I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Things around my house were absolutely nuts with a million kids and friends and family. Online poker was definately something on the back burner over the last week or so, but I did manage to get in a few hours.
In general, I have been stinkin' it up at PS in the 50NL cash games. Call with suited connectors, don't hit. Raise with Jacks, have and Ace and a Queen hit the flop. It's not like I am getting no cards, I just don't seem to be hitting anything. The icing on the cake yesterday was when I was 4-tabling and ended up all-in on the flop on 2 tables at the same time with top set, only to get sucked out with flushes and straights on both and lose 2 buy-ins in 5 seconds.
On Full Tilt, things are ok, I am down a little on the cash games, but the times that I have lost money with big hands, I have been behind when the money got in. On the 24th, the big blow was having pocket aces, and calling a 5xBB raise on the button from a player in middle position. I am thinking AK or AQ. Flop comes out Q93rainbow, we get all of the money in, he has a set of 9s. Ick. No suckout for me, there goes 1 buy-in.
I haven't gone below my $2k achievement at any time, but I was at one point at almost $2,200, and now am currently at:
PS: $554
FT: $1,513
Total: $2,067
It's not bad considering the all-in losses that I have had in the last week.
I will make January goals on the 31st of the month, as well as post my New Year's resolution(s) as well. I hope all is well with your families, and I shall post a couple more times this year and update you on my status.
Thanks for reading, Merry Christmas.
Ryan
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Back from Vegas
Vegas was a great time, went with both of my parents, no wife, no kids, no work or other stresses to worry about for four days. It was wonderful.
All in all, the poker played during the trip was almost uneventful. I was up a whopping $300 for the trip. My biggest hands of the trip were:
1) Flopping quad 4s in a raised pot with a K44 flop, getting paid on the flop and turn by 2 guys holding AA and AK, and then paid on the river by the AA guy again who rivered the 4-flush. Also got a modest $100 for the high hand jackpot.
2) Big blind special 53cc with the flop 2c4c9d, got it all in postflop against a guy with Kings who didn't raise preflop. Hit my flush on the turn.
3) Flopped a set of 7s on a board of AK7. Got paid nice by a guy with top 2.
Worst hand of the trip was when I raised with KTcc from middle position and got 2 callers. Flop comes out TT5. Bet, raise, call. Turn come a Q. We get all the month in, he has AT. Ick. Sick cooler there.
Other bad one was flopping a set of queens on a KQ9 board, playing very agressive, and getting rivered by a T with a guy calling the whole way with AJ. What the??
All in all, I thought I played pretty well. Made a few good value bets, a couple of timely bluffs. Could have easily been up $1k or so if a couple of things go my way.
I return to the land of online poker for the next few weeks, and there will not be any live poker in the near future here.
Quick update of bankroll status:
FT: $1,426
PS: $732
Total bankroll: $2,158
Back to the grind. See you all at the tables.
Ryan
All in all, the poker played during the trip was almost uneventful. I was up a whopping $300 for the trip. My biggest hands of the trip were:
1) Flopping quad 4s in a raised pot with a K44 flop, getting paid on the flop and turn by 2 guys holding AA and AK, and then paid on the river by the AA guy again who rivered the 4-flush. Also got a modest $100 for the high hand jackpot.
2) Big blind special 53cc with the flop 2c4c9d, got it all in postflop against a guy with Kings who didn't raise preflop. Hit my flush on the turn.
3) Flopped a set of 7s on a board of AK7. Got paid nice by a guy with top 2.
Worst hand of the trip was when I raised with KTcc from middle position and got 2 callers. Flop comes out TT5. Bet, raise, call. Turn come a Q. We get all the month in, he has AT. Ick. Sick cooler there.
Other bad one was flopping a set of queens on a KQ9 board, playing very agressive, and getting rivered by a T with a guy calling the whole way with AJ. What the??
All in all, I thought I played pretty well. Made a few good value bets, a couple of timely bluffs. Could have easily been up $1k or so if a couple of things go my way.
I return to the land of online poker for the next few weeks, and there will not be any live poker in the near future here.
