday. Which really changed my view of the difficulty of poker, and that I am as good as I thought. As for the online game nothing really monumentous happened in 2005. I made some good runs in large tournaments but never was able to finish the game. Usually making one bad move that cost me ¾ of my chips and then being forced all-in on the next few hands. I would have to say that my biggest accomplishment would be growing a bankroll of 23.00USD to just over 800.00USD. This was a great confidence booster for me and made me feel like this poker thing could actually cover some of my money woohs (booze, entertainment, women, big screen TV’s). Some things that I would like to change in 2006 are as follows:

• Posting less poker hands
• More constructive writing about poker theory and strategies
• In-depth hand analysis
  

Some major lessons that I learned in 2005 were I have little to no bankroll management. I can’t seem to play low limits when I have a massive bankroll. I can only say that this is from inexperience with poker and my hopes are to focus on improving my discipline. I will loose, I will get sucked out, and 75% of people that I play against are terrible fish.
I am starting to see the edges and advantages that present themselves at the tables. I’m finding my balls and I’m able to make some pretty outrageous bluffs. This gives me hope and confidence in that when it comes down to the crunch I have what I takes. Even though right now I have no funds, I’m reading like a champ and trying to improve my live game.

Two hands of 2005 that I will never forget (Vegas trip).

Hand One (MGM GRAND):

3 players hero holds 34o

Hero on button limps for 2$ small blind completes and BB checks

Flop comes 3K3 rainbow

SB bets 25$ BB re raises 50$ Hero Re-raises 100$

BB gets all his chips in SB calls for another 125$ hero calls for another 50$

SB holds 310o

BB holds KK

Hero loses many chips and is very shocked.

I had a friend at the table that was trying to tell me to muck my hand because the BB showed the table his hand saying how can I loose. I was on mad high thinking I was going to take down a massive pot.

Hand Two (MGM GRAND):

Unknown player comes to the table plays one hand leaves for 45 mins. Returns sits down limps in, Hero on Button calls with Q10o. Flop comes Q high unknown players thinks for 3 mins then goes all-in. I call, unknown flips AA turn rag river A just to make sure. I lost about 175$ on that pot. The very next hand I say to the dealer gimmie AA, and he gives it to me. But of course I get no action.

It's funny how I will probabley never forget these hands. You always remember you looses but you usually never remember you big wins. Unless it's a tournament.

Jo S^Y

Proof that people don't understand simple Math

Hand #1

Player 1 - I knew this player was loose. I had a note on him and his play definitely demonstrated it. He over valued his cards and does my favorite move the 7xbb raise pre flop. I’m in the BB with AJ and decided it’s time to trap him and get this fish 'N' chips. Little do I know that lady luck has a way of FUCING me…hehehe

Seat 5: GoDaDistance (2740 in chips) (terrible fish)
Seat 6: XTwoFishyX (4725 in chips)
Seat 7: 350ZR (6035 in chips)
GoDaDistance: posts small blind 75
TwoFishy: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to XTwoFishyX [Ah Jc]
350ZR: folds
GoDaDistance: calls 75
TwoFishy: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ac 7h 4d]
GoDaDistance: bets 150

(ok, simple probe bet here. Re-raise I have a fuckin strong hand cocksucker so fold.)

TwoFishy: raises 300 to 450
GoDaDistance: raises 2140 to 2590 and is all-in

(ok, you want to play lets play)

TwoFishy: calls 2140
*** TURN *** [Ac 7h 4d] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 7h 4d Js] [Tc]

(OHHHH the humanity, runner runner...hehhehe gotta love it)

*** SHOW DOWN ***
GoDaDistance: shows [Qd Kd] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
TwoFishy: shows [Ah Jc] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)

Goes all in after a re-raise with an A on the flop. The only hand that I can put him on is A7, or A4 which is quite possible, but he was super loose and I was going to pay to see what he had. I was right absolutely noTHing.

Hand#2

Monster-C: raises 80 to 100
duchendorf: calls 100
marklar85: folds
zzjet: folds
TIMLCP: folds
quanbo2000: calls 100
TwoFishy: folds
WIZBANG300: folds
pilotperk: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kd 8c Jh]
Monster-C: bets 300
duchendorf: raises 380 to 680
quanbo2000: folds
Monster-C: raises 720 to 1400 and is all-in
duchendorf: calls 480 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Kd 8c Jh] [Ad]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 8c Jh Ad] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Monster-C: shows [Kh Ac] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
duchendorf: shows [Js As] (a full house, Jacks full of Aces)

Some how this guy manages to pick up the pieces and build up a stack from 260. When it's all for nothing because lady luck has cursed him down.

