Tuesday, May 18, 2010
PokerSlut Tour Win
Sorta. SmBoatDrinks and myself chopped it up when we reached heads-up. Since I had more chips when we chopped it shows me first but we were within 1k of each other when it ended. I have better things to do than play out a $5 tournament. Looking good on the bets for this season so far.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
PokerSlut Tour XVIII Limit Holdem
Time for that slow painful death spiral known as limit poker.
Enjoy.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Step 3 Line Check
Six people left and we are on the bubble for the step 4 ticket. A redo is already locked-up.
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 250/500 Blinds (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO (t2930)
Hero (Button) (t3220)
SB (t7135)
BB (t6760)
UTG (t4275)
MP (t2680)
Hero's M: 4.29
Preflop: Hero is Button with A
, Q
1 fold, MP bets t2680 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero ?????
If MP wins the blinds they will move up and I will be 5th out of 6 (slightly ahead of cutoff). What's your play????
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 250/500 Blinds (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO (t2930)
Hero (Button) (t3220)
SB (t7135)
BB (t6760)
UTG (t4275)
MP (t2680)
Hero's M: 4.29
Preflop: Hero is Button with A
, Q1 fold, MP bets t2680 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero ?????
If MP wins the blinds they will move up and I will be 5th out of 6 (slightly ahead of cutoff). What's your play????
Friday, May 14, 2010
Canadia
I am up in the Buffalo / Niagara Falls area so I was able to put in a live session yesterday at Casino Niagara, also known as the red-headed step child to Fallsview Niagara Casino. Casino Niagara was the original one in town until the new casino was built a handful of years ago. Casino Niagara has the 1/2 game and Fallsview has 2/5 5/10 and 10/25 games. When I got there they had 4 1/2 games going and was put on the list in 14th spot. Luclily there were a number of call-ins ahead of me and they opened a new game within 15 minutes of arriving.
Thanks to Canadian casino guerrilla math my $100USD was good for $97CDN (good addendum to this story later), so I bought in for the full $97. In the second lap at the table I had limped 86ss and it was raised to $15 so I pitched it. Very next hand I get 86hh and limp again only to see it raised to $10. I played it vs the crasian raiser and we saw the flop 3 ways of K88. HE leads for $15, I call and the other player folds. Turn is a 4 and he grabs a stack of reds to put me all in. I call for the $75 or so in front of me and he turns over AK which doesn't improve and I get an early double.
I sat on $200 for quite a while folding like the nit that I am. I picked up QQ on the button vs an aggro 20's player. First hand that I saw him play he raised to $6 with K5 off, flop top and bottom pair and check the flop and turn before finally betting the river when he was behind. I flatted his $12 raise (he had $42 behind) and we took the flop heads-up. Flop comes Kxx and he checks. I bet out $25 and he shoves for his $42. I call, he doesn't show and the board runs out xQ and I flip over the set and river his KJ. Meh, ahead pre-flop, right?
Not long after that hand I play a pot vs the other tough tricky player at the table 3 seats to my right. He was a solid player, knowing when he can steal, etc but I had position on him and used it a number of times before this hand played out. The 20's kid opened to $6 again and tricky guy called and I called with AQ from the blinds. Flop comes 10,5,2 and 20's checks, tricky bets $12 with most likely air, I flat and 20's gets out of the way. There is the spot where I think I can throw in a check-raise to win the pot, and that's exactly what I SHOULD have done, but didn't. Turn pairs the 10, I check and he bets $22. I'm thinking over the hand and I really really don't think he has the 10 in that spot. Just the way he bet seemed like he had air. I tanked to a bit and decided to call and plan on calling most river bets with my ace high. If he valuetowns me with a 5 or something goofy like that so be it. The $30 river call when the Q hit made it much easier. He ended up having a weaker ace than I did. He said "you are not calling unless the Q (or A) hits the river, right?" I told him that I was pretty sure I was calling a river bet.