Quick update of bankroll status:
FT: $1,426
PS: $732
Total bankroll: $2,158
Back to the grind. See you all at the tables.
Ryan
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Off to Vegas Baby!
The fact that I have had a nice online run in the last few weeks gets me even more excited about my trip to Vegas. I am headed out tomorrow, and I am there until Monday morning. Staying downtown at the Nugget, but I will venture out to the TI. I am definately a live 1/2NL player, I can't stand the heat of 2/5, out of my league and my bankroll presently.
That being said, I am almost sad to not be playing online poker for the next few days. It has been a good run, and I hope it continues.
Quickly, the last 24 hours have included 4-180 $4 sit-n-gos on PS. The first one I went out on the very first hand (haven't played in one of these for 6-8 months at least, but I wanted to see something other than cash). Got AA on the button, after a preflop raiser, I raise again with my two red aces, the guy insta-pushes all in for our starting 1500 stacks and turns over the monstrous Q5cc. I laughed for only a second until the flop brought 3 clubs. WeeeeeEEE!! Had me basically drawing dead.
2nd one I made it to the last 3 tables with a pretty good stack, but lost my AK vs. AQ AIPF, then with about 2k in chips left, I pushed with KQoff and lose a race to TT. pfff. The other 2 I went out in 50ish place, nothing eventlful.
Played a little cash. My two biggest hand had me all-in preflop as a huge underdog, QQ vs. KK and AKcc va. AdAh. I flopped a set of queens on the first hand and then turned a flush in the second hand, much to the shagrin of my opponent. Probably could have avoided being all in on both of the hands, but I had had a few drinks, and felt like gambling!
This morning, I played about 25 hands, the last one being on the button with 5s7s, raising it up to $2. I get min-raise to $3.50 by the BB and I called. Yes, very bad call, but this was my last hand, I wanted to play it. Flop comes K57. :D Only worried about KK now. He bets $4, I raise to $14, he calls. Turn is a 6, rainbows the board. He checks, I push all in, he calls. river is an 8, he shows AK for top pair. Cha ching! Obviously then start giving me $hit about playing 57. I obviuosly wrote in the chat box: "Well, they were sooooooted!!" That pissed him off, and then he left.
The session wasn't without a bad beat or two from my opponents, and overall, I now sit in this position:
PS: $685
FT: $1,262 + 6x$26 tokens = 1,418
Total Bankroll: $2,103. ($3k reached by Dec 31???)
Thanks all for reading, won't be posting again until next week Wednesday to recap my Vegas trip.
Ryan
That being said, I am almost sad to not be playing online poker for the next few days. It has been a good run, and I hope it continues.
Quickly, the last 24 hours have included 4-180 $4 sit-n-gos on PS. The first one I went out on the very first hand (haven't played in one of these for 6-8 months at least, but I wanted to see something other than cash). Got AA on the button, after a preflop raiser, I raise again with my two red aces, the guy insta-pushes all in for our starting 1500 stacks and turns over the monstrous Q5cc. I laughed for only a second until the flop brought 3 clubs. WeeeeeEEE!! Had me basically drawing dead.
2nd one I made it to the last 3 tables with a pretty good stack, but lost my AK vs. AQ AIPF, then with about 2k in chips left, I pushed with KQoff and lose a race to TT. pfff. The other 2 I went out in 50ish place, nothing eventlful.
Played a little cash. My two biggest hand had me all-in preflop as a huge underdog, QQ vs. KK and AKcc va. AdAh. I flopped a set of queens on the first hand and then turned a flush in the second hand, much to the shagrin of my opponent. Probably could have avoided being all in on both of the hands, but I had had a few drinks, and felt like gambling!
This morning, I played about 25 hands, the last one being on the button with 5s7s, raising it up to $2. I get min-raise to $3.50 by the BB and I called. Yes, very bad call, but this was my last hand, I wanted to play it. Flop comes K57. :D Only worried about KK now. He bets $4, I raise to $14, he calls. Turn is a 6, rainbows the board. He checks, I push all in, he calls. river is an 8, he shows AK for top pair. Cha ching! Obviously then start giving me $hit about playing 57. I obviuosly wrote in the chat box: "Well, they were sooooooted!!" That pissed him off, and then he left.