Hand #3

Monster-C: raises 890 to 940 and is all-in
duchendorf: folds
marklar85: folds
zzjet: folds
TIMLCP: folds
quanbo2000: folds
TwoFishy: folds
WIZBANG300: calls 890
quanbo2000 said, "yup"
*** FLOP *** [2d Td 4s]
duchendorf said, "vs not give
****"XTwoFishyX said, "there it is"
*** TURN *** [2d Td 4s] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [2d Td 4s 5d] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WIZBANG300: shows [Ac Tc] (a straight, Ace to Five)
Monster-C: shows [Kh Kc] (a pair of Kings)

Now that's painful. Twice in one tournament.

Quote:

duchendorf said, "yes and you chose to play here becuase???"
TwoFishy said, "that's goin on my blog"
Monster-C [observer] said, "pokerstars owes me money"
XTwoFishyX said, "hahahhahah"
Monster-C [observer] said, "being beat that bad twice hurts.."
Monster-C [observer] said, "but in the same tourny!!!"
Monster-C [observer] said, "now that stings"
XTwoFishyX said, "indeed"

(some poor woman actually married this degenerate (duchendorf).)

duchendorf said, "dinner on the table and a pissy wife"
TIMLCP: bets 100
duchendorf said, "makes you varry your play"

Hand#4

Ok, here's a perfect example of the 7-10BB raise pre flop. The only thing here is the guy doing the raising has the weapons of mass destruction...

Riddler88: raises 180 to 200
LES_PAUL_MAN: calls 180
*** FLOP *** [4s Qs 9c]
Riddler88: bets 400
LES_PAUL_MAN: raises 400 to 800
Riddler88: raises 510 to 1310 and is all-in
LES_PAUL_MAN: calls 510
*** TURN *** [4s Qs 9c] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [4s Qs 9c Ks] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Riddler88: shows [Ah Ad] (a pair of Aces)

(OHHHH the humanity)

LES_PAUL_MAN: shows [Qd 4d] (two pair, Queens and Fours)

Where do these fish learn how to play!

Hand#5

LES_PAUL_MAN: raises 310 to 340 and is all
-inxxGBxx: folds
XTwoFishyX: calls 340
Dirty Donny: folds
MadMarine: folds
*** FLOP *** [2s 3c Qd]
*** TURN *** [2s 3c Qd] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [2s 3c Qd Td] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
LES_PAUL_MAN: shows [Ac 2d] (three of a kind, Deuces)
XTwoFishyX: shows [8h 8c] (two pair, Eights and Deuces)

I don't mind loosing to these fish, but all I ask is it not to be on the river! Notice it's the same loose fuck that called a 10xbb raise pre flop with Q4.

I actually won this tournament playing heads up against Dirty Donny, whom was a very loose passive player. Not my most favorite type of player to face heads up but I would rather that then a tricky one. I was very patient with him and employed a good strategy towards this type of player. I played super weak to start, folding a lot pre flop and folding to his raises (blinds were still low so we weren’t in danger of getting blinded out 100/200 with stacks at 8000 and 5000 respectively). Slowly I started to gain momentum, when I decided it’s time to get tricky. I call a raise from the button with K3 spades, thinking at least I have position post flop. I flop the 2nd nut flush and slow play it to the river. I even value bet the river 2g’s and he still called with A high (terrible fish). I then proceeded to make a great bluff that even impressed myself.

Seat 1: Dirty Donny (6240 in chips)
Seat 8: TwoFishy (7260 in chips)
Dirty Donny: posts small blind 200
TwoFishy: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Qs Jc]
Dirty Donny: raises 400 to 800
TwoFishy: calls 400

(QJ, pretty good hand here, and remember this dude was very loose. I figured to hit the flop and bet out right away and take the pot down ASAP. The flop comes very scary, straight draw, and flush draw and potential straight flush draw.)

*** FLOP *** [9d 8c 7c]
TwoFishy: checks
Dirty Donny: bets 800
TwoFishy: calls 800

(Ok, the cards don’t matter anymore. If that turn card is a club I’m going All-In.)

