Two Bodonkeys to be exact. I played in both the past week. I was able to make it to the final table in both but in two totally different ways. On Tuesday I was the short stack the whole tournament. Over the last three tables it seemed that my only move was to shove my constant 10bb stack. I ended up busting out in 9th place on the money bubble.
Thursday's event was the exact opposite. From the get go I had hands and when I didn't I never was played back at. In the first two levels I had it up to nearly 4k from the 2500 starting stack without showing down many hands. I hung around the 4500 mark when in a 3-4 hand stretch I was sitting in 14k when the second biggest stack was 6k. The first hand was against a stack that was about 2k less than me. I had 9,9 and raised and he called. The flop comes 4,4,2 and I lead out. He shoves for around 3x my raise and I call. He has the under pair (6,6) and my hand holds. A couple hands later I pick-up 8,8 and raise it up. I get 3-bet from one of the blinds and I flat. The flop comes 8,x,xddd. The blind shove and I snap call. He has the A,A without the Ad and I am now on the big stack.
I was able to take down 2-3 hands per lap after that occasionally having to fold to some 3-bets. When we made the final table I had around 16k and was around 2nd or 3rd in chips. Nzgreen also made the final table on the short stack. Twice he 3-bet my opening raise and I had to fold. The last time he ran into A,K and was busted.
With seven people left and Waffles t109 bounty still up for grabs he raises UTG to 1800 with around 4k behind. I am OTB with J,J and 14k behind and raise it up just short of what he had. It folds back to him and he ships. He tables K,Q off and we are off to the races, till the first card that hits the board, the K. There goes the t109 freeroll flip. I was knocked down to around 6k after that hand and ended up busting out in 7th shortly after that good for my buy-in back.
It has been a while since I have had the early stack. Its fun to raise every other hand and play the bully. I will be back next week.
On a side note AIPS did not go as well for me. I did manage to get my stack up to 6500 from the 3k starting stack at the first break. Most of my chips came in one hand where I called a raise with K,Qhh. Flop comes X,X,Xhhh and the raiser ships 6x the pot in and I call. I expected to see the naked Ah here but he had the A,A without the heart. In the second hour I was moved to HeffMike's table. He was in the big stack. I lost a little over half my chips to him when I called his UTG raise with 9,9 from the BB. On a K,K,4 flop I check raised half my stack and he put me all-in. I folded. It was all downhill from there and ended up busting not long after that.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
I guess I remember something
Last night at about 5 to 9, I logged on to Facebook and saw someone's status remark something about an AIPS event. Well I had nothing to do and I seem to remember liking to play poker, so I played. I think all in all there were 77 runners after the late registration. Started fairly slow in this one.
Not much going early, the I saw a cheap flop in the SB with 47h. I think blinds were 30/60 at this point. Flop came KQJ all hearts. There were four people in, so I checked figuring someone hit a piece and would try and take it. Sure enough BB bets, fold, button calls, and I repop to a little more then 3x the original raise. BB smooth calls and then the button shoves. I saw him do this on a few other flush boards, so I closed my eyes and called, BB got out of the way. Button had A10 with the 10h, flopped broadway with an OESFD. Not bad but I run goot. I immediately piss those chips away getting aggressive with AK on a missed flop with bad texture for a tight player. Fold, fold, fold. Chip up a little here and there. Eventually shove AJ UTG at a 6 handed table, blinds 300-600 I had about 5000 and the BB wakes up with QQ. However AJ is gold everytime and I win.
After that I did a nice job stealing and being agressive near the money bubble. I was able to chip up to over 20K around the bubble. Unfotunately even for a deepstack tourny, 2.5 hours in no one had much room to play with. We get near the final table bubble and I go completely card dead. My biggest mistake during this period was not being aggressive anough post flop against a player who was willing to call whenever he had chips in the pot. I left a few opportunities to take pots from him on the felt so to speak and it cost me. I ended up getting blinded off too much and shoved K10 into AA on the final table bubble. My run goot skillz had run out and I was done. Still not a bad effort for the first return in a long while. Pretty happy with the way I played, but definately see some areas that need work.