The session wasn't without a bad beat or two from my opponents, and overall, I now sit in this position:
PS: $685
FT: $1,262 + 6x$26 tokens = 1,418
Total Bankroll: $2,103. ($3k reached by Dec 31???)
Thanks all for reading, won't be posting again until next week Wednesday to recap my Vegas trip.
Ryan
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
A first time for everything
No, I have no been playing that long, but something happened this morning that has never happened to me before.
I started with $50 on 4 tables on FT and was up to about $70 on one table when an interesting hand came up. I had 8h7h on the button, a preflop raiser (with $45) made it $2, I called, as did the BB (with $20). Flop come AhQh4h. I flop a flush. Very nice. Then it gets crazy, the BB bets $4, MP min-raises to $8. Now, at this point, when I see the min-raise, I figure that he hit a set, or he is trying to represent a flush, I don't know really. I decide to call, and then the BB moves all in for his remaining $14. MP then calls, leaving $25 behind. I go ahead and move all in for my stack and MP calls.
MP: Ad2c
BB: AsJd
Both were drawing to runner-runner full house, which they obviously didn't hit, and I took a huge pot. Then, the disaster hand comes up. I actually peak into the cashier and see that I am about $10 from making my $2k goal that was supposed to be for next month. (Too early for that now...)
A few hands later, I am now in the BB and I find 77. UTG raises to $1.75, called in 3 places, I call as well. 5 to the flop. I have everyone covered significantly, UTG has about $70. Flop comes Q75, two spades. I lead out with my set for $5, BB calls, folds to the button who thinks quite a while before raising to $12. At this point, I have to figure that my set is best, and I don't want the flush getting there, so I raise to $30. BB then insta-pushes all in for his $70. The button thinks about it for a while before folding (he ended up being on a flush draw, I though he had odds to call, but decided to fold) and I obviusly called. The only hand I didn't want to see, I saw. QQ. Ick. I am basically dead. Turn gave me life with another spade (I have the 7s, he has no spades) but the river bricked.
Yes, I have never been on the losing end of set over set. Twice have I been the higher set. Funny thing is, I was just reading in the CP forum about set over set yesterday, thinking about how I had never experienced it. All I can say is ick.
Did some other good things other than that beat, and did manage to increase the bankroll:
FT: $1,177 + six $26 satellite tokens (won another one this morning) = 1,333
PS: $635
Total: $1,968
So close. Almost there. I'll let you know when I am.
Thanks for reading.
Ryan
I started with $50 on 4 tables on FT and was up to about $70 on one table when an interesting hand came up. I had 8h7h on the button, a preflop raiser (with $45) made it $2, I called, as did the BB (with $20). Flop come AhQh4h. I flop a flush. Very nice. Then it gets crazy, the BB bets $4, MP min-raises to $8. Now, at this point, when I see the min-raise, I figure that he hit a set, or he is trying to represent a flush, I don't know really. I decide to call, and then the BB moves all in for his remaining $14. MP then calls, leaving $25 behind. I go ahead and move all in for my stack and MP calls.
MP: Ad2c
BB: AsJd
Both were drawing to runner-runner full house, which they obviously didn't hit, and I took a huge pot. Then, the disaster hand comes up. I actually peak into the cashier and see that I am about $10 from making my $2k goal that was supposed to be for next month. (Too early for that now...)
A few hands later, I am now in the BB and I find 77. UTG raises to $1.75, called in 3 places, I call as well. 5 to the flop. I have everyone covered significantly, UTG has about $70. Flop comes Q75, two spades. I lead out with my set for $5, BB calls, folds to the button who thinks quite a while before raising to $12. At this point, I have to figure that my set is best, and I don't want the flush getting there, so I raise to $30. BB then insta-pushes all in for his $70. The button thinks about it for a while before folding (he ended up being on a flush draw, I though he had odds to call, but decided to fold) and I obviusly called. The only hand I didn't want to see, I saw. QQ. Ick. I am basically dead. Turn gave me life with another spade (I have the 7s, he has no spades) but the river bricked.