*** TURN *** [9d 8c 7c] [6c]

(BOO yacka, Ok lets see if he respects the check-raise all-in. BTW my favorite move hehehe)

TwoFishy: checks
Dirty Donny: bets 1200
TwoFishy: raises 4435 to 5635 and is all-in
Dirty Donny: folds

(I am the fucking Champ, J high flush draw common haha)

After that hand I start to bear down on him putting him all in pre flop and after the flop. He starts to get frisky and is pulling the all-in trigger a bit too often. I keep telling myself that I’m a better then this guy just be patient and you can trap him. I have the lead on him 5.5-1 and I gamble with Q9 vs. K5, I end up rivering him with a straight.

HAHA GG

lets raise 15% of my stack to win 1% of chips....hmmmmm

Why raise 7-10 the big blind pre flop?

Advantages

• You have a super loose player at your table
• You have a massive stack and trying to bully
• People think you are loose and you have a monster hand
• You have a monster stack and want to suckout

These are all things that would give you a reason to raise 7-10BB pre flop. Otherwise raises like this pre flop are only going to get called by monster hands and in that case you are usually dominated. I don't understand the reasoning behind this play, but I'm seeing it more and more as I play. I can honestly say that since I have started to play sit n go's at the 30$ level the skill level has dropped to that of the 10$ level. I Just started playing at these limits not less then 3 weeks ago. Which makes me think that people are still jumping on the poker ban wagon. That leads to more inexperienced players that don’t understand that calling an all-in on a gut shot draw is not a good call.

I guess I shouldn’t be upset about these moves because I know that it will be much more profitable for me when I catch a hand. I just wish I could enter the minds of some of these players and see what type of logic they are forming with a raise like this. What really errs me is that players will do this in the first three levels of blinds. Like I’m going to raise pre flop 180 with the blinds 10/20, ok I’m going to risk 12% of my chips to win 30. That is totally absurd, the only conclusion I can come up with is that I’m playing a 12 year old or this person likes the different colours of chips on the screen when he/she bets. I don’t mean to rant here; from my point of view raises like this are meaningless unless presented with the situations stated above.

- Ciao Jose Lap

Suckouts, and Biggest Tournament Yet...

Playing a 30+3 Sit N go. The most insane play I have seen so far at this level. Take a look.

1st hand of the Tournament

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [8d 4h]
ashuizinga: folds
TwoFishy: folds
bigpuffdaddy: folds
aikiman: folds
thefighting1: raises 1380 to 1400
djjdog1: folds
IBcards: folds
FcRiAvNiKc: raises 100 to 1500 and is all-in
BILLERtime: folds
thefighting1: calls 100 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [3c Ad Qd]
*** TURN *** [3c Ad Qd] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [3c Ad Qd Qh] [Kh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FcRiAvNiKc: shows [Td Js] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
thefighting1: shows [As 6h] (two pair, Aces and Queens)


4th hand of the tournament

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [7c 7h]
aikiman: folds
djjdog1: folds
IBcards: raises 100 to 120
FcRiAvNiKc: calls 120
BILLERtime: folds
ashuizinga: folds
TwoFishy: folds
bigpuffdaddy: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [7d 3h 3s]

(What a flop eh…shizzle)

bigpuffdaddy: checks
IBcards: checks
FcRiAvNiKc: checks
*** TURN *** [7d 3h 3s] [Kc]
bigpuffdaddy: checks
IBcards: checks
FcRiAvNiKc: bets 400
bigpuffdaddy: calls 400
IBcards: raises 500 to 900
FcRiAvNiKc: raises 2050 to 2950 and is all-in
bigpuffdaddy: folds
IBcards: calls 480 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [7d 3h 3s Kc] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
IBcards: shows [Ac Ks] (two pair, Kings and Threes)
FcRiAvNiKc: shows [3d 6h] (three of a kind, Threes)

5th hand of the tournament

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Td 7h]
djjdog1: calls 20
FcRiAvNiKc: raises 220 to 240
BILLERtime: folds
ashuizinga: calls 240
TwoFishy: folds
bigpuffdaddy: folds
aikiman: folds
djjdog1: folds
*** FLOP *** [As 3h 8s]
FcRiAvNiKc: checks
ashuizinga: checks
*** TURN *** [As 3h 8s] [9c]
FcRiAvNiKc: bets 180
ashuizinga: calls 180
*** RIVER *** [As 3h 8s 9c] [6d]
FcRiAvNiKc: bets 500
ashuizinga: raises 620 to 1120 and is all-in
FcRiAvNiKc: calls 620
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ashuizinga: shows [6c Ac] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
FcRiAvNiKc: shows [3c 3s] (three of a kind, Threes)