That hand took me north of $300 and an almost guaranteed winning session as the biggest stack at the table was only around $150 or so. The last significant pot was vs a younger kid who raised to $6 pre and I called with 76ss. Flop comes A24ss. I call his $8 cbet and call $15 when the Jc hits the turn. An interesting 3s hits the river and he fires $25 (leaving $30 behind). I don't think he can value bet an ace or some odd two pair there. I opt just to call thinking I'm going to see a bigger flush. Nope, he rivered two pair (presumably A3) and I take the pot. I really suck at extracting max value in these hands and I apparently give 1/2 players waaaay too much credit.
I played for a couple laps after that and got up with $390 for a nice profit on the day for 4 hours or work or so. Later on in the night I went to Fallsview and played my favorite 1c 100 play video poker (winning $6) only to lose a total of $30 over there on random shit (including ice cream). When I take my $360CDN to the cashier I get back $349.25USD. The fucking get you coming and going. Can we please tie the US and Canadian dollar together for once, similar to the Bahamian dollar? One time!
Oh yeah, also played Mini-FTOPS Stud8 last night. I hung within 1k of the starting stack for over two hours before losing a bit pot and losing my internet connection back to back. In total it dropped 3 times and was slow the rest of the time. Right before the 3rd break I got the internet working again and had 1k left. In back to back hands I upped it to 2100 only to spew it back to 700 the last hand before the break. I called it quits and went to bed.
Thanks to Canadian casino guerrilla math my $100USD was good for $97CDN (good addendum to this story later), so I bought in for the full $97. In the second lap at the table I had limped 86ss and it was raised to $15 so I pitched it. Very next hand I get 86hh and limp again only to see it raised to $10. I played it vs the crasian raiser and we saw the flop 3 ways of K88. HE leads for $15, I call and the other player folds. Turn is a 4 and he grabs a stack of reds to put me all in. I call for the $75 or so in front of me and he turns over AK which doesn't improve and I get an early double.
I sat on $200 for quite a while folding like the nit that I am. I picked up QQ on the button vs an aggro 20's player. First hand that I saw him play he raised to $6 with K5 off, flop top and bottom pair and check the flop and turn before finally betting the river when he was behind. I flatted his $12 raise (he had $42 behind) and we took the flop heads-up. Flop comes Kxx and he checks. I bet out $25 and he shoves for his $42. I call, he doesn't show and the board runs out xQ and I flip over the set and river his KJ. Meh, ahead pre-flop, right?
Not long after that hand I play a pot vs the other tough tricky player at the table 3 seats to my right. He was a solid player, knowing when he can steal, etc but I had position on him and used it a number of times before this hand played out. The 20's kid opened to $6 again and tricky guy called and I called with AQ from the blinds. Flop comes 10,5,2 and 20's checks, tricky bets $12 with most likely air, I flat and 20's gets out of the way. There is the spot where I think I can throw in a check-raise to win the pot, and that's exactly what I SHOULD have done, but didn't. Turn pairs the 10, I check and he bets $22. I'm thinking over the hand and I really really don't think he has the 10 in that spot. Just the way he bet seemed like he had air. I tanked to a bit and decided to call and plan on calling most river bets with my ace high. If he valuetowns me with a 5 or something goofy like that so be it. The $30 river call when the Q hit made it much easier. He ended up having a weaker ace than I did. He said "you are not calling unless the Q (or A) hits the river, right?" I told him that I was pretty sure I was calling a river bet.
That hand took me north of $300 and an almost guaranteed winning session as the biggest stack at the table was only around $150 or so. The last significant pot was vs a younger kid who raised to $6 pre and I called with 76ss. Flop comes A24ss. I call his $8 cbet and call $15 when the Jc hits the turn. An interesting 3s hits the river and he fires $25 (leaving $30 behind). I don't think he can value bet an ace or some odd two pair there. I opt just to call thinking I'm going to see a bigger flush. Nope, he rivered two pair (presumably A3) and I take the pot. I really suck at extracting max value in these hands and I apparently give 1/2 players waaaay too much credit.
I played for a couple laps after that and got up with $390 for a nice profit on the day for 4 hours or work or so. Later on in the night I went to Fallsview and played my favorite 1c 100 play video poker (winning $6) only to lose a total of $30 over there on random shit (including ice cream). When I take my $360CDN to the cashier I get back $349.25USD. The fucking get you coming and going. Can we please tie the US and Canadian dollar together for once, similar to the Bahamian dollar? One time!