Yes, I have never been on the losing end of set over set. Twice have I been the higher set. Funny thing is, I was just reading in the CP forum about set over set yesterday, thinking about how I had never experienced it. All I can say is ick.
Did some other good things other than that beat, and did manage to increase the bankroll:
FT: $1,177 + six $26 satellite tokens (won another one this morning) = 1,333
PS: $635
Total: $1,968
So close. Almost there. I'll let you know when I am.
Thanks for reading.
Ryan
Monday, December 10, 2007
Wild Weekend!!
Lurking around the CP forums recently, and on this blog, I had stated that:
a) I would not be playing much online poker in December
b) I have no poker goals in December
c) I will make new goals in January when I wake up hungover on New Year's Day.
Let me begin this new entry by saying that is all out the window now. After a pretty successful weekend, I have re-evaluated my position and bankroll, and ready to make some December goals:
1) Increase bankroll to $2k
2) Find 1 or 2 days to play several $10-$30 MTTs and try to make a deep run
3) Continue to 4-table $0.25/0.50 on FT and Stars and have winning sessions
4) Try as best as possible to always get my money in ahead
I had mentionned on the CP forums last week that I thought $2k was a possibility for my bankroll by the end of December, but wasn't sure how much I was gonna be playing. I got in a lot of time this weekend with some good results. At one time, I had logged in 12 hours and shown no profit whatsoever. That changed as I continued to play. Here are some of the highlight hands from this weekend:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782482
I obviously nailed the flop on this hand, but it was the turn and river that allowed my opponent to almost catch up and bet out big on the river. Luckily, I had two hearts in my hand to make this an easy call.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782490
This was a slightly loose call preflop, but I guess this is one of the wonders of suited connectors. I flopped the nuts and got my opponent to come along. The turn and river definately scared me (as Stars doesn't show hold cards until the hand is over) but was happy to see him holding an overpair.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782495
I don't know what this opponent was thinking on the flop, but I didn't believe he had a set. I was right.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782501
This hand was a little funny, but everyone was bitching and complaining that I was bullying. I kept taking down hands pre-flop with raises. Holding the 2nd nuts preflop, I thought I would just be an a$$, I didn't think he would actually call. :D
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782506
Your standard suckout on flop, get sucked out on turn, re-suck out on river. Thanks river!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782512
I guess he put me on top pair or tens?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1785878
Understandably bad call on the flop, but turned the perfect card to get all of his money
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1793480
Another donk move here, but I thought he was trying to steal. Even if he had top pair, I was still the favorite. Turns out I was drawing slim, but managed to hit my turn card nicely.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1793485
I guess if I keep posting all of these donk moves, people are going to want to find me at the tables. I did have an open-ended straight flush draw, so the flop call was ok. Turn call was bad. I probably could have moved all-in on the river knowing now that he had top set, so I might have lost some money there. I'll take it either way.
As I post this, my latest bankroll info is this:
FT: $1,166 + five $26 tourney tokens = $1,296
PS: $607
Total Bankroll: $1,903
I am excited to see that I am about 2 big pot away from my $2k goal that I was gonna have for January, but is now my December goal. I guess $3k will be my January goal now, but let's get to $2k first.
Thanks for reading. If anyone has comments regarding my play, please do make them. I am still learning this game.
See you at the tables.
Ryan
a) I would not be playing much online poker in December
b) I have no poker goals in December
c) I will make new goals in January when I wake up hungover on New Year's Day.