After watching this madness I decided to join a 5+.50 rebuy tournament just for fun. When the tournament starts I realize that there is 1229 fucking people in the tournament and this is just stupid to even play in it. So I buy in once and get my stack up to 10,000 in chips starting with my first runner runner.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Ac 8c]
rev93coach: calls 20
joequarry: folds
l33twingman: folds
Zec123: folds
harrythecat: raises 180 to 200
TwoFishy: calls 200
pokerall: calls 200
muckingbird: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jh 2h 3c]
harrythecat: bets 200
TwoFishy: raises 2560 to 2760 and is all-in
pokerall: folds
harrythecat: calls 2560
*** TURN *** [Jh 2h 3c] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Jh 2h 3c 5c] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***harrythecat:
shows [Ks Kd] (a pair of Kings)
TwoFishy: shows [Ac 8c] (a flush, Ace high)
muckingbird said, "ha"
TwoFishy collected 6170 from pot
TwoFishy said, "ouch"

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Qh 8h]
muckingbird: raises 60 to 80
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: calls 80
joequarry: calls 80
l33twingman: folds
Zec123: folds
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: calls 70
pokerall: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [5c 9c 7h]
TwoFishy: checks
pokerall: checks
muckingbird: checks
rev93coach: checks
joequarry: checks
*** TURN *** [5c 9c 7h] [5h]
TwoFishy: bets 240
pokerall: folds
muckingbird: folds
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: raises 240 to 480
TwoFishy: calls 240
*** RIVER *** [5c 9c 7h 5h] [2h]
TwoFishy: bets 5570 and is all-in
joequarry: calls 1480 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TwoFishy: shows [Qh 8h] (a flush, Queen high)
joequarry: shows [5s Td] (three of a kind, Fives)

Backdoor flush # 2…hehehe Oh how fun this tournament was.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Js 7c]
Zec123: calls 50
harrythecat: calls 50
TwoFishy: calls 50
Pokerall: folds
dostrove: calls 50
DALTEXTOM: calls 50
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: calls 25
l33twingman: checks
*** FLOP *** [6c 4c 7s]
joequarry: checks
l33twingman: checks
Zec123: bets 1570 and is all-in
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: calls 1570
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: calls 1570
joequarry: folds
l33twingman: folds
*** TURN *** [6c 4c 7s] [2h]
TwoFishy: bets 370
DALTEXTOM: calls 370 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [6c 4c 7s 2h] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TwoFishy: shows [Js 7c] (a pair of Sevens)
DALTEXTOM: shows [Qc 9c] (high card King)
TwoFishy collected 740 from side
potZec123: shows [6d 5d] (a pair of Sixes)

After amassing 10,000 in chips I had decided that I was going to see every flop since I had 4-1 lead in chips. I was going to be the loosest fish out there and my name and pic perfectly demonstrated it. I figured that this image was great because I know people would start to get pissed and pay me off. If I loose some fine I have a decent amount of chips to gamble with, and I’m playing this for fun right.

After loosing 4g’s to a straight Vs. top two pair I decided that this tournament was crazy and if I was going to win I’d have to over come way to many suckouts. The time to complete this thing was also a daunting task were talking upwards of 5-6 hours here. So I did the only thing a loose fish can do…ALL-IN baby!

One word these are consecutive hands…hahaha

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [8sJh]
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: calls 150
kingbeans5: folds
themexican24: calls 150
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: raises 6103 to 6253 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
joequarry: folds
themexican24: folds
TwoFishy collected 675 from pot
TwoFishy: doesn't show hand

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [4h 2c]
joequarry: folds
kingbeans5: folds
themexican24: raises 150 to 300
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: raises 6478 to 6778 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: folds
themexican24: folds
TwoFishy collected 825 from pot
TwoFishy: doesn't show hand

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Jh 8d]
themexican24: raises 150 to 300
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: raises 7003 to 7303 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: folds
kingbeans5: folds
themexican24: folds
TwoFishy collected 825 from pot
TwoFishy: doesn't show hand

How many hands do they think I can get. I better not show bluffs or this little trick won't work...

