Thursday, April 19, 2007

I can see the finish line......day 61

I haven't posted in a few days and that's because i haven't played much up until today. I played for about an hour yesterday and lost a few hundred but didn't really feel like posting at all. I have had a busy few days and last night i played in possibly the sickest live .25/.50 cent game ever. The blinds are .25/.50 with 9 players and by the end of the night there was over 1k in the pot which is just sick for a game this low. Its such a good game because there is tons of action and some pretty deep stacks (for .25/.50) towards the end of the night. I was stuck for about 120 for a while but when morning rolled around i was up 20 bucks and drunk as fuck so it was a good night. Anyways back to the goal, today i put together a nice session on pstars of about 4 hours with some pretty good results. I didn't quite play as long as i would've liked to but the games started to get filled with tons of good players so i decided to call it a day. I am getting pretty close to the end of this goal and really hope that i will be able to finish off the goal by the end of the week. Although the weekend is coming up and i really seem to have a hard time finding time to play on the weekends so we'll see how that goes. Anyways the wings game is starting up here in a bit so i have to get my pre-game on but check back tomorrow and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016228 - here i am really glad it got all in on the flop because if not i really don't think i make another dime off this guy.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016240 - this is a small pot but it really seemed like there were a lot of hands like these today. I don't know what it was but i would play a lot of hands passively today and it seemed as everyone was trying to push me off hands and i would just call them down.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016258 - Really glad these idiots play there hands so bad and check the draw heavy flop and allow me to turn the nuts. I would check raise here a lot instead of leading out but with 5 ppl in the pot there just was no way someone didn't have a piece of that board. I thought the river card was bad and i wouldn't make much more but i was wrong.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016270 - pretty BIG lay down here with kk. I know i had the guy who led the 75 beat but i play with Friar all the time and I'm positive he has to have me on at least kk here so for him to re push a raise and re raise I'm pretty sure i was beat. He later on told me that i was beat but i didn't ask what he had but I'm assuming something like 44s.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1016281 - here i guess i couldve raised the flop and just went all in but i would call here with ak too so i requested time to make it look like i might be calling with an A but the original raiser just folded.

Daily total- 1,742.94

Total needed- 2,090.74

-Nechita-

Monday, April 16, 2007

Day 59/ a grimey session

Today was a pretty long drawn out session. I played for around 5-6 hours on full tilt and pokerstars with some alright results. I guess just being in the green after today's donkfest feels pretty good. I started playing 2 tables on pokerstars and 1 table of 5/10nl on fulltilt and was immediately stuck for about 1500 on full tilt. It just seemed like everything i did within the first hour was blowing up in my face. If i raised i would get re raised every time, if i called i would completely miss every flop, and if i tried to bluff i would get like insta-called with middle pair no kicker. So after about an hour of getting my head kicked in and being stuck about 1500 i decided to just log off there and stick to pokerstars before i started to tilt. I logged back on after a few hours of cooling down and the original title of this post was going to be (i hate full tilt) but i am finishing up my 2nd stint on there today and am almost back to even somehow. Anyways that pretty much sums up my day of hard work so here are some hands from today's play and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006171 - Here i really had a feeling this guy was stealing with a spade draw but i just cant put in 600 when he probably has overs and the spades making it about 50/50. He later claimed he had a3 which i dont believe for a second but i think its the right fold even if he flipped his cards over and showed something like aj spades i dont know if i call.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006179 - pretty standard check raise here and i have no clue what this guy was doing in there with the AJ no club.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006187 - This guy was absolutely horrible but was catching so many cards it was crazy. I could raise the turn here but i just call hoping a blank hits the river and i plan on pushing all in if he bets into me again. He didnt so i make a large bet and he instacalled.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006204 - here i make a bad pay off on the river. I actually thought he was just betting something like ak on the turn but he played it pretty well and i lost.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006209 - here is the worst hand of the day and i played it pretty bad. On the turn here i put him on a hand like 89 so i decide instead of pushing ill call and see what the river brings. It brings a really good card because now if he had a hand like 109 i would beat him but no he flops a set and i lose again. Played this whole hand horribly.
Some of the hands from the 2nd session-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006227
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006230
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1006231 - interesting hand here where i know if i check the flop im not making another penny, so i make a weak looking bet and with the huge raise preflop i wanted it to look like a hand like qq/jj and i was scard of the A. So my plan works but the only problem is i didnt think he had anything so i check it to him twice praying he will try and bluff again but he just gave up and even if i bet the river im not getting a call.

Daily total- 255.20 (870.24 stars) (615.04 FT) - had this down to about 300 when i started this post.

Total needed- 3,833.68

-Nechita-

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Could the sopranos be more boring?

Well the first two episodes of the sopranos are starting off the way the first half of the season ended, incredibly boring. I am just really losing all interest in the show and its too bad because it was a really great show. I hope that they start to pick it up a little bit here or ill just be happy that the boringness is finally over when the series ends. I didn't really have any time to play much poker today so i just decided that i would wait until tomorrow to start up a good session. That combined with my raging hangover from a long night led me to believe that i just wouldn't be able to play my A game. I fooled around for a bit today playing some 5/10 H.O.R.S.E. and was actually able to win around 100 bucks which isn't bad because i think I'm pretty bad at a few of the games. For those of you that don't know HORSE is a game that is made up 5 different games- limit Hold em, Omaha high/lo, Razz, limit Stud, and Stud hi/lo. You play 1 round of each game which is usually around 8 hands and then the game switches to the next game and so on. I thought it was pretty fun just because its so many different variations of poker other than the usual no limit. I think that I'm pretty good at the hold em, Omaha hi/lo, and the razz, but i really feel that my stud game is incredibly weak so i will have to work on that. Anyways that pretty much sums up my day so check back tomorrow to see how i do and I'm out.

-Nechita-