Let me begin this new entry by saying that is all out the window now. After a pretty successful weekend, I have re-evaluated my position and bankroll, and ready to make some December goals:
1) Increase bankroll to $2k
2) Find 1 or 2 days to play several $10-$30 MTTs and try to make a deep run
3) Continue to 4-table $0.25/0.50 on FT and Stars and have winning sessions
4) Try as best as possible to always get my money in ahead
I had mentionned on the CP forums last week that I thought $2k was a possibility for my bankroll by the end of December, but wasn't sure how much I was gonna be playing. I got in a lot of time this weekend with some good results. At one time, I had logged in 12 hours and shown no profit whatsoever. That changed as I continued to play. Here are some of the highlight hands from this weekend:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782482
I obviously nailed the flop on this hand, but it was the turn and river that allowed my opponent to almost catch up and bet out big on the river. Luckily, I had two hearts in my hand to make this an easy call.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782490
This was a slightly loose call preflop, but I guess this is one of the wonders of suited connectors. I flopped the nuts and got my opponent to come along. The turn and river definately scared me (as Stars doesn't show hold cards until the hand is over) but was happy to see him holding an overpair.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782495
I don't know what this opponent was thinking on the flop, but I didn't believe he had a set. I was right.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782501
This hand was a little funny, but everyone was bitching and complaining that I was bullying. I kept taking down hands pre-flop with raises. Holding the 2nd nuts preflop, I thought I would just be an a$$, I didn't think he would actually call. :D
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782506
Your standard suckout on flop, get sucked out on turn, re-suck out on river. Thanks river!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1782512
I guess he put me on top pair or tens?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1785878
Understandably bad call on the flop, but turned the perfect card to get all of his money
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1793480
Another donk move here, but I thought he was trying to steal. Even if he had top pair, I was still the favorite. Turns out I was drawing slim, but managed to hit my turn card nicely.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1793485
I guess if I keep posting all of these donk moves, people are going to want to find me at the tables. I did have an open-ended straight flush draw, so the flop call was ok. Turn call was bad. I probably could have moved all-in on the river knowing now that he had top set, so I might have lost some money there. I'll take it either way.
As I post this, my latest bankroll info is this:
FT: $1,166 + five $26 tourney tokens = $1,296
PS: $607
Total Bankroll: $1,903
I am excited to see that I am about 2 big pot away from my $2k goal that I was gonna have for January, but is now my December goal. I guess $3k will be my January goal now, but let's get to $2k first.
Thanks for reading. If anyone has comments regarding my play, please do make them. I am still learning this game.
See you at the tables.
Ryan
Thursday, December 6, 2007
LOL
I have to laugh at how my last 3 sessions have gone. I have put in about 12 hours of play since my last post, and each session (3+ hours each) have gone like this:
Hands 1-100: Lose 1 or 2 huge all-in hands with the 2nd nuts, down 2+ buy-ins
Hands 101-250: Tread water, back off and play a little tighter, and then win at least one huge all-in hand to regain some of the losses
Hands 251-500: Nothing happens, up $10, down $10, nothing eventful at all
Hands 501-end: Maintain tight play, and on the last round of the night, I pick up Aces or Kings at least once or twice and get a re-raiser and an all-in before me, and take the pot. In one session, it happened to be checking from the big blind with Q4 (my dad's favorite hand - because it was hit late mother's favorite hand) and flopping QQ4 and getting into a raiser war with someone who slow played KK.
Each session, I end up down 2-3 buyins to start and battle back to get to even and then just above, so I have averaged like $2 an hour for the last 3 sessions. AWESOME!!!
Bankroll after last post:
FT: $1,250
PS: $127
Total: $1,377
Bankroll after this post:
FT: $1,227
PS: $198
Total: $1,425
In conclusion, the bankroll is up, but it has been tough. I am still on track for $2k before New Year's. Let's hope I can keep it going.
Thanks, see you at the tables.
Ryan
Hands 1-100: Lose 1 or 2 huge all-in hands with the 2nd nuts, down 2+ buy-ins
Hands 101-250: Tread water, back off and play a little tighter, and then win at least one huge all-in hand to regain some of the losses
Hands 251-500: Nothing happens, up $10, down $10, nothing eventful at all
Hands 501-end: Maintain tight play, and on the last round of the night, I pick up Aces or Kings at least once or twice and get a re-raiser and an all-in before me, and take the pot. In one session, it happened to be checking from the big blind with Q4 (my dad's favorite hand - because it was hit late mother's favorite hand) and flopping QQ4 and getting into a raiser war with someone who slow played KK.
Each session, I end up down 2-3 buyins to start and battle back to get to even and then just above, so I have averaged like $2 an hour for the last 3 sessions. AWESOME!!!