I think I will be in AC the night before Thanksgiving. Why drive when you can get a cheap room and get drinks for a buck in a 50 dollar tournament? I got an idea, maybe I'll write a trip report! Snuffy whaddya think? That is of course if I can remember anything that happens, cause well, poker is going to be the vehicle to drink, not the purpose of the evening. We'll see how that goes.
Not much going early, the I saw a cheap flop in the SB with 47h. I think blinds were 30/60 at this point. Flop came KQJ all hearts. There were four people in, so I checked figuring someone hit a piece and would try and take it. Sure enough BB bets, fold, button calls, and I repop to a little more then 3x the original raise. BB smooth calls and then the button shoves. I saw him do this on a few other flush boards, so I closed my eyes and called, BB got out of the way. Button had A10 with the 10h, flopped broadway with an OESFD. Not bad but I run goot. I immediately piss those chips away getting aggressive with AK on a missed flop with bad texture for a tight player. Fold, fold, fold. Chip up a little here and there. Eventually shove AJ UTG at a 6 handed table, blinds 300-600 I had about 5000 and the BB wakes up with QQ. However AJ is gold everytime and I win.
After that I did a nice job stealing and being agressive near the money bubble. I was able to chip up to over 20K around the bubble. Unfotunately even for a deepstack tourny, 2.5 hours in no one had much room to play with. We get near the final table bubble and I go completely card dead. My biggest mistake during this period was not being aggressive anough post flop against a player who was willing to call whenever he had chips in the pot. I left a few opportunities to take pots from him on the felt so to speak and it cost me. I ended up getting blinded off too much and shoved K10 into AA on the final table bubble. My run goot skillz had run out and I was done. Still not a bad effort for the first return in a long while. Pretty happy with the way I played, but definately see some areas that need work.
I think I will be in AC the night before Thanksgiving. Why drive when you can get a cheap room and get drinks for a buck in a 50 dollar tournament? I got an idea, maybe I'll write a trip report! Snuffy whaddya think? That is of course if I can remember anything that happens, cause well, poker is going to be the vehicle to drink, not the purpose of the evening. We'll see how that goes.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Steady As She Goes
So far its been smooth sailing in the double or nothings. Its been a long time since I have found something that has been profitable over a long period of time. Here is the graph so far (click to enlarge):
Fairly consistent with no significant downswings. I will take it. I have to admit that it is quite a grind though. I have days where I want to play as much as possible like yesterday. Other days I don't want to see a single hand of poker. Once I add about another $70 to the roll I will be able to move up to the $10 ones. Per loser64, the quality of play at that level is the same. We shall see.
Fairly consistent with no significant downswings. I will take it. I have to admit that it is quite a grind though. I have days where I want to play as much as possible like yesterday. Other days I don't want to see a single hand of poker. Once I add about another $70 to the roll I will be able to move up to the $10 ones. Per loser64, the quality of play at that level is the same. We shall see.
Monday, November 17, 2008
What Have I Learned After 30 Days
Here was the final tally:
Overall: 41-23
Total Profit: $76.90
ROI: 23%
I managed to never have a losing day throughout the challenge. I loaded everything into Poker Tracker 3 and will post up a graph when I get back home later in the week. I haven't gone through any hand analysis as of yet. I think the only thing worth looking into are some of my hands and what I did with them in the first two levels. After that hands play themselves.
I played another one tonight that was kinda interesting. When we reached the 125/250 level we still had all 10 people left and the shortest stack was still over 1000. Every once in a while you run into one of these. Hopefully not often otherwise I am going to have to rethink this prop bet :)
Congrats to NZ for his 2nd straight deep run in the Cake $100k Sunday tournament. One of these days you will win the flip late which will be the difference between a $1k cash and a $25k cash. You can see his profile from his recent Mookie win here.
Don't forget Tuesday is the main event of the Corporation Poker Tour. It should pretty much be a victory lap for Blazman and his likely season four title.
Overall: 41-23
Total Profit: $76.90
ROI: 23%
I managed to never have a losing day throughout the challenge. I loaded everything into Poker Tracker 3 and will post up a graph when I get back home later in the week. I haven't gone through any hand analysis as of yet. I think the only thing worth looking into are some of my hands and what I did with them in the first two levels. After that hands play themselves.