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishX [5s 5h]
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: raises 7678 to 7828 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: folds
kingbeans5: folds
themexican24: folds
TwoFishy collected 375 from pot
TwoFishy: doesn't show hand

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [2s 4s]
TwoFishy: raises 7903 to 8053 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: folds
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: folds
kingbeans5: raises 47 to 8100 and is all-in
themexican24: folds
harrythecat: folds
*** FLOP *** [3c 8c 2c]
TwoFishy said, "there is is"
*** TURN *** [3c 8c 2c] [Td]

(ahhh busted or not………………)

*** RIVER *** [3c 8c 2c Td] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TwoFishy: shows [2s 4s] (three of a kind, Deuces)
kingbeans5: shows [Kh Kc] (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
TwoFishy said, "ahhhhhhhhh shiz"
kingbeans5 said, "gosh"

After this DIRTY suckout….probably the most dirty I’ve seen since that 48o call on my previous post. I thought ok, now I have a 16,000 in chips and people think I’m loose as hell, let’s tighten up and try and get paid off.

Well I just couldn’t help my self after loosing 4000 in chips I started with the ALL-INS again.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Kc Td]
pfnm: folds
themexican24: folds
harrythecat: folds
TwoFishy: raises 11046 to 11246 and is all-in
OnlyDaNuts: folds
dostrove: folds
DALTEXTOM: calls 9324 and is all-in
rev93coach: folds
joequarry: folds
*** FLOP *** [9c Ah 2s]
*** TURN *** [9c Ah 2s] [Tc]*
** RIVER *** [9c Ah 2s Tc] [Ts]

(I think the feeling of rivering someone is very comparable to hitting the nuts off the flop. Ahhh it’s nice to be a fish sometimes)

*** SHOW DOWN ***
TwoFishy: shows [Kc Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
DALTEXTOM: shows [9s As] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
TwoFishy said, "river stars"
TwoFishy collected 18948 from pot

I then had one more suckout….it was pretty bad.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to TwoFishy [Qd 7s]
paalis: folds
brylaw1: folds
themexican24 is connected
awc0303: calls 800
Kim1b15: folds
pplmover: folds
TwoFishy: raises 2400 to 3200
ignored: folds
Liquide: folds
awc0303: raises 5330 to 8530 and is all-in
TwoFishy: calls 5330
*** FLOP *** [5h 7d 9c]
*** TURN *** [5h 7d 9c] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [5h 7d 9c 4h] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
awc0303: shows [Ad Qs] (high card Ace)
TwoFishy: shows [Qd 7s] (a pair of Sevens)
ignored said, "ul"
TwoFishy collected 18660 from pot
ignored said, "gg"
Wpalango [observer] said, "lucky"

After this hand I managed to amass about 50,000 in chips and got moved to a new table where I was picking up blinds here and there. I was able to make some good bluffs for considerable amounts of chips that kept me over 10xBB. I finally went out after about 3.5 hours when I pushed all-in 1 behind the dealer with K7o for 54,000. Looking at the move now I could see that I was kind of a bad move. The blinds were at 2000/4000 with 200 ante, and I just wanted a steal. The SB calls me for HALF his stack with QJ, like there’s just under 100 people left and this guy risks half his stack on QJ. I guess I shouldn’t be angry though I had my luck in the tourney. That’s the problem with these low buy-in tourneys you get some pretty fishy players…including me hahaha. All in all I made 40.00 bones, and I had a real fun time playing. I realize that in these types of tournaments with over 1000 participants you need to push and get lucky, playing almost any two cards. Once you get a huge stack you have to bully, bully, bully. Threaten people with there tournament life. I found my self chasing cards to the river just for implied odds and was catching. Once you reach the final 100 or so people the tournament changes to stealing blinds and re-steals. Although it’s all about the entertainment value…my EV

FISH

New Game Plan

I’ve reassessed some things about poker. Why do I play poker? I’d say 50% of the reason is to make some extra money. 25% would be entertainment I would rather play some poker then sit in front of the life sucker box (television). The last 25% would have to be the challenge of the game. I really find it a pretty cerebral game and I need to improve my critical thinking skills. So with all this considered how can I make this poker thing more profitable. In all the poker blogs and poker books that I've read the main focus is hourly rate. How much money are you going to pull in per hour? I can tell you now my hourly rate is not that bad some times. But other times it’s fucking terrible. For example when I play a 20+2 180 sit n go, they will last on average of 3 hours or more if I were to make the final table, if I don’t make final table I double my money so that’s 18/3 = 6$ per hour. I’m not going to make any car payments with that kind of hourly rate.