Bankroll after last post:
FT: $1,250
PS: $127
Total: $1,377
Bankroll after this post:
FT: $1,227
PS: $198
Total: $1,425
In conclusion, the bankroll is up, but it has been tough. I am still on track for $2k before New Year's. Let's hope I can keep it going.
Thanks, see you at the tables.
Ryan
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Keep on truckin....
Well, nothing really to exciting to note in the last couple of days. Still been playing solid poker, getting my money in with the best hands, doing pretty much what I think I should be doing.
Bankroll got a boost of about $75 last night when I 3-tabled some $0.25/0.50 NL on FT. Started with 3 stacks of $35 and ran two of them up to over $75, and was down on the other table. Continued to play a couple of 6-man sit-n-gos that I discussed earlier that give a $26 satellite token to the winner. Finished 2nd in both that I played in for only a profit of $3.40 each, but I was shortstacked on both going to heads up.
On the first, I was a 5500 to 3500 dog in chips, and this guy had been moving in almost every hand. I finaly picked up TT and he called with J4. Board came T5632. LOL! Anyways, I am not complaining on those little 6-man SNG. I am on a roll, I have finished 1st or 2nd every one that I have played except 1.
I am still looking for some time to play some MTTs, but time constraints are pretty certain in my house these days. 3 kids, a wife that is loco about Christmas, my mom in town and my trip to Vegas next week, those are just a few of the things preventing me from putting in 4-5 straight hours playing a tourney. It's ok though, my wife is out for 10 days next month, so there will be opportunity soon enough.
Bankroll update: Cash and tourney credits on FT ~ $1,250. Plus the $127 on Stars gives me my highest level yet of nearing $1,400. Very excited, and hope to keep the momentum going.
Thanks for reading, and good luck at the tables.
Ryan
Bankroll got a boost of about $75 last night when I 3-tabled some $0.25/0.50 NL on FT. Started with 3 stacks of $35 and ran two of them up to over $75, and was down on the other table. Continued to play a couple of 6-man sit-n-gos that I discussed earlier that give a $26 satellite token to the winner. Finished 2nd in both that I played in for only a profit of $3.40 each, but I was shortstacked on both going to heads up.
On the first, I was a 5500 to 3500 dog in chips, and this guy had been moving in almost every hand. I finaly picked up TT and he called with J4. Board came T5632. LOL! Anyways, I am not complaining on those little 6-man SNG. I am on a roll, I have finished 1st or 2nd every one that I have played except 1.
I am still looking for some time to play some MTTs, but time constraints are pretty certain in my house these days. 3 kids, a wife that is loco about Christmas, my mom in town and my trip to Vegas next week, those are just a few of the things preventing me from putting in 4-5 straight hours playing a tourney. It's ok though, my wife is out for 10 days next month, so there will be opportunity soon enough.
Bankroll update: Cash and tourney credits on FT ~ $1,250. Plus the $127 on Stars gives me my highest level yet of nearing $1,400. Very excited, and hope to keep the momentum going.
Thanks for reading, and good luck at the tables.
Ryan
Monday, December 3, 2007
So close...
I have not had a lot of time to play tournaments lately... Work, home life, kids, wife, etc., they all prevent me from having 4-5 straight hours available to play poker. Yesterday, I was not planning on playing much poker, but that all changed when I got a call from my neighbor.
He plays on Stars, but was broke. He wanted to play the $100k guaranteed $10+1 buy-in tourney that they have on Sundays, so I loaned him the $11 to get in with a 50/50 split on the return. He started playing and called me 3 hours later to tell me he was in the money, and wanted me to come over to watch/hang out. We were an unimpressive 150th out of 600 left.
By the time we widdled our way down, and after a huge river suckout for a massive pot, we were 25th with 110 people left. Holy Shit. First prize of $20k only 109 players away. It all seemed pretty attainable. A huge hand came up with about 100 people left when we tried a button steal with JT. The BB called and the flop comes AJ4. BB bets, we raise, he goes all-in. We still had some chips left, and decided to fold. Still questioning that one...