I played another one tonight that was kinda interesting. When we reached the 125/250 level we still had all 10 people left and the shortest stack was still over 1000. Every once in a while you run into one of these. Hopefully not often otherwise I am going to have to rethink this prop bet :)
Congrats to NZ for his 2nd straight deep run in the Cake $100k Sunday tournament. One of these days you will win the flip late which will be the difference between a $1k cash and a $25k cash. You can see his profile from his recent Mookie win here.
Don't forget Tuesday is the main event of the Corporation Poker Tour. It should pretty much be a victory lap for Blazman and his likely season four title.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Prop Bet Anyone???
A am thinking about putting together a prop bet for the month of January. I want to play 1000 double or nothing sng's on Poker Stars. I want to see what kind of odds I can get from people. Here would be some of the stipulations. Feel free to add some that you think would be needed.
1. Money would be held in escrow by an agreed upon third party.
2. Odds of the bet would be 5-1 (your $5 to my $1, this may be negotiable).
3. I will take action in increments of $5.
4. scottc25 on Pokerstars will start on January 1, 2009, 12:00:00 server time and end January 31, 2009 at 11:59:59 server time. All sng's started in this time frame count.
5. I will play only $5 turbo double or nothings.
6. I will show a profit.
7. The minimum number of sng's completed will be at least 1000 (meaning I can do more). If I fail to play 1000 in the month I automatically lose the bet.
8. All stats will be tracked via Poker Tracker 3. I will provide copies of the database to the bettors.
9. Anything else????????????
Let me add a couple of items that may make this more difficult. I have a full-time job so playing all day every day is not an options for me. I can always squeeze in some games during lunch and slow times. I have a 2 1/2 year old that requires a LOT of time. That is all.
1. Money would be held in escrow by an agreed upon third party.
2. Odds of the bet would be 5-1 (your $5 to my $1, this may be negotiable).
3. I will take action in increments of $5.
4. scottc25 on Pokerstars will start on January 1, 2009, 12:00:00 server time and end January 31, 2009 at 11:59:59 server time. All sng's started in this time frame count.
5. I will play only $5 turbo double or nothings.
6. I will show a profit.
7. The minimum number of sng's completed will be at least 1000 (meaning I can do more). If I fail to play 1000 in the month I automatically lose the bet.
8. All stats will be tracked via Poker Tracker 3. I will provide copies of the database to the bettors.
9. Anything else????????????
Let me add a couple of items that may make this more difficult. I have a full-time job so playing all day every day is not an options for me. I can always squeeze in some games during lunch and slow times. I have a 2 1/2 year old that requires a LOT of time. That is all.
Friday, November 14, 2008
The Perfect Storm
Or how not to play online poker for over a month. OK, so I'm not dead. I have not fled the country. I'm not in a gimp box at the bottom of a pawn shop. I promise. Mostly. So here's what the hell happened. There's nothing earth shattering here just a series of events that conspired to make me play zero online poker or really care about playing it at all.
Problem 1: Right before Snuffy flew in the first weekend in October to hit up AC, I took a ball smashing at the virtual felt. Probably the biggest downswing I've had all year. So I was looking forward to playing live, it was fun, I played decent. Note to Snuffy: The trip report is long gone. I suck. Hire better writers next time. Problem 2: Right before that MrsSnarf started back to work full time hence putting the child in daycare. Sed child who was sleeping through the night decided it was time to get up every 2-2.5 hours once Mom and Dad both had to work. Problem 3: My baseball team was starting a run into the post season. I have watched so many piece of shit Phillies teams over the years that I relish evey postseason game. Watching Wayne Gomes, Travis Lee, Bruce Chen, Kevin Cefcik, and every other piece of crap you can think of, makes you appreciate playoff runs more then you can possibly understand. Now you couple the fact that these games didn't finish til after midnight with Problem 2 and my ass was dragging. Problem 4: Work blew up. Without going into the gory details of my ever exciting computer programming job, we basically had an outside vendor in with the hardware we had to interface with. They were here for 2 weeks, which meant 2 weeks of almost 50 hours on top of Problem 2 and Problem 3.