Another consideration is ring games. I’ve played at limits from .01/. 02 to .50/1.00 and I have had mediocre success. The suckouts are almost every other hand and I can’t deal with it. There are too many inexperienced players at these levels and getting reads on them in just pointless. So I need to make money where I can play my best. I consider myself to be a better then average tournament player. Almost all the books that I’ve read are on tournament strategy so it only makes sense that’s where I will improve.

Last night I tried for the first time playing 6 sit n go’s at once. My buddy Rikkidee does this quite often with fairly good success rate. I’m starting at the lowest limits so that I can get the hang of it. Let me tell you it’s extremely fast paced. I find I need to block out everything that I’m doing and I can’t have one distraction while playing. This lasts for about ¾ to 1 hour. At that point I am usually down to 4 or less tables. The pace is dramatically decreased and I can focus a little more on each game.

Advantages:

· Increase hourly rate (most important)
· Don’t play many mediocre hands that get me in trouble (low pocket pairs, suited connectors, Ax)
· Increase my decision making skills (I’m making a decision about every 3-6 seconds)
· I usually make it down to 4-5 players just due to the fact I don’t play anything but strong hands (this will change though once I get to high limits)

Disadvantages:

· I don’t get any reads one players (not really a disadvantage because I’m playing such a short game and no one really pays attention to image @ this level)
· I don’t get to be tricky (some times fun but also dangerous)
· If I’m not totally focused I can lose a fair chunk of change
· My fucking monitor’s are too small and some times I click the wrong button due to the fact I have 6 tables on a 15” monitor (now that’s costly when you call a 6xbb raise pre flop with 36)
· I can only play poker (which is not a bad thing really)


So there you have it, this is my new challenge multi tabling tournament games. I’m going to give this a good effort because I think it can really work for me.

Math

Level 1

1st = 22.50
2nd = 13.50
3rd = 9.00

Cost = 6 tables @ 5. + .50 = 33.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = 36.00 + 3.00

I know that I’m not going to make any kind of money at these stakes but this is how I’m going to learn. If I can break even I will be happy for my first 2-3 hundred sit n go’s.

Level 2

1st = 45.00
2nd = 27.00
3rd = 18.00

Cost = 6 tables @ 10+1 = 66.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = 72.00 + 6.00

This level may be a little more profitable but still the players at this level are pretty shitty. I have to finish in the money 4 out of 6 which is pretty difficult playing this pace.

Level 3

1st = 90.00
2nd = 54.00
3rd = 36.00

Cost = 6 tables @ 20+2 = 132.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = 145.00 + 13.00

There is some room for money to be made here. The players are a little better and finishing in the money 4 out of 6 will be considerable profit for about 1.5 hours of work.
[(1, 2, 3, 3) = 84.00 profit not to shabby and this is accomplishable]

Level 4

1st = 135.00
2nd = 81.00
3rd = 54.00

Cost = 6 tables @ 30+3 = 198.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = 216.00 + 18.00

Here is where it starts to get a little difficult. But the chance for profit greatly increases. Say if I were to have 4, 3rd's I still would finish +20.00 and the odds of not winning one tournament is pretty unlikely (I may be over estimating my skill but I think I should get 1 top finish). Players at this level are not bad, but take big risks for their entire stack. Which I should be able to take full advantage of early in the game because I’m only playing premium hands.

Level 5

1st = 225.00
2nd = 135.00
3rd = 90.00

Cost = 6 tables @ 50+5 = 330.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = 360.00 + 30.00

This level is a long time coming. But you see, as I get higher in stakes, getting that 1st and 2nd will still be profitable. Although at this level the games usually last much longer and players are pretty tight. This is where I can take advantage in later stages of the game with steals, and re-steals.

1,2,3,3 = 210.00 profit that’s an insane hourly rate
1,1,2,3 = 345.00 again you can see how this can be quite profitable

This is quite difficult to accomplish but I just want to show you some numbers here.

Level 6

1st = 472.00
2nd = 283.00
3rd = 189.00


Cost = 6 tables @ 100+9 = 654.00 (one 1st and one 2nd to break even) = + 101.00

This is the final goal. But there is one other problem at levels 4,5, and 6 the tournaments don’t fill up as quickly as the lower levels. I have to combined levels once I reach them. At this level players are extremely good, and playing 6 tables at once will require extreme concentration. Hopefully one day I will able to reach Zen poker and play 6 109.00 sit n go’s at once…hehe

Now that’s a fucking ridiculous long post…

GG