After a double-up with Aces a couple of hands later, we had an average stack when the bustout hand came up. Dealt AJ in the SB, it is folded to us, and with stack sizes and blinds, it was an auto-shove. BB had AK. We turned an OESD which never materialized, and we were out. Good for $280ish, but fuck, so close to some real money. I took my half, and now I have a little bit to play with on PS.
My weekend on FT was very much less eventful. Cash games went so-so, and was down about $80 for the weekend. I seemed to get the 2nd best hands every time. The biggest pot I lost was a $200 pot against 2 other guys all-in after a flop of 722, I had called another $1 in the BB with K2suited, when all the money went in, the 2 other guys had 82 and KK (really bad slow-play on his part). The turn was a devistating 8 to give the 82 guys a FH. Was unbelievable.
The most positive part of the weekend is finding a sit-n-go that seems easy to beat. On FT, they have a $6 6-man sit-n-go where the winner gets a $26 tourney token and the runner-up gets $10. I played 9 of them this weekend, and won 5 token. I took 2nd place in 2 other, for a total cash of $150 (cash and tokens) from an investment of $59.40. That's a pretty sweet ROI. The problem on FT is that I cannot cash those tokens in for T$, like you can on PS. I guess I will have to find some time for a few $26 tourneys.
Ending bankroll for the weekend with tokens and cash on FT and cash on Stars totals just over $1,300 which is as high as it has ever been. I am pretty stoked.
I hope everyone else is finding success at the tables, and I hope to see you there. Thanks to Loretta8 and Tony Eusebio for the inspiration to play the $6 sit-n-gos. Reading about their successes drove me to try for myself, and I found some success as well.
Thanks again guys, and thanks for reading.
Ryan
He plays on Stars, but was broke. He wanted to play the $100k guaranteed $10+1 buy-in tourney that they have on Sundays, so I loaned him the $11 to get in with a 50/50 split on the return. He started playing and called me 3 hours later to tell me he was in the money, and wanted me to come over to watch/hang out. We were an unimpressive 150th out of 600 left.
By the time we widdled our way down, and after a huge river suckout for a massive pot, we were 25th with 110 people left. Holy Shit. First prize of $20k only 109 players away. It all seemed pretty attainable. A huge hand came up with about 100 people left when we tried a button steal with JT. The BB called and the flop comes AJ4. BB bets, we raise, he goes all-in. We still had some chips left, and decided to fold. Still questioning that one...
After a double-up with Aces a couple of hands later, we had an average stack when the bustout hand came up. Dealt AJ in the SB, it is folded to us, and with stack sizes and blinds, it was an auto-shove. BB had AK. We turned an OESD which never materialized, and we were out. Good for $280ish, but fuck, so close to some real money. I took my half, and now I have a little bit to play with on PS.
My weekend on FT was very much less eventful. Cash games went so-so, and was down about $80 for the weekend. I seemed to get the 2nd best hands every time. The biggest pot I lost was a $200 pot against 2 other guys all-in after a flop of 722, I had called another $1 in the BB with K2suited, when all the money went in, the 2 other guys had 82 and KK (really bad slow-play on his part). The turn was a devistating 8 to give the 82 guys a FH. Was unbelievable.
The most positive part of the weekend is finding a sit-n-go that seems easy to beat. On FT, they have a $6 6-man sit-n-go where the winner gets a $26 tourney token and the runner-up gets $10. I played 9 of them this weekend, and won 5 token. I took 2nd place in 2 other, for a total cash of $150 (cash and tokens) from an investment of $59.40. That's a pretty sweet ROI. The problem on FT is that I cannot cash those tokens in for T$, like you can on PS. I guess I will have to find some time for a few $26 tourneys.
Ending bankroll for the weekend with tokens and cash on FT and cash on Stars totals just over $1,300 which is as high as it has ever been. I am pretty stoked.
I hope everyone else is finding success at the tables, and I hope to see you there. Thanks to Loretta8 and Tony Eusebio for the inspiration to play the $6 sit-n-gos. Reading about their successes drove me to try for myself, and I found some success as well.
Thanks again guys, and thanks for reading.
Ryan
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