So after all that to say online poker was the last thing on my mind may be the understatement of the century. My Wii traveled to the shore with us Labor Day weekend, it didn't get plugged back in until last Friday. I finally got to play CHIMPO-CORPO-POKER Series on Tuesday and I think I'm going to start playing more now. Here's my latest delimma. I don't know what I want to play. I need to rebuild the roll a little bit but the thought of grinding out cash game wins is about as unappealing as changing shit filled diapers. If I just stick to blogger mtts, my roll will continue to disappear. Maybe it's time to get back in the SNG swing. Not sure. Maybe I just need a good cash game session under my belt to feel better. We'll see, but hopefully you will be seeing me back at the virtual felt. Probably not nearly as much as I used to be, but that's OK with me at this point.
Oh yeah, and I didn't watch a single second of WSOP coverage on ESPN. Not one episode. But that's another post for another day.
Problem 1: Right before Snuffy flew in the first weekend in October to hit up AC, I took a ball smashing at the virtual felt. Probably the biggest downswing I've had all year. So I was looking forward to playing live, it was fun, I played decent. Note to Snuffy: The trip report is long gone. I suck. Hire better writers next time. Problem 2: Right before that MrsSnarf started back to work full time hence putting the child in daycare. Sed child who was sleeping through the night decided it was time to get up every 2-2.5 hours once Mom and Dad both had to work. Problem 3: My baseball team was starting a run into the post season. I have watched so many piece of shit Phillies teams over the years that I relish evey postseason game. Watching Wayne Gomes, Travis Lee, Bruce Chen, Kevin Cefcik, and every other piece of crap you can think of, makes you appreciate playoff runs more then you can possibly understand. Now you couple the fact that these games didn't finish til after midnight with Problem 2 and my ass was dragging. Problem 4: Work blew up. Without going into the gory details of my ever exciting computer programming job, we basically had an outside vendor in with the hardware we had to interface with. They were here for 2 weeks, which meant 2 weeks of almost 50 hours on top of Problem 2 and Problem 3.
So after all that to say online poker was the last thing on my mind may be the understatement of the century. My Wii traveled to the shore with us Labor Day weekend, it didn't get plugged back in until last Friday. I finally got to play CHIMPO-CORPO-POKER Series on Tuesday and I think I'm going to start playing more now. Here's my latest delimma. I don't know what I want to play. I need to rebuild the roll a little bit but the thought of grinding out cash game wins is about as unappealing as changing shit filled diapers. If I just stick to blogger mtts, my roll will continue to disappear. Maybe it's time to get back in the SNG swing. Not sure. Maybe I just need a good cash game session under my belt to feel better. We'll see, but hopefully you will be seeing me back at the virtual felt. Probably not nearly as much as I used to be, but that's OK with me at this point.
Oh yeah, and I didn't watch a single second of WSOP coverage on ESPN. Not one episode. But that's another post for another day.
Ouch
Well I got kicked in the fuckin' junk in the Bodonkey again last night. For the second straight tournament I ran KK into AA. Tuesday night was still with three tables to go and last night it was nearing the final table and I busted in 11th. I was glad to see guest blogger nzgreen final table a blogger event for the second night in a row.The double or nothings at the beginning of yesterday were a dumpster fire. I went 1-2 in the first two sets and then decided to 5-table and went 2-3. I have come to realize that I am not advanced enough to play that many at a time. I can follow the action just fine but I can't follow where I am at in it in relation to the other stacks. I guess I will stick to three tabling a little longer.
I was fortunate enough to have a nice turnaround at the end of the night. I had a 2-1 and then while railing nzgreen at the final table I was able to put in a 3-0 sweep and ended up making a whopping $1.30 on the day.
Day 26: 2-1
Day 28: 9-8
Overall: 41-23
Total Profit: $76.90
ROI: 23%
Here is a little graph. The beginning isn't completely accurate cause I bunched wins and losses for the first 15 together.
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