Oh yeah, also played Mini-FTOPS Stud8 last night. I hung within 1k of the starting stack for over two hours before losing a bit pot and losing my internet connection back to back. In total it dropped 3 times and was slow the rest of the time. Right before the 3rd break I got the internet working again and had 1k left. In back to back hands I upped it to 2100 only to spew it back to 700 the last hand before the break. I called it quits and went to bed.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
SCOOP Cash
Decided on a whim to play Event 24 low today which was $11 2-7 Triple Draw. A touch over 3000 runners and it paid 450 spots. Two hours in it was up and down the leaderboard. I easily slid into a cash with around 20k playing 1k/2k. The hand that crippled me I had a made 8 after the second draw and my opponent had 1 1/2 bets left and got it in and drew 1 to a wheel on the end.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Second Verse, Almost Like The First
I think I can say that the first go around playing the steps on Full Tilt was a smashing success for me. I was able to accumulate 4 step 4 tickets (still have 1 left). The 3 that I played I won 2 $750k seats good for T$216 each and lasted a single hand in a step 4. Right now I have around T$400 in the account.
The next thing I think I'm going to do is invest 10 buy-ins directly into the step 2's and try and build them into more step 4's. Where I go from there is kinda up in the air. I will most likely play $750k satellites till I hit one. After that I might try and build one up to a step 6 or I might try and satellite into the $1k WSOP qualifier with a step 4. If I were to hit that one it would be awfully tough for me to play it and pass up on T$1060. If I don't play one I guess I can't win a WSOP seat though.
The next thing I think I'm going to do is invest 10 buy-ins directly into the step 2's and try and build them into more step 4's. Where I go from there is kinda up in the air. I will most likely play $750k satellites till I hit one. After that I might try and build one up to a step 6 or I might try and satellite into the $1k WSOP qualifier with a step 4. If I were to hit that one it would be awfully tough for me to play it and pass up on T$1060. If I don't play one I guess I can't win a WSOP seat though.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Steps Progress
Looks like I haven posted any progress in the last few days. Like I thought I would be way too tired for the Mookie Wednesday night since I ended up getting home around 2am late Tuesday night / Wednesday morning. SCOOP sucked. I had my starting stack at the end of the first hour. In hour two I called a raise with KQ and rivered two pair on a K55XQ board. After calling the bet on the river I just knew I was going to see AA and my guess was correct. I lost half my stack there. The other half I lost right before the 2nd hour break.
Steps have been OK to me. I decided to play a satellite to the $750k to try and get something for the effort. The satellite only had 13 runners and paid 4 seats with 5th getting $33. Early on there was a player to by right raising every blind vs blind hand. I took a stand in the 2nd level and shipped 1010. He found a call with Q10 and I held to get an early double. We hit the final table shortly after that and I think I played a grand total of two hands there and won the seat and T$216.
Right now I have the following:
Step 4 - 2
Step 3 - 1
This weekend I am going to try and get that 3rd step 4 and the go ahead and play one and probably play a $750K satellite with one more and then start from the beginning to get more 4's. If all else fails near the end of the WSOP satellites I will either try and get to a step 5 and play a $216 sat the the main event or play a $75 to get into the $330 or the $1k WSOP satellite. Only time will tell but I like the progress so far.
Steps have been OK to me. I decided to play a satellite to the $750k to try and get something for the effort. The satellite only had 13 runners and paid 4 seats with 5th getting $33. Early on there was a player to by right raising every blind vs blind hand. I took a stand in the 2nd level and shipped 1010. He found a call with Q10 and I held to get an early double. We hit the final table shortly after that and I think I played a grand total of two hands there and won the seat and T$216.
Right now I have the following:
Step 4 - 2
Step 3 - 1
This weekend I am going to try and get that 3rd step 4 and the go ahead and play one and probably play a $750K satellite with one more and then start from the beginning to get more 4's. If all else fails near the end of the WSOP satellites I will either try and get to a step 5 and play a $216 sat the the main event or play a $75 to get into the $330 or the $1k WSOP satellite. Only time will tell but I like the progress so far.
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